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Reference 1 Source: Public Record Office Title: State
Papers Domestic: Elizabeth cclxxxiv 62
6 July 1602 Fulham Richard bishop of London, to Secretary Cecil: I enclose the names of such priests and obstinate
recusants in prison in London as I think meet to be sent to Framlingham, but you
may put out whom you list, my resolution being to concur in opinion with you.
Let Mr Edmondes have your letter to the Commissioners there, because Mr Brewster
has stayed long here, to his great charge, and has provided a wagon against
Friday [9 July 1602] to carry such of the prisoners as go thither. {enclosing:} List of priests and recusants in prison, viz.:
Newgate Pound desparate and obstinate Clink Adams Dowce a froward intelligencer Tichbourne
Gatehouse Tilletson priest Hughs and Ray son, long there Marshalsea Webster perverter of youth Blunt Colbeck
King's Bench Eden
Reference 2
Source:
Public Record Office Title:
State Papers Domestic: Charles II: Entry Book xxvii f.205 11
October 1677 Newmarket [Secretary
Coventry] to Dr Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury: Recommending
to his protection the bearer, Edmund Ivery, M. A. of Cambridge, Fellow of Caius
College, who stands for the living of Exning. He has the good opinion of all at
Newmarket and is well esteemed by the parish.
Reference 3
Source: Devon Record Office:
NRA 19125: RCHM v 378 Title: Pine Coffin
Manuscripts
1 June 1687 London Letter: Richard Lapthorne to Richard Coffin Doctor Tillotson, the Dean of Canterbury, had an
apploplectick or epilectic fit seized on him Friday sevenight last [27 May
1687], falling from his chair as he sate by the fire at his house at Edmington;
but by bleeding and purging is pretty well recovered. Some think that it
proceeded from greefe at the late death of his only daughter. Reference 4 Source:
Public Record Office Title:
State Papers Domestic: Charles II: Entry Book xxvii f.109 31
January 1678 Whitehall Warrant
for a grant to Dr John Tillotson, chaplain in ordinary to the king and Dean of
Canterbury, of the prebend of Oxegate belonging to St Paul's, and also of the
residentiary's place in the same church, void by the promotion of Dr William
Sancroft to the archbishopric of Canterbury.
Reference 5 Source:
Public Record Office Title: King William's Chest
viii 26
1690 Managers of the king's directions: Sir John Lowther Sir Henry Goodrick Sir Thomas Clarges Mr Heneage Finch Sir Joseph Williamson Lord Ranelagh Sir William Pulteney Privy Councillors that ought to assist: Marquis of Winchester Mr Wharton Mr Hampden Sir Robert Howard Sir Henry Capell Mr Powie Mr Russell Mr Roscawen
Mr Grey and Mr Roberts to be spoken to by the king. A great many gentlemen have greatly assisted the king's affairs, and must be complimented by sir John Lowther and sir Henry Goodrick, as: sir George Hutchins, sir Charles Porter, Mr Ettrick, and many more that must be invited to a general meeting.
Privy Councillors have always been allowed to solicit and press the king's supply in Parliament; the officers of the army are to be spoken to by the king; some may be discoursed by Lord Ranelagh, but the Lord Colchester is above it. Mr Chadwick, son-in-law to Dean Tillotson, to be spoken to by the dean, for he gives very ill example; Lord Falkland and Lord Castleton are discontented; some of the Somersetshire men, who are discontented, to be set right by Lord Fitzhardinge; it may be dangerous to make an advertisement at first, unless there be very great occasion for it. An address of thanks to the king is necessary at the beginning. Supply should be well considered by the king and the
managers. Reference 6 Source:
Public Record Office Title:
Home Office Church Book i 65 6
November 1690 The
king to the Bishops of London, St Asaph, Salisbury, Chichester, Worcester, and
Oxford, Dr John Sharpe, Dean of Canterbury, Dr John Tillotson, Dean of St
Paul's, and Dr Thomas Tennison: Almighty
God having of His great goodness blest our arms with so much success in Ireland,
that it is now almost entirely reduced to our obedience, we esteem it our duty,
in the first place, to provide for the settlement and government of the church
there, by such rules and orders as may most effectually encourage piety, and
promote the worship of God. For this purpose we have made choice of you, as
persons of whose zeal, judgment, prudence, and experience we are well satisfied,
and do hereby require you to meet, and consult of such means as may be most
proper for attaining this great end. We recommend it particularly to you to
consider of the ecclesiastical preferments in our said kingdom, now void, and of
the persons best qualified to fill them, in respect of their learning, exemplary
life, and fidelity in the discharge of their duty, by a due residence upon the
place. And upon this and all other matters which may most conduce to the good of
the church, and the establishment of the protestant religion in our said
kingdom, we expect a report of your opinion in writing, as soon as may be;
wherein we doubt not your care and diligence.
Reference
7
Source: Public Record Office Title: Home Office Warrant
Book vi 28
January 1691 Warrant for a commission to the Marquis of
Carmarthen,
the Earl of Devonshire, Charles earl of Dorset and Middlesex, Thomas earl of
Pembroke, Daniel earl of Nottingham, Thomas earl of Fauconberg, John earl of
Marlborough, Richard earl of Scarborough, Francis viscount Newport, Henry
viscount Sydney, Henry bishop of London, William bishop of St Asaph, Gilbert
bishop of Salisbury, Edward bishop of Worcester, Simon bishop of Chichester,
Sidney lord Godolphin, sir John Lowther baronet, Richard Hampden esquire, sir
John Holt knight, Henry Powie esquire, sir Henry Polexfen knight, sir Robert
Atkins knight, John Sharp, D. D., Dean of Canterbury, and John Tillotson, D. D.,
Dean of St Paul's: The queen is informed that divers great abuses and
irregularities are committed in all or most of the hospitals or houses of
charity within this kingdom, whereby great wrong is done to the poor, and the
charitable and pious intentions of the founders and benefactors to the said
hospitals are greatly perverted. The aforenamed persons are therefore
commissioned to visit the several hospitals here mentioned: the hospital of St
John the Baptist in or near Chester, of St Mary Magdalen in the suburbs of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of St
Sepulchre near Haw———* within the deanery of Holderness, of the hospital
at Ilford in Essex, of St Mary Magdalen in the deanery of Colchester, of St
Katherine near the Tower of London, of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Nottingham,
the * the rest of the word left blank in the original Reference 8 Source:
Public Record Office Title:
Home Office Church Book i 78 22
April 1691 Kensington Warrant
for a conge d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury to elect an archbishop
of that see, now void by the deprivation of Dr William Sancroft, late archbishop
there, and for a letter recommending to the said Dean and Chapter,
Dr John Tillotson, dean of the cathedral church of St Paul's, London, and clerk
of the king's closet.
Reference 9 Source:
Public Record Office Title:
Home Office Church Book i 147 6
December 1694 Whitehall Warrant
to the Clerk of the Signet attending, to prepare a bill containing a conge
d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury to elect an archbishop of that
see, now vacant by the death of Dr John Tillotson; and to prepare a letter for
the royal signature, recommending Dr Thomas Tennison, Bishop of Lincoln, to be
by them elected archbishop.
Source:
Public Record Office Title: Treasury Papers xliv 51 [?c.20
April] 1697 Petition
of John Gostling clerk, one of the gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, showing that,
owing to his duties at that chapel, he was obliged to maintain a curate on his
living in the country, at a charge of £40 per annum, which was made
up to him by an allowance by king Charles II of 50 guineas per annum, which had
been continued to him, and was promised by the late queen out of the Royal
Bounty, through the late Archbishop Tillotson; praying for the arrears.
Source:
Public Record Office: SP 32/10 f.2 Title:
State Papers Domestic: William & Mary 15
March 1698 London Sir
Miles Cooke to sir Joseph Williamson at the Hague: I
must begin with my humble gratitude for your kind and obliging entertainment of
my son at your table, of which he is very proud and sent me word that it was the
first happy stroke of fortune (except his Majesty's gracious pardon), that he
has been sensible of since his first commitment. As for news, both Houses are so
slow in their motions that hitherto they have made very little progress in
paying off the debt of the nation, having gone but one quarter of the way; for
the 3s in the £ coming but to 1,500,000£, and the debt being 6 millions, they
must have their wits about them, how to be able to raise, such a sum, but
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays are appropriated for that great
undertaking, but the fund upon this new 3s in the £ at 8 per cent. brings in
money enough for the present to pay off the army, which are disbanding every
day. My
Lord Mackensfeild's Bill hath passed the House of Lords, my lady declaring her
consent to it, she being as desirous to be rid of him and to be restored to all
her land again (which by this Act she is to have) as he to be rid of her; so
they may each marry again as soon as they can get new mates, which they may
easily do this pairing time. And we believe the Commons (it being by the hearty
consent of both parties) will be as ready to complement them both as the Lords
were, though I must tell you that the restoring of her to her land was a forst
put upon my lord, which he would not consent to till his best friends told him
that otherwise they would not pass the Bill, it being proved that he turned her
off, and notwithstanding all the application imaginable to him for a
reconciliation (even by the late Archbishop Tillotson) he would never receive
her nor give any reason why he turned her off at first, so that indeed he elopt
from her rather than she from him, and thus is the end of a drawn battle. Charles Duncombe's business moves as slow in the Lords House as Ways and Means do in the Commons, for his crime being but, quasi a breach of any law, and no proof upon oath (which the Commons can not administer), the precedent of bringing a Bill (upon so slender materials) the Lords thinking of very dangerous consequence, and hitherto there have happened so many blunders in the matter that I can not say it goes forward, only that the Bill is not yet thrown out (as it had almost like to have been after the first reading) but the getting and keeping of 200,000£ will find enemies and friends.
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