ev, Dennis Kelly, and Thomas of their Endeavours, laft Year, for December 12, his Majesty fet out from Hanover, was detained for fome Time at Helvoetfluys by contrary Winds, landed at Margate the 28th, lay at Chatham the 29th, and the next Evening arrived fafe at St. James's. The Parliament met January 9, and the King in his Speech congratulated them upon the Succefs Upon a Complaint made of a great Number of written Protections, granted by fome Members of both Houfes, the fame were declared to be void; and Orders made for preventing the pernicious Confequences of this evil Practice. The Trustees appointed to fecure and difpofe of the Estates and Effects belonging to the late South Sea Directors, delivered in their Accounts to the Parliament this Seffion, by which it appeared that the Sum of One Million four hun 004 dred A. D. 1724. A. D. dred feven thousand two hundred 1724. and eighty Pounds and upwards had been raised by the fame. Likewife the Commiffioners of the forfeited Eftates in Scotland delivered in their Accounts, and the Total of the Eftates fold amount ed to Sixty fix thousand two hundred and thirty fix Pounds. The Parliament having provided the Annual Supplies, and paffed feveral Acts, among which were, An Act for compleating the Rebuilding of the Parish Church of St. Martin's in the Fields; and an 7 for the Rebuilding the Parish Church of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, in the City of London, at the Charge of the Inhabitants of the faid Parish; his Majesty came to the House of Peers April 22, and put a Close to the Seffion. About the Middle of May his Majefty was pleased to order the following Circular Letter to be written to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. GEORGE R. TR Rufty and Well-beloved, 66 we greet you well. "We being greatly defirous to "favour and encourage our two "Universities, thofe ancient and laudable Nurferies of Piety and "Learning, and to enable them more effectually to answer the "End of their Inftitution, by "fending forth conftant Supplies "of learned and able Men, to "ferve the Publick both in Church "and State; and having obferved "that no Encouragement or Pro"vifion has hitherto been made "in either of the said Universities, is for the Study of Modern Hiftory or Modern Languages, the "Knowledge of which is highly neceffary towards compleatly qualifying the Youth committed to their Care for feveral Stations 66 obliged to maintain with "ent Salaries, in the University 'where he fhall be established, two Perfons at leaft, well quali'fied to teach and inftruct in writing and speaking the faid Languages, which faid Teachers hall be under the Direction of the Profeffors refpectively, and fhall be obliged to inftruct gratis in the modern Languages twenty Scholars of each University, to be nominated by us; and cach Scholar fo nominated fhall be obliged to learn two at least of the faid Languages, both the Profeffors and Teachers taking efpecial Care, that the Times and Hours for the instructing and teaching the faid Scholars be fo ordered, as not to interfere with thofe appointed for their Acadedemical Studies; which Profeffors and Teachers fhall be obliged once every Year to tranfmit an ' attefted Account of the Progrefs 'made by each Scholar committed 'to their Care, to our principal 'Secretaries of State, to be laid 'before us, that we may encou'rage the Diligence and Applicati'on of fuch amongst them, as fhail have qualified themfelves for our Service, by giving them 'fuitable Imployments, either at Home or Abroad, as Occafions fhall offer. And our Royal Will and Pleasure is, that you forthwith upon the Receipt hereof call a Congregation, in Order to communicate these our Royal Inten"tions to the University. And fo "we bid you farewell. Given at "our Court at St. James's the fixteenth Day of May, 1724. By his Majesty's Command Townshend. 46 Hereupon both Univerfities returned their most humble Thanks to his Majesty. And not long after Mr. Samuel Harris and Mr. David Gregory were nominated by his Majesty to be his Profeffors of modern Hiftory, the firft in the University of Cambridge, the other in that of Oxford. In March this Year Lewis Watfon, Earl of Rockingham, and in April Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of York, departed this Life; the latter was fucceeded in that See by Dr, Lancelot Blackburn then Bishop of Exeter, and Dr. Stephen Weflon was promoted to Exeter. In May Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, and in July Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland, departed this Life, upon which Dr. Hugh Boulter, Bishop of Bristol, was tranflated to Armagh, and Dr. William Bradshaw was promoted to Bristol. About the fame time died Dr. Thomas Bowers, Bishop of Chichester, and was fucceeded by Dr. Edward Waddington, and Dr. Robert Clavering was nominated to the See of Landaff in the room of Dr. John Tyler deceased. In the Beginning of November Dr. Humphry Prideaux, Dean of Norwich, a Perfon well known to the Learned World, departed this Life. December 7, Her Royal Highness the Princefs of Wales was delivered of a Princefs, who was fome time after chriftened at Leicester House by the Name of Louifa. In the fame Month Sir Jacob Banks, and Thomas Guy, Efq; fole Founder of the Hofpital for Incurables in Southwark, departed this Life. The Parliament met November 11. The Affair of chief Moment tranfacted this Seffion, befides the ufual Supplies, the regulating future Elections in the City of London, and the Act to enable Henry St. John, late Viscount Bolinbroke, and the Heirs Male of his Body, notwithstanding his Attainder, take and enjoy feveral Manors, to A. D. 1724. A. D. of Macclesfield, against whom Ar1725. ticles of Impeachment for high Crimes and Misdemeanours were lodged by the Commons in the Houfe of Peers. The Tenour whereof was, that he, during the Time of his being Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, had received feveral exhorbitant Sums of Money, therein particularly fet forth, of certain Perfons, as a Confideration for their being admitted into the Offices of Mafters in Chancery, though fome of them were very unfit to be intrufted with fuch Imployments, and that he had been negligent in fecuring the Effects of divers Suitors of the faid Court, which had been depofited in the Hands of the Mafters; by which Means feveral of the Suitors had been very great Lofers. The Houfe of Peers, after a long and full hearing, being fatisfied with the Proof of thefe Crimes, gave the following Judgment against him by their Speaker, Sir Peter King: That Thomas Earl of Macclesfield be fined in the Sum of thirty thousand Pounds unto our Sovereign Lord the King; and that he be imprifoned in the Tower of London, and there kept in fafe Cuftody, untill be fhall pay the faid Fine. Whither he was accordingly committed and detained a Prifoner there till the twenty fecond Day of July following, at which Time, having paid the Fine impofed upon him, he was discharged out of Cuftody. The faid Earl having refigned the Great Seal in the Beginning of this Year, his Majefty in Council committed the Cuftody thereof to Sir Jofeph Jekyll, Mafler of the Rolls, Jeffry Gilbert Efq; one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and Sir Robert Raymond, one of the Juftices of the King's Bench; and Sir Peter King, Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, efficiated as Speaker of the House of Lords by Virtue of a Commiflion granted lor that Purpose. January 18, Hugh Cholmonde, Earl of Cholmondeley, Treater of his Majefty's Houthold, departed this Life; and not long after, upon the Death of Sir John Pra, Sir Robert Raymond was advanced to be Lord Chief Juftice of the King's Bench in his Stead. Atot this Time alfo died the Czar at Muscovy, upon which his Com the Czarina afcended that Throne March 14, died Henry Br Lord Cariton, Prefident of La Majefty's Privy Council, in w Polt he was fucceeded by the Duke of Devonshire. Towards the latter End of Mr. the Lord Chief Juflice King wa created a Peer of Great Britain the Name of Lord King, Baron of Ockham. About this Time his Majely was pleafed to revive the Ancient Order of Knights of the Bath, and apported John Duke of Montague to be the first great Mafter thereof. Priet William was knigh.ed in his Majesty Clofet, Garter King of Arms atminittred the Oath to the gr Matter, who took the fame kneelg and then put a red Ribbon about ta Grace's Neck. On June 17, the Day appointed for the Solemnity c the Installation, the feveral Knigh repaired to the Speaker's Chamic at Wellminfer, where they were p paralled in their proper Habits, Surcoats of red, lined and e with white, girded with a pat white Girdle, having Mandles the fame Colour fallened to the Neck with a Lace of white S, and a Pair of white Gloves ted therein, with Taffels of Silk 20 Gold at the End, the Manties be ing adorned on the left Shoe with the Enfign of the namely, three imperial. Crosse #, vere incircled with this Motto, Tria jun&ta in uno, wrought upon a Circle gules, with a Glory of Rays fluing from the Center. After his they proceeded to their Chaper Room, the Prince's Chamber, ind from thence went in folemn Proceffion to the Weft Door of the Abby Church, through St. Margaet's Church Yard, by a Paffage nade for that Purpose with Rails on ach Side floored with Boards, and covered with Cloth. In this Proeffion they were preceded by the Drummers and Trumpeters of his Majefty's Guard, twelve Almfmen belonging to the Church of Weftninfler, the Meffenger of the Orler, their own Efquires, the Prebendaries of Westminster, and the Pursuivants and Heralds; thofe betonging to the loweft Stalls going foremoit. Divine Service being ended, the Knights dined together in a magnificent Manner, each of them having an Escutcheon of his Arms and Titles fixed to the Wall over his Seat. The whole Ceremony was performed with much Pomp and Solemnity. The Perfons then inftalled were Prince William, as he was then commonly called, the Great Mafter of the Order, the Dukes of Richmond and Manchester, the Earls of Leicester, Albemarle, Delorain, Halifax, Suffex, and Suffex, and Pomfret, the Lord Viscount Torrington, the Lords Burford, Naffau Paulet, Malpas, Delawar, Clinton, and Walpole, Sir Spencer Compton, Sir William Stanhope, Sir Coniers Darcy, Sir Thomas Lumley Saunder fon, Sir Paul Methuen, Sir Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Sutton, Sir Charles Wills, Sir John Hobart, Sir William Gage, Sir Robert Clifton, Sir Michael Newton, Sir William Yonge, Sir Thomas Watson Wentworth, Sir John Monfon, Sir William Morgan, Sir Thomas Coke; the Earl of Inchequeen, and the Vifcount Tyrconnel. In May this Year Robert Lord Vifcount Moleforth departed this Life. In the Beginning of June the Lord King was declared Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Sir Robert Eyre was appointed Lord chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, and Sir Jeffry Gilbert made Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer. About the fame Time his Majefly, having committed the Management of publick Affairs to Lords Juftices, fet out for his German Dominions, from whence he returned the Ninth of January following. October 23, Charles Lord Whitworth departed this Life; as did alfo Francis Gaftrel Bishop of Chefter, about the Middle of November, who was fucceeded by Dr. Samuel Peploe. By The Oftend Company lately fet up in the Netherlands, and fupported by the Treaty of Commerce entred into by the Emperor and King of Spain, gave great Umbrage to the Englife, and Dutch. this Treaty the Subjects on either Side had free Liberty to go unto and tarry in the Kingdoms, Provinces, and Dominions belonging to either of thofe Monarchs, without ftanding in Need of any Pafs or fafe Conduct, and were intituled to the Enjoyment of the fame publick Protection as the Native Subjects. The latter hereupon prefented a Memorial to the King of Spain, containing feveral Reasons they had to be uneafy on that Score; and his Britannick Majefty was pleased to enter into the following Alliance, in order to avoid the ill Confequences thereof. The Treaty of Defenfive Alliance concluded at Hanover September 3, 1725, between his Britannick Ma ,jefly, |