|
P. R. O.
Colonial
Entry Book.
|
and defeating the multitude he had gathered together, He is
now secured in Our Castle of Edinburgh in Order to his exe-
cution, whereby the Peace of that Kingdom is perfectly re-es-
tablished and our forces there ready and at leisure to receive
and obey such Orders as Our service shall require elsewhere.
Wee are likewise pleased to inform you that the late Duke of
Monmouth, since attainted of Treason, is in the same Traiter-
ous and Rebellious Manner landed in the Western Parts of
this Kingdom, And with a number of men of the lowest degree
and many of them unarmed has given disquiet to those Parts,
But by the Care wee have taken in sending thither a sufficient
number of our standing forces of Horse, foot and dragoons
who are now in pursuit of him, Wee are expecting to hear of
the total defeat of that Traitor and his accomplices, And wee
being at the same time perfectly assured of the constant and
undoubted Fidelity of the Nobility and Gentry as well as of the
Militia of this Kingdom and having the better confirmation of
the peace and tranquility of our dominions ordered such other
new levies of Horse, ffoot and dragoones as be required, Wee
cannot fail by the Blessing of God of a happy issue and success
in our Affaires. All which we have thought fit to intimate unto
you for the preventing any false rumours or reports which
might be spread amongst our subjects at that distance by the
malicious and Traiterous insinuations of ill men, and so Wee
bid you heartily Farwell. Given at our Court at Whitehall the
26. day of June 1685. in the First year of our reign.
By His Majesty's Command.
|
|
p. 101
|
Extract of a letter from the Mayor of New York, dated the
13th May 1685.
Since His Majesty hath been pleased to seperate Delaware
and the two Ierseys from this His Government of New-York,
this City has apparently and extreamly suffered in the diminu-
tion and loss of its' Trade, being thereby deprived of at least
one third Part thereof and hath ever since much lessened and
decayed both in number of inhabitants Rents and Buildings,
and his Majesty in His Revenue likewise suffers thereby, and
the remaining part of this Province, when less able, the more
burthened.
Upon which their Lordships making a report to his Majesty,
the following Order was made.
At the Court of Whitehall the 17 of Iuly 1685. By the
King's most Excellent Majesty and the Lords of his Majesty's
most Honorable Privy Councill.
A Report from the Right Honorable the Lords of the Com-
mittee for Trade and Foreign Plantations being this day read
at the Board in the words following vizt
|
