FEINBERG/WHITMAN Box 39 Folder 60 Notes and Notebooks Notes--Literary UNDATED History notes669 Notes on History, English to Brooklyn: prose. A. MS. (45p. 21 1/2 x 11 3/4 cm., with some shorter sheets) Written in ink, with 4 of the 45 pages [and elsewhere] in pencil, on the verso of the City of Williamsburgh Tax Collector's sheets, notes on Elizabeth--1558-1602; James 1st--1602-1625; Charles 1st, Cromwell, Charles 2d, James 2d, William and Mary, Anne, George 1st, 2d, 3d, the troubles in America, New York, Brooklyn, Long Island, and the Revolution; on final sheet-- dates on Bunyan, Swedenborg, Montaigne, and "In running list of events do not forget the France under the reign of Louis 13th, Anne [?] of Austria Louis 14th and Louis 15th (see Arsene Houssaye)".John Bunyan - 1628-'88 Swedenborg - 1688-1772 Montaigne - 1533-1592 (See L. Herrig's volume) also "German Literature" In [?] list of events do not forget [the] France under the reign of Louis 13th, Anne of Austria Louis 14th and Louis 15th (See Arsene Houssaye)PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECEIVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburg, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.[The] keeping [of the] [?] its watchfires year after year through good fortune and bad fortune, for the best part of a century is not [found] to be found any where in the [Colonies?] except here in New York -PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.[birth to],[after giving birth to it,] first embodied, contained on and has handed down to this day, a [what a] firm and coherent theory of [equal] radical democratic governments which is [our] at last the national characteristic of the United States, had its existence in New York only; and that, while individual specimens of prominent talent on that side appeared at various times especially about the era of the Revolution, a substantial conscientious Democratic Party [arising] arising as before said, about the year 1700 and [bequeathing]PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. Eradical doctrines of popular right, [and] the freedom of the press, and [ule] the [main] reservation (never old, never new.) of individual freedom, against the invasions of [the Crown] unscrupulous power, or its deputies - these were so much nutriment and so much light to prepare the way for the rebellion of '76 - It is a fact, also, that from the year 1700 onward, the [party] substantial party [which] which, [gave] PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. JThe American Revolution ante=dates through the whole range of the [first] half or three=quarters of a century that preceded it - the affair of Leisler (1691) -the printer of the "Weekly Journal", (1735) - the trial of its printer, John Peter Zenger - the [celebrated] speech upon that occasion of the aged and eloquent Hamilton, promulgis among the people of the province, in a [the most] [an open and] determined manner, the mostPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. S- and needed not the [support] consent of a wavering and ignorant multitude."-- --The West India Company was largely concerned in the slave trade, and at various times, (1610-'68) African slaves were imported in larger or smaller lots into Breukelyn and the other portions of the colony.--These slaves, however, mostly belonged to the West India Company, and [it is certain] there [was,] from the first, a number of the [inhabitants] immigrants both from Holland and England, [who] looked with sternness and disfavor on the traffic.--PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. [?]The nou? = protection by law of French Protestants, through -- The revocation of the Edict of Nantes, (1685,) [which and the non-protection of [Fre?] sent numerous emigrants to America to New York among the rest--many settling on Long Island.--PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.To=day and henceforth in the United States, The results of it are just as strong in [their] character, [their] politics, and [their] personnel, [of] [the present day] as as the results of the other two; [though] but for certain reasons, They the Dutch is [are] of a kind, [to] [make] far less likely, [for certain] [reasons] to celebrate [themselves] itself [less] in speeches and in literature.--PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fou Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of William To City and County Tax for the Year 185 Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. 8[Co-equal] The Dutch cluster'g around Brooklyn, where it first struck its roots in the soil of the New World, element in America it first definitely [began] rooted itself and is co=equal with the two elements pf the Plymouth Puritan and the Virginia Cavalier, and in several important [points] respects the [first] [Dutch men les] first named takes precedence of the other two.-- [It is now to be seen in][BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. ll, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. iving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. [?] City of Williamsburgh, Dr, 85 on the following Lot Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.See page 16 - (vol 2) AppendixPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. 10[The Revolution grew out of the determination of the Colonies not to submit] 1633 Walter Van Twiller (appointd Governor in inplace of Minuits) brought out from Holland an hundred and four soldiers, a schoolmaster, and a clergyman - All this time, however [and for some years the] principal thought of those who had control of affairs was not settlement for good, but trade and gain. - The exports from [the colony] Fort Amsterdam, for the year, amounted to $57,000PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 11 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total."For the first forty or fifty years of the colony's existence Brooklyn was its most important [part] portion. --The [southern] island of Manhattan was [mostly] sterile, and [had] merely served for on its southern point [the] a rude fort and a few trade = huts [&] [on its near by.] under their protection. [It was the place of business only]PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 12 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.Of [the] those jealous contests and fears of [other] usurping parties making settlements, it is now clear that the true policy to have been pursued of each settlement was [not] to have helped and supported every other settlement, English, Dutch, Swedish, French, or what not; for that would have contributed to the [general] future prosperity [of all] of any of the rest -- and there was oceans of room for all. -- [of Those These] Of the bickerings and little fights that greatly retarded the growth of the colonies -- (tr up)PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 13 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.(among "Picture of Life"? [Pirates,] Buccaneers, and privateersmen were not wanting among the visitors to these [parts] parts -- and even pirates, [?] under their disguise, came here to [buy] sell and [sell] buy -- [All] These spent their money freely, and the times were indulgent toward their kind of life; great European princes were in the same line, on a larger scale. -- The seas were at times infested with these rovers; [but] though to do [?] them meager justice, most of them robbed without bloodshed. -- In New York, Capt. Kidd (1700) was well known, and not unpopularPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. 14"Press" 1 [In the] One clause in the Royal [instructions] provisions for the government of the Province of New Jersey, (1702) was that no printing press nor the printing of any book or pamphlet was to be allowed, without [the] a special license from the King's GovernorPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M M To City of To City and County Tax for the Year 185 Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. 15"Press" x article -- James 2d, (him whom the name of the city of New York still commemorates,) in his instructions to the Royal Governors, (1685 -- 89) specially commanded them to prohibit the prevent the introduction of printing presses, and the establishment of newspapers in [these] the colonies. -- This was equally the [sentiment] wish of William and Mary, and of other [of the] monarchs after [?] them. --PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 16 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.1630-70-80-?e Missionaries went among the aborigines, to instruct them, and make them religious.--PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] Collector's O M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax f Ward. Assessed No. L 17[Characters] Personages that have trod the soil of Brooklyn Penn (1682) (?founder of Quakers) Washington Lafayette 1683 } Of the ten counties constituting the [colony] province under [the first] Slonighter (1691) [Dougaux Charter] (1683) Long Island formed three. -- [Printing] "Press" paragraph [During] Under the Dutch and early English Governors there was no printing. -- The English authority expressly prohibiting it as calculated to stir up the people and [cudaly] jeopardize the established rule[rs]PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY R Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, D To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. 18Between Virginia and the New Netherlands an amicable feeling always existed.-- 1664 A Royal Charter under Charles 2d [conveyed] donated a great extent of territory (named New York, in honor of the donee,) to James, Duke of York, afterwards James 2d. - (For the English had always claimed, (as see back on other slip) James also purchased [the all] up all prior grants, especially that of Lord Sterling to Long Island.) 1666 Aug. James dispatched three ships, with six hundred soldiers which after stopps in Massachusetts and receiving a cold reception, proceeded to Manhattan.PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. 191664} By the terms of Stuyvesant's capitulation [the] free trade to Holland was secured, the Dutch Reformed Religion was not to be infringed upon in any way, and the Dutch law of inheritance was maintained giving an equal inheritance to all the children. 1664} at this time Brooklyn was an ample collection of Boweries (farms,) with the nucleus of houses, hostelries stores, &c. near the ferry , [deed?] on on the street lead'g down to it.-- [Some] Many of the [ho] farms=houses were of brick, large and comfortable, and covered with tiles brought from Holland.--PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. 201643 [March] The [Indian] war with the aboriginal tribes, much blood shed - quite serious - (under Kieft's governorship.) this war raged seriously on Long Island) the boweries. (farms) This war (1643-'4) was a serious one, [and] [raged] much of the scene of it being Long Island, and even in Brooklyn. - The colonists were in great jeopardy, many of their boweries (farms) were [dest] destroyed and men and women forced to flee to Fort Amsterdam for protection.--PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 21 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.(With reference to territories, movements, conflicts of jurisdiction, and [to] affairs with the aborigines, [A] the reader must recollect that at that that time, of course there existed none of the geographical divisions now regularly marked, as the lines of the State of New York, &c. [New York] New Netherlands, and New York after it, consisted of the tract of Manhattan [Island], Staten and Long Islands, the adjacent shore, (now of New Jersey,) and certain tracts up the Hudson, to Albany.--PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. 22- The union of the Colonies - no appearance of retraction on the part of the English ministry - the session of the Colonial Congress in Philadelphia - -Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and the rest - and finally the draw'g up and pass'g [the] on the 4th of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence, and the outset of the United States of America as a nationWilkes and the Court party [?] (1765, '70, '71) - - [grea (tr)] (the idea of benevolent reforms dates from these times - Many barbarous [la] criminal laws are repealed or modified) - - the affairs of Poland - that Kingdom dismembered and divided away Russia, Germany, and Prussia - - the tea=tariff, [?] for America - the resistance of Boston, (1774) - [Congress] - Colonial delegates [appointed] chosen, and convene in Philadelphia- the ementes? of Concord and Lexington, the [and] battle of Bunker Hill, -(1775)America [rising] taking place in the political considerations of Europe - Russia appearing also - William Pitt - Lord Bute - the peace of 1763 - Great Britain now in general possession of North America - [as col] - the British national debt 148,000,000 l. - -the 'first mutterings of the American troubles - the stamp act (1765) - [contest of Wilkes with the Court] - Hyder Ali's [is] rising in Asia - the contest between-- (1759) Battle of Quebec, Wolfe killed, [?] the English taking the city -- George 2d suddenly dies, [?] (Oct. 25, 1760,) -- Accession of George 3d -- British operations -- notwithstanding the wars that prevailed in India -- [trade] commerce advancing with rapidity -- the [o] ranks of merchants, [working] artisans, traders, and mechanics, becoming more and more important. -- The Press -- arts, music, painting &c. [in] the [F] [great] subtle and [W] witty French writers, [Voltaire], Rousseau, Voltaire -- the French Academy Encyclopedia Francais --PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 26 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.-- the [invasion] attempt of "the young Pretender," (1743 to '4[5]6) in Scotland -- -- his defeat and flight -- -- death of Philip 5th of Spain -- the spirit of -- trade and internal [?] improvement [begin are thought of attended encouraged by] appears in Parliament, and in its bills (1750.) -- political essays, newspapers, -- "Constitutional Queries" -- -- the "old style" of dates is abandoned, and the Gregorian calendar substituted -- improvements and inventions arise -- printing increases -- schools -- War with France, (1755,) -- Admiral Byng -- (1758) various military and naval operations in America --PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 27 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.Alliance treaty between England, France, and Holland, (Dec. 1716) - the movements of Charles 12th of Sweden - the kings continual visits to his own country, Hanover, Germany - the South Sea Scheme Walpole in power - Dean Swift - Death of George 1st, (June 11, 1727,), and accession of George 2d - Queen Caroline - the king prefers being in Hanover - Maria Theresa in Germany - - no remarkable events to 1740 - Frederick the Great, in Prussia -PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 28 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.(in Literature) - death of William, (March 8, 1702 - accession of Queen Anne - the Earl of Marlborough - the war with Spain - [the peace] - [The] complete junction of Scotland and England & the Act of Union, (March 4, 1707,) - the attempt of the Pretender in Scotland - the war with France - Prince Eugene - Peace with France, (1713) - death of Queen Anne, (Aug. 1, 1714) - Accession of George 1st - the [feeble] conspiracies - [some attempts] [to] for the restoration of the Stuarts - - the Pretender in Scotland, with an army - his defeat and flight - the TriplePLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 29 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.- introduction of -the Roman Catholic forms [introduced] in public - [great public] - the national anger - the Prince of Orange [called by many] invited to come to England and assume power - his landing in England, (Nov. 6, 1688.) - [all] the abandonment of James, [who] and his withdrawal, powerless to France, (Dec. 25, '88) - the reign of William and Mary, - the attempt of James in Ireland and of his adherents in Scotland - William [doors] eventually puts them both down - [a] - the warlike years form '90 to '[96]'98 - [the active '90, '91, '92, and '93, '94 and 74] - the death of the queen - the active movements of William on land and sea -PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 30 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.- the death of Charles 2d, (Feb. 6, 1685 - James 2d [in power] [assumes] now king, ([the] previous Duke of York,) - attends mass in public - receives money from Louis 14th - Monmouth's [rebellion] [ass.] rebellion and assumption of the title of king - his defeat and execution for -[several] executions for heresy, [or] rebellion, or harboring religious malcontents - some, for those offences, [sent] [as] sold as slaves to [the Wes American planta] The West Indies Elisabeth Gaunt, an Anabaptist, burnt at Tyburn - [for religious offenses] -PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 31 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.- the continued turmoil, troubles, [religious] restlessness and fears of the people -- the Commons passing a bill [1619] (1680) to cut off the Duke of York from the Succession, [-] but the king refuses to [sancti] confirm it -- further supplies from Louis 14th - the Commons indignant against the Duke of York and [the dan] alarmed at the pend'g danger from Roman Catholic supremacy -- the Habeus Corpus act passed -- -- the Rye House Plot -- the exposure, trial, and conviction of many noblemen -- the torture applied -- the Earl of Bedford offering 100,000 l. to save his son's life -- -- the public mind more and more inflamed [and] feverish and suspicious --PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 32 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.under the Prince of Orange against the English and French -- -- the general war, (1676) in the Low Countries in Spain, Sicily, the upper and Lower Rhine, in Sweden, in the German Provinces, in the Mediterranean the Ocean, and the Baltic sea -- Charles receiv'd of large subsidies from Louis 14th -- --- treaty of Peace with the Dutch States General --marriage of Prince of Orange [marries] with Mary, daughter of the Duke of York Charles's brother -- the [popish] Titus Oates plot -- -- [the] Catholic and Protestant fury raging in the government -- the Duke of York's influence strongly for the Catholics, mak'g him very unpopular with the people --PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 33 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.-- the Commonwealth rapidly falls to pieces -- -- Monk and Fairfax agree to the restoration of Charles 2 -- the occurrence of that event, May 8, 1660 -- -- the inglorious marks of the reign -- the disinterment and defilement of the dead bodies of Cromwell, Bradshaw, Ireton, [Dorislaus,] May, Pym, Blake, and of Cromwell's mother and of his daughter -- the beheading of Sir Henry Vane, and hanging of Scottish Covenanters, (1661) -- the king's secretly selling himself to the French, (Louis 14th) -- the Plague in London -- the triumphant contest [between] of the Dutch,PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 34 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.resign power to Cromwell -- he is declared Protector, (Dec. 16, 1653) -- Gen Monk - administrative wisdom of Cromwell -- his home and foreign movements successful -- refuses the title of king, offered him by Parliament (1657) -- retains that of "Lord Protector" --the [great] illustrious name England had now gained upon the seas -- death of Blake, (1657) -death of Cromwell, (Sept. 3d 1658) ---[the] Richard Cromwell, his son,--- [is placed] in the Protectorship - his feebleness and withdrawalPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 35 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.-- the execution of Charles, Jan. 30, 1648 -- -- Cromwell in Ireland, against the risen Catholics, his [sweeping] [sic] success and severity there -- young Charles 2d and the people for him -- in Scotland, -- Cromwell in Scotland, victorious -- -- his rapid movements back -- [the] his victory at Worcester -- the new rule soon prevailing in all parts of Great Britain -- War with Holland -- -- English naval [victories] combat under Blake -- Dutch under Van Troup -- -- the petition of the army to Parliament for old arrears of pay -- anger and refusal of Parliament -- Cromwells marching to Parliament and clearing the House -- a new one called, in Cromwell's interest -- theyPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 36 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.receiving 400,000 l -- Cromwell coming forward, stronger and stronger -- -- the army [b?] becoming the state, the Controlers of power, -- -- Divisions among the victors -- Cromwell seizing [pow] command, through his popularity with the soldiers -- his [summary?] treatment of all who stood out against him -- the last struggles [between] of the Commons against [and] the army [junction of] and Cromwell -- [with and] -- the Independents -- "Pride's Purge" -- Cromwell in possession -- the Kings [trial] brought, to trial, dejected, [shorn] deprived of all the insignia of royalty, [to] but dignified -- the lesson, the stern triumph of the people--PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 37 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.-- the deputation of two thousand women to the national Parliament, vehemently demanding "Peace" -- -- the battle of Marston- Moor, the beginning of the [downfall] disasters of Charles --++ -- the Scotch hav'g joined the Parliamentary army -- and Oliver Cromwell now [looming up], [???] advanc'g a victorious militaire -- the trial and execution of Laud -- -- puritanism brought forward -- the battle of Naseby, (June 14, 1645) [the gr] [a] [the] a decisive victory of the Parliament army -- and last attempt of the king -- the retreat to Oxford -- the king's resolve to give himself up to the Scotch -- they give him up to the Parliament,++PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 38 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.(Charles continued) against him -- [his] then his retraction and various ignominies -- then open rupture between the king and Parliament -- war (1642) -- the designations of the two sides, Cavaliers and Roundheads -- the queen arriving from Holland with [re] [help in] men and money to help the king -- the [peo] body of the English people declar'g for the Parliamentary side -- the first campaign -- Hampden killed -- Lord Falkland also -- -- the national Parliament becom'g republican -- [the] a counter parliament [called] held by the king at Oxford -- -- hostilities renewed -- (1644) --PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 39 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.(Charles [*WW*] continued) --Trouble in Scotland, on religious grounds -- the king still arbitrary -- [and] --[the new] parliament dissolved for not giv'g in to his desires -- the episode, trial, and execution of Strafford -- -- the rising in Ireland of the Roman Catholics, -- the [mur] indiscriminate slaughter of many thousand Protestants -- the [appearance gro] sterner and sterner visage of the public -- the developement of the republican spirit, its appearance in speeches and pamphlets -- -- the high liberal tone (1641) in Parliament -- the inconceivable arrogance and rashness of Charles, [who] going in person to the House of Commons to [ares] seize those who had spokenPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 40 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.Charles 1st 1625 - 1648 (Now the great moral, social and political commotion is aroused in the minds of men -- that has had such dark fortunes and bright fortune -- -- that cannot cease -- and has come down to our times. -- In want of funds, Charles tries to raise them on his own prerogative -- ship navy, &c -- which deeply offends the Commons-- War against France Crisis between Charles and the Parliament -- he dissolves it -- they adopt an address, in strong language -- Buckingham assassinated 1629 - Charles makes peace -- he now takes Wentworth (afterward Earl of Strafford,) and Laud Archbishop of Canterbury into power and friendship -- cause of popular rights against royalty --PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 41 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.1603 Accession James 1st 1625 " Charles 1st. (In due time, Rebellion, War, the Parliament until / 1649 - The Commonwealth 1660 - Restoration of Charles 2d In France 1610 Louis 13th 1643 Louis 14th - (aged - (6 years) 1715 Louis 15th 1685 England James 2d 1689 - "[?] Revolution" - William & Mary 1694 William (James 2d died at St. Germains Sept. 1701 1702. Anne 1714. George 1st 1727 George 2d 1760 George 3dPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. 42(Elizabeth continued) Sir Walter Raleigh, [the [beginner of Virginia,] Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, Hooker, and Others. -- [1602 - ] James 1st of England (6th of Scotland) 1602 - 1625 (came acceptably to the people) Gunpowder plot -- to blow up Parliament -- Parliament to meet Nov. 5 1605 1612 -- Guy Fawkes seized The sagacity with which the king had discovered the plot had raised the public opinion of him -- yet afterwards the folly with which he gave himself up to his favorites undeceived the nation -The episode of Sir Walter Raleigh -- -- who had long been imprisoned in the Tower -- his voyage for the "gold mine" in Guiana (South America) -- his return and execution -- Villiers' (Buckingham) romantic expedition to Spain) Wars against Spain and Germany -- -- misfortunes -- death -- 1625PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 43 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.(Elizabeth continued) Earl of Essex in great favor (he 30, and Elizabeth 60, years of age.) -- The English turn the tables upon Spain -- -- Irish rise under Earl of Tyrone -- Essex goes to subdue them, but fails -- returns home -- misbehaves -- is arrogant and disobedient -- plots to get command of the palace and the queen's person -- -- tries to arouse the Londoners in his behalf -- no go -- is arrested, tried, condemned -- [es] [c] has the horrors -- confesses -- -- [(here] - the romantic despair of Elizabeth, who has to sign the death warrant -- Essex is beheaded. -- Elizabeth now rapidly fails -- her heart is broken -- she [falls] fell into a half=stupid condition, broken by spasms -- died, aged 70 -- in the 45th year of her reign. -- the greatest strength, progress, material wealth, and literary glory of England, date from her reign. --PLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M 44 To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total.Henry 8th - 1509 - 1546 Edward 6th (9 years old) 1546 - 1553 Mary - 1553 - 1558 (Under Mary, nearly 300 persons were burnt, for religious heresies) (Lady Jane Grey executed) Elizabeth - 1558 - 1602 entree upon Royalty greeted with popular joy She, with Parliament, [?] establishes [the] reformed religion - supersed'g the [papal] Roman Catholic 1568 (Mary Stuart fled to England, and was imprisoned by Elizabeth.) Execution of Duke of Norfolk for conspir'g against the royalty of Elizabeth 1586 - Mary Stuart executed Philip of Spain, bigoted Catholic (Revolt of Netherlands - which the English assisted) prevaned to invade England -- got up the "Invinsible Armada." -- Spain then perhaps the lead'g power of the world) -- English in great alarm -- ("this was the critical struggle for and against the Reformation) grand naval battle between the Spanish armada under the Duke of Medina Sedonia, and the English fleet under Effingham, Drake Hawkins and Forbisher -- -- English triumph -- and defeat and dispersal of the Spaniards -- It was no English triumph -- it was the elements that destroyed the Spanish ArmadaPLEASE PRESERVE THIS BILL.] [BANKABLE MONEY ONLY RECIEVED. Collector's Office, City Hall, corner of South 2d and Fourth Streets. Hours for Receiving Taxes from 9 A. M.. till 2 P. M. M To City of Williamsburgh, Dr, To City and County Tax for the Year 185 on the following Lot Ward. Assessed No. Location. Valuation. City. County. Default. Total. 45