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ct that time he was under a formal Protection of the Committee of Lords andCommons for the Safety of the Kingdom, as it was called ; and it should seem S ^P- 2I >by an Order of Parliament, upon an Information of this Violence to the Dean, * 4 " ! 'a nd many ether Inhabitants of Wtiidfor, " That both Houses denied tbe^ 2 z8,

" giving any Commission or Warrant to the Dragoons or Troopers, sent by 1 +2“ their Order to secure the Call le; for such unjust Proceedings of plundering" and pillaging ; and declared that Restitution should be made to the several“ Owners and Offenders punished which was never done. All that theDean was able to recover was a Harpsichord, of about jo/. Value, which be-Wg seized with his other Goods, by Colonel Venn, the Governor, was carriedG London , and after six Years returned.

The Dean had the Honour to receive from the King at Oxford, a veryample Protection for himself, his Servants, and Estate, in a most graciousManner, although through the Malignity of the Times of small Efficacy,viz,

Charles R.

W EIereas by the ancient Constitution and Laws of our most noble Order AiWe ofof the Garter, the Register of our said Order is to have his Person , theand Estate secured from Violence and Injury, to the End he or his Ministers p ' 2>I 'may securely live under our perpetual Protection and Safeguar d ; and as oftenas he shall be molested for himself, or for any Thing that belongs unto him,he is to receive our Protection, and the Assistance of the Companions of ourOrder, according to Equity and Right. These are therefore to will, andcommand all Men of what Condition soever they be, not to trouble, or mo-lest Doctor Christopher Wren, Dean of Windsor, and Register of our mostNoble Order of the Garter, or any of his Ministers whomsoever, or any Thingthat belongs to him whatsoever; but to suffer his Person, Servants, andEstate, to be in Quiet, Security, and Peace - , without any Injury, or Violenceto be offered by any to him, or his, as they, or every of them shall answerto the contrary at their Peril.

Given at our Court, at Oxford, under the Signet of our Order, the i2 thDay of December, in the U)th Year of our Reign.

Some further Particulars observable in the Plundennpp of the Ex Schedis

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Deanery-houje at Wmdlor.

T H E Closet called the Registry of the Order of the Garter, (withinDean Wren’s House, in the Castle of Windsor) had been locked up,ail d sealed, by Order os the long Parliament, and committed to the SafeguardColonel Venn, the Governor of the Castle, but at the Plundering of theMouse, this Closet also was broke open, (contrary to the parliamentary Or- * v s" °f * hc^ er *) and the following Goods, among others, taken away. *'

-st large Cafe, or Cabinet of eleven Draw-boxes, with Writings, and Re-c ° r ds, concerning the Order of the Garter, and other Things of Value.

Another large Iron-bound Cabinet, with Partitions, and Boxes, gilt, andmleted, with special Records, and Papers therein.

A large Chest fill’d with Books, among them Casier' s Institutions to theymsiffi Emissaries; with Dr. Wrens Discovery of their subtile Rratlices, M. S.ndertaken by Command, and almost finished,

A large