Folios 218-219. A newsletter from RY [Robert Yard] to Lord Ambassador [Joseph] Williamson,...

Folios 218-219. A newsletter from RY [Robert Yard] to Lord Ambassador [Joseph] Williamson, dated at Whitehall [Middlesex] reporting on parliamentary bills: in House of Lords restraining the number of officers sitting in the House of Commons; regulating [wool] factors of Blackwell Hall; for naturalizing Samuel Bernadeau and others of the three troops of guards and grenadiers; removing duty on glassware; raising the militia this year; making Billingsgate [London] a free market; enabling soldiers to exercise their trades in cities and corporations; continuing a lottery bill with a clause for the Royal Oak; imposing duty on paper; naming Irish commissioners for the Forfeited Estates; and raising a land tax. Names commissioners for forfeited estates in Ireland: [Francis] Annesley, the Earl of Drogheda, John Trenchard, James Hamilton, Henry Langford, Sir Richard Leving [Levins], and Sir Francis Brewster [Brewer]. Reports: the Lords of the White Staff's address concerning Captain Desborough; and a new ranking of senior officers in the three troops of guards, with the Duke of Ormond most senior, followed by Earl of Rivers and the Earl of Albemarle; and the Lord Portland is still in Windsor [Berkshire].