692 A. D. 1697. 



Mons ; referving, however, many burghs and villages within thofe de- 

 pendencies, under flight pretences. 



To the princes of the empire, France refliored Triers and Germerf- 

 heim to the eledors of Triers and Palatine ; to Sweden, the duchy 

 of Deuxponts ; to the bifliop of Liege, Dinant ; to the houfe of Wir- 

 temberg, Mompelgard. But, on the other hand, the empire was oblig- 

 ed to confirm forever to France the pofTeiiion of Strafljurgh with its 

 territory. To the emperor, however, France yielded up Friburg and 

 the reft of the Brifgaw, and Philipfburg : to the duke of Lorrain France 

 reftored his capital, Nancy, but difmantled and defencelefs ; and Louis 

 ftill retained Saar-Louis, and aUb the road, or way, of half a league in 

 breadth, through Lorrain to Alface, open for the French troops and 

 armies. If Louis had no latent defign in thus yielding up fo many im- 

 portant places which he had conquered, men would have faid he aded 

 moderately ; but his real view in this feeming moderation was to dif- 

 arm and difunite the allies, that fo he might the more eafily feize on 

 the Spanifli monarchy upon the death of their old and feeble king 

 Charles IL 



A French fquadron of fliips, commanded by Pointis, this year took 

 the famous town and forts of Carthagena in Spanifli America, and, by 

 his own account, he got eight millions of crowns thereby. Much more 

 had been expeded, but the people of fafliion and the religious of both 

 fcxes had before retired far into the country out of his reach, with 1 10 

 mules laden with treafure. Pointis, fenfible that he could not hold Car- 

 thagena, left it, after demolifliing its forts. 



It was high time to put an end to the many privileged places to which 

 debtors retired with the money and merchandize of their creditors, and, 

 by combination in thofe recefles, fet all law and juftice at defiance ; no 

 officers daring, without the hazard of their lives, to arrefl any of thofe 

 jawlefs debtors within thofe places. Wherefor, by a flatute, the following 

 pretended privileged places were fupprefled, viz. that in the Minories ; 

 vSalifljury court, Whitefriars, Ram alley, and Mitre court, in Fleet 

 ftreet ; Fulwood's rents in Holburn ; Baldwin's gardens in Gray's-Inn 

 lane ; the Savoy in the Strand ; Montague clofe, Deadman's place, the 

 Ciink, and the Mint, in Southwark. [8, 9 Gul. Ill, c. 26.] Yet the 

 Mint was fufFered to fpring up again in a more outrageous manner than 

 ever, and was not finally fupprefled till the reign of King George I. It 

 "^ was a fad fliame, that fuch lawlefs people fliould have been fo long toler- 



ated or connived at. 



Burlington bay on the coafl; of Yorkfliire being a fafe road, and the 

 haven and pier of Burlington (aUas Bridlington) being conveniently fi- 

 tuated for fupplying neceflliries, and alfo for a retreat from florms or 

 enemies, it v,'as judged a national benefit to lay a duty of one farthing 

 per chaldron on all coals coming from Newcaflle and its members fouth- 



