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This fudden Adjournment prevented the paffing A. C. of feveral Bills that were depending, particularly 1692. one for leffening of Intereft of Money which the Commons had pafs'd and fent up to the Lords for Bills left their Concurrence; Another for difabling Minors to depending. marry without the confent of their Fathers or Guardians, and for preventing Clandeftine Marriages, which the Lords had fent down to the Commons; A third, for the paying of the Army according to the Mufters of effective Men, punishing Mutineers and Deferters, and preventing falfe Mufters, to which the Lords had made fome Amendments that occafion'd great Difputes; A fourth for Afcertaining the Commiffions and Sallaries of the Judges, which though it had pafs'd both Houfes, was not confirm'd by the Royal Af fent; A fifth against the buying and felling of Offices; A fixth to apprehend High-way-men; A feventh to prevent Frauds by Clandestine Mortgages; And an eight against Duelling. As for the Bill to empower the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer to accept of the folemn Anfwer in Evidence of any of the People call'd Quakers, And another for confirming the Charters of the Unis verfity of Cambrige, the Queftion being put in the Lower Houfe, That they should pafs, it was carried in the Negative.

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Though, to obferve a Method, little has been faid of the King, while we have been bufie about the Tranfactions in Parliament, yet let not the Reader imagine that His Majefty was idle all this time. After the entire Reduction of Ireland it was neceffary that many of the Forces employ'd in that 4 Proclas Service fhould be tranfported into this Kingdom, it keep the order to be otherwife difpos'd of; and left thofe Forces in Troops fhould abandon themfelves to Licentiouf-ftrict Difnefs, the natural effect of Victory, His Majefty if-cipline, fued out a Proclamation, Requiring all Officers and Decem. 3. Soldiers to obferve ftrict Difcipline, and punctually to 1691. pay their Quarters. Not long after another Procla. A Procla mation was publifh'd, wherein His Majefty de-mation aclar'd, That as He could not but be deeply fenfi-inst ble of the great Goodness and Mercy of Almighty ProphanGod, in giving fo happy Succefs to His Endea- nefs, yours for the refcuing thefe Kingdoms from Popish Jan. 28.

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Tyranny and Superftition, and in preferving His 'Royal Perfon, fupporting His Government, and uniting the Arms of moft of the Princes and States in Christendom against the Common Enemy; 'fo He was no lefs touch'd with a Refentment, that notwithstanding thefe great Deliverances Impiety and Vice did still abound in this Kingdom; and that the Execution of many good Laws, which had been made for fuppretting and punishing thereof, had been grofly neglected to the great difhonour of God and his Holy Religion. Wherefore, and that He could not expect increafe or continuance of the Blefings He and His Subjects enjoy'd, 'without providing Remedies to prevent the like Evils for the future, He judg d himself bound by the Duty He ow'd to God, and the care He had of the People commited to His Charge, to proceed in taking fome effectual Courfe therein: And being 'thereunto moved by the Pious Addrefs of the Archbishops and Bifhops, He thought fit to declare His Intention and Refolution to difcountenance all manner of Vice and Immorality in all Perfons from the highest to the lowest Degree in this Realm; and for that purpofe He ftraitly Charg'd and Commanded all His Magiftrates and Officers, 'both Ecclefiaftical and Civil, to execute the Laws against Blafphemy, Prophane Swearing and Curfing, Drunkenness, Prophanation of the Lords-Day, or any other diffolute, immoral or diforderly Practices. William Harbord Efq; one of their Majefties Pribord goes vy Council, being appointed Ambaflador ExtraorAmbaffa dinary at the Ottoman Port, in the room of Sir Wildor to the liam Huffey, lately deceas'd, fet out on his Journey Ottoman towards Turkey on the 10th of November 1691. The Night of the fame Day was remarkable for an AcciNov. 10. dent that happen'd at Kensington; for through the 1691. neglect of one of the Houfe keeper's Maids, that A Fire at Royal Palace was like to be all burnt down; but Kenfing- fuch Diligence was us'd by the Guards, that the Fire was topt before it reach'd their Majesties Apartments, fo that the Stone-Gallery only was coufumed; which damage was foon after repair'd with advantage. Not many Months after a more dan

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On the 2d of February a Chapter of the moft No- Elector of ble Order of the Garter was held at Kenfington, Saxony, wherein the Elector of Saxony and the Earl of Dor- and the fet were Elected Knights Companions. On the Earl of 20th of the fame Month General Ginckle was crea- made ted Earl of Athlone, and Baron Agrim, in Ireland; Knights of an Honour he had highly deferv'd by the memora- the Garter, ble Services he had perform'd to their Majefties, and Feb. 2. the Nation, at thofe two Places, and by the intire 1692. Reduction of that Kingdom. A Week after, that General General, the Duke of Wirtemberg, the Lieutenant Ginckle Generals Scravenmore, Lanier, and Talmafe, Major made Earl General Ruvigny, with other the General and Field of AthOfficers in Town, who had fignaliz'd themfelves in the Irish Expedition, were magnificently enter- And nobly tain'd at Merchant Taylors-Hall, by Sir Thomas Stamp entertain'd the new Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and by the City the most Eminent Merchants and Citizens of Lon- Feb. 27. don, who upon this occafion gave all imaginable Demonftrations of their Affection and Loyalty to the Government, and of Honour and Refpect to those who supported it by their Valour.

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On the 1ft of March His Majefty beftowed Marks flow'd on of his Royal Favour on fome Perfons, who had feveral either expreft their Zeal for his Service in the late Perfons, Seffion of Parliament, or from whom he expected March 1:

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A. C. a grateful Return at the next Meeting of that great 1691. Affembly. The Earls of Rochester and Ranelagh, the Lord Cornwallis, and Sir Edward Seymour were admitted to their Majefties Privy Council. The Earl of Bedford was made Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex, and the learned and wife Earl of Pembroke, Lord keeper of the Privy-Seal; his Place of Commiflioner of the Admiralty being beftow'd on the Lord Cornwallis. And Sir John Lowther, Vice Chamberlan of his Majefties Houfhould, and Thomas Pelham Efq, having refign'd their Places, as Commiflioners of their Majefties Treafury, the fame were difpos'd of, the one to Sir Edward SeyThe Lord mour, and the other to Charles Montague Efq; who had lately exerted his great Parts, and fignaliz'd his made Lord Zeal for the Government, in the Houfe of ComLieutenant mons. Two Days after, the Lord Viscount Sidney, of Ireland, one of their Majefties Principal Secretaries of State, March 3 exchang'd the Seals for a Patent, whereby he was Godfrey constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and the Kneller fame Day His Majefty conferr'd the honour of Efq; Knighthood upon Godfrey Kneller Efq; their MaKinghted. jefties Principal Painter in Ordinary; and indeed it The King it was but Juftice the King fhould diftinguish by a Holland, Title, a Perfon, who by his exquifite Pencil was March 6.to tranfmit His Majefty's Image and Heroick Atchi* March evements to the Admiration of After-Ages. His 30. Majefty having thus fettled Affairs at home, EmThe Queen bark'd for Holland on the 5th of March, arriv'd the Dow iger next Morning in the Macfe, Landed at Orange-Polleaves der, went the fame Day to the Hague, and not long England. after to Loo. Towards the end of the fame Month the Queen Dowager*parted from Sommerfet-house, and Embark'd at Dover for Calais, from whence he continued her Journey to Portugal.

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On the 19th of March, Thomas Coningsby Efq; one of the Lords Juftices of Ireland, was created Baron of that Kingdom, by the Stile of Lord Coningsby; and about a Month after Sir Henry Capell was made S. George Baron Capell of Tewkesbury in the County of Glocester. Trebyand On the 2d of May Sir George Treby was advanc'd to Ser John the Place of Lord Chief Juftice of the Common prefer. Pleas, and his Office of Attorney General given to

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Sir John Sommers; who fince their Majefties Accef- A. C. fion to the Crown had valtly improv'd in the Houfe 1692. of Commons, the Reputation he gain'd at the Bishops Trial, of being a Perfon of great Parts, The latter's Deep Learning, manly Eloquence, eafy Addrefs, Character. and a bold Stickler for the Liberties of England. At the faid time Thomas Trevor Efq; was made Solicitor General: And not long after a Complaint having been made by the Lord Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, against Sir Rowland Gwin, Treasurer of their Majefties Chamber, for Words fpoken by him reflecting on his Lordship, as if he had taken Money for difpofing of Places in Ireland; and Sir Rowland having been required before Her Majefty in Council, to fhew what Grounds he had for his Accufation, and Sir Row not being able to make it out, Her Majefty didland Gwin thereupon declare, That the faid Words were turn'd out Groundlefs and Sc-lous; and moreover turn'd of his Sir Rowland out of his Place, though otherwife a April 7. Perfon who had been very much Inftrumental to the prefent Settlement, and who nevertheless has ever fince continued to ferve his King and Country with indefatigable Application in the Houfe of Commons.

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The King had scarce reach'd Holland before the the Jacobites began to be elevated with the hopes of their Mafter's Reftoration. One Lunt, who was The Jacoemploy'd to bring over and difperfe King James's bite ConCommitlions, having had the good Fortune to befpiracy car difcharg'd from Imprisonment, was again entertain'dried on un in 1691. by the Lancashire Papifts to lift Men, and fuccessfully buy Arms, that if His Majefty fhould be taken off in Flanders they might be ready for an Infurrection in England, as foon as the Blow was given. These Preparations having fpent the Summer of the Year 1691.and the Campaign in Flanders being ended, without any News either of the Affaffination or Invafion, Lunt was fent in November into France, to acquaint the Abdicated Monarch, That they were in a Condition to receive him, and therefore defir'd him to inform them, when his Affairs would permit him to make a Defcent into this Kingdom. Lunt Y y 2

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