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
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
Seal was at the first committed to the Custody of the two Speakers to be made use of by the Warrant of the Houses afterwards it was committed to the Custody of two Lords and four Commoners as Commissioners who had the Authority of Keeper of the Great Seal The Lords were the Earls of Manchester and Bullingbrook the Commoners were Mr. Brown Mr. S. John Mr. Wilde and Mr. Prideaux The Courts of Justice were not-yet open no practice for Lawyers August 12. The Earl of Lindsey being released from his Imprisonment by the Parliament came to the King at Oxford and was highly welcomed there but the Earls of Holland and Bedford found it otherwise to them For they about August 25. upon some distaste at the Parliament left them and got to Wallingford where the Governour Blagge received them with great shews of Honour and brought them from thence to the King at Oxford To him these Lords professed their Duty and Allegiance acknowledging their former Errours and promising wholly to desert the Parliament and to adhere to his Majestie 's Interest But not long after finding less favour and respect to them from the King and his Party than they expected upon this new Discontent they found means again to quit Oxford and to return to the Parliament About the same time the Earl of Clare left the Parliament and went to the King to Oxford but finding such Entertainment as Holland and Bedford had done both from the King and those about him he stoutly told the King That he intended to return to his own house in Nottinghamshire and prayed his Majestie 's leave for it The King wished him not to go but finding him resolute upon his Journey sent to have him stopped but in the mean while the Earl found means to pass the Guards and got home to Houghton and from thence to the Parliament It was said in Drollery that these three Earls had much confirmed others to continue with the Parliament for they having tried both Parties found it by Experience that this was the best to be in and to adhere unto A Book set out by Saltmarsh a Minister gave distaste to sober men by these among other his Counsells 1. That all means should be used to keep the King and his People from a sudden union 2. To cherish the War under the notion of Popery as the surest means to engage the people 3. If the King would not grant their Demands then to root him out and the Royal Line and to Collate the Crown upon some body else Some excepting against this in the house of Commons Mr. Henry Martyn said He saw no reason to condemn Mr. Saltmarsh and that it were better one Family should be destroyed than many Sir Nevill Poole moved that Mr. Martyn might explain what one Family he meant Who boldly answered The King and his Children Upon this some of the Members urged against his lewdness of life and the height and danger of these words And divers speaking sharply against Mr. Martyn he was committed to the Tower but shortly after released and re-admitted to his place in Parliament Sir Edward Coniers is removed fom his place of Lieutenant of the Tower and the Charge thereof given to the Lord Mayor Pennington The Parliaments Commissioners in Scotland send word of a fair Correspondence with the State there and their readiness to comply with the Parliament in order to which they had sent from them the Form of a Covenant to be taken by both Nations This the Parliament refers to the Assembly of Divines then sitting for their Advice in it Sir John Evelyn of Wilts had writ a Letter from the Earl of Northumberland's house at Petworth to Sir John Evelyn of Surrey which being intercepted and suspicious both of them being Members of the house of Commons were Imprisoned Both Houses passed an Ordinance August 28 for demolishing and removing all Monuments of Idolatry and Superstition out of all Churches and Chapels in England and Wales Divers Members of both Houses were Members of the Assembly of Divines and had the same liberty with the Divines to sit and debate and give their Votes in any Matter which was in consideration amongst them In which Debates Mr. Selden spake admirably and confuted divers of them in their own learning And sometimes when they had cited a Text of Scripture to prove their Assertion he would tell them Perhaps in your little Pocket Bibles with gilt Leaves which they would often pull out and read the Translation may be thus but the Greek or the Hebrew signifies thus and thus and so would totally silence them The Lord Willoughby of Parham had done great Service for the Parliament in Lincolnshire He had taken in Gainsborough and divers Prisoners there among whom was the Earl of Kingston who with the rest being sent by Water in a close Boat towards Hull A party of Cavaliers as they passed by called to the Boat to stay and because they did not the Cavaliers shot at them and the Earl with his man and no other in the Boat were slain by their own Friends The Lord Willoughby kept the Town afterwards against the Earl of Newcastle's Forces till over-powred with Numbers he was forced to surrender it upon honourable conditions Colonel Cromwell gave assistance to the Lord Willoughby and performed very gallant Service against the Earl of Newcastle's Forces This was the beginning of his great Fortunes and now he began to appear to the world He had a brave Regiment of Horse of his Country-men most of them Freeholders and Freeholders Sons and who upon matter of Conscience engaged in this Quarrel and under Cromwell And thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own Consciences and without by good Iron Arms they would as one man stand firmly and charge desperately The Parliament ordered Recruits for the Lord Willoughby and for Cromwell and both of them became in the Parliaments favour Gloucester was the general subject of discourse the King was set down before it with his whole Army the Governour Massey not only refuseth upon his Majestie 's Summons to render the City to him but sallies forth upon some of their Quarters and did cut off 300 of their men A Conspiracy of the Mace-bearer and others to kill the Governour and chief Military Officers was discovered and the betraying of the Town prevented some of the Conspirators being executed Gen. Essex advanced with his whole Body from Ailesbury towards Gloucester Aug. 29. The Enemy made a breach in the Outworks and some Assaults but was gallantly repulsed The King drew his Forces from Exeter and the West to the siege of Gloucester yet the Besiegers were very doubtful whether to continue or raise the siege Warwick Castle held out against the King's Forces and Colonel Bridges the Governour acquitted himself with much honour The Earl of Denbigh was made Major General of Coventry and some part adjacent The Lord Gray and Colonel
upon view of those proofs we shall be the better able to advise and your Lordships to judge what will be fit to be done in this matter Maynard Your Excellence and my Lord Chancellour are pleased to require our advice in this great business and we shall deal cleerly and freely with your Lordships which I think will be most acceptable to you and will in conclusion be best for your service Mr. Whitelocke hath begun thus and in speaking his own sense hath spoken much of mine and left me the less to say and I shall follow him in the same plainness and method as he hath begun which I presume will be most pleasing to your Lordships The word Incendiary is not much conversant in our Law nor often met with in our Books but more a term of the Civil Law or of State and so to be considered in this case and to be taken according to the expression wherein it is used in the Accord of the two Kingdoms and in the sense of the Parliaments of both Nations That sense of it which my Lord Chancellour hath been pleased to mention it doth bear ex vi termini and surely he that kindles the coals of contention between our brethren of Scotland and us is an Incendiary and to be punished as it is agreed on by both Kingdoms But my Lords as you have been told there must be proof made of such particulars of words or actions upon which there may be sufficient ground for a Parliament to declare their judgment that he who used such words or actions indeavoured thereby to raise differences and to kindle the fire of contention among us and so that he is an Incendiary Lieutenant General Cromwel is a person of great favour and interest with the House of Commons and with some of the House of Peers likewise and therefore there must be proofs and the more clear and evident against him to prevail with the Parliament to adjudge him to be an Incendiary I confess my Lords I do not in my private knowledge assure my self of any such particulars nor have we heard of any here and I believe it will be more difficult than perhaps some of us may imagine to fasten this upon him And if it be difficult and doubtfull it is not fit for such persons as my Lord General and the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland as yet to appear in it but rather first to see what proofs may be had of particular passages which will amount to a clear proof upon which judgment may be grounded that he is an Incendiary And when such proofs shall be ready to be produced we may again wait upon your Excellence and the business will then be the more ripe for your Lordships resolution in the mean time my humble opinion is that it may be deferred Mr. Hollis and Sir Philip Stapleton and some others spake smartly to the business and mentioned some particular passages and words of Cromwel tending to prove him to be an Incendiary and they did not apprehend his interest in the House of Commons to be so much as was supposed and they would willingly have been upon the accusation of him But the Scots Commissioners were not so forward to adventure upon it for the reasons they said did satisfie them which were given by Maynard and Whitelocke until a further inquiry were made of particulars for proof to make him an Incendiary the which at length was generally consented to and about two a clock in the Morning with thanks and Complements Maynard and Whitelocke were dismissed they had some cause to believe that at this debate some who were present were false brethren and informed Cromwel of all that past among them and after that Cromwel though he took no notice of any particular passages at that time yet he seemed more kind to Whitelocke and Maynard than he had been formerly and carried on his design more actively of making way for his own advancement as will appear in progress of this insuing story The Lord sent to the Commons that a speedy answer might be given to the Papers of the States Ambassadors and for audience to be given to the French Agent and a Committee was named to consider of the manner of his reception A Report was made to the House by their Command of the particular passages betwixt His Majesty and the Committee that carried the Propositions to him which they had forborn before to mention but the House having an intimation thereof ordered the particular passages thereof to be Reported to-them which was done as I have mentioned them before The Commons ordered 6000 l. for providing store of Arms and Ammunition A party of the Newark horse being quartered near the Town Colonel Thorney fell upon them took 80 Horse one Major several inferiour Officers 2 Colonels 24 Troupers and Arms. The Commons took order for setling Magistrates in Newcastle though different from the Course of their Charter and disfranchised some of their Aldermen The Parliaments Committee at Newcastle sent up a great quantity of Coals for relief of the poor of London whereof the Commons gave notice to the Lord Mayor and orders for the distributing of them The Clause for Marriage in the Directory was agreed unto An Ordinance past for relief of Soldiers widdows Letters were ordered to several Counties for levying Arrears due to the Army and for the Deputy Lieutenants and Committees to assist the Commissioners of Excise The Commons agreed to the reception of the States Ambassadors as formerly Sir William Massey was made one of the Assembly of Divines The Court Marshal adjudged Sir John Hotham to have his head cut off Higgins the Lord General 's Trumpeter returned from Oxford where he said he was more courteously used than before and that the King commanded he should be kindly used and rewarded and that he was not as formerly hoodwink'd when they brought him in Prince Rupert by the King's direction sent a Letter to the General for a safe Conduct for the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Southampton to bring unto the Parliament of England Assembled at Westminster and the Commissioners of the Parliament of the Kingdome of Scotland an answer of the Propositions lately presented to his Majesty for a safe and well grounded peace The Commons voted that no Member of either House of Parliament shall during this war injoy or execute any office or Command Military or Civil and that an Ordinance be brought in accordingly This was moved by Mr. Zouch Tate who brought it in with a similitude of a boyle upon his thumb and was set on by that party who contrived the outing of the Lord General and to bring on their own designes and they could find no other way than by passing a Self-denying Ordinance as they called it which would serve their turn both as a specious pretence of their own integrity and waving all self ends and so plausible to the people and would also
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
aiding the King in his Wars and of an Act for making void all honours conferred on persons without the consent of both Houses And of an Act for the due observation of the Lords day Order for two great Cannons to be sent down to the Forces before Pontefract and Scarborough The House required an account concerning the taking off of the Sequestration of Sir John Winters Estate Order for addition of seven days more time for the Treaty at the Isle of Wight Letters from St. Albans that the General Officers of the Army upon their several meetings at the head quarters had agreed upon a Large Remonstrance to be presented to the Parliament The new Serjeants appeared at the Chancery Bar and Whitelock made the speech to them to this Effect M r Serjeant S t John and the rest of you Gentlemen who have received Writs to be Serjeants at Law IT hath pleased the Parliament in commanding these Writs to issue forth to manifest their constant resolutions to continue and maintain the old setled form of Government and Laws of the Kingdom and to provide for the supply of the high Courts of Justice with the usual number of Judges and to manifest their respects to our profession And likewise to bestow a particular mark of favour upon you as eminent Members of it the good affections to the publick and the abilities of most of you they know by experience among themselves and of the rest by good information I acknowledge that the burthen of this business lies heavy upon me in regard of my own weakness And the worthiness of the Persons to whom my words are directed but as I am of the least ability to give so you have the least need to receive Instructions I should be unwilling to see the solemnity of this general Call diminished and am the rather perswaded to supply my present duty for several respects 1. For the honour of that Authority which commands your attendance and my service upon this occasion 2. For the honour of this Court which challengeth a great share in this work your Writs issuing from hence your appearance here Recorded and your Oath is here to be taken 3. The honour and particular respects which I have of you that are called to this degree 4. And lastly out of my own affections to the degree being my self the Son of a Sergeant and having the honour to be one of your number in this Call and I do acknowledge that both in my descent and fortune I am a great debtor to the Law For these reasons I presume especially being with those from whom I have by long acquaintance found much friendship that I shall now receive a fair construction of what I speak upon this very great subject My observations shall be upon your Call by Writ and upon the Writ it self Your being called by Writ is a great argument of the antiquity of Sergeants The Register hath many Writs as my Lord Coke holds in his Preface to the 10. Rep. that were in use before the Conquest and in the most antient Manuscript Registers is your Writ of the same form with those by which you are called and if there had beeen any alteration within time of memory it would probably have been extant We find Sergeants at Law often mentioned in our year-Year-Books and in the Records in the Tower as high as the beginning of E. 1. and by Bracton who wrote in H. 3. time And it may probably be conjectured that William de Bussey was a Sergeant by his habit of the Coif and his Office Of whom Matthew Paris relates 42 H. 3. that he was Seneschallus Principalis Consiliarius Gulielmi de Valentia and being accused for great crimes upon his Tryal when he could not acquit himself Voluit ligamenta suae Coifae solvere ut palam monstraret tonsuram se habere clericalem and so to have avoided judgment but it would not serve his turn Thus far it is granted by a little Manuscript treatise which endeavours to detract from the honour of this degree and therefore requires an answer It asserts that by Magna Charta Communia placita non sequantur curiam nostram the Court of Common-Pleas was crected and that some of our profession by Writ then framed were commanded to attend that lower Court the Lawyers being generally unwilling to leave the Kings House where the other Courts of Justice then sate and to attend this new Court elsewhere It is reasonable well that they are allowed the antiquity of 9 H. 3. and by this as antient as the Common-Pleas Court but the errour that this Court was erected 9 H. 3. is sufficiently refuted The same great Charter is in Matthew Paris in King John's time with the words of Communia placita c. in it but I presume his meaning is that before the Statute of Magna Charta there was no Court of Common-Pleas though his words be before 9 H. 3. It is manifest by undeniable Authorities out of antient Manuscripts and Rolls and the black Book of Peterburgh that Cases were adjudged in R. 1. and H. 2. time coram Justitiariis in Banco residentibus and the names of those that were then Judges of this Court are set down many years before Magna Charta was granted which by Hoveden Paris and others are said to be the Laws of Edward the Confessor And if itbe admitted that Sergeants are as ancient as these Laws they allow them the Antiquity of the Confessor and if as ancient as this Court they are certainly as ancient as any thing in our Law But the Author of this Treatise affirmeth that before the Erection of the Court of Common-Pleas it cannot be shewed that there were any special Sergeant Pleaders I am of his opinion and likewise that no man can shew when that Court was first erected which is also the opinion of my Lord Coke 5. Rep. 9 Ed. 4. Sir Roger Owen Lambert and others Yet if the Author mean that before Magna Charta 9 H. 3. there were no such Sergeants he may be satisfied the contrary out of Hoveden and Paris who lived in R. 1. and H. 3. time and are Authors of good Credit They recite the Charge of the Justices in Eyer given in R. 1. and King John's time One of their Articles is to Enquire of the Sergeants at Law and Attorneys Fees In the Book of Entries in a Bill of Debt against a Sergeant at Law in the Common-Pleas he shows and prescribes that Sergeants could not be sued there by Bill but by Writ out of the Chancery and this being by Prescription shows that Sergeants were before the time of Rich. 1. And the Mirror of Justices which I presume they will not deny to be yet more ancient which my Lord Coke holds to be written before the Conquest saith a Countor est un Sergeant Sachant in la Ley de Realm to pronounce and defend Actions in Judgment From the Antiquity of the degree I come
be given them nor would they agree to surrender to Mercy but upon Reverence which was consented unto That they took the Governour and the Capt. of the Moss-Troopers and 60 Souldiers That two of the most notorious of them and the Captain were shot to death upon the Place They took in it many Arms 60 Horse which they had taken from the English and released 10 English prisoners and demolished the House That Middleton laid down his Arms upon condition that the King should be forthwith Crowned and the Estates and Kirk ordered him to take his Command again That Recruits were come from England to the Army That the G. and his Officers kept a Fast-day The House had a very long and smart Debate touching the Act for putting all the Books of Law and 〈◊〉 Process and Proceedings in Courts of Justice into the English Tongue in which Debate some spake in Derogation and Dishonour of the Laws of England For some vindication whereof and for satisfying some Mistakes one of the Members delivered his Opinion in the House to this Effect Mr. Speaker The Question upon which your present Debate ariseth is of no small moment nor is it easily or speedily to be determined for it comprehends no less than a total alteration of the Frame and Course of Proceedings of our Law which have been established and continued for so many years I should not have troubled you with any of my weak Discourse but that I apprehend some mistakes and Dishonour to the Law of England if passed by without any Answer may be of ill consequence and having attended to hear them answered by others who are not pleased to do it I held my self the more engaged in the Duty of my Profession to offer to your judgment to which I shall always submit what I have met with and do suppose not to be impertinent for the rectifying of some Mistakes which are amongst us A worthy Gentleman was pleased to affirm with much confidence as he brought it in upon this Debate That the Laws of England were introduced by William the Conqueror as among other Arguments he asserted might appear by their being written in the French Tongue In his first Assertion That our Laws were introduced by William the Conqueror out of France I shall acknowledge That he hath several both Foreign and Domestick Authors whom he may follow therein The Foreign Authors are Jovius Aemilius Bodine Hottoman Dynothus Volateran Berault Berkley Choppinus Uspargensis Malines and Polydore who affirm this erroncous piece of Doctrine but the less to be regarded from them because they were strangers to our Laws and took up upon trust what they published it this point Of our own Countreymen they have Paris Malmesbury Matthew Westminster Fox Cosins Twyne Heyward Milles Fulbeck Cowell Ridley Brown Speed Martin and some others All of them affirm That the Laws of England were introduced by William the Conqueror But their Errors are refuted by Sir Roger Owen in his Manuscrit who saith that Roger Wendover and Mat. Paris were the first Monks that hatched these addle Eggs. I shall endeavour to shew you That the Original of our Laws is not from the French that they were not introduced by William the Conqueror out of Normandy And I shall humbly offer to you my Answer to some of their Arguments who are of a contrary Opinion Polydore Hist Angl. L. 9. Affirmeth That William the Conqueror first appointed Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace erected Tenures brought in Trials by 12 men and several other Particulars of our Laws For Sheriffs their Name Scire Reeve shews them to be of the Saxon Institution And our Histories mention the Division of Shires by King Alphred but in truth it was much more ancient And it is apparent by our Books and Records some whereof are in the Hustings of London and in the Tower that the same things were in use here long before the Time of King W. I. Sir Roger Owen shews at large that Livery of Seisin Licenses or Fines for Alienation Daughters to inherit Trials by Juries Abjurations Utlaries Coroners Disposing of Lands by Will Escheats Gaoles Writs Wrecks Warranties Catalla Felonum and many other parts of our Law and the Forms of our Parliaments themselves were here in being before the time of Duke William Agreeing hereunto are many of our Historians and Learned Antiquaries But it is Objected That in the Grand Customary of Normandy the Laws are almost all the same with ours of England and the form of their Parliaments the same with ours That the Writer of the Preface to that Book saith it contains only the Laws and Customs which were made by the Princes of Normandy by the Counsel of their Prelates Earls Barons and other wise men which shews the forms of their Parliament to be the same with ours and the Laws in that Book to be the proper Laws of Normandy and ours to be the same therefore they argue that our Laws were introduced from thence by William the Conqueror This will be fully answered If that Grand Customary of Normandy was composed in our King E. 1. his time as good Authors hold it was then it cannot be that our Laws or Parliaments could be derived from thence These Learned men say That this Customary was a meer Translation of our Law-Book Glanvill as the Book of Regia Majestas of the Laws Scotland is and the like of the Laws of Burgundy They further add That the first establishing of the Customary of Normandy was in H. 1. his time and afterwards again about the beginning of E. 2. his time If the Laws in the Customary were introduced there from England it will then be granted that the Laws of England were not inoroduced here by William the Conqueror But I think it very clear that their Laws were brought to them cut of England and then you will all agree to the Conclusion Our King H. 1. Conquered Normandy from his Brother Robert and was a Learned King as his Name Beauclerk testifies whom Juo calls An especial Establisher of Justice Sequerius relates That this King established the English Laws in Normandy Herewith do agree Gulielmus Brito Armoricus Rutclarius and other French Writers who mention also that the Laws in the Customary of Normandy are the same with the Laws collected by our English King Edward the Confessor who was before the Conqueror An additional Testimony hereof is out of William de Alenson Revile who in his Comment upon the Customary saith That all the Laws of Normandy came from the English Laws and Nation In the Customary there is a Chapter of Nampes or Distresses and Decreed that one should not bring his Action upon any Seisure but from the time of the Coronation of King Richard and this must be our King Richard 1. because no King of France was in that time of that Name and the Words Nampes and Withernams were Saxon Words taken out of the English Laws signifying a Pawn or Distress
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
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