     L. c. 1631     London 2d March 1685                                        
+Last Sunday his Matye knighted mr Charles Porter who hath been A long          
Practitioner in the Chancery here & hath made him Ld Chancellr of               
Ireland The prsent Ld Chancellr being very Ancient on whome his Matye           
hath setled A Pention of 1000 L p An for his Loyall services                    
     Tis said the d of Queensbrough Ld Treasurer of Scotland will be            
Removed from being Ld Treasurer & also from being governr of Edenbrough         
Castle  The first will be mannaged by Comissioners of which the said            
duke who is made Ld President of the Councell is one togather with the          
Ld Chancellr & Ld Privy Seale & the Castle of Edenbrough will be                
Comanded by the d of Gourdon                                                    
     James Scott late d of Monmoth was tryed by A jury of his Peers &           
found Guilty of High Treason & his Lands &c forefaulted                         
     The d of Savoy by the Instigation of the ffrench K though Contrary         
to his Inclination hath Ishued out A very severe edict Agt the                  
Protestants for demolishing all their Churches & useing them severely           
to force them to Abjure their Religion which has Caused the Country             
people of the vallies of Piedmont & Lucerne to Intrench themselves              
& stand upon their Guard upon which the duke sent to the ffrench K who          
ordered 2 Regemts of horse & 6 of ffoot to march to his Assistance &            
those of the vallies have sent to Geneva who have sent to Acquaint the          
Protestant Cantons with it & to desire their Assistance for fear Geneva         
itselfe should be in danger                                                     
     They write from Brussells the states of that Province at their             
first meeting unanimously Consented to the Continuing the Imposition on         
beer which has not been seen in the time of any former Governr & shewes         
the Generall satisfaction of the people                                         
     Our German letters say the Turks have Reinforced Buda & Agria to be        
able to sustaine A seige That Genll Caprara had Reinforced the Blockade         
of Montgatz with 4000 men Resolveing to Attacke it Assoon as the                
season will permitt That Teckleys letters had noe effect none of the            
Hungarians Comeing in to him  Neither had the letters sent by the Bassa         
of Waradine any effect whereby he Required all the villages on Paine            
of death to send on Provision for Teckleys Army Also that the Emper[o]r         
will send A splendid Ambassy into Persia to Exhort that Emper[o]r to            
make warr on the Turks                                                          
     L. c. 1632     London 4th March 1685                                       
+The discourse now is the Campaigne Intended at Hunslow heath will be           
held in Hyde Parke where some hundreds of souldiers are dayly at Worke          
to Levell all places & most of the greate trees are Cutt downe  This day        
8 Companies were at worke there who began to make A Trench Round within         
the Parke & his Matye declares that all his ffoot not upon duty who will        
worke shall be paid as labourers over & above their Military pay                
     Last Sunday mr Johnson Preacht before the King & tis said An order         
is granted to Print his sermon                                                  
+Short Catichismes are Publickly sold in the streets Printed by H Hills         
his Matyes Printer                                                              
     On Sunday morning was throwne Abt the streets A Printed sheet              
entituled An Answer to the Paper of Reasons said to be written by the           
late King which were Carryed to the Ld Mayor & Dilligent Enquiry made           
for the dispersers                                                              
     This day Pardons Past the seales for above 200 which were in the           
late Rebellion which were hastned out of Towne to the Ld Ch: J: Herbert         
in the West To whome tis said his Matye hath given Instructions to              
grant Pardons to all in Custody on that Account & offer it to all who           
are not yet taken Provided they Render themselves by A Certain time             
     According to the Accompt given his Matye there is in England above         
1500 Called quakers in Prison some upon fines others upon Premunire both        
which tis said his Matye hath Remitted & ordered they be set at liberty         
at Assizes                                                                      
     His Matye is in Good health & goes almost dayly A Hunting, after           
Easter their Matyes goe for Windsor & Remaine theire most Part of summer        
     St Georges day being his Matyes Coronation will be kept with greate        
solemnity when tis said the E of Mulgrave & E of Rochester will be made         
dukes                                                                           
     This day A New play Called The devill of A wife was Acted with             
greate Applause at that formerly Called the ds Playhouse  His Matye hath        
ordered the servants of his late Matye to be paid their wages forthwith         
     The Parliamt of Scotland will meet next weeke where the Ld Maitland        
will Carry the greate seale  Ten Companies of the E of Dumbartons Regemt        
are ordered for Scotland & Ten Companies will Come thence for England           
     Last Tuesday the E India Company began their sale & sold in 2              
dayes goods for 137000 L  Their Actions are now at 220 L p Cent                 
     L. c. 1633     London 6th March 1685                                       
+His Matye is Resolved to forme the E of dovers Regemt into A troope of         
200 men & make it the 4th troope of Guards soe there will be now 4              
troops Comanded by the E of ffeversham D of Northumberland Ld Churchill         
& E: of dover                                                                   
     There is now A discourse that the E of Clarendon the Ld Treasurer          
Ld Chancellr Ld dover Ld Dartmouth & Ld Churchill will be made dukes &          
the E of Tirconnell A duke of Ireland                                           
+They write from Ireland that 4 of their judges have their quiettus Est         
whose places are supplyed by mr Nangle mr Dillon mr Rice & mr [space for        
about four letters left blank] 4 Roman Catholicke lawyers                       
     Our last Scotch letters of the 27th say A Drummer was shott to death       
for being Accessary to the late Tumults  Also A shooemakers Apprentice &        
A fenceing master were to be Executed the ffriday following for the same        
     The Report is there that their Parliamt is to sit in Aprill & the          
Ld Murray be High Comissioner                                                   
     They write from Vienna that the Treaty with the Envoy of                   
Transilvania is Concluded that Prince haveing Accepted the Protection           
of the Emper[o]r & To pay 100000 Crownes for subsistance of the                 
Imperiall troops & 100000 measures of Corne & The like quantity of              
Oates & the Prince to have the Hereditary succession of that                    
Principallity                                                                   
     They write from upper Hungary that severall troops who were in             
Garrison there have Revolted to Teckley                                         
+Our ffrench letters say the swelling in that Kings fundament still             
Continuing the Chyrurgeons have been forced to make An Incision  The            
troops sent to the d of Savoy Continue their March the Protestants of           
the vallies being still Entrenched  Severall vessells arrived in the            
West from Burdeaux who brought over many Protestants say there is as            
greate A severity used on those that have abjured & doe not Come to             
Masse every Sunday as on those who doe not abjure & dragoons are                
quartered on them to force them to Masse                                        
+Yesterday his Matye was A Hunting & this day saw his Guards Exercize           
in Hyde Parke                                                                   
     L. c. 1634     London 9th March 1685                                       
+The Parliamt of Scotland is to open the 8th Aprill  The Ld Murray goes         
by Coach thither & will set forwards the 18th Instant  his Comission is         
but for 6 weeks                                                                 
     Tis said when the Parliamt sits in Scotland the Penall Lawes Agt           
Roman Catholicks will be Repealed & A bill Passe wherein the King will          
permitt the Scotch to trade to all his fforreign Plantations in the same        
manner as his English subjects doe & that all Scotch ships shall be ffree       
ships & many other Priviledges are Intended for that Nation his Matye           
Resolveing to show A greate Tenderness to that his Ancient kingdome             
     some of the sermons Preached before his Matye in his Chappell Royal        
are now printed & Published  This day is published a sermon entituled           
The first sermon preached before their Matyes in English at Windsor on          
the first Sunday in octobr 1685 By the Reverend ffather donl P: E Monke         
of the holy order of St Benedict & of the English Congr                         
     Wee hear from Ireland that besides the 4 judges mentioned in our           
last there is or will be dismist the Ld Ch: Justice davyes & the Ld Ch:         
Baron                                                                           
     Abt 70 who have been for many yeares military officers in Ireland          
are dismist most of them being obnoxious as being under Jones at the            
Raiseing the seige of Dublin or under the late usurper Cromwell & their         
Comands & Places are supplyed by Roman Catholicke officers                      
     The Breife for ffrench Protestants is Printing to be sent to               
Perticular Parishes                                                             
     Greate Preparations are makeing for the Campe on Hunslow heath             
     Tis said the E of dover will be made Constable of the Tower & Sr           
Jo: Tichburne governr of Portsmouth                                             
+The E of Northhampton being come to his Age his Matye has made him Ld          
Lieut of Warwickshire                                                           
     His Matye hath Appointed Coll Hassley Governr of Barbados                  
     severall ffrench troops are Approached Geneva which Confirmes they         
designe to attacke that place & the Switzers are prepareing to Releive it       
     The Turks are not a little Encouraged by Assistance of Teckley             
whose presence Much alters the minds of those in upper Hungary                  
+The Pardon Passed for the West Includes all but 8 or 10 Notorious              
offenders                                                                       
     L. c. 1635    London 11th March 1685                                       
+Last night a proclamation was sent to the Presse for a generall                
Pardon Includeing all offenders whatsoever  But there is Abt 60 persons         
Excepted in it by name vizt Bethell Wildman Trenchard Speake Charlton           
fferguson &c                                                                    
     Many P: Books are almost dayly published & publickly sold vizt The         
holy masse St Bridgetts Prayers The Key of Paradise A nett for ffishers         
of men The Touchstone of the reformed Gospell 3 sorts of Catechismes &c         
     Amonge those in the Presse is A bible Called by some the Doway &           
others the Rhomish translation                                                  
     Tis said Ld primate of Scotland & Bp of Edenbrough have Recd the           
Kings pleasure but have not Complyed therein soe whether they are to            
Continue such untill & in the session of Parliamt is by some doubted            
     The E of Tirconnell is Hastning for Ireland with whome goes many           
who are to be in Comands there                                                  
     Yesterday his Matye was in Hyde parke to view his Guards & this            
morning went A Hunting  The ffoot souldiers continue daily at work on           
the Trenches in Hyde parke & Levelling all the Irregular places thereof         
     There is A discourse of An Alliance offensive & defensive with our         
Neibour King & some will have it that it was signed here on Munday              
     Last night Sr. Tho: Gould [?] late one of our Aldermen died                
     This week one Mr ffrankland A young Gent was killed in Covent Garden       
by one Grice An Irish man upon a Trifleing quarrell & Grice is fled             
    The E India Company are Abt Petitioning his Maty that a speedy end          
may be put to the affaire of Bantam                                             
+our letters from Turino of the 23d ffebr say that 2 new deputies were          
Arrived there from the Protestants of the vallies of Lucerne &c to              
beseech the D of Savoy to Recall his Edict but Could only obtaine 5 days        
time to resolve to abjure or Exspect the Execution of the Edict to the          
utmost severity  in the meane time his forces & also the ffrench are            
marching towards them to oblige them to submitt to their Prince                 
    They write from Venice they have a Confirmation that above 30000            
Persian horse are Marched into Caldea to form the seige of Babilon              
[A few figures in another hand appear in left margin of first recto;            
similar figures almost cover the second verso.]                                 
     L. c. 1636     London 18th March 1685                                      
+The parliamt of Scotland is Adjourned till the 6th May & the Ld Comr           
Murray goes not hence till the 6th Aprill                                       
     Tis said o[u]r Parliamt which is Prorogued till the 10th May will          
then sit for some time                                                          
     All the ministers of the ffrench Churches in & Abt this citty              
lately waited on his Matye & one of them made a very fine speech                
Returneing his Matye hearty thanks for his most gracious protection &           
the Greate Condescention he had showne them by granting them the Breife         
for the Releife of the Poor Protestants who were fled hither on Accompt         
of Religion Assureing his Matye they would live Conformeable to the             
Religion established in the Church of England, His Matye Answered that          
as they held that Principle they need not fear nor should not want his          
Protection                                                                      
     There is A Report the ffrench K hath given Comand for slitting the         
noses of Abt 200 Protestants who were under A Confinement & Attempted An        
Escape                                                                          
     Yesterday 2 of the late rebells in the west who have ever since            
absconded tooke the benefit of his Matyes Pardon surrendring themselves         
to Sr Winston Churchill A justice & tooke his Certificate & went about          
their occasions                                                                 
     There is a discourse that the officers of the Navy will be very            
much altered & those to be put in are under Considderation.                     
     They write from Monmoth that at the Assizes held there A fire              
happened in the Inne where Judge Holloway & Judge Street lay which was          
soe sudden & violent that all their horses were burnt & some persons            
narrowly Escaped the same fate                                                  
+They write from Thoulon most of the greate shipps will be fit to sayle         
in a short time & that there are 22 Gallies makeing Ready to Joyne them         
     They write from Holland they are takeing all Posible Care to have          
their ships designed for the mediterranean ready to sayle by the middle         
of Aprill  That the ffrench Ambr protests his master designes nothing           
but to live in unity with them & desires to know what meanes their              
Levyes of 20000 men.                                                            
+This day the K: Rode into Essex A Hunting & Returned at 2 afternoon            
     L. c. 1637      London 20th March 1685                                     
+Yesterday the King touched  Abt 500 for the Evill, The Court goes next         
weeke to St James & stayes there till after Easter                              
    Last Thursday the E of Mulgrave was Marryed to the Countesse of             
Conway at mr Seymoures house in the Country                                     
     Tis said mr secretary Pepis Sr Antony deane sr Jo: Berry & mr              
Hewer are Appointed 4 of the Comrs of the Navy                                  
    There is A marine treaty on ffoot between his Matye & the K of              
denmarke                                                                        
+They write from Edenbrough that on the 12th the d of Gourdon was Recd          
Constable of the Castle of Edenbrough being Attended by the Genll &             
many of the Nobility & Gentry                                                   
     On Munday next the E of Tirconnell with neer 50 military officers          
set forwards for Ireland                                                        
     They write from Rome that the Joy & Exspectaion of the Arrivall            
there of the Ld Castlemain is very greate  That his Excellencies Coates         
are makeing there Extreame Rich  The harness of his horses Cost 700 L           
+The Emper[o]r hath desired Assistance of the d of Savoy Agt the Turks          
who answered that at prsent he Cannot having A prospect of useing his           
forces at home  The said duke hath Recd letters from the d of                   
Brandenburg in favour of the Protestants since which time for their             
abjuration is prolonged but to prevent any escapeing he hath Published          
that whoever shall seize any makeing such An attempt shall not only have        
all he has Abt him but also A Reward of 25 Crownes                              
     The Switzers are resolved to have 2 Camps each 25000 men which they        
will increase as occasion Requires                                              
+The ffrench Intendant in Alsatia hath forbid all persons to buy more           
Corne then is necesary for their subsistance that so the Comissaries may        
find Enough to supply the Magazeens of Strasburgh ffriburgh &c                  
+There is still An Apprehension of the ffrench haveing a designe on             
Maestricht                                                                      
    These states of Venice have desired leave of the Emper[o]r to Raise         
10000 Croats to serve Agt the Turks.  A ship has arrived at Venice laden        
with Cannon Bombes Bought in England                                            
     L. c. 1638     London 23d March 1685                                       
+The Court is now Removed to St James                                           
     This morning the E of Tirconell being Indisposed went for the Bath         
& Returns to Court before he takes shipping for Ireland but Abt 50 of           
his officers are gone & Abt 40 more goe this weeke                              
    Many of the souldiers & Adventurers in Ireland are shipping                 
themselves for Carolina or Pensilvania                                          
     The Bp of St davids being dead dr Jeffries one of the Prebends of          
Westminister & Br to the Ld Chancellr succeeds                                  
     Mr Atturney Genll is at prsent out of Towne but tis said in a few          
dayes will be Published An Explanation of his Mayes Pardon                      
     Yesterday Sr Roger Le Estrange & Justice Redding Came with 2 others        
to the Kings bench Prison & Tenderd An oath to Mr Hugh Speake to Answer         
to all such questions as such should be asked him which he Refused &            
Argued Agt it with sharp Expression to Sr Roger  After which they tenderd       
the same to mr Johnson who Refused it & Argued with more sharpeness then        
the other                                                                       
     Yesterday the E of Mulgrave Came to Towne with his lady & was mett         
10 miles off by 300 Gent                                                        
     The d of Northumberland goes into ffrance with his lady where tis          
said he will leave her & passe this summer in Hungary whither the Ld            
Montjoy hath also obtained his Matyes leave to goe this Campaigne               
     On Sunday last St Anns Church was Consecrated by the Bp of London          
     The Lds of the secrett Comittee of Councill of Scotland have lately        
sate severall times & on the 13th Instant when the Ld Chancellr declared        
his Matyes pleasure that a bill should be Prepared Agt the sitting of           
the Paliamt to repeale all Penall Lawes Agt Papists, after some debate          
it was layd aside.  The Ld Chancellr & D of Gourdon being only for it           
but the dukes Hamilton & Queensbury The E of Atholl &c Agt it                   
+Our ffrench letters of the 19/29 Instant say that Kings Cheife                 
Chyrurgeon hath Asured him that the danger is Past & that he will be            
well Againe in a few dayes                                                      
     They also say his fleet of 36 men of warr besides gallies &c are           
most of them Ready to saile                                                     
     L. c. 1639     London 25th March 1686                                      
+His Matye has Appointed all the ffoot Regemts to be on Hunslow heath by        
the 10th May but the horse not till the latter end of June                      
     His Matye has granted the estate of mr Cornish to his widdow & son         
The Comrs Report they found 47000 L oweing to him & that he owed 36000 L        
& had besides 900 L p Ann                                                       
     The dutch Comrs Abt Bantam being Returned & the matter now before          
the King & the states The dutch Ambr hath made overtures as Its beleived        
will bring it to a speedy Ishue                                                 
+Circular letters are sent all over England to discharge the quakers &          
ffree them from all fines & forfeitures for Refuseing the oaths or not          
Comeing to Church                                                               
     They write from the West that most of the outlyeing Rebells have           
surrendred themselves & Perticularly 200 Sr Courtney Poole [sic]                
     Some letters from somersetshire say that on the 17th March at Warren       
within A mile of Longport one John Saltell being at Plow with his oxen          
one of them Spewed up A Male child  it hath a Necke Armes & Leggs but noe       
head fingers or toes  The ox is well & Continues his labour as before           
    Tis said the Spanish Ambr hath bought the vintners Gardens in Thames        
street to build thereon A Chappell &c                                           
     The fflorence Resident is also building one in this Citty and some         
say A Nunnery will be built at Lyon A few miles hence                           
     Tis said dr Oates will be Again Indicted for Perjury next Terme for        
Comiting the said Crime Agt Coleman at his tryall                               
     Last Munday the d of Northumberland his dutchesse & the D of               
Grafton Rode to Chelsey & soe to the Thames side where A boate tooke in         
the said dutchesse & thence carried her Towards Gravesend where a Yatcht        
lay ready to receive her & Its the opinion of most shee is sent into            
ffrance to be put into A Religious house &c                                     
     His Matyes 2 sons by madam Churchill vizt James ffitzroy & Charles         
ffitzroy are going to travel through ffrance into Germany & thence into         
Hungary to see this summers Campaigne Agt the Turks                             
     The Amsterdam Gazett sayes from Constantanople that the Report is          
there that the grand Seignior will become A Roman Catholicke                    
    [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 1640     London 27th March 1686                                      
+Yesterday the Ld Mayor having notice that in Limestreet was A place            
Prepareing for Celebrating Masse his Lordship & the Sheriffs went               
thither & the doores being shutt after some threats obtained their              
opening where he found the Alter &c setting up The house being taken by         
mr Stampford Envoy from the d of Newburgh  The Ld Mayor Enquired for the        
Master Workeman who not being there he forbid them on Paine of                  
imprisonment to proceed  what the ishue will be is much Exspected               
+Some few days since there was seized in An Apothecaries house in the           
strand the Papers & Manuscripts of dr Tonge & tis said the Method of the        
depositions & directions to Oates for Mannagemt of Popish plott are by          
them Exactly Chaulked out  They were Carryed before the Councell &              
Coroberated by the Testimony of Simpson Tonge son to the said dr                
     Yesterday dr Tillotson Preached at the Royall Chappell & gave god          
thanks for disposeing the Kings heart to grant A Breife for Releife of          
ffrench Protestants Exciting them to A liberall Charity & to bless god          
it is not their own case                                                        
     Yesterday the King heard A sermon in English by one mr Hall son to         
mr Tho: Hall A Cooke of the Citty                                               
     A Pardon is Passing the Privy signet to Pardon such who are now            
Converts and have Embraced the Romish Religion                                  
     There being neer 2000 petitions lodged in the secretaries office           
from Irish his Matye hath ordered all that are not Answered to depart &         
Apply themselves to the Ld Lieut there                                          
     Tis said the Revenue of the Customs fall short this last year              
above 150000 L of the former year                                               
    We have a discourse that the ffrench Ambr at the Hague hath demanded        
A ffree trade for his Masters subjects to the E Indies & that mr Shelton        
o[u]r Envoy hath Againe demanded Bantam &c                                      
     His Matye on the Invitation of the d of Albemarle will spend one           
day in Easter weeke at his seate in Essex & there hunt                          
   Yesterday Capt Walcup of the Kings Regemt & one mr Dives being at A          
Coffee house A quarrell Arose & they fought  the latter tis said is dead        
& the former escaped                                                            
+Yesterday was published the Ld Delameres tryall Price 2 s 6 d                  
     L. c. 1641     London 30th March 1686                                      
+The d of Newburghs Envoy gave in a Memoriall to the King & Councell            
Complaining that the Ld Mayor Comanded his workemen to desist & that            
some of his officers used very Insolent & Reflecting words                      
     The memoriall being Read in Councell the Ld Mayor was ordered to           
Permitt the workmen to proceed & that he & the sheriffs &c Attend the           
King & Councell on Sunday which they did & being called in his Matye            
asked for what Reason he went to Prohibitt that worke in such A Ryottous        
manner it being for the devotion of a fforeign minister                         
     My Lord said there was not any with him but some of his Bretheren          
the Alderman & Attendance  neither did he know of any that used any             
Ryottous or undecent Expressions & if he had he would have punished them        
     All the Ld Mayors officers were Called in & the Person that Accused        
them not fixing it on any one they went off                                     
     his Matye said should Ambrs here be hindred of haveing Places of           
devotion his Ambrs Abroade might meet with the like treatement &                
declared he was well satisfied with the Loyalty of the Ld Mayor &c But          
wished his Lordship if any such matter should happen Againe & he had no         
ministers of state to Advise with that then he might Come to him before         
he medled &c soe were dismist & the worke goes forward                          
     There hath been severall complaints made Agt the dukes of                  
Northumberland & Grafton on Account of the sending away the formers             
Dutchesse which has been debated in Councill & tis said his Matye is not        
a little offended thereatt & neither of them appear as yet Publicke             
     Coll stroude governr of Dover Castle is dead & Its said that Comand        
will be given to the Ld Dover But Major Eaton succeeds as Lieut General         
of the Ks Regemt of guards                                                      
     Our Scotch letters say on the 21st Instant An Expresse Arrived for         
d Hamilton Sr Geo Lockhart president of the session & Lieut Genll               
Drumond to come for London the occasion not Publickly knowne                    
     [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1642     1st Aprill 1686                                             
+This being Passion weeke his Matye hath retired himself but yesterday          
touched Abt 400 persons for the Evill                                           
     This day being Maundy Thursday the Bp of Ely the Kings Almoner washed      
the ffeet of 53 poor men who had gifts as usual from the King & Queen           
     This weeke are gone for Ireland the Rest of the military officers          
newly Comisioned & also many of that nation who Attended at Court upon          
Petitions &c & some day next weeke that Ld Chancellr goes Privately             
hence for Ireland                                                               
     The dukes of Grafton & Northumberland landed at Ostend & have put          
the Lady Lucy into A Nunnery up in the Country                                  
     The Count de Melgar Nominated Ambr from Spaine to Rome deferrs his         
Preperations tis said for that the Ld Castlemain is to have Precedency          
or will Contend for it                                                          
     Our Paris letters dated last Munday assure us the ffrench K                
Appeares more Publickly at Masse and Meales that none make any doubt of         
his perfect Recovery The wound being healed up that he is in a Condition        
to get on horsebacke Againe                                                     
     The Persecutions of the Protestants in ffrance are Redoubled &             
their ministers of state hinder the sufferers from makeing Complaints,          
some have been hanged for meeting on the Ruins of their Churches & such         
new converts who Refused the sacramt on their death bedds  their Corps          
are Torne & throwne on Dunghills with Carryon &c                                
     Wee hear from Savoy there hath been Ambrs from the Cantons of              
Switzerland to intercede with that duke for the Protestants of Piedmont         
but without any successe he Insisting that without An absolute submission       
to his orders he will give them noe quarter  They are said to be 6000           
men & to have posessed themselves of the most Advantageous places for           
defence                                                                         
     The ffrench ffleet will Consist of 300 men of warr & 300 gallies of        
which Spaine are very jealous & are Arriveing by sea & are to be joyned         
by A squadron of Dutch under Count Stirium                                      
     L. c. 1643     London 5th Aprill 1686                                      
+The Breife for ffrench Protestants is Already Put into Execution in            
some Parishes  his Matye hath given 1500 L some noblemen 400 L each &           
others Proportionally                                                           
     Yesterday the sword of state was Carryed before the King to                
Chappell by the E of Dunbarton & the Canopy over the Host supported by 4        
Ps Noblemen                                                                     
     The Chappell in Limestreet will be used next Sunday                        
     An order of Councell is made that wherever the Lady Lucy is to be          
found shee be forthwith brought backe into England her Carrying away            
being Contrary to the Lawes of the Land                                         
     Tis said the E of Northampton is upon Marrying a Daughter of the Ld        
Thomonds [?] & the Ld digby to marry A daughter of the E of Gainsbrough         
     Its whispered the E of Anglesea will have An Emminent place &              
greater then that of Privy seale                                                
     His Matye hath granted the E: of Stamford his Pardon                       
     Capt Legg Br to the Ld Dartmouth is made Governr of Kingsale               
     The King hath given Sr Tho: Grantham A gold Chaine & medall for            
his services in his last voyage to India & perticularly for suppressing         
the Rebellion in Bombay                                                         
     An order of Councell is Past for Building A house near spring              
garden for Artists in gunnery to be Ready on all occasions                      
     A High worke of Timber is Erecting over the Canall in St James             
Parke for use of Gent studying waterworks and such who shall excell will        
be made Ingineers to the King                                                   
     They write from Turin the deputies from the Protestants of the             
vallies have prsented A Petition to that duke setting forth the Extreame        
miseries to which the dragoons have Reduced them  That such as are              
retired to the unaccessable mountaines doe it not through Intentions            
of Rebellion but to Avoyd the fury of the souldiers  They also Protest          
their Lives & estates are Ready to be Exposed for his service But they          
Cannot allow him the liberty of their Consciences it being A Right they         
Cannot Rob god of & therefore Pray him to recall his troops & that they         
may Enjoy their Ancient liberties & Priveledges                                 
     Our Paris letters say every one is to Appear at Court in great             
Splendr to Rejoyce for that Kings happy recovery                                
     L. c. 1644     London 6th Aprill 1686                                      
+The Kings the Queen dowagers & the fforeign Ambrs Chappells have been          
very much throngd this Easter.  Last Sunday mr Slaughter minister of            
Putney formerly mentioned to desert the Church of England did he & his          
wife Receive the Sacramt in Communion with the Romanists                        
     Tis said their Matyes will stay at St James till the 15th May &            
then goe to Windsor                                                             
     The d of Albemarle Comes often to Court & is very kindly Recd &            
tis said his Matye will spend 3 or 4 dayes at his seat of Newhall in            
Essex                                                                           
+The dukes of Grafton & Northumberland are Returned from ostend having          
put the ds of Northumberland into an English Cloister at Gaunt  But tis         
said Writts de Homine Repligiendo are issued Agt them on that occasion          
    Tis said mr Sergt Lutwich now Ch: J of Chester is to be Ld Ch               
Justice of the Kings bench & the now Ld Chief J. Removed to the comon           
pleas                                                                           
    The Ld Ch J: Jones desireing his quiettus & his lordships son one           
of the Kings Councell to succeed mr Sergt Lutwich & there will be               
further Alterations amonge the judges before terme                              
     Yest the Ld Mayor Alderman & their ladyes Rode through the Citty           
Preceded by the blew Coate boyes as usuall & heard a sermon at St               
Brides by dr Kem Bp of Bath                                                     
     The Accompt given to the King of the hospitalls is as followeth            
     In Christchurch 785 & put out Apprentice last year 87                      
     In St Bartholmew of Sicke & wounded 256 died last year 252 cured           
1764                                                                            
     In St Thomas are [?] 207 died last year 209 Cured 1523                     
     In Bedlam distracted 122 died last year 17 cured 17                        
     Sent from Bridewell by passes last year 954                                
+They write from Vienna the Envoyes of Transilvania have Complained of          
the insolence of the Imperiall troops in their quarters But the Emper[o]r       
found it only a tricke of that Prince to delay time that he might               
Perfect the treaty he is makeing with the Turks & Its beleived the 10000        
Tartars are to joyne with his forces he haveing paid the usual Tribute          
to the Grand Seignr & his Comrs with Consent of the states are makeing A        
strict Alliance with Teckley who is come to the borders of their Country        
with a Considderable body of Turks                                              
     L. c. 1645     London 10th Aprill 1686                                     
+Its said the judges informed the Grand juryes in their severall                
Circuitts his Matye Commanded them to Acquaint his people he would              
Assuredly maintaine the Protestant Religion as was by Law established           
     His Matye hath Marked out the Campe at Hunslow heath & tis said            
wee shall have 3 Camps The 2d at Blackheath & the 3d Neerer London  all         
the forces not in Garrison have orders to March for London                      
     Since the pardon was proclaimed Taunton begins to fill Againe &            
other parts on the West of England have A more chearfull aspect  Tis            
said his Matye hath given the maides of Taunton who prsented the Colrs          
to M: to the Queens Maides of Honor who they hope will be kind                  
     Yesterday the E of Stamford Kissed his Matyes hand & was very              
graciously Recd                                                                 
     On Tuesday d Hamilton Lieut Genll Drumond & sr Geo Lockier Arrived         
here in one Coach from Scotland & have severally been with the King who         
with the latter had 2 houres Conferences  Report sayes they doe not             
Answer effectually to what was proposed  They Returne next weeke when           
also goes the Ld Comr Murray & others now here that Parliamt being to           
sit on the 30th Instant                                                         
     mr Pen Gov of Pensilvania returns to that Country Abt Midsomer             
next but before that will goe into Holland & Germany Abt Transporting of        
ffrench Protestants &c into his Plantation & its said the d of                  
Brandenburgh is on A treaty with mr Pen to purchase A Persell of Ground         
there to settle A factory for the ffrench Protestants in his Country            
     The ffrench fleet Hastning out to sea have Allarmed o[u]r Merchants        
for fear their designe should be on the Spanish ffleet aboard which they        
have greate effects & Petitioned his Matye some men of warr might be            
sent for Its security & last night his Matye assured them he would take         
Care of them but that the designe of the ffrench was not Agt that fleet         
The diferences between the ffrench & Spaniards being as good as Accomodated     
     L. c. 1646    London 13th Aprill 1686                                      
+The Queen haveing been somewhat indisposed was let blood last satureday        
& tooke Phisicke sunday & is now very well Againe                               
     Last Wednsday dr Dolben Archbp of Yorke fell into A Lethargie at           
his seate neer Yorke & lay 44 houres & then came to himself Againe &            
yesterday his Matye had Accompt the small Pox Came forth very full on           
him & there was hopes of his Recovery                                           
     His Matye hath bestowed the deanery of Carlisle on dr Musgrave             
+This day was published An Answer to the papers found in the late Ks            
Closett & that of the Lds of Yorke with A defence of the Church of              
England                                                                         
     Yesterday mr Sawell messenger to the Presse seized A 6 d booke in          
the Printers hands which its said Containes An Abstract of the Cruell           
Barbarous & unchristianlike usage of the Protestants by the most                
Christian king                                                                  
     Tis said there is An Accomodation between the d of Savoy & the             
Protestants of Piedmont Permitting those who will not Change their              
Religion to quitt the Country leaveing their effects to the Profitt of          
the Clergie                                                                     
     They write from Shropshire that Esqr Talbott uncle to the E of             
shrewsbury Rideing abroad his horse threw him of which fall he died             
     Last night the Post boy from  Harwich had 2 Holland Males & neer           
Ilfore 6 miles hence was Abt 9 at night set upon by 3 Highway men who           
Cut open & Robbed the said Males  This Accedent putts the Jewes into A          
greate fright for they fear very greate loss of jewells which It seemes         
usually Came to their hands that way                                            
     This day the Ld Murray Set forwards for Scotland as Ld High                
Comissioner but Its said d Hamilton &c are uncertain when they shall goe        
+They write from Scotland there is noe Accompt what the Archbp of St            
Andrews & Bp of Edenbrough have transacted there since their Arrival            
from Court but Its Reported the former is to be sworne one of the Lds of        
the secrett Comittee of Councell & the latter one of the privy Councell         
[Figures and some almost illegible words in another hand fill most of           
outside of letter.]                                                             
     L. c. 1647     London 15 Aprill 1686                                       
+Last Sunday the Archbp of Yorke died of the Palsie & small Pox  Some           
say dr Jeffries the Ld Chancellrs Brother is to succeed                         
     Yesterday Sr Phill Howard died being just going to his Govermt of          
Jamaica & some say the Ld Viscount Stafford succeeds  others say the            
Placeing & displaceing of all Governrs deputy Governrs &c will be left          
to his Matyes viceroy the d of Albemarle in all the Plantations                 
     Sr Geo: Pudsey Recorder of Oxford hath kissed the Kings hand as            
being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer & his Matye hath                  
knighted mr Charles Molly A Councellr who Its said shall be Recorder            
of London & Sr Jo: Holt the prsent Recorder made Ch: Justice of Chester         
     Coll Rumsey hath at last A grant of his Pardon but Its said is to          
be banished dureing life                                                        
     Yesterday Miles Prance who hath absconded ever since the tryall of         
mr Veriatty surrendred himselfe & was afterwards Examined before the            
King in Councell for neer 3 houres & Its said disowned all he had               
sworne as to Sr Edm: Godfreys Murther knowing nothing of it but that he         
was Instructed thereto by the late E of Shaftesbury  he is Comitted to          
the Custody of A messenger                                                      
     This weeke is Published A 2d booke Intituled A Perswasive to               
Toleration to Church Dissenters in Prudence & Conscience humbly                 
submitted to the King & his Greate Councell written tis said by Wm Penn         
the Eminent quaker                                                              
     Last munday began the sessions at Guildhall Hicks hall & at                
Westminster  To the latter the King sent mr Bridgman to Acquaint the            
justices it was his pleasure that they Cease all manner of Proceedings          
Agt those Called quakers                                                        
     Tis said the Theives that Robbed the Males got in Jewells & Gold           
12000 L sterling                                                                
+The Archbp of Cantr hath by Reason of the Bp of Lincolnes greate Age           
& weakness ordered his diocesse to be vissitted by the Bp of Peterbrough        
& dr Exton                                                                      
     Tis said his Matye goes to morrow to Chattam & sheerness to Hasten         
forth the ships & next weeke goes to Hunt with the d of Albemarle               
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1648     London 17 Aprill 1686                                       
+When his Matye was at Hunslow heath on the 10th Instant he was nobly           
treated by Capt Shales Comissary Genll in the New bakehouse erected             
there by the said Capt where his Matye Comanded all the greate officers         
to sit at Table with him Covered & shewed many other Condescentions to          
their greate Honour                                                             
     Prance is still kept very Close  he declares he Could have lived           
very well in Holland but Could not Rest quiett in his Conscience till           
he had voluntarily Come in & discovered the truth That he knew nothing          
of Sr Edm Godfreys death but what was told him from others who hired            
him to swear it & Accuses the late E of Shaftesbury & others of the             
subbornation, neer 40 depositions have been lately taken Concerning the         
said Sr Edm: Godfreys death & all Imaginable Care taken to search out           
if posible the very truth thereof                                               
     Coll Rumsey is not Pardoned but sent Prisoner to the Isle of Wight         
for High Treason                                                                
     Tis said that besides the 1500 L given by his Matye to the ffrench         
Protestants her Matye hath given 200 L The Queen Dowager 300 L The E of         
devon 1000 L Sergt Maynard 500 L &c                                             
+Last night it was determined in Councell that the d of Albemarle be            
Lieut Genll & Governr of all his Matyes Plantations in America & Its            
now said Sr Tho: Oglethorpe will be made Governr of Jamaica                     
     Tis said dr Spratt Bp of Rochester is made Archbp of Yorke & dr            
Cartwright deane of Rippon to succeed to the see of Rochester & dr              
Jeffries to succeed the late dr Pierson in the see of Chester                   
     mr Ambrose Phillips A Chancery Lawyer is knighted & Its said will          
be Ld Ch: Baron of the Exchequer                                                
     Yesterday one Hawley surveyor of the Customs at Harwich & one              
david Cawdron A Chandler in the strand were seized for Robbing the              
Holland Mailes  They found A bagg of Gold in Cawdrons trunke & Abt 40 L         
in his Pockett & Abt 1500 L in Hawleys trunke  They are both in Newgate         
& this day 6 others are Apprehended & Comitted to Newgate & Another is          
fled towards Bristoll with Abt 1500 L & some are in the Pursuite                
     Yest A widdow woman her son & 2 daughters & her maide were                 
Apprehended for Clipping & taken in the very fact                               
     L. c. 1649     London 20th Aprill 1686                                     
+On Sunday last mr Stampford Resident of the d of Newburgh opened his           
Chappell in Limestreet & notwithstanding all the Care & Caution that            
Could be used by the Ld Mayor in setting Constables & Watches & by the          
Resident in Provideing Persons to secure his house yet the Rabble Could         
not be hindered first [?] for makeing A Noyse in the streets & then             
Getting into the house & Disturbing those that were at their devotion           
     The Ryott Increased & severall persons were seized by the Resident         
himselfe & sent to the Ld Mayor who Comitted some & bound the Rest to           
Appear next sessions                                                            
     Then the Ld Mayor Came himselfe & made Proclamation for all to             
depart to their homes which some did                                            
     But one of those that was Employed by the Resident to seize those          
that disturbed the Chappell Comeing through Cheapside was fallen upon           
by the Rabble & beaten of whome some were Comitted to Prison                    
     Yesterday the Ld Mayor sheriffs & some Aldermen went to give his           
Matye An Account what Passed on sunday & to have some Examined who had          
said there was A Riseing Intended by the boyes                                  
     To morrow being the first day of the Terme the 10 New sergts will          
be Called to the barr vizt Sr Jo: Holt Sr Ambrose Phillips &c                   
     Yesterday the Ld Mayor & Aldermen sate in Westminster hall for             
Conservation of the River Thames                                                
     The d of Albemarle is Prepareing to goe with Expedition to his             
Goverment of the American Islands Its said with the Title of viceroy            
     They write from ffrance the diferences between them & Spaine are           
Accomodated but that his Most Christian Matye doth not slacken the              
Preparations of his fleet which makes some thinke it will be Employed           
in the Remoter parts of the world which Its beleived will be on the             
Westerne Islands  his Matye hath had Againe some little Returne of his          
distemper but not soe much as to take him off his Leggs being able to           
goe to masse & to walke in his Gardens                                          
     L. c. 1650     London 22d Aprill 1686                                      
+On Sunday morning they began Masse in the Pa[a letter smeared] Chappell        
in Limestreet & Its thought had there not been A Guard of Constables &          
2 or 3 ffiles of the Trayned bands greate violence had been then offered        
     In the afternoon one offering some rudeness was seized which Enraged       
the Multitude soe much that the Ld Mayor was forced to Come & disperse          
them & 6 were Comitted But one that belonged to the Chappell & gave             
Evidence Agt them was discovered Passing in A Coach through Cheapside by        
some who Pulled him out Pulled off his Perewigg Threw filth in his face         
Reproached him very Grosly & Its feared had killed him had he not been          
got into A house for which some were Comitted                                   
     On Munday the K sent for the Ld Mayor & was Extreame Angry at what         
had Passed &c                                                                   
     Yesterday being the first of the Terme the Ld Chancellr Came to            
Westminster hall with A gowne of velvett soe very Richly Adorned with           
Gold that the like was scarce ever seen & went to the Kings bench &             
tooke the oaths & Test & then went to the Court of Chancery where the           
10 New sergts at Law were sworne                                                
     Also the New judges mentioned in the Gazett tooke their places             
     mr Hamilton Pleaded his Matyes Pardon & was discharged & soe was mr        
Samll Story &c                                                                  
     The d of Grafton is made Clerke of the Treasury of the Comon Pleas         
worth 1500 L p An which he may officiate by A deputy                            
     One ffran Vaughn Esqr Excepted in the late Pardon was this last            
weeke marryed to A lady in this Citty & on Sunday Appeared at St                
dunstans Church in greate splendr but being knowne was yesterday seized         
for High Treason & Carryed to Whitehall                                         
     The french K is Againe Indisposed & Its said found such greate             
Paine after the healeing up of his Cancer that it was thought fit to be         
layd open & there Appeared Another Cancer Increaseing which hath Rendred        
him in much danger Againe                                                       
     They tell us the D of Savoyes forces have been worsted by those of         
Lucerne & lost severall Waggons laden with Amunition & Provisions               
+The Ld Ch: Justice Jones Ld Ch: Baron Mountague Justice Charlton &             
Baron Nevill have their quiettus  Sr Hen: Beddingfeild is made Ld Ch:           
Justice of the Comon pleas Baron Atkins Ld Ch: Baron Sr Edw: Lutwich one        
of the justices of the Comon Pleas Richd Heath Esqr A Baron of the              
Exchequer & Sr Job Charlton Ch: Justice of Chester                              
[These lists of fish appear in another hand on outside of letter:]              
           Carp 315                                                             
           Breame 311                                                           
           Perch 41133                                                          
           Roul [?] 1                                                           
           Pike 11                                                              
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           Carp                                                                 
           Breame                                                               
           Tench                                                                
           Pearch                                                               
           Roul [?]                                                             
           Pike                                                                 
                          Dorin 23                                              
                          Sorrell                                               
                          Brown                                                 
     L. c. 1651     London 24th Aprill 1686                                     
+Yesterday the 10 New sergts went to Westminster hall According to the          
usuall solemnity & prsented the judges with Rings & after Returned to           
the sergts Inne where they entertained the Ld Chancellr judges &c with          
A splendid dinner.  In the Evening 4 of them vizt Holt Phillips Hutchins        
& Rawlinson went to Whitehall & prsented their Matyes The Queen dowager         
Prince & Ps with Rings                                                          
     This day the Ld Ch: J Beddingfeild & Baron Jenner tooke the oaths          
& Test                                                                          
     mr Sergt Milton was sworne A Baron of the Exchequer & mr sergt             
Powell (both of the last Call) A judge of the Court of Comon pleas              
     This day Oates stood in the Pillory at Tyburne According to his            
sentence  mr Thompson the Printer was there & said he hoped that the            
next time Oates Came thither it would be to be hanged                           
     Sr Wm Clifford hath Marryed the Ds of Portesmouth now in ffrance           
but Exspected over dayly                                                        
     On Thursday last died the Lady Henrietta Wentworth who was in              
Holland with the late d of Monmoth & her Estate which is said to be             
4000 L p Ann is fallen to the Ld Lovelace                                       
+On the 23d the Katherine Arrived in the downes from E India  also 3            
shipps bound for E India are sayled thence                                      
     mr Skelton the English Envoy at the Hague hath given in A very             
sharpe memoriall Abt Bantam                                                     
     Our scotch letters of the 17th say the Synod of Edenbrough have            
transacted nothing of moment but Adjourned till Septr next, on the 16th         
mr Spence some time steward to the late E of Argile was Examined by A           
Comittee of the secrett Councell & after Remanded  That Parliamt is             
Certainly to sit on the 29th Instant                                            
+They write from dublin their new Ld Chancellr safely Arrived after soe         
violent A storme that the seamen themselves Apprehended they should be          
lost                                                                            
     Our fforreign letters say that at the greate Councell of warr              
before the Emper[o]r it was Resolved that the Christian Army Consisting         
of 94000 horse & ffoot Effective should be divided into 2 Armies & Act          
seperately                                                                      
     This day the K went to Putney heath & there tooke A view of his            
horses & on Munday goes to Woolwich Chattam Sheerness &c                        
     L. c. 1652     London 27 Aprill 1686                                       
+Last Sunday morning there was Againe A greate Concourse of People at           
the Popish Chappell in Limestreet notwithstanding the Guards & severall         
were seized & Comitted & some of the Constables Rudely treated but the          
Ld Mayor Came & dispersed them                                                  
     In the afternoon it was the same & more taken & Comitted then was          
in the morning & were dispersed A 2d time but with more dificulty &             
trouble                                                                         
     Yesterday morning the K tooke A view of the Tower & all the                
stores & dined with the Ld dartmouth & after went downe the River to            
C[h]attam &c & Returnes not till Thursday                                       
     mr solicittr ffinch has his quiettus as to that place & the Ks             
Councell & last Sunday mr Tho: Powis of Lincolnes Inne was knighted &           
made solicittr & Its the Currant discourse this day that mr Atturney            
Genll hath or will have his quiettus                                            
     Sr Roger Le Estrange haveing Compleated takeing the Information            
of Prance wherein he declares he knew nothing of the Murther of Sr              
Edm Godfrey as he had deposed in the tryall of Hill Green & Berry, on           
Sunday he Carryed it to his Matye in Councell who after the Reading &           
debateing thereof ordered Prance Close Prisoner to Newgate & that An            
Information of Wilfull Perjury be Exhibitted Agt him                            
     Yesterday at the Kings bench mr Jones the Kings Councell moved Agt         
mr Williams the late speaker that his demurr might be Argued as [sic]           
but mr Williams Alledged that some other of the Kings Councell were             
Content it should be deferred till next Terme  at Lengh the Court gave          
mr Williams some dayes to shew Cause Agt Its being this Terme                   
     A motion was made that whereas Aldbrough one that Robbed the               
Holland Mailes was seized with much of the Gold at Marlbrough & that            
the Mayor Refused to deliver it by order of the E of Ailesbury Ld of            
the Mann[o]r The Court ordered the Gold to be brought into Court                
     The Ld Castlemain hath Passed Genoa in his way to Rome & the next          
may give Account of his Arrivall for which noe such greate Preparations         
as the like hath not [sic] been knowne  One dr Butteridge is gone hence         
for ffrance being hired by the ffrench Kings Secretary to Endeavr that          
Kings Cure                                                                      
     They write from Holland the states are much allarmed at the                
Memoriall given in by mr Skelton Abt Bantam                                     
     L. c. 1653     London 29th Aprill 1686                                     
+This day was A tryall at Barr between the King & Sr Wm Warren left [?]         
upon An Information of Intrusion setting forth An Incroachment on the           
Thames from St Saviours Mill to Cuckolds Point Containing 26000 ffoot in        
Lengh & 400 in Breadth now built in Wharfs & houses judged worth 20000 L        
p Ann Lyeing in the Parishes of Bermondsey & Reddriffe  The jury have           
not yet given their verdict but Its beleived will give it for the King          
The Court telling them if they beleived it was Ever part of the River           
they must find for the King for though Prescription was held Lawfull for        
the subject it Could not be pleaded Agt the King                                
     Last night his Matye Returned hither  When his Matye dined last at         
the Tower the Ld Brandon sent A Petition humbly Praying his Pardon which        
his Matye Promised to Considder of at his Returne                               
     They write from Portesmouth that on the 16th A Pinke laden with            
Corne was forced to the south shoar of the Isle of Wight by A sally man         
of warr & Another at Beachley                                                   
     They write from Ireland that mr Justice Reynolds of the Kings bench        
as he was going into Court was served with A supersedeas & was                  
Imediately Retained by severall as Councellr & Pleaded at the barr the          
same day Also that 2 other judges will be dismist                               
     They write from ffrance that many of the New Converts in Languedoc         
Refuseing at Easter to Confesse & Receive the sacramt The Intendant has         
forbid all Millers & Bakers from grinding their Corne or bakeing it till        
they Conforme & A Regemt of Dragoons is Dayly Exspected to force them           
to Masse & Confession                                                           
     The Czars of Muscovy have Concluded A League offensive & defensive         
with the K of Poland                                                            
     The takeing of Montgatz seems to be dispaired off the ditches              
being Againe as full as they were before                                        
+They write from Rotterdam that on the 14th Instant was held A ffrench          
synod there The most famous that ever was held in those Provinces where         
they submitted to the synod of Dort & subscribed to the Confession of           
faith of the Church of those Countries & for strengthening the said             
union Appointed An Extrary sacramt the next Lds day at which were 123           
ministers.  The Majestrates haveing nobly treated that famous Assembly          
they went to their Respective Charges                                           
+Wee hear the ffrench ffleet is steered towards Portugall                       
     L. c. 1654    London 1st May 1686                                          
+Yesterday morning the jury in the Tryall between the King & Sr Wm              
Warren &c for An Incroachment on the Thames delivered their verdict             
That the defendants were not Guilty By which the greate hopes of those          
that had the grant from the King are disappointed                               
     There is Advice from Bristoll that this weeke A place neer the             
Customhouse in that Citty being fitted up for Celebrating Masse The             
Mayor &c Repaired thither & found there neer 20 persons Assembled & the         
Alter set up & the Preist just Putting on his vestments who Its said is         
An Englishman &c  The Mayor demanded what they did there & the Preist           
Readily Answered that they were mett to Celebrate Masse  The Mayor              
Comitted them all to Prison though he had many threats from them &              
Amonge others That they would Acquaint the King how they were dealt with        
The Mayor said he would save them that trouble & doe it himselfe                
     Yesterday the Middlesex Grandjury were sworne Sr Jo: Elwayes               
fforeman  mr Justice Withins gave the Charge & first mentioned his              
Matyes gracious Pardon which would take off greate Parte of his Charge          
But Branched out into the Nature of Treason &c  In the last place               
Comended to them the Preservation of o[u]r Church mentioning his Matyes         
gracious Promise to secure it to us for which wee ought to give him             
Eternall thanks & set to our helpeing hand But that he did Confesse he          
did not soe of late hear of Conventicles as formerly                            
     Last Thursday the Ld Chancellr D of Ormond &c mett to Considder of         
A method for disposeing the money to be Collected for ffrench                   
Protestants & made A Considderable Progresse                                    
     A marriage is discoursed off between the E of Northampton & Sr             
Stephen ffoxes daughter who Its said will give with her 20000 L & if her        
Brother dye without Children shee will be A very greate heiresse                
+On Munday the K goes to the D of Albemarles at Newhall who is                  
Provideing A very splendid Entertainment & stayes there 2 or 3 dayes            
dureing which 400 ffoot & 80 horse are to Encampe there                         
     The d of Albemarle is to take over with him to Jamaica A troope of         
dragoons & 8 out of Every Company of ffoot which will make 300 for A            
standing Guard  also 4 men of warr are to goe with him                          
     A Scotch vessell had lately taken Abt 40 ffrench Protestants on            
board but first as they were Comeing away they were seized The                  
Passengers sent to the Gallies & the master to Pay 1000 Crownes or              
suffer Confiscation of ship & goods                                             
     L. c. 1655     London 4th May 1686                                         
+Yesterday the K: went to Newhall & was mett by the d of Albemarle &            
the Nobility & Gentry for Abt 40 miles Round the Place who Conducted his        
Matye thither where is the greatest Provision made that Perhapps was            
ever made on any occasion by any Nobleman of England for Reception of           
his Matye  some say 40 fat oxen are killed & wine & Beer &c being Comon         
Amonge the souldiers                                                            
     Sr Robt Viner Sr James Edwards Sr Jo: Buckworth Sr Ben Bathurst            
Ald Lucy & Ald: duncomb have layd downe their gownes in whose places are        
sworne Sr Mathias Vincent Sr Wm Russell Sr Joseph Hearne mr Hartopp mr          
Rawlinson & mr ffownes                                                          
     Letters from Cadiz say 4 of the ffrench ffleet are before that port        
& the rest at Lisbon but the designe not knowne                                 
     Our ffrench letters of the 8th say A Courrier Arrived there from the       
D of Savoy to acquaint that King that his forces being joyned with those        
of Savoy marched to force the Inhabitants of Lucerne who had Intrenched         
themselves very strongly & were Abt 5 or 6000 men                               
     They Attaqued their works after 2 dayes very obstinate defence in          
which many were killed on both sides  They forced their trenches & killed       
2000 on the place which so discouraged the Rest that 2000 more of them          
layed down their Arms & submitted to mercy  The rest both men & women           
were put to the sword                                                           
     But letters from other parts say the Protestants Came to a                 
Capitulation & Agreed to depart & were at their Homes Prepareing soe to         
doe & thoughtless of danger but their enemies fell upon them & massacred        
& hanged up A greate many thousands                                             
+Last Sunday at the P: Chappell in Limestreet were severall Constables          
to keep the peace yet some hundreds Came neer to the door & not                 
departing as commanded Abt 20 were Carried before the Ld Mayor who              
Comitted them                                                                   
+His Matye Intends to Returne this night or to morrow & in his way to           
see a Plott of ground staked out on Blackheath for encamping A 3d Parte         
of his forces Intending to divide them into 3 Camps because of the              
dificulty of getting Provisions for all at Hunslow heath                        
     L. c. 1656     London 6th May 1686                                         
+On Tuesday night his Matye Returned from the d of Albemarles Extreamly         
well satisfied with his Reception                                               
     The Parliamt of Scotland mett on the 29th Aprill where the Ld Comr         
made A Speech Importing many greate faivors Intended that Kingdom & his         
Matyes desire to give ease & security to the Roman Catholicks there             
which is at large in this dayes Gazett & the Parliamt adjourned till the        
6th May                                                                         
     Yesterday was A greate Performance in St James Chappell for Praying        
some said the E of Arling ____ [sic] soule out of purgatory which               
service was continued for diverse hours There being A Coffin in the             
Chappell Illuminated with Candles &c                                            
     The Popes Nuncio now here hath taken for 3 yeares A greate house           
near the Haymarket & hath very many & rich Liveries makeing in order to         
make his Publicke entry which is Intended to be done with greate splendr        
     Yesterday a booke Entitled An Account of the greate oppressions &          
Cruel sufferings of the ffrench Protestants was upon Complaint of the           
ffrench Ambr to his Matye in Councell burnt before the Royall Exchange          
by the Comon hangman                                                            
     Yesterday at the Kings bench barr mr Polixfen insisted that the            
demurr Agt mr Williams might not be Argued till next terme but my Ld            
Ch: Justice was Agt Putting it off saying it was a Case of greate               
Consequence soe next Tuesday is the peremptory day to Argue it                  
     A New tryall is granted the King upon Account of the Encroachment          
on the Thames on an Affidavitt  the Jury had Agreed to give their               
verdict for the people before the Tryall                                        
     The d of Northumberland is going by his Matyes Comand for Flanders         
to fetch backe his dutchesse                                                    
     The E of sunderland was taken very ill but Its hoped is in a very          
faire way of Recovery                                                           
+The E India Company have made a devidend of 25 L p cent of which 10 L          
to be paid now & the Rest next Michaelmas                                       
     The D of Bucks hath made a very long lease of Wallingford house            
& the ground thereto at 1000 L p An all which is to be built upon               
     Wee hear the ffrench ffleet are before Cadiz & haveing Recd                
satisfaction in their demands on Spaine are designed Agt Lisbone for            
Arriers due to the ffrench since they assisted them Agt Spaine                  
     L. c. 1657     London 8th May 1686                                         
+Tis said the E of Castlemain hath had A private audience of the Pope           
but hath not yet had it in Publicke, his Secretary is Arrived in 14 days        
from Rome  The reason of his comeing is variously discoursed but not            
publickly known                                                                 
     Yesterday passed the seale A Royall dispensation for dr Walker head        
of University Colledg in Oxford & 3 ffellows in that university & also          
for mr slaughter minister of Putney                                             
     An Information is Exhibitted Agt sr Edw Hales for holding offices &        
not being qualified & he hath Put in for his Plea his Matyes dispensation       
under the broad seale which will occasion the judges opinion therein            
     Wee have a report that the E of Salisbury now in ffrance hath              
changed his Religion                                                            
     The Archbishoprick of Yorke is kept in the Kings hands & Its said          
the Revenue will be managed by Comrs                                            
     dr ffell Bp of Oxford is so ill that Its though[t] he will not             
Recover                                                                         
     Its the Currant report that his Matye will on Munday order a very          
short Adjournmt of the Parliamt & by his Royall Proclamation Appoint            
their sitting                                                                   
     Tis said the Ps of Orange is Exspected here & that 2 yatchts are           
ordered to fetch her                                                            
     Yesterday his Matye &c were in Hyde Parke to view a Scotch Regemt          
lately arrived from thence                                                      
     The Ld Mayor was this day at Whitehall to Attend his Matye in              
Councell                                                                        
     They write from Ireland severall will be tryed there for declareing        
Monmoth was alive & had been seen at dublin & for Endeavoring to make           
Parties to joyne him                                                            
+The Protestant Cantons of Switzerland are Extreamly Allarmed at the            
greate slaughter in Piedmont feareing it will not end there & are now           
Assembled to Considder of their common security                                 
+This day mr Atturney Moved that mr Speake Oates & some other Prisoners         
in the Kings bench might be removed to Newgate since severall disorders         
happened lately by their Instigation  The Matter is Referred to Sr Samll        
Astree to Report                                                                
+A yatcht is ordered for fetching over the ds of Northumberland                 
     L. c. 1658     London 11th May 1686                                        
+Yesterday Abt 150 of the Comons mett who being sent for to the Lds             
house The Ld Chancellr Prorogued the Parliamt till the 22d Novembr              
     This day the greate Case of mr Williams was moved by mr Jones who          
began to Recite the Plea & Exceptions taken by mr Williams to be                
Insufficient &c My L: C Justice told mr Williams he need not Enlarge for        
the Plea was soe Absurd that he Admired what he Could say for it however        
he should be heard                                                              
+mr Polixfen seemed unwilling to begin by Reason the Ld Ch Justice in           
speaking of Exceptions told mr Jones he would hear noe such But being           
Called to by the Court he began to set forth mr Williams was speaker            
of the Parliamt & ordered by them to Inspect the booke & Cause it to be         
Printed  That the Parliamt in our Law is the High & Supreame Court, As          
he was Proceeding the L: C: Justice told him The Comons in Parliamt were        
noe Court  That the Authority & Power of Parliamt was the Plea of the           
Kings judges & none but such as they Could have the Impudence to make           
such A Plea                                                                     
     mr Polixfen then Refused to goe further & mr Williams had 4 dayes          
time to Plead guilty or not guilty                                              
     A Perticular Pardon is Passed for Edw Norton Esqr Agt whome A Bill         
of High Treason was found In July 1683  Its said he hath made A                 
Considderable discovery which will Come out in Print                            
     On ffriday the Court goes for Windsor for this summer  The Campe on        
Hunslow heath is to be opened on the 20th Instant                               
     Sr Wm Clifton is dead in ffrance & his Matye hath given his Regemt         
of ffoot to Rear Admirall Herbert                                               
   Last Sunday the E of Northampton married Sr Stephen ffoxes daughter          
     Our ffrench letters say that King is Perfectly Recovered & there is        
noe further fear of A Relapse                                                   
     Our Scotch letters say An Answer is drawne to his Matyes letter            
Containing A Gratefull Acknowledgment of his Paternall Care of that his         
Ancient Kingdome Assureing his Matye they will Answer his desires soe           
far as their Consciences will Allow them                                        
     L. c. 1659     London 13th May 1686                                        
+Yesterday the Ps of denmarke went to Windsor in order to Lye in there &        
this morning Abt 6 A Clocke was delivered of A daughter & his Matye is          
this night gone to Windsor                                                      
     Report sayth there was something in the Kings Title which                  
obstructed the E of Castlemain haveing Audience of his holiness & that          
mr Lydcott his Secretary was sent over for Instructions how to governe          
himselfe therein & this weeke mr Lydcott is knighted & sent backe               
+Our Scotch letters say that the Parliamt sate on the 6th & Approved            
of the Answer to his Matyes letter & Adjourned till the 10th Instant            
     Last night An Expresse Came to Edenbrough & another was sent               
thither                                                                         
     Yesterday the Atturney Genll moved for A New tryall between the            
K: & Sr Wm Warren &c for the Intrusion on the Thames but the Ld Ch:             
Justice did not grant it                                                        
     Sr Edw Hales his tryall Comes on next Terme before which Its said          
more judges will be altered                                                     
     Yesterday was An Argument at the Exchequer between the King & Sr           
Thomas Pope Blunt upon 1100 L due upon the debts being Created A                
Baronet & Sr Thomas was ordered to Pay the money & the like Processe            
Ishued Agt all Baronetts who have not paid their ffees into the                 
Exchequer                                                                       
     They write from Paris they have Advice from Turin that on the 22d          
the D of Savoy & the ffrench gained the Passes at Lucerne & on the 23d          
the duke entred the mountaines with his troops which were Abt 12000             
men women & Children & their Enemies Butchered all without spareing             
either Age or sex & after burnt their houses & goods  Those that                
escaped have Prayed the dukes mercy & Promise to obey his orders                
     The Eyes of all Europe are on the ffrench designes they haveing 3          
ffleets one in the streights one in the Channell & one for the sound            
Tis thought their ffleet in the streights will Attempt Tangier after            
they have done at Lisbone where they demand 6 millions & that K has             
ordered that if above 6 men of warr enter the River his fforts &c to            
fire on them                                                                    
     L. c. 1660     London 15th May 1686                                        
+Yesterday Abt 6 in the morning the Bull Inne in the Strand fell downe          
& tooke with it the oyleshopp & shooemakers on each side.  7 or 8 are           
taken out dead & others scarse alive  some say 18 are killed but how            
many is not yet knowne                                                          
     Tis said the Proprietors of the Massehouse in Limestreet have              
taken Warwicke house in Holbourne & when they have fitted it will have          
the other                                                                       
     Yesterday Miles Prance was brought to the Kings bench barr &               
Charged with An Indictment of Perjury at the Tryalls of mr Green Hill           
& Berry  He Readily Pleaded Guilty & Prayed the Ld C: Justice to                
supplicate for his Pardon                                                       
     John O Sulivan the Dominican ffryar or Irish Preist Comitted in            
Bristoll being brought by Habeas Corpus appeared & by Reason the                
Atturney Genll was not there was turned over to the Kings bench Prison          
     The sentence of dr Edes is Put off till next Terme & Its said his          
Matye hath forgiven mr Williams                                                 
     They write from Ireland that 4 English Gente were Accused by some          
Irishmen of being in the Rebellion with Monmoth & being Tryed before            
Judge Reynolds he Caused the Witnesses to be Examined Apart & found 24          
Contradictions upon which they were Acquitted & the Witnesses Indicted          
Convicted & sentenced to loose each one eare in the Pillory which was           
Executed                                                                        
     Greate Preparations makeing for the Campaigne on Hunslow heath             
where his Matye will have his Pavillion Royall & will Lye there some            
nights with his souldiers                                                       
     This weeke the Ds of Northumberland Returned from fflanders in one         
of his Matyes yatchts                                                           
     Our dutch letters say the ffrench ffleet is still before Cadiz &           
demand 500000 L & the Charge of the ffleet which Spaine will not Comply         
with.  The dutch have ordered their ffleet under Count Stirium to sayle         
forthwith & have 24 ships more Ready to sayle by the 15th June                  
+The K of Portugall hath Put out An Edict Comanding the ffrench                 
Protestants in his Dominions to abjure or depart in 3 dayes on Paine of         
being seized & also their estates                                               
     Our fforreign letters Confirme the defeate of Teckley & that upon          
the ill successe he is sent for to Attend the grand vizier at Belgrade          
[This chart of family descent appears in another hand on second verso:]         
           Leonard White had Issue                                              
                  /                                                             
                  /                                                             
         dead     / dead   liveing   dead         dead                          
      --------------------------------------------------                        
      Robert/ Bartholomew/ Leonard  Wm/   Edward/ Thomas/                       
                                             /                                  
                            maried Sara. ffloid dyed without issue              
                            250 fflem s: made upon mariage To the use of        
                            Edward for life Then to Sara for life one           
                            for want of such issue To Leonard the               
                            Grandfather in fee:                                 
                            Then Leonard the Grandfather made                   
                            his Will & gave it to William Gibson                
     L. c. 1661     London 20th May 1686                                        
+This day is Published the 3d vollume of sermons Preached by the deane          
of Canterbury being 10 sermons most Agt Popery Also A discourse Agt             
Transubstantiation & A Persuasive to the frequent Receiving of the              
sacramt                                                                         
     dr Walter of Oxford hath obtained his Matyes Licence for printing          
Abt 40 books with A Prohibition to Print noe more then 20000 of each sort       
     His Matyes Licence to mr Edward Slater of Putney in Surrey is to           
keep one or more schooles & to Receive Boarders Also A dispensation to          
be absent from his Curacy of Putney & Rectory of Eshaw & Receive the            
Profitts thereof & keep one or more Curatts & forbear Reading Comon             
Prayer &c without Incurring any deprivations &c                                 
     The Governrs of the ffrench Church here are served with quo                
warrantoes To which they plead the first day of the next Terme  Tis             
said they have An Act of Parliamt in Q: Elizabeths time & Confirmed by          
another in K James besides grants by K Charles 1st & 2d under their             
greate seales                                                                   
     To morrow the K: Comes to Whitehall to Councell & tis said all the         
Councell are sumoned & that there will be something Extrary debated             
+Tis said the E of dover has begged of the King the fine of 10000 L             
Awarded Agt mr Williams                                                         
     A small vessell has brought from Bilboa to Penzance in Cornwall the        
master of the vessell that brought Monmoth to Lime & 3 others are               
bringing over in another ship                                                   
     The ffrench K is under greate paine of mind & body  The Cancer as          
fast as healed up in few dayes breakes out Againe  His drs have Advised         
him to the waters of Barrages whither he is now Prepareing                      
     Though the diference between ffrance & Spaine is Accomodated yet           
the ffrench ffleet Continue to Hover on that Coast & Its beleived have          
A designe on the Galleons, Though they have Already out 39 Capitall             
ships besides Galliotts &c yet they are fitting out 20 more at Brest &          
Rochfort & Its said are designed northwards which makes the Dutch in            
fear of their E India fleet                                                     
+They write from Turin the d of Savoy hath wholly Reduced the                   
Protestants though with the loss of 1200 men  There are Abt 8000                
Prisoners men women & Children  Those that will not abjure will be sent         
to the Gallies but the Chiefe of them will be hanged                            
     [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 1662     London 25th May 1686                                        
+This afternoon his Matye Returnes to Windsor  The Queen hath been              
lately Indisposed but Its hoped it may proceed from her being with              
Child                                                                           
     On ffriday last at Windsor his Matye touched for the Evill but             
dismissed the Bp of Durham who usually officiates & was Attended by             
one of his owne Bishops who performed the office in Latin as before             
the Reformation                                                                 
     The Masse house in Limestreet is Altering & Enlarging & 3 Jesuitts         
are Appointed to officiate there                                                
     Since the quo warranto Agt the ffrench Church here some merchants          
thereof have been with Councell who Refuse their money telling them the         
Law will passe Agt them They haveing nothing but Custome to support it          
     The E of Castlemain makes his Entry at Rome next Munday with 12            
Coaches of state 100 Gente on horsebacke 100 ffootmen & 50 Pages                
     Some women Pretending necesity & Relation to some who suffered in          
the West tooke Lodgings at Newington & by degrees Insinuated into the           
families of Sr Jo: Hartopp & Ld ffleetwood Agt whome they gave                  
Information last sessions upon whose Evidence they were Convicted for           
being prsent since the 10th March at 16 severall Conventicles at their          
owne houses & A distresse is made upon them for neer 1500 L                     
     Last Sunday morning were found in the streets A greate Number of           
Printed Libells Entituled An Humble & hearty Addresse to all the                
Protestants in this Army &c In which they Inveigh Agt Popery &c  Tis            
said the Printer is detected                                                    
     They write from Scotland that on the 8th that part of the High             
Comrs speech Relating to his Maties Catholicke subjects Came into debate        
& the High Comr made A very pressing speech to them thereon & after some        
houres debate they Appointed A Comittee of 12 to Inspect the Lawes Agt          
Papists & Prepare A bill to Alleviate the Penalties thereof & then              
Adjourned till Thursday                                                         
+Yest the E of Tirconnell Parted for Ireland to Comand the forces in            
Cheife there                                                                    
   They write from Paris there yet Remaine above 3000 Protestants in            
Armes in Piedmont who Resolve if they Cannot Conquer to sell their Lives        
at A deer Rate                                                                  
     His Maties Returne of the Customs falling shorter last year then           
the former A Project is formed for Importing divers Prohibitted                 
Comodities paying the duty & Its thought will be soon Put in Execution          
     L. c. 1663     London 27th May 1686                                        
+Yesterday the Ms of Worcesters Regemt marched through the Citty to the         
Campe                                                                           
     One Bellamy A Hosier in Southwarke was seized for dispersing the           
late Libell & Confesses that mr Johnson who lyes in the Kings bench             
Prison for writeing A booke Called Julyan the Apostate was the Authr            
thereof                                                                         
     To morrow the Privy Councell meet at Hampton Court                         
     Last Tuesday the Queen dowager supped with the Ld ffauconbridge at         
his seate at Turnham Green & after diverted her selfe at the bowling            
green                                                                           
+An E: India ship outward bound is Put in at ffalmouth & stayes for A           
Convoy for fear of A sally man of warr that lyes off the Channell               
     They write from Edenbrough of the 20th that the Lds of Articles            
Past An Act for High wayes & Bridges & one for Encourageing Incloseing          
& Implanting grounds & one to Prohibitt fforreign salt, Also one for            
Clensing the streets of Edenbrough & keeping beggars from Publicke              
streets & Regulating Coachmen which with some others were passed                
     After which the Ld Comr made A speech to this effect                       
     That his Matye had all the time done what in him lay for the ease          
of his subjects & the good of the Kingdome & it was now High time to doe        
something for him in Answering the soe just & Rationall desire of soe           
good & Gracious A Prince in Complying with the ease Proposed by him for         
his Roman Catholicke subjects Assureing them that what they did therein         
would be very Acceptable, Insinuating that there are some who endeavour         
to Amuse the People with feares & jealousies but of those he assured            
them his master would take notice                                               
     And for their Encouragement told them his Matye had A treaty on            
ffoot with the K of denmarke for takeing off the Imposition on of [sic]         
Scotch victualls, upon which A Comittee of 3 of each estate were                
Appointed to sit that afternoon & draw up the said Act in favour of the         
Catholicks vizt for the Clergie The Archbpp of St Andrews & Glascow &           
Bp of Edenbrough ffor the Peers d Hamilton the Earles of Southolke &            
Tweesdale ffor the Barons Genll Drumond The President of the session &          
the Ld Duncome & ffor the Boroughs The Provosts of Linlithgow & Aberdeen        
& Dumbarton but the Ishue will not be knowne till the Lds of Articles           
meet which was to be on the 31st Instant                                        
+Wee hear some of the Aldermen of Bristoll are to Appear before the             
Councell on ffriday next                                                        
     L. c. 1664     London 29th May 1686                                        
+Yesterday his Matye tooke the Campe in his way to Hampton Court & dined        
with the E of ffeversham in his Tent                                            
     The Printer of the late Libell is in Custody & Its said Accuseth           
mr Johnson as Authr & some say his maide who is also in Custody hath            
Confessed something Concerning him  He and mr Hugh Speake & Aaron Smith         
are all Lockt in their Chambers without Pen Inke or Paper                       
     Sr Jo: Knight & 4 or 5 of the Aldermen of Bristoll are sent for up         
in Custody of A messenger to Answer to the misdemeanrs lately Comitted          
there                                                                           
+The Titles of the books dr Walters or his Assignes have Licence to             
Print for 21 yeares not Exceeding 20000 of each sort in any one year are        
Succession of the Clergie                                                       
Church Goverment    Infallibility                                               
Concerning Sacred things                                                        
Necesary faith    short Confession of faith                                     
Tryall of doctrines    Luthers life                                             
Idolatry Antichrist &c                                                          
Apendix to Roman devotions                                                      
Considderations on the Lives of Saints                                          
Roman doctrine of Repentance & Indulgences vindicated                           
Stillingfleets Principles Considdered                                           
Concerning the guide in Controversies                                           
State of the dead and 23 others                                                 
+Yesterday was Executed at Tyburne mr Dowle formerly of the guards for          
killing mr Leake at the Green dragon in the Pall Mall                           
     A fflyboate of 200 Tuns was found floating at sea by A vessell of          
Rye without either man or goods & Its beleived had been vissitted by A          
Turks man of warr one haveing been seen thereabouts                             
     The states of Holland in Returne to the memoriall given in by the          
English Ambr have banished by name all those Excepted in his Maties late        
Pardon But Refuse to deliver up the ffrench Protestants though the              
ffrench Ambr demanded them                                                      
+By A vessell that Came from Jamaica the 5th March wee have Account the         
Buckaneers in the South sea have taken the Rich Citty Called Leon de            
Nicaragua & that Capt Banister & Capt Sharpe are designed for the South         
sea to joyne them  That Mounsr Gramont with the ffrench ffleet lay in           
the bay of Honduras, That the ffrench at Petit Guavas have sent to Call         
in the Privateers to take new Comissions & Exspect 12 men of warr from          
ffrance & designe to take St domingo in Hispaniola & seized that whole          
Island the ffrench haveing been already setled on the North side thereof        
for some yeares                                                                 
     L. c. 1665     London 1st June 1686                                        
+mr Penn haveing obtained A Royall dispensation for the quakers last            
ffriday Attended the Ld Mayor therewith & next day they held their              
meetings in the usuall places without disturbance                               
     On Satureday mr Atterbury brought up Sr Jo: Knight Information             
being Agt him which might tend to the disturbance of the goverment But          
the Mayor & 5 Aldermen are only sumoned to Attend the Councell                  
     A Capeas is Ishued Agt mr Williams for the 10000 L but he Cannot           
be found & Its thought is withdrawne                                            
     mr Johnson is Removed to Newgate                                           
+His Matie hath been every day since Thursday in the Campe  But this            
night their Maties Returne hither & stay till Thursday to be prsent at          
the feast of Corpus Christi                                                     
     The E of ffeversham hath desired of the Bp of London some able             
London divines to Preach in the Campe & he hath ordered 12 each to take         
their turnes every Sunday                                                       
     Our Scotch letters say at A village 6 miles from Edenbrough A Ewe          
brought forth A Lamb with 2 heads & another brought forth one with 4 eyes       
     On Sunday Abt 2 in the morning Arrived here An Expresse from               
Scotland with Account that the Lds of Articles Agreed upon Repealing            
the Penall Lawes Agt Roman Catholicks but before Its delivered to the           
Parliamt his Maties Pleasure will be knowne                                     
     The Ld Hunsden hath A grant from the King of the ffreehold of mr           
Lenthalls place as marshall of the Kings bench but is Legally to Eject          
mr Lenthall & Its said mr Cooling is to be his Lordships deputy                 
     The Amsterdam Gazett sayes the Electr Palatine for 2 nights                
togather heard A voyce threatening him as from heaven if he did not             
speedily Chase all Protestants out of his Country but the 3d night              
strucke with his sword at the place whence the voyce Came which obliged         
ffather Bullem [?] one of the most zealous Jesuitts to Carry his Arme           
next day in A scarfe                                                            
+Our letters yesterday from Geneva Basle &c quite Contradict what has           
been writt from ffrance of the Protestants in Piedmont & say they               
Continue to make A vigourous defence in the Mountaines being supplyed           
with Amunition & Provisions from Milan That Abt 4000 of the ffrench &           
Savoy have been killed & the Rest of the ffrench Retreating & most of           
the Noble families in Savoy in mourning for their slaine Relations but          
what account is truest time must show                                           
+An order is sent to Chattam forthwith to Equippe 12 men of warr                
     L. c. 1666     London 3d June 1686                                         
+His Matie frequently vissitts the Campaigne where an order was Read            
last Munday Comanding all officers to Lodge in their Tents & all                
souldiers to keep in their lines &c  There is at prsent only 8000 foot          
But on the 14th Instant his Matie designes to have A Genll Randevouz &          
then all the horse will be there.                                               
     The wett weather mightily Incomodes them  many officers & souldiers        
are much Indisposed & Abt 40 of them are dead In A few dayes                    
     On Munday was held A greate ffestivall at St James in Memory of St         
Austin once Archbp of Canterbury                                                
     And this day being Corpus Christi their Maties heard Masse at St           
James where was A Procession with Greate Solemnity & the like at                
Somersethouse                                                                   
     Sr Jo: Knight & the Aldm of Bristoll are gone to Windsor & the             
Complaint Agt them will be heard next Satureday at Hampton Court his            
Matie present                                                                   
     The Ld Mayor being lately at Greenwich at Bowles & his Coach               
Attending on the Roade one mr Deering & Another military officer Rideing        
by Accused & strucke the Coachmen & being told who he waited on they            
Cursed his Lordship & bid him kisse &c  My Ld hereupon with one mr              
Weeden Came out & one of them drew & made A Passe at his Lordshipp which        
had Certainly killed him had not mr Weeden beate downe the sword that it        
went between his Leggs  But others suddenly Interposeing the officers           
were disarmed & A justice of Peace undertooke to Comitt them but                
afterwards suffered them to Ride on, His Ldpp hath Complained thereof           
to his Matie                                                                    
     The Bengall Merchant from E. India is Arrived Extrary Richly laden         
& also 3 ships from Jamaica & one from Pensilvania                              
     Its discoursed at Court that the Marshalsea of the Kings bench will        
be suddenly Removed to the Soe Hoe New buildings                                
     Wee have this Day A Report of some Action at sea between the               
ffrench & dutch, Tis said 2 ffrench men of warr mett A dutchman of warr         
& Comanded him to strike which he Refuseing they suddenly Engaged &             
that one of the ffrench is sunke & the other taken  Also that the               
ffrench have declared warr Agt the dutch but neither Certain as yet             
+His Matie hath ordered 24 men of warr to be speedily Put to sea                
     L. c. 1667     London 5th June 1686                                        
+Yesterday being the first of the Terme mr Williams Appeared as formerly        
haveing paid part of the 10000 L & given security for the Rest But the          
E of Peterbrough hath brought An Action of Scandm Magm Agt him                  
     mr Aldbrough Hawley & Condon were Arraigned for Robbing the Holland        
Mailes  The first Pleaded Guilty the other not Guilty & are to be tryed         
this day ffortnight                                                             
     mr Connell An Irish Gent that strucke Sr Jo: Knight upon the               
Exchange at Bristoll & was Comitted being brought up by Habeas Corpus           
was bayled                                                                      
     This day at the Kings bench barr A Beneficed minister in this Citty        
was Arraigned for translating the booke of the ffrench Protestants              
Persecutions & Pleaded Guilty Alledging that he is one named in his             
Maties Breife for Releife of those here & that he Could not doe A better        
service then makeing their sufferings Publicke  That the Originall was          
written by the famous Protestant minister Claud & by him Averred for            
truth & he translated it with that Care & Caution as neither to vary the        
sense or Add thereto &c  The Printer was also Indicted & Pleaded not            
Guilty                                                                          
     mr Johnson was Arraigned for being Author of the Treasonable               
Libells & pleaded not Guilty                                                    
     An Information is Prepareing Agt dr Sharpe deane of Norwich for            
some Reflecting Expressions in A sermon last Sunday in St Giles London          
     On Thursday the Guards that were on the Ds of Monmoth & her                
Children were all discharged & shee waited on his Matie & Returned him          
thanks  The King hath not only Restored to her all her husbands estate          
but also setled on her A very Considderable Pention                             
     The bill sent hither by the Lds of Articles is sent back to                
Scotland for Repealeing the Penall Lawes Agt Roman Catholicks but with          
some Restrictions                                                               
     Warr is not yet declared between ffrance & Holland & the Engagement        
was with 2 Dutch ships who attempted to enter into Cadiz when the ffrench       
ffleet was before it & the states have sent to their Ambr at Paris to           
Require justice of the offenders                                                
     L. c. 1668     London 8th June 1686                                        
+On Satureday Appeared before the King & Councell at Hampton Court the          
Mayor of Bristoll 4 Aldermen & Sr Jo: Knight The last in Custody Agt            
whome it was Alledged                                                           
     That upon some threats from An Irishman he not only walkt the              
streets but went to Church guarded with 2 Blunderbusses which being             
Resented as dangerous Ryottous &c Sr John was Recomitted & An                   
Information ordered Agt him  The Mayor & Aldermen for signing A Warrant         
Relateing hereunto were Reprimanded & then discharged                           
+The Information Agt dr Sharpe of St Giles is upon this occasion, he            
haveing preached very sharpely Agt the Papists He Recd many threatening         
messages & on the 16th May Received A very Reproachfull Menaceing letter        
just as he was going to A vestry where speaking of it he shewed it to           
the vestry men at their Request who were not satisfied till he had              
Promised to Read it next Lds day Publickly which he did & not being A           
thing Comanded by the Cannons of the Church is the ground & matter              
Assigned fact [?] in the Information                                            
     A vessell Arrived at Lime Reports that the Turks men of warr in            
the Channell have taken 14 or 15 English ships bound for ffrance                
     Tis said the bill sent hither by the Lds of Articles was to the            
sence following vizt                                                            
     It is hereby declared that the Roman Catholicks shall be Recd Into         
the Protection of his Maties Lawes & Goverment & shall be Exempted from         
all Penall Lawes & Punishment in soe farr as Relates to the Private             
Exersize of their Religion (Publicke Exersize Excepted) & It is hereby          
especially declared that this shall not be for the Confirmation of Popery       
or any Inovation in Religion whatsoever other then is hereby Expressed          
     Our Holland letters say the states are in dayly Consultation Abt           
the Rencounter between 2 of their men of warr & the ffrench ffleet &            
feareing it will not end there have ordered 24 men of warr to be Ready          
in 3 weeks                                                                      
     Tis said the ffrench K will by the end of this month have at sea A         
ffleet of 70 men of warr & 30 Gallies besides ffireshipps                       
     This day the Comrs of the Navy went downe haveing orders to set            
out 24 men of warr Also 24 every 3 months till March his Matye                  
Resolveing to have his whole Navy Ready to victuall & man when he shall         
thinke fit                                                                      
     L. c. 1669     London 10th June 1686                                       
+These 3 or 4 hott dayes have mightily Refreshed the Campe  The Genll           
Rendevouz is the 22d Instant when Its thought there will be Abt 18000           
horse & ffoot & this day 30 greate guns are drawne thither from the             
Tower                                                                           
     This weeke 5 of the judges tooke their Oaths & Test at the Chancery        
barr but some say Judge Milton Refused the same                                 
     Sr Jo: Knight is bayled but An Information Preferring Agt him for          
Creating & Encourageing feares & jealousies in his Maties good subjects         
+Sr Edw Hales haveing pleaded his Maties Royall dispensation to the             
Information put in Agt him by Goddam & it being to be Argued; mr Goddam         
Complained he Applyed himselfe to mr sergt Pemberton &c and Could get           
noe Councell to Plead Praying the Court would Assign some of them & they        
Assigned mr Northy & Sr Geo: Trebe                                              
     The Ld Chancellr is said to have A perticular Comission to Inspect         
the Inns of Court & make A discrimination between the Loyall &                  
disaffected & in order thereunto lists are to be sent him of the members        
of each society                                                                 
     mr Hornby the justice of Peace of Greenwich who Comitted the 2             
officers who Assaulted o[u]r Ld Mayor Reported the same to the King who         
sent for his Lordshipp & offered him the utmost satisfaction the Law            
Could give  He desired only their submission but Its said they are              
Casheired & some say Comitted to Madeston Goale                                 
     Coll Oglethorps Regemt goe speedily into Ireland to Remaine there          
& An Irish Regemt Come hither in their Roome                                    
     Wee heare from Holland A designe of the ffrench on Zealand is              
discovered & that the ffrench K offered the K of [space for about six           
letters left blank] 4 millions to stand Newter & 4 more when the Zealand        
Ports were in his hands  But the said King Communicated it to the P of          
Orange & 5 Regemts were sent speedily into Zealand & the designe                
ffrustrated & noe health now more Acceptable in Holland then the Kings &        
the P of Oranges & Its said Coll Danvers ffran Churlton & Castiers the          
Scott are seized & bringing over                                                
+Wee hear from Basill that the Protestants in A late fight killed 6000          
ffrench & Savoyards & want nothing being plentifully supplyed with all          
things from Milan                                                               
     His Matie hath Returned backe the Scotch Proposalls & Its said doth        
not Approve of them                                                             
     L. c. 1670     London 12th June 1686                                       
+Yesterday at the Kings bench the Grandjuries for the body of the County        
of Middlesex were sworne  The Charge was given by mr Justice Withins in         
the usuall Method & Concluded with An Admonition for their Care of the          
Established Religion of the Church of England which he said was                 
Certainly the best of all Churches & soe farr Approved by his Matie as          
that he had promised he would stand by it & Advised them therefore to           
prsent all who withdrew from it or such as met in Conventicles &c               
+This day Prance was brought up & the Atturney Genll moved for judgmt           
Agt him  the Ld Ch Justice said it was A very Hainous Crime to take away        
the Lives of Innocent men soe they would Considder what was A fit               
Punishment & ordered him to be brought up Againe on Tuesday next                
     An Action being brought by the Mayor of Bristoll &c for Tolls due          
by the New Charter it was Alledged it should not be tryed in                    
Gloucestershire because many of those that should pay the Toll Come             
thence soe it was granted to be tryed in Wiltshire                              
     Upon Another motion Sr ffran Winnington mr Wallop & mr Trindall            
were Added to Sr Geo: Trebe & mr Northy for the Argumt Agt Sr Edw Hales         
     The E of Oxford hath Resigned his Comission of his Regemt of horse         
& hath in Lieu A Pention of 1000 L p An & his Matie hath given the              
Comand of the said Regemt to one of his naturall sons now in Hungary            
     Our Scotch letters say that on the 2d the Articles sate & the Ks           
letter was Read suspending the Bp of dunfell from his diocesse  Tis said        
the 24 men of warr now Equipping will be disposed as followeth vizt 7 to        
the Streights to Releive those now there 5 to Jamaica Two to New England        
with the New Governr Andrews 2 to Barbadoes & the Rest into the Downes          
&c                                                                              
     They write from Basill that the ffrench have lost in Piedmont 6000         
men & the Remainder are Marched home but the d of Savoy Remaines in his         
Campe                                                                           
     L. c. 1671     London 15th June 1686                                       
+mr Godden who is the Prosecutor Agt Sr Edw Hales is Its said his               
worships Coachman, Sr Geo: Trebe being assigned his Councell told him it        
would take up some months time to studdy & if he brought him 100 Guyneys        
he would prepare for it by Michaelmas Terme                                     
     Sr Jo: Knight Pleading not Guilty, one mr Godwin moved the Court           
for Liberty to bring An Information Agt mr Connell for Assaulting &             
beating Sr John Knight at Bristoll but the Court told him the Atturney          
Genll had not thought it fit & the bringing such Informations being left        
to his discretion they would not take his office out of his hands               
     This day Prance Recd judgement to stand in the Pillory to morrow           
at Westminster hall on Munday at the Royall Exchange on the Munday              
after at Charing Cross to be whipt from Newgate to Tyburne on ffriday           
& to pay 100 L                                                                  
     The d of Norfolke hath quitt his Regemt & his Matie hath bestowed          
it upon the E of Litchfeild                                                     
     Our Scotch letters say the Repealeing the Penall Lawes Agt Roman           
Catholicks was Carryed in the Negative by 12                                    
     Its the News here that the Parliamt was ordered to be Prorogued as         
last munday for A Considderable time                                            
     since mr Pen hath obtained ffreedome for the quakers to meet Those         
Called Baptists are upon Prepareing An Addresse for the like ffreedome          
     They write from Dublin that the E of Tirconnell hath dismissed Sr          
Charles ffeilding Major Billingsley &c from their Comands in the guards         
     The E of Carbery is dead & succeeded by a son the Ld Vaughan               
+There was lately a great fire at Venice which burnt to the vallue of           
410000 L sterling                                                               
     The states Genll have sent to demand satisfaction for the ill usage        
of their 2 men of war by the ffrench & are Incessantly at worke for             
Equipping out their ffleet which they Resolve to have out by the Middle         
of July next                                                                    
     They write from Vienna that A Conspiracy in the Emper[o]rs Army            
Caused the loss of a great Convoy of Amunition & Provisions going to            
Hungary but taken by the Turks & Carried to Buda                                
     L. c. 1672     London 17th June 1686                                       
+Yesterday the Case of Sr Edw Hales was Argued for the Plantiffe Goddan         
by mr Northy & for Sr Edw. Hales by the solicittr Genll who proved              
that the Ks Prerogative was as sufficent to Pardon as any statute               
to condemn & brought many Cases wherein the King by Non obstante may            
dispense with the Transportation of Wooll Corne horses &c though                
Contrary to Law  That there is An Absolute necesity the King should             
dispense with some Acts of Parliamt That if the King is entrusted with          
the goverment it selfe it followes he must also with the Lawes which are        
made for Assistance of the Goverment & Instanced in the Case of the             
sherriffs  if the K Could not dispense with them the whole course of            
justice would be overthrowne & many other Cases                                 
     The Ld Ch: Justice seemed to Approve of what had been offered but          
Concluded to Consult with all the judges                                        
     This day one Thimbleton formerly Convicted of A Libell Abt the late        
E of Essex was sentenced to Pay 100 L & stand 3 times in the Pillory            
+Yesterday mr Williams was Arrested in An Action of scandm Magm of              
20000 L by the E of Peterbrough for Licencing Dangerfeilds Narrative            
     The Lady Abirggaveny hath brought Actions of scandm Magm Agt mr            
Chiswell the bookseller & mr Hill the Printer for the said Narrative &          
Its said they will stand tryall                                                 
    The Ld Chancellor hath A Comission to vissitt all the Inns of Court         
& see all the members are Loyally Principled & firme to the Goverment           
     Yesterday the K dined at the Campe                                         
     The E of Ailesbury hath layd downe his Comission of Capt of horse          
+Last Sunday Capt Cornelius Brackley was brought Prisoner hither who was        
seized in Spaine with his ship that brought Monmoth to Lime                     
     Our Scotch letters of the 8th say that Parliamt past An Act for            
burying in Linnen made in that Kingdom & have resolved that their Coyne         
shall be decimall vizt 10 d 20 d 30 d & 40 pence & the 2 latter to be           
milled as in England                                                            
     An Act was proposed for Imposing Excise on all that brew their owne        
drinke but Carryed in the Negative by 50                                        
     L. c. 1673     London 19th June 1686                                       
Yesterday the Bp of London had intimation from the King to suspend Dr           
Sharpe ab officio  Tis said his Lordship desires first to Know his Crime        
otherwise it is not in his Power to Performe it & this day his Lordshipp        
was to Attend the Councell at Hampton Court                                     
     Last night the Judges mett at Sergts Inne upon the Argument between        
Sr Edw Hales & mr Goddan & the discourse this day is that they                  
unanimously Agreed (though some say is 3 dissent) that his Maties Royall        
dispensation is sufficient & their Lordships Judgement was this day             
Exspected at Westminister But the Councell sitting at Hampton Court the         
Ld Ch: Justice was not there                                                    
     The E of Shrewsbury & Ld Bradewell have surrendred their Comissions        
as have the Ld Gray of Ruthen Ld Lexington & Ld Lumley                          
     his Matie hath made mr Hambleton Lieut Coll to Sr Edw: Hales               
     The d of Albemarle was this day at Hampton Court to Recieve his            
Matyes Instructions Abt his voyage to Jamaica whither Its said he will          
part the latter end of this summer                                              
     The Ld ffaulkland haveing brought A scandm Magm Agt mr Hayes & he          
letting Judgement goe by default his Lordship moved for A writt of              
Enquiry of damages Agt him                                                      
     Tis said Another Peer is bringing scandm Magtums Agt severall in           
Towne of Northampton                                                            
     This day the Trayne of Artillery marched through the Citty to the          
Campe vizt ffirst A division of Pioneers & 2 Close Carriages with fflags        
next A Squadron of dragoons Then A Chariott with 2 Large Kettle drums           
beating followed by A body of horse of the principle officers of the            
Artillery Then 28 brass Peeces to each A master gunner in Leather head          
peeces & Pikes in their hands Then 25 Carriages with fflags Then A 2d           
squadron of horse Then A 2d part of the Ld dartmouths Regemt of                 
ffuzileers Then 8 Carriages more Then A 3d party of horse Then 16               
Carriages on each a fflagg, all the fflaggs being Painted with their            
severall Cargoes as shovells Pickaxes &c Then 6 open Pallisado waggons          
Then A body of ffuzileers & abt 200 Gent officers in the Tower & to the         
ordinance                                                                       
     L. c. 1674     London 22d June 1686                                        
+Yesterday the Court gave Judgement on the Case of Sr Edw Hales  The Ld         
Ch: J said although it was A plaine Case they had Acquainted the Rest of        
the Judges & that 10 were unanimous & mr justice Powell made some doubt         
but since delivered the same opinion & only mr justice street dissented         
so they could not but give it for this deft [?] & that he thought it            
Convenient to let their opinions be knowne on these perticulars                 
+ffirst that the Kings of England are & alwayes have been sovereign             
Princes                                                                         
2 That the King hath Power to dispense with the Lawes                           
3 That the K: is the sole judge of them                                         
4 That it is not a trust granted to the Kings of England by the people          
but a Prerogative due to them & none can deprive them of it                     
     Yesterday was the Tryall of mr Samuell Johnson for writeing &              
dispersing libells  The Information set forth 2 Libells                         
+The one entituled that Resistance may be used in Case o[u]r Religion &         
Rights should be Invaded                                                        
+The other A humble & hearty Addresse to all Protestants of the prsent          
Army                                                                            
     The Principle witnesse was mr Bellamy A Hosier on London Bridge            
where the ffirst sort were lodged in A box  mr Johnsons maide A Porter          
&c who although none were Positive yet very strongly circumstantiall            
     mr Johnson Pleaded he had been kept A Close Prisoner & was in An           
unfit condition to make defence But said as much as could be in such A          
Case  The jury in A quarter of An houre brought him in guilty                   
     A writt of Enquiry haveing been Executed the jury found the office         
of Marshall of the Kings bench forfeited to the King, But mr Lenthall           
opposeing the ffileing, It was this day heard at the Chancery barr & the        
verdict ordered to be ffiled                                                    
     Our scotch letters of the 15th Advise that the Parliamt on that day        
Adjourned till the 17th August next & Imediately after the Councell sate        
& after serious Consultation wrote A letter to the King & that afternoon        
the Ld Comr departed for England                                                
+Our letters from Dublin say that on the 9th Instant 9 new Privy                
Councellrs were sworne vizt the E of Tirconnell &c & more officers were         
lately dismist out of the Guards                                                
     The E India Company have Advice one of the Ks men of warr have             
taken 3 Interlopers & Carryed them to suratt in order to Confiscate ship        
& goods                                                                         
[Some writing in another hand appears on outside and left margin of             
first recto of letter.]                                                         
     L. c. 1675     London 29th June 1686                                       
To morrow is to be the Genll Randevouz at the Campe where will be the K:        
Queen P: George &c  The K treats all the greate officers of the Army            
     The Ld Churchill haveing spoke in derogation of the Welsh Regemt           
under Coll Morgan The Coll layd downe his Comission & then Challenged           
his Lordship but his Matie haveing notice tooke away his Lordships              
Comission Comanding him to Acknowledg his Error & after made them               
ffreinds & then gave them both their Comissions Againe                          
+dr Sharpe hath been at Windsor & given his Matie satisfaction as to            
his sermon Complained of & obtained leave to Print it                           
     This day mr Pilkington waited on his Matie to Returne him thanks           
     Yesterday Prance stood a 3d time in the Pillory at Charing Cross &         
was severely Mauled with Rotten Eggs durt &c                                    
     Last Satureday Sr William Coventry died at Tunbridg Wells who hath         
given 2000 L to the ffrench Protestants & 3000 L to Release English             
slaves at Algeir & made the Bishops of London & Oxford overseers of the         
Charity                                                                         
+Yesterday sr Richd ffloyd judge of the Admiralty Court died at drs Comons      
     They write from Portesmouth of the 21st that Canary the Algeir             
Piratt is still Cruiseing in the Channell & besides the Dutch Prize sent        
into Plimouth hath sent some Dutch Prizes into Portesmouth where they           
Come frequently on shore to buy what Necesaries they want (Amunition            
Excepted) & on the ffriday before brought A dutch fflyboate laden with          
wines & brandy to st Hellens in the Isle of Wight & went to sea Againe          
to look for more Prizes                                                         
+Our letters from Scotland of the 22d say the Councell have put forth a         
Proclamation Agt Slanderers &c That on the 21st it was declared in              
Councell that the d of Queensbroughs places are all voyd his Pention            
taken away & he to make his Account Clear by the 15th July next & not to        
depart the Kingdome without the Kings Speciall Licence                          
     Our German letters all Agree the Christian Army beseiged Buda on           
8/18 Instant wherein are 25000 fighting men of which 15000 soldiers             
with Ammunition & Provisions to hold out 8 months                               
     L. c. 1676     London 1st July 1686                                        
+Yesterday was A Genll Review of the forces on Hunslow Heath  the K:            
Queen & Q dowager dined in the field in that tent which was sent his            
Maty from Hungary  Both horse & foot were drawn up in one line which            
Reached above 3 miles  The Cannon & Carriages were planted just in the          
Center of the Army                                                              
     After dinner their Maties &c went round the line & then Came to A          
place built on purpose by which all the Army marched being Abt 12000  At        
evening the K Commanded the great guns to be ffired & in less then a            
Minuitt every Regemt ffired beginning at the right & soe did thrice,            
after which their Maties went to Windsor & the souldiers to the Campe           
which is stored with all manner of Provisions at very Reasonable Rates          
     The Reports that dr Sharpe had made his peace at Court is                  
Contradicted he not haveing been Admitted nor his Petition Read though          
prsented by the E of Middleton & this day is gone to his deaneary at            
Norwich                                                                         
     Judge Street hath Recd his quiettus & mr Sergt Wyatt is Appointed          
to goe the Western Circuitt in his place                                        
+The E of darby is put out of Comission as Ld Lieut of darby &                  
Lancashire & the Ld Mullinax put in his stead                                   
     A Comission is sealed for Enquiry of what money hath been Levyed on        
dissenters of all sorts for 5 years last past & how much of it hath been        
Returned into the Exchequer that the K: may know what lawfull Right has         
been done his subjects & wrong to himselfe & to Punish the delinquents          
     A warrant is signed for the Whipping of Prance from Newgate to             
Tyburne on Monday next                                                          
+his Maty hath given sr Tho: Exton the officers of Judge of the                 
Admiralty & deane of the Arches both vacant by the death of sr Richd            
ffloyd                                                                          
      Our letters from Dublin of the 24th say that the E of Tirconnell          
was gone into the Country to Reforme the Army                                   
   They write from Paris they take the same Methods in Alsatia as in            
ffrance for Conversion of the Protestants which occasiones greate               
numbers to fly into Holland &c                                                  
+The Ld Comrs Ld Chancellr of Scotland are gone this day for Windsor            
     [This note appears in another hand on outside of letter:]                  
J. Caser [?] Wm Brown I. Worden Wm Page 1/2 day op: selling                     
Love the wind as transfer pit [?]                                               
     L. c. 1677     London 3d July 1686                                         
+His Matie was this morning at the Campe & thence went too the Councell         
at Hampton Court                                                                
     Letters from Vienna say the K of Greate Brittains Naturall son             
Arrived there with A handsome Equippage & parted towards the Campe              
without seeing the Emper[o]r                                                    
     Letters from the Campe before Buda of the 25th say That on the             
19th the duke encamped his Army in the Hott Baths neer the Lower Towne          
That upon his Approach the vizier Turned out all such as were not fit           
for service & then Assembled the whole garrison & declared to them the          
Grand Seignrs order that every one should doe his duty & not speake of          
Capitulating on Paine of death                                                  
     That on the 22d the Trenches were opened before the Lower Towne &          
on the 24th A breach being made it was Assaulted & Carryed the Turks            
makeing but A slender defence who Retired into the Castle                       
     Three Attacks were ordered to be made The first on the quarter             
of the d of Lorraine The 2d by Bavaria & the 3d by the Brandenburgh             
forces  The Approaches are Carryed on Apace the Garrison makeing but            
few sallyes that Its Generally said that the d of Lorraine will be              
master of the place by the end of June                                          
     They also write A Party being sent by the duke to Coast the River          
side tooke 14 boates laden with women & Children & A greate quantity            
of Gold &c                                                                      
     The Prisoners taken & Christians that escape Report the Garrison           
Consists of 8000 janizaries 2000 Spalyes [?] 1000 Greeks & 1000 Jewes           
that bear Armes                                                                 
   Teckley designing to enter Transilvania with 3000 Turks & Rebells was        
defeated 300 killed severall taken & he hardly escaped with his broken          
troops                                                                          
+His Maty hath Recd Account by the ffrench Ambr that 2 Spanish Galleons         
were taken by the ffrench & Carryed into Rochell but the ffrench K hath         
ordered them to be Restored being taken since the diference is Adjusted         
+The Ld Bp of London is gone his vissittation & will stay 2 or 3 weeks          
     L. c. 1678     London 6th July 1686                                        
+Prance was not Whipt as was Exspected                                          
     On Satureday last at the muster in the Campe his Matie tooke A             
perticular Account of his forces who were 14110 all in good health              
Munday Wednesday & ffriday are the Constant dayes of Exersizeing                
     This day his Matie Exersized them himselfe for severall houres the         
queen q: dowager &c being prsent                                                
     Tis said the Ld Dumbarton will be made Genll of all his Maties             
forces                                                                          
+There is A discourse since the Ld Hallifax Came to Towne that he is            
Againe in his Maties favour                                                     
     The ds of Portesmouth is dayly Exspected from ffrance                      
     Here is Published A quarto booke entituled A Reply to the Answer           
made upon the 3 Royall papers which the Authr sayes were by 2 Royall            
Converts                                                                        
     Yesterday Abt 30 Nonconformist ministers who were Released from            
severall Prisons by his Maties late Pardon Attended his Matie at                
Windsor with An Addresse with their most humble thanks & his Matie              
Recd them kindly                                                                
     The last shipps from Virginia give Account of A very poor Crop of          
Tobacco & that it was very scarse there                                         
     New England fflourishes Extreamly & dayly Increases in shipping,           
many families of late have Transported themselves thither & more are            
prepareing from hence & other places  Yesterday was A discourse at the          
Exchange that the blacks of Montserrat Rebelled Agt their masters & did         
A greate deale of mischeife but were at Lengh mastered                          
     His Matie hath declared that the Algerines shall sell none of their        
Prizes in his Ports  Six men of warr are ordered to be fitted speedily          
for the streights                                                               
     Our letters from the Campe before Buda of the 27th Advise that the         
Imperiallists were very busy in Raiseing works &c                               
+Our letters from Poland say that King hath Redoubled his orders for the        
march of his troops with designe to give battle to the Tartars & that           
the muscovites are sending 80000 men for Execution of some designe yet          
undiscovered                                                                    
     L. c. 1679     London 8th July 1686                                        
+Last Tuesday the King was at the Campe where was A Representation of           
the Route given the Rebells in the west                                         
     The Admirall of Sally taken 2 months since by the James Galley was         
(after he had seen the Campe) brought to the King on Horsebacke who gave        
orders he should be well Provided for & sent home without Ransome               
     P George is made Constable of Windsor Castle                               
     An order of Councell is gone into Lancashire to fetch up one mr            
Ogles & 2 persons more upon Account of A Ryott much of the same nature          
as lately at Bristoll                                                           
     Sr Hugh Middleton late of Hackney hath declared himselfe a Romanist        
     dr Penfold of drs Comons was this weeke Knighted                           
     They write from Rome that the E of Castlemaines secretary was              
Returned thither & it was Expected his Excellency would suddenly make           
his Publicke entry                                                              
     The Ld Montague is Exspected this weeke from ffrance                       
     mr Gifford minister of St dunstans in the east who died last weeke         
is said to leave an estate of 30000 L & died Intestate soe the estate           
falls to 2 Peeres as Hieresses at Law  The one is married to a very poor        
Curate The other to A Barber                                                    
     The states Genll have Resolved to keep in Pay 9 or 10000 seamen &          
have fitted out several men of warr to looke after the Algerines who            
were in o[u]r Channell & have sent an expresse to Count Stirum to Attend        
their Returne into the streights                                                
     Our letters from Turky say the Grand Seignr is Arrived at                  
Constantinople where they are all In Confusion by Reason of the scarsity        
of Provisions & the good successe of the Christians That to appease them        
he hath caused Provisions to be brought thither from all Neibouring             
places, Imprisoned the Camachan, Strangled the late grand vizier &              
beheaded 2 Bashaws but the Confusions there & at Adrianople are soe             
greate that he hath Comanded backe the vizier with the Army designed for        
Hungary to Appease the Tumults there soe Buda is left to it selfe &             
o[u]r last letters from the Campe say they had greate hopes of mastering        
it by the end of June                                                           
     L. c. 1680     10th July 1686                                              
+One mr Caleb Hooke A merchant haveing been convicted for being at 2            
meetings on the 4th & 11th of Aprill last was fined 20 L & paid it              
     Since which he hath brought An Indictment of Perjury Agt the               
Informers vizt one mr Clayton & mrs Smith who was one of the                    
witnesses Agt mr Rosewell at which tryall shee proved A very ill woman          
     This weeke at the sessions at Guildhall the Indictment was tryed &         
mr Hooke Proved by 5 substantiall witnesses he was niether of those             
dayes out of his own house & the Jury found them guilty of willful &            
Corrupt Perjury soe mr Hooke hath brought an Appeale for his 20 L               
Againe & others will doe the like                                               
     Our Sessions at the old Bayly ended last night where the Grandjury         
prsented the Assemblies smaller Catechisme as A seditious Pamphlett             
     Divers ffanaticall books formerly Printed are under Censure as             
English Liberties Diers works, The Protestant Mitor [?] & some                  
booksellers are bound over to the next Terme for disperseing them               
+A booke is suddenly Exspected in Print to shew that the late                   
persecutions under the ffrench K & Church of Rome doe not ballance              
those of the ffanaticks in the late Rebellious times                            
     Our letters from Ireland of the 1st say the E of Tirconnell was not        
then Returned out of the Country where he made greate Alterations Amonge        
the soldiers                                                                    
     his Matie hath ordered that noe Coll or officer under A Coll goe           
out of the Campe without leave of the Lieut Genll then in Command               
     The States Genll have made A prsent to his Matie of the ship that          
brought Monmouth & his Matie at the Intercession of their Ambrs hath            
pardoned Capt Brackell that then Comanded her                                   
     Our last letters from Before Buda say their Bombes had Twice fired         
that citty but put out againe, That it was Resolved to Ply it                   
Incessantly with Bombes & Cannon for 9 days together  That the Turks had        
already lost 500 men & that the Prisoners Report the beseiged had 9             
mines Ready to Spring                                                           
+The Ld Chancellr hath had a violent fit of the stone & Remaines very           
ill                                                                             
     L. c. 1681     London 13th July 1686                                       
+Abt one this morning A fire broke out in Halls Coffee house in                 
whiteffryars which in less than An hour burnt that house to the ground          
but was mastered by helpe of ffiremen belonging to the 2 Insurance              
offices & others                                                                
     One mr Sawyer A Gent that lodged in the house being suprised threw         
himselfe out of A window 2 Paire of stayers to save his life but lost it        
      Last saturday dr ffell Bp of Oxford died  There is some                   
difference between dr Walker mr of university Colledg & the                     
Vicechancellor the latter Refuseing him to set up An Alter                      
     mr Maningham who succeeded mr Burton at the Rolls Chappell is              
discharged that place  some say A sermon be preached there the 4th              
Instant occasioned it & also that A sermon preached the same day at             
Windsor by dr Meggott hath given greate offence                                 
     This Evening the ds of Portesmouth Arrived here from ffrance               
     Our Army at Hunslow heath will decampe Abt the latter end of this          
month                                                                           
+They write from the Campe before Buda of the 30th Past that mr ffitz           
James the K of Englands naturall son Arrived there & the next day was to        
waite on the d of Lorraine who Recd him kindly                                  
     That the seige is Carryed on with a great deal of vigor  The d of          
Bavaria hath Carryed on his Approaches within 41 paces of the Castle &          
the d of Lorraine within 120 paces                                              
     By deserters wee are Assured there are not soe good Comanders              
Engineers Garrison or vigour as was last time & wee find it for wee have        
gained more ground already then wee had last time dureing the seige             
     They write from Venice that their Army in the Morea first beseiged         
the fortresse of old Navarino which was surrendred & in it 43 Cannon            
7 Mortarpeeces &c  After which they layd seige to the new fortresse &           
the Turks Comeing with 10000 to Releive it they defeated them killing           
800 & takeing 500 after which the fortresse Capitulated & 1400 marched          
out leaveing in the place 64 brass guns 13 Mortars &c                           
     L. c. 1682     London 15th July 1686                                       
+Our letters from Dublin of the 3d Instant say severall disorders               
happened there between the old souldiers that are disbanded & the new           
ones severall haveing been killed & wounded which occasioned that Ld            
Mayor to order the Constables to goe from house to house to warne the           
Inhabitants & all disbanded souldiers not to give offence by word or            
Action to any of the new Raised souldiers                                       
     The Reforme of the Army goes on in the Country where drums beate up        
for new souldiers                                                               
+Yesterday a fire happened in sermon Lane which burnt only one house & A        
woman & Child in it                                                             
     His Matie hath ordered all Spirituall Affairs & Promotions in the          
Church to be mannaged by 7 Comrs which are said to be The Ld Archbp of          
Canterbury Bp of Durham Bp of Rochester The Ld Chancellr Ld Treasurer           
Ld Sunderland & Ld Ch: J Herbert                                                
     The late Bp of Oxford hath left his estate (which is greate) to            
Christchurch Colledg for 10 years Provided the Religion of the Church           
Remaines as now established otherwise to be given to Charitable uses            
at the Executrs Discretion                                                      
+Yesterday A Councell of warr was held in the Campe where it was                
resolved the horse should suddenly goe to their quarters in the Country         
& the Campe to breake up the 10th of August, his Matie Exersized his            
Army himselfe 4 houres & after returned to Windsor                              
     A Proclamation is ordered for Recalling his Maties subject out of          
the service of any fforeign Prince or State in E: India upon Complaint          
of that Company that many have deserted them & taken service with other         
Princes & states                                                                
     The Burneing of Mountague house hath Caused A Suite in Chancery            
between the E of Devonshire & Ld Mountague in which all the greate              
Lawyers of the Kingdome are Concerned                                           
   Letters from the Campe before Buda say the Turks have put fresh men &        
Engineers into that place which since Appears more formidable yet they          
hope to be masters of it by the end of this month                               
     The Prince of Moldavia is Come into the League Agt the Turks &c &          
hath joyned the Polish Army with 6000 horse                                     
     L. c. 1683     London 17th July 1686                                       
+The Comission for Ecclesiasticall Affairs is Past the seales  any 3 of         
the Comrs make a quorum but the Ld Chancellr is alwayes to be one  The          
substance is said to be that they shall have full power to Punish all           
Ecclesiasticall persons by fine deprivation &c According to the                 
Ecclesiasticall lawes & have power to summon & Examine upon Oath all            
Ecclesiasti[c]s  The Archbishops Bishops &c are to be subordinate & to          
send for & Inspect the statutes of any Colledg or Cathedrall & make             
such alterations or Amendmnts as they thinke fit                                
+On Wednesday was the Adjourned sessions at Guildhall where Clapton &           
Smith Recd judgment to stand in the Pillory which they did yesterday            
before the Exchange & were with much dificulty saved from being knockt          
on the head, Eggs Durt Carrott Topps &c were thrown at them with many           
Reproaches.                                                                     
     mr Driden the Poett who hath declared himselfe a Romanist hath by          
Comand written A History of the Persecutions of the Church of England           
Agt all dissenters which is now in the Press                                    
     Sometime since one mr Dove A minister in Essex & suspected to be A         
Romanist was Examined in Councell & Refuseing the oaths & Test The then         
Chancellr ordered his suspention & another was put in but mr Dove sued          
the present Incumbent & this weeke at the Essex Assizes had A verdict           
for the Profitts ever since                                                     
     Last Thursday his Matie ordered the sea Comanders to Attend him &          
spoke to the effect                                                             
     That he had for many yeares observed greate disorders in the Navy          
& was Resolved not to looke backe but for the future would have noe             
goods Passengers or Plate Carryed in any of his ships but when he gave          
leave                                                                           
     That he had been their Admirall before he was their King & was             
sencible their pay was not sufficient & therefore had given them A              
further Allowance not of pay but towards their Table & then ordered mr          
secretary Pepis to Read A Paper that the Comanders of 1st 2nd & 3d Rate         
ffriggotts should have almost double & of 4th 5th & 6th Rates full              
double & Concluded his speech that if they took any Barbary Pirates             
they should have the ships and all in them & if he found they were good         
husbands for him they should have a further Reward                              
+The ffrench ffleet have taken Tangier                                          
     L. c. 1684    London 20th July 1686                                        
+On Satureday the E: of Powis Ld Arrundell Ld Bellasis & Ld dover were          
sworne of his Maties Privy Councell                                             
     The Apartment at Westminster Called the starr Chamber is ordered to        
be fitted up for the Lds Comrs for Ecclesiasticall affaires who Its             
discoursed will first vissitt the 2 universities                                
     Tis said dr South University Orator is made Bp of Oxford & deane of        
Christchurch                                                                    
     The Bp of Chester is dead   mr Driden hath An Additionall Pention          
of 100 L p Ann setled on him & is made Provost of dublin Colledg in             
Place of mr Huntingdon who desired leave to Resigne                             
     Many Comissions are sent into Ireland for New officers                     
     The M of Hallifax is sent for to Windsor tis thought to have some          
greate trust Conferred on him                                                   
     Tis said his Matie hath Appointed Ald ffowles & Ald Rawlinson to be        
o[u]r Ensuing sheriffs & that Sr Jo: Peake will be o[u]r Ld Mayor               
     Complaint being made to the Ld Chancellr Agt one mr dorrington &           
mr Jones his Atturney for that on A saboth day they Intended by A               
tricke or Pretence of Treason to Elude the Law by seizeing A Gent who           
was the formers debtor his Lordship Comitted them to the ffleet                 
     Our ffrench letters Advise the ffrench K hath put A more severe            
Edict for suppressing the Protestant Religion by which all Protestant           
ministers aswell ffrench as strangers are Prohibitted to Come into his          
Kingdome on Paine of death & those that succour them to forfeit their           
estates & to be sent to the Gallies forever That whosoever shall                
discover any such minister shall have 5500 Livers That all who shall            
be found Executing any other Religion then that of Rome shall be                
Imediately put to death & that the ministers of Protestant Ambrs shall          
not Preach or Pray out of the said Ambrs houses                                 
+Our last letters from before Buda Assure us that the defence is soe            
weake & Inconsidderable to what it formerly made that there is noe              
doubt of A speedy surrender in Regard they doe not hear of any Army             
Comeing to their Releife                                                        
     L. c. 1685     London 22d July 1686                                        
+In his Maties Royall Licence & dispensation to dr Walker mr of                 
university Colledg in Oxford The same is granted to Nath Boyle &                
Thomas Dianne ffelows  The said mr Boyle hath writ A booke now in the           
Press in Oxford Called An Answer to dr Tillotsons discourse of                  
Transubstatiation                                                               
     Our Irish letters of the 15th Advise that Kingdome is in Perfect           
peace  That the Reforme of the Army is now finished That Lieut Coll             
Dorrington made a speech to the souldiers that the old ones should              
behave themselves towards the New ones as persons in the same Capasity          
with them not giveing occasion of discontent either on Account of their         
Religion or Country & that their King did allow their Religion to all of        
them & that should not make A diference amonge them                             
     This weeke wee have had severall ships Arrived from Barbados               
Jamaica &c who Report those Countries to be in a fflourishing Condition         
     The Williamson Capt Warner Comander is also Arrived from E Indies          
Richly laden  shee left the Adventure An Interloper in Surratt River in         
greate danger of being taken as shee Came out by Capt Tirrill who lay in        
the mouth of the River in one of the Kings men of warr                          
     Last Munday the Ld Mountague Arrived from Callais in the Pacquett          
boate  Two ffrench men of warr searched them for fugitive Protestants &         
found 3 on board who had not Passes whome they by force tooke out               
     Our letters from the Campe before Buda say many Dayly desert &             
Amonge them An Ensigne of the Janizaries who hath discovered the Mines          
the beseiged have made on the 3 Bastions to spring them in Case the             
Christians made themselves masters of them  That on the 4th was seen A          
greate fire in the Towne Caused by Bombes which lasted 6 houres  That in        
A Sally the Turks made 13 of them were taken who all Agree the                  
Consternation was very greate they haveing already lost 1500 men  The           
beseiged are Advanced under the walls out of danger of the Cannon &             
were filling the Ditch in order to Attacke it next day                          
     L. c. 1686     London 24th July 1686                                       
+The Instructions to the Ld Chancellr & the Rest of the Comrs for               
Ecclesiastical affairs are delivered & Its said their Ldpp will first           
open the Comission at Sergts Inne Thence to Oxford & thence to Cambridg         
     The ffrench Gazett sayes that since the last Edict Agt the                 
Protestants one mr Petres An Eminent minister was taken & Imediately            
Hanged                                                                          
      Our letters from Ireland say the Colledg of Dublin Nobly treated          
the E of Tiroconnell who Exerts the power to the full & some think his          
stay will not be long                                                           
     Tis said the E of Oxfords Regemt is to goe into that Kingdom & A           
Regemt from thence to supply their places here                                  
      Wee hear from the West Indies that the Dartmouth ffriggott went to        
Port Richo A Towne belonging to the Spaniards for wood & water but the          
Spaniards ffired on them & Killed some of their men & they also did the         
Spaniards much mischeife                                                        
     Letters from the Campe before Buda say that on the 7th the beseiged        
sprung a mine on the Brandenburg side wherein above 150 were Buryed             
after which the Turks made a furious Sally                                      
     That the Bavarians had Ruined the greate Tower but durst not Post          
themselves there feareing the place to be undermined they haveing               
discovered 2 mines neer it & tooke out the Powder                               
      That on the 13th the d of Lorraine sprung 2 mines with such good          
sucesse that at 7 that night he gave A Genll Assault at that Breach             
with the Regemts of Staremberg Cariter & Souches being Abt 3000                 
seconded by many volunteers who after A sharpe dispute forced themselves        
thereon which being fortifyed within by A deep Large ditch Pallisadoed          
with Retrenchments behind it they Could Advance noe further but after 2         
houres were forced to Retire lyeing all this time open to the Enemies           
shott in which Abt 400 soldiers were Killed & many volunteers as the            
Prince de Voldres & 2 Grandees of Spaine &c  Also Abt 500 wounded               
besides many of quality, Dureing the Action the Turks sprung 2 of their         
mines without any Damage  But when they retired the Turks sallyed out           
but were beaten backe with greate loss after which it was Resolved to           
give A Genll Assault on the 19th or 20th                                        
     L. c. 1687     London 27th July 1686                                       
+This day the Ld Mayor & Aldermen Attend his Matie at Hunslow heath             
where his Matie Exersizes the Army himselfe & Its said it will be the           
greatest day that hath been yet, In A few dayes they will breake up &           
some say will march through the Citty                                           
     On the 3d August the Comrs for Ecclesiasticall Affaires meet               
severall papers & Records being ordered to be brought before them               
     In their Comission is To Enquire into all Abuses Contrary to the           
Ecclesll Lawes                                                                  
     To Punish Adultry ffornication Incest &c by Church Censure or              
otherwise                                                                       
     To send for Persons & witnesses & Punish all that Refuse to Appear         
by Excommunication &c                                                           
     To give Cost of suite to such as Prosecute                                 
+Wm Bridgman Esqr to be their Register                                          
     To vissitt the universities Cathedralls Grammer schools &c To              
Correct & Amend their statutes Rules &c also to order their Revenues &c         
as may best tend to the honour of Allmighty god & Increase of vertue &          
Learneing &c Non obstante any Priviledges Exemptions statutes or                
ordinances to the Contrary                                                      
     The E of Tirconnell is Returneing hither from Ireland to give              
Account of the Affaires of that Kingdome & Army                                 
     The Ld Mountague hath kissed his Maties hand                               
     A Pardon is Passing the seales for the Ld Brandon Gerrard                  
     Last night Sr Geo: Downings house at Hampstead was burnt to the            
ground & most in it lost                                                        
     The quakers have given in A list of their ffreinds who have                
suffered & Account of the money Raised out of their estates & Its said          
it Amounts to above 200000 L which they say Came to the sheriffs hands          
or ought & Pray his Maty to order A through Inspection into the Returnes        
made into his Exchequer                                                         
+This night by the Holland Post wee have A large list of Christians             
killed at Buda & that but 2 of the English are Alive one of them being          
mr ffitz James his Maties naturall Son  Amonge those killed was Capt            
Rupert son to the late P Rupert Capt Moor son to Sr Jo: Moor &c                 
     L. c. 1688     London 29th July 1686                                       
+They write from Paris that in the late Assault at Buda there were 2000         
Christians lost Amonge whome was Mounsr de Blanckfort son of the M: de          
Crequi whose Loss is much Regretted there                                       
     That the Brandenburghs haveing Advanced for Another Assault were           
Repulsed with A sally of 2000 Turks but being Reinforced they beate the         
Turks & killed 260 on the place & soe Closely Pursued the Rest that they        
entred Pell Mell into the Citty & being followed by the Imperiallists           
they made themselves masters of the Higher Citty in which Action A              
greate many fell on both sides, on the Turks 3 Bashaws were killed & on         
the Christians the d of Bavaria was dangerously wounded in the head & A         
greate many officers killed                                                     
     They Add that the Turks were still Retrenched in A Part of the             
Citty but Its beleived they Could not hold out 4 dayes                          
     This is the Account wee have from Paris & Dunkerke but some                
merchants on the Exchange have Advice the Towne was taken by storme of          
which more by the next                                                          
     Our letters from Edenbrough say that on the 19th An Expresse Came          
hither from his Matie for Calling of A Councell who mett next day where         
his Maties letter was Read to Adjourne the Parliamt to some longer time         
which was done to the 21st octobr next                                          
     A vessell Arrived from Virginia Reports that on the 21st Instant           
they mett 4 Algeir men of warr  2 of them Hoysted out their boates &            
Came Aboard them & tooke from the master what Provisions he had in Beefe        
Porke & ffowle also all his sea books & Compasses & gave him noe                
satisfaction                                                                    
+Those Turks Reported that old Canary & his son (who tooke the dutch            
Prizes in the Channell) Arrived at Algeir before they Came thence               
     They write from Dublin that 8 of their 12 Aldermen are displaced &         
will be Called to An Account for misimploying the Citty Rents                   
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1689     London 31st July 1686                                       
+The Report still Continues that Buda is taken but wee have noe Post            
Come in since o[u]r last                                                        
     The Campe breaks up next weeke  Its said A draught of 10 out of            
each Company will be suddenly made to send for New England                      
     This weeke at the Assizes at Kent 5 souldiers were Condemned for           
killing A headbrough because he Refused to give them drinke without             
money                                                                           
     The d of Albemarle hath deferred his voyage to Jamaica till spring         
& some thinke is wholly Inclined to wave it if his Matie please & A             
discourse is Sr Tho: Oglethorpe will goe in his stead & that his Regemt         
will be given to the Ld Hunsden                                                 
     The Williamson from Suratt hath brought Advice that Capt Tirrill           
had taken the ship Bristoll An Interloper & had put one Hodden & some of        
his men on board her for his Matie but shee foundred in the sea & with          
her Rich Cargo was lost but the men saved                                       
     Wee have A further Account of the Algerines by A vessell that Came         
from Burdeaux to Portesmouth who mett 4 sayle of them off the Lizard Two        
of them of above 40 guns & the other 30 guns & well manned  They Came on        
board her & tooke away 2 Casks of wine some Brandy The mens Cloaths             
Their Logg line & 1 C of Cordage & kept the master on Board 3 houres            
Threatening to Carry him to Algeirs he haveing noe Passe But at last            
sent him away but swore that whatever vessells he mett without A Passe          
he would send them away as good Prizes  There were 5 sayle more of them         
Cruiseing on the Coast of ffrance                                               
+The states of Holland have ordered 48 greate ships & 48 smaller to be          
Equipped out for Convoyes the Charge whereof will Amount to all 440000 L        
Sterling p An                                                                   
     Its Reported the E of Salisbury in his Passage from ffrance to             
Italy is taken by the Turks who demand 40000 L for his Ransome                  
     Sr Wm Trumbell his Maties Envoy in ffrance hath obtained leave to          
Come hither on his Private affaires & Its not Certain he will goe               
thither Againe in the same quality                                              
     L. c. 1690     London 3d August 1686                                       
+This day by A dutch Post wee Recd letters from the Campe before Buda of        
the 24th which Confirme the blowing up of the Magazeen in Buda of 900           
Barrells of Powder on the 22d which much Prejudiced the Castle towards          
the water made A greate Breache in the Wall towards the Bavarian Attacke        
Killed & wounded 1000 men in the Towne & also Killed many of the                
Christians perticularly 70 in the Bavarian quarters                             
     That on the 23d the d of Lorraine sumoned the Towne to surrender           
but they Refused saying they Expected nothing but death or Victory              
     That on the 24th the Imperialists Sprung A mine under the Bastion          
in which was 36 C of Powder & 10000 men stood ready to make A Genll             
Assault but the mine being not far Enough under the Wall had A quite            
Contrary effect & Came out backwards Ruined their outlines & killed             
200 Imperiallists & 100 Brandenburgers which Caused the Genll Assault           
to be deferred                                                                  
     The Comission of Ecclesiasticall affairs was opened this day at            
Whitehall All the Comrs prsent but the Archbp of Canterbury  They               
Adjourned for some time after which the Ld Chancellr went to his Maty           
at the Campe where his Maty this day treats the queen &c in his Tent            
& to morrow the officers of the Army                                            
     Yesterday the Master of the horse to the E of Castlemain Arrived           
Express from Rome                                                               
     Tis said Sr Wm Trumbell will be Appointed Ambr to Constantinople &         
mr Shelton his Maties Envoy in Holland to the Court of ffrance                  
     Upon the decease of sr Wm Stapleton late governor of the Leeward           
Islands who died lately in ffrance Sr Nath: Johnson hath Kissed his             
Maties hand & is declared to succeed in that Goverment                          
     Some letters from Venice say their Army hath taken Modono from the         
Turks after 13 dayes seige  The Bassa whereof Refuseing to surrender was        
Killed by the Janizaries who delivered up the Towne on Termes  Tis said         
there were 100 Brass Cannon therein & vast quantities of Amunition &            
Provision                                                                       
     On Sunday last A Grampus (which some will have A whale) was                
discovered in the Thames near Woolwich & is not yet Killed But well             
Watched                                                                         
     L. c. 1691     London 5th August 1686                                      
+Letters from Antwerpe of the 10th say that upon Arrivall of An Expresse        
there That governor had given orders for the Ringing the Bells &c for the       
takeing of Buda & letters of the 11th from Newport say Buda surrendred          
on the 3d Instant but noe Expresse is Come to the King soe that Its             
doubted by many                                                                 
     Last Tuesday the King Exercised all the horse & ffoot & after              
Returned to Windsor Extremely satisfied with the souldiers performances         
+This day 4 Regemts of the horse decamped vizt the queens Regemt The E          
of Plimouths E of Scarsdales & Sr Jo: Laniers & marched hither & for 2          
or 3 days quarter About the Towne & this afternoon the 3 Regemts of             
dragoons marched through this Citty  To morrow the other 4 Regemts of           
horse will decampe & next weeke the whole ffoot                                 
     Tis said mr ffrankland of drs Comons is declared Proctor to the Lds        
Comrs for Ecclesll Affaires dr Pinfold the Kings Advocate mr Bridgman           
Register mr Smith of drs Comons deputy Register mr Atterbury & mr               
Eddomes messengers & Citations are directed to them to Execute                  
     They have sent A Citation to the Bp of London to Appear before them        
at the Councell Chamber at Whitehall next Munday at 10 of the Clocke to         
Answer all objections that shall be then made Agt him  The Archbp of            
Canterbury was not at the opening of the Comission he being not well            
     The whale seen in the Thames since Sunday is not yet killed some           
being Affraide others not successfull in their Attempts  According to           
the place where shee was yesterday at High water shee is Calculated 120         
ffoot long & 14 ffoot High  The Curious observe the last that was seen          
in the Thames was before Septembr 58                                            
     The 11 East India ships lately Arrived in Holland are judged worth         
1600000 L & 5 more are dayly Exspected from Battavia                            
     Our Paris letters of the 12th Instant say that King hath had 4 or 5        
sharpe fitts of An Ague & feaver  The Phisitians say it will turne to A         
quartern Ague & some judge the stopping of the ffistula hath Caused it          
     L. c. 1692     London 7th August 1686                                      
+There is nothing more of Buda since o[u]r last & there being noe               
Expresse Come the Court beleive not one word of what was writt from             
fflanders of its being taken                                                    
     Yesterday the Rest of the horse at Hunslow heath decamped & next           
Wednesday all the ffoot decampe to their winter quarters which will be          
in London & Parts Adjacent at least within 40 miles thereof                     
     The Archbp of Canterbury being somewhat Indisposed tis said Prayed         
to be Excused his Attendance as one of the Lds Comrs for Ecclesll               
Affaires  Tis said dr Wood the Bp of Litchfeild & Coventry dr Sharpe &c         
are Cited to Appear before them                                                 
     This whale was this weeke as High as Woolwich  All Imaginable              
Endeavors have been used to take her  shee hath severall shotts in her          
body & has been severall times strucke with harpeing Irons  Yesterday           
shee was strucke Againe & Ran out 60 ffathom of Rope soe they were              
forced to Cut & let her goe  Whether shee be gone into the sea or dead &        
sunke is not yet discovered                                                     
     Tis said the ds of Northumberland is Reconciled to her Mother in           
Law the ds of Cleveland & will suddenly Appear at Court                         
     They write from Scotland that the 28th Past was kept A Genll fast          
& day of Humiliation to Implore A blessing on the fruites of the                
earth &c                                                                        
     Letters from Ireland say land is not worth there Above 7 yeares            
purchase & many still leave that Kingdome some for England & others to          
the West Indies                                                                 
     Letters from Turin in Savoy say that duke hath sent 200 of his             
Guards & 300 Catholicke families to the vallies of Lucerne To whome he          
hath given the Protestants estates Above 700 of whome are still in the          
mountaines & under greate Hardship                                              
+Some say the Interview between the P of Orange & d of Brandenburgh at          
Cleves was for Reconcileing the Lutherans & Calvinists & that there is          
A good step already made & Its like to Come to A very good Ishue It             
being said there is An Alliance Concluded between the Kings of sweden           
& Denmarke The Electrs of Saxony & Brandenburgh The dukes of Hannover           
& Zell & other Princes of Germany                                               
     The states have desired mr Shelton to Pray his Maty to Authorize           
him or some other to treate with their deputies to Adjust the Affaire           
of Bantam                                                                       
     [A few figures appear on outside of letter and these words:]               
qua because for so much as [about twenty letters illegible] place more          
many ye Dead                                                                    
     because in vain by more ye to be done                                      
in Janr obligd to wish away [?] for as with as [sic]                            
     L. c. 1693     London 10th August 1686                                     
     The Gazett tells you they had newes of Vienna of the 2d Instant            
that Buda was taken which Could not be true                                     
     ffor wee have letters from the Campe of the 1st Instant which say          
That on the 28th the d of Lorraine sent A sumons into the Towne & the           
Bassa Replyed he would defend it to the last & when they saw noe Remedy         
would set fire to their Mines & Magazeens & blow up themselves with them        
that should Attacke them                                                        
     Upon which the duke ordered the Batteries to be Renewed & some             
Mines to be sprung which had good effect  But the souldiers were soe            
disheartened with the loss of their officers that the d of Lorraine was         
forced to lead them to the Breach with his sword in his hand & was              
Resolved to give Another Genll storme before the vizier Could Arrive to         
Put in any Succours though he Advances Apace                                    
     Yesterday the Ecclesll comrs sate (All being present but the               
Archbp of Canterbury) before whome the Bp of London Appeared Accompanied        
by dr Tenison & severall other Eminent divines                                  
     The Ld Chancellr told him they had Cited his Lordship to Answer why        
he haveing Recd the Kings order to suspend dr Sharpe who had medled with        
some things in A sermon that did not belong to him he had Refused to            
Silence him                                                                     
     His Lordship Answered he was Advised he Could not doe it by Law            
     It was then demanded if that were his Answer  he prayed time till          
Michaelmas Terme  The Court said they Could not give soe much time              
his Lordship then said he was not A stranger to them nor they to his            
family who were alwayes Loyall & desirous to be serviceable to the Crowne       
     That for his owne part It should be A matter of sorrow for him to          
disobey the Kings Comands & that what had been done Relateing to dr             
Sharpe was not soe much his owne Leave as the sence of his ffreinds &           
the Law, after which the Court gave time till thursday next, he said            
his Councell were in the Circuitt  the Court said they would give noe           
further time & Adjourned till then when the minister of Chiswicke &c            
are to Appear                                                                   
     This day Oates stood in the Pillory at Westminster & to morrow             
stands at Temple barr                                                           
+This morning the ffoot decamped & marched for winter quarters                  
     L. c. 1694     London 12th August 1686                                     
+The takeing of Buda Remaines doubtfull  some who have been there say           
if the Christians were masters of the places mentioned in the Gazett the        
towne Could not hold out 3 dayes                                                
     Our letters from Vienna of the 4th say that upon Account of the            
Viziers Advanceing to Attempt the Releife of Buda 36000 men were drawne         
from the Campe who fell on the vantguard of the Turks & Cut them all to         
Peeces  They add that Count Staremburgh was shott in the Cheeke &               
Genll Souches dead of A feaver                                                  
+The Grand Seignr is soe Incensed Agt the Pope for the Assistance Given         
Agt him Especially to the Venetians that he hath Proclaimed Publicke            
ffreedome of Religion to all Christians that shall first disowne the Pope       
& A Gent lately Arrived from Constantinople affirmes that since the said        
Proclamation he heard A sermon in ffrench in Constantinople in one of the       
Places Prepared for the Christians & that he saw neer it A Gallows they         
haveing power granted them to hang up Imediately any that shall disturbe        
them in the Exersize of their Religion                                          
+The ffrench letters Continue to give A sad Account of the sufferings of        
the Protestants in all Parts of that Kingdome where many aswell ministers       
as others have been hanged up since the last edict                              
     They write from Lisbone that on the 14th the Inquisition Pronounced        
sentence Agt 19 Criminalls 3 of which were ordered to be burnt for being        
Jewes but 2 of them Turneing Christians before Execution had the favour         
to be first strangled & the other was burnt alive                               
     Yesterday Oates stood in the Pillory at Charing Cross & this day at        
Temple barr where not any one threw at him & but one yesterday who threw        
A stone out of A window for which he was narrowly searched for but              
missed                                                                          
     They write from Algiers that Canary the Piratt & his brother had           
brought thither 28 dutch ships which they tooke in the Channell & on the        
Coasts of ffrance                                                               
   Yest the E of Dumbartons Regemt Marched through this Citty towards           
winter quarters & had 2 feild Peeces & A waggon of Amunition with them          
as every other ffoot Regemt have who are all Marched to their winter            
quarters                                                                        
+They write from New England they were very busy in setling the govermt         
there perticulerly the affaires of the Church & that divine service had         
been Read Publickly in Boston in like manner as in England                      
     L. c. 1695     London 13th August 1686                                     
+Yesterday the Ecclesll Comrs mett but the Archbp was not there  The Bp         
of London Appeared & Urged that their Comission was not Enrolled till           
Satureday & he Could not have A Coppie of it till then that his Councell        
were still out of Towne & soe he Could not well answer now & desired            
further time                                                                    
     My Ld Chancellr said he might have provided his Answer in this time        
there being Councell enough in Towne  As for his haveing A Coppie of            
their Comission they did not thinke that any Reason & if he did Intend          
to question their Authority they would neither hear them nor him upon           
that Point they being well satisfied with their Authority                       
     Then Pressed him to give Answer why he did not suspend dr Sharpe           
According to the Kings Comand  He Replyed he desired further time for           
the Reasons aforesaid & Could say noe more but leave the matter to them         
     My Ld Chancellr then asked him what time he desired  He Replyed he         
thought it A modest Request if he asked A ffortnight which after some           
debate Amonge themselves they gave & Appointed to meet on this day              
ffortnight                                                                      
     The Ld Chancellr also Added they would hear noe plea to the                
jurisdiction of the Court but he must plainly Answer why he did not obey        
the Kings Comand                                                                
     Our letters from Before Buda of the 4th Instant say Another Genll          
Assault was Intended but Put off by Reason the Mine they sprung tooke           
not the Intended effect  however the Bavarians mounted the Breach in            
hopes to Carry the Castle but were Repulsed & Abt 300 killed & the P: of        
Savoy wounded Also the Ld Mountjoy shott in the face, upon their                
Retreate the Turks hung out 3 bloody fflaggs & shewed greate Resolution         
     They Add that Heuster & Carassa were Arrived with 5000 men & the           
Armies from Transilvania & Croatia dayly Exspected all which will               
Reinforce the Army with 25000 men & they Resolved on another storme on          
the 8th, Also that the d of Bavaria should mantaine the seige & the d of        
Lorraine with the horse & Dragoons Cover it whome he hath drawne without        
the Campe & there Pallisadoed them Resolveing there to Exspect the Grand        
vizier whose vantguard was Come to Alba Regalis                                 
+The ffrench Ks Ague Continues & the Phisitians have ordered him the            
Jesuitts Powder                                                                 
[A few figures and some almost illegible words in another hand appear on        
outside of letter.]                                                             
     L. c. 1696     London 14th August 1686                                     
+Wee are wanting all o[u]r fforreign Posts soe have nothing more of Buda        
     The Ld Chancellr comes hither to morrow from Tunbridge & soe goes          
to Councell at Windsor & on Munday Returnes hither to sit with the Comrs        
of Ecclesll Affaires where the Bp of London is to Put in his Answer that        
he will stand by The Exspectation of the people being greate what Answer        
he will give & how they will Proceed Agt him                                    
     On the 23d Instant his Maty begins his progress into the West & wee        
hear goes to see all the places there where the Rebells were & will have        
A very Noble Retinue & Its said the queen Intends to goe with his Maty &        
will Continue sometime at the Bath                                              
     Letters from Rome of the 27th Past say that the E of Castlemain            
haveing Recd An Extrary Courrier from London hath had 2 Private                 
Audiences of the Pope That afterwards he visitted the Ds of Modena & the        
Cardinalls Cibo [?] & Norfolke & it was beleived he would suddenly make         
his Publicke entry                                                              
+They write from Edenbrough that on the 5th Instant in the morning The          
guns from that Castle were fired the Imperiall standard set up & sermons        
in all their Churches for Comemoration of the happy deliverance of K            
James his prsent Matyes Grandfather from the Conspiracy of the Gowries          
     Severall persons have made Application to the Execrs of sr Wm              
Coventry for Redemption of their Husbands or ffreinds that are Captives         
in Algiers he leaveing 3000 L by his will for that good worke                   
     They write from Venice that on the 29th past there happened such A         
Terrible Tempest in the Country Abt Padua that in A Moment it overthrew         
severall stately Pallaces & Towers by the fall of which Abt 80 persons          
were Killed & A greate number wounded  The Hurricane Passed many Leagues        
in Lengh takeing up Abt a League in Breadth leaveing every where marks          
of its horrible fury for the Thunder that Accompanied it set fire to            
severall stately houses burnt up the vineyards Corn grass & Cattle              
Severall Coaches with horses & people that were in them were taken up           
and let fall at A greate distance                                               
     This day is Advice that a Barbados ship homewards bound is Cast            
away at the Isle of Wight                                                       
[A few figures and names in another hand appear on outside of letter.]          
     L. c. 1697     London 19th August 1686                                     
+Letters from the Campe before Buda of the 8th say the d of Lorraine            
haveing finished his Gallaries & Enlarged the Breach was Resolved on            
another storme haveing Comanded A fast & Prayers in the whole Campe for         
the good successe thereof                                                       
     That the said Duke upon Advice of the Approach of the viziers Army         
sent away all his sicke & wounded men & baggage to the Isle of St Andrew        
& soe secured his Campe with Redoubts that it would Require the vizier          
more time to force it then the Necesity of the Towne Can give him               
     Wee have A Confirmation of the Christians under dunewaldt &                
Peterhassi beating the vantguard of the Turks & killing severall                
thousands on the place upon which the d of Lorraine was marched with the        
horse & Dragoons & some ffoot to fight the vizier leaveing the seige of         
Buda to Genll Caprara who was Resolved to storme it on the 11th Instant         
     To morrow his Maty Comes to Towne to take leave of the queen Dowager       
before he goes his progress Into the West which he begins from Windsor          
next Munday & will be from thence 8 dayes & will vissitt Portesmouth            
Bristoll &c                                                                     
     Her Maty Comes to Towne & will stay here 3 dayes & then Returnes to        
Windsor where the King will meet her & Remaine there till octobr                
     mr Pattrick Trant who was formerly Concerned in the hearth office          
hath obtained his Maties Pattent to Create him A Baronet                        
     They write from Turin that the Protestants in Piedmont not being           
wholly suppressed the ffrench troops are Againe Exspected in those parts        
   The last fit the ffrench K had which was just before the letters Came        
away was A very severe one & had weakened him soe much that it was              
doubted whether they would venture to give him the Jesuitts Powder              
     L. c. 1698    London 21st August 1686                                      
+Our letters from Before Buda of the 8th Confirme the Grand Vizier being        
Arrived with his Army neer their Campe & that the Bassa of Agria was            
Arrived on the other side the River with many waggons of Amunition &c to        
Put them into Buda on that side  But the d of Lorraine hath soe                 
fortifyed the banks of the River &c that they thinke the Turks Cannot           
put in any Releife that way                                                     
     That the seige now Advances warily & slowly The Turks with their           
Wives & Children defending every foot of Ground & that with such                
obstinate desperation that the Women & Children Refused quarter in A            
house & were burnt in it                                                        
     Our letters from the Campe before Buda of the 12th say the d of            
Bavaria seing one of the Castle gates stand open sent a Party to surprise       
it who were forced to Retire with the loss of 40 men                            
     That on that day the Imperiallists sprung their mines in order to A        
Genll storme which had not the hoped for successe soe it was deferred           
     The Greate mine in which was 50 Barrells of powder did not spring          
soe tis presumed the Turks discovered it & tooke out the powder                 
     The Grand viziers Army is said to be above 50000 men of which              
20000 are Janizaries  The d of Lorraine hath made A double line of              
Circumvallation Round his Camp & when these letters Came away they              
Exspected every moment to come to A Battle                                      
     His Maty hath made the Ld Murray E of dunmore in Scotland & the Ld         
Melford E of Melford                                                            
+Yesterday his Maty dined in Towne & vissitted the Queen dowager & then         
Returned to Windsor where he will stay till Munday & that night lodges          
at the d of somersetts at Marlbrough on Tuesday at the d of Beauforts           
at Budington On Wedensday & Thursday at Bristoll on ffriday at                  
Bridgwater on Satureday at the E of Pembrooks at Wilton on Sunday at            
Portesmouth on Munday at Winchester on Tuesday will dine with the Bp            
of Winchester at ffarulan [?] & Returnes to Windsor the same night              
     L. c. 1699     London 24th August 1686                                     
+Our letters from the Campe before Buda of the 14th which Arrived at            
Vienna on the 18th by An Expresse say                                           
     That on the 13th A deserter A ffrenchman Assured the d of Lorraine         
that the Grand vizier had given Positive orders to Attacke them in their        
Trenches within 9 hours                                                         
     That on the 14th 3000 Janizaries with 6 Granadoes Apeece backt by          
6000 horse made a furious Attacke with A Hideous Cry but were forced to         
Retire with greate Consternation to their horse & were followed by the          
Christians horse & the d of Lorraine with the Gross of his Army Marched         
out of the Trenches to secure the Retreate of the horse in Case the             
vizier had marched out of his trenches to Attacke them  But their horse         
fought not a stroke, In this Action 3000 were killed most of them               
Janizaries & Abt 400 Taken & 8 peeces of Cannon &c                              
     The beseiged made a vigorous sally but were Repulsed                       
     The standards & Ensignes taken were brought & ffixed in the                
Breaches upon which A Terrible Cry was heard in the Citty                       
     Yesterday his Maty began his Progress & on Thursday will vissitt           
Kings Edgcomb where Monmouth was defeated                                       
     The E of Tirconnell is Arrived here from Ireland                           
     His Maty hath Appointed dr Parker Archdeacon of Canterbury to be           
Bp of Oxford & dr Cartwright deane of Rippon to be Bp of Chester                
     Tis said severall the most Considderable Anabaptists in                    
Gloustershire have peititioned his Maty for Liberty of Conscience               
     The D of Courland hath sent 4 ships & Aboard them 1000 Passengers          
with all Necesaries to settle A Plantation at Tobago which ships are            
Arrived in the downes                                                           
     The New Tunbridg wells soe Called at Islington have frequently 14          
or 1500 there in the morning  This night the Queen Prince & Ps Come             
to towne & Intend to honor the Wells with their Company                         
     At the last Assizes for somersetshire Jo Speake Esqr was found             
guilty of a Ryott at his house when the Ks officers searched for Jo:            
Trenchard Esqr there but his being at Large on his owne Recognizance of         
1000 L did not Appear & judgment did not Passe  His Wife eldest son &           
daughter in Law were all 3 Indicted of High Treason & the bills found           
but they not in Custody nor on bayle                                            
     L. c. 1700     London 26th August 1686                                     
     Wee have nothing new from Buda But that after the defeate of the           
8000 Turks that Attempted Its Releife The d of Lorrane sent a sumons to         
the Governr Offering him faire & Honourable Conditions To which he              
Returned Answer in writeing That if it should be his fortune to fall into       
his hands he did not doubt but he should be used as A man of Honour & as        
such he Chose Rather to loose his life with his sword in his hand then by       
the hand of the Executioner                                                     
+They write from Rome that the newes of the Takeing of Buda which was soe       
universally Recd for A truth being Contradicted The people fell on the          
Jewes & Killed severall of them Attributing the vigorous defense of the         
place to the Jewes that are in it & they had done them far greater mischeife    
had they not been prevented by the souldiers who were sent to their Releife     
     His Maty is very well in his progress & Highly satisfied with the          
Acclamations of the people & the Greate Loyalty they Expresse in                
Endeavouring therein to outdoe each others                                      
+His Maty hath granted A Pardon to mr dove late Mayor of Limington which        
is Past the seales                                                              
     The Ld Brandon Gerrard Continues Prisoner in the Tower his Pardon          
being not Passed as was Reported  his Lady lyes very ill of the small Pox       
     Tis said the Bp of Rochester will be Archbp of Yorke & dr Jeffries         
the Ld Chancellrs Br made Bp of Rochester                                       
     Our letters from Brussells Advise that his Excellency haveing Recd         
An Extrary Courier from Spaine Parted suddenly after for fflanders to           
Acquaint the states of that Province he hath obtained from his Catholick        
Maty liberty of opening their Comerce to the Indies, A Priveledg they           
have long sought for but were Refused  This will much Increase their            
Navigation & Comerce & if well Regulated will make those Countries              
flourish & be no less benefit to the Spanish Monarchy, for the Ostenders        
have undertaken to Clear those seas of all Piratts                              
+This day the Ld Chancellr of Scotland went Post hence for Edenbrough           
     L. c. 1701     London 28th August 1686                                     
+Yesterday Arrived here A vessell from Rotterdam that Came thence on            
Munday last  The Master brought with him a Gazett Printed in Holland            
which sayes they had letters of the 22d from Vienna Importing that              
Teckley had formed A body of 2000 men on the side of Pest & found meanes        
to Put in above 100 men into Buda                                               
     Also that the Grand vizier was Returned 4 miles downe the River            
     On the 16th the D of Bavaria was Informed by 4 souldiers whome he          
had sent to discover the Breach that it would be easily taken the next          
storme & when those letters Came away all things were ready for A Genll         
storme                                                                          
     Yesterday the Bp of London was in Towne in order to Prepare his Plea       
which he is to Put in on Tuesday next  Tis said that 2 witnesses Agt him        
are mr Randolph Yarwood Parson of Pancras & dr Cheiver Sometime vicar of        
Croyden                                                                         
     A quo Warranto is brought Agt some persons who Pretend to hold lands       
from the Abbey of Bermondsy in southwarke                                       
     On Wednesday the Countess of dorchester Arrived at her house in St         
James from Ireland with all her household goods &c with whome Came              
severall of the disbanded English officers  The E of Tirconnell being           
sent for over by his Maty designed as Its said to Come with her but shee        
found meanes to Come without him                                                
     One Capt Hamilton A Gent of quality in Ireland who was very                
dextrous in finding out & Catching those Called Tories was lately very          
Barbarously Murthered by some of the Irish officers lately put in Comand        
& letters from Dublin of the 21st say that Mackgennis that Killed him was       
brought thither by A strong Guard some say to give in bayle till next           
Terme  others say for the better trying of him also that Major Genll            
Macharty treated all the officers of his Maties Regemt &c also that more        
officers & souldiers were lately disbanded & others put in their Roome          
also that A greate whale was taken neer London derry  On Thursday the Ld        
Chancellrs picture was set amonge the judges in Guildhall                       
+Our ffrench letters say that King is now in Perfect health & that the          
dauphiness is delivered of A son whome he hath named D of Berry                 
      L. c. 1702     London 31st August 1686                                    
+This day the Ecclesll Comrs sate but the Archbp was not there                  
     The Bp of London Put in his Plea in writeing Agt the jurisdiction          
of the Court Grounded on the statute of the 16th Caroli 1st But the Plea        
was overruled & he Required to give Positive Answer to matter of fact           
which he did vizt                                                               
     That Assoon as he did Receive his Maties letter he did forbid dr           
Sharpe for Preaching till his further order But the matter being new to         
him he Advised with Lawyers who all Agreed he had noe Power to suspend him      
     To [which?] Councell the Lds Comrs permitted mr Oldish mr Newton &         
some others Civill Lawyers to be Assigned for the Bp & Adjourned till           
munday 2 A Clocke                                                               
     The Countesse of Dorchester being Indisposed goes for Tunbridg             
     This day the queen Goes for Windsor to be there Agst his Maties            
Returne from his Progress where Its beleived the Court will Remaine till        
the middle of Octobr                                                            
     Last weeke the ship Eagle belonging o[u]r E India Company Arrived          
in the downes & is said to be worth 200000 L sterling                           
     The Gazett tells you of the Reliefe Put into Buda & also of the            
Rupture between the K of denmarke & Hamburgh                                    
     Our letters from Hamburgh say they have Advice that the d of               
Brandenburgh hath ordered his forces neer them to march to their                
Assistance with greate assurance of all the helpe he Can give them              
     The K of denmarkes Army is Abt 15000 men & Posted Abt the Citty            
     Here is Arrived A vessell from Hamburgh the master whereof sayes           
he Came from thence on Wednesday last  That the Hamburgers had made A           
Sally & Killed Abt 100 danes & when he Came away he left the Guns               
& Bombes Playing into the Towne                                                 
     Its Generally said the Parliamt will meet in Novembr                       
     L. c. 1703     London 2d Sept 1686                                         
+Wee have letters that assure us of the Account you have in the Gazett By       
An Expresse Arrived here that Buda was taken by storme on the 16/26 past        
The Imperiallists Bavarians & Brandenburgers entring the Towne at the           
same time at their severall Attacks & Putting all to the sword                  
     Wee have letters from Hamburgh which Confirme to us that the Citty         
has Recd 2000 Lunenburgers Into it & dayly Exspect 4000 more from               
Brandenburgh &c                                                                 
     That the Burgers were hearty & seem Resolved to defend their               
Liberties That the danes have made severall Assaults on their out fforts        
but were Repulsed with loss                                                     
     That A Baron from the Elector of Brandenburgh was arrived in the           
K of denmarks Camps with A message to that King That if he drew not             
off from that Citty in 24 houres or ffired one gun more after that              
time he would declare warr Agst him Imediately                                  
     This day was observed A strict fast within the Walls of the Citty          
for the fire in 66  mr scott Preached before the Ld Mayor & Aldermen            
on that occasion                                                                
     This day Oates stood in the Pillory before the Royall Exchange             
where were A greate Number of Spectatrs but none of them threw                  
anything at him                                                                 
+Its Reported the queen Dowager will give 10000 L Portion to the Lady           
Mary Tudor besides what was left her & that shee hath also Purchased 500        
L p An for the d of St Albans son to Madam Gwin  Yesterday 2 old wooden         
houses without Temple barr fell downe suddenly  2 or 3 persons were taken       
out of the Rubbish But only A maide servant Killed                              
     Wee hear that Sr Patrick Trant is made paymaster Genll of his Maties       
forces in Ireland                                                               
     L. c. 1704     London 4th Sept 1686                                        
     Our letters from Paris of the 11th say An Expresse Arrived there           
with the newes of the takeing of Buda by Assault but brings noe                 
perticulars yet leaves noe Roome for doubt of the truth thereof, our            
next letters either from fflanders or Holland will bring us the                 
perticulers                                                                     
     Our letters from Hamburgh of the 26th our stile say The K of               
denmarke Returned noe Answer to the severall Messages from the                  
Electr of Brandenburgh & the Princes of Lunenburgh But on the                   
Contrary formed his Batteries & Attacqued A sconce but was Repulsed             
     Upon which the D of Zell &c Imediately in Person put themselves on         
their march with 12000 men towards the Citty & when those letters Came          
away 4000 Lunenburgers were marching into the Citty & next day A greate         
sally was Resolved on to dislodg the Danes if posible from their                
Approaches neer the schiffer sconce which they presse very hard                 
     Those out sconces have kept him from being able to Come neer the           
Citty soe that as yet he hath been able to throw but few bombes into it         
     Wee hear from Jamaica that on the 24th June last The faucon & drake        
ffriggotts found the Cheife Buckaneer Bannister with 2 ships in A deep          
bay on the North side of Hispaniola fit to goe on the Carine haveing            
got his guns on shoar & mounted them on 2 batteries.  However the               
ffriggots stood in though they were warmly entertained from the                 
Batteries & with small shott from the ships yet with their greate               
shott they almost beate to peeces the ships of the Buckaneers but not           
haveing water Enough to Carry them in they Could not fire them  The             
Drake had 13 Killed & wounded & the ffaucon 10                                  
+On the 31st past 8000 weight of Damnified Tobacco from Antego was burnt        
at Cowes in the Isle of Wight from on Board Capt Bullocke                       
     yesterday A search was made in this Citty  Its thought it was for A        
Printing Presse & seditious books                                               
     L. c. 1705     London 7th Sept 1686                                        
+Our letters from Vienna of the 4th say that the Grand vizier when he           
saw that Buda was taken Retired to the Bridge of Essecke & it was not           
thought fit to follow him for want of fforage                                   
     Last night at the Spanish Ambrs at Wildhouse was greate Rejoyceing         
for the takeing of Buda  The ffront of the house was almost Covered with        
wax Tapers which were fixed in wooden Candlesticks & fastned to the wall        
     Before the house was A very Costly & Exceeding High Bonefire,              
Within the house the fountaine Ran wine which was Plentifully given             
amonge the people &c                                                            
     But the Rabble were soe Insolent as to Pull downe part of the fire         
Giveing very undecent Language to the makers thereof & the occasion &           
at last with ffirebrands & stones broke the Ambrs windows throwing in           
ffirebrands Exclaimeing Agt Papists &c  In fine the Guards were sent for        
from Whitehall who dispersed them & seized some of which 6 are Comitted         
to Newgate                                                                      
     There was greate Rejoyceing also at the Nuncios but it was all             
within doores with the greate store of Tapers wine sounding of                  
trumpetts &c                                                                    
     The Judges are sent for to be prsent at the sessions to morrow (it         
haveing been Adjourned till that time) in order to give their judgment          
on a speciall verdict in the Case of A souldier who Ran away from his           
Colours The Recorder of the Citty being of opinion it doth not Extend           
to life unless it be in time of warr                                            
     They write from ffalmouth that severall ffrench Protestants were           
brought in An Irish Vessel & put on shore at Scilly  But the master of          
the vessel Carryed away all they had on board & left them nothing but           
what they had Abt them                                                          
     His Maty hath Appointed the E of Arran son of d Hamilton to                
Complement the ffrench K upon the Birth of the D of Berry                       
+The diference between the K of Denmark & Hamburgh is not yet Adjusted          
& the danes are in greate want of Provisions & Proclamations are made in        
the County of Lunenburgh & Stift [?] of Bremen forbidding the                   
Inhabitants upon Paine of death to furnish them with any                        
     L. c. 1706     London 11th Sept 1686                                       
+The following sentence Agt the Bp of London is sent to the deane &             
Chapter of St Paulls with orders to fix it on the doores of the Chapter         
house that all may have notice of it                                            
     Whereas the Ld Bp of London hath been Convened before us for his           
disobedience & other his Contempts mentioned in the Proceedings of the          
Cause & the sd Bp haveing been fully heard thereupon, Wee thought fit           
after mature deliberation of the matter to Proceed to the definitive            
sentence declareing decreeing & Pronouncing That the said Hen Ld Bp of          
London shall for the said disobedience & Contempt be suspended dureing          
his Maties pleasure & wee doe by these prsents suspend him Peremptorily         
Admonishing & Requireing him hereby to Abstaine from the function &             
Execution of the Episcopall office & all other Ecclesll jurisdictions           
dureing the said suspention under Paine of deprivation & Removall from          
his Bishopricke  Given under o[u]r seale the 6th Sept 1686                      
     They write from Rome of the 24th Past that the E of Castlemain was         
to make his Publicke entry in A few dayes with greate Magnificence              
+The Spanish Ambr kept ffestivalls for takeing Buda Wednesday Thursday          
& yesterday with High Masse & Procession each morning  Those 6 Comitted         
for the first nights disturbance are bayled out but will be tryed               
     This day Came forth in Print by his Maties Comand A forme of Prayer        
& thanksgiving for the Prosperity of the Christian Armies Agt the Turks         
Especially for the takeing of Buda to be used Publickly to morrow at his        
Maties Chappell of St George at Windsor where the Bp of Durham preaches         
at St Peters Westminster where the Bp of Rochester Preaches & at Bow in         
Cheapside where mr stanemore Preaches & the Ld Mayor hath sent to sumon         
all the Livery men to Attend him & the Aldermen to morrow at Guildhall &        
thence to Bowe Church  Yest the judges gave their opinion that Its felony       
for A souldier to Run away from his Colours & mr shoares the Recorders          
deputy gave sentence of death Agt 4 souldiers for the same                      
     The Protestants that Remaine in the Mountaines of Piedmont lately          
made A descent into the vallies & Plundered the Inhabitants                     
+Yest one was seized for Counterfetting halfe pence & ffarthings & 200 L        
worth found by him                                                              
     The Ld Mountjoy is Arrived from Buda & given his Maty An Account           
thereof                                                                         
     L. c. 1707     London 14th Sept 1686                                       
+The Ecclesll Comrs will meet Againe on the 27th Instant & will then as         
Its said make Inspection into all abuses of the Hospitalls & have Cited         
before them dr Hollingsworth of St Botolphs Aldgate mr Weston of the            
little Minories & mr Elliott of dukes place to give Account by what             
Authority they marry without Licence & also how they are Exempted from          
Epicopall jurisdiction                                                          
     All o[u]r fforreign Posts are wanting soe wee have nothing from            
Abroade                                                                         
+When Sr Patience Ward was Ld Mayor the Comon Councell Past An Act for          
Taxing the Inhabitants for Repaireing & Building of Conduitts &c  The           
Tax they Levyed was 4 ffifteens.  Some Refused Payment, others paid &           
had their money Restored Againe  The Collectors not beleiveing their            
Authority good Enough did not According to their order Collect & Pay            
into the Chamber of London the said Money, But this last weeke the              
prsent Ld Mayor sent to all the deputies of the Wards to give in their          
Accounts upon which they sumoned all the Collectors to Appear before            
them & bring in their Rolls & Pay in the money Already Recd & if any            
Refused to Pay to let them know any one soe Refuseing shall be Returned         
into & sued for it in the Exchequer which order was yesterday begun to          
be put into Execution                                                           
     Yesterday A Headborough & 2 of his Watchmen were Comitted to               
Newgate for Robbing & Murthering A Gent in Gun feilds                           
     On Sunday the Ld Mayor &c heard A sermon at Bow from 9 Psal: 5 vers        
after which the Bells Rung for joy of takeing Buda                              
     They write from Newcastle that the Master of A ship Arrived there          
sayes that off of Whitby in Yorkshire they mett with 4 Whales which             
Came all Abreast neer their ship spouting along that they had A full            
sight of them & judged the least 80 ffoot long                                  
+On the 10th Octobr the whole Court Returne to Whitehall but tis said           
his Maty will first Hunt severall dayes in New fforest                          
     Tis said his Maty hath Publickly declared that o[u]r Parliamt              
shall sit at the time to which they are Prorogued                               
     L. c. 1708     London 16th Sept 1686                                       
+Wee have had neither dutch nor fflanders Post since the 8th Instant            
soe have nothing new from Buda or Hambrough which gives no small                
Admiration to many & perticularly those that will not beleive all true          
that hath been written & Printed from Hungary, wee are very Impatient           
to hear what followed after the Takeing of Buda                                 
     On Munday last dr Stillingfleet deane of St Paulls In obedience to         
the order from the Ecclesll Comrs Caused A Chapter to be sumoned but for        
want of A full Court there was not any thing then done & Its said he            
hath till Tuesday next given him to Call another Chapter                        
     mr John Stapleton who had sentence of death for Putting out the            
Eye of mr Russell with Mercury Powder is Repreived as also the souldier         
for Running away from his Colours                                               
     Tis said the E: of Tirconnell mr Hackett &c have made Proposalls to        
his Maty to farme his Revenue of Ireland & offer more then hath hitherto        
been made of it                                                                 
+Yesterday the Prince & Ps of denmarke Came to towne the former haveing         
been Indisposed some few dayes at Windsor                                       
     The ds of Portesmouth is said to be Comeing for England                    
     The E of Danby being pretty well Recovered  of his Indisposition is        
now in good earnest Prepareing to travell beyond sea                            
     Sr Nath Johnson is Prepareing with all speed to depart to his              
Govermt of the Leeward Islands In which his Maty hath [been?] very              
bountifull not only as to An Annuall Allowance but also at his prsent           
Equippage which will be very greate & more Considderable then any of his        
Predecessors                                                                    
     There will be probably An Accomodation between Hambrough & denmarke        
being neither England nor ffrance Interest themselves for that King             
+The ffrench K hath lost his Ague & is in very good health & upon the           
Advanceing of the Alliance between the ministers of the severall Princes        
now Assembled at Ausburgh he hath ordered A greate body of troops to            
march towards Alsatia                                                           
+The Spanish Galleons are not Arrived at Cadiz as was said in the Gazett        
     L. c. 1709     London 18th Sept 1686                                       
+Yesterday Arrived 2 fflanders & 2 Holland Males which bring [?] was at         
Buda to the 6th vizt                                                            
     That on the 2d Buda was taken by Assault  That the Christians were         
twice beaten off & the 3d time Carryed it  That the Governr &c were             
killed in the Breach but the vice governr & 1000 Turks had quarter in           
A Redoubt but all the Rest being 1800 souldiers & 4000 Burgers were             
killed & none but women & Children saved                                        
     That the Turks set fire to the Magazeen of Powder & to the Citty in        
divers places which burnt 3 dayes                                               
     That the Plunder of the Towne was given to the souldiers the vallue        
whereof was Inestimable                                                         
     That there was in it Amunition & Provision for A Months seige              
longer 400 Brass Cannon & 60 Mortars                                            
     The vizier after it was taken Retired towards the Bridg of Essecke         
Leaveing 9 peeces of Cannon in his Campe But the d of Lorraine sent             
12000 horse under Caprara to Harrasse them in their Retreate who                
Attacqued them in their Rear & in one skirmish killed 800 & tooke 4             
peeces of Cannon                                                                
     The d of Lorraine hath also sent to sumon the Militia of Croatia to        
follow Caprara                                                                  
     On the 4th the d of Lorraine Caused the Prisoners to ffling the            
dead Turks into the Danube & to bury the Christians                             
     On the 5th the d of Lorraine ordered 6000 ffoot to garrison the            
place & Embarqued the Rest of his ffoot with 36 Cannon & 20 Mortars to          
goe downe the danube to the Bridg of Esseck & ordered the horse to March        
by land where if the vizier Remaines he will fight him or else destroy          
the said bridg & after will Its said beseige Sigeth Thais & Halwan &            
blocke up Agria soe Close this winter as to force them to surrender in          
the spring                                                                      
     The danes have lost 5000 men before Hambrough but A truce is now           
Concluded for 8 dayes & the danes are Retired                                   
     Letters from scotland say 22 persons were brought Prisoners to             
Edenbrough being taken at A ffeild Conventicle                                  
+Yest the Resolution the Barnadiston & the defence Arrived from E India         
Richly laden                                                                    
[A few figures in another hand and this note appear on outside of               
letter:] Barne Close [?] Paul Hinnan Last yeare Wm Coventry this yeare          
     L. c. 1710     London 21st Sept 1686                                       
+Yesterday the sentence Agt the Bp of London was fixt up upon the               
Chapter house of St Paulls                                                      
     The Ecclesll Comrs sit Againe at Whitehall on the 28th & have let          
the deane & Chapter of Windsor know they will vissitt them on the 4th           
Octobr                                                                          
     The Ld dover is made Ld Lieut of Cambridgshire in Roome of the E           
of Ailesbury                                                                    
     The Ld Gerrard is made Governor of New Yorke in Roome of Coll              
Duncan                                                                          
     His Maty hath written to the Mayor & Aldermen of Glocester to              
Recomend one mr Hill for Mayor next year                                        
     Our Vienna letters of the 12th say that Notwithstanding all the d          
of Lorraines dilligence to stop the vizier for Passing the Bridg of             
Essecke he had soe far got the start of him as to get over with his             
Army without any Considderable loss                                             
     Our Holland letters of the 24th say the buisness of Hambrough is           
absolutely Accomodated which Prevents the states sending some men of            
warr to the Elbe as they Resolved                                               
     They write from Ireland the Ld Lieut was gone to Kilkenny in whose         
progress Tis said the sword & Mace will be Carryed before him in all            
townes & A fine will be demanded due to his Maties sword & Mace as              
Acknowledgmt of Homage to the King which Custome has been layd Aside for        
many yeares                                                                     
     P: George is Perfectly Recovered of his Indisposition & Gone to            
Windsor                                                                         
     The ffrench Gazetts say the Protestants in ffrance are now more            
then ever Persecuted & perticularly the New Converts for not Comeing up         
to what is more fully Comanded them then the Profest Papists Especially         
as to the takeing the sacramts, A Certain woman threw A stone at A              
Preist Elevating the Host for which shee was Condemned to have her hand         
Cutt off Then hanged & after burnt which was Executed on her                    
+They write from Venice that the d of Savoy Caused 500 of villa ffranca         
(who were Condemned to the Gallies for not Abjureing) to be put on              
board 6 ffrench Gallies & that the Change of Aire & hard usage had              
killed many of them                                                             
+All things are Prepareing for the Parliamts sitting on the 22d Novembr         
     L. c. 1711     London 23d Sept 1686                                        
+His Maty has Appointed the Ld Archbp of Cant to officiate in the               
diocesse of London dureing the suspension of the prsent Ld Bishop               
     The Repaires & other Preparations for the ffleet are pursued with          
all Imaginable Application & soe that if his Maties affaires Require The        
whole Navy of England may put to sea next spring                                
     They write from Scotland that on the 14th the Lds of the Councell          
mett & voted that the Councell Chamber in the Abby of Holy Roode house          
should be used for solemnizeing Masse The Ld Chancellor haveing hitherto        
only A Private Chappell in his house                                            
     Wee have A Report the Ld Bellasis is to goe for Ireland in very            
High quality & that A Person now there will be Recalled                         
     Also that Count Taffe one of the Emper[o]rs Generalls late at Buda         
is sent for home to serve his Maty                                              
     The d of Albemarle is now at Windsor from whence he goes to the D          
of Newcastles for A ffortnight & soon after his Returne Embarques for           
his govermt of Jamaica in A ship built by himselfe for that Purpose             
     mr ffowles & mr Rawlinson o[u]r 2 New Sheriffs have one taken              
ffishmongers hall the other vintners hall & mr Rouse Continues under            
sheriffe                                                                        
     Tis said the ffrench are on their March with 30000 men  some say           
for Germany others for Geneva                                                   
     They write from Genoa they had advice the Turks were quitting              
severall places in Morea to Reinforce the Army of the Serasquier Also           
that 12 Turkish Gallies Comeing out of Napoli Malvitia were Attacqued by        
the Gallies of Malta & Tuscany who tooke 4 & sunke the Rest                     
+They write from Venice that A squadron of their ffleet mett with the           
Turks Caravan Comeing from Alexandria to Constantinople with the Tribute        
of Egypt & also 2000 New Raised souldiers & greate quantity of Amunition        
& Provisions of whome they tooke severall sunke others & put the Rest to        
fflight Also that the serasquier Attempting to Raise the seige of Napoli        
Romani is defeated                                                              
+His Maty is in Good health at Windsor & now the Hunting season is over         
diverts himselfe much with shooting  tis now said the Court will Come           
to Whitehall on the 1st octobr                                                  
     L. c. 1712     London 25th Sept 1686                                       
+The Report Abt towne of his Matyes being ill one or more times proves          
wholly false & his Maty is Highly displeased thereat                            
     dr Hollingsworth of St Botolphs Aldgate mr Weston of the Minories          
& mr Elliott of dukes place are sumoned to Appear before the Ecclesll           
Comrs on the 28th Instant to shew by what Authority they Pretend to be          
Exempted from the jurisdiction of the ordinary &c                               
     The Bp of London is Retired to the E of Northamptons in the Country        
     His Maty hath nominated dr Lloyd Principle of Jesus Colledg in             
Oxford to be Bp of St Davids in Roome of dr Womacke deceased                    
     The Ld Treasurer hath An Ague                                              
     Some dutch men of warr Cruiseing in o[u]r Channell Chased An               
Algerine till shee Ran Aground on the long sand but night Comeing on            
they left her, next morning some Colliers got her off & soe into Harwich        
where shee Remaines & Proves A ship of 200 men & 40 Guns haveing of             
English & other Christian slaves Abt 50 on board who gained their               
ffreedome                                                                       
     Our letters from Vienna of the 15th say That in one of the                 
Magazeens of Buda there was found 30000 ducketts 30000 Chequins & A             
greate persell of uncoyned Gold.  They are now disposeing of the                
Churches to the ffryars of the severall orders Erecting A university &c         
     The Grand vizier hath left A Considderable Garrison in Alba Regalis        
as also some thousands at the Bridg of Essecke & is Retired to Belgrade         
with the Rest of his Army which is in A very ill Condition                      
     The Turks have burnt all the small places on both sides the danube         
between Buda & Essecke                                                          
     The d of Lorraine is throwing A Bridg of Boates over the River 9           
Leagues below Buda for Passing his Army to beseige Segedin by which he          
will Cut off all Comunication between Agria & Hatwan Tremeswar &c               
     They write from Hambrough that the daneish troops have quitted             
their Territories but the d: of Brandenburgh hath seized the effects of         
denmarke by Reason that King has seized the Hamburgers effects also             
deteynes their ships & ladeings  On that day 3 Brandenburgh ships Arrived       
there with Bombes Granadoes Bulletts &c                                         
     The Spanish Galleons are Arrived on the Coast of Spaine                    
     L. c. 1713     London 28th Sept 1686                                       
+This day the Ecclesll Comrs sate before whome dr Elliott Appeared for          
Marrying without Licence & was ordered to forbear dureing his Maties            
pleasure which he promised he would                                             
     A few dayes since Came out A little booke Entituled Episcopalia or         
letters of the Ld Bp of London to the Clergie of his diocesse written at        
severall times & now Collected togather but being printed without               
licence were last Satureday seized by the stationers Company                    
+Masse is now Publickly said at University Colledg in Oxford but to A           
very thin Auditory  dr Massey A Romanist is made deane of Christchurch          
     Last Sunday night the queens Chappell at St James was Robbed of the        
Plate & other things used there                                                 
     This day mr Rawlinson & mr ffowles were sworne sherives                    
     His Maty hath declared Sr Jo: Peake to be o[u]r Ld Mayor                   
     Charles Molley Esqr of the Inner Temple is made Recorder of London &       
tis said will be knighted after his Maty Comes to towne which is next           
ffriday                                                                         
     The Countesse of Ossory is delivered of A son who was yesterday            
Baptized at St James their Parish Church The d of Ormond & D of Beaufort        
being Godfathers                                                                
     Last weeke died that Wonderfull Creature the Rhynoceros The                
severall Proprietors haveing Ensured 1200 L on her life  The Ensurers           
are catched in for so much money                                                
     They write from Vienna of the 22d say [sic] the d: of Lorraine             
hath sent thither for Greate Cannons & Bombes to beseige Segedin                
also that the Turks burnt Hatwan & Retired to Agria                             
+The ffrench King takeing the League made by the German Princes in              
which the house of Austria is Included to be A Breach of the Treaty of          
Nimeguen hath shewed his Resentment by ordering his Armes to be set up          
neer Namurr upon which the Governr of the Spanish netherlands hath sent         
to Acquaint the K of Spaine The Emperor & the states Genll looking on it        
A Breach of the Truce & they write from Brussells their feares &                
jealousies Increase since the ffrench have Assembled A body of 25000 men        
neer Tournay                                                                    
      L. c. l7l4     London 30th Sept l686                                      
     This weeke was Published A book entitled seeke & you shall find            
or A search into the Grounds of Religion &c Printed by Hen: Hills & In          
it An Advertisemt of 25 more Printed by him Vizt The life of St                 
Ignatius A Short Christian Doctrine Composed by Cardinall Bellarmine,           
Historicall Collections out of severall Protestant writers of the               
Change of Religion & the strong Confusions following thence in the              
Reignes of Hen 8 Edw 6 & Mary & Q Eliz                                          
+There is A Discourse his Maty will grant A new Comission for Ecclesll          
Affaires in which the Archbp of Cant is to be left out and others added         
     As also that in consideration of the many distressed & miserable           
persons in prison in England for debt, His Maty will grant A comission          
to inspect the Cases & Conditions of Prisoners & give them the utmost           
Releife the Royall Prerogative Can                                              
     The Person who Robbed her Maties Chappell is taken with the Plate &        
is in Newgate                                                                   
+Oates hath been Examined touching some papers he hath been writeing,           
severall of them have been seized & Carryed to Sr Roger Le Estrange to          
be Examined                                                                     
     Yesterday the Companies mett at Guildhall as formerly & his Maties         
Comission was Read Constuteing Sr Jo: Peake Ld Mayor for the yeare              
ensuing                                                                         
     The Algerine is still at Harwich & the Captives on board for whome         
as yet is no Releife                                                            
     This morning Sr Phill Lloyd one of the Clerks of the Councell died         
+The Imperiall Chamber at Vienna are now Employed in Methodizeing the           
Govermt of the New Conquest & setting out houses & ground to those [who?]       
prsent themselves to Inhabitt in Buda who are very Numerous & offer to          
build the Ruined houses                                                         
     There is A discourse that A Proclamation will suddenly Come forth          
to give notice that his Maty Intends An Adjournmt of the Parliamt till          
the 10th ffebr  some say the 10th March                                         
     L. c. 1715     London 2d Octobr 1686                                       
+Last night their Maties & the whole Court Returned to Whitehall & were         
welcomed with bells Ringing & with Bonefires both in westminster &              
London                                                                          
    This morning the Ld Mayor Aldermen Recorder &c waited on his Maty &         
mr Recorder made A very Loyall Eloquent speech Congratulating his safe          
Returne                                                                         
     His Maty Recd them kindly & Answered the Recorders Speech with much        
Affection to the Citty Concludeing That soe long as they Remained firme         
to their duty & Carefull & Loyall in their severall stations he would           
doe all on his Part that Could be Exspected for their Generall good &           
Tranquillity & mantaine the Church of England                                   
     Tis said mr Blaithwaite secretary of Warr & Clerke of the                  
Plantations will succeed Sr Phill Lloyd                                         
     The queens Chappell was not broke open only Robbed at supper time          
by A ffrenchman who was Recomended to An office by one of the Monks             
most that was stolne was taken with him                                         
     Tis said the Publisher of the Bp of Londons letter will be                 
Prosecuted                                                                      
+Our letters from Venice Assure us their Army have taken Napoli de              
Romani the Metropolis of Morea                                                  
     Our letters from Vienna of the 26th Advise The Grand vizier had            
ordered all the Places between the danube & the drave to be burnt Except        
Alba Regalis Camisa & Zigeth but hath left 10000 men in Alba Regalis &          
given A horse to every janizary that they may be the more able to               
Harrasse the Garrison of Buda & Interupt their workeing on the                  
ffortifications                                                                 
     That Teckly finding the Croats did not joyne with him was Come to          
the Grand vizier with only 150 men                                              
     That the Turks kill all the Christian Inhabitants they Can meet            
with & take the Children with them which Caused greate numbers to fly to        
the Imperiall Army for Refuge                                                   
+That the Garrison of Montgatz made An Incursion & killed many of the           
Imperiallists                                                                   
+That after the Reduction of Segedin Genll Caraffa will march with              
16000 men into Transilvania to take Winter quarters & Advise the Prince         
& states of that Country to Conclude A Treaty with the Emper[o]r & that         
the d of Lorraine was Putting one part of his Army into winter quarters         
     L. c. 1716     London 5th Octobr 1686                                      
+Tis said that only the Ld Chancellr goes to Windsor to vissitt that            
deane & Chapter                                                                 
     dr Winn succeeds Sr Phill: Lloyd in the place of warden of the Mint        
     Sr Robt Robinson being made Governr of Bermudas is Prepareing for          
his departure                                                                   
     The Spanish Ambr here hath prsented A memoriall to his Maty                
Representing the Proceedings of the ffrench in fflanders as A Breach of         
the Truce                                                                       
     Our Spanish letters Advise that the Galleons are safely Arrived at         
Cadiz in 68 dayes from Havanna being 19 sayle & are worth 36 millions           
in Gold silver &c                                                               
     The Captain & the Lieut of the Algerine now at Harwich are Come up         
hither to desire A Pilott to Conduct them out of that Harbour &                 
Complaine that the Inhabitants Refuse to furnish them with Provisions           
     ffower dutch men of warr lye before Harwich to watch the motions of        
the said Algerine                                                               
     Last weeke the halfe moone A man of warr formerly taken from the           
Turks was burnt at Chattam by negligence of the Cooke                           
     Our letters from Vienna of the 29th say The Grand vizier is                
Encamped before the River Sacovitz & the d of Lorraine hath layd A              
bridg over the said River to Attacke them                                       
     That they found under the Castle of Buda 2 Capitall mines & in each        
150 barrells of Powder which they designed to fire when the Christians          
tooke it but had not opportunity                                                
     They write from Constantinople they are in the greatest                    
Consternation Imaginable aswell by Reason of their ill successes as also        
the Revolting of severall within their owne Empire  There are 10000 men         
up in Armes in Asia Minor 15000 Abt Aleppo & 15000 in Arabia who doe not        
only Refuse to pay the grand seignr any tribute but plunder & destroy           
all the Country                                                                 
+Greate preparations by fireworks &c are makeing for Celebration of his         
Maties birthday on the 14th Instant when all the horse guards are to            
Appeare in new Cloaths which are very rich  The Habitts of the E of             
dovers new troop of Guards will Cost 30 L each man & their Horses &c            
suitable                                                                        
     L. c. 1717     London 7th octobr 1686                                      
+The Printer & bookbinder who Printed the Bp of Londons letters were            
this weeke Examined by Sr Roger Le Estrange & Continued in Custody              
     This Weeke A person was seized at An Innekeepers house at Hampstead        
togather with the said Innekeeper by one of the Kings messengers &              
Comitted to the Gatehouse                                                       
     This afternoon the Comrs for distributing the money Collected for          
ffrench Protestants mett to Considder of fit persons to give the same it        
being said there is 60000 L in banke                                            
     Greate preparations are makeing for A mighty show on the Ld Mayors         
day                                                                             
     They write from Harwich there is greate Resort to see the Turks &          
the 2 dutch men of warr that lye within A League of each other & that           
the Turks & dutch Carry themselves very Civill to each others at shoar          
     The ffrench K hath Established A Court for Reformation of the              
Clergie                                                                         
     They write from Hambrough that Jostram & Sintner 2 of the Councell         
of 30 that designed to betray that Citty to the K of Denmarke had               
sentence vizt                                                                   
ffirst to have 2 of their fingers Cut off & then to be beheaded & their         
Heads to be fixt on Poles but the body of the latter to be buryed               
     They write from Turkey the Plague Rages Extreamly at Aleppo                
Constantinople & Adrianople in which last place died neer 1000 men in A         
day                                                                             
     The Venetians by the takeing of Napoli Romani will become masters          
of that fertile Island of Morea Called the granary of Constantinople            
     They write from Hungary the d of Lorraine will not Attacke the             
bridg of Essecke till next Campaigne That then the Emper[o]r will not           
make use of Any Auxillaries his owne forces being sufficient which will         
not only save him A Prodigious summe of money but also enable the               
severall Electrs & Circles to have A more formidable Army on the                
Rhine in Case the ffrench K make any Attempt on that side  Wee hear the         
Grand seignr hath sent to the Emper[o]r for A treaty of peace  Just now         
is Come A Holland Post which Advises the Poles have beaten the Turks            
      [These lines appear on outside of letter in another hand:]                
    No gds Comps [?] are sinking [?] at Moores pk [?]                           
    got 18 Lds at Wratfords pt 4 Days                                           
    finisht least [last?] hand at Boones pt [?] next week                       
    telling the ds about psons [?] Labourers                                    
    Randall 3 Ld on Bank                                                        
    Boones 23 Lode on Bank                                                      
    told [?] from Boones 11 & 2 skips [?] stra this week [?]                    
    Rend Last week on Bank 14 Ld [?]                                            
    Adkins 8 ld on Bank                                                         
    Redors 4 on Bank                                                            
    wants Batins to thach Hurdles                                               
[Another almost illegible line at bottom of same verso, then in yet             
another hand:]                                                                  
    The time being almost expired [and a few more scribbled words]              
     L. c. 1718     London 9th octobr 1686                                      
+Last night was A greate Councell all the Lds being sumoned where A             
Proclamation was Read & signed for the further Prorogation of o[u]r             
Parliamt till the 15th ffebr next  Also the E of Tirconnell was sworne          
one of the Privy Councell here & tooke his place at the board                   
     The person o[u]r last mentioned to be seized at Hampstead is one           
that upon Pretence of being the d of Monmoth got Divers small summes of         
money from some Ignorant people & was found there hidden in A Chest &           
with the people of the house Comitted to Newgate                                
     Our Scotch letters say the Election of Majestrates for Edenbrough          
& all the Boroughs of that Kingdome is suspended till his Maties                
pleasure be further knowne                                                      
     Wee have A discourse that orders are gone for dissolveing the              
Parliamt of Scotland & that A Parliamt will be Called in Ireland to             
sit next spring if not sooner                                                   
     The Bps of Durham Rochester & Peterbrough are to Execute the               
Episcopall jurisdiction of the Bp of London who is still in                     
Northamptonshire                                                                
+The Archbp of Cant: hath waited on his Maty since his Returne from             
Windsor & desires to be Excused by Reason of his greate Age & want              
of health from Attending on the Ecclesll Comission                              
     The Ministers have Attended on Sr Tho: Pinfold with their Register         
books  Sr Jo: Holt Recorder of London hath kissed his Maties hand & had         
thanks for his Loyall speech to the Cittizens last michaelmas day               
     Our E India ship the Syam laden with Pepper &c from Syam is Arrived        
in the downes                                                                   
     The Ld Dartmouth is Returned & this morning made A Report to his           
Maty of the state & Condition of all his fforts &c on the south & west          
Coasts of England                                                               
   Our Holland letters say the K of Poland hath defeated A greate Army          
of Tartars & killed 10000 with the loss of 1000 Poles & that the King           
had his horse twice shott under him                                             
     The dukes of Lorraine & Bavaria &c have put their Armies into              
Winter quarters & are Returned to Vienna the season haveing put An end          
to all further Action this year                                                 
[A few words and figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]          
     L. c. 1719     London 12th octobr 1686                                     
+They write from Scotland that the Privy Councell there have suspended          
the Penall Lawes Agt Roman Catholicks                                           
     They write from Harwich that their Mayor & one mr Bontall A                
merchant had Directions under his Maties hand & seale to goe on the             
Turks man of warr there & bring thence the English slaves his Maty              
haveing not only paid their Ransoms but also given the Turks Large              
supplies of Provisions Gratis  These letters Add they Exspect An English        
man of warr to secure them from the danger of 2 dutch men of warr that          
lye in waite for them & that which Confirmes it is That the Oxford &            
Saphire 2 of the Kings ships sayled from the Downes on the 10th Instant         
for Harwich                                                                     
     Last weeke An English ship Arrived at Harwich from the streights           
The master sayes 2 Algerine men of warr Came up with them & told them           
they were bound for the English Channell                                        
     The Ld Dover is made the Ld Lieut of Cambridgshire                         
     This day is Published An Historicall Account of the seige of Buda          
written in ffrench by Comand of the D of Lorraine & Translated here &           
Licenced being An Exact diary of the seige & very Carefully Collected by        
A Gent in the Imperiall Army                                                    
     Among other Proposalls made by the Confederates to the K of                
denmarke are                                                                    
+That the said King shall Renounce the Alliance he hath made with               
ffrance, Also Reinstate the D of Holstein which being done they will            
secure him from any Invasion the K of Sweden shall make on him                  
+Yesterday all the horse guards mustered before the King in Hyde Parke &        
are to doe the same on Thursday & at night will be A greate Ball                
+Tis said the Princesse of Denmarke is with Child                               
     [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1720     London 14th octobr 1686                                     
+Yesterday began o[u]r sessions at the old Bayly where the Person that          
Pretended himselfe to be the d of Monmoth Confest himselfe to be An             
Imposter & proves to be A poor obscure fellow                                   
     Abt 80 Appeales were brought Agt Informations for Conventicles &           
soe many Indictmts for Perjury were to be Preferred agt Hilton & his            
gang  The most considerable was brought by Sr Jo: Hartopp who had his           
goods seized for 1000 L forfeiture  his appeale was allowed & he ordered        
to have his goods Againe                                                        
     This being the kings birth day the Bells Rung & all the nobility &c        
abt Court Congratulated his Maty upon his 53d year & afterwards their           
Matys with the Prince & Ps went to Hyde Parke where all the guards were         
drawne up in very rich new Cloaths & both officers & souldiers more             
glorious then ever was seen before  His Maty viewed them Abt 2 houres           
& at Abt l2 returned to Whitehall                                               
     All the shops in the Citty were kept shutt  The guns fired 3 times         
Round & at night was A Greate Ball at Court                                     
     His Maty hath not only Promised some Noblemen the utmost Releife           
that by his Prerogative he Can give poor Prisoners for debt but tis             
said hath ordered 20000 L for Releife of such & the Comission by which          
the Comrs for discharge of them are to Act is now drawing up by 2               
Councellrs of the Inner Temple                                                  
     Our letters from Vienna of the 6th say that the Generalls were             
returned to Vienna but Prince Lewis of Baden was Abt to Passe the               
Danube with his troops to Joyne with Genll Caprara to beseige Segedin           
which they hope to be masters of in 8 dayes                                     
+Our letters from Harwich say 2 of his Matys men of warr were Arrived           
there upon which the dutch men of warr which lay there made off to sea          
Tis said ffresh complaints were brought to the K of the dutch in E              
India & some talked Already of A warr                                           
     L. c. 172l      London l6th octobr 1686                                    
+The Person that Pretended to be the D of Monmoth being poor is not             
fined but hath judgment to be whipt from Newgate to Tyburne & stand 3           
times in the Pillory                                                            
     This week Another sham D of Monmoth was seized in Southwarke by            
being accused of A Robbery on the High way for which he is Comitted to          
the Gatehouse & Its said hath made a large discovery of those that              
supplied him with money beleiveing him to be the d of Monmoth                   
     This day Browne An Informer stood in the Pillory for suborning             
persons to swear Agt Conventicles falsely                                       
     Our E: India Company have advice that the dutch have Instigated the        
Mallays to force the Companies factrs thence That the English                   
endeavoured to settle at Priaman but the dutch being got thither with 5         
Greate guns &c Refuse to let the English trade thither, whereupon they          
endeavoured to settle at Catongee but the dutch with Abt 300 of their           
owne men & 700 Natives Came the day after the English were there fired          
the Towne & all the places Abt it                                               
+They write from the Hague they Resolve to build 6 greate ships for             
their E India Companies service & to Add 10 more to be sent thither with        
all speed for maintaining of their fforts & factories Agt any Attempts          
whatsoever                                                                      
     mr Newcomb the Printer is dead of the wounds given him by mr               
Blackall                                                                        
     They write from Poland An Expresse was Arrived there with newes of         
A greate victory over the Turks & Tartars though not without the losse          
of much blood                                                                   
     That they had only these perticulars                                       
     That 40000 Turks & 60000 Tartars Attacqued their Campe with greate         
fury & Reasonable successe But the Ld Pecewisky being detached with many        
thousand Poles Came to the Kings Assistance & put the Enemy to flight           
takeing most of their baggage & Artillery & that their King is Advanced         
within 60 Leagues of Constantinople & 40 leagues of Adrianople                  
+Letters from Constantinople of the 18th August not only mention the            
Plague & the Rebellions in Asia Minor Aleppo & Arabia but also that the         
Rebells Rob all their Caravans Also that there is A Rebellion at Grand          
Cairo in Egipt                                                                  
     L. c. 1722     London 19th octobr 1686                                     
+Our last Scotch letters brought his Maties Proclamation Published there        
for dissolveing that Parliamt also another in favour to mr James Watson         
Printer to his Maties household allowing him the sole benefit of                
Printing & selling all Almanacks within that Kingdome                           
     This day the Ecclesll Comrs sate all being prsent but the Archbp           
of Cant where Sr Jo: Buclare [?] & his Councell Appeared & An                   
Information for simony was Read that he Recd 500 L for prsenting A              
minister who also Appeared  Sr Jo & Councell made A very notable defence        
& another day was Appointed                                                     
     Also some ministers Appeared for scandalous Liveing Irregular              
Marriages & Extortion on their Parishioners & Another day Appointed             
     Tis said the President of Magdalen Colledg & the warden of New             
Colledg in Oxford are sumoned before the Ecclesll Comrs & that the E            
of Mulgrave will be in the Ecclesll Comission in Roome of the Archbp            
of Cant                                                                         
     The Ld Lucas is said to have altered his Religion some months since        
     The ds of Portesmouth will be this weeke in her old lodgings in            
Whitehall & stay there till spring                                              
     Last weeke Hilton the Informer who kept Private some time was with         
some dificulty taken in the Savoy & brought to Hicks Hall Convicted of          
subbornation & fined 300 marks                                                  
     At o[u]r sessions last weeeke A headbrough & his man were Condemned        
for killing mr Howard  Yesterday 18 Maydens drest in white prsented A           
petition to the King for the headbroughs mans life  his Maty smiled &           
Granted it                                                                      
     Its Impossible to Expresse the Consternation at Constantinople  The        
Grand seignr went on ffoot A Pilgrimage of 7 miles to the shrine of             
Mahomett to begg him to divert the Anger of heaven There haveing died in        
that Citty every day for 2 months 2 or 3000 of the Plague &  every day          
brings newes of Rebellions on one hand & the successe of the Christians         
on the other  The Newes of the takeing of Buda nor of Napoli Romani was         
not then Arrived but the march of the K of Poland was which much                
startled them                                                                   
     To morrow Tho: Savage the sham D of Monmoth is to be whipt from            
Newgate to Hampstead where he was seized                                        
     L. c. 1723     London 21st octobr 1686                                     
+Yesterday Tho: Savage the sham D of Monmoth was severely whipt from            
Holborne barrs to Tyburne                                                       
     Another sham d of Monmoth is seized in Wiltshire & Comitted to             
Salisbury Goale                                                                 
     The Ecclesll Comrs ordered the ministers who marryed without               
licence to bring in lists of all such marriages to Sr Tho: Pinfold & to         
make noe more such Marriages                                                    
     Also viewed the settlemts of the Colledg of Dulwich & finding noe          
abuse in the Charity & that the lands were set at the full vallue &             
Rightly Applied discharged the masters & wardens thereof                        
     Also Sr Tho: Exton was Called & said he gave his opinion in the            
Case of the Bp of London upon A sudden through Inadvertency but after           
mature deliberation he found himselfe mistaken had Retracted it & had           
submitted to their Lordships upon which he was discharged                       
     They write from Harwich that the Algerine waites for A good wind           
to be gone haveing A good guard to Conduct him into the downes & that           
then he is to shift for himselfe                                                
     The Turks very much Applaud the Civill Reception they have mett            
with  The 18th was their Passover which was observed with much joy &            
sacrificeing of sheep & ended with danceing leapeing Wrestling &c               
     They write from Cowes that 2 Dutch men of warr lye at St Hellens           
Road to watch the motion of the Algereen                                        
     They write from Rotterdam Sr Robt Payton was seized there but soe          
soon as it was knowne the people Rose in A most furious manner & beset          
the house whilst others went to the Citty officer to know whether it            
was done by his order which being disowned they tooke him away from             
those that had him in Custody                                                   
     There is greate Preparation in Holland for A defensive warr if             
Attacqued by ffrance or any other                                               
     They write from Marselles the Algereens Continue to give all manner        
of satisfaction to the ffrench merchants & doe them justice on the least        
Complaint                                                                       
+His Maty Rides frequently to Hunt in Epping fforrest                           
     L. c. 1724     London 23d october 1686                                     
+This being the 1st day of the Terme the Ld Ch: J Herbert & the Ld Ch:          
Baron were absent The 1st being sick of An Ague & the latter Indisposed         
The Bp of Rochester tooke the oaths & Test, mr Jones A Capt in Monmoths         
Army pleaded his Maties Pardon                                                  
     Last night mr Richd Allabone of Grayes Inne was knighted & made one        
of his Maties Councell at law & this day tooke his place in Court               
+Yest mr Blathwaite was sworne one of the Clerks of the Privy Councell          
in Roome of Sr Phill Lloyd deceased                                             
     His Maty hath made dr Massey of Merton Colledg in Oxford deane of          
Christchurch                                                                    
     mr Hill the Kings Printer hath Published An Advertisemt of 2               
Catholick Almanacks that he is Printing by his Maties Speciall Comand &c        
     On the 19th Instant the Algereen sayled from Harwich with 2 of his         
Maties ffrigotts & were at Anchr on the 20th at the Lower end of                
Gunfleet & Its said the 2 dutch men of warr were Rideing the same               
morning in sole Bay                                                             
     The Hamburgh Company haveing made Complaint to his Maty that               
severall Persons Contrary to their Charter sent Cloth &c to Bremen it           
was yesterday heard before his Maty in Councell & the Persons Accused           
ordered to be secured to Answer An Information that will be brought Agt         
them by the Atturney Genll                                                      
+They write from Vienna that A Party of the Imperiall troops being sent         
to fetch away the Cattle &c Abt quinque Ecclesie Arrived there before           
day & finding A favourable opportunity Attacqued the Towne & Got into it        
where A bloody fight ensued & many killed on both sides but the Turks           
keeping posession of the Castle they were forced to quitt the towne             
Againe & would not have burnt it in hopes to be suddenly masters of both        
but Released 1000 Christian slaves & brought away A greate booty                
     L. c. 1725     London 26th octobr 1686                                     
+The Ld Ch: J: Herbert Continuing much Indisposed with A Tertian Ague &         
other Complicated distempers little hath been done at the Kings bench           
but Private matters & some tryalls are Put off vizt                             
     A tryall of mr Perry for the Earledom of Northumberland is Put off         
for 8 dayes                                                                     
     A heareing between the Ld Hamsden & mr Lenthall wherein the office         
of Marshall was to have been Concerned &c                                       
+Yesterday Councell Againe moved In behalfe of mr Johnson that he might         
Come up before judgment be Agt him on the verdict Abt the 2 seditious           
Libells for that he hath divers Exceptions to offer Agt it which at             
Lengh the Court granted but Enjoyned him not to make use of it till the         
Court is full                                                                   
     Upon Complaint Agt Titus Oates & Another Prisoner in the Kings             
bench they are Confined to their Chambers tis said for words in                 
discourse Concerning Julyan & Joviam with A 3d person                           
+Last wedneday the 5 English slaves Redeemed by his Maty from on board          
the Algereen Came to Returne his Maty thanks                                    
     On the 23d Instant the said Algereen Came into the downes with 2           
of his Maties men of warr & after 2 houres stay Ran over to the Coast of        
ffrance to secure her selfe from the dutch men of warr                          
     Last Thursday the Ld fferrors delivered up his Comission to his            
Maty Adding it did not Consist with his health & he Resolved to Retire          
his Lordship also desired to be dismist from being master of the horse          
to the queen dowager which was granted & Its sayd he is going to live           
altogather in the Country & that Sr Jo: Arrundell will succeed in his           
place of Master of the horse                                                    
+They write from Vienna The seige of Segedin proveing more dificult then        
was Exspected the D of Lorraine ordered it to be Raised but they hope           
Genll Scherfouberg will Carry the Towne of 5 Churches                           
+Teckley is got safe with Abt 50 horse into Montgatz                            
     L. c. 1726     London 28th Octobr 1686                                     
+This day Sr Jo: Peake was sworne o[u]r Ld Mayor                                
     Yesterday Tho: Savage the sham D of Monmoth stood in the Pillory           
at Charing Cross & was severely Pelted with Rotten Eggs &c                      
     His Maty hath Appointed A Parliamt of Tinners to meet in Cornwall          
which Parliamt never meet but once in A Kings Raigne  They are Chosen by        
4 of the Ancient stannary townes each 6 persons of the best quality who         
make Lawes between the owners & Labouring Tinners also alter & Regulate         
what they thinke best & what they doe is binding & are Called stannary          
lawes from which there is noe Appeale                                           
     They write from the Hague the states Genll sent to their E India           
Company to Clear themselves of the wrongs & Injuries which the English          
Alledg they have suffered by them in E India & they gave in A long              
Memoriall wherein they justify what they have done & A Report thereof           
will be suddenly made to the states Genll The P of Orange prsent                
     These letters Confirme Teckley is got into Montgatz & that the K           
of Poland & D of Brandenburgh endeavr to make his peace with the                
Emper[o]r                                                                       
     They write from Constantinople the Grand seignr hath Comanded              
Publick Prayers to be made throughout his dominions for 40 dayes                
barefooted & without Turbants or any other Cloaths but sackcloth dureing        
which both Christians & Jewes are forbid to goe out of their houses on          
Paine of death  Those of the most strict orders are Comanded to whip            
themselves Tear their hair &c  Mahometts Tombe is to be Carryed Abt in          
Procession dureing which A Christian & A Jew are to be sacrificed every         
halfe houre to Mahomett                                                         
+Yest the E of Bridgwater died                                                  
     L. c. 1727     London 30th octobr 1686                                     
+Yesterday o[u]r new Ld Mayor tooke the usuall oaths before the Barons          
of the Exchequer & then Returned into the Citty where the Ld Chancellr          
&c dined with him                                                               
     There was one Pageant in which sate A virgin queen Richly Attired          
which being brought from the West end of St Paulls to [about three words        
torn away] The Axle tree [About twenty words torn away] & was splendidly        
entertained by the Ld Mayors dinner                                             
     This day was Published A Proclamation for Prohibitting the                 
Transporting of frames for knitting & makeing of silke stockens &c              
     They write from Poland of the 12th Instant That A 2d Courrier              
Arrived there with Positive newes of the defeate given by the K of              
Poland to the Turks [a two-line tear at bottom of first verso] ...them          
severall Relations of the Cham of Tartary, Prince Jacobus the Kings son         
tooke one of the Cheife Comanders with his owne hands & prsented him to         
the King                                                                        
     There was lost on the Kings side the Waywood of Podosh & 4 Cheife          
officers more since which the King has Posted himselfe between the              
Rivers Pruth & Neister                                                          
     Those of Moldavia have [tear removes about eight letters] to the           
King [two-line tear at bottom of second recto]                                  
+They write from Edenbrough that on the 22d in the mo[about ten letters         
torn off] nonconformist minister made his escape out of the [torn as            
above] womans Apparrell & not since heard of                                    
+They write from Hamburgh there is a finall determination of [torn as           
above] between the K of denmarke & that citty & all the forces [torn as         
above] Lunenburgh &c have quitted the place & A ffree [torn as above]           
is granted them by the K of denmarke                                            
     L. c. 1728     London 2d Nov: 1686                                         
+mr Oates & Capt Slaughter are still confined to their chambers & tis           
said An Indictmt is drawne Agt Oates                                            
     Last Sunday Dr Tenison minister of St Martins Caused to be Read in         
his Church the Act for the 5th Novembr                                          
     Last Satureday arrived here the Ld Mountjoy mr Bellasis & others           
from the Imperiall Campe & have kissed his Maties hand & related to him         
the severall perticulars of the seige of Buda                                   
     The Warden of the ffleet & prisoners there haveing made Application        
Ld Chancellor & judges That the prsent Rules of that prison were very           
streight &c                                                                     
     Last Satureday they granted & subscribed that the rules should             
extend from the Prison gate up Ludgate hill Downe old Bayly to searvale         
Lane To the Ditchside & to the prison gate againe                               
     & yest mr Warden tooke out many gente therein & walked the New             
Rules                                                                           
     Our letters from Vienna say A greate Army of Turks & Tartars that          
were marching to releive Segedin were totally Routed & all their Cannon         
& baggage taken & thereupon the governr offered to Capitulate                   
     Also that the Prince of Baden had burnt the towne of Quinque               
Ecclesia & doubted not but to be masters of the Castle in A few dayes           
after which the Campaigne will be ended But greate preparations are             
makeing at Vienna for the next There being 6000 bombes & 6000 Carrasses         
to be made & the Emper[o]r resolved to open the Campaigne very early            
     Tis said the P of Orange hath lent the states Genll 500000 L               
sterling for 3 yeares gratis & if he dye without Ishue the governmt             
shall have it as A Legasie  Also that the states have Returned him              
Extrary thanks & will also constantly mantaine the Ps of Orange A troope        
of Horse guards & have settled on her A very Considderable Annuall              
Revenue                                                                         
+His Maty hath made the E of Bridgwater Ld Lieut of Buckinghanshire &           
the E of Rochester Ld Lieut of Hartfordshire both vacant by the death of        
the E of Bridgwater                                                             
     L. c. 1729      London 4 Nov 1686                                          
+Yesterday the Ld Chancellr & many of the greate ministers of state             
togather with the judges mett in the Exchequer Chamber to compleate A           
list of 3 Gent in every County for his Maty to Pick A sheriffe for the          
year ensuing, ffor Warwickshire                                                 
     Sr Jo:  Bridgman Barr                                                      
     Sr Wm Bowden Barr                                                          
     Tho: Clarke Esqr                                                           
+This day Came on the tryall between the d of somerset & mr Perry for           
the mannr of Petworth but not makeing out his descent to be from the            
Right line of Northumberland he was nonsuited                                   
     This day was A heareing in Chancery between the Ld Hamsden & mr            
Lenthall for the office of Marshall of the Kings bench  The Ld                  
Chancellr ordered A farther heareing of it & mr Lenthall to put in his          
plea Positively within A fortnight                                              
     A Dutch ship Arrived in the Isle of Wight says he was chased 6             
houres by A Turks man of warr who had taken A dutch merchantman & was           
in Chase of Another but Espying 2 greate ships which he supposed to be          
dutch men of warr sayled away with his Prize & Its supposed was the same        
as lay so long at Harwich being An Extrary swift saylr & wee have a             
report shee is since taken by the dutch                                         
     Yesterday morning Abt 3 A Clock one Capt Merlin & 2 others of the          
horse guards being on the Patrole & Passing out of Leicester feilds Into        
St Martins Lane A Blunderbusse went off out of A house & with 7 bulletts        
killed the Captains horse & wounded him soe that Its thought he will not        
live  The other 2 got Imediately into the house & found Coll Culpepper          
Br to the Ld Culpepper Comeing up the cellar stayres  they seized him &         
searched the Cellar & found the Blunderbuss warme & the Pan smoakeing &         
he is Comitted to the Gatehouse   Tis said he knew not the Captain or           
what he did it being done in his sleepe & that the Noyse of the peece           
awaked him                                                                      
+Tis said the King is Raiseing on some branches of his Revenue 400000 L         
     L. c. 1730     London 6th Nov: 1686                                        
+Yesterday the bells Rung & sermons were in o[u]r Churches as formerly          
The Bp of Ely Preached A sermon suiteing the occasion before the Ps of          
denmarke at Whitehall  The judges were at the Abby Church & the Ld Mayor        
Aldermen &c at Bow in their formalities                                         
     The Ld Mayor forbid bonefires fireworks &c but the boyes Lighted up        
A vast Number of Candles on Caske heads  some were Carryed Abt streets          
on Cross sticks 3 Rowes one above another &c                                    
+This day the 3 Grandjuries for this Terme were sworne & Judge Holloway         
gave the usuall Charge                                                          
     Last Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs heard A Complaint Abt A simony &          
one between A minister & his Patron & tis said ordered the Bp of                
Lincolne to be Cited before them, upon the Complaint of that Archdeacon         
for not Resideing in his diocesse nor performing his trieniall                  
visitation                                                                      
     The Capt Wounded by mr Culpepper is not like to live  mr Culpepper         
Avers he was in A dreame & his Landlord sayes he frequently used to Rise        
& walke Abt Chamber in his sleepe                                               
     This weeke vice Admirall Herbert Comeing to the Playhouse Conceived        
that he was affronted by the E of devonshires Coachman whome he                 
desperately wounded  My Lord told him it was not his buisness to Correct        
his Coachman but to have Acquainted him & he should have A suitable             
Punishmt  The vice Admirall said he had not done soe much to him as he          
ought  My Lord said he would Examine that in another place & soe Parted         
His Maty Confined them to their Chambers & hath since Engaged them to be        
freinds                                                                         
+Our fforreign letters say the defeate of the Turks & Tartars neer              
Segedin was more Considderable then was mentioned  That the Germans have        
not only taken Segedin but also 5 Churches & made the garrison of 2000          
men Prisoners of warr & the Prince of Baden is marched thence for the           
Bridg of Essecke with designe to take it or burne it  Also that the             
Emper[o]r hath Proclaimed Liberty of Conscience in all Hungary & for 6          
yeares freedom from Taxes                                                       
+His Maties Navy will be suddenly in A better Condition then hath been          
many yeares                                                                     
     L. c. 1731     London 9th Nov: 1686                                        
+Yesterday his Maty went downe the River to see A yatcht Launched built         
by the d of Albemarle to take with him to Jamaica which his Maty named          
the Albemarle  His Grace fell from the scaffold & is sorely bruised, His        
Maty fell also but had noe harme at all                                         
     His Maty hath Appointed A Comittee of the Lds of the Councell vizt         
the Lds Chancellr Treasurer President Chamberlain Ld Huntington Ld Powis        
Ld Arundell Ld Godolphin & Sr Jo: Earnly to Inspect the Comissions of           
Peace throughout England & make such alterations as they thinke meet &          
yesterday they mett in the Councell Chamber                                     
     They write from Languedoc in ffrance that the Intendant of Basville        
was gone with 6 Executioners to Nismes to make Processe & doe Execution         
upon above 200 Protestants whome the Kings troops had seized meeting in         
divers places & that among those that had already suffered were some            
Gentn of quality who were beheaded  also A minister & 10 or 12 women were       
hanged                                                                          
     Sr Jo: Burlace hath been Againe heard before the Ecclesll Comrs &          
the simony not being proved he was discharged                                   
     There is A Talke the Bp of London will be Restored in all Points           
     Yesterday was A heareing at drs Comons between the E of Stamford &         
his Lady who was proved Incontinent & next Tuesday they are to have             
another heareing                                                                
     This day Browne the Informer & the wife of Hilton were brought to          
the Kings bench barr & pleaded not Guilty to An Information for Perjury         
Exhibitted Agt them in the Crowne office                                        
   His Maty hath ordered the Marquess de Abbevile his envoy in Holland          
to demand satisfaction of the states for the Injuries done to o[u]r E           
India Company at Sumatra &c                                                     
     L. c. 1732     London 11th Nov: 1686                                       
+The dutch are fitting out 100 men of warr with all Hast which occasions        
much discourse here                                                             
     Capt Minchin who was shott by mr Culpepper is dead                         
     Last ffriday many sharpe sermons were preached on the occasion of          
the day perticularly one at Lincolnes Inne Chappell by the deane of             
Canterbury from 16 John 2d vers                                                 
     The Bp of Salisbury is dangerously ill                                     
     some of the Comanders of the late Raised souldiers have given up           
their Comissions                                                                
     The Ld Ch: Justice being not yet well was not in Court this day soe        
mr Johnson was not brought up nor mr Edes A Prebend of Chichester to            
Receive judgment                                                                
     An Atturney belonging to the Kings bench is taken into Custody for         
Treasonable words                                                               
     Tis said his Maty will Appoint Comrs to Examine & Inspect all              
prisons & deliver such as are Confined from their families & Employes           
for small & Triviall debts & will give A summe of money towards their           
discharge                                                                       
+An English ship at Burdeaux tooke 8 or 9 Passengers on board & put them        
in A small Roome neer the Cooke Roome & were gone downe the River &             
Cleared off But the Pilott being still on board heard one Crying out            
being almost stifled whome seizeing he discovered the Rest & they were          
Carryed as also the master of the ship aboard A man of warr that lay            
just by & Its thought they will be Condemned to the Gallies                     
     They write from Constantinople that upon the newes of the Takeing          
of Buda the people shutt up their shopp & Ran about streets with their          
best moveables in as distracted A Condition as if the Christians were at        
the Gates or the Citty on fire which is much Agravated by the newes of          
the Venetians landing in Tenedos by which they fear the Dardanells will         
be blockt up that they shall want the Corne &c that Comes that way              
     The Remaines of the Library of Mathias Carvinus K of Hungary found         
in Buda is brought to Vienna & lookt upon An Inestimable Treasure The           
greatest part of it in Manuscripts in the orientall Tongues                     
     L. c. 1733     London 13th Nov: 1686                                       
+Yesterday the Ld Mayor Aldermen & Justices of Middsx & Westminster by          
order Attended the King in Councell & his Maty told them his Pleasure           
was signified to them That he would have noe bonefires on the 5th               
Novembr but he was Informed there were very many & other Lights which           
he tooke very ill from them Requireing them to take more Care for the           
future & to find out the Promoters of such disorders                            
+The Ld Ch: Justice & Judge Withins are Pretty well Recovered & will be         
in Court on Munday when its supposed the Ld Altham who is Convicted for         
drinking Confusion to the King will be fined mr Johnson brought up &c           
     This day the Grandjury found severall bills but there was none Agt         
Oates                                                                           
     Sr Richd Allibone moved that mr Williams might put in such A Plea          
as he would stand by to the scandalum Magm brought by the E of                  
Peterbrough, mr Williams Replyed he had given them A Plea & they might          
make their best use of it                                                       
     The dutch Ambr here hath Acquainted his Maty The states were               
makeing greate Preparations by sea & land but it was only for their             
owne guard & doe Relye upon his Maty to Continue Guarrantee of the              
Treaty of Nimeguen                                                              
     They write from Amsterdam that the birth day of the P of Orange was        
solemnized there more then ever & the ffrench Protestants were behind           
none in their Expressions of joy                                                
     They write from Paris the Intendant of Nismes hath Caused some of          
the Relapsed Converts to be broken on the wheele some Rackt some hanged         
& some beheaded &c                                                              
+They write from Vienna that the P: of Baden tooke by storme the strong         
ffort of Sicles upon which the Turks deserted the ffort of Darda that           
Guards the bridg of Essecke & Retired bringing [?] downe part of the            
bridg behind them                                                               
+Last night the King Prickt the High sheriffs                                   
     [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 1734     London 16th Nov: 1686                                       
+The sheriffs are not yet Prickt as was said & the Reason why is said to        
be That his Maty did not Approve the Returne & that another Returne is          
ordered                                                                         
     This day the Ld Ch: Justice was at the Kings bench & mr Johnson            
being brought up spoke much in Arrest of judgment Pulled out many Popish        
books wishing the Atturney Genll to Prosecute the Authrs of them &              
behaved himselfe with that boldness that the Court looked on it as              
Impudent & Rude & Passed judgment on him                                        
     That he be degraded from his ministeriall function & Habitt &              
stand next Munday in the Pillory at the Pallace yard The next Wednesday         
following at Charing Cross & the munday after at the Royall Exchange            
That he be whipt from Newgate to Tyburne & pay 500 Marks to the King            
     George Speake Esqr is ordered to Come up to morrow                         
     dr Edes of Chichester moved for Arrest of judgment which the Court         
would Considder of & ordered him to Appear 2 or 3 dayes hence                   
     The E of Maxfeild not Appeareing nor surrendring himselfe is               
outlawed for High Treason                                                       
     Tis said his Maty will make all his Lieut Colls justices of the            
Peace that justice may be done Imediately on all souldiers that shall           
have Complaints Agt them                                                        
+Its also said that Comissions are signed for 100 New justices of the           
Peace of his Maties perticular Choyce                                           
     Yesterday being the Queen Dowagers birth day the bells Rung  the           
guns were discharged at the Tower & at night A greate ball at Court             
   This day mr skelton Parts hence for ffrance as his Maties envoy              
thither                                                                         
     Its now Reported for Certain that the Parliamt is to meet at the           
time formerly Appointed for their sitting which is the 22d Instant              
     Tis said A greate Number of the officers & souldiers who were              
lately disbanded in Ireland are gone for Holland to offer their service         
to the P: of Orange                                                             
     L. c. 1735     London 18th Nov: 1686                                       
+Yesterday being the Anniversary of Q: Eliz: The Ld Mayor Ishued out            
very strict Precepts forbidding Bonefires &c & the watches were set by          
daylight to Prevent it                                                          
     This day mr Lenthall put in his Plea in Chancery Agt the Ld                
Hunsdens Claime to the office of Marshall                                       
     The Atturney Genll hath moved for A Processe to Ishue Agt the E of         
Macclesfeilds estate & upon Information of 6000 L the said Earle had            
upon A Mortgage Processe was ordered Agt the said surety                        
     mr Edw: Whittaker is fined 1000 Marks for words Agt the Govermt as         
is mentioned in the Gazett                                                      
     mr Baxter being A Prisoner under A fine to the King for A Certain          
booke &c the E of Powis hath Interceded for his Pardon & Its said his           
Maty hath granted it & that he will be this weeke discharged                    
     Edw: Norton Esqr mentioned in his late Maties Proclamation as A            
Criminall hath obtained Pardon & Its said is Arrived in England                 
     Our fforreign letters say the d of Brandenburgh is taken very ill          
     That in ffrance is A new Edict forbidding the selling of meate &c to       
those of Hereticall Principles                                                  
     That his Most Christian Maty finding himselfe Indisposed of his            
old distemper tooke A Resolution unknowne to any body to suffer A new           
Incision which though most Painfull & Grevious yet he underwent it on           
the 18th Instant with A Courage becomeing soe greate A Prince soe that          
greate hopes are drawne from thence of his to[t?]all Recovery                   
     Our fflanders Post this night brought letters from Vienna of the           
10th that Contradict the takeing of darda or the bridg of Essecke the           
first being Covered by A Considderable force under 2 Bashaws & that the         
Imperiall Armies are gone into winter quarters                                  
     Last night was A greate Councell at Whitehall  Tis said the King           
will Pricke the High sheriffs to morrow in Councell                             
     L. c. 1736     London 20th Nov: 1686                                       
+This day mr Johnson was brought to drs Comons where the Bpp of Durham          
Ely & Rochester Represented the Bp [of] London                                  
     They told him he had been An Enemy to the Govermt & to the Church          
& had been Promooted [?] in that Court for severall Crimes proved Agt           
him in another place                                                            
     Then the Record of his Conviction & judgment was Read & it was             
demanded of him what he had to say why degradation should not Passe, he         
Alledged the judgment was false & Instanced how                                 
     That he Conceived he ought to have A Coppie of his Charge & time to        
Answer it &c but offered nothing that the Court judged Materiall soe            
judgment was Read & his gowne & Girdle Imediately Pulled off                    
     Yesterday the Ld Chancellr tooke the Oaths & Test as Custos                
Rotulorum of Middsx                                                             
     The Ld Ch: Justice Continues soe ill that he was not in Court              
     A Rule of Court is made that mr Johnson be whipt from Newgate to           
Tyburne on the 1st decembr                                                      
     This day the E of Peterbroughs Councell demurred to mr Williams            
plea & it will be Argued this Terme                                             
     They write from Deale of severall ships being Cast away on the             
Goodwin Sands  Also the Pacquett boate from Harwich to Holland is lost          
but all the men saved & A ship is Cast away neer Plimouth & all in her          
lost                                                                            
     Our Scotch letters say the Customs there are set for 30600 L for 5         
yeares                                                                          
     They write from Vienna that on the 13th Came fresh Advice that the         
Turks have quitted the ffort of darda & the P: of Baden burnt 800               
Poles [?] of the Bridg of Essecke & that the Turks have Abandoned               
Caposwar & Kopping neer Gratz & Retired to Camsa                                
     The ffrench Kings Phisitians haveing Cutt his ffistula stickt up           
his gutts since which he hath been soe well as to sit in Councell but           
hath ordered himselfe to be perticularly prayed for in all his Churches         
     Yesterday in Councell it was determined to Call home the E of              
Clarendon from Ireland                                                          
     L. c. 1737     London 23d Nov: 1686                                        
+Yesterday the Parliamt mett & were Prorogued by Comission to the               
15th ffebr                                                                      
     Yest mr Johnson stood in the Pillory at the Pallace yard  soe soon         
as his head was in the Pillory he lift up his hands & eyes & said Well          
blessed be god for this dayes worke & Continued talkeing to the People          
all the while nothing being throwne at him                                      
     This day at the Kings bench Came on the tryall of Sr Jo: Knight of         
Bristoll upon An Information of High misdemeanr for A Ryott but the jury        
Acquitted him                                                                   
+The justices of Peace which are now made by the Lds Comrs will be              
Inserted in A few dayes                                                         
     Tis said that of the 100 new justices Prickt by his Maty 12 are of         
Middsx of which are sr Richd Allabone of Grayes Inne mr Brent mr Bymon &        
mr ffitton of the Temple                                                        
     Last Sunday was Read in all the Churches of Middsx an order of the         
Ecclesll Comrs forbidding all marriages unless by Licences or 3 times           
Publishing                                                                      
     The Apartment which the late E of Arlington had in whitehall is            
Prepareing for mr ffitz James who is Comeing from Hungary                       
     Tis said one of the E India Companies ships Comanded by Capt Wetwang       
haveing on board A Rich Cargo & souldiers to Garrison the new settlement        
The souldiers Rebelled & forced the Mariners to Carry the ship to Brazile       
where they Embezelled the Cargo & have done such Pranks as were scarce          
ever heard                                                                      
     Our letters from Vienna Confirme the Turks deserting Darda & that          
they burnt & Ruined most part of the Bridg of Essecke & that the Rest is        
soe Intirely Ruined by the P of Baden that Its judged Imposible to              
Repaire it in A yeares time Also that the Emperor had dispatched in             
greate dilligence An Envoy to Poland & was sending an Ambr after him            
because the ffrench King hath sent one to that Court                            
+The ffrench Post yesterday brought Advice that King was much better            
since the Incision haveing been able to eate & to take A little Rest            
but that he had A fit of the Goute which setled in his heele but o[u]r          
fflanders letters bring severall Reports some that he is dyeing others          
that he is dead                                                                 
     L. c. 1738     London 25th Nov: 1686                                       
+The Information Agt Sr Jo: Knight was grounded on the Ancient statute          
forbidding people to goe or Ride Armed &c                                       
     The Kings witnesses Proved he Rode with A Gun & his man with               
another & they both went with them into the Church &c which was layd in         
the Information to be done In An seditious manner to make A ffray &             
Create feares & jealousies in the People Agt the Goverment                      
     Sr John Produced very greate Evidence of his Loyalty & The occasion        
of his going Armed & the jury Acquitted him                                     
+Yesterday mr Johnson stood in the Pillory at Charing Cross but nothing         
throwne at him                                                                  
     The d of Ormond haveing brought A scandm Magum Agt David                   
ffitzgerald for Reflections in his Narrative The Cause was yesterday            
tryed & the jury gave 50000 L damages & he is in Prison on the said             
Action                                                                          
     The Ld Ch: Justices Ague Continues                                         
     His Maty is in good health & hath been Hunting twice this weeke            
     Tis said A Certaine Nobleman hath offended his Maty in Praying             
leave to make his Addresses to the Q Dowager                                    
+One of his Maties ffriggots hath taken in the harbor at Bermudas one           
Capt Sharpe A Notorious Pirate & Carried him in Irons to New England            
whence he is Exspected to be tryed here for his life                            
     They write from Holland the states of Holland have been 10 or 12           
dayes without Comeing to any Resolution those of Amsterdam still                
Crossing whatever is Proposed either for the Augmentation of troops or          
building of ships  The Reports of warr with England Cause the Actions of        
the E India Company to fall dayly                                               
     Wee have noe newes of o[u]r 4 Russia ships that were Exspected A           
month since which are the more feared by the Reason of the greate               
stormes to the Northward                                                        
     Letters from Holland give A Dismall Account of the Inundation In           
Groningen on the 12th & 13th Instant by which that whole Province lies          
underwater whole villages swept away & many hundreds of People &                
thousands of Cattle drowned & those that Escaped on the Topps of houses         
steepulls &c in greate distress for want of Releife & nothing heard             
there but lamentation & jangling of bells for helpe                             
+The High Sheriffes are not yet Prickt                                          
     L. c. 1739     London 27th Nov 1686                                        
+Yest at the Kings bench George Speake Esqr was fined 2000 Marks for            
being Accessary to the Escape of mr Trenchard his son in Law                    
     dr Edes was fined 100 L for Extolling A booke Entituled A treatise         
of Monarchy                                                                     
     The Ld Altham Br of the E of Anglesea for words when urged to              
Drinke the Kings health only 100 Marks it Appeareing he was then very           
much in drinke & has by his Petition since declared his abhorrency of           
them                                                                            
     Sr Samll Barnadiston being in Prison for A fine to the King A Bill         
was Exhibitted Agt him to discover his estate in order to have the fine         
Levyed but Sr Samll not Answereing he was yesterday for the Contempt            
brought by Habeas Corpus to the Prison of the ffleet                            
     The Actions of the E India Company are 200 L Affrican 194 L &              
Hudsons bay 300 L                                                               
     This day is Advice that the ship Affrican 400 Tuns Homewards bound         
is lost & had A vast quantity of Gold on board belonging to the Affrican        
Company                                                                         
     Esqr Cutts who behaved himselfe soe well at Buda is Comeing hither         
but Returnes Againe being not only made A Count of the Empire but also          
Adjutant Genll of the Imperiall Army                                            
     They write from Ireland that Kingdome is in Perfect Peace                  
     The ffrench letters of the 30th Advise that King growes much better        
That he Rises A little but for the most Part keeps his bed & it was not         
doubted but that in A little time he will be Restored to health                 
     Last night his Maty began to Pricke the Sheriffs but did not finish        
     A Printed Paper is here Published with Allowance Intituled A               
Request to Protestants to Produce Plaine scripture Authorizeing their           
Tenetts which are likewise mentioned under 16 heads; wherein Amonge             
other things is Asserted That Protestants are more earnest & solicittous        
to Invade Catholicke doctrins then to justify their owne Inventions &c          
     L. c. 1740     London 27th Nov: 1686                                       
[Letter has the first three paragraphs of L. c. 1739, then only:]               
     The Ecclesll Comrs have ordered Sr Richd Newdigate to Pay his              
quondam Chaplain 180 L for 9 yeares Arreirs & that he Put in his Reasons        
why he should not allow him for the future more then 20 L p An                  
     Tis said Sr Richd hath A Peculiar neer his owne house for which before     
they differed & Parted Sr Richd did voluntarily Allow him 20 L p An             
     L. c. 1741     London 30th Nov 1686                                        
+Yest mr Johnson stood in the Pillory at the R: Exchange  nothing was           
throwne at him, when he Came out he lift up his eyes & hands                    
   The people gave 3 greate shouts which gave greate offence to                 
Authority                                                                       
   By whome he is to be whipt tomorrow is not yet knowne Ketch the              
Comon Executioner dyeing yesterday                                              
     Yesterday being the last of the Terme the Atturney Genll moved Sr          
Jo: Knight might Continue on bayle on his good behavour till next Terme         
which the Court ordered                                                         
     This day the Ld Ch: Justice sate the whole day at Westminster              
heareing tryalls & amonge others A very long one between the King & 2           
Informers vizt one Hilliard & A woman both Indicted of Perjury Abt A            
meeting at Newington  In fine the jury Acquitted them                           
     The New Chappell now building at Whitehall is made very glorious &         
Its said will be for use by Christmas day next                                  
+The quakers former meeting place in the Parke in Southwarke is fitted          
up and Consecrated & last sunday masse was said there to a thin auditory        
     This day being the feast of St Andrew was A greate day at Court &          
A sermon was Preached before their Maties at St James Chappell                  
     One Coll Russell who had A Comand in Ireland & was also Governr of         
Gallway is displaced & both the said Comands given to one Count Hamilton        
+The Marqs de Abbaville Parts this week his Matyes Envoy to Holland &           
mr Poley goes his Matys Envoy Extrary to sweden                                 
+Tis said Dr Covell is Nominated to succeed in the vacant Archdeaconry          
of Yorke  The d of Albemarle will Appear in great splendr in his                
Goverment of Jamaica but Its believed will not Part hence before ffebr          
     We are wanting all o[u]r fforeign posts & long to hear how those of        
the Province of Groningen have escaped from the water                           
     L. c. 1742     London 2d Dec l686                                          
+Yesterday mr Johnson was Tyed to a Carte tayle at Newgate & by A New           
Executioner with a new whipp of 9 Lashes whipt thence to Tyburne after          
which he was Carryed to An Adjacent house & his backe drest by An able          
Chyrurgeon & thence Carryed backe to the Kings bench                            
     Last weeke A new Comission of Ecclesll affaires was said to Passe          
the seale in which is the E of Mulgrave instead of the Archbp of Cant           
     Yesterday was Published A Paper Intituled A Dialogue between A             
Catholick Convert & A Protestant shewing the doctrine of                        
Transubstantiation to be as Reasonable to be beleived as the greate             
mistery of the Trinity                                                          
     Tis said 300 ffrench Protestants are arrived here within 10 dayes          
Past                                                                            
     They write from Holland the losse sustained in Groningen by the            
late Inundation is above 3 millions besides 3000 soules & 30000 Cattle          
drowned                                                                         
     That the English officers who endeavoured the seizeing Sr Robt             
Payton have been Complainded [sic] of by the states to the P of Orange          
who hath forbid them his Court The states being very much offended at           
the Attempt they made                                                           
     That the states are not Come to any Resolution as to the state of          
warr Amsterdam seeming more Inclined for Equipping their ships then             
Recruiteing the Army The Report of the K of Englands Armeing by sea             
very much Allarmeing them                                                       
     They write from Edenbrough that on the 22d their Majestrates               
Attended the Lds of the session & had Instructions as to the Peace of           
the Citty &c                                                                    
+On the 23d Arrived at Leith the Kitchen yatcht from London with A              
Prisoner which was next morning Examined by the Councell & after                
Comitted Close Prisoner  Tis said his name is Campbell & was A Capt of          
horse under Argile but went by the name of Stuart in England  In the            
afternoon the Lds of the session offered the Excise of the Kingdome for         
19200 L p An Excepting the East & Midd Lothaines & Edenbrough because           
farmed for severall yeares Already but it was not then taken                    
     L. c. 1743     London 4th dec 1686                                         
+On Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs mett & the new Comission was Read               
wherein the Ld Chamberlain is Inserted & the Archbp of Cant left out            
     There hath been some diference between the Ld Chamberlain & the            
E of Peterbrough Insomuch that the former sent to the latter A Challenge        
But his Maty hath Confined the E of Peterbrough to his Chamber & the            
Gent that Carried the Challenge is in the hands of A messenger                  
+Wee have more Catholicke Papers Come out of the same Tendancy with             
those formerly mentioned                                                        
     Yest Arrived 2 ffrench Posts & Contradict A Report spread here             
that the ffrench King is dead But say he hath not had the least                 
symptome of A feaver for 20 dayes since the operation but growes every          
day better & begins to eate solid meate that A short time is like to            
finish that wonderfull Care  Wee have severall Relations of the Cruell          
usage of the Protestants in ffrance to[o] tedious to be here Inserted           
     The d of Brandenburgh is well Recovered but the K of Poland is             
taken very ill                                                                  
     They write from Vienna that they had Advice from Constantinople            
they had strangled the Grand seignr & set up his Brother but it                 
Requires A fuller Confirmation                                                  
     This day the statue of K Hen 5th was set up in the Exchange                
     Since the late stormes wee have had much ill newes vizt of A ship          
lost at Newcastle another from Mevis on the Coast of Ireland &c                 
     Here is A ship Arrived from Jamaica with Advice that his Maties            
ship the drake hath destroyed Banisters ships of 32 guns & that the             
ffrench at Petit Guiana have by Proclamation Recalled all Comissions            
any ffrench have on Pretence of which they Comitt Robberies on the              
south sea & have seized all the Estates of those Concerned in those             
Practices                                                                       
+His Maty & the whole Court are in good health                                  
     L. c. 1744     London 7th dec 1686                                         
+Its still the discourse of the Towne the ffrench K is dead but Its said        
the Ld Arran hath sent letters hither which Contradict it yet say he is         
in A very dangerous Condition                                                   
     It was this day the Exchange newes that he had been forced to              
undergoe another Cutting & A looseness followed that it was thought             
morally Imposible he should Recover                                             
     Last night it was Confidently Reported one Arrived from the Coast          
of ffrance said there was An Embargo there                                      
+This day Articles of Peace &c were Published between the Kings of              
England & ffrance for America Concluded the 16th Novembr 1686                   
     The diference between the Ld Chamberlain & the E of Peterbrough is         
Accomodated                                                                     
     Greate Preparations being makeing for filling his Maties stores            
for land & sea service with ordinance Mortars Bombes Carrasses &c               
     This day his Maty Intended for Blackheath to view the Performances         
of New Bombes & Carrasses but deferred it till Thursday                         
+On ffriday the Ecclesll Comrs are to sit when severall sumoned for             
symony will be heard &c                                                         
     Yest the sessions began at Hicks hall where 12 new justices were           
in the Comission                                                                
     Yest the Comittee Appointed to Inspect the Comissions of peace             
throughout England mett & Its beleived will suddenly finish that affaire        
     The Comrs for distributing the Collection for ffrench Protestants          
are to meet on the 6th Instant to dispose of A Considderable summe              
lyeing Ready                                                                    
+Letters from Westchester say that on the 21st Past there was in North          
wales A most Terrible earthquake but was most Remarkable in the Castle          
of Chester being the Goale for that County where the Poore prisoners            
Exspected every moment the strong walls would fall There being at the           
same time A Horrid Rumbling heard from under the Castle like Waggons            
hastily driven on the stones but noe harme done there or Elsewhere              
     L. c. 1745     London 9th dec 1686                                         
+Wee had not lately any ffrench Post  Its Reported there is An Embargo          
throughout that Kingdome                                                        
     This morning the King & Queen went by water to Greenwich & thence          
to Blackheath where they saw all manner of ffireworks used in sea &             
land service for the Burneing & blowing up &c of ships houses fforts            
walls &c after which they dined at Sr Hen: Johnsons at Blackwall & then         
Returned to Whitehall                                                           
     Wee have noe newes of the 4 Russia ships but the Hudsons bay               
Company have lost A ship homewards bound worth above 3000 L & their             
stocke being but 10000 L it hath Reduced their Actions from 300 L to            
250 L                                                                           
     The E: India Actions are 207 L The Affrican 196 L                          
     A few dayes since A Poor woman bought of A Broker in Wapping A             
feather Pillow for 2 d & takeing out the feathers to wash the Ticking           
found A Necklace of Pearle which she sent to A Goldsmith to Know if             
it were worth anything who bid 100 L for it                                     
+Then the woman her selfe went from Goldsmith to Goldsmith till she             
was bid l500 L But at last was Carryed before A justice to give                 
Account how shee Came by it which she did & the Broker was sent for             
& said he bought the Pillow &c some years since out of a ship that              
Came from India as the goods of one that died in his voyage  This weeke         
the woman sold the necklace for 3000 L to A person of Honr to prsent            
the queen there being not the like to be bought                                 
    The Bp of Winchester is made one of the Governrs of the Charterhouse        
In Roome of the late E of Bridgwater                                            
+A list is come from Holland of 40 dutch ships taken by Algeirs vallued         
at Neer A Million                                                               
     Letters from Vienna of the 1st Instant say that Considderable              
Garrisons are left in Hungary as to blocke up Alba Regalis Zigeth Camsa         
& Ecla & 6 Regemts are sent to blocke up Greate Waradine                        
     Its Computed the Emperor lost this Campagne 18000 foot besides horse       
& above 2000 by the Excessive Cold as they were marching to Winter              
quarters                                                                        
+This day Coll Culpepper was found Guilty of Manslaughter for killing           
the Patrole                                                                     
     L. c. 1746     London 11th dec 1686                                        
+Our last letters from ffrance that mention anything of that King were          
dated on the 10th Instant new stile when mr ffitz-James (Naturall son to        
the K of England) with his Brother had the Honour to see his Maty & be          
kindly Recd by him before they parted for London                                
     That there had been Another Incision made on that King which               
Reduced him to a very weake Condition                                           
     That on the 13th the P of Conde died in the 65th year of his Age           
     That the Parliamt of Provence had voted a ffree gift to that King          
of 600000 Livers                                                                
     The ffrench Post Arrived here after 6 this Evening is without any          
Publicke Account of that king  All the Ministers of state have                  
Expresses Come to them which make many Conjecture he is dead                    
     This weeke died Hen Coventry Esqr sometime secretary to his late           
Maty                                                                            
     Yest the Ld Mayor &c being sent for to the King Recd A 2d Checke           
Abt the Bonefires & Candles on the 5th Novembr perticularly the Candles         
Abt the Monument his Maty Resolveing for the future to have no Bonefires        
without his order                                                               
     Our scotch letters say that St Andrew being the Patron of scotland         
his festivall as Highly Solemnized by the Romanists at Edenbrough Also          
that the Armes were brought from Glascow to that Castle                         
     mr Horton Excepted in his Maties Genll Pardon & mr Blake the               
draper who escaped out of the Messengers hands have obtained their              
Pardons & are Returned from Holland                                             
     Tis said sr Tho: Exton at drs Comons is displaced                          
+There was not any hurt done at Blackheath on Thursday save that one of         
the Cannoneers undertakeing to Charge & discharge 3 times in 3 minutts          
failed on the last & was mortally wounded by the Powder takeing fire in         
the Gun to soon                                                                 
     Tis said the d of Albemarle hath deputed the Ld dartmouth to               
Execute the office of Ld Chancellr of the University of Cambridg whilst         
he goes for Jamaica                                                             
+This day the King went A Hunting & Returned at night                           
     L. c. 1747     London 14th dec 1686                                        
+Wee have nothing more of the ffrench K:                                        
     mr ffitz James his Maties Naturall son is Comeing home & A yatcht is       
gone to Attend him at Dunkerke & Its said soe soon as he is Arrived he          
will be Created D of dublin                                                     
     Amongst the Catholicke books that Came out last weeke is one in            
folio Intituled the state of Church Affaires in Greate Brittain under           
the Roman & Brittish kings said to be written by one of the prsent              
judges & Containes Abundance of Miracles &c                                     
+They write from Rome that the English Ambrs Publicke entry was put off         
till the 28th Past & that the Pope was much Indisposed                          
     The sheriffs & Aldermen of this Citty have Attended his Maty with          
the names of those who offended by makeing Bonefires  His Maty said he          
was satisfied with their Care & that the fault was in the Inferior              
officers which he was willing to Passe by & Recomended their takeing            
more Care for the future                                                        
     Next day after his Maty was at Blackheath A Poor man lookeing for          
Peeces of Granado shells found A whole one which he Carryed to his              
house In Rosemary Lane & being Curious to see what was in it by Chance          
set it on fire which killed him his wife & Child & damaged 2 houses             
     Last Sunday mr Osburne An Eminent Councellr of the Temple Cut his          
own throate with A Penknife but being prevented before he had fully done        
it Its hoped he will Recover                                                    
     They write from Scotland that on the 5th died Major Genll Bickerton        
Aged 107 yeares  he was under Gustavus Adolphus K of sweden & with his          
late Maty at Worcester                                                          
     That on the 7th six of the Campbells & one mr Kimloch were                 
forefaulted &c for being in Argiles Rebellion                                   
+They write from Holland those English officers who Attempted on Sr             
Robt Payton were sumoned to Appear before the Grand Councell at the             
Hague & not Appeareing they Proceeded Agt them for A Contempt  That they        
have Agreed on the state of warr for the Ensuing year on the same foot          
as the last                                                                     
     L. c. 1748     London 16th Dec 1686                                        
+Our ffrench letters of the 20th say that King is so far Recovered as to        
eate 3 meales A day & walke Abt his Roome & Intends to goe to his               
Chappell on Christmas day to give thanks to god for soe greate A Cure           
     Yet there are some here who say he is dangerously ill That all that        
Comes from him is out of his mouth That on his body are many Bloaches &c        
That his Phisitians & Chyrurgeons are under An Oath not to divulge the          
state of his body soe Its dificult to know the truth                            
     Almost all the Protestants are still Persecuted & the ffrench goe          
on with their ffort neer Strasburgh &c                                          
     On Tuesday the d of St Albans Arrived & waited on his Maty & yest          
mr ffitz James & his Brother Arrived & were kindly Recd of his Maty             
     Next weeke the Court goe into Mourning for the P of Conde                  
     They write from Ireland that mr Turner An Eminent Lawyer Embraced          
the Roman Religion & was led into their Chappell by Judge Nugent & mr           
Baron Rice in A Penitentiall weed & A Burneing Taper in his hand & went         
up to the Alter & there made his Recantation & was then Recd Into the           
Bosome of Mother Church & after sermon was Conducted out of the Church by       
2 Titular Archbps & A Bp                                                        
     On ffriday the Ecclesll Comrs sate & the E of Powis by Petition            
set forth That some of his Ancestors were Concerned as founders of A            
Colledg in Oxford & thereby were Intituled to severall Iminities as             
prsenting fellows &c  They ordered some of the members of the Colledg to        
Attend them but Adjourned till after Christmas                                  
+Yestr the Marqs de Abbavill Parted hence for Holland where Its beleived        
he will be kindly Recd since his Maty hath declared his good Inclinations       
to that state & that he will not disturbe the Peace of Christendome             
     L. c. 1749     London 18th dec 1686                                        
+Yest was A greate Councell at Whitehall his Maty prsent but the debates        
&c kept soe Extrary secrett that nothing Can be knowne                          
     The Pattent for Creating mr ffitzJames d of Dublin is Passing the          
seales & Its said he will also have A Considderable Imployment                  
     Its now Currantly beleived the E of Tirconnell will in few dayes           
goe for Ireland & that soe soon as he shall be there the prsent Ld Lieut        
will Come for England                                                           
+Preparations are makeing for the Campe on Hunslow heath next spring on         
the same ground as the last & Comrs are Appointed to buy in Hay Corne &c        
     The dutch Ambrs have given in A Memoriall to his Maty Complaining          
Agt mr Skelton for the Attempt he made to seize Sr Robt Payton & Its            
said his Maty doth not only Disavow the Action but also seemes                  
dissatisfied with him                                                           
     Tis said Coll Culpepper who killed the Patrole hath his Maties             
Pardon                                                                          
     Yest the Gent of the Inner Temple mett to Elect A Comptroller to           
hold the Revelling but fell into heates High words &c  But mr Atturney          
persuaded them to Adjourne till this day when they unanimously Chose one        
mr smith who marryed the E of Berkleys daughter & is A gent of A very           
faire Character                                                                 
     They write from Scotland that upon Complaint to the Councell Agt           
mr James Renwich for being A Notorious Preacher at feild Conventicles           
in the Western shires &c They Ishued out A Proclamation offering 100 L          
sterling to any who shall bring his body dead or alive for that he is           
one of the worst of Rebells                                                     
     They write from the Hague that there was A greate discourse the            
states would suddenly Raise 10 or 12000 men                                     
     They write from Coppenhagen that King hath ordered his troops to be        
Ready to March on the first Comand & Continues to make Levyes &c                
     They write from Poland they much suspect the Emper[o]rs of Muscovy         
have secrett Correspondancy with the Turks & Tartars                            
+The Ps of denmarke is quicke with Child                                        
     L. c. 1750     London 21st dec 1686                                        
+The Raines Continue & the ffloods are Increased to An Incredable Height        
Carrying away Bridges & Drowning Abundance of Cattle  The Bridg at              
Brainford is borne down & Passengers obliged to goe by the way of               
Uxbridg where the waters are much out also                                      
     The scaffolds within the new Chappell at Whitehall are taken downe         
& this day the gold Canopy over their Maties seates is putting up & The         
whole is Extreame Rich neither Cost nor Art being wanting  The Paintings        
& the White Marble figures of St Peter St Paull &c are Performed to             
Admiration & is Intended to be used next Satureday                              
     The Gent of the Inner Temple have Chosen one mr Hilsley their              
speaker & this day began the Revelling                                          
     There is A discourse his Maty will in few dayes make A Change in           
some of his Cheife ministers & also amonge those who have mannagemt of          
severall Branches of his Revenue                                                
+His Maty hath given the Ld fferrors Regemt to mr ffitzJames who Its            
said will Returne for Hungary next Campaigne                                    
     Wee hear from the streights Sr Roger Strickland hath been at               
Algeirs & Renewed the peace with them & Its Agreed that noe Algereen man        
of warr shall for the future Come Into o[u]r Channell                           
     the Ld dartmouth hath been lately at Chattam &c to take A view of          
the ships of warr many of which are Repaired Already & orders given for         
the Repaire of the Rest                                                         
+Last sunday night A fire began in mr Speaks & mr Bakers Chambers in the        
Kings bench Prison which Consumed them                                          
     The Governrs of the Charterhouse have Chosen the E of Sunderland           
to succeed mr Coventry as one of the Governrs of that Hospitall                 
   His Maty haveing granted A Pardon to all the women & Maides Excepted         
in the Genll Pardon & also to some of the men their Pardons are now             
Passing the seales                                                              
+Wee are wanting all o[u]r fforreign letters                                    
     L. c. 1751     London 23d dec 1686                                         
+The Genll bill of Mortallity for this last year amounts to 22609               
persons being 613 lesse then the former year                                    
     There is A discourse that at the Request of An Eminent Peer 2              
Conferences have been the one on Thursday last The other on Tuesday             
last between 2 drs of the Church of England & 2 of the other Church &           
that the 2 latter Could not Convince the other 2 or the Peer to Change          
his opinion                                                                     
+Extrary Preparations Are makeing at Court for Celebration of Christmas         
all the officiants haveing new vestments soe Rich as the like hath              
scarse ever been seen                                                           
     Its the dayes talke that the Ld Treasurer is Abt laying downe that         
office & some say he will be succeeded by the E of Powis  others say it         
will be mannaged by 6 Comrs                                                     
     Sr Roger Le Estrange hath been & is dangerously ill which is the           
Reason of the observatrs being discontinued                                     
+On the 8th Janry A Comittee of Councell meet to finish the dispatches          
of the d of Albemarle who hath Assured his Maty he will be Ready to goe         
for Jamaica in 6 weeks & 2 ffriggotts vizt the fforesight & Pearle are          
ordered to be Ready                                                             
     Last weeke A Crape weaver in Southwarke stabbed his wife big with          
Child Into the Belly with such A broade dagger as souldiers wear                
     Yesterday another woman being very neer her time & Passing neer the        
Custome house under A Hogshead of sugar Craneing up Into A loft The Rope        
failed & the Caske falling Crusht the woman to death & forced the Child         
out of her belly at some distance which lived a few minnutts  Also 5            
Gent & A waterman were drowned neer Chelsey & 3 neer Billingsgate               
+Wee have not yet any Advice of the Cadiz merchant but 3 of the 4 Russia        
ships are Arrived                                                               
     Wee have one tide in the Thames 4 1/2 ffoot higher then usuall             
+All o[u]r fforreign Posts are still wanting                                    
     L. c. 1752    London 25th dec 1686                                         
+Our ffrench & fflanders letters are Arrived & bring little of moment           
save that the ffrench King is soe well Recovered that he goes to                
Chappell                                                                        
     Its said when the d of St Albans was in the ffrench Court he had           
the honour to dance with the Dauphiness before the King & shee was              
pleased to Complement him very much upon his gallant behavour                   
+On Wednesday morning last In the Gravell Pitts between Arlington house         
& Chelsey A Coach was found overturned with the Harness Cut in Peeces           
The Lineing of the Coach Cut out The Ground neer it & the Coach Box             
bloody by which Its supposed the Coach had been Robbed & those within it        
murthered  The horses were afterwards found Abt A mile from the Coach           
     A sermon is here Published Preached lately before the Spanish Ambr         
by the Reverend ffather James Ayratt of the holy order of St ffrancis           
from the 3 last words 1 John 19 who art thou                                    
     They write from Vienna of the 19th the Chamber Royall of Hungary           
which has been kept for many yeares at Presburgh will be in the Spring          
Removed to Buda                                                                 
     That the Emper[o]r had notice by An Expresse from Hungary That the         
Turks haveing drawne togather A Considderable body of men were marching         
towards Camsa with money Amunition Provisions & Cloaths for that                
Garrison  But the Croats haveing notice fforthwith Assembled & Marched          
towards them & after A vigourous Engagemt the Turks were beaten & 500           
killed on the Place with A Considderable booty                                  
     They write from Turkey the Consternation Increases dayly at                
Constantinople for their losses in the last Campaigne                           
     L. c. 1753     London 28th dec 1686                                        
+Most of the discourse of the Towne is upon the solemnization of                
Christmas at Court at St James &c                                               
     As also Concerning the Alteration by many suddenly Exspected               
amongst some of the greate officers of state & as if the E of Powis E           
of dover Ld Godolphin Sr Jo: Earnly & Hen Guy Esqr were to be Comrs of          
the Treasury & mr Brent of the Temple Secretary                                 
+They write from Harwich of the Arrivall of the Katherine from Russia           
who had been 18 weeks on her voyage & was forced into Scotland  There           
was 40 p Cent Insurance given on her  Shee is very Leaky & Its beleived         
much damage is done to her Cargo                                                
     They write from Edenbrough of the 21st That dr ffauconer Bp of             
Murray died A few dayes before  he was Theologie Professor in the               
University of Glascow & one of the ministers there & esteemed A grave &         
Learned man & is Already succeeded by dr Rosse Nephew to the Ld Primate         
of Scotland                                                                     
     That on the 20th the Cannon Bombes Carrasses &c were drawne into           
the Links of Leith where the Genll Ingineer made many fine Experiments          
with ffireworks &c                                                              
     There are 3 or 4 men of warr of 20 guns apeece cruising on that            
coast who search all vessells for ffrench Protestants                           
+They write from Vienna that the Grand Seigni[o]r Threatens & useth all         
other meanes to hinder the P: of Transilvania for declareing in favour          
of the Emper[o]r  That Countesse Teckley sent deputies to Genll Carassa         
to desire A suspention of Armes for 3 months but they are returned with         
the answer that his Excellency has no orders from the Imperiall Court on        
that affaire                                                                    
+All our fforeign letters Agree the ffrench K is Recovered                      
     L. c. l754     London 30th Dec l686                                        
+mr ffitzJames hath requested of his Maty he may goe next Campagne into         
Hungary & Carry with him some troops of men & some Military officers            
have Proffered to attend him                                                    
     The d of Albemarle keeps open house at Newhall & certainly goes for        
Jamaica in ffebr & severall Gent who have good places at Court have got         
leave to sell them & Intend to goe with him                                     
+The Ld Chancellor & mr of the Rolles keep A greate Christmas                   
     The English Ambr at Rome will have Audience within A few dayes             
     Our Holland letters say the K of ffrance hath escaped the greate           
danger he was in                                                                
     They write from ffrance the garrisons are all Reinforced & the             
officers of the Army in Catalonia have orders to Augment their companies        
with 10 men each                                                                
     That one Mounsr Carle An Eminent merchant in Lyons is seized &             
Accused for assisting the escape of many Protestants                            
     That An Eminent lady who was Prisoner in the Bastile on Account of         
Religion is Escaped                                                             
     That there are not 300 Protestants left in the whole County of             
Perpignan                                                                       
     A Preist was lately seized there for that he had under his Habitt          
ffire Armes & A dagger & upon examination it appeared he was A Companion        
of Theives so was Comitted                                                      
+The Turks are very solicitous for A Peace on any Termes & its thought          
the Christians are Inclined thereto for that they may thereby have all          
that can be hoped for by A successfull warr & such A Peace as will put          
it out of the Power of the Turks to disturbe Christendome & some thinke         
the d of Lorraines journey to Rome is to Influence that Court to A peace        
     The ships of warr at Portesmouth &c are ready to set to sea within         
10 dayes after orders                                                           
     L. c. l755     London 1st Janry l686                                       
+This morning the nobility Ld Mayor &c waited on the King wishing their         
Maties long life &c                                                             
    His late Maty haveing setled A maintenance for 40 Orphan youths in          
Christchurch Hospital to be bred up in the Mathematicks Especially              
Navigation                                                                      
     This morning the master & the said youths all in Blew Coates with          
silver Badges on their Breasts waited on the King to prsent their most          
humble thanks for the Continuance of that support & to wish their Maties        
A happy new year &c                                                             
     They also prsented his Maty A printed list of all who now are or           
have been Receivers of that Royall bounty most of whome have been put out       
to sea Comanders to E: India or Turkey & all of them at the Kings Charge        
     We are assured the Ld Treasurer will part with his staffe next             
ffriday  Tis said his Maty hath named the Ld Bellasis Ld Godolphin Ld           
Dover Sr Jo: Earnley & Sr Stephen ffox for Comrs & hath setled on the           
Ld Treasurer A pention of 4000 L p An to be Recd out of the Revenue of          
the Post office                                                                 
     The Cadiz merchant is arrived at Waterford in Ireland Extreame Rich        
     Next Munday the Ld Abbaville his Maties Envoy Embarques for Holland        
his name is Whiteborne in Ireland & dignified in ffrance                        
     Last Tuesday Marshall Schomburgh & his lady & family Arrived in A          
Dutch man of warr at Portesmouth in his Passage from Portugall designing        
to spend the rest of his dayes in the County of Cleves                          
     The Gazett Continues to Confirme the Recovery of their King & of           
the Greate Rejoyceing made by their Clergie &c                                  
+A few Protestants Adventureing to Assemble in the feilds neer Savernes         
were surprised  some Imediately hanged some sent to the Gallies & the           
women to Cloysters                                                              
     Our Scotch letters say the Grenadiers who Exersized at Leith               
performed their duty in fireing hand Granadoes to Admiration                    
     L. c. 1756     London 4th Janry 1686                                       
+This day the Ld Treasurer Resignes his staffe  he hath the 4000 L p An         
setled on him & the Comrs mentioned in o[u]r last are now declared              
     There are severall other Changes discoursed & dayly Exspected              
which at prsent are not fit to be mentioned herein                              
     Yest the E of Tirconnell sent severall of his goods for Ireland &          
next weeke will follow to take posession of the Goverment of that               
Kingdome  mr sheridan goes over one of the secretaries of state                 
     The Irish Gent are very Briske & full of Exspectations of Enjoying         
their Ancient estates but some of them have upon easy Termes Purchased          
[sic]                                                                           
     Tis said that after his Arrivall & somewhat setled in Goverment            
his Maty will Call A Parliamt to sit in that Kingdome                           
     The d of Ormond is in towne & in good health & frequently Comes to         
Court                                                                           
     The Revelling at the Temple hath been Attended with high Gameing &c        
+Last Thursday died dr Standish minister of [space for about ten letters        
left blank] in Hartfordshire The presentation of whose Liveing was in           
the deane & Chapter of St Paulls which they offered to dr stillingfleet         
who Accepted thereof & Intends to live at it                                    
     His late place of St Andrews Holborne is in the prsentation of the         
Countesse of Northumberland who hath given it to one of her Chaplains           
     They write from the Hague severall of the English officers are             
Condemned to dye for makeing the Insult on Sr Robt Payton & severall            
more are searched for but Its beleived upon the least Intercession of           
his Maty they will be pardoned since what they did was in favour of his         
Maty their Master                                                               
+They write from Vienna An Armenian is found Amonge the Turkish                 
Prisoners who was their Cheif miner at Buda & hath not only Promised to         
turne Christian & serve the Emper[o]r but also shewed greate faults             
Comitted by the Christian miners in the seige of Buda                           
     L. c. 1757     London 6th Janr 1686                                        
+Last night Alexander ffitton of the Temple was knighted who Its said           
is to goe Ld Chancellr of Ireland                                               
     The E: of Macclefeilds estate being upon his outlawry seized Its           
said his Maty hath given part of it to Sr Alex: ffitton                         
     On Tuesday last A Paper was fixt upon the Temple gate offering 10          
Guyneys to any that shall discover the Authr of A scandalous Libell             
Reflecting on the Ld Chancellr                                                  
     Marshall Schomberg haveing Recd An Invitation to Come to Court             
tooke Coach at Portesmouth on Tuesday to waite on the King                      
     The ffrench K: grows every day better then other                           
     They write from denmarke that King hath ordered the makeing A              
greate Number of Iron Instruments both for horse & ffoot which with his         
other Preparations for warr very much Allarme his neibours  In the meane        
time the K of Sweden is fitting out A Considderable fleet Agt spring by         
which time he will have also A formidable Army & hath by Edict Recalled         
all his subjects from fforeign service                                          
     Last Tuesday the Kings ffoot Regemt were mustered & 5 Grenadiers           
drawne out of each Company for new England who are to be Double Cloathed        
& have 12 d p day Constant Pay                                                  
     Tis said the dutch Ambr here Complained the Insult on Sr Robt              
Payton was by order of mr skelton his Maties Envoy & A greate breach of         
their Priviledg &c & had for Answer that it was done without knowledg of        
his Maty who designes nothing more then to maintaine A good                     
Correspondancy with that state                                                  
     Tis said Teckley haveing had Conference with the Grand vizier              
before his departure for Constantinople hath since sent for the                 
Principle Nobility of Transilvania to zone [?] to make proposalls to            
them with designe to hinder them from entring into A Negotiation with           
the Emper[o]rs ministers                                                        
     L. c. 1758     London 8th Janry 1686                                       
+Yest was A greate Councell where his Maty ordered A Proclamation for           
Prorogueing the Parliamt till the 28th Aprill                                   
     Yest Sr Alex: ffitton Ld Chancellr of Ireland set forwards & on            
the 18th is to meet the E of Tirconnell at Chester & thence togather            
for dublin  Sr Cha Porter the prsent Ld Chancellr is with the E of              
Clarendon on his Returne                                                        
     Tis said the Ld Dartmouth for A valluable Considderation hath              
surrendred the place of mr of the horse to mr ffitzJames  But this day          
is A discourse the Ld dartmouth is displaced from the office of mr of           
the ordinance                                                                   
     The Nuntio here is to have A publicke entry soon after Advice is           
Come the E of Castlemain hath had his at Rome                                   
     one mr Whittaker who was famous in mannageing the Tryall of mr             
ffitzharris & A Busy man in the factious times was yesterday seized at          
the Angel & Crowne neer the Exchange with one Ellis & 3 or 4 more & is          
Comitted Close Prisoner being outlawed for Treasons                             
     One mr Powell A Lacebroker in Cloth faire hath Purchased Thanet            
house in Aldersgate street & gotten A grant to make there A Lace market         
for all sorts of Bonelace made in Devonshire Bedfordshire &c now held           
in severall Innes in the said street which place is now Prepareing for          
it in the Nature of An Exchange                                                 
     Yest marshall Schomberg Arrived here & kissed his Maties hand              
     The K of denmarke hath ordered his horse to be made up 20000 & the         
ffoot in Proportion & sent orders to all his officers to Repaire                
forthwith to their Comands & hath Charged every Lutheran minister to            
mantaine A horse of which there are 6000  severall shopkeepers at Cadiz         
are seized for Raiseing their goods 25 L p Cent to ballance the late            
Money Project                                                                   
     The ffrench have taken A Castle in Hudsons bay where the English           
have their Cheife factory                                                       
      [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1759     London 11th Janry 1686                                      
+This day the E of Tirconnell set out for Ireland & hath taken with him         
A greate many new Commisions to fill up the further Alterations which           
shall be made in the Army                                                       
     Tis said 4 Regemts now in Ireland are ordered for England & their          
places to be supplyed with 4 Regemts from England                               
     Tis said his Maty hath given Sr Alex ffitton that estate in                
Cheshire for which hath been A greate Contest at Law between the E of           
Maxfeild & him but In the last session of Parliamt was by the H of Lds          
determined for the Earle                                                        
     Next Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs are to sit & Its said the Archbp          
of Cantr &c are then to Appear before them, dr Beversham of Suffolk is          
also to Appear for scandalous words used in a sermon                            
     The Lord Huntington is made one of the said Comrs in Roome of the          
Ld Rochester who is Retired into the country                                    
     dr Sharpe having askt the King Pardon is forgiven & allowed to             
Preach & some think this A forerunner to the Bp of Londons Restitution          
     dr Stillingfleets Retireing into the Country is A greate trouble           
to his Parishioners &c                                                          
     One mr Bassett is made mr of Sidney Colledg in Cambridg in Place           
of dr Minshull deceased                                                         
     Tis said dr James mr of Allsoules Colledg in Oxford is dead                
     The ffrench King is sending 18 Jesuitts with the syam Ambr for             
Converting those people  one was Comitted to the Bastille saying if the         
King would send dragoons they would be more effectuall in their                 
Conversion                                                                      
+Sr Hen: Prodgers sergt Porter to his Maty is dead which his Maty hath          
given to Coll stradling one of the Captains of his owne ffoot Regemt &          
knighted him                                                                    
     The queen Dowager is ill of the St Anthonies fire                          
+We have An Account of A Rebellion in Savoy of 5 or 6000 men                    
      [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]              
     L. c. l760     London 13th Janr l686                                       
The E of Powis is made Constable of the Tower & wee have many reports           
vizt                                                                            
     That Sr Tho: Haggerston is made Lieut of the Tower                         
     That the Ld Arundell of Wardom is made Ld Privy seale                      
     That the office of mr of the ordinance will be in Comission & Sr           
Christo Musgrave first Comr                                                     
     That many of the Judges will suddenly be altered & Sr Richd                
Allabone of Grayes Inne Highly Advanced                                         
+That this day the Ld Mayor Recd Comand from the King to take Care that         
noe persons be disturbed on Account of Religion or Religious Worship &c         
     dr Stillingfleet Intending to Retire into Hartfordshire yesterday          
Recd a Comand to the Contrary                                                   
     dr Sharpe hath now liberty to Preach & is Exspected next Lds day           
in his Parish Church of St Giles                                                
     mr Drayden Poett Lawreatt is made Warden of Allsoules Colledg in           
Oxford                                                                          
     Yest the Ld Brandon Gerrard was bayled out of the Tower                    
+Last saboth day the Comptroller & Treasurer of the Middle Temple went          
with their guards Publickly to Wildhouse where after their devotions they       
were brought backe in the Ambrs Coach                                           
     An Envoy is Arrived from Persia at Constantinople Complaining              
A Bassa in Asia had Plundered the Persian Caravans upon which the Grand         
seignr dispatched A Chiaux to strangle the said Bassa But its believed          
it will not end soe the Persian Envoy Insisting on A Reimbursemt of what        
the merchants lost which Amounts to severall Millions                           
+An Interloper Capt Jacob Comander is Arrived at Portesmouth from E India       
who went hence Abt 2 yeares since  Its said the owners have got liberty         
for her safe Comeing in & that the E India Company will buy all her             
ladeing being Callicoes & saltpetre to Prevent the fall of their owne           
goods                                                                           
     The queen dowager being ill of the St Anthonys fire & A feaver was         
this day in greate danger of her life  At Noon the King vissitted her &         
this night the queen stayd with her very late                                   
     L. c. 1761     London 15th Janr 1686                                       
+On Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs sate & dr Beversham Appeared before them        
& it being sworne by 3 witnesses that in A sermon he had spoken                 
disrespectively of the King They suspended him from further Preaching           
Its said they are to sit Againe next Munday                                     
     Yesterday the queen dowager was somewhat better & this day there           
is greate hopes of her Recovery                                                 
+Wee have A Report that A New Test farr differing from the old one will         
be Tendred to all persons in Publicke trust                                     
     Also that the Ld Newport & Ld Maynard the former Treasurer the             
latter Comptroller of the household are both displaced & that one of            
them is succeeded by the Ld Walgrave who marryed the sister of mr               
ffitzJames his Maties Naturall son                                              
     Also that mr ffitzJames & his Brother will goe early this summer           
to the Venetian Campe & that severall English will goe voluntiers with          
them                                                                            
     Also that the E of Castlemain is Comeing backe from Rome & that one        
White Br to the Marqs de Abbeville is to goe under the same Character to        
Rome                                                                            
     Marshall Schomberg is Returned to Portesmouth                              
     An Envoy Extrary from the Emper[o]r is Arrived at dover                    
     By the Interloper lately Arrived from E India wee have Advice the          
dutch were Tampering with the Greate Mogull to Comand his subjects not          
to dispose of any of their silks to any other nation whatsoever but to          
them hopeing thereby to deprive the English of their trade there but it         
was not beleived they would be able to succeed therein                          
     Sr Roger [L'Estrange]] hath A Comand not to write any more                 
observatrs & is out of -----                                                    
[A few figures in another hand appear in left margin of first recto and         
on outside of letter.]                                                          
     L. c. 1762     London 18th Janr 1686                                       
+The Ld Powis Arrundell of Warder Bellasis Peter & Abt 60 officers of           
the Army were last sessions Inserted In the Comission for New justices          
for Middsex                                                                     
     His Maty hath ordered the Clerke of the Peace of Middsex to dismiss        
the Trying of severall Appeales of Conventicles & also to Restore what          
money hath been Levyed on dissenters                                            
+The Indisposition of the Pope or something else Retards the E of               
Castlemains Publicke entry at Rome, But the Cardinal de Este is made            
Protector of the English Affaires & the Nuntio now hear is to have the          
same Prerogatives as Cardinall Ravarro hath in ffrance                          
     Last satureday the Ld Bellasis sate in the Cabinet Councell as             
first Comr of the Treasury                                                      
     The Warden of Allsoules Colledg in Oxford being dead his Maty sent         
A Mandamus to the ffellowes to Choose mr ffinch son to the E of                 
Winchelsea                                                                      
     Last Sunday morning dr Sharpe Preached at St Giles to the greatest         
Auditory ever there seen & Its thought 10 times as many who Could not           
get in went backe                                                               
     This day is Published An 18 d booke in which is layd open the              
Methods by which Protestants are misrepresented by Papists thought to           
by writt by dr Tillotson                                                        
+The Ld Chamberlain hath Appointed the Lent Preachers for the Chappell          
at Whitehall of the most eminent in the Church                                  
     The ffrench K hath Recalled the 3 yeares Protection he gave to all         
new Converts Agt their Credittors                                               
     By A Holland ship Arrived in Venice wee have Advice 2 of our Turkey        
ships Richly laden were Cast away in their way to Turkey                        
+The queen dowager mends dayly                                                  
[A few figures and some hard-to-read words, including "A Receipt to make        
Carroway Cumfit cakes"--only the heading, not the whole recipe--in              
another hand appear on outside of letter.]                                      
     L. c. 1763     London 20th Janr 1686                                       
+Tis said his Maty is Highly offended at the many Reports of A New Test         
& Alterations at Court Tower & elsewhere which are not yet Come to              
fact nor many of them now Creditted                                             
     Orders are sent Into the Country to Remitt In Generall what Goods          
&c were seized from dissenters                                                  
     Wee have A Report the ffrench K hath Recalled his Edict which              
Condemns the Protestants to the Gallies & hath already Released many            
     Tis said the E of Tirconnell did not only obtaine the Ld Brandons          
Releasemt But also his ffather the E of Macclesfeilds Pardon In                 
Gratitude for favours obtained when he was A Prisoner In the Gatehouse          
on Accompt of the Popish Plott                                                  
     This morning the Revelling In the Inner Temple broke up  They had A        
greate Masquerade last Sunday night which gave greate offence & for             
which the Ld Chancellr not A little blamed the senio[r]s                        
     The Ld Chancellr is now Prepareing his house at Westminster fitting        
to suite his office & quality                                                   
     On Munday o[u]r sessions ended at the old Bayly where 9 Recd               
sentence of death & 2 Irishmen who killed A Bellman In St James street          
& were found Guilty of only manslaughter had An Appeale of Murther              
brought Agt them                                                                
     They write from Vienna of the 12th the Emperor had sent orders             
Into Hungary to stopp the Turkish Ambrs who are Comeing from the Port           
with offers of Peace being Resolved to Receive noe Proposalls from them         
Though the Grand Seignr hath sent to Poland Venice &c offering all the          
satisfaction they Can demand yet Neglects not to Prepare for the next           
Campaigne Intending in Person to Comand his Army                                
     The Ps of denmarke hath been of late very much Indisposed & not            
yet Perfectly Recovered                                                         
[Some figures and a few words in another hand appear on outside of              
letter.]                                                                        
     L. c. 1764     London 22d Janr 1686                                        
+The Ps of denmarke haveing A jolt in her Carriage miscarryed But is            
as well as Can be Exspected in her Condition                                    
     The Gent of Grayes Inne haveing A greate Masquerade on Thursday            
night In the height of their sport A fire broke out In Holborne Court           
neer the Gate which leads Into Grayes Inne lane which burnt with                
Extrary violence from one till past 4 & Consumed above 40 Chambers some         
of very Eminent Practitioners who had not time to save their Clyents            
deeds Papers &c  It spoyled some part of the Chappell & quite burnt             
downe the Pipe office where severall Records of the Exchequer office            
were kept but burnt                                                             
     The Lds Comrs of the Treasury have given ffresh orders that all            
Baronets who have not strucke their Tallies in the Exchequer doe                
forthwith pay In the money forfeited to the Crowne on Accompt of their          
Creation Pattents                                                               
+Tis said Sr Richd Allabone will be made mr of the Rolls                        
     Yest the Councell sate & tooke note of severall Complaints Agt the         
officers of the New Insurance & will have A full heareing next Councell         
     They write from Chester the E of Tirconnell was mett by their              
Bishop & Recd by the Mayor Aldermen & Cittizens in the usuall manner &          
went thence In the stage Coach to Beaumorris                                    
     The Sieur Duckveldt is dayly Exspected here from Holland Abt the           
affaire of the E India Company  Tis said they have layd the matter              
before the King & will not meddle with it themselves                            
     The Interloper lately Arrived is Arrested by the E India Company           
this ship is soe Rich that the Companies are Abated from 212 to 208  The        
Affrican are Abt 200 The Hudsons bay uncertain since their late loss            
     This weeke wee have had greate Exspectation of the Nuntios makeing         
his Publicke entry but as yet wee have not any such thing                       
     L. c. 1765     London 25th Janr 1686                                       
+Yest being the first of the Terme there Appeared noe Alteration amonge         
the judges, Sr Jo: Knight Appeared & is Continued on bayle                      
     On the 8th the E of Castlemain made his Publicke entry at Rome &           
had 10 Coaches of his owne each 6 horses All their Trappings of silver          
& Gilt & their Coverings Crimson velvett Emboydered 100 Gentlemen               
12 Pages all in Crimson velvett Emboydered with gold 24 ffootmen all in         
scarlet & Gold Lace & was followed by 24 Coaches each 6 horses of               
Cardinalls Princes & Prelates & had Audience of the Pope But only               
himselfe & his secretary Admitted                                               
     The Ps of denmarke is very well since her late miscarriage of A son        
Its said the miscarriage was the meanes of saveing her life                     
     Last weeke one dr Conquest haveing in A Coffee house Publickly             
spoken very undecent scurrillous & Reflecting words of the P of Orange          
& much worse of the Princesse The dutch Ambr here Complaine thereof to          
the King & hath also given in A memoriall from the states Concerning            
the prsent Prospect of affaires as they now stand in Relation to the            
late League of Confederation & the designes of ffrance to destroy it            
     The E of Shrewsbury & the Ld Lumley have parted with their                 
Regemts  The Earles Regemt is given to the Ld Langdale & there are 3            
Candidates for the Ld Lumleys vizt The E of Carlingford The Ld Dunbarr          
& Sr Bernard Howard                                                             
   Letters from the west mention severall other vessells being Come             
from Burdeaux with many ffrench Protestants who Confirme that the               
souldiers are drawne off from the sea Coasts as also the men of warr            
soe that they have liberty to Transport themselves & that they are not          
soe severe Agt the Protestants as formerly, Last Sunday an order from           
the Ecclesll Comrs was Read in severall Churches here forbidding                
marriages without Licence                                                       
      [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
     L. c. 1766     London 27th Janr 1686                                       
["Ricardus Newdigatorii" is written in another hand in left margin of           
first recto.]                                                                   
+Its said the Nuntio here being A Layman is next Sunday to be made a            
priest & soon after A Bp & then An Archbp of Italy & Abt A Month hence          
makes his publicke entry here not from the Tower but only from his house        
in Pell Mell to Whitehall                                                       
     Wee are assured there is noe such thing as A new Test Intended his         
Maty haveing declared he will dispense his favours equally according to         
Meritt & not with respect to the religion of either Person                      
+They write from Dublin of the 20th that the E of Tirconnell was at the         
water side but would not land till next day, also give Accompt of A             
Barbarous Murther comitted Abt 8 miles thence on A High Constable & his         
wife & Maide after which the house was set on fire in which 4 Children          
were burnt, greate Enquiry is made after the Actors                             
     Last Tuesday one mr John Hoyle of the Temple An Eminent                    
Practitioner was Accused of Sodomy by A Poulterers Apprentice who swore         
it with all the Circumstances of times, Place &c before the Ch: Ld              
Justice who Granted his warrant & yesterday Examined him very Narrowly          
& Confronted them face to face & the boy Positively swearing it he              
Comitted mr Hoyle to Newgate                                                    
     Its said his Maty will have A Company of Grand Musqueteers all sons        
of Noblemen in Imitation of those in ffrance who are to be Exercised in         
Horse & foot service To attend the Royall person & be Exercised by              
himselfe in order to  their Advancement as military Comands shall fall          
     They write from ffrance An Assembly of 400 protestants have been           
taken in Languedoc & sentenced to be sent slaves in America The gallies         
being full  Also 6000 dragoons are sent into that Province to live at           
discretion upon such Converts who have not fully Conformed                      
+There is A League Concluded betwixt the Kings of ffrance & denmarke The        
d of Savoy Electr of Cologne &c In opposition to the League of Ausburgh         
     Its certain the dutch have soe ordered their Affaires that they can        
have A Considderable fleet at sea in 3 weeks time                               
     L. c. l767     London 29th Janr l686                                       
+Yesterday morning there was A greate Tyde which Ebbed 2 houres & A             
halfe & fflowed Again at 10 Higher then hath been known these many              
yeares                                                                          
     His Maty hath upon that Portion of the fforeign merchants who are          
Roman Catholicks granted them A Place for Exercise of their Religion in         
London & some of them are Abt lookeing out A fit place                          
     The Case between the E of Peterbrough & mr Williams on the scandm          
Magtum is ordered to be Argued on Tuesday next                                  
     Last night A Councell of Grayes Inne sate to Enquire how the late          
fire happened & mr Roney in whose Chamber it was first seen made oath           
there was noe fire left there &c                                                
     Major Morgan of the Ld Huntingtons Regemt being killed by his Lieut        
with A Bayonett one mr Ingram succeeds him                                      
     The E of Pembrooke haveing modestly Refused the Ld Lumleys Regemt          
Its said Sr Jo: Talbott will have it                                            
     The Captain & seamen &c of the Interloper lately Arrived are seized        
for Acting Contrary to his Maties Proclamation But the Proprietors              
haveing submitted to the Pleasure of his Maty Its beleived it will be           
Accomodated                                                                     
     They write from ffrance speedy orders are Exspected to be Ishued           
out for Equipping 12 men of warr & 13 or 14 Gallies To which more may           
be added as occasion Requires                                                   
     severall ffrench Protestant officers haveing taken Pay under the           
Dutch & other Princes A Placeart will be Published in ffrance to Invite         
them in Againe & offer them their Comands & estates & 6 months time to          
Considder whether they will Change their Religion                               
+They write from Holland the states have ordered out A ffleet of 35             
sayle under Pretence of secureing their merchantmen Agt the Algereens           
They still Continue to try the officers that Attempted on Sr Robt Payton        
who will be Condemned though Its said the Prince will shew them favour          
     L. c. 1768     London 1st ffebr 1686                                       
+The Comte D'Ada haveing Recd the Character of Nuntio Its said in A             
little time make his Publicke entry after he is made An Archbp                  
     mr Justice Withins being ill the Arguing of mr Williams demurr is          
Put off till another day                                                        
     The Ld Chancellor is Againe Indisposed with the stone                      
     On Sunday last the Councell had before them the affaire of the             
Interloper his Maty prsent who Expressed himselfe in favour of the              
owners But nothing was then fully determined                                    
     The Ld Lumleys Regemt of horse is given to Sr Jo: Talbott who is           
of the family of the Ld Shrewsbury                                              
     Last Sunday Capt Hinde the Greate Banker died                              
     Our Holland letters of the 8th Advise the Marqs de Abbavill hath           
not yet had Audience some dificulty haveing Arrisen Abt it                      
     That Mounsr Dickveldt was Comeing Envoy Extrary for England to             
Endeavr to Accomodate all diferences & Corroberate the Peace between his        
Maty & that state                                                               
     The P of Orange hath Chosen Majestrates for Amsterdam who are not          
well liked of by that Citty                                                     
     They write from ffrance the Popes Nuntio there desired that King to        
declare why he built those forts on the Rhine & why his troops Appeared         
in such formidable Numbers in Alsatia &c & was very solicittous to know         
whether they were Intended Agt the Emper[o]r which would put A stop to          
the happy progress of his Armes Agt the Turks                                   
     His Maty Answered he had noe designe Agt the Empire but was Ready          
if the Emper[o]r was Pleased to Change the Truce of 20 yeares into A            
Perpetuall Peace upon which the Nuntio sent A Courrier to give Advice           
thereof to the Pope                                                             
     They write from Vienna they had Advice the Grand Seigni[o]r hath           
distributed 25 Millions in order to have A Considderable Army next              
spring                                                                          
     That Teckley haveing Passed the Theis [?] with A body of Turks to          
Put Provisions into Erla was defeated by Genll Curaffa many being killed        
& the Provisions taken                                                          
+Its beleived the Parliamt will meet in Aprill                                  
     L. c. 1769     London 3d ffebr 1686                                        
+The 2 Daughters of Ps Ann of Denmarke have been ill some dayes & last          
night the Lady Ann the youngest died                                            
     Letters from Rome of the 14th say the E of Castlemain had his              
Publicke Audience of the Pope on the 8th That he had 11 Coaches The 1st         
Covered with Red velvett The 2d with blew & Emboydered with gold & was          
Attended with neer 500 Coaches of Prelates & Nobility                           
     On the 9th he vissitted Cardinall Ludovisco deane of the Colledg           
of Cardinalls & next day the queen of sweden                                    
     He hath Erected his Maties Armes as also the Popes over the Gates          
of his Pallace which are Adorned with many figures & Inscriptions               
     Its said the E of Castlehaven will succeed Sr Jo: Talbott Lieut            
Coll in the E of Peterbroughs Regemt                                            
     A Pardon is ordered for George Speake Esqr & his Lady & 2 sons &           
daughter  That family give 5000 L which is Appropriated for Repaire of          
the ffortifications at Portesmouth & Its Affirmed his Maty at the               
Intercession of the Ld dartmouth hath Promised to Pardon their son in           
Law Jo: Trenchard Esqr                                                          
     Our last Scotch letters say that on the 23d A Conventicle was              
discovered in Edenbrough & all the people taken & Comitted  That night          
they were Examined by the Lds of the Councell & next day by the secrett         
Comittee & Remanded                                                             
+his Maty hath Appointed Comrs for vissitting the universities of               
Scotland &c                                                                     
     The ffrench K is now able to undergoe the shakeing of the Coach for        
A whole day togather & Its said in Aprill Intends to make A journey into        
Lorraine where Its said he will have An Army of 60000 men Also that 20          
Battalions of ffrench guards are to march for fflanders where his Maty          
is also Exspected  The said King hath made An Alliance offensive &              
defensive with the Electr of Cologne                                            
     L. c. 1770     London 5th ffebr 1686                                       
+Last night the Lady Ann daughter of Ps Ann of denmarke was Interred,           
her sister the Lady Mary Continues very ill & her R: Highs the Ps Ann           
is Indisposed                                                                   
     Last Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs sate where the E of Powis & Ld            
Petre pursued their Claime of some priviledges in 2 Colledges in Oxford         
     Letters yesterday from Ireland say the E of Tirconnell &c were             
not Arrived at dublin But had put off to sea 3 times & by Contrary              
winds were driven backe to Holy head where he was last sunday                   
     Within these few dayes many English families have landed from              
Ireland in Wales & England & many more are following them                       
     The ds of Modena is said to be in her way hither from Italy                
+A Marriage is said to be Proposed between Coll ffitzJames & the d of           
Newcastles daughter & that some Titles of Honour will be Conferred on           
him His Maty haveing ordered him A Coat of Armes                                
     This day was performed A sollemne service upon the subject of his          
late Maties death By his prsent Maty in his Chappell at Whitehall By            
the queen at St James & by the q: Dowager at Somersethouse                      
     Yesterday Judge Withins gave the Charge to the Middsex Grandjuries         
for this Terme much as usuall                                                   
   On Thursday was A tryall at the Comon pleas between A Monster being A        
man that had A Child growing out of his side & Sr Tho: Grantham upon A          
writt de Homine Replegiendo Sr Thomas haveing Contracted with him to            
Come hither from the Indies for 6 Months & then to Returne But hath kept        
him like A slave longer to shew him  It being A New Case the judges will        
Consult all their Bretheren Abt it                                              
     L. c. 1771     London 8th ffebr 1686                                       
+This day died the Lady Mary only Child of Ps Ann of denmarke                   
     Last sunday being the day of his Maties Comeing to the Throne it           
was Comemorated in all o[u]r Churches  The guns were discharged &c              
     The same day at 11 A Clocke Abt which time died his late Maty The          
sun was seen shineing Gloriously & in A Parrallell Line on each side            
A Greate Light shineing faintly each of which had A streame Pointing            
due east & due West of An Equall distance of 12 degrees from the sun            
which lasted neer halfe An houre & was seen by hundreds & some observed         
that before Its disappeareing there was neer the sun A semicircle not           
unlike A Rainbow save in Colour which Terminated at each greate Light           
or sun as some Called them                                                      
     The same day some of the judges tooke the sacramt at Sergts Inne           
Chappell but the Ld Ch: Justice Beddingfeild had noe sooner taken the           
Cup but was seized with An Apoplexie & fell downe & was Carryed to              
his Chamber & in A little time died                                             
     Yesterday Sr Wm Beversham one of the masters in Chancery was taken         
with An Apoplexie in Court & Carryed out for dead but was Liveing this          
morning                                                                         
     Its said the Atturney Genll will be Ld Ch: Justice & Sr Richd              
Allabone succeed him                                                            
+Our Scotch letters say An order is Come from England for the Bp of             
Edenbrough to be Archbp of Glascow & Its said at Edenbrough that many           
other Bishops will be layd Aside                                                
+This day the E of Rochester Ld Godolphin Sr Jo: Earnly Sr Stephen              
ffox & mr Guy tooke the oaths & Test in Chancery                                
     Last sunday Sr Jo Lidcott secretary to the Ld Castlemain Arrived           
from Rome with An Expresse of Importance                                        
     L. c. 1772     London 10th ffebr 1686                                      
+Prince George hath had A feaver for which he had been let blood since          
which he is Indiferent well & will this day goe Abroade & Its said he           
& the Ps will in few dayes Remove to Richmond for the Aire                      
     Sr Wm Beversham is yet Liveing but in A weake Condition                    
     Its said there will be suddenly A Creation of Abt 40 Barons in             
England                                                                         
+The Ld Ch: Justice Herbert hath taken the sacramt & Test upon                  
Alteration of the Ecclesll Comrs                                                
     dr Stillingfleet now Resolves to Continue in Towne & Preach as             
formerly                                                                        
     They write from Ireland that all those that Comitted the Barbarous         
Murther neer dublin are taken Also give Accompt of severall other Cruell        
Murthers Comitted by the Irish upon the English                                 
+Tis said the E of Tirconnell was within sight of dublin but driven             
backe & with difficulty got into North wales                                    
     Yest his Maty made the E of Yarmouth Treasurer & the Ld Walgrave           
Comptroller of the household in place of the Ld Newport & Ld Maynard            
     The Names of the Turkey ships lately lost on the Coast of Athens           
were the Brittain & the streights merchant & are vallued at above 50000         
L  But A greate Part of the goods & most of the men saved                       
     They write from Moscow the Emper[o]rs are sending Ambrs to England         
& ffrance to give Accompt of their Treaty with poland & offer to                
England Advantageous Termes of trade &c                                         
+They write from Basill that 400 Protestants who were Prisoners in Savoy        
were Come thither & the Rest dayly Exspected but that 2 of the women were       
Ravished by the officers who Conducted them of which the Cantons will           
Complaine to the D of Savoy                                                     
     L. c. 1773     London 12th ffebr 1686                                      
+Their R: Highnesses of Denmarke have taken one dr Ratcliffe to be their        
Phisitian & its said are much dissatisfied with the Advices under which         
the 2 younge Princesses died                                                    
     Their Highnesses are still indisposed & yesterday the prince his           
feaver not abateing A Clyster was Applyed                                       
     Last night Came An Expresse that the E of Tirconnell &c were safely        
Arrived at dublin where they were by the Irish Recd with greate joy &c          
     Yestr mr Edw Whittaker Prisoner in Newgate was brought to the Kings        
bench barr & moved that being under A fine of 1000 Marks to the King he         
Prayed to be Turned over to the Kings bench Prison which mr Attorney            
Genll not opposeing was Granted                                                 
     This day the Terme ended but without anything of Remarque & Its A          
Genll Complaint Amonge the Lawyers that it was the least Terme of               
Buisness they ever saw                                                          
     Upon the death of the Ld Ch: Justice mr Justice Powell & mr sergt          
Pudsey Recorder of Oxford goe the Northern & Sr Robt Wright & Baron             
Milton the Norfolke Circuitt                                                    
     The Heer Dichvelt is Arrived here from Holland but Its believed            
will not have Audience till the Marquese de Abbavill our Envoy at the           
Hague has his                                                                   
     They write from Germany there is greate Probability of A speedy            
peace the Grand seignr haveing made such offers that many are of                
opinion they will not be Rejected  Also that Genll Heuster hath                 
defeated A body of 8000 Turks neer Segedin                                      
     They write from Paris that on the 3d the D de Crequi died in the           
63d year of his Age who was Brother of Marshall Crequi Also that the D          
de Estrees their Ambr at Rome died of an Appoplexie on the 20th Past            
     L. c. 1774     London 15th ffebr 1686                                      
+The Prince & Ps of denmarke being somewhat better are this day gone            
to Richmond for the Aire                                                        
     This day both houses mett & were Prorogued till the 28th Aprill            
There was A full Appearance both of Lds & Comons                                
     Major Wentworth Capt Brierly Capt Hamilton & many other officers           
have parted with their Comissions & Its said the Ld Langdale who                
lately had the Ld Lumleys Regemt hath given up his Comission & that his         
Maty will give it either to the Ld Carlingford or Sr Jo: ffenwick               
     His Maty hath given the E of Yarmouths troope to Sr Hugh Middleton         
     Sr Jo: Moor late Ld Mayor hath layd downe his gowne                        
     The 8 Comrs of the Customs are Reduced to 5                                
     The Tower of the New Church Called St James haveing A Crack in it          
that the Parishioners feared they Resolved to have it secured  Last sunday      
the Church being Extreamly Thronged & dr Tenison just entring into his          
sermon some boyes being got into the Bellfrie by moving A Board threw           
downe some Rubbish & some Crying out the Tower was falling put them in          
such A Consternation that the like was scarse ever heard such were the          
Cryes shreeks &c  In the affright & Hurry A woman & 2 Boyes were killed &       
many hurt  The minister moved not nor many whose seates were at some            
distance from the Tower  The fear being over the dr Proceeded in his            
sermon & After Administered the sacrament                                       
     The E of Tirconnell entring the boate to Carry him on board was            
like to have drowned which boate was Cast away almost at the ships side         
his Lordship Narrowly escapeing but lost his Portmantle & Papers of very        
greate Importance & was also in greate danger at sea                            
     Capt Marcus Talbott Naturall son of the E of Tirconnell is killed          
In Ireland in A duell by one Capt Maxwell A Scotchman                           
     L. c. 1775     London 22d ffebr 1686                                       
+They write from dublin of the 12th Instant that on that day the E of           
Tirconnell was Invested In that Govermt by the late Ld Lieut who at the         
delivery of the sword made An Excellent Speech                                  
     To which his Excellency Replyed                                            
     That he was much Concerned at the feares of the Protestants many           
whereof had left the Kingdome  But he hoped that in A little time they as       
well as others would be better satisfied he being Resolved to mantaine          
the Govermt both in Church & state as by Law established & every one to         
Enjoy their former liberty & much more was said to the satisfaction of          
all people & Its beleived A Proclamation would be suddenly set forth for        
the quietting of Peoples minds                                                  
     This day is Certain Advice that the E of Clarendon is safely Arrived       
in England                                                                      
     His Maty haveing notice that the Ma de Abbavill had his Audience of        
the states did last night give Audience to Mounsr Dickvelt their Extrary        
envoy here                                                                      
     Our Holland letters say the M de Abbavill spoke with greate                
earnestnesse of the Kings Intention for Continuation of the treaties            
betwixt them & that he hoped the like demonstration would be showne by          
them whereupon deputies were Appointed to hear what he had further to           
say                                                                             
     Upon A motion made by him for Pardon for the English Concerned             
in seizeing Sr Robt Payton Its not questioned but it will be granted            
     They write from Vienna Teckly had some Considderable designe in            
hand but Genll Heuster Watched his motions                                      
+Our fforeign letters say his holinesse hath Recomended it to his Maty          
of Greate Brittain to doe all the good offices he Can Abt Turneing the          
Truce into A Peace that soe the Christians may unite their forces Agt           
the Turks                                                                       
+Last Sunday were severall meetings Publickly open Abt the Citty                
[A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter, as do a few         
names or words, like "Dowell," in left margin of first recto.]                  
     L. c. 1776     London 22d ffebr 1686                                       
              [This letter is a copy of L. c. 1775.]                            
     L. c. 1777     London 24th ffebr 1686                                      
+One Called ffather ffrancis haveing A Mandamus for some degree at              
Cambridge Demanded it of the university But upon his Refuseing the Oaths        
& Test &c they declared they Could not Admitt him & Appointed some to           
Attend the d of Albemarle their Chancellr to Pray him to Acquaint his           
Maty therewith & that it was Agt the statutes of their university Agt           
their oaths &c                                                                  
     Therefore humbly besought his Maty to Recall the said Mandamus             
     His Grace waited on the King but the Request was not granted               
     Wee have A Report that An order will Come forth to Indempnify the          
Printers of Roman books                                                         
     They write from Ireland that the new Ld Deputy hath set forth A            
Proclamation that noe person depart the Kingdome without Licence & that         
the minds of all his Matys good subjects may be at ease & free from             
feares &c Assures them that noe person shall receive any of the least           
disturbance but by due Course of Law                                            
     This morning 3 Irishmen haveing Its said Resolved to kill the next         
man they mett lighted on A Grenadier whome they killed & are Comitted to        
the Gatehouse  Some say they had a quarrell with the Grenadier Abt A            
woman which occasioned it                                                       
     Yest began o[u]r Session at the old Bayly where mr Hoyle A Councellr       
of the Temple was Indicted for Buggery  The grand jury upon A very full         
& strict enquiry into the Accusation found the bill Ignoramus soe he was        
discharged                                                                      
     Wee have Advice from the West Indies that the ffrench Protestants          
in the ffrench Islands being Constrained to abjure their Religion 7 or          
800 families togather with their effects & slaves are retired to St             
Eustace & surrinam belonging to the dutch                                       
+They write from Vienna that greate quantities of Ammunitions & Provisions      
were embarqued on the Danube but could not descend by reason of the Ice         
There are many more very late Alterations amonge the Military officers          
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