     L. c. 1515     London 27 March 1684                                        
+The discourse is now Revived of the d: of Monmoths Intentions for              
fflanders to Act for the Spaniards the Approaching Campaigne & Its              
generally discourst that the Close of Last weeke his Grace went                 
thitherwards  divers Gentlemen are prepareing also for fflanders vizt           
the Ld Brandon Gerrard Ld Lumley &c                                             
     This day Captain Bartue went for Paris to prepare Equipage for the         
E of Shrewsbury who with the D: of Grafton & others of the Nobility             
Intend for the ffrench Campe                                                    
     The E of Ossory haveing been in A yatcht at sea & not Returneing           
for severall dayes it was very much feared the said yatcht was Cast away        
But Its now Certainly Advised he landed at dieepe in ffrance & Its said         
Intends for the Campaigne but is since Returned hither                          
     14 new men of warr are forthwith ordered to be Equipped to joyne with      
the Ld dartmouths fleet when Arrived to secure the Channell this summer         
& Maintaine his Matyes late proclamation in Reference to Hostillityes           
Comitted on o[u]r seas dureing the warr between ffrance & Spaine                
     Yesterday the Dutchesse of Modena Arrived at Whitehall                     
     His Matye has Constituted the Honble Sr Dudley North one of the            
Comissioners of the Customes as supernumerary to the Rest                       
     That which has been soe long discourst of in Relation to the Quo           
Warrantoes Agt o[u]r Citty Companies is now Confirmed there being               
already 14 writts taken out & most of them served some of them by               
scire ffacies                                                                   
     That Agt the Company of Goldsmiths being yesterday delivered to            
the Master & Warden they forthwith Called A Court & voted to lay downe          
their Charter at his Matyes feet begging his grace & faivor  The same           
day A Quo Warranto was served upon the Company of Stationers who this           
day sumoned their Livery & Resolved upon A petition to his Matye that he        
would be pleased to Recall the said writt & Appoint such A Court of             
Assistant Clerks & others of the Company as he should thinke fit                
     The Company of diers have sold all that percell of land which              
their Hall & other edifices were lately built on                                
     They write from Norwich that the E of Yarmouth had tryed an Action         
of scandalum Magnatum Agt one Stebbing of that Citty who was one of the         
forwardest in the delivery up of their Charter & had 10000 L damages for        
saying his Lordship was A whigg kept Company with those sort of people          
& fit to head A faction or words to that Effect                                 
     On Tuesday last his Matye touched for the Evill but the Concourse          
of people at the Mese [?] to get Ticketts was soe greate that 7 persons         
were Crouded to death in the press                                              
     Some dayes since the skin of A woman most Barbarously flead off            
was found by some youths in A pond neer Grayes Inn Lane, Greate Enquiry         
has been made for the Corps but not yet found  Greate Resort has been to        
see the same but Its now ordered to be buryed                                   
     L. c. 1516     London 29th March 1684                                      
+Quo Warrantoes are already served on 14 Companies vizt Mercers                 
Habberdashers Grocers Skinners Goldsmiths Drapiers ffishmongers Ironmongers     
Coopers Apothecaries Leather sellers Weavers Merchant Taylors &                 
Stationers who are Cited to Appear the first day of the next Terme in           
the Kings Bench Court & Its Affirmed that the like writts will be Ishued        
out Agt most of the Rest there being in all 72 ffraternities  one is            
already taken out Agt the vintners but not Actually served                      
     The mercers have sumoned their whole Company to Impart this matter         
to them & most others follow their Example                                      
     Yesterday A Comittee Appointed by the Company of Goldsmiths to             
surrender their Charter Attended the Ld Keeper therewith & delivered it         
accordingly praying his Matyes Grace & faivor                                   
     His Matye Intends for Windsor next Satureday  The Councill have            
sate upon weighty affaires Relateing to fforreign Transactions & the            
fforreign Ambrs have been at Whitehall to take their measures & 10              
dayes may give us the prospect either peace or warr in the Low Countries        
     The Dutchesse of Yorke is Reported to be Certainly with Child  The         
Dutchesse of Modena her mother Intends to make her Constant Residence           
in this Kingdome                                                                
     The Princesse of Denmarke being neer her time is to lye in at              
Windsor & will be Carryed thither in A sedan                                    
     On the 20th Instant was soe greate A storme at sea that divers             
ships were Cast away neer Yarmouth & some of them saved not A man               
     Capt Gunman [?] Comander of the yaught in Company with the E of            
Ossery from ffrance affirmes togather with divers in the vessell that           
they saw 3 visible suns in the firmament on the 21st at 7 in the morning        
& that 2 Rowling seas Came Thwart each other & that 3 ships were Cast           
away neer Callis in their sight                                                 
     A ship Arrived last Wednesday in the West gives Account that 8             
dayes since he mett the Ld Dartmouths fleet in the bay of Biscay by             
which wee may Exspect his arrivall every houre                                  
+A ffrench man by nation was this weeke seized & Comitted to Newgate            
being Charged with poysoning divers persons aboard one of his Matyes            
men of warr 7 of whome died there being such Clear Evidence Agt him that        
Its thought he Cannot Escape                                                    
     His Matye hath now setled the Revenue & officers to Compose the new        
Hospitall of Chelsea Colledg which Estate will Amount to 12000 L p An &         
700 persons togather with the officers to Cohabitt & have maintenance           
therein & many of the souldiers who Came from Tangier are Already               
Admitted & will Comence Collegiatts at Midsomer next                            
     L. c. 1517     1st Aprill 1684                                             
+Yesterday severall Quo Warrantoes were served on More of o[u]r Citty           
Companies & more will be dayly brought Agt others  The Grocers have             
since their being served Appointed A Comittee of 6 Aldermen & 6                 
Comoners to Attend his Matye to know what his pleasure is therein               
     mr secretary Jenkins has desired to be dismist which is granted &          
mr Sidney Godolphin Advanced in his Roome                                       
     His Matyes Revenue of hearth Money which was performed by select           
Mannagers Expireing at Lady day his Matye hath dismist his said                 
Mannagers ordereing his Comissioners of Excize to performe that worke           
& thereby save A greate Charge                                                  
     Letters from Bristoll say that the sheriffs of that Citty have             
made distresse of severall dissenting shopkeepers for above 100 L each          
as being Convicted upon the statute of 20 L p month for not Comeing to          
Church                                                                          
     They write from Paris that their King has ordered 3 seperate               
Armies to Act in flanders of 90000 men & A 4th under Crequi on the Rhine        
of 62000 men & A 5th under Schombergh in Catalonia of 44000 men & that          
there is more Appearance of warr than peace                                     
     They write from the Hague that the Dutch troops are departed for           
Brabant  That those of Amsterdam Continue stubborne as to the new Levy          
& Its supposed those of Groningen & Ommeland will also Continue the like        
     Letters from Hamburgh say that the K of Denmarke was Come with his         
forces before Lubeck & had taken Mollem & Patzburgh & killed all the            
Troops therein & have also taken posts in the 4 dependant Counties of           
Hamburgh which Allarmes all those parts  The Lunenburgh troops are              
marching to their Assistance                                                    
     Letters from Lintz say that the Assembly at Presburgh Ended not            
with the successe as was Exspected  That Teckley being Reinforced with          
6000 Turks & Tartars makes Miserable Ravageing & has Burnt 13 villages          
& plundered as many Especially of those who have sworne Alleigance to           
the Emperor at Presburgh who dare not Returne home for fear of him &            
2 Earles are Retreated into Poland                                              
     The Poles being all Retired out of Hungary for want of subsistance         
The Bassa of Buda has Certainly Releived Newhassell without any losse           
which Garrison by sicknesse & want were Reduced to 1000 Combatants              
     Letters from Constantinople say that almost every day one or other         
of the late prime viziers Creatures are strangled & that the next               
Campaigne is like to be very bloody                                             
+Its Certainly Reported that mr John Lambert (formerly Generall for             
those Called the Rumpe parliamt) is dead                                        
     L. c. 1518     London 3d Aprill 1684                                       
+This day the Company of Mercers mett to Considder what Proceed to              
make upon the Quo Warranto & the first question was whether they should         
first secure their Creditors or Attend the next Terme For A declaration         
& it was Carryed by 9 for the former & A Comittee of 5 Chose to Advise          
with Councill therein                                                           
     The 2d question put was whether they should Attend to see what             
would be Alledged Agt them or forthwith petition his Matye which was            
Carryed in the latter by many votes & A Comittee Nominated to draw up           
the said petition which being Reported was Assented to the substance            
shewing That Richard the 2d founded their Company & they have since             
Enjoyed it successively till this time  That they were sorry for his            
Matyes displeasure humbly beseeching to know the occasion & soe lay             
themselves at his Matyes feet & voted that the Master & Wardens should          
take with them whome they should thinke fit & forthwith Attend his Matye        
     Last Tuesday divers porpuses were seen by many spectators playing          
in the River Adjacent to the Custome house which people variously               
discant upon  they were judged as large as A Bullock                            
     mr Lambert Genll in the late Rebellious times died last weeke in           
St Nicholas Island neer Plimouth where he was Confined                          
     Next Satureday Sidney Godolphin Esqr Enters upon his place as              
principle secretary of state in Roome of Sr Lionell Jenkins who is to           
Continue judge of the Admiralty Court his Apartment being prepareing at         
drs Comons & mr Godolphin also keeps his place as Comissioner of the            
Treasury                                                                        
     This weeke divers of the Citty Apprentices were Apprehended for            
Counterfetting & vending false Guyneys being Prince Ruperts mettell not         
worth 6 d                                                                       
     The Ld Dartmouth upon his Arrivall at Plimouth Imediately tooke            
post & Came to Whitehall  Wee heare his Lordship has brought from Cadiz         
600000 L in Bullion on Account of the Merchants                                 
     Last Tuesday Arrived in the Downes the ffaucon Captain Churchill           
Comander from Jamaica & brings Account that the Lawrence An English             
privateer or piratt in Conjunction with other nations since they mett           
with such good successe at Vera Cruz put to sea with designe to Attack          
Cartagena haveing only [digit or digits smeared] [ve]ssells upon which          
the Spaniards sent out 3 men of warr to Chace them away who Comeing             
towards the piratts they made A seeming flight & they thought sure of           
them but the piratts Turned suddenly upon the Spanish Admirall of 42            
Guns being A head of the Rest & Boarded her before the Rest Could Come          
up & tooke her & with her Assistance seized both the other  in this             
Action the Spaniards had neer 500 men slayne & the piratts only 17 & 36         
Wounded & are with the Spanish ships pursuing their Enterprize                  
     L. c. 1519     London 5th Aprill 1684                                      
+This morning his Matye went for Windsor as doe the whole Court on              
Munday & all the Companions of the most Noble order of the Garter are           
sumoned to Attend there on Tuesday where will be held An Installment for        
Prince George &c                                                                
     His Matye has Constituted the Prince of Denmarke Generall of all           
his foot forces in England  The souldiers from Tangier will be disposed         
of in the severall Garrisons upon the sea Coast                                 
     Yesterday the E of Dartmouth Attended the King at Whitehall to             
Render An Account of his voyage & was Graciously Recd & tis said is made        
one of the Comissioner$s% of the Treasury                                       
     Yesterday the Ld Mayor sheriffs & Aldermen were at Whitehall to            
wish his Matye A prosperous journey & to Receive orders to governe the          
Citty in his Absence                                                            
     Yesterday Sr Dudley North Master of the Mercers Company with the           
Wardens &c Attended the King with A petition from that Company upon the         
Quo Warranto brought Agt them which being Read his Matye Returned noe           
other Answer then that they should suddenly have one from his principle         
secretary of state                                                              
     On Thursday the Ld Ch. Justice Returned from the Westerne Circuitt         
& Entred the Citty with above 200 horse besides Coaches with the Kings          
Trumpetts before them & has been since at Whitehall to Render his Matye         
An Account of his Circuitt & was Extreamly Carrassed by all  The                
Councill have sate upon divers weighty affaires Especially the dispose          
of the Ld Dartmouths fleet some of which are to be layd up but others to        
be Revictualled to make up the summers Guard which is to Consist of 30          
sayle & 40000 L is for the prsent sent to Portesmouth to pay off some           
of the seamen & the Lds of the Treasury will in few dayes provide A             
greater summe to defray the Rest of the Charges & Arreirs                       
     One Capt Clifford who was Convicted & ffined 1000 L to the King &          
1500 L damages Recovered Agt him by Madam Sinderfeild for forceably             
stealing away the said lady into ffrance with Intend to Constrayne her          
to Marriage being prisoner in the ffleet, yesterday divers Gent Came            
under pretence to see him who Attending them to the door they knockt downe      
the Turnkey & Conveyed the prisoner to the Water side where takeing             
boate he is not since heard of                                                  
     This afternoone Arrived A Dutch post which sayes that they Attend          
Every houre for A Courrier from ffrance which will tell them either warr        
or peace, if the former Prince Waldeck has promised to bring downe the          
forces of the Circles of the Empire to their Assistance & the d of              
Bavaria has Engaged to Advance toward Strasburgh                                
     Letters fron Lintz say the vizier of Buda has sent word to the             
Governor of Raab that he has full power from his Master to Treate A             
peace or truce with the Emperor                                                 
+This day Arrived the ship Kempthorne from ffort st George in India             
Richly laden  The Master mate Chyrurgeon & 20 seamen died in their              
passage  shee Touched at Bantam & Battavia but the Dutch made it death          
to sell them pepper, They also Confirme that the Dutch have both the            
Kings of Bantam in their posession & are in sole Comand of the place            
     L. c. 1520     London 8th Aprill 1684                                      
+This day the Attorney Genll sent the Master of the Mercers Company             
his Matyes Answer to their late petition being in substance, That his           
Matye has noe designe to Infring their Liberties but only Exspects              
that they will signe & seale An Instrument to Impower his Matye when he         
should see occasion to place or displace their Master Wardens                   
assistants & Clerke & then his Matye will Confirme their prsent                 
Charters with such Additions as shall be for the Good of their Company          
     Yesterday the Royall Exchange began to be Rayled in to affix there         
A pedestell for His Matyes portraiture given by the Hamburgh Company            
     Yesterday began the sessions at Guildhall where proclamation was           
made for 100 Excomunicate dissenters to Render themselves or pay 20 L           
& with some every quarter will be doubled & when seized the whole be            
Levyed                                                                          
     Many dissenters were tryed & found Guilty of Ryotts & ffined some          
10 L others less & Comitted to Newgate till paid Construction being             
made that being at Worship is an Act & that Act being unlawfull such            
unlawfull Assemblies are Ryotts & where they are mett with Intent to            
performe such Worship it is A Route though noe preaching there                  
     The Archbishop of Canterbury & Bp of London have ordered that all          
seditious Catichismes be supprest & that none presume to teach them in          
schooles & bills of Indictment are this sessions brought Agt some of the        
Authors                                                                         
     Dr Buck of the Temple being dead dr Sherlock will succeed, also the        
Bishop of Carlisle is lately dead                                               
     mr Wade of Bristoll mentioned to be Concerned in the late plott is         
seized at Mevis & bringing hither                                               
     Upon the Complaint of the Spanish Ambr here his Matye has ordered          
5 men of warr to the West Indies to seize & take all those that they            
find Comitting Acts of Hostllity Agt his Matyes Allyes                          
     Letters from Scotland say that their Parliamt is Adjourned from            
the 9th of Aprill till the 9th of Septembr  That on the 28th of March           
Sr Hugh Cambell after A long & tedious tryall haveing Acquitted himselfe        
from all the Allegations layd to his Charge was by the jury brought in          
not Guilty at which the people Extreamly shouted, on which the Kings            
Advocate said he never heard of the like but at the Acquitting of that          
Traytor Shaftesbury in England, his Advocate moved for his discharge            
[but?] was told that being the Kings prisoner he must Attend his Matyes         
Pleasure  The witnesses for not makeing good their Allegations Agt him          
were Comitted to prison                                                         
     Last night A duell was fought between the Lds Shrewsbury & Chumley         
on the one side & mr Mathews & mr Churchill on the other  the former            
were disarmed which Ended the fray without effusion of blood  The Prince        
of Denmarke has bought the house in St James Parke Called the Cockpitt          
which was the E: of Danbyes & now the Princesse will lye in there               
     L. c. 1521     London 10 Aprill 1684                                       
+Yesterday began the sessions at the old Bayly where divers Malefactors         
Received sentence of death & amonge them one that Received the Kings            
pay upon an Ancient statute for deserting his Colours                           
     What was writt of one Wade of Bristoll being seized at Mevis as A          
Conspirator proves to be one Holloway A Linnen draper of that Citty who         
is Arrived & hath been Examined before the Councill & Its said hath made        
an Ingenious Confession of the whole & is this Evening sent to Newgate          
     The D of Grafton E: of Mulgrave E of Ossory E of Shrewsbury with           
divers Lds & Gent are Come from Windsor in order to their going to the          
ffrench Campe where there will be An Appearance of Abt 90 in very greate        
splendor                                                                        
+The deane of Bristoll being dead mr Johnson of that Citty who was Cited        
to the late Parliamt will succeed                                               
      The Ld Brinkard [?] being dead his place of Master of St                  
Katherines Hospitall judged to be worth 1500 L p An Comes to Sr James           
Butler steward of the Marshalsea                                                
     Yesterday the Company of Chyrurgeons were served with A Quo                
Warranto & this day divers others will Receive the like                         
     The Company of Stationers have subscribed & sealed A paper yeilding        
that his Matye shall place or displace their Master Wardens Assistance          
& Clerke & afterwards they proceeded to Regulate severall things in             
their Company displaceing 6 of their Assistance who are judged to be            
Whiggishly Inclined & voted for Bethell & Cornish & Its Affirmed that           
9 Loyall persons will by way of Mandamus be Affixed therein it being A          
greate Benefit to be An assistant & after their decease to their                
Widdows as Receiving A devident of the Companies stock which Amounts            
to A greate summe by the many Coppies of books which they have solely           
to themselves                                                                   
     Wee heare that the Ld Dartmouth was the last person on the Barbary         
shoar at Tangier But some of the Mines did not take Effect soe soon as          
the Garrison was shipt & the Moores not Regarding the danger began to           
Rush in but his Lordship sent Ashoar to Advise them of the Approaching          
Mischeife & they drew off but not soe suddenly but 50 Moores were               
blowne up by the springing of A Mine                                            
     His Lordship before his Comeing off strowed many New Mild                  
shillings Amonge the Rubbish that the Moores might see that his Matye           
did not demolish that place for want of money but other Reasons, The            
Mould Canot be seen at Low water marke & is soe Ruined as to be                 
unserviceable to any other                                                      
     The Spaniards at Gibralter when o[u]r ffleet was in sight Came             
downe with A greate Army to prevent any Attempt upon them                       
     The ship Eagle bound for the East Indies haveing by A storme lost          
her mast & driven back into Plimouth Its feared the season will be lost         
before shee can be Refitted                                                     
     L. c. 1522     London 12th Aprill 1684                                     
+Yesterday the Company of Mercers mett to whome Sr Dudley North their           
master made Report of his Matyes Answer to their petition by mr Attorney        
Genll which affaire Admitted many & High debates but in fine they put it        
to the question whether they should Comply with his Matyes desire which         
Came to A poll & it was Carryed by 18 in the affirmative                        
     After which they Appointed A Comittee to Attend mr secretary to            
know in what manner they must proceed to Comply with his Matyes desire          
& to performe it Accordingly                                                    
     On Thursday the Company of ffishmongers Agreed to lay their                
Charter at his Matyes feet & Appointed A Comittee to Attend the                 
secretary who tis said has directions left him what Answer to Returne           
to Every Company in his Matyes absence                                          
     The Company of Ironmongers have Concluded much upon the like as            
wee hear will doe many other Companies                                          
     This day Arrived A Dutch post with Advice that the severall Ambrs          
at the Congress at the Hague upon many debates Considdering that they           
can hope for noe further succour from England & that the Troops of              
Spaine & Holland Cannot be able to make their defence agt ffrance are           
Come to A Resolution of Agreeing A Truce with ffrance & deputed 12 of           
their body to Communicate the same to the ffrench Ambrs who first asked         
if they had full power from their principalls to Agree the same to which        
they Could not Answer in the Affirmative but however they Informed him          
with the project soe to Agree A Truce as that the Barryer might be              
Affixed from the Scheld to the Maas & prayed Mounsr de Avaux to signify         
the same to his Master which he Refused saying that if they Agree A             
Truce all things must Remaine as they are or his Master must looke upon         
it as A 2d declaration of warr but if they would Agree to what his              
Master had directly proposed he had orders to signe the same, upon which        
Answer the states Genll were forced to send an Expresse to Paris                
themselves                                                                      
     Holloway was on Thursday Comitted to Newgate but last night Carryed        
up Againe to Whitehall where he was Againe Examined before the Councill         
where he made A full discovery of the horrid Conspiracy & that more at          
large then hath been yet discovered insomuch that Rumsey is Comitted            
Close prisoner                                                                  
     The Ld Lumley is gone for fflanders whither the D of Monmoth is            
going his servants haveing been at Brussells to get provisions for 20           
horses                                                                          
     L. c. 1523     London 15th Aprill 1684                                     
+Letters from Dublin say that on the 7th at Night broke out A dreadfull         
fire in that Castle that in 3 houres Consumed the greatest part thereof         
to the vallue of above 100000 L & might have done much more dammage by          
the greate quantity of powder therein had not the personall Courage of          
the Ld Deputy the E of Arran Excited others to follow him & Removed the         
same  Its said it began in his Lordships Apartment who himselfe narrowly        
Escaped                                                                         
     Tis said mr Holloway of Bristoll who is in Newgate hath Charged            
some persons of that Citty as Conspirators with him & has discovered            
that Rumsey & West Could have accused others & discovered more then they        
have done & next weeke his Matye is Exspected at Whitehall where they           
will be all 3 Examined  in the meane time the keeper of Newgate hath            
orders not to suffer Holloway pen Inke nor paper & mr West & mr Rumsey          
are in Custody                                                                  
     Yesterday severall more Companies were served with Quo Warrantoes          
& on Sunday noe less then 8 Attended his Matye at Windsor with petitions        
to lay themselves at his Matyes feet & Acquiess to the Regulations              
Exspected of them & Among them the Habberdashers & Peter Daniell Esqr           
one of o[u]r sheriffs prsenting their petition had the honor of                 
knighthood                                                                      
     Yesterday one Captain Stisted [?] A late officer in the Custome            
house being displaced thence Came upon the key with the Act of Parliamt         
in his hand & made A seizure of ffrench wines & Caused A little disturbance     
but the wines were Carryed off nothwithstanding his pretences                   
     Yesterday one mr Hill A druggist in Budg Row was Arrested in An            
Action of 1000 L of scandalum Magnatum at the suite of his R: Highs but         
is at liberty upon bayle but Its said the Duke will declare next Terme          
for 50000 L                                                                     
     Yesterday Broome Whorwood Esqr late A member of Parliamt for Oxford        
died Agt whome An Information was Exhibitted in the Crowne office               
     Our Polish letters say that An Ambr from the Sophy of Persia was           
Arrived at Cracow & had Audience of the King & Assured him that his             
Master had fully determined to make warr Agt the Turks & to bring into          
the feild 100000 men & begin with the seige of Babilon                          
     Letters from Lintz say that A greate Councill of warr was held the         
27th March to Carry on the warr & it was Concluded that the Generall            
[R]andevouz of the Imperiall army should be on the 20th of May neer             
Gran & that they will begin with the seige of Newhassell  Tis said the          
Turks are in greate disorders & finde greate dificulties in Raiseing men        
notwithstanding the greate Encouragemts they give                               
+They write from fflanders that the ffrench K will suddenly be there            
with his Army & that if the warr proceeds there will be as greate Action        
as Ever in those parts                                                          
          [Note on outside of letter in another hand:]                          
     Christopher Merry Weaver &   Merry his Wife, & John Merry the son          
of the sd Chr. &  E   his Wife all of Arby in the [about twelve letters         
blotted]                                                                        
    Interest & Estate as well in possession as revertion, wthall & all          
  manner of Claim & Demand whatsoever to a certain house with                   
  outhouses & large Orchard or Homested or Home Close scituate & lying          
  between the land of the said R N in the tenure of Tho: Taylor                 
  husbandman on two sides of the Lane or Road now leading from Arby             
  aforesd to Nuncaton on an other side & an old not used lane on                
  the fourth side and a Slice or narrow peice of ground lying between           
  an other part of the land of the sd R N in the tenure of Tho: Taylor          
  aforesd on the one side & a spring or Coppice wood of the sd R. N:            
  called Lagoes Rough on the other side                                         
    [Note in yet another hand on lower half of outside of letter:]              
                          2 Colt  2 Wrch En  Backsides                          
                          2 backsides  1 ll:  8 ar malt                         
                                             of M: ou P                         
  25 yds of Shew & Crost at 6 d ye foot   1 - 47 - 6                            
  129 yds of Crost et Shew at 3 d ye foot 4 - 10 - 9                            
                                          6 -  8 - 3 [total]                    
  20 yds Shew & Crost Green W                                                   
  20 yds                                                                        
  02 yds & 2 foot 2 first [?]                                                   
  02 yds & 1 foot                      [Also included are two small             
  -----------------------------        columns of figures by which the          
  25 yds 2 foot Shew & Crost           totals at left were worked out.]         
  -----------------------------                                                 
  3 yds 1 fo: 6 In Shew                                                         
  11 yds 2 fo: 2 In Crost                                                       
  8 yds 1 fo: Crost                                                             
  114 yds 2 fo                                                                  
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  129 yds 2 foot Crost                                                          
     L. c. 1524    London 17th Aprill 1684                                      
+Yesterday being the first of the Terme Coll Mildmay mr Braddon mr              
Caudron &c appeared which was Recorded                                          
     The greate Cause between the Lady Ivy & Esqr Neale for 4000 L p            
Ann is ordered to be on the 5th of May                                          
     Alderman Wright of Oxford Appeared & An Information was Exhibitted         
Agt him for writeing divers seditious Libells Agt the goverment which           
were found in his Closett & was Required to give 10000 L Recognizance           
himselfe & 4 sureties each 5000 L which not being Ready he was Comitted         
     The Conviction of Sr Samll Barnardiston being not Returned out of          
the Citty noe proceedings were had of him  This day is held A greate            
Councill at Hampton Court where tis said will be debated the ffarming           
of his Matyes Revenue of England & Ireland some peers offering 2                
Millions p Ann  also mr Holloway is Carryed thither to be Examined              
before his Matye in Councill                                                    
     mr Halley soe often mentioned in the Gazett to be missing is now           
found dead in the River Medway by Rochester naked save only Hose &              
shooes which Admitts of Various discourse                                       
     The Company of Weavers & divers other Companies are gone this day          
to Windsor to submitt to his Matyes Regulations                                 
     The D of Monmouth is now Certainly in fflanders Appeareing                 
publickly at Brussells & Its Reported has his Matyes Leave to goe into          
that service & that the Marquess de Grana wrote to England before he            
would Receive him as himselfe                                                   
     Yesterday A Letter Came from mr Ricott the English Consul at               
Algeirs with Account that the goverment have now Agreed A peace with            
ffrance & that the ffrench are to Restore as many Moorish slaves as             
they have of their owne Nation & that the Remainder the ffrench K is to         
buy at A Market price with some other Termes not Honourable for ffrance         
     Our Holland letters say that all posible Endeavrs are used to              
Center affaires in A peace or Truce & Its said that Spaine Inclines to          
yeild to one of the Alternatives of ffrance                                     
     The M: de Grana has seized some persons  Some say they are Jesuitts        
that had A designe to betray 6 Townes in fflanders to the ffrench when          
the King Come his progress which affaire will be strictly Examined              
   The ffrench K. hath made new Engagements with Denmarke & bestowed            
greate presents on his Councellors, The Duke of Saxony hath sent to             
the Danish Troops to Retire speedily out of the Empire or he will               
Constraine them thereto                                                         
+Our fforeign letters say that the Bassa of Buda hath Againe sent to            
the Emperor for A Treaty of peace between his master & the Emperor who          
Communicated it to the Popes Nuncio The Polish Ambr & other ministers           
at his Court who are more Inclinable to pursue the warr then treate of          
peace                                                                           
     L. c. 1525     London 19th Aprill 1684                                     
+Yesterday severall motions were made at the Court of Kings bench vizt          
That noe Appearance be Entered to the Quo Warranto Agt the Citty of             
Yorke unless under their Comon seale which was granted                          
     Alderman Wright of Oxford moved he might be brought from the Kings         
bench & give such security as was Exspected which was assented to               
     The buisness of the Earle of Macclesfeilds demanding special bayle         
for Sr Thomas Grosvenor upon the Action of scandalum Magnatum brought           
Agt the said Sr Thomas Grosvenor fforeman of A jury which prsented his          
Lordship as Aideing & Abetting in the Conspiracy of the D of Monmoth            
But the Court only ordered Comon bayle                                          
     mr Attorney moved for A Habeas Corpus to bring up mr Holloway who          
tis thought will be suddenly tryed                                              
     This day at the Kings bench barr Sr Samll Barnadiston was ffined           
10000 L & to give sureties for his behaivor dureing life                        
     Letters this day from Poland say that there was prsented to that           
King the Hospodar of Wallachia taken prisoner by the Cossacks who offers        
for his Ransom 60 Polonian Noblemen prisoners in Turkey but being a Man         
of potency & like to doe much damage his offers are Refused Also that           
deputies were Againe Arrived from Count Teckeley who offers to submitt          
to the Emperor on those Termes proposed just after the seige of Vienna          
     They write from Vienna that Coll Hemster had beate A Considderable         
body of Hungarian Rebells & that Coll Staffer had defeated 500 of the           
garrison of Newhassell & taken 80 prisoners who Report flesh is in that         
garrison at 2 L [?] A pound                                                     
     Also that the Morlacks had seized A Constantinople Caravan & taken         
many Rich Turkey Merchants & plunder worth 200000 Ducketts of Gold              
     They write from Lintz that the Elector of Bavaria is hourely               
Exspected to be Ready at the Generall Randevouz where the Emperor will          
have 64000 men of his owne proper Troops besides Auxilliaries  mr               
Papillion & mr Dubois haveing brought their Actions & Arrested Sr Wm            
Pritchard when he was Ld Mayor in the very night the Riseing was to             
have been & not haveing declared Agt him he hath brought his Action &           
they have this day given bayle to his Action  also Alderman Wright of           
Oxford hath given what bayle the Court demanded                                 
     L. c. 1526     London 22d Aprill 1684                                      
+Yesterday at the Kings bench mr Attorney moved for judgment Agt the            
Citty of Yorke on the Quo Warranto & if they doe not Appear within A            
weeke judgment will be Entred up                                                
     mr Holloway was brought up & the Court demanded what he Could say          
why sentence of death should not passe being Indicted for High Treason          
& by outlawry Attainted who Replyed he had been beyond seas & Could             
not Appear by the time but the Court told him that by Law he was                
Convict but however if he had anything to say the Kings mercy was such          
as to Wave the outlawry & let him have the Liberty of A faire Tryall            
he Answered he had made An Ingenious Confession such as he hoped would          
meritt pardon & Could say noe more soe judgment being prayed A Rule of          
Court was made for his Execution on the outlawry on the last of Aprill          
     mr Braddon was sentenced to pay 2000 L & mr Hugh Speake to pay             
1000 L & both of them to find sureties for their good behaivor for              
life & Comitted till paid                                                       
     Langley Curtis Convicted for the pamphlett Entituled the Night             
Walker of Bloomesbury was ffined 500 L & to stand next Satureday in the         
pillory & to find sureties dureing life                                         
+This day was the greate tryall between Capt Sands the E: India                 
Interloper & the E: India Company but the Captain not proveing as was           
layd in the declaration he was nonsuited                                        
     This day the East India Company Chose Sr Joseph Ash Governor & Sr          
Josiah Child Deputy & to morrow they bring in their votes for Choyce of         
the 24 Assistants                                                               
     Yesterday wee had severall fforreign Letters all which give A              
prospect of Warr in the Netherlands to be Almost Certain for the                
Courrier sent by the states to the ffrench K Abt the Result of the              
Congress at the Hague is Returned & brings Advice that his Most                 
Christian Matye wholly Rejects their project of A Truce Confirmeing             
what his Ambr proposed from which his Matye will not Recede but                 
pursue his Measures                                                             
     And Letters from Madrid say that the K of Spaine Assembled his             
Councill & Acquainted them with the demands of ffrance & his Matye &            
one third of the Councill were of opinion to Comply but the Rest                
Concluded to Agree to noe such Termes but pursue the Warr                       
     Also the Emperors Envoy at the Hague has given in A memoriall Agt          
one given in by the ffrench Ambr by which wee may discover the Low              
Countries are like this year to be Exposed to the Events of Warr & they         
write from Holland that if Spaine doe not Comply they will not Come             
into the Warr                                                                   
     L. c. 1527     London 24th Aprill 1684                                     
+Yesterday the Rule of the Kings bench Court was delivered to the               
sheriffs of London for Execution of James Holloway next Wednesday &             
they have given him notice to prepare for his dissolution.                      
     Yesterday at Guildhall 5 knights of the post were found Guilty             
before the Ld Ch: Justice there being A ffraternity of 17 discovered            
who engaged themselves to forswear men out of their Lives & Estates             
     This morning about 3 A Clock A fire broke out at A shooemakers in          
Aldermanbury & burnt 2 houses & 2 were Spoyled  The Ld Ch: Justice              
liveing hard by was there as also the Ld Mayor who being very dilligent         
in Exciteing the men to worke & directing them was the maine Instrument         
of soe sudden A stop to it.  It began in A Garret but how it Came is            
not knowne                                                                      
     His Matye hath ordered that what is burnt in the Castle of Dublin          
shall be Rebuilt in more splendor then ever & his Matyes Surveyor Genll         
hath Appointed A person to goe over to Expedite that worke                      
    Letters from Scotland say that A party of Rebells were got togather         
& A party of the Guards goeing to quell them they seized the Guide that         
Conducted the Guards & haveing Cut off his hands & killed his wife &            
Children they fled                                                              
     One Captain Mac Donnell Comander of the faucon ffrigott is upon            
Complaint of the Ld Dartmouth put off his place haveing wrote some              
Reflections on his Lordship                                                     
     They write from Leige that A Quarrell Arose Amonge divers Irishmen         
who fought 3 of A side & that the Ld Purbeck who lately made his Escape         
from the Marshall of the Kings bench was slaine togather with Sr Wm             
Denny & Sr Wm Kelly                                                             
     This weeke mr Papillion & mr Dubois were Arrested by Sr Wm                 
Pritchard for disturbeing him by way of Arrest in his Mayoralty in order        
to Raise Comotions &c                                                           
     Yesterday the D of Grafton set forward for the ffrench Campe &             
this day the E of Ossory & others who have 2 men of warr to Convoy them         
from being taken by the Ostend Capers                                           
     This day the D of Monmoths household plate with Armour & horses            
were sent to fflanders for the Spanish Campaigne                                
     They write from Paris that before the King departed from thence            
the Popes Nuncio desired he would stay one month before he would Act            
anything Agt Spaine & the King Answered that he was Resolved by the             
first of may to be in the head of his Army in fflanders to make                 
himselfe satisfaction by force of Armes for that the Spaniards had soe          
often Rejected his proposalls for Accomodation                                  
     They write from Ratisbone that the D of Brandenburgh sent word to          
the Emperor that he would Come to his Assistance with A powerfull Army          
Agt the Turks in Case A peace or Truce be Concluded with ffrance                
     L. c. 1528     London 26th Aprill 1684                                     
+Yesterday the Marshall of the Kings bench Attended that Court to               
Answer the Complaint of mr Atturney for suffering the Kings prisoners           
to be at large on the Rules & thereby had the liberty to Caball Togather        
& the Court was very sharpe upon him for suffering mr Bethell Pilkington        
Sr Samll Barnadiston, Hambden Braddon Speke &c to have anything of              
Liberty saying that his house was not the prison for such offences for          
where Imprisonment was part of the punishment they ought to be kept in          
Salva et Orde Custodia  That Bethell goes abroade to the 9 d ordinary           
as though he was keeping his sherivealty  That they heard Sr Samll              
Barnadiston should say since he Came hither that if he had been fined           
but 20 Groates he was soe well satisfied with the place he would not            
pay it, upon which the Marshall Acquainted the Court he had the night           
before most of them fetched into the prison house & the Rest should be          
forthwith                                                                       
     Another Complaint was that he suffered persons to Enter themselves         
as prisoners on purpose to Elude the Lawes Agt them for not Comeing to          
Church saying they Could not being in Custody soe the Court ordered the         
Atturney Genll to prepare An Information Agt him if he did not in all           
points performe what the Court had directed him in                              
     The Wife of one Marshall obtained A Habeas Corpus to bring her             
husband out of the Custody of his father but it Appeareing that the said        
mr Marshall had Marryed A Leud woman & that his father preserved him from       
Laying violent hands on himselfe The Court would not Admitt her to goe to       
him save only with An officer of the Court to bring A True Report of the        
same                                                                            
     One Ward prisoner in the Kings bench was sentenced to stand in             
the pillory thrice for A Considderable Cheate & fforgery                        
     The wife & father in Law of mr Holloway have made all posible              
Applications to the King for his pardon or Repreive but have Recd A             
positive denyall soe he will be Executed next Wednesday                         
     Just now is Arrived A Holland post which brings A memoriall                
delivered by the ffrench Ambr to the states That his Master hath Given          
orders for the beseiging Luxemburgh the better to facilitate A peace            
takeing away the occasion from Spaine hereafter but does declare that           
if before the 20th of May the M: de Grana will deliver it up with the           
15 villages dependent thereon his Matye will Restore dixmunde &                 
Courtray after he hath demolished them & will Relinquish his Claime to          
40 villages neer Townes & hopes the states will oblige Spaine to Accept         
those his last offers or Cause their Troops to Comitt noe Acts of               
Hostillity Agt his which if they suffer his Matye upon the first breach         
thereof will Cause all their subject Effects & ships to be seized &             
looke on them as declared Enemies & of this he Exspects An Answer in 15         
dayes after which he will not oblige himselfe to any former or prsent           
proposalls                                                                      
     L. c. 1529     London 29th Aprill 1684                                     
+Since the Ld Cheife Justices order to the Marshall of the Kings bench          
many persons who were prisoners for Nonconformity but out upon security         
& followed their severall Callings are Called into the prison & mr              
Pilkington Bethell Hambden &c put into the prison house                         
     Yesterday at the Kings bench barr A motion was made That whereas           
there were some proceedings in that Court Agt the Countess of Anglesea          
for not goeing to Church That shee might have further time to plead &           
the Court gave till the latter End of the Terme                                 
     This day the sheriff of Monmoth shire moved that haveing brought           
up Sr Trevor Williams & 10 or 12 more with him he might be paid the             
Costs  Sr Trevor desired he might be Turned over to the Kings bench             
which the Court would not then grant but ordered the secondary of the           
Kings bench to Tax Reasonable Costs                                             
     Its believed Holloway will be Executed to morrow  The Confinement          
of Coll Rumsey is taken off                                                     
     Letters from Yorke say that on St Georges day many greate guns as          
usually were fired from the Tower of that Citty which by 11 at night            
Appeared all on fire & had not the Wind stood Northerly it had                  
Endangered the whole Citty  The Tower is wholly burnt most of the Armes         
& all the greate guns fallen downe some into the ditches  all the               
Carriages &c are burnt one man killed & severall wounded                        
     His Matye hath bought the Cockpitt of the D of Albemarle & layd it         
to Whitehall where tis said Prince George will Reside                           
     Yesterday the Companies of Glaziers & Coopers as also the borough          
of Ipswich surrendered their Charters                                           
     This day at the Court of Aldermen the buisness was in dispute abt          
Sr Wm Pritchards Arresting Papillion & Dubois & it was Agreed that 2            
severall declarations be given Agt them & not both in one  Tis said the         
Coroner that Arrested him & some of the Aldermen are goeing to some             
Remote place dreading the Ishue of the proceeding                               
     One Capt Browne has brought into Dover A ffrench man of warr of            
Considderable force haveing on board her A greate quantity of English           
wooll Contrary to Law & some of her Crew are Comitted prisoners to              
dover Castle                                                                    
+Our Holland letters bring us A memoriall delivered by the Spanish Ambr         
in Answer to the last ffrench memoriall that he has orders not to               
hearken to any of the unjust proposalls of the ffrench K & that his             
Master is Resolved Rather to hazzard the Rest of the Low Countries then         
suffer Law to be prescribed him by violence & ffraude &c.  upon which           
they in Holland are divided some being for A Truce & some Agt it but our        
fforreign letters generally speake that there will be A peace                   
     L. c. 1530     London 1st May 1684                                         
+Yesterday James Holloway was hanged & quartered at Tyburne  he behaived        
himselfe very Chearfully & made A speech in which he made his discourse         
Center in West & Rumsey  That it was ill Company that brought him to            
that End, Acknowledged the late traytorous Conspiracy though not soe            
full in that part as the killing the King & seemed to justify the late          
Ld Russell & in the Close of his discourse pretended to give Advice to          
the King in the Guideing of his affaires & being by the sheriff Rebuked         
said he hoped that the truth he had declared to His Matye would Conduce         
to the good of the nation & then delivered A Paper to the sheriffe &            
the like to his wife which Its supposed will be Published                       
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr the borough of Sudbury had time              
given to the 10th Instant to Plead to the Quo Warranto Agt them & the           
Towne of Poole have till the 8th Instant                                        
     mr Kidd A Coffee man giveing bond to dr Pinfold of the Spirittuall         
Court that he would Conforme & not performeing it he put his bond in            
suite but Kidd Pleads he ought to have taken the bond in the Kings name         
&c  And yesterday his Councill Acquainted the Court That dr Pinfold             
went on in the Spirittuall Court though the suite was depending here &          
noe judgment given upon which the Court ordered that all proceedings in         
the Spirituall Court should stopp                                               
     mr Cauldron steward to the E of Clare was tryed for High                   
Misdemeanor                                                                     
     That he should say if the King had not been A Papist he would have         
passed the bill of Exclusion & also the bill for uniting Protestant             
dissenters & at another time upon the Election of Papillion & Dubois            
That in Olivers there was noe such stirr but every man Could sleep              
quietly under his owne vine & that he hoped ere long to see such times          
againe  The former part mr ffox A blacksmith witnessed alone which had          
been Treason if 2 witnesses & the latter part the said ffox & one               
ffisher witnessed                                                               
      mr Cauldron Pleaded they were persons of ill fame & did it out of         
Malice for not suffering them to become Tennants to his Lord & brought          
one Salisbury to Prove that ffox was subborned which he made not good &         
the jury Returned in A quarter of An houre & found him Guilty                   
      On Sunday morning early A greate meeting was broke open in                
Leadenhall street & 25 of them served & Wilkins the Preacher Narrowly           
Escaped  They are all bound to Answer it next sessions                          
+The discourse of ffarming his Matyes whole Revenue of England is now           
Renewed by Noblemen &c who have given in their Proposalls                       
     Our Dutch letters say the states are very uneasy the Events both of        
Warr & of peace seeming to threaten their Constitution &c  That which           
most troubles them is the Elector of Collogne who is Resolved with the          
ffrench troops to Invade them in Case they Come Into the Warr                   
     Yesterday his R: Highs Came from Windsor & was at the Councell at          
Whitehall in Reference to fforreign affaires the fforreign Ambrs makeing        
greate Instances here.                                                          
     L. c. 1531     London 3d May 1684                                          
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr mr Williams moved that mr Hambden            
was sickly & the Place he was Confined to Nasty & filthy & made him             
worse & prayed he might have the benefit of the Marshalls house which           
is granted                                                                      
     The Tryall Came on between the King & Wm Sacheverill Esqr & neer 20        
others of Notingham upon An Information That the said mr Sacheverill            
with the Rest on the 27th Sept 1682 being the time for the Election of          
Mayor for that Corporation not haveing votes Came to the Place of               
Election & after Proclamation made for all persons unconcerned to depart        
they Continued there & as much as in them lay opposed the said Choyce           
& tooke away one of the sheriffs maces & swore A Mayor by their Old             
Charter after the New Charter Arrived                                           
     mr Wild (& other the Kings witnesses) deposed That he & severall           
of his bretheren the Alderman Caused Proclamation for all unconcerned           
Persons to depart                                                               
     The defendants brought many witnesses who said they were there all         
the whole & heard noe such Proclamation nor saw any disturbance                 
     The Ld Ch: Justice summing up the Evidence left it very full Agt           
the defendants saying it was next door to Rebellion telling the Jury            
they must Either find them Guilty of A Ryott or the Kings witnesses             
of Perjury & the jury found them Guilty of A Ryott &c                           
     This day Came on the Tryall between the D of Yorke & John Dutton           
Coult Esqr (A late member for Lembster) upon A scandalum Magnatum  The          
words layd in the declaration were                                              
     That the Duke of Yorke is A Papist & before any Popish dogg should         
be successor to the Crowne he would be Hanged at his owne door & venture        
his life & fortune to prevent the same & at another time he spoke it            
over Againe                                                                     
     At another time if any member of Parliamt Come to any harme from           
that time I will begin to Cut the Throats of all the Papists I meet             
with if it be the d of Yorke himselfe                                           
     At another time he said that if the King followed the Advice of tha        
Papist dogg his brother &c as he believed he did it would be the worst          
for him  At another time he said That he would be hanged at his owne door       
before such A damned Rascall as the D of Yorke should Inheritt the Crown        
with severall words of like Tendency all proved by 3 witnesses                  
     He brought witnesses that 2 of them should say they would not              
leave him worth 4d (he as A justice Punishing them upon some Pecuniary          
lawes) with much more of this nature  In fine the jury found 100000 L           
damages                                                                         
     mr Pilkington moved to have Liberty of the Rules or Marshallsea            
which is not granted                                                            
     Our Holland letters say that the states are Come to A Resolution           
to Accept of the Truce offered by ffrance in ffebr last & Acquainted            
the ffrench Ambr who said he would send An Expresse to his Master in            
Regard affaires were much Changed since then  The fforreign ministers           
Charge the states with breach of their Treaties & sollemn promises  The         
New Levyes are noe more thought of                                              
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1532     London 6th May 1684                                         
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr Came on the Tryall between the King          
& mr Wynn an Atturney upon An Information that when mr Sidney was tryed         
he said the jury were A Loggerheaded Jury & had given A verdict Contrary        
to Evidence  he was found Guilty but is not in Custody                          
     This day mr Atturney moved for dr Pinfold Agt mr Kidd That whereas         
he had got A Rule to stopp Proceedings in the Spirittuall Court he              
supposed the Rule was to stopp all the Proceedings Abt the bond & that          
if they had occasion they might proceed upon some other matters Agt him         
which the Court Agreed to  mr Dolben moved An Arrest of judgment for mr         
Cauldron but the Court Comitted mr Cauldron to the Kings bench saying he        
should Come up by A Rule of Court to morrow & then they might speake to it      
     mr Nosworthy is ordered to Plead to the Information Agt him for            
words on ffriday next                                                           
     The quarters of Holloway are ordered to be Carryed downe to                
Bristoll to be put upon the gates there                                         
     Yesterday his R: Highs Came to Towne on purpose to see his dutchess        
who tis said is miscarryed being Abt 14 weeks gone of her time                  
     The Countesse of Ossory is delivered of A daughter at Windsor where        
shee now lyes in                                                                
+Yesterday the Ds of Monmoth waited on the queen who Recd her very              
kindly                                                                          
     Our fflanders letters say the D of Monmoth was Recd publickly              
at Brussells by the M: de Grana with A greate deale of Respect being            
Complemented by all the Generalls & till his owne Coach & furniture be          
Ready The M: de Grana lends him his Coach  he hath taken A house for            
12 months                                                                       
     Wee have A Report that the P of Orange &c has Raised the seige of          
Luxemburgh & killed 2000 ffrench & that the D of Monmoth had some honor         
in the Action but this wants Confirmation                                       
     The Ld Landsdowne is Arrived here from Vienna & Returnes speedily          
to Holland The King haveing given him leave to spend this Campaigne in          
the P of Oranges Army if there be A warr                                        
 +The ffrench Ambr hath Acquainted the states That his Master Could not         
now make good those offers he made in ffebr but leaves it to their              
Choyce to Accept either the Peace or Truce offered by him the 29th of           
Aprill Requireing their speedy Answer they being the Termes he cannot           
Recede from  To which the Spanish Ambr made A very sharpe Answer & is           
Angry with the states & tells them they use his master more like A              
Pupill then An Ally & that his master will never Comply with those              
Termes                                                                          
+Our fforreign letters Continue to Advise that the Turks will not be            
able this year to oppose the Christian forces & that both the Emperor           
& King of Poland are Courted for Peace but neither will hearken to any          
Proposalls                                                                      
     L. c. 1533     London 8th May 1684                                         
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr mr Atturney moved for judgment Agt           
those of Notingham which is ordered to be on Satureday next                     
     Then mr Atturney moved for judgment Agt mr Cawdron & that he               
Appeared as Early in his offence as any man & prayed Corporall                  
Punishment  mr Caudron told the Court he had A large & sickly family            
& nothing to support them but his wages That mr ffox had done him A             
greate deale of wrong & was A very ill man.  Judge Wilkins asked what           
Estate he had  mr Williams Answered his Estate was A wife & 6 or 7              
Children  Then said my Lord wee must make the fine the less & the               
Corporall Punishment the greater & ordered he should Come up on                 
Satureday for judgment                                                          
     Actions being brought by Sr Wm Pritchard late Ld Mayor Agt mr              
Papillion & mr Dubois for Arresting him in the time of his Mayoralty            
in order to Cause Comotions & Interupting him in the due Course of his          
Administration declarations were yesterday severally filed Agt them             
to the damage some say of 20000 L each                                          
     Tis Affirmed A new Charter for this Citty is Agreed upon & now             
Engrossing which tis said will very little vary from the old save only          
that the Choyce of the Citty magistrates is Put into fewer hands &              
afterwards Restrained under the Tye of A Negative voyce                         
+Our fforreign letters say that the Algerines have Concluded A Peace            
with the ffrench & tis thought will break with the English                      
     Our Scotch letters bring 3 Proclamations one Abt the sumptuary             
Act Another Abt the Militia & the 3d Abt Elders of Churches vizt                
     That whereas by the supremacy Inherent in o[u]r Crowne as one of           
the Prerogatives thereto belonging it solely Resides in us to Enact             
such orders for the Externall goverment of the Church & persons to be           
Employed therein as wee shall thinke fit &c                                     
     Wee Impower the ministers of each parrish to give in lists of such         
as are fit to serve as elders whome wee hereby ordaine & Comand to serve        
unlesse their Reasons to the Contrary be Approved by the bishopp                
Chargeing them in 15 dayes to Accept thereof in Paine of Rebellion              
     Our fflanders letters say the D of Monmoth is Highly Carrassed by          
the Spanish Generalls but the English officers in the service of the            
states doe not Come neer him & he hath taken A house at Brussells at            
200 L p An & is Building stables Intending to have 40 horses & tis said         
the dutchesse is Exspected there in few dayes  he is made Lieutenant            
Genll of the Dutch & Spanish Cavalry & tis said is Got into Luxemburgh          
which makes A stout Resistance                                                  
     L. c. 1534     London 10th May 1684                                        
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr Edward Nosworthy Esqr late Member            
for St Ives in Cornwall was Indicted upon An Information That he                
discourseing Abt the Tryall of ffitzharris said he hoped next Parliamt          
to hang all the judges that gave it for Law for the Tryall of the               
said ffitzharris To which he pleaded not Guilty                                 
     This day mr Recorder moved for judgment Agt those of Notingham             
The Court said all but mr Sacheverill were strangers to them & they             
Exspected An Account of their Abilities & tooke their bayle for each            
other to Appear the first day of the Next Terme                                 
     mr Cawdron was not brought up                                              
     Its Confirmed that the Spaniards from Hispaniola & Cuba have               
seized the Bahama Islands of which the d of Albemarle E of Craven Ld            
Berkley Ld Astley Sr Peter Colliton & Sr Geo: Carteret were made                
Proprietors by his Matye the loss of which is of greate Consequence             
as to Jamaica                                                                   
     In the Proclamation Abt the Militia of Scotland is orders for              
the due Mustering of them they Consisting in all of 20 Regements of             
ffoot & 28 troops of horse                                                      
     His R: Highs hath bought A Considderable Originall stock of the            
East India Company as also the E of Mulgrave which Causes their Actions         
to Advance from 200 to 220 L p Cent                                             
     Sr Samll Barnadiston mr Pilkington & mr Bethell have now the               
liberty of the Rules                                                            
     Her R: Highs miscarryed on Thursday but the sex Could not be               
distinguished  shee is now pretty well Againe                                   
     The son of the M: de Humieres is killed before Luxemburgh as also          
the Marquess de Sell Mounsr Montall & other Considderale officers  The          
Place makes A stout defence                                                     
     The Spanish Ambr here hath prsented A memoriall wherein he                 
Endeavors to perswade his Matye That his master will never Accept of the        
ffrench Proposalls  The states Genll have sent to ffrance their                 
Resolutions that if the King will Abide by his Proposalls in Novembr            
they will Endeavor to Induce Spaine to Accept them  if not they will            
Assist Spaine Agt them &c and have sent the P of Orange to Brabant to           
his forces but to Returne in 4 dayes & ordered all those who waited for         
Comissions to Attend at the Hague & Its hoped they will Instead of the          
16000 new Levyes Agree to 35000, Amsterdam beginning now to be of the           
sentiment to repell force with force foreseeing if the ffrench get              
Luxemburgh they will gaine Antwerpe & shut up the Scheld & make that            
Citty the Generall Mart for Germany which being A Comodious Port will           
Exclude Amsterdam                                                               
     This day dr Oates was Arrested at the suite of his R: Highs in A           
scandalum Magnatum for 100000 L & Carryed to the Poultry Compter                
     L. c. 1535     London 13th May 1684                                        
+Yesterday being the last of the Terme mr Cawdron was brought up to             
Receive judgment where An Affidavit was Read which Conteyned That he            
was descended of An Ancient & Loyall family That when he was Mayor of           
Waterford in Ireland he Refused the orders sent for Proclaiming                 
Oliver Cromwell Protector with many other Perticulars of his Good               
affection &c  In fine the Court ffined him 100 L & to stand 2 times             
in the Pillory & find sureties for the Good behaivor dureing life               
     mr Jones moved for judgment Agt mr Samll Parker Convicted for              
writeing that his Matye had noe Negative voyce in Passing bills                 
     mr Parker Alledged that what he wrote was out of Prinns booke.  My         
Lord said he ought to have his eares Cropt as Prinns were & demanding           
what Estate he had mr Jones said none soe had only judgment to stand 3          
times in the Pillory & find sureties for his good behaivor dureing life         
     ffour knights of the Post had judgment to stand in the Pillory &           
Another at drs Comons for forgeing letters of Administration                    
     mr Vavasor & Peters Prisoners in Newgate these 3 yeares as                 
Concerned in the Popish Plott but noe Processe Agt them are discharged          
+His Matye & the Court are in Health at Windsor where last Sunday it was        
declared That his R: Highs is made Ld High Admirall of England & Its            
Affirmed the Ld Dartmouth is made Vice Admirall & Capt Herbert Rere             
Admirall & that Samll Pepis Esqr is Restored Secretary thereto & Its            
Generally said the E of Rochester will be made Ld High Treasurer                
     Yesterday morning the Princesse of Denmarke was delivered of A             
Daughter which soon after died but shee is very well                            
     dr Oates hath brought his Habeas Corpus & is gone over to the Kings        
bench                                                                           
     This day mr Holloways Confession was Published in 4 sheets                 
+Our letters from Dublin bring A Proclamation Prohibitting the                  
Transporting any Corne out of that Kingdome The Price of Corne being            
soe Raised thereby that A Peny white loafe which usually Conteyned              
7 1/2 ounces was Reduced to 6 1/2 ounces which Rise on A sudden put the         
People into A greate Consternation                                              
     Last Sunday 31 persons were taken at A Conventicle & 28 of them            
were today at Guildhall found Guilty of A Rout                                  
     Its now said that the E of Oxford has Parted with his Regemt to the        
d of Albemarle & the duke his Place of Capt of the Guards to Prince             
George                                                                          
     mr Dutton Colt Agt whome his R: Highs had A verdict for 100000 L           
is escaped beyond sea.  All our fforreign Posts are wanting                     
     L. c. 1536     London 15 May 1684                                          
+His R: Highs is not made Ld High Admirall as was Reported but                  
Constituted as it were director of all affaires of that office which            
his Matye still Reserves in him selfe & will him selfe signe all orders         
& Comissions Relateing thereto                                                  
     Most of the sea Comanders now in Towne have been to Congratulate           
his R: Highs on this occasion & also many other who have dependance on          
the Admiralty or seeking Employes therein                                       
     This morning his Matye Came to Whitehall where A greate Councell           
was held his R: Highs present                                                   
     Its Reported dr Oates will be Prosecuted for some undecent words           
Agt his Matye                                                                   
     The severall single Companies will be formed into Regemts of which         
the Ld Dartmouth will Comand one & 6 of the Companies that Came from            
Tangier will be filled up & lye in Garrison at Pendennis Castle in              
Cornwall                                                                        
     Severall New Companies of Dragoons now Raising are Almost Compleate        
     Wee have A discourse Abt Towne of A new Conspiracy but what grounds        
there is for it wee know not                                                    
     All those in the Kings bench save Aaron Smith have now the liberty         
of the Rules                                                                    
     The New Charter for this Citty is now Engrossed & Gone through             
severall offices & tis said Agrees with the old save the Regulations            
which the Ld Keeper Required in his Speech to the Ld Mayor &c at Windsor        
last June                                                                       
     The Benchers of the Temple last weeke Called A Parliamt & Expelled         
12 Gent Complained Agt as Ryotters the last Revelling                           
     Our Holland letters say that severall of the Cittyes are for the           
Agreeing to the Proposall of ffrance & its believed the states will             
Agree to them the ffrench K: Assureing them That assoon as he is master         
of Luxemburgh he will Returne to Paris & meddle with none of the Barryer        
Townes                                                                          
+In the meane time Its said Luxemburgh Cannot hold out 10 dayes & letters       
from the ffrench Campe say that they should be masters of it before             
those letters Come to us.  The ffrench K Hunting neer Mons was in danger        
to be taken by A Party from that garrison                                       
+This day at the sessions in the old Bayly Proclamation was made for            
those dissenters to Appear Agt whome writts were Ishued out of the              
Prerogative Court for Nonconformity but none of them Appeared                   
+The ship London is Arrived from East India very Richly laden & brings          
newes that the six ships the Company sent thither are Arrived there &           
fraughting & that the Company have bought up all the goods that the             
Interlopers must Returne without ffraught which hath Raised the Auctions        
of the Company from 215 to 225                                                  
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
                                                                                
     L. c. 1537     London 17th May 1684                                        
+At the Councell at Whitehall on Thursday Its said 16 Articles of High          
Treason were Exhibitted Agt dr Oates & also some debates of very greate         
Concernment did Arise from the late James Hollowayes Confession & Papers        
Insomuch that severall Warrants are gone into the Country by Messengers         
to fetch up offenders & Its Reported that Coll Rumsey has not dealt             
Ingeniously with his Matye as to his discovery & that he will be brought        
to A Tryall very suddenly                                                       
     After the Councell Arose his Matye gave A vissit to the Princesse          
of Denmarke & dined at the ds of Portesmouths Lodgings where also were          
the ffrench & Spanish Ambrs & that Night Returned Againe to Windsor             
     The E of Peterborough has brought his Action of scandalum Magnatum         
Agt mr Dangerfeild for what was Agt his Lordship in his Printed                 
Narrative also Agt the booksellers who Published the same & Its said            
that some of the Popish Lds late in the Tower Intend to bring their             
Actions Agt dr Oates who has sent to most of his Acquaintance to be his         
bayle in the Action Agt him by his R: Highs but now are soe hardy as to         
Adventure  The Words Agt him are said to be that Receiving A 9 d Post           
letter he said his money went for Maintenance of the Po[pish?] Rascall          
the d: of Y or to that or worse effect                                          
     Our sessions at the old Bayly Ended last night where the Grand jury        
made A prsentment Agt such who write false newes & Reflect on his Matye &       
the goverment                                                                   
     Our fflanders letters say That Luxemburgh made A stout defence &           
there is noe Appearance of their being Reduced to any Extremity this            
month  But our ffrench letters say That the Governor of Luxemburgh sent         
word to the M: de Grana that without speedy Releife he Could not defend         
the Towne & had for Answer to surrender on the best Termes he Could &           
Its beleived the Place will be surrendered as to morrow which Causes            
some to thinke there is an understanding between ffrance & Spaine &             
that Holland will be left as A Prey to the former  The Dutch begin to be        
sencible That the opposeing the Prince was A ffrench Intreague to divide        
them Agt their Interest & should Spaine for An Equivalent give up the           
Province of Gueldres which is the barryer between the dutch & the               
ffrench Conquests they would be Exposed                                         
+This day 3 persons stood in the Pillory being part of the 27 [?] who           
hold A Corporation to Swear for hire what was Prompted to them though it        
were to the loss of any mans life or Estate                                     
+The yong Ld Berkeley A Noble man of 18 yeares of Age haveing sometime          
since killed A Suttler [?] in the Savoy yesterday the grandjury found           
A bill of Indictment for Murther Agt him who must be tryed by his Peers         
soe soon as his Matye Pleases to Constitute A Court for the same                
     L. c. 1538     London 20th May 1684                                        
+The Ld Chancellor Ld Treasurer Ld Privy Seale & others of the Nobility         
of Scotland in all 22 are Arrived at Windsor & Its said there is some           
diference Among them & that some would Endeavor to get the Chancellor           
Removed  They are to be heard before his Matye on [?] this day at               
Windsor                                                                         
     On Sunday last A quakers meeting was disturbed in Lumbard street           
& Abt 120 of them seized & Abt 40 Comitted  the Rest Promised one for           
another to Appear                                                               
     Betwixt 20 & 30 stout merchants ship which were Ready to sayle             
hence for Venice to be hired in the Service of that state are stopt             
upon Application in de[ference?] to his Matye by the Turkey Company             
setting forth the ill Consequences it might have on the Levant trade &c         
     At the quarter sessions held at Chichester some scores of Gent &c          
were Indicted Convicted & ffined for A Ryott Comitted formerly in               
meeting the duke of Monmoth some small distance & waiteing on him into          
the Citty                                                                       
     Our fforeign letters say That Luxemburgh makes A stout defence &           
the governor hath sent word he will defend it to the last of Time & Count       
Waldeck hath sent word that he is Marched as far as Coblenz (which is Abt       
40 miles from Luxemburgh) with 30000 men with orders & A Resolution to          
Releive Luxemburgh & would hasten his March thither assoon as he Could          
     The K of Spaine hath sent word to the M: de Grana that the warr            
should Proceed for he was Resolved to have An Honourable peace or               
hazzard A warr to obtaine it but there Appeares no disposition in the           
Dutch to Assist the Spaniard                                                    
     Our fforreign letters Intimate That the ffrench want money & the           
dane finding money not to Come According to Agreemt hath disbanded              
some of his forces & will Alter his Resolutions & letters from Hamburgh         
say That by the Interposition of the queens mother A good understanding         
is made between the 2 Northerne Crownes, Also that Abt Hamburgh there           
are such greate quantities of Mice & Ratts that they have devoured most         
of the Corne & Although they have killed thousands yet they Rather              
Increase which makes the people fear A famine & that they make such A           
strong Noyse in the Night that People in the Country villages Cannot            
Rest                                                                            
+here is A discourse that the Grandjury have found the bill of Treason          
Agt dr Oates                                                                    
     Its Generally discoursed that the ffrench K is very sick at Conde          
     All the Ports of this Kingdome are Narrowly watched but wee know           
n[ot] for what Reason                                                           
     L. c. 1539     London 22d May 1684                                         
+The ffrench K hath been Twice let blood at Conde being very dangerously        
ill of A Pestilentiall feavor                                                   
     His Matye & the Court are in good health at Windsor  his Matye             
diverts himselfe in Walkeing & the Touring in which the Courtiers are           
outdone by his Matye                                                            
     Prince Georges Cheife diversion is Rideing the greate horse in             
which Its thought he will Excell                                                
     Sr Cornwall Bradshaw hath Major Huntingdons Place in the Excise            
     The ffrench fleet have orders to make warr on the state of Genova &        
are arrived there & have with their Bombes attacqued that Citty & done          
greate mischeife in the harbour for which warr some Assigne 2 Reasons           
     first to give the Venetians A divertisement for Carrying on the            
warr by sea Agt the Turks                                                       
     2ly to make himselfe master of that Citty & Its Revenues who               
Receive 1700000 L p An Constantly as Interest for money oweing them by          
Spaine                                                                          
     The Citty have sent Ambrs to their Neibors to pray assistance              
     7 divers Apprentices haveing warned [?] their masters before the           
Chamberlain Complaining they would force them [to goe?] to Conventicles         
The masters are severely Rebuked & the servants ordered to goe to their         
Parrish Churches & as occasion should offer to Renew their Complaints           
     Abt 100 of the quakers taken last Sunday have sent by their freinds        
5 d Apeece it being the first offence & Abt 30 stand Comitted who were          
old offenders                                                                   
     Luxemburgh holds out well & Count Waldeck is within 3 dayes March          
of the Place But the ffrench are masters of the outworks & are lodged           
in the Towne ditch  Its Computed the ffrench have already lost 16000            
men 36 officers & 240 yong Gent, all the English Lds & Gent in the              
Campe are Extreamly kindly used by M: de Crequi who will not suffer any         
to Expose themselves in danger but those that have Comands                      
     A few dayes since one mr Vespritt A Romanist Comeing to the Kings          
bench prison to vissit one Peters tooke occasion to give Reproachfull           
Language to dr Oates & at Length Spitt in his face  The dr tooke all            
patiently only Replying I have nothing to doe with you but offering             
to draw his Sword  The dr got withim [sic] him tooke away his Sword             
& broke it  This put all the Prison in Confusion & had not mr Vespritt          
got away he had been beaten since which the marshall suffers none to            
goe in either with A sword or stick                                             
     Two dayes since died the Countesse of Bedford whose death Its              
thought was Hastned by that of her sons the late Ld Russell                     
     L. c. 1540     London 24th May 1684                                        
+This morning his R: Highs went for Windsor where A Councell is sumoned         
to sit to Morrow  The greate men from Scotland have not yet had their           
heareing before his Matye  They all Came to Towne with his R: Highs &           
Returned this morning with him to Windsor                                       
     Last Tuesday his Matye dined with the Ld Ch. Justice Jeffries at           
his house at Bulstrode Abt 6 miles from Windsor                                 
     On Wednesday his R: Highs goes to Debtford Woolwich Chattam                
Portesmouth &c to order some ships of warr for the summers Guard                
     The Venetian Ambr hath Acquainted the E: India Company That he             
hath orders to buy A greate quantity of Saltpetre & if they Please will         
buy all they have upon which Sr Josiah Child yesterday Acquainted his           
R: Highs where after some debate it was agreed they should have it &            
what more should Come on by ships that are Exspected                            
     Our letters from Genoa seem not to vallue the utmost the ffrench           
Can doe in their Citty                                                          
     The Report wee had of the Indisposition of the ffrench K is not            
Confirmed nor now Creditted                                                     
     Our fforreign letters say That Luxemburgh makes A stout defence            
with their Cannon & hand Granadoes                                              
     That An Expresse is Come from the d of Bavaria to the M: de Grana          
That his forces will soon be at Luxemburgh where is dayly Considderable         
Action Exspected                                                                
     The ffrench subsidies not Comeing to Denmarke Causes various               
Apprehensions in that goverment  In the meane time the Danish subjects          
are dayly opprest with Taxes those who use but an Ellwand or A small Pare       
of scales Paying 5 Rix Dollars                                                  
     Also Its said the D of Brandenburgh Espouses the Interest of the           
Empire though he has Received 60000 Rix dollars from ffrance                    
     Our last Advices from Spaine say their queen is dead & that the            
ffrench have noe Cause to boast of the Action in Cattalonia                     
     Tis said Lieutenant Coll Nicolson who was an officer in Tangier is         
to be sent to Morocco to Negotiate A Peace with that Emperor                    
     They write from Scotland that A Proclamation is Published That             
whereas the E of Argile hath not only Consulted with the English                
Conspirators but hath been very Eminently Active therein & undertooke           
to Raise A Considderable force in Scotland for beginning & Carrying on          
that designe Therefore Comands many Noblemen & Gent some of which are to        
have 300 men others 200 & others 100 makeing in all 400 men to be Ready         
to March with 30 dayes Provisions when Required to assist the Respective        
Lieutenants &c                                                                  
     They write from Constantinople that their Army is Already 170000           
fighting men with which they boast to effect greate matters this                
summer & have sent to Count Teckley with greate Promises of Large               
assistance to Induce him to stick Close to their Interests                      
     L. c. 1541     London 27th May 1684                                        
+Last night Came an Expresse to his Matye from the D of Grafton & E of          
Ossery that Luxemburgh was surrendred on the 16th Instant on very               
Honourable Termes                                                               
     The ffrench Ambr here hath Assured his Maty his master will not            
make any further progress in fflanders & the ffrench Ambr at the Hague          
hath Assured the states of the like                                             
     Last Sunday Abt 4 afternoon A fire broke out in Deadmans Place in          
Southwarke which burnt part of mr Austins brew house & some few houses          
neer it & Burnt with greate violence for 2 houres                               
     On Sunday Abt 11 at night A fire happened at Windsor which burnt           
only A few stables                                                              
+They write from Plimouth that on the 20th Instant 65 yong people of            
Padstow in Cornwall going in A ffisher boate to sea for Pleasure were           
all drowned Except 2 Boyes                                                      
     On Sunday A duell was fought at Windsor between mr Brother & mr            
Staples & the latter killed  also mr Darry & mr Parker 2 Gent of the            
Guards quarrelled & the former was killed                                       
     On Satureday night sate A Councell of Warr at Whitehall upon An            
Accusation Agt Sr Robt Holmes but for what or the Result is not said            
it being very private & sent that night to his Matye                            
     His Matye hath made mr Pepis Secretary of the Admiralty with Power         
to Administer An oath to any Concerned on Anything Relateing thereto            
     mr Hugh Speake who was fined & Comitted to the Kings Bench is now          
Confined to his Chamber one dr ffaircloth (A prisoner also) haveing Its         
said sworne some words Agt him Relateing to the late Conspiracy                 
     Since the affront Put upon dr Oates by mr Vespritt 2 other Persons         
have affronted him even to the breach of the Peace but the dr was quitt         
with them & the Marshall hath bound them over to Answer it at the               
assizes  Its the Comon discourse that one if not both will be found             
Popish Preists                                                                  
     Yesterday one mr Jackson A warehouse keeper in Bow Lane was                
Executed for Clipping  he died very penitent & to the last denyed either        
Clipping or Coyneing but declared it A Conspiracy in the Witnesses to           
take away his life                                                              
     On this day the Company of Stationers mett & their Charter was             
Read which Contains That the Master Wardens Clerke &c shall be Approved         
by his Matye  That the master & Wardens by warrant from the Ld Ch.              
Justice or Secretary are to search any shop warehouse &c & seize all            
seditious books  That none sell books or Pictures or keep A Printing            
Presse within 4 miles of London who are not free of that Company  That          
all books be Registred &c                                                       
     Its Againe discoursed his Matyes whole Revenue will in A little            
time be mannaged by such greate men as will Advance A Considderable             
summe & Assure A Certain summe yearly into the Exchequer                        
     L. c. 1542     London 29th May 1684                                        
+Our ffrench letters say that when the Governor of Luxemburgh beate A           
Parly the M: de Crequi sent him A blanke Paper to write his own                 
Conditions, mr Howard 2d son to the E of Carlisle was killed in the             
Trenches by A Musquett shott  The ffrench were to take Posession of the         
Place on Satureday last                                                         
     The ffrench King Intends to be at Versailles by the 8th of June &          
Its believed he will not meddle more though Its said here he designes           
the takeing of Mons in his way home                                             
     This day being his Matyes birth & Restauration the deane of                
Westminster preached before the Ld Mayor, who this day Invited the Ld           
Ch: Justice the Aldermen &c                                                     
     Before his Matye at Windsor Preached the Archbp of Canterbury, at          
the Evening his Matye is Entertained with mr drydens new play the subject       
of which is the last new Plott                                                  
     The King goes not to Winchester till the 7th June & stayes till            
the 14th then Returnes to Windsor & in August goes back to Winchester           
for 30 dayes                                                                    
     Yesterday mr Norton the printer master of the Stationers Company &c        
waited on his Matye with their Addresse of thanks for their new Charter         
who Recd them Graciously                                                        
     The Borough of Linn have Agreed to surrender their Charter                 
+Sr Tho: Perkins of Notinghamshire being A Witnesse last Terme for those        
Convicted of A Ryott at Notingham in whose defence he said he was there         
all the while & neither saw nor heard any of the things Charged &c upon         
which An Information is or will be Exhibitted Agt him this Terme as one         
of the said Ryotters                                                            
     The Tryall of dr Oates on his R: Highs suite will Certainly be             
brought on this Terme but as to the Reports of an Indictment Agt him            
for Treason they are not beleived or Creditted                                  
     Yesterday the Ds of Modena Parted hence for Italy                          
     One of the Breaches assigned Agt the Collony of Massachusetts in           
New England is their Coyneing money                                             
     Last Sunday A Barbarous Murther was Comitted by A Husband upon his         
wife  They went to walke togather & in A feild neer Tyburne  he beate her       
with A greate Cane & soe broke her head that the very Braines Appeared          
& after Cut her throate where shee lay A sad spectacle  But he was not          
discovered till Tuesday that An Ancient woman found the shape of A Cane         
neer the Place which shee shewing to severall was at last owned by A            
Gent who lent his Cane to the Murtherer who hath Confessed the fact &           
is Comitted                                                                     
     The d of Bucks went sometime since to Yorkshire designeing Privacy         
but was soon knowne by the Gentry who paid him very greate Respect &            
Entertained him Splendidly as also did the Citty of Yorke                       
     His Matye hath declared that he thought it fit & for his service           
that his R: Highs should be prsent at the meetings of the Councell              
     L. c. 1543     London 31st May 1684                                        
+Yesterday being the first of the Terme A jury was sworne to try that           
greate Cause between Esqr Neale & the Lady Ivy which in the declaration         
is mentioned for 400 messuages 400 Cottages &c in St Paulls Shadwell            
which is to be tryed next Tuesday                                               
     mr Atturney moved that the final judgment Agt the Citty of Chester         
might be Entred up & spoke as if the Citty would make noe defence & mr          
Williams being there said nothing to it soe it was ordered That unless          
Cause be shewed within A weeke judgment should be Entred up & the like          
is ordered Agt the Citty of Yorke if they also shew not Cause wthin A           
weeke                                                                           
     mr Sacheverill &c are to be sentenced next ffriday                         
     mr Walter Williams A Barrister Concerneing some hardships in               
Chancery prsented A Petition to the King with A Printed booke for which         
he was bound to Answer at this Terme & Appeareing had A Reprimand by the        
Ld Ch: Justice as Reflecting on the late & prsent Chancellors & Advised         
him to waite on the Ld Keeper & make his peace & it would be better for         
him To which mr Williams seemed Ready to Comply                                 
     This day An Information was Read Agt Robt Julyan who Pleaded not           
Guilty for writeing A Libell Entituled old Symon the King which was Read        
& began The makeing of bastards greate & dutchesses every where &c  my          
Lord was Extreamly Incensed at the Crime                                        
     The son of the late Ld Russell A youth of 8 or 10 yeares old is            
taken Extream sick & should he dye the Title of E: of Bedford will              
descend to mr Hen: Russell next Brother to the late Ld Russell which            
otherwise would be Extinct as Attainted by the Execution of the deceased        
Ld Russell for High Treason                                                     
     A false Report haveing been spread Abt the Country that his Matye          
designed speedily to Call A Parliamt & that thereupon many Gent had made        
Interest in order to their being Elected his Matye hath Comanded                
Circular letters to be sent to all the Ld Lieutenants to Informe them           
that at prsent he hath noe such Intention but that when he thinks fit           
to Call A Parliamt they shall have timely notice & in the Interim               
Comands them to suppresse all such false Rumors & to Punish the Authors         
     And his Matye haveing notice that some Persons were busy Promoteing        
A Tumultuous Petition for the sitting of A Parliamt hath also Comanded          
the Lieutentants to Enquire after the Promoters of such seditious               
Practices & to Put A stopp to the same                                          
     The ds of Yorke is very ill                                                
     The Company of vintners Petitioned his Matye that they might not           
be obliged to take Licences but to sell wine as ffreemen of London              
which is granted                                                                
     Our Holland letters say that the States Genll declare that unlesse         
the ffrench K will Assure them he will not meddle with the Barryer they         
will hazzard all to defend it  The surrender of Luxemburgh is dubious           
being neither Confirmed nor yet Contradicted                                    
     L. c. 1544     London 3d June 1684                                         
+A Rule of Court being made for the d of Bucks to shew Cause why A              
Supplicavitt should not be granted Agt him & 3 of his servants upon the         
oath of John Goodchild sweareing the duke &c Came with Blunderbushes &          
broke open A door to find Goodchild & kill him                                  
     Yesterday the duke Came into Court & his Councell moved That the           
said John Goodchild had been his Bayliffe & he had Contracted with              
him to make Provision for him & his family & Returneing out of the              
North to his house Called Cleveden found neither Provision for man nor          
beast & Enquireing for Goodchild heard he was in the Neiborhood & had           
in his hand A stick only  The duke said that it was An Age of Wonderfull        
witnesses That as to his haveing Blunderbushes he said he always                
travelled with such & would not goe without                                     
     In fine the duke entred on 1000 L Recognizance & 2 sureties each           
500 L to Appear in Court this day 12 months & in the meane time to keep         
the Peace towards John Goodchild & the dukes servants Entred into               
Recognizances with the like Conditions                                          
     dr Oates hath Recd A very long declaration in his R: Highs Action          
which is layd in 5 wayes for words said to be spoken to A Postman who           
brought him A letter taxed 9 d                                                  
     Mr Hugh Speake hath also Recd another upon the dukes Action which is       
to be tryed at Hertford  In Sussex A writt of Enquiry is Executed Agt one       
mr Covett An Atturney of Chichester at the dukes suite & 100000 L damages       
given                                                                           
     This day Came on the Tryall betwixt the Lady Ivy & Esqr Neale which        
held till 8 at night & Its thought the verdict will be for the Esqr             
     Last weeke the Ld Chancellor of Scotland &c set forwards for               
Edenbrough Those who Its said Came to oppose the Continuance of the Ld          
Chancellor in that office haveing not been able to effect anything              
     Her R: Highs is pretty well Recovered                                      
     Yest the Princesse of denmarke was Churched                                
     Last Sunday severall quakers were taken in Gracechurch street &            
severall Comitted                                                               
     Yesterday severall quakers Appeared at drs Comons being prsented for       
not Comeing to Church  The Court gave them till the 4th octobr to bring         
Certificates of Conformity  otherwise processe should be Ishued out Agt         
them                                                                            
     The Westminster Royall feast is Appointed to be the 10th July              
+Luxemburgh was not surrendred on the 20th May as was Reported A                
diference happening as to Point of time  But o[u]r ffrench letters this         
Evening say That the Prince de Chimay beate A 2d Parly on the 3d New            
Stile & the next day the Articles were signed & Hostages Given & the            
Garrison were to march out on the 7th on Honourable Conditions                  
     They write from Gironne that the Spaniards suffered the ffrench            
to Enter that Place but beate them out with the losse of some thousands         
& Raised the seige                                                              
     L. c. 1545     London 5th June 1684                                        
+Yesterday morning the jury gave in their verdict for the Esqr Neale            
Agt the Lady Ivy  There were on both sides 30 Councill & 60 witnesses           
Examined & abundance of deeds Read some of which were lookt on as               
forged & the Lady Ivy Proved A very bad woman & some of her witnesses           
worse who tis said will be Prosecuted for fforgery it Appeareing that           
1/2 [?] of the Ladys seeming deeds dated the 2d & 3d of Phillip & Mary          
whereby shee Entituled herselfe to that greate estate were lately               
forged  A woman deposeing that they put saffron into the Inke to make it        
Appear yellowish & to make the Parchment Appear to be Ancient they layd         
it all night on A Balcony to Receive Moysture & then held it to the             
fire to shrivell & after Rubbed it with Rusty Iron &c                           
     Complaint being made Agt 4 Baylies in Somersetshire for breaking           
open A house to Arrest a Person there The Court was very Angry & ordered        
Attachments agt them all                                                        
     The Court ordered that unlesse St Ives in Cornwall Pooll in                
dorsetshire & Scarbrough in Yorkshire plead to the Quo Warrantoes within        
A weeke judgment should be entred up                                            
    ffrancis Smith Senior has notice to take his tryall next Tuesday            
for Printing & Publishing the Ballad or Libell Called the Raree Show            
    One Peter Isam & one Brownstead haveing deceitfully obtained 30 L           
of the Charity money given to the Prisoners of the Kings bench were             
ordered to stand in the Pillory at Westminster & the R: Exchange                
     mrs Cellier formerly fined 1000 L & out on bayle moved for Arrest          
of judgment & the Court ordered the Coppie of their Exceptions to be            
given to mr Atturney & that he might have time to speake to it                  
     The Warden of the fleet was severely Reprimanded for not                   
Returneing his writts as he ought & 2 houres after brought up Hilton            
the informer on A writt of Habeas Corpus telling the Court he thought it        
was Hiltons designe to be turned over to the Kings bench to wrong him of        
his just ffees &c who said he had spent all his money for the Publick           
however the Court said he must pay the Warden & Remanded him                    
     This day mr Atturney moved that the Cause between the King & the           
Bermudas Company might be tryed this Terme which is granted                     
+Its now Confirmed on all hands that Luxemburgh was delivered on the            
28th Past The Governor marching out 800 men being the Remainder of 2500         
who were in the Place  The M: de Grana is Extreamly afflicted at Its            
loss being one of the strongest Places in his Goverment & the only              
Passing he had into Germany Especially that the dutch troops should lye         
still with whome he was at 50000 dollars p month Charge                         
     The 2 ships lately arrived from East India on the Companies Account        
bring Advice that there are greater Numbers of Interlopers in those seas        
then ever & that they would trade there to the Irreparable damage of the        
Company                                                                         
     Yesterday 200 ffoot dragoons with Pole Axes & Granado shells in            
Pouches Mustered in Covent Gardens & are Equally divided into the 29            
Companies of the Kings Regement                                                 
     L. c. 1546     London 7th June 1684                                        
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr the Notingham Ryotters were Called &         
Wm Sacheverill, George Gregory & Charles Hutchinson Esqrs Appeared as           
also John & Wm Greaves Samll & Arthur Riccards &c  The Court asked if           
Enquiry had been made into their estates  The Atturney Genll answered           
That mr Sacheverill & mr Gregory had each Abt 1000 L p An & Hutchinson          
Abt 200 L p An & the Rest worth Abt 200 L or 100 L each  The Court              
ordered the 3 first to Attend the Court next ffriday & the other 15 to          
goe home                                                                        
     Then the Grandjuryes for the severall hundreds of Middlesex were           
sworne  To whome mr justice withens gave the Charge in the usuall               
manner Concerning the offences Agt Church & state                               
     This day at the Kings bench barr Arthur Anslow Esqr & his son              
Richard Appeared who being prsented at A sessions in Surrey as disaffected      
to the Goverment were bound over & this day moved to be discharged but          
were obliged to enter in new Recognizance of each 1000 L & sureties each        
500 L to be of good behaivor 12 months  It was mentioned Agt Anslow that        
he should say the Power was in the People & that the King had noe Power         
but from the people                                                             
     mr Atturney Answered the Exceptions of mrs Celliers Councell in            
Arrest of judgment & the Court tooke time till next Terme to give their         
opinion                                                                         
     One Robt Nicholson & another both formerly servants of dr Oates            
are Comitted to the Gatehouse tis said for Treason                              
     This day mr Wm Snow one of the doorkeepers of the House of Lds             
was taken into Custody by mr Atterbury the messenger  tis thought to be         
Abt dr Oates                                                                    
     Mr Cooper doorkeeper of the house of Comons is dead                        
     mr Dickenson who brings the Appeale Agt Scarlet for Murthering             
his Brother in drs Comons moved to have the originall mended but the            
Court would not grant it saying they would allow noe faivor to gratify          
the vengance of any perticular person                                           
     This weeke Capt Manly & another were stopt at Harwich upon                 
suspition it being found that Manly gave his name backwards there being         
one in the Company that knew him to be A mighty busy man in London amonge       
the disaffected & at the Wapping treate of the d: of Monmoth but at last        
they were dismist & went for Holland                                            
+Since the surrender of Luxemburgh the M: de Crequi is gone with most of        
his Army to joyne the ffrench Campe neer Mons on which place Its thought        
they have A designe but will attempt nothing till the time be Expired           
granted to the dutch                                                            
     A generall Muster is Appointed of the Kings forces both horse &            
ffoot in all their Gallantry on the 15th Instant on Hounslow Heath              
halfe way to Windsor                                                            
     Our letters from Edenbrough give A Large Account of the                    
solemnization of the 29th May there  That 55 old men in New blew Gownes         
went in way of Procession from the Abby to the new Church & Prayed for          
his Matye &c and the Privy Councell Majestrates &c treated at the               
Tolbooth where they dranke the Kings health &c                                  
     L. c. 1547     London 10th June 1684                                       
+The states of Holland haveing formerly granted A warrant for securing          
Sr Tho: Armstrong mr fferguson mr Goodenough & mr Rumbald where ever            
found in their dominions The said warrant lay dormant in some hands who         
Watcht all their motions from Cleves & being Informed Sr Thomas was to          
[go?] by water to Leyden they went in the Passage boate with him & when         
they Came to the ffirst Place in the states dominions they seized him &         
he is this night brought hither & to morrow morning his Matye is                
Exspected at Whitehall where the Councell are to sit thereupon,                 
fferguson & Rumbald were with him but escaped                                   
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr A motion was made for A Tipstaffe to         
fetch up the Mayor & Bayliffs of Berwick for not obeying A writt of             
Habeas Corpus & the Court ordered that unlesse they show Cause by the           
first day of the Next Terme A Tipstaffe should be then sent                     
     The Corporation of dunwich in suffolke are ordered to Plead to             
the Quo Warranto Agt them in A weeks time                                       
     The Tryall between the King & the Bermudas Company is to be next           
Munday                                                                          
     An Information being Exhibitted Agt one mr Butler of                       
Northamptonshire for delivering of A Paper at the Election of Knights of        
the shire there in the name of the Electors to the Elected he is ordered        
to Plead to it before the end of this Terme                                     
+The dukes Atturney or Solicittor Calling on dr Oates for A Plea he said        
he was Ready but Could not get any Councell to signe it & some say Added        
Tell your master I neither Love nor fear him, soe that Its believed he          
will suffer it to goe by default                                                
     This day Sr Edw: Herbert moved That wheras the said Oates Intends          
to let it goe by default he desired A writt of Enquiry for damages & the        
Court has ordered that oates should show Cause to morrow why A writt            
should not be granted                                                           
     With one of Oates his former servants Its Reported is taken A list         
of all such as were his Benefactors  Also there is A Report that A bill         
of Indictment is found Agt him at Westminster                                   
+They write from Ireland that there hath been & still Continues A greate        
mortallity among their Cattle which hath Raised Provisions Extreamly            
Also that the Ld Mayor & Aldermen of Dublin have Agreed to surrender            
their Charter                                                                   
+for 20 miles Round London there hath been A greate & generall Complaint        
by the farmers & Gardeners that the fruites of the earth are almost             
destroyed by Catterpillers                                                      
     Since the surrender of Luxemburgh the ffrench & Spanish Ambrs Ply          
the states with memorialls but Its supposed the states will Comply with         
ffrance The Comonality being still Averse to the Warr unlesse the               
ffrench Enter into the Barryer                                                  
     The Turks Receive discouragemts in all Places soe the Emperor is           
at some ease on that side & how far he will act as to ffrance is now            
the greate question                                                             
     L. c. 1548     London 12th June 1684                                       
+Yesterday Abt 5 in the morning Sr Tho: Armstrong was brought from              
Greenwich to Newgate after which he was Carryed to Whitehall to be              
Examined where was the d: of Ormond The M of Hallifax Sr Lionell Jenkins        
&c and severall questions being askt him he Refused to Answer any soe           
was Remanded & ordered to be brought to the Kings Bench barr on                 
Satureday to shew Cause why judgment should not Passe Agt him on the            
outlawry  he seemes Extreamly disspiritted & Exspects nothing but death         
haveing already had his Matyes Pardon thrice & desires A souldiers              
Speedy death                                                                    
     Tis said his Matye hath ordered A Councell to morrow at Hampton            
Court & that he will be prsent & that Sr Thomas will be Examined there          
     Yesterday at the Kings bench barr A motion was made for An                 
Attachment Agt Hubert, Harrison & Bullock & others for oppressions they         
used by vertue of writts of Poynes [?] out of the Bp of Canterburyes            
Court Also Complaints Agt some in other Corporations for the like               
oppressions which will be severely lookt into                                   
     Complaints being made also Agt many Bayliffs in many parts of this         
Kingdome perticularly in Cornwall for greate Irregularities &                   
oppressions, Attachments were ordered Agt them unlesse they shew Cause          
by the first day of the next Terme                                              
+This day Sr Edw: Herbert moved That whereas Oates had now shewed Cause         
why A writt for Enquiry of damages should not be Executed That it might         
be next Wednesday which is granted                                              
     dr Barebone Complained that upon Ringing of A Bell yesterday at            
Grayes Inn Abt 300 Gentlemen with Naked swords Came out & fell upon his         
workemen that were building in Red Lyon feilds & wounded severall of            
them 2 or 3 dangerously & 5 others Appeared in Court much hurt, My Lord         
said it was A Rebellion & Tipstaves were sent to seize as many as they          
Can find                                                                        
     depositions have been made before one Justice Stiles of High               
Treason Agt dr Oates which we hear he will be suddenly Charged with             
     mr Snow doorkeeper of the House of Lds is at liberty on bayle              
     Yesterday Arrived the ship Loyall Merchant from Turkey & brought           
from Cadiz 200000 peeces of 8                                                   
     Yesterday the Princesse of Denmarke tooke the aire in her sedan it         
being the first time shee hath gone abroade since her lyeing in                 
     Our Holland letters Advise that the States Provinciall Carryed it          
by A Mayority of voyces for Concludeing A Peace or Truce upon the Termes        
Proposed by ffrance & it was beleived that the states Genll would Come          
to the same Resolution                                                          
     L. c. 1549     London 14th June 1684                                       
+Yesterday at the Kings Bench barr the Notingham Ryotters were fined            
vizt mr Sacheverill 500 Marks mr Gregory 300 mr Hutchinson 200 mr               
Charnell 100 mr Wilson 100 mr Turpin 100 mr Astlin being A Poor man 5           
marks which 7 persons the Court said had noe occasion to be there being         
not Concerned in the old or new Charter                                         
     mr Atturney Acquainted the Court that mr Sherwin was A Principle           
man in the Ryott soe he was fined 100 L & The Rest some 20 Marks & some         
20 Nobles each  The 3 first being in Court Prayed till to morrow to pay         
their fines & Promised to give sureties for the good behaivor soe were          
not Comitted                                                                    
+one mrs Perk who was brought up from Abingdon upon Complaint that shee         
kept A Conventicle in her house was Comitted                                    
     This day Sr Tho: Armstrong was brought to the Kings bench barr & bid       
to hold up his hand which he did & Required what he had to say why              
Execution should not be awarded Agt him he being outlawed for Treason  he       
Answered that he had been out of the Kingdome & knew of noe outlawry &          
Prayed that the statute of the 5th of Edw: the 6 might be Read which            
Imports that if outlawed persons surrender themselves in 12 months they         
should be Admitted to tryall &c                                                 
     This the Court overruled he haveing not surrendered himselfe but           
was taken & in fine A rule of Court was made for his Execution next             
ffriday                                                                         
     The Tipstaves went to Grayes Inn & dr Barebones workemen with them         
& the Hall was full of Gent but the Workemen Could not Charge any               
perticular person soe they did not meddle with any  But the Building            
goes forward                                                                    
     They write from fflanders that the ffrench Army is Increased to            
60000 men That Schomberg had orders to march to Brussells & Bombard             
that Citty upon which the M: de Grana Caused severall bridges to be             
made for Passage of the Army in Case of Necesity                                
     The P: of Orange Continues with his Army within halfe A League of          
Brussells  The divisions in Holland grow dayly greater some being for           
Agreeing with ffrance & some Agt it                                             
     Abt 3 weeks since A murther was Comitted in Scotland on A ffarmer          
who Returneing from Elgin Market found one of his servants in bed with          
his wife  The wicked woman Instigates the Adulterer to kill his master          
which he did & Carryed him to the highway as if murthered there  That           
night A Neibor dreamed the whole matter as it was Acted & the Murtherer         
was upon the dreame seized & forced to touch the Corps & it did not             
bleed but they being Informed that those that put some of the Murthered         
haire on the bodyes the Corps would not bleed soe long as it was there          
They thereupon stript him & found in each stocken A lock of haire & being       
after forced to touch the Corps it bled afresh  Upon which he Confessed         
the whole was Convicted & Executed                                              
     L. c. 1550     London 17th June 1684                                       
+When Sr Tho: Armstrong Appeared at the Kings bench barr & the statute          
Abt outlawries was Read he said he was within that statute & Prayed that        
Councell might be Assigned him to Argue it That he did Intend to have           
surrenderd himselfe & the time was not Elapsed by many months & that it         
was but A little while since the faivor of A Tryall was allowed to one          
outlawed who he thought was not soe Innocent as himselfe  The Court             
Answered there was no need of Councell &c & made A Rule for his                 
Execution                                                                       
     mr Atturney spoke as if his Matye would have allowed A tryall but          
that it Appeared That after the Kings Comeing from Newmarket sooner             
then was Exspected he was one that did Engage to goe & destroy him &            
that when he was taken severall letters were found Abt him that he had          
Correspondance with the Conspirators Agt the King &c                            
     Yesterday the Lady Armstrong moved the Ld Keeper in Chancery for A         
writt of Error but it was not granted                                           
     At the Kings bench barr was the tryall between the King & the Governor     
& Society in the Citty of London for the Plantation of Bermudas  The            
Kings Councell set forth that by Colour of An illegal order made at their       
Court they oppressed the Inhabitants with severall Taxes under Colour for       
support of Publick expence &c  In fine they agreed A verdict should passe       
for the King & the defendants Agreed to Referr it to his Matye                  
+mrs Perk of Abingdon hath given bayle to Appear this day 12 months &           
not to let her house in that towne for keeping A Conventicle                    
     mr Atturney moved for judgment Agt St Ives in Cornwall which is            
granted                                                                         
     Last Sunday mr Hayes Eldest son of Alderman Hayes the Linnen               
draper was Comitted to the Gatehouse for Treason for Remitting money to         
Sr Tho: Armstrong &  this day Appeared by Habeas Corpus & was Turned            
over to Kings bench & also mr Baker formerly A servant to mr Mountague          
is Comitted to the Gatehouse for Treason                                        
     mr Attwood A seminary Preist was Arraigned & Pleaded the Kings             
Pardon which is allowed                                                         
     On Sunday A meeting was seized in Thames street & Abt 20 of the            
Cheife Carryed before the Ld Mayor who bound them to Answer it at the           
sessions                                                                        
   Marshall Crequi hath made himselfe master of Tryers & is now                 
demolishing that Place & the ffrench have seized on Barkervill & Cothick        
& Its beleived Cologne will be suddenly in their Posession                      
+The heates & Animosities Continue in Holland & the time is Past the            
ffrench gave them to signe the Truce which not being signed the ffrench         
Army have orders to Bombard Brussells or Lessines &c                            
   The ffrench Army in Cattalonia is in A Sick & weake Condition by the         
heates                                                                          
+The victory obtained by the Poles over the Tartars is Confirmed                
+The d: of Lorraine with the Imperiall Army is marched directly for Buda        
   Tis said mr Sacheverills fine will be given to the building of               
Notingham bridge & the Rest to Chelsey Hospitall                                
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
   L. c. 1551     London 19th June 1684                                         
+Yesterday the writt of Enquiry was Executed Agt dr Oates  The witnesses        
were sworne                                                                     
     The first said that when the last Westminster Parliamt sate being          
in A Coffee house with Oates he saw him have A letter in his hand that          
Cost 10 d & said none were better for it but A traytor                          
     The 2d said that being in Company with Oates he said the d of Yorke        
is A traytor                                                                    
     The 3d said that one Mountague asked Oates if all things did goe           
well  he Answered no Not till the duke was either Banished or Hanged            
but that Hanging was the fittest for him                                        
     The 4th said that being at dinner with dr Oates & A Gente saying if        
his R: Highs Come to the Crowne how should they secure themselves from          
Popery Oates Answered they need not trouble themselves Abt that for he          
would be hanged before that                                                     
     And further that Oates haveing Preached at ffoster Lane was after          
sermon Invited to dinner who asked if any of them had dined with the d          
of Yorke & they being silent he said that he would not eate with them           
that had eaten with the devill went away & dined at Another place               
     The 5th said that when his R: Highs was Prosecuted for A Papist &          
that the grandjury were discharged sooner then were Exspected he said           
to Oates what will you do now you are Nonsuited  Oates Answered wee will        
doe well Enough & at him Againe & have noe more Regard to him then to           
A scavenger in Kent street                                                      
+The 6th said that Oates said he hoped to see Jemmy at the barr of the          
H of Comons & that there were better men there then him                         
     The 7th said that Oates said that London was burnt by the duke &           
that the duke was the son of A whore & he should live to see him hanged         
& they would take the Posthouse from him & give it to the d of Monmoth          
     The 8th said that Oates said the duke was A Rascall A Papist & A           
Traytor & that he hoped to see him hanged                                       
     The 9th said that Oates said the duke had Ruined the nation & if           
the devill had one place in Hell hotter then another he hoped he would          
bestow it on him                                                                
     The 10th said that Oates said the duke is A traytor                        
     The 11th said that Comeing to Oates for A Plea to the Declaration          
he said he neither Loved nor feared the duke & if he were in for                
100000 L he Cared not for it for if ever there Came A Parliamt he did           
not doubt but to have it forgiven him, The jury found 100000 L damages          
without goeing from the barr                                                    
   Elephant Smith had judgment to stand 3 times in the Pillory to Pay           
500 L & to find sureties dureing life                                           
     Sr Tho: Armstrongs lady Petitioned his Matye that her Husband might        
have A Tryall & afterwards Petitioned that his Matye would grant him A          
Pardon & he would discover the whole Conspiracy afterwards Petitioned           
that his body might be given her  all which were Rejected & his head will       
be fixt over the horse Guards by Whitehall & his quarters sent to               
Stafford where he was Chose member                                              
+mr duttoncoult who was Cast in 100000 L to his R: Highs is in Kings            
bench Prison                                                                    
     L. c. 1552     London 21st June 1684                                       
+Yesterday Abt 10 in the morning Sr Tho: Armstrong was drawne in A sledge       
to Tyburne & there hanged & quartered  he was habitted in A new black           
suite & short Perrewig & in his hand A Bible, all the way he Passed & at        
Execution he deported himselfe as A Gent A souldier & A Christian & much        
more of the last then was Exspected, dr Tennison minister of St Martins         
in the feilds was ffrequent with him & gave him the sacramt  he Confessed       
that he had Lived very loosely & that the death of mr Scroope whome he          
killed in the Playhouse was much upon his spiritts That God was just &c         
     He delivered A Paper to the sheriffe & told him all he had to say          
was therein & then turned to the Executioner & bid him dispatch which he        
did & after he had hung halfe An houre he was quartered & his quarters          
brought back to Newgate which will be disposed of as in my last                 
     Tis said the states of Holland have fined the Towne of Leyden &            
made A Placaert that for the future noe person shall be seized or               
molested for any Crime Comitted out of their jurisdiction as Sr Tho:            
Armstrong was                                                                   
     This weeke there was judgment given in Chancery Agt the Charter            
of New England                                                                  
     An Information is drawne Agt mr Williams tis said for Licenceing           
Narratives when he was Speaker & perticularly one of Dangerfeilds               
wherein his R: Highs the E of Peterbrough & others are mentioned                
     The Scotch Noblemen who Came to Complain Agt their Lord Chancellor         
Prevailed & the E of Perth is made Ld Chancellor in his stead & the Ld          
Balcarasse [?] is made Justice Generall in Place of the E of Perth              
     Next Thursday the duke dines with the Artillery Company                    
     This day Came in the Holland Post with Advice that the states              
Genll have Agreed to the Project of A Truce for 20 yeares which the             
ministers of the Allies are Much dissatisfied at & the Imperiall &              
Spanish Ambrs have left the Hague with greate disgust & Its said the            
swedish Ambr will doe the like  The Spanish Ambr before he went                 
delivered A sharpe memoriall declareing his Master would hazzard his            
Monarchy Rather then Submitt to the Termes of ffrance & the Emperor has         
Comanded all the Princes of the Empire to Arme Agt ffrance & will joyne         
them with 14000 of his owne.  The ffrench K is to Restore the                   
Principallity of Orange but the states to Pay 40000 Gilders p An for it         
The Citty of Amsterdam upon this Resolve & the delivery of their Papers         
have opened their banke of money, The Pope tis said has Called A                
Conclave & Excommunicated the ffrench K: for Attempting Genoa in that           
Hostile manner                                                                  
   The Turks are Come downe with A mighty force Contrary to all former          
Advices                                                                         
     L. c. 1553     London 24th June 1684                                       
+This being the day by Ancient Custome of this Citty for Choyce of              
sheriffs & other officers it was by some Exspected that some Choyce             
would have been made or declared by his Matye or directions to An               
Election but neither was done soe Its beleived that A new Charter will          
in A few dayes be delivered                                                     
     Sr Tho: Armstrong desired of the sheriffe That the Paper he gave           
him might be delivered into the hands of his R: Highs & some say when           
his Matye had Read it he was very much offended & tore it into many             
Peeces  There are Reports he died in the same opinion that Sidney did           
That the King had broke his oath & the people were noe longer tyed to           
their obedience  his head is to be set up at Westminster & one of his           
quarters sent downe to Stafford & the other 3 to be disposed of at the          
discretion of the sheriffs                                                      
     On Sunday morning Early An Anabaptist meeting was seized in                
Bishopsgate street & 15 of them bound to the sessions  they Pleaded             
there was noe Preaching but that would not doe                                  
     The same morning the quakers were seized at their meeting house            
in Gracechurch street & 6 of them bound to the sessions                         
     A Quo Warranto haveing been Ishued Agt the Borough of Colvern [?]          
Wiltshire the Inhabitants Raised A summe of Money for some to Come up &         
surrender their Charter who Instead thereof Put in A Plea for which last        
weeke the meaner sort were fined 5 s 4 d A man & the Rest ordered to            
Attend next Terme  also mr Hindmarsh the Bookseller who was Convicted for       
Publishing A Pamphlett Called the Presbiterians Pater Noster &c was fined       
20 L                                                                            
     Our fflanders letters say the D of Monmoth gave A splendid                 
Entertainment to the P of Orange & other Generalls &c That some Spaniards       
are landed at Ostend which make the Spaniards in fflanders 6000 effective       
That the states sent 3 deputies to the P of Orange to Acquaint him that         
Necesity obliged him to signe the Truce but they would take Care of his         
Concernes & ordered that their troops should Returne home  he Answered          
what they Comanded Abt their troops should be Punctually obeyed & as to         
his Concernes they need not trouble themselves for he would take Care of        
them himselfe                                                                   
+The Coppie of the Articles of the said Truce are delivered to the Ambrs        
of England Denmarke & Cologne that they may Procure their masters to            
Guarrantee the same as they before Promised                                     
     The d of Ormond is to goe suddenly for Ireland                             
+mr Brisband who was ordered to goe his Matyes Resident to Lisbone is           
dead                                                                            
     His Matye hath made the son of P Rupert by Madam Hughes Capt of            
that Company in his Regemt of Guards lately Comanded by Capt street             
     Tis said mr Oates will be further Proceeded Agt for some Criminall         
affaires & the matter which he layd to the Queen brought in Evidence            
Agt him                                                                         
     Tis said mr Hayes will be brought to his tryall this Ensuing               
sessions for Corresponding with declared traytors                               
+Teckley makes such high demands that there is noe hopes of Accomodation        
with him                                                                        
     L. c. 1554     London 26th June 1684                                       
+Yesterday the head of Sr Tho: Armstrong was set upon Westminster hall          
& his 3 quarters set upon Temple barr Aldersgate & Aldgate & the other          
quarter will be set up at Stafford                                              
     Tis said the Paper he gave to the sheriffe will be Published this          
night & Its the generall Report that therein he denyes all                      
     This day the Artillery Company Exercized & his R: Highs was with           
them & had not only the shoute of the Artillery men but also the loud           
acclamations of the People                                                      
     Yesterday died Sr Edw Deering one of the Lds Comissioners of the           
Treasury                                                                        
     Last Tuesday being midsomer day the Comissioners of the Excize &           
hearth money sate togather being the first time since their Conjuntion          
     Its the discourse Amonge the Gente of the Long Robe that 2                 
Informations are Exhibitted Agt mr Williams one for Lycenceing                  
Dangerfeilds Narrative & the other for the 2 Last dayes votes when the          
Parliamt was dissolved & also that A declaration upon A scandalum               
Magnatum at the dukes suite is drawne Agt him                                   
     Tis said mr Oates will be Indicted for High Treason                        
     Next Wednesday mr Hayes will be tryed at the old Bayly  he says he         
Concerned himselfe noe otherwise then in way of trade                           
     mr Hugh Speake Prisoner in the Kings bench under sentence of 1000 L        
for the King has notice to take A Tryall next Hartford Assizes upon An          
Action of scandalum Magnatum for 100000 L brought by his R: Highs               
     mr Malthus & mr Hancocke 2 booksellers neer the Exchange are               
Arrested on A scandalum Magnatum brought by the E of Peterborough for           
Publishing the Narrative wherein his Honor was Reflected upon but they          
hope to obtaine his Ldships faivor                                              
     Last Sunday the Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries being at Windsor His Matye         
told him he was very well satisfied with his Conduct bidding him to             
Continue to Preserve him & his [illegible six-letter word] & gave his           
Lordship A Diamond Ring from off his owne finger                                
     They write from Brussells that the d of Monmoth & severall others          
are going into Hungary                                                          
+They write from Constantinople that the Grand seignior was Resolved to         
have more formidable forces in the feild then he had last year & to             
Consist of 3 Armies one to Act Agt the Poles The 2d in Hungary & the 3d         
in Dalmatia                                                                     
+Wee have a Report That the Venetian ffleet Comeing before Candia the           
Inabitants & Garrison Mutinied & let the Venetians in                           
     Tis thought the Spaniards will not Comply with the Truce but Carry         
on the warr in Cattalonia to the utmost they being strong there & the           
ffrench Army in A very ill Condition                                            
     To morrow is A Councell at Hampton Court his Matye prsent & Its            
said mr Baker will be Examined there                                            
     L. c. 1555     London 28th June 1684                                       
+The Paper Sr Tho: Armstrong gave to sheriffe daniell is not yet                
Published  Its said he therein denyes all the fact he was outlawed for          
Reflects on the Ld How &c also denyes severall Reports that were spread         
Concerning him perticularly that of being false to his Matye in his             
Exile & Appeales to his Matye therein &c                                        
     The P of Orange is gone for Holland & tooke the D of Monmoth with          
him where he Remaines Incognito                                                 
     They write from Holland as though the Algerines seemed as if they          
had A mind to breake with England upon Pretence that the Captives were          
not yet Redeemed                                                                
+Yesterday mr Hickeringill made A Recantation in the Publick hall at drs        
Comons of all his books lately Published & Read signed & sealed the same        
& Its this day Published in Print                                               
     Sr Cornwall Bradshaw is not one of the Comissioners of the Excize          
& hearth money but mr Bridges & mr Trant are but joyne not with the             
others till Michaelmas Next                                                     
     mr Sheldon of Warwickshire died this weeke Leaveing A vast Estate          
     The Italian Princes being Allarmed by the ffrench Proceedings at           
Genoa begin to League togather & the Pope Highly Resents the Action &           
the more for that the ffrench Ambr at Rome had declared his Master              
would not attack any Place in Italy dureing the Warr with the Turks             
     The Ld Ch: Justice being appointed for the Northerne Circuitt Its          
said he Carryes with him A New Charter for the Citty of Yorke & that            
full authority is given him to settle that Corporation into Loyall              
hands as he sees Convenient &c                                                  
     The dutch Ambr here hath desired to Renew Negotiations with our            
East India Company Relateing to Bantam desireing to have An Estimate in         
writeing what damages they have sustained therein to the End the                
Comissioners they send may be the better able to speake to the same but         
Its said the Company will not treate abt the Charge till Bantam be              
first Restored                                                                  
+They write from Denmarke that 10000 men were Mustered neer Coppenhagen         
& 4000 were dayly Exspected from Norway  The Intention of this sudden           
Preparation is not said only that some thousands are to be drawne out           
for the Fleet                                                                   
+The Imperiall Army have taken Unegrade [?] & are gone to beseige               
Novigrade                                                                       
     The Tartars have Invaded Poland neer Leopold burnt many villages           
& Carryed away much People                                                      
+The Councell at Hampton Court on ffriday was Cheifly Abt fforreign             
Affaires  The ffrench & Spanish Ambrs were both there                           
     Its affirmed dr Oates had notice last night to Prepare for his             
Tryall next weeke in the Indictment of High Treason                             
     L. c. 1556     London 1st July 1684                                        
+This day the Paper Sr Tho: Armstrong gave to the sheriffe is Published         
The substance is; He takes god to Witness he never had any designe to           
take away the Kings life  Neither had any man soe much Impudence to             
Propose such A Barbarous & soe base A thing to him & that he was never          
in A designe to Alter the Goverment That what he was Accused of more he         
knowes noe other way but by Reports & Prints which he takes to be               
uncertain & that he died A Protestant forgave all the world &c                  
     The d of Monmoth is with the P of Orange in Holland & noe man              
more Respected by him then he who eates drinks Hunts & does every thing         
but sleep with him                                                              
+Sr Gabriell Silvius parted this day for Holland & tis said he may be           
Charged with A message from his Matye to the P of Orange whose affaires         
are in noe very good Condition in Holland                                       
     The states have sent Agents to Acquaint their allies with their            
Reasons for the Truce & perticularly to the Emperor & Spain & with              
Impatience Exspect A Returne & the more for that all the Provinces have         
not Consented to the said Truce which may yet be matter of dangerous            
Consequence                                                                     
     some letters say the d of Lorraine has taken Novigrad & Pest & tis         
thought will take Buda before the Turkish Army under the Bashaw of              
Mesopotamia Can Come                                                            
+Letters this weeke say A fire at Hamburgh has burnt above 500 houses           
     Wee doe not heare of any that is to succeed Sr Edw Deering in the          
Treasury but that assoon as the Accounts are Perfected there will be A          
New Ld Treasurer who tis said will be the M of Hallifax                         
     sad Complaints Come dayly from divers Parts of Catterpillers & Its         
affirmed that off one Acre of Ground sowed with beanes in Buckinghamshire       
were taken 72 Bushells of Catterpillers                                         
     Its affirmed the D of Ormond will suddenly depart for Ireland &            
assemble A Parliamt of that Kingdome                                            
     Last Sunday the Kings horse & ffoot mustered in Hyde Parke where           
prince George Recd his Matyes Comission of Lieutenant Genll, The E: of          
Craven at the same time delivering up his                                       
     The K of Denmarke has Comanded most of his forces into the dukedome        
of Holstein which gives jealousy of A sudden surprize of An Adjacent            
Country which has Caused the Swedish fleet to put to sea with many              
Landmen aboard them                                                             
     Yesterday began A sessions of Peace but nothing Remarkable yet             
transacted save only the Prosecution of Greate Numbers of dissenters            
who were Convicted for Ryotters & fined at the discretion of the Court          
     Its now said Oates will be tryed this sessions for Perjury of which        
if he be Convicted he will after be tryed for High Treason                      
     L. c. 1557     London 3d July 1684                                         
+The E of Shrewsbury Ld Lumley & others who went to the ffrench Campe are       
Returned & say the d of Grafton &c are gone to see the ffrench Court            
     There is A Report his Maty hath sent for the d of Monmoth Also that        
the Ld Hyde will be Ld Treasurer                                                
     Last Sunday the Mayor of Lynn & 12 members of that Corporation             
surrendred their Charter & kissed his Matyes hand & his Matye knighted          
mr Symon Taylor & Capt John Turner formerly Parliamt men for that Towne         
     Last Sunday Sr Richd Dutton Governor of the Leeward Islands set            
sayle from Plimouth for Barbados                                                
     The Matter in diference between dr Barebone & those of Grayes Inn          
abt the Buildings in Red Lyon feilds is to be heard before the Ld Keeper        
on Satyreday next & An Information for A Nuisance being Exhibitted Agt          
the dr he hath Promised to stopp the buildings till the said heareing           
be over                                                                         
     A ship Comeing lately from Guyney brings word that about 80                
Interlopers were in those parts                                                 
     The P. of Orange is gone to Dieren to Hunt to Passe away Malancholly       
which tis said has seized him since the Proceedings of the states have          
been soe Contrary to his Interest & sentiments                                  
     Tis thought Spaine will not Accept of the Truce for that Instead of        
the states Assistance they have the vast Advantage That ffrance being           
tyed not to warr in the Low Countries they may band all their forces to         
oppose him in Italy & Catalonia                                                 
     The Italian Princes are Actually Leagued with Spaine & have therein        
been Animated by the Pope who in A late Conclave Wept & Prayd & Prayd &         
Wept till he had made them sencible the ffrench K: was An Enemy to the          
Cause of Christ & Produced A former Popes Bull wherein its Positively           
declared that what Prince soever shall Invade Another when the Turks are        
Invadeing Christendome he shall be Excommunicated but he would not              
Excommunicate the King but leave it to God Allmighty & the Armes of the         
Italian Princes to Punish him                                                   
+But hath Excommunicated all Persons who shall hereafter throw any              
Bombes into Genoa or any where in Italy & hath sent 100000 L to the             
Republick of Genoa to helpe to Repaire their damages                            
+They write from Lintz That Count Teckley hath lately prsented the Polish       
minister with 10000 ducketts & 300 Barrells of wine & Its beleived he is        
more then ever Inclined to An Agreement by Reason his souldiers every day       
desert him & haveing Recd A new supply from the Turks they Refused to be        
under his Comand & the Adjacent Bashaws have orders to have A vigilant          
eye on him they much suspecting his Revolt                                      
     The E of devonshire is dangerously sicke                                   
     L. c. 1558     London 5th July 1684                                        
+His R: Highs haveing formerly Accepted A ffreedome of Chichester The           
Mayor & Recorder waited on him to know his Pleasure Abt the surrender of        
their Charter & Abt A New one & he Consented to have his Name Continued         
on the new one & severall Noblemen haveing been formerly their stewards,        
At A Councell held there on Wednesday his R: Highs was unanimously              
Elected their High Steward & at the same time they Past A vote to               
surrender their Charter upon which the Ld Bishop Gentry & Clergie               
Congratulated them on this occasion & the Evening was spent with                
bonefires & Ringing bells                                                       
     On Thursday the sessions ended at the old Bayly where 7 Received           
sentence of death & his Maty granted A Generall Pardon to the Rest              
which was Pleaded by 53 Persons on their knees & Among them was 4               
seminary Preists formerly Attainted of High Treason also 2 quakers & 3          
others Convicted of A Premunire                                                 
     A New Comission of the Treasury is Constituted & the Commrs are the        
E of Rochester Sr Jo: Earnly & Sr Stephen ffox & 2 to make A quorum             
     The new Charter of this Citty is now draweing as also many others          
for o[u]r Companies & for Boroughs                                              
     Three more east India ships are Arrived Richly laden                       
     This day was A heareing Abt dr Barebones Buildings in Red Lyon             
feilds & the Ld Keeper did not thinke fit to grant An Injunction to             
stopp the worke                                                                 
+They write from Dublin that their greate fear of scarcity is now over          
haveing very great prospect of A Plentifull Harvest Insomuch that the Ld        
Deputy hath Recalled his Proclamation Agt the Exporting of Corne                
     Count Teckley has not only Refused all offers made by the Emperor          
but Renewed his Confedracy with the Turks Agt him & is in Upper Hungary         
with A body of 15000 men                                                        
     Humble Application hath been made for A Pardon for the Ld Gray &           
tis said his ffather in law the E: of Berkeley hath been on his knees to        
his Matye on this behalfe                                                       
     His Matye hath now before him divers stamps & mettells for new             
farthings & tis said his Pleasure will be declared this weeke & in              
Probability those of Tynn with A Copper spott in the Center will be             
Approved of                                                                     
     Severall vessells Comeing from the Streights say they saw A small          
Moorish ffrigott in the Bay of Tangier & that those people were hard at         
Worke Abt Repaireing the Ruined ffortifications                                 
     some nights since severall persons were defaceing the words                
Engraven on Londons Monument that the Citty was burnt by the Papists            
but were Interupted by some Watchmen before they had perfected their            
worke                                                                           
     Last Thursday A Treasonable Libell was seized here in Manuscript           
Entituled A Quo Warranto Agt the Booke of Comon Prayer the Rites &              
Ceremonies of the Church of England                                             
     L. c. 1559     London 8th July 1684                                        
+Since the Mannagement of the Navall affaires have Come under his R:            
Highs Care such Methods have been put in Practice That tis said his             
Matye may in 8 dayes Put to sea 30 ships of Warr & some say wee shall           
have A fleet out this summer though it be soe late                              
     To morrow his R: Highs goes for Tunbridg where his dutchesse is            
drinking the Waters                                                             
     Last Satureday died dr Gunning Bp of Ely & dr Turner the prsent            
Bp of Rochester is to be Translated to Ely & dr Spratt deane of                 
Westminster to be Bp of Rochester & tis said the deaneary of Windsor            
which dr Turner had in Comendum will be given to dr Tenison                     
     dr Lake (not the dukes Chaplain) is made Bp of Bristoll in Place           
of dr Gulston                                                                   
     The E of devonshire Continues very ill                                     
     Last weeke at the sessions at Hicks hall & in Southwerke many              
Conventiclers were fined as Ryotters                                            
     Our east India Company have given notice they will Put to sale             
500 Tun of saltpetre on the 26th Instant & 500 Tun more on the last of          
August                                                                          
     His Matye hath Recalled Sr John Lender from the Isle of Jersey             
& Appointed the Ld Jermine in his Roome                                         
+On Thursday Sr Edw: Herbert Cheife Justice of Chester setts forward            
for that Place                                                                  
     Tis said dr Cox the famous Phisitian is gone aside for 60000 L             
     Our fflanders letters say the Dutch troops are Returneing home to          
the joy of the Country people who were not fond of their Company That           
some of those that Marched from their Campe at Maastricht that Loytered         
behind were killed & others stript by the Boores                                
     On the 10th the M: de Grana Recd An Account from the Emperor of            
the Greate victory obteyned by the d of Lorraine Agt the Turks on the           
17/27 June upon the dukes Marching towards Novigrad  the Turks had              
Posted 15000 men very Advantagiously neer Varria  The d of Lorraine             
Attacqued them & killed 3000 of which some Persons of quality vizt the          
Bassa of Buda &c and 1500 taken & after that tooke Varria by storme,            
the d of Lorraines horse was wounded on the Neck with A Pistoll & some          
leters say Newhausell is since surrendred & that the d of Lorraine is           
Resolved forthwith to Attacque Pest                                             
     Our Holland letters say that the Truce is Ratified by the ffrench          
& that the states have desired the ffrench Ambr to Intercede with his           
Master to Restore the P: of Orange to his Principallity of Orange               
according to the Treaty of Nimeguen                                             
     The Genoesse in Conjunction with Spaine make Advantage on the              
ffrench by Land & sea but Its Reported Roses in Cattalonia is taken by          
the ffrench                                                                     
     L. c. 1560     London 10th July 1684                                       
+Yesterday morning about one A Clock happened A most dreadfull fire             
which began in the Windmill which was at the uppermost part of the              
Waterhouse by the Thames neer Yorke Buildings which being of A vast             
height & all of Timber was soon of A flame & the Wind being southwest it        
Carryed the flame into Villiers street & thence tooke the Ld                    
Willoughbyes back Buildings which are burnt  also the Greate Wood &             
Coale Wharfe of mr Swallows neer the Waterhouse tooke fire also & set           
fire to some houses in Hungerford Market & Continued burneing till 4 of         
the Clock but greate Assistance Comeing in & by the helpe of Engines &          
blowing up of some houses it was mastered before 8, Besides the                 
Waterhouse there are 14 houses burnt & Abt 40 Almost spoyled  The most          
Credable Report of its beginning is that A Careless servant left A              
Candle sticking to A Peece of Timber which fell upon A Trusse of Hay            
The losse is not Esteemed lesse then 50000 L of which tis said mr               
swallows losse is 4000 L                                                        
     The Waterhouse was Ensured in dr Barebones Project for                     
Ensurance from fire for 5000 L & the office hath Published this day             
that those that Ensured may have their money abateing Interest for the          
2 months time they have to Pay it in                                            
     Tis said Sr Stephen ffox is Abt Crying Northumberland house &              
Intends to build A street from Hungerford market to Scotland yard               
     The d of Ormond is Prepareing for his Returne into Ireland & Its           
Reported the d of Monmoth is Comeing from Holland hither                        
     Some Notorious libells Agt his Matye & the goverment & in                  
vindication of Sr Tho: Armstrong tis said are Industriously dispersed           
& greate Care is taken to find out the Authors & dispersers & Its the           
Comon Report that somewhat of such A Nature hath been sent by the Peny          
Post to persons of High Character                                               
     Wee have also A Report that the son of An Eminent Peer hath                
offered some Affront to mr Chudleigh at the Hague on Account of the said        
Sr Thomas Armstrong                                                             
     Our Holland letters say that the states of ffreizland have                 
Recalled the Troops of their Repairition [?] into their Province & by           
Publick Edict have disbanded them for not Comeing but the states Genll          
have sent A deputy to them to Represent the dangerous Consequences              
thereof as being directly Contrary to the Union but they Continueing to         
Adhere to it the states will send 10000 men to Reduce them to their duty        
+Some letters from Marselles say the Algerines have declared warr Agt           
the English & taken 2 or 3 ships but the truth is still questioned              
   Two ships from New England bring Account that goverment still                
Continues obstinate & are sending over Instructions to Mannage A Tryall         
Agt the Quo Warranto                                                            
     L. c. 1561     London 12 July 1684                                         
+On the 8th Instant A vessell Arrived at Plimouth from Malaga who               
Reports that 2 of o[u]r Men of warr had been lately at Algeirs & sent on        
shoar to know if anything had been done or acted Contrary to the                
Articles & had for Answer all things had been Punctually observed & they        
were well satisfied with the English whome they found very Punctuall in         
keeping the Agreement                                                           
     Our Turkey merchants have Advice the Sally men of warr have taken          
3 English ships But they write from ffrance those ships were taken by           
the Algerines designeing thereby to Cause the English merchants to fear         
A warr with Algeirs that they may send their Comodities for the                 
streights in ffrench Bottoms                                                    
     Yesterday at the Councell at Hampton Court was the Scotch Lord             
Middleton & Another Scotch Gentleman sworne Privy Councellors                   
     Alderman Hayes Petitioned that his son might be Admitted to Bayle          
but it was Rejected                                                             
     Our New Charter is Almost Engrossed                                        
     There are Tynn halfe pence & farthings now Coyneing in the Tower           
     Tis said his R: Highs hath forgiven mr Speake the words sworne             
Agt him & that mr Pilkington is or will suddenly be discharged of the           
100000 L damages at the dukes suite                                             
     9 Companies of ffoot of those that Came from Tangier are ordered           
for Ireland                                                                     
+mr Lurking [?] the Printer is Comitted to Newgate there being found            
under his Pillow & Ready for the Presse the Paper Entituled A Quo               
Warranto Agt the Booke of Comon Prayer & the Rights & Ceremonies of             
the Church of England                                                           
     Tis said A Marriage is Concluded between the E of Pembrooke &              
the only daughter of Sr Robt Sawyer the Atturney Genll                          
     Most of the Inhabitants on London Bridg are Agreed with to quit            
their old Habitations & upon longer leases &c to Erect new houses               
without buildings Cross over [sic] which are found very Inconvenient            
     Tis now said the deaneary of Windsor is given to dr Estcourt               
Minister of St Clements Danes                                                   
+The Emperor has declared his Resolution to Come into the Truce                 
Provided it may be generall  But the Spanish Ambr here declares his             
Master is Resolved not to Accept of it though all the Rest of the               
Allies should  Count Teckley is Reinforced & bidds defyance to all the          
offers of the Emperor & K of Poland the latter of which is much his             
freind & has A greate Honor for his Person & family                             
     The K of Poland is perfectly Recovered & intends in 14 dayes to            
follow the Army with 15000 ffresh men                                           
     His Matye designes not for Winchester till the 25th August                 
+The d of Monmoth has left Brussells but Its uncertain whither he is            
gone                                                                            
     L. c. 1562     London 15th July 1684                                       
+Last weeke for severall dayes & nights wee had very High & strong              
winds & have since Advice of greate damages sustained on the sea Coasts         
     Twenty men of warr are fitted & soe disposed as to be Ready at 3           
dayes warning & tis thought some Navall Expedition will suddenly Appear         
but Agt whome is not yet knowne                                                 
     By letters from Lisbone wee have Advice That the Perle ffrigott            
hath taken the Vice Admirall of Sally of 26 guns & Abt 150 men & brought        
her into that Port  shee had just before taken 3 English ships & one            
Dutch & sent them away  There were 40 Christian slaves aboard                   
     The Moores are in greate Numbers at worke in Tangier & Promise             
themselves to Reduce it in A few yeares into A Tenable Posture either           
for offence or defence                                                          
     Yesterday the New Church built in German street was Consecrated by         
the Ld Bp of London & Named St James  dr Tenison Preached & Administred         
the sacrament & 2 or 3 Marriages & as many Baptismes were also Celebrated       
     Last Sunday A Conventicle was broke up in Gravell Lane Houndsditch         
& their Preacher seized Togather with divers women who were obliged to          
Pay each 5 L According to the Act but their Preacher was bound to               
Answer it Next Sessions                                                         
     Some dayes since was held A feild Conventicle neer Newington like          
those of Scotland the Preacher takeing A very offensive text vizt 5             
Micah 1 vers They not being discovered till after their departure  none         
of them were seized but greate dilligence is used to find out the minister      
     The Cause between his R: Highs & mr Speake Came not on at Hertford         
Assizes his Highs Solicittor haveing given timely Notice he would not           
try it that Assizes which occasioned A Report mr Speake had begged              
Pardon & is forgiven but it Proved A mistake both wayes                         
     Neither is mr Pilkington forgiven but has very Earnestly by                
Petition & ffreinds Requested it but wee heare of noe Answer Returned           
     Writts are Ishued out of the Exchequer for Levying the severall            
fines due the King from those that are Prisoners in the Kings bench             
+The Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries has been Recd with Extrary Respect in all          
Places where he Came & at the Borders of Yorkshire the High sheriffe            
& neer 2000 Gentry mett & Conducted him to Yorke  Tis said Sr Samll             
Thompson is by the New Charter made Ld Mayor & his Matye as in all              
other places Reserves to himselfe the Approbation of all officers               
     The d: of Lorraine hath taken Pest & is before Buda which he hopes         
to have in A Month the Turks being soe dispiritted &c That the                  
Advantage thereof Inclines the Emperor to Comply with ffrance Provided          
all the Allies Come into the Truce                                              
   The d of Brandenburgh is soe displeased at the ffrench Demolishing           
Tryers that he hath forbid the ffrench Ambr his Court                           
     L. c. 1563     London 17th July 1684                                       
+The d of Ormonds departure for Ireland Its said is fixt to be on the           
3rd of August & tis said his Grace will before he goes Release mr               
Hetherington Now his Prisoner on A scandalum Magnatum                           
     Yesterday died Sr Geo: Downing formerly Ambr in Holland & lately           
one of the Commrs of the Customs in which Capasity he died, one of              
meane Extraction but hath left A vast estate & lived to see his son             
Marryed to the sister of the prsent E: of Salisbury                             
     The E of Devonshire is pretty well Recovered                               
     The meeting seized last Sunday was at mr Pampions house in Gravell         
Lane & was seized by 6 files of Musquetters from the Guards at the              
Exchange whoe entring the house had much Adoe to find them with Candles         
they haveing got into Cellars, most of the men Escaped but they tooke           
Abt 30 most ffemales most of which gave bayle to Answer it but those            
that Could not were Comitted  The Preacher being one Barker An                  
Independent gave 5 L to one to let him goe which he did but Informeing          
his Next man of it he seized him Againe                                         
     On the 14th Instant the New Charter of Lynn was Recd there with            
Extreame joy & the d of Norfolke is made Ld High Steward of that                
Corporation                                                                     
     Tis said his Matye hath Appointed Sr Phillip Howard to be Ld               
Mayor of Windsor for the Ensuing year                                           
     The Buildings in Red Lyon feilds Goe on But one of dr Barebones            
men that was hurt in the ffray with those of Grayes Inn is dead & the           
Person said to doe it is fled                                                   
     Tis said the ffrench K: Proffers to send 30000 men Agt the Turks           
but that the Emperor will not trust them                                        
     Wee heare the Pope Contributes 60000 L p month towards the Charge          
of the Polish & Imperiall Armies & hath Comanded the 10ths of the               
Clergymens Estates to goe for that warr                                         
     Our German letters say the Imperiallists from Pest throw Bombes            
& fire upon Buda & the d of Lorraine Passed the Danube without                  
opposition & was within A League of Buda with A Resolution to besiege           
it & understood there was in Garrison 10000 men & that 30000 Turks              
were Ready in the feild to oppose their designe                                 
     They write from Venice that their fleet had destroyed 3 turks              
men of warr & taken 3 more at the Island of St Maures which they tooke          
& greate Riches therein & are since sayled for A further Enterprize             
   Yesterday A ship of 400 Tuns laden with Sugar & Tobacco for Hamburgh         
sayling downe the River Ran upon An Anchor & Imediately sunke & most of         
the goods were lost                                                             
     This day the drums beate for voluntiers to serve his Matye in              
Ireland                                                                         
     L. c. 1564     London 19th July 1684                                       
+Our letters from fflanders Advise That the d of Lorraine Passed the            
Danube without any opposition from the Turks who had severall Campes on         
that side but fled from Campe to Campe without strikeing A blow to Buda         
& set fire to the Lower Towne & Retired into the Citty  The duke Entred         
the Lower Towne time Enough to Put out the fire without much damage &           
seized on the Cannon &c & on the 5/15 Instant and almost finished his           
Batteries & Placed his mines Agt Buda & Its judged he is master of it           
before this time                                                                
     Also Generall Lesley hath soe farr Ruined the bridg of Esseck as to        
make it unpassable soe that the Turks Can Receive noe succors from              
Belgrade The duke being master of the Most Part of Hungary to the River         
Dravus little being left the Turks but Alba=Regalis Camisa & Zigeth             
Newhassell is not yet surrendred but in greate want of Provisions A             
Pound of Bread or of Beefe being sold for A Rix dollar which is 8 s &           
A Pound of salt for 6 stivers which is 7 d                                      
     The Pope hath sent 6000 sacks of Corne to the Morlaques who are soe        
Animated that they fell upon A body of Turks Routed them killed many &          
tooke A Bashaw who offers 5000 L for his Ransom                                 
     The Turkey merchants this day Recd letters from Smirna which Advise        
them to Remove their Effects from Constantinople aswell to be free from         
the Plundering that may happen from the greate disorders Among the Turks        
as out of fear of the Venetian ffleet & they write from Venice that if          
they Can take either of the Castles they will try what they Can doe at          
Constantinople with their Bombes                                                
     Our Holland letters tell us of A fire which happened at Coeverden          
which Burnt 6 greate houses &c & that there have been fires at severall         
other Places & that 12 men have been seized at Berlin & in the Country of       
Lunenburgh who are found to be Incendiaries & upon Examination are              
found to be ffrench                                                             
     Since the takeing of Sr Thomas Armstrong in Holland some persons           
have been at Amsterdam to Pray the Majestrates Aide Agt other English           
Traytors who Advised them forthwith to Retire for should the people             
discover their Buisness they would Certainly stone them to death & they         
should not be able to defend them                                               
     His Matyes journey to Winchester is Put off till the 26th August           
     Its Certainly Reported that his Matye hath forgiven mr Pilkington          
& also that his R: Highs hath done the same                                     
     A Quo Warranto being brought Agt the Charter of Grantham they have         
Agreed to surrender it & this afternoon Quo Warrantoes are Ishued out Agt       
all the Corporations in Cornwall & Devonshire Except Truro Bodnia &             
Saltash in Cornwall & okehampton [?] Plimpton & Belcaston in devonshire         
     The d of Monmoth is Hunting with the P of Orange at Dieren                 
     L. c. 1565     London 22d July 1684                                        
+On Sunday last his Matye declared in Councell That he would Remove Sr          
dudley North for being one of the Commrs of the Customs & make him one          
of the Lds Commrs of the Treasury as he would also Henry Thinne Esqr            
Brother to the Ld Weymouth & that he would have for Commrs of the               
Customs Peter Rich Esqr late one of o[u]r sheriffs in Roome of Sr Geo           
Downing & mr dickenson one of the Commrs of Ireland in Roome of Sr              
Dudley North                                                                    
     Yesterday died the Dutchesse of Ormond being neer 80 yeares of Age         
which may Posibly Retard the dukes Journey for Ireland  her Corps will          
be sent into Ireland to be Interred at the Citty of Kilkenny Amongst            
the Ancestors of Ormond                                                         
     The Report that his Matye & R: Highs have forgiven mr Pilkington           
Continues but he is Ignorant thereof                                            
     Last Sunday many quakers were taken from their meeting & Comitted          
as also severall persons at A meeting in Whites Alley in Little                 
Moorfeilds where the Comon people broke downe the Pulpitt formes Benches        
&c  Also A Conventicle was seized in Haydon Yard where the Preacher &           
severall of the Auditors being taken were bound to the Sessions                 
     On Sunday last the Imperiall Envoy here desired his Matye in               
behalfe of his master to use his Interest with the ffrench K That all           
the Allies might be Included in the Truce hopeing that if the ffrench K         
should Refuse it all the world would beleive he had noe designe to have         
A lasting Peace in Europe & that they would hold his Master Excused if          
he made Peace with the Turks this winter which he Can easily doe that           
soe he may be the better able to Protect his allies on this side                
     Wee have A Report this night that the Emperors Envoy hath Recd An          
Expresse that Buda hath surrendred                                              
     The Genoesses in Conjunction with Spaine Spaire neither men nor            
money to be able to be Revenged for their Burnt Citty & the ffrench as          
Resolutely bent to Ruine them & Its thought nothing Can Prevent A               
desolateing warr in Italy                                                       
+The Tynn farthings now Coyneing have A Copper Spott in the Center              
     Its affirmed that Quo Warrantoes are ordered Agt Hull Beverley &c          
in the County of Yorke also that A Custos is Appointed over the Citty           
of Yorke                                                                        
+The effigies of the Kings of England are to be set up in the Royall            
Exchange as before the fire at the Charge of the Companies  The Mercers         
set up Queen Elizabeths The East India Company 4 & many other Companies         
each one  Also the Grocers Intend to set up in their Hall the Effigies          
of Sr Jo: Moor with An Inscription of his Loyall Proceedings & Sr Jo:           
at his owne Charge & Cost Beautifies the same & setts up his Coate of           
Armes being A Lyon Guardant Passant sol which his Matye Honoured him            
with for his greate Services                                                    
     L. c. 1566     London 24th July 1684                                       
+Sr Dudley Norths Place in the Custome house is given to Sr Jo:                 
Buckworth & not to mr Rich as was Currantly Reported  also Sr Geo:              
downings Place in the Exchequer is Given to Hugh Ld Clifford son to the         
late Ld Treasurer but his Place in the Custome house to mr Dickenson as         
wee formerly said  Tis said Sr Geo: downing died worth 6000 L p An &            
left asmuch Ready money                                                         
     Yesterday Came Advice That Judge Windham is taken soe ill in his           
Circuitt at Norwich that his life is despaired of  Last night his lady          
went out of Towne to him  Also tis said dr Dolben Arch Bp of Yorke died         
suddenly of An Apoplexie                                                        
     Last night his R: Highs Came from Tunbridg & is this morning gone          
to the Councell at Hampton Court where is this day A greate Councell            
where the Imperiall Spanish ffrench & dutch Ambrs will attend                   
     The dutchesse of Ormonds Corps will be deposited in Westminster            
Abby & afterwards with the Corps of the Ld Ossory sent Into Ireland  The        
dukes journey holds the 3d August                                               
     Yesterday mr Richd ffoot A Rich Merchant was sumoned before the            
Court of Aldermen for saying Sr Jo: Moor had Perjured himselfe in               
Betraying the Rights & liberties of the Citty & that he Better deserved         
A Halter then An Additional Court [sic] of Armes & the Court ordered An         
Information in the Comon Sergeants name to be brought Agt him in the Ld         
Mayors office & Its said that by Prescription A Majestrate of London may        
bring An Information Agt any Person that shall Traduce him & that they          
Can Implead Convict & sentence in as Large A manner as if layd in the           
Crowne office By vertue of which Its thought many Informations will be          
Exhibitted Agt others                                                           
     They write from Dorchester that severall Appeared at the Assizes           
there who were Reckned disaffected to the Goverment & According to the          
Character Given to the judge by the Gent on the bench they were dealt with      
     Our Scotch letters say that on the 15th the Lds of the Councell            
sate where it was declared That the d of Monmoth The E of Aberdeen late         
Ld Chancellor The E of dondonald The Ld Maitland & the Bp of Edenbrough         
are noe longer Privy Councellors & in their Places are Put the E: of            
Arran Eldest son to D Hamilton & 3 others                                       
     Our Holland letters say that the Turks are in A body Neer Buda &           
it was beleived the Next letters will bring Account of A Battle with            
the d of Lorraine who is 40000 strong  The states of Holland sent for           
the P: of Orange to be prsent in their assembly but he sent them word           
he Could not Come  The Majestrates of Amsterdam Continue their Levyes &         
all the Inhabitants are ordered to Repaire to their Respective Colours          
on the first beate of drum & they Intend to Review their Trayned bands          
&c  Its supposed they doe this upon some jealousy they have of the P of         
Orange                                                                          
     Our ffrench letters Intimate that their King is very severe upon           
the Protestants in Languedoc                                                    
     L. c. 1567     London 26th July 1684                                       
+Our letters that Came from Norwich yesterday say That Judge Windham was        
in A faire way of Recovery & wee hear nothing more of the death of the          
Arch Bp of Yorke soe Its hoped he is not dead                                   
     Little of Moment passed at the Councill on Thursday his Matye              
staying but little there                                                        
     The states of Holland have Recd Advice from their Ambr at Paris that       
the K: of Spaine Accepted the Truce but whether According to the Termes         
offered by ffrance or those agreed upon at Ratisbone is not knowne              
     The states Genll have Nominated 4 Commrs to Come for England to            
Agree the Affaire of Bantam with our East India Company but as yet they         
have not Recd their Instructions how to Proceed                                 
     The P: of Orange is gone from Dieren & with him the D of Monmoth to        
Aken to divert themselves there                                                 
     This morning wee had A fflanders Post which brings us newes by             
Expresse from the Emperor to the D of Lorraine  That some Bodies of Turks       
Attacqued the Christians Campe at Buda & at first did some Mischeife but        
were afterwards Put to flight 800 being killed on the Spott  That the d         
of Lorraine with his Cannon & Bombes Attacqued the upper Towne of Buda          
which after 3 dayes he tooke but 5000 Janizaries Retired into the Castle        
which by Reason it wants the New Way of ffortification must speedily fall       
into his hands & at the Comeing away of the said Expresse The Turks Hung        
out A white flagg offering to surrender in 8 dayes if they were not             
Releived which the duke would not Accept hopeing to be master of it in          
48 houres.                                                                      
     The d of Lorraine has now in his Army 25000 horse & when some              
Regements of ffoot are Arrived which are on their March he will have            
50000 men effective                                                             
     This Evening Arrived the ffrench Post with letters That the M:             
de Schomberg had orders to march prsently toward the Rhine with 20000           
horse where he will find A Greate Body of ffoot to joyne him on what            
designe is uncertain                                                            
     dr Wood the Bp of Litchfeild & Coventry is suspended Ab officio et         
Beneficio for 3 yeares  Its said to be for Nonresidency                         
     The Turkey merchants have Advice that his Matyes ship the saphire          
mett with 2 Sally men of warr one the Admirall of 26 Guns & the other of        
18 Guns both which shee fought & tooke the latter Togather with A dutch         
Prize laden with Sugar & stranded the Admirall & seized the Captain 80          
Moores & Abt 40 Christians & brought them to Cadiz, By destroying these         
2 & takeing the Vice Admirall sometime since Its not doubted but it will        
force them to Accept of A Peace                                                 
     This weeke Abt 200 voluntiers marched from hence from [sic] Ireland        
who are to be Armed there                                                       
     L. c. 1568     London 29th July 1684                                       
+Our fforreign letters Confirme the takeing of Buda with the Perticulars        
following                                                                       
     That the d of Lorraine haveing notice that Abt 25000 Turks were            
Comeing to Releive it Resolved to meet & fight them which they did &            
obteyned A Compleate victory & then soe Plyed the Castle of Buda with           
his Cannon that they desired to surrender on Termes which was denyed &          
they were forced to surrender on Mercy & most of the Garrison were Put          
to the sword which has struck such A Terror that Its thought all Hungary        
will quickly be Reduced to the obedience of the Emperor  This newes Came        
last night by An Expresse from the M: de Grana  The March of the M: de          
Schomberg towards the Rhine Tis beleived is to affright the Emperor to          
Accept the Truce without Limittations  others thinke they have An Eye           
upon Cologne                                                                    
     A Warrant is Ishued Agt mr ffarringdon of Chichester & his Lodgings        
in London searched for him but he was not taken  Its supposed Abt Habius        
the Informer for which he was formerly Acquitted at the Kings Bench barr        
     At the Assizes at Norwich some Gente of quality being togather &           
Among them Esqr Beddingfeild & Esqr Barney A quarrell Arose betwixt             
those 2 & was seemingly Reconciled but the former Going downe stayres           
the latter followed him & basely killed him for which he was Tryed &            
Convicted.  Greate meanes hath been used to obteyne A Pardon but his            
Matye would not hear it  The Person killed was well beloved &c  His             
2000 L p An is now fallen to his 2 sisters                                      
     The Royall Affrican Company at their sale [of?] Prized Barbados            
sugars the Highest at 21 s 7 d p hundred Antego sugars the Highest at           
19 s 6 d p C Jamaica sugars the Highest at 23 s 6 d p C Guyney Wax at 5 s       
2 d p C                                                                         
     In the times of Popery on the south side of the Roade at the hither        
End of Islington was A well which was had in very greate Esteeme for Its        
Medicinable qualities even to Adoration which soon after the Reformation        
was Covered & by successe of time wholly forgotten                              
     Last year the well was Againe discovered & by Its Curious Carveing         
Enquired after & many Eminent Phisitians have Tryed the water by Rules          
of Art & say Its as Medicinable as any & Comes the Neerest in operation         
to that of Tunbridg & Its now Comonly vissitted by 2000 in A morning            
+The Ld O Bryan son to the E of Inchequen is married to A Merchants             
daughter & hath with her 8000 L prsent & 10000 L hereafter                      
     On Satureday morning one mr Harris A shropshire Gentleman was found        
dead in his bed  It Appeared he lay with 2 lewd women all night & too           
much Expence of Spirritts put him into A Lethargie                              
     Here is A Report that the Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries will be Custos of        
the Citty of London also that he has Confined the Mayor of Yorke for some       
misbehaivor abt their Charter                                                   
     On Thursday his Matye goes to Winchester                                   
     L. c. 1569     London 31st July 1684                                       
+Judge Windham is Certainly dead at Norwich & Its said Sr Tho: Jenner           
o[u]r Recorder will succeed him  others say Sr Robt Wright will succeed         
     The d of Grafton is dangerously ill of A feavor at Euston                  
     Next morning the d of Ormond goes for Ireland                              
     Last Satureday was brought into Harwich by the Custome house               
officers A small sloop taken neer Orfordnesse laden with 22 Packs of            
wooll which is seized                                                           
     Last Sunday A meeting was disturbed in Bishopshall neer Hackney            
where severall were seized & bound to Answer it next Sessions                   
     Yesterday the justices of Peace held A Court in the Precinct of            
Spittlefeilds where they sumoned the Constables head Boroughs &c to             
Attend them & Comitted 15 of them for Refuseing to take the oath Ex             
officio                                                                         
     A Generall Collection is to be throughout England for Building St          
Paulls                                                                          
     One dr Boreman of Kent was fined last assizes at Madeston 500 Marks        
upon the Evidence of his servant for scandalous words Agt his R: Highs          
     By o[u]r ffrench letters yesterday wee had the Confirmation of the         
victory obteyned by the d of Lorraine but not of the takeing of Buda            
though in all Probability it is soe                                             
     The turkish horse that were in [?] Newhassell got out by night &           
Its thought are gone to Teckly & that the Garrison will not hold out            
long                                                                            
     The March of the ffrench towards the Rhine has not A little                
Allarmed the swisse Cantons they beleiveing them designed Agt their             
Religion & Goverment                                                            
     The ffrench K has ordered 14 of the Protestant ministers of                
Languedoc to be broken on the wheele because that Contrary to A late            
Edict they openly Preached & Administred the sacramt                            
     They write from Scotland the Councell have Ishued 2 Proclamations          
     The first That whereas severall Inhabitants of the westerne                
shires Notwithstanding the greate Plenty Tranquillity &c The Justice &          
Equity of o[u]r Administrations The greate Care of the Protestant               
Religion in Its truth & Purity yet have Risen &c                                
     But have not been Pursued by the Inhabitants to the Astonishment           
of all good men &c Therefore Comands all to be Ready at 6 dayes                 
warning                                                                         
     The 2d is That whereas that in June last Abt 200 Armed Rebells             
Presumed to March openly through severall shires for many dayes                 
togather threatening the Orthodox Clergie & Murthering o[u]r souldiers          
& at last disappeared &c Therefore Comands all persons to make discovery        
by the 18th of August of them & their Abettors                                  
     The Emperors Envoy at the Hague hath prsented A memoriall that his         
Master is Ready to Embrace the Truce if the allies be Included which            
the states Agreed to & Acquainted the ffrench Ambr therewith who                
finding the states of Genoa & the Northerne Crownes Included declared           
Agt it & that the Emperor & Spaine ought to Accept it without Includeing        
their Allies.                                                                   
     L. c. 1570     London 2d August 1684                                       
+This day o[u]r fflanders letters brought us the Confirmation of the d          
of Lorraines victory with these Perticulars vizt                                
     That Count Lesley haveing taken some Turks Prisoners who discovered        
that 30000 horse & some ffoot were on their March for Releife of Buda           
with the Ensigne of the horse Tayles the Badge of the Turkish Empire he         
Informed the d of Lorraine that this body of Turks were to assault his          
Campe & the beseiged were to sally out at the same time                         
     Upon which the d of Lorraine ordered 12000 horse to Advance towards        
the Enemy who haveing marched all night Charged them by breake of day           
in their Campe who were soe surprised that after A small Resistance they        
fled leaveing 400 dead on the Place & Abt as many Prisoners with their          
standards 30 Peeces of Cannon & all their baggage                               
     The Poles & Hungarians followed the Pursuite to the Bridg of               
Esseck & since then Buda is taken                                               
     Count Lesley is beseigeing Vicovitza which is all the Turks have           
left them on this side the Savus save the Towne of Esseck                       
     Our forreign letters say the Poles have defeated 8000 Turks that           
designed to Put Provisions into Camimeck & have taken above 1000                
Waggons laden with all manner of Provisions which Its thought will              
Cause Camimeck soon to surrender when the K of Poland Comes before it           
Count Teckley has taken the strong Castle of Ungwarr & in it many               
Hungarian Gentlemen who with the Garrison were all Put to the sword &           
got in it Greate Riches But 5 dayes after Count Caprara the Emperors            
Generall Retooke it & killed many of Teckleys men                               
     Tis said the ffrench Army under Schomberg have beseiged                    
Phillipsburgh                                                                   
     Yesterday wee had Advice of the Arrival of 4 of our East India             
ships & one Interloper; Two Dutch east India ships in their Returne             
were A few dayes since lost on their owne Coast but the men & Part              
of the ladeing saved                                                            
     The d of Graftons distemper Proves the small Pox & all Conclude            
he Cannot Live till morning & just now Its Reported he is dead                  
     This weeke Sheriffe Dashwood was knighted at Windsor                       
+The discourse now is that Sr Robt Baldock or Sr Edw Herbert will               
succeed Judge Windham  Tis said he died very Rich & left only 2                 
daughters one Married to my Ld of Bristoll & the other to Coll Napper           
A West Country Gent of A greate Estate                                          
     A Prodigious Increase of Buildings haveing been lately in & abt            
Spittlefeilds & A very faire & Large Markethouse built on that ground           
Comonly Called the old Artillery yard, yesterday A market was                   
Proclaimed there with greate Ceremony                                           
     To morrow the Ld Mayor Aldermen & sheriffs goe to Windsor but              
their buisness is kept Private                                                  
     L. c. 1571     London 5th August 1684                                      
+The d of Grafton is still Alive & some say in A faire way of Recovery          
     His Matye haveing granted A Pattent to Sr Nicholas Butler for the          
scavage [?] of the Citty A Place in the Customs & Enjoyed by mr Dawson          
deceased The Ld Mayor & Aldermen waited on his Matye on Sunday Abt it           
when his Matye declared he was not Rightly Informed of the Matter & would       
doe nothing to the Prejudice of the Citty                                       
     At the Assizes at Newcastle An Information was given Into Court            
Agt severall who entred into A Confederacy & Association Agt the                
Goverment  They Called themselves the Christian Society & mett every            
weeke beginning with Prayer & Ending with thanksgiving  They had An             
Association which was burnt last yeare  But one who had been of the             
Society Produced A Coppie of it & made oath it was A true one & Accused         
6 or 7 persons then in Court that Entred into it & also 16 or 17 more           
who were in Towne who were all seized & Indicted for High Treason &             
were to be tryed this assizes                                                   
     The Ld Ch: Justice hath been in all places in his Circuitt very            
sharpe Agt all sorts of offenders                                               
     Last Sunday severall meetings were seized & the offenders bound to         
answer it                                                                       
     A greate meeting wass seized in Trinity Lane Called mr Balls               
meeting being Independants  Abt 30 were seized & by Sr Jo: Moor bound           
to Answer it at the Sessions the Ld Mayor being then at Windsor                 
+The Boroughs of Colchester Maldon & Harwich have surrendred their              
Charters                                                                        
     His Matye hath granted 5500 L p An after 11 yeares being A Branch          
of his ffee farme Rents in Ireland to the d of St Albans & his heires           
forever                                                                         
     The d of Monmoth is with the P of Orange at Dieren where he is             
very kindly Recd  Tis said that fferguson Goodenough Pelthorpe [?] &c           
are at Utrecht                                                                  
     Our East India ships lately Arrived bring Advice of Comotions in           
those Parts as also that the Dutch have afresh Prejudiced the English           
in their Concerne                                                               
     The takeing of Buda is not Confirmed                                       
     The Spanish & Imperiall Envoys here Report that the Venetians &            
turks fleet have had A fight & the latter most sunke & taken                    
     Our Paris letters say the ffrench K is Resolved not to Comply with         
the Termes offered by the Emperor & wee have Advice that 20000 ffrench          
horse & 30000 foot are now marching to Phillipsburgh which if true will         
Certainly Cause the Emperor to Clap up A Peace with the Turke                   
+mr Slaughter one of the 6 Clerks of Chancery lately fell off his horse         
& broke his neck which Place is vallued at 5000 L & is in the disposall         
of the Master of the Rolls                                                      
     Our Scotch letters say that on the 25th Past mr Spence late servant        
to the E: of Argile brought Prisoner from London was brought before the         
Councell & Put to the Torture which he Endured to Admiration Averring to        
know nothing to Confesse after which he with the Rest brought Prisoners         
with him were Comitted Close Prisoners & none to Come to them                   
   On the 26th the Councell sate Againe upon Important matters which            
are kept very secrett                                                           
     L. c. 1572     London 7th August 1684                                      
+The d of Grafton is Recovereing                                                
     Tis said the Ld Mayor when at Windsor did humbly Informe his Matye         
that one of the Atturneys of the Ld Mayors Court was dead & also another        
officer both which Places by Ancient Custome did Revert to the Chaire           
That he had as Ld Mayor disposed of them  But being Acquainted that the         
Ld Cheife Justice had Given out the Inhibition [?] desired in all               
Humility to know whether it was by his Matyes Speciall directions  if it        
was he was Ready to submitt                                                     
     That his Matye should Answer in the Negative & Added that it was           
Never in his thoughts to lessen the Rights of that Chaire or alter soe          
much as one Custome in the Citty unlesse he finde it of absolute                
Necesity for the more safe Goverment thereof & secureing the Honor              
Dignity & Rights of the Cheife Majestrates & the People in A Loyall             
obedience to the Lawes & them                                                   
     The Island of Tobago in the West Indies is like to be made A               
Scotch Plantation                                                               
     Its the discourse of the Towne that the English at Bombay in the           
East Indies have Disowned the Authority of the Company here & will owne         
noe other but the Kings & Its thought they have been Influenced thereto         
by Interlopers                                                                  
+Our fforreign letters say the Emperor Princes & Electors will not              
Accept the Truce Proposed by ffrance  But Its Certain the 56000 ffrench         
from fflanders are on their march to Phillipsburgh which will bring it          
to some Ishue                                                                   
     The ffrench in fflanders have soe Ruined the Country that there is         
scarce subsistance for either man or Beast & demand such Excessive              
Contributions that the People are not able to Pay them & for default            
threaten them with Military Execution                                           
     The ffrench Ambr to the states is at prsent at Amsterdam                   
Contriveing some Intreagues with those Burgomasters with whome he hath          
had severall Private Conferences                                                
+Its here discoursed that the ffrench K: by his Private Agent he sent           
to Poland Proffered that King A million of money to Withdraw from the           
Emperor which was wholly Rejected & Its supposed the occasion of A              
discourse as though the K of Poland was not firme to the Interest of            
the Emperor                                                                     
     The Kings ffoot Regements are ordered to have Cartridges & Wast            
Belts instead of Bandoleers as approved the best & quickest way of              
Charge                                                                          
+Some letters from Venice say That Constantinople & the Parts Adjacent          
are in Rebellion & that the Janizaries have killed the Grand Seignior           
but Its not Creditted                                                           
     Wee hear those of Sally have taken 6 English & 6 Dutch ships               
     This dayes bill of Mortallity is very High vizt 720 being 217              
Increase                                                                        
    [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 1573     London 9th August 1684                                      
+Our Scotch letters say that A sollemn day of Humiliation was kept              
throughout that kingdome for Imploreing gods mercy on the fruites of            
the earth &c                                                                    
     That A Party of Coll Grahams Troope & A like Party of dragoons             
were Conducting 12 persons from Dumfreize to Edenbrough who were to             
be Transported  But Comeing to A Narrow Passage within 10 miles of              
Dumfreize where but 7 men Could goe Abreast they were Attacqued in              
the ffront & Rear by 80 Armed Rebells  Three of the Prisoners were              
killed & one Mortally wounded & the Rest Escaped & one of the souldiers         
was killed & 2 Mortally wounded                                                 
+The Councell have  sent 3 squadrons of the life Guard horse & ordered          
out some of the standing forces in search of the Rebells & Prisoners            
Escaped                                                                         
     They also write that A fire was lately in Glascow which Consumed           
greate Part thereof                                                             
     Yesterday Abt noon mr Culliford Rideing Surveyor of the Customs &          
designed for Ireland to supply the Place of mr dickenson was Comeing up         
water Lane from the Custome house when A fellow who had been A Tyde             
waiter & Turned out as Its said by mr Cullifords meanes Came behind him         
& shott him in the back with A Brace of Bulletts of which he is since           
dead  The fellow never stirred & was by Sr Jo: Buckworth Comitted to            
Newgate                                                                         
     Yesterday the E of Rivers was marryed to the E of Lindsays Daughter        
A faire yong lady                                                               
     This weeke Arrived 3 East India Interlopers very Richly laden              
     Some shipps Arrived in the Downes from the West Indies affirme that        
Abt 10 dayes since they had such Extrary Thunder & Lightning that all           
their sayles spread were burnt & the Cotton Aboard A Jamaica ship tooke         
fire & the ship had Perished if much Raine had not fallen                       
     This Jamaica ship & 8 more that were in the fleet are missing  A           
Thunderbolt fell on one of them killed 5 men & Rent the Masts in A 100          
peeces &c                                                                       
     The Constables &c of Stepney Parrish that were Comitted for                
Refuseing the oath Ex officio will not give bayle Intending to abide            
there till the Ld Ch. Justice Comes home To whome they will Apply               
themselves                                                                      
     Wee have more fforreign letters that mention the Beheading of the          
Grand Seignior & the other Disturbances in Constantinople                       
+Yesterday the Lds of the Treasury made An order that the Pensions due          
to his Matyes household servants should be paid & the Poorest and most          
wanting first                                                                   
     Wee are wanting all o[u]r fforreign Posts  [But see two sentences          
above.]                                                                         
     L. c. 1574     London 12th August 1684                                     
+Our fforreign letters say Buda holds out still & seem to question              
whether the d of Lorraine will be able to Carry it & say nothing from           
Constantinople save that 40000 marcht through that Citty for Hungary            
     The K of Poland is att the head of his Army & upon some greate             
designe                                                                         
     mr Culliford is like to Recover                                            
     On the 26th the Court goes to Winchester  Tis said the Princesse           
of denmarke is with Child                                                       
     Wee hear of only one meeting disturbed on Sunday without                   
Bishopsgate 3 of which being seized gave bayle to Answer it                     
     On Sunday 7 night An Apothecaryes Apprentice Cassually Passing             
through A Place where souldiers were breakeing up A Meeting & saying            
something in faivor of meetings A souldier knockt him downe & broke his         
skull & he is dead                                                              
     On ffriday last the Ld delaware died                                       
     Tis said Sr Stephen ffox hath Contracted for Northumberland house          
& Intends A square                                                              
     The Waterhouse lately burnt is now Rebuilding with all the Speed           
that may be                                                                     
     Last weeke dr Barebone was bound over & 2 of his men Comitted for          
takeing the Gate off the Hinges in Holbourne Called the Kings gate which        
the dr says is part of the Ground he Purchased in Red Lyon feilds Abt           
which building is much Contest between the dr & the Gente of Grayes Inn         
who yesterday served the dr with A Prohibition out of Chancery to stopp         
his Proceedings                                                                 
     On Satureday night & next morning wee had here greate & violent            
stormes with such Continued Thunders & Lightenings that it Amazed men.          
At the same time A Large New built house not finished in Goodmans feilds        
was burnt to the ground supposed to be fired with Lightening                    
     Our Holland letters say the jealousies of those of Amsterdam               
dayly Increase  Last weeke by order of the Grand Councell they                  
ordered the houses of the Burghers to be vissitted to see their Armes           
are in good order  They have Raised 2000 men of which A 3d Part are             
Constantly on Guard & the Capt of the Guard is not to open his orders           
which are given him sealed unless there be An Allarme & they suffer not         
A ship to Come in but they search it                                            
     The ffrench have Required the Electr Palatine to demolish 2                
Bulwarks on the ffrontiers on the other side the Rhine or he will send          
his owne men to see his order Put in Execution                                  
     Our ffrench letters say that A courrier was dispatcht to Ratisbone         
to know the Resolution of the diett & if they Comply not he was to goe          
to Marshall Schomberg who tis said has orders prsently to fall on               
Phillipsburgh                                                                   
     But those for Peace are in hopes of matters being Accomodated from         
the Promises of his Matye of Greate Brittain That he will use his utmost        
Endeavrs therein                                                                
     L. c. 1575     London 14th August 1684                                     
+Our fflanders letters which Arrived yesterday Advise that the Truce            
was signed at Ratisbone by the Emperors Plenipotentiary & the ffrench           
Ambr without Includeing their Allies but o[u]r ffrench letters say Genoa        
is Included & the whole discourse here is upon the Neer Approach of A           
Generall Peace & what the ffrench K: will doe with many thousands of his        
subjects now in Armes                                                           
     Our last letters from Buda tell us the Turks Continue to make A            
vigorous defence That they make frequent sallyes & use many Granadoes &         
the Germans have lost many men of quality besides souldiers but they            
question not but to Carry the Place there being not the least                   
Appearance of Reliefe                                                           
     Also that the d of Bavaria is on his March with neer 20000 men for         
Hungary to Reunite the d of Lorraine                                            
     Some fforreign letters say the Venetians have taken the Dardanells         
& thereby blockt up Constantinople by sea                                       
     The Czarrs of Muscovy offer to Come into the League with the               
Emperor &c Agt the Turks & Promise to bring into the feild 100000 men           
but will not doe it till the Perpetuall League betwixt them & Poland            
be first Concluded by vertue of which the Poles are to quitt all                
Pretensions to Kievia                                                           
     Our Spanish letters say there is like to be A great Alteration             
among their Ministers of state  That the Duke de Medina Celi the                
Cheife Minister of state desires to be Discharged from his trust &              
That there was A generall discourse the M: de Grana would be Removed            
from the Goverment of fflanders                                                 
     On Tuesday his R: Highs viewed the ships at Chatham & gave some            
Necesary orders Concerning them & Especially Abt the Soveraigne which           
is now upon the stocks Refitting                                                
     The d of Grafton is Pretty well Againe but Its said the Bp of              
Winchester is much Indisposed                                                   
     Sr Tho: daniell is made Governr of Chelsey Colledg                         
     His Matye has granted A Pattent to Sr Jo: Buckworth Charles Duncomb        
Esqr &c to Coyne A Certain Quantity of Tynn farthings & Preparations            
are makeing for the same & Skinners hall taken for An office where the          
subjects shall Receive them                                                     
     Last ffriday Esqr Barney who Murthered Esqr Beddingfeild at Norwich        
was Executed there  he behaived himselfe very Penitently & Exhorted all         
Gent to Avoyd the Prophanation of the Saboth by Immoderate Drinking &c          
of which he Confessed he had been too Guilty  That the Justice of God           
had overtaken him desireing all that then saw or should hear of him to          
take Warning & breake off such Courses which otherwise would End in             
the destruction both of soule & body without the Infinite mercy of God          
     There is A decrease of 94 in the weekly bill of this day                   
    [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 1576     London 16th August 1684                                     
+The Truce being signed the Emperor & Empire will be able to send all           
their forces Agt the Turks  Also the ffrench K has Resolved to send many        
of his Troops Agt them under the Comand of the Electr of Bavaria & hath         
Assured the Dauphiness that her brother shall be at the head of the             
finest Army in Christendome                                                     
     The states of Genoa are Included in the Truce for which they are           
obliged to o[u]r King who was very Instrumentall in obtaining it from           
the ffrench King                                                                
     Wee have letters of the 4th Instant from before Buda which say             
the Turks defend the place like desperate men but that next day the             
mines would be Ready to be fired  they were Resolved to storme it & A           
Courrier that Passed through Lintz for Ratisbone said Buda was taken            
by storme but it wants Confirmation                                             
     The designe of the Venetians is to take the Island & Citty of              
Candia in which Island are 30000 Greeks who offer if furnished to assist        
them being tired under the Turkish Tiranny & waite only for the                 
oppertunity to Regaine their Ancient ffredome                                   
     They write From Leghorne they have Advice from Alexandria that             
Prester John havinge Advice of the Christians successe Agt the Turks            
dispatched his son & Nephew with 40000 men Agt the famous Citty                 
of Halaba in Egipt which was furnished with Cannon & 18000 men                  
which they Attacqued & tooke in 24 houres putting all they found in             
Armes to the sword & tooke therein A vast treasure most of the Merchants        
of Asia & Persia haveing stoorehouses there which occasioned A greate           
dread in all Egipt & the said Prester John hath sent to Persia to Excite        
them Agt the Turks                                                              
    They write from Venice their Ambr was Escaped from Constantinople           
also that many thousand Turks were sent to service the bridg of                 
Esseck lookeing on that place as the only stay to preserve Belgrade             
     Out Scotch letters say the Ld High Treasurer hath set the                  
Customs of that Kindgome for 5 yeares at 28200 L sterling p An                  
     Its the discourse at Edenbrough That mr spence who was Put to the          
Torture hath since made very large Confession & also Read &                     
Expounded the Many letters writt in Ciphers & taken since the Plotte            
was discovered & mr Walworth A Phisitian & mr Robt Stewart son to Sr            
James Stewart late Provost of Edenbrough are committed to Prison Its            
supposed from Spences discovery                                                 
+They write Dauphine in ffrance that the Bp of Valence very Eagerly             
Prosecutes the Protestants & severall of their Churches are to be               
demolished & their ministers & Elders Banished                                  
     Tis said the Bp of Winchester is Past Recovery                             
     L. c. 1577     London 19th August 1684                                     
+The Citty of Yorke is now Governed by a Comission aswell as London             
but his Matye declares they shall both Receive new Charters                     
     A Quo Warranto being brought Agt the Charter of Exeter they                
Imediately Agreed to surrender it; At A quarter sessions held there the         
Grandjury made A prsentment not only of such as Come not to Church but          
also of such as behaived themselves Irreverently there Praying the Ld Bp        
to use his Authority &c since which his Lordship hath sent to all the           
Clergie in his diocesse that they Admonish such persons to have A due           
Conformity  else they shall be Proceeded agt according to the Cannons &c        
     There was not one meeting secured last Sunday in this Citty  The           
quakers mett unmolested   also there was a Presbiterian meeting and no          
Information thereon                                                             
     On Satureday mr Justice Withins Came to Towne and tooke bayle              
for those 15 Churchwardens Constables &c Comitted on the 30th July by           
Sr Wm Smith Sr Jo: Berry & 3 other justices for Refuseing to find               
sureties for their Appearance next sessions to Answer their refusall            
of the Oath Ex officio and have since brought their Habeas Corpus               
     Six persons have Contracted with mr Sadler in whose Garden the             
soe Much vissitted Water at Islington is for 600 L fine & 300 L per             
An dureing his lease which is 25 yeares                                         
     On the 16th Arrived the Josiah & the Herbert from E: India whose           
ladeings is vallued at above 300000 L                                           
     The ffrench have also 4 ships Arrived from East India                      
     There is also arrived in the downes An Interloper Richly laden             
from Siam in E: India on board of whome Came 4 Ambrs The 2 Cheife to            
o[u]r King & the other 2 to the ffrench King with power to treate               
of Trade                                                                        
     The Interlopers are growne soe Numerous & Come home soe Richly             
laden that the Actions of the company are very uncertain  Severall              
ships are lately arrived from o[u]r Plantations which they left in good         
state & those of Virginia are Extreamly satisfied in their New governr          
the Ld Howard of Effingham   some diferences are arrisen in Pensilvania         
between mr Pen & the Ld Baltemore the Governr of Maryland Abt their             
bounds & mr Pen is Comeing to make Application to his Matye                     
     The states Genll have presented the Count de Avaux with A gold             
medall & Chaine of a great vallue & seem Extreamly satisfied in his             
conduct & and their owne in Rescuing those Provinces from a warr                
which threatened their Totall ruin                                              
     The Merchants Abt Spolato have made an Inroade in the Turkish              
Territories & made a great slaughter brought back many slaves & 3000            
Cattles                                                                         
     L. c. 1578     London 21st August 1684                                     
+The takeing of Buda Appeares not soe Certain as not to doubt it                
     ffor though o[u]r Holland Post brought letters yesterday from Lintz        
of the 15th That Buda was taken by storme on the 9th & that the Garrison        
being 15000 were all Cutt to peeces & that the d of Lorraine made his           
Entry into that Place on the 13th                                               
     Yet o[u]r letters from Vienna of the 13th make not the least               
mention of it  Also wee have letters of the 9th from the Campe before           
Buda which Advise That the Turks defended themselves soe vigourously            
that they obliged the Imperiallists to Abandon A Tower they had taken           
     That they were Extreamly disheatened with the Continuall Sallyes           
of the beseiged  That there were many Breaches in the Walls  But the d          
of Lorraine did not thinke fitt to Hazzard an assault by Reason of the          
greate Retrenchments the Turks had made within  That the Imperiallists          
were in greate want of Amunition forrage &c and orders given at Vienna          
for their supply &c                                                             
     Also o[u]r fflanders letters this day mention nothing of Buda being        
taken                                                                           
     The dukes of Bavaria & Saxony will march at the head of their forces       
& joyne the d of Lorraine who after Buda Intends to beseige Belgrade            
     Tis said the ffrench K offers 40000 men to serve Agt the Turks in          
Hungary at his owne Charge but that the Emperor will not Accept them            
     The K of Poland was marching for Camimeck but at the same time             
Recd Advice that 50000 Tartars were marching towards Poland                     
     Some months since the Venetian Ambr here was hireing some of o[u]r         
Merchants ships to serve Agt the Turk but A stopp was put to it since           
which the stopp is taken off & there are now in the Thames 6 stout ships        
of each 42 guns & 100 men bound for Venice                                      
     Our letters from Scotland say That on the 11th was brought from            
Glascow to Edenbrough 21 Prisoners who were taken at feild meetings             
severall of which were wounded in opposeing the souldiers that tooke them       
     mr Spence the E of Argiles servant Continues still in Prison               
     Our ffrench letters say the d of Northumberland designes to Returne        
speedily for England & that the ffrench K: has prsented him with A Rich         
sword set with diamonds                                                         
     On ffriday last severall small guns Rarely wrought & richly guilt          
were showne to the King at Windsor with Rich harness for 6 Coach horses         
all which his Matye is sending to the Emperor of Morocco & tis said An          
Ambr will be sent thither                                                       
     On the 17th died Sr Robt Wiseman the famous Civillian who was his          
Matyes vicar Genll for Ecclesiasticall affaires                                 
     some of our Turkey merchants are Arrived very Richly laden                 
     L. c. 1579     London 23d August 1684                                      
+The takeing of Buda is now Positively Contradicted for o[u]r letters           
from Vienna & the Campe before Buda assure us That the Turks Continue           
to defend themselves soe That there is little hopes of Gaineing it till         
the Army be Reinforced The d of Lorraine being in greate want of ffresh         
foot his Army being very much diminished by sickness & the Turks                
frequent sallyes.  They have sprung severall mines with good successe &         
turned up A greate part of the Towne wall which fell Inwards but the            
Turks have made such Retrenchments within That there is little                  
posibility of Carrying it by storme There being Its said 15000 men to           
defend it  Tis said that many ffrench aswell Engineers as others are            
in Vienna                                                                       
     The d of Lorraine hath drawne all his ffoot out of Pest for                
Carrying on the seige  also 15000 ffoot & 2000 horse are sent from              
Vienna & 13 Boates laden with Bombes &c  also the d of Bavaria is               
sending greatest Part of his forces thither                                     
     They write that Count Teckley has taken Purnock & layd it in Ashes         
Carrying away the Garrison Prisoners which were 700 men & was marched           
to besige Zatmarr                                                               
     The 4 Ambrs from India which Came aboard the Interloper are lodged         
in Arrundell street  Two goe for ffrance & the other 2 for Windsor  Tis         
said they Come to desire A ffree trade & not to be bound up to any              
perticular Company   Also that they have brought Presents of A greate           
vallue one being A gold Box worth 3000 L                                        
   On Board one of the E: India ships is Come A Rhicinerous [rhinoceros]        
vallued at 2000 L at the Custome house & will be sold next weeke by Inch        
of Candle                                                                       
     Yesterday the Mayor &c of Guildford waited on the Ld Keeper North          
who is Baron of Guildford & prsented him with A Rich Box & therein A            
Coppie of his ffreedome & left with him their Charter to be delivered           
to his Matye                                                                    
     Tis now said mr Baron Street will be Removed into the Comon Pleas          
in Judge Windhams Place & that Sr Robt Wright will succeed him                  
+Tis said the E of Rutland & the Ld Willoughby haveing quarrelled are           
going beyond sea to fight but his Matye hath sent after them Comanding          
the first they overtake to Come home                                            
     The E of Thanett hath marryed the D of Newcastles Daughter                 
+the Electr of Collognes trops have entred Leige without any opposition         
the [three illegible letters]headed Multitude who kept the gates takeing        
their heeles upon their first Appearance                                        
     Our Scotch letters say that on the 15th the Lds of the Justiciary          
Condemned 3 persons who being at A feild meeting kild one mr Smith A            
Trooper who were Executed that afternoon who obstinately denyed to the          
last his Matyes Authority &c                                                    
     Tis said mr Goslin the Kings Laceman will be sheriffe next year            
with mr Duncomb                                                                 
     mr Bridgman is going envoy to the K of Poland                              
     L. c. 1580     London 26th August  1684                                    
+Our letters from Vienna of the 10/20 say the Turks defend themselves           
very obstinately That most of the Nobility of Austria were lost in the          
seige That the d of Lorraine understood there was in it plenty of ffiggs        
& Rice for 12 months  The Grand Seignior is useing all wayes Imaginable         
for Its Releife & Its said if it hold out 2 months will be there                
himselfe.  In the meane time many ffresh troops are marching to                 
Reinforce the D of Lorraine who otherwise will probably be lost or at           
least be forced to Raise the seige                                              
     Count Teckley makes greate Havock in Upper Hungary Enriching his           
Army with Plunder                                                               
     His Matye haveing signified by letter to the E of Radnor that he           
was willing to discharge him from the Presidentship of the Councell             
though he was highly sencible of the good services he had done & would          
Continue to him his Pension of 4000 L p An which he enjoyed as President        
     On Sunday was An Extrary Councell at windsor where the E: of               
Rochester was sworne Ld President & mr Sideney Godolphin made first             
Comm of the Treasury in the E of Rochesters Place & on Munday was made          
A Baron of England by the Name of Baron Godolphin of Godolphin                  
     The E of Middleton secretary of state for Scotland is made                 
secretary of state for England in mr Godolphins Place  His Matye hath           
granted to the E of Rochester the summe of 16000 L to be Levyed on the          
Ld Grayes Estate                                                                
     The Ld Gerrard is now Come over & Reports the d of Monmoth to be           
still at Dieren keeping A noble house Also that Sr Patience Ward &              
Starkey the bookseller are both at Utrecht                                      
     The d of Ormond is safely Arrived in Ireland                               
     One of his Matyes Yaughts is gone for ffrance to fetch over the Ld         
Elland son to the Ld Privy seale who hath marryed A greate fortune there        
     The ffrench K: hath Put out An Edict ordering that the ffrench             
ministers of Charenton & all other Protestant Churches in ffrance shall         
be Changed every 3 yeares & they shall not hold any Consistory but when         
one of the Kings Comissioners is Present                                        
     The Rhinoceros lately brought from India was yesterday put to sale         
by Inch of Candle & bought for 2320 L by mr Langley one of those that           
bought mr Sadlers well at Islington & in A day or 2 will be seen in             
Bartholomew faire                                                               
     The Ld Preston his Matyes Envoy at Paris hath Prepared A memoriall         
to present to that King to put him in mind of the Exorbitant demands of         
Contributions in the Spanish Netherlands                                        
     The K of Poland held A greate Councell at his Army where it was            
Resolved first to fight the Turks Army & leave Camimeck only blockt up          
     This day the K & Court Removed to Winchester                               
     L. c. 1581     London 28th August 1684                                     
+Our Holland letters Advise that the Imperiallists have already lost            
7000 men before Buda, The Beseiged make sallyes in their shirts at Noon         
day & the beseigers loose some dayes 3 or 400 men soe that the d of             
Lorraine has hardly foot to supply the Trenches                                 
     The Enemies Resolutions are kept up by the greate Numbers of               
Wealthy jewes some yeares since banished Germany who Promise the                
janizaries very greate Rewards to save the Citty  To which may be added         
the greate Number of Renegadoes who are sure to be hanged if taken  The         
d of Lorraine designes upon the Arrivall of the Bavarian troops which           
are Exspected every Moment to make A generall storme & they say they            
doubt not but he will Carry it but if he doe is like to Prove A bloody          
Conquest                                                                        
     Count Lesley Its supposed hath A designe upon the bridg of Esseck          
     The Burgomasters of Amsterdam have been Round that Citty to view           
the walls & have given orders for Repaireing what they found defective          
They are also Building forts before their Gates                                 
     The ffrench K since the Conclusion of the Truce has abated 3               
Millions p year of his Taxes & assoon as the Truce is Ratified will             
disband 26000 foot & 10000 horse                                                
     The ffrench Continue still in the Spanish Netherlands & have 3 or 4        
Camps Neer Gaunt & demand 16000 L p month Contributions besides 580000 L        
for Reprizalls                                                                  
     They write from Paris that the Prosecution of the Protestants is           
Continued in all parts of ffrance with more severity then before & An           
Edict set forth forbidding all Protestant Ministers whose Churches are          
demolished from Preaching any more & forbidding the People if any of            
their ministers dye from Choosing others by which Its supposed that by          
death of some & silenceing others its designed to Extirpate all their           
ministers                                                                       
     There are 4 E: India ships Arrived in ffrance  The E: India ships          
Arrived in Holland are Extreamly Rich & brought 2000000 L of [pe]pper           
100000 L of Cloves & Nutmeggs [three or four digits smeared]00 L of Mace        
& Cinamon 150000 L of Saltpetre &c                                              
     His Matye hath made mr Graham Principle of Cliffords Inn one of the        
Comissioners of the Excize in Roome of Major Huntingdon deceased.               
     The d of Grafton is Abroade Againe & hath sent for his Yatcht to           
meet him at Harwich in order to take the Aire at sea                            
     The d of Northumberland is gone from Paris to Brussells & thence           
Intends to vissitte the P of Orange & soe for England                           
[Note on outside of letter in another hand:] Sr/I shall call about 5 o          
clocke at Arbury                                                                
     L. c. 1582     London 30th August 1684                                     
+Our fforreign letters say Buda still makes A stout defence & Almost            
dayly with their swords in their hands without ffire Armes make sallyes         
& kill some hundreds.  Count Teckley is at the head of some 15000 Chosen        
men & still seems Resolved to joyne with the Turks                              
     There is A Malicious Report that the E of Radnor was soe                   
dissatisfied with his being Removed that he should with some slight             
Refuse the Pension But he hath wrote A letter to his Matye full of              
dutifull & Loyall Expressions which soe Pleased his Matye that he               
Comanded the Lds of the Treasury to be very Punctuall in the Payment            
of his Pension                                                                  
+mr Langley who bought the Rhinoceros not being able to Raise the               
Money forfeited the 500 L he paid in hand & this Evening the owners             
Procured A warrant from St James Smith & Carryed away mr Langley &              
afterwards Put up the beast to sale Againe by Inch of Candle for 2000 L         
but noe person bid A farthing soe lyes upon their hands                         
     Last Thursday began the sale of the goods brought from E India by          
the Interloper which went off to A very greate Advantage to the owners          
     The Report now is that o[u]r Recorder will be made A Baron of the          
Exchequer & mr Crispe the prsent Comon Sergeant Recorder & one mr               
Browne An Atturney to succeed mr Crispe Also that Capt Legg the E of            
dartmouths brother will be made Lieutenant of the Tower & Capt Cheeke           
better Preferred                                                                
     Our Scotch letters say that the Archbishop of St Andrews is dead           
     That Sr James ffleming the late Provost of Edenbrough is Arrested          
at the Prosecution of the King by the Cashkeeper there for not Paying           
in the fines Levyed upon the dissenters whilst he was Provost                   
     That mr Spence the E of Argiles steward hath deciphered some of            
the Earles Papers by which some discovery is made but Its kept secrett          
+The ffrench K is upon Actually disbanding 35000 horse & ffoot but              
Intends to keep himselfe very strong at sea Especially in the                   
Mediterranean & Its said will send some thousands of his souldiers to           
Plant Collonies in America which is the diversion Proposed by his greate        
ministers for preserveing Peace at home                                         
     They write from Dublin That they are like to have A greate Plenty          
of Grayne & the late Raines have Caused such Plenty of after grass that         
the Price of Hay is much fallen                                                 
+Tis said the Guards will be Entertained with ffree quarter dureing             
their stay at Winchester.  On Tuesday next his Matye & R: Highs goe for         
Southampton thence to Portesmouth & soe to the Isle of Wight &c                 
     L. c. 1583      London 2d Sept 1684                                        
+The queen being last Satureday somewhat Indisposed was let blood & is          
now Perfectly well Againe                                                       
     Sr Ralph Dallison of Lincolnshire haveing in his Wine dangerously          
wounded An Innocent Country fellow & being Carryed before the Mayor of          
Winchester for the same gave the Mayor 2 Boxes on the eare & he was by          
his Matyes Comand Comitted to the Dungeon                                       
     His Matye hath made Coll Kirke late governr of Tangier one of the          
Groomes of his Bedchamber                                                       
     The Ld Ch: Justice hath Acquainted his Matye that he Comitted 4            
Lancashire atturneys 5 in Cumberland & 6 in Yorkshire all for Irregular         
Practices the latter being Comitted upon A Complaint of the Archbishop          
of Yorke                                                                        
     By Comand of the Ld Mayor 2 Companies of the Trayned bands were            
Raised on Sunday & kept Guard in Moor feilds & Spittle feilds ever since        
By Reason tis said the Weavers had A mind to Rise & breake all the              
Loomes of the ffrenchmen for underworking them                                  
     A meeting was on Sunday seized in Starr Alley in the Minories one          
Miller being their Preacher  They had notice of the souldiers Comeing           
yet would not stirr  29 of them were bound to Answer it at the sessions         
     Our letters from the Campe before Buda of the 17/27 say the bloody         
fflux Rages very much in the Campe  That there hath not one day Passed          
since the seige in which above 57 have not been killed by the Enemys            
Sallyes                                                                         
     That forrage is very scarce in the Campe  That they want Miners &          
also skilfull Engineers to fire their Bombes most of them breaking in           
the Aire                                                                        
     Our letters from Vienna of the same date say the d of Bavaria was          
Exspected there that Evening & Intends to Hasten for Buda  That the             
danube was Covered with vessells laden with his ffoot & Amunition &c &          
his horse are marching by land  That 3 Turks Prisoners Informed the d of        
Lorraine that the Bassa who succeeded the late governr was killed by A          
Cannon shott & the Eldest Aga of the Janizaries succeeded  That the             
officers in the Towne held A Councell of warr & Resolved to defend it           
15 dayes longer & then if not Releived to surrender it on the best              
Termes they Could get & have sent word thereof to the Turks generall            
who hath An Army of 30000 men beyond the bridg of Esseck but Intends to         
lead them Agt Count Lesley who is soe Posted as he feares not to be             
Removed by An Army of 50000 men                                                 
    L. c. 1584     London 4th Sept 1684                                         
+On Munday began o[u]r sessions at Guildhall & Ended that night by              
Adjournment till the 20th Instant where mr Recorder made A speech               
Pressing the Prosecution of meetings & that he hoped ere long to see            
them wholly supprest, Abt 100 who were taken at Conventicles were               
Indicted as Ryotters Convicted & ffined According to their severall             
abillities & those that Refused to Pay were Comitted to Newgate                 
     Yesterday began o[u]r sessions at the old Bayly & also at Hicks            
hall where mr Goodman master of the horse to the ds of Cleveland who was        
Comitted for A Robbery on the High way some yeares since was Indicted but       
the Grandjury found the bill Ignoramus                                          
+Last Tuesday being the Anniversary for Burneing the Citty in 1666 it           
was sollemly observed though not with that strictnesse as formerly  In          
Moor feilds was A Conventicle seized where mr Jenkins the greate                
Nonconformist Minister was taken Preaching in the Habitt of A Country           
man haveing 3 of his Preachers with him &c                                      
     The 3 ministers & some of the hearers Escaped but Jenkins & abt 30         
others were Carryed before the Ld Mayor who tendred them the oaths  Some        
tooke them & were bayled & some Refused Among whome was Jenkins who was         
Comitted to Newgate  The officer that tooke him was Proffered 40 Guyneys        
not to Carry him before A Majestrate but Refused it                             
+A meeting of the quakers was lately disturbed at Weymouth & 13 of them         
Comitted                                                                        
     They write from Paris that A declaration is Comeing out Agt the            
Protestants there                                                               
     They write from Scotland that on the 27th Past their Parliamt was          
Prorogued from the 4th Instant till the 10th March next in which his            
Matye declares his Resolutions to Continue his R: Highs his High                
Comissioner till the End of that Parliamt                                       
     On the 25th at night 13 persons made their Escape out of the Prison        
at Edenbrough but 2 of them were taken next day & tryed who owneing the         
Rebellion at Bothwell Bridg & discovereing his Matyes Authority they            
were both sentenced to be hanged & Executed that afternoon                      
   The Burgermasters of Amsterdam neglect nothing which may Contribute          
to their safety & make as greate Preparations as if they Exspect every          
moment to be Attacqued                                                          
     Our letters from Ratisbone say the d of Lorraines forces are soe           
much diminished that he was not strong enough to withstand any more             
sallyes by Reason the Turks in the last greate sally killed 4 Earles            
& Cutt off halfe of the Regement of Staremburgh                                 
+They write from Jamaica that Mounsr Gramont the ffrench Comander had           
assembled A fleet many of which were Privateers with ffrench Comissions         
& had 1800 land souldiers with designe to try their fortune once more at        
Carthagena                                                                      
     L. c. 1585     London 6th Sept 1684                                        
+Yesterday at Hicks hall were tryed the Churchwardens Constables &c who         
Refused to take the oath Ex officio & An Indictment brought Agt them for        
Combineing togather to keep up seditious Conventicles & for Refuseing           
to take Lawfull oaths for suppression of the same & also when they left         
the justices at their Comittment They said they would send the Poor to          
them for Releife & that Pursuant thereto above 30 of the Poor Came to           
their houses & the Ministers & made greate Clamours in Nature of A Ryott        
     To which some Pleaded Guilty & had easy fines set on them not              
Exceeding 5 Marks but others that stood tryall & were found guilty by           
the jury  one was fined 200 L others 100 L others 50 L apeece & for             
Refuseing to pay were Comitted to New Prison & A beadle was ordered to          
stand twice in the Pillory                                                      
     The Person that shott mr Culliford in the back Recd sentence to            
stand 3 times in the Pillory to Pay 400 L & lye in Prison 7 yeares              
     There is A Report that the Ld Comissioner Godolphin will be made           
Ld Treasurer assoon as his Matye Returnes hither Also that the Ld Mayor         
for the Ensuing year will be Sr James Smith & the 2 sheriffs Charles            
Duncomb & Peter Paravisine Esqrs But that the sheriffs who were formerly        
Chosen at Midsomer & Entred on their office at Michaelmas will for the          
future be Prickt by his Matye with the County sheriffs & enter in the           
Execution thereof when others doe                                               
     Our fforreign letters say that the K of Poland is at the head of           
70000 men in his march for Constantinople & that Buda still holds out           
     The ffrench demand in fflanders asmuch for Reprisalls & Arriers of         
Contributions to be paid in 3 months as hath been paid in 15 yeares warr        
     A Crocodile was this weeke brought over from the E Indies & showed         
in the faire the like haveing never been seen before  it is A yong one          
Abt 4 ffoot long                                                                
     The Ld Elland the M of Hallifax his Eldest son being Returneing            
from ffrance with 2 ladyes one of which tis said his Lordship is to             
marry The Ladyes Recd An order from the ffrench K not to goe further            
then Callais which obliged his Lordship to deferr his journey & is much         
offended & his ffather hath highly Complained thereof to the ffrench            
Ambr here who said that upon Application to his Master he did not doubt         
but the Ladyes would be Permitted to Come &c                                    
     L. c. 1586     London 9th Sept 1684                                        
+Our letters from the Campe before Buda of the 13th say the beseiged            
Continue obstinate in their defence though by deserters they understand         
the Garrison is Reduced from 8000 to 3000 men  The d of Lorraine had 5          
mines which would be Ready to Spring on the 25th & if they tooke effect         
would make A Breach wide enough for A Battalion to Enter A Breast & he          
Resolved to storme it before the Bavarians Arrived that they might not          
have the Honr of it but if the Mines tooke not effect would assoon as           
the Bavarians Arrived secure the danube from whence the beseiged have           
all their water which will force them to surrender  In the meane time           
the D of Lorraines Army is much wasted & there are not 10 Captains              
Remaining that Came soe before the Place                                        
     The d of Bavaria marched from Vienna on the 3d Instant with 10000          
ffoot for Buda                                                                  
     Our letters from Count Leslyes Campe of the 20th Past Advise that          
the Serasquier Bassa had attacqued his Campe & defeated 1800 Croats             
which defended A Post between 2 Marishes & Attacqued the Maine body but         
after A sharpe dispute were forced to Returne with the losse of 500 men         
the Imperiallists looseing but 200 men                                          
+On Satureday last the Ld Ch: Justice Came to Winchester as also the            
Atturney Genll Alderman Duncomb Sr Tho Jenner o[u]r Recorder mr Guy &c          
& tis said the Ld Ch: Justice & mr Craddock had above An houres Private         
discourse with his Matye the same night & that next day there was A             
Cabinet Councell                                                                
     Also that his Matye R: Highs Prince George & the d of Grafton were         
to goe for Portesmouth on the 8th Instant & thence to the Isle of Wight         
& the d of Grafton Intends thence for Holland where he Intends to stay          
A month                                                                         
     The P of Orange & D of Monmoth are at Dieren                               
     Since the Courts being at Winchester many Robberies have been              
Comitted on the Roades Leadeing to that Citty & tis said his Matye hath         
ordered A Proclamation Incerting the Names of some Notorious High way           
men with A Reward for their Apprehension                                        
+The Actions of the E India Company are at 200 L of the Affrican Company        
200 L & the Hudsons bay Company at 300 L p Cent                                 
     On Sunday the souldiers went into the Minories & dukes Place to            
seeke for some meetings but Its supposed notice was given & they were           
gone                                                                            
     The quakers assembled that morning in Gracechurch street in greate         
Numbers  The souldiers seized 12 of the Cheife who were bound to Answer         
it at the sessions                                                              
     The King Returnes hither on the the 26th Instant                           
     L.c. 1587   London 11th Sept 1684                                          
+Yesterday the Beadles of Spittlefeilds & Bednall Green stood in the            
Pillory for Refuseing the Oath Ex Officio                                       
     And this day Crusse who shott mr Culliford stood in the Pillory            
before the Custome house haveing A good guard over him but Instead of           
being pelted with Rotten Oranges &c The Carrmen Porters &c from the             
Wharfs thereabout Came & gave him A greate deale of Money  Some were            
taken & Carryed before Sr Jo: Buckworth who Its said made Mittimusses for       
their Comittment to Bridewell but the Rabble grew soe Numerous that the         
sherriffs were forced to send for more helpe for fear of a Rescue               
     Esqr Culliford being well Recovered designes to set fforward for           
Ireland on Munday next as one of the Comissioners of his Matyes                 
revenues in that Kingdome                                                       
     Some talke as if his Matye were sending the d of Grafton to Holland        
to demand satisfaction for the Injuries at Bantam as also that the M of         
Hallifax will be made Ld Treasurer & the Ld Godolphin succeed the Marquess      
     Also that Prince George will be made Generallissimo of all the             
forces in England & have a Constant Guard settled  Also that every              
Comission officer at land who for the future shall sell his Place shall         
pay 12 d p pound of the Money towards Chelsey Colledg & that the                
purchaser shall doe the like                                                    
     The Recorder is this day come from Winchester who Its said hath            
kissed his Matyes hand as Baron of the Exchequer                                
     The Inhabitants of Winchester are Contracting with An able                 
Artist to set up his Matyes Portraiture in A Principle street there             
     This day his Matye returned from Portesmouth to Winchester                 
     They write from Holland that the Ld Gray & the yong woman with him         
are at Cleves as also fferguson the Goodenoughs &c  Also that many are          
outragious Agt the scoutmaster that seized Armstrong                            
+Langley that bought the Rhynocerus is Arrested at the Action of the            
E India Company                                                                 
+Our last letters from Hungary say the Bavarians have joyned the d of           
Lorraine & they write from Venice that upon Newes of their ffleet the           
Grand Seignor Countermanded 50000 men designed for Hungary                      
+mr Penn is dayly Exspected here from Pensilvania The Ld Baltimore              
returning by vertue of his first grant of Maryland part of the ground           
Marked out by mr Penn for building a greate Citty part Allready built           
& called Philadelphia                                                           
      L.c. 1588     London 13th Sept 1684                                       
+The Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries is Returned hither & its said the Citty will       
have A New Charter & such A one as has been approved of by him                  
     Dureing his Matyes absence 11 Companies are ordered to lye in the          
Tower                                                                           
     Our fforreign letters yesterday say the Waters are soe overflowed          
with greate Raines that noe letters Came from the Campe before Buda to          
Vienna                                                                          
     Last Tuesday his Matye with his R: Highs The dukes of Grafton              
Beaufort St Albans Richmond Albemarle Buckingham &c Came to Portesmouth         
in their yatchts & were Recd with all the joy Imaginable & by land Came         
the Ds of Portesmouth from Winchester                                           
     Tis said the d of Bucks will be made one of the Lds of the White           
staves & some give out as though he would be Comptroller of his Matyes          
household which the d of Ormond now Enjoyes                                     
     Tis said the King Intends to give Sr Robt Holmes 10000 L to                
Resigne the goverment of the Isle of Wight & that the d of Grafton will         
be placed there                                                                 
     Our letters from Ireland say that Macnamarr one of the Irish               
Evidences was Executed at Waterford for ffelony  before his death he            
Confessed his crimes & Averred that what he swore Agt Colledg &c was            
true but what he said of the E of Tyronne was not true & gave A Paper           
of his Confession to the sheriffe signed by himselfe                            
     Our Scotch letters say that mr Gourdon of Earles towne Attempted to        
make his Escape on the 4th Instant at night but was discovered when he          
had Almost finished it  The Next morning the Councell were Assembled &          
Gourdon was Examined who furnished him with the materialls used in his          
Attempt which he would not Confesse & was sent back to be Ironed &              
kept Closer  Also mr Spence was brought before them whose Confession            
hath Procured the Pardon  Also mr Castere A minister was that afternoon         
brought before them & Refuseing to declare on Oath what he knew was             
Tortured by the thumbs & next morning was Againe brought before them &          
threatened to be Tortured by the boote at which he seemed much                  
Astonished & Appeareing to be Ingenious was not Tortured but made some          
Confession which is kept very secrett                                           
     Our fflanders letters say that the states of Brabant have Agreed to        
Pay the ffrench 1200000 fflorens for Contributions & the other Provinces        
are takeing the same Measures to Preserve their Country from Ruine              
     L. c. 1589     London 16th Sept 1684                                       
+On Sunday last the Charter of Exeter was surrendred to his Matye & Quo         
Warrantoes ordered Agt the Charters of Litchfeild & Berwick                     
     On the 25th Instant his Matye Comes to Whitehall & on the 1st              
octobr will take A generall Review of all his horse & ffoot at                  
Blackheath where tis said P George will be made Generallissimo after            
which his Matye goes for Newmarket                                              
     Its Againe discoursed that the D of Newcastle D of Albemarle M of          
Hallifax mr Seymour &c are Abt ffarmeing his Matyes Revenue of England &        
Proffer 1000000 L p An into the Exchequer & will give besides 50000 L p         
An to Gratify the suffering Loyallists                                          
     Tis said Esqr Pepis hath given his R: Highs An Account what ships          
may in A short time be Equipped & that to man & Equippe 40 ships will           
Cost above 900000 L                                                             
     The Middle price of Corne here is Wheate 36 s per quarter Rye 25 s         
Barley 20 s Oates 13 s 6 d Pease 40 s & beanes 39 s p quarter                   
     Our letters from Dover say that the Ld Elland son to the M of              
Hallifax Arrived there out of ffrance with his lady whome he lately             
marryed being A greate fortune                                                  
     Yesterday John Child the beadle of Spittle feilds stood in the             
Pillory at which the Neibourhood were Enraged & some soe bold as to             
Attempt to breake the Pillory                                                   
     An Interloper is Arrived from E: India Called the Lumley Castle            
of 50 guns worth 120000 L being the Richest that ever Came thence which         
will very much Prejudice the Company                                            
     Our Paris letters say the ffrench K has Published A declaration            
forbidding the Protestants of Thoulouse to hold their Assemblies  also          
2 universities & many Churches are demolished in dauphine                       
     Our Scotch letters say that on the 8th Instant Comissioner Monroe          
formerly one of the Lds of the session after A strict Examination               
Promised to declare all he knew of the late Conspiracy  Also mr Castiers        
delivered A large Confession to the Ld Treasurer to his full                    
satisfaction also that one mr Robt Bayly A Gent seized at London was            
Required to Answer upon oath & Refuseing was ffined 6000 L sterling & to        
lye in Prison till paid  Sr James Smith is to be Ld Mayor & the sheriffs        
are Prickt but their Names not knowne                                           
+They write from Vienna that they have Account the d of Bavaria is              
Arrived before Buda That the beseiged make A stout defence That the             
serasquier Bassa was marching with above 30000 men for Its Releife but if       
he Came the d of Lorraine was Resolved to fight him & then end the seige        
     L.c. 1590     London 18th Sept 1684                                        
+Wee had yesterday A Report Abt Towne that the Emperors Ambr had Recd           
An Expresse with Account of the surrender of Buda but wee have noe good         
ground for it                                                                   
     This day the Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries Acquainted the Ld Mayor &             
Aldermen that he was Comanded by his Matye to Acquaint them that it was         
his Pleasure Sr James Smith should be Ld Mayor & that he did dispense           
with Sr Dudley Norths laying downe his gowne haveing occasion for his           
service Elsewhere                                                               
     Sr Phillip Howard is Appointed Mayor of Windsor & Capt Legg Mayor          
of Portesmouth                                                                  
+The Comissioners for makeing Tynn farthings are Proceeding with all            
the dispatch posible & greate quantities of Tynn is brought to their            
office at Leathersellers hall & Its thought that in 14 dayes some               
farthings will be delivered out                                                 
     The Pattentees for makeing Saltwater ffresh have obtained a Pattent        
for 15 yeares of the states Genll                                               
     A few dayes since they gave a publick treate to severall Eminent           
merchants & sea Comanders in London before whome they Performed the             
operation upon a Tunn of Saltwater which was made ffresh & all the              
fflesh fish pease &c which they were treated with were dressed in the           
same & after dinner many of them Entred into Contracts with the                 
Pattentees for the same                                                         
     The Dutch E: India Company are by order of the states sending              
Comissioners hither to Adjust the Buisness of Bantam with o[u]r Company         
who pretend to greate damages but the dutch Alledg they were soe farr           
from doing the English any harme that they Protected both their Persons         
& Estates                                                                       
     Our Scotch letters say that on the 10th at night A select Party of         
his Matyes Regemt of ffoot Guards were drawne up in the Grass market &          
Comanded to Charge with Bullett & were then marched 6 miles to the house        
of Sr John Drabrimple Son to the late Sr John Drabrimple President of           
the session whome they seized & brought away in his Coach & on the 10th         
Sr John & his Brothers were Examined 2 houres & sent with A strong Guard        
to the Towne Prison with orders to be kept Close & his 2 brothers               
Confined to severall Chambers.                                                  
+Our Paris letters of the 26th say The Ratifications of the Truce being         
Come from Spaine orders are sent to the ffrench forces to withdraw from         
fflanders & all other Parts of the Spanish Territories                          
+Walter Narbonne Esqr late member for Calne in Wiltshire being dead             
of the wounds he Recd in a duell with Mr Montgomery Comptroller of the          
Temple last Christmas The Coroners Enquest have not yet given in their          
Verdict & A Warrant being out to seize mr Montgomery he is withdrawne           
     L. c. 1591     London 20th Sept 1684                                       
+Our letters from Vienna of the 4/14 say that the d of Bavaria Advances         
apace with his Attacks Agt the Watergate at Buda That the beseiged want         
Provisions That the Serasquier Bassa understanding Coll Heuster had             
surprized 1500 waggons he had sent to Alba Regalis for subsistance of           
Army was Retired to the bridg of Esseck & had Comanded the Respective           
Bassas to Retire with their troops to their Respective garrisons                
     The K of Poland hath blockt up Camimeck with 20000 men & is marched        
with the rest of his Army for Wallachia                                         
    Our Scotch letters of the 13th Advise that the Confessions of mr            
Castiers the Presbyterian minister Comissioner Murray & mr Spence are           
very Considderable That mr James Murray of Phillipsburgh was brought in         
Prisoner & Examined for 3 houres & then Comitted Close Prisoner That            
the E of Tarras was also brought Prisoner & after A long Examination            
Comitted Close Prisoner to the Castle                                           
     That A Party of horse were sent to seize mr scott of Towrood [?]           
mr Hume & the undersheriffe of Lamerick they Could not be mett with             
That sr Hugh Cambells senior & junior were seperately Examined &                
seperately Remanded Close prisoners                                             
   Another Circuitt Court is to be held at Glascow Aire Dumfreize &             
Ildbrough [?]                                                                   
     Our Holland letters say that 18 of their 36 ships ordered to be            
built are finished & A ffond ordered for Compleateing the Number of             
36  The d of Monmoth Continues with the P of Orange                             
     The Report of the d of Buckinghams being made steward of the               
household doth not hold but he is in greate faivor with his Matye &             
Attended his Matye at Winchester in very Splendid Equippage                     
+Greate Preparations are makeing for the generall muster at Blackheath          
The officers & souldiers are to be in New Habitts &c  Its said the Ld           
Churchills Regemt of Dragoons will Appear in most Excellent order &             
discipline                                                                      
+Our letters from Portesmouth of the 18th say that on that day Came to          
Anchor at Spithead his R: Highs & the Prince & Princesse of denmarke            
his R: Highs weareing the fflagg of Admirall of England which he has not        
done since he layd downe his Comission of Ld High Admirall                      
     His Matyes Pleasure Concerning o[u]r sheriffs will be declared on          
Munday & Its Confidently said that Charles Duncomb Esqr will be one             
     L.c. 1592     London 23d Sept 1684                                         
+Our letters from Edenbrough of the 16th say that all the Ports are             
shutt up & A generall search made for some Persons Concerned in the late        
Plott & all Persons whatever forbid to stirr out of their houses on severe      
Penalties & Its beleived this discovery will affect some people here            
     Our Accounts of Buda are very various  some say the beseiged are           
beholding to the sloath & Lazyness of the Germans that they are not             
masters of the place That the bloody fflux Rages violently in the Campe         
That they want Good Engineers &c  others speake of the greate Courage           
of the beseiged & that the serasquier Bassa haveing Recd 10000 ffresh           
men was Hastning to Releive it & the dukes of Lorraine & Bavaria                
Resolved to fight him                                                           
     Last night mr Justice Bailie of Ratcliffe mr Haviland mr Batts &           
another were after A strict Examination by the Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries          
Comitted to the Marshalsea being all accused for kidnapping vizt sending        
Children to the plantations beyond sea                                          
     One mr Rosewell A Nonconformist minister haveing formerly been             
Accused for speakeing in the Pulpitt Treasonable words & A warrant sent         
to seize him but absconded was this day taken in Redriffe by mr                 
Atterbury the messenger & after Examination by the Ld Ch: Justice               
Comitted to the Kings bench prison                                              
     The Coroners Enquest have brought in mr Montgomery guilty of               
Murthering mr Narbonne                                                          
     Yesterday Came Advice that the Diamond An Interloper of 300 Tuns           
was Arrived in the Downes Extreame Full & Rich laden                            
     The E India Company had A sale last weeke but not soe Considderable        
as formerly                                                                     
     Its affirmed that Sr Robt Wright son in Law to the late Ld Ch:             
Justice Scroggs will succeed mr Justice Windham in the Comon Pleas              
     mr Vanderput A Rich merchant & mr Josselings of Pater Noster Row his       
Matyes Laceman are said to be Appointed sheriffs for next year                  
+Our meetings on Sunday Rested quiett though severall were known to be          
held in the out parts but they began either at 6 or 7 in the morning or         
at night                                                                        
      Letters from Winchester say his Matye & the whole Court are in good       
health & his Matye Extreamly pleased with the diversions he mett with           
there & also the Carriage of the Country both to his Person & Attendance        
     The Charters of Totnes & Lanceston are surrendred to his Matye             
Orders are sent to Newmarket to Prepare his Matyes lodgings by the 9th          
of October he Intending to stay there 3 weeks                                   
+An Expresse is sent to the ffrench King on some Important buisness but         
Its not said what                                                               
     L.c. 1593     London 25th Sept 1684                                        
+Yesterday their R: Highnesses & this day his Matye & the Court Returned        
hither in Good health                                                           
     Its discoursed that at the Muster at Blackheath the Prince will be         
made Generall The d of Albemarle E of Oxford E of Craven & E of                 
ffeversham Lieutenant Generalls & the Ld Churchill Major Genll                  
     Our fforeign letters say the serasquier Bassaw was with 50000 men          
within 5 dayes march to Releive Buda But the d of Lorraine Intended to          
make A Generall Assault before the Turks Come That his Army with the            
Bavarians were neer 50000 men & Count Lesley is marching in the Rear of         
the Turks with neer 20000 men                                                   
     Our Scotch letters say that mr Spence mr Castiers & Comissioner            
Munroe have Accused many Persons of Good estates & quality in both              
Kingdoms                                                                        
     On the 15th mr Murray of Phillipsburg was 3 times Examined &               
Remanded with orders that noe person speake with him  also mr scott was         
Twice Examined & Remanded as the former & Its Reported they have both           
made Ingenious Confession  also mr Pringle of Torwood is seized                 
     On the 16th the Councell ordered the Gates of the Citty to be shutt        
& the Bp of Edenbrough & all the ministers Elders of the Citty were             
Convened & with them 3 of the Privy Councell To whome the Bp &c gave in         
A list upon Oath of such as they knew Irregular who were seized in their        
houses & brought before the Councell where some were discharged on bayle        
& the Rest Comitted                                                             
     Tis said the Plott in Scotland was to take effect at the same time         
with the Plott here & 50000 men were to be in Armes there & the Cheife          
Persons Concerned are said to be the Ld Melbin The Ld Terras who married        
the ds of Monmouths sister The Ld Brodey The Laird Drant & Sr Jo: Cuthron       
+The E of Shaftesbury waited on his Matye at Winchester who Recd him very       
kindly & made him Comander of his Game 12 miles Round his owne house            
     Last weeke the house of Coll Danvers at Newington Green was                
searched abt 2 in the morning but he made his Escape                            
+mr Mann swordbearer of this Citty is made one of the Auditors of the           
hearth money                                                                    
     Our letters from Rochester say the Royall soveraigne being Rebuilt         
& as fit for service as heretofore will be suddenly Launched                    
     The Moores have Rebuilt A greate Part of the Wall of Tangier &             
Planted 8 Guns thereon Intending to make it a seate for Piratts                 
   On Tuesday died the Bp of Winchester in the 85th year of his Age             
     L. c. 1594     London 27th Sept 1684                                       
+Our Scotch letters say that on the 19th Instant Sr Hugh Cambell & his          
son were sent with A strong guard to the Castle of Bass  The Ld Purkelay        
Gourdon of Earles towne, Weir of New Towne The Laird Alkenhayes &               
Comissioner Monroe were sent to the Castles of Blackness & sterling             
     Also that Monroe being Threatened with the Torture of the Boot             
Confessed all my Ld Howard swore in Relation to An Insureection in that         
Kingdome                                                                        
     Severall Lds of the Councell are gone the Northerne & Westerne             
Circuitts & people are brought dayly in that are Concerned in the               
Conspiracy  Tis said Abt 80 of the Nobility & Gentry are Accused of             
which Abt 20 already Comitted                                                   
     Yesterday the Ld Mayor & Aldermen waited on his Matye to                   
Congratulate his safe Returne & after waited on his R: Highs whose              
dressing Roome & Antichambers were Extreamly thronged with nobility &           
gentry                                                                          
     Yesterday his R: Highs P: George & the d of Albemarle went to              
Blackheath to make Choyce of the Ground where the forces are to muster          
on Wednesday & the d of Albemarle is Erecting A Large Tent in which his         
Matye dines that day & his Matye goes for Newmarket on Satureday where he       
will stay Abt 14 dayes                                                          
      Sr ffran: Manly one of the judges of Wales is dead                        
     A Comission is Past the seale for makeing mr Vanderput & mr Gosling        
sheriffs & his Matye hath Knighted them & they are to be Aldermen in            
Place of sr Dudley North who layes downe & Sr Wm Royston deceased               
     Tis said the Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries is made one of the Cabinet            
Councell                                                                        
     The Charter of Exeter is surrendred & A new one Engrossing where           
the D of Albemarle is made Recorder in Place of mr Seymour & also Mayor         
for the year Ensuing & tis said the Duke will Personally Execute the            
said office of Mayor                                                            
+The Rhynoceros is much vissitted at 12 d Apeece & 2 s those that Ride          
him  They get 15 L A day                                                        
     The Moores Employ 3000 men dayly at worke at Tangier & have built          
up the Walls & made a very Regular fortification towards the sea &              
planted thereon 170 brass guns 100 of which they got out of A Spanish           
ship stranded neer Tituan [?]                                                   
+Wee are wanting all o[u]r fforreign posts so have nothing more of Buda         
     L. c. 1595     London 30th Sept 1684                                       
+Our letters from the Campe before Buda of the 19th & from Vienna of            
the 24th Advise That the Allarme was greate in the Campe upon the               
Repeated Advises of the serasquier Bassas Advance with his Army towards         
them & the d of Lorraine Marched with all the horse & Dragoons to fight         
him but in the End found him Encamped neer Alba Regalis with 15000 horse        
in Exspectation of the Rest of his Troops haveing A Considderable River         
before him & being strongly Encampt between the Towne & the River that          
it was Imposible to force the Campe  Neither did the Turks make any             
motion whereupon the D of Lorraine left the P: of Baden with 10000 horse        
to Watch their motions & Returned with the Rest of the Army to the              
Campe to Press the seige very Closely                                           
     Last Sunday Sr Peter Vandeput & Sr Wm Gossling o[u]r New Sheriffs          
were sworne on the Hustings Court & yesterday before the Barons of the          
Exchequer                                                                       
     Yesterday the Ld Mayor & Aldermen Assembled where his Maties               
Comission Appointing Sr James Smith Ld Mayor was Read & he Called forth         
who Accepted the same & on St Simon & Jude will be sworne at Guildhall          
&c according to Custome                                                         
     Our meetings on Sunday Rested quiet not one being disturbed                
neither was Information given of any they being very private                    
     A writt Excommunicato Capiendo is layd on mr Jenkins in Newgate            
     The Ground at Blackheath being found Inconvenient the Muster to            
morrow is Appointed on Putney heath                                             
+Last night the Borough of Barnstaple surrendred their Charter & also           
the Corporation of Brewers in Exeter did the like                               
   dr Lake Bp of Man being Translated to Bristoll dr Levoutz brother to         
Judge Levoutz is to succeed Bp of Man                                           
     Our fforreign letters say the d of Monmoth is Highly Esteemed              
abroade & all the United Provinces have Chose him their Representative in       
Nature of Ambr at the Greate Congress neer Hamburgh where he is to meet         
the Ministers of Denmarke Brandenburgh &c for Carrying on A Protestant          
League offensive & defensive & his Equippage is Prepareing for it               
     L. c. 1596     London 2d Octobr 1684                                       
+Yesterday morning Marcht into Putney heath his Matyes Regemt of ffoot          
his R: Highnesses The E of Cravens & the E of dumbartons The life Guards        
of horse 2 Companies of Grenadiers on horseback The E of Oxfords Regemt         
of horse & the Ld Churchills of Dragoons  They were drawne up 4 deep &          
in one line which made A ffront of A mile & A halfe  6000 were the most         
that were in Armes                                                              
     Every Regemt was Exersized before the King & that by Beate of drum         
to the greate satisfaction of his Matye R: Highs &c  The day Proveing           
Thick & Rainey Prevented much of what was designed  Abt 2 his Matye             
withdrew & dined in A Tent & the Regemts marched to their Respective            
quarters & soe the day Ended without makeing Genll Lieutenant Genll or          
Major Genll                                                                     
     Our fforreign letters say that Buda still holds out & the d of             
Lorraine waites for more Reinforcemts before he makes A generall Assault        
but however Come or not Come had Appointed the day & the serasquier             
Bassa delayes Releiveing it waiteing for the weakening of the Christians        
by the Generall Assault                                                         
     Our last Scotch letters say that those Appointed to hold the               
Circuitt Courts are gone where all persons who Remaine obstinate & will         
not Conforme are to Receive the utmost severity of the Lawes  That its          
thought all the Prisoners will be kept very Close till the sitting of           
the Councell in Novembr & till then little done Abt the Plott                   
     Tis said the designe was to Enter into A Covenant or association           
to defend the Protestant Religion Excludeing the King therein much after        
the same manner as that on foot in the yeares 37 & 38                           
+mr Rossewell the Minister is Comitted to the Gatehouse where he is kept        
Close Prisoner & his wife not permitted to see him                              
+This weekly bill of Mortallity Buryed 426 Plague none Christned 291            
+Our ffrench letters say that money is very plentifull there & the              
Royall Treasury soe full that noe more will be Recd into it                     
     Our letters from Portesmouth say that on the 29th Past Capt Legg           
Brother to the Ld Dartmouth was sworne their Mayor                              
     Tis thought the Rest of the Cornwall & Devonshire Corporations will        
surrender their Charters before next Terme                                      
     On Satureday the Court Removes to Newmarket & stay 3 weeks                 
     L. c. 1597     London 4th Octobr 1684                                      
+This day his Matye went for Newmarket  Her Matye hath been Indisposed          
for these 2 or 3 dayes & hath not been out of her Chamber                       
     Last Tuesday the Countess of Elland A ffrench lady lately marryed          
to the M of Hallifaxes Eldest son kissed his Matyes hand & is made one          
of the ladyes of Honour                                                         
     The dutch E: India Company finding delayes & makeing Excuses Abt           
Bantam o[u]r Company demand above 200000 L damages                              
     mr Montgomery that soe wounded mr Narbonne that he died tis said           
Intends to Come in at the sessions at Hicks hall next Wednesday & take          
his tryall though Its said he is Advised to the Contrary                        
     mr Rossewell the minister is to be tryed by Comission of Oyer &            
Terminier in Surrey & tis said Sr Tho Jenner o[u]r Recorder is to sit           
as judge That the words sworne Agt him if Proved amount to High Treason         
& were spoken in A sermon preached from 6 Micah 16 vers  This Rossewell         
is A West Country man & succeeded mr Janeway                                    
     Our last Scotch letters say that in the last Circuitt Courts there         
were 1600 persons denounced fugitives for Resetting the Rebells at              
Bothwell Bridg  some have been taken & the Rest abscond but Its hoped           
that in these Circuitts many will be found of the old offenders & also          
of new ones for that the late Proclamation for sweareing masters of             
ships is soe strict that none will venture to Carry off any                     
     Our ffrench letters say that after the King hath disbanded Abt             
40000 horse & ffoot such of them as will worke shall be Employed in             
makeing An Artificiall Canall & Levelling some mountainous Places which         
hinder the Prospect from the Kings house at ffountainbeau [sic] & some          
other works which Require many hands which Its thought is for diverting         
the Active spiritts of the souldiers & to keep them togather & in Labour        
till A fit occasion offer to Armes Againe                                       
+The Emperor & the K of Spaine have desired his Matye to be Guarrantee          
of the Truce                                                                    
   dr Spratt being made Deane of Westminster & the Courts held by that          
Citty being the deanes he sate this weeke in Person it being the Custome        
soe to doe the first Court after A Change & by which the deane Entituleth       
himselfe to 1 d of every housekeeper in the said Citty & liberty                
  Our fforreign letters being not yet Come we have nothing more from Buda       
     L. c. 1598     London 7th Octobr 1684                                      
+Monroe of Scotland hath owned all the damnable Conspiracy that was not         
only Carryed on there but here also & hath made very large Confession &         
is bringing up hither  he hath Attempted to destroy himselfe to Prevent         
which he is Carefully lookt after                                               
     On Satureday night A Comittee of the Councell sate at Whitehall            
where his R: Highs was prsent & the discovery in Scotland under                 
Examination & one Mathews An Eastland Merchant seized & Comitted                
+mr Chudleigh his Matyes Envoy is Arrived at the Hague  he Passed by the        
P: of Orange without shewing him any Respect haveing such order The             
Prince haveing disgusted his Matye for his Extrary Carassing the d of           
Monmoth who is now at the Hague & will Reside there The Prince haveing          
given him A house that was his grandmothers that is fitting for him  he         
lately going through Amsterdam was Highly Complimented by All the Burghers      
     The dutch have not only Bantam but are masters of most part of the         
Isle of Java in which that Citty stands                                         
     Here is A Rumour as though wee should have A Rupture with Holland          
     Yesterday at the sessions at Guildhall Abt 60 taken at Conventicles        
were ffined & those that paid not were Comitted                                 
     On Sunday one ffaldo A Nonconformist Minister was taken in the             
streets & Refuseing the oaths was Comitted                                      
     Last Sunday the ffoot Guards & Marshalls men made greate search            
for Conventicles & were without Bishopsgate Abt 7 in the morning at             
severall places but seized none but at night 2 greate meetings were             
discovered & seized one in New Gravell Laine & the other in Dunnings            
Alley without Bishopsgate & Abt 40 seized most of which gave bayle to           
Answer it at the sessions but 12 that would not were Comitted to Newgate        
     They write from Scotland that Corne is very Cheape there  our              
English quarter of the best wheate is sold for 12 s 6 d Barley at 8 s           
Oates 7 s  Corne is here as for 2 months Past                                   
+mr Graham is Appointed by the mercers new Charter to be Clerke of              
their Company                                                                   
   Wee have noe more from Buda save that being it seemes Improbable to          
be now taken the Christians are prepareing to block it up all winter            
     L. c. 1599     London 9th Octobr 1684                                      
+They write from Holland that mr Chudleigh his Matyes Envoy hath                
Acquainted the states & all the fforreign ministers That the King               
his master is soe highly disaffected with the P of Orange that he had           
Expresse orders to declare his Indignation & that he was not soe much           
as to see him for shewing soe much Countenance to the d of Monmoth              
    Also that the P: of Orange is gone from the Hague to Soesdike & being       
to goe through Amsterdam the Majestrates haveing notice of it gave orders       
for prepareing A very splendid dinner for him & were got Ready to Receive       
him but he to shew his dissatisfaction to their former Proceeding Caused        
the Coachman to drive A full trott through the Citty But the Burgermasters      
Ran after the Coach & with much Adoe the Coach stopped & one of the             
Burgermasters makeing A speech to the end aforesaid the Prince                  
slightingly told them he was in Hast & soe left them                            
     Last Tuesday at the sessions in Surrey A Bill of Indictment was            
found Agt mr Rossewell of High Treason  There were 2 men & 2 women that         
Positively swore the words Agt him & he is to be Tryed at the Kings             
Bench barr next Terme  Report sayth that the men were in womans                 
Apparrell in the meeting & amongst other words That he should say that          
the King & his ffather were worse then Jereboam for all their designes          
have been to Introduce popery &c                                                
     Last Tuesday mr ffranklin mr Hewes & mr Baxter 3 dissenting                
ministers were seized & brought to Hicks hall  The 2 former were                
Comitted but the latter had time to find sureties for his good                  
behaivor  Tis said warrants are out for seizing all the Phanatick               
Preachers Abt the Citty                                                         
     The Gazett tells you of the surprize of Teckleys Army & that they          
are all Routed & Teckley supposed to be drowned as also that the                
serasquier Bassa had Attempted to Releive Buda & the Garrison sallyed           
out at the same time & did greate Execution on the Christians & that            
500 ffresh Janizaries got into Buda But that the serasquier Bassa was           
at last forced to Retire in greate disorder & that the Garrison wanted          
bread  But o[u]r last letters say the Turks in Buda seized some boates          
in which there were above 30000 Loaves of Bread                                 
     L. c. 1600     London 11th October 1684                                    
+Yesterday upon the Exchange it was Reported that one Capt Barrington           
Came from Ostend after the last Post Came thence & sayes they were              
then makeing Bonefires in fflanders for the d of Lorraines haveing              
Routed the serasquier Bassa & the takeing of Buda which Capitulated             
but there is noe Expresse Come either to the Emperor or Spanish Ambr            
soe wee fear it only A story                                                    
     The discourse of some Prosecutions to be made Agt dr Oates next            
Terme is Againe Renewed as also that many others will be Prosecuted             
for greate misdemeanors  also such Corporations as doe not surrender            
will be Proceeded Agt on the Quo Warrantoes & this weeke severall more          
quo Warrantoes are Ishued out vizt Agt Leicester & Leeds in Yorkshire &c        
     Most of o[u]r Companies have New Charters Engrossed & therein the          
Names of the Master Wardens &c are Inserted & also their Clerks who are         
New ones of undoubted Loyalty to this goverment in Church & state The           
Care of which hath layne most on the Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries & mr Graham        
to Appoint                                                                      
     On Thursday night the Ld Digby Gerrard Ld Gerrard of Bromley & 2           
other Gent Came to the Rose Tavern in Covent Garden abt 12 at night who         
had been hard drinking & Called for A dish of Buttered Eggs & Mulled            
sack which they eate & dranke & soon after fell asleepe in severall             
places in the Roome  The first wakeing mist the Ld Gerrard & Calling            
the Drawer they lookt & found him dead & falne under the Table  The             
Coroners Enquest found it that he died of suffocation                           
     They write from Bristoll that A vessell Come from Antego & laden           
with sugars & Cotten fell on fire just as shee Came in & was burnt with         
all her ladeing of A greate Vallue  the men Report it Came from the fire        
on the hearth                                                                   
+mr Mathews the Hamburgh Merchant hath been Againe Examined & it                
Appeareing he saw not mr fferguson since the discovery of the Plott he          
is discharged                                                                   
     mr Best Comonly Called the Protestant Hop merchant being Convicted         
Abt 2 yeares since for drinking A health to the memory of Stephen Colledg       
& absconded is seized at Hitching in Hartfordshire & bringing up hither         
+Warrants are Ishued out Agt Abt 120 Nonconformist ministers on the 5           
mile Act                                                                        
     L. c. 1601     London 14th octobr 1684                                     
+The Report wee had of Buda being surrendred proves false & o[u]r               
letters from Vienna of the 5th make some doubt of succeeding in the             
seige  But those of the 8th Arrived this Evening give us greate hopes           
of the takeing it within A few dayes The Emperor haveing Comanded to            
Presse on the seige Cost what it will & the d of Bavaria Resolveing not         
to Abandon it though he & his troops should perish there & letters from         
the Campe of the 5th say the serasquier Bassa was Retired beyond the            
Bridg of Esseck That the d of Lorraine followed him many Leagues & was          
not then Returned That the Christians upon the Arrivall of 4000 Swabians        
were Resolved to Redouble their Attacks That some Prisoners Advise there        
is such disorders in the Towne That in A Councell of warr it was Resolved       
if they were not Releived in 5 dayes they would take Measures According         
to their Necesities provisions being soe scarce that Horseflesh is sold         
for 9 slivers [?] A pound                                                       
+Last Sunday notice being given that the quakers being in Gracechurch           
street 2 Constables &c went & made Proclamation to depart but few               
going they seized 30 of them of which 24 Refuseing to give bayle were           
Comitted                                                                        
     The Title of the Ld Bromley Gerrard with A greate part of the              
Estate descends to one mr Gerrard of Staffordshire  The Rest goes to            
his wife & daughter                                                             
     The E: India Actions are at 210 L The Affrican Company 200 L The           
Hudsons bay Company 250 L p Cent Brandy at abt 33 L p Tunn English Hopps        
Abt 4 L p Cent The Price of Corne not Altered                                   
     His Matye haveing Advice of the queens being Indisposed sent A             
messenger to Whitehall who found her in A faire way of Recovery                 
+one mr Wharton son of the Ld Wharton who was formerly ill Represented          
as being An Intimate of the d of Monmoths Ran 3 heates for 500 L each           
& wonne them all  his Matye being prsent much Comended the horse upon           
which mr Wharton Allighted & prsented the horse to his Matye praying to         
kisse his hand  The latter his Matye Readily granted but Refused the            
former after which he kissed his R Highs hand                                   
     His Matye Returnes to Whitehall on the 25th Instant                        
     L. c. 1602     London 16 octobr 1684                                       
+Our ffrench letters say the Plague Rages in most parts of that Kingdome        
at Avignon are dead 4000 at Perpignon 6000 & other Places Proportionable        
& doth dayly Increase & spread further & further soe that Its feared in         
all that Kingdome                                                               
    That King Continues to Prosecute the Protestants with Extreame              
Rigour & orders are frequently Ishued out for demolishing their Churches        
& An Edict Published that the Children of all Protestants shall be              
Baptized & brought up Catholicks That each Protestant ffarmer shall             
quarter 15 horsemen & noe Protestant shall depart ffrance without leave         
on Paine of death                                                               
     The Warrants Agt the Ministers of this Citty Runs thus                     
     Whereas Information hath been given that severall suspected to be          
Concerned in the late Horrid Conspiracy lye Lurkeing in the severall            
Precincts &c                                                                    
     These are therefore in his Matyes name to Require [about four              
letters illegible] to make dilligent search &c  The Ministers names             
are dr Annesley dr Jocomb dr Bates Dr Singleton mr Watson mr doolittle          
mr Vincent mr Plant mr Collins mr Meade mr Baxter mr Baker mr ffrancklin        
mr Alsopp mr Mayo & 103 more                                                    
     On Munday mr Child in Brick lane did hang himselfe  he was                 
formerly An Anabaptist Preacher but left them & wrote Agt them Pressing         
Conformity to the Church after which he fell into A Melancholly                 
dispaireing Condition                                                           
     Elephant Smith had like to have Escaped out of the Kings bench             
Prison being taken in the Act & since fettered                                  
     They write from Chester one Holiwell A shoomaker was set in the            
Pillory for saying the d of Monmoth was Imediate successr to the Crowne         
& not the d of Yorke                                                            
+The states Genll have ordered the P of Orange as Captain Genll to              
disband the 12000 Recruits Raised in 82  The states of ffreizland have          
Protested Agt it saying they never owned any such Comand as Capt Genll          
however the Prince hath Put the Act in Execution  The d of Grafton is           
Arrived from Holland                                                            
+Wee have nothing more Certain from Buda                                        
     L. c. 1603     London 18th octobr 1684                                     
+His Matye Continues in Extrary Good health at Newmarket but the ds of          
Portesmouth was very ill there of her old distemper the Collick that            
his Matye ordered dr Witherley & dr Short to be sent for with speed             
her Paine is much abated but shee Continues very ill                            
     mr Chudleighs secretary hath brought from Holland Sr Tho: Armstrongs       
papers soe that next Terme mr Hayes will be tryed for Holding                   
Correspondance with him                                                         
     There is An order given upon ffresh Information Agt dr Oates to be         
tryed this Terme tis said for Perjury                                           
+Sr Wm Pritchards Action Agt mr Papillion & mr dubois for false                 
Imprisonment when Ld Mayor is to be tryed this Terme but tis said Mr            
Dubois died last Thursday night                                                 
     Yesterday the Adjourned sessions was held at Guildhall where               
severall dissenters that submitted had easy fines set on them & were            
discharged  others that were Refractory were Recomitted                         
     The fines of those now Prisoners in the Kings Bench which were             
Estented [?] into the Exchequer are Returned & their Estates are to be          
Extended The officers being on that of Sr Samll Barnadistons already            
+Last Thursday mr Craddock &c Attended the Court of Aldermen Abt                
ffarmeing the Marketts & proffered 3000 L p An  But one mr Kilmer               
unexspectedly Came in & proffered 3600 L p An & to pay one halfe downe          
& it was Agreed Kilmer should have it                                           
     The Court of Aldermen have ordered that all Widdows Orphans &c             
shall have their Accounts stated till Crismas & after that time to              
Receive 6 d p pound of their Principle yearely till the whole be paid           
     The Princesse of Denmarke is Againe with Child                             
     The Lamentable End of mr Child is matter of much discourse for             
that his desperation was soe violent upon him that he said A little             
before his death his Case was worse then that of ffrancis Spica  An             
Account of him is Provideing for the Presse                                     
+Sr James Smith keeps his Mayoralty in Drapers hall being of that               
Company & they are Provideing A very fine show Agt the Ld Mayors day            
     Our letters from Vienna of the 12th say the Christians at Buda             
Resolve after the springing of 2 mines to make A generall Assault               
     Yesterday A ffrenchman A dutchman & A dutchwoman were seized &             
Comitted for Coyneing Guyneys they haveing 17 by them Exactly                   
Counterfeited                                                                   
     The d of Monmoth Intends to settle at the Hague this winter                
     L. c. 1604     London 21st octobr 1684                                     
+Our fforreign letters say the serasquier Bassa Takeing the Benefit of          
A Misty morning forced the Guards & Put 10 or 1200 men into Buda in             
which Action A greate many English Gente were wounded & many killed             
That Provisions are very scarce in the Campe & the bloody fflux &c Rage         
violently & that the unskillfullness of the Germans in makeing their            
Trenches was the occasion of the death of A greate many brave officers          
      The ds of Portesmouth is now in Towne & hath Recd noe Benefit by          
the Phisitians & is soe ill that Its beleived his Matye will be here            
before Satureday                                                                
     His Matye hath knighted dr short & dr Witherley                            
     Last weeke died dr Witty An Eminent Phisitian also dr Croome & dr          
Newton who was Eminent As A man midwife                                         
     mr dubois died on Satureday morning                                        
     Baron Gregory is soe ill that his Phisitians thinke him past               
Recovery                                                                        
     One Goodman formerly A Player & since the ds of Clevelands Gent of         
Horse that was Comitted for A Robbery & Cleared for want of Evidence is         
now Accused by An Italian Gent who deposed to the E of Sunderland he            
would have hired him to have poysoned the dukes of Grafton &                    
Northumberland &c & was seized last Sunday in the ds of Clevelands              
Coach by warrant of the Ld Ch: Justice & Comitted to Newgate                    
     Wee have nothing from Scotland                                             
     The Ld Mayor & Aldermen have ordered 14000 L p An of the Citty             
Revenue to Assist the Chamber Towards payment of the debts to orphans &c        
which amount to 800000 L & are to be paid by 6 d p C yearely soe those          
that have 100 L there are to Receive every year 50 s                            
     The Spanish Ambr here hath desired his Matye in Behalfe of Genoa to        
be mediator with the ffrench K who Requires that they send their Duke &         
3 or 4 of their Cheife senators to aske him Pardon which they are               
unwilling to Comply with                                                        
+An Information is Exhibitted in the Crowne office Agt severall                 
Interlopers for Tradeing to India vizt mr Pennrug mr Booth mr Godfrey           
junior & 37 others, The Actions of the E: India Company are Risen to 212        
Corne &c are at the same Rates as formerly,                                     
     Only 3 quakers were seized on Sunday & Refuseing to give bayle were        
Comitted,                                                                       
     one Sr Tho: Middleton is seized but wee hear not for what                  
     L. c. 1605    London 23d Octobr 1684                                       
+This being the first day of the Terme A Habeas Corpus was granted to           
bring up mr Rosswell to Plead to his Indictments to morrow & Another            
to bring up mr Montgomery from Newgate & Another to bring up mr Best            
from Hartford Goale & A Rule of Court for bringing up mr Goodman                
    mr Justin Bayly mr Haviland & mr Hastings Appeared & Pleaded not            
Guilty to the Informations Agt them for kidnapping                              
   mr ffoster A Justice of Peace of Cumberland Appeared & An Information        
ordered Agt him for keeping Conventicles in his house & not Receiveing          
the sacrament in 2 1/2 yeares & not Baptizeing his Children & one               
Justice Cole of Lancashire being bound to Appear for not doing his duty         
in suppressing Conventicles by Reason of his Age  his Atturney was              
Accepted & A Tipstaffe was ordered Agt the Mayor & Bayliffs of Berwick          
Refuseing A Habeas Corpus                                                       
     mr Masters A woollen draper who witnissed Agt Colledg at Oxford has        
the Place of Clerke of Chyrurgeons hall Conferred on him by the Ld Ch:          
Justice it being worth 200 L p Ann & he may Employ one to officiate             
+The corporation of Bewdley have sent up their Charter                          
     Tis discoursed that dr Oates will be prosecuted this Terme at the          
suite of the Lady Powis                                                         
     Tis said A pattent is past the seale for mr Craddock to have 600 L         
p An out of the Marketts which are now farmed for 1000 L p An more then         
formerly                                                                        
     Last night Thompson the Printer was Comitted to Newgate by the Ld          
Ch: Justice  Some say its for Printing the English Masse &c  others say         
for words Agt the goverment                                                     
     The dutchesse of Portesmouth Continues very ill insomuch that her          
recovery is much doubted off                                                    
     The person seized is said to be a Relation of Sr Tho: Middletons           
and Concerned in the Scotch plott                                               
+Tis said the Italian that Informes Agt Goodman Informes also that he           
knew of 100 Guyney which were Carryed from Goodman to the Person that           
Accused him as A Highway man to take off his Evidence                           
+This morning came A ffrench Post which Confirmes that 1000 men got Into        
Buda at the serasquiers last Attack but that the d of Lorraine Resolves         
to take it or lay his bones before it                                           
     This day his Matye Returned hither from Newmarket                          
     L. c. 1606     London 25th octobr 1684                                     
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr was A motion that mr Hayes might be          
either Tryed or bayled which was Recorded                                       
     mr Williams haveing An Information Agt him for Lycenceing                  
Dangerfeilds narrative pleaded specially saying what he did in Parliamt         
he is not to Answer for in that Court & it is to be argued by the judges        
     Nath Thompson Comitted to Newgate for Printing in English the              
Popish Masse booke The Popish Primer & A booke Agt the Kings Supremacy          
moved for A Habeas Corpus which was granted  mr Langford A vintner was          
Comitted for Concealeing some that threw squibbs into Coaches & the             
Court Comanded that orders be made Agt throwing swibbs on the Ld Mayors         
day &c                                                                          
     This day at the Kings bench barr mr Rosswell was brought up & his          
Indictment Read in which were these words That he on the 14th Sept did          
declare these words                                                             
     That the people flock to the King upon Pretence of Healeing for            
the Kings Evill but wee are those to whome they ought to flock because          
wee are Preists & Prophetts that Can heale their greifs  That wee have          
had 2 wicked Kings like Jereboam but if you stand to your Principles            
wee shall be able to overcome o[u]r Enemies as in former times by               
Rammes Hornes broke Pitchers & stones in A sling  To which he pleaded           
not Guilty & is to be Tryed on the 18th Novembr                                 
     Our Holland letters say that the Heer Van Benninghen head of the           
ffrench Interest in Holland hath deserted it & discovered Intreagues            
of state to the P of Orange & wrought such An understanding betwixt             
the Prince & Amsterdam that yesterday that Citty Intended to give the           
Prince A Splendid Entertainment                                                 
     That the stormeing of Buda was put off from the 12th till the 15th         
& then declined for the d of Lorraine & the 2 staremburghs were sent            
away sick to Raab & the serasquier Bassa within 5 miles of the Campe            
     The K of Poland hath offered Termes to Count Teckley provided he           
will Act only defensively                                                       
     The ffrench K: hath declared himselfe Protector of all such as             
professe the Roman Catholicke Religion                                          
     They write from Scotland the Proceedings in the Westerne &                 
Southerne Counties are kept very secrett but 15 Indictyed [sic]                 
ministers are sent up their Crimes not knowne                                   
     The ds of Portesmouth Continues ill of A vomitting & looseness             
     L. c. 1607     London 28th octobr 1684                                     
+Yesterday mr Goodman was brought up Againe & Charged with An                   
Information that he did designe the deaths of the dukes of Grafton &            
Northumberland & did hire one that might procure them to drinke 2               
flasks of wine mixt with Poyson To which he pleaded not Guilty & was            
Remanded                                                                        
     mr Langford the vintner Comitted for Harbouring persons that threw         
swibbs into Coaches was after A severe Reprimand discharged                     
     The Greate Case between the E India Company & Capt Sands Came on &         
the Atturney Genll made A long Argument for the Company                         
     This day mr Williams Argued for the Interloper & Endeavoured to            
prove all merchants had A ffreedome to trade aswell as the Company but          
the Court thought fit to Considder it before they gave judgment                 
     Severall dissenters of Abington bound over for frequenting                 
Conventicles will be tryed by Certiorary at the Kings bench barr                
     This day by A Speciall Comission A Grandjury was sumoned at                
Guildhall & An Indictment of High Treason was brought Agt mr Hayes &            
they found the bill                                                             
     The E India Actions are at 214 Affrican 202 Hudsons bay 404  Bread         
Corne & Mault are Risen                                                         
     Last Sunday morning A fire broke out in the house of the E of Powis        
in Lincolnes Inn feilds which in 3 houres Consumed the said house & all         
the furniture  His Lordship & all the family with greate dificulty saved        
their Lives  The loss 30000 L  It was A High well Built Brick house &           
the Contiguous buildings were scarse damnified  Tis said it Happened by         
A Pan of Charcoale left at night in my Lds Closett to dry Painting              
newly done                                                                      
     Last ffriday night was such A storme that the ships in the downes          
were drove from their Anchors & 5 wholly lost                                   
+Our letters from Vienna of the 19th say the Generall storme is Put off         
till the 24th  That the d of Lorraine is gone off sick & the Prince of          
Baden is to Comand the Army  That the serasquier was within 4 miles of          
the Campe haveing Recd 6000 fresh men & Cuts off the fforragers                 
     That the d of Bavaria was Resolved not to Raise the seige by               
Extremity of weather but have sent for 12000 fresh men out of his owne          
Countries but that 2 ships laden with bread were driven Into Buda               
     L. c. 1608     London 30th Octobr 1684                                     
+Yesterday nothing of Moment passed at the Kings bench  The Ld Mayor            
was sworne & kept his feast as usuall                                           
     This day at the Kings bench barr The Case between dr Pinfold & mr          
Kidd was Argued upon A bond Given by Kidd to Pinfold as officiall of            
drs Comons                                                                      
     The Plaintiffe Cited severall Authorities to prove it A good bond          
The defendants Councell Cited many Authorities to Prove it A voyd bond          
for that it ought to have been taken in the Kings name but the Court            
gave judgment for the Plaintiffe                                                
     A Habeas Corpus was Granted to bring up one Nicholls & one dolby           
formerly servants to dr Oates but now in the Gatehouse for Treasonable          
words                                                                           
     The ds of Portesmouth Recovers                                             
     The Bp of Winchester Certainly died last Tuesday night                     
     Baron street is Removed to the Comon pleas & Sr Robt Wright made           
one of the Barons of the Exchequer  Tis said mr ffarrington one of the          
late new Sergeants is to be judge of Chester & that mr Powell is to be          
judge of South Wales                                                            
     Our letters from the Campe before Buda of the 13th doe not Agree           
with the Printed Relations for they write there is greate scarsity in           
the Campe  That the Generall storme Cannot be made till the Bavarian &          
Imperiall forces Arrive  That Provisions both for horse & man are very          
scarse in the Campe                                                             
+That severall Regemts that were 7 or 800 men each are now Reduced to 150       
or 70 or but 60  That A violent storme broke their bridg over the Danube        
soe that for 4 dayes togather there was noe bread in the Campe & they           
fear if they have not A very powerfull & speedy supply they must Raise          
the seige                                                                       
     But from Vienna they write that some of the Citty lately taken             
Prisoners being Examined doe all Agree they are in greate want Camells          
flesh being sold for 8 d pd & horseflesh for 2 s pd which makes the             
Christians deferr the Generall storme hopeing to have it by surrender           
for want                                                                        
     L. c. 1609    London 1st Novembr 1684                                      
+Yesterday A motion was made by the Kings Councell for A Habeas Corpus          
to bring up mr Hayes on Munday next                                             
     This day being Holy day nothing was done at Westminster                    
     Yesterday wee had A fflanders Post with letters of 27th from               
Vienna which give Account the Turks are Resolved to Attempt the Releife         
of Buda once more & the d of Lorraine drew out all the Cavalry &                
Resolved to meet them upon the successe of which the fate of Buda will          
depend                                                                          
     Also that Generall Lesley was Exspecting A strong Reinforcement            
from Croatia & Stira & if the d of Lorraine were successfull would              
Hasten to the bridg of Esseck & Cut off the Turks Retreate                      
     His Matye hath declared his Resolution of Recalling the Ld                 
Shandois his Ambr at Constantinople & to send mr Soames late Envoy              
to the d of Savoy in his stead                                                  
     The ds of Portesmout[h] is well Recovered                                  
     On Munday the Barons in the Exchequer Chamber Prick for High               
Sheriffs                                                                        
     Search was made this weeke in St Giles & St Martins Parrishes for          
persons Agt whome Informations have been for Clipping & Coyneing but at         
prsent they found none  Tis said there is A Gang of 200                         
     A duell being fought on Tuesday last between Prince Phillip son to         
the dutchesse of Soissons who is sister to the Ds of Portesmouth & the          
Count Barma [?] A yong Swedish Gentleman lately Arrived here The latter         
Recd A wound of which he is since dead & Prince Phillip is Retired              
     Our last Dutch Post Adviseth that the states have taken greate             
Care of the Scotch souldiers that were disbanded home haveing hired A           
vessell to Carry them to Scotland & allowed them 14 dayes Provisions & A        
duccatoon for each souldier                                                     
     They write from deale that there is not A man saved out of the             
ships Cast away on the Goodwin sands noe boate being able to make out           
then to sea                                                                     
     They write from Poland that the Cham of Tartary is joyned the              
Turks Army with 50000 men soe that King will be put to it to defend             
his owne Country                                                                
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1610     London 6th Novembr 1684                                     
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr mr Weston minister of the Minories           
moved That he being A vigorous Prosecutor of dissenters some persons            
had Libelled him in the Spirituall Court That he was not qualified              
According to the Church of England To which he hath Replyed That the            
Minories Church is A Chappell Royall & he had A grant by letters                
Pattents from his Matye soe Prayes A Prohibition to stopp proceedings           
in the spirituall Court which the Court Granted unless Cause be shewed          
to the Contrary to morrow                                                       
     mr Shore the undersheriffe of Lincolne shire Appeared upon A               
Complaint made Agt him by one mr Cary A minister of Lincolne shire who          
being A Prosecutor of Conventicles had many vexatious Actions layd upon         
him & was in Lincolne Prison but got A supersedeas which he showed to           
mr Gravener deputy to the undersheriffe who tore off the seale saying           
he would not obey it & that mr Shore did seem to Countenance him                
which is ordered to be heard to morrow                                          
+This day the Action of Sr Wm Pritchard Agt mr Papillion was Tryed at           
Guildhall before the Ld Ch: Justice Jeffries & Keeling the first                
discoverer of the Plott deposed That there was A Consultation of 30 at          
Russells Abt Arresting the Ld Mayor where he was prevailed upon by the          
Party (Goodenough & Nelthorpe being there) to be made A speciall                
officer to Arrest Sr Wm Pritchard for the better Carrying on their              
Horrid designe  The jury found for the Plaintiff & gave 10000 L damages         
     They write from Plimouth That the Mayor &c of Leskard understanding        
the E of Bath was there Came & delivered their Charter to him as did the        
Mayor of Lee Granpound & Tregony & Its beleived all the Corporations in         
Cornwall will follow                                                            
     Our Scotch letters say the Circuitts are over but their Proceedings        
kept very secrett                                                               
     They write from dover they dayly hear of shipwracks at sea                 
+Tis said dr Mew Bp of Bath & Wells will be Bp of Winchester                    
     The discourse is very warmely Renewed that dr Oates will be suddenly       
Arraigned for Perjury                                                           
     Wee have nothing from Buda                                                 
+Yesterday being the 5th Novembr it was kept as usually                         
     L. c. 1611     London 8th Nov 1684                                         
+Yesterday at the Kings bench barr Came on the Tryall of mr Goodman  The        
Information was Read & Alexander Armadons sworne who said That being            
Intimate with Goodman he went to vissitt him in Newgate when Comitted           
for A Robbery & Goodman desired his Assistance in Paying the Prosecutors        
sister 100 L to take off the Prosecution but knew not whether it was            
paid                                                                            
     That after Goodman was discharged he desired him to Prepare 2              
fflasks of the Best fflorence wine with Poyson to be Administred to the         
Dukes of Grafton & Northumberland & did make A Bargain with him for 100         
Guyneys & then to goe beyond sea where Goodman was to make Provision for        
him  In fine the jury brought him in Guilty                                     
     This day was A motion that the Tryall between the E of Peterbrough         
Plaintiffe & one Malthus A bookseller might be at the Barr & the Court          
gave 3 dayes to the defendant to shew Cause why it should not be at the         
Barr                                                                            
+They write from the Campe before Buda of the 25th Past That the                
serasquier Bassa being Reinforced with 20000 Tartars & 7000 Janizaries          
had Come & put more men & Provisions into Buda & then Retired  That the         
Mines made by the Christians are either Countermined or spoyled by the          
waters soe that now nothing is talked off but Raiseing the seige or at          
least Turneing it Into A Blockade this winter & tis said orders are Come        
to the Campe to Provide for winter quarters & tis feared they will hardly       
be able to bring off their Cannon  The d of Lorraine is Already gone            
     Two dayes since the E of Arran Arrived from Ireland & was very             
Graciously Recd by his Matye & Acquainted the E of Rochester was to goe         
Ld Lieutenant of Ireland The d of Ormond by Reason of his greate Age            
tis said desireing to be eased of it                                            
     A Quo Warranto haveing been Ishued Agt the Charter of Boston in            
New England & they not Appeareing judgment is gone Agt them by default          
& they are to be under the same Regulations as other Corporations & tis         
said Coll Kirke late Governr of Tangier is to goe Governr Genll of his          
Matyes Islands in those Countries                                               
     The Charters of Newcastle & Salisbury are brought up to be                 
surrendred                                                                      
     L. c. 1612     London 11th Novembr 1684                                    
+Yesterday A Wiltshire jury Appeared at the Kings bench barr to try the         
Cause between the King & mr Nosworthy upon An Information Agt him for           
seditious words  But the Kings Councell moved that A Materiall Evidence         
for the King was wanting & Prayed it might be Adjourned till Thursday           
     The 3 Grandjuries for the severall hundreds of Middlesex were              
sworne & mr Justice Withins Gave the Charge  Sr Wm Smith is fforeman            
of Oswaston hundred Sr Charles Lee for Edmonton & Hen: Hodges Esqr for          
Elthorne                                                                        
+This day one Isaack Camball who was formerly Convicted for A Notorious         
Barrettry had judgment to stand 3 times in the Pillory to Pay 1000 L to         
the King & find sureties for the good behaivr dureing life & stand              
Comitted till all be performed                                                  
     Its uncertain when the E of Rochester will part hence for Ireland          
it being left wholly to the D of Ormond when he will Returne hither &           
Its beleived it will not be till spring                                         
     Wee hear from Sussex Ireland & Holland of many shipwracks                  
     Our letters from Holland give Account of the deliverance those             
provinces had of being swallowed up of the sea for the last greate              
storme bore soe hard on the Point of the Province of Holland that most          
people began to dispaire of Preservation & in some Places many persons          
were drowned                                                                    
     They also write that the D of Monmoth is now Resolved to Winter at         
Brussells                                                                       
     Tis said mr Kenn Chaplain to the late Bp of Winchester will                
succeed the Bp of Bath & Wells                                                  
     Tis said Coll Kirke is Going with 6 men of Warr to settle New              
England & will be Comissioned their Governr                                     
+This weeke one Phillips was seized by A messenger & Comitted to the            
Gatehouse some Papers being found in his Custody of ill Consequence             
     Yesterday the Ld Mayor was told by the Ld Ch: Justice his Matye            
was well pleased with the greate Care he tooke in keeping the 5th of            
Novembr free from all manner of disorders & desired him & the Aldermen          
to keep those dayes of jubile with the same Care & they should want noe         
Assistance from that Court                                                      
     Our fforreign letters Agree the Christians have quitted the seige          
of Buda & Its Much feared the Turks will fall on them in their Retreate         
     L. c. 1613     London 13th Novembr 1684                                    
+Yesterday one Knowles one of the Lady Ivyes Witnesses was tryed &              
found Guilty of Perjury                                                         
     One Edw: Harris An Atturney in Windsor Court being formerly                
Convicted That when the Kings Effigies was Going to be set up at                
Windsor he said to his Companions letts goe see that little Comicall            
fellow on Horseback & is sentenced to stand in the Pillory at Windsor           
Abingdon Reading & Newbery & fined 20 Nobles being of A Meane estate            
& to find sureties &c                                                           
     One Vicary [?] Convicted at Bristoll for not Going to Church his           
Councell Pleaded to the writt of Error That he was discharged upon              
Promise he would not Goe to meetings Againe                                     
     One Robt Julyan Convicted for disperseing scandalous Papers was            
sentenced to Pay 100 Marks & stand 3 times in the Pillory & find                
sureties &c But hath time till Munday next to find the Authr of the             
Papers                                                                          
     Yesterday the Grandjury mett at Guildhall To whome An Indictment           
Agt Oates for Perjury was prsented  There were 13 witnesses to it &             
Amongst them tis said mr Jemison [?] was one & tis said Accuses him for         
subborning him  The jury found the Bill                                         
     This day Titus Oates was brought to the Kings bench barr & Required        
to Plead to the said Indictment which set forth                                 
     That he being sworne as A witness Agt mr Ireland Executed did there        
Maliciously &c depose the said Wm Ireland was in London Westminster or          
the Parts Adjacent on the 16th octobr 78 whereas the said Wm Ireland was        
not in London &c on the said day                                                
     He desired A Coppie of the Indictment To which the Court Answered          
it was not According to the Proceedings of that Court  He then pleaded          
not Guilty & desired Councell.  The Court told him he might have what           
Councell he desired Except the Kings & then Remanded him                        
+The Tryall of mr Nosworthy Came on by A Wiltshire jury for saying he           
hoped to see those judges hanged that gave it [a question mark appears          
above "gave"] for Law to try ffitzharris but the words being proved to          
be spoken in dor[s]etshire the Court gave directions to the jury to find        
him not guilty                                                                  
     Our fforeign letters all Confirme the seige of Buda was Raised on          
the 1st Instant they haveing first sent away all their sick & Wounded           
men being 8000 with their Heavy baggage & then without any disturbance          
passed the danube to take winter quarters in the Higher Hungary looseing        
not A man in their Retreat                                                      
     L. c. 1614     London 15th Novembr 1684                                    
+This day at the Kings bench barr Nath Thompon the Printer Appeared &           
An Indictment was Read Agt him for Printing A scandalous Booke Entituled        
The Prodigall Returned Home, He desired to speake something before he           
pleaded but the Court told him he must plead first Telling him If that          
was proved that was in the Indictment he deserved A very greate                 
Punishment soe he pleaded not Guilty                                            
     Councell for & Agt mr Weston minister of the Minories was heard &          
the Court would not Grant A Prohibition to the Spirituall Court to              
stopp proceedings there                                                         
     By letters of the 4th from Venice they write They had letters              
from Constantinople of the 30th August which say the Grand Seigni[o]r           
hath ordered the 3 horse Tayles & standard of Mahomett to be hung out           
& was Resolved to have An Army of 300000 men next spring & Comand them          
in Person & that he gave every souldier that listed himselfe double             
pay  Also that the Turks have lately Launched 30 new Gallies & 12               
greate ships & that the Capt Bassa was at Smirna with the fleet takeing         
in the Troops of Asia to Transport them to Salonica                             
     Our letters from Canterbury say their new Charter was brought              
downe by Coll Rooke who was mett 4 miles out of Towne by 4 or 500               
horse & 40 Coaches  The 6 Companies that Came from Tangier stood at the         
West gate to Receive the Coll whome his Matye hath Chosen Mayor of that         
Citty who was Attended to the Towne hall where he Chose the Aldermen &          
Comoners                                                                        
     The Charter of Yorke is brought up by the Ld Mayor thereof  also           
the Charters of Leeds Hull Headon & Beverley are brought up                     
+Sr Wm Estcourt Bart who was foreman of the Wiltshire jury for tryall of        
mr Nosworthy being last night at the Globe Taverene in ffleet street            
with 8 of the said jury A quarrell Arose & Sr Wm was Run through the            
Chest with A Rapier  The Coroners jury have found him murthered & mr St         
John & mr Webb Guilty                                                           
     This being the Queens Birth day Extrary ffireworks were on the             
Thames A greate Ball at Court & Bonefires in the Citty                          
+Two persons drinking togather Endeavoured to outsweare one another  one        
of them the next day fell distracted & in 2 dayes after died                    
     Our Scotch letters say Gourdon Earlestowne hath got A Repreive  A          
Pardon is Passing for him                                                       
     L. c. 1615     London 18th Nov: 1684                                       
+This day mr Rossewell was tryed at the Kings bench barr by A jury of           
Surrey for speakeing words in A sermon, He Excepted Agt 19 of the jury          
& Produced 44 witnesses to prove his Reputation others that he Prayed           
for the King in his family &c and others that heard him Preach this             
sermon & did not Remember he said the words  But the witnesses for the          
King vizt Eliz Smith mrs Hilton & mrs ffarryer swore the words                  
Positively & 2 of them Agreed Exactly soe the jury Returned in halfe An         
houre & brought him in Guilty                                                   
     My Ld Chamberlain is Indisposed of A feaver & my Ld Hallifax is            
not well                                                                        
     Tis said An Information is in the Crowne office Agt Sr Scroope How         
for speakeing some Reflecting words Agt his R: Highs                            
     The sad Account wee Received from the Imperiall Army since the             
quitting the seige of Buda is hardly to be Expresst for never Army that         
had A River open to supply them Endured such miseries  Abt 25000 horses         
Perished for want of fforrage & had not the serasquiers Army been very          
much harrassed few of the Imperiall Army would have got off                     
     Greate was the Consternation at Vienna upon the Newes & the                
Emper[o]r hath Already writt to the Princes of the Empire & Italy to            
lay before them the deplorable Estate of the Empire & the dreadfull             
Consequences if he be not speedily supplied                                     
     The Imperiall Envoy here hath Recd A memoriall to prsent to his            
Matye setting forth the ill posture of his Masters affaires & to desire         
his Matye to take it Into his Considderation                                    
+The Actions of the E India Company are now 214 L p C The Affrican 202 L        
The Hudsons Bay 430 L p C Brandy 36 L p Tunn New Hopps 4 L [?] p C              
[i. e., per hundredweight?]  Mault Bread corne Pease & Oates are Risen &        
have A Prospect of being dearer                                                 
   The quarrell Abt which Sr Wm Estcourt was murthered began Abt A Horse        
Match  all the Gent that were in the Roome are out on Bayle Except Henry        
St John Esqr & Coll Webb                                                        
      [Some figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1616     London 20th Nov: 1684                                       
+When mr Rossewell was brought in Guilty he lift up his hands & Eyes            
saying God have mercy on this jury                                              
     Yesterday at the Kings Bench barr Nath Thompson moved by Councell          
for A Rule of Court to goe Abroade to Instruct his Councell for that            
notice was given him of A Tryall next weeke & by Reason he is not in            
Prison upon Execution it is Granted                                             
     One dolben formerly servant to dr Oates was tryed for speakeing            
the basest & most scandalous words both Agt his Matye & R: Highs that           
ever was in any Information which the witnesses swore Positively &              
the jury found him guilty without going from the barr                           
     This day at the Kings Bench barr mr Best the Hop merchant was              
brought up to Receive judgment for drinking A health to the Pious               
memory of Stephen Colledg  Oath was made he weas worth 200 L p An in            
Land & A Considderable personall estate                                         
     My Lord told him he had alwayes been A factious man &c                     
     mr Best said that as to drinking the health it was in A time when          
there was greate Heates & Animosities Among the people & he was in              
Company where the Popes health was begun as he supposed to Teaze him            
& he in Returne began that of Stephen Colledg                                   
     In fine the Court gave judgment that he pay 1000 L to the King &           
to stand in the Pillory 3 times at westminster the Royall Exchange &            
Guild hall & each time one houre                                                
     Yesterday dr Trumball A Civilian was knighted & declared principle         
secretary for Ireland & mr Shaw the other under the E of Rochester &            
tis said the Privy Councell of Ireland will be Reformed                         
     Tis said that yesterday Sr Harbottle Grimston Master of the Rolls          
Recd A Comand that he should noe longer suffer dr Burnet to Preach in           
the Rolls Chappell,                                                             
     Last weeke the ds of somerset was delivered of A son to the greate         
joy of that family,                                                             
     This weeke were Baptized 280 Buryed 364                                    
+Our fforreign letters say frequent Councells of warr are held at               
Vienna where Resolutions are taken to have A more formidable Army next          
summer then the last the Princes of the Empire Promiseing Large supplies        
& Its beleived they will be early in the feild                                  
Our ffrench letters give A Large Account of the splendid Reception of           
their Ambr at the Turkish Court by which it appeares there is A good            
understanding between those 2 mighty monarchs                                   
     L. c. 1617     London 22d Nov: 1684                                        
+Yesterday mr Joseph Hayes was tryed at the Kings Bench barr  he                
Challenged 35 of the Panell  at last 12 were sworne mr Samll Sheppard           
foreman  mr Hayes denyed every part of the Indictment  There were 8             
witnesses for the King vizt mr Ezekell Everitt who proved that                  
Armstrong went by the name of Lawrence at Leyden &c  others proved              
that the letter subscribed Hayes was taken out of Sr Tho: Armstrongs            
Pockett at Leyden  The Rest Proved it was his hand                              
     Hayes utterly disowned the letter in question & that he ever had           
any dealeings with Sr Thomas Armstrong by that name or by the name of           
Lawrence or soe much as ever dranke with him & Produced 5 witnesses             
to his Reputation vizt Ald: Jeffries & 4 others who said they alwayes           
Esteemed him of A very Honest life  In fine the jury withdrew & after           
an houres stay they brought him in not Guilty                                   
     mr Atturney moved that mr Rossewell might Come up to Receive               
judgment & he is ordered to be brought up next Munday  He petitioned            
his Matye last night but it was Rejected                                        
     This day at the Kings Bench barr were severall motions Agt                 
Bayliffs in severall Counties for illegall Practices                            
     Mr Oldfeild the life guard man Comitted for beateing one that              
served him with A subpena moved by Councell that he Confess his fault           
&c soe the Court fined him 3 s 6 d which he paid & was discharged but           
the Court gave him A Caution how he behaive himselfe for the future             
telling him that life guardmen & all others must obey the Kings Processe        
     mr Cox was brought up & pleaded not Guilty to An Information Agt           
him for kidnapping                                                              
     On the 20th Instant the D of Albemarle Recorder of Colchester Came         
to that Towne with their new Charter  he was mett 3 miles by 400 horse          
& was Recd at the Gate by the Mayor Aldermen & Comon Councell & 2               
Companies of trayned bands  he walked on foot from the gate to the              
guildhall the Ground being Covered with woollen Bayes  The Charter was          
Carryed before him & the Mayor &c Attended him  The bells Rung & 4              
peeces of ordinance were discharged  the People made Acclamations & at          
night made Bonefires for joy                                                    
     L. c. 1618     London 25th Nov 1684                                        
+Yesterday at the Kings Bench mr Rossewell was brought up & the Recorder        
of London moved for judgment Agt him & being asked what he had to say           
why judgment of death should not Passe he Answered                              
     I hope your Lordshipp will not give judgment on this Indictment            
Considdering the Circumstances of it  I have Protested my Innocency in          
all but the jury have found mee Guilty  I humbly Conceive the words as          
layd in the Indictment are not Treason  They may be A very Greate               
misdemeanr  I humbly desire my Indictment may be Read & it was Read in          
Lattin                                                                          
     Then he humbly Prayed judgment might be Arrested for these Reasons         
     ffirst there is not Crime sufficient for your Lordship to give             
judgment on for in all Indictments of Treason there should be speciall          
matter Assigned & without some overt Act is not good                            
     2dly that the Repugnancies & Inabillityes in the words Render the          
Charge voyd & soe prayed that he might have Councell                            
     My Lord asked mr Atturney what he had to say to it who Replyed the         
Indictment was good &c                                                          
     My Lord said in such Cases as this for life he thought the Prisoner        
ought to have Councell asigned & the other 3 judges were of the same            
opinion & asked mr Rossewell who he desired  he Named mr Wallop mr              
Polixfen & mr Bampfeild which was granted who are to Argue it next              
Thursday                                                                        
     mr Goodman was brought up & fined 1000 L & to find sureties for            
life                                                                            
     mr Atturney moved that A day next Terme might be Assigned for Tryall       
of dr Oates at the barr  The Court answered take what day you will              
     This day mr Polixfen moved for A Coppie of Rossewells Indictment           
which mr Atturney would not Consent to or oppose Intimateing it might           
be used as A President  In fine the Court bid him moved it Againe to            
morrow                                                                          
     His Matye hath declared that my Ld Lansdowne son to the E of Bath          
shall goe his Envoy Extrary to Spaine & mr Sheldon now Resident at              
Hamburgh Envoy Extrary to Sweden & Sr Peter Wich succeed him                    
     Our letters yesterday from Germany Contradict the Christians               
Getting off without loss saying the Turks tooke 1000 men A League from          
Buda also severall boates laden with sick & wounded & Cutt off the              
heads of the latter  That the serasquier was neer Gran with 40000 men           
& the Christians Army Watching their motions                                    
     Sr Tho. Linch Governr of Jamaica is dead there                             
     L. c. 1619     London 27th Nov 1684                                        
+Yesterday at the Kings Bench barr mr Butler Convicted at Northampton           
for delivering A Paper to their Parliamt men assoon as Chosen of standing       
by them with their Lives & fortunes was fined 500 L affidavit being made        
he is worth 500 L p An                                                          
     mr Polixfen Renewed his motion for A Coppie of Rossewells                  
Indictment but the Ld Ch: Justice said he would not bring up new Customs        
but the Indictment might be Read to them againe                                 
     mr Nath Thompson was Tryed for printing A booke which Extolled the         
jurisdiction of the Church of Rome & was found Guilty                           
     mr Justice Bayly mr Haviland & mr Braddock were found Guilty of            
kidnapping or Transporting the Kings subjects                                   
     This day mr Rossewell was brought to the barr & mr Wallop first            
Argued his Case quoting many Law Cases to Prove that the Innuendoes             
in the Indictment were nought & Instanced in these words vizt stand             
to your Principles & you will overcome your Enemies meaneing o[u]r              
Lord the King & the subjects [here a dash as long as six letters] as in         
former times [here another such dash] and insisted that these words had         
noe dependance                                                                  
     mr Polixfen made much the same Argument & Insisted they would not          
give judgment                                                                   
     mr Atturney mr Solicittr & mr North Cited severall Law Cases &             
Presidents to Prove the Indictment was well drawne & desired judgment           
     But the Ld Ch. Justice Answered it was A Case of Greate                    
Consequence  That severall Presidents had been Cited on both sides &            
they must have time to Considder before they gave judgment                      
     Our Scotch letters say that some of the people Called Singers have         
Affixed A declaration of warr Agt his Matye in many townes & on some            
Church doores & some standing forces are gone to suppress them which            
gives at prsent some disquiet to the Goverment                                  
     Some Arrived from New England say the disorders there Increase upon        
which Coll Kirke is ordered with all Expedition thither                         
     Our ffrench letters say that King Refuses to Come to any                   
Accomodation with Genoa unless they yeild to all his former demands             
     L. c. 1620     London 29th Nov 1684                                        
+On Thursday Sr Samll Astry Reported to the Court of Kings Bench                
Concerning mr Pax the Towne Clerke of Abingdon that Putting to him in           
his Interogatories to know if he were A faivourer of dissenters he said         
if he must Answer Positively he Confessed it & begged Mercy of the Court        
then Judge Withins said he must lye by it & Petition the Court                  
     Yesterday mr Butler of Northamptonshire Came Into Court & by               
Councell moved for A Mitigation of the 500 L fine  The Court said they          
were willing to Remitt it to 500 Marks but he must find sureties for his        
good behaivr after which he moved he was Ready to Pay the fine & the            
Court ordered that upon Paying the money he should be bayled                    
     mr Nosworthy paid the fees & was discharged                                
     Thomas Burt of Kingston upon Thames Appeared & An Information was          
Read Agt him for saying the Goverment of Oliver Cromwell was better then        
the Kings, he Pleaded not Guilty & was Comitted                                 
     Quo Warrantoes haveing been brought Agt the Charters of Wormesbury         
& Pooll it is ordered that unless they Appear next Terme judgment may be        
Entred up                                                                       
     Sr Phillip Howard Certainly Goes Governr of Jamaica & the d of             
Northumberland succeeds him in the Comand of the Queens troope                  
     Last Tuesday the E of devonshire died                                      
     Our Scotch letters say that on that day Came An Expresse that A            
Party of Rebells was 13 miles west of Edenbrough & there barbarously            
murthered in their bedds 2 Gent of his Matyes life Guards of horse upon         
which 2 Companies of the Trayned bands are ordered to Guard the Gates of        
Edenbrough                                                                      
     Letters of the 17th from Aire say that the Lds of the Circuitt have        
made greate Conformity in that shire The Gentry haveing taken the Test &        
the Comons the Test or bond of Peace which is Equivalent yet there              
Appeared 2 Parties of the Rebells the one Abt 80 & the other Abt 20 who         
fly from place to Place & Cannot yet be Apprehended                             
+Our letters from Edenbrough of the 22d say that on that day the                
Parliamt of that Kingdome was Proclaimed to sit on the 10th of March            
next                                                                            
     Yesterday the Effigies of K James was set up in the Royall Exchange        
+Tis Reported the d of Monmoth hath been 7 dayes At this Court Incognito        
     L. c. 1621     London 2d dec 1684                                          
+Last weeke in the Exchequer was Argued some Points of Law in the Case          
now depending betwixt the E of Macclesfeild & Sr Thomas Grosvenr                
fforeman of the Grandjury of Cheshire who prsented his Lordship  They           
are to be further debated the first Wednesday next Terme                        
     Wee have had these 5 dayes A Report that the d of Monmoth is in            
England & hath kist his Matyes hand but its not Creditted for that 10           
dayes since the said duke Rode out of Brussells with 2 servants only &          
was set upon by 5 Grenadiers who demanded his Money, He gave them A             
ducatoon But that not satisfying he shewed them his George  They said           
they Cared not for him nor his George Neither & offered violence upon           
which the duke killed one wounded Another & the other 2 Escaped but some        
letters say the Rencounter happened only between 4 of the d of Monmoths         
servants & 5 Troopers with the successe above mentioned                         
     Our letters from Vienna give Account that most of the Princes of           
Germany have sent to assure the Emper[o]r of Assistance whereupon the           
Emper[o]r offereth to maintaine 60000 men The d of Bavaria 12000 The d          
of Lunenburgh 12000 The d of Saxony 10000 The Circles of Swabia 10000           
Mayence 4000 & P: Palatine 2000 in all 120000 men                               
     The d of Lorraine was Exspected there next day upon whose Arrivall         
A Councell of warr will be held to Enquire Into the Miscarriage of the          
seige of Buda & Count Staremburgh will be highly questioned                     
+The Account given to the Emper[o]r of the loss before Buda is 23000            
private souldiers 679 officers & 147 voluntiers of greate Eminency              
     This day the Artillery Company dined at Merchantaylors hall where          
his R: Highs P. George The dukes of Norfolk & Beaufort &c honoured them         
with their Presence                                                             
     Our dutch letters say Amsterdam is fortifying it selfe in An               
Extrary manner & is now full of ffrench Protestants fled thither                
     To morrow is Exspected A Tryall at Guildhall between his R: Highs &        
Coll Whitly for A Considderable summe Claimed by his R: Highs as due            
from the Coll when he mannaged the Generall Post office                         
     L. c. 1622     London 4th dec 1684                                         
+An Information being Exhibitted Agt mr Williams late Speaker of the H          
of Comons for somewhat done under that Character he hath this weeke Put         
in his Plea that what he hath done by order of A superi[o]r Court An            
Inferi[o]r Court Cannot take notice off                                         
     Yesterday was A heareing before the Barons of the Exchequer between        
the King & Coll Whitly for 30000 L which was Alledged he recd of the            
Kings money dureing the time he mannaged the Post office & it being             
proved he Recd money for letters from the King which he ought to have           
Carryed free The Barons declared he should goe to An Auditr & Account           
for the same                                                                    
     Coll Kirke speedily Embarques for New England & Coll Douglasses            
Regemt & 6 other Companies which Came from Tangier are ordered to goe           
with him                                                                        
     The d of Northumberland is in Actuall Comand of the Queens Guards          
& Sr Phillip Howard out but Its Reported he hath noe Inclination to goe         
to Jamaica                                                                      
     They write from ffrance that scarce A day Passes but Edicts &              
orders Ishue out Agt the Protestants & are as frequently Executed &             
their Churches demolished & perticular Persons seized Especially in             
Languedoc where they have Razed some Castles & Gentlemens houses in             
which they used to meet since their Churches are forbid them                    
     There is also An Edict forbidding all Protestant Lds to suffer any         
but their domesticks or their dependants on their hands to hear any             
prayers or sermons in their houses or Chappells in Paine of being               
deprived of the Exercize thereof It being Alledged that the Edicts              
made in their faivr have been Extorted from the Goverment in times when         
the Kingdome was divided Into factions but now they must submitt to the         
Pleasure of the King                                                            
+Our letters from Constantinople say the Grand Seigni[o]r is Resolved           
to have 3 formidable Armies next spring Agt Poland the Venetians &              
Hungary & hath Comanded that for the future all Ambrs from Crowned heads        
shall have Audience with the sopha An Honr heretofore denyed to all             
     The K of Poland hath Put his Army into winter quarters but soe             
Posted them as to block up Camimeck Resolveing to be early in the feild         
next Spring  also the Venetians Resolve to have A good Army next Spring         
     The Currant discourse is that his R: Highs will goe to Scotland to         
be there at the sitting downe of that Parliamt                                  
     L. c. 1623     London 6th dec 1684                                         
+The last Scotch letters brought A Proclamation for all members of that         
Parliamt to Attend his R: Highs on the 10th of March next Requireing            
all members where new ones are wanting to Cause new ones to be Chosen           
     On the 25th Past 3 Companies of dragoons brought from dumfreeze            
& Kircowbright 77 persons for Refuseing the Test or Else the bond of            
Peace who are all Prisoners in Leith  Also mr John Portonfeild of               
duchall & 3 others were found Guilty of High Treason as being Accessory         
to the late Horrid Conspiracy                                                   
     Tis said his R: Highs will not stay above 3 weeks in Scotland but          
tis said P: George & the Lady Ann who Accompany him will Reside there           
     Wee heare from ffrance that the ffrench K has An Intention to              
Call An Assembly of the Clergie & Propose to them the Solution of 4             
questions                                                                       
1 what their opinion is Concerning the Legallity of that Kingdome               
2 whether the Pope be Infallable or not                                         
3 to give their opinion Concerning Transubstantiation                           
4 whether it is necesary to Pray for the dead                                   
     Last Thursday died in Ailesworth o[u]r Chamberlaine & mr Topham one        
of o[u]r Bridgmasters & tis said his Maty hath Appointed mr Rich late           
one of o[u]r sheriffs to succeed mr [word of about eight letters smeared]       
Ailesworth & mr Nicholson A Linnen draper to succeed mr Topham                  
     dr Sudbury deane of Durham is dead & dr Greenvile Br to the E of           
Bath will succeed & Its beleived Sr Geo Wheeler will have dr Greenviles         
Prebendary                                                                      
     mr Stephens messenger of the Presse is turned out & tis said mr            
Sing will succeed                                                               
     dr Gilbert Burnet hath Printed his sermon preached on the 5th              
Novembr last which sermon some say did occasion his being suspended from        
the Rolls Chappell                                                              
     Abt 6 weeks since Sr Robt Payton being at A Taverne began the d of         
Monmoths health But Gent Refuseing Hott words Arose & were followed with        
3 or 4 Passes & the Gent Wounded & Sr Robt was yesterday Comitted to            
Newgate but since Bayled                                                        
     One mr Covett An Atturney of Chichester being sued by his R: Highs         
on A Scandalum Magnatum & A writt of Enquiry haveing been Executed in           
Surrey The jury found 1000 L damages & this weeke mr Covett was Arrested        
& Remaines in Custody                                                           
     The Levant merchant Comeing from Cadiz was lately Cast away but            
another vessell saved the men the silver & most of the ladeing  But             
the ffreindship of Weymouth going for Wales was lost & the men drowned          
     Our fflanders letters say the Greate discourse there is of A Peace         
with the Turks this winter & most beleive it will be Concluded                  
     L. c. 1624     London 9th dec 1684                                         
+Last Sunday Abt 8 in the morning A meeting was broke open in Grubstreet        
where they seized Abt 20 persons most women who were bound to Answer it         
at the sessions                                                                 
     Yesterday the sessions of Peace began both at Guildhall & Hicks            
hall where Abt 200 dissenters at each Place were found Guilty & fined           
     Yesterday wee had Advice from ffalmouth that the Rainbow An                
English E India ship was Arrived neer that Place who Came out of Suratt         
in Company with 4 more of the Companies ships which are dayly Exspected         
     Shee brings Advice that Bombay had Revolted from the English & had         
taken some ships from us but one was Retaken of Abt 16 guns & it was            
not questioned but to subject them in A little time                             
     Also that the Dutch in the E Indies are going to warr with the             
Persians                                                                        
     Here is A Report Abt towne that the English & dutch men of warr in         
the E Indies have had A sharpe Engagemt but at prsent it seemes A Report        
without ground                                                                  
     The Kings of England ffrance & denmarke demand above 3 millions            
sterling of the dutch for the Buisness of Bantam                                
     Those of Amsterdam are making as much Preparations as if they were         
Actually to be beseiged & have Planted Cannon on their walls & on               
severall vessells built on Purpose in the River                                 
     Our E India Actions are at 210 L The Affrican 206 L Hudsons bay            
400 L Brandy 35 L p Tunn The Middle price of wheate 49 s the quarter            
Pease 46 d Beanes 32 d Rye 32 d Mault 25 d Barley 23 d Oates 18 d p             
quarter                                                                         
     Notice is sent to severall persons in staffordshire &c to Come             
up next Terme in order to give Evidence Agt dr Oates                            
     Some say Stephens the messenger of the Presse is displaced because         
he saw the late booke Agt the Observatr in the Presse & did not stop it         
     Its this day Reported on the Exchange that 2 Eminent merchants are         
gone Aside  tis said they are 2 of the Langleys                                 
+Our ffrench letters Continue to mention the dayly Prosecution of the           
Protestants there who of all degrees as they Can get out of that                
Kingdome & Come some into England but most Into Holland                         
+The sickness rages very much in ffrance Especially at Rousillon &              
Perpignan where there dye 3 or 400 A day & at Thoulouse many Persons            
of quality                                                                      
     L. c. 1625     London 11th dec 1684                                        
+Yesterday the sessions began at the old Bayly where Thomas Montgomery          
Esqr was found Guilty of Murther for killing mr Narborne & this day mr          
St Johns & Coll Webb were found Guilty of Wilfull murther for killing           
Sr Wm Estcourt  Also Mr Hutchins who killed A waterman is found Guilty          
of Murther but mr Porter who killed Sr James Hackett found Guilty only          
of Manslaughter but An Appeale will be brought                                  
     scarse A day Passes but there is killing or wounding in one Part           
or other of the Towne which tis thought will sharpen the Edge of the            
Law Agt Present offenders                                                       
     Last night Capt Brampstone & mr Wiseman son to Sr Robt Wiseman 2           
Gent of Essex Related were at the Lyon Taverne in fetter Lane & A               
diference Ariseing the latter was killed by one Mortall wound of which          
he Imediately died & Capt Brampston went from him in A manner distracted        
     mr Penn the quaker being Proprietor & Governr of Pensilvania is            
lately Come over Abt the diference with the Ld Baltemore & was last             
Sunday at A Conventicle in Westminster where he was seized & Carryed            
before A justice & Paying the 20 L as the speaker he was discharged             
     They write from Holland that the states have Advice from Guyney            
that their Generall there is dead & his Brother very sick in the Castle         
of Mina & Its beleived were both Poysoned by A Negro who was more               
Inclined to the English then the dutch                                          
     Our fflanders letters say the states of the severall Provinces are         
wholly taken up in Raiseing money to Pay their Contributions to the             
ffrench & are forced to Put severall places under military Execution            
to force them to send in their quota, Also they make ffresh Complaints          
of the ffrench that they still Live at Pleasure about Courtray & Pretend        
there is yet Another Arreir of Contribution money of 40000 Guilders             
which if it be not Paid they threaten the Inhabitants with Military             
Execution                                                                       
     The K of denmarke hath Renewed his alliance with the ffrench for 8         
yeares & the ffrench are to Pay him Annually A very Considderable summe         
     The Emper[o]rs Comissioners at Ratisbone have Acquainted the diett         
that by the bad successe at Buda the succours demanded last Septembr            
will not be sufficient to oppose the Turks & they must Considder Germany        
will be Inevitably lost unless A Proportionable supply be timely Raised         
     There died here this weeke 355                                             
     L. c. 1626     London 9th Janr 1685 [i.e., 1685/86]                        
+This day Came forth the Proclamation for Prorogueing the Parliamt till         
the 10th of May declareing his Matyes [now James II's] Pleasure that he         
Exspects not their Attendance at that time but then Intends some further        
Prorogation unlesse some Extrary occasion Require their sitting whereof         
timely notice will be given by Proclamation                                     
     In the Breife for the ffrench Protestants 30 Comrs are ordered for         
distributing the money Amonge whome are severall Bishops                        
     The Queen is Indisposed with A Cold                                        
     The Earles Named in the Comission for tryall of the Ld de La Mere          
are Shrewsbury Oxford Huntington Darby Pembrooke Mulgrave Peterbrough           
Winchelsea Sunderland Craven ffeversham Rochester Gainsbrough Plimouth          
And some of the Lds are De La Ware Culpepper Arundell of Terrine                
Lumley Dartmouth Godolphin & Churchill, His Matye gives leave for Any           
Peer to be prsent if they will Come                                             
     mr Atturney Genll Continues ill  Its Reported his Matye will grant         
him A quiettus Est from that Carefull Employment                                
     The Venetian Ambrs have had their Audience of Conge  Report sayth          
his Matye Acquainted them he Could not furnish them with neither men            
nor ships for it would Prejudice his subjects in their trade  But tis           
said severall good Comanders have offered their service to that state           
& the Ambrs have given Encourageing Termes to them                              
     They write from Scotland That the Criminall Processe Agt the ds of         
Monmoth her Children & others have been further Prosecuted in the justice       
Court                                                                           
     The dutch Comrs for the Affaire of Bantam have some time granted them      
[On outside of letter in a hand that is possibly as late as the twentieth       
century:] Note/ K. Charles II died 6 Febr. 1685.  There is no word              
of his death or funeral among these letters.  [Also two small columns of        
figures appear in an older hand, as do these names and amounts:]                
    Wm Lucas                                                                    
Whyatt Rent [?] to Wm Baker for 30 d [?]                                        
Ric Brian 20  Abra: Mathers 5                                                   
Robt Paynos 7  Tho Vanbrinson 30                                                
Tho Pauls [?] 10                                                                
Jno & Tho Halls 8                                                               
Wm Moor. H. Smith                                                               
I. Racon                                                                        
     L. c. 1627     London 18th ffebr 1685                                      
+The judges Appointed for the Midland Circuitt are mr Justice Charlton &        
mr Baron Jenner  The assizes begin at Northampton on Tuesday March 9th,         
at Leicester on March 25th at Coventry on the 27th March & at Warwick on        
the 29th                                                                        
     The Ld Ch: Justice Herbert & Judge Wright goe the Westerne                 
Circuitt                                                                        
     The Ld Ch. Justice Jones & Justice Withins the Home Circuitt               
     The Ld Ch: Baron Montague & Baron Atkins the Norfolke Circuitt             
+mr Justice Street & mr Justice Holloway the Oxford Circuitt                    
     Mr Baron Nevill & mr Justice Bedingfeild the Northerne Circuitt            
     The E of Dumbartons Regemt Comonly Called Dowglasses Regemt is             
ordered to march for Scotland & will depart in few dayes                        
     It is not A few Popish books that are Almost dayly Publishing,             
most of our Preachers Continue with greate boldness to Preach up                
Contrary to the Reformed Religion in opposition to Popery                       
+This morning his Matye Rode A Hunting & Returned at one afternoon              
     The Countess of Dorchester is Parted hence in order to Reside at           
Dublin                                                                          
     The Ds of Modena is suddenly Exspected here                                
     His Matye hath bought Thanet house in Aldersgate street & Intends          
there to keep his Treasury for the Navy                                         
     Yesterday Saxon stood his 3d time in the Pillory where & at the 2          
former places he mett with very Rude Treatement nor was the hangman             
spareing of the whip the day before & Its supposed will not spare him           
to morrow                                                                       
     24 ffrench Protestants in A small open boate ventured to sea from          
Diepe [grave accent over first "e"] & Arrived safe at dover to the              
wonder of all                                                                   
+The number of ffrench Protestants Resident in Holland is Incredable &          
many more Come weekly  The Ministers are perticularly Respected &               
Provided for                                                                    
     The dutch are very jealous of the designes of ffrance & are                
Provideing for the worst                                                        
     L. c. 1628     London 20th ffebr 1685                                      
+Yesterday was A Councell but the Person that designed to Assassinate           
the King was not Examined                                                       
     Yesterday the E of Peterbroughs Regement of horse Came hither from         
Kent Essex &c where they have been in winter quarters                           
     The D of Grafton hath A Pardon for killing Talbott                         
     A quarrell Ariseing between the E of Northampton & mr Seymour              
formerly speaker Abt the Countesse of Conway & their fighting being             
prevented by one being Confined The quarrell was Espoused by mr Hutton          
Compton & mr Seymours son who fought on Thursday  mr Butler was second          
to Compton & Soper to Seymour  The principalls are desperately wounded          
& tis said mr Seymour Cannot live                                               
     Yesterday Saxon was whipt from Newgate to Tyburne & tis said will          
be sent into the West to be tryed for being in Monmoths Rebellion               
     mr Hambdens Pardon is Past the seales                                      
     They write from Edenbrough that on the 10th Instant 3 Companies of         
ffoot Came thither from the West  The next day the Marqs of Atholl &c           
Came thither from Whitehall, severall have been put in Prison on Account        
of the Tumult & the Privy Councell have ordered all the Inhabitants of          
Edenbrough to subscribe A bond whereby every one doe oblige themselves          
to be Answerable for their servants & families & that they shall not in         
any manner be Accessory to the Raiseing of Tumults &c or act anything           
to the Prejudice of his Matyes Goverment & this under such Penalty as           
his Matyes Privy Councell & the Citty Councell shall thinke fitt                
+Wee have A Report this day that Maastricht is Invested with 10000              
ffrench horse till the ffoot Come up to make A formall seige, The drums         
beate in this Citty for voluntiers to Recruite the English Regemts in           
Holland                                                                         
+They write from the Hague the states have ordered letters to be writt          
to Hambrough & to the d of Zell to let them know that this is not A             
time of day to quarrell with one another & they earnestly desire the            
diference between them might be Accomodated out of hand                         
     L. c. 1629     London 23 ffebr 1685                                        
+The discourse of the ffrench Investing Maastricht Continues but with           
this Adition That the now Bp of Cologne who is also Bp of Munster &             
Prince of Leige Claimes some Right to it & Calls in the ffrench to              
Assert the same  others say he hath sold A small Towne Called Meane to          
the ffrench on which the said Maasticht is A dependance                         
     Our last ffrench letters say that King is forced to keep his bed &         
hath also had A very sharpe fitt of the Goute which has put him to              
greate Paine & that his life is in greate danger  also Mounsr Colbert is        
sicke of the Goute                                                              
     Yesterday his Matye Rode into Essex A Hunting & this morning Rode          
Into Hyde Parke where 2 Regemts of ffoot were drawne up The d of Grafton        
prsent to whome his Matye gave orders how he would have them Exercized          
     Yesterday Jo: Hambden Esqr was bayled out of Newgate                       
     Last Satureday 2 Messengers searched the Chambers of the Prisoners         
in the Kings bench for Treasonable & seditious Papers but wee hear not          
they found any                                                                  
     Wee have A discourse that 5 more of the judges will have their             
quiettus Est                                                                    
+They write from Lime that his Matye[s] late orders with directions from        
the Ld Chancellr were Come thither vizt That none Concerned in the              
Rebellion should be molested they giveing bayle to Appear next Assizes          
(some persons only Excepted) which has Caused A greate joy there hopeing        
it the forerunner of A Pardon                                                   
     mr Seymour & mr Compton who wounded each other in A duell are in a         
way of Recovery                                                                 
     Last weeke mr ffale Clerke of the Breifs was taken into Custody &          
An Information ordered Agt him for Causeing divers Coppies of the Breifs        
for the ffrench Protestants to be Printed before the same had Passed the        
seales some alterations being to be made before it was Published                
   There is A discourse there will be A Proclamation of Indulgence for          
the quakers                                                                     
     Last ffriday died Lemuell Kingdome Esqr one of the Comrs for his           
Matyes Revenue in Ireland who tis said hath left little estate behind           
him  Herbert Aubery Esqr one of the prsent Burgesses for Hereford               
succeeds him in Ireland                                                         
     The Campe on Hounslow heath will not be opened till the 25th Aprill        
& will not be above 8000 by Reason Hay & straw is soe dear                      
     L. c. 1630     London 25th ffebr 1685                                      
+ffor these 2 dayes last Past wee have had A very Warme Report the              
ffrench K is dead & some say of A ffistula in Ano  But our ffrench              
letters of the 2d March New stile say he is now well Againe only A              
little troubled with A Touch of the Goute & hath sent to Thoulon & Brest        
for Equipping all his men of warr with all Expedition                           
     Wee had A Report of A Riseing in Huntingtonshire but it Proves only        
A Companie of Gypsies who mett in An unusuall manner & are Comitted to          
Prisons                                                                         
+Yesterday began o[u]r sessions at the old Bayly mr Seymour being dead          
of his wounds & mr Compton in Custody  The Grandjury found the                  
Indictment Manslaughter  Madam Seymour who Prosecuted fell on her knees         
in Court & was Extreamly Passionate at the verdict threatening An               
Appeale                                                                         
     Tis said the Atturney Genll hath Instructions to Inspect the Lawes         
in force Agt duelling & to Enquire what Power the Marshalls Court has           
to Punish affronts                                                              
     This day Sr ffran Clarke A member of Parliamt for Rochester fell           
downe dead as he was Inspecting some Writeings                                  
     Tis said the Comission for Rebuilding St Paulls is to be Inspected         
in order to the Hastning it & the setting more men at Worke there being         
Considderable summes lately Come in                                             
     The Protestants in Savoy have Petitioned that duke humbly Praying          
his severe Edict may not be Put in Execution Agt them                           
     In the meane time the ffrench K has offered the said duke his              
Assistance for Putting the said Edict in Execution & sent him 2                 
Companies of ffoot & 2 of Dragoons he had made use of in the same worke         
some of the dragoons being in the Pursuite of some who were Escapeing           
Into Switzerland [and?] were set upon by A Party of Switzers who Cut            
most of them in Peeces & forced the Rest to Retire without their Prey           
+They write from Vienna they are in greate forwardnesse & hope to begin         
the Campaigne with the seige of Agria  12000 Bombes & Currasses will be         
Ready by the end of Aprill,                                                     
     Teckley is Encamped with 7 or 8000 men at Greate Waradine & orders         
are Gone to all the Christian Generalls to Assemble their troops &              
Narrowly Watch his motions                                                      
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