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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91054	The proceedings, votes, resolves, and acts of the late half-quarter Parliament, called the Rump: as it was taken out of their own journal-books, and printed for the general satisfaction of the nation.		1660 (1660)	Wing P3628B; Thomason E1074_33	8,305	11

THE PROCEEDINGS Votes Resolves AND ACTS Of the late Half-quarter Parliament CALLED The RUMP As it was taken out of their own Journal-Books and Printed for the general Satisfaction of the NATION London Printed for John Thomason 1660. THE RUMPS JOURNAL c. Thursday Jan. 27. ORDERED THat the Members now met together do sit here as long as they live in spight of the Peoples teeths and that the Government of the Nation be entail'd up on their Heirs successively unto Eternity and that this their Resolution be forthwith confirmed by an Act of the House Accordingly an ●ct was brought in and ordered to be speedily ingrossed the tenor whereof was as followeth WHEREAS the Parliament have thought fit for the good of themselves to keep the Government in their own hands as long as they live And whereas well knowing how laudable a thing it is for Fathers to provide for their Children seeing that the Ape hath a kindness for her own Whelps that they may alwayes have cause to bless the tender care of their deceased Parents we are also Resolved to continue the said Government to our Heirs and Assigns for ever which intention of ours there is nothing but the Day of Judgement can hinder for that as we are informed will put an end to the World within a small period of years and consequently destroy the reign of our Posterity Be it therefore Enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authothority thereof That no person or persons whatsoever whether Red-coat or Red-coats Blew-coat or Blew-coats Cavalier or Cavaliers or whatever other Faction soever that conceive themselves agrieved by us do attempt or endevour to molest disturb or hinder our sitting during the whole term of ours and their natural lives and that our Sons and our Sons Sons do tyrannize over this Nation for ever and ever And we do further Enact and Declare that the aforesaid Day of Judgement is hereby disanulled abolished and straitly forbid as if it had never been intended And all creatures both in heaven and earth are required to take notice of this Act and to give obedience thereto upon penalty of our displ●asure and the anger of our Posterity who we hope will be no better then our selves Friday January 28. Resolved upon the Question That Tyranny and Oppression are not only lawful but expedient for the Management of the publick Affairs and that Justice Morality Conscience and Priviledges of the People are but meer airy notions and destructive to the peace of the Commonwealth This day they also made an Act declaring what should be Treason WHEREAS it concerns those who are got into Authority to look well about them for their own Security and to be as subtile as heir enemies can be for heir hearts and bloods And whereas we the Rump and Bumm of a wrongfully disturbed Parliament have taken upon us to succeed the Thirty Tyrants of Athens in the monstre u●●ss of their Fame And where is there are millions of people who care not a fort fo● us and would do all they could to destroy us yet plead the Laws of the Land for their Contrivances against us we have therefore though sit to publish our Commandements and to chalk out unto them what ●s Treason against us and what not for that 't is impossible for them to know unless they be told Be it therefore Enacted by this present Rump and the An h●●●ty hereof That who every yieldeth not an exact Obedience unto us both in thought word and deed shall be guilty of high Treason Who ever pu●teth not off his Hat and maketh not three Congies to us as we pass through the Hall shall be guilty of high Treason Whoe ever talketh ●o us with his Hat on and dares to reprehend us for any enormity which we shall commit shall be guilty of high Treason Who ever shall see a Rumper in bed with his wife and is not patient and willing and holdeth not his tongue shall be guilty of high Treason If a Rumper being in the majesty of his thoughts as high as Ahab shall happen to covet the Vineyard of Naboth and shall make demand thereof and shall be refused who ever shall make such refusal shall be guilty of high Treason Who ever shall demand any Debt or Debts due from a Rumper be they more or less shall be and is hereby adjudged guilty of high Treason Lastly That Mr. Harrington shall be and is hereby declared guilty of high Treason for publishing the Mysteries of Government in a profane Coffee-house and seeking to impose upon us his silly Oceana as if we knew not our own intentions and what sort of Government was best for our turn better then he did Resolved upon the Question That Mr. Scot shall as soon as he is dead go to heaven without let or morestation notwithstanding a certain place of Scripture which seems to intimate the contrary from the practice of his life Ordered That Mr. Scot do print the Sermons of Mr. Roe from the Copies which he hath writ in the Abby and that the Stationer give him as much proportionably as Adoniram had for the Assemblies Catechism Ordered That though Mr. Scot as he is Secretary of State have liberty to dive into the secrets of mens hearts that he do not so often dive into the secrets of womens bodies as he us'd to do lest he fail the Secretary-ship sooner then they are willing the Secretary-ship should fail him Saturday January 29. This day the House agreed upon an Act for putting an Excize upon Trap-sticks and Whirligigs in these following words WHEREAS we do perceive a very great dis-affection in the Children and Boys of this Nation to our Government by singing Ballads to our disgrace and calling us the Rump at every word which hatred to us is grown so high that though they can be able to spend many a brass Farthing and single Penny upon Whirligigs and Trap-sticks for their own delight yet they are altogether unwilling to contribute the least mi●e toward our crying necessities That therefore we may be too cunning for them in their wicked intentions and gain from them as well as from the rest of the Nation Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and the Authority thereof That there be a New Excize laid upon the Instruments of their Pastime that is to say Three farthings upon every Trap-stick that shall be sold for a peny and five farthings upon every Box Grass-cat which is sold for two pence and one farthing for every dozen of Whirligigs that shall be sold for a half peny And it is further Ordained That Mr. Leadsum the Informer be Collector of the several Sums so to be gathered and that the said Sums so collected shall be equally divided among the Members for their own private and particular uses Resolved upon the Question That the Apothegm of Trajan the Emperor Dulcis odor lucri ex re qualibet be writ in Letters of Gold and placed over the House

door Ordered That the famous Book commonly called Aretines Postures be bound up in Turky-leather with gilded Leaves and that it be presented to Mr. Martin in the name of the House as an Acknowledgement of their Thanks to him for his many good services Ordered That he have a particular Dispensation for having two wives because it is not fit that there should be any general Rule without some Exceptions Ordered That Mr. Dove be Brewer to the Navy that he may not forget his Calling as Col. Pride was in the Protectors time Monday January 30. Ordered That there be another High Court of Justice erected with all convenient speed and that Sir Arthur Hesilrigg be President thereof and that it be committed to his discretion to pronounce what Iudgement he pleases and that he have full power to execute it himself when he hath done Ordered That there be a Day set apart for a private Fasting among the Members that they may fall upon the great Work of Devouring the Nation with the better stomachs This day several Officers received their Commissions and among the reft Mr. Streater received his Commission to be a Colonel of Foot of the Regiment formerly belonging to the single-ey'd Gentleman that gave command to shoot his brother Cobler Ordered That the Lord Mounson have a priviledge to wear a Back-piece and Breast-plate and a Pot to secure his bones from the knocks of his Ladies Bed-staff Ordered That Mr. Syndercomb be canonized for a Saint and that a Letter be forthwith sent to the Great Turk intreating him to perform that pious work Ordered That the Walls of Sion shall be let alone but that the Cities of Sodom and Gomorha shall be rebuilt and the said Lord Mounson and Mr. Martin do see it performed accordingly Orderea this day That Mr. Praise-God Barebone shall be Master of the Ceremonies and that it be his care to convert all the Forein Embassadors that come over and see them rebaptized before they have Audience Tuesday January 31. The House were upon Qualifications and they Ordered that none should bear any Office in the Commonwealth that had the least pick in the world against Perjury and could not swallow any Oath which they should command them to take with as much ease as the Whale swallowed Jonas Secondly That they should be Sectaries of the latest Edition men indeed despising any ●●eity but loving Covetousneis with all their hearts Thirdly That they should have the treachery of Informers the tongues of Slanderers the malice of Toads the venom of Basilisks the cruelty of Nero and the tyranny of Pharaoh Ordered That London be set on fire and that there be another great City built in some other part of the Nation and that all the free-born People of the Land be compelled to make bricks and gather straw for themselves for the carrying on of the great Work that they may appear to be most truly gods people that is to say in affliction and not after the custom of the Heathen under the Government of a King Ordered That the Protectors Grave be broke open and that the Plate of Gold which is upon his breast be taken off and that the Members do throw most at three throws who shall have it Resolved upon the Question That Mr. Vavasour Powel Mr. Feak and Mr. Rogers be sent to the top of Penmenmaur the highest hill in all Wales there to pray upon their bare knees till God hear them and give them an answer It was also Ordered because they intended to hang a good number of their enemies That Mr. Peters be sent for to accompany them to the Gallows as he did in the beginning Ordered That my Lord Craven shall never have any justice done him nor any other person that hath been wronged since their Fellow-members were secluded Wednesday February 1. Ordered That Mr. Prynne do say or write what he pleases because the House is not able to give any answer to the Law and Reason which he propounds Ordered That Wimbleton-House be sequestred because the summer draws on and Sir Arthur wants a fine Seat near the Town Ordered likewise That he have the Protectors gilt Coach and that he ride out of Town every Afternoon to take the Air as the Protector was wont to do Ordered That Colonel Martin do not pay one farthing to his Landlord in Ax-yard but that he do forthwith Arrest him for detaining his Clothes for Rent and that he justifie this act by the Authority of the House Ordered That Sir Arthur Hesilriggs Daughter go no more with her Fathers Clerk to eat a Six-peny-minc'd Pye in an open Cooks shop or if she do that she go up stairs and not sit in one of the small Rooms where none but Porters drink lest she bring a great scandal upon her Family This day came a Letter from the General of the Cossacks humbly desiring the House to send him twelve stone of Brisket beef and seven great Cabbages with two Hogsheads of Northdown Ale for that his wife long'd to taste some of the English Dyet The House was resolv'd into a Grand Committee about this ungent Affair they sate till ten of the clock at night and adjourned till the next day Thursday February 2. This day they resumed the said Debate again and being put to the Vote it was carried in the Affirmative onely by two Voices Ordered That the Earl of Pembroke does very well in going to Mistress Creswels in Moor-fields to mortifie his pamper'd flesh and that it is no sin for a Quaker to go a whoring after strange women provided he do not go a whoring after strange Gods Resolved upon the Question That the said Earl is not wise enough to make himself the Head of the Quaking Faction let him do what he can And that there be a Committee to examine his Lordship whither he went when he stay'd away from his house a whole formight together to wait upon two Draggle-tayl Bitches that made him believe they were two Kings daughters all glorious within Ordered That Mr. Nevil because he will play at Picquet with no body but us nor so much as venture upon any hands but ours have a Sizeisme out of Sir George Booths Estate as the reward of his Constancy The House having heard the report How that Pope Gregory was struck with a perperual pain in his stomach and feet by an Angel because he compelled God by his Prayers to deliver Trajan out of hell and transfer him into Heaven they were strick with a panick fear and whereas they had intended to have desir'd of God to do as much for the Lord Bradshaw as he did for Trajan they resolved upon the consideration of the event even to let him alone where he is and not to have him stirr'd by any means Friday February 3. Ordered this day the first thing they did That all that would not take the Oath of Abjuration and the Engagement should be Bond-slaves Ordered That those Members that will keep