shall be agreed upon by the Sub-dean and the major part of the Prebendaries and also to pass all the Premises under the style and title of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westminster during the suspension of the Bishop of Lincoln from the Deanry of Westminster For the doing whereof this shall be your Warrant Lambeth-house this 22th day of November An. Dom. 1637. W. Cant. This was held by some Lawyers to be a strange Warrant and these Proceedings in the Star-chamber against these persons raised a deep distaste in the hearts of many people which some expressed by their murmurings and gave out Canterbury to be the Author of them more particularly against Lincoln upon the private Grudges and Emulation between these two Prelates The Troubles and Commotions in Scotland began to arise upon this occasion King James had designed to bring the Kirk of Scotland to a Conformity with the Church of England and for that purpose appointed some of his Scotish Bishops to Compile a Form of Liturgy a Book of Common Prayer to be used there which was done and sent to him into England for his Approbation but nothing further was effected in that business by King James King Charles his Son in prosecution of his Father's Design directed Archbishop Laud the Bishop of Ely and other Bishops to review and alter as they pleased that Service Book which they did with some material Alterations from that used in England and by the Advice of these Bishops and others this new Service Book was sent into Scotland with Command to be there read First In the Chapel of the King's House at Edenburgh the Communion to be Administred in that form and taken on their knees the Bishop in his Rochet the Minister in his Surplice The Scottish Bishops liked the matter of the Book but not the Imposing of it from our Church upon theirs nor the different Translation from the Scottish Language of some of the Psalms Epistles and Gospels which to satisfie them was amended and the Book proclaimed to be read in all Churches On Sunday July 23. The Dean of Edenburgh began to read the Book in the chief Church of the City upon which the people in a tumultuous manner filled the Church with uproar which caused the Bishop of Edenburgh to step up into the Pulpit to appease them by minding them of the holiness of the Place This inraged the Multitude the more so that the Women and Men threw Cudgels Stools and what was in the way of fury at the Bishop to the indangering of his life The Chancellor seeing this called down from the Gallery the Provost Bailiffs and Magistrates of the City then sitting there who thrust the Rabble out of the Church and made fast the Doors so the Dean proceeded in his Common Prayer only he was disturbed from the outward man the multitude without rapping at the Doors pelting the Windows with stones and making hideous noises Nevertheless the Service was ended though not the Peoples rage who assaulted the Bishop returning to his Lodging and in other Churches the peoples disorders were answerable The Chancellor and Councel so ordered the business for the Afternoon that the Common Prayer was read without disturbance only the Bishop returning to his Lodging was rudely treated The Magistrates of the City seemed to distaste these tumultuous Actions and to inquire out the Actors and by desire of the City Ministers the Magistrates drew up an Obligatory Act for Indemnity of their persons and settling of their Maintenance During Harvest men were at work and quiet that being ended many resort to Fdenburgh Petition the Councel That the Service-book may no further be prest upon them till the King 's further pleasure were known The Councel fearing danger issue three Proclamations 1 To dissolve their Meeting in relation to Church-matters and all to repair home 2. For removing the Session from Edenburgh to Lithgow 3. For calling in and burning a seditious Book Intituled A Dispute against the English Popish Ceremonies obtruded upon the Kirk of Scotland These Proclamations increased the Flame and the next day the Bishop of Galloway going to the Councel-house was followed in the Streets with Railings and the House beset with Clamours and Menaces The Earl of Trequaire going to relieve the Bishop became in the same condition with him the Lord Provost and City-councel were called to raise the Siege but they returned answer That their condition was the same surrounded with the multitude who had forced them for fear of their lives to sign a Paper to adhere to them in opposing the Service-book and to restore Ramsey Rollock and Henderson silenced Ministers The Lord Treasurer going to the Councel-house was thrown down by the throng his Hat Cloak and white Staff taken from him The Lords in this danger sent for some Noble-men and Gentlemen who were disaffected to the Service-book to come to their aid who came and quietly guarded them to their several Lodgings Then the Councel issued a Proclamation to repress the Disorders but little obedience was given to it The Citizens sent Commissioners to the Councel to have their Ministers restored and what they had promised to be performed A Petition was sent to the Councel-board not of the multitude but of Noble-men Barons Ministers Burgesses and Commons against the Liturgy and Canons This Petition was sent to the King who displeased at it gave Instructions for Adjourning the Term to Sterling 24 miles from Edenburgh to prevent confluences of people and for publishing a Proclamation forbidding such tumultuous Resorts upon the highest Penalties Upon the reading of this Proclamation at Edenburgh the Earl of Hume and the Lord Linsey and others caused their Protestation against it to be read and agreeable thereunto erected four Tables 1 Of the Nobility 2. Of the Gentry 3. Of the Burroughs 4. Of the Ministers These were to prepare what was to be propounded at the general Table consisting of several Commissioners chosen from the rest The first Act of this General Table Was a renewing of the ancient Confession of Faith of that Kirk and entering into a general Covenant to preserve the Religion there profest and the King's Person The Councel upon this Combination sent an Express by Sir John Hamilton to the King to advertise him thereof The King observed That in this Covenant contrary to what was formerly neither his own nor his Delegated Authority was Implored And whereas preceding Bands annext to Confessions were formed in defence of himself his Authority and Person This new Edition hath a Combination against all persons whatsoever himself not excepted The King though highly offended at these Affronts yet studying how to compose the Discontents sent Marquess Hamilton his high Commissioner into Scotland for settling of the Peace He stayed many days at Dalketh four miles from Edenburgh yet none of the Covenanters came to him but at the sollicitation of the City and assurance of their quiet
The day of the Assembly the Marquess his Commission was read and the next day a declaration and protestation was presented to the Commissioner in the name of the Archbishops and Bishops against the Assembly and containing a Nullity of it This was denyed to be read against which refusal The Commissioner entred a Protestation and took Instruments thereupon In the debate of Elections they left no man standing as a Commissioner who was not fully of their mind but the admission of Lay Elders past not without an high contest Many places protested against the Legality of their Session and the King having nominated six Lords of his Privy Council to be Assessors to his Commissioner in that Assembly they refused to entertain them or allow their suffrage affirming that If the King himself were present he should have but one Vote and that no negative one The Commissioner seeing no good likely to be done by continuing the Assembly and upon consultation the Council advising to dissolve it he went thither and caused a Paper to be read which was a Declaration the same in effect with the Proclamation discharging the Service Book Book of Canons c. After the Reading of it the Commissioner signed it and required it to be entred in the Books of the Assembly provided that the registring thereof be no approbation of the Lawfulness of the Assembly and protested that whatsoever should be done or said in it should not be obliging or reputed as an Act of a General Assembly The Commissioner assembled the Council to draw up a Proclamation for dissolving the Assembly which being agreed on was subscribed by all but the Earl of Argile who now began to shew himself for the Covenanters party The publishing of the Proclamation was Incountred with a Protestation of the Covenanters That is was lawful for them to continue the Assembly and that they would still adhere to all their former Protestations In pursuance hereof they presently declared six former General Assemblies which they thought would be against them to be null then they deprived all the Bishops and some they excommunicated and soon after they abolished Episcopacy it self as inconsistent with the Laws of that Church The Commissioner being returned in discontent for England the Covenanters began to levy Souldiers to impose Taxes to raise Fortifications to block up some and seise others of the King's Castles and to prepare for War This was the Fountain from whence our ensuing troubles did spring and therefore may deserve the larger Relation and tend the more to the full knowledge and understanding of our following story It was now 100 years since Calvin first set his foot into Geneva from whence the Bishop being expelled it was necessary to Institute some other Ecclesiastical Government Calvin being of great credit and esteem in that City the framing of this new Government was committed to his care he observing the civil state there to be Democratical he thought it must best suit therewith and with the liking of the People to frame the Ecclesiastical Government agreeable thereunto He therefore formed a Consistory of Elders a great part whereof were Lay men and they were to manage all matters Ecclesiastical This pleased the People of Geneva and some Entituled it to a Jus Divinum and it found good reception in the Gallican and Belgick Churches where it was generally setled The next design was to plant it in Britaine for which end Beza writes to Queen Elizabeth recommending this form to her as the onely thing to be desired in England ' s Reformation the Queen was loth to proscribe Episcopacy and to entertain this new model of Presbytery and therefore gave Beza his saying but not his desires and shortly after she and the Parliament whereof some Members inclined to this way were admonished in several treatises written and dedicated to them to abolish Episcopacy as Antichristian But the Queen and the Parliament stood fixed and could not be wrought to any unsettlement of the ancient discipline by Episcopacy In Scotland the new form prospered better for there about the year 1560. The Earl of Murray Prior of St. Andrews the Queen 's base Brother with his party Knox Buchanan and others gave such a shock to Popery as made every thing and by consequence Episcopacy which stood near it to Reel Yet in 20 years it could not be supplanted but it was gained upon by degrees first in an Assembly 1580. It was ordered that all Bishops on pain of Excommunication should resign up their offices and about three years after the Parliament the King being a minor annext their temporalties to the Crown of Scotland This was supposed to be Instigated from some of the Nobility and Ministers from England Whereupon the then Archbishop Whitgift by the Queen's command contrived three Articles in the late Canons to which all were to subscribe at their taking of holy orders 1. Acknowledging the Supremacy of the Queen 2. Professing conformity to the Book of Common Prayer and approbation of the Book of Ordering of Bishops Priests and Deacons 3. Assenting to the 39 Articles of the Church of England In Scotland the Hierarchy began somewhat to revive again by their Parliaments ratifying the Clergy as the third Estate 1584. But the other Party 1592. prevailed with that state to ratify their Discipline Thus Episcopacy and Presbytery took their turns of Government for about 30 years But about the year 1598. King James caused the Prelates in Scotland to be restored to their Votes in Parliament and in his Book Basilicon Doron he expressed no great affection to the Consistorian Government 1603. At his accession to the Crown of England he was urged by Petition of 1000 Ministers against Episcopacy but he slighted it and by several Acts of Parliament in Scotland he rescinded what had been formerly enacted there to the prejudice of Episcopacy and from that time till these commotions this year in Scotland the Presbyters did not appear in opposition In October Mary de Medices the Queen Mother of France came into England the people were generally discontented at her coming and at her followers which some observed to be the Sword or Pestilence and that her restless Spirit Imbroyled all where she came That her combining with Monsieur the Duke of Orleans and the ill success of that Enterprise made France too hot for her and drave her to Bruxells where the Cardinal Infanta carressed her a while but there she was pursued with such curses that for fear of violence to her person she quitted that Country and betook herself to the protection of the Prince of Orange where she stay'd not long but receiving an invitation from the Queen her daughter she repayred into England The King perceiving that the Scots intended nothing but War thought not fit to yield them the start but by advice of the Archbishop Laud and others he hastened his levies of men and money and because this was the Bishops War
as both shall agree to stand with the Laws of Ireland 13. That the Council table meddle only with State matters 14. Act against transporting wooll to be null 15. Those wronged by grants to have relief 16. Wronged persons to have right 17. Restitution of Estates 18. An Act of oblivion to pass 19. Customs not to be farmed and Monopolies to be taken away 20. The Court of Castle-Chamber to be regulated 21. Acts forbidding ploughing with Horses by the tayl and burning Oats in the Straw to be nulled 22. An Act to take off grievances 23. Maritime causes to be determined in Ireland 24. No rents to be raised under pretence of defective titles 25. Interest money to be for given from 1641. 26. All this to be acted till a Parliament agree it 27. That the Catholick Commissioners agree upon such as shall be Justices of Peace and hear all causes under ten pound 28. All Governours of Forts to be by approbation of the Catholick Commissioners 29. None of the Kings rents to be paid till a further settlement by Parliament 30. Power of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer 31. Differences in Ireland to be tryed there and not in England 32. The Roman Clergy not to be molested 33. That his Majesty grant whatever else is necessary for the Catholicks Prince Rupert was upon the Irish coast with sixteen Ships many vessels were taken by him A Petition to the General and his General Council of War from the well affected Inhabitants of Lincolnshire much to the same effect with others lately presented to him and to the Parliament and which are before mentioned Two men measuring some ground in Windsor forest were asked by what Authority they did it they showed a kind of Warrant from Lieutenant General Cromwell desiring all Officers of the forest Souldiers and others to permit these men to set out some Land c. in regard there was no Justice in Eyre It were to be wished that such men as Lieutenant General Cromwell would not so irregularly meddle with such matters as these are the men were forbidden to make any divisions of the Land or ditches about it till further order 27. A Declaration passed that a Book lately published entituled the second Part of Englands new Chains discovered contained matter false Scandalous Seditious Mutinous and tending to raise a new War that the Authors and publishers of it were guilty of Treason and referred to the Council to find them out Anno 1649 Letters from Major General Lambert with the Articles of the surrender of Pontefract Castle A Letter and Petition from the Grand Jury of Yorkshire acknowledging with humble thanks the justice of the Parliament in their late proceedings and ingaging to joyn with them and desiring Pontefract Castle may be demolished and some other Forts thereabouts Vote for three hundred pounds per annum to be setled on Major General Lambert out of Pontefract honour for his good service The Lancashire Forces submitted to disband and quitted Clithero Castle Order for that Castle to be demolished and that the Council of State consider what other Inland Castles are fit to be demolished Sir Henry Cholmely sent for upon complaints against him Instructions for the Scots Commissioners to their new King were 1. That he take the Covenant 2. To put from him all who have assisted his Father in the War particularly Montross else not to Treat with him 3. To bring but one hundred with him into Scotland and none who have assisted his Father in Arms. 4. To bring no Forces into Scotland from other Nations without their consent Marquess Huntley was beheaded at the Cross in Edenburgh Letters from the Hague that the Queen of England invited Prince Charles her son into France that the States inhibited their Ministers from insisting upon matters of State and in their Pulpits and particularly not to meddle with Englands or other Kingdom 's proceedings 28. Upon a Report from the Council of State of the particulars for incouragement of those who shall ingage for Ireland with Lieutenant General Cromwell the House referred them back again to the Council to perfect Upon a Report from them of the Earl of Ormond's proclaiming the King in Ireland c. the House voted the Earl a Traitour and an Act to be brought in to attaint him Order for a Letter of thanks to Colonel Jones and a gratuity Order that no Ministers shall teach in their Pulpits any thing relating to State affairs but only to preach Christ in sincerity and an Act to be brought in for penalties to those who shall do otherwise Orders for money given away A new day given to the Lord Mayor to conform to the order for proclaiming the Act against King-ship or to give an account to the House why he hath not done it 29. The House sate not The Council of State upon examination of Lilburn Walwyn and others who owned the Book called England's new chains did commit them to the Tower The Estates of the Netherlands summoned and examined their Ministers and disallowed what they had done in relation to King Charles II. And forbad them all to meddle with State matters in their Pulpits without leave of the Magistrate The Council of State perfected the particulars for incouragement of those who shall ingage for Ireland and Lieutenant General Cromwell declared himself willing to undertake that service 30. Vote that Gresham Colledge be not exempted from the assessment to the Army nor the Doctors in Doctors Commons nor the Counties in Wales formerly exempted Order that the Speaker do sign such Letters as shall be thought fit by the Council of State to the States of Hamburgh touching Merchants Upon a Petition of the Borough of Southwark of the inequality of their rates with the County of Surrey the House held their desires just and Ordered that in all future rates they should pay the eight part of that assessed upon the County of Surrey Order for the Committee of Goldsmiths Hall to form the Votes concerning compositions of Delinquents and to have them printed and published that none may plead ignorance of them Referred to the Committee of the Army to make provision of four thousand Cassocks and breeches to be disposed of by the General to his Foot Souldiers in regard of the smallness of their pay Upon the Report of Alderman Atkins that the Lord Mayor desired to be excused from proclaiming the Act for abolishing Kingly Government the House Ordered that he be summoned to attend at the Bar to answer his contempt and disobedience herein 31. Upon a Report from the Council of State that Lieutenant General Cromwell accepted of the service for Ireland and would endeavour to the utmost of his power with Gods assistance to carry on that work against the Rebels and all that adhere to them Voted that the House doth approve of Lieutenant General Cromwell to be Commander in chief of all the
Forces sent into Ireland And to take off any reflection upon the General or dislike by him they also voted That the Lord Fairfax be General of all the Forces in England and Ireland At the Council of State they had variety of intelligence some good but more bad They gave a dispatch to Colonel Potley to go for Denmark and Sweden to send them from those Parts intelligence and they gave him two hundred pound in hand and promised him one hundred pound more for one years entertainment He was as fit as any man for this service had lived long in those Countries a Souldier well known and esteemed by the Grandees especially in Germany and in the Court of Sweden Whitelock recommended him to this imployment which was of great consequence to them April 1649. 1. The Lord Mayor of London Alderman Reynoldson attended the House at the Bar and being demanded why he disobeyed the Orders of Parliament for proclaiming the Act against Kingly Government He pleaded scruple of conscience by his Oath taken in the Exchequer and that he conceived the business only proper for the Sheriff of the City After a long debate the House voted that the Lord Mayor for his contempt should be fined two thousand pound five hundred pound of it to the poor of London five hundred pound to Westminster five hundred pound to Southwark and five hundred pound to the poor of the Tower Hamlets That he be committed prisoner to the Tower for two Months and degraded of his Mayoralty and that the Common Council be required and authorised to elect a new Mayor with all speed A Petition of divers of London and Westminster in the behalf of Lilburn Walwyn Prince and Overton prisoners in the Tower setting forth That the freedom of the People is that none ought to be proceeded against nor punished but by a known Law and before ordinary Judges and the Military power not to interpose but where the civil power fails They pray favour for the Prisoners and the Vnion of the Parliament party to be preserved A Petition with this Title To the Right Honourable the Commons of England assembled in Parliament The Humble Petition and Representation of several Churches of God in London commonly though falsely called Anabaptists They acknowledge the goodness of God to the Parliament and Kingdom disown any consent to the Book called The second Part of England's new chains discovered justify their own principles and obedience to Authority and pray the Parliament to make good Laws for the punishment of wickedness The House were satisfied with the disowning of the Book and their expressions to live peaceably and in submission to the Civil Magistracy which the Speaker told them by direction of the House And that they and other Christians walking answerable to such professions the House did assure them of liberty and protection so far as God should enable them in all things consistent with Godliness honesty and Civil Peace The House finding inconvenience by their late sitting the last Night Ordered to rise every day by one a Clock The Votes of the House collected together touching excepted persons and compositions of Delinquents were published Letters from Scotland of the Execution of Marquess Huntly That a Minister asking him a little before his Execution whether he desired absolution from the sentence of Excommunication which he lay under he answered he would have nothing to do with him nor with any that taught such heretical doctrine as he did to speak to him In his Speech to the People the Marquess told them he was sentenced to lose his Life for obedience to his sacred Soveraign to which this ought to incourage all men and not to affright them and that they should for that cause stoop to a Scaffold as if it were a Theatre of honour in this world as indeed it was a heavenly ladder That he only craved in his behalf the prayers of those among them that were of this opinion without desiring the prayers of others whose spirits perchance might be otherwise inclined 3. Debate of the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters lands and for Sale of fee-farm rents of the Kings Act committed prohibiting Ministers to meddle with State affairs but to preach Jesus Christ Order for a Declaration about matters of Religion and setling of the Church That Tythes shall not be taken away till another maintenance be provided for the Minister as large and as honourable as by Tythes That as soon as such a way can be provided Tythes shall be then taken off that the government to be established in England shall be the Presbyterian government That a way shall be provided for admission of all such Churches as tend to Godliness and to advance the Kingdom of Jesus Christ to be free without disturbances Alderman Atkins was chosen Lord Mayor in the place of Alderman Reynoldson Prisoner in the Tower for the remainder of the year Letters of divers Vessels taken by the Irish Pyrates Upon the coming of Major General Lambert into Lancashire the two refractory Regiments were disbanded The Young Lord Cromwell and Colonel Werden and the Lord Fitz-herberts son were brought in Prisoners to Chester Letters from the Hague that the Earl of Brainford was gone to Sweden to negotiate for assistance of Prince Charles and for that purpose Letters were sent to the Emperour and King of Spain That others advised the Prince to go into Scotland and become the head of the Covenanters whom he might cast off again as there should be occasion but Montross was against that and that the Sword was most honourable That Van Trump set out a Declaration and presented it to the Prince to his great satisfaction as to Sea affairs 4. A Petition from the well affected in Blackburn Hundred in Lanchashire mentioning their former assistance to the Parliament and the corrupt party in both Houses approving the purging thereof and taking away the prerogative House of Lords their desires were to the same effect with those in other Petitions and they had the thanks of the House for their good affections An Act committed for prevention of the mischiefs by those who buy up many heads of Cattle and most of the granaries in the Nation to sell again at excessive rates Referred to a Committee to draw the form of a new Oath to be given to the new Lord Mayor of London and his successours and the Oath was presently drawn and assented to Referred to the Council of State to give such order as they should think fit concerning the Forces in Lancashire Debate of the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters lands and voted that all monies due out of those lands for charitable uses should be paid according to the intent of the donors The Court Martial sate upon the Tryal of Major General Laughern C. Poyer and Powel Colonel Morris late Governour of Pontefract Castle and one Cornet Blackburn who had a hand in the Death
Souldiers whil'st they were on Shore behaved themselves very civilly and payed for what they took and any that were debaucbed were severely punished That there was much seeking of God by Prayer for a Blessing on them Letters that the Cavaleers endeavoured to raise Differences betwixt the 2 Nations but since the News of the late Defeat in Ireland they are very still Letters from York That one Morrice and one Blackbourn were arraigned before Baron Thort and Judge Puleston for levying War against the Kingdom they pleaded not guilty but desired as they were Marshal Men that they might be tryed by Marshal Law which was denyed to them Morrice at last said he would be tryed by God and the Countrey and 17 Witnesses proved foul Crimes against him He had two Sheets of Paper written with Matters of Law and Statutes many of which he pleaded and urged the case of the War betwixt the two Houses of York and Lancaster the difference of which from his case was shewed by the Judges Then he produced a Commission from the King when he was Prince the Judges told him that the Prince was a Subject as well as he and must be tryed by the same Law He was found guilty of Treason and manacled with Irons at which he said What a Martial Man Ironed the like President was never before known He desired to have a strong Guard saying Let me be damned if I escape but it was denyed so was a Copy of his Indictment and to have Councel or to be exchanged He and Blackbourn were both condemned Letters from Chester That Lieutenant General Jones having put Dublin into a good posture was marched forth with 1000 Horse and 3000 Foot and sat down before Tredah That Ormond executed many for Runawayes That the Markets are full again at Dublin Letters from Paris That Prince Charles received an account from Ormond of this Defeat given him by Jones and blamed Inchequins Horse and others that betrayed him and ran away and Inchequin by his Letters to the Prince complained against Ormond for fighting when he was gone from him with 2000 Horse That Ormond diswaded the Prince from coming into Ireland 21 The House sate and received Letters from the Lieutenant of Ireland of his then being setting Sail for Ireland and offering to their consideration the Removal of Penal Statutes that inforce the Consciences of honest conscientious Men. The House ordered the Committees to make their Reports touching the Ease of tender Consciences And an Act to be brought in for Commissioners to be chosen in all Countries to make choice of fit and able Men to be made Ministers that cannot conform to the present Ordinance for Ordination of Persons to Preach Orders about Monies for the maimed Souldiers and about Disbursements for disbanding Souldiers The House was acquainted with divers Papers taken in a French Mans Trunk at Rye discovering a popish Design to be set on Foot in England with Commissions from the Bishop of Chalcedon by Authority of the Church of Rome to Popish Priests and others for settling the Discipline of the Romish Church in England and Scotland Referred to Mr. Attourney General to make a further Examination of this Business and report it to the House Some sent to seize Books of Lieutenant Collonel Lilbourn newly Printed were perswaded by him to look to their own Liberties and let the Books alone Letters that the Lieutenant of Ireland was safely landed at Dublin and all his Men with him in about 40 Ships That Commissary General Ireton with about 60 Ships more full of Men Arms and Provisions were with a good Wind sailing for Munster 22 Petitions of the Miners of Derbyshire and of the Earl of Rutland referred to a Committee Petition of the City of London for more Houses to set the poor on work referred to a Committee The Arrest of a Member of the House not one that sate was referred to be examined by a Committee An Act passed touching Plantations about Florida near Virginia Letters of great Complaints of the Taxes in Lancashire and That the meaner sort threaten to leave their Habitations and their Wives and Children to be maintained by the Gentry That they can no longer bear the Oppression to have the Bread taken out of the Mouths of their Wives and Children by Taxes And that if an Army of Turks come to relieve them they will joyn with them Reasons against the arresting of Mens Persons were presented to the Members of Parliament 23 The Arrears of the Fee-Farm Rents of Carlisle remitted by the House The King of France had prohibited all Trade with England the English Merchants took this as a Breach of the League and thereupon addrest themselves by Petition to the Councel of State desiring them to report this matter to the House The Councel reported the whole matter to the House who upon long debate thereof Voted That no Wines Wool or Silk of the Growth of France and usually vended in this Nation shall from thenceforth be imported into any Port thereof or vended here upon forfeiture of the Goods and Ship that shall import them Upon the Question whether Linnen Cloth should be likewise prohibited It was resolved in the negative in regard of the general and necessary use thereof and they referred it to the Councel of State to bring in an Act according to these Votes Letters That when the Lieutenant of Ireland landed at Dublin he was most Heroically entertained with the resounding Eccho of the great Guns round about the City and great concourse of People to see him to whom he made a very grateful Speech with his Hat in his hand and there was a great cry that they would all live and dye with him That the next day after the raising of the Siege of London Derry Sir Charlet Coot Summon'd the Garrison that was near to it in the Possession of the Enemy and that within two dayes the new Fort Slogh Castle and other Forts were delivered up to him with the Ammunition and Artillery all upon Quarter 24 Order for 20 l. for the buryal of Mr. Powel a reduced Officer A Letter from Sir Charles Coot to the House That Charles Coot his Brother had concluded a Peace with M. G. Row O Neal and his Reasons for the doing of it were for Preservation of the Garrison of London Derry and the English Interest in those parts After reading of the Articles and a long Debate Ordered that a Copy of a Declaration of the House upon M. G. Monks joyning with Owen Roe O Neal should be forthwith sent to Sir Charles Coot and in vindication of his Honour they Voted That they approved of the Fidelity Care and Vigilancy of Sir Charles Coot in Preserving the English Interest in Ireland and holding out London Derry against the Scots They referred it to the Councel of State to take care for the sending of these Votes to Sir Charles Coot and for relieving him with
wherein consisted this more than in obtaining that Liberty from the Tyranny of the Bishops to all Species of Protestants to worship God according to their own Light and Consciences for want of which many of our Brethren forsook their Natives Countries to seek their Bread from Srangers and to live in Howling Wildernesses and for which also many that remained here were imprisoned and otherwise abused and made the scorn of the Nation Those that were sound in the Faith how proper was it for them to labour for Liberty for a just Liberty that men should not be trampled upon for their Consciences had not they laboured but lately under the weight of persecutions and was it fit for them to sit heavy upon others is it ingenuous to ask liberty and not to give it what greater Hypocrisie than for those who were Oppressed by the Bishops to become the greatest Oppressors themselves so soon as their yoke was removed I could wish that they who call for Liberty now also had not too much of that Spirit if the power were in their hands As for Prophane Persons Blasphemers such as preach Sedition the Contentious Railers Evil Speakers who seek by evil words to corrupt good manners persons of loose Conversations punishment from the Civil Magistrate ought to meet with them because if these pretend Conscience yet walking disordily and not according but contrary to the Gospel and even to natural light they are judged of all and their Sins being open makes them subjects of the Magistrates Sword who ought not to bear it in vain The Discipline of the Army was such that a man would not be suffered to remain there of whom we could take notice he was guilty of such Practices as these and therefore how happy would England have been and You and I if the Lord had led you on to have settled upon such good accounts as these are and to have discountenanced such practices as the other and left men in disputable things free to their own Consciences which was well provided for by the Government Liberty left to provide against what was apparently evil Judge you whether the contesting for things that were provided for by this Government hath been Profitable expence of time for the good of these Nations by means whereof you may see you have wholly elapsed your time and done just nothing I will say this to you in behalf of the long Parliament that had such an Expedient as this Government been proposed to them and that they could have seen the Cause of God thus provided for and had by Debates been enlightned in the grounds by which the Difficulties might have been cleered and the reason of the whole inforced the circumstances of Time and Persons with the Temper and Disposition of the People and Affairs both Abroad and at Home when it was undertaken well weighed as well as they were thought to love their Seats I think in my conscience that they would have proceeded in another manner than you have done and not have exposed things to those Difficulties and Hazards they now are at nor given occasion to leave the People so dissetled as now they are who I dare say in the soberest and most judicious part of them did expect not a Questioning but a doing things in persuance of the Government and if I be not mis informed very many of you came up with this Satisfaction having had time enough to weigh and consider the same And when I say such an Expedient as this Government is wherein I dare assert there is a just Liberty to the People of God and the Just Rights of the People in these Nations provided for I can put the issue thereof upon the Cleerest Reason whatsoever any go about to suggest to the Contrary But this not being the time and place of such an Averment for satisfaction sake herein enough is said in a Book entituled A True State of the Case of the Common-wealth c. published in Jan. 1653. And for my self I desire not to keep it an hour longer than I may preserve England in its Just Rights and may Protect the People of God in such a just Liberty of their Consciences as I have already mentioned And therefore if this Parliament have judged things to be otherwise than as I have stated them it had been huge Friendliness between persons that had such a Reciprocation and in so great Concernments to the publick for them to have convinced me in what particulars therein my errour lav of which I never yet had a word from you But if instead thereof your time has been spent in Setting up somewhat else upon another bottom than this stands that looks as if a laying grounds of a Quarrel had rather been designed than to give the People Settlement if it be thus it s well your Labours have not arrived to any maturity at all This Government called you hither the Constitution whereof being so limited A single Person and a Parliament and this was thought most agreeable to the General sense of the Nation having had experience enough by trial of other Conclusions judging this most likely avoid the extremes of Monarchy on the one hand and Democraty on the other and yet not to found Dominium in gratia And if so then certainly to make it more than a Noâ—ion it was requisite that it should be as it is in the Government which puts it upon a true and equal Ballance It has been already submitted to the Judicious honest People of this Nation whether the Ballance be not equal and what their Judgment is is Visible by Submission to it by acting upon it by restraining their Trustees from medling with it and it neither asks nor needs any better ratisication But when Trustees in Parliament shall by Experience find any evil in any parts of the Government referred by the Government it self to the Consideration of the Protector and Parliament of which time it self will be the best Discoverer how can it be reasonably imagined that a Person or Persons coming in by Election and standing under such Obligations and so limited and so necessitated by Oath to Govern for the Peoples good and to make their love under God the best under-propping and his best interest to him how can it I say be imagined that the present or succeding Protectors will refuse to agree to alter any such thing in the Government that may be found to be for the good of the People or to recede from any thing which he might be convinced casts the ballance too much to the single Person And although for the present the keeping up and having in His Power the Militia seems the most hard yet if it should be yielded up at such a time as this when there is as much need to keep this Cause by it which is most evident at this time impugned by at all the Enemies of it as there was to get it what would become of all or if it should not
are said to be committed in Parliament and ought not to be punished in this or any other Court except in Parliament The Kings Attorney moved the Court to over-rule the Plea though he did not demur to it but the Court would not and gave a day to joyn in Demurrer and to have the point argued The Attorney exhibited an information in the Star-Chamber against Mr. Long for that he contrary to his Oath when he was made Sheriff and was by his Oath to keep within his County yet he did come to Parliament and serve as a Member there and in the time of Parliament resided out of his County For this the Court sentenced him to pay Two thousand Marks to the King for a Fine to be imprisoned in the Tower and to make a submission In Hillary Term the Information in the King's Bench against Sir John Elliot and the rest touching the point of the Jurisdiction of the Court came to be argued All the Judges severally declared their Opinions That in this case the King's Bench hath jurisdiction of the Cause And the Defendants were ruled to plead further but they would not put in any other Plea Whereupon Judgment was given against them upon a Nihil dicit that they should be imprisoned and not delivered till they had given Security for their good behaviour and made a submission and acknowledgment of their Offences and they were also fined Anno 1630. Anno 1630 In Easter Term Sir Henry Martyn Dr. of Laws and Judge of the Admiralty made a great Complaint to the King against the Judges of the King's Bench for granting Prohibitions against that Court and all the Judges were before the King about it and they mannerly and stoutly justified their proceedings in those Cases to be according to Law and as their Oaths bound them Sir Henry Vane was sent to the Queen of Bohemia about a Marriage for her Son with the Emperor's Daughter and the Son to be brought up in the Court of the Emperor to which the Queen would by no means hearken The Venetians were set on to mediate a Peace between England and France which took effect and Sir Thomas Edmonds was sent to take the Ratification thereof by the King of France by his Oath and signing of it Car. 5 A Book of Sir Robert Dudley's making being of purpose to increase the King's Revenue and containing in it somewhat in prejudice of the proceedings as to the Parliament was dispersed by the Earls of Bedford and Clare Sir Robert Cotton Mr. Selden and Mr. St. John for which they were committed to prison but Sir David Fowlis discovered the Author and so the matter ended and the prisoners were released William Earl of Pembroke died suddenly as was predicted to him by an Astrologer Upon the 29th of May 1630 the Queen was brought to Bed of a Son Prince Charles to the exceeding joy of the Subjects and the same day a bright Star appeared shining at Noon-day in the East About Midsummer this year Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden landed in Germany with about 8000 Men and as soon as he came on shore he kneeled down upon the ground his Officers and Soldiers round about him and there gave thanks to God for his safe Arrival and prayed for his blessing upon that Action he prayed very pathetically in the presence of his Army and incouraged them by Texts out of holy Scripture himself being the Preacher The Prince Palatine sent his Plea to the Dyet at Leypsick and Sir Robert Amstrother was sent thither from our King to Negotiate the Palsgrave's Restitution but he received only a general Answer That at present the Affairs of the Empire were so pressing that they could not take into consideration the business of the Palatinate but that shortly it should be done and to the satisfaction of the King of Great Britain Dr. Leighton a Scotch-man for his Book Intituled Sions Plea dedicated to the last Parliament counselling them to kill all the Bishops by smiting them under the fifth Rib and railing against the Queen calling her a Canaanite and Idolatress had the Sentence of the Star-Chamber executed upon him he was stygmatized his Ears cut off and his Nose slit and imprisonment Sir Humphrey May Vice-chamberlain of his Majestie 's Houshold and one of his Privy Council died the 10th of June 1630. The Peace with Spain was concluded in November and the Articles solemnly signed and sworn to be observed upon a Latin Bible brought for that purpose by Bishop Laud. At this time the Face of War was over most parts of Christendom in Italy and France it was begun and in Spain also France fuller of fears and Germany full of the calamities of War and infested on all sides with potent Enemies Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden being entred into Germany carries on his Designs vigorously and successfully first he declares the Cause of his Invasion For succour and relief and assistance to the Protestant Princes and the Cause of Religion so much oppressed by the Emperor and the Popish Party The Emperour answers the Declaration and justifies his Proceedings It is certain that the King of Sweden had not the least ambition or thought of beginning a War in Germany wanting Strength and Treasure to carry on so great a Design and therefore for a long time would not hearken to any Motions or Proposals made to him about that matter until he was earnestly sollicited and pressed by the Protestant Princes of Germany to take their Cause and Oppression and the Cause of all the Protestants in Germany into his Compassion and Intreated for the Cause of God and of his People to assist them for their deliverance from the miserable and unjust oppressions and persecutions under which all the Protestant Party did then groan by the Emperor's violence and cruelty towards them And yet it was then after many denials and excuses and dissatisfaction in himself as to the lawfulness of his undertaking this action that at length he was prevailed with by their Importunities and fair Promises but more by the sadness of the condition of the poor Protestants in Germany and the danger to the Protestant Religion there and in his own and all other Countries designed to be rooted out to pity their Estate Paries cum proximus ardet and for defence of the Protestant Religion to confederate with the Protestant Princes of Germany He thereupon made a League with them and raised an Army though but a small one and landed happily as is before mentioned and some of the Princes of the League joyning with him they went on prosperously through the blessing of God going along with them The particular proceedings of this great King Generalissimo of the Protestant Army are set down in the Histories of that War therefore I shall not insert them here But shall only in the general say this that the relation of those Affairs by our later Chroniclers is so
Habits Chariots Musick and all other parts of the former Solemnity and in the same state and equipage as it was before presented This also gave great contentment to their Majesties and no less to the Citizens especially to those of the younger sort and of the female sex and it was to the great honour and no less charge of the Lord May or Freeman The persons imployed in this Masque were paid justly and liberally some of the Musick had one hundred pounds apiece so that the whole charge of the Musick came to about a thousand pounds The Clothes of the Horsemen and the Liveries of their Pages and Lacquies which were at their own particular charge were reckon'd one with another at a hundred pound a Suit at the least and one hundred of those Suits to amount to ten thousand pounds The charges of all the rest of the Masque and matters belonging to it were reckon'd at as much more and so the charge of the whole Masque which was born by the Societies and by the particular Members of it was accounted to be above one and twenty thousand pounds A little while after the Masque was performed the Committee order'd Sir John Finch Mr. Gerling Mr. Hyde and Whitelocke to attend the King and Queen in the name of the four Inns of Court to return their humble thanks for their Majesties gracious acceptance of the tender of their service in the late Masque They were first brought to the King who gave to all of them his hand to kiss then Sir John Finch in the name of the rest spake to the King to this effect Sir by the Command of your Majestie 's most affectionate and loyall Subjects the Readers and Gentlemen of the Four Inns of Court we are here to attend you with their most humble thanks for your great Favour to them in your gracious acceptance of the tender of their Service and Affections to your Majesty in the late Masque presented to you and for vouchsafing your Royal Presence at it The King with great affability and pleasingness answered him presently to this purpose Gentlemen pray assure those from whom you come that we are exceeding well pleased with that Testimony which they lately gave us of their great respect and affection to us which was very acceptable and performed with that Gallantry and in so excellent a manner that I cannot but give them thanks for it and shall be ready upon all occasions to manifest the good opinion I have of them and to do them and you in particular any favour From the King they were brought to the Queen and kissed her hand and Sir John Finch her Attorney having made the like Complement to her Majesty she answered quick and well pleased That she never saw any Masque more noble nor beter performed than this was which she took as a particular respect to her self as well as to the King her Husband and desired that her thanks might be returned to the Gentlemen for it This being reported to the Benchers of each Society they gave thanks to their respective Members that were of the Committee for the Honour they had done to the Society by the well ordering of that business of the Masque Thus these Dreams past and these Pompes vanished It will be now time to return to the publick story of the latter part of this year The Arch-bishop Laud procured a sharp sentence to be passed in the Star Chamber against Prynne that he should be imprisoned during his life fined 5000 l. expelled Lincolns-Inne Disbarred and Disabled to Practice Degraded of his Degree in the University be set on the Pillory and his Ears to be cut off and his Book to be burnt by the common Hangman which sentence was as severely Executed But before the fine was estreated the Archbishop and other high Commissioners by their Warrant caused Prynne's Books and Papers to be seised upon and brought away from his Lodging and had them perused and sifted to find matter against him of which Prynne complaining in the Star Chamber the Arch-bishop denyed any such Warrant During Prynnes Imprisonment Dr. Bastwick a Physician was brought into the High Commission Court for his Book called Elenchus Papismi Flagellum Episcoporum Latialium in Answer to one Short a Papist who maintained the Pope's Supremacy the Mass and Popery And Bastwick's Epistle to his Book declared that he intended nothing against our Bishops but against those of Rome Yet this Dr. was sentenced by the high Commissioners in a thousand pound Fine to be Excommunicated debarred his practice of Physick his Books to be burnt and he to be Imprisoned till he made a Recantation and this was for maintaining the King's Prerogative against Papacy as the Doctor pleaded But on the other part one who was a fierce Papist named Chowney wrote a Book in defence of the Popish Religion and of the Church of Rome averring it to be a true Church and the Book was dedicated to and Patronized by the Archbishop so far was Chowney from being punished and questioned for that Doctrine In the censure of Bastwick all the Bishops then present denied openly that they held their Jurisdiction as Bishops from the King for which perhaps they might have been censured themselves in H. 2. or E. 3. times But they affirmed That they had their Jurisdiction from God only which denial of the Supremacy of the King under God H. 8. would have taken ill and it may be would have confuted them by his Kingly Arguments and Regiâ manu but these Bishops publickly disavowed their dependance on the King And the Archbishop maintained the Book of Chowney and that the Romish Church was a true Church and erred not in Fundamentals and somewhat was noted to pass from him and other Bishops in defaming the holy Scriptures and Calvin was very much slighted and abused by them I cannot precisely aver all this though I heard most of it as it is here set down and heard the rest of it to this purpose from those who were present at the debating of these matters in the high Commission Court Anno 1634. Car. 9 Our Coasts were much infested by Pyrats even by Turks and Algiers men to the great prejudice of trade The Dutch men became almost Masters of the Sea in the Northern fishing Overtures were made concerning Herring fishing and Busses for our own Coasts and to prevent Strangers Some petty quarrels fell out between us and the Hollanders about those matters of fishing upon which Grotius did write his Book of Mare liberum but is clearly answered by that learned treatise of Selden's called Mare clausum The King finding the Controversie begun and that it must be maintained by force which his want of money could not doe He by the advice of his Attorney Noy and of the Lord Keeper Coventry who as far as his learning in those matters did extend and that was not far did approve and assist the project And by
His Majestie 's care and zeal to preserve his and the Kingdome 's honour in the dominion of the Sea by a powerfull Fleet. And you are to let them know how just it is for His Majesty to require Shipmoney for the common defence and with what alacrity and chearfulness they are bound in duty to contribute Some of the Judges put on this business in their charges at the Assises with great zeal and gravity to advance the King's pleasure but they did not convince many of the Legality of that business The Hollanders made a League with the French they were to Invade Flanders by Land and to infest Dunkirke and the Hollanders to doe it by Sea They prevailed at Diest and Tellemont but the Insolencies of the French and Dutch Souldiers caused the natives to beat both of their Armies out of the Country and the English Fleet perswaded powerfully the Hollanders to remove from before Dunkirke The Affairs in Germany were somewhat mitigated by the conclusion of the peace at Prague and the Protestants were reduced to their profession as it was setled in the year 1627. Some fiery spirits on both sides fomented by Cardinal Richelieu sought to undermine the peace and to reduce all again to a new Quarrel but the Emperor pursued the agreement confirmed the peace and forced many to an observance of it The Swedes were generally discontented with the peace The Elector of Saxony offered them a 100000 rize Dollars for a Reward but they refused it and held what they had gotten in Pomerland and elsewhere and what they had about Phelesbergh the Chancellor Oxenstierne put into the hands of the French A Ship loaden with many rich spoils of Germany and Goods of a very great value belonging to the Chancellor was cast away and the goods sunk in the Sea within a league of the Coast of Sweden In November this year arrived the Prince Elector in England to sollicite our King his Uncle for his assistance to the restauration of his Nephew to his dignity and Patrimony he was received here with all ceremonies and courtesies answerable to his quality and near alliance and soon after him his third Brother Prince Rupert arrived here also In December the Queen was brought to bed of a second daughter named Elizabeth to congratulate her Majestie 's safe delivery the Hollanders sent hither a solemn Ambassy and a noble present A huge peice of Amber Greece two fair China Basons almost Transparent a curious Clock and four rare peices of Tintinell and Tytian's painting Some supposed that they did it to Ingratiate the more with our King in regard his Fleet was so powerful at Sea and they saw him resolved to maintain his Right and Dominion there In March the Treasurers staffe was given by the King to Dr. William Juxton Bishop of London who was commended to His Majesty by the Arch-bishop Laud his old freind and predecessor in the Presidentship of St. John's Colledge in Oxford He was a Commoner in that Colledge and studied the Civil Law and therein took the degree of Batchellor and afterwards of Doctor of the Laws Yet with his Law he studyed likewise divinity took orders and was presented to the Parsonage of Somerton in Oxfordshire where he had a convenient livelyhood and there he sometimes resided and sometimes at St. John's Colledge He was much delighted with Hunting and kept a pack of good Hounds and had them so well ordered and hunted and chiefly by his own skill and direction that they exceeded all other Hounds in England for the pleasure and orderly hunting of them He was a person of great parts and temper and had as much command of himself as of his hounds he was full of ingenuity and meekness not apt to give offence to any and willing to doe good to all The Privy Council wrote Letters to every High Sheriff of England directing them for the taxing and levying of the Shipmoney and yet with great care and equality much beyond what was observed in following taxes But the guilding of this illegal Pill would not cause it to be swallowed down but many people especially of the knowing Gentry expressed great discontent at this new assessment and burthen as an Imposition against Law and the rights of the Subject The Plague was this year in London but by the mercy of God did not increase so much as was feared Anno 1635 The Earl of Berks whose fortune was lower than his mind betook himself to some new Projects whereof he became a Countenancer and Partner hoping to gain much by them to repair his Estate and had gotten a Patent from the King for the sole making of a new kind of Kiln for making of Malt and laboured to bring the same in use he was to have money of all those who set up this new Kiln This year by a Flood neer Glucstade in Holstein were drowned six thousand Persons and about fifty thousand Cattle And by the Plague there died in Leyden in Holland twenty thousand persons besides those that died in the rest of the Towns of that Countrey The Archbishop Laud made his Visitation and strictly enjoyned and expected a conformity to his Orders one of them which gave most distaste to many was That the Communion-table should be removed in every Church from the body of the Church or Chancel to the upper East-end of the Chancel and the side of the Table to be set against the Wall Altar-wise with a Rail or Ballaster about it Which was opposed by divers and the Bishop of Lincoln wrote a Book called the Holy Table shewing the Practice of the Primitive times and Arguments against this Innovation Anno 1636. Car. 12 The King's Navy of sixty Men of War under the Command of the Earl of Northumberland Admiral seized and sunk divers of the Dutch Busses in the Northern Seas and they fled to our King craving his leave by his Grant to Fish and Trade with the English which the King was ready to Indulge them Ferdinand the second Emperour aged and infirm summoned a Dyet at Ratisbone to be held the sixteenth of September when his Son Ferdinand the 3d. was Elected King of the Romans and was shortly after upon the death of his Father made Emperour Mr. John Hampden a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Buckinghamshire and of a great Estate and Parts denied the payment of Shipmoney as an illegal Tax He often advised in this great Business with Holborn Saint John Whitelocke and others of his friends and counsel Several other Gentlemen refused the payment of this Tax of Ship-money Whereupon the King was advised by the Lord chief Justice Finch and others to require the Opinion of his Judges which he did stating the case in a Letter to them After much sollicitation by the chief Justice Finch promising Preferment to some and highly threatning others whom he found doubting he got from them in Answer to the King's Letter and Case their
better securing those Counties for the Parliament The City freely agreed hereunto and resolved to send out another Brigade of horse and foot under Major General Brown to joyn with the Forces of these three Counties The Earl of Warwick relieved Lyme with Provisions and Ammunition which they greatly wanted and with some of his Seamen helped to keep the Line Prince Maurice stormed the Town but Captain Ceely the Governour and his Garrison with the Seamen made such a Defence that sixty of the Prince's men were slain two Captains and many of his Souldiers taken prisoners and but eight men lost of the Garrison in this storm The chief Commanders before Lyme were Prince Maurice the Lord Pawlet and Sir John Borlace with about 2500 horse and foot in all The next day but one they began again to storm the Town and came on with as much bravery and resolution as could be performed by English men against English-men and they were as gallantly received by the Garrison and 400 of the Prince's men were slain on the place and not above seven of the Garrison All this was certified to the Parliament by Letters from the Earl of Warwick to whom a Letter of thanks was sent from both Houses for his great Service in relieving this Town and they ordered 1000 l. per an to the Town out of the Lord Pawlet's Estate and full satisfaction to the Inhabitants for their losses and the Lord General was desired to send a party to relieve them It was much wondred at that this Town could so long hold out being of little strength more than by the courage of their men and situate low under a Hill which was of great advantage to the Besiegers and they were sometimes brought unto such streights that their Water was noisom with the bloud of those slain and they much wanted provision of Victuals and Ammunition which the Earl of Warwick supplyed He also certified the Parliament that he had taken two Pinnaces at Sea one bound for Bristoll valued at 18000 l. A Troup of the Earl of Dallensie's Regiment marched to the Walls of York killed thirty and took thirty four Prisoners sxity Horse and forty Oxen and Cows from the Garrison General Lesley and the Earl of Manchester intrenched on each side of York very near to the City and the Scots took and fortified a Windmill near the Town though the Garrison made 200 great shot at them The Parliament ordered the Lord General to pursue the King and Sir William Waller to march into the West which was contrary to the General 's liking and it was thought strange that the Committee of both Kingdoms would at that distance take upon them to give particular Orders for the Services and course of their Armies March and not rather to leave it to the chief Commanders that were upon the place and who upon every motion of the Enemy might see cause to alter their Counsels This increased the jealousies and peeks between the General and Waller both gallant men but the General thought himself undervalued and Waller was high enough Nor did there want Pick-thanks to blow these coals of jealousie and this proved unhappy to the Parliament Affairs as will appear afterwards Mr. Hungerford a Member of the House of Commons was committed for going to the Anti-Parliament at Oxford Colonel Massey took in Tewksbury and in it Lieutenant Colonel Mynne and many Prisoners Powder and Ammunition and slew several inferiour Officers A Battery was made at the Windmill-hill at York five pieces of Ordnance planted which shot into the Town and did much hurt the Lord Eglinton with four thousand Scots entred some of the Gates and made a passage into the Mannor-house A strong party sallying out of the City were beaten back with loss General Leuen with his Regiment took a Fort from the Enemy and in it 120 prisoners the Garrison burnt up much of the Suburbs The Archbishop came again to his Tryal and the Matters against him were Touching his Ceremonial and Popish Consecrating of Churches and concerning the Book of allowing Recreation on Sundays The Earl of Manchester having made a Mine forced the great Fort at York where all the Defenders were slain and taken and but ten or twelve Scots lost The Earl of Newcastle sent to General Leuen to know the Cause of his drawing thither Leuen answers That he wondred Newcastle should be ignorant thereof that his intent was to bring that City to the obedience of the King and Parliament and therefore for avoiding further effusion of blood he summoned him once more to render the Town The Earl of Newcastle Sir Thomas Widderington and other chief Commanders with a strong party sallyed out of the Town endeavouring to escape but were driven back into the City from whence they shooting at a Tent where Leuen was took off part of the Tent but did no other hurt Sudley Castle in Glocestershire was yielded to Sir William Waller at mercy and taken in it nine Captains twenty two inferiour Officers and all the common Souldiers of whom a hundred and fifty took the Covenant and listed themselves for the Parliament they took here likewise 4000 l. worth of Cloth The same day Colonel Purefoy with the Warwick Forces took Compton-house and in it 5500 l. in money and five or six Pots of money more found in a Pond all their Arms four hundred Sheep about a hundred head of Cattel and great store of Plunder The King's Forces as they hasted to Worcester broke down the Bridges after them to hinder the pursuit of them and many of them crouding to get over Pursow Bridge the Planks left for their passage brake and about sixty of them were drowned The Commons again desired the Lords Concurrence to the Ordinance for secluding the Members who had deserted the Parliament and assisted their Enemies but the Lords were not yet satisfied therein A Party continued before Greenland-house An Ordinance passed for the relief of the maimed and sick Souldiers and for the Wives and Children of those who were slain in the Service of the Parliament The King sent from Bewdely a party of three thousand Horse to relieve Dudley Castle besieged by the Earl of Denbeigh who coming suddenly upon the Earl he sent out a Forlorn commanded by Colonel Mitton who charged the Enemy so home and was so far engaged that the Earl's friends advised him to draw off as fast as he could to save himself and the rest of his Company the Forlorn being given over for lost and the King's Forces far in number exceeding the Forces of the Earl But the Earl would not so leave his Friends ingaged but in person led on his Party and charged the Enemy so hotly that they retreated in disorder and the Earl rescued and brought off his Forlorn and the Enemy lost about a hundred of their men besides many Officers and common Souldiers taken Prisoners by the Earl and lost but
and an Order for the loan of thirty thousand pound for the service of the Navy Reference upon Letters from the General about Provision for maimed Soldiers Order for auditing the Arrears of Major General Brown's Brigade Upon Letters to the Committee at Derby House That one Mr. Wake a Minister pretended to have a gathered Church in Dorset-shire whereof he was Pastor and read to them the Common Prayer and used the Order and Ceremonies in that Book whereof notice being given to the Committee of Dorset they sent and apprehended Mr. Wake but he was rescued by the Multitude and the Officers of the Committee were sorely beaten The Committee of Derby House sent to the General to take care to suppress this Riot and to prevent the like for the future and he sent order for that purpose to Col. Scroop who was Quartered with his Regiment in that Countrey 27. Letters from Mr. Lort that the Foot of Major General Laugherne being without any Commander but an Ensign whom they Governed agreed to assist Col. Poyer against the Parliaments Forces and sent to him into Pembroke Castle for that purpose and seised upon the Parliaments Commissioners who were then disbanding Major Gen. Laughernes Forces whom they much abused That they put the Commissioners and many of themselves into Vessels to bring them to Pembroke Castle which took not effect but many of the Soldiers got into the Castle and Sallying out upon the Parliaments Forces before it tyred out with duty killed wounded and took many of them and and some Pieces of Ordnance Letters that Col. Poyer dispatched a Frigot into France and took a Vessel of the Parliaments Order for the General to send a considerable Party against Poyer which was done Letters from the Commissioners in Scotland that the Parliament there sat close yet some of the Lords had leisure for Duells That the Committee of danger there are most of them for War That many English come thither and that the Horses in Northumberland are stolen or bought and carried thither great fears of the well a ffected and joyes of the Papists and Malignants Order for the House to be called by a day and the Sheriffs to summon the Members in the several Counties to attend The Sheriff of Bucks dispensed with from taking the usual Oath and a reference to a Committee to consider of the Oath Mr Fawke made General Receiver of York A Remonstrance to the House from the Officers in Ireland under the Lord Inchequin asserting their Fidelities and mentioning their Successes through all the difficulties and wants wherewith they have incountred That their Enemies have obstructed their supplies whereof they make great complaint and that the Votes for their supply and indemnity were not performed but jealousies raised against them and their Honours questioned That they are involved in so great exigencies that they cannot subsist without speedy supplies but must either make their terms with the publick Enemies or expect Ships to be sent to bring them over into England Letters from Hereford of Major Hoptons Regiment being disbanded who were very affectionate one to another and to the Major and parted with tears 28. Ordinance sent up to the Lords for setling the business of the Admiralty Order for three Judges of the Admiralty and for an Ordinance for it and for a Salary for them Order for five hundred pound to buy Books for Cambridge University Letters from the Lord Inchequin full of discontent for want of supplys referred to a Committee Order for a Member of the House to go into Pembroke shire to settle the Peace of that County and to prepare Instructions for him Order for a Letter to the Committee of Somerset to collect the Assessments there 29. The Monthly Fast day 30. Petition of the Kings Servants who had adhered to the Parliament referred to the Committee of the Revenue for an allowance for them Ordinance sent up to the Lords for ten thousand pound for the General in lieu of a thousand pound per. An. Debate of the business of Ireland An Officer that came from thence made a relation to the House of the Lord Inchequins being suspected to fall off from the Parliament the House ordered Collonel Jephson Mr. Salweys and Mr. Swinfin to go Commissioners to him and referred to the Committee at Derby House to prepare instructions for them Vote that the Forces in Munster should have an Ordinance of Indemnity and security for their Arrears Commissioners appointed for the three other Provinces in Ireland and Money to be sent over with them 31. An Information against a Member of the House for words spoken by him a year before he was ordered to attend to answer it Debate of the business of the Church An Ordinance debated and Committed for punishment of Incest Adultery Fornication and incestuous Marriages Another for the better observation of the Lords day Fast dayes Thanksgiving dayes and other dayes set a part by the Parliament was Committed Letters from Pembroke of a tumultuous rising of the people referred to the General to take speedy and effectual course therein April 1648. April 1. The Ordinance for the Admiralty after a long debate passed and ordered to be sent up to the Lords Additional and private Instructions passed for the Commissioners gone to Munster to the Lord Inchequin whose Officers had taken an Oath of Secrecy and those that refused it were cashiered The House of Peers sate not the General removed his head Quarters to St Edmonds-Bury 3. Letters from Col. Jones of the great necessities of the Soldiers at Dublyn and desiring supplys Order for a thousand pound to be bestowed on Col. Jones as their favour for his great Services and to acquaint him with what Provisions and Supplyes were made for the Forces in Ireland and particularly for those under his Command A Petition of many reduced Officers for their Arrears to have them out of such discoveries as they should make and in respect of their great necessities it was referred to a Committee to make them allowances out of their discoveries Order to prevent the like for the future and the clamors at the door of the House for Arrears and an Ordinance for some Moneys for indigent persons Letters from the Commissioners in Scotland that they had made several Addresses to the Parliament of Scotland concerning Captain Wogan but could obtain no answer from them The House ordered a Letter of thanks to the Commissioners and desired them to proceed in their endeavours about that business A Woman executed at York for crucifying her Mother and Sacrificing a Calf a Cock c. as a burnt Sacrifice and her Husband was hanged for having a hand in that Fact Seven Ipswitch Ships were split upon the Bar of Tinmouth and seven more driven upon the Sands Letters from Edenburgh of a new Army raising there for maintenance of the Covenant and Church-Government The General Assembly in Scotland desired
Parliament being in great danger by reason of the Malignant party flocking up to London upon some design at the breach of the Treaty and most of them armed with Daggers and Pistols in their Pockets A Committee appointed to confer with the Common Council of London concerning the Security of the Parliament and Kingdom and to report with speed 5. The Streets were full of Bonefires this being the Gunpowder Treason day 6. The Commons concurred with the Lords that the number of the persons to be excepted from pardon should be seven and Voted three of those seven to be the Lord Digby the Earl of Newcastle and Sir Marmaduke Langdale Letters from the Gentlemen of the four Northern Counties that upon Conference with Lieutenant General Cromwel it was held necessary to have twelve hundred Foot in Berwick and six hundred Foot in Carlisle and two Regiments of Horse six hundred in a Regiment to suppress any insurrection and the Moss-troupers They desire in regard of the great sufferings of those Counties that these Forces may be maintained at the general charge of the Kingdom these being frontier Garrisons and those Counties will be willing to pay their proportions With these Letters came a Petition Complaining of the want of bread in those Counties that many Gentlemen of quality and their Families had no other drink but Water of imprisoning their persons dispeopling their Towns destroying their Corn and Goods killing their Neighbors and Country-men driving away their Cattle compelling all betwixt the Age of sixty and sixteen to bear Arms against the Parliament Of bringing in to this Kingdom a foreign Nation and delivering into the Scots hands the two considerable places of Berwick and Carlisle that many of the actors in that horrid design are returned to their homes to plot new Treasons They press for justice against those Delinquents and a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to be sent down for trial of them The House past no Vote upon this letter and Petition Letters from St. Albans of a day appointed for the meeting of the Officers of the Army and that the cry of free-quarter was so great in the ears of the Souldiers that it was to be feared it would occasion some distemper among them By this Petition and by these Letters you may take notice of the miserable effects of Civil War and of the condition of even the victors to be continued full of fears and dangers to themselves A Complaint came against the ill management of the Siege before Pontefract by Sir Henry Cholmely and Lieutenant General Cromwel was come thither 7. Orders touching the winter guard of Ships Vote That Sir Richard Greenvile Judge Jenkins Sir Francis Doddington Sir John Winter should be the rest of the seven Persons excepted from Pardon Letters that Major General Lambert with three Regiments of Horse was still in Scotland and that the well affected there could not act securely without them that they quarter upon the contrary Party Letters from the Hague that the Prince was there sick of the small Pox and that his Seamen were much discontented that the Lord Willoughby and Sir William Batten had left him 8. Upon Letters from Colonel Welden Governor of Plymouth Orders for pay for that Garrison The consideration of the Garrisons of Berwick and Carlisle referred to the Committee of Derby-House and orders for Money for disbanding supernumerary Forces Vote that no more than seven Persons should be excepted from Pardon An Ordinance past both Houses for pay of their Guards Several Lords and Commons came from the Treaty the Earl of Northumberland M r Pierrepoint and M r Holles staid behind divers also of the Kings people came away His Majesty made a further condescention touching the Church but did stick at the word Bishop yet was content he should be in the condition only of a Primer Presbyter and was not willing Bishops lands should be sold Letters from Ireland of the desperate condition of that Kingdom and the distress of Dublin by the Lord Ormonds joyning with the Rebels Letters from St. Albans that the general Council of the Army met and the Officers expressed a great sence of the odium cast upon the Army as they suspect by design to hinder their pay that they might be forced to take free-quarter 9. Upon jealousie of a design to surprise the Tower order that the Committee of the Tower do advise with the Lord Mayor concerning the security thereof and have power to remove and appoint what Guards they please there Order for an Ordinance to authorize the several Committees in the Counties to receive security of all the Delinquents in the respective Counties who have not compounded not to go above five Miles from their dwellings not to act any thing prejudicial to the Parliament and such as shall refuse this to be secured by the Committees The Commissioners returned from the Isle of Wight made report to the House of all their transactions in the Treaty and of the Kings last Concessions touching the Church That he doth not intend to make any more new Bishops during three years nor that after the three years the power of Ordination should be practised in the old manner but with consent that Bishops shall not receive any into Holy Orders without the consent of a limited number of Presbyters to be chosen in such manner as shall be agreed by his Majesty and the two Houses That his Majesty purposed after the agreement and within the three years to have a consultation with the Assembly of Divines twenty being added of his Majesties nomination for the settlement of the Church Government That his Majesty will not insist upon any provision for continuance of the Book of Common Prayer in his Majesties Chappel for himself and his Houshold but declares that he intends to use some other set form of Divine Service That he consents to Acts to be passed for a further course and more strict to prevent the saying and hearing of Mass in the Court or elsewhere That in what he hath not consented he is not really satisfied in conscience and hopes his two Houses will not put further pressures of so tender a nature upon him The Commissioners had the thanks of the House for their good service in the Treaty and a day set to debate upon his Majesties final answer Orders for relief of the maimed Souldiers and for disbanding of Supernumerary Forces 10. Ordinance for repaying mony advanced for the Treaty Order for mony for payment of the Horse-guards of the Parliament Vote that the Lords Goring Capel Loughborough the Earl of Holland Major General Laugherne and Sir John Owen shall be banished out of the Kingdom 11. Vote that his Majesties answer to the discipline of the Church and as to the continuing of Bishops is unsatisfactory The like concerning his laying aside the Common Frayer for himself and his own family The like concerning his mentioning to
That Colonel Brownbushell be tryed for his life That the Prince Duke of York and divers Lords of the Kings party be banished The Confederates in Ireland sent to the Prince to come thither that they would proclaim him King of Ireland and joyn with him against England 15. The House sate not The Council of State nominated Lord General Cromwel to be General for Ireland M r Munday an Irish Rebel was shot to death by sentence of the Council of War and James Wilson to ride the Wooden Horse with a Musket at each Leg and to run the Gantelope at Lancaster Articles of Peace between the King of France and the Parisians were agreed upon At the Council of State they had great businesses and long sitting 16. Letters from the Hague that their Ambassadour lately returned from England reported the many civilities and honour he had received in England from the Parliament and Army Whitclock brought in the Draught of a Declaration touching the proceedings of Parliament in the late transactions Upon his report of the Declartion it was moved to pass it presently without any Commitment but he moved it might be committed to amend some faults in it and upon the commitment they made it much sharper than he had drawn it and added divers Clauses which he thought matters fit to be omitted After this it was much pressed to set a time for dissolving this Parliament most of the House disliked to set a time as dangerous but agreed that when the business of the Kingdom would permit that then it should be dissolved 17. Order for a publick fast The Declaration passed touching the transactions of Parliament and Ordered to be Printed in English Latin French and Dutch An Act reciting Charls Stuart to have been justly condemned and put to death for many Treasons Murders and other hainous Offences by him committed And that it hath been found by experience the Office of a King in this Nation and Ireland and to have the power thereof in any single Person is unnecessary Burthensom and Dangerous to the Liberty safety and publick Interest of the People and that for the most part use has been made of the Regal Power and Prerogative to Oppress and Impoverish and Enslave the Subject and that usually and naturally any one Person in such power makes it his interest to incroach upon the just Freedom and to promote the setting up of their own lust Therefore the Office of a King in this Nation henceforth not to reside or be exercised by any one single Person And whereas by the abolition of the Kingly Office a most happy way is made for this Nation if God see good to return to its Just and Ancient right of being governed by its own Representatives or National Meetings in Council from time to time chosen and intrusted for that purpose by the People They resolve and declare that they will put a period to the sitting of this present Parliament and dissolve the same so soon as may possibly stand with the safety of the People that has entrusted them and with what is absolutly necessary for the preserving and upholding the Government now setled in the way of a Commonwealth And that they will carefully provide for the certain Chusing Meeting and Sitting of the next future Representatives with such other circumstances of Freedom in Choice and equality in distribution of Members to be elected thereunto as shall most conduce to the lasting freedom and good of this Common-wealth Votes touching Compositions of Delinquents Order for every Member to meet by nine in the Morning upon forfeiture of twelve pence for every default Debate of making Elections of Parliament men more equal and not to be ingrossed in some few Corporations 19. A Petition from the well affected of Leicestershire 1. That the Militia may be in good hands 2. That the Army may be provided for and all Delinquents Estates to go for that end and Free-quarter be taken off 3. That the profits of great Offices may be imployed for the publick 4. That the Laws may be according to those God gave his people and plain and short in the English Tongue and Hand 5. That Tythes may be taken away and a more equal provision for the Ministry 6. That Officers of Treasure may account 7. That all may injoy their freedoms to worship God according to his word without coercive courses to the contrary 8. For relief for Ireland 9. For provision for the poor and to set them to work as they do in Holland The petition was commended and the Petitioners had the thanks of the House Captain Bray presented Books to the Members of the House entituled An Appeal against the the Lord Fairfax General containing matter of Charge against him to have him outed of his command in the Army Which being read Captain Bray was called in and asked if he would own the Book which he did and the House Voted the Book to be Scandalous as to the General and Council of War and tending to stir up sedition in the People and mutiny in the Army and the Captain was committed Prisoner to Windsor Castle Upon information that the Turkish Alcoran was printing in English Ordered to suppress it The Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations repealed and a Committee named to consider of a way for Appeals upon sequestrations Votes touching Compositions and some excepted Persons Order for Justices of the Peace to meet Monthly and make provision for the poor and to set them to work and to find out ingrossers of Corn and Coal An Act passed that the Commons of England assembled in Parliament finding by too long experience the House of Lords to be useless and dangerous to the people of England to be continued Ordain from henceforth the House of Lords in Parliament to be wholly abolished and taken away nevertheless they nor their Posterity to be excluded from the publick Councils of the Nation but to have their free Vote in Parliament as other members when duly Elected In the House business went on slowly as heretofore and not without great difference in opinion and some Animosities the most mischievous of all other things to their interest 20. The House sate not The Council of State had consideration of the business of the Navy and several Merchants attended in it The Lady Carlisle was examined about the last Summers insurrection and confined by the Council They consider also the letter from the Parliament of Scotland upon staying of their Commissioners here Which they alledge to be contrary to the Covenant League and Vnion between both Nations in breach of the Treaties and contrary to the Publick Faith and Law of Nations by which the freedom of Ambassadors and Commissioners is Sacred and Inviolable not only betwixt Christians but even among Heathen Kingdoms and States they desire their Commissioners may be freed from all restraint Letters from Lancaster that the
Town six Miles below where there is a strong Fort that secures the River The Dragoons fell presently upon the Storm and in a short time set fire on the Gate whereupon the Enemy within called out for Quarter and upon assurance given by the Lord Lieutenant that they should have Quarter for their Lives and their wearing Apparel they surrendred the Fort to him where was six pieces of Ordinance and the Town was of great Advantage to the Parliament The Parliament left in Carrick Collonel Reynolds with his Regiment of Horse a Troop of Dragoons and two Foot Companies The next day after they marched out of it Ormond whom they supposed inclined towards Cromwel marched towards Carrick and Besieged it The Kings Forces made themselves sure of carrying the Town and therefore drew a Party of Horse and Foot over the Water to prevent the Parliaments escape that way The Vlster Forces undertook the storm they came on very resolutely and made desperate Assaults for the space of four Hours they set fire to all the Gates and in one place undermined the Wall attempting to blow it up with a Barrel of Powder But through the Mercy and Strength of God Collonel Reynolds with the rest maintained the Town very gallantly and beat off the Enemy with the Loss of about 4 or 500 Men and wounded very many he loosing not above four of his Men all the while God hath prospered Collonel Reynolds very much he goes out almost upon every Party and behaves himself with much gallantry and Resolution The Parliaments Dragoons have done them great Service About a Mile from Carrick is a little Castle upon the River where the Parliament put six or seven Dragoons to keep it Inchequin Summons them by his Trumpet none of them could read the Summons but perceived by the Trumpet what it was and though they could not write yet without complement and in plain phrase they returned no other answer but this to the Trumpet Bid Inchequin go about his Business and be hanged for he had nothing to do with them And thus though they could not return an Answer in writing they did in Resolution The Parliaments Forces are now before Waterford and make Preparations for a Storm when their great Guns with other necessaries shall be dispatched to them Ruisile and Bandon Bridge are theirs The L. Broghil and C. Fair since their Arrival in Munster have gained many a Horse and Foot unto them The Lieutenant General and Officers received an Order of Parliament for stating the Accounts and giving Debenters to such reduced Souldiers as should ingage for Ireland In Prosecution of that Order of Parliament and according to the further Direction of the Councel of State the General sent his Orders and Instructions for the reducing of Troops to the number of 60 and concerning such so reduced as shall ingage for Ireland and such as refuse to go for Ireland to be dismissed the rest to be conducted into Ireland for Recruits for the Forces there and care taken for their present Pay and for their Accounts to be Stated and Debenters given them to purchase Kings Lands 13 Letters from Berwick That every Officer and Souldier of that Garrison except two only signed the Ingagement That Wheat there was at 10 s. a Bushel Corn and other Provisions desired From Carlile of the want of Corn That the Garrison unanimously subscribed the Ingagement That they give out in Scotland that Cromwel was routed in Ireland and with four broken Troops escaped to Dublin which much rejoyced them at Edenburgh That they expect the return of the Lord Libberton from Jersy From New-Castle of the unanimous Subscription of the Ingagement by that Garrison That many Witches were apprehended thereabout of late that the Witchtryer taking a Pin and thrusting it into the Skin in many parts of their Bodies they were insensible of it which is one Circumstance of Proof against them From Scarborough of the Garrisons free subscribing of the Ingagement That they see our Enemies at Sea chase our Ships desire Care of the Winter Guard From Hull That the Regiments both Officers and Souldiers signed the Ingagement not one refusing 14 Order for Ships to convoy and transport the Recruits for Ireland An Account for Leverpool of about 2000 Souldiers shipped from thence to Ireland From Weymouth That C. Popham was there with Ships ready to transport C. Coxes Men for Guernsey and the men also ready Order of Parliament for a thanksgiving throughout the City for the good Successes in Ireland 15 A private Souldier sentenced to be shot to death for killing a man In the Road at Broadway Hills many were robbed and murdered A Naylor found dead with seven or eight Wounds with 50 s. in his hand and his Horse loose by him Directions given to several Regiments of Horse to quarter in such places as are most convenient to scoure the High-wayes of Thieves and Robbers Letters from Dover That the Garrison freely subscribed the Ingagement That the King of France and those of Burdeaux were upon Agreement That the States of Holland intended to disband 5000 Horse and Foot and many of the Commanders purposed to come into England hoping for entertainment 17 The G. Councel of the Army after a long Debate about settling the business for the Sale of the Kings Lands referred it to a Committee to consult with the Committee of Parliament for Obstructions in the Sale of the Kings Lands c. Referred to some Officers to consider of a Course for pay for Captain Harrisons Company of Lancashire men who marched with Cromwel into Scotland One Vaughan a Minister once a Cavaleer then turned a Zealot then turned against the Commonwealth and preached that they were guilty of Perjury c. Letters that the Souldiers quartering about Tossiter and riding abroad in the Night had frighted away the Thieves from Broadway Hills and those Parts to the great contentment of the Countrey 18 The Committee of Officers had a long Debate about making the way practicable of buying the Kings Lands c. appointed for the Armies Security Mr. Penruddock an Agent for Prince Charles was taken and committed close Prisoner to the Tower Letters from York That there was a Rendezvous of C. Lilburns Party that are marching for Ireland about 100 old Blades stout men and well horsed ready for the Service An Account from Chester of Souldiers Shipped from thence to Ireland The Port at Coventry intercepted a Pacquet of scandalous Books intituled The Character of K. Cromwell The Woodstock Skuffle c. Letters that Montross having sollicited the King of Denmark and the Duke of Holstein for 6000 Men to be levyed in their Dominions for Prince Charles and for a place of Rendezvous and-Free Quarter in Holstein and for Shipping and Money to transport them was put off by them without obtaining any of his Requests to them That from thence he went to Stock-Holm to Sollicite the Court of Sweden for their Assistance One Hammond a
other Provisoes Referred to the Committee of Goldsmiths Hall to take into consideration the Business concerning the Souldiery and Ministers in Lancashire that such satisfaction may be given them as may tend to the Service of the Commonwealth and to take into consideration the Troupe of Horse in Oxfordshire and to pay it out of the Sequestrations in Oxfordshire until further order from the House or Councel of State 26 Ordered that the Lord Commissioners of the great Seal do take care that Writs be issued out and sent down into every County to the several Sheriffs to proclaim the Act touching the Ingagement This Course of proclaiming new Acts of Parliament was very antient and constantly used especially in elder times as appears by the Records but of late disused It was thought fit to have it revived again that the People might be informed what Acts were passed which they were not so fully by the Printing as by proclaiming of them at their Markets Orders touching the Composition of Delinquents Votes for taking off the additional Exercise upon most of the Commodities mentioned in the last Act touching the Excise Letters from Ireland of C. Hewsons taking in some Forts near Dublin 28 Letters that the Scots had no Answer from Sir George Windram Laird of Libberton but that the King would be satisfyed from him whether his Subjects of Scotland would ingage to Establish him in England as King That he is not yet removed from Jersy That divers Souldiers came from Ireland into Orkney Letters That the States Provincial of Holland have resolved to send an Agent into England for their better Correspondence with the Parliament 29 Letters from Ireland of taking the Fort upon the Bogg of Allan of a Dutch Ship of 300 Tun cast away upon that Coast that the Lord Lieutenant had sent to besiege Eniscorsie Castle belonging to Mr. Wallop a Member of the House which the Enemy had lately surprised That the Lord Lieutenant visited all the English Garrisons in Munster and gave Orders to them That Inchequin was in Kerrcy That 16 of the Enemies Horse came from Duncannon to the Lord Lieutenant 30 Letters from Holly-Head that a Vessel bound for London Derry with Coals Cloaths and other Merchants Goods was taken by a Scots Man of War the Mariners and sixteen Passengers put on Shore the Owner and Master carryed away Prisoners That the Gentlemen and Commonalty of Ireland do generally submit to the Lord Lieutenants Orders From York That a Minister lately informed that there would be shortly a Massacre of the well affected in the Nation From Shrewsbury That many Cavaliers wear Ribbands with Motto's God prosper That the Ministers incourage them and Preach against the present Government They report an Agreement between the King of Scots and his People of that Kingdom upon the terms proposed at the Isle Wight and that the Presbyterians of England will joyn From Plymouth That a Vessel of Dartmouth was by a storm forced into the Mounts Bay and wracked and all lost save one Person Returns of Subscriptions to the Ingagement 31 The Town of Pool having warned a general Sessions to be held not one Justice came to joyn with them The Act giving 10 l. to him that shall apprehend a Fellon caused the Countrymen to apprehend many of the Thieves and Robbers in all places and the Mony was duely paid to them February 1649. Feb. 1. Divers People took away by violence from the Owners Wheat and other Corn carrying to Market to Basing-Stoak and beat the Carters and some of them being imprisoned for it the rest brake the Prison and let out them and other Malefactors Letters from Rome That there an Agent from England and the English Priests seem very confident that within few Years their Religion would be Established in England 2 At a Court Marshal in C. Prides Regiment a Souldier was sentenced to run the Gantlope and afterwards to be cashiered for threatning to cut his fellow Souldiers throats in case King Charles the Second came in and for swearing and drunkenness Another had the like sentence having been found to have been in Arms against the Parliament and then came in to them and at his disbanding gave out threatning words against the Officers The Parliament Voted that a Book written by one Coppes intituled a fiery flying Roll c. contained many horrid Blasphemies and damnable and detestable Opinions and that the Book and all Copies of it that can be found shall be burnt by the hands of the Hangman A Petition from Wiltshire for Propagation of the Gospel c. approved by the House and in order thereto they appointed every Fryday to consider al wayes for the better advancing the Gospel of Christ An Act committed for the better propagating of the Gospel in Wales The Parliament ordered touching Negotiations with Forraign Princes and States That the Stile and Title to be used by this Parliament in all Negotiations shall be Parliamentum Rei-publicae Anglicae And the Style when any address shall be made to them The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England And no other Title to be used Order for an Act to be brought in for the Punishment of insolent Profanations of the Sabbath and Adultery The Parliament upon the hearing Sir Jacob Garrets Business sentenced three of his false Accusers to stand in the Pillory Thus they took upon them and exercised all manner of Jurisdiction and sentenced Persons Secundum Arbitrium 4 Letters that Jermin and other Lords and Courtiers are hastning from Paris to Breda hearing that the Scots are sending Money to defray the charges of their King and Court there That the Scots are busy in purging their Army but are startied at the news of the Parliament sending for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland That they report the ground thereof to be That he is routed in Ireland and That the Parliament of England fear new Troubles Yet the Scots sent an Express into Ireland to know the certainty 5 Letters of the Losses by Pirates about Scarborough From Weymouth That one Mr. Thomas May was secured by the Governour there and to be sent up in Custody to London for raysing false Rumors concerning the Parliament and the General From Portsmouth That G. Deane came thither with the Phenix and informed of several Vessels with Recruits for Ireland cast away An Act passed for a day of publick Humiliation throughout England and Wales to seek God for a Blessing upon the Proceedings of Parliament and their Armies in England and Ireland Debate about an Act for a publick Register to inroll all Deeds and to find Incumbrances upon all Estates and Lands An Additional Act passed for removing of Obstructions in the sale of the late Kings Lands c. A Petition from Westminster for settling the civil Government there referred to the Committee for Corporations Debate of an Act for regulating and erecting a Corporation in Norfolk concerning the Worsted-Weavers and Yarn-Men
Ormond had given a Commission to C. Robbinson to Garrison the Isle of Barsey they sent thither Ensign Aspinal with 30 Men who three dayes after his landing there seized upon Collonel Gerrard Mr. Conwey and 6 Gentlemen more who landed there to surprize the Island took their Boat and sent them Prisoners to Carnarvan and the Pyrate fled away who had set them on shore and was an Irish Man 12 An Act passed for redress of delayes and Mischiefs arising by Writs of Error in several Cases Amendments reported to the Act for relief of Creditors and recommitted An Act passed for settling the Freefarm Rents heretofore paiable to the Crown Debate about a Book lately printed and Voted That the Book asserting the Observations of the Jewish Sabboth and condemning the Observation of the Lords Day as the Christian Sabboth is erroneous Scandalous and prophane contrary to the Practice of the Apostles and of all the Christian Churches Orders that all the printed Copies of the Book be brought in and burnt and referred to the Comittee of plundred Ministers to take Care for the apprehension and imprisonment of the Authors and for punishment of the Printer and publisher of it Order to send over 6 able Ministers to preach in Dublin and they to have 200 l. per annum a piece out of Bishops and Deanes and Chapters Lands in Ireland And in the mean time the Lord Lieutenant to take care that it be paid out of the publick Revenue and if any of those Ministers die in that Service in Ireland that the Parliament will make competent Provision for their Wives and Children A Bill committed for preventing and redress of many injuries done to the Merchants of this Commonwealth by Ships of the French and other Nations under pretence of visiting them and for recalling and inhibiting the Mariners and Seamen of this Nation for serving other Princes and States An Act for the Indemnity of Tenants well affected to the State An Act passed for the better packing of Butter and redress of abuses therein 13 Letters from Chester That Oneales Army was in great want about Cavan That as soon as Supplyes should come Sir Charles Coot intended to take the Field That the Plague raged much at Kilkenny That Inchequin appeared in a Body about Kilmallock and the Lord Lieutenant sent a Party to look upon him From Exeter of the Commissioners proceedings in settling the Militia there From Harwich That Captain Goose of the hart Frigot and all his Officers being on Shore 28 of the Mariners of the Ship who agreed together to betray her to the Prince and to carry her to Dunkirk took their Opportunity when the rest of their fellow Seamen were under Hatches and kept them there Those under hatches were 40 Men who would not joyn in this Treachery and being now shut in there by the rest they hoised sail to carry the Ship to Dunkirk But being off at Sea these 28 fell out among themselves and 17 of them took the Boat to put out to Sea and were drowned The other 11 were not able to carry on the Ship and seeing themselves pursued put back into Harwich where they were apprehended and committed to Prison 14 The Trustees sor sale of the Freefarm Rents published their Intention to begin the sale of them on a day set by them One Boutholmey a Quartermaster was tryed by a Councel of War for Blasphemy and sensenced to have his Tongue bored through with a hot Iron his Sword broken over his head and to be cashiered the Army Letters from Ireland of more Castles taken in and that the Lord Lieutenant was wholly become Master of the County of Tipperary and was upon his march into the County of Lymerick where he had Intelligence that the Enemy was imbodyed that so he might prevent their joyning together That the Sickness was very hot at Lymerick Kilkenny and other places From Pool of Tumults about the Excise especially at Shafton where they rescued Prisoners and took away from the Officers Goods distreyned for the Excise but they were quieted by a small party of Souldiers sent to them 15 Letters that G. Preston was come into Waterford with 1500 Men and that the Lord Lieutenant had besieged Kilkenny From Leverpool of Tumults about the Excise but quieted From Scotland That the Commissioners were upon going to the King and that Sir James Smith had advanced 2000 l. upon the business and was one of the Commissioners for the Treaty at Breda 16 From Coventry of the preaching of one Salmon and of his wicked Swearing and uncleanness which he justifyed and others of his way That it was God which did Swear in them and that it was their Liberty to keep company with Women for their Lust That one Wyke another of his Crew kissed a Souldier three times and said I breath the Spirit of God into thee and many the like abominable Blasphemies spoken by them for which they were imprisoned till a Tryal for the Crimes 18 Letters from Berwick That the Scots Parliament had sate and dispatched away their Commissioners to the King for Treaty From Cork That the Lord Lieutenant published a Declaration in answer to certain Declarations and Acts framed by the Irish Popish Prelates and Clergy Letters that Sir Charles Coot had reduced Castledove That the Plague was hot in Galloway and many principal Actors in the Rebellion perisned by it That the Parliament Forces took in a Fort over against Passage whereby the trading by Sea to Waterford is wholly stopped up That the Tories behaved themselves so barbarously towards their own Party that the Priests have excommunicated them 19 Returns of Subscriptions to the Ingagement by divers Regiments and Garrisons An Act for establishing an high Court of Justice in London and Westminster Committed An Additional Act for providing Maintenance for Preaching Ministers and other pious uses Committed Amendments passed to an Act for the better Preaching of the Gospel and maintainance of Ministers in Bristol An Act passed for settling certain Houses upon the Corporation for the poor of London and for Money for that Work An Act for constituting Commissioners as a standing Councel for the ordering and regulating of Trade Committed Amendments to the Act of Indempnity for Tenants who have adhered to the Parliament recommitted Petition of the Inhabitants of Westminster referred to a Committee Petition from Arundel and another from the Cinque Ports referred to the Committee of Corporations to consider of their Franchises and report them to the House From Chester That the Rebels in Ireland did blow up some strong Castles and quitted them That C. Hewson with 2500 Foot and 1000 Horse one Demyculverin and a Mortar Piece marched to Bellishannon where he planted his Guns and after the Granadoes had flown in among them killing at one time 14 Men the Enemy beat a Parley and delivered up the place That the Lord Lieutenant was before Clonmel and that the Plague was very hot in the
Second Charter dated anno 15. of his Reign he sayeth In Honour of King Edward who made me his Heir and adopted me to rule over this Nation In his Charter dated 1088 of the Liberties of St. Martins the Great in the Manuscript thereof are these words In Example of Moses who built the Tabernacle and of Solomon who built the Temple Ego Gulielmus dei dispositione Consanguinitatis haereditate Anglorum Basileus c. The Charter of H. 1. his Son to this Abby In Honour of Edward my Kinsman who adopted my Father and his Children to be Heirs to this Kingdom c. In another Charter of Henry 1. in the Book of Ely he calls himself the Son of King William the Great who by hereditary right succeeded King Edward It is true that as to his pretence of Title by the Will of the Confessor Mathew Paris objecteth That the device was void being without the consent of the Barons To which may be answered That probably the Law might be so in H. 3. time when Paris wrote and was so taken to be in the Statute of Carlisle and in the case of King John But at the time of D. Williams Invasion the Law was taken to be That a Kingdom might be transferred by Will So was that of Sixtus Rusus and Asia came to the Romans by the Will of King Attalus the words by Annaeus Florus are Populus Romanus bonorum meorum Haeres esto Bythinia came to the Romans by the last Will of their King Nicomedes which is remembred by Utropius together with that of Lybia Cicero in his Orations tells us That the Kingdom of Alexandria by the last Will of their King was devolved to Rome And Prasitagus Rex Icenorum in England upon his death-bed gave his Kingdom to the Emperour Nero. As to Examples in this point at home this King William the 1. by his Will gave England to his younger Son William Rufus King Steven claimed by the Will of Henry the first King Henry 8. had power by Act of Parliament to order the Succession of the Crown as he pleased by Will. And the Lords of the Councel in Queen Marys time wrote to her That the Lady Janes Title to the Crown was by the Will and Letters of Edward 6. As the Case of Henry 8. was by Act of Parliament So Duke William after he had Conquered Harold was by the general consent of the Barons and People of England accepted for their King and so his Title by Will confirmed And he both claimed and Governed the Kingdom as an Heir and Successor confirmed their antient Laws and ruled according to them This appears by Chronica Cronicorum speaking of William the Bastard King of England and Duke of Normandy he saith That whereas St. Edward had no Heir of England William having conquered Harold the Usurper obtained the Crown under this Condition That he should inviolably observe those Laws given by the said Edward It is testifyed likewise by many of our Historians that the antient Laws of England were confirmed by Duke William Jornalensis sayeth That out of the Merchenlage West-Saxon-Lage and Dane-Lage The Confessor composed the Common Law which remains to this day Malmsbury who lived in Duke Williams time sayeth that the Kings were Sworn to observe the Laws of the Confessor so called sayeth he because he observed them most religiously But to make this point clear out of Ingulphus he sayeth in the end of his Chronicle I Ingulphus brought with me from London into my Monastery Crowland the Laws of the most righteous King Edward which my Lord King William did command by his Proclamation to be anthentick and perpetual and to be observed throughout the whole Kingdom of England upon pain of most heinous punishment The Leiger Book of the Abby of Waltham commends Duke William for restoring the Laws of the English Men out of the Customes of their Countrey Radburn follows this Opinion and these Laws of Edward the Confessor are the same in part which are contained in our great Charter of Liberties A Manuscript entituled De gestis Anglorum sayeth That at a Parliament at London 4 W. 1. the Lawyers also present that the King might hear their Laws He Established St. Edward Laws they being formerly used in King Edgars time There is also mention of the 12 men out of every County to deliver truely the State of their Laws the same is remembred by Selden History of Tithes and Titles of Honour and in a manuscript Chronicle bound with the Book of Ely in Cottons Library One of the worthy e Gentlemen from whom I differ in Opinion was pleased to say That if William the Conquerour did not introduce the Laws of Normandy into England yet he conceives our Laws to be brought out of France hither in the time of some other of our Kings who had large Territories in France and brought in their Laws hither else he wonders how our Laws should be in French Sir I shall endeavonr to satisfy his wonder therein by and by but first with your leave I shall offer to you some Probabilities out of the History That the Laws of England were by some of those Kings carryed into France rather than the Laws of France brought hither This is expressly affirmed by Paulus Jovius who writes That when the English Kings Reigned in a great part of France they taught the French their Laws Sabellicus a Venetian Historian writes That the Normans in their Manners and Customes and Laws followed the English Polydore Virgil contradicting himself in another place than before cited relates that in our King Henry 6. time the Duke of Bedford called together the chief men of all the Cities in Normandy and delivered in his Oration to them the many Benefits that the English afforded them especially in that the English gave to them their Customes and Laws By the Chronicle of Eltham H. 5. sent to Cane in Normandy not only Divines but English Common Lawyers by the Agreement at Troys So there is much more probability that the Laws of England were introduced into France and Normandy than that the Laws of Normandy or any other part of France were introduced in England If the Normans had been Conquerours of England as they were not but their Duke was only conquerour of Harold and received as Hereditary King of England yet is it not probable they would have changed our Laws and have introduced theirs because they did not use to do so upon other Conquests The Normans conquered the Isles of Guernsey and Jersy yet altered not their Laws which in their local Customes are like unto ours The like they did in Sicily Naples and Apulia where they were Conquerours yet the antient Laws of those Countries were continued I hope Mr. Speaker I have by this time given some Satisfaction to the worthy Gentlemen who differed from me That the Laws of England were not imposed upon us by the Conqueronr nor brought over hither either out of Normandy or any
original of our Parliament They have inferior and ordinary Courts of Justice not unlike to ours in many particulars The King hath a great power and the Senators under him and by them the Affairs of the State are managed Though their Government have great affinity with ours yet the People do not enjoy the like Rights and Liberties as Blessed be God we do in England They are in more subjection to the Will of their Lords and their Lords to the Will of their Superiors though they have more power over their Tenants and nearer Neighbors than the English have Their Laws are clear and few nor are they covetous to multiply them which they hold an Error in Government and cause of Contention nor do they allow Debates in Council of any other matters than what are proposed to them from the King The paucity of Law-suits amongst them is because of the distribution of Estates by a Rule of Law to all Children or Heirs upon the death of every Ancestor so that they have seldom a Question upon any Will or Conveyance And by reason of the smalness of their Trade their Contracts are few and Consequently their Law Suits nor will they afford Maintenance for a Profession of Lawyers or large Sallaries for Officers in general their Government is Wise Just and Peaceable Their Religion is punctually Lutheran both in Doctrine and Discipline and they are so Severe in it that they will hardly admit a Papist or Calvinist to live among them except in some few Places where they permit Calvinists to reside for Trades-Sake They have a Liturgy much to the same Effect in Words and Ceremonies with that which was in the English Church nor will they part with any of the Responsals Ceremonies and Rites extracted out of the mass-Mass-Book or with the Images in their Churches though so little different from those used in the Church of Rome Their Bishops and Superintendants who have the same Power have the like Jurisdiction in Ecclesiastical but not in Temporal Matters as the English Prelates had so have their Inferiour as they also call them Spiritual Courts and Judicatories They allow but slender Maintenance to their Clergy their Metropolitan Archbishop of Vpsale hath not above two thousand Rix Dollars which is not five hundred Pound of Yearly Revenue and one hundred Rix Dollars per annum is an Extraordinary Benefice Their Diocesses and Parishes are very large and Sermons are a rarity in them but the Liturgy must not be omitted every Sunday and on their many Holydaies They have a good way upon every Avoydance to Supply their Churches the Inhabitants of every Parish where their Minister dyed or is removed do meet and Choose three Deacons whom they present to the Bishop or Superintendant who Chooseth one of the three and Ordains him a Priest and Institutes him into the Benefice that is void Their strength is confiderable both at Land and at Sea at Land it consists chiefly in the Bodies of their Men and in their Arms and Fortifications Their Men are strong and the more Enured to hardship by the Coldness of their Climate and to War by their frequent Expeditions abroad and they want no Courage nor Obedience to their Superiours Their Arms are made at Home as Good and Useful as any Country hath they want not Materials of Copper Steel and Iron both for their greater and smaller Guns and Swords and have Skilful Workmen and store of Powder Their Fortifications are not many except in Frontier Towns and Havens some whereof are strongly and regularly Fortified fully Garrison'd and provided with Copper great Guns upon their Works They have a standing Militia of fifty thousand Men twelve thousand Horse and thirty eight thousand Foot and all these maintained at a very small Charge to the Crown and with no Burden to the Country whereof I shall be ready to give you a particular Account when you shall command it These may be drawn together in ten days and out of these they write forth Souldiers upon any Foreign Design which Designation is wholly left to the respective Landlords and gives them no small awe and subjection from their Tenants Their strength by Sea surpasseth their Neighbours they have many Ships which carry eighty and some one hundred Copper Guns well and substantially built but not after our excellent way of Frigots nor so Nimble at Tacking or Fighting or the Chase as our Men of War They are not inferiour in their strength at Sea to any Prince or State in these Parts except the English and our Neighbours the Netherlands the greatest defect and want in their Naval Force is as to the Number of their Ships and Marriners For their Trade it is not great but they take a course dayly to improve it they understand better than they did formerly the Conveniencies and Advantages they have of Timber for Masts and building of their Ships of Iron to fit them of Copper for their Guns of the cheapness and plenty of Pitch and Tar necessary for them and to be had in their own Country and sufficient Cordage near them with their good Harbours on both sides the Baltique Sea and at Gottenburgh They are sensible that the increase of Trade increaseth their Marriners and Shipping which increaseth their Trade and not only their Merchants but their great Men engage in a way of Trade for the Incouragement of it and finding the Sweetness and Profit in it They already send Ships and Plant in the West-Indies and have began a Trade with their Native Commodities to most parts where Trade is to be had and will in a short time become considerable for Trade and the more by the plenty of their Copper Iron Deal Pitch and Tarr which now they Export themselves and know how necessary they are for other Nations and how profitable it is for them to be their own Merchants I have thus shortly and weakly given you Information of what I Learned upon the place touching this Nation of the Swedes and Goths in relation to themselves Give me leave Sir now to Acquaint you with what I observed concerning them as they may have Relation to an Alliance with this Common-wealth and to conclude with an Account in General of my Negotiation there and with the respects I met with to this Nation both from them and others whilst I was abroad I look upon them as a Nation in a perfect distance and Scituation to be the best Friends and Allies to you they are neither so near to us as to cause Jealousies from us nor so far distant but that they may give a timely Assistance to us They profess the same Protestant Religion with us in the Fundamentals they agree with us and in their Aversness to Popery and the Hierarchy of Rome and are the more likely to keep a firmer Union with us There is great similitude between their Manners Laws Language and Disposition of the People and the English and the like Gallantry of their Gentry and
and to stand with a Paper in the Market-place and to be whipped Another shot to death for killing a man 14. The Lords finished the four Bills to be sent to his Majesty and named the Earl of Northumberland Kent Rutland Pembroke and Salisbury to be their Commissioners to present them The Commons concurred and named for their Commissioners Mr. Bulkley Mr. L'Isle Mr. Robert Goodwyn and Mr. Kemp for their Commissioners or any three of both Houses Order for Money for Ireland Divers Compositions passed 15. Ordinance for Sallaries for the Officers of the Committee of Accounts Another pass'd for addition of Members to the Committee of the Navy The Scots Commissioners desired time to consider of the four Bills to be presented to his Majesty Vote of both Houses for the Country Committees to certifie the full value of all Sequestred Estates The House in the afternoon passed an Answer to the Scots Commissioners That Bills pass'd both Houses are not to be altered by any other and that they are resolved to send their Commissioners by Tuesday next and desire that the Scots Commissioners would send their Propositions at the same time 16. Report from Col. Lilburne's Committee An Ordinance for repairing Churches and Chappels Ordinances sent to the Commons for turning Delinquents out of the Lines Another about chusing Common-Council-men Malignants and such as abetted the late Force against the Parliament to be uncapable to be chosen Order for five thousand pound to be paid to Mr. Hampden's Executors An Ordinance pass'd for setting poor people to work A Letter with an inclosed Declaration from the Scots Commissioners Order about the Guards of the House Ordinance pass'd for Captain Ed. Harley to be Vice-Admiral of the North c. Reference to the Committee of the Navy about the Isle of Providence Letters from Windsor of a good agreement between the Parliaments Commissioners and the G. Councel of the Army about the particulars before-mentioned and for the Armies being drawn into Garrisons and all free Quarter to be taken off so as they may have constant Pay Deans and Chapters Lands desired for security A Petition of the Farmers in Surrey to the General about free Quarter and their Landlords refusing to deduct of their Rents for the free Quarter they desired the General to move the Parliament for their Relief herein who recommended it to the Houses 18. Mr. Marshall and Mr. Nye appointed to go Chaplains to the Commissioners to the Isle of Wight Divers Compositions passed Order for Col. Nedham's Arrears to be audited One of Col. Lilburn's Regiment condemned to dye by the Councel of War for raising the Mutiny at Ware and others to run the Gantelope Captain Grey and Major Cobbet tryed 20. The Commissioners ordered two hundred pound for their Charge to go to the Isle of Wight The Primate of Armagh continued Preacher at Lincolns Inne Referred to a Committee to examine what Delinquent Ministers did Preach or Read the Book of Common Prayer and to silence them which was much opposed by divers as contrary to that liberty of Consciences which they themselves pretended to insist upon as due to every Christian It was carried in the Negative upon the question that Deans and Chapters Lands should not be security for the Arrears of the Soldiers but that it should be out of the remainder of Bishops Lands and out of Forrest Lands and the Excise Several Compositions were passed Debate upon the Declaration from the Scots Commissioners claiming in language a joynt interest with the Parliament of England in the setling of Peace in both the Kingdoms and protesting against the four Bills and they press for a personal Treaty at London They inforce Let that be given to God which is God's and to Caesar that which is Caesar ' s and puts them in mind of their professed Loyalty An Answer was agreed upon in like high termes to their Declaration 21. Order for an Ordinance for further Indemnity for the Soliders and for another to draw the Forces into Garrisons and for a Declaration of the necessity that hath been to keep up an Army and to take free Quarter and that if the Kingdom will pay in six Months Arrears of the sixty thousand pound per Mens that then the other three Months Arrears will be remitted and no Officer shall come into any mans House without his leave nor no Soldier except in Innes Ale-houses Taverns and Victualling-houses The Printer Committed for Printing the Scots Declaration without leave of the House Orders for preserving the Arms of such as shall be disbanded from being imbezeled that the Forces to be disbanded shall have two month pay and divers Compositions were passed Major Cobbet sentenced by the Court-Martial to be Cashiered 22. Debate of an Ordinance for reimbursing the Commissioners of the Customs and they to be removable at the pleasure of both Houses their Money being paid An Ordinance passed for the maimed Soldiers another committed for securing the Soliders Arrears Another past for stating the Accounts of the Army Another pass'd to make a Committee in Kent to hear Differences about Military Affairs and to give indemnity Order for the Members to go into their several Counties for collecting the Arrears of the Assesment 23. The Trustees for Bishops Lands were made Trustees for Delinquents Lands and Forrest Lands for security of the Arrears of the Soldiers Vote That 15 January next the Army shall be drawn into Garrisons and free Quarter taken off and that the remainder of Bishops Lands should be security also to the Soliders Orders about collecting the Assessment of sixty thousand pound a Month. 24. Letters from the General to the House with a Paper of the result of the Councel of War at Windsor concerning Quartering of the Soliders in Innes Ale houses c. referred to the Committee of the Army to confer and consider with the General and his Officers about it A Petition of Divers Citizens who were abused the last year for opening their Shops on Christ-mas day though an Ordinance of Parliament did warrant it Order that the Committee of the Militia of London and Westminster should take care to prevent the like inconveniences and to put out of the Lines all Delinquent Ministers Order upon the General 's Letter for Col. Rainsborough to go forthwith to his Charge at Sea as Vice-Admiral At a Councel of War some Officers acknowledged their Errors upon former passages and desired to be re-admitted into the favour of the General and his Councel which was approved and the Officers kept a Fast where Cromwell Ireton Col. Tichburne and other Officers Prayed and from Scripture exhorted to Unity and Obedience to Commands 25. Christ-mas day the shops were all shut up in London notwithstanding the Ordinance to the contrary The Houses sat and upon complaint that some Delinquent Ministers Preached on this day in London and that the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book was used in several places power was given to the Committee of Plundered Ministers
to examine and punish Church-wardens Sequestrators and others who countenance the same Order to put in Execution the ordinance for abolishing Holy-days A Printed Paper directed to the Speaker intituled Observations on the Scots Message to the Parliament referred to a Committee to find out the Authors and Printers of it being very scandalous to the King Parliament and Army Mr. Saltmarsh the Minister assirmed that he had somewhat revealed to him from Heaven wherewith he must acquaint the Army And presently went from his House in Essex to Windsor where he spake with the General with his hat on and told him he had doted on him but now must honour him no more because he had Imprisoned the Saints He also told the Officers of the Army That formerly he came to them as a Lamb but now he was come as a Lyon to tell them what the Lord bad revealed to him That though the Lord had done much by them and for them yet he had now for saken them and would not prosper them because they had for saken him their first Principles and had imprison'd the Saints with many of the like expressions He then told the Army He had delivered his message done his work and must leave them and see them no more and so went from Windsor to London and from thence to his House in Essex where being ill on Friday he told his Wife he had now finished his Course and must go to his Father And the next day he dyed 27. Orders for Money for the Navy At a Conference the Commons informed the Lords that Col. Rainsborough had cleared himself of the objections formerly made against him and now at the desire of the General and his Councel the Commons had voted him to be readmitted to his imployment of Vice-Admiral and desired their Lordships Concurrence therein Debate upon a Petition of Doctor Trigge Some Compositions of Delinquents passed Letters from the Commissioners sent to the King That they presented the Bills and Propositions to his Majesty who then said He was assured they would not expect a present answer but he would take the same into consideration and give his answer within few days The next day after the four Bills presented to the King the Scots Commissioners came to him and presented to him a Declaration That they had endeavoured by all means to the Parliament of England for furthering a happy Peace having seen the Propositions and understood of Bills brought to his Majesty which they apprehend prejudicial to Religion the Crown and the Vnion between the Kingdoms and therefore in the name of the Kingdom of Scotland declare their dissent The General sent his Letters to Major General Lambert Major General Laugherne Major General Mitton Major Hopton Col. Humphreys Col. Duckenfield and Col. Venables concerning the disbanding supernumeraries Letters from Ireland of Col. Jone's Marching into Wicklow That his Regiment conformed that Owen Roe Oneale was by the Popish Clergy opposing the Laity made Generalissimo of the Rebels and General Preston cast off That Sir Charles Coote was gone into the Field but Sir Robert and Sir William Steward's Regiments refused to March with him That the Soldiers under the Lord Iuchequin in the last Victory they gained fought all of them with the greatest courage imaginable though they wanted Cloaths Shooes and Bread 28. Debate of an Ordinance for eight hundred pound per An. to be setled on the Bishop of Durham A Petition from Newcastle complaining of the sore burden upon them of free Quarter when the Scots were there and ever since and the Oppression not so great in any other part of the Kingdom Order that they shall have the publick Faith for all free Quarter since the Scots were there Orders for Ammunition for that Garrison and touching the Sequestrations there and in Northumberland to pay Money due to those Countries The Lords dissented from Col. Rainsborough's going to Sea and gave their Reasons for it at a Conference A Message from the Lords to give the Marquess of Winton four Months longer time of liberty and to consider of the Petition of the Lord Cromwell A Letter of thanks written to the Commissioners in the Isle of Wight Divers Compositions passed 29. The Monthly Fast-day News came of a great Disorder and tumult in Canterbury about the observation of Christmas-day the Major endeavouring the Execution of the Ordinance for abolishing holy-days was much abused by the rude multitude had his head broken and was dragged up and down till he got into an house for his safety They broke into the houses of divers others who were of the Majors Opinion put themselves into a Military Posture kept Guards stopt Passes and examined Passengers and the like Insurrections were in several other places of the Kingdom 30. Upon a Letter from the Committee of Kent of the disorder at Canterbury The House ordered That the Order for examining and committing of Church wardens c. who countenanced Malignant Ministers should be Printed and referred the business of the Riot at Canterbury to the Committee with power to send for Parties c. and to imprison and to certifie the whole matter to the House The like Riot at Eling in Middlesex was referred to be examined and proceeded against at the Sessions of Peace Letters from the General that he had given a Commission to Sir Arthur Haselrigge to be Governor of New-castle which the House approved and ordered him to repair thither to his Charge Mr. Harris a Church-Warden of St. Martins Parish ordered to be committed for bringing Delinquents to Preach there and to be displaced from being Church-warden there 31. Letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax That by reason of a late Mutiny and design to carry away the King he had given order to Col. Hammond to keep a strict guard upon his Majesties Person till he further knew the pleasure of the Parliament The House approved therof and ordered the General to take special care for securing the Person of his Majesty where he now is in Caresbrooke Castle And they ordered that Col. Hammond the Governor of the Isle of Wight take special care for securing the King's Person where he now is and to observe such further Orders therein as he should receive from the General and the Lords concurred herein The Parliaments Commissioners returned from the King with little satisfaction touching the four Bills presented to him The House Ordered that Mr. Marshal and Mr. Nye be desired to come and pray with the House to morrow morning to seek God for his blessing and direction in their consultations tending to matters of great concernment The general Councel of the Army agreed upon Warrants to be sent from the General to all those Officers whose Soldiers were to be disbanded according to the Orders of Parliament that they conform unto and see the same done accordingly and mention of the stating their Accounts and security for their Arrears with present Pay of