1685. you warning of Fears and Jealoufies among yourselves. I had reafon to hope the Reputation God has blessed me with in the World, would have created and confirmed a greater Confidence in you of me, and of all I fay to you. But however you proceed on your Part; I will be fleady in all the Promifes I bave made you, and be very JUST to my WORD in every one of my Speeches.

After which they fate but three Days, which time was employed in preparing a Bill for the Supply, and in confidering upon a Bill for making the Militia more ferviceable; but had not time to perfect either; For,

On the 20th of November, the King prorogued the Parliament to the Loth of February next: But they fate no more; for after feveral Prorogations, they were finally diffolved on the zd of July 1687.

The next confiderable Matter that occurr'd, was the Trial of the Lord Brandon-Gerrard, Son to the Earl of Macclesfield, who on the 28th of November, was brought to the King's Bench Bar, and arraigned for HighTreason, in endeavouring to raise Rebellion, and depofe the late King Charles; of which he was found Guilty, but fhortly after obtained a Pardon. And,

On the 9th of December, Charles Bateman (a Surgeon) was likewife tried for High-Treafon, in confpiring the Death of the late King, and found Guilty, for which he was executed the 18th of the fame Month. On the 4th of December the Earl of Sunderland was made Prefident of the Privy Council.

His Majefty was pleafed to confitute the Earl of Clarendon Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; who, on the 16th of December, fet out from London on his Journey thither. And

his Lordship being at that time Lord Privy-Seal, the Lord Trevor, Co Philips, and Mr. Evelyn, were ap pointed to execute that Office in his Abfence.

On the 15th of December, the Ambaffadors extraordinary, which the Republick of Venice fent to con gratulate the King, and to defre Permiflion to make Levies in England for the Service of the State, again the Turks; made their publick Entry through the City from the To er to their House in St. James Square; and three Days after were admitted to publick Audience, being conducted by the Earl of Derby, and Sir Charles Cotterel, with the Honours ufually given to the Ambaffadors of Crown'd Heads. But they effected not their Defign; for it was not esteemed adviseable by any Means to give Jealousy to the Grand Seignior, by reafon of the great and profitable Trade our Nation yearly made to Turkey. So th after fome Months tarrying here. and having been honourably tained, they departed home.

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On the 30th of December, Joh Hambden, Efq; was indicted for HighTreafon, to which he pleaded gu ty, cafting himself upon the King's Mercy, and obtained his Pardon.

On the 14th of January, Hey Baron Delamere, was brought Trial in Westminster Hall, be the Lord Jeffery's, conftituted Lord High Steward pro bac Vice, fuch Peers of the Realm as the g had appointed; and was arraig for High Treafon. The Indictment being read, &c. the Lord Howard was firft fworn, who gave an count of the Lord Shaftsbury's fign'd Infurrection. Next, the Le Grey of Wark depofed, That C fire was one of the Places pitc upon for the Rifing; for which end, the Duke of Monmouth went his

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Philip Vernatti, who had long fince been out-lawed for the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, appeared now at the King's-Bench Bar, and was allowed to reverfe the OutJawry, and take his Trial on the 10th of February. Upon which no Evidence appearing against him Prance had retracted, and Bedloe was dead) he was acquitted.

He told them how fenfible the King was of their Zeal and Loy

alty to him. 'fhare in the his Majefty ⚫ them. To the King was

And now thefe Trials being over, the King was pleafed, on the 18th of March to publifh a Proclamation of General Pardon, with the ufual Exceptions of Murther, Felony, &c. and of very many Perfons by Name.

Great Alterations were now made among the Judges. February 13. Sir Thomas Jennor was made one of the Barons of the Exchequer, in the room of Sir William Gregory; and Sir Henry Bedding field was made one of the Juftices of the Common Pleas, in Place of Sir Crefwel Levinz.

On the 21st of April, Sir Thomas Jones, Lord Chief Juftice of the Common-Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron Montague, Sir Job Charlton of the Common-Pleas, and Sir Edward Nevill of the Exchequer, all received their Quietus's: And Sir Henry Bedding fila fucceeded Sir Thomas Jones; Sir Edward Atkins was made Lord Chief Baron, Sir Edward Lutvich was advanced to be a Juftice of Common-Pleas, and Richard Heath, Efq; to be a Baron of the Exchequer; and on the 26th of April Sir Chriftopher Milton was made Baron of the Exchequer, and Sir John Powel Juftice of the Common-Pleas.

The Parliament of Scotland met about the latter end of April, to whom the Earl of Marray (being

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That he was impowered to confent to whatsoever Laws they 'fhould contrive for the Regulation

and Pay of the Soldiers. And to 'confent to an Act of Oblivion, with fome neceffary Exceptions.

The 10th of May the Parliament met at Westminster, but were ag prorogued to the 2zd of Nonber.

On the 14th of May the King the whole Court removed to Wind for, where the Princess of DeS. was brought to bed of a Daughe who was chriftened Anna Sopes, by the Bishop of Durham.

Miles Prance, one of the Wi neffes of the Popish Plor, finding Things run high, and himself in da ger of either itarving abroad (w ther he had fled) or of fome fever Punishment, if he came home, feems thought it his best way to c pound the Matter, acknowledge i felf a Villain, and retra&t all he fworn concerning the Death of Edmundbury Godfrey, and the i But the doing this in private. not fufficient, it must be published: all the World: To which fe he was on the 14th of May, at ti

King's-Bench Bar, indicted of Perjury, to which he pleaded guilty.

The Army, as we have faid, was kept up, and increafed, and being quartered up and down in the Countries became a great Grievancce to the Subject; to eafe whom, and to inure the Soldiers to a War-like Manner of Living, the King caufed his Army to lie encamped on Hounlow-Heath, a good part of this Summer, as he did alfo every Summer after, all his Reign.

June 21. Mr. Samuel Johnfon, Clerk, was tried at the King's Bench Bar upon an Information of High Mifdemeanor, for writing and publifhing two Libels, of which he was found Guilty; and on the 16th of November following was fentenced to ftand in the Pillory, to be whipt from Newgate to Tyburn, and befides, fined 500 Marks, and to lie in Prifon till it is paid.

July 17, the Earl of Powis, the Lord Arundel of Wardour, the Lord Bellafis, and the Lord Dover, all Roman Catholicks, were fworn of the King's Privy-Council.

The King having named Dr. Cartwright Dean of Rippon, and Dr. Parker Archdeacon of Canterbu ry, to fucceed the eminently learned and pious Dr. Pearfon, and Dr. Fell, deceased, in the Bishopricks of Chifter and Oxford, they were accordingly confecrated on the 17th of October.

The King, that he might denonftrate his Respect to the Church and Court of Rome, was pleafed to end the Earl Castlemaine Ambaffador to the Pope, where he made a very fplendid Entry, and was received with much Affection.

The Pope, in return, fent a Nuntio to the King, Count Dada, who made his publick Entry at Windfor, and refiled here, in that Quality, ull the rest of his Reign.

The King was very uneafy under the Retraint of the Teft-, by which Roman Catholicks were excluded from all Places of Truft, and made it his great Study to get over it; in order to which, a Propofition was ftarted, and very ftrenuously argued in Pamphlets, That the King, in cafe of Neceffity, had a Power of difpenfing with Laws; and that he was Judge of that Necefity. This was brought in:o Westminster Hall, and caufed to be declared for Law in the following Manner;

An Action was this Trinity-Term, brought by one Godden against Sir Edw. Hiles, for holding the Place of Governor of Dover Caftle without qualifying himself according to Law by taking the Teft, &c. to which he pleaded the King's Difpenfation; the Validity of which being difputed, it was referred to a fpecial Verdict; and the Judges being confulted, they did all, except one, Mr. Juftice Street, agree in the following Judgment, viz.

1. That the King is an Independent

Prince.

July the 3d, was a great Fight at Marflon-moore, where the Parliament Army obtained a very confiderable Victory. And October the 27th, Effex, Waller, and the Earl of Manchefter, met the King as he came out of the Weft at Newbury, where a fharp Battle was fought, and the King's Party forced out of the Field.

In November, Mack Mahon, an Irish Rebel, was hang'd and quartered at Tyburn. And December 23, Sir Alexander Carew was beheaded on Tower Hill, for attempting to give up the Ifland of Plymouth to the King's Forces.

January the ift, Hotham the Son, and January the 2d, Hotham the Father, were beheaded on Tower. Hill, for defigning to betray Hall to the Royalifts, and for other Treacheries.

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, having been voted guilty of High Treafon by the Houfe of Commons, and condemned by the House of Peers to be drawn, hanged, and quartered, (though upon his Petition they changed the Manner of his Execution) was brought to the Scaffold on TowerHill, January 10, where he preach. ed his laft Sermon, taking for his Text Hebr. xiii. 2. So yielding his Neck to the Stroke of the Executioner. The Charge against him was, endeavouring to fubvert the Laws, Religion, and Privileges of Parliament.

January 30. By his Majefty's Procurement, a Treaty was held at Uxbridge, where the Parliament's Demands were, That Epifcopacy might be extirpated, that Presbytery might be established, and that the King fhould yield up the Militia folely unto the Parliament's Difpofal, &c. as in the 19 Propofitions, and thofe in the Treaty at

Oxford, with fome Additional; as, That his Majefty, according to the laudable Example of his Royal Father, of happy Memory, would be pleafed to fwear and fign the late Solemn League and Covenant, and that an Act of Parliament be paffed in both Kingdoms refpectively, for enjoyning the taking of the fame, by all the Subjects of the three Kingdoms; That the Perfons who fhall expect no Pardon, be only thefe following, Rupert and Maurice, Sons of the Count Palatine of the Rhine, James Earl of Derby, John Earl of Bristol, William Earl of Newcale, Francis Lord Cot tington, John Lord Pawlet, George Lord Digby, Edward Lord Little ton, Matthew Wren Bishop of Ely, Sir Robert Heath, Dr. Bramball Bishop of Derry, Sir John Biron, William Widdrington, Colonel George Goring, Henry Germyn, Efq; Sir Ralph Hopton, Sir Francis Doddington, Mr. Endymion Porter, Sir George Ratcliffe, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, Sir Henry Vaughan, Sir Francis Windebanke, Sir Richard Greenvile, Mr. Edward Hyde, Sir John Marley, Sir Nicholas Cole, Sir Thomas Riddle, jun. Colonel Ware, Sir John Strangewaies, Sir John Culpe per, Sir Richard Floyd, John Bodwile, Efq; Mr. David Jenkins, Sir George Strode, Marquis of Huntley, Earl of Montrofe, Earl of Niddef dale, Earl of Traquair, Earl of Carswath, with fome other Scotch Lords and Gentlemen (named).

2. All Papifts and Popish Recufants who have been, now are, or fhall be actually in Arms, or voluntarily affilting against the Parliament, or Eftates of either Kingdom.

3. All Perfons who have had any Hand in the Plotting, Defigning, or Affifting the Rebellion in Inland.

This Treaty alfo proved fruitless.
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