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A compendious view of the late tumults & troubles in this kingdom by way of annals for seven years viz, from the beginning of the 30th to the end of the 36th year of the reign of His Late Majesty King Charles II of blessed memory / by J.W. Esq.
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Wright, James, 1643-1713.
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Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Affairs to whom He delegated His Power to dispose of all such Ecclesiastical Preferments which belong to His immediate Patronage The Names of which Commissioners were the Arch Bishop of Canterbury the Bishop of London the Lord Radnor Lord Hallifax Lord Hide and Mr. Seymour Note by the Common Law the Lord Chancellor of England shall present to all Churches in the Kings Gift which He hath in Right of His Crown under the value of 20 Marks per annum Fitz. h. N. B. Fol. 35. k. At the Sessions for the County of Middlesex held at Hicks-Hall the Week before Michaelmas Term Sir George Jefferies being then Chairman on the Bench required Goodenough the under Sheriff to alter two of the Panel as the Justices may do by the Stat. 3. H. 8. ch 12. Which He refusing the two High Sheriffs were call'd and not appearing they were Fin'd each 50 l. Notwithstanding that the Recorder put in a Protest that the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex were never bound to attend or appear in Person at Hicks-Hall After this the said Fine being Estreated a Common Council in London Declar'd that they would stand by their Sheriffs and defend them against any Suit of Law that shall be brought touching this matter and that at the Charges and Expence of the City At the Sessions for London held at this time one Rouse being Charged with High Treason and a Bill of Indictment Exhibited to the Grand Jury attending for that City against Him They found the Bill Ignoramus after the same manner as had been formerly done in the Case of Colledge On the 24th of November all the Judges of England sate with the Mayor and Aldermen by special Commission of Oyer and Terminer at the Old-Baily and the Grand Jury being call'd and Sworn of which Sir Samuel Barnardiston Foreman a Bill of Indictment of High Treason was deliver'd to them against the Earl of Shaftsbury The Evidence were all Examined in open Court who all Swore very full to the Treason two of which Evidence were Turbervile and Smith but the Jury return'd this Bill also Ignoramus upon which the People gave a shout The Witnesses who gave Evidence against the said Earl were assaulted by the Rabble and in such Danger of their Lives that the Sheriffs were necessitated to Guard them at Night as far as the Savoy homewards Several Bonfires were made that Night in the City at which several Riotous Actions were Committed In particular one Capt. Griffith living in Newgate-street 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 oppose it was knockt down wounded in the Head and in danger of His Life Others were seen about the same time of Night to march through Warwick-Lane one of which had his Sword drawn crying no York no Popish Successor and at the same time crying up a Monmouth a Shaftsbury a Buckingham and thus they Proceeded till stopt by the Watch at Ludgate On the 28th of November the last day of the Term the Earl of Shaftsbury and Lord Howard prisoners in the Tower were admitted to Bail in the Kings Bench the Earl of Shaftsbury had for his Bail the Lord Russel Sir William Cooper Mr. Mountigue and Mr. Charlton Himself was bound in a Recognizance of 3000 l. and the Bail each in 1500 l. The Lord Howard was also Bailed in the same manner By Order of Council to the Lord Mayor and from him to the Officers of every Ward and Parish all Bonfires and Bells Ringing were Prohibited that Night The Act of Test which past in the Parliament in Scotland the last Sessions was the occasion of several Discontents and Emotions amongst the Fanatick Party there The Act enjoyn'd a certain Oath or Ingagement to be taken by all Officers in Church and State and Graduates in their Universities to maintain the Form of Government as now Establisht which Test tho' explain'd and qualified was notwithstanding so contrary to the sense of the Factious Party in that Kingdom that several of their Ministers refused it and some of the Laity among whom of greatest note was Archibald Campbel Earl of Argile a Man of such Turbulent behaviour that he was about this time Impeacht of High Treason and found Guilty But being after his Conviction kept for some time a Prisoner at Edinborough he found means to make his Escape into England as some thought where he harbour'd unknown after whose flight his Arms were with all publick Solemnity reverst and torn and such other marks of dishonour denounced against him as in such like Cases are by the Customs of Scotland due to Traytors The Proceedings of the Justices of Peace for the County of Middlesex at their Sessions at Hick-Hall before Hillary Term were of note on diverse accounts First They order'd by their publick Act of Sessions dated the 13th of January that whereas the Constables and Church Wardens c. of every Parish and Precinct within the said County had been enjoyn'd last Sessions to make a Return the first Day of this of the Names of the Preachers in Conventicles and the most considerable frequenters of the same within their several Limits which Order not being obey'd but contemn'd by some it was therefore by the Justices then Assembled desired that the Lord Bishop of London will please to direct those Officers which are under his Jurisdiction to use their utmost diligence that all such Persons may be Excommunicated who commit crimes deserving that Ecclesiastical censure and that the said Excommunications may be Published in the Parishes where the Persons live that they may be taken notice of and obvious to the Penalties that belong to Persons Excommunicate viz. Not to be admitted for a Witness or returned upon Juries or capable to sue for any Debt And they further Order'd at the said Sessions that the Stat. 1. El. and 3. Jac. be put in due execution for the Levying 1 s. per Sunday upon such Persons who repair not to Divine Service and Sermons at their Parish or some other publick Church Also there was another Act of the same Sessions at Hicks-Hall which bore Date the 18th of January with which the Justices of Peace attended upon His Majesty at White-Hall the same Day and presented the Paper to His Royal Hands It contain'd That they the said Justices were sensible of their great Honour and happiness in being the first who return'd their humble and hearty acknowledgment for His most Gracious Declaration which being followed by a multitude of Addresses from all Parts of the Kingdom His Majesty hath had a full Discovery of His Peoples affections and that his Enemies were neither so numerous nor formidable as they were by some apprehended to be That now as His Majesty can have no cause to fear them so they the said Justices hope He will never be perswaded to trust them That they are ashamed that they were not likewise the first
continued so to do On Wednesday the 11th of June Sir Thomas Armstrong was brought to London and committed to Newgate in order to his Execution being Outlawd in High Treason He had been taken at Leyden in Holland by Order of the States there and immediately brought to Roterdam and Shipt away for England There needed no Tryal of him in regard he fled and was Outlawd and did not yield himself within a year so as to have any benefit of the Stat. 5. E. 6. 11. Wherefore he was Executed at Tyburn on the 20th of June being a Friday the same Day of the same Month and the same Day of the Week on which the five Jesuits were Executed in the same manner at the same place just five years before His head was set up on Westminster-Hall between those of Cromwell and Bradshaw one of his Quarters upon Temple Bar two others at Aldersgate and Algate and the 4th was said to be sent down to Stafford for which Town he had been a Burgess in Parliament On Thursday the 26th of June His Royal Highness the Duke of York being Captain of the Artillary Company of London did them the Honour to march in their Head through the City to the Artillary Ground and there Lead 'em up in Person with mighty Joy and Acclamations On the 7th of July the City of Durham surrender'd their Charter into the Hands of their Prince the Bishop of Durham soon after which surrender He granted them a new one reserving to himself the Confirmation of their Mayor Aldermen and Chief Officers in like manner as the King had done before in other parts of this Kingdom Most Corporations having surrenderd and renew'd about this time On the first of October was made a Review or Muster of His Majesties Land Forces on Putney Heath a most Gallant Military appearance The Horse that Day consisted of the Three Troops of Guards and of their Three of Granadiers of the Earl of Oxfords Regiment of Horse Guards and the Lord Churchills Regiment of Dragoons The Foot were Two Batalions form'd from the Royal Regiment of Guards and their Granadiers One Batalion from the Coldstream Regiment of Guards and Granadiers One Batalion from the Earl of Dunbarton's Regiment and their Granadiers and One from the Admiral Regiment The total of Horse and Foot which then Rendavouz'd were above 4000 advantagiously Trained and well clad Men. All being that Day commanded by the Earl of Craven At which Review both their Majesties and Royal Highnesses were present with great satisfaction About this time His Majesty was pleas'd to Dissolve the Commission formerly granted in the year 1681 to certain Commissioners to dispose of Ecclesiastical Preferments belonging to the Crown So that the said Preferments are now again in His Majesties immediate disposal Sir William Prichard the late Loyal Lord Mayor of London having this Summer brought His Action upon the Case against Mr. Papillon for causing him to be Arested in the time of his Mayeralty without any legal cause of Action of which I made mention in the last year the cause was Tryed before my Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys by Nisi Prius at Guild-Hall on the 6th of Nov. And upon a full hearing of the Evidence the Jury found for the Plaintiff and gave him 10000 l. Damages Other matters of Publick Concern were transacted this Michaelmass Term. Several Factious persons were convicted and Sentenced for Speaking Scandalous and Sedicious Words of the Government In perparticular Elias Best commonly call'd the Protestant Hop-Merchant was fined 1000 l. to stand thrice in the Pillory and good Behaviour during Life Dalby and Nicholson two of Oates's Men for the like and one Mr. Butler of Northamptonshire convicted upon an Information for presenting and Reading to the Knights of the Shire chosen for that County at the last Election a Seditious Paper of Address to them from some factious persons for which he was fined 500 Marks and good behaviour during Life And to shew What matters are too frequently transacted in Conventicles one Thomas Roswell a Conventicle Preacher at Redriff was this Term Tryed and convicted of High Treason in speaking certain very foul and Treasonable Words on the 14th of September last in his Preachment at his said Conventicle but some questions arising in Relation to the form of his Indictment which being argued by Council on both sides the Court took time to advise of their Judgment till next Term and before that arrived the said Roswell obtained His Majesties Gracious Pardon But as if this was not sufficient to shew the ill Principles of the Dissenting Party about the same time news arrived at London of the most Barberous Act in Scotland that has been heard of in many Years Some desperate Rebells there had in the Night time affixed a most Villanous and Trayterous Paper on several Crosses and Church Doors in that Country and therein declared War against the King under the name of Charles Stuart and publisht their Resolutions to kill and destroy all those that serve and adhere to Him in pursuance whereof they came on the 19th of November at Night being about 36 Footmen and 16 Horsemen to an Inn called Swine-Abby 13 Miles from Edinborough and there Barberously Murder'd two Gentlemen of His Majesties Horse Guards in their Beds cutting and mangling their Bodies and carrying away with them several Pieces of their Flesh Also this Michaelmass Term on the 13th of November Titus Oates was in the Kings Bench Court indicted for Perjury in Relation to Ireland's being in London at that time the said Oates Swore to at his Tryal to which Indictment he pleading Not Guilty the Tryal was appointed to be next Term. After this at the Sessions in the Old Bayly December 12th he was again Indicted upon an other Indictment of Perjury in Relation to his being Present at the supposed Consult of the Jesuits at the White-Horse Tavern and upon Not Guilty pleaded this also was appointed to be Tryed in the Kings Bench. Court next Term And the Indictment was removed thither The Roads being this Winter extreamly infested with Robbers His Majesty was pleased on the 19th of December to Order in Council and declare His pleasure for redress That all His Officers of Justice and other His loving Subjects do use their utmost Diligence and Endeaver for the apprehending all Robbers and Highway Men And for the Encouragement of such as shall apprehend any such Offender it was further Order'd That such Person or Persons who shall at any time from the present till the 19th of December 1685 and after that day till His Majesty shall please to recall this Order either by Proclamation or His Order in Council apprehend any Robber or Highway Man and cause him to be brought into Custody shall within 15 days after his Conviction have a Reward of 10 l. for every such Offender so apprehended and Convicted And all Sheriffs of the Respective Counties where such Conviction shall be had are by the said Order