herein. Given under our hands and seales the Eighteenth You are hereby authorised and Required forthwith to yssue out your Warrant for the Summoning of the Officers and Soldiers of the Troop now under your Command to appeare before you well mounted and completely armed at the Market house in Shrewsbury upon Monday the first day of September next with each of them three daye's pay for himself and 12 for the Muster Master and a quarter of a pound of powder. And you are then and there to leade and exercise them, and dismiss them soe as they may returne home again upon Wednesday night following. Given under my hand this 8th day of August Anno Dm. 1684. To Thomas Ottley Esq' Captaine of Horse NEWPORT. these. [Ottley Papers.] This is the last of the Ottley Papers belonging to the reign of Charles the Second. James the Second on his accession, Feb. 6, 1685, at once issued a proclamation that all persons who at the decease of the late King held offices, whether civil or military, should continue in such offices. On June 11th the Duke of Monmouth landed at Lyme, Dorsetshire, and Lord Newport issued the following instructions to his Deputy-Lieutenants : LORD NEWPORT TO THE DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS. Gentlemen Whitehall ye 13th of June 1685 His Maj'tie hath received information that the Duke of Monmouth is landed in Dorsetshire with about 300 men & hath seized upon the Towne of Lime &c: It is his Maj'ties further pleasure that the Town & Castle of Shrewsbury be secured from being surprized & therefore I think it Convenient that you give order for 2 Companies of foote to march thither forthwith for that purpose. We presume this rebellion will soon be suppressed in regard that the D. of Albermarle is very near you with 4 Regiments, & other Forces are sent downe westwards, for we hope by the next post to send you a good account of the business. I confess I have been slack in sending you your deputations but I shall give order for them speedily, in the meane time what you shall act in the present affaire, is by his Maj'ties Special Comand, And I will be answerable for; who am Gent: Your affectionate friend to serve you I further desire you to use your endeavours for preserving the peace of the Country and preventing any insurrections. For my much respected friends the Deputy Leivetenants of the County of Salop. NEWPORT. [Ottley Papers.] these. AN ORDER TO MUSTER A TROOP OF Horse. Salop. To Thomas Ottley Esq' Captaine of Horse. Sr You are hereby required & authorised to yssue out your Warrants for the summoning the Soldiers of the Troop under your Command to appeare before you well mounted & compleately armed at the Market place in Shrewsbury upon Saturday the 20th day of this instant June with each of them 3 days pay & 6d for halfe a pound of powder to be delivered out of the Magazine. Given under our hands at Shrewsbury the 18th day of June 1685. [Ottley Papers.] CH. MAYNWARINGE AN ORDER TO APPREHEND DISAFFECTED PERSONS. James R: Right trusty & wellbeloved Cosin. we greet you well: Our will and pleasure is, and we doe hereby authorize and direct you to give order forthwith for seizing and apprehending all disafected and suspitious persons and particularly all non Conformist Ministers & such persons as have joined against our Royal father or late Royal brother of blessed memory and sending them in safe Custody to Chester Castle to secure them till further Order. And for soe doeing this shall be your Warrant, And soe we bid you heartily fare. well. Given at our Court at Whitehall the 20th day of June 1685, in the first yeare of our Reign Our will and pleasure alsoe is that you give order for securing all the Horse By his Maj'ties Comand belonging to any persons which shall be soe seized. Superscribed SUNDERLAND,1 To our Right trusty and wellbeloved Cosen Francis Viscount Newport our Ld Leivetenant of our county of Salop. [Ottley Papers.] 1 The Earl of Sunderland, President of the Council. Since my last severall expresses are come but all things are kept private, onely we heare the Rebells have been at Wells, ransacked and robbed ye Church of all the plate, abused the Altar, broke down the Images & memorials, pulled of the lead and melted it down into bullets, hanged up six or seaven Sinirs for refusing to pray for Monmouth, ravished severall women, and amongst them two of Mr Coward's (the Recorder of Wells) daughters; plundered that and many more families, and are since after their Barbarous manner got to Bridgwater. Today 3 three Scott Regiments from Holland passed through this Citty to Whitehall. Tis said that on Monday another traine of Artillery of 30 great Guns goe hence for the West. I venture not to write more news. The Parliament is adjourned to the 4th of August. Bernard Howard is returned. A NEWS LETTER FROM RIC. JENKINS TO THOMas Ottley. Before I came out of Towne last night I received a letter from my Lord' whereby he gave an accoun that the Duke of Monmouth was executed on Wednesday, and that the Hangman gave him 5 Blowes before he could performe his Office for which the guards were ready to shoot him. He further signified that on Thursday night he received Orders from the King for releasing all such persons as were confined upon suspision only, & for restoreing their horses. 1 Lord Newport. And that his Lo'p thath thereupon sent a copy of the King's letter to the Governor of Chester in order to the releasment of those of Shropshire that are there. And his LoP thinks it fitt that the bonds taken from the Tradesmen in Shrewsbury should be delivered up of those that were seized as suspitious only, & nothing alledged against them. Also he writes that the King being informed that Robin Hampton was taken and in Gaole here, the King sayed he is as great a rogue as any in England & Commands my Lord to send downe to have Irons put on him & my Lord ordered me to see it done, which I did accordingly. The fellow was much daunted at it. I delivered yesterday to Capt. Weld's Ensigne 103 Musketts according to my Lord Dartmouth's Order; if you think requisite you may please to impart this to the Colonell; it was exceeding late before I got home last night as my Aunt Whitcombe knows, & am so weary that I am not able to wayt on you, wherefore I hope you will please to excuse These for the Honoured Thomas Ottley Esq' one [Ottley Papers.] Sr Your obliged servant to comand The progress of the King through Shropshire, mentioned in the next correspondence, has been so ably described by Owen and Blakeway in their History of Shrewsbury that nothing more need be said here. Of Mr. Walcot I will speak when we come to his courageous reply to Lord Jeffreys. 1 Richard Jenkins of Stanford, co. Dorset, and of Charlton Hill, co. Salop, was Muster Master General of the Militia of this county. He was the son of Thomas Jenkins of Pimperne, co. Dorset, and married Mary, daughter and coheir of Richard Bagott of Hargreaves, in the parish of Alberbury, co. Salov. He was officially attached to the celebrated royalist Lord Colepeper at St. Germains in 1649, when Ambassador extraordinary to the Emperor of Russia, and the United Provinces. He returned to England in 1651, and settled at Smalston, now known as Charlton Hill. He was buried at Wroxeter in 1697. Vol. IV., 3rd Series. Ꮓ |