     L.c. l778     London 26th ffebr 1686                                       
+We are certainly told that Parliamt will sit at the time Appointed &           
that his Maty will use the Ancient Custom to call Divers Gent by writt          
to the Lds house which was the former usage of Creating Barons & not            
by Pattent                                                                      
     Greate endeavrs have been & still are to Influence for his Matys           
service                                                                         
     Our Scotch letters of the 19th Instant say that on the 18th A              
proclamation was Issued for Liberty of Conscience which was that                
afternoon Proclaimed there                                                      
     On Thursday the Ecclesll Council sate & dr Elliot of Dukes place           
was suspended Ab officie Benefice                                               
     The Ld Chancellor Intends to goe Into the Country on Monday next           
     This day the Prince & Ps of Denmarke Came to Whitehall  Some say           
they Intend A vissitt into Holland this summer & thence another into            
Denmarke                                                                        
     The Heer Dichvelt the Dutch envoy is Extreamly satisfied of the            
Assurances his Maty hath given of observing Inviolably the league that          
is betwixt them & Its said hath Proposed to the King for the Imediate           
Accomodating the Affaire of Bamtam that o[u]r Company & theirs shall            
have jointly the whole Pepper trade By which they may soe Advance the           
Comodity that each Company may pay their Respective Govermts 200000 L           
Sterling yearely                                                                
     The English officers that Attempted on Sr Robt Payton are                  
Pardoned & Restored to their Comands                                            
+Yest wee had Certain Advice that the Spanish with 4 ships Came to North        
Carolina landed & Burnt many houses &c & with some Booty got aboard             
Againe  The Cheife hurt they did happened to the Scotch Planters since          
which that Govermt have given out Comissions of Reprizalls to severall          
Buckaneers                                                                      
     Yest o[u]r Session ended where the provo Marshall was Acquitted            
but 7 recd sentence of death of which 4 woman to be burnt for Clipping          
     L. c. 1779     London 1st March 1686                                       
+Our last scotch letters brought the Proclamation for Liberty of                
Conscience in which severall Acts of Parliamt were dispensed with, In           
Lieu of the Test another oath enjoyned, ffeild Conventicles forbidden &c        
     And that 30 taken at A feild Conventicle were that day brought to          
Edinbrough & Comitted                                                           
     The oath is to the effect following                                        
     To owne his sacred Maty as supreame Governr over all persons & in          
all Causes                                                                      
     That they shall never Rise In Armes Agt him upon any Pretext               
whatsoever but shall mantaine & defend him his heires & lawfull                 
successrs in their soveraigne Power                                             
     This day is Come forth in Print his Matyes order for Regulating the        
musters                                                                         
     That all the forces shall be mustered l2 times A year at least             
     That their Pay dayes shall be the first dayes of January March             
May July Septembr & Novembr                                                     
     That if A Lieut Cornet or Ensigne discover his Capt hath made A            
false muster he shall have A Reward & the Capt Cashiered  if a sergt or         
corporall doe it he shall have 50 L if any other person 40 L if he be           
A soldier his discharge if desired                                              
     severall in and Abt London haveing suffered by distresses on               
Accompt of meetings or Proofe thereof to mr Brent of the Temple have            
got their moneys Againe out of the hands in which it was Illegally              
lodged & Almost dayly Applications & Proofs are made in order to the            
same  Oates haveing been A long time Confined to his Chamber hath now           
the Liberty of the Prison                                                       
     mr ffitzJames is prepareing for Hungary whither he goes with A             
Trayne of 500 of which are to be 100 of his Maties guards                       
     Tis said dr James mr of queens Colledg in Oxford is nominated Bp of        
St davids                                                                       
     Last sunday the vicechancellr & heads of the university of Cambridge       
Attended the Councell at Whitehall but we have not the Event                    
     This day is A discourse of A new Ld Privy Seals & that the Ld              
Comburies Regemt is given to another                                            
     Our fforeign letters Confirme the death of Count Teckley                   
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1780     London 3rd March 1686                                       
+The Procedings at the drs Comons between the E of Stamford & his               
Countesse are almost Ready for Publication & Its said that scarse               
anything Can be more smutty                                                     
     His Maty haveing Assured the Hudsons Bay Company of his Protection         
It hath Caused their Auctions (which were from 400 reduced to under             
100) to Advance Agayne to 250 L p Cent                                          
     This morning the K Rode into Essex to Hunt  When his Maty was there        
on Saturday In the eager Pursuit of the Game his Maty Recd some small           
hurt in his face with A Bough & mr ffitzJames was throwne off his horse         
     This night the E of Clarendon Came to Whitehall being mett by the E        
of Northampton & many others of the Nobility & Gentry & very Honourably         
Conducted into towne                                                            
     We have Reports of many Removes at Court Campe &c                          
     Its said sr Jo: Chicheley Chancellr of the dutchy was yesterday            
Removed also that Henry savile Esqr vicechamberlain Resigned the Key            
& that Coll Porter will succeed                                                 
     Its supposed the Ld Walgrave hath the Ld Comburies Regemt of               
dragoons  But we hear not who will be the Ld Privy seale in Place of the        
E of Clarendon                                                                  
     The Paris Gazett sayes severall of the disciples of dr Du Moulin           
were seized by the Inquisition & Comitted to Prison in order to be              
Prosecuted for their Heresy                                                     
     They write from Geneva that Abt 2000 of the Protestants of Piedmont        
Arrived there in A very sad Condition for want of Cloaths being Almost          
naked  That 85 were starved in the way by the snow  Those Magestrates           
Recd them very Kindly Cloathing & Refreshing them & then sent them into         
switzerland  Abt 3000 more are also Exspected at Geneva                         
+Its Conjectured there will be An Agreement between the Emper[o]r &             
ffrance & then the Emper[o]r will be At Liberty to Prosecute the Turkes,        
Greate Preparations are makeing in Germany Poland venice &c & Advices           
say the Turks are In A very bad Condition to oppose them                        
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L.c. 1781     London 5th March 1686                                        
+Its the Currant Report that his Maty will send out A Proclamation for          
Liberty of Conscience throughout England  Also that the parliamt will           
sit on the 28th of Aprill                                                       
     Our Irish letters of the 24th past brought A proclamatiom to this          
effect                                                                          
     Whereas wee are Informed severall have been very Industrious to            
suggest as if wee his Matys Governrs Intended to governe otherwise then         
by the knowne Law of the land & as if some should stand in Hazzard of           
being disturbed in their just Rights & Properties, which Reports have           
been Heightened & Incurred by some few fiery spiritts in the Pulpitts           
without the least ground &c                                                     
     ffor quietting the minds of the people &c                                  
     Wee the Ld deputy & Councell doe hereby Publish & declare that all         
his Matys subjects in this his Kingdome of what persuasion Religion or          
degree soever shall be Protected in their just Rights & Properties &            
in the free Exercise of their Religion Provided they Persevere in               
their duty & Alleigance without giveing occasion of any disturbance             
to the Peace of the Kingdome                                                    
     Tis said sr Chr Musgrave is Removed from his office in the Tower           
& Chr Musgrave Esqr from being one of the Clerks of the Councell                
     The Report that Teckley was dead is A mistake & only from the Idle         
Report of a deserter                                                            
     Our fforeign letters say the Emper[o]r & other allies have Totally         
Rejected the Turneing the Truce into A peace & the Emper[o]r has ordered        
10 Regmts to March toward Alsatia                                               
     The Proceedings in ffrance Agt the Protestants are Pursued with all        
dilligence & in those Countries where the Protestants were most numerous        
there Appear the Reall marks of Extreame poverty & dispeopleing                 
+Some hundreds of ffrench Protestants are lately Arrived at ffalmouth           
     L.c. 1782      London 8th March 1687                                       
+Many haveing taken dispensations of mr Brent of the Temple, Last Lds           
day severall meeting houses were open besides the quakers & Publick             
Preaching at that in Barbican Called mr Plants the Baptist who were more        
then 2000 in the Assembly & in Rosemakers [sic] Alley &c Proportionably         
     Our letters from Edenbrough of the 1st instant say that of those 30        
taken at A feild Conventicle & brought Prisoners thither some were              
discharged & of the Rest Refuseing the oath were to be Prosecuted               
Criminally                                                                      
     Yesterday sr Jo: Lydcott parted hence for Rome being to Remane             
there as his Maties Agent after the departure of the E of Castlemain            
     The Lady Mary Tudor Naturall daughter to his late Maty is marryed          
to one Esqr Ratcliffe of Ratcliffe A Romanist                                   
     This day is said a pattent is past one of the offices to Create mr         
ffitzjames D of Cumberland  who is makeing all Possible dispatch to             
Hungary  yesterday his horses were put on board he going Part of the            
way in A man of warr that Carryes o[u]r new Ambr to Constantinople              
     There is A discourse the K is upon disbanding 3 Regemts of horse           
vizt the E of Arrans Sr jo: Laniers & Another & that the E of Arran             
will goe to Hungary to the seige of Alba Regalis                                
     The Ld Spencer who was Coll of a Regemt quartered at St Edmundsbury        
haveing last sunday 7 night Comitted divers unaccountable Actions in the        
Church & after to the Mayor & officers & being Complained of to the             
ffather the E of Sunderland Its said he Acquainted the King & besought          
his Maty to suspend him which was done                                          
     The dutchy Court to be wholly Anexed to the Exchequer soe there            
will be noe occasion for A Chancellr Attorney &c by which the K: will           
save 8000 L p An                                                                
     The K hath demanded of the ffrench Ambr that satisfaction be               
forthwith made to the Hudson bay Company                                        
+Orders are given for fitting out 10 ships of warr forthwith                    
     L.c. 1783     London 10th March 1686                                       
+Yest Vice Admirall Herbert Br to the Ld Ch: Justice was displaced from         
all his Comands in the Navy & also from the Bedchamber & being master of        
the Wardrobe                                                                    
     Last satureday night the Ms of Hallifaxes Coach was stopt in the           
Haymarket by 5 or 6 men who wounded him in the Arme but his servants &          
others Comeing in they all ran away undiscovered but its said are since         
taken                                                                           
+Its now said the Court will Remove to Windsor Abt the 20th of Aprill &         
that the Campaigne will open the 23rd to which Comes A Regemt from scotland     
& tis believed on all hands the Parliamt will sit on the 28th Aprill            
     Tis said the Privy seale is given to the Ld Arundell of Warder &           
there is talk of more Alterations at Court                                      
     The Ld Spencer is not only Removed from his Comand but also forbid         
the Court                                                                       
     They write from Ireland the New Ld Chancellor hath made many of the        
Popish Irish justices of the Peace & made other Alterations                     
     Coll Legg the Ld Dartmmouths Br is dismist from his Comand as              
Governr of Kingsale                                                             
     Yesterday just before Exchange time the Benches Round the Exchange         
were filled with ffrench Protestants just Come over which were most women       
& Children which in all Circumstances would make Compassion in any but          
such as have layd aside all Humanity                                            
     They write from Paris that notice being given of A Connivance in           
suffering Protestants to get away There are now such strict orders under        
very severe Penalties that will Prevent it & An order is Particularly           
given to Prevent any seamen getting away there being greate want of them        
at Brest & Thoulon to supply the fleet fitting out there                        
+severall English merchants ships are getting leave to serve the                
Venetians as men of warr Agt the Turkes where are already A greate              
Number of English seamen & also of ffrench Protestant seamen                    
      [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1784     London 12th March 1686                                      
+This Evening the discourse Concerning the sitting of o[u]r Parliamt is         
Altered                                                                         
     The Ld Tho: Howard Br to the d of Norfolke is made mr of the Robes         
in Place of vice Admirall Herbert & his Regemt of ffoot is given to the         
Ld Hunsden                                                                      
     Yest the E of Arundell took his place at the Board as Ld Privy seale       
     Wee hear not of the E of Clarendons sitting in Councell since his          
Arrivall                                                                        
     sr Cha: Porter is Arrived & very graciously Recd of his Maty & some        
say stands faire to be Ld Ch: Justice of the Comon Pleas In which Court         
is A tryall next Terme between the Ld Mountague of Boughton & the E of          
Devonshire Abt the Burneing of Mountagues house                                 
     mr ffitzJames is Created D of Berwick E of Tirconnell & Baron of           
Bosworth                                                                        
     one mr Baggott is sworne Gent of the Bedchamber In Roome of Coll           
Porter                                                                          
     Tis said the E of Powis will be Created Marqs of Powis & viscount          
Montgomery & that the Lds Dover & Bellasis will be made Earles                  
     Last Thursday the Bp of London prsented A Petition to the Ecclesll         
Comrs to have his suspention taken off who Returned Answer that next            
sitting he should have their Answer                                             
     They write from Dublin that the Ld Deputy sent to the Ld Mayor to          
deliver up the Citty Charter but his Lordship desired time to Consult his       
Bretheren who have since Resolved that they Cannot give it up but by due        
Course of Law Also demanded the Colledg Charter & had the same Answer           
+Sr Richd Neagle is made Attorney Genll & Sr Bryan Oneale & mr Dillon           
sergts at Law  There are some Alterations in the Comrs of the Revenue &         
sr Tho: Sheridon made Chaire in Roome of the Ld Longford                        
+They write from Jamaica they have discovered A Copper Mine which will          
yeild 16 L of mettle out of 100 L of Ore  Some of the Ore is Come over          
hither                                                                          
     There is talke of fitting out A Considerable fleet in Aprill & that        
10 of them are to sayle Westward some distance                                  
      [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1785     London l7th March 1686                                      
+Coll Kirks Comission is taken from him & Capt ffairfax is dismist & his        
troope Given to the Ld viscount staffords Brother & Its generally               
discoursed the E of Oxford & Coll Oglethorpe are dismist                        
     The Countesse of Peterbrough is Removed from being Groome to the           
queen & Its said the Ld Preston who was Ambr in ffrance is dismist from         
being master of the Greate Robe                                                 
     Tis said 25 ships will be set out this summer most of which are to         
goe into the streights & that mr Hen: ffitzJames his Matys 2d Naturall          
son being to be brought up in Navall Affaires is to goe in the said             
ffleet but not in any Comand                                                    
     his Brother the D of Berwick will be marryed to A Daughter of the D        
of Newcastles & not goe for Hungary as was said                                 
     John dutten Colt Esqr Prisoner at the Kings suite for 10000 L on A         
scandm Magtum is discharged without any Composition which Its said the          
King granted at the Request of the Ds of Northumberland &c                      
+Yest 2 Country Gente of sussex Came to the 3 Tunn Taverne in Holburne          
very full of Brandy & Calling for a quart of Canary before half was dranke      
both fell downe dead  one was Recovered but the other lies dead there           
    Our letters from Edenbrough of the 10th say the Earles of Panmure [?]       
& dundonald are dismist for being of the Privy Councell                         
     They write from the Hague that his Matys Envoy there declared he           
had orders to treate for An Accomodation for all diferences & in                
Particular between the 2 E: India Companies & the states sent to their          
E India Company for A true state of the matter that soe all things may be       
Adjusted in An Admirable way  There have been Hott debates Abt the              
Pardon for those who Attempted on Peyton many being Averse on Account of        
Its being A President but the Rest declareing that for the future nothing       
of that nature shall be forgiven & the Considderation of o[u]r King Its         
hoped will end in their favour                                                  
     There being A greate Councell this night at Whitehall the Ecclesll         
Comrs sate not nor will till the 31st Instant                                   
      [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
     L.c. 1786     London 19th March 1686                                       
+Last night his Maty declared in Councell that the Parliamt shall be            
Prorogued till the 22 Novembr next & this afternoon the Proclamation for        
it was Published                                                                
     Its now Generally discoursed his Maty will grant A Toleration &            
that A Proclamation will next weeke Certainly Come forth for Liberty            
of Conscience throughout England                                                
+Yest dr Kern Bp of Bath preached At St James new Church & dr Cave At           
St Dunstans who were very sharpe Agt seducers & Pervertrs                       
     mr Crispe who is A member of Parliamt & Comon sergt of the Citty           
is suspended & Its said sr Jo: Moor & some other Aldermen will be dismist       
     Yest sr James Edwards Gave up his Comission as A Coll of o[u]r             
Trayned bands & Its said will be succeeded by sr Jo Chapman who is next         
in Course for Ld Mayor                                                          
     Its Credably said A Parliamt will be Called in Ireland to sit in           
May & settle things in that Kingdome                                            
     Dr Burnet haveing Published A booke in Holland being An Account of         
his Travells in Italy Germany &c & many of them being dispersed here            
search is made in order to seize them                                           
     The d of Albemarle haveing sold part of his estate & paid his debts        
departs for Jamaica next month                                                  
     The d of st Albans is prepareing for Hungary with sr Tho Wyburne           
his Govermt                                                                     
     This weeke the E India Company began their sale & had A mighty sale        
for Callicoes to the vallue of 10000 L & twice [?] as much silks &c             
     They write from Holland 17 were Concerned in the Attempt on Peyton         
of which 9 ffled & 8 Rendred themselves & are sentenced to dye but the          
end is variously Conjectured                                                    
      [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
     L. c. 1787     London 2d March 1686                                        
+The Reasons moveing his Maty to give Liberty of Conscience are in the          
Gazett & that he will suddenly Ishue out A declaration for it & Its             
affirmed that mr Wm Penn hath the Honour to draw up the said                    
declaration for the King to view & Approve                                      
     The Report Continues that Sr Jo Moor Sr Wm Pritchard & Sr Samll            
Dashwood will be put out for being Aldermen & be succeeded by Sr Wm             
Dodson Woollen Draper Sr Jo: Clarke Apothecary & mr Wm Withers Linnen           
draper                                                                          
     His Maty hath given orders for makeing forthwith for every one of          
the men of warr 2 suites of sayles & also double stores of all sorts            
     Wee have Certain Account of the loss of the Lindsey ffriggott bound        
from Guyney to Barbados & thence home being Cast away on the Coast of           
sussex A box of Letters being Cast on shoar which was in her & is all yet       
to be heard of                                                                  
     Also Another ship from Barbados belonging to the west is Cast away         
Homewards bound                                                                 
     Within 5 or 6 dayes over 1000 ffrench Protestants have landed here         
     They write from ffrance that notwithstanding all the Care upon the         
Coast of Poictou to hinder the Protestants for Escapeing yet greate             
numbers get away & severall villages & Townes on the sea side are left          
destitute of People                                                             
+That the Kings Phisitians have Applyed suitable medicines as may put him       
Past Relapsing into his old distemper  That the Aides & Customs are             
farmed at 26 millions & the Gabells at 37 millions  That upon mr sheltons       
memoriall demanding satisfaction for their seizing the English ffactories       
in Hudsons bay The King Returned Answer he is willing to have the buisness      
Accomodated in such way & manner as the King of Greate Brittain shall           
thinke fit                                                                      
+On the 18th 600 souldiers were at deale Ready to be shipt for scotland         
     L. c. 1788     London 24th March 1686                                      
+The declaration of Indulgence Its thought will not Come to the Press           
these 8 Dayes & Its supposed will be 9 sheets                                   
     This weeke is Published A book of 2 sheets said to be written by           
Wm Penn Esqr In which the Authr Challenges the Records of all kinds             
since Popery got the Chaire in England to produce An 8th part of the            
Lawes to Ruine men of Conscience that have been made since the other            
hath been made the Nationall Religion which he sayes is A scandall to           
the Reformation, Pleades very strongly for Repeale of the Penall Lawes          
& sayes the Church of England in her Constitution is none of the best           
ffreinds to Property &c                                                         
     Last sunday Masse was said in sidney Colledg in Cambridge where            
one mr Bassett A Romanist was lately made master                                
+The Report of sr Wm Allabone being made master of the Rolls is Renewed         
Its also said that judge Wright will be made Ld Ch: Justice of the Comon        
Pleas                                                                           
     This day the King & queen washed A Certain Number of old mens &            
womens feet According to Custome, Greate Preparations are makeing for           
to morrow & also for the Celebration of Easter in the Roman Way                 
     Sr Roger Manley one of the Capts of the Kings guards is dead               
+Last night Madam Gwin was given over by her Phisitians & is now Reported       
to be dead haveing by her will given her Personall estate Computed at           
50000 L to her son the D of St Albans for Carrying on the warr Agt the          
Turks                                                                           
      [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
     L. c. l789     London 26th March l687                                      
+Yesterday Madam Gwin died                                                      
     After Easter a vissitation will be sent down to Cambridg where             
last Sunday ffather ffrancis said Masse in sidney Colledg & Its said the        
like will be done to morrow at Christchurch Colledg in Oxford                   
     Coll Cornwall A member of Parliamt hath given up his Comission             
     The officers of the Army are Addressing the King to be freed from          
the oaths & Test Pursuant to the President of the Justices of Middsex           
     Some Dissenters are also Prepareing An Addresse of thankes to the          
King for the Tolleration                                                        
     The Ld Deputy since his Arrivall in Ireland hath taken away 48             
Comissions & put Natives in their places  There are not a few that are          
uneasy in that Kingdome Notwithstanding the late Proclamation & take all        
opportunities to Come for England  The Exchange of money from Dublin            
hither is 15 or 16 p Cent                                                       
     The King and queen goe not to Windsor till the 18th Aprill but the         
Prince & Ps Remove next wednesday to Hampton Court for the summer               
     The Campaigne at Hunslow heath opens not till the 10th May for             
the ffoot & the 16th for the horse                                              
     Tis now said the d of Berwick is to marry Sr ffran: Ratcliffs Daughter     
     His Maty hath pardoned mr Mead who was in Holland                          
     The Ds of Albemarle hath been Indisposed but is Recovered & Its            
said the Duke will Embarque the l8th Aprill                                     
     A Country man haveing Invented A head & soe Contrived it that              
whatever Language or Tune you speake in the Mouth of It Repeates Againe         
distinctly & Audibly  It hath been lately showne to the King queen &c           
The Inventor hath been bid 2000 L for it & at 2 d Apeece hath already got       
7 or 800 L                                                                      
     L. c. 1790     London 29th March 1687                                      
+Last Sunday at 2 in the morning A fire happened at the Corner of               
Whitecross street near Cripplegate which was soe sudden & surprising that       
6 were burnt vizt A shoemaker & his wife & 2 daughters & A Pewterers wife       
& servant & the Pewterer himselfe hardly escaped by leapeing out of A           
Window & is since distracted  There were but 2 houses damnified for that        
it was kindly discovered but too late to save their lives                       
+The Army officers & some dissenters are Prepareing to Addresse the King        
as wee formerly wrote                                                           
     Madam Gwin is not dead as was said & yesterday it was the opinion          
of her Phisitians that shee will Recover                                        
     To morrow sr Wm Trumball Embarques for Constantinople whither he           
goes his Matys Ambr                                                             
     Its now Reported the mr of the Rolls will be made Ld Ch Justice of         
the Comon pleas & sr Richd Allabone mr of the Rolls                             
+Letters from Ireland say that severall of the Corporations of that             
Kingdom are upon Renewing their Charters & that the Ld deputy continues         
his Resolutions to take A Progresse into the North of Ireland                   
     Our Dutch letters say his Maties Envoy hath prsented A memoriall           
In Behalfe of those that Attempted to seize sr Robt Peyton assureing            
the States it was without his masters Knowledg & desireing their                
Enlargemt upon which the states have Released them                              
+Our letters from Vienna say the Genll Randevous is Resolved to be on the       
15th of May between Gran & Buda & if the Grand seignior Comes in Person         
with A Numerous Army as there is greate Appearance he will That then all        
the Emper[o]rs forces will march to the Bridge of Esseck to oppose the          
Grand seigni[o]rs Army                                                          
     Yest the Ld Chancellor Came to towne & lay first In his new house          
In Westminster & next ffriday the Councell sitts                                
[Note in another hand on outside of letter:]                                    
                A Lyon Rampant in a Border [?]                                  
                vapees [?] put in a Lozeng for a widdow                         
Harbert middon Goldsmith                                                        
     L. c. 1791     London 31st March 1687                                      
+Yest the sessions began at Westminster where sr Tho: Haggerston sr Hen         
Bond mr Gage mr Tirinder & other new Justices sate on the bench                 
     His Maty hath given Admirall Herberts Regemt to Coll Justin Macarty        
     Last Sunday mr Baxter the famous Nonc Minister Preached to A               
Numerous Auditory & after sermon made A Speech Advising the people to           
joyne with the Church of England & the Consequences if they did not             
Concludeing that he purposely tooke that opportunity of Preaching to            
Acquaint them therewith & also that he would not hereafter Preach to            
them but joyne with the Church of England                                       
     Our scotch letters say they are Regulating the universities some           
who are marryed are to be dismist & single persons put in their Place           
The Diocesse of Edenbrough being made A Bishoprick since the Reformation        
& the Late Bp being made Archbp of Glascow he is to have the Govermt            
of the said Diocesse of Edenbrough & the Revenue to be Appropriated for         
Mantenance of the Kings Chapple at holy Roode house                             
     Neither the ministers nor others have as yet Accepted of the late          
Indulgence being unsatisfied with the oath therein Enjoyned                     
+They write from Ireland the dissenters are Provideing meeting houses as        
formerly                                                                        
     They write from Holland the states will send the officers who              
Attempted to Seize Peyton into England & leave them to his Maties               
Pleasure but never to be more in the service of the states  The states          
have 70 men of warr in such A Readiness as to put to sea in A very few          
dayes notice                                                                    
     This day the Ecclesll Comrs sit & Its Exspected the Bp of Londons          
buisness will be determined                                                     
      L. c. 1792       London 2d Aprill 1687                                    
+The Indulgence is 6 sheets & Comes out next munday                             
     His Maty has ordered that all moneys Levyed upon dissenters & paid         
into the Exchequer since the Accession to the Throne shall be paid back         
     This day night Major Cary A Brewer in Pye Corner who was in the Nest       
but since Pardoned had his goods seized by An old Capias  he paid 10 L          
but will have it Againe with damages                                            
     The Ld Peterbrough & mr Chudleigh who was Envoy in Holland & now           
one of the Comrs of the Customs have declared themselves Roman Catholicks       
     The King hath given Capt Browns troope of horse to Capt Langferan          
& Its said Coll Justin Macarty will be made A Major Genll                       
     Last night dr Jacomb (who died at the Countesse of Exeters) was            
Interred In Aldersgate Church being Attended by A Numerous Company              
     Madam Gwin is much better but the Countesse of Exeter very ill             
     The queen Dowager hath left off her Mourning & furnished                   
somersethouse very Richly & hath taken A summer house at Hammersmith            
     Pattents are passing to Create Sr jo duck of durham & sr Wm Humble         
of Kensington Baronetts, A quo warranto is Ishued Agt the Charter of            
Dublin & 93 more Corporations in that Kingdome                                  
     The Resolutions the states have taken Abt the English officers who         
Attempted on Peyton are not satisfactory as was Exspected                       
+severall English ships have brought over more ffrench Protestants who          
paid each 100 Livers ffreight                                                   
     The English Court are to meet on Thursday next                             
+Tis said Ps Ann of Denmarke is with Child                                      
     L. c. l793     London 5th Aprill l687                                      
+This night the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience Came forth In             
which his Maty declared he will Protect & mantaine the Clergie of the           
Church of England in the free Exersize of their Religion Also suspends          
all Penall lawes in matters Ecclesll for not Comeing to Church or not           
Receiveing the sacrant &c Giveing liberty to meet soe it be openly &            
Publickly & all freely Admitted & to make knowne to the next justice            
what place they set Apart for those uses & that are disturbances of             
any kind be given to them Also suspends takeing the oaths & Tests               
     Also declares he will mantaine all in their Properties as well of          
Church & Abby lands as in all other whatsoever                                  
     Yest the sessions for Middsex began the first time at Westminster          
where the deputy Recorder gave the Charge Prohibitting the medling with         
Religion                                                                        
     Last Sunday Dr Kern Bp of Bath Preached at st Anns Westminster             
where were hundreds of Coaches of Nobility & Gentry  Also dr                    
stillingfleet Preached at the same time at Whitehall where were the             
Prince & Ps & A thronged Assembly                                               
     A Masse house is building at Chester Castle & one Goodwin A Preist         
is to Preach there                                                              
     The E India Interloper formerly arrested at Portesmouth is ordered         
hither the goods to be sold the King to be paid his Customs & 20 L p            
Cent over & the Company to have the Rest                                        
     The E India Actions are at 214 Affrican 198 Hudsons Bay 235 p Cent         
     Its said the d of Bucks is dead in Yorkshire                               
     This night is A greate Councell At Whitehall & on ffriday will be          
another after which wee may hear of Alterations of greate ministers             
of state  Its Conjectured the Ld Ch: J Herbert will be Ld Ch: J of the          
Comon pleas & Sr Robt Wright Ld Ch: J of the Kings bench                        
     L. c. 1794     London 7th Aprill 1687                                      
+Yest morning the Lecture began Againe at Pinners hall (which was kept          
there every wednesday before the last disturbance & Called the Merchants        
Lecture) where were neer 2000 Auditrs & will be Continued every                 
wednesday                                                                       
     Our scotch letters of the 31st Past say the Councell have Banished         
220 to the Plantations for not owneing the Kings Authority & 6 others           
are ordered to be tryed for their Lives for the same                            
    The discourse of the d of Berwicks Match is now wholly layd aside           
& he is Prepareing with all speed for Hungary  The d of St Albans goes          
not with him his mother being Recovered & Agt it                                
     Tis said his Maty hath granted A Comission to the Merchants to             
Enquire into the Affaire of the Hudsons Bay ffactory which is seized            
by the ffrench & Its said the ffrench Ambr Promises to send for Comrs           
to treate with them Abt it                                                      
     After An Exact Computation of the damages by the late Inundation           
In Groningen they found drowned 1394 persons 6910 Cattle & 1281 houses          
besides 581 houses Ruined & overturned & 616 much damnified                     
     Our letters from Vienna say that further discoveries are Dayly made        
of the Intended Rebellion in Hungary which was designed through the whole       
Kingdome to massacre all the Imperiallists & then to declare for Teckley        
& divers Comanders of ffortresses haveing Agreed to deliver them up  The        
Lieut ffinke at Vienna haveing been Tortured hath discovered some of his        
Accomplices & is ordered to be Tortured Againe to try if he Can discover        
any further  The Comanders of Newhassell & Altsol are secured                   
     The Preparations of the Poles & Muscovites are very greate & the           
Cossacks under them neer the Bousthenes are prepareing small vessells to        
enter down that River into the black sea to allarme Constantinople              
     L. c. 1795     London 9th Aprill 1687                                      
+Dr Clarke who was mr of Magdalen Colledg in Oxford is dead & his Maty          
hath Appointed mr Warren A new Converted Romanist to succeed                    
     The Ecclesll Court have Asked the vicechanceller & senate of               
Cambridg to Appear before them next thursday for not obeying his Maties         
Comand in Receiveing and Admitting ffather ffrancis mr of Arts                  
     Also the ds of Norfolke haveing Petitioned them for A Pention to           
be Allowed her by the Duke since he lived not with her They determined          
that if he live not with her before next Michs they will then order her         
a Pention suitable to her quality                                               
     sr Thos Grosvenrs Comission of Capt of horse is disposed of to             
Capt Douty                                                                      
     This day Capt Hope Capt Lieut to the Ld Cravens Company was tryed          
upon the Accusation of An Irishman for false musters which he not makeing       
out was ordered to be whipt every other day for 12 dayes through 2              
Regemts of ffoot guards fed with Bread & water & soe Cashiered                  
     Yesterday the sessions ended at the old Bayly where 4 souldiers            
were sentenced to dye for Running away from their Colours                       
     Yest 4 silversmiths in Bloomesbury were seized for Clipping &              
Comitted to Newgate                                                             
     Sr Wm Trumball in his Passage to Constantinople is to Call at              
Maltha to Complaine to that governr of severall Piracies Comitted on            
his Maties subjects & demand Reparation                                         
     Yest the Interloper was Condemned in the Court of Admiralty but his        
Maty hath ordered the goods to be sold by the E India Company for which         
they to have 1500 L his Maty 20 L p Cent & the owners the Rest who are          
Extreamly satisfied with his Maties kindness                                    
     The Ld Chancellr is Highly displeased at the judges of the Comon           
Pleas for Enlargeing the Rules of the ffleet Prison without his Consent         
& at somewhat else that hath been done since                                    
     L. c. 1796     London 12th Aprill 1687                                     
+Last night Abt 10 A Clocke A fire broke out at the e of Bridgwater in          
Barbican In which the Ld Brackly his eldest son of 11 yeares of Age &           
Another son that lay with him of Abt 7 yeares old were burnt to death           
occasioned Its said by their Tutors Comeing in In drinke & left the             
Candle near the hangings & was found dead in A Chaire in that Roome  The        
Earle himselfe endeavoring to save his Children not being in bed very           
Narrowly escaped & Recd hurt  Their Honours are soe afflicted that Its          
feared the Countesse will not long survive  There were but 5 or 6 more          
Roomes burnt it happening soe early that greate helpe Comeing in                
Mastered it                                                                     
     Last sunday sr Nichs Butler one of the Comrs of the Customs was at         
Masse at Whitehall & declaired himselfe A Roman Catholicke & Its said mr        
Wiilliams hath declared himselfe of the same Religion                           
     Tis said his Maty hath sent orders into scotland that the oath             
mentioned in his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience there be not             
Imposed upon dissenters                                                         
     mr Atterbury the Messenger is gone to Cambridg to fetch up the             
vicechancellr &c & Exspected here to morrow                                     
     sr Robt Wright is declared Ld Ch. J: of the Comon Pleas & mr Baron         
heath succeeds him in the Kings bench & sr Jo: Boroughs of Grays Inne is        
to succeed mr Baron heath                                                       
+Last weeke the Comrs for disposeing the Charity to ffrench Protestants         
Passed their Accompts to the King haveing paid already 22000 L & have           
10000 L in Banke besides what was Collected & not yet paid in                   
     A greate gang of Coyners are discovered in Wales & last weeke was          
seized in London some Counterfeit Crownes & halfe Crownes which Came            
thence by A Carryer                                                             
[A full-face sketch of a woman from the waist up appears on outside of          
letter.]                                                                        
     L. c. l797     London 14th Aprill 1687                                     
+The E. of Bridgwater ventured In greate danger & is burnt in his face          
& the Countesse miscarryed on the affright  he who was the occasion was         
not their Tutr but waited on them & lay in this Chamber  The Corps              
were all found not being wholly Consumed                                        
     Last sunday most of the Eminent Nonconformists Preached at their           
former meeting houses to very greate Assemblies where they thanked god          
& the King for the freedome they enjoy                                          
     This morning the Anabaptists prsented An Addresse of thanks in             
which was Inserted that Conscience Could not be forced  his Maty replyed        
that it should not be forced nor their Properties Invaded & that they           
did well in Addressing being what was Exspected                                 
     On satureday night mr Atterbury served the vicechanceller of               
Cambridg with the order who on Munday Called A Senate who Chose Dr              
Babington & mr Newton of Trinity Coll Dr Rachard & mr Billers of st Johns       
mr stanhopp of Kings mr smith of queens & Dr Cooke of Jesus Colledg to          
Assist the vicechancellr at London & back the Reasons why they could not        
Admitt ffather ffrancis                                                         
     The Brussells Gazett sayes the E of Salisbury hath abjured the             
Protestant Religion at Rome                                                     
     The Countesse of Rochester is dead                                         
     The officers who Attempted to seize Payton are Arrived & Recd              
Graciously by his Maty who told them none ever did or should endeavor to        
serve him but he would take Care of him                                         
     His Maty hath declared that of his free Grace he will Pardon sr            
Patience Ward now in Holland & that none directly or Indirectly shall           
take any money of him on that Account & Its said Intends the same to mr         
Papillion &c that are Considderable traders                                     
     Yest the Colledg of Phisitians Recd their new Charter which Runs           
very High Agt all quacks Apothecaries not Exempted                              
     L. c. 1798     London 16th Aprill 1687                                     
+Yest at the Ld Chancellors new house mr Robt Wright was sworn Ld Ch: J:        
of the Comon Pleas mr Baron Milton judge of the Kings Bench & mr sergt          
Powell A Baron of the Exchequer                                                 
     Tis said A Generall Pardon will be Passed for all Persons 6 Excepted       
     This day is Published A 2 d letter of Wm Penn Esqr of 2 sheetes &          
halfe                                                                           
     Yest was Another Tryall at Blackheath of new Mortarpieces some of          
which threw A Bomb 3 quarters of A mile                                         
     His Maty hath given Admirall Herberts Regemt to Capt Tufton & his          
Company in the ffoot Guards is given to one of the English officers sent        
from Holland                                                                    
     Our scotch letters say that on the 5th the Ld Dunbartons Regmt             
Arrived from London & on the 12th Coll Buchans Brigade was to be put on         
board the same ships for London to be at the Campe at Hunslow heath             
That on the 5th the Colledg of Edinbrough was vissitted but tell us not         
the perticulars                                                                 
     Yest A woman was burnt at Tyburne for Clipping & A souldier hanged         
at Tower hill for Running away from his Colours                                 
     The Mufti who on the Comotions in Constantinople was Banished the          
Grand seigni[o]rs Court was in the Morea & by A strong Providence happened      
on his ffathers house whence in his Infancy he was made A Captive  Thence       
he went to venice & Embraced the Christian Religion According to the            
Greeke Church & is Embarqued for England & dayly Exspected here  Tis said       
his Maty hath given very greate Incouragemt for his Comeing & that An           
Eminent house in Austins ffryars is Appointed for his Reception                 
     The vicechancellor of Cambridg is to Appear before the Ecclesll            
Court next Thursday                                                             
     L. c. 1799     London 19th Aprill 1687                                     
+His Maty gave one mr ffarmer A Mandamus to be President of Maudlin             
Colledg in Oxford but the university have Chosen one mr Hough A Member          
of the said Colledg who was last sunday Confirmed by the Bp of Winchester       
The university haveing first writt A humble letter to the King that             
without violation to their very Constitution they Could not Admitt ffarmer      
but tis believed they will be Cited before the Ecclesll Court  Yest mr          
Wade &c who were officers under Monmoth in the west prsented An Addresse        
to the King with humble & hearty thanks for their Lives & estates &c            
Adding that his Maty had not only given them but the whole nation A new         
life in the declaration for liberty which had filled Mouths with Long           
live the King [last four words are in large letters]  his Maty smiled &         
Recd them very Kindly & told them he was Resolved to stand by his               
Declaration & Convince the world that Protestants might by happy under A        
Papist King                                                                     
     That he alwayes lookt upon it as unchristian Even in A Papist to           
persecute on Account of Religion                                                
     At their departure the King said God Bless you & I am glad to see          
you here                                                                        
     Our scotch letters yesterday brought A Coppie of the Kings letters         
to the Councell there                                                           
     That if the Presbyterians scruple to take the oath & the Councell          
thinke fit to grant Indulgence Its now his Maties will & pleasure & doth        
hereby Authorize & Require their Lordships to grant them his Indulgence         
without takeing the said or any other oath                                      
     His Maty hath ordered the Comrs of the Navy to make what speed             
they can to put the ffleet to sea & Admirall Herbert who Intended to goe        
voluntier under the Venetians is served with A writt ne Exeat Regnum            
     The Court goes to Windsor the 18th May when the ffoot begin to             
Encampe on Hunslow heath but the horse will not be there till the middle        
of June                                                                         
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1800     London 21st Aprill 1687                                     
+What was done this day by the Ecclesll Comrs Abt the Gent sumoned from         
Oxford & Cambridg wee Cannot give Account till next                             
     Yest morning at 3 A Clock all the Warehouses between Thames street         
& Botolphs Wharfe fell downe suddenly being overcharged at top with             
sugars  noe person was killed but neer 40 Tun of wine & many Pipes of           
oyle were broken which spoyled Currants & other Rich Comodities to the          
loss of at least 10000 L                                                        
     Last satureday the d of Bucks died in Yorkshire without A will  he         
died in Perfect sence & Recd the sacramt According to the Church of             
England  his Title of duke falls but Its said that of Marqs & Earle of          
Bucks descends to the son of the late Ld Purbeck                                
     Tis thought his garter will be given to the d of Berwick                   
+Yest his Maty Rode A Hunting into surrey & was Attended by the Ld dovers       
troope who some of them in their Returne Comeing over from Lambeth in           
the fferry boat over Turned or sunke it & some say 8 or 10 were drowned         
others that all escaped but 4                                                   
     The E: India Actions are at 213 Affrican 207 Hudsons bay 230               
     Tis said Sr Jo: shorter oure Ald: of this Citty is made one of the         
Comrs of the Navy                                                               
+This day was A Tryall at the Comon Pleas between the Ld Mountague & E          
of devonshire In which it plainly Appeared that the fire which burnt            
Mountague house began in the Garrett of the Apartment the Ld Mountague          
Reserved for Laying & Aireing his hangings & happened by Neglegence of          
his servants: soe the Ld Mountague was nonsuited                                
     The ffoot are on their March from Portesmouth Yarmouth &c towards          
the Campe at Hunslow heath                                                      
[A few figures and hard-to-read words in another hand appear on outside         
of letter.]                                                                     
     L. c. 1801     London 23d Aprill 1687                                      
+Last Thursday the Vicechancellr of Cambridge Appeared before the               
Ecclesll Comrs to give Answer why they did not obey the Kings mandamus          
& Admitt ffather ffrancis mr of Arts & demeaned himselfe with greate            
Prudence & Prayed                                                               
     That being he Appeared In behalfe of the whole university & was            
Conscious to himselfe of his Ignorance in the Law & that soe venerable &        
August An Assembly might Disable him to the Prejudice of those he               
Represented                                                                     
     That they would Allow him time & Councell to Assist him which was          
granted & he is to Appear on Wednesday next                                     
     Last Thursday my Justice Withins had his quiettus & this day Sr            
Richd Allabone was made A sergt at Law & on Munday is to be A judge in          
his place                                                                       
     Yest the Ld Ch: Justice Wright (who was last weeke sworne of the           
Comon Pleas) was sworne Ld Ch: J of the Kings bench & the Ld Ch: J:             
Herbert sworne Ld Ch: Justice of the Comon Pleas                                
     There is talke another judge hath his quiettus & that Sr Jo: Holt          
o[u]r Recorder is Laying downe that office                                      
     On Thursday Wm Penn & some other Eminent quakers prsented An               
Addresse of thanks Assureing his Maty of their Peaceable behavour &             
Loyalty                                                                         
   The Cheife of the Presbiterians have also prsented An Addresse of            
thanks for his Maties declaration for liberty of Conscience                     
     His Maty hath given the late d of Bucks Garter to the E of                 
Sunderland                                                                      
+Last night Sr Gilbert Gerrards son in Law that marryed the Bp of               
Durhams Daughter was killed in Soehoe feilds by one mr smith (Comonly           
Called narrative smith) who was seized & Comitted to the Gatehouse              
     L. c. 1802     London 26th Aprill 1687                                     
     The quakers Addresse will not be delivered these 2 or 3 dayes              
     They say they are more obliged to the King then any other he haveing       
Released 1100 of their ffreinds some of which have been above 20 yeares         
in Prison                                                                       
     Those of Madgalen Colledg in Oxford have Acquainted his Maty they          
had Elected mr Hough before they had his Maties Mandamus to Elect mr            
ffarmer or they would have obeyed it with which Its said his Maty is            
well satisfied                                                                  
     Yest was Published by mr Hills the Kings Printer the Rules of the          
schooles to be opened on the 23d May in the savoy  That all Children of         
what Condition or perswasion soever shall be taught Gratis & noe                
Tampering to perswade any from their Religion & many other Encouragemts         
to send Children thither                                                        
     On Satureday Coll Buchans Battalion Arrived from scotland & were           
quartered in Whitechappell &c & Abt 3 on sunday morning their Centries          
stopt the Constable & Watch & seized the Constable upon which the Ld            
Mayor & sheriffs were Called out of bed who demanded the Constable but          
were not only Refused but used in A Gross manner                                
     In the afternoon the Ld Mayor &c Acquainted the King & Councell &          
upon A full Examination his Maty ordered Capt Hodges to be suspended &          
declared he was much troubled at what had happened  That it was never his       
Intention the Military power should Concerne it selfe with the Civill           
other then to Aide & Assist & would Punish the prsent offenders & Ishue         
an order to Prevent such things for the future                                  
+On sunday night the E of devonshire being in Whitehall & Hott words            
Passing between him & Coll Culpepper he struck him with A small Cane &          
was Confined to his house & this day gave bayle but Its said will be            
Called to A strict Account                                                      
+Yest Oates stood in the Pillory at Tyburne & Came off well                     
     L. c. 1803     London 28th Aprill 1687                                     
+Yest the Vicechancellr &c Appeared before the Ecclesll Comrs The Roome         
& Anti=Roome being Extreamly thronged with persons of quality & hundreds        
of Clergymen  he delivered in his Plea which was Read & Recited many            
statutes of the university &c & In effect justifyed their Proceedings           
desireing they might be left to the Law & the judges & they were Ready to       
joyne Ishue the matter being wholly Civill & not Cognizable by that Court       
+They were ordered to withdraw & after An houres debate the Comrs               
Resolved to take time to give in their opinion & Adjourned till the             
14th May                                                                        
     This day 8 Presbiterian ministers in behalfe of themselves & others        
prsented An Addresse of thanks for their liberty of Conscience which Its        
said is drawne by mr Alsopp & most Curiously & Retorically Penned               
     They assured his Maty of their Loyalty & also that they Rested in          
his Promise                                                                     
     The K Recd them very Graciously & in A speech thanked them &               
declared it was his opinion the scripture was Clear that noe force Could        
or ought to be put on Conscience  That his family had been severely             
dealt with by men of their perswasion but now he would not doubt of             
their Loyalty Concludeing that as he was A Prince he as heartily wished         
there was A Magna Charta for Liberty of Conscience aswell as for their          
Properties                                                                      
     Tis said the sometime Turned out Aldermen are to be Restored & that        
sr Jo shorter will be Ld Mayor for next year                                    
+The Ryott by the scotch souldiers is Enquired into by the Ld Chancellr &c      
     This day sr Richd Allabone & mr Ingleby of Yorke (who was tryed            
there as one in the Popish Plott) were made sergts & treated the judges         
&c Magnificently                                                                
+The Ld Purbeck 10 yeares old hath kissed the Kings hand as Marqs of            
Buckingham                                                                      
     one mr Savile A Gent of the Inns of Court hath his Chamber sealed up       
& A warrant out for him  Its Reported he Employed one to transcribe some        
Manuscripts who Conceiveing them to be Treason Carryed them to the Ld           
Chancellr                                                                       
[A few figures in another hand appear in left margin of first recto and         
on outside of letter.]                                                          
     L. c. 1804     London 3d May 1687                                          
+A New Comission is Passing for the Lds [of?] the Ecclesll Comrs which          
will have some Additionall Powers in it & Its said till it be Past the          
buisness of Cambridg will have noe determination                                
     Many more Addresses are Prepareing  Its said the Bps of Durham             
Oxford Rochester & Chester have subscribed Addresses which are Passing          
through their severall diocesses                                                
+Last sunday Count Dada Nuntio from his holiness was Consecrated Archbp         
of Amasia in St James Chappell by ffather Dominick Archbp of Armagh & 2         
other Bps his Maty & both the queens being prsent  Its now said that            
next Munday he will make his Publicke entry                                     
     A New Comission is Appointed for Wm Penn Esqr Councellr Brent & 2          
others to Inspect & Report to the King what money hath been Levyed on           
Dissenters for 8 yeares Past                                                    
     Sr Jo: Holt o[u]r Recorder hath besought the King for his quiettus         
which is granted & mr sergt Tate succeeds                                       
     This day the Mr of the Rolls is displaced & is succeeded by the Ld         
Ch: Justice Herbert & the Ld Ch: Justice Wright succeeds in the Comon           
Pleas & Sr Richd Allabone succeeds Ld Ch: Justice of the Kings bench            
+Yest the King went for Tilbury Chattam &c And A 3d Rate ffriggott was          
Launched & named Edgmoor being the Name of the Moor on which Monmoth            
was Routed  The D of Berwick went with him & soe onwards for Hungary            
+The K. of Spaine hath had dangerous fitts of An Ague & swooneings &            
there is A Report he is dead which hath Caused the ffrench K to deferr          
his journey to Luxemburgh & if true Its Exspected he will Instantly             
seize on the Spanish Netherlands                                                
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1805     London 5th May 1687                                         
+What wee wrote last of the mr of the Rolls & the Ld Ch: Justices               
being Removed is not yet Confirmed                                              
     Last night his Maty Returned to Whitehall & soon after was                 
Attended with severall Addresses                                                
     An Addresse is prsented by some of the Clergie in which they               
humbly thanke the King for his Renewed Promises in his declaration of           
maintaining & defending the Church of England as by Law established &c          
Returneing humble & hearty thanks as becomes true sons of the Church of         
England                                                                         
     His Maty Recd them very Graciously & their Addresse with much              
satisfaction                                                                    
     Complaint being made Agt the Mayor & Recorder of Totnes That he            
was soe far from forwarding the late Addresse that he Comitted some of          
the Grandjury for it, upon which they are sent for up to Answer it              
     dr Burnet haveing Printed 2 Pamphletts in Holland Abt the Test             
wherein are scandalous Reflections on the Govermt he is Cited to                
Appear to An Information at Edenbrough by the 24th June next or to              
have Processe Agt him                                                           
     Tis said the Bp of Peterbrough is layd Aside                               
     The E: of Strafford is soe ill that his life is dispaired of               
     His Maty hath given the Marqs of Worcesters Regemt to the son of           
the Marqs of Powis.                                                             
+Yest the scotch Battalion who quartered in Whitechappell marched               
through the Citty & Capt Hodges at the head of his Company                      
     Yest mr Lenthalls Councell moved Agt mr Glover marshall of the             
Kings bench that he Could get noe Rent of him & other Complaints were           
made soe the Court swore mr Cooke marshall in his place but Its said mr         
Glover is gone for Holland & Carryed severall Prisoners with him                
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1806     London 10th May 1687                                        
+On satureday the Ld Chancellr demanded of the vicechancellr how long he        
had been vicechancellr                                                          
     he Answered Abt 7 yeares                                                   
     My Ld Asked when the Kings Mandamus Came to him                            
     he Answered on Ashwednesday                                                
     My Ld Asked him when he Comunicated it to the senate  he said within       
14 or 15 dayes  My Ld Asked why soe many dayes                                  
     He Answered it was A New thing & he would be well Advised soe divers       
persons of greate worth & Learning Came to him in the name of some              
Colledges & shewed their dislike                                                
     My Ld Asked who they were                                                  
     He named dr Osmont & 5 or 6 more                                           
     My Ld Asked who opposed it in the senate                                   
     He Answered it was A generall Consent by silence to what he said           
     Then being ordered to Withdraw were after Called in & Recd the             
sentence formerly mo[ved?] & those 8 that Came with h[im?] & some others        
are ordered to Attend next Thursday                                             
     Yest 2 more Addresses were prsented to his Maty                            
     Sr Patience Ward is Returned                                               
     On the 19th the whole Court Remove to Windsor                              
     Yest the E of devonshire Appeared Againe & mr Williams Insisted he         
ought not to be Impleaded in time of Parliamt but the Court over Ruled it       
     Then he Put in his Plea Agt the jurisdiction of the Court in the           
Case To which mr solicittr demurred  mr Williams joyneing in the demurr         
it was Argued & the Court over Ruled that also but at last gave time to         
Plead till next Terme which mr Williams Engaged if in the Interim he            
obtain not his Maties Pardon                                                    
     Narrative smiths tryall on the Appeale is ordered next Terme & in          
the Interim he may on good bayle have his liberty                               
+The Ps of Denmarke is with Child                                               
     mr Baxter the noted Presbiterian minister hath taken some Roomes           
neer the Charter house to Preach in                                             
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1807     London 12th March [i.e., May] 1687                          
+A messenger from the Ecclesll Comrs is gone to Cambridg to summon              
more [?] of the university                                                      
     What occurred this day at Whitehall before the said Comrs you shall        
have in the next                                                                
     One mr Morley A deane in Ireland being Turned Romanist hath here           
Printed his Reasons for it & is gone back into Ireland with A dispensation      
to hold the said deaneary                                                       
+The discourse Continues that sr Patience Ward sr John shorter mr               
Pilkington &c will be Recalled to their Places of Aldermen                      
     sr Jo: Morgan Coll Cornwalls Lieut Coll hath given up his Comission        
& Its said Capt Herbert the Ld Ch: Justices Eldest brother & Capt               
Edwards have done the like                                                      
     His Maty hath ordered the ffoot to take the feild on Hunslow heath         
the 6th June The fusiliers the 16th & the horse the 20th                        
+His Maty when last at Chattam gave orders for makeing 2 wet Docks Also         
warehouses to be built & Provided with all navall stores & that they may        
be alwayes full that in Case of Emergency the fleet may be Equipped in          
A short time & Assured the Comrs they should not want money for it              
     Tis said the King hath ordered all fines & fforfeitures for the            
future shall goe for Repaire of the Garrisons on the Coast of England           
+The ds of Buckingham hath prsented the King with Abt 60 horses that            
were the dukes both for Coach & saddle                                          
     Our fforeign letters say the Tartars have defeated A Considderable         
body of Poles & Carryed 30000 Christians into slavery Also that Abafty          
Prince of Transilvania is dead & that they are Electing A Protestant            
Prince                                                                          
     This weekly bill is somewhat High there dyeing 394 which is 43 more        
then the former weeke whereof 7 died suddenly                                   
     L. c. 1808     London 14th May 1687                                        
+On Thursday the Gent of Cambridg had A sharpe Reprimand & are sent downe       
with orders too Elect A new vicechancellr & Required to bring or send the       
statutes of the university or Authentick Coppies of them to their Ldps          
     On Thursday wee had soe violent A storme the wind at southwest             
that it kept back the tyde that it flowed not above An houre & A halfe          
& at Low water the wind Carryed it soe violently downe the River that           
many waded over both above & below the Bridg & were not to their                
Armepitts the like never seen before by any now alive  There were Gold          
Rings money &c found                                                            
     Yest neer 100 women whose husbands are in Prisons for debt & unable        
to Pay prsented A petition to the King who gave A Gracious Acceptance &         
Its said will Cause An Act of Grace to be suddenly dispatcht under the          
Broad seale directed to Certain Comrs to treate with Creditrs in behalfe        
of poor debtors in Prisons throughout England                                   
     some are of opinion his Maty will Restore London & other                   
Corporations to their Ancient state                                             
     Last night o[u]r sessions ended & o[u]r new Recorder Tate sentenced        
9 to dye                                                                        
     Last Thursday the delegates at drs Comons all voted Agt the                
Countesse of Stamford in favour of the earle but shee is to have 5 L p          
weeke allowed her for Allimony                                                  
     This weeke the E of shrewsbury Ld Lumley mr ffox & mr darry are            
gone for Holland haveing his Maties leave to give the Ps of Orange A            
vissitt                                                                         
     dr Burnet is Naturalized in Holland & hath marryed A widdow worth          
800 L p An sterling                                                             
+Tis said the earle will be sent for from Ireland                               
     L. c. 1809     London 19th May 1687                                        
+Yest morning Abt 1 A Clocke A Terrible fire broke out in the Coopers           
yard belonging to the victualling office at Tower hill which Consumed           
A vast quantity of staves for Barrells & many hundreds of dry Casks             
fitted up to Carry Provisions for the fleet  Its judged there were              
neer 100 storehouses & other houses burnt & was stopt by blowing up 4           
houses in east smithfeild                                                       
+There are 8 dead men found & Its thought severall others are among the         
Ruins, Also some were wounded by the fall of A stack of Chimneys  The           
victualling office it selfe escaped                                             
     The E India ships are not soe Rich as was Exspected                        
     They bring Advice the ffaucon Capt Prestwick Comander & the Charles        
Capt Preston Comander are one lost & the others back broke Careening in         
India                                                                           
+That the Dutch declared warr Agt An Indian King & surprized the Towne          
of Meslepotan on the Coast of Chormandell & Disposessed the English             
ffactory there by which Its said the diamond trade & China trade will           
be wholly lost to the English                                                   
     That the Interlopers have surrounded the Company with the subjects         
of the Greate Mogull from whome they have Recd severall Prejudices & Agt        
whome the Company have declared warr which some thinke may prove of ill         
Consequence                                                                     
     There is A discourse that all the Clergie shall pay their first            
fruites to the full Extended vallue Also that the Bp of Worcester &             
some other Clergymen are Cited before the Ecclesll Comrs                        
     His Maty hath Revived the order of St Andrew in Scotland Consisting        
of A Soveraigne & 12 knights which was layd downe ever since K James 1st        
+This day their Maties Removed to Windsor                                       
     L. c. 1810     London 21st May 1687                                        
+The university of Cambridg have Chose dr Balderson mr of Emanuel               
Colledg their vicechancellr                                                     
     On Wednesday the Popes Nuntio is to make his Publicke entry  The           
King Comes to Whitehall to Receive him  It will be performed in A very          
splendid manner The Nuntios Coaches & Liveries being Extreame Rich              
     Tis said mr Mason A Goldsmith in ffleet street & mr Bolesworth A           
Perfume seller neer Temple barr will be sheriffs for next year  The             
former is A Romanist                                                            
     The Ld Carrington is gone to marry A Daughter of the Marqs will goe        
for Ireland                                                                     
     This weeke 7 or 800 ffrench Protestants are Arrived & are Comeing          
hither by land  his Maty hath Inspected their Accounts & Recomended A           
Perticular Care of them & A Pattent of denization for 200 who are               
Ingenious Artists in divers mechanicks is Passed Gratis                         
     Its beleived the E. India Company will next weeke waite on the             
King & Represent the usage they have mett with from the Dutch  Since            
their declareing warr Agt the Indians upon the Ganges they have Removed         
their factory from suratt to Bombay                                             
     Tis said the Dutch have broke the English scotch & Irish Regemts in        
their service & that the officers are Comeing hither                            
+They write from Vienna the Genll Randevouz was Appointed on the 20th           
May where would be 60000 men & they designed to begin the Campaigne with        
the seige of Belgrade or Alba Regalis But had Advice the Turks had              
Already 40000 men neer Essecke & greate bodies following with designe           
to surprize those places they lately tooke in lower Hungary upon which          
the Emper[o]r sent severall Regemts with all Imaginable Hast to                 
Reinforce them                                                                  
+Its discoursed at Court the Ps of Orange is with Child                         
     L. c. l811     London 24th May l687                                        
+A 2d Mandamus is sent to Cambridg to dr Balderston the new                     
vicechancellr to Admitt ffather ffrancis master of Arts                         
     Yest the Jesuitts schooles opened in the savoy where Appeared              
hundreds of youth & some were sent back for that there is not yet Roome         
sufficient  But 180 are entred of which 40 are Protestants & the names          
of others are taken  The Jesuitts Appear in the Habitts of their order          
6 officiate one quarter & then are Releived                                     
     This day Wm Penn Esqr went to Windsor to prsent An Addresse in             
behalfe of all in England Called quakers                                        
     Yest was Published A 12 d booke Intituled the Kings Authority in           
Dispenseing with Ecclesll Lawes Asserted & Indicated By the late                
Reverend Phillip Nye dedicated to the King by Henry Nye son of the              
Authr written on the occasion of his late Maties declaration                    
+The Report that mr Baxter Advised his Auditrs to joyne with the Church         
of England Proves A mistake for they have taken A Large house in                
Charterhouse yard for 7 yeares wherein he Preaches every Lords day to           
such An Auditory as is scarse Credable                                          
     Tis said P George will Goe to Denmarke to see the King his Brother         
     The E India Actions are now under 200                                      
     dr Burnet was marryed at the Hague to one Madam scott said to be           
worth 20000 L & Its said has writt A letter to o[u]r Court takeing              
notice of the Proceedings Agt him in scotland & Asserting his Innocency         
But that if the Prosecution Continues he will be forced in his owne             
defence to make some Papers Publicke of noe small figure                        
     Yest the judges Attended the King & some say were sent for to              
Consult the dispenseing with the Act that Prohibitts Irish Cattle               
+The Atturney Genll is very ill                                                 
      [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
      L. c. 1812     London 26th May 1687                                       
+Yest his Maty was Exspected in towne but Changed his Resolutions               
suddenly, sending for the officers of his Chappell to keep Corpus               
Christi day at Windsor ffather Hall Preaching on the occasion                   
     The King Recd the quakers Addresse & mr Penn with severall marks of        
Respect & Assured them he would mantaine his declaration to all his             
subjects of what Persuation soever                                              
+The E of devonshire hath made greate Application to the King to obtaine        
his Pardon but is Referred to the Law & to morrow must plead to the             
Information                                                                     
     A Ryott haveing been Comitted in the White ffryars by those Called         
Alsatians on A Constable Called to keep the peace The sheriffs with the         
Posse Comitatis went this day & brought away severall of the offenders          
Also some Notorious Cheates all which are by the Ld Mayor sent to Prison        
     There is greate Exspectation what designe the ffrench K will be on         
with his ffleet which lyes now Ready Equipped in Brest Thoulon &                
Marselles in all neer 30 men of warr But not soe well Provided of seamen        
as formerly The Protestants haveing deserted who were very Considderable        
for Number                                                                      
     The latine Gazett from Cologne gives Account that the Tombe &              
Chappell of Mahomet was falne to the ground by which they Prognosticate         
the fall of their Empire also that the P of Transilvania is dead & that         
the states have elected the d of Lorraine in his stead                          
     They write from Poland that the Muscovites in their march toward           
Crim had beaten A Considderable Number of Tartars which had Caused such         
A Consternation that their Principle families Retired into greate Tartary       
     Next satureday the d of Berwick goes Post for Hungary & on the 10th        
June P: George goes for denmarke                                                
     L. c. 1813     London 28th May 1687                                        
+Yest being the 1st of the Terme the E of devonshire pleaded Not Guilty         
to the Information for strikeing Coll Culpepper in Whitehall & will be          
tryed on the 7th June                                                           
     mr Penn at the Delivery of the quakers Addresse made this Speech           
May it please the King, It was the saying of o[u]r blessed Lord to              
the Captious Jewes Render to Cesar the things that are Cesars & to god          
the things that are gods  as this distinction ought to be observed by           
all soe the King has given us An Illustrious Example who while he was           
A subject gave Cesar his due & now he is A Cesar gives god his due vizt         
his soveraignity over Consciences  Its then A shame for any Englishman          
that Pretends to Christianity not to Render the King his due  By this           
Grace he hath Releived his distressed subjects from their Cruell                
sufferings & Raised to himselfe A new & lasting Empire in Adding their          
Affections to their duty & wee Pray God to Continue the King in that            
noble Resolution for he is now upon A Principle that hath good Nature           
Christianity & the good of Civill society on his side & as o[u]r                
sufferings would have moved stones to Compassion soe wee should be              
harder if wee were not moved to Gratitude &c                                    
     The Addresse being Read the King said                                      
Gent/ I thanke you heartily for yo[u]r Addresse  some of you know (I am         
sure you do mr Penn) that it was alwayes my Principle that Conscience           
ought not to be forced & that all men ought to have liberty of                  
Conscience & as I have promised in my declaration I will Continue as            
long as I live & hope before I dye to settle it so that those of after          
Ages shall not have power to alter it                                           
     Our letters from Dublin say the Independants there have Addressed          
the E of Tirconnell & Returned thanks for their liberty they enjoy              
     L. c. 1814     London 31st May 1687                                        
+On satureday the Ecclesll Comrs sate at Hampton Court & had some               
matter of Privacy before them & Its said the Bp of London is Cited to           
Attend them this weeke                                                          
     Tis said dr Balderston the New vicechancellr of Cambridg hath              
Refused to Admitt ffather ffrancis mr of Arts & that A quo Warranto will        
Ishue Agt the said university                                                   
     A Romish Preist to mr Hill the Mayor of Glocester hath obtained A          
Mandamus to be A Prebend there But the deane & Chapter have elected             
Another of which he is Come up hither to Complaine                              
     The English Ambr at Rome is not well satisfied the Pope Refuseing          
to Accord to some demands he made by order of his master                        
     Tis said the university of Oxford have Chose the Ld High Chancellr         
for their Chancellr in Place of the d of Ormond                                 
     On satureday the Councell sate & the Mayor & Recorder of Totnes            
Appeared for discountenanceing Addressing & brought severall Testimonies        
of their Approved Loyalty & in Conclusion the Mayor was dismist But mr          
Gibbon the Recorder was suspended from that Place & from that of                
Recorder of Exeter under the D of Albemarle                                     
     Tis said Sr Tho Colmondley of Cheshire is sumoned before the               
Councell for discountenanceing Addressing                                       
   Orders are sent to the Comrs of the Navy to fit out to sea forthwith         
some men of warr to Prevent any Mischeifs the Algereens in o[u]r seas           
may Comitt & not to suffer them to Come in sight of o[u]r Coasts                
   An Addresse is Come from all the English officers in the ffrench Army        
signifying that if his Maty hath any Comand [or?] service for them they         
will Readily quitt their Employes & Come                                        
     L. c. 1815     London 2d June 1687                                         
+The judges for the Circuitts for next Assizes are thus Appointed               
     Home Circuitt Ld Ch: J: Herbert Baron Lutwich                              
     Westerne Ld Ch J: Wright Justice Powell                                    
     Norfolke Ld Ch: Baron Atkins Baron Milton                                  
     Northerne mr Justice Allabone Baron Powell                                 
     Midland Justice Street Justice heath                                       
     Oxford Justice Holloway Baron Jenner                                       
+The heads of Maudlin Colledg in Oxford are Cited before the Ecclesll           
Comrs to Attend on Munday next                                                  
     Its said 4 Bishops will set up A ffree schoole in Lincolns Inne            
feilds & some Gent are doing the like in Westminster & the like is in           
motion in other Parts of the Kingdome                                           
     The Clergie of Yorkshire are bringing up An Addresse & Addresses           
are Comeing from severall other Parts                                           
     After all the Preparations for the Nuntio Its said his Maty upon           
An Expresse from Italy Admitts not A Publicke entry                             
     Tis said his Maty hath ordered Timouth Castle to be demolished &           
A ffort built somewhat Lower                                                    
     Sr Peter Wich his Maties Resident at Hamburgh declares himselfe A          
Romanist                                                                        
+This day sr Jo: Wetwangs son was brought to the Kings bench barr &             
Pleaded Guilty to An Information for speakeing ill of the King & his            
Army & humbly begged the Mercy of the Court                                     
+Greate severities have been used to the Nobility & Gentry in Hungary           
on Pretence of Conspireing with Teckley.  some Executed others                  
Imprisoned of which 13 Lords in Prison have been put to the Torture but         
Confesse nothing                                                                
     L. c. 1816     London 4th June 1687                                        
+Its the discourse of the towne his Maty will dissolve this Parliamt &          
Call A new one & some say the former was determined last night in               
Councell & that A Proclamation will Ishue next weeke                            
     The E of Castlemain hath had Audience of Conge of the Pope & taken         
his Conge of the sacred Colledg & is Returneing for England                     
     The Pope hath prsented him with A most famous Peece of Painting & A        
Bason of Agnus dei                                                              
     The dutch Ambr hath Acquanted the King The Reason why the dutch            
seized Meslipotan was for that the King of Golconda whose towne it was          
haveing warr with the Greate Mogull  They had lent him vast summes of           
money which they Could not get & were forced to seize for satisfaction          
     But this doth not satisfie his Maty for that not only Meslipotan           
but also 2 other ffactories that depended on it are lost to the English         
     A Man of warr & yaught are ordered to Attend P: George who Parts           
hence on the 13th Instant for denmarke by Holland & will be Absent Abt 5        
weeks                                                                           
     Three Algereens have been seen Cruiseing off the Dogger sands with         
some Prizes one of which is A ship from denmarke                                
     Our Irish letters say the Ld deputy hath Ishued out A Proclamation         
for Allaying feares jealousies & to Encourage trade & all tradeing men          
     Our scotch letters say the Ld Charles Hamilton 3d son to the duke &        
some other young Lords &c are gone for Hungary                                  
+The Bishops & states of Hungary are sumoned to A Genll diett at Vienna         
for quietting the minds of the Emper[o]rs subjects in his new Conquests         
     The Turks are Repaireing the Bridg of Esseck & the Emper[o]r has           
sent Genll Dunewald with A body of men to hinder it                             
     L. c. 1817    London 7th June 1687                                         
+Yest the vice President & ffellows of Magdalen Colledg in Oxford               
Attended the Ecclesll Comrs                                                     
     The Ld Chancellr demanded why they obeyed not the Kings Mandamus           
for mr ffarmer                                                                  
     They Answered they had not done Anything but what was Pursuant to          
the statutes & Rules of the university as by oath obliged & Prayed they         
might Answer farther by Councell                                                
     The Ld Chancellr Answered it was somewhat wonderfull they should           
aske to Advise with Councell after the ffact Comitted                           
     That they would have done better to have Advised before they were          
Guilty of such Disobedience  But at last leave was given them till Munday       
next & then to bring the statute booke of the university with them              
     This day the E of Devonshire withdrew his Plea of not Guilty & will        
Receive sentence the last day of the Terme                                      
+The Algereens are said to be 7 or 8 men of warr of which 3 are before          
the Texell  They had A fight with 3 dutch men of warr who gained nothing        
of them & night Parted them, They have taken severall Dutch vessells            
within sight of the Maas & some before the Texell Also A dutch ship             
bound from ffrance to Holland & aboard neer 200 ffrench Protestants             
fflying thither                                                                 
     They take out all the men women & Children & all of any vallue &           
then set the ship on drift & severall have been taken at sea without any        
man on board them                                                               
     This day is Advice they have taken A Dutch ship bound for London           
with the Muscovite Ambr & all his Retinue & also on board another               
vessell 100 Passengers English & dutch                                          
     His Maty has ordered sr Roger strickland with some men of warr to          
sea for the security of o[u]r Comerce                                           
+Its said Sr Edw Hales is made Lieft of the Tower                               
     L. c. 1818     London 9th June 1687                                        
+Tis said when the Presbiterians of the towne prsented their Addresse           
his Maty said to this effect                                                    
+Gent I have already found 2 good effects of my declaration The easeing         
& Pleaseing of my people, It has been my judgment A long time that none         
has or ought to have any power over Conscience but god                          
     I understand there are some jealousies among my subjects that I            
have done this on A designe  But you look like Gent of too greate               
Integrity to entertaine any such suspition                                      
+Gent I Protest before god I desire you to tell all manner of People            
that I have noe other designe then what I have spoke off & I hope to            
Live to see the day when you shall aswell have A Magna Charta for               
Liberty of Conscience as you have had for your Properties &c                    
     Abt 10 months since the d of Albemarle Ld ffaulkland sr Jo                 
Narbrough sr James Hayes & sr Richd Haddock set out A ship Called the           
James & Mary Capt Phillips Comander in search of the Spanish Galleons Cast      
away 42 yeares since neer the Cape of fflorida one of which they found          
& got up to the vallue of 300000 L & arrived in the downes last Tuesday         
haveing on board 32 Tunn of silver besides much Gold &c  Sr Richd               
Haddock A few dayes since sold his Part for 150 L now worth 8000 L              
     The d of Albemarle ventured 600 L some say 800 L for which the             
master of the ship declares he will give him 40000 L on demand but Its          
said every 100 L Charge will Repay 10000 L                                      
+Wee have Advice A sally man of warr with Algerine Colours hath taken in        
o[u]r Channell A Rich English ship from Barbados & Carryed her off &            
that severall sally men of warr are out with algereen Colours in o[u]r          
seas                                                                            
     Capt Cheeke is out for being Lieft of the Tower & sr Edw Hales in          
his Place                                                                       
+Yest the King dined at the Campe                                               
     L. c. 1819     London 11th June 1687                                       
+The dissolveing the Parliamt is not now mentioned  some say the                
Catholicke Clergie are Agt it & their Nobility & Gentry for it & to             
have A new one Chose  Its thought his Maties pleasure will be soon              
knowne                                                                          
     Many more Addresses are Come up & delivered as also one from some          
Gent of the Middle Temple wherein are Expressions much talked off &             
this morning was found upon one of the Pillars of the Temple Cloysters          
9 queries Concerning Addressing & Addressors tending to the discouragemt        
of both                                                                         
     The silver & gold on board the James & Mary is now said to be 33           
Tun Computed worth 215000 L & A ketch is Comeing for England with 15            
Tun of silver more                                                              
     The Spanish Ambr here hath given in A memoriall in which he Claimes        
A Part of the money But all are of opinion the King haveing the Tenth           
part will leave the Rest to those who ventured in setting out the ship          
     Its the Exchange newes this day that Abt 3000 Buckaneers have              
landed & taken A Spanish Towne with 18 millions of gold & silver &              
offer 4 milllions to o[u]r King for his Protection else must deliver it         
to the ffrench King                                                             
     There are on our & the ffrench Coast 15 Algereens who Its said             
have declared A Breach with England  Also Its said 4 Algereens mett in          
the streights one of o[u]r ffriggotts Comanded by Capt Killegrew with           
whome was A bloody fight for some houres but the Capt Gott off though           
much disabled                                                                   
+Sr Edw Hales his Title is the Kings Lieft & sole governr of the Tower &        
Its said his Maty hath setled A Pension on Capt Cheeke for his faithfull        
services                                                                        
     The ffrench K: being Indisposed hath for fear of A Relapse taken           
Proper Remedies to Prevent the Returne of his distemper                         
     L. c. 1820     London 14th June 1687                                       
+Yest the Gent of Magdalen Colledg in Oxford delivered their Answer in          
writeing to the Ecclesll Comrs to this effect                                   
     That they were obliged by the statutes of the Colledg & by their           
oaths not to give their votes for any to be President which had not             
been before either A member of that or New Colledg & therefore Chose dr         
Hoofe one of their owne members after which dr ffairfax who had not             
subscribed to the Reasons Prayed to be heard apart which was granted            
     And he desired A Coppie of the Libell Agt them & also A Coppie of          
the Comission Citeing severall statutes for his Request Alledging that          
for them to have Elected mr ffarmer was Contrary to their statutes &            
their oaths & the Law of the Nation &c Insomuch that the Ld Chancellr           
ordered him into Custody of A Messenger & then Adjourned till the 22d           
Instant                                                                         
     His Maty had for 2 or 3 dayes A little swelling in his ffoot which         
Its thought is the Gout but it hindered him not from Walkeing & is now          
gone againe                                                                     
     Yest morning Abt 2 A Clocke A fire broke out in st Clements Lane           
neer Temple barr at mr Kerks An Atturney & burnt that & dr shermans &           
2 or 3 houses more but mr Kerk & the dr saved their Lives by leapeing           
out of their windows                                                            
     Capt Phipps is Come to Blackwell & hath on board him 26 Tun & 7 C          
of silver & Abt 20 L weight of Gold  The D of Albemarle is Returned from        
Windsor with An order to share the Cargo & breaks bulke to morrow  The          
ketch Capt Phipps left on the Wrecke is also Arrived but Its said               
without any Plate                                                               
     By order from the dutch Ambr here An English yaught is sent to             
Cruise in the Channell for 12 dayes to send all ships into port to              
Prevent their falling into Piratts hands                                        
     L. c. 1821     London  16th June 1687                                      
+Yest being the last of the Terme the E of Devonshire Appeared & made A         
speech seeming very sorry for his fault & urgeing the Provocations he           
had &c                                                                          
     mr Justice Holloway Passed the sentence that he pay 30000 L to the         
King & be Comitted in Execution till paid & give security for the good          
behavour for one year & the Marshall of the Kings bench tooke him into          
Custody                                                                         
     This day the Ld Chancellr declared that 3 Aldermen were dismist            
vizt sr Ben Newland sr Tho: Griffith & mr Paravisine                            
     This morning the Comptroller of the Mint & Ald: Duncomb went on            
board the James & Mary to take the Kings share of the Bullion which will        
Amount to 20000 L  severall are fitting out to goe to that wreck                
     Also one mr Harrington Accounted the first & best Artist for               
weighing up from A Wreck is gone to the Coast of scotland in search of          
the spanish vice Admirall lost in 1588 laden with money for the Greate          
Armada                                                                          
     Tis said sr Nath Johnson is taken by A sally man of warr also that         
the Algerines have set the English & ffrench they tooke on shoar in             
ffrance                                                                         
     The E India Company have obtained of the King 3 men of warr with           
men &c to goe for India                                                         
+The ffrench & English Comrs have mett Abt Hudsons bay  The former              
Claime it A dependant on Canada but offer A Considderation to o[u]r             
Company                                                                         
     They write from Ireland that judgments are entred Agt 85 Charters          
& many families dayly ship thence  Also many ships are shut up in               
Dublin                                                                          
     Yest the trayne of Artillery went to the Campe & the King dined in         
the E of Dumbartons Tent, His Maty is ill with the Gout  Also Its said          
the K of Denmarke is much Indisposed                                            
     [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 1822     London  18th June 1687                                      
+The Proprietors of the silver ship have Recd their Devidends  The d of         
Albemarles share for A 4th Part Came to 52000 L  Sr Jo Narbrough had            
12000 L of his Part delivered to sr Charles Duncomb & mr Nicholls A             
merchant A like summe to another Goldsmith                                      
     On Thursday the Ld Chancellr Came & sate Amonge the Aldermen for           
some time & then told them he had A verball order from his Maty to              
dismiss sr Tho Griffith sr Ben Newland & mr Paraviceen from being               
Aldermen without Paying any fine & they should Proceed to Choose 3 new          
ones & if they or any other in time to Come should Refuse to hold they          
should Pay A fine & also what sheriffs should Refuse to stand should be         
fined & all such fines to goe towards the discharge of the Orphans money        
Also that the Ld Mayor According to Ancient Custome drinke to one at the        
Bridghouse feast to be A new sheriffe & his Maty will Appoint Another           
     Yest P: George Embarqued for Denmarke to see his Brother whose             
illness is turned into A Tertian Ague                                           
     They write from Strasburgh A Globe of fire was seen on the 31st            
Past at 3 minuitts Past one in the morning descending as from Heaven            
Enlightening the whole Citty & Adjacent Country that the starrs were            
obscured neer halfe An houre then broke like the Noyse of greate guns           
discharged                                                                      
     The Grand viziers Army is on the march being 60000 men of which            
12000 Tartars & Abt 28000 janizaries & have 1400 Camells 400 Waggons of         
Amunition & 75 greate guns                                                      
     L. c. 1823     London 21st June 1687                                       
+The Answer the K: gave to mr Alsopp &c when they prsented their                
Addresse Its said was as followeth                                              
+Gent/ I Confess I am something Affected with the Ingenious Gratitude           
& thankfullness of my dissenting subjects & that you had not this               
Liberty sooner is Highly oweing to the unwearied solicittations of              
some who I am affraide mistake their true Interest & have taken wrong           
Methods to unite the Protestants & heale the greate divisions in the            
nation                                                                          
+But I thinke I am not bound to be Ruled by them who I see are wholly           
devoted to their owne Interest nor Can I understand by all the Pother           
they have made that favour to you will be any Breach of Promise to them         
so as to undoe them as they tell mee                                            
     ffor let mens mistakes be what they will Concerning my person or           
govermt I am Resolved there shall be noe persecutions in my dominions if        
I Can be Informed of it                                                         
     Truly my judgment is soe farr Agt Persecution for meer matters of          
Religion that if ever I see Cause to Change my Religion I should not be         
of that Party who thinke it the only way to Advance the Church by               
undoing other Christians who differ from them in A small matter as I            
find it Confest by all                                                          
     Now to give men liberty to Choose what Church they will hold               
Comunion with for their Edification I am Ignorant what Church this would        
Prejudice or undoe                                                              
     And as for you dissenters let there be noe Reflection on the               
Ancient govermt of this Nation or disloyall Expressions in your                 
assemblies & then you are all Tollerable Enough to mee & my govermt &           
soe I bid you farewell desireing asmuch your welfare & happiness as any         
other of my subjects & I pray you live in Peace among your selves               
+The E of Devonshire seemes not Inclined to Pay his fine but assoon as          
the Processe is finished the Kings officers will seize his estate               
     His Maty is not yet perfectly well of his foot but it doth not             
hinder his Rideing                                                              
     L. c. 1824     London 23d June 1687                                        
+Yest the Oxford Gent Appeared before the Ecclesll Comrs & Prayed A             
Paper might be Read of severall subscribed Affidavits Attested by A             
Publick notary of Oxford which was granted & made Anthony ffarmer who           
had the Kings mandamus Appear very ill                                          
     But in Conclusion the Ld Chancellr Passed sentence & the                   
vicechancellr & dr ffairfax were both suspended & dr Huffs Election             
made voyd & the Colledg ordered to Proceed to A new Election                    
     This weeke Nath Thompson Printed A sheet Called A new Test for the         
Church of Englands Loyalty which some Call the most villanous Paper that        
ever was Printed                                                                
     Last Tuesday at the Bridghouse feast the Ld Mayor dranke to sr             
Joseph Hearne for one of o[u]r sheriffs but this day he & Ald Hartop &          
Sr Wm Russell paid each 420 L into the Chamber of London after which            
the Ld Mayor dranke to mr Abra: Doleing for sheriffe & the Court                
Proceeded to the Choyce of 7 new Aldermen who Its beleived will also            
fine but wee yet know not their names                                           
     Tis said the Marshall of the Kings bench is sent to for A                  
Perticular of those in his Custody on scandm Magtums &c and Its                 
beleived his Maty will pardon both their fines & Imprisonments some few         
Excepted  Its said mr Johnson who wrote Julyan will be pardoned  Among          
the Rest, Miles Prance is discharged thence & at his owne house Againe          
+Our Holland letters say the Algereens have landed in Norway & tooke            
away 7 or 800 men women & Children                                              
     His Maty hath sent to his Consull at Algeirs to demand the English         
taken in dutch ships                                                            
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1825     London 25th June 1687                                       
+On Thursday Abt 6 in the Evening the ship Palestina bound for Turkey           
as shee was sayling downe for Gravesend to take on the Rest of her Cargo        
was by A most violent fflash of Lightening set on fire which they Could         
not quench though they had 40 men on board but Continued burneing after         
the men left her till by her owne Powder shee was blowne up  shee had on        
board her 400 Peeces of Cloth which is all lost                                 
     4 of the Aldermens vacancies are supplyed by Sr Jeremy Sambrooke mr        
Page mr Letton & mr Boddington all Merchants                                    
     The King hath Continued the Pattent to the Proprietors who ventured        
with Capt Phipps for 2 yeares longer & hath Reserved the 5th Part               
     Capt Phipps is Returned from Windsor with orders to goe Againe  Its        
said 3 men of warr are to Attend him in one of which sr Jo: Narbrough           
designes to goe                                                                 
     The d of Albemarle designes to set forwards for the West Indies in         
A fortnight                                                                     
     Letters from scotland say dr Burnet was A 2d time sumoned to Appear        
by August next or that will Proceed to Condemnation & Confiscation              
     Also that 3 miles from Glascow A feild Conventicle was Assembled           
mr Samll Arnatt Preacher but Part of the E of Dumbartons Regemt seized          
Teacher & Auditrs to the Number of 150 who were Comitted it being death         
by their Law                                                                    
     They write from Dublin that the day after judgment Agt their Charter       
the Ld Mayor waited on the Ld deputy with the sword to deliver it to him        
but his Excellency told them it was his Maties pleasure they should             
Continue as they were till further order                                        
+Yest his Maty dined in the Campe & treated all the Generall officers           
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1826     London 28th June 1687                                       
+The Members of Madgalen Colledg in Oxford have not yet obeyed the              
Censure of the Ecclesll Comrs in Relation to dr Hough dr ffairfax &c            
     A Mandamus being sent to the Governrs of Charterhouse Hospitall to         
Admitt one there On satureday they mett 8 whereof being privy Councellrs        
before whome the person Appeared & finding him A Romanist &c it Caused          
A greate debate  at last they Refused him Admittance & drew up their            
Reasons which they subscribed & desired the E of sunderland to Acquaint         
his Maty with them & that he was not qualified According to the will the        
donor & Lawes of the ffoundation which they were sworne to mantaine &c          
     Yest Nath Thompson Published Another Paper Called some queries to          
the Protestants Concerning the English Reformation but is taken up &            
Comitted to Newgate                                                             
+Wee have many Reports & amonge others that there will be A sudden              
Reforme of his Maties household & that A Bull is Come to make ffather P         
An Archbp & that of Y--                                                         
     Last sunday mr Hall the jesuitt Preached before the King in his            
Chappell at the Campe                                                           
     On Thursday is to be A Review of the forces at the Campe after             
which the d of Grafton Embarques for Rotterdam to Receive the new queen         
of Portugall to transport her for Lisbone                                       
+Last sunday the E of devonshire got A Petition prsented to the King            
which has soe good effect that some beleive he will have his liberty            
this weeke                                                                      
     Last satureday the [about nine letters smeared] of London paid             
several orphans some Interest money  This day mr doleing submitted to           
his fine after which the Ld Mayor dranke to mr John Banks for sheriffe          
who Its beleived will also fine & when the Comissions are Come from his         
Maty for the sitting of the New Aldermen they may also fine                     
     L. c. 1827     London 30th June 1687                                       
+Yest mr Jo: Banks paid 520 L fine & this day mr Gabriell Roberts & mr          
Bramsley paid each 520 L fine After which the Ld Mayor dranke to mr             
slaughter the late Aldm Cornishes Partner & mr Ridge A merchant for             
sheriffs who will both fine                                                     
     The Comission for Calling sr Jeremy Sambrooke mr Letton mr Page mr         
Boddington & mr Bateman for Aldermen is Come & this day mr Bateman was          
sworne but the Rest dismist till next Court                                     
     This day at the Kings bench died Sr Anthony Bateman sometime Ld            
Mayor                                                                           
     Tis said the Grandjury of southwarke haveing prsented the                  
Pamphlett Called A Test for the Church of Englands Loyalty as An ill &          
scandalous Libell & Its thought it will be burnt by the Comon Hangman           
but mr Thompson is not in Newgate as was said                                   
     Tis said some in Holland have in Print Represented the Church of           
England by A large well fed & ffeathered Goose on the one side Pa [sic]         
The other dissenters Plucking off her ffeathers The quakers at the Tayle        
Pluckeing it off & out of her Mouth Gagling these words Non Resistance          
Non Resistance                                                                  
+On Tuesday the King was in the Campe where was Represented the fight at        
Phillips Norton in the West & yest before the King was Represented the          
fight at Kings Edgmore where Mon[mouth] was Routed & next weeke will be A       
Representation of the Seige of Buda in An Extrary manner Guns Bombes &c         
to Play night & day                                                             
     Tis said his Maty hath given gold Chaines & Medalls to the officers        
& silver ones to the seamen that brought the Plate                              
     L. c. 1828     London 2d July 1687                                         
+This weeke at the sessions for southwarke the Grandjury prsented An            
Addresse to the Ld Mayor praying him to prsent it to the King which Its         
said Returnes his Maty thankes for his Promise to Protect the Church of         
England &c as also Could not but shew their humble Resentmts & Greife           
to see the boldness of 2 Pamphletts                                             
     One Called A New Test for the Church of Englands Loyalty                   
     The other some queries Concerning the first Reformation which hath         
put greate fear & doubts in the Protestants & therefore they prsented           
them as Nusances &c                                                             
     Yest the Ecclesll Comrs sate where mr ffarmer Appeared to justify          
himselfe & give his Answer in writeing & urged he had sufficient                
Proofs but the Lds Comrs declared That as they would not have A mans            
Reputation taken away by bare Certificates soe Could not thinke A man           
justified by bare Certificates but would hear witnesses on either side          
on oath soe ordered both sides to Appear that day month & the Accusers          
to bring the Witnesses that subscribed the Affidavitts                          
     Tis now said the Nuntio will make his Publick entry at Windsor             
next sunday                                                                     
     Tis said the successe of Capt Phipps hath set many nations on the          
like endeavors, his Maty is granting them A new Pattent Reserveing A 5th        
Part of all gotten under 150000 L & A 3d Part of above that vallue  Sr          
Jo: Narbrough goes Admirall with 3 men of warr & Sr Wm Phipps with 3            
merchant ships                                                                  
     Our scotch letters say mr Harrington hath already got up 15 brass          
whole Cannon of the Spanish Wreck in 1588 & Its beleived will soon Come         
to A greate treasure                                                            
     L. c. 1829     London 5th July 1687                                        
+The Proclamation for dissolveing the Parliamt is in the Gazett                 
     Last sunday the Archbp of Amasia the Popes Nuntio here had his             
Publick Audience being Conducted by the d of Grafton                            
     The Nobility & Gentry at Court had notice to Attend the Ceremony           
with their Coaches                                                              
     Abt 6 A Clocke the Cavalcade began from his Apartment next Eaton           
Colledg through Windsor to the Castle  The Nuntio Rode in his owne              
Coach of state in A Purple Robe & A greate golden Cross on his brest            
with him the d of Northumberland & Sr Cha: Cottrell his Pages &                 
ffootmen in very Rich Liveries                                                  
     Next followed the Kings Coaches of the state & the queen dowagers          
with the Roman Clergie next the Ld Chancellrs Coach Ld President Ld             
Chamberlain Ld Privy seale Bp of Durham Bp of Chester & Abt 11 more of          
the Nobility & Gentry                                                           
     The Nuntio made A short speech to the King & Another to the queen          
& Returned in the same order as they Came                                       
     The d of Somerset is dismist of all his Employmts  That of the             
bedchamber is given to the d of Grafton  Also sr Chr: Musgrave is               
Removed from being Lieft of the ordinance & Its said there will be A            
Considderable Change both in sea & Campe officers in A few dayes & that         
mr Brent will be Chancellr of the Exchequer                                     
     This day Sr Jeremy sambrooke mr Bateman & mr Rudge paid each 520 L         
fine  mr Boddington & mr Page are to pay each 420 L fine & this day the         
Ld Mayor dranke to mr Tyson for sheriffe                                        
     Our fforreign letters say the Turks are Passed over the drave with         
100000 men for Releife of Agria Also that the Muscovite Army are entred         
Tartary & A mighty Army of Tartars very neer them                               
     The dutch have given An Answer to o[u]r Ambrs memoriall Abt Bantam         
which doth not please & some begin already to talke of warr                     
     L. c. 1830     London 7th July 1687                                        
+Wee have A Report of An Expresse being Come to his Maty of A battle            
betwixt the Turks & Germans neer Esseck & that 12000 Turks were killed          
& the Rest totally Routed but that the Germans lost many of their               
Bravest men                                                                     
     The King has given the d of somersetts place in the Bedchamber to          
the E of dumbarton                                                              
     To Lieft Coll Cannon his Regemt of dragoons, The Ld Walgrave Lieft         
of somersetshire & the E of Plimouth of the East Rideing of Yorkshire           
     Sr Hen Tichbourne is made Lieft of the ordinance                           
     Tis said his Maty will Raise 3 Regemts more of ffoot In which are          
to be Imployed the officers which Came from Holland                             
     A Comission is Ishueing Appointing Comrs to vissitt & Inspect all          
the Hospitalls in the Kingdome & take Account of their endowments how           
since Improved & how now Expended                                               
     Tis said An Alliance is formeing between England ffrance & denmarke        
& that the Dutch are formeing An Alliance to Ballance                           
     In Holland all hands are at Worke in fitting ships to sea they             
feareing their E: India fleet                                                   
     They write from Paris moderation is much spoken off there & some           
thinke there will be some Considderation had for those Protestants that         
Remaine there                                                                   
+This day mr Tyson paid 520 L fine after which the Ld Mayor dranke to mr        
Benheuson A dutch merchant for sheriffe  The 5 new nominated Aldermen           
are mr Guy mr Grening mr delawood mr Mercer & mr Hassell                        
+Sr Nath Johnson said to be taken by A sally man of warr is safely              
Arrived at Mevis                                                                
     The fforts Bastions &c not being finished at the Campe the                 
Representation of the seige of Buda is Put off till next Tuesday                
     L. c. 1831     London 9th July 1687                                        
+Wee have noe further Account of the battle betwixt the Turks & Germans         
But o[u]r fflanders letters say the d of Lorraine was on the 24th Past          
at Esseck & Resolved to Attack the Enemy before the Arrival of any              
succours from Belgrade                                                          
     mr Atterbury haveing been at Oxford with orders to the members of          
Madgalen Colledg he Came hither on Wednesday & in few houres Returned           
back for Oxford for what not knowne but Its said he found them very             
obstinate &c                                                                    
     Tis said the E of Rochester is Prepareing to drinke the spaw waters        
     Madam Gwin is Relapsed into her old distemper & Its beleived will          
not Recover                                                                     
     Sr Jo: Narbrough will sayle in 14 dayes                                    
     Our scotch letters say those taken at A ffeild Conventicle are all         
Released Except 4 who were Extreamly willed in their Principles &               
Resolutions                                                                     
     The dutch had use to have at this season 1000 ffishing Busses at           
sea but have now but 300 for fear of the Algereens                              
     Our E: India Company are by his Maties Permission Raiseing some            
thousands of men Resolveing to doe themselves Right To which end they           
have the Royall Assistance but some are Inclined to sell their stocks           
Its said Sr Jo: Banks hath sold 5000 L Principle for 208 p Cent & that          
Ald Duncomb hath done the like                                                  
     Tis said the d of Grafton after he hath landed the queen of                
Portugall at Lisbon is to sayle with his squadron to Algeirs & make some        
demands there                                                                   
     Tis said A Project is on ffoot to oblige the Jewes in England to           
Redeeme at their owne Charge all his Maties subjects taken by any of the        
Barbary Piratts it Appeareing the Jewes here Correspond with the Jewes          
there & give Account of all ships their Cargo & quality of Persons &c           
     At the Campe 600 men are dayly at worke on fforts Cittadells &c for        
the better Representing the seige & takeing of Buda                             
     L. c. 1832     London 16th July 1687                                       
+Yest mr Griffith the Cowkeeper was had before the E of Craven & Sr             
James Butler & it Appeared he was the Primary Cause of the Ryott That he        
sent for the souldiers & Comanded them to fire &c upon which the justice        
that bayled him was Checkt & he was Comitted to Newgate upon the                
Coroners Enquest for Wilfull murther                                            
     Two of the 5 souldiers that were Condemned here for killing A              
ffarmer at Teddington were yesterday Carryed to the Campe & Executed &          
died Catholicks & A while after some ffoot souldiers fell on mr Rouse           
the under sheriffe & upon the Executioner soe that he was brought in A          
Cart to Brainford                                                               
     The King has Agreed to farme set & let some Pluralities of Liveings        
& severall other Parsonages                                                     
     Ald Wrights son of Oxford A Barrister is made Recorder of that             
Citty in Place of Sr Geo: Pudsey                                                
     This day is Come forth A Proclamation to Prevent the Exportation           
of wooll &c Assureing one Moyety to the Prosecutr & ordering all seized         
to be brought to London Hull or Exeter & there sold to Prevent the              
owners buying Againe as has been hitherto frequently Practised                  
     The discourse has been Renewed that the Buckaneers have offered the        
King 200000 L for Pardons &c                                                    
   They write from the Hague that the Comrs of their E India Company            
were sent for to Advise Abt drawing up An Answer to o[u]r Ambrs                 
memoriall which would be Compleated in A few dayes & he only stays to           
Receive it before he Returnes for England                                       
+They write from ffalmouth they heard greate shooting at sea & supposed         
7 Algeir men of warr that lay off the lands end were Engaged with the           
Dutch E India fleet                                                             
+A Parliamt is to be speedily Called in Ireland                                 
     L. c. 1833     London 19th July 1687                                       
+They write from ffalmouth they had Advice by A ffrench vessell the             
greate shooting was Caused by some ffrench meeting with the Algereens           
who tooke 2 of them & Carryed them into Brest                                   
     some of the Apprentices haveing been Comitted to New Prison for the        
late Ryott, Last sunday the Rabble Rose Againe in far greater numbers &         
demanded them out  some of the Militia endeavouring to seize them were          
knockt downe with Brick batts & stones & forced to quitt the feild &            
Major Parry hurt  Then the E of Craven Appeared & seized 11 & Comitted          
them which soe Enraged them that they Ran Abt the streets in A                  
Rebellious maner but without Armes  The E of Craven was forced to lye           
all night in the feild to Attend their motions & Yest went to New Prison        
& Examined them & sent 11 to Newgate                                            
+Last weeke A Popish Chappell was Consecrated in Borge yard in Bucklers         
Bury                                                                            
     This day all the horse goe to Windsor & Attend his Maty to the             
Campe & Invest Buda  The ffoot breake ground to morrow & make their             
Approaches as Regular as if A Reall seige                                       
     The King has given the Gardners widdow whose Husband was killed by         
the 5 souldiers 10 L p year dureing her widdowhood & declares he will           
pardon neither officer nor souldier found Guilty of Wilfull murther             
     The Turks are far more in number then the Christians yet Act only          
defensive Exspecting A warr Among the Christians next year  They seem to        
slight the K of Poland on Presumption  ffrench money Passes Currant there       
     Our Holland letters say 10 men of warr are fitted & lye before the         
Maas to Attend the states orders  our Ambr there has An Answer to his           
Memoriall & is dayly Exspected here                                             
     L. c. 1834     London 23d July 1687                                        
+Yest mr Penn Published A booke which he Calls Seasonable Advice to the         
Church of England dissenter & Romanist Abt the Penall Lawes & Test              
Endeavouring to Prove its their Interest to endeavour to Repeale them           
soe as never to Rise Againe                                                     
     his Maty has sent An order to the ffellows of Magdalen Colledg in          
Oxford not to Admitt any one into any of the places of the Colledg              
lately vacant & were usually filled up upon St Mary Magdalens day Till          
the affaires of the Colledg shall be Adjusted by the Ecclesll Comrs             
     There is A talke of Purgeing all the Corporations of the Kingdome &        
Putting in such as were Called whiggs                                           
     Yest at the Court of Aldermen mr Lea paid 520 L fine After which A         
messenger tis said was sent into the Country to the Ld Chancellr &              
Another Person of quality the buisness yet unknowne                             
+The Mobile are quiett & wee hope will soe Continue                             
     Yest at the Campe A Gunners Arme was shott off The Cartidg takeing         
fire as it was Chargeing, On Tuesday the Genll Assault of Buda is to            
begin  Tis said the horse will decampe on the 4th August & the ffoot on         
the 10th                                                                        
     The q Goes to the Bath Abt the middle of August & his Maty will            
then vissitt Portesmouth &c                                                     
     The d of Berwick is by the Emper[o]r made Coll of A Regemt of              
Curiassers, his Brother is on board the D of Grafton his Inclinations           
being for the sea  On Tuesday the d of Grafton sayled by the Downes &           
the q of Portugall on board him                                                 
     The D of Lorraine beseiges Esseck & if that Bassa has the Temper of        
the late Bassa of Buda the seige may be as famous  some say the Grand           
vizier is Prepareing to Relieve it others that he is ill at Belgrade            
The D of Bavaria is makeing Hast to joyne Lorraine while the Rest block         
up Agria Mongatz & Alba Regalis                                                 
     L. c. 1835     London 26th July 1687                                       
+Last sunday Major Arnold Releiving the Company neer mr Griffiths               
in the afternoon Posted his men in all the Passes which drew greate             
Numbers of boyes &c which only Gazed  But the souldiers Comanding them to       
be gone & offering to seize some they Resisted & threw Brick Batts              
stones &c & A greate Ryott Proceeded in which A woman belonging to sr           
Jo: Banks was shott dead & many hurt  The sheriffes Came & made                 
Proclamation but some Indignity was offered them & their officers beaten        
but some of the Kings souldiers Came & disperst them                            
     Yesterday & this day hath been greate doings at the Campe  To              
morrow the seige of Buda is to be determined & on munday the Campe              
breaks up                                                                       
     Last Satureday Came A Courrier to Windsor with the newes of the            
death of the ds of Modena Mother to o[u]r queen & next sunday the Court         
goes into Mourning                                                              
     The Treasury have ordered the E of devonshires estate to be                
Extended for the Kings fine of 30000 L                                          
+Our E: India actions are at 205 L Affrican 220 Hudsons bay 220 L p Cent        
   Tis said dr Burnet hath Printed in Holland Coppies of the 2 Libells          
Agt him & Added thereto his defence in which he disowns all layd to his         
Charge & in Conclusion Inserts some letters the Originalls of which he          
sayes were sent to his Maties Principle secretary of state                      
     This day mr Mordant gave bond to serve sheriffe but mr Ingram & mr         
Mort [?] paid each 420 L fine & the Court Proceeded to Choose new               
Aldermen                                                                        
+Our fforreign letters say the d of Bavaria & Genll Dunewall are joyned         
the D of Lorrains Army which are now 50000 men in good heart                    
     Just now is talke An Expresse from the d of Lorraine is gone to            
Windsor the Contents not yet knowne                                             
[Some figures in another hand appear in left margin of first recto and          
on outside of letter.]                                                          
     L. c. 1836     London 28th July 1687                                       
+On Tuesday Abt 3 A Clocke the Cittadell Represented Buda with all the          
stepps of warr which lasted till sunsett, his Maty giveing all the              
Comands & all performeing to his greate satisfaction There being noe            
Accedent but only A souldier much torne in his members  The Cittadell           
was not taken but will be preserved till next Campaigne & made more             
Regular in which some few souldiers will be all the year                        
+There are 4 students at Eaton Colledg Turned Romanists which hath              
occasioned much talke & some Animosities among the members                      
     Yest Came forth A Printed sheet Asserting the Church of England            
were not loyall in setting up q: Elizabeth that had noe Right nor was           
Legitimate also another sheet being An Invective Abuse of the Church of         
England                                                                         
     Our scotch letters say that since the Proclamation for liberty of          
Conscience many meetings have been there                                        
     That the Presbiterians of the 2 Lothains had A Provinciall Assembly        
& Its Reported Intend A Generall Assembly in septembr next                      
     Last Munday the Ld Coventry died here leaveing An estate of 20000          
[?] L p An with his Barony to his kinsman A merchant                            
     The Answer the states gave to o[u]r Ambrs memoriall Abt Bantam was         
That Abt 12 months since they Recd the like memoriall from mr shelton           
but never heard more of it till now & that the same Comrs were Ready to         
debate it whenever his Maty pleased                                             
     The dutch Ambr here hath delivered in A memoriall  Its said to             
demand A dutch ship which Ran away from the Algerines to the English            
shoar whence the Algerines got her off Also to desire Assistance of 20          
men of warr Agt the Algerines by vertue of An Article of the defensive          
league or to declare them Piratts & soe to have noe Protection                  
     They write from Venice the Turks are very formidable in Dalmatia           
That they have Advice the Emper[o]r Inclines to A peace & they are              
assured that state will strike in with the Emper[o]rs opinion                   
     L. c. 1837     London 30 July 1687                                         
+Yest the Oxford Gent Appeared before the Ecclesll Comrs & soe fully            
proved upon oath all the Articles Agt mr ffarmer that Its thought his           
Maty will Recall his Mandamus                                                   
     The ffellows of the Colledg also Appeared by Delegates to Answer           
the Contempt & Attend next ffriday                                              
     Yest the Ld Mayor &c Recd his Maties pleasure to have 6 of their           
Aldermen Removed vizt sr Wm Turner sr Wm Pritchard sr samll Dashwood sr         
symon Lewis sr Ben Thorowgood & sr Jo Chapman  There are 6 new ones             
named                                                                           
     This day the Ld Mayor & Aldermen Carryed An Addresse of thanks to          
his Maty for his declaration of Liberty of Conscience                           
     The Report is Renewed that sr John shorter will be Ld Mayor next           
year                                                                            
     At Glocester According to Annuall Custome they Chose A new Mayor in        
Place of mr Hill A Romanist but his Maties pleasure is signified that he        
hold another year                                                               
     The horse march from the Campe next Tuesday & the ffoot on Thursday        
& the Court Returne hither next Weeke & on the 10th the King goes into          
the West to view his Ports &c & the queen to the Bath shee being                
Indisposed & her Phisitians vizt Sr Chr: scarbrough Sr Tho Witherley dr         
Browne dr Bradly & dr Walgrave Adviseing it                                     
     Wee hear from E India the warrs Continue betwixt the English & the         
greate Mogull who Its said hath seized suratt &c which newes Abates             
o[u]r E India Actions                                                           
+Our fforreign letters say the Pope &c are much Allarmed by the                 
Arrivall of 17 Gallies & some men of warr before Civita Vechia who Its          
said have orders to Bombard that Place &c unless the Pope Recede in the         
affaire of the ffranchises; Our fforreign letters say the d of Lorraine         
& the Turks are in sight of each other & on all hands Its Agreed our            
next letters must bring Account of A Battle                                     
     L. c. 1838     London 2d August 1687                                       
+Its said the occasion of displaceing the 6 Aldermen was for opposeing          
some Expressions in An Addresse brought to the Court of Aldermen Ready          
drawne by mr Recorder                                                           
     They were sumoned to Appear this day where the Comission for their         
dismission was to be Read  But they not Appeareing it was not Read nor          
the 6 new ones nominated  But 4 new Aldermen formerly elected Appeared          
vizt Sr Jo ffrederick mr John Bawdon mr samll Thompson & mr Ivott  The          
last Paid his fine  The other 3 were sworne & sate                              
     Tis said Sr Robt Clayton sr Patience Ward sr Jo Lawrence sr Jo             
shorter &c will be Called Againe to be Aldermen & sr Jo Moor sr James           
Smith & sr Robt Jeffries are displaced                                          
     Last sunday was another Greate Ryott in Red Lyon feilds where              
severall were Wounded & A scrivener shott through the Legg which Its            
said is to be Cutt off  severall of the Ryotters are Comitted                   
+Its said A Comission of Oyer & Terminier is Ishuing to Enquire the             
Cause of the late Ryotts & for tryall of the Ryotters now in Custody            
     his Maty Intends to vissitt Portesmouth Wight Plimouth Exeter &            
Bristoll & then be some time with the queen at the Bath Then to make A          
Progress to Glocester & some other Neibouring Counties                          
     This day the E of Rochester set forwards for the spaw in Germany           
     Sr Robt Peytons estate being Extended A ffieri facias is Ishued            
to seize the Proffitts since last Terme                                         
+The Cargoes of o[u]r 2 last E India ships are 12000 L of Indico 50000 L        
of Redwood 150000 L of saltpetre 20000 L of Pepper & 60000 Peeces of            
stuffs, many English have lost their lives in India by joyneing with            
the K of syam Agt his Rebells  There are 5 more ships Exspected home            
     The dutch have Advice their E India fleet are safe & they hourely          
Exspect their Arrivall                                                          
+Wee have yet noe further Account from Hungary                                  
      [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1839     London 4th August 1687                                      
+The 6 Aldermen to succeed those dismist are Its said mr Jo: Parsons A          
Brewer mr Basill ffirebrass merchant mr Wm Kiffin the Anabaptist mr Jo          
Eyles & mr Humfry Edwin merchants & mr Mead A quaker  Also Its said Sr          
Jo shorter & mr Hawkins A scrivener are made Aldermen                           
     Its now noe longer questioned but that Sr Jo shorter will be Ld            
Mayor next year & his Maty hath knighted mr Parsons & mr ffirebrass in          
order to their being sheriffs                                                   
     Sr Robt Viner formerly Ld Mayor is dead                                    
     Letters from Oxford say last Tuesday morning mr Atterbury fixed on         
Magdalen Colledg gate & oxford Chappell Gate The late decree of the             
Ecclesll Comrs in 2 Papers The one for vacating the Election of mr Hough        
President & the other for depriveing mr Alworth from being vice                 
President & dr ffairfax from his ffellowship                                    
     Yest the left wing at Hunslow heath decamped & the heath will be           
Cleared by the end of the weeke                                                 
     This morning the E of Castlemain Arrived here from Rome                    
     On Wednesday the d of Albemarle Goes for Portesmouth to Embarque           
for Jamaica                                                                     
+Our scotch letters say that on the 20th Past the E of Perth Ld High            
Chancellr Marqs of Atholl Ld Privy seale & D of Gourdon Constable of the        
Castle of Edenbrough were Invested knights of the most noble order of           
the Thistle  on the 23d the Presbiterian masters prsented An Addresse           
of thanks for liberty of Conscience to the Ld Chancellr to be prsented          
to the King                                                                     
+Wee have nothing from Hungary                                                  
     L. c. 1840     London 6th August 1687                                      
+his Matyes Progress is Appointed on the 16th August at Portesmouth &           
stayes there the 17th The 18th at Bath & stayes there the 19th 20th &           
21st 22d Glocester 23d Worcester 24th Ludlow 25th shrewsbury 26 Whitchurch      
27th 28th & 29th Chester 30th Newport 31st Litchfeild Sept 1st Coventry         
2d Banbury 3d & 4th Oxford 5th Cirencester & 16th Bath In which Progress        
some of the Nobles will every night keep open table                             
+Yest the ffellows of Magdalen Colledg gave in writeing to the Ecclesll         
Comrs why they did not Publish their sentence Agt the President &c The          
substance of which was That they were not for disobeying any of their           
Lordships orders But were not legally served with their order &c which          
Answer was Accepted & the Gent dismist                                          
     Tis said the Bp of Oxford is to Execute the Power of President of          
Magdalen Colledg till further order & the Court Adjourned till the 6th          
octobr                                                                          
     A Comission of Oyer & Terminer to the Ld Chancellr &c is sealed            
for tryall of the late Ryotters                                                 
     mr Covett Atturney of Chichester found in 100000 L damages to the          
K when d of Yorke, mr Best Called the Protestant Hop merchant fined             
1000 L for A misdemeanr for drinking to the Pious memory of Stephen             
Colledg in Returne to one that began the Popes to him & mr Baker fined          
500 L are all 3 discharged upon paying into the Exchequer 500 L &               
matters are prepareing for dischargeing many more of the Kings Prisoners        
     his Maty hath granted A Pattent to one mr ffox to furnish his              
Army & Navy with Bulletts for 15 yeares                                         
+They write from Vienna they suppose the Turks suffered the D of                
Lorraine to Passe the drave out of designe he meeting with such                 
dificulties as will force him to Hazzard A Battle on disadvantageous            
Termes  noe supplies Can Come to his Army but by the Drave                      
     L. c. 1841     London 9th August 1687                                      
+The Ld Chancellr is made Ld Lieft of the County of salop Ld Mulgrave           
Ld Lieft of the East Rideing of Yorkshire Ld Huntingdon of                      
Leicestershire Ld Viscount Preston of Cumberland Ld Aston of                    
staffordshire & Ld Walgrave of somersetshire                                    
     sr ffran Ratcliffe is made Baron of Langley Viscount Tindall &             
Earle of Darwent water                                                          
+This day was A Court of Aldermen before whome Came Sr Jo shorter mr            
ffirebrass & mr Manson but were not sworne  mr ffrederick paid his fine         
of 420 L                                                                        
     This day sr Jo Moor & sr James smith Recd their quiettus                   
     Letters from the Imperiall Campe at syclos on this side the drave          
Give Account the d of Lorraine made the late Attempt by speciall                
Comand from the Imperiall Court Contrary to his owne sentiment being to         
Passe over the drave on 6 Bridges & on 3 others over the Morasses for           
all which severall of their waggons were forced to swim & their horsemen        
for more then A League to march up to the saddle skirts                         
     Being Come before the Turks Campe they found it defended with A            
morass A Pikes Lengh deep in water & mudd & found it Imposible to force         
it soe Repassed the drave with little loss & Came to syclos where               
severall Parties of Turks have Appeared before their Campe Agt whome            
detachments were sent                                                           
+The ffrench ffleet in the streights have taken An Algereen man of warr         
which they keep till they give satisfaction for the ffrench ships &             
goods taken by the Piratts of sally & sold in Algeirs Contrary to the           
Articles of Peace                                                               
     L. c. 1842     London 11 August 1687                                       
+Yest sr Hen Tulse & sr Robt Jeffries had their quiettus & sr Jo:               
Shorter mr Mostin & mr Parsons were sworne Aldermen, mr Kiffin Appeared         
& desired he might Attend his Maty before he tooke the oaths which was          
granted                                                                         
     Precepts are Ishued to Regulate the Livery men of each Company as          
Its said that those formerly Excluded may Act in the same Capasity with         
others & lay all distinctions aside                                             
     The Marriage of the son of the late Sr ffran: Ratcliffe now E: of          
Derwent to the Lady Mary Tudor will suddenly be Consumated                      
     Its said his Maty will build A Collegiatt Church at St Winifrids           
well in fflintshire & will view it in his Progress                              
     Our Holland letters say the Christians Retreate from before Esseck         
was with greate dificulty That they lost 1000 men That 200 ffrench              
officers quitted the Imperiall Army & went to the Turks That the Turks          
were Reinforced with 30000 Tartars                                              
     That Teckley hath made A New Alliance with the Grand seignr by             
which Teckley is to be Crowned King of Hungary & after his death the            
states to Elect themselves A King That the Tribute of 40000 Crownes             
shall never be Augmented That the Hungarians shall enjoy their Ancient          
Priviledges That the Grand seignr shall take them into his Protection &         
shall not treate without him & them That the Jesuitts shall be banished         
Hungary with other Articles of like Tendancy                                    
   The English & ffrench Comrs Concerning Hudsons bay have mett 3 times         
& the ffrench Pretend it A dependance on Canada                                 
     Yesterday Oates stood in the Pillory at Westminster & this day at          
Charing Cross                                                                   
     L. c. 1843     London 13th August 1687                                     
+There is A discourse of A vissitation at Oxford on the 4th Septembr            
when the King is there                                                          
     Its said Wm Penn Esqr is made Treasurer of the Navy & very faire           
for another greate Employ Also that mr Wade who was in the West with            
Monmoth is made Recorder of Bristoll                                            
   Also that Sr Jo shorter is Chosen President of Bridewell                     
+The Precepts Abt the Livery men Requires the Masters & wardens of each         
Company to send Coppies to the Ld Chancellr of their Livery men as also         
of those that were before the Proceedings Agt the Charter In order to           
have the old members put in Againe & to Reduce them to the same state           
they were in                                                                    
     Yest Oates stood in the Pillory at Temple barr & the King Comeing          
to towne to vissitt the queen Dowager as he passed looked out of his            
Coach & smiled                                                                  
     The Ld spencer son to the E of sunderland is to goe to Modena to           
Condole upon the death of the queens mother                                     
     Yest the Ld Ch J: Reswore mr Glover marshall of the Kings bench            
     The 13 Dutch E: India ships Arrived are Prodigiously Rich 800 Tun          
of saltpetre 700 Tun of Pepper & of Callicoes silks & spices An                 
Incredable quantity                                                             
+Our German letters say that the D of Bavaria lost bag & baggage That he        
was alwayes Agt Passing the drave The ill successe of which has Caused A        
greate misunderstanding betwixt him & the d of Lorraine That the Turks          
are marched over the Bridg of Esseck with their Artillery & are 150000          
strong & as it were Pursue the Christian Army & Its thought have their          
eye upon Buda but the d of Lorraine Resolves to fight them                      
     L. c. 1844     London 16th August 1687                                     
+This morning their Maties went from Windsor for their Progress                 
     Yesterday P: George Arrived at Windsor & Its said stayes there with        
the Ps who is with Child                                                        
     This day the Ld Chancellr designed for Tunbridg but An order Came          
from his Maty to Require his prsence in Towne dureing the absence of the        
Court                                                                           
+This day in the Court of Aldermen the Comission for new Aldermen was           
Read where sr Basill ffirebrass sr Richd Hawkins sr Jo. Ives [?] mr             
Ashurst mr Gardiner mr Underill & mr Berry were sworne But mr Paull &           
mr Radbert who were in the same Comission did not Appear nor did mr             
Kiffin soe Its thought he has his discharge from his Maty                       
     His Maty hath given Sr Jo: shorter A Pattent to Create him A               
Baronett without ffees                                                          
+The Answer of the states Genll Concerning dr Burnet Its said is That           
they should at all times be Ready to serve the K of England But as to           
dr Burnet he hath voluntarily become their subject & by the Constitution        
of their Goverment they Could not deliver him up but if the Printer be          
found he should have suitable Punishment                                        
     Its said there is Printed in Holland                                       
     The life of his late Maty                                                  
     An Answer to Thompsons new Test of the Church of Englands Loyalty &        
A discourse of the prsent Tolleration in England All 3 written by dr            
Burnet                                                                          
     They write from Ireland their Harvest is soe Extrary that the like         
hath not been knowne in that Kingdome                                           
   some letters say That upon the Executing 2 or 3 Hungarians in the            
Imperiall Campe That nation soe disgusted it [sic] that 10000 are gone          
over to the Grand viziers Army                                                  
     L. c. 1845     London 18th August 1687                                     
+Tis said the Ld Chancellr will be made vicar Genll of England Also that        
3 or 4 Comrs will sit In the Citty to Inspect & Regulate the Livery men         
by Direction from the Ld Chancellr & Its said sr Nicholas Butler Jo:            
Trinder Esqr & mr Brent will be Inspectors herein                               
     The Court of Aldermen being now Compleate are Sr Jo Peake Ld Mayor         
Sr Wm Hooker Sr Jo shorter Sr Jonathan Raymund sr Peter daniell Sr Wm           
Gosling Sr Peter Vandeput Sr Tho Kinsey Sr Jo Rawlinson Sr Tho ffowles          
mr Jolliffe mr Thompson mr Bawden Sr Basill ffirebrass Sr Jo Parsons mr         
Edwin mr Moston mr Paull mr Ashurst Sr Richd Hawkins mr Gardiner Sr Jo          
Eyes mr Underhill mr Radbert mr Berry & mr Kiffin                               
+Tis said the Ld Deputy of Ireland has orders to meet the King at               
Chester Also that soon after his Maties Returne he will spend some time         
at Newmarket A ffox hunting                                                     
     Our German letters say the Imperiallists lost 4000 men in their            
march between Esseck & Mohatz That many Hungarians deserted & went to           
the Turks That the Turks had soe good Intelligence In the Emper[o]rs            
Army that they knew their Resolutions which they take in their Councells        
of warr                                                                         
     Our fforreign letters yesterday Confirme A New Alliance between the        
Muscovites & Tartars & between the K of Poland & the Muscovites who             
gives the K of Poland 1500000 Livers for some Townes &c                         
     The Cargoes of the 13 dutch East India ships Cost 600000 L sterling        
In India & are now worth 2 Millions & there is 1200000 L Proffitt & 3           
other ships are dayly Expected                                                  
     L. c. 1846     London 20th August 1687                                     
+his Maty tooke with him for his Progress 50000 Guyneys besides Abt             
20000 Peeces of Gold for such he toucheth for the Evill                         
     Tis said his Maty designes to Erect A Cittadell at Chester & some          
thinke shrewsbury will be garrisoned                                            
     The Ld fferrors is made Ld Lieft of staffordshire & the E of               
shrewsbury hath obtained leave to goe into Holland                              
     Last Munday his Maty delivered to the Ld Brandon Gerrard A Pardon          
under the Broade seale                                                          
     His Maties Comrs for the Navy have Adjudged the ships Triumph              
Unicorne & George to be broken up                                               
     Tis said his Maty Intends to Impower Certain Persons in each               
County to give Licences to all Publick houses & the Proffitts to be             
paid into the Exchequer                                                         
     Tis said mr Wagstaffe o[u]r towne Clerke will be displaced & that          
mr Redding will succeed                                                         
     Our letters from the Imperiall Campe of the 10th say the d of              
Lorraine to draw the Turks out of their Campe Caused the d of Bavaria to        
draw off to the Right & another Party to the left & the Turks spyes gave        
Advice the Christians were Running away as at Esseck  The Turks beleived        
it & fell on the d of Lorraine who waited to Receive them & fought 4            
houres In which time the d of Bavaria &c wheeled Abt & Charged the Turks        
in both fflanks who fled towards Esseck The Christians makeing it A             
Terrible slaughter 8000 being killed & Abt 9000 drowned & many Prisoners        
taken togather with the Artillery & baggage & the Christians in                 
Pursuite of the Rest  Also the Venetians have taken the strong ffortresse       
of Lepanto from the Turks                                                       
     L. c. 1847     London 23d August 1687                                      
+The Bp of Oxford hath his Maties letter to be President of Magdalen            
Colledg                                                                         
     This day wee have Advice of Another ship Come home with 40 Tun of          
Plate fished out of the Spanish Galleons                                        
     When his Maty was at Portesmouth he viewed his new storehouse which        
is 220 yards long & is takeing in stores which are there Provided to A          
Prodigious quantity  each ship hath her perticular Roome                        
     There is Arrived there A ship from New England with 17 Masts big           
enough to serve the best ship the King has besides lesser & say 6 ships         
more are Comeing thither with Masts &c                                          
     His Maty is building A new storehouse at Portesmouth                       
     some houres after their Maties Arrivall at the Bath the Ld dover           
brought A message to the Ld Mulgrave forbidding him by his Maties order         
the Court & his presence                                                        
     The E: of dorsett is displaced for being Ld Lieft of sussex & the Ld       
Abergaveny in his Place                                                         
     A Pardon is Passing for Sr ffran: drake Accused for words spoken           
Agt his Maty when D of Yorke                                                    
     They write from dublin the Ld deputy was Prepareing to Attend his          
Maty when at Chester & that many of the Nobility judges &c will Attend          
him thither                                                                     
     Our Holland letters seem to make the defeate of the Turks In               
Hungary much greater then was at first Reported 100 Cannon & 2 Millions         
of Treasure &c being taken  Also Its Confirmed that the Venetians have          
taken Lepanto & therein 120 Brass Cannon 14 Galleons & A vast booty &           
defeated 18000 Turks in one body & 6000 in Another & tooke severall other       
Places & are become masters of all the Morea                                    
     L. c. 1848     London 25th August 1687                                     
+The Plate ship stands off to sea & Its said will not Come in here till         
the Proprietors have waited on his Maty & have Agreed with the d of             
Albemarle &c that have A Pattent from his Maty to goe Againe in search          
of the said wrecks  others say Its money belonging to the Buckaneers            
sent from Bermudas by one Capt Bee & Its thought if shee Cannot make her        
Termes will Putt off to Holland & unlade there                                  
     The E of Mulgrave is Come to towne suspended his office yet walked         
yesterday in st James Parke with his white staffe  The E of Carlingford         
is Gone with A letter to the King in his behalfe                                
     His Maty was Recd at Worcester with greate splendr  The Ld Plimouth        
who is Ld Lieft of that County with the Nobility & Gentry went to meet          
him & was entertained by the Bp at his Pallace & all the Gent by the Ld         
Plimouth who kept open Table dureing the Kings stay                             
     This weeke the Ds of somerset was brought to bed of A son                  
     The E: India Actions Continue at 206 Affrican 220 & Hudsons bay at         
180 L which before the ffrench seized 2 of their factories was worth 300        
L In which his Maty has declared he will see them Righted                       
+Our ffrench letters say the Grand vizier with much dificulty Retreated         
to Esseck where he is Rallying all the forces he Can to defend that             
Place, wee have A Report this day that the K of Poland is dead                  
     L. c. 1849     London 27th August 1687                                     
+On the 22d the Ld deputy of Ireland Arrived at Chester with Abt 200            
Noblemen &c  next day he was Invited by the Bp of Chester & on the 24th         
went for shrewsbury to meet his Maty                                            
     Our scotch letters say that on the 18th A Comittee of Councell sate        
& the Ld Chancellr sent for some of the Presbiterian ministers who              
subscribed the Addresse lately in o[u]r Gazett & delivered them his             
Maties Answer which was sealed & directed to one of the ministers vizt          
     Wee love you Well & wee heartily thanke you for your Addresse  Wee         
Resolve to Protect you in your Religion liberty & Property all o[u]r            
life & wee shall lay downe such methods as shall not be in the Power of         
any to alter thereafter  In the meane time wee desire your prayers for          
o[u]r Person & Goverment  To which the Ld Chancellr Added                       
+Gent my master ordained mee to tell you That I am to serve you in all          
things within the Compasse of my power                                          
     Letters from Algeirs say that on the 14th Past the dutch ship              
taken between England & Rotterdam was brought thither with 164 persons          
of which 47 English were Imediately delivered to the English Consull            
But 63 ffrench Protestants who had their Choyce to be delivered to              
their Consull or to be slaves Chose the latter they not forceing them           
to Mahomett & masse being to them Equall to it                                  
+Letters from Vienna of the 17th Confirme the late victory but say the          
horse Escaped to Esseck  some Presse the Emperor to make use of this            
Conjuncture for A Peace  Tis said that before the Battle A Party of             
Turks tooke Abt 30 English voluntiers of which 2 sons of George Pitts           
Esqr & that the d of Berwick is brought to Vienna sick                          
     Letters from Poland say their King was in Good health & Prepareing         
to goe to his Army of 36000 men Encamped neer Camimeck                          
     L. c. 1850     London 30th August 1687                                     
+His Maty haveing sent A Mandamus to the Bp of Oxford to Require him to         
demand the Admittance of mr ffarmer President of Magdalen Colledg Last          
satureday his Lordship being Indisposed sent one mr Collins as his              
deputy with the said Mandamus & A letter to the seni[o]r ffellow & in           
his Absence to the most seni[o]r ffellow to demand the Admittance  The          
Answer was Plenas Locus                                                         
     Wee have these further Perticulars of the Battle in Hungary                
     That both Armies Came fairely to A Pitcht battle                           
     That the Turkish horse being beaten left their ffoot which most of         
them Perished  That it was An entire defeate of the whole Army & of             
15000 old janizaries 50 did not escape  They tooke their Campe with             
Tents standing all their baggage & Artillery & kild above 20000 on the          
place besides those drowned                                                     
     They write from shrewsbury that on the 25th Abt 5 A Clocke his Maty        
arrived & was mett at the Gate by the Mayor &c who prsented him with A          
Gold Purse filled with Gold  the Bells Rung all night & Bonefires &c            
that few went to bed                                                            
     Three E India ships are Arrived Richly laden vizt the Josiah George        
& Rainbow & say A peace is Agreed with the Natives                              
     His Maty has sent An order to the Ld Mayor & Aldermen to Pay off           
all those Orphans who have not above 100 L In the Chamber of London one         
of the fines Already Recd & this day they began & Paid 9 or 10 off  This        
day mr Edwin mr Paull mr Kiffin & mr Radbert were sumoned to take the           
oaths of Aldermen but did not Appear                                            
     L. c. 1851     London 1st Sept 1687                                        
+Yest o[u]r sessions began at the old Bayly where mr Griffith was found         
guilty of Manslaughter  A Record was Produced that Abt 20 yeares since          
he was Indicted of Murther found guilty of Manslaughter & burnt in the          
hand  severall of the Ryotters were also Indicted & will be severely            
Punished                                                                        
   Sr Christo Wrenn has orders to Hasten the finishing of St Paulls             
+Last weeke Sr Jo Narbrough went with some ships for the wreck in the           
west Indies                                                                     
     The duke & ds of Albemarle are both ill of A feaver                        
     A Comission of Grace for Poor Prisoners which his Maty has Promised        
to signe at his Returne hither is Granted to Continue dureing the Kings         
Pleasure & directed to all on [?] Comission of Peace any 3 of which may         
Act in their severall jurisdictions                                             
+That mr Heywood or mr Arnold the Registers shall Cause the Names of all        
such as desire Releife to be put in the Gazett 30 dayes before to save          
prisoners Charges & that Credittors may be without excuse                       
     That Goalers shall be Credittors                                           
     That the Comrs have the same Power as the Act for Poor Prisoners           
gave them                                                                       
     That the Prisoner shall make oath of his Condition & effects &             
shall be discharged of by A Certain day the Credittrs disprove not the          
said oath                                                                       
+That the Comrs shall Allow According to their discretions to the               
Prisoner out of his effects & that if any Action be brought Agt Prisoner        
or Goaler they shall plead the Generall Ishue & give this Comission in          
barr thereto                                                                    
+They write from Vienna that such Abundance of Rice Oates &c is taken as        
will more then supply their Army this year  That the d of Berwick fought        
at the head of his Regemt & is to be A Major Genll & that the Archduke          
Joseph is to [be] Crowned K of Hungary on the 20th octobr                       
     L. c. 1852    London 3d Sept 1687                                          
+His Maty haveing sent A 2d letter to the heads of Magdalen Colledg             
Requireing them to Admitt the Bp of Oxford for their President                  
     They Returned Answer                                                       
     They were sorry they Could not Comply with his Maties Comands But          
haveing Already Invested dr Hough it was noe longer in their Power to           
Admitt any other                                                                
     The University of Oxford have ordered the heads of all the                 
Colledges ( Except Magdalen Colledg to Avoid offence) The masters of            
Art &c to meet his Maty some miles out of Towne                                 
     Yest Oates stood in the Pillory before the Royall Exchange  Also it        
being the Anniversary Humiliation for the Burneing of London it was most        
sollemnly observed Especially at mr Baxters & all dissenters Except             
quakers                                                                         
     Tis said there is stolne out of the Press & Privately sold in towne        
A booke of 2 1/2 sheets Intituled A letter to A dissenter upon occasion         
of his Maties Gracious Indulgence said to be A Paper of Greate Remarque         
     Sr samll Barnadiston being Removed to the ffleet Prison & Lodging          
in the old Bayly in the late enlarged Rules Last Thursday the warden            
had orders to Call him into the Prison house                                    
     Yest the sessions ended at the old Bayly  Griffith the Cowkeeper           
was set by till next sessions he Claimeing his Clergie which the judges         
will Consider  But 9 of the Ryotters are to be whipt from Holborne barrs        
to Red Lyon feilds to pay each 5 L To be kept 3 months in Bridewell at          
hard labour & be of the good behavour afterwards, one mr stafford that          
Rode in the Guards is found Guilty of Murther for killing A watchman &          
wounding another since dead  Its thought he will have noe pardon                
+Tis said the d of Grafton is dead at Lisbone                                   
     L. c. 1853     London 6th Sept 1687                                        
+Upon the Request of the University of Oxford to the D of Ormond their          
Chancellr to nominate A new vicechancellr he hath Nominated dr Ironside         
one of greate Learning & spiritt & in whome they are Extreamly satisfied        
     On sunday Abt 5 at night his Maty Came to Oxford & was Recd with           
all the Expressions & Marks of Loyalty & joy Imaginable                         
     The Recorder in behalfe of the Citty prsented him with A Purse of          
Gold & the vicechancellr in the Name of the university with A Bible of          
Abt 50 L vallue                                                                 
     Tis said his Maty has declared the university his High Resentments         
of their disobeying his Mandamus & that unlesse they doe forthwith              
Admitt unto the Presidentship of Magdalen Colledg mr ffarmer or the Bp          
of Oxford they shall feele the effects of his Anger &c                          
     The queen is soe Extreamly well pleaded with the Bath as to                
Continue there till the 21st Instant & Its said his Maty makes A further        
Progresse to Taunton Tiverton Exeter Plimouth & Returnes to the queen &         
then goe togather for Windsor                                                   
     Tis said 40 of the lesser ships of warr will be suddenly fitted out        
of which A squadron to Goe with Sr Robt Holmes to West India                    
     This day the D of Albemarle went for Portesmouth  Sr Jo Narbrough          
stayes his Comeing & then they Intend for Jamaica                               
     Yest the Lieutenancy sate & the new Comission was Read in which are        
all the new Aldermen & the Comrs of the Customs & Excise but the quondam        
Aldermen & Lieft Coll stephenson are left out                                   
     The Recorder hath Caused Execution to be suspended on those                
sentenced to be whipt for the Ryott till his Maties pleasure be knowne          
     Wee long to hear how the newes from Morea & Hungary is Recd at             
Constantinople some beleiving it will put that Goverment Into A                 
Convulsion if not A Revolution                                                  
     L.c. 1854     London 8th Sept 1687                                         
+Last ffriday when the King Came to Banbury A Greate Bull dog Ran full          
at his Maties horse nose & Riseing to fasten the King shott him dead            
The noyse startled the E of Abingtons horse & threw him whereupon he            
was let blood                                                                   
     When the King was at Oxford he heard Masse & A sermon in the new           
Chappell at Christchurch which is finely Adorned  he vissitted                  
University Colledg & Recd mr Walker with all Grace & kindness                   
     He sent for all the ffellows of Magdalen Colledg & Required the            
Admitting the Bp of Oxford for their President To which they Answered           
on their knees they Could not & prayed him to hear their Reasons                
     But his Maty being Highly moved said he would not hear anything            
more from them & Wished them not to disobey their Prince &c  The[y]             
offered A Petition to the E of sunderland to prsent to the King who             
was very gracious to the Rest of the university                                 
     Tis said his Maty has Altered his mind as to A further Progress            
& will be at Windsor next satureday  Also Its said writts will suddenly         
Ishue for A Parliamt                                                            
     The E of Mulgrave is Restored to their Maties favour                       
     Sr Tho Jeffries the Ld Chancellrs Brother is gone back for Spaine          
who being A Romanist & haveing marryed in Spaine that King has made him         
A knight of Calutrava                                                           
+His Maty has made Major Walker deputy governr of Jamaica                       
     Last satureday the Countesse of stamford died                              
     The E India Company have given leave to 3 Interlopers to trade to          
India under some Regulations & Its beleived will to more to Increase            
trade  Tis said the Mogull is dead & that he hath made his 3d son Emperor       
+The d of Berwick Recovered & is made A Lieft Genll in the Emper[o]rs           
Army                                                                            
     L. c. 1855     London 10th Sept 1687                                       
+On Munday the King & queen goe to Bristoll after which his Maty will           
goe to Winchester & Hunt there 3 or 4 dayes & be at Windsor on the 17th         
Instant                                                                         
     The queen will Continue at Bath Abt A fortnight longer                     
     The Addition to his Maties Chappell at Whitehall is Almost finished        
& A Curious Organ to be set up there  severall other Alterations are            
makeing  perticulerly the guard=Chamber is now wainscoated & Hung Round         
with Armour like that at Windsor Castle                                         
     Our scotch letters say dr Burnet was on the 9th Past declared              
fugitive for not Appeareing to Answer the Charge of High Treason                
     They write from Paris that King hath Published A Placaert Comanding        
all Protestants of what quality or Nation soever to depart his dominions        
within 3 months under Penalty of Imprisonmt & Confiscation of their             
Estates                                                                         
     Our Holland letters say the Spolnes [?] & Tartars in the Grand             
viziers Army in their flight quarrelled & fought where severall on both         
sides were killed                                                               
     Its now on all hands Agreed there were killed & drowned 25000              
Turks That all their Cannon standarts & Tents were taken with A vast            
quantity of Amunition & Provisions                                              
+In the Grand viziers Cabinet was found A letter from the Prince of             
Transilvania desireing 10000 Turks to assist him Agt the Imperiallists          
Count Taffe hath surrendred his Regemt to the Emper[o]r & Its said will         
be sent Ambr for England                                                        
     They write from Venice that Genll Morisini hath taken Corinth In           
which he found A Rich treasure by which the Venetians are masters of            
all the Morea                                                                   
     L. c. 1856     London sept 13th 1687                                       
+On Munday the King & queen dined at Bristoll & were Magnificently              
entertained by the said Citty                                                   
     His Maty haveing by Pattent Comanded the D of Norfolke to Execute          
his office of Earle Marshall of England by Holding A Court of Chivalry          
to Releive Abuses which Cannot be done in any other Court & hath been           
discontinued ever since 1641 [?] his Grace will hold the said Court             
next satureday in the Painted Chamber at Westminster                            
     Our fforreign letters say the D of Lorraine hath destroyed the             
Bridg of Peter Waradine, Beseiged Temeswarr & Guila, Blockt up Greate           
Waradine & sent 5 Regemts to Reinforce the Blockade of Agria                    
     Also that Genll Dunewalt hath Passed the Drave with 20000 men &            
Its beleived will make some Attempt upon Esseck                                 
   The Regemt of horse that was Count Taffs is given to the D of Barwick        
The said Count being Called home by his Maty & Its said will have A             
Considderable Comand in Ireland where Its Certain there will be A               
Parliamt before next Christmas                                                  
     Our ffrench letters say they have Account of another Battle fought         
by the Venetians in which the Turkish Genll & 4000 men were killed on           
the place                                                                       
+That the ffrench K: was taken with A fitt of An Ague & feaver which            
Continued some houres but it was hoped the jesuitts Powder would soon           
Remove it                                                                       
     The ffrench E India Company have 3 ships Richly laden Arrived at           
Roane from suratt syam & Bengall                                                
     Those Interessed in the silver ship said to be Come lately from            
America have made Application to the states of Holland to be Recd there         
but have yet noe Answer                                                         
     L. c. 1857     London 15th sept 1687                                       
+They write from Oxford that last Munday there was An Extrary                   
Convocation for Proposeing the Graces for degrees for mr sparks & mr            
Boitue Chaplains to the Ld Chancellr & mr Wickens & mr Collins Chaplains        
to the Bp of Oxford to be drs of divinity & his secretary to be A dr of         
the Civill law but were all denyed                                              
+They Add that the deane & Cannons of Christchurch have Recd A Citation         
to Appear before the Ecclesll Comrs on the 6th octobr                           
     The Pamphlett Intituled A letter to A dissenter seemes to designe          
the diswadeing the takeing off the Penall lawes & Test laying before            
the dissenters 2 things:                                                        
     ffirst the Cause they have to suspect their new ffreinds                   
     2dly the duty Incumbent on them in Christianity & Prudence not to          
hazzard the Publick safety either by desire of ease or Revenge &c               
     This weeke A Printed sheet Came out in Answer in which the greate          
question is Put                                                                 
     Whether the Penall lawes be just & Equitable lawes & Consistent            
with the law of god                                                             
     That it is quite Contrary to the Principles of Christianity to             
Impose or Inforce mens Consciences or Inflict Penalties for meer matters        
of Religion                                                                     
+Our Paris letters say their King has had 2 fitts of An Ague was                
blooded & tooke the jesuitts Powder & Resolves to Remove to Marli for           
Change of Aire hopeing it may Contribute to his Recovery                        
     The Place of sergt Trumpeter vacant by the death of mr Price is            
succeeded by his son but his place of Ranger of St Jameses by Lieft Coll        
Legg                                                                            
     The D of Albemarle went on board the 12th Instant & will saile with        
the first faire wind                                                            
     L. c. 1858     London 17th sept 1687                                       
+On the 4th Instant the Court being at Oxford the E of sunderland sent          
An order to Magdalen Colledg that it was the Kings pleasure they should         
Attend him                                                                      
     Accordingly dr Pudsey & 20 more Attended The dr being Appointed by         
the Rest to give his Maty Answers                                               
     His Maty began as followeth                                                
     What is your name  are you dr Pudsey                                       
     Yes May it please yo[u]r Maty                                              
     Did you Receive my letter                                                  
     Yes sr Wee did                                                             
     Then you have not dealt with mee like Gent  you have done very             
uncivilly & undutifully                                                         
     upon which they all kneeled & the dr Tendred A Petition with their         
Reasons but the King Refused it & said                                          
     You have been A stubborne & Turbulent Colledg  I have knowne you soe       
myselfe these 26 yeares, you have affronted mee  is this your Church of         
England Loyalty  one would wonder to see soe many Church of England men         
in such A buisness  Goe back & shew your selves Good members of the             
Church of England, Get you gone  Know I am your King & I Comand you to be       
gone.  Goe Admitt the Bp of Oxford President  let them that Refuse it           
looke to it  they shall feele the weight of my displeasure                      
     Hereupon they withdrew but dr Walker telling the King they had             
Admitted A ffellow since the Inhibition they were Called back                   
     I hear you have Admitted A fellow since my Inhibition  is this true        
     One of them Answered there was noe new Election or Admission but           
only the Confirmation of A former Election                                      
     The Confirmation of A former Election is downe Right disobedience          
Get you gone I say  Get you gone & Imediately Elect the Bp of Oxford or         
else you must Exspect to feele the heavy hand of An Angry King                  
     They A 2d time Tendred A Petition on their knees but the King said         
Be gone  I will Receive nothing from you till you have obeyed mee               
     upon which they all went directly to their Chappell where dr Pudsey        
demanded whether they would elect the Bp of Oxford To which 18 Answered         
one by one  They were Ready to obey his Maty aswell as any of his subjects      
But this being directly Contrary to their oaths they Conceived it was           
not in their Power to obey  But mr Dobson Answered doubtfully he would          
obey in any thing he Could & mr Charnock A Romanist said he was Ready to        
obey in this                                                                    
     Tis said dr ffairfax is dead in Yorkshire & Coll Kirke at Exeter           
+This day the King Returned to Windsor                                          
     L. c. 1859     London 20th sept 1687                                       
  This day his Maty dined with the queen dowager at somersethouse &             
Returned to Windsor                                                             
     The queen will be at Windsor on the 1st octobr & Remaines there till       
the 10th                                                                        
     The Prince & Ps of denmarke are Removed to Hampton Court where her         
Highs Intends to be brought to bed which is Exspected within 30 dayes           
     Tis said A quo Warranto is to be brought Agt Magdalen Colledg which        
was founded by Wm Wainsfleet Bp of Winchester in 27th Hen 6th who gave          
maintenance for A President 40 ffellows 30 students & 4 Chaplains &c            
     Yest was Published A 6 d booke being A discourse for takeing off the       
Test & Penall lawes by Hen Care                                                 
     Tis said the letter to A dissenter hath given greate offence               
+A man neer falmouth with Assistance of his whore hath Burnt his wife in        
An oven                                                                         
     mr Griffith is Pardoned                                                    
     The workemen at st Paulls have in digging found very Ancient               
Medalls & the bones of beasts offered when it was A Temple to diana &c          
     The Ld Chancellr of scotland D Hamilton D of queensbury 2 Bps &c           
are Arrived from scotland  Tis said they Come with Reciprocall                  
Complaints to the King                                                          
+The Presents given by the K of Portugall to the English that Conducted         
his queen are all vallued at Abt 20000 L sterling                               
     At the ffrench Protestant Church in the savoy severall Lds dayes           
last Past severall Terifyed into An Abjuration in ffrance made their            
Publick Recantation with Teares bewaileing their weakeness want of faith        
&c Imploreing all to be Constant in their Religion & that they had noe          
peace of Conscience since their Abjuration &c                                   
     L. c. 1860     London 22d Sept 1687                                        
+Wee have A discourse A Parliamt will begin at Westminster the 10th of          
december next & Its said A Grand Charter for the Kingdome is to be              
Passed which shall Include the Kings Prerogative & the peoples Priviledges      
& Repeale all the lawes which Infringe either & give A Perpetuall liberty       
of Conscience to all perswasions                                                
+The Ms of Powis is made Ld Lieft of Cheshire                                   
     Its beleived the E of Castlemain will have some greate Imploymt            
     Lieft Coll Kirke Br to Coll Kirke is dead & not Coll Kirke                 
     They write from the West that ffrancis Coventry Esqr died suddenly         
there sitting upon A Close stoole A Batchellor & master of 2 vast               
estates left by Sr Wm Coventry & mr Secretary Coventry his uncles               
+The Ld Arrundell of Trevire lyes at Point of death & Sr Gilbert Gerrard        
being overturned in A Coach Its feared is hurt Mortally                         
     The Comrs of the Customs seize such sugars as will not pay the full        
duty ffor whereas the Act sayes Muscovadoes or unpurged sugars shall            
pay such A duty but sugars fit for use soe much  They thereby demand for        
what they say is fit for use the Highest duty vizt 12 4 d p Cent                
     Wee have Account from Barbadoes that by Reason of the greate               
drought there all the sugar Canes in the ground are spoyled that there          
will not be A quarter soe much sugar as was last year which with the            
High duty will Advance sugars                                                   
+The E: India Actions are at 220 L p Cent  They Intend A divedend of            
30 L p Cent in A few dayes The Affrican without the late dividend 220 L         
p Cent Hudsons bay 180 L p Cent                                                 
     This weeke 3 ships Arrived from scanderoon in Turkey Extreamly Rich        
     Tis said the E of shrewsbury is to marry the Countesse of Arran            
daughter in Law to the d of Ormond                                              
     L. c. 1861     London 24th sept 1687                                       
+Yest A disperser of the letter to A dissenter was seized & gave bayle          
to Appear, Tis said A Proclamation will Come out to give A greate Reward        
to those who shall discover the Authr, This day is Come out Another             
Answer thereto & on Munday will be Published one more                           
     Tis said the Court Returne hither the 4th octobr                           
     The Cannons of Christchurch & ffellows of University Colledg in            
Oxford are sumoned to Appear the 6th octobr before the Ecclesll Comrs           
     The Corporation of Cambridg Elected their Mayor at the usuall time,        
A few dayes after one mr Blackly who is one of the Aldermen & hath              
declared himselfe A Romanist Produced the Kings Mandamus to be Mayor            
upon which A Councell was Called last Wednesday & it was put to the             
vote whether to Admitt or not & there were above 30 Negatives & 4               
Affirmatives soe they declared they had Already made election & Could           
not Admitt any other & the Aldermen are Come up to Informe his Maty             
thereof                                                                         
     mr Jo: Collins A Councellr being Turned Romanist his Maty hath             
knighted him & made him A judge in Ireland                                      
     The schooles of the savoy by mr Parker mr Hall mr Polton & mr              
ffloyden Jesuitts have An Excellent Method In teaching &c                       
     There are above 500 youths Instructed in the lattin tongue most            
Protestants Children, when they first began wee had A Report some               
Protestant Noblemen Bishops &c were upon setting up some free schooles          
but wee hear nothing more of it                                                 
+The Emper[o]r haveing set forth An Edict the Hungarians shall enjoy the        
free Exercize of their Religion  Its not to be Exprest with what joy it         
was Recd & they Imediately Resolved to Assist the Emper[o]r with their          
lives & fortunes                                                                
     L. c. 1862     London 27th sept 1687                                       
+On sunday was A Councell at Windsor where A Comission Passed for sr Jo         
shorter to be Ld Mayor which will be Read next Thursday in Guildhall &          
Its said there is A Clause to Impower him to have what Chaplain he              
pleases to preach before him in Publick                                         
     The Councell had also the list of the Liveries as they were                
formerly & as they are now which were Regulated, some old ones Put in &         
some new ones Put out                                                           
     Also the E of Castlemain was sworne of the Privy Councell                  
     The Calling of A Parliamt was not in debate but Its said his Maty          
declared he Intended to Call one suddenly                                       
     The Mayor Aldermen &c of Cambridge have waited on the King & given         
A satisfactory Account why they Could not Admitt mr Blackly Mayor & his         
Maty hath Recalled his Mandamus                                                 
     Yest died the Ld Arundell of Trevire & Its said sr Gilb Gerrard is         
dead in the North who being overturned in A Coach had his skull broke           
& one of his eyes beaten out                                                    
     Our E India Company sold the last sale to the vallue of 400000 L           
sterling                                                                        
     Within these few dayes 500 ffrench Protestants Arrived here  Wee           
have now 7 Congregations of them very full vizt Threadneedle street             
jewen street savoy soehoe & 3 more                                              
     This day is Published A booke by mr Hen: Care Intituled                    
Animadversions on the letter to A dissenter In which he beares hard on          
the Church of England for Persecuting the dissenters                            
     The ffortifications of Hull are ordered to be Repaired & Enlarged          
& the Ld Dumbartons Regemt & Coll Cornwalls Regemts are to worke by             
turnes thereon                                                                  
     L. c. 1863     London 29th sept 1687                                       
+Yest sr Jo: Parsons & sr Basill ffirebrass were sworne sheriffs at             
Guildhall who demanded to have the oaths of Allegiance & supremacy              
given them & were Answered the Court had noe order for it  But seeing           
it was their voluntary Request it should be done                                
     This day the Ld Mayor Aldermen Recorder &c mett at Guildhall where         
the Kings Comission Constituting sr Jo: shorter Ld Mayor was Read &             
the usuall Ceremonies Performed                                                 
     Addressing to the King hath been debated in the Court of Aldermen          
but not yet determined                                                          
     Tis said the prsent Ld Mayor old sheriffs &c will be dismist as            
Aldermen & that but 3 of the old Aldermen are to Continue vizt sr Wm            
Hooker sr Peter Daniell & sr Wm Goslin  Almost 200 of the masters of            
Companies & Livery men have been altered within these few dayes                 
     A 3d Mandamus is gone to Oxford to Admitt the Ld Chancellrs & Bp           
of Oxfords Chaplains & his secretary &c to be drs                               
     Tis said the Bp of Oxford is dangerously Ill or dead                       
     Wee had A Report the d of Ormond is dead of the Gout in his stomach        
at the d of Beauforts but Its not Confirmed                                     
     The dutch have Comitted some Hostillity on the ffrench in Guyney           
but the Circumstances wee hear not                                              
+The ffrench have made a New sort of Cloth which by that Kings Example          
is become the Mode & will hinder the vend of English & dutch Cloth              
     Yest A boate was found Adrift & in her the skin of A Man New taken         
off but the hands & Privy members still to it  the Murtherer or                 
Murthered not yet discovered                                                    
     The Ps of Denmarke is in good health & looks not till decembr next         
     L. c. 1864    London 1st octobr 1687                                       
+Upon A 2d Mandamus to the University of Oxford to Admitt the Chaplains         
to be drs they Called A Convocation A 2d time Refused & have drawne upon        
their Reasons for it                                                            
     A Youth of Protestant Parents being sent to the Jesuitts schooles          
at the savoy hath since turned Romanist                                         
     On Thursday was A Conference at the Request of the Parents betwixt         
some Jesuitts & dr Tenison minister of st Martins of which Parish the           
lad was but it broke up without any satisfaction to them & in some heate        
     Wee heare the Ld Howard of Estrick is dead in the North                    
     Last satureday at night A Virginia ship at ffalmouth tooke fire in         
the hold & burnt 7 or 8 houres till the tyde Came in at A hole made in          
the keele of the ship & stopt it, some of her ladeing was on shoar but          
400 Hogsheads of Tobacco on board are all spoyled, Its said to [have"           
happened by Carelessness of A waiter who dropt A Candle betwixt some of         
the Hogsheads & supposeing it went out left it                                  
     A Muscovite Ambr is landed & lodged neer the Court & Allowed 50 L          
p weeke for his Maintenance                                                     
+They write from Hungary Genll Dunewaldt in 4 dayes forced Butzin to            
surrender at discretion tooke therein 800 Prisoners & hath secured Good         
winter quarters for 20 miles About it                                           
+The states Genll have Renewed A Placaert to Banish all Bishops Monks &         
Preists who are not natives or Naturalized which occasions A Report that        
all Papists shall be banished thence & their estates Confiscated                
     L. c. 1865     London 4th octobr 1687                                      
+Next Thursday the queen Comes to Windsor & on Tuesday after the whole          
Court Returnes hither                                                           
     Tis said that the next Councell day after the sheriffs are Prickt          
Writts will be Ishued out for A Parliamt to sitt the latter end of January      
     Amongst others discoursed to be made Barons Its said sr Edw Hales          
will be Baron of Tunbridg                                                       
+The Answer of A letter to A dissenter written by sr Roger Le Estrange          
Price 6 d occasions noe small talke                                             
     sr Tho: Rawlinson & sr Tho ffowles o[u]r sheriffs the first master         
of the vintners & the other of the Goldsmiths are dismist  Tis said 50          
of the Grocers Assistance are dismist & that there are in all above 800         
to be turned out                                                                
     A Comission is granted for the Tower & Liberties wherein the Ld            
Dartmouth is Custos Rotulorum sr Tho. stringer Chaireman  The Principle         
officers of the ordinance Mint &c justices of the Peace to keep sessions        
&c & to morrow is to be their first meeting                                     
     Last sessions A Maide was hanged for setting her masters house on          
fire & last Satureday an Apothecaries maide without Cripplegate was             
Comitted to Newgate for setting her masters house on fire that day at           
noon  shee Pretends A Person unknowne gave her 5 s to doe it & Promised         
her 45 s more                                                                   
   mr Cooke the Marshall of the Kings bench is not yet Returned out of          
the Country with the E of devonshire who Its said Refuses to be his             
Prisoner Alledgeing his Right of Peerage not to be Imprisoned for any           
debt whatsoever                                                                 
     A yatcht is ordered to fetch over the d of Berwick Count Taffe &c          
Returneing from Hungary                                                         
     L. c. 1866     London 6th octobr 1687                                      
  [Letter is addressed:] To mr Jeremy Wise/in Nuneaton/prsent/Nuneaton          
+The Ecclesll Comrs sate this day at Whitehall & severall from Oxford           
Appeared before them but wee have not yet the perticulers                       
     Yest the d of Norfolke held A Court of Chivalry in the Painted             
Chamber at Westminster the heraults in all their formalities Attending          
his Grace from Westminster gate to the said Chamber & back, The                 
Comission being Read some officers of the Court were Appointed & orders         
given for sumoning divers to Appear the next Court & then Adjourned till        
satureday next                                                                  
+The house of the E of salisbury in this towne is makeing Ready for him         
     Duke Hamilton & severall of the scotch Nobility Arrived here on            
tuesday night & are gone to Windsor                                             
     Two Irish Regemts are said to be Arrived at Chester                        
     sr Wm Davis Ld Ch. Justice of Ireland is lately dead                       
     They write from Dublin that the late Continuall Raines & greate            
ffloods hath made such spoyle of the Hay & Corne in the Adjacent County         
that A greate scarsity is like to ensue                                         
     They write from Rochell & Nantz they had such unseasonable Weather         
for the vintage that Clarett is like to be very bad this year but the           
Whitewine something better                                                      
     Those of Geneva are sumoned by the Parliamt of Dyon Concerning some        
Ecclesll Revenues which Its Alledged they have noe Right to But they will       
Rather judgment to goe Agt them then by makeing their Appearance to owne        
the jurisdiction of that Parliamt  But in the meane time that they might        
not give his most Christian Maty any offence they have at the Request of        
the Resident now there Published that all ffrench Protestants fled to           
that Citty shall depart thence                                                  
+The present motion of the Danish forces & Progress of that King neer           
Hamburgh hath given that Citty A fresh Allarme & Caused them to Augment         
their Garrisons  The said King has sent to forbid those Majestrates from        
Exposeing to sale the library of Mounsr spooleman being Reckned the best        
in Europe                                                                       
+The Imperiallists are disperseing themselves into winter quarters              
     L. c. 1867     London 8th octobr 1687                                      
+On Thursday the Court of Aldermen sate In order Its said to draw up An         
Addresse to his Maty & on ffriday A Comission Came to the Towne Clerke          
Appointing Charles Chamberlain Gregory Page Wm Jolliffe Christo Lattimer        
& Robt Bristoll Esqrs to be Aldermen & dischargeing sr Tho: Rawlinson sr        
Tho ffowles mr Vandeput mr Jolliffe & mr Paull                                  
+The Ld Elland eldest son of the Ms of Hallifax is dead                         
     Our scotch letters say they have had mighty floods                         
     Tis said there has been in scotland some feild Conventicles 5 or           
6000 in A body where they heard A sermon & Renewed the Covenant but some        
of them are taken  the Rest dispersed themselves home                           
     The Noblemen of scotland are to be heard to Morrow in Councell             
some Report the occasion of their Comeing is for that the Romanists             
would have all the Hereticks Corps Removed out of the Chappell at               
Edenbrough which D Hamilton & other successrs oppose                            
     The Ld Brandon Gerrard is Arrived in Holland & Its said there hath         
brought A Pardon for his ffather the E of Maxfeild                              
     The states Genll have Appointed severall Collections for the               
ffrench Protestants In Geneva & switzerland  The Majestrates of Geneva          
bestow above 3000 Dollars p weeke In Charity on them  The last letters          
thence say that in 4 dayes time above 8000 of them Passed through the           
Citty for switzerland                                                           
     Our fforeign letters say the Grand vizier & Teckley are both sumoned       
to the Post but Its beleived will neither of them goe That the Turks            
offer the Emper[o]r Hungary The Venetians Morea Negropont & Dalmatia The        
K of Poland Camimeck & 800000 duckets & Muscovy some places & 1500000           
duckets but Its beleived each Exspect more                                      
     L. c. 1868     London 11th octobr 1687                                     
   This day their Maties Returned to Whitehall                                  
     The Court of Aldermen have Agreed on An Addresse to the King & Its         
thought will in A body Attend his Maty with it on ffriday next & Intend         
to Invite his Maty at their owne perticuler Charge to dine at Guildhall         
on the Ld Mayors day when the Companies will give the usuall Attendance         
     The King by letter Appointed the Corporation of Kingston upon              
Thames to Choose Coll Legg for their Mayor But they Chose another which         
gave offence & thereupon Coll Legg is Appointed to be Mayor  But the            
members of the Corporation not likeing it layd aside their formalities &        
went to Church as Private persons                                               
     In Cornwall & those Parts it hath Rained 6 weeks without                   
Intermission  That whereas by this time the Wheate had use to be in the         
ground there is scarse the beginnings of Tillage                                
     Wee heare from the West Indies that the Drought hath spoylied all          
the sugar Canes in all the other Islands aswell as Barbados                     
+They write from Vienna the Emper[o]r hath Advice that Genll Dunewalt           
haveing Advice of the greate Consternation amonge the Turks Approached          
Walpo which was quickly surrendred  Then he marched to Esseck upon which        
the Bassa with 5000 men marched out at one end as he Came at the other In       
such Hast as not to set fire to the Mines which would have Ruined the           
place soe he easily forced it & put all in Armes to the sword                   
     L. c. 1869     London 13th octobr 1687                                     
+Yest the Ld Mayor sheriffs & 12 Aldermen prsented their Addresse of            
thanks for Liberty of Conscience, His Maty gave them A new Assurance            
of being just to his word & told them he Intended shortly to Call A             
Parliamt & Exspected they should send members to Agree with him in 3            
things                                                                          
+ffirst to make Liberty of Conscience as firme by A Law as Magna Charta         
     2dly to Passe A Bill for A Register of Lands                               
     3dly A Bill for A Genll Naturalization & much more he had not to           
trouble A Parliamt with                                                         
     Our letters from all Parts Confirme the takeing of Esseck The              
Grand vizier being strangled the Aga of the janizaries deposed & that           
the Turks have most part of them deserted & Returned home                       
     mr Poulton one of the Jesuitt schoolemasters at the savoy hath             
Printed A Paper which he Calls An Account of A Conference with dr               
Tenison Abt A youth that Embraced the Roman Perswasion  But the dr              
Complaines thereof & will print the whole truth                                 
     Tis said A Comission will Passe for the Bps of Chester & st davids         
The Ld Ch: Justice & sr Richd Raines his Maties Advocate to vissitt all         
the Colledges in Oxford & that others will vissitt Cambridg Also that           
severall of the judges will be Changed this Terme                               
     The E of Rochester is Returned home                                        
     Yest the E of Devonshire surrendred himselfe to the Marshall of            
the Kings Bench                                                                 
     L. c. 1870     London 15th octobr 1687                                     
+Yest morning ffather Dada the Popes Nuntio waited on the King on               
occasion of its being his Maties Birth day  he was in A Robe of                 
Purple silke & very well Attended  The day was kept very strictly in            
the Citty & would have been Closed with Bonefires had not A Precept from        
the Ld Mayor Prevented it                                                       
     The Ld Chamberlain haveing lately made some Alterations Contrary           
to Exspectation In the Comission of Grace for Poor Prisoners it did not         
Passe the Privy seale yesterday but Its affirmed it will Certainly next         
weeke                                                                           
     Yest was A Councell at Whitehall where d Hamilton & sr Nicholas            
Butler (one of the Comrs of the Customs) were sworne of the Privy Councell      
     The Ld Mayor & divers Inhabitants of Wapping Attended the Councell         
with A Petition to the King Agt A Pattent granted by his late Maty to           
the E of Clarendon for all Incroachments made upon the Thames from High         
to Low water betwixt London Bridg & Blackwall setting forth the greate          
mischeifs that Attended it by molesting & discourageing seamen &c  That         
what was Prevented were Incroachments being built was [sic] now worth           
100000 L p An & by the grant is to Pay the Crowne but 30 L p An  His            
Maty heard the Councell on both sides with much Patience & at last              
declared that the Publick good was his & his the Publicks & ordered A           
scire ffacias to Ishue in order to Reverse it                                   
+Wee have Account from st Christophers that all the ffrench Protestants         
on that Island have quitted it & Embarqued for Carolina                         
     mr Howard is made governor of Carlisle in Roome of sr Christo              
Musgrave                                                                        
     L. c. 1871     London 18th octobr 1687                                     
+Last weeke the Ecclesll Comrs had their Comission Renewed which gives          
A more Ample Power & the Bp of Chester The Ld Ch: Justice Wright & Baron        
Jenner are Added  They are to vissitt Magdalen Colledg & begin their            
journey to morrow                                                               
     Last weeke dr Vernon mr of Baliol Colledg In Oxford died & Its said        
mr Bernard A Romanist ffelow of Brazen nose Colledg hath A Mandamus to          
succeed                                                                         
     mr Hill A Romanist the Kings printer being made mr of the                  
stationers Company yest they Prsented An Addresse & severall others             
newly Modelled are Prepareing to doe the like                                   
     When mr Cooke was sent A 2d time to the E of devonshire into the           
Country he had A warrant to the High sheriffe to Raise the Posse                
Comitatus but he declined it                                                    
     Last weeke the Earle & mr Cooke Came to towne & mr Cooke Attended          
him at his house & Intreated him to goe over to the Kings bench he being        
his Prisoner                                                                    
     The Earle told him he was not his Prisoner nor would be That he            
knew noe law in England that would hold his Person in Prison for debt           
The Marshall then besought him to give it [?] under his hand & also to          
save him harmeless from escapes which he did since which hath Another           
warrant to o[u]r undersheriffe to Raise the Posse which he declined & mr        
Cooke hath made Affidavit of all  the Ishue is Exspected                        
     L. c. 1872     London 20th octobr 1687                                     
+Yest morning the 3 Comrs for vissitting Oxford Recd their Instructions         
from the E of sunderland & went directly for Oxford with dr Hodges the          
Kings Advocate & some Tipstaves                                                 
     This day the Ecclesll Comrs sate & mr Massey deane of Christchurch         
dr Ratcliffe & dr Aldridg 2 of the Cannons were Called in & asked what          
statutes Rules & Customs they governed by  They answered they had noe           
statutes but governed by Presidents & Customs  They Comanded them to Put        
their Presidents & Customs in writeing & Attend them                            
     The d of Norfolke Appeared & Prayed longer time between him & his          
ds which was granted                                                            
     Last Tuesday his Maty sate in the Treasury Chamber & ordered the           
Pattent to Passe the seale for only 400 Hackney Coaches each to Pay 10 L        
the first year & 6 L p An after  This day his Maty viewed his Guards in         
Hyde Parke being 1000 horse & 3000 foot                                         
     Tis said his Maty Agt the Parliamt will Create 26 Barons & that sr         
Nicholas Butler will be Baron of Hogsden                                        
     severall from New England Jamaica & Bermudas have been at the Wreck        
sr Wm Phipps left & got A Prodigious treasure from that & Another wreck         
they found but sr Wm is A 2d time forced Into Plimouth to Refitt                
   This day the Ld Mayor & Aldermen attended the King to know how he            
would be Recd on the Ld Mayors day  His Maty told them he Intended not          
to see the show but would dine with them to bear the Charge of which            
the Ld Mayor hath given 300 L The Sheriffs each 150 L & each Alderman           
50 L & if it will not doe will pay the Rest Proportionably                      
     A Pardon is ordered for mr Papillon                                        
+Ps Ann will lye in at Whitehall                                                
     L. c. 1873     London 22d octobr 1687                                      
+This morning Ps Ann was delivered of A dead Male Child But its hoped           
she her selfe is in noe greate danger                                           
     This night is A Report from Oxford that those of Magdalen Colledg          
Conveyed away all the Records books Papers &c & shutt up the Gates &            
withdrew                                                                        
     Last night mr Cooke the Marshall Acquainted the King & Councell            
he had watched opportunites to seize the E of devonshire but Could not          
he being soe well Attended & had been with the sheriffs who would not           
Adventure to take A Peer                                                        
     dr Tenisons Reply to mr Poulton the Jesuitt is Published being A           
true & full Account of their Talke for that mr Poulton would not fix            
to any Point to demonstrate it A Conference  To which mr Poulton hath           
Againe Replyed but Its said to little Purpose                                   
+There are to be 5 Pageants on the Ld Mayors day one Representing               
Liberty by A Beautiifull young lady Attended with Riches Plenty &               
ffreedome &c                                                                    
     Our Scotch letters say there have been severall feild Conventicles         
one of above 3000 some of which are Apprehended of which one mr Boyle           
being Examined by the Councell Acknowledged he was there in Armes also          
at the Rebellion at Bothwell Bridg &c That it was A Lawfull warr                
disowned the Kings Authority saying there was not Legally any king of           
Scotland for that the King had not taken the Covenant  he is to be              
Proceeded Agt for High Treason                                                  
+Yest the Court of Honour sate & mr Perry put in his Claime to the              
earledome of Northumberland  The heraults say the son by whome he               
Claimes had only one daughter  The 2 Leighs also Appeared & are to              
Appear Againe on Munday seavenight                                              
     L. c. 1874     London 25th octobr 1687                                     
+The Ps her Condition Considdered is very well  Its judged the Child was        
dead some weeks                                                                 
     On Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs Came to Oxford being Conducted by 3         
troops of horse  Next morning they mett in Magdalen Colledg hall where          
the Bp of Chester in speech told them disobedience to soe good & Gracious       
A Prince Caused that vissittation                                               
     They Proceeded & the Bp of Chester demanded why they did not Admitt        
mr ffarmer                                                                      
     dr Hough Answered because he was uncapable &c  The Bp Replyed why          
did you Proceed to A new Election before his Maties Pleasure was further        
knowne                                                                          
     The dr Replyed because they were obliged by their statutes to              
Choose within soe many dayes which statutes they Produced                       
     The Bp said it was in those statutes they should goe to Masse  why         
did they not doe it                                                             
     The dr Answered because it was An ungodly thing Agt scripture & Agt        
the Lawes of the Land which Exempts them from it                                
     On satureday the Bp Passed sentence on dr Hough not to Act as              
President &c And the Mandamus for Chooseing the Bp of Oxford President          
was Read but the ffellows all Cryed A Hough A Hough Except mr smith & mr        
Churnock who are Romanists & dr Hough Read A Protestation Agt their             
Proceedings & the schollars gave A greate huzza which the Comrs said was        
A Breach of the Peace & bound the dr in 1000 L & 2 sureties each 500 L          
to Appear at Westminster the 16th November & Razed his name out of the          
books                                                                           
+On ffriday night last o[u]r sheriffe Raised the Posse & searched the E         
of devonshires house & broke many doores but Its said he is gone beyond         
sea, Yest his fine was ordered to be Estreated [sic] into the Exchequer         
& A Tipstaff sent for sr Paull Jenkinson sheriffe of darbyshire for not         
Raiseing the Posse                                                              
     [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1875     London 27th octobr 1687                                     
+The queen Dowager &c Interceded that last night the E of devonshire            
kissed the Kings hand & signed A bond to Pay his fine when demanded             
     The Ecclesll Comrs at Oxford after takeing dr Houghs bond tooke his        
Appeals & Plea under Considderation & Resolved to overrule it because           
+ffirst they have power to Act as vissittrs                                     
     2dly are not obliged to be Answerable to any Inferi[o]r Court they         
being Constituted High Comrs under the greate seale                             
     Tis said more forces will be Raised before Christmas                       
     The Religionaries of Whitehall somersethouse &c are ordered in &           
Abt their Precincts to Wear the Proper Habitts of their orders & the            
Monks of st James Comply therewith in Whitehall &c                              
     Tis said the Ld Bartletts house at st Johns neer smithfeild is             
Purchased for A Monastry                                                        
     They write from dublin the Ld deputy sent for A Coppie of the              
statutes of dublin Colledg                                                      
     That in their whole Comon Councell there are but 4 Protestants &           
that the sessions at Trim have Assessed the County 400 L to build A             
Towne house haveing first given the old one for A Convent of Dominicans         
     This day mr Kiffin tooke the usuall oaths of Alderman                      
   Their Maties Come by Coach on satureday into the Citty                       
+Ps Ann Recovers                                                                
     L. c. 1876     London 29th octobr 1687                                     
+This day his Maty the Popes Nuntio &c had the Richest treate at Guildhall      
that ever was yet knowne  The queen being Indisposed was not there              
     Last Tuesday the Ecclesll Comrs at Oxford Installed the Bp of              
Oxford President of Magdalen Colledg which was done by Proxie  The Bp           
being Indisposed his Chaplain tooke the oaths for him                           
     dr Hough still denying the keyes his Lodgings were broke open &            
Posession taken for the Bp                                                      
     In the afternoon the ffellows &c were Required to Answer whether           
they would owne the Bp of Oxford President                                      
     They answered they would as far as their statutes & the lawes of           
the land would Allow soe it might not Prejudice dr Hough                        
     This answer was not Accepted the last Clause being Excepted Agt by         
the Lds Comrs                                                                   
     At last they left the last Clause out dr ffairfax & the juni[o]r           
Proctrs Excepted who Refused it & were turned out                               
     But dr ffairfax made his Protestation Appealeing to his Maty in his        
Court at Westminster hall But was stopt by the Comrs who told him they          
would hear noe learned speeches but he might deliver anything in                
Writeing                                                                        
     The Lds Comrs spoke very kindly to the ffellows & Promised to              
Represent them fairely to his Maty.  If dr ffairfax would have owned the        
Bp President his former suspension would have been taken off                    
     On Thursday his Maty vissitted the Jesuitts schooles at the Savoy          
where severall of the schollars made Speeches & were kindly accepted            
   [A few scribbles in another hand appear on address side of letter.]          
     L. c. 1877     London 1st Nov: 1687                                        
+The discourse of A Parliamt Continues  Persons of Interest have orders         
to goe into their Respective Counties to Inspect the Inclinations of the        
Electrs & Influence A good Choyce                                               
     On satureday night the Ecclesll Comrs Came from Oxford haveing             
Adjourned till the 16th Instant                                                 
     dr Walker head of University Colledg hath fixt up A Printing house         
there by one Henry Crittendon who hath the Privy seale to be Printer to         
the Army                                                                        
     A booke Intituled A manuall of Prayers is said to be by his Maties         
order Printing to be given to the souldiers who are Romanists                   
     This day being the first of Christmas it was sollemly observed at          
Court & this night the Gent of the Middle Temple of which are many Irish        
began their Revelling in An Extrary manner                                      
     There is A discourse of A new Call of sergeants & An Alteration            
Among the judges                                                                
     The P of Orange hath fitted out 2 ships to goe to the Wrecks               
     The Bermudas ships last there got 80000 L & left there neer 100            
sayle fishing for gold &c                                                       
     The Progress of the Emperors Armies is wonderfull                          
     The d of Lorraine hath Posest himselfe of many ffortresses In              
Transilvania & the whole Province is brought under subjection to the            
Emper[o]r & Its beleived Valachia & Moldavia will follow, wee have it           
also Confirmed the Turks have Abandoned all their fortresses on the             
Danube & also between the Drave & the save & Genll Dunewaldt in Posession       
of the Rich & fruitefull Province of scavonia abounding in Corne wine           
&c Their Conquest Proceeding from the Mutiny of the Turkish Army who are        
marched towards Constantinople                                                  
     L. c. 1878     London 3d Nov: 1687                                         
   The queen being supposed to be with Child was yest let blood some say        
to Prevent miscarriage                                                          
     Circular letters are sent to the Ld Liefts in all the Counties & to        
such as are in towne forthwith to Repaire to their seates & to give             
notice to the deputy Liefts justices &c of his Maties pleasure as to the        
Election of Members which makes it beleived A Parliamt will be sumoned          
before Aprill                                                                   
     There is A discourse 4 dukes will be Created before the Parliamt &         
that the E of Devonshire & Ld dover will be 2                                   
     This day the Ld Chancellr judges &c Prickt 3 of each County out of         
which next sunday his Maty will Prick one for High sheriffe  Those              
Prickt are generally dissenters or Romanists but Those for Warwickshire         
are sr Jo Bridgman sr Wm Boughton & sr ffran ffisher                            
     This day the Aldermen mett & Agreed to observe the 5th of Nov: &           
ordered the Livery men to be sumoned to appear then in their gownes             
     The d of Bucks being supposed to dye without A will the Ld Purbeck         
Claimed his estate but this weeke A will is found wherein the Duke left         
sr Wm Villers his Estate his debts being first Paid which Its said will         
be 5000 L p An Clear                                                            
+Yest one Colliverd got some to serve An Execution on mr Glover in              
the Kings bench & assisted by 12 souldiers were Carrying him off But            
the Debtors of the Mint Rose & Rescued him & many were sore wounded &           
one of the souldiers killed on the spott                                        
     The d of Berwick is Exspected here this night                              
   This day wee hear the Turks have quitted Belgrade & that Its in the          
Posession of the Imperiallists                                                  
     L. c. 1879     London 5th Nov: 1687                                        
+This morning the Bells Rung shopps were shutt & sermons in the Churches        
& meeting houses  The Bp of Ely Preached at Whitehall An Excellent              
sermon on the occasion & dr stradling Preached before the judges  The Ld        
Mayor went to Bow & stayd in the vestry till service was over & then            
heard A sermon Preached by his Chaplain                                         
+Last Thursday the Ld Mayor & 7 of o[u]r Aldermen were sworne of the            
Lieutenancy                                                                     
     Yest Coll Titus kissed the Kings & queens hands                            
     The E of Macclesfeild haveing Recd his Pardon is dayly Exspected           
from Holland                                                                    
     Last Thursday died the E of Plimouth who was A Coll of horse               
Governr of Hull & Ld Lieft of Worcestershire  some say the Ld scarsdale         
will be governr of Hull & That the d of st Albans will have his Regemt          
others say Lieft Coll sunderland the E of devonshire or sr Jo: ffrench          
     The seale of the d of Buckinghams will is broken soe its doubted           
whether it was not Cancelled                                                    
     Last week mr Anthony ffarmer who had the Mandamus to be President          
of Magdalen Colledg went for ffrance to Goe into A monastry of                  
Benedictine Monks                                                               
     The ffrench K forbid Certain Games on Paine of death which the Ds          
of Portesmouth Continuing in her house the K sent for her & told her            
the honour he bore to the Memory of him that Advanced her saved her head        
& Comanded her Imediately to Retire into A Monastry or to her seate in          
Brittain dureing life & denyed her leave to goe for England                     
+since the ffrench K: has given leave to the New Converts in Dauphine to        
depart above 16000 have Arrived with Pasports on the ffrontiers who             
leave all for Religion                                                          
     This day is Advice the d of Grafton is before Algeirs & demands 5          
things that Its said will not easily be granted                                 
     [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1880     London 8th Nov 1687                                         
+Last sunday the Ld Mayor sheriffs & Aldermen mett not at Bow Church as         
formerly but every one at his Liberty  mr Kiffin Preached himselfe at a         
meeting                                                                         
     The Ld Mayor held A Conventicle at Grocers hall where mr Mead the          
greate Independant Preached in the morning & mr How who lately Came             
from Holland in the afternoon                                                   
     After mr Mead had done the Ld Mayor went to Alhallows staying &            
there Recd the sacramt where were also sr Wm Ashurst Ald: Gardiner Edwin        
& Bawden & yest they all tooke the oaths & Test at Westminster                  
     Our Churches begin to be thin & the meetings thick                         
     This day mr Cha: Chamberlain was sworne Alderman                           
     On satureday ffather Peters was sworne Clerke of the Kings Closett         
     The Ld Chancellr is made Ld Lieft of Buckinghamshire                       
     The Ld fferrors haveing declared himselfe to the deputy Liefts &c          
of staffordshire Abt the Penall lawes is Put out & the Ld Aston Ld Lieft        
in his place                                                                    
     sr Jo: ffenwick is Coll of the late E of Plimouths Regemt & the Ld         
Langdale governr of Hull                                                        
     Tis said mr Williams formerly speaker will be Atturney Genll               
     Judge Powell is very ill & the Bp of Oxford soe very ill that his          
Recovery is dispaired of                                                        
     His Maties Genll Pardon to all Except 5 is Ready for the seales            
     Last weeke one mr Davis & mr Black 2 Cambridg Gent were brought up         
for High Treason being Accused by An Innekeeper of Newmarket & his man          
That one of them was to Pistoll his Maty while the other delivered An           
Addresse  The Gent Giveing satisfaction of their Inocency & the Malice          
of their Accusers The Ld Ch Justice by Cross Examining the witnesses            
discovered their wickedness & Acquainted the King & the Gent are                
discharged but the witnesses Comitted & will this weeke be Prosecuted           
for Perjury                                                                     
     L. c. 1881     London 10th Nov 1687                                        
+On Munday the Ecclesll Comrs Returne to Oxford & sit there on Wednesday        
      The Ld Carrington is Ld Lieft of Worcestershire in place of the           
late E of Plimouth                                                              
      His Maty hath given the young E of Plimouth that Troope which was         
the Ld Ellands son to the Ms of Hallifax                                        
     Tis said the Ld Cornbury haveing his Regemt quartered at Norwich           
demanded the keyes of the Mayor which he delivered but is Come up to            
know if it was his Mayies pleasure                                              
     There are Comrs Appointed throughout the whole kingdome for                
Regulating Corporations                                                         
     The late Attempt to take mr Glover the Marshall is found A Ryott           
for that there was noe warrant nor Legall officers & the man killed is          
found Murthered & mr Mathews & mr ffitzgerald are Comitted to the County        
Goale which last is An Irishman in Prison on A scandm Magtum at the d of        
ormonds suite                                                                   
     They write from Algeirs that Govermt have Agreed to all the Demands        
of the d of Grafton & Recd him with Extrary Respect                             
     The ffrench K hath declared he will not make peace with Algeirs but        
Proceed till they are Ruined haveing already taken & sunke 11 of their          
best ships                                                                      
+They write from Paris An order is Ishued in that Kingdome that none            
shall wear any Cloth but of the Manufacture of ffrance & for example that       
King hath Cloathed himselfe with it Also that they are sending ships to         
fish for silver in the West Indies                                              
     Tis said sr Nicholas Butler will be made one of the Lds Comrs of           
the Treasury & sr samll Bernadistons fine Remitted & he to succeed sr           
Nicholas in the Custome house                                                   
     L. c. 1882     London 12 Nov 1687                                          
+Yest ffather Peters was sworne of the Privy Councell & tooke his place         
at the Board                                                                    
     It was the last night said at Court his Maty hath made Bp Layburne         
Ld Almoner in Place of the Bp of Ely                                            
     This day dr Hough Appeared at the Kings bench & was ordered to             
Attend die in diem to Answer what may be brought Agt him                        
+Tis said mr Williams has kist the Kings hand & will goe with the Comrs         
to Oxford                                                                       
     The Ld Molinax hath sumoned all of 20 L p An or above in Lancashire        
to Appear before him on the 15th Instant                                        
     The Ld Leift of dorcetshire sumoned the Deputy Leifts Gentry &c  The       
Major Part desired to be Excused for giveing their opinions at that time        
     some sober scotch Gent affirme they Cannot hear there were 100             
togather in any of the late feild Conventicles & that they were such as         
neither tooke the sacramt or Covenant That the sober sort there judge           
James Renwick their Preacher &c as Jesuitts                                     
     The Ld Mayor & Aldermen Intend to Put the Act in Execution Agt             
Travelling on the saboth day & frequenting Tavernes & alehouses in which        
they will be very severe                                                        
     This weeke A Gent of the guards haveing An unruly horse which he had       
severely Chastised & Comeing after to the Manger the horse fastned on him       
with his mouth & with one of his knees kept him downe Then tore him             
sucking his blood & makeing A dreadfull Noyse which bringing helpe              
Rescued the Gent who is soe torne that his life is dispaired of  The            
Chyrurgeons have Cut off An Arme to Prevent Gangring                            
     Tho: Hobdon who Robbed the Diamonds hath surrendred himselfe & hath        
his Pardon & 10 L p Cent for all the diamonds he delivered                      
  [On outside of letter in another hand:] Blumsbury Square/Goat Tavern.         
      L. c. 1883     London 15th Nov 1687                                       
+The Ld Leifts have in most places Given obedience to the Kings letters         
but missed of their Intended effect                                             
     The Ld Chancellr Ld Powis Ld Castlemain & sr Nichs Butler are Comrs        
for Regula[t]ing Corporations & tis said the Ld President & ffather             
Peters are added  They sit this afternoon & begin with Glocester & Exeter       
+Tis said mr sacheverill &c who did Concerne [?] in many Charters are           
sent for to Assist the Comrs                                                    
     The Comissions are drawing up for some to Inspect in each County           
what money hath been Levyed on dissenters of all sorts & into whose hands       
it Came for 14 yeares Past  Tis said mr Graham & mr Burton will be made         
to Account for greate summes Come to their hands                                
     Yest the Ecclesll Comrs went for Oxford                                    
     Her Maty is in Good health & by all beleived to be with Child              
     This day Madam Gwin died                                                   
     Last sunday the Ld Mayor & 7 or 8 Aldermen heard mr Oates Preach in        
Grocers hall                                                                    
     Yest Came forth the Ld Mayors order Agt Prophaneing the Lds day &          
for Punishing Drunkeness sweareing &c in A strict order to every                
Alderman Constable &c & the severall lawes Agt those Crimes Anexed              
+The Hudsons bay Company have lately had A heareing before his Maty who         
hath Promised to see they shall have satisfaction from the ffrench who          
have also endeavoured to seize New Yorke by surprize  But the Governr           
Coll Dungan haveing notice forced them to Retreate with the loss of             
severall of their men                                                           
     There are 5 ships Arrived from Russia Richly laden on whome greate         
Insurance hath been made                                                        
     L. c. 1884     London 17th Nov: 1687                                       
+Yest his Maty was hunting & fell from his horse but was let blood &            
Recd noe harme                                                                  
     Order is gone to the Ld Mayor that the Companies shall be                  
Compleated & A dispensation to such as please to suspend the oaths &            
Test                                                                            
     There are now 5 Jesuitt schooles in the savoy & 3 more will be             
finished before Christmas                                                       
     The Comission of Grace is Engrossed & now before the Ld Chancellr          
     The life guard man that was Torne with his horse is dead                   
     Madam Gwin hath left the d of st Albans 6500 L p An & 20 L p An to         
the Poor of st Martins & the Atturney Genll Executr & Guardian                  
+mr Pen hath Acquainted the King of some Male Administratrs who manage          
the Revenue of hearth money  on Tuesday the Comrs Appeared before the           
Lds of the Treasury the King Present                                            
     Tis said the Pope has ordered the ffrench Ambr not to be Recd              
unless he declares his Master quitt his Pretensions & that the ffrench K        
declares unless it be Allowed he will make A Patriarch of the Gallican          
Church & it shall be death for any to Appeale to Rome                           
     The Emper[o]r of Morocco is marched with 50000 men to beseige              
Tremistan & the dey of Algeirs is on his march with all his forces to           
oppose him                                                                      
     The states of Hungary at Presburgh oppose that Kingdome being made         
Hereditary Insisting to have it Remaine Elective                                
     L. c. 1885     London 19th Nov 1687                                        
+On the 16th the Ecclesll Comrs sate at Madgalen Colledg in Oxford where        
20 ffellows Appeared  the other 8 sent Excuses of their being ill which         
was allowed of                                                                  
     The Bp of Chester told them their manifold disobediences Caused            
this vissitation That this Colledg had ever since his Maties                    
Restauration been troubled with factious spiritts & had Proceeded to            
affront his sacred Maty, he Added their Refuseing the Mandate to Choose         
the Bp of Oxford upon the old state Pretence for Rebellion vizt                 
Conscience & yet his Maty was soe kind to Pardon those who should               
Imediately signe An Instrument that was Tendred them                            
     Which all prsent Refused & sentence was Past                               
     That whereas it Appeares to us his Maties Comrs That dr Alsworth dr        
Pudsey smith Bayliffe stafford Almond Hamond Rogers strickland Bayliffe         
Dobson Bugshaw ffariour Bateman Pomiston Craddock Yarbury Gilman Hunt           
Hide Tulman, Holden & Wilks ffellows of Magdalen Colledg have been              
Guilty of disobedience &c Wee Pronounce them Expelled & deprived of             
their ffellowships & wee deprive & suspend them Accordingly                     
     dr Busby master of Westminster schoole being dead Its said mr              
Poulton or the Bp of Rochester [sic] Brother will succeed                       
     mrs Cornish petitioning to have her husbands quarters taken downe          
Its granted                                                                     
     The Ld ffairfax is made Ld Leift of Yorkshire in Place of the Ld           
ffauconbridg                                                                    
     L. c. 1886     London 24th Nov 1687                                        
+The Apprehensions of A Parliamt hath occasioned many Corporations to           
make greate Numbers free who are not dissenters  Tis said Hartford hath         
made above 100                                                                  
     One mr Hennings Mayor of Newcastle under Lime hath opposed all             
Conventicles in that Corporation & going into Another to disturbe A             
Conventicle The Mayor thereof Comitted him for want of sureties                 
     In southwarke are 9 Constables  one of the Precincts Chose one             
Brooker A quaker who Refuseing the oaths mr Baker the steward of the            
Bridghouse Refused to Admitt him                                                
     But A speciall dispensation was sent [?]  But the steward Caused           
Another to be Chose & Admitted But some thinke the steward & Bayliffe           
will be put out                                                                 
     This day the Ld Mayor & Aldermen ordered that the Constables have          
orders to Attend that Court to Receive directions for the Better                
observation of the Lds day                                                      
     A Proclamation is ordered for Putting in Execution the Additionall         
Act for Tillage                                                                 
+At Edenbrough is A Proclamation Prohibitting any fforreign Apples              
Except from ffrance                                                             
     The Mortars in A vessell made for them have been tryed & some Bombs        
shott 2 miles before they broke  Also some Mortars were tryed at                
Blackheath one of which was Charged & discharged with Bombes 24 times in        
2 Minuitts                                                                      
+Yest Nath Thompson the Printer died                                            
     L. c. 1887     London 26th Nov 1687                                        
+The Calling or not Calling of A Parliamt hath been of late the                 
Controverted discourse of the Towne the latter Ariseing from the little         
disposition of the Nobility &c to Consent to matters Intended  But Its          
Certain A Parliamt will be Called to sit in ffebr next                          
     The sheriffs are not yet made Publick  some say they are to be             
discourst first                                                                 
+All the Considderable officers of the Army In towne are to Attend his          
Maty this Evening                                                               
     Tis said his Maty will Raise 2000 men more to be Added to the              
Regemts already Raised                                                          
     The King is upon Raiseing A Troope of Guards of 400 all Gent & to          
be Comanded by the d of Berwick to Attend the Kings person aswell on foot       
as on horseback To have Extrary pay & each Gent his man & horse  Tis said       
the King will Constantly Exercize them himselfe & from them as occasions        
offer draw officers                                                             
+Yest was A Tryall in the Exchequer between the King & the merchants            
whether Muscovado sugars should pay 3 farthings p C as being fit for use        
or only [illegible number or symbol] p C  The jury gave A verdict for           
the Merchants                                                                   
     One Gettings who formerly said the Ps of Orange was A Bastard &c           
Pleadeing drunkeness & submitted has his Crime Remitted                         
     This day Came forth the Proclamation for Putting in Execution the          
Act for Tillage That all justices after Michs & Easter Termes doe settle        
the Prizes of all Graine on the oaths of 2 sufficient men &c                    
   Tis said the Comrs for the diocesse of London have Appointed                 
Guildhall Chappell for the Ld Mayors Publick use                                
     ffather Lewis sabrian A Jesuitt at Chester haveing written to A            
Protestant Peer Reflecting on dr stillingfleet This day Came forth the          
drs Answer & the said ffathers mistakes further discovered                      
     Some Highwaymen have discovered 80 of their Confederates  This day         
A Gent in Hatton Garden & his wife are Comitted to Newgate on that              
Account                                                                         
     L. c. 1888     London 29th Nov 1687                                        
+Her Maty being something Indisposed was yesterday let blood                    
     Yest dr Hough Appeared at the Kings bench & was discharged                 
     The Ld Mayor &c Continue their meetings at Grocers hall to the             
greate offence of many Cittizens, Last sunday dr stillingfleet Preached         
at Guildhall Chappell before the sheriffs & some Aldermen  The Ld Mayor         
Invited the dr to dine with him & sent his Coach but he Answered he             
had Promised the sheriffs                                                       
     Tis said A Comission is sent into this Citty to Excuse the severall        
Companies for takeing the oaths & Test                                          
     Tis said the officers of the Army shall have new Comissions & if           
any afterwards shall take the oaths & Test they may perhapps loose their        
Comissions                                                                      
     That there shall be Added to each Regemt of horse one troope To            
each Regemt of ffoot 2 Companies & to the E of Cravens 6 Companies              
     Wee have Account from severall Parts in the West that they have            
had very Tempestuous Weather & 4 greate shipwrecks                              
     Last satureday died mr Belvin Prothonotary of the Comon Pleas which        
place is worth 5 or 6000 Guyneys & fell to the Ld Ch: Justice of that           
Court & yest mr sterney of Clements Inne was sworne in his place                
     Our letters from Hungary say Teckley is still Abroade with 4000 men        
& his designe supposed to Releive Mongatz which keeps the Imperiallists         
which forme that Blockade Continually on their Guard                            
   A Greate Number of ffrench are Arrived in & neer Rome which strike A         
Terr[o]r into that Citty But the Pope seems Resolved to Adhere to his           
Bulls Agt the ffranchises of Ambrs                                              
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1889     London 1st dec 1687                                         
+Her Maty being with Child is the Currant discourse at Court                    
     Tis said his Maty for satisfaction of the world hath Comanded the          
Bp of Oxford to Print the whole Narrative of the Proceedings at Oxford          
     On Tuesday the Ld Chancellr went into Buckinghamshire of which             
County he is Ld Leift                                                           
+Tis said the E of Winchelsea is dismist for being Ld Leift of Kent &c          
     Yest being the feast of St Andrew it was observed in An Extrary            
manner in the Court & Chappell  His Maty as the soveraigne of that              
Ancient order Appeared in the Proper Habitt as did the knights                  
Companions now here & all the scotch Gentry with Crosses in their Hatts         
     Our scotch letters say Mr Boyle is banished that kingdome                  
     That mr Anderson A Nonconformist minister of dalkeith is sumoned to        
Appear before the Councell for Preaching without giveing notice to the          
Bayliffe of that place & that An order is made that all Marriages &             
Baptizeings in the meeting houses shall be Registred & that all                 
Collections made there be delivered to the Towne Treasurer throughout           
the kingdome                                                                    
     The Pope his ministers seem still obstinately bent on Abolishing           
the ffranchises of Ambrs                                                        
+The ffrench are Prepareing 20000 Bombes at Thoulon & the Genll of the          
Bombardiers is gone to the ffrench Court with A Project by which he             
hopes with Bombes to Ruine in one Campaigne the Citty & Port of Algeirs         
It being said to be that Kings Intentions to destroy the very                   
foundations of that Citty                                                       
     Three or 4 Newcastle ships are lost & one laden with figgs & one           
with Brandy                                                                     
     The Burdeaux shipps Arrived say the wines this vintage are                 
Generally small & bad                                                           
     L. c. 1890     London 3d dec 1687                                          
+Last night his Maty Prickt the sheriffs vizt                                   
Berks  sr Tho: Wolerscott                                                       
Bedford  Jo: Wagstaffe Esqr                                                     
Bucks  sr Edw Longerfeild                                                       
Cumberland  Edw Cuen Esqr                                                       
Cheshire  mr Lee of Adlington                                                   
Cambridg  Jo: Truckan Esqr                                                      
Devonshire  Jo: Row Esqr                                                        
Dorcetshire Jo: Gold Esqr                                                       
Darby  sr Hen Harlock [?]                                                       
Yorke  Tho Rookesby Esqr                                                        
Essex  sr Jo Manly                                                              
Glocester  sr Hen Hill                                                          
Hertford  Wm Hertford Esqr                                                      
Hereford  Robt Masters Esqr                                                     
Kent  sr Wm Rooke                                                               
Lancashire  sr Wm spencer                                                       
Leicester  Wm Palmer Esqr                                                       
Lincolne  Anthony Eyres Esqr                                                    
Monmoth  Phillip Jones Esqr                                                     
Northumberland  Nichs Thornton Esqr                                             
Northampton  Tho Andrews Esqr                                                   
Notingham  Geo: Willoughby Esqr                                                 
Oxford  sr Hen Browne                                                           
Rutland  Wm stafford Esqr                                                       
somerset  Edw strode Esqr                                                       
stafford  Wm dracott Esqr                                                       
southampton sr Hen Hooke                                                        
surrey  Lee Maine Esqr                                                          
sussex  sr Jo Gage                                                              
Warwick  Ralph shelden Esqr                                                     
Worcester  sr Walter Bland                                                      
Wilts  sr Jeremy Craine                                                         
     His Maty hath made the d of Berwick Governr of Portesmouth Ld Warden       
of New fforest & Ld Leift of Hampshire all vacant by the Removall of the        
E of Gainsbrough & Its Againe discoursed he is to marry one of the d of         
Newcastles daughters & the E of ffeversham the other                            
     The E of scarsdale is dismist for being Coll of A Regemt of horse          
& Ld Leift of darbyshire & the d of st Albans succeeds him in both              
     L. c. 1891     London 6th dec 1687                                         
   Tis said An Envoy will be suddenly sent hence for Modena to Acquaint         
that Court with her Maties being with Child                                     
     The d Norfolke the Earles of Bath Ailesbury &c are Prepareing to goe       
into the severall Counties where they are Ld Leifts to signify his              
Maties pleasure to the Deputy Leifts &c Concerning the Penall lawes if          
they should elect or be elected members of Parliamt & to know if they           
will Acquiesse in his Maties declaration for Liberty of Conscience by           
liveing peaceably among their Neibours of all persuations as good               
Christians & subjects of the same Prince ought to doe  Tis said they are        
also to signify his Maties Willingness to Passe any further Act for             
security of the Established Religion                                            
+The young Ld Purbeck hath desired his Reasons may be heard to justify          
his Pretensions to the Earldome of Buckingham & his Maty hath Appointed         
it to be heard the first time the Councell sit in ffebr                         
     Madam Purbeck his mother is lately marryed to mr ffeilding                 
     Last ffriday the Ld Townesend died here                                    
     Two ships from ffalmouth were lately lost neer Wight with Tynn worth       
7000 L & all the men in one of them lost but they hope to Recover the           
Tynn                                                                            
+Tis said An Instrument is signed by his Maty & the ffrench Comrs that          
matters in Hudson bay shall Continue as they are for 6 months after which       
A finall end to be made to the satisfaction of o[u]r merchants                  
+The ffrench King is Increaseing what shipps he hath out to 70 men of           
warr  some thinke he hath more in designe then Bombarding Algeirs  The          
dutch are also Prepareing for sea Resolveing not to want men shipps or          
money                                                                           
+Yest his Maty hunted in Essex                                                  
     L. c. 1892     London 8th Dec 1687                                         
+The discourse of Calling A Parliamt is Renewed  his Maty frequently            
speaks of it                                                                    
     There is An Alteration of some more Ld Leifts but wee have not             
Account of their Names                                                          
     Tis said the greate seale will after New yeares day be managed by          
Comrs                                                                           
     Our Irish letters say they speake of A Parliamt to sit there in May        
next                                                                            
     ffrom Plimouth &c in the West wee have Account of most dreadfull           
stormes                                                                         
     This weeke 2 more Notorious Highwaymen were taken neer Aldgate by          
Captain Richardson They being discovered by one of their Gang who hath          
given in A list of neer 100 that are now on the Pad                             
     The Carryers &c dayly bring newes of Robberies                             
     On ffriday 11 boates were Robbed on the Thames between London              
Bridg & Blackwall                                                               
     The Gent of the Inner Temple have not yet Chose A Comptroller nor          
those of the Middle Temple A Treasurer it being mightily opposed by the         
Benchers & discouraged by greate men of the society that its beleived           
there will be no Revelling at either this Christmas                             
+The ffrench K Continues his severities to the Protestants Except in            
the Province of Dauphine to the Regrett of the Clergie  But they begin          
to Misse their Protestant seamen that they are got into the Dutch &             
Venetian service                                                                
     The matter of The ffranchises is further off Composeing since the          
ffrench Ambrs Arrivall at Rome then before The Pope Resolveing to               
mantaine his Bull                                                               
     L. c. 1893     London 10th dec 1687                                        
+On Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs sate to debate the Contumacy of the             
ffellows of Magdalen Colledg lately disciplined & its beleived if they          
Persist therein after A time that shall be Prefixt some further                 
suspention will be of their Ecclesll Preferment in Generall                     
     Tis said 17 New ones have grants of ffellowshipps The Ld Mordants          
Brother & one mr Clarke that was at the seige of Buda being two of them         
     Yest John Trenchard Esqr was Introduced into the prsence was               
Graciously Recd & kist the Kings hand                                           
     Our letters from the West speake of Extrary stormes & Tides & yest         
was soe High A tyde at London Bridg the like scarse ever knowne  The            
Inhabitants on each side the Thames suffered much  the water was 14             
Inches High in Whitehall                                                        
     They write from Edenbrough the Councell had set out 2 Proclamations        
one Agt the Exportation of Oysters The other for Registring Marriages &         
Baptizeings made in meeting houses                                              
     There is A Whispering the King will this spring goe for scotland to        
be Crowned there                                                                
+This day the Ms of Abbeville his Maties Envoy set forwards for Holland         
to presse the affaire of Bantam to A speedy determination                       
     The E of Bath Ld Leift of Cornwall & Ld Warden of the stannary is          
gone thither to meet the Convocation or Parliamt of Tinners  Its                
supposed it will be Proposed to ffarme the Coynage of Tynn got in               
Cornwall & devonshire or else to their dissolution                              
    [These Latin words appear in another hand on outside of letter:]            
       memorandum/Imprimis Venera/:re [?] Deum Sit/in omnit/ille.               
     L. c. 1894     London 13th dec 1687                                        
+Last satureday the Ecclesll Comrs declared That all Expelled out of            
Magdalen Colledg should be uncapable of Enjoying any Ecclesll Benefice          
     None of the vacancies are yet filled up but severall Romanists             
have Mandamusses                                                                
     Tis thought the Bp of Oxford Cannot live many dayes                        
     some of the old ffellows that were not at the Contest are Returned &       
the seni[o]r ffellow Claimes the office of President In the absence of dr       
Hough                                                                           
     The Affaire between the Duke & Ds of Norfolke is Put off by the            
Ecclesll Comrs till the 12th Janr                                               
     sr Tho: Powis solicittr Genll is made Atturney Genll In place of           
sr Robt sawyer & mr Williams formerly speaker succeeds him as solicittr         
Genll whome his Maty hath knighted                                              
     Last night the Dispute Abt Guildhall Chappell Came to A heareing           
before the King & Councell  dr Exton mannaged it for the Bp of London &         
sr Wm Williams for the Ld Mayor & it was ordered the Ld Mayor should have       
the disposall of the Chappell                                                   
     The ffrench Protestants Come over dayly & this morning the King gave       
order for A 2d Collection through the kingdome for them                         
     The E of scarsdale is dismist for being Groome of the stoole to P          
George                                                                          
     Our letters from dublin give A dreadfull Account of the ffloods on         
the 4th Instant which overflowed the keyes filled all their Cellars &           
Warehouses drowned severall people & broke down 2 Arches of Essex Bridg         
the draw Bridg &c                                                               
+Last ffriday there was A duell in st James square between mr Seymour           
Wolseley & mr Wm Wharton 3d son of the Ld Wharton occasioned by some            
verses they Lashed each other with  Tis said they were neither Mortally         
wounded                                                                         
+Wee hear the ffrench have taken New Yorke                                      
     L. c. 1895    London 15th dec 1687                                         
+Yest mr Wharton died of his wound in the duell with mr Wolseley                
     They write further from Dublin that the ffloods drove downe                
severall houses in that Citty drowned A greate many men & women & did in        
all 500000 L damage                                                             
     sr Wm Williams has of late had greate Practice in the Chancery  Tis        
said he will be made speaker to the next house of Comons                        
     Yest the King went to see his statue in Brasse that is to be set up        
at Newcastle Also tooke A view of the Mewes & the houses & stables              
Adjacent that were the late d of Monmoths in order to Purchase it & tis         
thought there will be another Guard house built for more horse Guards           
     Tis said sr Robt Holmes voyage to the West Indies is delayed               
because the Spaniards are to Advance money & have failed                        
     The New Breife for ffrench Protestants is Passed the seale                 
     Tis said the greate Number of ffrench Protestants that Abandon             
their Country much allarme that Court The successe not Answering                
Exspectation that it has been Proposed to Restore them to their Ancient         
Priviledges                                                                     
     The ffrench K makes greate Preparations both by sea & land & designes      
to have 30000 landmen on board his ffleet, greate offers have been made         
to the ffrench seamen in England Holland &c but have not Prevailed              
     L. c. 1896     London 17th dec 1687                                        
+Tis said that Imediately after the holy dayes his Maty will Ishue A            
Proclamation for A Parliamt to meet in Aprill                                   
     Tis said the Mewes will be made A Lodgment for 5 or 6000 men               
     To morrow the Ld Mayor will be at Guildhall Chappell but in the            
same manner as at Grocers hall                                                  
     They write from Exeter that on sunday last their new Mayor was at A        
Conventicle where was A very greate Appearance many whereof for Novelty         
     The queen Dowager being taken with A quinzie upon looseing 14 ounces       
of blood is perfectly Recovered  his Maty gave her 3 vissitts & this day        
the 4th                                                                         
+sr Jo: Buckworth one of the Comrs of the Customs is dead & tis said sr         
Wm Wiseman will succeed                                                         
     Yest the Bp of Oxfords booke for Abrogating the Test Came out being        
135 Pages in quarto & the whole Impression of 2000 sold off before night        
     The English students of the middle Temple Chose A Comptroller &            
Resolved to hold the Revelling without Gameing But the Irish Gent               
Pretended to have An order to have both, A greate quarrell Arose at             
supper in which severall are sore hurt                                          
+A Match is Concluded betwixt the E of Arran Eldest son of d Hamilton &         
A daughter of the E of sunderlands                                              
     Tis said sr Jo Earnly will be dismist for being Chancellr of the           
Exchequer & sr Nichs Butler succeed                                             
     L. c. 1897     London 20th dec 1687                                        
+Upon the dutch Placaert Agt the Popish Preists there have within these         
few dayes some hundreds Come over hither & more Exspected                       
     Tis said An Alteration will be made forthwith in the officers of           
the Army & Navy & that before next Terme will be A Change Among the             
judges & A new Recorder of the Citty                                            
+Tis said the Ld Bellasis is laying downe his office of first Comr of the       
Treasury & that sr Nichs Butler will not only be made Chancellr of the          
Exchequer but also one of the Lds of the Treasury                               
     Yest the Benchers of the Middle Temple Acquainted the Ld Chancellr         
that the Irish Gent forced the English part of the Temple hall & kept           
gameing till sunday morning &c upon which he ordered the Irish Gent to          
quitt the hall & Abt 3 in the afternoon they marched out & the English          
entred in at which was A greate shout                                           
     Yest was Published the Kings Proclamation Prizeing Canary wines from       
the 1st ffebr at 18 d A quart & 28 L A Pipe                                     
     Letters from Jamaica say the d of Albemarle is safely Arrived there        
     Wee have Account of severall shipwrecks on the Coasts of ffrance &c        
+Our ffrench letters say their fleet fitting out is 50 Capitall men of          
warr 32 Gallies 40 Galliotts & 28 Tenders                                       
     Tis said the ffrench K hath layd A duty on all wines & Brandies            
Exported to England & forbid all English Draperies to be Imported at any        
other Ports but Callis & st Valare                                              
     Yest the King hunted in Essex & at his Returne vissitted the queen         
dowager                                                                         
     L. c. 1898     London 22d dec 1687                                         
+Yest being St Thomas day the head officers were Chose According to             
Ancient Custome & at every Ward mote the Kings letter was Read forbidding       
Apothecaries quacks &c to Practice Physick & that the Colledg drs will          
supply all Indigent Persons Gratis                                              
     In o[u]r Generall Bill of Mortallity from the 14th of decembr 1686         
till the 13th decembr 1687 is Christned 14950 & Buryed 21460                    
     The Spanish Ambr hath given in A very sharp Memoriall demanding            
Restitution of the silver taken up at sea & some speedy Care taken to           
suppresse the Buckaneers who are said to be 30 stout vessells & mightily        
Infest the Spanish Plantations upon which his Maty ordered the Spanish          
merchants to Attend him yest in Councell                                        
     some of the Lds of the Councell were for sending some men of warr          
into the south seas But his Maty having heard the Reasons of the                
merchants how Prejudiciall it might be to the trade of both nations &           
might soe Allarme the Spaniards as not to bring their silver downe the          
King declared the Contrary                                                      
     On Tuesday died mr verning Leift Coll of sr Jo: Talbotts Regemt &          
that Comand is given to Sr Edw Powdrey late Governr of the d of Berwick         
in Hungary                                                                      
     The E of Huntington is made Groome of the stoole to P: George in           
Roome of the E of scarsdale                                                     
     The Lady Ann spencer is to be marryed to the E of Arran is to be           
Lady of Honour to the queen in Place of the Lady scarsdale & tis said the       
E of Arran will be made Ld Chamberlain if the E of Mulgrave be dismist          
     The ffrench Ambr at Rome hath 3 times demanded Audience & threatens        
to force it  10000 ffrench are marched into Piedmont &c tis thought to          
be master of all the Roades & Passes                                            
     L. c. 1899     London 24th dec 1687                                        
+Last night in Councell it was ordered that the 10th of Janr in London &        
the 24th Janr all England over be generall thankesgivings & Publick             
Prayers made for the queens being with Child                                    
     The stormes have been very dreadfull  on sunday last the ffloods &         
Tyde overflowed & Compossed [?] the whole Towne of Harwich & In North           
wales severall Perished in the snow & Its feared it had A more dreadfull        
effect in Holland                                                               
     his Maty hath given leave to the Presbiterians in scotland to build        
or hire houses for their Worshipp where they please Except st Mary              
Magdalens Chappell & mr Herriotts Hospitall                                     
     Tis said sr Jo: Treby formerly Recorder of London hath been sent for       
& offered the Recordership Againe but humbly Prayed to be Excused &c            
     The Ms of Hallifax hath kissed the Kings hand                              
     They write from Cornwall that his Maty as farmer hath offered the          
Tinners at their Convocation 3 L 10 s 3 d C at 120 L to the hundred             
which Its said they have Accepted                                               
     The E of Carlingford is to goe his Maties Envoy to Vienna to               
Congratulate upon the Coronation of the New K of Hungary                        
     Yest mr Redding A Councellr Appeared at the Court of Aldermen with         
Proposalls to pay the Orphans 15 L p C but desired A Private Comittee           
Alledging that A greate Part of the Orphans money was in Private hands          
The Court Answered they were A Private Comittee & if he would make his          
Exceptions any could withdraw   he then Accused the Towne Clerke of             
some misdemeanrs but he standing on his justification they have deferred        
the further debate till the 17th Janr  Many writts of Appeale are Come          
to the Court of Kings bench from Ireland Relateing to Estates there             
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1900     London 27th dec 1687                                        
+Last sunday his Maty went to Chappell Attended by all his servants where       
he heard High Masse & Recd the sacramt as did 5 or 6 English & scotch Lds       
& some Prayers were offered for the queen who Continues most in her             
Chamber to prevent A miscarriage                                                
     The Ld Chancellr Recd the sacramt at Aldermanbury Church & the E of        
Bedford went the same day at grovers hall & heard mr How preach before          
the Ld Mayor                                                                    
     The Ld Mayor would not make use of Guildhall Chappell nor let none         
else but ordered the Doores to be kept shutt                                    
     The English Gents of the Middle Temple went to Church in greate            
state The Comptroller & Treasurer being in very Rich Habitts haveing A          
guard of 30 Halberdiers led by A Capt all in Buffe                              
     Yest the Ld Chancellr was taken ill with the stone                         
     Yest the d of somerset was at Whitehall & Kissed the Kings hand            
     his Maty has ordered that noe officers servants shall have the             
priveledg of souldiers as to ffreedome from Arreste                             
+They write from Paris that Comissions are given out there for Raising          
12 Regemts of dragoons                                                          
     ffrom transilvania they Confirme the Advice of the deposeing the           
Grand seigni[o]r & his Brothers being put up in his stead  They write           
from Hungary the Emper[o]r has nominated 4 Comrs in his Name to Adjust          
Greivances with the deputies of Hungary  The Turks in Alba Regalis are          
said to want only the Appearance of 4000 Germans before it that the             
Colour of A seige may justify their surrender                                   
     L.c. 1901     London 29th dec 1687                                         
+Last sunday his Maty declared the queen is quick with Child & that he          
would have Publick Thanksgiving dayes in scotland & Ireland as well as          
England                                                                         
     The Bps of Oxford Durham & st Davids are Appointed to draw up the          
forme of prayer to be used on the dayes of thanksgiveing in England             
     The Celebrated health at Court is Hause en Kelder                          
     sr Roger Norris & other Justices in Northamptonshire are out of            
Comission & A Comission is past the seales for new justices in somerset-        
shire & divers are prepareing for the like Regulation in other Counties         
     Tis said at Court the Ld Hallifax is the Ld High Treasurer & the E         
of Powis Ld High steward of the household In place of the d of Ormond           
      his Maty hath signed An order for the E of Bathe Coll Trelawnies          
& Coll Kirks Regemts to goe for Ireland in ffebr next                           
     The Ld Walgrave is Expected from ffrance  Tis said A League is             
Renewed between England & ffrance                                               
     The dutch have within 2 months Past taken into Pay 10000 seamen            
most or all subject to England                                                  
     In ffalmouth were lately heard for some nights most dreadfull Cryes        
& Grones  some in Pendennis give out tis the ghost of A souldier lately         
killed there & is A Proofe of Purgatory &c                                      
     On Tuesday A Gent in the Guards of the E of dovers troope at Play          
in the Temple Revells threw at more money then he had to Pay & According        
to Custome they put him in the stocks which makes A greate Noyse Among          
the Guards & Its thought will occasion some secrett mischeife                   
     Last weeke Olivers Porter died in Bedlam very Aged                         
     L. c. 1902     London 31st dec 1687                                        
+The queen hath been for A day or two somewhat Indisposed but is this day       
somewhat Better  Tis said the Thanksgiveing day is Put off till the 15th        
ffebr                                                                           
     The schoole for Maides which some Call A Nunnery set up by the queen       
in st Martins Lane is to begin on Munday next  There are 4 Mistresses in        
the Habitt of Nuns                                                              
     An Answer to the Bp of Oxfords booke is Come forth said in the             
Title Page to be written by A Person of quality                                 
     Our Irish letters say A fire in Dublin hath burnt 200 houses               
     We hear of greate shipwrecks on the Coasts of Holland & A dreadfull        
Inundation there to the loss & Ruine of many thousands                          
     The E of Salisbury is Arrived here after 3 yeares travell in Italy         
 &c & Imediately went to waite on his Maty who Recd him joyfully                
      Our letters from Barbados say 2 shipps fitted out by English &            
Dutch on Private mens Account have brought from the Wreck more money then       
sr Wm Phipps did                                                                
      The President &c of Christchurch Hospital have waited on the King         
 with the Blewcoate boyes of the Mathematicall school & prsented a list         
 of Almost 70 Put forth this year Past to Captains of E India & Turkey          
 shipps                                                                         
      Tis said the English Ambr at the Hague hath given in 2 memorialls         
 abt dr Burnet & Bantam                                                         
      Our fforreign Advices Confirme the deposeing the Grand seigni[o]r &       
 setting up his Brother  that the imperialists have Agria in possession &       
 that the Moldavians offer to Come under the Emper[o]rs Protection              
 +The diferences Continue betwixt the Pope & ffrench  The English &             
 spanish Ambrs have had a long Audience of his holiness                         
      L. c. 1903     London 3d Janr 1687                                        
 +The queen being very well Recovered & it being Generally beleived shee        
 is now in a hopefull way of going out her time  This day the                   
 Proclamation Came forth for the Thanksgiveing on the 15th here & on the        
 29th elsewhere                                                                 
       is said his Maty declared on sunday he would Call a Parliamt the         
 beginning & that a law be made to settle liberty of Conscience as firme        
 as Magna Charta  The Lds Leifts shall make a Regulation Among their            
 deputies & other officers  Last sunday night the E of Pembrooke was            
 dismist from all his offices                                                   
      mr Charnock & 2 more of the ffellows of Magdalen Colledg are              
 Returned Tis said with Mandamusses for 12 new ffellows that were               
 Romanists & that the other 11 vacancies be for some in the savoy               
 schoole                                                                        
      Tis said Coll stradbury & Coll Markham are new Connverts                  
      sr Roger strickland is made Rere Admirall of England in Roome of          
 sr Jo Herbert displaced                                                        
     Yest the Comptroller &c of the Temples Came to Whitehall in greate         
state in 3 of the Kings Coaches & Invited the King & most of the                
ministers of state to dinner & delivered An Addresse the substance being        
to wish his Maty A Happy new year A Prosperous Reign & Numerous Ishue           
     The Ld Chancellr hath had A very Terrible fit of the stone which           
hath much weakened him                                                          
     They write from Paris that King hath sent 7000 horse & dragoons to         
seize Castro within 20 miles of Rome which will be followed by 25000 at         
sea & orders are sent to seize Avignon A Citty of the Popes in ffrance          
+Wee much Exspect to hear the dutch Answer to his Matys Ambrs memoriall         
Abt Bantam & to Banish all his Rebell subjects Perticulerly dr Burnet &         
the Printers of his booke                                                       
     L. c. 1904     London 5th Janr 1687                                        
+The late sad fire in Dublin began by some Theives haveing got into A           
house & for Hast left Lights which fired it & Burnt 159 houses In               
Castle street & other Principle Parts of the Citty                              
     The queen Dowager is soe well that she this weeke gave the queen           
2 vissitts & diverted her selfe in st James parke                               
     Abt 60 Corporations are Regulated & in all of them the most part           
of the Magistrates are dissenters                                               
     mr Harper of the horse guards who was put into the stocks by the           
Comptroller of the Inner Temple Acquainted the Ld Dover Coll sarsfield          
&c & they Complained to the King who hath heard the matter face to face         
but made noe Determination                                                      
     Tis said mr Harper & others are resolved to have personall                 
satisfacion & had not Coll sarsfield layd A severe Comand on all the            
troope Abt 40 had gone next night to the Temple                                 
     The Mandamus for 12 new ffellows for Magdalen Colledg is Carryed to        
the Bp of Oxford by mr Charnock to Admitt them with A Non obstante to the       
oaths &c  Their names are dr Richd Crompton mr Tho: ffairfax mr Edw             
Meredish mr John Dreyden juni[o]r mr Phillip Lewis mr Alex Cotton Mr Tho:       
Guilford mr Wm Plowden Mr John Christmas mr Lawrence Wood mr John Rosse         
& mr Augustine Belson  Also for mr Robt Hall & mr Causen to be demies           
     Our ffrench letters say all their sea officers are Hastend to              
Thoulon Marselles Brest &c to Hasten out their shipps with all speed            
     since the Expiration of the Act for 400 Hackney Coaches then               
Increased to 900 but are now Reduced to 400  But Its thought 400 more           
will be Licenced this weeke                                                     
     L. c. 1905     London 7th Janr 1687                                        
+This weeke A 6 d booke is stolne out of the presse Intituled samll Ld          
Bp of Oxford his Celebrated Reasons for Abrogating the Test & his               
notions of Idolatry Answered By samll Parker Archdeacon of Canterbury           
In page 54 Its better to Indulge mens lives then their Consciences  Its         
Reported the booke is Collections out of the booke here Cited                   
     A son of sr Thompsons being sent to Oxford & Refuseing the usuall          
oaths pleadeing his Matys declaration for liberty the vicechancellr             
Threatened to Expell him whereupon 3 ffathers presented A Petition to           
the Ecclesll Comrs & its said at their next meeting it will be decided          
     One mr stroud High sheriffe of somersetshire haveing A Liveing             
ffallen into his hands hath presented A Nonconformist minister thereto          
who refuseng what the Lawes enjoyne The Bp hath denyed him Induction &c         
soe the Patron will try the Cause                                               
     The Ld Chancellr being Recovered of A fit of the stone is gone to          
his Country house & wee had for some dayes A Report he would be Removed         
& the office Executed by 3 Commrs vizt ffather Peters Justice Allabone &        
the solicittr Genll but as yet it proves A mistake                              
     The E of Dorcet is dismist for being Ld Leift of sussex & Its said         
either the Ld Privy seale or Ms of Powis will succeed                           
     The Kings Comrs at the Tower have Contracted for 10000 ffire Armes         
     The Comrs for Regulating Corporations sit here & Act as they have          
Information  The Corporation of Totness is dissolved haveing Refused the        
Contents of the Kings letter                                                    
     Tis said the ffrench marching towards Italy are not Agt the Pope but       
Geneva                                                                          
     Tis said Ps Ann is with Child                                              
     L. c. 1906     London 10th Janr 1687                                       
+mr Charnock A Romanist is made vice President of Magdalen Colledg in           
Oxford  The new ffellows are to Continue dureing the Kings pleasure  mr         
Lewis is made dr of divinity mr smith mr Meredith & mr Hollis masters of        
Arts                                                                            
     Tis said Hugh Boscomen Esqr of Cornwall hath not only discharged           
some Nonconformist ministers who have been A long time very Acceptable          
to him & his Table but also forbid from his house telling them they had         
deceived him in their Constant opinions of the Bishop & Clergie of the          
Church of England who he now saw Acted more like Protestants then               
dissenters & the next Lords day tooke the sacramt at the Parish Church          
    On Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs sit & on ffiday will be A greate             
Councell                                                                        
     Tis thought his Maty will have a greate fleet Ready this spring            
Tis said orders are given this day for killing 3000 oxen                        
     The Ms de Abbeville finding the states delay to give Answer to his         
Memoriall hath Pressed them by Another Adding his Master Cannot but take        
it Amisse they Answer not his demands on things soe just & Reasonable           
     The ffrench Equippage by sea hath very much Allarmed the states &          
their Prohibition of their Herrings Cloth & Iron Guns Given greate              
jealousy of A Rupture  They hasten their men of warr & have 18 Capitall         
ships now Ready                                                                 
+Letters from smirna of the 5th dec say the late Grand signi[o]r & his          
son are both strangled                                                          
     L. c. 1907     London 12th Janr 1687                                       
+The Regulation of Corporations proves A work of longer time then               
Exspected  Tis now thought there will be noe Parliamt till winter               
     severall dissenters in Corporations Refuse to Accept of places in          
the Majestracy                                                                  
     There is A sheet stolne out of the Presse Intituled A letter               
written by Myn Heer ffagell Pentioner of Holland to mr James stewart            
Advocate Giveing Account of the Prince & Ps of Oranges thoughts of the          
Repeale of the Test & the Penall lawes which tis said has given greate          
offence at Court                                                                
     Last Tuesday the Buisness of Guildhall Chappell was debated in the         
Court of Aldermen & it being found the said Chappell belongs to them they       
determined that the sermon formerly Preached at Paulls Cross & lately           
at Mary Le Bow shall be Preached there                                          
     some shipps from Virginia & Maryland bring word the Cropp of               
Tobacco will be very short this year                                            
     Tis thought there has been at the spanish Wreck 100 sayle from             
Jamaica 70 from Bermudas & some from Barbados Holland &c that its               
Concluded most of the silver was got up before sr Jo Narbrough Could            
Arrive there                                                                    
     This day the the Gent of the Temple gave A Magnificent entertainmt         
to the Ld President D of Berwick                                                
     Our ffrench letters say there is A greate diference Arrisen between        
Mounsr Louvois & the Jesuitts that Influenced the King to Prosecute the         
Protestants of whome Abt 2 millions are gone which hath much lessened the       
Kings Revenue                                                                   
+The Cardinall ffurstemburgh being Chose Coadjutor of Cologne & the Pope        
Excomunicating the ffrench Ambr makes many Conjectures of the successe          
     L. c. 1908     London 14th Janr 1687                                       
+Last Thursday the Ecclesll Comrs sate where mr Thompson Complaining            
that dr Mills hath wrongfully Expelled him out of his Colledg The dr was        
Called in who Answered it was for divers misdemeanrs Conteyned in his           
plea which being Read the dr was dismist                                        
     They write from Cornwall that on the 31st Past Abt 11 at noon 2            
sunns were seen by neer 30 persons togather travelling neer Bodman it           
being Abt 30 degrees Eastward of the true sun & Appeared the most glorious      
but with A very fiery Aspect  Its duration to them was full halfe An            
houre                                                                           
     The Report of some Regemts to be shipt for Ireland is Contradicted         
     The King hath at the desire of the E India Company Incorporated            
Bombay in India to have A Mayor Recorder sheriffs Aldermen &c & the             
Company are Provideing A Rich sword & Cap of Maintenace Maces &c  Its           
designed for the English Metropolis in India & the Courts of Law                
Admiralty &c are to be there kept                                               
     They write from New Yorke that in Aprill last Coll dungan their            
governr sent 60 men with some Indian Guides to make A discovery to the          
Northwest who haveing proceeded A good way on their journey were seized         
by the ffrench & Carryed Prisoners to Canada  But the Indian Guides             
escaped & gathered A Body & killed 300 ffrench upon Notice of which Coll        
dungan went forthwith for albany & sumoned all the Inhabitants to be            
Ready to defend that Province                                                   
     The ffrench K demands of the Pope the Restitution of Castro for the        
d of Parma & also to Produce by which Title he holds Avignon                    
     L. c. 1909     London 17th Janr 1687                                       
+Last sunday being the Thansgiveing the Bp of Rochester Preached before         
the Ps & one mr Loaves An Independant before the Ld Mayor                       
     Tis said mr Richd Baxter is on the Point of death                          
     Last satureday dr Mountague was sworne vicechancellr of Cambridg           
     The Minister of Andover in Hampshire hath embraced the Romish              
Religion & Its said A dispensation is Passing for him to Receive the            
Proffitts though he doe not officiate                                           
     Tis said 5 new judges will be made the first day of the Terme              
     On Thursday the d of Berwick goes for Hampshire as Ld Leift                
     The Ld Abergavenny is made Custos Rutulorum of somersetshire in            
Roome of the Ms of Winchester                                                   
     The Parliamt of Paris have ordered the Atturney Genll to draw up           
An Appeale Agt the Pope  That his holiness has abused the Power that            
the Church has Entrusted him with by making use of it to mantaine A             
Temporall Right that doth not belong to him   That the King be most             
humbly besought to Continue to mantaine the Rights & Imunities that             
belong to his Ambr & Provide Agt the mischeifs the ffrench Church               
suffers & grant A Nationall Councell & in the meane time that                   
Prohibitions be made to Rome                                                    
     This night Its Reported the ffrench K hath Caused some hundreds of         
Protestants to be Released                                                      
+A vessell that Came from Dublin the 16th of decembr with 2 Mayles of           
letters & some Passengers is now yeilded to be lost it being A Terrible         
storme that night                                                               
     L. c. 1910     London 19th Janr 1687                                       
+On the 16th the 30 demies of Magdalen Colledg were sumoned before the          
Bp of Oxford as President but 17 in the University Refused to Appear soe        
mr Charnock the new vice President struck out the names of 14 out of the        
Buttry booke & the 3 Exspect Expulsion  The 14 are going into other             
societies                                                                       
     dr Ironside the vicechancellr hath A Contest with the 11 new               
ffellows Abt the Gownes of the under Graduatts to whose demands he will         
not alter the Custome of the University                                         
     TIs said A quo Warranto will be brought Agt the deane & Chapter of         
st Paulls for Claiming ffellons goods whome the King hath Pardoned as in        
the Case of Griffith the Cowkeeper                                              
     sr Edw Hales Leift of the Tower hath given notice to all the               
officers under him to surrender their places & Retake them durante Bene         
Placito without takeing the oaths & Test                                        
     Last sunday the master & wardens of the stationers Attended his            
Maty in Councell & had A severe Reprimand for their Neglect of the              
Presse for that the Paper Called ffagells letter & others Reflecting on         
the Govermt are almost Publick since which A strict search hath been            
made in all the Printing houses                                                 
     some Persons are taken up for disperseing Papers Reflecting on the         
queens being with Child & the thanksgiveing day & unless they Produce An        
Authr will severely suffer                                                      
     Tis said the E of devonshires son is to marry the late Ld Russells         
daughter                                                                        
     His Maty hath declined ffarmeing the Tynn & the Tinners in Cornwall        
offer it at 64 s p Cent & the merchants Refuse it                               
+Yest Arrived A ffrench Mayle  the Passengers Report that before they           
left Callais An Account was Come that Strasburgh had Revolted &                 
Massacred all the ffrench                                                       
     L. c. 1911     London 21st Janr 1687                                       
+Wee have nothing Abt Strasburgh                                                
     Yest the Ecclesll Comrs sate & ended the Buisness of the d of              
Norfolke  his Councell pleaded that by Reason of some debts Contracted          
by his Ancestors his estate is but 4000 L p An soe they ordered the             
dutchs only 1500 L p An                                                         
     Tis said his Maty Intends to Ishue out A 2d declaration for                
Removeing Prejudices his subjects may have entertained from the many            
Pamphletts dispersed tending to Render his Intentions as to the Repeale         
of the Penall lawes & Test Ineffectuall & therein to Assure all & In            
Perticular the Members of the Church of England that nothing shall ever         
be Attempted to disquiett their Rights or Posessions when at the same           
time his Royall pleasure shall be Complyed with & shall be further              
Re Assured by as firme A law as they Can forme to secure it to their            
Posterity                                                                       
     Leift Coll Eaton of his Maties Regemt of ffootguards is dead & Its         
given to Major sr Tho stradling A new Convert                                   
+The Ld ffanshaw is dead at Aleppo                                              
     Last night the queen Removed to the new Buildings by the Privy             
Gallery that noe Noyse may endanger miscarriage                                 
     Last night was A heareing in Councell between dr Barebones & the           
ffreindly society both Claimeing by vertue of his Maties letters                
Pattents An office of Ensurance of houses from fire  The dr Claimed             
Priority of Pattent the other a more Publick Benefit by their method            
but the King declared in favour of dr Barebone                                  
+All o[u]r Advices from ffrance Confirme their greate Preparations &            
Exspectations of some mighty enterprise this spring but whether to              
Genova Avignion Holland or the Palatinate is A mistery even to the most         
Curious                                                                         
     L. c. 1912     London 24th Janr 1687                                       
+An Answer to the vindication of the Proceedings Agt the Bp of London           
& Agt Madgalen Colledg Also Another Answer to the Bp of Oxfords Reasons         
for Abrogating the Test & the Penall lawes are Crept out Privately & soe        
ill Resented at Court that its under Considderation to forme A method           
for Printers & booksellers to Prevent such Practices                            
     A greate Reforme will be made throughout the Kingdome among such           
In Publick Employes who have sallaries from the Crowne unless they give         
good demonstrations to Comply with the Repeale of the Penall lawes &            
Test                                                                            
     Comissionrs are Constituted for all Counties to Enquire what               
moneys have been Levyed on dissenters since 1678 & not Returned into            
the Exchequer to make Restitution                                               
     Last ffriday the d of Berwick Arrived at Portesmouth to take               
Posession of the govermt thereof & was joyfully Recd                            
     The d of st Albans goes in A few dayes for ffrance                         
+Last sunday the Atturney & solicittr Genll Recd the sacramt of the             
deane of Paulls & yesterday the solicittr Genll tooke the oaths & Test          
     Last sunday his Maty declared in Councell that he had some                 
Intentions to Recall his troops out of the service of the Dutch & Its           
said order is given for it                                                      
     Capt Clarke is Arrived from New England laden with Masts & yards           
for the Kings Capitall shipps & hath on board 20 Masts 120 ffoot long           
He says the ffrench attempted by land to take new Yorke but the Governr         
of New=England Raised the Militia &c & Prevented it                             
     The Welfare of London is Arrived at Plimouth from E India & the            
Herbert & Resolution Exspected                                                  
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1913     London 20th Janr 1687                                       
   To morrow the Comrs for Inspecting what money hath been Levyed on            
dissenters in London & not Legally dispersed sit the first time with            
Power to send for Persons & Papers                                              
     Many Informations Agt justices Constables Informers &c are                 
Prepareing that Levyed money on dissenters & dispersed it not According         
to Law  one is signed by the Atturney Genll Agt Joshua Gilliard Esqr &          
others of Barnet                                                                
+A Messenger is gone into somersetshire to fetch up A Gent who Affronted        
mr stroud the prsent High Sheriffe with the name of Rebell                      
     The Ld Chancellr is soe ill that his Phisitians are Affraide of him        
     At dublin A Proclamation is Ishued for Rectifying the Coyne of that        
Kingdome & the greate trouble in Counting their money                           
     The dutch will neither surrender nor Banish dr Burnet                      
     An Expresse is gone to Comand all his Maties 3 Regemts in Holland          
to Returne Imediately                                                           
     The dutch Ambr here hath Complained to his Maty that his men of            
warr search their shipps on Pretence for English seamen                         
     The K of sweden the dukes of saxony Brandenburgh Lunenburgh &              
Hessen have made An Alliance offensive & defensive                              
     The Army at Constantinople Comitt Robberies & all sorts of outrages        
at noon day with the same heate & violence as if they were in An Enemies        
Country                                                                         
     The Turks have seized Teckley & sent him to Constantinople to be           
sacrificed as the Cause of the warr  his Countesse desires A                    
Capitulation & the Emper[o]r Promises to Pardon her & the whole garrison        
& Assigne her lands suitable to her quality                                     
     L. c. 1914     London 28th Janr 1687                                       
+This weeke has Crept out of the Presse A 12 d booke Called An Impartiall       
Account of the whole Proceedings at Magdalen Colledg                            
     Some Cart loades of Popish Catechismes & Other Popish books which          
have been noe small time lodged in Grayes Inn were this day Removed &           
will be Exposed by Auction                                                      
     The Mewes is now measured out for A New guardhouse & the Kings             
Coachhouses & stables are to be built neer st James house                       
+A Proclamation is Exspected for Calling seamen out of the fforreign            
service                                                                         
     stores are ordered out of the Tower & Its said 20 men of warr are          
forthwith to be fitted out                                                      
     Its beleived there will be noe Campe this yeare at Hounslow heath          
but Rather that the ffoot will be Employed in sea service                       
     Our scotch letters say his Maties letter was Read in the Privy             
Councell Prohibitting the Levying souldiers for the dutch                       
     The dutch Answer to the memoriall Abt Bantam is That they leave it         
to the determination of the 2 E: India Companies                                
     Two of o[u]r E India shipps are Arrived but have but halfe ladeing         
& lost 100 men by the Contagion as they Came home                               
     The League between sweden saxony Brandenburgh Lunenburgh & Hessen          
is not only for security of their dominions but also of their Religion          
     They who have A Prospect into the Intentions of the ffrench K say          
he Intends to throw off the Popes Authority Also to Cause the Dauphine          
to be Crowned Emper[o]r of Rome                                                 
+This day the Court of Honour sate & mr Perrie put in his Plea to Prove         
himselfe Lawfully descended from the Earles of Northumberland                   
     Yest the watermen prsented A very Acceptable Addresse to the King          
+sr Tho: sheridan secretary to the E of Tirconnell is dismist                   
     Tis said 2 of o[u]r sea Captains have fought A duell the occasion          
being that one said the ffrench K had more & better shipps then the K:          
of England & the other Averred not                                              
     L. c. 1915     London 31st Janr 1687                                       
+Last night upon A search for stolne goods was found upon A Dunghill in         
Parkers Lane near Little queenstreet The body of A man wrapt in A               
blankett The Armes & Leggs Cutt off which were found in the Thames at           
Low Ebb Abt the Middle of the savoy wall                                        
     This morning thousands have been to see it & it makes A mighty             
noyse & not the lesse for some letters lately sent to the earles of             
Dorcett shrewsbury & Hallifax &c of A very strange & Menaceing Import           
which some of them showed his Maty  That to the E of Dorsett tis said           
was vizt                                                                        
     It were pitty that one of the best of men should be lost for the           
worst of Causes, doe not sacrifice A life every body Vallues for A              
Religion you your selfe dispise  make your peace with your Lawfull              
Soveraign or know that after the 17th Janr you have not long to Live            
take true warning from a ffriend & Repent before Repentance be too              
late                                                                            
     The Report is Renewed of his Matys going this spring to be                 
Crowned in scotland                                                             
     mr Wade who was in the West but pardoned is made Towne Clerke of           
Bristoll                                                                        
     The D of Modena Intends to Reside here with the queen his sister           
& Preparations are makeing for his Reception                                    
     mr Boyle eldest son to the E of Burlington is marryed to Madam             
Noell Neece to the E of Gainsbrough                                             
     The ffrench are upon their March in 3 bodies one towards Italy one         
towards Alsatia & A 3d for fflanders                                            
     They write from Rome the pope is very much Indisposed  Also that           
the Cardinalls pretend that in matters of such greate Import as the             
ffranchises they ought to be Consulted at the Privy Councell                    
     The Ld Chanceller Continues Extreame ill                                   
     L. c. 1916     London 2d ffebr 1687                                        
+The Corps without A head &c is not yet owned  The waterman that first          
found the Armes & Leggs sayes they lay just under the Publick Privy             
of the savoy & lay cross on one another as if they had been throwne             
out peece by peece  The Armes seemed to be bruised & by the hands it            
seemed to be some gentleman the skin very clear &c                              
     Yest by order of the E of Craven the body & Limbes were decently           
put in a Coffin & Exposed to view in st Giles Church yard & at night set        
in the Charnelhouse & this morning to be set out Againe & soe to be             
Exposed for 7 dayes                                                             
     Yesterday An Irishman A joyner in Drury Lane was Comitted to               
Newgate Tis said for dropping words Construed as being Accessory to the         
Laying the body in Parkers Lane  The King & Councell have heard of it &         
it being suggested it might be one of those executed at Tyburne their           
graves were this day opened & their bodies found soe tis said A                 
Proclamation of A Greate Reward will Issue to morrow to any that shall          
discover it                                                                     
     Tis said the queen Dowager Returnes to Portugall next may to spend         
the rest of her time there & will carry but few domesticks & leave 6 or         
7000 L p An to be paid dureing her life to such as shee leaves dureing          
their Lives                                                                     
     sr Wm Williams is made Ld Ch: Justice of Chester in Place of sr            
Jo Charlton & is yet solicittr Genll                                            
     The Herbert is Arrived at Plimouth from E India vastly Rich haveing        
been some time missing & greate Insurances made on her                          
     They write from Rome our King hath made the Cardinall de Este              
Protector of the English nation with An Allowance of 20000 Crownes p An         
     Mongatz is surrendred to the Emperor & Its said Alba Regalis hath          
Capitulated                                                                     
     L. c. 1917     London 4th ffebr 1687                                       
+Yest severall were Examined by sr Roger Ld Estrange Abt the late               
Murther & words dropt proved one of them vizt The wife of the Murthered         
It Appeared shee Cut his Throate in bed when asleepe & by Assistance of         
A Mason & Carpenter too familiar with her Cut the body is Peeces.  shee         
is A ffrench Midwife & he was A ffrench Chyrurgeon  They Lodged In              
Phenix Alley in Long Acre where the Murther was Comitted  The woman is          
Comitted to the Gatehouse & her Assistance to Newgate  shee doth not            
Confesse it but her bed was found all bloody &c                                 
     The Comrs for Enquireing what money hath been Levyed on dissenters         
in London &c are to have their Comission Amended before next sitting            
     sr Wm Walters Lady is Come over & tis said hath A warrant for the          
Pardon & that he will suddenly be here                                          
     The Ld ffitzharding & some Gent sumoned up at the Complaint of mr          
stroud of somersetshire are all discharged                                      
     A quarrell happened near ffalmouth between some souldiers of               
Pendennis Castle & some Countrymen in which the former were worsted since       
which they have sworne one of the Countrymen said he could in one hour          
Raise 100 such men as to drive them all out of the Castle upon which he         
is Comitted to the County goale                                                 
     Chelsey Colledg is to be Enlarged  Coll Oglethorpe is Governr &            
Lodges therein                                                                  
     The Dutch go on in their Navall preparations & will have A                 
Considderable ffleet Ready in March  The states have not yet given              
Answer to his Matys letter Abt Calling home the English Regemts but it          
hath Caused their E India Actions to Abate Considderably & the people are       
full of Apprehensions his Maty designs A warr Agt them  But some say his        
Matys orders to the victualling office is less then last year                   
     They write from Rome the Pope Continues Resolved not to allow the          
ffranchises                                                                     
     L. c. 1918     London 9th ffebr 1687                                       
+The Archbp of Canterbury hath Recd An order to Conveen all the Clergie         
of the diocesse Abt 20 dayes hence  Tis said his Maty has ordered his           
Grace to write Circular letters to all the other Bishops to Acquaint            
them that he Intends to Call A Parliamt next May & to direct them to            
order their Clergie to use their Interest to Choose such as shall Answer        
those good ends his Maty designes & Its said such letters are written by        
his Graces directions                                                           
+The Comrs for Enquireing what money hath been Levyed on dissenters have        
now Power to Examine Report & determine all matters before them which           
last was omitted in their Comission  they sit Againe to morrow                  
     Tis said some thousands of books are seized from Holland written by        
dr Burnet Intituled Memoires of state in his late Maties Reign                  
     Letters from Dublin say that on the 29th Past A fiery Meteor Came          
in the skyes Abt 10 miles till it Came over Dublin & broke at Rings end &       
gave 2 distinct Cracks as Loud as Cannons  It gave A Greate Light &             
Appeared Abt the bigness of the Moon & was seen by hundreds & Carryed           
with it A Circle of A fiery Colour                                              
     The dutch have Consented to send over the English & scotch Regemts         
     severall shipps are Prepareing which are Called by his Maty                
Salamanders to lye off any place & throw Bombes into it in Case of A            
warr & yet be out of the Reach of any shott as hath been Proved & 5 of          
them are neer finished of 100 Tuns each                                         
+sr Roger strickland is made Rere Admirall of England                           
     Letters from Hungary Contradict Teckleys being Prisoner & say he           
Continues to make Incursions on the ffrontiers with 2000 Rebells & some         
Turks                                                                           
     L. c. 1919     London 14th ffebr 1687                                      
+mr Hill the Kings' Printer is in the new Comission of Peace for Middx          
Among the 43 left out are the Ms of Winchester E of Thanett The Lds             
Newport Newhaven Maynard Dalawarr & Osulston sr Cha: Gerrard sr Wm              
Bowyer sr Jo: Leader sr Jo: Cutler sr Jo: Banks sr Tho: Wolstenholme sr         
Jos: Williamson sr Robt southwell sr Christo Musgrave sr Jo: Elwayes sr         
Hen Johnson sr Jonathan Raymund &c                                              
+sr Jo Tate o[u]r Recorder is displaced & sr Bartholmew shoar deputy            
Recorder in his place                                                           
     The Bp of Oxford is dangerously ill & Its there discoursed if he           
Recover he will leave the Presidentshipp of Magdalan Colledg & dr Walker        
succeed & mr Bernard succeed the dr                                             
     mr Charnock hath Expelled 3 demies more                                    
     The Bp of Durham is gone Its said to Influence An Addresse among the       
Clergie of his diocesse                                                         
     This day Came out the Proclamation Comanding noe Pedlers of books be       
suffered unless Licenced & qualified                                            
     Yest the master & wardens of the stationers searcht many booksellers       
shops for unlicenced books & found many sorts at mr Hindmarshes in              
Cornhill                                                                        
     Last satureday the Mayor &c of Rochester surrendred their Charter          
his Maty Returned it without makeing the least Alteration wishing them to       
Live in unity & when A Parliamt is Called to Choose such members as shall       
Concurr for makeing his declaration as firme as Magna Charta                    
+mr sheridan secretary of Ireland hath made some Complaints of the Ld           
deputy & Complaints are Come from Ireland Agt mr sheridan & Its to be           
fully heard in Councell                                                         
     L. c. 1920     London 25th ffebr 1687                                      
+Last Wednesday the Popish ffrench midwife was tryed who murthered her          
husband & then Cut him in Peeces  shee pleaded Guilty & was next day            
sentenced to be burnt                                                           
     They write from Nevis the D of Albemarle was Arrived there it              
being within 4 dayes sayle of the wreck In Company with sr Jo: Narbrough        
& sr Wm Phipps he haveing sent his Ds direct for Jamaica                        
     They write from dublin ffather Terrell Titular Bp of Cloghen is made       
secretary to the Ld deputy in mr sheridans place & one of that Privy            
Councell                                                                        
     They write from Vienna of the 19th Past that Genll veterani had for        
the present Adjusted the diference between the Imperiallists &                  
Transilvanians Abt fforrage & Prince Abafty with Consent of the states          
hath ordered A larger Portion of fforrage from the 1st of ffebr                 
     That 20000 Turks are Come to Belgrade with designe to march Into           
upper Hungary to Attacque the Imperiallists in Transilvania & that An           
Envoy was Come from Constantinople to Prince Abafty to Acquaint him             
with the setting up of the Grand seigni[o]r & to desire him to joyne his        
forces with the Turks the next Campaigne & that if in the meane time he         
wanted troops he would forthwith Assist with Considderable forces               
     They write from Rome of the 4/14 Instant the Pope keeps his bed by         
Reason of Cold though otherwise very well & Remaines Imoveable either by        
Prayers or threats  neither will he doe anything but According to his           
owne way  The spanish Ambr &c have had Audience but none Can make any           
Impression on him he Resolveing not to doe anything Contrary to his             
Conscience let what will happen which he sayes Allowing the ffranchises         
is [letter ends]                                                                
     L. c. 1921     London 28th ffebr 1687                                      
+The Ms De Abbevill hath put in another memoriall In which he urged That        
the states Refusall to send the Regemts back breaks A treaty between            
England & Holland as Ancient as their state it selfe That when the late         
King was in Exile & demanded his subjects they were sent into their             
soveraigns service though it were to the Reinforceing of An Enemies Army        
     That the states are at Peace with the whole world                          
+That if they have been at Greate Expence in Raiseing & Instructing them        
Its sufficiently meritted by the soe many battles & seiges in the late          
warrs wherein 1500 of his subjects have been lost since 1674  That their        
Comeing without leave into the said service Cannot dispense their not           
Returneing upon summons without being traytors &c                               
     Tis said mr Atterbury the messenger Carryed into Holland above 30          
Privy seales Perticulerly to the Ld Coot Grandson to the famous sr Chas         
Coot in Ireland &c who are Comanded upon their Alleigance to Returne            
     The states Refusall hath very much Allarmed the spanish Netherlands        
who are very Apprehensive of A warr                                             
     Its the Comon discourse at Paris of A warr with Holland  20 troops         
of the Kings household are ordered to flanders & more to follow                 
     The K of Denmarke hath layd A new Imposition on Dutch shipps which         
they forbid their subjects to pay                                               
     The discourse is Renewed that the E of salisbury will be made d of         
Bucks                                                                           
     They write from scotland mr James Renwick the feild Conventicle            
Preacher was Executed for disowneing the King  he was severall times            
offered his life if he would owne the K & his Govermt but he Refused to         
the last moment                                                                 
     L. c. 1922     London 1st March 1687                                       
+They write from Holland that 35 of the English & scotch officers have          
Pasports to Returne for England                                                 
     That the d of Brandenburgh is fortifying all his ffrontier places &        
Recruiteing his Regemts he aswell as the dutch Exspecting A storme from         
the north                                                                       
     The dutch are Equipping with all Posible hast & the Prince hath            
orders to treble the seaport Garrisons &c & Add 20 to each Company of           
their land forces & they have desired some Regemts of horse from the d          
of Brandenburgh                                                                 
     The Princes Gent of the horse & Capt of the Guards desired leave           
to quitt & A Passe for England which was granted but by order of the            
Prince was followed & his baggage searcht                                       
     The queen Dowager is Prevailed with to Continue in England till            
after the queens lyeing in                                                      
     Tis said mr Goad formerly of Merchantaylors schoole mr Constable           
mr Bernard mr Chettlebrough & mr Clarke are made new ffellows of                
Magdalen Colledg & mr Blockswell mr Woolhouse mr Galloway & mr Hungatt          
Batchellors of Art                                                              
     Three Preists are Arrived here from Ireland who Its said are to            
Returne Bishops                                                                 
     dr Tillotsons Treatise Agt Transubstantiation is put into ffrench          
& Greate Numbers disposed of in Rome & most parts of Italy                      
     mr Redding haveing Attended the Court of Aldermen with Proposalls          
for Regulateing their Expences in order to Pay the orphans debts He this        
day Attended them Againe To Whome they gave Answer That A Comittee to           
Inspect & Regulate their Expences sit dayly & they doubted not but in A         
few yeares by the Methods the Comittee had layd downe to be able to give        
the orphans in greate Measure such satisfaction as should Content them          
     L. c. 1923     London 3d March 1687                                        
+Yest the ffrench midwife who soe Barbarously Murthered her husband was         
burnt in Leicester square, Its Affirmed shee in Private Confessed the           
Murther of her owne son & 12 more gotten out of Wedlock & was guilty in         
ffrance of 3 times as much                                                      
     The Bp of Oxford is given over by the Phisitians & Recd the sacramt        
According to the Church of England                                              
     sr Wm Booth A sea Comander is made one of the Comrs of the Navy &          
Its said hath Changed his Religion                                              
     Yest A Councell of warr sate at Whitehall to Receive misdemeanrs           
from the Army & are to sit some dayes each weeke his Maty being uneasy          
of Complaints made to him                                                       
     This day A Proclamation Came out Prohibitting his Maties subjects          
to enter into the service of any fforreign Princes or states & Its said         
another will Ishue for Calling out of the said services                         
     The dutch have ordered their last memoriall to the English envoy to        
be prsented to his Maty by their Ambr here                                      
     Our E India Company have Appointed A generall sale to begin next           
Tuesday when Its thought their goods will sell at very High Rates               
     The Algereens have sent 2 Ambrs to the Dutch who Its supposed are          
Put into Plimouth or ffalmouth by Contrary winds                                
     They write from Rome there was A Report there would be An                  
Accomodation with ffrance & that the K of England was offered A Mediatr         
But their hopes are Clouded by A Rumour lately spread abroade That there        
is A bull of Excomunication in the Presse Agt the Parliamt of Paris for         
dareing to dispute the holy ffathers Authority                                  
     They write from Edenbrough the Noblemen there seem desirous to have        
A Parliamt                                                                      
     L. c. 1924     London 6th March 1687                                       
+Most of the Boroughs that send members to Parliamt are Regulated & some        
will have it his Maty will Call A Parliamt to sit in May                        
     The Ld dartmouth is gone to vissitt the Ports & Inspect the Numbers        
of seamen                                                                       
     The Mobile at Yorke have offered some Rudenesse to the Popish              
Chappell there & some of them in Custody                                        
     His Maty haveing granted A 2d Breife for Releife of ffrench                
Protestants very Liberall Collections have been made Perticulerly at the        
quakers meetings & this day the Parish officers began from house to house       
     There was Collected by the former Breife Abt 40000 L by which 15500        
were Releived According to their qualities of which 140 families of             
Persons of quality 143 ministers 144 of Lawyers Phisitians & Considderable      
Cittizens the Rest Artificers & Husbandmen  Also 15 ffrench Churches have       
been Erected 3 in London & 12 in the Countries                                  
+This day mr Redding Attended the Court of Aldermen who were very Angry         
at his Publishing Proposalls to sumon the Orphans to subscribe Telling          
him they will have noe more to doe with him but will shortly Publish A          
Paper which they doe not question will be very Acceptable to the orphans        
     The Wreck from which the Plate was got was A Galleon of 2200 Tun           
lost 48 yeares since & had 60 Tun of gold & silver which if all silver          
was worth 5 millions sterling                                                   
     They write from Bermudas that on the 5th octobr there was at the           
Wreck from Barbados &c 2000 men & all they got was Carryed to A heape &         
at night shared amongst each Crew                                               
     Tis said Ps Ann is with Child                                              
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1925     London 8th March 1687                                       
+One mr Lacy A Romanist being High Sheriffe of Hartfordshire, Last              
Munday assoon as the judges had Read their Comission A Pulpitt was              
brought in & A Preist made An oration on the occasion to the High               
sheriffe the E of salisbury & other Romanists but the judges went to            
Church & heard A sermon  The Ld Ch: Justice gave the Charge & said he           
had in Charge from the King to give notice he Intended suddenly to Call         
A Parliamt & hoped they would send such members as should Comply with him       
in serviceing Liberty of Conscience &c  A justice A Churchwarden & A            
Constable were found guilty of Levying money on dissenters & not                
disposeing it as the Law Requires                                               
     An order is said to be sent to all the seaports that all officers          
there or in the Customs that will not be for Repealeing the Test shall          
be discharged as also the officers of the Army                                  
     Tis said it was yesterday debated in Councell that 21 shipps of            
warr be forthwith Equipped                                                      
     They write from ffrance their fleet will be Ready very suddenly &          
that the dutch by their Preparations give jealousies there                      
     They write from Holland the states are setling A ffond for setting         
out their fleet on which all hands are at worke & for building 18 new           
men of warr                                                                     
     On Tuesday our E: India Company began & ended their Publick sale           
The Coffe Indico &c they sold in Private Contract which being not               
Customary has much disgusted the Intended buyers at the Candle  Their           
Auctions are 170 Affrican 200 Hudsons bay 250 L                                 
     On Tuesday night the Ld Breretons brother Comeing out of A Taverne         
neer Charing Cross in A Rage with drinking & A drawne sword in one hand &       
A Pistoll in the other vowing death to the next man he mett which was           
one of his Maties letter Carryers who was Ran through & soon died               
     L. c. 1926     London 10th March 1687                                      
+Our last letters from Oxford say their Bp is as yet very weake & that          
there died this weeke dr Newland president of Corpus Christi Colledg            
      The d of Newcastle hath surrendred up his places of Ld Leift of           
Northumberland & Notingham  Tis said the former will be given to the Ld         
Derwent water & the latter to the Ld Tho: Howard Br to the d of Norfolke        
     A greate Alteration is makeing in the Customehouse Excise & hearth         
money office                                                                    
+They write from scotland many greate Alterations are makeing in that           
Govermt                                                                         
     Part of the spring garden being gravelled for Rideing the greate           
horse Yest the dukes of Northumberland & Berwick diverted themselves            
Running at the King which Exercize is Intended to be there almost dayly         
     When the E of Ossory was Genll in Holland he made An Agreement             
with the P of Orange dated 24th Janr 1678 That if the K of England              
should at any time Recall them they should be permitted to Returne &c           
upon which the English Ambr gave in A ffresh memoriall To which the             
states have given answer much to the same purpose as the former                 
     They write from Rome of the 29th ffebr the pope Remaines very              
unmoveable Notwithstanding the greate endeavours to persuade him  To            
whome he Positively declares he will never yield to the ffranchises  On         
the other hand the ffrench Ambr there hath spread severall Papers That          
unless the Pope Revoke the Excommunication Agt him & Confirme the               
Coadjutorship to the Bp of Cologne his master will not hearken to any           
treaty  The Pope hath sent to know the sentiments of all the Princes of         
Italy  Tis believed there will be An Excommunication Agt the Parliamt of        
Paris                                                                           
     L. c. 1927     London 13th March 1687                                      
+The Archdeaconary of Canterbury being held in Comendum by the Bp of            
Oxford his Maty hath given it to mr Chetwood                                    
     Last sunday dr fframpton Bp of Glocester Preacht at Whitehall her          
R: Highs &c being prsent from 135 Psal from 14 to 18 vers of the vanity         
of Idolls                                                                       
     There is A prospect on foot for Setting Registers of the names &           
Habitations of all seamen & watermen                                            
     Dr Burnet Continues at the Hague & 2 Centinells at the door which          
is In sight of the Court of guards who have orders to be his defence if         
occasion Requires                                                               
     Our E India Company are Raising souldiers for India  their Auctions        
are 186 Affrican 200 & Hudsons bay 235                                          
     The ffrench Ambr at the Hague hath signified to the states they            
should not thinke it strange if his master attacque the Palatinate to           
mantain the Right of the Ds of Orleans  That being noe Infraction of            
the 20 yeares truce he haveing noe other designe then to mantain the            
peace of Europe                                                                 
     The ffrench K hath seized the dutch effects at st Valary without           
any Reason as yet given                                                         
     His Maty hath ordered 1500 L out of the Treasury for the ffrench           
protestants on the 2d Breife  Yest sr Tho: Clargis Collected in one of          
the 6 wards of the new Parish of st James 423 L  The Ms of Hallifax gave        
50 L Countesse of Essex 50 L Countesse Dorchester 40 L E of Ossory 30 L         
Ld Bellasis 5 guyneys                                                           
     Last saturday the Ld Mayor & Aldermen attended his Maty humbly             
desireing A stop may be put to the building A Bridg over the Thames at          
Putney To which the Ld Chancellr declared his Maty had not only put A           
stop to that Bridg but would also take perticuler Care of all the               
Concernes of the Citty                                                          
     L. c. 1928     London 15th March 1687                                      
+Dr sherlock published A 12 d booke Intituled A Preservation agt Popery         
An Answer is Come out but to some that Read it nothing to the Purpose           
     Yest Dr sherlock preacht before her R: Highs & An Extrary Assembly         
of Nobility Gentry & Clergies from 24 Luke 47 vers without Nameing the          
P---- yet a greate blow to their opinion Abt Remission of sins                  
     The Comrs for Inspecting what was Levyed on dissenters in                  
Hartfordshire vizt sr Wm Cooper Coll Titus &c sit next munday of which A        
Paper was Affixed on the Market place which was twice Pulled downe &            
one Caught at A 3d & Comitted                                                   
     The  Pulpit in which ffather Pursell the Jesuitt Preached at the           
Assizes was by the Mobile broke                                                 
     At Chelmsford Assizes A schoolemaster Consented he should Preach           
in the schoole but the People would not suffer him to goe in & were on          
the edge of A Ryott                                                             
     Last night in Councell A Proclamation was ordered Requireing all           
souldiers & seamen in the dutch service to Returne & all officers at sea        
to bring away such as they find in their service  His Maty declared he          
would Raise 3 New Regemts one in England one in scotland & one in               
Ireland to be officered by those that Returne from Holland & Comanded           
by Coll Walcup Coll Hales & Coll Marray  Also Coll Porter is gone into          
the Country to Raise another Regemt                                             
     The ffellows of Corpus Christi Colledg have with the Kings Consent         
Chose dr Turner Br to the Bp of Ely                                             
     Dr Clayton President of Merton Colledg is dead                             
     They write from Jamaica the D of Albemarle was Joyfully Recd  That         
12 ships arrived there from the wreck with 200000 L but soe distributed         
his Grace will have but little of it  That other ships are gone to              
Bermudas &c with Plate but now Sr Jo: Narbrough is on the wreck & hath          
forced all others from it                                                       
     L. c. 1929     London 20th March 1687                                      
+A Reward is said to be offered to any that Can discover the Printer of         
A seditious libell lately dispersed Called A letter from ffather Peters         
to ffather La Chose the ffrench Kings Confessr & greate dilligence is           
used to find out the Authrs &c                                                  
     The E of Bath Intends to discourse the Gent in Cornwall Concerning         
the Penall lawes & Test but the Corporation officers will not be altered        
in that County though they send 44 members to Parliamt                          
+This day the King Exercised his Guards in Hyde Parke                           
     The d of Berwick is taken ill & Its thought it will prove the small        
Pox                                                                             
     The E of salisburies Countesse is not turned Romanist as was said          
but was last sunday at Convent Garden Church                                    
     The E India Actions Continue at 186 Affrican 220 Hudsons bay 245           
     mr Chudley one of the Comrs of the Customs haveing quitt that              
Employment his Maty Continues to him the sallary of A Comr of the               
Customs which is 1200 L p An                                                    
+The states of Holland have ordered 4 millions of Livers to be paid             
for Repaireing the fortifications & the ffrontier townes & ordered the          
Admiralties to Hasten the building of 18 new ships the Remainder of 36          
ships ordered to be built some yeares since Also to Equippe with all            
speed all such ships as are fit for service & have ordered Evertson to          
be Comander of their fleet set out this summer                                  
     They write from fflanders that on the 21st Instant A fire Happened         
in the Carmelites Convent at Gaunt which burnt it & of 26 Gentlewomen           
Prisoners therein 22 were burnt in their bedds & 2 leapeing out of A            
window broke both their Armes & Leggs & died A few houres after                 
     Tis said his Maty has ordered An Account to be taken of the Cases          
& Conditions of Prisoners for debt in the severall goales of this               
Kingdome In order to lay their Case before the Next Parliamt to afford          
them Releife                                                                    
     L. c. 1930     London 22d March 1687                                       
+Yest morning the Bp of Oxford died                                             
     The D of Berwick hath the small Pox & Its hoped he will Recover            
     Tis said her Maty will lye in at Windsor & Remove the 20th May             
     The Charters of 44 Corporations that send Burgesses to Parliamt are        
Expediting with all Posible dispatch that they may be Regulated before          
the election of Members                                                         
     Its ordered that 5 out of every Company be drawne out of the ffoot         
to forme A new Regemt                                                           
     Yest being the feast of st Benedict of which order of Monks are            
a Convent at st James They Celebrated the morning with Musick &c  In            
the afternoon the superior Preacht A sermon the King & queen prsent             
Highly Extolling their order above any                                          
     The disturbance of the Massehouse in Yorke on shrove Tuesday               
Appeares to be as followeth, some boyes Playing at span farthing neer           
the Chappell in time of Masse one Came out & beate them & tooke away 2          
of their Hatts upon which the boyes Pulled downe 2 Poles & broke 2 or 3         
Panes of Glass in the windows of which they Complained to the souldiers         
who beate the boyes & Tyed them neck & heeles till the blood Gushed out         
of their eares & Noses & also set them on the Wooden horse upon which           
mr Moor who belongs to the spirituall Court & others that suffered              
Indicted the Capt of the Company & other officers at the Assizes & the          
jury found them guilty of A Ryott  The officers hereupon Indicted the           
boyes but the jury Acquitted them                                               
     The Religious house burnt at Gaunt was An English Nunnery                  
     They write from Paris the diference between the Pope & that King           
is upon Termes of Accomodation                                                  
     Two of o[u]r ffriggotts haveing taken some English seamen out of           
A dutchman of warr in the Downes Its said the states have sent the Capt         
A very severe Reprimand & have made it death to deliver up voluntarily          
any men in their service & Pay                                                  
     L. c. 1931     London 24th March 1684 [i. e., 1688]                        
+A Private Cittizen of London hath at his owne Charge built A meeting           
house in Gravell Lane neer the ffaucon in southwarke which is supplyed          
Gratis twice every sunday by the most eminent dissenting ministers & in         
the Weeke dayes is used as A free schoole for that Poor & Populous              
Neighbourhood The schoolemaster & usher Teaching them with greate Care &        
Paines being sufficiently Encouraged by the monthly Contributions of A          
Numerous Assembly                                                               
+The Jesuitts have taken A house next their Chappell in Limestreet to           
make A schoole of for youth                                                     
     Tis said the d of st Albans hath declared himselfe A Romanist              
     The King in the Bp of Oxfords sickness gave the Archdeaconry of            
Canterbury to mr Chetwood who not being Admitted & the Bp dead Its now          
in the Archbps Gift who hath given it to dr Battley one of his Chaplains        
     The deane of Chester & dr Thompson are said to be Candidates for           
the Bishoprick of Oxford                                                        
+The vulgar talke much of A warr with Holland But men of Prospect               
beleive it not, yet the Navall stores are Prodigious & those of                 
Provisions very greate & yet they kill [sentence ends]                          
     Yest the Ld Mayor Attended the Councill with A Petition Agt                
makeing A Bridg over the Thames at Putney but Its Referred to A jury            
to Enquire what damages & make Report before his Maty determine it              
     The Comittee of Aldermen sit twice A weeke to Consult the Raiseing         
money for the supply of the Cares & wants of the widdows & Orphans &            
have made A Considderable Progress therein                                      
+They write from Chester 2 Ensignes in the E of Huntingtons Regemt              
fought In which one was killed & the other fled                                 
+On Thursday the King Rode A ffox Hunting into Essex & yesterday                
toucht for the Evill                                                            
[On outside of letter and in another hand:] 4 years Newes Letters viz/          
from Lady day 1684 Inclusive/To Lady Day 1688 Exclusive/Note. In ye year        
1685 most are wanting.                                                          
     L. c. 1932     London 23d 0ctobr 1688                                      
+On satureday the Bps Nobility judges Ld Mayor &c were sumoned to appear        
yest at Whitehall where the Archbp Bps M of Hallifax &c Appeared & his          
Maty spoke to this effect                                                       
+My Lds, I am well assured my kingdoms are Intended to be Invaded & am          
Resolved to goe in person & knowing that Bulletts make noe distinction I        
thinke good to settle the succession & assure on the word of A King that        
the P of Wales is my son & borne of the queen & to satisfie you all here        
are 39 persons some of whome are Protestants who were in the Chamber            
when the queen was delivered  Their depositions shall be taken before           
you which was done & the q: Dowager M of Powis &c deposed as to the             
queens being with Child & that the Child was taken from the queens body         
&c  Tis said the depositions will be suddenly printed                           
+A Proclamation is Exspected to make it High Treason to question the P          
of Wales                                                                        
     On sunday night ffather Petre was dismist the Councell  Also mr            
Wickstead & mr Greenwood were Comitted to the Tower for High Treason            
being accused of Comeing over to engage [P]ersons to the P: of Orange &         
Tis said warrants are Ishued to take up many                                    
     A ship from Rotterdam that saw the dutch fleet say They are greate         
& small Abt 600 sayle & themselves say have above 50000 landmen on board        
+Tis said all the judges Except the Ld Ch. J Herbert have sued [?] out          
their Pardons, sr Tho: stronger is judge in place of Judge Allabone             
     L. c. 1933     London 8th Novr 1688                                        
+Wee have severall Expresses from the West That the P of Orange is              
marched from Torbay towards Exeter His Army According to o[u]r Gazett           
being Abt 14000 Men                                                             
     The Citty of Exeter have sent to his Maty that they will defend the        
place to the utmost & are prepareing for it                                     
     The E of Bath hath put himselfe into Plimouth which he hopes to            
defend by the helpe of the Tinners & Gent of the Country which come in          
great Numbers to him                                                            
     Yest his Maty Recd An Expresse from the Ld Dartmouth from the              
sussex Coast that he hath been hindred by the winds from Attacquing the         
Dutch But tis said orders are sent him to Returne into the downes the           
1st wind                                                                        
     The suburbs of this Citty are very full of horse & ffoot from the          
North & east in order to march into the West  This day A Councell of            
warr was Called The King prsent & tis said the Genll Randevous of the           
Army will be on salisbury Plaine                                                
     On Thursday the Archbp of Cant & Bps of London Peterbrough &               
Rochester Attended the King who exspected A Paper of Abhorrance &               
demanded it  But they brought none which gave noe small offence & told          
them it Concerned them to doe it  But they used some Reasons why it             
Could not be exspected from them at that time                                   
     This weeke Ald Lacey & Ald Jeffries died Also sr Tho: Exton judge          
of the Admiralty                                                                
     L. c. 1934     London 13th Novr 1688                                       
+Last Sunday the Ld Lovelace with Abt 60 horse marcht from Henley               
westward  Also mr dore & Another of Limington with A greate party of            
horse are gone westward as tis said are the Ld Colchester Coll Godfrey          
Capt Brewer &c                                                                  
     Tis said the P of Orange stayd in Exeter but 4 houres but layd out         
10000 L in Cloathing & that the van of his Army Arrived on satureday            
morning at Homton [?] 15 miles on this side Exon Its beleived designes          
directly for London & that both Armies will meet Abt salisbury                  
     They write from Bristoll the d of Beaufort hath Raised the Militia         
there But by the overthrowing of his Coach had his Arme broke                   
     On sunday the Mobile got in greate Numbers Abt the ffryery in St           
Johns to Pull it downe & with dificulty were supprest but last night            
Reassembled in A more violent manner & demanded the house to be Pulled          
downe & A ffryer to be delivered them &c  The Ld Craven Agreed the house        
should be blowne up when the goods were Removed soe 2 Cart load of goods        
were got out & Carryed as far as Holborne hill but there burned by the          
Rabble  But the horse guards Came & killed some & wounded others & the          
Rest went off but Its feared will not Cease                                     
     L. c. 1935     London 15th Novr 1688                                       
+severall brave Regemts of horse & ffoot are marching towards Salisbury         
where the King designes to forme his Campe & setts forward thither on           
Munday                                                                          
     Last ffriday the P of Orange lay at the deanes house at Exeter  Abt        
14000 of his Army are quartered there & the Rest Abt it  Severall               
parties have been sent to Homton Thornton Chard & Lime  The latter he           
Intends to fortify & tis said Intends to make it his winter quarters &          
A security for his fleet, all o[u]r letters say very Exact discipline is        
observed in his Army & that they pay for what they have                         
     Last night the Bp of Exeter Arrived here & the King hath made him          
Archbp of Yorke                                                                 
     The dutch fleet are divided into 3 squadrons & are Cruiseing in the        
Channell                                                                        
     This weeke Came in 2 ships Richly laden from scanderoon who Came           
through the dutch fleet who bid them welcome home when they came into           
the downes  2 of his Maties ffriggotts prest out all their seamen               
     severall of our Westcountry merchants ships from ffrance with              
wines Brandies &c have fallen in with the dutch & mett with good                
marketts & Ready money                                                          
     Yest A bill was prsented to the Grandjury at Westminster Agt Capt          
Lenham that brought over the P of Oranges declaration  The Grandjury            
demanded to have it Read which being Refused they brought in the bill           
Ignoramus                                                                       
     Many Noblemen are Come up & with those before in towne & the Bps           
are prepareing An Addresse to the King                                          
+Tis said the Regemt of horse late the E of Oxfords The d of st Albans          
Regemt & Ld Cornburies Regemt of dragoons have Revolted                         
      L. c. 1936     London 17th Novr 1688                                      
+A Gazett is Printed for this day & is to Continue for the future  It           
gives Account of the Revolt of the 3 Regemts which Extreamly surprized &        
afflicted the King who sent for the Ld Mayor & Aldermen & most                  
Concernedly told them of it That he would support & mantaine the                
Protestant Religion & the Rights of his subjects &c                             
     Most of the Royall Regemt & 200 of my Ld Cornburies Dragoons are           
Come back with some officers But Langston with the Regemt of st Albans          
is Intirely gone to Exminster where 6 of the Princes troops Recd them           
     On Thursday the Trayne of Artillery & all the Guards &c were               
Comanded back but the King altering his Resolution that Comand was vacated      
     This day the King queen & Prince are gone to Windsor                       
     This morning the Lds spirituall & Temporall In A body prsented the         
King with An Addresse for A free Parliamt  His Maty Answered he would           
Considder of it It not being now A fit time to Answer it                        
     Tis said his Maty told the Ld Mayor &c That if he fell in the warr         
he desired them to declare the Prince & the queen Regent dureing his            
minority                                                                        
     His Maty hath ordered all the Popish Chappells to be supprest              
Except the Royall families & the fforreign ministers                            
     The Ld Lovelace is in Glocester Goale                                      
     some from Holland say the states are shipping out more men & horses        
     L. c. 1937     London 20th Novr 1688                                       
+His Maty is got safe to salisbury & found the Army in A Chearfull &            
Loyall posture                                                                  
     Yest wee had Account the Ld delamere in Cheshire sumoned his               
Tennants & ffriends to meet him on Thursday last To whome he declared           
he designed for the P of Orange & Comanded them to get horses & be Ready        
to march with him to be at Notingham next Thursday                              
+They write from Darby that last satureday Came thither severall Gent of        
that County & Notinghamshire &c with Abt the Number of 2 troops of horse        
& that night Came unto them the E of devonshire well Attended                   
     Letters from the West say the Gentry of the 1st Ranke in devonshire        
are gone unto the Prince  That he was at Taunton on Thursday & dined at         
sr Wm Portmans  That he Caused the drums to beate for voluntiers & had A        
greate Number Come in of which he pickt his men                                 
     That he designed as yesterday to march from Exeter with his Army           
haveing taken up all the horses he Could to draw his Cannon & Carriages         
& leaves in Exeter Abt 500 men under sr Wm Waller & hath Appointed Comrs        
to order the Collecting of the Excize &c                                        
     There is A Talke of An Army of 20000 Scotts to march into England          
under the Dukes of Gourdon Hamilton & queensbury 2 Marquesses & 12              
earles all Resolved to Hazzard their lives in defence of his Maties             
person & Govermt                                                                
     The P of Wales is Carryed to within 6 miles of Portesmouth to              
Reside there                                                                    
     L. c. 1938     London 22d Novr 1688                                        
+On Munday 2 Regemts of the P of Oranges foot marched from Exeter & he          
designed to march himselfe on Tuesday  He sumoned all the Gentry in             
Cornwall Dorsetshire & somersetshire to declare themselves or he should         
treate them as Enemies & they write sr Wm Portman mr seymr that was             
speaker The deane of Exeter sr ffran & sr Wm drake sr Nath & sr Robt            
Napier Coll strangwayes &c are gone to him  They write there was last           
satureday 3000 of his horse at Wells  he allows his foot 12 d a day &           
horse proportionably but Refuses to list any more men                           
     The d of Beaufort is at Bristoll with the Militia of the Adjacent          
Counties  The Ld Lovelace is still in Glocester Goale                           
     They write from Plimouth the Prince hath ordered some men of warr          
to Cruise in the Irish seas to prevent any Comeing to his Maty from             
Ireland                                                                         
     They write from Exeter An Expresse was Arrived there with Account          
that Plimouth & the fforts are surrendred to the Prince But not being           
mentioned from Plimouth Its hoped Its not true                                  
     Tis said the Prince prints at Exeter 2 Gazetts A weeke & hath              
printed Another Declaration & letters that have passed between England          
& ffrance                                                                       
     They write both from Holland & ffrance the former hath taken 400000        
L sterling bound for England                                                    
     Tis said the Prince will suddenly be sent into ffrance                     
     Wee heare the Ld delamere hath seized the Excize & Hearth money            
That A Company at Manchester Raised for his Maty offered him their              
service but he Refused them saying as yet he would not accept of any but        
horse                                                                           
     L. c. 1939     London 24th Novr 1688                                       
+They write from Exeter that on Munday & Tuesday most of the Princes Army       
marched eastward & on Wednesday the Prince himselfe haveing tis said left       
in Exeter 4000 men under mr seymr late speaker In the march he seized the       
Castle of Dartmouth & put 80 men into it                                        
     Coll sarsfield engaged A Party of them l8 miles from salisbury             
Killed 30 & hanged 4 who tis said were Revolters  But tis said young            
schomberg meeting A party of the Kings horse near Dorchester Killed 53 out      
of 65 Refuseing to give quarter in Reveng as is by Report Charged on Coll       
sarsfield                                                                       
     The King hath been A little Indisposed & some drops of blood fell          
from his nose upon which he was let blood & is now perfectly well               
     at A Councell of warr at salisbury it was Resolved Its his Matys           
Interest to Return to London with the Army & they are on their march            
hither                                                                          
     His Maty hath ordered the Mortars planted in the Tower to be taken         
downe that noe jealousy should be given to the Citty                            
     The E of Darby Ld Dunblaine &c have seized on the Citty & Castle of        
Yorke & the Governr & declared for the P of Orange & A Parliamt & the           
Protestant Religion & turned all Papists out of the Citty & tooke their         
horses Armes & money                                                            
     Our ffleet are Returned to Portesmouth haveing suffered much in the        
stormes & as said A 4th Rate is lost                                            
     Tis said the P of Wales Countess of Powis ffather Peters &c are            
safely Arrived at Diepe in ffrance                                              
+Yest mr Philpott An Attorney was sworne Marshall of the Kings Bench in         
Place of mr Ellis                                                               
     L. c. 1940     London 27th Novr 1688                                       
+On sunday morning Came An Expresse to the queen That the d of Grafton          
Ld Churchill &c with A greate Brigade of horse are Revolted to the              
Prince  At night Came another expresse That p: George The d of Ormond           
[E of] Arram Ld Lichfield Coll Berkeley &c are gone to the Prince who was       
on satureday within 20 miles of salisbury & makes greate marches up             
     Coll Kirke was seized at the head of the Revolt  All the officers          
&c of Coll Trelawnies Regemt are Revolted                                       
     Yest the King Came to Whitehall  Tis said his Returne was hastened         
by the discovery of A designe to Carry him to the prince & that 2000            
of the Princes horse lay in Ambuscado & his Maty being perswaded by             
some since Revolted to view An Advanced Guard had fell into it but that         
his nose bleeding soe elapsed the time that he went not                         
+On sunday night Ps Ann The Lady Churchill & Madam Berkley went from            
Whitehall Agt whome a warrant was designed to have seized them  It              
Appeares they knew of their Husbands Revolt                                     
     This day the Ld Mayor &c waited on the King & Assured him they             
would stand by him in defense of his person & Govermt  his Maty tooke it        
very kindly & told them he had put the Tower in a safe hand that they           
might Confide in vizt Coll Worden A Protestant  This day the King ordered       
the Noblemen & Bps in towne to Attend him this evening where tis said the       
Calling of A Parliamt will be Resolved on                                       
     The Reports of A Massacre in Ireland are false                             
     L. c. 1941     London 29th Novr 1688                                       
+On Tuesday night the Nobility & Bps Attended his Maty who gave them            
account of the present state of his affaires  The E of Oxford Ms of             
Hallifax &c Advised to a ffree Parliamt  The E of Clarendon Complained          
2000 Papists were Armeing Abt towne & Refused to Receive any among them         
but such & was very sharpe in his Expressions  his Maty said he would           
Considder till next morning                                                     
+Yest the Ld Chancellr declared his Maty will Call A free Parliamt to           
meet the 15th Janr Next also Passe A Genll Pardon & send Comrs to the           
Prince & tis said the Bps of Ely & st Asaph The Lds Hallifax Godolphin          
Notingham & Rochester are named                                                 
     Letters from the North Say the E of Danbies party Increase Dayly at        
Yorke & have seized scarbrough Castle & declare for the Protestant              
Religion & A ffree Parliamt  at Notingham the E of Devonshire sr scroope        
How &c declare for the like as doe the E of northampton Ld Grey of              
Ruthven Ld Manchester &c at Northampton & others at Oxford                      
     The Kings troops that Came to take away the Ld Lovelace from               
Glocester have submitted to his Comands & Its said he Acts as governor          
of that Citty                                                                   
     on Tuesday night the prince lay at Crookhorne  his Army march 3            
Roades towards London  The van of them reached salisbury on satureday           
night                                                                           
+On Tuesday dr Oates died                                                       
+The head quarters of the Kings Army are now at Reading                         
     The d of Albemarle is dead in Jamaica                                      
     L. c. 1942     London 1st Decr 1688                                        
+The Proclamation for A ffree Parliamt is in Print                              
     At Plimouth the E of Bath haveing seized the E of Huntingdon &c in         
the Cittadell where his Regemt lay & declared for the Prince both in            
towne & Cittadell &c & they dayly Exspect the dutch fleet there  Also           
Pendennis Castle & st Mans [?] & the Tinners [?] have declared for A            
ffree Parliamt                                                                  
     The Newcastle ffriggott put into Plimouth & declared for the P of          
Orange                                                                          
     Hull is seized by some Lds & tis said Newcastle is seized                  
     On the 28th the d of Beaufort left Bristoll & some of the Princes          
foot are Exspected there                                                        
     Capt Berkley with Abt 100 horse marched from Oxford to joyne the Ld        
delamere but was by A Party of dragoons defeated severall taken but the         
Capt Escaped to Oxford whither severall of the Nobility dayly Resort &          
whither the Prince Intends who dined last Tuesday at the E of Bristolls         
30 miles from salisbury, Greate Crouds of people flock Abt him aswell           
Gent as others                                                                  
     At ffalmouth was A ffrench man of warr  The Leift made Enquiry of          
the Cornish Ports & said his master had 100000 men at the King of               
Englands service                                                                
     That A dutch man of warr Chased A ffrench ship into Dartmouth in           
which was found 7 Chests of long knives 3 Inches broad & with the               
handles 15 Inches long  some upon Examination said they Came to Hang            
the doggs from the Bitches & Wast the Whelps                                    
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