of Berwick upon Tweed and all places within the same respectively shall be according to the proportions and numbers hereafter expressed That is to say For the Town of Bedford 1 County of Bedford 5. Abbington 1 Reading 1 County of Berks 5. Buckingham 1 Alisbury 1 Wiccomb 1 County of Bucks 5. Cambridge 1 University of Camb 1 Ely 2 County of Cambridge 4. Chester 1 County of Chester 4. Launceston 1 Truro 1 Penrin 1 Eastlow and Westlow 1 County of Cornwall 8. Carlisle 1 County of Cumberland 2. Derby 1 County of Derby 4. Excester 2 Plimouth 2 Dartmouth Clifton Hardnesse 1 Totnes 1 Barnstable 1 Tiverton 1 Honyton 1 County of Devon 11. Dorchester 1 Weymouth Melcomb-Regis 1 Lyme-Regis 1 Pool 1 County of Dorcet 6. Durham 1 County of Durh 2. York 2 Kinston upon Hull 1 Beverley 1 Scarborough 1 Richmond 1 Leeds 1 Hallifax 1 Cou of York West-Riding 6 East-Riding 4. North-Riding 4. Maldon 1 Colchester 2 Cou of Essex 13. Gloucester 2 Tewksbury 1 Cirencester 1 County of Gloucester except the said City 5. Hereford 1 Leompster 1 County of Hereford 4. St. Alban 1 Hartford 1 County of Hartford 5. Huntington 1 Cou of Huntington 3. Canterbury 2 Rochester 1 Maidston 1 Dover 1 Sandwich 1 Quinborough 1 County of Kent 11. Preston in Andernes 1 Lancaster 1 Liverpool 1 Manchester 1 County of Lancaster 4. Leicester 2 County of Leicester 4. Lincoln 2 Boston 1 Grantham 1 Stamford 1 Grimsby 1 County of Lincoln 10. Westminster 2 County of Middlesex 4 City of London 6. County of Monmouth 3. Norwich 2 Lyn-Regis 2 Yarmouth 2 County of Norfolk 10. Peterborough 1 Northampton 1 County of Northampton 6. Nottingham 2 County of Nottingham 4 Newcastle upon Tine 1 Berwick 1 County of Northumberland 3. Oxford 1 University of Oxf 1 Woodstock 1 County of Oxf 5. County of Rutland 2. Shrewsbury 2 Bridgnorth 1 Ludlow 1 County of Salop 4. Litchfield 1 Stafford 1 Newcastle on the Line 1 County of Stafford 3. Taunton 2 Bath 1 Wells 1 Bridgwater 1 Cou of Somerset 11. City of Bristol 2. Winchester 1 Southampton 1 Pertsmouth 1 Isle of Wight 2. Andevor 1 County of Southamp 8. Ipswich 2 Burrough of Bury St. Edmonds 2 Dunwich 1 Sudbury 1 County of Suffolk 10. Southwark 2 Gilford 1 Rygate 1 County of Surrey 6. Chichester 1 Lewis 1 East-greenstead 1 Arundel 1 Rye 1 Coun of Sussex 9 Coun of Westmorland 2. Coventry 2 Warwick 1 County of Warwick 4. Worcester 2. County of Worcester 5. Sarum 2 Marleborough 1 Devizes 1 County of Wilts 10. Coun of Brecon 2. County of Cardigan 2. County of Carmathen 2. Coun of Carnarven 2. Coun of Denbigh 2. County of Flint 2. Town of Cardiffe 1. Coun of Clamorgan 2. Coun of Merionoth 1. Coun of Montgomery 2. Haverford west 1. County of Pembrook 2. County of Radnor 2. The distribution of the persons to be chosen for Scotland and Ireland shall be according to such proportions and number as shall be agreed upon and declared by the Lord Protector and the major part of the Councell before the sending forth Writs of Summons for the next Parliament c. 11. That the Summons to Parliament shall be by Writ under the Great Seal of England directed to the Sheriffs of the severall and respective Counties with such alteration as may suit with the present Government to be made by the Lord Protector and his Councel which the Chancellor Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal shall issue and send abroad by Warrant from the Lord Protector If the Lord Protector shall not give Warrant for issuing of Writs of Summons for the next Parliament before the 1. of June 1654. oâ— for the Trienniall Parliaments before the 1. day of August in every third year to be accounted as aforesaid That then the Chancellor Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being shall without any warrant or direction within seven dayes after the said 1. day of June 1654. seal issue and send abroad Writs of Summons c. 12. That at the day and place of Elections the Sheriff of each County and the said Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other head-Officers within their Cities Towns Burroughs and places respectively shall take view of the said Elections and shall make return into the Chancery within twenty dayes after the said Elections c. wherein shall be contained that the persons elected shall not have power to alter the Government as it is hereby setled in one single person and a Parliament 13. That the Sheriff who shall wittingly and willingly make any false return or neglect his duty shall incur the penalty of two thousand Marks 14. That all and every person and persons who have aided advised assisted or abetted in any war against the Parliament since the first day of January 1641. unlesse they have been since in the service of the Parliament and given signall testimony of their good affection thereunto shall be disabled and uncapable to be elected or to give any Vote in the Election of any Members to serve in the next Parliament or in the three succeeding Trienniall Parliaments 15. That all such who have advised assisted or abetted the Rebellion of Ireland shall be disabled and uncapable for ever to be Elected or to give any Vote in the election of any Member to serve in Parliament as also all such who doe or shall professe the Roman Catholick Religion 16. That all Votes and Elections given or made contrary or not according to these Qualifications shall be null and void And if any person who is hereby made uncapable shall give his Vote for Election of Members to serve in Parliament such person shall lose and forfeit one full years value of his reall Estate and one full third part of his personall Estate 17. That the persons who shall be elected to serve in Parliament shall be such and no other then such as are persons of known integrity fearing God and of good conversation and being of the age of 21 years 18. That all and every person and persons seized or possessed to his own use of any estate reall or personall to the value of 200 l. and not within the aforesaid exceptions shall be capable to elect Members to serve in Parliam for Counties 19. That the Chancellor Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal shall be sworn before they enter into their Offices truly and faithfully to issue forth and send abroad Writs of Summons to Parliaments at the times and in the manner before expressed And in case of neglect or failer to issue and send abroad writs accordingly he or they shall for every such offence be guilty of High Treason and suffer the paines and penalties thereof 20. That in case writs be not issued out as is before exprest but that there be a neglect therein fifteen days after the time wherein the same ought to be issued out by the Chancellor Keeper or Commissioners of the great Sea that then the
profession of Religion which was established by Queen Elizabeth K. James and Charls to which family he declared his affection He acknowledged himself guilty of former sins but named them not for which he had deserved death heretofore but as touching the Crime for which he was to die he spent not many words onely he confessed that he knew of the plot At length he submitted his neck to the Executioner who at once severed the Head from the Body July 10. 1654. Don Pontaleon Sa Brother to the Portugall Ambassador and Mr. John Gerhard were both beheaded at Towerhill But a little before he lay down came the Portugal Ambassadors Brother Don Pontaleon Sa. A very observable hand of Providence that these two persons Gerhard and the Don who began that quarrell in the prosecution whereof the murther was committed at the New Exchange should meet thus to die at the same time and place for different crimes It is also to be noted that God did even mark out this Portugall for Justice for when he escaped out of Newgate at first he was immediately found out and now having by Order of the Court been remanded to the Keeper of Newgate he was very near an escape thence againe but the Lord prevented him For yesternight being Lords day at night a new plot was laid for his escaping by two women one was Mrs. Gourdon who brought another woman who under her womans apparrell had a Foot-boys suit on the womans cloths being taken off they drest up the Don in them and so he came down with Mrs. Gourdon to to the door where the Keeper narrowly prying under the hood discovered the fraud and spoyled the businesse This failing and the hour of execution next day approaching he was conveyed from Newgate to Tower hill in a Coach and six Horses in mourning having divers of of his Brothers retinue with him much lamenting his condition Being upon the Scaffold he spake somewhat to those that understood him in excuse of his offence laying the blame of the quarrell and murther upon the English So after some few private words and passages of Popish devotion with his Confessor he surrendred to him his Beads and Crucifix and his Head to the Block which was chopt off with somewhat more then a single blow The rest condemned about th t murther were reprieved all save an Irish man who was executed also this day early in the morning at Tiborn In the morning also of this day the Articles of Peace being fully concluded betwixt England and Portugall were signed by the said Ambassador and immediately thereupon he withdrew from his house out of Town It pleased his Highnesse to reprieve Somerset Fox because of his ingenuous confession but this day the other two were executed for their Treasons against his Highnes and the Commonwealth Vowel a School-master was in the morning executed upon a Gallows at Charing-Crosse and in the same place it was expected Gerhard should have suffered the same death but he had the favour granted him to loose his head Vowel spake little of the crime for which he suffered but the main of his discourse was to proclaim how great a Zelot he was to the old way of Religion and to the cause of the late King and his family wherein he let fall divers expressions tending to sedition and few of repentance for his fault touching which he would not speak out but willed the Executioner to doe his Office and so after halfe an hours hanging he was cut down and conveyed away in a Coach The form of an Indenture between the Sheriff and the Eâ—â—ctors of Person to seâ—ve in Parl. for Counties THis Indenture made the _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and four at _____ in the County of _____ Between _____ Sheriff of the County aforesaid of the one part and C. D. E. F. G. H. and divers other persons qualified and capable to Elect Members to serve in Parliament for Counties as is prescribed in the Goverment of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland witnesseth That Proclamation having been made in every Market-Town in the County aforesaid within ten dayes after the receit of a certain Writ of the Lord Protector to the aforesaid Sheriff directed and to one part of these Indentures annexed for the Election of _____ Knights fit and discreet persons of the County aforesaid for the Parliament of the said Lord Protector in the Writ aforesaid specified to be chosen and to be at the Parliament of the said Lord Protector at Westminster in the County of Middlesex the third day of September next to be held The aforesaid C. D. E. F. G. H. c. and divers other Persons of the County aforesaid who were present at such Election freely and indifferently have chosen _____ Knights girt with Swords that is to say A. B. c. to be in the Parliament aforesaid as in the said Writ is mentioned who for themselves as also for all the People of the County aforesaid have full and sufficient power to doe and consent unto those things which in the aforesaid Parliament shall then and there by common consent and councell happen to be ordained Provided and it is hereby Declared That the persons so chosen shall not have power to alter the Government as it is now setled in one single person and a Parliament In witnesse whereof as well the Seal of the Office of the said Sheriff as also the Seals of the Electors aforesaid the day year and place abovesaid to these Indentures are put and affixed The form of an Indenture between the Sheriff and the Burgesses and Inhabitants of Burroughs THis Indenture made the _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and four Between A. B. High Sheriff of the County of _____ of the one part and C. D. E. F. G. H. c. Burgesses and Inhabitants of the Burrough of _____ of the other part witnesseth That by vertue of a Warrant unto J K _____ of the said Burrough of _____ from the said High Sheriff to him directed for the Electing and choosing of _____ Burgesses of good understanding knowledge and discretion for Causes concerning the publick good of this Commonwealth To be at his Highnesse Parliament to be â—olden at Westminster the third day of September next we the said Burgesses and Inhabitants there have made choice and election of L. and M. to be Burgesses of the said Burrough of _____ to attend at the said Parliament according to the tennor of the said Warrant unto him the said I. K. directed in that behalfe who for themselves and people of the said Burrough have full power to doe and consent to those things which in Parliament shall happen Provided they alter not the Government from one single person and a Parliament In witnesse whereof we the parties above named to these presents interchangeably set our hands and Seals the day and year first
the Secretaries of the Councell After which the Lord Commissioner Lisle read a Parchment in the nature of an Oath to engâ—ge his Excellency to perform on his part according to the Government before mentioned During which tâ—me his Excellency held up his hand and having beard it read accepted thereof and subscribed thereto in the face of the Court. Then the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal and the Judges c. invited him to take possession of the Chair as Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland which he did and sate down with his head covered the Court continuing all bare The Lord Commissioners delivered up to his Highnesse the Purse and Seals and the Lord Mayor of London his Sword which were presently delivered to them back again by his Highnesse and then after a salute the Court rose First came the Aldermen and Councell before his Highnes from the Court to Westminster-hall Gate where the Coaches were after them the Judges then came the Commissioners of the Great Seal one of them bearing the Purse and Seals and before his Highnesse caâ—e the Life-Guard then four Serjeants of Arms with their Maces one being the Mace of the City of London the second of the Chancery the third of the Councell and the other of the Parliament born by the sword bearer of London Serjeant Middleton Serjeant Dendy and Serjeant Berkehead and the Lord Mayor of the City of London went before his Highnesse with the Sword and the Officers of the Army about his person and in the Pallace they took Coach at the Hall Gate and returned to White-hall in the same equipage they went the Lord Mayor rid bare with the Sword in the Boot of the Coach with his Highnesse and there were great Acclamations and shoutings all along the streets as they passed His Highnesse the Lord Protector being returned to Whitehall he went with his Attendants to the Banqueting House where they had an Exhortation made by Mr. Lockier Chaplain to his Highnesse which bing ended they were dimissed with three Vollies of shot by the Souldiers between four and five a clock at night Decemb. 19. 1653. His Highness the Lord Protector met with those named of his Councell in the Councell Chamber at White-hall it being the place where the Councell of State used to sit and severall things were Transacted in order to a settlement and this following Proclamation was ordered to be Printed and published on the Monday following This day this Proclamation following was published at Westminster and in the City of London by divers Serjeants at Arms with their Maces The Lord Mayor and Aldermen being present at the Exchange c. By the Councell A Proclamation WHereas the late Parliament dissolvâ—ng themselves and resigning their Powers and Authorities the Government of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland by a Lord Protector and successive Trienniall Parliaments is now established and whereas Oliver Cromwell Captain Generall of all the Forces of this Common-wealth is declared Lord Protector of the said Nations and hath accepted thereof We have therefore thought it necessary as we hereby doe to make Publication of the Premises and strictly to charge and command all and every person and persons of what quality and condition soever in any of the three Nations to take notice hereof and to conform and submit themselves to the Government so established And all Sheriffs Mayors Bailiffs and other Publick Ministers and Officers whom this may concern are required to cause this Proclamation to be forthwith published in their respective Counties Cities Corporations and Market Towns to the end none may have cause to pretend ignorance in this behaâ—fe Given at Whitehall this 16 day of Decem. 1653. December 21. 1653. His Highnesse the Lord Protector and the Councell being thirteen in number sate in the Councell Chamber at White-hall where his Highnesse in a sweet Speech to them pressed the Councell to act for God and the peace and good of the Nations and particularly recommended to them to consider and relieve the distresses of the poor and oppressed And severall things were Transacted in order to a quiet and peaceable settlement of these three Nations The Names of the Councell Mr. Lawrence the President L. Viscount Lisle Maj. Ge. Lambert Maj. G. Desbrow Maj. Ge. Skippon Col. Jones Col. Sydenham Sr Gilb. Pickering Sr Charls Wolsley Sir Anthoney Ashley-Cooper Mr. Rous. Mr. Strickland Mr. Major A Declaration for alteration of severall Names and Forms heretofore used in Courts c. OLIVER Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging having the exercise of the chief Magistracy and the administration of Government within the said Common-wealth invested and established in his Highnesse assisted with a Councell who have power untill the meeting of the next Parliament which is to be on the third of September next to make Laws and Ordinances for the peace and welfare of these Nations where it shall be necassary which shall be binding and in force untill order shall be taken in Parliament concerning the same And the said Lord Protector finding it to be most necessary that some speedy and effectuall course be taken for setling the Names and Forms to be used in Patents Commissions and proceedings in Courts of Justice the said L. Protector by and with the advise consent of his said Councell and in pursuance of and according to the power and trust reposed in him and them doth declare and ordain and be it by the Authority aforesaid declared and ordained That in all Courts of Law Justice or Equity and in all Writs Grants Patents Commissions Indictments Informations Suits returns of Writs and in all Fines Recoveries Exemplifications Recognizances Proces and Proceedings of Law justice or equity within the said Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging instead of the Name Stile Title and Teste of the Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament heretofore used that from and after the 26 of Decem. 1653. the Name Stile Title and Teste of the Lord Protector for the time being of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging shall be used and no other and the date shall be in the year of our Lord and no other And that all Duties Profits Penalties Issues Fines Amercements and Forfeitures whatsoever which heretofore were sued for in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament shall from and after the said 26 of Decem. be prosecuted sued forth and recovered in the said name of the Lord Protector for the time being of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging and no other And in all or any of the proceedings aforesaid where the words were The Jurors for the Common-wealth or The Jurors for the Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament do say or present from and after the 26 of
Parliament shall as often as such failer shall happen assemble and be held at Westminster in the usuall place at the times prefixt c. 21. That the Clerk called the Clerk of the Commonwealth in Chancery for the time being and all others who shall afterwards execute that Office to whom the Returns shal be made shall for the next Parliament the two succeeding Trieniall Parliaments the next day after such Return certifie the names of the several persons so returned and of the places for which he and they were chosen respectively unto the Councel who shall peruse the said Returns and examine whether the persons so Elected and Returned be such as is agreeable to the Qualifications not disabled to be Elected And that every person and persons being so duly Elected and being approved of by the major part of the Councell to be persons not disabled but qualified as aforesaid shall be esteemed a Member of Parliament and be admitted to sit in Parliament and not otherwise 22 That the persons chosen and assembled in manner aforesaid or any sixty of them shall be and be deemed the Parliament of England Scotland Ireland and the Supream Legâ—slâ—tive power to be and reside in the Lord Protector and such Parliament c. 23. That the Lord Protector with the advice of the major pa t of the Councel shall at any other time then is before exprest when the necessities of the State shall require it summon Parliaments in manner before exprest which shall not be adjourned prorogued or dissolved without their own consent during the first three months of their sitting And in case of future war with any Forreign State a Parliam shall be forthwith summoned for their advice concerning the same 24. That all Bills agreed unto by the Parliament shall be presented to the Lord Protector for his consent and in case he shall not give his consent thereto within twenty dayes after they shall be presented to him or give satisfaction to the Parliament within the time limited That then upon Declaration of the Parliament that the Lord Protector hath not consented nor given satisfaction such Bills shall passe into and become Laws although he shall not give his consent thereunto provided such Bills contain nothing in them contrary to the matters contained in these presents 25. That Phillip L. Viscount Lisle Charls Fleetwood Esq John Lambert Esq Sir Gilbert Pickering Baronet Sir Charls Woolsley Bar. Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper Bar. Edw Montagu Esq John Desbrow Esq Walter Strickland Esq Henry Lawrence Esq William Sydenham Esq Phillip Jones Esq Rich Major Esq Francis Rous Esq Phillip Skippon Esq or any seven of them shall be a Councell for the purposes exprest in this Writing and upon the death or other removall of any of them the Parliament shall nominate six persons of Ability Integrity and fearing God for every one that is dead or removed out of which the major part of the Councell shall elect two and present them to the Lord Protector of which he shall elect one c. 26. That the Lord Protector and the major part of the Councell aforesaid may at any time before the meeting of the next Parliament add to the Councell such persons as they shall think fit provided the number of the Councell be not made thereby to exceed 21 and the Quorum to be proportioned accordingly by the Lord Protector and the major part of the Councell 27. That a constant yearly Revenue shall be raised setled and established for maintaining of ten thousand Horse and Dragoons and twenty thousand Foot in England Scotland and Ireland for the defence and security thereof and also for a convenient number of Ships for guarding of the Seas besids two hundred thousand pound per annum for defraying the other necessary Charges for administration of Justice and other expences of the Government which Revenue shall be raised by the Customs and such other wayes and means as shall be agreed upon by the Lord Protector the Councel and shall not be taken away or diminisht nor the way agreed upon for raising the same altered but by the consent of the Lord Protector and the Parliament 28. That the said yearly Revenue shall be paid into the publick Treasury shall be issued out for the uses aforesaid 29. That in case there shall not be cause hereafter to keep up so great a Defence at Land or Sea but that there be an abatement made thereof the mony which will be sav'd thereby shall remain in bank for the publick Service and not be imployed to any other use but by consent of Parliament or in the intervals of Parliament by the Lord Protector and major part of the Councell 30. That the raising of money for defraying the charge of present extraordinary Forces both at Land and Sea in respect of the present wars shall be by consent in Parliament and not otherwise Save onely that the Lord Protector with the consent of the major part of the Councell for preventing the disorders and dangers which may otherwise fall out both at Sea and Land shall have power untill the meeting of the first Parliament to raise money for the purposes aforesaid and also to make Lawes and Ordinances for the peace and welfare of these Nations where it shall be necessary which shall be binding and in force untill Order shall be taken in Parl. concerning the same 31. That the Lands Tenements Rents Royalties Jurisdictions and Hereditaments which remain yet unsold or undisposed of by Act or Ordinance of Parliament belonging to the Common-wealth except the Forrests and Chases and the Honors and Mannors belonging to the same the Lands of the Rebels in Ireland lying in the four Counties of Dublin Corke Kildare Katerlaugh the Lands forfeited by the people of Scotland in the late wars and also the Lands of Papists and Delinquents in England who have not yet compounded shall be vested in the Lord Protector to hold to him and his Successors Lord Protectors of these Nations and shall not be aliened but by consent in Parliament And all Debts Fines Issues Amerciaments penalties and profits certain and casuall due to the Keepers of the Liberties of Engl by Authority of Parliament shall be due to the Lord Protector and be payable unto his publick Receipt and shall be recovered and prosecuted in his Name 32. That the Office of the Lord Protector over these Nations shall be Elective and not Hereditary and upon the death of the Lord Protector another fit person shall be forthwith Elected to succeed him in the Government which Election shall be by the Councell c. Provided that none of the Children of the late King nor any of his Line or Family be Elected to be Lord Protector or other chief Magistrate over these Nations or any the Dominions thereto belonging And untill the aforesaid Election be past the Councell shall take care of the Government and administer in all things as fully as the Lord Protector or