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

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