hy King James the Second, in 1688. 369 



Dissenters that are fitt for Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace : — * 



S' Jolin Eylos of the Devizes, 



S' William Pincen, 



M'. Groves, 



M' Rider of Marleborough, 



M'' William Swain of Salsbury, 



M' Heely of the same place, 



M' Holton, 



M'. Edward Hope, Junior Maior of y' Devizes, 



Charles Mitchell Esq', 



Jacob Selfe Esq, 

 D. Lt M'. William Trenchard of Gutridge by Westbury, 



M^ Nicholas Green, 

 D. Lt Lionell Duckett Esq, 



a favorer of Dissenters." 



[_Rawl. MS. A. 139% fo. 191 ; Bibl. Bodl.] 



The return of persons who were to replace existing' Magistrates 

 and Deputy-Lieutenants, appears in the foregoing Report of the Lord- 

 Lieutenant of the county ; but care was also taken by the King to 

 appoint agents to visit, especially, the borough and corporate towns, 

 and ascertain and report upon their disposition, in respect o£ the 

 laws he proposed to abrogate. If a borough or corporate town ap- 

 peared hostile to the King, it was easy to have recourse to a forfeiture 

 of its charter, and afterwards secure on its renewal an electoral 

 element favorable to the Royal intentions, and certain to return to 

 a new Parliament a member (or members), that would promote their 

 fulfilment. 



" Report of King's Agents. 



Report from the King's Agents sent into the country to influence the elections 

 for parliament, respecting the counties of Wilts, Dorset, and six others ; containing 

 notes on the prospects of all the borough and county elections. 



To the Kings most Excellent Ma"°. 

 May itt please your Ma"° 



Pursuant to your Ma*'*' commands, some of our number, with others 

 their associates, have visited several Corporations and Burroughs that elect Mem- 

 bers of Parliament, and some of them being return 'd, (viz D' Nehemiah Cox, and 

 James Clarke, from Wiltshire and Dorsetshire ; M'. Benj Dennis, and Richard 

 Adams from Cambridge, Noi-folke, Suffolke, and Essex ; and M^ Nathanirl 

 Wade, John Jones, and Richard Andrewes from Somersett and Devonshire) ; We 

 most humbly tender to your Ma"^ a briefe acco'' of their transactions, pursuant 



* Another reiui-n was sent in by the King's special agents {utpostta). 

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