To put forth a declaration. To examine the present state of the revenue: to consider about stop of payment and when: what is yet to come in upon the accounts and at what times: To know what is due to the ships abroad: at what times those ships are expected: in what state the victualling is. In what hands the militia; the justices of the peace: the judges. When the dissolution ought to be: what preparation for a new Parliament and when: About the sheriffs: the next Lord Mayor: the Cinque Ports: the Port towns by the commissioners of the customs, of treasury, of Navy: who have a particular interest in Borrows. To consider what grateful things may be done in this interval of Parliament: what should be said in the declaration upon the dissolution: for these q^e Sir R. W. (Weston) and let the journals of the Commons be searched for their proceedings in this last session: To consider wherein they have exceeded all the due limits of their own power as in imprisonment of men who are not their members, etc., and meddling with the King’s prerogatives and private accounts, etc.: To keep Lord Roberts by some encouragement: About another Attorney-General, viz.: Sir R. W. (Weston) (which is of main importance): what change of Councillors. In what condition all the garrisons are as to their fortifications: what number of forces and where placed after the disbanding: to inquire into the riots at the last elections. How conventicles should be inquired after, and what penal laws should be put in execution: who to be in the Treasury and in the treasury of the Navy: what can be done for the suppressing of seditious prints and papers: About directing somebody to write both about the present state of things to give the world a better impression of them than they are now possessed with and to give constant weekly accounts of what is done at any time which may be for the satisfaction of men’s minds. Q. Whether the Plot not triable out of Parliament. Q. About securing the arms of all who have been officers in the late Rebellion. To take their names and abodes in all counties. Q; how for to take notice of them and dissenters from the Church how busy they have appeared of late and what reasonable cause of danger to the government from them. Parliament to be called to some other place: the King to reside out of London: Tower to be well secured: L^d Ossory sent to the Navy: that to be officered so as to have influence upon their men: To have a control to know justly when the army is all disbanded and whether there be any remains. About the Tower in case of insurrection: To take some course about the reasons of the Commons which are printed, (?) to suppress them and to have something writ to satisfy the people. BRIT. MUS. ADD. MSS. 32095; 196 (Paper endorsed) Popish Plot. This paper was presented to the King by the D. of York, Oct. 20^{th} 1679.