     L. c. 817     July 31st 1679                                               
  London 29th July 1679                                                         
  +There is A new discoverer Come In who is Kinsman to A Deane In               
somersetshire  he was placed by some of his other ffreinds at st Omers          
to be A preist but the deane sent for him & hath Converted him to the           
protestant Religion since which he hath discoverd severall things of the        
plott & swore before A Justice of peace In somersetshire  he is Comeing         
or Come up to London                                                            
     Yesterday Came out In Print the Trialls of sr George Wakeman &c,           
Wakeman haveing A passe is gone to ffraunce                                     
     There is lately A Booke handed about which Endeavours to prove that        
there is noe plott & that mr oates &c are Rogues & that 2 or 3 years            
hence it will be noe more beleeved then It is beleeved that the Christians      
fired Rome In Neroes time & wee have account from Paris that another            
Comedy hath been acted there Reflecting upon mr Oates &c                        
     Tis said some have Endeavoured to Indict mr Oates for perjury but          
the Atturney Genll would not permitt it, and mr oates did last Tuesday          
shew to the Councill how much sr Phillip ffloyd Erred in appeareing agt         
agt him at the Triall of sr George Wakeman who still persists to talke          
very Highly to the scandall of mr Oates                                         
     Tis observed that the meanest popish preist that is Imprisoned             
hath 7 s p weeke allowed them apeece besides Common Charity which amount        
to 20 s A weeke                                                                 
     wee hear from Newbury that Coniers is there taken & is Comeing up to       
London                                                                          
     ffrom denbigh wee are advised that another preist was lately               
Executed there                                                                  
     The Trayned bands of the Citty are Reduced from 4 Companies at a           
night to 2 which Regulation began last night & this weeke the officers of       
the Trayned bands goe to Hunt their bucks In severall Parks                     
     The King goes to morrow to debtford thence to Woolbridge to see 2          
ships Launched Thence for Portesmouth &c  tis said he will goe A 10 dayes       
voyage to sea some thinke to meet the dutchesse of yorke                        
     The Mary yatcht haveing lately broughte over severall of the d of          
yorkes servants & goods Confirmes our Expectations of the dutchesse             
+wee hear from Windsor that the Earle of pembrooke being too dareing was        
shott by one of the sentinells because he would not stand when the              
sentinell bid him                                                               
     On ffriday last A Bayliffe who was by vertue of an Execution In            
posession of the goods of A Certaine woman who was servitor to the Kings        
Colledge of Westminster was set upon by the scollars & soe Cruelly beaten       
that Tis thought by this time he is dead                                        
     mr duke A Gent of A good Estate was lately drowned as he was               
swimming in the Thames                                                          
   The Ld Roberts Patent is Already stopt one of the Kings sons being           
Already Earle of ffalmouth  soe is the Ld Gerrards there being Already A        
viscount Newbury soe that they will be made Earles of other places              
   Here is an Ambr Arrived from the d of savoy                                  
     The Governors of Algeirs In their Letter to the Dutch say they have        
noe Inclination to treate of peace with England being they were A people        
without faith Not observeing their promises & have made warr upon them          
without Cause & that they observe In all their people A greate Averseness       
to peace with England                                                           
+The ffrench K hath given order for the ffortification of severall Townes       
upon the spanish ffrontiers & greate quantity of Timber is brought to           
Dunkerke to Build A ffortress to secure that Haven                              
+Those ffortifications make the dutch looke about the[m] & provide for          
their security  They have been much In Consultation about some weighty          
points Especially the makeing A strict Alliance with England which they         
Conceive will most Conduce to their Welfare but those of Amsterdam are          
very Averse to it being Composed Chiefly of dewitts faction & Noe ffreinds      
to England, Their plea is that England will be alwayes for setting up the       
P of Orange to be absolute over them                                            
     Things have an ill Aspect Many beleeveing that the ffrench K will          
Center his Army Into Cleves [?] Countrey for thereby he will with more          
facility subdue the Rest of Christendome to an universall Monarchy.             
     L. c. 818     August 2d 1679                                               
  London 31 July 1679                                                           
+mr Oates hath Complained to the Councill agt sr Phill ffloyd one of the        
Clerks that he Communicated his Matys Councills to others after Coppies         
of Examination & Information taken In Councill Relating to the plott &          
some Complaints will be made of him Next Councill of severall miscarriages      
In sr George Wakemans Tryall  sr Phill to Excuse himselfe said he was           
proffered greate summs of Money by persons of quality to burne or hide          
Colemans letters but would not, Tis thought he will be forced to discover       
who made him those offers                                                       
     The people here Continue to Reflect on the Ld Chiefe Justice saying        
the Portugall Ambr gave him 3 vissitts before the tryall & one since That       
his Ldpp hath disposed since the Tryall severall summs of Money & other         
things not fitt to be named                                                     
     They say mr Dobbins one of the Jury is sr George Wakemans Landlord         
mr Avery the Kings Coachmaker mr Waite the queens Chandler  others of           
them hold land of the Ld Powis now Prisoner In the Tower                        
+some of the Jurymen will be forced to quitt their Habitations being much       
upraided of their Neibours                                                      
     Tis said there is an order for takeing Wakeman if he be not gone           
Into ffrance                                                                    
+yesterday A person was seized In the Citty for speakeing Treasonable           
words who is since suspected to be A preist                                     
     Two persons were lately taken upon suspition of haveing fired the          
houses In Ken[t]street upon their takeing ffresh lodgings the day after         
the fire & fireballs being found In their Trunks                                
     Nell Gwyns Mother was last Tuesday found Drowned In A Ditch Near           
the Neat Houses by Chelsea & last night privately buryed In st Margaretts       
     On satureday last the Dutchesse of Cleveland arrived at Greenwich          
from thence shee went to Windsor & tis said is made groome of the               
stoole to the queen                                                             
     The Ld Ossory is Nominated to be Extrary Ambr to spaine to                 
Congratulate that King upon his Marriage                                        
     By the Marriage of the d of savoy to the Infanta of Portugall the          
subjects of savoy have Naturalization & may trade directly to Brazile &         
not Come first to Lisbone  they are likewise permitted to bear all              
offices which is allowed Reciprocally to the Portugalls In savoy                
     Our letters from Rochelle of the 17th Instant say that A ship lyeing       
at sea sent to Rochelle for A Pilott to bring her thither which was done        
& shee proves the Dover of London John Harris Master of 200 Tuns from           
virginia & aboard 500 Hogsheads of Tobacco &c & 18 Turks aboard who say         
this ship was taken about 18 dayes since off Ushant by 2 men of warr &          
also 4 more English Plantation ships homeward bound, That they tooke out        
of this ship The Master 17 men & 4 women & put those 18 Turks aboard to         
Carry home their ship who lost their Company at sea & Intend to get home        
to sell the ship & Cargo here which tis thought will be granted them, what      
the other ships are wee Know not but wee misse 5 ships vizt The Concord &       
another from Virginia The supply Joseph ffreeman Master & another from          
Barbados & the hopefull John Hudson Master from Gumbo  The Insurance is         
Much advanced                                                                   
     On Tuesday his Maty Came to whitehall from Windsor where as some           
say he Commanded the Councill to adjourne sine die  yesterday his Maty          
went to debtford & Named the New 2d Rate there the sterling Castle & then       
went Aboard A yatcht for Portesmouth which is Extraordinarily fortifyed         
of late  his Maty hath taken but 12 Messes with him                             
  The savoy house is prepareing to Entertaine the foot guards the               
Inhabitants since the late act Refuseing to quarter them                        
     They write from Rome the ffrench Ambr was A long time with the pope        
In private but the matter Not Knowne                                            
     Letters from Hamburgh say the K of denmarke is now with an Army Neer       
that place but their feares that he had some designe agt them proves A          
mistake                                                                         
     ffrom Paris wee hear that the ffrench K haveing been In Consultation       
with his Cheife minester almost A whole night orders were sent to the           
Admirall to send account what ships he had abroade what men aboard &            
whither designed & what Condition they were In at home with an Account of       
what stoores & Ammunition he had & what men he Could Raise In all the           
Maritime Townes with orders to Keep In pay all fforreign seaman, All the        
states are willing to make A strict Alliance with England Except those for      
Amsterdam who out of feare the P of Orange will be set up by [England?]         
had Rather submitt themselves to the ffrench K                                  
     ffrom ffrankfort tis said the ffrench K is labouring all he Can for        
the Imperiall Crowne & it appeares he Intends an Universall Monarchy his        
subjects giveing him this motto (Non suffici Harbes)                            
+The sealing of the Parliamt writts is putt off till to morrow & by             
saturedayes post they will be sent Into the Countrey  they are Returneable      
the 17th October                                                                
     L. c. 819     August 4th 1679                                              
  London August 2d 1679                                                         
+ffrom scotland wee hear that 800 of the Rebells are pardoned & set free        
That 400 that were under the Earle of Marsh are to be Transported  That         
Kid & Lenox 2 minesters who were sorely wounded in the fight were both          
Exquisitely Tormented with the Boot to force them to discover something yet     
Unknowne but they Could Extort Nothing from them  The first haveing his         
Leggs broke with it hath Contracted A violent feavor & the 2d is almost         
dead  Those 2 with mr King were taken since the fight who with mr Cathart       
will be suddenly Tryed for their lives  Armes are Every where layd downe        
most of the Rebells horse being fled into Ireland & severall Gentry             
suspected to have Animated the Rebells Come Dayly to Edenbrough to Justify      
& Clear themselves, There is noe greate Hast made In Building Conventicle       
houses there being only one begun by A Lord In one of his Townes                
    The East India Company haveing made A Rich Voyage have summoned In          
all their Creditors to Come & Receive their money but they misse 4 or 5         
of their ships which they feare are taken by the Algerines                      
     The Turks have brought another English ship Into Brest Besides the         
Dover bound from virginia which they Carryed Into Rochelle  5 other west        
India ships being missing the merchants are In greate pains for them            
     Its said the occasion of the Comeing over of the dutchesse of              
Cleveland is about the marriage of the duke of Grafton one of her sons          
with the Earle of Arlingtons Daughter Those yong persons being Contracted       
about 4 yeares since & the duke being 14 yeares old & the yonge lady 12         
they must declare their Consents                                                
+The Ld Berkely Nell Gwyns yongest son is dead                                  
+Last weeke his Maty Knighted Counseller stevens                                
     dr Charlton Bp of Chichester hath Excommunicated Major Breman A            
presbeterian Burgesse for Chichester In the last Parliamt to prevent his        
being Chosen againe but he declares he will stand & the people seem             
Resolved to Choose him                                                          
+The Tripolines have offered to make peace with the ffrench upon the same       
Tearmes as Algeirs & Tunis have Done                                            
     A Jackdaw Lighting upon A minesters head as he was Reading In A            
Church neer Bury In suffolke Carryed away his Perewig which with some           
Trouble was Recovered                                                           
     The Ld shaftesbury hath A warrant for 1000 L p Ann In Lieu of 12           
dishes of meale which he should have every day as president of the              
Councill if the King Kept house & Its to Commence from Easter Munday            
     They write from Paris August 1st that his Maty hath sent orders to         
the generalls In Alsace to March all their Troops out of the Territories        
of the Empire & hath sent orders for the disbanding 10000 horse & yet           
Intends to Keep 120000 foot & 20000 horse In service                            
     Tis said there are between 20 & 30 men of warr Neer the goodwin            
sands which makes the people about dover very Apprehensive of the ffrench       
     They write from Wesell August 2d That on the first Arrived there 28        
Troops of the ffrench Horse who presently marched over the Rhine                
Encamping In the Meddow of Budwicke seizeing upon the poor Countries            
summers Crop which hath quite Ruined them                                       
  They write from Amsterdam August 4th the last Advice from Leghorne was        
that the ffrench gallies were still there & that Mounsr Vivonne was sicke       
but had Commanded the ships from Toulon To Joyne him which had Exceedingly      
Allarmed the Genoeses                                                           
   There is lately arrived In the Texell A Hamburgh ship from Greenland         
that hath taken 19 whales                                                       
+Tis said the writts for Chooseing Parliamt men are gone abroade Into           
most Counties of England                                                        
     His Maty on Thursday went Aboard the Captaine ffregott A new ship          
Rideing Admirall &c sr Jo: Holms Comander & if the wind prove faire will        
saile In her to Portesmouth                                                     
     The Councill Adjourned sine die till his Maty Returnes & summons           
them Afresh                                                                     
     L. c. 820     August 7th 1679                                              
London 5th August 1679                                                          
+An English East India ship was lately blowne up by the Algerines on our        
owne Coaste with ladeing worth 100000 L, His Maty had not long before           
passed that way to Portesmouth also the Dutchesses of Cleveland &               
Portesmouth who Escaped them                                                    
     sr Robert Holmes & 8 ffregotts are ordered to Cruise In the Channell       
to prevent o[u]r dayly losses                                                   
      sr Jo: Narbroughs fleet are all paid off withoute any money out of        
the Exchequer                                                                   
     The Councill of scotland finding the Indulgence sent by his Maty to        
that Kingdome is not Convenient to be allowed them have sent to his Maty        
to Alter his Resolution therein  the Issue wee Know not yet                     
     Tis said that 30000 L was last weeke paid by the Bankers In Lumbard        
Street by order of the Papists to A person of greate quality                    
       Tis Related by severall Citizens that A gentleman being at sr            
George Wakemans tryall & the Jury goeing out to agree their verdict this        
gentlemen went out amongst them but A person there beleeveing he was one        
of the Jury slipt A paper Into his hands sealed up which the gent putting       
up went away & found therein 50 Guyneys                                         
     Yesterday 5 pistolls Each of them Charged & primed with double             
barrells were found In the Earle of Danbies Chamber In the Touer hid with       
some fowle linnen  Tis supposed he hid them out of A designe to make his        
Escape with them                                                                
     mr Oates hath sent A petition to his Maty to grant him to Retire for       
sometime In the Countrey for his healths sake & desires he may have             
orders to the Justices of peace to send him speedy Assistance at any time       
for the preservation of himselfe & servants                                     
     On sunday morning about one A Clocke 12 ffrench men well Mounted           
with Every one A lighted torch In his hand were discovered In st Giles          
London by A Constable goeing his Rounds who Commanded them to stand but         
they Refused & fought the Watch but A sturdy Coachman Comeing up Encouraged     
the Watch who tooke 6 of them & secured them In the Roundhouse                  
+On sunday morning A Waterman Rowing up the Thames saw A fiery Circle           
which as it seemed to them Encompassed the Earth for they Could discerne        
it till the Horizon terminated their sight                                      
     Tis said sr Tho: Armestrong Lieft Coll to the Earle of Oxford is           
dismist his Command & forbid Comeing to Court for some words spoken which       
are not yet fully Knowne                                                        
     They write from ffrance that 3 protestant ministers were Committed         
to the Gallies dureing life for haveing disobeyed his Matys order &             
other Crimes                                                                    
     They write from Hamburgh August 4th they had Advice that the duke of       
Brandenburgh makes his pretence to the 3 principallities of scleswicke          
which were left by the Prince of Burgh lately deceased which the Emperor        
hath seized upon & shutt up above 300 protestant Churches but the               
Brandenburghs Resolve that if they Cannot Recover their pretence by faire       
meanes to doe it by force for which greate preparations are Makeing for         
warr both in Artillery & fireworks                                              
+Last ffriday sr Evan ffloyd & his Kinsman Capt ffloyd drinkeing togather       
fell to Diference & sr Evan left the Roome but the Capt followed him &          
drew upon him who was thereby obliged to doe the like & after 2 passes sr       
Evan Ran him through the belly that he dyed & sr Evan was seized but tis        
said has liberty upon bayle                                                     
          On sunday morning A fflash of Lightening made such A furrow on        
the Ridge of A Brick house upon Highgate hill as if it had been with A          
plow In the Earth  it melted all the lead In the Windows & broke the Iron       
Barr & left A sulphurous smell behind it, Also on Hampsted heath A House        
was set on fire with lightening which with much dificulty was put out A         
woman & her Child hardly Escapeing it haveing set fire on the childs            
blanketts about it                                                              
+The writts for Election of Parliamt men were last satureday sent out by        
the Kings messengers                                                            
     L. c. 821     August 9th 1679                                              
  London August 7th 1679                                                        
  +On Munday his Maty Came from Portesmouth & dined at Windsor & is this        
day at the Councill which he summoned to meet at Hampton Court  wee are         
In greate Exspectations of this nights Resolutions for It is Reported his       
Maty is there to Contract A league offensive & defensive between his Maty       
& the states the Province of Holland Now Concurring with the Rest In it         
     Tis said they will also Enquire about the 5 pistolls that were             
found In the Earle of Danbies Chamber  his son the Ld Dumblaine saith he        
ordered them to be left there to be Called for but some thinke his Ldpp         
designed his Escape by secureing his Keepers                                    
     A person of honour hath lately made as Ample A discovery of the            
plott as mr Oates & mr Bedloe & discoverd the whole bottom & ffraime of         
it to the Ld President & highly accuses the Lds In the Tower & sr George        
Wakeman & divers other perticulars which are yet Kept very secret  Tis          
said he has an Assurance of Pardon but many thinke it will be very hard         
with him In Regard he did not discover sooner Especially what Relates to        
sr George Wakeman on whose account the people are under stronge                 
Apprehensions of the Ld Cheife Justice & Jury some saying In Publicke           
that the Ld Cheife Justice hath Recd 10000 L and that they will prove it        
& Calumniate him In A very grosse manner  it were to be wished there            
were some Issue put to it In Respect to him if wronged                          
     some of the Jury are troubled In Conscience & perticularly mr Waite        
saith that he had Rather have given halfe his Estate than have been of it       
     Wee hear that last night A warrant was ordered for takeing of Wakeman      
if he Can be found but he is Certainly gone for ffrance, when his Page          
went to acquaint her Maty his Master was ffreed her Maty gave him 5 Guyneys     
     On Munday In the afternoon there was another greate Thunder &              
Lightening by which A poore woman & her Child In Kentstreet In southwerke       
were Killed & 2 more persons strucke lame & one of them senceless & soe         
Remaines  Also 2 men going to unstop A well In southwerke were by A             
sudden damp stifled by it                                                       
     ffrom Hambrough wee have Advice that they are under great                  
apprehensions of A seige from the danes feareing also that the                  
Brandenburghs will Joyne them soe they are putting Themselves In the            
best posture of defence they Can & are listing of souldiers giveing             
greate Incouragemt of Pay                                                       
     The Election of Parliamt men is begun In severall places  yesterday        
they Chose for Amersham in Buckinghamshire Algernon sidney Esqr & sr            
Roger Hill                                                                      
     5 persons Intend to stand for Middlesex vizt sr Robert payton mr           
Gerrards sr wm Roberts mr Hawtrey & mr Daniell ffinch  The 2 first are          
like to Carry it                                                                
     sr Wm Waller thinkeing It too Chargeable to stand for Westminster          
is gone for Bristoll to stand for that Citty upon Encouragemt Given him         
by mr Bedlow who hath for some time past been there & much Ingratiated          
himselfe with those Citizens soe sr Phillip Mathews & sr Wm Poultney are        
like to be Chosen for Westminster                                               
     The blowing up of the Unicorne an East India ship is not yet Confirmed     
& yesterday wee had advice from virginia that the ship Hopefull was             
designed [about five words spoiled by crease in paper] Thomas Hudson &          
many of the seamen being dead Retarding her Comeing home, A few dayes           
since there was 40 L p Cent upon her & yesterday Morning 50 guyneys p           
Cent was Refused                                                                
  mr John smith of Cheapside haveing paid his fine for sheriffe to              
morrow is the Choyce of A New sheriffe also of A Bridge master In               
Roome of mr Parsons deceased                                                    
+His Maty will make A step to Newmarket the latter End of this month            
     L. c. 822     Aug 14th 1679                                                
  London 12th August 1679                                                       
+The Councill is Adjourned till the 1st of October but are sometimes to         
meet In Comittees                                                               
     The last Councill day the Ld President moved that his Maty would lay       
aside the Ld Cheife Justice scroggs & that his person might be secured          
which was opposed                                                               
     One sindge that writes Newes writt A letter to Oxford In which he          
said that the Portugall Ambr went the day after sr George Wakemans Tryall       
to visitt the ld Cheife Justice scroggs & 6 pages with him Each haveing         
500 Guyneys In his Pockett with which he prsented his Ldpp which being          
A Notorio[us] & scandalous lye the vice chancellor tooke notice of the          
letter & hath sent it up to be delivered to the Ld Cheife Justice when he       
Comes to Towne                                                                  
     Before the Councill was Adjourned his Maty at their Request granted        
the lady Anne & her sister Leave to goe Over Into fflanders to vissitt          
the duke their ffather & thence to Aixee La Chapelle to vissitt their           
sister the Princesse of Orange who is drinkeing the Waters there but are        
Commanded by his Maty to Returne backe before the sitting of the Parliamt       
     mr Jennison hath been Examined againe & hath given his Maty Ample          
satisfaction Concerning the whole substance of the plott who being heir         
to soe good an Estate takes away all objections of the papists that the         
witnesses Came in Out of Poverty & out of designe to be maintained              
     At quinbrough In Kent they have Chosen the Ld dumblaine son & mr           
Herbert son In Law to the E of danby & at Buckingham they have Chosen           
the Ld Lattimer another of his sons & sr Richd Temple                           
Greate Marlow sr hum: Wynch Jo: Burlace Esqr                                    
southampton sr Benja: Newland mr Windham                                        
Lugdershall Thomas Neild John Gerrard                                           
Lichfeild Michaell Buddolph Esqr mr ffinch                                      
     They write from sussex that Capt Goreing son of sr Henery Goreing          
standing for Bramber gave ffree Entertainment there to all that would           
accept of it who were soe Rude & disorderly as became not men  A woman          
was Ravished & A man & his wife In drinke set fire to A bed & burnt A           
Child themselves Narrowly Escapeing                                             
      The Grandjury for Wiltshire did at the Assizes prsent the undersheriffe   
for takeing Bribes & other undue & illegall practices the last Election         
     One Johnson A Condemned Preist at Worcester hath sent A petition           
that he would discover the plott if his Maty would grant him his Pardon         
upon which Judge Atkins is ordered to take his Examination & if it be           
materiall to suspend Execution & send him up                                    
     Our letters from Rochelle say that the 18 Turks that brought In the        
dover of London had leave to sell her there & that the ffrench Intendant        
of that province had given 17 of those Turks 400 Crownes to bear their          
Charges by land to Marselles the other Turk stayeing to see the disposall       
of the ship & goods  they Reported that In 14 dayes they tooke 20 English       
ships In the Channell that they tooke out of them all the men guns Cables       
Anchors & sailes & then sunke the said ships                                    
+Our letters from Plimouth say sr Jo. Berry In the Dreadnought with about       
30 saile of Merchantmen are there safely Arrived from the streights             
      Our letters from scotland say that mr Jo [about seven letters             
smeared] Jo King both minesters haveing been put to the boot to make them       
Confesse were since brought to Tryall & Readily owned the Infaimous             
declaration they had put forth & were found Guilty of high treason &            
Judgment passed on them that they should be hanged the 14th Instant at the      
high Cross of Edenbrough & being dead their heads & Right hands should be       
Cutt of to be disposed of as the Councill should thinke fitt  The day           
before this Tryall dyed the E of Weimes [?] ffather In Law to the               
dutchesse of Munmouth & is generally lamented haveing Constantly Kept           
1200 men Employed in [frayed edge of folio spoils eight words]                  
+The Ld Bellasis haveing Petitioned his Maty hath obteyned leave to goe         
with A guard Into the Countrey for 3 weeks In faivour of his health being       
at prsent very much Indisposed                                                  
     L. c. 823     Aug 16th 1679                                                
  London Aug 14th 1679                                                          
+The Ld Roberts is Nominated to goe Ambr Into spaine & the Ld Hallifax is       
to succeed the Duke of Ormond In the Lieftenancy of Ireland the duke being      
Called home                                                                     
     mr Jennisons pardon is sealed & one is granted for his brother A           
preist In Newgate also for his ffather being A gent of 800 L p An In            
yorkshire  his ffather & himselfe being Turned Protestants he hath Given        
In his depositions to mr smith the Councellor to be printed that the            
papists who Endeavour to put an End to the plott may be silenced                
     Letters Informe us that the Ld Cheife Justice scroggs hath Recd            
divers Indignities & affronts at severall places Especially Gloucester &        
Bristoll                                                                        
     One mr sands P Ruperts Chaplain spoke severall words abt the Ld            
Chiefe Justice his takeing of Bribes & was motioned In Councill to be           
taken Into Custody but there was another motion made that In Case they          
tooke one they should take the other soe the Matter fell                        
+Wee have this further account of elections                                     
Essex Coll Mildmay & mr Howward that married sr Richd Wisemans daughter         
Hieth [?] sr Edw: Deering Capt Hales                                            
Tewkesbury sr Henry Capell sr ffrancis Russell                                  
Reading mr Blagrane mr Knight                                                   
Wickam sr Jo: Burlary mr Lewis                                                  
     This day dr Busby master of Westminster schoole & all his schollers        
were summoned to appear in st Margretts Church where being placed In their      
pewes & the Coroner & Jury being sate they Enquired Into the death of the       
Bayly formerly mentioned to be Killed by the schollers  The Jury found it       
murther & the Witnesses swore agt 4 schollers  one proves to be the Ld          
Mordants son, all 4 are Committed to the gatehouse                              
+yesterday mr Dawes A Wine Cooper was Chosen sheriffe In place of mr            
Griffith that fined                                                             
     The dutchesse of Munmouth is soe ill they despaire of her life             
     The Turks haveing taken A Dutch vessell tooke out all the men save         
3 putting In 33 Turks to Carry her home but those 3 men first violently         
slew the guard & then secured the forecastle where there were 10 Turks          
asleepe  Then they seized the steeresman & threw him overboard  Then            
they went to the Cabbin where all the Rest of the Turks were asleepe &          
Cutting their Throats made themselves masters of the ship which they            
brought to Cadiz & prsented the 10 Turks they had prisoners to the              
governour who much Commended their vallour                                      
     There hath been greate danger at Lisbon of An uproar because the           
Prince Regent would have Imprisoned 4 procurators for Refuseing to              
signe the Continuation of A Tax for A million of Crusadoes                      
     They write from Mosco June 29th that since the disbanding of the           
German Army many officers Come thither for service but they have not            
occasion haveing 3 Armies In the feild Each haveing 100000 men agt the          
Turks                                                                           
     They write from Coppenhagen that the sweds had beseiged Elsenbourgh        
& they were Informed that 6 of their men of warr Encountered 8 sweds &          
made them Retire with the losse of their Admirall A ship of 94 guns             
+ffrom Paris wee understand the peace between the Northerne Crownes is          
Concluded  Its Confidently said orders are sent to Mounsr Vivonne to            
make all spanish ships strike to them both at sea & In all fforreign            
Havens                                                                          
+Letters from the Hague of the 27th Instant say that o[u]r Ambr mr              
sidney desired Audience which he had this morning & made the Proposalls         
by word of Mouth & also delivered A writeing which Cheifely Conteyned the       
sincere Inclination of his Maty Inviolably to Keep the Treaty made with         
the states & also to Enter Into A more strict alliance with them                
     The states haveing lately Convened to Consult whether to Joyne with        
ffrance agt us or to Joyne with us agt the ffrench were at A greate stand       
agt it feareing that if they Joyne with us it may Advance the P of Orange       
to A Kingly power & to Joyne with the ffrench agt us may prove fatall &         
is Contrary to their Conscience to assist A popish prince                       
     L. c. 824     Aug 18th 1679                                                
  London Aug 16th 1679                                                          
+Wee have this further account of Elections                                     
sr Albans Tho: Blunt Esqr & mr Grinston son to the Master of the Rolls          
Tamworth Tho Thynne Esqr & sr Andrew Hackett                                    
Lewis [?] Major Edw: Bridger Tho Pelham Esqr                                    
Cambridge Towne Ld Allington sr Tho: Chickeley                                  
Berkeley Phillip ffoley Esqre                                                   
Evisham sr ffran: Rushant & Edw Rudge Esqr                                      
Leicester Jo: Gray & Hen: Beaumont Esqr                                         
Winchester mr Annesley son to the E of Anglesea & sr Jo Clavery                 
     The Pole In Essex Ended not till yesterday noon when it appeared           
Coll Mildmay had 1000 more votes then any other & mr Honiwood were by 400       
then sr Ehab Harvey or sr Thomas Middleton for whome the d of Albemarle         
stood highly  It was A mighty Election In point of Number & severall            
mischeifs had like to have happened, one mr Turner was soe rude that he         
strucke Coll Mildmay on the face & pulled him by the Nose giveing him           
very ill language                                                               
+His Maty designes for Newmarket Next weeke                                     
     This Morning wee have advice that the society & ffaulcon are safely        
arrived In the downes from East India                                           
     On Thursday last A pardon past the greate seale for mr Jennisons           
brother & A 3d person & orders is sent Into the Countrey to suspend the         
Execution of the Rest of the Condemned Preists there being A prospect           
that some of them will make A discovery                                         
     The savoy &c is fitted up for Lodging the Kings foot guards & they         
are building stables &c In Hydeparke for the horses                             
     mr dawes that was Chosen sherriffe hath paid his fine & they have          
since Chosen ffrancis Wellington one of the Comrs of the Custome house          
His Maty hath Commanded double guards to be Kept at the Lds doores In           
the Tower                                                                       
     Its Just now Reported sr George Wakeman is Retaken at Rye                  
     L. c. 825     Aug 21st 1679                                                
  London 19th Aug 1679                                                          
  +Wee have this further account of Members Elected                             
Newcastle tine sr Wm Blacket sr Jo: Anderson                                    
Newcastle line [?] sr Tho: Bellott Loveston Gower                               
Madeston sr Jo: Tufton & Tho: bane Esqr                                         
Marlbrough Ld Poriece [?] mr Bennet                                             
Bodmin ffrancis stoneham & Jo dellin Esqrs                                      
Oxford Broome Wharhood & Wm Wright Esqrs                                        
shoreham John sheale &  Hales Esqr                                              
Gloucestershire sr Ralph Dutton sr Jo: Guise                                    
yarmouth In Wight sr Richd Mason & Lemuel Kingdome                              
Newtowne sr Jo: Holmes sr Robt Holmes                                           
Leicestershire Ld sharrad sr Jo: Hartopp                                        
Woodstocke sr Littleton Osbalston Nich: Bailston Esqr                           
Rochester sr Jo: Banks & serjt Barrell the Recorder                             
Thetford sr Jos: Williamson & mr Harbourd                                       
     At Windsor mr Cary Master of his Matys Buckhounds feasted the Maior        
Aldermen & Burgesses In the Towne hall In A very splendid manner to             
obteyne their Votes yet they have pitched upon mr Winchley & mr George          
starkey for their members who are men that doe not at all please the Court      
     sr Nathaniell Hearne one of our Aldermen & A very worthy Merchant &        
Member of the late parliamt for dartmouth is dead                               
     sr Thomas Player our Chamberlan is dangerously ill at Tunbridge            
     Christo Vane Esqr sone of the late sr Henery Vane who lives neer           
Tunbridge haveing Information that some persons were stealeing his deer         
went out attended with some of his servants to oppose them in which action      
one of the servants was Killed & himselfe & others Wounded after which          
they Carryed off A Bucke & soe Escaped                                          
     They write from Vienna Aug 10th they had Advice from Hungary that          
the Turks in the ffrontiers give greate Cause to the people to feare an         
Invasion                                                                        
     They write from Nimeghen Aug 19th that o[u]r Ambr Jenkins is gone          
from thence to Holland leaveing behind him the Reputation of A good             
Conduct & one that hath Contributed well to the Concludeing the Treaties        
of the peace                                                                    
     They write from Brussells Aug 18th that the Boores haveing gathered        
In their Corne begin to be In feares againe because the ffrench begin to        
make pretences & are fortifying                                                 
     All our letters from Hamburgh &c say that That Citty are under             
greate apprehensions of the designes of the King of denmarke & the              
duke of Brandenburgh  some say they will In Conjunction Endeavour by            
force to make themselves masters of those 2 places which if gained the          
dane is to have hamburgh & the duke Lubecke                                     
     The Hamburgers are Resolved if attacqued to defend themselves to the       
last haveing greate Confidence In the strength of the place & their sure        
ffreind the D of Lunenburg who hath an Army of 20000 brave & well               
disciplined men at their Call  The K of denmarke the duke of Croy the           
ffeild marshall Wedall & other greate officers of the Army went downe the       
Elbe takeing A view of the Islands & all places as they passed & Repassed       
which hath much allarmed those people                                           
     the Duke of Munmouth last Weeke Crossing the Thames In his Coach           
neer Windsor the 2 leadeing horses leapt over [?] the fferry boate & had        
not the Traces been suddenly Cutt had Endangered his life                       
   The Ld Bellasis is still in the Tower & there is like to Continue            
there being not yet any warrant to the Lieft of the Tower for his               
delivery  The Ld President being as some say soe politickly troubled with       
the Gout In his hands & feet that he Could not Come to Councill last            
thursday Nor finds [?] a warrant elsewhere                                      
+sr Phillip Lloyd who Aspersed dr Oates & Capt Bedlow is Now Removed by         
order of his Maty from his office of being one of the Clerks of the             
Councill                                                                        
     L. c. 826     Aug 23d 1679                                                 
  London Aug 21st 1679                                                          
  +Wee have this further account of Members Elected                             
Gatton sr Nich Carey & Tho Turgiffe Esqr                                        
Arrundell Ben: Garroway & James Butler Esqrs                                    
East Grimsted Goodwin Wharton & wm Jephson Esqrs                                
Barkshire wm Barker Richd southby Esqrs                                         
stamford sr Richd Crist & wm Hyde Esqr                                          
Wooten Basset Lawrence Hyde & st Johns Esqrs                                    
Notingham Robt Pierpont & Richd slater Esqrs                                    
Bath sr Rich speake & sr Walter long                                            
Chippenham sr Edw Hungerford & sam Ash Esqr                                     
Dorsetshire Tho: strangewayes & Tho: ffreake Esqrs                              
Oxford university sr Lionell Jenkins & dr Parrott                               
Huntington sidney Watley Als [?] Montague Lionell Walden                        
stafforshire sr Walter Baggot sr Jo: Bowyers                                    
     Quinbrough Election was not till yesterday where stood sr Edw Hales        
James Herbert Esqr & mr Glanvile  The 2 former were Elected  The Electors       
were only 33  sr Edward had them all mr Herbert 17 & mr Glanvile 16  there      
is foule play suspected between the 2 last which may occasion some dispute      
+A Narrative of the Essex Election is printed  At the Close of the              
Election the Ld Grey told the ffreeholders that they had Chose 2 gentleman      
that to their power would serve their Religion agt Popery & preserve them       
from being Enslaved & had done this at their owne Charge which might be A       
president for other Countries to immitate Adding that formerly some spent       
3000 L at an Election & Reimbursed themselves out of the ffreeholders           
purses, That since his Maty had promised ffrequent Parliamts The way to         
serve Religion & property would be to Choose unbyassed men & without Charge     
     Our ffrench letters Continue to Informe us of the severities that          
King putts on all his protestant subjects  They have them out of all            
offices (though bought) without any Compensation                                
     A protestant woman that was marryed to A papist Not haveing been           
at Masse since marriage was sentenced to be Bannished but first to doe          
pennance In prsence of the Hangeman which shee prevented by An Escape           
but A protestant minester for saying shee did wisely to Avoyd it, is            
ordered to have the same sentence Executed on him & A gentleman was             
lately Condemned to the gallies for perswadeing A papist to turne               
protestant & another hath his Estate Confiscated for the same offence           
     The ffrench K is prepareing all things very Magnificent for the            
Wedding  the King will have A Cloake Emboydered with gold Lillies the           
Edges to be of Ermine Containing 27 Ells of velvett                             
     Mounsr Lonvoy his greate Minester of state is soe ill they dispaire        
of his Recovery [&?] is often vissitted by his Master, Also Marshall            
Crequi is sicke neer Collogne                                                   
     Letters from scotland say that 21 of the Rebells there have been           
Executed who dyed Rather Extenuating their Crimes then Confessing them &        
some of them Endeavoured to Justify their takeing Armes as Lawfull & to         
vindicate the Murther of the Archbp of st Andrews but others showeing           
some signe of sorrow had his Matys pardon                                       
+The late Indulgence granted that nation being not soe ffrankly Recd as         
Exspected is Countermanded                                                      
  Tis said the d of Lauderdale hath made his Estate to the Ld Roberts Now       
E of Carmarden                                                                  
     There is A proclamation Come forth pa[rdon?]ing all persons In the         
late Rebellion there Except the Murtherers of the late Archbp of st             
Andrews                                                                         
+Johnson the Preist In Worcester Goale disownes the petition & declares         
he will not Confesse soe is ordered to be Executed                              
  Alderman dashwood is dead & soe is mr Gold A greate Merchant & tis said       
sr Jo: Robinson is dead  mr Millington fineing for sheriffe they have           
Chose mr Jo: ffreind one of the Mannagers of the Excise                         
+Tis said his Maty stayes at Windsor till the 10th sept & then goes with        
the queen to Newmarkett                                                         
     Goa In the East Indies is surrendred to the ffrench                        
     L. c. 827     Aug 28th 1679                                                
  London 26th Aug 1679                                                          
  +Wee have this further account of Members Elected                             
Cirencester sr Robt Atkins & Hen: Powle Esqr                                    
Malmesbury sr Wm Escourt sr James Long                                          
Montgomery Edward Vaughan Esqr                                                  
Cambridgshire sr Robert Cotton sr Lavinas Bennett                               
Cambridg university sr wm Temple sr Tho: Exton                                  
yarmouth Richd Huntington George England Esqrs                                  
salisbury sr Tho Montpesson mr Thistlewaite                                     
old salisbury Ld Colraigne sr Eliah Harvey                                      
stockbridge mr st Johns & mr stroude                                            
Wilton sr Edw: Nicholas & mr Herbert                                            
shropshire sr Vincent Corbett & Richd Newport Esqr                              
shrewsbury sr Richd Corbett & Edw Kinaston Esqr                                 
darbyshire Ld Cavendish & wm sacheverill Esqr                                   
Harwich sr Tho: Middleton & sr Phill: Parker                                    
Castle Riseing sr Robt Howard & James Holt Esqr                                 
Plimpton Jo: Treby & Jo: Polixfen Esqrs                                         
sussex sr Jo: Pelham & sr Nicholas Pelham                                       
Lincolneshire sr Tho: Meers & sr Hen Munson                                     
Eye sr Robt Reeves sr Charles Gandy                                             
Wallingford mr Barker & wm Lenthall Esqr                                        
Bedford sr wm ffrancklin & Pawlet sr John Esqr                                  
Notinghamshire sr scroop How & Jo: white Esqr                                   
Dartmouth Jo: Upton & Edward Yard Esqe                                          
     last saboth day one Macharta An Irish Preist was taken by sr wm            
Waller & Committed to the Gatehouse                                             
     A Councill is to be held to take the Examination of mr Robert Jennison     
& some others who have made A further & greater discovery of the plott          
     Johnson the preist was on ffriday last at worcester & died stubbornly      
     The Holland letters tell us that the d of Brandenburgh demands his         
disbursemts of the states & being he hath been forced to surrender his          
Conquests he will not be put off with words but will force his owne             
satisfaction                                                                    
     ffrom Newcastle of the 19th Instant Its advised that about 300             
sayle of Light Colliers are there waiteing for their landing but by             
Reason some of the Keelers have lately made A greate disturbance abt the        
Measureing of Keeles the worke is stopt soe that the whole trade both for       
the Coast & over sea is at A stand                                              
     On Thursday last his Maty being A Hawkeing In Buckingham shire             
Returned to Windsor & walkeing Part of the Way In his boots it put him to       
A greate heate soe that at his Comeing to Windsor he found himselfe             
afflicted with A paine at his stomache which with some Cold he had that         
day taken tooke away his stomache soe that he Eate Noe supper & was that        
Night very Restlesse                                                            
     On ffriday some of his Phisitians were sent for who Advised Bleeding       
which his Maty Refused  some Prescribed manna which his maty tooke which        
had A good Effect workeing gently after which he found himselfe pretty          
well Eased from his Paine & tooke some Rest                                     
     on satureday he was somewhat ffeavorish & Indisposed but on saboth         
day he found himselfe soe well that he walked Into the Parke but In the         
Evening his feavor Returned & that Evening he tooke Little or noe Rest          
     On Munday he Continued ill but this morning wee have advice that he        
was very much Indisposed all the last night & Could not take much Rest          
upon which A messenger is Come for dr Middletwaite The 2 dr Needhams & A        
4th Immediately to Repaire to his Maty at Windsor  when this Messenger          
Came away his Maty haveing sweated much In the night they were Changeing        
his Linnens  Just now wee have advice that his Maty is much better that         
In appearance all danger is over  The worst that is now feared is An Ague       
+A proclamation is suddenly Expected out for the Confinement of all             
papists to their Respective dwellings                                           
     L. c. 828     Aug 30th 1679                                                
  London 28th Aug 1679                                                          
  +His Maty being not yet Recovered of his Indisposition our feares doe         
still Continue                                                                  
     On the 25th at 4 In the morning the Phisitians directed his Maty to        
be let Blood which was done accordingly, at 8 his Maty vommitted 2 or 3         
times but was very Chearefull                                                   
     Yesterday morning he had A fitt of An ague but not soe violent as          
the former & his Maty Continued pretty hearty all the day after  whether        
his fitt Returned againe this morning wee know not                              
    There is A greate Resort of Lds & greate persons but the ld Chamberlain     
is ordered to admitt but few the Kings Bedchamber being soe little that         
Company is offensive to him                                                     
     mr Jennison In his Information saith that one mr smith that was his        
ffathers preist (But since the discovery of the plott Turned Protestant)        
knowes all he hath deposed to be True aswell as himselfe whereupon A            
letter was sent to him acquainting him therewith & Inviteing him to Come        
In & Give his testimony which on promise of Pardon he hath Engaged to           
doe whereupon last satureday morning his Maty Commanded A particular            
Messenger to be sent to him with orders to Come up forthwith                    
     mr Jennisons ffather & sister doe Confirme his Testimony & when            
things are more Ripe 3 persons of quality will Come In with Indeniable          
Testimonies In vindication of those already Given by mr Oates mr Bedloe &c      
     This day the Councill mett according to their summons to Consult           
about the discovery mr Jennison hath made but the Result is not knowne          
     Two of the 4 Ruffians vizt Carney & Wilson will Come In                    
     They write from Paris Aug 25th that letters Arrived there from de          
Estrees that he with his squadron of 14 men of Warr &c was Come before          
Martinico from whence he Intended for st Christophers to demand                 
Restitution of the English for dammages done to the ffrench Inhabitting         
there                                                                           
+They write also that 2 of his ships passing neer the Castle of Nevis           
without saluteing it the governour discharged some guns from the fort           
upon them whereupon the said ships fired so furiously upon the said             
fort that In 8 houres time they levelled it with the ground                     
     Our letters from ffrance continue to tell us of the hard usage of          
the protestants there & that they have seized the protestant Hospitall          
at Montpellier & Its Revenues & take Children by force from their               
Parents to Educate them in the Romish Religion                                  
     By the diamond ffregott which touched at Tangier this day 5 weeks          
wee have account that the ffrench gallies at Genoa Under Mounsr Vivonne         
are designed for Tunis to Joyne with Mounsr de quesne before Tunis to           
Ratify the peace with that place & thence for Tripoli to demand                 
satisfaction there & tis thought that the ffrench haveing 12 ships & 28         
Gallies will Attacke the Towne which is very ffeazible at this time they        
being In greate feares of the ffrench Comeing upon them                         
+They write from Rochelle that there Arrived An Expresse order from the         
King forbidding the Turks to bring any prizes with them Into any of his         
Ports to sell them or any of their Ladeing soe the Turks that brought           
the English ship In thither must depart which will be hard for them to          
doe there being but 2 men & A boy Aboard her                                    
+They write from hamburgh that Its Generally Beleeved the peace between         
the Northerne Crownes will be suddenly Concluded                                
     This day the sessions began at the old bayly & tis said the tryall         
of the 4 schollars that killed the Bailiffe at Westminster is put off           
till the next sessions  A pardon was there Read this morning for 37             
persons Convicted of severall Crimes                                            
+Duke Hamiltons Eldest son is married to the Lady Arbella Kentworth An          
Heiresse & A mighty fortune                                                     
     L. c. 829 (1)    sept 1st 1679                                             
  London 30th Aug 1679                                                          
+On Wednesday night his Maty slept very well & was up on Thursday but           
that afternoon he went to Rest againe & tooke the Jesuitts powder which         
putt of the fitt  That on Thursday Night he slept Indiferent well & was         
yesterday In very good Temper soe tis hoped his Ague hath left him              
     Tis said his Maty Intends for whitehall Tuesday Next for though he         
mist his fitt yet his Phisitians Judge that Windsor Aire is too sharpe          
for him at this time of the year                                                
   The d of Albemarle is taken all In the same Nature that his Maty was         
   Wee have this further Account of Elections                                   
North Alderton sr Gilbert Gerrard sr Hen Calverley                              
Aldbrough sr Bryan stapleton sr Godfrey Copley                                  
Thrusle [?] sr wm ffrancklin & mr sanderson                                     
Norfolke sr Jo Hubert sr Henery Glenne                                          
Ipswich Gilbert Linfield & Jo: Wright Esqrs                                     
Pomfret sr Jo downey & sr Patience ward                                         
Hindon sr Richd How & his son                                                   
somersetshire sr wm Portman sr George speake                                    
Tiverton sr Hen fford sr sam ffoote                                             
Tavistocke sr ffran Drake & mr Russell                                          
Grampound mr Tanner [?]& mr Hewle                                               
Portesmouth Coll Legg & Coll Norton                                             
Cardiganshire mr Vaughan Cardigan mr Hector Phillipps                           
Carmarthen shire Ld vaughan Carmarthen mr Anthony vaughan                       
Totnes sr Edw seymour mr seymour                                                
stafford sr Tho: Wilbraham & sr Tho: Armstronge                                 
Rippon mr stearne & mr Wansford                                                 
Heydon sr Hugh Bethell & mr Guy                                                 
Windsor mr Cary & mr Prawney & not mr starkey & mr Winwood & as was Exspected   
Calne [?] Double Returned by the Maior &c sr George Hungerford & mr             
Allionell Duckett by the Commoners mr Hen Cleffers & mr Jo: Koreford            
st Edmondbury A double Returne by the Maior &c sr Tho Harvey & mr Jermin        
The Commoners Chose sr Tho: Cullum & mr Rotheram                                
Marlbrough A double Returne the Maior &c have Chose Ld Bruce & mr Bennet        
The Commoners Chose sr James Hayes & mr Wildman                                 
     The Councill of scotland have published A proclamation dated 14th          
August Appointing 17 persons to take bond of the Rebells In the severall        
shires never to bear Armes agt his Maty or his Authority & those 17             
Comissioners to proceed agt those Rebells that doe not Come In to give          
them their bond as aforesaid within the time lymitted by his Matys late         
proclamation    L. c. 829 (2)    of Indempnity with the utmost severity         
the law doth allow, and the Murtherers of the Archbp of st Andrews are to       
be hanged In Effigie In all shires In scotland that they may the Easier         
be discovered & Apprehended & his Maty hath promised A Reward of 10000          
scotch Marks to those that shall take them dead or alive                        
     The peace between the Northerne Crownes is looked on to be Concluded       
& these following perticulers are Already published vizt That the K of          
Denmarke shall Restore Landscroon Elsenbrugh Gotland Rugen & wismar In          
Considderation of which the sweds to pay Toll In the sound besides which        
the K of Denmark is to have A Considderable summe of Money In hand The          
King of Denmarke is to Restore the d of Holstein all his Counties In the        
same Condition they are Now In                                                  
     ffrom Antwerpe they write that the Lady Bellasis is lately Arrived         
there In An English yatcht to Give his R Highs A vissitt                        
     ffrom Brussells they write that the Lady Ann & the Lady Isabella           
are Arrived there but In their voyage were very sicke                           
     Tis said dr Oates & mr Bedlow have been Adviseing with the Councill        
about draweing up A Charge agt the L C Justice scroggs to be prsented to        
the K & Councill that it may be In A Readiness agt the sitting of the           
Parliamt                                                                        
     The Ld Cheife Justice Came yesterday from the Circuitt to Windsor          
but what Reception he had wee Know not                                          
        5 Tuns & 20 hogsheads of ffrench wines were lately staved at            
southampton                                                                     
+On Thursday mr Oates accused 2 persons at the Councill table The one of        
Bribery & the other for Betraying his Trust but the Councill deferred           
the heareing thereof till the sitting of the Parliamt                           
        one mr Pitts Comeing out of Hampshire on Thursday Night last his        
horse startled with the Thunder & hee fell A Curseing  The horse ran away       
with him & threw him & broke his Necke                                          
     L. c. 830     sept 4th 1679                                                
  London sept 2d 1679                                                           
  +His Matys distemper has quite left him & is In the Judgment of all his       
Phisitians past all daunger haveing had Noe ffitts since ffriday last 2 A       
Clocke there Remaining only some breakeing out since his Recovery  His          
Maty hath since his Recovery Conferred the honour of Knighthood on dr           
Michelwaite one of his Phisitians                                               
     Last Night the duke of yorke landed at Harwich from whence he              
Arrived at Whitehall at 2 A Clocke this Morning from whence after some          
small time of Refreshment he proceeded to Windsor to Waite upon his Matye       
& Its said will Returne speedily to fflanders                                   
     A Comtee of Councill have ordered A Proclamation to be Issued out          
Calling In mr Carney mr Wilson Capt Levallen & mr Broghall accused by           
mr Jennison to be the 4 Ruffians Employed by the Papists to Assasinate          
his sacred Matye at Windsor who are Comanded to surrender themselves            
within 40 dayes or be Esteemed Traitors                                         
     On sunday last severall of the Kings Messengers & tis said sr Wm           
Waller was with them went to the ffrench Ambrs house his Excy being with        
his Maty at Windsor & about 11 or 12 at Noon demanded of the Porter             
to goe Into the Chappell where they were then at Masse to search for            
some English Papist preist & other English that were at Masse, But              
Notice being given severall of the Ambrs servants stood upon their              
Guard with drawne swords & swore they should not Enter neither the house        
nor Chappell  if they did be it at their Perills which was thought not          
Convenient to doe but to waite some other opportunity                           
     And In the afternoon sr wm Waller with the Assistance of Watermen &        
Constables seized on severall boates with passengers to the Number of           
above 60 persons & made them pay 5 d [?] Apeece for Transgressing the Lds       
day according to the late Act of parliamt which Happned well for the Poor       
of Westminster parish Amongst whome it was distributed                          
     Wee have only this further account of Elections                            
Hartfordshire sr Charles Cesar sr Jonathan Kent                                 
Hartford sr Wm Cooper sr Tho: Byde                                              
     At the Election for Hartfordshire many quakers Appeared who Refusing       
to swear they had 40 s p An within the said County Clear of all Reprizalls      
were not Admitted to Poll                                                       
     They write from Rome August 12th that the pope hath sent to the            
Reliefe of the persecuted English Catholicks 60000 Crownes & is willing         
to Contribute thereunto out of his yearly meanes                                
     They write from Wesell sept 1st that Marshall Crequi who hath been         
hitherto ill hath Recd orders from the ffrench K to follow the Army  The        
officers say they are to Leave those Parts Next Month & In order                
thereunto the Brandenburgh troops have already taken posession of Rees          
Emericke & Cleves                                                               
     Letters from spain say that Court is highly Incensed agt the dutch         
for not delivering Maastricht & tis thought there will be A Rupture             
     The ffrench K is drawing A greate body of his Army Into ffrance &          
they write from Lisle they will be drawne togather to Compose A New Army to     
be Comanded by the duke of Orleans  It is not Knowne what the designe is        
     ffrom Amsterdam wee have had former letters of the sickly times            
there but now they tell us that the Burialls decrease                           
        ffrom Brussells wee hear sr George Wakeman is Arrived there & is        
Carrassed by the Papists In A most Magnificent Manner                           
   sr Jo: Peal is Chose Alderman of London In Roome of sr Nath Heine [?]        
deceased                                                                        
     The duke of Albemarle is very sicke of this new distemper & severall       
phisitians goe downe to Newhall to him  It is the same with the Kings           
+The Ld Cheife Justice scroggs In his Returne home Called at Windsor but        
did not see the King                                                            
     L. c. 831     sept 6th 1679                                                
  London sept 4th 1679                                                          
+Wee have this ffurther account of Elections                                    
Appleby Anthony Lowther & Jo Tufton Esqrs                                       
Westmorland Jo: Lowther & Allen Bellingham Esqrs                                
Newcastle tyne sr Wm Blackett sr Ralph Carr                                     
suffolke sr sam: Barnardiston & sr Wm spring                                    
sudbury sr Jervis Elwayes & Jervis Elwayes Esqr                                 
stenning sr Jo fflagg & mr Tufton                                               
Oxfordshire  sr Jo: Cope & Tho: Hoard Esqr                                      
     The Election for Middlesex is at Brainford this day whither the Ld         
Gray of Warke is gone who went hence this morning with 3 Led horses In          
state & sr Robert Payton on his left hand followed by 10000 ffreeholders        
well mounted & tis Reported sr Wm Roberts will meet them at Brainford           
townes End with 1000 ffreeholders well Mounted & that they will Carry it        
from any other                                                                  
     Next Tuesday they Choose for Westminster where tis thought sr wm           
Poultney & sr Phill Mathews will Carry it                                       
+On Tuesday night last being the day of the d of yorks Arrival at               
Whitehall there was A great Bonefire made In the strand Neer somersethouse      
which drew A Greate Resort of yong men to it They Enquireing wherefore          
the same was made & Receiveing noe other Answer then that it was their          
pleasure soe to doe The yong men before the fire was well Kindled takeing       
it for granted that it was made only for Joy of the duke of yorkes safe         
Comeing Into England Immediately Kicked it abt the street & would not           
suffer it to burne                                                              
     sr Jonas Moor surveyer of the ordinance was last tuesday night             
hanged in the Tower  all the Guns being discharged as for such persons          
is Customary but many Reported it for Joy of the dukes Arrivall                 
     On Tuesday last the Ld Maior sent the swordbearer to Windsor to            
Congratulate his R Highneses Arrivall Into England                              
     mr Jennisons ffather is Come to towne & hath been with dr Oates to         
Conferr with him abt his sons Confession & what he had best doe abt his         
owne discovery                                                                  
     They write from Algeirs Dated August 6th that 6 prizes were brought        
In there whereof 3 Are west India men & Letters from Genoa say they had         
Advice that the Turks had taken & Carryed Into Algeirs an English ship          
Called the William & samuell James Pavers Master & 40 men aboard her            
     They write from Brussells sept 6th that the ffrench Exceedingly            
Enlarge & ffortify Dunkerke Intending to make it the Cheifest tradein[g]        
place In all Europe                                                             
     They write from Paris sept 1/11 That Marshall Crequi is Worse then         
Ever his Wound he Recd before Treves breakeing out againe & that M:             
Humieres went thence on the 10th to beseige Hauberge & Bilch that belong        
to the d of Lorraine                                                            
     Major ffreind one of the ffarmers of the Excize lately Chose               
sheriffe hath paid his fine & they have Chosen one mr Child an Apothecary       
In Leadenhall street                                                            
     The Match is Renewing between the K of sweden & the K of denmarkes         
sister but some discurse that A marriage is Now proposed by the K of            
sweden with the lady Ann 2d Daughter to the d of yorke                          
     sr Richd Chiverton the Antientest Alderman of London is dead               
     The d of Brandenburgh very much stomachs the states Answer & is            
bringeing his forces Into A body & will have A better Reply                     
+They write from Hamburgh Dated sept 5th that there was Arrived In the          
Elbe 18 ships from Greenland with the product of 82 whales but 2 of those       
ships were falne Into the hands of some brandenburgh Capere for fear of         
whome some other of their Greenland ships are put In at Amsterdam & have        
permission there to melt their Oyles                                            
+All danger of his Matys distemper is In all probability over & he holds        
his Resolution for Newmarket                                                    
     L. c. 832     sept 8th 1679                                                
  London sept 6th 1679                                                          
+His Maty is perfectly recovered of his Indisposition & was yesterday at        
Tennis & the other day tooke severall Turnes In the Parke & is very             
Chearefull                                                                      
    Wee have this ffurther account of Elections                                 
Middlesex sr Robt Payton sr Wm Roberts                                          
Worcester sr ffran: Winnington mr street                                        
Norwich Ld Padson Alderman Bridges                                              
southampton County Ld Russell sr ffran Rolls                                    
Rye sr Jo: Dorrell Tho: ffreeman Esqr                                           
Christchurch sr Tho: Clargis mr Banks                                           
Aldbrough suffolke mr Bence mr Currance                                         
Halsemore surrey sr Wm Moor mr dunslow                                          
Ilchester mr stroude mr speake                                                  
Lestithiell sr Jo: Cary Waller Kendall Esqr                                     
West Loo Coll Trelawny mr Trelawny                                              
East Loo sr Jonathan Trelawny  Hen seymour Esqr                                 
Lancester sr Hugh piper mr Coriton                                              
Bodmin mr Roberts mr Glenn                                                      
ffoy sr Jonathan Rasliley & Jo Trefry Esqr                                      
Tregony mr Boscomen mr Trevanian                                                
st Ives mr Nosworthy mr Nosworthy ffather & son                                 
Rutlandshire sr Abell Barker since dead mr sharrads                             
+Last Tuesday mr samuell Pepis was at Windsor to Kisse his Matys hand           
who was told by the ld Chamberlain he wondered he should presume to             
Come to Court before he had Cleared himselfe being Charged with Treason         
who Replyed that he Doubted not next Tearme when his tryall Comes on            
to make his Innocency appear as clear as the sun at Noon day & soe              
parted but by faivour of some Courtiers was brought Into his Matys              
presence but his Maty Turned from him with A ffrowne sheweing his               
great dislike at his appeareing there                                           
     The d of Munmouth being last Wednesday Hunting A stagg In Windsor          
fforrest & In Close pursuite the stagg being brought to A Bay he lept           
over A Hedge with A drawne sword In his hand but there being A ditch on         
the other side his horse fell with him & In the fall the sword ran              
through the horses Necke that he dyed & the duke hardly Escaped the             
stagg which made at him                                                         
     mr child hath paid his fine for sheriffe & yesterday was Chosen            
sr Jeremy snow dr Goldsmith & Banker In Lumberd street                          
+Letters from Marselles say the ship 2 Brothers William Carter Master An        
Interloper bound for Guyney was Carryed to Algeir also the ship Centurion       
& one from Kingsale & one from England  Those 2 last bound for Rochelle &       
one from stockton to Bayonne & the next letters will give account of More       
     The william & samuell Mentioned In my last was A New ship of 26            
Guns bound from Amsterdam to Cadiz & is the ship formerly mentioned to          
be An East India ship blowne up In ffight, who being Attacked by the            
Algerines Cleared her selfe & upon A 2d Attacke blew up & lost 22 men by        
that accedent & It Cannot be immagined how it Came Except the Gunner            
heareing the Turks Cry quarter thought it had been his owne men & did it        
Rather then to be taken                                                         
     Letters from scotland of the 22d August say that there hath been A         
very Terrible Earthquake which began abt Lithgow bridge & Continued 18          
miles till A little beyond ffalkerke That It had Mouldred 2 Greate Hills        
& divers Colepitts were fallen In & had done Greate hurt on the other           
side of the River &c                                                            
+Also that the Lady Christian Hamilton had Killed her uncle the Ld              
fforrester with his owne sword & was Condemned to be beheaded but some          
write that it was done In her owne defence & it was hoped his Matys             
mercy would Interpose in her behalfe                                            
     Yesterday mr ffox steward to the d of Norfolke was seen by some            
workemen to take up out of the Ground belongeing to Arrundell house A           
greate quantity of Gold & severall letters soe he is Committed to prison        
& the papers secured till the sitting of the Parliamt they haveing Relation     
to the plott  sr wm Waller hath seized abt 1500 popish books In Holbourne       
some are In answer to the Answer of the 5 Jesuitts The New plott mr             
Langhornes memoires &c                                                          
      Tis said the d of Ormond will Come over before the Parliamt & Ld          
hallifax goe In his Roome                                                       
     Most of the Courtiers have been to waite upon his R H & to Kisse           
his hand his R H Refuseing it now save [?] sr Tho Armstrong from whome he       
Turned away suddenly & lookd not at him                                         
+The dukes Lodgings are prepareing at Windsor & st Jameses & the dutchesse      
is Exspected & Tis surmized the Duke will not Returne                           
     L. c. 833      [no date at top]                                            
  London Sept 9th 1679                                                          
  +His Maty Blessed be god Continues very well at Windsor & Intends for         
Newmarket on the 20th instant                                                   
     Yesterday Came out In print A New pamphlet Called the Domesticke           
Inteligence In which were these words                                           
     On Thursday last the Citty Deputed sr George Jeffries to Goe to            
Windsor to Complemt his R highnese upon his safe Arrivall                       
     sr Thomas Player Attended by some Considerable Citizens waited on          
the Ld Maior & Court of Aldermen & haveing the Printed Paper In his             
hand delivered himselfe In very Apt Expressions Reflecting on the               
Danger the Citty was In & desired their Continuall Care over it Adding          
that he & the Citizens with him desired to Know if his Ldpp had ordered         
sr George Jeffries to goe to Windsor as In that Printed paper was               
Exprest which his Ldpp disowned & then sent for sr George who told them         
he did goe to Windsor to pay his perticuler Respects but not by order           
from the Citty whereupon sr Thomas desired that the Author of the Libell        
might be taken Into Custody & punished according to the statute for             
printing false newes &c                                                         
     Letters from Paris of the 3d say that the peace between sweden &           
Denmarke is Concluded  The dane Keeps his pretensions to Hamburgh but           
Returnes all he has got of the five sweds to pay halfe toll in the              
sounds  The Inhabitants of schonen are Troubled to Come under the Crowne        
of sweden againe  The sweds reportedly will send them to ffinland lapland       
& Liefland & people schonen with others                                         
     They are makeing greate Preparations at Brussells for A day of             
Rejoyceing upon the late Marriage of their King which is Intended to            
be with greate magnificence                                                     
     Letters from spaine say the Galleons from the spanish West Indies          
are Come Into Cadiz without the New spaine ffleet  The Galleons have 22         
millions of peeces of 8 Registred upon the Merchants account & 900.000          
upon the Kings account the King is dayly Exspected where the King hath          
more upon his account                                                           
     This day In place of mr Jeremy snow who fined yesterday was Chosen         
mr Edward Lee one who fined 5 yeares since which fine if he hold will be        
Repaid out of the Chamber of London                                             
     They write from Coppenhagen sept 9th that the Kings ffleet hath            
mett with A most violent storme Attended with Thunder & Lightening Neer         
Bornholme by which one of their greatest ships Called the Northerne lyon        
Mounted with 84 brasse guns Commanded by Admirall Spaen was stranded &          
most of the men lost The Admirall himselfe hardly Escaping & lyes               
Dangerously sicke                                                               
     They write further from Paris that they heard advice that Mounsr           
dee Estrees was Arrived at Martinico In the West Indies whence after            
some stay he setts sayle for An Island In the gulph [of] Honduras which         
though at prsent unInhabited will prove A Considderable post for the            
designes the ffrench K hath In those parts, de Estrees Intended to be           
backe at Martinico the midst of october following                               
     At Brest are 4 men of warr more fitting out  2 Carry 80 guns & 2           
60 guns Each & also severall other ships fitting out at Rochfort but            
the designe not yet Knowne                                                      
     The Discourse is That the d of yorke will stay In England & that           
Coll Churchhill who Came over with him is sent to Paris to Complemt             
the new Married queen from whence he goes for Brussells to attend on            
the dutchesse & the Ladies Ann & Isabella who are shortly Exspected to          
Returne for England                                                             
     The peace is fully Concluded between the Malecontents In Hungary           
who shall have free Exersize of their Religion & all their Rights &             
priveledges Not before Enjoyed soe the Emperor being ffree on that side         
they are the better Enabled to defend themselves from the danger of the         
ffrench which Notwithstanding the peace seems to Threaten him strasburgh        
being In greate feares of the ffrench Army that head that way with some         
seeming pretences to see the Bp of strasburgh setled In his Right               
     The Citty of London being under many feares & Jealousies the               
Leiftenancy are ordered to meet to morrow In order to the Doubling              
of their guards                                                                 
 [Some words and figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]          
     L. c. 834     sept 11th 1679                                               
     [This letter is an almost exact copy of most of L. c. 833.]                
     L. c. 835    sept 13th 1679                                                
  London 11th sept 1679                                                         
+Yesterday began the Election at Westminster where stood sr Wm Waller sr        
Wm Poultney sr Phillip Mathews sr Jo: Cutler & mr Withers A Councellor  The     
severall Parties horse & ffoot Appeared In most Parts of the Cittie & at        
last drew Into Tuthill ffeilds Into their severall Bodies & In view of sr       
Wm Waller had two to one agt all & next him sr Wm Poultney  There were          
severe Reflections throwne on all 4 by Each opposite Party, They                
adjourned Into Westminster hall & began to Pole but the people were soe         
Rude that they broke In upon them soe they adjourned the Poll till this         
morning & are Polling In good order  Its thought the Poll will last 4 or        
5 dayes but that the 2 first will Carry it                                      
     Wee have this further account of Elections                                 
Worcestershire Thomas ffoley & smith sands Esqr                                 
Knaresbrough sr Tho: slingsby & Thomas stockdale Esqr                           
Hull sr Mich Wharton & Tho: Gee Esqr                                            
Kent sr Vere ffane & Coll deering                                               
Herefordshire Ld scudamore & sr Herbert Crofts                                  
Hereford Bidstocke Harford & Paull ffoley Esqrs                                 
Bridgnorth sr Tho: Whitmore & sr Wm Whitmore                                    
st Michaells sr Jo: st Aubin & Hen Burlace Esqr                                 
Weebley Coll Jo: Burch & Capt Booth                                             
     His Maty is displeased at the Carriage of the Borough of Windsor In        
the mannagement of their late Election                                          
     The Kings Maty is very well & there is at Windsor A greate Court           
since the dukes Arrivall                                                        
     The Lieftenancy of London upon A meeting apprehending noe grounds          
to Alter the guards have ordered them to be Continued only 2 companies          
Every night as it hath been lately but the Constables of Every ward             
haveing been summoned before the Ld Maior he gave them A strict Charge to       
Keep up their full number of Watchmen                                           
     There is A proclamation Come forth dated at Windsor the 8th Instant        
Commanding Capt Levalley Carnay, Brahall & James Wilson to surrender            
themselves before the 20th of october there haveing been Information            
given upon oath by which there is Just Cause to suspect them to be the 4        
persons Contracted with to assassinate his Maty at Windsor                      
+His Maty promises 100 L to any that shall discover any one of them & if        
they shall Come In to Render themselves, Confesse & discover he will            
pardon him or them for their owne offence                                       
     ffrom fforreign Parts wee have advice that upon Advice of A greate         
defeate the Turks had Recd of the Muscovites the Grand seignor was soe          
Enraged at the Grand Vizier that he would have Immediately beheaded him         
but the mignon [?] Interposeing prevented him                                   
     They write from Naples that there is A scarsity of all manner of           
provisions The Haile & Wind haveing spoyled their vineyards & the Bandits       
are soe Numerous that the people are afraide to goe out of their houses         
to looke after their Corne                                                      
     Also In scicily 400 desperate Messineses Ravageing up & downe the          
Countrey have Killed the Comissaries & doe at prsent prevent any                
provisions being brought to Messina by land soe that they have noe              
other provision then what Comes from Calabria                                   
     They write from Paris that upon Approval of the M: de Humeries             
with the ffrench Army neer strasburgh that Citty sent to Paris 4 of their       
Principall Members to begg his Maty to passe by all that had happened In        
the late warr & to Remaine their ffreinds  how acceptable this submission       
may be is not yet Knowne most beleeveing his Maty hath A Reall designe          
agt that Citty which good words alone will not di[vert?]                        
     They write from the Hague that the P of O[range] has been in the           
Assembly of the states of Holland & Goes for Breda to meet the Princesse        
Mounsr Troupe Capt of his Highness horse guards is dead & soe is the Heer       
Ailour Lieft Genll & Admirall of West ffreizland & P Manore [?] hath been       
dangerously ill but he is now much better                                       
     There are Greate Preparations at Newmarkett for Reception of his           
Maty who is Exspected there the 20th [?] Instant & tis said the duke of         
yorke will attend him                                                           
     Tis now the Conjecture of the Best Inteligences that notwithstanding       
all Reports to the Contrary his R Highness will depart from England In A        
few dayes                                                                       
     L. c. 836     sept 15th 1679                                               
  London sept 13th [?] 1679                                                     
+Yesterday very strange & surprizeing Newes Came from Windsor That his          
Maty was pleased to order the d of Munmouth to depart the 3 Kingdoms the        
Reasons whereof are soe variously Reported that wee forbear to give             
account thereof as yet  The Duke hath Already Begun to Pack up his goods        
at Windsor & at the Cockpitt In order as It is said to goe to Hambrough         
A yatcht being prepared for that purpose, His Maty hath likewise taken          
away all his Commissions yet Its hoped that before his Departure some           
Mitigation may be found through the Intercession of some Greate persons         
The said duke being gone this morning to Windsor some say by order of his       
Maty  what the Issue will be is much Exspected  the people are generally        
troubled at it                                                                  
     Order is also given that sr Tho: Armstrong be bannished the Kings          
prsence & the Court forever                                                     
     His R Highnese as tis said Intends for fflanders within A weeke or         
ffortnight at ffarthest soe doth not accompany his Maty to Newmarket            
The Ld President at his goeing Into the Countrey & at his Returne was           
guarded with 30 men well Mounted & Armed to prevent any designes that           
might be attempted upon him by the papists                                      
     In Ghent Newes was brought that o[u]r King was Certainly dead              
whereupon severall ffamilies of Papists were prepareing to Come over            
but Comeing to take shipping their Expectation was ffrustrated by               
Contrary Advice                                                                 
     Wee have this ffurther account of Elections                                
Lesthard [?] sr Jonathan Trelawny John Butler Esqr                              
Devonshire sr wm Courtney & mr Rolls                                            
Clithero sr Ralph Aston sr Tho: stringer                                        
Lincolneshire Ld Castleton sr Robt Carr                                         
Boston sr Anthony Jerby sr Wm Ellis                                             
Grimsly wm Broxholme George Pelham Esqrs                                        
Retford sr Wm Nevill sr Wm Hickman                                              
Wells Edward Berkely Wm Coward Esqrs                                            
Drotwich Hen: Coventry samll sands Esqrs                                        
Beverley sr Jo: Hotham & Michaell Wharton Esqr                                  
Downton sr Jos: Ash Maurice Bucklam Esqr                                        
Lime Thomas Moor Henery Henley Esqrs                                            
Corsecastle sr Nath Napier Nath Bond Esqr                                       
Andover sr Robt Henley Jo: Pawlett Esqre                                        
Newport In Wight sr Robt dillington Jo: Lee Esqr                                
Bristoll sr Jo: Knight sr Robt Cann                                             
     mr Edmund Lee haveing sworne himselfe off they have Chosen for             
sheriffe mr simon Lewes of London Linnen draper  there were many for mr         
Jenks A linnen draper but upon the Poll mr Lewes & had the most voyces          
     This day at the Common Councill to Chose A New sheriffe sr Thomas          
Player made Another Patheticke speech Recounting many things past               
Relating to the Plott & the prsent dangers new threatening the Citty &          
therefore prayed the guards might be doubled & greate Care taken  the           
Ld Maior hath promised to Call the Lieftenancy againe on Thursday next          
     They are still Polling for Westminster & tis said will not have            
done till the latter End of Next Weeke                                          
     Letters from Coppenhagen of the 12th say that King is sending forth        
12 men of Warr Into the River Elbe to stop all ships passing that River         
to or ffrom Hamburgh & by letters from Hamburgh of the 18th wee understand      
they are much concerned & Apprehend themselves In danger & are provideing       
for their defence In makeing New ffortifications & Raiseing horse               
          Untill the peace Can be Actually Concluded betwixt sweden &           
denmarke they have agreed upon A Cessation of Armes upon severall               
Articles to continue till the Consumation be Compleated at schonen              
     Letters of the 21th Instant from strasburgh say that the ffrench           
Intendant In Alsatia ordered the Cheife Inhabitants of the Cittyes in           
that Province to Repaire to Paris & there take an Oath of Alleigance to         
that King                                                                       
          Also that the ffrench are abt to beseige Binch & Hamburgh             
(all left unconquered In Lorraine) & when taken to demolish them,               
   Jennisons Narrative of the plott is now printed & Next weeke will be         
published                                                                       
+Its discoursed as if 6 greate persons were In the Kings disfaivour             
   [Outside of letter is almost covered with figures in another hand.]          
     L. c. 837     sept 18th 1679                                               
  London sept 16th 1679                                                         
  +The discourse of the Towne hath been these 5 dayes upon the d of             
Munmouth In Relation to the Circumstances he Lyes under at prsent with          
which the people seem generally Concerned wishing him all the Happiness         
that may be & Indeed he seems now more Popular then formerly                    
     Various are the Reports Concerning him  that which seems to Come           
Neerest Truth is that his Maty had Information that In his late                 
sickness divers persons had conference with that duke upon Matters              
(which he seemed to Indulge) much displeasing him & he Immediately sent         
for the Duke where after some discourse his Maty Commanded his                  
Commissions from him & he to withdraw out of the Kingdome which he Recd         
with an obedient submission & Came home that Night being Thursday to the        
Cockpitt & next day was vissitted by most persons of quality In Towne           
     On satureday morning he went with his Patent of Capt Genll & his           
other Comissions to his Maty to whome he Tendred them all                       
     His Maty tooke that of Capt Genll from him saying that Power he            
would Reserve In himselfe alone but Commanded him to Keep the Rest &            
haveing been 2 houres In the prsence he Came hither againe that night           
     yesterday morning his Maty sent for him againe from whence he              
Returned last night  tis said he saw not his Maty but Recd orders from          
him to dispatch with all speed posible out of the Kingdoms soe that he          
will be gone for Hamburgh In A few dayes & tis said his R Highs will            
soon follow but will not goe before him  But this day An Extrary Councill       
is sumoned which tis said is to debate whether his R Highness shall             
Returne or Continue here                                                        
     Upon false niewes that Came from Windsor on sunday night that the d        
of Munmouth was not to goe beyond sea the bells of sr Margaretts Runge &        
Bonefires were made                                                             
     Tis said the d of Munmouths offices will be Executed by deputies he        
haveing little else besides his dutchesses Estate In scotland to support        
him                                                                             
+Wee have this ffurther account of elections                                    
Chichester major Branam Jo: fferington Esqr                                     
Dunwich sr Robt Kempt sr Phillip shippall                                       
Lancashire Ld Brandon sr Charles Houghton                                       
Lancaster Coll Kerby Wm spinman Esqr                                            
Glamorganshire Buscy Mannsell                                                   
Yorke sr Jo: Newley sr Henery Thompson                                          
Burrowbridge sr Jo: Brooke sr Tho: Maleveron                                    
     They are still Polling at Westminster                                      
     Yesterday at 6 In the morning the Ld Maior & Aldermen In their             
scarlet Gownes In Coaches set forward for Windsor where they were Conducted     
Into his Matys presence the ld Maior makeing A speech to this Effect            
     That he was Come with the aldermen his Bretheren In the name of all        
the Citty to Congratulate his safe Recovery which they prayed might be          
Continued to the Lengh of dayes soe as to governe his people In the             
serenity of Govermt which he had Exersized over them & In the                   
Maintenance of the True protestant Religion, His Maty thanked them &            
the Cittyzens they Represented for them their vissitt & prayer adding           
that he would defend & maintaine them In their Just priveledges &               
liberties & defend the Protestant Religion with his life & also Charged         
them to be Carefull of the Citty, After which they Kissed his Matys hand        
his R: Highs being all this time at his Matys Elbow They offered to Kisse       
his hand also but his Highness Refused them whilst his Maty was there but       
afterwards all of them Kissed his Hand Except one after which haveing           
Refreshed themselves they Returned home by 9 A Clocke the same night            
        The ffrench K hath given order to all his merchants to Entertaine       
A 3d part more men aboard their vessells & he will pay them to the End          
he may have seaman Enough brought up to serve upon occasion                     
     A pardon is depending at the signet office to be passed for the d of       
Lauderdale                                                                      
+His Maty & the whole Court Comes to Towne to morrow & Goes In A day or         
two to Newmarkett                                                               
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 838     sept 20th 1679                                               
  London 18th sept 1679                                                         
+Yesterday mr John smith late A Romish Preist & perticularly to old mr          
Jennisons family was before the Councill & his depositions taken by mr          
Justice Warcup Read, all which he owned  The Ld Chancellor asked him if         
those depositions Contayned all he had to say  he Answered In the Negative      
saying his Maty haveing by A perticuler messenger Commanded him up so he        
had Reserved something more of very Greate Moment which he Craved Leave         
to Communicate to his Maty alone which he doubted not but would give his        
Maty good satisfaction upon which they Replyed that his Request was modest      
& his Maty should be acquainted therewith                                       
  mr Jennisons depositions are in Print being 12 sheets  Last Evening his       
Maty Returned to whitehall                                                      
     There is A Report that the E of sunderland one of the secretaries of       
state hath delivered to his Maty some papers which In an Extrary manner         
Relate to the ffurther discovery of the Plott & persons Concerned therein       
     One Talbott A great Jesuite who hath been long Concerned In the            
Plott being A prisoner In Ireland is lately bayled out & is gone for            
ffrance                                                                         
     Two or 3 Jesuitts are lately brought into Newgate & will suddenly          
Receive their tryall                                                            
     The Report that all the aldermen Kissed the dukes hand At Windsor          
proves A mistake for the Ld Maior sr Tho Allen sr Robt Clayton sr Patience      
Ward Alderman Moor sr Wm Pritchard Ald smith & sr Richd How did not             
     But sr Wm Turner sr George Waterman sr Robt Hanson sr Robt Viner sr        
Robt Chaplin sr Jos shelden sr Robt Jeffries sr Jo: Peake & sr Chapman          
Kissed his hand                                                                 
     They are still Polling at Westminster  the Election for southwerke         
is next Wednesday & for London the 6th october                                  
     serjt Barnell who was Chosen for Rochester being dead A new writt is       
ordered to Choose another                                                       
   mr Lyman Lewes last Chose sheriffe stands                                    
     Tis very much discoursed that sr stephen ffox will be make Ld              
Treasurer                                                                       
     Wee have advice by Venice that on the 29th August last there Arose A       
most Terrible Hurricane In Germany which blew up severall people which were     
Moweing & Carts laden with hay & the oxen Into the Aire Overturning many        
Pallaces & howses from the very ffoundations bloweing the Bells out of the      
steephill A good distance off Carrying all the Materialls of the Pallaces       
&c Into the Aire Wounding & Killing many persons & destroying many Cattle       
The Aire was filled with peeces of Walls Timber boards Trees Men Women          
Children Cattle vessells & Whatever Esle stood In its passage                   
     This very same day was the Earthquake In scotland & much harme Done        
In England by Thunder & Lightening                                              
     Our Letters from strasburgh say that the ffrench have taken Hauberge       
& Binche which was all Remaining to the D of Lorraine of all his Countrey       
     Our letters from Italy say those princes have Joyntly offered A            
greater summe of Money to the D of Mantua not to Part with Cassall then         
the ffrench K is to give for it but o[u]r ffrench letters tell us that          
it was As good as Concluded that the ffrench K should have it                   
     Letters from hamburgh of the 19th Instant say That they had Recd           
Newes of A greate Rebellion Contrived at Mosco agt the Czar wherein many        
Clergy men & Noblemen were Concerned                                            
+This day A greate foot Race was Run from London to Barnet between              
Whipping Tom & Bullen Tom got the Prize  There is A pardon ordered for          
the d of Lauderdale with the Word Raptum [?] Inserted therein                   
     This day the Lieftenancy mett abt doubling the guards but sr Tho:          
Player not being there nothing was done  The d of munmouth hath summoned        
In all persons who have any demand of money upon him & his stewards are         
paying them off, The hamburgh merchants have sent to his grace to accept        
of their Councill house which he thankfully accepted, Tis thought he will       
goe from Hence on Munday for Hamburgh & thence for Berlin the Court of          
the Elector of Brandenburgh & when he is gone tis said the d of yorke           
will soon follow but not before                                                 
     This morning his Maty was In A Comtee of the Privy Councill where it       
was ordered that A greate Councill should be Called to morrow abt               
Enquireing Into the discovery of A new plott or the Carrying on of the          
old one                                                                         
     L. c. 839     sept 22d 1679                                                
  London sept 20th 1679                                                         
+His Matye looks very well yet Walkeing out yesterday morning Early Into        
the parke found the Aire Cold which made him Returne Ere he got to the          
Pall Mall  yesterday his Matys Phisitians were Called before the Councill       
to give their opinions abt his Matys Intended Journey to Newmarkett which       
they did Conclude was not safe for him upon which Its put off for 10            
dayes when Its thought It will be put off wholly the Cold Aire                  
strengthening Every day more & more                                             
     This day his Maty went to Woollidge to see A ship lately Launched          
there & Returned                                                                
     The d of Munmouth is frequently with his Maty & there appeares             
Countenances as formerly betwixt them by which tis supposed his Matye is        
not soe much displeased as he is Rendred by some to be but Rather some          
Reason of state which to the Wisdome of his Matye seems Convenient to           
Commend his withdrawing at prsent & on Wednesday next he goes for Utricht       
In Holland the Place formerly mentioned being thought not soe Convenient        
     The d of yorkes voyage to Brussells holds also & that he will take         
his Children with him                                                           
     Wee have this further account of Elections                                 
Cheshire sr Robt Cotton henery Booth Esqr                                       
Cornwall sr Richd Edgecombe ffrancis Roberts Esqr                               
Plimouth sr Jo: Maynard mr sparks                                               
Lincolneshire sr Wm Ellis sr Jo: Newton                                         
Dorchester ffran: Hollis Nich Gold Esqrs                                        
shaftesbury mr Merry mr stringer                                                
Milburne Jo: Hunt Henery Butler Esqrs                                           
Beer Alston sr Jo: Trevor sr Wm Bastard                                         
Cricklade hungerford Dunch & Edm: Webb Esqrs                                    
Monmoth shire sr Jo: Wynn                                                       
Pembrooke shire sr Hugh Owen                                                    
Pembrooke Arthur Owen Esqr                                                      
Haverford west Tho: Owen Esqr                                                   
Denbigh shire sr Tho: Middleton                                                 
     They have done Polling at Westminster  sr Wm Poultney & mr Wilkins         
are Returned members which was proclaimed this night at Temple Barr &c          
sr Wm Waller lost it by 105 votes                                               
     The D of Lauderdales Pardon is for all Crimes until the 30th of            
August last                                                                     
     There are 5 or 6 more pardons passing by which It seemes A thing out       
of question that the Parliamt will sit at the time                              
     Our last letters from Paris say that the ffrench K was makeing greate      
preparations for some Greate designe haveing made 50000 Bombes of 300 lb        
weight & hath likewise at worke 200 Carpinders to make small Bridges to         
Carry Waggons over Rivers as also 80 boates laden with shovells Pickaxes        
spades for seiges &c  his designe is Judged agt Italy                           
     Richard Talbott was to have been generall of the papist forces In          
Ireland & got his liberty there upon 30000 L Bayle & is fled Into ffrance       
     The Lady maynard Dyed this weeke                                           
     Wee have Advice that the Bilboa Merchant A small vessell of 80 tuns        
is taken by the Turks but the men Escaped In their long Boate                   
+Here is published A Booke Conteyning 9 sheets Called A discourse of the        
Peerage & Jurisdiction of the Lds spirituall In Parliamt Endeavouring to        
prove that they have noe Right to Claime any Jurisdiction for Capitall          
matters In Answer to A booke Affirmeing the Contrary                            
     The Councill have taken notice of 2 Books that are lately printed          
to Confute the plott one Entituled the summary of the Plott & the other         
some queries to the Protestants                                                 
+yesterday mr John smith was according to his Request In private with           
his Matye Neer 2 houres  at his takeing leave his Matye Commanded sr            
Thomas Doberman to take perticuler Care that A perticuler pardon as large       
& Ample as his Matye Could give should be forthwith prepared for him            
Notwithstanding he was Inserted In mr Jennisons pardon before  His Matye        
was observed to say to mr smith that something he had Imparted was new to       
him & he would take Care he should be safe In his person & liberty              
     [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 840     sept 25th 1679                                               
  London sept 23d 1679                                                          
+There hath been A Rumour abt the Towne that divers warrants were Issued        
out to seize severall persons of greate quality but Its altogather false        
     On sunday last his Matyes Phisitians were Called againe Into               
Councill where they gave their opinions againe Concerning his Matyes            
Intentions of Going to Newmarkett Notwithstanding their Advice  his Matye       
finds himselfe soe well that he has taken A Resolution to goe with the          
queen & d of yorke to Newmarket on Thursday or ffriday next at furthest         
        Yesterday most of the D of Munmouths Baggage was shipt for              
Holland & to morrow at 2 A Clocke he setts forward himselfe  he hath been       
frequently In his Matyes presence & hath his Pardon granted him for all         
Crimes till the 13th sept It being usuall for all greate persons when           
they leave their places to have their pardons                                   
     Tis said sr Wm Waller Intends to petition upon the Election of             
Westminster & pretends to make out severall Irregularities Especially           
that of the Courtiers Polling but the Deputies say they Exceeded not            
above 40 more & if the queries had been ballanced on both sides he              
would have made A generall Returne                                              
     There was Chosen for shaftesbury sr Mathew Andrews & Tho: Bennet           
Esqr & not mr Merry & mr stringer as was said                                   
+for Taunton sr Jo Cutler & John Trenchard Esqr                                 
     The Election for the County of yorke began 8 dayes since where             
stands the Ld Clifford the Ld ffairfax & sr Jo: Key of which wee have           
yet noe account                                                                 
     They write from stetin of the 11th Instant that the D of Brandenburgh      
hath obliged that Citty to pay him 18000 Rix dollars within 3 months &          
hath sent away all the Cannon & Ammunition &c out of that Citty to              
Calstrin [?]                                                                    
     Also that A Dragoon there being found dead Drunke In the street            
was buried but was heard to make A most Hideous Noise upon which he             
was taken up but he only sighed 2 or 3 times & died he haveing Beaten           
himselfe even to Death In the Coffin which was full of blood & had              
beaten all the fflesh off his hands                                             
     Letters of the l9th from Coppenhagen say that one of their men of          
Warr Called the Linx was by an accedent burnt & that there had been 2           
dayes before A fire at Landscroone which they had suspition was done            
by Treachery                                                                    
     They write from fflushen of the 22d Instant that their vice Admirall       
Cornelius Evertson is dead                                                      
     They write from Hamburgh of the 22d Instant that they are not A            
little Concerned at the Daneish ships which lye In the Elbe                     
     One mr sergeant A secular Preist who hath writt severall books agt         
dr stillingfleet hath sent A letter to the E of sunderland That to his          
Knowledg the 5 Jesuitts last Executed vizt Whitebread Gaven &c died             
deservedly Notwithstanding their Equivocating speeches & that they              
Intended the destruction of his Matyes person & subversion of the               
govermt & this he is willing to make manifest if he may have his Pardon         
    Also one harris with some others have proffered to make A discovery         
to the same purpose                                                             
   mr Jennison the Jesuite (Elder brother to mr Jennison of Graies              
Inne that made the late discovery) died last ffriday night In Newgate           
Though the Coroners Enquest found it A naturall death yet by Reason of          
his Dyeing mad which is attested by severall it is Concluded he had             
taken A large dose of Opium                                                     
        To morrow is the generall day of Mustereing & Exersizeing the           
Artillery Company                                                               
     Wee have Advice from the streights that the ffrench Ambr was on his        
way to Constantinople to settle A greate Concerne In that Part.                 
     L. c. 841     sept 27th 1679                                               
  London 28th sept 1679                                                         
  +Yesterday the d of Munmouth paid his willing obedience to his Matyes         
Commands In Retireing beyond seas, After dinner he tooke leave of most          
persons of honour at Court (vizt of the d of yorke & P Rupert between him       
& the latter was Exprest greate Reallity of Love) & was attended with abt       
100 gentlemen to take leave of his Matye who was then In Allington Garden       
& Approacheing on his Bended Knee his Maty most Affectionately Embraced &       
Kissed him demonstrating all posible Kindness of A Royall ffather & the         
d noe less of A princely son  Last of all he tooke leave of his Dutchesse       
his Maty Not suffering her or her Children to accompany him which Its           
beleeved was some trouble to them  And abt 5 In the afternoon he tooke          
barge at the Privy staires Accompanied with sr Thomas Armstrong (who Its        
thought will soon Returne) Coll Godfrey Capt Langston dr Deerin An              
Eminent Divine mr vernon his seccretary & abt 4 gentlemen more & his            
domesticks & Intends to land at the Brill & from thence to Utrecht to A         
house of P: Ruperts  At his departure mr Oates Complemented him with this       
Expression that he Caryed with him the hearts of Above 100000 of his            
Matyes protestant subjects wishing him A healthfull & prosperous voyage &       
prayeing A safe Returne                                                         
     This morning between 10 & 11 A Clocke the d of yorke tooke water at        
the Privy staires In order for fflanders  he went on board the yatcht at        
Greenwich where the Comrs of the Navy waited to take their leave of him         
   To Morrow morning Early their Matyes goe for Newmarkett where they           
Intend to stay abt 14 dayes which is said to be the Reason that the             
Parliamt is Prorogued till the 30th october next                                
     Wee have this further account of Elections                                 
Munmothshire sr Trevor Williams Wm Morgan Esqr                                  
Munmoth Ld Herbert of Ragland                                                   
Leinster Tho Connisby Jo Duttencoult Esqrs                                      
Ashburton Tho: Reynolds Rich Duke Junior Esqrs                                  
Truro Wm Boscomen Edw Boscomen Esqrs                                            
Newport Ambrose Morriton Wm Contor Esqrs                                        
     The Election for southwerke is put off till wednesday                      
      There is A double Returne for Penrin  The Aldermen have Chosen sr         
Nicholas slanning & Charles smith Esqr & the Commoners ffrancis Bellasis        
& Rich vernon Esqrs                                                             
     They write from Mosco August 12th that the Polish Ambr has Recd his        
Audience of the Czar by which It appeares they have A designe to joyne          
with the Turks unless the Czar will grant them these following conditions       
1 To Restore smollensko to them with all its dependancies  2 to provide         
severall Considderable summes of Money for the Maintenance of their             
Respective Armies  3 That the Muscovites shall Raise & maintaine A              
Certain Number of Infantry of their owne to Joyne with the Poles as             
occasion Requires & that the K of Poland will Command them In person            
with some other Considderations not yet Knowne                                  
     Yesterday was held A Councill at Whitehall where they took Into            
Considderation severall Matters Relating to the Plott & sent for one            
Turner A bookseller In Holborne who vended severall popish books                
Especially one Entitled A Compendium of the Popish Plott Endeavouring           
wholly to Nullify it being Cheifly A Compendium of the Remarks of the           
severall tryalls & at the End declares without Reason agt the Bp of             
Lincolnes books soe they Committed him to Newgate                               
     The spanish Ambr being not at Wild house some Justices of Peace shut       
up the Chappell that Masse should not be said there But the spanish Ambr        
Complaining & promiseing to Returne has prevailed to have it opened             
     The ld Lumley of Ireland A Roman Catholicke haveing Embraced the           
Protestant Religion is for some secret Eminent service made A Baron             
of England & his patent ordered to be drawne                                    
     mr smith the Preist haveing made A very Considderable discovery is         
about writeing some Maximes of the Papists for being at Rome he was             
Keeper of the Conclaves secret books & Methods of destroyeing the               
Protestant Religion soe he had the oppertunity of takeing some notes            
which he will publish togather with his discovery which tis thought will        
prove an Excellent peece                                                        
     L. c. 842     sept 29th 1679                                               
  London sept 27th 1679                                                         
+Yesterday morning at 3 A Clocke his Matye went for Newmarkett & An houre       
after the queen followed  they dined at Andley End & Abt 3 A Clocke his         
Matye Arrived At Newmarkett Intending to stay there Abt 20 Dayes                
     Tis said the Munday before the d of Munmouths departure the dutchesse      
went to his Maty to Know of him whether shee might goe Alonge with the          
duke  his Matye said shee should not goe                                        
     The dutchesse breakeing out Into A passion said shee would goe with        
him or to her birthright at which the King being Angry said you shall not       
goe soe shee went home & Its said shee is sicke & Keeps her Bed on his          
Matyes displeasure                                                              
     Our last letters from India Advise that the ffrench with some ships        
had taken Menbo & It was discoursed that the Portugalls were Abt putting        
Goa Into their hands which if soe may prove A matter of very ill                
Consequence to our trade In those parts                                         
+Wee have this further account of Elections                                     
fflintshire Mutton davies Esqr                                                  
fflint Coll Roger Whitley Esqr                                                  
     Letters from Cadiz say that the Galleons have not brought Effects          
suitable to the Exspectations of the persons Concerned by Reason 50 or 60       
vessells have been privately tradeing In those parts                            
     They had A good market for their linnen Bees wax & paper most other        
Merchandizes being worth little more In the Indies then they paid for           
them In Cadiz notwithstanding which they are Come Indiferently Rich             
haveing Aboard                                                                  
500 Camissas of verinas Tobacco                                                 
50000 Hides 800 Cases of Indico                                                 
500000 Charges of Coco 3000 Chests sugar                                        
17 millions of peeces of 8 In Barrs & money                                     
one milllion & halfe In plaite wrought up                                       
5 millions of Gold                                                              
2 millions & halfe In gold for the King                                         
300000 peeces of 8 upon account of persons dyeing In the voyage or at           
the Indies                                                                      
150000 peeces upon the holy sepulchre of Jerusalem all which was Entred         
Into the Custome house at the Indies                                            
+Besides all this there is A greate quantity of money & other Effects of        
which that Kings officers have seized 800000 peeces of 8 which the owners       
have since Compounded for                                                       
     Wee have advice that the sweds have lately made New demands which          
they are still treating abt & will not at prsent Ratify the treaty with         
the danes                                                                       
     The ffrench Commander at Wesell Evacuating that place has taken            
with him all the guns & Ammunition the d of Brandeburgh left there which        
is directly Contrary to the late treaty                                         
     The Ld Cheife Justice being lately Invited to dinner by A Councellor       
In the Citty as he was drinkeing A glass of wine he sollemnly protested         
that he did never Either directly or Indirectly Ever Receive any money on       
sr George Wakemans tryall or account but acted Clearly as his Conscience        
directed him                                                                    
     mr Bauldron that Informed Agt sr Tho Gascoine hath also Informed Agt       
sr Miles stapleton of yorkshire upon which sr Miles books & papers are          
seized but he is out upon bayle                                                 
     The discourse still Continues that mr sergeant the secular preist          
at Leyden will make A greate discovery being of that sect Amongst the           
Papists which are called Jansenists who have noe greate likeing to the          
Morralls of the Jesuitts  Letters are sent over to Invite him hither            
with such good offers as Its thought may prevaile with him to Come, They        
say his Right name is smith & that he is Related to mr John smith that          
was Preist to mr Jennisons family                                               
        There is likewise one mr Rookewood or Dulkewood of Heldeberge In        
Germany hath sent over his Memorialls Containing severall perticulars of        
the Management of the plott beyond sea                                          
+This Evening the E of shaftesbury Came from dorcetshire to his house In        
Aldersgate street In very good health                                           
     L. c. 843     October 2d 1679                                              
  London sept 30th 1679                                                         
  +This Morning his Matye & the Court were well at Newmarkett                   
     On the 26th the d of Munmouth Arrived at Roterdam & went for the           
Hague  Its said he will be here againe by the Parliamt & that his Matye         
bid his dutchesse not be troubled for her husband had been longer from          
her then he was now like to be                                                  
     There are 2 Instruments prepareing to passe the greate seale one to        
disable the d of Munmoth from acting by vertue of his late Commission The       
other for disabling the Ld Gerrand E of Maxfield from acting as his deputy      
     some say that the Prorogation of the Parliamt was In Exspectation of       
A strict alliance with the dutch                                                
     But the dutch letters tell us that after all their Bogling they are        
patching up A treaty with the ffrench that he may be their protector &          
that they will Rather take any Conditions then to be Exposed to soe many        
adversaries as at prsent have Just quarrells Agt them & that to gratify         
france they will Render Maastricht to them for the spaniards                    
+Letters from ffrance say that 8000 ffrench are on their March towards          
Truria being designed Agt Italy & that 15 protestant Churches were lately       
demolished & severall of their Minesters seized & that they are takeing         
away their universities                                                         
    Also that the Plague was got Into the ffrench Army In Alsatia & began       
to spread it selfe over all germany there dyeing at Vienna 400 p day            
    Also that the bridge there is very much spoyled by the late unusuall        
Raines                                                                          
     The 8 Dutch East Indian ships which departed from Batavia the 13th         
ffeb last have In their Cargo                                                   
2445551 of pepper     1087196 saltpetre                                         
5354370 of Nutmegs    686722 silke                                              
349895 Cloves         815211 Japan Copper                                       
371200 sinnamon       235042 siam Pewter                                        
89543 Mace               &c                                                     
The whole Cargo vallued at 1400000 L sterling                                   
     Yesterday according to Custome was the Choyce of Ld Maior & sr Robt        
Clayton was Chosen who haveing the gold Chaine put abt his shoulders made       
A most Excellent speech which Immediately the prsent ld maior Answered          
with another                                                                    
+Also the Recorder made A speech severely Reflecting on some late               
occurances In this Citty                                                        
     On ffriday last according to Custome mr Jonathan Raymund & mr              
simon Lewis our 2 new sheriffs were sworne & tooke their Charge                 
     By order of the Lieftenancy the guards of the Citty are doubled &          
5 Companies are to goe out Every night                                          
     His Matye hath Granted A Patent to John Bellings Esqr & to Richd           
Hubbins Chirurgeon for the sole makeing & vending of Normandy glass for         
14 yeares                                                                       
   dr Clarke Minester of shipney lately deceased gave all he had for            
Charitable uses giveing 300 L p Ann for small vicarages                         
   dr spratt succeeds dr Outram the minester of st margaretts Westminster       
+The Ld Culpepper is gone Governour of virginia                                 
+There hath been lately A greate fire at dantricke                              
     Letters from hamburgh say they Intend to send deputies to the K of         
denmarke if posible to accommodate matters but they are also makeing all        
provision for defence they Can haveing ordered the Bakers to Bake 9000 tuns     
of Corne  they pull downe houses & Cutt downe trees Abt the Citty & have        
1900 or 2000 men at worke dayly Abt the ffortifications but they more           
fear fireworks that may be throwne Into the Citty then the Daneish force        
     sr Peter Wych his Matyes Resident at Hamburgh hath given his maty an       
account of the K of Denmarkes Comeing In person with an Army within 5           
leagues of that Citty to beseige it                                             
   Also the Resident & the senate of the Citty have written to the              
hamburgh Company here upon which the Company is makeing application to his      
Maty who Its not doubted will Concerne himselfe for the preservation of         
his subjects who have In that Citty vast Estates in trade &c                    
     The ship Content bound for hambrough Richly laden sayling out of the       
River was stranded neer the Buoy In the Nore & the goods perished with          
her to the greate loss of that Company                                          
+Letters from scotland say that there is discovered & seized there 6000         
Armes & that Coll ffitz Patricke is fled for it                                 
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 844     October 4th 1679                                             
  London october 2d 1679                                                        
+Yesterday the Councill sate at Whitehall the Ld President being prsent         
where mr Oates mr Bedlow &c Reveiwed their former Complaints Agt severall       
persons & Complained of divers discouragemts they had mett with & at            
prsent lye under which they Recd A very obleigeing Answer  Also mr              
Justice Warcup gave Account of severall new discoveries                         
     The E of shaftesbury being at his Comeing to towne told that the           
Plott was dead Answered that if mr Oates & all the Witnesses Known were         
dead yet he Knew Enough to prove the plott  Its thought he hath one of          
the Ruffians who hath privately surrendred himselfe to him & will appear        
before the day appointed                                                        
     A person was observed to Come Into A Taverne last Tuesday night & A        
short time after mr Jenks & some other such men Came to him where they          
stayed till one or 2 In the morning In deep Consultation & the stranger         
is supposed to be the d of Buckingham                                           
     Our letters out of Buckinghamshire say that one Barton there has           
made oath That sr Richd Temple who is Chosen for Buckingham is A papist         
& that he did see him at Masse                                                  
     They have Chosen at Guildsford In surry Morgan Randolph & Richd            
Ounslow Esqrs                                                                   
     Yesterday the Election began for southwerke where sr Richd How & mr        
Richd stand Agt sr John shorter & mr smith  they are Polling In st              
Georges Church                                                                  
      Abt 30 highway men this weeke Robbed Bury Coach of severall               
Considderable summs of money                                                    
     The order for Doubling the Citty Guards being not yet put In               
Execution Tis thought may be deferred till the sitting of the parliamt          
     Wee just now hear that sr Wm Jones is laying downe his Patent of           
Atturney Genll & sr Jo Temple solicitter Genll of Ireland is to succeed         
him                                                                             
     The English East India Company have now finished their sailes which        
are Modestly Computed to Amount unto Neer 700000 L & have Appointed A           
Generall devidend of 40 L p Centum vizt 10d thereof as yesterday 20 L           
more this month & the other 10 L next month after which Every 100 L In          
storke will be worth 160p                                                       
+The E of yarmouth is made Ld Lieftenant of the County of Norfolke              
     Letters from scotland say the Councill have published A proclamation       
Dated 23d sept 1679 for secureing all Herretors & minesters who acted In        
the late Rebellion                                                              
     They write from Holland that those of Amsterdam & the Hague are soe        
Incensed at the late propositions made by his Matye for A Newer alliance        
with france that it was thought the Treaty for bringing us Into the             
guarranty would be let fall                                                     
     Our last ffrench letters say the ffrench K makes vast Preparations         
haveing ordered all his men of war to be Refitted & is formeing A New           
modell for Equipping new ones, Also he hath ordered an account to be            
taken of the names of all the seamen of his Kingdome & their Habitations        
& ordered the officers of his Ports to take account what seamen Goe             
aboard Each ship whither bound & when they Returne                              
    They further tell us that severall deputies were dayly sent to him          
to make Complaint of the greate pressures they lye under & beg for A            
mitigation but most of them had very Cold Answers & some were Returned          
without any at all                                                              
      The deputies of strasburgh have had Audience & tis said the K hath        
promised to forget all that is past as to the Bridge & assured them             
they need not have any fear for the future                                      
     One of the Dauphines Mistresses lyeing In Complained shee wanted           
money to support her grandeur  the Dauphine sent to A minester of state         
to desire 2000 Crownes who acquainting the K with it & for what use it          
was for ordered him to give the the Dauphine 4000 Crownes                       
     His Matye Continues In health at Newmarkett & he is Exspected at           
whitehall  some say next satureday but others say abt the middle of this        
month, The queen is Indisposed                                                  
          Just now wee hear that A Jesuite is taken there suspected to          
have A designe Agt his Matyes life & that he was had before his Matye,          
the Result wee Know not                                                         
     L. c. 845    October 6th 1679                                              
  London october 4th 1679                                                       
+Wee hear noe more of the Jesuite said to be taken at Newmarket Nor of          
sr Wm Jones laying downe his Commission soe suppose both to be false            
     His Matye Continues In health at Newmarket but his Returne is              
uncertain  The Hambrough Company Had audience of his Matye last wednesday       
who hath granted them A fitt Accomodation for the preservation of the           
English at that Citty                                                           
     His Matye is Resolved to Retrench the Expence of divers places &           
offices & had Commanded all his horses In the Moores [?] (Excepting 2 set       
of Coach horses) to be forthwith disposed of & Its said that most of them       
are bought up for the use of the ffrench K,                                     
     Our Holland letters tell us that his Matys Ambrs at the Hague had          
soe far Prevailed that they had Concluded the Guarranty for defence of          
fflanders & has pitched upon the Number of forces Each party was to             
maintaine but while they were In Consultation the ffrench Ambr demanded         
Audience & very boldly spake Agt it with some threatening words telling         
them this treaty with England was Inconsistant to that with his master &        
would Inevitably beget A warr by Reason it was Expresly Agt the last            
article of the peace betwixt the states & ffrance, which wished the             
states to Reassemble who after A long debate became soe Coole that Its          
beleeved they will make noe further alliance with Either of the Kingdoms        
     Tis said the d of Munmouth Intended to leave the Hague & visitt some       
of the German princes                                                           
     The ffrench K hath by publicke Edict Commanded all his sea officers        
Not to strike sayle to any whatsoever which has been proclaimed at Paris        
& at his Maritime townes &c                                                     
     They are still Polling In southwerke                                       
     There is A booke Come forth writt by one mr Petty price 2 s 6 d            
proveing by undeniable Testimony that the Commons of England are an             
Essentiall part of the govermt                                                  
     The Councill have been very dilligent In the further Inspection of         
what hath been discovered & Its not doubted but the whole of the plott          
will be brought out barefaced upon the new discoveries  last wednesday In       
Councill warrants were Issued out & 7 or 8 were Apprehended yesterday &         
this day seized In towne & messengers dispatcht Into the Countrey to            
seize others                                                                    
     The Councill have appointed next ffriday to have A full heareing of        
the Complaint Agt sr Phill ffloyd                                               
    mr sergeant hath sent another letter In which he denies all he said         
before, Tis Reported the papers he sent to the E of sunderland are              
Commanded from sr Tho Doleman to sr Phill ffloyd                                
     There is A pardon passing for A person of quality whose name for           
some Reasons is not yet made Knowne                                             
     The Ld Hallifax hath been ill but is something better  yesterday sr        
ffran Leake Governour of Gravesend fort died                                    
     wee have much discourse of some letters lately from Ireland                
Intimateing some discoveries there & that 6000 horse & Armes are seized         
     Yesterday A ship from Roterdam bound for London was Cast away on the       
goodwin sands & 11 persons lost                                                 
     Our last letters from hamburgh say the senate have Agreed with the         
d of Brandenburgh & have deputed 5 of their body to treate with the K of        
denmarke, They are In greate trouble for their Greenland fleet which they       
Exspect dayly  They Exspect 600 horse & 6000 foot from the d of zell            
They hope by the Interposition of severall princes the Rupture may be           
prevented but if he demands to have the Citty under his soverainty it           
will not be granted                                                             
     The proclamation In scotland Requires all persons that bear any            
office to take the oath of Abjuration of the Covenant before the 20th           
November or to loose their places                                               
     ffrom Brussells wee hear that the lady Ann & her sister are prepareing     
to Returne for England before the sitting of the Parliamt & Just now wee        
hear the d of yorke was at the Hague with his dutchesse & family & that         
they were Embarkeing for Edenbrough In scotland where by this time Its          
supposed they are landed                                                        
     L. c. 846     October 9th 1679                                             
  London October 7th 1679                                                       
+His Matye Continues In health at Newmarkett & is not Exspected here till       
satureday or Munday next  Last satureday his Matye was at A horse Race          
between sr Robt Carrs blind ston horse & mr fframptons Gelding which was        
for 1000 L  The last Got to the Post first yet his Matye gave it Agt him        
because he had Contrary to Articles Crossed before the other                    
     The Report of his R Highs Embarkeing for scotland Continues & that         
he will Reside at Edenbrough                                                    
     Wee have Advice from Holland that the dutch find greate dificulty          
In perfecting the league with us  The Citty of Roterdam standing out not        
to have any at all whilst others are Insisting upon an offensive & not          
A defensive league  some are for both & few are for Treating with the           
ffrench who use all Artifices Imaginnable haveing Remitted Greate summe         
of money In order thereunto                                                     
     Its said that mr vernon the d of Munmouths secretary hath sent letters     
hither Intimating as if the ffrench are makeing preparations Agt us             
     A fresh witness is lately Come In & hath discovered Agt sr Tho             
Gascoine that there were many Meetings at his house where they tooke the        
Oath of secresy In order to Murther the King & to Carry on the plott  This      
witness sent A letter some time since to A person of quality which he           
Kept secret to himselfe                                                         
     The Councill sate last saboth day & debated the Case of sr Tho Gascoine    
his sister the Lady Tempest sr Miles stapleton &c who Its said have notice      
given them to prepare for their trialls before the sitting of the Parliamt      
     some say that mr sergeant who was Comeing over to make A new discovery     
perished In the ship that Came lately from Roterdam & was Cast Away on          
the Goodwin, at the same time were 6 Colliers Cast away & others                
     last weeke died the E of Rutland In A very full Age & the Ld Marquess      
of Winchester lyes very dangerously ill  The E of Exeter is Goeing for          
ffrance                                                                         
+The Poll Books of southwerke were this morning Cast up & It appeared           
that sr Richd How had 1878 votes Capt peter Rich 1826 votes sr Jo shorter       
1617 mr smith 1539  soe the 2 first are declared duely Elected                  
     This morning was the Election for this Citty at guildhall where the        
Electors were soe Many that the hall Could not Containe them where was          
unanimously Chosen sr Robert Clayton Maior Elect sr Tho Player Wm Love          
Esqr & Tho Pilkington Esqr  The whole Election begun & Ended In less then       
An houre to the greate satisfaction of the Citty                                
     for Honiton Borough is A double Choyce  The Ld of the Towne haveing        
Influenced one party to Choose sr Walter younge & sr Tho Putt & the other       
have Chose sr Tho Putt & Coll Waldron                                           
     Its thought the K of denmarke hath A designe to Reduce Hamburgh            
under soverainty & that the K of Poland hath the same designe upon              
Dantzicke & the K of ffrance upon strasburgh                                    
+On ffriday last A decayed Elme being by order blowne up with Gunpowder In      
st James parke one of the Branches flew soe far that it Killed an Ensigne       
     Letters from Jamaica Informe that the Court De Estrees Appeared            
before that Island with 14 Capitall ships &c whereupon this governour           
Commanded all persons in the Island that were able to bear Armes to leave       
all manner of Buisness & be Ready at An houres warning  The Admirall sent       
A shallop Ashoar to desire they might water there which the governour In        
Regard of their Greate force denying they made A shew as if they would          
have attempted something but In the Evening they sayled Away  Tis thought       
they are designed for some greate Enterprize                                    
       [Some figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
     L. c. 847     October 11th 1679                                            
  London october 9th 1679                                                       
  +Yesterday morning the Councill at Whitehall Recd A letter from the E         
of sunderland Now with the K: at Newmarkett wherein by his Matyes Command       
he acquaints them that the d of yorke had prayed leave of his Matye to          
withdraw out of fflanders Into scotland & that his Maty was pleased to          
grant it                                                                        
     Wee understand from Holland his R: Highs & family Intended to              
Embarke at schevelin where Attended severall yatchts & also 2: men of war       
for their Convoy, His Highness Intends to Reside at holy Rood house In          
Edenbrough & Its said the d of Lauderdale is prepareing to goe for              
scotland forthwith part of his Retinue being gone already                       
     Our letters from Ireland say nothing of the 6000 Armes said to be          
seized there soe wee suspend our Beleefs, But give account that one mr          
st johns The 2d son of the late oliver st Johns who died at Utrecht In          
Holland liveing In the County of Armagh was lately murthered by some            
Tories there                                                                    
+sr hugh Bethell lately Chose A member for Heyden in yorkeshire is dead         
     The Poll In yorkshire for their Knights being adjourned to their           
severall Rideings proceeded soe far as that the Ld ffarefax had polled          
about 6000 & the Ld Clifford as many where sr Jo Key who stood Agt them         
gave it up soe that the said 2 Lds are duely Elected                            
     On Munday last the Corps of sr Wm Lucy late Earle of downe In Ireland      
were Magnificently Carryed through this Citty towards Gloucestershire           
     The Marquess of Winchester lyes desperately sicke but the Ld Hollis        
is Recovered of his late sickness                                               
    His Matye meets not with that diversion as was Exspected by Reason of       
the Extrary Raines                                                              
     It seems the Accusation of dr Oates Agt sr Phill ffloyd is Abt             
Concealing 2 of Colemans letters Relating to the plott which is to be           
heard before the Councill to morrow                                             
     Tis said sr Tho: Gascoine sr Miles stapleton &c will be tryed Next         
Terme                                                                           
     Letters from Hambrough say that the K of denmarkes Army Consisted of       
16000 men halfe of them horse & that the d of Brandenburgh was advanceing       
with 20000 men & the K of denmarke is Encamped within 3 miles of that           
Citty from the walls whereof they Can plainly see him  The 5 persons they       
sent had audience of that King they shewing with all Respect that they          
were Come In An Amicable way to Render his Matye all Just satisfaction          
but haveing Continued many years under their owne Govermt they hoped his        
Matye would not Endeavour to Alter the Course thereof but Rather Establish      
their firme Tranquility & not Againe Involve Christendom in A warr which        
they have too lately felt the sad Effects of                                    
     They protested to his Maty that not to acknowledg him their soveraigne     
was not done out of any disrespect to him but to preserve Inviolably            
their Oaths to the Contrary which they should maintaine to the Utmost           
of their power                                                                  
     The King tooke this Answer seemingly with much displeasure which the       
deputies acquainted the Citty with as also with his demands that the Citty      
forthwith pay him 400000 Rix dollars & doe him Hommage In the same manner       
as they did his Grandfather &c  The Citty are as strong within themselves       
as the King is without & Resolved to defend Themselves being Encouraged         
by the Emperor & the Repeated Assurances of the dukes of Luxembough &c          
They dayly Exspect to be attacqued & Its beleeved if the K Throw any            
fireworks Into the Citty they will make A Generall sally upon his Army          
     They Intend If They find A Reall seige to send away their women &          
Children Into the D of Zells Countrey & they are prepareing severall ships      
to be sunke In the Elbe to hinder the Neer approach of the danes & are          
makeing 4 Greate Bastions with Outworks &c haveing layd all the Outparts        
to the Ground & Burnt the Materialls, However Its hoped our next letters        
from there may give us an account of An accomodation                            
     The E of Danby now prisoner In the Tower hath been & is still very         
much Indisposed  Its Reported he hath sent for many writings but of what        
Concerne wee Know not.                                                          
   some letters from Holland seem to Intimate that the Consultation of          
the new alliance with England is broke off                                      
     L. c. 848     October 13th 1679                                            
  London October 11th 1679                                                      
+Yesterday the dutchesse of Yorke the Lady Ann & her sister Arrived at          
Whitehall  some say his R High Came with them to whitehall yesternight &        
went this Morning to Newmarket  others say he Came with them into the           
downes & soe went Aboard A man of warr for scotland  others say he landed       
at dover & went for Newmarcket but Its Judged he is now at st James             
     The Ld Lockhart & severall other persons of quality are Gone for           
scotland to prepare things for his R Highs Reception there                      
     His Matye Comes to Towne on Munday Next & on thursday will be              
prsent at the Prorogation of the Parliamt                                       
     Mobery the schoolemaster of Ledds In Yorkeshire hath given A Clear         
demonstration of the Intended designe of Murthering the King & Carryeing        
on the Plott who being sr Tho: Gascoines Chamber Chaplain was privy to          
the whole designe & has paid 6000 L to severall persons In order to the         
Carying It on                                                                   
+The Councill Upon this Evidence have ordered that sr Thomas & the Lady         
Ann Tempest his sister sr Miles stapleton & others shall be tryed before        
the Parliamt meets & Its said will be the begining of the Next Terme            
     Our letters from Hamburgh say that Upon the Returne of their               
deputies with the K of Denmarks demands they Unanimously Resolved to            
Defend their Citty to the utmost Rather then to Alter the forme of              
Govermt they had soe long Enjoyed                                               
     The K of Denmarke hath forbidden all passengers & provisions going         
to the Citty & the Citty have done the like to the Camp                         
     One letter sayes the Brandenburgh Resident there has assured the           
Majestrate that his Master is soe far from Joyning with the danes that he       
will oppose his Designes but they Know not how to give Credit to it, when       
those letters Came away the daneish fleet were not Come Into the Elbe but       
1400 foot & 600 horse were Come Into that Citty from the d of Zell besides      
which they had 7000 hired souldiers & Can make up above 10000 Burghers &        
if the danes fling any fireballs Into their Citty are Resolved to sally         
out & give him battle                                                           
+The Hamburgh Company are very solicittous to his Matye Abt it & sr Peter       
Wych o[u]r Resident there hath sent severall letters to pray his Matyes         
Aide & yesterday the Councill tooke it Into Considderation but deferred         
the further debate thereof till Munday                                          
     The d of Lauderdale is going for scotland & Its said will have A           
Comission to Call A Parliamt therein within 40 dayes                            
     The Councill haveing Appointed yesterday to hear the Complaints of mr      
oates Agt sr Phill ffloyd have adjourned the same till Next Wednesday that      
his Matye may have A full heareing thereof  Also mr oates Complained of         
sr Thomas Williams his Matyes Chimist that sr Thomas Pretended severall         
messages from his R Highs to mr Oates & from mr Oates to his R Highs when       
In Reallity there was noe such thing  Its Reported sr Tho: declares he will     
Justify himselfe by declareing who Employed him to mr Oates                     
     They write from Constantinople dated 3d sept that they are Exceedingly     
Allarmed at the generall peace In Christendome & yet discourse of A warr        
Agt Persia                                                                      
     The sessions of the peace for Middlesex Ended last Thursday where          
many Papists were prsented but they declared themselves to be protestants       
& went to Church but were not discharged till next sessions to see that         
they take the sacramt according to the Church of England                        
     Wee have this further Account from Jamaica that on the 8 July the          
ffrench fleet appeared to that island  Next morning they discovered A           
small fregot standing In for the Harbour which was mett by his Matyes           
fregot the Hunter to whome the fregate sent out their long boate with 4         
Gent who desired wood & water & A Pilott to A placed Called Blew feilds         
the most proper place for wood & water  The governour Came up to them &         
demanded their Buisness In the West Indies & one of them who was Major          
Generall of the land forces told him that their fleet Consisted of 8 men        
of warr Comanded by de Estrees & Was part of A greate fleet Under Marshall      
schomberg Commander In Chiefe of all the french forces In the West Indies       
& were going to the Habanna to demand their prisoners & freedome of trade       
& had orders to force it  The governour sent them A Pilott to blew feilds       
to wood & water where the french were at Anchor when those letters Came         
away  The Island is much allarmed & beleeve that the french Aime was            
there  They are all at Worke In fortifying the Island which they doubt          
Not but to maintaine Agt all the force that Can appear Agt them                 
   The dutch are Very Backward In perfecting the Alliance with England &        
will hardly Conclude it till they see how his Maty agrees with his              
Parliamt                                                                        
     L. c. 849     October 16th 1679                                            
  London october 14th 1679                                                      
 +Yesterday his Matye (praysed be god) Returned at 4 In the afternoon In        
 good health to whitehall & Abt 2 houres after her Matye & the whole Court      
     The Necesary preparations for the d of yorks Journey for scotland          
are makeing notwithstanding Its thought by some he doth not goe at all          
thither But Its said A parliamt will be speedily Called there though it         
is not yet said who shall be the Commissioner                                   
     The Duke of Munmoth hath sent for his hounds & his Hunting horses          
being Recovered of his late Indisposition                                       
     ffrom ffrance Its advised that the Navall preparations of that King        
are very greate & that the discourse there was of A designe Agt England         
he haveing deterred the Hollanders from makeing an Alliance with us by          
the Threats of an Immediate warr & has lately Commanded all his sea             
officers to strike sayle to noe ship whatsoever though In the Narrow seas       
& hath layd A greater Custome Upon English ships for his product then           
any other nation Insomuch that the Master of An English ship being In           
Port st Lewis was not able to ffreight his vessell but was Constrained to       
sell her In Harbour to A ffrenchman                                             
     The Emperor hath sent to the diett at Ratisbonne Now Assembled             
that he haveing made A peace with ffraunce Upon severall Conditions hath        
performed his Part but the ffrench K detayned severall Castles In Alsace        
which ought to have been delivered up & likewise obteyned A soverainty          
over severall provinces obleigeing them to doe him Hommage which was An         
high Violation of those Articles & therefore he desired the diett to give       
their Advice therein                                                            
     Yesterday mr Mowberry the New discoverer was Againe before the             
Councill to give In some fresh matter of Evidence                               
     There is An Information upon oath given to the Councill Consisting         
of very High matters Agt sr ffrancis Ratcliffe & the Informant Affirmes         
he delivered the same matter to A person of quality In November last In         
order to have it prosecuted which he supposes has been by him Ever since        
Concealed &c                                                                    
     There haveing been of late greate quantitys of ffrench wines Brandy        
& other prohibitted ffrench Comodities Imported & Consumed whereof              
Complaint hath been made to the Councill orders are sent throughout the         
Kingdome that the Lawes In that behalfe may be put In Execution                 
   Wee have for 3 weeks past had greate Hasty & Continuall Raines which         
hath Caused greate ffloods & Greate Dammage thereby                             
     Complaints have been made In Councill Agt A small booke lately Come        
forth Entituled An Appeale from the Countrey to the Citty for                   
preservation of his Matyes person &c                                            
     Our last letters from Hamburgh say the K of Denmarke had Encamped          
his Army within Cannon shott of the Citty but nothing of Hostility had          
hitherto passed  all persons & waggons passe & Repasse as before without        
any molestation & the Citty supply the Army with beer &c  They thinke 48        
houres will determine warr or peace, The Citty are Unanimous & well             
prepared & have for their More Regular security Chosen 10 persons out of        
Each of the 6 wards who are to be prsent at all affaires & are Under an         
Oath of secresy                                                                 
     They have ordered 4000 oxen & 2000 hogs to be Killed by perticular         
families soe hope not to be streghtened for provisions, The d of Lunenburgh     
their Assured freind hath made A bridge of ffloates over the Elbe to pass       
it upon all occasions & hath sent his Ambrs to the K of denmarke                
     The master of A vessell Just now Come In Reports that he haled A           
ship off at sea which proved to be from Boston In New England & bound for       
A spanish Port  the master told him that A few dayes before he Came away        
that towne was burnt downe which wee hope is not true                           
     L. c. 850     October 18th 1679                                            
  London october 16th 1679                                                      
  +On Munday night the E of shaftesbury made A sharpe speech In Councill        
Relating to the d of yorke since which his Matye hath thought fitt to           
Remove him from being president of the Councill & from the Councill & Its       
said that the E of Bridgewater was likewise yesterday dismist the Councill      
     Yesterday his Matye ordered A Comission for Proroguing the Parliamt        
till 26 January next  There be many members In towne who meet to morrow         
     sr Wm Jones his Matyes Atturney Genll hath layd downe his Comission        
(some say Its taken from him) & tis said sr Jo: Temple solicitor of             
Ireland will succeed him In that place                                          
     His R Highness the d of yorke being president of the Artillery             
Company is Invited to dinner with them on the 21st Instant  They have           
agreed to meet with their swords & Red ffeathers In the morning at              
Guildhall Thence to goe to Bow Church to hear A sermon & thence to dinner       
+Its said orders are given for 2 of his Matyes yatchts by the first wind        
that offers to goe for Holland to waite on the d of Munmouth & bring him        
over for England, His Horses &c that were shipping here are stopt  But          
Just now the Newes of his being sent for over is Contradicted                   
     yesterday was held A very greate Councill at whitehall His Matye           
present  The Complainants Agt sr Phill ffloyd one of the Clerks of the          
Councill were Called In & upon A full heareing thereof he was severely          
Checkt & suspended                                                              
   The Complaint Agt sr Thomas Williams was also heard & he was Committed       
to the gatehouse                                                                
     mr Mowbray one of the Witnesses lately Come In Agt sr Tho: Gascoine        
&c Complained & made proofe that on Tuesday night going over the ffeilds        
In the Raine to his Lodgings he observed A person to follow hard after          
which he Judged to be to shun the Raine who stepping before him Turned          
upon him & Assaulted & stabbed him with A Dagger In soe violent A manner        
that he fell downe dead as the Assasinate might suppose but he being            
Crooked [?] wore A pare of steele bodies which defended him from the            
weapon & by A strange providence saved his life                                 
    severall printers & dispersers of books are Complained Agt for divers       
books lately Come forth one Called the growth of Popery, another Called         
the Countrey Appeale About which & severall other matter one mr Ray &           
other persons are Committed to Newgate & will be severely handled               
Indictments being ordered to be drawne up Agt them                              
     The Ld Cheife Justice scroggs hath bound some persons over to the          
sessions for slandering him that he tooke Bribes &c                             
     some forward persons have printed A list of the H of Commons although      
some Elections are not yet over  Tuesday last was the Election for dover        
(The governour haveing Kept the writt till that time) gave it to the maior      
with this Expression that the Towne had been more uncivill to him then he       
had deserved at their hands Adding that he would not stand to make him          
Amends  he was put up at the Election where he had scarse 20 hands & they       
Chose their old members vizt tom stokes &c & mr Tho: Pampillion A London        
merchant                                                                        
     by way of ffraunce wee had letters yesterday which say the ship            
Nicholas mr Belamy Master 22 guns & Estimated worth 9000 L bound for            
south barbary & the hopefull mr Ravens master were both taken by the            
Algerines                                                                       
     The same letters add that the Count de Estrees lately In the West          
Indies was Come with his ffleet                                                 
+The Alliance defensive between sweden & denmarke was signed In schonen         
the 4th Instant & the K of sweden is to marry the K of Denmarks sister          
     The ffrench Ambrs at the Hague & others for that Interest use all          
the stratagems Immaginable by Argument & printed pamphletts to Influence        
the govermt & people Agt England                                                
     Wee have had much discourse of late as if his Matye Intended to            
grant An Indulgence to dissenters from the Church of England  what it           
will Come to is not yet Knowne                                                  
     L. c. 851     October 20th 1679                                            
  London october 18th 1679                                                      
+Yesterday morning neer 200 members of the H of Commons mett at Westminster     
& all that Came were sworne In the Inner Court of Wards by the Ld Privy         
seale E of Bridgwater, E of sunderland E of Bath E of Clarendon & Ld            
Arundell of Trerire Appointed Comes by his Matye for that purpose after         
which they went Into the Commons house & after A very littly stay there         
they were sent for Into the Lds house where the Comission for Proroguing        
them till the 26th Jan: was Read &c                                             
   Wee have much discourse as if the Ld Chancellor had Craved leave of          
his Matye to lay downe his office & that the Ld Privy seale & sr Lionell        
Jenkins stood faire In his Matyes faivour for that place                        
     Its discoursed also that the Ld Cheife Justice is layeing downe his        
Commission                                                                      
     sr Wm Jones had yesterday A designe to deliver up his Commission In        
Councill but his Matye would not permitt it Intending he shall serve            
him longer as atturney Generall                                                 
     Tis said the Ld Roberts E of Radnor is to be Ld president of the           
Councill                                                                        
+On Thursday afternoon the lieftenancy of this Citty attended his Matye         
at whitehall where my Ld Maior made A very Loyall speech assureing his          
Matye of their fidelity towards him & their Readiness upon all occasions        
to venture their lives & fortunes for preservation of his Matyes persons        
& of the True protestant Religion & used many other Excellent Expressions       
to set forth the Loyalty of the Citty                                           
     To which his Matye Returned this Gracious Answer that he was very          
sencible of their Readiness to serve him & that they had behaived               
themselves very Industriously & that he would doe his Part likewise &           
would maintaine the Protestant Religion to the last                             
     Tuesday last being the Birth day of his R Highs It was Kept with           
some Ceremony the k & queen duke & Dutchesse of yorke supping togather          
     The Ld Maior hath Invited his Matye to dinner on the 27th Instant          
being the Ld Maiors day but not the Duke of yorke which was ill Resented        
& It is not yet Knowne whether his Matye will goe or not                        
+The Citty have Appointed 6 Aldermen & 12 Common Councill men to make           
preparation for his Reception                                                   
     The d of yorke hath now Resolved on his Journey for scotland & hath        
setled the severall stages of his Journey & one of his gentlemen goes           
next weeke to prepare it accordingly  Tis thought the duke will set             
forward 8 or 10 dayes hence                                                     
     The Councill yesterday further Examined mr Mowbray upon the late           
attempt made upon his person & were all satisfied therein  His Matye gave       
him all the Assurance that Could be that Care should be taken for his           
security                                                                        
   mr Bauldron & mr Mowbray are to goe downe Into the North with A              
guard to give in their Testimony Agt sr Tho Gascoine &c to A grand Jury         
there to file A Bill Agt them In order to their tryall at the Kings             
bench barr this Terme                                                           
        The Councill have debated the Many Inconveniences & dangers             
Arriseing by the many scandalous books dayly Exposed & are Resolved to          
suppresse all such for the future & to that End will appoint such persons       
to lycence such books as shall be thought fitt                                  
     Letters from scotland say that the people abt Hamilton had gotten A        
distemper much like the Plague which is Imputed to the stench of the dead       
bodies slaine thereabouts In the late Rebellion when many of the Wounded        
Crept Into the Corne & when It was Reaped they found them lyeing In A           
Nauseous manner & besides many were not well Buryed  They add that the          
Number slaine was much more then wee had account of there being Reckned         
1795 dead bodies                                                                
     The Marquess de Burgamerico the spanish Ambr is departing & don            
Pedro de Ronquillas is to Come In his stead  There is also an Ambr              
Exspected from Germany                                                          
     Our last Hamburgh letters say There is yet noe Hostility begun             
between them & Denmarke & they have agreed with the Dukes of Lunenburgh         
for 20000 men for which they are to pay 50000 Crownes p month soe let the       
Ishue of the Treaty be what it will they will be Capable to make A good         
defence                                                                         
     L. c. 852     October 23d 1679                                             
  London october 21st 1679                                                      
+The Report of the Ld Chancellors laying downe his office Continues & that      
the d of yorke will Goe for scotland within A weeke or 10 [?] dayes & the       
E of Oxfords Regemt are ordered by severall stations to Conduct them            
     mr ffinch the Ld Chancellors son now solicittor Genll is to succeed        
sr Wm Jones In the place of Atturney Genll                                      
     His R Highs being Invited to dine with the Artillery Company this          
day at merchant Taylors hall some persons as yet unknowne last night            
posted on that gate & other places as followeth                                 
      Whosoever doth accompany the d of yorke to Dinner at Merchant             
Taylors hall shall be looked upon by all True protestants as noe other          
then an Enemy of the King & Kingdome & the Betrayers of the Priveledges         
of the Parliamt of England & the Just Rights & Interests of this Honble         
Citty                                                                           
     And Care shall be taken for procureing A list of those that dine with      
him that the Papists In Masquerado may be Knowne from True protestants &        
the Nation Informed of her Private Enemies In publicke under that               
Abominable name of A Yorkeist                                                   
     This day Abt 11 A Clocke those of the Artillery Company who mett at        
Guildhall Marched Into Bow Church In Cheapside & there heard A sermon &         
from thence were led by the Ld Ossory Ld ffeversham Coll Legg sr Robt           
Holmes sr Richd How sr Jo: Chapman Major Horne & Capt Hudson stewards for       
this yeare to the said hall to whence Came the duke of yorke attended by        
the d of Lauderdale &c                                                          
     yesterday the 2 sheriffs of the Citty went up to whitehall to Invite       
his Matye &c to dinner at Guildhall on the approaching Ld Maiors day which      
his Maty accepted Kindly & also Knighted the 2 sheriffs mr Raymund & mr         
Lewes & also mr Russell A mercer In Lumbardstreet                               
     The Judges have had A meeting to Consult what Lawes are In force to        
Restraine the presse & punish the offenders now In Custody & Its said Ld        
Chiefe Justice scroggs hath Recomended one that will Effect that affaire        
     Letters from Cologne of the 10th Instant say that the plague Rages         
so violently at vienna that the Miserable Effects of it are not to be           
Expressed  the liveing are not sufficient to Bury the dead but the Corps        
Infect the Aire & are Eaten by doggs & Catts In the streets & letters           
from Nuremburgh of the 14th informe us that by Reason of the Rageing of         
the Pestilence at Ratisbonne the diet is like to be Removed thence but to       
what place is not yet Knowne                                                    
     Every day gives us Continued Relations of many sad Effects of the          
late Raines & ffloods wherein divers have lost their lives & others have        
suffered In their Estates  The perticulers are too tedious                      
  The Most Remarkable is by severall letters from Abt Welchpoole In             
Montgomeryshire say that on satureday the 11th Instant A Cloude was             
perceived to gather & at last grew very thicke  on A sudden such A shower       
of water (it being not properly Raine because it was not by dropps) fell        
downe upon A Mountaine as if the Windowes of Heaven had been opened. It         
Caryed away houses Tore up Trees by the Roots & drove them away Broke           
downe Above 60 foot of A greate ston Wall about A garden & did greate           
dammage to the mannor house yet hurt noe person save only one woman that        
lay sicke A bed & Its Remarkable that there was noe Raine at that time          
for Above A mile Round that place                                               
     The sessions at the old Bayly Ended on satureday last where 31             
persons were Condemned 3 for Chipping 6 for murther of which A man & 2          
women were for Murther of the Bayliffe at Westminster, all the scholars         
pleaded his Matyes pardon & besides proved themselves not there when the        
murther was Committed by good Testimony, 4 for Robbery 8 for Burglary 4         
for horse stealing & 6 for other ffelonies; 10 were burnt In the hand & 8       
ordered be whipt                                                                
+On ffriday last some Clippings of money were found at Major Wallaces           
In Lumbardstreet In his Apprentices Trunke who Confessed it & he with           
2 of his accomplices are secured                                                
     Just now wee have letters from Hamburgh which say the danes men of         
war have taken A very Rich ship belongeing to that Citty bound for Russia       
& stop & Examine all other ships that passe that way                            
     Its Reported Abt this Citty That Coll Legg will be made Lieft of the       
Tower & that Coll Churchhill will be governour of Portesmouth                   
     L. c. 853     October 25th 1679                                            
  London october 23d 1679                                                       
+This day being the first day of the Terme the Ld Cheife Justice scroggs        
made A very long & Eloquent speech much Relating to the time & Buisness         
of that season & also defended himselfe Agt the Calumnies Raised upon him       
In Relation to the Tryall of sr George Wakeman & others Concluding his          
discourse with A protestation of his greate zeale to the Protestant             
Interest & his Innocence of things Reported upon that occasion                  
     As to his R Highs Reception & deport at the Artillery feast please         
to understand that his High was very splendidlly Entertained though not         
by soe many of the body as was usuall & was also pleased to say occasionally    
to the ld maior that he was the first man that was not Inferiour to any         
subjects & that he was Resolved to defend that Properly & the protestant        
Religion In England that Can demand property & he had the greatest Property     
of any subject in England & therefore had the greatest Reason to defend         
it  any other man Can have private Interest but I Can have none for I Know      
very well that soe long as this nation & Citty are well I shall be soe &        
that I Can be soe noe longer & I doe assure you my Ld that noe one person       
In all this assembly Can venture his life more freely in the defence of         
this Nation & Citty & the govermt thereof as it is now by Law Established       
then I will & have been alwayes Ready to doe & I hope it is well Knowne         
     There were severall healths drunke & amonge the Rest one for the           
Prosperity of the Citty soe long as it Continues Loyall  this some of the       
Aldermen drunke & others said noe doubt but the Citty will Continue             
Loyall if the Protestant Religion be secured                                    
     Its said the ld maior desired to speake with his R Highs In private        
to which the Duke Replyed that he Could not appoint the time then but           
it might be quickly because he was going for scotland                           
     Its said his R Highs goes for scotland Next weeke & stayes Abt A           
weeke at yorke In his family                                                    
     His R Highs had not the former Respect of the people Either Comeing        
or going                                                                        
     some of his Matyes Chaplaines being dead wee hear that 4 others are        
put In vizt dr Bernard dr Bradford dr Goodwin & dr Harding                      
       Wee have account of Much dammage Done In the ffennes by the late         
Raines & ffloods & that many banks there are broken downe & much ground         
layd under water, Also that In sussex the sea broke In & drowned some           
hundred Acres of Ground Also that A Coach Comeing out of Lincolnshire was       
overturned In the water & all the 6 persons therein drowned                     
     Its said that the d of Munmouth being lately affronted at Amsterdam        
by a ffrench officer they both drew & In A short time the duke had wounded      
the ffrenchmen but some persons Interposeing prevented any further              
mischiefe that might have Happened thereupon                                    
     mr Dugdale has had A heareing before the Councill wherein he gave an       
Account of severall attempts that have been made to persuade him to lessen      
his Evidence or at least to Charge it Upon the Presbiterians as if some         
of them were Concerned therein & to that End severall letters were              
Conveyed Into one mr Mansells Chamber of Lincolnes Inn by some persons          
who pretending to search for uncustomed goods found the said letters but        
the Contrivance was discovered, Tis said those letters Import that the d        
of Bucks E of shaftesbury ld Grey sr Robt Payton &c had A designe to            
subvert the govermt &c                                                          
     The Councill have granted A warrant Agt many persons & severall            
Printers Booksellers & dispersers are seized by vertue thereof  There           
have been divers matters before the Councill of A very high nature              
Concerning the popish plott & also of another nature seeming to accuse          
persons that are Antipodes to the Popish plott  what the Issue will be          
Exspect more by the next                                                        
     L. c. 854     October 27th 1679                                            
  London october 25th 1679                                                      
+The Papists haveing by all wayes Immaginable by money & Artifice               
Endeavoured to lessen the plott & take off some of the Kings witnesses          
have been Tampering with mr stephen Dugdale with promise of Reward of some      
thousand pounds who Entertaining their Proposalls gave them such hopes as       
that they had divers private Conferences thereupon but mr dugdale was soe       
prudent as to have witnesses by them unseen to all that was debated betwixt     
him & one mr Tasbrough Gentleman usher to the Dutchesse of Yorke mr Price       
one of the same family & mr yates of Graies Inne who were the Mannagers         
they proposed some thousand pounds when he had actually done what they          
desired but to Recant all he had sworne & withdraw out of the Kingdome &        
proposed the spanish Ambrs security for the money which mr Dugdale              
Excepted Agt saying he was A subject of another prince & lyable to be           
Called home  he Kept them some weeks In hopes of his Complyance  at             
length they bring him the following declaration to signe & seale drawne         
up by yates & prest it soe home that he had much adoe to Evade the doing        
of it  upon which they suspected him & Immediately Repaired to his Matye        
with A greate Clamour Agt mr Dugdale Averring that he had Engaged to            
signe An Instrumt which was word for word as followeth                          
     Being Troubled with A true Remorse of Conscience & hearty sorrow           
for that ill I did In Comeing In A Witnesse Agt the Catholicks & their          
speakeing things which In my owne Conscience I Know to be farr from             
Truth I thinke myselfe bound In duty both to god & man & for the safety         
of my owne soule to make A declaration how I was drawne Into this wicked        
action but being very well satisfied that I shall Create to my selfe            
many powerfull Enemies upon this account I have Retired myselfe to A            
place of safety where I will with my owne hand discover the greate              
wronge that hath been done the Catholicks & I hope it may gaine beleefe &       
I likewise prest before Almighty God that I have noe motive to Induce mee       
to this Confession but A True Repentance for the Mischeifs I have done          
& I hope almighty god will forgive mee This                                     
     This with their Repeated Clamours put his Matye Into A greate Rage         
who Commanded mr Dugdale forthwith before the Councill on wednesday where       
all was layd open before him  after some small pause he opened the whole        
matter from the begining till that dayes Transaction & gave In the Names        
of his witnesses to prove it which are 11 or 13 all persons of Knowne worth     
& Honesty & most of them well Knowne to his Matye which gave A greate           
surprize to his Matye & the Councill  The whole matter was heard at             
Councill the next day & it appeareing Exceeding blacke the persons              
Concerned were Committed to prison & Its said have since Impeached some         
others                                                                          
     severall things were proposed by them vizt the Murthering of the d         
of Munmouth E of shaftesbury some Lds of the Councill sr Tho Doleman Coll       
Mildmay sr Robt Payton sr Wm Waller Justice Warcup &c                           
     A notable discovery likewise has been made of one Capt Willoughby          
Alias Dangerfield who Came to Coll Mansells Lodgeings & took Lodgeings          
In the same house & being shewed the Colls Chamber sent downe the Maide         
on A small Errand at which time Its supposed he hid A Pacquett of Letters       
behind A bed which afterwards were found directed to Coll Mansell with          
divers dates & much Treasonable matter being Inscribed from the most            
Considderable men In the Kingdome of that perswasion which being done           
procured some officers from the Custome house to search for prohibitted         
goods  This Willoughby being prsent pointed to the bed where they found         
those letters & tooke them away  The Coll being acquainted therewith went       
to the officers with sr Robt Payton & demanded the letters & Caryed them        
to the King & the whole Cheate is deverted & Willoughby & one Brumfield         
Committed                                                                       
     The Ld Roberts is made Ld President of the Councill & sr Christopher       
Leavens atturney Genll In place of sr wm Jones                                  
     Our letters from New England Confirme the Burning of About 300             
houses In Boston & 17 or 18 ships  the fire began In one of the ships           
+this weeke 3 ships are safely arrived from Russia vizt the Palme tree          
the Providence & the successe                                                   
+last Tuesday died sr Jo: Kempthorne A worthy sea Commander & his Matyes        
Comr at Portesmouth                                                             
     The Ld Cheife Justice scroggs hath Committed to prison mr Benja Harris     
& mr ffrancis smith Bookselers In Cornhill & also mr Care who wrote the         
weekly packett from Rome & others                                               
+12 of the late Condemned persons were hanged at Tyburne & one woman            
burnt In smithfield & 18 are Repreived                                          
          His R Highs setts forward for scotland on Munday next & Intends       
to stay 16 dayes at Yorke & some few dayes at Newcastle                         
      [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
     L. c. 855     October 30th 1679                                            
  London october 28th 1679                                                      
  +Yesterday the d of yorke & dutchesse tooke A very sollemne leave of          
their Matyes & set forward for scotland being accompanied out of Towne by       
many Coaches & lay last night at the E of salisburies at Hatfield & now         
Its discoursed that the d of Munmoth is sent for over Into England Againe       
     The Booksellers mentioned In the last to be Commited to the Kings          
bench are Bayled by Habeas Corpus to Attend dayly &c                            
     There is An Answer published unto A late Traterous Libell Called           
the Compendium formerly mentioned to be Complained of by mr Oates &c            
     mr Tasbrough & mr price at their Examination before the Councill at        
first pleaded Innocence & sent for one mr sheldon to Justify them therein       
but shee was soe Ingenious as to Confesse the whole Intregue Agt them who       
upon mr Dugdales produceing many substantiall witnesses Agt them were           
themselves Utterly Confounded & Confessed the same & Impeached the Lady         
tuke one Perkins Harris & Tempest which 2 last were secured                     
     mr dugdale was to have 1000 L for halfe A yeares Expences to goe for       
spaine & when he Returned he was to give In Evidence Agt severall               
protestants to have them hanged & quartered  Endeavours were made to            
Engage the spanish Ambr In this Buisness but he Refused Alledging that          
if he were discovred he might loose his head as one did In Olivers time         
for A lesser matter but he promised to write letters of Recomendation           
that mr dugdale might be well used In spaine                                    
     yesterday his Matye In Councill had A full heareing of the Complaint       
of Coll Mansell Agt one Willoughby Alias dangerfield who was about 5 weeks      
since A prisoner In Newgate under the Conviction of many notorious Crimes       
& thence discharged by the meanes & money of one mrs selliard A zealous         
Papist & midwife to the Lady Powis & divers other greate Popish ladies          
     The whole mattere is Related thus                                          
     Some persons designing to make A new plott & throw the old one upon        
the Protestants made use of this Willoughby beginning with Coll Mansell         
who lyeing In Ax yard Westminster hires A Chamber In the same house &           
haveing Lodged there but one night the Next day Informes the Comrs of the       
Customs that there were pacquetts of ffrench lace & other Prohibitted           
goods at the said house who sent 2 of their officers with him who Comeing       
to the said house declared they Came to search for Above 1000 L worth of        
prohibitted goods In Regard that neither they or any to their Knowledg          
that did Ever Lodge there were traders In any Comodities  Notwithstanding       
which the officers & their New lodger searched & Comeing to the Colls           
Chamber by Willoughbies perticuler directions strictly searched all the         
Roome but more Especially the Bed & Bedsted which they Removed & found          
nothing                                                                         
     The 2 officers then applyed themselves to put up the Colls Cloaths         
&c that had been pulled out  In the Interim Willoughby being still behind       
the Bed Cryes out were wee all Blind  Come looke what this is Who               
Returneing did see which was not Just before A broade large & thicke            
pacquett pinned to the headcloth of the Bedsteed which they pulled downe        
& found sealed which they broke open & appeared to be letters at which          
Willoughby Catcht up one of them & without Reading any part thereof Cryes       
out Treason Treason  Those are all Traitorous letters which they Caryed         
to the Comrs & made Report of all that Happened which seemed A                  
strange Kind of Intregue to them  The Coll being absent Comes home &            
Understanding what had passed procured the said pacquett which he               
Immediately Caryed to his Matye with an account of what had happened            
Assureing his Matye of his owne Innocency & the persons therein falsely         
mentioned & that It was A Cheate, willoughby stood upon his Justification       
till friday by which the Coll had got such sure proofs as Caused the            
Councill to Comitt the said willoughby & appointed A full heareing              
yesterday when he was by 13 witnesses proved such A Criminall that the          
Councill ordered him to Newgate  There is A Correspondance proved betwixt       
him & the Lady powis &c                                                         
+The Paris letters say the ffrench K has sent A Resident to Geneva with         
A popish preist & Comand to Exersize the Romish Religion publickly there        
     L. c. 856     Nov 1st 1679                                                 
  London october 30th 1679                                                      
+The papists had designed 3 severall wayes to destroy the Kings Evidence        
Agt them & Turne the plott upon the Protestants                                 
1 To procure mr Dugdale the Cheife Witness Agt the lds In the Tower &c          
to Recant & depart the Kingdome                                                 
2 To Trepan & make Criminall Coll Mansell &c which was Willoughbies part        
3dly to make Coll Blood the disposer of Commissions for An Army &c &            
when he was Condemned they Doubted not by money & A Pardon to make him          
Confesse all they would have him which is the 4th perticuler designe &          
snare that hath been layd for him since the first discovery of the plott        
   The whole Contrivance was found out yesterday thus                           
     Willoughbys lodgings being at mrs selliards A popish Midwifes house        
In Arrundell street gave some Jealousy to sr Wm Waller & others strucke at      
to search the said house which they did & at last found at the Bottom of        
A moate [?] Under the meale A greate quantity of Papers Commissions &           
books which Containe the whole summe of the Presbiterian plott which for        
these 2 months they have soe Called & given out will be discovered by           
which they make most of the Protestant Nobility & Gentry Engaged In one         
Capasity or other                                                               
     They make the Duke of Munmoth genll the Ld Brandon & sr Tho:               
Armstrong Lieft Genlls Coll Blood & sr Wm Waller major Genlls Also make         
the D of Bucks E of shafesbury E of Essex Ld Grey ld Gerrard &c Concerned       
In all there was A list of Above 600 persons & they had fixed 2 witnesses       
to have sworne to Every Individuall person                                      
     The Comissions all Run In the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties         
of England                                                                      
     This Willoughby appeared In Court Splendidly In Habitt & A servant         
In A lyvery to attend him & was by A very greate person Recommended to          
his Matye as a person Engaged In a presbiterean plott Agt his Matye &           
the govermt of which he would give his Matye A perticuler account & his         
port & Confidence gained some Creditt thereunto                                 
     Coll Mansells Witnesses prove that he had stood Twice In the Pillory       
& that he was In Barkshire whipt at A Carts Tayle that he was Convicted         
at the old Bayly for defaceing the Kings Armes on Milled shillings &            
stamping the Cross scepters Instead thereof & after Guilt them & passed         
them for Guyneys                                                                
     The Councill have declared they looke on this matter A designe of          
the Papists to put A stop to the prosecution of the plott & that they           
are of opinion his Matyes person is still In danger                             
     Willoughby will be tryed this Terme at the Kings bench barr before         
or at which time Its beleeved most of the Contrivance & persons will be         
discovered & tis said 7 more Instrumen[ts?] are Concerned In it                 
     Tis thought Willoughby to save his life will Confesse all he Knowes        
if that will doe                                                                
     Our last letters from Hambrough Continue to tell us there is greate        
likelihood of An accomodation but they must pay the K of Denmarke A             
Considderable summe of Money  how much is not yet concluded on but the          
K hath fell 300000 Crownes from his first demands  he hath drawne some          
of his Regemts off                                                              
+A proclamation is Comeing out to Comand all persons whatsoever who are         
In any wayes privy to the late popish plott to Render themselves & make         
full discovery of all they Know Relating to the plott before the 1st            
ffebruary Next or otherwise to be disabled for haveing any pardon               
     The Judges have given their opinion that the late [?] printed              
domesticke Inteligence Containes many falsities In generall & some to           
the greate [?] Abuse of perticuler persons & tends Cheifly to the               
disquietting of his Matyes good subjects & therefore may be seized by           
persons Authorized & the printer & publisher thereof Apprehended                
     Wee Exspect A proclamation to Come out to morrow offering A Reward         
of 40 L & pardon to any that shall Come In & discover the Authour of some       
pamphletts therein mentioned soe as they may be thereof Convicted, His          
Matye being highly offended the presse has been soe bold of late                
      L. c. 857     Nov 3d 1679                                                 
  London Nov 1st 1679                                                           
+This day Came forth his Matyes proclamation Requireing all persons             
Concerned In the Popish Conspiracy to make discovery of what they Know          
Concerning the same before the last of ffebruary next otherwise not to          
Exspect his Matyes pardon                                                       
     As to the popish designe to make A pretended Presbiterian Plott it         
appeares very Horrid & It is apparent that all active spiritted men Agt         
popery & slavery were to have been sacrificed as Traitors to their              
soveraign & the whole pretended plott to be discovered by such villaines        
who had Contrived to make guilty & Betray others & had assurance of             
Pardon themselves                                                               
     But A mercifull god hath soe ordered it that it is like to prove           
very fatall unto the Popish party who are fallen Into the Pitt they             
Digged & taken In the snare they themselves layd                                
     Two of those subborned witnesses who were to have sworne Agt those         
pretended protestant plotters their names & what they should act In the         
plott were Entered In the Booke that sr Wm Waller found In Arrundell            
Buildings who are since seized & Committed                                      
     The Custome house officer who first seized the papers In Coll              
Mansells Lodgings is since put out of his place & Its supposed he was not       
Altogather Ignorant of the Intregue it not being usuall for any officer         
of the Custome house to search for anything but prohibitted goods               
     mrs selliard where sr Wm Waller found the papers being Examined            
denied all untill Confronted by undeniable Evidence (her ffootman being         
one that Testified Agt her) but when shee saw the Evidence soe full Agt         
her said shee was glad shee should suffer In soe meritorious A Cause            
     It is publickly Knowne shee had Resort unto the Lds In the Tower           
& Especially to the Ld Powis whose lady did very often vissit her which         
is Knowne by the standing of her Coach at the door 2 or 3 houres at A           
time & Its said shee gave her large summes of money                             
   Also Its said Willoughby had 8 L p day allowed him to Carry on the           
designe                                                                         
     yesterday 2 persons were Examined before the Lds Concerning this           
new plott which lasted 2 or 3 houres all prsent being sworne to secresy         
     Also sr Wm Waller was sent for to produce the papers which he had          
seized which he delivered to the Councill last night & had thanks for           
his Care & Dilligence In this discovery                                         
     Tis proved that Coll Willoughby had A dagger In his Pockett when he        
went to the E of shaftesburies & desired to speake with him In private          
soe that It is not Doubted but he had A designe to have Assassinated his        
Lordship had he been permitted to have had A private conference with him        
     Last night Willoughby was brought before the Ld Maior & 8 Aldermen         
& was severll houres giveing In his Information which was taken verbatim        
from his owne Mouth by severall Clerks Appointed for that purpose but the       
Ld Maior found the Buisness soe foule that he swore all the Clerks to           
secresy till the privy Councill were made acquainted therewith                  
     Its said Willoughby sayes that if what he declares deserves not his        
Pardon he shall however Dye better satisfied then with A lye In his mouth       
Its said he acknowledgeth that he was to have 2000 L of the Ld Arrundell        
of Wardour to Kill the King & that he was to have dispatcht him this            
weeke or the next at furthest                                                   
   This Morning the Ld Maior & Aldermen of this Citty went to the               
Councill to acquaint them with the Information they had taken from              
Willoughbies mouth last night                                                   
     A Proclamation is suddenly Exspected to come forth Requireing the          
Witnesses mentioned In the Papers found at Coll Mansells & mrs selliards        
designed to have Impeached the persons pretended to Carry on the plott          
to surrender themselves by A day Certain                                        
     L. c. 858     Nov 6th 1679                                                 
  London Nov 4th 1679                                                           
+On satureday last the Councill sate upon Examination of mr Willoughby          
Alias Tho: Dangerfeild & mrs Cellier whome Dangerfield Charges with             
Holding A Correspondence for Assassinating his Matye & the ld shaftesbury       
with all the Instrumts Engaged therein whome he sayes are all the Lds In        
the Tower (Except Danby) & the Lady Powis &c & that this mrs Cellier            
branded [?] him with Cowardice In not stabbing the Ld shaftesbury (which        
he Confessed he Resolved but had not power though his hand was twice on         
the dagger) saying shee would doe it her selfe & tooke the dagger from          
him  In order thereto shee made A vissitt to his Ldpp upon some pretence        
of Buisness but was also withheld, shee is Comitted to Newgate & soe is         
one mr Rigault A french man borne but A Virginia merchant Inhabitting           
here who is accused of her Confedracy, Also the E of Castlemaine & mr Jo        
Gadbury the Astrologer who Cast the Nativities of his Matye & R Highs &         
made Treasonable Inferences therefrom & telling willoughby he should            
thrive In his undertakeing, Also one Pigott was Committed for payeing           
money to Willoughby                                                             
     Willoughby affirmes that the Ld Powis agreed with him for 500 L to         
Murther the E of shaftesbury & gave him 20 guyneys In part                      
     There is Also much discourse Reflecting on sr Robt Payton Intimating       
his too much Intimacy with those people  he hath not yet been on                
Examination  what may appear Agt him is yet dubious  most men are               
unwilling to beleeve him soe ill A man as some would have                       
     The late designe of the Popish party appeares Every day more & more,       
In their scheame of Govermt  They placed the Ld President Roberts E of          
shaftesbury D of Buckingham E of Essex & Ld Hallifax at the Helme of            
Govermt by the Name of Conservators of the liberties of England & soe           
In all qualifications placed such men as were most obnoxious to their           
Interest which with some hundreds more were marked out for Ruine all            
which is notoriously detected  All the papers of the pretended plott are        
delivered to the Atturney Genll In order to the fraimeing An                    
Indictment of high Treason Agt Willoughby & others                              
     Greate Preparations are made for the Extrary observation of the 5th        
November In which the papists noe Doubt will see much of the Temper of          
England                                                                         
     Yesterday sr Wm Waller seized at one mrs Parris over or neer the           
Arch In Lincolnes In fields by duke street  In all 2 Cart loade of Habitts      
vestments Crucifixes Reliques & many other Popish Trinketts all very Rich       
& of Considderable value & divers Trunks & Boxes stuffed full of Books          
& papers which Its said did belong to ffather Harcourt lately Executed          
Containing matters of Greate Importance to the further discovery of the         
plott And A booke of mr Colemans account of the moneys he Recd from Beyond      
sea & how it was disposed In order to the Carying on the Popish Conspiracy      
The Vestments &c are to be burnt to morrow In the New pallace yard              
     They were discovered by meanes of A Bricklayer who mending the Tiles       
of the house Espied them lyeing betwixt the Ceiling & the Tiles which he        
tooke noe notice of till he had finished his worke & then Informed sr Wm        
thereof who Imediately Came with the Bricklayer & searcht the house &           
Could not find any such thing or place which made sr Wm suspect the             
Bricklayer had affronted him which put the Bricklayer In such A Rage that       
he got upon the house & untiled it when to the view the things appeared         
which they soon found A way to get out                                          
     This day mr Reading was by A Habeas Corpus brought to the Kings            
bench barr & prayed to be Removed from Newgate to the Kings bench prison        
which was denied him                                                            
     Major John Creed who hath been many yeares A prisoner In the Isle          
of Gernsey brought A Habeas Corpus by which he was brought to the Kings         
bench barr & nothing appeareing Agt him was discharged                          
+The Councill are now sitting in debate of very High matters                    
     L. c. 859     Nov 8th 1679                                                 
  London Nov 6th 1679                                                           
+Last Tuesday night the Councill Examined those lately seized upon account      
of the Mock=plott but all is Kept very secret, The E of Peterbrough was         
Examined but not Committed                                                      
     There Continues much discourse of sr Robt Payton though not soe            
violent, he hath not yet been before the Councill upon any Complaint            
     Last night there was one Curtis seized neer st mary Hill who Its           
said was formerly Clerke to sr Wm Bucknell In the Excise & after servant        
to A worthy member of Parliamt who falling Into A bad course of life            
became acquainted with dangerfeild &c & appeares to be one of the 8             
witnesses that were to Justify the Mock-Plott & be Evidence Agt mr              
Blood &c  he was Examined by Justice Warcup & Confesseth most of what           
he was Charged with & sent A prisoner to the Gatehouse  Its said the Lady       
Powis Confessed all that shee is Charged with save that of Being privy to       
any designe to murther his Matye Notwithstanding that shee was soe briske       
at her first Examination as to Denye that Ever shee saw or Knew mr              
Dangerfield who Replyed that shee had sufficent Testimony In her owne           
Breast that shee Knew him which the Councill made him Explaine much to          
her dishonour                                                                   
     One donner A Jesuite was yesterday taken Walkeing with the Lady            
Powis being discovered by mr Oates & seized                                     
     The Contrivers of the Mock plott had soe ordered it that Coll              
Mansell &c should be Charged to have Murthered sr Edm: Godfrey & they           
had also appointed witnesses as appeares by the booke that was taken at         
mrs Celliers                                                                    
     Its Reported that when the Councill demanded the Papers taken at mrs       
Celliers sr Wm Waller desired he might Keep the Originalls & he would           
deliver Exact Coppies of them                                                   
     Last night severall of the ffrench Ambrs servants with some of the         
Rabble attempted to put out the Bonefires Neer Covent Garden but were           
quickly forced to betake themselves to their lodgings                           
     Also sr Wm Waller Burnt In the Pallace yard the Popish Books &c            
taken by him & severall of the Popes Effigies were burnt In & Abt the           
Citty with greate acclamation of the people but none at the Temple gate         
as has been usuall of late                                                      
     Amongst other things seized by sr Wm Waller was found A peece by           
Computation of Above 800 yeares Antiquity vizt A gold Cross of Abt 4 ounces     
weight  on the back side was Engraven the Armes of Elfred sometime King         
of England  It was Adorned with divers precious stones of A Considderable       
vallue  within this Cross was A Crosse of Ebony wood upon which Cross was       
Inlayd another Cross of A diferent wood which by all Circumstances was          
made of the wood of the Cross on which our saviour suffered or at least         
soe beleeved by them to be & there were also many other Curiosities which       
are yet preserved                                                               
     mr Reading being brought by Habeas Corpus to the Kings bench barr          
had leave given him to goe Into the Countrey he giveing security to             
become A True prisoner                                                          
     Coll sidney late Ambr In Holland is lately Arrived here                    
     Its Reported that the E of shaftesbury will be Called Againe to the        
Councill                                                                        
+The Paris letters say that King makes vast Preparations In all his Port        
Townes                                                                          
     L. c. 860     Nov 10th 1679                                                
  London 8th Nov 1679                                                           
+There are various discourses Abt the Parliamt  some talke they will be         
dissolved, others that A declaration is prepareing to Call them before          
the time to which they are Prorogued & others that A proclamation will          
Come forth to satisfie the People that they shall sitt at the Time, Also        
Its said the D of Munmoth is sent for home                                      
     mr sidney his Matyes late Ambr In Holland is Returned & hath brought       
with him mr sergeant the Preist formerly mentioned who hath Communicated        
to his Matye & Councill matters of Greate Consequence In Confirmation of        
the late & prsent designes of the papists at which his Matye seemes very        
much Concerned                                                                  
     The Councill sit Close dayly & have againe Examined the persons            
mentioned to be accused of this New plott & others whose names I Know           
not at prsent In all which proceedings the Councill are very secret             
Last night they Examined mr Curtis & Its said have this day Committed           
the Lady Dowager of Avergauvemy [?] to the Tower & some say the Lady            
Tuke also                                                                       
     The Lady Powis at her Examination before the Councill denied shee          
Knew mr Dangerfeild which forced him to discover that he had the honour         
of Being 40 times in Bed with her which made one of the Lds of the              
Councill Aske her when upon her Commitment whether shee would goe to her        
Husband to the Tower or to Newgate to her Gallant, Now shee is In prison        
shee talks that other greate persons were Concerned besides her selfe           
     To morrow is perticulerly appointed for Inspecting the pretended           
Presbiterian plott soe that Its beleeved A short time will produce              
something Considderable  severall Messengers are gone Into yorkeshire &         
severall other places In order to seize divers persons who have been            
lately Charged with being Concerned In the Popish Plott                         
     Its said that yesterday his Maty was pleased to send for my Ld             
shaftesbury by A gentleman of the Bedchamber who Returned something A           
smart Answer  Notwithstanding which the E of sunderland was sent Againe         
at night who found him In the same mind vizt not to Come to whitehall           
till he sees he Can doe some good                                               
     The Journall booke & Papers of the late ffather Harcourt which             
were seized by sr Wm Waller were by his Matyes Comands sealed up &              
delivered to the Ld Gerrard & secretary Coventry which were this day by         
sr Wm Waller & sr John Nicolas one of the Clerks of the Councill Examined       
but not Reported  Its said the booke of account of the disbursements of         
the Jesuitts for some yeares give A greate Confirmation to the Testimony        
of dr Oates as to what he affirmed of those yeares                              
   The Lady Powis her steward being Examined before the Counsell is             
Committed                                                                       
     The duke of Grafton one of his Matyes Naturall sons by the dutchesse       
of Cleveland is married A 2d time to the Ld Arlingtons daughter & the           
dutchesse this weeke Returned for ffrance                                       
     mr Langhornes son is Refused Bayle upon his Habeas Corpus but he was       
Answered he should be tryed or Bayled the next Terme soe is Remanded            
+Its now againe Confirmed by ffresh letters from france that the ffrench        
K is makeing greate navall Preparations In all his sea ports                    
     L. c. 861     Nov 13th 1679                                                
  London 11th Nov 1679                                                          
+On sunday last the Privy Councill had under debate the sitting of the          
Parliamt at the time appointed & many of them pressed very much for it but      
his Matye was pleased to declare he had not fully determined that affaire       
but Its Exspected he will give In his determination to morrow night             
     There was A paper Read of my Ld of shaftesburies which the Councill        
ordered to be Read againe to morrow & that the Earle himselfe be desired        
to be present  It was likewise moved at the Councill board that the whole       
designe of the Pretended Presbiterian plott might be printed but Its            
said his Matye thought it not Convenient                                        
     mr Curtis formerly mentioned one of the 8 witnesses which were to          
prove the new plott on the Innocent Protestants hath been Examined & hath       
Confessed all he Knew & what he was to doe & sweare which gives A more          
further prospect Into the designe  he hath some way or other meritted his       
liberty being Bayled out of the Gatehouse by order of Councill                  
     mr sergeant hath discovered to his Matye & the Councill the                
proceedings of the papists abroade In order to the Executing their              
designes here Agt his Matyes person & Govermt  both he & mr Dangerfeild         
have their pardon                                                               
     Wee have had much discourse Abt Towne as if her Matye were under           
his Matyes displeasure & Confined which is A notorious mistake                  
     Yesterday his Matye went with the E of Burford one of Madam Guynns         
sons & his usuall Attendants upon such occasions Downe to Woolwich where was    
Launched A most goodly 3d Rate ffregott which his Maty was pleased to           
name the Burford                                                                
     Our last letters from the north left his R Highness & dutchesse &c         
safely arrived at yorke                                                         
     Tis said severall of the life guard are upon selling their places upon     
an apprehension that their pay will be Reduced to 3d p day                      
     All mr Jennisons Relations are Turned Protestants upon his late            
discoveries                                                                     
     This day sr Tho: Williams who was Committed abt 3 weeks since for          
Carying false messages between the d of yorke & dr Oates Kist the Kings         
hand & was set at liberty & hopes to be admitted againe one of his Matyes       
Chimists                                                                        
      mr Prance hath discovered another person who was Concerned In the         
murther of sr Edm: Godfrey & he will be Examined to morrow                      
     This day is discovered Another designe of the Papists wherein              
there is already discovered 6 persons to be Concerned which were as             
this day to have murthered sr Wm Waller & mr Bedlow  one of them being          
taken is at this Moment under Examination & by what is Already Knowne           
they had severall meetings at the Kings head Taverne In Covent garden           
& at another Taverne In the strand where there were Backwayes to have           
Escaped & the designe was layd almost as that Agt sr Edm: Godfrey vizt 2        
of the 6 were to waite upon mr Bedlow & acquaint him that they had              
discovered mr Prichard & mr Coniers 2 Notorious preists & by him Charged        
with sr Edmunds Murther & if he & sr Wm Waller would Engage they should         
have their Reward that then they would waite on them to the place where         
Insteed of the preists the other 4 (whereof its said one is A Knight)           
were properly posted & double Armed to murther the said Gentlemen A             
further account of which & the names of the persons you may Exspect by          
the next  Its said there are 5 of them apprehended                              
     L. c. 862     Nov 15th 1679                                                
  London 13th Nov 1679                                                          
+Wee have had greate Exspectations from what would have been done In            
Councill last sunday & then on Tuesday but most of all from the Councill        
last night In Relation to the sitting or not sitting of the Parliamt of         
which much discourse has been but nothing thereof determined  A paper was       
offered to the Councill by the E of shaftesbury which was Read & the            
further Considderation thereof adjourned                                        
     The Prickeing of the High sheriffe for the year Ensuing & also             
severall other matters is deferred till to morrows Councill                     
     The Names of the persons accused with A designe to murther sr Wm           
Waller & Capt Bedlow appear to be mr Bradey mr Brumingham mr Tongue & mr        
smith  mr Bradey Came In & accused the other 3 who were all yesterday           
before the Councill & the matters Confessed by bradey haveing noe full          
proofe on them nor nothing actually Comitted & sr Wm declareing he would        
forgive them they were discharged for that time                                 
     Our letters out of the North say the Grandjury have found the bill         
Agt sr Tho Gascoine &c upon the Evidence given In Agt them by mr Bauldron       
& mr Mowbray formerly mentioned to goe downe for that Intent                    
     Our last letters left the duke & dutchesse of yorke at Durham              
     some Messengers are by Authority gone downe Into the Countrey to           
search for persons & papers & have been at the house of one mr sherbonne        
of stonehurst In Lankashire where they seized severall persons at Masse         
but the doores being shutt the Preist got away before they got In but           
they seized all the Habitts & other utensills of the Chappell & Neer 200        
L worth of Plaite In Candlesticks Challices &c                                  
     Yesterday sr Wm Waller accompanied by mr Justice Arnold An Eminently       
zealous Justice & others seized the house of one Turner A Popish bookseller     
In Holburne where they seized A vast quantity of Popish books of all            
sorts, mr Turner being out upon bayle was at home but behaiveing himselfe       
with much Confidence & Insolence sr Wm Committed him againe                     
     sr Wm Also seized the Originall Coppies of many of the late Treasonable    
Pamphletts that have been printed & Amongst them that of the Compendium A       
peece deservedly Infaimous for which the Authour Its hoped will have his        
deserts                                                                         
     Alsoe he seized many odd popish Trinketts & Reliques Amongst which         
A peece of fine linnen which mr Turner Confessed had been dipped In the         
blood of all the 5 Jesuitts that suffered togather & 2 locks of haire the       
one from Gavens the other from Turners head                                     
     There were also greate quantities of Balladds Rendring the Popish          
Plott Ridiculous & also the most Eminent protestants Contemplatable with        
scurrillous Reflections on the Kings Evidence which if the Counterplott         
had taken Effect had Doubtlesse been Exposed                                    
     Also sr Wm lately seized some papers at the Custome house & found          
3 letters of dangerous Consequence directed to A person of quality which        
he delivered according to direction  with the Papers were found severall        
Popish Reliques Especially of the 5 late Executed Jesuitts as the haire         
of one of them the peece of the Coate of another & A peece of the Rope          
that Hanged one of them Also A Handkercher dipt In Colemans blood               
     Next Munday being queen Elizabeths day will be burnt severall              
Effigies of the Pope & Its said some Gent have A designe to burne the           
Effigies of A person of note Abt the Citty at Templegate                        
     L. c. 863     Nov 17th 1679                                                
  London Nov 15th 1679                                                          
+Wee are assured that the league between Holland & ffrance is soe far           
from being Concluded that his Matye understanding that the dutch are            
Unwilling to Enter Into A league with him without the Consent of the            
Parliamt of England has sent to his Ambr In Holland to assure those             
states that the Parliamt shall sit at the time appointed & that he will         
Enter Into A league with them & A proclamation is Every day Exspected to        
assure the people that the Parliamt shall sitt                                  
     Yesterday Came forth In Print A proclamation wherein his Matye             
promiseth 100 L vizt 80 L besides the 20 L In A proclamation of the 20th        
Novembr 1678 to any person who shall apprehend A Jesuite which shall be         
paid Immediately after the Conviction of any such Jesuite by the Ld             
Treasurer or the Lds of the Treasury                                            
     His Matye doth likewise declare that whoever shall discover any            
Estate Reall of personall belongeing to any Jesuite or Colledge or              
seminary of Jesuitts or to any popish Preists Convent or Nunnery of Popish      
ffoundation shall have the full Moyety thereof Excepting such as are            
Already discovered which are Ishuing out of the Estates of sr Tho:              
Preston & sr Jo: Warner & 2000 L Charged on the Estate of Henery Nevill &       
1500d In the hands of Augustine Hungate which is now under the Examination      
of the Lds of the Treasury                                                      
     Yesterday sr Wm Waller haveing Information of A greate quantity of         
books which were Concealed at the Grayhound Inn stables In Holburne             
Repaired thither with severall others & found 5 Greate Hampers & A large        
Caske full of books & Upon Examination of severall persons they proved to       
be mr Justice Wilds of Wild=House  which of them were popish sr Wm seized       
In order to their being destroyed                                               
     Its Reported that his R Highs being In A Gentlemans house perceived        
In the Pane of A Glass window these words written with A diamond which          
is Affirmed to be done by King Charles the firste                               
          ERRORS IN TIME MAYBE REDREST                                          
          THE SHORTEST ERRORS ARE THE BEST                                      
     His Matye blessed be God is In very good health & walked yesterday         
to ffulham with some few Attendants  Thence In the Common fferry boate          
Crost over to Putney  Thence to Ham to the d of Lauderdales house where         
he stayd A very little time  Thence to Hampton Court to dinner & thence         
backe againe In the afternoon to whitehall where the Councill sate &            
from whence wee were Under some Exspectations of many things but there          
was nothing done save Chooseing & Pricking the new high sheriffs for the        
year Ensuing                                                                    
     mr Goodwin surveyor of the victualling office is made Commissioner of      
the Navy In the Roome of sr Jo Kempthorne who died lately at Portesmouth        
     sr Tho Gascoine the lady Tempest & others are ordered to be tryed          
forthwith at the Kings bench barr                                               
+The Ld Roberts E of Radnor hath taken his Oath as President of the             
Councill as the Law Requires                                                    
+Donner the Preist lately seized by dr Oates talkeing with the Lady Powis       
was yesterday sent to Newgate                                                   
     The E of shaftesbury had that part [In d?]angerfields discovery sent       
to him which Relates to his Ldpp & finds the Circumstances [Coinc?]ide In       
Every perticuler & that he had undoubtedly been stabbd had not one mr           
saunders A Gentlemen Come Instantly Into the Roome & stayed with his Ldpp       
till some of his servants Came who then put mr dangerfield out of doores        
     There is greate preparation Agt Munday being queen Elizabeths day          
when the pope & Conclave of Cardinalls are to Ride from Whitechappell to        
Temple barr & there burnt  They say sr Edm: Godfrey must Ride to somerset       
house & sr Robt Payton is to act his Part which things will Cost 300 L          
     L. c. 864     Nov 22d 1679                                                 
  London 20th Nov 1679                                                          
+This day dr Oates was Tryed at the Kings Bench barr being accused by one       
of his men of Buggery  The Jury brought it In Ignoramus  The dr was             
Acquitted & the Accuser Committed                                               
     mrs Price & mr Tasbrough are to be tryed next satureday for                
Tampering with mr Dugdale to make him Recant his Evidence                       
     Its discoursed that the Lds Hallifax Russell & Cavendish are (or           
will desire his Matye to be) discharged from the Privy Councill                 
     Yesterday the Ld Maior & Aldermen went to the Councill Abt A Tryall        
between the Citty & the Water Bayliffe Requireing 4 L p Tun for all             
scotch Coales that Come up the River Could not be decided yesterday &           
therefore is left to the Common law                                             
     Giffords Trunke was seized on Tuesday night by Justice Warcupp             
wherein were some letters & Popish books but not anything Treasonable or        
Relating to the Plott soe was delivered to him againe & he being Examined       
yesterday by the Councill there was noe proofe that he was the same             
Gifford that hired the Maide In fetter lane to set her masters house on         
fire soe gave 3000 L Bayle to appear upon summons                               
     This morning About 9 A Clocke sr Wm Waller had A letter sent him to        
meet A Gentleman at A Taverne but his lady feareing some Plott Agt him          
sent her servant to the place but found No body                                 
     The Marquess de Burgamerino the spanish Ambr hath had his Audience         
of Conge & don Pedro de Ronquillo is Come over In his place                     
     They write from scotland Dated 7th Instant that the Ld Burgeny is          
sent Prisoner to Blackness Castle for his accusation In the late                
Rebellion  Also 5 of the Rebells were Condemned to be Drawne Hanged &           
quartered & their quarters to be Hung up In Iron Chaines In the very            
place where the Bp of st Andrewes was Murthered they Refuseing to take          
the Bond Tendred to them never to Rise againe In Rebellion  all the Rest        
subscribeing the said Bond are only ordered to be Transported Into some         
fforreign Plantation  By A letter thence of the 13th wee are Informed           
that mrs Christan Hamilton who was supposed to Kill the Ld fforrester           
being Condemned for the same was on the 12th Instant Beheaded shee              
Altogather denying that shee was guilty of the fact Affirming the Ld            
fforrester Run him selfe upon the Point of A sword In her hand & died           
with greate Resolution to the admiration of the spectators                      
     Wee have letters from the Maderas of A very ffreshe date which say         
that the ship Recovery of London Edward Dover master 60 Tuns 6 guns & but       
16 men In her voyage from Bilboa to that Port was mett with & Attacqued         
by A sally man of war with whome he maintained A fight board & board for        
about 4 houres In which he Killed & wounded between 50 & 60 of the Enemy        
him selfe looseing but one man & 2 wounded  In the End haveing Cleared          
himselfe he Came safe In to that Port  the masters greate Courage &             
Conduct In the Engagemt will noe doubt have its Reward from his Matye at        
his Returne home                                                                
     Letters from Dantzicke In Poland say that King whose Crowne is             
Elective hath summoned an Assembly of those states to Warsaw where Its          
said Amongst other things the setling A Right of succession to the              
Crowne on the Kings Eldest son is designed                                      
     The ffrench letters say that 8 of the ffrench Gallies are makeing          
Ready In Provence & had orders to Winter at Genoa & another squadron had        
orders to winter in Leghorne which hath Caused strange Apprehensions            
Amonge the Genovesses & the more because the ffrench K Hath told the            
Resident of Genoa that he was Resolved to Have all ships whatsoever that        
Came Into their Haven to salute his ships with their fflagg & that his          
ships should fire on those that did it not & that if they should hinder         
the same he should looke on it A breach of the peace betwixt him & the          
Republicke of which Resolutions he hath given notice to the Pope & duke         
of fflorence                                                                    
  Its now assured that the d of Mantua is to surrender Cassall to the           
ffrench                                                                         
+Wee have account that A 3d ffrench man of war Called the Conquerer is          
lost & In her above 300 men besides the voluntiers & her Capt Mounsr            
Chabert A man of Greate Esteeme for his Courage & skill In Navigation,          
     The Councill debated noe publicke Buisness last sitting                    
     His Matye went this morning to Windsor & will Returne on satureday         
     L. c. 865     Nov 24th 1679                                                
  London Nov 22d 1679                                                           
+This weeke there hath been severall Alterations of Greate officers at          
Court vizt Lawrence Hyde Esqr is made viscount Kilworth & Chiefe Commr of       
the Treasury In the Roome of the E of Essex & sr stephen ffox is made one       
of the Comrs of the Treasury In his steed  And Capt Guy secretary of the        
said Commrs is made Paymaster of the Army & sr Geo: Downing is made             
secretary to the Comrs of the Treasury but there is noe Alteration In the       
Councill as was Reported                                                        
     Tis Reported Capt Bedlow hath seized 45 Originall letters from Rome        
laying open the Plott but some say Its A mistake                                
     The Armourers of the Tower Recd orders last wednesday to have Alwayes      
In Readiness 10000 fireArmes to withstand any Popish designes                   
     Tis said his Matye hath sent A severe Checke to the Ld Maior of            
Yorke for not Receiveing his Brother soe as became him                          
     Tis said the D of yorke Intends to lodge this night at Landersworth        
being the d of Lauderdales house 16 miles from Edenbrough                       
     Last Thursday A Bill of Indictment was brought Agt mr Tasbrough &          
mrs Price for Endeavouring to Corrupt the Evidence of mr Dugdale & they         
are to be Tryed next Thursday                                                   
     The same night mr Dugdale tooke post for staffordshire with Power          
to ffetch up severall persons for Abuseing him for what he hath done            
     Also mr oates preferred the Bill Agt mr Knox & mr lane for                 
scandalizeing him which is to be tryed next Wednesday                           
     Yesterday the Councill sate & Examined sr Robt Payton mr henery Nevill     
mr Gadbury mrs Cellier &c And Notwithstanding mr dangerfeild declares he        
Knew not or Ever was In Company of sr Robt Payton yet severall witnesses        
swore Positively sr Robt was with him at divers times & places soe the          
Councill adjourned the further heareing till wednesday                          
     sr Robt Payton Intends to Print A vindication of himselfe to Cleare        
his Innocency                                                                   
     The same night all the Judges mett at sergeants inn In Consultation        
abt the Nature of the Crimes of the Prisoners for the Mock Plott Aswell         
those In the Tower as In Newgate to see how far the law toucheth the Case       
of Every perti[cular]                                                           
+This morning the K Returned from Windsor                                       
  mr Curtis one of the persons Confederated with mr Dangerfeild In the          
Mock Plott who was lately Bayled out of the Gatehouse is fled                   
  The E of Castlemaine Came to the Kings bench by Habeas Corpus &               
demanded liberty upon Bayle which was denied him                                
   The ffrench letters Informe us that Mounsr signeli the son of Mounsr         
Colbert Continues visitting the Maritime Parts takeing Exact account of         
the prsent Condition of places & Number of seamen & designes to make            
the Haven of vandress In Rousillion Navigable for the Biggest ships out         
of which province the K has Commanded that noe Corn be Transported & also       
has ordered the Building of A Citty at A place Called mont Lewis [?] which      
will at all times preserve A secure passing to the Pirenian mountains           
The Match of the Dauphine with the Princesse of Bavaria seemes to be at         
A stand greate Endeavours being used to match her In the Empire which           
would ffrustrate the hopes of the ffrench K In procureing the dauphine          
to be [?] Elected K of the Romans                                               
+There is one mr Jo: Napper A ffranciscan Preist taken by sr Wm Waller          
who had In his Pockett the Protection of one mr stamford A subject of           
his Matye of England but A Resident here for the d of Newburgh & A              
Roman Catholicke & sr Wm searching the said mr stamfords house last             
sunday found them at High Masse & neer sixty of his Matyes subjects             
there which Incencest the Counsel Agt him  the Event wee must Exspect           
+ffrom Utricht they write that the d of Munmoth was gone to the Hague &         
there he Intended to Reside this winter.                                        
     L. c. 866     Nov 27th 1679                                                
  London 25 Nov 1679                                                            
+Wee hear this day that orders are sent for the d of yorks Returne hither       
& that severall Coaches with 6 horses apeece are ordered to Meet him            
      Last night was A Cabinet councill & his Matye prsent where Coll           
Mansell was Asked how he durst presume to print the Narrative of things         
Transacted at the Councill table without their leave for which he beged         
their pardon if he [about fifteen letters smeared] he designing only to         
Clear himselfe & prevent the ill thoughts which the Mis=Representation of       
this Buisness might have Imprinted In the minds of the People                   
     On ffriday morning mr Gadbury was brought to the Kings Bench barr          
where being asked wherefore sr Robt Payton Came soe often to his house &        
severall other questions he would not answer to any soe was Remanded to         
the Gatehouse                                                                   
     Also the Councill ordered Capt Richardson the Keeper of Newgate that       
he should not let any have accesse to mrs Celliers & to morrow sr Robt          
Payton mrs Celliers &c are to be Examined before the Councill                   
     This day was the Tryall at the Kings Bench barr between dr oates Agt       
mr Lane & mr Knox (servants to the E of danby) who accused him of               
Buggery, there were 13 witnesses for dr oates to disprove severall              
Circumstances of their Accusation & sr Wm Waller made it appear that Lane       
upon his oath had confessed to him that himselfe Knox & one Osborne             
since fled were Joyntly Concerned In A designe to prove Buggery &               
other Crimes Agt mr oates And mr dangerfeild proved fully that the Lds          
In the Tower [?] [word of about four letters smeared] mrs Cellier their         
Treasurer to pay 10 L p weeke apeece to the said Knox & Lane & also gave        
money to other persons to accuse the said dr, The Evidence was soe full         
that the Ld Cheife Justice scroggs left it to the Jury (without summing         
it up) who brought them In guilty but their punishmt is not yet decreed         
whether it shall be Pillory or whipping or both  There was present the Ld       
shaftesbury Hallifax Grey Bp of London &c  mr dangerfeild had his pardon        
perfected last night to make him A valid witness  upon this tryall the          
Cleareing of the Counterplott very much depended                                
     It is now beleeved Notwithstanding many Repeated Reports to the            
Contrary that there is not yet any league concluded between ffrance &           
Holland                                                                         
     Judge Wild died on sunday morning last                                     
       On sunday night last In A very Rude manner some persons broke the        
windows of sr Wm Wallers house to the greate disturbaunce of the ffamily        
but noe harme Else done though it hath been Reported they made divers           
shotts Into the house                                                           
     The Amity of London Burthen 220 Tuns & 18 guns laden with wines &          
fruits from Mallaga is Cast away In A ffogg neer the Isle of wight  the         
goods lost but the men saved                                                    
     Also The ship Thomas & the st Mary Port both from Newfoundland             
were lost In A violent storme which arose 4 houres after they set sayle         
       They write from Milan that the Waters have done Extrary dammages         
In that County the ditches of the River Po Being broke in severall places       
& much Countrey under water                                                     
     They write from Paris that the dutchesse of Cleveland was mett some        
miles out of Towne by severall persons of quality soe Entred that Citty         
In Greate state  The Marriage of the dauphine with the Princess of              
Bavaria seems now to be very doubtfull                                          
  The Ld Castlemaine was Againe yesterday brought to the Kings Bench            
barr yesterday where the Atturney Genll acquainted him with the Charge          
drawne up Agt him & he was Remanded Backe to the Tower                          
+The queen of Englands Birth day was very sollemly [obse]rved at Paris by       
the English Resident &c                                                         
      L. c. 867     Nov 29th 1679                                               
  London Nov 27th 1679                                                          
+Last night the Councill being sate his Matye present sr Robt Payton            
Appeared as also mr Dangerfeild who (though hitherto he had said nothing        
Agt sr Robt) then Informed the Councill that he had seen sr Robt 3 times        
with mrs Celliers & more perticulerly In her Closett when they had              
discourse of High Concernes & Also what discourse he overheard between          
them soe upon this Information & that last ffriday the Councill obliged         
him to give In Bayle                                                            
     This day sr Jo: Gage was brought by Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench       
barr & demanded liberty upon bayle In which he was seconded by some on          
the Bench but was very strongly opposed by mr Justice Pemmerton whose           
Reasons soe far prevailed that he was Remanded to the Kings bench prison        
This day dr oates appeared at the Kings Bench barr & demanded Judgmt Agt        
Tho Knox & Jo: Lane but upon some fformality of Law which hath been             
omitted (Its supposed the verdict not being ffiled up) it was Adjourned         
till next Terme                                                                 
   His Matye hath given dr oates an order upon the Treasury to                  
Reimburse him the whole Charge of the prosecution                               
     The Tryall of mr Tasbrough & mrs Price which wee Exspected would           
have been this day at the Kings bench barr is put off till next Terme           
     Judge Wild Will be Buryed In the Temple Church on Tuesday next             
     The sheriffe of Lichfeild is sent for by order of Councill for             
Refuseing to Ishue out Comissions for seizing such persons In staffordshire     
as mr Dugdale has warrants Agt for scandalizeing him                            
     sr Creswell Levens is laying downe his Comission of Atturney Genll         
& sr George Jeffries Recorder of London or the late ld Cheife Justice           
Keelings son will succeed him                                                   
+Last Tuesday his matye went downe the River to see the Launching of A          
New 3d Rate ffregott which he Called the Elizabeth                              
   A New ffrench Ambr is Every day Exspected                                    
     Tis beleeved that the d of yorke Arrived last satureday night at           
Edenbrough whether Its said the lady Ann set forward from whitehall on          
Tuesday last                                                                    
     severall Coaches & Baggage horses went with the d of yorks servants        
towards scotland which occasioned the Report that his R Highs Was sent          
for backe whereas on the Contrary he Intends A setled Residence there           
     The Councill In scotland have put forth 2 Proclamations one                
Concerning Conventicles shewing that whereas his Matyes Indulgence did          
also Command that none should meet but such as had given In their               
Names & security for their peaceable Behaivour  Notwithstanding which           
divers which had Neglected soe to doe did presume to meet at Conventicles       
who are thereby Comanded to delivery In their names & security by A             
day otherwise to have noe Benefitt by the said Indulgence but to be             
proceeded Agt according to Law  The other Proclamation Concerneing the          
late Rebellion & persons Concerned therein & whereas his Matyes pardon          
did Extend only to such as should appear & put In security for their            
peaceable Behaivour for the future which divers haveing Neglected to            
doe were Exempted out of his Matyes Pardon Unless they shew good Cause          
why they have not done it Already or shall doe it before the first of           
January Next  Also the letters say that sr Jo Cockram 2d son to the E of        
Dodonold [?] with others are seized upon account of Being Concerned in          
the said Rebellion                                                              
+Wee have A Rumour this Evening that the d of Munmoth is Arrived                
Incognito from Holland                                                          
     L. c. 868     dec 1st 1679                                                 
  London Nov 29th 1679                                                          
+Last Thursday afternoon the d of Munmoth Arrived & Notwithstanding his         
Intended secresy it was Knowne Early Next morning In Westminster The            
Bellmen Belcheing [?] out his Welcome home Raised many people who               
Immediately made bonefires & Ringeing of Bells &c The Citty of London           
& suburbs doeing the same last night but the Multitude were very violent        
& Rude stopping passengers in Coaches & on foot some of them of Greate          
quality Not suffering them to passe till they had Cryed God save the K &        
the d of Munmoth which hath given his Matye greate offence                      
     His Highness sent to acquaint his Matye of his Arrivall desireing          
admittance to Kisse his hand but it was Refused  the d sent A 2d time           
but Recd Answer by the Ld ffauconbridge that it was his Matyes pleasure         
not to see his face & to Command him In A few houres to depart the              
Kingdome which his Highs Recd with A greate deale of Trouble praying            
the Ld ffauconbridge to prsent his duty & service to his Matye & that he        
Came over to Cleer himselfe from the Guilt of those Horrid Crimes which         
some ill men had Endeavoured to prove him An Actor In he haveing been of        
late much slighted In Holland Upon that account, His Matye went that            
morning to the dutchesse of Munmoths Chamber & had a long Conference with       
her but the d was not admitted his Matye sending word that he should            
Returne beyond sea which should confirme the good opinion his Matye             
had of his Innocence                                                            
     To which the d Returned Answer that he durst not goe Abroade for           
feare the Papists should murther him but had Rather be Confined In              
England upon which his Matye ordered him Not to stirr from his house at         
the Cockpitt & since sent him order to Retire to his house at Moor Parke        
20 miles hence whither he is going                                              
     Upon his Arrivall one mr Turner servant to the d of yorke was sent         
Post to give him Notice & some say Carryed letters to Call him home             
     On Thursday last an order past the Court of Kings bench that noe           
poor prisoners for debt should be freed till the next sessions of               
Parliamt that the late ffraude may be Enquired Into                             
     yesternight mrs Cellier was brought before the Privy Councill where        
also appeared one mr Adams who declared he Knew mr Dangerfeild was              
Employed by mrs Celliers In the Pretended Presbiterian Plott of which           
mrs Cellier had often spoken to him & sometimes pressed him to be               
Concerned In it with them That shee was over at Brussells In fflanders          
upon occasion of that designe & many other seve[rall] things he Informed        
Agt her                                                                         
     The Ld Dumblaine was also very strictly Examined Abt the said Plott        
& how farr he was Concerned In Tampering with the servants of dr Oates          
      One mr strode of somersetshire hath Informed upon Oath that he hath       
been Tampered with to swear false Crimes Agt mr Bedlow & others are Come        
In & more sent for out of the Countrey who are nominated by mr Dangerfeild      
as further proofs of his Evidence                                               
     On Thursday last sr Wm Waller being Informed that mr Wm Gowen              
liveing In deanes Court In Westminster was A preist he went & seized him        
who denied it but finding his Preists garmts &c sr Wm Committed him             
     mr Dugdale Returneing out of the Countrey last wednesday brought up        
some persons which disparridged his Evidence                                    
     some give out that at the opening of the Parliamt there will be            
Articles Exhibited Agt sr Robt Payton one whereof is said to be for             
Blasphemy                                                                       
     Our fforreign letters say that the ffrench K will have 36 gallies &        
150 men of warr out at sea Early the Next spring, That the Match of the         
Dauphine with Bavaria is neer A Conclusion & the K will give the dauphine       
Upon Marriage the title of K of Navarr                                          
     Wee hear ffrom Holland that Coll sidney is Arrived at the Hague &          
that there have been severall meetings between him & the dutch & ffrench        
Ambrs In order to the Consultation of the Triple League                         
     L. c. 869     dec 4th 1679                                                 
  London dec 2d 1679                                                            
+The d of Munmoth Remaines at his house In Hedge Lane Neer the Mewes  On        
sunday last most of the Lds Mentioned In the Presbiterian Plott vissitted       
his Highs & stayd dinner                                                        
     The same day his Matye sent to acquaint the duke that it was his           
pleasure that he should Immediately depart the Kingdome, otherwise he           
would divest him of all his offices, His Highs prayed that his faithfull        
duty & service might be presented & that he Came from Holland as not            
thinkeing himselfe safe In his person there or Elsewhere save In England        
& therefore was Ready to be stript of all he had if his Matye soe pleased       
     soe his Matye made the d of Albemarle Capt of his Guards who went          
yesterday with his Matye by Coach to Hyde Parke & his Matye prsented the        
said duke as their Captaine whome they accepted                                 
     The d upon the Receiveing of his Comission said he did not question        
but his Matye would Restore it to the d of Munmoth but was Answered never       
while his Eyes were open                                                        
     Also the d of Richmond one of his Matyes Naturall sons by the              
dutchesse of Portesmouth is made master of the horse & the E of Mulgrave        
made governour of Hull & Ld Lieft of the East Rideing of Yorkshire &            
other lesse Alterations are made                                                
     The dutchesse of Munmoth hath Entreated his Matye that shee with           
her husband the Duke might goe Into scotland saying that they had Enough        
there to live on & would noe more trouble the Court but was Refused             
     The Boy that Acted the devill & Accompanyed the Effigies of the Pope       
on q Elizabeths day is spiritted away  the Papists say the devill hath          
fetcht him                                                                      
     Wee have letters from Boston In New England which give us A more           
perticuler account of the late losse there by fire which they have some         
suspition was done by Treachery the losse Amounting unto neer 162000 L          
     Yesterday the Ld Maior gave A very splendid Entertainmt to the             
Judges & many Noble Lds now In Towne                                            
     mr Tasbrough is Bayled out of the Gatehouse                                
     A proclamation is Exspected for Banishing the Papists 10 miles from        
London                                                                          
     The Master of Whitechappell prison on satureday night last hanged          
himselfe                                                                        
     mr Pomponne is Certainly Come over hither & is as Certainly out of         
the ffrench Kings faivour                                                       
     The D of yorke hath been Nobly Recd In scotland & will stay there          
till after Crismas                                                              
     A person was taken on satureday last with letters sewed In his             
Cloaths & Examined & not discovering whence he Came & who Employed him he       
was sent to Bridewell to be severely used In order to make him Confesse         
   Wee have Advice that 12 more Newfo[und]landmen are In danger if not          
lost & that the Thomas of Hull bound for the Baltick Entring the soundt         
was lost                                                                        
     They write from Paris dec 5th that the K of spain mett his queen at        
Letilla An Houres distance from Bruges where being Entred the Church they       
Joyned hands In the presence of the Archbishop of Bruges the King Bedding       
her at 8 In the Evening & did not Rise till 11 next morning                     
        The Towne is full of discourse that A Considderable number of Lds       
are prepareing A petition to be prsented to his Matye that the Parliamt may     
sit at the time but A proclamation is Exspected to Come forth to prevent        
their petition                                                                  
     L. c. 870     dec 6th 1679                                                 
  London dec 4th 1679                                                           
+The d of Munmoth is at his house In Hedge Lane & Its Beleeved will             
Continue there  the E of shaftesbury & Lds ffauconbridge & Cavendish have       
Endeavoured to Reconcile his Matye to him with noe Effect but Its Beleeved      
he will In short time be In faivour                                             
     The Report that the place of Master of the horse was given to the          
duke of Richmond proves false that place being by Patent & Cost the d of        
Munmoth 12000 L of the D of Buckingham but his Matye hath Bestowed his          
place of Warden & Cheife Justice In Eyre of all his Matyes fforrests &          
Parks on this side the Trent on the E of Chesterfeild                           
     His Highs being out of the Captainship of the horse Guards sr Thomas       
Armstrong is forced to sell his place of Lieutenant for 1000 L Though he        
hath been formerly proffered 2500 L & the Ld Berkeley son of the Ld             
Berkeley lately deceased is made Lieft In his place                             
     The Countesse of Danby Accompanied with the Lds Latimer & Dumblain &       
some Phisitians prsented A petition shewing the greate Indisposition of         
health & weakeness of body that the E of Danby Now lyes under In which          
his life was very Eminently Concerned praying that his Matye & their Ldpps      
would Accept bayle for him they much hopeing that Change of Aire might          
mightily Conduce to his Recovery  In which matter Its said Nothing is yet       
determined                                                                      
     mr Tasbrough & mrs Price are Bayled & their Tryall put off till next       
Terme but some persons Complaining of their Being bayled it is Endeavoured      
that they may be brought to tryall next weeke                                   
     This weeke mr Justice Redding In southwerke seized In A house Neer         
st Georges ffeilds A warehouse of Copes & vestments & all sorts of Romish       
Trinketts                                                                       
     The d of yorke though he be splendidly Recd In scotland is not             
Admitted to the Privy Councill Nor will be till further Consultation            
    Some weeks since there Happened at saltash In Cornwall A greate             
disorder Abt the Election of A Maior upon which Complaint being made            
severall gentlemen were ordered to appear at the Board & yesterday was A        
full heareing & In Conclusion the Petition was dismist & the gentlemen In       
Custody Released & the Matter In Contest About Maiorality & that of the         
Ryott left to the Common Law                                                    
     Yesterday 2 Lieutenants of the E of Oxfords Regemt had A heareing          
before the said Earle  the one hamneing when they were at Play Run the          
other through the Coate [?] & it being proved that he had formerly Killed       
A souldier he was Cashiered                                                     
+Yesterday his Matye sent for the Ld Maior & demanded of him the Lds            
Buisness who Came 2 dayes since to dine with him & some other questions         
to which his Lordship gave A very modest Answer In Concl[usion] his Matye       
Commanded him to be very Carefull of the peace of the Citty & soe dismist       
him                                                                             
+The discourse hath been that some Lds would petition his Matye that            
the Parliamt may sit at the time but now Its said they Intend not to            
Petition him but addresse themselves to him to that purpose & will be           
followed by the Citty of London & most of the Counties of England               
     Our fforreign letters say the ffrench Continue Mighty Navall               
preparations & by land lay up greate store of Corne & fforrage & that           
the Match of Bavaria goes forward for the dauphine                              
     L. c. 871     dec 8th 1679                                                 
  London dec 6th 1679                                                           
+The d of Munmoth Continues still at his house In Hedge Lane where most         
of the great persons of quality have been to vissit him as also those who       
have severall of his late Commands who declared how much Trouble they had       
In that they were gainers by his losse for whome they had soe greate            
Esteeme &c.  His grace wished them much Joy of their places Assureing           
them that he was very much satisfied since it was his Matyes pleasure to        
divest him therefrom  That saveing to himselfe the service nature & duty        
he owed to his Matye he was Resolved to stand upon his Innocency which he       
doubted not would defend him from the worst of his Enemies                      
     Yesterday the Judges attended on his Matye & delivered it as their         
opinion that Thomas E of Danby is not Bayleable & also that the late            
plott discovered by mr Tho: Dangerfeild was A most Hellish & damnable           
designe & proper to be Comunicated to the Parliamt                              
     His Matye Commanded the Ld Maior & Aldermen to Attend him at               
Whitehall where his Matye told them they should be Carefull & vigilant In       
prosecuting the Lawes Agt Papists & putting In Execution the Proclamations      
published the day before & that his Lordpp should take Care to suppresse        
factions & seditious Libells & secure the quiett of the Citty Agt some          
persons whome [sic] his Matye was Informed was Endeavouring to disturbe         
the same &c                                                                     
     sr Robt southwell one of the Clerks of the Councill with his Matyes        
leave hath sold his place to one mr Winn A late member of Parliamt.  Tis        
said sr Robert is ordered direct for Ireland & thence for spaine to             
Complemt the King upon his late Marriage                                        
     sr Phill ffloyd one of the Clerks of the Councill & formerly dismist       
is Restored                                                                     
     The Lds Continue still to assosiate togather but have not addressed        
themselves to his Matye for the sitting of the Parliamt                         
     There are various Reports Abt the d of yorke & some positively             
affirme he is upon his Returne from scotland & Exspected here In few            
dayes  Also some affirme the P of Orange is Comeing over to Treate abt          
urgent affaires Concerneing the Triple League                                   
     The ffrench King as wee hear hath sent A letter to the states of           
Holland not to make A league with England which if It take Effect that          
then he might take New measures                                                 
     The E of Doncaster youngest son of the d of Munmoth is dead this           
day at which his Matye is much Troubled                                         
     There have of late been severall vessells Robbed that lye neer             
London bridge                                                                   
     The dutchesse of Portesmouth sent her solicittor to sr Creswell            
Levens the Atturney Genll to desire him to prepare A Patent for her             
son the d of Richmond to be master of the horse to his Matye but the            
Atturney Genll sent answer that it Could not be unless the d of                 
Munmoth had Committed some greate Crime whereby the place might be              
forfeited he haveing paid A Considderable summe for it                          
     There is published this day under the hand of mr Tho: Dangerfeild A        
large Narrative In ffolio Containing 75 Pages In which he setts forth the       
Circumstances of the Pretended Presbiterian Plott & proves mrs Cellier          
procured his Liberty out of Newgate & he had Money of the Lds In the Tower      
to Compound his debts & was Employed to Engage severall to swear false          
Crimes Agt mr Oates & mr Bedlow to take off their Evidence & ffather [?]        
A plott on the Protestants & that the Booke Called the Compendium was           
wrote by the Ld Castle[maine]  That the Ld Arrundell of warder offered him      
2000 L to Kill the King  That he did Contract with the sd Ld for 500 L to       
Murther the E of shaftesbury  That mr Gadbury Cast his Nativity & told          
him he might have killed the King without any harme to himselfe  That he        
had Instructions for all this from the Lady Powis & the Lds In the Tower        
In short It discourses as the Judges Called it A most Hellish & damnable        
designe                                                                         
     L. c. 872     dec 11th 1679                                                
  London dec 99th 1679                                                          
+The Associating Lds did on sunday last prsent their Petition to his            
Matye being Introduced by Prince Rupert which was delivered by the E of         
Huntingdon Attended by the Earles of Clare, stamford & shaftesbury & the        
Lds North, shandois, Gray, Howard & Herbert  The E of Bedford was to have       
the 10th according to the statute of 13 Car 2d but was prevented by illnesse    
     The Petition was subscribed by the 10 Lds Above & also by the E of         
Kent & Lds say & seale Ewer, Rockinham, Townesend, Hollis & delamere &c         
     which petition is as followeth                                             
+sr Wee here Cast our selves at yo[u]r Matyes feet being 10 of yo[u]r           
Matyes Peers of yo[u]r Realme of England & In our owne Names & In the           
Names of severall others our ffellow Peers doe humbly Begg that yor Matye       
would Considder the greate Danger your Royall person is In as also the          
Protestant Religion & the govermt of these nations                              
   Wee humbly pray that In A time when all these are soe highly Concerned       
your Matye would Effectually use your Greate Councill the Parliamt, sr          
Out of the deepest feare & Loyalty to your Matye wee offer it as our            
humble advice & Earnest Petition that the Parliamt may sit at the time          
appointed & that your Matye would give publicke notice & Assurance thereof      
that the Minds of yr Matyes subjects may be setled & their feares Removed       
     To which his Matye Answered that he would Considder of what they           
had offered & Could heartily wish that all others were as solicittous           
for the good & peace of the Nation as he would Ever be                          
     Besides which there are divers Printed Petitions with Blanks to            
Insert places & names which are Intended to be dispersed all over the           
Kingdome & to have subscriptions thereunto                                      
     Also the Inhabitants of London have Printed their Petition & Its           
thought will begin to morrow to get subscriptions.                              
  A Coppie whereof ffolloweth                                                   
     To the Kings Most Excellent Matye                                          
+The Humble petition of yo[u]r Matyes most dutifull & Loyall subjects           
Inhabitants of the Citty of London whose Names are hereunto subscribed          
Sheweth                                                                         
+Whereas There hath been & still is A most Damnable Popish Hellish Plott        
Branched forth Into severall the Most Horrid villanies Agt yo[u]r Matyes        
most sacred person the Protestant Religion & the well Established govermt       
of this your Realme for which severall of the Principall Conspirators           
stand Impeached by Parliamt                                                     
     Therefore In such A time when your Matyes Royall person as also the        
Protestant Religion & the govermt of the Nation are thus In most Imminent       
danger                                                                          
     Wee your Matyes most humble dutifull & obedient subjects In the            
deepest sense of o[u]r duty & Alleigance to your Matye doe most humbly &        
Earnestly pray that the Parliamt which is Prorogued to the 26 Jan: Next         
may then sit duely to Execute Justice upon the High offenders & to              
Redresse all our Important Grievances noe other wayes to be Redressed.          
     And wee shall pray &c                                                      
   Last satureday died sr Jo: Berckenhead one of the Masters of Requests        
     mr Osborne who was Indicted with Knox & Lane haveing ffled before          
Tryall hath been since seized & Confesseth all & that he was drawne             
thereunto by the E of danby &c soe hath his liberty upon Bayle  also mr         
Curtis that did absent himselfe will appear & Confesse which will               
strengthen the Evidence of mr Dangerfeild &c                                    
+mr Hobbs the Reputed Atheist died last night Aged 92 much In the same          
Humour as he lived                                                              
     Advice hath been given to one of the Councill that 12 of the Preists       
are designed for England to Carry on the Plott whose faces dr Oates Never       
saw but persons are appointed to waite their Arrivall & seize them              
     Letters from scotland say his R Highs is not yet Recd Into the             
Councill of scotland by Reason of divers Oaths of which the Councill have       
Informed his Matye to Know his pleasure therein                                 
  There hath been lately A greate quantity of Gold seized at Gravesend          
designed to have been Transported Into some fforreign Parts                     
     L. c. 873     dec 13th 1679                                                
  London dec 11th 1679                                                          
+Last night his Matye gave orders to the Atturney Genll to prepare A            
proclamation declareing his Matyes Resolution to Prorogue the Parliamt          
till the 11th November next                                                     
    Yesterday the Ld Maior & Aldermen were to Attend his Matye In Councill      
& were Commanded to take Care of the peace & safety of the Citty & not          
suffer persons that procure hands to Petitions Tending to sedition &            
Rebellion to goe unpunished but should Cause them to be brought before          
the Councill board to be punished &c                                            
     Orders are sent Into scotland that the D of yorke be Admitted of the       
Privy Councill without takeing the Oath which at first was denied  he was       
accordingly admitted on the 4th                                                 
+The d of Munmoth appeares now publickly In the streets & vissitts & is         
vissitted haveing dined the other day at the E of Bedfords house In the         
Strand                                                                          
     Last Tuesday died sr Jo: Robinson late Lieutenant of the Tower & the       
E of Danby Continues In A very weake Condition of Body Insomuch that his        
Phisitians say there is little hopes of Recovery                                
     sr Jo Birkenheads place of master of Requests is given unto Wm             
ffanshaw Esqr & dr Thompson A Civilian is In mr ffanshawes place In the         
ffaculty office  Also mr Abraham his Matyes Cofferer is dead & the place        
given to mr Brankerd                                                            
     The Ld Langford is made Master of the ordinance In Ireland & is            
accordingly gone to take posession of the Armory                                
        Wee have this day the ill newes that the st Lucan Merchant of 150       
Tuns Laden with Currants from Zant strucke upon the Rocks neer the Lands        
End on ffriday last where shee was lost with the Master & 13 of the men         
     One mr Howard A staffordshire Gent is Committed to Newgate by order        
of the Councill for Harbouring A preist                                         
     On Tuesday night last the house of sr Wm Turner Alderman was broke         
open & he Robbed of 700 L for which one of his servants & others are            
taken Into Custody upon suspition                                               
     One of his Matyes messengers hath given notice to the Privy Councill       
of 80 L p Ann of Lands belongeing to A Monastry & hath prsented A petition      
to the Councill that he may have the Reward mentioned In the late               
Proclamation  One mr fferguson A minester of scotland Resident here hath        
been Called before the Councill & Charged with writeing the Epistle to mr       
smiths Narrative which he did not owne but said he doubted not but mr           
smith himselfe would  The Ld Chancellor told him his Matye Exspected he         
should Enter Into Recognizance to leave the Kingdome In A month which he        
told their Lordships he Could not doe  In Conclusion he was discharged          
        The Master of the small Pinke Called the Recovery formerly              
mentioned to have Cleared himselfe of A Turks man of Warr is now Arrived        
& hath been prsented to his Matye who ordered him A gold Chaine & A medall      
     L. c. 874     dec 15th 1679                                                
  London dec 13th 1679                                                          
+His Matye In Councill Continues to be very much Incensed Agt the               
Proceedings In Relation to Petitions & Also Agt Many Pamphletts of late         
dispersed & In order to find out the Authors & printers thereof hath sent       
messengers to search many houses & seize Booksellers Printers &c who have       
been under Examination & will be further Examined the Next Councill day         
Notwithstanding which many persons doe Continue to promote subscriptions        
unto Petitions dayly In & Abt the Citty                                         
     The Proclamation for Prorogueing the Parliamt is Come forth In these       
words                                                                           
+CHARLES R whereas the Parliamt hath been Prorogued Untill the 26th             
January next Wee for many weighty Reasons have thought fit & Resolved           
to make A further Prorogation of Parliamt untill the 11th Novembr next          
Ensuing & therefore doe by this our Royall Proclamation publish & declare       
that the Parliamt shall be Prorogued Upon & from the said 26th day of           
January untill the 11th day of November next whereoff the Lds spirituall        
& Temporall & Knights Citizens & Burgesses & all others may hereby take         
Notice & order their Affaires Accordingly wee letting them Know that wee        
will not at the said 26th of January Exspect the Attendance of Any but          
only such as being In & Abt the Cittyes of London & Westminster may attend      
the Makeing of the said Prorogation as heretofore In like Cases hath been       
accustomed  Given at Court &c                                                   
     The Justices of Middlesex were summoned before the Councill & A            
strict Charge given them to put the Lawes & his Matyes Proclamation In          
Execution Agt Papists as also that they discourage & suppresse                  
subscriptions unto Petitions to which purpose Its said Commissions will         
be sent to all the Justices In England                                          
     ffrom fflanders they write that the ffrench K hath Raised 6000             
Dragoons & that his Intendent In Heynault is makeing A Prodigious Provision     
of Bread Corne & Oates  That all his New Conquests are ffortifying with         
Indefagitable power & dispatch & that 2000 switzers are dayly at worke to       
prevent the sand from Injureing the harbor of dunkerke as formerly it           
hath done                                                                       
     Letters from vienna say that there hath died In the late Plague            
there 140518 persons vizt                                                       
 In January 410          July     7507                                          
  ffeb      359          August   4519                                          
  March    3797          sept    16774                                          
  Aprill   4963          october  6475                                          
  May      5727          November 2402                                          
  June     6557                                                                 
 All which died In the Citty & Ammounted to    59488                            
 There died In the suburbs In the same time    3042                             
 died In the Pesthouses in the same time       505                              
                                    [total]    140518                           
+A Prodigious Number the Place Considdered which is not Esteemed more           
than A 6th Part of London & the suburbs                                         
     ffrom Amsterdam they write that they had Advice from the streights         
that the Turks had taken 18 English ships bound from Newfoundland to their      
market In spaine & 16 of them were Carryed Into Algeirs & 2 Into sally          
     ffrom Poland they write that the Muscovite had made A Truce for 3          
yeares with the Turks at which the Poles are much Concerned the whole           
force of the Turks being like to fall on them                                   
   Our sessions Ended this day where mr Jo: Dell A yeoman liveing at            
Edgar In Middlesex had 4 Indictments Agt him  The 1st for Killing his           
ffather 2d for Killing his brother the 3d for Killing his wife & 4th for        
stealeing A mare  The Evidence of the 3 former Came not to the Law though       
beleeved to be guilty but he was Convicted & Condemned for the last             
+some Weavers this last week prsented A petition to the Ld Maior signed         
by some thousands of their Profession Representing the greate necesity          
their want of Trade hath Reduced them Unto praying his Lordship to take         
it Into his serious Considderation & if Posible to fine them A Reliefe          
+Just now is Come forth another Proclamation Agt Tumultuous Petitions &c        
     L. c. 875     dec 18th 1679                                                
  London dec 16th 1679                                                          
+The dutchesse of Munmoth is forbid the Court upon account of some              
falling out between her & the dutchesse of Portesmouth                          
     Its Exspected that A New Parliamt will be Called In the spring for         
that the Additionall duty of Excize & the Impositions on the Law Expire         
at midsomer next                                                                
     The Report of sr Wm Wallers being put out of the Comission of peace        
proves A mistake                                                                
     Tis said orders are given to the Inhabitants of the Tower that they        
quitt their Habitations save only such as his Matye shall allow of & that       
orders are given for the Reception of 1000 souldiers there & yesterday 2        
Companies of ffoot were ordered to march to Tilbury to strengthen that fort     
     Tis said nell Gwyn is Turned Roman Catholicke                              
+They write from scotland that their R Highnesses were Complemented at          
the Highest Rate by all persons of quality In that Kingdome soe that            
nothing more Could have been paid to their Matyes had they been there           
     Tis Reported Coll Mildmay is sent for out of Essex to attend the           
Councill to morrow being supposed to have A hand In promoteing the late         
Tumultuous Petitions                                                            
     Inteligencers are dayly taken up for writeing seditiously & persons        
are Employed at the Posthouse to Inspect suspected letters                      
     Tis said the E of Bedford & Ld Hollis have disowned their hands to         
the late Addresse                                                               
     Last night one smith A Bookseller In Cornhill was taken Into Custody       
for printing seditious books                                                    
     severall persons In the suburbs have notwithstanding the late              
Proclamation Endeavoured to Procure hands to Petitions for the sitting          
of the Parliamt                                                                 
+The Ld Shrewsbury is made Ld Lieutenant of staffordshire & the E of            
sunderland is to Execute the Lieutenancy dureing the E of Shrewsburies          
minority                                                                        
     Tangier is very much In danger by the Moores & some discourse that         
it will be lost if not suddenly Relieved which his Matye & the Comtee for       
Tangier have under their prsent Consultation                                    
     There seems to be A greate discovery of the same Game Playing In           
Ireland as hath been discovered In England from time to Time                    
     They write from Hamburgh that the defensive alliance between sweden        
& Denmarke is Printed by which Each is to assist the other with 2000            
horse 4000 foot & 10 men of warr able to Carry to fight 2500 men  the           
said ships & men to be doubled if need Require  The Treaty to Continue for      
10 yeares Into which none shall be admitted without Each others Consent         
     letters from Jamaica of the 23d sept say that Island hath very             
Considderable fortifyed it selfe & are now In A posture not to feare the        
approach of any Enemy whatsoever & that the E of Carlisle their Governor        
was In good health & there was A ship Arrived with Amunition &c                 
     The ffrench In Germany have been some time fortifying Extraordinarily      
A place Called Hunnengen which lyes within Cannon shot of the Citty of          
Bazell the first & greatest Citty under the Jurisdiction of the Protestant      
Cantons of switzerland who have severall times Complained thereof at the        
Court of ffrance to little Purpose Upon which o[u]r letters from                
strasburgh of the 10th say that the Cantons Resolved forthwith to               
assemble to oppose the further proceedings In fortifying the said place         
which the ffrench gather all the hands they Can to perfect & are growne         
soe Insolent as to forbid the Carrying Provisions to Bazell upon paine of       
death  the Issue time will shew                                                 
     To morrow will be A very greate Councill day at whitehall                  
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 876     dec 20th 1679                                                
  London 18th dec 1679                                                          
+His Matye hath been pleased to declare that he Resolves to ffree not           
only the Citties of London & Westminster from the Papists but the whole         
Kingdome also soe far forth & as speedily as it may be done without any         
prejudice to publicke Concerne at home or abroade                               
     The Ld Chancellor Ld President E of sunderland E of Hallifax mr            
Hyde mr secretary Coventry Ld Cheife Justice North & mr seymour who are         
the Comittee for suppressing Popery & preventing Dangers that may Arise         
from the same sate this day In the Councill Chamber In Whitehall                
     Also sr Wm Waller mr Justice Warcupp &c mett togather to Consult of        
such Expedients as may be most Effectuall for Putting In Execution his          
Matyes late Proclamation for Commanding all Papists to depart from              
London & Westminster &c                                                         
     Complaints being made at the Councill board that the Coffee houses         
were A greate meanes to promote Tumultuous Petitions severall persons           
haveing seditious Clubbs at them & that It were fitt they were put downe        
The Coffee men attended with their Peitions Intimating that haveing             
greate quantities of Coffee Berries they should be Ruined if the sale           
should be stopt                                                                 
     An Account & Character of all the Justices In England are to be            
Returned Into the Crowne office & there to be New modelled & those as are       
lookt upon as not loyall will be put out of Commission                          
     The schollars of A lattin schoole In Common street at their Breakeing      
up to shew their abhorrance of Popery Acted the History of Pope Joan            
which had many hundred spectators & greate applause                             
    It was said the dutchesse of Cleaveland was dead at Paris but yesterday     
wee had letters of her owne writeing & also that shee was in health             
     mr Blasedale An Apothecary & son In Law to mrs Celliers offers to          
make A further discovery of the first & 2d plott if his Matye will grant        
him his Pardon                                                                  
     One Parker A Watchmaker Condemned for Coyneing false Guyneys being         
vissitted by 2 of his Acquaintance In Gentile Habitt he accused them of         
the same soe they were stopt & sayes if he may have A pardon he will            
discover 30 more                                                                
     Letters from Hamburgh say that the d of Brandenburghs Troops had           
quitted stetin & the sweds had taken Posession being Introduced by the          
Inhabitants with greate Joy                                                     
     Letters from vienna say there hath not d[ied] one person there of          
the plague for many dayes                                                       
     Letters from Paris of the 22d dec say that on the 15th the King            
queen & Dauphine sent their Procurators to Mounsr Colbert at Municke In         
Bavaria to prepare & signe the Articles of Contract In order to the             
Marriage of the dauphine with Ann Maria Victoria sister of the Elector of       
Bavaria                                                                         
     They write from Tourin that the ffrench K is Building A Harbour at         
Antibo 3 leagues from Pizza which will be as good as Either Toulon or           
Marselles                                                                       
     Letters from the Hague say the ffrench minesters there Push on with        
all their might Even to Threats for A New alliance with the states who          
are not Come to any Resolution therein, That the P of Orange had Advice         
that on the 20th Past P Maurice of Nassau died at Cleves, Also that the P       
of Orange is Come for England                                                   
     A Report lately Come from scotland that 4 Troops of horse & 3              
Regemts of ffoot are sent for to hinder the discontented for makeing any        
Insurrection which they seem to be very much Inclined by their Bold             
discontented speeches                                                           
+It is very Confidently Reported that the d of yorke is sent for backe          
     L. c. 877 (1)    dec 22d 1679                                              
  London dec 20th 1679                                                          
+His Matye hath been somewhat Indisposed this weeke but Comes Into              
Councill Every Councill day, A Treasonable letter was this weeke found In       
whitehall & was Read to his Matye which much displeased him                     
     Parker the Watchmaker is Executed  he Could not obtaine A Reprieve         
his Matye haveing once Pardoned him before for the like offence                 
     The d of Monmoth Comes much to Court & is dayly In his Matyes presence     
     A lieutenant of the Kings Regemt of foot marching through the Citty        
this weeke at the head of his Company was stopt by order of the Ld Maior        
who desired him to put up his Colours & not to beate his Drumes which at        
first he Refused but afterwards did                                             
     Last night was A Councill & mrs Celliers made A large Confession           
denying nothing that was layd to her Charge & mr Blasedale her son In Law       
Confessed something of Moment                                                   
     Also Abt 40 Inteligencers & Booksellers were Againe Examined about         
the Association Petitions some of which were Comitted & the Rest discharged,    
Also the proposalls of the Justices of Westminster & Middlesex for              
suppression of Papists were Read & Referred to the Committee of Councill        
for suppressing popery  And It was ordered that A Committee of the Justices     
vizt sr wm smith mr Justice Warcupp & mr Justice denby doe as occasion          
shall offer from time to time Attend the said Committee of Councill & his       
Matye past an order of Councill under the seale to Impower any of them          
with A Constable to Enter at any time & search somersethouse & st James         
Comanding the Porters & other officers thereof to open the doores & give        
obedience thereto when & as often as it shall be Required, Also the             
Councill Read over the lists Returned out of the severall Counties that         
Contained the names of all Papists Comitted & the    L. c. 877 (2)              
Names of all Papists or soe Reputed In which the Numbers being greate           
their Ldpps were neer 3 houres In Consultation thereof                          
     To morrow will be Another Councill & mr stephen Dugdale is ordered         
to appear haveing given their Ldpps Intimation that he hath some Originall      
Papers & other matters of greate Importance to Communicate In Relation to       
the plott                                                                       
     This day sr Wm Waller Justice Warcupp dr Tonge dr Oates mr Dugdale         
Capt Bury Capt Bedlow mr jennison mr Everard mr Prance mr Mowbray mr            
Bauldron mr Dangerfield &c dined togather at A Taverne In this Citty            
     Letters from Prague of the 10th Instant tell us that the Emperor           
hath sent An Envoy to ffrance to Complaine of the proceedings of the            
ffrench In Alsace                                                               
  A few dayes since died the Ld Crew & sr Edward Bath [?]                       
        mr ffrances smyth the Bookseller who was Comitted to Newgate did        
yesterday bring his Habeas Corpus & is now at liberty upon Bayle                
     About A month since were seized Aboard 3 or 4 ships In the Thames A        
greate quantity of Brandy to the vallue of 16000 L sterling which were          
seized for ffrench goods but being proved to Come from strasburgh to dort       
& thence for England they were discharged [?]                                   
+mr Jo: Dryden the Poet was last Tuesday night set upon In Covent garden        
by 3 persons who have soe greivously maimed him that his life is In much        
Danger  Its sai[d] it was done by some Gentlemen whome he had In verse          
Reflected upon                                                                  
     ffrom Taunton In somersetshire wee hear there is A disturbance by          
severall persons gathered togather Tumultuously the perticulers whereof         
wee are yet to Learne                                                           
     L. c. 878     dec 25th 1679                                                
  London dec 23d 1679                                                           
+Notwithstanding his Matyes displeasure Agt the Promoters of subscriptions      
to Petitions for the sitting of the Parliamt on the 26th January divers         
Continue the same & have now on foot divers Petitions with Greate               
subscriptions  how it will be Resented time must show                           
     Last weeke the King sent A letter to the Ld Maior & Aldermen  the          
Purport was that he should have A Care of the Citty & that the Aldermen         
should at their Ward Moots Admitt none but well Effected persons to be          
Common Councill men & that they should take the Oaths & Test According          
to Law which was observed In all the Wards yesterday when according to          
the Ancient Custome Every ward held their Ward Moote Court & chose their        
severall Common Councill men & other ward officers  In the Choyce of the        
Comon Councill men they have made A more then usuall Alteration                 
Endeavouring to make Choyce of Honest able & firme Protestants & of             
Knowne Integrity & Loyalty                                                      
     Tis discoursed that the d of yorke is declared Generallisimo &             
Admirall of scotland with Power to Raise forces without Lymittation &           
that the Councill of scotland are sending 2 Lds to give his Matye thanks        
for honouring them with the Assistance In that Govermt of his Royall            
Brother as also that the scotts In the Westerne shires doe still hold           
feild meetings In greate Numbers                                                
     Wee have A Hot Report that mr seymour the late speaker is made Ld          
Chancellor but it is not yet True                                               
     It is not yet Knowne who will succeed the d of Munmoth In his place        
of Master of the horse                                                          
+The Ld Cavendish is prepareing to goe Ambr for ffrance                         
     mrs Cellers being last satureday before the Councill Confessed that        
Jane the Preist mentioned In Dangerfeilds narrative was Really In orders        
& had Recd severall summes of Money to distribute for promoteing the            
Catholicke Cause                                                                
     One mr stretch A Custome house officer made use of by mr Dangerf[eild]     
to seize the Papers In Coll Mansells Lodgings was suspended his place but       
upon petition to his Matye is Restored                                          
     The dutchesse of Portesmouth hath Turned off all her servants that         
are papists save such as are allowed her as shee is one of the Ladies of        
honour to the queen & some say shee her selfe is forbid the Court &             
Comanded to depart the Kingdome                                                 
     Tis discoursed that the E of Oxfords Regemt which have for some            
Considderable time been quartered at A distance from the Citty are              
ordered to quarter In divers adjacent places neer the Citty & one Troope        
was the last night quartered at Knightsbridge &c                                
     The Councill is also the Comrs of the Treasury are Adjurned till after     
Crismas  only A Comittee of Lds are to sit every other day In the Evening       
     His Matye this day Comanded the Lieutenancy to Attend him at               
Whitehall & the Ld Maior &c tooke Coach & went accordingly & the Ld Maior       
hath appointed them to meet at Guildhall at 6 this Evening but what his         
Matyes pleasure was with them at whitehall is not yet perfectly Knowne          
     L. c. 879     Dec 27th 1679                                                
  London dec 25th 1679                                                          
+On Tuesday last the Ld Maior & Lieutenancy Attended the King at Whitehall      
& Recd orders Abt Prosecuting of Papists & to take Care to prevent              
Tumults upon which 4 Companies of the Citty Militia are ordered to be           
upon the guard Insteed of 2 dureing the holydayes                               
     His Matye In his letter to the Ld Maior & Aldermen about Chooseing         
of Comon Councill men takes notice that severall of his letters of former       
yeares have not been Regarded & therefore strictly Chargeth & Requireth         
them Not to suffer any person to be Chosen A Common Councill man In             
their severall & Respective wards who hath not within one year next             
before such Election taken the sacrament of the Lds supper according to         
the Rites of the Church of England & the Oathes of Alleigance & supremacy       
& the Oath Agt the Lawfulness of Takeing Armes Agt the King & also              
subscribe the declaration of the Illegality & Nullity of the sollemne           
league & Covenant which was Read at the severall Ward Mootes at the             
Choyce of Common Councill men after which the Choyce was made & such            
persons were Elected as wee doubt not will manifest their Loyalty to his        
Matye & their steadfastness In the Protestant Religion                          
     Our last letters from Holland say that Its Comonly Reported there          
that there is A new Alliance Concluded between England & Holland with           
which the people there seem very well pleased                                   
      It was sometime since Reported that the P of Orange was Comeing           
for England but now wee hear he is not Exspected                                
     The honour & Respect which the scotch Nobility show the d of yorke         
Appeare by An Instance of the Earle of Rothes who is Ld Chancellor In           
that Kingdome & In the Intervalls of Parliamt is as it were viceRoy             
thereof & yet gives place to the d of yorke & though the Ensignes of            
state are layd before the Earle when he sitts In Councill yet when the          
Duke takes Coach the Earle goes In the Dukes Coach his own Coach going          
before with the Ensignes of state                                               
+The duke is also made Ld Generall & Ld Admirall of that Kingdome               
     A messenger was lately sent by his Matyes Comand to stoke In               
Oxfordshire with an order of Councill to bring up one Esqr Hodgley  The         
said Gentleman hath Confirmed the Evidence of dr Oates Concerning one           
Lacy a preist now A prisoner In Newgate Affirmeing that he Knew Lacy            
severall yeares since at st Omers & that he was A Romish preist there           
     There are Informations & orders sent to the Atturney Genll to              
proceed In the prosecution of the Plotters now In prison & tis supposed         
there will be proceedings Agt them very suddenly                                
     The discourse there hath been of late of the sitting of the Parliamt       
In January next & then dissolveing them In order to Call another In             
Aprill next is now Renewed by some persons who pretend to Inteligence but       
upon what Ground it is Reported wee doe not understand at prsent                
     L. c. 880     dec 29th 1679                                                
  London dec 27th 1679                                                          
+Orders are Given that 7 out of Every Troope of the Kings life Guard &          
also of the E of Oxfords Regemt of horse & 12 out of Every Company of           
foot be speedily sent to Tangier to strengthen that Garrison                    
     His R Highs Continues at Edenbrough & Keepes A very splendid Court         
the Citty prsent him weekly with 3 Tunn of ffrench wines & others with          
what the season affords  they are to have A little Army In Case of any          
Insurection Raised Consisting of 6000 foot & 5 Troops of horse to be            
Constantly under pay                                                            
     The Crowne ffriggot is lately Arrived In the Thames laden with             
Currants from Zant haveing 30 guns & 70 men  shee had been Attacked by          
severall Algerines but Got Clear of them & sunke one of them                    
     It is said that somersethouse will be suddenly shutt up & that the         
guards will be Removed from thence the queen takeing her leave yesterday        
of that place designing to Repaire to the Chappell at st James  all her         
servants are to be paid off Except those that are qualified to stay &           
sr Allen Apsley hath paid off all the dutchesse of Portesmouths servants        
& those that are Papists are to Depart the land by which wee gather shee        
will suddenly follow                                                            
     Our letters from Jamaica Confirme the death of sr Thomas Winddiford        
formerly governour there & that the Island is In good Condition of defence      
     Letters from Gambo In Guyney give us the ill newes of A greate             
Mortality Amonge those few English that are there                               
     This week was A New Yatcht Launched at Woolwich which is Reputed           
the Best his Matye hath, Tis discoursed wee shall have A fleet of 60            
men of warr at sea this spring  Tis said his Matye hath made sr Anthony         
deane Comptroler of all his Buildeing yards for ships in England                
     They write from Paris that the Majestrates of Geneva have sent             
deputies to Excuse themselves for what hapned to the ffrench Resident who       
had been severall times shot at but his Matye will give them noe Audience       
at prsent                                                                       
     They write from Amsterdam that the states Genll have Resolved to           
Continue their prsent Alliances with England & ffrance & not to make any        
New one with Either as yet, They have Advice that surrynam is Totally           
Ruined by the Indians who have not only destroyed the plantations but           
Killed & Imprisoned most of the Inhabitants                                     
   The diferences between the ffrench & Citty of Bazell are Heightened on       
both sides                                                                      
    They write from Antwerpe that the ffrench Continue to make vast             
preparations of Corne & fforage In all their late Conquered places              
    severall Aldermen Comon Councill men Citizens & Merchants have              
subscribed A Petition for the sitting of the Parliamt which will shortly        
be prsented  Also there is A petition on foot In most of the Inns of Court      
+some persons Reported to be of the Popish faction have printed the forme       
of A petition In opposition to that for the Parliamts sitting which is as       
followeth                                                                       
+Whereas severall printed formes of Petitions have been lately dispersed        
for subscriptions  whereas the proceedings thereupon have been dec[lar]ed       
by his Matye & Councill to be Contrary to Law & tending to the Raiseing         
of sedition & R[evolt?] the prsent Petitions being still Carryed on by          
obscure & ill Affected persons as the Act & sense of the Generality of          
the Citty & nation to the scandall of all his Matyes loyall & Protestant        
subjects & all True Lovers of Prince & Countrey, Wee whose names are            
hereunto subscribed out of A sense of our duty both to Church & state &         
to witness o[u]r detestation of all Illegall & undutifull practices doe         
hereby declare that wee abhorr the thoughts of any such Confedracy & that       
wee will have nothing to doe In any such petition aforesaid In oposition        
to his Matyes Royall will & proclamation                                        
     This petition or Rather protestation takes not with the people             
neither is there yet any account of subscriptions                               
     L. c. 881     Jan 1st 1679                                                 
  +London dec 30th 1679                                                         
+severall persons haveing Been lately apprehended upon account of Petitions     
for the sitting of the Parliamt Refuseing to give sureties were discharged      
which hath much Encouraged others to promote Petitions, But one Justice         
smith hath Comitted A person for Getting subscriptions Notwithstanding          
which the Petitions goe on & subscriptions Increase dayly divers persons        
of Greate quality & learning haveing signed them but none hath yet been         
prsented to his Matye though tis said that In Essex is one Ready signed         
by Above 40000 hands & other Counties are In greate forwardnesse but his        
Matye seemes still to be much displeased with those that promote them           
     ffather Beningfeild the Jesuite who was said to dye In the gatehouse       
& thence Buryed is affirmed to be now alive & that another was Buryed In        
his steed                                                                       
     There is A New designe discovered & some of the persons In Custody         
who Intended to Murther Capt Bedlow In which is Concerned 5 men & 4 women       
one of the Women was to have Entertained him as her Gallant being a very        
greate Beauty & to have taken opportunity to have stabbd him & if shee          
had failed then to Cry A Rape A Rape Murther Murther at which 3 persons         
planted on purpose were to appear & Justify what they saw & heard to            
Corroborate her Oath vizt that Capt Bedlow had offered to force her &           
shee not Consenting had Endeavoured to stabb her &c                             
     All our fflanders & some ffrench letters Continue to Relate the            
greate preparations & stoores that are layd up by the ffrench In fflanders      
& their owne Coast townes of Amunition &c & that those Townes doe by            
small numbers at A time strongly fill with souldiers & they are Raiseing        
men In Germany at Bremen &c to be sent thither                                  
     The Neibours to their New Conquest seem Jealous of them whilst             
others thinke their designes are somewhere Else which A little time will        
show                                                                            
      Wee have advice of severall Turks men of warr Cruiseing In the            
streights & that they have taken 3 English ships & A dutch ship of              
400 Tuns worth 10000 L bound from Russia to Leghorne                            
     Also the Malaga merchant bound hence for malaga is Cast away on            
the goodwin & most of her men lost                                              
+There died this year In London &c 21730                                        
+There died In Amsterdam            7949                                        
     The queen is now Retired according to his Matyes order to st James         
     Tis said his Matye Intends to quarter 2 Regemts of souldiers In            
somersethouse & to make A Hospitall for sicke & lame souldiers In the           
savoy & his Matyes house at Greenwich to be Turned to the same use              
     Lacy that was seized at Dover is proved to be A Jesuite at st Omers        
soe dr Oates being the first that Challenged him will have 100 L                
according to the Proclamation                                                   
     They write from Dublin that the Councill there sit dayly searching         
out the Popish Plott & the E of Tyrones plott  Tis said the Papists             
mortally Hate the said Earle for Turning Protestant being the first             
Protestant of that family                                                       
       A few dayes since James Perry Cosen & Next Heir Male to Jocelin          
Perry the E of Northumberland prsented A Petition to his Matye setting          
forth his 10 yeares proceedings at Law for his Right prayeing his Matye         
to Restore to him his Bir[thr]ight & the Titles honours & Estate thereon        
depending                                                                       
       On satureday night Abt 12 A Clocke the E of Lincolne as he was           
going home was set upon by severall Rogues In Drury lane to have Robbed         
him but the E wounding the first that Attempted the Coach leapt out &           
Layd hold on another  But the Rest Rescuing him they Escaped                    
     They write from Landscroon that the K of sweden hath Confirmed their       
Priveledges & granted them A free trade & that they shall be ffree from         
taxes & quartering of souldiers & A 3d part of the Customs are to be            
abated & the Bishops &c to have their Residence there                           
+severall Brass Guns are taken from Tower Hill & placed In the Tower            
     L. c. 882     January 3d 1679                                              
  London January 1st 1679                                                       
+The designe Agt Capt Bedlow to take off his Evidence appeares to be layd       
as followeth                                                                    
     One mrs Mary Jones A Greate Beauty was brought out of the Countrey         
& Engaged (In the designe to Entice Capt Bedlow to her Chamber & then to        
Cry A Rape A Rape Murther Murther) by 5 Jesuits vizt ffather Johnson            
ffather Bennet ffather Poole ffather Turner & ffather Benningfeild which        
last person was upon the first discovery of the Plott accused by dr Oates       
& others & thereupon Comitted to the Gatehouse where it was said that he        
died & that the Corps viewed by the Coroner & Jury were afterwards Buryed       
whereas In truth he was Conveyed away & the Body of A dead Labourer             
Interred In his stead   All which togather with the late designe Agt            
Bedlow was discovered last satureday to sr Wm Waller by the 2 persons who       
were to be placed In the next Roome & be witnesses for mrs Jones Agt mr         
Bedlow                                                                          
     sr Wm tooke their Examinations upon Oath & about 3 A Clocke on             
sunday morning seized mrs Jones In her Bed at her Lodgings In the               
Haymarket & Committed her to the gatehouse  About 10 A Clocke the same          
morning shee sent for sr Wm to whome upon her Oath likewise shee Confessed      
& Confirmed the whole designe as the 2 former had Related it & gave such        
further Intimations to sr Wm that the Comittee of Lds sent him blanke           
warrants & orders to goe Into the Countrey to seize them & tis hoped            
before this Comes to your hands the said 5 Jesuits will be apprehended          
Unless they have very swift Inteligence                                         
     On Tuesday night mr Lyon one of the Keepers of Newgate going up to         
see the Prisoners one Capt Checke A Papist upon some words that passed          
between the Keeper & him Drew out his Penknife & Run him Into the side          
the Wound is not mortall but very neer it                                       
     Last night severall persons In the ward of Alhallowes In pursuance         
of the New Ld maiors orders were taken & Committed to Bridewell for Being       
Drunke & sweareing                                                              
     This night A sea Captaine Comeing Into the Amsterdam Coffee house          
seing A Petition for the Parliamts sitting tooke it up & put it In his          
Pockett saying none but ffanaticall persons promoted such petitions but         
by Importunity he delivered it Backe  But being Knowne to ffrequent the         
Company of A Papist was had before the Ld Maior as being suspected to be        
A papist where he tooke the Oaths & Test & was discharged                       
     Yesterday some persons In the strand for haveing forceably Burned          
A Petition to which some hundreds of hands were subscribed were by              
Certain persons who thought themselves & the Publicke Injured thereby           
Caryed before A Justice of Peace who bound them to answer it at the             
next sessions                                                                   
     Thomas Neale Esqr A member of the Present Parliamt for Lugdershall         
In Wiltshire is going Resident for his Matye to Constantinople                  
     This day the Royall Affrican Company had Advice from Rye In sussex         
that the ship Cadiz merchant homewards bound from Guynney on account of         
that Company was Run Ashoar Neer that Towne haveing neither man nor Boy         
aboard  Tis supposed the ships Crew have plundered her of her Rich goods        
& soe set her Adrift or that shee hath been mett withall by some Piratts        
who have taken or destroyed the men & Robbed her                                
+The Holland letters say there were Neer 200 sayle of Merchantment In           
the Texell waiting for an Easterly wind & that the Corps of P Maurice of        
Nassau were Conveying In Greate state Into Germany                              
        On Wednesday last severall Gentlemen of Hartfordshire Came to           
Towne & went to sr Thomas Bydes & their other Knight of the shire to            
Consult with them abt Presenting their Petition to his Matye for the            
sitting of the Parliamt                                                         
     L. c. 883     Jan 5th 1679                                                 
  London Jand 3d 1679                                                           
+Last night his Matye dispatched away sr Jo Lanier (Late Lieft Coll to          
the d of Munmoths Regemt of horse which were disbanded) to the Island of        
Guernsey of which he is made governour the said Island being Reported to        
be In some danger of the ffrench designes                                       
     Wee have letters from ffrance which say it is the Comon Report of          
that Kingdome that their King is to send A Vast Army Into England where         
the people are Already In greate disorder & Confusion                           
     They write from the Hague that last satureday the ffrench Ambr             
delivered to the states Genll another Memoriall In Relation to the alliance     
they are pursuing with that state  the perticulers are not Knowne               
     Letters from Germany say the ffrench K hath made the Inhabitants of        
Alsatia swear alleigance to him & hath Comanded them upon paine of death        
to Cease praying for the Emperor & Empire In their Churches & to pray for       
him & hath sent them A forme of Prayer accordingly                              
     It is Reported that Comand is sent to the Ld Lieft of Ireland to           
provide that all the forces of that Kingdome be In A Readiness to march         
at 48 houres Notice                                                             
     Tis said A place will be made at Westminster to quarter souldiers          
     All the gent Pentioners to his Matye are ordered Each with his             
servant[s] to be Equipped & In Readiness to march upon all occasions            
     The hopes of Takeing the 5 Jesuits by sr Wm Waller is now much             
questioned being sr Wm Could not get his warrant till yesterday & went          
last night Post A Journey of 100 miles & tis feared they have too timely        
notice                                                                          
     On Munday last mr Cooling Keeper of the Kings Bench prison waited          
on his Matye & was with him an houre  as he past through the Chambers he        
had A Bundle of Papers Under his Arme & told A ffreind they Related to          
sr Edmund Godfreys Murther & were Communicated to him by one of his             
prisoners                                                                       
     The Petition of the Citty & suburbs being subscribed as tis said by        
60000 householders was this day to have been prsented but for some              
Reasons unknowne the Ld Maior & Aldermen have thought fitt to suspend           
the Presenting of it till next weeke                                            
     Tables pens Inke & Petitions have been placed In the Royall Exchange       
as An Invit[ation] for people to subscribe                                      
     Yesterday the Purser & Boateswaine belongeing to the ship Cadiz            
merchant from Guinney did appear at the Affrican house & Acquainted the         
Affrican Company that the said ship strucke In the night & the Captaine &       
many of her men being dead they were Reduced to ffew hands which made them      
desert the ship & Enter the long Boate with which they got Ashoar soe tis       
Concluded that all her Ladeing which was vallued at 12000 L is safe             
+The Assault that was made this day seavenight on the E of Lincolne proves      
to be the Effect of A private persons Malice with whome he hath A suite         
of Law, In the Assault the Earle got one of their Perewigs which made the       
discovery                                                                       
     Our letters from scotland seem to Intimate that the people are there       
growne Jealous of his R Highs & that he is not pleased with the Tempers         
of most of them haveing been denyed A place for his dutchesse to Exersize       
their Religion with ffreedome                                                   
     The discourse of the dukes Returne hither is generall & soe positive       
that he is not Exspected at Whitehall this night & some affirme that he         
is Come already & the P of Orange is suddenly Exspected here                    
     Upon the Informations of divers persons of note 22 Articles of             
Impeachmt are said to be drawne Agt the dutchesse of Portesmouth by the         
Comittee                                                                        
     L. c. 884     Jan 8th 1679                                                 
  London Jan 6th 1679                                                           
+The Report of his R Highness Comeing hither is by letters from scotland        
yesterday Contradicted which also give an account that he was Treated In        
the Parliamt house by the Citty of Edenbrough In A very Magnificent manner      
& after prsented with his ffreedome of that Citty In A golden Box very          
Rich &c                                                                         
     The Petitions goe forward & will be soon Ready but tis discoursed          
that the K Intends for Newmarket within these few dayes to show his             
Aversion to the Receiveing of any such Petitions                                
     However tis Beleeved wee shall have A New Parliamt before May or           
that this Parliamt will sit soon after the 26th of Jan at A Certain day         
to which his Matye will Command them to adjourne & which is supposed to         
be Grounded upon some Advices from Holland &c                                   
     New Instructions are sent to mr sidney how to governe himselfe In          
the greate Point of the Leagues as to the maine Reason that hinders A           
Union betwixt England & Holland being the Intermission of the Parliamt          
     Tis further Reported that the ffrench K hath offered 800000 L for          
the gaining of some Parts of this Kingdome which offers have been Rejected      
     To morrow the sessions begin at Westminster where one mr Horsley           
hath Indicted 3 persons In the strand who sent for him to A Taverne &           
pretended they would signe A Petition to which were some hundreds of            
hands  they Burned it & Reviled him for which he Caused one of them Named       
Painter to be brought before mr Justice Chamberlain who bound him to the        
sessions & the other 2 he had before sr Edward Hungerford who bound them        
over likewise  The Event Exspect by the Next But tis said Justice               
Chamberlains Comission of the peace is taken from him                           
     Commissions are prepareing to be sent to all Justices with the names       
of the Papists of Every County according to the Account dayly given In to       
the secretary of state which lists are Remitted to the Crowne office under      
the hands of the Clerke of the Councill by which Comissions the Justices        
are Impowered to Administer the Oaths & Test & In Case of Refusall they         
are to be prsented according to Law                                             
     The d of Albemarle Capt of the Kings Guards hath Cashiered most of         
the ffrenchmen & Papists & listed others In their Roomes                        
     Letters from Algeirs say that some Christian slaves have Escaped           
thence & given vice Admirall Herbert an account how he may Attacke the          
Algerine vessells In their Harbours who is thereupon now gone with all          
his ships to set upon them                                                      
     sr Thomas Allen Comptroller of the Navy hath layd downe his Employ         
with his Matyes Consent                                                         
     Tis said now that sr Eliab Harvey goes Resident for Constantinople         
& not Esqr Neale                                                                
     They write from Prague that they are much allarmed both In Germany         
& Italy at the ffrench new Armeing & that they are there giveing out            
Comissions for Raiseing 10 Regemts of horse                                     
     Letters from strasburgh Relate the Greate pressures those parts of         
the Empire lye under from the ffrench demands of the Arreirs of                 
Contributions & that the Protestant Cantons of switzerland are much             
allarmed at the ffrench K picking A quarrell with Geneva                        
+To morrow the Councill begins to sit againe but the Ld President will          
not be there by Reason of his Indisposition haveing Kept his Chamber            
severall dayes                                                                  
     Tis said the Dutchesse of Portesmouth is Charged In the Article of         
Impeachment for haveing Introduced severall Jesuits Into his Matyes             
presence when he was sicke at Windsor & Comanding that all the servants         
should be turned out of the Roome                                               
     L. c. 885     Jan 10th 1679                                                
 London 8 Jan 1679                                                              
+The discourse of the Parliamts sitting is more & more & people begin to        
beleeve it soe far as to Rest upon it with Contentment Especially since         
some have affirmed that his Matye hath Comanded o[u]r Ambr In Holland to        
assure the Prince & those states that he will Call & advise with his            
greate Councill the Parliamt                                                    
     Notwithstanding which the Petitions goe on & tis thought many will         
be Ready to be delivered on wednesday next  This day the Ld Maior &             
Aldermen Consulted whether the Petition for the sitting of the Parliamt         
subscribed by 60000 hands should be prsented by the principle Citizens          
but the further debate thereof is put off till to morrow                        
     Two Expresses Came yesterday from Holland further declareing the           
Earnest solicittation the ffrench Ambr makes to perswade those states to        
A defensive alliance with them which is as strongly opposed by o[u]r Ambr       
but such is the strength of the Lovestein Party who are for the ffrench         
Interest & such are the Apprehensions that the other Party have taken of        
the Circumstances of England that they Render it very dificult to Come to       
any Resolution yet it hath been Reported that before their last breakeing       
up they did Come to A Resolution & An oath of secresy taken thereupon           
which some are soe Confident as to Report was In faivour of England             
     His Matye is very much Incensed Agt the ffrench Ambr here who is           
forbid the Court the occasion of which is said to be that he wrote A            
letter to the ffrench Ambr at the Hague telling him he had discoursed           
the K of England whome he found not at all Agt the alliance that the            
ffrench were makeing with Holland but that he tooke it ill that the dutch       
should Engross the faivours of ffrance before him selfe &c which letter         
the ffrench Ambr there shewed to the prince & to o[u]r Ambr from whence         
his Matye Received A Coppie on satureday last & on saboth day Comunicated       
it to the Committee of Councill to whome he declared that the Contents          
of the said letter were wholly false & therein found him selfe soe much         
Injured & dishonoured as Called for the Highest Resentment thereof of           
which the said Ambr had notice & that his Matye Exspected In writeing           
Under his hand Either the owneing or disowneing the said letter                 
     Yesterday the Committee for suppressing Popery Caused the Kings            
Evidence as to the Plott to be summoned before them & acquainted them           
that severall plotters should be tryed next weeke In the old Bayly &            
that they should attend the same with the Evidence they had to give             
     dr Oates & mr Bedlow declared they would not give any Evidence where       
the Ld scroggs should sit as A Judge for which they offered their Reasons       
which they Againe Repeated In the afternoon to his Matye In Councill who        
ordered them to appear to morrow at the Councill board & deliver In             
writeing what they had to Exhibitt as to the said Lord scroggs                  
     This day mr Gadbury was againe brought before the Councill & tis           
said hath discovered more of the designes of the Papists & hath                 
Confirmed mr Dangerfeilds Evidence &c                                           
     Last night the E of Pembrooke &c being In A Balcony In the Haymarket       
some persons discharged 2 or 3 pistolls at him which mist him but shot          
[one?] of his Company                                                           
+They write from diepe In ffrance that there was Driven Ashoar the sterne       
of A vessell very Richly guilt which they supposed to be the Cleveland          
yatcht perished on their Coast                                                  
     sr Wm Waller & mr Praunce have taken mr Beddingfeild & 3 other             
preists In Notinghamshire                                                       
     The Lds of the Admiralty will very suddenly take Care for the              
setting forth of 60 men of warr which are Intended for A summer guard           
     L. c. 886     Jan 12th 1679                                                
  London 10th Jan 1679                                                          
  +The Petitions for the Parliamts sitting are vigorously promoted by           
most people & are Every where handed about soe that Its beleeved the            
Parliamt men for London will prsent the London Petition next wednesday &        
sr Jo: shorter & mr smith will prsent that for southwerk & sr Gilbert           
Gerrard one for Westminster &c                                                  
     Yesterday morning mr Gadbury was again brought before his Matye In         
Councill who made A very long Confession & mrs Celliers was also Examined       
& begins also to Confess                                                        
   sr Robt Peyton was also sent for & Examined Agt whome Matters appeared       
soe blacke that he was Comitted to the Tower for Endeavouring to Levy           
warr Agt his Matye & for Being Privy to A Conspiracy Agt the life of the        
King  The force of his Comitment was under debate for some Considderable        
time                                                                            
+mrs Cellier did affirme that the said sr Robt did declare to her since         
his Espouseing their Interest that In Case his Matye should dye he had          
assurance of above 40000 men to hinder the succession & declare for A           
Comon wealth  mr Gadburies Information tended to the same which makes           
some say sr Robt is Comitted for 2 plotts vizt the Presbiterian one & the       
Popish one  The whole matter seemes at prsent something strange & tis           
thought sr Robt may be the occasion of much mischeife                           
     This afternoon sr Robt Payton was againe Examined by his Matye &           
the 2 secretaries of state & will be Examined againe to morrow at the           
Councill, since mr Gadburies Chargeing sr Robt Payton he hath his liberty       
at the Gatehouse being before Confined to one Roome & mrs Cellier hath          
Pen & Inke allowed her In Newgate which shee had not before                     
     On Thursday last the Dutch Ambr here Recd An Express from the states       
Acquainting him that they were Come to A Resolution not to make any further     
alliance with ffrance of which he yesterday morning acquainted his Matye        
& tis verily beleeved the alliance is Actually made & Agreed between his        
Matye & the states Genll provided it be Confirmed by Consent of the Parliamt    
     Mounsr Barrillon the ffrench Ambr hath by writeing under his hand          
disowned the letter sent to the ffrench Ambr at the Hague soe is forbid         
the Court                                                                       
     mr Bedlow haveing on Thursday night Recd by an accedental fall A           
greate Bruise was not able to attend the Councill yesterday with dr Oates       
In Relation to what they had to offer abt the Ld scroggs                        
     Tis now said sr Eliab Harvey hath declined going to Constantinople         
& that the Turkey Companies Inclinations are for the Ld shandois who tis        
beleeved if his Matye pleases will accept the same it being A place of          
Profit & honour                                                                 
     Our last letters from ffrance Continue to Informe us of the Greate         
land Preparations of the K & also that he hath Comanded 60 of his Capitall      
men of warr to be Ready to put to sea the latter end of Aprill next as          
also of severall gallies who are designed for severall places In the            
mediteranean sea                                                                
   ffrom scotland wee have advice that there is A Party of men that goe         
abt the Countrey & take away all the Armes they Can find but wee hear not       
of any others they have for the same  they are supposed to be Highlanders       
+sr Wm Waller gives account he hath taken 3 of the 5 Jesuits one of which       
ownes the Name of Benningfeild but whether it be the same Benningfeild          
that was supposed to dye In the Gatehouse is yet A question sr Wm not           
Knowing him personally                                                          
     L. c. 887     Jan 15th 1679                                                
  London 13th Jan 1679                                                          
+The last night the Persons who tooke the subscriptions In London               
Westminster & southwarke mett togather & Cutting off the Printed Petitions      
from Every sheet Excepting one Pasted the subscriptions togather which          
made A Role of A Vast Lengh Containing Eighty odd Thousand subscriptions        
     This Morning sr Gilbert Gerrard, Councellor Thomas smith, John Ellis       
ffrancis Charlton Jo: smith Tho: Johnson Anthony selbye Ellis Crispe &          
Hen Ashhurst Esqrs did waite on his Matye In the presence Chamber & on          
their Knees prsented the said Petition  Councellor smith began to Read          
the Petition but his Matye told them he Knew the Contents thereof & that        
as he was the head of the govermt he would take Care thereof                    
     But tis said he told sr Gilbert Gerrard he wondred he would be             
Concerned In promoting such Petitions                                           
     The Grand Jury of Westminster hath found the bill of Indictment Agt        
the 3 persons for Teareing & Burneing A subscribed Petition which               
Indictment is printed at Large                                                  
     The Accusation of sr Robt Payton by Gadbury is lookt upon as A 3d          
Plott of the Papists to Cast An odium upon the Presbiterians                    
     Yesterday the E of Essex & the 2 secretaries of state were sent to         
the Tower to Examine sr Robt with whome they stayd but A short time  Tis        
said sr Robt told their Lordships he had nothing to Confesse nor any            
person to accuse  That he was very much wronged In the Informations &           
prayed for A speedy Tryall                                                      
     The E of shaftesbury hath Caused A Caveat to be put In Agt any             
pardon that shall be brought for mr Gadbury or mrs Cellier the latter of        
which was Eminently Concerned for the Lds In the Tower &c                       
+To morrow dr Oates & mr Bedlow Intend to Attend the Councill with the          
Matters they have drawne up Agt the Ld scroggs, mr Bedlow sayes he heard        
the Te deum sunge In Portugall for his Being Ld Cheife Justice  But mr          
Bedlow has been this day at Hicks Hall to hear the verdict of the Grand         
jury Agt the Prisoners In Newgate who are to be Tryed at the old Bayly          
where the sessions begins next Thursday                                         
     sr James Hayes & sr James smith are put out of the Comission of            
Peace & there will be A dayly Regulation of Justices                            
       The Towne of Tiverton in Devonshire hath lost Its Charter the            
Maior Thereof Refuseing to take the Oaths                                       
       A yatcht is gone to ffetch over A Chimist from ffrance being             
Recomended to his Matye & Upon his Arrivall sr Thomas Williams his              
Matyes Chimist is to Resigne                                                    
+On Wednesday last his Matye wrote A letter to the states Genll shewing         
his Inclination to an alliance with them desireing them to send An              
Answer by Otterbury one of his Matyes messengers & Greate matters are           
Exspected upon his Returne                                                      
     To morrow the Councill will determine whether the Parliamt shall sit       
his Matye being Inclinable to Joyne with the Dutch for the ill Resentment       
that he hath of the affront put upon him by the ffrench Ambr                    
     His Matye on sunday last went to view the Blockhouses at Gravesend &       
the same day the dutchesse of Portesmouth went to Gravesend In order to         
her Going for Paris where shee is dayly Exspected                               
     L. c. 888      Jan 17th 1679                                               
  London Jan 15th 1679                                                          
+On sunday last the Councill sitting determined the necesity of the             
Parliamts sitting the 14th of ffebruary Next & tis said A proclamation          
was that night sent to the presse to that Effect  some persons are much         
offended with this dayes Gazett which gives account of the persons that         
prsented the Petition to his Matye last Tuesday & have left out Councellor      
smith & put In 2 others vizt mr desbrough & mr Ireton who were none of          
the 9 that did prsent It                                                        
     Yesterday mr Jo: Gadbury was before the Councell & made as he sayes        
A large & full discovery of all he Knowes of the Popish Plott In which          
are Contayned matters of A very greate Importance & besides the                 
Confirmation of mr Dangerfeilds narrative much new matter of fact which         
he sayes he was Drawne Into by mrs Celliers &c denying or much lessening        
what the last councill day he swore Agt sr Robt Payton                          
     mr Oates & mr Bedlow appeared In Councill with what they had In            
writeing Agt the Ld scroggs & afterwards prayed his Matye that they might       
have time till next Councill day to prepare some other matters which Came       
too late to their hands to be prepared now  My Ld scroggs was Called In &       
Acquainted therewith who answered he was Ready to make his defence at           
that time & wished they had been Ready to have Charged him then                 
     sr Phill ffloyd formerly Clarke of the Councill & suspended is now         
Restored & hath severall Papers delivered to him Relating to the Plott          
     The dutchesse of Portesmouth Contrary to Exspectation is Returned          
from Gravesend & now tis said Articles are Drawne up Agt the dutchesse          
of Cleveland In like manner as was Agt the dutchesse of Portesmouth             
+Yesterday the D of Buckingham who hath not for A long time Appeared In         
publicke was mett going for Uxbridge Attended by about 20 horsemen              
     yesternight sr Wm Waller with mr Prance Came home & hath brought           
with him divers Informations taken upon Oath In the Countrey Relateing          
to further discoveries  he left 3 preists at notingham & one at Northampton     
to be tryed according to Law, one of the Preists is Anthony Harcourt A          
very old Preist & another one Bennifeild but not that Bennifeild supposed       
to dye In the Gatehouse                                                         
     This day the Grandjury for Middlesex at Hicks Hall found the bill of       
Indictment Agt 11 preists vizt Lionell Anderson David Joseph Kemath Hen:        
starkey Edw Turner Alex Lumsden Dan Mackarty James Corker William               
Marshall Charles Parry Wm Russell & John Naylor all which will be tryed         
next satureday at the old Bayly  There were 3 others Indicted Agt whome A       
full Evidence was wanting at present                                            
   They write from Hambrough that the ffrench In those parts are Raiseing       
both seamen & Landmen                                                           
     They write from the Hague dated 17th that the Major Part of the            
states are of opinion not to make any further alliances or Engagements          
with Either ffrance of England then what is already betwixt them or Else        
to make the defensive alliance of the same Tenour with both as with one &       
thereby disoblige neither                                                       
     But Its affirmed that yesterday his Matye Recd an Expresse from            
Holland which Contayneth proposalls on which the states will Enter Into         
A defensive league & that the Proposalls are accepted & Consequently the        
alliance will soon follow                                                       
+The Ld Maior hath appointed A Comon Councill to be Called on Tuesday next      
     L. c. 889     Jan 19th 1679                                                
  London Jan 17th 1679                                                          
  +Yesterday dr Oates & mr Bedlow waited on his Matye In Councill with          
what they had drawne up In writeing Agt the Ld scroggs which was In 12          
Articles filling 2 large sheets of Paper which being Read his Matye asked       
whether they would Undertake to prove them to which they answered In the        
affirmative & thereupon both of them signed the said Papers which were          
left with the Councill & his Matye told them that if they Could prove any       
further matter they had liberty till wednesday next to bring it In              
  In the meane time the ld scroggs is to have A Coppie & to bring In his        
Answer                                                                          
     There was A heareing before the Councill of some diference between         
the Printers of London & Oxford & In Conclusion they left it to be tryed        
at the Comon Law                                                                
     mr Jo: Gadbury being Called In delivered to his Matye A written            
paper it being supposed to be his Confession of the Popish Plott & of           
the Pretended Presb: Plott                                                      
        In the afternoon mr Gadbury mr Dangerf[eild] & mrs Cellier were A       
long time upon their Examination the purport of which is yet private            
     This day the ld Cheife Justice scroggs & the Court being sate at the       
old Bayly there was brought to the barr James Corker Wm Marshall Charles        
Parrey Hen starkey Wm Russell Alex Lumsden & Lionell Anderson who were          
Indicted for High Treason for Entring Into orders according to the Church       
of Rome &c                                                                      
     The witnesses were dr Oates mr Bedlow mr Dugdale mr Prance mr              
Dangerfeild &c who proved the Indictment  they none of them denyed they         
were preists or made any Considderable defence but Reflected on the             
Evidence                                                                        
          The Ld Cheife Justice summed up the Evidence to the Jury who          
brought them In guilty of Hightreason                                           
     mr Lumsden being borne In scotland his sentence is deferred to be          
made Especially by the Judges & the other 6 had sentence of death passed        
on them & the sessions are adjourned till thursday next when the other 4        
will be tryed                                                                   
     This day A woman was seized for Crying the Inteligence before the          
Ld scroggs door In which some mention was made of dr Oates & mr Bedlow          
putting In their Articles Agt the said Ld scroggs & after A Charge to           
doe soe noe more shee was discharged & this day the ld scroggs gave             
Notice to dr Oates & mr Bedlow that if they spoke anything Agt him he           
would Comitt them                                                               
  Wee hear from scotland by the last Post that the ship that sayled             
thence In November last for some of his Matyes Plantations with the 250         
prisoners Condemned unto Bannishmt was Unhappily lost neer unto shetland        
The Prisoners were Kept Under decke with such hard usage that they durst        
not aske for water but were forced to drinke their owne urine                   
     Tis Reported the dutchesse of yorke is sicke at Edenbrough but our         
letters last Post mention nothing of it                                         
     The ship Thomas & sarah of London bound from Nevis for Leverpoole          
laden with sugars Escapeing the Turks & much bad weather was put safe           
Into Dublin since which Comeing over that barr shee was lost  shee had          
2600 L Ensured on her                                                           
     Wee have Also the ill newes that 4 English ships [being by?] stresse       
of weather driven out of Maderas Roade were 2 of them taken by A Turks          
man of warr & 2 Escaped                                                         
     Our letters yesterday from Jamaica give account That Island is In A        
very good Condition & In A brave Posture of defence & that sr Tho:              
Moddiford Junior died A few dayes after his ffather                             
     wee are wanting severall fforreign Posts which Keep us In the darke        
what they have done In Holland but tis said the P of Orange is Comeing          
over Abt the League                                                             
     L. c. 890     Jan 22d 1679                                                 
  London Jan 20th 1679                                                          
+This day the Ld Maior Aldermen & Comon Councillmen of this Citty assembled     
at the Guildhall  There appeared the Ld Maior & 20 aldermen & about 173         
of the Comon Councill the whole number for all the wards being 235              
   The question was put whether it were Lawfull to petition his Matye           
that the Parliamt might sit which was Carryed In the affirmative                
   Then the question was put whether it was Expedient now to petition his       
Matye &c which was Carryed In the Negative                                      
   In the Comon Councill were yeas   88  [Bracket connects                      
            Comon Councill noes      86  numbers at left.]  174                 
The other 9 [sic] In the number wanting were Rejected as persons not fitly      
qualified his Matye haveing on Thursday last sent A letter to the Ld            
Maior that he should Examine all the Comon Councillmen whether they had         
taken the Oathes & Test  In the Court of Aldermen were yeas 6 of which          
the Ld Maior was one noes 15                                                    
     soe the Comoners got it by 2 & the Aldermen lost it by 9                   
     Wee hear of severall Petitions that are Promoted & handed In the           
Countys of Essex & Kent & Citty of yorke & Berkshire &c  But its said           
some of them are discouraged & have Retracted their Intentions Upon his         
Matyes ill Resentment of the late London Petition                               
     Wee have newes from the North that most of their members of this           
prsent Parliamt are Comeing from those parts & that there is like to            
be as greate A sessions as Ever                                                 
     Our advices from Holland of the 21st Instant say that the ffrench          
Ambr Continues to use all the meanes Imaginable to procure the states to        
Enter Into A league defensive with his master & threatens them that if          
they give him not A Positive answer In 10 dayes his master wll take it          
as an open breach of the prsent peace & take his measures accordingly           
    They write from Paris the dauphine is to be married on the 6th ffeb         
by Proxie                                                                       
     They write from Hambrough that there now lyes windbound in the Elbe        
neer 350 English vessells that about 100 are laden with oates only & are        
bound for Diepe &c In ffrance for the service of that King who still            
Continues Raiseing both seamen & Landmen                                        
     Wee have much discourse of A new designe that is discovered & some         
of the Agitators are In Custody by what it appeares it seemes [sic] to          
be Caryed on by the Popish Party that were the makers of the Pretended          
Presbiterian Plott                                                              
     There was A Reall designe to subborne witnesses Agt the d of Bucks         
of matters that would have taken away his life of which more in [?] next        
+sr Robt Payton is still A prisoner In the Tower but not soe Confined as        
at first, he is now makeing application to his Matye to be discharged           
otherwise he will bring his Habeas Corpus according to the late act             
     To morrow the Ld scroggs puts In his Answer to the Articles of dr          
Oates & mr Bedlow which Containe only matters of misdemeanors                   
     A letter was lately found at the Customehouse Expressing A designe         
of Burneing London bridge southwarke & the Hamletts of the Tower upon           
the sudden Exspectation of some assistance from the ffrench K                   
+Last weeke greate quantities of ffrench armes were seized In the River         
& other places                                                                  
      [Figures in another hand cover much of outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 891     Jan 24th 1679                                                
  London Jan 22d 1679                                                           
+Last night the Ld Maior & Aldermen waited on his Matye at whitehall To         
whome his Matye declared his dislike of the debates of the Comon Councill       
last Tuesday abt the Petition for the Parliamt & gave perticuler thanks         
to those who had been Instrumentall to prevent it                               
     Yesterday was A heareing In Councill of dr Oates & mr Bedlow Agt the       
Ld scroggs who Cleared him selfe soe well that his Matye & Councill             
declared themselves well satisfied of his Innocency & gave him leave to         
take his Course at Law Agt his accusers                                         
       This morning sr Walter st Johns & Tho Thynn Esqr Knight of the           
shire for wiltshire prsented A petition to his Matye In the name of the         
Inhabitants of the County for the sitting of the Parliamt but Recd A            
Checke his Matye telling them he wondred they should Concerne themselves        
In A buisness that was Contrary to Law &c                                       
+The Essex petition is not yet prsented but is Certainly In Towne but wee       
hear from Oxford that severall Justices have mett there to hinder the           
Promoteing of any such petitions                                                
     A New discovery hath been made to sr Wm Waller of A designe for            
Burneing severall Cittyes of this Kingdome on the 30th Instant                  
     Two gentlemen Travellers In Holland lyeing at An Inn upon the Roade        
after supper desired A private Roome pretending to have some urgent             
buisness to discourse of & were over heard to say that the Plott Could          
not take Effect till after his Matyes decease which they had taken Care         
should be Effected speedily & that there were some persons In whitehall         
Employed to Effect It  The English gentlemen that over heard this discourse     
sent A letter to sr Wm Waller who acquainted his Matye therewith who            
highly Comended him for his vigilancy                                           
     There is A Rumour that the K of spaine hath made sr Wm Godolphin           
(lately o[u]r Ambr there but now succeeded by sr Henery Goodricke) A            
Grandee of that Kingdome                                                        
     mr Brisban formerly Employed In ffrance by his Matye is made               
secretary of the Admiralty In the Roome of mr Haytier who is preferred          
to be Comptroller of the Navy In place of sr Thomas Allen who Resigned          
it  sr Anthony deane Comissioner & surveyor Generall of the Navy hath           
layd downe his Comission  who will succeed him is Uncertain                     
     Passengers arrived with our last Post from ffrance say that King           
hath Reiterated his Comands to his sea officers not to strike sayle to          
any ships whatsoever                                                            
     The ffrench Ambr is upon his Returne heare & tis said departs in 4         
dayes                                                                           
     The Gazett Informes that many of the most Considderable persons In         
ffrance are Imprisoned abt Empoysonings & tis said the d: of Luxemburgh         
is also accused for haveing made A Contract with the devill that he             
should be Invulnerable In the warr & be alwayes In faivour with his             
prince & that all the ladies he Touched should be In Love with him              
        severall Hogsheads of wine were staved at London bridge on              
Tuesday last brought from scotland yard & tis said they were seized In          
the dutchesse of Portesmouths seller & yesterday Came forth A further           
proclamation Agt Prohibitted goods                                              
     Tis said there is very greate hopes that the Dutch will make an            
alliance with his Matye & Refuse the offers of ffrance & of the provinces       
declareing their Resolution soe to doe but tis said one article is that         
the alliance is to be Confirmed by act of Parliamt  otherwise they will         
not Adhere to the propositions                                                  
+The 6 preists last Condemned are said to be Repreived for some time            
    [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]                
     L. c. 892     Jan 26th 1679                                                
  London 24th Jan 1679                                                          
+Yesterday the Essex Petition was prsented by sr Gower Barrinton sr Robt        
Wright sr Robt Rich Coll Mildmay & mr Honiwood [?] mr Traford & mr Atwood       
which was delivered by sr Gower Barrington they all Kneeling  The Number        
of subscriptions was Computed to be 50000                                       
     His Matye demanded whether it Came from the Grandjury & Being told         
the Contrary said it was not then from the County of Essex                      
     They Answered it was from the Lds Knights Gentlemen ffreeholders           
& Inhabitants of Essex                                                          
   His Matye told them he was sorry to see soe many Gentlemen Concerned         
In such A Petition & told Coll Mildmay it was the old Buisness of 1641 &        
asked him if he had not forgot it  he answered that he had not & hoped his      
Matye Could not forget the year 1660 when their Petition was the Cause of       
his Restauration upon which his Matye went away not well pleased                
+In the afternoon was another petition prsented from Berkshire by the Ld        
Lovelace &c & his Matyes answer was that when he Came to windsor his            
ffreinds & he would Compose the diference with A Pot of ale                     
      The yorkshire Petition is Exspected In Towne this night & wee are         
told that severall others will be prsented before munday                        
     Yesterday dr Oates & mr Bedlow Petitioned his Matye In Councill that       
they might have A 2d heareing Agt the Ld scroggs & time for procureing          
the witnesses alledging that last heareing they were Called before their        
Witnesses were Ready                                                            
     This day mr Ben: Harris was Comitted to the Marshalsea for printing        
something In his Intelligence which Reflected on the Ld scroggs                 
     His Matye hath granted his Pardon to one mr starkey one of the             
Preists Condemned last sessions he haveing lost A legg In his Matyes            
service In the late Troubles  the other 5 are Also Repreived & some             
thinke they will be Transported being Condemned only As preists                 
+This day sr Jo: Gage brought his Habeas Corpus & had liberty upon              
Bayle & on Munday sr Robt Payton Comes by Habeas Corpus to the Kings            
Bench barr to Move for Bayle                                                    
     Last night sr Wm Waller delivered severall Papers to the Councill          
which discover A designe of subborning Witnesses to swear Buggery Agt the       
d of Bucks, Tis said they also discover A designe Agt the d of Munmoth &        
the E of shaftesbury & other things of greate Moment.                           
     A plaine Countrey fellow falling In Company with A Carrier Abt             
Wheateley In Oxfordshire Amongst other discourse told him he had been           
with the Lds In the Tower Upon which the Carryer Caused him to be seized        
& Carryed before mr Whorwood A Justice of peace & member of Parliamt where      
many letters were found abt him & his Pocketts well lyned with money            
     This weeke A greate lady was set upon In ffleetstreet being In her         
Chaire & supposed to be the Dutchesse of Portesmouth by her footmans            
lyvery  The assaulters would not be satisfied till shee Came out & appeared     
     Tis Reported that one mr Bannister A Gentlemen of 2500 L p An In           
Lankashire & A person very zealous Agt the Papists had A gentlemen Come         
to his house with A servant attending him who Enquired for the said mr          
Bannister who was then sicke In bed  he was Admitted to Come up to him &        
after A small stay he departed but A short time after the house was all         
on A fire & mr Bannister lay murthered In the Roome & the Assassine made        
A speedy Escape                                                                 
          Our letters from ffrance Advise that their King is Resolved to        
have An Army of 30000 men Encamped In fflanders before the 1st of March         
& our Holland letters Informe that the states are Resolved to Remaine           
neuters as to the alliances proposed by England & ffrance                       
     L. c. 893     Jan 29th 1679                                                
  London Jan 27th 1679                                                          
+Last sunday sr Jo: Newley waited on his Matye with A petition from the         
Citty of yorke for the Parliamts sitting which his Maty seemed to be very       
much displeased at Adding that he did not Exspect any such proceedings          
from that Ancient & Loyall Citty  The like answer his Matye gave on             
Munday morning to the somersetshire petition                                    
     Yesterday about 300 of the Commons appeared at Westminster & were          
prsently sent for up to the Lds house where his Matye made this following       
speech                                                                          
+MY LORDS & GENT  when I declared In Coun[cill] my Resolution of Putting        
of the Parliamt [to] A time soe Remote as November it was no[t] without         
haveing very well weighed & Considde[red] the grounds & Reasons that            
Induced mee to it  Nor Can I be prevailed upon by any[thing] that hath          
happned since In Relation to affaires within the Kingdome to alter that         
my Resolution but am Rather Confirmed & setled In it, when I have said          
this I must tell you at the same time that Considdering the prsent danger       
that threateneth our Neibours & allies In whose Interest & safety wee are       
soe neerly Concerned it may [be?] of very ill Consequence to make A             
Prorogation for soe long A time as should In the least dishearten our           
ffreinds which Relye upon us  for this single Reason I thinke meet to           
appoint A day for your meeting againe In Aprill & haveing thus let you          
see my Care of you In Relation to affaires abroade I must observe to you        
that the distractions & Jealousies at home are of such A nature & soe           
Heightened & Improved by the Malice & Industry of ill men that I am             
unalterably of opinion that A longer Intervall of Parliamt will be              
absolutely necesary for Composeing & quietting of mens minds: In order to       
which I am affraide the most Proper Remedy will prove Ineffectuall              
without the assistance of some further time                                     
     I doe therefore Resolve that upon & from that day wherein you are          
to meet In Aprill there shall be A further Prorogation unless the               
Cond[i]tion of o[u]r Allies abroade doe then Require our Imediate               
assistance & now my Ld Chancellor doe as I directed you                         
     soe the Ld Chancellor Prorogued the Parliamt till the 15th Aprill          
accordingly                                                                     
     On sunday all the Judges dyned with the Ld Maior Except the Ld             
scroggs between whome & the Ld Maior some words formerly past  The same         
night the Ld Maior & Aldermen were sent for to the Councill where his           
Matye Charged them to prosecute the Papists & take Care of the Citty            
     This day mr Benjamin Harris appeared by Habeas Corpus but his              
Bayle was Rejected as Insufficient  also sr Robt Payton appeared & bayle        
is ordered to be allowed for him next Thursday                                  
     upon the Information of sr Wm Waller to the Councill abt the d of          
Bucks &c 100 L was offered for one Higgins who was taken last night In          
his Bed  The designe is said to be of soe high A Nature that the Lds are        
much Concerned at it                                                            
+sr Thomas Gascoine Appeared last satureday at the Kings bench barr &           
his Tryall is put off till the last day of the Terme till which time he         
hath to provide his witness[es?]                                                
     The [?] [fraying at edge of folio obscures about twelve words the          
sense of which is probably that of first sentence of L. c. 894] & that          
his Matyes Yatchts are ordered to attend him                                    
     L. c. 894     Jan 31st 1679                                                
  London 29th Jan 1679                                                          
+Last night his Matye declared In Councill the Reasons he sent for the d        
of yorke who is suddenly Exspected here                                         
     In the Paris Gazett of the 3 ffeb New stile which Came hither              
yesterday is mention that the Parliamt of England would be Prorogued till       
some time In Aprill which has occasioned much discourse here                    
     Wee hear that 200 Justices are lately Turned out of the Comission of       
Peace                                                                           
     mr Knox & mr Lane who were last terme Convicted on account of dr Oates     
have Judgment to pay Each 100 L to the King & 12 months Imprisonment & to       
Continue In prison till the fines be paid                                       
     This day sr Robt Payton appeared Againe at the Kings bench barr &          
was Remanded till the last day of the Terme & if noe Indictment be              
brought by that time he is to be discharged upon bayle                          
     Yesterday sr Anthony deane & mr Pepis noe Evidence appeareing Agt          
them were Acquitted & mr Milbourne is also Acquitted & mr Rigault the           
ffrench merchant is out upon bayle  also the ld Aston & Lady Powis moved        
for liberty upon bayle but were Refused                                         
     Higgins that was taken on Munday night by sr Wm Waller hath made A         
Considderable Confession & tis said another of that gange An Irish man is       
taken & both are Committed to the Gatehouse & yesterday mr Prance seized        
one Gildon A preist A Dor[s]etshire man who is Committed to Newgate             
     Wee have the ill Newes that 2 Newfoundland ships are lost by stresse       
of weather In Malaga Road & one taken by the Turks & one from Jamaica           
taken by the Turks & after lost on the Coast of Ireland & wee have              
account from Algeirs that they have taken since their breach with us 155        
English ships & 1200 men                                                        
     The Chamber of Justice at Paris Continue to make A strict Enquiry          
after the Poysoners & besides those formerly mentioned many others of           
greate quality are seized & there are Warrants out for 80 more & the            
King declares none shall be pardoned that are guilty, of these poysoners        
there are most strange & unheard of things discourst not only In Causeing       
women to miscarry & destroying Children but such blasphemies & unchristian      
matters as are A shame to be spoken  Madam Lovarine hath Confessed shee         
hath destroyed 2700 Children & baked 400 In Ovens                               
     The King has passed An Edict In Parliamt to Enable his Naturall            
Children to Inheritt Each other & bear the name of Bourbon                      
     The ffrench worke with greate Dilligence at dunkerke to make that          
Port able to Containe 50 men of warr                                            
     The Channell that hath been Clensed will now bear 18 foot water            
     They are workeing at A fort that will advance it selfe A Canon             
shott within the sea to Comand the Road & 50 peeces of Canon will be            
planted upon it & such another is to be made at Mardicke & the Cannall of       
La fosse is to be Renewed that vessells may with any wind make Either the       
Haven of Dunkerke or that of La fosse all which will Cost that King 8           
millions.                                                                       
+The Best account wee have of what is done In Holland is that the states        
Generall Came to A Resolution that they would Reject any further alliance       
with ffrance & then adjourned till the 6 ffeb new stile which was out [?]       
27 January & In the Interim are to Consult their perticuler provinces           
what to doe In Relation to an alliance with England                             
+The states have appointed the Building of 36 men of warr forthwith             
     L. c. 895     ffeb 2d 1679                                                 
  London Jan 31st 1679                                                          
+Tis now said that the d of Munmoth is Restored to his mastership of the        
horse & that the Commrs have willingly Resigned                                 
     Yesterday mr Christian Gentleman to the E of danby was Committed to        
the Gatehouse by A warrant from sr Wm Waller  Tis said he is Committed          
for Treason upon some Informations of Higgins & others & last night mrs         
Radley was Comitted to the Gatehouse 2 persons haveing sworne Agt her           
that shee was Concerned In subborning witnesses to swear sodomy Agt the         
d of Bucks  Also Coll Tho: Blood who was formerly pardoned for takeing          
the Crowne &c is Charged upon the same account & hath given In bayle            
but tis judged he will very honorably acquitt himselfe to the shame of          
his accusers who by many are judged Imposters                                   
    mr Joseph David Kemish who was to have been tryed last sessions but         
was then sicke is dead                                                          
     The judgment mentioned In my last given upon Knox & Lane was               
mistaken for Lane is fined one hundred marks to stand in the Pillory &          
one yeares Imprisonmt & untill the 100 marks be paid & Knox is fined 200        
marks & 12 months Imprisonmt & untill the 200 marks are paid, Assoon as         
this judgmt was passed dr Oates waited upon his Matye & begged the fines        
which were Readily granted him                                                  
     The Tryalls of mr Tasbrough & mrs Price for Endeavouring to villify        
mr Dugdale are to be on wednesday next                                          
     This day mr Webb of Buckinghamshire accused by mr Dangerfeild & mr         
Howard of staffordshire were bayled but mr Gaven formerly mentioned to          
live In westminster & Committed as A preist by sr Wm Waller was Remanded        
     Wee hear the ill newes that the ship Phenix & bound from Bantham In        
the East India strucke upon A sand neer scilly & Could not be got off           
The men some fine goods & 200 Tunn of Pepper were saved                         
          By letters from scotland wee hear that they are going on In           
Levying the forces with all Expectation  Also they write that one of the        
Kings servants In discourse with delmahoy A military oficer Began Highly        
to Reflect upon the scottish nation Calling them Perfidious &c  The said        
Delmahoy Incensed thereat Cut off both his Eares whereupon they were both       
summoned to appear before his R Highs & Recd A Checke & were dismist            
     This weeke A greate disturbance had like to have Happened (Between         
Capt Hewson Captaine of one of the Companies of the Kings foot Guards &         
one of the Captaines of the Citty green Regemt) as the Kings Company was        
marching to the Tower about flourishing of Colours whereupon A Corporall        
of the Kings Company was Knockt downe but the quarrell was soon appeased        
& the 2 Captaines sent for to the Councill & severely Checkt                    
     The ffrench letters Continue to Informe us of the greate preparations      
that are still makeing throughout that Kings dominions  The people which        
seem most In danger of his Armes are the dutch of which they seem               
themselves already sencible                                                     
+mr Charles Muddiford & some other Gentlemen & Merchants have Erected           
neer unto Christchurch In this Citty A very large Pile of Buildings which       
is Contrived with much Art In Manner of the Banyans In Turkey Italy &c,         
In which is Artificiall Hott baths to any degree of heate & Receptacles         
fit [?] for persons of all qualities Ages & sex the Benefit whereof is          
well Knowne In fforreign Parts where they often bath & are thereby              
Relieved from many aches & paines the blood Clensed & Nature Exceedingly        
Relieved.  His Matye on Thursday last Came to see it & tooke A full view        
thereof & was well pleased with the Contrivance In Every Respect                
     This day the E of shaftesbury was sent for to the Councill to be           
advised with abt matters of greate Concerne the perticulers of which are        
not yet Knowne                                                                  
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of folio.]                
     L. c. 896     ffeb 5th 1679                                                
  London 3d ffeb 1679                                                           
+Tis said the E of Clarendon Ld Bartlet Ld Brockhurst & Ld Ailesbury are        
made privy Councellors Insteed of the Ld Russell Ld Cavendish sr Hen:           
Capell & mr Powle that are dismist                                              
     Tis Reported sr Tho: Lee & mr Vaughan prayed leave to be discharged        
from their service In the Admiralty & that there will be A further              
Alteration In the Councill                                                      
     This dayes Exchange hath brought us the sad newes from the downes          
In Generall that of the 170 ships that did Ride there there is 40 [90?]         
sayle missing whereof 14 are lost & the Rest drove off to sea  the              
Remainder lost Cables Anchors &c                                                
     saboth day last about 11 A Clocke In the house of one mr Delamoy An        
Eminent stuffe dier In Montague Close next the Thames & neer the Bridge         
foot In southwarke was discovered A fire  The neibours upon the Allarum         
broke In & found 3 severall fires on the ground floor which they soon put       
out but A fire broke out In the Garret which was also quenched  the family      
Except one man & A maide were out of Towne  the maide was observed to be        
Comeing downe staires & all things appeare like A designe  the maide was        
seized & Confesseth shee was Contracted with by 3 persons for 2000 L (when      
done) to set her masters house on fire or let them In to doe it & In            
order to which shee let one of them In & when the man was fast In bed           
they fell to worke which was prevented by the neibours as the wind stood        
& the place Considdered  the Effects might have been most dreadfull not A       
little Endangering the Bridge & ships In the River & all the borough            
Eastward  shee will not yet Confesse who Employed her.  It hath much            
allarmed all the Borough                                                        
     This day mr Tasbrough & mrs Price were Tryed for villifying mr             
Dugdale & found guilty but have not yet Recd judgment                           
     The Ryott mentioned In the Gazett at Bristoll tis said did arise           
from an old disorderly Custome used In that Citty that the ffree                
Carpinders of the Citty In such like manner goe through the Towne to            
search out all such who use that trade & are not ffreemen &c                    
     On satureday last A Comittee of Councill at whitehall his Matye prsent     
who was pleased to displace & place severall Justices of the peace              
     Tis Reported that the Ld Maior will be speedily moved by the Citizens      
to Call A Common Councill to Consult of some Expedient to prsent An             
Addresse to his Matye for Redresse of the Citty Greivances & that his           
Matye would secure the shipping of the nation & permitt that the Plotters       
may be Tryed & to take Into his Considderation the decay of this Cittyes        
Trade togather with the Increase of the poore & that if his Matye Refuse        
to make provision Agt their Indigency for the future they must of necesity      
be forced to Recall their loanes to his Matye upon the late Act of              
Parliamt                                                                        
+His Matye hath lately sent A message by sr stephen ffox to the d of            
Munmoth that he should depart hence for some time but wee Cannot be             
Informed that he hath Complyed with his desire                                  
     This day mr Lane stood In the Pillory at westminster Hall gate             
     The Committee of Lds appointed to Examine the designe Agt the d of         
Bucks mett this day & have discovered severall persons therein Concerned        
& others who presumed to attempt the poysoning of A very greate person          
   Wee have account of the peace Concluded between the 2 northerne Crownes      
for Joy whereof the Brandenburgh Resident here made A feast at his house        
In Leicester square & A bone fire with at least 400 faggotts                    
     L. c. 897     ffeb 7th 1679                                                
  London 5th ffeb 1679                                                          
+Tis Reported that my Ld Hallifax who is now In the Countrey hath sent to       
his Matye for leave to withdraw from the Councill & all publicke Employmts      
which tis thought will be granted him & the E of Radnor being Indisposed        
is gone Into the Countrey who tis thought will desire the same                  
     About 26 of the Justices of peace In the County of surrey are              
ordered to be left out of the new Comission of the peace for that County        
     sr Hen Capell & mr Vaughan haveing layd downe their Comissions of          
the Admiralty the Ld Brunkard & sr Thomas Littleton are to succeed &            
tis said the Ld Longford is made master of the ordinance In the Roome           
of sr Thomas Chelsey  Also tis said the Ld Herbert of Cherbury will be          
Turned out of all his places                                                    
     Yesterday mr Christian Gentleman to the E of danby who is accused          
upon oath of being privy to the Popish Plott & also for being privy to &        
A Confederate In subborning witnesses to swear sodomy & Buggery Agt the         
d: of bucks was Examined before the Councill where he made A slender            
defence Reflecting upon sr Wm Waller that he acted Partially Agt him &          
desired that the Councill would order that bayle should be taken for him        
which was Refused but was told that he might bring his Habeas Corpus & In       
the meane time his ffreinds might Come to see him & he should have all          
the liberty that the nature of his accusation would permitt                     
     Higgins hath accused 8 more who were to have 1000 L to swear Agt           
severall Protestants                                                            
     On Tuesday last one mr selnes was taken Into Custody & Examined he         
being accused upon oath to have said that sr Robt Payton bid him tell the       
d of Monmoth that he Could Raise him 50 or 60000 men who denies he ever         
uttered any such words or that he had any acquaintance with sr Robt  he         
was ordered to attend the Councill yesterday but was not Called                 
     Tis Reported the ld Chancellor did yesterday move In Councill that         
mr Bedlow might be taken Into Custody which if True is supposed not to be       
Capt Bedlow but his brother there haveing been A Report of late that mr         
Bedloes Brother should speake very dangerous words at A gentlemans In           
Monmothshire which was sworne Agt him before mr Arnold A Justice of             
peace of the said County                                                        
     Tis said there will be A Pardon Passed for all the Plotters that are       
yet untryed Except the Lds In the Tower & such others whose Crimes are          
very greate                                                                     
     mr Browne who was Committed by sr Jo ffredericke for saying there          
is noe plott is bayled & is to answer his words next sessions                   
     This day mr Harris the Bookseller had his Tryall at Guildhall for          
printing & vending many seditious Pamphletts perticulerly the appeale           
from the Countrey to the Citty for which the Jury brought him In guilty         
& he is Comitted prisoner to the Kings bench                                    
     The Lds Commrs of the Treasury have ordered that noe discharge shall       
be given to Barronetts till they have paid the fines for their Patents          
which hath not been done these 10 yeares                                        
+mr sidney hath sent A letter to his Matye Giveing account of the               
proceedings of the Treaty & that on the 5th Instant the states are to           
Assemble when tis said the Resolutions of the severall provinces In             
Relation to the Treaty with us will be brought In                               
        The ffrench have now Agreed with the County of Cleves as to the         
Arreirs of Contributions soe that now the ffrench will Evacuate that            
Countrey but Intend to take the guns with them                                  
     Last night the d of Monmoth was In the Citty viewing the New Bathing       
house neer Christchurch & tis discoursed he Intends to Come & Reside            
within the Citty                                                                
       They write from scotland of the 27th January that the d of yorke         
was not then parted from the place nor was it then Knowne whether he            
Would Come by sea or land                                                       
     L. c. 898     ffeb 9th 1679                                                
  London 7th ffeb 1679                                                          
+Our letters from the downes lessen the losse of ships In the late              
stormes divers feared to be lost Comeing In Dayly some haveing lost their       
masts others all their Anchors  The streights fleet Inwards bound are           
Come In very Richly laden                                                       
     The fireing of mr Delanoyes house In southwarke hath been strictly         
Examined & Appeares to be done by A most Pernitious design to Consume           
what they Can  There have been divers Examined Abt it & there yet Remaines      
In Custody The maide & one satternell A souldier  The Maide stands firme        
to her accusation Agt him with such Circumstances which by others are           
strengthened that few doubt of his guilt but he Continues firme In his          
denyall & hath had many persons appear In his behalfe which offer to            
testify his being at other places far distant at the same time shee Charges     
him.  This with A false Report that the maide is distracted gives greate        
Jealousies to the Inhabitants who are not A little Concerned to find            
any persons soe Cold as to Endeavour to smother soe Palpable A thing            
     Wee hear that the Citizens of London are Abt Petitioning the Ld            
Maior that for the Better security of the Citty the Chaynes of Every            
street may be drawn up Every night                                              
     Yesterday Judge Atkins Comission was taken from him & tis said that        
Judge Ellis & Judge Pemmerton will likewise shortly Receive their discharge     
     The d of Monmoth is gone or going Into sussex to divert himselfe           
In Hunting &c                                                                   
     The late disorders at the Playhouse hath soe much Incenst his Matye        
that tis said he hath Comanded the persons to be proceeded Agt as Ryotters      
     Tis said his Matye hath been pleased to give leave to mr Coventry          
one of the secretaries of state to lay downe that weighty office & that         
sr Lionell Jenkins his Matyes late Ambr at Nimeghen is to succeed him on        
valluable Considderations                                                       
     Coll Tho: Blood Remaines still under Bayle  yesterday he petitioned        
the Councill that he might have sumons from that board to bring before          
them the persons who accuse him & that it might be there heard averring         
his Innocency as to what they Charge him                                        
     Last munday the Ld Dunbarr & mr Benard Howard were sent for by his         
Matye & Chect for staying Abt Court Contrary to his Proclamation Agt            
Papists & ordered them Imediately to Retire                                     
     sr Tho: Gascoyne will be Tryed next wednesday Agt whome are many           
witnesses besides mr Bauldron & mr Mowbray                                      
     On Thursday one Justice herbert of Monmothshire accused by mr Dugdale      
to have spoken Dangerous words was Examined before the Councill & mr            
Dugdale was Called In to Exhibit his Charge but did not appear at which         
the Councill was offended but ordered the Justice to appear another day         
     mr strode of somersethsire subpoened to give Evidence Agt mr Anderson      
one of the late Convicted preists staying In towne to attend the Councill       
for his Charges is Arrested & Clapt In prison                                   
     They write from Paris that the Dauphines Marriage Contract was             
Celebrated at Municke In Bavaria on the 28th &[c]                               
     On the 30th the queen of spain made her Publicke Entry on Horseback        
Into the Citty of madrid where were Erected severall stately Triumphall         
Arches & the grandees & Nobility were very splendid & Rich as the               
occasion Required                                                               
+Tis Reported that the Ld Bruce son of the E of Ailesbury is dead In            
ffrance                                                                         
     This afternoon mr ffran: smith bookseller In Cornhill was Tryed at         
Guildhall for selling & dispersing A Pamphlett Called Tom Ticklefoot In         
which were very sharpe Reflections Relateing to sr George Wakemans tryall       
mr smith Could not be prsent by Reason he lyes ill of A malignant feavour       
sr George Jeffries Recorder of London made A long speech declareing how         
pernitious libells were & that it were fit some Example of punishment           
should be made upon those that Reflected upon the King god vicegerent or        
any majestrate who is the Kings vicegerent & said to the multitude that         
he hoped they did not Come there on designe to faivour such Pamphletts          
but Rather out of Abhorrancy to them after which the Evidence proved            
the Indictment & he was brought In Guilty  also mrs Curtis the wife of          
mr Curtis Bookbinder was tryed for selling & dispersing scandalous              
Pamphletts & found Guilty  what judgment mr Harris & those 2 will have          
is not yet Knowne but doubtlesse it will be very Heavy the offences             
being managed with all the Agravations of Law                                   
     Tis said that 19 of his Matyes ships lately built are now upon             
service                                                                         
     L. c. 899     ffeb 12th 1679                                               
  London 10th ffeb 1679                                                         
+On sunday last sr Lionell Jenkins tooke his place as secretary of state        
In Roome of mr Coventry & tis said that the Bishop of salisbury will be         
Treasurer of England & that the Ld Chancellor will desire leave to Retire       
& that the Ld scroggs will stand faire for that place                           
     Tis new Reported that about 80 Clergymen will be put Into the              
Comission of peace In the severall Counties In the places of those              
Justices that are lately layd aside                                             
     Tis said mr Gadbury hath made A very ffree & Ingenious Confession          
much to the satisfaction of his Matye & tis the more Credited In Regard         
that his Pardon is passed                                                       
     The persons formerly mentioned whome the Grandjury found the bill          
for Teareing the Petition In the strand were yesterday tryed & 2 of them        
found guilty of misdemeaners                                                    
     Those who lately made the disturbance In the dukes playhouse are to        
be proceeded Agt as Ryotters                                                    
+mr Christian hath againe Petitioned his Matye In Councill praying that         
the Papers Concerning him In sr Wm Wallers hands may be delivered to the        
Atturney Genll to Report the same & that he may be speedily Tryed & In          
the Interim permitted Bayle                                                     
     An Information was lately brought to the Kings bench barr Agt the          
E of Pembrooke for breakeing some windows In Leicester feilds                   
     Wee have of late had divers Robberies Committed on the High wayes          
& 3 were yesterday taken & Committed to Newgate                                 
     Yesterday 3 persons were brought from newgate by Habeas Corpus  2 of       
them were accused by mr Dugdale & A 3d was accused by A maide servant to        
be A preist & that he proffered her money to set her masters house on           
fire soe all 3 were Remanded                                                    
     Yesterday mr Mowbrayes Narrative was published Relateing the whole         
matters which Came to his Knowledge Relateing to sr Tho: Gascoyne sr            
Miles stapleton &c                                                              
   And there is Comeing out A 2d narrative of mr Tho Dangerfeilds And tis       
said the memorialls that passed between England ffrance & Holland at the        
Hague upon the Treaty of Alliance are Translated & In the presse & will         
be out within 2 dayes                                                           
     One mr Jo Mayne of Exeter being at Bristoll ffaire haveing spoken          
as tis said Dangerous words Agt the govermt was thereupon seized & since        
ordered to be brought to the Councill board to answer the same                  
     They write from Rome January 20th that the spanish minesters there         
will by noe meanes grant the 10ths of the Churches goods of spa[ine] to         
the K of Poland for Carying on the warr Agt the Turks Concerning which          
the Pope In his last Consistory as one Exasperated spoke to Cardinall           
Nitard to write to his Master Abt that affaire                                  
     They write from Madrid of the 26th January that sr Hen Goodricke had       
his first Audience In that Court the weeke before & that the Marquess of        
Ossuna is made viceroy of sardinia                                              
     Our letters by the way of Holland say that the ffrench K hath sent         
to the K of sweden 12 such horses & soe Richly sadled & Trapped &c That         
the like was never seen In sweden                                               
     The ffrench Commrs about Hambrough ffranckfort &c buy up greate            
numbers of horses fit for warr & the warlike preparations In ffrance            
Continue as also their Equipping more men of warr  where the storme will        
fall is uncertain  He seemes since he Cannot get A defensive alliance with      
Holland to be Content with their Neutrality provided they Keep it               
punctually & for A time yet to be Agreed on  They have miserably                
Harrassed the people of Cleves &c for Contributions & when they have with       
greate dificulty Raised their first demands they make A 2d  They have not       
yet Evacuated wesell or Recd orders soe to doe that place being of greate       
Importance to him if he should attacke Holland                                  
     L. c. 900     ffeb 14th 1679                                               
  London 12th ffeb 1679                                                         
+Yesterday was the Tryall of sr Thomas Gascoine which begun at 9 In the         
morning & held till 4 afternoon but the Ld scroggs went off the Bench at        
2 afternoon to Guildhall, The undersheriffe of yorkshire had summoned 3         
juries who were all Called over  sr Thomas In General Excepted Agt all          
such as had signed the Petition for the sitting of the Parliamt & In            
perticuler Agt many of the Jury, mr Mowbray deposed that about michaelmas       
1676 there was A meeting of Jesuitts &c at Barnbow (sr Tho: Gascoynes           
house) when it was then Concluded that the Kings Matye In Regard he was An      
Hereticke & Excomunicated by the Pope should be murthered it being not          
only Lawfull but meritterious soe to doe                                        
     Bauldron swore that sr Thomas offered him 1000 L if he would undertake     
to doe it & Also sr Tho: Gascoyne & his son & the Lady Tempest &c did at        
Barnbow Consult of A designe to murther his Matye &c  The whole Evidence        
was very large & some say full  The Jury brought It In not Guilty at            
which many are much dissatisffied & some say the Jury are Tennants to the       
Lady Tempest & sr Miles stapleton                                               
     mr Harris Convicted for Printing A seditious Pamphlett Called An           
Appeale from the Countrey to the Citty Recd Judgment to stand In the            
Pillory at the Royall Exchanges next Tuesday & is ffined 500 L to the King      
     mr smith & mrs Curtis their judgments are suspended till the next          
Terme as also the judgment on mr Tasbrough & mrs Price                          
     This day the Grandjury found the bill Agt mr Gaven of Westminster as       
a preist &c Also Agt mr Christian & Also Agt mrs Celliers & shee was            
Arraigned & will be tryed next Terme  The witnesses Agt her are mr              
Gadbury & mr Dangerfeild                                                        
+sr Robt Payton & the Lady Powis are also at liberty upon bayle                 
+The wind Continuing Westerly as it hath done these 10 weeks A greate           
number of merchants ships lye still windbound In the downes  wee have yet       
noe further perticulers what ships are lost but there Dayly Appear severall     
Parts of wrecks & they write from Holland that many ships have been lost        
& others Endamaged In the Texell where there lye A very vast number             
outwards bound                                                                  
     severall of the justices of Peace of Barkshire are Comeing up to           
desire his Matye to pardon some Papists Convicted there                         
     severall of the Commrs of the Admiralty mett on munday last &              
Consulted how to set out A ffleet for A summer guard                            
     Last Munday the Lieutenancy mett at Guildhall to grant Comissions to       
the officers of the Regemt of which sr James Edwards is made Colonell           
     sr Wm Waller hath seized An Incendiary at A Cheesemongers neer             
Charing Cross & searching his Trunke found severall materialls to fire          
houses & Especially the house wherein he was & 2 other houses thereabouts       
as he upon Examination Confest whereupon he was Comitted                        
     On sunday last A greate number of Apprentices mett at An Alehouse          
to Consult of A further meeting next may day In A greate body under A           
pretence of Burning the Rump & then to demolish Conventicle houses &            
fformed the method of meeting & Chose officers to govern the Rest but the       
design was discovered by the late staying out of An Apprentice whome his        
master Examined & suspecting his Honesty searched his Pocketts & there          
found A list of the Eminentest of them which he Carryed to the                  
Chamberlain who desired him to acquaint the Ld Maior therewith which is         
done but wee doe not yet hear he is In Custody                                  
+This morning Early his Matye went to windsor & tis thought will Returne        
to morrow or satureday                                                          
     L. c. 901     ffeb 16th 1679                                               
  London 14 ffeb 1679                                                           
+Wee have Advice that the d of yorke & his Dutchesse Come by sea from           
scotland & tis supposed they Embarked on wednesday last & the wind Comeing      
ffaire yesterday for them severall Boates & one yatcht went downe the           
River this day to meet them & they are Exspected at whitehall to morrow         
where they are to lodge & preparations are makeing for their Reception          
+The d of Monmoth is at Chichester In sussex                                    
     By A ship which Came In yesterday wee have an ill account of Tangier       
that when that ship Came away it was much streightened by the moores & by       
this time is ffeared to be lost  wee Exspect A full account next weeke In       
our spanish letters which Come over land                                        
     mr Harris at the Passing of his sentence did twice upon his Knees          
begg the mercy of the Court & said what was printed In his domesticke           
Reflecting on the ld scroggs was done by order of dr Oates for which he         
had his handwriteing to shew whereupon dr Oates was sent for but was not        
In the way  The Pamphlett vizt The Appeale from the Countrey to the Citty       
is to be burnt by the Comon Hangman when he stands on the Pillory on            
Tuesday next & Harris is to give security for 3 yeares                          
     A Barrister at Law haveing been observed at severall Tryalls to take       
notes was on Tuesday last Complained of In Court by sr George Jeffries          
for giveing them to be printed whereupon the ld scroggs said that if any        
Barrister used such things he would Pull his gowne over his head                
     mr Osborne servant to dr Oates who swore soddomy Agt his Master is         
at liberty upon bayle                                                           
     Judge Pemmerton is out of Comission & tis said mr serjt Baldwin            
will succeed him                                                                
     mr Robt Bauldron one of the witnesses Agt sr Thomas Gascoyne hath          
this day put forth his Narrative & dedicated it to his Matye                    
       The persons he therein accuses to be In the Plott are many vizt          
sr Thomas Gascoine sr Miles stapleton who is In Custody of A messenger          
at his house In Yorkshire Charles Ingleby Esqr & many others of which           
some are In Custody others out upon bayle & the Rest not yet taken              
     The Grandjury that found the bill Agt mr Christian &c found one also       
Agt mr Thomas Blood  The witnesses Agt mr Blood are one ffelow Candia &         
sam: Ryder who are were or pretend now to be servants to the d of Bucks         
Tis said mr Blood hath Examined one or more witnesses Agt them before A         
justice who have deposed such matters as Render them very ill men  mr           
Blood Continues to Averr his Innocency & hath A warrant to have the said        
persons Apprehended & Examined but tis said they are not to be found at         
their former Lodgings  This Buisness seemes soe odd & perplext as has           
Rarely been the like                                                            
     They write from the Hague that the states have Resolved to build           
40 men of warr In 2 yeares presize                                              
     They write from Paris That all the officers have orders on paine of        
Cashiering & imprisonment to be at their Comands the 17th Instant & that        
his Matye Intends to be on progress In fflanders by the 15th may to             
vissitt divers places                                                           
     On Thursday last A petition was presented to the Councill by severall      
merchants wherein they humbly Requested that whereas the Newfoundland was       
[at ffirst discovered?] by the English that his Matye would Erect A             
Colony there Intimating that the ffrench & Dutch might by that meanes be        
prevented for ffishing there to which they Recd noe answer                      
     The Assizes for the Midland Circuitt begin at Northampton march 2d &       
are at Leicester march 17th & at Coventry march 19th & at warwicke march        
20th                                                                            
+Yesterday was A debate In Councill about the Alliance & other greate           
matters the Result whereof is not Certainly Knowne                              
     L. c. 902     ffeb 19th 1679                                               
  London 17th ffeb 1679                                                         
+This morning about 2 Clocke Happned A sudden fire In Coney Court In            
Graies Inn which began In Councellers Adys Chamber & Consumed the quantity      
of 6 houses In which were Contained mr Williams the Recorder of Closters        
[?] Chamber mr stringer & sr Jo: Otways Chambers &c who saved all their         
Papers of any Considderable vallue  wee Cannot as yet learne how it began       
     His Royall Highness hath been hourely Exspected the greate guns            
being loaded in the Tower & the greate fflagg hunge out but is not yet          
Come & wee have letters of the 10th Instant from scotland which say the         
Yatchts were not then Arrived at Lieth soe that wee are not Certain when        
he Comes but there is Constant attendance for it                                
     The d of monmoth hath his Residence for the present at the Ld Graies       
In Essex                                                                        
     mr Ben: Harris by his wife attended the Councill with A petition           
praying A Mitigation of the sentence passed on him which was not granted        
In Regard shee Could not or would not discover the Authour of the Pamphlett     
     soe this day mr Ben: Harris according to his sentence stood In the         
Pillory In Cornhill before the Exchange one houre  The Pamphlett being          
burnt the time Expired  The multitude Expressed greate Joy by shouteing &       
waveing their Hatts & he then bowed to the people & was discharged of           
the Pillory & was Remanded to the Kings bench prison                            
     Tis said sr Jo: Keeling or mr serjt street is appointed to goe the         
Circuitt In place of Judge Pemmerton who is dismist                             
     This afternoon died the Ld Hollis & the late Ld Cheife Justice             
Rainsford                                                                       
     Wee have much discourse of the Removall of divers greate officers          
vizt That the E of Arlington will be made Ld Treasurer the E of sunderland      
Ld Chamberlain sr James Edwards lately made Colonell of the Citty green         
Regemt Lieft of the Tower &c                                                    
+one mr Porter & another gentleman who Committed some disorders In the          
Playhouse & spoke some words Agt the dutchesse of Portesmouth were              
Challenged by mr Oglethorp but the Challenge was Refused                        
     Warrants are Issuing forth for the Retakeing of sr Thomas Gascoine         
for Harbouring priests &c                                                       
     A pursenant [?] is sent Into the Countrey to ffetch up mr Bedlow           
     Coll mansell hath prayed leave of the Councill to take his Course at       
Law Agt the Lady Powis                                                          
     They write from ffrance that Monsr Collers hath taken the Oath of          
secretary of state [for?] fforreign affaires & Imediately Entred the            
Councill since which he gives Audience to the Ambrs of fforreign Princes        
     Wee have letters from fflanders which say the states of Holland have       
Adjourned till the 1st march when tis thought they will sit A long time         
& lay An Imposition on ffirehearths & stones as In England                      
     They write from the Hague that mr sidney o[u]r Ambr acquainted the         
states that though his master had ffixed the meeting of his Parliamt to         
the 15th of Aprill yet he would Call them sooner if their Interest Required     
it to which the states Returned thanks & that their affaires did not yet        
Require it                                                                      
     They write from Brussells date 23d That Charlemont is delivered to         
the ffrench which hath soe allarmed the states of Holland that they             
dispatcht An Extrary Courrier to his Excellency to desire that for their        
owne security & for the preservation of that small part of fflanders that       
is left he would Admitt such Troops of theirs as will be sufficient to          
guard those Citties that border upon Holland & would give them leave to         
Repaire & Amend those places that are defective to prevent any Attempt          
that may be made Agt them but have noe Answer & tis ffeared that governour      
will Admitt of noe dutch garrisons                                              
+sr Wm Waller is out Upon Eminent service for the publicke of which             
perhapps more by the next                                                       
     L. c. 903     ffeb 21st 1679                                               
  London 19 ffeb 1679                                                           
+Wee have letters from scotland dated the 12th Instant which then left          
his R Highness at Edenbrough waiteing the Comeing of the Yatchts soe that       
wee are uncertain when he will Arrive here & the more In Regard the wind        
shifted & Also that In the late stormes the Henrietta Yatcht was forced         
backe Into yarmouth Roade haveing sprunge her maine Mast & Run some             
hazzard of being lost  But the sentinells still Continue guardeing the 61       
[?] guns at the Tower that are Charged to salute him Upon his Arrivall          
    mr sidney Dayly moves the states of Holland for an alliance but is          
obstructed by the ffrench Agent who dayly Invites them to A Neutrality          
    The memorialls of the English & ffrench Ambrs In Relation to the said       
Alliance is Come out In print as is also mr Dangerfeilds 2d Narrative           
+The office of steward to the queenes Matye being voyd by the death of          
the Late Ld Hollis tis said that office is given to the Ld Arlington            
     Just now wee have Certain newes that the Neptune ffregott (mentioned       
by the gazett to be Cast away) is safely arrived at ffalmouth                   
     They write from Lisle In fflanders that the ffrench have made              
severall detachments of the Troops that are there which are all sent to         
the generall Randevous neer Tournay where will be An Army of 24000 men &        
Artillery proportionable                                                        
     They write from Trusin [?] In savoy they are there Apprehensive of         
danger from ffrance there being already by the ffrench Kings order 60           
Companies of foot & 30 Troops of horse on their March to Pigneroll the          
ffrontier part of ffrance to savoy soe they have there begun to ffortify        
that Citty with Pallisadoes & given orders to all their forces to be In         
Readiness with the first Alliance                                               
     Our Paris letters say that Madam La Vosine was Executed according to       
her sentence  before she was brought to the stake they stript her to her        
shift & made her doe penance at the Church of Nostre dame  Never did A          
fflagitious person appear soe Encouraged at her sentence & Kept her             
Resolution till shee Came within sight of the Pile of wood that was made        
to burne her but that strucke her with such terror & Amazement that shee        
not only quitted that Resolution but layd fast hold on the sledge on            
which shee was drawne that 5 persons Could hardly unloose her  shee had         
her fflesh pluckt from severall Parts of her body & was afterwards burnt        
shee gave Terrible shriekes  shee did not discharge any of those persons        
shee had accused but Insteed thereof accused her owne son & Daughter &          
one Madam Prinnoy now In Custody to be more skilled In that Damnable Act        
& there was found In Madam Priannoyes Chamber 8 L of Arsenacke & 60             
violls prepared of severall sorts of Poysons & 2 large books of Receipts        
how to make the Poysonings                                                      
     Tis said the E of Huntingdons Commission for the County of Leicester       
is taken from him the Reason whereof is variously discoursed                    
     The late Report of An Information Exhibitted in the Crowne office          
Agt dr Oates & mr Bedlow & also of the Retrenchment of the said drs             
Allowance proves altogather ffrivilous                                          
     Also the Report that Warrants are Issued out for Retakeing sr Thomas       
Gascoine proves A mistake, however sr Thomas is not to be found  The Jury       
that acquitted him at his late Tryall are very much Reflected on                
+Tis said the Court Resolve for Newmarket the next Month                        
     L. c. 904     ffeb 23d 1679                                                
  London ffeb 21st ffeb 1679                                                    
  +Notwithstanding the Malicious Reports spread Abroad Agt mr Bedlow that       
he should goe out of Towne to Avoyd the heareing of A Complaint Agt him         
by A Justice of peace In Wales he is Returned & hath Attended the Councill      
to acquaint them that he is Ready at all times to Answer to anything            
tha[t] shall be Exhibitted Agt him                                              
     There are warrants out Agt severall persons who have taken the liberty     
to Traduce & villify dr Oates mr Bedlow & others of the Kings Evidence &        
tis Resolved the offenders shall suffer all legall punishment  there are        
also warrants out for Preists of whome there hath been Intimation given         
to sr wm Waller & mr Justice Warcupp                                            
     There was left at the Booksellers shop who printed mr Bauldrons & mr       
Mowbrayes Narratives A letter directed to them Importing that 2 of sr           
Tho: Gascoines jury had Recanted the verdict & now Resolved to shew their       
Reasons which letter mr Bauldron & mr Mowbray Communicated to his Matye In      
Councill on the 20th Instant  The Contents of which with that which was         
further said by mr Bauldron & mr Mowbray gave his Matye & Councill occasion     
to Command the 2 Jurymen to be summoned before them In order to their           
Examination as to the said Tryall & verdict & mr Bauldrons wife formerly        
A servant to sr Tho: Gascoine & still A zealous Papist was also with them       
before the Councill who declared that her Religion & the Respect shee had       
to her master had untill now stopt her mouth for Confessing & owneing           
severall things shee was privy to In Relation to her master & others but        
now her Conscience would not suffer her to Conceale them any longer &           
thereupon acquainted his Matye & Councill with what shee knew & was ordered     
to Attend the next Councill day with what shee had said In writeing             
     The wives of about 200 persons who are slaves In Algeirs have              
petitioned his Matye that some Care might be taken for their Reliefe which      
the Councill tooke Into Considderation & were A Considderable time In           
debate for the most speedy & Effectuall meanes to Reduce them for A             
Complyance which his Matye is Resolved to prosecute forthwith                   
     They write from Paris that the ffrench K is under greate Apprehensions     
of his Receiveing poyson from some hand or other the beleefe whereof hath       
very much seized on him Even to A Malancholly disquiett  some are of opinion    
that his Treasure is much Exhausted & that he will fall on the Republicke       
of Genoa who are Rich In money & poor In people for defence soe may be          
willing to purchase their quiett                                                
     The Papists are still at worke with their fforgeries thereby to            
Accuse people & Raise jealousies of the Protestants A letter being found        
In the streets Intimating that the names underneath In Number 75 were as        
the Author sayes all he Could Engage & would make up 13000 which should         
be Ready to march at the blowing of A horne by A boy about the streets          
of the Citty  The letter was Carryed to the Ld Maior who is Traceing it         
as far as he Can                                                                
+Wee hear his R Highness did Embarke on Tuesday last but tis uncertain          
when he will Arrive being the wind hath since shifted  Tis now said his         
R Highness is wholly A protestant & will declare himselfe such & that his       
Matye will Invest him In the office of Ld High Admirall & other greate          
Trusts & Charges In the Kingdome                                                
+Yesterday wee had A Comon Councill at the Guildhall where according to         
usuall Custome the usuall Comittees for manageing the Affaires of the           
Citty were appointed but nothing more though tis Reported at Court they         
Intended something of A generall Concerne                                       
+This day one of his Matyes Yatchts went downe the River to ffetch In A         
Holland Ambr                                                                    
     L. c. 905     ffeb 26th 1679                                               
  London 24 ffeb 1679                                                           
+This morning their R Highnesses Arrived at Greenwich where they dined &        
about 3 A Clocke this Evening Came to whitehall  The guns at the Tower          
Welcomed their Arrivall & they were Recd by their Matyes with greate            
demonstrations of Joy & Effection  The Lady Crosier liveing In Newgate          
street hath given order for 2 load of ffaggotts to make A bonefire this         
Evening for Joy & tis said the d of Lauderdale hath Allowed 150 L for           
prepareing 2 bonefires to be Erected by the same person that made the           
late faimous one In Leicester feilds & hath ordered 4 Hogsheads of wine         
for standers by                                                                 
     Tis still discoursed that his R Highness will be made Ld Admirall &        
some Persons that lately petitioned his Matye that he would take Care of        
the shipping & that there may be some New vessells built  tis said his          
Matye Returned answer that they should make Application to his brother          
on that matter                                                                  
     The Lds of the Admiralty have ordered Capt storey In the diamond           
with 4 other men of warr forthwith to Cruise about the Lands End scilly,        
Ushant &c to Curbe the Algerines & secure our Merchantmen                       
     Yesterday began our sessions of the peace at Guildhall where A             
Complaint was made Agt 5 quakers who were Chosen Constables & Refused to        
take the Oath of that office who were ffined 20 nobles Apeice & Committed       
to Newgate                                                                      
     Yesterday the Judges & Bishops mett to decide the Controversy between      
mr Emerton & sr Robt viner about the Lawfulness of his Marriage with sr         
Robts daughter In law which hath A suite of Law depending above 4 yeares        
& is not yet determined but tis thought It will suddenly be given for mr        
Emerton the Plaintiffe                                                          
     One mr Perry A Trunkemaker of Ireland hath againe Petitioned his           
Matye Claiming to be Right Heir to the Title & Estate of the late E of          
Northumberland defunct there being as he affirmes noe Relation neerer           
then him selfe which petition is shortly to be taken Into Considderation        
+mr Ingleby & 3 others are to be sent to Yorke to be Tryed there this           
Assizes & mr Bauldron &c are prepareing for their Journey  Also mr              
Bauldron & mr Mowbray have orders to have the persons & buisness About sr       
Tho: Gascoines Tryall Examined In the Countrey                                  
    mr Justice Warcupp haveing Information that one mr Poulton A Jesuite        
was lately seen In Essex at the house of the lady Petre Mother to the           
Ld Petre now Prisoner In the Tower went with A sufficient strengh & made        
search found his bed Warme & slippers Books &c but [did?] not find his          
person soe demanded of the Lady [on?] her honour whether he were In that        
house  her Answer was shee would not speake An untruth on her honour nor        
yet betray him soe left them to make As large A search as they pleased &        
they searched from 8 In the morning till late In the Evening but found him      
not but seized severall letters directed to the said Poulton of A ffresh        
date & A booke of the Jesuitts Accounts & other Considderable Papers In         
which tis thought will appear A great discovery                                 
+Last saboth day morning Just after the watch was gone 7 persons broke          
out of newgate & are Escaped vizt Thomas Newell Committed for A Murther         
Jo: Bugg Clement sewell John Ralph, Randolph Russell for housebraking           
[Geo]rge How & Charles Constantine Picklocks                                    
+sr Robt southwell is ordered to depart Extrary Envoy to the d of               
Brandenbrugh                                                                    
+They write from the Hague of the 25th Instant that the ffrench have            
at last Evacuated Wesell A place of Greate Importance but would not stirr       
till they had all their Arreirs of Contribution & tis said they have            
Carryed with them 400000 Duccatoons In Ready money & some letters say           
Charlemont was delivered to the ffrench on the 28th Instant                     
+sr Jo: Keeling is made one of the Judges of the Kings bench In the Roome       
of Judge Pemerton                                                               
      [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]              
     L. c. 906     ffeb 28th 1679                                               
  London 26 ffeb 1679                                                           
+On Tuesday Night there were Many Bonefires made In & About the Citty for       
Joy of his R: Highness Arrivall one of which was In Essex Buildings In the      
strand at A ffrenchmans door where some Gentlemen being with him In his         
Balcony They with Loud Acclamations & Hatts fflourished Cryed God save the      
d of Yorke  The yonge ffrie about the ffire being only boyes of 10 or 12        
yeares of Age some of them Cryed God bless the d of Monmoth Also Whereupon      
the Gentlemen Came downe & drew their swords & made the Boyes ffly              
     But A little after some lusty ffellows Came down to the ffire who          
broke their swords & beate them soundly & broke the windows of the house        
     The Constable Comeing to secure the peace seized the ffirst Abettors       
for drawing swords & Committed them to prison from whence they were             
Released Next morning                                                           
     The Court being In mourning for P Ruperts sister & it being lent           
season there appeares not that splendour as was by some Imagined                
+Tis said his R Highness will next month Attend his Matye to Newmarket &        
will on Easter day Receive the sacramt In the Chappel[l] at whitehall &         
give further Testimony of his being A True protestant & Amongst other           
thing[s] that he is desirous to match his Daughter the Lady Ann to the          
yonge Prince of Brandenburgh & tis Reported that sr Robt southwell who is       
going Envoy to that princes ffather hath Instructions to that purpose           
    Our letters from Berlin say the said duke of Brandeburgh is In A very       
dangerous Condition of body occasioned by the Gout In his Armes hands           
knees & ffeet A Tertian Ague & A fflux of blood from his fundament              
     Tis said the ffrench Kings defensive league with sweden & Denmarke         
is made & that he hath made the ffaimous Generall Count Conningsmarke           
one of the Marshalls of ffrance                                                 
     Our letters from strasburgh give A large account of A most splendid        
& Magnificent Receipt which that Citty gave to the Dauphiness In her            
passage towards ffrance & our Paris letters say that on the 27th ffebruary      
the King queen & Dauphine parted from st Germains to meet the dauphiness        
at Vitri where shee will stay for the Interview                                 
     This day the Ld maior & Aldermen & some of the Comon Councill              
Attended on his Matye at whitehall to Returne him the thanks of the Citty       
for his faivour to them In the buisness of the Water Bailiffe after which       
they had the honour of Kissing his hand                                         
     Tis thought the late Breach of the prison of Newgate by 7 Notorious        
Malefactors will lye on the sheriffs who are ffineable because the walls        
were not stronge Enough & not on the keeper of the prison as some Immagin       
it being made Evident by those 2 persons they left bound & Gaggd In the         
Roome that they were ffettered                                                  
     This day the sessions began In the old Bayly but there is noe              
speciall Comission for the Tryall of Plotters                                   
+His Matye out of his Princely Compassion to the many English that are          
slaves In Algeirs hath not only granted A breife throughout England &           
declared that he will Contribute largely thereunto but hath also ordered        
that all Prohibitted goods that are seized shall be sold & the money            
disposed toward their Redemption                                                
+ffrom Dublin wee hear that A minester of that Citty was lately Indicted        
for saying that dr Oates & Capt Bedlow were Rogues & that they had falsely      
accused the 5 Jesuitts for which he was ffined 300 L & Imprisoned till          
Its paid                                                                        
     To morrow will be A Councill day where Considderable matters are           
Exspected to be Debated & the more In Regard tis said his R Highness is         
to assist                                                                       
     L. c. 907     March 1st 1679                                               
  London ffebruary 28th 1679                                                    
+Yesterday was A Councill but his Royall H: did not Assist as was               
Exspected  The Wives of severall persons now In slavery In sally prsented       
their Petition praying his Matyes Compassion on their Captive Relations &       
that they may be Inserted In the Breife for Algeirs                             
     When the Ld Maior &c had Attended his Matye last Thursday about the        
Water Bailiffe they also waited on their R Highnesses whome the Ld Maior        
In A Congratulery speech welcomed from scotland, His Highness told them he      
Kindly accepted their vissitt & as he had formerly soe he would venture         
his life for the preservation of their Citty & Kingdome & protestant            
Religion after which they had the honour of Kissing their R Highnesses          
hands  Also that Evening severall of the Lieutenancy of the Citty went to       
pay their Respects to his R Highness & Congratulate his Happy Arrivall          
     The Bishop of London Preached last wednesday before his Matye at           
whitehall & about the middle of the sermon the d of yorke Came Into the         
Chappell to speake with his Matye & stayd till sermon & service was Ended       
     The Lds of the Treasury have made divers greate Retrenchments & tis        
said P Ruperts pay as governour of Windsor Castle is wholly taken off &         
they find his Matyes Constant Expences may In times of peace be within          
the Compasse of 900000 L p Ann                                                  
     Last night there was A Treate at the Ld Maiors house where were divers     
noble persons some of which began A health to his R Highs which some            
Refuseing to pledge sharpe words Arose                                          
     Yesterday morning was A duell fought In Hyde Parke Between sr Wm           
Poultneys son & Major Oglethorps son, his 2d And Coll Warcupps son & the        
Ld Whartons son his 2d, The 2 first have dangerously wounded the 2 last         
But tis said they were not ffaire In their weapons which were much longer       
then the others                                                                 
     And this morning was Another duell In southampton square Between don       
Carlo E of Plimouth & the Ld Mordant his 2d And sr George Hewett & the Ld       
Cavendish his 2d  They fell [tear removes about five words] Ld Cavendish        
wounded & [disarmed?] [tear removes about two words] & then parted the          
principalls                                                                     
     The states of Holland have sent A 2d Express to his Matye with thanks      
for his Gracious proposalls                                                     
     ffrom Madrid wee have account that the K of spaine hath Entred Into        
A league with the Princes of Italy for the mutuall security of their            
Dominions Agt the growing greatness of ffrance                                  
     The Ld Cheife Baron of the Exchequer In Ireland being dead sr Hen:         
Herne succeeds                                                                  
     mrs Bauldron hath according to the order of Councill given In her          
Information In writeing Containing A more Exact Relation of the                 
proceedings of sr Tho: Gascoine &c In soe Ample A manner & Attended with        
such Circumstances as Renders it of Greate Truth which shee hath been           
prevailed upon by Bribes promises & Threats to Conceal till now                 
+This Evening the sessions Ended at the old Bayly where 15 persons were         
Condemned                                                                       
     The Recovery of London Edward Dover Master haveing only 4 guns &           
8 men sayes he was Encountered by 4 sally men of warr of Each 10 guns           
who after 4 houres fight left him, he lost only 2 of his men & 3                
desperately wounded but Killed 40 of the Turks                                  
+A ffew dayes since 5 men & A woman went hence In A Coach & Comeing to          
the old Lady Tierrills In Buckinghamshire about 7 In the Evening the men        
pretended they had A warrant from the Lds of the Councill to search the         
house for A Preist  The old lady Knowing the house ffree from such vermine      
suspected them & demanded why they Came without A Constable & desireing         
to see their warrants they began to Exersize the usuall violence of             
Robbers but one of the servants Rung the House Bell which brought In the        
Neibours who seized on them before they had done much mischiefe & they          
were all Comitted to Ailesbury Goale                                            
     Tis now beleeved that the Parliamt will Certainly sit In Aprill            
next  That the Lds will Come to their Tryalls & that his Matye will passe       
such bills as will Remove the feares of the people In Relation to the           
security of the Protestant Religion & Agt A popish successour                   
     L. c. 908     March 4th 1679                                               
  London March 2d 1679                                                          
+Its Reported that his R Highness is Admitted of the privy Councill &           
that it hath been moved there that the sitting of the Parliamt should be        
taken Into Considderation next Councill day & that he will Receive the          
sacramt according to the Church of England In the Ld Maiors Chappell by         
Guildhall & that his R Highness & the D of monmoth have been lately In          
Company & are Reconciled & the D of monmoth will be Restored to all his         
places                                                                          
     The Ld George Berkley hath proposed to his Matye to lay downe money        
for Redemption of the English Captives In Algeirs untill the Breife be          
Collected & that he will goe In person to treate for their Release              
     By letters from scotland wee hear that A sudden Lightning hapned In        
the night time at Dalkeith 4 miles from Edenbrough which strongly               
Affrighted & Amazed the Inhabitants who thought by the violent &                
Continuall fflashes that the Towne had been on fire but wee doe not hear        
that there is any harme done                                                    
+sr Jo Coventry as tis said hath given out some words In A Coffee house         
Agt his R Highness saying he is A Traitor & A Rogue of which affidavit          
hath been made & he is bound to answer it                                       
     The Ld sunderland lately made A Banquett for their Matyes & their          
R Highnesses                                                                    
     Yesterday died sr Jo: shaw Customer Inwards for the Port of London         
his sallary by Patent 460 L 13 4 p Ann & plentifull Perquisites In which        
patent he had 3 lives vizt his owne & his sons & A 3d                           
     Within these few dayes greate quantities of wines & Brandy have            
been seized In the River as being supposed of the growth of ffrance             
    Wee have A greate ffleet of merchantment Come In Laden with Canaryes        
& spanish wines the Duty of which to his Matye will Amount to above             
80000 L  The wines In the Canaries have proved very good this year &            
Exceeding Plentifull Insomuch that the Caske was more scarse then wine          
+Our last letters from ffrance say that severall protestant Churches In         
Languedoc have been lately demolished And that many Troops are on their         
March towards Dauphine & provence which tis presumed are the forces             
designed to take posession of Cassall the Key of Italy which is said to         
be sold to ffrance by the d of Mantua who tis said will leave Italy &           
make ffrance his Residence                                                      
   They write from the Hague dated march 7th [?] that the states were that      
day assembled & the P of Orange present & the Deputies of the severall          
provinces had brought In the Resolutions of their principalls as to the         
Alliance of Neutrality proposed by ffrance  The states will Adjourne            
to morrow for 10 dayes & at their next meeting their Resolutions on that        
matter will be declared                                                         
     His Matye hath granted An order of Councill to the Ld Maior In             
faivour of mr Bauldron that he may be made ffree of the Citty & of the          
Goldsmith Company which hath mett with Kind Acceptance, On munday next he       
his wife & mr Mowbray goe for yorke                                             
     The Ld Arran son of duke Hamilton & one of the Bedchamber to his           
Matye was this day sent prisoner to the Tower  The occasion is said to          
be that his Lordship Courting A yonge lady of A very honorable family &         
Related to mr seymour the late speaker & mr seymour haveing not done him        
that Right as his Lordship Exspected he meeting with mr seymour this day        
In whitehall gave him Exceeding High Language which being Retorted my Lord      
spit In his face & told him if he were A gentleman he knew what it meant        
his Matye had Imediate notice thereof & showed his Resentment accordingly       
     An Information is said to be drawne up In the Crowne office Agt mr         
Bedlow for Perjury which Causeth much discourse of him & dr Oates               
     L. c. 909     March 6th 1679                                               
  London 4th March 1679                                                         
+That the Parliamt will sit In Aprill is still Beleeved & also that the         
duke will make such suitable Effects as will demonstrate him A good             
protestant & noe Enemy to the D of Monmoth                                      
     It hath been Affirmed that his R Highness was with his Matye on Ash        
wednesday & Last saboth day In the Chappell In whitehall which is utterly       
false  But true it is his Highness will give A very greate summe of money       
towards the Redemption of the English Captives the Ransom of which will         
Come to A vast summe there being above 2000 men & the Porest Wretch is          
vallued In Algeirs at 50 L sterling & some at 500 L sterling                    
     mr Williams the Burgesse for Chester is put out of the Commission          
of peace & one mr Peeble Clerke of the peace for yorkeshire A greate            
stickler Agt the Papists is for some other Reason Turned out & mr simson        
of sheffield placed In his Roome & now A Through Regulation as to that          
perticuler hath passed all Counties yet orders are given that the lists         
be Reviewed A 2d time to see whether any persons are omitted that should        
have been displaced                                                             
     It is now discoursed that his R Highness Dayly solicitts his Matye         
for the sitting of the Parliamt next Aprill & it is seemingly Resolved on       
     This day the d of Monmoth attended the Councill but wee are not yet        
Certain upon what occasion                                                      
     Tis now said the Place of Lieutenant of the Tower will be granted to       
Coll Legg                                                                       
     mr Dugdale is gone downe Into staffordshire & mr Bedlow is ordered         
to goe downe to herreford to give Testimony Agt severall that are to be         
Tryed this assizes & mr Dangerfeild is ordered to be at Ailesbury Assizes       
to give Testimony Agt mr Hobb of Petterly who is then to be Tryed & mrs         
Bauldron hath given In A 2d & 3d Information In Relation to that part of        
the plott mannaged In the North upon which the lady Tempest who was at          
liberty upon bayle is Comitted to the Gatehouse In order to her Tryall at       
yorke Assizes whither shee is to be sent                                        
     Tis said his Matye hath ordered the judges In their Circuitts to           
suspend the Execution of the Popish Preists till further order                  
     This morning his Matye In his Coach with his R Highness went to            
Copt hall In Essex where they dined with the E of Middlesex                     
     It is now Positively Resolved that their Matyes his R Highness & the       
Court will set forth for Newmarket on wednesday next In order to which          
necesary preparations are this day begun & the Court have sent away their       
goods                                                                           
     The dutchesse of Buckingham hath Petitioned his Matye & Councill           
On behalfe of the duke her husband setting forth many undue practices           
which have been acted to his Prejudice & praying that some persons who          
are Instruments therein might be Examined at that board Agt whome shee          
prayed the liberty of Prosecuting According to Law  In the Examination of       
it the Councill spent A Considderable time  mr Blood who is accused as A        
subborner of Witnesses Agt him still Averrs his Innocency & that he never       
Knew the said persons his accusers till he caused them to be Examined &         
many are of opinion that though there hath been & is A designe Agt the          
duke [yet that?] mr Blood is abused In that matter who is now setting           
forth A Narrative to demonstrate the same                                       
     The present farmers of the Excize haveing last year advanced his           
Matye A very greate summe of money towards paying of some ships &c his          
Matye for their security & Reimbursemt Assured them the farmeing of the         
said Revenue for 3 yeares longer from Midsomer next at which time the           
prsent farme Expires Notwithstanding which some have Endeavoured to             
perswade his Matye & the Lds of the Treasury to destroy the said Contract       
& make A New one with others who propose to Improve the said Revenewe           
more to his Matyes Advantage but such is the Justice of his Matye that          
they have not been able to prevaile                                             
     Our ffrench letters say the d of Luxemburgh is by the Chamber of           
Justice found guilty & sentenced                                                
     L. c. 910     March 8th 1679                                               
  London March 6th 1679                                                         
+Yesterday his Matye In Council was pleased to Resolve that orders be sent      
to the Ld Deputy of Ireland for A parliamt to be forthwith Called there &       
that they shall sit the 2d May next which makes some of Opinion it will         
hinder the Parliamts sitting here, mr Christians Councill delivered Into        
the Councill 5 Articles of Complaint Agt sr Wm Waller                           
     His Matye hath sent to Alderman Dashwood & the Rest of the ffarmers        
of the Excize to desire that they would Advance 200000 L upon the same          
     Yesterday mr Bauldron one of the witnesses Agt sr Thomas Gascoine &c       
was made free of this Citty haveing before been made ffree of the Company       
of Goldsmiths  he dined with the Master & Wardens as did also mr Prance &       
mr Bedlow where they had much discourse Relateing to the times                  
     Last night the King ordered mr Bedlow 10 L & he is to set downe all        
the Charges he is at In his Journey with the other Witnesses to Hereford        
Assizes & he shall be paid it at his Returne                                    
     Tis said the persons that made the Attempt at the lady Tirills was         
not to Rob her as was said but one of them understanding that one of the        
Lady Tirrills daughters had A Considderable fortune & feareing to               
Accomplish his design by ordinary meanes did Endeavour to have Carryed          
her away under some Crafy pretence & to have Married her but Its thought        
they will be severely dealt withall at their Tryalls at Assizes & the           
Rather for soe misImploying the Ld Cheife Justices warrant                      
     Yesterday sr Joseph shelden with severall Cheife officers belongeing       
to the Artillery Company went to whitehall to waite on his R Highness he        
being their Cheife Captaine & to prsent to him A list of such persons as        
were Elected officers on the 10th of ffebruary last with which his R            
Highness seemed to be well pleased                                              
     This day his Matye & R Highness went downe In their barges to              
Blackwell to see 2 second Rate ships Launched & to name them & were at          
Woolwich very splendidly Entertained by the East India Company Aboard A         
A new ship of theirs                                                            
     The Ld Craven Coll of the green Regemt of Guards & Coll Russell both       
Intend to Retire from their places being Infirme & Aged  The said Coll          
Russell made A Complaint In Councill last wednesday Agt one mr Lugton an        
Ensigne for that he had sent him A Challenge whereupon the said mr Lugton       
was ordered Into Custody & hath since brought his Habeas Corpus & is            
Released thereon                                                                
     Capt Tobias Boteler who was last sessions Condemned for A murther          
Comitted on the body of one mr symmons In westminster In ffebruary last         
Hath got his Pardon by meanes of the E of Ossory & 7 more of the Condemned      
persons are Repreived or pardoned & for the 21 Remaining his R Highness         
last night very passionately Entreated his Matye but prevailed not but          
this morning the dutchesse made A 2d Intercession but hath noe answer as        
yet but tis beleeved his Matye will not utterly denie their R Highnesses        
at this time                                                                    
     Last Thursday afternoon A Committee of Councill sate where severall        
Captaines of men of warr that have been at Newfoundland were ordered to         
give their Attendance to Consult with the Committee about the Erecting          
of New ffortifications for the safety of that Plantation to prevent the         
Incursions of the ffrench if they should Attaque it at any time hereafter       
+The dutchesse of Modena her R Highness mother is Exspected here by the         
very first wind from fflanders for Reception of whome her R Highness            
stayes at whitehall but the duke goes to Newmarket with his Matye               
     His Matye & the Court Intend to stay at Newmarket 3 weeks where            
preparation is made for all sorts of Game to Entertaine them withall            
     L. c. 911     March 11th 1679                                              
  London March 9th 1679                                                         
+His Matye haveing sent A Message to the Ld Maior that he would Come &          
supp with him yesternight his Lordship thereupon sent to Invite his R           
Highnesse & the d of monmoth & about 9 at night his Matye & his R Highness      
Came In their Coaches with A greate number of Torches & fflambeaux to the       
Ld Maiors house In Oldjury & was Recd by the Ld Maior & 4 Aldermen  upon        
his Matyes Entrance the Ld Maior tooke the sword & Carryed it before him        
Into the Hall where was provided A most Plentifull Banquett at which &          
other Entertainment his Matye Exprest A Greate deale of satisfaction &          
laying Aside Matye Compelled his Lordship &c to sit at table with him to        
whome he used such ffreedome of speech as shewed him A prince that had          
nothing but goodnesse & greate Condesentions to his people, After his           
Matyes health & others had been drunke his Matye began A health to all          
his Honest Citizens of London & to their prosperity                             
     The Citizens Exprest their Joy by Bonefires & Ringeing of Bells &          
his Matye Returned home betwixt one & 2 In the morning  tis said his Matye      
desired A Loane of the Citty of 100000 L & tis thought they will lend it        
     Tis said his Matye will set out for Newmarket at 4 to morrow morning       
& Reside there A Month & the Archbishop of Glascow tis said Attends the         
King there to Consult about the affaires of scotland                            
     sr Henery Johnson who Entertained his Matye & R Highness at Blackwall      
& one mr Parsons formerly one of the ffarmers of the Excize [& mr?]             
Duncomb mr Kent & mr Horneby Bankers were the persons that made Application     
to ffarme the Excize & offered 40000 L more then his Matye had Contracted       
for with the prsent ffarmers & yesterday both parties had A heareing            
before the Lds of the Treasury & his Matye did declare that he was              
satisfied In the Justice of mr George Dashwood & the Rest of the present        
ffarmers & though 40000 L were A considderable supply to his Emergent           
occasions yet he would not violate his broad seale & the Contract he had        
made noe not for 80000 L soe ordered the New ffarme from Midsomer next          
for 3 yeares to be ffinished                                                    
     His R Highness still Continues his Intercession for the sitting of         
the Parliamt & tis said Its fully Resolved on  tis also said he will            
Rather promote then obstruct the act for disherritting any Papists for          
Enjoying the Crowne  yesterday the Bishops of Canterbury London & Durham        
& the Ld Chancellor were with his R Highness 3 houres discourseing about        
the Points of Religion & the next newes wee Exspect to hear is that the         
duke is absolutely A Protestant & tis Conjectured he will Receive the           
sacramt on Good ffriday but not before                                          
     Tis said the duke of Monmoths offices have been Againe proffered to        
him which he neither Rejected nor accepted                                      
     Most of the 30 ships that were ordered to be built by act of Parliamt      
are Launched, vizt the vantgaurd Windsor Castle sandwich & Dutchesse 2d         
Rates                                                                           
     The 3d Rates are the Lennox Restauration Ann, Captain, Hampton Court,      
Hope, Grafton, Essex, Thents [?], Eagle, Berwicke, Northumberland sterling      
Castle, Breda, Burford, Elizabeth & [about four letters smeared]dition In       
all 21  The Rest are on the stocks                                              
     sr George Jeffries is made Ld Cheife [Justice?] of the County              
Palatine of Chester In Roome of sr Job Churlton who tis said is to succeed      
Baron Weston In the Exchequer who is to be Removed to Judge Pemmertons          
seate In the Kings bench                                                        
   Coll Langley haveing lately Committed some disorder at the Lady Tirrills     
house In Buckinghamshire last satureday Kissed his R Highness hand though       
formerly A great ffaivourite to the d of monmoth & for that Reason tis          
thought he will not be Turned out of the Comission as was Intended              
     A Boate full of Passengers was the last weeke Cast away going from         
deale                                                                           
+This day the Proclamation is Come forth for 10 L Reward for Every Robber       
that is taken within 12 months                                                  
     L. c. 912     March 13th 1679                                              
  London march 11th 1679                                                        
+Yesterday the dutchesse of Portesmouth went with his Matye to Newmarket        
After his Matyes Arrivall there was A Race Run for 200 guyneys at which         
his Matye &c were present  wee heare from thence 2 dayes since that greate      
preparations were makeing but the Towne soe full that Lodgings were very        
scarse  A pint of ale was 2d & A halfe peny loafe A peny & provisions had       
been very scarse had it not been for the Highers [?] & ordinaries from          
London                                                                          
     Tis said the going of the dutchesse of Portesmouth to Copthall last        
weeke with his Matye was out of designe to purchase that place of the E         
of Middlesex                                                                    
     Tis Confidently Reported that there will be severall publicke bills        
prsented to the Parliamt In Ireland  one will be A Recognizeing bill            
declareing the Right succession that soe that Kingdome may Continue firme       
to the Right line  Another for suppressing Popery there & A 3d to Raise         
200000 L for his Matye                                                          
     ffrom Lincolne wee hear that the judges got thither on satureday           
last where their Comissions were Read but the sheriffe not Attending            
because he had not Recd the sacramt according to Law & soe fforfeited 500       
L  he asked the Judges Advice thereupon  Judge Windham told him it was          
not their duty to Advise him thereupon & soe ffined him 2000 L & the            
Assizes are put off there for that very Reason                                  
   Wee have account that there are In the severall prisons of England 117       
preists & Jesuitts                                                              
     At the Assizes last weeke In Oxford was tryed the Taylor that Robbed       
& killed the scollar In his Chamber with A cleaver who is Condemned to be       
hanged over against the Colledge Gate where the fact was Committed 3            
dayes & then to be Removed & hanged In Chaines upon shootover hill              
     The last day of the Assizes were brought Into Oxford 10 Highwaymen,        
Housebreakers &c with many of their Instruments which they Called Beetles       
sawes Coulters &c for breakeing up houses  they Could not then be Tryed         
but are secured till next Assizes                                               
     Wee hear that sr George How hath asked his Matye & the d of yorke          
pardon for the words he spoke at the playhouse Agt his R Highness               
     Tis said that the E of ffeversham will be made Colonell of his             
Matyes Guards Insteed of my Ld Craven who Resignes                              
     The E of st Albans & the Lady Katherine Crofts Daughter to the Ld          
Crofts are shortly to be married                                                
     ffrom ffrance wee hear that the ffrench K Continues his preparations       
& designes then for Ita[ly]                                                     
     ffrom the Hague wee hear that the states are ReAssembled & debateing       
whether they should joyne with ffrance or England or be neuter                  
     They write from Leghorne dated ffeb 26th that by A vessell Arrived         
there In 21 dayes from Algeirs they had Advice that 17 of those privateers      
are out at sea & 5 more following & that In 45 dayes past they had taken        
5 English ships laden with ffish & 6 dutch ships with merchandise & that        
the Dey & Govermt of Algeirs had Resolved they would have noe peace with        
England or Holland                                                              
+Wee hear that the Cicilia A virginia Merchant of 300 Tuns & 30 guns            
outwards bound was Cast away upon that Coast all her men & ladeing lost &       
wee also hear that another virginia ship Capt Booth master is also              
foundred on that Coast                                                          
     The maide that ffired mr Delaneys house In southwarke is to be tryed       
this Assizes at Kingston                                                        
+the d of monmoth is gone to Chichester In sussex                               
     L. c. 913     March 18th 1679                                              
  London March 16th 1679                                                        
+This weeke the duke & dutchesse of yorke gave order for the discharge of       
all their Roman Catholicke servants out of their service which was done         
Accordingly                                                                     
     Wee are Credably Informed that his R Highness will be made Generalissimo   
of all the fforces of England both by sea & land & that he hath declared        
that when he hath Recd that Comission he will soe far submitt himselfe          
to the Lawes as shall not only Testify his sincerity & Loyalty but also         
give the people of England greate Reason not to dislike, Also that his          
R Highness the Better to Testify his sincerity therein hath lately declared     
that he will use all the Interest he Can that the Parliamt may sit at           
the time & that the Lds In the Tower &c may not only be brought to their        
Tryalls but if Convicted to Receive punishmt According to Law                   
     Wee have Account from Kingston that the Maide that ffired mr Delanays      
house the silke dier In southwarke was Convicted but the gentleman              
Charged by her was Tryed & Cleared shee being the principle Evidence Agt        
him & first Convicted  her Testimony Could not stand good In Law & he           
proved by ffreinds to have been In other places at the time shee                
Chargeth him to be with her abt the ffireing                                    
     There is A pardon passing for A gentleman who hath made A large            
discovery of Jesuitts Lands                                                     
   Wm Richardson & Thomas Richardson that were tryed last sessions for          
foot Padding & Cleared for want of Evidence were this day seized togather       
with 2 men & 2 women for Coyneing, Also an Irish man was seized upon            
suspition of Being Concerned In the Robbery at the halfe way house neer         
Deptford, Also Raffes & snell that broke out of Newgate & were Retaken          
In Oxfordshire are this day Returned to their former prison  Also this          
day 7 men & A woman formerly Convicted were Chained Legg to Legg &              
Conveyed abaord A vessell In order to their being Transported                   
+The dutchesse of Modena Mother to the Dutchess of yorke is Come Into           
the River & His R Highness Arrives here this night & goes to morrow to          
meet her & wee hear the Court Intend to Returne from Newmarket on the           
27th Instant the Aire there being somewhat too sharpe for his Matye             
     sr Robt Carr hath had very ill lucke there for besides his looseing        
severall Races his set of Coachhorses were Burnt In A stable which were         
worth severall hundred pounds                                                   
     One of the life Guard being last sunday night In Company with one          
mr Remington & pretending to whisper with him bit off his nose & is             
ffled which Crimes is death according to the statue Agt Dismembring             
     One ffitzgerald formerly A Capuchin ffryar but lately pretended            
himselfe to be Converted to be A protestant haveing taken the Oaths &           
sacramt Came to sr Wm Waller & pretended he Could make A greater discovery      
of the Plott then Ever Oates or Bedlow had done & Affirmed he Knew of           
some writeings In Ireland that would discover the whole Intregue desireing      
he might have one to goe Along with him to seize them  whereupon sr wm          
sent one of his servants & they both went to Bristoll & Agreed with A           
shipmaster for their Passage & when the vessell was Ready to set saile          
the men went to Coll Gerrard but he Not being In the way the man In the         
Interim Espyed A Bundle of writeings on the Bedds head In which he found        
Treasonable words soe he Carryed them to sr Jo: Knight who upon the             
view thereof found the designe was to Carry on the Pretended presbiterian       
Plott  Gerrard being Conscious of his Guilt hid himselfe but was found &        
Comitted                                                                        
+Wee have account that the Bp of winchester is lately dead                      
     L. c. 914     March 20th 1679                                              
  London March 18th 1679                                                        
+They write from Newmarket that the Court was never soe thin as now it is       
& whereas there had used to be Many Petty horse races to divert his Matye       
there hath not as yet been any only the greate Matches which may posibly        
Cause his Matye to Returne sooner then he Intended                              
    The Bp of Glascow hath been with his Matye & treated abt the Affaires       
of scotland & his Matye hath Conferred the honour of Prelate of the Garter      
upon him                                                                        
     Tis said Madam Guyn wagers very Highly at Races & Cockpitts & that         
one morning In A ffrollicke shee Cloathed her selfe In mans Apparrell           
with A Horsemans Coate &c & meeting the King salutes him at which his           
Matye & the Court were very much pleased  Tis said the Ld Cavendish is          
forbid the Court                                                                
     Wee have Account from Dublin that there is A disease there soe             
Epidemicall that the Inhabitants dye of It In A short time & it hath            
swept away severall persons of quality                                          
     They write from Amsterdam that they had Advice from Algeirs that the       
Ratifications of the peace which the states made with Algeirs were              
Arrived there & that mr Hais the states Consull had demanded Audience of        
the Grand Councill & prsented it to them but they answered him that Acts        
of Hostility should not Cease till the Cannon that the states are by the        
said Treaty to prsent them with are Arrived, The said Consull Informes          
them that there were Newly brought In 30 English ships 6 dutch & one            
Venetian & that 2 persons are sold there for 5000 peeces of 8 apeece. That      
the Algerines have 20 men of warr Abroade from 20 to 40 guns Apeece &           
have built A Royall ffort upon their Port to prevent any Enemy for Entring      
     The officers of the dutch Admiralty have ordered out 13 men of warr        
for Convoys & to Cruise In search of the Algerines                              
     There is this day A discourse upon the Exchange that the diamond one       
Willis Master bound from London to venice Richly laden with pepper &c           
mett with 2 Algerines whome he stoutly Resisted but was unfortunately           
blowne up In the ffight                                                         
     One mr savage A Jesuite being Converted to the Protestant Religion         
hath discovered An Estate of 50000 L p Ann belongeing to their society &        
hath Recd his Matyes pardon                                                     
     One Capt storey A person of quality bathing himselfe at the                
Artificiall Bath In Newgate street he died yesterday suddenly which tis         
thought will Cause it to be Cryed downe                                         
     The sheriffe of Lincolneshire being ffined 2000 L for Neglecting to        
take the Oaths &c his Matye hath upon the sheriffs submission forgiven          
his ffine & tis thought will grant him A patent to Continue sheriffe            
which is lookt upon as A faivour since the Being sherriffe of that              
County is gainefull                                                             
     Wee have letters from strasburgh which say that the ffrench have           
Erected A new Post office at Huningen & Require switzerland &c to bring         
all the letters they send to [ffr]ance or fflanders thither by which            
meanes the ffree Correspondance which hath Alwayes been between                 
switzerland & Germany is Taken away, Tis said the ffrench are about             
Raiseing 15000 men In switzerland                                               
+mr Dangerfeild being ordered In Buckinghamshire for A witness Agt mr           
Webb of Petterley he last monday with A Justice of peace &c searched mr         
Webbs house where they found A greate Number of Popish books Crucifixes         
&c which they burned at the Market place of Ailesbury  The Judges are           
arrived there & the 15 persons that made the Attempt at the Lady Tirrills       
are to be tryed & the Lady Came In Attended by above 40 horse to prosecute      
them                                                                            
     The dutchesse of Modena is not yet Arrived at Whitehall                    
     L. c. 915     March 22d 1679                                               
  London March 20th 1679                                                        
+Wee hear from Newmarket that his Matye is In good health & designes for        
Windsor the 17th of Aprill  But the duke of yorke Intended not to Come          
hither till Munday because the vicechancellor & masters of the university       
of Cambridge were Next sunday to waite upon his Matye & Complement him &        
his R Highness                                                                  
     But since wee hear that his R Highness haveing on Thursday last Rode       
20 miles on ffox Hunting Endammaged his Legg soe that he Kept his Chamber       
& tis thought will stay till the King comes home                                
     Tis said there hath been A diference between the dutchesse of              
Portesmouth & the d of Lauderdale  Also that the d of Lauderdale is sicke       
+The dutchess of Modena is lodged at st James                                   
     wee hear that the E: of sunderland is not Removed from his secretaryship   
only Craved leave of his Matye to Retire for some time for his healths          
sake Into the Countrey & Intends to Returne Againe to that Charge               
+Tis ffresh discoursed wee shall have A Ld Treasurer & that the E of            
sunderland & Ld Hyde are Compettitors for it but tis thought the last           
will Carry it                                                                   
     sr Tho Davies one of our Aldermen & Coll of the Orange Regemt died         
this morning                                                                    
     Yesterday An old wall being digged up In the strand there was found        
A Chest full of Protestant books which were hid In queen Maries dayes           
when all such books were ordered to be burnt                                    
     Wee hear dayly of the greate preparations the ffrench make by greate       
Levies & Increaseing their Magazines buying up greate Numbers of horses &       
prodigious quantities of Corne &c In most places of Europe soe that all         
Christendome is Allarmed not Knowing who he will Attacque with soe greate       
A force                                                                         
     Tis discoursed that the Dutchesse of soissons one of the Cheife            
Confederate poysoners In ffrance is fled Into spaine for safety                 
     mr Roe of Bristoll & mr speake senior & some others In the west are        
somoned up before the Councill upon A Complaint of words spoken Agt the         
goverment  Also mr Hicks An Alderman of Bath who was discharged from            
Attendance on the Councill is Nevertheless to be prosecuted for the words       
he spoke Agt the d of yorke                                                     
     Yesterday wee had Advice from Yorke that at the Assizes there the          
Grand Jury had found the Bills of Indictment Agt sr Miles stapleton The         
Lady Tempest mr Ingleby the Lawyer mr Thuring the Preist & Mary Pressicke       
who were all to have been Tryed, A very honourable Jury being Empannelled       
they Challenged the Jury upon which the Ld ffarefax & severall Parliamt         
men then In Court declared their Willingness to serve his Matye In that         
Case & were Empanelled but the prisoners Challenged them also whereupon         
Judge Atkins gave order the Tryalls should be suspended till next Assizes       
& In the Interim the said persons should be Kept Close prisoners                
     The Ld Brearton of Cheshire is dead                                        
+At Ailesbury Assizes were Indicted mr Roger Langley & 12 others for An         
Attempt Comitted at the Lady Tirrills  Tis said they were Indicted for          
Burglary But the Grandjury found the bill only A Ryott upon which they          
Traversed the Indictment till next Assizes                                      
     The d of Buckinghams buisness seemes more & more perrilous [?] by          
Reason of the severall Informations taken for & Agt soe that noe Certain        
Account Can be given of it                                                      
     Wee Exspect this night mr ffitzgerard the pretended Converted preist       
from Bristoll where he was In pursuance of A voyage to Ireland upon A           
pretended discovery which proves A Cheate or another presbiterian sham          
Plott & occasions much discourse                                                
+Wee hear for Certain that the Maide who Attempted to ffire her masters         
house In southwarke doth suffer next munday at Kingston                         
     L. c. 916     March 25th 1680                                              
  London 23d March 1679                                                         
+Yesterday his R Highness Arrived here to give A personall Reception to         
his Mother In Law & Returnes to Newmarket to morrow                             
     Here is A discovery that occasions much discourse vizt Last saboth         
day In westminster liberty about 50 or 60 persons mett togather In A            
Riottous manner  The Report is that they were Apprentices & that A designe      
of disturbeing the Goverment was Intended by them  sr Wm Waller haveing         
notice of the designe Acquainted the Councill who Returneing him thanks         
for his Care Advised him forthwith to seize the Ringleaders whereupon he        
seized severall, upon Examination one of them Confest he had been at the        
Herald Painters & bespoke Colours, others Confessed they were on Easter         
munday to muster In Hyde parke & were to take their Masters Armes & All         
under Pretence of Burneing the Ruins & Cromwells Effigies & then to Pull        
downe meeting houses  severall of their Leaders are knowne to be Papists        
& are found to have their Beades & Crucifixes about them & tis lookt upon       
A designe of the Papists to Hurry us Into A sudden Confusion, some of           
them have been very bold In their Expressions one of them saying he             
would stand to what they were about Intimating they were Countenanced           
by some Eminent persons & they acknowledged 2 gentlemen often Came Amonge       
them & Treated them Highly to the vallue of 10 L at A time                      
     After Examination sr Wm Committed 10 of them to the Gatehouse vizt         
A Captain A Lieft &c & yesterday afternoon they were brought before the         
Councill & Examined & Remanded to the Gatehouse for High Treason & This         
day sr Wm is to seize severall others & the Ld Chancellor is gone to            
Newmarket to Acquaint the King therewith                                        
     The Guards are Doubled In the Citty since this new discovery  The          
Number of these plotters being said to be In st Martins In the ffeilds          
above 3000 & In the whole Citty 25000 & had made Choyce of A Coll Major &c      
     ffitzgerard Arrived here last night & hath been Examined before the        
Councill                                                                        
     Margaret Clarke that Consented to & Assisted In the setting of her         
masters house on fire In southwarke was yesterday Executed at Kingston          
& Continued firme In her Accusation of mr satterwell from first to last         
& sealed it with her last words In very significant Expressions laying          
the stresse of her salvation or damnation on the Truth thereof                  
     Yesterday A 3d Rate ship was Launched at Blackwall & named the             
Exeter                                                                          
     The Conduit at the upper End of Cheapside is to be pulled downe &          
An Obeliske to be built which will be A greate Ornament to the Citty            
     On the 20th the vicechanceller & heads of the university of Cambridge      
waited on his Matye & R Highness at Newmarket & were Royally Treated            
Tis thought they may have A New Chancellor  The d of monmoth still              
Continues out of faivour                                                        
     They write from Paris that the Dauphine after the solemnities of his       
Marriage are over will march at the head of A very fformidable Army Into        
Italy In pursuance of the pretensions of his Ancestors to the kingdome of       
Naples & Dukedome of Milan & for Recovery of what King ffrancis the first       
being taken prisoner at Pavia was forced to quitt to the Emperour Charles       
the 5th for his Ransom                                                          
     The ffrench Kings purchase of Ca[seal spoils about eight letters]          
Key of Italy hath not A little startled all those princes & perhapps            
spaine also Especially since the ffrench Commrs In fflanders make many          
new pretensions there & Require that the K of spaine quitt his title of         
duke of Burgundy, In ffrance is published A decree forbidding all such          
midwives as are of the Reformed Religion from laying any women upon paine       
of death                                                                        
+His Matye is In health & Returnes from newmarket on the 3d Aprill  The         
Councill is adjourned till after Easter but some Comittees of Councell          
are to sit In the meane time                                                    
     L. c. 917     March 27th 1680                                              
  London March 25th 1680                                                        
+The Buisness of the Apprentices Appeares as yet to be nothing more then        
An Intention to Render some people odious on the 29th May next In A             
fformall procession which designe is Judged to be first promoted by such        
as tooke offence at the procession on the 17th November last, Thomas            
Alford A ffounders servant In Newstreet neer ffetter Lane who is Called         
their Captaine was Examined yesterday before the Councill & it was proved       
Agt him that he had listed many younge men & had bespoke Colours which          
were to be painted full of Rumps soe he was Remanded to Newgate & the           
Atturney Genll ordered to draw up An Indictment of High Treason Agt him         
for Endeavouring to Levy warr Agt his Matye  he behaived himselfe very          
boldly at his passing to the Councill board Crying make Roome for the           
Captaine & at his Returne bid the Coachman drive hard for Tyburne               
     Tis observed that he hath been A Constant Companion of mr Thompson         
who printes one of the Domesticke Inteligences & most of the Popish             
books & is himselfe A Reputed Papist  sr Wm Waller produced 2 letters to        
the Councill last munday which shewes the designe of the Contrivance was        
to Palliate & smother the Hellish designe of the Papists                        
     Yesterday the Ld Maior & sheriffs Attended the Councell who Required       
them to make A strict security Into this designe who have since Committed       
some few of the Confederates Inhabitting within their Jurisdiction The          
Number of those Engaged upon Inspection of the list being but few In the        
Citty In Comparison of the suburbs                                              
     mr ffitzerald hath been Examined & the Papers seized at Bristoll           
Read & Appeare to be only Coppies of Originalls formerly Reported to the        
Councill & now Remaineing In sr Wm Wallers hands & their Lordships              
declared they Approved of mr ffitzgeralds proceedings therein & ordered         
him forthwith backe for Ireland & Appointed persons to goe alonge with          
him for his safe Conduct & ordered him such assistance In Ireland as is         
proper to the affaire he goes upon by which it Appeares A greate mistake        
was acted by the Over Care of some at Bristoll                                  
     The E of shaftesbury Attended the Councill & gave In 4 Informations        
taken In Ireland upon Oath from 4 persons of good quality Relateing to          
the Popish Plott which not only makes A Considderable Discovery but             
Confirmes the Informations of dr Oates mr ffitzgerald & others In England       
the Earle Acquainted them that he had Credable Information that one of          
those 4 gentlemen had since their discovery been poysoned & therefore           
prayed their Lordships to take some speedy & Effectuall Care to have the        
other 3 protected & the prosecution of their Discovery Hastned & their          
Lordships gave Imediate orders accordingly & Appointed the Earles of            
Radnor Essex & Bridgwater to be A private Committee & to sit this               
afternoon to Examine some persons now In towne about it                         
     Wee hear that severall Lodgings In somersethouse are prepareing for        
Lord Hyde her Matyes Treasurer                                                  
+mr speake Knight of the shire for somerset Appeared at the Board &             
prayed for A Coppy of the Information Agt him & he would next Councill          
give In An Answer In writeing which he doubted not would give their             
Ldpp satisfaction & Clear his Innocency which was granted & he was not          
Committed                                                                       
   Our letters from Marselles say there hath been lately severall English       
ships taken & Caryed to Algeirs Amongst which the Unity Capt Conly from         
Boston In New England Richly laden & Aboard 17 or 18 passengers who are         
men of Considderable Estates In that place, But Capt Booth In the Adventure     
ffrigott hath forced A Turks man of war of 28 guns Ashoar on the Coast of       
of Barbary where shee was staved In peeces but the men Got Ashoar               
   The Best account wee Can give of the Parliamt is that Its Beleeved           
they will not sit at the time & that shortly there will Come out A              
declaration to that purpose with the Reasons why Its thought not                
Expedient at this Instance                                                      
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