     L. c. 1943     London 4th Dec 1688                                         
+There are only 3 Comrs to goe to the Prince vizt The Ms of Hallifax E          
of Notingham & Ld Godolphin  The Prince hath sent A letter by the               
Trumpetts sent for Pasports  he would Consult the Nobles &c his Allies &        
by his owne trumpetts answer further                                            
     The Writts were sealed on sunday & yest sent by Messengers to the          
High sheriffs                                                                   
     My Ld dartmouth haveing Recd A letter his Maty would Call A ffree          
Parliamt Called A Councell of warr where An Addresse of thanks was              
signed by him & the officers of the ffleet & that they are Agt Popery &         
for the Protestant Religion                                                     
     The P of Orange & P: George stayd at the E of Bristolls till last          
ffriday & thence designed for Bristoll which Citty the E of Shrewsbury          
entred the 1st Instant with 200 horse & 500 ffoot & was mett by the             
Mayor & Aldermen & delivered them A letter from the Prince assureing            
them he was Come for the Protestant Religion &c & In Confidence of              
their fidelity sent noe more souldiers, which the people Recd very              
willingly  Tis said the d of Beaufort is gone into Wales & declares for         
the Prince & that the d of somerset E of Clarendon &c are gone to the           
Prince                                                                          
     The Report of the ffrench landing in the West is false as Also             
that Hull & Newcastle are seized                                                
     The Prince hath put out A 3d declaration Requireing all officers to        
disarme Papists & that all Papists found in any other Posture then the          
law allows them shall be treated as enemies                                     
+Yest the E of Melfort one of the secretaries of scotland withdrew & Its        
said is gone into ffrance                                                       
     Its the Currant discourse at Court the queen is with Child                 
     On the 1st Instant Ps Ann was joyfully Recd at Notingham                   
     L. c. 1944     London 6th dec 1688                                         
+The Prince hath sent Pasports & Its supposed the Comrs will meet him at        
salisbury where he & P George The E of Clarendon &c were Exspected the          
4th Instant                                                                     
     The E of Danby is fortifying Yorke  The Ld dunblaine hath taken A          
greate quantity of Armes from the d of Newcastle  The Ld delamere is            
gone to Bristoll with the E of Argile &c & Abt 500 horse  The Ld Herbert        
sr Jo: Morgan &c are at Hereford with Abt 300 horse                             
     At Norwich the d of Norfolke with Abt 300 Gent declared for A ffree        
Parliamt The Protestant Religion & the lawes & liberties of England             
     At Ipswich the seamen burned all the Popish trinketts in Judge             
Miltons Chappell & at Sudbury the Mobile did much mischeife to papists          
     At Cambridg the Mobile Pulled ffather ffrancis out of his bed &            
also mr Bassett & divers new Converts & Pulled them through the dirt            
Also Pulled mr Blackwell the Popish baker late mayor out of his bed             
& burnt his scarlet gowne upon A Pole  at Bury the Mobile disarmed some         
new Raised forces & divers were killed  The like wee hear from divers           
other parts                                                                     
     Yest at the old Bayly the Grandjury prsented A bill of Complaint           
that divers souldiers quartered in the suburbs put the Cittizens into           
greate feares & Terrors Constraining them to drinke healths to the              
Confusion & Damnation of the Protestant Religion &c                             
     The Grand jury of Middx have found A Bill of High Treason Agt the          
E of salisbury for being Reconciled to Rome & like Prosecutions are             
formed Agt others                                                               
+Tis said the Prince is sending 2000 horse & 6000 foot into Ireland to          
joyne the Ld Inchequin &c who are Risen for the Protestant Religion &           
are on their guard some haveing been murthered Abt Wexford                      
     L. c. 1945     London 8th dec 1688                                         
+Last Tuesday the P of Orange & P: George Came into salisbury being             
mett by the Mayor &c & the next day went to Ramsbury to give Audience to        
his Maties Comrs                                                                
     The Prince observes very strict discipline in his Army, one was            
hanged for stealeing at salisbury & 6 more Condemned & had been                 
Executed had not some Noblemen Interceded                                       
     Tis said the Kings Army Retired from Reading & that the Prince with        
10000 horse entred last ffriday                                                 
     On the 3d Instant Capt Copley the deputy Governor of Hull with sr          
Jo: ffarmer &c surprized & Imprisoned the Ld Langdale the Governor The Ld       
Mongomery & all the Papists & secured it for the Prince  The Ld Lumley is       
gone to Newcastle                                                               
     The Ld Lovelace is Come to Oxford with Abt 200 horse                       
     This weeke 7 barks of Irish were sent to Tilbury & Sherness But the        
souldiers in Garrison threatned to fire if one man Came on shoar soe the        
Bargemen were forced to land them at Gravesend                                  
     Tis said the Townesmen & English at Portesmouth have killed &              
disarmed all the Irish & declared for the Prince                                
     The Ld Mayor hath Ishued out Precepts to Enquire what Inmates are          
in the Citty & An Account is ordered to be taken of the Number of Roman         
Catholicks & they are to be disarmed                                            
     The Jesuitts schooles in the savoy are shutt up & the Jesuitts &c          
more then the Articles of Marriage Allow are on the wing & the Popes            
Nuntio is gone                                                                  
+The Lds Bellasis & dover are out of the Treasury & Its said all the            
judges are turned out Except street & stringer                                  
     Last night the queen & P of Wales Returned hither                          
     L. c. 1946     London 11th dec 1688                                        
+On sunday Came Advice that dover Castle declared for the Prince                
     Yest morning at 2 A Clock the queen P of Wales E of Peterbrough &          
of salisbury &c went hence & Its supposed are by this on the Coast of           
ffrance                                                                         
     Yest Came An Expresse from Portesmouth that the Ld Dartmouth & the         
fleet & that Garrison declared for the P of Orange                              
     Last sunday the Princes foot fell on some Irish horse at Reading &         
killed 50 of them, 600 scotts were to keep Twifords Bridg but all went          
to the Prince Except 113 who were all killed  Also A whole battalion of         
Douglasses foot went to the Prince                                              
     This morning at 3 A Clock the King in his barge went through the           
Bridg Tis said for Dunkerke & with him the Ld Chancellr E of Murray             
ffather Peters Bp of Chester &c                                                 
     Abt 10 this morning the E of Craven & other greate officers of the         
Army &c went into the Citty where A Comon Councill was Called & A               
Messenger sent to mr shelton the Leift of the Tower to Attend with the          
keys which he did & surrendred them up in Court  Then they unanimously          
Chose the Ld Lucas Governr of the Tower to be kept by the Citty Trayned         
bands  The Comon Councell are yet sitting & have Agreed on An Addresse          
of Invitation to the Prince that they will defend him with their lives &        
fortunes                                                                        
+This evening 20000 of the Mobile Pulled downe A New erected Massehouse         
in Lincolns Inn feilds                                                          
     Last night the Citty of Rochester was almost burnt                         
     L. c. 1947     London 13th dec 1688                                        
+At Tuesday at Uxbridg were Abt 5000 horse & ffoot who were disbanded by        
the E of ffeversham                                                             
     Letters this night from Kent say his Maty was on Tuesday night by          
stress of Weather forced into the east swale & on Wednesday was stopt at        
ffeversham                                                                      
     Tis said ffather Peters the E of salisbury E of Peterbrough sr Edw         
Hales 3 judges mr Burton & mr Graham are seized in Kent                         
     The Lds have Agreed on sending A Comittee of Lds to the King               
     Yest the Ld Chancellr was seized in Wapping & by A strong guard            
brought to the Ld Mayor through the most bitter Curses of the people            
that were ever heard of & thence sent to the Tower after A Multitude of         
Reproaches &c                                                                   
     The Rabble have destroyed the spanish Ambrs Chappell burnt Cart            
loades of books & Choyce Manuscripts Robbed the house of Money Plate &c         
to An Incredable vallue for that many Papists had sent in their money           
jewells &c thither Thence to mr Hills to Bucklers bury to Limestreet to         
the fflorence Ambrs Chappell where A Capt of the Trayned band was killed        
     The Lds have ordered the Cannons in Whitehall to be loaded to              
secure it & the Leiftenancy have ordered the Trayned bands to be in             
Armes & Cannons to be planted at o[u]r Gates being Allarmed last night          
that the disbanded Irish were Cutting throats                                   
     L. c. 1948     [Handwriting changes here.]     15th Decr 1688              
   They write from ffeversham that rabble seized a vessell & found              
therein sr Edward Hayles & 2 others all whome they rifled & forced them         
to shoare where the King was known  they had taken from him his sword           
pistolls & 300 guyneys but when known they proffered him his money              
wich at the The 1st he refused  The King sent for the E of Winchelsea           
& is now at Canterbury & has been taken with a bleeding & yesterday Sr          
Cha scarbrough & Mr Hobbs went downe                                            
     The Lds have ordered abt 200 horse to goe downe to the King                
Comanded by the Ld ffeversham & with him are the Lds Middleton Yarmouth         
& Alisbury  most judge his Maty will not come back                              
     The P of Orrange is at Windsor & Its thought will stay there 3 or 4        
dayes                                                                           
     Mr Williams the solicettor is gone to the Prince & the atturney            
genll another way  Its said above 50 Criminalls are taken vizt the Earl         
of salisbury E of Peterbrough Mr Brent Mr Graham &c                             
     A massacre was Intended in Ireland which caused the protestants in         
the north to arme & Tirconnell sent the forces from Dublin towards them         
after which the E of Grenard Ld Mountjoy he being sure of the Citty             
seized Tirconnell as he was sitting in the Councell surprized the guards        
& the Citty rose & Tirconnell &c are made prisoners & a revolution of all       
into protestant hands in a few houres                                           
     The Dutch fleet are still at Plimouth                                      
     L. c. 1949     [Handwriting changes here.]     London 18th decr 1688       
+On sunday night Abt 5 A Clock the King in his Coach Came with Abt 500          
horse to Whitehall The people shouting all the way, At night the Papists        
were very High & made bonefires &c  The King sent the E of ffeversham to        
the Prince to Invite him to st James who was by the Prince Imprisoned           
Tis said Coll Kirke Produces his orders for Hanging those in the West           
That the Prince Charges him with disbanding the Army without orders &           
without Paying or disarmeing them & others somewhat Abt the late E of           
Essex death                                                                     
+This morning the King in his 12 oare barge Attended by the E of Arran &        
some few more & A guard of the Princes men went towards Rochester  Tis          
said Its Caused by A letter the Prince sent to the Ld Mayor That the Kings      
Returne was without his Approbation & that he had sent to him to depart &       
Come noe neerer then Rochester                                                  
+This day the P of Orange Came to st James & his Army are quartered in &        
Abt southwerke &c & the Kings forces are quartered 20 miles off That soe        
the Prince & his Army may be here Intire                                        
     severall vessells Come from ffrance say they are shipping men &            
horses & that they pretend An order from our King dated 9th Novr to             
seize all who have not his Passe & Amongst others seized A guyney ship          
killing all but A dr & A boy                                                    
     This day the Companies mett at Guildhall to Choose members of              
Parliamt but Adjourned till the 2d Janry                                        
+Yest sr Roger Le Estrange was seized & Comitted to Newgate for Treason         
     L. c. 1950     London 20th dec 1688                                        
+On Tuesday the Lds Hallifax shrewsbury & delawere were ordered by the          
Prince to desire his Maty to goe to him To which he not being Inclined          
went to Gravesend & thence to Rochester Attended  by some of the Princes        
Army where he was Recd by the gentry with greate joy                            
     On Tuesday night for Joy of the Princes Arrivall here were such            
bonefires Burning of Popes shouts & Huzzas as are not to be Exprest             
     This morning o[u]r Alderman &c in Abt 40 Coaches went to Congratulate      
the Prince in the name of the Citty where sr Geo: Trebe o[u]r Recorder          
Congratulated him as the protectr of o[u]r Religion & Lawes & that greate       
deliverance was wrought for the Churches of god throughout the world &          
in the Kingdoms in perticuler  The Prince Returned most hearty thanks           
to the Citty assuring them he would live & dye with them in defense of          
their Religion & Lawes                                                          
+Yest the Prince sent A Garrison of his owne Army into the Tower & hath         
ordered A garrison to Portesmouth                                               
     Yest the Prince & Ps of denmarke Arrived here                              
     The Ld Churchill & Coll Kirke are to Modell the Kings Army &               
dismisse such as are unfitt                                                     
     Yest mr Davis A Preacher one of the late Regulatrs of Corporations         
was seized                                                                      
     This day the Prince dined in Publick & all at Table Covered with           
him of which Abt 40 Lds                                                         
+Last night A Councell was held at st James & A Proclamation ordered to         
Remove all Papists 10 miles from London                                         
     The writts for A Parliamt are superseded                                   
     L. c. 1951     London 22d Decr 1688                                        
+Yest the Lds mett at st James & the prince told them he ventured his           
all to serve them  That god hath hitherto abundantly blessed him & them         
That now Its in their owne power to save themselves their Religion &            
Country if they tooke speedy & proper measure & united herein & Appointed       
to meet them this day in the Lds house of Parliamt  Also that mr Polixfen       
sergt Maynard Baron Atkins &c Attend to Advise in points of Law                 
     This day the Lds mett & Chose the Ld Hallifax Chairman & Agreed on         
A speedy Parliamt & the Ld Chancellr haveing Attempted to escape They           
ordered him Close prisoner also ordered the Papists to be disarmed & All        
his horsetroopers to be banished 10 miles from London & the Irish officers      
to be kept Hostages till they know what Tirconnell doth & Adjourned till        
Munday                                                                          
     His Maty is in good health at Rochester and mr ffitzJames his              
Naturall son is Arrived in the downes from the Streights                        
     The queen & P of Wales ffather Peters in womans Cloathes &c Are            
Arrived in ffrance  The English dare hardly Appear at Callis The ffrench        
being Ready to beate out their brains                                           
     In Cornwall they still fear An Invasion from ffrance                       
     The dutch fleet are Come to the spithead & o[u]r ffleet to the buoy        
in the Nore                                                                     
     The Ps of Orange is dayly Expected here                                    
     Yest dr Burnet Introduced the Bps of st Asaph Ely Bath &                   
Peterbrough to the Prince who Recd them very kindly  Also the Bp of             
London Introduced the Clergie of his diocesse who Returned with greate          
satisfaction & Chearfulness                                                     
     L. c. 1952     London 25th dec 1688                                        
+On sunday morning Abt 2 A Clocke the King went from Rochester but was          
not missed all the usuall houre of Riseing  Tis said he went directly           
for Deale to goe on board the sedgmore the wind being very faire to goe         
into ffrance but tis said is stopt at deale                                     
     sr Rogers strickland is escaped into ffrance & sr Edw Hales from           
Madeston  Also Its said the Bp of Chester mr Graham & mr Burton are             
escaped                                                                         
     Yest the Lds sate Abt Calling A Parliamt & Its said voted the King         
100000 L p Ann for Maintenance  Also that 12000 horse & ffoot & 20000           
Armes be forthwith sent to land in the North of Ireland where the               
Protestants are up in their owne defence  The Ld Mountjoy in Ulster & the       
Ld fforbs in Munster                                                            
     They also voted An Addresse to the Prince to pray him to take the          
Administration of the Govermt &c till A Parliamt which tis said is to           
begin the 23d of Janry & that all writts for Elections shall be Returned        
by Coroners [sic]                                                               
     The Prince hath in Print desired all such as were members of               
Parliamt in the time of Charles the 2d Also the Ld Mayor Aldermen & 50          
Comon Councellmen to Attend him to morrow at st James & the Comon               
Councell have Chose 50 to Attend &c                                             
     The ffrench Ambr hath orders to be gone                                    
+On sunday dr Burnet Read Comon Prayer & Preached before the Prince &           
declared his judgment that the Church of England was nearest to the True        
Christian Patterne of any in the world                                          
     L. c. 1953      London 27th Dec 1688                                       
+Its Certain the King was seen under sayle & Its Concluded is in ffrance        
     On Tuesday the Lds Attended the Prince with their Addresse                 
subscribed by 89 Peers desireing him to take upon him the Govermt till A        
ffree Parliamt & that he would take the state of Ireland into his               
Imediate Care Also to Ishue out Circular letters to all the Coroners to         
elect & Returne Members of Parliamt for the 22d Janry                           
+The Prince Replyed he Could Resolve on nothing till he heard what the          
Comons would say                                                                
     Yest Abt 200 that were members of Parliamt in the time of Charles          
the 2d with o[u]r Aldermen & 50 Comon Councell men Attended the Prince          
who gave Sr Tho: Allen A Paper saying his mind was therein & wished             
them to goe to the H of Comons & Considder thereof, Whither they went           
& Chose mr Poole of Glocestershire their Chaireman then Read the Paper          
which Recommended to them speedy Resolutions &c  Then the Princes               
declaration was Read  Then they Concurred with the Lds & ordered A              
Comittee to draw up An Addresse                                                 
     This day they in A body prsented the Addresse  The Prince desired          
them they would meet againe to morrow in the House of Comons & then he          
would give his Answer  The Ld dartmouth is sent for home with 2                 
squadrons of ships & the 3d to be kept at sea                                   
     Dr Burnet is made Bp of durham in place of dr Crew who hath                
displaced himselfe                                                              
     The Bp of Chester & mr Brent are in ffrance                                
     Tis said scotland will be governed by Comrs                                
     L. c. 1954     London 29th dec 1688                                        
+His Maty lay at Bologne last Tuesday night where he was mett by the d          
of Berwick & mr ffitzJames & went with them next day for Paris                  
     The P of Orange hath Returned Answer to the Lds to this effect             
     That he will endeavr to secure the Peace of the Nation till the 22d        
Janry & will forthwith Ishue out letters for Elections & will Employ the        
Publick Revenue to the most Proper uses & endeavr to secure Ireland &c          
     This Caused An universall joy & all the guns in the Tower were             
discharged &c                                                                   
     This day the Prince mett the Lds of the Treasury Abt setling the           
Revenues & the Kings forces will be paid till the 1st Janry & then some         
of them disbanded or sent to the Confederates                                   
     The Prince will vissitt the stores & shipyards to know the                 
Condition of the Navy Also will speedily send some forces into Ireland,         
our last Advices thence say all things are in quiett But the Protestants        
in greate fear of the Papists & that the Ld Inchequin will suffer noe           
Papist to Come into Londonderry                                                 
     They write from scotland that the E of Perth Ld Chancellr & his            
Countesse &c were Abt to escape but were seized & brought Prisoners to          
Edenbrough                                                                      
     The Archbp of Glascow & divers of the Scotch nobility &c are Come          
hither & others on the Roade & Its said Intend in A body to wait on the         
Prince                                                                          
     The E of Danby is Come hither from the North                               
     L. c. 1955     London 1st Janry 1688                                       
+On sunday the P of Orange Recd the sacramt with the Ps Ann of the Bp of        
Asaph                                                                           
     They write from Ireland that London derry & Bandon are in                  
Protestants hands That upon the newes of the Kings leaveing England The         
E of Tirconnell brought all the Amunition into the Castle of dublin             
which he is fortifying & delivering Armes to the Papists  But 7000 men &        
some ships of warr are ordered by the P of Orange Imediately for Ireland        
but what Regemts & by whome Comanded wee yet hear not                           
+Our scotch letters say the Councell there have ordered all Papists to          
be disarmed  But the d of Gourdon still keeps Edenbrough Castle but Its         
thought will surrender it in A few dayes                                        
     The Mobile in Norfolke suffolke &c have Comitted many Ryotts &             
Robberies on the Papists & others they had displeasure at, At the E of          
Dovers house near Newmarket they Comitted Incredible damage not only to         
the furniture but to the house parke pales deer &c  Amongst other things        
was A Rich Damaske bed with Gold ffring Cost neer 2000 L which they cut         
in peeces & Converted to their owne use, some have been whipt at Norwich        
& others in Custody will be proceeded Agt next Assizes                          
     Also the officers for the Revenue have been at A stand persons             
haveing denyed to pay them ffor Remedy of which his Highs hath this day         
Published A declaration Requireing all officers not Papists to Act till         
the 22d Janry                                                                   
     The Ld Chancellr is allowed Pen Inke & Paper which he hath used much       
     The E of salisbury E of Peterbrough sr Edw Hales Charles Hales Esqr        
Judge Jenner mr Graham mr Burton mr Walker the Popish master of University      
Colledg in Oxford are prisoners in the Tower ffather Poulton subran & 6         
Jesuitts in Newgate                                                             
     The Ld Ch: J: Herbert is in ffrance                                        
     The E. of Huntington is Released at Plimouth by order from the P           
of Orange                                                                       
     L. c. 1956     London 3d Janry 1688                                        
+Yest A greate number of Presbyteran ministers Attended on the Prince           
Introduced by Marshall schomberg & Major Wildman, After they had                
Congratulated his Arrivall & successe & given their humble thanks &c His        
Highs told them he Kindly Accepted their Vissitt & heartily thankt them         
withall assureing them it should be his steady endeavour to unite &             
Cement Protestants of all persuasions soe as to make them safe to them          
selves & formidable to their enemies                                            
     Tis said the Prince hath Declared no one shall suffer on Account of        
Religion                                                                        
     The Justices of Peace now Act Againe & are putting the Lawes in            
Execution Agt Papists                                                           
     Tis said the E of Essex the young Ld Rochester &c are seized in            
ffrance till they see how the Catholicks will be dealt with in England          
The Prince hath Released the Ld ffeversham without bayle & he was yest at       
st James where are A mighty Confluence of Nobility & Gentry                     
     The Prince hath desired the Bp of London to Accept of being Deane          
of whitehall Chappell                                                           
     In Pursuance of the Treaty of Nimeguen 8000 men are ordered for            
Holland & the Ld Churchill hath the disposall of officers to Comand them        
     They write from scotland the P of Orange was there Proclaimed              
Protectr of the Religion & liberty of that Kingdome & the Lds of the            
Councell have sent An Addresse to his Highs for Instructions                    
     L. c. 1957     London 8th Janry 1688                                       
+Yest Arrived 4 Irish Posts which bring Account the Ld Tirconnell               
Refuses to deliver up the Govermt but makes new Levyes & puts Armes into        
the Papists hands, The Protestants in the North of Ireland are in A good        
Condition to defend themselves & helpe others                                   
     The P of Orange hath sent A letter to the Aldermen & Comon Councell        
to Raise some money by way of Loane for the Affaires of Ireland he              
giveing security which they Agreed to & A Comittee is Appointed to meet         
the Comrs of the Revenues  The Aldermen & Deputies of each ward are to          
goe to each house for subscriptions The least to be 25 L in money to be         
Repaid in 6 months with Interest                                                
     Yest the d of queensbury & the Rest of the Scotch Nobility here            
Attended the Prince  After they had Congratulated his Arrivall &                
Returned thanks &c his Highs thankt them & wisht them if any animosities        
were among them to forget them & unanimously Joyne in Prosecution of            
their Comon Interest In which he would Assist them with his life &              
Interest & Advised them to Repaire to the Councell Chamber at Whitehall         
& Consider how to Act in this Conjuncture &c                                    
     The d of Gourdon still keeps Edenbrough Castle                             
+The ffrench treate both dutch & English with very severe usage                 
     Guernsey hath declared for the P of Orange                                 
     L. c. 1958     London 12th Janry 1688                                      
+On Thursday the Comon Councell men tooke the subscriptions of Loane to         
the Prince some subscribeing 100 L some 500 L 7 in one Precinct 1000 L          
each, sr Patience Ward for himselfe & Company 60000 L Ald Duncomb 20000 L       
& mr Mead the quaker 500 L & by last night above 150000 L was brought to        
Guildhall & Its thought the subscriptions will be 3 times asmuch & this         
day 6 Cart load of money was sent thence to the Exchequer to pay Army &c        
     The 2d Troope of guards are gone for Ireland & the Ld dartmouths           
ffusiliers are to be shipt Imediately for Holland                               
     Tis said the scotch Nobility have Addressed the Prince to take on          
him the Govermt till the 14th March that A Convention may be Called             
     Last Munday 200 of Coll Butlers dragoons were brought to                   
Portesmouth being all that were left Their horses sold & they sent              
Prisoners & Hostages to the Isle of Wight  Also Coll Mackillicutts Regemt       
of ffoot & Coll Hamiltons are disarmed & in like manner sent thither            
     Coll Beamond is made Governr of Portesmouth                                
     The ffrench have taken 2 English Prizes one of 20 guns from Malaga         
& one of 16 from Maderas & the dutch have brought into ffalmouth A              
ffrench ship of 22 guns                                                         
     Some men of warr are ordered from Plimouth to Clear the Channell           
     Our ffrench letters say that on the 8th the K of England was with          
the ffrench K above An houre in his Cabinet                                     
   When the Mobile were at the E of Peterbroughs besides the Armes hid          
in ffishponds were found ffireballs Iron shells &c                              
     L. c. 1959     London 15th Janry 1688                                      
+Yest Arrived 2 Irish Males with Account the Ld Tirconnell is still             
Armeing & Intends to fix his standard  The Protestants are all on their         
Guards though as yet noe Acts of violence are Comitted  The Principle           
places are posest by Papists                                                    
     There is Already sent from Guildhall to the Prince 836000 L                
     This day sr Wm Waller tooke mr Brent the Eminent Popish Councellr          
+The Ld Chancellr is Extreame ill                                               
     Last weeke in the scotch Convention here the E of Arran in A               
speech Proposed the sending for the King but was not seconded  some say         
his greate Alliance prevented An affront  They Addressed the Prince to          
take on him the Govermt till A Convention the 10th of March next                
     Tis said the D of Gourdon hath sent to the Prince he will deliver          
Edenbrough Castle to whome he shall Appoint                                     
     They write from Paris the d of st Albans hath been to Complemt             
their Maties That his Maty hath made the Ld Powis A duke                        
     Tis said the d of Berwick hath A Comission to Raise A Regemt of            
English scotch & Irish there                                                    
     The ffrench K offered his Maty 1500000 Livers yearely for his              
household Expence but he Accepted of only 500000 Livers                         
     The Prince is Invited to morrow to the Affriccan house where he            
will be prsented with 1000 Guyneys, at the meeting of the Convention he         
withdrawes his forces to Windsor                                                
+dr Burnet had A long Conference with severall Bps at Ely house which is        
yet unknowne                                                                    
     The Dutch fleet are Past by Dover                                          
     L. c. 1960     London 17th Janry 1688                                      
+They write from Ireland Comissions are given out for 64 new Regemts &          
the new Levyes goe on Apace  That the E of Tirconnell hath 50000 men in         
Armes That the Ld Galway hath seized the d of Ormonds Castle of Kilkenny        
for A Magazeen & Garrisoned it with Papists                                     
     That Coll Hamilton Arrived there on the 8th with the Princes order         
& went to the Ld Tirconnell who Its said held A Councell who Resolved to        
send the Ld Mountjoy & the Ld Ch. Baron to his Maty to know whether they        
shall lay downe Armes on the offers made to them which are the Enjoymt of       
their Religion & Properties                                                     
     In the meane time the Prince takes all Care posible for Ireland            
haveing ordered besides English 5000 dutch under old M. schombergh for          
Liverpoole to Embarque there                                                    
     Yest the Ld Dumbarton Ld Stafford & Ld Widdrington went for ffrance        
Also Abt 60 Irish officers went off from deale for ffrance                      
+Soe many Irish are sent to the Isle of Wight that the people are               
fearefull of them                                                               
     The Ld Dartmouth hath given up his Comission  Also the Ld fforbes          
& Coll Legg have Layd downe their Comissions                                    
     Yest & to day was sent from Guildhall to the Prince 31925 L                
     Last Tuesday dr Oates Attended the Prince who Recd him very kindly         
     The Councell of Scotland have ordered Corporations shall have the          
free election of their majestrates                                              
     They write from Plimouth A ffrench man of warr tooke 3 English Cole        
ships which the Newcastle ffriggott Retooke & the man of warr also which        
last they delivered to 2 dutch Capers who brought her to Plimouth & also        
A ffrench Privateer of 12 guns                                                  
     This day the Prince dined with the E: of Bedford, The E of Clare is        
dead                                                                            
     L. c. 1961     London 19th Janry 1688                                      
+Admirall Herbert is gone with 5 men of warr & 5 yachts to fetch over           
the Ps of Orange                                                                
     Yest the Ld Mayor & Comon Councell mett at Guildhall To whome the          
Recorder made A speech  That the prince being neer the Exspectation of          
his Regency it might be proper to Invite him to dinner upon which they          
ordered the 2 sheriffs & Recorder to Invite him                                 
     The Recorder Acquainted them with the security they have for their         
money vizt The Excise & the Princes bond  That he takes it as A Kindness        
& assures them he will grant them anything they desire                          
     The Irish society mett at Guildhall To whome it was proposed To send       
Armes for 4000 foot & 2000 dragoons to London derry  They answered though       
it was Called a seaport it lay far in the Country & they might be seized        
     Tis said there are in the North of Ireland 40000 protestants in            
Armes but want able officers                                                    
     Our ffrench letters say that King hath established the K of England        
A Councell Composed of some Councellrs of state officers & masters of           
Requests That A Courier is sent to Madrid to Know the Resolutions of that       
King as to A Neutrality                                                         
     Wee hear from ffrance all the English scotch & Irish ships that had        
been sometime detained there were at liberty  That the King has fotbid          
any English scotch or Irish ships to be taken for 6 months                      
    The Ld Chancellr is soe ill that this day it was Reported he was dead       
     L. c. 1962     London      22d Janry 1688                                  
+This day both houses mett  The Comons Chose Hen: Powell Esqr speaker &         
voted An Addresse of thanks to the Prince & to pray him to Continue in          
the Govermt till both houses Should Considder thereof                           
     The Lds Chose the Ld Hallifax Speaker & Agreed with the Comons to          
Returne the Prince thanks &c & A letter from the King being brought into        
the House it was Rejected & ordered to be layd aside unopened  Tis said         
it was directed to the Prince who sent it to the Lds                            
     This afternoon both houses Delivered An Addresse which his Highs           
Accepted & both houses Appointed the 31st for A thanksgiveing in London         
&c & the 14th for the whole Kingdome                                            
     The Lds have ordered mr Baron Mountague Holt Atkins Levintz Bradbury       
& Whitlock to supply the place of judges but there is like to be noe            
Tenure                                                                          
     Last night were seized & Comitted Close prisoners mr Russell A             
warden in the Tower who had the Custody of the late E of Essex & 3              
others Concerned                                                                
     They write from Ireland that A Convention was held by the Popish           
Titular Ld Primate who Resolved That 40000 men be forthwith Raised to be        
mantained by the whole of the Rents of such Protestants as are now in           
England & Addressed the E of Tirconnell  That if the King be not able           
to protect them to offer the Kingdome to the ffrench King &c                    
     L. c. 1963     London 24th Janry 1688                                      
+The Prince Answered the Addresse as followeth                                  
+My Lds & Gent, I am glad what I have done pleases you & since you desire       
mee to Continue the Administration of affaires, I am willing to Accept of       
it.  I must Recomend to you the Considderation of affaires abroade which        
makes it fit for you to Expedite your buisness not only for makeing A           
settlemnt at home on A good foundation but for the safety of all Europe         
+since which he hath sent them A letter wherein he Recomends Ireland to         
them as wanting A Large & speedy succour  That the states will want their       
troops now here & the early assistance England is bound to give them &c         
     Resolved by the Comons that the state of the nation be taken into          
Considderation next Munday                                                      
     Those seized on Account of the late E of Essex are mr Hawley master        
of the house where he was Confined mr Russell the warden mr Webster who         
sumoned the Coroners Jury & the Centinell who are all in Newgate & their        
Examinations Carryed to the Lds house who have Appointed A Comittee to          
take Informations &c                                                            
     Tis said the Ld Chancellr Cannot Recover                                   
     They write from Ireland that 2 vessells with some disbanded Irish          
souldiers were Cast away near Ireland that some of the seamen were found        
Cast up on the shoar tyed back to back  Tis judged they served the              
protestant seamen soe when they thought themselves past danger & were           
after all Cast away                                                             
     Tis said the K of poland is in like Case with o[u]r King & now at          
Paris                                                                           
     L. c. 1964     London 26th Janry 1688                                      
+Yest the Lds upon the petition of the E of Peterbrough permitted him           
to walke in the Tower for his health but denyed him to be bayled                
     In the afternoon the Comittee sate Abt the E of Essex death The E of       
Devonshire Chaireman & Examined ffloyd the souldier mr Webster mr Cadman        
the Coroner mr Ralphson mr Meakes & mr Munday A warden whome they Comitted      
tis said the examinations will be Publick in the Lds house on Munday            
     On Tuesday the Lds sit Abt setling the Nation                              
     The Comons have Appointed 4 Comittees for Religion for trade for           
Judicature & for Greivances & Elections                                         
     All the discourse in towne is Abt setling the Govennmt  some are for       
sending for the King some for Treating with him to Returne under such           
Legall Restraints as shall preserve o[u]r Lawes &c some to have the Govermt     
dissolved & begin anew & make the Prince King or Crowne the Prince & Ps         
     The Ps of O. is hourly Exspected                                           
     Yest were seized in Bolden Garden 7 Barrells of Gunpowder 5                
basketts of hand Granadoes & some weapons  All the woman will say is            
they were left by A Lodger who is now in the Country  shee is Comitted          
     In Ireland Tirconnell Continues his Levyes  his Muster Rolls are           
64800 men of which 20000 to be neer Dublin 20000 in Munster & Ulster &          
the rest in Garrisons &c                                                        
     They write from scotland all is quiet there  only the Mobile               
Continue their Rudeness to the Conformist Clergie in the Westerne shires        
   Our E: India Actions are 135 Affrican 194 Hudsons bay 165                    
     L. c. 1965     London 29th Janry 1688                                      
+Yest the Comons after A long debate Resolved into A grand Comittee &           
then Resolved                                                                   
     That K James the 2d haveing endeavoured to subvert the Constitution        
of this Kingdome by breakeing the Originall Contract between him & his          
people & by Advice of Jesuitts & other wicked persons haveing violated          
the fundamentall lawes & withdrawne himselfe out of his Kingdome has            
thereby Abdicated the Govermt & the throne is thereby vacated                   
     Ordered that mr Hambden Carry the same to the Lds to morrow for            
their Concurrance                                                               
     mr ffinch moved for Recalling the King & spoke much to it & was            
seconded by sr Robt sawyer Ld ffanshaw & sr Christo Musgrave but was            
opposed by sergt Maynard mr Polixfen & mr Trebe but sr Edw seymour late         
speaker said nothing but when the question was put there were but 8             
votes Agt the Resolve                                                           
     This day mr Hambden went to the Lds with the Comons Resolve & they         
Resolved into A Grand Comittee & Chose the E of danby Chaireman & were          
long debateing the words Originall Contract & Abdicated & did not               
Approve of the wordeing of it & put it to the question whether A Regent         
or noe Regent dureing the Kings life & 49 were for A Regent & 51 for noe        
Regent                                                                          
     This day the Comons drew up An Addresse to the Prince for An               
Imediate Embargo to ffrance Also Resolved That it is Inconsistant with          
the welfare of the Kingdome to be Governed by A Popish Prince  mr               
Polixfen gave in A paperr of 8 heads to Considder before the disposall of       
the Crowne & they Appointed A Comittee to Considder of them & make Report       
to morrow                                                                       
     L. c. 1966     London 31st Janry 1688                                      
+An Envoy is Arrived from the Electr of Bavaria to Congratulate the P of        
O: upon the successe of his Armes & signifies that his Master & the E:          
of Brandenburgh have both declared Perpetuall warr with the ffrench K &         
will never make peace without perticipation thereof to his Highs & the          
states Genll                                                                    
     Wee hear from Lancaster that divers Papist Gent of Estates are             
turned Protestants & made A Publick Recantation in the Church                   
     Yest morning the House of Comons mett & heard dr sharpe & being            
Reassembled at 2 in the afternoon some greately offended at the drs             
Positions Abt the deposeing power as also his Praying for the King at           
A season when they had Prevoted That K James the 2d haveing broke his           
Originall Contract had Abdicated the Govermt & thereby the throne was           
vacant & some were for Censureing him but others Considdering that he           
had been one of the suffering Clergie let it fall & the Comittee to             
whome the Preliminary points were Referred for setling of Greivances            
before they fill up the throne declared they were not yet Ready to              
make their Reports soe they Adjourned                                           
     The Lds mett in the afternoon & Carryed it Agt the Regency the day         
before by 2 voyces & this day Came to the question whether the King had         
broke his Originall Contract or not & Carryed it in the affirmative by 8        
& Changed the word Abdicated to deserted & Adjourned the Considderation         
whether the throne was become vacant to this afternoon                          
     This day mr Gee Preacht before the Lds & dr Burnet before the              
Comons from 144 Psalm last vers & the Comons will to morrow order him to        
Print it                                                                        
+mr Brent is bayled out of the Counter himselfe in 500 L Recognizance &         
his 3 sureties in 250 L each                                                    
     Yest one shartby A Preist was seized by A messenger & Comitted             
     L. c. 1967     London 2 ffebr 1688                                         
+On Thursday the Lds sate till neer 12 at night at last put the question        
whether the throne was vacant yeas 41 noes 50  of the latter were 14 Bps        
The Bp of London & Ld Danby Comeing over to the Bps side                        
     Yest the Comons ordered the thanks of the house to dr sharpe & dr          
Burnett for their sermons & that they be desired to Print them Also             
ordered their thanks to the Clergie who preached & writt Agt Popery &           
Refused to Read the declaration & that opposed the Ecclesll Comission,          
Also to the souldiers & mariners & to all Gent &c that tooke Armes &c           
     Yest the Lds ordered the 6th ffebr shall be noe more kept A day of         
thanksgiveing                                                                   
     This day the Ld Lovelace Carryed A Petition to the Lds from greate         
Numbers of Cittizens &c desireing the Prince & Ps may be speedily setled        
in the throne but none had signed it soe the Lds gave it back unread to         
be signed                                                                       
     This day the Comons ordered A Comittee to draw up Reasons why they         
Cannot Agree with the Lds Amendmts  sr Geo Trebe Reported from the              
Comittee to Inspect Greivances 20 heads vizt noe dispenseing Power,             
dispenseing with Ecclesll Courts, noe money but by Parliamt The Militia         
Act Army, Armes for Protestants Noe pardon Pleadable to An Impeachmt,           
Electing of Parliamts secureing Corporation not to marry A Papist, Oath &       
Coronation Oath, A liberty for Protestants Treasury, judges &                   
Comissions, Bayle fines, Punishmts, jurors, sheriffs, Informations,             
Courts of justice which the house agreed to & ordered 5 more                    
     L. c. 1968     London 5th ffebr 1688                                       
+Yest the Lds upon the debate of the Comons Reasons put it to the               
question whether to joyne with the Comons in the word Abdicated & 51            
were for Abdicated & 55 for deserted Then put the question whether to           
joyne in the words & the throne is become vacant yeas 50 Noes 51                
    mr Hayes that brought the Kings letter said it was delivered him on         
Munday last by the Ld Melfort by the Kings order                                
+This morning the Comons debated the Lds Reasons & put the question &           
282 were for Adhereing to their owne votes & 151 for joyneing with the          
Lds soe to morrow they are to have A free Conference when wee hope to           
have A happy Ishue                                                              
     sr James smith one of o[u]r Aldermen Appeared who bayled mr Brent          
who is since escaped & the house ordered him to Appear Againe to morrow         
for that they had somewhat Agt him besides  The Cittizens Petition was to       
have been delivered yesterday backt by 10000 men but the Prince desired         
the Ld Mayor to forbid it for some time &c                                      
     When the order Agt the 6th ffebr was Passing the Bps said timely           
notice Could not be given but the Ld Lovelace undertooke it &c                  
     The Comrs of the Presbitery of Edenbrough are Comeing with An              
Addresse to the Prince who are dr Tho: Burnet Br to the divine & 8              
others                                                                          
+They write from Ireland Tirconnell Requires all Protestants to lay             
downe Armes on Paine of being Prosecuted as Rebells                             
     L. c. 1969     [Handwriting changes here.]     Jovis 7e Febry 1688         
Ord[er]ed That the Originall Warrtt of mr Brents Commitment be restored         
to ye Ke[e]p[e]r of ye Counter                                                  
+Ord[er]ed That ye Comm[itte]e: for prparing Generall heads of such             
things as are absolutely necessary to be considerd for ye better                
rendring our Religion Laws and Liberties &c distinguish between such            
heads as are introductory of new laws from those yt are declaratory of          
ancient rights & to draw up into form & consider of a Title to ye same          
be revived [?] & withdraw immediately into ye Speakers Chamber & finish         
there report.                                                                   
     The house then made some further progress in hearing ye merrits of         
ye Motion for Taunton.                                                          
     A message from ye Lds yt they had agreed to ye vote of this house          
of 28th Janry last without any alteration.                                      
     It was resolved yt Sr Wm Portman & mr Sandforth were duly elected          
for Taunton upon a division of ye house.                                        
+A message from ye Lords with a vote yt the Prince & Princess of Orange         
shall be declared King & Queen of England.                                      
+And with ye form of an Oath of Allegiance & Supremacy & they be tendred        
to all psons who are by law obligd to take ye Oath of Allegiance &              
Supremacy.                                                                      
A message from ye Lds that they were adjd till 4 a clock this afternoon.        
                              And then ye house adjd/till 3 a clock.            
[A different hand for this passage:] & met again & agreed the heads of          
grievances prepard by the Committee & adjornd till 9 to morrow                  
     L. c. 1970   [Handwriting changes here.] [n. d.]                           
+To the first Amendmt. proposd by the Lords to bee made to the vote of          
the Commons of the 28th Jan. instead of the word (Abdicated) to insert          
the word (Deserted) the Commons do not agree.                                   
+Because the word (deserted) doth not fully espresse the Conclusion             
v[e]rily [?] inferred from the Prmisses wch yr Ldships have agreed; for         
yr Ldships have agreed ("That Kg Jam. 2 had endeavoured to subvert the          
Constitution of this Kingdome by breaking the Originall Contract between        
Kg & People, & has violated the fundamentall Laws, & withdrawn himselfe         
out of the Kingdome."[)] [Quoted passage covers just over four lines in         
manuscript; quotation marks appear at the start of the four lines.]  Now        
the word (deserted) respects only the withdrawing but the word                  
(Abdicated) respects the whole, for which purpose the Commons made              
choice of it                                                                    
+The Commons do not agree to the 2d Amendmt to leave out these words            
("that the throne is thereby vacant.")                                          
1. Because they conceive that as they may well inferre from so much of          
their own vote as ye Ldships have agreed to, That Kg Jam. 2d had                
abdicated the Govermt & that the throne is thereby vacant; so yt if             
they should agree to ye Ldships amendmt "yt hee hath only deserted the          
Govermt yet even thence it would follow yt the throne is vacant as to           
Kg Jam. 2., deserting the govermt being in this Construction deserting          
the Throne                                                                      
2. The Commons conceive they need not prove to yr Ldships yt as to any          
other person the throne is also vacant, Your Ldships as they conceive           
have already admitted it by yr Ldships addressing to the Pr. of Or. the         
25th of Decemb. last to take upon him the Administracon of publick              
affairs both Civill & Military & to take into his care the Kingdome of          
Ireland till the meeting of this Convention, & to write his Lttrs for           
the meeting of it & for directing the choice of Commons thereunto, by yr        
Ldships meeting at this Convention in persuance of such Lttrs, by yr            
renewing the same Addresse to him as to the publicke affairs, & as to           
the Kingdome of Ireland since you mett & by appointing days of publick          
thanksgiving to be observed throughout this whole Kingdome  All which           
acts the Commons do conceive do imply yt it was yo[u]r Ldships Opinion          
yt the throne was vacant, & to signifie as much to the people of this           
Kingdome                                                                        
3. It is from those who are upon the throne of England when there was           
any such from whome ye people of Engl: ought to receive ptection, & to          
whome for this Cause they owe Allegiance.  But there being now none from        
whome they expect Regall ptection & to whome therefore they owe                 
Allegiance of Subjects, the Commons conceive ye Throne is vacant.               
     L. c. 1971   [Handwriting changes here.]   Lond: feb. 7th 1688             
+Yesterday was free Conference, on the Lds part were the Earles of              
clarendon & nottingam & sr John holt Councell, on the Commons mr Hambden        
sr George Treber & Counsellor summers  in the midest of ther Arguments          
the E of Dorcett & Ld Churchill brought A message from Princess Ann             
praying her Concerns or Interest might not Hinderr ther Mutuall                 
Concurrance for that shee was willing to submitt to whatever the[y?]            
should Conclude for the good of the Kingdoms & security of the                  
Protestant Religeon which hastned the Conclusion and the[y?] Retourned          
& made Report                                                                   
+then the Lds put the questione whether to Ag[ree] with the Commons In          
the word abdicated & the throne is vacant yeas 65 noes 45                       
+then the questione was put whether the Prince & Princess of Orange             
should bee Declared King & Queen of England &c. And itt went in the             
Affirmative                                                                     
+this day the Lds Agreed to abrogate the oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy        
& Instead thereof I A: B Doe Certainly promise to bear A true &                 
faithfull Alleigance to King William & Queen Mary so help mee god also          
An other oath Against the popes jurisdictions &c and sent to the Commons        
for ther Concurrance                                                            
+This afternoone the Commons had before them the Lords Message and the          
Debates Ran High whether prince and princess or princess and prince, or         
prince Alone as Also the new oath in none of which was A Concurrance            
     L. c. 1972   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 7th February 1688        
+Our Irish Letters received here yesterday Contradict the Reports of any        
french ships having brought Ammunicon or Provision to Tyrconnels army  It       
is certain one french vessel hath put in at Cork but brought only               
Letters.  That albeit A Proclamation of the Earl of Tyrconnel for the           
Protestants to dispers themselves under penalty of being proceeded              
against for high Treason yet they continue to arm themselves and Cannot         
well be hindred in the North of that Kingdom for that this mighty Deputy        
keeps his Post about Dublin and notwithstanding all his threatning yet          
when he receives the newes I have now to present you I am of opinion he         
must consult his nearest way to ffrance for shelter                             
    At the Convention of the Commons at Westminster yesterday--Sir James        
Smith made his appearance  the Warrant & Committment of Mr Brent were           
produced and read--and some excuse were made as if he had advised with          
Sir George Treby about the same--but the said Sir George Treby Cleared          
himselfe thereof--Sir James Smith was committed into the Custody of a           
Serjeant at arms and the Serjeant at arms ordered to make diligent              
search after the said Mr Brent.                                                 
     A Message was sent up to the Lords to desire an Immediat free              
Conference in the painted Chamber on the Subject Matter of the two              
last Conferences to which the Lords agreed.                                     
     Ordered that this house do go up Immediatly to meet the Lords in           
the said free Conference--and that the mannagers of the two last                
Conference viz. Sir George Treby, Sir John Hoult, Sir Thomas Lee Mr             
Hambden. Mr Pollixfen, Coll Birch, Mr Sacheveril and Mr Summers do              
mannage the said free Conference                                                
     They farther ordered that care be taken none but members should be         
admitted into the said Conference                                               
     Which Conference held till 3 in the afternoon--when the Commons            
returned all to their own house and the said mannagers reporting the            
matters had bin there debated--the house adjourned till 9 this morning.         
     But the Lords returned to their house and putting it again to the          
vote whether they should agree to the word abdicated, it was carried in         
the affirmative, and put in the 2d Question whether they should agree to        
these words and the Throne is thereby vacant carried it also in the             
affirmative by a majority of 19 or 20 Peers.                                    
     They then proceeded and at Length resolved that the Prince and             
Princess of Orange shall be declared King & Queene & to abrogating the          
oaths of allegiance &c                                                          
     The Commons this morning ordered A Committee to withdraw and bring         
in Heads of such things as are absolutely necessary for our safety and          
make report thereof to the house                                                
     A message was then brought from the Lords that they had agreed to          
the vote of the Commons of the 28th January upon the reasons yesterday          
offered in the free Conference                                                  
     The Election for Taunton was heard at the bar and Sir William              
Portman and Mr Sandson the present sitting members declared to be duely         
Elected by a majority of almost a 100 members.                                  
     Another message Came from the Lords to desire the Concurrence of           
the house to their vote passed yesterday viz                                    
     Resolved by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that the Prince and           
Princess of Orange shall be declared King And Queen of England and all          
the Dominions thereto belonging                                                 
     A third message from the Lords for their Concurrence in a vote for         
abrogationg the oaths of allegiance and Supremacy and instead therof            
that all persons from whom the said oaths may be required by Law shall          
swear to be true and faithful to their Majesties King William and Queen         
Mary &c                                                                         
     Sir John Burlace a member of the Commons being dead orders were for        
a Letter to choose another in his room                                          
     Yet another message from the Lords that they had adjourned till            
four this afternoone and then would sit again upon which the Commons            
also adjourned till 3 a clock so yt both houses sitting very late this          
night you must Expect the great newes by next post  I shall only add            
that 23 of the Peers 12 of which are Bishops have this day entred their         
protest against the said votes of the Lords house as to the vacancy of          
the Throne.                                                                     
     L. c. 1973  [Handwriting changes here.]     London 9th ffebr 1688          
+Yest the Comons debated the 28 preliminaries to be tendred the new King        
& Returned them to 13 heads & Agreed to the 2 new oaths & order of              
Succession & Agreed                                                             
     That the Prince & Ps of Orange be declared King & queen The                
Administration to be solely in the Prince as King for his life  Then to         
the Issue of the Ps of Orange by him or any other husband & for want of         
such Issue to Ps Ann & her Issue & in default to the Issue of the P of          
Orange by any other wife  To this limitation they tackt the                     
Preliminaries & sent them to the Lds for their Concurrance                      
     This day the Comons Adjourned early till Munday for that the Lds           
were upon the 13 hands which they debated one by one & enlarged on them         
Abt 3 they had gone through 7 & Its thought will goe through the Rest           
before they Adjourned & on Munday agree the whole                               
     Wee have A Report the ffrench K is dead  Also that o[u]r late King         
is Incognito in Callis & dayly has Advices of the Proceedings of the            
Convention                                                                      
     They write from Ireland Tirconnell makes greate Preparations for           
warr which their Clergie preach up to be A holy warr  That some                 
Contribute 2000 L Apeece  The Citty of Galway 30000 L soe that A banke          
of 500000 L is Exspected in 3 months                                            
     That A ship with 150 Armes & 50 barrells of Powder is Arrived at           
London derry from scotland who assure the Protestants they will send            
them 10000 disciplined men if the Papists offer violence to them  Also          
that in Munster the Ld Inchequin declares for the Protestant Religion           
     L. c. 1974  [Handwriting changes here.]   London ffeb 12th 1688            
      [Letter is addressed:] ffor the Honble The Lady/Newdigate                 
+Yest both houses of Convention mett  The Lds haveing gone through the          
preliminaries sent a Message to the Comons to desire them to Continue           
sitting afterwards sent a 2d message for a Conference which was agreed          
& those studied them theire heads of Greivances with 20 amendments &            
then adjourned themselves till 5 in the afternoone                              
     The Comons continued sitting & agreed to all the Lds Admendmts             
except 6 4 of which wanted only explanation & the 2 remainder being             
that of the militia & dispenseing power  a comittee was ordered to              
draw up reasons to offer to the Lds at a free Conference why they               
cannott agree to the Lds admendmts & then adjourned till next morning           
     Divers passengers from Ireland Say Tirconnell is almost come to            
open violence  The Marquis du Pont is returned to ffrance & promises            
greate assistance from the ffrench K  The d of Ormonds Estate is seized         
upon by Tirconnell & Killkenny Castle is getting ready for the                  
reception of the late King of England                                           
     Last night arrived 13 dutch males one of them had been taken by a          
french privateer till in a storme the dutch man was called to helpe at          
the sayles takeing opportunity threw some of the french over board &            
conquered the rest                                                              
     This morning both houses mett & had a free conference where upon           
debate the Lds agreed to the Commons reasons & soe entirely Concurred to        
proclaime the P & Princes forthwith & the rather for that the princes           
was upon her landing (which shee did abt 4) & a proclamation was drawn          
for that purpose & a warrant to the Heralds but they afterwards                 
considdering that the proclamation must be Engrosed & agreed to by the          
Commons & attend the P to know his pleasure they have put it off till           
Thursday next & both houses in a body have ordered to waite on the              
prince to morrow at the banquetting house                                       
     The prince went downe the River after to meet the princes                  
     L.c. 1975  [Handwriting changes here.]     London 14th ffebr 1688          
[Letter is addressed:] ffor/The Honble The/Lady Newdigate att/Arbury/           
prsent                                                                          
+Yest both houses Came to the banquetting house & Abt 11 the Prince & Ps        
of Orange Came hand in hand & An officer Read the Proceedings of both           
houses & the Prince in A short speech signified their Acceptance Adding         
he should endeavour to his utmost to discharge the trust Reposed in him         
& Protect the Protestant Religion & Lawes & was Resolved to Pursue noe          
Councells but theirs At which was A mighty shout  Also at their                 
proclaimeing were such shouts as were scarse ever heard                         
     Last night the King sent out his warrant for sumoning his Privy            
Councell vizt The Archbp of Cant D of Norfolke Ms of Winchester Ms of           
Hallifax Earles of Lindsey Oxford shrewsbury Bedford Dorcett Devonshire         
Bath danby Notingham & Maxsfield Viscounts ffauconbridg Mordant & Newport       
Bp of London Lds Wharton Delamere Mountague & Churchill Mounsr Benting sr       
Robt Howard sr Hen Capell Hen Poole Esqr Speaker Hen sidney Edw Russell         
Richd Hambden & Hugh Boscomen Esqrs                                             
     The E of Danby is President of the Councelle & Its said will be Ld         
High Treasurer The E of Devonshire Ld High steward E of shrewsbury              
Principle secretary Mounsr Overkirke mr of the horse mr Poole mr of the         
Rolls mr Polixfen Ld Ch Justice of the Kings Bench & sr Jo Holt of the          
Comon pleas & the Ld Mountague Ld Ch Baron                                      
     Last night the late Ld Ch Justice wright was taken in the old bayly        
& Comitted to Newgate                                                           
     L.c. 1976     London 16th ffebr 1 88                                       
+Yest morning both houses being assembled it was Exspected the King             
would Come to the House of Lds soe that the Peers Caused their Robes to         
be brought but his Maty sent them A Message that they would Adjourne till       
Munday  Tis said that the reason was that the Robes which the King              
desired were not found in the Wardrobe & that new ones must first be made       
     The Comons Recd the like message who ordered A Committee to draw up        
An Addresse of thanks to his Maty for his Gracious Answer to the                
declaration of both houses & Adjourned till Munday                              
     Yest the Ld Mayor Aldermen sheriffs Recorder & the whole Comon             
Councell went from Guildhall in Coaches to Whitehall In the Name of             
the Citty to Congratulate their Maties Accession to the throne & the            
safe Arrivall of her Maty & had Accesse to their Maties in the                  
banquetting house where sr Geo: Trebe made An Excellent speech & It was         
Graciously Recd & they had the Honour to kisse their Maties hands               
     The Ms of Hallifax is made Ld Privy seale E of Dorcet Ld                   
Chamberlain & Its said the Ld Lumley Ld Mordant sr Hen Capell sr Robt           
Howard & mr Whitlock are made Comrs of the treasury & that the Greate           
seale will be Entrusted with 3 Comrs                                            
     This morning An extrary Councell was held at Whitehall Abt Ireland         
as likewise the nomination of judges for the Kingdome & the Councell is         
to present A list of the most able lawyers &c fit for it                        
     30 ffrench men of warr & 80 small ships are fitting out at Brest           
& Reported to be designed for Ireland, Wee hear the E of Tirconnell             
Intends to Call A Parliamt in Ireland                                           
     The danish Envoy in the ffrench court is Returned home haveing             
signified to the ffrench K that the Change in England occasions his             
Master Can noe longer correspond with him                                       
     L.c. 1977     London 19th ffebr 1688                                       
+Yest was published An order of Councell for Altering the Prayers for           
the Royall family vizt                                                          
     That to the word King be Added queen  To the word soveraigne Lord          
be Added & Lady  That Instead of the words o[u]r soveraigne be used their       
Maties & for the Rest of the Royall family thus vizt Catherine queen            
Dowager her R Highs the Ps Ann of denmarke & all the Royall family              
     Yest both houses being assembled his Maty Came to the Lds house &          
sent for the Comons & spoke as followeth                                        
     My Lds & Gents I have lately told you how sensible I am of your            
kindness & how much I Vallue the Confidence you have Reposed in mee &           
I assure you I shall never doe anything that may justly lessen your             
opinion of mee                                                                  
     I thinke it necesary to Acquaint you that the Condition of o[u]r           
Allies Abroad & perticulerly that of Holland is such that Unless some           
speedy Care be taken they will run A greater hazzard than you would have        
them Exposed to                                                                 
     you might be sensible that A good settlemt at home is Necesary for         
the support of the Protestant Interest & the state of Ireland is such           
that the dangers are too greate to be obviated by any low Methods.              
+I must leave it to you to Considder of the Most effectual wayes &c             
     The King then Returned & the Comons to their house & voted thanks          
to his Maty for his Gracious speech                                             
     The Lds recd A Bill for Removing all doubts Abt the prsent Parliamt        
& ordered it A 2d Reading at 3 A clock & this morning they Passed it            
     This morning the Comons Resolved that the Act for takeing the oaths        
& Test be voyd  They Recd the bill from the Lds which runs thus                 
     Be it Enacted by the Kings & queens most excellent Maties &c That          
the Lds & Comons now sitting at Westminster are the 2 houses of Parliamt        
& soe shall be declared & Adjudged to all Intents & Purposes whatsoever         
& soe to have been from the 13th ffebr notwithstanding any want of writt        
or sumons or any other defect or default whatsoever                             
     L. c. 1978   [Handwriting changes here.]    London 21st ffeb: 1688         
+Yest the Comons were in a Comittee on the bill to make the Convention          
a parliament & recomitted it                                                    
     This day the Lds did nothing by reason the Commons had not returned        
the said bill                                                                   
     This day the Comons ordered that his Maty be Desired to give a             
donative to the dutch souldiers that are going home & ordered sr Robt           
Howard to Inspect the treasury accompts & bring in what money hath been         
paid for secret service in the reigns of the 2 last Kings & mr Graham &         
mr Burton doe prosecution of Law suites  Yest the Clergie of London were        
to Congratulate their Matyes being Introduced by the Bishop of London           
     Tho: Wharton Esqr & sr John Lowther are sworne of the privy                
Councell                                                                        
     The Ld Dartmouth continues mr of the Ordinance & tis said major            
Wildman or major manly will be governour of the post office                     
     Our scotch letters say a declaration of his highness the P of              
Orange was there published to call a meeting of the states in March next        
CLL [?] which was proclaimed there with great acclamations & the same           
day by his Highs Comand all the standing forces were disbanded                  
     The[y] write from Ireland the Protestants in the North have recd a         
good quaintity of armes & ammunition That the Ld Blany a protestant hath        
seized on Armagh & in it a troope of dragoons whome he disarmed That            
Tirconnell hath got an army of 40 or 50000 such as they are & sends to          
severall for money & one Mr Key refuseing to send him 400 L some dragoons       
came & burnt his house & his wife Endeavouring to save something was burnt      
     L. c. 1979    [Handwriting changes here.]     London 23rd ffebr 1688       
+Yest the Comons ordered that humble Application be made to his Maty to         
Ishue forth his Proclamation for A Reward to any that shall Apprehend           
mr Brent & that the Highest Punishmt of the Law be Inflicted on any             
that shall entertaine him                                                       
   An Account was given to the house that above A million Applyed to            
secrett services since 1677 of which 80000 L to mr Graham & mr Burton           
   sr Robt Howard Acquainted the house of A letter he Recd from mr              
Graham wherein he desired to speake with him which he would not doe             
without the Consent of the house                                                
     Ordered that sr Robt Howard Imediately goe to the Tower to Examine         
mr Graham & mr Burton                                                           
     A Bill for Reviveing the Termes & Proceedings at law Read & ordered        
A 2d Reading                                                                    
     The Comittee to whome the bill for makeing this Convention A Parliamt      
was Referred Reported it & the house Past it & sent it up to the Lds            
     This day sr Robt Howard Reported he had been in the Tower with mr          
Graham & mr Burton who had made some discovery to him of the money they         
had Recd & Promised A more Ample discovery Agt Tuesday but he desired           
that 2 members more might goe with him & sr Jo Holt  mr Polixfen & the          
said sr Robt Howard are Appointed                                               
     Then they were sent for to the Lds house where his Maty gave his           
Royall Assent to the bill for Enacting this Convention to be A Parliamt         
     & the Comons Returneing to their house gave leave for bringing in A        
bill for takeing away the Courts of the Marshes of Wales & Adjourned            
till Munday                                                                     
     Divers of the Clergie were this weeke to Congratulate their Maties         
Accession to the Throne & Its said his Maty said as followeth                   
     I am throughly sensible how well you have behaved your selves in           
these late times  I thinke myselfe deeply obliged to give you all               
posible ease of assurance of my kindness & affection to the Church of           
England & this you may depend upon                                              
     L. c. 1980     London 26th ffebr 1688                                      
+Yest in the house of Comons the Kings speech being Read it was ordered         
the house would goe into A Grand Comittee as this day to Considder              
thereof                                                                         
     The bill for takeing away the Courts of the Marshes of Wales Read &        
ordered A 2d Reading                                                            
     Ordered that A bill be brought in to Repeale the statute of the            
13th of King Charles 2d Abt Corporations                                        
     Ordered that all the members doe take the oath of Alleigance to the        
King & queen Instead of the oaths of Alleigance & supremacy & that next         
satureday this house doe take the said oath & Test                              
     Ordered that A Comittee be Appointed to Considder of the Coronation        
oath & what Amendments are fit to be made therein & make Report thereof         
to the house which Comittee was Accordingly named                               
     This day the Comons ordered A bill to be brought in to Regulate            
elections                                                                       
     Leave given for sr Phillip Musgrave to Attend the house of Lds to          
give some evidence Relateing to the E of Essex                                  
     Ordered that A sergt at Armes seize any stranger who presumes to           
Come into the Gallary when the house is sitting in A Grand Comittee             
     Yest Capt Holland was seized at his Lodgings in Essex street & is          
this night to be Examined before A Comittee of Lds being Accused to be          
the very person that Cut the late E of Essex throate                            
     A declaration of the King & queen is Published Relateing to Ireland        
Promiseing all those of the Romish Church now in Armes that if they will        
lay downe their Armes &c before the 10th Aprill next They shall have A          
full pardon free enjoymt of their estates & all the favour the Law              
allowes as to their Religion Also that A Parliamt shall be speedily             
Called there & their Maties will promote A further Indulgence to them           
But in Case of their Refusall they will be proceeded Agt as Rebells &           
their lands & estates distributed to those that shall be Aideing in             
Reduceing the said Kingdome                                                     
     The dutch are Embarqueing for Holland the donatives given them as          
said to be as followeth vizt A Coll 200 L A Leift Coll 150 L A Major            
100 L A Capt 75 L A Leiftenant 50 L An Ensigne 25 L A sergt 12 L & A            
Private souldier 50 s                                                           
     L. c. 1981    London 28th ffebr 1688                                       
+Wee hear from scotland the d of Gourdon haveing left A deputy Governr          
in the Castle of Edenbrough is himselfe gone into the Highlands to head         
some Clans there who declare for K James but the greate part of the             
Kingdome are of A Contrary Inclination being Intent upon Chuseing the           
Convention                                                                      
     The E of Arran son of D Hamilton was last night sent to the Tower &        
this day some other of the scotch nation are seized                             
     Yest the Comons were in A Comittee debateing the Kings speech &            
the Revenue & ordered that sr Robt Howard bring in An Estimate of the           
yearely vallue of the Revenue                                                   
     Being Returned into A house They Resolved they would stand by the          
King with their lives & fortunes to support the Alliances abroad To             
Reduce Ireland & to preserve the Protestant Religion at home                    
     This day sr Robt Howard Acquainted the house he would be Ready to          
morrow with the Estimate of the Revenue                                         
     Then the house in A Comittee Resolved A prsent supply be given his         
Maty not Exceeding 420000 L by A land Tax at 68820 L p month according          
to the Proportions of the 31st K Charles 2d                                     
+Capt Holland being sent to Newgate on Tusday was last night Carryed up         
to be Examined by A Comittee of Lds                                             
     They write from Paris that on the 28th ffebr An Expresse Arrived           
there from Rome with 3 Breifs one for the ffrench K wherein the Pope            
desires him to Continue his Kindness to their late Maties The other 2           
Breifs to the King & queen to Condole their prsent state promiseing to          
supply them with money &c & Comply in anything that may tend to their           
Restauration to the throne of England                                           
     The Comrs of the ffrench Navy have orders to Equippe 40 gallies to         
be Added to the 30 men of warr to Cruise in the streights to Ruine the          
English & dutch traficque  The d of Berwick left St Germans the 1st of          
March being gone with 4000 Scotch & Irish for Brest to Embarque some say        
for Ireland others for Scotland                                                 
     L. c. 1982     London 2d March 1688                                        
+The Comittee of Greivances sate on Thursday & Resolved                         
+ffirst that the Rights of London in the Election of sheriffs were              
Invaded in 1682 & was illegall & A Greivance                                    
+2dly That the judgmt Given up on the quo Warranto Agt the Citty of             
London was illegall                                                             
+3dly That the like prosecutions Agt other places were illegall                 
+4 That the Regulating Corporations were illegall                               
+5 That the Promiseing votes to take off the Penall lawes & Tests               
illegall                                                                        
+6 The Collecting of the Customs & part of the Excise between the death         
of Charles 2d & the Parliamt after illegall                                     
+7 The Levying money otherwise then the Law allows The disarmeing               
Protestants & quartering souldiers Contrary to Law illegall                     
+8 That the house be moved to Appoint A Comittee to Examine into the            
matters aforesaid & who were the Authrs & Advisers thereof all which the        
said Comittee Agreed on Nemine Contradicente                                    
     Yest in the H of Comons sr Robt Howard Reported from the Comittees         
to Inspect the Revenue That the yearly vallue of the Revenue of the             
Kingdome was 1500000 L p An besides the Additionall duties of sugars &          
Tobaccoes                                                                       
     mr Wharton delivered A message from the King That he found the             
Chimney money Greivous to the subject & left it to their Considderation         
either to Regulate or take it away not doubting but they will take Care         
of A Revenue for the Crowne                                                     
     mr Hambden Reported from his Maty there were divers Private                
Caballs Agt the Govemt for which some are already seized & if he should         
set them at liberty it might not be safe soe desired the Advice of that         
house therein for both which messages the thanks of the house was               
ordered to be Returned                                                          
     A Message was brought from the Lds that they had Agreed to stand by        
the King with their lives & fortunes                                            
     The Comons spent this day in takeing the oaths                             
     Tis said the judges will be for the Kings bench sr Wm Dolben sr Jo         
Holt sr Geo: Powell mr Wallup for the Comon pleas sr Robt Atkins sr             
Creswell Levintz sr Edw Nevill & sr Geo: stroud for the Exchequer sr            
ffran Winnington samll Eyres Giles Eyres & Peyton Ventis Esqrs                  
+Warrants are out Agt divers greate persons both of the English & scotch        
Nations Concerned in A design to bring back the late King but none are          
sent yet to the Tower but the E of Arran                                        
     Our ffrench letters [say?] the designes of K James for Ireland are         
much obstructed for want of health                                              
  L. c. 1983  [Handwriting changes here.]  Martis 5th die ffebruary 1688        
+The Lds insist upon the first Amendmt of the word (Deserted) instead           
of the word (Abdicated)                                                         
1 Because the Lds doe not find that the word (Abdicate) is a word known         
to the Common Law of England & the Lds hope that the Commons will agree         
to make use of such words only whereof the meaning may be undrstoode            
according to Law And not such as will be lyable to doubtfull Interpretacion     
2d Because in the most Common acceptacion of the Civill Law Abdication          
is a voluntary exercise[d] Act of renunciacion wch is not in this Case &        
does not follow from the premisse That King James 2d by haveing withdrawn       
himselfe after haveing endeavored to subvert the Constitucion of the            
Govrmt by breaking the originall Contract between King & People and             
haveing violated the fundamentall Lawes may be more expressly said to           
have deserted then have abdicated the Govrmt                                    
+The Lds insist uppon the 2d Amendmt to leave out (and that the Throne          
is thereby vacant)                                                              
+ffor that although The Lords have declared That the King hath (deserted)       
The Kingdom & therefore have made Opposicon to ye P: of Orange to take          
upon him the Administracon of ye Governmt & thereby to provide for the          
weale & Safety of the Kingdom, yet there can be no othr inference drawne        
from thence but only the exercise of the Governmt, by Kg James the 2d was       
ceased So as yt the Lds were & are willing to secure the Nation agt the         
Returne of ye said King into this Kingdome, but not that there was eithr        
such an Abdicacon by him or such a vacancy in the Throne as that the            
Crowne was thereby become Elective, To wch they cannot agree                    
     1st  Because by the Constitucon of the Governmt the Monarch is             
          hereditary & not elective                                             
     2dly Because no Act of the King alone can barr or destroy the right        
          of the heires to the Crowne And therefore                             
          In Answer to the 3d Reason alleadged by the house of Commons if       
          the Throne be vacant of King James 2d Allegeance is due to            
          such psons as ye right of Succession does belong to.                  
                       Mercury 6 ffebr: 88                                      
+Sr Wm Waller appearing according to ye order yesterday was called in &         
being wthdrawn Sr James Smith appeared & was called in & brought ye Coppy       
of ye Comitmt & bayle of mr Brent                                               
                      And being withdrawn                                       
Ordrd  That Sr James Smith be comitted to ye Sergt of ye house for his          
        offence in bayling mr Brent who was Comitted for high Treason           
Ordrd  That ye sergt doe search for mr Brent & take him into Custody            
            Mr Dolben went to ye Lords to desire a free Conference upon         
       ye subject mattr of ye last Conference                                   
            And being returned Reported yt ye Lords had agreed to a             
       prsent free Conference                                                   
            The Painted Chambr being full of strangers so as ye Managers        
       could not get to ye Table                                                
            The Sergent was ordered to goe thither & require all the            
       Membrs to return to the house in order to ye clearing ye Painted         
       Chambr of all strangers                                                  
            A message from ye Lords yt ye Painted Chambr was cleared &          
       yt ye Lords expected ye Membrs of ye house                               
                   All Comees are Adjorn'd & then ye house                      
                   adjorned till 9 to morrow morning                            
                          Martis 5th ffebr: 1688                                
+Sr James Smith attending was called in and ordered to attend to morrow         
morning with the Coppy of the Warrant of the Comittmt of mr Brent and ye        
recognizance entred into by him and his Bayle And Sr William Waller to          
attend att ye same tyme and that ye Keeper of the Compter doe also attend       
+Then the mattr of the Eleccon of Taunton came to be heard at the Barr          
& aftr some time spent in heareing it It was Adjd till Thursday morning.        
+A message from the Lds that They desire a prsent C[onfer]ence with this        
upon the subject mattr of the las[t Conferen]ce                                 
     The Comtee went up to mannage ye Conference [space for about five          
letters blotted] returning the house mr Hambden reported the Reasons            
urged by the Lds for their Amendmts to the vote of the house of 28th            
Janry last.                                                                     
+That the back Dore of the Greate [?] Chamber be every morning (during          
the sitting of this house) lockt up by the Serjt, & the Key to be layd          
on the Table, & not delivered without leave of the house.                       
     The Amendmts being read to ye house The 1st Amendmt was not                
agreed to & the Question being putt that the house doe agree with the           
Lds therein the house divided                                                   
                           Yeas  121                                            
                           Noes  282                                            
Resolved                                                                        
     That a free Conferrence bee desired wth ye Lds on the subject mattr        
of the last Conferrence And a Comtee bee appointed to mannage it                
                         Adjd till 9 to morrow                                  
     L. c. 1984  [Handwriting changes here.]   London 5th March 88/9            
+His Matie has order'd 26 Regimts of foot to be raised for ye service of        
Ireland; divers Lords of ye Honble privy Councill have offerd to raise ym       
att yeir own Charge; allready divers of ye Colls are named (viz) ye             
Marquisses of Winchester & Hallifax raises each 2.  ye E. of dorsett 2.         
Ld. Herbert of Cherberry 1 Ld Castleton 1. D of Ormond 2. Ld Drogheda 1.        
Ld: Delamere 2. Ld: Blessington 1 E. of Montg 1 Ld: Lisbon 1. Ld.               
Fitzharding 1. Ld: Roscommon 1. Sr: Oliver St George 1. & Sr: Henry             
Inglsly 1. & yey doe say yest [?] ye Army shall be Raised and ready to          
March by April next such Noblemen being to raise yem in yeir Interessed         
Countries.                                                                      
     At ye same time an order was sent by ye Councell to ye Comrs of ye         
Navy to provide shipping at Leverpool to Transport 2 Battalions of foot         
Consisting of 12000 men 5000 Armes and proportionable Ammunition for            
Londonderry in Ireland and yere are others sending to ye ports.                 
     Mareschall Schomberg yesterday rec'd an Expresse from Paris yt ye          
late King James in his way to Brest was taken wth a paralytick distemper        
& 12 howers bleeding at ye rest & [?] was under ye physicians hands             
     Yesterday ye H of Peers swore 15 Lords yt were absent on Saturday,         
among ym 5 Bpps. (viz) ye Archbpp of York. Bpps of Winchester Rochester         
Landaff & St Asaph & yere is none in either House yt [?] differ in yeir         
sentimts wch ye rest has refused to sweare were [?] true to K: Wm & Q: Mary.    
     Yesterday morning Burton & Graham were brought from ye Tower before        
ye Comtee to be examin'd as was also Sr. Ja: Smith for Bailing Mr: Brent.       
     A Complaint is brought to Court yt some of ye late King's Troopes          
in Bucks have forc'd ye Mayor to drinke ye late K. James's health on his        
knees.                                                                          
     The Regimt of Scotch Guards who quarter'd at Chester in order for          
Ireland have broke yr: way and are gone upon yeir march home, all ye            
Inne keepers on ye Scotch Road have directions to stopp all persons as          
yey believe are goeing for Scotland till yey gett passes from above.            
     The Ld: Griffin wth a great many others in ye late Conspiracy are          
gone for yt. Country & its feared Cannot be overtaken.                          
     The King designes this summer to have a fleet of 50 or 60 saile at         
sea.                                                                            
     Yesterday ye Comtee reported this following Addresse  Wee ye knights       
&c in this Parliamt assembled being sensible of yr Maties most Glorious         
Conduct & valour to deliver us from Popery Considering the Restlesse            
Spirits of yo[u]r Enemies to draw back againe to Popery Wee Resolve to          
stand by yre. Matie  Order'd yt ye Lds. Concurrence be desired to ye said       
addresse.                                                                       
+A Bill was brought in for taking up of suspicious persons & keep ym in         
prison notwthstanding ye Habeas Corpus Act and order'd to be Engrossed &        
to Continue to ye 1st Day of next Terme.                                        
+The Bill for Raiseing an Aid for his Matie read a 2d time.                     
                      [Handwriting changes here.]                               
+This day the House of Lords agreed to the Commons Address.                     
Ordered that a Bill be brought in to take off the Chimney Money &c  The         
E of Nottingham is made the other Secretary of State.  Dr Burnet is made        
Bp of Salisbury.                                                                
     L. c. 1985    [Handwriting changes here.]     London 7th March 1688        
+Yest in the H of Comons mr speaker Reported the Kings answer to their          
Addresse Abt the Hearth money vizt                                              
+Gent. I am very glad I have done what is soe Acceptable to you  I shall        
alwayes be Ready to doe anything that may be for the ease of the subject        
aswell as for the safety & glory of the Kingdome                                
     The sergt at Armes delivered in Coppies of the Comittments of              
Prisoners in the Tower &c for the matters of state                              
     Resolved that the Comittee for Inspecting the Accounts of mr Graham        
& mr Burton Examine the Respective Cases of the Prisoners aforesaid & as        
they find occasions prepare Accusations or Impeachmts & Report the same         
to the house                                                                    
     This day the Comons were in A Comittee on the bill for the Aide & A        
Clause was agreed on to Enable his Maty to borrow money on the said Act         
+A message from the Lds Returneing the Engrossed bill to Enable his             
Maty to detaine Prisoners &c with some Amendmts to which the house              
agreed.                                                                         
     A bill from the Lds Banishing all Papists 10 miles from London             
Except fforreigners &c Read & ordered A 2d Reading                              
     Th E of Notingham is made one of the Principle secretaries of state        
& dr Burnet Bp of salisbury                                                     
     Wee hear from Dublin the Protestants there are disarmed & their            
Churches seized for the use of the souldiers                                    
+Tis said his Maty will forthwith send envoys Extrary to Holland sweden         
Denmarke switzerland & Geneva                                                   
     Coll Ludlow who hath been neer 30 yeares in switzerland is now sent        
for by his Maty                                                                 
     L. c. 1986     London 9th March 1688                                       
+Yest the Lds & Comons Attended his Maty with their Addresse to which           
his Maty gave A Gracious Answer                                                 
     This day upon A motion that the votes of the house might be printed        
the yeas were 144 noes 180 soe it was Carryed in the Negative                   
     The house ordered the Kings Answer to the Addresse to be taken into        
Considderation on Munday & in perticuler that branch of the Answer              
Relateing to the Revenue                                                        
     This day the Lds ordered the bill for Reverseing the Attainder of          
the late Ld Russell to be Engrossed                                             
     The d of Beaufort & the E of Ailesbury tooke the oaths                     
     One Downeing A Printer was brought before the house at A Complaint         
of the Ld Gray of Warke for Printing A false & scandalous Rumour that           
his Ldp was taken in A ship going for ffrance & is fined 100 L & Comitted       
     A Master of A ship Arrived in Cornwall has sent up his Affidavit           
that the late K James sayled from Brest on Munday the 25th ffebr with 6         
men of warr & 7 Tenders for Ireland but on Wednesday was driven back &          
Remained there on thursday the 28th & he beleives is there still the wind       
being still Agt him  The master Adds A greate many English Gent are with        
him but noe ffrench souldiers but only some officers                            
     severall Regemts are ordered towards the borders of scotland to            
secure the peace of that Kingdome & all posible hast is here for Raiseing       
the New Regemts                                                                 
     Wee have Advice the Ld Inchequin is escaped out of Ireland & landed        
in England  our Irish letters say the Protestants take all opportunity          
to make their escapes feareing Dublin will be fired or themselves               
Massacred                                                                       
     Letters from scotland of the 3d Instant say that d Hamilton the Ld         
Preston & others of the scotch Nobility were Arrived there being followed       
by divers English to endeavour to make some broyle on the Coast & have A        
message from the late King  But his Maty hath ordered 10 Regemts of             
horse & ffoot to march to be quartered in Berwick Carlisle &c                   
     Tis said Coll Oglethorpe & some other disaffected persons are              
Createing disturbances in the North                                             
     L. c. 1987     London 12th March 1688                                      
+Yest the house of Comons Considdered of that part of the Kings speech          
Relateing to the Revenue & ordered those Tempory Branches setled on the         
late King for life be the like on this & that A bill be brought in              
Accordingly  [In left margin near the end of this paragraph is written          
"untrue" in another and perhaps much later hand.]                               
     The Comittee of Greivances have before them the former election of         
sheriffs in this Citty & this evening sr Jo Moor sr Wm Pritchard sr             
Dudly North sr Peter Rich &c are to give evidence as to the Managemt            
thereof                                                                         
+Yest the house of Peers Read the Comprehension bill the 1st time               
     Leave was given to bring in A bill that those of both houses who           
shall Refuse to take the New oaths be Refused sitting in the house &            
all Ecclesll persons who will not pray for K: William & q Mary to be            
suspended their spirituall liveings                                             
     dr Oates Petitioned for A Maintenance but they have not Concluded          
on any as yet                                                                   
     This day in the H of Comons the bill from the Lds for Reversing the        
Attainder of the late Ld Russell was Comitted                                   
     The bill for An Aid to his Maty was Reported                               
+The d of Graftons Regemt being ordered for Holland many of the officers        
have layd downe their Comissions & many of the souldiers deserted               
     The E of sunderland who was made Prisoner in Holland is at liberty         
     They beate up here for souldiers for Ireland                               
     sr Wm Dolben is made one of the judges of the Kings bench sr Jo            
Powell of the Comon Pleas & sr [space for about four letters left blank]        
Nevill of the Exchequer                                                         
     They write from Paris that the late K James A little before his            
departure for Brest sent mr skelton to the Courts of savoy Genoa Venice         
fflorence & Bavaria                                                             
     The ffrench K has with A greate summe of money purchased A peace           
with the Algerines & Its said obliged them to break with the English &          
dutch & already begins to take o[u]r Merchants ships                            
     The Kings of denmarke & sweden are Concludeing A peace for 10              
yeares & A Marriage is Proposed between the eldest son of the K of              
denmarke & the Ps of sweden                                                     
+The d of Brandenburgh is sending his envoy into England to Complemt            
their Maties happy Accession to the Throne & the states Genll have              
Appointed A Genll day of thanksgiveing throughout all the United                
Provinces for the same                                                          
     L. c. 1988     London 14th March 1688                                      
+Yest in the H of Comons the sheriffs Attended with An Addresse of the          
Citty which was Read & the thanks of the house ordered for it & the             
Addresse & the speakers Answer ordered to be Printed                            
     Leave given to bring in A bill to Punish Mutineers & deserters in          
the Army                                                                        
     This day the Comons were in A Comittee to Considder of his Maties          
Speech & more Especially that part of it Relateing to the Repayment of          
the states of Holland the Charge they have been at upon his Maties              
Comeing hither &c An Account being delivered in of 600000 L the                 
perticulers whereof were Read in the house who thereupon ordered they           
will Againe be in A Comittee to Considder of A supply to Enable his             
Maty to Repay the states                                                        
     A Temporary bill Agt the Exportation of wooll Read & ordered A 2d          
Reading                                                                         
     The bill for takeing away the oaths of Alleigance & supremacy &            
takeing the new oaths Comitted                                                  
     Tis said the d of somerset is Chosen Chancellr of the University           
of Cambridg                                                                     
     They write from Paris An Expresse Arrived to their King from o[u]r         
late King That on the 14th he Embarqued A 2d time for Ireland & was             
forced back by Contrary winds  But they have A Report that the occasion         
of his Returne was An Information of 17 men of warr which lay Cruiseing         
off of Cornwall                                                                 
     The ffrench K hath sent A letter of his own writeing to the Pope           
wherein he desires him to Accomodate matters between him & the Emper[o]r        
on such Termes as his Holiness shall see fit, Except only in the warr           
Agt Holland which he is Resolved to Prosecute till he hath Reduced them         
to the same Condition they were in In 1672 & to A Much worse then that          
if they will not Call home the P of Orange that o[u]r late King may be          
Restored to his Crowne                                                          
     L. c. 1989     London 16th March 1688                                      
+Yest in the H of Comons mr Harbord Acquainted the house from the King          
of the defection of 2 Captains & some hundred souldiers of the Ld               
Dunbartons Regemt quartered in & Abt Ipswich that had seized 4 peeces           
of Cannon & the money sent downe to pay the souldiers in those parts            
proclaimeing K James the 2d & declareing they had noe other King                
     The house Resolved that An Addresse be prsented his Maty to take           
some effectuall Course for the speedy suppressing & bringing to justice         
such Mutineers & in the meane time to Ishue out A Proclamation                  
declareing them & their Adherents traytors & Rebells                            
     & such An Addresse being drawne was sent to the Lds for their              
Concurrance                                                                     
     A message was brought from the Lds they had Agreed to the Addresse         
& last night 2 Lds & 4 Comons prsented it                                       
     The house were in A Grand Comittee Abt the Repayment of the states         
& Resolved                                                                      
     That A supply be given his Maty not Exceeding 600000 L to Enable           
him to pay the Charge of the late Expedition into England                       
     This day in the H of Comons A bill was ordered for the more speedy         
Conviction of Papists  sr Hen Capell Reported the Kings Answer to the           
Addresse & that his Maty had sent 3 Regemts of horse & 1 of dragoons to         
suppresse the Rebells                                                           
     The Amendmts to the bill for the new oaths being Reported it is            
ordered to be Engrost                                                           
     The bill for Reversing the Attainder of the late Ld Russell past &         
Returned to the Lds                                                             
     The King Came to the H of Peers & the Comons being sent for The            
bill for secureing such as are suspected to Conspire Agt the Govermt            
past the Royall assent                                                          
     Upon A Report from the Comittee of Greivances A bill ordered to be         
brought in for Restoreing all bodies Politick & Corporations to the             
state they were in the 29th May 1660                                            
   They write from Rome the Pope was taken with A violent fit of An             
Appoplexie & his Recovery much doubted of                                       
+The Ld dunbartons men that deserted were shipping for Holland & were           
Abt 1000                                                                        
     Also 7 Companies of the Ld Cravens Regemt shipping at Gravesend            
mutinied & are disperst                                                         
      L. c. 1990     London 19th March 1688                                     
+Yest in the H of Comons the bill for Restoreing the Termes & the bill          
for the new oaths were Passed & A bill for takeing away the hearth money        
& A Temporary bill to Punish Mutineers were Read the 1st time                   
     This day the Comons Read A bill for Exportation of Corne & ordered         
it A 2d Reading                                                                 
     The house then Considdered what the Charge of 20000 horse & foot for       
Ireland with the Trayne of Artillery would amount to                            
+This day the Coronation was Published to be on the 11th Aprill                 
     Wee have noe Account that the 4 Regemts sent after the Mutinous            
souldiers have Reached them  But 300 of them upon the Proclaimeing of K         
James deserted their Companions & were sent on board & wee hear most of         
the Rest are dispersed & the Country people have killed some of them            
     Yest Abt 100 journemen shooemakers with A master shooemaker at             
their head offered their service if his Maty would give the said Master         
A Comission                                                                     
+On sunday sr Jo: Chapman o[u]r Ld Mayor died & to morrow A Comon hall          
will Choose A new one which lies between sr Thomas stampe & Ald Pilkington      
     They write from Paris that on the 10th Mounsr de Avaux Arrived             
there from Brest being sent by o[u]r late King to Represent to his Maty         
what Equippage there wanted for soe greate An Expedition & that they            
heard the English & dutch were upon the Coast to Intercept them But was         
sent back to Brest with Peremptory orders to sayle the 1st wind & some          
vessells Come from Brest say o[u]r late King was there on o[u]r [sic]           
10th & Intended to sayle in 2 dayes after                                       
+Tis said this evening that K James landed in Ireland last Wednesday            
     Tis said An Expresse from scotland brings Account the Convention           
mett on Thursday & were very well disposed to his Maty & will Proclaime         
K William & q Mary                                                              
     Our dutch letters say the states have ordered 75 men of warr to be         
out this summer & the English will be as many & Act Conjunctly Agt              
ffrance                                                                         
     L. c. 1991     London 21st March 1688                                      
+Wee hear the Rebells Came Abt 700 strong neer Wisbich [?] in the Isle          
of Ely & were there overtaken by his Maties Regemts of horse & Required         
to lay downe their Armes  They at first Refused unless they might have          
Assurance of their lives But the officer in Cheife Replying he had noe          
such orders & in Case they yeilded not he must engage them  After 5             
houres debate among themselves the souldiers prevailed Agt the officer &        
they yeilded themselves Prisoners of Warr                                       
+Yest in the H of Comons the bill for takeing away the hearth=money was         
Comitted, A Petition of Edmund Prideaux Esqr Agt the Ld Jeffries for            
Exacting 15000 L from [sic] Referred to A Comittee to be Examined               
     The house were in A Grand Comittee & Resolved that A Revenue of            
1,200,000 L p An be setled on their Maties for the Constant Necesary            
Charge of supporting the Crowne in time of peace & A Comittee Appointed         
to Considder how much of it the Charge at sea & of Garrisons &c will            
take up in time of peace                                                        
     This day the Comons had An Estimate of the Irish Expedition                
Computed at 714116 L 15 s 5 d & Resolved that A supply be given for             
Reduceing Ireland                                                               
     This day his Maty Past the Aide bill                                       
     Wee hear from Scotland the Convention mett on the 14th & Chose d           
Hamilton their President & Agreed on An Addresse to the King to                 
Continue in the Administration of the Govermt till further Application          
& Adjourned for 8 dayes                                                         
+Yest the Comon hall mett to Choose A new Ld Mayor & Came to A Poll             
which ended this night & mr Pilkington had 1973 votes but sr Tho stampe         
had 1975 votes                                                                  
     The Comittee of Greivances have declared sr Jo Moor to be A                
betrayer of the Rights & liberties of the Citty                                 
    L. c. 1992   [Handwriting changes here.]     Veneris 22d Martis 1688        
+Mr Medlecot [?] repts from ye Comee appointed to review the Coronation         
the fform of the Oath                                                           
+Ordered That it be Comitted                                                    
     Mrs ffitz Harris Peticon Read                                              
+And Mrs ffitz Harris & sevrall others were called in & declared wt they        
had to say                                                                      
+Ordered That the further Examinacon of the matter be adjd till thursday        
next And that ye Cl of the Crowne doe then attend wth ye Records of the         
Tryall of Mr Edward ffitz:Harris                                                
     A Message from ye Lords wth ye Bill for reviving the Term wth the          
Amendmts                                                                        
     The House was acquainted yt one Capt Motley had spoke words agt the        
Govermt And that a person was at the door to attest it  He was called in        
& gave Informacon thereof                                                       
     Ordered that Capt Motley be taken into Custody                             
+Ordered That Mr ffinch have leave to attend as Councell at the bar of          
the House of Lords in a Cause there                                             
+The Order for ye day read & the House resolved [into] a Comee of ye            
whole House for considering a Supply for reducing of Ireland                    
     And Mr Hambden tooke ye Chair of ye Comee                                  
        Mr Speaker resum'd the Chair                                            
   Mr Hambden repted from ye Comee of Resolves agreed                           
    1 That a Supply be given to his Matye of 202361 L: 17 s: 10 [?] d           
      for maintaini[n]g 22330 men & Officers & contingencys for 6 monthes       
      towards the reducing Ireland                                              
    2 That a further Supply of 27451 L 10 s 4 d for Levy money &                
      Transportacon be given                                                    
    3 That a further Supply of 819835: 17 s: 3 d for providing an               
      Artillery be given                                                        
    4 That twill be necesary yt the like Supply of 202361 L 17 s 10 d be        
      hereafter granted for pay[ing?] the said forces for other 6 months        
      if the war in Ireland should soe long continue                            
        To all wch the House agreed nemine Contradicente                        
+Resolved yt the House will tomorrow resolve into a Comee of the whole          
House to take farther consideracon of His Matyes Speech                         
     That the Calling over the House be adjd till Wedne[sday]                   
     That all Comees be adjd                                                    
   That the Comee of Eleccons sit tomor in ye afternoon                         
                     Adjd till tomor 9 a Cl                                     
     L. c. 1993     [Handwriting changes here.]     London 23d March 1688       
+It being the Custome of this Citty that the Comon hall prsent 2 persons        
to the Court of Aldermen & they Choose which of those 2 they please for         
Ld Mayor The Comon hall prsented sr Tho: stampe & Thomas Pilkington Esqr        
& the Aldermen Chose Tho: Pilkington Esqr for Ld Mayor & he was yest            
sworne Ld Mayor accordingly                                                     
     Yest the Comons were in A Grand Comittee Abt Ireland & Resolved            
That A supply of 307361 L 17 s 10 d be given his Maty for Maintaining of        
22330 men officers & Contingences for 6 months towards Reduceing Ireland        
2dly A further supply of 27351 L 13 s 4 d for Levy money & transportation       
Also 81935 L 17 s 5 d for provideing Artillery                                  
[In margin to left of this paragraph are these figures in another hand:]        
      +                                                                         
 307361:17:10                                                                   
  27351:13:04                                                                   
  81935:17:05                                                                   
 416649:08:07                                                                   
1000000:00:00                                                                   
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1416649     7                                                                   
     Also that it be necesary that the like summe of 307361 L 17 s 10d          
be hereafter granted for paying the land forces other 6 months if the warr      
In Ireland shall soe long Continue  To all which the house Agreed Nemine        
Contradicente                                                                   
     This day the Comons Agreed with the Amendmts the Lds had made in           
the bill for Renewing the Termes & Comitted the bills for Exportations          
of Corne & for takeing away the Courts of the Marshes of Wales & Read A         
bill to prevent symony                                                          
     Resolved that his Maty be humbly desired to direct An Estimate may         
be given what fleet may be Necesary for this summers service & 2dly what        
the obligations are by any treaties between this Crowne & the states of         
holland                                                                         
     By A ship Arrived at Liverpoole wee have Account that the E of             
Tirconnells forces sent into the North of Ireland have been Engaged by          
the Protestants & that some thousands are slaine on each side but the           
Protestants got the better                                                      
     Wee hear from scotland that A letter from the late K James being           
brought to that Convention before the Reading thereof they voted                
themselves to be A free & Lawfull Convention & that they would Continue         
sitting till their Religion Lawes & liberties be secured notwithstanding        
what might be Contained in the said letter & Passed the same into An Act        
     L. c. 1994     London 26th March 1689                                      
+Yest morning Abt 2 A Clocke A fire happened near the Hermitage Bridg           
burning up towards East smithfield above 40 houses & then was supprest          
     Yest in the H of Comons the bill for Erecting Courts of Conscience         
in Southwarke Westminster & other out parts of the Citty was recd &             
ordered A 2d Reading                                                            
     a Message was brought from his Maty by mr Hambden Importing his            
Maties earnest desire of a Genll Act of Oblivion to passe & the house           
Resolved that their thanks be given his Maty for his Grace & favour &           
ordered A Comittee to Inspect the Journall of 1660 how the Convention           
then proceeded in the Act of Indempnity                                         
     The house went into a Grand Comittee Abt setling the forme of the          
Coronation oath & putting the question whether that Clause should be            
Incerted to preserve the Church of England as by law established it was         
Carryed in the affirmative                                                      
     Being Returned into A house A Comittee was Appointed to prepare A          
bill for Establishing the Coronation oath                                       
     This day the said bill was Read twice & Comitted & the Comittee to         
Inspect the Journall in 1660 made A Report                                      
     The bill for the more speedy Conviction & Armeing Papists Recd &           
ordered A 2d Reading                                                            
     mr Hambden brought in the state of the Navy for the summers service        
& also An Abstract of the Articles with Holland                                 
     A motion being made for some settlemt on the Ps Ann of Denmarke the        
house Resolved it shall be taken into Considderation at the same time           
with the Revenue                                                                
     Wee have here much discourse Concerning the Archbp of Cant his not         
Comeing into the house of Peers when sent for & Its said also he declines       
his High function at the Intended Coronation & the Consecration of dr           
Burnet                                                                          
     Tis said the Ld John Hamilton is Comeing from the scotch Convention        
with their thanks for his Maties gracious letter & that he will be              
followed by some to treate of An union with that Kingdome.                      
     L. c. 1995     London 28th March 1689                                      
+This day the Comons past the bill for Naturalizing P: George The bill          
for Banishing Papists 10 miles from London The bill for the Coronation          
oath & the bill for punishing mutineers & sent them to the Lds &                
Adjourned till Munday                                                           
      Yest the Bps of Carlisle & st Davids Appeared in the H of Lds &           
tooke the new oaths & the Lds Adjourned till Wednesday                          
     Its Generally believed the Late K James is dead or past Recovery at        
Nantz & that the d of Berwick &c are Arrived in Ireland to Represent him        
     Last night 19 scotch officers with their hands tyed on horseback &         
Abt 20 souldiers in A Waggon guarded by A party of Dutch dragoons & this        
day 500 foot were brought to towne & are Comitted to Newgate &c                 
     On sunday dr Burnet is to be Consecrated by the Bp of London               
Assisted by the Bps of Rochester & st Asaph &c  Dr Hornert is to preach         
the Consecration sermon                                                         
      On Wednesday morning sr James Caldwell Came Expresse to his Maty          
Out of the North of Ireland through scotland & Called at that Convention        
& Acquainted them with the state of the Protestants there who were 10000        
strong & Resolved to dispute it with Tirconell part of whose Army               
Attempted to suppresse them but the Protestants maintained the Passes &         
they were driven back with loss                                                 
     But wee have since An Account from Ireland The Papists have broke          
through the Protestants & made A Greate slaughter & are in Posession of         
all the Country Except London Derry & Its feared will massacre all in Armes     
     Wee hear from Lancashire that a ship put to sea with 50                    
Considderable Papists on board designed for Ireland but by Contrary winds       
are driven back & seized with their Armes & sent to Lancaster goals             
     Admirall Herbert is sayled out of the downes with above 20 men of          
warr                                                                            
     L.c. 1996     London 30th March 1689                                       
+Wee had Account from scotland The D of Gourdon Agreed to surrender the         
Castle to the Convention on the 22d  But by letters of the 23d Instant          
wee understand he broke that Agreemt hanging out A flagg & Causeing his         
Cannon to be discharged on that day for joy of the Newes he pretended to        
have that the late King was Arrived in Ireland & 2 or 3 persons have            
been since wounded by small shott from the Castle for Attempting to make        
A ditch before the Posterne gate                                                
     However the Convention which are there stiled the states proceed           
vigourously & have made severall Acts vizt  To Levy such Taxes as are           
already due To Raise the Militia & to settle officers in the Militia &          
to Enjoyne An oath to be true to the Estates & ordered the sending 5000         
Armes to Glascow & the sending to Holland to buy 10000 Armes                    
     The Ld Claverhouse designing to seize Sterling Castle was prevented        
& is sumoned to surrender himselfe or be declared Guilty of High Treason        
     On the 22d they Agreed on An Address to King William Importing the         
Gratefull sence they have of his understanding desireing his Protection         
& they will with all posible speed settle the Govermt to his                    
satisfaction & security of the Protestant Religion                              
+In the house of Comons on Thursday the house gave leave to bring in A          
bill for better paveing the streets & Highwayes in & Abt London                 
     sr Wm Williams Reported some few Amendmts to the Addresse Abt the          
Genll Pardon & it was Agreed to & the members of the Privy Councell             
ordered to Attend the King with the said Addresse & Adjourned till              
Munday                                                                          
     Letters from Brest say some ships sayled out of that Port for              
Ireland but the late K James not finding such A Number of ships Armes           
& men as he was promised declined Embarqueing besides was taken ill &           
Its thought he Cannot Recover                                                   
     The defeate of the Protestants in Ireland is Confirmed yet not soe         
bad as Reported                                                                 
     Some Regemts are sent to the North Information being brought to the        
King that divers disaffected persons are Raiseing A Tumult & the Papists        
in Lancashire are somewhat uneasy                                               
     Tis said the Bp of London will be Bp of Durham & the deane of st           
Paulls Bp of London                                                             
+The Leiftenancy have Affixed 6 Colls for the Citty vizt the Ld Mayor sr        
Patience Ward sr Robt Clayton sr Tho stampe sr Wm Ashurst sr Tho Lane           
     L. c. 1997     London 2d Aprill 1689                                       
+The letter from the scotch Convention is in the Gazett                         
     They write further from scotland the Convention are busy in setling        
the Militia of the North of that Kingdome & Majestrates of Glascow              
     On the 26th they Elected A Comittee of 24 to Considder of the              
setlemt of the Govermt & Report their Resolutions to the Convention in          
which Choyce the Bps were Excepted                                              
     small shott is dayly discharged betwixt the Castle & those that            
block it up one being kild & A greate many wounded                              
     They have Account there of the greate distresses of the Protestants        
in Ireland who have noe other Reserve left then London derry but are there      
Considderably strong & Resolved to defend themselves to the last man            
     Yest in the H of Comons A Petition of the Brewers of Coventry was          
Read & ordered to be Considdered when the Revenue of the Excise is              
debated                                                                         
     A Petition of divers Cittizens of London who were fined in the year        
1682 was Read                                                                   
     The bill for Exportation of Grayne ordered to be Engrossed                 
     sr Wm Williams Reported his Maties Answer to their Addresse in these       
like words                                                                      
+Gent, I am glad I doe what you like & Exspect you will further Proceed         
to Expedite the Indempnity & oblivion which Tends soe much to An union  I       
shall be alwayes forward to doe my part in this & all other things as may       
unite all my people                                                             
     A bill Concerning Corporations Read A 2d time & Comitted & A motion        
made it might be An Instruction to the Comittee that none may be                
Admitted to any place of Magistracy unless he have Recd the sacramt             
within 12 months According to the Church of England & the debate                
Adjourned till Wednesday seavenight                                             
     Resolved that A Comittee be Appointed to prepare A bill of                 
Comprehension                                                                   
     This day the bill for takeing away the hearth money was ordered to         
be Engrost                                                                      
+The house Considdered the Amendmts by the Lds to the bill for Removeing        
Papists &c & did not Agree to A Proviso That the queen Dowagers servants        
should be Excused from takeing the oaths & A Comittee ordered to draw up        
the Reasons of their disagreemt                                                 
     L. c. 1998     London 4th Aprill 1689                                      
+Yest wee Recd letters from divers Gent escaped out of Ireland to Bristoll      
who made Affidavit they saw K James at Kingsale on the 12th March who           
brought with him 1000000 L & A greate quantity of Armes but not above 3         
or 400 men  That he was Come to Corke & understanding one Browne Towne          
Clerke had Proclaimed K Wm & q: Mary he Caused him to be Prosecuted &           
they saw him drawne hanged & quartered & that Comissions are given to the       
judges to try A greate many & that they discourse there of his Intentions       
for scotland & that some of his ships are sayled to the North to                
transport 17000 Irish for scotland & that he is Calling A Parliamt in           
Ireland                                                                         
     This day the Comons Considdered how to Raise money for Reduceing           
Ireland & Resolved in A very Extensive Poll                                     
     The Lds were in a Grand Comittee upon the Comprehension bill &             
divideing on the question whether kneeling or not at the sacramt yeas 30        
noes 31.  dr Burnet Bp of sarum Comeing the 1st time was the Casting vote       
     P: George is to be D of Cumberland mr Henry sidney viscount Chippy         
The Heer Benting E of Portland The Ms of Winchester A duke The Ld               
Mountague An earle & sr Jo Lowther A Baron                                      
     Tis said his Maty has Agreed with the states for 3 Regemts of sweds        
or Brandenburgers for as many English in Exchange which he will make use        
of in Ireland & that all souldiers aswell English as others assoon as           
they land there will be Allowed 12 d p day & besides have some land             
shared to them after the Conquest                                               
     L. c. 1999     London 6th Aprill 1689                                      
+They write from scotland That on the 29th the Comrs for setling the            
Govermt Came to this Resolution                                                 
   That the late K James                                                        
ffirst by his Nominating Provosts Bayliffs &c of Corporations                   
2dly by putting Roman Catholicks into places of trust & Honour                  
3dly by Causing schooles to be erected for Educating youth in the               
Popish Religion                                                                 
4thly by Incroaching upon the Property of the subject in disarmeing             
Protestants & Armeing Papists hath forfeited the Govermt                        
     Divers of the Comittee were then for the Imediate Proclaimeing of          
K Wm But that was overruled by the Majority who thought it were more            
Adviseable Preliminaries be first Tendred to the K of England                   
1st That An union with scotland & England should be Concerted by Comrs          
of both Kingdoms in which the K to be umpire                                    
2dly that the fundamentall lawes of scotland shall not be Changed               
3dly that the Religion setled by this Convention shall not be Altered           
for the future                                                                  
     The E of dundee is Proclaimed Rebell unless he Come in by the 14th         
Instant                                                                         
     This day the house were in A Grand Comittee on the bill for the New        
oaths & Agreed that all Clergy men Refuseing to take the new oaths shall        
be suspended for 3 months & persisting afterwards to forfeit their              
benefice  all officers Civill & military shall loose their places & others      
for the 1st offence pay 40 s for the 2d 10 L for the 3d to be bound to          
the Good behavour from sessions to sessions till they have taken them           
     This day the Comons Past the bill for takeing away the hearth money        
& sent it to the Lds                                                            
     On Thursday the E of Radnor was marryed to sr Jo Cutlers daughter          
with whome he hath neer 80000 L                                                 
     L. c. 2000     London 9th Aprill 1689                                      
+Yest the Comons gave leave to bring in A bill for Exportation of Lether        
& the bill for Exporting beer Ale & Mumm was Comitted with Instructions         
that sider be Inserted  A bill of Comprehension was Read & ordered A 2d         
Reading                                                                         
     This day the Engrost bill from the Lds for the ease of Protestant          
dissenters was Read & ordered A 2d Reading on the 16th Instant                  
     A Comittee Appointed to draw up An Addresse to his Maty for his            
Gracious declaration for the defending the Church of England as by Law          
established & to desire him to Call A Convocation & that its not their          
Intention thereby to hinder the ease of the Protestant dissenters               
     This day the King passed the Act for the Coronation oath The Act           
for Naturalizeing P: George & for Naturalizeing M. schomberg &c                 
     The Bp of Bath hath sent word he will Come to towne & take the oaths       
     The ships with Powder Guns &c which were sent for London derry are         
Returned & bring Account they safely landed them there & saw 19 Cannon          
planted & That the people were in good heart That the Ld Kingston was at        
the head of A seperate body of Protestants Abt Colraine & slego & being         
sent to by those of London derry to joyne their forces he thought               
himselfe able to make good his Post & by letters yest from Edenbrough           
wee hear those Abt Colrain had given 2 defeates to some of Tirconnells          
forces                                                                          
     Our scotch letters Relate sr Geo: Lockhart Ld President of the             
session was barbarously murthered being shott into the back with A              
Pistoll by one mr Cheelsey who is by the Convention ordered to be tryed &       
is Condemned to be hanged & his body to be hanged in Chaines                    
     [Item on Bishop of Bath is repeated; see three paragraphs above.]          
     mr Trenchard is made Ld Ch: Justice of Chester The Ld Lumley Capt of       
the 1st troope of Guards mr stanley the Queens Cupbearer & the Ld               
Churchill is to be made E of Marlbrough                                         
     L. c. 2001     London 11th Aprill 1689                                     
+This day King William & Q Mary were Crowned at Westminster with all the        
Grandeur that hath at any time been knowne on the like occasion                 
     They write from scotland the Comittee for setling the Govermt              
haveing drawne up their Reasons that K James had forefaulted the Govermt        
prsented them to the Convention who debated it in A very full house  The        
Archbp of Glascow Asserted Kings to have An absolute power Jure=divino &        
that they were not Accountable to men but most of the Argumente were to         
the Contrary & ended in A Genll Concurrance Except 7 Bps then in the            
house & Abt as many others & the Act drawne up by the Comittee was Past         
     The affaire of the Castle Remaines as it did                               
     Our Newes from Ireland is now more positive that the late King is          
there & is Come to Dublin & was seen there by A Gent Arrived thence the         
Irish Embargo being taken off  That he hath sumoned A Parliamt to meet          
the 7th May & put out severall other proclamations & Caused divers to be        
proceeded Agt as traytors & displaced sr Tho Newcomen Coll Russell &            
others of that privy Councell who were firme to his Interest but passed         
for Protestants                                                                 
     We have Account from London derry not only of the safe Arrivall of         
the Cannon & Ammunition sent from England But also hear 2 Regemts of            
ffoot are shipt at Liverpoole in Lancashire & divers other Regemts are          
hastning thither                                                                
     Our fforeign letters say either some new french Policy or other            
matter doth obstruct the peace between the Emper[o]r & Turks soe that the       
Imperiall Regemts Intended for the Rhine will Its feared be Countermanded       
     L.c. 2002     London 13th Aprill 1689                                      
+Yest the Comons gave leave to bring in A bill for A Court of Conscience        
in Newcastle Another at Gloucester Another at Yarmouth another at               
Canterbury                                                                      
     Then the house went in A body to Congratulate their Maties on their        
Coronation & were graciously Recd                                               
     This day the Comons Read the Poll bill A 1st time & ordered it A 2d        
Reading                                                                         
     The Addresse to his Maty for Calling A Convocation was Reported &          
sent to the Lds for their Concurrance                                           
     His Maty hath been pleased to Appoint Mayor Wildman Governr of the         
Generall Post office in place of mr ffrond & he is entred upon the said         
office                                                                          
     This day wee hear that the K of spaine Declining A Neutrality the          
ffrench K: hath Actually Declared warr Agt him                                  
     When the estates of scotland were Abt to Passe An act that K James         
had forefaulted the Right to the Crowne it was Debated whether to use           
those words The Right or his Right for if the latter it was to be               
Considdered whether the P of Wales or any other had A Right  But it was         
Carryed for the Right & that the Kingdome was Returned in the same state        
as before the Reigne of ffergus the first                                       
     On the 6th the Comittee for setling the governmt sate & voted              
Episcopacy to be the Greate Agreivance of the Nation & ffoundation of           
all their other Agreivances In the debate of which it was Insisted That         
Episcopacy might better be Continued in England then there because first        
setled after the Reformation  But then Presbtery was first after the            
Reformation & hath been found most for the Interest & best to suite the         
Constitution of that people  2dly they voted the Comission Court An             
Agreivance as depending on Episcopacy                                           
     None of the Bps being in the Convention either on the 5th or 6th A         
motion was that A Presbiterian minister might be sent for to say prayers        
but Upon Another motion of the Ld President it was deferred till the 8th        
     The garrison within the Castle Continue dayly to fire on those in          
the Towne but have as yet done little Execution, The preparations for           
stormeing the Castle Continue                                                   
     L. c. 2003      London 16th Aprill 1689                                    
+Yest the Poll bill was Read A 2d time & Comitted & the Bill for ease of        
Protestant Dissenters Read & ordered A 2d Reading the 22d Instant               
     This day the Comons ordered A Comittee to Draw up an Addresse to           
his Maty To Represent That if he shall thinke fit to enter into a warr          
with ffrance they will give all such assistance in A Parliamentary way          
as shall enable & support him to goe through with it                            
     An Embargo is layd on all ships outward bound & the greate                 
Expectation of A warr with ffrance hath in one day Advanced the Price           
of ffrench Comodities                                                           
      Our Irish letters Confirme the Defeate of the Papists before              
Colraine That the late King is gone North & that Abt 40 Protestants             
are executed for High Treason  The late Kings motto in his standard             
is now or never  tis said he designes for scotland                              
     Our scotch letters say the Convention have ordered d Hamilton &            
Genll Mackay to Call in what forces they please                                 
     6 Regemts are ordered forthwith to be Embarqued for Holland                
     Yest the merchants of this Citty were sent for to the King who             
desired to Know How they Could secure their effects in case A warr should       
be Declared Agt ffrance To which they gave his Maty some heads in writeing      
     On satureday 300 men were shipt at Tower wharfe & to morrow will be        
as many  this weeke 20 peeces of Cannon will be sent for scotland & some        
gunners                                                                         
     L. c.2004     London 18th Aprill 1689                                      
+Yest the Comons past the bill Agt symony & this day were in A grand            
Comittee Abt the Poll bill & Agreed that all Practiceing Lawyers pay 3 L        
p C for 3 yeares All servants that Receive above 4 L p An Wages to pay          
1 s 6 d p C & all servants that Receive under to pay 6 d p C, All moneys        
at Interest to pay 10 s p Cent A Baronet 15 L A Knight 10 L A Esqr 5 L &        
A Gent 1 L                                                                      
+The Ld Jeffries haveing been severall weeks in a very Languishing              
Condition died this morning in the Tower                                        
     In scotland the estates Concur with the Comittee that the Governmt         
of the Church by Bps be Abolished                                               
     Yest being the first of easter Terme the several Courts in                 
Westminster were Recontinued & a Judge in each court sate & heard some          
motions & Its said the Rest of the Judges will be Added next weeke              
     The E of Oxfords Regemt is ordered forthwith to Embarque for               
holland & 6 Regemts more are ordered for scotland & 7 for Ireland  Also         
12 Regemts of horse & 2 of Dragoons are forthwith to be Raised for              
Ireland                                                                         
     Yest 20 stout merchants ships were taken up to make men of warr &          
An order for an Embargo sent into all parts & the Lds of the Admiralty          
have ordered 60 more men of warr to be speedily Equipped & the Holland          
fleet & o[u]rs will this summer Compose 150 men of warr                         
+A vessell Arrived from Brest sayes there are in & neer that port 45 men        
of warr designed to transport men & Ammunition to Ireland                       
     L. c. 2005     London 20th Aprill 1689                                     
+Yest the Lds & Comons prsented An Addresse to thanke his Maty for              
standing by the Church of England & to pray him to sumon A Convocation          
To which the King Replyed he would send tham An Answer in writeing this         
day                                                                             
     The question was put whether the house should Agree with the Lds           
Amendments Abt the oathe vizt that it should be Tendred to the Bps by A         
perticuler Comission from the King & was carryed in the Negative                
     This day the Comons ordered A 2d Reading to the Bill setling the           
Crowne & ordered the bill from the Lds for Indulgence of Protestant             
dissenters to be Read on friday                                                 
     Yest Arrived An Expresse from scotland & brought the letters &             
Comissions that were seized upon the earles servant from K James in             
Ireland which were perused yest in presence of the King & Councell &            
Its said that greate discoveries are made thereby  That K James designes        
for scotland & that there would be some Riseings in England there being         
some English gents mentioned                                                    
     That Genll Maccay has got all things Ready to storme the Castle  The       
Convention have Appointed 2 Presbiterian ministers to say prayers in the        
house                                                                           
     Brady that was seized has Arrested the E of Belcarris [?] & others         
for holding Correspondancy with the late K & promises to make A greate          
discovery of some designes in England provided he may obtain his pardon         
     The E of Dundee is Seized & Comitted to sterling Castle & his party        
dispersed                                                                       
     Letters yest from Chester Confirme the landing of Coll Richards &          
Cunninghams Regemts at London derry & that there are above 8000                 
Protestants therein That 12000 men were Comeing Agt them headed by K            
James That the ffrench are fortifying severall havens & that Its thought        
the Country is sould unto that King                                             
+Yest A Gent said to be mr Temple secretary of warr sr Wms son hired A          
wherry to Carry him to Greenwich & as they were shooting the bridg flung        
himselfe in the Thames & was drowned  he left money & A note in the boate       
which contained these words vizt My folly in undertakeing that which I          
Could not Execute is A greate prejudice to the King  there was noe other        
way to Remedy it but by this                                                    
     L. c. 2006     London  23rd Aprill 1689                                    
+Last satureday more petitions were prsented to the Comons Agt the E            
India Company & were Referred to A Comittee                                     
     Yest there was A Conference in the Painted Chamber where the Lds           
offered some Reasons why they Could not agree with the Comons abt the           
manner of takeing the new oaths & the Comons being Returned put it to           
the vote whether to agree therewith & Carryed it in the Negative                
     A Message from the Lds that they had agreed to the bill for                
Exportation of Corne                                                            
     A petition from the Archbps & Bps of Ireland fled hither was Read &        
An Addresse ordered to his Maty to take there Condition into                    
Considderation                                                                  
     This day the Comons ordered the Poll bill to be Engrossed                  
     A message from the Lds that they had Passed the bill for takeing           
away the hearth money                                                           
     Resolved that on Munday the house will be in a Comittee to                 
Considder of A Genll Pardon                                                     
     Its Reported Admirall Herbert hath taken Kingsale                          
     Our scotch letters relate the Convention to be busy in setling the         
Militia  An Embargo is there layd on all ships outward bound  The greate        
Cannon were drawne out the 16th Instant to be planted on the batteries          
Agt the castle & A proclamation was to Come out next day to warne all           
the Inhabitants of Edinbrough to keep within their houses for 4 dayes           
     On sunday night the person that threw himselfe into the Thames out         
of A boate was taken up & proves to be mr Temple son of sr Wm Temple who        
was newly made secretary of warr by the prsent Maty  The Coroners Jury          
found he was distracted                                                         
     His Matys Answer to the Addresse of both houses of thanks for              
preserveing the Church of England is in Print In which wherein his Maty         
assures he is Resolved to support this Church That he hopes the ease they       
designe to dissenters will Contribute very much to the establishmt of the       
Church which therefore he earnestly Recomends to them & that assoon as          
Conveniently may be he will sumon A Convocation                                 
     L. c. 2007     London  25th Aprill 1689                                    
+Yest the K sent the H of Comons 7 letters of K James taken in scotland 2       
of them writt with his owne hand but had noe direction  The other were          
directed to the Ld Dundee Ld Belcarris &c & were in substance to signify        
he had 80000 good souldiers & would Come suddenly into scotland wishing         
them to Raise what forces they Could                                            
     His Maty gave the Royall assent to 6 Acts mentioned in the Gazett          
     A bill for setling the Crowne Read A 2d time & Comitted & the bill         
for better Collecting the Revenue ordered to be Engrost                         
     This day the bill for takeing away the Court of the Marshes of             
Wales was ordered to be Engrost                                                 
     The house were in A Comittee to Considder of A supply for the Navy         
& Resolved                                                                      
     That 600000 L p An be setled out of the standing Revenue for               
mantenance of the Civill govermt The q: Regent & q Dowager & the Prince         
& Ps of Denmarke & That the summe of 700000 L be Raised for A supply for        
the Navy                                                                        
     Our Irish letters say that Kingdom is Totally subdued & all places         
in the Papists hands & Coll Richards & Coll Cunninghams Regemts Returned        
to Chester                                                                      
     Divers Regemts are ordered Northwards & all the dutch forces Except        
those of the Guards & greate store of Warlike provisions are shipping           
for scotland                                                                    
     Yest near 1000 foot were sent for Holland & among them the late            
scotch Rebells                                                                  
     A Warrant was signed yest to presse 2000 seamen to send more ships         
after Admirall Herbert who is now in Milford Haven                              
     The Irish souldiers that were in the Isle of Wight are shipt for           
Hamburgh the K haveing prsented them to the Emperor                             
     The E of Oxfords Regemt of horse being ordered for Holland were at         
first Mutenous but the said Earle makeing A speech at the head of the           
Regemt soe prevailed that most of them Complyed but the horse & Armes           
being first put on board Abt 50 of the men Ran away                             
     They write from Rome that the Pope has Remitted 400000 Crowns to           
the Confederates to Carry on the warr Agt ffrance but has Refused to            
send anything to K James                                                        
     L. c. 2008     London  27th Aprill 1689                                    
+Yest in the H of Lds 2 writts of Error brought by dr Oates to Reverse          
the sentences Agt him were Argued & their Lordships Resolved they should        
be Reversed accordingly                                                         
     Yest the Comons Past the bill for Collecting the Revenue & the             
Poll bill & ordered the bill sent from the Lds Exempting protestant             
dissenters from Certain penalties & the bill of Comons for Indulgence           
be Read on Tuesday nothing to Intervene & that the Addresse to his Maty         
to make warr with ffrance with the Kings answer to be printed                   
     This day sr Robt Howard gave Account of the pentions Charged by            
Patent on the Revenue by K Charles & K James 2d which amounted to               
above 300000 L  The house Agreed That the q: Dowagers & Ps Ann of               
Denmarks Pentions should Continue & Resolved that the summe of                  
600000 L & part of the Revenue of the Crowne goe to the charge of the           
Navy & that on Munday they will be in A Comittee to Considder how to            
Raise this 700000 L for A supply for the Navy                                   
     some letters from Ireland say that though Lundy the Governr of             
London derry Refused Coll Richards & Cunninghams Regemts yet Coll Kirke         
with other Regemts sent also thither would not take Refusal but entred          
the place                                                                       
     Marshall schomberg is marched downe to the North & the King will           
in few dayes have An Army of 20000 men  There are 5 Regemts at Newcastle        
     Yest was greate pressing of watermen on the River for the fleet to         
ffollow Admirall Herbert who will in A fortnights time have 40 men of warr      
     They write from ffrance the late queen of England Recd A letter            
from K James that he Designes with 30000 men to Passe out of Ireland            
into scotland & march that way into England to make A Conquest thereof          
     They write from scotland That the Cannon planted Agt the Castle            
were Dismounted by the D of Gourdon  That a Trayne of Artillery some            
Mortarpeeces & A greate many Bombes were brought thither from England           
but the D of Gourdon has seized the Magazeen under Ground & his Gunners         
prove more expert then was Reported                                             
     L. c. 2009     London Aprill 1689                                          
+Yest the Comons past the bill for takeing away the Courts of the Marches       
of Wales & Resolved That all the forfeitures of those that tooke not the        
Test According to Law shall goe towards the 700000 L for the Navy  Also A       
tax on the new buildings since 1660 & An Additional Excise upon beer & ale      
     This day the Comons Read A bill for Restoring Corporations  Also A         
bill from the Lds makeing it Treason to Correspond with the late King &         
ordered An Addresse to his Maty to be Expeditious in setling the Militia        
     They write from Paris the P of Wales hath the small pox which tis          
thought will prove mortall  They also say the ffrench K Designes to have        
a fleet of 100 Capitall ships                                                   
     On satureday the Ld Blany gave the King An Account of the Affaires         
of Ireland which is wholly upon declineing & believes that London derry         
Cannot hold out much longer Hamilton being before it with A Considderable       
Army & that Lundy the Governr is made A Prisoner & they have made one           
Wallington A person that ffanned the Mines at Coltrain Governr in his           
stead                                                                           
     That K James being on his March to the North Receiving Advice of           
his Comissions sent into scotland being siezed is on his Returne to             
Dublin to Consult new Measures  The small Pox is very mortall in the            
Irish army                                                                      
     This day A Proclamation was Published Prohibitting the Importation         
of all ffrench Comodities                                                       
     They write from scotland the D of Gourdon Apprehending A designe           
in the beseigers to drayne the springs which supply the Wells of the            
Castle he on the 23rd Instant beate A Parley & threatened that Unless           
it was granted he would turne the Cannon upon the Citty                         
     L. c. 2010     London 2d May 1689                                          
+Yest the Comons gave leave to bring in a bill to Charge the Mannrs of          
Dolbie & Broughton in Leicestershire bought by the late Ld Jeffries with        
the Repayment of 15000 L Extorted by him from mr Prideaux  Also ordered         
the Members of the severall Counties to bring in An Estimate what the           
500 L fforfieture on the Test Act may Amount to                                 
     The bill for Releife of the Orphans of London ordered A 2d Reading         
on satureday                                                                    
     This day the Comons ordered that sr James smith be prosecuted in the       
Kings bench for bayleing mr Brent                                               
     Coll Cunningham is Come to towne & has been with the King who              
seemes greately displeased thereat & Causes him to Hasten back to London        
derry with the 2 Regemts & 3 more & Remaine there for defence of the            
place & that Coll Kirke Preside there as Governr with Assurance they            
shall be supplied                                                               
     A ship Arrived at Plimouth sayes there are 50 men of warr At Brest         
Ready to sayle the first faire wind                                             
     Admirall Herbert is in Milford haven & when Joyned by 10 ships from        
Portesmouth will vissitt the ffrench Coast                                      
     The Dutch have ordered 100 men of warr to be Equipped this summer &        
those designed to Joyne the English ffleet are Ready to sayle                   
     The 3 Comrs from scotland are Arrived here                                 
     An Envoy is Arrived from Denmarke to desire his Maty to be                 
Moderator betwixt him & the d of Holstein & he will quitt all Engagemts         
with ffrance & lend his Maty 20000 men & 20 men of warr for Reduction           
of Ireland                                                                      
     They write from scotland Edenbrough Castle Cannot hold out many dayes      
     L. c. 2011     London 4th May 1689                                         
+This day the Ps Ann of Denmarke was brought to bed of A boy                    
     Yest An Additional Poll bill was Read a 2d time & ordered to be            
Engrossed                                                                       
     This day the Comons ordered A 2d Reading to A bill to make voyd all        
Gifts & Grants to Papists                                                       
     On Munday the late Judges Holloway Wright & Jenner are ordered to          
be brought up to the H of Lds to show their Reasons why they gave their         
opinions for the dispencing Power Also Judge Withins to give Reasons for        
the Judgmt Agt dr Oates                                                         
     Yest came An Expresse from Admirall Herbert that he is Joyned by           
5 English & 6 Dutch men of warr which makes him 36 sayle & he was               
Makeing for Brest haveing fitted 3 or 4 fflyboates with stones & Gravell        
to sinke in the Mouth of the harbour to keep the ffrench in Port                
     Coll steward & sr George st George are Posted away to secure               
Cunningham & Richards to be tryed by A Court Marshall & Passe with all          
Expedition with those Regemts & others for London derry                         
     Wee hear from Ireland K James designes to have 2 Camps one of 35000        
between Kingsale & Corke the other of 25000 in Kildare That the bloody          
fflux Rages in the Army  also many of their horses dye                          
     This morning sr Robt Peyton died  This morning the Greate seale of         
England was taken out of the Thames near ffoxx hall by A ffishermans net        
& Carryed to the secretaries office                                             
     They write from Edenbrough The states have Appointed A day of              
thanksgiveing for their Deliverance from Popery & slavery That some             
of the Clergye Persisting in their Refusall to Pray for K Wm & q Mary           
The Estates have not [been?] only Deprived but Declared their Churches          
vacant & Accordingly 3 ministers of Edenbrough are Deprived & others put        
in their places                                                                 
+The Castle still holds out                                                     
     This day the 16 new sergts at Law mett at Grayes Inn & walked to           
Westminster                                                                     
     L. c. 2012     London 7th May 1689                                         
+Yest the late Ld Ch: J Wright J Withins & J Holloway were before the Lds       
to Answer their fineing the E of Devonshire 30000 L & are to Attend             
againe to morrow as also sr ffran Withins &c Abt dr Oates                       
     Yest the Comons ordered sr James smith to be Discharged he haveing         
given bayle                                                                     
     This day the Comons ordered A 2d Reading to the bill to Encourage          
the Woollen Manufacture                                                         
     Letters from Ireland say London derry had Rejected the Pardon of           
K James whereupon it was debated in presence of Mounsr de Avaux what            
Proceed to make upon them & he was of opinion for destroying men women &        
Children when they got it in posession                                          
     An Advice is sent by the King to them to signify if they hold out          
some few dayes they shall have all Posible succour there being 6 Regemts        
designed thither                                                                
     The d of Northumberland goes A voluntier                                   
+Yest the d of Grafton went for the fleet                                       
     The Ld Berkley goes to morrow to Comand A squadron in the streights        
     Tis said mr Wm Jennings is gone over to K James                            
     Wee hear from staffordshire the Rabble of that County got into A           
body & seized the Ld Aston & A Considderable number of Papists & desire         
they may be secured                                                             
     Last sunday the Ld Montgomery the Ms of Powis Ld fforbes & Ld              
Castlemain were Comitted to the Tower                                           
+The scotch Convention is Adjourned till the 21st may                           
     sr Hen Goodrick is made Leift of the ordinance in place of sr Hen          
Tichburne                                                                       
     L. c. 2013     London 9th May 1689                                         
+The Engagement between o[u]r ffleet & the ffrench fleet in the bay of          
Bantry in Ireland is in the Gazett  upon the whole wee were not able to         
hinder the ffrench landing in the west of Ireland                               
     Yest the Comons Past the bill for Enacting the Declarative Rights          
of the people & sent it to the Lds as also the bill for Annulling the           
Attainder of Algernon sidney Esqr                                               
     This day the Comons were in A Comittee to Considder of A supply for        
the Navy & ordered A bill for the Additionall Excise & A bill for taxing        
Ground Rents to be brought in to morrow & that the house will then              
Considder of wayes for Raiseing the money Already voted                         
     In the H of Lds J Wright & J Holloway being Examined as to the E of        
Devonshires fine Seemed to Justify it as going by the meritt of the Case        
& dictates of their Conscience & that they were Influenced by noe               
persons to the same  But sr Jo Powell Declared that since he Considdered        
the Case he found it was Erroneous & Extravagant for which he beggs the         
house & the Earles Pardon & being asked if they were Influenced                 
Confessed they were 2 houres with the Chancellr & that there was first          
A fine proposed as he was Ashamed of & to morrow Its further to be              
Examined                                                                        
     Tis said the Lds of the Admiralty & Comrs of the Navy have promised        
the King to have 60 sayle of men of warr in A fortnight                         
     A Gent Come from London derry on Munday was 7 night & sayes the            
Garrison there being forsaken of most of their Comanders play each the          
master & though there are 12000 in the Towne Its found they will not            
hold out if succour Come not speedily  he sayes that just before he Came        
away the Enimie swam their horses over the River before it & were               
Resolved to Attack it  But mr Walker the prsent Governr is very                 
Resolute in the Defense  That they store up salmon which they Catch in          
abundance  Tis said the late King Causes all the Protestants that are           
seized & were in Armes Agt him to be stript naked & shot to death               
     L. c. 2014     London 11th May 1689                                        
+This day the King gave his Royall Assent to these bills vizt                   
An Act for the more speedily Converting & disarmeing Papists                    
An Act for Naturalizeing Henry Nassaw &c                                        
An Act for Reversing the Attainder of Algernon sidney Esqr                      
     This day A declaration of warr with ffrance was Published                  
     This afternoon the King & queen Accepted of the Crowne of scotland         
& tooke the oaths                                                               
     Admirall Herbert is Arrived at Plimouth & the Report of A 2d               
Engagemt is false                                                               
     They write from Holland the states will Equippe 40 men of warr             
besides others for Convoy & designe to Put 10000 landmen on board to            
Assist the K of England in makeing a descent upon Ireland & Resolve not         
to stay for the ffrench Comeing into their Country but meet them on the         
ffrontiers with 45000 men & give them battle                                    
     On Munday the King goes for Portesmouth to see some of his disabled        
ships & to Hasten the Rest of the fleet to Joyne the Admirall                   
     The Advice Yatcht sent by the King to London derry to Exhort the           
Protestants there to hold out & they shall have assistance is Returned          
& brings Account they are very Vigorous & Resolved to defend the place          
to the last Extremity & lately made A sally 5 miles into the Country with       
2000 men & drove the Papists before them killing above 300                      
     A woman who is seized for one of those that burnt the Towne of             
Ailesford near Winchester has made A large Confession that there are Abt        
60 persons sent by K James Under the Conduct of Capt Talbott out of             
Ireland to set townes & Citties on fire  The said Capt is gone for the          
north & the said woman hath discovered severall of their Accomplices who        
are since seized & put into Winchester Goale                                    
+Yest the E of Marlbrough went for Holland as Genll of the Kings Army &         
the D of Ormond goes within A fortnight as Genll of the Kings horse             
     L. c. 2015     London 14th May 1689                                        
+Letters yesterday from Holland Confirme the defeate of the Papists by A        
sally of those of London derry haveing kild near 1000 & had Ruined the          
whole Army had they not began to Plunder too soon  The Royall Regemt of         
horse was Intirely Cut off & above 20 persons of note of the papists            
slaine  Parson Walker the Governr has hanged up 3 men for desireing to          
Capitulate                                                                      
     Coll Lundy late Governr of London derry is Come to London & was            
last night sent to the Tower                                                    
+This day the King went for Portesmouth & Carries with him A Considderable      
summe of money to bestow among the seamen & all ships designed Convoys          
are Countermanded & Comanded to joyne the fleet                                 
     A ffrench Advice boate sent to give Account of the Action is seized        
by the English which sayes sr Roger strickland K James vice admirall was        
kild on board the ffrench That they lost near 1000 men besides A fflag          
ship & had 4 ships soe disabled as not to be kept above water                   
      This day M: schomberg & the E of Devonshire are Installed Knights         
of the Garter at Windsor                                                        
     Yest being the last of the Terme many persons bound over Appeared &        
nothing being offered Agt them were discharged but sr Roger Le Estrange         
mr Wm Penn & some Popish Preists                                                
     Sr Jo ffenwick is brought in Custody to towne from the North               
     On satureday the H of Lds Chose the d of somerset their speaker for        
the prsent the Ms of Hallifax being sent for by the King                        
     Yest the Ld ffanshaw & sr Hen Morrison were Turned out of the H of         
Comons for Refuseing the oaths                                                  
     Resolved that the lands belonging to the Citty be sold for Payment         
of Orphans                                                                      
     This day the Comons Resolves That before they proceed on the bill          
of Indempnity the Crimes shall first be declared for which some shall           
be Exempted for Vindication of Publick justice                                  
     L. c. 2016     London 16th May 1689                                        
+Yest the Comons Read the Engrossed bill from the the Lds to Exempt             
Protestant dissenters from Penall Lawes with these provisoes                    
1st none to have benefit of the Act that keep their doores lockt or             
bolted at their meetings                                                        
2dly to secure the Paymt of Tythes                                              
3dly Those that scruple the oaths shall subscribe A declaration                 
4 all lawes to be on forme Agt such as goe neither to Church or meetings        
     Then the bill for Tolleration was Read after which both bills were         
Read A 2d time                                                                  
     mr Papillion Reports the forfeitures of those that Acted & not             
qualified Amount to 40000 L besides some Counties not brought in                
     This day the house Considdered of Crimes for which persons should          
be Exempted out of the Act of Indempnity & Resolved That the                    
dispenceing power & suspension of the Execution of the Lawes is A               
Crime for which persons shall be Exempted  The late Ecclesll Court is A         
Crime for which persons shall be Exempted  Also the Adviseing the               
Receiving the Customs &c after the death of K Cha: 2d  The Adviseing            
the Comittment of the Bps And the tryall of the Bps are Crimes for which        
some shall be Exempted                                                          
     Letters from Liverpoole say the forces designed for London derry           
were shipt with all Expedition  2 Expresses are Come to the King from           
the Protestants therein which not only Confirme the late Advantage over         
the Irish but also declare they shall be able to hold out some                  
Considderable time longer                                                       
     A Gent new Come from Ireland sayes K James made A speech to the            
Councell setting forth the Kindness of the ffrench K in Assisting him           
for Recovery of his Kingdoms which he doubts not but to effect  That he         
hath Caused all suspected English Protestants to be seized haveing in           
Custody Abt 300 which if they are not Redeemed by as many out of England        
which he shall demand he will put them to the sword                             
     Parson Hooke Chaplain to the late d of Monmouth who embraced K             
James his Pardon is seized in Cheshire there being Abt him letters &            
Instructions from K James to create disturbances in the Kingdome                
     On Munday sr Hen Goodrick & others belonging to the ordinance went         
to Woolwich to see 2 large Peeces discharged each weighing 5000 L               
Carrying A shell of 250 L weight for sinking of shipping & proved to            
good effect Also 4 new Mortarpeeces with 4 Cylinders each discharging           
as many Bombes at one & the same time The fuzzees being all Enkindled           
with the fflash                                                                 
     L. c. 2017    London 18th May 1689                                         
+Yest mr Hambden Reported Amendmts to the Lds bill for A Tolleration vizt       
To subscribe to owne the Religion of the Church of England  That noe            
preacher or Teacher shall bear the office of Constable &c A Proviso for         
quakers to subscribe instead of sweareing  Then the bill was Read A 3d          
time & Past                                                                     
     This day the house Considdered further of the Act of Indempnity &          
Resolved That the Adviseing the surrendring of Churches & takeing them          
away & makeing men promise to take away the Penall lawes & Test  That           
the illegall way used to take away the freedoms of Elections are Crimes         
to Except persons  Also the Adviseing the 2 late Kings not to Call              
Parliamts is A Crime & are to Considder further of it on Wednesday              
     The bill to settle the Militia was Read & that A 4th part of the           
horse & foot be drawne out to secure the nation for A Certain time this         
summer  The whole body of the Militia is neer 100000                            
     Complaint is made Agt on[e?] Parson Adrews of Cardiffe in Wales who        
not only Refuses to pray for K Wm & q Mary but Creates disturbances             
     Yest the King Returned from Portesmouth where he was aboard the            
fleet & Knighted Capt Cloudesley shovell & Capt Ashby Also hath Created         
Admirall Herbert E of Torbay  his Maty was Extrary Bountifull to the            
seamen through the whole fleet & gave 12 L to the widdows or Relations          
of those mariners kild  6 ffireships have joyned the fleet as will in A         
few dayes 20 men of warr but as yet noe Dutch fleet is on the Coast             
     Tis said a squadron is forthwith ordered for the West of scotland          
     Two men in Womans Apparrell are seized Abt Brentford on suspition          
of being Employed by K James to fire townes &c                                  
     They write from Paris An Expresse is Come with Account the Garrison        
of London derry sallied out & kild many Considderable officers  Also            
Another Expresse & of the Engagemt between their fleet & the English &          
owne they lost 500 men & that their fleet will take some time to Refitt         
     L. c. 2018     London 21st May 1689                                        
+Yest the Comons Comitted the bill for Erecting A Court of Conscience           
at Newcastle upon Tyne                                                          
     This day the Comons past the bill for Reversing the Attainder of           
the Lady Lisle & that for Exportation of Leather & Comitted the bill for        
setling the Militia                                                             
      Our scotch letters of the 14th say the E of Dundee with 60 horse          
seized the Lds of Blaine & Pollock 2 of the Convention in their bedds &         
Carryed them away prisoners & Capt Mackdonnell seized the Majestrates of        
Inverness & threatened to hang them Unless they provided him with 1000          
L & with some hay & oates                                                       
     The d of Gourdon hath shot some Cannon upon the Citty of Edenbrough        
which affrights the Inhabitants  The Comittee have sent for 3 Regemts           
more of English into their Kingdome, Genll Maccay hath sent for more            
forces & hath sent back A greate many English horses The scotch being           
better used to the Highlands                                                    
     The Comittee hath Imprisoned Sr James Grant Advocate for holding           
Correspondance with the d of Gourdon & Endeavouring to Prevaile with A          
Carpenter to get into the Castle                                                
     Wee hear from Leverpoole Coll Kirke with 3 Regemts were last               
ffriday morning under sayle for Ireland                                         
     Two Expresses Came yesterday from Chester with newes from Ireland          
but they were speeded away to Hampton Court                                     
     Letters from Holland say they are Equipping their fleet with the           
utmost dilligence & have now sent away 15 men of warr with some                 
ffireships to joyne the English fleet at the Isle of Wight & they are           
getting Ready all their flatt bottomed boates to send hither in order           
to make A descent upon Ireland                                                  
     Also that 6000 sweds & some other fforreign forces be Ready to be          
Embarqued on the Rest of the Dutch fleet which will be made use of              
towards the Reduction of that Kingdome                                          
     On sunday night sr Robt Wright late Ld Ch Justice died in Newgate of       
A High feaver                                                                   
     L. c. 2019     London 23d May 1689                                         
+Yest the Comons Read A bill Agt Bankrupts & Comitted the bill for              
discharge of Poor Prisoners & Recd A message from the Lds to desire A           
prsent Conference upon their Amendmts to the bill of Tolleration to             
which they Agreed  Also Resolved that sr Mathew Andrews sr Jo Banks mr          
Papillion Enquire what stocke the late K James had in the E: India Guyney       
& Hudsons bay Companies & Report it this day                                    
     This day the bill for Raiseing 12 d p C on all lands houses &              
offices & Places Except in the Navy & Army was Read with A Clause to            
Enable the King to borrow money & ordered A 2d Reading to morrow                
     The bill to Enable his Maty to secure persons A month longer Read          
A 1st time  Major Wildman Reported from the Comittee Abt Burton & Graham        
that the latter ownes he had 41000 L out of the Exchequer to Prosecute          
suites at law & tryalls That they Recd joyntly 4000 L & by perticuler           
Cash 8000 L which was for the tryalls of the Ld Russell sidney Armstrong        
delamere Hambden Devonshire & Barnadiston                                       
     That they found the late Ld Chancellr undertooke the Prosecution in        
the West & Recd 1400 L of Burton & Graham That he Granted Comissions to         
persons unqualified as Peters Bellasis Allabone &c                              
     Our scotch letters say dundees Party is Abt 700 foot & 120 horse           
& keep moveing from place to place That noe more forces were landed from        
Ireland 3 of the Kings ffrigotts being in those seas to Prevent any             
forces Comeing thence                                                           
     Yest in Councell divers letters were Read from Ireland with Account        
that the Protestants at London derry made Another sally on the 7th              
Instant more succesfull then the former haveing kild greate Numbers of          
the Papists                                                                     
     That some dayes before were sent to the Army 80 load of Match Powder       
& Bombes & Musquetts for the Army before London derry, K James Continues        
in dublin  That Tirconnell lyes sick of A feaver & is given over by his         
Phisitians  The Protestants have taken most part of their Cannon & Mortars      
     The Privateers have seized A Virginia ship at Anchor in the downes         
& Carryed her off                                                               
     L. c. 2020     London 25th May 1689                                        
+Yest the King past 3 bills vizt for Tolleration for Annulling the Lady         
Lisles Attainder & for sayle of mr secretary Coventries house                   
     This day the Engrost bill to enable his Maty to secure persons till        
the 23rd octobr was past by the Comons                                          
     This day dr Oates was Comitted to the Marshalsea for Affronting the        
Lds by petitioning to the Comons also                                           
     A Gent is Come to Whitehall who left dublin the 11th Instant &             
Confirmes in some measure the defeate of the Papists before London derry        
but sayes K James Comanded them to Raise the seige themselves & draw the        
army off to A place of more plenty till the Rest Could joyne them with          
Cannon & Mortars & in their drawing off the garrison sallied out &              
killed a greate many                                                            
     On ffriday Evening A messenger Came at the head of 6 dutch troopers        
with pistolls Cockt into A Coffee house in Buckingham Court neer                
whitehall & tooke thence An Irish gent & Carryed him prisoner to Whitehall      
     Marshall schombergs Comission of Genll of the Kings forces will be         
delivered him this day & within A fortnight goes himselfe for Ireland           
     Yest Advice was brought to the Lds of the Admiralty That sr ffran          
Wheeler in the Rupert had taken neer Brest A Large Rich ffrench                 
merchantman of 20 guns from the West Indies laden with Indico &c                
     A greate many fflyboates are dayly taken up in the River for               
transporting the forces into Ireland, A Trayne of Artillery is already          
taken on board at the Tower & Its said all the forces will be Carryed           
thither in A months time                                                        
     mr saywell the Kings messenger makeing his escape as he sayes out          
of the Bastile in Paris & going to the secretaries office was seized &          
Comitted prisoner to the Gatehouse it being believed he has betrayed his        
message to spaine to the ffrench King                                           
     L. c. 2021     London 28th May 1689                                        
+The King has made dr Humphreys Bp of Bangor                                    
     Letters from Barbados say his Maties letter has been Recd & well           
Approved of by that Govermt & Coll sterd [?] their prsent Govermt               
Resetled therein who has held A meeting of all the Inhabitants of the           
Island who had Returned their Maties a Congratulatory letter for his happy      
Accession to the throne of England promiseing to stand by him with              
their lives & fortunes & hath seized sr Tho: Montgomery & his Brother &         
mr Chamberlain all papists not only as suspected persons but also               
discovered A Correspondency they held with some ffrench Papists of the          
Neibour Islands                                                                 
     Yest the Commons Read A bill for laying A tax on New foundations &         
ordered it A 2d Reading & Resolved that An Addresse be drawne up to the         
King to distribute 15000 L for the present subsistence of the Irish             
Protestants                                                                     
     The Lds have Agreed to the bill for Impowering the King to detaine         
persons till the 23d octobr & this day the King past the said bill  Also        
An Act to Enable the d of Norfolke to build in Arrundell street                 
     Letters yest from Bristoll from one who left London derry the 21st         
Instant & is makeing what Hast he Can for London to give his Maty An            
Account of the state of that place Assureing that it holds out                  
vigorously & that they have not Raised the seige as was Reported but had        
made some late Attaques & A Considderable one the day before his Comeing        
away throwing in A greate many Bombes which did noe Considderable damage        
But the beseiged enkindled straw &c in divers places of the Citty               
whereby the Irish believed their Bombes had set the whole Citty in A            
flame & gave at the same time an assault & the beseiged made for some           
time but faint Resistance letting abt 50 get into the Towne & then not          
only Cut them off but made a Vigorous sally killing above 300 bringing          
in some Prisoners of Note                                                       
     Wee hear from the North that Coll Langston has seized the Ld               
Griffin & Coll Legg who had Abt them some letters in Ciphers                    
     Divers Irish Papists have within these few dayes been seized & will        
be kept in Custody by way of Hostage for st Tho: southwell under                
Condemnation in Ireland                                                         
     Yest 4 dutch Extrary Ambrs Arrived here & on Thursday receive thier        
Audience of their Maties                                                        
     L. c. 2022     London 30th May 1689                                        
+Yest the Comons ordered A 2d Reading to A bill for An Additional Excize        
& Resolved that the bayleing of persons Impeached by the house be another       
Crime for which some persons may be Excepted in the Act of Indempnity           
     The E India Company were further bound & some displeased with              
them for Transferring 3000 L stock to Graham of the Privy purse to K            
James since his going into ffrance & are to be heard further on ffriday         
seavenight                                                                      
+This day the house made some progress in the subsidy bill & ordered            
that the deane of Cant be desired to Preach before them at the fast             
     This day the Ld Preston was sent to the Tower                              
     One Cox the late queens Linnen Draper is brought hither from his           
Country house being Accused for uttering very dangerous words                   
     Yest A greate many of the English Nobility dined with the dutch            
Ambrs  Their Errand is said to be to desire the 600000 L Expended in the        
late Expedition for England & then promise to enter into A strict league        
offensive & defensive Agt ffrance                                               
    The King hath nominated the Ld Pagett to goe his Envoy Extrary to the       
Emper[o]r  The Ld Lexington to the D of Brandenburgh sr Jo Duncomb              
to sweden Coll Molesworth to Denmark & sr Wm Colt to the d of Lunenburgh        
     A ship Arrived at Minehead from Ireland Confirmes the late sally           
at derry the d of Berwicks being taken Prisoner Adding the Protestants          
have made An Encampment without the Towne  Also that the Protestants of         
Iniskilling have Cut off A Considderable party of Irish                         
     L. c. 2023     London 1st June 1689                                        
+Yest the Lds Argued the Reversing the judgment of dr Oates & heard the         
opinion of all the judges therein & carryed it in the Negative by 12            
     Yest the Comons ordered dr Tennison & mr wake to Preach before them        
on Wednesday                                                                    
     This day the Comons ordered the bill for An Additionall Excize of          
9 d p barrell to be Engrost & ordered A Comittee to Enquire into the            
affaires of London derry & why Coll Lundree Cunningham & Richards Came          
thence & other miscarriages Relateing to Ireland & why Admirall Herbert         
when he fought the ffrench had but 19 men of warr when he should have           
had 30 & why the Regemts Raised for the P of O: were disbanded & the            
late Ks Army kept on foot                                                       
     A motion was made to Addresse the King to Remove from his Presence         
such as have been Impeacht by Parliamt but Referred till Munday                 
     Major Cunningham is Comitted to the Tower for bringing back the            
Regemts from London Derry but Richards will Come off pleading Cunningham        
was the head Comander                                                           
     A greate many warrants are sent to take persons into Custody there         
being discovered in Cheshire An Associated Conspiracy of Abt 500 persons        
for K James & Its said the Originall subscription is seized by the Ld           
Delamere                                                                        
     An Irish man is seized in Chester & Confesseth he Came from K James        
& some letters are found Abt him of dangerous Import & he is ordered to         
be brought up hither                                                            
     Wee hear from Ireland K James looks suddenly for the English forces        
to land & is divideing his Army into 2 Encampments one in the North &           
the Remainder neer Dublin                                                       
      A vessell Arrived from Brest gives Account there are 60 men of            
warr Manned & Equipped in Port with some landmen on board Ready to sayle        
the first wind                                                                  
     The merchants have the Good newes that the ships Angell & Merry            
from smurna & scanderoon are safely Arrived from the streights vallued          
at 400000 L                                                                     
     L. c. 2024     London 4th June 1689                                        
+Yest the H of Peers Argued the writt of Error brought by the Ld Mayor          
Agt Boldsworth the Powderman for 800 L damages Agt him but they finding         
noe error in Matter of Law Affirmed the Judgmt                                  
     The Comons have ordered A bill to be brought in to Reverse the             
sentence Agt dr Oates                                                           
     Yest the Comons ordered that his Maty be desired to transmitt to           
the Comittee Relateing to Ireland A Coppie of all the Comissions &              
Instructions Given in Relation thereto & also that Lundee Richards &            
Cunningham who are prisoners in the Tower & Gatehouse may attend the            
Comittee                                                                        
     This day A bill to transport all English Liquors past the house            
Then they Considdered of severall parts of the Act of Indempnity &              
Agreed that noe pardon shall be pleadeable in An Impeachmt                      
     A petition is handing Abt towne haveing 7 heads most in substance          
with the Comons preceedings on satureday                                        
     Dr stratford deane of st Asaph is declared Bp of Chester mr                
Ashburnham made Baron Ashburnham                                                
     This morning Admirall Herbert now E of Torrington setts forward for        
fleet which is to Randevous on ffriday & will be above 40 & with the            
dutch will make 70 sayle                                                        
     Wee hear from Liverpoole that Coll Kirke with his Regemts sayled on        
ffriday morning  The wind Continued faire for 20 houres then shifted            
westward but was faire Againe next day & wee hope he is Arrived                 
     The Comittee of Councell for Irish Affaires sit every day & had            
before them many masters of ships to be Employed in transporting forces         
for that Kingdome  The King has Account from London derry they Can hold         
out A month longer but presse very much for Releife                             
     To morrow the D of Ormond with the Ld ffairfax & Some voluntier            
Gent goe for the Army into Holland  The E of Pembrooke Ld Ambdr to the          
states Accompany them                                                           
     L. c. 2025     London 6th June 1689                                        
+Yest the Fast was strictly kept  The Bp of st Asaph Preacht before the         
Peers & the Bp of salisbury before their Maties                                 
     This day the Comons ordered their thanks to be Returned to dr              
Tennison & mr Wake for their sermons & to desire them to print them             
     Ordered that the Clerke of the Crowne bring in Coppies of the              
Indictmts & Judgmts Agt dr Oates & mr Johnson next satureday                    
     Wee hear from Portesmouth that most of the dutch fleet have joyned         
ours at spithead                                                                
     Yest the King Recd An Expresse that A ship mett Coll Kirke neer the        
Rivers mouth of London derry & his landing is Exspected to be heard of          
every houre                                                                     
     The Portland ffriggott Cruising in those seas went up the River to         
find if the passage was Clear & to send Advice to the Towne that succours       
were on their way  Coll Kirke Carries with him 3000 men & Provisions for        
10000 men for divers months & Proportionable Ammunition                         
     The Court Appointed to distribute the money Collected for the Irish        
sit twice A Weeke in st Martins & have Already disposed of 6000 L               
     On Tuesday evening dr Betts in Limestreet was seized with 3                
Preists in his house with A greate many papers Agt the Govermt & they           
are all Comitted to Newgate                                                     
     The d of schomberg hath declared his Resolution to Depart with the         
Army for Ireland the 5th Instant & 25000 men are ordered to March               
forthwith to the sea Coast vizt Coll Earles Regemt Loveston Gowers Ld           
Castletons Ld Hewetts d of Boltons Ms of Hallifax & Ld drogedas to              
Milford haven & the Rest at Leverpoole Windhead Bristoll &c & above             
400 vessells are taken up for their transportation                              
     Wee hear mr skelton sent by K James to venice to desire Aide is            
dismist with this Answer that they have nore need of succour  But the           
d of Modena is Raising A Regemt for his service                                 
     Yest the Ms de fflora A ffrench protestant arrived here Envoy              
Extrary from the K of denmarke on some Important Message to this King           
     The Inhabitants of Lorraine have sent to their duke to Invite him          
to his owne Country that they may shake off the Tyranny of the ffrench          
     [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 2026     London 8th June 1689                                        
+Yest the Clerks of the Crown of the treasury & of the Kings bench              
Attended the Comons with the Records of the Bps tryall & of sr Edw:             
Hales Case  The deputy Governrs of the Tower attended but said the              
Originall Warrants of the Comittments of the Bps were taken away by sr          
Edw Hales with other Books.  They ordered the Councells books to be             
viewed & Coppies of what Concerns the Comittments of the Bps                    
     This day A bill from the Lds to give the 2 universities the                
prsentation of all Papists liveings was ordered A 2d Reading                    
     A message from the Lds with 2 bills one Concerning the oaths in            
Relation to those going into the Kings service The other for                    
transporting English liquors to which the house agreed without any              
Amendmts                                                                        
     Yest a Comittee of the Commons had before them Coll Lundee                 
Cunningham & Roberts & Confronted them together where Appeared                  
manifest Cowardice & treachery & that Lundee shut the Gates upon some           
thousands of Poor soules & suffered them to be killed under Pretence            
that Provisions were scarse when there was greate store both in Publick         
& private houses & when they held their Councells of warr obliged all           
the officers prsent not to Reveale what was done that they might make           
their escape                                                                    
     The King has ordered 400 horse to be forthwith sent to derry with          
Provinder                                                                       
     Yest the King Returned Answer to the H of Peers Request Concerning         
dr Oates that he had given order for it                                         
     Yest the d of schomburg tooke his seate in the H of Peers                  
     The Ld Ch: J. Polixfen was sumoned to Attend their Ldps for A              
Breach of Priviledg by Complaint of the d of Grafton upon Account of the        
Treasury office which the d Claimes A Right to by K Charles Pattent             
     This morning the D of Ormond E of Pembroke & d of Northumberland           
went for Holland                                                                
     Neer 40 sayle of dutch men of warr are Come into the Channel to            
joyne o[u]r fleet which will be 40 sayle & have set ashoar 2000 dutch &         
have double the number on board for his Maties service                          
     Yest the K of Denmarks envoy went to Hampton Court & Confirmed that        
the King his Master will Restore the d of Holstein & offers to send his         
Maty what men & ships he shall have occasion for                                
+On Thursday was A tryall between Esqr Denton & mr Jo: smith son to sr          
Wm smith A Justice of Middx & for Lyeing with the said mr Dentons wife          
& the Jury brought in 5000 L damages                                            
     Tis said a ffrench man of warr of 40 Guns is taken & on board 150          
ffrench officers for Assistance of Dundee                                       
     L.  2027     London 11th June 1689                                         
+Yest the H of Lds Read A bill A 2d time to Reverse the Attainder of            
Ald: Cornish                                                                    
     Yest the Comons were on the Aide bill of 12 d [?] p C & ordered the        
Comrs have power to Give oaths to the Assessrs & to fine the Refusers           
     This day the Comons proceeded on the said bill & A proviso was             
offered to make it A Premunire to Refuse Paymt or to say the Parliamt           
have not power to grant the Taxes & Referred to A Comitttee                     
     Resolved that the 2 judgmts Agt dr Oates were illegall & Cruell &          
A bill ordered to Reverse the said judgmts Also the judgmt Agt mr samll         
Johnson                                                                         
     This day their Maties Come to towne & stay till satureday to be In         
Councell Abt the Irish affaires                                                 
     Two gent of each County of Ireland are Appointed to meet & give in         
the Names of all persons Come out of that Kingdom their estates &               
qualifications to the end they may be Employed both in Civill &                 
Military Capasities there being already 4 Regemts ordered to be Raised          
only of Protestants of that Country                                             
     some lately Arrived from Ireland say K James is formeing 3 Camps           
one neer Dublin one neer Corke & the 3d A fflying Army to assist either         
upon occasion & Add the ffrench fleet last Arrived brought 2000 barrells        
of Powder 1500 Armes 100 ffrench officers & 1600 English scotch & Irish         
10 feild peeces 2 Mortars & 15000 L in money                                    
     Wee hear noe certain account of Coll Kirks Arrivall at London derry        
Yest an expresse brought Account of his sayleing from the Isle of Man           
last Tuesday with a quarter wind                                                
     Two persons are Comitted for handing About K James declaration &           
the like hath been done among the Army Designed for Ireland                     
     A Warrant is Come to Watermens hall to Presse 600 more watermen to         
man [?] out the Remainder of the fleet                                          
     Wee hear from the Emper[o]rs Court that he hath at last determined         
to send An Envoy to England to Complemt their Maties Accession to the           
throne & make A League with the King                                            
     The K of spaine Resolves the Like & hath sent Instructions to his          
Ambr here to enter into A Negotiation with the King but the Ambr is             
unwilling till he be satisfied for the Damage he Recd by the Rabble at          
Wildhouse                                                                       
     L. c. 2028     London 13th June 1689                                       
+Yest the Comons Appointed A Comittee to Inspect the Journalls                  
Relateing to the Popish plott & what Alterations have been made in the          
Journalls & Reports                                                             
     The Kings Letter Abt the bill of Indempnity was Read & the first           
head of Exceptions touching the dispenceing power & the Record of sr Edw        
Hales tryall Read                                                               
    This day the Comons ordered the late Kings Declaration to be burnt          
by the Hangman & ordered An Account to be brought in who sate judges            
in the Case of sr Edw Hales & the Bps & that those Judges that were             
formerly turned out & are not now judges doe Attend the house to                
morrow                                                                          
     The Gent who were seized Abt Distributing K James declaration are          
some of them Comitted to Newgate vizt dr Ely A Phisitian Capt vaugham &         
Capt Mold  Yest the Comons Resolved they be Impeached of High treason           
Also sr Adam Blair & others are seized                                          
     Yest Arrived A letter from London derry by way of scotland that            
on the 2d Instant the Garrison with Assistance of A Vessell from                
scotland Attaqued & tooke the fort of Kilmore & made A sally on the             
Irish Army & forced them to Raise the seige takeing from them 4 brass &         
4 Iron Guns with most part of their baggage & provisions Killing 2200           
on the place & pursued the Rest 4 miles & are now masters of the feild          
20 miles Round through the Assistance of the Protestants of Ballishannon        
& Iniskilling who have been noe less succesfull & that the Irish Army           
was on A full march for dublin                                                  
     Wee doe not yet hear of Coll Kirke landing at derry                        
     They write from Paris a list is printed there of 106 merchants             
ships they have taken since the warr without Reckning 20 at Dunkerke            
Their fleet at Brest are Abt 50 sayles & were Abt to sayle for Ireland          
but are Come back Into Port                                                     
     L. c. 2029     London 15th June 1689                                       
+Yest the Judges formerly put out were Called into the H of Comons &            
gave their several Reasons why they were turned out                             
     This day in the H of Comons A motion was made for A bill of                
Attainder Agt the Late Ld Ch: J: Jeffries &  the Ld Keeper North  Then          
they proceeded on the bill of Indempnity & the first hand, Abt the              
dispenceing power Read & the question whether any should be Excepted            
upon it as to life & Carryed in the Negative  Then the question was put         
whether any should be Excepted upon it as to Paines & Penalties &               
Carryed in the affirmative                                                      
     one mr Vernon who left Dublin the 8th Instant gives Account K James        
is very busy in Marshalling his Army & that the Parliamt there are still        
upon the bill for disposeing the Absenters estates  That K James                
declared he would besiege London derry with 25000 men & Iniskilling with        
15000 and hazzard the loss of his Army but he would take them, he sayes         
the Papists themselves owne they have lost above 30 officers & 3000             
Comon souldiers before that Citty                                               
     ffour Magazeens are ordered forthwith to be setled at Bristoll             
Minehead Chester & Leverpoole with one to be stored with greate                 
quantities of Provision & necesaries to be transported from time to time        
to the Army in Ireland as they shall need it                                    
     Our Paris letters say the ffrench K has Comitted to the Bastille           
Abt 16 potent men Especially those of the New Converts on the sea Coasts        
on Pretence of holding Correspondance with some of his declared Enemies         
The Ld Mountjoy being prisoner therein who Came on An Embassy from              
Tirconnell out of Ireland Petitioned for his Enlargemt setting forth the        
greate services he had Rendred to the Crowne of England but was answered        
that if he would abjure his Religion he would write in his favour to K          
James                                                                           
     On the 20th the ffrench Recd An Express from the K of Denmarke that        
he was obliged to quitt his Engagemts with him upon which that King             
Resolved to Return An Expresse with larger offers to Continue him firme         
to his Interest  otherwise he will denounce warr upon him.                      
     L. c. 2030     London 18th June 1689                                       
+Yest the Comons past the subsidy bill then proceeded further on the            
Indempnity as to the dispenceing Power                                          
     This day the debate arose who should be Excepted out of the bill of        
Indempnity touching the dispenseing Power & sr Edw Herbert sr ffran:            
Withins sr Richd Holloway & sr Robert Wright Excepted out of the bill of        
Indempnity on that head                                                         
     our scotch letters Confirme the newes of the surrender of                  
Edenbrough Castle                                                               
     The King has Recd An Expresse of A discovery in Genll Mackays Army         
to betray him & Coll Ramsey to Dundee his Page being seized with                
severall letters Abt him whereby Capt Murrey his Leift & some officers          
of dragoons are seized                                                          
     The Ld Kingston has sent the King an Expresse that he has                  
discovered in Notinghamshire A greate many of K James Comissions sent           
to severall of that Country to Raise Comotions                                  
     Another Account was yest brought to the King that A small Vessell          
was seized with 15 persons aboard & greate number of K James                    
declarations & Comissions & were all secured                                    
     One white An Irish Papist for some Plotting is sent to Newgate &           
one Montgomery brought before the Lds for drinking damnation &c to all          
Protestants & was secured, one Crosby son of sr Thomas was secured at           
Leverpoole haveing Abt him divers Comissions from K James                       
     some persons who left Dublin the 10th say that some Acts are passed        
there vizt An Act to Grant the King 15000 L p month for 12 Months               
Another to settle the Popes jurisdiction & A 3rd for Attainder of               
Absenters & Confirme the detachment sent to Iniskilling & London derry          
to Reinforce the seige & give A pleasant Account of the defeate of the          
Irish before Iniskilling that haveing brought before it 2 Prodigious            
Cannon threatening the Towne to beate it downe if they did not surrender        
it  Coll Hamilton with 2 thirds of the Garrison sallied out & beate             
them from their guns & 2 of his men brought them into towne on their            
shouldiers they being made of Tynn & Covered with leather                       
     They write from Paris mr Parker has brought from the ds of Tuscany         
Modena Parma & savoy 86000 Pistolls for K James  Also that the ffrench          
K has Caused the P: of Wales & the dauphins daughter to be Contracted           
& hath made A greate Ceremony abt it                                            
    Tis said the d of schomburg goes for Ireland on ffriday, 50                 
vessells are Already laden on the River from the Tower                          
     L. c. 203l     London 22d June 1689                                        
+Yest a letter Arrived from Edenbrough that Came from Inock in scotland         
to one mr Gray A scotch Gent belonging to the Ds of Richmond dated the          
15th Instant That Genll Kirke had landed his forces at London derry &           
the said mr Gray was yest with his letter before the H of Lds who               
believed the verity thereof & that his Correspondant being the Towne            
Clerke was A Honest person                                                      
     But the d of schomberg hath A letter from Kirke himselfe of the            
12th that he was then in the Mouth of the Lough & was Resolved the first        
spring tide to endeavour to force the Boomes                                    
     This day the King gave the Royall Assent to An Act for the subsidy         
An Act for Transportation of Leather Beer Ale & Mum & An Act to Reverse         
mr Cornishers Attainder                                                         
     On Thursday evening the Ld dunblaine A member of Parliamt was taken        
into Custody of A Messenger but set at liberty upon bayle & the Comons          
have ordered he Attend the house in his place on Munday to give Account         
why he was taken into Custody                                                   
     The Comitee of Commons sate yesterday & have Compleated the                
Impeachmts of dr Elliott & Capt Vaughan &c for dispenseing the late K           
James declarations & will bring in A bill of  Attainder Agt dr Gray & sr        
Adam Blaine who Escaped  mr Piggot & lane to whome the late Ks letters          
were diverted are in Custody                                                    
     The States forces being joyned with 2000 scotts & 7000 English             
Compose above 50000 men & are Arrived in Brabant & will Advance to the          
ffrontiers of ffrance                                                           
     Count Mansfield who is Appointed by the K of spaine to fetch to            
that Court the Empresses sister takes his way through England to                
Compliment their Maties Accession to the throne & to Request o[u]r King         
to transport her some part of her way with A squadron of shipps                 
     Two Boxes of the late Ks Declarations being sent to Cambridg to            
2 heads of Colledges there one of them sent them to London & the other          
delivered them to A Magistrate  The Papists designing by this Artifice          
to Create A beleife in the people that those Reverend divines espouse           
the Interest of K James but they declare their Abhorrance                       
     Above 100 Musketts are found packt up in A Warehouse in the Kings          
Head Inn in southwarke & some are Comitted on it but say they belonged          
to the disbanded Regemt of the E of Litchfield                                  
     L. c. 2032     London 25th June 1689                                       
+Yest the Commons proceeded in the Act of Indempnity & Resolved that noe        
more persons be Excepted as to the dispenceing Power & Resolved that the        
estates of such as are in Armes with K James in Ireland or in his               
service in ffrance be prsently seized                                           
     This day the Comons Read A bill A 2d time to make the Militia more         
usefull                                                                         
    Yest According to Custome the Citty of London Chose mr Jo Holland &         
mr Christo letholice sheriffs & mr Leonard Robinson Chamberlain                 
displaceing sr Peter Rich & Concluded A Petition to the King & Parliamt         
to pray them to dispense with takeing the sacramt upon entring into             
offices which petition was this day prsented to the H of Commons                
    Yest in Councell the D of schomburg Recd his Comission of                   
Generalissimo of all his Maties forces in Ireland with A power to Act           
as he shall Judge most Convenient But takes Some Gent of that Kingdome          
to Conduct the Army  He designed to have gone the last weeke but not            
knowing the Condition of London derry does Retard & Alter the measures          
of the Campaigne but the Regemts are marching to the Randevous                  
     The E of Macclesfield being Ld Leift of 16 Counties departs within         
few dayes & will make some stay in each to settle the Militia                   
      Our scotch letters say the d of Gourdon is to Come for London             
That a ship was seized neer Kintice with some ffrench officers on board         
for the Assistance of dundee  There is now 10 men of warr Cruiseing             
between scotland & Ireland                                                      
     Our Paris letters say That the ffrench K Recd An Expresse that the         
Diferences between Denmarke & Sweden Abt Holstein was not like to be            
Accomodated & that the K of denmarke will Continue his Alliance with his        
most Christian Maty  That the ffrench K hath sent secrett Instructions          
to his Admirall at Brest & to prepare 10 ffireships more designing his          
fleet shall Consist of 56 men of warr 12 ffrigotts & 22 fireships being         
Ready to Put to sea on o[u]r last of June                                       
+Wee have noe Certain Account of Coll Kirks landing in London derry             
     L. c. 2033     London 27th June 1689                                       
+Yest the Comons Resolved that An Addresse be made to his Maty That he          
would Acquaint them what ships & the men & guns of each ship That the           
states are bound to set forth in the Expedition Agt ffrance                     
     The Articles of Impeachmt Agt Blaine were past & sent to the Lds           
     This day the house were in A Comittee Abt the Militia & Resolved           
that none should be Ld Leift of above 2 Counties at once                        
     Genll schomburg only waites for Certain Advice of Coll Kirks being         
got into derry  There are Accounts from severall places of his Arrivall         
there But the King has noe Account from his owne hands                          
     Yest the King was 2 houres in the Treasury & ordered summes of             
Money for the Irish Expedition  The Trayne of Artillery & officers are          
Already on board & are ordered to sayle Round                                   
     Yest 2000 horse & some foot landed at Debtford &c from Holland             
whome Generall schomburg designes to take with him                              
     The King by Examining the letters & papers taken in fflinshire [?]         
has made a Perfect discovery & found the key that Unlocks those in              
misticall Characters.  Besides one taken makes such A large Confession as       
Contributes much to the knowledg thereof upon which sr Cha: Claver of           
Hertfordshire & sr Robt Hamilton are Comitted to the Tower  But some            
others mentioned in K James Papers are not yet taken                            
     Our Paris letters say that King hath sent A greate many Engineers          
to view the sea Coasts bordering on England with orders to Demolish             
what townes they Judge not Tenable & erect others that may better hinder        
any fforeign Attempt.                                                           
     L. c. 2034     London 29th June 1689                                       
+Yest the Commons Resolved that the granting A warrant to Arrest the Ld         
Danby A member of the house is A Breach of the Priveledge of this house         
     This day the Comons past the bill for the more easy Recovery of            
small tythes, ordered that Instructions be given Abt the bill for               
Attainting all those that are in Armes with the late King in Ireland            
That A Clause be added to make voyd all acts of Parliamt made in Ireland        
since K James Comeing thither                                                   
     The Lds have Agreed to the bill to take off the Courts of the              
Marches of Wales                                                                
+Wee have An Account from Canterbury that the Multitude Assaulted A             
ministers house broke the Windows & tooke away what things of vallue they       
Could find because he did not Publickly pray for their Maties                   
     Private letters here Confirme Some thousands of ffrench to have            
deserted M. Humieres & are gone to the Confederates                             
     Our last letters from Ireland say Coll Kirke was within A mile &           
halfe of London derry                                                           
     mr Pen A quaker is in Custody of A Messenger & will be Examined Abt        
some matters Relateing to the late King                                         
+our scotch letters say They had A strong Report that one of the favorites      
of dundee had seized him & that he was bringing Prisoner to Edenbrough &        
that all the scotch & English forces there had orders from Genll Mackay         
to march to the sea Ports neerest Ireland                                       
     That the E of Argile &c Reported their Negotiation in England &            
produced the Original oaths subscribed by their Maties on which it              
was ordered that An Act Passe for Approveing the Managemt of that               
affaire & that the oaths with the Instrument of Goverment be Printed            
     L. c. 2035     London 2d July 1689                                         
+Yest in the H of Comons mr Leveston Gower said the Bps were such good          
Christians they would not have any suffer for their Account,                    
     Resolved that none be Exempted for the Comittmt & tryall of the Bps        
Then they debated the head Abt the Ecclesll Comrs & Resolved the late Ld        
Jeffries the Earles of Sunderland & Huntingdon the Ld Ch: Justice Herbert       
& Wright Bps of Durham & Chester & sr Tho: Jenner be as to that head            
Excepted                                                                        
     This day sr Hen Capell Reported the Kings Answer to the Addresse to        
Know the Number of ships the dutch are to joyne the fleet with that they        
are 30 of which 28 are joyned & 2 Comeing                                       
     An Expresse is Arrived from Genll Kirke in the Lough of derry that         
he would Attempt to Passe to the Citty the next spring tyde in the              
meane time and A Correspondance with the Citty & some of them aboard            
him who Came in some small boates in the night who gave Account the             
Garrison was Vigourous & had Recd A Considderable supply from Holland           
That he sent them severall small boates of Provisions & was Resolved            
if he could not force the Boomes to land his men & by A signall Agreed          
on the Citty was at the same time to make A Resolute sally                      
      since which Advice the Preparations for Ireland are Expedited all         
they Can all the forces being in A full March to the Randevous the 12th         
Instant neer Chester & there are above 600 vesselles ladeing at Tower           
Wharfe with Tents &c                                                            
     Tis said more ships & more men are sent to Genll Kirke & that 6000         
men are shipping from scotland & that the Rest of the Kings forces will         
follow them                                                                     
     Genll schomburg goes away on Thursday                                      
     severall of the ffrench Refugents are forming into Companies               
Capt Killegrew with 8 men of warr & 3 ffireships is ordered to sayle            
for Dunkirke to keep on the ffrench Privateers &c                               
     dr Thomas Bp of Worcester is dead & Its said the Bp of st Asaph            
will be translated to that see & dr Hall of Oxford will succeed him             
     sr Edw Villiers knight marshall of England is dead & succeeded by          
his son                                                                         
     L. c. 2036     London 4th July 1689                                        
+Yest the Commons Read the Bill A 2d time to Reverse the judgmt Agt dr          
Oates                                                                           
     Resolved that A 2d Addresse be made to his Maty, that he would             
give leave to some members to Inspect the books of the Comittee of              
Councell for Irish affaires & that it be A perticuler Instruction to            
them to Enquire why the Dutch fleet was not out sooner at sea to joyne          
o[u]r fleet & why o[u]r fleet was layd up & such A delay in Putting             
forth another                                                                   
     This day they Proceded on the Excize bill                                  
     The Peers have taken into Considderation the Impeachmt of Capt             
Vaughan &c & held greate debates whether A Comoner should be tryd at            
their barr with or without A jury or be Referred to the Common Law & it         
was at Lengh Carryed by one vote that they should be Impeached before           
them without A Jury for the Comons being the Complainants it is not             
proper their prosecutrs should be their Jury  But the Lds have not              
Ascertained the Crime whether it be treason or High misdemeanor                 
     ffoure Expresses are sent to Coll Kirke by Land & as many by sea &         
Yest An Expresse Came from him by way of scotland which some say is that        
he is Passed Kilmore fort                                                       
     Yest 18 orders for as many Regemts were signed to march to the sea         
Coasts which will be neer 10000 & Comanded by Count Solines & the dukes         
Battalion of dutch Guards with 2 Companies of ffrench marched yesterday         
as part of those forces                                                         
     The Diferences between the K of Denmarke & d of Holstein being             
Agreed The K of Denmarke has Already ordered 2 Regemts of horse to joyne        
the d of Brandenburghs forces & 6000 foot will suddenly follow them             
     some deputies from the Protestant swisse Cantons are Comeing for           
England to Congratulate their Maties Accession to the throne.                   
     L. c. 2037     London 6th July 1689                                        
+Yest the Commons ordered the bill for Releife of poor prisoners to be          
engrost                                                                         
     This day the Commons past dr Oates bill, Coll Birch Reports from the       
Comittee That mr Topham sergt at Armes had been sued & fined for takeing        
persons into Custody by order of the H of Comons & it was ordered that          
sr ffran: Pemberton & the Rest of the Judges Concerned therein be               
sumoned to Attend the house  Then the house went upon the Orphans bill          
     Yest A Company of Miners was fformed with divers Companies of              
Pioneers & 90 ffly boates set forth for Ireland & are gone downe the River      
with the Artillery &c to joyne A greate number of others on the way             
     mr Anderton who was Employed in buying the Provisions sent with            
Coll Richards & Cunningham for Derry has been Examined by A Comittee of         
Comons                                                                          
     Parson Hooke the late D of Monmouths Chaplain being brought A              
Prisoner as Carrying on K James Interest is Comitted to the Tower               
     Yest some were brought Prisoners hither from out of Chester Castle         
& Among them An Innekeeper at holy head who entertained the Papists &           
persons from K James                                                            
     On Thursday when Capt Vaughan dr Elliott &c were brought to the            
Lds barr They desired A faire Coppie of the Impeachmt & A weeks time            
to give their plea & that sr ffran Pemberton mr Bradbury & mr Ward              
might be their Councell & that their friends might have free Accesse            
to them all which was granted & they are to be Arraigned on Thursday            
next whose tryall will be A greate Curosity since A Comoner for High            
treason has not been tryed before the Lds house these 400 yeares                
     Letters from Rome say the Pope Intended to vissitt the sea ports &         
ffrontier townes in Person to see whether they be sufficiently Tenable          
Agt A ffrench Invasion  That he on the 12th Past sent An Expresse from          
the Emper[o]r to Require some Remittances of money to Carry on the Pagan        
& ffrench warrs withall signifying that the Grand seignior was at the           
head of A Considderable Army from Adrinople & had Mahometts Banner              
displayed before him                                                            
     L. c. 2038    London 9th July 1689                                         
+Yest the Comons Resolved to proceed first on these bills vizt ffor             
setling the Militia setling the Revenue setling the Crowne & Declareing         
the Rights of the subject Corporations Attainting those in Armes with K         
James, ffor Releife of the London Orphans for setling A fond to pay money       
to the Dutch, ffor Review of the Poll bill, ffor the 500 L fforfeitures         
ffor Prohibitting ffrench Goods, for Additionall Excize ffor Customs of         
Coffee &c & for Indempnity                                                      
     This day they were on the Militia & ordered that Papists shall not         
send men to serve in the Militia but shall pay for it vizt 10 L for A           
horseman & 50 s for A ffootman                                                  
     Tis said 12000 men are to be first shipped at Leverpoole to                
Reinforce Coll Kirke who the letter of the 28 June say lay still in the         
Lough putting in what boates he Could with Provisions                           
     Our scotch letters dated the 2d Instant say Dundee has got togather        
Againe A body of 2500 men & had Comitted some outrages  But Genll Murray        
with 4000 men had got before him & the E of Argile behind him soe that it       
was not Posible to escape                                                       
     The Parliamt in scotland have made An Act to Incapacitate any one          
to bear any office or Employmt that was an Abbetter to those that               
Adhered to K James or were Instrumentall in Carrying on the late                
transactions Agt their knowne lawes or had shewed A dislike to their            
prsent Maties Govermt or had spoke Agt the late votes of the house              
     His Maty has signed An order that all the Irish disbanded officers         
shall have halfe pay till otherwise Provided for                                
     On sunday abt 11 at night hapened A fire at mr Laworths house A            
merchant in Mincing lane which in few houres burnt that & 3 more to             
the ground & not yet knowne how it Came                                         
     On sunday a Breife was Read in some Churches for A Collection              
for 400 houses burnt by the Papists at Bungy in suffolke whereof 3              
were seized & 2 have Poysoned themselves in Goale                               
     Our ffleet is upon the Coast of ffrance & 11 men of warr are in            
the downes who are ordered to joyne the 12 before Dunkerke                      
     sr Adam Blaine & dr Gray are taken at A village 4 miles from Dover         
On sunday 3 persons were Committed for drinking K James health &                
Confusion to their prsent Maties                                                
     L. c. 2039     London 11th July 1689                                       
+An Expresse is Arrived from Genll Kirke dated the last June in the             
Lough of derry that he has not been Able to force the Boomes there              
being 2 Platformes on both sides one of 28 the other of 18 guns  That           
the Greyhound ffrigott which had Recd some shott at kilmore ffort               
Could not posibly be kept above water But all the men provision &               
Equippage saved  That A man on board him undertooke to swim by night into       
the Citty & the signalls Agreed on were the next day made on the                
Church steephill that the garrison was well & Could hold out 7 weeks            
longer  That K James forces thinking the stopping of the River will             
force them to surrender only made A Blockade whereupon the Garrison             
sallyed out upon one quarter & beate the Irish from their Posts & Cut           
in Peeces A whole Irish Regemt & Posest themselves of Windmill hill             
     ffifty ships are ordered forthwith to take in forces for derry &           
4 men of warr to Convoy them                                                    
     Yest sr ffran Pemberton & sr Tho Jones were Called into the H of           
Comons as to the Case of Jay & Topham & sr ffran: Pemberton made An             
Assertion touching the jurisdiction of the Court of Kings bench &               
it was Resolved that the jurisdiction of this house ought not to be             
overrided & ordered they Attend againe on satureday to show Cause why           
they gave judgmt in the Case of Topham                                          
     This day the Comons proceeded on the bill for An Additionall Excize        
& A Clause was Agreed to Agt Brewing with Molasses                              
     Our ffrench letters say that King is Raising divers greate summes          
of money on Cittyes & Religious houses That he Recd An Expresse the d           
of Lorraine besieged Mentz The d of Bavaria Mont Royall & the d of              
Brandenburgh Bonne & Another Expresse from M: Humieres that 5328 of his         
men had deserted besides 500 lost in the late Inundation & had but              
12000 left & if he had not A speedy Reinforcemt must quitt the field            
     Yest 2 souldiers who ran from their Colours were to be shot to             
death at Tilbury & 2 others this morning at Hyde parke                          
     L. c. 2040     London 14th July 1689                                       
+Yest Capt Vaughan dr Elliott &c Appeared before the Lds & pleaded not          
guilty to the Impeachmt delivering in their Answer in writeing which            
were Read & Coppies sent to the Comons wherein they Humbly submitt              
themselves to their Lordships Arbitremt that what they are charged with         
amounts not to High Treason                                                     
     The Lds made some Amendmts to dr Oates bill & sent it to the Commons       
     Yest the Commons ordered A bill to be brought in to Reverse the            
Judgmt Agt sr Wm Williams & Recd A message from his Maty that he hopes          
their buisness is soe neer finished that A Recess may be made & that he         
is willing noe further proceedings Upon Raising money should be till            
their meeting towards winter other then what this house have now                
designed & Reminds the house of the Act of Indempnity                           
     This day the Comons Read the Lds Amendmts to dr Oates bill &               
disagreed to them all & made An order that the Auditor of the Exchequer         
should bring An Account of all money paid for secrett service since 1672        
& to whome                                                                      
     Letters yest from scotland of the 6th Instant say that just then           
they Recd An Account from Grenoch by A vessell Come in thither That Coll        
Kirke giveing notice to derry of his Intention to force his Passage             
by land to them Accordingly landed his men within 4 miles of that place         
& had A sharpe Engagemt for 3 houres dureing which time the Garrison            
made A greate sally & at last beate them into the Country with A greate         
slaughter takeing the ffort of Kilmore & then marched into the towne            
& was breaking the Boome to make way for his ships  They also say there         
are vessells arrived to other places that give the same Account,                
     The Parliamt there have passed An Act for Church governmt in which         
is a Clause that their Maties would maintaine Presbitery as the Ancient         
Reformed Religion being most agreeable to the Inclinations of the people        
     There are some letters from Leverpoole which give Account the              
Irish had driven 4000 protestantss to the Walls of derry saying they            
should there starve if the towne would not take them in thinking it             
would wast their Provisions                                                     
     Our Paris letters say that King Can spare noe more succours for            
Ireland                                                                         
     L. c. 2041     London 16th July 1689                                       
+Yest the Commons past the bill for the Additionall Excize  Then they           
proceeded on the Act of Indempnity & Resolved that noe more be Excepted         
on the head of the Ecclesll Comission & the 4th head was Read touching          
the Collecting of the Excize & Customs after K Charles death & ordered          
that the books &c of the Customs be Inspected & ordered An Addresse to          
his Maty that the Ds of Mazarine be Removed beyond sea                          
     This day the Comons past the Militia bill                                  
     The Genll officers are gone in order to the Releife of London derry        
13 Regemts being forthwith to be shipt, Abt 60 Ketches & Hoyes are made         
into small men of warr with 8 & 10 guns & well manned & are to Clear the        
Coast of ffrench Privateers                                                     
     Tis said they will make 3 descents into Ireland, The Scotch forces         
under Leift Douglass, An Army under Count solines & A 3d under d schomberg      
& that o[u]rs will Embarque at Torbay Bristoll Milford haven Minehead           
Chester Leverpoole & Whitehaven                                                 
      Count solines set out last night & D schomberg Intends to Lye at          
Northampton on Thursday night                                                   
     All the discourse is that the ffrench ffleet is out & Its dayly            
Exspected to hear of an Engagemt                                                
     Our Paris letters say that they very much fear A descent from              
England & Centinalls are set every quarter of A mile all along the              
sea Coasts                                                                      
  Our scotch letters mention A greate discovery of A plott Agt the              
governmt discovered by A letter dropt at A door & Carryed to the Councell       
& divers are feared that were with the d of Gourdon in the Castle & Abt         
40 Gent Their designe being to kill d Hamilton & seize the Parliamt & to        
set the towne on fire in 7 or 8 diferent places & then joyne Dundee             
flattering themselves they should get 2 or 3000 men in and Abt that             
towne  The Parliamt have ordered severall of them to be put to the              
Torture to discover the bottom of the designe & in perticuler some of the       
Dragoons in Custody who Confessed their Corresponding with Dundee.              
     L. c. 2042     London 18th July 1689                                       
+Yest the Comons ordered some to Inspect the Minute books of the Comittee       
for Irish Affaires & Comitted the bill for setling the Revenue to a             
Comittee of the whole house on satureday who are then to Considder of the       
order for makeing A setlemt on the Ps Ann of denmarke                           
     This day the house ordered the bill for Prohibitting ffrench goods         
to be Engrost & Resolved next Munday to Considder the bill for the 500 L        
fforfeitures                                                                    
     Yest sr Tho Jones & sr ffran Withins were heard at the barr of the         
Lds as to the Reasons that Induced them to give judgmt Agt sr Tho:              
Pilkington & the said judgmt was ordered to be Reverst                          
     Our scotch letters say the Parliamt are very Busy Examineing persons       
Concerned in the late discovery That Coll Wilson was deeply Engaged in it       
& has made A long Confession That A Proclamation was Issued for all             
Papists & suspected persons therein mentioned to depart that Citty              
     Our Paris letters say severall persons of the best quality of that         
Kingdome are taken up upon suspition of holding Correspondency with             
fforeign Princes                                                                
     The dukes of Modena & savoy are sending 3000 men each to assist the        
ffrench K to be chiefly Employed Agt spaine                                     
     Tis Said the Ld Cornburies Regemt is given to his Leift Heyford  sr        
Paull Ricant Embarques Resident for Hamburg next weeke                          
     Letters from Chester say Proclamation was made there that the Camps        
will be within 3 miles of that Citty & that the Country bring in                
Provisions accordingly                                                          
     Yest 20 New Cast brass Cannon were brought to the tower & 60 small         
vessells from 8 to 18 guns went out of this River for the west in order         
to transport forces for Ireland                                                 
      Count solines Encamps not at Chester with the Rest of the Army but        
ships Imediately with 8 or 10000 men to joyne Coll Kirke                        
     Yest their Maties Came to towne & the spanish Ambr had his                 
Congratulatory Audience & the King sate above 2 houres in the treasury          
     L. c. 2043     London 20th July 1689                                       
+Yest the Commons Resolved That sr ffran Pemberton & sr Tho Jones in            
giveing judgmt to over Rule the Plea in the Case of Jay & Topham had            
broken the priveledges of this house & Comitted them for the same               
     This day the Comons Read the Orphans bill the first time                   
     His Maty hath promised d schomberg 100000 L to Purchase An estate          
here in England & the King has lately sent An Expresse to sweden &              
denmarke for 20000 men which will be sent                                       
     The ffrench fleet Consists of 60 Capitall ships 24 ffrigotts & 28          
ffireships 20000 men & 4000 Cannon                                              
     His Maty hath at sea & Ready to put to sea 104 men of warr besides         
the Dutch                                                                       
     Ten Regemts of horse & foot will be forthwith Raised  The Ld               
Colchesters & Coll Langstons Regemts have orders to goe for scotland            
     Our scotch letters say 1500 Irish are landed in that Kingdome That         
the E of Argile with 8 Regemts of foot & 3 Regemts of horse was gone to         
oppose them That the late King Intended to be there in A short time if          
the plot had taken effect                                                       
     Private letters from scotland mention some of the dignifyed Clergie        
to have Absconded as also the E of Calender Ld Levingston Ld Maitland &c        
    Letters from Chester & Leverpoole declare Coll Kirke to be still safe       
in the Lough of derry That on Munday some thousands were shipt at               
Leverpoole to goe with Count Solines who Its hoped may be there by this         
time                                                                            
     Letters from Corke say not above 1000 men were left in that Country        
all the forces being sent to the north That A Proclamation was Ishued out       
that noe Protestants should pay any tythes to the Clergie but to the King       
& that they were dayly in Exspectation of the English forces                    
     L. c. 2044     London 23d July 1689                                        
            [Letter is addressed to "the Lady Newdigate."]                      
+On sunday in the Evening Came An order from the King to the Ld Mayor           
The Contents not Knowne whereupon his Ldpp ordered Double watch in all          
parts of the Citty  The Guards at Whitehall were also Doubled  The genll        
voyce [?] was the King was to be kild The queen seized The Citty ffired         
& the Tower to be seized                                                        
     This was by A letter left with the E of Monmouths servant which he         
Imediately Carryed to the Lord who went with it to the secretaries & he         
to the King  They say it was not subscribed & that it gave notice of some       
Imediate Designes Agt the Govermt                                               
     Yest the Comons Read the Engrost bill for Releife of Poor Prisoners        
A 3d time & A debate ariseing upon it the debate was Adjourned                  
     This day the Attorney Genll Reported the Amendmts to the bill for          
Regulating Corporations & the house went through some of them                   
     They write from Chester greate numbers of vessells were Come               
thither & to the Neiboring ports for Transportation of the Army  The            
Randevouz is to be at the Isle of Man & d schombergs Army will be 22000         
men  Count solines 12000 besides Coll Kirks Troops & 22000 will be kept         
here in England                                                                 
     A small man of warr is taken that Came from Waterford & Aboard A           
Pacquet of letters from K James to the ffrench K                                
     Our scotch letters say severall of the Irish who landed are seized         
who give Account they were forced on board                                      
     The same letters say Genll Maccay was gone to the Army That 1300           
horse were taken up to Draw the Artillery &c & A Proclamation was Issued        
Comanding all officers to supply the Army with Provisions at Reasonable         
Rates on Paine of High Treason                                                  
     Admirall Herbert hath sent Into Plimouth A ffrench man of warr & Abt       
300 merchants ships laden with wine &c                                          
     L. c. 2045     London 27th July 1689                                       
     [Letter is addressed in another hand to "the Lady Newdigate."]             
 +Yest the Comons ordered mr Graham to Attend as A witness on the bill          
for Reversing the Judgmt Agt sr Wm Williams                                     
     This day they were in A Comittee on the bill for Prohibiting               
Comodities                                                                      
     The person that brought the last Expresse from Coll Kirke is An            
Able Swimmer who has been in London derry 6 severall times & the last           
within less then A fortnight to whome the Coll Referrs as being able            
to give the best Accounts & Informes the garrison Can hold out yet A            
month longer but wants some Necesaries & have more flesh then Bread &           
being soe long beseiged there is scarce one in twenty with A Pare of            
shoes on his feet                                                               
     Letters from Leverpoole give some further Account that the                 
Protestants of Iniskilling have had A sharpe Rencounter with part of            
the Army before derry & tooke 800 ffrench Armes & 300 Prisoners upon            
which most part of the Irish Army were drawne off from derry to hinder          
them from Comeing thither                                                       
     Coll Kirke designing to joyne the Protestants of Iniskilling &             
Attempt the Releife of derry by land hath sent to the Citty to signify          
his designe that they may not only make A sally at the same time but            
also may not be surprised at his withdrawing his fleet from the Lough &         
there are greate hopes of the good effect                                       
     Yest An Expresse Came to his Maty from the E of Torrington &               
brought A Pacquett of letters from the ffrench K to his Ambr in Ireland         
which shew his unwillingness to let K James Returne out of Ireland as he        
has pressed that Court                                                          
     Our scotch letters say That the viscount Kilsith & his Associates          
have been Examined & one of them tortured with the Boot & Thumb & made          
A large Confession whereby they were all found Guilty & have all flung          
themselves on the Kings mercy for their lives                                   
     L. c.  2046     London 30th July 1989                                      
+Yest & this day the Comons were on the Revenue bill & Resolved That the        
Customs be given for 3 yeares & the Excize for their Maties lives               
     The King has Recd an Expresse from Coll stewart out of the Island          
of Jurl in Ireland That haveing put Armes into the hands of 1000                
Protestants & finding some Regemts of Irish were Posted neer them with          
Intent to Cut them off, he foarded over in the night when the Tyde was          
low & Came soe suddenly upon them that he made A greate slaughter &             
put them wholly to flight takeing some prisoners 100 Cattle 1000 Armes          
&c & seized A Causeway which they have Posted themselves upon & will be         
of greate service to the Protestants                                            
     The devonshire from the streights is taken by the ffrench & Carryed        
into Brest being laden with oyle silke &c & judged worth 24000 L Also the       
ffrench Toulon fleet is  armed at Brest & now they boast they will Come         
out & fight the English & Dutch fleet  They add some privateers have            
taken A Dutch man of warr of above 40 Guns                                      
     The 3 E India ships lately Arrived are Judged worth 22000 L  They          
say the Peace with the Mogull is not yet perfected                              
     On satureday the young Prince was Baptized at Hampton Court by             
the Bp of London  his Maty & the Ld Chamberlain as Proxie for the K of          
denmarke stood Godfathers & the Marchioness of Hallifax Godmother his           
Name William & A Pattent is Passing to Create him D of Glocester                
     L. c. 2047     London 1st August 1689                                      
+Yest the Commons had A Conference with the Lds Abt the succession of the       
Crowne & Mayor Wildman Reported that the Lds Insist on their owne               
Amendmts  That the Ps sophia of Hanover should succeed after the death          
of Ps Ann & her Issue &c  Then the Comons Adjourned till ffriday                
     Wee hear from Chester that the Campe Increases But the ships being         
not Come Abt Its not Certain when they will Embarke  The Genll had              
Advice some ffrench men of warr were discovered off of Whitehaven, ffower       
ffrench Privateers were soe bold as to Come neer the Rivers mouth & Carry       
away some Irish victuallers that were Advanced soe far before their Convoy      
     The King Recd An Account that Abt 30 of the E of Oxfords Regemt            
makeing A mutiny in the Campe under Pretence of want of Pay the Major           
Rode briskly Among them & Pistolling their spokesman the Rest were              
seized & will be Punished for the same                                          
     This day being the time Allotted by tne Act of Parliamt for the Bps        
& Clergie to take the oaths or be suspended The Bp of Durham on Tuesday         
Came to the Ld Mayor & tooke the oath at Guildhall & is gone to his Bp          
the Ld Crew at Hampstead                                                        
     The Toulon fleet being got into Brest the ffrench King hath sent           
Instructions to his Admirall which he is not to open till he is some            
Leagues at sea with the fleet who have 6 Regemts of souldiers on board          
     The D: de la fforne is put into the Bastille by Reason of the late         
queen of England on Pretence of Plotting Agt the P of Wales                     
     The Pope is given over by his Phisitians                                   
     L. c. 2048     London 3d August 1689                                       
+This day the Comons ordered a bill to be brought in to make the                
Refusall of the oaths to K Wm & q Mary more Penall  The bill for                
prohibitting Comerce with ffrance past, ordered that An Addresse be made        
to his Maty to enquire why succours went not sooner to Ireland why the          
merchants ships were seized for want of Convoy why the Thoulon ffleet was       
suffered to goe into Brest without any opposition  The question was put         
whether the Ms of Hallifax should be Charged in perticuler yeas 76 Noes 90      
     On Thursday advice was brought to the King that Genll Mackay was           
Attaqued by Dundee himselfe kild & his Party Routed but yest Came A 2d          
Expresse which tis said gives Account That last satureday the Genll &           
Dundee had A skirmish & Coll Macy & some other officers kild  But on            
sunday Genll Mackay had A 2d Encounter which was mantained very obstinately     
but in Conclusion Dundee being slaine his forces gave way which if it           
hold true will put An end to those disturbances                                 
     Letters yest from Chester bring Account the Army begins to Embarke         
2 Gent Escaped from Dublin Informe K James begins to be sencible of the         
English Invasion & hath Comanded all Protestants to depart the Citty in 6       
weeks & hath taken into Custody the Ld Grenard & the Rest of the                
Considderable Protestant Gentry & Its said the designe is to send them          
all into ffrance & A Proclamation is Publishing for all persons to bring        
in their horses & Armes or be declared Rebells.  They Add Derry holds out       
bravely                                                                         
     The ffrench K hath Recd An Expresse from his Admirall at Brest             
That he had dispatched 2 men of warr & 4 ffrigotts with A supply of             
Money &c to K James That his fleet is 66 men of war 24 ffrigotts & 24           
ffireships & he will fight his way for Ireland Agt the English & dutch          
fleet if they oppose him                                                        
     Also hath Account from his Navy at Dunkerke that the Privateers            
have brought in thither 25 English ships with Coales & also Another             
vessell bound for Holland with 50 ffrench Protestants on board & hath           
Account from Havre de Grace that the 3d Instant A ffrench man of warr           
brought in thither 2 Jamaica ships Richly laden                                 
     L. c. 2049     London 8th August 1689                                      
+Yest the Comons Past the bill to Prohibitt all trade with ffrance &            
Resolved there be An Additional provision of 40000 L p An for Ps Ann            
     This day they Past the bill to Encourage the Woollen Manufacture           
with A Clause enjoyneing women of such degrees to wear Hatts & that             
the Lineings of all Coaches be woollen  Also A Clause for noe foreign           
wrought silks or stuffs to be Imported after the 1st Janr next                  
    On Tuesday An Expresse Arrived from M. Genll Mackay giveing Account         
that the E of Argile with 800 horse & dragoons Cut off 500 of the               
Rebells Comeing to st Johnstons to Carry away A Considderable quantity          
of Provisions, A drummer of the Ld Levens Regemt who was taken                  
prisoner by the Rebells is escaped to sterling & made Affidavitt of the         
death of Dundee & that he saw his Corps buryed in Blaine Church That            
many of his men deserted for that Coll Connan who has taken the Comand          
is A Papist Just Come out of Ireland & has little or noe Interest in the        
Highlands  The Rebells Hanged severall of their Prisoners that had              
served K James but others that will swear to be true to them they Arme          
     The King has ordered 4000 men to be sent into scotland                     
     Wee have account from derry that Coll Kirke had been there That            
had not Releife Come they Could not have held out many dayes longer             
That the whole Irish Army is drawing off from before derry & A Campe            
will be formed neer Dublin to oppose the Invasion of d schomberg                
     Wee hear from Leverpoole 12000 men under Count solins are shipt &          
Its said are sayled for Ireland                                                 
     Wee hear Admirall Herbert hath taken A ffrench Advice boate with A         
Pacquett of Letters signifying the designes of their fleet which are            
now bringing up & that o[u]r fleet is gone towards the Irish Coast to           
favour the landing of o[u]r Army                                                
     L. c. 2050     London 10th August 1689                                     
+Yest A bill to Prevent the Exportation of wooll past the Comons                
     This day A bill for Appropriating the New Imposition upon Tobacco          
& sugar & the E: India & ffrench silks &c & the Additionall Excize to           
Pay 60000 L to K Charles 2d servants & 600000 L to the dutch Read A 1st         
& 2d time                                                                       
     Our scotch letters say Coll Ballfour is taken but Left Coll Mackay         
kild being the Gent that Charged Dundee That Dundee is Certainly kild           
The M: Genll Mackay is Advanced to st Johnstons staying for the Rest of         
his Army which will be 10000 & will from thence March towards the enemy         
who Continue yet in the Lowlands & have Encampt themselves & say they           
Exspect A further Reinforcemt from Ireland                                      
     On Wednesday last the Ms of Atholl being at Tunbridg wells was             
brought to towne in Custody of A Messenger                                      
     They write from Plimouth 15 ffrench prizes were brought in thither         
That they have Advice from the fleet they have noe Intelligence the             
Thoulon squadron is come into Brest notwithstanding soe many Reports            
     They write from Paris that King hath sent orders to all the                
seaports that all Privateers above 30 guns gave sayle for Brest to joyne        
his fleet Reckning they amount to 40 sayle Also An order to take all            
English Prizes into his Posession Allowing A Reasonable Proportion to           
those who fitted out their vessells at their owne Charge being Resolved         
to make the best of them boasting they will Amount to 7 or 800000 L             
there being in one of the ships they seized 114 bayle of fine silke 200         
Tun of Oyle &c                                                                  
     Our fflanders letters say 2 Councells of warr have been held in            
the English Campe one on the 29th where 9 souldiers were tryed for              
Mutinously demanding their Pay 4 of which were shot to death & the other        
on the 31st where mr Calvert & mr Nue of the E of Oxfords Regemt were           
tryed for the like Crime when Mayor Board shot the Ringleader & were            
found guilty but Repreived till his Maties pleasure be knowne                   
     They write from Hamburgh our King is treating with the K of                
Denmarke for 10000 of his men & some of his men of warr but it is not           
yet Agreed on                                                                   
     L. c. 2051     London 13th August 1689                                     
+Yest the Comons Passed the bill for Paying the dutch & ordered An              
Addresse to his Maty That Coll Lundee be sent to London derry to be             
tryed there for the Treasons Agt him                                            
     This day the Commons Past the bill for weareing Woollen                    
     Eight first & 2d Rate ships are Equipping to put to sea                    
     To morrow some forces march to the Campe at Hunslow heath where            
will Randevouz 12 or 14000 men                                                  
     Our ffrench letters say that on the 18th that King Recd An Expresse        
from K James out of Ireland That London derry was Releived & the Irish          
Army decampt in order to draw in A body to oppose A descent by d                
schomberg pressing him either to send him more succour for he began             
to question the fidelity of some of his Irish Nobility or grant him             
permission to Returne into ffrance which Expresse was soe surprizeing           
that the King had that evening A small Returne of his Ague  next day            
A Grand Councell was held & those forces sent by the Dukes of Modena            
savoy &c ordered on board the fleet for the assistance of K James               
Madam Montion Came to Condole the King on the bad newes  But his Maty           
told her, Walker was soe busy in his thoughts that he Could Admitt              
him noe Rest                                                                    
     On the 17th the King had An Expresse from Rome that the Pope was           
speechless                                                                      
     Our scotch letters say Genll Mackay is fortifying st Johnstons &           
Dundee  That sr Jo Laniers Regemt of Horse & the Ld Cornburies dragoons         
are marched to joyne Mackay & the E of Argile is Comeing thither with           
5000 men  The enemy Remaine at Dumkell                                          
     That the Ld Levingston the E of Calender & Ld duffee with 60 horse         
were discovered at Linlithgow going to the Rebells                              
     L. c. 2052     London 17th August 1689                                     
+Yest the Commons past the bill for better secureing the Govermt Agt            
Papists with Amendmts That the Exceptions as to the dissenters should           
be Confined only to quakers & Added A Clausse that all fforfeitures by          
the E of salisbury shall goe to the makeing up his Protestant younger           
Brothers & sisters Portions given them by their fathers will                    
     This day a bill Agt Clandestine Marriages was sent from the Lds &          
Read A 1st time                                                                 
     Ordered that it be Comitted to his Maties privy Councell to secure         
Robt Diggs who was Comitted by Coll Sackvile Abt the Tumult on Wednesday        
that he could not be bayled                                                     
     Yest letters Arrived from M: Gen Kirke to the secretary of state &c        
giveing Account of the Progress of his Armes since the Releife of derry         
That greate numbers of Protestants flock in to him & the Iniskilling            
men joyned him & followed the enemy & defeated their Arreir guard tooke         
15 peeces of Cannon & Part of their baggage & Ammunition & Continued            
to pursue them towards dublin & tooke Coll Hamilton & Maccarty                  
     26 men of warr have orders to fit out with all Expedition                  
     Yest Came Advice the ffrench fleet is put to sea haveing 12000             
landmen on board & designed for scotland                                        
     The Lds of the Admiralty have ordered our Colliers not to put to sea       
without A good Guard & have ordered 9 ffrigotts to pursue the ffrench men       
of warr gone out of dunkerke to take our Coale fleet                            
     Our ffrench letters say that King Recd letters from Ireland wherein        
his Ambr presses both for men & money                                           
     On the 21st A Person was brought Prisoner to Paris & Comitted there        
being found Abt him letters from the P of Orange as they Call him & the         
spanish Ambr in England & upon Purusall of them 12 persons were seized          
& Comitted to the Bastille                                                      
     On the 22d the Courier from his Maties Ambr at Coppenhagen brought         
A Project of Neutrality between his Master & the K of Denmarke  The             
Count Meynard schomberg eldest son of the Genll is Arrived here from            
Holland & gone to waite on the King & thence goes to Chester to Comand          
the Regemt of ffrench Protestant horse & then follows his father                
   L. c. 2053     London 20th August 1689                                       
+Yest the Lds Rejected the bill for weareing the woollen Manufacture            
     This day his Maty past these bills                                         
1  ffor paying 600000 L to the dutch & 60000 L to the 2 late Kings              
servants                                                                        
2  Prohibitting Comerce with ffrance                                            
3  To Prevent Exportation of wooll                                              
4  for supplying defects in the late Act for 12 d p C                           
5  for Releife of the Irish Clergie                                             
6  Repealeing the statute Agt Multiplying silver                                
7  Tanning leather & 2 Private bills                                            
Then the Ld Privy seale declared it was his Maties pleasure they                
Adjourne till the 20th sept & then if there be noe occasion till winter         
     The Antelop ffrigott brought Account to Chester That on the 14th           
they saw Genll schomberg & all his fleet safe in the bay of Carrickfergus       
landing without any opposition & our letters from Highlake say all the          
horse & Ammunition have orders to sayle thither                                 
     his Maty hath Recd An Expresse from the fleet That they were last          
Thursday in view of the ffrench fleet endeavouring to get the wind but          
he did not beleive they should Come to Action                                   
      Our scotch letters say Genll Mackay writt to the Councell from            
Aberdeen That the enemy were within 16 miles of him & he suspected              
the Country would Joyne them & the Councell have given him leave to             
use fire & sword to all that shall oppose him or not Come to him                
     Letters from the Hague of the 16th say Just then Came An Expresse          
the P of Baden hath Routed the whole Turkish Army & Kild 30000 in Battle        
     Last satureday the Campe at Hunslow broke up                               
     L. c. 2054     London 22d August 1689                                      
+Yest was A greate Consult at Whitehall where the Reasons for & Agt             
the Kings declaration were debated designed for the Kingdome of Ireland         
as to the promiseing those Irish Papists who will lay downe their Armes         
their estates  Most of the Irish Gent in towne being prsent declared            
their sentiments some whereof would have An Exception of 40 or 50               
to make good the Damage they have sustained but others judge it more            
Conduceable to the prsent Reduceing Ireland to be Generall which is             
to be Referred to his Maties pleasure                                           
+The King had A designe for Windsor but Its said has altered his                
Intention & Its said will goe some time to Newmarket                            
     our scotch letters of the 15th say that after D Hamilton had               
treated mr Walker the Citty did the like & made him free thereof That           
a Proclamation was there published promiseing Pardon to those Rebells           
that lay downe Armes & take the oath of Alleigance &c                           
     Our ffrench letters of the 26th say that on the 2lst the Ld Tho            
Howard Arrived at Brest from Ireland in A ffrench man of warr & saw the         
English & dutch fleet upon the Coast & mett them on their way thither           
but say they Cannot posibly get thither without An Engagemt  There are          
8 Battalions of land forces in their fleet                                      
     On the 23d Mounsr Barillon late Ambr in England was nominated to           
goe envoy Extrary to the Court of sweden to treate of An Alliance of            
Neutrality haveing A Comission to make very Considderable offers                
     On the 24th the King treated at supper The Cardinall ffustemburg           
& 3 other Cardinalls & is speeding them to Rome to take Care of his             
Interests in An Election of A Pope his Holiness being Reported to be            
dead  The same Evening his Maty Recd An Expresse from Marshall Humieres         
That the dutch pressed him very much to fight & if he had not A                 
Reinforcemt of 4 Batallions of Infantry he Could not undertake for the          
success thereof                                                                 
     L. c. 2055     London 24th August 1689                                     
+Our Paris letters of the 28th say they had Advice from Rome the Pope           
died the 12th Instant in the 79th year of his age & the 12th of his             
Popedome upon which the Kings dispatcht his Ambr to Rome to looke               
after the Election                                                              
     On the 26th the King Recd An Extrary Courrier from Languedoc that          
the new Converts to the Number of 15000 have taken Armes & formed A             
Declaration Shewing the Reasons thereof & Its Concluded they have been          
prompted to it by Some Puissant stranger upon which the King hath sent          
some horse & dragoons Agt them but not the Arriere Ban least they               
should Joyne them                                                               
     They write from Vienna the Grand seignior has sent to his Ambr there       
to Returne home though the Emperor Should make Advantageous offers of           
Peace  Advice is brought thither that the Tartars have defeated the             
Muscovites & obliged them to agree A Peace & the Cham has sent to               
Poland to Presse that King to doe the like on good Termes                       
     The King has Recd An Account from D schomberg of his landing at            
Carrickfergus That he finds plenty of provisions A Bullock being sold           
for 14 s & A sheep for 18 d & thereupon he has Returned the King 70             
vessells with salt Provisions Reserveing only Bisket & Beer That he             
has advanced 12 miles into the Country  The enemy surrendred Belfast in         
4 houres  The Country Comes in Apace & they have A very good market             
there  Tis said assoon as the Kingdome is Reduced The Ld sidney stands          
faire to goe Ld Leift & that his Regemt of foot guards will be Restored         
to the d of Grafton                                                             
     A Regemt of horse another of dragoons & some foot are sayled from          
Highlake & the Rest will be speeded                                             
     The King has Appointed the Bps of st Asaph London & salisbury to           
Execute the office of the Archbp of Cant who Its said is Retired into           
the Country not haveing taken the oaths                                         
     This day the King hath Advice that the English & dutch Army in             
fflanders have engaged the ffrench & kild 2000 & the ffrench Retired            
to their Campe & the states forces kept their ground till night                 
     A Comission is drawne to be sent to Coll Kirke to Constitute him           
Leift Genll of Ireland as A Reward for his good services                        
     L. c. 2056     London 27th August 1689                                     
+Our Advices from Dublin of the 18th say K James by Proclamation                
Required all from 16 to 60 to Come under his standard                           
     Carrickfergus holds out Agt Genll schomberg & Its supposed K James         
will draw what forces he Can to Charlemont & endeavour to fight Genll           
schomberg before he be Reinforced from England                                  
     Wee hear from Derry there is Appearance of A very greate harvest           
but of A few people to gather it  That M: G: Kirke had sent 3 ships for         
scotland to fetch back Gratis such people as fled from derry &c & hath          
made out of the Derry men 5 Regemts of ffoot who are established in the         
Kings pay                                                                       
     All the Townes & Gents houses in the Counties of Derry Donegall &          
Tyrone are burnt downe Except Dungannon Macherofelt & strabane That M:          
G: Kirke is marched to joyne Genll schomberg the Garrison of Colrane            
flying before him as sheep                                                      
     Our scotch letters say the Rebells on the 17th sent A guard of 500         
men with Cattle & other spoyle to Locticher & have sent all their               
Prisoners to the Island of Mull  they are thought to be Come by this time       
to Angus burneing & spoyleing as they march being Abt 4000 men                  
      The Presbiterian synod have deputed 3 of their Number to Come with        
An Addresse to his Maty humbly desireing that the Presbiterian Govermt          
may be seatld there                                                             
     Our ffleet were on the 13th 7 Leagues off of Kingsale being 111            
sayle                                                                           
     Capt Wright goes Admirall of the squadron his Maty is sending to           
the West Indies which Its said will consist of 14 men of warr & 6               
ffireships                                                                      
     Those in New Yorke have set up their former Govermt like those in          
New England                                                                     
     L. c. 2057     London 29th August 1689                                     
+Wee have Advice from Ireland that on the 18th D schomberg beseiged             
Carrickfergus  That he tooke the towne & was on the 21st stormeing the          
Castle  That the Protestants are masters of all Ulster except Charlemont        
where all the Irish forces in that province lye & this day wee hear An          
Expresse is Come of A bloody Engagemt & that 2000 ffrench & Irish are           
Cutt off                                                                        
     Tis said the Declaration Intended Agt the Irish in Rebellion & the         
Indempnity offered all not therein Excepted is wholly layd aside & A            
Resolution taken to Prosecute here all Agt whome there is any evidence          
     Our scotch letters say the Ld Angus Regemt of 1200 men all zealous         
Kirkemen Comanded by Lt Coll Cleveland & Mayor Henderson being at               
Dunkell were Attacqued by 3000 Rebells 3 severall times but Repulsed            
them killing Abt 400 but with the Loss of Cleveland Henderson & Abt             
40 more & 30 wounded after which the Rebells were seen to Cross the             
Hills with 1500 Cattle                                                          
     On satureday D Hamilton &c Came to towne  Tis said they came to            
Prepare the Preliminaries for An union & setling their Religion the             
next session of Parliamt                                                        
     Our Reverend Clergie & the Chiefs of the Dissenters have had               
divers meetings & made A greate progress in order to a Comprehension            
& union                                                                         
     Our ffrench letters say their fleet Returned to Brest last                 
satureday                                                                       
     This day Coll Walker Accompanied with the Archbp of Tuain [?] &c           
tooke Coach for Windsor to waite on their Maties.                               
+They write from Rome the Conclave is open & that the heads of the              
faction are Altiery & Cibo                                                      
+The Countesse of sunderland is gone for Holland in one of the Kings yachts     
     L. c. 2058     London 31st August 1689                                     
+Last night & this morning wee had A warme Report the 2 fleets were             
engaged but this afternon Its quite Altered & Its said they have not soe        
much as seen each other & that o[u]rs is Come into Harbour  some Attribute      
it to the want of provisions some one thing some another                        
     This day An Expresse is Arrived from o[u]r fleet the Contents not          
yet knowne                                                                      
     The Bps of London & st Asaph have Comissions to Execute the                
Jurisdiction of Canterbury Norwich Ely & Peterbrough  The Bp of                 
Chichester is dangerously ill                                                   
     On Thursday the Ld President Accompanied mr Walker to Court &              
Introduced him to his Maty who Embraced him with An Extrary kindness &          
gave him An order for 5000 L & assured him the beste vacancy in the             
Church in Ireland was at his election with other greate favours                 
     Yest he dined with the Ld Mayor & the 13 Companies Intend to               
make him a prsent of 100 L apeece                                               
      We have Account of the loss of 3 ships from Nevis & 4 from                
New Yorke all Richly laden                                                      
     Tis said there is A treaty betwixt his Maty & the K of denmarke by         
which the latter is to furnish his Maty with 12 men of warr 6000 foot &         
1000 horse which Its beleived are designed for Ireland                          
     They write from scotland that the Councell are busy in Removeing           
such Clergie as Refuse to pray for K Wm & q Mary                                
     L. c. 2059     London 3d sept 1689                                         
+Our fleet is Come into Torbay sickly & in greate want of Provisions            
&c & there is going to them Provisions for 14000 men for 6 weeks &              
Its hoped they will be in A Condition to sayle againe in 8 or 10 dayes          
     The ffrench fleet is at Brest haveing orders only to guard                 
their owne Coasts                                                               
     Mr Walker hath given 1000 L of the 5000 L his Maty gave him to the         
Widdow of Capt Baker who was Killed at the siege of derry                       
     Letters from Ireland say Carrickfergus surrendred the 28th August          
being forced to it by the Bombes & Cutting off their water & 1500 men           
marched out with their Armes &c  But after their guard had left them the        
scotch Protestants of the Country whome they had Barbarously used stript        
them & kild many of them at which d schomberg was Angry  sr Hen Ingoldsby       
is made governr                                                                 
     The Genll Keeps his quarters at Belfast being 30000 strong & when          
the horse Arrive from England will march direct for dublin                      
     some letters say K James is gone towards Gallway & hath left               
Tirconnell to make such Termes as he shall thinke best for himselfe & his       
ffreinds                                                                        
     Tis said dr Oates will be made A Bp in Ireland                             
     On satureday died the Bp of Chichester  Also sr Hen Tulse one of our       
Aldermen who Its said hath left to Christchurch Hospitall &c 10000 L            
     They write from scotland their Maties have discharged all ministers        
there for medling with any state matters either in their sermons or             
judicatures                                                                     
     The D of Glocester is troubled with fitts                                  
     L. c. 2060      London 7th sept 1689                                       
+On Thursday night & since abt 46 persons have been seized Abt Charing          
Cross being Accused of some dangerous Conspiracy some say Agt the life          
of the King & of haveing A greate fond of money to Encourage A Rebellion        
& messengers are abt this day to seize others                                   
     Letters from the Genlls Campe at Belfast say they had Account the          
late Kings Army were Abt the Newry & were 50000                                 
     Our scotch letters say Coll Cannon is with 800 of the Rebells              
got into the Island of Mull with Intention Its thought to get into              
Ireland & the Rebells in A manner wholly disperst                               
     Our Eastland merchants have notice that 10 daneish men of warr are         
Comeing with some thousands of souldiers to land them in scotland & to          
get their Eastland fleet Ready to goe under their Convoy back into the          
sound                                                                           
     Our fleet are at Torbay where Its said many of o[u]r men are sick          
& Complaine of Provisions  Tis said the E of Notingham is sent downe to         
Examine some matters there  Tis said they will goe suddenly againe to sea       
+dr Hopkins Bp of derry has Accepted to be Bp of Chichester & dr Walker         
will be Bp of derry                                                             
     Tis said dr stillingfleet will succeed Bp of Worcester & that dr           
Tillotson will be deane of st Paulls                                            
     The ship burnt by the ffrench was the Jerusalem from Venice & the          
fidelity taken, also a smirna ship Called the Levanteen                         
     Here is a Report P: Waldeck hath fought the ffrench under M:               
Humieres & that 8000 ffrench are kild & 4000 taken & their whole Army           
broke & the Prince Pursuing them                                                
     Tis said the Ld Colchester will be governr of Jamaica                      
     L. c. 2061     London 10th sept 1689                                       
+Divers more persons are seized Among which are the Lady Harmon Neice           
to the E of sunderland sr Patrick Trant lady mrs Nepho mrs sheldon & some       
other Popish ladies, neitherr their Accusations or Confessions are yet          
knowne though Its said some have made large ones upon assurance of              
Pardon  severall are brought from Greenwich & messengers are gone into          
surrey to seize some persons of note                                            
     Wee have Account from Mentz that it was surrendred to the ffrench          
on the 8th Instant                                                              
     Our letters from the Campe at Belfast say Genll schomberg                  
Constituted 3 Comrs for the Revenue of Ireland with power to secure all         
the Corne &c of the Rebells & such hath been their vigilancy & the              
peoples Complyance that Its in A faire way of settlemt                          
     On the 3d the Genll decamped & marched towards Dublin  The whole           
Army is in good heart & health & Impatient of Action  Its supposed they         
Reached Lurgan Race last satureday where K James was with all his force         
     That 2 troops of the enemies horse had Come within 12 miles of the         
Campe & Carryed off 4 or 5 Protestants & some Cattle                            
     Many of the Irish of note Come in Dayly to the Genll who grants            
them Termes                                                                     
     Our scotch letters say 1600 Atholl men have Capitulated & that A           
Party of Rebells Comanded by A Br of Dundees is totally Routed 200 Kild         
& their Comanders taken                                                         
     Wee hear from o[u]r fleet Galls Coperas &c were found in their             
Provisions                                                                      
     L. c. 2062     London 12th sept 1689                                       
+This day Arrived 3 persons from Ireland who all say D schomberg                
surprised a Considderable party of the Irish at Newry tooke the Pass &          
killed 500 that Resisted which newes put the whole Army into A Mutiny &         
being upraided by the ffrench for Running the[y] fell on the ffrench            
officers & slew them                                                            
     That K James hastning to the army found them in A heate & bid              
Tirconnell make the best Termes he Could & Rode away with the ffrench           
Ambr & 40 more                                                                  
     Our scotch letters say that Kingdome is in A manner wholly Reduced         
the late opposers being either killed or in Prison or have Accepted his         
Maties Pardon  The Highland & Atholl men are all dispersed Except A             
few desperadoes & Genll Mackay sends word he hopes in A few dayes to            
give A good Account of the Irish in the Isle of Mull                            
     On Tuesday the Ld Bellasis died  The late queen is sick & the Ld           
Dover lyes A dyeing & Its said Coll Birch is dead                               
     Dr Hopkins Bp of Derry is made Archbp of Cassells in Ireland &             
minister of Aldermanbury in this Citty & dr stafford who enjoyed that           
benefice is made Bp of Chichester                                               
     The d of savoy is much Concerned at the Returne of the Protestants         
into Piedmont & his Envoy presses the ffrench K for some troops                 
Alledging they are Countenanced by the K of England                             
     L. c. 2063     London 14th sept 1689                                       
+Wee have noe Expresse from Ireland since o[u]r last but Its hoped the          
Genll is by this master of drogheda if not of dublin                            
     A Gent Arrived thence sayes the King & ffrench Ambr were Retired           
towards Gallway                                                                 
     That Genll schomberg hath put out A declaration in which he assures        
Pardon & equall Protection with all Protestants to all who shall lay            
downe Armes or have not 10 L p An lands by which Its beleived the greate        
men will be deserted by their followers                                         
     scotland being Reduced the English forces there are ordered for            
Carrickfergus                                                                   
     They write from Hamburgh that 7000 danes are shipping for Ireland          
Also that the K of sweden is shipping 8000 men for the service of o[u]r         
King                                                                            
     Yest A messenger seized A Gent in st James Parke & the Day before          
A Preist was taken with A Considderable summ of money & some Papers             
& Its said orders are given for seizeing 3000 Irish & English in & Abt          
London being disaffected to the Govermt & most of them Papists                  
     Yest Coll Cutts Regemt tooke Posession of the Tower                        
     His Maty hath setled A very bountifull allowance on dr Oates               
     The Bp of Winchester is dangerously ill                                    
     The Ld Colchester haveing declined going governr of Jamaica his            
Maty hath given that Govermt to the Ld Inchequin                                
     L. c. 2064     London 19th sept 1689                                       
+Our letters from Ireland of the 9th say the Irish burnt the Newry              
& Genll schomberg Marcht through it the Iniskilling men leadeing the            
van who are much dreaded by the Irish who say they are devills & not            
men & fly from them as such & heareing they were in sight made such             
hast out of Dundalke that they burnt but 3 or 4 houses from whence              
the Genll was on his March for Dublin  The Irish Army are 50000 but in          
greate Terror & Confusion                                                       
+Tis said Coll Ludlow is Comeing hither from switzerland                        
     The Comission mentioned in o[u]r last is to be to the Archbp of            
Yorke & 9 other Bps & to 20 Deanes & drs in divinity                            
     Wee heare from scotland that some Lds are Comeing up to Petition           
the King that Episcopacy may be Continued there                                 
     The Comon Councell of this Citty have ordered the Inscription              
Razed out of the Monument Abt the fireing of London to be Inserted              
Againe Also that their Maties be Invited to dine on the Ld Mayors day           
     Last Councell day the Merchants Petitioned his Maty setting forth          
the dangers their ships are in Especially Abt the Lands end & scilly            
&c Also how many ships the ffrench had Already taken, his Maty Readily          
ordered 12 ffrigotts to Cruise in those seas & was not pleased the              
Complaint Came soe late                                                         
     They write from Vienna the P of Baden Pursued the Turks with his           
horse & killed 9000 of them & Its not Doubted but it will force the             
Turkes to A Peace                                                               
     L. c. 2065     London 21st sept 1689                                       
+Our Chester letters of the 18th say severall Arrived from Ireland              
Report The late K put the d of Berwick with 12000 men Into drogheda             
& Retired with the Rest some say to Dublin others to Athlone & d                
schomberg Advanced to drogheda before which Coll Kirke & the                    
Iniskilling men are encamped on the Dublin side & d: schomberg on the           
other side                                                                      
     That the Genll sent A Trumpet to the late King that he was Informed        
the Protestants were under greate threate & feares & that the Papists           
give out they will burn Dublin & all other places they cannot keep which        
if they doe or that any Protestants are murthered he will not permitt           
quarter to Age or sex                                                           
      The English Army are in good health & have plenty of Provisions &         
mr Herbert is Arrived with 100000 L Sent to d schomberg                         
     Orders are sent to o[u]r fleet to put to sea & Its said they steer         
for the Irish Coast & that the ffrench fleet are out                            
     Wee have Account Bonne is taken by storme & the Garrison put to the        
sword                                                                           
     Our Cittizens are Advanceing 400000 L on the late Act of 12 d p C          
& Its said 200000 L is Already subscribed                                       
     The merchants have letters that A very Rich English ship Called            
the Royall Mary was by some ffrench galleys taken out of the bay of             
scanderoon supposed by Connivance of the Turks                                  
     Yest the Lds & Comons mett & Adjourned till the 19th octobr & Its          
said the Councell Resolve they shall then sit                                   
     L. c. 2066     London 24th sept 1689                                       
+On satureday Lt Genll stravaence Arrived here from Ireland who left G:         
schomberg last Tuesday & sayes the Army is strongly encamped between            
dundalke & drogheda & the late K is at Ardee 8 miles distant his Army           
being 8000 horse & 28000 foot & the Genll waites for the scottish &             
Danish forces to Attack them                                                    
     Our Army is in greate want of bread by Reason the Irish in their           
Retreate destroyed all the fforrage Provisions & Mills to the greate            
disappointment of o[u]r Army who Carryed vast quantities of wheate with         
them  But flower Biskett & Mills are sent them from Highlake Also               
many waggons & abt 500 draught horses of which they are in greate want          
But A ship with 300 Tun of meale was Cast away neer the Isle of man             
     On sunday morning Abt 3 A Clock A fire broke out over Agt the Ks           
bench in southwerke & it being faire time some booths Carryed it over           
to the Ks bench & burnt part of it & above 100 houses on both sides             
the way                                                                         
     A Considderable Number of Conspiratrs have been seized in the              
adjacent Counties & lye in the messengers hands of which many women             
of quality brought up but 2 dayes since                                         
     The Bp of salisbury hath setled above 1000 L p An of his                   
Bishoprick dureing his life for Maintenance of 30 young divines till            
they Can be preferred to benefices                                              
     We hear from New England the Indians Comitt greate spoyles &               
Cruelties there                                                                 
     L. c. 2067    London 26th sept 1689                                        
+Our Irish letters say D schomberg is soe strongly encampt he feares not        
any Attempt of the enemy & had Advice from Carlingford the ships with his       
heavy Cannon were in sight & assoon as he Receives them he will Advance         
towards the enemy                                                               
     Coll Walker is sick of A feaver                                            
     We hear o[u]r fleete put to sea a 2d time last satureday  They have        
on board 4 Intire Regemts vizt The E of Monmoths sr John Gusles Coll            
Trelawnies & Coll Lutterills besides 10 men of each Company in England          
in all Abt 5000 men & Its Concluded will fight the ffrench if not               
otherwise will Reinforce d schomberg or make A descent                          
     The d of Boltons Regemt is gone to Plimouth Its said to be                 
Transported to the west Indies                                                  
     Our scotch letters say Coll Cannon Appeares againe with small              
Parties & Genll Mackay is Hasted away to suppresse them & that the              
Councell have Apointed all the Bps Revenues to be paid into the Exchequer       
+Our ffrench letters say the Protestants in Piedmont have Comissions from       
our King & all the officers wear his livery & that 2500 ffrench Refugees        
switzers &c have joyned them with divers good officers                          
Also that 12000 Protestants are in A body in Dauphine                           
     sr samll Dashwood Charles Duncane & Wm strong Esqr are Comrs of the        
Excize in Place of sr --- ffane mr ffrancklin & mr Danvis                       
     This day a Proclamation Came out for sitting of the Parliamt the           
19th octobr                                                                     
     On Munday their Maties goe to Newmarkett                                   
     L. c. 2068   [Handwriting changes here.]    London ye 16: Janr 1689        
     Lettrs from Harwich of ye 11th Instant say yt ye Emanuell of               
Hamburrow was Come into yt Port ye Masr: whereof sayes he Came from             
thence in Company of 60 sayle of Mercht shipps bound for Cadiz undr             
Convoy of a man of warr of 70 Gunns now in ye Downes.  He further adds          
yt th[e]y were separated by a storme & yt he saw 2 of yem Cast away on          
ye back of Yarmouth Sands                                                       
     Another vessell is putt in there from Danzic Laden wth hemp Iron &c        
bound for London  She Came in Company wth Divers others but lost yem in         
bad weather                                                                     
     Three hundred soldiers are arrived there and are to Embarque for           
Holland being recrutes to fill up ye vacant troopes in ye states serviss        
     The King is now fully contented wth ye Drapers for ye furnishing of        
24 Cloathes for soldiers wch they are to dd: by ye latter end of ye next        
month                                                                           
     Tis said yt ye Royal volunteers Citty Regemt designe [to?] petition        
ye King yt his Matie would be pleased to signifie weather he expects yr         
atendance on his Royal pson to Scotland or yt they doe duty at Whitehall        
in ye absence of his guards either of wch they are ready to pforme as           
his Matie shall derect                                                          
     Wee heare from ye Downes yt 18 Merchtmen who were blowen by ye late        
storme there out are in safety in Dover Roade.  The Raynebow a shipp from       
[illegible port name] is not yett heard off being Driven away wth ye            
rest wch made insureance yesterday runn heigh upon her                          
     four Laden Colliers were in ye late storme drove ashore near ye            
buoy in ye Noare but tis beleived one of yem will be gott off this              
spring tyde  yt shipp is arrived in Hull wch Came out in Company of 13          
others but being seperated can give noe acco of yem & its feared some of        
yem are lost                                                                    
     Wee have further Lettrs from Ireland of ye 11th [?] Instant wch            
Confirme ye sicknes to be at Dublin there being 36 Houses shutt up  They        
add yt Comessarye shales had been sent hence [?] sooner but was taken           
sick.  one Le[e?] Bowles wth another was shott to Death for Barberously         
Killing 2 Masrs of victulers forceing into yr Roome at Belfast & Ravished       
one of yr wives                                                                 
     ffrench Lettrs say yt his most Christian Matie on ye 14th saw all ye       
guards of his Houshold drawen up in Battalia neare Verseillis & signified       
at ye head of yem yt he Esteemed ym ye best of all his fforcess.  That he       
was suddenly goeing upon some exterordinary serviss & did not doubt but         
they would pforme Answerable to ye expectation he had of yr vallour &           
Conduct yt it was now a time to signalize yr Currage as well for ye glory       
as safety of his Dominions being attacqued on all sides by Hereticall &         
Austrian Enemyes therefore Excited yem to doe yr uttmost to repell ye           
Spanish & Belgik fforces he designeing those People for yr pticular Conquest    
promissing yem ye whole Plunder of ye townes & villages, yt they should         
be at Liberty to kill burn & distroy what ever they pleased and ordered         
yem 6 weeks pay advance, yt they be in readyness to March ye 4th of             
ffebr.  His Matie further told yem he would follow yem in pson before ye        
latter end of yt month And psonnaly reward such as did pforme any notable       
Exployett by either advanceing yem to a Heigher degree in yr severall           
Regemt or bestow on yem a sume of mony  The same Lettrs add yt above 200        
Danish soldiers being taken by his Privateers Comeing for England and           
Carryed into Dunkirk                                                            
+His Matie had sent an Express thither to lett yem know yt they being           
soldiers of fortune & fell into his hands he would not treat yem as             
Enemyes but if they would be willing to serve undr his Banner he would          
give yem ye same pay as ye Switz have  otherwise he would keep yem in           
that Garrison till ye warr be over  Lettrs from Madride of ye 28 10br say       
yt ye King wth ye whole Court is gon from Hence towards ye groyne in ordr       
to attend ye arrivall of his Queen in ye English ffleett.                       
     L. c. 2069  [Handwriting changes here.]   London January 30: 1689          
[Letter is addressed to Sir Richard, "a Member of Parliament/At mr Bakers       
in/Park Prospect over/Against the burd Cage/in st Jameses/Westminster."         
+Tis wrot from Madrid that  ye King desired to sett forwards to                 
Vallidolid to meet his queene by the 20th January, haveing first Caused         
ye Sacramt to be Exposed for 3 Consequtiave dayes & Continueall prayers         
made in the Churches for her prosperous Voiage.                                 
     Paris Letters of the first of febuary say that the night before ye         
Ld Mountjoye was released out of the Bastiele & the next day his                
Lordshp: payd his devoyers to the french King & Late queene of England          
for his deliverance                                                             
     The 30th ultimo the King had the ill newes brought him from brest,         
that 2 men of warr with some other vessells in the Roade ware driven            
from their Anchors & blowen a shore in the Late voyalent storme & that          
Mounsr De Gulls in a ship of 70 gunns being seperated from 7 others was         
Ataqued and taken after 3 howers fight by a dutch man of warr & Carried         
into holland                                                                    
     The dover Letters of the 27 say that ye ship Greyhound Capt                
Sanders Comander Richly Laden for the Streights, being blown ou[t?] of          
the downes & supposed to be sunk, was driven a shore betwene Callis &           
Bullin where the men kept posesion some dayes, but findeing no Releife          
from England & bad weather were forsed to yeild to the french & they Are        
Imprisoned at Callis, the ship was lost but the french gott most of the         
goods.                                                                          
     The Pacquett boate arrived from Callis & bringes advice that all           
the seamen in that Port were the Last weeke sent to dunkirk In order to         
man the men of warr fitting up There who are to speed to the Rondevoues         
At brest to joyne the Rest of the ships designed for the Releife of             
Ireland,                                                                        
     Harwich ye 28th January sonday Last 15 fferkins of butter & some           
Cheese were driven a shore at Languard fort with a ships Long boat over         
sett whereby all the men were Drowned.                                          
     The same Letters Add that on Munday the Holland Pacquet boat               
Arrived & Brought Count Atfeldt & an Ambasedr from Denmark, who tooke           
Coach for London, they say that in their Passage they mett a ships Long         
boat sunk at sea, & as they fell in with the Land at Allborrow they saw         
10 or 12 other ships boats, two of which they brought into Port with them.      
     They write from Portsmouth That the Queene of spaine was not gon           
Ashoare to the Isle of Wight but keept on shipboard at spitt head               
     There Is noe Accompt as yet of the Dk of Norfolks Compleymenting           
her Maiety, his Grace sending for new Instructions there being her              
Brother on boarde, whither He should Compleyment him allsoe on parte            
of their Maities, which is ordered that he doe                                  
     Yesterday sr Edward Hailes And mr Robert obedia Walker were                
brought from the Tower by a Habies Corpious to The Kings bench & desierd        
to be Admited to Baile, The Court took time till to morrow to give their        
Resolutions in the Case but mr Burton Graham & sr Tho: Gower are at             
Liberty by vertue of the Prorogation they being in the Custody of the           
sergant [at] Armes attending the House of Commons vecates all proceedings       
before them                                                                     
     Yesterday a Cause betweene ye University & Citty of Oxford was             
tryed in the Common Please, wheither a person might matriculated [sic]          
in the University shall be Exempted from bareing offices in the Citty,          
and the stress of the decission was, whither the word in the originall          
statute did Compromise the trade of the man being A painter, & It was           
Aiudged in the Negative so went in favour of the Citty                          
+The Chester Letters wholy Contradicts the news of the late K Jameses           
Death & Contrareywise sayes that he was seen hunting the woolfe,                
about the 10th Instant but they bring this Accompt from Ireland that the        
mortality has been very seveer in the Iresh Army, that 10 Reagiments of         
Munster men haveing 18 Companies in a Reagmt being Returned into that           
proviance they are not 150 in A Reagmt, that the protestants in the             
proviance were sett at Liberty, that Colonel Dungan is made Governor of         
Limrick which place is greatly straightned & that all the people payes          
their Rent in Corne their being Little silver stireing                          
+All our discourses now, Is of the Kings goeing for Ireland & the               
pperations thereto whch are very great  we are tould that there will            
be a Commis Apointed in the Kings Absence to Look after ye Administration       
of afaires, & that the Lord Mayor & Court of aldermen: will with the Ld         
Lucas be Commisrs of the Tower &c                                               
     L. c. 2070     [Handwriting changes here.]    London 20th March 1689       
+Yest the Commons ordered An Addresse to his Maty that all Considderable        
Papists or soe Reputed be seized with their horses & Armes That if any          
Protestants Conceale armes or horses belonging to Papists they shall be         
taken as enemies                                                                
     This day the Comons Reassumed the debate of the Lds Amendmts to            
the bill for setling the Rights of the people & ordered that the Clause         
of the bill whether upon the decease of the prsent King & Queen the             
Privy Councell give the oaths & Test & send to the next successr & or           
whether the Lds & Comons last assembled in Parliamt shall doe it be             
Referred to A Comittee                                                          
     The Army will be Composed of 24000 men & will be Encamped in               
Cheshire in 3 bodies each 8000 the King designing to see them before            
they be shipt off                                                               
     The 3 Regemt of ffrench Protestant foot are on their march to the          
Randevouz                                                                       
     On Tuesday his Maty Recd An Expresse from mr Richards An Engineer          
on board the Portland ffriggott dated the 7th Instant from An Island            
in scotland that he had gone with the ship up the Lough to London derry         
but found his Passage stopt by A greate Platforme of guns on the shoar          
& some vessells & yet he Passed Kilmore ffort but was stopt by A greate         
Chaine on Cross which Caused him to Retire haveing Recd some shott              
between wind & water & had 14 of his men killed & that he heard nothing         
of Genll Kirke                                                                  
     They write from Brest that on the 21st 2 New men of warr brought           
into that Port 3 English merchantmen taken out of scilly & the discourse        
there is that the ffrench fleet designes to make A descent upon England         
     L. c. 2071  [Handwriting changes here]  London February ye 7th 1690        
     It was yesterday industriously reported about town by ye Jacobites         
yt a ffrench Convoy with provisions and Arm[es] for 10000 men is got into       
Ireland, but lettrs from Chester say, yt a ffrench vessell was brought          
into Holyhead haveing on Board 500 Barrells of powder, but gives noe            
Accompt of the foresaid Convoy.                                                 
     Tis said that the Earl of Bo[about three letters torn off] will be         
made duke of Albemarl, and ye Ld Lansdon his son is to marry ye Heer            
Oldekir[ks] Neice, with whom he will have 20000 L                               
     The Lord Mayor haveing daily Complaints of the Robberies in the            
street[s] and houses in and about the City, has ord[ered] the Constables        
to place watchmen at every narrow passage, and that they are not off till       
6 a clock in the morning takeing their stands by 6 at night.                    
     Letters from Plymouth of ye 3d Instant Advise, yt 9 ships were             
forced in their by distress of weather, designed for Ireland with               
provisions, and that a [?] dutch Caper has brought in a ffrench prize           
haveing nothing but Ballast in h[er]                                            
     Yesterday letters from portesmouth say yt 12 more ffrench ships were       
brought into the Isle of [Man?] there being about 30 in all taken by t[he]      
English and dutch out of yr great fflee[t]                                      
     Tis confidently affirmed yt the Bishop of Ely has got over to K.           
James [have]ing been seen with him at Versailles.                               
     They write from Harwich yt on ye 4th Instant 130 laden Colliers            
past by that port.                                                              
     Orders are sent to Scotland & Ireland yt the Regiments designed to         
be broke be kept on foot, & forthwith recruited.                                
     Yesterday was a long Argument in the Court of Exchequer upon               
Complaint of Creditors of sr Robert Viner & other Bankers for the               
Interest money formerly lent to K. Charles ye 2d, and the Barons gave yr        
opinion yt the said Interest money ought to be paid out of the Exchequer        
     Edinburgh Jan: ye 31th tis ye Common discourse of ye Jacobites here        
yt the duke of Berwick is landed in the north of this Kingdome with             
forces from Ireland.  We have advice from Sterling yt the Highlanders who       
have for some time layn in obscurity dureing the cold season begin now to       
appear on the mountains.                                                        
     ffrench Letters say, that some days agoe the King remitted money to        
pay Count Teckeleys forces, and dispatcht an Express for Constantinople         
to signify to mounsr Monvergies his Embassador at the Ottoman port, with        
Instructions yt sr Wm Hussey being on his way Embassador from P. of O. to       
the Grand Seignior, he should use all his Artifice to traverse and defeat       
the designs  the said Embassador is charged withall by obstructing a            
peace between ye Grand Sultan and the Emperor of Germany, giveing him           
Commission to offer one half of the Charge of the Ware rather than a            
peace should be concluded.                                                      
     There are in ye River of Burdeaux 10 swedish and 6 danish vessells         
laden with wines, and orders are comeing to demolish ye Cittadell least         
the people should Rebell and force the same, whereby greater damage will        
accrew to the Kings Affairs than the prospect of keeping it will doe him        
good.                                                                           
     Letters from the Hague say, yt his maytie is upon agreeing with the        
dutch for 32 small ships to be made into privateers, that the Heer              
Overkirk has remitted to the states Generall 12 English sea Captains,           
and does protest agt the proceedings at the tryall of the Earl of               
Torrington.                                                                     
     On thursday night a Councill was held at Whitehall her maytie being        
present, where the Lord mayor attended to obtain a Convoy for the laden         
Colliers to bring ym up to London, sea Coals beginning to rise.                 
+The Lord Baltimore alsoe waited for dispatch of his affairs in Merryland.      
+The fund of money is now settled to pay ye 2 marine Regiments, but each        
Company wch consisted of 200 men is now reduced to 100, yet they will in        
the whole amount to 3000 men.                                                   
+The publisher of the book entituled the Modest Enquiry being prosecuted        
for the same, has obtained a noli prosequi, and I am told a second part         
of the same will come to light, being 5 Articles of the Refited Memoriall       
wch the English nobility and Gentry sent to the ffrench King, the Author        
at that season [about twelve words torn off] ffleet is to be ready by the       
last of this month, and the dutch to come and join them ye 10th of ye next.     
+All the Salt Peter that was brought from the East Indies this last year        
is bought up for the Kings use.                                                 
+This day came out her Majties proclamacon for apprehending ye Bishop of        
Ely, Wm Penn and James Grahme Esqr for treasonable practices.  We are           
still in the dark as to the Lord Preston, some say yt a warrant is signd        
for his Execution others yt he is writeing his Confession but a few days        
will discover ye truth.                                                         
     L. c. 2072     London November ye 10th 1691                                
     A Gentleman who left dublin on Thursday last says there was mighty         
rejoiceings the day before for the Birth of his Majtie, & they expected         
the Genll the next day, haveing now setled all matters, and the Irish           
were all to leave ye English Town of Limmerick by ye 2d Instant, and            
some Regiments ordered to take possession, Lieutent-Genll Salmash being         
Governour thereof; He adds tht 2300 Irish and 400 ffrench are all that          
goe for ffrance, the rest haveing either taken part with our forces or          
gone to their severall habitacons.  He further adds yt 2 of ye ffrench          
Transport ships are run a ground at the Entrance of the Shannon and one         
of their men of war founderd before they came on ye Coast.                      
     Justice Hancock of midlesex had on sunday last brought to him 3            
bundles of virulent Libells dropt on purpose to be taken up and                 
dispersed, but the Pson who found them brought ym forthwith to the              
magistrate, they containing very treasonable matter, and are sent up to         
White Hall.                                                                     
     Yesterday began ye Election of a Burgess for Westminster, Sr               
Stephen ffox and Mr Owen standing Candidates; the appearance was very           
great being nigh 8 or 9000 men on Horse back, the majority fell upon Sr         
Stephen ffox, but the other demanded a poll wch was granted, and this           
day being examined in Covent Garden Sr Stephen carried it.                      
     On saturday the King took ye divertisemt of hunting in Berkshire,          
and dined that day at the Lord Lovelaces's at his seat at Harley, and           
returned yt night to Kensington.                                                
     The merchants yesterday had Advice yt 160 ships were seen on               
saturday at dartmouth sailing to the Eastward, wch they judged to be the        
Barbadoes and Virginia ffleets with their Convoy, & hope to have them in        
the downs this day.                                                             
     To morrow all ye Brokers who practice yt Craft in this City on the         
Exchange are to appear at Guild Hall abt 3 in the afternoon before a            
Committee of ye Aldermen where they are to make out by what authority           
they follow ye sd Employ                                                        
     Yesterday the House of Commons ordered Richard Baldwyn the printer         
to be taken into Custody for printing and publishing a pamphlet                 
Entituled ye new observator                                                     
     Yesterday Wm Harboard Esqr set forwards upon his Embassy to the            
Ottoman port.                                                                   
     To morrow his Majtie goes for Winchester to divert himself for a           
few days, and will be attended by the Earls of devon, Marlborough &c.           
     On Sunday last ye Earle of Essex took his place of Bed Chamber man         
to the King.                                                                    
     Yesterday the Bishops of Hereford, Chichester and Peterborough took        
the usuall oaths at the Kings Bench Barr.                                       
     Plymouth November ye 6th  This day a dutch Caper brought in a              
ffrench prize laden with sugar from ye West Indies                              
     Letters yesterday from Scotland Advise that his Majtie is expected         
at Edinburgh against Christmas.  That it is reported there his majtie           
will sit personally in their Parliament wch is to meet the beginning of         
January.  That great preparations are allready makeing for ye Reception         
of the King, and that a Key to Edinbrough Castle will be made of gold           
and presented to his majtie as has been Customary for above 200 years.          
Patents are passing ye seals for creating the Marquis of Carmarthen             
duke of Pontefract; The Earl of devon duke of New Castle and ye Earl of         
Bath duke of Albemarle.                                                         
+Tis said his majtie has been moved that he will be pleased to discharge        
the Earl of Clarendon from his Confinement at his Country House, as             
alsoe his Bail, wch tis said is granted.                                        
+We have Advice that Captain Bart with his dunkirk squadron of 3 men of         
war and 2 fireships is cruiseing about the mouth of ye River Thames             
+Yesterday the duke of St Albans son to the late Madam Gwyn took his            
seat in ye House of Peers.  This day ye House of Commons reassumed ye           
debate of ye state of ye Nation, and there were divers Pathetical               
speeches made upon ye occasion, wch led ym to the Consideration of the          
miscarriage of the ffleet, and Admirall Russell being called upon               
produced and read a journall of his proceedings with ye severall orders         
he received from time to time from ye Lords of ye Admiralty wch he              
psued, and to ye question wch was asked him why he did not sail with the        
ffleet out of ye downs ye wind being fair 5 days he replyed he wanted           
sailing orders, upon the whole the matter was further deferred till             
munday next when ye Lords of ye Admiralty are to bring ye House Copyes          
of all the orders they sent the Admirall.  The Bill for takeing ye Oaths        
in Ireland is ordered to be carried up to the Lords.  Adjd till to              
morrow                                                                          
     L. c. 2073  [Handwriting changes here.]   London No: 12th: 1691            
     Letters from Dublin of the 5 Instant say That on the ffirst all the        
ffrench with some of the Irish were Embarqued on Board some of the              
ffrench Transport shipps in the River Shannon, And the rest of the Irish        
Embarqued on Board 40 of our Transport shipps at Corke and waite for a          
ffaire Wind to Carry them to ffrance                                            
     The Marrynerd belonging to the Restauration having lately Mutined          
the Ringleader was by a Courte Marshall Condemned to bee Hanged at the          
Maine Arme yard of the said shipp  But on Tuesday Evening Nyne Gentlewomen      
all in White attended her Matye and prsented a petition begging his life,       
But by reason of the greatness of his Crime would not bee Admitted              
     Notwithstanding I mentioned in my last that the Barbadoes and              
Virginia ffleetes were Comeing into the Downes, Yet tis said they are           
still att Kinsale, And those shipps seene off of Dartmouth were Sr Ra:          
Delavalls Squadron who could not reach ye Irish Coast by reason of              
Contrary Winds.  And by Letters yesterday from Dartmouth they are put           
into Spitt head, And last night Sr Ralph Delavall Arrived at Courte             
     Yesterday the Bipp of Lincolne took the Oathes having paid his             
Complimt to their Matys upon his promotion to yt Bishopprick                    
     Yesterday the Gunner of the Exeter was hanged up in Chaines                
     Last night was seized greate Quantities of fflanders lace ffrench          
all a mode &c of greate Vallew being Concealed in Corne Vessells                
     Yesterday 2 Psons were seized and Comitted upon Suspition of being         
the Authours of some scandalous papers lately scattered in Whitehall            
reflecting on the Govermt                                                       
     Chattam No: 10th  2 second rate shipps here are almost finished            
and at the Lanching of them his Matye will bee here.  Sr John Ashby and         
Reer Admirall Rookes are gon for London                                         
     Yesterday Morneing about 4 a Clocke a ffire broke out at his Matys         
house att Kensington which burned downe the Stone Gallery some stables          
and Out houses but their Matys Appartmts escaped  how it happned is not         
knowne                                                                          
     Waymouth the 9th instant prsent[ly?] after last post came in here          
the Whitefortune of Lisbon from Amsterdam the Master whereof says he was        
Carryed by a ffrench Man of Warr into Dunkirke and Examined And that            
before he came away there sailed out of that Harbor for Brest 6 Men of          
Warr from 50 to 60 Gunns each and 2 of them new builte never att sea            
before, And further says the ffrench there boast of having a greate             
ffleet at Sea in Aprill next                                                    
     Sr Richard Reynolds Lord Cheife Justice and Capt ffitzGarrold are          
arrived here from Ireland and I am Informed they have brought with them         
severall draughtes of Actes of Parliamt to bee perused by the Councill          
in order to bee Converted into Lawes which I am tould will bee                  
Considered on next weeke                                                        
     Wee heare yt Sr Thoms Pilkington our late Lord Mayor departed this         
life yesterday Morneing at his Seate in the Country                             
     This day Six Women were Seized in Drury Lane for Clipping and              
Coyneing the Currant Coyne of this Kingdome and Comitted to Newgate             
     This day Severall Messengers Searched the the Coffee houses in             
Towne for a Seditious Phamplett entituled the Royall Phamplett                  
     Letters yesterday from Edingburgh of the 5th instant advise they           
have an Acct from the North that 200 Highlanders comeing downe to a             
place called Cleow from whence they tooke 300 head of Cattle, The               
Country people being Alarmed gott togeather and Attaqued them of whom           
they 150 & tooke ye Cattle wth a greate Booty from ye Highlanders               
     They add that a Proclamacon was Issued out there for a Genll day           
of thanksgiveing to be observed in that Kingdome for his Matyes safe            
and happy retorne from fflanders and the success of his Armey in Ireland,       
And yt ye Kings Comission of ye Exchequer there are very busie in               
geathering in his Matyes Revenues.                                              
     Harwich No: 10  This day the Spanish [illegible six-letter word]           
Pacquett Boate arrived here from Holland and brought in with her a Hamburgh     
Shipp laden with Cloathe and Sugar which shee retooke from a ffr:               
Privattr that was Carrying her as prize into Dunkirke.                          
+Wee dayly expect to heare of ye Arrivall of 400 saile of laden Colliers        
which sailed from Newcastle last ffryday.  Tiusday [?] the House of Comons      
went into a Comittee to Consider of a supply &c and were of an Opinion          
that the Excise should Continue for a yeare longer And ordred to bring in       
a Bill for yt purpose                                                           
     L. c. 2074     London Novembr 14 1691                                      
     the Lettrs yesterday from Plymo of the 11 Instant Advise that ye           
Swan ffriggatt has brought in there a ffrench prize of 160 tons laden           
with wine and Brandy.                                                           
     Lettrs yesterday from Deale say 60 sayle of outward bound Virginia         
Barbados &c shipps were sayled out there under Convoy of Captain Wrenn in       
ye Norwich.                                                                     
     Wee heare that Sr Ralph Delavall Comeing in Sight of the Irish             
Coast sent 3 of his ffriggats into Kinsale to acquaint ye merchts that          
hee wayted their Comeing out but a violent storme ariseing obliged him          
to beare off for feare of the Worst soe was forced into the Channell and        
Came into Spitthead for ffresh tenders [?] but ye 3 ffriggatts gott safe        
into Kinsale harbour.                                                           
     On Thursday last Admirll Russell was marryed to one of the Earl of         
Bedfords daughters.                                                             
     And that day Sr Cloudsley Shovell departed this life after a long          
sicknesse.                                                                      
     The Ld President is Indisposed as also the Ld Lovelace.                    
     Yesterday the Earle of Clarendon was bayled in ye Kings Bench              
Courte himselfe in 1000 L and the E. of Rochester Ld Hollis Sr Wm Turner        
and Sr John Parsons in 500 L each.                                              
     The Lady Treby Outlawed upon the Statutes of Recusancy appeared and        
desired to reverse ye same which was denyed yet was admitted bayle.             
     On Thursday a man & woman went into the Crosse keys Taverne in             
Holborne drunck 7 pints of wine and bilked the House ffor when ye Drawer        
went up to see what they wanted found they were gone but upon a Chayre          
there lay a bag of 52 ounces of Clippings and a few Minutes after they          
Returned and were seized.  The Man was Comitted to Newgate and the woman        
discharged.                                                                     
     The Pamphlet entitled the Royall Martyr Concerned in my Last soe           
Industriously handed about towne by the Jacobites, 3 of them were found         
in a Coffee house in Princes streete near Covent garden upon which the          
Master of the House was taken into Custody of a Messenger.                      
     Yesterday Sr Stephen ffox tooke his seate in the house of Commons          
as Member of Parliamt for Westminster.                                          
     The same day his Matye Created the Ld Montague Ld Lieutt of Middx          
     Sr Ralph Delavall has brought in with him a ffrench vessell which          
had on board a Pacquet of Letters wch discovers the great Intelligence          
the ffrench have of all things transacted here.                                 
     A Gentleman who arrived last night from Ireland sayes yt soe soone         
as the ffrench Governor of Lymrick came aboard the Admirall hee produced        
a Pticular order from ye ffrench King, telling him, that by vertue of the       
same hee must make him a Prisoner, and Imediately Caused him to bee putt        
in Irons.                                                                       
     They write from Portsmo that a Dutchman of Warre of 70 gunns               
belonging to Sr Ralph Delavalls Squadron is unfortunately Cast away by          
distresse of weather.                                                           
     All the Irish Cler[g?]y are ordered to Returne home.                       
     On Thursday last one Summers of Exon appeared at the Kings bench           
barre, and had an Information ordered to bee drawne up against him for          
Cutting a Gentleman of that County over the head for Refuseing to drinck        
the Sham Prince of Wales's health.  Hee desired to be bayled, but was           
Comitted Prisoner to the Kings bench.                                           
+Lettrs yesterday from Scotland of the 7th Instant say, that ye                 
Troope of Guards being mustered last weeke were all new Clothed, and            
their officers ordered ym to bee Carefull of them and their horses, for         
that his Maty is expected at Edenburgh about Xting  His Maty hath               
Nominated all the fforces that are to bee suddainly transported for             
fflandrs but I Cannot pretend to give you ye List thereof, yet am               
assured, that there will not bee 10000 men of horse foot and Dragoones          
left in Ireland and already Transport shipps are takeing up for their           
Transportacon  dr Welland [?] The Author of the Observator being in             
Custody of a serjeant at armes intends to peticon the house of Commons          
that they will be pleased to discharge him.                                     
+The Countesse of Wimbledon dyed this weeke.                                    
+The Bp of London was taken soe ill last Thursday in ye House of Peeres         
that hee was Carryed home but last night was some what better, and tis          
hoped will Recover.                                                             
+Sr Ralph Delavall with his Squadron are still at Spithead where they are       
refitting and takeing in ffresh Provisions.                                     
     L. c. 2075     [Handwriting changes here.]     London No: 17th 1691        
+Letters from ffalmouth of the 12 instant say that ye Spanish Expedition        
pacquett Boate was Arrived there with one Maile from the Groyne And about       
30 Passengers being the Masters and Men of some of our Newfoundland shipps      
taken by ye ffrench on ye Coast of Galacia, And tis feared some more of         
that ffleete (being 18 in number) are fallen into their Hands there being       
only 2 of them yett heard of.  The Pacquett says that Just as Shee came         
off advise was brought to the Groyne of the safe Arrivall of theire             
Gallions att Cadiz                                                              
     Letters from Swamzie of the 12 say that a ffrench shipp of 8               
Gunns 120 Tuns and 30 Men haveing putt into small Creeke 8 Myles thence         
The Master with some of the Men & came [sic] on Shoare and prtended             
themselves ffrench Protestants and that they putt in there onely for            
fresh Water to Carry them to Plymouth upon which a ffarmer invited them         
to his House and treated them with what he could affoard, And the Master        
to retalliate his kindness invited him on Board where being come hee            
tould him he was a privatteer of St Maloes and would not lett him goe           
till hee had sent for some Shepe which being done hee paid for the same,        
sett him on Shoare and soe putt to sea                                          
     Plymouth letters of the 14 say tha[t] the Dover ffriggatt is come          
in there from Cruizeing and has brought in with her 3 retaken English           
prizes (vizt) 2 laden with Lead and Shott And the other laden with              
Linnen belonging to Bristoll                                                    
     Sunday being the birth day of Q: Dowager the Gunns of the Tower            
were discharged and towards Evening their Matys with the Princesse of           
Denmarke and many of the Lords and Commons vissitted And Complymented her       
upon the same                                                                   
     Yesterday it was reported upon the Exchange that their Matys Shipp         
the Retorne [?] a 4 rate unhapyly fell in with 4 or 5 ffr: Men of Warr          
off of Dunkerke and was taken after a stoute resistance                         
     What I wrote In my last touching Sr Clowdsly Shovell proves a              
happy Mistake for he is in an hopefull way of Recovery As is alsoe the          
Ld Lovelace                                                                     
     On Saturday Capt Young who transported Capt Crone into ffrance was         
Admitted to Baile                                                               
     Letters yesterday from Liverpoole say a shipp is Arrived there from        
the North of Ireland who said that above 200 ffamylies are Arrived there        
from the Irish Army to posess theire ould habitations but are ordred to         
make good what those in possession have Expended thereupon                      
     On Satturday last a great robbery was Comitted nigh Edgar by 11            
highwaymen who meeteing with some oposition killed 4 psons whom they            
robbed and made their Escapes                                                   
     Yesterday 2 psons were seized and Comitted for disperseing a               
scurrilous pamphlett entituld ye Royall Martir  Three of ye Kings               
Messengers are displaced for speakeing too much of the late Raigne              
+On Satturday night last a pson as he was walkeing about 11 A Clock             
neare Charing Cross was run thro the Body by another of which he                
instantly dyed And the Murderer escaped                                         
+Transporte shipps are ordred to bee made ready for Transporting 17             
Regimts from Ireland to bee sent for fflanrs  The Estimate for the              
ffleete for the yeare ensueing given in the H: of Commons is (vizt) 5           
first rates 11: 2 rates 32: 3d rates: 9: 4th rates and 6: 6 rates besides       
20 ffireshipps Hospitalls and Tenders and 30000 Men.                            
+This day an Express arrived with advise that the Happy Retorne is not          
taken as was reported.                                                          
+This day being the Anniversary day of Q: Elizabeth was observed wth            
ringing of Bells Bonefires &c.                                                  
+This day the H: of Commons had before ym ye Complaints of ye East India        
Company and ordred ym to make their defence on ffryday next.  Then Sr Ra:       
Delavall was ordred to be Called in wth ye papers he had found on Board         
ye ffrench advice Boate  Adjorned &c                                            
  L. c. 2076   [Handwriting changes here.]   London November ye 19th 1691       
     Letters yesterday from Portsmouth say the West India outward bound         
ffleet arrived there from the downs to the number of 60 or 70 sailed            
thence with their Convoy to the Westward.  And about 50 saile of Canary         
men with some more West India ships will fall down in order to their            
respective voyages, and have a Convoy of 4 men of war allowd them.              
     We hear the Lords of the Admiralty have ordered a sum of money to          
be remitted into Ireland for paying off the 19 Regiments that are to be         
transported for fflanders.                                                      
     Letters yesterday from plymouth of ye 15th say the Elizabeth of            
London is arrived there with 140 English prisoners from st Malo, who            
gives an Account that there are 32 privateers belonging to that port,           
at sea and that as they came away 60 prisonrs were brought in, being            
taken out of 2 English homeward bound Jamaica ships.                            
     Yesterday a Commission passed the seals constituteing the Earls of         
Pembroke and mountgomery Lord ffrankland, Sr Richard Anslow, Sr John            
Lowther and Sr Robert Rich (who is added in the Room of Sr Thomas Lee           
deceased) to execute the office of Lord High Admirall of England.               
     Yesterday an Extraordinary Councill was held in Reference to the           
forces here and those in Ireland that are to be transported into fflanders      
     On wednesday next ye convicted seamen for deserting the Sandwich are       
to be executed at Execution dock.                                               
     Yesterday severall sums of money were Issued out of the Exchequer          
for paying the Arrears of the forces in Ireland.                                
     To morrow 7 night will be a great tryall at Westminster about a            
Leaden mine (now in possession of Sr Carbury Price in Wales) the                
patentees not doubting but to prove the same a Royall mine, it haveing          
formerly belonged to the Crown for about 100 years, with a mint thereto         
for the Coining of money                                                        
     Letters yesterday from Scotland of ye 12th say the Councill were           
considering of ways for raiseing of new Levyes, all ye standing forces          
haveing orders to be ready at the sound of a Trumpet or Beat of drum to         
march for fflanders, the shipping being ready to carry them over, and           
that major Genll Levingston with some persons of note set forwards that         
day for London to render his Majtie an Account of the state of that             
Kingdome, being in as great tranquility as hath been known these many           
years.                                                                          
     His Majtie designs next week to goe for Portsmouth, there being            
some 3d Rates to be lanched.                                                    
     One Mr Tempest was yesterday Committed to Newgate for carrying             
Letters to and from ye late King James, some of wch were found in his           
Custody.                                                                        
     The Marquis of Carmarthen is soe indiposed that he has not been out        
of his house these 8 days.                                                      
     Yesterday a Gentleman arrived here from Ireland who left dublin the        
15th, and says that on the 12th our Transport ships had on Board the            
Irish who would goe for ffrance and are saild from Cork, and that our           
West India ffleet at Kingsale waited impatiently for a Convoy,                  
declareing if they had it not speedily they would come away without, the        
Coast being clear of the ffrench.                                               
     A draugh is made of 32 men out of each Company of ye duke of               
Boltons Regimt to goe for the West Indies.                                      
+Sr Ralph dallival is expected in Town this night to give an Account to         
the Parliament of the papers seized in the ffrench Advice Boat, wch             
demonstrates that all the measures of our ffleet as alsoe the Posts             
Instructions and directions were disclosed.  yesterday the Lord dursley         
his majties Embassador to the States Generall arrived here, haveing             
leave to come over about his own private Affairs.  Mr Metham is said            
to be nominated by his Majtie to goe Envoy to the Court of Portugall.           
This day the King took a view of the Lord Colchesters and Coll Godfreys         
Regiments of Horse and the Lord ffitz Hardings dragoons at Hounsloe             
Heath.  Lieutenant Generall Hamilton taken prisoner at the Battle of            
the Boyne and kept sometime at Chester is bringing to Town in order to          
be Exchanged for ye Lord Montjoy now prisoner at the Bastyle in Paris.          
Last Tuesday night the Effigies of the ffrench King the Pope and father         
Peters were burned in divers parts of this City.  I hear the Lords of the       
Admiralty have given in a List to the Parliament of 34 Men of War lost          
since the war with ffrance.                                                     
     L. c. 2077   [Handwriting changes here.]    London No: 21: 1691            
+Plymouth letters of ye 17 say the Crowne ffriggott Continues in that           
Porte, As doe alsoe the dutch St Hubes [?] ffleete but on the day of the        
date their long expected Convoy sailed  by that Porte to the Westward and       
they are prpaireing to follow                                                   
     We hear from Marazion in Cornwall that 2 Dutch Doggers are put into        
Mounts Bay from Bilboa and say there are 32 ffr Privattrs in the Bay of         
Biscay and have brought in severall prizes                                      
     On Thursday last ye Mandamus brought by Sr James Smith (who stands         
in Competition with Major Wyldman for the Aldermanshipp of this Citty           
in refference thereto[)] was to have been debated at Westmr but deferred        
till the next Terme                                                             
     We heare that theire Matys fforces according to the List given into        
the House of Comons by the Lord Ranelaugh are to be devided as                  
followeth (vizt) in England 10516 in Scotland 2608 in Ireland 12900 in          
the West Indies 900 and in fflanders 38000 which makes in all 64924             
     The Prince of Hesse D'Hormestadt, Coll Ruvigin and Coll Lumley are         
Arrived here from Ireland, As are alsoe Briggadier Clyfford, Collonell          
Lutterell and Coll Oxbrough who served the late K: James in Ireland they        
haveing all 3 taken the Oathes of Allegience to their Prsent Matys, And         
have liberty to raise 3 Regiments out of those Irish who shall bee              
willing to serve his Maty in fflandrs And soe to Continue in the same           
Post of Honour as undr the late K: James.  Balderick O'Donnell with his         
followers Continues in Ireland till the Spring when hee will embarque           
him selfe and his for Spaine in order to serve his Catholicke Maty in           
Catalonia next Campaigne                                                        
     Letters from Holland of the 14 instant say an English ffriggott is         
Arrived in the Road of Leith from Holland and has on board about 50             
Officers belonging to the English and Scots Regimts in fflandrs who are         
come over for Recruites  They say they gave chase to severall ffrench           
Privattrs in theire way and forced one of them on shoare where shee             
Bulged                                                                          
     They add that one Mr Leggatt who was Collector for the supply for          
Middlothian has fledd his habitation Carrying with him above 1000 L             
Sterling of the Kings Money; And is suspected to bee gone for ffrance,          
being a Jacobite, But his sureties are like to come by the loss                 
     Yesterday the Lords heard the Cause of Mr Bonnert agt the Earle of         
Salisbury upon an Appeale and theire Lordshipps gave it for the Earle           
     We are tould his Maty Intends to Convert the late King James               
Chappell att Whitehall into a Library and will furnish it with variety          
of Bookes of all Languages                                                      
     Yesterday Mr Keeling (who was an Evidence in ye Rye Plott) and one         
Meason and Cozens were tryed att Westminster for speakeing reflecting           
words agt the Govermt and drinking healthes to ye Confusion of their            
Matys &c  The Evidence being full the Jury found them guilty                    
     Last night was a hearing before the King and Councill concerning           
Mr King and Mr Phillipps both being elected Mayors of Coventry the              
determination of which was solely left to his Maty                              
     The Grand Jury of Ossulton Hundred in Middlesex have found an              
Indictmt agt Sr Humphrey Edwyn Alderman of this Citty.                          
+Letters from Lisbon say 9 of theire shipps are Arrived from Goa more           
richly laden with Ingotts of Gould then any that ever came before,              
Occasioned by a New Gould Mine lately discovered there.                         
+Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty sate and amongest some other              
mattrs relating to the ffleete ordred 2 Men of Warr with Transporte             
shipps to saile forthwth for Scotland and take on Board the fforces yre         
that are to be Transported for fflanders.                                       
+Orders are sent to Newcastle for the takeing up 3 Capts of Convoys who         
suffered the ffrench to take severall laden Colliers out of ye Mouth of         
ye Harbour wthout giveing them Chase Complaint being made thereof by the        
Mayor and Aldermen of Newcastle.                                                
+To Morrow or Munday 60000 L will be sent under a strong guard for              
Chester for the fforces in Ireland.                                             
+Orders are given out for seizeing some persons Concerned in the papers         
lately taken by Sr Ralph Dellavall on Board the ffrench Advise Boate on         
Coast of Ireland.                                                               
+Coll Godfry is Chosen a Member of Parliamt for Wickham in Buckinghamsh.        
+The ould East India Company is like to Continue but with greate                
regulations and many more will bee allowed to joyne with them.                  
+This day Baldwin ye Printer of the observator appearing before the H of        
Commons and makeing his humble submission upon his knees was ordred to          
bee discharged paying his ffees but ye [illegible seven-letter word]            
Continues in Custody.  The House read a 2d Tyme the bill for dubleing           
the Excise.  The further debate for the state of ye nation is deferred          
till Wendsday next  Adjorned till Munday                                        
     L. c. 2078   [Handwriting changes here.]   London Novembr 24 1691          
     Lettrs from Deale of the 23d Say their Matye's Shipps the Portland         
Swallow Conception Oxford Sandwich Larke and St Albans Ketch were then          
att Anchor in the Downes 5 of which are to goe Convoy to the Canary and         
Virginia ffleetes.  And the day of the date one of the Van Guards Crew          
who was Condemned by a Court Martiall for haveing deserted the sd Shipp         
when shee run on Shoare upon the Goodwin Sand was hanged on board one of        
of ye abovemenconed Shipps.                                                     
     Yesterday the Canary and Virginia Outward bound ffleetes being             
Cleared at ye Customhouse were also cleared att Gravesend and haveing a         
ffrsh and fayr gayle fell downe the River in order for the Downes.  The         
same day the Lds of the Admiralty recd advice of the safe arrivall of           
their Matyes Shipp the Happy Returne into Spithead and that shee had            
brought in there 3 ffrench prizes.                                              
     On ffryday the Comon councill resolved to discharge the debt due           
to the Orphans of this Citty and in order to it have sett apart 8000 L          
P ann of the City Lands towards paying 24000 L due to them for Interest         
att 4 P cent and will prsent a bill to the Parliamt for to Pay 12 d P C         
held upon Coales [?] towards the Principall due to them.                        
     Yesterday a Regiment of Scotch horse Granadiers arrived here from          
the North in order for their Embarcation for fflandrs and wee heare that        
betweene 60 & 70 shipps are taken up for Transportation of 3000 horse           
out of this Kingdom into that Countrey and will bee all embarqued by            
ffryday next.                                                                   
     Lettrs yesterday from Portsmouth say the outward bound West india          
ffleete are driven back by Contrary winds into Spitthead.                       
     Yesterday the Lds Comrs of the Great Seal ordered their Messenger          
to take up one Dyer for writeing Reflectively upon their Ldspps.                
    The E. of Suffolke was marryed last weeke to the Lady Maynard.              
    The Lds heard the Cause betweene the E. of Monmouth & one                   
Danvers about an estate of 4000 L P ann which the King gave to the sd           
Earle (it being part of the late Queenes joynthure) and the Latter              
claymes it as belonging to his Predecessr but their Ldspps did not              
determine ye same.                                                              
     The Earle of Torrington last weeke kissed both their Matyes hands.         
     Edenburgh ye 17 Novemb  One of their Matyes men of Warre of 38             
guns Comeing into ye ffryth, and being attacqued by two ffr:                    
Privateeres At the ffirst broad side sunck one of them upon which               
the other Immediately made off, and gott away.  This day the Councill           
satt and recd severall Peticons from ye Episcopall Clergy praying for           
allowance but they were rejected.                                               
     Yarmouth ye 20th Instant  This Evening ye Pembrooke ffriggott Came         
from Cruiseing & brought with her 2 ffrench Privateeres the one of 16           
guns and 100 men, and ye other 12 guns and 60 men.  Shee also brought in        
with her a laden Collyer of South Sheilds, which the sd Privateers had          
taken & were Carrying to ffrance.                                               
     This day Sr Thomas Higgins fell downe dead as hee was Comeing out          
of Westminster hall.                                                            
     On Satturday last Coll Lutterell, who was lately in ye service of          
King James in Ireld had the Honour to kisse his Matyes hand and is made         
a Brigadier of the army.                                                        
+yesterday a Gentl woman was brought from Harwich, being lately seized          
there, haveing about her severall papers and lettrs directed from the           
late King James to psons of qualittye here and was happily discovered           
by a Pson who Came over with her and Caused her to bee apprehended.             
+On Satturday last one Coming a Bookseller was seized in his Lodgings           
where were found Printed Coppyes of all the seditious Libells that have         
been printed since the last Reigne, amongst them that of the Royall             
Martyr vindicated ffor which hee is comitted to Newgate.                        
+The Earle of Scarsdell lyes dangereously ill but ye Marquis of                 
Caermarthen is in an hopefull way of Recovery.                                  
+Sr Thomas Higgins aforesd was an Evidence at ye Court of Chancery in ye        
Tryall betweene ye Dutchesse of Albemarle and the Earle of Bath Concerning      
part of the late Duke of Albemarles estate, which his Ldspp layes clayme        
to but not yet determined.                                                      
+On Satturday Last Mr Beckley Chaplain to ye Earle of O. was Comitted to        
the Gatehouse for writeing somewhat Reflectingly on ye Govermnent.              
+To morrow is to bee a great Tryall att the Kings Bench Barre between his       
Matye and the Ld Montgomery Concerning the Estate of his ffather the Lord       
Powis.                                                                          
+Wee want 2 fforaigne and 5 Irish mayles.                                       
     L. c. 2079    [Handwriting changes here.]    London No: 26: 1691           
   Letters yesterday from Harwich say that one of the Kings Messengers          
hath seized 5 Psons there who designed to have Transported themselves           
over the Water and had a great many letters and papers found about them         
which were forthwth sent up to the Lord Sydneyes office but wee heare           
not as yett the Contents                                                        
     Here is a report that Genll Ginkle (who is dayly expected from             
Ireland) will bee Created Duke of Buckingham and have a Garter given            
him.                                                                            
     Yesterday his Maty Created the Nobility and other officers that            
were with him in fflanders.                                                     
     Yesterday the House of Lords reassumed the debate of Mr Danvers            
Cause against the Earle of Monmouth which held till 7 att night and the         
Judges were Consulted with upon some point but the Matter being                 
difficulte they adjorned the further debate till Munday next                    
     Yesterday orders were sent to Highlake Chester &c that all the             
Soldiers that shall bee debarqued at one of those Portes from Ireland           
for fflandrs bee Mustred Comissaries being sent downe for that purpose          
And before they Embarque for the Low Countreys they will bee [illegible         
three-letter word] new Cloathes and have their Arreares paid them               
     Yesterday Capt Battin appeared before the House of Lords and gave          
their Lordshipps an account of what he knew concerning the papers seized        
by Sr Ra Delavall in the ffrench advise Boate, And a further scrutiny           
will be made into that affair on ffryday next                                   
     Yarmouth the 22  We have advise here that a vessell laden with             
Corne in her passage from Wales for Holland was taken by a ffrench              
Privattr of 24 Gunns who keepes the Master as an Hostage for 600 L              
Ransome                                                                         
     Lettrs from Deale of the 24th Instant advise that the Commandr of          
an Ostend Privattr Comeing here from Cruizeing reportes that on Sunday          
last he discovered 4 great fr: Men of Warr on the back of the Doggar            
Banke who had taken an English Man of Warr of 50 and an Ostender of 40          
Gunns.  The Sheerness Galley Capt Pope Commandr is come into the Downes         
from the Coast of ffrance where hee mett last Sunday a ffr: Man of Warr         
whom hee Engaged above 7 houres and att length forced him on Shoare But         
in the Action lost his Lieut and severall others killed and wounded             
     Yesterday his Maty and the Prince of Denmarke went out a Shooting          
and Dyned att Hampton Courte and in the Evening retorned to Kensington          
     Letters yesterday from Yarmouth further advise that the Pembrooke          
ffriggott has brought into that Road 2 ffrench Privattrs which shee             
took near the Bay of Biscay                                                     
     Yesterday came on the Tryall betweene his Maty and the Ld                  
Montgomery (mentioned in my last) but wthout any determination                  
     Two dayes agoe Major Genll Maccay Embarqued for fflanders by               
ad[v]ise of his Maty upon Notice that the ffrench are in Motion in those        
partes.  The greate Tryall Mentioned in my last betweene the Dutchess of        
Albemarle and the E of Bath lasted from Morneing till almost 9 a Clocke         
at night soe that the verdict was not given till yesterday Morneing             
which was for his Lordshipp for 6000 P Ann by Deed and the Dutchess             
Claymes by Will and would have it to be an Inheritance to descend to Mr         
Pride Nephew to the late Duke.  The Merchant in the Citty being                 
apprhensive of the ffleete of Merchant Men homeward bound from Kinsale          
may run the risque of falling into the Hands of the ffrench are                 
Insureing as fast as they can upon Advise that the ffrench Privattrs            
are very buisie towards the Lands end.                                          
+This day being ye Genll Thanksgiving for the Success of their Matys            
forces &c The same was observed with greate decorum  the Evening Concluded      
wth greate Illuminations Bonefires &c  The Bipp of Ely preached before          
the Lds and the Bipp of Glocester before the Commons.  The Comissioners         
for the Exchange of Prisoners have beene to veiwe the Irish Officers in         
the Savoy and tis Conjectured in order to their being Exchanged                 
     Wee still want our Irish/and forraigne Mailes                              
     L. c. 2080   [Handwriting changes here.]   London Novembr 28 1691          
     [The] Plymouth Lettrs yesterday of the 24 say their Matyes                 
shipps the Norwich and Childs play putt in there the day before with            
about 50 Sayle of Merchants shipps being the same which had sayled by           
that Port on the 20th to the Westward and had made some Leagues beyond          
the Lands end on their way to the Westindyes but were forced back again         
by Contrary windes.  about 16. Leagues of the Lyzard two ffrench                
Privateeres came up with and Sayled twice round them, but they pceiving         
them too well guarded and nothing to bee accompted upon them, they bore         
off again to Sea.  The day of the date a Dutchman of Warre arrived there        
from Kinsale wch place she left on ye 15th but brings noe news from             
thence more then that they left 300 mercht shipps in that harbour under         
Convoy of 9 men of Warre wayteing with Impatience for a ffair wind to           
Carry them for England and is Resolved to take the ffirst that shall            
offer.                                                                          
     And yesterday some Merchants upon the exchange had advice that they        
were putt to sea, but of this wee want a Confirmation                           
     Yesterday Coll Godfrey at the head of his Regiment of Horse marched        
through this City, all his men being well mounted and Clothed in order          
for their Embarcation for fflandrs                                              
     The Nonsuch ffriggott which some weekes agoe Carryed Clothes and           
Money for the Ld Mordants Regiment to Guernsey is not yet heard off,            
which gives some occasion to beleive shee is taken by the ffrench.  The         
Bonadventure is alsoe Missing, neither have wee any Certain account of          
the Happy Returne, although it was reported shee was Come to Spithead.          
     By a Vessell putt into Bristoll from Ireland Wee have Advice, that         
there are 7000 Irish embarqued on board ye ffrench shipps Consisting of         
men, women and Children and that ye ffrench ffleete is not gone from the        
Chopps of the Channell which makes some beleive they wayte for the              
Comeing of our Westindia ffleete from Kinsale.                                  
     A Comittee of the House of Lords satt yesterday at the Princes             
Lodging, and with them Severall Judges and some of the Comissrs of the          
great Seal to Consider of a bill to bee brought in to reforme what is           
amisse in the Court of Chancery.                                                
     On Thursday morning one Mr Darcy a Yorkshire Gentl of a good family        
tooke water att Hungerford stayres bidding the Waterman land him at ye          
Temple but by the way Cast himselfe into the Thames and was drowned.            
His body was soone after taken up by a ffisherman in his nett neare             
Somersett Stayres, and was laid in S. Martins Churchyard where the              
Coroners Inquest satt on him this day.                                          
     Yesterday Came on the Tryall betweene the Patentees and Sr Carbury         
Price about his Myne in Wales which I lately menconed, but the Jury             
stayed soe long before they agreed their verdict that ye Court arose            
before they Returned, but its said to goe in favour of the Patentees.           
     Yesterday a great Councill was held at Whitehall and Messengrs             
were ordered to goe downe to ye North to take into Custody some                 
disaffected Psons upon Informacon given yt they are Caballing there and         
the Sheriffs for the ensueing yeare were pricked, whose Names will bee          
printed next weeke.                                                             
+Sr Ralph Delavalls squadron is ordered to sayle speedily to the Chopps         
of the Channell to Chace away the ffrench Privateeres, that Infest those        
seas.                                                                           
+A Train of Artillery of 80 pieces of Cannon & 20 Mortars is prepareing         
in the Tower to bee sent to fflandrs.                                           
+The Conge d'estier for Lyncolne was returned yesterday and they have           
unanimously Chosen Dr Tenison Bp of that see.                                   
+An agreemt is lately made betweene his Maty of Great Brittain and the          
ffrench King by Comissrs that all Merchantmen or men of Warre &c. that          
shall bee taken on either side The seamen on both sides shall bee sett on       
shoare at the first Convenient place of Landing without being exchanged         
as was some tyme since done betweene the States of Holland and the              
ffrench King.                                                                   
+On Thursday last the Arch Bishop of Canterbury treated att Lambeth house       
the Duke of Norfolke and all the new Created Bishops att a Splendid Dinner      
and what was left his Grace ordered to bee given to the Poore.  All the         
fforces in England and Scotland, which were at home Last Summer are to          
bee transported to fflandrs and their roomes to bee supplyed by the most        
ffatigued fforces in Ireland.                                                   
+On Wednesday night last his Matye was pleased to Signe a Warrant for           
passeing a Comicon for Mr Henry Barker Constituteing him Governor of New        
yorke in the West Indyes in the roome of the late deceased Coll Slaughter.      
     L. c. 2081   [Handwriting changes here.]    London 10ber 1st 91            
+fforreigne lers yesterday say the Pope Resolves to come to noe                 
accomodacon wth ffr till ye Clergie have made a solemne recantacon.             
     The Marqs de Legames before he left Piedmont pmised ye Confederates        
to return next Campaigne wth 20000 men to helpe to besiege Pignorell            
     About 300 of Teckleys associates have deserted him & joynd ye              
Imperialists and say severall more will doe ye like and yt the Turks            
Tartars & Malecontents are seperated one from an othr                           
     Lettrs from Ireland say yt ye late Majr Genll Kirks Regt is given          
to ye D of Ormond and goes undr ye name of ye foot guards                       
     In ye Room where yt City entertained Genll Ginkle yr was a Comecon         
[?] curiously done in Silver and Gold Lers and bedecked wth wreathes of         
Laurell ye Numericall Lettrs of which made up ye yeare 1691 in wch ye           
Genll had done soe many brave actions to his own Glory, liberty &               
Prosperity of Ireld                                                             
     Some Irish on board transport ships in Corke river have mutyned            
and declared they will not goe for ffr. but does not tell if it be              
apeald or noe                                                                   
     Wee heare yt one of our M of war has chased a ffr Privateer on ye          
Coast of Sussex where she ran upon a Rock & yr Lodged                           
     Yesterday an Express was sent to Ireland to stopp ye comeing home          
of ye Merchmt ships at Kinsale and tis thought a Convoy will speedily be        
sent thithr                                                                     
     Yesterday one Canzom [?] stood in ye Pillory at Westmstr for               
speakeing agt ye Governt                                                        
     Yesterday ye Ld Colechesters Regt of horse wth part of ye Ld Berkleys      
and a Scots Regt of Dragoons marchd thro this City all well horsed &            
accoutred to embarke for fflandrs                                               
     Liverpool 9ber 27 ye Jane & Sarah of London are come in here from          
Drogheda in Ireland as allsoe ye Contencon of this Place having soldiers        
on board and they bring account that Severall more were ready to embarke        
for England when they came away                                                 
     Yesterday Walter Vincent Esqr a member of Parliamt for ye County           
of Cornwall being taken in ye Parliamt house of an atpoplectick [sic]           
fitt was Imediatly carryed into ye Speakers Chamber and blooded in both         
Armes and is now in a hopefull way of Recovery                                  
     His Maje will have wth his own and ye Confederate fforces an Army          
of 150000 men next Campaigne in fflandrs to Act in 3 or 4 bodyes & ye           
horse and dragoons will exceed those of ye ffr                                  
     Vast quantityes of Bombs Carcashes and other warlike necessaryes           
are prepareing in ye Tower to be sent to fflandrs                               
     Ld Clarendon is continued in his bayle till next Terme                     
     The Ld Mont Joy who has been some time Prisnr in the Bastile of            
Paris is arrived at Calais in order to be exchanged for Lt Genll                
Hammilton who was taken prisnr in Ireland.  All ye horse and dragoons           
designd for ye Low Countryes this winter are embarked & tis beleaved will       
starte to morrow.  The D of Savoys Envoy that rested here last winter is        
comeing againe in the same Quality                                              
+Lettrs yesterday from Paris of 24 past advise that Capt Bart hath              
lately taken 2 men of war one an English ship of 70 the othr an Ostendr         
of 44 Guns who had ye Capt Lieut and neare 100 men kild before he               
yeilded  tis sd he had some thousands of Pieces of 8 on board for ye            
Governour of fflandrs.  They add that the Popes Nuntio arrived yr and           
had his Publique Audience of ye ffr. King and allsoe of K James.  Just          
now we have advice that ye Nonsuch ffrigot had landed the money and             
cloaths at Jersey and was taken in her Returne.  Martis 10ber the first         
ordered that the Report from the Commissionrs of the Accompts made              
by Mr Staley be taken into consideration on thursday when ye whole              
house is to attend.  Resolved yt ye house resolve into a Comte on               
ffryday next to consider on ye Supply.  Adjourned till to morrow.               
    L. c. 2082   [Handwriting changes here.]   London Decembr 3: 1691           
     Letters yesterday from Plymouth of the 30 past say all the Outward         
bound English and Dutch shipps remaine still there, As alsoe the Men of         
Warr  Three shipps from Barbadoes are come in there which left Kinsale          
the 23 in Company with the whole Grand homeward bound Mercht ffleete            
but were seperated by Stress of Weathr and have not heard of them since         
but judge they cannot be farr off.  But yesterday the Merchants had             
advise that most of them were put into the Isle of Weight Spitthead and         
the Downes                                                                      
     Some of the Transporte shipps that Carryed the Irish from Lymrick          
to Brest advise that they saw the Happy retorne in that Harbour                 
     Yesterday his Maty tooke a veiw of the ffirst Troope of Guards in          
Hideparke and ordred them to prpaire to Embarque for fflandrs                   
     Wee heare the Suffoke Sparkes have petitioned his Maty that yt             
parte of their Sentence to stand in ye Pillory might be Mitigated but           
his Maty would not heare of it                                                  
     Wee heare from Ireland that the Citty of Dublin have prsented Genll        
Ginkle wth the ffreedome of the Citty in a Box vallued att 300 [L]              
     Sr John Jennings is made one of the Comissioners of the Prize              
office in the roome of the late Sr Edmund Jennings                              
     Severall of the Scotch Nobility and Gentry have offered their              
service to his Maty in the Warrs abroad                                         
     Deale Decemb 2  This day came into the Downes the Merchant shipps          
bound for Barbadoes and Jamaca with their Convoy                                
     Last night dyed Capt Ashby Comander of their Matys shipp the               
Mairemaide                                                                      
     Last night 10 Sweedish Merchant shipps with theire Convoy were Cast        
away off the back of the Sands.  And this Morneing 2 other shipps of            
that Nation were Cast away laden with Pich Tarr &c bound for ffrance            
     Wee heare the Happy retorne was taken by a small ffrench Man of            
Warr of 40 Gunnes with out any resistance.                                      
     Yesterday 2 Hoggsheads of Clarrett were staved at the Custome house        
as Prohibited Goods                                                             
     Yesterday began the Choyce of an Alderman for Wintry Ward in the           
roome of the late deceased Sr Tho: Pilkington and the Candidates being          
2: Psons the Election fell upon Sr Thomas ffowles Sr William Pritchard          
Sr Wm Turner and Esqr Dashwood Bro: to Sr Samll Dashwood who will be            
prsented to the Courte of Aldermen to Choose one out of the number.             
Yesterday 2 Psons not members of Parliamt were seized sitting in the            
house of Comons and taken into Custody by a Serjant att Armes                   
     Letters yesterday from Chester say that fforces dayly Arrive there         
from Ireland and that Generall Ginkle is hourly expected, And that they         
heard a shipp wth some passengrs were Cast away neare the Welch shoare.         
     Some private letters yesterday from Ireland advise that the Malitia        
fell upon some of the Irish fforces as they were goeing to Embarque and         
plundred them of what they had upon Complaint of the Country people that        
they had robbed them, And some of the Troopers by the way sould their           
Horses and Accoutrements and with the Money retorned to their habitations       
     Monsr Hopp the Dutch Ambasador here is buying up great quantityes of       
Corne and victualling for the Dutch ffleete next yeare and severall of          
theire Men of Warr are comeing hither to take provisions in our portes          
+Letters yesterday from Paris of the freshest date advise that they have        
advise from the Campe before Montinlion yt the siege advances wth               
Success That a soldat comeing out of the Towne and being taken ill              
Confessed he had a letter Concealed in his Shoe from the Governor of            
that place (who is sick of a feavor) to the Duke of Savoy giveing an            
Acct of the Miserable Condition of the Garrison soe that if they had not        
reliefe in a few dayes they should be forced to Surrender that Important        
ffortress to the ffrench who have before it 1500 Horse and 12000 ffoote.        
They add that the ffr: King has obliged the late K: James wth his Queene        
to reside at St Germans not Careing hee should goe into a Monestary but         
they Pmitted all his followers yt are English to retorne home, And that         
the Lord Stafford has given Security to his Creditors there for the paymt       
of his debts asoone as hee Arrives in England.  Wee heare 2 ffrench Men of      
Warr were Cast away as they were retorning into the Harbour of Brest.           
+The Capt of the Mary Rose and Constant Warwick will bee Tryed on Board         
Sr John Ashby in the Unity, And Capt Wright late Admirall of their Matys        
ffleete in the West Indies is alsoe to bee Tryed by a Courte Marshall and       
divers Comandrs of the West India ffleete are ordred to bee summoned.  A        
Parliamt will be called in Ireland in March next bills being ready for          
that purpose.  Wee heare 10000 Men Women &c are gone out of Scotland to         
Inhabitt in the North of Ireland                                                
     L. c. 2083   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 10ber 5th 91             
+Lettrs yesterday from Dublin say they have advice from Limrick of ye 17        
that Coll Gordon Oneale, & Coll Phenix Neale wth yr Regts were encamped         
in ye County of Kerry being part of those Irish designed for ffrance are        
come over to ye Major obedience, as doe daily a great many othrs they           
being entirely pswaded of ye clemency of ye Govermt towards ym                  
     Plymoth Lettrs of ffirst [?] say the Deptford ffrigt hath brot in yr       
a ffr. Privateer of 24 Guns & 120 men.  On ye 30 past 2 ships were cast         
away abot 10 leagues to ye Eastward [?] of yt Port one being a Dutch man        
from ye Canaryes the othr an English ship from Jamaica bound for London         
     Nigh 200 saile of ye West India ffleete are already cruising up ye         
River, and say about 1/2 ye Barbados ffleet was left behinde in yt Island       
by reason of ye great sickness of wch about 50 Capts and 1000 L [sic]           
Seamen dyed.                                                                    
     Mr Samcroft continues in Custody for his ffine of 300 mks and tis          
said intends to Petition the King to mitigate ye same.                          
     Yesterday ye 3d troop of Guards marchd thro this City towards yr           
Imbarquacon                                                                     
     The Mrchants yesterday had advice that about 50 saile wr seen off          
ye Lizard supposed to be ye homeward bound Jamaica ffleet                       
     Weymouth 10ber ye 2d ye New Privateer of Guernsey calld ye Swallow         
hath brot in here 2 ffr Prizes one of 60 [?] Tuns Laden wth sugars ye of        
[?] 150 Tuns wth Wine Brandy and Salt wch she tooke out of a ffleet of          
150 saile off Scarbrough, and had taken othrs had she had an othr               
Privateer wth her                                                               
     Chestr ye 1st Coll Byerleys and Coll Bronestons [?] Regts arrived          
here this day from Ireland and Comissaryes are come to provide                  
necessaryes for ym & othr soldrs                                                
     The Customes of ye West India ffleets will amount to 200000 L to ye        
King                                                                            
     Dr Baxter the Nonconformist minister lyes a dyeing                         
     Severll Romish Preists are seizd in disguize in Lancastr                   
     A list is ordered to be brot in of all ye [ten-letter word or name         
illegible] Capts that have been in Terme for 30 years past in order             
as tis believed to be imployd on board our Grand ffleet.                        
     Our Mrchants yesterday had advice that 3 of ye Barbadoes ships             
foundred in yr Portage from Kinsale                                             
     Edenburgh 9ber 29th yesterday ye E of Levins [?] and Coll Louther          
Regimts of foot Embarqued here for fflandrs and Coll Beverleys Regimt at        
Barwick & 3 or 4 Regts more will embarque in few dayes                          
     Its sd ye house of Commons have voted yt ye land tax as it was last        
yeare shall be Continued and appropriated to ye use of ye Navy                  
     On thurs Day night last a quarell hapned in ye Play house where            
ye Ld N. had his head broke                                                     
     The same night ye Morocco Ambassdr wth all his traine was at the           
great musick house in Covent garden.  Wee heare yt Sr Josiah Childe a           
Member of ye East India Company will suddenly be created a Baron.               
+Letters from Vienna of ye ffreshest date say Pr Lewis of Baden has             
quartered ye Impll Army at Dresden and in ye neighbourhood nearest great        
waradin and that the Serasqueer and Teckley are gone into winter quartrs.       
That his Imperll Maje is raiseing 12000 Recruits for his Army in Hungary.       
+They write from ye Rhine that most of ye Inhabitants on this side are          
fled to the othr from ye crueltyes of ye ffrench, and adde that ye widdow       
of ye late Sr Wm Hussey is arrived at ffranckfort from Constantinople in        
her way for England.  Sr Bazill ffirebrass is prepareing his equipage and       
goes next weeke into ye Country to make his Interest to be elected              
Parliamt man for Choppinam [?].  This day the house of Comons read some         
Bills and then the house went into a Grand Comte concerneing the double         
excise but the Chaire man wanting some Papers they went not through wth         
ye same.  Then ye house read ye examinacon of ye Ld Preston and Mr Crane        
but considering it was a nationall affaire defered ye consideracon yr of        
till wednesday next, Adjourned till Munday                                      
     L. c. 2084  [Handwriting changes here.]  London decembr ye 8th 1691        
     Forreign Letters yesterday say the City of Mountmesion continues to        
make a brave defence soe that the ffrench despair of makeing ymselves           
masters yr of there not being one night but they loose abundance of men         
and officers, Mounsr Colinat himself narrowly escapeing he being shot           
through ye Cloak by a musquet Bullet.  The Marquis d' Bagnasco Governour        
of the place drew out ye whole Garrison (600 strong) & signifyed to them        
yt if there were any that were not resolved to defend ye place to ye            
last they might be gone, upon wch only one old man left them but all the        
rest unanimously cryed out they would live & dye with him and defend            
ye place to the last man, after wch the Marquis caused 3 scaffolds to be        
Erected, and told ym one was for those soldiers yt should neglect to doe        
yr duty, another for those officers wch should mention a Capitulation,          
and ye 3d for himself, if any of them could upbraid him with Cowardise,         
or yt he was not brave enough in defending the place.                           
     Plymouth Letters of ye 4th say 2 homewards bound Jamaica ships with        
the Success ffriggat (one of ye Convoy to that ffleet) are put in there         
haveing been separated from the rest of the ffleet off of Scilly, and           
suppose they may be gone up St Georges Channell.  They have Advice yt 3         
or 4 more of them are put into dartmouth.                                       
     The merchants yesterday had Advice yt severall ships of the Jamaica        
homeward bound ffleet were come into ye downs                                   
     Yesterday ye Crew of the Tyger ffrigot lately come from the West           
Indies went in a Body to the Lds of ye Admiralty and peticoned them for         
yr pay wch was promised among ye first that should be paid off                  
     Yesterday great quantities of powder, shot & small carriages were          
shipt off at ye Tower.  The same day ye duke of Lempsters [?] Regimt            
embarqued for fflanders                                                         
     The Lord Hyde (eldest son to ye Earl of Rochester) is like to marry        
with ye daughter of Sr Thomas Lucem Gore [?]                                    
     Yesterday his Majtie was some hours in Consult with ye Lords of ye         
Admiralty abt maritim[e] Affairs, but we know not yet the Result.               
     Yesterday Mr Graham Sallicitor in ye Treasury to ye late King dyed         
suddenly.                                                                       
     to morrow Mr Sands Gent Usher to ye Queen dowager setts forwards for       
Callais in ffrance to provide lodgeings for her Majtie between yt place         
and Rochell where she designs to barque for Portugall.                          
     On sunday night last the Lord Provost of Edinburgh arrived here            
from Scotland, & has waited on his majtie, & rendered him a satisfactory        
Account of ye Affair of yt Kingdome, from whence it is advised yt a fire        
lately happend within 4 miles of Edinburgh and laid most of ye houses in        
Ashes.                                                                          
+The Close of ye last week ye members for Yorkshire and Durham presented        
proposalls to the Lords of ye Treasury for erecting a victualling office        
in Hull, wch they say will be of great advantage by reason of ye Cheapness      
of provisions there.  They alsoe propose that the soldiers that land in         
ye North from Ireland may be cloathed there in Lieu of soe much tax money       
laid upon yt part of ye Countrey.                                               
+His majtie has ordered some thousands of Horses fit to pass muster to be       
bought with all convenient speed in severall parts of England, and              
yesterday divers persons were sent into ye Countrey with money for that         
purpose.                                                                        
+His majtie has been pleased to declare his Resolution of goeing for            
Holland about ye End of February next And if a peace be not concluded           
with ye Turks his majtie will send ye Emperour 10000 Irish to serve him         
next Campagne in Hungary agt ye Infidells.  Tis said the Earl of                
Clancarly who was taken prisoner in Ireland will suddenly be released           
from his Imprisonment in ye Tower.                                              
+They write from Paris yt ye late Queen Mary is with Child.                     
+To morrow both houses of Parliamt will make a Report of ye substance of        
ye Letters seized by Sr Ralph dallival on Board ye ffrench Advice Boat          
and likewise ye Confessions of ye Ld Preston and Mr Crone will be read &        
considered & one Mr ffuller (an Evidence) will be examined in ye Case of        
Mr Crone, and 'tis believed ye Confessions will be printed.                     
   L. c. 2085    London december ye 10th 1691                                   
     Letters yesterday from Scotland of the 3d Instant say a Battalion          
of Coll Lowthers Regimt marched from Edinburgh on the 3d for Leith be           
goe [?] where they are to lye till ye Arrivall of the Convoy from               
England yt they may be in a readiness to Embarque at Barrowstows for            
fflanders, and Sr James Lesleys Regiment supplyes their Room at                 
Edinburgh till the Earl of Argyle come up.  Tis said his Lordships Errand       
at Court is to sollicite his majtie yt his Regiment may goe abroad with         
the first.  on the 2d the Dutchess of Queensberry dyed of a feaver, and         
an Express was sent to acquaint the Duke with ye same                           
     The duke of Hamilton with his son Lord George (who is come for             
recruites from Ireland) were expected the 4th Instant at Edinburgh.  Tis        
said the Lord Harbottles Regimt of dragoons are to goe abroad & his             
Lordship is to Levy a new Regimt in their Room.                                 
     Letters yesterday from Cows of ye 5th Instant say yt severall              
Homeward bound West India ships are put in there, among them one that           
had been taken by the ffrench but retaken by a dutch Caper of 10 Guns,          
and say that the ffrench had alsoe taken another richly laden, but that         
a Flushing privateer had retaken & sent her into that Port.                     
     Letters yesterday from ffalmouth of ye 5th say yt of 20 sail               
homeward bound Newfound land ships only 3 as yet are come to sight, and         
yt 2 ffrench privateers have taken 3 small vessells off of the Lands            
End.                                                                            
     Dr busby one of ye prebendaries of Westminster an Eminent school           
master lyes a dying if not allready dead.                                       
     Severall Attempts have been made to beg the Estate of Mr darcy             
(who lately drowned himself) but tis thought his majtie will grant it           
to his younger Brother upon Application for the same.                           
     Yesterday the sessions began at the old Bayly, where the                   
watchmakers wife was tryed for Clipping, but the Evidence not proveing          
ye matter upon her she was discharged.  A soldier was tryed and                 
Convicted for killing 2 at the same time in one Room.                           
     Yesterday ye Merchants had advice yt 3 of our New England ships            
were lately taken by the ffrench and carried into Brest, one of them            
being called ye Dolphine Thomas Hoy Master who fought the Enemy 6 hours         
till 15 of his men were killed.                                                 
     The Train of Artillery of 100 pieces of Cannon in ye Tower are             
allmost got ready, 40 of them being whole Cannon, and most of the               
Gunners in England and Ireland are to goe along with to fflanders               
     Yesterday Mr ffuller (mentioned in my last) was heard at ye Barr of        
ye House of Commons, where he gave an Account how far he was concerned          
with Capt Crone, and desired he might be admitted to produce 2 Witnesses        
wch should confirm the same; he desired he might have an Allowance from         
the King, and he is to have a protection for 2 other persons besides            
himself he being a prisonr in the Kings Bench.                                  
     The Lords of ye Admira[lty] have sent orders to respite for a few          
days ye Tryalls of ye Capts of the Mary Rose & Constant Warwick ffrigats        
taken by the ffrench                                                            
     The Spanish Embassador at Warwick House has ordered that none of           
the Kings subjects yt are Roman Catholicks be admitted to come to his           
Chappell, unless they can give sufficient testimony yt they have taken          
ye Oaths to yr majties.                                                         
+Mr Baxter ye Non Conforfmist minister dyed last Tuesday night.                 
+milford Haven xber ye 4th  one of ye Jamaica ffleet homeward bound is          
put into this port, being separated from 23 saile by stress of weather,         
the master whereof says they were richly laden haveing a considerable           
quantity of plate on Board.                                                     
+Plymouth xber ye 6th  ye Elizabeth of London arrived here the day before       
with 170 Exchang'd prisoners from St Malo, 50 of ym belonging to the Happy      
Return, who say yt 3 or 4 days before they came away yr were 4 of our           
Jamaica ffleet brought in there by ye ffrench, & in yr way they met 2           
ffrench privateers with 3 other prizes wch they had taken.                      
+Last night Genll Ginkle arrived here from Ireland, and ye day before the       
Earl of Argyle from Scotland.                                                   
+Tis said ye Spanish Embassador has signifyed to his majtie yt ye ffrench       
are designing some Enterprize in fflanders and prays his Majtie to hasten       
his Troops from hence.                                                          
+We hear yt ye Lord Preston is gone to Yorkshire to be retired.                 
+orders are sent by his Majtie to Convert severall prizes taken from the        
ffrench into ffrigats, some of wch will carry 26, 36 and 40 Guns each.          
This day ye Merchants recd Advice yt 4 of yr East India ships richly            
laden are arrived at Barbados in yr way homeward, wch hath caused the           
Auction of ye sd Companies to encrease.                                         
     L. c. 2086     London december ye 12th 1691                                
     Plymouth letters yesterday of the 8th say 4 transport ships (2 of          
wch belong to London) are arrived there from Brest, to wch place they           
had carried some Irish from Limmerick and say they left 3 others alsoe          
of London in that Harbour, wch could not return for want of men, many           
of their own being dead since their arrivall there, and most of the             
Remainder sick.  They alsoe say that before they left that place Advice         
was brought thither that a ffleet of between 30 and 40 sail of ffrench          
merchant men with 4 men of war their Convoy laden with wine and Brandy          
bound from Burdeaux to Brest met with a storm & were all cast away.             
     Letters yesterday from Weymouth of ye 9th Instant say the Chester          
Merchant of about 60 Tuns was arrived from St Malo with 300 English             
prisoners, among them ye remainder of ye Happy Return.                          
     Letters yesterday from deal of ye 10th say their majties ship the          
plymouth and the monk sailed out of the downs the day before, and about         
40 sail of outward bound merchant men for ye Canaries Virginia, &c.             
under Convoy of their majties ships the Oxford, Greenwich and Rebecka           
fireships are to sail from thence the day of ye date.                           
     Letters yesterday from Weymouth further Advise yt the Exchang'd            
prisonrs from St Malo say yt Capt Hoy who was taken by the ffrench with         
his ship from New England (mentioned in my last) is kept close prisoner         
at St Malo with his 2 sons, his mate and a minister the ffrench                 
pretending yt some of our ships from New England have taken 3 of theirs.        
     yesterday the sessions ended at ye old Baily, where 11 malefactors         
received sentence of death.                                                     
     Colls dorrington Mayfield and Major Genll Hamilton are to be               
Exchanged for ye Lord Montjoy who is arrived at Callais in his way              
hither of wch there is Advice at Court by Letters from his Lordship.            
     Mr Baxter has left his Library to be sold, and the money to be             
disposed to Charitable uses.                                                    
     Mr Sandcroft paid his fine of 300 marks yesterday & was discharged         
     Mr John Gyles an Eminent ffellow of university Colledge in oxford          
haveing been in a profound melancholly for some weeks past on tuesday           
last went privately to Christ Colledge meadows and laying down his Cap &        
Gown leapt into ye River and was drowned.                                       
     I am credibly assured yt our ffleet for the next summers service           
will consist of 4 first Rates 8 second, 34 third and 16 fourth Rates wch        
with 38 dutch men of war wch are to join them will compose a ffleet of          
100 sail of Capitall ships besides fireships Tenders &c wch will be ready       
to put to sea by the middle of Aprill next, and ye Admirall (whoever he         
be) will tis said have a full Commission to Act against ye Enemy as he          
see convenient.                                                                 
     We hear yt mr ffuller whom I told you in my last was examined              
before the House of Commons on wednesday is prepareing to give in to the        
House a most exact narrative of all the Grand designs of those great            
persons in favour of ye late K. James wch he mentioned to the House.            
+Two nights agoe arrived here ye Earl of Tyrconnell, the Lord Bellers &         
divers others of the Irish nobility.  About 150 officers are arrived from       
Ireland and several of them are come to Town, in order to raise recruites       
for ye Regimts.                                                                 
+The Lord ffinch lyes dangerously ill.  On thursday night last the Lord         
Nottinghams Coach houses were broke open, and the lineing of 4 rich             
coaches and Charriots cut out and carried away.                                 
+We hear from Glocestershir yt an Irish divine being presented lately in        
a Liveing in yt County and being very poor ye parishoners raised a purse        
for him of 40 L to procure his Institution and Induction &c. but soe soon       
as he had received ye money he ran away leaveing his wife and Children to       
be maintained by the parish.                                                    
+The sherriffs of ye Counties for ye year 92 are not yet all nominated.         
+on ye 6th John Norris Commander of ye pelican fireship wch came from           
Kingsale with the West India ffleet has been separated by stress of             
weather, being mett off of Scilly by a ffrench man of war was forced            
after a sharp dispute of some hours to yeild; and the ffrench sending           
severall hands in their Long Boat to Board him one of ym fell over, and         
while ye rest were helping him out Capt Norris took the opportunity to          
tack about and has brought his ship safe to Woolwich with 3 of the              
ffrench men wch were ye first yt got on Board  Foreign letters this day         
bring nothing of moment.                                                        
+This day the House of Commons voted yt all ye officers of ye Kings             
Household who have above 500 L a year sallary from his majtie shall             
allow ye rest towards ye War.                                                   
                [This sentence is in another hand:]                             
     The New sherriffe for/Warwicksheire is tho. ffetheston Esqr                
     L. c. 2087  [Handwriting changes here; letter is faded badly.]             
                                   London ye 15 Decembr 91                      
     The Merchants yesterday recd advice that a Guinea shipp that laid          
[?] untended her Effects at Jamaica and took in other Commodities               
they [?] being one of those that were Missing was come into North Wales         
where she stranded  They alsoe had advice that 6 Men of Warr at Portsm          
were ordered to saile fforthwith for Plymo in Order to joyne those who          
were to Convoy the Outward bound W India ffleete there                          
     Lettrs yesterday from Plymo of ye 11 Instant say 3 Mercht shipps           
are put in there and that ye Exiter [?] was Wayed up yt Day and [she?]          
Rides at Anchor in the [illegible nine-letter name] & the same day ye           
Outward bound W India ffleete sailed out of that Harbor into ye Sound &         
Expected the Day ffollowing to persue yr voyage                                 
     On Sunday Last Departed this Life the Lord ffinch Eldest sonn to           
ye E of Nottingham in the 12 yeare of his age.                                  
     I Lately Informed you that Gennl Gingle was Expected here from             
Ireland and [?] yesterday when arived abt 9 at Night & went Imediately          
to waite on his Matie at Kensington                                             
     The [?] only 5 privateers are Ordered to be fitted forthwith to            
Cruise agt ffrance                                                              
     Yesterday some Merchts recd Letters from Scotland that one of our          
shipps had Lately taken a ffr. vessell haveing on Board one Sr Cha.             
Berkley & Majr Ennis [?] sent by ye Highland Rebbels to solliscite ye           
late K James for supplies but ye Answer returned in the seamen Report           
was that they must expect none from ffrance that K not being able to            
spare any adviseing them to make ye Best termes for ymselves.                   
     Cowes 10th The Blossom of Bristoll is saileing from hence without a        
Convoy for feare yt ye Admiralty Warrant wch is hourly Expected to stopp        
all shipping in yt Harbour.  Yesterday was sent in here by a Dutch Caper        
2 ffre Prizes ye one of 60 ye other of 80 Tunns laden with sugr                 
     Yarmt 11th 30 [?] Laden Colliers bound for London are arived here.         
a Dutch Margick [?] being Cruzeing sent in hither a ffrench privateer of        
10 gunns & 6 pattereras wch was taken not farr from hence                       
     Liverpoole ye 10 Instant ye Sattisfaction of London arived here            
yesterday in 5 weeks from Montferrat in ye W Indies  The seamen say that        
the Distemper which Raged there soe violently for some weekes past is           
some what abated That ye Men of Warr have taken soe many Gearnsay [?]           
seamen from ye Mercht men that they Cannot bring hence the shipps booth         
haveing lost most of ye men by the afforesd distemper                           
     The Chester shipp Mercht being appointed backward and forward from         
Dover to Callis has brot over from ffrance severall prisoners amongst           
whom is the Countesse of Lowtherdale 3 scotch Collonells & other persons        
who had K Williams Pass But Returneing without ye same were taken into          
Custody till his Maties pleasure be knowne & tis said the Capt. of the          
Chester Mercht will be Called to an acct for bringing over passengers           
without Commission                                                              
     Two hundred Men are at work on the Wet dock att Plymo wch they hope        
to ffinish by next spring haveing already Cutt above 40 foote in Lenth          
into ye Rock [?] and ye same will be refloated and soe then a ffirst rate       
[?] M of Warr may ffloate therein                                               
+His Grace ye A Bpp of Cant designes to treate ye house of Parlimt in           
his Pallace at Lambeth by a Certaine Number each day at a Splendid ffeast       
+The Honnble mr Comptroler Wharton will suddenly marry with the daughter        
and sole Heyress of the late Lord Lysborne who was killed in his Tent           
before Limerick and her ffortune will be 5000 L P annum.                        
+Chester xbr 11 severall officers daily arived here from Ireland & at           
Highlake and are Going to all pts of ye kingdom to Beate up for                 
Recruites                                                                       
+Yesteray ye E of Crawford Presidt of the Counsell of Scotland sett             
forward for yt kingdom with 8 other Lords  It is discoursed yt Sr Cha:          
Sidley will be made one of ye Lords Commissioners of ye Privy Seale & Sr        
Edw: Seamor will be made an Earl or viscount.                                   
+Baldarack ODonnell arived here yesterday wth Gennl Gingle who was met          
some Miles out of Towne & attended hither by severall Gentlemen  His            
Excellency was very kindly recd in all Townes thro wch he past.                 
+2 Messengrs are sent to fflanders to bring over persons there uppon ye         
discovery of Mr ffuller to whome his Matie has Ordered an allowance of          
40 s P diem  Tis sd he is verry busy in drawing up his Narrative of             
the Plott in which he will discover 15 persons more then he has yeat            
Mentioned  Tis said that the Lord Bredalbin [?] has not met with that           
success in his Negotiacon with ye Highland Rebbells as was Expected they        
Insisting on greater Termes then is thought fitt to allow them                  
     L. c. 2088     London Decembr ye 17th 1691                                 
     Yesterday a soldier was tryed by a Court Martiall at the Horse             
Guards for haveing accused his officers of false musters, and not being         
able to prove the same was ordered to be whipt & Cashierd                       
     Yesterday the Commissioners of the victualling office sent orders          
to Portsmouth for the speedy victualling of 4 third rate men of War             
there, viz, the Hope, Mountague, Edgar and Warspright, and have sent            
the like order to Chatham for 3 third rates more, but upon what design          
is not yet known.                                                               
     Last night the Kings play House was shut up upon Complaint given in        
to the King by the Lord Grey Viscount Longville and 2 other Lords that          
they had received severall Affronts from and were badly used by ye door         
keepers, and tis said the future Acting is suspended till further order.        
     We hear that a dutch man of War has brought into Hull a ffrench            
privateer of 10 Guns 6 petercargoes [?] and 200 men, and that those on          
board her when they saw there was noe hopes of escape, threw yr Guns            
victualls &c. overboard and fell a drinking yr Wine and Brandy wch they         
did to that Excess yt when the dutch men Boarded them most of ym were           
drunk.                                                                          
     Last Tuesday ye President de La Tour Envoy Extraordinary from the          
duke of Savoy and the Count de Oxensterne who comes in ye same quality          
from the King of Sweden to this Court arrived here from Holland.                
     Balderick O Donnell who came over from Ireland with Genll Ginkle           
was yesterday introduced into his Majties presence, and yt ye Honour to         
kiss his hands, and he earnestly sollicites for the Title of Earl of            
Tyrconnell wch formerly belong'd to his Ancestors.                              
     Genll Ginkle has given his Majtie a large Encomium of the English          
valour, saying he believes it equalizes (if not exceeds) yt of any other        
nation whereby they surmount ye greatest difficulties                           
     We hear yt ye Pembroke ffrigat has carried into Burlington Bay a           
small ffrench privateer haveing on Board 60 men, who when they saw              
they had noe way to escape threw their Guns over Board.                         
     Letters yesterday from Yarmouth of ye 13 say yt ye night before 2          
laden Colliers were cast away neare that Barr, but all the men saved.           
     Edinburgh ye 12th Instant we have advice from the north yt soe             
violent a storm has lately happend yr yt severall Barques and Boats             
have been cast away yr by ye water riseing a yard and half higher yn            
usuall, and has broken down all ye landing places from Aberdeen to              
Inverness.  A ffrench vessell has been lying some time neare ye Bass            
attended by a man of war, and tis believed they have sent some succors          
into ye place.                                                                  
     Sr Peter Rich one of our Aldermen lyes a dying if not all ready            
dead, The ffrench give out they will speedily lay siege to Charleroy and        
Namur at the same time in fflanders.                                            
     This week Sr Bazill ffirebrass was Elected a member of Parliamt for        
Chipnam in Willts.                                                              
     A patent is passed ye seals for makeing ye Wyer drawers a distinct         
Company.                                                                        
     Just now we have advice yt ye 3rd Rate men of war aforesaid are to         
join Sr Ralph dallivall who is ordered with his squadron to Convoy home         
our Cadiz ffleet.                                                               
     This day ye Corps of Mr Baxter was Interred in Christ Church, being        
accompanyed by above 10000 dissenters from merchant Taylors Hall.               
+Yesterday 3 Companies of ye first Regiment of ffoot Guards marched for         
Portsmouth.                                                                     
+All the Scotch officers here are ordered forthwith for Scotland, and           
orders are sent for ye forces there to Embarque for fflanders with all          
expedition.                                                                     
+Sr George Bartley & Major Ennis ye 2 Highland Commissioners to K. James        
(mentioned in my last) to be taken and discharged in yr return for              
Scotland, were by a particular order taken up again last Munday.                
+Tis said a Genll Embargoe will suddenly be laid on all shipping in             
England.                                                                        
+The ffrench King amongst ye Rest of his Ignoble Actions hath published         
an Edict yt if any English Captain would bring his ship into any of his         
ports should have the Intrinsick value of ye said ship & Cargoe.                
+Sr Thomas ffowles is made Alderman of Vintry Ward in ye Room of ye             
late Sr Thomas Pilkington.                                                      
+Our merchants have Advice yt 12 Jamaica ships are left behind, being           
richly laden with gold and pieces of Eight, and will sail with ye first         
fair wind under Convoy of ye Tyger ffrigat.                                     
+This day ye House of Commons had before them ye Affair of ye East India        
Company, and it being put to ye vote whether the stock of ye East India         
Company should be a million or a million & a half of money it was               
carried in ye latter  Adjd till to morrow.                                      
     L. c. 2089  [Handwriting changes here.]  London ye 19 Decembr 1691         
     Yesterday 8 Men and 3 Women were Executed at Tiburne But the               
Life Guard Man who kild ye Trooper is reprived till Munday  One of them         
was soe Insensible of his end that he Eate all the way the Roade in the         
Cart  The same day Mr ffrank a papist Came & anothr stood on the Pillory        
at Chearing Cross for Counterfeiting pense [?].  But ye Watch tooke Care        
that Little or Nothing should be Throwne at them                                
     Wee heare that the Play house will be againe opened this night or          
on Monday and will Continue to act as fformerly and tis sd the Sentinell        
who dischargd his Musquet was Tryed by a Court Martiall and acquitted           
     Wee heare that Mrs Wilks [?] who was Midwife to ye late Queen at           
the Pretended Birth of the P of Wales is Dead in ffrance Much Troubled          
in Minde that she had not Opportunity to sattisfie ye World at the Ps           
Birth as she declared to some about her                                         
     Lettrs yesterday from Dartmt of ye 7e [?] Instant Advise that his          
Maties shipp ye Chrosley [?] lately has brot in there a ffre prize of           
150 [?] Tunn Laden with Cables & other Necessaries for shipping and had         
Monney & severall Papers on Board which they threw in the sea as soon as        
they Came in sight of the Man of Warr  And the same Man of Warr going           
out a Cruzeing next day brot in a Nother ffr prize belong[ing?] to              
Dunkirk bound for Burdaux.                                                      
     The Irish Gentry are subscribeing an Adress of thanks to his Matie         
for the Reduction of Ireland & delivering that Kingdom from Popery &            
Slavery                                                                         
     Yesterday a vintner of the Citty was Committed to New Gate for             
killing a Capt of the Guards in a Duell                                         
     One of the Jamaica shipps having on Board 10000 peices of Eight            
being Missing tis ffeared she is taken into ye hands of the ffrench             
     The Wyer Drawers haveing obteined a Pattent to be a distinct Compa         
the Compa of Goldsmyths have put a Caveat thereto and they will have a          
heareing before Counsell abt the same                                           
     A Great Counsell was Yesterday held uppon the Marine affaires &            
I am tould In Gennl twas to hasten ye Equipmt of the ffleete 2 months           
sooner then designed Orders being sent to ye severall Ports not to              
Intermit Sunday and the victuallers of the Navy have 40000 L assigned           
them for the Buying up of Cattle & hoggs for the prsent Expedicon               
     A Bill is ready in the House of Comons Encourageing privateers             
which will make Both shipps Guns & ffurniture yt shall be taken from            
the ffre to be for the sole use of ye severall Adventurers.                     
     A project is brot into ye house for Raiseing a great summ of               
Monney to be Layd on shipping each shipp to pay proportionable to her           
Burden                                                                          
     The Trayne of Artillery of ye Tower is Ordered to be ready by the          
5 of next March in Order to be shipped for fflanders & a Draught is made        
of Gennl Bombadeers &c to accompany the same  Each Gennl to have 5 L [?]        
Advance for this Equipmt.  The Lieut of the Ordinance has Contracted wth        
ym [?] for 60000 New Musquets to be del into the Tower by ye 10 of March        
Next                                                                            
     A Great many Carpenters & Bricklayers are Contracted wth to goe for        
Ireland to Rebuild the demolished habitacons of the Gentry who Give them        
advance Monney with Assurance of Employ for 3 yeares.                           
+Last Thursday a Robbery was Comitted neare Uxbridg by a 11 [?] Highway         
men uppon ye Glocester Wagon  They being Informed that a Considble summ         
of the K ["Excise" written here in another hand] Monney was therein             
Guarded by a party of ye Mallitia who made noe Great Res[ist]ance after         
one of them was kild  they Carried off Neare 2000 L and Leaft a Great           
Deale behind them being not able to Carry it off.                               
+Sr Wm Trumbull late Embassador at Constant Inople is Expected in 2 or 3        
Daies from Holland  Its said ye Parlimt to Dispatch Business will sitt          
in the Holy Daies.                                                              
+Its Certaine that Admirall Russell will Command the fleete Next sumr           
But its not yet [?] knowne who will be the fflagg officers under him            
One mr Smyth Lately Come from fflanders being taken into the Custody            
of a Messengr abt 12 Daies agoe uppon suspition of Comming from ffrance         
was yesterday Admitted to Baile.                                                
+Drums are Ordered to beate up in most pts of Engl & officers are going         
into ye Countrey to raise Recruites                                             
+The Bpp of Glocester who has been some time Ill is in a hope full way          
of Recovery.                                                                    
+3 of the Notorious Highway Men who Comitted severall Robberies Lately          
in Hertfordshr & kild 6 of ye Countrey people were seized Coming from           
Chester with Genll Ginkle pretending to be of his Retinue                       
+The House of Commons Spent ye Greatest pt of this Day in Inserting in          
the Land Tax Bill ye Names of ye severall ["Commissioners" written by           
some hand as "Excise," above] of ye Counties  Adjd till Munday                  
     L. c. 2090  [Handwriting changes here.]  London December ye 22d 1691       
     Letters yesterday from Scotland say that on the 10th a ffrench             
man of War of Considerable force approaching Torbay [?] put out her raft        
uppon wch a fisher Boat Came on Board her, and the first question they          
asked was if there were any English or dutch men of War in ye ffryth of         
Leith & yr names, and being answered yt yr was only one English ffrigat         
wch they named the ffrench replyed yr was noe danger for she wants 70 men       
of her Complement (wch was truth) and soe obliged the ffisherman to             
pilate ym to the Bass, where (according to ye depositions of ye fisherman       
taken before the magistrates of dunbar & by them given into ye                  
Councill[)] They set on shoar 50 Tuns of Goods, amongst wch were 100            
Barrells of Beef, and a great many caskes of flower & severall Tuns of          
Wine and Brandy with Cloaths both for bedding and weareing  They also set       
on shoar 20 men wch one Wm Graham who was sent from ffrance by the late         
K. James to take upon him the Goverment of that ffortress, then put again       
to sea                                                                          
     Yesterday ye Lifeguard man who killed his Comrade and reprived for         
3 days was Executed at Tyburne                                                  
     Yesterday according to Custome the Common Councill of this City was        
chosen where great Animosities appeared between the Church and ye               
disenting parties, but the first for ye most part carried it                    
     Some mariners who mutined lately in the dover are to be hanged this        
week at ye Yard Arm, and this afternoon ye Gunner of a ffireship who            
Embezelled ye Kings store is to be tryed on Board a ship at Chatham for         
ye same                                                                         
     There were some Lters yesterday to Merchants wch say yt ye St              
Albans frigat had taken a ffrench man of War of about 50 Guns, but we           
doe not know as yet what port she is brought into                               
     The Letters yesterday from ffalmouth say yt ye Clousley Galley and         
a Flushing privateer were put in there haveing been on the Coast of             
ffrance & stranded 2 ffrench merchant men wch they chased on shoar.             
     Letters yesterday from Mounts Bay in Cornwall advise yt a ship of          
Copenhagen being driven a shoar yr freighted with Wine and Brandy from          
Burdeaux was seized as prize, and yt ye master says yt K. James was in          
Brest when he came away, and drums were beating up for volunteers, and          
they gave out yt there were divers thousands of men to Embarque at Brest        
with ye said King, but their design not known.                                  
     The Scotch Letters adde yt an English man of war has brought into          
Leith Road a ship of 18 Guns and 26 Peterraroes.                                
     Sr Wm Booth Commands the squadron yt is to Convoy the Queen dowager.       
     Two of our Jamaica ships yt were feared to be taken by the ffrench         
are safely arrived at Bristol Alsoe that Capt Hewson comeing from               
Jamaica with the Lady Inchiqueen and others on Board, likewise some             
silver taken up at ye wreck there has carried his ship into Brest               
     The King has been pleased to give 200 L to be distributed amongst          
10 of ye Scotch Episcopall Clergy yt will not take ye Oaths and they            
design to goe for Virginia to settle, where there are 30 Liveings               
vacant.                                                                         
     His majtie hath been pleasd to appoint Robert Harley Esqr High             
Steward of ye ma[r]ches of Wales                                                
+The Irish Nobility and Gentry have presented yr address to his majtie          
assureing him they will defend yt Kingdome with ye Militia & Irish              
Troops, upon wch orders are sent for all ye English, danish & ffr               
Regiments that are there to hasten to ye sea Coast to Embarque for              
fflanders.                                                                      
+A pattent is passing ye seales for creating Genll Ginkle duke of               
Buckingham, and an Estate suitable to his Title will be setled on him           
for his great servive in Ireland.                                               
+We hear yt ye Swedish Envoy will suddenly present a memoriall to his           
majtie with offers of his masters mediation for a Genll peace in Europe.        
+The foreign Letters this day say yt ye peace with ye Turks is at a             
stand.  That ye Grand vizier is dead.  That ye garrison of Mountmerion          
still holds out, notwithstanding ye ffrench press on ye siege very              
vigorously, and ye Governour being dead.  That ye ffrench in fflanders          
are in a Grand movement, and by ye prospect of their design (the Marquis        
Boufflers haveing viewed all ye Roads about Dunkirk) they intend to             
enterprize ye siege of Ostend or Newport  This day ye King told some of         
ye Nobility yt the Duke of Bavaria is made Hereditary Governour of ye           
Spanish Netherlands.                                                            
+The Kings House at Greenwich is makeing into a strong magazine of War.         
     L. c. 2091 [Handwriting changes here.]  London ye 24th Decembr 91          
     Yesterday yr being Lyndfords [?] Regimt Embarqued for fflandrs [?].        
Yesterday one of the High way Men that Robbed ye Wagon that Runs [?] the        
Kings Monney was Committed to Newgate & tis sd another of them hath wrote       
a Lettr Signifying that if he may Obteine his Pardon & have [?] a Reward        
allowd him he will sweare over himselfe and Discover ye whole Gang              
     The Kings Owne Company of Horse Guards are to Embarque for                 
fflanders Next weeke.  A bill is brought into ye house of Commons yt            
will Efffectively provide his Maties ffleete with seamen by Enlargeing          
ye Kings pay [?] and makeing it Penall [?] for a Mercht Man to give soe         
much [?] pay here of Warr [?]                                                   
      The Rattificacon of ye Treaty between England Holland and Denmark         
is Come hither to be Exchanged & ye Swedish Embassador desires ye King          
to Enter into a Treaty of Commerce and declares that his Master besides         
his Quota [?] is Willing to send 5 or 10000 of his Troopes to joyne the         
Confederates uppon a stippulated agreemt                                        
     Lettrs yesterday from ffalmth advise that a Daneish shipp that had         
Traded wth the ffre for 2 Yeares Last past undiscoverd haveing landed           
300 packs of Lynnen at Poole and Plimo was seized as prize                      
     Sr John Levingston Gower a Member of Parlimt for New Castle under          
Tine Dyed this weeke & has Left 14000 L pr anum to his son  Lettrs              
yesterday from Plymth say yt 4 ffrigats sailed hence for Ireland to Convoy      
ye Transport shipp to fflanders                                                 
     Yesterday the House of Commons did severall private Businesses             
which I purposely omit being the same appointed for the E India Compa           
to bring in yr security that yr Effects and publique stores was worth           
744000 persuant to the Late vote after which ye House thought to settle         
ye present E India Company & the severall ventures [?] agreed of by the         
House they amended [?] and Sr Tho: Cooke deputy Govr & others of the            
Committee being Called to the Barr were asked if they were ready with           
yr security  This Act [?] a paper was read to & by the Committee [?] what       
security they would Offer one being the Commicon Seale of which ye house        
judgd of little worth uppon wch the house considered the Company Righted        
[?] with them and were very [?] angry  But at lenth Called them in againe       
who being Come to the Barr were asked severall Questions perticularly           
whether they would give security (who answered yr stocke was Cleare of          
all Debts worth 744,000 L which should be yr security & that they would         
bring in ye whole Committee to Assure the same which will be don on             
Tuesday Morning Next                                                            
     The House of Peers upon reading the Commons votes abt the E India          
Company tooke the same into Debate and thinking they had gon to ffarr           
without ye knowledg it was decided [?] that they could not take security        
being noe Court of Judicature and soe Adjournd the full Debate to this day      
+Thirty fre Privateers from 90 to 95 Guns each are fitting up some of wch       
will be at sea in a ffortnight  the Merchts of this Citty have Advice           
that 26 fre Privateers of 20 & 25 Guns are sailed from St Mallo for ye          
streits as alsoe 4 ffrom Brest which Gives ye Merchts suspition that they       
have a designe to saile into our homeward bound streits ffleete                 
+Admll Killigrew who Comanded the Blew Squadron last Yeare is Layd aside        
&c Ld Berkley succeeds him                                                      
+This Eavning abt 7 a Clocke a Gentleman Coming thro a Dark passage Neare       
St Paules was knocked down by a single Person who Robbed him of 20              
Guineas & a Goldwatch  By the Gent recovering & Runing after him Caused         
to be stopped & Comitted to Newgate                                             
+The Lettrs from ffrance say that ye ffrench King has Ordered his Brave         
[?] souldrs Double pay for a Grane [?] & The New Raised fforces Eng [?]         
pay                                                                             
+This day his Matie Came to ye House of Peers in his Chr [?] Robes soe          
that the Lords did not proceed on the Debate of the E India Company and         
sending for ye Commons his Matie signed 11 Bills 4 publique ones (viz)          
the Double Excise The Bill to preserve 2 shipps Load of Baggs [?] The           
takeing of the Gallies in Ireland and for Encourageing the Growth of Hemp       
& fflax & both houses Adjurnd to Tuesday Next                                   
   L.c. 2092   [Handwriting changes here.]   London december ye 26th 1691       
     Letters yesterday from Ireland of ye 17th advise yt ye duke of             
Wortembergh and ye danish forces under his command are lying ready at           
Berkare [?] to Embargue for fflanders.                                          
     One of ye Jamaica ships yt was missing is put into Kingsale haveing        
been 15 weeks at sea, and was in extream want of all new partes for             
subsistance                                                                     
     The Lords Justices have published a proclamation yt whereas ye Army        
is indebted to severall Psons in the Kingdome for provisions &c in yr           
quarters and yt those Psons are indebted to his majtie for Excise and           
other branches of ye Revenue of ye Crown & are unable to pay ye same by         
reason of ye sd debts due to ym by ye Army, they have ye foreorderred ye        
Commissioners for collecting ye Revenue of ye Crown to deduct as much           
money out of ye Arrears of ye said Psons due to ye Crown as they shall          
make out due to ym by ye Army and the sd proclamation shall be a Warrant        
for yr soe dooing.                                                              
     The said letters bring alsoe a copy of ye late K. James's declaration      
wch he sent upon yr arrivall at Brest, wherein he declares yt he is very        
well satisfyed of yr Loyalty in defending Limmerick, & of ye necessity yr       
was of surrendring ye same and above all of ye Zealousness for his              
service in comeing to ffrance assureing ym yt soe soon as his Capacity          
shall permitt he will recompense each individuall person, & concludes yt        
ye ffrench King his brother has ordered ym quarters of ye refreshmt  The        
said Letters alsoe say greate quantities of Corn are sent from dublin to        
Limmerick, as well for sowing as eating, yr being great scarcity of grain       
there                                                                           
     The King on thursday conferr'd ye Honour of Knighthood on Archibald        
Mure Lord provost of Edinburgh one of ye Presbyterian party.  All               
Highlanders are likely to be somewhat troublesome, but his majtie hath          
sent directions for ye remaining forces to quarter upon ye Border wch           
will prevent ym                                                                 
     The King hath recommended 11 Tarpauling Capts to ye Lords of ye            
Admiralty in order to be Employed on Board ye ffleet next summer.               
     A person come from ffrance haveing a Letter found about him from K.        
James directed to ye Highland Clans is seized in Kent, & a messenger was        
sent yesterday to bring him up.                                                 
     The Morocco Embassador hath desired Commissioners to be appointed to       
treat with him about the setling Commerce and redemption of slaves wch          
are appointed                                                                   
     There is a letter from Turkey wch says that tis resolved in ye Divan       
at Constantinople not to treat of a peace unless ye ffrench King is             
Comprized, wch is signified to the dutch Embassador and lookt upon as a         
flat denyall.                                                                   
     There is an Account from dunkirk yt Capt Bart ye famous privateer          
with ye rest of ye ships with him were come into ye port, and had sold yr       
severall prizes, wch amounted to 70 odde thousand pounds not half the           
worth, and had made dividend yrof  each Capt had 10000 Crowns for their         
share, and the rest of the officers and mariners proportionable                 
     The old Lady Ranelaugh aged about 80 years departed this life 2 days       
agoe.                                                                           
     Tis said that leave is given to severall of the troops of Guards who       
have wives and Children or Infirm to quit yr posts and tis said severall        
have allready quitted them.                                                     
     His majtie hath given fresh orders that all the Cloaths and                
Accoutrements for ye Horse and ffoot designd for fflanders be got ready         
with all possible expedition.                                                   
     yesterday their majties received the sacrament at ye hands of the          
Bishop of London, and dr Sharp Archbishop of York preached before them at       
the Chappell at White Hall.                                                     
     L. c. 2093     [Handwriting changes here.]     London Xber 29 91           
+fforreign lettrs advise yesterday from Smyrna of ye 18 8ber that ye ffr        
Ambassadr had both come [?] to ye New grand vizier then to ye [about            
eight letters illegible] and had psuaded him to continue ye war  But yt         
he was [about eight letters illegible.  The rest of the first verso is          
so hard to read that I present its next twenty-one lines (it has twenty-        
nine in all plus, in the left margin, the first fifty-six words of the          
last paragraph of the letter) from the manuscript. I use periods for            
illegible letters, except for that after "Mr" in the second line:]              
               by all ye rest of ye Ottoman prime                               
               viziers Troops .... ye Mr. ....... at                            
               ye Temple of Constantinople Con                                  
               tinued to demand a Peace at wt                                   
               price soever, That ye serasqr very [?]                           
               ...... ... and ...... & will ac-                                 
               knowledge noe othr vizier but                                    
               him, That they have strangled                                    
               18 officers at Bellgrade who had                                 
               been made by ye late vizier Capet [?]                            
               And yt an othr of his creatures                                  
               who was Master of ye Copper Mine                                 
               was seized at Christian [?] .. upon                              
               accusacon of Malversacon [?] and yr                              
               being noe money found in his                                     
               house he was put to ye question &                                
               confessed where 10000 Baggs lay                                  
               & ... contained 500 Baum [?] of an                               
               othr great sume of money belong                                  
               ing to him 4 delivered in ye .....                               
               of an English vessell [?] mr ......                              
     Lettrs yesterday from Plymouth of 25 say that on ye 23 the                 
Clivesley Galley come in yr and in her way mett and fought a ffr                
Privateer of 24 Gunns and after a sharp dispute sunck her  They brot            
ye Capt and ye Crew from the same into Port                                     
     Edenbr xber 22d each of ye Colls yt are march[ed] against ye               
Highland rebells have recd a letter from Court of these instructions            
     Coll Binhams Regt wth ye 5 Independant Companyes are to march to           
ffort William and joyn Coll Wills [?] Regt and are to leave a small             
party in Garrison and march undr Coll Wills comand to ye Isle of Mull           
[?] and straight agt ye Maclands [?] and Macdonells                             
     And Sr Thos Levengston Coll Conningham and Neasbitts [?] dragoons          
wth Coll Langer E of Argile and Sr ffa: Leshleys are to march an othr           
way agt ye Rebells undr Comand of Sr Thomas Levingston                          
     Last week ye Lord of Comreacy [?] who hath been 20 years                   
outlawed came in and tooke ye benefitt of Indempnity and is goeing home         
to rouse men to support the Rebells                                             
     The Lord Broad allyn is gone for London  The Kings troops of Guards        
here have ordrs to be in readyness to embarke for fflandrs                      
     The King hath thought fitt to give a Quietus to Sr ffro Leneer [?]         
from his Command of Majr Genll and in Lieu yrof will allow him 1500 L p         
annum for ye good service he has done                                           
     Tis said her Matie has given an othr to ye Lord Nelson Secretary of        
Scotland and yt he will be succeeded by ye Ld Carmichell                        
     On Saturday ye d of Ormond treated Genll Ginkle wth ye rest of ye          
eminent officrs of yt Kingdome                                                  
     I am tolde yt Admll Russell intends to Consult ye East India               
Company to have wt able Capt they can recomend to him in order as tis           
thought to be employed on board ye ffleet                                       
     The King & Queen went yesterday to Hampton Court to view ye                
Buildings yr where yr Majes dyned and returned to Kensington in the             
Evening                                                                         
+Sr Ralph Delavall is gone to Portsmth to sale wth his squadr to Cadiz          
Also the offc of ye Admiralty receive daily lists of Tarpauling Capts           
giveing 2 seamen [?] they will Imploy next summr.  A ship lately putting        
into Dover Comited [?] some men in ye night one of whom was seized &            
forced to come from ffrance upon wch the ship & men are secured.                
+yesterday one Raulinson presented in ye Proclamacon as an associate of         
ye Golden ffarmer was attacqued in ye Temple bar before he was taken            
told [?] a Porter and wounded one of Capt Richardsons men but is secured        
in Newgate  yesterday Balderick O Donell had a grant of ye King for ye          
title of ye E of Treeconell                                                     
+Mr Wallop a member of Parliamt dyed last night  This day ye House of           
Commons read a 2d time ye bill for encoureaging Privateers but by               
reason yr was soe much said agt it ye debate is ordered to be this day 7        
night  The house afterwards went into a conference wth ye Lds where yr          
Ldships delivred yr reason to adhere to yr amendmts in ye bill of treason       
wch being reported the house defered ye debate til Wednesday  Ordered yt        
to morrow 10 a Clock ye house resolve in to a grand Comtee to raise a           
farther Supply to his Maje  Then ye East India Company was calld in to          
give reason [?] that yr stock was worth ye 7440000 L and ye names [?]           
being read the Consideracon was refered till Saturday  The house of Peers       
read ye first time ye Landed tax Bill                                           
     L. c. 2094   [Handwriting changes here.]    London ye 31 Decembr 91        
     A Great Counsell is held this day [?] uppon ye affairs of Ireland &        
tis beleived ye Lord Liut will be affirmed [?]                                  
     The K of Spaine hath ordered a Considerable summ of Money brot in          
the Galleons for Cadiz to be Lent [?] to K. Wm and brot from thence in          
our shipp and [?] to be Coyned in ye Tower & when Coyned to pay the Army        
in fflanders.                                                                   
     Wee heare from ye Isle of Wight that 2 ffr Mercht Men stranded             
there  And from Gurnsey tis wrote that 4 ffr prizes are brot in there           
taken on the ffre Coast.  Yesterday the K recd an Express from ye Marques       
Cathananew [?] that he had recd a Pattent from Spaine to Constitute             
forthwith ye Elector of Saxony [?] Govr of the Spanish Netherlands              
desireing his Matie to hasten into yt Countrey the ffre: begining to plan       
[?] against them                                                                
     Lettrs yesterday from Portsmo say that the Lord Castletons Regimt          
are Embarqued for fflanders on Board the Dutch Man of Warr that Lay at          
Spithead                                                                        
     On Tuesday Last Majr Genll Hamilton who is to be Exchanged for the         
Ld Mountjoy in ffrance was brot to Towne under a strong guard from              
Chester  Yesterday 8 Companies of ye ffoote Guards had orders to be in          
readiness to Embarque on Munday Next for fflanders.                             
     Yesterday his Matie gave orders for the Buying up of 300 Draught           
horses More to be sent for fflanders.  Yesterday the Merchts had advice         
that ye Salley Rovers had Lately 2 of our streits Mercht shipps as alsoe        
2 Dutch & a ffr. shipp                                                          
     Rawlison the Highway Man Menconed in my Last had 500 L of Monney           
found in his Chamber 9 pistolls Loaded with Ball besides 3 he had abt           
him when taken                                                                  
     Yesterday one Shane a Notorious Highway Man was apprehended Neare          
Moorefeilds at a ffaire [?] who was siteing [?] his horse and being             
Carried before Justice Roobin  a Countrey ffellow swore positively that         
he was one of those who lately Robbed ye Gloster Wagon of the Kings Monney      
and that he knew ye horse to be ye same he was then Mounted uppon.              
     Falmo Xbr 26.  This Day ye Spanish Alliance Pacquett Boate Arived          
here in 6 daies from ye Groine And the Master thereof saies that Good           
ffreinds were Made in those parts for ye D of Broll being Made Govr of ye       
Spanish Netherlands.                                                            
     The Elector Pallatine has ordered 3 Regimts of horse for the               
service of K William and to be disposed of as his Matie shall think fitt        
Next Campaign.                                                                  
     Generall Gingle is Made Master of the Ordinance which place has            
been vacant ever since the Death of ye Duke of Scomberg                         
     This Day passed thro this Citty out of Essex 18500 L being ye Kings        
Excise Monney which was Guarded by 34 men well Armed into ye Exchequer          
The Great Counsell that was this Day sumoned to be at Whitehall is              
Adjurned to Sunday Next  The Honble Rob. Boyle Esqr the Famouse                 
vertuoso of the Age Died last night in the 71st yeare of his Age.               
This day the House of Commons was going into a debate for the                   
Raiseing of more Monney when the usher of ye Black Rodd demanded yr             
Attendance at the Barr of the Hs of Lords and his Matie gives his Royall        
assent to the Land Tax Bill and appointe [?] one after which his Matie          
made a Most Gratious speech in wch he thanked them for ye supplies they         
had allready given assureing that it should be Layd out to ye end               
designed and desired them to hasten ye Remainder with what Bills were           
most usefull to the publique for ye yeare begins to advance and our             
Backwardness ye Last yeare was a Great disadvantage and the ffre are            
fforward this & Continued yt he designed to Make noe Mony [?]                   
Excise Bill But Dismiss them suddenly   The house afterwards                    
Debated ye Reason of the Lords given at the last Conference touching            
the Treatie of [illegible name of about nine letters] and Divided uppon         
it & Carried it by 40 to Disagree wth ye Lords Amendmt of the Bill wch          
wil Loose the same  Most of ye publican [?] kts & prsons of Quallity            
that have any dependance on yr Maties are pareing [?] very Noble                
Equippages to accompany the K in fflanders  On Tuesday night the Ld             
Bredalbin arived here from Scotland to give his Matie an accot of the           
state of that Kingdom  fforreigne Letters yesterday say that ye ffrench         
threaten to beseidge Coni [?] and Bombard Turin in ye Duke of Savoys            
Countrey  The perticulars of ye Surrender of MontMillion are in this            
Daies Gazet.                                                                    
     L. c. 2095     London ye 2 Jan 1691                                        
     Yesterday Mr Hunter Prisoner in the Kings Bench who lately gave            
Informacon to the House of Commons touching the Plott wherein the Lord          
Preston [?] and Capt Crane [?] were Conserned moved the House for his           
Protection and that they would be pleased to Order the [?] Committee to         
take his further Examinacon But is Ordered to attend on Munday Next             
     Yesterday the [about six letters illegible] Came to Whitehall and          
wished yr Maties a happy New Yeare and each of them presented yre King          
with an Embroyderd purse made [?] of Gold and are to have a peice of            
Guilt plate out of the Jewell Office & a Tunn of Wine Impost ffree              
     Divers volunteers Gent who designe [?] to accompany the K in               
fflanders are fformeing them selves in a Troope of Horse and there are          
alsoe divers yong Gent who will [illegible seven-letter word] the same          
Accoutmt [?] of ffoote.  Yesterday The K was pleased to say that he was         
resolved to fforce ye ffrench to a Battle or fforce ye seidge of some           
Considrble place wth pt of ye Confed army which he hath [?] Observed ye         
Mencon [?] of the ffrench                                                       
     Lettrs yesterday from Portsmo of ye 30 ulto say that 2 Warrants            
were Come downe hither from ye Lords of ye Admiralty one for Laying an          
Embargo on all outward bound shipps and the other for Impressing the            
Seamen and that 2 Jamaica shipps that were Missing were arived in yt Port       
     Yesterday James Barton Esqr was Married to ye Daughter of the Lord         
Abbingdon and has wth her 1500 L p Ann present Estate & as Much in              
Reversion                                                                       
     Lettrs yesterday from Scotland of 15 past advise that one of yr            
Maties Men of Warr has lately taken a ffre shipp which was Carrying Wine        
and Brandy to ye Rebells in ye Highlands and that such a screen [?] is          
Layd for the opposicon of our fforces in that Kingdom as will sufficiently      
secure the people [?] thereoff  The same Letters Advise that on Xtmas           
Day the Episcopall ministers preached in ye Meeting Houses without              
disturbance severall of ye Nobillity and Gentry being prsent                    
     Lettrs yesterday from ffalmo say that the Pembroke ffrigott captured       
[?] a Swedish shipp Laden wth Cordage & Pitch bd [?] from thence [?]  The       
E of Oxfords Regimt Landed at Highlake from Ireland  Orders are sent for        
them to spend [?] the winter in the Countrey before they Come up to doe         
Duty at Kinsale                                                                 
     Wee heare that some [illegible eight-letter word] of Officers will         
be at Court before yr Maties departure and that ye Lord Rochester will be       
made Lord Treasurer                                                             
     Irish Lettrs yesterday say that one of the Masters of the Transport        
shipps which returned from ffrance had an Opportunity to discourse Sr           
John [?] Jennings an Eng Sea Commander in ye ffre service who tould him         
that all the Privateers were Commanded into Port by ye 10 of Next Month         
in order to have Marriners to serve in yr Grand ffleete which they Bragg        
will be at sea a Month sooner then the Eng & Consist of 94 Cappitoll Men        
of Warr who will saile directly for the Channell and ffight our ffleete         
wch Radomontade will serve on notwithstanding ye Endeavour and [?]              
[illegible word of about nine letters] preparacons to Anticipate yr very        
discourses  Yesterday the House of Commons sent the Bill for the Reversion      
of small tithes to ye Lords this day which saies that it shall be Done by       
a justice of peace without Going to the prerogative Court                       
+A Mr Dartworth [?] and Lorence have Given Informacon that the Jewes and        
others have Melted downe a vast Quantity of New Crownes and Transported         
them beyond sea under pretense [?] of Bullion And how they had seized ye        
same  But the Commissioners of the Customs had suffered [?] it to be            
Carried out wch Occasions the Quality of that Coyne  yr was [?] Committed       
for Suppressing of Thieves and Pedlars agreed to ye Bill & will suddeinly       
Make a Report                                                                   
+A person attended wth a paper wherein he offers to make it appear,             
haveing been Employd in Inspecting the Bookes of accts of ye Comisionrs         
of Excise that they had in some four [?] yeares wanted above 100000 L to        
Ballance accts wth the K  But it being a Matter at this present may             
hardly [?] Influence the House tis thought will not be taken into               
Consideracon this Sessions                                                      
+This Day the House of Commons Resolved it selfe into a Committee uppon         
the Essex case [?] in Ireland as alsoe the Affair of the E India Compa          
but Came to Noe Result  Tis thought yt Sr John Trevor will be made Ld           
Chancelor                                                                       
    L. c. 2096  [Handwriting changes here.]   London January ye 5th 1691        
+They write from St Maloes that 4 privatteers of that place had brought         
in 8 rich English Mercht shipps prizes, And from Bayon that 4 of our            
shipps of Warr which Cruized upon the Coast of Biscay are ordred to             
Cruize about Cape of St Vincent in order to take some shipps to Cadiz           
from England and Holland with the Effects of the Galleons                       
     Yesterday divers of the Blew Coates Boys of the Kings ffoundation          
were Examined before the Lords of the Admiralty as to theire Proficiency        
in the Mathematicks and Art of Navigation in order to bee sent on Board         
the Kings shipps to bee versed in the Practique                                 
     Capt Wright late Admirall of the West India ffleete is Admitted to         
Baile                                                                           
     Yesterday the House of Peers Comitted to the Tower the Lord M-- Y--        
for dellivery to yr [?] Protections                                             
     On Thursday next the Bipp of Salisbury Preaches the ffunerall              
Sermon of the Honoble Robert Boyle Deced                                        
     Lettrs yesterday from Scotland of 29 past advise that Sr Cha               
Levingston wth severall Scots officers arrived at Edenbr and that Sevll         
Gent in the North daily Came in and embrased his Majs of [sic] Act of           
Indempnity and that Majr Menzes who came lately from King James wth a           
message to ye High land Clans is gone Post thithr                               
     Yesterday ye 3d troop of guards were discharged from doeing of duty        
being speedily to embarke for fflandrs                                          
     The Spanish Ambassadr will shortly returne from Warwick house in           
Holborne to Benbington house neare Whitehall                                    
    Coll Morrise [?] is to succeed Sr John Laneer in ye place of Majr           
Genll                                                                           
    On Sunday last ye E of Rochester carryed ye sword before his Maje           
to Chappell and yesterday his Maje did him ye honr to dyne wth him              
at his seat at Twittnam wch favoring [?] assignmts to ye beleife he             
will suddenly have some great trust conferred upon him                          
     Lettrs yesterday from Chattham say yt one of ye 3d rate ships              
was last week driven from her Anchor & Comeing foule of another is soe          
disabled yt she will not be fitt to serve this summer                           
     The Overseers of London & Bristoll offer one million 600000 L for          
ye forfeited Estates in Ireland & in Case the late Kings Estates may be         
Included will make it up [?] 2 millions                                         
     Yarmouth ye first Instant 150 Laden Colliers are arrived here &            
only waite for a Convoy to carry ym for London.  yesterday a dutch M of         
war brought in a Large ffr prize Laden wth Wine and Brandy taken off            
ye Lands end ye men whereof says [?] they are very busy in ffrance              
in raiseing of New Levyes                                                       
     fallmouth deber 31 yesterday ye transport ships yt were forced in          
there wth ye Irish soldrs on board sailed hence for Brest  The officers         
confidently affirmed yt they were designed to Invade this kingdome in           
ye spring                                                                       
     The Irish officrs yt were taken at ye Battle of Orgiciny [?] and           
new Prin[ce]ss [?] in ye Savoy are speedily to be exchanged ye transport        
ships yt are to carry ym for Calais being allready appointed for yr             
Imbarquacon                                                                     
     The Bankers of this City offer to advance his Maje ye money upon           
ye Land Tax Bill                                                                
     Wee have advice from ye north parts in England of Mrchant ships            
being cast away.                                                                
     Yesterday the first troop of Guards mustered in ye Muse [?]                
+Two or 3 great Scriveners of this City are gone into ye Countrey to            
take ye Aire and tis thought will not returne.  Last night Dr Clinch ye         
Phisitian in Bromley Street was desired by 2 men to accompany ym in a           
Coach to visit a Patient and abot Leaden hall they stoped & 2 came out          
giveing ye Coach man money to buy a fowle [?] in the interim strangled ye       
Doctor wth a handkerchif and leaveing him dead escaped and are not known.       
This day the Bill to Phibit thieves [?] and Pedlars was reported and            
recommitted and the case for [illegible seven-letter word] Bill and [?]         
the Business of ye East India Company is put of till next ffryday and           
upon ye Inabillity of yr commencing a Company yr Auctions are encreased         
from 170 to 190.  The house was 4 houres in a ffree conference wth ye           
Lords upon the Bill of treason  one of ye Peers was elected to say [?] yt       
if King James comes again they would wish they had pased the said Bill.         
The 2 houses adjourned prsently after.  This day Dr Eglington went              
privately in quality of Envoy for ye Court of Spaine                            
     L. c. 2097     London Jan 9th 91                                           
     Lettrs yesterday from Dover say that an Ostend Privateer who came          
from thence on thursday 7 night took in her way 2 Swedish vessells laden        
wth [two illegible words, five letters each] &c designed for Brest who          
say ye Grand ffleet will be very numerous and early at Sea this Sumer           
     They write from Zeland that ye fisher men of Midlebrough having            
been at Sea 14 houres took up 360 hogsheads of Claret and brought ym            
into Port, But some believe this hath more Combinacon in it then a reall        
wreck to secure [?] wine dureing the Prohibicon                                 
     There is advice by a ship lately come from ye West Indies that one         
of his Majes ships there had taken a ffr man of warr wth 2 prizes and           
brought ym into Barbadoes and yt Coll Sadrington [?] was ppareing his           
forces to make an attacque upon Guadalupa                                       
     Yesterday ye King according to Custome Played at the Groom Porters         
and at first lost 200 Guineas but after won 5000 of which he gave 150           
to [ye] Groom Porter                                                            
     Lettrs yesterday from Scotland of the 2d Instant advise yt there           
was a report yr that ye highlandrs were up in armes Grounded upon ye            
Post [sic] staying a few days longer then ordnary but being arrived att         
Edenbrough he as well as ye Lettrs give an acct that ye Rebells are at          
prsent very great  The same Lettrs add that Capt Menzie who was sent to         
treat wth ye Highlandrs and to endeavour to pswade ym to submitt to yr          
Majes Govermt according to ye oath he took at Edenbr before he went Post        
from thence is soe far from pforming ye same that on ye contrary he             
perswades them to continue firme to ye Interest of K James telling ym           
theire Old Mastr will shortly be wth ym & bring wth him men & money &c          
     Most of ye 3d rate Men of warr are already fitted up & falling             
down to Black Stakes on [?] upon wt designe is not said  Alsoe 2 first          
Rates and Severall 2d are ordered to be ready and the men on board by           
the 15 Instant the men working on them with out entermission Sunday or          
holy dayes                                                                      
     Lettrs yesterday from Cowes say yt on ye 6 Instant a ffr vessell           
laden wth Wine and Brandy was cast away on ye back of yt Island                 
     Lettrs yesterday from Ireland of ye first Instant advise that ye           
Inniskilling men wth all ye standing forces yr are shortly to be                
transported for England and ye Peace of yt Kingdome will be Secured by          
ye militia who are to rendizvouze ye latter end of the month neare              
Kildare and then [?] enter into 1/2 [?] pay and to be dispersed in to           
Quarters as ye Govermt shall thinke fitt  They ordered Coll Sarsefeild          
amongst ye Irish be carryed wth him from Carseseyk [?]  1300 Reports [?]        
ye Kingdome is in pfect tranquility  That they are like to have a               
plentifull harvest next Sumr and ye ground being lasted [?] that have           
moste dureing ye war  That ye Daneish troops were Imbarqueing And that on       
ye 26 past yr Majes ship the Portsmouth in Kinsale Harbour had her Maine        
Mast and Maine yard broke in peices by Lightning allsoe broke ye Chaine         
of her Pump and tore a hole in her side 12 foot in breadth but none of ye       
men hurt Save one wounded in ye thigh.  on Thursday 2 Passes signed by          
his Maje were tooke [?] to ye Hutton [?] for ye 2 psons in fflandrs who         
are to be brought over hither to confirme his evidence touching ye Plot         
he is to discover.  Yesterday the D of Norfolke prsented a Bill to ye           
house of Peers to be dyvorced from his Dutchess and yr Ldships have             
ordered the matter to be argued by Counsell on tuesday next                     
+Lettrs yesterday from St Ives in Cornwall say that one of our ships hath       
brought in yr a ffr prize of 150 Tunns Laden wth Wine and Brandy for ye         
Bost [?] in Scotland.  Seamen daily enter them selves voluntarily on board      
yr Majes Ships and receive the bounty money menconed in ye Proclamacon.         
+On thursday last ye Bp of Salsbury treated Genll Ginkle and Severall           
othr psons of Quality at a most noble entertainmt and yesterday his             
Ldship preached ye funerall sermon of ye Honble Robt Boyle Esqr And tis         
sd his Ldship will write a book of his life.  yesterday ye house of             
Comons gave instructions to ye Comte for reduceing ye Interest of money         
to bring in a Bill for 5 L p cent.                                              
+on Wednesday last a Privateer of 20 Gunns was equipt at Chattham by ye         
Mrchants of London.  This day we recd a fforeigne Male of 25 Inst and but       
[?] brings not ye least accot of ye beseigeing any Place by the ffr as          
was certainly reported or of any action abroad                                  
            [Note on outside of letter in another hand:]                        
         News letters from/All-hallowtide to Candlemas/1691.                    
     L. c. 2098     London June 4th 92                                          
+Portsmouth ye 1st Capt Wornom [?] of ye Crowne and Capt Wiseman of ye          
Lyon ffrigott being on shoare in the late storm and endeavoureing to gett       
to yre ships there boat was oversett & ye former drowned  all hands are         
at worke to gett ye ffleet ready to saile to ye Westward by Monday wch          
exceeds 100 M. of war 18 of wch are ordered to ye W Indies & will depart        
forth wth                                                                       
     All ye Boats yt are new built for ye debarkeing of fforces out of          
shiping are ordered to be carryed to Portsmth & ye D of Leister is gone         
down to give orders to ye soldrs to goe on ship board & we shall soon           
find ye effect of yt wee have soe long discoursed about.                        
     A Jacobite Parson was yesterday committed to ye Gatehouse for              
drincking confusion to yre Maties                                               
     I am informed yt a true accot of ye defeat of ye ffr. at sea has           
taken ye Press at Ruon in ffrance & scattered abot ye streets                   
     The Queen has ordered Greenwich house to be fitted up for ye sick          
and wounded sea men                                                             
     The circuits of ye Judges for this sumrs Assizes are viz The Ld            
Chief Justice Hill and Baron Turner for ye West, The Ld Chief Justice           
Trebee and Baron Lichmore for ye home Circuit, The Ld Chief Baron Atkins        
and Mr Justice Powell for Norfolck Baron Nevill & Mr Justice Gregory for        
ye Midland Mr Justice Rooksby & Mr Justice Avery for ye Oxford Circuit          
     Wee heare from Cowes yt Preparacons are makeing yre for ye speedy          
Imbarking of men for ye descent on ffrance                                      
     They write from ffalmo of 30 past yt ye Bilbao ffleet is still yre         
where great rejoyceings have been made for ye victory obtained over ye          
ffr ffleet and yt a small vessell bound from Plymo for Dublin in                
Company of ye New England ffleet was last week taken by a ffr Privateer         
off ye Lizard                                                                   
     Yesterday Lrs from Newcastle upon Tyne say that 240 Laden Colliers         
lay ready to saile for London ye first fare wind undr Convoy of 3 of yre        
Maties ships                                                                    
     Edenbr May 28 yesterday ye Councill agreed yt the Campe be opened          
on ye 30 not above 3 miles from Edenbr wch will consist of 1200 horse           
besides foot and ye Lord Cottington is to have 15 L per lin [?] p day           
dureing ye Campagne  wee have advice yt Capt Bart wth severall ffr              
Privatrs are in sight of ye Bost [?] and great shooting being heard yre         
abouts tis contended [?] ye fireing is between ye sd Privateers and 4           
English M. of war wch were sent from Leith to looke after them  A Danish        
ship wch arived yesterday at Leith ye master sayes that he mett a ffr           
Privateer off ye Lands end who asked him wt newse concerneing ye 2 fflets       
the Dane replyed he heard the ffr were beaten  ye other said yt was             
impossible and soe they parted                                                  
     Lrs from Kinsale say that they had been alarmed wth a report yt            
ye ffrench intended to invade that pt of ye Kingdome but were as much           
animated after at ye good newse of ye defeate of ye ffr ffleet                  
     Great Wageres are depending on ye seige of Namure wch make ye              
People expect ye arrival of ye fforreigne maile and ye wind haveing             
been faire we doubt not but to receive our fflanderes Lrs to night or           
to morrow and hope they will bring ye good Newse of ye defeate of ye            
ffrench & ye raiseing of ye seige                                               
     On thursday ye Grand Jury of Westminsr recd yre Charge & on Monday         
next Indictmts will be delivered agt ye E of Marlbrow Sr John ffenwick          
& Mr fferguson                                                                  
     This City doe designe to give a Considerable somme of money amongst        
the officers and seamen that have behaved ym selves bravely in ye late          
fight against ye ffrench  This morning was brot to towne in Custody of          
a Messenger one Mr Low seized in ye North and in his Pocket a lre               
directed to ye Ld Dunsmore wth other Papers wch are inspecting by the           
Earle of Nottingham.                                                            
+Deale 3d yre are in ye Downes 11 Dutch & English M. of war & severall          
Tenders wch are just upon saileing to joyne ye ffleet at St Hellins wch         
will then be upwards of 100 Saile.                                              
+The Persons concerned in ye New Plot and menconed in the Proclamacon           
will sudenly be outlawed if they surrender not                                  
+The last Lrs from Ireland say yt ye Corporacon of ye Linnen Manufactory        
haveing chosen ye Ld Sidney yre Governour & aloted much of yre stocks           
bringing it downe to 20 L [?] and to be paid only 4 L at each 6                 
months but his Ldship has adjusted to ye difficultyes they before               
Laboured under & divers psons of Quality are entering them selves in ye         
same wch they looke upon to be a jest  Some cuning Projectrs raiseing ye        
Auctiones when yre was noe occasion for it & then sold yre stocks but           
afterward slipt yre necks out of ye Collar leaveing others to reape what        
they had sewen.  The Paper Corporacon has allsoe considered some                
disadvantages they Laboured under as to aleviate ye difficulty by               
selling great part of yre stocks to ye Paper Company and raiseing 8000 L        
stock are about setting to worke 6 mils who had before [seven letters           
illegible] and they will be able by Lowreing ye Prize of Paper as alsoe         
ye stock to bring to pfection that great manufactory.                           
     L. c. 2099  [Handwriting changes here.]   London June ye 9th 1692          
     ffalmouth Letters of ye 4 say the ffrench Privateers have lately           
taken abt the Lands end 6 Small Vessells one of them Richly Laden               
belonging to Bristoll                                                           
     Deale ye 8th  yr Maties ship ye Smerna Mercht and Swift ffriggot           
are sailed out of the Downes Convoy to 9 Transport ships full of Irish          
bound Hambergh from whence they goe by land to serve ye Empr in Hungary         
     Yarmouth ye 6  The St Albans ffriggot hath brot in a large Dutch fly       
boat which he met with at sea halfe full of Water and not one Man on            
Board                                                                           
     Harwich ye 7  Yesterday came in there ye Charles Yatch to take on          
board the E of Monmouth for fflanders his Lordship being expected there         
last Night but his Convoy ye Dunkirk man of War struck upon a Land              
called ye Black tail from whence she gott off againe without great              
dammage by throwing her uper tier of Gunns over board                           
     Portsmouth ye 7  ye Courage Morgan and Tumbrells that came with the        
Train of Artillery are shipping off and all possible dispatch is used           
for ye speedy fitting out of the ffleet [?] that are able booth of              
Eng and Dutch being forthwith ordered to sea and if the winds permitted         
were to Sail as [?] yesterday  On ye 6 30000 L came to yr Maties docks          
for ye use of ye Navy  All the ships that are not ready to Sail now will        
Sail in 4 or 5 Daies                                                            
     The Dutch have pictured the ffrench King with a Coat beset [?] with        
flowerdelaies and a bell in his hand assembling the people and makeing          
Proclamacon That whereas 35 Men of Warr have been lately Lost if any            
prson can bring Tydeings that they are put into any french port they            
shall have 2000 L Reward                                                        
     Two Men of Warr of 70 [?] Guns each will be launched at Harwich            
next Spring tyde                                                                
     The Brittania Sovereign St Andrew and abt 10 [?] other ships most          
of the red Squadron are come to Spithead to be refitted haveing                 
recd some damage in the Late fight and only ye blew Squadron with ye            
Dutch will goe to sea at present but I am assured ye red Squadron will          
Speedily Saile with ye Transport ships to Career [?] ye discent wee             
shall make upon ffrance                                                         
     I am Credibly tould that this day a Bill of Indictment was                 
preferred to ye Grand Jury of Westminster agt an Honorable Peer in ye           
Tower and tis beleived most of ye others in Custody will be admitted to         
Bail by ye Later end of the Term                                                
     Yesterday Princess Anns Regimt which came lately from Scotland             
Marchd for Portsmouth to be ready there with the rest of the fforces to         
Embarque for the Discent and orders are given to all the Bombardeers            
Gunnrs &c on Blackheath to March on Monday next for that purpose                
     Yesterday Mr Johnson his Maties late Envoy to ye D of Brandenberghs        
Court and Conjured Secretary of Scotland went hence for yt Kingdom              
     Yesterday was a Great Councill held at Whitehall upon some advice          
from his Matie relateing to the discent upon ffrance and an Express was         
dispatched to Admirall Russell                                                  
     The Earles of Scarsdell and Newbery whom I tould you in my last            
had surrendered themselves the fformer was introduced by Mr Controler           
Wharton and The Honble Mr Hambden who became yr Gwarantees and yr               
Lord ships were thereupon set at Liberty  The Earles of Tennett and             
Summersett being ye laters Gwarantees Coll Griffin son to ye Ld Griffin         
has alsoe surrendered himselfe                                                  
     Coll Tiffers [?] Regiment quartered at Portsmouth were last                
Satterday drawn out & each sergt had 30 s [?] given him & each Drummer          
and Corporal 25 and every private soldr 20 as alsoe ye Ro[yal] Bounty           
of yr Maties for yr servive in Ireland  Great Impressing of Men is upon         
ye River of Thames for ye Newbuilt ships which are fitting out to joyne         
our fleet soe yt the Ro Navy will be much strongr then before ye Engagemt       
The ffalmo lettrs further add that the Spanish Expedicon pacquet boat is        
come in there with one Mail & saies that in her way thither she saw a           
ffrench Man of Warr Eng Built & Eng Coulters who took a Dutch Merchant          
and gave fight to an Eng ship bound for New Engld who made her escape by        
running into a Creek  This morneing the Q held a Cabanett Councill and          
was afterwards present in the Tresury and this afternoon a Grand Councill       
where divers things of Consideracon were debated in relacon to ye Discent       
and a Complaint was made agt a Cittizen for Covetting one of ye Ginneres        
Employed in the Grann [?] who not being willing to release his action was       
taken into Custody of a Messenger with ye Sheriffs Officer it being             
alledged that the Ginner was ordered to Portsmo on Munday Next and the          
creditor declared he would stay his journey being a Jacobite  Nevill            
Hastings & Mr Ridley in Newgate this Day moved for a Habeas Corpus ye           
Last of ye Term which was granted and all those who have not Bills found        
agt them will be discharged.                                                    
+Wee have noe foreign post                                                      
     L. c. 2100  [Handwriting changes here.]   London June the 11th 92          
+Scotch letters of the 4th Instant advise that the Horiton [?] of               
the Sheriff of Moye [?] had mustered in the Linkes of Leigh after which         
they drew up an Address which was signed by most of them and delivered          
the same to the Lds of the privy Councill to be transmitted to his maty         
Importing that they will Sacrifice their Lives & ffortunes for their            
matys Interest against all Enemys whatsoever                                    
     Yesterday the Citty Common Council mett and Chiefe Sergt                   
Lovellson [?] of the Citty in the Roome of Sr Geo Treby who resigned his        
place on Tuesday last by Carrying it by one voice in opposition to Mr           
Selby [sic]                                                                     
     On Thursday 37000 L more was sent downe to Portsmouth for the use of       
the Navy                                                                        
     This weeke Mr Comptroller Wharton was marryd to the Late Ld Howards        
daughter                                                                        
     On Thursday the princess Anne was at the Cockpitt but not with the         
Queen and on Monday comes to see the new opera                                  
     That day came on a tryall between his maty and the Ld montgomery           
for 10000 L P Ann being part of the D powis Estate and the Jury brought         
it for the king.                                                                
     Yesterday afternoone was a greate tryall at westminster for The            
Issue being whether the late Act of Parliamt a Clerke of the peace for          
a County before the Act of Parliamt Can be Instituted to hold these             
offices [?] notwithstanding the Custos Rutulorum of the County                  
disaprove the man [?] and put in another being the Case of the E of             
Bedford puting in mr ffox in opposition to mr Harwate [?] but there             
arising matter [?] of Law the Jury brought it in speciall                       
     The Lds of Admlty upon some matter before them sent new sailing            
orders to the ffleet for wesday last not to saile westward but directly         
to St Maloes being Certainly Informed some ffr men of warr were                 
run on Ground there the last fight and if they did not gett off the             
last Spring Tyde they most [?] Certainly mett with and destroy them             
     poili [?] month the Royall navy pursuant to their orders recd from         
London this Evening gave the signall of weith Anchor and put to Sea             
and wee are assured the Admlt besides some publique orders has recd             
private Instructions which he is not to open till some Leagues at sea.          
     Their Matys Shipp the King ffisher lilly Chased 2 ffr privateers and       
tooke one of 15 [?] Guns  the other run on shore umder the Guns of Calais       
     a mackerall boate has brought into dovere great many seamen [about         
twelve letters illegible] which were floating neare dunkirke and they are       
supposed to be a wreck of a ffr man of war of 70 Guns run upon the Goodwin      
      Letters from Dartmouth of the 7 say that on the 5 at night a              
vessell going from Exon to falmo Laden with Merrier [?] goods vallued at        
5000 L was taken by a ffr privateer but the men escaped by running the          
vessell on shoare.  They adde that 3 Dutch men of warr are put into             
Torbay and on the 6 2 Collier from Wales were Chased in there by                
privateers.                                                                     
     Letters from sheeles [?] of the 7 advise that 6 Laden Colliers             
belonging to 2 fleets of 300 saile and latly went from Lena [?] struck          
upon the Barr and 4 of them staved [?]                                          
     They write from Yarmouth of 8 that a ffr privateer latly tooke 3           
vessells neare Cowes [?] one of them being Laden wth Corne                      
     Such an extradinery Care is taken of the sick and wounded seamen           
brought to portsmouth that the soldiers in the Adjacent townes removed          
their Quarters to give them place and above 400 are Cured and on board          
their shipps in perfect heal[th]                                                
     The spanish Maile brings advice that the King of ffez & Morrocco           
being advanced with 7000 men within 12 miles of Algiers The dey drew            
out 40000 and gave him battle routing and killing 10000 of his men              
with the loss of 12000 of his owne                                              
     This [?] morning wee recd Lettrs from the Kings Campe dated on             
Monday last giving an acct that the Castle of Namure makes a vigorous           
resistance the Governr having sent the King advice that he shall be able        
to hold out a month Longer and excessive raines has soe swelled the river       
that the King has not been able to fight the enemy but both Armys Lye           
encamped on both sides the place as they did before  The Letters add that       
provisions are very deare in the ffr Campe and their men deserte in             
Considerable number daly: that the towne only [?] surrenderd being able         
to have held out severall days Longer: that the Governr of the Castle           
does wonders having repulsed the enemy who play against it from 4               
batterys in divers sallys above 2000 of them have been Kild.  A Regimt of       
horse and Company of dragoons being useless in the Castle have broake           
thro a line of the enemy Campe with the loss of only 6 men and gott mr          
Charbray which Garison in a sally has taken a ffr Convoy of 200 wagons          
with provision goeing from mons to the ffr army  And they found among           
them 3000 pistoll.  they Further add that there one daly happen skirmishes      
between the 2 Armys.  on 12 the enemy Attacqued one of our bridges where        
there was posted some dragoons who forced them to retyre with loss  The         
vaudoies ones have made an Incursion into danghoney and burnt severall          
ffr villages and Churches bringing away greate booty.                           
+These forrane Lettrs bring noe advice from the ottoman portes nor from         
the Campe before greate Waradine                                                
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