     L. c. 1432    [Handwriting changes here.]   London Septembr 11th 83        
     Last night wee recd Lettrs from Ratisbon of ye 9th by way of Holland       
wch say yt Count Staremburgh had wrote to ye Duke of Lorrain dated the          
first of Septembr from out of Vienna that hee had discovered ye Turkes          
grand mine undr the Bastian of ye Pallace and had taken therout 4000            
weight of Powder and had burnt ye Bations wch the Turks ye night before         
had filled ye Ditch wthall in ordr for an assault But desired his highness      
to hasten ye Succour many of ye garrison being deceased and ye rest quite       
wearied out                                                                     
     That ye grand Vizier undrstanding ye Approach of ye Auxiliarys had         
drawne his severall Campes into an entire body made great retrenchments         
to obstruct ye Xtians passage and drew a Line of Contravallation to             
hinder the Beseiged from Sallyeing forth & had Commanded Count Teckley A        
basti[on of?] Moldavians and Wallachians uppon pain of death to Joyne his       
head army being wthout them 70000                                               
     And Lettrs from Stunbeau 3 Leagues from Vienna of the 1st ditto give       
great hopes of ye Xtian Success for yt the Janizarie by their priviledge        
are nott to remaine before a Citty longer than 40 dayes But ye Vizier has       
prevailed uppon them to stay one day for ye Sultan another for himself a        
third for their Aga and a 4th for money & tis supposed they will exceed         
noe further                                                                     
     The Duke of Lorraine Prince Waldeck and ye other Generalls on ye 3l        
paid their visitt to ye King of Poland who was arrived at Krembs wth his        
avantguard being ye Compleatest troops in ye world most of them wth their       
horses cladd in armour  ye next day ye king returned the Compliment to          
the Duke.                                                                       
     And on ye 3d the king and all ye Genneralls held a Councill of Warr        
att Sheldorp but by reason some of ye Auxiliaryes were nott arrived they        
could nott take those measures as att first designed but in Conclusion ye       
Troops being abtt 70000 twas unanimously resolved that the king and Duke        
should leade ye main body the Elector of Bavaria and Prince Waldeck ye          
avant guard and the Duke of Saxony and another Prince the arreare guard.        
     And ye army begann to pass ye Danube over divers Bridges on ye 3d &        
would bee in Battalia on ye 7th & on ye l0th advance towards the Enemy          
who tis sd already beginns to send their baggage to Hungary & tis Judged        
ye Turkes will of themselves raise ye Seige                                     
     And there bee Lettrs from Ruremond in fflandrs wch say yt on ye 29th       
the Turks made such a Breach in Vienna walls as to enter them but by ye         
shott from 50 Cannon placed before itt wth Muskett shott ye Turks were          
forced to retire wth great Loss But Count Staremburgh mentioning nothing        
therof in his Lettr of ye lst of Septembr wee beleive itt altogether            
fabulous tho' some will have itt otherwise.                                     
     The french in fflandrs still Continue their Ravageing & driveing           
away Cattle & has given ye Inhabitants l4 dayes longr to bring in yr            
Contribution wch they have assessed amounteing to above 60000 L  ye             
Marquis de Grana has had a Conference wth ye Prince of Orange att Bredagh       
     Monsr Van Benninghen who serves for ye Towne of Amsterdam opposeing        
ye vote to assist fflandrs but rather referr ye mattr to ye arbitration         
of ye king of England or deliver upp Luxenburgh or an Equivalent was [?]        
he merely reprehended as a french Pentioner and an Enemy to ye States wch       
resolve[d] runns thus                                                           
     That ye Invasion of ye french in fflandrs in ye hostile manner is a        
manifold breach of ye peace of Nimeghen and highly derogatory to ye             
methods his most Xtian Matie ought to pursue in setting the tranquillity        
of Europe especially att a Tyme when Xtendom is invaded by ye Pagan Enemy       
     But formed a Memoriall to be prsented to Monsr de Avaux the french         
Ambassadr to pray his Master to wthdraw his Troops from out of fflandrs &       
rather Jyne agst the Common Enemy & assigne a place where ye Differences        
may bee amicably composed.  This day ye Court of Aldrmen debated ye             
affaire of ye Charter to signe ye Instrument Mr Attorney has prepared to        
settle ye restriction granted to his Matie & ordred a Comittee to examine       
ye same & make report.  One Mr Broom Whorwood a late Membr for Oxford is        
brought to Towne being seized uppon acctt of ye plott.                          
+Sr Thomas Grantham has now ordrs to sayle for India ye rest of ye              
Company's Shipps nott departing till this fortnight & have ordrs if they        
cannot retake Bantam to settle in an Adjacent Island they carrieing             
Materialls to build a ffort.  The Cadiz Lettrs say yt the Tyger ffrigatt        
has taken ye Admirall of Sally & released 2 Mercht Prizes.  Their Maties        
& Court are returned to Winchester & come to London too morrow Sennight.        
    L.  c. 1433   [Handwriting changes here.]   London September 18 1683        
     The Spanish Ambassadour has delivered since ye 1st a 2d and 3d             
Memoriall to his Matie at Winchester wherein he setts forth ye Infraccon        
of ye peace of Nimeghen by ye ffrench Invasion into fflandrs togeather          
wth his Maties will give speedy direcciones for since ye doeing of it           
will tend as much to the benefitt of his Master                                 
     Upon delivery of which I am Credibly informed his Matie has Pmised         
to take some speedy resolucon in yt Affaire eithr to influence ffrance          
to withdraw his Troopes or otherwise psue those measures as may oblige          
him thereto.                                                                    
    [In margin at left of the two paragraphs above are these words:]            
*. obligacons by virtue in yt behalfe & made ye assistance of them wth          
8000 men wch he earnestly pressed his Matie to pforme or at least wise          
according to ye 4[th] article eithr in vallue in money or amunicon of           
warr wth ye hopes of his Matie [end marginal words]                             
     And I am furthr advised yt in case ye ffrench pceedes to attaque           
eny Towne a Parliamt will be called in Novembr or at ffurthest in               
ffebruary or March next.                                                        
     I omitted in my last to informe you yt ye Ward of Aldrsgate pceeded        
to ye pteccon of psons in ordr to prsent ym to ye Court of Aldrmen in ye        
vacancy of Sr Richard How deced and chuse Peter Rich Esqr one of our            
prsent Sherriffes & Mr. Samuell Dashwood Sherriffe Elect whoe being             
recalled to ye Court of Aldermen they declared Mr Rich Aldrman called           
him in tooke his Lease [?] sworne accordingly                                   
     One Mr Cole a Brewr taken upon ye accot of ye plott is admitted to         
Baile                                                                           
     The beginning of this weeke some farther intimacon was that Rumbull        
ye Arch Traytor was in Bishoppsgate Street upon wch dilligent search            
was made after him but missed by an houre but ye man of ye house                
acknowledgeing yt such a like man had been there but he knew not his            
name to be Rumbull soe he was seized for ye same                                
     Noe fforeigne Post come save ye ffrench wch gives an accot by lettrs       
of ye 8 of 7ber yt ye Imperiall Army was ye day before in Battalia              
and marching before ye Turkes & yt great Shooteing heard some houres but        
gives noe Perticulars where  pte of ye whole Army were engaged  by ye           
next I may probably informe you some accon                                      
    The Cort has deferred yr comeing to Towne to Saturday 7 night &             
then tis sd will goe to Portsmouth & pbably returne by sea                      
    This day ye Court of Aldrmen met and called upon Sam: Dashwood Esqr         
whoe was by ye Common Hall chose one of ye Sherriffs to seale his bond          
but he made his formr excuses that he had divers Censorshipps upon him          
wch would rendr his Affaire to be very prjudiciall but ye Court would           
not admitt of yt his Allegacon but constrained him to seale a Bond of           
1000 L to take upon him ye Office of Sherriffe                                  
     The Cort of Aldrmen afterwards heared ye report of ye Comittee to          
wch ye Instrumt relateing to ye Charter was referred and held considrable       
debates thereon but by reason t'was a mattr of great weight they comitted       
it wth ordr to take it into furthr considracon on Tuesday next                  
     The Corronrs Inquest has sate upon ye Corpes of one Mr Walsh killed        
on Tuesday night by one Mr Ruth at ye Horseshoe Taverne in Chance lane  ry      
and it appeareing before ym yt Ruth drew his sword and on a suddain runne       
him through upon some words relateing to a factr [?] they brought in yr         
virdict willfull murdr                                                          
     Our Scotch lres say that one John Bond seized in a widdowes house          
at Edinburgh where he had many yeares lived obscurely & exam[in]ed by ye        
Commiccon ye 1st Instant to whome he owned yt he was concerned as well          
in the Rebellion at Pont Hall as yt at Bothwell Bridge & subscribed his         
exaccon since wch he hath been tryed before ye Lds of ye Justiciary and         
ye Jury brought him in guilty of High Treason                                   
     L. c. 1434     [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall 13 7br 83          
     Mr Dashwood who was elected one of the Sherriffes of London and            
Midlx hath denied that his ffine may bee accepted being Executor to             
Severall great Estates and Particularly to Captn Breckely who was               
buried on the 6 at night but I doe not hear yet whether it is complied          
with some time being taken for the consideration of it                          
     Since the translation of Doctor Thomas from the Bprick of St Davids        
to that of Worcester the Sevll Comrs for Ecclesiasticall affaires have          
met and nominated Doctor Wommack Archdeacon of Norfolke [?] for [the]           
Bishoprick of St. Davids                                                        
     Turkind [?] of Taunton [?] who was fetcht out of the Country by a          
messenger is after Examination ordered to be sent Buisenes to the               
Marshallsea but at present is not soe well to be removed  Bradon                
continues in the Messengers hand for want of baile                              
     From Winchester wee have an account of his Maties safe Returne             
and how hee was pleased to diverte himselfe in his absence  On the              
Saturday [?] morning hee went to Southampton and sinew [?] after 7              
embarqued aboard the ffubbs Yatch his Royall Highness the Prince of             
Denmarke and the Duke of Grafton and severall other persons of quality          
attending him  as soone as his Maty went aboard the winde blewe contrary        
however they wrought downe Southampton River and putt into Portsmouth           
Harbour before that daye  His Maty dyned aboard spent the afternoone in         
viewing the ffortifications of Portsmouth and Gosport and slept that            
night on Shoare  On the 6 he was very nobly treated by the Rt Honnbl the        
E of Gainesborough and then went to take a veiw of the South Sea Castle         
Dockyard and severall new buildings and Supt aboard  On the 7 his Maty          
sett sail about 8 of the Clock in the morning and arrived at Southampton        
before one the ffubbs yatch built by a draught drawne by his Matyes own         
hand outsailing all the rest  There his Maty was Recd by the Mayor &c in        
their fformalityes and the Militia in their Armes and thence went for           
Winchester where he arrived about 4 that afternoone                             
     The 9th the day of Thankesgiveing appointed by his Matyes                  
declaration for discovery of the Treasonable Conspiracy was observed            
in ye severall Churches wth due solemnity  that service ended the               
other publ demonstrations of [illegible six-letter word] Joy followed           
The Bells of all the Churches rang and enlightened the streets that wee         
might read in ye peoples faces theire thankfulnesse for the deliverance         
The bonfires were indeed many kindled by the most loyall heartes and            
might have outnumbered even those of his Matye most happy restauration          
could the ffanaticks have beene wrought upon by a miracle of Providence         
or learned theire Duty soe farr as to have showne a zeale for soe               
wonderfull an act of mercy equall to what they did at the Returne of the        
D of Monmouth from Holland though contrary to his Matyes expresse will          
and pleasure                                                                    
     Dr Hicks one of the Prebendaryes of Worcestr a loyall and well             
deserving Gentl is made Deane of Worcester                                      
     They write from Marseilles dat the l0 that Mounsr de Gragnan the           
Governor of Province had caused a declaration to be read 3 dayes before         
that the Protestants might assemble and reassume theire Devotions in all        
Churches allowed by the King and strictly forbiding all Persons to give         
them the least Disturbance  They tell us that some dayes before a rabble        
as gott togeather in Dauphine who defended themselves against 600 Dragoones     
but that all late [?] was well pacified  Theire latest advice from              
Algiers was on the 23 of ye last when Mounsr d' Quesne still continued          
shooting of Bombes into ye Towne but all had nott yett prvailed uppon           
them but that they provided in theire barbarous way of defiance searching       
after those of the ffrench Nation of whome they had found at times about        
l00 and used them all as they did Father Vacher the Consull shoot them          
among them from ye Mouthes of Canon  There was a discourse that the             
ffrench would sett ffire to the Grand Machine which if neare the mole or        
in [?] any Tower that had powder or combustible materialls might doe            
great Execution                                                                 
     The Holland lres tell us ye Cheife Bussinesse of the States is to          
consider how they might soe deport themselves in this conjuncture that          
they might give theire due assistance to ye Spanyard yet the ffrench            
knowe just cause of offence  The Prince of Orange was active in ordering        
and disposeing the fforces but if any Expedient can bee found out the           
States seeme wholly averse to a Warr and will not enter into Action till        
they shall finde that the ffrench lay seige to a Towne or by some other         
open hostility shall declare their breach of peace  with the same caution       
they instruct theire ffleete which though they may make strong enough for       
some notable enterprize they doe strictly obleige not to engage unlesse         
they shall finde that the Swedes shall be first attacqued                       
   Mr Dashwood what Interest soever he has made cannot get off from the         
Merioaltry [?] he being a pson of that ability and loyalty and soe every        
waye adopted for that employmnt that the Citty cannot mend themselves in        
theire Choyce                                                                   
     On the l2 [?] was the ob[j]ection of an Aldrm for Aldrsgate Ward           
in the place of Sr Richard Howe decd where Peter Rich Esqr one of ye            
Sherriffes of London and Midlx was fairely chosen                               
     The Generll Discourse at Winchester I knowe not how certaine is            
that his Matye will bee at Whitehall on Saturday five [?] night and then        
take a turne to Newmarket                                                       
+A Com[missi]on is passing for makeing ffrancis Lord Howard of Effingham        
Leiut and Governor Genll of his Matyes Colony and Dominion of virginia          
in place of ye Ld Culpeper                                                      
    A Pardon is passing to Mr Keeling the Oylman who was ye first               
discoverer of ye Conspiracy                                                     
     Wee have noe farther newes of Vienna than the conjunction of ye            
succour and that the Turkes seeme to be draweing off                            
     L. c. 1435    [Handwriting changes here.]   London September 15th 83       
     Our Last Lettrs from Winchester left ye Court in perfect health            
continuing their disposition to returne hither this day Sennight.  Some         
dayes agoe the Polish Ambassadr had a private audience of ye king and           
his Lettrs of Credence [?] arriveing since required a publick one tho           
wee are told desired his Maties assistance agst the Common enemy and in         
ye Close [?] represented ye misproceedure of ffrance in this Conjuncture        
nott only through the encouragement given ye Male Contents in Hungary           
But alsoe ye artifices hee has used among ye neighbouring Princes and           
States as to hinder ye Supplyes they would otherwise have afforded for ye       
repressing of ye Turks being themselves Jealous of his Armes.                   
     The Spanish Ambassadr Since his third memoriall has had a long             
Conference wth the king and yesterday returned hither and an express            
will bee forthwith dispatched to fflandrs uppon the Subject matter of           
ye answer given him                                                             
     Yesterday 300 Oxen and neare ye like number of Porkers were                
Slaughtered to bee sent after ye fleetes under ye Command of ye Earle           
of Dartmouth by wch wee Conjecture they have further designes then              
touching att Tangire.                                                           
     The Ld Keeper is come to Towne and Mr Broom Whorwood late member           
for Oxford taken into Custody admitted to Bayle ye allegations being for        
words spoken wthin ye heareing of his Servant.                                  
     Wee are filled wth discourse thet his Gentlemen some will have ym to       
bee of ye Inns of Court others of Scotland have made a further discovery        
of ye late traitorous Conspiracy  as yet divers warrants are abroade for        
ye seizeing of ye persons concerned therein.                                    
     We reassume the Discourse of a Parliament and as soon as the Court         
returne may bee able to give you the Certainty.                                 
     One Baynes now Bailiff of the Dutchy Liberty menconed in Capt              
Wilkinsons narrative was seized in the Temple on Thursday Last being            
accused for a Coyner & by Mr Recorder comitted to Newgate.                      
     Divers wealthy persons have given intimation to the Lords of his           
Maties Treasury yt they are desirous to farme his Revenue of Customs and        
yt they will advance 600000 L and give a greater Summ yearly then has           
been yett offered.                                                              
     The Committee of 6 Aldrmen appointed to consider of ye late Instrumt       
of the Charter sate yesterday att the Temple to have ye assistance of           
some Lawyers being a matter of weight importeing ye Surendr undr ye Citty       
Seale the office of mayor Sheriffe Aldermen Chamberlain &c to settle ye         
restrictions the Common Councill granted to his Matie to make them firme        
and Legall wch being then nott understood to imply a Surrender gives ye         
occasion of difficulty to performe itt.                                         
     Wheras there was an act of Parliament of ye 25 Caro 2d entituled an        
act for ye raiseing l238750 L for supply of his Maties extraordinary            
occasions to bee assessed from ye 4th day of ffeby (72) by an l8 months Tax     
     Warrants are issued out undr ye hands of 5 of ye Comissionrs               
mentioned in ye act vizt Major Parry Major Arnold Coll Warcupp Sr Thomas        
Row and Justice Smith to ye Liberty of Westminster for ye reassessing 23        
L as alsoe other warrants to Chelsea                                            
     The assessors of wch places have advised wth Councill who informes         
ym yt in case any part of ye aforesd Summ were nott att first Collected         
or paid into ye Exchequr his Matie may pursue this method and itt will          
bee att their perill to refuse.                                                 
     I am Credibly informed yt ye Instrument of the Charter will bee            
brought to a Common Councill the Court of Aldrmen adjudgeing it to              
difficult to performe of themselves  Wheras ye wealthiest persons               
merchtts abtt London have refused to bee free of ye Citty to Keep               
themselves from being cal[led] to ye office of Sherriff itt will for ye         
future bee ye Citty Custom to call one unfreeman to yt office for a             
Sherriff of Middlesex & ye freeman for London.                                  
     [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 1436     London Septembr 18th 83                                     
     Lettrs from ffrance Holland and ffflandrs as well by express on            
Sunday brought ye Certain Joyfull advice of ye releife of Vienna in as          
signall a victory over the Turkes as could possibly bee desired wch to          
ye best informacon from a Lettr dated on Munday ye l3 Septembr in Vienna        
ye day after ye fight stands vizt                                               
     That on Saturday ye llth the Signall of distress being discovered on       
St Stephens Steeple a second Councill of Warr was held  some Imperiall          
Officrs would have declined attacqueing ye Turks in their Trenches for          
if the Success proved contrary itt might endanger ye loss of ye Empire.         
     The King of Poland replied that hee came to fight yt those Gent wth        
him were of ye same opinion and ye Empire might bee sooner lost for want        
of itt & that itt was full tyme  accordingly, twas resolved yt on ye            
morrow they advance & force their Trenches in divers places.                    
     By breake of day Sonday morning the Xtian Army full 80000 halfe            
horse in Battalia on Colemburgh Plain advanced to the enemy's Trenches  the     
Prime Vizier confident of his force att the same tyme caused an assault         
on Vienna But ye Regiment of Souches and Mansfeild repulsed them tho' wth       
greate Loss.                                                                    
     The King of Poland caused his Dragoones to alight descend their            
Trenches wth Spade and Mattock while hee fought some advanced Bodyes of         
ye Turks who wthin an houre & a quarter opened a passage 200 yards              
defeated those forlorne entered Their Campe and wth his Troops of               
Curiasiers charged thro' ye main body of the Turkish horse wth yt               
Success yt being amazed and disordered made a perfect flight leaveing           
their Infantry to ye number of 26000 to bee cut to peices besides 10000         
Janizaries before Vienna of whom came nott a man off.                           
     The pursuite Continued till night when yt king knoweing ye Turkish         
Stratagem to fall uppon them when they were plundering commanded uppon          
pain of death that nott one soldier should take ye least thing keeping          
his army in Battallia all Sunday night & ye next day wth his light horse        
repursued the Enemy att noone gave Soldiers liberty to plundr & stripp          
the dead.                                                                       
     Vienna Gates on Monday to ye unexpressible Joy of ye Inhabitants           
were opened & ye Enemy's workes throwne down and the Emperour is                
expected too morrow to sing Te deum Laudamus  tis Judged that ye Turks          
Lost in this action 40000 and ye Imperialist 2000 tho' some will have           
them but 400 above 300 Cannon taken  all their Baggage Tents Amunition &        
provisions seized among them the Pavillion of ye Prime Vizier his horse a       
million of Chequers each l0 L [?] two horse Tayles ye Ensignes of Warr          
his Standard and above all his Cabinett of Lettrs & other writeings             
     Postscript Just now is brought into the Camp 2000 Turkish horse            
& tis beleived a good accompt will bee had of the rest  tis beleived            
ye vizier is slaine  Count Teckley was nott come upp  Some say yt               
a secrett Correspondence was between him and the King of Poland                 
Vienna was in a miserable Condition nott one third of ye Garrison alive         
& could nott have held out 5 day's longer                                       
     This day came a holland Post & brought a Confirmation of the great         
Victory over ye Turks but varies something in ye prticulars of ye fight         
yt itt continued in one place or other almost all night & was very              
obstinate                                                                       
     And an Eminent Merchtt has this day a Lettr yt on ye l5th was a            
Battaile ye Turks rallyeing uppon ye King of Poland but were alsoe              
defeated                                                                        
     Itt is wrote yt amongst the Viziers Lettrs was found one to him from       
ye french Ambassadr                                                             
     Wee are filled wth discourse of a greate discovery att Winchester to       
have assasinated ye King But I haveing an acctt of some Robbrs there            
seized doe Conjecture yt itt might afford the Occasion of this discourse        
+The East India Company's Sale begann this day.  Lettrs from a Gentl att        
ye french Court sayes yt being in the King's prescence when the newes of        
this victory was brought to his Matie hee tore one Corner of the Lettr          
wth his teeth & said itt was too great to be true                               
    L. c. 1437   [Handwriting changes here.]    London ye 20th of Sept 83       
     Yesterday wee had a French post wch though theire Gazett made              
slight of the Victory over the Turks yett private Letters fully                 
confirme the worke of that great day which they Judg' will be soe fatall        
on the Ottoman Empire as scarce this age to recover it  they add that           
upon this defeate the Venetians and other Princes will breake with them         
and that Count Teckley will be glad to make Tearmes that the King of            
Poland was not returned from the pursuite whereby tis beleived that hee         
will destroy most of the Turkish Horse that Escaped they being to               
fly 100 Myles before they arrive att Grann theire neerest Garrison              
and by the way will alsoe be attaques by the Emperors Garrisons of Raab         
and Comorra  tis wrote that Count Teckley Joyned them in theire retreate        
which gave them the Courage to Rally and stand a second fight but were          
defeated  yett some question the reallity of this, by ye next wee may           
expect ye perticulars of the whole  The Earle of Bath reced from his            
sonn the Lord Lansdowne a Letter written upon a drum head in the viziers        
Tent  The Turks upon theire retreate Left Lighted Match in their                
magazine of powder which blew up, tis affirmed that of 30000 Turkish            
Infantry, not l00 escaped  the plunder of theire Camp is Judged to bee          
worth three millions sterling that the King of Poland Complemented              
the Duke of Lorraine yt hee and his Troopes should be att his service           
to reinstate him into his Dominions, surreptitiously wrested from               
him by the French sayeing that his Warr was Influenced by that King             
since the fight sung te Deum in Vienna                                          
     The Court returnes not from Winchester till Wednesday next and             
within few dayes after his Maties designes for Newmarkett                       
     The Spanish Ambassador presses hard for an Answer to his third             
Memoriall relateing to Flanders and is promised that when his Matie             
returnes hee will advise with his Councell about it and a parliamt is           
againe much talked off.                                                         
     The East India Company Sollicitted his Matie for 7 of his men of           
Warr to accompany theire shipps to India in order to the retakeing of           
Bantam since they understand the Dutch are alsoe sending a fleete               
thither they offering to beare the charge themselves.                           
     Some new Instructions are sent after the Fleete under the Command          
of the Earle of Dartmouth but theire designe soe secrett wee cannot             
Informe your theire Intent.                                                     
     This day the Court of Aldermen mett and tooke under their                  
Consideracon the paying of orphans money being very pressive upon them          
but came to noe determinacon till such tyme as they have fully settled          
the restrictions of ye Charter granted to his Matie by a late Common            
Councell                                                                        
     Which being now alsoe before them they are in great debate to              
settle the same the further Consideracon of which they have referred            
till his Matie returnes  they Intend to make some Applicacon about              
them since they Imply a Surrender which they say they did not understand        
When they granted them:                                                         
     His Matie haveing beene gratiously pleased to publish a late               
proclamacon in favour of the Hamborough Company against the Interlopers         
upon ym they in returne have ordered to present his Matie with his Statue       
on Horse back value 500 L which is to be affixed in the middle of ye            
Royall Exchange.                                                                
     Letters from Oxford tell us that on Monday last 7 in ye morning            
an Earthquake was felt for a quarter of an hour in that City soe as some        
people left their houses but wee heare of noe Damage done thereby.              
     L. c. 1438     [Handwriting changes here.]     White hall Sept 20 83       
     On the l4 some persons agt whome information had been given upon           
Oath were sent for out of Essex by a Messenger and after exam[inati]on          
were discharged upon their own bonds to appeare when notice should be           
given to them                                                                   
     Mr Sheppard a Merchant at whose house the D of Monmouth Ld Russell         
&c, held their meetings and Consults about the late Conspiracy as he            
made out at the Tryall of the Ld Russell has gain'd a Warrant for a             
Pardon of all Treasons misprisions of Treason &c  The like has been             
granted to the Ld Howard of Escrick                                             
     The place of Charter of the Cathedrall Church of York being become         
void his Matie hath been pleased to grant it to D Cumber[land?]                 
     The States Genll though they try all wayes to prevent engaging in a        
War wth ffrance and are not wthout hope that since the ffrench hold             
their hands from prsent hostility they may be inclinable to accept some         
fair Termes of accomodation yet  They are not wthout their apprehension         
of a [illegible seven-letter word] and to that course they begin already        
to talk of the raising of money of wch after all they look upon twice           
[?] the 200 penny with an addition of 10 p Cent Custom to be the most           
practicable  They have also thought of putting the ffortifications of           
Breda in a good condition wch yet they will not goe about till they see         
further by reason of the greatness of the charge                                
     Cole the Brewer who was sent prisoner to the Marshalsea upon               
misprision of Treason has obtein'd his liberty upon baile                       
     There has been a blinde report discovered about the Towne of a new         
Conspiracy agt the life of his Maty and yt 8 were apprehended on that           
account at Winchester but having recd Letters thence from good hands wch        
mention not the least tending toward it we can give it noe credit               
although we may well believe Conspiracies will never be quite laid down         
whilst Conventicles the seminaries of sedition & Rebellion are still kept       
up  The day of his Maties returne to Whitehall is not given as wth that         
assurance as formerly and perhapps there is noe reason to define [?] a          
day publickly                                                                   
     The prsent E of Pembroke as he is heir to the honr to his Maty tis         
said hath made him of the Trusts confer'd on his brother by the Crowne          
and appointed him Ld Lieut of the County of Wilts                               
     They write from Bristoll dated 15 yt that day Aldrman Stiffe Aldrman       
of That Citty was chosen Mayor and Mr Prior & Mr Arenden Sherriffs              
persons of very great Loyalty and recommended to them from his Maty by          
Ltter to wch they paid soe generall an obedience that there was scarsly         
found above one Dissenter  A small ship of that Port arrived from               
Stockholme in 3 weeks reports that the ffrench ffleet lay before Copenhagen     
wthout their fflag and that the Danish ffleet being aboute 26 saile of          
Men of War were somewt off wth their fflagg as hee [?] met wth a Dutch          
fflyboat upon the Coast of Norway who told him The 16 saile of Dutch men        
of War wth ffireships and tenders wch came out of the Texell stood off          
to the North sea as was supposd to meet their East India ffleet                 
     What the fflanders Letters on Sunday brought and our Gazette gave          
us as to the totall defeat of the Turks Army the cutting away of all            
their horse the cutting off all their foot and the taking all their             
Cannon amunition tents &c is fully confirm'd by the Holland Letters             
dated 23  These tell us that the Turks did at first defend themselves           
very obstinately and that it was some hours before they betook themselves       
to flight and whilst they were engaged the Janizaries attacqued the             
Towne and had carried it in prospect of their deliverance if Count              
Staremberg had not himself showr'd them in the head of 3 Regiments of           
wch Souches the Coll of one was wounded and of Count Mansfeld's Regimt          
almost every officer lost  They go so far as to give account wt was done        
in the pursuit  We must allow more time for more perticulars  in the            
mean time let us pay our Thanks for so great Deliverance for wch all            
Christendome will joyne wth us unless perhapps the ffrench and our              
Dissenters who how distant soever they pretend to be in other things doe        
agree in their wishes for the Turks success                                     
     The choise that was made of sherriffs for the Citty of London is of        
such worthy success [?] and so well approved by his Maty that now all           
thought is laid asside of another election                                      
    The ffrench fforces in fflanders are daily encreased by the accession       
of new Troops wch dayly come to them who though they collect contribution       
in such places as they lay claime to they do forbear all publick Acts of        
hostility wch is justly to be attributed to the good offices of his Maty        
who prvail'd [?] upon them for further time when had they taken the             
advantage of a surprize they might have possest themselves of a great pt        
of the Countrey whilst they were in a manner wholy unprovided [?] to            
give them resistance                                                            
     The same Letters bring an account of another defeat given to the           
Turkish horse by the pioneers [?] who had half [?] taken the great Cannon       
wch the Turkes had sent away before wth intention it seemes to quit             
the seige and yet one Mohamaton Peoterlasti [?] had pleasd themselves           
wth a story that the Turkish horse who fled had joyn'd Count Teckely and        
beaten the Poles  Tis strange were it not that they are always obstinate        
in the wrong that our ffanaticks should show themselves so much intressed       
in the loss of the Turks  had Count Teckely indeed been routed they might       
have been more excused [?] then being servants [?] of brotherhood in the        
the case and very neer Relation by the Rebell side                              
     The ffrench tho one would think are much concern'd in the fate of          
the Turks in [sic] any of our people are yet for Christianities more            
modest then to declare themselves so  They in their account though not so       
simply as they might acknowledge a totall route the Cannon &c lost and          
the Turks fled wthout keeping Count Teckely for a reserve to repeat [?]         
The Poles and Germans who rescued them Tis not to be immagin'd to be            
matter [?] that Party had it pleased God to have sufferd a victory on           
their side would have been run  We may take some measures by the hight          
they were already come to  Count Teckely had sent to the D of Lorrain a         
Messenger to get [?] him to order the Governour of Presburgh to surrender       
the Citty to him by wch he told him he might save a great deal of               
Christian bloud and preserve the people from slavery to wch upon refusall       
his Army must force them and Count Nadesky's son had made his Addresse to       
the Grand Visier for Justice agt the Emperor for takeing away his ffather's     
life though a traitor and seizing his Estate upon the forfeiture                
+On the 17 Hiren [?] of Taunton was deliver'd by a Messenger to the             
Marshalsea                                                                      
     A patent is passing to make George Prince of Denmark a free Denizen        
of England                                                                      
     There is now passing the seale a grant of his Maty to the Lady             
Rachel Russell of all the personal Estate forfeited by the Attainder of         
her husband and that in consideration of the Loyalty and eminent services       
of her deceased ffather the late E. of Southampton                              
     L. c. 1439    [Handwriting changes here.]    London Septembr 22th 83       
     I have been more prticularly advised by an Eye witness of the late         
Trepedaccon or Earthquake wch last Monday morning hapned in Buckinghamshire     
and Edge of Oxfordshire especially att Hampden house the Seate of yt            
ffamily to ye great afrightment of ye neighburhood shooke [?] ye whole          
frame of buildings accompanyed wth an unusuall noise overturneing divers        
vessells and other things in ye houses and Crackt some of ye walls But I        
cannott Learne of any eruption that itt made                                    
     A Gent comeing from Holland sayes yt the States in case the french         
King doe nott withdraw his troops uppon reasonable Conditions from out          
of fflandrs will assist the Spaniards with their whole force haveing            
ordered ye raising of 20000 additionall Soldiers to bee in a Capacity to        
make resistance                                                                 
     The sd Gent affirmes that like their former abusive Pictures hee           
beheld exposed in Amsterdam the Potracture of the Globe saweing in two by       
the grand Vizier and his most Xtian Matie & a third Crowned head pouring        
oyle into the Cutt to make it glide ye easier and dureing this Service ye       
Jesuitts were tuneing the Emperours fiddle for their divertizement  But         
ye King of Poland comeing to see what they were a doeing the two former         
runn from their worke leaveing yr materialls behind  ye third spilt his         
Liquour or oyle and ye Emperour had ye Courage to approach to his owne          
Citty Vienna to sing Te Deum for yr absence                                     
     The East India Company has Compleated ye Sale of 8 Shipps haveing 6        
more to vend to wch end they have adjourned their further sale to ye 2d         
day of Octobr                                                                   
     Our sessions at ye Old Bailey Commencing next Monday Sennight the          
discourse is renewed who is likely to bee tryed wch I am credibly               
informed will bee Mr Hampden Collonell Sidney Mr Charlton Major Wildman         
& Bremen and that Mr West the evidence will probably bee one of ye              
number being closely confined  Sr Thomas Jones or Sr George Jeffreyes           
stand fairest to bee Ld Cheife Justice.                                         
     Mr Hugh Speake sometyme since taken upp for sending a Lettr to Sr          
Robert Atkins of Recommendacon for Mr Bradon who pretends to make Out           
yt the Earle of Essex did not Cut his owne throat is admitted Bayle.            
     Yesterday Dr Spratt was Installed a Prebend of Westminster                 
     Our Holland Lettrs give an accompt yt ye french King still Continues       
his troops in fflandrs but Since the advice of raiseing ye Siege of             
Vienna they are nott soe positive in their demands  the Dukes of                
Lueneburgh and Zell uppon application to them by the Spaniards are              
sending l0000 men for ye assistance of fflandrs                                 
     The same Lettrs add yt three Dutch East India Shipps from Cuilon           
were arrived in the Texell & more expected wthin a month  they are              
extraordinary richly Laden bringing l08770 L of Persian Silke 456000 L of       
Cinamon 647353 L of Pepper l3l5480 L of Salt Peter & much other                 
Commodityes wch our Company has from thence.                                    
     Wherby their Auctions which were before abated to 300 are now              
advanced to 350 and our Company's auctions wch were 250 are sold for 225.       
     Their Royall Highnesses came to Towne Munday Their Maties Tuesday or       
Wednesday                                                                       
     This day wee had a Holland Post but only of ye l5th ditto 2 dayes          
after the fight  they bring noe further action then yt ye King of               
Poland was still in pursuite had overtaken the 6 greate Gunns the               
Turkes had sent away before  Some speake of a second fight but of               
this noe Certainty  ye Duke of Bavaria was misseing two dayes & twas            
thought hee was killed but is returned haveing in his quarter pursued           
a body of Turkes which hee overtooke and defeated  The Emperour on ye           
Monday morning Complimented the King of Poland ascribeing ye Victory            
to bee obteyned by him & as ye Army stood in Battallia his Matie                
salutes all ye Princes of ye head of their Troops  a pound of flesh             
was sold for 2 L [?] In Vienna & an Egg for 8 d & of all Sorts yt dyed          
in ye Citty were 20000  tis wrote yt Soe Soone as this Victory cann be          
Secured Prince Waldeck wth 20000 will bee sent to ye Rhine to observe ye        
french.                                                                         
   L. c. 1440   [Handwriting changes here.]    London ye 29th of Sept: 83       
     Sunday last in white Chappell Church 5 inhabitants were pronounced         
excommunicato by a process  one of ye Ecclesiasticall Comrs [?] for             
Nonconformity and writts de Excommunicato capiendo will speedily issue          
forth against them, in like manner there will speedily bee ye same method       
observed in most other parishes many Citations being allready delivered         
by ye Surrogate to appeare and receive admonition on that point.                
     The Pattent is now past ye Seales for creating ye present Lord             
Keeper Baron of Guildford and I am credibly informed that an order is           
past for constituting him Lord High Chancellor.                                 
     A Parliament is much talked of and soe farr judged to bee in view,         
that interests are allready makeing in divers places and Sr Hugh                
Middleton, who was a former candidate wth Sr Robert Peyton, Robert              
Raniton and others for the County of Middl has this last weeke                  
bespoke ye Read Lyon Inn in Brandford, where they usually entertayned           
ye freeholders att ye time of Election                                          
     The Ann Yaught arriving from Calais to Plymouth had fresh orderes to       
returne back forthwith as express to ye Earle of Dartmouth Commandr of          
his Maties fleete in those seas upon Some extraordinary occasion                
     I am credibly advised yt an order to come from the Lords of ye             
Admiralty to ye Commissioners of ye Navy to prepare and equippe 30 new          
sayle of Shipps with all Convenient Speed.                                      
     The East India Company pursues theire design of sending theire             
Shipps to India, and now more than att first intended Resolveing upon           
20 Sayle together with 5 or 6 of his Maties Men of warr, which they             
desire may bee sent them and if fame may be credited, ye ffrench will           
joyne a Squadron as alsoe ye Danes, who were both driven out of Bantam          
with us, this day ye Company ordered Captaine Nicholas in ye Beauford           
Capt Rikey in ye amoy merchant and Captaine Dike in the Rochester to            
sayle into ye Downes, they have seaven Shipps more in ye Dock prepareing        
and the rest will bee brought in next spring tyde to bee fitted with            
Expedition                                                                      
     Last night theire Royall Highnesses and Princesses returned from           
Winchester to St Jameses and this evening theire Maties, and ye rest            
of ye Court are expected.                                                       
     This day ye Court of Alderme[n] mett to consider of ye approaching         
choise of a Lord Mayr who is to bee by ye Common hall elected on                
Saturday, and I am credibly assured that ye Court intends to restraine          
ye Canditates to 4 of ye next Loyalists to ye Chaire and tis probable to        
fall on Sr Henry Tulse being his right in succession.                           
     The East India Companys Auctions were this day sold but for 215            
they have taken up or hired severall Mercht Ships of greate burthen to          
employ in theire Service.                                                       
     This day wee had a ffrench Post brought letters from Tangier, that         
ye Emperour of Morocco still continues beseiging his Nephew Muly Ismaell        
in the City Taradant, whereby that Empire is att present under a                
Convulsion.                                                                     
     The ffleet under Command of ye Lord Dartmouth was not arrived, and         
ye discourse wch some wrote, that ye Spaniards will deliver Gibralterr,         
and Centa to them is altogetherr fictitious, there being not ye least           
foundation for any such discourse                                               
     The same post brings no fresh advice from Vienna, but that ye              
Christian Army haveing marched all Saturday night fought Sunday morning,        
and continued in Battalia till Monday.  That day was allowed them to            
plunder the Turks Camp, and refresh themselves, and pursued not the             
Enemy till Tuesday morning, and then only l7000 horse takeing with ym           
4 dayes provision and then wrought [?] a 2d battell was fought, some            
will have ye Grand Vizier taken others dead and that they were againe           
defeated but of this no positive but they confirme ye former victory,           
though wth much abatement of ye Slaine Turks, and that those of ye              
Christians were more then has as yet been advised                               
     L. c. 1441     [Handwriting changes here.]   London 7br ye 27th 1683       
     I omitted in my last to informe you yt this day 7th night in yee           
Citty of Bristoll was yee Choice of a Mayor and Sherriff where Alderman         
Olive being Elected for ye former Mr Drover and Mr Arnold for yee latter        
psons of knowne Loyalty                                                         
     The next day a Common Councill was held where it was resolved to           
deliver up their Charter and not defend it against yee Quo Warranto as          
it was at first intended.                                                       
     Tuesday night ye wholl Court returned to London and it being also ye       
Birthday of her Royll Highness greate rejoycings were made by Bonefires         
and other expressions                                                           
     Advice from Scotland say's yt yee Malefactors in ye Talbooth Prison        
to ye number of 3 or foure and Twenty divers of ym for high Treason and 3       
under Sentence of Condemnation to be Executed this week, broke Gole and         
all made their escapes and I doe not yet heare yt any of them are retaken       
     The Justices of yee Peace of Essex have sent orders to yee severall        
Constables to take an acctt in all their Parrishes of those psons who           
were in Armes against King Charles yee first as also those during yee           
present King's Exile together wth such as frequent Conventicles                 
+Yesterday yee Ld Mayor and Court of Aldermen attended his Majesty and          
Royll Hs to Congratulate their safe and happy returne from Winchester           
and I am credibly assured yt they were discourst upon yee point of yee          
Restrictions granted to his Majesty relating to their Charter, they             
attending afterwards Mr Attorny Genll upon wch a Common Councill is             
Summoned to meet this Afternoon.                                                
     Last Tuesday Mr Sergeant Holloway was sworne before ye Ld Keeper           
to be one of ye Justices of yee King's Bench vacant by ye death of              
Mr Justice Raymond                                                              
     Wee have Lres from Scotland wch more pticularly confirme ye escape         
of 23 Malefactors from out of yee Talbooth in Edinburgh last Sunday 7th         
night being most of them in ye Rebellion at Bothwell Bridge, Confederating      
together, those 3 paire of Staires high cutt ye Joyce and lett ymselves         
downe to those underneath who had prepared a way by cutting ye Iron barrs       
and soe one after another slidd downe by a Rope unperceived by 2                
Sentinells as also severall Robbers in ye Prison who were assleep and           
toke their way through ye West gate  ye next day ye councill issues forth       
a Proclamation after ym that ye Citty gates made dilligent search in            
every individuall house but as yet Seizing none                                 
     It is advised from Chester yt ye Grand Jury of yt County Sr Geo            
Jefferyes sitting Cheife Justice, have presented an Adress in like              
manner wth those of Southampton against 40 or 50 Genll of those Parts           
affixing ye Earle of Mackilsfield in ye ffront, as psons disaffected to         
ye Governmtt and ought to give Security for their good behaviour, and wee       
are told yt ye afforesd Earle immediately rode [?] Post to informe his          
Majesty of this transaction                                                     
     It is generally said at Court ye Princess Ann is wth Child, yt ye          
Prince designes to make a stepp to Denmark but to returne speedily.             
     Mr Attorney Genll has sent notice to sevll of ye Plotters in ye            
Tower as also to Some in ye Marshalsea to prepare to take their Tryalls         
next Sessions which commences next Wednesday 7th night                          
     This Afternoon ye Common Councill being mett ye Ld Major delivered         
a Message to ye Court from his Majesty wch being read imported yt hee           
expected ye Citty should pfect wt they agreed on before in relation to          
ye Charter                                                                      
     Then his Ldship also deliverd Instruments from Mr Attorney Genll ye        
first being a draught of a Surrender of ye severall Offices of Mayor,           
Sherriffs &c and ye 2d a Draught of ye new Charter or Regrant of his            
Majesty wch holding considerable debates pro et contra it came to ye            
question whether they should choose a Commitee to consider and advise           
thereof or not and twas carryed in ye Affirmative; ordered--That they           
make Report by Tuesday morning taking advice of such Councill as they           
shall please and yt Mr Chamberlaine supply ym wth wt money they want;           
Resolved--That tis En[act]ed yt ye Election of our Ld Mayor wch should          
have been on Saturday be deferred till Saturday 7th night                       
     L. c. 1442     [Handwriting changes here.]   Whitehall 27 7bris 83         
May it please yr Honour                                                         
     The French are not soe brisk in their accounts from Algiers as             
formerly   Their advises are still ye same that Mounsr duquesne                 
omitts nothing of the most prudent and valiant Comander that he every           
day batters downe more of their Towne burnes their shipps by the last           
has killed their choicest men for it seemes these people keep their             
best men till laste soe that God knowes when there may be an end of it          
They are not like Christians to proceed by Chastisemt  The beating them         
is but beating on an Anvill  it hardens them ye more  The ffrench by this       
have had Experience of them and what from that and ye Season that is now        
comeing on tis thought they may ere long draw off and give ye Pirates           
time to consider from their late harmes how to demeane themselves in            
future                                                                          
     The lres advise the ffrench recd from their fleete with ye Danes           
as by Lettrs dated Paris 27 was that they were at Anchor near ye Isle of        
Bornholme with designe to hinder ye Swede [?] from passing over any of          
his Troopes into Remoren and they talke as if the King of Denmarke uppon        
notice of ye ffrench troopes being entered into ye Spanish Netherlands          
would dispose his fforces for action  The ffrench in fflanders goe yett         
noe farther than exacting Contribution  What they doe is incertaine the         
Governor of all places in fflandrs haveing recd orders to goe forthwith         
to their respective Comands                                                     
     Tis whispered that his Maty hath signed a Warrt for makeing the            
Lord Keeper North Baron of Guilford and 'tis not doubted that his Maty          
will let such very eminent Services passe without some signall marke of         
honour.                                                                         
     There was last Sunday noe visible Conventicles that I can [h]ear           
of among us the Magistrates diligence haveing at length conquer'd them          
Twas a mattr of noe small difficulty to weane such frowd people but             
at last they dealt with them as Nurses doe with peevish Children clapt          
Something uppon ye breast that might scare them  The Constables and             
some Billmen had forestall'd the meeting Houses soe that though they            
hancher'd about ye place they were affrighted with ye vision and                
streaked home contenting themselves that they had beene there to                
tender their services                                                           
     His Maty hath beene pleased to authorise the Lds Comrs of ye               
Admiralty to give out Com[missi]ons to such Comandrs as ye Governrs and         
Company of Mercts tradeing in ye East Indies shall contend [?] to them          
wth his Matyes approbation and to impower ye said Comandr in ye                 
East Indies within ye Limits of ye Companyes Charter to aid them and            
such fforces as shall be levied by them agst ye young King of Bantam            
and agst all others that shall assist him in makeing Warr agst his              
Matyes subjects by which meanes 'tis not doubted but ye Company may             
re=establish themselves and recover ye former Priviledges wch they              
enjoyed there                                                                   
     Tis said that Sr Rd Halloway is appointed to supply ye place of one        
of ye Judges of the Kings Bench become void by ye death of Judge Raymond        
Who shall be Lord Ch: Justice is not said but ye generall discourse             
still news that it will either bee Sr Tho: Jones or Sr George Jeofferies        
and if ye later then Mr. Jones of his Matyes Councill son to Sr Thomas to       
succeede Sr George in ye place of Lord Ch: Justice of Chester                   
     On Thursday last the Mayor of Winchester waited uppon his Maty and         
humbly prsented him an Instrument Signed and sealed with ye Citty Seale         
being a Confirmation of ye Grant of ye Castle and land where his Maty is        
now building a new Palace                                                       
     The Paris lres dated 29 confirme ye victory obtained agst ye Turkes        
uppon raiseing ye Seige of Vienna and speake of [four letters illegible]        
wherein they talk of l0m Turkish Horse routed by ye Poles but in regard         
they give noe pticulars we can only look on it as discourse needing             
Confirmation  they say ye french King was goeing himselfe into fflandrs         
uppon a Returne from ye Court of Spayne that they would not yeild               
farther to his demands and that there were ordrs for new Levyes                 
     His Royall Highness came from Winchester to St Jameses on ye 29            
about 6 and ye next day his Maty both God be praised in very good health        
     His Matyes returne was welcomed by ye ringing of Belles and at night       
by bonfires and as ye Comon people expressed their Joy by such publ,            
demonstrations soe those of quality waited on his Maty and Royall               
Highness to congratulate their safe arrival and on ye 26 the Lord Mayor         
and Aldermen in a body paid theire duty every one in theire severall            
stations pforming their due reverence to his Maty  Tis thought that their       
stay here will be but of few dayes before they will remove to Newmarket         
and the Generall opinion is that they will goe on Wednesday next                
     The ffrench doe now act wth great Severity in ye Spanish netherlands       
soe that nothing lesse than Warr can be expected  theire owne Lettrs            
tell us that for default of paying Contribution money they are already at       
Military Exeuction have burnt Severall Villages and one not far distant         
from Bruxells  they are nowe actually uppon the Levies of 27m foot and          
l3m Horse and their fforces in Lorraine and those partes have ordrs to          
march to fflandrs which looks as if they intended to swallow up that            
Countrey  However it may bee the Spaniard stands resolved to hold his           
owne as long as he can and will not parte with any thing without the            
approbation of his Allies which doth but answer what ye Empr did before         
who would not yeild to the ffrench Proposalls unlesse by consent of his         
Confederates though under ye greatest Exigency theire Gallyes and               
Galliotts they say are come from before Algiers but theire shipps still         
continue there and tis said have orders to doe soe till November to try         
if they can weary them into a Submission                                        
     They write from Madrid dated l6 that upon the Express sent to the          
court by ye Marquess d' Grana giving an account of the demands made by          
the ffrench of the surrender of Alost and their motions and their further       
designe upon Namur and Luxemburgh There were held frequent Consults of          
state and a resolution was taken to send to the Marquess wth all speed          
300m Crownes                                                                    
    The Patent for creating the Ld Keeper Baron of Guilford is now passing      
    On the 27 mr Centenell was taken into the Custody of a Messenger  hee       
is a man of noe small note among the Brotherhood being an Upper Glover          
[?] of Spittalffields                                                           
     The Winds hold soe contrary that we have recd noe last [?] advises         
from Germany so must stay Nigh [?] in expectation of an account of the          
Request of the Christian Army                                                   
   L. c. 1443    [Handwriting changes here.]   London Septembr ye 29th 83       
     What I have to add relating to ye proceed of Thursdays Common              
Councill in Reference to the Charter, is, that the Instrument of Surrender,     
as also that of a Regrant, a new Charter being read imported the delivery       
up of many of their franchises, wch Mr Recorder told them could not bee         
done without a deprivation of the whole instancing some particulars, as         
also those, who signed the surrender thereof were lyable to bee sued by         
every orphan in like manner, as ye Creditors of ye woodmongers Company          
obtained their debts by law of those individuall Members of ye Company          
who subscribed their Charters Surrender, ye question at lenght being put,       
wheither they should advice with learned Councill, or agree ye purport of       
his Maties Message, it was carryed in the former; 4 Aldermen and 8              
Commoners being appointed vizt                                                  
  Sr Wm Turner                   Sr John Lawrence                               
  Sr James Edwards    Aldrm      Sr. John Morris                                
                                                                                
  Sr Edmond Wiseman              Esqr Ayley                                     
  Mr Loades                      John Molrus [?]                                
  Mr Jones           Commonrs    Capt: Griffith                                 
  Mr Hackshaw                    Edw: Charleton                                 
     Ordd That they make theire Reports Tuesday morning, and take their         
advise of whom they please, and Mr Chamberlaine to allow that Money             
     Resolved that ye Choice of Lord Mayor, which should have beene on          
this day shall bee deferred till Saturday next, & usages, Rights and            
priviledges of ye City in any wise to ye Contrary notwithstanding               
     Pursuant to which ye Commee met yesterday morning to consider, what        
Councill is requisite to bee advised within this affaire and would not          
admitt of Sergeant Maynard Mr Williams, ye late Justice Dolbin, but Mr.         
Attorney and Sollicitr Generall, Mr Recorder Mr. Holt, and some say Mr.         
Polixfen.                                                                       
     Which dispute does not a little trouble his Matie and Royall               
Highness being to dine in the Citty yesterday witnin the Militia refused        
to come, till they had perfected this grand worke, and 'tis said will           
retard his Maties journey to Newmarkett, wch was designed on Wednesday          
next, and that in case ye Citty doe not comply herein, judgment will bee        
entered against their Charter forthwith.                                        
     One John Canterell knowne by ye appellation of ye Protestant Glover        
is seized by one of his Maties Messengers being accused of some dangerous       
practices.                                                                      
     Yesterday being Mickellmas Eve, ye customery sweering of ye new            
Sherifs Mr Alderman Daniell, and Samwell Dashwood Esqr. upon ye Court of        
Hustings performed the Ceremony in presence of the Lord Mayor and               
Aldermen and tooke upon ym that office accordingly, and by a letter from        
his Matie one Mr. Rouse an Attorney was likewise Sworne undersherrife of        
Middlesex                                                                       
     Yesterday morning ye Lord Cheife Justice Pemberton received a wryt         
of Quietus from that troublesome seate of the Common pleas, and Mr.             
Justice Jones of the Kings Bench ordered to supply that vacancy and his         
filled up by Mr. Serjeant Walcott a Judge in wales, and that Mr. Serjeant       
Holloway is sworne Puisne [?] Judge in the roome of Mr. Justice Raymond         
deceased, and that Mr. Serjeant Jeffryes has kissed his Maties hand for         
the Honorable and high promotion of Lord Cheife Justice of England in           
place of Sr. Edmond Sawnders deceased, and Sr. Georges place of Cheife          
Justice of Chester given either to Chancellor North or Mr. Jones Sonne          
of ye Lord Cheife Justice of ye Common pleas Elect.                             
+The East India Company considering, yt theire designe of retakeing             
Bantam might prove of ill consequence by fomenting a Warr betweene              
ye Dutch and us, and alsoe setting forth such a number of Shipps to             
effect that enterprize would bee to chargeable to ym, and that their            
Auctions beginn considerably to abate, they have chosen rather to end           
that affaire amicably and send theire Shipps uppon trade as usually.            
+The Citty Commee have drawne up Severall heads to propose to ye Councill       
in reference to the Charter--lst. whr. ye Instrument of Resignation bee         
according to his Maties demands of them and ye Common Councill agreed           
to==2dly wheither it should not bee of equall prejudice to seale yt             
Instrument or to have his Matie enter up Judgment against them==3dly whr        
by surrendring ye office of Mayor doe not loose all other dependencies          
thereon==4th wr. makeing a Surrender in part doe not include a forfeiture       
of ye whole.                                                                    
    L. c. 1444    [Handwriting changes here.]   London ye 2d Octob 1683         
     Yesterday Flanders post brought advice from Cologne of ye 29th yt          
those Citizens were in as great disorder as ever for last Satturday             
night ye populacy who favoured ye Imprisoned Magistrates broake open ye         
prison doores setting the Sieur Judendouk and Coll Sherberick wth all           
others att Liberty who Imediately fled therefrom  they Continnued all           
Sunday under this Comocon breakeing downe ye Scaffold whereon the Sieur         
Hugleman was beheaded.  The Burghers att Length gott to Armes turned ye         
scale & plundered those Riottrs houses  ye magistrates interposed but           
little regarded.                                                                
     The French Continues their Taxacon & Ravageing in ye Spanish               
Territories & a party under ye Walls Mons [?] driveing away Cattell  the        
Governour sent some of ye Garrison who brought ym in demanding of ym if         
warr was proclaymed which they Answered in ye Negative   ye Governour yn        
replyed that in case it were hee would admitt ym for prisoners of warr          
but since they came as Theeves & Robbers hee would hang them for yt             
service and accordingly 5 of the party were executed upon ye walls.             
     Yesterday our 2 new Sheriffs accompanyed by ye Ld Mayor Aldermen &         
Recorder & attended wth yr Companyes in yr Barges went to Westminster           
approached by ye Excheqr Court in order for his Maties approbacon whene         
Mr Baron May acquainted ym that it was his Maties pleasure to adjourne          
the Ceremony to the day fortnight but proceed to sweare the late sheriffs       
togeather with the under sheriff of Middx to make a true accompt in ye          
Excheqr of the profitts of yr Sheriffdomes which affaire was a surprize         
upon ye City but Mr Recorder replyed that they would not likewise               
adjourne yr Intended Feast soe prayed Mr Baron & ye officers of the Court       
to participate thereof notwithstanding.                                         
     Sunday last arived a french post & brought Letters to divers great         
personages from Germany of a second fight betweene ye Xtian Army & Turkes       
neare Oldenburgh & yt ye Latter were entirely defeated with greater Loss        
yn before Vienna all yr Cannon &c taken & a Councill of warr held to            
beseidg either Newhawsell or Grann which is alsoe incerted in yesterdayes       
Gazett.                                                                         
     But Count Thunn ye Emperors Extraordinary Envoy reced Letters by           
yesterdayes Flanders post of ye 25 ultimo from Lintz subscribed by ye           
Emperor which has not ye Least syllable of ye aforementioned advise that        
the Turkish Army was gon off The King of Poland returned from ye pursuit        
& that ye Xtian Army was now marching into Hungary to reduce ye Teckolites      
[?] and intend to winter in that Country that ye Poles were to continue         
but ye King returned  all possible workmen are getting togeather to             
repaire ye fortifications of Vienna they designeing to make it stronger         
than ever to suffer no suburbs about it.  Advice was brought to Vienna          
that ye Prime Vizier had strangled the Bassa of Buda attributeing yr late       
defeate to his ill Conduct.                                                     
     The Emperor has ordered his Envoy home further to pray his Maties          
assistance against ye Infidells as alsoe to deliver him a Letter found          
subscribed by many Hungarian Lords to assist the Turkes against him             
Therefore desires his Matie not to interprett his falling upon ye               
Hungarians to proceed from their Religion but purely as Rebells & sworne        
Enemyes to his Crowne which ye Count prsented this morning as alsoe to          
his Royall Highness & designes in few dayes to publish it to ye World.          
     Satturday arrived an East India Shipp ye Oakelander from Surat being       
soe long missed that 50 p Cent Insurance was given for her  ye Auctions         
are now 225.                                                                    
      [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
     L.  c. 1445    [Handwriting changes here.]    London 8br ye 4th 1683       
+Our Common Councill continuing sitting till after 11 Tuesday night could       
not transmit you the proceed and must now be briefe tho ye summary of ye        
whole ye Committee reported to ym yt Mr Attorney Genll Mr Solicitor and         
Mr Holt were of opinion yt it would be worse for ye Citty to have               
Judgemtt entered up then to agree to ye regulations demanded, Mr Pollexfen      
and others excused giving theire opinions for want of time to subjoine          
theire reasons, Mr Recorder was of a contrary judgement to ye former but        
not having his reasons in faire writing ye Court was dissolved and met          
anew 4 afternoon when Mr Recordr reported his opinion declaring ye              
Judgement entered agst ym would not be soe fatall as a voluntary surrender      
giving ye nature thereof as yt it might be retreivable by a Writt of            
Error &c but ye latter would be conclusive upon ym (volunti non fit             
injuria) and would loose all theire Customes and Prescriptions wch noe          
regrant from ye Crowne could restore wch after 5 houres of high & sharpe        
debate came to ye question Whether they would have ye seale of this             
Corporation affixed to ye Instrumtt of Surrendr wth ye aditional clause         
to save to ym theire Prescriptions or not and it past in the negative           
noes (103) yeas (85) ye names on both sides being taken in writing              
     They afterwards debated an address & pray his Majesty not to enter         
up Judgement but some replied yt he would be taken ye highest affront           
since they addrest his Majesty at Windsor to submit to his regulations          
whereupon it was left to ye Ld Mayor to send whome he pleased to acquaint       
his Majesty wth this vote and to know his pleasure whether hee will be          
attended wth an Address                                                         
     The Sherriffs went to Whitehall yesterday morning ye Ld Mayor              
afternoon and we are assured yt his Majesty signed a Warrant to Mr              
Attorney Genll to enter Judgemtt as of last Terme being extreamly               
displeased wth ye Citty's proceedings, a Custos in a few dayes will be          
appointed and those Magistrates who remaine to act by Commission and            
already its affirmed yt 8 Aldermen vizt                                         
     Sr Tho Allyn Sr Jno ffrederick, Laurence, Shorter, Gould, Cornish          
Clayton & Ward are ordered to be displaced as alsoe ye Recorder & one           
Councellor Jenner in his roome & every day will afford some novelty of          
this.                                                                           
     His Majesty has put off his journey to Newmarket ye soldiers being         
recalled; The Councill sits dayly upon examining of Plotters & other            
weighty affaires but none of ye Conspirators have yet notice for Tryall         
against ye next sessions it being judged yt they will be tryed at ye            
Kings Bench barr this approaching Terme                                         
     The affaire of Bantam is in a way of composure  4 Commissioners            
from Holland wth as many of our East India Company sitt dayly in London         
to compromize yt greate worke                                                   
     The imprisond King of Portugall brother to queen Katherine is dead         
for whose departure our Court will continue in mourning                         
+ffrom Bristoll its wrote yt they have elected Alderman Ollive (by              
ordr) for a succeeding Mayor imediately fell sick yet they brought him          
in a Sedan to ye Guildhall and swore him Saturday 7th night & ye next           
day hee departed this life wch obstructs ye present affaires of yt Citty        
     A shipp from ye Streights left ye ffleet under command of ye Ld            
Dartmouth neare ye Bay of Cadiz and it is ye most probably said theire          
designe is to take Mamora a late Spanish garrison in Barbary now                
possessed by ye Moores being a farr more commodious Haven than Ti[about         
three letters smeared] and of greater import                                    
     Last night Judgement was actually entered up in ye Crowne Office           
agst ye Citty & 5 Commissions for ye future Governmt of ye same ordered         
to be drawne & this morning were accordingly sealed ye Ld Mayor Sherriffs       
& Mr Jenner ye new Recorder sworne in Councill each to act by a separate        
Commission  ye latter has ye honour of Knighthood conferred on him & Sr         
Geo Jefferyes Ld Cheife Justice elect sworne Privy Councellor  ye Sherriffs     
had also a Writt of assistance relating to ye Posse after wch ye Grand          
Jury of Midle[sex] were sworne, ye Justices for London are ye Judges & ye       
Warrant for constituting the Sherriffs are in these words viztt                 
     C Rex Wee doe appoint Peter Danll & Samll Dashwood Esqrs to hold ye        
Office of Sherriffs for our Citty & County of London & County of                
Midlesex during our pleasure dated from Whitehall ye 3d of 8br                  
+And ye Ld Mayor wth ye rest have theire Commissions under ye same              
forme and his Ldshipp returned wth yee sword held up as before it being         
declared by Mr Attorney Genll yt entering of Judgement does not actually        
dissolve ye Corporation from being of a Citty but invest ye King into all       
the governing thereof wch they before had in ymselves                           
     L. c. 1446     [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall 4 8bris 1683       
     They write from Bristoll dated ye 26 that ye Mayor and Aldmn of that       
Citty were returned from Winchester very highly satisfied with his Matyes       
most gratious acceptance of their address  It conteined under the Citty         
seale an entire surrender of all ye governing parte to his Matyes good          
pleasure and craveing his confirmation of the Priviledges and Immunityes        
which the Citty enjoyed  His Maty was pleased to tell them that it was          
not from any anger to the Citty that he had sent downe his Quo Warranto         
thither for that they had eminently approved their loyalty in times of          
Tryall but from a care of theire preservation that they might not in            
future be mooved by ffaction and that he would give ordrs to his attrny         
Generall accordingly  On ye 25 a Comon Councill of the Citty was called         
and ye substance of ye Matyes most gratious pleasure imparted to them at        
which they unanimously declared a Generall joy and made choice of severall      
worthy psons to manage the bussinesse according to his Matyes direction         
and wth certaine assurance of Advantage may every Corporation lay downe         
their Charter at his Matyes feete who genrlly adds to theire Priviledges        
and Immunityes and only corrects those excepcons upon wch otherwise would       
to their ruine propagate factions and sedition                                  
     On ye 27 the Comon Councill of London had a long debate about the          
Concernes of their Charter and at last referred it to a Comtee of Aldrm         
and 8 Comoners to adjust the matter and make their report and till that         
done they have put off the election of Ld Mayor which usually was uppon         
Michal day and adjourned it to the 6 instant                                    
     They begin now to goe uppon ye establishing ye officers of the             
Houshold of George Prince of Denmarke and have already granted Warrts to        
severall of wch the most considerable are the E of Scarsdale Gentl of           
the Bedchamber Sr Phill Loyd Secrty the Lord Cornbury Master of the Horse       
Mr Aldworth Auditor and Sr Ben Bathurst Trear and Receiver Genll                
     On the 29 in the afternoone the Lord Keeper administered the oathes        
of their office to the two new Lords Cheife Justices                            
     The Bruxelles lres dated the 6 give a more sad prospect of ye              
affaires of that Countrey  Noe parte of the Spanish Netherlands is now          
exempt from their Contributions and uppon failer imediately follows             
military execution  By this meanes they amasse a vast Treasure as well          
in money as Corne which the Soldjers thresh out and the King buyes of           
them at easy rates and layes them up in stores  Those only who bring in         
their money escape plunder soe that at Lisle there is sometime brought          
in 100m Crownes in a day  To avoid this some abandon their houses and in        
that Case if Timber Houses they saw downe the maine supporters and tumble       
them downe  if brick or stone they cap them and undermine the foundations       
Corne wch they cannot carry away they burne in the barnes and will suffer       
none to be sold but in the ffrench Dominions  This course if continued          
they say will bring a genll desolation and the ground will be left              
untilled the next yeare  Such cruelty they exercise that the soldjer is         
weary of it and desert the service 50 or 60 in a day that they may avoid        
being made the Instrumts of such barbarity                                      
     On the 2d a Comon Councill was held about the matter of subscribeing       
ye Instrumt drawne up by his Matyes Councill relateing to ye Charter            
where they read ye opinion offerred to them by the Comtee of ye Attorney        
Genll Sollr Genll and Mr Holt who all agreed that the signeing the              
Instrumt was noe giveing up their Charter and that if ye King should            
enter Judgment their Charter would be lost  Mr Recordr was the only man         
of a contrary opinion and profferred his reasons but the other opinions         
being undr their hands they desired he would give his soe too which he          
promised to doe by 4 of the Clock uppon wch that Court was dissolved            
and an other by Consent to meete at that time in ye afternoone                  
     On the 2d in the afternoone the Comon Councill met againe and              
haveing heard what the Recorder offerred they bandied ye bussinesse for         
some houres the Contest lasting till near 10 of the Clock till at last          
they undid whatever they had done before tending to an accomodation             
retracted from their Solemne Resolutions broke their promises and rose          
in a desparate obstinacy of looseing the whole rather than submitt to           
a just regulation  This was done by a majority of 18 voices in the whole        
     Soe great an affront is beyond ye bearing of Maty and the best of          
Kings when his Mercy is soe insolently rejected is forced to make use of        
his Justice  His Maty therefore haveing fully informed himselfe of their        
deportment sent on the 3d in the morning for his Attorney Generall and          
ordered him to enter Judgment against them                                      
   His Maty who expected a better returne to his kindnesse in remitting         
their forfeiture uppon their reformation was now intended for Newmarket         
and the Wagons were on the 2d in ye morning come to Whitehall to carry          
the Necessaryes for his entertainmt there but were uppon this occasion          
all dismissd                                                                    
   The lres from Marseilles dated 7ber the 27 tell us that most of the          
Shipps and Barkes wch carried ye provisions for the Shipps and Gallies          
before Algiers are returned  The bombes wch were last sent did but              
little Service being old and of lesse force  The Gallies are arrived at         
the Islands where the Intendants of the health are bussy in informeing          
themselves whether they be soe free of any Contagion that they may be           
admitted to Port  Mounsr duquesne was daily expected at Toulon leaveing         
only 3 or 4 Shipps before Algiers from whence it was said that the              
Pirates had already sent 4 of their shipps abroad  Mounsr de Cray [?] was       
arrived at Toulon wth 3 light Shipps who were careering to goe out to           
cruise uppon the Coast of Barbary                                               
     This day in Councill Sr Wm Pritchard by Com[missi]on under the             
greate Seale was made Ld Mayor of London and Mr Daniell and Mr Dashwood         
by like Comon Sherriffes.  All the Judges the Atturney Genll Sollr Genll        
and Sevll of the late Aldrm are to be made Justices of ye Peace in              
London  The Ld Ch. Justice Jeoffries is Sworne of the Privy Councill            
Tho: Jenner Esqr is knighted and made Recordr                                   
     L. c. 1447     [Handwriting changes here.]    London Octbre 6 1683         
     What I have to adde to the proceedure of entring up ye judgment            
against our City Chartr is, That Sr Wm Pritchard our late Lord Mayor            
is only entituled by his new Commission under his Matie (Major durante          
beneplacito) & his power restrained much haveing a Writt of Dedimus             
potestatem to officiate in some things; All our Aldermen are ceased             
together wth the Court, 16 of the Loyallest out of the 24 being only            
commissioned justices of peace  And this day being appointed by a late          
Common Councill to choose a Lord Mayor for the yeare ensuing there              
appeared nothing of yt Ceremony                                                 
     Sr Wm Pritchard now in Common [sic] is probable to continue some           
time, The Chamberlaines Office is at present at a stand but the Courts          
of justice proceed in their Customary way.                                      
     It is confidently affirmed that Sr Harbottle Grimston Ma[ste]r of          
the Rolls is contented to resigne that great place being advanced to            
the dignity of a Baron and Viscount Virulam And that Sr Robert Sawyer           
Attorney Generall be constituted in his place and Sollicitor Generall           
in his being already complemented thereon.                                      
     Our Holland Lres say that all the Provinces except Leyden and              
Amsterdam have consented to the raiseing of 16000 addiconal fforces             
foreseeing a Warre indubitably in fflanders upon returne of a Courier           
from Madrid who brings expresse account to the Marquesse de Grana that          
the King will not recede from a foot of land that is his due.                   
     The East India Company have reordered their Souldrs to goe on              
board their Ships which gives occasion to beleive that they are not soe         
neare compromiseing the affaire of Bantam as was hoped they were.               
     His Matie since he has settled the affaires of the City has altered        
his intencons from continueing in Towne haveing given fresh Orders to           
the Souldrs to march to their severall Stations towards Newmarkett              
intending on Monday morning early to sett forwards thither and may              
continue a ffortnight                                                           
     A Gentleman yesterday arrived from fflanders gives a dismall               
account of the proceedure of the ffrench in the open Countrey  they             
having by their extravagant Taxacons forced the people to run                   
their Countrey leaving all as a prey behind them and pretending not to          
infringe the peace doe not actually burne their habitacons but sawe the         
Guirders and other Supporters asunder whereby the house falls to the            
Ground and in other places they undermine the foundacons and destroy            
them by that meanes and ravish all the women they come neare.                   
     There is a 2d Commission come downe into the City to constitute 8          
Loyall Cittizens justices of the peace; Sr John Buckworth, Sr Edmd              
Wiseman Capt Griffith &c but some will have them for Aldermen to fill up        
the Vacancy of the 8 formerly menconed to be displaced but their                
Commission respects no such word.                                               
     This afternoone arrived a holland Mayle wth Lres from Vienna of 26         
ulto wch give an accot of ye proceedure of the X[ti]an Army in Hungary          
that the King of Poland wth the rest were marched over a Ship=bridge            
below Presburgh designeing som[e] notable undertaking being at prsent in        
the Island [of] Scultz which was miserably harassed by Count Teckley's          
fforces but now he is retired into ye Townes of the Hills                       
     The Prime Vizier sent for him to appeare before him but he excused         
the matter.  A rebellion has been in the Turkish Army whereupon the Prime       
Vizier has executed 300.  It is now too sadly knowne what mischeife the         
Turks have done in Austria 3000 Townes Castles & Villages being totally         
destroyed by them and above 20000 persons carried into Slavery besides          
those killed; 50000 Polish recruits are comeing into Hungary to compleat        
the Conquest of that Countrey; Advice from Poland says that the Cossacks        
have made an Incursion on the Turks by the blacke Sea tooke severall            
Townes & done many other considerable dammages                                  
     L. c. 1448     [Handwriting changes here.]   London October 9 1683         
     On ye 7 in ye morning the Ld Mayor was attended to ye Chappell by          
ye 2 Sherriffes in yr formalityes but ye late Aldermen in yr Common             
habit wch appeared a Novelty to ye Curious                                      
     In ye afternoone his Ldpp and Sherriffes were summoned to ye               
Councill where his Matie acquainted ym with his intended Journey to New         
Markett on ye morrow giveing him ye necessary instruccones to governe ye        
City in his absence                                                             
     Accordingly by 3 in ye morning on ye 8 his Matie went for New              
Markett accompanied wth ye Prince &c & this daye his Royall Highnesse           
set forwards thither but her Matie being afflicted with ye death of her         
brother ye King of Portugall continues in Towne as also her Royall              
Highnesse and Princesse ye lattr being wth Child                                
     Letters from Cadiz of ye 24 September left his Maties ffleet undr          
Comand of ye Earle of Dartmouth at Cape St Vincent but give no certainty        
as to ye designe.                                                               
     I have been curious to know the Certainty of ye Judgemt entred agt         
the City & find that ye same is inserted upon ye Docquet or Roll of ye          
pceedings relateing to ye Charter & that ye same is not a conclusive            
Record but will be compleated upon mature Deliberacon by ye next Terme          
soe as ye words will be affixed upon the Record they being now as               
followes                                                                        
     Judicium pro Domine Rege quod libertates et ffranchesia seceantur          
in manibus Dicti Domine Regis                                                   
     Yesterday being ye Customary time to hold Sessions of the peace sr         
Thomas Jenner our new Recordr came into Guildhall where a Comission             
undr ye Broad Seale was read impowreing Sr Wm Pritchard under the title         
of Lord Mayor & Custos Rotulorum togeathr with all ye Judges and 16 of          
the late Aldrmen to hold pleas of ye Crowne in ye City  accordingly a           
Court was convened the late Aldrmen sitting as Justices  Mr Recordr made        
an excellent speech signifying first to ye Ld Mayor that he was called          
by expresse Command of the King to hold that Station but said that he           
would serve ye King and City equally as if chosen by ye lattr &c.               
     Then applying himselfe to ye Grand Jury said that he had something         
to impart to them not by way of Charge but Command from his Matie               
     The King retaines the greatest love and affection for ye City of           
London as possibly could being resolved to doe his utmost to establish          
it on ye same foundacon as before yt noe pson in Office or place of ye          
City should by this Judgemt be deprived therefrom nor any one lose one          
penny that had the least prtence to Loyalty                                     
     After wch he pceeded to give ye Charge usuall in like cases & was          
very briske agt ye Dissentrs  the Bipp of Londones Officrs were in              
Court to call over ye psones summoned to appeare for Nonconformity & to         
lay a ffine of 10 L upon neglect thereof                                        
     The Sessiones at ye same time held at Hickes hall for ye County of         
Middx where they were very buisy in trying appeales  a Message came to ye       
Justices from ye Lds of ye Treasury complayneing that the money which           
had upon distresse agt Dissentrs was in a great measure not returned            
into the Excheqr therefore ordered them to bring into Court all ye              
Conviccones that ye King might have his right according to Lawe.                
     Saturday last ye Duke of Albemarle being Steward of the City of            
Colchester held ye Quarter Sessiones in his owne pson & the grand Jury          
delivered him a Loyall addresse to be prsented to his Matie                     
     This day began the adjourned Sale of the East India Company  Their         
Auctiones at prsent are 230.                                                    
     Yesterday ye Vestre of St Olives Southwarke displeased [sic] Mr            
Marston lately inflected upon by ye Observator being ye Lecturer of             
that p[ar]ish & made choice of Mr Lucas of Coleman Street.  Yesterday Dr        
Turner newly promoted Bipp of Rochester tooke ye Oathes of Allegience &c        
at o[u]r City Sessiones.  There is expected to come down a Comicon to           
constitute a Court of Aldrmen but yr Membrs will be much altered.  A new        
call of serjtes will be made agt ye Termes.                                     
+A Gent yesterday arriveing from fflandrs declared that ye Chamber of           
Metz has declared ye City of Luxemburgh & that Province to belong to the        
Duke of that Title & makes claime thereon  Noe fforeigne Post come.             
     L. c. 1449     [Handwriting changes here.]   London Octobr 11 1683         
     Tuesday ended our Sessiones of Peace att Guildhall wthout any              
remarkeable affaire more then ye fineing of divers persons 20 Marteres          
being Convicted of Riotous Conventicleing                                       
     In ye same manner ye Justices proceeded att Hixe's hall and Sentenced      
Severall for ye like Crime and one Dr Hatcher a Quack Phisitian being           
indicted for a Ryott and abetting people to hinder a distress [?]  He [?]       
was makeing the Conventicle that [sic] fined 100 L [?] and Comitted to          
new prison in Execution for ye same.                                            
                   [Handwriting changes here.]                                  
     And yesterday Our Sessions att ye old Bailey Comenced where his            
Maties Comission was read to hold Pleas of ye Crowne of Oyer and                
Terminer and Goale Delivery Constituteing the Ld Mayor as Judge of that         
Court as before assisted wth all ye Judges and many of ye late Aldermn &        
Cittizens.  accordingly ye Rt honoble Sr George Jeffryes tooke his Seate        
on ye right hand of the Lord Mayor Lord Cheife Justice of England in            
the usuall Robes or Ensignes of yt high Authority carryeing on ye affaire       
of ye Court wth Universall applause but as yett proceeded only on ye            
bussiness of ye Goale noe appearance of any of the State Plotters this          
Sessions before them  one Mr Ruth as Principall and two other Gentlemn          
as accessory to ye murder of mr Walsh tooke their tryalls  ye first             
brought in Manslaughter ye two others acquitted                                 
     Three Criminals in ye Gate house found meanes before they were             
removed to Newgate to Breake therout but one of them in his descent             
breakeing his Legg was Seized  ye others escaped.                               
     Wee have a fleete of Streights Merchantmen arrived in the Downes           
The Shipps from Jamaica bring as add [?] accompt of almost an                   
irreparable Loss wch many Plantations have sustained thro' the                  
prodigious raines that have hapened wch soe encreased the Land floods to        
that height yt those Plantacons which lay below were totally destroyed &        
insoemuch that the shipps from thence are nott arrived halfe freighted          
     Severall Shipps from the Bay of Cadiz left the Earle of Dartmouth          
wth his fleete in Tangire roade on ye 17th of Septembr and that the day         
after a Councell of Warr was held  But ye result kept soe private they          
could nott informe.                                                             
     Lres from Coventry advise that on Saturday the 6th att 11 att night        
hapned a terrible Earthquake wch shooke the whole City and all the              
adjacent parts & was accompanyed wth a dreadfull noise but continued only       
some minutes wthout doeing any Considerable damage  Letters from                
Leicestershire and severall other parts speake of ye same disaster much         
abt ye tyme                                                                     
     Too morrow mr Van de Putt and divers other Merchants have agreed to        
demand their freedom of the Turkey Company pursuant to a Clause in ye           
Company's Patent that they shall bee first free of the Citty of London          
before they are received  Judgeing that since they cannot att present bee       
made free of London ye Company must grant their Suite but tis beleived ye       
Company will looke only uppon this [as?] evasive and Clamp [?]                  
     The East India Company pursues in their sale wch meets wth a bettr         
markett then expected since they discovered that ye vast quantity of            
holland goods printed in their Bills of Ladeing from India and sent over        
Just before the Sale are nott arrived wth them one of their richest             
shipps being cast away & most of the others nott yett in Port but only          
expected.                                                                       
     Lettrs from Newmarkett say yt ye Gentry from all ye adjacent               
Countyes are in a Confluence Come thither to Congratulate his Maties            
happy deliverance from ye traitorous Conspiracy to take away his Life           
in his passage from those parts as alsoe his Royall Highness  ye greate         
horse race betwixt Rider & Dragon was to bee performed as this day &            
next shall informe you the success  The next weeke mr Attorney Genll is         
to bring to ye Councill a List of ye Severall Conspiratrs together with         
ye nature of yr Crime & ye Evidence agst each of them in ordr to bring          
them to tryall next Terme att ye Kings Bench Barr.                              
       L. c. 1450    [Handwriting changes here.]   Whitehall 11 Octob 83        
     His Maty haveing already made soe great a progresse in disposeing          
the cheife places of Trust in London and the Com[missi]ons of the Peace         
being disposed to many worthy persons and among those to severall of the        
late Aldermen without any denomination of such office he now lookes upon        
the Towne in such sort of present settlemt that he hath reassumed his           
thoughts of goeing to Newmarket.                                                
     Uppon ye promotion of Dr Spratt to ye Deanery Dr De L'Angle [?] is         
made one of ye Prebendaryes of Westmr                                           
     The Grand Jury for the County of Chestr haveing taken notice of 8          
[?] dissatisfied and dangerous psons such as not only showed their              
defection by addresses openly made to Henry Booth Esqr and Sr Rt Cotton         
at the last election of Knights of the shire tending to alter the               
succession of ye Crowne but have since met and cabaled many of them             
being provided wth Stores of Armes and unanimously assembled wth this           
malady &c [?] in the public reception of the D. of Monmouth did prsent          
the principall psons who promoted the addresse and those who were               
notorious in ye riotous reception of the said Duke and his associates           
and those who harbour and countenance any nonconformist Ministers and           
then pticularly mentioned the Earle of Macclesfeild Ld Colchester Ld            
Brandon Henry Booth Esqr Sr Rt Cotton Coll Roger Whitley &c  They               
farther prsented all psons not frequenting the Church it being                  
impossible for them to know their reasons as Recusants and all                  
connivance and indulgence in that Case the ready road to Rebellion              
Popery and Arbitrary Power                                                      
     On the 6 besides those to the Judges ye Attny and Soll Genll 17            
Com[missi]ons were delivered to the Lord Mayor and severall of his late         
Bretheren Constituteing them Justices of the Peace in ye Citty of London        
for soe ye Style still [illegible word of about nine letters] their             
Com[missi]ons as that of ye Lord Mayor dureing pleasure                         
     On ye 8 his Maty went about 5 in the morning from Whitehall to             
Newmarket and on ye 10 his Royall Highnesse followed  Her Maty haveing          
heard of the death of her Brother the King of Portugall hath at present         
retired and refused to herselfe the divertisment of the Season                  
     Two shipps arrived at Falmouth from Zant report that comeing out of        
the Streights they met one of his Matyes fregotts who told them that all        
the Salley men of Warr were abroad and had lately taken 4 dutchmen one          
of 24 Guns and carried them into Mamora                                         
     The Paris lres dated 12 tell us that notwthstanding ye great               
preparations of Warr made by that King tis now said for certaine that the       
ffrench Troopes have ordrs to return to their new districts upon ye 20          
instant though goe when they will they have left such marks of their            
Fallouts [?] behinde them as cannot in a long time be worne out  Whatever       
it is of vast [?] that these miserable people view or they owe to his           
Matyes mediating on their behalfe though those are not working who would        
derogate from that good office  Every day furnisheth us with some little        
remarkes of the great action of which one is that the Grand Vizier when         
he saw he could not carry off his Treasure destroyed his Seraglia and           
cutt off 5 of his womens heades that they might fall into the Christians        
hands  Wee are got this farr to the occasion of ye report of the 2d             
battle that ye Polishe and German Horse takeing advantage of ye disendon        
[?] of the Turkes retreit had indeed falne uppon ye Rere destroyed 2000         
took 8 peice of Canon and sevll Wagons with plate and other rich Utinsells      
but thought it not safe to adventure farther without the rest of ye Army        
     Notwithstanding ye discourse about Towne I doe not finde that any          
more of the Conspiracy are to be brought to account this Sessions but           
tis more than probable that the Terme will bring some of them and those         
of ye most eminent uppon ye Stage                                               
     By the Madrid lres dated 7ber 30 wee are told of a Courier from ye         
Capt Genll of Andalusia at Port Santa Maria with the newes of our               
ffleets arrivall on that Coast  The Courier parted on ye 28 at midnight         
when they were standing off before Gibralter  The newes of the arrivall         
of our ffleete was the generall subject of discourse among the Spanyards        
and that which past as the most probable among them was that they were          
come to demand satisfaction for the affronts put by the Spanish Armada          
on our 2 fregotts in point of Salutes  A full Councill of State was             
held the evening that the Courier arrived but what Comands they sent to         
the Capt Generall or their result was as yet as darke as the Lord               
Dartmouth's designe  The Spanish Armada was at Naples where it was              
thought it might stay some time till ye new Spayne ffleete draw near            
home which they expected about March next                                       
     The Allicant lres dated 7br 30 tell us the ffrench ffleete was             
come from before Algeirs to Yena near Majorca haveing spent their bombes        
in vaine uppon those obstinate pirates who after all their losse refuse         
any peace with them  There appeared on ye 29 before that Port 4                 
Tuniseenes of 40 odde Guns each and a small English vessell who spoke           
with the Captns and said they were in quest of ffrench and Dutch Shipps         
They tell us of his Matyes fregotts haveing sunck and burnt and sunck 3         
Sallymen                                                                        
     The Paris lres dated the 16 have nothing of their owne newes more          
than that ye ffrench Troopes were to be drawne into their Winter Quarters       
by the 20 instant  It was said that Count Teckely had refused to goe to         
the Grand Vizier and was with what force he had into the Cittyes of the         
Mountaines which lookt uppon a stepp to the returne to his duty                 
     Her Royall Highnesse and Princesse Anne stay here yet tis said in          
complement to the Queene to condole uppon the death of the King of              
Portugall who died on the 12 of the last in the 40 yeare of his age the         
27 of his reigne and the 16 of his being deposed from his Goverment and         
Imprisonmt.                                                                     
     It was observed on Sunday last when the Ld Mayor went to Chapple           
those of his Bretheren who accompanied him were then in Comissions only         
as Justices of the Peace but being since restored to their Title they           
may appoint sessions in their fformalityes                                      
     L. c. 1451     [Handwriting changes here.]   London October 13 1683        
     Mr Attorney Genll has made a List of ye sevrall Conspirators now           
in Custody wch exceed 30 togeathr wth yr Crimes & ye witnesses agt each         
pticular pson in ordr to deliver it next Wednesday to ye Council to             
knowe agt whome they have sufficient evidence to bring to speedy Tryalls        
     They are very busy in ye Comm Office in drawing Comicones for to           
impower ye City Chamberlayn Towne Clerke Counsel Serjt [about twelve            
letters illegible] to act in ye sevrall stacons undr the same forme of          
Governmt as before Judgemt entered save only ye Authority is Lodged in ye       
King wch was then in ye City                                                    
     A Comicon is alsoe formed for Constituteing a New Court of Aldermen        
& I am credibly informed allready sealed & sent to Newmarket for approbacon     
& only varies from ye Old by displaceing 8 of ye former members &               
inserting ye like number following in yr Roomes                                 
   Sr John Buckworth   Sr Ben: Bathurst         Peter Paravicino                
   Sr Ben: Newland     Jacob Lucy Esqr          Sam: Dashwood Esqr              
   Mr Ben: Thorogood   Mr Wm Gosleing Merch                                     
 [Brackets separate the groups of names.]                                       
     The Polish Ambassadour haveing reced his answere of his Matie has          
had his audience of Conge & will suddainly depart                               
     Paris lettrs say that ye dislocaccon in ye Kings Laws is now               
obscured insoemuch that there has been debates of a 2d marriage for him         
ye Pictures of divrs princesses being prsented to his veiw  his Matie           
seemes most to incline to ye 2d daughter of ye Duke of Newbergh sister          
to ye Empresse declareing yt ye princesse he marryes shall not only be of       
ye Roman Catholicke ffaith but soe educated from her infancy                    
     Wee have farther Lettrs from Tangeire wch give a certain acct that         
ye Earle of Dartmouth wth his ffleet consisting upwards of 20 sayle was         
in that Bay where his Comission being opened he was styled his Maties           
Governor Genll of Tangeire & Admirall in those seas That a Councill of          
Warr was held on board ye Admiralles Shipp ye 18 ultimo  Some notable           
undrtakeing on foot but report soe Various yt I cant fix ye certainty           
     The Magistrates of the City of Coventry are in towne to lay yr             
Charter at his Maties ffeet                                                     
     Wee are farther advised from ye North of ye Terrible Earthquake            
wch was felt in those ptes                                                      
     Wee are told from Antwerpe that ye studentes for ye Victory before         
Vienna dressed a peice of pageantry reprsenting ye most Christian & Pagan       
Turke supported by ye Devill which most sollemn wise they carryed in            
Procession & in ye conclusion made ye lattr throwe him into fflames             
     Our German Lettrs this day give an Accot that ye Magestrates of            
Vienna have prsented Count Starembergh with ye vallue of 2000 L & ye            
Empire has pmised to make him a Prince of ye Empire  at prsent he is            
gon to Comand ye Army in Hungary upon wch Genll Caprara Dunvalt & othrs         
will act in ye Emperors Service  The Imperiall fforces have taken Pappa         
Vesprin & Totis [?] and ye Turkish souldrs are kept prisoners of Warr in        
Presbur[gh]  The Polish Army have invested New Hewsell  The Turkeish Army       
at Stole Wissingburgh are restricted with 50000 men whereby anothr batle        
is expected before ye Campaine be ended                                         
     The Holland Lres say they are very apprhensive of a ffrench warr           
The ffrench Troopes ravidge upon yr Guarriccons [?] neare Mastreect as          
much as in ye Spanish Countrey  The States are extraordinaryly assembled        
from Morning to Night On this subject to endeavour to avert ye dangr            
     Our sessions ended this day where 17 Malefactrs reced sentence of          
death  4 dissenting Ministers have bills of indictmt of Premunire found         
by ye Grand Jury for refuseing ye Oathes of Allegeance & Suprmacy               
     ffarther lettrs from Tangeire say that ye Earle of Dartmouthe reced        
4 Mules wth refreshmtes from ye Alcade of Alcazor & his Ldpp Complemted         
him with ye vallue againe afterwards appointed Comiconrs to inspect ye          
ffortificaccons of Tangeire tis sd in ordr to reduce them to a bettr            
regulaccon & will depart from thence in few weekes                              
     L. c. 1452     London Octobr 16 1683                                       
     Sunday last one Mr Richard ffaringdon Merchant with 6 other                
dissenting Cityzens were pnounced excommunicate                                 
     The late Grand Jury at the Old Bayly found many bills of Indictmt          
agt Conventicleres than [?] there appeared noe preaching they haveing           
assembled in ordr to it [and have?] found a meanes to pceed agt them by         
way of New lawe                                                                 
     Saturday night his Maties Comicon to constitute a new Court of             
Aldrmen came downe to ye Ld Mayor and on Sunday morning ye same was read        
in Guild hall 16 of ye late Aldrmen being mentioned & displaced (vizt)          
        Sr Thomas Allen     Sr Robert Clayton                                   
        Sr John ffreddrick  Sr John Shorter     [A bracket appears after        
        Sr John Lawsone     Sr Patience Ward     each group; only eight         
        Sr Thomas Gould     Mr Corneish          names are given.]              
     The Comicon ran durante bene placito & nominated 8 new ones which I        
wrote you in ye last save only Mr Gosleing has got himselfe out & Mr            
Charles Duncombe Banker inserted in his Roome                                   
     Most of ye 16 fformer ones appeared ye other not haveing as yet            
taken ye Oathes disappeared but yesterday a writ came downe to ye Ld            
Mayor to sweare them                                                            
     One Cotton whoe has been observed to write and disperse Scandalous         
& Treasonable Lybelles agt ye Governmt was seized on Saturday and               
Comitted to ye Gate house                                                       
     This morning arrived a Dutch Post wch sayes yt on ye 5 instant ye          
King of Poland had an expresse from Cracow that ye Turkes in Cominiecke         
had cut to peices some Regimtes of Cossackes designe[d] for Hungary             
afterwards laid ye lower Rokheine [?] in Ashes & that ye Cossackes in           
Creer [?] advanceing too farr into ye Enemyes Countreyes were intercepted       
with ye losse of 20000 slayne & 4000 drowned in ye Nyeper                       
     Vienna ye 10 300 forrageing Poles cut in peices & from ffrankfort          
tis wrote yt one expresse passing thro this place gives accot that on ye        
8 a bloody battle was fought neere Gran between ye Turkes and Poles             
Teckley being Joyned to ye formr which lasted about 6 houres tho went           
knoweing whoe had ye losse [?]  ye Poles gave way ye King encompassed           
[?] wounded in Legg and nigh being taken but ye comeing in of ye German         
Dragoones turned the Scale  The Poles were in poss[ess]ion of ye ffort          
of Berkam [?] but driven out  10000 Turkes slayne & 7000 Poles                  
     Our fflandrs lres [report?] yt ye Governour of Luxemburgh had new          
ordrs to repell ye ffrench with fforce wch they in divrs places have            
done & those of Audenard ffought the ffrench [about six letters                 
illegible] Guard & brought ym Prisoners & publicacon is made at Gent &          
else where to make reprizall on ye ffrench in ye same manner they have          
acted to them  Marshall Humeires has sent to Paris to knowe how further         
he must pceed                                                                   
     This day 4 new Aldrmen were Sworne vizt Sr Ben: Newland Mr Jacob           
Lucy Mr Dashwood and Mr Paravicino  ye othr 4 disappeared                       
     Mr Rich his 400 L to have it either ye 1st money that comes into ye        
Chamber on ye Colemeelers [?] place sould                                       
     Mr Allen Apsley his Royall Highnesses Treasurer dyed yesterday             
     This day her Royall Highness miscarried                                    
     L. c. 1453     [Handwriting changes here.]    London Octobr 18th 83        
     I omitted in my Last to informe you that att our late Sessions the         
names of the Duke of Monmouth Ld Grey Sr Thomas Armestrong fferguson            
Goodenough Melthropp wth other of ye Conspiratrs to ye Number of 21             
were a second tyme proclaimed by way of Exigent in order to proceed to          
outlawry agts them which after ye 3d calleing will bee severally had            
uppon them                                                                      
     The Dutchesse of Yorke haveing been extreame ill since the Court           
att Newmarkett & Tuesday Morning miscarried  an expresse was imediately         
sent to his Royall Highness who is lookt for this Evening in Towne & ye         
King in few dayes                                                               
     I am advised from a great forreigne hand yt the Emperour has wrote         
a most afectionate Lettr to the Prince of Orange returneing him all             
possible acknowledgements for his firme adherence to the States agts ye         
french Interest declareing him a Prince of the Empire under ye title of         
Prince of Mewres and given him a greate debt ye States Generall owes            
his Imperiall Matie for subsidies since the last warr & promises him yt         
when ye States of ye Empire next assemble his Matie will att his owne           
Charge gett his Highness established Prince and Generall of all his             
forces on this side the Rhine.                                                  
     And the same hand afirmes that the king of Spain in Confirmacon            
therof has declared the Prince Generall of his forces in ye Spanish             
Low Countryes even to give Command to the Marquis De Grana who tis wrote        
was himself one of ye Principall Promoters of this great worke wherby           
notable action may bee suddenly expected in those parts.                        
     The Accompts of the Chamber of London have been examined and Stated        
and found yt they exceed Six hundred Thirty thousand Pounds and yt att          
prsent only 18 L appeares in Cash  tis hoped yt some expedient will bee         
found to recover ye said fund to assist many wanteing Orphans.  Wee have        
now ye Certain advice of ye second greate defeate of the Turks neare            
Gran wch is att large prticularized in this day's Gazett.                       
     Our flandrs Lettrs wch came yesterday in a Confluence give the             
various proceedings of ye french and Spaniards accons in those parts            
wherby Mareschall Humieres who before was wthdraweing his Troops has            
made a halt expecting ye King's answer from Paris wch wee are credibly          
told is a declaracon of warr agts Spain & Holland wch will aford much           
Novelty.                                                                        
     This day a 2d Court of Aldrmen mett where the Ld Mayor prsuant to          
a Writt of dedimus potestatem swore three other of ye new Aldrmen vizt          
Sr Jno Buckworth Charles Duncomb Esqr and mr Thorowgood & proceeded             
uppon bussiness of ye Citty.                                                    
     I am Credibly assured yt his Matie will grant his Comission on             
ye 29th Instant ye annuall day for sweareing of ye Ld Mayor to Sr Henry         
Tulse next in Course for ye succeeding yeare as alsoe yt there will be          
a Ld Mayor's show & yt his Matie ye Citty Government being in his hands         
will treate ye Citty of London in Guildhall in like manner as they used         
to doe him.                                                                     
     Sr Allen Apsley his Royall Highnesses Treasurer being dead his Son         
Sr Roten and Sr Ben. Bathurst will succeed equally in yt place                  
     I have itt Confirmed yt the Emperour has made the Prince of Orange         
a Prince of ye Empire and writes to him in ye style of deronissimus as          
greate as to any of ye Electors.                                                
     Lettrs yesterday of ye 26th of August from Sancta Cruce in Barbary         
give an acctt yt ye Emperour Muli Ishmaell has made a peace wth his             
Nephew Muli Hamet ye latter to ye maine King of Suz [?] in Confirmacon          
therof  ye Emperour has given to his Eldest Sonn ye Government of Haha          
[sic] lyeing from Mugidore to Cape de Gure in latitude 30 1/2                   
Southwards of Tangire and to his Nephewe's Second Sonn that of Seculam          
where there is a rich Silver Mine and yt ye passage of the Mountains            
from before Taradant were Cleared.  Revolters on all sides pardoned & ye        
Tuesday before the peace proclaimed wherby provisions in each others            
Camp was one halfe as cheape as before which sd Newes tis beleived will         
alter ye Ld Dartmouth's Measure att Tangire  3000 Moores are before the         
Towne but offer noe acts of hostility.                                          
     L. c. 1454     [Handwriting changes here.]   Whitehall  18 8bris 83        
     The french Ambd at Madrid hath lately by his Masters Comands given         
in a Memoriall demanding satisfaction and exemplary punishmt against ye         
Governour and Garison of the Towne and Castle of Denze [?] uppon ye             
ffrontier of Arragon who on ye 13 of may last had seized uppon 120              
ffrenchmen of severall Trades and mecanick callinges who were returning         
into their Countrey Guienne treated them ill Stript them naked and              
tooke from them the Tooles and materialls of their Trade as ripping             
hookes &c and then rumaged their gutts by forceing them to take certaine        
purgative potions to force them to vomit up and discharge if any Golden         
Jewells had beene concealed  thereof wch 3 or 4 dyed and the major parte        
fell sick wch very ill usage doth in a great measure excuse the                 
severityes used by the ffrench toward the subjects of the Spanish               
Netherlands                                                                     
     Wee have now severall lres from ye Garison of Tangire wch give an          
acct of ye safe arrivall of ye Ld. Dartmouth and all the ffleet under his       
Comand at that Port  The lres bear date the 21 of the last by wch it            
seemes his Ldsp reached thither on ye 14 and after 3 dayes stay went            
ashoare and sent Mr Sheeves to complement the Alcaid of Alcazar  The            
Alcaid treated him wth all manner of respect and civility showed him the        
Sport of hunting the wild Boare and after they had killed him the               
Alcaid sent it and 3 mules laden wth all sort of fresh provisions as a          
Present to the Ld. Dartmouth. The Alcaid was at his Ldsps arrivall              
within 2 miles of the Garison with a considerable Army                          
     On the 13 Sr Thomas Walcot had his Comon and took ye Oath of one           
of the Judges of the Kings Bench                                                
     The Ambdr from the King of Denmarke the Chancellr of Denmarkes son         
the Envoye from the King of Poland and the Envoye from the D of Hannover        
haveing taken their leaves of his Maty the Ambdr is presented with a            
Jewell with the Kings picture of 1000 L the Chancellrs son with a Jewell        
of Diamonds of the vallue of 500 L the Envoye from Poland with a diamond        
Ring of 3 large stones vallued 350 L and the Envoye from Hannover with a        
Diamond Ring vallue 220 L                                                       
     The Sessions of the old Baily ended on ye 13 but none of the               
Conspiracy brought to Tryall  one Clarke was tryed for words importing          
that there was noe such thing as ye late Conspiracy and that it was only        
a contriveance to render ye Protest[ant?]s as guilty as ye Papists which        
being plainly proved against him he was condemned to stand in ye Pillory        
and fined 500 Markes                                                            
     The Dutch lres dated ye 19 say that the French Troopes had                 
demanded Contribution of some villages within the Jurisdiction of               
Maastricht and though the Governor there had by order from the States           
acquainted the ffrench Intendant that they belonged to ye States he             
caused them for non payment to be pillaged wch the States have highly           
resented and made complaint of  The ffleete which was sent to observe           
ye motions of the ffrench and Danes tis said will be speedily ordered           
home and paid off to prvent ye charge of a winter maintenance  They tell        
us their German advises doe speake of the beseiging Newhausell which            
notwithstanding some did oppose for that the Turke was not yet so               
despicable that hee might make a considerable Army and after they had           
battered [?] themselves before the place might come to its releife  They        
speake with new assurance of Count Teckleyes comeing in and submitting          
to the Empr but say that he adviseth that they should take the advantage        
of this time to make a Peace with the Turkes and tell them that if they         
should neglect this opportunity the Turke will certainly the next               
yeare bring down an Army of 400m [?] Men to revenge himselfe for ye             
disgrace received before Vienna                                                 
     Count Lambergh writes that on his way to the Imperiall Army he met         
this advise that ye Poles engadged a Body of 10000 Turkes neare                 
Barkan where at first the Poles were soe ill handled that they were beat        
back with the losse of 15000 but being seconded by some German                  
Dragoones they rallied and charged wth such fury that they totally              
defeited the Turkes most of those whome the sword mist being drowned in         
the Danube uppon wch the ffortresse of Barkan rendered on discretion            
There are 800 Prisonrs among whome the Bassa of Silistria and among             
the dead were the Bassas of Buda and Alepo                                      
     On ye 15 her Royall Highnesse miscarried of a Prince but God be            
praised is very well for that condicon  that evening dyed Sr Allen              
Appesley Treas to his Royall Highnesse                                          
     The Comon being past the great seale on the 16 the Aldn and other          
officers formerly mentioned took their oathes at Guildhall and now              
first appeared againe in their gownes                                           
     The office of Treasurer to his Royall Highnesse since the death of         
Sr Allen Appesley is managed by Sr Peter Appesley and Sr Ben: Bathurst          
the Son and Son in Law of ye deceased                                           
     That the Spanyards prest by the ffrench beyond their bearing had           
begun to give the same measure that they had received in forceing               
Contributions from the ffrench Territoryes is now in every ones mouth as        
alsoe that the Prince of Chimoy the Governor of Luxemburgh had not proceeded    
farther and taken in the Castle of Bortrauge and other Garrisons  This          
the Paris lres dated 20 tell us is interpreted there as a Warr made by          
the Spanyard and that the Garison of Oudenard did apparently begin it           
when they attacqued a Party of ffrench Horse and that the Count of              
Montalto was very near being surprized by 6000 Dutch horse if he had            
not tymely retired under the Canon of Philipsburgh  What resolution             
will be taken thereuppon is not said but nothing lesse was spoke of             
than an open Warr  They say that when Mounsr duquesne was at Tripoli            
whether his ordrs obleige him to goe for ratification of a Peace and            
to demand the reasons why he broake articles  he will returne againe            
before Algier and stay there till he be releived by the Chevalier de            
Levy and then return to Toulon and thence to the King to give him               
a pticular account of his expedicon                                             
     The Harlem Gazete gives an acct of the fight betwixt the Christians        
and the Turkes near Barkan and grants the Xtians the victory though at a very   
deare rate for when the King of Poland prest soe forward to the battle          
that the Germans were some miles behinde him the Turkes had disposed            
their Janizaries soe secretly that they fell uppon them with the greatest       
advantage killed states the Gazete 7000 Poles adding with all that the          
King of Poland had recd an hurt on his left thigh  It sayes farther that        
there were joyned to ye Grand Vizier 50m fresh men from Belgrade with           
whome he had resolved if the late defeat doth not alter his purpose to          
face ye Christians and give them battle  A short tyme will give us the          
Truth and I encline to beleive the best                                         
     This day his Royall Highnesse arrived safe at St James's and it            
still holds that we may expect his Maty on Saturday                             
   L. c. 1455   [Handwriting changes here]    London: Ye 20th Octob 1683        
     This morning early happened a terrible fire in the farther part of         
Rosemary Lane but was extinguished with the Loss of six houses and as           
many blowne up and defaced:                                                     
     Last night a fire was perceived to begin in Cheapside The                  
Shopkeeper having carried away his goods whereby neighbours judged that         
he had purposely enkindled it the better to compound with his Creditors         
which being broke open was after some assistance put out                        
     His Royall Highness returned from Newmarkett on Thursday last and          
this day the King and Court are expected.                                       
     One Mr Henry Dickinson Sonn to Mr Dickinson one of his Maties              
prsant Commissionrs of his Customes in Ireland was lately had before a          
Councell for writeing and publishing a scandalous paper entituled queries       
to the Deane of Canterbury for which hee was obliged in 1000 L to appeare       
the first day of the Terme to Answer an Informacon which should be              
exhibited against him as alsoe 500 L to be of ye good behaviour.                
     Which said Gentleman belonging to Doctors Commons and walking              
yesterday that Court Yard spied a freind of his in Company which [?] one        
Scarlett who hee advised to depart from as being a sharper and other            
such words which this Scarlett understanding tooke his oportunity to            
run Mr Dickinson through and make his escape of which wound hee within a        
houre after dyed.                                                               
     One Mr John Canterell who was lately taken into Custody of a               
Messenger upon his examinacon found to be guiltless and discharged.             
     None of the State plotters have yett notice of a Tryall nor any            
Bills found against them, but by the middle of next weeke I shall be            
able to acquaint you what proceed the Councell makes upon them after the        
Report of the Attorney Generall relateing to the Evidence against them          
and we are told that some persons are come out of Somersetshire to              
attest their knowledge of the Traitorous Conspiracy as being Listed for         
Souldiers in that intended villanous action.                                    
     Yesterday the East India Company completed their sale which by             
reason ye Dutch East India ffleete are not yett arrived had a great             
markett and sale in the totall for 6 hundred fifty odd thousand pounds          
which will goe neere to discharge yr obligacons and put them into as            
full Creditt as before                                                          
     The late Common Councell men of each ward of this City have                
Complemented theire new Aldermen and passed reciprocal treats to each           
other and it Continues that wee shall have a new Lord Mayor in the              
usuall course Sr Henry Tulse haveing already Notice to prepare his              
Equipage and that if tyme will permitt, the usuall formalityes will be          
performed on that Ceremony and his Maty treate the City in Guildhall.           
     Severall of the City officers have beene sent for above to know if         
they will be Contented to hold their places of his Matie durante bene           
placito or otherwise stand it out but most have agreed to the former.           
     An Eminent Widdow whose husband dyed since Judgmt entred up                
against the City Charter hath resorted to divers Councellors of the             
highest Ranke to know whether shee may Clayme the thirds of her late            
husbands estate as by ye Custom of the City is due in that case, Some           
have given their opinions that ye Charter is still in being as the              
said Judgmt is entred and therefore the prescripcons hold good but              
others say that Judgmt cannot be entred in part but in whole soe null           
whereby ye Custome held by prescripcon ceases to be.                            
   L. c. 1456  [Handwriting changes here.]   London Octobr 23th [sic] 83        
     Flanders Letters yesterday of the 27th are of high Import as               
pursuant to the Marquis De Grana's mandatory orders to repell the french        
wth force there hapned various and sharpe renCounters but how Marechall         
Humieres will proceed since hostility begun is the subject of Expectation       
for the Unexpectedness of ye Spanish Courage does nott a little perplex         
the french Councells being in honour obliged to maintaine their aggressive      
proceedings but att ye same time Involved into a neighbouring warr when         
since (the happy success agts the Turkes) their Armes are in prospect           
called for to defend their German acquisitions Prince Waldeck being             
ordered with the Circular troopes of the Empire to march for the Rhine          
and therfore the french necessitated to wthdraw out of flanders and             
observe his Motions.                                                            
     The same Lettrs Confirme the Victory obtained by ye Poles and              
Germans neare Barkam for which the Emperour sang Te Deum att Lintz on           
the 12th  ye advantage they say is greater then att first discovered for        
the Turkish Ambuscade did att first surprize and disorder the Poles yett        
after the German forces were Joyned they soe defeated the Body of 13000         
Turks that Scarce 3000 escaped for those who saved themselves in ye             
Counterscarp and Ditch of Barkam were by Count Staremburgh who Commanded        
ye Dragoones and Infantry Stormed and Cut to peices the fort taken Gran         
beseiged the Prisoners brought to Vienna  the Elector of Bavaria returned       
to the Army which Campaigne they hope will terminate in ye takeing of Buda.     
     The Lettrs alsoe Confirme that ye Emperour has Constituted ye              
Prince of Orange who was before but Count de Mewres neare Rhyn burgh            
Prince of that title sending him a Patent thereof in ye style of                
Serenissimo Principi.                                                           
     Yesterday the Lord Mayor and Our New Court of Aldermen in their            
formalityes went to Whitehall to performe their Congratulaton Ceremony          
to his Maty for his safe and happy returne from Newmarkett.                     
     On Sunday a Councill was held att Whitehall where divers afaires of        
Moment were under Consideracon severall persons examined in relation to         
ye plott & a Barrister of Law who lived att Bristoll Committed Prisoner         
to Newgate                                                                      
     An expresse the same day arived from the Ld Dartmouth from the Bay         
of Tangire but wee cannot yett learne what measures his Ldshipp pursues         
whither to demolish all or part of ye fortifications of yt Garrison but         
on ye other hand five greate flyboates are ordered thither wth                  
provisions for ye Citty & victualling for ye Navy 6 months Longer.              
    Friday Last ye Justices of ye Peace for Middlesex mett at Hixes Hall        
by way of adjournment to heare and Consider divers irregular proceedings        
used by some of ye Justices in their office especially relateing to             
Conviction of Conventiclers 150 L being found to be in ye hands of              
Justice Sabbs and Sr Clement Armigon whereuppon the Bench framed an             
address agts them yt his Matie would be pleased to put them out of              
Comission of peace for ye future.                                               
     Last night abtt ye houre of 5: 6 Gentlemen fought in St Jamese's           
Square  2 vizt Mr Terrett and foster were killed uppon the Spott 2 other        
vixt Coney and Deane mortally wounded  ye 2 last made their escapes.  wch       
sd quarrell is sd to arise from ye refusall in ye first to divide his           
wifes Portion among them wch they had promised each other to doe when           
any of them had mett wth a fortune                                              
     This day being ye first of the Terme Sr George Jeffreyes ye new            
Cheife Justice of England appeared uppon the Bench but made noe Speech          
as some expected  ye two new other Justices vizt Serjeant Richard               
Holloway & Serjeant Walcott tooke alsoe their seats  ye Court proceeded         
uppon ye usuall business of the day as heareing of Motions and to               
Record appearances of those bound over wch were nott a few as Parson            
Meade Lobb ye NonConformist Minister as alsoe one Johnson who wrote             
Julian the Apostate the Brother of Trenchard mr Umphrevill & others too         
long to incert.  A fellow was indicted for saying opprobrious words of          
his Royall Highness as yt hee was a Sonn of W--   One Mr Westlock Barrister     
of the Temple seized att Exeter discharged Nothing being had agts him.          
Aaron Smith prisoner in ye Tower for high Treason was brought to ye             
Court to recd [sic] sentence uppon a former Conviction for handing              
Scurrilous papers to Colledge att Oxford  in ye tyme of his Tryall hee          
desired a Coppy of ye Record as alsoe Councill  the first was granted           
and hee to Come againe on Thursday next.  Sr ffrancis Pemberton Late            
Cheife Justice of ye Common Pleas appeared att ye Barr as Councill &            
made Mocons accordingly                                                         
     L. c. 1457   [Handwriting changes here.]   Whitehall 25th Octr 1683        
     His Maty have been pleased to grant to mr Wm Trulock ye sole               
benefitt of a new invention of a haul back to be supplied to any vessell        
that will show how many Leagues yt vessell hath sailed                          
     The Hamburgh lres dated ye 5/15 tell us one Dutch ffrigot arrived          
lately at Gottembergh who told them their ffleet was ready to obey the          
King of Swedens Comands and yt it was generally beleived som Troops             
would be put aboard them to bee transported into fflanders and those            
parts  The King of Denmarke though hee has already 24m men effective in         
Holsteyn whereof 17m are foot has given ordrs for ye raiseing 8000 more         
and whereas hitherto hee hath recd of ye ffrench onely 200m Crownes             
subsidy tis said now they are made up 600m [?] Crownes  The Electr of           
Brandenburgh appeares very backward in ioineing many Acts of War in             
those parts  The Electr of Saxony was goin to Berlin to Confer wth him          
and it was said Count Lambergh and Mounsr Greffenthall ye Emperour & ye         
Swedish ministers would speedily meet him there                                 
     Tis writt from Barbary yt ye Emperor of Moroco findeing himselfe           
soe koopt up by his Nephew that hee could noe way get well off had at           
last agreed & granted to him the Kingdom of Sus [?] soe yt now they             
stood in good Terms wth one another                                             
     On the 20th his matye (God bee praised) returned safe from                 
Newmarket about 3 in ye afternoon                                               
     In his matyes returne from Newmarket the Guards who did use to             
receive at Hogsden did it now at ye Rye House to prevent all Mischeife          
from ye place soe fitted for ye perpetration of ye most horrid                  
assasination for ye Howse still stands although our litle Boutefois ye          
seditious Newswriters had sent it abroad into ye Countries all in flames        
upon his matyes passing by it  His matyes returne was Congratulated by          
ye Lds of ye Councill and the other persons of severall qualities wth           
due reverence                                                                   
     On ye 21th [sic] his matye & ye Court went into mourning for ye            
death of ye King of Portugall wch was soe genll and more solemnly               
observed yn usually on ye like occassion                                        
     The Paris lres dated ye 27th speake of new Levies & great Threats          
of what shall bee don in revenge of ye affronts given ym in ye Spanish          
Netherlands but mention not any thing of Ordrs issued out to that               
purpose wch some would attribute to the expectation of the returne of           
one sent into England                                                           
     The Dutch lres dated ye 26th notwithstanding those Embroiles say yt        
though all others have Consented to ye new Levies Amsterdam cannot yet          
bee brought to it  The last Victory against ye Turks is given wth               
greater advantage                                                               
     On the 23d ye first of ye Terme Aaron Smith prisonr in ye Tower for        
High Treason as being Internuncio betwixt the Conspiratrs of England            
and Scotland was brought to the Kings Bar to receive Sentence for a             
former Crime  Hee was employed as Agitatr for ye ffaction to uphold             
College in his Tryall at Oxford where in open Court hee flew out into           
these words  Tis time for us to look about us since our lives & fortunes        
are beset here  ffor this Information was brought in against him and            
when hee saw himselfe ripe for Judgment hee dropt out of Court and was          
taken againe among ye Conspirrs but how fowle soever his practise was at        
his request hee had time given him till this day to show why Judgmt             
should not bee given                                                            
     On the 21th ye Rochester & Beaufort 2 East India ships went to ye          
Downes outward bound & will bee suddenly followed by others Sr John             
Wetwang haveing taken his leave in ordr to his departure                        
     They tell us from Cowes that 2 ffrench men of War one of 60 & ye           
other of 50 guns anchored off St Hellens road who say they were                 
sepperated from 12 others 3 days before who came out of the Sound and           
were Bound for Brest                                                            
     By lres from Hamburgh dated the 18th tis said ye King of Denmark           
will continue at Coppenhagen this winter and that hee had ordered most          
of ye Troops to quarter in Holsteyn soe yt they had now for awhile laid         
aside all apprehension of trouble   severall Princesses are proposed in         
Marriage to ye Electoral Prince of Brandenburgh but ye Princess of              
Hannover seems to stand ye fairest wch if it prove a Match may bee a            
great meanes to settle a good correspondence betwixt ye Howses of               
Brandenburgh and Lunenburgh                                                     
     They write from Madrid that ye Court was soe well satisfied with           
the Resolutions the States Genell had taken for ye defense of fflanders         
that ye Secretary of State had complemented the Ambr and given him              
thanks upon that subject  The Arrivall of ye ffleet under Ld Dartmouth          
was ye occasion of severall conditures [?] but the English Merchants            
they tell us doe now trouble their heads noe more about it since his            
Ldp was pleased to acquaint Consull Westhambe that there was noe cause          
why they should give themselves ye least disturbance                            
     On the 21th his matye was informed in Councill of a seditious              
Pamphlet of ye Case of ye E. of Argill wch was ordered to bee burnt by          
ye Comon Hangman                                                                
     The office of Ld Cheife Justice of Chester become void by the              
advancement of Sr George Jeoffries is disposed to [space for about              
seven letters left blank] Herbert Esqr                                          
     Algrnon Sidney ye Ld Brandon & mr Booth have moved for Heas Corpus         
to bee brought to ye Bar  One Packer now Prisoner in Newgate was indicted       
for villanous words upon wch hee desired to bee admited to Baile but the        
Court being informed that hee was also charged wth Treason hee was              
remanded to Newgate  Aaron Smith upon farther motion has time granted           
him till ye 27th                                                                
     L. c. 1458     Whitehall 1st Novr 83                                       
     From Portland dated 23d wee have an acct of 2 ffrench men of War           
the Precious and the Arrogant in yt road  Tis probable they are the same        
formerly mentioned for they say they came out from ye Baltick wth ye            
rest of the ffleet & put into Havre de Grace expecting to bee laid up           
there but had receaved Ordrs to follow the rest of ye ffleet to Brest           
     His matye haveing declared his pleasure to ye Ld Mayor & Court of          
Aldrmen that Sr Henry Tulse a Worthy Loyall Cittizen and who in former          
ordrs stood next to ye Chaire should execute the office of Ld Mayor for         
ye yeare ensueing & to that purpose was sworne at Westmr on ye 29th             
They imediatly issued out as usually precepts to ye severall Companies          
to attend in their formalityes soe yt nothing was wanting at ye Ceremony        
but Pageants wch in soe short a time could not bee fitted up  On the            
25th ye Recorder ye Sheriffe & sword bearer went to wait upon ye Lds            
of ye Councill & desire their Company at dinner and their invitations           
had proceeded could they have been able soe soon to made [sic]                  
preparations suitable to a Royall Entertainmt  The people are highly            
sensible of his matyes favr & will omit nothing of respect to a Mayor           
of his appointmt                                                                
     On the 29th Sr Henry Tulse haveing a Comissn from his matye to             
that purpose was sworne at ye Excheqr Bar Westmr as usually Ld Mayor of         
London  As they past downe to Westmr his matye was pleased from                 
Whitehall to take a view of them wch ye severall Barges acknowledged            
with lowd Huzzas                                                                
      On the 27th Aaron Smith was brought to Judgmt  his behavr to ye           
Court was all along as audacious as when hee spoke ye words for wch hee         
stod indicted and though indeed ye whole ffaction is peculiarly guifted         
wth a more yn convenient boldness this man is of soe prodigious a talent        
yt way yt there is a necessity of a Pillory to qualifie him for ye              
Gallowes  Hee was fined 500 L sentenced to give security for ye behavr          
for a year to stand twice in ye Pillory & to continue in prison till all        
bee performed  Mr Hambden Moses Wildman Mr Charleton &c have put in             
their prayers for Tryall.                                                       
     On the 30th Aaron Smith according to his sentence stood in ye              
Pillory in New Pallace Yeard before Westmr Hall where hee suffered ye           
Lawe & noe more for how bad soever ye man tis certainly a great                 
barbarity to ad to his affliction & showes the spirits of our                   
modern fanaticks who never satisfied wth wt punishmt ye law inflicted           
could not appease their Mallice unless they ymselves enlarged it and            
as if ye hangmans hand was too light made themselves iointe Executor            
     On ye 26th ye Mary & Elizabeth arrived at Cowes in 5 weeks from            
Virginia wth new tobacco  They say all things are quiet in those parts          
     The Dutches of Grafton was the last week safely delivered of a son         
     Upon ye advancemt of Dr Hicks to ye Deanry Dr John Jophioet is             
made Prebend of Worcester                                                       
     Robt Lock who caryed ye Ld Gray over ye seas was brought up by Heas        
Corpus where his discharge was prayed wch though ye Court could not             
grant they were willing to take baile but for want of it hee was remanded       
     They write from Marseilles dated Octr 22d yt severall Men of War           
were arrived from before Argeire wth their Machines wch they thought            
not fitt to prove [?] the Weather it seemes being not soe proper  some          
of ye ships were very leaky & were in danger of founding in the sea             
Monsr Duquesne was gone wth 6 Men of War to Tunis to Confirme a Peace           
wth yt Govermt and Monsr de Lery wth his squadron of 4 ships was ready          
to depart from Toulon to Cruise for Algerines of whome severall were            
abroad & it was feared yt some of their New Found Land men might fall           
into their hands                                                                
     Sr Wm Scroggs some times Ld Cheife Justice Of England dyed on ye           
25th at Night                                                                   
     On the 30th a motion was made at ye Kings Bench Bar in behalfe of          
ye Earle of Danby yt hee might by Heas Corpus bee brought to ye Bar             
wch was granted                                                                 
     On ye 30th ye D. of Graftons son was Christned  his matye and ye           
Prince of Orange were Godfathers & Princes Anne Godmother                       
     Wee have severall reports of ye ffrench attempts in fflandrs but           
as far as ye newes showes domes [?] yet wee know not of any seige               
undertaken though there are yt say that the ffrench King has given              
Ordrs for breaking Ground before Courtrey upon ye 3rd of Novr their             
style the certainty of wch wee are to expect by ye Next Post                    
     As to ye German affairs there are severall discourses some of              
beseiging Gran others off Newhausell some of Camisa to none of                  
wch I can finde any reason to give creditt   more probable it is yt if          
they intend a seige it may bee against Pest wch stands opposit to Buda          
by ye takeing of wch they might secure their Winter Quarters on yt              
side ye Danube wthout any feare of Interception                                 
     On the 31st the charge given ye Grand Jury at ye Kings Bench Bar           
prevented all businesse of Publick concerne                                     
     Sr Thomas Linch Governr of Jamaica haveing signified his                   
indisposition of health his matye was pleased on ye 30th in Councill            
to Ordr that Henry Mouldsworth Esqr one of ye Councills there should in         
his absence or sickness take ye Comande as deputy Governour  The same           
day ye former patent granted to Dr Walker for freshning Salt Water was by       
consent of partyes surrendered soe that now the Honble Robt ffitzGerrald        
Esqr is the Proprietr and it is certainly of yt benefitt at sea as well         
as land that nothing except ye Loadstone could bee of greater use to            
Navigation                                                                      
     By an Expresse from fflanders wee are advised that the ffrench             
Troops after a seige of 5 dayes had wth ye loss onely of 300 L and 200          
wounded had made themselves masters of Courtrey  on Tuesday sennight            
Hee says farther that in his way to Dunkirk hee heard of ye takeing the         
Citadell on Sunday last                                                         
     L. c. 1459   [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall Nov 8th 83           
     The houshould is suddenly to be set up for George Prince of                
Denmarke at St James' soe that tis thought his Royall highness may in           
a few Dayes remove to Whitehall                                                 
     They begin now to hear the Goalls [?] of prisoners taken upon the          
Conspiracy sent all of the Scotish nation who were pickt up here are            
sent in the Ketibren [?] yacht to their own Contrey for Tryall vizt Sr          
Hugh Campbell Sr wm moor and moor his son mr Crawford mr ffairly and murray     
who are now in the Custody of a messenger and from other prisons Mr Robt        
Harley moure Spence Casheer Jr and mr Webone who broke his leg by a fall        
Endeavouring to make his Escape out of the Gatehouse is under ye hand           
of a Chirurgeon                                                                 
     There are accts from severall Corporacons of ther resolution to            
surrender their Charters into the hands of his Maty this being found            
the best Expedient to free themselves from men of faction and sedition          
that have crept into the Govermt  besides that tis a known hath [?]             
that none ever gave any into his matys hand but who have had them               
retard wth great advantage his maty never taking any from theire                
ancient rights and privileges but only putting them under the                   
regulation of such men who may best preserve them                               
     Masr Reman [?] anothr man in Chichester and was taken into                 
custody and Comitted prisoner to the Tower since the Discovery of the           
Conspiracy did by humble peticon lay himselfe at his Matys feet                 
imploreing his grace and favr wch submission his Maty was pleased so            
to accept soe that he was ordered to be discharged  The masr thereupon          
forbearing to return to his habittacon in Chichester where his residence        
might administer any cause of Jelousy and betakeing himselfe to an House        
in Hampshire wth resolution to abide there Dureing his Matyes pleasure          
     Those who are now prisoners as psons concernd in the late                  
Conspiracy are now called upon to give an Acct to the Law and to this           
purpose severall Bills were prefering to the Grand Jury agt severall            
of them                                                                         
     On the 6th mr Hugh Speak was brought to the Kings Bench Barr and           
was to go yre again on the 7th to give baile he being to answer an              
Informacon brought agt mr Breaden and him about the forgery relating            
to the Death of the late Earle of Essex                                         
     In lres from Marseilles dated the first tis advised that the 4             
ships appointed to cruise before Algires departed 2 dayes before from           
Toulon severall of those Coursaires being abrod of whome some                   
have latly mett a ffrench ship wch by good wind and a great sea found           
an oportunity to escape  Wth the ffrench ships from Algiers came 2              
Captives who gained their Liberty by swimeing to them  They had no              
advice from Monsr Duquesne since he left Enissa to goe for Tunis                
     On the 7th the Earle of Sunderland tooke in Councill the oath of           
Ld Leiut in the County of [xx]anuke [manuscript torn] and the Earle of          
Pemb[roke that?] of Ld Leiut of Wiltshire                                       
+A proclamation is alsoe issued forth to prvent the makeing of bonefires        
and throwing of Squibbs and Crackers and to seize all offendrs wch was          
don according to Complaint made of an afront offered to the Coach of            
monsr Van Cyttars on Gun powder Treason Day                                     
     ye have in the Gazett the takeing of Gran by the Duke of Loraine           
and Courtrey by the ffrench as fully as any lres have yett given it  The        
further particulars are Expected                                                
     On the 7th Colonell Sydny was brought prisoner from the Tower of           
London to the Kings Bench Barr where he was arrained for high treason           
where bogled [?] some tymes at his Indictment but wt he offered being           
frivolus and overrated he at last pleaded and was orderd to be brought          
to his Tryall that Day fornight                                                 
     Mr Johnson who wrote the book called the Julian the Apostate was           
indicted for it and Derby who printed the paper called the Ld Russells          
Speech                                                                          
     Mrs Celliers is admitted to Baile to make out a writt of errour            
upon a Judgment formerly brought agt her                                        
     L. c. 1460    [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall 10 Novr 83          
     His Maty hath been pleased to grant to Mr William Palin and Mr             
William Luggins [?] the benifit of a new Invention of makeing severall          
thinges of Iron by Millworke onelye which were & are now done by hand &         
hammer as Stroake Tire on Wheeles half rounds of Iron for Kettles               
&c wth much less chardge and more expedition                                    
     The Lord Howard of Effingham hath taken leave of his Maty and will         
the next week take Shipping for his Government in Virginia                      
     The Holland Lres are so thin [?] which tell us of severall                 
Conferences held among the foraine Ministers of the Alliance upon the           
late proceedings of the ffrench in fflandrs  The Spanish Minister               
proposeth them they will seriouslye examine the pretensions of ffrance          
& if they finde them iust that his Master would be very ready to pass           
over what they should judge fitt but if they shall finde them otherwise         
they would give their promised assistance  The ffrench Minister offers          
termes of accomodacon and tis sd seems at present content with Courtrey as      
an equivalent for farther pretensions but whatever the termes offered are       
they are such as the others doe not complye with.  And yet soe active           
has ye ffrench Ambr been in his Applications yt Amsterdam hath not yet          
consented to the new Levies of 10m men though tis generally given out           
that they withhold it cheifelye upon the account that the Marquis of            
Grana is not in the posture of defense which he promised and that he            
would have in 5 monthes tyme 40m men effective  from Germanye they have the     
good newes of the surrender of Gran confirmed and that Neuhausell findeing      
themselves now cutt off from all communication with ye Turkes had               
designed to capitulate and offered to surrender on Conditions that the          
Garrison might march out &c which the Christians had refused                    
     His Maty was pleased to appoint Sr Richard Haddock Mr Sturt Mr             
Towre and Mr Parsons Comissioners for victualing the Navy                       
     L. c. 1461   [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall 13th Nor 83          
[The first two paragraphs of this letter are almost identical with              
paragraphs 1 and 2 of L. c. 1460; the third paragraph of this letter is         
very similar to the fourth of L. c. 1460 except that "mr ffenne" appears        
in 1461 in place of the last two names in 1460.]                                
     On the 9th was an heareing in Councill betwixt the East India              
Company and Capt. Dorrell who formerly went in an Interloper to ye East         
Indies and was now goeing out again as was supposed to ye same parts upon       
wch a stop was put to his ship   the issue was that the ship should             
bee discharged the Capt. giveing security that shee should not goe              
into any place belonging to ye territories of ye East India Company             
     The case betwixt the East India Company and Capt. Sandys is still          
depending in the Kings Bench and hath been argued by mr Holt for                
ye East India Company and Sr George Treby for Capt. Sandys the mean             
point in question being whether a Charter conteining a grant for sole           
tradeing with Infidells bee a Monopoly or not  It is to bee argued              
further and then wee may expect ye Judgmt of ye Court                           
     Among the many honest and Loyall Presentmts of ye Grand Juryes             
in ye severall Countyes the last of Middx is very remarkable for one            
thing wch is serteinly of absolute Necessity for establishing a                 
posterity on the same Grounds of Religion & Loyalty vizt. yt an acctt           
bee taken of all schole Masters & Mistresses and yt none bee suffered           
to teach schole but those who are Licensed & yt none bee Licensed but           
such as receive ye Sacrement according to ye Church of England & that           
they bee enioined to teach ye Youth ye Church Catechisme & noe other            
     The Holland lers dated ye 16th say that the states are upon the            
Consideration of an answere to bee returned to the ffrench Ambr                 
concerning the Proposalls made by his Master in consideration of                
Pretentions  The Citty of Amsterdam cannot yet bee prevaild upon to give        
their Consent to ye New Levies of 16m men upon wch the rest of ye Townes        
hav[e decid?]ed upon a Grand Deputation to bee sent to them at ye head          
of whome the Prince of Orange will appeare to try what may bee don by           
Argumt to induce them to a ioint [?] Concurrence in soe great an                
affaire  The League betwixt ye Howses of Saxony Brandenburgh & Bronswick        
are completed the substance not said more then that it is wth a regard          
to publick good and ye Maintenance of ye Protestant Religion  The               
ffrench at ye present desist haveing taken Courtrey & Dinumyd [?] as the        
Christians may doe after ye takeing Pest and Buda                               
     On the 13th mr Bateman the Chirurgeon and one Armiges [?]                  
prisoners in the Marshalsea on acctt of the Conspiracy were by ye Court         
of Kings Bench admitted to Bayle                                                
     On the 14th the Ld Mayor & Aldermen of ye Citty of London went to          
Westmr & there tooke ye oathes of Allegiance & Suppremacy in Conformity         
to ye Act of Parliamt wch enioines all persons at the entering into such        
publick that [?] office of Trust to take ye said Oathes                         
      The same day mr Deerham in whose Custody when hee was Sergeant at         
Armes the Ld Grey was comitted for High Treason wth order to cary him           
forthwth to ye Tower but hee Neglecting gave the Ld Grey an opportunity         
to escape was thereupon arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar  hee pleaded not       
Guilty & offered security to abide his Tryall upon wch the Court ordered        
yt ye Attorney Genll should have an acctt given him of the security &           
if hee approve them baile should bee admitted  in ye Meane time hee was         
remanded to ye Tower where hee hath been hitherto kept prisoner                 
     There are lately arrived some from Tangeire wch give this acctt of         
the place that when ye Earle of Dartmouth had opened his Comn there &           
found his Orders for ye demolishing it hee tooke care that it might bee         
soe managed as might give the greatest satisfaction to ye Inhabitants as        
well as ye souldiers  The Inhabitants being of severall Countries had           
Liberty to dispose themselves to ye best advantage  an Estimate was             
taken of what they could not cary away  Those had ye Liberty too of             
transporting themselves first for the Moores were gathered in great             
numbers about the place  At their comeing away they were onely laying           
their Mines but had plaid none soe yt wee are yet to expect a farther           
acctt of yt affaire                                                             
     The German advises are big wth ye successe of ye Christians against        
the Turkes  The Croats had lately taken 3 castles from ym Bresmitz Porgatz      
and Segert neare Canisha besides wch Caschan Esperies & other places in         
Hungaria had submited and had the ffree Exercise of their Religion              
granted  The King of Polland had devested the Turkish Duke & setled             
another & let Count Teckely know the Emperors finall Resolutions that if        
hee came not to an accomodation wthin 14 dayes hee would not onely not          
admitt of any farther Medeation but persecute as a Capitall Enemy               
     L. c. 1462     Whitehall 22 Nor 1683                                       
     On the 16th Gibbons who was servant to the Duke of monmouth moved          
for a Heas Corpus to bee brought to the Kings Bench Bar wch was Granted         
     The Plimouth lers dated ye 13th tell us their Newfounland men              
except such as went for a Market are all returned safe home but                 
Complaine of bad Voyages                                                        
     On the 17th the St David arrived from Tangeire wth 117 Inhabitants         
of yt place who left it on the 28th of ye last when they were makeing           
Mines to demolish the Mole wch was soe strongly built that it would bee         
a worke of noe small difficulty  And whilest I mention Tangeire I cannot        
but take notice of ye implacable mallice of ye ffanaticks who even home         
would raise Argumts against the Government as evil treating that people         
whereas nothing could ever bee more gratefull to them  The surest acctt         
will bee from themselves  the Governour ffeild officers and Comanders           
there speake--they in their Addresse  Wee cannot but applaud and admire         
the wisdome of yo[u]r matyes Councill in this affaire adding those immense      
summs wch have been expended on the Mole and other works of ye place            
as well as o[u]r maintenance have in noe measure answered your matyes           
Royall Expectations and wee are sufficiently sensible by a long and             
neare veiw of Tangeire that though yo[u]r matye should yearly exhaust           
more treasure that were posible then hitherto it would bee wth ye same          
unsuccessfullness and dispaire of rendering either the Harbour secure or        
Towne safe  The Mayor and Cittizens in their Addresse say thus [?]; wee         
thinke ourselves bound in Duty to expresse the deep sence wee have of           
your Matyes most seasonable Compassion in rescuing us from our present          
feares and future Calamities in recalling us from scarcity to plenty            
from danger to security &c.  Thus our people and for the stronger take          
ye words of ye Addresse of ye Deane and Chapter of ye Portugueze Church         
Wee cannot but wthout the utmost ingratitude but acknowledge your Matyes        
favour dureing our whole time here and particularly on occasion of being        
recalled hence  All wch under their severall hands will bee sufficient          
to convince any but a ffanatick that they leave the please [sic] wth            
entire satisfaction                                                             
     On the 17 Gibbons was discharged on baile                                  
     [By the?] last German lers wee receaved a Coppy of a paper found           
among the Grand Viziers being a particular acctt of all the forces              
brought to the seige of Vienna and of all such as were lost  the totall         
is that they brought before it 168m and there lost 48544 and among them         
3 Bassas  The King of Polland is to quarter in uper Hungary where               
severall Townes falter [?] from  Count Teckely will entertaine his              
Troops  The D of Loraines Army is to quarter in Lower Hungary but tis           
said not before the takeing Pest and Buda and then a consultation is to         
be held at Vienna about Recruits and makeing both Armies up 80m men             
     A grant is passing to Sr Henry Capell of all the Chattells real            
and personal Estate of the late Earle of Essex forfeited to his Matye           
by his being felo desse [?] in Trust for ye Countesse of Essex                  
     On the 20th in ye afternoon Darby the Printer was tryed at                 
Guildhall upon an Information brought against him for printing ye Paper         
entituled Ld Russell's speech of wch hee was found Guilty  There was            
alsoe ye tryall of mr Johnson for being the author of ye booke called           
Julian the Apostate wch being fully proved against him hee also was             
found Guilty  Their sentence will bee given the latter end of ye Terme          
     What wth the ffrench on one side & ye Spaniards on ye other ye poor        
people are most miserably harassed parties every day makeing incursions         
& plundering the Inhabitants of each others Territories and this they           
are like to lye under all the Winter both parties in the meane time             
prepareing for Action against the spring  The Marquis of Grana has laid         
their conditions fairely before the Court of Spaine and proposed to them        
wt forces hee judgeth necessary for their defence upon wch after debate         
it was resolved that hee should have 54m foot & 6000 [?] horse effective        
wch wth the fforces to bee sent by those of ye Alliance they judge              
sufficient to cary on ye war in ye spring                                       
     On the 21th was a tryall at ye Comon Pleas Bar upon an Action of           
Scandalum Magnatum brought by the Duke of Beaufort against Sr Trevor            
Williams  The Jury found for ye Duke and gave him 10000 L Damages               
     The same day at ye Kings Bench Bar was the tryall of mr Algernon           
Sidney for High Treason  Hee excepted against above 30 of his Jury but          
notwthstanding that and all his other Artifices wch tooke up about 8            
howres the matter was fully made out & hee by ye Jury brought in Guilty         
The Jury staid not above halfe a qr of an howre ere they gave their             
verdict it being plainly proved that a treasonable book under his own           
hand writeing was found in his Closett that hee was at ye Consults &            
that hee was the person proposed Aaron Smith to goe into Scotland and           
get money for him                                                               
     The Citty of Amsterdam though they have agreed to ye New Levies of         
16m men have yet consented to the augmenting soe many recruits as will          
make up ye Number                                                               
     On the 22d the Duke of Beaufort had a tryall at ye Kings Bench             
against mr Arnold upon a Scandalum Magnatum  wt damages hee will have           
wee must expect tomorrow                                                        
     A ship arrived from Cadiz at Cowes in 23 dayes sayes the Mole at           
Tangeire was blown up and the Towne &c was to bee blowne up on ye 5th           
instant                                                                         
     L. c. 1463     Whitehall 29th Nor 83                                       
     On the 23d the Jury brought in their verdict in the Case of the            
Scandalum Magnatum brought by the Duke of Beaufort against mr Arnold for        
the Court has sate the Call [?]  the afternoon before that the Jury             
could give in onely a private verdict  The matter was very fully proved         
against mr Arnold soe that the Jury could doe noe lesse then wt the             
other before had don in the case of Sr Trevor Willyams give his Grace           
10m L damages                                                                   
     The same day the Case of Capt. shales for a moiety upon a discovery        
made about the fforme of ye surplusage of ye Duty of Hearth mony was            
heard before the Barrons of his Matyes Excheqr  It was a Cause of very          
great expectation but upon the Tryall Capt. Shales suffered a Nonsuit           
     Wee may now in few dayes with a good winde expect the arrivall of          
ye ffleet under Ld Dartmouth of whose subsistence his Maty is pleased           
to take such care that after long severe foreine service they may not           
bee exposed to seek for their bread  Those who served there as Horsemen         
are to bee entertained here as Dragoones & to make up 3 Troops of a             
Regimt to bee Comanded by the Ld. Churchill as Coll. the Ld Cornbury as         
Leiut. Coll. & Capt. Sunderland (a Capt. of his Matyes Regimt of foot           
Gaurds) as Major                                                                
     On the 24th the Duke of Monmouth came privatly betwixt 4 & 6 in ye         
Evning in a Chaire to Whitehall and surrendered himselfe to Sr Leoline          
Jenkins  Hee was an howre wth his Maty and Royall Highness after wch hee        
was sent in his Chaire to the Cockpitt attended by Sr Roger Harsenet a          
Sargeant at Armes                                                               
     On the 25th an Extraordinary Councill was sumoned where his Matye          
was pleased to impart to them the Duke of Monmouths surrender of                
himselfe his humble submission his deep sense of his Crime & his ample          
declaration of ye Conspiracy yt upon his Royall Highnesses intercession         
his Matye stood reconciled to him  And to make this the More eminent his        
Royall Highness the same day brought the Duke to his Matye where in             
pblick hee kissed his Matyes hand  that done his Matye and ye Duke went         
wth him to ye Queen where publickly hee kissed her Matyes hand & thence         
the Duke went wth him to her Royall Highness where hee publickly kissed         
her hand & then the Duke of Monmouth returning attended his Matye & ye          
Queen all the time dureing supper  His Matye has given Order to stop all        
proceedings agt & ytt his pardon shall bee speedily dispatched but all          
ye rest of ye Conspiracy to bee prosecuted                                      
     Upon the advancmt of Dr Turnour to the Bpprick of Rochester mr             
Henry Godolphin is made Prebend Residentiary of St Paul                         
     His Matye has been pleased to grant to mr John Booth Mercht the            
benefitt of a New Invention for sawing [all sorts?] of Timber [?] boards        
& staves [?] or things of that kinde wherein disabled seamen & others           
wounded in his Matyes service may bee employed                                  
     On the 25th mr Algernon Sydney was brought to ye Kings Bench Bar           
where hee recd ye sentence of a Traytor to bee hanged drawn & Quartered         
Hee made many frivolous exceptions none that bore weight  one was that          
his Jury were mean men when as hee himselfe had excepted agt 5 knts &           
Esqrs & called out Tradsmen who yet are of good estates & reputation &          
every way qualified by Law for that affaire                                     
     On the 27th an Indictmt for High misdemeanrs was preferrd agt mr           
Hampden now prisoner in the Tower of them who praid for Tryall                  
     On the 27th was a Tryall at Guildhall upon a Scandalum Magnatum            
brought on behalfe of his Royall Highness agt one Cullovane where the           
Jury gave 10m L damages                                                         
     The 28th being the last of the Terme there was a Genrll Goale              
delivery  the Lord Brandon mr Booth mr Charleton mr Trenchard and Major         
Wildman were discharged giveing in their own bound of 2000 L & each of          
them 4 sureties each of 500 L  Mr Hampden pleaded to an Indictmt of High        
misdemeanr & was admitted to baile himselfe in 10m L & sureties each in         
2000 L  Mr Mead mr Henry Trenchard Umfree ville ffrench Baxter [?] Lewis        
Pascall Mr Anthony Shepeard & Gibbons were discharged  mr James Wood &          
Maior Holmes bailed & mr James fforbes Bateman Bradon Sergeant Deerham          
& Robt Lock continued upon Recognizance                                         
     Wee have now recd Lers from Tangeire dated Novr ye 5th wch tell us         
that they had blowne up one Chest of ye Mole wth very good successe and         
were proceeding farther but that by the care of mr Sheers it was made           
soe very strong that it proves a worke of great difficulty to destroy           
it in soe much that it was thought they must stay at least a month              
before they could accomplish their bussinesse  The Moores in the meane          
time had been soe kind to them as to send in 50 head of Cattle and              
other fresh provissions                                                         
     Severall Protestant Princes of the Empire have addressed to the            
Empire on behalfe of the Protestants of Hungary  the Emperor seems              
enclineable to their favr  Newhausell is not soe closely blockt but that        
a Party of them fell upon 700 Poles goeing to their Winter Quarters &           
killed & tooke most of them.                                                    
     They write from Stockholme that the King of Sweden has solemnly            
ratified a Peace wth the Muscovite though the Danes had caryed on               
severall intrigues to hinder it and that an Ambr was come thither from          
Polland to setle a good understanding wth them soe that they may bee at         
leisure to prosecute their designes in the spring                               
     The brotherhood doe now prick up their ears and are as confident           
as before the discovery of the Conspiracy  their whole discourse is of          
the delivery of the prisoners and to make up their stories they will            
tell you in the Coffee Houses the Ld Howard has a double gaurd upon him         
& mr Sydney a Pardon the former of wch I am sure is false and the other         
I cannot finde to bee true                                                      
     L. c. 1464     Whitehall 6th Decr 83                                       
     On the 26th the Pardon for the D of Monmouth past the great seale          
of England & now I mention his Grace I cannot but take notice of a story        
that passeth currant about Towne that hee was soe offended at the               
Gazettier for wt hee mentioned concerning him in the Munday Gazette that        
hee gave him a severe Reprimand for it wch yet hath noe more of truth in        
yn ye rest of their forgeries                                                   
     I must not omitt to give you a ffart[her] acct of some things              
offered by the Grand Jury of Middx in their Presentmts this last Terme          
as worthy to bee followed by other Countries  They lay it down as their         
oppinions that it is not safe that any bee entrusted in any Employment          
Military or Civill who are not perfectly Loyall and truly Confirmable to        
the Church yt all psons bee throughly inspected wt they have been as            
well as wt they seem to bee that his Matye bee humbly beseiched to take         
care that all places belonging to him bee supplyed wth persons of knowne        
Loyalty that they doe not esteem them Protestants who separate from the         
Church and yt none but Protestants ought to serve as Representatives in         
Parlt for yt it cannot bee hoped that those who are not of that Church          
will endeavoure to preserve it that none but such as have recd ye               
Sacramt 3 times in ye yeare bee made Church Wardens licensed to teach           
schole or suffered to keep al howres [?] presenting those who will not          
receive the Sacramt. as persons dangerous to ye peace of ye Kingdome &          
yt they ought to bee disarmed according to statute                              
     On the 30th one Ede who has lain skulking since the first discovery        
was taken into Custody by a Messenger on acct of ye Conspiracy                  
     The discontented Party have of late taken to themselves an                 
extraordinary license in discourse that Authority has been forced to            
take notice of it  One Wynne speaking of the tryall of mr Sydney tooke          
upon him to reproach his Jury as ill men and of noe understanding and           
that they found him Guilty where there was not sufficient Evidence wch          
the Ld Cheife Justice being made acquainted wth rebuked him & Comitted          
him prisoner to the Marshalsea                                                  
     One of the Horse Gaurd who one would think should have understood          
better talking of the passage printed in the Gazette of the Duke of             
Monmouths submission & declaration of ye Conspiracy said that it was            
false for that the Duke had made noe declaration of any Conspiracy & was        
angry at it for wch hee was discharged the Troop                                
     Severall stories have been raised to lessen the reputation of the          
Ld Howard wch designe to render his Evidence suspected as if his Matye          
were not fully satisfied in it but these can now noe longer give Creditt        
since his Matye has been pleased in the most effectuall manner to               
express his sence of him in giveing order that hee should bee fully             
discharged soe yt now his Ldp is in entire Liberty                              
     What is the discourse of the Towne may now bee given as certaine           
yt his Matye had signed 2 warrts the one to the sherriffs of London for         
the beheading him ["mr Sydney"is inserted here] on Tower Hill to morrow         
& ye other to ye Leiut. of the Tower to deliver him up to ye sherriffs          
his Matye haveing been pleased to remitt the more severe part of his            
sentence and longer it could not well bee forborne since the time wch           
his Matye granted him for repentance was by the ffanaticks improved to          
arraigne the nations Justice they malitiously spreading abroad that             
his Matye had lately receaved a fuller acct of the Conspiracy where in          
hee was not satisfied at the unrighteousness of the Evidence the                
innocence of mr Sydney and upon that acct would not suffer him to dye           
but in convenient time grant him his pardon  Could his Matyes mercy have        
been soe extended to ye stilling [?] soe manifest and notorious a               
Criminall this must certainly have diverted  Those wicked spiritts have         
soe possest the weaker people wth such forgeries that nothing lesse then        
his bread could exercise them  And that when Justice had pronounced his         
sentence they may bee said to call him out to Execution                         
     The Brussells lers dated the 7th speake of continuall Acts of              
hostility on both sides but that they are encouraged to defend their            
owne and that the Elector of Bavaria has already entered into Alliance          
with them and the King of Polland has by Lers signified hee will doe            
the same                                                                        
     L. c. 1465     Whitehall 13 Decr 83                                        
     On the 7th mr Sydney paid his debt to the Law  Hee went sturdily to        
the scaffold & there gave a seald paper to the sheriffe  The sheriffe           
asked him wt hee would have done wth it  Hee said that if hee did not           
like it hee should give it him againe  Hee kneeld soe long as one might         
fancy hee said the Lds Prayer then arose pulld off his Coat and disposed        
it and haveing fixed his neck to the block bid the sheriffe see his             
office performed  This is the length of wt hee said on ye scaffold  The         
Executionr tooke off his head at one stroake                                    
     One Edes an Apothecary at Redriffe formerly mentioned to have been         
taken into custody by a Messenger has been since comited by ye Ld Cheife        
Justice for High Treason                                                        
     On the 7th his Matye was assaulted by one Johnston in ye Parke who         
meeting him said hee had often sent to him but recd noe answere & soe           
challenged him  Hee was seized and sent to ye Gaurds and is lookt on as         
Madman wch I mention to prevent ill reports                                     
     On ye 7th mr Vice Chamberlaine by order from his Matye did forbid          
the Duke of Monmouth comeing any more to Court                                  
     Upon his promotion of Dr Womack to the Bpprick of St Davids mr             
Godfrey King is made Archdeacon of Suffolk                                      
     Last week was the day for Electing a new Mayor for the Towne &             
port of Sandwich when at the same time it was soe Ordered that a Quo            
Warranto was served on the Old Mayor most of ye Jurats &c  The worthy           
men were soe surprised at it that they staggered in their resolutions           
and instead of the Old Mayor wch had served the turne for 3 yeares last         
past they made Choice of a worthy Loyall Gentleman Aldmn Mayor [?]              
Elwood for the yeare ensuing and wth their old Mayor they lost an old           
ill Custome of holding their election in St Clements Church wch upon yt         
occasion they had profaned wth sweareing and drinking to yt degree yt ye        
good Vicar unable to beare it besought his Grace of Canterbury for              
Redresse  His Grace acquainted his Matye and his Matye by his Ler sent          
his Royall Comand under ye utmost severity of ye Law to prohibit it wch         
being timely published they made their Choise in the Towne hall and this        
I the rathur mencon that if any other bee oppressed wth such horrid             
profanations they may know where to finde releife                               
     On the 7th arrived at Plimouth ye Diamond one of his Matyes ships          
wch brought severall Passengers from Tangeire                                   
     And from Marseilles dated Decr ye 6th they tell us of ye Swan              
another of his Matyes ffrigots arrived there wth severall ffamilies of          
yt place and Genova who reported that they thought by yt time the Towne         
might bee de[m]olished                                                          
     On the 10th Sr Samuell Bernardiston and Polatia Bernardiston his           
Cousin and 2 apprentices were seized by a Messenger (the 2 former in ye         
Exchange) for spreading most false and seditious News wtever else may           
bee laid to their Charge and proved agt them  The old way of canting [?]        
is now come in fashion  They say grace to a lye and though it is soe            
great that it would Choake another man when it is Carded wth some               
fetches from Scripture and served up wth 3 or 4 ejaculations the wide           
mouthed Greedy Brethern swallow it down Glibly and somewt of this method        
as I am Credibly informed our Knt used in one of his Papers where               
haveing given a Layer of ye one and a Layer of the other hee ends his           
Paper wth thanks to god who gave him Grace to stick to ye Old Cause in          
wch hee had been engaged from his youth & in wch God had soe long & soe         
wonderfully showed himselfe  I thought this old Passe had been quiet            
[sic] lost and rotten but it seems shee has been Cherished in some such         
mens bosoms & now begins to Catterwaule againe                                  
   With the spreaders of false News I may couple the seditious Libells          
against 3 of whome the Grand Jury of London have found the Bills vizt           
Ralphson as the Author of an Apology for Gods Worship and Worshipers            
Delawne for his Plea agt NonConformists and Langley Curtis for the              
Bloomsberry Ghost                                                               
   And whilest the Pen and the Presse are thus employed to give the             
Alarum noe doubt but other hands are ready for Armes  whilest the               
Constable was searching for the Landlord of a Howse in London hee found         
7 Scotchmen there  the Constable caryed them to ye Ld Mayor who                 
tendered them the Oath wch they refuseing hee sent them to the Compter          
and the next day sent for them againe and they againe refuseing hee             
sent them to Newgate                                                            
     On the 12th the Ld Mayor of Yorke appeared before the Councill to          
answere to some words wch hee had spoken at the Election of Sheriffes           
ye result was yt hee shoulde give security to answere wt shoulde bee            
obiected agt him by ye Attorney Genrll                                          
     The same day his Maty signed the Bill for the Pardon of ye Ld              
Howard of Escrick wch is now passing the seales                                 
   L. c. 1466  [Handwriting changes here.]  Whitehall 20th December 1683        
     Tis the Generall Enquiry of ye Towne since yt Mr Sidney spoake             
soe litle on ye scaffold what hee said in his paper wch whatever                
others may give out I can find to be noe more yn some sentimts he               
fancies [?] of hardships in ye pceedings agst him but one word whether          
Guilty or not Guilty so yt to doe ye dead noe wrong if he did not come          
upp to ye height of that wch some call Christian to make a full &               
satisfactory Confession he must be said to have dyed like a Gentleman           
in yt he would not Justifie himselfe in an ill action                           
     The Duke of Monmouth haveing now noe more access to Court tis              
said is retired to Moor Parke  Twas well hoped yt when he had made an           
Ingenious Confession to his Matie of the whole Conspiracy and own'd his         
owne share therein, that his Matie upon his humble Submission, had not          
onely receiv'd him into his mercy but also into his favr soe yt noe             
thing would have been able ever after to have interrupted so happy a            
reconciliation, But now pe[r]sons of Discord sett their Mallice on              
worke, forged tyes to stain ye Conspiracy and made use of his name to           
give ym Authority  Twas necessary now in Vendication of Truth, that             
what he had declared wth his Mouth he should Confirme wth his hand,             
which wn his Matie had required of him upon a refusall it could not be          
expected but his Matie should withdraw his favr and thus that for wch he        
was Commanded to depart ye Court                                                
     John Richardson of Bristoll who stands Committed there for words           
upon his humble peticon and submission to his Matie on ye 14 in Councill        
was orderd to be dischargd giveing security for his Good behaviour for a        
year.                                                                           
     Raphson, Delawne and Langley Courtis haveing been found by ye Grand        
Jury were Called to Tryall, but alledging that they had Witnesses to            
make use of who at present were in ye Country, They gain'd time till ye         
next sessions, but however Curtis has at prsent escaped, he must lye            
under ye Mellancholy Apprehension of his Condicon since one of his              
Hawkers (who are a sort of people that raced [?] about streets wth              
Pamphletts) who used to put off his trash, for fogeing [?] aboute ye            
Libell wch he stands indicted for ye Bloomsberry Night Walker or Ld             
Russell's Ghost was whip'd about Bloomsberry markett for itt wch is but         
a sadd forerunner of a heavier Judgmt                                           
     The Scotchmen mention'd to have been Comitted by ye Ld Mayor were          
brought to ye Barr where the oaths of Allegiance and Suppreamacy were           
tendred to them, one who tooke them was acquitted uppon security of             
his behaviour till ye next quartr Sessions  the others refuseing the            
oaths were recomitted to Newgate                                                
     Upon the death of George Porter Esqr Thomas Killigrew Esqr the             
ffirst of the Reversioners is made Groome of his Maties bed Chamber and         
Capn Buckeley added to ye rest in reversion                                     
     The Holland Letrs dat ye 20th say that Delft Scherdam [?] and Brill        
are gon over to Amsterdam in opposeing ye Levyes, that wch occasions            
such obstinacy in sure [?] advantage  the ffrench embr has promissed to         
trade and not withdraweing ye ffrench forces from fflandrs was given out        
     On ye 10th the Councill sett about private Causes and adjournd             
thiere further sitting till after twelfth tyde                                  
    Mrs Petalia Bernardiston and 2 apprentices mentiond formerly to have        
been taken into Custody by a Messenger were after examination discharg'd        
and Sr Samuell upon his petition to his Matie was admitted to bayle he          
himselfe giveing a bond of 2000 L and foure suretys each a bond of a            
1000 L to appeare first day of ye next tearme to Answere what shall be          
objected agst him by ye Attorney Genell  one servt Sr Samuell had [word         
of about five letters illegible] upon ye apprehension of ye other, made         
his Escape and is sought after This proceeding has marvel'd the Fanaticks       
soe that now there is not such opening against the late Conspiracy, not         
but that they are still bigg with lye and tis pleasant to observe what          
paine and in what labour they sitt in and yett dare not deliver itt  They       
keepp their Shams more wthin their teeth though yow may easily smell            
them in other savory expressions, I fancy ym to be like those who smother       
a fart, though yow cannott discover them by the lewd report, they raise         
such a stincke as would poison the Company                                      
[This note follows in another hand:] Sr I acknowledge the favr of 25th          
recd  this is [?] for a quarter ended Octr 26 [?]                               
     L. c. 1467   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 22d Decembr 1683         
   Yesterday being the feast of St Thomas the day for Annuall Choyce of         
Ward officers in each Precinct of the Citty Especially members of the           
Common Councill for the year Ensuing The Aldermen Appeared in their             
severall Ward motes, Elected deputies themselves and gave the Inhabitants       
the Liberty of Chooseing their subordinate officers but Chose not               
Common Councill men haveing noe Instructions from the King to Intermeddle       
with that affaire                                                               
     Don Pedro de Ronquille the Spanish Ambr since he acquainted the            
King with his Masters declaration of Warr Agt ffrance did this weeke in         
A memoriall Renew his Request of Assistance setting forth the miserable         
devastation & Cruelties done by the ffrench in fflanders & Van Zitters          
the Dutch Ambr has also been at Whitehall on that subject but tis said          
our Court has greater disposition to Accomodate differences then suffer         
those Countries to hazzard the Uncertain Events of Warr                         
     A Gentleman arrived from fflanders sayes that the ffrench neer             
Bruges made An Attempt over the Ice & did Considderable dammage & that          
the whole Country is in Allarme & will in probability be swallowed up           
if timely assistance Come not from the Allies                                   
     Two Regements of ffoot permitted by his Matye to be raised for the         
service of the K: of Denmarke are in greate forwardnesse (some Companies        
being already Compleated) & will be transported to that Kingdome the            
ffirst of the spring                                                            
     Sr Wm Waller who went to Holland to seeke preferment is now by the         
Maiestrates of the Hans or ffree towne of Bremen in Germany Elected             
governr over their Militia & upon stipulated Conditions is in Actuall           
posession which will be worth above 1000 L p Ann to him                         
     Wee heare from Monmothshire that Sr Trevor Williams who the last           
Terme was Cast in 10000 L damages on a scandalum Magnatum by the Duke           
of Beaufort was Arrested upon An Action of debt Grounded upon the said          
Judgment & is in that Goale                                                     
     Tis said that Captain Arnold taken upon the like Account is                
Agreeing that affaire                                                           
     Langley Curtis Continues still in Newgate haveing An Action of             
200 L layd on him at the suite of the King for breach of his                    
Recognizance to be of the Good behaivor                                         
     One Norise a Chirurgeon of this Citty Accused by Lee the dier as           
Concerned in the late Conspiracy & had before the Councill is after             
Examination left At liberty Againe                                              
     The Countesse of Clare mother to the present Earle of Clare died           
last Thursday Evening                                                           
     Whereas there was a halfe moone Affixed in the spire of St Stephens        
steephull in Vienna in the seige of that Citty by Soliman the                   
Magnificent to preserve it from the Battery of the Cannon, it is now by         
the Emperors order to be taken downe in defiance of the Turks & A               
Triumphant Piramid ordered to be Raised with A lattin Inscription               
giveing the severall heroes their due Applause & Concludes that they            
performed the Atcheivement of that Cittyes deliverance without the              
Assistance & Against the Councills of ffrance                                   
[Note in another hand on outside of letter:]                                    
       16 foote for Piers  120 foote of Paveing                                 
     L. c. 1468     London 25th Decembr 1683                                    
+Yesterday wee had letters from fflanders which give a lamentable               
Account of the barbarous proceedings of the ffrench in that Country             
dureing this ffrosty season                                                     
   That they are in full action with 3 Armies                                   
     The first under Marshall de Crequi have layd seige to Luxemburgh           
on the 10/20 opened their Trenches & on the 17/27 planted A Battery &           
were playing Agt it with Cannon & 40 Mortarpeeces & hope to be masters          
of it in few dayes  The beseiged sallyed out & had A sharpe Encounter           
wherein many were killed & wounded                                              
     The 2d Army under Marshall Humieres passed the River Lise on the           
20th Instant & marched for the Cannal of Ghent & Attacqued the 3                
passages  That of Marykirke the Hollanders guarded & vigourously                
Repulsed them but they forced the other 2 & broke Into the Country,             
Invaded the Bridg over the Canall & burnt above 30 villages & Exceeded          
the Turks & Tartars in all sorts of Cruelty & devastation & have done           
the like to the Canall of Bruges & made A miserable Country nothing but         
fires being Every where to be seen                                              
     The 3d Army under Mounsr Montall fell Into Brabant & Intirely              
Ruined divers villages & seized upon some Castles                               
     Just now Arrived A Holland Post which sayes that In 6 houres the           
ffrench threw 500 Bombes Into Luxemburgh but the Inhabitants untileing          
their houses & unpaveing the streets they only Burnt 4 Cloysters &              
some houses  That upon Arrivall of this newes the States Genll were in          
full Assembly from morning till night & Its Exspected they will Come            
to some sudden Resolution or be forced to see the best of fflanders             
lost & being since Reassembled Mounsr de Avaux the ffrench Ambr presented       
them A memoriall wherein he gives his masters Inclinations for peace &          
that to show his sincere Intentions he has Enlarged the time from the           
first till the last of January & to show his desire thereof will beseige        
noe Towne dureing that time & bidds them Improve the season allowed &           
that he has made this Rigorous proceeding Agt the Spaniards to shew them        
what to Exspect if they are obstinate                                           
     Our German letters say that the K of Poland is still In Hungary &          
that Count Teckley was Retired to Waradin haveing sufficiently                  
discovered the little Inclination he has to submit to the Emperor That          
severall Expresses had Passed betweeen him & the Grand Vizier who               
Assures him of A Powerful Assistance in the spring but that many of the         
Hungarians have deserted Teckley & obtained the Emperors Pardon That            
the Maiestrates of Cracovia had Resolved to build severall Triumphant           
Arches & make other Preparations for the Reception of their King in his         
Return from Hungary but Its Reported his Maty is Resolved to Passe the          
winter at Esperies that he may be neer his troops & have A quicker Eye          
on affaires on that side                                                        
     L. c. 1469     London 27th Decembr 1683                                    
   Our Holland letters say that all Satureday & Sunday last the States          
Generall were in full Assembly Abt the Memoriall delivered them by the          
ffrench Ambr made up of Wheadles threats & Accusements                          
     A Gentleman Arriveing from fflanders out of the ffrench Campe sayes        
that divers of the Court sparks were killed before Luxemburgh & that one        
Captain Rigby touching at Paris in his way for England Accompanied the          
E: of Northumberland to the ffrench Leagure & had his head shott off            
with A Cannon Bullett.  The ffrench Army is Retired Againe to their             
Winter quarters  The Dutch Major Genll was Killed neer Ghent                    
     Our letters from Vienna say that the Emperors Councill Considering         
the progresse of the ffrench drew up A project of peace to be sent to           
the Turks thereby to be at leasure to Assist the Spaniard but the Polish        
Ambassadr protesting Agt it the same was layd aside                             
     Old Dr Chamberlan is dead as also the Lady Inchequeen & they say           
her Lord is also dead in Ireland where the Ld Lanisbrough is also dead          
     The E: of Burford son to Madam Gwin hath the small pox & some say          
is dead                                                                         
     Prince George of Denmarke has by his Agents discharged most of the         
Prisoners in & Abt London whose debts did not Exceed 50 s                       
     Last Munday night 3 scotch Gentlemen Comeing late out of a Taverne         
without Newgate mett An Innocent Northerner going to his dwelling &             
upon little or noe provocation Run him through & he Instantly died  They        
were seized & Comitted to the Compter but the Coroners Enquest finding          
it wilfull murther they are Transmitted to Newgate, A Captain of the            
queens Guards in the Strand mett with the like disaster & the person            
secured                                                                         
     Letters from Tangier of the 4th Instant say that the E: of                 
Dartmouth had nigh finished the demolishing of that Garrison most of            
the Inner part thereof being Intirely Burnt & blowne up save only the           
outmost wall least the Moores who are in A body of 6000 before it               
should breake in upon them before they had totally demolished the               
Mould wherein they had hear found A greate deale of dificulty to                
Effect Especially soe to performe it as to Render that Part to any              
other Nation that should Attempt to settle therein unnavigable &                
dangerous to their shipping, his Lordship Intends to depart thence              
Abt the middle of this month                                                    
     They write from Cadiz that 3000 of the Country Militia Attended            
on that Coast to secure that haven from any Attempt that they vainly            
conceived [?] the English might make upon them & that upon Advice of            
their Kings declaration of Warr Agt ffrance the Majestrates were                
Extreamly busy in seizing the ffrench effects but most of the ships             
in Harbour haveing some preknowledg thereof put to sea & Escaped                
     His Matye is Gone to Windsor & is Exspected back on Satureday              
Some Report the D of Monmoth has been at Whitehall but others say he            
Continues at his Country seate                                                  
     L. c. 1470    [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall 27th Xbr 83         
     Lers from Cadize tell us yt on ye 28th of ye last a ffrigott               
arrived here from Tangire who sayd that noe thing was yett don more yn          
towards ye demolishing of ye moule wch in few days would be destroyd            
and yn the houses and Castle should be raysed                                   
     The Lers from Madrid dated ye 9th say they were in some feare thier        
New Spaine ffleet might Come to some misfortune there being severall            
reports abroad yt it had been attacqued by Pyrates at Vera Cruse and yt         
some Considerable shipps were Carried away wch yett amount to noe more          
yn what we had lately a Publicke acct off in ye Gazett  The Warr wth            
ffrance is Carryed on in great earnest  a proclamation is sett fourth           
Comanding all souldiers of what degree soever to repaire to ye office           
of ye Comissary Genll in 8 days there to receive a supply to march to           
thier severall Ports and Imploymts for whither els they shall be                
Comanded anew  there will be come [?] for ye exercise of ye ancient             
animosityes of Fuentarrabia & the Basque Frontier wch some say is               
begun already and yt ye ffort of Fuentarrabia has suncke a small ffrench        
ffriggott her setting [?] in the least negligent [about nine letters            
illegible] all is if for ye discovery of ffrench effects wch are said           
yey have don to yr advantage that they have already seized to ye valew          
of a million and a halfe of Dollars                                             
     The ffrench are makeing new Levys and meditateing their advantages         
upon fflanders.  The places they threaten most are Luxembourgh Bruges           
and Oudenard                                                                    
     Count Teckleys last proposalls are rejected not onely as too               
unreasonable but yt ye Empr can give noe Creditt haveing at ye same time        
intercepted a leter of his to ye Grand Seignr wherein he Craves his             
ptection against ye Poles & pmittes to Continue in his service and makes        
noe doubt of recovering Hungary the next Spring                                 
     The Sequestrations layd upon ye English Mertts at Lisbon as by             
Lers thence dat Novr 23rd are at lenght by sentence taken off and onely         
those who keep publicke houses and ye Master of ye Shipps have a small          
fine layd upon ym  The Conans [?] and other Portugueses are come thither        
from Tangier being brought by Capn [last nine words appear in margin in         
a clearer hand] Wenn Comander of ye Centurion who landed there a week           
before who Expressed themselves highly sensible of his Maties [word             
missing] to them and was well Contented wth thier removeall.  He went in        
Triumphant wth a Sallyman wch he had taken upon that Coast                      
+Tis writt from Bremen that Sr Wm Waller is made Govr of that place upon        
his intent [?] of bringing severall familys to Comence [?] a trade in           
Woollen Manufactury [a?] project that gives full proofe of his profession       
and ye great zeale he has had for his Country.                                  
     Lers from ffalmouth of ye 20th tell us of great stormes many shipps        
driven in and one much batterd but none lost  The Spanish Privateers are        
already so bussy yt 2 ffrench shipps yn in port durst not stirr out             
     One of those Privateers Came into Bowes [sic] road where he apply'd        
himselfe to ye masters of 2 ffrench shipps yn there pretending he had           
order (produceing ye ffrench Kings Pass) to Convey home such of his             
subjects he should meet wth and soe haveing decoy'd ym out seized ym            
as Prizes and Carried ym to Ostend                                              
                             Pray excuse the shortness                          
                             of ye Lers these hollydayes                        
     L. c. 1471  [Handwriting changes here.]   London 29th Decembr 1683         
+A Parliament is now Credably discoursed of to be Convened in March:            
Great Aspiration is made to his Matye for a Pardon for the absent               
Ld Gray & some say they are Confident it will be Effected                       
     Its affirmed that the Orthodox Clergie of this Nation Intend at            
the Next Convocation to Passe a Canon for the granting A supply to his          
Matye of the 10ths of their Benefitts                                           
     The D: of Monmoth Continues at his seate in Moore Parke & Remaines         
still in disfaivor  his house in Hodge Lane is Refitting & that in So           
Ho: Square which was Building for his Grace is Returned to the Workemen         
the Duke looseing 500 L on that Condition                                       
     The Thames begin to be frozen over to that degree that some                
Attempts have been made to ffoot it over, A Wherry with some Passengers         
upon urgent occasion Endeavouring to get over & Advanced to the middle          
meres [?] there by the fflakes of Ice that drove one upon another               
overwhelmed & lost  The faimous Dr Goade who delivers his Matye A               
Monthly observation of the weather sayes that the ffrost will yet               
Continue A fortnight which is in Generall healthier then the Contrary           
as Appeares by this weeks bill of Mortallity haveing decreased 56               
+mr Roger Le Estrange haveing Continued his almost dayly observatr for          
neer 12 Months A greate subscription is Carrying on by the Loyallists           
to make him a New yeares Guift of some thousands of Guyneys by way of           
Acknowledgment for his greate Paines                                            
     This morning A fire happened in A Jewes house in St Mary Axe               
occasioned through A Merriment the night before upon the Circumsizeing          
of A Child which was Put out with the losse only of that and two                
Adjacent Buildings  It was observeable that the same happened on the            
Jewes Sabeth yet they Put their helping hand thereto                            
     The Comptroller of the Temple Continues the Revelling & Intends on         
Tuesday next to have A splendid Entertainment haveing Invited his R:            
Highs Prince George &c                                                          
     His Matye haveing (by vertue of the late Judgment agt the Citty            
Charter) all the lands Liberties & ffranchises of the Citty seized Into         
his hands has been Graciously pleased to Re=deliver in a Comission the          
Lands unto the Court of Aldermen who are only mentioned therein as              
Concerned for the Citty who have set Let & Received & on the other hand         
have already paid Interest to the most necesitous Orphans & will so             
proceed as the said Rents & Profitts shall Come in being at prsent in           
Ground Rents Market houses & other Advantages above 12000 L p Ann &             
will every yeare Increase as their leases shall become voyde & ffines           
Received                                                                        
     One Twist A Gentleman Abt towne was had before the Ld Cheife               
Justice for speakeing Reflecting words Agt the Goverment & is Comitted          
     severall New Proposalls have been made to his Matye for ffarmeing          
the hearth money as also the Revenue of Ireland which will be                   
Considdered soon after the holy dayes                                           
     Dr Godolphin one of the ffellows of Eaton Colledg was this weeke           
made Prebend Residentary of St Paulls vacant by dr Turners being made           
Bishop of Rochester                                                             
     Tis said the K: of Spaine seemes now Inclined to hear to Termes            
of Peace finding his Allies unwilling to Joyne with him he being not            
sure of the Hollanders who are much divided Among themselves                    
     Wee have Arrived the Articles proffered to Count Teckley by the            
Emperor vizt That Teckley should be made Prince of Hungary That the             
Protestants should have ffree Exercize of their Religion & their                
Churches &c but Teckley would not Accept of them & is Retired to                
Greate Waradin                                                                  
     They write from Ireland that they have had very stormy weather on          
that Coast & that many ships are lost                                           
     L. c. 1472     London 1st January 1683                                     
+The ffrosty season Continues that on the Thames some thousands of people       
walke in A Beaten Path from neer the Bridge though few Attempt to ffoot         
it Cross, being forewarned by the losse of divers ladds who Perished in         
that undertaking, severall Poor watermen have Erected on the Ice Booths         
& stalls in Nature of a faire where the people flock through the vanity         
to discourse in future of it                                                    
     This day A Chapter of the Knights of the Garter was held in                
Whitehall where Prince George was Elected & Introduced therein &                
Invested with the George & Garter & An Instalment is designed to be held        
on ffriday next at Windsor to present that promotion                            
     Last Sunday mr Montgomery Treasurer of the Middle Temple dureing           
the time of the Revelling went to Church in greate Pompe with his               
Trayne held up by A Page & the Minister prayed for him as A man of              
Austerity &                                                                     
     Yesterday mr Worrell the Comptroller of the Inner Temple Attended          
with the Rest of the officers & Gent of that society went to Whitehall          
in greate state (his Matye sending 4 of his Coaches to bring them               
thither) where they prsented A Loyall Address wherein they promise to           
Maintain the Right of succession in the Lineall Course of descent &             
delivered their Abhorrance of all Phanaticall & Republican designes             
whatsoever who were Graciously Recd & Attended back with neer 20 of the         
Nobilities Coaches                                                              
     Yong Sr Robt Carr son to the late Chancellr of the dutchy is dead          
of the small pox & An Estate of 4000 L p Ann fell to A yong lady who            
tis said will Marry the Duke of Northumberland                                  
     Severall Comissioners are Constituted in London in place of Comon          
Councill men by order of the Lieutenancy to Assess Trophy money &c              
     They write from Chester That mr Williams Recorder of that Towne            
made A speech to that Corporation at A sessions Adviseing them not to           
part with their Charter & other Expressions therein which tis said have         
given offence                                                                   
     Letters from Ireland say that A man of warr from Tangier was by            
stress of Weather forced to Put in there & Informes that the Ld                 
Dartmouth was set sayle from thence with the Rest of the ffleet & had           
sunke the Greate Hulke with other vessells in that Harbour to Render            
it Unnavigable                                                                  
     Wee have Advice from Madrid that the Spanish fleet Composed of 7           
sayle was Arrived at Cadiz from Vera Cruce in New Spaine being the Port         
that was lately Plundered by the Buckaneers or Piratts & that the fleet         
is very rich Notwithstanding that loss & that the K of Spaine will              
Receive but little damage by that disaster most that was lost belonging         
to perticular persons                                                           
+his Matye hath given the Place of Capt Rigby in the E of Cravens               
Regement who was lately slaine before Luxemburgh to one mr Brock                
+tis said the D: of Monmoth is Indisposed at Moore Parke & hath sent A          
letter to his Matye & another to Prince George to be delivered to his           
Matye but neither of them would be Accepted                                     
+Tis affirmed A ffrench man of warr hath mett one of his Matyes ships &         
boarded her &c and Complaint being made to the ffrench Ambr here he             
Replyes it is without his Masters Consent & Reparation shall be made to         
the full                                                                        
     L. c. 1473     London 3d January 1683                                      
  Its discoursed wee shall have A Parliamt & that A proclamation will be        
Issued out & that the Clerke of the Crowne is Coppying out the writts           
     Yesterday died the E of St Albans & this day the Ld Peters one of          
the Popish Lds in the Tower died                                                
     This day Came out the Tryall of Coll Sidney                                
     The small Buildings Abt the Dukes Lodgings in Whitehall are pulling        
downe in order to his R: Highs Resideing Constantly there                       
     This night Came An order from the Ld Mayor to Every Alderman to            
take order that Every house be searched to see what strangers lodge             
there & to give Account of their Names                                          
+Wee have it Confirmed that 2 ffrench privateers meting one of his              
Matyes ships Capt Powell Comander demanded him to strike sayle & he             
Refuseing they powred out A Broade side Killed 4 of his men Then                
boarded her & Killed the Captain & Carryed her Into Callis                      
     The ffrench have Raised the seige of Luxemburgh & are gone Into            
their winter quarters                                                           
     Wee have some letters from Italy which say that the Governr of             
Milan hath beseiged Cassall with About 20000 men                                
     Our Holland letters of the 8th say that Abt the 15th Instant the           
Ministers of all the German princes were Exspected at the Hague & Among         
the Rest Prince Waldeck on the behalfe of the Emperor to Consider of            
the proposalls made by the ffrench K for A generall peace & to take             
such measures as shall be thought best for the Comon Cause  The                 
Burgomasters of Amsterdam being Apprehensive of being forced to Comply          
Abt the new Levyes shutt their gates 4 houres sooner then ordinary &            
open them 2 houres later in the morning  They are busy in Repaireing            
their ffortifications & Cause the Ice to be broke Round the Citty               
Every morning                                                                   
     They write that the D of Brandenburgh only waites for the                  
Resolution of the States of Holland to joyne in the League with the             
Emperor &c for the security of the Empire                                       
     They write from Germany that the Alliance between the Emperor & the        
2 Czars of Muscovy is said to be Concluded & that the D of Bavaria will         
have 20000 men in the feild next Campaigne                                      
     The K of Poland has sent to Acquaint those of Casham that in Case          
they make one dayes Resistance he will not (if he take the place) sparre        
the Child in the mothers belly but notwithstanding those threats they           
have Recd more ffresh Troops frtom Count Teckley                                
     The Emperor has Nominated An Ambr to treate with the Turkes Abt A          
peace                                                                           
     There is greate want of men in the Emperors Hereditary Countries           
which Causes noe good opinion of the Next Campaigne                             
     L. c. 1474   [Handwriting changes here.]   Whitehall Jan 3d 1683           
     At London wee have nott such bustle as in former years since his           
Majestey has eased [?] ym of a Comon Councell  ye fudes & animosityes in        
makeing partys are laid aside & an honest man may eat his minst pye wth         
Content & nott be called to ye Pole from his Diner  Ye Magistrates whome        
his Majesty appointed hould ye Rains steady without those assistants &          
if any pragmattical Brother finde himselfe agreived yt he is nott Raised        
halfe an inch high & put in a place whear he may vent his passion lett          
him thank ye ffaction for itt though when his Majesty made inquirey into        
ye abuser of Corporations & sumones ym to act he was pleased to accept          
of an early submission as an attonemt & nott only to pardon ym all their        
Misdeeds butt Confirme & even add to all their antient privelidgeis  itt        
could nott be imageined yt they should have an equall share of ffavor           
who opposd themselves to his Quo Waranto & tugg'd & Wrastled wth his            
Majesty tell they ware quite out of breath & Judgemt had throwne ym on          
their backs                                                                     
     One lately arived from ye Strates Reports yt ye buisness of Tangeir        
was over & yt some of his Majestys ships under ye Ld Dartmoth war att           
Gibralter butt we must have better athority before we can give full             
Creaditt to itt                                                                 
     The hard weather has bound up all hands in Hungary soe yt we               
cannott expect any acct of Considerable actions though ever now & anon          
one place or other is surprizd & quarters beaten up att which exercize          
ye Turks are nott altogether idle & begin to make ye Poles much more            
uneasy yn they thought  ye Emper[o]r in certain prospect of a war next          
year is very intent upon his preparations & takes great care in                 
ffortefying & ffurnishing Viana as if itt were to bear ye Distress of           
another Seige                                                                   
     Our accts from ye sessions abroad are nott soe full of Desenters           
as heartofore, ye Plague of Conventicles is Generally abated throughout         
ye Kingdome & though their are too many still infected & some                   
Corporations nott free from ye Taint ye Disease is almost spent &               
neither soe desparate nor spreading.  Att Yarmoth 12 persons indicted           
last sessions & now Traversing were upon Tryall upon ye act of 23d of           
Eliz: for 20 L a month for nott coming to church found Guilty some of           
whome submitted & promised to goe to church  ye Rest ware fined 260 L           
among ym one of ym an Anabaptist Teacher being found among 5 indictmts.         
this course would quickly clear ye Kingdom of ye Distempr & surely ye           
Magestrates will nott be wanting in ye application & lett it grow to a          
head again when without a supine neglect they cannott butt make a               
thorough fare [?]                                                               
     [Thei]r has been a Discourse of some proposalls lately offered for         
ffarming ye Revinue of his Majestys Kingdom of Ireland wth offer of             
10M L p An more yn hath hitherto been made of itt butt itt is already           
settled undr such an improveing Mannageary yt ye Lds Comrs of ye                
Treasury will take time to consider well of itt before any thoughts of          
Alteration                                                                      
     The Common Please Bar being growne very thin their have been some          
Considerations of makeing more sarjants att Law & severall worthy               
Gentlemen proposed as Deserving ye Coife butt itt is beleived itt will          
nott be Determined soe soon butt yt itt may be Easter Tearme before any         
promotion                                                                       
     The Pariss lettrs dated ye 5th Talke of a Blockade of Luxenburge           
since ye Bombarding did nott succede & yt in ye meane time ye                   
Pillageing &c went on  they are in some aprehension of a peace ye Empr          
may make with ye Turks & Comfort themselves with an expected                    
Neuterallity from ye Hollanders, ye Queen of Portugall is Desparately           
ill & a ffrench phisitian is sent for to try whatt his skill may Doe            
     On New Years day a Chaptr was Called att Whitehall whear Geo               
Prince of Denmark was elected one of ye Companions of ye most Honrbl            
order of ye Garter                                                              
     Jan 2d about noon Dyed ye Right Honrbl ye Earle of St Albans in            
his house att Pal mell being betwixt 82 & 83 years of age                       
     We have Recd Cadiz lettrs one ye 12 of ye last butt noe farther            
advice thence of Tangeir yn only telling us yt no ships had lately              
arived from thence & yt ye Demollishing of ye Mould proves a work of            
very great Diffeculty  These lettrs tell us ye occation of ye Dispute           
betwixt ye Conception & ye Spanish man of war yt was blowne up & a              
ffrench man of war of Alicant ye Spand Demanding of him a salute &              
upon Refuseall sending him 3 shotts, att ye same time a ffrench man of          
war of 60 guns & 15 or 16 Marcht men being att Anchor in ye Road &              
seing ye passage were off without any ffarther Mischeife ye Spaniard            
being ignorant of whatt had past Recd order yn for seizure  They                
speake of great stormes which had forced severall ffrench vessells              
into Cadiz who lay off yt port to anoye ye Embargo & many others a              
satia [?] with peeces of 8 Designed for ye Redemtion of Captives                
     L. c. 1475   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 5th Jan: 1683            
+This day A Coach & 6 horses drove over the Thames for A Wager                  
     The Lords of the Treasury & Admiralty have been Consulted in               
order to Equipp forth A fleet in the spring                                     
     One of the Goodenoughs desires to merritt his pardon by makeing            
Confession of what he knowes of the Plott                                       
     His R: Highs hath been somewhat Indisposed but is Amended                  
     The order for takeing Account of the Lodgers Came on Thursday from         
Whitehall to the Ld Mayor forthwith to take Account of all the                  
Inhabitants & their Inmates with their trades & occupations & to make           
Report thereof by Munday                                                        
     Our Citty trayned bands will be Suddenly layd downe Except on              
Sundays                                                                         
   This weeke divers wealthy dissenting Cittizens were seized in a              
Conventicle though they mett with all the privacy Imaginable by haveing         
Ticketts & were Comitted to Newgate but are since bayled                        
     Tis said many dissenters will joyne in An Addresse to his Matye to         
desire A Mittigation of the Lawes now in force Agt them promiseing that         
if they may Enjoy the liberty of their way they will not Intermeddle            
with anything in the Goverment nor preach nor write or discourse                
anything that shall tend to the disquiett thereof                               
     Prince George haveing Recd the Honr of the Garter will be made An          
English Peer & Its Confidently said will be Made A privy Councillor &           
that the Lord Churchill will have the Honr of the Elephant Conferred            
on him which Prince George had before he had the Honr of the Garter             
being not much diferent from oures haveing A blew Ribbon A starr & An           
Elephant                                                                        
     The Ld Arran from his Matye & mr ffinch from his R: Highs are sent         
to the ffrench K. to Complement him upon the birth of the D of Anjou            
     Our Holland letters say that Amsterdam will not Agree to the new           
Levyes of 16000 whereby that state are Kept in dubious Circumstances by         
the ffrench Artifice whose Ambr omitts noe opportunity to Embrayce them         
& to Carry it on vissitting each perticular member at their dwelling &          
some Report that if money will be Received there is none of it wanting          
     The same letters say that Admirall Van Trumpe is dead & Confirme           
that sr Wm Waller is made governr of Bremen & that A ffactory is                
Agreed to be Established in that Citty for English Cloth & Manufactures         
& that A Church be Allowed with A minister also of o[u]r Countrey               
+Just now An Expresse Come from Holland Adviseth that Amsterdam was in          
An Uproar being Incensed that the P. of Orange designes to Invade their         
hearthes [?] & therefore keep their Gates shutt                                 
     Count Teckley will not Agree with the Emperor upon Assurance of A          
great summe of money which the ffrench Agent promiseth them upon which          
he hath wrote to 13 Hungarian Counties to Remaine faithfull to the              
Turks promiseing greate Assistance in the spring                                
     Some Report the d of Monmoth hath been sent for to Whitehall but           
others affirme that he is Gone for Holland                                      
     L. c. 1476     8th January 1683                                            
+The Canary ffleet & other shipps are arrived in the downes but Cannot          
Come up further for the Ice which obstructs trade                               
     Whole streets of Booths are built on the Thames & Thousands of             
people are Continually walkeing thereon                                         
     On Sunday his Matyes to the Ld Bishop of London was read in all            
our Churches Importing that the sharpness of the Weather being severe to        
poor people his Matye out of his Compassionate Care Considdering the            
hardship they undergoe has given order to the Lds of the Treasury to            
pay out such summs of Money for their Relefe as shall be Convenient &           
desires this good Example may be followed by the Rest of his subjects &         
Collections to be made both that & the following Sunday in all the              
Churches in & About this Citty & the money to be distributed by the             
Churchwardens & overseers & other officers                                      
     Its generally said the D of Monmoth was sent for to Whitehall but          
being Retired from Moore Parke Its not knowne where he at prsent is             
     On Sunday & Monday Evening the Lds Misrule of the Temple Gathered          
the Rents of the Adjacent parts & tooke double of all the Tavernes &            
Alehouses & seized the goods of those who Refused to pay & one in the           
Bell yard standing upon his Guard with A Laden Musquett they broke his          
doores open & he endeavouring to fire upon them his Musquett only               
fflashed in the pan upon which they knocked him downe & finding the             
said Musquett Charged with A Brace of Bulletts They Carried him to the          
Temple put him all night in the stocke & the next morning pumped him            
     On Sunday between 5 & 6 in the morning A ffire Broke forth in A            
Wooden Range of Buildings in Grayes Inn at the west End of the                  
Chappell Court which looks backwards into the Walks being 3 whole               
staire Cases which in 3 houres were totally Consumed & the flaime               
stopped at the Range of New brick Buildings on Each side  it began by           
the Neglegence of A servant  The library of the said place was Consumed         
but most of the books saved & 3 persons who Came to assist were killed          
by the Timber                                                                   
     The Garter of the E of St Albans (whose Corps for these 3 dayes            
layne in state in St James Square) will be Certainly bestowed on the D          
of Somerset & the E of Burford (Madam Gwyns son) will be made Duke of           
St Albans                                                                       
     The D of Norfolke & Ld Arrundell of Terise both Continue very ill          
     The Spanish Ambr hath put in A 3d Memoriall to his Matye to pray           
his Assistance declareing that his Masters allies are very backward             
since they doe not see England Effectually Concerne her selfe                   
     Our Holland letters say that nothing is as yet Concluded as to the         
New Levyes the states being desirous first to see whether An                    
Accomodation Can be made & desire ffrance to give A further Prolongation        
of the time to know Spaines determinative Resolution & are in hopes of          
the greate meeting of the ministers of the Allies that the King of              
England in Cheife being Guarantee of the Peace of Nimeghen will with            
glory & Honr soe Compose affaires as may Terminate in A happy                   
Conjunction                                                                     
+The Dutch East India Company are sending Comissioners to treate with           
ours to Compose the affaire of Bantam                                           
+4 Troops of dragoons who Come from Tangier are to be Added to those 4          
here to Compleate the Regement                                                  
     L. c. 1477     London 10th Jan: 1683                                       
     The Ld Petre before his death sent his Matye A letter which follows        
+May it Please yo[u]r Matye./ I give myselfe the hope that yo[u]r Matye         
will pardon the presumption of A dyeing but dutifull subject in giveing         
you the trouble of this short Account & declaration of myselfe & in the         
first place I offer to god my hearty prayers for yo[u]r Matyes long life        
& happy Reigne with all the blessings of the world & Eternall happinese         
in the next                                                                     
     I have been now above 5 yeares in prison & under A false Injurious         
Calumny of A Horrid plott & designe Agt yo[u]r Matyes person & Goverment        
& I am now by Gods providence Called Into Another world before I Could          
by publick tryall make my Innocency Appear & therefore Conceive it              
Necessary for mee as An Incumbent duty I owe to the Truth & my owne             
Innocency to make this Ensuing protestation to yo[u]r Matye & the whole         
world                                                                           
     That whereas one Titus Oates hath Maliciously & falsely sworne that        
hee saw me Receive A Comission directed to mee from James Paulne [?] de         
Olive Constituting mee Lieutenant Genll of An Army which he pretended           
was to Come Into England                                                        
     I declare in the presence of the All seeing god before whose               
Tribunall I Am shortly to Appear That I never saw any such Comission            
directed to mee or any other person whatsoever & doe firmly beleive that        
there was never any such                                                        
   But of the folly aswell as the falsehood of that Information the             
sober part of mankind is I Conceive sufficiently Convinced & as for             
those Aspersions as the Ignorant aswell as the Malicious have throwne           
upon the Roman Catholick Church of which I am one & by the Grace of God         
doe dye A member as if murthering of Kings & takeing up of Armes Agt            
o[u]r soveraignes were A principle of that Religion I doe knowingly             
affirme That there is nothing with more horror detested by the Catholick        
Church & Christian doctrine as being Expressly Contrary to the Comand of        
o[u]r saviour & as such I Renounce & detest it as I doe all Plotts &            
Conspiracies Agt your sacred person, haveing thus briefly & with all            
sincerity of A dyeing man discharged my Conscience I shall as I began &         
with my last breath beg of god to protect & defend yo[u]r Maty from all         
your Enemies & to forgive those who by their Perjuries have Endeavoured         
to make mee Appear to be one who am Liveing & dyeing as in duty bound,          
yo[u]r Matyes most dutifull subject & most obedient servant                     
                                    William Petre                               
     On Thursday the Corps of the E of St Albans was Attended through           
the Citty with 56 Coaches & then Attended with some mourning Coaches to         
St Edmundbury to be Interred with his Ancestors                                 
     This day A Chapter of the Garter was held in Whitehall where the D         
of Somerset was Elected & Invested with the George & Garter                     
     The Pattent for Creating the E of B[ur]ford D of St Albans is              
passing the seales & the Reversion of all the ground Rents which the            
deceased Earle leased of his Matye when he built the square is given to         
the duke & his heires                                                           
     The D: of Norfolke is despaired of by his Phisitians                       
     The list of all the Inhabitants in & Abt London is Returned &              
there are found the Names of above 100 dissenting ministers who                 
Harboured in & Abt the Citty  Yesterday the Ld Makeland of Scotland was         
seized by A Messenger & Carried to Whitehall The Councill of Scotland           
giveing Intimation that they had seized some letters between him & the E        
of Argile                                                                       
     L. c. 1478  [Handwriting changes here.]  Whitehall 10th Jany 83/4          
     The Lds Comrs of ye Treasy for ye better secureing of his Maties           
Revenue arriseing from his Customes have thought fitt yt an Inspection          
be made into ye severall offices of ye Ports & thier deportment to which        
purpose Sr Richard Temple one of ye Comrs of ye Customes wth Mr fford &         
Mr Lucas surveyers begin thier Circuite on Munday next into ye Westerne         
Coasts.                                                                         
     The Scotch Prisoners who were taken here upon ye Acct of ye                
Conspiracy & sent into thier owne Countrey will suddenly be brought to          
Tryall there  Casteen who was pursued by Proclamation is one of ym &            
haveing desir'd yt his wife might be admitted to see him in Presence of         
a Keeper itt was granted to him  The Countess of Aequi [?] uppon some           
Lettrs taken wch gave ye Cause of Jealousy was examined whether she had         
received any Lettrs from her Ld relateing to ye Conspiracy wch she              
denied and noe farther proceeding was at yt time against her                    
     There has been a discovery among som [?]  The Society of London            
arrived on ye 5th at Cowes from Cadiz in 22 dayes  ye master reports yt         
at his Comeing thence ye Ld Darthmouth was still at Tangier haveing not         
fully demolished itt but would finish itt in a short time, ye buissiness        
yt detein'd him soe long being to Choake up ye Harbour with the ruines          
of ye Mole as to render itt wholy useless, and that in ye meane time a          
friendly Correspondence was prserved betwixt his Ldpp and ye Moors who          
lay ready wth a body of 5000 men to possess themselves of itt as soone          
as ye English should quitt itt and prevent any other from settg foot            
there                                                                           
     And yett there are some who pretend on acct of ye arrivall of 4            
ffrigotts under ye Ld Darthmouth wth soldrs at Kingsaile in Ireland wch         
if true must be forerunner of thier ffleet                                      
     The Title of St Albans being become void by ye Death of ye late            
Earle a Patent is passing to create ye Earle of Burford Duke of St              
Albans ye Garter that became vacant to ye Duke of Sommersett                    
     The[y] write from Scotland of great news of a Conventicle                  
discoverd lately not far from Glascow wch uppon ye first notice was             
order'd by ye Govermt to be suppressed  twas thought they had throughly         
extirpated ye whole stock of ym but when a land is Generally overrunne          
wth such weeds though they roote upp all yt show the heads, some will           
still lye Concealed and in thier owne time shoot up here and there a            
patch and require a farther Care ere they be utterly destroyed                  
+Enquirey has been made in sevll houses in and about London of Lodgers          
and Inmates wch whatevr Cause some may attribut it to is onely ye usuall        
effect of the Magistrates dilligence to discover Idle persons as oft as         
Roberys are soe frequent among us                                               
   On ye 6th Ld Petre after a long & tedious sicknes dyed prisonr in the        
Tower                                                                           
   The Duke of Norfolke has layd some time sicke and is soe ill that            
there is but litle hope of his recovery                                         
   Tis writt from Dover that the Ostend Privateers have ben very busy           
aboute the ffrench Coasts and made prize of severall of thier Vessells          
pillaging ye small and takeing others wth them                                  
   The Ld Mateland who Married ye Earle of arguiles Daughter is under           
the Custody of a Messenger  tis said is uppon acct of letter said to be         
sent by the Earle of Arguile  he hath been twice under Examination and          
is still in ye hands of a Messenger during his Maties pleasure                  
   It has been on ye slye Enquirey among some people whether ye Duke of         
Monmouth has been lately at Whitehall of which I can find noe other             
ground then what they might have taken for an Idle newspaper yt said            
that he was sent for to Court upon Saturday last which yett is soe farr         
from truth that I cannot find they know where he is                             
     L. c. 1479   [Handwriting changes here.]  London 12th January 1683         
+The Duke of Monmoth since his Retirement which Its generally said is           
Into Holland hath wrote his Matye A letter The Contents whereof is              
variously discoursed & some will have it That after his Grace gives             
Account of his dangerous passage narrowly Escapeing shipwrack sayes that        
he Intends to goe Into the Spanish Army, which letter was sent to his           
dutchesse                                                                       
     The Councill at Whitehall have been Extraordinarily Assembled upon         
divers weighty affaires Especially Relateing to the Conduct (of his             
Matyes being Guarrantee of the peace of Nimeghen) at the Ensuing meeting        
of the Ambrs of the severall Allies to be held at the Hague which is put        
off to the End of the month & Its affirmed Instructions are drawing up          
for mr Chudleigh his Matyes Envoy in Holland Effectually to pursue that         
great worke in order to bring the differing Crownes to An Accomodation          
     The states of Venice have sent 20 New Gallies to sea & are building        
more & dayly presse seamen to Arme them & the Rest of the fleet they            
Intend to put to sea this summer & are raiseing 10000 Landmen to put            
aboard them & have all the disposition possible to break with the Turks         
& are only retarded from ffinishing their League with the Emperor for           
fear the ffrench should give them disquiett on the other side which             
Could they be Assured of They have promised to give the Turke A great           
diversion & Endeavor the Retakeing of the Isle of Candia                        
   This day it was Reported by the Merchants on the Exchange That the           
Spanish Armada sayling for Cadiz mett with 2 ffrench men of warr &              
seized them both                                                                
     The Spanish Ambr oweing Considderable summs to divers persons              
many of them have been sent for to his Excellency & paid                        
     Yesterday the D: of Norfolke after A Languishing sickness departed         
this life  his Honor & Estates fall to his son the Ld Howard of Arrundell       
Governor of Windsor Castle                                                      
     The Ld Mountague of Boughton is dead at his house in Northamptonshire      
     Severall persons going over the Ice in the night from Westminster          
market were set upon & Robbed neer Lambeth & 2 Gentlemen quarrelling            
thereon fought A duell & one was dangerously wounded                            
     The Ld Bishop of London finding A scurrillous paper Entituled The          
Pacquett of Advice from Geneva to walke the streets weekly & searching          
after the Authr discovered him to be A Papist soe his Lordship had him          
secured & ordered it to be suppressed                                           
     Yesterday Coll Oglethorpe by order of the Comissioners that Inspect        
the Accounts of the guards tooke A view of all that were that day on            
duty Comanding all those that were badly wounded or Equipped to be              
better furnished his Matye intending in A short time to goe to Newmarket        
& Exspects as Their pay is somewhat Advanced & punctually paid they             
should Appear in Compleate Habiliments                                          
     L. c. 1480     London 15th January 1683                                    
+Last Sunday 21 dissenters were seized at A Conventicle at one Mr Bretts        
A Linnen draper in Gracechurch street & had before my Ld Mayor Assisted         
by mr Recorder who made A strict Examination & found one mr Weekes Clerke       
of the Kitchin to her Matye to be one amonge them whome mr Recorder very        
severely Reprimanded & in Conclusion 19 of them were Comitted to Newgate        
for want of sureties  But in the Evening they found bayle & were bound          
to Appear the next Sessions of peace which began yesterday                      
     In the Evening another Conventicle was disturbed in black ffryars &        
divers seized who were obliged to the like Appearance & all the proceed         
posible by Law will be had Against them                                         
     Yesterday o[u]r sessions of peace began where mr Recorder gave A           
Learned & sharpe Charge to the jury That the practices which the                
dissenters Carryed on shewed them to have A hand in the Conspiracy &            
therefore Effectual Course ought to be taken to Crush unlawfull                 
assemblies takeing notice how dangerous it might be to the Goverment to         
meet with Ticketts as some lately did by which meanes many thousands            
might be got togather & that they did it early in the morning &c                
     There were divers dissenters tryed & all found guilty of A Ryott           
& fined some Ten Marks & others at the discretion of the Court                  
     Those 21 of which 19 sent to Newgate on Sunday had A Ryottous Bill         
found Agt them by the Grandjury & are to be tryed next Munday to which          
time the sessions is Adjourned                                                  
     divers who were taken at A Conventicle A month since are bound to          
Appear at the Kings Bench barr the first day of the Next Terme & Its            
said that though they be Convicted of A Ryott will be proceeded Agt             
also upon the Conventicle Act                                                   
     Last ffriday the Wind shifting Northerly wee had A kind Gentle             
Thaw which Continued till Sunday which Constrained all the Booths &c to         
be pulled downe from off the Ice in the Thames where Coaches drove to &         
Againe over the River & people Gave Considderably to Ride in them               
     On Sunday morning Returning to Its Cold Corner wee had A ffrost            
which Rendred o[u]r streets Extreame slippery & yesterday the people            
Returned to their Sports on the Thames though severall paid their Lives         
for their Curiosity frequently dropping in, A woman fell in to the arme         
pitts behind A Watermans Hutt who makeing A sport of it Cryed out shee          
had Robbed his seller of Liquor                                                 
     Last weeke the Citty of Oxford agreed by the Majority of their             
Comon Councill to surrender their Charter & divers of their members to          
bring it to Whitehall                                                           
     Last Satureday Sr Hen Hibart & mr Wharton quarrelling in A Coffee          
house the former Recd 2 wounds which Its feared will prove mortall              
     The Lds of the Admiralty & Comrs of the Navy have brought in               
Accounts of the stoores for shipping in order to Equip forth 20 men of          
warr in the spring which with those under the Ld Dartmouth will Compose         
50 sayle                                                                        
   This Evening one of the Conspirators surrendered himselfe & is now           
under Examination  he is generally said to be Richd Goodenough, The Ld          
Maitland is still in Custody of A messenger                                     
     L. c. 1481  [Handwriting changes here.]  Whitehall Janry 17th 83/4         
     Severall Applications has been made to the Duke of Beaufort on             
behalfe of Mr arnold who lyes Prisonr for 10m L given agt him upon a            
Scandalum Magnatum offering all sort of Submission with wch his grace           
has been pvailed upon that he would forgive him ye whole upon his paying        
1000 L towards ye building of Chelsea Colledge a condescension of a             
very great Mercy and wch ought to be acknowledged wth all thankfullness         
itt being not to be Imagined that when a man hath spitt out ye Venom            
of his Malice against a Peer of that high rancke he should Come off             
soe Easily as to lick himselfe whole wth his Tongue                             
     On ye 8th ye Charter of Sandwich and on ye 9th yt of Oxford was            
agreed to be surrender'd and the like we heare will be don by others            
who beginn to smell ye Tearme & find it safer to submitt yn to Contend          
at Law against ye Quo Warranto                                                  
     Among other prizes taken from the ffrench the Dover Letters of ye          
8th tell us of one loaden wth Tobaco and Sugar from the West Indies wth         
16 guns and 4 paderas [?] by small ostender                                     
   But these are but light loses Compared to those ye Spaniards suffer          
by land  They write from Bruges dated ye 16 yt ye ffrench doe every day         
burne 10 or 12 Townes and villages and that on ye 15 they were fireing          
places between Newport and Ostend whilst ye poore miserable Inhabitants         
fled and starved under ye rigor of ye Season  they have not indeed layd         
Siedge to any place wch Monsr d'avaux promissed ye states they should           
not doe this moneth but they forbeare noe other act of hostillity and           
demand from ye Garrisons mony to redeem them selves from fire [?],              
particularly they sent to Bruges for 500m guilders for nonpaymt of wch          
they every houre expect ym wth thier bombs but that wch declares thier          
designe for other desolation is that they have sent order to ye Paisants        
to turn upp all thiere Corne grounds and they burne all ye plowes               
wherever they find ym                                                           
     On ye 11th dyed ye Duke of Norfolke whose body will be layd in             
state in ye house of ye Earle of Arundell eldest son and now heire to ye        
Estate & honr                                                                   
     The Ld Montague of Bowden died last weeke at his house in                  
Northamptonshire whose hiere and onely son is Mr Ralph Montague whoe            
maried the Countess of Northumbrland                                            
     The Call of sergeants tis now agreed will be ye next Tearme ye             
writts being already prepared for 15 of whome Sr Thomas Jenner Recorder         
of London is to have ye first place as being to be made one of his              
Maties Sergeants at Law                                                         
     On ye 14th by agreement of ye Magistrates there was a Generall             
driving of ye Remainder of ye Conventicles in this Towne many of whom           
may be prosecuted at ye sessions to be holden this weeke itt being              
looked upon as an unparalelld Impudence whilst those of the Conspiracy          
were passing thier Tryall for men of such debauched principles to herd          
[?] when it is more yn probable yt of ye severall sects of Dessenters           
there are very few if any yt eithr were not, or had the Conspiracy mett         
wth success would not have engadged in the Rebellion                            
     The Pacquett of advice from Geneva (in imitation of yt from Room)          
discovering the rise and Growth of presbitarys after haveing been Carry'd       
on 6 weeks was thought fit by order to be layd downe                            
   The Ld Mateland upon his humble Peticon to his Matie was admitted to         
liberty giveing 500 L bayle.  This sessions there were 19 who were              
picked upp last Sunday in Conventicles indicted in one bill and all             
found guilty  that wch caused so strict an Enquiery and prosecution was         
that in ye Genll search made after Lodgers and Inmates for ye Discovery         
of Idle and desolate psons they found that there were above twice as            
many Nonconformist ministers as there were Parishes in London                   
   Wee begin already to talke of his Majestys goeing hence to divert            
himselfe and though there is not yett any day prefixed his Matie has            
been pleasd to declare yt he intends to goe to New Markett in March next        
and in April to Winchester                                                      
     They write from Paris dated Janry ye 19 that that Crowne was arming        
very Considerably at sea and thiere preparations did double those of ye         
last yeare  They write it as certaine yt ye King of Poland was returned         
with his army into his owne Country very ill satisfied wth the Empers           
late proceedings as to his winter quarters and his offering to treat wth        
ye Turks underhand and Make ye Losse of ye Poles in their returne to            
have been much greater then we had itt affirming that the Lithu[a]nians         
who brought upp ye rere and had putt themselves out of order by lookeing        
after Pillage and plunder there were noe less than 1500 Killed besides          
a great Number that were taken prisoners                                        
     L. c. 1482   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 17th January 1683        
   The Report wee had of one of the Conspirators surrendring himselfe           
proves only that the wife of Richard Goodenough Attended the Councill           
with A letter from her husband wherein he desires A pardon & would              
make A discovery of the Plott but Its said unless he doe it Effectually         
it will not be granted                                                          
     The meeting house of one Reade A Nonconformist minister in St              
Giles is ordered to be built for A Chappell of Ease to that parish The          
Ld Keeper giveing Considderably towards it                                      
     Last Tuesday the D of Yorke Came to the Royall Affrican Company in         
the Citty being Governor thereof where they elected Sr Dudley North             
deputy Governor and Alderman Lucy sub=Governor                                  
    Sr Ben: Bathurst the precedeing deputy in a speech gave his R: Highs        
an Account that they had not lately made any devidend by reason they had        
Recd greate depredations on the Coast of Guyney by piratts to the vallue        
of 30 or 40000 L yet they Compute their stock more now then last year by        
15000 L & had 22 ships at sea The product of which they hoped would             
Advance the Company much Their Auctions being at prsent 210 L p Cent            
     His R Highs gave them all the Assurances posible of his protection         
& would Effectually take Care they should alwayes have A Convoy to              
Attend them                                                                     
     The Ld Makeland is Bayled                                                  
     The Thames Continues soe hard ffrozen that people passe & Repasse          
& Its Covered with booths & all things sold there like A faire                  
     Letters from Lintz say that the Spanish Ambr declared to the Empr          
his Masters Reasons for the declaration of warr Agt ffrance who being           
Asked by the Emperor if they were in A Condition to defend themselves           
Replyed That they knew at Madrid that it was Imposible without the              
Assistance of England & Holland which did they not Concurr better then          
hitherto fflanders would be lost & his Master would have the Advantage          
by it to be ffreed from Excessive Expence in preserveing it & he in A           
better Condition to maintaine his other Countries & if he would sell it         
to the ffrench (for he did not know what might be done if Abandoned by          
his Allies) he was offered A larger Equivalent Elsewhere                        
     Upon which the Emperor the Popes Nuncio & the Venetian Ambr                
Concurred with his Resolutions the former declareing he would awaite the        
successe of the meeting at the Hague & if it did not end in A peace             
would Carry on the warr Agt the Turke without the Assistance of the             
forces of the Empire & Employ them to give ffrance A diversion                  
     Yesterday the Spanish Ambr weas sent for to Whitehall & was 2              
houres in the Privy Councill Abt fflanders & A person of quality will           
be forthwith dispatched Into Holland to Assist mr Chudleigh at the              
meeting at the Hague                                                            
+The D of Northumberland who went in the ffrench service is by Expresse         
ordered to Returne home  Yesterday the sessions began at the old Bayly          
where mr Scarlet was found Guilty of Manslaughter for Killing mr                
Dickenson & An Appeale was Entred by mr Dickensons brother & allowed            
     Yesterday A Caveat was Entred in the Prerogative Court Agt the             
Will of the late D: of Norfolke In Relation to the Bequeathing 2000 L           
p An to his Dutchess judging that if shee Cannot prove her marriage             
any other way then by the Church of Rome the Estate will fall to the            
brothers                                                                        
     L. c. 1483     London 19th January 1683                                    
+Our Sessions at the old Bayly ended on Wednesday where 4 Nonconformist         
preachers vizt mr Griffith mr Bampfeild mr Warner & another with 5 other        
said to be scotchmen were Convicted for a Premunire to be out of his            
Matyes Protection & to forfeitt all their lands & Estates & Imprisonment        
dureing his Matyes Pleasure  Also 2 persons were ffined 100 Marks Each          
for publishing seditious books one the dissenters Plea & the other Abt          
the purity of Gods worship & to give security for their Good behavior &         
yesterday 8 Received sentence of death 3 to be transported &c  mr scarlet       
& mr Johnson Convicted of Manslaughter desired benefitt of Clergie but          
Appeales of Murther being brought Agt them it was not allowed                   
     Sr Hen: Herbart who lately Recd A wound in A ffray with Sr Hen:            
Wharton is Reported to be dead                                                  
     His Matye Considdering the loss of his subjects by duelling has            
declared hee will hereafter pardon none on that account                         
     Tis said the D of Northumberland is sent for out of ffrance in             
order to A marriage to the daughter of the late Sr Robt Carr who has an         
Estate of 6 or 7000 L p Ann but Entangled with 40000 L debt but if his          
Maty give it to the duke the Estate will be Clear                               
     Its Affirmed that those Peers & Cittizens who formerly desired to          
ffarme his Matyes Revenue have Renewed their desires to ffarme it               
Conjunctly or Apart & tis said they offer for the whole 2 Millions p Ann        
& to Advance 500000 L & when any Emergency happens to lay downe                 
Considderable summes at 6 L p Cent which Affaire some think will be             
brought to an Ishue                                                             
     The E: of Anglesea hath been Examined in Councill Abt the duke of          
Monmoth but tis said would not give direct Answers to the questions             
demanded of him                                                                 
     Some here Report that this ffrost will hold till march & one hath          
undertaken for A wager to build A house 2 or 3 stories high on the Ice          
& lye A night in it & pull it downe againe himselfe before the ffrost           
be gone                                                                         
     The New Sergeants who are next Terme Called to the barr Intend to          
passe in greate Splendor from the Temple to Westminster Hall on the Ice         
Sr Thomas Jenner o[u]r New Recorder is to be the first who will be one          
of his Matyes Councill at Law                                                   
     His Matye hath surceased his Charity to the poor & given in all            
above 2000 L his R Highs 500 L &c  Coales are by the bushell A 4th part         
the price of meale for bread                                                    
+Our letters yesterday from the Hague say that the states being made            
acquainted that some did Endeavor to Insinuate that the P: of Orange out        
of A sinister designe Aimed to Carry on the warr Contrary to the quiett         
of Europe but they being sencible of his Highs sincerity have ordered           
those that soe Report to be punished also that some published that the          
Emperor was underhand Treating A peace with the Turks without the               
privity or Consent of the K: of Poland since the said King had drawne           
his forces out of Hungary which mr Mole the Polish Agent at the hague           
Complained of to the states & shewed his last letters from Cracow which         
Imported that his Master had left one halfe of his Army in Hungary &            
Carryed the Rest with him to the ffrontiers of Poland intending to hold         
A diett on the 14th of ffebruary                                                
     L. c. 1484     London 22d January 1683                                     
   This weeke the Earle of Anglesea Ld Privy seale was sumoned before           
his Matye In Councill where his Lordship was Charged with uttering              
divers Reflecting speeches in Reference to the lately Executed Coll             
Sidney where after divers Interrogatories & his Lordships Answers               
thereto he was dismissed without entring into any Recognizance                  
     The 12 Judges Assisted by the Ld Keeper have mett in A body &              
Consulted some greate point but its kept private but some will have it          
to Relate to the Triennial Act in Relation to A Parliamt                        
     Last Sunday A Conventicle was disturbed at Barking & Abt 14 of the         
Auditors seized & afterwards Comitted to Newgate                                
     Yesterday was an Adjourned sessions of the peace at Guildhall where        
16 of those 19 seized at A Conventicle in Gracechurch street were found         
Guilty of A Ryott & ffined each 10 L & bound in A Recognizance of 100 L         
& 2 sureties each 50 L to be of good behaivor till the sessions after           
Michaelmas, some quakers & others found guilty of the like Crime Chose          
Rather to goe to Newgate then pay their ffines                                  
     One mr Bradon A Barrister of the Law who was sometime since                
Comitted for pretending to make it Appear that the late E of Essex did          
not Cut his owne throate & was Admitted to bayle on 2000 L security had         
notice sent him yesterday by the Attorney Genll to prepare to take his          
tryall at the Kings bench barr on the 1st of ffebr                              
     Yesterday was A Chapter at Whitehall of the Knights of the Garter          
the soveraigne prsent where the D of St Albans was Invested with the            
George & Garter & will with the other Peers lately Advanced be suddenly         
installed at Windsor                                                            
     Sr Hen: Hubbart who was wounded in A ffray by mr Wharton is                
perfectly Recovered  the said Gentleman behaived himselfe with much             
Gallantry for though he Recd A dangerous wound in his brest from mr             
Wharton & had him afterwards at his mercy he tooke not the Advantage            
+Yesterday severall of the Majestrates of Oxford surrendred that Cittyes        
Charter into the hands of the King                                              
     Tis said his Matye hath ordered A Landskip to be drawne of the             
Thames as at prsent frozen over with the booths people & Coaches                
thereon, some watermen have moved for A faire there which for severall          
Reasons is denyed                                                               
     On Sunday wee had an Expresse of the P: of Oranges Arrivall                
haveing escaped greate danger of shipwrack on o[u]r Coast A greate flake        
of Ice lyeing over Agt deale 7 miles long & one mile broade.  Its               
uncertain what he Comes Abt but most Conclude its in Relation to the            
dismall Condition of the  Spanish netherlands by the ffrench & the              
sharpeness of the season thousands of them starveing & more would if            
they were not Cloathed & Releived by the dutch                                  
     L. c. 1485     London 24th January 1683                                    
+Yesterday being the first of the Terme the severall persons Called by          
writt to be sergeants Appeared in the Chancery Court & tooke the oath           
which the Law Requires upon any promotion & Intend to Come on Satureday         
in their Coifs & Robes greate preparation being made at sergeants Inn           
for An Entertainment  Its observed that above halfe of them are                 
Recorders of Cittyes or Corporations vizt Sr Tho: Jenner o[u]r Recorder         
Sr Paull Barrett Sr George Pudley mr Edwin Wyatt mr Henry Selby mr Heath        
mr Bircher mr ffarington mr Suttage mr Powell mr Stringer mr Windham mr         
Wyn mr Lehunt mr Jefferson &c                                                   
     The Ld Brandon Gerrard Major Wildman mr Hambden mr Trenchard &             
others bayled last Terme as Concerned in the late Conspiracy made               
their Appearances but wee hear nothing when they will be brought to             
tryall but that suppenas are left at the D: of Monmoths house for him to        
Appear at Westminster at their tryalls                                          
     mr Scarlet who the last sessions was Convicted of Manslaughter for         
Killing mr Dickenson appeared & was Charged with an Appeale of Murther          
by mr dickensons brother & Recomitted                                           
     Two Gentlemen of the Temple Concerned in the late Revelling vizt           
mr Richd Montgomery & mr donadad Richardson were Charged with 2                 
Informations for Ryottous behaiveing themselves in time of their                
Government & pleaded not Guilty.                                                
     mr Johnson Author of the booke Called Julyan the Apostate & mr             
darby who printed the speech of the late Ld Russell appeared & are to           
Attend againe on ffriday to Receive judgment for the same                       
     Nine or 10 dissenters Appeareing in Court Especially mr King &             
diverse seized at A Conventicle where they mett with Ticketts were made         
to plead to Informations Exhibitted Agt them & will be tryed the sitting        
after the Terme                                                                 
     Affidavit being made that Sr Samll Bernardiston who was bound to           
Appear the first day of the Terme was sick in his bed it was allowed but        
mr Attorney Acquainted his Councill there was an Information in Court           
Agt him & the Ld Cheife Justice said he might take A Coppie                     
     On Satureday next is ordered to be argued A greate pointe between          
his Matye & the East India Interlopers to be mannaged by mr Solicittor          
for his Matye & mr Polexfen for the Interlopers upon the head whether           
his Matye by his Prerogative Can grant Charters to some of his subjects         
Exclusive of the Rest to trade with Infidells upon which point much             
depends                                                                         
     Yesterday was A Bull baited on the Thames & on it are many streets         
Erected with severall names & many sorts of Comodities & Coaches Ply as         
frequently as boates did before                                                 
+noe fforeign post Can Come in  wee have 5 behind from Holland & the            
like from ffrance, on the 12th Instant o[u]r Holland Pacquett went off          
from Harwich & staying 5 dayes in sight of Holland were forced to               
Returne back soe wee have 6 not gone                                            
     L. c. 1486    [Handwriting changes here.]    Janry 24th 83/4               
   His Matie wth regard to ye weather has given to the Parish of St             
Martin in ye field 200 L to Westmr a 100 L and sevll other summs to             
other parishes wch wth ye Collections that are made at the houses doe in        
a very great Measure defend the poorer sort from ye Injuries of soe hard        
and severe a winter                                                             
+Yow have been lately acquainted yt wn Sr Samuell Barnardiston was taken        
for sending a seditious news leter one of his Servts made an escape at          
his apprehension and was sought after was one Oscland [?] who was taken         
on ye 17th at night being he that transcribed ye fictious news wch ye           
Knt writt and sent to Ipswich and other parts  wn he found himselfe             
penched he squeaked Confessed and Cryed Peccare [?]  ye originall itt           
seems was of the Knts owne handwriteing which to prvent dscovery was            
burnt as ye lewdest of wretches destroy thier owne Issue wm they know to        
be spurious and Illegittimate                                                   
     Zachary Ralphson & Delawne agst wm ye Grand Jury in a late sessions        
found 2 bills for seditious libells the fformer being Indicted for ye           
apology for gods Worshippe and Worshippers and the other for the                
Nonconformists Plea were both tryed this sessions and found Guilty              
   Most of ye Nonconformists that were fined have payd thier mony and           
are discharged, there remaines in Newgate for nonpayment only some              
Quakers and others who have been Teachers and upon that acct lye under          
great fines                                                                     
     There has been some alterations made in ye Sergeants at Law to be          
Called this Tearme  Some have refused and others have been added, those         
who have refused are Sr Tho: ffarrar of ye Inner Temple Mr Tho: Powell          
and Mr Wm Rawlesson of Gray's Inne  those who stand are 14                      
                                                                                
Sr Thomas Jenner                                                                
Edward Wyatt Esqr         [These names are bracketed and                        
Edward Heath Esqr          labeled "of ye Inr Temple."]                         
Hen: Shelby Esqr                                                                
Anthony Farrington                                                              
                                                                                
Edward Birch Esqr         [Names are bracketed and                              
Sr George Pudley           labeled "of ye Midle Temple."]                       
                                                                                
Jno Wyndham Esqr          [Names are bracketed and                              
Hen: Beddingfield Esqr     labeled "of Lincolns Inne."]                         
Owen Wynn [?] Esqr                                                              
Jno Norris Esqr                                                                 
Jno Millington Esqr                                                             
                                                                                
Wm Lehunt Esqr                                                                  
Sr Edward Nevell          [Names are bracketed and                              
Edward Lutwich Esqr        labeled "of Gray's Inne.]                            
Jno Jeffryson Esqr                                                              
Sr Paull Barrett                                                                
                                                                                
+Mr Campden ye Ld Brandon Mr Booth Mr E Charlton Mr Trenchard Major             
Wildman and Mr Bradon &c: appeared ye first day of this Tearme at the           
Kings bench barr and thier severall appearences were recorded and thier         
recognizances Continued.  Mr Hampden has notice upon tryall upon Fryday         
sennight and some time this Tearme tis said yt Mr Bradon Mr Speake and          
Sr Samuell Barnardiston and severall others will be brought to thier            
Tryalls  Mr Johnson ye author of ye Julian ye appostate and mr Deerham          
from whom ye Ld Gray made his Escape and who pleaded last Tearme not            
Guilty to his Indictmt will have sentence passd upon ym on fryday next          
   Capn Herbert who lately Comanded his Matie ffleet at the Streights           
as admirall haveing given many Signall proofs of his Courage and Conduct        
in the whole managery his Matie has been pleased in Consideration of his        
services to make him Rer Admirall of England                                    
+The Extreamity of the weather and failure of fforreigne posts occationed       
the shortness of ye Letter                                                      
     L. c. 1487   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 26th January 1683        
+A Motion being made by mr Attorney for tryall of mr Hambden for high           
Misdemeanors the Court Appointed the same on the 6th of ffebruary &             
that mr Bradons tryall in Reference to the E: of Essex be the day               
following & that also of mr Speake for words Agt the goverment                  
     Its affirmed that mr Atterbury the Messenger Carryed A Subpoena to         
Moor Parke to summon the D: of Monmoth to give his knowledg at mr               
Hambdens tryall but his grace was not there to be found                         
     This day A Habeas Corpus was granted to bring up the E: of danby           
     Last Thursday A letter Came from mr secretary Jenkins to the Ld            
Mayor & by him delivered to the severall Aldermen & they Ishued out             
Precepts to their deputies to make A dilligent Re=search in all their           
precincts of the names & qualifications of all Lodgers & Inmates & if           
they find any Scotchmen to tender them the oaths of Alleigance &                
supremacy & in Case of Refusall to Transmitt them to the Councill & if          
they discover any Nonconformist preachers to prosecute them on the 5            
mile act                                                                        
     His Matye at the Request of the E: India Company has Appointed Esqr        
St John A Civillian Judge of his Admiralty Court to be Constituted at           
Bombay his Matye allowing him 200 L p Ann & the Company 400 L p Ann & he        
is now preparing for his voyage                                                 
     Complaints being made of divers persons who under pretence of              
deputations destroyed his Matyes game Abt this Citty, orders are sent to        
all the justices of the Adjacent Counties to seize such persons & send          
them to mr Chiffrige his Matyes Gamekeeper at Whitehall                         
     A ship Arrived from New England in the downes brings letters of the        
26th octobr which give account That on the 24th at night A fire happened        
Amongst the Merchants Warehouses at Boston which in 5 houres Consumed           
neer A hundred with most of the goods to their greate loss That mr              
Randall who Carryed over the Quo Warranto Agt that government was               
Arrived & his Majestrates had Convened their Councill to Considder              
what proceed to make but Exspecting their 2 Agents from England Every           
day they will not Conclude anything before their Arrival                        
     Its Affirmed that one of Esqr Herberts family in Buckinghamshire           
did this ffrost shoot an Eagle preying upon A dove which is thought             
Rare in England                                                                 
     Its published in Germany by Authority Earle suistick [?] that A            
Capuchin ffryar who Administered the sacrament to the K: of Poland              
before he Engaged battle with the Turks affirmes upon the word of A             
priest & faith of A Christian that he saw A white dove Hover over the           
Christian Army dureing the Conflict & that An Eagle proportioned her            
flight for 3 Leagues Right over the head of the King which noe doubt            
the papists believe to be true                                                  
     L. c. 1488     London 29th January 1683                                    
+Yesterday morning one Captain Edwards of the Trayned bands Exercised           
his Company on the Ice of the Thames & Conducted them thereon from the          
3 Cranes to the Temple stayres                                                  
     Our last Account from fforreign parts was by A gentleman from              
Hambrough who sayes that the Weather is faivourable with us to what it          
is there for that they Relieve their Centinells every houre & yet found         
2 of their souldiers frozen stiffe Leaneing Agt the fortifications              
They tell us also of A ship in soe much distresse in the Ice that they          
Cast lotts which should be first sacrificed to Appease the others hunger        
& Its Certain that many ships will be in want as not being able to put          
into port & Its feared that Ld Dartmouths fleet from Tangier judged now         
to be not far from home will Receive much damage                                
     On Satureday one ffootman at St Jameses kild another & on Sunday An        
Irishman ran A Constable into the belly with his Rapier as he was               
Comeing to part A ffray                                                         
     On Sunday & Monday 2 Messengers & 4 Constables with A warrant from         
mr secretay Jenkins searched the houses of divers Gentlemen for some            
great person but would not discover his Name  some suppose it the d:            
of M:                                                                           
     Yesterday the E: of danby Came to the Kings bench by Habeas Corpus         
offering by his Councill to argue the point  mr Attorney was asked              
whether he had the Kings Consent who Replyed that he should not oppose          
what the Court would adjudge                                                    
     The Ld Cheife Justice said in truth there was the liberty of the           
subject in dispute and also the power of A High Court and told my Lord          
he would Consult the Rest of the Judges by Satureday                            
     My Lord Replyed that he was to be determined by them & they had not        
yet heard his Case & therefore Could not Report it to the Rest of the           
Judges as it ought before they knew it, Then the Ld Cheife Justice              
granted it to be argued on Munday next & said he would act as his               
Conscience and the Law directed him                                             
     In the afternoon mr Caldron steward to the Earle of Clare was              
brought to tryall on An Information for words Agt the goverment where           
2 witnesses deposed That he should speake in praise of Olivers                  
goverment That wee should not be well till the same were effected That          
whoever should kill the King would doe A good worke & that if mr                
Papillion & mr dubois had been sheriffs the thing might have been d[on]e        
     The Ld Cheife Justice asked if mr Chaldron was in Court which he           
was who thereupon ordered the Tipstaff to take him giveing his judgment         
that the words were High Treason and thereupon withdrew the Information         
of misdemeanor & Comitted him to be tryed for his life                          
+One Samll Barber Comitted to Newgate for publishing A most seditious           
booke Agt the goverment was found Guilty                                        
     L. c. 1489     London 31st January 1683                                    
+Yesterday being the 30th Instant it was most Religiously observed both         
seasons of the day in all our parish Churches dr Maggot preaching before        
his Matye in Whitehall, mr Pelling to the Judges in Westminster Abbey           
& dr Lake to the Ld Mayor & Aldermen in Bow Church                              
     The Judges mett in Westminster hall before they went to the Abbey          
where the Attorney Genll made A motion for A Special outlawry to seize          
the Estates goods & Chattells of the Ld Grey Sr Tho: Armstrong &c which         
was granted as being outlawed for Treason                                       
     This day the 16 new sergeants mett in their Inns of Court & as by          
Custome had 5 L in A purse delivered them togather with A Speech                
     Those of Graies Inn were told that their happiness was that noe            
Protestant dissenting Bretheren were amonge them                                
     Those of the Temple were told that Learning procured Riches but            
only Loyalty honor                                                              
     After which haveing their Coifs & Gownes put on them at sergeants          
Inn they marched along the streets to Westminster preceded by above 100         
persons in party Coloured Coates & the students of their society,               
     when they Came to Westminster all the Judges descended into the            
Common Pleas Court where they heard each sergeant Court and plead               
in ffrench & then Each delivered the Judges & other sergeants A gold            
Ringe with the motto                                                            
     a deo Rex a Rege Lex                                                       
after which was A Splendid Entertainment                                        
     This weeke one mr Parr A Considderable Attorney of ffurnivalls Inn         
Cut his owne Throate & is since dead                                            
     Yesterday one Venables notorious for vending of Counterfet plate           
at Tunbridg wells &c stood his 2d time in the pillory                           
     mr Mountague who was the last sessions Convicted of Murther has            
obtained his Matyes most gracious pardon which is now under the seales          
     This morning a fire happened in A flax shop on London Bridge but           
was put out with the destruction of only that house                             
     The necesitous Watermen Claime A prerogative above others to Erect         
their booths on the Thames but many tradesmen take the liberty to build         
them stalls where the streets are more Crouded then Bartholmew faire &          
the Roades as passable for Carts & Coaches as the firme land but mr             
Water bayliffe Exacts of them Toll & Ice Rent & forced them to pay but          
the Watermen opposed it as being free of the River saying though they           
Could not Row thereon they might build or Ride thereon & Its Adjudged           
for them                                                                        
     One Coll Vernon was on the Ice Ran through the belly with A Rapier         
by A Brigadier of the Kings Guards but is in A way of Recovery                  
+Wee are told from Guildford in Surrey That A postboy was brought to the        
stage between 2 Mayles ffrozen to death                                         
     There are 15 Irish Mayles behind                                           
     L. c. 1490   [Handwriting changes here.]   White hall Jan 31 83/4          
     Severall Complaints having been lately made to his Matie in                
Councill of the [mis]chiefs arising by a sorte of people wandr[ing]             
about the Countries as Pedlers petty Chapmen and Scotch Cloath men &c           
who not only take away from the trade of shopkeepers but under that             
prtence may be imployd as fitt instruments to Convey and Carry                  
about private Correspondances to the disturbance of ye peace of the             
Kingdome his Matye has been pleased to order that the Atturney Genll            
Consider of a way to suppresse them of which he made a report on the            
25 when itt was ordered that the severall judges should be informed             
that itt was his Matie [about half a line illegible] they give itt in           
their Charge that in [?] that 39 Eliz[abe]th be putt in execution agt           
thirday [?] beggers by wch such persons the Scotch as well as english           
are punishable                                                                  
     Upon enquirey after depositing the dead bodys in Charnall houses I         
can finde noe more then this that one or two being brought before the           
graves were quite ready they were sett by in such places till they were         
digged deeper wch takes up more than ordinary time as being wrought a           
great part wth a Chizell and not wthout a great deale of Labour and             
difficulty                                                                      
     Butt though the weather be so overcomely [?] riggorous Clearly God         
be praised is not so Could as to suffer the more indigent to encrease           
the bills of mortality and though the last weeks bill had one in itt            
starved itt is to be admired that there were not more in so great and           
populous a Citty when the like acct has been found in a mild and                
moderate season                                                                 
     The last weeke a conventicle was discovered on a week day where            
every one Carried a tickett for his admittance  these are of the highest        
forme of desenters people of more substance than the ordinary sorte and         
are to be proceeded against as Rioters and may by that way be condemned         
in a great fine                                                                 
     Sr Samuell Barnardiston having by his Councill pleaded his                 
sicknesse has by that means gained farther time and prhapps will not            
come to tryall till next tearme                                                 
     The Sergants have proposed if they can gaine habitts enough to goe         
in their formalities to Westminster on thursday next                            
     The Earle of Danby having moved by Councill on the 26 for an               
habeas Corpus was on the 28 brought to the Kings bench bar where being          
heard the Court acquainted him yt they would consult all their                  
Bretheren to see what might be done in his case the result of which             
they would declare to him  in the meanetime he was remanded to the tower        
     The same day one Packer [?] was tryed for high treason as having           
dispersed a treasonable booke and was found guilty  there was likewise          
tryed for high misdemeanor one Cauldron steward to the Earle of Clare           
butt when the witnesses were giving evidence they proved [?] matter of          
a far more hainous nature upon which the Court putt a stop to the tryall        
discharged the Jurey and ordered a bill of indictmt to be drawne upp agt        
him for high treason                                                            
     The tryall of Mr Hampden is not till next monday  his Matie has by         
a messenger sent a subpoena to the Duke of Munmouth to summon him to            
ye tryall  the messenger could not speake wth him and so left itt wth           
the steward at More parke                                                       
     The Earle of danby is by rule of the Kings bench order'd to come           
thither againe on munday next to receive the opinion of ye Court whither        
they can admitt him his liberty upon Baile                                      
     The Earle of Chesterfield having resigned his Command of ye Cornll         
of ye dutch or holland regimt his Matie has been pleased to restore itt         
to the Earle of Muggrave who some time was Conll of itt                         
     wee doe with great impatience expect an acct of ye fleet under ye          
Comand of the Ld Dartmouth and wt has been don att tangier wch yet wee          
are in hopes to receive as soone as the weather will prmitt for that the        
Marchants tell us that they have advice of a fleet wch they Endee [?] to        
be itt on the streights near [?] Sicily                                         
+tis noe wounder that wth the stopp of ships there is a stop of paymt of        
customes but there use to be some time a coming [?] such an acct as that        
in ye last week was never known of the duties where the receiver genll          
brought in nihil                                                                
+this day the sergants att law went in ther formalities to Westmr and           
according to the Custome counted [?] at ye Comon Pleas bar a warme [?]          
purse [illegible six-letter word] the dyers Cutts [?] and made the              
watermen performe the things wch they thought to be impossible  they            
went by land and not the way that some say by the thames that it [?] was        
so far spent wth respect to the Sergants that nothing in any court              
passed observable                                                               
     The hardness of the weather continues and yet this may be truly            
said that the peoples imitation of the two great examples of his Matie          
& royall highness continue their Charaty to that degree that the porer          
sorte suffer less in this extreamity than in mild winter                        
     L. c. 1491  [Handwriting changes here.]   London 2d ffebruary 1683         
+Nothwithstanding the tyde its now in most places frozen Cross below            
the Bridge & people begin to erect Booths adjacent to the Tower Wharfe          
& ffoot it over in like manner as above  But A Gentleman yesterday              
adventureing too neer the starlings dropt into the water but his stick          
lyeing across 2 flakes of Ice Happily bore him up whilst divers over            
Planks with A Hooke fastned in his Cloaths drew him out                         
     This day an Oxe was Rosted on the Ice & A ffox trayled & Hunted            
by the Ld Mayors Beagles                                                        
     A Charriott was this day brought on the Ice which moved backwards          
& forwards without horses through the device of the turning of A                
Spindle within                                                                  
     A gentleman of Cliffords Inn haveing the Curiosity to Experiment           
the Rideing in all the Chariotts on the Ice was in one of them                  
overturned &  broke his Collar bone which Its beleived will Cost him            
his life                                                                        
     The ship formerly mentioned to be surrounded among the Ice in the          
downes still Continues without any succour & Its feared that her men            
are perished none of them for 3 dayes being perceived on the deck  Its          
beleived the Ld Dartmouths fleet have put into Ireland                          
     The passengers at dover designed for ffrrance & those at Harwich           
for Holland are all Returned back there being noe possibility to get            
over yet A person at dover haveing Extraordinary occasions has agreed           
with 4 seamen to Adventure with A small open boate by Rowing where              
they find water & then draw it over the Ice but Its thought A Rash              
attempt & 100 to one if they doe not miscarry                                   
     Yesterday mr darby the Printer of Ld Russells Speech was fined 20          
Marks & to give 12 months security for the good behaivor which he               
presently did  mr Johnson who wrote Julyan the Apostate also appeared           
& moved an Arrest of Judgment which was ordered to be argued on Munday          
next                                                                            
     A motion was made that the late Revellers of the Temple might              
Attend the Court in order to be Charged with actions by those whome             
they affronted but the Court did not grant the motion                           
     One mr Charles Phillips of Kingston upon Thames moved Agt the              
Bayliffs of that Corporation for illegally seizing his goods by vertue          
of the Towne Attachment which being Considdered of by the Court they            
ordered them to stand Comitted to the Kings Bench & that mr Attorney            
Genll be desired to bring A quo Warranto Agt them                               
     This day was A greate Entertainment in the Temple where the judges         
New serjeants & many of the Nobility were prsent  The Templers have at          
2 Collections given neer 100 L to the Releife of the poor prisoners of          
the Kings bench                                                                 
     The Ld Thanet is dangerously ill & many other greate personages            
     L. c. 1492     London 5th ffebruary 1683                                   
+Yesterday the E: of danby was brought to the Kings bench where many of         
the Nobility attended to offer themselves to be his bayle if occasion           
were                                                                            
     his Councill were mr Wallop mr Polixfen & mr Holt who severally            
argued his Case Reviveing divers Cases how that Court in the Intervalls         
of Parliamt had proceeded upon Impeachments, They quote the Case of             
ffitzharris, also that the Ld Cheife Justice Hales had by Certiorari            
Removed an Appeale out of Parliamt & given judgment thereon.  That some         
of the late Regicides being Attainted & Condemned in Parliamt the Kings         
bench in A Recesse had awarded Execution  That not to set some bounds           
to his Lordships Imprisonment would make it Indefinite & be A failure of        
justice & offered something whether the Triennial Act to Call A                 
Parliamt were obligation or not, That his Lordship had his Matyes Pardon        
which was Read in Court very Comprehensive of pardoning all Crimes Save         
Murther, which Arguments being handled by the Court his Lordship offered        
something himselfe strenuously desireing to be bayled                           
     mr Justice Walcott first delivered his opinion that the same being         
before argued in that Court & adjudged in the Negative he thought his           
Lordship would not take it amisse if he Considdered of it till next             
Tearme  of the like opinion was mr Justice Holloway                             
     mr Justice Withens obliquely gave sentiment for the bayleing him           
But the Ld Chi Justice spoke fully his mind & Conscience that he ought          
& was of a Clear opinion to grant him bayle saying ffiat justicia               
velerunt [?] Coelum & delivered himselfe very full in Court                     
     The E: of danby mightily urged to have their opinions this Terme           
saying that though the Vacation was short yet An Alteration might be            
amonge the Judges as he has found often to his detriment                        
     The Ld Ch: Justice then told him that he might move the last of the        
Terme & that if his Brothers had Considdered his Case they would order          
him to be brought up againe                                                     
     This day Justice Stokes of Wiltshire was tryed by Information for          
seizing the Goods of divers Clippers before Conviction which Continued          
so long that the jury gave in A private Verdict & Its beleived for the          
King                                                                            
     The watermen on the Ice prsented the Court of Aldermen with A              
petition agt the plying of Coaches thereon but yesterday we had A               
Welcome Thaw which has forced the Booths to be Removed & put an End to          
the aforesaid Controversy                                                       
     Yesterday we had 9 Irish Males  by them we have An account of A            
lamentable accedent in the County of Antrim where 120 persons sporting          
upon the Ice with Musick &c were all drowned many of them persons of            
quality their wives & daughters                                                 
     Some dayes since A vessell ffreighted with wine & Brandy lyeing in         
Barking Creeke the seamen went Ashoar & left A Customhouse officer              
aboard who makeing too greate A fire set the ship in A flame which was          
Imediately Consumed                                                             
     Yesterday the dukes Guards mustered in St James Parke his R. Highs         
being prsent to see them in all their Accouterments                             
     L. c. 1493     London 7th ffebruary 1683                                   
+The Wiltshire jury on Tuesday gave A private verdict & yesterday               
delivered their verdict in Court & found Justice Stoakes not Guilty             
     Yesterday was the Tryall of mr Hambden for High Misdemeanor.  mr           
Attorney Genll told the Court & jury whereof Sr Tho: Gerard was foreman         
That he was Indicted for Conspireing to Raise An Insurrection in this           
Kingdome & for sending to Scotland for Aide in order to which the d: of         
Mon: E: of Essex, Ld Russell Ld Howard mr Sidney & the prisoner mett at         
his house as A Councill of 6 & sent Aaron Smith into Scotland after             
which divers Scotch Gentlemen Came to London But after the breakeing            
out of the Plott Endeavoured to make their Escape                               
     The d of M: was first Called for witnesse but absent but mr                
Atterbury the messenger made Affidavitt of his leaveing supoenas at his         
severall houses                                                                 
     The Ld Howard the only witnesse delivered his Evidence much as at          
mr Sidneys tryall                                                               
     After which the severall witnesses for the prisoner were Called            
vizt The E of Anglesea E of Clare Ld Pagett dr Burnet mr Howard &c  The         
first was absent as being sick  his depositions were desired to be Read         
but not granted.  The Rest spoke to Invalidate the Testimony of the Ld          
Howard as at former Tryalls  The jury withdrew & in A short time brought        
him in Guilty                                                                   
     This day was the Tryall of mr Braydon & mr Speake by Information           
for Endeavouring to subborne witnesses to make it beleived that the E:          
of Essex was murthered which was of greate Lengh hardly posible to be           
Compozed [?]                                                                    
     The Witnesses were one mr Brownes Boy A Customhouse officer who            
being in the Tower declared when at home he saw A bloody Razor flunge           
out of the Window & set his hand to A paper of the Contents But Againe          
denyed it                                                                       
     The ffather Mother & sister of the said boy declared that Braydon          
Came to them Abt it                                                             
     Then A girle declared almost the same Abt the Razour                       
     Sr Hen: Capell witnessed that mr Braydon brought him the paper of          
the boy who Advised him to goe to the Secretary of State which Braydon          
did & it was Examined before the Councill where the boy denyed it               
     Then A letter was Read of mr Speakes directed to Sr Robt Atkins            
Relateing to that Affaire full of Invectives                                    
     Some persons out of the Country pretended to have heard the Report         
that he was murthered before that day which was Conceived Inconsistent          
     The son of dr Hawkins being with the boy at that season said he            
saw noe such thing                                                              
     Then the Gent of the late E of Essex declared the manner of his            
Lordships Calling for A penknife which not Comeing he desired A Rasor           
     The Warders &c declared how they found his Lordship with his               
throate Cut                                                                     
     That there was noe window to fling out such A Rasor that Could be          
seen                                                                            
     In fine the Ld Ch: Justice Agravated the offense as malicious Agt          
the goverment directing the jury very fully in the point Agt them               
whereof Sr Hugh Middleton was foreman who withdrew & brought in A               
private verdict Its beleived for the King                                       
     The Ld Lumley is ordered to Remove his Lodgings out of Whitehall &         
is prepareing soe to doe  the Reason is not fully said                          
     Its said that assoon as A dispatch Can be sent orders will goe to          
the Ld dartmouth to Continue at or Abt Cadiz till A supply of provision         
Can be sent 9 [5?] ships being ordered for that purpose & that none of          
the souldiers are to Come away but put aboard other ships that are              
prepareing to joyne, Sr Thomas Midleton of Wales is dead                        
   his Matye hath ordered the ffoot souldiers to be paid all their              
Arriers                                                                         
     L. c. 1494  [Handwriting changes here.]   White hall Feb 7th 83/4          
     They give us from Chatam an acct of the condition of the shipps            
stores in this hard season many of them they say having for some weeks          
been so frozen up that they wind neither up nor downe by fludd or ebb &         
where the river is not quite frozen up but that the broken ice is driven        
by the tide in such great flakes itt some times putts the ships either          
on drift cutts their cables or makes them dragg their anchors after ym          
     On the first Judgment was to have been passed upon Mr Johnson the          
author of Julian the apostate butt his councill alledging error putt            
a delay to itt  Darby for printing the Ld Russells speech submitted and         
so got of with a fine of 20 markes                                              
     On the 2d there was the boldest attempt that yet has been made upon        
the Theame[s] an ox rosted there and having told you that I need not            
trouble you with their bull baitings and lesser froliques                       
     His Maties messenger having not been able to gaine speech wth the          
duke of munmouth besides the legall notis left att More Parke has don ye        
same att ye cock pitt and att Mrs Roos [?] house where he useth to              
resort                                                                          
     To this I may add the sentence given att the qutr sessions at              
Northampton upon the prsentment of the grand Jurey of the post script           
of a booke entitled an Argumt for the Bus [?] right in Judging capitall         
cases in Parlmt by Tho: Hunt Esqr  itt was prsented as treasonable and          
and condemned to be burnt by the hands of the hangman                           
     His Matie still to preserve the poorer people whilst the Charaty           
of the Inhabitants by so long a continuance may be exhausted has been           
pleased to send to the neighbouring bishops to order the Clergy to              
stir up the people in the severall parishes to a liberall contribucon           
for relief of the numerous poore within the lines of Comunicacon                
     The Ld Major of London by order from his Matie has sent his                
prescript to the severall parishes to raise a six mounth rate to                
supply the necessities of the poore which is now collecting though god          
be praised there has since begun a Kinde and gentle thaw which still            
continues and may add much to their relief                                      
     On the 4th the Earle of Danby was according to rule of Court               
brought from the tower to the Kings bench barr where Mr Wallop Mr Holt          
and Mr Pollexfen argued the hardness of the case and gave their reasons         
why he should be admitted to baile his Lordship himselfe also offering          
severall things on his owne behalf desiring the Judgmt of the Court  sr         
Thos walliot speaking first as being youngest Judg of the Court said            
that till now he was wholly stranger to the Case which being of very            
great importance required time till next tearme to consider and weigh           
itt before he gave his opinion of itt  Mr Justice Galloway for the              
same reason desired time  Mr Justice Withings declared that he was              
ready to give his opinion butt his breatheren having not given theirs           
differd itt  The Ld Cheif Justice declared freely that to what he had           
hitherto heard he was of the opinion he ought to be bailed reserving his        
diffinitive sentence  the Earle of Danby pressing farther that there            
might be no delay of justice the result was that his Councill should            
moove for another habeas Corpus that he might be brought againe if              
possible before the end of ye tearme                                            
     On the 5th [?] Coll Stoakes had his tryall upon an information             
exhibited agst him for misdemeanor seasing the goods of Persons accused         
for Cliping before examination  the Case held long so wee are to expect         
the verdict to morrow                                                           
     On the 6 the Jurey gave in their verdict att the Kings bench barr          
upon the information against Coll Stoakes  The Case made a great noise          
in the hall the last tearme and this butt after a full hearing he was           
found not guilty                                                                
     This week has brought in eleven Irish mailes but I doe not finde           
what we expected  Some gave abroad an acct of the fleet under the Ld            
Dartmouth upon those Costes                                                     
     On the 6 Mr Hampden was brought upon his tryall att the Kings              
bench bar for high Misdemeanor after his Charge was worded [?] and              
the Case held open  The witnesses were caled and amongst the Rest the           
Duke of Munmouth butt he apeared not  the Messenger was caled who               
deposed that he was at More Parke and left notice with his steward and          
att the Cockpitt and att Mrs Roos and that he was told that the Duke            
should be acquainted with itt so that all was done on his Maties last           
[?] to have the matter fairely and truly laid open  This non apearance          
of the Duke in a case where in he might more certainly have given the           
greatest satisfaction has given occation for severall discourses though         
those who could moste excuse itt cannot butt confess that could the Duke        
have cleared him there had been no scruple of honour or Conscience that         
could have detained him from Justifieing the Innocent butt how soever           
there was evedence enough to make that fully out which was now laid to          
his charge guilty of high misdemeanor  Whilst the Jury went out Mr              
Hampden who could Judg the verdict by the proofs withdrew                       
     The same day the Earle of Danby mooved for an habeas Corpus  The           
Court granted that he might appear the last day of ye tearme to receive         
yr diffinitive resolution                                                       
     On the 7th Mr Bradon & Mr Speake were tried for high misdemeanor           
endeavouring to make itt believed that the Earle of Essex was murthered         
in the tower and were both found guilty                                         
      L. c. 1495  [Handwriting changes here.]  London 9th ffebruary 1683        
+Yesterday A motion was made in the Kings Bench Court for A Habeas              
Corpus for the Ld Bellasis & also for the Ld Arrundell & Ld Powis but           
the Ld Cheife Justice not being in Court the other Judges said the Terme        
was now almost Spent & much buisness to doe & therefore if they had it          
granted it must be Returneable next Terme                                       
     The Jury gave their verdict in open Court & found mr Bradon Guilty         
of the Information & mr Speake also Guilty but not of subborning false          
witnesse                                                                        
     This day A Habeas Corpus was granted for the Ld Bellasis & also for        
the Ld Arrundell & Ld Powis & they are to Come up on Munday                     
+On Thursday night wee had 4 Holland posts who Advise that the Citty of         
Amsterdam persist in their Resolutions not to Consent to the Raiseing of        
the new Leavies but the states Genll have Resolved to Raise 4500 horse 1500     
dragoons & 10000 foot & if the affaires of fflanders Require it to Add          
to each troope 22 men & to Each Company of ffoot 16 men but the                 
deputies of Amsterdam protested Agt it as Contrary to their priveledges         
but the states alledg A president vizt when the states Genll tooke              
Resolution to succour Coppenhagen when beseiged by the King of Sweden           
     The ffrench by the faivor of the Ice have burnt severall places            
about Ostend & Newport & made Considderable booties but in their Returne        
they were defeated by A party of Spaniards & their booty taken from them        
     They have sumoned the Citty of Mons 4 severall times & Its beleived        
they will Actually beseige it but the governor hath sent them word that         
upon their throwing the first Bombe into the Towne he will hang up all          
the ffrench he hath in his Custody                                              
     The Spaniards being in Motion in Cattalonia The ffrench King hath          
ordered his Intendants there to prepare Magazeens for 30000 men & in            
the meane time the Marshall Bellefonds is to march thither with 10000           
men                                                                             
     There is A new League Concluded between ffrance Brandenburgh &             
Cologne                                                                         
+The Cossacks have made an Irruption into Vallachia & Cut in peeces             
above 100000 people of all Ages & sexes & Totally defeated an Army of           
30000 Turks & Tartars Among which were 3 of their principall Generalls          
one of which was Generall of the horse who offered 100000 Crownes for           
his Ransome but the Cossacks not Agreeing how to divide it Cut him in           
peeces  they have taken Tokin & other Considderable places                      
     Tis said the Turks will Reinforce their Army in Hungary with               
13000 ffresh men                                                                
+On the 27th decembr the Queen of Portugall died Aged 38                        
+On the 13th January the duke of Venice died Aged 83 yeares & in the 8th        
year of his promotion                                                           
     L. c. 1496     London 12th ffebr 1683                                      
+Yesterday at the Kings Bench barr mr Johnson Author of Julyan the              
Apostate had his Case smartly Argued for Arrest of Judgment which being         
overruled he was ffined 500 Marks & to give security for 12 months good         
behaivor                                                                        
     The Attorney Genll Acquainted the Court that severall dissenters           
vizt mr Keys mr Godfrey mr Bird &c Agt whome the Information was                
prsented had submitted themselves & promised to desist soe were                 
discharged upon Giveing A bond of 100 L Each not to offend in the like          
     This day being the last of the Terme the E of danby with the 3             
Popish Lds in the Tower & also the E: of Tyrone in the Gatehouse were           
brought into the Kings bench where the Judges delivered their opinions          
in A Concurrant Resolution to grant them bayle forasmuch as the Act             
for Treason was discretionary & the Parliamt not being to Releive them          
the power was Reverted unto them & therefore for the liberty of the             
subject & preserveing of their Lives they would now make use of that            
discretion to Admitt them to bayle to Appear in Parliamt the first day          
of the next sessions  Their Lordships were bound in 10000 L Recognizance        
& their sureties each 5000 L                                                    
     mr Hambden Appeared & mr Justice Withens after A Speech of the             
Nature of his Crime & his Matyes goodness pronounced his sentence to            
pay 40000 L to the King & surety for his good behaivor dureing life &           
was Comitted till it be performed                                               
     The Ld Brandon Gerrard mr Booth mr Trenchard mr Churlton &c were           
finally discharged  Coll Mildmay was Continued on his good behaivor             
     mr Braydon & mr Speake were Referred to be sentenced next Terme            
     The King has Appointed his journey to Newmarket on the first of            
March & will spend some part of the summer at Winchester                        
     A quo Warranto is taken out Agt the Charter of the Citty of Yorke          
     The Ld dartmouths fleet was by the last Advice in Tangier Road  the        
powder in severall of their Mines dampt which put them to A great               
trouble in perfecting that worke                                                
     Last Sunday the ship Persia Merchant Arrived in the downes from            
Suratt in India & left the President & suratt Merchant somewhat behind          
shee brings Account that the dutch were in sole possession of Bantam &          
that the old & yong King were both in their Custody & they were Carrying        
them as prisoners to Battavia, also that the President Merchant was             
Attacqued by Savage the Arch Rebell to the greate Mogull with 6 juncks          
[?] & divers other vessells full of Arabians who boarded her there & set        
the ship on fire in divers places yet were soe Couragiously withstood           
as to leave them sunke  2 of their ships blew up one & shattered the            
Rest killing them above 600 men & forced them to depart with the loss           
of scarce 20 English                                                            
     Yesterday arrived 3 fflanders Mayles who Advise that the Spanish           
Ambr at the Hague by memoriall demanded of the states to declare open           
warr Agt ffrance by vertue of A League obliged thereto after 3 months           
Hostillity now Expired since the takeing of Courtray which greate               
affaire has been 4 dayes under Considderation, The Congress is                  
Assembled & Greate debates therein & the only Result at prsent is to            
desire ffrance to Agree to A Cessation of Armes for 3 months                    
+Many Spanish souldiers are frozen to death & divers ships destroyed in         
the Ice                                                                         
     L. c. 1497     London 14th ffebr 1683                                      
+Yesterday the E: of danby waited upon his Matye & R: Highs & was well          
Recd & Complemented by most of the Nobility  he Acquainted his Matye            
with his Intention of Retireing himselfe sometime into the Country for          
his health which was well approved                                              
     This day at Guildhall was the Tryall of sr Samll Barnardiston upon         
An Information for malitiously writeing & disperseing divers letters of         
false newes Just after the surrender of the D: of M: directed to one            
Major Shippon [?]                                                               
     That there was now An End of the Sham Plott  That the matters              
Contained in the Gazett Relateing to the d: of Monmoths Confession were         
false  That they at Court were Crest fallen  That sr Geo: would not last        
long, proved that the Ld Russell had hard measure  That A Party had             
Prevented to get Sidney Executed with other matters of like Tendancy            
     Three of which letters it was proved he Confest & one of his               
servants it was his hand                                                        
     In fine the Ld Ch: Justice gave A very sharpe Charge to the jury           
That noe words Posible Could be more Malicious  That though it was              
not Treason yet it Bordered thereon  That it was only for them to find          
Guilty or not Guilty but they would take Care for proportionable                
Punishment as being A leadeing man & the jury whereof mr Vernon Merchant        
was foreman after A short time brought him in Guilty & he will be               
sentenced next Terme                                                            
     Langley Curtis was tryed for Printing & Publishing A paper Entituled       
the night walker of Bloomesberry or the Ld Russells Ghost & was found           
Guilty                                                                          
     One Wynn & fforth saying sometime since That Sidneys jury were             
Loggerheads & did not give A Right verdict are Continued upon                   
Recognizance An Information being preferred Agt them                            
     mr Bridges Gent of the Bedchamber who marryed the Countesse of             
Shrewsbury is Suspended his place for speakeing words Tending to the            
not allowing Sidney A faire tryall                                              
     His Matye hath declared that all ffines Recd upon Account of the           
late Conspiracy or for publishing seditious pamphletts shall goe towards        
the Building of Chelsey Colledg                                                 
     Yesterday the Towne of Bedford surrendred their Charter                    
     his Matye Intends the first of March for Newmarket & the 3d of             
Aprill for Winchester & the 23d for Windsor where the severall new              
knights of the garter will be Installed                                         
     Wee have Account that the Ld Dartmouths fleet still Continue in or         
about Tangier bay but have been much dampnified through stresse of              
Weather & some of them forced to goe farther Into the straites  severall        
ships with provisions are ordered to them Togather with money to supply         
their occasions                                                                 
     This day Arrived A ffrench post with Advice That the ffrench K to          
shew his Inclinations to peace will Agree to A Cessation for 8 months &         
will be Contented to deliver up all he hath posest himselfe of since the        
treaty of Nimeguen Except Strasburgh leaveing the same to be decided by         
the K of England & the states of Holland &c which how it will be Recd A         
few posts will shew                                                             
     L. c. 1498     London 16th ffebr 1683                                      
+Letters yesterday from Holston in Cornwall brought the lamentable newes        
that the ship President Capt Hyde Comander of 500 Tuns 36 guns & 80 men         
with pepper & Callico from India was on Satureday by stress of Weather          
Cast away neer that place all her men saved Except 2 seamen  The loss           
above 80000 L  The more Misfortune since shee soe valliantly Cleared            
herselfe in India from Rebell Savage  The Auctions of the Company are           
hereupon abated from 215 L to 205 L p Cent                                      
     Our letters from Penzance in Cornwall say that one Copping from            
the Canaries with 80 pipes of Canary was lost but the men saved                 
+The William & Rebeckah Capt: ffoster Comander of 140 Tuns An East              
India Interloper is put Into ffalmouth  shee was Exspected 9 months             
since which made Ensurance high upon her                                        
     Sr Nath: Johnson is made Governor of the Leeward Islands in Roome          
of Sr Wm Stapleton & will depart in few Months                                  
     The dutchesse of Portesmouth is made the dutchesse of Aubine in            
ffrance & her son the D: of Richmond is to succeed the duke of that             
Title                                                                           
     mr Braydon Convicted upon Account of the E of Essex & Comitted to          
the Kings Bench is Againe bayled                                                
     Last Thursday the E: of Maxfeild Arrested Sr Richd Grovener of             
Cheshire in An Action of scandalum Magnatum being fforeman of the               
Jury who prsented his Lordshipp as A dangerous person to the Goverment          
& will doe the same to the Rest of the Jury  sr Richard is at liberty           
on 2000 L bayle but his Lordship Intends to declare for 50000 L                 
     The Ld Lumley who was lately ordered to Retire out of Whitehall            
is since displaced from being master of the horse to the queen & the            
Ld ffarriers is in his Roome                                                    
     Our letters yesterday from Lintz say that they had an Account by           
an Expresse from Poland that the Prime Vizier with 2 other Bashawes were        
strangled at Belgrade on the 24th of decembr & their heads sent to              
Constantinople to Appease the Tumultuous people  Count Teckley has been         
underhand treated by the Emperor to desert the Turks but he Remaines            
firme to them                                                                   
     The dutch post last night brought A memoriall prsented by the              
ffrench Ambr to the states offering A Truce for 20 yeares if Spain will         
yeild to any of the Equivalents proposed & the like for the Empire  This        
Evening Arrived Another dutch post with Account That the M: de Grana            
haveing Intercepted the ffrench Ambrs letters for Paris Transmitted             
them to the P of Orange who Communicated them to the states Genll which         
being purused The deputies of Amsterdam were secured & Charged with             
Treason Agt the state  Their principalls have published A Remonstrance          
Agt their proceedings keep their gates shutt & are in Armes                     
     L. c. 1499     London 19th ffebr 1683                                      
+Yesterday his Matye dined with the d of Richmond at the late house of          
the d: of Monmoth in Hedge Lane it being now Appropriated to the Master         
of the horse                                                                    
     A pattent is now passing the seals to Create Thomas E of danby             
Marquess of Carmarthen                                                          
     his Matye Intends to Raise 4 Troops of horse more & 2 of dragoons          
which are to be sent into Ireland The latter Comanded by Capt: Hamilton         
     An Information is brought Agt Alderman Wright of Oxford for seditious      
papers Agt the goverment found in his Closett under his owne hand               
     Last Satureday died mr Bampfeild A dissenting minister in Newgate          
in A premunire for not taking the oaths                                         
     Yesterday 30 persons who had been slaves in Algeirs & got away by          
swimming when the ffrench fleet blockt up that place petitioned at              
Whitehall for some subsistance & orders were made in their favor                
     Letters from the West give Account That the Adventure from Barbados        
mett in the soundings the Hambrough ffrigot of London from Jamaica A            
perfect wreck & sending his boate aboard tooke off the Captain & 12 of          
his men  But before they could reach her a 2d time shee sunke & they            
Could not posibly save the Rest                                                 
     The suratt Merchant from India which Accompanied the Persia                
Merchant to the Lands End not being yet heard of makes 25 p Cent given          
for Ensurance on her & some fear her to be lost                                 
     By the 2 men saved out of the late E: India ship the president             
that was Cast away Its Advised that Rebell Savage with A powerfull              
force has blockt up Suratt & should he take it he would damnify or              
destroy o[u]r English ffactory there                                            
     The Turkey Companies ship the shandois is now Arrived from                 
scanderoon  in her passage shee lost the Captain Master & Boatswaine            
& the mate takeing the Charge of her Conduct Ran her ashoar at Ciprus           
But being got off the saylors Refused to obey him any longer makeing            
one mr Balaam A Merchant the Captain which being Resented by the mate           
Conspired his death  But being discovered & meeting with An English             
ffriggott mr Balaam sent the Mate & his Accomplices in Chaines Aboard           
her who Returneing them An Experienced Mariner brought her in safety            
     The said ship on the 26th Janry Came by Tangier & brought A                
pacquett from the Ld Dartmouth & sayes the Castle was then standing             
the demolishing of it being not then perfected & his Lordship Resolved          
not to depart of  A month after That his fleet had very bad weather &           
it was Reported that 2 of his victuallers were Cast away                        
     Letters from Rome of the 27th January say that Venetian Ambr               
acquainted the pope with the Resolution of that state to Engage in A            
warr Agt the Turks & it was Resolved to signe the League with Venice            
under the Title of the holy Church in perpetuum & not in the name of            
the Pope  The Apostolic Chamber is to furnish Venice with 50000 Crownes         
A month & 6 gallies dureing the warr                                            
+his Matye since the judgment Agt the Citty upon the quo Warranto               
haveing granted the Collection of the Toll in the Marketts to mr                
Craddock the late mercer The Court of Aldermen Considdering that it             
will be A detriment to the Orphans have been in Consult to Endeavor to          
supersede the same                                                              
     L. c. 1500     London 21st ffebr 1683                                      
+The E of danby still Remaines in Towne & Its Confidently said That             
his Lordship will joyne with those persons of Honor & others who                
proffer to ffarme his Revenue of England & Ireland giveing 2 Millions           
p Ann & to Advance 500000 L besides other Considderable summs at 6 L p          
Cent when urgent affaires Require it                                            
     The judges are Prepareing for their severall Circuitts haveing been        
at Whitehall & Recd their Charge which Its said was more perticularly           
to take Cognizance of dissenters & Conventicles                                 
     mr Bampfeild the dissenting Minister who lately died in Newgate            
being Carryed to his place of Interment It was observed that above 150          
people of that perswasion Accompanied his Corps thither which Its said          
is soe far taken notice of That Considdering the sending of Ticketts &          
proceeding Contrary to the Church of England severall of them will be           
Indicted for A Ryott                                                            
     The E: India ship Suratt Merchant being not as yet heard of last           
night 45 L p C was given on her & Its feared shee is lost                       
     4 ships are now falling the River with provisions for the Ld               
Dartmouths fleet & some new orders are sent his Lordship  The Castle of         
Tangier is undermined in 100 places & Its designed on this day to give          
fire to the severall traynes at once The whole garrison being on shipboard      
& forthwith to defeat the same  The Moores in A greate body lye before          
it to Watch their Motion assoon as posible to take posession thereof            
     Yesterday divers Clippers & Coyners were seized & Comitted to              
Newgate  Yesterday Came A dutch Post & brought us nothing further of the        
diference in Holand by Reason the states are Adjourned only gives               
Account how the same stands & is Resented [sic] vizt That the P of              
Orange haveing Recd the ffrench Ambrs Intercepted letter brought it to          
the states Genll & the pensionary ffagell ordered the doores of the             
Councill Chamber to be shutt & at the desire of the Prince the                  
deputies of Amsterdam were desired to withdraw & the letter being Read          
gave A Circumstantiall Relation of the Correspondance with the ffrench          
     his Highs declared those 2 deputies had betrayed their state & the         
deputies were Called in & would have quite purged themselves on the             
spott But were ordered to Withdraw A 2d time which they Refused saying          
that the same was Contrary to their Constitution soe the Assembly               
ordered the letters of Van Benningham to be seized & the Coppies of             
their proceed to be sent to the provinces & broke up in disorder                
& the deputies of Amsterdam Acquainted their principalls who have               
published A Remonstrance Chargeing them to Act illegally & Arbitrarily          
being Taxed with Treasonable Correspondance only by the ffrench Ambrs           
letter which they did not know but it was A Trick on purpose to                 
discompose affaires & Charge them with Injustice for seizing the                
Burgomasters letter upon which greate & small are not Exempted from             
keeping Guard & the Ishue is Exspected                                          
+one mr Burrell Comptroller of the Inner Temple dureing the Revelling           
died yesterday of the small pox which is very Epidemicall in these parts        
     L. c. 1501     London 23d ffebr 1683                                       
+This day the Ld Mayor & Court of Aldermen Attended his Matye in                
Councill with A Petition humbly to pray his Matye to Recall his grant           
to one mr Craddock Relateing to the Marketts as being A greate                  
diminution to the Citty Incombe whereby to supply Necesitous Orphans &          
had A favourable answer                                                         
     The Ld Bishop of London & other Charitable Persons have Raised A           
stock to Employ the ffrench Protestants at Ipswich both ordinary &              
Extraordinary & Linnen Cloth hath been by them soe Manufactured which           
Could never before in England be effected  That its now Exposed to sale         
at mr Papillions in ffenchurch street                                           
     This morning the Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries set forward on his                
Circuitt & was attended by above 100 gent voluntiers on horseback               
     Major Parry A justice of Middlesex has unfortunately kild A                
Bayliffe & is in Custody                                                        
     This morning Arrived A dutch Post with Account That on the 19th            
the ffrench Ambr prsented the states A memoriall demanding his                  
Intercepted letter & had for Answer they had it not, on the 22d he gave         
A 2d Memoriall for the same & that it was in the hands of severall              
Principle members of state, In the Interim the states ordered it to             
be Printed which is full of Intregue  Then the ffrench Ambr prsented            
A 3d Memoriall Complaining that they had not deciphered his letter in           
the Genuine sense                                                               
     On Thursday the states Genll Re-Assembled but there were none of           
the deputies of Amsterdam but 2 secretaries from the Citty who demanded         
all the papers they had seized of their Burgher master Benninghens as           
also A ffree Pasport for their deputies  otherwise they would send none,        
Mounsr Patos one of the Councellors of Rotterdam is also Charged with           
the ffrench Correspondance but by letter declares That he hath neither          
seen nor had any Communication with the ffrench Ambr these 4 yeares.            
     Yesterday wee Recd letters from Smirna of the 31st decembr which           
Confirme the Prime viziers death  The Emperor first sent A message for          
him to Come to Court but the vizier Cut of his hand which soe Incensed          
the Emperor that he sent the Aga of the Janizaries to strangle him who          
being Arrived at Belgrade the viziers domesticks made soe greate                
Resistance that 4000 were slaine & among them the vizier whose skin             
was stuft with Cotton & sent to the Emperor, also that there was found          
in the viziers Treasury 120000 purses of money Each purse 500 dollars           
or 100 L sterling & that the Kagraman of Adrinople is made Prime vizier         
in his place, Also that the Turks are makeing greate preparations Agt           
spring but are forced to give A 100 dollars & A horse for A spalis [?]          
who before gave 300 dollars for their Places & to give 50 dollars to            
any that will Enter themselves A janizary who before gave 100 dollars           
for A place                                                                     
     Our letters from Lintz say the K of Poland Advised the Emperor that        
the late Report of the defeate of 6000 Cossacks was false & on the other        
hand they had obtained A signall victory haveing fought A greate body of        
Turks & Tartars for 3 dayes togather & at Lengh gave them A greate              
defeate killing 15000 on the spott & tooke the New Prince of Moldavia A         
man of greate Esteeme amonge the Turks                                          
     L. c. 1502     London 26th ffebr 1683                                      
+Yesterday began A sessions at Guildhall where severall disenters were          
Convicted as Ryotters                                                           
     This day at Hicks hall A Bill was prsented Agt Major Parry A               
justice of Middlesex for killing A Bayliffe & the jury Returned it              
Ignoramus                                                                       
     Many writts out of the Exchequer are sent to Bristoll to proceed           
Agt dissenters on the statute of 20 L p month                                   
   On Satureday his Matye designes for Newmarket                                
     His Matye haveing delivered the Noble George to the Prince of              
denmarke The said prince hath given his Elephant to the Ld Churchill            
     Yesterday drums beate for voluntiers for the service of the P: of          
Orange under the Comand of Capt Cullombine                                      
+Our Holland letters give Account That the diference between the states         
Genll & those of Amsterdam are Rather Widened The other Cittyes difering        
in their sentiments  The deputies of Rotterdam Charge those of Amsterdam        
with perjury in Discloseing their private debates by sending their              
Circular letter to the other Cittyes & that the papers sealed up ought          
to be Examined without delay  But some others are for the delivery of           
them to the Respective persons Concerned & they write from Paris That           
this was done by their Ambrs on purpose to discompose affaires that the         
states should be Necesitated to Agree to the ffrench proposalls                 
    Letters from England at the Hague say that Mounsr Zitters their Ambr        
haveing audience of the King Required his Matye to Concert the meanes           
to Adjust the diference between ffrance & Spaine & to procure A                 
Cessation for 3 months & had for Answer That unless Spaine would agree          
to one of the Equivalents proposed by ffrance it would be an                    
unproffitable worke wishing the states to Advise Spaine thereto & then          
his Matye would Engage A Cessation without delay  The Coppie of which           
letter is delivered to the deputies of fforreign affaires to Examine &          
Report                                                                          
     Yesterday the dutch Ambr was at Whitehall & delivered an Expresse          
he had Recd from his Masters of very greate Import  some pretend to             
know that it has Reference to their Inclination to agree with the               
ffrench K upon some points proposed                                             
+They write from Ireland that A ffoot Company under Capt Bellamy haveing        
orders to Remove from Kingsale to Galloway mett with A storme & were            
Cast away but the Captain & some of his men got Ashoar                          
     They write from Windsor that mr Powney Captain of A ffoot Company          
in that Castle being in Company with severall officers A quarrell arose         
between Captain Potts & his Ensigne & they withdrew to fight but Capt           
Powney Comanded them to desist as their Captain upon which the Ensigne          
drew & Cowardly Ran him through & wounded Capt Potts Endeavouring to            
make his Escape but was seized, Capt Powney was Carried away alive but          
dyed on Sunday                                                                  
     L. c. 1503     London 28th ffebr 1683                                      
+There being this sessions 3 Maide servants & 2 Apprentices Convicted           
for being at A Conventicle The Court ffined them & Comitted them to             
Bridewell where they are kept at hard labour in Beateing of Hempe               
     The E of danbyes pattent to Create him Marquess of Carmarthen is           
now past the seales & though it Comences 5 yeares since yet the M: of           
Hallifax is to have the precedency                                              
     mr Craddock the late mercer Notwithstanding the Cittyes opposition         
has his pattent sealed to Collect the duty ariseing upon the Citty              
Marketts & is to have 600 L p Ann & to account for the overplus into the        
Exchequer                                                                       
     Also the E of Clarendon has A grant for the Conservatorship of the         
River Thames before Invested in the Ld Mayor                                    
     Letters yesterday from the Isle of Wight say That the ship Dragon          
from Jamaica Capt Bills Comander was on the 22d Cast away  The seamen           
all saved but the passengers drowned                                            
     Another vessell Arrived from Jamaica sayes that A Guyney ship with         
Negroes was Cast away on that Coast: Also that one Capt Morgan in               
Coniunction with the Buckaneers was sayled for Panama & Porto Bello to          
plunder the Spaniards                                                           
     A Generall thanksgiveing was in Jamaica for the preservation of his        
Matye from the late Horrid Conspiracy & yesterday an Addresse was               
prsented to the King from that Goverment on the same Account                    
     A scotch pedlar was this weeke seized for fferguson & Carried to           
Whitehall but discharged  But the seizer for his Ready Loyalty to have          
him Apprehended though it proved A mistake had A Reward of 10 L                 
     50 prisoners are now discharged out of the Kings Bench by the              
Charitable Collections of the severall Inns of Court The Ld Ch: Justice         
sending 100 L for that worke                                                    
     The dutch Ambr delivered the King An Answer to A memoriall prsented        
the states by mr Chudleigh & ffixed thereto A project for the future            
setling of affaires                                                             
     That the Barrier might begin at Newport & End at the Maas  That            
all on the one side of the River should belong to the ffrench & on the          
other side to the Spaniards  That his Matye would dispose ffrance to            
Agree thereto & they would Endeavour to Incline Spaine to it                    
     Our Holland letters yesterday say That the Spanish Ambr delivered          
the states A 2d Memoriall to demand of them by vertue of A League to            
declare open warr both by land & sea Agt Spaine who have Referred it to         
the Comittee of fforreign affaires                                              
     That the P: of Orange has propounded That since the purse of               
Amsterdam will be shutt as to the new Leavyes he will supply the defect         
out of his owne pocketts upon which divers Collonells who attend for            
Regemts are sent for to the Hague & the states will send A deputation           
of their body to Amsterdam to Compose the misunderstanding                      
     That the Congress of the Ambrs from the severall Allies have had           
divers projects of peace or A truce with ffrance for 20 yeares under            
Considderation & it was moved that they all Come for London to Endeavor         
there to perfect that Worke                                                     
     L. c. 1504     London 1st March 1683                                       
+This morning his Matye went for Newmarket  his R: Highs goes on                
Munday  The queen & her R: Highs keep in Towne  The Returne of the              
Court will be abt passion Weeke                                                 
     A suite being Comenced in this Citty by some Necesitous Orphans &          
for Non=Appearance A distring [?] as upon their lands awarded The               
sheriffs have made A Returne thereto A Citty not in being or to that            
effect                                                                          
     On Tuesday began A sale at the East India house & on the 11th is           
another but the want of the Suratt Merchant makes their Actions now not         
200 L p Cent.  A Considderable quantity of the Presidents goods lost at         
Lands End are preserved                                                         
+They write from Tangier That the Ld Dartmouth had Appointed A Rendevous        
of his fleet in Cadiz Bay on the 3d March That the Moores had sent to           
his Lordship to spare the Castle of Tangier offering Considderably for          
it which is Refused  But Its feared that if they Could see An Advantage         
they would Rush in upon them                                                    
     They write from the Assizes at Reading That Ensigne fflower who            
killed Capt Powney at Windsor was tryed & Condemned & desired till the          
8th Instant to prepare himselfe for death which is granted                      
     On Tuesday one Sr Wm queriston A Lieutenant of A ffoot Company             
being on the Roade & Conceiveing An affront from A Grenadier ffired A           
Pistoll at him & before he Could make use of his 2d the Grenadier shott         
him through his head & he Imediately died                                       
     Letters yesterday from the Hague say that mr Chudleigh the English         
Agent omitts nothing to oblige Spaine & the Empire to Embrace the               
ffrench proposalls as the only meanes to prevent A warr Rather then A           
Negotiation of peace which will Consume too much time & the states are          
much of this sentiment                                                          
     But ffrance declares that if the Emperor & Spaine will Relinquish          
Strasburgh he will then Grant A Cessation & Enter upon soe Reasonable A         
Treaty of peace that the K of England & states of Holland shall be              
Arbitrators therein  To which the Emperors Envoy declares That his              
Master will never yeild that ffrance should Enjoy Strasburgh ffor he            
Aspireing to be K of the Romans he may Easily maintaine 50000 men at            
Strasburgh which would over Awe the Neibouring Princes                          
     But the Congress of Ambrs at the Hague have Agreed to propose A            
Generall truce with ffrance for 8 yeares & he for that time to keep             
Strasburgh but Redeliver whatever he hath seized since the treaty of            
Nimeguen & this is sent both into England & ffrance                             
     Tis said there will be 2 New Barons Created also that the M. of            
Carmarthen will be made Ld Treasurer of England                                 
     They write from Vienna that those states Resolve with assistance of        
other Princes to set out A powerfull Armada & brave the Turke before his        
Imperiall Citty of Constantinople & that the Turke is soe Enraged at            
them that he hath Caused A spear to be driven up their Ambrs fundament          
& out at his mouth                                                              
     L. c. 1505     London 4th March 1683                                       
+On Satureday the E: of Northumberland Returned from ffrance & is               
prepareing for Newmarket                                                        
     Last sunday Abt 40 dissenters of both sexes were seized at A               
Conventicle neer Moor feilds & divers Comitted to Newgate                       
     On Satureday ffrancis Smith Senior who was outlawed for disperseing        
seditious books & absconded was seized in the house of Rouse the late           
traytor                                                                         
     This day was A sale for pepper at the E: India house which was put         
up for 7 d & sold for 10 3/4 p pound                                            
     The Credittors of Sr Robt Viner not Agreeing to his proposalls have        
taken out a statute of Bankrupt Agt him & tis said he is Retired into           
Whitehall                                                                       
     Its Generally discourst that quo Warrantoes are bringing Agt 4 of          
o[u]r Citty Companies                                                           
     They write from the Assizes at Winchester that sr Wm Kingswell             
High sheriffe of Hampshire who killed Esqr Haslewood his Cosen had A            
bill of Murther found Agt him by the Grand jury but his tryall is               
Referred till next assizes                                                      
     mr ffaringdons Coachman who was Concerned in the death of Habius           
the Informer was Convicted for a High Way man but Repreived                     
pretending to make A discovery of that buisness                                 
     They write from Cadiz that the Ld dartmouth has fully demolished           
the Mold & Castle of Tangier & Rendred them forever unserviseable &             
stayes at Cadiz for severall shipps dispersed in the late storme & then         
Returnes for England                                                            
     An Express from Portugall sayes That the King is soe much                  
Afflicted for the loss of his Queen that he is desperately sick & should        
he decease her Matye of England would be Compettitor with the Infanta           
for the Crowne                                                                  
     They also write that A ffrench man of warr of 48 guns who Carryed          
off the ffrench Merchants & Effects from Cadiz just before the                  
publication of the warr by Spaine was Cast away on that Coast & only 3          
persons saved                                                                   
     The Ld Preston his Matyes Extrary Envoy in ffrance desires to be           
Recalled & Its Affirmed that mr Somes who was Envoy at Savoy will be in         
his Roome                                                                       
+Letters from Mosco of the 24th Jany say That the Eldest Czar was               
marryed to A lady of an Illustrious family allyed to divers greate              
persons in Poland which will much Contribute to the Advancement of the          
Treaty with Poland Agt the Turkes  The Czars have promised to enter             
Into the Association with the Emperor K of Poland &c Agt the Turks soe          
soon as Poland will settle the Limitts Relinquishing his pretensions to         
Livonia & Smolenske                                                             
     Its further Advised that the Emperor of Persia has already Agreed          
the League Agt the Turks & that his forces are Marched to beseige               
Babilon formerly taken from them by the Turks                                   
     L. c. 1506     London 6th March 1683                                       
+Yesterday his R: Highs & the duke of Northumberland went for Newmarket         
& found the Court in perfect health                                             
     A yatcht is dispatching to fflanders to bring over the dutchesse of        
Modena mother to her R: Highs who hath signified her Intention to Reside        
in this Kingdome & A house is Already taken for her in St James Square          
     The D of Ormond has been for some time seized with A feavor but            
being let blood &c is in A hopefull way of Recovery                             
     The Mother of Ensigne fflower who killed Capt Powney was with              
powerfull Arguments of A Considderable summe Entreateing her sons life          
but has Recd A positive denyall & has wrote to her son to prepare               
himselfe for death which will be next Satureday at Windsor                      
     ffrancis smith who was seized last Satureday has been Examined             
before the Councill & Charged with divers seditious books as the Raree          
show &c besides the speech of A Noble peer for which he stands                  
Convicted & has little to say in Extenuation of his Crime soe was               
Recomitted in order to Receive judgment next Terme                              
     This day the Court of Lieutenancy mett at Guildhall & had in               
Considderation the laying downe of the trayned bands but deferred it            
till his Matyes pleasure be further knowne                                      
     This afternoon mr Blany Clerke of the Habberdashers Company desired        
leave to surrender his place & the Company Chose one Capt Mold to               
succeed him                                                                     
     Our ffrench letters say That their Councills are upon the stretch          
how to proceed with their Armes in the prsent Conjuncture & Its                 
Affirmed they Intend to Carry soe greate A force Into the body of Spaine        
under the Conduct of Marshall Bellefonds &c as to put that Monarchy into        
A full Consternation Marching over the Pirenian Mountaines directly to          
Madrid  To which End they have drayned the Inland Garrisons & made              
Considderable detachments from all parts & hired all the Mules posible          
to Carry their provisions                                                       
     mr Pirckle An English Courrier is Arrived from fflanders & gives           
A miserable Account of the state of that Country  That the ffrench had          
lately burnt above 30 villages destroying the whole Campaigne  That             
money Comes very slowly from Spaine of which they were in very greate           
Want  That A Convoy was Exspected from Cadiz with A greate summe & that         
the ffrench had dispatched divers men of warr to Endeavor to Intercept          
it & Ostend had sent out severall ships to secure their passage                 
+Wee have noe dutch Post Come but one from fflanders which say that A           
Generall peace for 8 yeares will in all probality be Concluded                  
   Its Reported the Janizaries have mutinied & strangled the Grand              
Seignior & some say they will set up his son others say his brother             
[In another handwriting appear two canceled lists on the outside                
of letter:]                                                                     
           Into Sten [?] behind                                                 
           the barn                                                             
           19 [219?] bream                                                      
           5 carp                                                               
           1 tench [?]                                                          
                                     Dog meat                                   
                                     2 good jacks                               
                                     2 tench                                    
                                     6 bream                                    
                                     1 great roach [?]                          
                                     1 small carp                               
     L. c. 1507     London 8th March 1683                                       
+Yesterday A fire happened in Southwarke but was put out with the losse         
of the Cockpitt & An Adjacent Building                                          
     One of the Grandjury of Berkshire made A very Loyall motion to             
prsent the King with 100000 L  But the Rest of the jury desired him to          
make the first subscription promiseing to Equallize it which he not             
Consenting to performe that greate peece of service ceased                      
     Some Grenadiers quarrelling in their quarters neer Newmarket fought        
& 3 were killed on the spott & the Rest Escaped                                 
     severall ffrench factors haveing bought Abt 60 English horses              
Transported them from dover  But in their passage 2 Ostend privateers           
seized them & Carried them to fflanders                                         
     Last night & this morning Arrived 2 dutch posts with Account               
     That Amsterdam Remaines still very stubborne not Agreeing to the           
new Levyes of 16000 men & the states of ffreizland understanding that           
A deputation was Comeing to them by the states Genll broke up in                
disorder saying they would not Recede from their Resolution of not              
Agreeing to the said Levyes & Middlebrough is of the same mind  But the         
states Genll have Resolved to goe forward with them as A thing                  
Indispensibly necesary & Considdered of Raiseing the money to maintaine         
them & have given out most of the Comissions to Collonells who are              
departed to Raise them The P: of Orange promiseing to supply A greate           
part of the money                                                               
     The states have Cited the deputies of Amsterdam to Appear that the         
papers sealed up may be Examined in their presence  But the 2                   
secretaries from that Citty still demand A Restitution of those papers          
& A safe Conduct for their deputies or else they shall not Come                 
     The ministers of the severall Allies at the Congress have formed           
A project of A Generall truce for 8 yeares & Agreed to send it first            
to England & ffrance & then to the Emperor & Spaine The Contents                
being That ffrance keep Strasburgh with those other places on that              
side the Rhine & Restore to the Emperor Brisack & ffriburgh & all other         
places on the other side the Rhine & Render to Spaine dixmunde &                
Courtray                                                                        
     To which the ffrench have Answered that they will Consent to               
Redeliver ffriburgh & Brisach provided the Emperor & Empire will grant          
him Strasburgh & that the Generall Truce be Altered into A firme &              
perpetuall peace  Notwithstanding which Negotiations the forces from all        
quarters Increase in the Conquered places that if the Negotiation doe           
not take effect to Attempt some greate Enterprize before the beginning          
of Aprill there being ovens prepared at Phillipville to bake for 50000          
men A day                                                                       
     L. c. 1508     London 11th March 1683/4                                    
+Last Satureday Ensigne fflower who killed Captain Powney at Windsor            
was Executed at that Towne                                                      
     Last weeke the E of Thanett died at his house in St James square           
     Wee hear from the Assizes at Ailesbury That the 2 Clerks of Aaron          
Smith & Goodenough who under pretense of searching for Treasonable              
Papers in Sr Roger Hills house stole away money &c were Convicted to be         
hanged                                                                          
     Wee have now Certain Advice That the Ld Dartmouth left Tangier the         
20th of ffebr haveing quite demolished it & is Exspected here in few            
dayes                                                                           
     mr Randall who Carryed the quo Warranto over to New England is             
Returned & brought his Matye An Addresse from 2 of those Countries  But         
the pattentee of Boston Continues to withstand the same & ordered A             
Gentleman in London to defend the suite & have Remitted him money               
Accordingly                                                                     
     On Satureday the dutch Ambr haveing Recd An Extrary Expresse from          
his Masters went with greate Speed to Newmarket & the ffrench Ambr went         
thither at the same time                                                        
     This day Arrived A dutch & A Spanish post  By the former wee are           
Advised That Middlebrough now Consents to the New Levyes & Holland soe          
far Agree to it as that they shall only be Employed defensively                 
     The states Genll have ordered 8000 men more for fflanders & voted          
40 men of warr for this year                                                    
     By the other wee are Advised That the Cabinet Councill at Madrid           
had sent to the M: de Grana An Expresse of Extraordinary weight & also          
greate summs of money                                                           
     That the d: of Hannover has sent 10000 men who are on their March          
to the Assistance of the Low Countries & the d of Bavaria has sent              
them word That if there be not An Accomodation with ffrance he will with        
20000 & the like number of the Empire Come downe to the Rhine                   
     They write from Constantinople that the Comotions of the people            
begin to be Extreame  That their Levyes for the next Campaigne goe but          
slowly forward  That the Grand viziers head was publickly Carryed Round         
that Citty thrice to Appease the discontented  That the Grand Seignior          
did not thinke fit to trust himselfe Amonge those people  That the Turk         
are prepareing to put 60 ships of warr to sea But the Venetians Intend          
to block up the Dardenells & stop the passage to Constantinople & also          
prevent the Turks from Transporting souldiers from Egipt to Salvonia            
The Grand Seignior has strangled 2 Bashaws of the late viziers Creatures        
& has proclaimed at Belgrade that he will Comand in person the next             
Campaigne  The Morlacks 20000 strong Ravage 200 Leagues into the Turkish        
dominions                                                                       
     L. c. 1509     London 13th March 1683                                      
+His R: Highs Comes to towne to morrow on some buisness of moment but           
the Court Returne not till the 22d Instant                                      
     Last Munday the d of Beaufort treated her Matye with A splendid            
dinner & the Next day her R: Highs & the princesse                              
     The d of Grafton is made governor of the Isle of Wight & Capt              
Sackvile Lieften of Tilbury fort & Gravesend                                    
     This weeke mr Alfeild Rector of St Leonards Shoredish died which           
place is in the Gift of the deane of St Paulls                                  
     Wee heare from the Assizes at Cambridg That the Kings druggist in          
Bucklers Bury was tryed being Charged with attempting to Robb A Gent            
upon the High way on Michaelmas last But proveing that he was in Towne          
all that day Especially by the Token that he was Arrested the jury              
brought him in not Guilty                                                       
     Wee heare from Portesmouth that the viadore Generall at fflanders          
who Arrived at Cowes in the Isle of Wight in a dutch man of warr brings         
1250000 dollars from Cadiz for the service of the Spanish Netherlands           
     Our Holland letters say That 3 of the Regements of the 16000 new           
Levyes are Compleate That A person had delivered the prince A project           
to pay these 16000 men without Costing them A peny which is delivered           
to the Councill of state                                                        
     mr Chudleigh his Matyes Envoy at the Hague haveing Recd his Matyes         
Answer to the project of A Generall truce for 8 yeares delivered the            
states A Memoriall with the Contents thereof which is Rather to Agree A         
Generall peace on some Reasonable Conditions                                    
   That Spaine & the Empire Render to ffrance something of his demands          
& that ffrance mittigate his propositions & his Matye shall use what            
Endeavrs posible he Can to Induce him to it                                     
     Yesterday wee had from Lintz the Coppie of A letter wrote to Teckly        
from ffrance assureing him of soe greate A warr in fflanders &c  That           
the Emperor will not be able to bring any greate force Agt him & the            
Turks next Campaigne, Exhorts him to Continue firme to the Turks & that         
for his Encouragemt the Sieur Himall [?] had Considderable Returnes of          
money for him The Originall of which letter Teckly has sent to the Grand        
Seignior & disperst Coppies Amonge the Hungarian Lds one of which               
brought it to Presburgh                                                         
     This day by A ffrench post wee have Advice from Constantinople that        
the Grand Seignior understanding that the Morlacks had joyned with the          
Venetians Agt him Caused their deputies to be put to death which soe            
Enraged them that they have burnt the Turks standart Ruined all their           
Mosques & Renounced any obedience to him                                        
     The Georgians are also in armes to throw off the Turkish yoake &           
sent to Persia to dispose that sophy [?] to A warr Agt the Turks                
promiseing their utmost assistance  Also the Cossack subjects of Muscovy        
have made Inroads upon the Imeropen [?] Tartars under the Turke & killed        
many thousands of them.                                                         
     L. c. 1510     London 15th March 1683                                      
+Wee heare from the Assizes at Yorke That the quo Warranto brought Agt          
that Corporation was served upon them in open Court Baron Gregory               
Sitting judge of the Assize for the Crowne                                      
     Its now Confirmed that the quo Warrantoes will be brought Agt              
divers of o[u]r Citty Companies & Among them the vintners who by their          
Charter are Exempt from takeing Lycences to Retayle wines & soe are             
ffree from that Charge which should their Charter be vacated would              
bring A greate Revenue to the Crowne                                            
     An Extent [?] is now taken out Agt the Goods Chattells Lands &             
Tennants of the Ld Gray of Warke by vertue of an outlawry of Treason            
being accused of the late treasonable Conspiracy & absenting himselfe           
after 3 times proclamation  Tis said his Brother hath an order to ffarme        
the Estate being above 8000 L p An in Cumberland Sussex Essex & Wilts           
     One mr John Thomas A Coffee man in Aldersgate street was this weeke        
served with A writt Excommunicato Capiendo & is in prison                       
     Madam Godolphin lyes sick of the small pox in Whitehall & the              
Countesse dowager of Pembroke hath the same disease which Its feared            
will prove mortall                                                              
     The Turkey merchants have Advice That all the English ships in             
the port of Smirna are taken up to Transport souldiers & provisions             
from Egipt to supply the next Campaigne & An Embargo is layd on other           
fforreigners that are or shall Come into that Haven for the like use            
     This afternoone Arrived A dutch post which sayes That the                  
diference between the states Genll & Amsterdam Rather Widens but the            
Levyes goe briskly on to be Raised                                              
     That the Bayly of Baucon was Arrested at Amsterdam & Examined              
severall times by the Councill of that Citty being Charged with A               
designe to Assasinate the Burgermaster Benningham but Confessed                 
nothing as yet                                                                  
     The next day they tooke his Landlord in Custody & were from 9 at           
night till 3 in the morning Assembled                                           
     The P: of Orange is gone for Zealand the better by his presence            
to Establish that province to promote the Levy & then make A stepp to           
Sas van Gent to Conferr on the Confines with M: de Grana for the better         
preserveing the Remaining part of fflanders                                     
     The K of Englands Answer to Mounsier Zitters Memoriall is Arrived          
in Holland being to Induce the states to Agree to A Truce Rather then           
A Treaty of peace which would spend much time & A generall Truce is now         
the subject of debate & soe far in prospect to be Agreed as that ffrance        
has yeilded thereto &c  at prsent only the house of Austria dissents            
     The souldiers who are Raised here for the service of the states            
under the P: of Orange are Habitted &c and will sayle the first wind but        
are not very Numerous                                                           
     mr dutton who is ordered Governor of Barbados in Roome of sr Tho           
Linch is prepareing to depart, his Matye Returnes from Newmarket on             
Satureday haveing little pleasure there the snow being A ffoot deep             
     L. c. 1511     London 18th March 1683                                      
+Yesterday Madam Godolphin one of the Ladyes of Honor to the Queen died         
of the small pox                                                                
     The dutchesse of Portesmouth was Indisposed at Newmarket which it          
was feared would have turned to the small pox but is Recovered                  
     The Greate Race between his Matyes horse Named Dragon & with mr            
Riders horse Named Whynott was Run at Newmarket & wonne by Whynott A            
Considderable space & Its said 20000 L wonne & lost                             
     Major Oglethorpe who Executes the place of Master of the horse by          
Comission for the d of Richmond is said to be in disfaivor at Court but         
will be permitted to sell his places in which tis said mr Rider will            
succeed                                                                         
     On Satureday the Court Returnes hither & after some short stay             
his Matye goes to Winchester to see the building which is already in            
soe great forwardnesse that the first ffloor is layd                            
     His Matye haveing Caused judgment to be Entred Agt the Citty of            
London upon the Quo Warranto A writt of Habere posessionem was tis said         
Intended to be brought thereon but tis said his Matye will be graciously        
pleased to suspend the same & that the Marketts & all other proffitts &         
Revenues shall Continue to the sole use & Benefit of the Citty                  
+On Satureday the Assizes for Surrey Ended where one Edward Mathews of          
Epsom was found Guilty of High misdemeanor in saying that his Matye             
would dye be killed or poysoned in 6 Months & that if the d of Yorke            
should Come to the Crowne he would be one of the first to take up               
Armes Agt him                                                                   
     Its Affirmed that the P of Orange & the M: of Grana solicitt the           
d of Monmoth to take upon him the Comand of Generall of their horse in          
fflanders in Roome of Prince Vaudemont who will be preferred to the             
Goverment of Sardinia                                                           
     The Councill of the Citty of Amsterdam have published That since           
it Appeared by good Information that on the 16th seaven wicked men or           
more mett at night Abt the house of their Burgermaster Van Benninghen           
with A designe to take away his life & since some villaines of that             
Citty have published that it should be yet Accomplished  To devert              
therefore this bloody Enterprize they promise 100 ducatoons to any              
that should discover one or more of the persons & in Case he himselfe           
be A party his name shall be kept secrett & shall Receive the said              
Recompense Chargeing all the Innkeepers &c upon arbi[t]rary Correction          
& payment of 1000 Gilders to give every day the names & qualifications          
of all their Lodgers & that every body use their greatest Circumspection        
in Receiving persons that may be suspected thereof                              
     The Ld dartmouth was by o[u]r last Advice at Cadiz staying for             
provisions & therefore will not Arrive soe soon as Exspected                    
     L. c. 1512     London 20 March 1683/4                                      
+The dutchesse of Portesmouth is Againe fell sick & Its now feared will         
have the small pox                                                              
     Last night Madam Godolphin who dyed of the small pox was Buryed at         
the Queens Charge her Corps being Attended by 4 of the Queens Coaches,          
Madam Yarbrough daughter of Sr Thomas Yarbrough is put in her place             
     Madam Wall the late woman to the dutchesse of Portesmouth & now            
wife to Major Oglethorpe is soe much in disfaivor at Court as that shee         
will be displaced togather with her husband but as yet none is Nominated        
to succeed in her place of Laundress to the King                                
+Sr Cornwall Bradshaw is by his Matyes order added to the Comissioners          
of the Excise & hearth money                                                    
     The E: of danby hath taken A house in So Ho Square but his pattent         
of Marquess is stopt upon some affaire which occurred to his Matyes             
knowledg                                                                        
     Yesterday the yong E: of Essex was marryed to Esqr Grimstons               
daughter the Grandson of Sr Harbottle Grimston which will occurr to be          
A greate fortune                                                                
     Wee heare that the Citty of Yorke since the delivery of the Quo            
Warranto have by Majority Agreed the surrender of their Charter as              
also the Corporation of Truro in Cornwall                                       
     A scire ffacies instead of A Quo Warranto is now taken out & will          
be speedily served upon the Company of vintners as will be the                  
like to many of the other Companies of London                                   
     There being severall dissenting ministers in Newgate who on                
Sundayes preached to the prisoners, There lies among them for debt one          
of the Hiltons the greate Informer who has given Information thereof soe        
as that Its said Capt Richardson will be proceeded Agt for 80 L for             
severall times keepng A Conventicle in his house  But he Replyes that           
they were all of his family & soe beleives he shall Evade the same              
     divers Jewes on behalfe of the state of Venice have hired 9 English        
merchants ships Carrying each Abt 40 Guns to be Employed in the warr            
Agt the Turks                                                                   
     This weeke Coll Charles Porter Arrived from his Regemt in fflanders        
& is gone for Newmarket  he gives A dismall Account of the ffrench              
Barbarity in that Country  That they are now drawing A formidable body          
togather to Attack some Important places & were in sight of Oudenard Its        
supposed to Attack the same  The Spanish souldiers Extreamly want their         
pay & the aforesaid Colonell had Already found divers of his mens Habitt        
in this Citty whome he lately Cloathed in fflanders                             
    The d: of Grafton E: of Shrewsbury Ld Bruerton [?] with divers other        
greate personages & Gent are prepareing for their speedy departure to           
the ffrench Campe                                                               
     L. c. 1513     London 22d March 1683                                       
+This afternoon his Matye (praysed be the Almighty) is Returned safe to         
Whitehall                                                                       
     Their R: Highnesses have quitted their Lodgings in Whitehall & Continue    
at St James by Reason madam Godolphin died of the small pox there               
     Most of the Aldermen have been with his R: Highs & Congratulated           
his safe Returne from Newmarket                                                 
     Major Oglethorpe who is selling his places demands 2400 L for that         
of Lieutenant of horse & is to leave his house in St James Parke which          
was built for the Kings Laundress his wife being also displaced from            
that office & what overplus he hath layd out Abt it will be allowed him         
     Some Complaints haveing been made to his Matye in Councill in              
Relation to mr Vaughan Lieutenant to the Queens Troope of Grenadiers            
his Matye hath ordered him to sell his place                                    
     To morrow ffran Smith will be Examined before his Matye in Councill        
     The Company of vintners Intend to surrender their Charter upon the         
scire ffacies                                                                   
     To morrow the Venetian Agent designes to waite upon his Matye to           
desire his Leave for 15 merchants ships to serve Agt the Turks but the          
Turkey merchants Intend to Appear Agt it                                        
     His Matyes portraiture given by the Hamburgh Company is now Ready          
to be set upon the Royall Exchange                                              
     A pattent being under the seale to Ishue out A Comission for the           
Regulateing some Estates in Ireland the d of Bucks & the Ld Mount               
Alexander have put in A Caveat thereto                                          
     One mr Ralphson A dissenting minister in Newgate died last Thursday        
of A Burneing feavor which is very predominate Amonge those prisoners           
     A Reforme is goeing to be made of the Clerke of the severall               
Companies of this Citty that are Whiggishly Inclined & mr Brome the             
Clarke of the skinners Company who Arrested the late Ld Mayor is Already        
displaced & one mr Hacsemandell A Kentish Attorney & A very Loyall              
person put in his stead                                                         
+Wee want 3 fflanders 2 dutch & one ffrench post but A gent Arrived from        
fflanders sayes that those of Oudenard understanding that the ffrench           
were Comeing before them sent away their women & Children & Recd A              
Reinforcement of 2000 souldiers but the ffrench with their Bombes had           
destroyed divers Churches monasteries & houses                                  
           [Note in another hand on outside of letter:]                         
I have perused this bundle & few are wanting.  It conteins 4 years 1680         
1681 1682 1683. beginning March 25 1680 Inclusive.  J. S.                       
     L. c. 1514     London 25 March 1684                                        
+Wee have now A Confluence of fforreign posts                                   
     They write from Holland that the Mareshall Humieres Invested               
Oudenard with 22000 men & on the 21st began to Bombard it whereby one           
halfe was Burned                                                                
     The Citty of Amsterdam have again sent Circular letters to all the         
Townes of Holland to Express ther good Intentions for the publick &             
Againe to demand their papers  The Prince of Nassau Governor of                 
ffreizland Conveyes the like designe upon him as that on Van Beninghen          
& stirrs not without A greate Guard                                             
     On the 19th the P of Orange Arrived at Middleburgh & stayd there           
till the 23rd & showed the states of that Citty the Reasons for the new         
Levy upon which they passed A vote for it  On the 24th the Prince went          
for Antwerpe & Conferred with the M: de Grana & that it was Necesary            
to treate with ffrance upon the propositions in whole or in part  But           
Spaine still insists not to Recede anything to ffrance Come what will           
The Prince is Returned to the Hague & since only 5 of the 7 United              
Provinces have Consented to the New Levy the states have determined             
to  Raise 2000 less                                                             
     The succours promised to the M: de Grana have now orders to march          
but are only to act defensive in the Townes that they shall be Garrisoned       
The Ambrs mett at the Congress at the Hague dayly debate meanes for             
Accomodation but as yet there is no Certain prospect  The English               
Continue still of opinion that Spaine ought to Comply to something              
either peace or Truce upon the Alternatives saying Its not just to              
Embarrasse his Allies in A warr of which the Event is soe uncertain &           
as Its true Spaine ought not to be Abandoned by his Allies but if their         
Neibors house be on fire they are obliged to Endeavor to quench it soe          
if Spaine can preserve his Neibors house by putting out his owne that           
is Already on fire Its not Necesary to Come to his Assistance thereby           
Exposeing their owne to fflames                                                 
     They write from Lintz in Germany that the Assembly is broke up at          
Presburgh where 14 Earles & 12 Royall Cittyes of the hills have sworne          
Alleigance to the Emperor                                                       
+Teckley has published A Counterpardon & being Reinforced with some             
1000 Turks hath taken & Burnt Zendre & Cut in peeces 5 Companies of             
Polanders therein                                                               
     The Christians Intend to be Early in the feild & Attack Newhassell         
& Camisa                                                                        
     The K of Poland is gone to the Confines of Russia to settle that           
worke & will have 80000 of his owne men in the feild & 10000 Wallachians        
& 50000 Cossacks & Intends to Attack Canimer [?]                                
     They write from Constantinople that A Bashaw with 30000 Turks was          
Revolted & Gone for Persia & that the Turks offer to all that will serve        
in the Warrs to be Exempt from Taxes severall yeares                            
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