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L.c.2123: Newsletter received by Richard Newdigate?, 1692/1693 January 3
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besides what was slain by the Cannon of the Castle yesterday a new ode Composed by Mr Tate poet Laureat and Tuned by Dr Blow was sung before their Maties upon occasion of ye new year part of which is as followes Whilst Tyrants their neighbours and subjects Oppress all Nations the pious Restorer [Caress] [somiely] our [New] prepares for ye ffield his Valour his sword his vertue his shield he aims in Compassion for Europes release he Conquers to save & warrs to give peace
yesterday Allderman Sturt a Wealthy Citizen passed through the strand Westward In a herse followed by his Lady in another In order to be Interred both in one Graue In the Countie
his Matie hath dispatched an Express to Ireland relating to the Late proceeds In that kingdom and his Matie hath ordered 3 Regiments to embarque for Cork and Kingsail and that his Excellency come not for England without further orders
The House of Commons was yesterday called over and ordered 6 members to [fo..ht] up in Custody of a serjeant at Arms vizt Sr Mark Millbank Sr Tho Miller Mr Henry pelham - mr Benet Mr Dorney and Mr [......]
Fallmouth 25th [vlt] yester day their Maties pacquett Boat came in here
body Attackt Dixmude, ffurnes &c which had the Effect as that the fformer Surrendour to ye ffrench, and ye garison quitte ffurnes before the ffrench came to it This Express adds That upon the Approach of the Confederate R Army towards Runfelden the ffrench quitted ye Siege and sayeth further that The Electoress of Bavaria is dead at Vienna Those mem bers in the House comenced in the Ordinance said if his Matie had onely
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the Captain saith he saw 4 ffrench men of Warr at sea and has heard that they have 2 whole Squadrons abroad
Portsmouth ye 1st Instant ye Loyalty of London riding at [......] in Cowes Road was yesterday driven from the same & Ioyned a [s....] in Stoaks Bay
Severall Inn keepers will suddenly be taken up for high way men upon ye Informacion of Holland who was condemned last sessions but is to haue his pardon for ye discovery
on Sunday Last Sr Iohn Morsham departed this Life and Left his son an estate of 4000li per Annum and 40000li in money
on Sunday last 2 highway were seized in St Martins Church & committed
The Letters from ffallmouth further Advise that they haue an accot from St Ives that Last week a ffrench privatier within sight of ye place took an Engish ship of 100 Tunns Laden with Linnen Cloath and other Commodities and the Master of her Agreed with the Captain of the privatier to haue his ship again paying 255 but the said Master going Ashoar and not returning again the ffrench after having taken out all the best goods sett the ship on fire and the people of ye Town sat her burn down to ye water
On Sunday Evening
Mr Bridgman kissed the Kings hand to succeed Mr Dives in his place of Clerk of ye Councell and tis said Dr [Irwin] under secretary in the Reign of K James will be made secretary of ye privie office - This day the Spanish Embassador received an Express by a vessell hired on purpose from Ostend with an accot that the Appearing of the ffrench before Huy was onely a Counterfeit shew to drain our fforces Thitherwards whilst another
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Appointed Thursday to go into a grand Committee and on Thursday a free conference is appointed with ye Lds - Tomor row about ye Earl of Nottinghams papers
The Lds haue been all this day in a Committee on the Bill to disable members to sitt in Parliament that shall accept of any office at Court severall clauses are brought in to be added and they twice divided and threw them out being Contrary to the purport of ye Bill and tis believed they will pass the same with Little Amendments
News Lettr: for ye year 1692
L.c.2124: Newsletter received by Richard Newdigate, Arbury, 1692/1693 January 10
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rThey write from Paris that the King will goe in p son into Germany and the Dauphin into fflanders, and hath expedited Mons r Cabinatt into Piedmont wher he will begin an Early Campaign and hath sent Count D'Estree to Thoulon to hasten the [Porvince] Squadron to ioyn the Grand ffleet and had been amassing great Quantities of p visions in all his Maritime Towns to entertain fforces w ch he p tends to make a descent w thall
The Lord [Rugell] hath sent a Letter dated the 14th xber at [Betyr.de] that he was rec d there with all the markes of honour & esteem and that he then found a Letter from the Grand vizeir to hasten his Comming to Adrianople whose p sence only was wanting to conclude a Peace betwixt the 2 Empires
The H =nued sitting till night upon the supply Bill, and the House divided & carried it that the King nominate Commiss rs for 2 Counties in Wales, there being but 3 p sons in both that had paid in the [Poll] Tax as Gent : Resolved that the Universities excused in former Acts doe pay in this -
: of Commons yesterday conti=The House of Peers heard Councill at the Barr touching the Peerage of the L d Banbury and have deferred the further Consideration thereof untill satterday next -
believed to be finished a clause was offerd to suspend all p During the Warr. The House Divided and Carried it in the Affirmativeyeas 107 noes 70. But it being a matter of great weight they are still debating the same, and will hardly finish it this night
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Orders are sent to Portsmouth to stopp the going of the Bilboa ffleet till the going of the Dutch
Captain Bloud in Custody for robbing the Portsm th Mail is directly sworn against by the Post Boy, and an unlucky Circumstance stands against him, that being in an [gun] & seeing the Post boy there tooke his horse from his Oates, and rode away without discharging the house -
Letters from Portsmouth & Cowes of the 7th and 8th instant say that the Canary, Bilboa & W India ffleets are sailed thence the former under Convoy of 3 men of Warr and a ffire shippe They add that 2 shipps are sailed bound for the W Indies are sailed before for Plymouth to give notice to the rest of the shipps there to be ready to ioyn S r ffra : Wheeler when he comes by that place with the W India Squadron
Tis said the D will have the Earl of Oxfords Regiment and his Ma tie will bestow on his L dshipp something equivalent thereto
of NorthumberlandTwas discoursed yesterday upon the Exchange that a ffr : Man of Warr of 72 Gunns was lately cast away near Cork in Ireland -
On sunday last 3 High way men of Capt : Whitney's Gang were seized near Chelsey, and a fourth made his escape, the others were Committed to Newgate
They afterwards went further on the Supply Bill and brought 2 appropriating Clauses the one for 750000li to supply the last Poll Tax, and the other for 700000li appropriated to the use of the Navy, w th some letter Clauses and when twas
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S Chester, and S r W m Morley both members of Parliam t who was yesterday 7 night at the Call of the house, dyed in Sunday last
r Iohn Morgan Governour ofThe Court is going into Mourning for 6 weeks for the Death of the electoress of Bavaria
The Marq from Milan to Berlin to c.....rt concert the Operac ons in that side, and the Electors of Brandenburgh, Saxony and Hannover are forming a strict Alliance to bring a fformidable fforce on the Rhine under the Conduct of R Lewis of Baden, And the Circles of Sualia & ffrancconia have engaged to send each 12000 men
Alsoe the Eng the Spanish ffleet w th 15 M of Warr to act -in the Mediterrranean, and the Eng & Dutch ffleet will be a month earlier in the Channell to oppose the ffr : designes, than ever hitherto
: & Dutch have p mised to augmentThe House of L material this day but the House of Commons read the first time the Bill for raising 2 Millions in the project of Liv rs and left blanks for the Ynterest
ds did very littlew They afterward read the Bill against P fanation of the Lords Day - They read a 2d time and reiected a Bill for widening of Nells in the River Severn
ch tis said they will advance to 10li percent w ch otherwise will not take4
To The Hon ble S r Rich d: Newdigate Bar t at Arbury near Coventree p Litchfeild Bagg 4
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. 92/3L.c.2125: Newsletter received by Richard Newdigate, Arbury, 1692/1693 January 12
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his Interest at Adrianople has sent an Express to acquaint the port of the Last Re Solutions in his Councell to fall upon the Empire and to Signify that his fforces have taken 2 Important Towns in fflanders of Dixmuy den and ffurness and that the enemy by opening the Sluices of Newport Incommoded their - own people more then in Cutting off the Commu nication between Dixmuyden and ffurness.
The Letters add that there is Advice from pigneroll that the Marquess de Leganez had brought 2 famous Doctors with him to Consult the Dukes Malady and to press his Royall Highness to Consent to the Seige of Dixmuyden and Furness Casall
The Letters add that there is Advice from pigneroll that the Marquess de Le gamez had brought 2 famous Doctors with him to Consult the Dukes Malady and to press his Royall Highness to Consent to the Seige of Casall promising that upon the taking of that place the King of Spain would relinquish the Sovereig nty of the Town and Adjacent Territories and to be Contented with onely the Castle and the Emperor the Cittadell
we hear from Scottland that a ffrench privatier of 14 guns was come ashoar by the violence of the weather and the men all saved
=The Duke of Richmond was some days ago Marryed to the young Lady Beclasis widdow of that deceased L d having a very considerable fortune
that would Accend to England if either Newport or Ostend should fall into the hands of the ffrench and therefore they were upon the Advising the king to desire the Spaniards to put them Into our hands as Cautionary Towns but came to no resolution In that Affaire - the Earl of Shrewsbury brought in a Bill which was read the ffirst time for an Annuall Parliament and in Case of Failure the Lord Chancelor or Commissioners
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And had yesterday an acco t that 150 shipps ~ being the dutch streights ffleet with e Convoy were seen in the back of e Goodwiccs coming from Holland to Ioin our Turkey ffleet and Sail all together for those parts their Convoy being about 200 men of Warr
e L ds of the AdmiraltyThe Danish Resident hath delivered the king a memoriall relating to the shipps of t Countrey which were Lately brought in being upwards of 40 sail carrying Contraband goods to ffrance desi= ring that they may be discharged
The Grand supply Bill will be was this day read a 3d time and passed & sent up to the L ds for re Concurrence and ready for the Royall Assent by saturday -
Mons French king at e Court of Denmark Is refused by that Court to haue any Converse with them as being concerned for In the Complement for taking away king Williams Life in Flanders
Last Tuesday 7 waggons were robbed by some of Whitneys Gang on Finchly Common coming from Bedford and those parts
Yesterday the House of Commons was setting upon the report [.adefrom] tio grand Committee upon e Matter of Advice and the ffirst head being a Resoluc on to appoint such persons to execute the office of L d High Admirall as were skilled in Maritime Affairs & that all orders
pass through them which point the house debated 3 hours and the Question being putt whither they should agree with the report of e Committee It was Carried in the Negative Noes 125 - yeas 112 but they agreed with the Committee to advise the king that no Order should pass but by & through them whereby they must become Answerable for the same - this day the House of peers were upon the point of Advice to the king and debated the danger
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the LandL Generall do Carry it up to the L ds to morrow
d and the house ordered that the Attorney- the West India ffleets are sailed for the ~ plantac ons - our sessions begin. next week at the old Bayly when we shall know the Fate of Whitney & the rest of e high-way men.
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. 92/3To The hon ble S r Rich : Newdigate Bar t at Arbury near Coventry 4