For the City and County of the City of Lincoln the Major for the time being and Thomas Grantham Esquire For the West Riding of the County of York Ferdinando Lord Fairfax Sir Edward Roads Sir William Strickland Henry Cholmley Esquire For the East Riding Sir Marmaduke Langdale John Allured Esquire For the North Riding Thomas Hebblethwait Esquire Sir Henry Anderson Sir Henry Slingsby John Wastell Esquire For the City and County of the City of York the Lord Major for the time being Sir Thomas Widdrington and Sir William Allison For the County of Sussex Sir Thomas Pellham Mr. Shelley Mr. William Hay For the Ports in Sussex William Hay Herbert Morley Esquire For the County of Bucks Sir William Andrews Baronet Sir Alexander Denton Knight Sir John Parsons For the County of Berks Sir George Stonehouse Sir John Bacchus Roger Knight Esquire For the County of Cornwal Sir Richard Carey Baronet Alexander Carey Esquire Sir Richard Butler Knight For the County of Cumberland Richard Barwick Esquire William Pennington of Seaton Esquire For the County of Cambridge Sir Dudley North Sir John Cutts Thomas Chichely Thomas Wendy and Thomas Symonds Esquires For the County of Devon Sir Samuel Rolle Sir John Bramfield Baronet For the City of Exceter the Major for the time being For the County of Dorset Sir Walter Erle Sir Thomas Trenchard Knights For the County of Essex Sir Harbottle Grimston Sir Richard Everard Sir Thomas Bendish Sir Robert Kemp. For the County of Gloucester Henry Bret Esquire Sir Robert Cook Edward Stevens Thomas Hodges Esquires For the City and County of the City of Gloucester the Major for the time being and the two Ancient Aldermen For the County of Huntingdon Sir Sydney Mountague Anslow Winch Esquire Tirel Josseline Esquire Henry Cromwel Esquire For the County of Hertford Edward Chester Edward Wingate Esquires John Butler For the County of Hereford Walter Kerle Esquire Sir William Crofts Knight John Scudamore of Kenchurch James Kirle Edward Broughton Esquires For the County of Kent Mr. Edward Boyes Sir Thomas Walsingham Sir Edward Partridge Knights Richard Lee Esquire For the City and County of the City of Canterbury Sir Edward Masters Knight and for the Ports in Kent and their Members Sir Edward Boys Knight For the County of Leicester Sir Arthur Haslerigg Thomas Lord Grey For the County of Middlesex Sir John Danvers Sir William Roberts Sir Henry Roe Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir John Franklyn For the City of Westminster Sir Robert Pye William Wheeler John Glyn Esquires For the City of London the Lord Major Thomas Soame Isaak Pennington Aldermen Samuel Vassal and Captain John Ven Merchants Members of the House of Commons For the County of Northampton Edward Montague Esquire Sir John Dryden Sir Christopher Yelverton Zouch Tate Esquire For the County of Norfolk Sir John Potts Sir Thomas Woodhouse Sir Edmond Moundeford For the City and County of Norwich the Major for the time being For the County of Northumberland Sir John Fennicke Henry Ogle Thomas Middleton William Shafto of Babington Esquires Town of New-Castle the Major for the time being Mr. Ledyard For the Town of Barwick Sir Robert Jackson Mr. John Sleigh Gent. William Fenwick Gent. For the County of Oxon. James Fynes Sir William Cobb Sir Thomas Penniston and John Doyley Esquire For the County of Rutland Sir Guy Palmes Sir Edward Harrington Robert Horseman Esquire For the County of Surrey Sir John Evelyn Sir Ambrose Brown Baronet For the County of Salop Sir Richard Newport Mr. Richard Moore Charles Baldwin Esquire For the County of Southampton Richard Whitehead Esquire Sir William Lewis Town of Southampton Major for the time being For the County of Suffolk Sir Roger North Sir Robert Crane Robert Reynolds Esquire Sir William Platers William Cage Esquire For the County of Somerset Sir John Horner Sir John Pawlet Knights John Pyne Esquire City of Bristol the Major for the time being John Gunning John Tomlinson For the County of Westmorland Sir Philip Musgrave Knight and Baronet Sir Henry Bellingham Gawin Braithwait Esquire For the County of Wilts Sir Nevil Poole Anthony Hungerford Esquire For the County of Worcester Humphrey Solloway Esquire Edward Dingley Edward Pitt Thomas Rouse Esquire City of Worcester the Major for the time being For the County of Warwick Sir Richard Skeffington William Combes Esquire John Hales Richard Shugborough Esquires For the City and County of Coventry the Major for the time being Alderman Million John Barr Esquire For the City of Litchfield the Bailiffs for the time being For the County of Anglesey Thomas Buckley Owen Wood Esquires For the County of Pembroke Henry Williams Thomas Gwyn William Morgan Esquires For the County of Carnarvan Thomas Glyn of Nantley William Thomas Owen Wynn Thomas Madrin Esquires For the County of Denbigh Thomas Middleton John Loyd William Wyn Esquire For the County of Flynt Thomas Mostyn Humphry Dymock John Eaton John Salisbury Esquires For the County of Glamorgan William Herbert Sir Thomas Lyne Miles Buton Esquires For the County of Merioneth William Salisbury Esquire Sir James Price Knight For the County of Pembrook Sir Richard Philips Baronet Sir Hugh Owen Knight and Baronet For the County of Montgomery Arthur Price Esquire Richard Griffith Edward Vaughan Esquires For the County of Radnor Thomas Lewis Robert Williams Richard Jones Esquires For the County Palatine of Durham Sir Lionel Madidson Sir Alexander Hall George Lilburn Clement Fulthorp For the County of Cardigan Walter Loyd James Lewis Esquires For the County of Carmarthen Richard Earl of Carberry Francis Loyd Esquire For the County of Monmouth Sir William Morgan Thomas Morgan William Herbert of Colebrook William Baker of Abergany Sir Robert Cooke Sir Charles Williams James Kirke Esquires Which said Persons so appointed and nominated or any one or more of them together with the Justices of the Peace of every Shire County or Riding respectively or any one or more of them or the Major Bailiffs Justices of the Peace Jurats or other Head-Officers within any City or Town Corporate or other Priviledged places or any one or more of them respectively shall have Power and are hereby authorized and required to do and perform all and every such thing and things as shall be necessary to the due execution of this present Ordinance according to the Instructions herewith annexed which said Instructions are hereby Ordered and Commanded to be duly observed and executed by all and every Person and Persons whom it shall or may appertain as they will answer the contrary at their Perils This Ordinance to continue no longer then till the end of this present Session of Parliament Instructions appointed by Ordinance of Parliament to the Persons thereby Authorized for the Disarming of Popish Recusants Instructions to the Comissioners for Disarming Popish Recusants and others and other dangerous Persons I. SUch Members of the House of Commons and other Persons as in and by the said Ordinance are particularly named and appointed or any one or more of them and the Justices
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Next the Bishop of Linclon reported that at the same Conference Mr. Nichols that was sent into Scotland to his Majesty from both Houses reported That he had delivered the Petition and the Draught of the Commission to his Majesty but his Majesty thought not fit to sign it for these Reasons which he commanded him to signify to the Parliament 1 That his Majesty conceives the Treaty of Pacification The King's Reasons for not signing the Commission sent into Scotland by Mr. Nichols from both Houses between the two Kingdoms is already ratified by the Parliament of Scotland 2 If this Commission should be granted it would beget new Matter 3 It would be a means to keep his Majesty longer there then he intended to stay 4 That the Scots Army is over the Tweed and that the Lord General hath almost Disbanded all Our Army and hath begun with the House A Letter from the Lord General was read declaring Contents of a Letter from the Lord General That he will pursue the Orders of Parliament in disbanding the Army but he understands that the Scots will keep 5000 Men undisbanded until our Army be all disbanded and our Fortifications at Barwick and Carlisle slighted and that to this purpose he had received Directions from his Majesty to demolish the Fortifications and remove the Ordnance and Munition from thence The Bishop of Lincoln Reported the Conference with the Commons concerning Disarming Recusants to this Effect THat the House of Commons had taken into consideration the Store of Arms in this Kingdom and they find The Conference about disarming Recusants Aug. 30. 1641. that there are many Arms in the hands of Popish Recusants for disarming of whom the House of Commons have frequently recommended to this House the disarming of them according to the Stat. of 3 Jac. but they have found that the good came not by this Statute as was intended for upon Indictments for Recusancy there were Certioraris's granted Therefore the House of Commons have taken these things into consideration again and the rather because of the Kings absence at this time in Scotland and that the time of the Recess draws nigh and considering the late Troubles of this Kingdom whch are not yet settled the House of Commons have considered of an Ordnance of Parliament and some Instructions to be given unto such Commissioners as they have named to see to the disarming of Popish Recusants according to the Statute of 3 Jacobi which Ordinance and Instruction they present to their Lordships desiring them to joyn with them herein Then the aforesaid Ordinance and Instructions were read in haec verba An Ordinance made and agreed by the Lords and Commons in Parliament for the speedy disarming of Popish Recusants and other dangerous Persons The Ordinance of Parliament for Disarming Recusants WHereas for the preventing and avoiding of dangers that might grow by Popish Recusants Provision hath been heretofore made by Act of Parliament for the disarming of all Popish Recusants convicted within this Realm which said Law hath not taken so good effect as was intended by Reason such Recusants and Persons Popishly affected have by subtle practices and indirect means kept themselves from being convicted or being outwardly conformable have caused or suffered their Children Grand-children and Servants to be bred up and maintained up in the Popish Religion and have otherways hindred the due Execution of the said Law to the great danger and grievance of the Common-wealth And for that it is too manifest that the said Popish Recusants have always had and still have and do practise most dangerous and pernicious designs against the Church and State and by the Laws of this Realm in times of imminent danger or of any forcible Attempts Designs or Practises against the Peace and Safety thereof all Armor Weapons and other Provisions that may tend or be imployed to the effecting of such mischievous Designs ought timely to be removed and taken away and all fit means used for the securing of the Peace and safety of the Realm And for the preventing of such further mischiefs as may happen by any Outrage or Violence to be offered It is therefore Ordained and Provided by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That all such Arms Gun-powder and Munition of what kind soever as any Popish Recusant convicted or any Person or other which is or shall be Indicted for such Recusancy and such Indictments either are or shall be removed by Certiorari or being not removed shall not by Appearance and Traverse or otherwise be Legally discharged before this Ordinance be put in execution or which shall not have repaired to Church more then once in every Month or shall not have received the Holy Communion according to the Rites of the Church of England within one whole year next before the making hereof and which shall refuse to take the Oaths of Supremacy or Allegiance upon Lawful Tender thereof made or whose Children or Grand-children or any of them being at his or her dispose or living in the House with them is or shall be bred up in the Popish Religion or have not repaired to Church within one year next before the making of this Ordinance according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm or whose Houshold Servants or any two or more of them is or shall be of the Popish Religion hath or shall have in his and their House or Houses or elsewhere or in the hands and possession of any other to his or their use or at his or their disposition other then such necessary Weapons as shall be thought fit by the Persons Authorized to take and Seize the said Munition to remain and be allowed Arms for the defence of the Person or House of such Recusant or Person aforesaid shall forthwith be taken from every such Popish Recusant or Person as aforesaid and from all others which shall have the same to the use of any such Popish Recusant or Person by such Person and Persons as are and shall be by this Ordinance appointed and authorized in that behalf for every Shire County and Riding within this Realm and Dominion of Wales that is to say For the County of Bedford Sir Oliver Luke Sir Beuchamp St. John Sir Roger Burgoigne Knight For the County of Lancaster John Moor Alexander Rigby Esquire Members of the House of Commons and the two Knights that Serve for that County For Cheshire Sir William Brereton Baronet Peter Vennables Esquire For the City of Chester Francis Gamull Esquire the Major for the time being For the County of Stafford Sir Edward Littleton and Sir Richard Levison For the County of Derby Sir John Curson William Allestre Esquire For the County of Nottingham Sir Thomas Hutchinson Robert Sutton Esquire For the Town and County of Nottingham Sir Thomas Hutchinson Robert Sutton Esquire and the Major for the time being For the County of Lincoln Thomas Hatcher Thomas Grantham and John Broxholm Esquires
any Loss in their Fat 's Panns or otherwise by occasion of the Corporation of Westminster Resolved c. That the Obligation entred into by the Soapers of London to his Majesty upon their Deliverance out of Prison upon the Sentence of Star-Chamber conditioned that they would not make any more Soap without the License of the Corporation of Westminster were Illegal and contrary to the Liberty of the Subject Resolved c. That Sir John Hales Francis Plowdon Fitz Williams Conisby Delinquents about the Soap-Patent sent for by the Serjeant at Arms. Edmund Windham John Gifford George Vaughan _____ Stradlings shall be sent for as Delinquents by the Serjeant at Arms attending this House It was Ordered That according to the Order of the Ninth of November last Mr. Fitz Williams Conisby shall be expelled this House he being a Monopolist and that the Speaker Issue out a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for a Writ for a new Election for a Member to serve for the County of Hertford in his Place It was also Ordered Burgess to Preach before the Commons November 5th Monday Novemb. 1. The News of the Irish Rebellion which broke out upon Saturday October 23. That Doctor Burgess shall be desired to Preach before this House upon the Fifth of November This day the Lord Keeper informed the House of Lords That the Lord Lieutenant General of Ireland having yesterday Morning received a Pacquet of Letters and Examinations from the Justices and Council of Ireland discovering an Insurrection and Treason in that Kingdom and that the Rebels have already committed divers Murders and fired Houses and Villages of the Protestants there Vpon this the Privy-Council met at White-Hall and considering it to be a Matter of so great Importance thought it not fit to omit any Opportunity nor loose Time therefore because this House was appointed not to sit until this Afternoon * The L. Keeper the L. P. Seal L. High Chamberlain E. Marshal L. Admiral L. Chamberlain E. of Bath E. of Dorset E. of Leicester E. of Warwick E. of Holland E. of Berks E. of Bristol L. Viscount Say and Seal L. Mandeville L. Goring L. Willmot acquaint the Commons with the Irish Rebellion After they had staied a little Chairs were brought them and the Speaker desired them in the Name of the House to sit and be covered the Lords of the Council as Privy Counsellors thought it expedient to communicate the same speedily to the House of Commons and this Morning in a full House their Lordships in Person caused the Letters and Examinations concerning the Business to be publickly read unto them and desired the House of Commons to take the same into Consideration Hereupon the Letters and Examinations were read first a Letter which was sent from the Council of Ireland to the Lord Lieutenant General as follows May it please Your Lordship ON Friday the 22th of this Month after Nine of the Night The Letter from the Council of Ireland to the Lord Lieutenant General of the Discovery of the Irish Rebellion this Bearer Owen Connelly Servant to Sir John Clotworthy Knight came to me the Lord Chief Justice Parsons to my House in great secresie as indeed the Case did require and discovered unto me a most wicked and damnable Conspiracy plotted and contrived and intended to be also acted by some evil affected Irish Papists here The Plot was on the then next Morning Saturday the 23 of October being * * Ignatius Loyola not the Martyr Ignatius the Tutelar St. of Romish Rebels Ignatius Day about Nine of the Clock to surprize His Majesties Castle of Dublin His Majesties chiefest strength of this Kingdom wherein also is the principal Magazine of His Majesties Arms and Munition And it was agreed it seems among them that at the same hour all other His Majesties Forts and Magazines of Arms and Munition in this Kingdom should be surprised by others of the Conspirators And further That all the Protestants and English throughout the whole Kingdom that would not joyn with them should be cut off and so those Papists should then become possessed of the Government and Kingdom at the same Instant As soon as I had that Intelligence I then immediately repaired to the Lord Justice Borlace and thereupon we Instantly Assembled the Council and having sat in Council all that night as also all the next day the 23 of October in regard of the short time left us for the Consultation of so great and weighty a matter although it was not possible for us upon so few hours warning to prevent those other great mischiefs which were to be acted even at that same hour and that at so great distance as in all the other parts of the Kingdom yet such was our industry therein having caused the Castle that Night to be strengthned with Armed Men and the City Guarded as the wicked Councels of those Evil Persons by the great Mercy of God to us became defeated so as they were not able to act that part of their Treachery which indeed was principally intended and which if they could have effected would have rendred the rest of their Purposes the more easie Having so secured the Castle we forthwith laid about for the Apprehension of as many of the Offenders as we could many of them having come to this City but that night intending it seems the next morning to act their Parts in those Treacherous and Bloody Crimes The first man apprehended was one Hugh Mac-Mahon Esq Grand-son to the Traytor Tyrone a Gentleman of a good fortune in the County of Monoghan who with others that morning was taken in Dublin having at the time of their apprehension offered a little resistance with their Swords drawn but finding those we imployed against them more in Number and better Armed yielded He upon Examination before us at first denied all but in the end when he saw we laid it home to him he confessed enough to destroy himself and impeach some others as by a Copy of his Examination herewith sent may appear to your Lordship We have committed him until we might have further time to Examine him again our time being become more needful to be imployed in Action for securing the Place then in Examining This Mr. Mac-Mahon had been abroad and served under the King of Spain as a Lieutenant Colonel upon Conference with him and others and calling to mind a Letter which we received before from Sir William Cole a Copy whereof we send your Lordship here inclosed we gathered that the Lord Mac-guire was to be an Actor in surprizing the Castle of Dublin wherefore we held it necessary to secure him immediately thereby also to startle and deterr the rest when they found him laid fast His Lordship observing what we had done and the City in Arms fled from his Lodging early before Day it seems disguised for we had laid a Watch about his Lodging so as we think he could not pass without
Trevor of Council for the Bishops Order for Security of the Merchants at Venice and to present a List of their Names to the House It was this Day Ordered That Mr. Arthur Trever shall be Assigned to be of Council with the Lords the Bishops that are Impeached It was moved That least the Merchants at Venice may suffer for the opening of the Venetian Ambassador's Letters here that a Committee might be appointed to consider of some Dispatch to be sent to the King's Agent at Venice to let him know what Satisfaction hath been given by the House of Lords to the Ambassador here that so he may be the better enabled and Instructed how to apply himself to the State there to give them Satisfaction And the same Lords that went to the Ambassador were appointed to do it Then the Lord Privy Seal reported the last Conference That the Commons had given in a List of the Prime Papists Nobility Knights and Gentlemen in the Counties of Warwick Southampton Dorset Worcester Bucks Lancaster Pembroke and Stafford which they desired might be secured for the Safety of the Kingdom in this time of Danger Then was read an Ordinance which the Commons desired the Lords to joyn with them in which was as followeth THe Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament having received Informations of dangerous Designs and Practises An Ordinance Issue out upon Beal's Information by Priests and Jesuits and Ill-Affected Persons to disturb the Peace of this State and the Proceedings of Parliament and to attempt upon the Persons of many of the Members of both Houses And well knowing That there is no way to prevent the Mischief which the Malice of such Men may suddainly bring upon the Realm to the utter Subversion of our Religion Laws and Liberties but by putting the Kingdom into a Posture of Defence and so to be ready upon all Occasions to oppose Force to Force They the Lords and Commons have thought fit to Appoint and Ordain and do hereby Appoint and Ordain the Earl of Essex to have the Trained Bainds of the several Counties in readiness and do hereby give him Power to command them whensoever there shall be need to March and Gather themselves into a Body and to oppose and set upon all those who shall attempt or do any thing which may be prejudicial to the Publick Peace or Dangerous to the Parliament in General or to any of the Members of Parliament in particular and they the said Lord and Commons do likewise hereby and injoyn all the Trained-Bands of the several Counties and every particular Person who is Officer or Soldier of the Trained-Bands to be obedient to the Commands of the said Earl as they will Answer the contrary at their Perils A Message was brought from the House of Commons by Sir William Armyn Baronet A further Account at a Conference of Beal's Plot. to desire a free Conference by a Committee of both Houses touching the safety of the Kingdom At which the Commons acquainted their Lordships That they have discovered some things further concerning the Plot which was related by Beal for upon Examination they are informed That there are two such Priests as Father Jones and Father Andrews Jones they understand is here in Town at the Earl of Worcester 's House and Andrews is described to be near 50 Years of Age and uses to come much to Sir Basil Brook 's House And they let their Lordships know That the House of Commons have caused a Guard to be set about the Earl of Worcester 's House and have Ordered That his House shall be searched but because he is a Peer of this House they have first acquainted their Lordships therewith This Information was given to the Commons by one Mr. Wadsworth The House of Commons further thinks fit that a Declaration be made That whosoever of the 108 Men designed to do this mischief shall come in and discover the same both Houses will be humble Suitors to the King that they may be Pardoned and they shall be well Rewarded They also desired That the Lords would be pleased to joyn with them in the Ordinance concerning the Earl of Essex and the like Ordinance they desire may be for the Earl of Holland that he may Command the Trained Bands on the North side the Trent and that they may Nominate particular Men of Trust in every County to take care of the Militia that the People may know whom to resort unto That the Isle of Wight may be secured by sequestring it into another hand for the present That the Forts and Castles of this Kingdom may be secured Lastly That search may be made in the City and the Liberties for all Priests and Jesuits and for all suspected Persons and that their Names and Conditions may be delivered in to the Parliament Hereupon it was Ordered That James Maxwel Esq Gentleman Vsher to the Lords should joyn with any such as the House of Commons shall appoint and imploy for the Searching of the Earl of Worcester 's house and any other Recusants houses being the King's Subjects for the apprehending and taking of any Romish Priests and Jesuits whatsoever It was also moved from the Committee of the House of Commons That Monsieur St. German and Peter de Chair may be Sworn and afterwards Examined by the deputed Lords And it was Declared That any Peer of this House may be present at the said Examination if he please To swell the Tide of Fears and Dangers Information of dangers in Lancashire the Lord Wharton informed the House That he had received a Letter from the Lord Strange Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire which had some particulars in it fit for this House to know The Letter was read wherein it was said That his Lordship was upon his Guard that some in that County were stronger than he and that if ever need was to look to Lancashire in our time it was now Upon which the Lord Wharton was commanded to give thanks from the House to the Lord Strange for his timely Information of the danger of that County Thomas Wall Wall committed to the Fleet for disobeying the Order of the House one of the Door-keepers of the House being called in to give an account of the delivery of the Order to the Justices of Middlesex and London for the searching for Priests and Jesuits last night confessed That he did not deliver them the last night but early this morning for which neglect of his in a matter of that Consequence he was committed to the Fleet until the pleasure of the House be further known and never to attend upon the House any longer The Lord Strange's Letter being sent to the Commons Conference about the L. Strange's Letter they deâ—â—red a Conference which the Lord Keeper Reported to this Effect That they give their Lordships thanks for Communicating to them the Lord Strange 's Letter by which and other Relations from Members of their House they hold that there