the said Counties respectively or otherwise sufficiently Armed and furnished as you in your discretion shall appoint and require And he did not send to pay money but to relieve them by turns and if they found it for their Ease they might do their duty which by Common Allegiance is due or be at the Charge to have it done for them And then he insisted upon another Clause which is according to the Statute of 11 H. 7. in these words And further Our pleasure is and we do give and grant for us our Heirs and Successors That whatsoever you or any other person or persons of what degree soever by your Commission Warrant or Command shall do by Virtue of this Our Commission or Letters Patents or according to the Instructions aforesaid or the purport of this Our Commission touching the Execution of the Premisses both you and the said persons in shewing forth these our Letters Patents or the Constat or Inrollment thereof shall be discharged and acquitted against Us Our Heirs and Successors and freed from all Impeachment and other molestation for the same And therefore if he erred he hopes he is to be Excused for this purpose citing part of the Statute of 11 H. 7. THe King our Soveraign Lord Part of the Statute of 11 H. 7. recalling to his Remembrance the Duty and Allegiance of His Subjects and that they by reason of the same are bound to serve the King for the time to come in His Wars against every Rebellion and Power and Might c. and whatsoever falls against the mind of the Prince and that it is against all Law Reason and Conscience that attending His Person or being in other places of His Command any should lose or forfeit for doing their true Service and Obedience Be it therefore Enacted c. That from henceforth no manner of Person or Persons whatsoever that attends the King in His Person and do Him true Allegiance in His Person or be in other places in His Wars for the said Deed or true Duty he and they shall be any way convicted and Attainted of Treason nor of any other Offence by any Process of Law whereby he shall forfeit Lands Goods Tenements c. and shall be for that Deed and Service utterly discharged of any Vexation c. So that as he conceives having done nothing but for the good of his Majestie 's Service the preservation of the Countrey whatever he may have offended he hopes by the Act of Parliament and his Commission he may appear to their Lordships Justice and Compassion to a man that may Err acquitted of the Charge of High Treason For the words That Refusers were guilty of little less then High-Treason that taking it as he said for a denial of Common Allegiance it is no small Crime but it is only a single Testimony for which he takes himself not to be accomptable Mr. Maynard replyed Managers Reply That he had in stating his Case encreased not diminished his Fault for that the consent of some Gentlemen and Free-holders could not bind the rest and it is no legal way to raise money by Warrant much less by Force That he had no consent of the Lords for what he did as he pretended His Commission speaks not of money and the Statute is not to his Case it being for service on their Allegiance due to the King and levying Money Illegally is no part of that service That he did not first require men to serve but first pay and if not menaces them with Service as appears by the Warrants And to the single testimony of Sir William Ingram concerning Treason for non-payment they produced Mr. Cholmley who deposed That his Lordship said Mr. Henry Cholmley We are all tyed to serve the King in our own Persons and they that refuse are in little better case then Treason and punishable in the Star-Chamber And as he sayes the Warrants were not his it is evident they were by his Command Mr. Whitlock observed That what my Lord pleads in his Justification are sufficient grounds for his Condemnation for affirming necessity absolves the King from Rules of Government and that subjects may be taxed without assent of Parliament are expressly against the Fundamental Laws and a Course to introduce Arbitrary Government My Lord desired to speak to Mr. Cholmley 's Evidence which was new matter which he said differed from Sir William Ingram 's One sayes if money were not paid it was little better c the other he that denies his Allegiance is in little better case than Treason and punishable and for the assuming by his Commission to raise Taxes God forbid he should say or think such a thing but only to call men to perform their Duty for preservation of the King and Countrey He offered then something as to Sir William Penyman 's Warrant which he said was issued by him and the Deputy-Lieutenants Mr. Maynard replyed This was no colour of answer because a Man must serve in person therefore money must be required else he must be brought by head and shoulders to serve in person and offered a Warrant of Sir Edward Osborn 's made upon peril of Life and that all that can be imprisonment levying money charging upon peril of life levying of Goods hath been put upon the Subject Mr. Glyn added That the direction was his the execution others that Gogan 5. R. 2. was accused of Treason for forcing a man to enter into Bond which is not so much as forcing payments on the King's Subjects Then Sir Edward Osborn 's Warrant was read attested by Mr. Cholmley to be the Original in these words VVHereas His Majesty is informed Sir Edward Osborn's Warrant for Levying money that the Regiment under Command of Colonel Cholmley is set forth with little Money which expresses great disaffection to His Majesties service and wilful neglect of your own and the whole Kingdoms safety the Scotch Army having taken Newcastle and being on their march towards these parts These are therefore to Will and require you in His Majestie 's Name and by His special Command to raise and cause to be raised by the Port Constable or otherwise as you shall think best the summ of 20 s. 8 d. at least for each common Soldier 's belonging to such Towns or Parishes to send the same immediately to York to be delivered to the Colonel for Pay and Supply of the said Soldiers and likewise to charge and command all and every person and persons who find private Arms or contribute thereunto for thwith to send the like summ at least to York to be disposed as aforesaid And in case any of them refuse to contribute you are required by like Command to certifie me the Names of such refusers that a Messenger may be sent to bring them hither to serve in person and be severely punished according to the Quality of so high an offence seeing the safety of His Majestie 's Person and the safety of
of Aid and Supply to your Lordships in the Ancient and due Form But perhaps your Lordships will say you question not that general right we have of granting Subsidies that it is to receive its Birth and Being from the House of Commons but that in this particular case of Poll-money you expect a particular satisfaction and much more to see it proved that the Peerage of England were ever before rated in such a Bill For the first my Lords this way is an Ancient and a known way it began in the time of that Wise and Victorious Prince King Ed. 3. as appears upon Record in Rotulo Parliamenti de Anno 51. Ed. 3. Numero 19. And I assure my self neer upon three hundred years continuance is able to challenge both allowance and imitation from this present Age. During the Reign of R. 2. his Grand-child this course of raising money by the Poll was again put in practice as an advantagious and a speedy way Your Lordships shall find one example of it in the Parliament Roll de Anno 4. Rich. 2. n. 15. being almost the same with that rate and proportion granted in the time of Edward the Third But that Record which comes home to this case and is an identical president in the very particular before your Lordships to give you full satisfaction is found in Rotulo Parliamenti in Parliamento 2. for the miseries at home and the calamities abroad caused in one year sometimes two sometimes three Parliaments in those elder times de An. 2. Rich. 2. n. 14. where the Dukes Earls and Barons are all particularly rated and the Duke of Britain is there assessed as a Duke though he were a Free Prince and had only the Title of Earl of Richmond in England Nay my Lords the House of Commons at this time hath come far short of the same president in favour of the Noble Ladies for whereas the Countesses Dowagers were rated at the same proportions with Earls and the Widows of Barons at as high a rate as the Barons themselves we have now eased them of two parts of that and only charged them with the third I hope now your Lordships have seen both reason and president for our proceedings at this time you will be pleased to believe that the House of Commons will be as careful and tender of your Lordships Rights and Priviledges as of their own We know my Lords that this is the way to preserve peace and unity between us which as it is always expedient so is it at this time most necessary For the two Houses are as the two Arms of the Kingdom if we hold fast together we shall be able to Accomplish great things worthy to be transmitted to after-Ages but if we dissever and disunite we may end in ruin and calamity So much of the said Record as concerns the rating of the Nobility and Gentry is here added it being presented thus ready written at the said Conference Rot. Parliamen in Parliamento 2. de An. 2. Rich. 2. N. 14. Le Duc de Lancastre le Duc de Bretaigne chescun a x. Markes chescun Conte D'engleterre iiii l. Chescun Countesses veoves en Engleterre a tant come les Count iiiii l. Chescun Baron Baneret ou Chivaler qui poet a tant dispendere xl s. Chescun Baronesse veove paiera come Baron Banresse come le Baneret xl s. Chescun Bachiler chescun Esquier qui per Le statute deveroit estre Chivaler xx s. Chescun veove Dame feme de Bachiler on Esquier al afferant xx s. Chescun Esquire de meindre estate vi s. viii d. Chescun feme veoxe de tiel Esquire ou Marchant suffisant vi s. viii d. Chescun Esquier nient possession de terres ne chateux quest en service ou ad este armes iii. s. iiii d Captain Pollard this day Petitioned the House Captain Hugh Pollard Bailed that he might have liberty to go into the Country to visit his Father who lay very sick and was so far displeased with him upon the misfortune of his Accusation that he was afraid he would dis-inherit him and the Earl of Essex and another Lord offering to be Bail for him it was Ordered That by Warrant from the Speaker he should be delivered from the Gate-House to the Serjeant at Arms who was to take Bail of 1000 l. from himself and 500 l. apiece from his Bail Thursday July 1. Stannery Bill passed the Commons The Articles against the Judges Voted for his appearing upon Monday three weeks The Bill for Regulating the Court of Stanneries was this day read a third time and passed the Commons Mr. Hide reports the Articles against Judge Crawley Sir Humphrey Davenport Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Trevor Baron of the Exchequer Sir Richard Weston Baron of the Exchequer which were singly Voted and ordered to be Engrossed and a Conference to be desired with the Lords and that Sir Randal Crew 's Case be then recommended to their Lordships to move his Majesty to recompence him with Honour for his Sufferings for the Publick Upon Mr. Peard's reporting of the Case of Mr. Faunt Mr. Peard Reports Mr. Faunt's Case it was Resolved c. That the Sentence in the Star-Chamber against Sir William Faunt was without ground of any thing that appears either in answer or proof Resolved c. That the said Mr. Faunt and his Father as co-Co-executors ought to be restored to all that was paid either by Sir William Faunt or them Resolved c. That the Cause be represented to the Lords to the end the Sentence may be reversed and the Parties restored to all that they and their Testators have paid Resolved A Vote against the Council Board c. That neither the Body of the Lords of the Council nor any one of them in particular as a Privy-Councellor hath any power to imprison any Free-born Subject except in such Cases as they are warranted by the Statutes of the Realm Engrossed Articles against Lord Chief Justice Bramston Friday July 2. Lord Chief Baron Davenport the Judges Crawley Weston Trevor and Berkley voted to be carried up to the Lords The Bills against the Court of Star-Chamber and High-Commission Court Bills against Star-Chamber c. Carried up to the Lords with the amendments passed and carried up to the Lords by Mr. Capel as also the Bill for raising Mony for the speedy disbanding the Armies and to move their Lordships to desire of his Majesty his Royal Assent to them with all convenient Expedition The Bill for the Poll-mony with the Amendments were twice read in the House of Lords and agreed to with this Memorandum Memorandum A Salvo entered by the Lords about the Poll Money That a Salvo be entred for the preserving the Priviledges of Peers of this Realm for Rating and Taxing themselves in Subsidies by Members of this House in time of Parliament This day was read a third
Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage whereas no such were payable by Law did from time to time delay the respective Proprietors from having restitution of their said Goods being often in Court moved therein with intention thereby to force the Proprietors by wanting their Goods and the use thereof to pay all such Summs as the said Officers of the Customs pretended to be due to His Majesty That to the end aforesaid the said Sir Thomas Trevor and the said other Barons refused to accept of any Security to be given by the said Proprietors upon restitution had of their Goods for payment of all such Duties as should be made appear to be made payable to His Majesty in such manner as the said Barons should direct That the said Sir Thomas Trevor and other the Barons aforesaid knowing that the said Summs demanded on His Majesties behalf by the said Officers of the Customs not to be due by Law did refuse to order restitution of any part of those Goods so detained as aforesaid to the Proprietors thereof unless the said Proprietors would deposite all such Summs of Money as the said Officers respectively demanded of them for pretended Duties to His Majesty and the said Proprietors refusing to deposite the said Summs demanded the said Sir Thomas Trevor and other the Barons aforesaid did order the said Officers to detain double the value of the Summs by them demanded for pretended Duties to His Majesty and to restore the residue the said Sir Thomas Trevor and other the said Barons then knowing that the pretended Summs demanded by the said Officers were not by Law due or payable to His Majesty 2. That in or about January 4. Car. The said Officers having Seized several Merchandises of the Goods of Richard Chambers Merchant upon the pretences aforesaid did detain the same and the said Chambers Prosecuting by plaint to have his said Goods Replevied the said Sir Thomas Trevor together with the said other Barons did in like manner in the said Court of Exchequer declare the said Chambers his Goods not to be Replevisable and enjoyned the Sheriffs of London to proceed no further therein no cause to them appearing of such Seizure or Detainer And the said Sir Thomas Trevor and other the Barons of the said Court refused to order the delivery of the said Chambers his Goods upon good security offered by him to pay all such Summs as should be made appear to be due and for which the said Goods were pretended to be detained and the said Barons being often moved in Court therein did refuse to order restitution of any part of the said Chamber 's Goods until the 23. of November 5 Carol. and then ordered that the said Officers should detain in their hands double the value of the Summs by them demanded and restitution of the residue to be made to the said Chambers no cause of detaining any part of the said Goods to them in any wise appearing 3. That whereas in the Month of October in the fourth year of His said Majestie 's Reign the Farmers and Officers of the Custom-House having Seized great quantities of Currants being the Goods of Samuel Vassall Merchant and having conveyed them into certain Store-Houses at the Custom-House and detained them because the said Samuel Vassall refused to pay an Imposition of five Shillings six Pence upon every Hundred weight of the said Currants pretended to be due and demanded by the said Farmers and Officers on His Majesties behalf for the said Currants whereas no such Imposition was due or payable for the same but the said Imposition was and is against the Laws of this Realm And whereas also in Michaelmas Term in the said fourth year of His Majesties Reign His Majesties then Attorney General exhibited an Information by English Bill in the Exchequer-Chamber against the said Samuel Vassall setting forth that King James by his Letters Patents Dated the third of November in the second year of His Reign did command that the said Imposition of five Shillings six Pence upon every Hundred Weight of Currants should be demanded and received And that His Majesty that now is by His Letters Patents Dated the six and twentieth Day of July in the second year of His Reign did by Advice of his Privy Council declare His Will and Pleasure to be that Subsidies Customs and Imposts should be Levied in such manner as they were Levied in the time of King James and the same and the Farmers to continue until it might receive a setling by Parliament and commanded the Levying and receiving the same accordingly and that the said Samuel Vassall before the first Day of October then last past before the said Information Exhibited did bring into the Port of London in Ships four thousand six hundred thirty eight hundred weight of Currants and that Richard Carmarthen Surveyor in the said Port of London the said first day of October demanded of the said Samuel Vassall the said Imposition of five Shillings six Pence for every Hundred weight of the said Currants and that the said Samuel Vassall refused to pay the said Imposition and unjustly detained it from the King To which Information the said Samuel Vassal appeared and Pleaded the Statute of Magna Charta and the Statute De tallagio non concedendo and that he was a Subject Born under the King's Allegiance and a Merchant of London using that Trade and that the said Summ of five Shillings six Pence upon every Hundred weight of Currants was and is malum tolnetum and not antiqua seu recta consuetudo and that it was imposed without assent of Parliament To which Plea the said Attorney General demurred in Law and the said Samuel Vassall joyned in demurrer with him That he the said Sir Thomas Trevor being then and yet one of the Barons of His Majesties Court of Exchequer together with the rest of the then Barons of the said Court knowing the said Currants to be unlawfully Seized and detained for the pretended Duty of five Shillings six Pence Imposition upon every Hundred weight of the said Currants whereas no such Imposition was payable by Law did from time to time delay the said Samuel Vassall from having restitution of his said Goods being often in Court moved therein with intention thereby to enforce the said Samuel Vassall by wanting the said Goods and the use thereof to pay all such Summs as the said Officers of the Customs pretended to be due to His Majesty and Imprisoned the said Samuel Vassall because he refused to pay such Summs of Money as were demanded of him for the said unlawful Imposition and that in Trinity Term in the sixth year of His Majesties Reign the said case coming to be argued in open Court upon the demurrer the said Sir Thomas Trevor contrary to his Oath and contrary to the Laws of this Realm and to the great impoverishment of the said Samuel Vassall did together with the rest of the then Barons of the said Court of Exchequer give
a Conference by the Earl of Bath to the Commons THese are to signifie to this House That whereas He sent an Answer this day to both Houses concerning the Third Head lest there should be any mistake upon the word Slander His Majesty declares he did not mean all of either House of Parliament or any Members thereof Upon the Reading of the Petition of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury concerning his payment of Poll-mony It was Ordered Order of the Lords about the Arch-Bishops paying Poll-Money To be left to be paid according to the Act of Parliament The House for freer Debate was put into a Committee to consider of the Court of York and to give judgment herein and after much Debate the House was reassumed and it was Resolved upon the Question by the Major Part Resolves of the Lords concerning the Court at York That the Commission and Instructions whereby the President and Council of the North exercise a Jurisdiction is Illegal both in the Creation and Execution Resolved c. That this Commission and Instructions is unprofitable to His Majesty Resolved upon the Question Nemine Contradicente That this Commission and Instructions is inconvenient and grievous to His Majesties Subjects of those Parts Resolved upon the Question Nemine Contradicente That this House doth joyn with the House of Commons in beseeching His Majesty that the Present Commission and Instructions may be revoked and no such granted for the Future MEmorandum A Salvo for the Judges of the Court of York This House doth declare seeing the Commission and Instructions of the Court of York is Illegal in the Creation and Execution that the former Judges in the Court of York who have given Judgement and proceeded as they thought in their Consciences upon True and Legal Grounds shall not be liable to be Questioned but in case of Injustice and that none in that Case shall be barred of their Appeal And if it appear that there is a Necessity for the Ease of that Country to have a Court this House will advise with the House of Commons how one may be Established by Law for the Ease of those Parts And the Earl of Essex Earl of Bristol Viscount Say and Seal Bishop of Lincoln Lord Wharton Lord Kimbolton were appointed to prepare Heads for a Conference with the Commons concerning the aforesaid Particulars that so the Persons that were Judges and the Acts of that Court may have a Saving for them If humane Bodies and Minds are subject to the secret Influences of the Heavenly Bodies certainly England and the rest of the Brittish Dominions were at this time under the Aspects of some Violent and Malignant Configurations and there seemed to be an Universal Inclination in the People every where to Tumults Mutinies Violence and Injustice the Lords House was full of Complaints of the Disorders of this Nature throwing up Inclosures and disturbing the Possessions of others and that not singly but by Multitudes and with such Arms as Rusticks are wont to make Use of upon such Occasions of their Madness And of this the Lords were so sensible that they made this following Order WHereas daily Complaints are made unto this House of violent breaking into Possessions Order of the Lords concerning Violent and Tumultuous breaking into Possessions July 13. 1641. and Inclosures in Riotous and Tumultuous manner in several parts of this Kingdom without any due proceedings by Course of Law to warrant the same which hath been observed to have been more frequently done since this Parliament began then formerly it is thought fit and so Ordered by the Lords in Parliament That no Inclosure or Possession shall be Violently and in a Tumultuous manner disturbed or taken away from any man which was in Possession the first Day of this Parliament or before but by due Course and Form of Law and that such Possessions of all men shall continue and remain unto them as they were on the first Day of this Meeting of Parliament unless it have been or shall be by some Legal way of proceeding in some of His Majesties Courts of Law or Equity or by some Act or Order of the Parliament determined or ordered to the Contrary And in all such Cases where any such unlawful disturbance of the quiet Possession of any man hath happened or shall happen the High Sheriff of the County shall have Power by virtue of this Order together with two of the Justices of the Peace of the said County next or near to the place and such other or others as he or they shall think fit to take with him or them to repair unto the place where such Tumults happen to be and appease and quiet the Possession of the said Lands and Inclosures so disturbed as aforesaid and shall see to and cause that the Possession be continued unto the present Owners as aforesaid until by a Legal Course in some Court of Law or Equity or by order of Parliament it be determined or Ordered to the contrary The Lord Bishop of Lincoln Reported Report about the Officers of the Star-Chamber That the Lords Committees appointed to Consider of the Petition of the Officers of the Star-Chamber have fully heard their Cause and they are of Opinion and do not conceive of any fitter way of Relief for these Poor Officers the King's Servants then to remit them to the King's Mercy that His Majesty would be Graciously pleased to allow a Proportionable Relief for these Poor men out of such Fines as may accrue unto His Majesty in the High Court of Parliament to be apportioned by the Lords of the Committees or otherwise as their Lordships shall be pleased to approve thereof and Order it Upon Report this Day made unto the House by the Right Honourable the Lord Seymour that the difference between the Parishioners of St. Report about the Rioters at St. Thomas the Apostle's in pulling down the Rails Thomas the Apostle complained of to the Lords in Parliament was composed by his Lordship to whom the business was referred It is Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the High Court of Parliament Assembled that the said difference together with the Cause depending before their Lordships shall by virtue of this Order be fully ended and determined and Lastly that John Blackwell shall for himself others Petitioned against forthwith pay unto the Overseers of the Poor of that Parish upon sight hereof to the use of the said Poor the full Summ of ten Pounds of Lawful Money of England and hereof they are not to fail as they will answer to the contrary There being a Report spread abroad that His Majesty intended to send the Lord Digby abroad under some honourable Character Tuesday July 13. and as was said Ambassadour into France his Enemies in the House of Commons being extreamly nettled at it were resolved if possible to set a brand of Infamy upon his Lordship and therefore not content to have disgracefully Expelled him
said Propositions and Designs which said Propositions Designs and Consultations the said Henry Wilmot c. did not discover but consented to the same Resolved c. That the said Henry Wilmot William Ashburnham Hugh Pollard Sir John Berkley and Daniel Oneal being afterwards Lawfully Examined in Parliament upon their Oaths touching the Premisses did wholly deny the same and the said Sir John Berkley and Daniel Oneal being thereupon questioned did fly for the same The further Debate of this matter was put off until Wednesday at 8 of the Clock Munday July 26. Bill for Northern Counties passed the Lords Lord Majors Case about Electing one Sheriff c. heard The Earl of Bath Reported the Bill for securing of Mony to the Northern Counties c. And being put to the Question it was Resolved to pass The Petition of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London and the Petition of the Commonalty of the said City were read and after Councel on both sides had had a full hearing concerning the Election of a Sheriff and other Officers the House of Lords taking the whole business into consideration Ordered That this Cause should be determined on Saturday morning next in case the Lord Mayor and the Commonalty did not agree and compose the matter in Question in the mean time This was a very perplexing Case at this time for the Parliament were about to borrow 40000 l. of the City to disband the Armies and if the Cause had been determined either way in probability it would have given a stop to that Affair but more especially if it had been decided in favour of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen who could not easily have raised that Sum without the Assistance of the most wealthy of the Commonalty The Lord Chamberlain signified to the House Letters about the Army That he had received divers Letters from the Lord General which he thought fit to acquaint the House with As a Letter desiring to know a certain day for disbanding of both Armies Likewise a Letter sent to the Lord General from the Gentlemen in the Bishoprick of Durham complaining of the burthen of the Soldiers there And also a List of the Number of the Five Regiments which are disbanded being 5817 Men All which being read the Lord Chamberlain had leave from this House to Communicate them to the House of Commons Tuesday July 27. Petition out of Oxfordshire against Bishops A Petition of the Ministers and People of Oxfordshire and Barkshire against Bishops was this day read in the Commons House and referred to the Committee for the Ministers Remonstrance A Message from the House of Commons by Sir John Culpeper 7 Bills brought up by Sir John Culpeper who brought up Seven Bills which had passed that House Viz. 1. An Act for the declaring unlawful and void the late proceedings touching Ship-mony and for vacating of all Records and Process concerning the same 2. An Act for the preventing of vexatious proceedings touching the Order of Knighthood 3. An Act for the free bringing in of Gun-Powder and Salt-Petre from forreign Parts and for the free making of Gun-Powder in this Realm 4. An Act to settle the Mannor of Belgraves and other Lands in the County of Leicester to and upon William Byerley Esq his Heirs and Assigns for and towards the payment of the Debts of William Davenport Esq Deceased 5. An Act to enable Sir Alexander Denton Knight to sell the Mannor of Barvard alias Barford St. Michael and other Lands in this present Act mentioned for the payment of his Debts and preferment of his younger Children 6. An Act for Alteration of the Estate and Tenure of some Lands within the Parish of Fulham in the County of Middlesex held of the Lord Bishop of London as of the Mannor of Fulham 7. An Act for the making of the Chappel of Hoole in the County of Lancaster a Parish Church and no part of the Parish of Crosston  l. s. d. Sir John Hotham Reports Report of the Charge of the Armies That to disband the Army requires 242619 11 03 Toward which there is paid 152119 11 03 Remains to be provided 90500 00 00 The Charge of the Garrisons 40000 00 00 Total 130500 00 00 When the Earl of Warwick hath Received and Paid the 50000 00 00 There will Remain due to the Scots 53000 00 00 Besides the Remainder of the Brotherly assistance 80000 00 00 Total due to the Scots 133000 00 00 The Engrossed Bill for Confirmation of His Majesties Letters Patents to the Town of Plymouth Plymonth Bill passed and for dividing the Parish and building a new Church there was read the Third time in the Lords House and being put to the Question it was Resolved to pass as a Law Then the Speaker signified Message from the King to the Lords about Commissions in his absence That His Majesty Commanded him to acquaint their Lordships that because he intends his Journey tawards Scotland upon Monday come Sevennight and in regard that in his absence heretofore he hath left behind him Two Commissions the one directed unto the Lords of the Privy Council for ordering of the Affairs of State and the issuing out of Proclamations upon Emergent Occasions and the other Authorising a Person of Honour to be Captain General for the levying of Forces on this side Trent if there should be any necessity for the safety of the Kingdom His Majesty now thinks it fit to issue out the like Commissions for the said Publick Services in his absence with some Variations and Omissions according to the Occasions and hath named the Lord Chamberlain to be Captain General on this side Trent but His Majesty would execute nothing therein until he had made the same known to both Houses of Parliament desiring their Concurrence and Assistance in all his great Affairs Further it was signified from His Majesty That the Spanish Ambassador did send a Writing unto His Majesty wherein he presseth His Majesty for some of the Irish Companies lately disbanded to be employed in the Service of the King of Spain and that His Majesty hath Commanded that the said Writing shall be Communicated to both Houses of Parliament and he desires their Advice therein Upon which a Conference was desired by the Lords at which the Lords declared their Resolution That they would do nothing in it till Three Points were cleared First That the Ambassadour should set down the particular number of Men he desires Secondly The time When. Thirdly The manner How and the Place from Whence he intends to Transport the Soldiers Mr. Hambden made a Report from the Earl of Pembroke Mr. Hambden Reports the Letter from the Queen of Bohemia That he had received Letters from the Queen of Bohemia wherein she gave humble thanks to the Parliament for their Regard and Consideration of her There was also another Letter read from the Earl of Holland to desire That both Armies might be disbanded together for