and Count Francis, Colonel of Dragoons in the Armies of Great Britain, and kill'd at the Battel of Almenara in Spain; and two Daughters, Isabella and Frances; the first of whom was the fecond Wife of Charles Lord Lanfdown, and Mother by him of William-Henry, Earl of Bath, who dy'd under Age; the other was marry'd to the Earl of Bellamont of the Kingdom of Ireland.

Dr. Edward Jones inftall'd. Chancellor of the Cathedral, Church of St. Paul, London, in the Room of Dr. Saun, ders, deceas'd.

A Proclamation publish'd, promifing a Reward of 100l. to fuch as fhall apprehend any Highwayman within five Miles of London. [See Hiftorical Regifter, NO XVII,

Page 62.]

Conyers Darcy, Efq; Brother of Robert, Earl of Holdernefs, appointed Mafter of the Houfhold to his Majefty, in the Room of Edmund Dunch, Efq; deceas'd.

Mr. Bloomer, of Trinity College in Cambridge, appointed Rector of St. Clement-Danes, in the Room of Mr. Fofter, deceas'd.

M. de Noery, Secretary from the King of Sardinia, had his private Audience of Leave from his Majefty.

Jan. 25. Dy'd at Chefter,

Cumberbach, Efq; Recor der of that City, and one of the Juftices of the Grand Seffions in North Wales.

Jan. 27. Dy'd Dame Frances Ruffel,

her Age. She was marry'd to

fon of Robert Earl of Warwick and

in the 83d Year of Rich, Efq; Grand Holland, and after

wards to Sir John Ruffel of Chippenham in Cambridge

fhire.

Mr.

Purney made Ordinary of Newgate, in the

Room of Mr. Paul Lorrain, deceas'd.

Jan. 28. The Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, made Choice of Mr. John Danfie to be Surgeon of King fland Hofpital, in the Room of Mr. Field, deceas'd.

Mr. Bernard Lens, jun. made Painter in Miniature to his Majefty, in the Room of Mr. Benjamin Acland, deceas'd.

Jofeph Bell, Efq; made Deputy-Controller of the General Poft-Office.

Jan. 29. John Trippuck, Richard Sheppard, Roger Cane, [See December 7, 1719.] and Mary Griffith, [See January 16.] were executed at Tyburn.

Dy'd Dr. Adams, Provost of King's College in Cambridge, Canon of Windfor, Rector of Hornfey in Middlesex, and of St. Bartholomew's behind the Royal Exchange.

Jan. 30

Jan. 30. Dy'd Samuel Trotman of Sifton in the County of Gloucester, Efq; Member of Parliament for the City of Bath.

Jan. 31. Dy'd Thomas Grey, Earl of Stamford, in the 66th Year of his Age, and leaving no Iffue was fucceeded in Honour and Estate by Henry Grey of Enfield-Hall in Staffordshire, Efq; who defcended from a younger Son of Henry, the first Earl of Stamford, Grandfather of the deceas'd Earl.

Benjamin Mildmay, Efq; made Commiffioner of Excife, in the Room of Sir William Afhurst, deceas'd.

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Feb. 1. Dy'd Henrietta, Countess of Brodalbin, Wife of John Earl of Brodalbin: She was Daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, and Sifter of Edward Earl of Jersey.

Feb. 4. Dy'd Robert Wroth of Shelford in the County of Surry, Efq. He was a Major-General in the Army, one of the Clerks of the Greencloth, and Member of Parlia ment for Guilford in Surrey.

The Ceremony of the Efpoufals of Charlotte-Aglae of Orleans, Mademoiselle de Valois, fecond Daughter of the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, with Francifcus Maria, the Hereditary Prince of Modena, was perform'd in the King of France's Closet, in the Palace of the Louvre at Paris; and the next Morning the Solemnity of the Marriage was celebrated in the King's Chapel, the Duke of Chartres, Brother to that Princefs, being Proxy for the Prince of Modena.

M. le Coq, Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Poland, had his first private Audience of his Majefty.

Robert Bailis, Efq; Alderman of Breadfreet Ward, made one of the Commiflioners for the Duties on Salt, in the Room of Benjamin Mildway, Efq; [See January 31.]

Feb. 5.
Onflow, Efq; made Treafurer of the
Poft Office, in the Room of his Brother Arthur Onflow, Efq;
who refign'd.

Dy'd Anthony Lechmere of Henly-Caftle in the County of
Worcester, Efq; Receiver-General of the Cuftoms.

Temple Stanyan, Efq; appointed one of the Clerks in Ordinary of his Majefty's moft Honourable Privy Council, in the Room of his Brother Abraham Ṣtanyan, Efq; Embaffador Extraordinary at the Ottoman Porte.

Mrs. Elizabeth Powel, a Printer, taken into Cuftody of a Messenger.

This Day Earl Cadogan, Count Morville, and the Marquis de Beretti Landi, Embaffadors Plenipotentiaries of

Great

Great Britain, France, and Spain, met at Prince Maurice's Houfe at the Hague, and fign'd the Convention made at Paris the 18th of July 1718, by the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and France: And the next Day thofe Minifters, together with Count Windifgratz, the Emperor's Embaffador Plenipotentiary, met at the fame Place, and fign'd the Treaty of Quadruple Alliance, made at London the 2d of August 1718, with all its fecret and fepa

rate Articles.

Feb. 10. Dy'd Almeric de Courcy, Earl of Kinfale in the Kingdom of Ireland; and leaving no Iffue Male, was fucceeded in Honour and Eftate by his firft Cousin Gyrald de Courcy.

Robert Afhurst, Efq; chofen Governor of the Society for propagating the Gofpel in New England and Parts adjacent, in the Room of his Father Sir William Ashurst, deceas'd.

Mr. Wade made Canon of Windfor.

Dr. Lewis Atterbury prefented to the Rectory of Hornsey in Middlefex.

Mr. Pierce prefented to the Rectory of St. Bartholomew behind the Royal Exchange; and

Dr.

Snape, Mafter of Eaton-College, elected Provolt of King's College in Cambridge: All in the Room of Dr. Adams, deceas'd.?

Feb. 11. The Earl of Drogheda of the Kingdom of Ireland, marry'd to the eldest Daughter of Hugh Boscawen, of Tregothan in the County of Cornwal, Efq; Controller of his Majefty's Houfhold,

Dy'd Dudley Woodbridge, Efq; Judge-Advocate in the Ifland of Barbadoes, and Agent there for the South Sea Company.

Mr. William Pate made Controller of the Penny-Poft, in the Room of Robert Bailis, Efq; [See Feb. 1.]

Feb.. 16. By Order of the Houfe of Lords, a Pamphlet, containing many blafphemous Expreffions, was burnt by the Hands of the common Hangman in the Palace Yard, Weftminster, and before the Royal Exchange; It was intitled, A fober Reply to Mr. Higgs's Merry Argument of the Light of Nature, for the Tritheiftick Doctrine of the Trinity; with a Poftfcript to Dr. Waterland. It was most of it written by

Jofeph Hall, Efq; one of the Serjeants at Arms to his Majefty, who thereupon was remov'd from that Office, and

Edward

· Edward Horner, Efq; appointed Serjeant at Arms in his Room.

Sir Robert Corbet of Stoke in the County of Salop, Bart. appointed Clerk-Controller of the Green-Cloth, in the Room of Robert Wroth, Efq; deceas'd.

William Eaft, Efq; made one of the Commiffioners of the Wine-Licenfe Office, in the Room of William-Georges Creffet, Efq; deceas'd.

Feb. 17. Dy'd John Hughes, Efq; Secretary of the Commiflions of Peace under the Lord Chancellor Parker, Mr. Staunton appointed Mason to Westminster-Abbey, in the Room of Mr. Tuffinel, deceas'd.

Lexingtone,

Feb. 19. Dy'd of the Gout, Colonel who had distinguish'd himself by many Services to his Country Abroad; particularly, he commanded a Regiment of Indians at the Reduction of Nova Scotia, and had several Times been sent by the Government of the Massachusetts, to execute Commiffions at Canada, which he perform'd with great Refolution.

Dy'd John Incledon, Efq; Houfe-keeper to the Houfe of Lords, and Yeoman-Ufher of the Black Rod.

Colonel John Mackintosh, one of the Prefton Rebels, taken at an lan in Alderfgate-Street, and committed to

Newgate.

Feb. 20. Dy'd

Hoo, Efq; Serjeant at Law.

Dy'd likewife John Worley, Efq; who had been many Years a Juftice of Peace for the County of Middlesex.

Dy'd alfo John Cotter, Efq; of Greenwich in Kent, one of the Juftices of Peace for that County.

Feb. 21. Dy'd the Lady Buckingham, Widow of Sir Owen Buckingham, one of the Aldermen, of London.

Dy'd likewife the Lady Piers, Wife of Sir Charles Piero, Kt. and Alderman of London.

Feb. 22. Dy'd at Magdalen College in Oxford, James Fayren, D. D. Profeffor of Natural Philofophy in that University, and of Divinity in the faid College.

Dy'd ́at Edinburgh Sir George Maxwell, Bart...

Dy'd Henry Canby, Efq; Surveyor of the Searchers in the Port of London.

Feb. 24. The Marquis de Senneterre, Embassador Extraordinary from the Most Christian King, had his first prio vate Audience of his Majefty.

Dy'd of the Small Pox Thomas Stephens of Lypiat in the County of Gloucester, Efq; Knight of the Shire for that County.

Dy'd of the fame Distemper Captain Richard Leakes
Son of Sir John Leake, formerly Admiral.

Dy'd Mr. Spencer, Clerk and Treasurer of the Works of
St. Paul's

Feb. 25. Dy'd Dr. Thomas Green, Prebendary of Salisbu
ry, and Rector of St. Olave's in the Old Fury.

Saunderfon, Efq; Son of Sir William Saunderfor,
made Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, in the Room of
John Incledon, Efq; deceas'd.

Robert Throgmorton, Efq; marry'd to the Lady Theresa
Powys, Daughter of the (fo call'd) Duke of Powys.

Feb. 26, Dy'd Sir Edward Prideaux, of Netherton in the
County of Devon, Bart.

Mr.
Incledon made Houfe-keeper of the
Houfe of Lords, in the Room of his Father John Incledon,
Efq; deceas'd.

Feb. 27. Thomas Wylde of the City of Worcester, Efqz
marry'd to a Daughter of Mr. Justice Tracy, one of the
Judges of the Common Pleas.

Feb. 28. A Proclamation publish'd, declaring a Sufpen-
fion of Arms by Sea, agreed upon between his Majefty
and the Catholick King, and requiring the Obfervance
thereof. See Hiftorical Regifter, Page 63.]

A Fire broke out at the Cross Keys Brew-house in Barna-
by-Street, Southwark, which destroy'd a Ware-house, the
Stables, and Part of the Brew-house, with near 1500
Quarters of Malt, and a great Quantity of Stout.

Feb. 29. Dy'd Thomas Johnson, Efq; one of the Juftices
of Peace for the County of Middlefe.

Dy'd F. Murray, Efq; Paymaster of the Lottery
1714, and in Commiflion of the Peace for the County of
Middlefes

Dy'd Sir Edward Manfel, Bart. at his Seat in Wales.

March 1. William Bateman, Efq; marry'd to the Lady
Anne Spencer, Daughter of Charles Earl of Sunderland, by
his fecond Wife,the Lady Anne Churchill, Daughter of John
Duke of Marlborough.

Dy'd Philip Marquis of Winchendon, only Child of Phi
lip Wharton, Duke of Wharton, at the Age of eleven Months
and odd Days.

Dy'd likewife Francis Mundy of Leicestershire, Efq.

March 3. Dy'd Thomas Powys, Efq; of the Small
Pox. He was eldeft Son of the late Sir Thomas Powys.
- Robert Bristow, Efq; made one of the Clerks of the
Green Cloth, in the Room of the Bark of Coventry.