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<P>A Compendious View Of the late TUMULTS &amp; TROUBLES In This KINGDOM, BY WAY OF ANNALS For SEVEN YEARS: <HI>VIZ.</HI> From the beginning of the 30th, to the End of the 36th Year of the Reign of His late Maje&s;ty King <HI>Charles</HI> II. of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory.</P>
<P>By <HI>J. W.</HI> E&s;q;</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;<HI>Longa e&s;t Injuria: Longae</HI></L>
<L>Ambages: Sed &s;umma &s;equar Fa&s;tigia Rerum.</L>
<BIBL>Vir. Aen. 1.</BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Edw. Jones,</HI> for <HI>S. Lownds,</HI> over again&s;t <HI>Exeter Exchange</HI> in the <HI>Strand,</HI> 1685.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable <HI>HENRY</HI> Earl of <HI>Clarendon,</HI> Vicount <HI>Cornbury,</HI> and Baron HIDE of <HI>Hindon:</HI> One of the Lords of His Maje&s;ties Mo&s;t Honourable Privy-Council.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Pre&s;ent your Lord&s;hip with a &s;mall <HI>Compendium</HI> of many Great and Strange Revoluti|ons; The Greate&s;t, perhaps, that ever happen'd in <HI>England,</HI>
<PB REF="3"> in &s;o &s;hort a &s;pace of Time. A Tempe&s;tuous &s;ea&s;on, in which &s;ome Waves have da&s;ht a|gain&s;t your Lord&s;hip, th&ocirc; of &s;o eminent a Character for Loy|alty and Goodne&s;s. But when Princes them&s;elves &s;uffer, 'tis the be&s;t Subjects Glory to &s;uf|fer with them. This, My Lord, was no New thing to your Lord&s;hip, who was, in a manner, born a Sufferer for Monarchy, and who&s;e Blooming Years had the Ho|nour to &s;hare in the &s;ame Exile with your King. 'Tis &s;trange|ly fatal to con&s;ider, that tho&s;e again&s;t whom the di&s;affected
<PB REF="3"> Party made of late, the Lowde&s;t outcry, were <HI>Old Cavaliers:</HI> A Word almo&s;t forgotten, had not that Occa|&s;ion brought it again to Me|mory. It &s;eems, there needs no more than to read the Facti|on backwards, and one may &s;ee by their fal&s;e Clamours, who were the Kings be&s;t Mini&s;ters and Friends. 'Twas the true Honour and Allegiance of that <HI>Augu&s;t A&s;&s;embly</HI> in which your Lord&s;hip made one of the Better Part, that has Eter|nized the Fame of <HI>Englands Baronage,</HI> and made it Glorious and beloved for ever. No
<PB REF="4"> will Po&s;terity forget a ju&s;t Ap|plau&s;e to the Illu&s;trious Name of <HI>Clarendon,</HI> when they read it in the Li&s;t of tho&s;e <HI>Truly Noble Peers,</HI> who in Duty to the Crown and Royal Family, incurr'd the Angry Vote of a numerous, a Violent, and O|ver-daring Party. Your Lord|&s;hip being &s;o far, and &s;o honour|ably, concern'd in the Hi&s;tory of the&s;e Times, it is my Ambition to take this Occa&s;ion to declare my &s;elf,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips, Mo&s;t Obedient Humble Servant, James Wright.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>THE Preface.</HEAD>
<P>THere are &s;ome Scandals &s;o Gro&s;s, that the Bare Re|petition of them is a &s;ufficient Re|futation, and manife&s;tation of their Fal&s;ehood. In like manner &s;ome Actions are &s;o unwarrantable to all men of Rea&s;on, that only to re|late them is to di&s;grace the Actors, and tho&s;e Principles that occa&s;i|on'd &s;uch extravagant behaviour.
<PB REF="5"> Such I e&s;teem the factious Tu|mults and Riotous Proceedings, which of late Years have di&s;turb'd the Quiet of &s;o many hone&s;t Men and Loyal Subjects, to the Terror of this, and Amazement of all the Neighboring Nations.</P>
<P>The Vehemency of which Revo|lutions did appear too like that of <HI>Naples</HI> in the Year 1647. 'Tis true, the&s;e were not &s;o &s;uddain, nor altogether &s;o Bloody; which mu&s;t be a&s;cribed to the Almighty Power and Goodne&s;s of God, and the Vigilant Prudence of His late Maje&s;ty of glorious Memory. We &s;ee what the Party offer'd,</P>
<PB REF="5">
<P>Not to mention the Street-Tumults; How like were the Ri|ots at our <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> to tho&s;e at their Church of the <HI>Carmelites?</HI> And to their tumultuous burning the <HI>Gabellers Goods,</HI> I think I may, not unaptly, compair our burning the <HI>Pope,</HI> and other Burnings. And to parallel their <HI>Ma&s;&s;aniello,</HI> a poor Fi&s;herman, but of &s;tupendious Authority, had not we al&s;o, a little Creature of as Low and ob&s;cure Quality (bate|ing his a&s;&s;umed Ca&s;&s;ok) who was as much adored, and I may &s;ay, almo&s;t Deifyed by the Rabble.</P>
<P>I am heartily &s;orry and a&s;ham'd to think That the chief chief Di&s;parity
<PB REF="6"> between their Ca&s;e and ours, will appear to the Di&s;advantage of the <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI> For what the <HI>Neo|politans</HI> did, they were induced to on the &s;ole Account of their grie|vous and Intolerable Gabells; but we a free and happy People, be|came Seditious, and &s;o very unquiet, for no pre&s;ent Cau&s;e, but only fu|ture apprehen&s;ions, and (as the Event has &s;hewed 'em to be) meer Chimaerical and empty Fears.</P>
<P>But prai&s;ed be God, Peoples Eyes begin to be open, and time has apply'd a <HI>Collyrium</HI> that makes us &s;ee cleerly through the Pretences and &V;mbrage that was rai&s;ed to &s;erve a Faction. It is
<PB REF="6"> ea&s;y now to di&s;tingui&s;h the &s;talking hor&s;e from the Fowler that &s;culks behind. Which thing of late Years, many either cou'd not, or wou'd not &s;ee, being inwardly as Purblind, as he was outwardly that mi&s;led 'em.</P>
<P>And in this I think the Nati|on is not a little obliged to the Ex|cellent Author of the <HI>Ob&s;erva|tor;</HI> A per&s;on who may be com|pared to &s;ome Pictures, that are placed too neer the &s;ight to di&s;co|ver their true value. I am con|fident that the next Age, who will behold him at a more advantagious and impartial Di&s;tance, will have a truer and far greater e&s;teem of
<PB REF="7"> his Merits. I do not at all ad|mire (but think it extream na|tural) that the Di&s;loyal Party and their Adherents do hate him with &s;uch a perfect hatred. How could they Po&s;&s;ibly do otherwi&s;e to one who di&s;covers their Cheat, and puts 'em by from what they had been &s;o long de&s;igning, when they were arrived almo&s;t to the very Day of Execution.</P>
<P>The Subject of this little Book (mo&s;t of which was Printed be|fore His late Maje&s;ty fell ill) is on|ly to remember, in a &s;hort Ab&s;tract, what &s;trange and unwarrant|able Proceedings have been with|in the &s;pace of Seven Years lately
<PB REF="7"> pa&s;t, with what Heats they were tran&s;acted, how Truth and Loy|alty were run down with noi&s;e and Cant, and how People were &s;cared out of their Wits with &s;uch Mon|&s;trous <HI>Legends,</HI> that had not we who are now alive &s;een it with our Eyes, who would have believed it? Po&s;terity will &s;carce credit the fol|ly of their Ance&s;tors; or if they do, they will blu&s;h to think an <HI>Engli&s;hman</HI> cou'd be &s;o far impo|&s;ed upon.</P>
<P>The Memory of the&s;e things ought to keep People from Run|ing upon the &s;ame Shelves and Sands, where formerly we were in Danger to have peri&s;ht.</P>
<PB REF="8">
<P>He that would give a Punctual and Particular Account of all the <HI>Narratives, Di&s;coveries, Try|als, Executions, Speeches, Votes, Accu&s;ations, Exami|nations, Commitments, Tu|multuous Elections, Petitions, Ryots, Libells,</HI> and <HI>Seditious Attempts</HI> of all &s;orts, during the &s;aid time, mu&s;t write a Hi&s;tory more Voluminous than <HI>Fox</HI> or <HI>Hollin&s;head.</HI> I pretend not there|fore to ob&s;erve all particulars that happen'd in this &s;pace of time, but, only tho&s;e which I thought mo&s;t Material, and of greate&s;t Note.</P>
<P>What I have related, was &s;et down every thing at the time
<PB REF="8"> when it happen'd. Meer matter of Fact: without any Reflections, otherwi&s;e than as the thing it &s;elf does reflect to the Di&s;honour of that Faction which has occa&s;ion'd all the&s;e pa&s;t Troubles, and to the Glory of that God who has deli|ver'd us out of the Danger.</P>
<P>I hope tho&s;e who have been &s;e|duced and mi&s;led by Specious pre|tences, into ill Actions (as Charity bids me think there are many &s;uch) will by reflection on the pa&s;t, &s;ee, and abhor their Er|rors.</P>
<P>They need not blu&s;h to Repent and Confe&s;s &s;uch faults, which &s;ome of Note and Quality have
<PB REF="9"> done already. Heaven is full of tho&s;e that have been Converts; But the Impenitent mu&s;t fill another place, where it will be a Double <HI>Hell</HI> to remember that they might once have received Grace and pardon, but refu&s;ed it.</P>
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<PB N="1" REF="9">
<HEAD>A BRIEF Hi&s;torical Account Of the PUBLICK TRANSACTIONS During the 30th Year of the Reign of KING <HI>CHARLES</HI> II. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1678.</HEAD>
<P>I De&s;ign, in the Method ob&s;erved by An|nali&s;ts, to commit to memory the Pub|lick Tran&s;actions during the 30th Year of His Maje&s;ty's Reign; a Year which &s;eems remarkable, and to promi&s;e more than u&s;ual, &s;ince that number hath been more than once &s;ignal in the cour&s;e of His Royal Life. In the 30th Year of this Century (1630) He
<PB N="2" REF="10"> was Born; the 30th day of <HI>May</HI> compleated the fir&s;t day of His Age; on the 30th day of <HI>January</HI> He began His Reign; in the 30th Year of His Age (1660.) He was by the miraculous Providence of God, re&s;tored to the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of His Three Kingdoms af|ter a long and barbarous Exile.</P>
<P>In the beginning of this Year we find the Parliament &s;itting; The King had newly made a Speech to both Hou&s;es, the &s;ub&s;tance of which was; <Q>That for their &s;atisfaction he had made &s;uch Alliances with <HI>Holland</HI> as are for the pre&s;ervation of <HI>Flanders,</HI> and which cannot fail of that end, unle&s;s pre|vented by the want of due A&s;&s;i&s;tances to &s;upport tho&s;e Alliances, or by the &s;mall regard the <HI>Spaniards</HI> them&s;elves mu&s;t have to their own Pre&s;ervation; That he cannot &s;u&s;pect the want of a&s;&s;i&s;tance by rea&s;on of their repeated Engagements, that a War, which mu&s;t be the nece&s;&s;ary con&s;equence of tho&s;e Alliances, ought neither to be Pro&s;ecuted by halves, nor want &s;uch a&s;|&s;urances of per&s;everance as may give him encouragement to per&s;ue it; that He had u&s;ed all means po&s;&s;ible by a Mediation to have procured an Honourable and &s;afe Peace, knowing how preferable &s;uch a Peace would have been to any War; that
<PB N="3" REF="10"> this Kingdom mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily own the va&s;t benefits it has received by Peace, whil&s;t its Neighbours only have yet &s;mar|ted by the War; but finding a Peace no longer to be hoped for by fair means, it &s;hall not be his fault if it be not obtain'd by force; that for this rea&s;on he has re|call'd his Troops out of <HI>France,</HI> and con|&s;ider'd that we cannot have le&s;s Forces on our part than 90 Sail of Capital Ships, and 30 or 40 Thou&s;and Land-men, that he is contented that &s;uch Monys as &s;hall be given to the&s;e u&s;es, be appropriated as &s;trictly as they can de&s;ire; that he hath directed &s;uch larger dimen&s;ions for the Building the New Ships as will co&s;t him above 100000 <HI>l.</HI> more than the Act allows; that for repairing the Old Fleet and buying Stores, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> He hath expend|ed a great deal more than 200000 <HI>l.</HI> He hath born the charge of a Rebellion in <HI>Virginia,</HI> and a New War with <HI>Algiers;</HI> that he &s;tands engaged to the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> for his Neices Portion; that he cannot be able to maintain his con&s;tant nece&s;&s;ary E&s;tabli&s;hments without the New Impo&s;ition on Wines be continued; that to remove all &s;orts of Jealou&s;ies he hath Married his Neice to the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="11"> thereby giving full a&s;&s;urances never to &s;uffer that Princes Intere&s;t to be ruin'd, if a&s;&s;i&s;ted as he ought to be, to pre&s;erve them; that he expects from them a plen|tiful &s;upply &s;uitable to &s;uch great occa|&s;ions, and that the&s;e con&s;iderations being of the greate&s;t Importance that ever con|cern'd the Kingdom, he would therefore have them enter immediately upon them without &s;uffering any other bu&s;ine&s;s what|&s;oever to divert 'em.</Q> Before the Parlia|ment proceeded to An&s;wer this Speech, they Sate on part of the 30th of <HI>Janua|ry</HI> the Aniver&s;ary Fa&s;t, and then Voted 70000 <HI>l.</HI> for a &s;olemn Burial of his late Maje&s;ty King <HI>Charles</HI> I. and to erect a Monument for the &s;aid Prince of Glori|ous Memory, the &s;aid Sum to be rais'd by a Two Months Tax, to begin at the expiration of the pre&s;ent Tax for Build|ing Ships. This, tho' in truth, an Affair to which the Nation has &s;tood obliged this 29 Years, yet being never mention'd till ye&s;terday, (when fir&s;t moved in the Hou&s;e of Commons by my Lord <HI>O-Brian</HI> Elde&s;t Son to the Earl of <HI>Tumond,</HI> and who&s;e Son lately had Marry'd my Lord Trea&s;urers Daughter) &s;eem'd &s;urprizing.</P>
<P>The next Day being the 31 of <HI>January,</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="11"> the Hou&s;e of Commons in return to the Kings Speech, pre&s;ented their Addre&s;s to His Maje&s;ty at <HI>White-hall,</HI> containing thanks for his care expre&s;t for the pre&s;ervation and Encouragement of the Prote&s;tant Religon in concluding a Marriage between his Niece and the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> be&s;eech him not to admit of any Treaty of Peace whereby the French King &s;hall be left in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|on of any greater Dominion or power than is left him by the <HI>Pyrenaean</HI> Treaty; that both on our parts and the parts of the Con|federates, no Ship nor Ve&s;&s;el may be ad|mitted to come out of any Port of <HI>France,</HI> but that the Ships and Men be &s;eized and the Goods de&s;troy'd; that he would plea&s;e to provide that none of the parties who &s;hall joyn in this Alliance and Confederacy a|gain&s;t <HI>France,</HI> depart from the &s;aid Alliance, till the &s;aid King be reduced to the &s;aid Treaty; that neither we nor the Confede|rates admit any Trade with <HI>France,</HI> or &s;uf|fer any Goods to be Imported from thence on pain of Forfeiture; that His Maje&s;ty in making &s;uch Confederacies as nece&s;&s;ary for attaining the&s;e ends &s;hall never doubt of the affections of the People: La&s;tly they renew their former prote&s;tations and engagements to per&s;evere in the pro&s;ecution of the &s;aid
<PB N="6" REF="12"> War, and when he &s;hall be pleas'd to Im|part &s;uch Alliances and Confederacies to them in Parliament to give &s;uch ready a&s;|&s;i&s;tances upon all occa&s;ions as may bring the War to a happy conclu&s;ion.</P>
<P>To this Addre&s;s the King return'd the following An&s;wer in Writing, which was read in the Hou&s;e of Commons the 4th of <HI>February.</HI> <Q>That he was not a little &s;ur|priz'd to find &s;o much in&s;erted there of what &s;hould not be, and &s;o little of what &s;hould; that his Speech was to both Hou&s;es joyntly, and the return ought to be from both; That in the Addre&s;s of the 20th of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t you did invite him to a League offen&s;ive and defen&s;ive with <HI>Holland</HI> again&s;t the French King, and for the pre&s;erving the Spani&s;h <HI>Netherlands,</HI> and upon his Decla|ration of &s;uch Alliances a&s;&s;ured &s;uch &s;pee|dy a&s;&s;i&s;tances as may fully An&s;wer the oc|ca&s;ion; that he hath made &s;uch Alliances, yet finds no return but the Old promi&s;es upon new Conditions, and &s;o He may be u&s;ed to Eternity &s;hould he &s;eem &s;atisfied with &s;uch proceedings; that on the 28th of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, he told you how highly he was offended at the great Inva&s;ion of his Prerogative, yet you take no notice of it, but add to your former ill conduct new In|va&s;ions;
<PB N="7" REF="12"> you de&s;ire him to oblige his Confe|derates never to con&s;ent to a Peace till the mo&s;t Chri&s;tian King be reduced to the <HI>Py|renaean</HI> Treaty, a Determination fitting only for God Almighty, &s;ince none but He can tell the terms of Peace who knows the event of War; You de&s;ire him not to &s;uffer a Ship of theirs to come from <HI>France</HI> under pain of Confi&s;cation, not excepting Allies, Prince, or Amba&s;&s;adors (if any among them); that he does not believe any A&s;&s;em|bly of Men ever gave &s;o great and publick a provocation to the whole World with|out &s;o much as con&s;idering to provide one Ship, Regiment, or penny towards ju&s;ti|fying it; that however if by your a&s;&s;i&s;t|ance he may be put into Armes &s;ufficient for &s;uch a Work, He will not be weary till Chri&s;tendom be re&s;tored to &s;uch a Peace, that it &s;hall not be in the power of any one Prince to di&s;turb it; that the Rights of making and managing War and Peace are in His Maje&s;ty, and if you think he will depart from any part of that Right, you are mi&s;taken; the Reins of Government are in his hands, and he hath the &s;ame care to pre|&s;erve them there, as to pre&s;erve his own Per&s;on; he keeps both for his Peoples pro|tection and &s;afety, and that if this Hou&s;e
<PB N="8" REF="13"> will encourage His Maje&s;ty to go further in Alliances, you mu&s;t con&s;ider of rai&s;ing &s;peedy &s;upplies; for from the con&s;idera|tion of tho&s;e he mu&s;t take his mea&s;ures.</Q></P>
<P>Some things of note however were done before the Supply was concluded; The Hou&s;e of Commons took off all written Protections, which had been by &s;ome Members granted to &s;uch as were not real|ly their Servants, to an incredible number; Voting no Protection allowable to any but their Menial Servants, actually in Service, and that without a written Certificate.</P>
<P>And now was the Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury</HI> re|leas'd from his Confinement in the <HI>Tower,</HI> where he had been clo&s;e Pri&s;oner ever &s;ince la&s;t Spring, and re&s;tored to his place in Parli|ament, having fir&s;t made the following Submi&s;&s;ion at the Lords Bar, <HI>Feb. 25. viz.</HI></P>
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<P N="1">1. <HI>I do acknowledge that my endeavouring to maintain that this Parliament was Di&s;&s;ol|ved, was an ill advi&s;ed Action, for which I humbly beg pardon of the Kings Maje&s;ty and this mo&s;t Honourable Hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>I do acknowledge that my bringing a Writ of</HI> Habeas Corpus <HI>in the</HI> Kings Bench, <HI>was a high violation of your Lord&s;hips Privi|ledge,
<PB N="9" REF="13"> and a great aggravation of my former offence, for all which I beg pardon.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Sub&s;cribed,</HI> Shaftsbury.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The next Day he &s;ate in the Hou&s;e of Lords.</P>
<P>On the 27. The City was not a little Allarm'd with the <HI>French</HI> Kings taking of <HI>Ghent,</HI> and the great danger of &s;everal other places of note in <HI>Flanders:</HI> That Night were &s;ent from <HI>London,</HI> 12 Companys of Foot for <HI>O&s;tend,</HI> follow'd the next Day by the Dukes of <HI>Monmouth</HI> and <HI>Albermarle,</HI> the Earls of <HI>Mulgrave</HI> and <HI>Plymouth,</HI> &amp;c. mo&s;t of which Lords &s;oon after return'd.</P>
<P>About a Fortnight after this, a Poll-Bill for rai&s;ing Monys, pa&s;t both Hou&s;es, and pre&s;ently after the Commons expre&s;s their impatiency for a War, their Tran&s;actions running in the&s;e Terms, <HI>March</HI> 14.</P>
<P><Q>Upon &s;everal motions made for con&s;i|dering of the deplorable condition of the Nation, re&s;olved in a Committee of the whole Hou&s;e, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that an Addre&s;s be pre|&s;ented to the King, humbly to advi&s;e His Maje&s;ty, that His Maje&s;ty to quiet the minds of his Loyal Subjects, and to encourage
<PB N="10" REF="14"> the Princes and States, Confederates a|gain&s;t the <HI>French</HI> King, would be graci|ou&s;ly plea&s;ed to proclaim and enter into an actual War with the <HI>French</HI> King, and to give his Maje&s;ty a&s;&s;urances, that this Hou&s;e will con&s;tantly &s;tand by and aid His Maje&s;ty in the pro&s;ecution thereof with nece&s;&s;ary and plentiful &s;uppplies and a&s;|&s;i&s;tances, and that His Maje&s;ty will pre|&s;ently di&s;mi&s;s the <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador and recal his from <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Niminghen.</HI></Q></P>
<P>Which Addre&s;s was the next Day drawn up accordingly, and &s;ent to the Lords for their Concurrence, but never proceeded further.</P>
<P><HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> 27th of <HI>March,</HI> the Parlia|ment was Adjourn'd by the Kings Order, till the 11th of <HI>April,</HI> being the Week af|ter <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> the King having fir&s;t Sign'd the Poll-Bill, in which was a &s;trict Appropria|ting Clau&s;e for the Mony &s;o Levy'd to be ap|plied to no u&s;e but the intended French War; al&s;o another Clau&s;e Prohibiting: the Importation of any French Commodities for Three Years. Soon after which the <HI>French</HI> King prohibited ours for Ten Years.</P>
<P><HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 11th of <HI>April,</HI> the Parlia|ment met again and Adjourn'd to the <HI>Mon|day</HI> following, at which time, by the Kings
<PB N="11" REF="14"> appointment they cho&s;e a New Speaker in the Hou&s;e of Commons, Sir <HI>Robert Sawyer</HI> one of the Kings Council Learned, and a great Practicer in the <HI>Exchequer;</HI> and from thence Adjourn'd over to <HI>Monday</HI> the 29th of <HI>April.</HI></P>
<P>During the&s;e Intervals a &s;trict Fa&s;t is kept on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 10th of <HI>April</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> and the <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> Fortnight fol|lowing through <HI>England,</HI> to implore Gods Ble&s;&s;ing upon His Maje&s;ty and his King|doms, and for the averting of Gods Judg|ments.</P>
<P><HI>Monday</HI> the 29th of <HI>April</HI> the Hou&s;es met again, the King and Lords in their Robes; My Lord Chancellor in a long Speech re|cited all the Addre&s;&s;es that they had made in relation to a War with <HI>France,</HI> what the King had already done in pur&s;uance of the &s;ame, and joyning an effectual League with the Confederates to that end, and how ready the King was to pur&s;ue their de|&s;ires, but that now he di&s;covered the <HI>Dutch</HI> were entring upon a Treaty of Peace with the French King, and that without his con|&s;ent or privity, and therefore His Maje&s;ty demands the advice of his Hou&s;es how to proceed.</P>
<P><HI>Monday</HI> following being the 6th of <HI>May,</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="15"> Sir <HI>Robert Sawyer</HI> excu&s;ed him&s;elf in a Let|ter, that he could not attend the Hou&s;e by rea&s;on that he was taken very ill of the <HI>Stone,</HI> occa&s;ioned by his long &s;itting la&s;t <HI>Saturday;</HI> whereupon the Old Speaker was again cho&s;en and rein&s;tated in the Chair. The &s;ame Day the King returned a &s;hort An&s;wer to an Addre&s;s of the Hou&s;e of Commons, Voted on the &s;aid la&s;t <HI>Saturday,</HI> which contain'd their humble Advice that he would forthwith enter into the pre&s;ent Alliance with the Confederates, and an Actual War with <HI>France, &amp;c.</HI> To which, this An&s;wer was read by one of the Secre|taries of State, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>HIs Maje&s;ty having been acquainted with the Votes of the 4th In&s;tant, is very much &s;urprized both with the matter and manner of them, but if His Maje&s;ty had had Exceptions to neither, yet His Maje&s;ty ha|ving asked the Advice of both the Hou&s;es, doth not think fit to give any An&s;wer to any thing of that nature till he hath a concurrent Advice of both Hou&s;es.</HI></P>
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<P>Among which mentioned Votes of the 4th In&s;tant, be&s;ide the Advice above&s;aid,
<PB N="13" REF="15"> this was pa&s;t by a majority of 16 Voices, <Q>That the late Leagues, made with the States-General of the <HI>United Provinces</HI> are not pur&s;uant to the Addre&s;&s;es of this Hou&s;e, nor con&s;i&s;tant with the good and &s;afety of the Kingdom.</Q></P>
<P>In the mean time the Commons are not at all di&s;couraged with this An&s;wer, but draw up an Addre&s;s, and pre&s;ent it to the King at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> on <HI>Satur|day,</HI> the 11th of <HI>May</HI> in the afternoon, con|taining Their humble thanks to His Maje&s;ty, for demanding their advice, that accord|ingly they gave it, they be&s;eech Him to com|municate to them His Re&s;olutions thereup|on, and whereas they conceive that the In|conveniencies, and Dangers which the King|dom now lies under, might totally, or in a great mea&s;ure have been prevented in ca&s;e His Maje&s;ty had accepted of the Advice by them given in their Addre&s;&s;es of the 26 of <HI>May</HI> La&s;t, and the 31 of <HI>January.</HI> That therefore he would plea&s;e to remove tho&s;e Coun&s;ellors that advi&s;ed him to give tho&s;e an&s;wers which he did to the &s;aid Addre&s;&s;es; that he would plea&s;e to accept of this Peti|tion in good part, as proceeding form per&s;ons heartily devoted to him, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> In fine, that he would plea&s;e to remove the Duke of
<PB N="14" REF="16"> <HI>Lautherdale,</HI> from His pre&s;ence and Coun|cils.</P>
<P>Which being read, the King immediately returned An&s;wer in the&s;e few words only, <Q>That he was much Surprized at the Extra|vagancy of their Addre&s;s, and unwilling at pre&s;ent to give it &s;uch a due An&s;wer as it de&s;erves.</Q></P>
<P>On the <HI>Munday</HI> following the King pa&s;t &s;everal private Bills, and then cau&s;ed the Parliament to be Prorogued till <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> come Sevenight, being the 23 of this in&s;tant <HI>May,</HI> by which means this Se&s;&s;ion which had been of a long Continuance by Adjourn|ment, was determin'd, and all Bills and bu&s;i|ne&s;s in either Hou&s;e then Depending, de|feated, and returned to the &s;ame State, as when fir&s;t moved. But withal &s;uch Bills as had been rejected, are now in a Capacity of being moved again, which no Bill can be in the &s;ame Se&s;&s;ion, when once rejected.</P>
<P>On the aforementioned <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 23. of <HI>May,</HI> the Parliament met again, and the Hou&s;e of Commons being &s;ent for by the Black Rod, to attend His Maje&s;ty, in the Hou&s;e of Lords, the King delivered His plea&s;ure to this effect, <Q>That he is re&s;olved, as far as He is able, to &s;ave <HI>Flanders,</HI> either by a War, or Peace, which way he &s;ees
<PB N="15" REF="16"> mo&s;t conducing; either ways, he thinks it convenient to keep up His Army, and Navy, at Sea, for &s;ome time, till a Peace be concluded, but leaves it to them to con&s;i|der of Supplies for their Continuance, or Disbanding; and in either ca&s;e not to di&s;|courage &s;o many Worthy and Gallant Gen|temen, who have offerd their Lives and Service to their Country, and that in pur|&s;uit of the Parliaments advice and Re&s;olu|tions; That a Branch of His Revenue is now expiring, another part of it is cut off by a Clau&s;e in the Poll-Bill; That he has borrowed 200000 <HI>l.</HI> upon the Excize at their reque&s;t, of all which they are to con|&s;ider; That he hath no Intentions but of good to them, and His people, nor ever &s;hall; De&s;ires they will not drive him into extremities, which mu&s;t end ill, both for them and Him, and (which is wor&s;t of all) for the Nation; de&s;ires to prevent all di&s;orders and mi&s;cheifs that may befal by our di&s;agreement; but in ca&s;e any do, leaves it to God Almighty to Judge who is the occa&s;ion of it; In fine, That he will not for the future &s;uffer the Cour&s;e and Me|thod of pa&s;&s;ing Laws to be changed, by taking together &s;everal matters in one Bill.</Q></P>
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<P>This was immediately followed by a long, but excellent Speech, of my Lord Chan|cellor, which th&ocirc; &s;omething too large for the intended Brevity of the&s;e Notes, mu&s;t not be omitted: The &s;ub&s;tance therefore contained, <Q>That <HI>Holland</HI> is become re&s;ol|ved to &s;eek all occa&s;ions they can of com|ing out of the War, in regard the <HI>Spani|ards</HI> fail them; That the States to that end entred into a League Offen&s;ive and Defen|&s;ive with His Maje&s;ty, to obtain a Peace by force, if it could not be had otherwi&s;e, which promi&s;ed Succe&s;s, till it was heard abroad that this League, (the onely thing by which His Maje&s;ty could oblige the States) had been &s;o ill under&s;tood at home as to meet with &s;ome very unfitting and very unde&s;erved Reflexions; and that they under&s;tood there was a Re&s;olution of giving no Mony till &s;atisfaction fir&s;t had in matters of Religion, which in all Countrys are the longe&s;t debates that can be entred upon, and at this time &s;hould lea&s;t have been &s;tirr'd; &amp; when they under&s;tood that the King had received an Addre&s;s, and had expre&s;t His re&s;entment of it, then they concluded it was in vain to rely any longer on <HI>England,</HI> for <HI>England</HI> was no longer it &s;elf: All &s;ides began to wi&s;h for Peace, as well <HI>Spain,</HI> as
<PB N="17" REF="17"> <HI>Holland,</HI> and if the Ce&s;&s;ation now endea|voured, be effected, no doubt but a Peace will follow: What Influence that Peace will have, is uncertain; We have given no &s;mall provocation to a Mighty King, it therfore concerns us to &s;ecure our &s;elves, by pre&s;erving Peace and Unity at home; he that foments Divi&s;ions now, does more harm to his Country, than a Forrain Ene|my can do; no fear of Arbitrary Govern|ment can ju&s;tify, no Zeal to Religion can &s;anctify &s;uch a Proceeding; He minds them of the Late times, when Religion and Li|berty were truly Lo&s;t by being made a handle and pretence for Sedition; when Prelacy was calld Popery, and Monarchy Tyranny, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and can we now endure to &s;ee men break the Act of Oblivion every day, by reviving the Memory of forgot|ten Crimes in new Practices? Its worth Con&s;ideration whether we do not bring &s;ome kind of &s;candal upon the Prote&s;tant Religion, when we &s;eem &s;o far to di&s;tru&s;t the truth and power of it, that after &s;o many Laws pa&s;t to guard it, and &s;o many miraculous deliverancies from the attempts made again&s;t it, we &s;hould &s;till be affraid of its continuance. Hath not the Late Act made it impo&s;&s;ible for the mo&s;t con|ceal'd
<PB N="18" REF="18"> Papi&s;t that is, to get any kind of Im|ployment? As little rea&s;on there is to be jealous of our Liberties, and Property. Can there be a greater evidence of the Moderation of a Prince, and His tender|ne&s;s of the Liberty of the Subject, than to &s;uffer, as he does every day, &s;o much li|centious and malitious Talk to pa&s;s unpu|ni&s;ht? Search all Nations, through all Ages, and &s;hew fewer greivances and le&s;s cau&s;e of Complaint, and a happier people than we at are this Day.</Q> He proceeded then to the matter of the Revenue, to the &s;ame pur|po&s;e with what the King had &s;aid before, but enlarging, Tells em, <Q>The King will no more accept a good Bill, how valua|ble &s;oever, unle&s;s it comes in the old and decent method of Parliaments; that the late way of tacking together, in one Bill, &s;everal Independent and incoherent matters, &s;eems to alter the whole frame and Con&s;titution of Parliaments; takes away the Kings Negative Voice in a manner, forcing Him to take all or none; it takes away the Negative Voice too, of the Hou&s;e of Lords by the &s;ame Con&s;equence; It looks like a kind of Defamation of the Go|vernment, and &s;eems to &s;uppo&s;e the King, and Hou&s;e of Lords, to be &s;o ill affected
<PB N="19" REF="18"> to the Publick, that a good Bill cannot carry it &s;elf through, by the Strength of it's own Rea&s;on and Ju&s;tice, without be|ing helped by Clau&s;es; it gives up the great|e&s;t &s;hare of <HI>Legi&s;lature</HI> to the Commons: In fine, the &s;ame method of proceedings may be made u&s;e of again&s;t the Commons, by the Lords; The&s;e Inconveniencies the King is Re&s;olved to aboli&s;h, and hath Com|manded me to &s;ay to you <HI>State &s;uper vias antiquas.</HI> If this Se&s;&s;ion do not repair the misfortunes, and amend the faults of the la&s;t, it will look like a fatality upon the Nation. He who&s;e hou&s;e is de&s;troyed by Fire would find but little Comfort in &s;aying the Fire did not begin by his means; but it will be a perpetual Angui&s;h to him to re|member that it lay in his power to extin|gui&s;h it: And &s;o concludes with &s;trong per|&s;ua&s;ives to Peace, and a Compo&s;ure of all Differences.</Q></P>
<P><HI>Monday May</HI> 27. Re&s;olved in the Hou&s;e of Commons, <Q>That the Hou&s;e taking into Con&s;ideration the State of His Maje&s;ties Affairs, and the great charge and Burthen that His Maje&s;ty and the Nation lyes un|der by the Army now in Being, are hum|bly of Opinion, That if His Maje&s;ty plea&s;e to think fit to enter into the War again&s;t
<PB N="20" REF="19"> the French King, this Hou&s;e is, and always will be ready to &s;upport and a&s;&s;i&s;t him in that War; But if otherwi&s;e, That they will proceed to the Con&s;ideration of providing for the Speedy Disbanding of the Army.</Q> The Hou&s;e further Ordered, That the Mem|bers of this Hou&s;e who are of His Maje|&s;ties privy Council, do acquaint the King with the&s;e Votes, and pray His Maje&s;ties An&s;wer.</P>
<P>To this, the King returned the following An&s;wer, which was read in the Hou&s;e of Commons, the next day; It contained, <Q>That the French King hath made &s;uch of|fers of a Ce&s;&s;ation till the 27th of <HI>July,</HI> as His Maje&s;ty doth not only believe will be accepted, but will end in a General Peace; yet &s;ince that is not certain, he does not think it prudent to di&s;mi&s;s either Fleet, or Army before that time, nor doth he think it will add much to the charge, in regard the rai&s;ing Mony, and paying them off, would take up that time, were they to be Disbanded as &s;peedily as po&s;&s;ibly: In the mean time he de&s;ires Mony for their &s;ub|&s;i&s;tance, that as hetherto they have been the mo&s;t orderly Army that ever came to|gether, they may be encouraged to con|tinue &s;o; And concludes with reminding
<PB N="21" REF="19"> the Hou&s;e of the 200000 <HI>l.</HI> formerly men|tioned in His Speech, which he wants for His Hou&s;hold.</Q></P>
<P>The next day of &s;itting, being <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 30th of <HI>May,</HI> the Commons Vote unani|mou&s;ly, <Q>That all Forces rais'd &s;ince the 29th of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t (except tho&s;e tran&s;ported to Forrain Plantations) be forthwith paid off and Disbanded, and that they Con|&s;ider of a Supply for that purpo&s;e.</Q></P>
<P>The la&s;t of <HI>May,</HI> being the fir&s;t day of <HI>Trin. Term,</HI> Sir <HI>William Scroggs,</HI> at that time Pui&s;ne Judge, in the <HI>Common-Pleas,</HI> took his place in the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> as Lord Chief Ju&s;tice of <HI>England,</HI> to which he was preferr'd by the Kings e&s;pecial Favour, on the removal of Sir <HI>Richard Rainsford,</HI> who re&s;igned a few days before: And was Suc|ceeded in the Common-Pleas, by Baron <HI>Bartu;</HI> and Serjeant <HI>Bramp&s;ton</HI> promoted to his Place in the Exchequer.</P>
<P><HI>June</HI> 4th the Commons Vote 200000 <HI>l.</HI> to be rai&s;ed by a Monthly Tax, in Six Months, after the Land Tax, now in being, be expired; with a Clau&s;e, That this be for the Disbanding of the Army, by the end of this pre&s;ent <HI>June.</HI> The next day they Voted the King 200000 <HI>l.</HI> more, Towards the Defraying the expences of the Fleet.
<PB N="22" REF="20"> Soon after which, the King &s;ent them a Me&s;|&s;age by one of the Secretaries of State, containing, <Q>That His mind was &s;till the &s;ame with what he delivered the 23 of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, That the Army, and Fleet, ought to be kept up till the expected Peace be con|cluded: He al&s;o recommended to their Con|&s;ideration, whether it were not di&s;honoura|ble for him to recal His Forces in <HI>Flanders,</HI> from tho&s;e Towns which he had taken into His Protection, before they could provide them&s;elves of other Succours? Here upon they extend the time (as to the Forces in <HI>Flanders</HI>) to the 27 of <HI>July.</HI></Q></P>
<P><HI>Saturday,</HI> the 15th of <HI>June,</HI> The Com|mons Re&s;olved, That after <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> follow|ing, no motions &s;hould be made for any new Supplys of Money, till after the Re|ce&s;s; nor any more private Bills brought, in, till after the &s;aid Rece&s;s.</P>
<P>The <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> following, the King &s;ent for the Commons up to the Lords Hou&s;e, and told 'em in a long Speech; <Q>That the &s;ea|&s;on requiring a Rece&s;s by the middle of next Month at farthe&s;t, it is convenient that we part fairly, and with a perfect confidence of one another: Therefore he o|pens His Heart freely to them in &s;ome par|ticulars
<PB N="23" REF="20"> of neare&s;t concern; That what he told 'em at the beginning of this Se&s;&s;i|on concerning a Peace, &s;eems already to be determined, at lea&s;t as to <HI>Spain,</HI> and <HI>Holland,</HI> in which Peace His part will be not only that of a Mediator, but al&s;o to give His Warranty in it: That <HI>Spain</HI> writes word, that unle&s;s <HI>England</HI> bares the charge of maintaining <HI>Flanders,</HI> even after the Peace, they will not be in a Condition to &s;upport it long; That to this end, it is ne|ce&s;&s;ary not only to keep up our Navy at Sea, but to give the World &s;ome a&s;&s;u|rance of being well United at home; That th&ocirc; the Hou&s;e of Commons may think &s;uch a Peace as ill a bargain as War, be|cau&s;e it will co&s;t them Mony; yet if they &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider that otherwi&s;e <HI>Flanders</HI> had been lo&s;t, perhaps by this time, He believes they will give much greater Summs than this will co&s;t, rather than the &s;ingle Town of <HI>O&s;tend</HI> &s;hould be in the <HI>French</HI> hands, and 40 of their men of War in &s;o good a Haven overagain&s;t the Rivers Mouth; That we cannot but be plea&s;ed to under&s;tand the Reputation we have gained abroad by having in 40 days rais'd an Army of 30000 Men, and prepaired a Navy of 90 Ships; Therefore if they
<PB N="24" REF="21"> de&s;ire to keep up the Honour of the Crown at home, and look to the &s;afety of the Balance of Affairs abroad, and pur&s;ue the War of <HI>Algiers;</HI> if they de&s;ire he &s;hould pa&s;s any part of His life in quiet, and all the re&s;t in confidence, and kindne&s;s with them and other &s;uture Parliaments; if &s;o, That they mu&s;t find a way, not only to &s;et|tle for His life His Revenue as at Chri&s;t|ma&s;s la&s;t, but al&s;o to add a new Fund of 300000 <HI>l. Per annum,</HI> upon which he will pa&s;s an Act to &s;ettle 50000 <HI>l.</HI> upon the Navy and Ordinance; and &s;hall be al&s;o always ready to con&s;ent to all &s;uch Laws as they &s;hall propo&s;e for the good of the Nation: Then he reminds 'em to inable him to keep His word with the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> in the payment of His Neices Portion, which is 40000 <HI>l.</HI> the fir&s;t pay|ment being now due and demanded by him.</Q></P>
<P>This Speech being ended, the Commons returned back and Voted His Maje&s;ty the thanks of the Hou&s;e for His gracious ex|pre&s;&s;ions in His Speech. Yet nothing of importance was done that day, but a Denial of the 300000 <HI>l. Per annum,</HI> demanded; and not only &s;o, but a motion being made for a Compen&s;ation on the lo&s;t part of His Ma|je&s;tys
<PB N="25" REF="21"> Revenue by the Prohibiting Act, it was carry'd in the Negative, <HI>Yeas</HI> 145, <HI>Noes</HI> 202.</P>
<P><HI>Saturday</HI> the 22th of <HI>June,</HI> the Lords &s;ent down the Bill for Disbanding, with an en|largement of the time prefixt for one Month longer, to which the Commons would not agree, but de&s;ired a Conference, at which to give their Lord&s;hips the rea&s;ons why they could not con&s;ent to the alteration.</P>
<P><HI>Monday</HI> the 25th of <HI>July,</HI> the Parliament was Prorogued to the fir&s;t of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> the King having then pa&s;t the following Bills, 1. An Act for granting a &s;upply to His Maje&s;ty of 619388 <HI>l. 11 s. 9 d.</HI> for Dis|banding the Army, and other u&s;es therein mentioned. 2. An Act for granting an Ad|ditional Duty to His Maje&s;ty upon Wines for Three Years. 3. An Act to enable Cre|ditors to recover their Debts of the Exe|cutors and Admini&s;trators of Executors in their own wrong. 4. An Act for Burying in Woollen. 5. An Act for Admea&s;ure|ment of Keels and Boats carrying Coals. 6. An Act for Reviving a former Act of the 13th of this King ch. 2. for avoiding unnece&s;&s;ary Suits and delays, and for con|tinuance of an other Act of 22. &amp; 23. <HI>Car'</HI> 2. ch. 10. touching inte&s;tates E&s;tates,
<PB N="26" REF="22"> 7. An Act for further Relief and Di&s;charge of poor Pri&s;oners for Debt. 8. An Act touching Highways. 9. An Act for pre&s;er|vation of Fi&s;hing in the River <HI>Severn.</HI></P>
<P>On which &s;aid fir&s;t of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> they being again met, they were again Prorogued over to the 29th Day of the &s;ame Month. Soon after that al&s;o there came out a Pro|clamation, requiring a full A&s;&s;embly at the &s;aid 29th Day. But in the mean time the French being beaten from the Siege of <HI>Mons,</HI> by the Engli&s;h, chiefly, under Com|mand of my Lord of <HI>O&s;&s;ery,</HI> on the part of the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> the King I&s;&s;ued out another Proclamation dated the 8th of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> whereby reciting the la&s;t Pro|clamation but in regard the State of Af|fairs abroad was alter'd &s;ince then, he is pleas'd to Prorogue the Hou&s;es over till the fir&s;t Day of <HI>October</HI> next, requiring then a full A&s;&s;embly; after this it was again Prorogued to the 21&s;t of <HI>October.</HI> In the mean time a Peace is concluded between <HI>France, Spain,</HI> and <HI>Holland,</HI> and a Truce for &s;ome Months with the Emperor.</P>
<P>On <HI>Saturday, Sunday, Monday</HI> and <HI>Tue&s;day,</HI> the 28th 29th and 30th of <HI>Sep|tember</HI> and fir&s;t of <HI>October,</HI> the Privy-Council &s;ate twice a Day, The bu&s;ine&s;s a
<PB N="27" REF="22"> Popi&s;h Plot; &s;everal were committed, and others examin'd, among whom Sir <HI>George Wakeman</HI> Phy&s;ician to the Queen, and Mr. <HI>Coleman</HI> belonging to Her Royal Highne&s;s the Dutche&s;s of <HI>York:</HI> which &s;aid Dutch|e&s;s went with the Lady <HI>Ann,</HI> that very <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> Morning to vi&s;it the Prince&s;s of <HI>Orange,</HI> de&s;igning a &s;tay only of 14 Days. This Di&s;covery of a Plot, opening every Day more and more, the afore|&s;aid Mr. <HI>Coleman,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Langhorn</HI> of the <HI>Temple,</HI> were committed clo&s;e Pri&s;oners, with &s;everal others; their Studies &s;earch'd, their Papers &s;eized, and &s;ent to <HI>Whitehall.</HI> And now ju&s;t before the meeting of the Parliament, one Sir <HI>Edmondbury Godfrey</HI> a Ju&s;tice of the Peace in <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> a &s;evere Enemy of the Papi&s;ts (as by &s;ome report|ed) was found Dead in a Ditch not far from <HI>Hamp&s;tead;</HI> He appear'd to the Co|roners Jury to be &s;trangled, tho' after|wards his own Sword was run through him, and &s;o found, with Money in his Pocket. This was lookt on by the Town as a Con|firmation of the above-mention'd Plot.</P>
<P>On the appointed 21&s;t of <HI>October,</HI> the Hou&s;es met: The Kings Speech contain'd the&s;e words, and the&s;e words only con|cerning the Plot&mdash;<Q>I have been inform|ed
<PB N="28" REF="23"> of a De&s;ign again&s;t my Per&s;on by Je|&s;uites, of which I &s;hall forbear any Opi|nion, le&s;t I may &s;eem to &s;ay too much, or too little, but leave the matter to the Law&mdash;</Q> The Chancellor on the &s;ame Head had the&s;e Expre&s;&s;ions.&mdash;<Q>And tho' His Maje&s;ty doth in no &s;ort prejudg the Per&s;ons accu&s;ed, yet the &s;trict enqui|ry into this matter, hath been a means to Di&s;cover &s;o many other unwarrantable Practices of theirs, that His Maje&s;ty hath rea&s;on to look to 'em.</Q> The Exami|nation of this Plot and the concurrent Mur|der of Sir <HI>Edmundbury Godfrey</HI> employ'd the Commons &s;o a&s;&s;iduou&s;ly, that towards the beginning of this Se&s;&s;ion they &s;ate whole Days, from Morning till late at Night. The Product was a Fa&s;t Voted; the minutes and Votes of the Hou&s;e of Commons forbid to be divulg'd; &s;everal Lords Committed, <HI>Bella&s;is, Arundel</HI> of <HI>Warder, Powis, Staf|ford, Petre, Ca&s;tlemain,</HI> &amp;c. Soon after this came out a Proclamation, appointing a Fa&s;t through all <HI>England,</HI> on the 13th Day of <HI>November. Thur&s;day</HI> the 31&s;t of <HI>October,</HI> the Hou&s;e of Commons re&s;olved, upon the E|vidence that hath already appear'd to this Hou&s;e, this Hou&s;e is of Opinion, <Q>That there hath been and is an Execrable and Hel|li&s;h
<PB N="29" REF="23"> De&s;ign contrived and carry'd on by Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants for A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inating and Murthering the King, for Subverting the Government, and for de&s;troying the Pro|te&s;tant Religion by Law E&s;tabli&s;ht.</Q></P>
<P>The &s;ame Day Sir <HI>Edmundbury Godfrey</HI> was Buried. The Solemnity proceeded from <HI>Bridewell</HI> to St. <HI>Martins</HI> in the Fields, 72 <HI>London</HI> Mini&s;ters Marching two and two before the Body, and above 1000 Men in the &s;ame Order following after.</P>
<P>The next Day in pur&s;uance of an Ad|dre&s;s pre&s;ented to the King by the Com|mons the <HI>Saturday</HI> before, came out a Pro|clamation, whereby all Papi&s;ts, or &s;uch re|puted, be Bani&s;ht 10 Miles from <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> to remove them&s;elves by the 7th Day of <HI>November,</HI> except Hou&s;hold|ers, and they to take the Oaths or &s;uffer the Penalties inflicted by Law. The &s;ame Day the Commons in Parliament re&s;olved, That an Addre&s;s be made to the King, that the Trained-Bands of <HI>London, We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>Surry,</HI> be rais'd for pre&s;ervation of His Maje&s;tys Per&s;on, and the Parliament, during this Se&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>On <HI>Munday</HI> the 4th of <HI>November,</HI> came out an Order of the King in Council, pro|po&s;ing, That whoever can Di&s;cover any Of|ficer
<PB N="30" REF="24"> or Soldier in any of the Kings Guards, Hor&s;e or Foot, who has taken the Oaths and Te&s;t, and &s;ince turn'd Papi&s;t, &s;uch Di&s;|coverer &s;hall have 20 <HI>l.</HI> for every Man &s;o Di&s;covered.</P>
<P><HI>Monday</HI> the 4th of <HI>November,</HI> It was moved in the Hou&s;e of Commons, that an Addre&s;s be made to the King, to remove the Duke of <HI>York</HI> from his Pre&s;ence and Councils; but the debate was Adjourn'd over to <HI>Fry|day</HI> next, at which time it being again mo|ved, the debate was again Adjorn'd over to <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> following. The next Day being <HI>Saturday</HI> the 9th of <HI>November,</HI> His Maje&s;ty went to the Lords Hou&s;e in His Robes, and made a Speech to both Hou&s;es, Wherein after he had return'd them His mo&s;t hearty Thanks for their very great and extraor|dinary care for pre&s;ervation of His Per&s;on in this time of Danger, <Q>He told 'em, That he was as ready to joyn with them in all ways and means that may E&s;tabli&s;h a firm &s;ecurity to the Prote&s;tant Religion, as their own Hearts can wi&s;h; and this not only during His Life, but in future Ages even to the end of the World: And therefore He is come to a&s;&s;ure 'em, that what&s;oever rea&s;onable Bills they &s;hall pre&s;ent to be pa&s;t into Laws to make them &s;afe in the
<PB N="31" REF="24"> Reign of His Succe&s;&s;or, &s;o as they intend not to Impeach the Right of Succe&s;&s;ion, nor the Di&s;cent of the Crown in the true Line, and al&s;o as they re&s;train not any Power or ju&s;t Right of His Prote&s;tant Suc|ce&s;&s;or, &s;uch Bills &s;hall find from him a ready concurrence.</Q></P>
<P>Soon after this came out another Pro|clamation, whereby all Roman Recu&s;ants, and &s;uch reputed, were enjoyn'd under the Penalty of the Laws to repair to their own homes, and not to remove more than Five Miles from thence without Licence; Excep|ted out of this Proclamation the Inha|bitants of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Monday,</HI> the 18th of <HI>November;</HI> the Hou&s;e of Commons being informed that Sir <HI>Jo&s;eph William&s;on</HI> Secretary of State, had lately Counter&s;igned &s;everal Commi&s;&s;ions for Roman Recu&s;ant Officers with a <HI>Non-ob|&s;tante</HI> to the Oaths and Te&s;t, he was by the &s;aid Hou&s;e Committed to the <HI>Tower.</HI> The next Day the King &s;ent for the Com|mons to attend him at the Banquetting-Hou&s;e, and told 'em, <Q>That tho' they Com|mitted His Servant without acquainting him, yet He intends to be freer with them, and acquaint them with His intentions,
<PB N="32" REF="25"> to relea&s;e His Secretary;</Q> which accord|ingly He did that Day.</P>
<P>About this time a Bill having been &s;ent up from the Commons to the Lords Hou&s;e, for Excluding all Popi&s;h Members to &s;it in either Hou&s;e of Parliament, it was pa&s;t in the &s;aid Lords Hou&s;e with &s;ome little alterations, and a Clau&s;e in Favour of His Royal Highne&s;s; and the &s;aid Bill be|ing &s;ent back to the Commons, it pa&s;t there al&s;o <HI>November</HI> 21&s;t, with the &s;aid altera|tions, but not without &s;ome difficulty; for Sir <HI>Jonathan Trelauny</HI> and one Mr. <HI>A&s;h,</HI> being heated in debate and words of re|proach pa&s;&s;ing between 'em, Sir <HI>Jonathan</HI> &s;truck the other a cuff on the Ear, which being return'd by <HI>A&s;h,</HI> over the Face, they were both about to Draw, but this di&s;tur|bance being at la&s;t quieted by the Speaker, <HI>Trelauny</HI> was &s;ent to the <HI>Tower,</HI> there to remain all this Se&s;&s;ions, and <HI>A&s;h</HI> received a <HI>Reprimande</HI> from the Speaker.</P>
<P>About the &s;ame time came out an Order of Council, explaining the late Proclama|tion whereby all Papi&s;ts were Bani&s;ht 10 Miles from <HI>London,</HI> not to extend to Mer|chant &s;trangers, and &s;uch Outlandi&s;h, who repair hither on the account of Travail.</P>
<PB N="33" REF="25">
<P>And now the Commons begin to look towards the Army again, re&s;olving <HI>Novem|ber</HI> 25. That it is nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;afety of His Maje&s;ty's Per&s;on, and Pre&s;ervation of the Government, that the Forces rai&s;ed &s;ince the 29th of <HI>November</HI> 77. be forth|with paid off and Disbanded; and for this the King requires more Mony.</P>
<P>In the mean time <HI>Oats</HI> (the great Di&s;co|verer of the Plot) accu&s;es the Queen; hereupon the King places a &s;tricter Guard upon him than ever; but the Commons, <HI>Novemb.</HI> 29. order an Addre&s;s to be made to His Maje&s;ty, That the &s;aid <HI>Oats</HI> be freed from his re&s;traint, attended by his own Ser|vants, and that a competent allowance be appointed for his maintenance; and that the Queen, with all her Servants, and all Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, or &s;uch &s;u&s;pected, be re|moved from <HI>Whitehall.</HI></P>
<P>Saturday, <HI>Novemb.</HI> 30. the King had two Bills pre&s;ented to him; one of which, <HI>viz</HI> For Exclu&s;ion of all Popi&s;h Members to fit in either Hou&s;e of Parliament (with a Clau&s;e in favour of the Duke of <HI>York</HI>) He pa&s;t: The other, which was for rai&s;ing a third part of the Militia, to be in con&s;tant Arms for a time, He refu&s;ed; alledging, That that were to put the Militia out of his
<PB N="34" REF="26">
<Q>Power, which thing He would not do, no not for one hour; but if the Parliament will a&s;&s;i&s;t Him with Money for that pur|po&s;e, He will take care to rai&s;e &s;uch a part of the Militia as &s;hall &s;ecure the Peace of the Government, and His own Per&s;on.</Q></P>
<P>In the mean time, while the&s;e things are tran&s;acting in Parliament, one <HI>William Staly,</HI> a Gold&s;miths Son, a <HI>Roman Recu&s;ant,</HI> is Ar|raigned at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar, found guil|ty, and condemned of High Trea&s;on, for &s;peaking certain words again&s;t the Kings Life, and accordingly was hanged and quar|tered at <HI>Tyburn;</HI> but on Petition the King granted his Quarters to his Father; who a|bu&s;ing the Kings mercy, buried him in <HI>Co|vent-Garden</HI> Church-yard with too much State and Ceremony; for which rea&s;on, by His Maje&s;ties Order, his Quarters were that very night taken up, conveyed to <HI>Newgate,</HI> and &s;oon after &s;et up on the Gates of <HI>Lon|don.</HI> The &s;ame week that <HI>Staly</HI> was exe|cuted, Mr. <HI>Coleman</HI> was arraigned and try|ed at the afore&s;aid Bar, and condemned of High Trea&s;on; The Evidence was the afore|mentioned <HI>Oats,</HI> and one <HI>Bedloe,</HI> and his own Letters; but both the afore&s;aid Try|als being in Print, I &s;hall take no farther notice of particulars. The King gave back
<PB N="35" REF="26"> all Mr. <HI>Colemans</HI> E&s;tate to his Wife and Chil|dren, and his Quarters to be Buried.</P>
<P><HI>Thur&s;day, December</HI> 4 The Commons Im|peacht the Lords <HI>Arundel</HI> of <HI>Warder, Bella&s;is, Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">is, Petre,</HI> and <HI>Stafford,</HI> of Trea&s;on &amp; other high Crimes and Mi&s;demeanors, &s;everally; which &s;everal Impeachments were carried up by five &s;everal Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons. Two Days before, the &s;aid Lords had been found Guilty upon &s;peci|al Indictments to the &s;ame purpo&s;e by the Grand Jury of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> before &s;pecial Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;itting at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter;</HI> but now for &s;ome Rea&s;ons, tho&s;e proceedings were waved, and it was thought more ef|fectual to proceed by way of Impeachment before the Hou&s;e of Lords in Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>Tue&s;day, December</HI> the 17th, <HI>Ireland, Pick|ering,</HI> and <HI>Groves,</HI> were Condemned of High Trea&s;on as Con&s;pirators in the Plot, but their Execution was re&s;pited for &s;ome time. At the &s;ame time <HI>Whitebread</HI> and <HI>Fenwick</HI> were arraigned, but their Tryal put off till the 15th of <HI>January.</HI> And now &s;ome of the Members of Parliament begin to ac|cu&s;e one another. <HI>December</HI> the 23d. Mr. <HI>Mountigue,</HI> Son to the Lord <HI>Mountigue,</HI> and late Amba&s;&s;ador in <HI>France,</HI> now a Burge&s;s for <HI>Northampton,</HI> carries up five Articles
<PB N="36" REF="27"> again&s;t the Lord Trea&s;urer; and Sir <HI>John Earnly</HI> another Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, accu&s;es the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Mountigue</HI> of holding a Corre&s;pondence with the Popes <HI>Nuncio</HI> at <HI>Paris.</HI></P>
<P>In the mean time the Parliament &s;it ince&s;&s;antly; without Adjournment the&s;e Hollidays, but only for <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI>-Eve and <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> Day: requiring a full ap|pearance of all their Members, not di&s;abled, as well Lords as Commons; enjoyning all in Town not to depart under &s;trict penal|ties, and &s;ending their Me&s;&s;engers for all ab&s;ent in the Country.</P>
<P>But it pleas'd the King on <HI>Monday</HI> the 30th of <HI>December</HI> to Prorogue both Hou&s;es till the 4th of <HI>February</HI> following. Not long before which the Commons had gi|ven more Mony for the Disbanding the Army, but in&s;erted a Clau&s;e in the Bill, for the Mony to be paid into the Cham|ber of <HI>London;</HI> which provi&s;o would not pa&s;s in the Lords Hou&s;e, and therefore the Bill remain'd abort. During this Interval the Reports were various touching the next &s;itting: it being &s;ometimes affirmed that the Se&s;&s;ion was further Prorogued till the 25th of <HI>February,</HI> then again, that the Par|liament would certainly meet at the 4th
<PB N="37" REF="27"> of <HI>February,</HI> the Day fir&s;t appointed; till at la&s;t on the 24th Day of <HI>January,</HI> the King was pleas'd to &s;ettle the variety of Rumour, and by His Proclamation, then publi&s;ht, ab&s;olutely to Di&s;&s;olve this Par|liament, promi&s;ing however to I&s;&s;ue out His Writs for a New one by the 6th of <HI>March</HI> next following. Thus ended this Parliament, having now been continued by &s;everal Prorogations and Adjournments 17 Years, Eight Months, and 17 Days, being fir&s;t called on the Eighth Day of <HI>May, An|no Domini,</HI> 1661.</P>
<P>With this great Turn I will conclude my Hi&s;torical Ob&s;ervations on this 30th Year of His Maje&s;tys Reign; a Year very re|markable if it were only on the account of the Di&s;&s;olution of this Parliament; but more e&s;pecially for the beginning of tho&s;e Troubles and Combu&s;tions which la&s;ted for &s;o many Years after, in Relation to the Plot.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="account">
<PB N="38" REF="28">
<HEAD>Anno 31. <HI>Car. 2. Anno Dom.</HI> 1679.</HEAD>
<P>IN further Pro&s;ecution of tho&s;e matters di&s;cover'd the la&s;t year, <HI>Green</HI> the Cu&s;hi|on-man at <HI>Somer&s;et-hou&s;e</HI> Chappel, <HI>Berry</HI> the Queens Porter there, and <HI>Hill</HI> Dr. <HI>God|dens</HI> Man, were on the 10th day of <HI>Feb.</HI> tryed at the Kings Bench Bar for the Mur|ther of Sir <HI>Edmunbury Godfrey:</HI> which three being convicted, cheifly, on the Evidene of <HI>Miles Prance,</HI> a Gold&s;mith, were found guilty, and having on the next day received &s;entence of Condemnation to be hang'd for the &s;aid Murder, <HI>Green</HI> and <HI>Hill</HI> were Executed accordingly at <HI>Tyborn, Feb.</HI> 21. But <HI>Berry</HI> was reprieved for a Week
<PB N="39" REF="28"> longer, all three denying the Fact in as po&s;i|tive terms as could be: the la&s;t dying a Prote&s;tant, of which Per&s;wa&s;ion he had for|merly been before he entred into the Queens &s;ervice.</P>
<P>About this time it was that Sir <HI>Jo&s;eph William&s;on,</HI> quitted his Office of Secretary of State, to the Earl of <HI>Sunderland.</HI></P>
<P>To conclude, the Tran&s;actions of this Month, The King Directed the following Letter to the Duke of <HI>York.</HI></P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<HEAD>Whitehall Feb. 28. 1678.</HEAD>
<P>I <HI>Have already given you my Re&s;olves at large, why I think it fit that you &s;hould ab&s;ent your &s;elf for &s;ome time beyond the Seas; As I am truly &s;orry for the occa&s;ion, &s;o may you be &s;ure I &s;hall never de&s;ire it longer than it will be ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for your good and my Service: In the mean time I think it pro|per to give it you under my Hand, that I ex|pect this Compliance from you, and de&s;ire it may be as &s;oon as conveniently you can. You
<PB N="40" REF="29"> may ea&s;ily believe with what trouble I write this to you, there being nothing I am more &s;en|&s;ible of than the con&s;tant kindne&s;s you have ever had for me. I hope you are as ju&s;t to Me to be a&s;&s;ured, That no ab&s;ence nor any thing el&s;e can ever change me from being truly and kindly Yours,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>C. R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>And accordingly in pur&s;uance of His Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure, within few days after this, the Duke, Duche&s;s, and Family, leave the Kingdom, and retired for a while to the <HI>Hague,</HI> and from thence to <HI>Bru&s;|&s;els.</HI></P>
<P>And now the Parliament, which had been called according to the Kings promi&s;e on the Di&s;&s;olution of the la&s;t, meet at the appointed 6th day of <HI>March.</HI> The Kings Speech contained, <Q>That in order to the uniting the minds of His Subjects both to Him&s;elf and to one another, He had exclu|ded the Popi&s;h Lords from their Seats in Parliament; Cau&s;ed the Execution of &s;e|veral men both for the Plot and Murder of Sir <HI>Edmundbury Godfrey;</HI> Disbanded as
<PB N="41" REF="29"> much of the Army as he could get Mony to do; Above all, That He hath com|manded his Brother to ab&s;ent him&s;elf; That &s;o all colour may be taken from ma|licious men of pretending any influence of Popi&s;h Councils: That He propo&s;es by this means to &s;ee whether the Prote|&s;tant Religion and the Peace of the King|dom be as truly aimed at by others, as they are really intended by Him; if &s;o, they (the Members of Parliament) will lay a&s;ide all private animo&s;ities, and employ their time upon the great Concerns of the Nation; That he will not cea&s;e to make further &s;earch into the Plot and the Mur|der of Sir <HI>Edmunbury Godfrey,</HI> for which he de&s;ires the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of both Hou&s;es; That he has ordered the Penal Laws to be Executed again&s;t Papi&s;ts; De&s;ires their a&s;|&s;i&s;tance in rai&s;ing Supplys for Disbanding the Army and paying off the Fleet; and that they would &s;ome way make up the lo&s;s He has &s;u&s;tain'd by the Prohibition of <HI>French</HI> Wines and Brandy, which turns only to His prejudice, and the great advan|tage of the <HI>French;</HI> That it is nece&s;&s;ary to have a Fleet at Sea, &s;ince our Neigh|bours are making Naval Preparations;
<PB N="42" REF="30">That a Con&s;tant e&s;tabli&s;hment might be made for the Navy; And concludes with His earne&s;t de&s;ires to have this a healing Parliament; A&s;&s;uring them to defend with his life the Prote&s;tant Religion and the Laws of the Kingdom, and expects to be by them defended from the Calumny as well as Danger of tho&s;e wor&s;t of Men, who endeaver to render both him and His Government odious to His People.</Q></P>
<P>The Chancellors Speech was chiefly a de&s;cant on the former heads; <Q>Reminding the Two Hou&s;es as<NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 12.</NOTE> to the Plot, not to over do their Bu&s;ine&s;s, and that by being too far Tran&s;|ported with the fears of Popery, they do not neglect the opportunities of making &s;ober and la&s;ting Provi&s;ions again&s;t it; which (&s;ays he) are the only hopes of the Papi&s;ts, thus to &s;ee<NOTE PLACE="marg">p. 14.</NOTE> our Zeal out-run our Di&s;cretion, and that we our &s;elves &s;hould become the unhappy occa&s;ion of making our own Councils abortive.</Q></P>
<P>The King and Lord Chancellor having ended their Speeches, the Commons return|ed to their own Hou&s;e, and unanimou&s;ly cho&s;e for their Speaker, Mr <HI>Seymour,</HI> who had officiated in that Place in the la&s;t Par|liament,
<PB N="43" REF="30"> who being the next Day pre&s;ented to the King, was refu&s;ed; and the Hou&s;e Ordered to proceed to a new Election; which notwith&s;tanding was not made till <HI>Saturday</HI> the 15th of <HI>March,</HI> on which day they cho&s;e Mr Serjeant <HI>Gregory,</HI> the &s;aid choice being on the <HI>Monday</HI> following ap|proved by His Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>After this the Commons draw up an Ad|dre&s;s to the King for a Fa&s;t, in which al&s;o the Lords Concur; and a Fa&s;t was ap|pointed by Proclamation dated <HI>Mar.</HI> 28, to be ob&s;erved throughout the Nation on the 11th of <HI>April</HI> following.</P>
<P>A Committee being appointed to enquire into the manner of &s;uing out the Earl of <HI>Danby's</HI> Pardon, which upon &s;earch being not entred in any Office from the Secre|taries Office until it came to the Lord Chan|cellors, but di&s;patch'd in a private manner, and &s;o reported by the Committee, the Hou&s;e of Commons re&s;olve <HI>Mar.</HI> 24. That an humble Addre&s;s be made to His Maje&s;ty, repre&s;enting the irregularity and illegality of the Pardon mentioned to be granted to the Earl of <HI>Danby,</HI> and the Dangerous con|&s;equence of Granting Pardons to any per|&s;ons that lye under an Impeachment of the Commons of <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<P>They al&s;o de&s;ire of the Lords, that the Earl of <HI>Danby</HI> may be &s;eque&s;tred from Par|liament, and put into &s;afe Cu&s;tody; accor|dingly the Lords Order the U&s;her of the Black Rod to take him; but upon &s;earch at his Hou&s;es both in Town, and at <HI>Wimbleton,</HI> he could not be found; hereupon a Bill is Ordered to be brought in, that <HI>Thomas</HI> Earl of <HI>Danby</HI> render him&s;elf to Ju&s;tice by a cer|tain day, or in default thereof to be At|tainted, which Bill was read twice and com|mitted. In the mean time the Lords had pa&s;t a Bill in their Hou&s;e for bani&s;hing and di&s;abling the &s;aid Earl, which being &s;ent down to the Commons for their Concur|rence, was by them rejected, as a Cen&s;ure too favourable. They al&s;o Vote an Addre&s;s to be made to His Maje&s;ty, That the &s;aid Earl be not permitted to re&s;ide in any of His Maje&s;ties Hou&s;es of <HI>Whitehall, Somer&s;et-hou&s;e,</HI> and St. <HI>James</HI>'s. Al&s;o another Addre&s;s for a Proclamation to apprehend the &s;aid Earl, and that no Subject pre&s;ume to harbour or conceal him. In the mean time the Bill of Attainder again&s;t the Earl of <HI>Danby</HI> was highly canva&s;t at &s;everal Conferences be|tween the Lords and Commons, till at la&s;t on the 16th of <HI>April,</HI> a Me&s;&s;age is brought from the Lords Hou&s;e, to acquaint the Com|mons,
<PB N="45" REF="31"> That the Earl of <HI>Danby</HI> had the la&s;t night rendred him&s;elf to the U&s;her of the Black Rod, and is committed by their Lord|&s;hips to the <HI>Tower.</HI></P>
<P>On the &s;ame 16th of <HI>April,</HI> 4 of the 5 popi&s;h Lords in the <HI>Tower,</HI> who had been on the 9th in&s;tant Impeacht, gave in their An&s;wers in Per&s;on, viz. <HI>Powis, Stafford, Petre,</HI> and <HI>Arundel;</HI> but the Lord <HI>Bella&s;is,</HI> being di&s;abled by the Gout, had his An&s;wer received in Writing.</P>
<P>On the 20th of <HI>April,</HI> the King was pleas'd to declare to His Privy Council His plea&s;ure to di&s;&s;olve them, and to con&s;titute a new one, which for the future &s;hould con&s;i&s;t of the con&s;tant number of 30 Members, of which 15 to be certain, <HI>viz.</HI> 1. The Arch-Bi|&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury.</HI> 2. Bi&s;hop of <HI>London.</HI> 3. Lord Chancellor. 4. One of the Chief Ju&s;tices. 5. The Admiral. 6. Ma&s;ter of the Ordenance. 7. Trea&s;urer. 8. Chancellor of the <HI>Exchequer.</HI> 9. Privy Seal. 10. Ma&s;ter of the Hor&s;e. 11. Lord Steward. 12. Lord Chamberlain of the Hou&s;hold. 13. Groom of the Stole. And the two Se|cretaries. The other 15 elective at the Kings plea&s;ure, 10 out of the Nobility, and 5 Commoners. Be&s;ides the&s;e, &s;uch Princes
<PB N="46" REF="32"> of the Blood as &s;hall be at Court; A Lord Pre&s;ident, and a Secretary of <HI>Stotland,</HI> but the&s;e uncertain. And according to this new Model, &s;o many of them as were in Court did the next morning, being <HI>April</HI> 21, meet in the Council Chamber, and were there Sworn Privy-Coun&s;ellors. The &s;ame day His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to acquaint the two Hou&s;es with what he had done, and that He was re&s;olved in all His weighty and Impor|tant Affairs, next to His great Council in Parliament, to be advi&s;ed by this Privy Council.</P>
<P>After this, <HI>viz.</HI> on the 24th day of <HI>April, Nathaniel Reading,</HI> E&s;quire, was Tryed before my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>North,</HI> and &s;everal other &s;pecial Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer,</HI> &s;it|ting in the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Court at <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter;</HI> His crime of which he &s;tood indicted was for endeavoring to &s;tifle <HI>Bedlo's</HI> Evidence again&s;t the Popi&s;h Lords, or at lea&s;t to le&s;&s;en the &s;ame; which being proved by the Oaths of the &s;aid <HI>Bedloe,</HI> one <HI>Wiggins</HI> his Man, and one Mr <HI>Speke,</HI> which two la&s;t <HI>Bedloe</HI> had hid privately in his Chamber to over-hear their di&s;cour&s;e; he was found guilty; had Judgment to &s;tand in the Pillory for an hour in the <HI>Palace-Yard,</HI>
<PB N="47" REF="32"> Impri&s;onment for one year, and fined 1000 <HI>l.</HI> Which Sentence was accordingly Executed.</P>
<P>About this time it was that the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Ely, Glouce&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>Bath and Wells,</HI> were accu&s;ed for Papi&s;ts, but the Accu&s;ation quick|ly fell, it being di&s;covered to be a malicious contrivance to bla&s;t their Reputation, and fix a Scandal on the whole Order.</P>
<P>On the 25th of <HI>April</HI> the Earl of <HI>Danby,</HI> and Lord <HI>Bella&s;is</HI> appear'd in Per&s;on at the Bar of the Lords Hou&s;e; the Earl putting in his Plea, and the Lord <HI>Bella&s;is</HI> his An|&s;wer. The next day the Lords <HI>Stafford, Arundel,</HI> and <HI>Powis,</HI> appear'd at the &s;ame Bar, and having retracted their former Pleas to their Impeachments (which appeared in|&s;ufficient to the Hou&s;e of Commons) put in their further An&s;wers to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>After this, on the la&s;t day of <HI>April</HI> His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to &s;end for the Com|mons, to attend Him in the Hou&s;e of Lords, and acquaint 'em by the mouth of the Lord Chancellor, <Q>That he was ready to agree to any Laws to &s;ecure Religion, &s;o the Di&s;cent of the Crown in the Right Line be not defeated, and therefore he is willing that a Provi&s;ion be made, Fir&s;t to di&s;tin|gui&s;h a Papi&s;t from a Prote&s;tant Succe&s;&s;or,
<PB N="48" REF="33"> then to limit the Authority of the Fir&s;t in the&s;e particulars, <HI>viz</HI> that all Church pre|ferment may be confer'd on Pious and Learned Prote&s;tants; That there may not want a Parliament on the Kings Death, but that the Parliament then in being, or the la&s;t that &s;at, &s;hould at &s;uch time rea&s;&s;em|ble without any new Summons or Electi|on; That during the Reign of any Popi&s;h Succe&s;&s;or, no Privy Coun&s;eller, no Judge at the Common Law, or in Chancery, &s;hall be put in, or di&s;placed but by Authority of Parliament; That none but Prote&s;tants be Ju&s;tices of Peace; &s;o al&s;o for Lord Lieu|tenants, Deputy Leiutenants and Officers in the Navy, not to be put in or removed but by Authority of Parliament; conclu|ding that it is hard to invent any other re|&s;traint to be put on a Popi&s;h Succe&s;&s;or; yet if any thing el&s;e can occur to the Wi&s;dom of the Parliament whereby to &s;ecure Religion, and Liberty, without defeating the Right of Succe&s;&s;ion it &s;elf, that His Maje&s;ty is mo&s;t ready to con&s;ent to it.</Q></P>
<P>After the Con&s;ideration of this Speech had been Adjourn'd over from time to time; <Q>It was at la&s;t Re&s;olved on the 11th of <HI>May</HI> in the Hou&s;e of Commons in defence
<PB N="49" REF="33"> of the Kings Per&s;on and the Prote&s;tant Religion, that they will &s;tand by His Ma|je&s;ty with their Lives and Fortunes; and that if His Maje&s;ty &s;hould come by any violent Death (which God forbid) that they will revenge it to the utmo&s;t upon the <HI>Papi&s;ts.</HI></Q> And according to this Vote they drew up an Addre&s;s on the 14th, with this varation in the form of Words, <HI>viz.</HI> <Q>We &s;hall be ready to Revenge upon the <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> any violence offered [by them] to your Sacred Maje&s;ty.</Q> The Words, by them, being neither expre&s;t nor intimated in their Vote, though e&s;&s;ential and nece&s;&s;ary to the Ju&s;tice of the intend|ed Revenge.</P>
<P>Further then this they took no notice of the Kings Re&s;olution expre&s;t in the &s;aid Speech; but contrary to that Clau&s;e which related to the Succe&s;&s;ion, on the 15th of <HI>May,</HI> they brought in a Bill to Di&s;able the Duke of <HI>York</HI> to Inherit the Imperial Crown of <HI>England,</HI> which being Read the fir&s;t time on the &s;aid 15th of <HI>May,</HI> was on the 21&s;t read again and Committed to a Committee of the whole Hou&s;e; yet the Hou&s;e divided on the Que&s;tion. <HI>Yeas 207. Noes</HI> 123. But the Parliament be|ing
<PB N="50" REF="34"> &s;oon after Prorogued, it never pro|ceeded further.</P>
<P>In the mean time the two Hou&s;es of Par|liament are very earne&s;t in debating the Methods relating to the Tryals of the five Popi&s;h Lords in the <HI>Tower,</HI> and the Earl of <HI>Danby;</HI> which la&s;t being on the third of <HI>May</HI> demanded, at the Bar of the Lords Hou&s;e, whether he would rely up|on and abide by the Plea of his Pardon, return'd for An&s;wer, That being advi&s;ed by his Council that his Pardon is good in Law, he doth in&s;i&s;t upon his Plea, and de|&s;ires that his Council may be heard: With which their Lord&s;hips acquainting the Commons, they Order a return to be made to their Lord&s;hips by the whole Hou&s;e in the&s;e words, on the 5th of <HI>May.</HI></P>
<P><Q>My Lords, the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, are come up to demand Judgment in their own Names and the Names of all the Commons of <HI>England,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Thomas</HI> Earl of <HI>Danby,</HI> who &s;tands Impeacht by them before your Lord&s;hips of High Trea&s;on, and divers high Crimes and Mi&s;demeanors, To which he has pleaded a Pardon, which Pardon the Commons conceive to be illegal and void, and therefore they
<PB N="51" REF="34"> do demand Judgment of your Lord&s;hips accordingly.</Q></P>
<P>On the 6th of <HI>May</HI> it was ordered in the Hou&s;e of Lords, that <HI>Saturday</HI> next be appointed for the Earl of <HI>Danby's</HI> Plea to be argued, and that the five Lords in the <HI>Tower</HI> be tryed this Day Sennight: With which Orders they acquainted the Com|mons the next Day, and that their Lord|&s;hips had appointed an Addre&s;s to be made to His Maje&s;ty to appoint a Lord Steward for the &s;aid Tryals. The Commons not well &s;atisfied with the&s;e proceedings, de|&s;ire that a Committee of both Hou&s;es may be nominated to con&s;ider of the mo&s;t pro|per ways and methods of Proceeding upon Impeachments, according to the u&s;age of Parliament. But the Lords refu&s;ed to a|gree to the Propo&s;al as inconformable to the Rules and Orders of proceedings of their Hou&s;e, which is and ever mu&s;t be tender in matters relating to their Judica|ture. Upon this An&s;wer the Commons re&s;olve (<HI>May</HI> 9.) That no Commoner what&s;oever pre&s;ume to maintain the vali|dity of the Pardon pleaded by the Earl of <HI>Danby,</HI> without the leave of this Hou&s;e fir&s;t had; and that the Per&s;ons &s;o doing &s;hall be accounted Betrayers of the Liber|ties
<PB N="52" REF="35"> of the Commons of <HI>England.</HI> After this it &s;eems that the Lords did recede from their former re&s;olution, for on the 11th of <HI>May,</HI> they acquainted the Commons by Me&s;&s;age, That they had appointed a Com|mittee con&s;i&s;ting of Twelve Lords, to joyn with a Committee of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons to con&s;ider of propo&s;itions and cir|cum&s;tances in relation to the fore&s;aid Tryals.</P>
<P>Which joint Committee of both Hou&s;es meeting, they di&s;-agreed about the Bi&s;hops being pre&s;ent at the Tryals. for the Lords having re&s;olved in their Hou&s;e, That the Lords Spiritual have a right to &s;tay in Court in Capital Ca&s;es till the Court proceed to the Vote of Guilty or Not Guilty: Here|upon the Commons re&s;olved on the other &s;ide to in&s;i&s;t upon it, that the Lords Spiri|tual ought not to have any Vote in any Proceedings upon Impeachments again&s;t the Lords in the <HI>Tower.</HI> The two Hou&s;es &s;eeming to di&s;&s;er on this point, the Bi&s;hops thought to find out a <HI>Medium,</HI> and on the 16th of <HI>May,</HI> de&s;ired leave of the Hou&s;e of Lords that they might withdraw them|&s;elves from the Tryals of the &s;aid Impeach|ed Lords, with the Liberty of entring their u&s;ual Prote&s;tations.</P>
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<P>But this did not &s;atisfie the Hou&s;e of Commons, who on the 24th of <HI>May</HI> Re|&s;olve that they cannot proceed to the Tryal of the Five Lords before Judgment be gi|ven on the Earl of <HI>Danby</HI>'s Pardon, and in the point of the Bi&s;hops Voting in Capital Offences. For which they drew up Rea|&s;ons, and the 26th of <HI>May</HI> delivered the &s;ame to the Lords at a Conference: which being very large, and in print, I &s;hall here omit.</P>
<P>And in this po&s;ture did the Publick Tran&s;actions in Parliament appear on the 27th day of <HI>May,</HI> at which time it pleas'd His Maje&s;ty to Prorogue both Hou&s;es until the 14th day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> next.</P>
<P>About this time the King was plea&s;ed to remove Sir <HI>John Robin&s;on</HI> from being Lieu|tenant of the <HI>Tower,</HI> and confer the Place on Captain <HI>Cheek.</HI></P>
<P>The Troubles in <HI>Scotland,</HI> which broke out in this Month, gave occa&s;ion of much di&s;cour&s;e, and no little alarm in <HI>England.</HI> They begun in the Barbarous Murder of Dr. <HI>Sharp</HI> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>St. Andrews,</HI> on the 3d of <HI>May,</HI> as he was travelling from <HI>Edinburgh</HI> to his own Re&s;idency; The Murderers were a company of <HI>Inveterate Covenanters,</HI> who, in regard the &s;aid Bi&s;hop
<PB N="54" REF="36"> had been formerly one of their Party, and now revolted (as they called his hone&s;t Reformation) bore him a mo&s;t immortal hatred, having attempted his Life &s;everal times before. But the A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ins &s;top not at Murder, for &s;oon after this they gather into a Body in the We&s;tern parts of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> and fall into open Rebellion and Trea|&s;on; on the 29th, a Party of the Rebels well mounted and armed, came to <HI>Rugland,</HI> proclaim the <HI>Covenant,</HI> and burnt the following Acts of Parliament, <HI>viz.</HI> <Q>The Act concerning the Kings Supre|macy.</Q> The Reci&s;&s;ory Act (by which all the Mock-Laws, made in the times of the late Anarchy, were repeal'd.) <Q>The Act for e&s;tabli&s;hing Epi&s;copacy: And the Act appointing the Anniver&s;ary of the 29th of <HI>May</HI></Q> They al&s;o publi&s;ht an In&s;olent Declaration full of Trea&s;on, and the very Spirit of <HI>Scotch Covenanters,</HI> commonly there called <HI>WHIGS:</HI> With &s;uch as the&s;e their Army increa&s;ed daily to &s;uch a con|&s;iderable number, that the King Commi&s;|&s;ioned the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> as <HI>Genera|li&s;&s;imo</HI> to &s;uppre&s;s the In&s;urrection, which not long after, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Loyal Gentry and Heretors of that Nation,
<PB N="55" REF="36"> he did in one Battle; killing &s;ome, and taking &s;everal Hundreds of Pri&s;oners; of which &s;ome few being hang'd, e&s;pecially tho&s;e who were more immediately con|cern'd in the Arch-Bi&s;hops Murder, the re&s;t were Tran&s;ported.</P>
<P>But to return to <HI>London.</HI> On the 13th of <HI>June, Thomas White,</HI> alias <HI>Whitebread.</HI> Provincial of the Je&s;uits in <HI>England, Wil|liam Harcourt, John Fenwick, John Gaven,</HI> and <HI>Anthony Turner,</HI> all Je&s;uits, were Try|ed at the <HI>Old-Baily,</HI> and found Guilty of High Trea&s;on as Con&s;pirators in the late Plot; The next Day <HI>Richard Langhorn</HI> E&s;q; a Bari&s;ter of the <HI>Inner-Temple,</HI> was Tryed at the &s;ame Bar for the &s;ame Crime, and being al&s;o found Guilty, all &s;ix had Sentence of Condemnation, and were ac|cordingly Executed; the five Je&s;uits on <HI>Fryday</HI> the 20th of <HI>June,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Lang|horn</HI> on the 14th of <HI>July</HI> following; All departing this Life with the greate&s;t Pro|te&s;tations of Innocence, as to the Crimes Objected, as could be po&s;&s;ibly expected.</P>
<P>On the la&s;t Day of <HI>Trinity-Term,</HI> being the 9th of <HI>July,</HI> Sir <HI>Anthony Dean,</HI> and <HI>Samuel Pepys</HI> E&s;q; two Members of the pre&s;ent Parliament were on a long debate let to Bail in the Court of <HI>Kings-Bench</HI>
<PB N="56" REF="37"> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> the Principals in a Recog|nizance of 10000 <HI>l.</HI> a piece, and every one of the Bail 5000 <HI>l.</HI> They had been Com|mitted to the <HI>Tower,</HI> by Order of the Hou&s;e of Commons on the 20th of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t; their Accu&s;ation Trea&s;on, Piracy, and Fe|lony on the Stat. 31. <HI>El.</HI> 4. And being on the fir&s;t Day of this Term removed by <HI>Ha|beas Corpus</HI> into this Court, the &s;aid Crimes were here charged again&s;t 'em in &s;everal Affidavits by <HI>Scot</HI> and <HI>Moon;</HI> but it &s;eems the Evidence not appearing &s;o home as expected, they were now Bail'd, and &s;o continued till the la&s;t Day of <HI>Hillary-Term</HI> following, at which time they were Di&s;|charged on their own &s;ingle Recognizance to appear in <HI>Trinity-Term</HI> next without be|ing brought to any Tryal.</P>
<P>But now arrives the 10th of <HI>July,</HI> on which Day the King was pleas'd to Di&s;|&s;olve the pre&s;ent Parliament by Proclama|tion, with a Declaration of His Intention to call another on the 17th of <HI>October</HI> fol|lowing.</P>
<P>On the 18th of <HI>July</HI> Sir <HI>George Wakeman</HI> Baronet, the Queens Phy&s;itian, <HI>William Mar&s;hal, William Rumley,</HI> and <HI>James Corker,</HI> Benedictin Monks, were Tryed for High Trea&s;on relating to the late Plot; the
<PB N="57" REF="37"> Evidence, <HI>Oates, Bedloe,</HI> and others; But the Jury found 'em not Guilty, and they were di&s;charged. Several Libels hereup|on flew abroad again&s;t my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Scroggs,</HI> who notwith&s;tanding did &s;ufficiently acquit him&s;elf from all a&s;per&s;ion in the Judgment of &s;ober People.</P>
<P>In <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> the King fell dangerou&s;ly ill at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> upon the Intelligence of which His Royal Highne&s;s came over Po&s;t to His Maje&s;ty; But it pleas'd God that the King recovering His Health, to the great Joy of the Nation; The Lord Mayor of <HI>Lon|don,</HI> with the Court of Aldermen, and a Train of 30 Coaches, and about 100 Hor&s;e|men, went on <HI>Monday</HI> the 15th of <HI>Septem|ber</HI> to <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> to Congratulate His Maje|&s;ty's Recovery, which Complement was as kindly received as hand&s;omely performed. On the <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> following the King, at|tended by His Royal Highne&s;s and the whole Court, rerurn'd to <HI>Whitehall;</HI> that Night by the Lord Mayors expre&s;s Order there were Bonfires throughout the whole City for His Maje&s;ty's return, as well to His former Health, as place of Re&s;idency. But it &s;eems the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> ha|ving contracted the Kings Di&s;plea&s;ure, on &s;ome account or other, not commonly
<PB N="58" REF="38"> known, His Maje&s;ty was pleas'd to take from him his Commi&s;&s;ion of Captain Ge|neral, and for a time expel him the King|dom; &s;oon after this the &s;aid Duke went over to <HI>&V;trecht,</HI> and at the &s;ame time His Royal Highne&s;s return'd to <HI>Bru&s;&s;els;</HI> But this la&s;t, it &s;eems, without de&s;igns of any long &s;tay there, for on <HI>Sunday</HI> Night the 12th of <HI>October,</HI> His &s;aid Royal Highne&s;s, the Dutche&s;s, and Family, arrived at St. <HI>James</HI>'s, to the &s;urprize of &s;ome, and Joy of others.</P>
<P>The King having call'd a New Parlia|menz, as he had formerly promi&s;ed on the Di&s;&s;olution of the la&s;t, to meet on the 17th of <HI>October,</HI> He was now further pleas'd to Prorogue it from the time appointed, to the 26th of <HI>January</HI> following.</P>
<P>On the fir&s;t Day of <HI>Michaelmas-Term,</HI> my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Scroggs</HI> took occa&s;i|on to make an Excellent Speech in the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Court, concerning the many Scandalous Libels that had been Publi&s;ht again&s;t him &s;ince Sir <HI>George Wakemans</HI> Try|al, and acquittal; in which Speech he purged him&s;elf at large of any Corruption and with a great mea&s;ure of Courage declar'd, <Q>That he was neither afraid nor a&s;hamed to own what he had done; That
<PB N="59" REF="38"> the Impeachment of the cour&s;e of Pub|lick Ju&s;tice by vulgar noi&s;e and clamour did not at all terrify him to a Compli|ance with the Rabble, again&s;t his Con|&s;cience and Under&s;tanding, nor to try a|ny cau&s;e otherwi&s;e then according to the Evidence and the probability and credi|bility it carries with it.</Q> Mr. Ju&s;tice <HI>Jones</HI> and Ju&s;tice <HI>Dolbin</HI> &s;poke al&s;o to the &s;ame purpo&s;e, and appear'd as Compurgators of the Chief Ju&s;tices Integrity.</P>
<P>Much di&s;cour&s;e there was at this time, and many Narratives came out daily con|cerning the Di&s;covery of a New Plot which the Papi&s;ts (was is &s;aid) had contrived to lay on the Presbyterians. The chief Di&s;|coverer was one <HI>Dangerfield</HI> alias <HI>Willoughby;</HI> Several were accu&s;ed, and laid up as Con|&s;pirators; among whom, the Counte&s;s of <HI>Powis,</HI> Mrs <HI>Celier,</HI> Sir <HI>Robert Payton,</HI> and Mr <HI>Gadbury.</HI></P>
<P>The Effigies of the Pope in all his <HI>Pon|tificalibus,</HI> had been for &s;everal years pa&s;t &s;olemnly burnt by the people, in the Month of <HI>November,</HI> yearly; but never with &s;o much Ceremony, as on the 17th of <HI>Novem|ber</HI> this year, it being a Day ob&s;erved by &s;ome in memory of Queen <HI>Elizabeth.</HI> The Proce&s;&s;ion con&s;i&s;ted of one per&s;onating the
<PB N="60" REF="39"> Dead Body of Sir <HI>Edmundbury Godfrey</HI> car|ried on a Hor&s;e, with a Bell-man to mind the People of his Murther, Prie&s;ts in Copes with a large Silver Cro&s;s, Carmelite, and Gray Friers, &s;ix Je&s;uites, and after them the Waits, &s;everal Bi&s;hops, &s;ome in Lawn Sleeves, others with Copes and Miters on, then &s;ix Cardinals, and after them the Pope on a Pa|geant with Boys and Incen&s;e Pots, and other Ceremonious Pomp, behind him the Devils Repre&s;entative; In this manner they march|ed about five at night from <HI>Bi&s;hop&s;gate</HI> to the <HI>Temple-gate</HI> at <HI>Chancery Lane</HI> End, at|tended with Thou&s;ands of People, at which appointed &s;tation, they Committed the Effigies to the Flames of a very extra|ordinary Bonfire, at which time the mock-Devil departed, and the Shew ended.</P>
<P>On <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 27th of <HI>November,</HI> The Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> arrived in the night time at <HI>London,</HI> on who&s;e return the Citi|zens expre&s;t a mighty Joy by Bonfiers, Fire|works, and Ringing of Bells all the next day and mo&s;t part of the night.</P>
<P>In the mean time his Royal Highne&s;s with his Duche&s;s and Daughter, attended with a Guard and Retinue &s;uitable to their Quality, made a Journey into <HI>Scotland:</HI> Where being arrived, The Duke was at <HI>Eden|borough</HI>
<PB N="61" REF="39"> on the 4th of <HI>December,</HI> received and Complemented by the Privy Council of that Kingdom, with abundance of Re|&s;pect and Honor; The Lord Chancellor made a Speech in the name of all the Coun|cil, to which his Royal Highne&s;s An&s;wer'd in very affectionate Terms, expre&s;&s;ing his great &s;atisfaction at the Civilities he had received &s;ince his arrival in that Kingdom: And declaring his readine&s;s to promote the Honor and Service of the King, and the In|tere&s;ts of the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Nation.</P>
<P>About this time great endeavors were u&s;ed to procure a Multitude of Hands to Petitions which were framing in <HI>London, We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and &s;everal Counties, to be pre|&s;ented to the King for the &s;itting of the Par|liament on the 26th day of <HI>January</HI> next according to the la&s;t Prorogation; which manner of Petitioning being unwarran|table and tumultuous, the King was plea&s;ed, in Council <HI>Dec.</HI> 10. to Order the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to take care in their &s;everal &s;tations of His Maje&s;ties Honor, and of the peace and &s;afety of the City, and not to &s;uffer &s;uch per&s;ons that &s;hould &s;ign &s;uch Petitions, or go about to procure hands to them to go unpuni&s;hed; but that they &s;hould proceed again&s;t them or cau&s;e them
<PB N="62" REF="40"> to be brought before the Council Board to be puni&s;hed, according to a Re&s;olution of all the Judges of <HI>England, 2. Jac.</HI> (which may be &s;een. <HI>Cro.</HI> 2. part of Reports, <HI>fol.</HI> 37.) His Maje&s;ty was further plea&s;ed to i&s;&s;ue out His Proclamation dated the 12th day of <HI>December,</HI> containing, <Q>That whereas he hath been informed that divers evil di&s;po&s;ed per|&s;ons endeavor in &s;everal parts of this King|dom to frame Petitions to His Maje&s;ty for &s;pecious Ends and purpo&s;es relating to the publick, and thereupon to collect and pro|cure to the &s;ame the hands and &s;ub&s;criptions of multitudes of His Maje&s;ties Subjects; which Proceedings being contrary to the Common and known Laws of this Land, and tending to promote di&s;contents among the People, and to rai&s;e Sedition and Re|bellion, His Maje&s;ty doth therefore &s;trictly charge and commad all and every his lov|ing Subjects of what Rank or Degree &s;oever, that they pre&s;ume not to agitate or promote any &s;uch Sub&s;criptions, nor in any ways joyn in any Petition of that manner to be pre|ferred to His Maje&s;ty, upon peril of the utmo&s;t rigour of the Law that may be in|flicted for the &s;ame.</Q></P>
<P>At the &s;ame time His Maje&s;ty i&s;&s;ued out another Proclamation, declaring His Re|&s;olution
<PB N="63" REF="40"> to Prorogue the Parliament from the 26th of <HI>January</HI> to the 11th of <HI>Novem|ber</HI> next.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding the &s;cope of the&s;e two Proclamations, the bu&s;ine&s;s of Petitioning went forwards; &s;everal were perfected and delivered not long after, one from <HI>London</HI> Sub&s;cribed with many Thou&s;ands of hands, others from, <HI>York, E&s;&s;ex, Surrey,</HI> and <HI>Wilt|&s;hire,</HI> all which the King receiv'd but coldly, and as appeared afterwards, ineffectually, for on the 26th of <HI>January</HI> being the Day to which the Parliament was Prorogued, His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to make a &s;hort Speech to both Hou&s;es, containing, <Q>That when he declared in Council His Intention of putting off the Parliament to a time &s;o remote as <HI>November,</HI> it was not without mature Con&s;ideration; That he cannot be per&s;waded from any thing that has happen|ed &s;ince (in reference to Affairs within the Kingdom) to alter or repent of that Re|&s;olution; That notwith&s;tanding, con&s;idering the pre&s;ent danger which threatens &s;ome of our Neighbours and Allies, He thinks fit to appoint a day for their meeting again in <HI>April;</HI> yet the Di&s;tractions and Jealou&s;es at home are of &s;uch a nature, and &s;o height|ned and improved by the malice and
<PB N="64" REF="41"> and Indu&s;try of ill men, that he is unalte|ablylo&s; opinion that a longer Interval of Parliament will be ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for compo&s;ing and quieting of Mens minds; in order to which, he is afraid the mo&s;t pro|per Remedies would prove ineffectual without the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;ome further time; He re&s;olves therefore that on the &s;aid meeting in <HI>April</HI> there &s;hall be a further Prorogation, unle&s;s the Condition of our Allies abroad do then require our imme|diate a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</Q></P>
<P>Hereupon he commanded the Lord Chan|cellor to Prorogue the Parliament to the 15th of <HI>April.</HI></P>
<P>In the mean time Articles of high Mi&s;de|meanor were offer'd by way of Complaint to the King and Council again&s;t the Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Scroggs,</HI> by <HI>Oates,</HI> and <HI>Bed|loe,</HI> who had formerly declar'd them&s;elves unwilling to give any Evidence again&s;t any Papi&s;ts, or concerning the late Popi&s;h Con|&s;piracy in any Court where the &s;aid Chief Ju&s;tice &s;hould fit as Judge. But the Pro|&s;ecution of this Affair &s;oon fell, and the Cau&s;e never came to be heard, further than the Chief Ju&s;tices An&s;wer.</P>
<P>In the beginning of <HI>Hillary Term,</HI> Sir <HI>Tho|mas Ga&s;coigne,</HI> a <HI>York-&s;hire</HI> Knight of 85 years
<PB N="65" REF="41"> of age, was Arraigned at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter Hall,</HI> upon an Informa|tion of High Trea&s;on in con&s;piring the Death of the King, and the Subver&s;ion of the Government. He was afterwards brought to his Tryal at the &s;ame Bar; the Jury were all <HI>York-&s;hire</HI> Gentlemen, the Foreman, Sir <HI>Thomas Hod&s;on;</HI> The chief Evidence again&s;t him one <HI>Balron,</HI> who had formerly been Baily of his Colepits, and one <HI>Mowbray,</HI> who had al&s;o be|longed to his Family; but their Te&s;timo|ny, it &s;eems, not being of that Weight or credibility with the Jury as &s;ome ex|pected, they brought in their Verdict Not Guilty; whereupon the Pri&s;oner was im|mediately di&s;charged.</P>
<P>We are now arrived at the end of the 31&s;t year of His Maje&s;ties Reign, a year ob&s;ervable for many Revolutions, th&ocirc; all concluding peaceably and well, through the Mercy of God, and the Wi&s;dom of our Superiours, the factious Rabble having been never more ready for Combu&s;tion, &s;ince the late Wars of Cur&s;ed Memory.</P>
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<HEAD>Anno 32 <HI>Car. 2. Anno Dom.</HI> 1680.</HEAD>
<P>THE Conclu&s;ion of the la&s;t Year left his Royal Highne&s;s in <HI>Scotland,</HI> but the beginning of this mu&s;t be remarkable for his return to <HI>England;</HI> which healing Action in the entrance, will, I hope, as a good Omen, progno&s;ticate Peace and Happine&s;s to the King and Kingdom, du|ring the re&s;t of this Thirty &s;econd Year of His Maje&s;ty's Reign.</P>
<P>On the 31 of <HI>January,</HI> the Duke ac|quainted the Lords of the Privy Council at <HI>Edinburg,</HI> <Q>That he had received a Letter from the King, calling him very &s;peedily to Court; That though he did very chear|fully obey His Maje&s;ty's Commands, and went with much joy to attend Him, yet he could not part from their Lord&s;hips &s;o &s;oon without a great deal of Reluctan|cy
<PB N="67" REF="42"> and Trouble, having both at his re|ception, and during the &s;hort time of his abode there, met with all po&s;&s;ible de|mon&s;tration of civility and kindne&s;s, both from the Nobility, Gentry, and from the Repre&s;entatives of the &s;everal Bodies of the Nation, particularly from the Coun|cil, of which he had &s;o ju&s;t a re&s;entment, that he could not in all his life forget them, and &s;hould not fail upon all occa|&s;ions to meet their great kindne&s;s and affection &s;hewn him, with all the &s;ervice he was capable to do them; That he would acquaint His Maje&s;ty that He had in <HI>Scot|land</HI> a brave and loyal Nobility and Gen|try, a regular Privy Council, and the Ju|dicatures filled with able Per&s;ons well af|fected to His Maje&s;ty's Service and Inte|re&s;t; That he had ob&s;erved the di&s;affected Party were nothing &s;o con&s;iderable as their Friends in <HI>England</HI> &s;tudied indu&s;tri|ou&s;ly to repre&s;ent them to be. He then recommended to the Council the &s;etling of the Differences between &s;everal Gentlemen of the <HI>Highlands,</HI> whom he had always ob&s;erved to be firm to His Maje&s;ty's Intere&s;t.</Q> The Lord Chancellor, in the name of the Council, acknowledged the great happine&s;s they had had in hi
<PB N="68" REF="43"> Pre&s;ence, Conduct, and Advice, and decla|red how much devoted they all were to the Service of His Maje&s;ty and his Royal Highne&s;s; and that they could not expre&s;s the great grief they had to part &s;o &s;oon with him, to who&s;e Council and Pre&s;ence they owe &s;o many Advantages.</P>
<P>After this the Duke, Duche&s;s, and all their Retinue, began their Voyage by Sea for <HI>London,</HI> where he arrived at the Court Privy Stairs on the 24th of <HI>February,</HI> about Three in the afternoon, not without all the due &s;igns of Joy and Welcome. There ar|rived at the &s;ame time from the Privy Council of <HI>Scotland,</HI> a Letter full of Loyal Expre&s;&s;ions to the Kings Service, with abundance of Recommendation and Pro|te&s;tations for the Duke's Intere&s;t. Two days after his arrival, his Royal Highne&s;s was attended by the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, Recorder, and Common Council of the City of <HI>London;</HI> at which time the Recorder having in all their names Congratulated his &s;afe arrival, they all ki&s;t the Hands both of the Duke and Du|che&s;s.</P>
<P>On the 11th of <HI>February,</HI> His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to declare in Council, that He had granted His Secretary <HI>Coventry</HI> leave
<PB N="69" REF="43"> to re&s;ign his Place of Secretary of State; That His intention was to continue him however of His Council; And that He had made choice of Sir <HI>Lionel Jenkins</HI> to &s;ucceed him in the Place of Secretary, who was accordingly Sworn of His Privy Coun|cil that day, and took his place at the Board.</P>
<P>Before the end of this <HI>Hillary</HI> Term, the Court of <HI>Kings Bench</HI> produced &s;everal re|markable pa&s;&s;ages relating to the publick. For be&s;ides the Tryal and Acquittal of Sir <HI>Thomas Ga&s;coin</HI> (of which before) on the 9th of <HI>February, Thomas Whitfield, John Smallbones,</HI> and <HI>William Laud,</HI> having been formerly indicted for a Ryot, in tearing a Petition which was &s;ome time &s;ince carri|ed about to get Sub&s;criptions to it con|cerning the &s;itting of the Parliament, be|ing now tryed for the &s;ame at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar, they were found Not guilty of the Ryot, and onely Mr. <HI>Whitfield</HI> guilty of tearing the Petition; but what offence that action did amount to, was not at that time declared by the Court.</P>
<P>About the &s;ame time &s;everal Book&s;ellers were puni&s;ht for publi&s;hing Seditious and Scandalous Libels; but above all, the Sen|tence again&s;t <HI>Benjamin Harris,</HI> the Publi&s;her
<PB N="70" REF="44"> of the <HI>Weekly Dome&s;tick Intelligence,</HI> is mo&s;t ob&s;ervable, who having been Indicted, Tryed, and found Guilty of Vending a Scandalous Libel, called, <HI>An Appeal from the Country to the City,</HI> had Judgment on the la&s;t day of the Term, <Q>To &s;tand in the Pil|lory before the <HI>Old Exchange</HI> on the Tue&s;|day following; Impri&s;onment for One year, Three years Good behaviour, and Fined 500 <HI>l.</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Appeal</HI> to be burnt by the Common Hangman.</Q></P>
<P>On the fifth of <HI>March</HI> His Maje&s;ty was pleas'd to i&s;&s;ue out His Proclamation again&s;t <HI>Highway-men,</HI> promi&s;ing thereby the Summ of 10 <HI>l.</HI> to any one who &s;hould di&s;cover any &s;uch, from the date of the &s;aid Proclamation until the &s;econd of <HI>March</HI> following, which &s;aid Summ was appointed to he paid imme|diately on the Conviction of &s;uch Robber, by the Sherif of the County; and to be al|low'd on His Accounts.</P>
<P>On the ninth of <HI>March</HI> the King i&s;&s;ued out another Proclamation again&s;t &s;uch, who <Q>under a vain pretence of Honor, take up|on them to be the Revengers of their pri|vate Quarrels in Duels and &s;ingle Combat, which ought not to be upon any pretence or provocation what&s;oever, &s;trictly charg|ing and commanding all his loving Subjects
<PB N="71" REF="44"> of what quality &s;oeve, hat they do not, ei|ther by them&s;elves or others, by Me&s;&s;age, Word, Writing, or other ways, Challenge, or cau&s;e to be Challenged, any Per&s;on or Per&s;ons, to fight in Combat or &s;ingle Duel, nor Carry, Accept, or Conceal any &s;uch Challenge or Appointment, nor actually fight any &s;uch Duel, or as a Second or otherwi&s;e accompany or be a&s;&s;i&s;tant there|in; declaring further, That He will not grant His Pardon to any Per&s;on what&s;o|ever, that &s;hall fight or be any way aiding or concerned in &s;uch Duel, where any Per|&s;on &s;hall be &s;lain or dye of his Wounds re|ceived therein, but will leave all &s;uch per|&s;ons to the utmo&s;t rigour and &s;everity of the Laws; And that He will not &s;uffer or endure any per&s;on or per&s;ons to be or remain at Court who &s;hall pre&s;ume to intercede for any per&s;on or per&s;ons offending again&s;t this Pro|clamation, &s;traitly charging and command|ing, by the &s;aid Proclamation, all per&s;ons what&s;oever, who &s;hall receive or know of any Challenge, &s;ent, or delivered, as afore|&s;aid, forthwith to give notice thereof to &s;ome of the Privy Council, or &s;ome Ju|&s;tice of Peace near the place, upon pain of His highe&s;t Di&s;plea&s;ure, and being left to
<PB N="72" REF="45"> the &s;tricte&s;t rigour and &s;everity of the Law.</Q></P>
<P>On the 15th of <HI>April,</HI> being the day to which the Parliament was formerly Pro|rogued, the King then ab&s;ent at <HI>Newmar|ket,</HI> my Lord Chancellor, by Commi&s;&s;ion under the Great Seal, Prorogued it further to the 17th of <HI>May</HI> following, the Duke of <HI>York</HI> being pre&s;ent in the Hou&s;e. On the 17th of <HI>May</HI> it was further Prorogued till the fir&s;t of <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P>And now it was that tho&s;e Counties which had been lately &s;o active in promo|ting Petitions for the &s;itting of the Parlia|ment, began to be a&s;hamed of &s;uch Acti|ons, and to recant. The City of <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter</HI> was the fir&s;t, who&s;e Grand Jury by their publick and formal Act, at their Se&s;|&s;ions after <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> di&s;own'd the &s;aid Action of promoting Petitions, and charged it on certain Factious per&s;ons unknown to them; this, and more to this purpo&s;e, they de&s;ired their Steward, Mr. <HI>Withens</HI> of the <HI>Middle Temple,</HI> to repre&s;ent in their names to His Maje&s;ty, which he did &s;oon after, and was Knighted for his Loyalty by the Name of Sir <HI>Francis Withens.</HI> After this followed the like Addre&s;&s;es from the Coun|ties of <HI>Surry, E&s;&s;ex, Middle&s;ex,</HI> and <HI>Norfolk,</HI>
<PB N="73" REF="45"> which la&s;t mentioned County of <HI>Norfolk,</HI> had this further Acknowledgment in their Me&s;&s;age, <HI>viz. Their humble thanks to His Maje&s;ty for recalling the Duke from</HI> Flanders. To the &s;ame purpo&s;e, ought not to be omit|ted what happened in my Lord <HI>Shandois</HI> his Ca&s;e, who having been elected by the <HI>Turkey</HI> Company of Merchants to go Am|ba&s;&s;ador to <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> and de&s;iring His Maje&s;ty's Approbation, the King was pleas'd to reply, <Q>That he having countenanced and been engaged in the Bu&s;ine&s;s of a Peti|tion about the Parliament (which His Ma|je&s;ty lookt upon as derogatory to His Pre|rogative, and tending to Sedition) He could not think him fit for this Favour.</Q> Hereupon the &s;aid Lord de&s;iring to be cal|led into the Council of Foreign Affairs at <HI>Whitehall, Apr.</HI> 26. did there humbly ac|knowledge to His Maje&s;ty his fault in ha|ving been concerned in the &s;aid Petition, alledging, That he was mi&s;led and drawn in, by being given to under&s;tand that that proceeding was for His Maje&s;ty's Service; but that being &s;ince better informed, he abhorred and di&s;owned all &s;uch Practices, and humbly begg'd His Maje&s;ty's Pardon for what was pa&s;t. After which the King was pleas'd to receive him into His Fa|vour,
<PB N="74" REF="46"> and confirm his Election to the Em|ba&s;&s;ie.</P>
<P>About this time it was, that a fal&s;e and dangerous Rumour flew abroad, and was &s;pread about the Town, concerning a <HI>Black Box</HI> reported to be found, wherein was &s;aid to be contain'd a Writing importing a Marriage or Contract between His Ma|je&s;ty and the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI>'s Mother; which report coming to the King's Ear, He was pleas'd to Summon the Council to meet extraordinarily on the 26th of <HI>April,</HI> in which He declared the &s;aid report to be altogether fal&s;e, and that He thought Him|&s;elf obliged in Honor and Con&s;cience to have the matter throughly examined and &s;earched into; In order whereunto Sir <HI>Gil|bert Gerard</HI> (who was rumour'd to have &s;een &s;ome &s;uch Writing) being called in, was examined in Council (his Royal Highne&s;s, and all the Judges of the Courts at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> being pre&s;ent) touching the truth of what was reported; To which he an&s;wered upon Oath, <Q>That he never had any &s;uch Writing committed to his Cu&s;tody, nor did he know of any &s;uch thing, or had ever &s;een &s;uch Writing.</Q> To all which he al&s;o &s;ub&s;cribed his Name. His Maje&s;ty declaring He re&s;olved to u&s;e all
<PB N="75" REF="46"> means po&s;&s;ibly to find out the Author of this Report. And accordingly a Commit|tee of Council did &s;it for a great while af|terwards to &s;ift into the Bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<P>On the fifth of <HI>May,</HI> all the Judges of <HI>England,</HI> having been demanded their O|pinions, made their Report in Council, and declared for Law, <Q>That His Maje&s;ty may Prohibit the Printing and Publi&s;h|ing of all News-Books and Pamphlets of News what&s;oever not Licen&s;ed by His Ma|je&s;ty's Authority, as manife&s;tly tending to the Breach of the Peace, and Di&s;turbance of the Kingdom:</Q> And accordingly the King i&s;&s;ued out His Proclamation to &s;up|pre&s;s 'em, <HI>May</HI> 12.</P>
<P>On the 11th of <HI>May,</HI> being about the middle of <HI>Ea&s;ter Term,</HI> a Bill of Indict|ment of High Trea&s;on again&s;t the Lady <HI>Powis,</HI> was deliver'd to the Grand Jury of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> who not being &s;atisfy'd with the &s;ufficiency of the Evidence, after a long Examination, brought the Bill in, <HI>Igno|ramus.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;torm of Hail that fell at <HI>London</HI> on the 18th of <HI>May</HI> about eleven of the Clock in the morning, is not to be pa&s;t without Ob&s;ervation; which though it came not very thick, nor continu'd long, yet
<PB N="76" REF="47"> was of &s;uch note, that &s;ome were mea&s;u|red above &s;ix Inches about; I &s;aw many fall bigger than Pigeons Eggs, or ordinary Walnuts, none le&s;s than ones finger end, and hard as Stones, till they had lain a while. Several Rooks in the <HI>Temple Garden</HI> were beaten down from the Trees and killed with this Hail, as &s;o many Shot or Bul|lets.</P>
<P>On Wedne&s;day the 19th of <HI>May, Ri|chard Ta&s;burgh</HI> of <HI>Flixton</HI> in the County of <HI>Suffolk</HI> E&s;q; was Tryed at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar upon an Indictment of High Trea&s;on in Con&s;piring the Death of the King, but upon a long Evidence to little purpo&s;e, was found Not Guilty (the Jury never going from the Bar) and di&s;charg'd.</P>
<P>On Friday the 21 of <HI>May</HI> was brought to the &s;ame Bar, by <HI>Habeas Corpus, William</HI> Vi&s;count <HI>Stafford,</HI> who much complaining of his long Impri&s;onment, was informed by the Court, <Q>That all the Judges had re&s;olved upon mature Con&s;ideration, that he being Impeacht of Trea&s;on in Parliament, he could not be tryed out of Parliament; and for the &s;ame rea&s;on al|&s;o, it was out of the Power of this Court to Bail him; That he, and the other Lords in the Tower were not within the benefit
<PB N="77" REF="47"> of the late Act touching <HI>Habeas Corpus</HI>'s; That the Court was &s;orry they could not relieve him; and that there was no way for him to come to his Tryal but by the &s;itting of the Parliament.</Q></P>
<P>The day following Sir <HI>Henry Tichburne,</HI> the elder <HI>Roper,</HI> and <HI>John Caryl</HI> E&s;q; were Bail'd at the &s;ame Bar, though accu&s;ed of High Trea&s;on; yet in regard there appear|ed but one Witne&s;s again&s;t them (<HI>viz. Oats</HI>) they were di&s;charged of their Con|finement, upon Bail.</P>
<P>On the la&s;t day of the Term, the Lady <HI>Powis,</HI> Sir <HI>Robert Payton,</HI> and one <HI>Beding|field,</HI> were ab&s;olutely di&s;charg'd of all at|tendance. The &s;ame day a Bill of Indict|ment of High Trea&s;on was found and brought in by the Grand Jury of <HI>Middle|&s;ex</HI> again&s;t the Lord <HI>Ca&s;tlemain.</HI></P>
<P>The Nine and twentieth of <HI>May,</HI> being the &s;olemn Anniver&s;ary for the Kings Birth and Re&s;toration, pa&s;t this year with the u&s;ual Church Service, and the Joy of Bells, but without any Bonfires at night, all Bonfires, not only on this, but any other day what&s;oever, having been forbid (by order of the Privy Council, <HI>April</HI> 7.) with|out Licence fir&s;t obtain'd from the Council or other Magi&s;trates: Such Bonfires as of
<PB N="78" REF="48"> late, having been ob&s;erved the occa&s;ions of tumult and dangerous opportunities of Se|dition: This day was al&s;o ob&s;erved at <HI>Edin|burgh</HI> with great &s;olemnity and triumph, Fifty old Men (the Number of His Ma|je&s;ty's Age) attending the Ceremony, each having a Large&s;s of 50 s. The King and the Dukes Healths were publickly drank at the <HI>Market Cro&s;s,</HI> the Conduits running Claret, and abundance of Oran|ges, Lemons, and Sweatmeats thrown a|broad.</P>
<P>About the 10th of <HI>June</HI> arrived ill News from <HI>Tangier,</HI> the <HI>Moors</HI> on the 14th pa&s;t &s;o &s;traitned <HI>Charles</HI> Fort with their Siege, that the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Gari&s;on, being but 180 Men, under Captain <HI>Trelawney,</HI> re&s;olved to quit it as de&s;perate, and fight through the Enemy, to the Town of <HI>Tangier;</HI> ac|cordingly they laid a Mine to blow it up after their departure, and pa&s;&s;ing through the Enemies Works in the night (which Pa&s;&s;age they found more difficult than ex|pected) the whole Army of the <HI>Moors</HI> were alarmed and came in upon them, kill'd neer 150, cut the Captain all to pieces, about 38 men e&s;caping through. <HI>Henrietta</HI> Fort being al&s;o at the &s;ame time lo&s;t to the Enemy.</P>
<PB N="79" REF="48">
<P>On the the fir&s;t day of <HI>Trinity Term,</HI> Mrs. <HI>Celier</HI> was tryed for High Trea&s;on, at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar, the Indictment run in the u&s;ual form as again&s;t the re&s;t of the Plotters; but the chief, (and indeed only) Evidence again&s;t her, <HI>Thomas Dangerfield,</HI> being proved by Records then produced, &s;o great and infamous a Criminal, his Te|&s;timony was refu&s;ed by the Court to be admitted, and chiefly in regard he &s;tood Outlaw'd of Felony, and Felony not being expre&s;t in his Pardon, &s;he was therefore found Not Guilty; and <HI>Dangerfield</HI> him|&s;elf committed to cu&s;tody, till he could find Bail to Rever&s;e the Outlawry, to An|&s;wer the Felony, and for his good Beha|viour; But within a few days after the &s;aid <HI>Dangerfield</HI> producing a <HI>Newgate</HI> Pardon, whereby all Felonies were Pardoned, and his name being found therein, he was di&s;|charg'd.</P>
<P>And now it was that His Maje&s;ty, in pur&s;uance to what He had done in <HI>April,</HI> and to remove all pretences of the di&s;af|fected, in the Point of Succe&s;&s;ion, publi&s;ht his Declaration, Prote&s;ting on the Word of a King, and the Faith of a Chri&s;tian, That He was never Married to Mrs. <HI>Bar low</HI> alias
<PB N="80" REF="49"> <HI>Waters,</HI> the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI>'s Mother, nor to any other Woman, be&s;ides the now Queen. Which Declaration was on the 15th of <HI>June</HI> in this <HI>Trinity</HI> Term, Regi|&s;tred on Record in the High Court of <HI>Chancery,</HI> all the great Lords of the Privy Council who were pre&s;ent when His Ma|je&s;ty Declared and Signed the &s;ame, at|te&s;ting the Action upon their Corporal Oaths in open Court. The Lord Chan|cellor declaring at the &s;ame time, <Q>That this Declaration is not inrolled here to receive any augmentation of repute or force from this Court, for it cannot receive more than it hath already, but only to be pre|&s;erved here as in a Repo&s;itory or Regi&s;try; and he doubts not but it will al&s;o find a more Noble Regi&s;try than this, that is, the Hearts of all the Loyal Subjects of the Nation.</Q></P>
<P>Other notable pa&s;&s;ages are to be Ob&s;er|ved this Term: On the 22d of <HI>June,</HI> the Lord <HI>A&s;ton</HI> was brought to the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Bar in Order to his Tryal, but the Attorney-General not being ready with the Kings Evidence, the Tryal was put off to the <HI>Fryday</HI> following, on which Day the Court did not proceed to the Tryal for the &s;ame rea&s;on, and the Lord <HI>A&s;ton</HI>
<PB N="81" REF="49"> was Bail'd the next Day, to appear the fir&s;t Day of next Term. On the 23d of the &s;ame Month, the Lord <HI>Ca&s;tlemain</HI> was Tryed for High Trea&s;on; the Evidence again&s;t him <HI>Oates,</HI> and <HI>Dangerfield;</HI> the la&s;t of which tho' admitted to be Sworn, yet finding no credit with the Court and Ju|ry on the account of the Infamy of his many Crimes, the Verdict was brought in Not Guilty, and the Pri&s;oner Di&s;charged. And this was becau&s;e the <HI>Stat.</HI> 13 of this King, requires two Lawful and credible Witne&s;&s;es in Ca&s;es of Trea&s;on, and <HI>Dan|gerfield</HI> being not e&s;teem'd &s;uch, there re|main'd only one Witne&s;s, <HI>viz. Oates.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Saturday</HI> the 26th of <HI>June,</HI> being four Days before the Term ended, the Grand Jury of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> came to the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Bar, and by their Foreman, <HI>Charles Hum|phrevile</HI> E&s;q; pre&s;ented to the Bench a Petition Sub&s;cribed by 21 of them, and de&s;ired my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice to pre&s;ent it to the King, for the &s;itting of the Par|liament; but the Court refu&s;ing to Act in it, received it not. And the &s;aid Jury were at the &s;ame time Di&s;charged from further attendance. It is &s;aid, that they had at that time &s;ome Bills and Pre&s;ent|ments before them again&s;t &s;everal Per&s;ons
<PB N="82" REF="50"> for being Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, in Order to their Conviction, all which they would have found and pre&s;ented in few Hours time, had they not been Di&s;charged; among the re&s;t a Bill again&s;t the Duke of <HI>York</HI> brought into the &s;aid Jury, and Promoted, and in &s;ome &s;ort, atte&s;ted by &s;everal Lords and Members of Parliament, <HI>viz. Hunting|ton, Shaftsbury, Gray</HI> of <HI>Wark, Brandon, Ru&s;&s;el, Candi&s;h,</HI> Sir <HI>Gilbert Gerrard,</HI> Sir <HI>Ed|ward Hungerford,</HI> Sir <HI>Scroop How,</HI> Sir <HI>Wil|liam Cooper,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Wharton, John Tren|chard</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Thomas Thynn</HI> E&s;q; and <HI>Willi|am Fore&s;ter</HI> E&s;q; And note that the Pro|ceedings of the Petition above&s;aid were di&s;owned by another Grand Jury of <HI>Mid|dle&s;ex,</HI> who the &s;ame Day, came in, and pre&s;ented the Court with a Paper Sub|&s;cribed by them to that purpo&s;e, de|&s;iring the Court to take particular notice of their di&s;&s;ent to the irregular Proceedings of the other Jury.</P>
<P>On the la&s;t Day of the Term &s;everal who &s;hould have been Tryed about the' Plot, were (in regard the Attorny-Ge|neral had not Evidence &s;ufficient again&s;t them,) &s;ome Bail'd, and &s;ome ab&s;olutely Di&s;charged, by vertue of the late Act of
<PB N="83" REF="50"> <HI>Habeas Corpus. 31. Car.</HI> 2. Among the fir&s;t were Sir <HI>James Symonds, Edward Peters,</HI> and <HI>Needham,</HI> with &s;everal others who were re|puted Prie&s;ts; Mr. <HI>Howard,</HI> Mr. <HI>Heveningham,</HI> both the <HI>Ropers,</HI> Sir <HI>John Gage,</HI> and young <HI>Langhorn,</HI> were ab&s;olutely Di&s;charged from their long Impri&s;onments, &s;ome having lain by it for 23 Months, and the rea&s;on of their Di&s;charge was becau&s;e Mr. Attor|ney-General declar'd that he had but one Witne&s;s again&s;t them. Sir <HI>Anthony Dean</HI> and Mr. <HI>Pepys,</HI> were al&s;o at the &s;ame time ab&s;olutely Di&s;charg'd from further attend|ance. But one <HI>Holcroft</HI> a Conventicle Preacher having removed him&s;elf by <HI>Ha|beas Corpus</HI> from <HI>Cambridge</HI> Goal, and ap|pearing to be a very Seditious and dan|gerous Per&s;on, and to be in Pri&s;on not only by Warrant of the Ju&s;tices on the <HI>Oxford</HI> Act, but al&s;o on 17. <HI>Car.</HI> a <HI>Capias Excommunicatum,</HI> was 2. c. 2. remanded.</P>
<P>On the fir&s;t of <HI>July,</HI> being the Day to which the Parliament had been formerly Prorogued, it was further Prorogued, by Commi&s;&s;ion, to the 22d of the &s;ame Month, the Duke of <HI>York</HI> being pre&s;ent in the
<PB N="84" REF="51"> Hou&s;e, and from thence to the 23d of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bethel</HI> (who had been one of the Com|mittee of Safety in the late Times) and <HI>Corni&s;h,</HI> two reputed Phanaticks, had been cho&s;en Sheriffs of <HI>London</HI> la&s;t <HI>Mid&s;ummer</HI> for the Year in&s;uing, but appearing &s;ince uncapable to bear Office in any Corpora|tion by the <HI>Stat. 13. Car. 2. Stat.</HI> 2. c. 1. a New Election was appointed to be at <HI>Guildhall</HI> on the 14th of <HI>July,</HI> again&s;t which time they capacitated them&s;elves by re|ceiving the Sacrament and abjuring the Covenant, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> As appointed by the &s;aid Act, and &s;tood for a New Choice; again&s;t whom two other Competitors appear'd, <HI>Fox,</HI> and <HI>Nichol&s;on;</HI> in &s;o much that they came to a Poll (a thing unu&s;ual) during which time a Rlotous A&s;&s;ault was Commit|ted on the Per&s;on of Sir <HI>Simon Lewis,</HI> one of the then Sheriffs, by <HI>Osborn</HI> a Draper and o|thers of <HI>Bethels</HI> Party; which being Re|pre&s;ented to the King the &s;ame Night, by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs in Per&s;on, he Ordered a Commi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer</HI> to be I&s;&s;ued out for Tryal of the &s;aid Riot. They continued Polling till <HI>Monday</HI> following, and from thence by Ad|journment to <HI>Thur&s;day,</HI> The King in the
<PB N="85" REF="51"> mean time being entertain'd at Supper at Sheriff <HI>Lewis</HI>'s Hou&s;e <HI>Tue&s;day July</HI> 20. On the 29th of <HI>July</HI> (and not before) the Votes were declar'd at a Common Hall then A&s;&s;embled at the <HI>Guild-Hall,</HI> to &s;tand thus</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Bethel,</HI> 2276.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Corni&s;h,</HI> 2483.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Box,</HI> 1428.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nichol&s;on,</HI> 1230.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Whereupon the two fir&s;t were declared lawfully Cho&s;en with great Acclamations. At the &s;ame time an Addre&s;s was Pre&s;ent|ed to the Lord Mayor by <HI>Thomas Papil|lon</HI> E&s;q; in the Name of the Commons of the City, thereby Di&s;owning all tumultu|ous and di&s;orderly Proceedings in their la&s;t A&s;&s;embly, other than what might be the effect of Emulation for His Maje&s;ties Service, and the Pre&s;ervation of their own ju&s;t Rights, de&s;iring his Lord&s;hip to Re|pre&s;ent the &s;ame to the King, and that he would in their Names humbly be&s;eech His Maje&s;ty that the Parliament might &s;peedi|ly A&s;&s;emble, To which the Lord Mayor An&s;wered in a &s;hort Speech, <Q>That he had not mi&s;repre&s;ented any thing touching their la&s;t A&s;&s;embly to His Maje&s;ty; That
<PB N="86" REF="52"> their Addre&s;s touching the Parliament might have been &s;pared, in regard the King had been plea&s;ed not long &s;ince to declare to him, and a&s;&s;ure him, That this Parliament &s;hould &s;it in <HI>November</HI> next; however that he would not be wanting with all humility to lay the whole matter before him.</Q></P>
<P>On the 23d of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> being the Day to which the Parliament had been Pro|rogued, the Hou&s;es met, and were further Prorogued to the 21&s;t of <HI>October</HI> follow|ing; The King promi&s;ing that they &s;hould &s;it then, and Publi&s;hing His Proclamation to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Several Remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages happen'd this long Vacation. As, the Death of the Earl of <HI>O&s;&s;ery,</HI> into who&s;e Place of Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, Succeeded the Earl of <HI>Fever&s;ham.</HI> The Death of <HI>Bedloe,</HI> one of the Evidence concerning the Plot. Al&s;o the Prince Palatine Elde&s;t Son of the Elector, being here in <HI>England</HI> on a Vi&s;it to the King, he received News of the Death of his Father in <HI>Germany,</HI> du|ring his ab&s;ence.</P>
<P>It was al&s;o during this Vacation that <HI>Elizabeth Celier</HI> before mention'd Publi&s;ht a Narrative of her Tryal and Sufferings;
<PB N="87" REF="52"> in which were &s;ome words like Reproach to the Government, for which &s;he was Tryed, found Guilty of Publi&s;hing a Libel, Fined 1000 <HI>l.</HI> to &s;tand Thrice in the Pillo|ry, Good Behavior during Life, and her Book to be Burnt by the Hangman.</P>
<P>And now comes on the long expected 21&s;t Day of <HI>October,</HI> and with it the fir&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of this Parliament. The Day be|fore which The Duke and Duche&s;s of <HI>York</HI> began their Journey for <HI>Scotland,</HI> by Sea; The King Accompanying them as low as <HI>Woolwich,</HI> and there Dineing with them on Shipboard. The &s;ame Day many Mem|bers of both Hou&s;es, to the Number of 200 as reported, met in a kind of Caball at Dinner at the Sun Tavern behind the <HI>Exchange.</HI> On the 21&s;t the Kings Speech contain'd, <Q>That He had during this long Prorogation made Alliances with <HI>Hol|land</HI> and <HI>Spain;</HI> That He de&s;ired Mony of them for the Relief of <HI>Tangier</HI> which had already exhau&s;ted His Pur&s;e; That He would not have them meddle with the Succe&s;&s;ion of the Crown in the Right Line, but proceed in the Di&s;covery of the Plot, and to the Tryals of the Lords, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q> Af|ter this (the Chancellor making no &s;et Speech) the Commons return'd to their
<PB N="88" REF="53"> own Hou&s;e, and unanimou&s;ly cho&s;e for their Speaker, Mr. <HI>Williams</HI> of <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> Recorder of <HI>Che&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>One of the fir&s;t things the Hou&s;e of Commons did, was to Purge their own Hou&s;e of certain Members; Sir <HI>Robert Can,</HI> a Burge&s;s for <HI>Bri&s;tol</HI> for having &s;aid there is no Plot, but a Presbyterian Plot: Sir <HI>Francis Withins</HI> head Steward of <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter,</HI> and one of the Burge&s;&s;es for the &s;ame, for having Declar'd him&s;elf abhorrent to the late Tumultous Petitions for the Par|liaments &s;itting. The fir&s;t of the&s;e was ex|pell'd the Hou&s;e, and Committed to the <HI>Tower;</HI> the other only expell'd; But both Order'd to receive their Cen&s;ure on their Knees. And &s;everal other Members were de|clar'd Guilty of the la&s;t mention'd Offence.</P>
<P>On the 30th of <HI>October,</HI> the King Pub|li&s;ht a Proclamation, promi&s;ing His Par|don to all that within two Months &s;hall come in and make any further Di&s;covery of the Plot. And this was done upon an Addre&s;s of Parliament.</P>
<P>In the mean time the Commons not &s;a|tisfied in puni&s;hing their own Members who had appear'd again&s;t Petitioning for the Parliaments fitting, they take notice of others who were without their Walls,
<PB N="89" REF="53"> and among the re&s;t Sir <HI>George Jeffreys</HI> be|comes the Object of their Di&s;plea&s;ure; who being Recorder of <HI>London,</HI> the Kings Ser|jeant at Law, and Chief Ju&s;tice of <HI>Che&s;ter,</HI> is for the pretended Crime above &s;pecifi|ed, on the 13th of <HI>November</HI> Voted a Betrayer of the Rights of the Subject, and an Addre&s;s Order'd to be made to His Maje&s;ty to remove him from all Publick Offices. At the &s;ame time it was Order'd, that a Committee enquire into all &s;uch Per|&s;ons as have been advi&s;ing or promoting the late Proclamation, &s;tiled a Proclamation a|gain&s;t <HI>Tumultuous Petitioning.</HI></P>
<P>But about the &s;ame time a matter of much greater concern was thus mannaged. On the 11th of <HI>November,</HI> was pa&s;t in the Hou&s;e of Commons a Bill entituled, <Q>An Act for &s;ecuring the Prote&s;tant Religion, by di&s;|abling <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York</HI> to Inherit the Imperial Crown of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Territories thereunto belonging.</Q> Which Bill was on the 15th carryed up to the Lords Hou&s;e by my Lord <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> at|tended by almo&s;t all the Commons, who gave a Hum at the Delivery. They being departed it was read once, and being put to the Vote, whether it &s;hould be read a &s;econd time, it was carryed in the <HI>Affirma|tive,</HI>
<PB N="90" REF="54"> by two Voices. On the &s;econd read|ing it was debated till 11 a Clock at night (the King being pre&s;ent all the while) and then thrown out of the Hou&s;e by a Majori|ty of about 30 Votes; in which Majori|ty were all the Bi&s;hops then pre&s;ent, which were 14.</P>
<P>Several other matters were tran&s;acted in Parliament, of great moment, but in regard the Daily Votes and tran&s;actions of the Hou&s;e of Commons, was by Order of that Hou&s;e, daily made publick in Print, I re|fer the Reader for Particulars to what has been publi&s;ht, and in the&s;e Papers take no|tice only of &s;ome of the mo&s;t material Pa&s;|&s;ages.</P>
<P>Among which, it may be ob&s;erved that Mr. <HI>Seymour</HI> the late Speaker, and for who&s;e Election the Commons in the late &s;hort Par|liament did very much &s;tickle, was now ordered to be Impeacht; and th&ograve; not at the &s;ame time, yet not long after, Impeachments were Voted and drawn up again&s;t Sir <HI>Francis North</HI> Lord Chief Ju&s;tice of the <HI>Common Pleas,</HI> Sir <HI>William Scroggs</HI> Lord Chief Ju|&s;tice of the <HI>Kings Bench,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Jones</HI> &s;econd Ju&s;tice of the &s;aid Court, and Sir <HI>Richard We&s;ton</HI> Pui&s;ny Baron of the <HI>Exche|quer,</HI>
<PB N="91" REF="54"> for &s;everal pretended Mi&s;demean|ors.</P>
<P>In the mean time <HI>William</HI> Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Stafford,</HI> one of the 5 Popi&s;h Lords in the <HI>Tower,</HI> was brought to his Tryal on an Im|peachment of High Trea&s;on. The Tryal began in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter Hall</HI> on <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 30th of <HI>November,</HI> being the next day af|ter the Term ended. Which Impeach|ment, and Evidence upon the &s;ame, was managed by a Committee of the Commons. The Tryal la&s;ted for a Whole Week: and The Evidence again&s;t him were <HI>Oates, Tur|berville,</HI> and <HI>Dugdale;</HI> Of the Lords who &s;ate upon the Tryal (the Lord Chancel|lor being Lord High Steward) 31 pro|nounced him not Guilty, and 55 Guilty. And accordingly Judgment was pronoun|ced again&s;t him on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 7th of <HI>December.</HI> But his Execution was re&s;pited till <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 29th of <HI>December,</HI> on which day he was Beheaded on <HI>Tower-Hill,</HI> prote&s;ting with his la&s;t breath his Innocency as to tho&s;e Crimes of which he &s;tood Con|demn'd.</P>
<P>It is ob&s;ervable, that <HI>Bethel,</HI> and <HI>Corni&s;h,</HI> being then Sheriffs of <HI>London,</HI> and having received the Kings Writ for the Execution of the &s;aid Vi&s;count <HI>Stafford</HI> by &s;evering
<PB N="92" REF="55"> his Head from his Body, (according to the con&s;tant Cour&s;e in &s;uch Ca&s;es) had not|with&s;tanding the Confidence to demur upon it, whether he ought to be Beheaded, or according to the Common Judgment, hang'd and quartered; and for this they apply'd them&s;elves to the two Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, To which the mo&s;t Honourable Hou&s;e of Lords An&s;wered roundly, That the Kings Writ ought to be obey'd: But the Commons by way of Conce&s;&s;ion, <HI>viz.</HI> That they were <HI>Content</HI> that the &s;aid Lord be Executed by &s;evering his Head from his Body only.</P>
<P>During the&s;e Tran&s;actions a Comet with a mo&s;t Prodigious Stream of light appear'd in the <HI>We&s;t;</HI> the Star from which the Blaze proceeded was but &s;mall, and when fir&s;t di&s;|cover'd, appeared not much above the <HI>Ho|rizon;</HI> but every night afterwards it appear'd higher and higher in the beginning of the Night, and con&s;equently &s;etting later and later, its Lu&s;tre and magnitude al&s;o de|caying.</P>
<P>I am neither able nor willing to make any Remarques on the Nature of the&s;e <HI>Meteors;</HI> Or to &s;ay how far &s;uch noxious Exhalations may incline Mankind to Mi&s;|chief: And lea&s;t of all will I pretend to Interpret whether this Finger of the Al|mighty
<PB N="93" REF="55"> is thus &s;een in the Heavens to Point out Good or Bad Events. All that I de|&s;ign is innocently to ob&s;erve, and Remem|ber the Naked Matters of Fact as they hap|pen, without di&s;guize or Comment.</P>
<P>Two things more very ob&s;ervable hap|pen'd before Chri&s;tma&s;s. One was, An Addre&s;s of the Hou&s;e of Commons pre&s;ented to His Maje&s;ty on the 21&s;t of <HI>December,</HI> in an&s;wer to His Speech of the 15th, where|in he demanded, once more, Supplies of Mony for the defence of <HI>Tangier.</HI> The effect of the &s;aid Addre&s;s, was to deny (in as mode&s;t Terms as could be) all Supplies of Mony for that purpo&s;e; unle&s;s His Ma|je&s;ty would be pleas'd to pa&s;s a Bill to Se|clude the Duke of <HI>York</HI> from Inheriting to the Crown, and to enable the Prote&s;tants of this Nation to A&s;&s;ociate them&s;elves for the &s;ecurity of the Prote&s;tant Religion, the Defence of the King and Kingdoms.</P>
<P>The other was a mo&s;t Remarkable Speech Spoke in the Hou&s;e of Lords by the Earl of <HI>Shaftesbury,</HI> the King being then pre&s;ent, (at lea&s;t wi&s;e &s;o pretended and Printed) which being full of Audacious and undecent Expre&s;&s;ions, was by order of the Lords Hou&s;e, burnt by the Common Hangman at the <HI>Exchange,</HI> and in the <HI>Pallace yard.</HI></P>
<PB N="94" REF="56">
<P>On the 4th of <HI>January</HI> His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to &s;end His Me&s;&s;age to the Hou&s;e of Commons, in An&s;wer to their Addre&s;s of <HI>December,</HI> 21. abovemention'd, in which Me&s;&s;age He let them know, <Q>That he had received their Addre&s;s with all the di&s;po|&s;ition they could wi&s;h to comply with their rea&s;onable De&s;ires; but upon peru&s;al of it, he was &s;orry to &s;ee their thoughts &s;o wholly fixt on the Bill of Exclu&s;ion, as to deter|mine that all other remedies for the Sup|pre&s;&s;ing of Popery will be ineffectual; That His Maje&s;ty is confirm'd in His opinion again&s;t That Bill by the Judgment of the Hou&s;e of Lords who rejected it; That He thinks there remains nothing more for Him to &s;ay in An&s;wer to the fore&s;aid Addre&s;s, then to recommend to this Hou&s;e, the Con|&s;ideration of all other means for the pre|&s;ervation of the Prote&s;tant Religion, to which they have no rea&s;on to doubt His concurrence, when&s;oever they &s;hall be pre&s;ented to Him in a Parliamentary way; And in conclu&s;ion, again, He urges them to the pre&s;ervation of <HI>Tangeir.</HI></Q></P>
<P>On the <HI>Friday</HI> following, being the 7th of <HI>January,</HI> the Hou&s;e entred upon the Con|&s;ideration of the &s;aid Me&s;&s;age, and re&s;olve, as the opinion of the Hou&s;e, <Q>That there is
<PB N="95" REF="56"> no &s;ecurity or &s;afety for the Prote&s;tant Religion, the Kings Life, or the Well con|&s;tituted and e&s;tabli&s;ht Government of this Kingdom, without pa&s;&s;ing a Bill for di&s;abling <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York</HI> to inherit the Imperial Crown of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Dominions and Territories there|unto belonging; and that to rely upon any other means or remedies without &s;uch a Bill, is not only in&s;ufficient, but dangerous: That till &s;uch a Bill be pa&s;t this Hou&s;e cannot give any Supply to His Maje&s;ty without danger to His Maje&s;ties per&s;on, Extream hazard of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and unfaithfullne&s;s to tho&s;e by whom this Hou&s;e is intru&s;ted: That all per&s;ons who advi&s;ed His Maje&s;ty in His la&s;t Me&s;&s;age to this Hou&s;e to in&s;i&s;t upon an opinion again&s;t the Bill for Excluding the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> have given Pernicious Council to His Maje&s;ty, and are Promoters of Popery, and Enemies to the King and Kingdom:</Q> And as &s;uch they name <HI>George</HI> Earl of <HI>Hallifax, Henry</HI> Marqui&s;s of <HI>Worce&s;ter, Henry</HI> Earl of <HI>Clarendon,</HI> again&s;t which, as al&s;o again&s;t <HI>Lewis</HI> Earl of <HI>Fever&s;ham,</HI> and <HI>Laurence Hide</HI> E&s;q; they Vote an Addre&s;s to be pre&s;ented to His Maje&s;ty to remove them from all Offices of Honour and Profit, and
<PB N="96" REF="57"> from His Maje&s;ties Councils and Pre&s;ence for ever. They further Vote and Re&s;olve, the &s;ame day, <Q>That who&s;oever &s;hall heraf|ter Lend or cau&s;e to be Lent by way of advance any Mony upon the Branches of the Kings Revenue ari&s;ing by Cu&s;toms, Exci&s;e, or Hearth Mony, &s;hall be adjudg'd to hinder the &s;itting of Parliaments, and &s;hall be re&s;pon&s;ible for the &s;ame in Parliament.</Q></P>
<P>On the <HI>Monday</HI> following, being the 10th of <HI>Jan.</HI> the King was pleas'd to determin this Se&s;&s;ion, by Proroguing the Parliament to the 20th day of <HI>Jan.</HI> then next follow|ing; at the &s;ame time pa&s;&s;ing only Two Pub|lick Bills, <HI>viz.</HI> One about <HI>Iri&s;h Cattel,</HI> and One about <HI>Burying in Woollen.</HI> The Hou&s;e of Commons were, it &s;eems, aware of this Prorogation, and therefore that very morning the fir&s;t thing they did, after they were &s;ate, and before the U&s;her of the Black Rod came in, they Re&s;olved, <Q>That who|&s;oever advi&s;ed His Maje&s;ty to Prorogue this Parliament, to any other purpo&s;e then in Order to the pa&s;&s;ing of a Bill for the Exclu&s;ion of <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York,</HI> is a Betrayer of the King, the Prote&s;tant Religion, and of the Kingdom of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> a Promoter of the <HI>French</HI> Intere&s;t, and a Pen&s;ioner to <HI>France.</HI></Q></P>
<PB N="97" REF="57">
<P>On the 13th of <HI>Jan.</HI> a Court of Com|mon Council, being A&s;&s;embled in <HI>London,</HI> they ordered to be drawn up, and Pre&s;ented to the King a Petition, &s;etting forth, <Q>That whereas, the Parliament had convicted one of the 5 Popi&s;h Lords in the <HI>Tower,</HI> and were about to convict the other 4 of High Trea&s;on; That they had Impeacht the Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Scroggs,</HI> and were about to impeach other Judges, and all this in order to the pre&s;ervation of His Maje&s;ties Life, the Prote&s;tant Religion, and Government; That they were much &s;urprized to &s;ee the Parliament Prorogued in the hight of their bui&s;ine&s;s; That their only hopes were that this was done only in order to bring &s;uch Affairs about again as were nece&s;&s;ary to the Settling the Na|tion: They therefore pray'd that His Ma|je&s;ty would be pleas'd to let the Parlia|ment &s;it at the day appointed, and &s;o to continue till they had effected the great Affairs before them.</Q> To this effect were the words of their Petition, which was further ordered to be delivered that night, or as &s;oon as may be, by the Lord Mayor, attended with the new Recorder <HI>George Treby</HI> E&s;q; and certain Members of the Court of Aldermen, and Common Council.</P>
<PB N="98" REF="58">
<P>But before the &s;aid 20th day of <HI>Jan.</HI> arrived, the King was plea&s;ed by his Pro|clamation bearing date at <HI>Whitehall, Jan.</HI> 18. to di&s;&s;olve this Parliament, and inti|mate His Royal plea&s;ure and intentions to call an other to &s;it on the 21&s;t of <HI>March</HI> fol|lowing, at <HI>Oxford.</HI></P>
<P>Not long after this, <HI>viz.</HI> on the 25th of <HI>Jan.</HI> the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and other Lords Pre&s;ented to the King a Petition, &s;etting forth, <Q>That whereas the Nation and His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on were in imminent danger from the Papi&s;ts, unto which no &s;top or re|medy could be provided unle&s;s by a Parlia|ment; That &s;everal Parliaments being call'd and a&s;&s;embled, they were Prorogued and di&s;&s;olved before any &s;ufficient order could be taken therein, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> That His Maje&s;ty had been prevailed with to call another at <HI>Oxford,</HI> where neither Lords or Commons can be in &s;afety, but will be dayly expo&s;ed to the Swords of the Pa|pi&s;ts and their adherents, the liberty of &s;peaking thereby de&s;troyed, and the vali|dity of their Acts and proceedings left di&s;putable, the &s;traightne&s;s of the place unfit for &s;uch a Concour&s;e of per&s;ons as now follows every Parliament, and the Witne&s;&s;es which are nece&s;&s;ary to give Evi|dence
<PB N="99" REF="58"> upon the Commons Impeachment unable to bear the charges of &s;uch a Journey, and unwilling to tru&s;t them&s;elves under the Protection of a Parliament, that is it &s;elf evidently under the Power of Guards and Soldiers; They therefore pray that the Parliament may &s;it at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></Q> This was &s;ub&s;cribed, <HI>Monmouth, Kent, Hunt|ington, Bedford, Salisbury, Clare, Stamford, E&s;&s;ex, Shaftsbury, Mordant, Evers, P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">get, Grey, Herbert, Howard, Delamer.</HI></P>
<P>About the &s;ame time the King was plea&s;ed to di&s;place my Lord <HI>Sunderland</HI> from the Office of Secretary of State, and to confer the &s;aid Office on my Lord <HI>Conway:</HI> and &s;everal other Members of the Privy Coun|cil were then al&s;o alter'd.</P>
<P>And thus concluded the 32d year of His Maje&s;ties Reign, ob&s;ervable for divers matters, but above all for the Tran&s;actions of the Lords in Parliament, who by their Prudent and Judicious proceedings on the 15th of <HI>November,</HI> defeated the indu&s;trious malice of the Dukes Enemies, by rejecting the Bill pa&s;t by the Commons for &s;ecluding him from the Succe&s;&s;ion of the&s;e Crowns, when they &s;hould happen to fall to him by the old known Laws of Inheritance. Which action being of &s;uch mighty Con&s;e|quence
<PB N="100" REF="59"> to the Peace, or perpetual Trouble of this Nation, and the Que&s;tion being &s;o happily &s;ettled, it being al&s;o a leading Pre|&s;ident to many other healing actions which have happen'd &s;ince, let me once take leave to break the conci&s;e Method which I at the beginning of the&s;e Notes propounded, and remember in this place &s;ome Ver&s;es writ immediately upon that Tran&s;action, by a true Lover of his King and the Royal Fa|mily.</P>
<LG>
<L>Glorious, and great <HI>Indeed! The&s;e the&s;e</HI> are they,</L>
<L>Who <HI>truly, thus,</HI> their <HI>noble</HI> Blood di&s;play;</L>
<L>And by the <HI>Soul</HI> which they <HI>this day</HI> have &s;hewn,</L>
<L>Make all the Lawrels of their <HI>Line</HI> their <HI>own.</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e are <HI>old Englands</HI> Peers, hearts that de&s;pi&s;e</L>
<L>To be <HI>o'reawd</HI> by Number and by Noi&s;e;</L>
<L>No, they're too <HI>Brave,</HI> too <HI>Loyal,</HI> and too <HI>Wi&s;e.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus</HI> did their mighty <HI>Ance&s;tors</HI> combine</L>
<L>When Force <HI>mi&s;plac'd</HI> the Crown from the right <HI>Line:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus</HI> they &s;tood firm to <HI>Truth,</HI> and never fail'd</L>
<L>Tell the <HI>unblemi&s;ht Ro&s;e</HI> of <HI>York</HI> prevail'd.</L>
<L>And mu&s;t <HI>again</HI> that &s;ad <HI>Di&s;pute</HI> appear?</L>
<L>No, we are much too <HI>young</HI> for <HI>Plato</HI>'s <HI>year:</HI></L>
<PB N="101" REF="59">
<L>Our Renown'd <HI>Peerage</HI> will not have it &s;o:</L>
<L>The <HI>Demi-Gods,</HI> and <HI>Heroes</HI> Thunder <HI>NO.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What <HI>remote noi&s;e</HI> is this? Hark how it grows;</L>
<L><HI>Neerer</HI> and <HI>lowder</HI> now the <HI>Torrent</HI> flows.</L>
<L>All <HI>Europe</HI> &s;houts aloud: <HI>Spring-Tydes</HI> of <HI>Joy</HI></L>
<L>Salute the <HI>Britti&s;h &s;le:</HI> Hark how they cry,</L>
<L>Fame now is <HI>yours,</HI> more from one Law <HI>refus'd</HI></L>
<L>Than half the Numerous Laws ye ever us'd.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="account">
<PB N="102" REF="60">
<HEAD>Anno 33. <HI>Car. 2. Anno Dom.</HI> 1681.</HEAD>
<P>IN the beginning of this Year, City and Country were bu&s;y in the Election of Members to &s;erve in the next Parliament to be holden at <HI>Oxford.</HI> For the mo&s;t part the Old Members were cho&s;en again. I &s;hall give a &s;hort account of what hap|pen'd at <HI>London</HI> on this occa&s;ion, by which a gue&s;s or e&s;timate may be made of the Tran&s;actions el&s;ewhere. The Election for that City was perform'd at <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> on <HI>Fryday</HI> the 4th of <HI>February,</HI> and the choice which the Common Hall fixt upon, were Sir <HI>Robert Clayton,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Player, Tho|mas Pilkinton,</HI> and <HI>William Love</HI> E&s;quires; To which four, as &s;oon as the Election was
<PB N="103" REF="60"> over, a Paper was pre&s;ented in the Name of the Citizens of <HI>London</HI> then A&s;&s;embled in Common Hall, containing a return of <Q>their mo&s;t hearty thanks for their faithful and unweary'd endeavors, in the two la&s;t Parliaments, to &s;earch into and Di&s;cover the depth of the Plot, to pre&s;erve His Maje|&s;ties Royal Per&s;on, the Prote&s;tant Religi|on, and the well E&s;tabli&s;ht Government of this Realm, to &s;ecure the meeting and &s;it|ting of frequent Parliaments, to a&s;&s;ert our undoubted Rights of Petitioning, and to puni&s;h &s;uch who would have betray'd tho&s;e Rights, to promote the long wi&s;ht for U|nion of His Maje&s;ties Prote&s;tant Subjects, to Repeal the 35. <HI>El.</HI> and the Corpora|tion Act, and more e&s;pecially for their endeavors in promoting the Bill of Ex|clu&s;ion of <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York:</HI> In fine they conclude, that being confidently a&s;|&s;ured that they (the &s;aid Members for the City) will never con&s;ent to the granting any Mony-&s;upply, till they have effectual|ly &s;ecured us again&s;t Popery and Arbitra|ry Power, they re&s;olve, by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance to &s;tand by their &s;aid Members, with their Lives and Fortunes.</Q></P>
<P>After this another Paper was pre&s;ented from the &s;aid Citizens, to the two Sheriffs, re|que&s;ting
<PB N="104" REF="61"> them, in the Name of all the &s;aid Citizens then A&s;&s;embled in Common Hall to return their grateful acknowledg|ment to the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and by him to the re&s;t of the Lords, who pre&s;ented the late Petition and Advice to His Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>In like manner, were the former Mem|bers of Parliament, again Cho&s;en, in mo&s;t places; and in many, &s;uch Papers of Ad|dre&s;s pre&s;ented to them, in their re&s;pective Countries, as had been done by the Com|munalty of <HI>London</HI> to their Members. Al&s;o, (contrary to the Old Cu&s;tomes of the Mem|bers Treating the Country where they &s;tood) now the Country in mo&s;t places Treated them, or at lea&s;t every Man bore his own Charges.</P>
<P>About a Week before the Se&s;&s;ion, the King left <HI>London,</HI> and removed to <HI>Oxford,</HI> appointing certain Companies of Foot, and Troops of Hor&s;e to keep Gari&s;on in the <HI>Meu&s;e,</HI> during His ab&s;ence. Many Mem|bers of the Hou&s;e of Commons, e&s;pecial|ly tho&s;e of <HI>London,</HI> went to <HI>Oxford</HI> ac|company'd, or attended, with the Cerimo|nious Cavalcade of a numerous Train of Friends.</P>
<P>On the 14th of <HI>March,</HI> The King and Queen enter'd <HI>Oxford,</HI> Received and Pre|&s;ented
<PB N="105" REF="61"> by the Mayor and Body of that City at the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI>-Gate, and from thence attended with Acclamations and all &s;ort of Demon&s;trations of Joy to <HI>Chri&s;t-Church;</HI> The next Day, the Body of the Univer&s;ity waited on Their Maje&s;ties, and received the Honour to ki&s;s Their Hands, pre&s;ent|ing at the &s;ame time to the King a large <HI>Oxford</HI> Bible, and to the Queen, the Cuts belonging to the Hi&s;tory and Antiquities of the Univer&s;ity, both Richly Bound.</P>
<P>The 21&s;t of <HI>March</HI> being now arrived, and the Members of both Hou&s;es of Par|liament A&s;&s;embled at <HI>Oxford,</HI> according to the Kings Writs of Summons, the Lords &s;ate in the Gallery at the Schools, and the Commons in the Convocation Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ties Speech, at the opening of the Se&s;&s;ions contained, <Q>That the unwar|rantable Proceedings of the la&s;t Hou&s;e of Commons were the occa&s;ion of the Di&s;|&s;olution of the la&s;t Parliament; That as he will never u&s;e Arbitrary Government, him&s;elf, &s;o He is re&s;olved never to &s;uffer it in others; That who&s;oever &s;hall calmly con&s;ider the Proceedings in the la&s;t Par|liament, may perhaps, more wonder at His Patience &s;o long, than that He grew weary at la&s;t; That it is as much His In|tere&s;t
<PB N="106" REF="62"> and care as theirs to pre&s;erve the Liberty of the Subject, becau&s;e the Crown can never be &s;afe when that is in Danger; that neither Liberty nor Property can &s;ub&s;i&s;t long when the ju&s;t Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown are Invaded, or the Honour of the Government brought low and into di&s;reputation; that He hath call'd this Parliament &s;o &s;oon to &s;hew that no Irregularities in Parlia|ments &s;hall make him out of Love with them; That the Ju&s;t care they ought to have of Religion ought not to be &s;o managed and improved into unnece&s;&s;a|ry fears as to be made a Pretence for Changing the Foundation of the Govern|ment; that He hopes the Example of the ill &s;ucce&s;s of former heats will di&s;po&s;e them to a better Temper; that they would not lay &s;o much weight upon any one Expedient again&s;t Popery, as to deter|mine all other are ineffectual; that they ought to remember that without the &s;afe|ty and Dignity of the Monarchy, neither Religion nor Property can be pre&s;erved; that He cannot depart from what he had formerly &s;o often declar'd touching the Succe&s;&s;ion, but to remove all rea&s;onable fears that may ari&s;e from the po&s;&s;ibility
<PB N="107" REF="62"> of a Popi&s;h Succe&s;&s;ors coming to the Crown, if means can be found out; that in &s;uch a Ca&s;e the Admini&s;tration of the Govern|ment may remain in Prote&s;tant Hands, he &s;hall be ready to hearken to any &s;uch Expedient by which the Religion may be pre&s;erved and the Monarchy not de&s;troy'd; that therefore they would provide for Re|ligion and Government together with regard to one another, becau&s;e they &s;up|port one another, and that they would make the known E&s;tabli&s;ht Laws of the Land, the Rules and Mea&s;ures of all their Votes, becau&s;e He is re&s;olved they &s;hall be His.</Q></P>
<P>After this Speech the Commons return'd to their Hou&s;e, and Cho&s;e for their Speaker, <HI>William Williams</HI> E&s;q; who had managed that Office in the la&s;t Parliament. Who being the next Day pre&s;ented, made a Speech to the King and <HI>claim'd</HI> by humble Addre&s;s (as his Words were) <HI>The Antient Rights of the Commons.</HI></P>
<P>Nothing of extraordinary note pa&s;&s;ed till <HI>Saturday</HI> the 26th of <HI>March,</HI> on which Day it was that the Hou&s;e of Commons were informed that the Lords had refu&s;ed to proceed upon the Impeachment of the Com|mons again&s;t <HI>Edward Fitz-Harris</HI> for High
<PB N="108" REF="63"> Trea&s;on, but had directed that he &s;hould be proceeded again&s;t at the Common Law; Hereupon they Vote, <Q>That this refu&s;al of the Lords to proceed in Parliament upon &s;uch Impeachment, is a Denial of Ju&s;tice, and a Violation of the Con&s;titutions of Parliaments, an Ob&s;truction to the further Di&s;covery of the Popi&s;h Plot, and of great Danger to His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on and the Prote&s;tant Religion: And further, they re&s;olve, That for any inferior Court to pro|ceed again&s;t <HI>Edward Fitz-Harris,</HI> or any other Per&s;on lying under an Impeachment in Parliament for the &s;ame Crimes for which he or they &s;tand Impeached, is an high breach of the Priviledge of Parliament.</Q></P>
<P>On the <HI>Monday</HI> following the Bill again&s;t the Duke of <HI>York</HI> was Read the fir&s;t time, and Order'd a &s;econd Reading: When on a &s;uddain the King &s;ends for the Com|mons up to the Hou&s;e of Lords, and tells them, <Q>That He perceived heats betwixt the Lords and them, and therefore He had Order'd the Chancellor to Di&s;&s;olve the pre&s;ent Parliament,</Q> which he accordingly did immediately.</P>
<P>The &s;ame Day the King left <HI>Oxford,</HI> and came to <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> that Night; the next Morning by Eight a Clock, to <HI>Whitehall.</HI></P>
<PB N="109" REF="63">
<P>Not long after this His Maje&s;ty was pleas'd to Publi&s;h in Print a Declaration, to all his Loving Subjects, in which He &s;et forth the Rea&s;ons which induced Him to Di&s;&s;olve His two la&s;t Parliaments, His rea&s;onable de&s;ires which He had propo&s;ed to 'em, with their unwarrantable proceed|ings in return; declaring however that He is not yet out of Love with Parliaments, but that He will frequently advi&s;e with them as His great Council, which He hopes ere long to find in a better Temper; much to this purpo&s;e were the Contents of that Declaration, which by His Maje&s;ties Order in Council was appointed to be Read in all Churches and Chappels.</P>
<P>About the &s;ame time all the Factious News, call'd <HI>Dome&s;tick Intelligence,</HI> and Weekly Printed for <HI>Francis Smith, Ben. Harris,</HI> and <HI>Langly Curtis,</HI> were by Order of Coun|cil (as reported) put down and &s;ilen|ced: And the abovemention'd <HI>Francis Smith</HI> a Notorious Libel Printer, was Com|mitted to <HI>Newgate.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>Ea&s;ter Term</HI> this year, Sir <HI>Francis Pemberton</HI> became Lord Chief Ju&s;tice of the <HI>Kings Bench,</HI> in the Room of Sir <HI>Wil|liam
<PB N="110" REF="64"> Scroggs</HI> who had obtain'd a Writ of Ea&s;e. Great Expectation there was to &s;ee what the Court would do in the Ca&s;e of <HI>Edward Fitz-Harris,</HI> and &s;ome He&s;itation the Grand-Jury of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> (of which one Mr. <HI>Godfrey,</HI> Brother and Heir to the late Sir <HI>Edmundbury Godfrey,</HI> was the Fore|man) made to receive the Bill of Indict|ment again&s;t him, in regard he had been Impeacht by the Hou&s;e of Commons, till they were inform'd and &s;atisfied by the Court that all the Judges of <HI>England</HI> had the Day before met and re&s;olved upon that que&s;tion, <HI>Nemine Contrad cente,</HI> that they might lawfully proceed in the Tryal not|with&s;tanding the aforemention'd Votes of the Hou&s;e of Commons; after this the &s;aid Jury found the Bill, and <HI>Fitz-Harris</HI> was Arraign'd at the Bar on the la&s;t Day of <HI>April;</HI> he was thrice bid to hold up his Hand, in&s;i&s;ting upon the Impeachment in Parliament, but at la&s;t he held up his Hand and heard his Indictment Read; which was for High Trea&s;on, expre&s;t in a certain Writing call'd <HI>The True Engli&s;hman,</HI> full of mo&s;t horrid Expre&s;&s;ions again&s;t the King, as if he were a Con&s;pirator in the Plot, and exciting the Nation to ri&s;e as one Man again&s;t him, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> To which In|dictment
<PB N="111" REF="64"> he put into Court a Dilatory Plea, again&s;t the Juri&s;diction, alledging that he being Impeacht by the Commons in Parliament, he cannot be Tryed here, but this Plea not being under Councils Hand was refu&s;ed to be received; howe|ver the Court gave him time to con&s;ider whether he would &s;tand by &s;uch a Plea, in regard it might be fatal unto him in ca&s;e it &s;hould be over-Ruled; and a&s;&s;ign'd him for Council Sir <HI>Francis Winnington,</HI> Mr. <HI>Williams,</HI> Mr. <HI>Pollexfen,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Wal|lop</HI> (as he de&s;ired) to argue the &s;aid Point of Judicature next <HI>Wedne&s;day,</HI> if he per&s;i&s;ted in &s;uch Plea. On the &s;aid <HI>Wed|ne&s;day</HI> being the 4th of <HI>May</HI> the Pri&s;oner was again brought to the Bar, attended with His Council; at which time the Kings Attorney Sir <HI>Robert Sawyer,</HI> enter'd a De|murrer to the Pri&s;oners Plea, and in&s;i&s;ted chiefly on the manife&s;t defect of form, in regard the Plea run that the &s;aid <HI>Fitz-Harris</HI> was Impeacht at the late Parliament, at <HI>Oxford, de Alta proditione,</HI> but does not &s;ay of what &s;ort or manner of Trea&s;on, nor &s;ets forth the Impeachment at large, which a Plea ought to do, when it is to the Juri&s;diction. After this the Council of the Pri&s;oner joyn'd in Demurrer, but upon
<PB N="112" REF="65"> their earne&s;t motion, (tho' oppo&s;ed by the Attorney General) time was given them to next <HI>Saturday</HI> Morning to maintain the &s;aid Plea by Argument, if they can. At which time it was argued largely by <HI>Williams, Winnington, Wallop,</HI> and <HI>Pollexfen</HI> for the Pri&s;oner, and by the Attorney General, the Sollicitor, Serjeant <HI>Jeoffreys</HI> and Sir <HI>Francis Withens</HI> for the King; the Kings Council, and al&s;o the Court, declar|ing that they medled not at all with the Priviledge of the Hou&s;e of Commons or Juri&s;diction of the Lords in Parliament, which was not in the Point (tho in truth the Council for the Pri&s;oner would fain have put that upon 'em) but only as to the form of the Plea. After all the debate, which la&s;ted from, 8 till after 12 that Day, the Lord Chief Ju&s;tice declar'd that the Court would take a convenient time to con&s;ider before they gave their Judgment.</P>
<P>On the <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> following being the 11th of <HI>May,</HI> the Pri&s;oner being again brought to the Bar by the Lieutenant of the <HI>Tower,</HI> my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice, in the Name of the whole Court gave Judgment, and declar'd, That he and his Brothers had Con&s;ider'd of the Plea, that they had al&s;o con&s;ulted with others of the Judges, and
<PB N="113" REF="65"> that him&s;elf, Ju&s;tice <HI>Jones,</HI> and Ju&s;tice <HI>Ray|mond</HI> were of opinion that the Plea was in|&s;ufficient (<HI>Dolbin</HI> doubting) the Plea was therefore over ruled; and the Pri&s;oner ordered to Plead over; and accordingly he pleaded not Guilty, and alledging that a material Evi|dence on his part was now in <HI>Holland,</HI> His Tryal was put off till the fir&s;t <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> next Term, which is the 9th of <HI>June.</HI></P>
<P>On the 14 of <HI>May,</HI> being the la&s;t day but one of the <HI>Term,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Danby</HI> was brought by <HI>Habeas Corpus</HI> from the <HI>Tower</HI> to the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar, where by his Council he urged hard that he might be Bail'd, but the Court being un&s;atisfied that they had &s;ufficient Juri&s;diction in his Ca&s;e (he being committed by Authority of Par|liament, and, as it &s;eemd, not being within the benefit of the <HI>Habeas Corpus</HI> Act) he was remanded back to the <HI>Tower.</HI></P>
<P>On the la&s;t day of <HI>Ea&s;ter Term, Fitz-Har|ris</HI> was again brought into the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Court, to give Evidence to the Grand-Jury upon a Bill of Indictment again&s;t <HI>De Puy</HI> (who had been Groom of the Robes to the Duke) The Jury de&s;ired that the Evi|dence might be given to them privately,
<PB N="114" REF="66"> But the Court overruled that, and <HI>Fitz-Harris</HI> declared upon Oath (Publickly in Court) a great deal of Scandalous &s;tuff, not fit to be mentioned, relating to the Death of Sir <HI>Edmondbury Godfrey,</HI> which the &s;aid <HI>De Puy</HI> had told him a little be|fore the Death of the &s;aid Knight; but all this <HI>Fitz-Harris</HI> &s;poke from <HI>De Puy</HI>'s mouth: Of his own knowledge he &s;aid only this, That the Earl of <HI>Danby</HI> coming down the great Stairs at <HI>Win&s;or,</HI> he heard him &s;ay, that now he would make <HI>Godfreys</HI> heart ake: To this he added, that <HI>De Puy</HI> told him pre&s;ently after the Murder, that the Earl had &s;ent <HI>Godfrey</HI> on an arrant from which he would never return. Upon this Evidence the Earl of <HI>Danby</HI>'s name was in&s;erted into the Bill of Indictment a|gain&s;t <HI>De Puy</HI> as acce&s;&s;ary to the &s;aid Mur|der of Sir <HI>Edmondbury Godfrey,</HI> and the Bill was accordingly found again&s;t them both.</P>
<P>At the &s;ame time it was that the &s;aid Jury pre&s;ented the Court with a Petition, that they would intercede with the King for the &s;itting and Continuance of a new Parlia|ment.</P>
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<P>During all this <HI>Ea&s;ter Term,</HI> and many Months after, many Loyal Addre&s;&s;es flowed to the King from all parts of <HI>England,</HI> full of Congratulations, and nothing of that factious &s;train, which had almo&s;t rendred the very word Petitioning to be &s;candalous; among the&s;e Loyal Addre&s;&s;es, that from <HI>Nor|wich</HI> ran highe&s;t for the Kings Prerogative, and a little reflecting on the exorbitances of the late Commons; but as if this were a notorious Scandal to the Parliament, the Grand-Jury of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> above mentioned pre&s;ented the &s;ame as a publick Libel; but this did not di&s;courage the Loyal party who &s;till continued their Addre&s;&s;es. It would be tedious to name all, and how kindly they were received by the King, who never &s;uffered tho&s;e who brought 'em, to depart without &s;ome gracious mark of His Fa|vor. Not &s;o to tho&s;e who took upon them in their Petitions to direct His Maje&s;ty a|bout the Calling and continuance of Par|liaments. To this Purpo&s;e its ob&s;ervable that the City of <HI>London</HI> were divided in the&s;e matters, Part of them (being mo&s;t of the Court of Aldermen, and &s;ome of the Common-Council) had drawn up a Loyal Addre&s;s, in like manner as the whole
<PB N="116" REF="67"> Burrough of <HI>Southwark</HI> had done; this they Pre&s;ented to the King at <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> by the Hands of Sir <HI>William Turner</HI> and Sir <HI>John Moor,</HI> with abundance of Counte|nance and Favour: But another Party ha|ving compo&s;ed a far different Petition both for form and matter, and it being al&s;o the &s;ame Day carried to <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> by the Lord Mayor, one Alderman, and the Recorder, they were refu&s;ed to be admit|ted to the Kings Pre&s;ence, but orderd to attend at the Council at <HI>Hampton</HI> Court the <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> following, where they recei|ved a Repremend from my Lord Chancel|lor <HI>Finch</HI> (now newly created Earl of <HI>Not|tingham.</HI>) At the &s;ame time it was that the Leiutenancy of the City of <HI>London</HI> attend|ed with their Loyal Offers of their Lives and Fortunes; among the&s;e was Sir <HI>George Jeffryes</HI> the Kings Serjeant, and late Recor|der of <HI>London,</HI> with his Sword on, as one of the &s;aid Leiutenancy.</P>
<P>On the 8th of <HI>June,</HI> in <HI>Trinity Term,</HI> was Dr. <HI>Oliver Plunket</HI> Tryed for High Trea&s;on at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar; the Evidence a|gain&s;t him were all profe&s;t Papi&s;ts, (as &s;aid) and came out of <HI>Ireland:</HI> the chief matters Sworn again&s;t him, <Q>That
<PB N="117" REF="67"> he was made Primate of <HI>Ireland</HI> by the <HI>Pope</HI> at the King of <HI>France</HI>'s recommen|dation, that upon that account he having ingaged to do that King all the Service he could, he had actually Levied among his Popi&s;h Clergy great Sums of Mony, there|with to introduce the <HI>French</HI> Dominion into that Kingdom, and extirminate the Prote&s;tants.</Q> Upon this Evidence he was found Guilty.</P>
<P>The next day being <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 9th of <HI>June, Fitz-Harris</HI> was Tryed at the &s;ame Bar for High Trea&s;on, the chief Evidence again&s;t him were, <HI>Everard,</HI> and Sir <HI>William Waller;</HI> for the Pri&s;oner appear'd <HI>Oats</HI> and <HI>Colonel Man&s;ell,</HI> and told a long &s;tory, Scandalous in it &s;elf, but of no weight; My Lord Chief Ju&s;tice therefore (according to the Evidence which was home and clear again&s;t the Pri&s;oner) directed the Jury to find for the King, which being al&s;o the di|rections of the other 3 Judges, the Jury after above an half hours con&s;ultation, brought in their Verdict, Guilty.</P>
<P>Pre&s;ently after this Tryal Mrs. <HI>Fitz-Har|ris</HI> the Pri&s;oners wife, and her Maid, accu&s;ed my Lord <HI>Howard</HI> of <HI>E&s;crick</HI> of the Contri|vance of that Trea&s;onable Libel of which her Husband was Convicted; upon which
<PB N="118" REF="68"> accu&s;ation the &s;aid Lord was committed to the <HI>Tower,</HI> on <HI>Sunday</HI> morning, <HI>June</HI> 12.</P>
<P>On the <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> following, being the 15th of <HI>June, Plunket,</HI> and <HI>Fitz-Harris,</HI> were &s;everally brought to the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar, and received Judgment of Condem|nation as in ca&s;es of High Trea&s;on.</P>
<P>About this time it was that the King in Council was pleas'd to order a Parliament to be call'd in <HI>Scotland</HI> on the 28th of <HI>Ju|ly,</HI></P>
<P>I mu&s;t not forget, that on the la&s;t day of <HI>Trin. Term,</HI> a Bill of Indictment again&s;t the Lord <HI>Howard</HI> being delivered in to the Grand-Jury of <HI>Edmunton</HI> Hundred, then &s;erving in the <HI>Kings Bench,</HI> for the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> Sworn to by Mrs. <HI>Fitz-Harris,</HI> and her Maid and &s;ome others, and the &s;aid Jury not thinking the Evidence &s;ufficient, they were about to indor&s;e it with an <HI>Ignoramus;</HI> when Mr. <HI>Ward,</HI> one of the Clerks of the Crown Office attend|ing upon them, withdraw'd it from before 'em. Of this action they complain'd to the Court, but being told that the Attorney General might &s;top the&s;e proceedings as he &s;aw occa&s;ion, or words to that purpo&s;e, with which the Jury being nothing &s;atisfied, they went immediately and preferr'd a Bill
<PB N="119" REF="68"> of Indictment again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Ward</HI> to the July of <HI>O&s;wel&s;ton</HI> Hundred, then attending, for this mi&s;demanor; which Bill the &s;aid la&s;t mention'd Jury found.</P>
<P>On <HI>Friday</HI> the Fir&s;t of <HI>July,</HI> Dr. <HI>Oliver Plunket</HI> the Popi&s;h Primat of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and <HI>Edward Fitz-Harris,</HI> were both Executed at <HI>Tyburn</HI> for the &s;everal Trea&s;ons of which they were &s;everally Tryed and Condemn'd the la&s;t Term. <HI>Plunket</HI> in a long Speech declar'd his Innocency, forgave his Ene|mies, and Pray'd for the King, Queen, and Duke of <HI>York.</HI> But <HI>Fitz Harris</HI> &s;aid very little, the &s;ub&s;tance of what he had to &s;ay or di&s;cover, being by him delivered to Dr. <HI>Hawkins</HI> Mini&s;ter of the <HI>Tower,</HI> for his Wife; and therefore it is to be pre&s;umed that he Dyed no Papi&s;t, in regard he had the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of a Prote&s;tant Mini&s;ter, which all Papi&s;ts have been known to re|refu&s;e on tho&s;e occa&s;ions. His Di&s;covery is &s;ince Printed.</P>
<P>About this time &s;everal Factious People were committed to the <HI>Tower</HI> for High Trea|&s;on, namely, <HI>Rou&s;e, Hayns, White,</HI> and one <HI>Colledge,</HI> commonly call'd the <HI>Prote&s;tant Joy|ner.</HI> But above all let it be remember'd, that on <HI>July,</HI> 2. the Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury</HI> commonly call'd, by way of Excellency,
<PB N="120" REF="69"> <HI>The Prote&s;tant Earl,</HI> was before the Council at <HI>Whit hall</HI> (to which the King came from <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> that day on purpo&s;e) accu&s;ed of High Trea&s;on, and for the &s;ame, committed to the <HI>Tower;</HI> and his Papers &s;eized.</P>
<P>At the Se&s;&s;ions at the <HI>Old Bayly,</HI> which followed &s;oon after, the Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury</HI> and the Lord <HI>Howard</HI> moved to be Bail'd, but they were an&s;wered by the unanimous opinion of the Judges, That it was not in the Power of that Court to Bail out of the <HI>Tower.</HI></P>
<P>At the &s;ame Se&s;&s;ions it was that a Bill of Indictment of High Trea&s;on, was delivered to the Grand-Jury of <HI>London,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Col|ledge,</HI> commonly call'd <HI>the Prote&s;tant Joy|ner,</HI> but the Jury (made for the purpo&s;e as is &s;uppo&s;ed) appear'd &s;o partial and Ar|bitrary in their proceeding, that, notwith|&s;tanding the home Oaths of &s;everal Wit|ne&s;&s;es, among which were <HI>Dugdale</HI> and <HI>Smith,</HI> two of the great Evidence again&s;t the Plotters, and another who had been a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, they brought in the Bill, <HI>Ignoramus.</HI> But ano|ther Bill being exhibited &s;oon after, to the Grand-Jury at the A&s;&s;izes at <HI>Oxford,</HI> again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Colledge</HI> (part of the Trea&s;onable Words and Matters being Tran&s;acted there,)
<PB N="121" REF="69"> the Bill was found there, on the &s;ame Evi|dence which was rejected at the <HI>Old Bay|ly.</HI> And in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> he was Tryed, Condemn'd and Executed at <HI>Oxford.</HI></P>
<P>The Weather that happen'd this Summer was memorable for an extraordinary Drought all over <HI>England,</HI> and al&s;o beyond Sea, all <HI>April, May,</HI> and <HI>June,</HI> and &s;ome part of <HI>July;</HI> but about the beginning of <HI>July</HI> fell &s;uch plentiful Rains, that the Ground, which in all parts was Scorcht up like the High-Ways almo&s;t to a miracle became as fre&s;h and Green again, as on <HI>May</HI> Day: Day&s;eys and the other Flowers of the Spring appear'd again towards the End of <HI>July;</HI> With Gra&s;s in abundance in &s;ome places, and expectations of a &s;econd Hay-time to re|compence the want of the fir&s;t.</P>
<P>On the 28 of <HI>July</HI> the Parliament &s;ate in <HI>Scotland,</HI> where his Royal Highne&s;s Pre&s;ided as His Maje&s;ties High Commi&s;&s;ioner. At the opening of the Se&s;&s;ions the Kings Letter was read, &s;etting forth, That He had call'd them at that time to advi&s;e of &s;uch things as may truly conduce to the &s;ecurity and Intere&s;t of that Kingdom, and as an eminent Expre&s;&s;ion of His Favor, He hath named his mo&s;t dear and mo&s;t intirely beloved Brother <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>Albany</HI> and <HI>York</HI> to be His
<PB N="122" REF="70"> Commi&s;&s;ioner there, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> After this the Duke made a Speech, <Q>Declaring the high e&s;teem he had of the great Honor and hap|pine&s;s the King had been plea&s;ed to do him in making choice of him to &s;erve as his Commi&s;&s;ioner in that his antient Kingdom, &s;ince it &s;hews to all the World the Good|ne&s;s the King hath for him and Confidence he hath in him, and capacitates him, not only to &s;erve His Maje&s;ty as becomes a Loy|al Subject, but al&s;o to evince the real con|cern he hath for the good of that King|dom and his readine&s;s to &s;erve it, and im|prove its Intere&s;t; That His Maje&s;ty had commanded him to a&s;&s;ure them, that he will inviolably maintain and protect the Pro|te&s;tant Religion as by Law E&s;tabli&s;ht in that Kingdom, and the Church Govern|ment by Arch-Bi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, That he will maintain and allow the Proper|ties and Rights of His Subjects according to the due cour&s;e of Law, and that he doth expect that they will not be &s;hort of the Loyalty of their Ance&s;tors in vigo|rou&s;ly a&s;&s;erting and cleering His Royal Prerogative, and in declaring the Rights of His Crown in its natural and Legal cour&s;e of De&s;cent. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q></P>
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<P>After this the Duke entertained the whole Parliament at a Splendid and Roy|al Fea&s;t; The Lords by them&s;elves, and the Commons by them&s;elves at &s;everal Ta|bles.</P>
<P>On the Fir&s;t of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> The Parliament returned a mo&s;t Loyal and Dutiful An&s;wer to His Maje&s;ties Letter, which An&s;wer being &s;o mighty full of true Loyalty, it would be an Injury to abridge it in this place; every Line, every word carrying the true and emphatical marks of gratitude and Duty: I therefore refer to the Print. Al&s;o in pur&s;uance and Confirmation of their Loyal Affections, on the 14th of <HI>Aug.</HI> the Parliament pa&s;t a Bill entituled <Q>An Act ac|knowledging and a&s;&s;erting the Right of Succe&s;&s;ion to the Imperial Crown of <HI>Scot|land:</HI> By which they recognize and declare, That the &s;aid Crown is by Inherent Right, and the nature of the Monarchy, as well as by the fundamental and unalterable Law of the Realm, tran&s;mitted and devolved by Lineal Succe&s;&s;ion, according to proxi|mity of Blood, and that no difference in Religion, no Law nor Act of Parliament can alter or divert the Right of Succe&s;&s;ion and Lineal de&s;cent of the Crown to the neere&s;t and Lawful Heirs, and therefore
<PB N="124" REF="71"> they declare it High Trea&s;on, by Writing Speaking or any other manner of way to endeavor the alteration, &s;u&s;pen&s;ion or di|ver&s;ion of the Right of Succe&s;&s;ion.</Q></P>
<P>At the &s;ame time they pa&s;t another Act ratifying all former Laws for the &s;ecurity of the Prote&s;tant Religion.</P>
<P>On the 31&s;t of <HI>Augu&s;t, Oates</HI> was by Order of Council expell'd from <HI>Whitehall,</HI> his Sallery taken off, and accu&s;ed of Mi&s;de|meanors.</P>
<P>Great Numbers of Poor <HI>French</HI> Prote|&s;tants, about this time, flockt over out of <HI>France,</HI> to whom our King was &s;o Graci|ous, as by Act of Council to declare His Plea&s;ure, that all His Officers and Magi|&s;trates &s;hould give 'em the &s;ame Counte|nance and Favour with His own Subjects, That He would take 'em into His Protection, That He would grant 'em His Letters of Denization, forthwith upon their reque&s;t, and That He would intercede with the next Parliament to obtain for them an Act of Naturalization. He al&s;o granted very am|ple Letters Patents, for Collecting Monies all over <HI>England</HI> for their Relief, Dated the 10th of <HI>September,</HI> this Year.</P>
<P>On <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Day (being the Cu&s;to|mary Day for the Annual Choice of the
<PB N="125" REF="71"> Lord Mayor of <HI>London</HI>) Sir <HI>John Mooor,</HI> an Addre&s;&s;er, was Cho&s;en into that Office for the Year In&s;uing, tho' with a great and unu&s;ual oppo&s;ition, by the Fanatick Party. The New Sheriffs were Alderman <HI>Pilkinton,</HI> (a City Member in the two la&s;t Parliaments) and one Mr. <HI>Shute,</HI> Which two New Sheriffs being employ'd to invite the King to the Lord Mayors Fea&s;t, The King was Graciou&s;ly pleas'd to accept of the Invitation, and De|clar'd, <HI>That He liked the Me&s;&s;age, but not the Me&s;&s;engers.</HI></P>
<P>This Summer the King was pleas'd to appoint under Him, certain Deputies, or Commi&s;&s;ioners of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Affairs; to whom He delegated His Power to di&s;|po&s;e of all &s;uch Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Preferments which belong to His immediate Patronage. The Names of which Commi&s;&s;ioners were the Arch Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> the Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> the Lord <HI>Radnor,</HI> Lord <HI>Hallifax,</HI> Lord <HI>Hide,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Seymour.</HI> Note by the Common Law, the Lord Chancellor of <HI>England</HI> &s;hall pre&s;ent to all Churches in the Kings Gift which He hath in Right of His Crown, under the value of 20 Marks <HI>per annum. Fitz. h.</HI> N. B. Fol. 35. k.</P>
<P>At the Se&s;&s;ions for the County of <HI>Middle|&s;ex</HI> held at <HI>Hicks-Hall</HI> the Week before
<PB N="126" REF="72"> <HI>Michaelmas Term,</HI> Sir <HI>George Jefferies</HI> (be|ing then Chairman on the Bench) required <HI>Goodenough</HI> the under Sheriff to alter two of the Panel, as the Ju&s;tices may do by the <HI>Stat. 3. H.</HI> 8. ch. 12. Which He refu|&s;ing, the two High Sheriffs were call'd, and not appearing they were Fin'd, each 50 <HI>l.</HI> Notwith&s;tanding that, the Recorder put in a Prote&s;t, that the Sheriffs of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> were never bound to attend or appear in Per&s;on at <HI>Hicks-Hall.</HI> After this the &s;aid Fine being E&s;treated, a Com|mon Council in <HI>London,</HI> Declar'd that they would &s;tand by their Sheriffs and defend them again&s;t any Suit of Law that &s;hall be brought touching this matter, and that at the Charges and Expence of the City.</P>
<P>At the Se&s;&s;ions for <HI>London</HI> held at this time, one <HI>Rou&s;e</HI> being Charged with High Trea&s;on, and a Bill of Indictment Exhibited to the Grand Jury attending for that City, again&s;t Him, They found the Bill <HI>Ignora|mus,</HI> after the &s;ame manner as had been formerly done in the Ca&s;e of <HI>Colledge.</HI></P>
<P>On the 24th of <HI>November,</HI> all the Judges of <HI>England</HI> &s;ate with the Mayor and Alder|men, by &s;pecial Commi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Ter|miner,</HI> at the <HI>Old-Baily,</HI> and the Grand Jury
<PB N="127" REF="72"> being call'd and Sworn, of which Sir <HI>Samuel Barnardi&s;ton</HI> Foreman, a Bill of Indictment of High Trea&s;on was deliver'd to them again&s;t the Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury;</HI> The Evidence were all Examined in open Court, who all Swore very full to the Trea&s;on (two of which Evidence were <HI>Turbervile</HI> and <HI>Smith</HI>) but the Jury return'd this Bill al&s;o <HI>Ignoramus,</HI> upon which the People gave a &s;hout; The Witne&s;&s;es who gave Evidence again&s;t the &s;aid Earl, were a&s;&s;aulted by the Rabble, and in &s;uch Danger of their Lives, that the Sheriffs were nece&s;&s;itated to Guard them at Night as far as the <HI>Savoy,</HI> homewards. Several Bonfires were made that Night in the City, at which &s;everal Riotous Actions were Committed. In particular one Capt. <HI>Griffith</HI> living in <HI>Newgate-&s;treet,</HI> a Capt. of the Trained Bands and a Common Council|man, coming home about 11 at Night, and finding a Bonfire neer his own Door, and endeavouring to oppo&s;e it, was knockt down, wounded in the Head, and in dan|ger of His Life: Others were &s;een about the &s;ame time of Night to march through <HI>Warwick-Lane,</HI> one of which had his Sword drawn, crying no <HI>York,</HI> no Popi&s;h Suc|ce&s;&s;or, and at the &s;ame time crying up a <HI>Monmouth,</HI> a <HI>Shaftsbury,</HI> a <HI>Buckingham;</HI>
<PB N="128" REF="73"> and thus they Proceeded till &s;topt by the Watch at <HI>Ludgate.</HI></P>
<P>On the <HI>28th</HI> of <HI>November,</HI> the la&s;t day of the Term, the Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury,</HI> and Lord <HI>Howard,</HI> pri&s;oners in the Tower, were admitted to Bail in the <HI>Kings Bench,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury</HI> had for his Bail the Lord <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> Sir <HI>William Cooper,</HI> Mr. <HI>Mountigue,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Charlton</HI> Him&s;elf was bound in a Recognizance of 3000 <HI>l.</HI> and the Bail each in 1500 <HI>l.</HI> The Lord <HI>Howard</HI> was al&s;o Bail|ed in the &s;ame manner. By Order of Coun|cil to the Lord Mayor, and from him to the Officers of every Ward and Pari&s;h, all Bon|fires and Bells Ringing were Prohibited that Night.</P>
<P>The Act of Te&s;t which pa&s;t in the Par|liament in <HI>Scotland</HI> the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions, was the occa&s;ion of &s;everal Di&s;contents and E|motions among&s;t the Fanatick Party there. The Act enjoyn'd a certain Oath or Ingage|ment to be taken by all Officers in Church and State, and Graduates in their Univer|&s;ities, to maintain the Form of Govern|ment as now E&s;tabli&s;ht; which Te&s;t tho' explain'd and qualified, was notwith&s;tand|ing &s;o contrary to the &s;en&s;e of the Facti|ous Party in that Kingdom, that &s;everal of their Mini&s;ters refu&s;ed it, and &s;ome of the
<PB N="129" REF="73"> Laity, among whom of greate&s;t note was <HI>Archibald Campbel</HI> Earl of <HI>Argile,</HI> a Man of &s;uch Turbulent behaviour, that he was about this time Impeacht of High Trea&s;on, and found Guilty: But being after his Con|viction kept for &s;ome time a Pri&s;oner at <HI>Edinborough,</HI> he found means to make his E&s;cape (into <HI>England</HI> as &s;ome thought, where he harbour'd unknown) after who&s;e flight his Arms were, with all publick Solemnity, rever&s;t and torn, and &s;uch other marks of di&s;honour denounced again&s;t him, as in &s;uch like Ca&s;es are, by the Cu&s;toms of <HI>Scotland,</HI> due to Traytors.</P>
<P>The Proceedings of the Ju&s;tices of Peace for the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> at their Se&s;&s;ions at <HI>Hick-Hall,</HI> before <HI>Hillary Term,</HI> were of note on diver&s;e accounts; Fir&s;t, They order'd by their publick Act of Se&s;&s;ions dated the 13th of <HI>January,</HI> that whereas the Con&s;tables and Church Wardens, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of every Pari&s;h and Precinct within the &s;aid County, had been enjoyn'd la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions to make a Return the fir&s;t Day of this, of the Names of the Preachers in Conven|ticles, and the mo&s;t con&s;iderable frequent|ers of the &s;ame within their &s;everal Limits, which Order not being obey'd, but con|temn'd by &s;ome, it was therefore by the
<PB N="130" REF="74"> Ju&s;tices then A&s;&s;embled, de&s;ired that the Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> will plea&s;e to di|rect tho&s;e Officers which are under his Ju|ri&s;diction, to u&s;e their utmo&s;t diligence, that all &s;uch Per&s;ons may be Excommunicated who commit crimes de&s;erving that Eccle&s;i|a&s;tical cen&s;ure, and that the &s;aid Excom|munications may be Publi&s;hed in the Pa|ri&s;hes where the Per&s;ons live, that they may be taken notice of, and obvious to the Penalties that belong to Per&s;ons Ex|communicate, <HI>viz.</HI> Not to be admitted for a Witne&s;s, or returned upon Juries, or ca|pable to &s;ue for any Debt. And they further Order'd at the &s;aid Se&s;&s;ions, that the <HI>Stat. 1. El.</HI> and 3. <HI>Jac.</HI> be put in due execution, for the Levying 1 s. <HI>per Sunday</HI> upon &s;uch Per&s;ons who repair not to Di|vine Service and Sermons at their Pari&s;h, or &s;ome other publick Church.</P>
<P>Al&s;o there was another Act of the &s;ame Se&s;&s;ions at <HI>Hicks-Hall,</HI> which bore Date the 18th of <HI>January,</HI> with which the Ju&s;ti|ces of Peace attended upon His Maje&s;ty at <HI>White-Hall</HI> the &s;ame Day, and pre&s;ented the Paper to His Royal Hands. It contain'd, <Q>That they the &s;aid Ju&s;tices, were &s;en&s;ible of their great Honour and happine&s;s in being the fir&s;t who return'd their humble and
<PB N="131" REF="74"> hearty acknowledgment for His mo&s;t Gra|cious Declaration, which being followed by a multitude of Addre&s;&s;es from all Parts of the Kingdom, His Maje&s;ty hath had a full Di&s;covery of His Peoples affections, and that his Enemies were neither &s;o numerous nor formidable as they were by &s;ome appre|hended to be; That now as His Maje&s;ty can have no cau&s;e to fear them, &s;o they the &s;aid Ju&s;tices hope He will never be per&s;waded to tru&s;t them; That they are a&s;hamed that they were not likewi&s;e the fir&s;t in expre&s;&s;ing their Indignation again&s;t that mo&s;t Execrable and Trayterous de&s;ign|ed A&s;&s;ociation, lately Di&s;covered by His Maje&s;ty, which certainly in the Judgment of all good Men may more corrupt the Blood of the wicked Inventers than if they &s;hould be di&s;covered and attainted by Law; That the &s;aid Trea&s;on was not only again&s;t the King but the Monar|chy, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q></P>
<P>To this purpo&s;e were &s;everal other Con|gratulations or Addre&s;&s;es to the King (&s;ome before, &s;ome after this of <HI>Middle&s;ex,) viz.</HI> from <HI>Norwich,</HI> from <HI>Hereford,</HI> from the Lieutenancy of <HI>London, &amp;c.</HI> All which were a Second Edition of Loyalty, or a
<PB N="132" REF="75"> New &s;ort of Addre&s;&s;es circulating from mo&s;t parts of the Nation a Second time.</P>
<P>The Conclu&s;ion of this Year brought forth a Remarkable pa&s;&s;age in the City of <HI>London.</HI> Some unknown, but ba&s;e and malignant hearted Ra&s;cal, had in the Night cut, mangled, and defaced the Duke of <HI>Yorks</HI> Picture, which with the Kings (both Nobly Painted) hung up in <HI>Guild-Hall,</HI> as a &s;ignal Ornament to the City. Soon after which Action, The Lord May|or and Court of Aldermen Publi&s;ht in Print a Declaration, <Q>In which prote&s;ting their deep Re&s;entment of that in&s;olent and vilinous Act (to be abhorr'd by every good and Loyal Subject) and being greatly concern'd and de&s;irous to find out the Author thereof, they therefore unani|mou&s;ly Publi&s;h and declare, That who&s;oe|ver can di&s;cover the Per&s;on who Com|mitted that Fact, the &s;aid Lord Mayor and Aldermen will not only acknowledge the &s;aid Di&s;covery as a mo&s;t acceptable Service to the &s;aid City, but al&s;o pay to &s;uch Di&s;coverer the Sum of 500. <HI>l.</HI> upon the offenders Conviction. Dated the 27th of <HI>January, 33. Car.</HI> 2. and Signed <HI>Wag|&s;taff.</HI></Q></P>
<PB N="133" REF="75">
<P>In return to which Act of the City, his Royal Highne&s;s &s;ent a Gentleman out of <HI>Scotland</HI> to complement the Mayor and Court of Aldermen, and thank 'em for their re&s;pect and Ju&s;tice to his Cau&s;e.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="account">
<PB N="135" REF="76">
<HEAD>Anno 34 <HI>Car. 2. Anno Dom.</HI> 1682.</HEAD>
<P>IN the beginning of this Year a mo&s;t Bar|barous and inhuman Murder was com|mitted on the Per&s;on of <HI>Thomas Thinne</HI> of <HI>Longlect</HI> E&s;q; a Gentleman of great Quality and Note, both in City and Country. The Bloody Murderers were <HI>Chri&s;topher Vratz, George <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oroski,</HI> and <HI>John Stern,</HI> all Forainers, and Servants or Dependants on a <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Lord, called Count <HI>Coning&s;mark,</HI> which fir&s;t named three, &s;uddainly coming up to Mr. <HI>Thirne's</HI> Coach, as he was pa&s;&s;ing in it near the <HI>Haymarket</HI> on <HI>Sunday</HI> Night the 12th of <HI>February,</HI> one of them &s;hot him into the Bo|dy with Two Brace or Bullets. The Mur|derers were &s;oon after apprehended and Committed to <HI>Newgate.</HI> On the 28th of <HI>Fe|bruary</HI> they were Tryed, found Guilty and
<PB N="137" REF="76"> Condemned; and were mo&s;t de&s;ervedly all Three Hanged, and one of them Hang'd in Chains on the Road not far from <HI>Mile-End.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>March,</HI> His Royal Highne&s;s Arrived out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> he Landed at <HI>Yarmouth</HI> on the 10th, where he was Treated at Dinner by the Magi&s;trates with all the Ceremonies of Honour they could expre&s;s; and from thence attended by the High Sheriff of <HI>Norfolk,</HI> and a Train of the Neighbouring Gentry to <HI>Norwich,</HI> where again he was Nobly en|tertain'd by the publick Magi&s;trates with Banquets and Bonfires, and lay that Night at the Bi&s;hops Hou&s;e; the next Day about 6 in the Evening he arrived at <HI>New-Mar|ket,</HI> where he was received by both their Maje&s;ties with all the Marks of kindne&s;s and affection, having been met &s;everal Miles out of Town by the Noblemen and Gen|tlemen then attending about the Court.</P>
<P>The next Day being the 12th of <HI>March,</HI> the King was Pre&s;ented at <HI>Newmarket,</HI> with an Addre&s;s of Abhorrency from the Artil|lery Company in <HI>Bri&s;tol,</HI> of which &s;ort of Addre&s;s I made &s;ome mention towards the end of la&s;t year; yet becau&s;e the A&s;&s;ociation there mention'd, is more particularly dae|cipher'd in this from <HI>Bri&s;tol</HI> than any formaer
<PB N="138" REF="77"> I have &s;een, I can not omit to ob&s;erve, that the &s;aid Loyal Artillery Company in <HI>Bri&s;tol</HI> did by their &s;aid Addre&s;s <Q>Expre&s;s from the bottom of their Souls an utter Abhorrence of all Covenants, and A&s;&s;ociations what&s;o|ever made again&s;t or without His Maje&s;ties approbation, e&s;pecially that Trea&s;onable one &s;eized, in the Clo&s;et of the Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury,</HI> wherein the &s;ecuring the Pro|te&s;tant Religion and the defence of His Maje&s;ties Royal Per&s;on and E&s;tate is made the pretence; but the &s;ubver&s;ion of the E&s;tabli&s;ht Religion, and the final de&s;tructi|on of His Maje&s;ty and Lawful Succe&s;&s;ors, is the real de&s;ign, and this to be performed by devolving the whole power of His Ma|je&s;ties Crown and Scepter into the Major part of the Members of both Hou&s;es, &s;ub|&s;cribing that A&s;&s;ociation (th&ocirc; di&s;&s;olved) without regard to their quality or number, His Maje&s;ties Guards, for the defence of His Royal Per&s;on, fal&s;ly &s;tiled mercenary Forces and a terror to all the good People of the Land, His Maje&s;ties Royal Brother to be excluded and de&s;troyed if he comes into <HI>England,</HI> and all who &s;hall oppo&s;e that Re|bellious, accur&s;ed, helli&s;h and unpre&s;ident|ed A&s;&s;ociation are to be pur&s;ued to de|druction, th&ocirc; in defence of His Maje&s;ties
<PB N="139" REF="77"> Title, concluding that they will a&s;&s;ert and defend the Rights and Prerogatives of His Maje&s;ty and Lawful Succe&s;&s;ors in oppo&s;i|tion to all Unions and Societies made to the Contrary, and that they cannot think that Man fit to be a Repre&s;entative in Par|liament, who will not di&s;own &s;uch A&s;&s;oci|ations.</Q> The&s;e words are contain'd in that Addre&s;s, and by this Pre&s;ident we &s;ee what good Subjects abhor.</P>
<P>Not long after this the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Cambridge</HI> &s;ent their Vice-Chancellor, Dr. <HI>Coga,</HI> to wait on the King at <HI>Newmarket,</HI> with a Loyal Addre&s;s of Abhorency; at which time al&s;o the &s;aid Vice-Chancellor waited upon the Duke, and in the name of the &s;aid Univer&s;ity, <Q>Wellcom'd him into <HI>England,</HI> acknowledging that by his Roy|al Highne&s;s good Conduct, the Govern|ment of <HI>Scotland</HI> both in Church and State is &s;ettled in Peace; and therefore they could by no means doubt, but that under His Maje&s;ty his Royal Highne&s;&s;'<HI>s</HI> pre&s;ence would have a great Influence in effecting the &s;ame here in <HI>England,</HI> by which means all Great <HI>Brittain</HI> being joyn'd in one, the Church of <HI>England,</HI> and Rights of the Crown, may for ever flouri&s;h. To which his Royal Highne&s;s was pleas'd to An&s;wer,
<PB N="140" REF="78"> after Thanks for their kind Expre&s;&s;ions, that he was very glad of this and all other occa&s;ions to declare that he would ever &s;tand by the Church of <HI>England</HI> as now e&s;tabli&s;ht, and countenance the Members of it, as having &s;een by experience that they are the be&s;t Supporters of the Crown, and that he would u&s;e his Endeavors and Intere&s;t for pre&s;ervation of the Kings per&s;on, and the Government in the State, and the Church of <HI>England,</HI> as now e&s;ta|bli&s;ht by Law.</Q></P>
<P>Several other Addre&s;&s;es al&s;o which were made to the King, had words in them con|gratulating the Dukes return into <HI>Eng|land.</HI> And when his Royal Highne&s;s came with His Maje&s;ty to <HI>London;</HI> His Maje&s;ty was on the 10th of <HI>April</HI> attended by the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and Court of Aldermen; who having paid their Duty to the King, they went to St <HI>James</HI>'s, where they waited upon his Royal Highne&s;s, Congratulating his &s;afe return into <HI>England,</HI> and to that his Pallace.</P>
<P>Al&s;o His Royal Highne&s;s being Captain of the Artillery Company, was invited and Fea&s;ted by that Company in <HI>London, Thur&s;|day</HI> in <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> Week.</P>
<PB N="141" REF="78">
<P>One thing more ought not to be forgot, as well for the Dukes Honour, as the gra|titude of the Bi&s;hops in <HI>Scotland;</HI> That is, a Letter Sub&s;cribed by &s;even Bi&s;hops there, and directed to the Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canter|bury,</HI> &s;oon after the Dukes departure, and bears date at <HI>Edinbourgh, March</HI> 9th 1682. Setting forth,</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>That &s;ince his Royal High|ne&s;s came into that Kingdom, they (the &s;aid Bi&s;hops) found their ca&s;e much chang|ed to the Better, and their Church and or|der &s;en&s;ibly releived and re&s;cued, which next to the watchful providence of God, they can a&s;cribe to nothing &s;o much as to his Royal Highne&s;s gracious owning and vigilant protecting of them, who upon all occa&s;ions gave fre&s;h in&s;tances of his emi|nent Zeal again&s;t the mo&s;t unrea&s;onable Schi&s;m, which by renting threatens the Subver&s;ion of their Church and Religion, and concerns him&s;elf as a Patron to them in all their publick and even per&s;onal In|tere&s;ts; That they did never propo&s;e to his Royal Highne&s;s any rational Expedient which might conduce to the relief or &s;e|curity of the Church, which he did not readily embrace and effectuate; That the Peace and tranquility of that Kingdom is the effect of his prudent and &s;teddy conduct
<PB N="142" REF="79"> of Affairs; That the humours of the wicked Phanaticks there, are much re&s;trained from Dangerous eruptions upon their appre|hen&s;ions of his vigilance and Ju&s;tice; And that they de&s;ire the &s;aid Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Can|terbury</HI> to make their dutiful acknowledge|ments to His Royal Highne&s;s for all His Princely Favours to them, with a&s;&s;urance of their mo&s;t firm endeavors to &s;erve him, &amp; of their mo&s;t fervent Prayers for His Temporal and Eternal Happine&s;s.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sub|&s;cribed,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Alex. <HI>St.</HI> And.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arth Gla&s;cuens.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Edinburgens.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ja. Gallouidiens.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Andr. Dunkelden.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Geor. Erechin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ja. Dumblanen.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>About <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> certain Per&s;ons (to the number of many Hundreds, as reported) did de&s;ign to meet at a publick Thank&s;gi|ving Sermon and Dinner, pretended, for Gods wonderful Providence in delivering and protecting His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, the Prote&s;tant Religion, and Engli&s;h Liberties from the helli&s;h and frequent attempts of their Enemies the <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> and Tickets of
<PB N="143" REF="79"> Invitation to this purpo&s;e, were deliver'd abroad for a Meeting on <HI>Friday</HI> the 21&s;t of <HI>April.</HI> Which Meeting was by &s;pecial Order of His Maje&s;ty in Council <HI>April</HI> the 19th Prohibited and &s;uppre&s;t, in re|gard the appointing of publick Fa&s;ts and Thank&s;givings is a matter of State, be|longs only to His Maje&s;ty by His Preroga|tive, and therefore &s;uch a Thank&s;giving being appointed by the Subject, His Ma|je&s;ty lookt upon the &s;ame as an in&s;olent Attempt in manife&s;t derogation of His Right, and of dangerous Con&s;equence.</P>
<P>On the 3d of <HI>May,</HI> His Royal Highne&s;s left the Court at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> in order to His Journey into <HI>Scotland,</HI> from thence to fetch hether the Duche&s;s, great with Child. He went by Sea in the <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> Frigat, attended by &s;everal other Ve&s;&s;els: In which Voyage the Dukes Ship &s;triking on the <HI>Lemon-ore</HI> Sands in <HI>Yarmouth</HI> Road, the Ve&s;&s;el was lo&s;t, with above 100 Men, but the Duke and &s;everal others of the greate&s;t Quality went off timely into a Yaut attending, and arrived &s;afely in <HI>Scotland:</HI> Where a little before had been an In&s;ur|rection or Tumult of Apprentices at <HI>Edin|borough,</HI> &s;uppre&s;t by the Soldiers, not with|out Blood. About the &s;ame time another
<PB N="144" REF="80"> Tumult of Apprentices was begun at <HI>Dub|lin,</HI> but quickly &s;uppre&s;t.</P>
<P>The In&s;uing <HI>Ea&s;ter Term</HI> yeilded &s;everal pa&s;&s;ages of publick note in the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Court at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter:</HI> The Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury</HI> had brought his Action of <HI>Scan|dalum Magnatum</HI> again&s;t one Mr. <HI>Craddock,</HI> a Citizen and Mercer in <HI>Peter-No&s;ter-Row,</HI> for &s;peaking &s;ome Words of the &s;aid Earl, importing him to be a Traytor, which Action being laid in <HI>London,</HI> and the De|fendants Council &s;hewing that there was no likelyhood of a fair Tryal by a <HI>Lon|don</HI> Jury, by rea&s;on that the Earl was not only Free of the City, but al&s;o of the Skinners Company, of which Sheriff <HI>Pilkinton</HI> was Ma&s;ter, and that therefore the Jury ought to ari&s;e out of &s;ome Neighbouring County; to which the Court inclined, and gave the Earl his choice of any County of <HI>England,</HI> but the Earl replying, <Q>That he had ra|ther lay down his Action than admit it to be Tryed in any other County, in re|gard mo&s;t of them had put <HI>Abhorrences</HI> upon him;</Q> which po&s;itive re&s;olution of his did confirm the Lord Chief Ju&s;tice in his Opinion of the Earls confiding in a <HI>London</HI> Jury, and therefore order'd that unle&s;s he would con&s;ent to Try it by a
<PB N="145" REF="80"> Country Jury, it &s;hould not be Tryed in <HI>London;</HI> whereupon the Earl di&s;continued his Action.</P>
<P>The like Rule was made &s;oon after in the &s;ame Court between the &s;aid Earl and Mr. <HI>Graham</HI> Principal of <HI>Cliffords</HI> Inn, a|gain&s;t whom his Lord&s;hip had brought an Action of Con&s;piracy, he having been ap|pointed by the Kings Council to be Sol|licitor in the Indictment again&s;t the &s;aid Earl at the <HI>Old-Baily.</HI> The like Rule al&s;o in the <HI>Exchequer</HI> in <HI>Slingsby Bethels</HI> Ca&s;e.</P>
<P>Al&s;o <HI>Wilmore</HI> the <HI>Ignoramus</HI> Foreman of <HI>Collidges</HI> Grand Jury, having convey'd away a young Boy and &s;ent him to <HI>Ja|maica,</HI> a Writ <HI>de Homine replegiando</HI> was brought again&s;t him, upon which Writ the Sheriffs of <HI>London</HI> making an in&s;uffici|ent Return, and ob&s;tinately refu&s;ing to re|turn <HI>Elongatus e&s;t,</HI> which was the Return proper in this Ca&s;e, they were both brought into the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> upon an Attach|ment, where they received a &s;evere reproof from the Court, and were glad to &s;ubmit, with a&s;&s;urance of better behaviour for the future. Hereupon <HI>Elongatus e&s;t</HI> being re|turn'd, a <HI>Capias</HI> in <HI>Withernam</HI> i&s;&s;ued out again&s;t <HI>Wilmore,</HI> to take him into Cu&s;tody and detain him until he produces the Boy.</P>
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<P>Nor was this fufficient, but the &s;aid <HI>Wil|more</HI> was on the 23d of <HI>May</HI> Tryed at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar upon an Information ex|hibited by the Attorney General, for con|veying away the &s;aid Boy being under the Age of 13, and unknown to his Parents; and upon a full Evidence of the foul Fact, he was found Guilty by a <HI>Kenti&s;h</HI> Jury, who never went from the Bar.</P>
<P>Really the <HI>London</HI> Jurys were at this time notorious to the whole Nation for partiality. The fore&s;aid <HI>Wilmore</HI> had been Indicted in the City for the &s;aid Crime of Boy-&s;tealing, but the Grand Jury there found the Bill <HI>Ignoramus.</HI> Al&s;o one <HI>Harris</HI> Tryed at <HI>Guild-Hall,</HI> for di&s;per&s;ing a mo&s;t wicked Libel was, again&s;t a mo&s;t apparent and home Evidence, and the Po&s;itive di|rections of the Court, found Not Guilty, for which finding the &s;aid Jury could give no other rea&s;on than their own Arbitrary Will. For &s;uch like Actions as the&s;e His Maje&s;ty was pleas'd to Order the Attorney-General to bring a <HI>Quo Warranto</HI> again&s;t the City of <HI>London;</HI> of which more here|after.</P>
<P>On the 27th of <HI>May,</HI> The Duke, Dut|che&s;s and Lady <HI>Anne</HI> arrived at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> having been met there by the King and
<PB N="147" REF="81"> Queen, who came from <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> that Morn|ing, and were all entertain'd at Dinner that Day at my Lord <HI>Arlingtons</HI> at the end of St. <HI>James</HI>'s Park. But the King return'd to <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> that Night.</P>
<P>The next Day the King fell ill (occa|&s;ion'd as &s;uppo&s;ed by &s;ome Cold caught the Day before) of which indi&s;po&s;ition He recover'd again upon breathing a Vein, in a few Days, to the great Joy of all His Loyal Subjects.</P>
<P>On <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 6th of <HI>June,</HI> Captain <HI>Ayres,</HI> the Pilot of the <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> Frigate, late ca&s;t away when the Duke Sayl'd to <HI>Scot|land,</HI> was Tryed before Special Commi&s;&s;ion|ers of Seamen, and being found Guilty of that grievous lo&s;s, was Sentenced by the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners to perpetual Impri&s;on|ment, and accordingly was Committed to the <HI>Mar&s;hal&s;ea. Vid. Stat. 13. Car.</HI> 2 Ch. 9. <HI>Art.</HI> 25.</P>
<P>About this time it was that the Con|venticles in <HI>London,</HI> began to be di&s;turb'd in good earne&s;t, and the <HI>Statute</HI> put in Exe|cution again&s;t them. On the 20th of <HI>June,</HI> my Lord Mayor i&s;&s;ued out his Orders to the Aldermen of all the Wards, to Com|mand the Con&s;tables of every Ward to be up on <HI>Sundays,</HI> and a&s;&s;i&s;t tho&s;e who &s;hould
<PB N="148" REF="82"> put the &s;aid <HI>Stat.</HI> in Execution again&s;t &s;uch as &s;hould re&s;i&s;t, as it &s;eems, &s;ome had the Confidence to do the <HI>Sunday</HI> before.</P>
<P>Again&s;t the 24th of <HI>June,</HI> (the Cu&s;tomary Day for Electing Sheriffs of <HI>London</HI> for the Year in&s;uing) my Lord Mayor I&s;&s;ued out his Summons to the &s;everal Companies to appear at <HI>Guildhall,</HI> on the &s;aid 24th Day of <HI>June,</HI> for the Confirmation of Mr. <HI>Dudly North</HI> (whom his Lord&s;hip had cho&s;en for one, according to Cu&s;tom at the <HI>Bridge-Hou&s;e</HI> Fea&s;t) and for the choice of another Sheriff. At the Day appointed a mighty Concour&s;e of People A&s;&s;embled in <HI>Guildhall,</HI> before my Lord Mayor and Sheriffs fitting in the <HI>Hu&s;tings;</HI> there were two Parties appear'd in Competition, Mr. <HI>North</HI> and Mr. <HI>Box</HI> on the one Party, and Mr. <HI>Papillon</HI> and Mr. <HI>Dubois</HI> on the other; but in their Polling (which was mannaged by the now Sheriffs, Mr. <HI>Pilkinton</HI> and Mr. <HI>Shute</HI>) it was ob&s;erved that their Names were refu&s;ed to be enter'd who Polled for the Confirmation of <HI>North,</HI> and Election of <HI>Box;</HI> and on the other &s;ide it was &s;aid that &s;everal Mens Names were enter'd who were not really pre&s;ent, or not duly intitled to Vote; whereupon my Lord Mayor Adjourn'd the Court by Pro|clamation
<PB N="149" REF="82"> to 9 a Clock <HI>June</HI> 27. and de|parted out of the Hall, not without &s;ome abu&s;es from the di&s;affected Party 30 not|with&s;tanding which Adjournment the two Sheriffs continued to Poll on till Night. The next Day being <HI>Sunday,</HI> admitted of no bu&s;ine&s;s: But on <HI>Munday</HI> Morning my Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, and the two Sheriffs were &s;ent for to appear before the King and Council, where the matter being fully examined, the two Sheriffs were &s;ent to the <HI>Tower:</HI> The Warrant for their Commitment being Signed by 24 Privy Coun&s;ellers.</P>
<P>On <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 27th of <HI>June,</HI> the Com|mon-Hall was again Adjourn'd over to <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 5th of <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Friday</HI> the 30th of <HI>June,</HI> the two Sheriffs above-mention'd were brought by <HI>Habeas Corpus</HI> to the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Bar, where they were admitted to be Bail'd by four Gen|tlemen of con&s;iderable E&s;tate, them&s;elves in 2000 <HI>l.</HI> piece, and the Bail each in 1000 <HI>l.</HI> At the &s;ame time they pleaded Not Guilty to an Information for a Tu|multuous and Riotous A&s;&s;embly in holding the Common Hall above-mention'd after it was Adjourn'd and the A&s;&s;embly Di&s;|charged.</P>
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<P>The Sheriffs being thus at liberty, met at the Common Hall on the 5th of <HI>July,</HI> and notwith&s;tanding that the Lord Mayor (being Sick) &s;ent order by the Recorder to Adjourn the Hall to the 7th follow|lowing, yet the Sheriffs and the multitude proceeded in the Election, and declar'd their Choice of <HI>Papillon</HI> and <HI>Dubois:</HI> On the 7th the Mayor and His Party met a|gain at <HI>Guildhall,</HI> but &s;ome di&s;putes ari&s;ing concerning the la&s;t Adjournment, four Law|yers were &s;ent for to the Court of Alder|men to argue the validity of the Thing, <HI>viz.</HI> Sir <HI>George Jeffreys</HI> and Mr. <HI>Saunders</HI> for the Mayor, and Mr. <HI>Polexfin</HI> &amp; Mr. <HI>Willi|ams</HI> on the other &s;ide; but coming to no Con|clu&s;ion, the Court was Adjourn'd further to that Day Sennight, being the 14th of <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P>On the 13th of <HI>July,</HI> The King was plea&s;ed to I&s;&s;ue out an Order of Council in the&s;e Words,</P>
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<P><HI>HIs Maje&s;ty having been Informed by the Lord Mayor and diver&s;e of the Alder|men of</HI> London, <HI>that the Di&s;orders and Riots ari&s;en in the City upon the Day ap|pointed for the Election of Sheriffs, have been chiefly occa&s;ion'd by the Proceedings of the
<PB N="151" REF="83"> Common Hall in an irregular way contrary to what hath been antiently accu&s;tomed; His Maje&s;ty by the advice of His Council hath thought fit for the better keeping of the Peace of the City, to direct and hereby to require the Lord Mayor to maintain and pre&s;erve intire the antient Cu&s;tomes of the City, and for the better doing thereof, to take effectual Order, that at the Common Hall to be held to morrow all Proceedings be begun anew, and carried on in the u&s;ual manner, as they ought to have been upon the 24th Day of</HI> June <HI>la&s;t.</HI></P>
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<P>This was Read the next Day in the Common Hall, but oppo&s;ed by the adver&s;e Party with noi&s;e and Clamour, &s;ome cry|ing out for the <HI>Stat. 16. Car.</HI> 1. ch. 10. to be Read, wherein there is a Clau&s;e de|claratory, that the Privy Council have no Authority to examine, determine or di&s;po&s;e of the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods and Chattles of any of the Subjects of this Kingdom. But this being thought not pertinent to this purpo&s;e, they proceed|ed; my Lord Mayor declaring in the fir&s;t place Mr. <HI>North</HI> duly Elected by him, and that he would Pole for the other Three, <HI>viz. Box, Papillon,</HI> and <HI>Dubois</HI> and ac|cordingly cau&s;ed Books to be fitted with
<PB N="152" REF="84"> three Columes only: In the mean time the Sheriffs (with a <HI>Salvo Jure</HI> to their former Election of <HI>Mid&s;ummer</HI> Day) went on apart, and Poled for four Heads. The next Day being <HI>Saturday</HI> the 15th, my Lord Mayor declar'd Mr. <HI>Box</HI> duly Elected by the Majority of Voices in his Books, and therefore <HI>North</HI> and <HI>Box</HI> to be Sheriffs for next Year. On the other Hand the Now Sheriffs declar'd <HI>Papillon</HI> and <HI>Dubois</HI> to have the Majority in their Books; and &s;o the Pole ended.</P>
<P>On the 27th of <HI>July</HI> the Court of Al|dermen A&s;&s;embled, not without &s;ome ap|prehen&s;ions of a Di&s;turbance from the Facti|ous: Two Companies were order'd to be up at the <HI>Exchange</HI> that Day, and the Lieu|tenancy placed them&s;elves in the Gallery before the Room where the Aldermen &s;ate, to keep off the Rabble from pre&s;&s;ing in; A great number were gather'd into <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> for an An&s;wer to a Petition, which they had formerly deliver'd to that Court, requi|ring that <HI>Papillon</HI> and <HI>Dubois</HI> &s;hould be call'd forth to give Bond to &s;erve for the two Sheriffs of next Year. Some few of the chief of this Party being at la&s;t call'd in,
<PB N="153" REF="84"> my Lord Mayor cau&s;ed the following Paper to be Read to'em, as his final An|&s;wer,</P>
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<P><HI>GEentlemen, this Court hath Con&s;ider'd of your Petition, and will take care that &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall take the Office of Sheriffs upon them as are duly Elected, according to Law and the antient Cu&s;tomes of this City; and in this and all other things this Court will endeavor to maintain the Rights and Privi|ledges of the Chair and of the whole City; and wherein ye think that we do otherwi&s;e, the Law mu&s;t Judge between us.</HI></P>
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<P>With this An&s;wer, the Lord Mayor com|manded them in the Kings name to depart; He al&s;o commanded Sheriff <HI>Pilkinton</HI> to go out and cau&s;e 'em to depart, which Mr. Sheriff could not di&s;obey, th&ocirc; he him&s;elf and all that party were di&s;&s;atisfied with the An&s;wer. And thus this matter re&s;ted at that time.</P>
<P><HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> 9th of <HI>Aug.</HI> the King, was plea&s;ed to &s;end Sir <HI>Lionel Jenkins</HI> to fetch the Privy Seal from the Earl of <HI>Angle&s;ey,</HI> which was accordingly deliver'd up. And in the beginning of <HI>Michaelma&s;s Term</HI> fol|lowing
<PB N="154" REF="85"> di&s;po&s;ed to the Marqui&s;s of <HI>Halli|fax.</HI></P>
<P>On the 15th day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> the Dutche&s;s of <HI>York</HI> was deliver'd at St. <HI>James</HI>'s of a Daughter, which was on the 16th day Baptized by the Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> and na|med <HI>Charlotte-Maria.</HI> The God-father was the Duke of <HI>Ormond,</HI> the Counte&s;&s;es of <HI>Clarendon,</HI> and <HI>Arundel</HI> Godmothers. But the Infant dyed in le&s;s than 3 Months.</P>
<P>During this Long Vacation, Mr. <HI>Box,</HI> who had been cho&s;en Sheriff to &s;erve with Mr. <HI>North,</HI> did think fitting to fine, rather than take upon him the Office. Hereupon the Lord Mayor at a Common Hall held the 19th of <HI>September,</HI> propo&s;ed the Electing of an other Sheriff in his place, which th&ocirc; much oppo&s;ed by the adver&s;e party, crying, no <HI>North,</HI> no <HI>North,</HI> no Election, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Yet the Lord Mayor went on in the Election, and by the Majority of his party, <HI>Peter Rich</HI> E&s;q; a Lieutenant Collonel in <HI>Southwark,</HI> and twice a Burge&s;s in Parliament for that Burrough, was cho&s;en, and &s;o declar'd; where|upon the Mayor di&s;&s;olved the Court and returned to his Hou&s;e. Notwith&s;tanding which, the two Sheriffs continued the A&s;|&s;embly, and put the que&s;tion to their own party then remaining, (the other &s;ide be|ing
<PB N="155" REF="85"> departed with the Mayor) whether they wou'd abide by their former choice of <HI>Pa|pillon,</HI> and <HI>Dubois,</HI> or not; and thereupon, (notwith&s;tanding that the Mayor &s;ent 'em word the Court was di&s;&s;olved, and requir'd 'em to depart) made a Pole, and then ca&s;t up their Books, and declared the &s;aid <HI>Pa|pillon,</HI> and <HI>Dubois</HI> Sheriffs Elect. But the next Morning my Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen waiting upon the King at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> gave a full account of the Pro|ceedings. Whereupon the two Sheriffs were &s;ent for to the Council, &s;everely checkt, and told that they had been Guilty of a High Mi&s;demeaner; and in fine di&s;mi&s;t upon good Bail to An&s;wer to an Information for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>On the 28th of <HI>September</HI> in the morn|ing, Mr. <HI>Dudly North</HI> and Mr. <HI>Rich,</HI> were according to Cu&s;tom, &s;worn Sheriffs of <HI>Lon|don</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> before the Lord Mayor in the Hu&s;tings. At which time to pre|vent a Tumult a Company of the City-Train-Bands were drawn up in <HI>Guild-Hall.</HI> The 30th of <HI>September,</HI> the &s;aid She|riffs were pre&s;ented by the Recorder in the <HI>Exchequer,</HI> and Sworn there, the old She|riffs giving up their Office at the &s;ame time.</P>
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<P>But on <HI>Michaelma&s;s</HI> day, being the Cu&s;to|mary time for Election of a Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> the Faction Mu&s;ter'd their utmo&s;t Strength again&s;t Sir <HI>William Prichard,</HI> the next in Cour&s;e, &s;etting up again&s;t him, not only <HI>Gould,</HI> but <HI>Corni&s;h,</HI> who had been Sheriff but the year before; and at the fir&s;t appearance <HI>Gould</HI> and <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> had the Majo|rity of Votes, till at la&s;t upon a long Scru|tiny and a thorough examination into the Capacity of the Voters, it was found that a great number had appear'd for them, who were not legally intituled to Voices (no le&s;s as reported, than 60 of one Company <HI>viz.</HI> the Merchant Taylors) which kind of people being &s;truck out of the Number, it appeared that Sir <HI>William Prichard</HI> had 2138 Votes, and <HI>Gould</HI> 2124. Whereupon on the 25th day of <HI>October,</HI> Sir <HI>William</HI> was by the Court of Aldermen declar'd at <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> Lord Mayor Elect, and the u&s;ual Ceremonies then and there perform'd to him as &s;uch, with mighty acclamations from all the Loyal party in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>The 30th of <HI>October</HI> he was Sworn at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter;</HI> At which Solemnity &s;ome Factious Companies refu&s;ed to attend, as other years.</P>
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<P>On the 6th of <HI>November</HI> (the 5th hap|pening on a <HI>Sunday</HI>) the Rabble were &s;o unruly after the Bonfires, that they gather'd together in a great number, at lea&s;t 1500. Crying a <HI>Monmouth,</HI> and knocking down &s;uch as they &s;u&s;pected, not to be of their own Gang; and committing many other riotous actions in <HI>Cheap&s;ide</HI> and thereabouts, till di&s;per&s;ed by my Lord Mayor and She|riffs, a&s;&s;i&s;ted by &s;ome of the Train-Bands, who took &s;everal of the Rioters, and committed them, &s;ome to <HI>Newgate,</HI> &s;ome to the <HI>Coun|ters.</HI> This occa&s;ion'd a &s;tricct Order of Coun|cil <HI>November</HI> 10th. <Q>That no per&s;on what|&s;oever &s;hould pre&s;ume to make any Bon|fires, without &s;pecial Order &s;o to do by the Magi&s;trates.</Q> Which Order being vigilantly ob&s;erved by the Ju&s;tices of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> and my Lord Mayor, who with the Sheriffs rid up and down the Streets of <HI>London</HI> all <HI>Friday</HI> Night the 17th of <HI>November,</HI> No Riotous Actions and Burning of the <HI>Pope</HI> was &s;uffer'd that Night, as u&s;ual &s;ome years pa&s;t.</P>
<P>Afterwards, at the Latter end of this <HI>Mich. Term,</HI> Mr. <HI>Williams</HI> and Mr. <HI>Wallop</HI> Councel|lors at Law, moved in the Court of <HI>Kings Bench</HI> for a <HI>Mandamus</HI> to be directed to Sir <HI>John More,</HI> and the Aldermen of <HI>London,</HI>
<PB N="158" REF="87"> to Swear either <HI>Gould</HI> or <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> into the Office of Mayor of <HI>London:</HI> but this Mo|tion was lookt upon as ridiculous, and my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice refu&s;ed to give it the lea&s;t Countenance, &s;uch a <HI>Mandamus</HI> in the Di&s;|junctive being a thing never heard of, and ab&s;ur'd in it &s;elf.</P>
<P>This Term al&s;o it was, That by publick Authority all the Weekly Intelligencies, which hetherto were publi&s;ht every Day but <HI>Sunday,</HI> were prohibited, and the Hawkers &s;ilenc'd.</P>
<P>On the 24th of <HI>November</HI> the great Cau&s;e was Tryed at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar between his Royal Highne&s;s and the late Sheriff <HI>Pil|kinton,</HI> for the&s;e words &s;poken of the Plan|tif, viz. <HI>He Fired the City, and is now come to cut our Throats.</HI> This was the greate&s;t <HI>Scanda|lum Magnatum</HI> that was, perhaps, ever Tryed; and the Words being proved by Sir <HI>William Hooker</HI> and Sir <HI>Henry Tul&s;e,</HI> Aldermen of <HI>London,</HI> the Jury found for the Plantiff, and gave 100000 <HI>l.</HI> Damages.</P>
<P>On the la&s;t day of the Term <HI>Pilkinton</HI> render'd him&s;elf, in di&s;charge of his Bail, a Pri&s;oner in Execution; Into who&s;e place of Alderman, was Elected Mr. Sheriff <HI>North.</HI></P>
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<P>On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 29th of <HI>November,</HI> Dy|ed at his Hou&s;e in St <HI>James</HI>'s <HI>Park</HI> the Illu&s;t|rious Prince, <HI>Rupert</HI> Prince Palatine of the <HI>Rhine,</HI> and Duke of <HI>Cumberland,</HI> &amp;c. in the 63d year of his Age. After who&s;e Death His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to confer the Con&s;ta|ble-&s;hip of <HI>Wind&s;or</HI>-Ca&s;tle on the Right Honourable the Earl of <HI>Arundel.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>Monday</HI> the 18th of <HI>December,</HI> The Right Honorable <HI>Henneage</HI> Earl of <HI>Notting|ham,</HI> Lord high Chancellor of <HI>England,</HI> de|parted this Life: Into who&s;e Office Succeed|ed Sir <HI>Francis North,</HI> then Lord Chief Ju&s;tice of the <HI>Common Pleas,</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Pemberton,</HI> then Lord Chief Ju&s;tice of the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> being removed to be Chief Ju&s;tice in the <HI>Common Pleas,</HI> and Sir <HI>Edmund Saunders</HI> of the Middle <HI>Temple,</HI> made Lord Chief Ju&s;tice of the <HI>Kings Bench.</HI></P>
<P>On St. <HI>Thomas</HI>'s Day the Election began for Common-Council Men in <HI>London,</HI> which went generally for the Royalli&s;ts, and ac|cordingly at the fir&s;t Common-Council that was held, it was caried by the Majority of Votes, <Q>That thanks &s;hould be return'd to Sir <HI>John Moor</HI> for his good Admini&s;tration of the Office of Lord Mayor la&s;t year; which was done accordingly.</Q></P>
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<P>Before I conclude this 34th year of His Maje&s;ties Reign, I mu&s;t ob&s;erve that this year was remarkable for the coming of Two very Extraordinary Emba&s;&s;adours to our Sove|raign, never known before in <HI>England.</HI> One was from the Emperour of <HI>Fez</HI> and <HI>Morocco,</HI> his name <HI>Hamet Ben Hamet Ben Haddu Ottor,</HI> a Man of great Eminency in his own Coun|try, as report &s;ays: His bu&s;ine&s;s about &s;etling a Peace with <HI>Tangier;</HI> much re&s;pected he was here, care&s;t at Court, and at both the Univer&s;ities, and he &s;eemed to expre&s;s no le&s;s e&s;teem for our Nation. But at his return, upon what account I know not, he was reported to be received by his Ma&s;ter with di&s;grace. The other Emba&s;&s;adour was from the King of <HI>Bantham,</HI> or <HI>Suro&s;oam,</HI> in the <HI>Ea&s;t-Indies;</HI> His bu&s;ine&s;s about the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Trade.</P>
<P>The end of this year was al&s;o remarkable for &s;everal new Titles of Honour, to which His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to promote &s;everal Eminent per&s;ons, who had for their &s;ignal Loyalty de&s;erved His Favour, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The Duke of <HI>Ormond,</HI> Created a Duke of the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> but by his old Title of <HI>Ormond.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><PB N="161" REF="88">2. The Marqui&s;s of <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> Created Duke of <HI>Beaufort.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The Lord <HI>Norris</HI> Created Earl of <HI>A|bingdon.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. The Vicount <HI>Campden</HI> Created Earl of <HI>Gainsborow.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Conniers</HI> Lord <HI>Darcy</HI> Created Earl of <HI>Holderne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. The Lord <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> Created Earl of <HI>Plimouth.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. The Lord <HI>Town&s;end</HI> Created Vicount <HI>Town&s;end</HI> of <HI>Raynham.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. Sir <HI>Thomas Thinne</HI> Baronet Created Baron <HI>Thinne</HI> of <HI>Warmin&s;ter</HI> and Vicount <HI>Weymouth.</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. Collonel <HI>George Legg</HI> Created Baron of <HI>Dartmouth.</HI></P>
<P N="10">10. The Lord <HI>Allington</HI> Created a Baron of this Kingdom, by the Title of Baron of <HI>Wymandley.</HI></P>
<P N="11">11. <HI>Ralf Stawell</HI> E&s;q; Created Lord <HI>Sta|well</HI> of <HI>Somerton.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o Collonel <HI>Churchill</HI> was Created Lord <HI>Churchill</HI> of <HI>Ay mouth</HI> in the Kingdom of <HI>Scot|land.</HI></P>
<P>On the 20th of <HI>January</HI> departed this Life, in <HI>Holland, Anthony</HI> Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury;</HI> who had left this Kingdom &s;ome Months
<PB N="162" REF="89"> before, under the Imputation of Trea&s;on|able Machinations, and &s;led for the protection of tho&s;e States, to whom he had formerly, when Lord Chancellor of <HI>England,</HI> appli|ed the old Roman Threat, <HI>Delenda e&s;t Car|thago.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Anno 35. <HI>Car. 2. Anno Dom.</HI> 1683.</HEAD>
<P>THe Hor&s;es of <HI>England</HI> are Famous on many Accounts, among others, for Racing: It was upon this Con&s;ideration that the <HI>French</HI> King invited into <HI>France</HI> &s;everal of our mo&s;t Noted Racers, by ex|po&s;ing a Plate, or Prize, of 1000 <HI>Pi&s;toles</HI> to be run for before him, in the Plain <HI>d' Achere</HI> near St <HI>Germain en lay.</HI> And accordingly on the 25th of <HI>Feb. S. N.</HI> the &s;aid Race was Run before the King, Queen, and Dauphin, by &s;everal of our prime Hor&s;es, where the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI>'s Hor&s;e won: and was afterwards purcha&s;ed by the &s;aid King. Al&s;o that King partly upon this account, was pleas'd at that time to countenance the Ho|nourable
<PB N="164" REF="90"> <HI>Bernard Howard</HI> E&s;q; a younger Brother of the Duke of <HI>Norfolk,</HI> &s;o far as to allow him to come in his Coach within the <HI>Louvre,</HI> a Preheminence due only to the Princes of the Blood and &s;ome few others of highe&s;t quality in <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>March</HI> ill news arrived from the <HI>Ea&s;t Indies,</HI> importing the lo&s;s of the great Town of <HI>Bantham</HI> to the <HI>Dutch;</HI> who un|der colour of a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Rebel Prince of <HI>Bantham</HI> again&s;t the King his Father, came with forces and &s;eized upon the Town, turn|ing out the Engli&s;h there, to the great Dam|age of our Engli&s;h Factory; who for a fur|ther weight to their &s;ufferings, about the &s;ame time lo&s;t their Ship <HI>Joanna,</HI> ca&s;t away at Sea, outward bound, and in her above 10000 <HI>l.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 22th of March, happn'd a &s;uddain Fire at <HI>Newmarket,</HI> about 8 in the Evening, which Con&s;umed a great part of that Town; but by the Providence of God came not on that &s;ide of the Way where the Kings Palace &s;tood.</P>
<P>The <HI>Monday</HI> following, the King, Queen, Duke, and Dutche&s;s Returned to <HI>White|hall,</HI> where the Court continued till <HI>Sa|turday</HI> the 14th of <HI>April,</HI> on which Day His
<PB N="165" REF="90"> Maje&s;ty and His Royal Court Departed to <HI>Wind&s;or.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 24th of <HI>April</HI> happen'd one of the mo&s;t famous and Extraordinary Exploits that was ever known in <HI>London.</HI> One <HI>Broom,</HI> Clark of Skinners Hall, and Co|roner of <HI>London,</HI> having a <HI>Latitat</HI> out of the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> in an Action upon the Ca&s;e at the Suit of Mr. <HI>Papillon</HI> and Mr. <HI>Dubois,</HI> again&s;t my Lord Mayor, Sheriff <HI>North,</HI> and &s;everal Loyal Aldermen, the &s;aid <HI>Broom</HI> acquainting them with the Writ, they all &s;ubmitted to his Arre&s;t, and went with him as Pri&s;oners to Skinners Hall, and there remain'd under his Cu&s;tody till one a Clock at Night: In the mean time 8 Companies of the Militia are rai&s;ed by order of the Leutenancy, and are po&s;ted all that Night in &s;everal parts of the City, to prevent any Tumults which might happen on &s;o new a thing as the Arre&s;t and detainer of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of <HI>London;</HI> a thing never heard of before, in the times of Peace. And it &s;o happen'd that one <HI>Fletcher</HI> a Common Ser|jeant of the Poultry Counter, having an Action of Debt upon Bond of 400 <HI>l.</HI> again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Broom,</HI> which Action had been enter'd the Week pa&s;t, and <HI>Broom</HI> acquaint|ed with it, who promi&s;ed to give Bail; but
<PB N="166" REF="91"> the Serjeant finding that promi&s;e not per|form'd, and perceiving him to act &s;o Mali|pertly with the Chief Magi&s;trates of the Ci|ty, he makes no further delay but Arre&s;ts his per&s;on in <HI>Skinners</HI> Hall, and carries him forthwith to the Counter. <HI>Broom</HI> being thus gone, and no body left in Charge of my Lord Mayor and his fellow Pri&s;oners, they demanded if there was any about the Hou&s;e that had any orders to detain 'em any longer in that place, which being An|&s;wer'd in the Negative, they all departed peacibly to their &s;everal homes.</P>
<P>On <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 8th of <HI>May</HI> was Tryed at <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> before my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Saunders,</HI> the Great Riot committed la&s;t <HI>June</HI> at the Election of Sheriffs for <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex.</HI> And this was upon an In|formation exhibited in the <HI>Crown Office</HI> by Mr. Attorney-General, of which I made mention formerly. Upon a full Evidence, 14 per&s;ons were found Guilty, <HI>viz.</HI> The then Sheriffs <HI>Pilkinton,</HI> and <HI>Shute,</HI> The Lord <HI>Gray</HI> of <HI>Wark,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Player, Corni&s;h, Bethel, Jinks, Goodenough, Deagle, Jekel, Freeman, Wickham, Keys,</HI> and <HI>Swinock.</HI> On the La&s;t Day but one of <HI>Trinity-Term</HI> they were all Fined &s;everally, as follows; <HI>Pilkinton, 500 l. Shute</HI> 1000 Marks, <HI>Corni&s;h,</HI> the &s;ame Summ,
<PB N="167" REF="91"> Lord <HI>Gray,</HI> the &s;ame, Sir <HI>Thomes Player</HI> 500 Marks, <HI>Bethel,</HI> 1000 Marks, <HI>Jinks,</HI> 300 Marks, <HI>Deagle,</HI> 400 Marks, <HI>Freeman,</HI> 300 Marks, <HI>Goodenough,</HI> 500 Marks, <HI>Keys,</HI> 100 Marks, <HI>Wickham,</HI> 100 Marks, <HI>Swin|nock,</HI> 500 Marks, and <HI>Jekel,</HI> 200 Marks.</P>
<P>On the 19th of <HI>May,</HI> being the la&s;t <HI>Sa|turday</HI> in <HI>Ea&s;ter Term,</HI> Sir <HI>Patience Ward,</HI> one of the Aldermen of <HI>London,</HI> was Tryed at the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Bar, upon an Information of Perjury, for giving fal&s;e Evidence upon Oath, in the Cau&s;e Tryed la&s;t <HI>Mic. Term,</HI> between the Duke, and <HI>Pilkinton.</HI> The Perjury was proved upon him by the Oaths of &s;everal Aldermen and other per&s;ons of great Credit, among which were two of the Jury that Tryed the &s;aid Cau&s;e between the Duke, and <HI>Pilkinton.</HI> Whereupon the &s;aid Sir <HI>Patience</HI> was Convicted and found Guilty by the Jury; but the Judgment of the Court was re&s;pited till next Term.</P>
<P>The better part of the City of <HI>London</HI> both for Number and Quality, appear'd a|bout this time very Loyal, and as an In|&s;tance of their Good Affections, it was Re|&s;olved at a Common-Council held at <HI>Guild-Hall, May,</HI> 22. <Q>That whereas Sir <HI>William Pritchard</HI> Knight, Lord Mayor of this City, was in a rude manner lately Arre&s;ted at the
<PB N="168" REF="92"> Suit, or in the name of Mr. <HI>Papillon,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Dubois,</HI> and whereas it hath been al|ledged by the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Papillon,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Dubois,</HI> that the Action upon which the &s;aid Arre&s;t was, was pro&s;ecuted at the In|&s;tance of the Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> the Members of this Court to deliver them|&s;elves and the &s;aid Citizens from this un|true imputation, do declare that they were not privy or con&s;enting to the &s;aid Action, or Arre&s;t, and do di&s;own and di&s;approve the &s;ame.</Q></P>
<P>And not long after <HI>Broom</HI> the Coroner was by the Common-Council put out of that Office, and made uncapable of enjoying any place of preferment in the City.</P>
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<P>Soon after, <HI>viz.</HI> on the 25th of <HI>May,</HI> was &s;et up in one of the Niches of the Old <HI>Exchange,</HI> a Curious Statue of King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, with this In&s;cription underneath, cut in Marble,</P>
<Q>&Egr;&Igr;&Kgr;&OHgr;&Ngr; &Bgr;&Agr;&Sgr;&Igr;&Lgr;&Igr;&Kgr;&EEgr; <HI>Sereni&s;&s;imi ac Religio&s;i&s;&s;imi Principis Caroli Primi Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, &amp; Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defen&s;oris (Bis mar <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ris in Corpore &amp; in Effigie) Impiis Rebellium manibus ex hoc loco deturbata &amp; confracta A. D. MDCXLVIII. Re&s;tituta &amp; hic demum collocata A. D. MDCLXXXIII.</HI></Q>
<P>Again&s;t the beginning of <HI>Trinity Term</HI> the Scaffolds in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall,</HI> after they had &s;tood there and cumber'd the Hall for above Three Years, were by order from my Lord Chamberlain, taken down and removed.</P>
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<P>On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 6th of <HI>June,</HI> was held a Common Council at <HI>Guildhall</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> where all the Trea&s;onable and irregular Acts of that Court in the Times of Rebel|lion, were Repeal'd, and a Bill pa&s;t in the &s;aid Common Council for declaring and a&s;&s;erting the Antient Rights of the Chair; by which Bill my Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen were re&s;tored to their nega|tive Voice, which had been taken away by an Act in the late Rebellious Times, and never que&s;tion'd before that. Al&s;o it was at this Common Council declar'd and Enacted, That my Lord Mayor has &s;ufficient and lawful Power of Choo&s;ing one Sheriff. And accordingly my Lord Mayor did the next day declare his Choice at the <HI>Bridg-Hou&s;e</HI> Fea&s;t, by Drinking to Mr. Alderman <HI>Daniel,</HI> as one of the Sheriffs of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> for the Year in&s;uing.</P>
<P>On the fir&s;t <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> in <HI>Trinity-Term,</HI> Judg|ment was given in the Court of <HI>Kings-Bench,</HI> in the <HI>Quo Warranto</HI> brought la&s;t <HI>Trinity-Term</HI> again&s;t the City of <HI>London,</HI> of which I made mention in the la&s;t Year; The Pleadings were large on both &s;ides. The chief Crimes on which this Writ was grounded were Two: For exacting Tolls in their Markets illegal|ly, and for framing and Printing a &s;can|dalous
<PB N="171" REF="93"> Petition, wherein they charged the King with ob&s;tructing the Ju&s;tice of the Nation, by Proroguing the la&s;t Parliament. Whether the&s;e were &s;ufficient Cau&s;es of &s;eizing their Liberties was argued <HI>pro</HI> and <HI>con</HI> by the Sollicitor General, and the Re|corder, la&s;t <HI>Hillary-Term,</HI> and by the Attor|ney-General, and Mr. <HI>Pollix&s;in,</HI> la&s;t Term, very largely and elaborately: And now (my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Saunders</HI> being Sick and ab&s;ent) Ju&s;tice <HI>Jones</HI> having conci&s;ely Summed up all the Proceedings pa&s;t, in a very pithy and &s;olid Speech, gave Judg|ment, and declar'd it to be the unanimous opinion of that Court, <HI>That the Liberties and Franchi&s;es of the City of</HI> London <HI>be &s;eized into the Kings Hands.</HI> After which he De|clar'd by the Kings expre&s;s Order, That Judgment &s;hould not be enter'd till His Maje&s;ties Plea&s;ure be further known.</P>
<P><HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 14th of <HI>June,</HI> was held a Common Council in <HI>London,</HI> at which Court the following Petition was Order'd to be Pre&s;ented to the King at <HI>Wind&s;or;</HI> it was entituled the humble Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of <HI>London,</HI> in Common Council A&s;&s;embled, <Q>It acknowledged their hearty and unfeigned &s;orrow for the mi&s;govern|ment
<PB N="172" REF="94"> of that City of late Years, which occa&s;ion'd a <HI>Quo Warranto</HI> to be brought again&s;t them and Judgment therein, That they are deeply &s;en&s;ible and thankfully acknowledge the Kings great Favour in not requiring Judgment to be immediately enter'd thereon; In this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed condi|tion, they humbly ca&s;t them&s;elves at His Royal Feet imploring His Princely Com|pa&s;&s;ion and Grace, begging Pardon for all Offences, with mo&s;t &s;olemn promi&s;es and a&s;&s;urances of con&s;tant Loyalty and obedi|ence to His Maje&s;ty, His Heirs and Suc|ce&s;&s;ors, and of a regular Admini&s;tration of His Government in that City for the future; and humbly beg His Maje&s;ties Commands and directions.</Q> This Petition was carried and Pre&s;ented by the Lord Mayor, and &s;e|veral Loyal Aldermen and Citizens of <HI>Lon|don</HI> on <HI>Munday</HI> the 18th of <HI>June;</HI> After which my Lord Keeper by the Kings Com|mand Declar'd, <Q>That for the &s;akes of &s;o many of the pre&s;ent Magi&s;trates and other eminent Citizens in <HI>London,</HI> who are of un|doubted Loyalty and affection to His Maje|&s;ties Service, His Maje&s;ty will &s;hew the City all the Favour they can rea&s;onably de&s;ire; In fine, That His Maje&s;ty requires their Submi&s;&s;ion to the&s;e Regulations,
<PB N="173" REF="94"> That no Lord Mayor, Sheriff, Recorder, Common Serjeant, Town-Clerk, or Co|roner of <HI>London,</HI> or Steward of <HI>Southwark,</HI> &s;hall be capable of or admitted to the ex|erci&s;e of their re&s;pective Offices, before His Maje&s;ty &s;hall have approved them un|der his own Sign manual; That His Maje|&s;ties di&s;approving the Mayor twice, He may if he plea&s;e nominate a Lord Mayor him|&s;elf; &s;o al&s;o for Sheriffs: Neverthele&s;s, the Election of the&s;e Officers may be ac|cording to the antient u&s;age of the City, with &s;ome &s;mall Re&s;trictions, then &s;peci|fied.</Q></P>
<P>On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 20th of <HI>June,</HI> was held a Court of Common Council again at <HI>Guild-Hall;</HI> the Que&s;tion being put whether they &s;hould a&s;&s;ent and &s;ubmit to His Maje&s;ties Order of Regulation, as above expre&s;t, it was carried in the affirmative by the Majo|rity of 18 Voices. The <HI>Yeas</HI> being 104, and the <HI>Nays</HI> 86.</P>
<P>Towards the end of this <HI>Trinity-Term</HI> was di&s;cover'd a Damnable Plot and Con&s;piracy, carried on by tho&s;e who call them&s;elves <HI>True Prote&s;tants.</HI> Mr. <HI>We&s;t</HI> of the <HI>Temple</HI> was fir&s;t apprehended, exa|mined, and Committed. And His Maje|&s;ties Proclamation Dated the 23 of <HI>June,</HI>
<PB N="174" REF="95"> came out for the apprehen&s;ion of others who had Con&s;pired again&s;t the Lives of His Mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty and his Royal Highne&s;s, <HI>viz.</HI> Collonel <HI>John. Rum&s;ey, Richard Rumbold</HI> Maul&s;ter, <HI>Richard Nel|thorp</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Edward Wade</HI> Gent. <HI>Richard Goodenough</HI> Gent. Capt. <HI>Walcot, William Thomp&s;on, James Burton,</HI> and <HI>William Hone;</HI> For the Di&s;covery of any of which 100 <HI>l.</HI> was offer'd as a reward to the Di&s;coverer. Al&s;o another Proclamation came out not long after, Dated the 28th of <HI>June,</HI> For the Apprehending of <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>Mon|mouth, Ford</HI> Lord <HI>Gray,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Arm|&s;trong</HI> Knight, and <HI>Robert Fergu&s;on,</HI> who were al&s;o fled; for the Di&s;covery of any of which 500 <HI>l.</HI> was offer'd as a reward to the Di&s;coverer. The Crimes alledged in the &s;aid Proclamations are, <Q>For Traite|rou&s;ly Con&s;piring to Compa&s;s the Death and De&s;truction of the King, and His dear|e&s;t Brother the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> to effect which they have held &s;everal Trea&s;onable Con&s;ultations, to Levy Men, and to make an In&s;urrection in this Kingdom.</Q></P>
<P>On the 2d of <HI>July,</HI> the Lord Mayor, Al|dermen, and Common Council of the City of <HI>London,</HI> in a Body, waited on His Ma|je&s;ty in the <HI>Banqueting-Hou&s;e,</HI> and Pre&s;ent|ed
<PB N="175" REF="95"> him with their Addre&s;s of Congratula|tion, <Q>Importing their thanks to Almighty God for bringing to Light this impious and Execrable machination, de&s;igned for the de&s;truction of His Maje&s;ties Royal Per&s;on, and of his deare&s;t Brother <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>York,</HI> and for the De&s;truction of His Maje&s;ties be&s;t Subjects, and to involve this and the future Generation in Confu|&s;ion, Blood and mi&s;ery, carried on by Conventiclers and Athei&s;tical Per&s;ons, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q> Which Addre&s;s being Graciou&s;ly received by His Maje&s;ty, they then Waited on His Royal Highne&s;s, and made their Comple|ment to him on the &s;ame occa&s;ion. Soon after this, the Members of the <HI>Middle-Tem|ple</HI> Addre&s;s'd in the like manner, who thought them&s;elves concern'd more than ordinary to &s;hew their Loyalty, in regard &s;ome of the fir&s;t Di&s;cover'd Con&s;pirators did unhappily appear to be of that Soci|ety. After which almo&s;t innumerable Ad|dre&s;&s;es on the &s;ame Subject flow'd from all parts of the Kingdom: At the &s;ame time al&s;o the Amba&s;&s;adors and Mini&s;ters of Fo|raign Princes Congratuled His Maje&s;ty in their Ma&s;ters Names for His happy Deli|very from the De&s;igned A&s;&s;a&s;ination. The King of <HI>France</HI> al&s;o Publi&s;ht in His Do|minions
<PB N="176" REF="96"> an Edict or Proclamation for the Apprehen&s;ion of tho&s;e Four mention'd in our Kings Proclamation of <HI>June</HI> the 28th, and propo&s;ed 500 Pi&s;tols for the Di&s;cove|ry of each.</P>
<P>On the 12th of <HI>July</HI> was Tryed at the <HI>Old Bayly</HI> the above mention'd Captain <HI>Wal|cot,</HI> for this horrid Con&s;piracy, and upon a full and cleer Evidence was found Guilty of High Trea&s;on. The next Day the Lord <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> elde&s;t Son and Heir apparent to the Earl of <HI>Bedford,</HI> was Tryed for the &s;ame Trea&s;on, and upon a cleer Evidence given by the Lord <HI>Howard</HI> of <HI>E&s;crick</HI> and others, was found Guilty. The &s;ame Day al&s;o, <HI>Hone</HI> and <HI>Rou&s;e,</HI> were Tryed and found Guilty of the &s;ame horrid Crime. All which re|ceived Sentence of Death the next day from the Recorder Sir <HI>George Treby, viz.</HI> the Lord <HI>Ru&s;&s;el</HI> by him&s;elf, and <HI>Walcot, Hone,</HI> and <HI>Rou&s;e,</HI> together; but the Judgment was the &s;ame, to be drawn, Hang'd, and Quar|ter'd. During the Tryal of the Lord <HI>Ru&s;|&s;el,</HI> 4 Companies of the Guards were drawn into <HI>Smithfield,</HI> and there po&s;ted all the Day; two Companies of the Trained Bands in St <HI>Bartholmews</HI> Ho&s;pital, and a Party of the Life Guard Waited at the Gates of the <HI>Old Bayly,</HI> attending upon the Lord <HI>Howard.</HI></P>
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<P>In the mean time, <HI>viz.</HI> on <HI>Friday</HI> the 13th of <HI>July,</HI> about 9 of the Clock in the Morning, a &s;ad and de&s;parate action was Committed on him&s;elf by one of the&s;e unhappy Con&s;pirators. <HI>Arthur</HI> Earl of <HI>E&s;|&s;ex</HI> being a Pri&s;oner in the <HI>Tower</HI> on the account of this execrable Trea&s;on, was &s;o far tran&s;ported by the Devils Temptations as to di&s;pair of all mercy, and during a &s;hort ab&s;ence of them that attended, to Mur|der him&s;elf, by Cutting his own Throat with a Rai&s;our.</P>
<P>On <HI>Friday</HI> the 20th of <HI>July,</HI> Three of the fore&s;aid Traytors were executed at <HI>Ty|burn, viz. Walcot, Hone,</HI> and <HI>Rou&s;e,</HI> accor|ding to the Common Judgment in Trea&s;on, Drawn, Hang'd, and quartered. But the Lord <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> by rea&s;on of his noble Birth, had the favour from the King to have the Common Judgment mitigated (th&ocirc; he was again&s;t &s;uch mitigation (as is reported) in the ca&s;e of the late Vicount <HI>Stafford</HI>) and was on the day following, viz. <HI>Satur|day</HI> the 21th of <HI>July,</HI> Beheaded in <HI>Lincolns-Inn Fields.</HI> For which purpo&s;e a Scaffold was erected that Morning on that &s;ide of the Fields next to the Arch going into <HI>Duke</HI> Street, in the middle be|tween the &s;aid Arch and the corner turning
<PB N="178" REF="97"> into <HI>Queen-&s;treet;</HI> 10 Companies of the Guards and a Troop of Hor&s;e were drawn up in the Fields at that time, to &s;ecure the Peace again&s;t &s;o va&s;t a Concour&s;e of People as appeared there on that occa&s;ion. The Lord <HI>Ru&s;&s;el</HI> was Beheaded by three &s;troaks of the Executioner, at half an hour after 10 in the morning.</P>
<P>On the &s;ame Day, the 21th of <HI>July,</HI> was a&s;&s;embled a Convocation of the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Oxford,</HI> in their Convocation Hou&s;e there; at which in a Solemn and formal manner they Condemn'd 27 Propo&s;itions, as fal&s;e, &s;editious, and impious, and mo&s;t of them Heretical and Bla&s;phemous, infamous to Chri&s;tian Religion, and de&s;tructive of all Government, both in Church and State: Which wicked Propo&s;itions were Collected out of &s;everal modern Authors, namely, <HI>Buchanan, Milton, Hobs, Goodwin, Baxter, Julian, Prote&s;tant Reconciler,</HI> &amp;c. Which &s;aid Books were at the &s;ame time Ordered to be Burnt, and were Burnt in the Court of the Schools of the &s;aid Univer&s;ity.</P>
<P>On <HI>Saturday</HI> the 28th of <HI>July,</HI> being St. <HI>Anns,</HI> Day, about 10 in the Evening, The Lady <HI>Ann</HI> &s;econd Daughter to his Royal Highne&s;s, was Married to Prince <HI>George,</HI> Brother to the King of <HI>Danemark.</HI> Which
<PB N="179" REF="97"> Prince arrived at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> the <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> &s;ennight before. The Ceremony of the Marriage was performed by the Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> in the Pre&s;ence of the King, Queen, Duke, and Dutche&s;s, with mo&s;t of the Great Per&s;onages of the Court. All That Night, and the next, the Bells Proclaimed the Pub|lick Joy. And pre&s;ently after they recei|ved the Congratulations of all the Emba&s;|&s;adours and Publick Mini&s;ters in Town. The like al&s;o from the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, in their Scarlet.</P>
<P>Soon after which was publi&s;ht His Ma|je&s;ties Declaration to all his loving Subjects, dated the 28th of <HI>July,</HI> whereby was &s;et forth a &s;hort Narration of the Trea&s;onable Con&s;piracy, as it hath been lately di&s;cover|ed by undoubted proof and the Confe&s;|&s;ion of divers of the Accomplices, for which happy di&s;covery His Maje&s;ty appoint|ed by the &s;aid Declaration a Solemn day of Thank&s;giving to Almighty God, to be celebrated throughout the Kingdom, on <HI>Sunday</HI> the 9th day of <HI>September</HI> next: and that the &s;aid Declaration be publickly read in all Churches, as well on <HI>Sunday</HI> the 2d Day of <HI>September,</HI> as on the Day of Thank&s;|giving afore&s;aid. The &s;ame Day of Thank&s;|giving
<PB N="180" REF="98"> was al&s;o appointed to be ob&s;erved in <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 7th of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> Prince <HI>George</HI> was de&s;ign'd to be In&s;tall'd Knight of the mo&s;t Honourable Order of the Garter, at <HI>Win|d&s;or;</HI> but the Ceremony was put off to a fur|ther day; and on the Fir&s;t of <HI>Jan.</HI> following he was elected into the Order at <HI>Whitehall.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Saturday</HI> the 25th of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> the Dutche&s;s of <HI>York,</HI> and Prince&s;s, vi&s;ited <HI>Bartholmew</HI> Fair, attended by the Earl of <HI>Clarendon,</HI> with &s;everal other Lords and Ladies of the Court: not in State, but partly <HI>Incognito.</HI></P>
<P>The Day for Election of Sheriffs for <HI>Lon|don</HI> and <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> which of Cour&s;e is on the 24th Day of <HI>June,</HI> was this year ad|journ'd to the 5th Day of <HI>September,</HI> on which Day the Livery Men of the City being A&s;&s;embled at <HI>Guild-Hall,</HI> they con|firm'd my Lord Mayors choice of <HI>Peter Daniel</HI> E&s;q; and cho&s;e, to &s;erve with him, <HI>Francis Da&s;hwood</HI> E&s;q; Sheriffs for the year in&s;uing. At the &s;ame time Mr. Deputy <HI>Ail|worth</HI> was cho&s;en into the Office of Cham|berlain of the City of <HI>London</HI> in the Room of Sir <HI>Thomas Player,</HI> removed. All which, with the other Elections of Bridgma&s;ter, and Ale-Cunner, was perform'd with the ancient gravity and Moderation, and not at
<PB N="181" REF="98"> all with &s;uch Riotous and Factious heats and animo&s;ities as of late years.</P>
<P>The 9th of <HI>September</HI> was Solemnized, ac|cording as it had been appointed, with Thank&s;giving in all Churches, for Gods Gracious pre&s;ervation of His Maje&s;ty and his Royal Brother from the late cur&s;ed Con|&s;piracy of tho&s;e that call them&s;elves <HI>True Prote&s;tants.</HI> Nor were tho&s;e of the Com|munion of the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> unmindful of this deliverance, but did al&s;o concur with His Maje&s;ties Prote&s;tant Subjects in expre&s;|&s;ing their Loyal Joy on the &s;ame occa&s;ion, and on the &s;ame 9th of <HI>September</HI> did Cele|brate in all their publick Chappels at <HI>London</HI> an extraordinary Service on this account.</P>
<P>In this Month the right Honourable Sir <HI>Francis North,</HI> Lord Keeper, was Created a Baron of this Kingdom by the Title of Lord <HI>Guilford.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>Michaelma&s;s</HI> Day, the u&s;ual time for the Election of a new Lord Mayor, the Choice was Adjourn'd over for &s;ix Days longer; but before that Day came, the King being di&s;plea&s;ed at the Delays of the City in not Signing the Particulars by their Com|mon Council formerly yielded, relating to their Charter, cau&s;ed the Attorney-General to enter Judgment of Seizure in the <HI>Quo Warranto,</HI> which was done on <HI>Thur&s;day Oct|ober</HI>
<PB N="182" REF="99"> the 4th; and thereupon His Maje&s;ty gave Sir <HI>William Prichard</HI> His Commi&s;&s;ion to Execute the Office of Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> during plea&s;ure; &s;o al&s;o to the two new Sheriffs, Mr. <HI>Daniel,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Da&s;hwood,</HI> all which were Sworn with the u&s;ual Oaths. At the &s;ame time Mr. <HI>Jenner</HI> of the Inner <HI>Temple</HI> was knighted by the name of Sir <HI>Thomas Jenner,</HI> and made the Kings Recorder of <HI>London,</HI> in the Room of Sir <HI>George Treby,</HI> di&s;placed.</P>
<P>About the &s;ame time it was that the Emi|nently Loyal Sir <HI>George Jeoffreys</HI> was made Lord Chief Ju&s;tice of the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> in the place of Sir <HI>Ed. Saunders,</HI> who dyed la&s;t Term; And in the <HI>Common Pleas</HI> Sir <HI>Francis Pember|ton</HI> being put out, Sir <HI>Thomas Jones</HI> was made Lord Chief Ju&s;tice there, in his Room. And Sir <HI>Francis Pemberton</HI> practized at the <HI>Common Pleas</HI> Bar as a Serjeant in the following Term.</P>
<P>On <HI>Sunday</HI> the 7th of <HI>October,</HI> my Lord Mayor and the two Sheriffs appear'd at <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> Chappel, as u&s;ually, in their Gowns and Chains; but none of the Alder|men in their Gowns and Chains, but &s;everal of the Loyal Aldermen attended in their ordinary habits, 16 of them being made Ju&s;tices of the Peace by the Kings new Com|mi&s;&s;ion, in which 8 Factious Aldermen were
<PB N="183" REF="99"> left out, <HI>viz. Allin, Frederick, Laurence, Clay|ton, Ward, Shorter, Gold,</HI> and <HI>Corni&s;h.</HI> But on <HI>Saturday</HI> the 13th of <HI>October,</HI> The King &s;ent a new Commi&s;&s;ion to the City, im|powering the above&s;aid 16 Loyal Alder|men, together with 8 new Aldermen, <HI>viz.</HI> Sir <HI>Benjamin Newland,</HI> Sir <HI>Benjamin Bathur&s;t,</HI> Sir <HI>John Buckworth, Samuel Da&s;hwood,</HI> (one of the pre&s;ent Sheriffs) <HI>Charles Duncomb, Jacob Lucy, Peter Palavazine,</HI> and <HI>Benjamin Thorogood,</HI> to act as Aldermen in their &s;e|veral Wards in the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion men|tion'd. And accordingly &s;everal of them attended on my Lord Mayor the Day fol|lowing at <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> Chappel, after the u&s;ual form and manner in Gowns and Chains, and the next Week a&s;&s;embled in a Court of Aldermen, as formerly.</P>
<P>On <HI>Saturday</HI> the 27th of <HI>October, Aaron Smith,</HI> who had given &s;candalous In&s;tructi|ons to <HI>Colledge</HI> at his Trayal at <HI>Oxford,</HI> and had al&s;o behaved him&s;elf in&s;olently at the &s;aid Tryal, and who had been &s;ince Try|ed upon an Information for the &s;ame, and found Guilty, was now brought to the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Bar, and received Judgment for his &s;aid offence, <HI>viz. 500 l.</HI> Fine, to Stand in the Pillory the <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> following at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and at the <HI>Old Exchange</HI>
<PB N="184" REF="100"> the next <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> after; to be bound to his good Behaviour for one Year; and Impri|&s;onment till this be performed.</P>
<P><HI>Monday</HI> the 29th of <HI>October,</HI> being the next Day after <HI>Simon</HI> and <HI>Jude,</HI> is the an|nual Solemnity of Swearing the Lord May|or of <HI>London,</HI> in the <HI>Exchequer.</HI> And ac|cordingly this Year His Maje&s;ty having ap|pointed Sir <HI>Henry Tul&s;e</HI> by His Commi&s;&s;ion to execute that Office during His Plea&s;ure, he was after the u&s;ual manner attended to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> by the Companies, did the u&s;ual Ceremonies in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall,</HI> made the u&s;ual Cavalcade in <HI>London,</HI> but with|out Pageants, and Dined at <HI>Grocers-Hall,</HI> the other Companies Dining at their &s;e|veral Halls as in former Years.</P>
<P>On the 5th of <HI>November,</HI> &s;everal Tumults and Riotous Actions being Committed by the Rabble in and about <HI>London;</HI> e&s;peci|ally upon the Sieur <HI>Citters,</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador from the <HI>&V;nited Provinces,</HI> by a&s;&s;aulting his Coach and throwing into it &s;everal Squibs, Stones and Firebrands, whereby his Lady, who was then with him, was dan|gerou&s;ly wounded; and Complaint hereof being made to the King in Council on the 7th of <HI>November,</HI> His Maje&s;ty was pleas'd to order for the future. <Q>That no Per&s;on
<PB N="185" REF="100"> or Per&s;ons what&s;oever do pre&s;ume to throw any Squibs or other Fireworks in the Streets of <HI>London,</HI> or <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> or other place within the Weekly Bills of Morta|lity, nor a&s;&s;emble together for the making of Bonfires: And the Lord Mayor Al|dermen and Ju&s;tices of Peace in their re|&s;pective Limits, are required to take due care for the Performance of the &s;aid Or|der of Council.</Q></P>
<P>In this <HI>Michaelmas-Term,</HI> Mrs. <HI>Celier,</HI> who had formerly &s;tood in the Pillory, and been Fined <HI>1000l.</HI> for which &s;he had lain a Pri&s;oner in <HI>Newgate</HI> for &s;everal Years, was now Bail'd out, upon a Writ of Error which &s;he had brought to rever&s;e all the Proceedings.</P>
<P>On the 22d of <HI>November,</HI> this <HI>Michaelmas-Term, Algernoon Sidney</HI> E&s;q; (who had been arraign'd for High Trea&s;on on the 7th In&s;tant) was Tryed for the &s;ame, and found Guilty at the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Bar; and on the 26th, being the <HI>Monday</HI> following, he was brought to the &s;aid Bar and received Sen|tence of Death as u&s;ual in the Ca&s;es of High Trea&s;on, and was beheaded at <HI>Tower-Hill</HI> on the 7th of <HI>December</HI> following.</P>
<P>On <HI>Saturday</HI> the 24th of <HI>November,</HI> The Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> came in voluntarily
<PB N="186" REF="101"> about 5 at Night, and &s;urrender'd him&s;elf to Mr. Secretary <HI>Jenkins,</HI> having before writ a very Submi&s;&s;ive Letter to His Maje&s;ty, entirely re&s;igning him&s;elf to His Maje&s;ties di&s;po&s;al. Hereupon His Maje&s;ty and his Royal Highne&s;s went down to the Secre|taries Office, where the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> was, who &s;hew'd him&s;elf very &s;en&s;ible of his Crime in the late Con&s;piracy, making a full Declaration of it; and having &s;hew'd an extraordinary Penitence for the &s;ame, and made a particular Submi&s;&s;ion to his Royal Highne&s;s for his misbehavior to him, His Maje&s;ty and his Royal Highne&s;s re|ceived &s;o much &s;atisfaction, that upon his Royal Highne&s;s'<HI>s</HI> de&s;ire and Mediation, His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to Pardon the &s;aid Duke, and order the Attorney-General to &s;top further Proceedings again&s;t him.</P>
<P>On the la&s;t Day of <HI>Michaelmas Term,</HI> &s;ix Pri&s;oners then in the <HI>Tower</HI> for High Trea|&s;on, were Bail'd, <HI>viz.</HI> the Lord <HI>Gerard Brandon,</HI> Mr. <HI>Booth,</HI> Mr. <HI>Trenchard,</HI> Mr. <HI>Hamden</HI> Jun. Mr. <HI>Charleton,</HI> and Major <HI>Wild|man,</HI> all which being accu&s;ed for Con&s;pi|rators in the late dete&s;table <HI>Plot,</HI> and but one Witne&s;s again&s;t them, they were Bail'd out in 2000 <HI>l</HI> apiece, and 1000 <HI>l</HI> their Sureties, except Mr. <HI>Hamden,</HI> again&s;t
<PB N="187" REF="101"> whom there being a Bill of Indictment for High Mi&s;demeaners, he was bound in 10000 <HI>l.</HI> him&s;elf, and 5000 <HI>l.</HI> his Sureties.</P>
<P>On <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 6th of <HI>December,</HI> one <HI>John&s;on,</HI> a Cracktbraind Fellow, met the King as he was walking in St. <HI>James Park,</HI> and laying his Hand on his Sword, told His Maje&s;ty he had wrong'd him, and de|manded &s;atisfaction; but being (&s;eiz'd by the Guards, and appearing to be Di&s;tracted, upon Examination, he was tied Neck and Heels together for a while at the Guard Stables, and let go again.</P>
<P>On <HI>Friday</HI> the 7th of <HI>December,</HI> the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> being fallen again into the Kings di&s;plea&s;ure for refu&s;ing to Sign what he had confe&s;t upon his coming in, was Bani&s;ht the Court and expell'd the Royal Pre&s;ence. This was on the &s;ame Day that <HI>Sidney</HI> was beheaded on the <HI>Tower-Hill.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Friday,</HI> the 4th of <HI>January,</HI> the Lord <HI>Peters</HI> who had lain a long time a Pri&s;oner in the <HI>Tower</HI> on the account of <HI>Oates</HI>'s Plot, without being brought to his Tryal, de|parted this Life in his &s;aid Confinement. A little before his departure the &s;aid Lord &s;ent to the King a Letter, wherein he di&s;own'd in his la&s;t Words, and upon his Salvation,
<PB N="188" REF="102"> the matters which he &s;tood accu&s;ed of.</P>
<P>About the middle of <HI>December</HI> this Year began a very eminent and extraordinay Fro&s;t, it la&s;ted without any con&s;iderable Intermi&s;&s;ion till the 5th of <HI>February,</HI> du|ring which time the <HI>Thames</HI> was Frozen over with a &s;olid and Contiguous Ice in all places above the Bridge, Booths built thereon, with Thou&s;ands of People conti|nually walking over, and Sliding; I my &s;elf walkt over at the <HI>Temple,</HI> and &s;o all along the Channel to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> Stairs on the 9th of <HI>January:</HI> Al&s;o on or about the &s;ame Day Coaches went over at <HI>Sommer&s;et-Hou&s;e,</HI> and at the <HI>Temple.</HI> In the Extremity of this Weather, the King granted His Letters Mandatory, Dated the 4th of <HI>January,</HI> to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> to make a Collecti|on in all Pari&s;hes in <HI>London</HI> and the Sub|burbs of the &s;ame, for the relief of the Poor, encouraging His Subjects to &s;uch a needful Charity by his own Example, having order'd large Sums of Mony to be I&s;&s;ued out of His Trea&s;ury for that pur|po&s;e, which Letters were Read in all Churches the two following <HI>Sundays,</HI> and Collections made accordingly. On the 23d of <HI>January,</HI> being the Fir&s;t Day of <HI>Hillary Term,</HI> the Lawyers went over the Ice from
<PB N="189" REF="102"> the <HI>Temple</HI> to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall,</HI> and back again, as familiarly as on the Land, &s;ome walkt on Foot, and &s;ome went in Coaches which carried People from the <HI>Temple</HI> Stairs to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> for the &s;ame fare as by Land, and plied between tho&s;e two places (though not in &s;o great Numbers) as the Watermen do in Summer. Abundance of Booths were erected Cro&s;s between the <HI>Temple</HI> and <HI>Southwark</HI> in which place an ab&s;olute Fair was held, for above a Fortnight, of almo&s;t all &s;orts of Trades, and Printing Pre&s;&s;es e|rected both for Letters and Pictures; a Bull Baited, a Fox Hunted, and a whole Ox Roa&s;ted on the Ice over again&s;t <HI>White|hall.</HI> Nor was this Fro&s;t thus Wonderful only above the Bridge, but Booths were erected, and People pa&s;t over on the Ice, frequently in diver&s;e places, below the Bridge. And the Sea it &s;elf frozen for di|vers Miles from the Shore, on the Coa&s;ts of <HI>England, France,</HI> and e&s;pecially <HI>Holland;</HI> In&s;omuch that for above a Fortnight no Packet Boat or any other Ve&s;&s;el of In|telligence, could either come out of tho&s;e parts or go from hence.</P>
<P>Thus ends this Year, a Year of Extraor|dinary note in <HI>England,</HI> for the happy Di&s;|covery of a Helli&s;h Con&s;piracy again&s;t the
<PB N="190" REF="103"> Lives of his Sacred Maje&s;ty, and Royal Highne&s;s, and again&s;t the Antient Govern|ment of this Kingdom both in Church and State, a Con&s;piracy contrived and carried on by Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enters, inveterate <HI>Cal|vini&s;ts,</HI> and old Common-wealths-men.</P>
<P>Nor was this Year le&s;s remarkable abroad, partly for the Death of <HI>Anna Tere&s;ia</HI> Queen of <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Alphon&s;o</HI> King of <HI>Portugal;</HI> but above all for the formidable and Bloody De&s;cent of the Turks, into <HI>Hungary,</HI> In|vited thither by Count <HI>Tekeley,</HI> a Prote&s;tant Rebel again&s;t the Emperor. The Mahu|metan Army con&s;i&s;ting of 150000 fighting Men, Hor&s;e and Foot, came before <HI>Vienna</HI> on the 9th of <HI>July,</HI> Commanded by the Grand <HI>Vi&s;ier</HI> in Per&s;on. The Emperor had retired two Days before, and left the City under the Command of Count <HI>Staremberg,</HI> who defended it bravely, notwith&s;tanding all the Bloody A&s;&s;aults and utmo&s;t endea|vors of the Enemy, till on the 12 / 2 of <HI>Septem|ber,</HI> the Seige was rais'd, in the highth of the Defendants Extremity, by the coming of the King of <HI>Poland;</HI> who having joyn'd with the Imperial Forces, Commanded by the Duke of <HI>Lorrain,</HI> not only beat off and routed the Turki&s;h Army, with va&s;t Slaugh|ter and no le&s;s Booty, but pur&s;uing his
<PB N="191" REF="103"> Blow, took from them the Fort of <HI>Barkan,</HI> and the City of <HI>Gran</HI> (formerly call'd <HI>Strigonium</HI>) after it had been po&s;&s;e&s;t by the Turks 78 Years. Which City had been formerly, before it was lo&s;t by the Chri&s;tians, the Metropolitan City of <HI>Hungary.</HI> To the Glory of the Engli&s;h Nation, &s;ome of our Country Men were pre&s;ent at the Siege of <HI>Vienna,</HI> in defence of which they Signal|liz'd their Valour. In particular the Lord <HI>Land&s;down,</HI> Elde&s;t Son of the Earl of <HI>Bath,</HI> whom for his extraordinary merits the Emperor created a Count of the Sacred Empire: An Honour which the Ance&s;tors of the Lord <HI>Arundel</HI> of <HI>Warder</HI> had for|merly attain'd in the defence of <HI>Strigonium.</HI></P>
<P>One thing more, renders this Year re|markable, which was partly Dome&s;tick and Partly Foraign. <HI>Tangier</HI> in <HI>Africa,</HI> being po&s;&s;e&s;t by the <HI>Portugals,</HI> came to the Crown of <HI>England</HI> with our now Queen <HI>Catherine,</HI> and having co&s;t our King &s;ince he had it, va&s;t Sums of Mony in defending it again&s;t the Moors, and al&s;o in making the greate&s;t part of a Mole there, which not being found &s;o fea&s;ible, as expected, the Charges very great and certain, the Expectation of any advantage from thence very uncertain; His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed
<PB N="192" REF="104"> about the end of this la&s;t Summer to com|mi&s;&s;ion my Lord <HI>Dartmouth,</HI> attended with about 20 Sail of Ships, to go and utterly to demoli&s;h the &s;aid Town, Ca&s;tle, and Mole at <HI>Tangier,</HI> to choke up the Haven, and to bring off the Ordinance, and <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> Inhabitants to <HI>England,</HI> &s;ending the Foraigners to their &s;everal Countries, but fir&s;t compounding with every Man for his Ground, E&s;tate, and Property in their &s;everal Hou&s;es; all which was accordingly done in about &s;ix Months time.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="account">
<PB N="193" REF="104">
<HEAD>Anno 36 <HI>Car. 2. Anno Dom.</HI> 1684.</HEAD>
<P>I Begin my Hi&s;torical Collections this Year with an Occurrence of Extraor|dinary Note, <HI>viz.</HI> the Bayling the Lords in the <HI>Tower,</HI> which, tho' often moved for, yet could never be obtain'd till now. The Earl of <HI>Danbys</HI> Ca&s;e was argued this <HI>Hil|lary Term,</HI> and on the la&s;t Day of the Term, being <HI>February</HI> the 12th, the Judges in the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> did &s;everally give their Opinions and their Rea&s;ons for the &s;ame, concluding all in one Judgment, That his Lord&s;hip ought to be Bail'd, and accord|ingly Bail was taken.</P>
<LIST>
<LABEL>His Bail were</LABEL>
<ITEM><LIST>
<ITEM>The Duke of <HI>Somer&s;et.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Duke of <HI>Albemarl.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Oxford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Che&s;terfield.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="194" REF="105">
<P>The other Lords being within the &s;ame Rea&s;on, were admitted to the &s;ame Ad|vantage; as al&s;o the Earl of <HI>Tyrone,</HI> who had lain Pri&s;oner in the <HI>Gate-Hou&s;e,</HI> about the &s;ame &s;pace of time with tho&s;e in the <HI>Tower.</HI> Their &s;everal Bail were</P>
<LIST>
<LABEL>For the Earl of <HI>Powis</HI></LABEL>
<ITEM><LIST>
<ITEM>The Duke of <HI>Norfolk.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Duke of <HI>Beaufort.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Pembroke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Peterborough.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<LABEL>For the Lord <HI>Arundal</HI> of <HI>Warder</HI></LABEL>
<ITEM><LIST>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Dor&s;et.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Scar&s;dale.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Bath.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Clarendon.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<LABEL>For the Lord <HI>Bella&s;is</HI></LABEL>
<ITEM><LIST>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Aylesbury.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>We&s;tmerland.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The L. Vicount <HI>Falconbridge.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>John Talbot.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<LABEL>For the Earl of <HI>Tyrone</HI></LABEL>
<ITEM><LIST>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Ro&s;common.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Mount-Alexander.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Earl of <HI>Carlingford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lord <HI>Anne&s;ley.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="195" REF="105">
<P>The Principal Lords were Bound in a Recognizance of 10000 <HI>l</HI> each, and their &s;e|veral Bail in 5000 <HI>l</HI> each, upon Conditi|on that the abovemention'd principal Lords do appear in the Hou&s;e of Lords the next Se&s;&s;ions of Parliament, and not depart with|out leave of that Court.</P>
<P>On the &s;ame Day Mr. <HI>John Hamden</HI> re|ceived Judgment. He had been accu&s;ed and Committed for High Trea&s;on in the late accur&s;ed Con&s;piracy, but in regard, there wanted the Circum&s;tance of Two Witne&s;&s;es again&s;t him, which is nece&s;&s;ary in all Ca&s;es of that nature, he was Indict|ed and Tryed in the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Court, this Term, and found Guilty of a High Tre&s;|pa&s;s and Mi&s;demeaner in Con&s;piring to Le|vy War, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and now his Judgment was That he &s;hould pay 40000 <HI>l</HI> for a Fine to the King, and find Sureties for his good Behavior during Life, and to be Commit|ted till this be paid and done.</P>
<P>The Lord <HI>Brandon,</HI> Mr. <HI>Booth,</HI> Major <HI>Wildman,</HI> Mr. <HI>Charleton,</HI> Mr. <HI>Trenchard,</HI> and &s;ome others who had been accu&s;ed for being in the &s;aid Con&s;piracy, and had been &s;ince admitted to Bail, were on this la&s;t Day of <HI>Hillary-Term,</HI> ab&s;olutely di&s;charg'd.</P>
<P>It is ob&s;ervable in relation to the late great
<PB N="196" REF="106"> Fro&s;t, That the extremity of that Weather had made &s;uch a Mortality and Sickne&s;s (as I may call it) among Fi&s;h, not only of fre&s;h Rivers and Ponds, but even at Sea, that abundance of Fi&s;h of almo&s;t all &s;orts were ob&s;erved to dye of them&s;elves, and float to Shore; upon which account &s;everal Phy&s;itians of the Roman Catholick Religi|on, having con&s;ider'd of the eating of Fi&s;h, they agreed that it mu&s;t needs be unwhol|&s;ome; whereupon a general di&s;pen&s;ation was granted by the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks of that Party to all Roman Catholicks for the eating of Fle&s;h three Days in the Week, <HI>viz. Sundays, Tue&s;days,</HI> and <HI>Thur&s;days,</HI> all the Lent this Year: A thing not known before.</P>
<P>Acts of Ho&s;tility being fiercely pur&s;ued this Spring between the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Spa|niard,</HI> both by Sea and Land, His Maje&s;ty of <HI>Great Brittain</HI> being concern'd on nei|ther &s;ide, but at Amity with both, was pleas'd to Command by His Proclamation Dated at <HI>Newmarket, March</HI> the 12th, That the Peace &s;hould be kept inviolably on both &s;ides, in all Roads, Creeks, and Ports of His Dominions, and that all His Com|manders and Officers &s;hould oppo&s;e them|&s;elves again&s;t any that &s;hould a&s;&s;ault any of
<PB N="197" REF="106"> the Ships of His Allies in any His Roads, Creeks, or places under His Protection, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>On the 14th of <HI>April,</HI> Sir <HI>Leoline Jenk|ins</HI> obtain'd leave of His Maje&s;ty to &s;ur|render his place of Secretary of State, and <HI>Sidney Godolphin</HI> E&s;q; (now Lord <HI>Godolphin</HI>) was Sworn Secretary.</P>
<P>On the 21&s;t of <HI>April, James Holloway</HI> Merchant being out-law'd in Trea&s;on, ha|ving been Indicted for the late Con&s;pira|cy and fled, was brought to the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Bar: where the Attorney-General declared to the Court, and the Court to him, That if he thought he could make him&s;elf appear Not Guilty, the King would wave his Attainder by Outlary, and he might &s;tand a Tryal by a Jury: But he Declar'd That he could not undertake to make him&s;elf appear Not Guilty, for he had confe&s;t his Guilt to the King: Where|upon a Rule of Court was made for his Execution on the 30th of the pre&s;ent <HI>April,</HI> on which Day he was accordingly Executed.</P>
<P>On <HI>Saturday</HI> the 10th of <HI>May, Titus Oates</HI> was arre&s;ted at the <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> Coffee-Hou&s;e, in an Action of <HI>Scandalum Magna|tum</HI> at the Suit: of His Royal Highne&s;s the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> for calling the &s;aid Duke Traytor, and other abominable Language.
<PB N="198" REF="107"> He was carried to <HI>Wood&s;treet-Counter,</HI> where he lay two Days, and was then removed by <HI>Habeas Corpus</HI> to the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Pri&s;on. The next Term he let Judgment go by default, and on the la&s;t Day of the Term a Writ of Enquiry of Damages was Execu|ted at the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> Bar, where the Jury upon hearing the Evidence gave 100000 <HI>l</HI> Damages.</P>
<P>About the beginning of <HI>May,</HI> the King was plea&s;ed to revoke and determine the Commi&s;&s;ion (formerly granted to &s;everal Commi&s;&s;ioners) for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of <HI>England,</HI> and to commit tho&s;e Affairs to the Care of His Royal Highne&s;s.</P>
<P>Al&s;o in this Month of <HI>May,</HI> a Noble and mo&s;t Elaborate Statue of his Now Maje&s;ty, in gray Marble, was erected on a Curious Pede&s;tal of the &s;ame, in the very middle, or Center, of the <HI>Old-Exchange,</HI> The Garb and Habit was that of a Roman <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> The Workman that Cut it was Mr. <HI>Grinlin Gibbons,</HI> the mo&s;t Famous Sta|tuary that <HI>England</HI> ever produced, and e|qual, if not Superiour to the be&s;t of <HI>Eu|rope</HI> in this Age. This was performed at the charge of the <HI>Hamborough</HI> Company, and Co&s;t 500 <HI>l.</HI></P>
<PB N="199" REF="107">
<P>The In&s;cription on the Pede&s;tal is, <Q><HI>Carolo II Cae&s;ari Britannico, Patriae Patri, Regum Optimo, Clementi&s;&s;imo, Augu&s;ti&s;&s;imo, Generis humani Delicijs, &V;triu&s;&abque; fortunae Victori, Pacis Europae Arbitro, Maris Domino &amp; Vindici, Societas Mercatorum Adventur. Angliae Quae per CCCC jam prope Annos Regia Benignitate floret Fidei intemeratae Gratitudinis Aeternae Hoc Te&s;timonium Venerabunda po&s;uit. Anno Sal. Humanae MDCLXXXIV.</HI></Q></P>
<P>On the 28th of <HI>May,</HI> His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed to declair in Council at <HI>Hampton-Court,</HI> That he thought it fit, and for His Service, that his Royal Highne&s;s &s;hould be pre&s;ent at the Meetings of the Council.
<PB N="200" REF="108"> And accordingly the Duke Sate that Day, and continued &s;o to do.</P>
<P>On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 11th of <HI>June,</HI> Sir <HI>Tho|mas Arm&s;trong</HI> was brought to <HI>London,</HI> and committed to <HI>Newgate</HI> in order to his Ex|ecution, being Outlawd in High Trea&s;on. He had been taken at <HI>Leyden</HI> in <HI>Holland,</HI> by Order of the States there, and immediately brought to <HI>Roterdam,</HI> and Shipt away for <HI>England.</HI> There needed no Tryal of him, in regard he fled and was Outlawd, and did not yield him&s;elf within a year, &s;o as to have any benefit of the Stat. 5. <HI>E.</HI> 6. 11. Wherefore he was Executed at <HI>Tyburn</HI> on the 20th of <HI>June,</HI> being a <HI>Friday;</HI> the &s;ame Day of the &s;ame Month, and the &s;ame Day of the Week, on which the five Je&s;uits were Executed in the &s;ame manner at the &s;ame place ju&s;t five years before: His head was &s;et up on <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall</HI> between tho&s;e of <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and <HI>Brad&s;haw;</HI> one of his Quarters upon <HI>Temple Bar,</HI> two others at <HI>Alder&s;gate,</HI> and <HI>Algate,</HI> and the 4th was &s;aid to be &s;ent down to <HI>Stafford,</HI> for which Town he had been a Burge&s;s in Parliament.</P>
<P>On <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 26th of <HI>June,</HI> His Royal Highne&s;s the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> being Captain of the Artillary Company of <HI>London,</HI> did them the Honour to march in their Head through
<PB N="201" REF="108"> the City to the Artillary Ground, and there Lead'em up in Per&s;on, with mighty Joy and Acclamations.</P>
<P>On the 7th of <HI>July,</HI> the City of <HI>Durham,</HI> &s;urrender'd their Charter into the Hands of their Prince, the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Durham,</HI> &s;oon after which &s;urrender He granted them a new one, re&s;erving to him&s;elf the Confir|mation of their Mayor, Aldermen, and Chief Officers, in like manner as the King had done before in other parts of this King|dom, Mo&s;t Corporations having &s;urrenderd and renew'd, about this time.</P>
<P>On the fir&s;t of <HI>October</HI> was made a Review or Mu&s;ter of His Maje&s;ties Land Forces on <HI>Putney Heath;</HI> a mo&s;t Gallant Military ap|pearance. The Hor&s;e that Day con&s;i&s;ted of the Three Troops of Guards, and of their Three of Granadiers, of the Earl of <HI>Oxfords</HI> Regiment of Hor&s;e Guards, and the Lord <HI>Churchills</HI> Regiment of Dragoons. The Foot were Two Batalions form'd from the <HI>Royal</HI> Regiment of Guards and their Gra|nadiers; One Batalion from the <HI>Cold&s;tream</HI> Regiment of Guards and Granadiers; One Batalion from the Earl of <HI>Dunbarton</HI>'s Regi|ment and their Granadiers, and One from the <HI>Admiral</HI> Regiment. The total of Hor&s;e and Foot which then Rendavouz'd were
<PB N="202" REF="109"> above 4000 advantagiou&s;ly Trained and well clad Men. All being that Day, com|manded by the Earl of <HI>Craven.</HI> At which Re|view both their Maje&s;ties, and Royal High|ne&s;&s;es, were pre&s;ent with great &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P>About this time His Maje&s;ty was pleas'd to Di&s;&s;olve the Commi&s;&s;ion formerly grant|ed, in the year 1681, to certain Commi&s;&s;i|oners to di&s;po&s;e of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Prefer|ments, belonging to the Crown: So that the &s;aid Preferments are now again in His Maje&s;ties immediate di&s;po&s;al.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>William Prichard</HI> the late Loyal Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> having this Summer brought His Action upon the Ca&s;e again&s;t Mr. <HI>Papillon,</HI> for cau&s;ing him to be Are&s;ted in the time of his Mayeralty, without any legal cau&s;e of Action (of which I made mention in the la&s;t year) the cau&s;e was Tryed before my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Jef|freys</HI> by <HI>Ni&s;i Prius</HI> at <HI>Guild-Hall,</HI> on the 6th of <HI>Nov.</HI> And upon a full hearing of the Evidence, the Jury found for the Plain|tiff, and gave him 10000 <HI>l.</HI> Damages.</P>
<P>Other matters of Publick Concern were tran&s;acted this <HI>Michaelma&s;s Term.</HI> Several Factious per&s;ons were convicted and Sen|tenced for Speaking Scandalous and Sedi|cious Words of the Government; In per|particular <HI>Elias Be&s;t</HI> (commonly call'd the
<PB N="203" REF="109"> <HI>Prote&s;tant Hop-Merchant</HI>) was fined 1000 <HI>l.</HI> to &s;tand thrice in the Pillory, and good Behaviour during Life: <HI>Dalby,</HI> and <HI>Nich|ol&s;on,</HI> two of <HI>Oates</HI>'s Men, for the like: and one Mr. <HI>Butler</HI> of <HI>Northampton&s;hire</HI> con|victed upon an Information for pre&s;enting and Reading to the Knights of the Shire cho&s;en for that County, at the la&s;t Election, a Seditious Paper of Addre&s;s to them, from &s;ome factious per&s;ons, for which he was fined 500 Marks, and good behaviour during Life. And to &s;hew What matters are too fre|quently tran&s;acted in Conventicles, one <HI>Thomas Ro&s;well</HI> a Conventicle Preacher at <HI>Redriff</HI> was this Term Tryed and convicted of High Trea&s;on, in &s;peaking certain very foul and Trea&s;onable Words on the 14th of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t, in his Preachment at his &s;aid Conventicle; but &s;ome que&s;tions ari&s;ing in Relation to the form of his Indictment, which being argued by Council on both &s;ides, the Court took time to advi&s;e of their Judgment till next Term, and before that arrived, the &s;aid <HI>Ro&s;well</HI> obtained His Maje|&s;ties Gracious Pardon. But as if this was not &s;ufficient to &s;hew the ill Principles of the Di&s;&s;enting Party, about the &s;ame time news arrived at <HI>London,</HI> of the mo&s;t Bar|berous Act in <HI>Scotland</HI> that has been heard
<PB N="204" REF="110"> of in many Years. Some de&s;perate Rebells there, had in the Night time affixed a mo&s;t Villanous and Trayterous Paper on &s;everal Cro&s;&s;es and Church Doors in that Country, and therein declared War again&s;t the King (under the name of <HI>Charles Stuart</HI>) and publi&s;ht their Re&s;olutions to kill and de|&s;troy all tho&s;e that &s;erve and adhere to Him; in pur&s;uance whereof they came on the 19th of <HI>November</HI> at Night (being a|bout 36 Footmen and 16 Hor&s;emen) to an Inn, called <HI>Swine-Abby,</HI> 13 Miles from <HI>Edinborough,</HI> and there Barberou&s;ly Murder'd two Gentlemen of His Maje&s;ties Hor&s;e Guards, in their Beds, cutting and mang|ling their Bodies, and carrying away with them &s;everal Pieces of their Fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Al&s;o this <HI>Michaelma&s;s Term,</HI> on the 13th of <HI>November, Titus Oates</HI> was in the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Court indicted for Perjury, in Re|lation to <HI>Ireland</HI>'s being in <HI>London</HI> at that time the &s;aid <HI>Oates</HI> Swore to, at his Tryal; to which Indictment he pleading Not Guilty, the Tryal was appointed to be next Term. After this at the Se&s;&s;ions in the <HI>Old Bayly, December,</HI> 12th he was again Indicted upon an other Indictment of Perjury, in Relation to his being Pre&s;ent at the &s;uppo&s;ed Con&s;ult of the Je&s;uits at the <HI>White-Hor&s;e</HI> Tavern, and upon
<PB N="205" REF="110"> Not Guilty pleaded, this al&s;o was appointed to be Tryed in the <HI>Kings Bench.</HI> Court next Term: And the Indictment was removed thither.</P>
<P>The Roads being this Winter extreamly infe&s;ted with Robbers, His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed, on the 19th of <HI>December,</HI> to Order in Council, and declare His plea&s;ure for redre&s;s, <Q>That all His Officers of Ju&s;tice and other His loving Subjects do u&s;e their utmo&s;t Diligence and Endeaver for the ap|prehending all Robbers and Highway Men; And for the Encouragement of &s;uch as &s;hall apprehend any &s;uch Offender, it was further Order'd, That &s;uch Per&s;on or Per&s;ons, who &s;hall at any time from the pre&s;ent, till the 19th of <HI>December,</HI> 1685, and after that day, till His Maje&s;ty &s;hall plea&s;e to recall this Order, either by Pro|clamation or His Order in Council, ap|prehend any Robber or Highway Man, and cau&s;e him to be brought into Cu&s;tody, &s;hall within 15 days after his Conviction have a Reward of 10 <HI>l.</HI> for every &s;uch Offender &s;o apprehended and Convicted; And all Sheriffs of the Re&s;pective Counties where &s;uch Conviction &s;hall be had, are by the &s;aid Order required, upon the Cer|tificate of the Judge, or Two or more Ju&s;tices
<PB N="206" REF="111"> of the Peace, before whom &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall be convicted of &s;uch Apprehen&s;ion, and Conviction, to pay unto the Per&s;on or Per|&s;ons who &s;hall apprehend &s;uch Offendors, the Reward afore&s;aid, within the ime afore&s;aid, out of His Maje&s;ties Monies received by &s;uch Sheriff or Sheriffs in that County where &s;uch Conviction &s;hall be, which &s;hall be allow'd unto him or them upon his or their accounts in the <HI>Exchequer:</HI> And all Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Ju&s;tices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Baylies, and other Officers and per&s;ons what|&s;oever, were required to take notice of the &s;aid Order, and to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting in all things tending to the Execution of the &s;ame, as they tender His Maje&s;ties di&s;plea&s;ure, and upon pain of being Proceeded again&s;t as Contemners of His Maje&s;ties Royal Autho|rity.</Q></P>
<P>This Chri&s;tma&s;s the re&s;tle&s;s and implaca|ble Spirit of the Di&s;&s;enters, appeared again, by di&s;per&s;ing in &s;everal Places in and about <HI>London,</HI> a mo&s;t Wicked, Fal&s;e, and Trea|&s;onous Libel, relating to the Death of the Late Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex;</HI> and upon &s;trict &s;earch and enquiry after the Author, One <HI>Henry Danvers,</HI> Commonly call'd Colonel <HI>Danvers,</HI> late of <HI>Newington</HI> in <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> appear'd
<PB N="207" REF="111"> to be the man; but being upon the Di&s;co|very, fled, His Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed on the 4th of <HI>Jan.</HI> to command publick Notice to be given, <Q>That whereas the &s;aid <HI>Henry Danvers</HI> &s;tands accu&s;ed upon Oath of &s;e|veral Trea&s;onable and Dangerous Practi|ces, and is fled from Ju&s;tice, Whoever &s;hall apprehend the &s;aid <HI>Henry,</HI> and cau&s;e him to be delivered into &s;afe Cu&s;tody, that he may be proceeded again&s;t according to Law, &s;hall receive a Reward of 100 <HI>l.</HI> to be forthwith paid by the Lords Commi&s;&s;ion|ers of the Trea&s;ury.</Q></P>
<P>In the beginning of this <HI>Hillary Term,</HI> Sir <HI>Scroop How,</HI> one of the Knights of the Shire for the County of <HI>Nottingham</HI> in the late Parliaments, appear'd in the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> Court, to An&s;wer to an Information for words &s;poke again&s;t His Maje&s;ty and Royal Highne&s;s, which being Read, he pleaded Guilty, confe&s;t his offence with much &s;or|row, and ca&s;t him&s;elf upon the King'<HI>s</HI> and Duke'<HI>s</HI> mercy: To whom being the next Day introduc'd, he was upon his humble Submi&s;&s;ion, received to Grace; upon which he acknowledg'd, that he owed to his Ma|je&s;ties Goodne&s;s his Life, and his E&s;tate; and that he would for the future dedicate
<PB N="208" REF="112"> both to the Service of His Maje&s;ty, and the Royal Family.</P>
<P>Thus ended the 36th Year of His Maje|&s;ties Reign, in a State of Tranquillity and Peace, after &s;o many Terrors, Di&s;quiets and Tumults; the Remembrance of which, as it Magnifies our pre&s;ent Happine&s;s by Com|pari&s;on of pa&s;t Troubles, &s;o ought we never to forget to pay our due Applau&s;e, Love, and Veneration to the Sacred Memory of our late Gracious Soveraign King <HI>Charles the</HI> 2d, who (under God) has wrought this Ble&s;&s;ed Change: A Change by which He render'd His Subjects the mo&s;t happy People of <HI>Europe,</HI> and him&s;elf the mo&s;t Glorious and Admired Prince of <HI>Chri&s;ten|dom;</HI> who by a Conduct truly Royal, could reduce a People Plunged, and almo&s;t overwhelm'd in Confu&s;ion, into a Quiet not to be expected, hardly to be hoped for; and by his incomparable Prudence a&s;|&s;wage a Faction blown up into a Tempe&s;t, more Violent &amp; Deaf than Winds, and Seas. In what Words, what Deeds, can we expre&s;s a Gratitude equal to &s;uch a Merit? Sta|tues of Marble, and Tryumphal Arches may pay a le&s;&s;er Debt of Veneration; but for this Ble&s;&s;ing, &s;uch are too poor ac|knowledgments. Let all True <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI>
<PB N="209" REF="112"> rai&s;e him a Better, a more la&s;ting, and more Worthy Monument, a Monument of Grateful Hearts: Let us Eternize His Glo|rious Name through all Generations; Let our Applau&s;es la&s;t for ever: But above all, let us expre&s;s our Love and E&s;teem for His Memory, by our unfained Loyalty, true Faith, and Allegiance to His mo&s;t Royal, and mo&s;t Equal Brother, the Brother of His Vertues, Our pre&s;ent Gratious Sove|raign <HI>King</HI> JAMES <HI>the Second;</HI> whom God grant long to Live and Reign over us, to the un&s;peakable Joy and Comfort of all His Maje&s;ties Good Subjects, and to the Confu&s;ion of His Enemies.</P>
<P>&rindx; Note, that the year of our Lord in the running Title is to be &s;uppo&s;ed to begin according to the Almanack, in <HI>January,</HI> and not on the 25th of <HI>March.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<PB REF="113">
<HEAD>Errata.</HEAD>
<P>PAge 15. l. <HI>penul.</HI> r. <HI>tacking.</HI> p. 59. l. 15. r. <HI>as was &s;aid.</HI> p. 69. l. 4. r. <HI>Leoline.</HI> p. 113. l. 3. for, <HI>Bar.</HI> r. <HI>Court.</HI> p. 149. l. 20. for, <HI>Bar.</HI> r. <HI>Court.</HI> p. 185. l. 17. f. <HI>Proceedings.</HI> r. <HI>Judg|ment.</HI></P>
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<PB REF="113">
<HEAD>THE TABLE.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>A.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>ADmiralty,</HI> Page 198</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Addre&s;&s;es Loyal,</HI> 72, 115, 175</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ailworth <HI>Chamberlain of</HI> London, 180</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Aldermen of</HI> London <HI>changed,</HI> 183</ITEM>
<ITEM>Angle&s;ey <HI>Earl,</HI> 153</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Arch-Bi&s;hop of</HI> St. Andrews, <HI>barbarou&s;ly Mur|der'd,</HI> 53</ITEM>
<ITEM>Argile <HI>Earl,</HI> 129</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arm&s;trong <HI>Sir</HI> Thomas, 200</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arundel <HI>Earl,</HI> 159</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A&s;&s;ociation,</HI> 93, 138</ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;ton <HI>Lord,</HI> 80</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ayres <HI>Captain,</HI> 147</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<PB REF="114">
<HEAD>B.</HEAD>
<ITEM>BAntham <HI>lo&s;t to the</HI> Dutch, 164</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bedloe William, 34, 64, 86</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bella&s;is <HI>Lord,</HI> 28, 45, 47</ITEM>
<ITEM>Be&s;t Elias, 203</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bethel Slingsby, 84, 91</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bi&s;hops, accu&s;ed unju&s;tly for Papi&s;ts,</HI> 47</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Whether to &s;it upon Tryals,</HI> 52</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bi&s;hops in</HI> Scotland, <HI>their Letter to the Arch-Bi&s;hop of</HI> Canterbury, 141</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Black Box,</HI> 74</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bonfires forbid,</HI> 77, 157, 185</ITEM>
<ITEM>Box Ralph, 148, 152, 154</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bri&s;tol <HI>Artillery Company their Loyal Addre&s;s,</HI> 137</ITEM>
<ITEM>Broom, <HI>Coroner,</HI> 165, 168</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>C.</HEAD>
<ITEM>CAmbridge <HI>&V;niver&s;ity, Their Addre&s;s</HI> 139</ITEM>
<ITEM>Can, <HI>Sir</HI> Robert, 88</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Captain</HI> Cheek <HI>Lieutenant of the</HI> Tower, 53</ITEM>
<ITEM>Caryl, John, 77</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ca&s;tlemain <HI>Earl,</HI> 77, 81</ITEM>
<ITEM>Celier Elizabeth, 59, 79, 86, 185</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clarendon, <HI>Earl,</HI> 95, 194</ITEM>
<ITEM>Coleman, Edward, 27, 34</ITEM>
<ITEM>Colledge, Steven, 119, 120, 121</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A Comet &s;een,</HI> 92</ITEM>
<PB REF="114">
<ITEM><HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners for Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Preferments,</HI> 125, 202</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Common Council in</HI> London, <HI>Loyal</HI> 167, 170</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Con&s;piracy again&s;t the King and Duke Di&s;|cover'd,</HI> 173</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Congratulation on the Di&s;covery,</HI> 175</ITEM>
<ITEM>Coning&s;mark <HI>Count,</HI> 135, 136</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Conventicles,</HI> 129, 147</ITEM>
<ITEM>Conwey <HI>Lord,</HI> 99</ITEM>
<ITEM>Corni&s;h Henry, 84, 91, 156, 158</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>D.</HEAD>
<ITEM>DAnby <HI>Earl,</HI> 43, 44, 45, 50, 51, 113, 114, 193</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dangerfield Thomas, 59, 79, 81</ITEM>
<ITEM>Daniel, Peter, 180, 182</ITEM>
<ITEM>Danvers, Henry, 206</ITEM>
<ITEM>Da&s;hwood Francis, 180, 182</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dean, <HI>Sir</HI> Anthony, 55</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Declaration upon the Di&s;&s;olution of the Two la&s;t Parliaments,</HI> 109</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>For a Thanksgiving,</HI> 179</ITEM>
<ITEM>De Puy, 114</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Drought Extraordinary,</HI> 121</ITEM>
<ITEM>Durham <HI>City,</HI> 201</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>E.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>EMba&s;&s;ador from</HI> Morocco, 160</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>from</HI> Bantam, 160</ITEM>
<PB REF="115">
<ITEM>E&s;&s;ex <HI>Earl,</HI> 98, 177</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Exclu&s;ion Bill,</HI> 49, 89, 93, 94, 95, 99, 108</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Expedients propo&s;ed,</HI> 47. 107</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>F.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>FA&s;ts,</HI> 11, 28, 43</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fever&s;ham, <HI>Earl,</HI> 86, 95</ITEM>
<ITEM>Finch, <HI>Lord Chancellor, his excellent Speech in Parliament, 16, Dyes,</HI> 159</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fi&s;h Dye,</HI> 196</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fitzharris, Edward, 107, 110, 112, 113, 117, 119</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>French Prote&s;tants come over,</HI> 124</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fro&s;t Remarkable,</HI> 188</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>G.</HEAD>
<ITEM>GA&s;coigne <HI>Sir</HI> Thomas, 64, 65</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prince</HI> George <HI>of</HI> Denmark <HI>Marries the Lady</HI> Anne, 178</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elected into the Order of the Garter,</HI> 180</ITEM>
<ITEM>Godfrey <HI>Sir</HI> Edmundbury, 27, 29</ITEM>
<ITEM>Godolphin, <HI>Lord,</HI> 197</ITEM>
<ITEM>Goodenough, Richard, 126</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gold, <HI>Sir</HI> Thomas, 156, 158</ITEM>
<ITEM>Graham, Richard, 145</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Serjeant</HI> Gregory, <HI>Speaker,</HI> 43</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>H.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>HAil Storm, Remarkable,</HI> 75</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hallifax <HI>Earl,</HI> 95, 154</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Hamden John, 186, 195</ITEM>
<ITEM>Harris Benjamin, 69</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hide, Laurence, 95</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Honours confer'd,</HI> 160</ITEM>
<ITEM>Holloway, James, 197</ITEM>
<ITEM>Howard, <HI>of</HI> E&s;crick, <HI>Lord,</HI> 117, 118</ITEM>
<ITEM>How, <HI>Sir</HI> Scroop, 207</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humphrevile, Charles, 81</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<ITEM>JEffreys, <HI>Sir</HI> George, 89, 116, 182</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jenkins, <HI>Sir</HI> Leoline, 69, 197</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jenner, <HI>Sir</HI> Thomas, 182</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The five Je&s;uites Tryed and Executed,</HI> 55</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ignoramus <HI>Juries,</HI> 118, 120, 126, 127, 146</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jones, <HI>Sir</HI> Thomas, 90, 182</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ireland, Pickering, <HI>and</HI> Groves, 35</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>K.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>KIng</HI> Charles I. <HI>His Statue, and In&s;crip|tion,</HI> 169</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A Monument and Funeral Voted for Him,</HI> 4</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>King</HI> Charles II. <HI>His Statue, and In&s;crip|tion,</HI> 199</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>His Admirable Prudence and Conduct,</HI> 208</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>L.</HEAD>
<ITEM>LAnghorn Richard, 55</ITEM>
<ITEM>Langhorn, <HI>Junior,</HI> 83</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Land&s;down, <HI>Lord,</HI> 191</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lauderdale, <HI>Duke,</HI> 14</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lewis, <HI>Sir</HI> Simon, 84</ITEM>
<ITEM>London, <HI>Petition,</HI> 97</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Addre&s;s to their Members,</HI> 103</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Loyal Addre&s;s.</HI> 116</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord Mayor of</HI> London <HI>Arre&s;ted,</HI> 165</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Act di&s;own'd by the Common Council,</HI> 167</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Loyal Lieutenancy of</HI> London, 116</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vid.</HI> Quo Warranto</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>M.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>LOrd</HI> Mayor <HI>and Aldermen of</HI> London <HI>go to</HI> Wind&s;or <HI>to Congratulate,</HI> 57</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Are&s;ted,</HI> 165</ITEM>
<ITEM>Middle&s;ex <HI>Grand Jurys.</HI> 82</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Loyal Addre&s;s,</HI> 130</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Militia,</HI> 33</ITEM>
<ITEM>Monmouth <HI>Duke,</HI> 54, 57, 60, 74, 79, 80, 163, 185, 187</ITEM>
<ITEM>Moor, <HI>Sir</HI> John, <HI>the Loyal Lord Mayor of</HI> London, 116, 125, 149, 159</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>N.</HEAD>
<ITEM>NEwmarket, <HI>Fire,</HI> 164</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>News Factious, &s;ilenced,</HI> 75 109, 158</ITEM>
<ITEM>North, <HI>Sir</HI> Francis, 90, 109, 181</ITEM>
<ITEM>North, <HI>Sir</HI> Dudly, 148</ITEM>
<ITEM>Norwich, <HI>Loyal Addre&s;s,</HI> 115</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
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<HEAD>O.</HEAD>
<ITEM>OS&s;ery <HI>Earl,</HI> 86</ITEM>
<ITEM>Otes, Titus, 33, 124, 198, 203, 204</ITEM>
<ITEM>Oxford, <HI>the King and Queen receiv'd there,</HI> 105</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Parliament there,</HI> 105</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>&V;niver&s;ity condemn 27 Propo&s;itions Sedi|tious and impious,</HI> 178</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>P.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>PArliament. The long one Di&s;&s;olved,</HI> 37</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Another call'd at</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter, 40. <HI>Di&s;|&s;olved, 56. Another call'd at</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter, 58. <HI>Sit. 87. Di&s;&s;olved, 98. Another call'd and &s;it at</HI> Oxford, 105. <HI>Di&s;&s;olved, 108 Papi&s;ts Bani&s;ht 10 Miles from</HI> London <HI>and</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter, 29, 32, <HI>Not to remove above five Miles from their homes, 31. Excluded from &s;itting in Parliament,</HI> 32, 33</ITEM>
<ITEM>Payton, <HI>Sir</HI> Robert, 59, 77</ITEM>
<ITEM>Papillon, Thomas, 85, 165, 202</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pemberton, <HI>Sir</HI> Francis, 109, 159, 182</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pepys, Samuel, 55</ITEM>
<ITEM>Peter, <HI>Lord,</HI> 187</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Petitioning in an illegal manner,</HI> 61, 62, 69</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pilkinton, Thomas, 125 158</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Plot bu&s;ine&s;s, its beginning,</HI> 26</ITEM>
<ITEM>Plunket, Oliver, 116, 118, 119</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pope burning,</HI> 59, 157</ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>Popi&s;h Lords Committed, 28, Impeacht,</HI> 35, 45, 47. Bail'd, 194</ITEM>
<ITEM>Powis, <HI>Counte&s;s,</HI> 59, 75, 77,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prance, Miles, 38</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pritchard <HI>Sir</HI> William, 156, 165, 167, 182, 202</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Privy Council,</HI> 45</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Proclamations, for a Fa&s;t, 28, 43. Again&s;t Papi&s;ts, 29, 31, 32. Against illegal Peti|tions, 62. For Di&s;covery, 88. Against Highway-men, 70, 205. Again&s;t Duels, 70 Again&s;t News Pamphlets, 75. For Apprehen|&s;ion of Con&s;pirators, 174. Of Neutrality, 196 Pretections of the Commons di&s;charg'd,</HI> 8</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>Q.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>QAarrel in the Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> 32</ITEM>
<ITEM>Quo Warranto, <HI>London,</HI> 146, 170, 171, 172, 181</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>R.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>RAces of</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Hor&s;es in</HI> France, 163</ITEM>
<ITEM>Reading, Nathaniel, 46</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rebellion in</HI> Scotland, 54, 204</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Review of the Land Forces,</HI> 201</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich, Peter, 154</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Riots,</HI> 107, 157, 166, 184</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ro&s;wel, Thomas, 203</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rou&s;e, John, 119, 126, 176, 177</ITEM>
<PB REF="117">
<ITEM>Rupert <HI>Prince Palatine Dies,</HI> 159</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ru&s;&s;el <HI>Lord,</HI> 176, 177</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>S.</HEAD>
<ITEM>SAunders, <HI>Sir</HI> Edmund, 159, 182</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sawyer, <HI>Sir</HI> Robert, 11, 12</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Scaffolds in</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall <HI>removed,</HI> 169</ITEM>
<ITEM>Scotland, <HI>Rebellion there,</HI> 54, 204</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Loyal Parliament there,</HI> 121</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Their Acts,</HI> 123, 128</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bi&s;hops there write to the Arch-Bi&s;hop of</HI> Canterbury, 141</ITEM>
<ITEM>Scrogs <HI>Sir</HI> William, 21, 58, 64, 90</ITEM>
<ITEM>Seymer, <HI>Speaker,</HI> 43, 90</ITEM>
<ITEM>Shaftsbury, <HI>Earl,</HI> 8, 93, 119, 127, 128, 144, 161</ITEM>
<ITEM>Shandois, <HI>Lord,</HI> 73</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sheriffs of</HI> London <HI>Committed to the</HI> Tower, 149, <HI>Bail'd,</HI> Ibid.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Shute, Samuel, 125</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sidney, Algernoon, 185</ITEM>
<ITEM>Smith, Aaron, 183</ITEM>
<ITEM>Smith, Francis, 109</ITEM>
<ITEM>Staley, William, 34</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stafford, <HI>Vicount,</HI> 76, 91, 92</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Statue of</HI> King Charles, 1. 169</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Of</HI> King Charles 2. 208</ITEM>
<ITEM>Symonds, <HI>Sir</HI> James, 83</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<PB REF="118">
<HEAD>T.</HEAD>
<ITEM>TAngier, 78, 87, 93, 94, 191</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ta&s;burgh, Richard, 76</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thanksgiving Meeting Prohibited,</HI> 142</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;<HI>Appointed for the Di&s;covery of the Con&s;piracy,</HI> 179, 181</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thinne, Thomas, 135, 136</ITEM>
<ITEM>Titchburn, <HI>Sir</HI> Henry, 77</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Trade with</HI> France <HI>Prohibited,</HI> 10</ITEM>
<ITEM>Treby <HI>Sir</HI> George, 176, 182</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tul&s;e, <HI>Sir</HI> Henry, 184</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tumult at</HI> Edinburgh, 142, <HI>at</HI> Dublin, 144</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<ITEM>VIenna, <HI>Siege and Relief,</HI> 190</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Votes Printed,</HI> 90</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>W.</HEAD>
<ITEM>WAkeman <HI>Sir</HI> George, 27, 56</ITEM>
<ITEM>Walcot, Hone, <HI>and</HI> Rou&s;e, 176</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>War with</HI> France, <HI>promoted by the Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> 5, 7, 9, 10, 12</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ward, <HI>Sir</HI> Patience, 167</ITEM>
<ITEM>We&s;ton, <HI>Sir</HI> Richard, 90</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whitfield, Thomas, 69</ITEM>
<ITEM>William&s;on, <HI>Sir</HI> Jo&s;eph, <HI>Secretary of State</HI> 31, 32, 39</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wilmore, John, 145, 156</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Withens, <HI>Sir</HI> Francis, 72, 88</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wi. Williams, <HI>Speaker,</HI> 88, 107</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>Y.</HEAD>
<ITEM>YOrk, <HI>the Mo&s;t Illu&s;trious Duke,</HI> 30, 39, 40, 49, 57, 58, 60, 66, 68, 87, 93, 94, 95, 96, 132, 137, 139, 140, 141, 143, 146, 174, 198, 200, 201.</ITEM>
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