Let be infallibile lawe in this Christian Armie, that all those soldiers, wich shiall be so profane as to blasfeme God, shiall be for the first times corrected by ther officers, and nott leaving ther infamous falte for it, shiall be casciert, as the most dangerous plage that can be in one armie.

"All others errors and delicts, that shiall be committed by the officers and soldiers of this arme, wich particularly are nott expressed in this articles are to be enterely remitted to the judgement and justice of the armie, wich justice ist to be esecuted and governed according to those under write articles, the maner of makin the [ ] or judgement according to the martial lawe against the soldiers and officers of the army.

"If a common soldier shiall have broket the orders or lawes of the armie, and one esamination is to be make upon him, the Coronell shiall call togheter the Tenant-Coronell and the Magior, one Capitaine, one Liutenant, one Ansent, one Sergiant and one Caporall, before wich esamination ist to be made of the accusations against the soldier, hiere lrim selfe, his one escusations and reasons; and the shiall judge him, if gilti or nott gilty, and of wath pena; wich shiail be pott in esecution; bot in case that the crime was to be punissed of Death, then in that case shall nott be done without the consent of one Generall Officer or of the Concell of Warre, if att that time his Magesty has estabilissed one. "I judge impossibile that att this time your Magesty could establisse (sic) in your armie militarie lawes, with the consent of the parlament, bot I judge vere esie in not sittingh of a parlament for a time to estabilisse a militarie lawes, because I doo nott conceive, no will be so bold as to oppose to them bot in parlament, and att that time were felte and the much more because military lawe sett up, the common people will finden a great benefitt by the good order that by vertue of siccy lawes the soldiers in ther quartiers will kipe, and then shiall nott be anie complaint of the armye as are att this present, of wich good order the comun of the Kindom being pleased with, it is possibile the parlament will summitt to it afeter.

"And your Magesty must conclude that without militarie lawes your armie can nott sussist in good order, nether can your Magestie make use of the same in your occasions, as it ist possibile in time you can have needes of.

"For wath militarie lawes your Magesty must governe your armie, I judge convenient that your Magesty examine the militarie lawes that by Ciarles the Fifth were governed his armies in Germanie, wich att this present time the Emperour make use of, and take out of them wath your Magesty tinck fitt for this present time and use those hiere that you shiall judge necessarie.

"I judge no lesse necessarie to a good governament of the armie, to establisse att the Court nieare your Magesty person a Concell of Warre of your one Officers Generalls and Coronells, that you will be pleased to ciuse with one Segretarie of Warre, independent from other Segretaries, to wich Segretarie and Concell must addresse themselves all the Cif officers of the regiments, and commanders in the quartiers, to kipe well informed the Concell of wath passe amonghst the truppes of His Magesty, and from the resolution and orders of this Concell shiall althogheter depend the governament of the army, with the approbation and direction of your Magesty; And with this Concell shiall corrisponde once every weeke att least all Commander in Cif in ther respective quartiers wer the shiall lodge, to give the Concell account of anie disorder or errour that shiall be committed in ther quartiers, and hiere wath order the Concell will give toward itt.

"Most excellent has bin the resolution of your Magesty in summer time to kipe your troopes encamped in the feilde; bot for severall reasons I shionld judge more convenient to nott kipen all togheter, bot separted in severall encampements in deivers parts of the Kindome, in 2000 in every campe of 5000 nieare the Court, from wence shiould come out those bodies that shiould garde your Magesty, to be cianged accordingh the order, lodging the cavallerie or in the nebering villagges or asseining barnes to be covered (?) nieare the campo, as more your Magesty will tinch fitt for convenience of the soldiers and the countrie.

"I likwyse pott under your Magesty consideration, if could nott be of great advantage to your Magestie in the intervall of parlament (in case you shiould judge fitt, to have them nott sit for some time) to allowe a libertie of concience for a determinate time for all religions, only in ther private housis, with out publick assembles, to make essperience wath effects can produce in the allowed time, and if this will bring to your Magesty the affection of the nonconformists wath so ever will displease the clergi of the cerch of England, and to this have moved me to have see in the last session of parlament, the vere Bisciopes goo against the interesse of the corone, from wich the are immediate dependent, to make them know that the Corone as well can acte in ther great disadvantage.

"And besaides all this, if sicci small libertie could bring to your Magesty the affection of the nonconformists, wich are a vere considerable great number, could alter all the mesures of those, to wich is not agreable the present states of affaires of your Majesty.

"I doo like wyse pott under your Magesty consideration, if was nott convenient att this present for severall reasons that I doo not insert hiere, to absteine from publicke denertrations? toward Rome, because those being nott abile to doo anie good toward your governament in this Kindomes, give occasion to the ill affected of morrderation and pott in jelosie those that love your Magesty that are of another oppinion.

"For the rest, your Magestie has nott occasion to be affraide of anie trouble when the parlament not set, nether much in sittingh, wen lai in your Magesty power to adgiorning or dissolving presently, wen you can see, that the are acting against your one interesse, and I doo adverre that nether in your Magesty Father of blessed memorie, had bin sicci civill warre as was to His Magesty otter ruine had he nott before concorred to that pernicious act that that parlament could nott be dissolved bot by ther one will (wich I hope never shiall be hiere aftter); and notingh had bin wathsoever His Magestie Ciarles the Ferst had not att that time anie troopes.

"Tho much more ist assured your Magestie have att this present 20m man wich wathsoever are nott yet modelled as the are to be in tw[o] or tree years will for certen be sufficient to kipe the kindome in aue and obbedience, and hinder the ill intentions of those, that nott love the present governament, from attenting anie tingh."

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VI. PEPYS PAPERS.

Whilst it will be studied with delight by the many readers who take a strong personal interest in everything that relates to the most amusing and capable of our seventeenth century diarists, the ensuing body of hitherto unpublished papers will prove of great service to any

sufficient biographer, who may be taking steps to give the world an adequate "Life of Samuel Pepys " now that an equally discreet and sagacious editor has given us a satisfactory edition of the famous Diary.

(1) Letter, dated from Tanger Bay on January 38, 1661, from the Earl of Sandwich to Samuel Pepys; (2) Latin letter, dated from Lisbon on 10th September 1661, to Samuel Pepys; (3) Letter, dated from Lisbon on September 11, from the Earl of Sandwich to Samuel Pepys ; (4) Letter, dated from Lisbon on 11th September 1661, from Edward Shepley to Samuel Pepys; (5) Interesting English postcript to an undated letter [1661, September?] written in French by John Creed to Samuel Pepys; (6) Letter, dated from the Royal James in the Bay of Tanger on 14th October 1661, from the same to the same; (7) Letter, dated "At sea off the Rock of Lixa" on 26th February 1652, from the same to the same; (8) Letter, dated from Lixa on 26th March O.S., 1662, from the same to the same, in which the writer says: "My "Lord Embassador doth all he can to hasten the Queen's Majesties "embarquement, there being reasons enough against suffering any

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unnecessary delay, but there are divers great circumstances that must "be well settled. Her Majestie is pleased to expresse very great zeal "to be speedily on board, and that shee will overcome even impossi"bilities in order thereunto. Yet we can move but slowly, which is to "be attributed partly to the nature of some circumstances, but cheifly "to the humour of this grave people. I hope, however, we shall not "be much longer delayed, from makeing his Majestie most joyfull, and England happy by the safe arrivall of the Queen, soe excellent a jewell as may inrich England, while this countrey is more impoverished "by her losse, then by parting with all the money and jewells of her "Majesties portion."; (9) Letter, dated from the Royal Charles on April 5th, from the same to the same, in which the writer says: "I "would not omit this last opportunity from this coast of a line to you. Sunday last her Majestie imbarqued, and her great welcome into the "fleete was expressed by all the wayes we could, the great guns spoke "it loudly, the fires artificially throughout the fleets shewed it far and neer. I shall not take on me to make to you now any relation of her "imbarquement, the magnificence, sorrow and joy, that was expressed "but leave all those things to our meeting; (10) Letter, dated from "the Cockepitt" on 8th June 1664, from the Duke of Albemarle to Samuel Pepys, touching ships and soldiers, and especially requiring that notice may be sent to the writer "where the other shippe lies that is to goe for Tangier"; (11) Letter, dated from Tauger on 2nd September 1665, from John Lord Belasyse to Samuel Pepys, "Treasurer for the affaires off Tanger," in which the writer speaks strongly and precisely of the humiliation he endures and the shifts to which he is put, through failure of remittances of money from England; (12) Letter, dated from Tanger on 2nd September 1665, from John Lord Belasyse to Samuel Pepys, touching bills of exchange for 500l., which the writer has drawn on his correspondent; (13) Letter, dated from Cockpitt on 9th October 1665, from the Duke of Albemarle to Samuel Pepys, touching money for shoes and other conveniences for the proper equipment of seamen; (14) Letter, dated from London on 10th October 1665, from Mr. John Colville, the goldsmith, to Samuel Pepys, expressing the writer's regret that, in consequence of the scarcity of money, he cannot supply his correspondent with what he "desires on tallies"; (15) Letter, dated in London on 10th October 1665, from Sir John Frederick and Nathaniel Herne to Samuel Pepys, touching a bill of exchange for 2,500l., with Pepys's reply to the epistle, showing the diffi

culty he sometimes experienced in getting money for official necessities; (16) Letter, dated from the Old Jury on 12th October 1665, from Sir John Frederick and Nathaniel Herne, touching the same bill of exchange, with Pepys's reply to the epistle; (17) Letter, dated from Oxford on 17th November 1665, from John Creed to Samuel Pepys, with a letter on the same paper from Denis Gauden, Surveyor General of Marine Victuals at the Victualling Office; (18) Letter, dated from Oxford on 19th November[1665], from John Creed to Samuel Pepys ; (19) Letter, dated from the Navy Office, London, from Pepys and two other Commissioners of the Navy to the Commissioners and Officers of his Majesty's Ordnance, asking for twelve firelocks, with a supply of bullet and powder, for the defence of the Navy Office against mutinous seamen; (20) Letter, dated from Hull on 16th July 1667, from John Lord Belasyse, Governor of Hull, to Samuel Pepys, inforraing the addressee of the epistle that three considerable prizes, in which he is interested, have been brought into Hull Roade, and advising Pepys to send some trusty agent to Hull, for the protection of his interest in the same prizes; (21) Rough Draft, dated at the Navy Office on 20th July 1667, of Pepys's reply to Lord Belasyse's friendly communication; (22) Letter, dated at London on 25th September 1667, from Francis Hosier, Surveyor of Accounts at Dover and other places for the Commissioners of the Admiralty, to Samuel Pepys, touching the official misdemeanors of Mr. Edward Wivell; (23) Letter, dated on 30th November [1667], from Sir William Coventry to Samuel Pepys, touching an intimation given in the House of Commons of a great discovery to the value of 65,000l., of which "the King had bin cosened," and "the losse the King sustained by Sir William Batten's contract for Gottenburgh masts"; (24) Letter, dated on 17th March 1670, from Sir Richard Browne, Secretary of the Trinity House in Water Lane to Samuel Pepys; (25) Paper, in Samuel Pepys's handwriting, dated in 1670, of "questions proposed by the Earle of Essex, on going Ambassador to Denmark, touching the honour of the Flag, with the Resolutions "signified thereupon by Lord Arlington"; (26) Letter, dated from the Trinity House on 7th February 1672, from Samuel Pepys to Sir Richard Browne, Master of the Corporation of the Trinity House, touching an arrangement for keeping many of the Navy Office books and papers at the Trinity House. With Slr Richard Browne's note. of reply to the same letter; (27) Letter, dated from Whitehall on 27th May 1672, from Sir Joseph Williamson to Sir Thomas Allen knt., touching "the late il accident of fire at the St. Catherines [dock]" and measures for preventing similar and even worse misfortune in the future; (28) Letter, dated from Whitehall on 29th May 1672, and endorsed by Samuel Pepys, from Prince Rupert to the Master and Brethren of the Trinity House, requiring them to take order for preventing such misadventure in the future as the recent accident by fire at St. Katherine's; (29) Letter (signed Anglesey, Ormonde, W. Seymour and G. Carteret, and "by command of the Lords--S. Pepys "), dated from Whitehall on 6th September 1673, from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Trinity House of Deptford, Strand, touching "an abstract of a graunt intended to be made by his "Majesty to the Countesse of Falmouth, of all the chaines in the "river of Thames, betweene London bridge and Bagby's hole, with all "the fees and profitts arising from the same"; (30) Letter, dated from Darby House on 9th January 1672, from Samuel Pepys to the Com missioners of the Admiralty touching affairs of the Navy; (31) Letter,

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dated from St. James's on 8th February 167, from H.R.H. the Duke of York to the Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity House, touching William Lord Maynard's desire "to have a grant of the reversion of the Ballast Office for twenty-one years"; (32) Letter, dated under the sign manual and signet of Charles II. from the Court at Whitehall on 10th February 167, to the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Trinity House, touching the same desire of William Lord Maynard for a grant of the reversion of the Ballast Office; (33) Letter, dated from Derby House on 4th November 1675, from William Hewer, servant and friend of Samuel Pepys, to announcing the appointment of Sir Anthony Deane to the posts of Comptroller of the Victualling Office and Commissioner of the Navy; (34) Letter, dated from Nimeque on 24th June, O.S., 1676, from Sir Leoline Jenkins to Samuel Pepys, entreating the addresee of the epistle to consider favourably the writer's statement of the grievances of the Officers of the Court of Admiralty; (35) Extracts, in Samuel Pepys's handwriting from two letters, datel respectively from Dublin on 30th October and 14th November 1676, from Sir William Petty to Sir Robert Southwell; a paper endorsed by Pepys "1676: Sir William Petty's Hypothesis of a Scale of Creatures"; (36) Letter, dated from Dublin on 13th January 167, from Sir William Petty to Sir Robert Southwell, touching the writer's Essay on the Scale of Creatures and his Invention of a Chariot with a single wheel; (37) Letter, dated from Nimegue on 10th May, O.S., 1677, to Samuel Pepys, and written in behalf of the Comte de Wallenstein, now in England, who wishes to "be gone to-morrow for the Hague" and needs" a yacht for his transport"; (38) Holograph letter, dated from Newmarket on 5th October 1677, from H.R.H. the Duke of York, touching a packet of letters addressed to Pepys which the Duke had opened; (39) Letter, dated from Tanger on 24th May 1680, from Sir Palm [er] Fairboine to Samuel Pepys, in which the writer says, "I onely desire you to poses yourselfe "with the oppinion, that itt will be impossible ever to maintaine this "garission by any other ways butt by oppen war, unless the enimie would "condesend in time of peace to fortifyeing the towne, which soe farr as I "can learne the[y] absolutely refuse "; (40) Letter, dated from Whitehall on 25th June 1680, from John Evelyn, the Diarist, to Samuel Pepys, touching the state of The Royal Society; (41) Letter, without date, from John Evelyn the Younger (son of the Diarist) to to Samuel Pepys, together with a copy of the writer's encomiastic poem of fifty-four verses on H.R. H. the Duke of York; (42) Letter, dated on 3rd December 1681, from Dr. Thomas Gale, Head Master of St. Paul's School, to Samuel Pepys, touching the precise significance of the Latin word "versoria," and the antiquity of the helmsman's office; (43) Letter, dated from "The Court at Winchester" on 30th August 1684, from Lord Sunderland to Roger L'Estrange, requiring discovery to be made of the shorthand writer, who took notes of the proceedings at the trials of Ireland, the five Jesuits, and Langhorne; (44) Holograph_letter, dated from Winchester on 19th September 1684, from H.R.H. the Duke of York to Samuel Pepys, ordering that a yacht be provided "to carry the Siam envoyes for Calais" in accordance with the wish of the French Ambassador; (45) Holograph letter, dated from Newmarket, on 17th October 1684, from the same to the same, touching the King's pleasure that the H.M.S. St. David be paid off and laid up; (46) Holograph letter, not dated but written at St. James's on 4th November 1684, from the same to the same, ordering a yacht to be provided “for "the Marquis de Richelieu, his wife and family, to carry them over to "France"; (47) Original Petition, dated on 18th May 1685, of Titus

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