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HOC Journal 1691

Extracts from the House of Commons Journal, vol 10 1688 - 1693.

31 March 1691

Adjournment.

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer acquaints the House, That he was commanded by her Majesty to signify her Pleasure to the House, That both Houses should adjourn themselves to the Twenty-eighth Day of April now next ensuing.

And accordingly the House adjourned until Tuesday the Twenty-eighth Day of April now next ensuing, at Ten of the Clock in the Morning.

28 April

Adjournment.

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer acquaints the House, That his Majesty had thought fit that the Parliament should be adjourned for a Month longer: And that therefore it was his Majesty's Desire, That this House would adjourn itself until Tuesday the Six-and-twentieth Day of May next.

And accordingly the House did adjourn until Tuesday the Twenty-sixth Day of May next, at Ten of the Clock in the Morning.

26 May

Parliament prorogued …

Brief Historical Relation 1690 Q3

Political and other events

From Luttrell's Brief Historical Relation, a diary of news and current events (BR). These are all from vol. 2 of the 6 volume printed edition.

July 1690

Letters from Paris of the 3rd say, the French king had received an account that his fleet, being 82 men of war, besides fireships and tenders, were enter'd the English channel to perform his majesties orders of burning the English fleet at anchor at the Isle of Weight, and to land 8,000 men, pursuant to an invitation from diverse of the nobility and gentry of that kingdom, who are to join him in order to restore king James.

Foreign letters say, that 5,000 imperialists are on their march towards Savoy, and the elector of Bavaria sends likewise a regiment, and the duke of Parma sends also 2,000 men. We hear the Vaudois continue to doe the …

Mahan on King William's War

The importance of seapower was growing in the later 17th century. Mahan begins his classic The influence of sea power upon history with this era. Over the next century great-power war would become increasingly global, making command of the seas all the more vital.

A few extracts from Mahan covering the 1690s. From Chapter IV on the war of the League of Augsburg.

War of the League of Augsburg

(FP note) The war of 1688 - 1697 has many names. The prosaic Nine Years War, or the more traditional War of the League of Augsburg. The latter has fallen out of favour, in that there was a League of Augsburg, but the war was fought by a wider alliance, and the name does not shed light on the war's reasons or aims. In the north American theatre, where English and French settlers recruited rival groups of native forces, it has generally …

HOC Journal 1690 session 2

Extracts from the House of Commons Journal, vol 10 1688 - 1693.

2 October 1690

The King's Speech reported.

Mr. Speaker reports, That his Majesty had been pleased to make a most gracious Speech to both Houses: But in regard the same was long, and that there was a great Noise made by the Crowd, and that his Majesty's Voice was low, he could not distinctly hear the same; and therefore, he had desired and obtained a Copy of it: And he read the same;

[The speech is very substantially an appeal for more money and quickly, for the spiralling cost of the war, including army arrears of pay and further sums for the next season's campaigning ]

I cannot conclude without taking Notice also, How much the Honour of the Nation has been exposed by the ill Conduct of My Fleet in the last Summer's Engagement against the French [Battle of …

HOC Journal 1690 session 1

Extracts from the House of Commons Journal, vol 10 1688 - 1693.

24 March 1690

New Sarum Election.

A Petition of Wm. Wyndham, Esquire, was read; setting forth, That, at the Election of Citizens for New Sarum, the Twenty-seventh Day of February last, when the Petitioner Tho. Hobby, Esquire, and Thomas Pitt, Esquire, stood Candidates; and the Petitioner had the Majority of those Persons who had Right to vote in the said Election; and the Petitioner ought to have been returned a Citizen for the said City accordingly, together with the said Thomas Hobby, to serve in this present Parliament for New Sarum aforesaid: But the Mayor, in Wrong to the Petitioner, and contrary to Justice and Right, returned the said Thomas Pitt, Esquire, together with the said Thomas Hobby, whereas the Petitioner had a greater Number of qualified Votes: And praying the Relief of the House in the Premises.

Ordered …