fummon'd up by Writ to the Houfe of Peers of Great Britain.

Fofeph Micklethwaite, Efq; appointed Secretary to the Inland of Barbadoes, and to the Governor and Council, and chief Clerk of the Courts there.

John Chamberlain Efq; appointed Secretary to the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy.

Dr. William Talbot, Bishop of Oxford, and Dean of Worcefter, tranflated to the See of Sarum, in the Room of Dr. Gilbert Burnet, deceas'd. And

Dr. John Potter, Chaplain to his Majefty, and Regius Profeffor of Divinity at Oxford, appointed Bishop of that See, in the Room of Dr. Talbot.

William Poyntz, Efq; appointed Conful-General in Portugal.

Sir Godfrey Kneller, Kt. Principal Painter to his Majefty, created a Baronet of Great Britain.

21. The two Houfes of the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury met in Convocation, and the lower House made Choice of Dr. George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury

for their Prolocutor.

Dy'd William Griffith of Canamulch in the County of Carnarvon, Efq; Knight of the Shire for that County.

The King went to the House of Peers, and made a most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament.

29. William Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, took the Oaths appointed to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, as Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hertford. As did alfo Robert Bertie, Marquefs of Lindsay, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, as Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln, and Mountague Venables Bertie, Earl of Abingdon, as Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Oxford.

Sir Peter King, Kt. Lord Chief Juftice of the CommonPleas, fworn of his Majefty's moft Honourable Privy Council, and took his Place at the Board accordingly.

30. The Marquefs Durazzo, Envoy Extraordinary from the Republick of Genoa, had feverally, private Audience of Leave of the King, and afterwards of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

About this Time Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, thought fit to withdraw out of England, and went privately to France.

Thomas Spence, Efq; made Controllor of the Civil LiftLottery 1713, in the Room of John Chamberlayne, Efq;

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John Dalrymple, Earl of Stair, made Colonel of the Regiment of Dragoons, late General Ecklin's, who was dif ··plac'd.·

William Afburst, Efq; made Accountant and Controller of the Stamp Duties.

Dr. Hare, appointed Dean of Worcester, in the Room of Dr. William Talbot, promoted from the See of Oxford, to that of Sarum.

William Berkley, Lord Berkley of Stretton, remov'd from the Office of firft Commiffioner for Trade and Plantations. April 1715.

1. Charles Pawlet, Duke of Bolton, took the Oaths ap-. pointed to be taken inftead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, as Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Dorfet.

4. Elizeus Burgefs, Efq; appointed Governor of the Maffachufets Bay and New Hampshire.

7. The King Conferr'd the Honour of Knighthood on Robert Thornhill, Richard Steele, and George Cooke, Efqrs. three of the Deputy Lieutenants of the County of Middlefex, upon their attending his Majefty with their Address.

Count Guicciardi, Envoy Extraordinary from the Duke of Modena, had a private Audience of his Majesty; and alfo of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Mountague-Venables Bertie, Earl of Abingdon, appointed Warden, Chief Juftice, and Juftice in Eyre of all his Majefty's Forefts, Chiafes, Parks and Warrens, on the South Side of Trent.

Archibald Douglafs, Earl of Forfar, appointed his Majefty's Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Pruffia.

Sir Richard Vernon, appointed his Majefty's Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Poland.

Robert Tighe, Efq; appointed his Majefty's Conful at Elfinore.

William Matthews, Efq; appointed Lieutenant-Governor of his Majesty's Leeward Charibbee Islands in America. Thomas Frankland, Efq; appointed Clerk of the Deliveries of the Stores of the Ordnance.

Dr.

Pelling, Chaplain to the Honfe of Commons, made one of the Prebendaries of the Free Chapel of St. George in Windsor Castle.

William Cook, Efq; appointed Secretary of Virginia. -9. Count Schonborn, Envoy Extraordinary from the Elector of Mentz, had a private Audience of the King, as

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alfo of their Royal Highneffes the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Henry Scot, Earl of Delorain, appointed. Captain and Colonel of his Majefty's fecond Troop of Horse-Grenadier Guards.

William Kerr, Efq; appointed Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons.

Henry Harrifon, Efq; appointed Colonel of the Regiment of Foot, late the Earl of Hertford's.

12. Dy'd Thomas Wharton, Marquess of Wharton, . Lord Privy-Seal, in the 67th Year of his Age. He was Son of Philip, the 3d Lord Wharton, by Descent from Thomas Lord Wharton, one of his Ancestors; who having perform'd many figual Exploits against the Scots, in the Reign of Henry VIII. had Summons to Parliament among the Barons, in the First Year of Edward VI. Thomas, his Son and Heir, fucceeded him in his Honour, and was 48 Years of Age at his Father's Death; and having marry'd Anne the Daughter of Robert D' Evereux, Earl of Essex, by her had Iffue Philip his Son and Heir, and two Daughters; this Philip took to Wife Frances, Daughter of Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, and by her had two Sons, viz. Sir George Wharton, Knight of the bath, who marry'd Anne Daughter of John Manners, Earl of Rutland, and was kill'd in a Duel by Sir James Stewart, Knt. in 1609; leaving no Iffue; and Sir Thomas Wharton, Knt. who dy'd in his Father's Life-Time, leaving Iffue by his Wife, Philadelphia, Daughter of Robert Lord Cary, Earl of Monmouth, two Sons, Philip and Thomas. This fecond Philip fucceeded his Grandfather in 1625, arriv'd at his full Age in 1634, and marry'd three Wives, ift, Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir Rowland Wandesford of Pickbay in the County of York, Knt. Attorney of the Court of Wards; by whom he had Iffue only one Daughter, Elizabeth, marry'd to Robert Bertie, then Lord Willoughby of Eresby, afterwards Earl of Lindsay, Lord Great Chamberlain of England; 2dly, Jane, the Daughter and Heir of Arthur Goodwin of Upper Winchindon in the County of Bucks, Efq; by whom he had Iffue two Sons, viz. Thomas, the deceas'd Marquefs, and Goodwin, and four Daughters, viz. Anne, marry'd to William Carr, Efq; Margaret, to Major Dunch of Pufey in Berkshire, Mary, to William Thomas of Glamorganshire, Efq; and Philadelphia marry'd first to Sir George Lockart of Carnwath in Scotland, and afterwards to John Ramfey, Son to the Bishop of Roffe. His third Wife was Anne, Daughter to William Carr, Efq; and Sifter so William Carr, who marry'd his eldeft Daughter by his fecond

cond Wife; by which Anne Carr, he had Iffue one Son, William, who dy'd unmarry'd. Thomas, his Son and Succeffor, was, upon King William and Queen Mary's Advancement to the Throne, made Controller of their Majesties Houshold, and fworn of the Privy-Council. He was likewise in that Reign, appointed Lord Chief Juftice in Eyre on the South Side of Trent, and Lord-Lieutenant of the Counties of Oxford and Westmoreland. In the Fifth Year of Queen Anne, Anno 1706, he was created Viscount Winchindon, and Earl of Wharton; and in 1709, was conftituted LordLieutenant of Ireland: Upon King George's Acceffion to The Throne, he was made Lord Privy-Seal, and fworn of his Majefty's Privy-Council; and in January, 1714, created Marquefs of Wharton, and of Malmsbury, as alfo a Baron, Earl, and Marquefs of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Name, Style, and Title of Baron of Trim, Earl of Rathlarnum, and Marquefs of Latherloth. He marry'd to his firft Wife, Anne, one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley in the County of Oxford, Bart, who dy'd without Iffue; and to his fecond Wife, Lury, Daughter and Heir of Adam Loftus, Baron of Lisburne in Ireland, by whom he had Iffue one Son, Philip, who fucceeded him in Honour and Eftate, and two Daughters, Jane and Lucy.

Dy'd John Langharne of St. Brides in the County of Pembroke, Efq; Member of Parliament for Haverford-Weft in that County.

-15. Dy'd the Lady Anne Digby, Countess Dowager of Sunderland, fecond and youngest Daughter of George Digby, Earl of Bristol, Sifter and Heir of John Digby, last Earl of Bristol of that Family, who dy'd without Iffue in the Year 1698, and Wife of Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, by whom he had Iffue two Sons, and two Daughters, viz, Robert, who dy'd in France unmarry'd; Charles, afterwards Earl of Sunderland; the Lady Anne, marry'd to James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, afterwards Duke of Hamilton and Brandon; and the Lady Elizabeth, marry'd to Donagh Mac-Carty, Earl of Clinearty.

16. Dy'd Benedict Leonard Calvert, Baron of Baltimore in the Kingdom of Ireland. He marry'd the Lady Charlotte Lee, eldeft Daughter of Edward-Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield, by whom he had a numerous Iffue, and was fucceeded in Honour and Eftate by his eldest Son Charles ・Calvert, Efq;

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George Carpenter, Efq; Lieutenant-General, appointed his Majefty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Vienna, in the Room of Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham..

-18. Thomas Wyndham, Efq; appointed Enfign of the Yeomen of the Guard to his Majefty. And

Francis Clarke, Efq; appointed Exempt of the faid Guard.

William Smith, Efq; appointed Receiver and Paymafter to and for the Band of Gentlemen Penfioners.

William Ashurst, Efq; appointed Accountant and Controller-General of the Stamp Duties on Vellom, Parchment, and Paper.

Thomas Hughes appointed Bricklayer of all his Majefty's Works and Buildings in England.

Thomas Byde, Efq; appointed Advocate-General or JudgeMartial of all his Majefty's Forces in England.

Thomas Highmore, Efq; appointed Serjeant-Painter of all the Works belonging to his Majesty's Royal Palaces or Houfes, and to his Majefty's Great Wardrobe.

Grimlin Gibbons, Efq; appointed Mafter-Sculptor, and Mafter-Carver in Wood, in all his Majesty's Palaces, Houses, and Buildings, and all other his Majesty's Works.

Benjamin Jackson appointed Mafter Mafon of all his Majefty's Works within the Tower of London, and all his Majefty's Honours, Caftles, Houfes and Manors.

About this Time died Chambers Brabazon, Earl of Meath, in the Kingdom of Ireland, and was fucceeded in Honour and Estate by his Son Edward Lord Ather.

22. This Day happen'd the most remarkable Eclipfe of the Sun that had been seen in Great Britain for above 500 Years before. It began in London at Eight of the Clock, fix Minutes, thirteeen Seconds, and ended at Ten of the Clock, twenty Minutes, fifteen Seconds: It was almost Central; for the whole Difcus of the Sun was totally immersed or hid from Sight by the Difcus of the Moon, for the Space of three Minutes, twenty-three Seconds; that is, from Nine of the Clock, nine Minutes, feventeen Seconds, to Nine of the Clock, twelve Minutes forty Se conds. During the total Emerfion, or Darkness, there appear'd a luminous Circle, round the Difcus of the Moon, caus'd, as the Mathematicians agreed, by the Atmosphere of the Sun. Some Minutes before and after the total Darkness, not only the Planets, Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus, were feen Weftward, of and about the fame Height above the Horizon with the Sun; but feveral fix'd Stars were likewife difcover'd. Before and during the total

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