c. 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
aforesaid did on the deliver his Opinion in the Exchequer Chamber against John Hampden Esquire in the Case of Ship-Money that he the said John Hampden upon the matter and substance of the Case was chargeable with the Money then in Question A Copy of which proceeding and judgment the Commons of this present Parliament have delivered to your Lordships 7. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench and one of the Justices of Assize for the County of York did at the Assizes held at York in Lent 1636. deliver his charge to the Grand-Jury that it was a lawful and inseparable Flower of the Crown for the King to command not only the Maritime Counties but also those that were In-land to find Ships for the defence of the Kingdom And then likewise falsely and maliciously affirmed that it was not his single judgment but the judgment of all his Brethren witnessed by their subscriptions And then also said that there was a rumour that some of his Brethren that had subscribed were of a contrary Judgment but it was a base and unworthy thing for any to give his Hand contrary to his Heart and then wished for his own part that his Hand might rot from his Arm that was guilty of any such Crime when as he knew that Master Justice Hutton and Master Justice Crook who had subscribed were of a contrary Opinion and was present when they were perswaded to subscribe and did subscribe for Conformity only because the major Number of the Judges had subscribed And he the said Sir Robert Berkley then also said that in some Cases the Judges were above an Act of Parliament which said false malicious Words were uttered as aforesaid with intent and purpose to countenance and maintain the said unjust Opinions and to terrifie His Majesties Subjects that should refuse to pay Ship-Money or seek any remedy by Law against the said unjust and illegal Taxation 8. That whereas Richard Chambers Merchant having commenced a Suite for Trespass and false imprisonment against Sir Edward Bromfield Knight for imprisoning him the said Chambers for refusing to pay Ship-Money in the time that the said Sir Edward Bromfield was Lord Mayor of the City of London in which Suite the said Sir Edward Bromfield did make a special Justification The said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench in Trinity Term last then sitting on the Bench in the said Court upon debate of the said Case between the said Chambers and Sir Edward Bromfield said openly in the Court that there was a Rule of Law and a Rule of Government And that many things which might not be done by the Rule of Law might be done by the Rule of Government And would not suffer the Point of Legality of Ship-Money to be argued by Chambers his Councel all which Opinions Declarations Words and Speeches contained in the Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh and Eighth Articles are destructive to the Fundamental Laws of this Realm the Subjects right of Property and contrary to former Resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right which Resolution in Parliament and Petition of Right were well known to him and Resolved and Enacted when he was the King's Serjeant at law and attendant in the Lords House of Parliament 9. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Judges of the Court of King's-Bench and being in Commission of the Peace and duly sworn to execute the Office of a Justice of Peace in the County of Hertford on or about the seventh of January 1638. at which time the General Sessions of the Peace for the said County were there holden The said Sir Robert Berkley then and there sitting on the Bench did revile and threaten the Grand-Jury returned to serve at the said Sessions for presenting the removal of the Communion Table in All-Saints Church in Hertford aforesaid out of the Place where it anciently and usually stood and setting it Alter-ways against the Laws of this Realm in that Case made and provided as an Innovation in Matters concerning the Church the said Grand-Jury having delivered to them in Charge at the said Sessions by Master Serjeant Atkins a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Hertford that by the Oath they had taken they were bound to present all Innovations concerning Church Matters And he the said Sir Robert Berkley compelled the Fore-Man of the Jury to tell him who gave him any such Information and thereby knowing it to be one Henry Brown one of the said Grand-Jury he asked the said Brown how he durst meddle with Church Matters who affirming that in the said Charge from Master Serjeant Atkins the said Jury was charged to do he the said Sir Robert Berkley told the said Brown he should therefore find Sureties for his good Behaviour and that he the said Sir Robert Berkley would set a great Fine on his Head to make him an Example to others and thereupon the said Brown offered sufficient Bail but he the said Sir Robert Berkley being incensed against him refused the said Bail and committed the said Brown to Prison where he lay in Irons till the next Morning and used to the said Brown and the rest of the Jurors many other reviling and terrifying Speeches And said he knew no Law for the said Presentment and told the said Brown that he had sinned in the said Presentment And he compelled the said Grand-Jurors to say they were sorry for that they had done in that Presentment and did bid them to trample the said Presentment under their Feet and caused Brown to tear the said Presentment in his sight And he the said Sir Robert Berkley when as John Houland and Ralph Pemberton late Mayor of Saint Albons came to desire his Opinion on several Indictments against John Brown Parson of Saint Albons and Anthony Smith Vicar of Saint Peters in Saint Albons at the Quarter Sessions held at the said Town of Saint Albons on the four and twentieth of June 1639. for the removal of the Communion Table out of the usual Place and not Administring the Sacrament according to Law in that Case provided He the said Sir Robert Berkley then told them that such an Indictment was before him at Hertford and that he quashed the same and imprisoned the Promoters by which threatning and reviling Speeches unjust Actions and Declarations he so terrified the Jurors in those Parts that they durst not present any Innovations in the Church Matters to their great Grief and Trouble of their Consciences And whereas several Indictments were preferred against Matthew Brook Parson of Yarmouth by John Ingram and John Carter for refusing several times to Administer the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper to them without any lawful Cause at the Assizes held at Norwich in 1633. He the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Judges of the Assize proceeded then to the Tryal on the said
will procure a confusion and grudging among them Upon reading the Petition of the Six Persons chosen by the Commonalty of the City of London it is Ordered by the Lords in Parliament Order about Books to be used in the Case between Lord Major and Commons That the Book of Reversions shall be perused by them and afterwards with theBooks of A. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. L. Z. O. Liber Albus Transcript Dunthorn Customs Repertory Hamersly Journal of 6 H. 7. Journal Swinerton Middleton Hayes Journal Garroway shall be brought into the Vpper House of Parliament on Monday next being the 26th of this Instant Month of July by Nine of the Clock in the morning at which time their Lordships have Ordered to hear the said Cause Sir John Hotham Reports Friday July 23. That there will be due to the Scots upon the 12th of August 57400 l. 10000 l. is expected from the voluntary Loan of the Members so that 47000 will be requisite to pay them off Ordered That there shall be a Conference with the Lords to borrow 40000 l. of the City which the Lords agreed to and the Poll-Bill was proposed to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen for Security Earl of Essex made Lord Chamberlain This day His Majesty was pleased to give the white Staff to the Earl of Essex and he was Sworn Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Household Sir Arthur Ingram carries up the Bill with amendments for the certainty of the Forrests as also a Bill for the Earl of Bedford Saturday July 24. The House of Commons then entered upon the Debate of the Articles from the Committee of Seven against Mr. Percy Mr. Jermyn c. Upon which they came to these Votes Votes upon the Articles from the Committee of 7. Resolved c. That Mr. Henry Percy in the Months of March and April last past in the Parish of St. Martin 's in the County of Middlesex did Compass Plot and Conspire with others to draw the said Army together and to employ them against the Parliament and by fear and dread thereof to compel the said Parliament to agree to certain Propositions by them contrived and to hinder and interrupt the Proceedings of the said Parliament Resolved c. The same against Mr. Henry Jermyn Sir John Suckling and Mr. William Davenant Resolved c. That in pursuance of the said Design the said Henry Percy by the Plot and Combination aforesaid did endeavour to persuade divers Members of the House of Commons of the said Parliament and others being Officers of the said Army that is to say Henry Wilmot William Ashburnham Esq Sir John Berkly Hugh Pollard and Daniel Oneal Esquires that they were disobliged by the Parliament thereby to incense and disaffect them against the Parliament and did hold divers Consultations with the said persons to effect the said wicked and dangerous Designs and for that purpose did set down in writing certain Propositions to the effect following that is to say The preserving of Bishops Votes and Functions the not Disbanding of the Irish Army until the Scots were Disbanded and to endeavour the settling of the King's Revenue to the proportion it was formerly The House fell upon the further Debate of the Articles from the Committee of Seven and it was Resolved Further Votes about Mr. Percy c. c. That the said Henry Percy in pursuance of the said Plot and Combination for the more secret Carriage and further Engagement of the said Conspirators and others the Persons aforenamed did minister unto the said Henry Jermin Hugh Pollard Henry Wilmot William Ashburnham Sir John Berkley and Daniel Oneal a wicked and unlawful Oath whereby they did Swear upon the Holy Evangelists not to reveal any thing spoken concerning that business in consultation directly or indirectly nor to think themselves absolved by any other Oath that should be after taken from the Secresie enjoyned by the said Oath Resolved c. That Mr. Henry Jermyn at the time the said Oath was Administred as aforesaid and at divers other times did propound and endeavour to perswade the Persons aforenamed and other Officers of the said Army to put the said Army into a Warlike Posture and to bring them up to London and likewise to make themselves sure of the Tower and so by force to compel the Parliament to conform to their Will Resolved c. That the said Henry Jermin Sir John Suckling and William Davenant in further Prosecution of the said Design by the Conspiracy aforesaid to disaffect the said Army towards the Parliament and to work a belief in the said Army that the King and Parliament would disagree and so under pretence of adhering to His Majesty to incense the said Army against the Parliament thereby the better to compass their wicked Design and further endeavoured to perswade the Army that all the French about London would assist them and to the great scandal of the King and his Government that the Prince and the Earl of Newcastle were to meet the said Army at Nottingham with a Thousand Horse Resolved c. That the said Sir John Suckling by the Conspiracy aforesaid for the better effecting the said wicked Design under the pretence and colour of some service to the King of Portugal did raise Men both Officers and Common Soldiers and further did contrive that a hundred of those Men should be put into the Tower of London under the Command of Captain Henry Billingsley thereby to possess themselves of the same as was formerly propounded by Mr. Henry Jermin that so they the said Henry Jermin and Sir John Suckling might better effect their said wicked Designs and have better opportunity to Master and Command the City of London that the said City should not be able to make any resistance when the said Army should come up according to the aforementioned Desing And the said Sir John Suckling in further pursuance of the said wicked intentions did by the means aforesaid Plot and Endeavour that Thomas Earl of Strafford then Prisoner in the Tower for High Treason and since Attainted and Executed for the same should make an Escape that by his Power they might the better compass and bring to pass the said wicked Design Resolved c. That the said Henry Wilmot William Ashburnham Hugh Pollard Sir John Suckling Sir John Berkley and Daniel Oneal by the inticement practice and insinuation of the said Henry Percy did take the aforesaid unlawful Oath Resolved c. That the said Henry Percy for the advancement of the said wicked Design did propound unto them the aforesaid three Propositions Resolved c. That the said Henry Wilmot William Ashburnham Hugh Pollard Sir John Berkley and Daniel Oneal were acquainted with the said Design mentioned in the first Article Resolved c. That the said Henry Wilmot William Ashburnham Hugh Polland Sir John Berkley and Daniel Oneal were together with the said Confederates present at divers Debates and Consultations touching the
part Succesless our dangers grown upon us by iterated Plots Priests and other Delinquents unpunished to the Encouragement of others Ireland lost by protracted Councels while thousands are there Butchered by many Cruelties and to cut off all hopes of future Reformation the very being of our Parliaments endangered by desperate and unexampled breach of Priviledges which by our Protestation lately taken we are bound with our Lives and Estates to maintain And in respect of that late attempt upon the Honourable House of Commons we are now come to offer our service to that end and resolved in their just defence to live and die And therefore humbly Pray that this most Honourable House will Cooperate with the House of Commons in most Speedy perfecting the most necessary work of Reformation bringing to condign and Exemplary Punishment both wicked Councellors and evil Plotters and Delinquents that Ireland may have speedy relief the Priviledges of Parliament fortified against all future Attempts and the whole Kingdom put into sure and present Posture of Defence that we may live both Safe from all Practices of the Malignant Party at home and the endeavours of any ill affected States abroad And Your Petitioners shall ever Pray c. The Petitioners were called in again and told That this House takes well their coming hither with their Petition and their Care of the Priviledges of Parliament and the Kingdom of Ireland for which this House gives them thanks and their Lordships will take their Petition into consideration The Lord Keeper acquainted the House that he had received a Command from his Majesty to attend him at Windsor he received the permission of the House to do it and was ordered to acquaint his Majesty with the Order concerning Hull and likewise to move his Majesty from both Houses for his Royal Assent to three Bills which have passed both Houses one for Pressing of Marriners another concerning Redeeming of Captives at Algiers and the third concerning the Power of both Houses to Adjourn the Parliament The Lord Kymbolton moved Lord Kymbolton moves to be Tryed That if the House thought the Proceedings against him Legal that Mr. Attorney might be Commanded to Prosecute the Accusation against him for that if Mr. Attorney be ready to make good the Charge against him he is ready to answer it and that he desired no further time His own Innocency making him thus Confident as he said though it is shrewdly to be suspected he had other Motives and Reasons drawn from the Power and Prevalency of the Faction which gave him this assurance However Mr. Attorney was sent for who informed the House That what he had done was by the Express Command of the King his Master and not done by his Advice that he had attended the King to receive his Majesties further directions therein who told him when he went out of Town he would leave something with the Lord Keeper to acquaint this House further with concerning this Business And that he had attended the Lord Keeper to know whether the King had left any directions with him who told him he had received none from his Majesty but that he was Commanded to attend his Majesty Speedily Hereupon the Lord Kymbolton desired the House That some speedy Course may be taken that his Life Estate and Honour may be Secured A Message was brought from the House of Commons Message concerning the Tower to remove Sir John Byron by Sir Henry Vane Junior to let their Lordships know That in regard of the great Jealousies and Distractions of the City of London by Sir John Byron 's being Lieutenant of the Tower of London as appears by the Citizens shutting up their Shops and giving over Trade and in regard of the good Affections Expressed this day to the Parliament the House of Commons desires their Lordships to joyn with them to Petition the King that Sir John Byron may be forthwith removed from being Lieutenant of the Tower and that Sir John Conyers may be recommended to his Majesty for that Place After much Debate of this Message it was put to the Question Lords Dissent and it was Resolved c. That this House thinks it not fit to joyn with the House of Commons in an humble Petition to his Majesty for removing of Sir John Byron Knt. from being Lieutenant of the Tower and placing of Sir John Conyers there The Bishops were also ordered to put in their Answers to the Commons Impeachment of High Treason Bishops to put in Answer on Friday next The Lord Chamberlain then acquainted the House That the King hath sent Command to his Lordship and the Earl of Holland to attend his Majesty at Hampton-Court but before they went they desired to know the pleasure of this House being bound by their Writs to attend the business of the Kingdom Whereupon the House Commanded the Lord Chamberlain Lords sent for by the King not permitted to go by the House and the Earl of Holland to attend this House and would not dispense with their Absence in regard of the many great and urgent Businesses depending in this House It was the strangest fortune in the World certainly that these Men of the Faction had that when ever they stood in need of a Plot to countenance their designs and to stir up the People to Sedition some kind Person or other was sure to furnish them with one or more as there was occasion for this day in the very Critical Juncture of time a Letter was produced in the House of Commons and there read and immediately Communicated to the House of Lords The Letter were as follows To the Worshipful and my much honour'd Friend Orlando Bridgman Esq a Burgess of the Parliament at his Chamber in the Inner Temple these present SIR WE are your Friends Two Letters of a strange Plot strangely discovereâ— to the Commons these are to advise you to look to your self and to advise others of my Lord of Strafford 's Friends to take heed lest they be included in the common Calamity Our advice is to be gone to pretend business till the great hubbub be past withdraw lest you suffer with the Puritans We intreat you to send away the inclosed Letter to Mr. Anderton inclosed to some Trusty Friend that it may be carried safely without suspicion for it concerns the common safety So desire your Friends in Covent-Garden January 4th The inclosed was directed To the Worshipful and my much Honour'd Friend Mr. Anderton these SIR ALthough many Designs have been defeated yet that of Ireland holds well and now our last Plot works as happily as that of Ireland We must bear with something in the main His Will is strong enough as long as he is fed with Hopes the Woman is true to us and real her Council about her is very good I doubt not but to send you by the next very joyful News For the present our Arch-Enemies Pym Hampden Strode Hollis and Haslerigg are blemished
City and that the Resolution of the said Committee can take no effect until they be communicated to the Common Council the House of Commons desires their Lordships to joyn with them in an Order That the Lord Mayor shall call a Common-Council together as often and at such times as shall be desired by the said Committee and that whatsoever Order the said Lord Mayor hath or shall receive from either of the Houses of Parliament shall be imparted to the said Committee To the first part of this Message the Lords agreed To the second That the Lord Digby have notice to attend this House if he be at Kingston or at Court but if he be gone to Sherborn to fetch up his Lady he is to go on his Journey To the third It was Resolved c. That this House will joyn with the House of Commons concerning the Governor of Portsmouth These Lords following Lords Dissenting from the Vote about Portsmouth before the Question was put Desired their Right of entring their Dissent to this Vote if it were carried against them Which the House gave way unto viz. Earl of Southampton Lord Mowbray Lord Wentworth Lord Pierpoint To the latter part of the Message concerning the Common-Council the House agrees therein with the House of Commons and the next day they were drawn into formal Orders of both Houses The Earl of Southampton speaking some Words in the Debate of this Message which the House conceived to reflect upon the Honor of the House Earl of Southampton questioned for Words which were That the Parliament had neglected their Duty to the King for the safety of his Person Upon which his Lordship was put to explain himself which being done these Resolutions passed Resolved c. Nemine contradicente That this Parliament have performed their Duties to the King for the Safety of his Person Resolved c. That the Earl of Southampton hath satisfied this House with the Explanation he now made of himself A Message was then brought from the House of Commons by Sir Philip Stapleton being two Votes concerning Sir John Byron Lieutenant of the Tower to which they desired the Concurrence of the Lords 1. Votes of the Commons concerning the Lieutenant of the Tower That Sir John Byron the now Lieutenant of the Tower hath committed a high Contempt against the Authority and Priviledges of Parliament in refusing to appear upon the Summons of both Houses of Parliament To which the Lords agreed 2. That Sir John Byron the now Lieutenant of the Tower shall be sent for as a Delinquent The Lords deferred giving any Resolution of this last Vote at this time Search to be made about the Commons House In the Commons House it was this day Ordered That another Lock be set upon the Door under the Stairs at the Door of the Commons House and that Mr. Bell keep the Key and search it every Morning also that it be referred to the Committee appointed to search about the Houses and Places near the Parliament House to take daily care that all Places thereabout be safeguarded and kept Secure Mr. Calcot the Informer of Lunsford's being at Kingston with 500 Horse Theophilus Calcot gave the House Information of many Horse under the Command of Collonel Lunsford were Lodged at Kingston upon Thames to the number of 500 or thereabouts That there came Yesterday two Loads of Ammunition that there was last night Captain Thomas Howard a Member of the Commons House and as they say had a Command of some Men there Which occasioned the Message before mentioned It seems the Information did not agree for afterwards Mr. Hollis reported from the Committee appointed to consider of this Information That there were about 200 Men there that they have Pistols and discharge them and carry themselves in a disorderly Manner to the Terror of the People And in reality all this great Army at Kingston was only the Lord Digby and his ordinary Retinue But every thing was Multiplied and Magnified to the highest degrees and whether true orfalse it did the business Effectually and kept up the Fears and Jealousies of the People and confirmed them in the belief of strange Plots against the City and Parliament Then Mr. Sollicitor St. Johns Mr. Whitlock Sir H. Anderson The Committee to draw the Declaration to be sent into all Parts of the Kingdom to put themselves into a Posture of Defence Sir Gilbert Gerrard Mr. Green Sir John Holland Mr. Whistler Sir H. Mildmay Mr. Rigby Mr. Boduile Mr. Grimston Sir Martin Lumley Sir Edward Hungerford Mr. Cave Sir Edward Patherich Serjeant Wild Sir Thomas Barrington Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore Mr. Strode Sir J. Evelyn Mr. Noble Sir William Massam Mr. Lisle were appointed a Committee to take into consideration the drawing of a Letter or other Declaration to be presented to the Lords and by both Houses to be publish't in Print and sent into all the parts of the Kingdom advising them with all Expedition to be in a readiness and a good posture of Defence upon all occasions to defend their several Counties from Invasion by Papists or other ill affected Persons and to declare the several Designs that this quarter of a year last past hath been against the Parliament and safety of the Kingdom It was also Ordered That 2000 l. of the Pole Money shall be paid by the Lord Mayor of York to Sir John Hotham for the service of Hull It was also Ordered upon the Information of Mr. Thomas Blunt Search for Arms at Mr. Ropers at Eltham in Kent That the said Mr. Blunt and Mr. Gibbon or either of them do forthwith make diligent search in the House of Mr. Anthony Roper in Kent at Eltham or any other suspected place for Arms and Ammunition and if they find any there to Seize the same and to apprehend the Person of him or any other Suspected Persons and to take Examinations touching this matter and to use their best indeavours for the Apprehending of Mr. Cecil Cave Who as Blunt said he had been informed had given out that ere long Bloud would be Sold as cheap as Milk The Serjeant was ordered to repair to the Queens Millener Letters to Mr. Crofts opened and require him forthwith to attend the House with the Paquet of Letters which he this day received by the French Post directed to Mr. Crofts Joseph Lee a Waterman informed the House of some great Saddles going to Kingston by water whereupon Order to Seize Saddles and Horses the Serjeant was commanded to Seize them And an Order was sent to the Justices next Hampton Town to make stay of some Horses that the House is informed are now in the Stable of one Mr. Robinson until this House shall take further order An other Order to Sir John Franklyn and Mr. Search for Arms at Sir James Hamiltons Lodgings Whittacre to search the Lodgings of Sir James Hamilton for Arms and Ammunition and to Seize the same and
House of Commons an Order was issued to the High Sheriff of Suffolk calling to his Assistance Sir William Spring Mr. Order to search the Lady River's House for Arms. Maurice Barrow or either of them to his assistance to search the House of the Lady Rivers and to seize what Arms they shall find there and put them in safe Custody Another Order was issued to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxon Order to search for Arms at Oxon. the Major and Sir Nathaniel Brent Alderman of that City or any two of them to search the Houses of Mr. Green Mr. Napier at the Starr and Mr. Williams and any other suspected Place for Arms and take good Order to remove them and put them in safe Custody and shall likewise seize the Persons of such Recusants as shall resort to either of these Places or any other House or Place within the University or City of Oxon. It was also Ordered That a Messenger be sent Post on purpose to Portsmouth with the Ordinance of both Houses and this House undertakes to see the Messenger paid Then Mr. Bagshaw of Windsor was called in and did inform the House Bagshaw of Windsor an Informer That the last Night as he went to Windsor he saw divers Troops of Horse That there came a Waggon loaden with Ammunition last Night to Windsor That there was another Waggon that went away from Windsor to Farnham That there was a Messenger gone to Portsmouth That he was informed there were about 400 Horse in the Town and about some forty Officers Whereupon Mr. Arthur Goodwin was sent to desire the Lords to sit a while in regard this House doth believe they shall have Occasion to come up to them with some Matters of great Importance And presently after Sir Edward Hungerford went up to the Lords to desire a Conference touching the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom And upon this Information Skippon ordered to send out Scouts by Land and Water which was of the same Stamp with the other about Kingston it was Ordered That Serjeant Major General Skippon do take Care That ten Horsemen be forthwith appointed to go as Scouts from time to time to bring Intelligence if any Forces do approach near the City and this House will undertake that they shall be satisfied and also to take care for the appointing of such Boats or small Vessels as shall be necessary by Water for the Service aforesaid and the House will take care Satisfaction also be given to those so imployed It is impossible to enter into the Head of any Man of Sense that the Faction was under any real Fears from this Information but there is another sort of Fear a Politick Fear which was by these preparations of Scouts by Land and Water to perswade the City that the Parliament had discovered some huge Plot against them which they were so solicitous to prevent for had the Information been true as in probability it was very false since Bagshaw does not affirm it of his own Knowledg but by a second-hand Information which he had met with what occasion of Fear could 400 Men give to the City of London or to the Parliament the House of Commons being able to have given Battle to such a Number if they should have had any Design against them as they indeavoured to make the City and the whole Nation be lieve But the Faction had a very particular Service for these strange Rumors which they so industriously fomented and magnified and that was by the help of these imaginary Dangers to wrest the Sword of the Militia out of His Majesties hands for unless they had the management of it they nor the Kingdom as they made the People believe could not be in any condition of Safety And in order to this Mr. Pierpoint Committee for putting the Kingdom into a posture of defence Sir Richard Cave Mr. Hollis and Mr. Solliciter Sir Philip Stapleton Mr. Glyn Sir H. Vane Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer were appointed to be a Committee to consider of some Heads and present them to the House to morrow morning for putting the Kingdom into a Posture of Defence Then his Majesties Answer to the desires of the Commons concerning Arms for Ireland was read as followeth HIS Majesty having considered of the Message delivered to him from the House of Commons of the 12th of this present Month His Majesties Answer to the Commons concerning Arms out of the Stores for Ireland whereby it is desired that he should give a general Warrant for delivery of Arms and Ammunition for the Service of Ireland returneth this Answer That as His Majesty hath been very careful to contribute all that possibly he could for furnishing Provisions for the Relief of Ireland so he shall be ready to give Warrants immediately from time to time for any particulars that shall be thought fit by his Parliament to be sent out of his Stores for that Service and for the present hath given Warrant for the delivering 1500 Muskets with all things to them belonging and 500 Pikes and Corslets and 2000 Swords out of his Tower of London and Arms for 500 Horse out of the Magazine of Hull The Earl of Newport this day signified to the House Saturday January 15. That he had received Warrants from the King to Transport the Arms and Ammunition desired for Ulster only he wants Money and Ships to convey them A Conference was had between the Lords and Commons concerning the Lieutenant of the Tower Lord Keeper Reports the Conference concerning the Lieutenant of the Tower which the Lord Keeper thus Reported That the House of Commons conceive the Tower of London to be a Place of that great Importance that they do renew a former Motion that their Lordships would joyn with them humbly to Petition the King that the Lieutenant now in may be removed and such a Person put in as the King Parliament and City may confide in The Parliament confides not in Sir John Byron because he hath been disobedient and hath refused to come upon the Summons of both Houses of Parliament not that they speak this as desiring it may be a cause of Punishment upon him but as a ground of distrust The City says Though the Lieutenant may be a worthy Gentleman otherwise yet he is a Man unknown to them which already causes ill Effects for Merchants begin to take away their Bullion out of the Mint and write Letters to their Factors to send no more And at the present there is a Ship come laden very richly with Bullion but the Owners do forbear to bring it into the Mint because they cannot confide in the Lieutenant of the Tower This concerns the City and Trade exceedingly for it is a Charge to the City to maintain a Guard about the Tower therefore the House of Commons desires their Lordships to join with them in an humble Petition to his Majesty That Sir John Byron now Lieutenant of the Tower may be
removed and that Sir John Conyers may be recommended to his Majesty for that Place But before the House of Lords would give any Resolution herein it was Ordered That the Common-Council of the City of London the Merchants that have Estates in Bullion the Minters and all others concerned shall be inquired of whether there be a stay of the Mint or any forbearance of bringing in of Bullion into the Tower of London and if there be whether it proceeds in respect of Sir John Byron 's being Lieutenant of the Tower and hereof speedy Certificate to be made to the Lords in Parliament A Message was then brought from the House of Commons by Denzil Hollis Esquire 1. He brought up the Bill for the Relief of his Majesties distressed Subjects of Ireland 2. To desire the Lords to join with them in an Ordinance to secure 50000 l. borrowed of the Merchant Adventurers for the Affairs of Ireland 3. To move the King to concur with both Houses in the Order made giving Power to Sir John Hotham for securing the Town of Hull and the Magazine there for his Majesties Service To which the Answer was That their Lordships will take the particulars into Consideration this Afternoon The Ordinance for securing the said Merchant Adventurers was read in these words THe Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled Ordinance of the Lords and Commons for securing the Merchant Adventurers 50000 l. having a due Regard to the good Affections of the Governors Assistants and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers of England expressed in the present advancing and lending of 30000 l. of Lawful Money and forwardness to advance and lend the foresaid Sum of 20000 l. more of like Money if their Affairs will admit the same for the security of this Common-wealth in the supply of the present Affairs in Ireland which the said Lords and Commons do take in very good part and being resolved to make a full and just satisfaction for the same do hereby declare that the said Sum of 30000 l. and such Sum and Sums as they shall further advance and lend as aforesaid shall be fully satisfied and paid unto the said Company of Merchant Adventurers into the hands of their Treasurer for the time being with Interest after the Rate of 8 l. per cent for a Year out of such Moneys as shall be next raised by Authority of Parliament To which Ordinance the Lords agreed Then the Lord Keeper informed the House The Act for the Captives at Argiers and for pressing Marriners passed by Commission That the Commission was come signed by his Majesty for giving the Royal Assent to two Bills one for pressing of Marriners the other against Pyrates Then the Lord Keeper the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl of Cumberland three of the Commissioners being sate upon a Form for a-cross the House between the Chair of State and the Lord Keeper's Wool-sack the Gentleman-Usher of the Black-Rod was commanded to go for the House of Commons who being come with their Speaker the Lord Keeper acquainted the Lords and Commons That his Majesty having such occasions as he could not come to this House to give his Royal Assent to the Two Bills in Person hath given a Commission under the Great Seal of England the Contents whereof was read openly which being done the Clerk of the Crown was commanded to read the Titles of the Bills severally in haec verba viz. An Act for the freeing of the Captives of Argier and to prevent the taking of others An Act for pressing of Marriners and Soldiers for the present Guarding of the Seas and the defence of his Majesties Dominions Which being done the Clerk of the Parliament pronounced the Royal Assent to them particularly and severally in these Words Le Roy le Veult And then the Commons returned to their House After this the Lord Keeper Reported the Conference yesterday to this Effect The L. Keeper's Report of the Conference concerning Bagshaw's Information That the House of Commons received Information concerning divers Forces of Horses and Armed Men in a Warlike manner which have been seen at Kingston and afterwards at Windsor and now gone towards Farnham and that Yesterday about 100 Men were met going from London towards Windsor Armed with Pistols and Waggons were going towards Windsor laden with Ammunition The House of Commons say this causeth much wonder at this time all at Peace and a Parliament sitting that such Forces should be Levied therefore they desire that it may be declared by both Houses That whosoever shall raise Forces at this time without Consent in Parliament may be esteemed Enemies and Disturbers of the Peace of the Kingdom and that both Houses will take care to suppress them and likewise the House of Commons desire That a Message be sent to the King to this purpose and to acquaint his Majesty that both Houses of Parliament will be very careful of the Publick Peace and that they hold it against the Law any Forces should be so levied And further the House of Commons acquaints their Lordships That the Lord Digby hath been with the Soldiers at Kingston and given them thanks in the King's Name and told them That his Majesty came out of London to keep them from being trampled in the dirt therefore they desire that the Lord Digby may be summoned to attend this House forthwith Hereupon it was Ordered Order to Summon the Lord Digby to attend the House of Lords That the Lord George Digby shall be Summoned forthwith to attend this House as a Peer of this Realm and hereof he is not to fail Directed to the Gentleman-Usher attending the House of Peers It will be worth the Readers while to cast his Eye a little back upon the Information of Bagshaw of Windsor upon which Foundation all this Conference was built and as there is little doubt but Bagshaw saw double so the Commons looked through their usual Multiplying Glass and saw his single Waggon of Ammunition turned into Waggons and those few Soldiers which he only by Report heard to be at Windsor were Multiplied into an Army But they had a Design now behind the Curtain of seizing the Militia into their Hands either with or against the King's Consent to which this noise of raising Forces by the Lord Digby was to contribute by heightning and swelling the Peoples Fears and Jealousies throughout the Nation in order to smooth their Way to this great Design upon which these Criminals of the Faction built their own Security though they pretended the Safety of the Nation But that I may give all the light I can possibly into this Affair which filled the City and Nation with Terror and Amazement I will present the Reader with the Lord Digby's Apology which besides the clear account it gives of this Kingston Army will also let in some light into other dark and obscure passages both before and after this time and will set the Arts and Intrigues of the
And truely they had some reason to do so for certainly this was a direct Levying of War being absolutely without the King's knowledge privity or consent and from this Period ought to be Dated the actual Rebellion which manifestly proves the Faction to be the Aggressors A Message was brought up to the Lords by Mr. Nathanael Fiennes 1. To desire that their Lordships would give dispatch to the Scots Propositions 2. To the Bill for a Contribution for Ireland 3. To let their Lordships know Message concerning adjourning to Grocers-Hall c. That the House of Commons do resolve to Adjourn their House till Thursday at Eight of the Clock and had appointed in the mean time a Committee whereunto all that would come should have Voices to sit in London at Crocers-Hall and have given them a large Power 1. Concerning the Safety of the Kingdom 2. Concerning Priviledges of Parliament 3. The Affairs of Ireland 4. Concerning the setling of the present Distempers And the House of Commons desire That if their Lordships think so fit that they would appoint a like Committee and that their Lordships would give them power to meet and confer with the Committee of the House of Commons 4. The House of Commons desires That the Committees for Ireland might meet there if their Lordships think it fit 5. That the Committee that their Lordships have appointed to take Examinations upon Oath as also the Committees appointed to draw a Petition to his Majesty concerning the Breach of Priviledges might likewise sit there Order of the Lords for adjournment to Grocers-Hall if their Lordships think fit To all which their Lordships consented as appears by this their Ensuing Order Ordered That the Committee for the Irish Affairs shall meet at Grocers-Hall on Tuesday the 18th of this Instant January at Nine of the Clock in the Morning and that they shall have Power to Treat and Debate concerning the Safety of this Kingdom the Priviledges of Parliament the Affairs of Ireland and the setling of the present Distempers and to take into Consideration his Majesties Message sent to both Houses And likewise that the Committee to take Examinations upon Oath may be there as also the Committee appointed to draw a Petition to his Majesty concerning breach of Priviledges and to consider of all means for vindicating the same And it is further Ordered That all the Lords may be present at the said Committees and have Votes and every of them shall have Power to Debate among themselves and with the Committee of the House of Commons and to call all Persons whom they shall think fit before them and likewise to Adjourn from time to time and from place to place as they shall see Cause and the Votes and Results of the Committee to Report unto this House This Adjournment was to keep up the belief that they did not sit in safety at Westminster and to countenance the attempt upon the Militia at which they were now driving might and main Still Sir John Byron the Lieutenant of the Tower was a great Beam in their Eye and therefore to get possession of the Tower they had perswaded several Merchants and others to Petition against him and that it was framed by the Artifice of the Faction the wording of it and the Answers of the Petitioners make apparent for they speak the same Language the Commons had taught them at the last Conference for this purpose with the Lords For a Message was brought up from the House of Commons by Sir Henry Vane Junior to this Effect That the House of Commons having by divers Conferences expressed unto their Lordships the just causes of Fears and Jealousies that are in the City by reason of Sir John Byron 's being Lieutenant of the Tower of London which caused the House of Commons formerly to desire their Lordships to joyn with them to Petition the King that he might be removed from that Place which their Lordships thought not fit to joyn in then Now the House of Commons present to their Lordships a Petition delivered to them from divers Merchants and Goldsmiths of London that have great store of Bullion in the Tower and have divers Ships laden with Bullion lately come into the River and by reason of the Fears and Jealousies they have of the now Lieutenant of the Tower they forbear to bring in their Bullion as may appear by the Petition which was read in haec verba To the Honourable Assembly of the House of Commons in Parliament The Humble Petition of the Merchants and Goldsmiths Traders to His Majesties Mint with Foreign Bullion and Coin Sheweth THat many Jealousies and Fears have risen in your Petitioners Merchants and Goldsmiths Petition against the Lieutenant of the Tower Jan. 17. 1641. by reason of the sudden Removal of that worthy Gentleman Sir William Balfour Lieutenant of the Tower and that the same is now Commanded by one of whom we have not that satisfaction as formerly we have had Your Petitioners therefore in all humility tender this considerable Request to this Honourable Assembly That there may be such a Lieutenant there-placed it being a Place of so great Trust and Considence as shall be thought fitting by this Honourable Assembly which undoubtedly will not only cease our Fears and Jealousies in these distractive times but will occasion us to continue all possible incouragement to our Correspondents beyond the Seas that the Importation of Bullion and Coin of which great quantity is newly arrived in Spain may have its free Course as in former times to the wellfare of Trade in general And Your Petitioners shall pray c. Henry Futter David Otgher Nic. Corsellis Abra. Fortry Diericke Ooste with several others The House of Commons upon this do desire that their Lordships would joyn with them humbly to Petition the King That Sir John Byron Knight now Lieutenant of the Tower of London may be removed and Sir John Conyers recommended to his Majesty from both Houses for that place Whereupon the Merchants and Goldsmiths that Exhibited the aforesaid Petition to the House of Commons presented another verbatim the same to the Lords which being read the House fell into Debate of it and they were called in and asked these Questions by the direction of the House 1. What number of Merchants and Goldsmiths besides themselves brings in Bullion to the Mint To which they Answered Sir Peter Riccaut and a few more but no great number 2. What reasons they have for their Fears and Jealousies of Sir John Byron Lieutenant of the Tower and why they forbear to bring in Bullion to the Mint They had Conn'd their Lesson perfectly and therefore said That they heard that he hath disobeyed the Orders of both Houses of Parliament when he was sent for to come and attend them Also that he is a Gentleman unknown to them and they desire to have such a Lieutenant put in as the Parliament approves of But the Lords it seems easily saw
God be praised he met with a Gracious King upon whom he could not prevail and for his bringing the Army into England thô he tells Sir William Pennyman he did not intend it yet there was Vox Populi and that was a horrid Witness That he intended to invade the Property of the People is plain from his own words That the King should make Restitution when the Danger was over and his saying That a Privy Councellor ought not to be questioned for his Counsels was so great a proof of his Actions that he could not give a Greater Then by consent my Lord moving for a dayes interval his Voice and Strength being spent the Court was adjourned till Wednesday Upon Wednesday the Commons proceeded to the 25th Article of the Charge Wednesday April 7. Artic. 25. concerning the Earl of Strafford's advice of Vigorously levying Ship-money and by compulsion Endeavouring to raise money upon the Lord Mayor and City of London and that for their not complying they deserved to be put to Fine and Ransom To this the Lord Treasurer Bishop Williams deposed Lord Treasurer That Ship-money coming in very slowly they were forced to take out great Sums to furnish the Fleet out of the Money provided for the Army and my Lord Strafford said That if it were not repaid the Army would be destitute and therefore advised the Ship-Money might go on vigorously to repay it Sir Tho. Wiseman deposed Sir Thomas Wiseman That the Aldermen being called before their Lordships about the Loan my Lord Strafford said They would never do their Duty well till they were put to Fine and Ransom and to His Majesty You will have no good of this man meaning as he supposes the Lord Mayor till he be laid by the heels but whether about Loan or Ship-money that was spoken he remembers not The Earl of Berkshire deposed Earl of Berks. That the King desiring to borrow Money upon good Security at 8. per Cent. and the Aldermen Excusing themselves for nominating who were able to lend in their several Wards my Lord Strafford said Gentlemen in my Opinion you may be liable to Fine and Ransom for refusing the King's Command in not certifying the Names Sir H. Garaway deposed That being Lord Mayor Sir Henry Garaway he attended the Council about Ship-Money informing His Majesty That the Willing Men had only paid the Money and they thought it unequal others should go free That it was the Opinion of the City That a Writ for Ship-Money and a Writ for a Parliament did not agree and that they found People generally averse to it whereupon my Lord Strafford said to the King Sir you will never do good on this Man till you have made him an Example he is too diffident or to that purpose unless you commit him you shall do no good upon him And about the Loan-Money desiring to be spared in seting a Rate on Mens Estates the Earl said to the King Sir you will never do good of these Citizens of London till you have made Examples of some of the Aldermen to his best remembrance he said Unless you hang up some of them you will do no good upon them this he spake positively The Earl replyed That he would speak with as much Truth The Earl's Defence thô not so much confidence as this Gentleman That he must still insist upon this that admitting it proved it does not amount to Treason nothing being proved but by single Testimonies that as to Ship-money there was a Judgment given in the Star-Chamber and if he was in an Error he was led into it by the practise of the Times and wiser men than himself howbeit he doth not justifie himself in that point being better informed by what he hath heard since is the Judgment of those to whose wisdom he submits That in such a Case of extreme necessity he might hold the Aldermen lyable to Fine and Ransom in case they did not submit to the King's demands he wishes he had not spoken them but being a little Excess of Extravagant Speech he hopes by their Lordships Favour it may be excused and God forbid for every such Excess a man should be Arraigned for Treason for otherwise few would Escape the Danger of hasty words for the words about hanging them up My Lord Major at first said it to the best of his remembrance and afterwards absolutely And he sayes to the best of his remembrance he did not speak them and if he did being spoken in so good Company some of their Lordships would have remembred them And however it stands with him now before these misfortunes befel him he was equally to be Credited with this Gentleman all the difference being one sayes it the other denies it and that at most being a hasty word and excusable in a free spoken man as he was and who smarts for it he hoped their Lordships Honour and Justice will rather Excuse then punish it Mr. Maynard replyed Managers Reply The Committee shall need to say little to this Answer but that such words compared with his other words and Actions proceed not from passion but Principles to do all things by his Will against Law and that my Lord knew these things and especially the Ship-money were against Law himself having so great a hand in the Petition of Right Mr Glyn added That whereas my Lord thinks it hard to be questioned for hasty words as High-Treason their Lordships may remember how for words concerning Treading on his Toe he prosecuted the Lord Mountnorris as far as to Life They next proceeded to the Charge in the 26 Article Artic. 26. concerning seizing the money in the Mint and Embasing of Coyn. To prove this Robert Edwards sworn Rob. Edwards deposed That going to represent to him the Inconvenience of the seisure of their Money in the Tower and that some Forreigners being concerned in it the Merchants Estates abroad upon their Complaint would be seized my Lord answered That if they fared amiss they might thank themselves and though they think it so strange here yet beyond Sea it is not so but on Commands men have their Goods taken and touching the City he said They dealt unthankfully with the King there being 14000 l. due for Ship-money which they denied and did more to maintain Rebels than to maintain his Majesty Being bid repeat it he said upon their Petition to my Lord about the Money in the Tower the Earl said That if they did speed amiss they might thank themselves for they were more ready to hold with Rebels than to give the King his due which was 14000 l. Ship money that my Lord was sick and sate in his Chair said That he knew nothing of it till that morning Anthony Palmer sworn Ant. Palmer deposed That in discourse with my Lord about base money and giving him reasons against it he shewed him and the other Officers of the Mint a Letter sent him out of France
but I confess this unfortunate thing forth of the way towards that blessed agreement which God I trust shall ever establish between You and Your Subjects Sir My Consent shall more acquit you herein to God than all the World can do besides To a willing man there is no injury done and as by Gods Grace I forgive all the World with a calmness and meekness of infinite contentment to my dislodging Soul So Sir to you I can give the life of this world with all the chearfulness imaginable in the just acknowledgment of your exceeding favours and only beg that in Your Goodness You would vouchsafe to cast Your Gracious regard upon my poor Son and his Three Sisters less or more and no otherwise than as their in present unfortunate Father may hereafter appear more or less guilty of this death God long preserve Your Majesty Tower May 4. 1641. Your Majesties most Faithful And Humble Subject And Servant STRAFFORD And for suppressing the Tumults the Commons Ordered Dr. Burgess to read the Protestation to the People and to tell them The Parliament desired them to return home which he did and thereupon they departed by which it is Evident who raised influenced and Governed the Tumults Upon Wednesday May the 5th Wednesday May 5. there happened a strange hubbub in the City which was now wholy set upon Tumults and Disorders which was upon this ridiculous occasion Sir Walter Erle was making a Report of a Design to blow up the House of Commons whereupon Mr. Middleton and Mr. Moyle two corpulent men and some others standing up to hear the Report a board in the Gallery broke and gave such a Crack that some apprehended the House was blown up indeed and Sir John Wray crying out He smelt Gun-Powder they hurried out of the House and frighted the People in the Lobby who ran into the Hall crying out The Parliament House was falling and the Members slain and the People running in confusion through the Hall Sir Robert Mansel drew his Sword and bid them stand for shame he saw no Enemy to hurt the Parliament and that there was no danger but some of the Zealots by water gave the alarm so that the Drums beat and a Regiment of Train Bands marched as far as Covent-Garden and the Rabble of Volunteers down to the House to save the Parliament which ridiculous Accident though at present it occasioned no other effect but laughter yet did strangely embolden the Factious who now plainly discovered the Influence they had over the Multitude and that they were perfectly at their Devotion Things being in this Distraction and few of the Lords daring to appear at the House Judges Opinion about the Earl of Strafford yet the Bill went on but slowly but in conclusion the Judges to give the better Countenance to the Matter being demanded their opinion and the Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench delivering it as their Unanimous Opinion That upon all that which their Lordships have Voted to be proved the Earl of Strafford doth deserve to undergo the pains and forfeitures of High-Treason and the Bill for perpetuating the Parliament which was brought up from the Commons the day before being quickly dispatched read and passed the next being Saturday May the 8th Saturday May 8. The Bill of Attainder was also passed the House of Lords but yet not without Opposition for all the Lords except 45 being absent of those is was carried but by 7 Votes 19 giving their Not-content to 26 that gave their content to the passing of this Fatal Bill The great Difficulty after all was to be yet overcome in procuring the Royal assent and for this purpose both the Houses attended his Majesty in the Banquetting-House to move him to it to which they received Answer That upon Monday they should know His Majesties Resolution All Sunday the King struggled with himself what to do in this Affair and certainly never was any Poor Prince so harrased between the Importunities of pretended necessity of State and the doubts of his own Conscience which told him the Earl was Innocent of what he was to die for the Lord-Chamberlain told him he acted like David and cited 2 Chron. 19. from Vers the 5 to 8. and that should he deny this it would be construed that he loved his Enemies and hated his Friends and that if he did not speak comfortably to the People they would desert him which would be worse then all the Evils that had befallen him in his life The King sent for the Judges and the Bishops to assist him the Bishops referred him to the Judges yet told him That in his Conscience he found not the Earl guilty in matter of Fact he ought not to pass the Bill but for matter of Law what was Treason they referred him to the Judges who according to their Oath ought to carry themselves indifferently between him and his Subjects only Doctor Juxon resolutely told him that if he were not satisfied in his Conscience he ought not to do it whatsoever happened the King complained of the Judges that they had not satisfied him nor indeed durst they give their Opinions freely for the satisfaction of his Conscience their own Consciences being over-awed and terrified their very Courage and Reason having deserted them in this Common Extremity and by their dubious answers abusing him as he said not easing him of his Scruples The general advice was to submit to the present necessity but how dearly both the King and they paid for making Religion truckle to reason of State hear him speak himself in his own Book concerning the Death of this Great Man I Looked upon my Lord of Strafford as a Gentleman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon the Earl of Straffords Death whose great abilities might make a Prince rather afraid than ashamed to imploy him in the greatest affairs of State For those were prone to create in him great confidence of undertakings and this was like enough to betray him to great Errors and many Enemies whereof he could not but contract good store while moving in so high a Sphear and with so vigorous a Luster he must needs as the Sun raise many envious exhalations which condensed by a Popular odium were capable to cast a cloud upon the brightest merit and integrity Though I cannot in my Judgment approve all he did driven it may be by the necessities of times and the temper of that people more than led by his own disposition to any height and rigor of Actions yet I could never be convinced of any such criminousness in him as willingly to expose his life to the stroke of Justice and Malice of his enemies I never met with a more unhappy conjuncture of affairs than in the business of that unfortunate Earl when between my own unsatisfiedness in Conscience and a necessity as some told me of satisfying the importunities of some people I was perswaded by those that I think wished me well to chuse
the Question Whether Corn was such Victuals as was intended to have the price rated within the said Statute In Answer to which Demand the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of his Majesties Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench in furtherance of the said unlawful Charge endeavoured to be imposed as aforesaid the Thirtieth day of November in the Eighth Year of his now Majesties Reign did deliver his Opinion That Corn was such Victual as was intended to have the Price rated within the said Statute Which said Opinion was contrary to Law and to the plain Sense and Meaning of the said Statute and contrary to his own Knowledg and was given and delivered by him with a purpose and intention that the said unlawful charge might be imposed upon the Subject 3. That an Information being preferred in the Court of Star-Chamber by the said William Noy his Majesties then Attorney-General against John Overman and Fifteen other Soap-makers Defendants charging them with several pretended Offences contrary to divers Letters Patents and Proclamations touching the Making and Uttering Soap and using the Trade of Soap-makers and other Offences in the said Information mentioned Whereunto the Defendants did plead and Demur as to part and answer to other part of the said Information And the said Plea and Demurrer being over-ruled for that the Particulars therein insisted upon would appear more fully after answer and proof therefore the Defendants were ordered to Answer without Prejudice and were to be admitted to such Exceptions to the said information and Advantages of the matter of the Plea and Demurrer upon the hearing as shall be material and accordingly the Defendants did put in their Answers and set forth several Acts of Parliament Letter-Patents Charters Customs and Act of Common-Councel of the City of London and other Matters materially conducing to their Defence and in Conclusion pleaded Not Guilty The said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of Court of Kings-Bench upon the 30th day of March in the Eighth Year of his Majesties now Reign upon an Order of Reference to him and others by the said Court of Star-Chamber to consider of the Impertinency of the said Answers did Certifie the said Court of Star-Chamber That the whole Answers excepting the four words and ten last Lines should be expunged leaving thereby no more substance of the said Answers than the Plea of Not Guilty And after upon a Reference to him and others by Order of the said Court of the impertinency of the Interrogatories and Depositions of Witnesses taken on the Defendants part in the same Case the said Sir Robert Berkley upon the second day of May in the Eighth Year of his now Majesties Reign Certified that Nine and thirty of the said Interrogatories and the Depositions upon them taken should be suppressed which Answers except as aforesaid and Depositions although the same did contain the said Defendants most material Defence Yet were expunged and suppressed according to the said Certificates both which said Certificates were contrary to Law and Justice and contrary to his the said Sir Robert Berkley's own knowledg and contrary to the said former Order whereby the Advantages were saved to the Defendants as aforesaid And by reason thereof the said John Overman and the said other fifteen Defendants were sentenced in the said Court of Star-Chamber to be committed Prisoners to the Fleet and disabled from using their Trade of Soap-makers And one of them fined in a Thousand Five hundred Pounds Two of them in a Thousand Pound apiece Four of them in a Thousand Mark apiece which Fines were estreated into the Exchequer without any mitigation And the said Defendants according to the said Sentence were imprisoned and deprived of their Trade and Livelihood tending to the utter ruine of the said Defendants and to the overthrow of free Trade and contrary to the Liberty of Subjects 4. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and having taken an Oath for the due administration of Justice according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm to His Majesties Liege People on or about the last of December subscribed an Opinion in haec verba I am of Opinion that as where the Benefit doth more particularly redound to the good of the Ports of Maritime Parts as in case of Piracy or Dep redations upon the Seas there the charge hath been and may be lawfully imposed upon them according to Presidents of former Times so where the good and safety of the Kingdom in general is concerned and the whole Kingdom in danger of which His Majesty is the only Judge there the charge of the Defence ought to be borne by all the Realm in general This I hold agreeable both to Law and Reason 5. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of our Court of Kings-Bench and duly sworn as aforesaid In February 1636. subscribed an extrajudicial Opinion in Answer to Questions in a Letter from His Majesty in haec verba Charles R. WHen the Good and Safety of the Kingdom in general is Concerned and the whole Kingdom in Danger Whether may not the King by Writ under the Great Seal of England Command all the Subjects of this Kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such Number of Ships with Men Victuals and Munition and for such time as he shall think fit for the Defence and Safeguard of the Kingdom from such Danger and Peril And by Law compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness And whether in such case is not the King the Sole Judge both of the Danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided May it please your Most Excellent Majesty We have according to your Majesties Command severally every Man by himself and all of us together taken into serious consideration the Case and Question signed by your Majesty and inclosed in your Royal Letter And we are of Opinion that when the good and safety of the Kingdom in general is concerned and the whole Kingdom in danger your Majesty may by Writ under the Great Seal of England command all your Subjects of this your Kingdom at their charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victual and Munition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the Defence and Safeguard of the Kingdom from such Danger and Peril And that by Law your Majesty may compel the doing thereof in case of Refusal or refractoriness And we are also of Opinion that in such Case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoyded John Brampston John Finch Humphrey Davenport John Denham Richard Hutton William Joanes George Crook Thomas Trevor George Vernon Robert Barkley Francis Crawley Richard Weston 6. That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings-Bench and duly sworn as
the honour and safety of the Kingdom This day the Bill Entituled An Act for the securing the True Religion The Bill for securing the true Religion c. rejected the Safety and Honour of His Majesties Person the just Rights of the Subject and the better discovery and punishment of Popish Recusants was read a Second time and after a long Debate of the House it was Resolved by the major part That this Bill be Rejected The Reader is to understand that under the glorious Title with which this Bill was guilded the main matter of it was the taking away the Peerage of the Bishops in Parliament which since they could not effect by the former Bill they thought to slide in under these specious pretences of preserving Religion c. but the House of Lords had too many Wise and Noble Just and Honourable Persons in it yet for the Faction to effect their Design After this the Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen c. were called in to give an Answer to the Proposition for lending 40000 l. and the Lord Mayor signified That he hath already prepared 34500 l. part of the 40000 l. and the full Sum will be made up this night and further he acquainted the House that he hath received 18000 l. of the Poll-mony For which service and readiness in this business the Speaker gave the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and the rest thanks from this House The Earl of Bath reported the effect of the Conference about disbanding that the Commons delivered these four Resolutions Earl of Bath reports the Conference about disbanding 1. That the Ninth day of August next shall be the day appointed for the marching away of the Scots Army 2. That the mony due for relief of the Northern Counties is ready and that if they shall desire any reasonable assistance for the conveying of it they will be ready to assist them in the best manner they can 3. The House of Commons desires that the English Lords Commissioners may move the Scots Commissioners to put off the time for the payment of the 80000 l. part of the Brotherly Assistance till the first day of September next and that notwithstanding they will pay it sooner if they can 4. That after the Scots have declared their Assent of disbanding that then our Army shall be disbanded with all possible speed and the Horse to be first disbanded Upon which it was Ordered That this House doth agree with the House of Commons in all the aforesaid Resolutions and do further Order That the Lords Commissioners do resume the Treaty with the Scots Commissioners and prepare it for a Conclusion After the Conference with the Lords about the Disbanding the Commons fell into Debate concerning the Kings Journey into Scotland and it was Thursday July 29. Votes to desire a Vice-Roy during the King's absence in Scotland Resolved c. That the Lords be desired by this House in a Conference to joyn with this House in a Petition to His Majesty to appoint a Custos Regni or Locum tenens during his Absence out of this Kingdom and amongst other things in special to give him Power to give the Royal Assent in Parliament and to do such things as the King might do if he were present Resolved c. That His Majesty be likewise Petitioned That an Act of Parliament may pass to this Effect That such Commission shall not be repealed until His Majesties return from Scotland to the City of London or Westminster or be present in full Parliament Which two Resolves were communicated to the Lords at a Conference Upon Information this Day unto this House That Sir George Radcliff being now a Prisoner in the Gate-House Sir George Ratcliff has liberty to take the Air. was indisposed in his Health by reason of the closeness of the Place where he remaineth and that he was an humble Suitor to their Lordships that he might receive the Favor to go into the Fields with such Keepers as their Lordships should think fit It was Ordered That the said Sir George Radcliff shall have the Liberty by Virtue of this Order to go into Chelsey Fields or any other Fields near thereabout to take the Air for his Health at such times as he shall desire it The Earl of Bristol Reports the Scots Answer about the disbanding their Army which was read in haec verba Scots Commissioners Answer about disbanding the Army Whereas the Removal of the Scottish Army is desired against the 9th of August upon the Receipt of a Paper from your Lordships of the 22 of July we did immediately represent the same to the Lord General and Committees from whom we expect very satisfactory Answers by the Earl of Dumserling and Lord Lowdon and for hastning the disbanding we did in our Answer of the 21st of July desire that the Arrears might be then delivered and sent to New-Castle that we might finish our Accounts and pay our Debts in those Countries and be better prepared for our Disbanding but we conceive that the not timous delivery of the Arrears shall prove the greatest Impediment in our removal therefore We do remit to the Parliaments consideration to take some speedy course for sending of the whole Arrears As for the delay of the Payment of the 80000 l. we have also represented the same unto the General and Committees according to the days mentioned in our Paper of the 22 of July whereof we do expect an Answer by the Earl of Dumserling and the Lord Lowdon The Bill against Ship-Money being read a third Time this Day Act against Ship-Money passed the Lords Lord Majors Cause heard and referred and put to the Question it was resolved to pass for a Law After which the Lord Major and Aldermen and Commons of London were called in and asked Whether they had composed the Differences between themselves concerning the Election of the Sheriff But it being Answered That they had a meeting about it yet could not agree This House took the Cause into Consideration having heard the Objections on both Sides and at last appointed these Lords Committees viz. Lord Privy Seal Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bath Earl of Bedford Earl of Bristol to try if they could accommodate the difference between them and settle Peace amongst them if not to report the same to this House And their Lordships or any five or more to meet at 5 of the Clock this Afternoon in the Painted Chamber and the Lord Major and Aldermen and some of the Commons to be present Mr. Bagshaw Reports the Articles against the Bishop of Bath and Wells which were all read but are not entred in the Journal Friday July 30. But that the Reader may see they were of the same Leven with those against the Bishop of Ely and that indeed the Crime was being a Bishop I will subjoyn some Articles which an Informer one Mr. James a Minister in his Diocess exhibited against him whereby it will appear
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
which moved them to desire the Horse might be first Disbanded was of very special Importance and still inclineth them to continue the same expectation for those who are yet undisbanded but for the time past they rest satisfied in the answer and proceedings of your Excellency assuring themselves That though there was some difference in the way yet you fully agreed with them in the end which is to ease the Common-wealth and settle the publick Peace with as much expedition as may be for the more speedy effecting whereof there is already 23000 l. on the way and Order given for 27000 l. more to be sent with all speed and a Course taken by the House of Commons to quicken the payments of the Poll Money in the Nine Shires adjoyning to York and both Houses of Parliament have by an express Ordinance commanded the Sheriffs of eight other Counties to bring all their Money immediately to York whereby the House conceiveth and hopeth your Excellency will be supplied with Treasure sufficient to Disband the remainder of the Army at the time prescribed or sooner if it may be and that by your prudent and faithful effecting thereof the heavy burthen of Care and Pains which lies upon you in the discharge of this great Trust will be removed and shall end in the thanks and obligations of this House and of the whole Kingdom producing to your Excellency such an Increase of Honor and happiness as shall be suitable to your own Merit and the desires of Your Excellency's humble Servant Edward Littleton Custos Sigilli To stir up the City to lend more money the Commons fell upon the Debate of the Case of London-Derry and thereupon Mr. Whistler Reports from the Committee appointed to examin that matter the Case of London-Derry upon which it was 1 Resolved upon the Question Votes about London-Derry in Ireland That it is the Opinion of this House that the Citizens of London were sollicited and pressed to the under taking of the Plantation of London-Derry 2 Resolved c. That the Copy attested with Mr. Soams his Hand is a true Copy of the Sentence in the Star-Chamber given against the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of London and the Society of the Governor and Assistants of London of the new Plantation of Vlster in the Kingdom of Ireland 3 Resolved c. That the Order made in the Court of Star-Chamber Dated 8. May 8 Car. is unlawful both for the Matter Persons and time therein prefixed 4 Resolved c. That the King was not deceived in the Grant which he made unto the Society of Governors and Assistants of London of the new Plantation of Vlster in the Kingdom of Ireland in particular not in creating a new Corporation called the Society of the Governor and Assistants of London of the new Plantation of Vlster in the Kingdom of Ireland 5 Resolved c. That in creating the new Corporation of the Society of the Governor c. The King did not by that Patent grant more Lands then was by him intended to be granted nor was therein deceived 6 Resolved c. That it doth not appear by sufficient Proof that the Citizens of London were tyed to perform the Printed Articles and consequently not bound to plant with English and Scots nor restrained from planting with Natives 6 Resolved c. That though by the 27 Article the City was to build 200 Houses in Derry and 100 Houses at Colerain by the first Day of November 1611 admitting the Houses were not Built nor the Castle of Culmore repaired by the time prefixed yet this is no Crime nor cause for giving Damages in regard the City had not their Patent until the 29th of March 1613. 8 Resolved c. That there is no proof that the Governor and Assistants of London of the new Plantations or any of the twelve Companies did make any Lease unto any Popish Recusant nor of any decay of Religion there by default of the Planters 9 Resolved c. That there is no proof of any default in the Planters for not making of a sufficient number of Free-holders nor any Article that doth tye them thereunto 10 Resolved c. That there is no proof that the City of London or their Governor of the new Plantation have felled any Trees in the Woods called Glancanking and Killitrough contrary to their Covenant 11 Resolved c. That the not conveying of Glebe-Lands to the several Incumbents of the several Parish Churches in regard they did not enjoy the Lands is no Crime punishable nor cause of Seizure of their Lands 12 Resolved c. That the breach of Covenant if any such were is no sufficient cause to forfeit Lands 13 Resolved c. That the breach of Covenant is no Crime but Tryable in the ordinary Courts of Justice 14 Resolved c. That the Court of Star-Chamber whil'st it stood as a Court had not any power to examin or determin breach of Covenant or Trust 15 Resolved c. That the Court of Star-Chamber while it stood a Court had no power to examin Free-hold Inheritance 16 Resolved c. That the Sentence upon these two Corporations aggregate no particular Person being Guilty is against Law 17 Resolved c. That in all the proof of this cause there doth not appear matter sufficient to convince the City of London of any Crime 18 Resolved c. That upon the whole matter this Sentence in the Star-Chamber was unlawful and unjust 19 Resolved c. That this composition and agreement made with the City upon these Terms in this time of extremity ought not to bind the City 20 Resolved c. That this House is of Opinion that when the King shall be pleased to repay those Monies which he hath received upon this composition and such Rents as he hath received by colour of this Sentence that then His Majesty shall be restored to the same State he was in and the Patent thereupon gotten shall be cancelled or surrendred 21 Resolved c. That the Citizens of London and all those against whom the Judgment is given in the Scire facias shall be discharged of that Judgment 22 Resolved c. That the Opinion of this House is That they think fit that both the Citizens of London and those of the new Plantation and all under Tennants and all those put out of possession by the Sequestration or Kings Commissioners shall be restored to the same State they were in before the Sentence in the Star-Chamber The Plague which had for some time visited the City of London The Plague in London City Petition for a Fast began now to spread and increase upon which there was a Petition from the Magistrates Ministers and People of the City of London for a Day to be set apart for Solemn Humiliation and Fasting to implore the Divine Majesty to avert the impending Judgment of the Pestilence from the City and Nation This day it was moved Friday August 27.
manifestation thereunto subscribeth this 16th day of May 1654. Robert R. Farnam his Mark. This Deposition was taken before Us Commissioners for the Revenue of the Precinct of Cork Robert Phaier Esay Thomas Tho. Woodlif Twelve Depositions in behalf of the Lord and Lady Muskery viz. 1 Sarah Vokely 2 Barbara Moore 3 Mrs. Love 4 Catharine Floyd 5 Mary Thomas 6 Sampson Moor. 7. Eliz. Wharton 8 Ann Field 9 Corporal Biddel in behalf of the said Lord and Lady with Eliz. Lasdoffers in behalf of the said Lady 10 Richard Love 11 Richard Allen and William Baker 12 Eliz. King 13 A Copy of the Certificate of the Lady Muskery's civil carriages since the Rebellion taken before the said Commissioners Dated with the above Depositions the 16th day of May 1654. The Bishop of Ferns also gave this Certificate That he saw a Gibbet upon Carigodrohitt Hill with Two Irish-men hanging on it Executed by the Lord Muskery 's Order for Robbing some English-men coming out from Kerry in the Week before Christmas 1641. Dat. March 28 1682. The Rebels grown now numerous by meeting with little or no opposition and insolent by their Successes began to think of carrying all before them and Sir Phelim O Neal had got together a great Army though but in very ill Equipage insomuch that he divided his Body and with one part marched down towards Lisnagarny near the chief Plantation of the Scots whom hitherto they had professed they would permit quietly to live among them and keep what they were possessed of and the other part advanced towards the English Pale and took in Dondalk Dondalk taken by the Rebels which they did with little difficulty there being only one Company in the Town of the Army commanded by a Lieutenant who having neither Arms nor Ammunition quickly yielded the place which he saw it impossible to defend the Inhabitants being willing to Entertain the Rebels into the Town as they had before into their Hearts and good Affections After the taking of this Town which was about the beginning of November they marched further into the County of Lowth and took in Ardee a little Town within Seven Miles of Tredah The State had present advertisement from the Lord Moor A Garrison opportunely sent to Tredah of their Motions and the Design they had upon Tredah and the ill posture it was in and therefore dispatched away Sir Henry Tichburn with a Regiment wherein several who had been Field-Officers in former Employments voluntarily served as private Captains who going from Dublin the third of November happily arrived there the next day and after them several Troops under the Command of Captain John Slaughter Lieutenant to Sir Thomas Lucas Commissary General Thomas Graham Lieutenant to Sir Adam Loftus and others by which means that important place was preserved from falling into the hands of the Rebels The Lords Justices and Council did also with all diligence apply themselves now to fortifie the City and Suburbs of Dublin Dublin fortified which the Rebels among other Insolencies threat'ned to Attaque Sir Charles Coot was made Governour of the City and had a Commission to raise a Regiment of the poor stripped and dispoiled English who had taken Sanctuary in that City as also the Lord Lambert had to raise another But the greatest difficulty was Money which either was so really scarce or so pretended by the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens that when the Lords Justices sent to borrow Money of them to victual the Castle and carry on the Fortifications The Corporation of Dublin not able to raise above 40 l. they positively affirmed to the Board all they could raise would not amount to above 40 l. and part of that in Cattle too which to Posterity will rather appear an Argument of the little Affection they had to the Government and to keep out the Rebels than of any real Want or Poverty However the Master of the Rolls by a pretty Artifice got the Castle plentifully Victualled for observing the Frights and daily Alarms in which the Protestants in the City were in he laid hold upon this occasion Dublin Castle well Victualled by a pretty Artifice of the Master of the Rolls and sending for some of the best Merchants of the Protestants he represented to them how unsafe their Goods were in the Town and advised them to bring them for security into the Castle where they should be under a strong Guard and withal engaged That if they were made use of for the Publick Service he would become engaged for so much which he would repay out of the first Money consigned from England which promise he exactly afterwards made good by Bills drawn upon the Chamber of London by this means he got 2000 Barrels of Beef 2000 Barrels of Herrings and a large proportion of Wheat into the Stores of the Castle which afterwards proved of excellent Use for the Relief not only of the Castle but of the Army which was quartered in the City a long time after To prevent Dangers which might happen by the great resort of Strangers to the City which raised great apprehensions in the honester Party of the Inhabitants a Proclamation was made commanding all Persons in His Majesties Name not dwelling in the City of Dublin within one hour after the Publication thereof immediately to depart upon pain of Death and this not seeming sufficiently effectual upon the 28th of October a second Proclamation more severe was issued out to the same purpose with the penalty of death to such as should harbour or entertain such suspitious Persons The Proclamations were as follow By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons Jo. Borlase FOr great and weighty reasons of State A Proclamation commanding all Strangers upon pain of death to depart the City and Suburbs of Dublin 23 Octob. 1641. concerning highly the Peace and Safety of this City and Kingdom We do hereby in His Majesties Name strictly Charge and Command all manner of Persons of what Degree and Condition soever who are not dwellers in this City or Suburbs that within one hour after publishing this Proclamation they depart from the Suburbs of this City and return to their own dwellings and that upon pain of death to be presently executed upon them if any of them be found here after that time And all Housholders in the Suburbs to whom any such may come are to be equally guilty with such Contemners if they Lodge or Entertain any of the said Persons hereby required to depart Given at His Majesties Castle of Dublin 23 October 1641. R. Dillon Ad. Loftus Jo. Temple Fr. Willoughby Ja. Ware Rob. Meredith A second Proclamation for all Strangers upon pain of death to depart out of Dublin c. Octob. 28. 1641. By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons Jo. Borlase WHereas notwithstanding the late Proclamation published in this City requiring all Stangers to depart from the same upon pain of Death divers Strangers do daily repair to the same and
hearty and kind Affections to my People in general and to this City in particular as can be desired by loving Subjects The first I shall express by governing you all according to the Laws of this Kingdom and in maintaining and protecting the true Protestant Religion according as it hath been Established in my two famous Predecessors times Queen Elizabeth and My Father * * Too Prophetically spoken and this I will do if need be to the hazzard of My life and all that is dear unto Me. As for the City in Particular I shall study by all means their prosperity And I assure you I will singly grant those few reasonable demands you have now made unto me in the Name of the City and likewise I shall study to re-establish that flourishing Trade which now is in some disorder amongst you which I doubt not to effect with the good assistance of the Parliament One thing I have thought of as a particular Affection to you which is to give back unto you freely that part of London-Derry which heretofore was Evicted from you This I confess as that Kingdom is now is no great Gift but I hope first to recover it and then to give it to you whole and intirely And for the Legal part of this I command you Mr. Recorder to wait upon me to see it punctually performed I will end as I began to desire you Mr. Recorder to give all the City thanks in better Expressions than I can make Though I must tell you it will be far short of that real contentment I find in my heart for this real and seasonable Demonstration of their Affections to me Sir Richard Gurney the L. Mayor and the Recorder Knighted His Majesty having ended this gracious Speech was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon the Lord Mayor and Mr. Recorder with the City Sword and both their Majesties gave them as also the Aldermen City Council and Officers the honour of kissing their Royal hands This Ceremony being over His Majesty and the Prince alighted out of the Coach and took their Horses the Queen Duke of York Princess Mary Prince Elector and the Dutchess of Richmond still remaining in their Coaches In the mean time by the care and pains of the two Captains of the Companies and of the three Marshals that were appointed for this days Service the 500 Horse-men of the Liveries and their Attendants were brought in Order and the Command being given faced about in order to the conducting of their Majesties into London which brave appearance gave great satisfaction to His Majesty and the rest of that Illustrious Company The whole Cavalcade was Marshalled in this Order The City Marshall The Sheriffs Trumpeters The Sheriffs Men. Messengers of the Chamber Citizens in their Velvet Coats and Chains The City Councel and Officers The Aldermen The Princes Trumpeters The King's Trumpeters Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber Knight Marshal Pursivants at Arms. The Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas being a Knight of the Privy Council Barons Lord Goring Lord Coventry Lord Fielding Lord Digby Lord Moubray Viscount Conway Heralds Earls Earl Rivers Earl of Bath Earl of Cumberland Earl of Essex L. Chamberlain of the King's House Duke of Richmond Clarencieux and Norroy Lord Keeper Lord Privy Seal Sergeants at Arms among whom one for the City Quirries and Foot-men The Prince's Highness Quirries and Foot-men Garter The Lord Mayor carrying the Cities Sword by His Majesties special appointment as a grace and favour at this time A Gentleman-Usher daily waiting Lord Great Chamberlain Marquess of Hertford bearing the Sword of State Earl Marshal The King's Majesty The Queens Majesty in her Coach richly Embroydered and with her the Duke of York the Princess Mary and the Prince Elector Marquess Hamilton Master of the Horse leading the Horse of State The Earl of Salisbury Captain of the Pensioners The Gentlemen Pensioners with their Pollaxes all mounted with Pistols at their Saddles The Earl of Holland Lord General beyond Trent and after him Viscount Grandison with many other principal Commanders in the late Northern Expedition After them divers Ladies and other Persons of Great Quality The Yeomen of the Guard In this Order they marched towards London and entred the City at Moor-gate where their Majesties were welcomed with a noise of Trumpets appointed to attend there to that purpose from which place to Bishops-gate and so through Corn-hill to St. Laurence Lane's End in Cheap-side the Companies in their Liveries stood on the left hand as their Majesties passed by the Rails of the Standings being covered with Blew Cloth and the Standings themselves being richly adorned with Banners Ensigns and Pendants of the Arms of each Company respectively Nine Companies of the Twelve standing in the Morning the Lord Mayor's Company beginning against St. Laurence Lane's End and the other Eight in their Order towards Bishops-gate the rest of the way to Moorgate being supplied by some of the inferiour Companies the outsides of the Houses all the Way their Majesties passed being adorned with rich Tapestries On the North side of the Street four Foot distant from the Houses were Rails placed to regulate and keep the People in good Order from Bishops-gate to Corn-hill and so to Temple-Bar at the beginning of which Rails viz. at Bishopsgate by the direction of the 2 Captains and 3 Marshals the first Horse-men of the Liveries began to make a Stand the first Rank of them placing themselves single faced to the Liveries that were in the Standings and the rest passing along placed themselves in the same Order The Trumpets and Pendants of each Company standing in the Front and then the Companies themselves the youngest being next to the Pendant and so upwards by Seniority to the Master of the Company who took his place last Then began the Pendant and Youngest of the next Company to make their Stand and so in Order till they came to St. Laurence Lane's End there being five Foot distance from one Horse to another in which space stood each Horse-man's Foot-man with a Truncheon in his hand so making a Guard for their Majesties and the rest of the Train to pass through And it fell out that most of the Companies of Horse were placed right against their own Companies in the Standings The People that were Spectators in the Streets were bestowed part behind the Horse and part behind the Liveries and by this good Order their Majesties and the whole Train passed quietly and without the least interruption Their Majesties coming along Corn-hill seven Trumpets that were in the Clock-house of the Royal Exchange gave their second welcom into the City and as they passed along the Conduit in Corn-hill and the great Conduit in Cheapside ran with Claret Wine to express the Liberality of the City for that Joyful Day And all the Way as their Majesties passed along the Streets resounded again with the Loud and Joyful Acclamations of the People crying God bless and long
speed as the weightiness of the business will permit And so He gave us all his Hand to kiss and afterwards sent Mr. Comptroller to us with this Message to be delivered to the House That there might be no publishing of the Declaration till the House had received his Majesties Answer We were all Entertained by Mr. Comptroller with great Respect and Lodged by the King's Harbinger This Day Mr. Mr. Jarvaise Hollis restored to his place in the House of Commons Jervaise Hollis who had formerly been Expulsed the House for a Speech which he made with a great strength of Reason and Courage but more heat than the Times would bear against the tame Compliances with the Scottish Army then in England was restored to his place to sit as a Member of the House of Commons The Debate about the Tumults was as it had been the day before adjourned till to morrow The Earl of Bath Reported the Conference had this Day with the Commons That they did let their Lordships know Friday Decemb. 3. Ammunition sent from the Tower for Ireland That whereas there were divers Waggons and Carts loaden with Arms and Ammunition from the Tower of London to be conveyed to West-Chester and to be Shipped for Ireland which were but slenderly Guarded therefore they desire that their Lordships would be pleased to joyn with them to move his Majesty to give Order to the Sheriffs of the several Counties through which they are to pass That they may be guarded safely to West-Chester To which the Lords agreed Also That Information was given That a Ship was lately discovered in Milford Haven loaden with Arms and Ammunition and that it is reported the Men in her be French-men but they speak English and that another Ship as they are informed is in the Haven of Aberdoney in Cardiganshire and the Men buy up the Provisions of that Country That two Men which were in that Ship they understand are now in Town Whereupon the Lords Ordered that they should be sent for to be Examined concerning this business It will possibly to some persons appear very superfluous to take notice of such trifling passages as these Informations and the Necessity of Guarding the Waggons to West-Chester but it is to be considered That as trifling as these things now may seem to be the Faction industriously pickt up all such Informations and made Extraordinary Use of these little Arts to facilitate their Great Design for now the Kingdom was to be put into a Posture of Defence as they termed it that was they intended to wrest from the King the Power of the Sword the Militia of the Nation and nothing could be more serviceable to them in amusing the People with imaginary Dangers of French Ships laden with Arms and Ammunition and French-men that speak English and consequently Fears of Forreign Invasions c. than these stories which being spread abroad and sufficiently magnified by running from hand to hand gave a Countenance to their unjust Demands of settling the Militia and puting the Kingdom into this Posture of Defence The King having acquainted the Lords That Certain Commissioners were come from Scotland to Treat with both Houses of Parliament concerning the Assistance for Ireland Commissioners of both Houses appointed to treat with the Scots Commissioners concerning Assistance for Ireland and to settle all the Condition and State of the Warr the Lords Appointed and Nominated the Earl of Bedford and the Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Lord Howard of Escrick and the Commons Nathanael Fynes Esquire Sir William Armyn Baronet Sir Phillip Stapleton Knight and John Hampden Esquire to be Commissioners to be Empowered by the King's Commission to Treat with the said Scottish Commissioners who were to acquaint his Majesty and the Parliament with their Proceedings before they came to any final Conclusion The Councel of the Impeached Bishops were called in to be heard in that affair who informed their Lordships The Bishops Plea and Demurrer to be argued Tuesday Dec. 7. That the Cause will not be fit for hearing until the Bishops have put in their Answers for until then there can be no Issue joyned and they conceive no Answer can be made until the Charge be particular therefore the Bishops abide by their Plea and Demurrer Whereupon the House Ordered That the Councel for the Bishops shall be heard at the Barr what they can say in maintenance of the Plea and Demurrer to the Impeachment brought up from the House of Commons against the Bishops on Tuesday the 7th of this instant December at which time and place the House of Commons or such of their Members as they shall appoint may be present if they please And a Message was sent by Sir Robert Rich and Dr. Bennet to acquaint them with this Order Phillips the Priest was this Day according to a former Order Bailed Phillips the Priest bailed upon conditions not to go to Court c. as before Two Bills were brought up from the Commons by Sir William Lewis the One Entituled An Act for the better raising and levying of Soldiers for the present Defence of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland The other For Relief of Captives taken by Turkish Pyrates and to prevent the same for the time to come Little of moment passed in the Commons House besides the reading and passing the above named Bills and Messages before recited about the Bishops c. only St. Germain the French man released the Debate of the Tumults was again put off till to morrow and Monsieur St. Germain a French-man whose close Imprisonment with strict Orders That no person should speak with him but in the presence of a Keeper c. which had made a mighty noise about the Town and so answered the design why he was taken up was this day by Order of the Commons discharged from his Imprisonment This day Sir George Whitmore Mr. Cordall Mr. Soame Mr. Gayer Several Aldermen with the Sheriffs and Recorder of London attend the King at Hampton-Court Mr. Garret Mr. Wollaston and the two Sheriffs of London being all Aldermen of the same City together with the Recorder by virtue of an Act of Common Council attended his Majesty at Hampton-Court to render him the Thanks of the City for his gracious favour done them by affording them his Royal Presence and giving so great Testimonies of his Affection and Kindness to the City They were conducted to His Majesty by the Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlain to the Queen and Sir Peter Wiche Comptroller to his Majesty where after they had returned the Humble Thanks of the City to his Majesty for his former Favours they offered these two humble Petitions First That their Majesties would vouchsafe this Honor to the City if it might stand with their good Pleasures to make their Residence at this Season of the Year at the Palace of Whitehall The Second was That whereas since his Majesties happy Return
there had been some late disorders at Westminster They disavow the Tumults among some People met there That their Majesties would not impute this to the Body of the City or to the better sort of Citizens That they held it a Misfortune aâ—d a Scandal unto them that when those Disorders were mentioned the City was named with it and that their desire was to vindicate themselves and in some sort redeem their Credit by publiquely disavowing it To which the King was pleased graciously to Answer THat he was very well pleased with the Hearty and Loyal Affections of the Citizens for which he gave them great Thanks and though He and the Queen had before purposed to Winter at Hampton-Court yet being now fully persuaded that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and the most considerable Citizens of London had not any hand in the Disorders and Tumults at Westminster The King promises to keep his Christmas at White-Hall he intended and so he knew Her Majesty would to alter his Resolution and with all convenient speed repair to White-hall there to keep their Christmas and be ready to do any thing else that might promote the Trade of the City hoping they would joyn with him in taking some Course for prevention of the like Disorders for the future After which the Recorder and Sir George Whitmore having kissed his Royal Hand Several Aldermen of the City of London Knighted the next Alderman in Seniority kneeled down to receive the same Favour when his Majesty instead thereof drawing a Sword conferred the Honor of Knighthood upon Five of them and the two Sheriffs the Recorder and Sir George Whitmore having received that Favor before After which they were nobly Entertained by his Majesties Command by the Earl of Dorset and Mr. Comptroller at Dinner and His Majesty and the Queen sent two Gentlemen to let them know That they had remembred the Health of the Lord Mayor and the whole City And so to the Mutual Satisfaction both of his Majesty and the City to whom they were to carry this account they returned to London But all these fair hopes were quickly blasted in the bud and that Loyal Party of the City were deprived by the Envy of that Domineering Faction who dispossessed them not long after by Force and Tumults not only of all Power of Assisting his Majesty but of protecting themselves from most Barbarous Outrages and Violences Mr. Pym and others were this day appointed to be a Committee to prepare Heads for a Conference with the Lords and to acquaint them what Bills this House hath passed and sent up to their Lordships which much concern the Safety of the Kingdom but have had no Consent of their Lordships unto them and that this House being the Representative Body of the whole Kingdom and their Lordships being but as particular Persons and coming to Parliament in a particular Capacity that if they shall not be pleased to consent to the passing of those Acts and others necessary for the Preservation and Safety of the Kingdom That then this House together with such of the Lords that are more sensible of the Safety of the Kingdom may joyn together and represent the same to his Majesty They are likewise to take into Consideration some Course for the Guarding of the Towns of Hull and Newcastle Thus early did the Democratique spirit begin to shew it self and their telling the Lords that they came to the Parliament and sate there only as particular persons that is in a private Capacity is a clear Testimony what a Mean Esteem they had of that Honourable and Supream Court of Judicature and what little Interest they thought they had in the Management of Publique Affairs and in Effect a plain intimation what they were to Expect if they did not joyn with the Faction in what ever they should Vote was for the Good the Preservation and Safety of the Kingdome The Faction indeed now began to be so Rampant in the Commons House they Encouraging the Tumults and the Tumults Enlivening them that Speaker Lenthall either grew weary of the Chair or at least in hopes of getting something for holding it longer to pretend so and I find in the Paper-Office two Letters of his to Sir Edward Nicholas bearing date as this day to that purpose had he then had the good Fortune to quit that Seat he might have Escaped the Brand of Infamy which to the Worlds End will lye upon his Name for being the Mouth of that House which pronounced so many Miseries Murders Warrs Destructions Desolations and Dismal Events to the English Nation The Letters were in these Words Right Honorable most Noble Sir Speaker Lenthall's Letter to Sir Edward Nicholas to be quit of the Chair THE Assurance of your Noble Favours imboldens me to commit to your Care the greatest Concernment that ever yet befel me the Desire being inforced by an unavoydable Necessity I have now in this Imployment spent almost 14 Months which hath so Exhausted the Labours of 25 Years that I am inforced to fly to the Sanctuary of His Sacred Majesty's Mercy Could I suppose that my humble Suit grounded on the full Expression of Duty and Obedience should have other interpretation or seem unfit in the deep Judgment of his Sacred Majesty I should then desire my Thoughts might perish in their first Conception so willing am I to offer my Self and Fortune a Sacrifice for his Royal Service but in that I hope it cannot I must humbly desire your Honor on my behalf in the lowest posture of Obedience to crave of his Sacred Majesty his Royal Leave that I may use my best Endeavours to the House of Commons to be quit of this Employment and to retire back to my former private life that whilst I have some ability of Body left I may endeavour that without which I cannot but Expect a Ruin and put a badge of Extream Poverty upon my Children The apprehension of my speedy Ensuing misery is that hath begot this most humble Request but still with that due regard of my Obedience and Duty that no Earthly consideration shall ever Encourage the least of Thoughts that may tend to the retardment of his Royal Commands Sir This being presented to your Honourable Care assures me of such a Successful way as shall ever become the Duty of me his meanest Subject in all humility to beseech Thus am I imboldened humbly to declare the Resolution and Desires of Your Honors most Obedient Servant William Lenthall Decemb. 3. 1641. But his Heart misgiving him it seems and for fear the King should take him at his Word and leave him to his Liberty to propose to the House the choice of a new Speaker he inclosed in the former another Paper in these words Right Honourable MAY it please your Honor if this other Way do not take if you may find opportunity without prejudice to your self let me intreat you to incline his Majesty to recommend me to the
The Commons staying in the Painted Chamber all this while for an Answer to the Message the Lords went to acquaint the House of Commons with what was Voted In the Commons House Mr. Justice Long discharged from the Tower Dr. Gray sent for as a Delinquent Long who had been sent to the Tower for signing the Warrant for the Halberdeers to Guard the Parliament was upon his Petition this Day released A Complaint having been Exhibited against him It was Resolved That Dr. Gray Parson of Ponteland in the County of Northumberland shall be forthwith sent for as a Delinquent by the Serjeant at Arms attending on this House Several Letters were then read from Ireland one from Sir William Brereton Volunteers for Ireland giving Information That Sir Simon Harcout 's Regiment is compleat and that there are 4 or 500 more cheerful Volunteers which are ready to go if they had Commission This plainly confirms what before was said That the Necessity of the Bill for pressing Men was only to oppress the Royal Prerogative Mr. Pym informed the House That this was moved at the Committee last Night and that the Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant of Ireland had assured them he would take Care for the speedy Transporting of these Volunteers The House then fell upon the Consideration of the Bill for raising 400000 l. for the Affairs of Ireland c. The Officers of the late Army having also Petitioned for their Arrears there was an Order to pay them 13000 l. being the Moiety of what was due to them Amidst all this Heat of Publick Affairs and the great Zeal for Ireland still the Faction found leisure to persecute the Loyal and Orthodox Clergy upon the Informations of their implacable and restless Enemies the Non-Conformists and Schismaticks for this Day the Committee for scandalous Ministers was revived and appointed to meet upon Thursday Morning at Eight of the Clock so that Wednesday being the Fast was to be the Prologue to their Smiting with the Fist of Wickedness It was also Ordered That Alderman Pennington do take Care to bring in the Witnesses of the Parish of Grace Church to testify that Information he gave the House this Day against the Minister of that Parish Alderman Pennington an Informer against the Minister of Grace-Church Dr. Beal referred to the Committee for Scandalous Ministers Thursday Decemb. 23. Also it was Ordered That the Committe for the Bill for Scandalous Ministers do take into Consideration the Matter informed of against Dr. Beal on Thursday next The Lord Keeper this day reported a Conference had with the Commons That the House of Commons have brought up to their Lordships a Proposition of the Scots dated 20th Dec. 1641. concerning the 2500 Men as also the Resolution of the Commons thereupon which they desired their Lordships to joyn with them in Then the said Proposition was read as also the Resolution of the Commons That they do undertake to pay the 2500 Men already entertained in Scotland from the 8th of December to the end of the Treaty according to the Pay setled them in Scotland which being read the House of Lords assented to it After which a Message was brought from the House of Commons by Mr. Waller That the House of Commons conceive some Cause to Examine Daniel O Neal further as a Delinquent but not upon Oath and seeing he is their Lordships Prisoner committed to the Gate-House upon an Accusation of High Treason That their Lordships would please to give way that some Members of the House of Commons may Examine him and also to desire their Lordships to sit a while for that the House of Commons will come up to their Lordships with some Business concerning the Safety of the City To which the Answer was That their Lordships do give way that some Members of the House of Commons may ask Mr. O Neal any Questions as they shall think fit and that this House will sit a convenient time as is desired This Matter of the Safety of the City Conference concerning displacing Belfour and making Lunsford Lieutenant of the Tower was delivered at a Conference That the House of Commons represented to their Lordships that they had received Information That Sir William Belfour Knight Lieutenant of the Tower of London approved for his Fidelity is put out of his Place and one Colonel Lunsford put into his Place concerning whom the House of Commons had received a Petition which they desired their Lordships to consider of The Faction were resolved to dislike what ever the King should do and to give countenance to their Proceedings they had Petitions and Petitioners still in a Readiness to make it appear that they moved upon that Foot when in reality they themselves and their Agents were the Ingineers of those very Petitions The Petition was read in the House of Lords and was in haec Verba To the Honorable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament The Humble Petition of divers Common-Council Men and others of the City of London The Factious Londoners Petition concerning the placing Lunsford in the Tower Sheweth THat whereas the Tower of London was originally ordained for Defence of this City and to be the Chief Magazine of the Kingdom and that the whole State is deeply interessed in the safe Custody thereof but more especially the said City which lately hath been put into Fears of some dangerous Design from that Cittadel whereupon it pleased this High Court to mediate with his Majesty for removing of those Fears And whereas the Petitioners are informed that Sir William Belfour a Person of Honor and Trust is displaced from the Office of Lieutenant and the same Place beslowed upon a Man Out-lawed and most Notorious for Outrages Colonel Lunsford and therefore fit for any dangerous Attempt the Petitioners and many more who have Intelligence thereof are thereby put into such a hight of Fear and Jealousy as makes them restless till they have discharged their Duty in representing the same to this Honorable House May it therefore please this Honorable Assembly to take the Premisses into such Consideration as may secure both the City and Kingdom against the Mischiefs which may happen as to your great Wisdom shall be found most fitting And your Petitioners shall pray c. Randal Manwaring Maximilian Beard Edw. Gitting Jo. Pocock Sam. Warner Geo. Thomson Stephen Estwick Ric. Price Ric. Turner The House of Commons do further say That the said Colonel Lunsford is an unfit Person to be Lieutenant of the Tower For 1. They say he is a Man of a decayed and desperate Fortune The Commons Reasons against Lunsford's being Lieutenant of the Tower and so may be tempted to undertake any ill Design and they conceive it will be very prejudicial to the King and Kingdom for him to be in that place in this time of Fears and Jealousies especially to the Mint in this time of great occasions to use Monies for it
Soams Alderman Pennington and Mr. Venn do repair to the Common-Council of the City of London when they are sitting and to acquaint them with the Information this House received what Practices have been used to the Inns of Court and those other Informations of the like Nature that have been given to this House of the Preparations of Armed Men about White-Hall and those other Preparations at the Tower And to inform them in what danger the Parliament the Kingdom and the City is in It was also Ordered That Mr. Whittaker Sir Robert Pye and Mr. Pury do presently repair to the House of the Marquess de Neuf-ville and see if his House be furnished with Warlike Ammunition as the House is informed Memorandum Mr. Hollis Mr. Pym Sir Arthur Haslerigg Mr. The 5 Members appearance Entred in the Journal Hampden and Mr. Strode appeared to day according to the Injunction of the House And I find among the Prints of that time a Speech of Mr. Hampden's upon the occasion of his Impeachment which confirms this Memorandum which was as followeth Mr. Speaker IT is a true Saying of the Wise Man That all things happen alike to all Men Mr. Hampden's Speech in Vindication of himself against his Impeachment Jan. 4. 1641. as well to the good Man as to the bad There is no state or condition whatsoever either of Prosperity or Adversity but all sorts of Men are sharers in the same no man can be discerned truly by the outward appearance whether he be a good Subject either to his God his Prince or his Country until he be tryed by the Touchstone of Loyalty Give me leave I beseech you to parallel the Lives of either sort that we may in some measure discern Truth from Falshood and in speaking I shall similize their Lives 1. In Religion towards God 2. In Loyalty and due Subjection to their Soveraign in their Affection towards the Safety of their Country 1. Concerning Religion the best means to discern between the True and False Religion is by searching the Sacred Writings of the Old and New Testament which is of it self pure indited by the Spirit of God and written by Holy Men unspotted in their Lives and Conversations and by this Sacred Word may we prove whether our Religion be of God or no and by looking in this Glass we may discern whether we are in the Right Way or no. And looking into the same I find that by this Truth of God that there is but one God one Christ one Faith one Religion which is the Gospel of Christ and the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles In these two Testaments is contained all things necessary to Salvation if that our Religion doth hang upon this Doctrine and no other secondary Means then it is true to which comes nearest the Protestant Religion which we profess as I really and verily believe and consequently that Religion which joyneth with this Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles the Traditions and Inventions of Men Prayers to the Virgin Mary Angels Saints that are Used in the Exercise of their Religion strange and Superstitious Worshipping cringing bowing creeping to the Altar using Pictures Dirges and such like cannot be true but Erroneous nay devillish and all this is used and maintained in the Church of Rome as necessary as the Scripture to Salvation therefore is a false and Erroneous Church both in Doctrine and Discipline and all other Sects and Schisms that leans not only on the Scripture though never so contrary to the Church of Rome is a false worshipping of God and not the true Religion And thus much concerning Religion to discern the truth and falshood thereof 2 I come now Mr. Speaker to the second thing intimated unto you which was how to discern in a state between good Subjects and bad by their Loyalty and due Subjection to their Lawful Sovereign in which I shall under favour observe two things 1. Lawful Subjection to a King in his own Person and the Commands Edicts and Proclamations of the Prince and his Privy Council 2. Lawful Obedience to the Laws Statutes and Ordinances made Enacted by the King and the Lords with the Free Consent of his Great Council of State assembled in Parliament For the First To deny a willing and dutiful Obedience to a Lawful Soveraign and his Privy Council for as Cambden truly saith The Commands of the Lords Privy Councellors and the Edicts of the Prince is all one for they are inseparable the one never without the other either to defend his Royal Person and Kingdoms against the Enemies of the same either publique or private or to defend the Antient Priviledges and Prerogatives of the King pertaining and belonging of Right to his Royal Crown and the maintenance of his Honor and Dignity or to defend and maintain true Religion Established in the Land according to the truth of God is one sign of an Evil and Bad Subject Secondly To yield Obedience to the Commands of a King if against the true Religion against the Ancient and Fundamental Laws of the Land is another sign of an ill Subject Thirdly To resist the Lawful Power of the King to raise Insurrection against the King admit him adverse in his Religion to Conspire against his Sacred Person or any wayes to Rebel thô Commanding things against our Consciences in Exercising Religion or against the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject is an absolute sign of a Disaffected and Trayterous Subject And now having given the Signs of discerning Evil and Disloyal Subjects I shall only give you in a word or two the Signs of discerning which are Loyal and Good Subjects only by turning these Three Signs already shewed on the contrary side 1. He that willingly and chearfully endeavoureth himself to obey his Soveraign's Commands for the Defence of his own Person and Kingdoms for the Defence of True Religion for the Defence of the Laws of his Country is a Loyal and good Subject 2. To deny Obedience to a King commanding any thing against Gods true Worship and Religion against the Ancient and Fundamental Laws of the Land in endeavouring to perform the same is a good Subject 3. Not to resist the Lawful and Royal Power of the King to raise Sedition or Insurrection against his Person or to set Division between the King and his good Subjects by Rebellion although commanding things against Conscience in the Exercise of Religion or against the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject but patiently for the same to undergo his Prince's Displeasure whether it be to his Imprisonment Confiscation of Goods Banishment or any other Punishment whatsoever without Murmuring Grudging or Reviling against his Soveraign or his Proceedings but submitting willingly and chearfully himself and his Cause to Almighty God is the only sign of an Obedient and Loyal Subject I come now to the Second Means to know the difference between a good Subject and a bad by their Obedience to the Laws Statutes and Ordinances made
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
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.