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
May it please your Lordships WE have received your Letters of the third of this Instant The Answer of the Lords of the Pale to the Lords Justices Dec. 7. 1641. intimating that you had present occasions to confer with us concerning the present State of the Kingdom and the safety thereof in these times of danger and requiring us to be with you there on the eighth day of this Instant we give your Lordships to understand that we have heretofore presented our selves before your Lordships and freely offered our advice and furtherance towards the particulars aforesaid which was by you neglected which gave us cause to conceive that our Loyalty was suspected by you We give your Lordships further to understand that we have received certain Advertisement that Sir Charles Coot Knight at the Council Board hath uttered some Speeches tending to a purpose and resolution to Execute upon those of our Religion a general Massacre by which we are all deterred to wait on your Lordships not having any security for our safety from these threatned Evils or the safety of our Lives but do rather think it fit to stand upon our best guard until we hear from your Lordships how we shall be secured from these Perils Nevertheless we all protest that we are and will continue both Faithful Advisers and resolute furtherers of his Majesties service concerning the present State of the Kingdom and the safety thereof to our best Abilities and so with the said tender of our humble service we remain Your Lordships humble Servants Fingale Slaine Netterville Lowth Gormanston Dunsany Oliver Trimbleston Decemb. 7. Received 11. 1641. To the Right Honourable our very good Lords the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland For much about this time the Lords of the Pale had entered into a Combination with the Vlster Rebels as appears by the Deposition of Edward Dowdall Esq a Gentleman of the Pale who was present at the whole Management of this Affair and deeply concerned in all their Councels and Actions who Deposed before Sir Rob. Meredith Chancellour of the Exchequer as followeth HE Deposeth The Deposition of Mr. Dowdall concerning the Treaty between the Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale and the Ulster Rebels That some four or five days after the defeat of the English Souldiers at the Bridge of Gellianstown there Issued a Warrant from the Lord of Gormanston to the Sheriff of the County for a general Meeting of all the County of Dulick But the Place of Meeting was afterwards changed to the Hill of Crofty where all the Lords and Gentry of the Country met viz. The Earl of Fingale the Lord Viscount Gormanston the Lord of Slaine the Lord of Lowth the Lord of Dunsany the Lord of Trimblestone the Lord Nettervile And of the Gentry Sir Patrick Barnwall Sir Christopher Bellow Patrick Barnwall of Kilbrew Nicholas Darcy of Plattin James Bath of Acharn Garret Ailmer the Lawyer Cusake of Gormanston William Mallone of Lesmullin Sedgrave of Kileglan Linch of the Knos Lynam of Adamstown Laurence Doudal of Athlumney Nicholas Doudal of Brownstown this Examinates Brother and him this Examinate with a Multitude of others to the number of 1000. Persons at the least whose names he this Examinate cannot for the present call to mind And after about two or three hours spent upon the said Hill of Crofty by the Lords and Gentry aforesaid There came towards them Collonel Mahowne Philip O Rely Hugh Boy Rely Roger Moore Hugh Birne and Captain Fox attended on with a Guard of Musqueteers And this Examinate saith That as soon as the Parties drew near unto the said Hill the Lords and Gentry of the Pale rode towards them and the Lord of Gormanstone being one of the first spake unto them and demanded of them Why and for what reason they came Armed into the Pale Vnto which Roger Moore made present Answer That the Ground of their coming thither and taking up Arms was for the Freedom and Liberty of their Consciences the maintenance of his Majesties Prerogative in which they understood he was Abridged and the making the Subjects in this Kingdom as free as those in England were Whereupon the said Lord of Gormonston desired to understand from them truly and faithfully whether those were not pretences and not the true ground indeed of their so doing and likewise whether they had not some other private ends of their own which being by all denyed upon profession of their sincerity his Lordship the Lord Gormanston then told them Seeing these be your true ends we will likewise joyn with you therein unto which course all agreed And thereupon it was publickly and generally declared that whosoever should deny to joyn with them or refuse to assist them therein they would account him as an Enemy and to the utmost of their Power labour his Destruction And this Examinate saith That after the agreement so made as aforesaid There issued another Warrant to the Sheriff of the County of Meath to Summon all the Lords and Gentry of the County of Meath to be at the Hill of Taragh about a week after and accordingly there met at the same place the Earl of Fingale the Lord of Gormanston and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen aforenamed together with Sir Thomas Nugent and Nicholas Plunket the Lawyer Birford the Lawyer and a multitude of others and the work of that day was first to make Answer to a Summons made by the State for the calling of the Lords unto Dublin which Answer was brought ready drawn by the Lord of Gormanston and presented by his Lordship and being perused by the said Council at Law was Signed by the Lords The Board having Information that Luke Netterville Esquire George Blackney of Richenhore Esquire George King of Clantarf and others were Assembled at Swoords they sent to charge them upon their Allegiance forthwith to depart and not to unite any more in such a manner as by the following Order from the Board appears By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons John Borlase WHereas we have received Information An Order of the Lords Justices and Council to dissolve an unlawful Assembly at Swoords Dec. 9. 1641. that Luke Nettervile Esq George Blackney of Rickenhore Esq and George King of Clantarfe Gentleman and other Gentlemen of the County of Dublin with great numbers of Men are Assembled together in a Body at Swoords and thereabouts within six Miles of this City for what intent we know not but apparently to the Terror of his Majesties good Subjects and though considering the unseasonableness of this time chosen for such an act without our privity whatsoever their pretence is a construction might be made thereof to their disadvantage yet we being willing to make an Indulgent Interpretation of their Actions in regard of the good opinion we have of the Loyalty of those Gentlemen who it seems are principals amongst them in that Assembly and conceiving there may be some mistaking in that enterprise we have
Ant. Van Dyck pinxit R. White sculpsit THOMAS EARLE OF STRAFFORDE Viscount Wentworth Baron Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse Newmarch Oversley Raby Ld. Lievtenant Generall and Generall Governor of the Kingdome of Ireland and Ld. President of the Councill established in the North parts of England Ld. Lievtenant of the County City of York one of his Maty most honble Privy Councel and Knight of ye. most Noble order of the Garter EN DIEU EST TOUT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Printed for A. Mearne T. Dring B. Took T. Sawbridge and C. Mearne AN Impartial Collection OF THE Great Affairs of State From the Beginning of the SCOTCH REBELLION In the Year MDCXXXIX To the Murther OF King CHARLES I. WHEREIN The first Occasions and the whole Series of the late Troubles IN England Scotland Ireland Are faithfully Represented Taken from Authentick Records and Methodically Digested By JOHN NALSON LL. D. VOL. II. Published by His Majesty's Special Command LONDON Printed for S. Mearne T. Dring B. Toke T. Sawbrige and C. Mearne MDCLXXXIII TO HIS MOST Serene and Excellent MAJESTY King Charles II. GREAT SIR AS Your Majesties Gracious Incouragement gave the first Life and Being to this Work so it naturally in all humble Duty addresses it self for Protection under the Wing of Your Favour and Royal Mercy which Your Majesty so justly challenges as a Virtue more peculiarly Eminent and Conspicuous in your whole Life then in any of Your Illustrious Predecessors It is Necessity and not Presumption which obliges the Author to Prostrate himself and this Book at Your Royal Feet For though the whole World can shew nothing so Harmless and Innocent as Truth yet is she not able to defend her self from her constant Enemies Malice Error and ill Designs nor knows she whither to flie for a secure Refuge but to the Sanctuary of the Great Defender of the Faith to which the nearness of her Relation raises in her a comfortable hope that she shall participate of the same Royal Protection There are some Persons whose Interest it is to lie behind the Curtain even in the present Age and who therefore cannot with patience bear the drawing of it so as to let in the light into that which is past lest by comparing former Occurrences the Temper Inclinations Principles and Movements of those Times there should be discovered so near a Resemblance between the Lineaments and Proportions of the past and present as to be too convincing that there is no greater difference then between the elder and the younger Brother of the same Parents Rebellion and the Good Old Cause Nor is it strange to see some sort of People very angry with the hand which presents them with a Glass wherein they may see the Exact and true Image of Rebellion and Sedition when they can no sooner look into it but they find their own Faces there But it would be not only a Wonder but a Miracle if they should not shew their Resentments against both the Workman and his Work and by indeavouring to hurt his to secure their own Reputation But Your Majesties Grace and Favour is such an Amulet against the Poyson of the most Malignant Faction as is able to secure the happy Persons upon whom it is bestowed from the Infection of the most Malicious Breath and Venemous Tongues and in the Hopes of this the Author does with all humility present Your Majesty with the first opening of the Scene of that Deplorable Tragedy wherein Your Glorious Father had so large a share of Suffering there Your Majesty may see the several Steps and Progressive Advances which those Artists in Rebellion and Usurpation made towards the accomplishment of their Great Design of overthrowing the best Monarchy and Extirpating the most Apostolical Church in the whole World Here may Your Majesty take a view of the most supple Flattery and deep Hypocrisy of a Confederated Faction and how Rebellion to make the People in Love with her was represented to them in the Masquerading Habit and Accoutrements of Religion and Reformation how Slavery and Tyranny those two dreadful Monsters walk'd in the borrowed Equipage of the Liberty of the Subject and the Fundamental Laws and Birthrights of the People and how under the Mantle of Redressing Grievances the Nation came to labour under the greatest Grievance that ever the Necks of the Generous English Submitted to even the Mischief which they pretended to fear absolute Tyranny and the most Arbitrary Government of an Vsurping Faction Here Your Majesty may see the true Picture of the Men of those Principles and Times drawn from the Life by their own hands and in their proper and natural Colours and not only their outward Air Mine and Garb but the Picture of their very Souls their Thoughts Aims Contrivances and most Secret Designs and the black Conclusion at which all these were levell'd over which they so Industriously drew the fair Vails and Curtains of Sanctimony and pretended Loyalty seeming Humility and counterfeit Allegiance Your Majesty may be conducted into those Mines of Sedition unreasonable Fears groundless and unsatisfiable Jealousies of the Dangers of Popery and Arbitrary Government the very Powder which blew up the Foundations both of Church and State Your Majesty may see their Principal Engines of Battery amongst which the Liberty of the Press and I Blush to name it the Licentious abuse of the Pulpit were not the least or did the most Inconsiderable Execution towards the Ruin of the Government I shall not presume to say more but humbly Prostrate my self at Your Majesties Feet to beg the Liberty to add my most fervent Prayers and Wishes to my Sincere indeavours of Serving Your Majesty with my utmost Power May there be an Emulous Strife between the Number and the Glory of Your Majesties Years May the constant Care of Heaven and the Watchful attendance of its Glorious Militia still Guard Your beloved Life against all the Wicked attempts of the Enemies of Your Person and Government May every day that is added to Your Sacred Life contribute fresh Accessions of Happiness and Prosperity Peace and Tranquility to Your Auspicious Reign May You Triumph in the Hearts and Affections of Your People and over the Heads of Your defeated Enemies And could my Prayers Wishes or Indeavours prove as Successful as they are Sincere Your Majesty should not have one Subject in all Your Dominions less Zealous of Your Majesties Service sensible of their Duty and Interest or studious of Expressing their humble Loyalty then the Person who has placed all his Ambition and Glory in Indavouring to approve himself May it please Your Most Sacred Majesty Your Majesties most Humble most Obedient and Intirely Devoted Subject NALSON The Introduction THERE is certainly no manner of Diversion of which Wise and Great Men who indeavour to be really Serviceable to the true Interest of their Prince and Country can make more considerable Advantages or more agreeably spend their Leisure Minutes
time had a Petition depending in the House of Lords delivered Jan. 12 craving to be discharged of the Fine of Three thousand pounds imposed upon him by Decree of the Star-Chamber for Scandalous words against the Earl of Strafford Upon the 30th of Jan. a Day so Fatal to King Charles the First Saturday Jan. 30. the further Impeachment of the Earl of Strafford consisting in 28 Articles was by Mr. Pym carried up to the Lords which were as follow Articles of the Commons Assembled in Parliament The further Impeachment of the Earl of Strafford Jan. 30. against Thomas Earl of Strafford in maintenance of their Accusation whereby he stands Charged with High Treason WHereas the said Commons have already Exhibited Articles against the said Earl in haec verba c. Now the said Commons do further Impeach the said Earl as followeth That is to say I. That the said Earl of Strafford the 21 day of March in the Eighth Year of his Majesties Reign was President of the Kings Council in the Northern Parts of England That the said Earl being President of the said Council on the 21 of March a Commission under the Great Seal of England with certain Schedules of Instructions thereunto annexed was directed to the said Earl or others of the Commissioners therein named whereby among other things Power and Authority is limited to the said Earl and others the Commissioners therein named to hear and determine all Offences and Misdemeanors Suits Debates Controversies and Demands Causes Things and Matters whatsoever therein contained and within certain Precincts in the said Northern Parts therein specified and in such manner as by the said Schedule is limited and appointed That among other things in the said Instructions it is directed That the said President and others therein appointed shall hear and determine according to the Course of Proceedings in the Court of Star-Chamber divers Offences Deceits and Falsities therein mentioned Whether the same be provided for by Acts of Parliament or not so that the Fines imposed be not less than by the Act or Acts of Parliament provided against those offences is appointed That also amongst other things in the said Instructions it is directed that the said President and others therein appointed have power to examine hear and determine according to the course of proceedings in the Court of Chancery all manner of Complaints for any matter within the said Precincts as well concerning Lands Tenements and Hereditaments either Free-hold Customary or Copy-hold as Leases and other things therein mentioned and to stay proceedings in the Court of Common Law by Injunction or otherwise by all wayes and means as is used in the Court of Chancery And although the former Presidents of the said Councel had never put in practice such Instructions nor had they any such Instructions yet the said Earl in the Moneth of May in the said 8th Year and divers Years following did put in practice exercise and use and caused to be used and put in practice the said Commission and Instructions and did direct and exercise an exorbitant and unlawful power and jurisdiction on the persons and estates of his Majesties Subjects in those parts and did Disin-herit divers of his Majesties Subjects in those parts of their Inheritances sequestred their Possessions and did fine ransome punish and imprison them and caused them to be fined ransomed punished and imprisoned to their ruine and destruction and namely Sir Coniers Darcy Sir John Bourcher and divers others against the Laws and in subversion of the same And the said Commission and Instructions were procured and issued by the advice of the said Earl And he the said Earl to the intent that such illegal and unjust power might be exercised with the greater licence and will did advise Counsel procure further directions in and by the said instructions to be given that no prohibition be granted at all but in cases where the said Councel shall exceed the limits of the said instructions And that if any Writ of Habeas Corpus be granted the party be not discharged till the party perform the Decree and Order of the said Councel And the said Earl in the 13. year of his now Majesties Reign did procure a new Commission to himself and others therein appointed with the said Instructions and other unlawful additions That the said Commission and Instructions were procured by the solicitation and advice of the said Earl of Strafford 2. That shortly after the obtaining of the said Commission dated the 21 of March in the 8 year of his now Majesties Reign to wit the last day of August then next following he the said Earl to bring his Majesties liege People into a dislike of his Majesty and of his Government and to terrifie the Justices of the Peace from executing of the Laws He the said Earl being then President as aforesaid and a Justice of Peace did publickly at the Assizes held for the County of York in the City of York in and upon the said last day of August declare and publish before the People there attending for the administration of Justice according to the Law and in the presence of the Justices sitting That some of the Justices were all for Law but they should find that the Kings little finger should be heavier then the loyns of the Law 3. That the Realm of Ireland having been time out of mind annexed to the Imperial Crown of England and governed by the same Laws The said Earl being Lord Deputy of that Realm to bring his Majesties liege People of that Kingdom likewise into dislike of his Majesties Government and intending the Subversion of the Fundamental Laws and settled government of that Realm and the destruction of his Majesties liege People there did upon the 30. day of September in the ninth year of his now Majesties Reign in the City of Dublin the chief City of that Kingdom where his Majesties Privy Councel and Courts of Justice do ordinarily reside and whither the Nobility and Gentry of that Realm do usually resort for Justice in a publick Speech before divers of the Nobility and Gentry and before the Mayor Aldermen and Recorder and many Citizens of Dublin and other his Majesties Liege People declare and publish that Ireland was a conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased and speaking of the Charters of the former Kings of England made to that City he further said that their Charters were nothing worth and did bind the King no further then he pleased 4. That Richard Earl of Cork having sued out process in course of Law for recovery of his Possessions from which he was put by colour of an order made by the said Earl of Strafford and the Councel Table of the said Realm of Ireland The said Earl of Strafford upon a paper Petition without legal proceeding did the 20. day of February in the 11. year of his now Majesties Reign threaten the said Earl of Cork being
Interpreters both Antient and Later expounded to be the Bishops of those Cities 6. Eusebius and other Ecclesiastical Writers affirm none contradicting them that the Apostles themselves chose James Bishop of Jerusalem and that in all the Apostolique Sees there succeeded Bishops which continued in all the Christian World and no other Government heard of in the Church for 1500 Years and more then by the Bishops and the Canons of Councils both General and Provincial which consisted of Bishops 7. That so many Acts of Parliament and Laws of the Kingdom and Statutes of Colledges of both Vniversities have relation to Bishops that the removing of them especially there having been never no other Government settled in this Kingdom will breed and make Confusion and no Reformation but rather a Deformation in the Church yet it were to be wished That in some things our Government might be reduced to the Constitutions and Practice of the Primitive Church especially in these Particulars 1. That Bishops did ordinarily and constantly Preach either in the Metropolitan Church or in the Parochial Church in their Visitations 2. That they might not Ordain any Ministers without the Consent of 3. or 4. at the least Grave and Learned Presbyters 3. That they might not suspend any Minister ab Officio et Beneficio at their Pleasures by their sole Authority but only with a necessary Consent of some Assistants and that for such Causes and Crimes only as the ancient Canons or the Laws of the Kingdom appointed 4. That none may be Excommunicated but by the Bishop himself with the Consent of the Pastor whose Parish the Delinquent dwelleth in and that for heynous and scandalous Crimes joyned with obstinate and wilful Contempts of the Churches Authority and that for non-Appearances or Ordinances upon ordinary occasions some Lesser punishments might be inflicted and that approved by Law 5. That Bishops might not demand Benevolence for the Clergy nor exact Allowance for their Dyet at the Visitations nor suffer their Servants to exact undue Fees at Ordinations and Institutions 6. That Bishops and Chancellors and Officials may be subject to the Censures of Provincial Synods and Convocations A Bill was Read the first and second time for the speedy raising Mony for Disbanding the Armies Tuesday June 22. Disbanding Bill read twice and Committed to a Committee of the whole House A most Excellent Petition from the University of Oxon for the retaining and Establishing of Episcopacy but alas they did but surdis Canere these Serpents were not to be charmed by their Sovereign much less by the Muses though they could have charmed ten thousand times more powerfully and wisely than they did However it will be for their Immortal Glory That in the worst of Times and even when the Storm was in its most blustring Rage they durst oppose the Tempest and Defend the Truth The Petition was as follows To the High and Honourable Court of Parliament The Humble Petition of the University of Oxford Sheweth THAT whereas the Vniversity hath been informed of several Petitions concerning the present Government of this Church The Petition of the University of Oxon for Episcopacy June 22. 1641. and maintenance of the Clergy which have of late been exhibited to this Honourable Assembly We could not but think our Selves bound in Duty to God and this whole Nation in charity to our Selves and Successors who have and are like to have more than ordinary interest in any Resolution that shall be taken concerning Church-Affairs in all humility to desire the continuance of that Form of Government which is now Established here and hath been preserved in some of the Eastern and Western Churches in a continued Succession of Bishops down from the very Apostles to this present time the like whereof cannot be affirmed of any other Form of Government in any Church Upon which Consideration and such other Motives as have been already represented to this Honourable Parliament from other Persons and Places with whom we concur in behalf of Episcopacy We earnestly desire That you would Protect that Ancient and Apostolical Order from Ruine or Diminution And become farther Suiters for the Continuance of those Pious Foundations of Cathedral Churches with their Lands and Revenues As dedicate to the Service and Honour of God soon after the plantation of Christianity in the English Nation As thought fit and Useful to be preserved for that end when the Nurseries of Superstition were demolished and so continued in the last and best Times since the Blessed Reformation under King Edw. 6. Q. Elizabeth and King James Princes Renowned through the World for their Piety and Wisdome As approved and confirmed by the Laws of this Land Ancient and Modern As the principal outward Motive and Encouragement of all Students especially in Divinity and the fittest Reward of some deep and eminent Scholars As producing or nourishing in all Ages many Godly and Learned Men who have most strongly asserted the Truth of that Religion we profess against the many fierce Oppositions of our Adversaries of Rome As affording a competent Portion in an ingenuous way to many Younger Brothers of good Parentage who devote themselves to the Ministery of the Gospel As the only means of Subsistence to a multitude of Officers and other Ministers who with their Families depend upon them and are wholly maintained by them As the main Authors or Upholders of divers Schools Hospitals High-wayes Bridges and other Publique and Pious Works As special Causes of much Profit and Advantage to those Cities where they are situate not only by relieving their Poor and keeping convenient Hospitality but by occasioning a frequent resort of Strangers from other Parts to the great benefit of all Tradesmen and most Inhabitants in those places As the goodly Monuments of our Predecessors Piety and present Honour of this Kingdom in the Eye of Forreign Nations As the chief Support of many Thousand Families of the Laity who enjoy fair Estates from them in a free way As yielding a constant and ample Revenue to the Crown And as by which many of the Learned Professours in our Vniversity are maintained The Subversion or Alienation whereof must as we conceive not only be attended with such consequences as will redound to the scandal of many well affected to our Religion but open the mouths of our Adversaries and of Posterity against us and is likely in time to draw after it harder conditions upon a considerable part of the Laity an universal cheapness and contempt upon the Clergy a lamentable drooping and defection of Industry and Knowledg in the Vniversities which is easie to foresee but will be hard to remedy May it therefore please this Honourable Assembly upon these and such other Considerations as Your great Wisdomes shall suggest to take such Pious Care for the Continuance of these Religious Houses and their Revenues according to the best Intentions of their Founders as may be to the most furtherance of God's Glory and Service the Honour
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
of Winchester's House the Commons desired a Conference with the Lords about it which Conference was thus Reported by Mr. Pym. That the Earl of Warwick said That whereas this House had propounded the Disarming of Recusants their Lordships agreed with them in the matter but desired a free Conference concerning the manner but it was remembred by another Lord that the manner was likewise propounded which was to send down Commissioners into all Counties to see it done upon which the Lords desired of this House to consider what men to send down and they did fully agree to the manner This Day the Lord Keeper signified to the House A Message from the King about Soldiers for the Spanish Ambassador That His Majesty hath Commanded Mr. Nicholas the Clerk of the Council to let their Lordships know That His Majesty is so far now engaged to the Spanish Ambassador for four Regiments of Irish That His Majesty cannot go back now and that it was assured His Majesty before he went from London that both Houses were content only it wanted the formality of Voting whereupon His Majesty gave an absolute Order for the Levying and Transporting of those Men and reiterated His Majesties promises to the Ambassador wherefore His Majesty would have the Houses acquainted herewith that those Levies may not be stopt Which was afterwards at a Conference communicated to the House of Commons Monday August 23. Letters from the E. of Holland and Sir William Udal about disbanding A Letter from the Lord General the Earl of Holland was this Day Read informing the Lords That he had not been wanting in diligence to fulfil their Orders and Commands in Disbanding the Army and that it was an affliction to him that the best Service he was able to perform was not better accepted by their Lordships That he had done all that lay in his Power and that as soon as the Accounts for Billetting could be stated they should be discharged but till Money came to them they could not do it This was seconded by a Letter from Sir William Vdal informing That they can proceed no further in the Disbanding till there be a Supply of Money and that he hath not above 200 l. in his hands Tuesday August 24. Whereupon It was Ordered That the Gentlemen that serve for the City of London shall endeavour to Borrow 40000 l. of the City upon the Credit of the Two last Bills of 4 Subsidies and the Poll-Bill without which the Army cannot be Disbanded The Speaker of the House of Commons was likewise Ordered to write a Letter in the Name of the House to those Sheriffs who were thought deficient in gathering the Poll-Money to quicken them in the Collecting and sending of it to the Army The Copy of which Letter was thus SIR THE House of Commons did hope The Speakers Letter to the Sheriffs about the Poll Mony that in so great a time and so visible a Necessity of present Money no private person much less any Publique Officers would have been so slow in contributing their Assistance to the getting in of the Poll-Money but by the not coming in of this from the slow and slender coming of it from others together with more particular Informations this House is forced to believe that both Payers Assessors Collectors and Returners are in fault concerning it I am therefore Commanded to let you know from the House That as you tender your Own or the Publique Good you make all possible hast in returning such Money as you have ready and that you will make known to the Commissoners That if we be not by them prevented the House intends to make a review of the Assessments to the End that wherein the Assessors through partiality shall be found either to have left any uncharged whom the Act chargeth or to have charged any lower than they are charged by the Act those that shall be found faulty may incur both the ill Opinion and severe Punishment of Parliament as Contemners of the greatest Authority in a time of greatest Necessity and by that Contempt being Causes of the Armies less speedy Disbanding to the Danger as well as the unsupportable and unnecessary Expence of the Kingdom An Order was likewise drawn up and presented to the Lords at a Conference by Mr. Pym with the Reasons of it the Necessity of present Money for the several Counties therein mentioned to pay in their Poll-Money at York See the Order it self August 24. 1641. An Order of the Lords and Commons in Parliament The Order of both Houses for paying in the Poll-Mony at York to Expedite the Disbanding Aug. 24. 1641. concerning the more speedy Transportation of the Poll-Mony to York for Disbanding of His Majesties Army WHereas it is Enacted that the Sheriffs of the Counties and Cities hereafter named shall amongst others pay such Summs of money as they shall receive for Poll-money to the Treasurer in the Act named in the Chamberlains Office within the City of London Now forasmuch as their long delay and slow payment is very burthensom and dangerous to the Kingdom because the Kings Army in the North by this means remains un-disbanded to the insupportable Charge of the Common-wealth For the more speedy relief of the Kingdom the Lords and Commons in this Parliament assembled do hereby order and ordain that the several Sheriffs of Worcester Cambridge Huntington Leicester Northampton Rutland Warwick and of the Cities that are Counties within those Countries and every of them respectively shall forthwith on notice of this Order send such Monies now in their hands or shall come to his Hand or any of their Hands respectively or to the Hands of his Under-Sheriff or Deputy or to the Hands of any of their Under-Sheriffs or Deputies respectively under a sufficient Guard and Convoy to the City of York to pay the same to Sir William Vdall Knight Treasurer of His Majesties Army now there residing takeing his acquittance for the same which acquittance the said several Sheriffs respectively shall send to the Chamber of London and that the said Treasurer in the Act named shall accept of the same as if so much Money were paid in specie and shall deliver an Acquittance or Acquittances for the same which shall be as sufficient a discharge to the said several Sheriffs as if the Mony had been paid there And the said Treasurer of the Army is hereby required that he shall as speedily as he may after the receipt of any such Summs from any of the Sheriffs afore-mentioned send up to the said Treasurer of the Chamber of London present and distinct Certificates of the same It is further Ordered that the several Sheriffs of the Counties through which these Moneys do pass shall provide a sufficient Convoy to Guard the same through the several Counties and that the Sheriffs under whose charge the Money is shall have allowance for Transportation thereof in their several Accounts Lastly it is ordered that a strict account
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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
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
That by the Words Irish Papists We intended only such of the Old meer Irish in the Province of Ulster as have Plotted Contrived and been Actors in this Treason and others who adhere to them and that We did not any way intend or mean thereby any of the old English of the Pale nor of any other Parts of this Kingdom We being well assured of their Fidelities to the Crown and having experience of the good Affections and Services of their Ancestors in former times of Danger and Rebellion And We further require all His Majesties loving Subjects whether Protestants or Papists to forbear upbraiding Matter of Religion one against the other and that upon pain of His Majesties Indignation Given at His Majesties Castle of Dublin 29. Oct. 1641. R. Ranelagh R. Dillon An. Midensis Ad. Loftus Geo. Shurley Ger. Lowther Jo. Temple Fr. Willoughby Ja. Ware God save the King With this the Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale seemed extreamly well satisfied and the Lords Justices and Council were so far from suspecting them guilty of the Conspiracy The Lords and Gentlemen of the English Pale supplied with Arms and Ammunition or that they would perfidiously renounce their Allegiance and fall in with the Rebels that they immediately supplyed them with a Convenient proportion of Arms and Ammunition to inable them to defend themselves and those Counties of the English Pale against the attempts and incursions of the Rebels To the Lord Gormanstone were delivered 500 Arms for the County of Meath Arms for 300 men for the County of Kildare Arms for 300 for the County of Lowth Arms for 300 for the County of West-Meath Arms for 300 for the County of Dublin And so assured did they seem to be of the Fidelity of these Lords and Gentlemen that several Commissions whereof that before inserted to the Lord Gormanstone was one and was found in his Study after he had quitted his House were issued out to the Roman Catholiques Borlase Hist p. 28. viz. To the foresaid Lord Gormanstone for Meath To the Lord Mountgarret in Kilkenny Nicholas Barnewell in Dublin Walter Bagnal in Caterlagh Lord Lowth in Lowth Sir Thomas Nugent in West-Meath Sir Robert Talbot in Wickloe the two Sir James Dillons in Longford and several others in Munster Connaght and Vlster who not long after most treacherously turned those Arms they had received to defend the Government and Protestants against them and basely joyned with the Rebels It seems by comparing several past and future Transactions of these Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale with some of the Examinations and Depositions taken about the Rebellion that if they were not in the Conspiracy yet they had a great inclination to promote rather than suppress it though after all the indiscreet Zeal of the then Chief Governors by putting their Agent Sir John Read to the Rack gave them but too great a pretence and colour for their Revolt and I know nothing that can be sufficient to palliate much less Excuse Rebellion upon any pretences whatsoever till St. Paul's holy Rule be reversed and that Men may do Evil that Good may come of it The Principal of the Rebels that at first appeared in the Execution of this detestable Conspiracy The Names of the Chief Rebels which broke out first in the Province of Vlster were Sir Phelim O Neal Turlogh O Neal his Brother Roury Mac-Guire Brother to the Lord Mac-Guire Philip O Reley Mulmore O Reley Sir Conne Mac-Gennis Col. Mac-Bryan and Mac-Mahon These having got together according to their Assignation did at one and the same time treacherously Surprize the Town and Castle of the Newry Several Places surprized by the Rebels the Fort of Dongannon Fort Montjoy Charlemont Tonrages Carick Mac-Rosse Clough-Cuter Castle Blaney Castle of Monaghan being all of them Places of considerable Strength and besides these many other Castles Towns and Villages so that before the End of October they had gotten into their Possession all the Towns Forts Castles and Gentlemens Houses within the Counties of Tyrone Donegal Fermanagh Armagh Cavan Londonderry Monaghan and half the County of Down except the Cities of Londonderry and Colraign the Town and Castle of Encekillin and some other Places which were for the present bravely defended by the British Undertakers though afterwards for want of Relief they were surrendred also into the Hands of the Rebels Nor will it appear at all strange The strange Secresy of the Conspiracy that they made so great Progress in so little time when it is considered that the Conspiracy was so secretly carried among them as that except the Information given to Sir William Cole it was not known to any of the English or British Inhabitants till they felt the Effects of it They Lived in the greatest seeming Friendship together with the Irish which brought them into a Security that proved so fatal to them And like People who are surprized in their midnight Sleep with their House blazing about their Heads when they had not seen the least Sparks of Fire at their lying down so it happened to these miserable Creatures who upon the first Risings about them put themselves their Wives and Children into the Protection of such of the Irish whom they had most Obliged and from whose Friendship they promised themselves Security and Preservation but these Perfidious and Inhumane Wretches too frequently either betrayed them into the Hands of the Rebels their Associates who Murdered and Destroyed them or at least Stript and Despoiled them of all they had or else having them and their Goods and Money in their Power basely did it themselves and it is almost a shame to Humanity Sir John Temple Irish Rebellion p. 70.71 et passim alibi to repeat the Cruelties which as the Writers of that time relate from the Depositions of those who escaped the Fury of the Irish were acted upon the Innocent English and British Inhabitants of that Island but it will be a greater and eternal Reproach and Infamy to the Priests and those who call themselves the Religious of the Romish Persuasion that they were the Actors and Instigators of the deluded People to commit those Execrable and Savage Cruelties as if they were Meritorious and Acceptable Services to God Almighty which far surpass the most Sanguinary Hecatombs that were ever offered to the Devil by the Blind and Pagan Idolaters and yet it is but too evident it must be placed to the account of those of the Popish Clergy for it seems before the Plot was come to Maturity there was a Consultation held at the Abbey of Multifernan in the County of Westmeath Borlase Hist p. 25. Dr. Jones's Deposition where among other things the Question was debated What Course should be taken with the English and all others that were found in the whole Kingdom to be Protestants some were only for expelling them as the King of Spain did the Moors out of Granada others disliked that Lenity urging that they might
left that Nation a most peaceable and contented People So that although I have a little misreckoned in Time yet I was not deceived in My End But if I have deceived your expectations a little in the time of My return yet I am assured that My expectation is as much and more deceived in the condition wherein I hoped to have found some businesses at My return For since that before My going I setled the Liberties of My Subjects and gave the Law a free and orderly Course I expected to have found My People reaping the Fruits of these benefits by living in quietness and satisfaction of mind But instead of this I find them disturbed with Jealousies Frights and Alarms of dangerous Designs and Plots in Consequence of which Guards have been set to defend both Houses I say not this as in doubt that My Subjects Affections are any way lessened to Me in this time of My absence for I cannot but remember to My great comfort the joyful reception I had now at my Entry into London but rather as I hope that My presence will easily disperse these Fears For I bring as perfect and true Affections to My People as ever Prince did or as good Subjects can possibly desire And I am so far from repenting Me of any Act I have done this Session for the good of My People that I protest if it were to do again I would do it and will yet grant what else can be justly desired for satisfaction in point of Liberties or in maintenance of the True Religion that is here Established Now I have but one particular to recommend unto you at this time it is Ireland for which though I doubt not your care yet methinks the preparations for it go but slowly on The occasion is the fitter for Me now to mention it because of the Arrival of two Lords from Scotland who come instructed from My Council there who now by Act of Parliament have full Power for that purpose to Answer that Demand which it pleased both Houses to make of Me by way of Petition that met Me at Berwick and which the Duke of Richmond sent back by My Command to my Scotch Council Therefore My desire is That both Houses would appoint a Select Committee to end this business with these Noblemen I must conclude in telling you That I seek My Peoples Happyness For their Flourishing is My greatest Glory and their Affections My greatest Strength The King having Ended his Speech he departed and the Commons returned to their House Bishop of Hereford excused from paying some part of his Pol-mony Upon the Petition of the Bishop of Hereford It was Ordered That he having paid 60 l. for Poll-money shall be freed from any further Payments for the same and shall not pay after the Rate of Tenths because he is freed from paying of Tenths under the Great Seal of England and that upon good and valuable Considerations divers Mannors having been taken from the Bishoprick of Hereford in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Judges Report the Statutes in force against Riots Routs c. The Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Reported That the Judges have considered the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom for preventing of Riots Routs and unlawful Assemblies and they are of Opinion That the best way is to issue forth Writs according to the Statute of 2 H. 5. cap. 8. Which Statute was presently read and it was Ordered That the Lord Keeper should forthwith issue forth Writs to the Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace of the City of London and the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey and to the Justices of the Peace of the City of Westminster according to the aforesaid Statute concerning Riots Routs c. and the Judges to be advised withall for the Form of the said Writs But the Tumults found too much Countenance among the Faction in the Commons House The Tumults incouraged by the Faction of the Commons where they were indeed promoted and incouraged as is Evident by the adjournment of the consideration of them this day in their House that having been yesterday ordered to be debated and so they were adjourned de die in diem which plainly manifests the tenderness they had for the Bioters and the Use they intended to make of these Tumultuous and Unlawful Assemblies which was to Terrifie the Lords to a compliance with their desires in cutting off a Limb from the Body of their House by Excluding the Bishops as before they had by the same Method prevailed in passing the Bill to cut off the Wise and Noble Head of the Earl of Strafford Sir Ralph Hopton Reported The Report how the King received the Petition and Declaration That last Night in the Evening the Committee appointed to attend His Majesty with the Petition of the House of Commons and the Declaration annexed came to Hampton-Court and Sir Richard Wiâ—n I may name him upon this Occasion gave his Majesty Notice of our being there and within a quarter of an hour the King sent a Gentleman to call us in with Directions that none should come in but the Committee alone who did all of them present themselves upon their Knees and my self in obedience to the Order of the House in the Absence of * Sir Ed. Deering upon whom they had imposed this ingrateful Task he being now fallen into their displeasure another designed for that Service did begin to read the Petition kneeling but his Majesty would not permit us to kneel but commanded us all to rise and so read it the first Observation His Majesty made was at that part of the Petition that charges the Malignant Party with the design to change Religion To which His Majesty said with a great deal of fervency The Devil take him whomsoever he be that had a Design to change Religion I then proceeded and when I came to that part of the Petition for reserving the disposal of the Lands of the Rebels in Ireland c. his Majesty was pleased to say We must not dispose of the Bears Skin till he be dead After the Petition was read his Majesty desired to ask us some Questions we answered We had no Commission to speak any thing concerning this business Then said he you may speak as particular men and said Doth the House intend to publish this Declaration * And yet it was carried before against Printing it but by 124 to 101 Votes upon Munday 22 No. We answered We could give no Answer unto it Well then said He I suppose you do not now Expect an Answer unto so long a Petition And this let me tell you I have left Scotland well and in Peace they are all satisfied with me and I with them and thô I staid longer there than I Expected yet I think if I had not gone you had not been rid so soon of the Armies I shall give you an Answer to this business with as much
Captain Francis Gregory 's Company The Order was directed To all Mayors Justices of Peace Constables and all others His Majesties Officers to be Aiding and Assisting to the said James Watts with all convenient Expedition that may be afforded The like Orders of the same date was granted for taking up of 40 Men for Captain Peyton's Company by John Grey and John Tirrel For 40 Men for Lieutenant Colonel Corbet's Company by William Jenkins For 40 Men for Captain Honywood's Company by Robert Harding and Dymock Holby In the Commons House several Northern Petitions were this day presented for the Billet-Money which was engaged to be paid to the Inhabitants of those Counties where the Scots and English Armies were Quartered Whereupon Sir John Hotham Reported from the Committee appointed to Examine that matter the State of the Money and the Debt of the Kingdom by which it appeared as followeth  l. s. d. The first Two Subsidies 108672. 06. 00. The Third and Fourth Subsidies 96461. 19. 09.  205134. 05. 09. Paid out to divers Citizens of London 51507. 05. 08. To Sir John Harrison 51885. 16. 10. To Alderman Pennington 9972. 13. 10. To other Persons Members of the House 18497. 15. 08. To the Inhabitants of several Wards 45893. 13. 09. To Sir William Udal for the Army 9000. 00. 00.  186757. 05. 09. So rests of the Four Subsidies 18377. 00. 00. Of which paid for the Affairs of Ireland to be repaid out of the Citizens Loan-Money 12000. 00. 00. And to be repaid to Sir Robert Pye Sir Edw. Hales and others that lent it 2000. 00. 00. Remains 4377. 00. 00. Receipts of the Poll-money in general throughout the Kingdom 256720. 18. 02. Viz.    Poll-money paid at York 37371. 09. 10. Sir William Udal from the 7 Northern Counties 15450. 00. 00. Poll-money from Sir Rob. Pye and Mr. Wheeler 37415. 09. 02. Poll-money by the Treasurers 162195. 04. 07. In London 4288. 14. 07. Memorandum in Cash in the City of London 8 Dec. not paid to the Lenders 5596. 15. 11. Total Received upon the four first Subsidies 205134. 05. 09. Vpon the Poll-Bill 256720. 18. 02. The Composition of Old and New Customers 165000. 00. 00. Total 626855. 03. 11. Issued to Sir William Udal 339760. 00. 00. To the Scots 291361. 19. 04. To Sir John Mills for the Queen Mother 7000. 00. 00. To Colonel Goring 3000. 00. 00. To the Pay-Master at Berwick 29000. 00. 00. To the Pay-Master at Carlisle 10000. 00. 00. To Mr. Vassal for Ships to Holy-Island 170. 00. 00. To the Commissioners for the Poll-money 600. 00. 00. To the Committee in Scotland 1200. 00. 00. To O Connelly 500. 00. 00. To several Persons upon Orders 307. 09. 00. Total Issued 682899. 08 04. Total Received 626855. 03. 11. Remains in Debt 56044. 04. 05. Besides for Billet-money 64000. 00. 00. For Half Pay 26000. 00. 00. More for Billet 38000. 00. 00. Scots Arrears of Brotherly Assistance 220000. 00. 00. Peers to the City of London 56000. 00. 00. For Ireland to the City 56000. 00. 00. Total Debt 516044. 04. 05. Having thus helped to purge the Nation of some superfluous Money as appears by this Account which was in a manner wholly occasioned by the Invasion of their Reforming Brethren of Scotland they began now to think of Purging out the Loyal Members from their own House as well as the Bishops from the House of Lords And it was upon the Debate Resolved c. severally That Mr. Henry Wilmot Sir Hugh Pollard Wilmot Pollard and Ashburnham Voted guilty of Misprision of Treason and out of the House Mr. William Ashburnham and Sir John Berkley shall be accused of Misprision of Treason And it was Ordered That Mr. Wilmot who serves for Tamworth Sir Hugh Pollard Burgess for Belraston Devon Mr. William Ashburnham Burgess for Luggershall and Mr. Henry Piercy Knight of the Shire for Northumberland shall be disabled from Sitting as Members in the House of Commons and that Mr. Speaker direct his Warrants to the Clark of the Crown to issue out Writs for new Election of persons to serve in Parliament in their places It was also Ordered That Captain Legg shall be sent for by the Serjeant at Arms attending this House as a Delinquent There being this Day a Company of Watchmen Captain Legg sent for as a Delinquent Friday Decemb. 10. Parliament displeased at a Guard because not of their own appointment with Halberds about the Parliament Door It was moved that some of them might be called in to know who did command them to come and by what authority and to what purpose they come Hereupon two of the Constables were brought in and demanded the Reason why they came thither They said They came by virtue of a Warrant from the High Constable to be ready this Day to attend the Houses of Parliament because of a Riot is likely to be in Westminster Whereupon it was Ordered That the High Constable and the Vnder-Sheriff do attend this House presently In the Interim a Petition was delivered unto the House by the Lord Marquess of Hartford from the Loyal part of the Inhabitants of Somersetshire concerning the Government of the Church which was read presently in haec verba To the High and Honourable Court of Parliament now Sitting The Humble Petition and Remonstrance of the Knights Gentry Clergy Free-holders and Inhabitants of the County of Somerset Humbly Sheweth THat having with grief of Mind heard of sundry Petitions been Exhibited to this Right Honorable Assembly The Somerset-Shire Petition for Episcopacy and the Liturgy presented to the Lords by the Marquiss of Hertford Decemb. 10. 1641. by some of the Clergy and Laity about London and some Counties tending to the Subversion of the Church Government Established in this Kingdom We therefore tendring the Peace and Welfare of both do in all humbleness presume to make known our Opinions and Desires concerning the same Nothing doubting of the like good acceptance of our humble Petition and Remonstrance in this behalf being tendred with no less good Affection to the Peace and Happiness of the Church the Prosperity of his Sacred Majesty and this whole Kingdome For the present Government of the Church we are most Thankful to God belâ—eving it in our hearts to be the most Pious and the Wisest that any People or Kingdom upon Earth hath been blest withal since the Apostles dayes Though we may not deny but through the frailty of Men and Corruption of Times some things of ill Consequence and others needless are stollen or thrust into it which we heartily wish may be reformed and the Church restored to its former Purity And to the End it may be the better preserved from present and future Innovations we wish the wittingly and maliciously guilty of what Condition soever they be whether Bishops or other inferior Clergy may receive condign punishment But for the miscarriage of Governors to destroy the Government we trust it shall never
the Lords Committees to joyn with them to consider of a Way for Securing of both Houses by Guards as aforesaid that they may come and return and remain in safety Hereupon the Lords Committees have Voted That it is fit and necessary that there should be strong and sufficient Guards from the City of London and adjacent Parts for the securing of both Houses that they may sit in safety Secondly Their Lordships have Voted That it is a legal way for the Houses to require the Sheriffs of Middlesex and London to attend for that purpose with the Posse Comitatus and that they will Report these Votes to the House of Commons accordingly And the Lords Committees meeting with the Committee of the House of Commons the 10th of this instant January were of Opinion That Guards are necessary to be placed before the Committee for Irish Affairs do sit at Westminster and for the manner of ordering of the Guards they referred it to the Common-Council of the City of London And their Lordships will Report to the House of Lords That the placing of those Guards for the safety of the Irish Committee is in their Opinion an acceptable service to the Common-wealth Which Report being made it was confirmed by the House and the several Votes approved and Ordered accordingly Then the Lord Steward Reported the Kings Answer touching the desire of both Houses concerning Guards which Answer was read in these words WE having considered the Petition of both Houses of Parliament concerning a Guard do give this Answer That We will to secure their Fears Command the Lord Mayor of London The Kings answer concerning Guards to appoint 200. Men out of the Train'd Bands of the City such as he will be answerable for to Vs to wait on the House of Parliament that is to say one hundred on Each House and to be Commanded by the Earl of Lindsey it being most proper to him as being Lord Great Chamberlain who by his Place hath a particular Charge of the Houses of Parliament and of whose Integrity Courage and Sufficiency none can doubt But the Faction of the Commons were resolved to have no Guard of the Kings but one of their own appointment Order for a Guard of the Train'd Bands to be Commanded by Major Skippon for upon a Vote of the Commons to this purpose it was Ordered That the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex be hereby required to send two Companies of the Train'd Bands of the City of London and County of Middlesex under the Conduct of Serjeant Major Skippon to attend both Houses of Parliament every day for security of the Parliament until both Houses do give order to the Contrary Directed to the Sheriff of the City of London and Middlesex A Message was brought up by Sir Philip Stapelton who brought up a Bill which had passed the House of Commons Intituled An Act declaring That the Lords and Commons may Adjourn themselves respectively to any Place 2. To let their Lordships know that the House of Commons are informed that there is at Hull a Magazin of Arms of the Kings for 16000. Men and proportionable Ammunition But in regard no great strength is in the Town and that the Countrey about is full of Papists ill affected The House of Commons desires their Lordships to joyn with them that some Companies of the Train'd Bands next adjoyning to Hull be forthwith put into that Town for the Safeguard of that Town and the Magazin there and the said Train'd Bands to be under the Command of Sir John Hotham Knight who hath the Command of that Town already by Patent from the King Whereupon it was Ordered Order for Sir John Hotham to keep the Town of Hull That some of the Train'd Bands of Yorkshire nearest to Hull in the said County under the Command of Sir John Hotham Knight shall with all speed be put into the Town of Hull for the securing of the Kings Magazin there and the said Town and hereof the said Sir John Hotham is by Virtue of this Order Commanded to perform accordingly And the said Sir John Hotham is to Command the Town and Forces therein and all Parties whom it concerns shall give their Obedience unto the said Sir John Hotham and his Ministers And lastly That Sir John Hotham or whoever he shall appoint under him shall not deliver up the Town of Hull or Magazin there or any part thereof without the Kings Authority Signified unto him by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament Directed to Sir John Hotham the Elder The Vizor now began to drop off apace for the plain English of this and the former Order for a Guard was that the King was only to have the Name but the two Houses were to have the Substance of the Royal Authority And certainly no men ever moved by more Regular Steps towards Rebellion they had pretty well Exhausted his Majesties Stores for the Service of Ireland and now they were resolved to Secure the Rest The Tower of London hung still mightily in their Light and though the King had Displaced Lunsford yet Sir John Byron the present Lieutenant who was a Person of great Loyalty Courage and Gallantry was by no means agreeable to their Liking or Designs and therefore the next attempt was to get quit of him and a Confiding man a Creature of the Faction placed in that Important Command as we shall presently see Then the Act An Act for the Lords and Commons to adjourn themselves to any place passed the Lords declaring that the Lords and Commons may Adjourn themselves respectively to any Place was read twice and after a short debate a third time and upon the Question it was consented to to pass as a Law From whence it is observable that even this Parliament who had gotten an Act that they should not be Prorogued or Dissolved without their own Consent yet did not think they had Power without the Royall Assent to an Act of Parliament to Adjourn themselves to any other Place from Westminster whither they were by Writ Summoned to Assemble and Sit and which likewise is a Concession that it was so solely in his Majesties Power though not to Dissolve them yet to have Adjourned them to some other Place less Factious and Troublesom then at that time London was A Petition was presented this day to the Lords from the Inhabitants of Bucks as follows To the Right Honourable the House of Peers now Assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of Bucks Bucks Petition to the Lords Jan. 11. 1641. SHEWETH THat whereas we hoped upon the happy Assembling of this present Parliament we should have had a speedy Redress of those Pressures we have for many Years been under but have been hitherto in great Measure Frustrated of your hopes by the strong Counter-working of a Malignant Faction whereby the perfecting of Reformation is hindred the endeavours of the House of Commons in great
Arrest or Trouble any of them for so doing he doth thereby break the Priviledges of Parliament violate the Liberty of the Subject and is hereby declared an Enemy of the Common-wealth Which Vote was carried up to the Lords by Sir Philip Stapleton for their Concurrence to it which they not only readily gave but also their thanks to the Citizens as this rude Multitude out of the Suburbs and adjacent Countries had the honour to be stiled for the acceptable Service of this day Sergeant Major General Skippon and the other Captains of the City of London were also called in to whom Mr. Speaker declared as followeth Thanks given to Skippon and the Captains That this House did take special notice of the great Care and Affection expressed by them both in the safeguard of the Committee while they sate in London and for the performance of that great Service of theirs this day to the House and Common-wealth for which he was Commanded by the House to give them thanks and further to acquaint them that for their better satisfaction that the House had Voted that the actions of themselves and other the Citizens of London in preserving the Priviledges of Parliament and the Members thereof were done according to the Law and their Duty and Protestation It is one of the most Elegant Expressions of the Royal and Divine Poet when he couples so significantly the Raging of the Sea with the Madness of the People and certainly never was there raised a more violent Storm then this which was blown up by the Tempestuous Breath of the Faction and such was the Ambition of the Populacy to signalize themselves upon this occasion that they looked upon it and lamented it as a misfortune not to have the principal part in the Actions of this days Tumultuous Solemnity as appears by the following Petition which as a favour to their good intentions was by Vote of the House entred upon the Commons Journal in these Terms To the Honourable the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled The Humble Petition of the Trained Bands and other Inhabitants of the City of Westminster Sheweth THat your Petitioners to their great and unexpressible Grief Westminster Trained Bands Petition lying under many heavy Pressures and Distractions but especially for that there have been some Doubts and Jealousies raised of your Petitioners Duty and Affections to this Honourable House your Petitioners though the last yet not the least either in Love or Obedience have thought fit hereby humbly to desire your protection in these great Dangers and to assure this Honourable House that as there are none who do more affectionately Love so there shall not be any who shall more readily Obey and Observe the Commands of the same nor more willingly expose both their Persons and Estates for defence of the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament wherein your Petitioners humbly conceive do consist the Security of Reigion the Safety of His Majesties Royal Person and the due Execution of the Laws In real Testimony whereof your Petitioners humbly offer their Service to this Honourable House when it shall please them to Command it And humbly pray almighty God to Crown your unwearyed endeavours with happy and good success A Petition was also delivered in the Name of the Inhabitants of the County of Bucks by divers Gentlemen at the Bar which was also by the Vote of the House Ordered to be Entred as followeth To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons now Assembled in Parliament The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of Bucks Sheweth THat whereas for many Years past we have been under very great pressures Bucks Petition Jan. 11. 1641. which are clearly set forth in the late Remonstrance of the House of Commons the Redress whereof which hath for a long time been by you indeavoured with unwearied Pains though not with answerable Success having still your Indeavors frustated or retarded and we deprived of the Fruit thereof by a Malignant Faction of Popish Lords Bishops and others And now of late to take from us all that little hope was left of a future Reformation the very being of the Parliament shaken and by the mischievous Practises of most wicked Counsellors the Priviledges thereof broken in an unexampled manner and the Members thereof unassured of their Lives in whose safety the safety of us and our Posterity is involved we held it our Duties according to our late Protestation to defend and maintain the same Persons and Priviledges to the uttermost expence of our Lives and Estates to which purpose we are now come to make the humble tender of our Service and remain in Expectation of your Commands and Orders to the Execution whereof we shall with all alacrity Address our selves ready to live by you or Die at your Feet * * The King not excepted against whomsoever shall in any sort illegally Attempt upon you May it therefore please this Honourable Assembly to assist the Ardent Prayer of your Petitioners that the Popish Lords and Bishops may be forthwith outed the House of Peers That all Privileges of Parliament yours and our Posterities Inheritance may be confirmed to you And that all evil Counsellors the Achans of the Common-Wealth may be given up to the Hand of Justice without all which your Petitioners have not the least hopes of the Kingdoms Peace or to reap those glorious Advantages which the 14 Months Seed time of your unparalell'd indeavors hath given to their unsatisfied Expectations So your Petitioners shall be bound to pray c. The Petitioners being called in Thanks to the Bucks Petitioners Mr. Speaker acquainted them That this House had read their Petition and finds in it an Expression of great Affection for the maintenance of the Priviledges of Parliament with their Lives and Fortunes and that the House hath commanded him to return this Assurance from them That they shall also spend their Lives and Fortunes in maintenance of Religion the Priviledges and Liberties of the Subjects of those Counties Cities and Burroughs for which they serve ond for the Petition it self they will take it speedily into Consideration Then they desired leave to speak a Word more which being granted they said They had a Petition to deliver to his Majesty which they humbly desired this House to present for them or to direct them the best way and manner how to present it Which Petition being received and read and they called in again Mr. Speaker said that the House had commanded him to acquaint them That their Demeanor and Carriage hath been so fair in this Business and their Judgment and Discretion are such as this House makes no doubt but they know how to present it to his Majesty If 10 or 12 go with it it is conceived it will be most convenient The galloping Bill to enable the two Houses to adjourn themselves was thrice read and then posted up to the Lords where it
fruition of your future favours The fixion our Confidence in you before any other of the Peers and privy Councellors of the Kingdom doubleth this Obligation Your Lordship may therefore be pleased to acquaint the Lords Justices and Councel to be imparted unto his Sacred Majesty with our Grievances and the causes thereof the reading of which we most humbly pray and the manner of it First the Papists in the neighbouring Counties are severely puniâ—â—ed and their miseries might serve as Beacons unto us to look unto our own when our Neighbours Houses are on fire And we and other Papists are and ever will be as loyal Subjects as any in the King's Dominions For manifestation whereof we send herein inclosed an Oath solemnly taken by us which as it received indelible Impression in our hearts shall be sign'd with our hand and seal'd with our Blood Secondly There is an incapacity in the Papists of Honour and the Immunities of true Subjects the royal Marks of distributive Justice and a disfavour in the Commutative which rais'd Strangers and Forreigners whose valour and vertue was invincible when the old Families of the English and the Major part of us the meer Irish ddi swim in blood to serve the Crown of England and when Offices should call Men of worth Men without Worth and merit obtain them Thirdly The Statute of the 2 Eliz. of force in this Kingdom against us and they of our Religion doth a little disanimate us and the rest Fourthly The avoidance of Grants of our Lands and Liberties by Quirks and Quiddities of the Law without reflecting upon the Kings Royal and real Intention for confirming our Estates his Broad Seal being the pawn betwâ—â—t his Majesty and his people Fifthly The restraint of purchase in the meer Irish of Lands in the Escheated Counties and the taint and blemish of them and their posterities doth more discontent them than that plantation Rule for they are brought to that Exigent of poverty in these late times that they must be sellers and not buyers of Land And we conceive and humbly offer to your Lordships consideration Principiis obsta that in the beginning of this Commotion Your Lordship as it is hereditary for you will be a Physitian to cure this Disease in us and by our Examples it will doubtless beget the like auspicious scucess in all other parts of the Kingdom For we are of opinion it is one sickness and one pharmach will suffice Sublata causa tollitur Effectus And it will be recorded that you will do service unto God King and Countrey And for salving every the aforsaid Soars your Lordship is to be an humble Suitor in our behalf and of the rest of the Papists that out of the abundance of his Majesties Clemency there may be an Act of Oblivion and general pardon without restitution or Account of Goods taken in the time of this Commotion a liberty of our Religion a repeal of all Statutes formerly made to the contrary and not by Proclamation but Parliamentary way A Charter free Denizen in ample manner for meer Irish All which in succeeding Ages will prove an Union in all his Majesties Dominions instead of Division a Comfort in Desolation and a Happiness in perpetnity for an eminent Calamity And this being granted there will be all things Quae sunt Caesaris Caesari and Quae sunt Dei Deo And it was by the Poet written though he be prophane in other matters yet in this prophetically Divisum Imperium cum Jove Caesar habet All which for this present we to leave your Honourable Care And we will as we ever did and do remain Your very humble and assured ever to be Commanded Hugh mac Gillernow Farrall James Farrall Bryan Farrall Readagh Farrall Edmond mac Cael Farrall John Farrall in Carbuy Garret Farrall Lisagh mac Conel Farrall Bryan mac William Farrall James mac Trig Farrall his Mark Morgan mac Carbry Farrall Donnagh mac Carbry Farrall Richard mac Conel Farrall William Mac James Farrall James Farrall Taghna mac Rory Farral Cormack mac Rory Farrall Conock mac Bryne Farrall John mac Edmund Farrall John Farrall Roger mac Bryne Farrall Barnaby Farrall Redeagh mac Lisagh Farrall Connor Oge mac Connor Farrall Edmond mac Connor Farrall Cahel mac Bryne Farrall Before the Parliament broke up the Popish Lords deputed the Lord Dillon to go into England to carry over their Desires to the King and to represent the Means which they thought fittest for the suppressing of the Rebellion and he with the Lord Taaf imbarqued for England but by stress of Weather the Vessel was driven into Scotland and they took their way by Land for London But the Parliament having notice of their coming they were by Order of the Commons seized upon and brought up in safe Custody and all their Papers searched and Examined So unwilling it seems was the Faction that any Address should be made to the King or that any Steps should be made towards the reducing that Kingdom to his Majesties Obedience by any sort of Treaty or Accommodation By this procedure though they gained upon the good Opinion of the People whose favor they most industriously courted and to whom nothing sounded more pleasant then what seemed to express a Hatred and Detestation of the Irish Rebellion and Religion yet certainly was it a means of running the Rebels into such Extremities as dispair of Mercy are wont to produce in those who have transgressed the Bounds of Law and Duty and know their Lives and Estates without it to be forfeited to Justice But for the better understanding of this and some other Particulars the Reader may peruse the following Extracts of some Letters from the Board in Ireland which I found among the old Papers of the Clerk of the Parliaments Office Extract of a Letter of the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland to the Lord Lieutenant dated the 25th of November 1641. THe Rebels in the County of Wexford increasing daily Extract of divers Letters of the Lords Justices Council of Ireland to the Lord Lieutenant received the 6 of December by Mr. Fitz-Girald read Dec. 10. 1641. have taken the Castles of Arickloe Limbrick the Lord Esmond 's House and Fort-Chichester places of good Strength and Importance The Rebels also in the County of Wickloe have laid Siege to his Majesties Castle of Wickloe those in that Castle were in fight with them Yesterday what the issue is we yet hear not and some of those Rebels in the County of Wickloe have dared to come within four Miles of this City and swept away great droves of Cattle And in both Counties as well Wickloe as Wexford all the Castles and Houses of the English with all their substance are come into the hands of the Rebels and the English with their Wives and Children strip'd naked and banished thence by their fury and rage The Rebels in the County of Longford do still increase also as well in their Numbers as in their
Violence The Ulster Rebels are grown so strong as they have sufficient Men to leave behind them in the places they have gotten Northward and to lay Siege to some not yet taken as Emiskillin in the County of Fermanagh and Agher in Tirone and yet to come many thousands to besiege Drogheda in view whereof within 3 or 4 Miles they have stood with their Colours flying since Sunday the 21st of November expecting more Forces from Cavan and that way to gird the Town round about They have already taken Mellifont the Lord Moor 's House though with the loss of about 120 Men of theirs and there in cold blood they murdered Ten of those that manfully defended that place We hear also that the whole County of Lowth both Gentry and others are joyned with the Rebels and that the Sheriff and John Bellew Esq is likewise with them this County being one of the five of the English Pale having formerly still been true to the Crown In the County of Meath also being the most considerable of the five all the Common People and many of the younger Sons of the Gentry beyond the River of Boyne Twenty Miles from Dublin do either joyn with the Rebels or otherwise rob and spoil the English Protestants till within Six Miles of Dublin We sent to Drogheda 1100 Foot and 3 Troops of Horse and caused Four other Foot Companies to be raised there and this day we send thither 600 Foot more raw Men and unexperienced and another Troop of Horse And we provide the best we may for the defence of this City yet most of the Men we have are not Trained nor Exercised and many of them are Irish for others we have not and we fear that when we come to blows many of those will forsake their Commanders and side with the Rebels as they have done in the Counties of Cavan and Wickloe where of Companies of 40 Men of our Soldiers not above six or seven stayed on our side but took part with the Enemy Our main indeavour is to preserve this City and Castle for his Majesty The Rebels have now framed an Oath which they Administer to all that joyn with them the Copy whereof you have here inclosed as it was taken out of some Copies scattered abroad for all Mens view To conclude we renew our Suit for our Supplies of 100000 l. in Money 10000 Foot and 1000 Horse in present and Arms and Munition for them and for the Stores and Places of Defence not yet lost and that so much Money Men and Arms as are already gotten may be sent onward and the rest to be sent after and that the third part of the Shot be Callivers and the other two parts bastard Muskets as more suiting with the Service of this Kingdom and if those Supplies be not immediately sent away the Kingdom will be in danger to be lost Extract of a Letter of the said Lords Justices and Council of the 26th of November to the said Lord Lieutenant WE have received information That the Lord Viscount Dillon who Two Months since was admitted to be a Member of this Board and is now imployed by the Lords House of Parliament here to attend his Majesty carries along with him or is to have sent after him some Writing Signed by many Papists of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom which Writing as we are Informed contains a profession of Loyalty to his Majesty and an offer of themselves by their Power to reprieve this Rebellion without Aids of Men from England which if there be any such his Lordship though a Member of this Board hath not Communicated with us the Justices who ought to be made acquainted with what may have Relation to the Safety of the Kingdom But if the Lord Dillon 's Counsel shall tend any way to stay the Succours intended to be sent us out of England or to entertain his Majesty with a belief that those here will raise sufficient Force to reduce this Kingdom we humbly beseech leave to declare our Opinions herein That is that if our expected Succours from England be kept from us undoubtedly the English and Protestants of this whole Kingdom will be either put to the Sword or be forced to forsake the Kingdom and the sole Power and Sway in all Magistracy must necessarily fall into the hands of the Irish which will at their own pleasure shake off the Government of England and set up their Idolatrous Religion and prove the most dangerous Enemies to England We do confide so much in the Wisdom of His Majesty and the Parliament of England and your Lordships prudent Conduct of a matter so highly importing the State as that they will not to save a little charge expose both Kingdoms to such Dangers after the expence of so much English Blood and Treasure as hath been spent to gain this Kingdom nor will the charge be lost in overcoming this Rebellion by the Wisdom and Valour of England when it shall be abundantly recompenced not only in the settlement of a more firm Peace and Safety to England but also in raising a greater and more considerable Revenue here to the Crown then formerly out of the Estates of the Authors of the mischief The Rebels keep from us all Accesses to our Markets to starve us as they say nor can we help it for want of Men to send abroad several ways So it will be absolutely necessary that the Magazine of Victuals on the English Sea-Coasts on this side be fully stored with all speed that Supplies be hastened hither to Dublin A Regiment of a 1000 Men raised in Munster by Colonel Garret Barry for Spain was Commanded to Disband by the Lord President but they continue still as they were increasing in their numbers We have not yet sufficient force to compel them and it is doubted that he expects there some Arms from Foreign Parts so as it appears necessary that the Shipping designed for guarding those Coasts be hastened away speedily Extract of a Letter of the Lords Justices and Council to the Lord Lieutenant Dated the 27th of November 1641. WE hear that some have given out that our Dangers here are not so great as we declare which misinformations if they should gain credit there might cause the lessening or retarding our Supplies which perhaps may be the aim of those that have so misinformed if any can be so wicked and though we hope that such reports cannot be of equal value or estimation with the joynt representations of this State yet we crave leave to declare that the Rebellions are such and so great as we have formerly represented and far more dangerous then Words can express and we affirm That if those Supplyes come not speedily the Danger will be found far more lamentable to both Kingdoms and we beseech that no Credit be given to the contrary The Disturbances are now grown so general that in most Places and even round about this City within 4 Miles of us not the
near behind them and who they know have murdered many of His Majesties good and innocent Subjects and for ought they know if there were not secret intelligence between them might have used them also in like manner But the truth is we conceive those Gentlemen had a mind to joyn with the Rebels and do now take up pretences to cover their disloyalty and cast Scandal on this Government The Rebels in the Pale as in other Parts have caused Masses to be said openly in the Churches expelled the Ministers from Officiating in their Churches and forced divers persons for saving their Lives and Goods to become Papists openly professing that no Protestant shall be suffered to live in Ireland and whilst they insult thus over all the English and Protestants destroying them for no other reason but for that they are Protestants and English we let fall nothing against them touching Religion and yet they feign things against us tending that way to give some colour to their cruel proceedings The Rebels of the County of Kildare have taken the Naas and Kildare in the County of Kildare The Rebels of Meath have taken Trim and Ashboy in the County of Meath and divers other places The Rebels of the County of Dublin have possessed Swoords and Rathcoole and spoyled all the English and Protestants even to the Gates of Dublin and now about Fifteen hundred of the Rebels of Wiclow are in and about Powerscait and about Ten miles from this City There are also between this and the Naas within six or seven miles of us a Thousand of the Rebels of Kildare and the Borders of Wiclow and Dublin so as we are in this City invironed by them on all sides by Land and they begin to stop accesses to us by Sea for the Fisher-men on the Sea-Coasts being all Irish and Papists Inhabitants in the Pale break out also into Rebellion with the Multitude and have robbed spoiled and pillaged even within the Bay of Dublin several Barks coming hither forth of England And if to revenge this Villany on the Fishermen at Clantarfe and thereabouts so near us we send forth a Party of Souldiers to burn and spoil those Rebels Houses and Corn the Gentlemen of the Pale will immediately take new offence but that we will adventure upon for now there is no dalliance with them who so far declare themselves against the State not caring what Scorns are put upon the Government wherein is observable That the Landlord of Clantarfe is one of those Gentlemen risen in Arms at Swoords Your Lordship now sees not only the necessity of hastening with all possible speed our Succours of Men and Arms both out of England and Scotland in greater Numbers than those at first designed seeing the breach appears to be far greater and the defection more general than at first was conceived and yet so as such of them as are ready be not forced to stay for the rest but that those may be so ordered as to come after for no flesh can imagine unless they saw it as we do the greatness of our danger who are but a handful in comparison of the multitudes risen against us And we desire that the Ten thousand designed to come from Scotland may be wholly sent away as well the Five thousand intended to be left there in readiness as the rest with direction to land as near Dublin as they may and wheresoever they Land to March to Dublin if possibly they can And to send away with all speed the Ships appointed for guarding these Coasts is also very necessary to be hastned and that two or three Ships of good Strength follow after doubtless these Rebels expect a very great Supply of Arms and Munition from Foreign Parts either Spain or France And although out of the fore-sight we had of this extremity since these Troubles began we have endeavoured to get in some Provisions of Victual and Corn yet we have not been able to provide our selves sufficiently to stand out any long Siege nor can we now get in any more our Markets being almost taken away and the Strength of the Rebels surrounding us so as we can setch in no more Provisions wherefore we beseech your Lordship that the Magazines of Victuals designed to be settled on that side may be settled with all speed if it be not done already whereby we and the Succours we expect may not be in distress of Victuals for our selves or them or Oats for our Horses Our want of Victuals is the more in respect of the daily access of the English spoyled in the Country The necessity of the defence of the Province of Munster required the immediate raising of a Regiment of Foot consisting of One thousand Men and two Troops of Horse of Threescore each Troop which Threescore we appointed the Lord President to raise and for the payment and arming of them we humbly advise seeing we cannot do it That Money and Arms be sent from thence to Youghall with a further Supply of Arms and Munition for the Stores in that Province now much wanting there And as the Rebels which have beset us and this City on all sides by Land do threaten to cut off our Market at Dublin which we begin to feel already so they boldly declare That they will within a day or two cut off the Water-Course which brings water to this City and Castle and that done That their Multitudes will immediately burn our Suburbs and besiege our Walls which we confess we yet want Strength to defend and must want till our Supplies come forth of England or Scotland or both for here we have but about Three thousand men the rest of the Old Companies being dispersed in several needful Garrisons in the Countrey excepting Seven Companies of them surprized and cut off by the Rebels at their first Rising in Vlster and other parts and about Two hundred Horse by pole of the Old Army whereof many are Irish so as considering the spaciousness of this City and Suburbs to be defended the smalness of our number to defend them and the great numbers of Papists Inhabitants in this City and Suburbs and lastly the very great Numbers of the Rebels who are so strong as to approach this City with many Thousands and yet leave many Thousands also at the Siege of Drogheda we cannot expect to be able to defend this City for any long time against them without the arrival of our expected Succours The Earl of Castle-Haven on the Tenth of this Month presented at this Board the inclosed Oath tendered unto him by the Rebels to be sworn by him which he saith he refused to swear and we hear they send it to all Parts to be tendered to the people pressing them to take the Sacrament thereupon We did lately in hope to gain some time until our Supplies might come listen to an Offer made by some Popish Priests to go to the Rebels and Treat with them as you may perceive by the inclosed But
Lords concerning Kymbolton and the five Members 848. to both Houses concerning Breach of Priviledge 858. Message of the Queen to the House of Commons about her Journey 405. Message of either House to the King upon occasion of his Letter about the Earl of Strafford 197. to desire him to stop some Allowances 368. of the House of Commons to the House of Lords about a Conspiracy to seduce the Army 231. about restraining Ecclesiastical persons from medling in secular affairs 242. about paying the brotherly assistance to the Scots 315. about the Charge and Trial of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 318. to the Lord Keeper that the Judges travel not on the Lords day 325. about three Bills 331. concerning Disbanding the Army 424. about making the Earl of Pembroke Lord Steward and the Earl of Salisbury Lord Treasurer 437. about the Impeach'd Bishops 439. desiring that a convenient number of Lords stay in Town 445. concerning the desperate condition of the Kingdom 447. Message from the House of Lords to the House of Commons by one person only gives offence 474. Message of the House of Commons to the Queen about the Prince 597. to the House of Lords about Philips the Priest ibid. to Forraign Ambassadors not to harbour English Priests 652. to the House of Lords to press expedition for Ireland 750 761 768 769. concerning a Declaration to suppress Tumults and a Guard 789. concerning the Lord Digby 791. to revive the Bill against Bishops Votes 800. that the Kings Queens and Princes Servants take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy 814. to the Gentlemen of the Inns of Court and to the Common-Council of London 817. about the Kings coming to the House 822. their Message about the Tower rejected 835. concerning the Prince and Marquess of Hertford 657. concerning the adjournment to Grocers Hall c. 879 880. Message from the Scots Commissioners about the Kings Journey into Scotland 318. of the Venetian Ambassador to the House of Lords 655. Michaelmas Term abbreviated 238 243. Militia enquired into by order of the House of Commons 230. Mines Royal Order about them 446. Scandalous Ministers a Committee about them 233. Factious Ministers their Petition to the House of Commons 764. Money borrow'd of the Londoners by the House of Commons 236. desired to be continued 255. more to be borrowed 407 411 595 597 644. an Ordinance for securing Money lent by the City 621 687. Money to be conveyed to the Army an Order for its safety 415. Colonel Monk his Letter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 919. Earl of Monmouth 's Speech concerning fears c. 849. Sir James Montgomery a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 64 77. Lord Morley Ordered to be Tryed by his Peers for Murther 307. Earl of Morton a Witness in the Case of the Earl of Strafford 82. Lord Mountnorris a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 36 39 59 63. Lord and Lady Muskerry Irish Papists kind to the English 635. N. NAmes of the persons who made the several motions towards the Declaration of the State of the Kingdom 615. of the chief Irish Rebels 632. Narrative of a Plot by Beal a Taylor 647. James Nash a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 874. Nash and Kynaston 's Case 258. Navy the State of it 460. Debated 757. Order of the House of Commons about it 787. Sir Paul Neal a Witness for the Earl of Strafford 95. Lord Nettervile 's Son ordered 〈◊〉 be brought before the House of Lord â—77 Lord Newark his Speech about the â—â—â—rage of Bishops 251. concerning their medling in secular Affairs 252. Lord Newburgh a Witness in the Case of the Earl of Strafford 83. New castle an Order to the Major to take care of it 753. Earl of Newport made Constable of the Tower 230. enabled as Master of the Ordnance to deliver Arms c. for Ireland 606 desired by the House of Commons to reside in the Tower 780. inform'd against for a design to seize the Queen c. 781. discharged of his Constableship of the Tower 785. Petition of both Houses about him 786. Non-Residence a Bill against it 293. Earl of Northumberland a Witness in the Case of the Earl of Strafford 82 86. O. OAth of Allegiance and Supremacy by Order of the House of Commons to be tendred to Irish Recusants and others in the Inns of Court 613. and to the Kings Queens and Princes Servants 814. the Oath for Ireland an Act of State and Petition about it 79. Oath of Secrecy administred to persons concerned in preparing for the Tryal of the Earl of Strafford 11. Officers of the Army Petition for Pay 660 757. Ordered a Moiety 772. those in Ireland commanded to their Charges 594. and in the examination of the Army Conspiracy 232. O Neal a Serjeant Major sent for 286. Committed 490. Ordered to be examined 492 625 714. Voted to be impeach'd of High Treason 754. committed to the Gate-house 757. Sir Phelim O Neal his Execution 529. his Letter to Sir William Hamilton 895. Opinion of the Judges upon an exception of the Earl of Strafford 101. upon the Bill of Attainder 192. in the Case of Ship-money 338. in answer to some Quaeries concerning matters in Parliament 374. concerning a Custos Regni 430. Opinion of the House of Lords about a Commission for Commissioners to attend the King in Scotland 448. 451. Opinion of a City Divine about Episcopacy presented to the House of Commons 302. Orders of both Houses relating to the Trial of the Earl of Strafford 28. for the payment of the Poll-Money to expedite disbanding 458. for declaring the Scotch Rebels to be loyal Subjects 467. for securing the Money borrowed of the City 687. for a Guard upon the Tower 844. Orders of the House of Lords concerning new Proofs against the Earl of Strafford 102. to stop the Ports 232. to pillory two Persons for a contempt 238. about Tumults 246 388 468 476 603 692 856 484 495 691 718. about Ship-Money in the Sheriffs hands 264. against formal Speeches 265. about Writs of Error 272. for Provision for Sisters by a Brother 367. for relief of Wife and Children against a Husband refusing to cohabit 381. concerning a Vicarage between Sir Peter Osborn and Thomas Joice 382. concerning the Arch-Bishops Poll-Money 387. for securing Money carried to the Army 415. for the Lady Wotton 420. 457. for exemplifying the Acts for Pacification and Brotherly Assistance 439. for examining Witnesses about Incendiaries 444. for referring the Election of Sheriffs of London 445. 456. about Mines Royal 446. concerning the impeached Bishops 449 484 495 691 718. search under the Parliament House 450. to quicken the disbanding 457. concerning a Guard about the Parliament House 487. concerning the relief of Ireland 601 603 626. to expel Romish Recusants out of Inns of Court 613. for bringing Ammunition from Hull 643. about the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ibid. for apprehending Priests and Jesuites 647 648. for putting the Laws in execution against Romish Recusants 653.