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Monmouth, and with that Leslie who had unsuccessfully 
commanded the Scotch army against Cromwell, at 
Dunbar,” 
There is a mistake in the latter clause of this 
sentence. It ought to run somewhat thus :— 
And with that Leslie, who had been appointed 
to command the Séotch army at the beginning of 
the troubles, was created Marl of Leven by Charles 
in 1641, and under that designation received the 
surrender of the monarch in 1646. 
The Christian name of Lord Leven was Alex- 
ander, and Lord Melville married his grand- 
daughter. It was General David Leslie who 
commanded at Philiphaugh and at Dunbar. 
Nevertheless, most of our recent historians 
confound them; and I shall be obliged to you to 
point out the present error. 
Wisrram Lasure Metvinxs. 
Proclamation against Penn.—The following pro- 
clamation derives its interest from the greatest 
name included in it, that of William Penn. Yet, 
however repugnant it may be to the ideas with 
which the name of Penn is associated, nothing is 
more certain than that he was regarded by the 
Whig party as an inveterate, we had almost writ- 
ten, and an intriguing Jacobite. 
« Lobb, Penn, and a score 
Of these honest men more, 
Will find this same Orange exceedingly sour,” &c., 
says one of the political songs of the time ; and in 
another, which we may hereafter print at length, 
we are told: 
“ Penn’s History shall be related by Lobb, 
Who has ventured his Neck for a Snack in the Job,” 
“By tim KInG AND QUEEN. 
“ A Proclamation 
For Discovering and Apprehending the late Bishop of 
Ely, William Penn, and James Grahme. 
“Marnie R. 
“Whereas Their Majesties have received Information 
that Francis, late Bishop of Zly, William Penn, Esquire, 
and James Grahme, Esquire, with other Ill-affected 
Persons, have Designed and Endeavoured to Depose their | 
Majesties and Subvert the Government of this Kingdom 
by procuring an Invasion of the same by the French, and 
other Treasonable Practices, and have to that end held 
Correspondence and Conspired with divers Enemies and 
Traitors, and particularly with Sir Richard Grahme, Ba- 
ronet (Viscount Preston, in the Kingdom of Scotland), | 
and John Ashton, Gent., lately Attainted of High Treason : 
For which Cause several Warrants for High Treason 
have been issued out against them, but they have with- | 
drawn themselves from their usual Places of Abode, and 
are fled from Justice: Their Majesties therefore have 
- thought fit, by and with the Advice of Their Privy- 
Counci!, to Issue this Their Royal Prozlamation: and | 
Their Majesties do hereby Command and Require all 
Their Loving Subjects to Discover, Take, and Apprehend | 
the said /rancis, late Bishop of ly, William Penn, and 
James Grahme, wherever they may be found, and to carry 
them before the next Justice of the Peace, or Chief Ma- 
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[2848 Nog, Jam, 19. '56, 
gistrate, who is hereby Required to commit them to the 
next Gaol, there to remain until they be Delivered by 
Due Course of Law; and Their Majesties do hereby Re- 
quire the said Justice or other Magistrate immediately to 
give Notice thereof to Them or Their Privy Council; and 
Their Majesties do hereby Publish and Declare to all 
Persons that shall Conceal the Persons above named, or 
any of them, or be Aiding or Assisting in the Concealing 
of them, or furthering their Escape, that they shall be 
Proceeded against for such their Offence with the utmost 
‘Severity according to Law. 
“Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the Fifth Day of 
February, 1699, in the Second Year of Our Reign.” 
Ballot and Municipal Decorum at Barnstaple. 
—The municipal history of Barnstaple is not 
without interest. Many charters were granted to 
this ancient borough; but that of James I. (1610), 
which confirmed and enlarged previous powers 
and immunities, yielded to none of its predecessors 
in importance. Mr. Gribble, in his Memorials of 
Barnstaple (8vo., 1830), has given copies of some 
of these charters, and has added a transcript of 
the bye-laws of the corporation, ratified and al- 
lowed “on the three and twentieth day of Sep- 
tember, 1690.” One of these bye-laws dircets 
the manner of proceeding at an election of the 
mayor, which is no otherwise than by badlot. It 
provides, that when the mayor for the year en- 
suing cannot by commen consent be agreed on, — 
“Then the more part of the Common Council shall ad- 
visedly and discreetly, without fayour or affection, malice 
or displeasure, nominate four such men of the Common 
Council as be of ability convenient and meet for the office 
of Mayoraltie then for the next year following, and the 
names of two of them incontinently shall be written, 
separated and fixed severally on two potts for the same 
purpose therefore made, then and there as hath been used 
and accustomed to be sett in a certain place appointed; 
and every of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Councell, to 
have one ball in their hands also provided for the same, 
and holding both their hands close, shall put one hand 
into one pott, and the other hand into the other pott, at 
one instant time; and letting his ball fall secretly into 
which pott he list, shall take his hands out of the same 
potts, shewing them forth openly in such ways, as it may 
not be known for whome he giveth his voyce, nor in what 
pott he putteth his ball; which being so done and pe- 
rused particularly, from the lowest to the highest, the 
same potts forthwith to be seen that it may be known in 
what pott most balls be; and then the names of two other 
men of the Common Councell shall be written severally 
and set upon the potts, and to be perused by the Mayor, 
Aldermen, aud Common Councell, with balls, in like 
manner and forme as it was done before removing the 
| two first names; and afterwards those two men’s names 
having most voices and balls to be again the third time 
sett separately on the said two potts, in such manner as 
it was before; and then at the last, he whose name is 
fixed on that pott wherein most balls shall be found, shall 
be preferred to the office of the Mayoraltie of the said 
borough and parish for the year next following as hath 
been accustomed.” — 2lemorials, p. 352. 
The same process is also directed by the 2nd 
and 3rd bye-laws to be observed in the election of 
aldermen (of whom there were two), the common 
