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ing the road between Northfleet, Gravesend, and Rochefter, in Kent,

An act to enable the pier-wardens of Margate to recover their antient droits for lupport of the faid' pier.

An act to inclose the common and tract of land, called Crofton-Finney, in the county of Lancaster.

Feb. 28. Sir Robert Raymond appointed lord chief juftice of the court of King'sbench.

March 15. William Chamberlaine, «efq. appointed conful at Sicily and Malta.

March 16. James Reynolds, esq. appointed one of the juftices of the court of King's-bench.

March 19. The earl of Cholmondley made governer of Kingston upon Hull.

Major-general Tatton made governor of Gravefend and Tilbury fort.

March 24. His Majefty gave the royal

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An aft för rating unrated goods and merchandizes, and that they pay a duty ad valorem, &c. and for continuing a duty upon apples. di

An act for continuing feveral annuities to the Bank of England until Midfummer, 1727, and then reducing them; and for preventing the uttering of forged, counterfeited, or erafed bank bills or notes.

An act for preventing mutiny and defertion.

An act for repairing the roads from Enfield to Hertford.

An act for repairing the road to Tunbridge, &c.

An act to repair the road from London to Cambridge, beginning at Foul- Miré.

An act for repairing the road to Manchefter.

An act for rebuilding Stanford bridge in the county of York.

An a& for incorporating the executors of the laft will and teftament of Thomas Guy, late of the city of London, efq. decealed, and others, in order to the better management and difpofition of the charities given by the faid laft will.

An act to rebuild the pier and harbour of Parten in Cumberland :

And to fourteen private acts.

The grants for this year amounted to 1,748,1221. 55. 2d.

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duke of Devonshire, declared lord prefident of the privy council, in the room of Henry Boyle lord Carlton, deceased.

April 5. The French king having determined to feparate himself from the Infanta of Spain, whom he had espoused very young, in order to take a wife that was marriageable, he was fent back to Spain.

His Majefty fent a meffage to the Commons, to defire them to enable him to pay his debt due to the civil lift, &c. which amounted to 508,3671. 195. 4d. and had been contracted the laft three years: this request was complied with after fome warm debates.

Thomas earl of Macclesfield, having been impeached of high crimes and mifdemeanors, wherein the principal charge against him was, his felling the offices of masters in Chancery at extravagant rates, and suffering them to embezzle the fuitors money, he put in bis anfwer about this time wherein he attempted to justify himself by the example of his predeceffors.

Hugh Campbel, earl of Loudon, appointed his Majefty's high commiffioner to the kirk of Scotland.

April 12. Sir Robert Raymond, knt. lord chief juftice of the King's-bench, fworn of the privy-council.

George earl of Chalmondley, appointed lord lieutenant of the counties of Chester, Denbigb, Montgomery, Flint, Merioneth, Carnarvon, and Anglesey.

Washington Shirley, earl Ferrers, appoint ed lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the county of Stafford.

April 20. His Majesty gave the royal affent to,

An act for redeeming the annuities of 20,000l. per annum, charged on the civil lift revenues by 7 Geo. I. and for discharging the debs and arrears due from his Majefty to his fervants, tradesmen, and others.

An act for regulating lections within the city of London, and for preferving the peace, good order, and government of the faid city.

An act for making the river Nen, between Northampton and Peterborough, navigable.

An act for repairing the road from Bigglefrade, in the county of Bedford, to Bugden, e. and to eleven private acts.

An act for fettling the eftates of the most noble Wriothefly, duke of Bedford, on his marriage with lady Anne Egerton, daughter of the most noble Scroop, duke of Bridgwater, &c.

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A petition of the late lord viscount Bolingbroke was the fame day préfented to the House of Commons, praying, that the family estate might go according to his marriage fettlement, notwithstanding his attainder; which occafioned fome debate, but however, was carried by a great majority in his favour, 231 against 113.

April 22. A report of the trustees appointed for raising money on the estates of the late Soutb-Sea directors, was prefented to the House of Commons, fhewing, that the estates fold amounted to 1,789,112/. and upwards.

April 26. The Commons fent up their replication to the earl of Macclesfield's anfwer to the Houfe of Peers: and it being moved, that a day be appointed for the trial of the faid earl at the bar of the Houfe, the fame occafioned a debate, and afterwards a protest; many of the Lords being of opinion, he ought to be tried in Weftminster-hall, in the moft public manner; but it was carried for a trial at the bar of the House.

April 30. A treaty of peace figned between the Emperor and Spain, called, the Vienna treaty, whereby they confirmed to each other fuch part of the Spanish dominions as they were refpectively poffeffed of, and formed a defenfive alliance. They alfo figned a treaty of commerce, which gave umbrage to the English and Dutch, which occafioned another treaty in oppofition to it.

They alfo figned a private treaty, wherein the Emperor engaged, to concur in employing force for having Gibraltar restored to Spain; to ufe means for placing the Pretender on the British throne; and that his two daughters, the archducheffes, fhould be married to the infants of Spain.

May 3: A bill being brought up to the Houfe of Peers, for difarming the Highlands, occafioned a proteft there; for that the diforders mentioned in the preamble were not proved: too great a power was given to the lord lieutenants, and juftices of the peace; and becaufe the behaviour of the Highlanders had of late been inoffenfive.

May 6. The earl of Macclesfield's trial began, and lafted to the 26th. The charge was fully proved against him, and he was fentenced to pay a fine of 30,000l.

May 14. The King allowed roool. per ennum, to encourage the Prefbyterian itinerant preachers in Scotland.

May 22. A proteft in the House of Peers, against the bill for enabling the late lord

vifcount Bolingbroke, and his iffue, to in herit the family eftate.

May 27. His Majefty was pleased to re-establish at St. James's, that degree of knighthood which had been nominated the knighthood of the Bath, and to erect the fame into a regular military order for ever, by the name and title of the Order of the Bath; and to appoint his grace John duke of Montague, to be the first great master of the faid order.

At the fame time his Majefty affigned the chapel of king Henry VII. in Westminsterabbey, as the chapel of the order; and ordered banners of the arms of the knights, with plates alfo of their arms and ftiles, to be placed on their feveral stalls, in the fame manner as the knights of the Garter, in St. George's chapel at Windfor, allowing them fupporters to their arms, and a ribband of the order.

This day his Majefty being in his closet, conferred the honour of this order of knighthood on his royal highness prince William, and put the red ribbon, having the badge or fymbol of the order of the Bath, over his fhoulder; and his Royal Highness having kiffed his Majefty's hand, Garter king of arms was commanded to adminifter the oath to the duke of Montague, who took it kneeling, and then his Majefty put the like ribbon about his Grace's neck. After which his Majefty knighted feveral other lords and gentlemen hereafter named, and put the ribbons with the badges over their shoulders. His grace the duke of Richmond, who was abfent, by reafon of his late fick nefs of the fmall-pox, and lord Glenorchy, who was beyond fea, were at the fame time declared knights of this order.

The stalls for the knights were appointed

as follows:

I The Sovereign
2 Prince William
3 The Great Master

Duke of Richmond
5 Duke of Manchester

6 Lord Burford, eldest fon of the duke of St. Alban's 7 Earl of Leicester 8 Earl of Albemarle 9 Earl of Deloraine 10 Earl of Halifax 11 Earl of Suffex

12 Earl of Pomfret
13 Lord Naffau Paulet
14 Vifcount Torrington
15 Lord Malpas
16 Lord Glenorchy

17 Lord

17 Lord Delaware 18 Lord Clinton

19 Lord Walpole

20 Spencer Compton, efq. 21 William Stanhope, efq. 22 Coniers Darcy, efq.

23 Thomas Lumley Sanderfon, efq.

24 Paul Methuen, efq.
25 Robert Walpole, efq.
26 Sir Robert Sutton
27 Charles Wills, efq.
28 Sir John Hobart, bart.
29 Sir William Gage, bart.
30 Robert Clifton, efq.
31 Michael Newton, efq.
32 William Yonge, efq.
33 John Monfon, efq.

34 Thomas Watfon Wentworth, efq.
35 William Morgan, of Tredegar, efq.
36 Thomas Coke, of Norfolk, eiq.

May 28. His Majefty was pleased to confer this order of knighthood of the Bath en the two following lords, and to put the ribbons with the badges over their fhoulders: Their ftails,

37 Earl of Inchequeen 38 Viscount Tyrconnel. Which completed the number of ftalls of

this order.

The antiquity of this order is very great; as it was derived from the antient Franks by the Saxons, who with other cuftoms introduced it into England. When the Franks conferred knighthood, they obferved among other folemn rites, that of bathing before they performed their vigils; which rites continued to be practifed in England; and from thence were termed Knights of the Bath.

In 1399, on the 13th of October, Henry IV. for his coronation, conferred a degree of knighthood, under the exprefs appellation of Knights of the Bath, when he conferred the fame on forty-fix efquires, who had watched all night before, and had bathed themselves. From that time it was customary with our Kings to confer this dignity preceding their coronations; the coronations of their Queens; the birth and marriages of the royal iffue, and their first advancement to honours; upon their defigned expeditions against their foreign enemies; upon installations into the most noble order of the Garter; and when fome grand anniversary feftivals were celebrated.

The laft knights of the Bath that were made before this year, were at the coronation of Charles II.

May 31. The royal affent was given to an act for preventing frauds in the public revenues in the falt duties, and for fecuring the ftamp-duties on policies of infurance, &c.

An act for the more effectual difarming the Highlands, and for fecuring the peace of Scotland.

An act to continue the acts for preventing frauds committed by bankrupts; for encouraging the filk manufactures; for preventing the running of goods; and for explaining an act for the punishment of thofe who wilfully deftroy fhips, &c.

An act for the relief of infovent debtors. An act for the better regulating of buildings, and preventing mifchiefs that may happen by fire.

An act for preventing mischiefs by keeping too great quantities of gun-powder in London.

An act for regulating the manufacture of cloth in the weft-riding of Yorkshire. An act for repairing the roads near the Devizes in Wilts.

An act for repairing the roads from Stratford to Dunchurch, in the counties of Northampton and Warwick.

An act for enabling Henry St. John, late viscount Bolingbroke, and the heirs males of his body, notwithstanding his attainder, to take and enjoy feveral manors, lands, &c. according to fuch eftates and intereft as are limited by certain indentures quinquepartite executed on his marriage.

An act to diffolve the marriage of Francis Annely the younger, efq. with Elizabeth Sutton, and to enable him to marry again.

After paffing thefe acts, his Majefty gave the Speaker a fpeech to read, wherein he thanked the Commons for raifing the fupplies, and paying his debts: he expreffed his fatisfaction in their disarming the Highlands, and the other instances of their affection.

And then the Houfe was prorogued to the ift of July.

June 4. The general-affembly of the kirk of Scotland met at Edinburgh.

June 13. Talbot Yelverton, earl of Sussex, was appointed deputy to Thomas Horward, duke of Norfolk, hereditary earl maríhaj of England.

Paul Methuen, efq. appointed treasurer of his Majefty's houthold, in the room of Hugh earl of Cholmondeley, deceased.

Daniel lord Finch, eldest fon of the earl of Nottingham, was made comptroller of

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his Majefty's houfhold, in the room of Paul Merbuen, viq.

June 15. Jonarban Wild, the infamous thief-catcher, who had for many years fcreened from juftice fuch criminals as obeyed his orders, and hanged multitudes of others, received fentence of death at the Old Bailey, having been convicted of receiving ftolen goods, and taking a reward of the owners for returning them, without difcovering the robbers. And the 24th of May being appointed for his execution, he took a large quantity of liquid laudanum the night before; but brought it up again, and lived to be hanged at Tyburn the next day, though he was pelted with ftones, and almoft knocked on the head, before he got there. Was the fame exemplary juftice done upon criminals of figure, the nation would probably have faved millions of treafure; but these seldom want a screen.

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June 27. Thomas Parker earl of Maceleffield was carried to the Tower.

The fame day Sir Robert Eyre, knt. lord chief baron of the Exchequer, was made lord chief justice of the Common-pleas, in the room of Peter lord King.

Lionel Cranfield Sackville duke of Dorfet was made lord, fteward of his Majesty's houshold, in the room of the duke of Argyle.

John Campbell duke of Argyle and Greenrich, was made mafter-general of the ordnance, in the room of the earl Cadogan.

May 31. Charles Paulet, duke of Bolton, was appointed conftable of the Tower of London, and lieutenant of the Tower-hamlets, in the room of Henry Clinton, carl of Lincoln.

Henry Clinton, earl of Lincoln, was made cofferer of his Majefty's houfhold, in the room of William Pultney, efq.

The Commons having prefented an addrefs to his Majefty, that the fine of 30,000l. imposed on the earl of Macclesfield by the Houfe of Lords, might be paid into the court of Chancery, and applied towards making good the loffes of the fuitors, occafioned by | the deficiencies of the mafters in Chancery. His Majesty answered he would give the neceffary orders for it.

Richard Weft, elfq. was appointed lordchancellor of Ireland, in the room of Alan Broderick, vifcount Middleton.

John Weft lord Delawar, was made one of the lords of the bed-chamber.

July 1. His Majefty was pleafed to appoint the right hon. John Sidney, earl of Leicester, to be captain of the yeomen of

the guards, in the room of Philip lord Stankope.

Sir Robert Walpole knt. of the Bath; Sir Charles Turner; Sir William Yonge, knt. of the Bath; George Doddington, eiq. and Sir William Strickland, to be commiflioners of the Treafury.

James earl of Berkley; Sir John Jennings, knt. John Cockburne, William Chetwynd, efqrs; Sir John Norris, Sir Charles Wager, knts; and Sir George Oxendon, bart. to be commithioners of the Admiralty.

Peter lord King was fworn lord high chari. cellor of Great Britain.

The king, having declared his intention of going abroad in the fummer, appointed to be lords juftices during his abfence, the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancel. lor, and fourteen other great officers of state.

A patent pafied the feals about this time, for erecting a college in the ifland of Bermudas, for the propogation of the gofpel among the Indians in America.

Sir Jeffery Gilbert, knt. one of the Ba rons of the Exchequer, made lord chief bas

ron.

Bernard Hale, efq. lord chief daron of the Exchequer in Ireland, made one of the barons of the Exchequer in England.

July 3. The king embarked at Greenwick for Hanover.

Dr. Samuel Bradford, bishop of Rochester, appointed dean of the order of the Bath.

Grey Longueville, efq. appointed king of arms by the title of Bath; Edward Montague, efq. appointed fecretary; Edward Yongi, efq. register; John Anftis, efq. genealogift; and Edmund Sawyer, eq. gentleman usher of the revived order of knighthood of the Bath.

July 7. A treaty of peace between the emperor Charles VI. and Philip V, king of Spain, is concluded at Vienna. This treaty with the three others concluded in April and May last, where negotiated by the baron de Ripperda.

July 8. Brigadier general James Dormer, esq. appointed envoy extraordinary to Portu gal, in the room of Sir Thomas-Lumley Sanderfon, knight of the Bath.

July 9. The lords justices opened their commiffion, and appointed Charles de la Faye, efq. their fecretary.

June 10. Lewis XV. the French_king, took the government into his own hands; the duke of Bourbon being removed from the administration, through the intrigues of the bishop of Frejus, who was made prime minifter.

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Ceremonies obferved at the Inftallation of the
Knights Companions of the most bonourable
noble Order of the Bath, upon Thursday
June 17, 1725.

from thence to the weft door of the abbeychurch of Westminster, through St. Marga ret's church-yard, by a paffage railed in, floored with boards, and covered with cloth, in the following method:

The drums of his Majefty's houshold, the drum-major attending.

A kettle-drum, and his Majesty's trumpets, the ferjeant-trumpeter attending.

Twelve alms-men of the church of Weftminster, going two and two in their gowns, having three Imperial crowns embroidered upon that part which covered their right fhoulders.

The meffenger of the order in a furcoat of white filk, lined and edged with red, having an hood of the fame thereto affixed, and upon his right shoulder the plain efcutcheon of the order, azure, three Imperial crowns, or.

The knights having apparelled them felves in their furcoats of red, lined and edged with white, girded about with a white girdle, without any ornament thereon, and in mantles of the fame colour and lining, made faft about the neck with a lace of white filk, having a pair of white gloves tied therein, with taffels of filk and gold at the end, which mantles were adorned upon the left fhoulders with the enfign of the order, being the Imperial crowns, or, furrounded with the ancient motto of this knighthood, Tria juncta in ano, wrought upon a circle, gules, with a glory or rays iffuing from the centre, and under it the lace of white filk heretofore worn by the knights of the Bath, which being done in the chambers belonging to the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, and the proxies of the abfent knights taking upon their right arms the mantles of their principals, from thence repaired to the Prince's chamber (their chapter-room) about ten o'clock in the forenoon; and the perfons, who were to attend in this ceremony, being ranged according to their degrees, and waiting upon the stairs, and at the bottom of the ftairs that led from that room; a folemn proceffion was made Then the Knights-companions, all habited in their mantles and furcoats, and each carrying in his hand the white hat, adorned with the plume of white feathers; the proxies only carrying the mantles of their principals upon their right arms, going by pairs, according to the following fcheme, wherein thofe in the lowest stalls went foremost :

On the left band.
Viscount Tyrconnel
Sir Thomas Coke
Sir John Monfon
Sir William Yonge
Sir Robert Clifton
Sir John Hobart, bart.
Sir Robert Sutton

Sir Paul Methuen

Sir Coniers D'arcy

Sir Spencer Compton
Lord Clinton

Sir Chaloner Ogle, proxy for

Lord Glenorchy, his lordship
being knighted beyond fea

Viscount Torrington

Earl of Pomfret

The efquires of the knights-companions in the like furcoats, going three and three, all of them in red ftockings; thofe of the knights in the lowest stalls foremost, according to their courses.

The prebendaries of the church of Weftminfler, proceeding two and two in white mantles lined with red, having the like badge on their right fhoulders.

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The purfuivants of arms in their tabarts; the heralds in tabarts and collars; the provincial kings of arms in tabarts, collars, and their badges.

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Earl of Halifax

Earl of Albemarle

Earl of Burford

VOL. II.

Earl of Leicester.

Duke of Manchester.

Sir.

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