them and That the Prince of Conde came with Force before Paris and stopt provisions 3. The List of the Officers of the Fleet referred to the Committee of the Navy To report who they think fit to go out with this Winter guard and who not Ordered that Captain Moulton be preferred in the Navy answerable to his Merit and the like for Colonel Lidcote The Commons taking notice that the Lords had rejected their Ordinance for Tryal of the King and had Adjourned their House they sent some of their Members to examine the Lords Journal-Book and they reported to the Commons three Votes passed by the Lords 1. To send answer by Messengers of their own 2. That their Lordships did not concur to the Declaration 3. That they had rejected the Ordinance for Tryal of the King Hereupon the Commons Voted That all their Members and others appointed to act in any Ordinance wherein the Lords are joyned with them shall be impowered and injoyned to sit act and execute in the said several Committees of themselves notwithstanding the House of Peers joyn not with them Order that the Ordinance for Tryal of the King and the Declaration from which the Lords dissented and which were intended for both Houses shall now be by the Commons only and that the former Committee do sit presently and report the alteration in the Afternoon during which time the House Adjourned In the Afternoon the Committee made their report and the Ordinance was re-committed and to be reported again to morrow the Lords names to be left out and the three Judges and Sergeant Bradshaw Sergeant Nicholas and Mr. Steel to be Assistants The Speaker acquainted the House with a Letter he had received by the French Ambassador from the Queen but the House would not have it read A Letter was sent from the General to the Committees of several Counties for Levying the Arrears of the Assessment for the Army and that he would take off free-quarter from those who paid their proportions 4. Report of amendments to the Ordinance for Tryal of the King and in respect the Lords had rejected it the Commons turned themselves into a Grand Committee to consider of the power of the Commons in Parliament and the Committee Voted 1. That the people under God are the Original of all just power 2. That the Commons of England assembled in Parliament being chosen by and representing the people have the Supream Authority of this Nation 3. That whatsoever is enacted and declared for Law by the Commons in Parliament hath the force of Law and all the people of this Nation are included thereby although the consent and concurrence of the King and House of Peers be not had thereunto These being reported to the House were upon the question all passed without a negative Voice to any of them An Ordinance intitled for Tryal of Charles Stuart by a Court Martial was assented to and ordered to be Ingrossed and brought in to Morrow Order that the Clerk do not give out any Copy of the Ordinance for Tryial of the King to any Member of the House or to any other 5. Order to require the Lord Mayor of London to suspend the taking of the usual Oaths and to proceed to perfect the elections of Common-Council Men. Upon information that divers Prisoners of War had escaped out of Peter-house through neglect of the Keeper referred to a Committee to examine and report it And to consider of a Prison to be given to the Sergeant at Arms attending the House Order to desire the General to command his Marshal General of the Army to put in execution the Ordinance concerning Scandalous and un-licensed Pamphlets Order for a large Book of Velom to be made and all the Acts Ordinances and Records which lie abroad in Papers and have been neglected be there entred The Committee for Concealed Monies sate in Whitehall and rewards were allowed to the discoverers 6. The Ordinance for Tryal of the King was brought in ingrossed and passed A Letter from the Commissioners of Scotland resident here pressing for unity of Councils and Actions according to the Covenant betwixt the two Kingdoms and that the House would not proceed to Try or Execute the King till the advice of that Nation be had thereunto Debate concerning the proceedings of Law the issuing of Writs and the like in what name they should be the King and the Lords not acting The Common Council agreed upon an Order to be published to morrow in all Churches for speedy payment of nineteen thousand pound of the arrears of the Assessment for the Army to prevent the whole Armies coming into the City and to be quartered upon those who have not paid their Arrears 8. Letters from Ireland that Sir Charles Coot marched with his Forces of Connaght from Sligo seventy miles into the Rebels Country and after a little conflict with the Rebels some of them were killed and his party burned great store of their Corn preyed upon the Country and brought away one thousand of their Cows without loss That at his return he apprehended Sir Robert Stuart and hath sent him into England with a Charge against him that since this he hath possessed himself of Kilmore and fourteen Guns which Sir Robert Stuart endeavoured to block up by Sea and Land and hindered the provisions sent by the Parliament from being brought to their Forces The House referred it to the General and Councel of War to try Sir Robert Stuart and to take care for the Forces of Sir Charles Coot in Ireland whose actions they approved and Ordered a Letter of thanks to him Referred to the General and Council of War to secure Holy Island Order for the Northern Counties to have the Sequestrations of Delinquents there for disbanding their Forces The Commissioners for Tryal of the King sate in the Painted Chamber at Westminster and Ordered that to morrow a Herald should proclaim and invite the people to bring in what matter of fact they had against Charles Stuart King of England and appointed to sit the next day upon his Tryal 9. Widdrington and Whitelock by agreement went into the House this Morning the Tryal of the King being begun some looked very shy upon them others bid them welcome and seemed glad to see them there About ten of the Lords sate and passed several Ordinances which they sent to the Commons who laid them all aside The Lords had debate upon their last Votes about the Tryal of the King And that some thing should be published to satisfy upon what grounds they rejected the Commission for his Tryal but they resolved nothing Sergeant Dendy who attended the Commissioners for Tryal of the King according to their Order rode into Westminster-Hall with the Mace on his shoulder and some Officers attending him bare and six Trumpets on Horse back and Guards of Horse and Foot in the Palace-yard The Trumpets sounded in the middle of the
Court of Justice sate in the afternoon and heard proofs to the Impeachment the King was brought from Windsor to St. James's in Order to his Tryal The General Councel of the Army met and the draught of the agreement of the People was subscribed by many of them and Sir Hardress Waller and sixteen other Officers were appointed to present it to morrow to the House of Commons Information of a Vessel taken by Colonel Russel Governour of Guernsey and Captain Burley in her A Petition from North-Wales to the Councel of the Army complying with their Remonstrance c. for which the Councel gave them thanks The two Lords Commissioners of the Seal still refused to joyn in signing Warrants for Writs to adjourn the Term whereupon Sir Tho. Widdrington and Mr. Whitelock went to the Speaker and acquainted him with all passages and their intentions in this business to procure an Act of the House of Commons to command Sir Thomas Widdrington and Mr. Whitelock to sign Warrants without the Lords for Writs to adjourn the Term and to draw an Act for that purpose the Speaker approved of this way and offered that he would present the Act to the House for this purpose 20. Lieutenant General Hammond and divers chief Officers of the Army presented to the House in the name of all the Army from the General Council of the Army a Petition and a Writing concluded on by them intituled an Agreement of the People of England desiring a serious and speedy consideration thereof by the House The Petition was read but not the Writing it being long and the House having resolved to rise at twelve a Clock in regard the Commissioners for Tryal of the King were to sit in the afternoon yet they returned to the Officers this answer and Ordered That the thanks of the House should be given to these Officers for their particular and great services to the Kingdom and that they be desired to return the hearty thanks of the House to his Excellency the Lord General and all the Army for all their unwearied and gallant services to the Nation And that the Petition with this answer should be forthwith printed and published that the Kingdom might take notice of the Union and affection between the Parliament and Army and for the Agreement and Declaration they should be taken into speedy and serious consideration Upon a conference betwixt the King and Mr. Hugh Peters and the King desiring that one of his own Chaplains might be permitted to come to him for his satisfaction in some scruples of conscience Doctor Juxon Bishop of London was Ordered to go to his Majesty Order that the Commoners Commissioners of the Great Seal should issue forth Writs for adjourning of the Term though the Lords Commissioners did not joyn with them The High Court of Justice sate in the place in Westminster-Hall made for them the President had the Sword and Mace carryed before him and twenty Gentlemen attended as his guard with Partizans commanded by Colonel Fox After an O yes and silence made The Act of the Commons of England for sitting of the Court was read and the Court was called sixty of the Members appeared The King was brought from St James's to White-Hall and from thence by Water guarded with Musquetiers in Boats to Sir Robert Cottons House near Westminster-Hall and from thence to the Bar of the Court attended by Colonel Hacker with about thirty Officers and Gentlemen with Halberts At his coming to the Foot of the stairs he was met with the Mace of the Court and conducted to a chair within the Bar where he sate down in the Face of the Court they all being covered as well as his Majesty The Lord President in a short speech acquainted the King with the cause of his bringing thither in Order to his Tryal upon a charge against him by the Commons of England which was then to be read and his Majesty to give his answer thereunto The King Offered to speak before reading of the Charge but upon some interruption was silent and the Charge was read By which he was charged in the name of Charles Stuart King of England as Guilty of all the Blood that had been shed at Kenton Brainford Newbury and other places where he had been present in Arms against the Parliament and other particulars very large The King smiled at the reading of his Charge and after it was read demanded of the President by what lawful Authority he was brought thither and being answered in the name of the Commons of England He replyed he saw no Lords there which should make a Parliament including the King and urged that the Kingdom of England was hereditary and not successive and that he should betray his trust if he acknowledged or made answer to them for that be was not convinced that they were a lawful Authority After he had been often demanded to answer and refused he was remanded to Sir Robert Cottons House and thence to St. James's and the High Court adjourned and kept a Fast together at White-Hall Sir Thomas Widdrington seemed to scruple the signing of Warrants without the Lords for adjourning of the Term. 22. The Commissioners of Scotland delivered some Papers to the House and declared that Scotland had an undoubted interest in the person of the King that he was not delivered to the English Commissioners at New-Castle for the ruine of his person but for a speedier settlement of the Peace of his Kingdom That they extream'y dissent and declare against the Tryal of him and that this present way of proceeding against him leaves a deep impression on them and sits heavy on all their Spirits in regard of the great miseries that are like to ensue upon the Kingdoms And they moved for leave of the House to make their personal Addresses to the King The House referred it to a Committee to draw up an answer to the Parliament of Scotland This Declaration with some Papers from the Parliament of Scotland were likewise presented by their Commissioners to the Lord General A Letter to the General from the Officers before Pontefract Castle concurring in the Action of trying the King secluding the Members of Parliament who carried on corrupt designs and acknowledging the present proceedings of the Army to be the work of God alone The High Court of Justice sate and the King was again brought to the Bar. Mr. Coke Sollicitor General moved That whereas the Prisoner had refused to make answer to the Charge against him that now he might be directed to make a positive answer either by way of confession or negation which if he shall refuse to do that the matter of the Charge may be taken pro confesso and the Court may proceed according to Justice The President then required the King to answer to the Charge against him by the Commons of England of High Treason c. The King confessed
when he was last here he made the question of their Authority and should have satisfied himself with the Protestation he then made against the legality of this Court and that a King cannot by Tryed by any superiour Jurisdiction on Earth But he said it was not his case alone that he stood for but the freedom of all the People of England for if power without Law may make or alter Law no Subject can be safe for his life or any thing that he calls his own Then he said he would give his reasons why in conscience and the duty he owed to God first and his People next for the preservation of their Lives Liberties and Estates he conceived he could not answer till he were satisfied of the legality of it President Sir I must interrupt you which I would not do but that what you do is not agreeable to the proceedings of any Court you appear as a Prisoner before this Court and are not to dispute their Authority but to give a punctual answer to the Charge King Sir by your favour I do not know the forms of Law I do know Law and reason though I am no Lawyer professed but I know as much Law as any Gentleman in England and therefore under favour I do plead for the Liberties of the whole People of England more than you do and therefore if I should impose a belief upon any without reasons given for it it were unreasonable but I must tell you that reason that I have as thus informed I cannot yield unto it President Sir I must interrupt you you may not be permitted you speak of Law and reason it is fit there should be Law and reason and there is both against you Sir the Vote of the Commons of England in Parliament is the reason of the Kingdom by Law you should have ruled and reigned Sir You are not to dispute our Authority you are told it again by the Court Sir it will be taken notice of that you stand in contempt and your contempt will be recorded King I do not know how a King can be a Delinquent let me tell you they may put in Demurrers against any proceedings as legal and I demand that and to be heard with my reasons if you deny that you deny reason President Sir you have offered something to the Court I shall speak something to you the sence of the Court Sir neither you nor any man are permitted to dispute that point you are concluded you must not demurr to the jurisdiction of the Court if you do I must let you know that they over-rule your Demurrer they sit here by the Authority of the Commons of England and all your predecessours and you are responsible to then K. I deny that show me one Precedent P. Sir you ought not to interrupt while the Court is speaking to you this point is not to be debated by you neither will the Court permit yâ—u to do it if you offer it by way of Demurrer to the jurisdiction of the Court they have considered of their jurisdiction and do affirm their own jurisdiction K. I say Sir by your favour that the Commons of England were never a Court of Judicature I would know how they came to be so P. Sir you are not permitted to go on in that speech and these discourses Then the Clerk of the Court read this aloud Charles Stuart King of England you have been accused on the behalf of the People of England of High Treason and other crimes the Court have determined that you ought to answer the same K. I will answer the same so soon as I know by what Authority you do this P. If this be all that you will say then Gentlemen you that brought the Prisoner hither take charge of him back again K. I do require that I may give in my reasons why I do not answer and give me time for that P. 'T is not for Prisoners to require K. Prisoners Sir I am not an Ordinary Prisoner P. The Court hath considered of their jurisdiction and they have already affirmed their jurisdiction if you will not answer we shall give order to record your default K. You never heard my reasons yet P. Sir your reasons are not to be heard against the highest jurisdiction K. Shew me what Jurisdiction where reason is not to be heard P. Sir we shew it you here the Commons of England and the next time you are brought you will know more of the pleasure of the Court and it may be their final determination K. Shew me whereever the House of Commons were a Court of Judicature of that kind P. Sergeant take away the Prisoner K. Well Sir remember that the King is not suffered to give in his reasons for the liberty and freedom of all his subjects P. Sir you are not to have liberty to use this language how great a Friend you have been to the Laws and Liberties of the People let all England and the world judge K. Sir under favour it was the liberty freedom and Laws of the Subject that ever I took to defend my self with Arms I never took up Arms against the People but for the Laws P. The command of the Court must be obeyed no answer will be given to the Charge K. Well Sir Then the Officers guarded the King back again to Sir Robert Cotton's House and the Court adjourned The Commissioners met at Mr. Brownes House the Clerk of the Parliament where the Great Seaâ— lay and there Sir Thomas Widdrington and Mr. Whitelock without the two Lords did sign a Warrant for Writs to adjourn the Term the two Lords Commissioners were present though they did not joyn in this yet they did in other business There were strict Guards many Souldiers and a great press of people at the Tryal of the King The House sate only to adjourn Some who sate on the Scaffolds about the Court at the Tryal particularly the Lady Fairfax the Lord Generals Wife did not forbear to exclaim aloud against the proceedings of the High Court and the irreverent usage of the King by his Subjects insomuch that the Court was interrupted and the Souldiers and Officers of the Court had much to do to quiet the Ladies and others 23. Report of an Ordinance that where upon Indictments c. it was formerly said contrary to the peace of our Soveraign Lord the King his Crown and dignity it should now be said against the peace justice and Council of England That Writs out of the Chancery should go in the name of the Chancellour or Keepers of the Seal and in other Courts in the name of the Judges The High Court of Justice sate Mr. Coke Sollicitor General moved That whereas the Prisoner instead of giving answer to the charge against him did still dispute the Authority of the Court that according to Law if a Prisoner shall stand as contumacious in contempt and shall not give an Issuable Plea Guilty or not
Standard others that they saw him in the field in several fights with his Sword drawn The Parliament of Paris proclaimed the Cardinal Mazarine a disturber of the publick peace and Enemy to the King and Kingdom In the evening Whitelock met at Sergeants-Inn with the Committee to receive the Judges answer concerning the alteration in the Style of Writs The Judges answered that because of their Oaths they could not advise in this business being it was an alteration of the Government of the Kingdom but with this answer the Committee went away not well satisfied 26. The Heads of the Charge against the King were published by leave in this form That Charles Stuart being admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limited power to govern by and according to the Laws of the Land and not otherwise and by his trust being obliged as also by his Oath and Office to use the power committed to him for the good and benefit of the people and for the preservation of their Rights and Priviledges Yet nevertheless out of a wicked design to erect and uphold himself in an Vnlimited and Tyrannical Power to rule according to his Will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People yea to take away and make void the Foundations thereof and of all Redress and remedy of Misgovernment which by the Fundamental Constitutions of this Kingdom were reserved on the Peoples behalf in the Right and Power of frequent and successive Parliaments or National meetings in Council He the said Charles Stuart for accomplishment of his designs and for the protecting of himself and his Adherents in his and their wicked Practices to the same ends hath Traiterously and Maliciously Levyed War against the present Parliament and the People therein represented more particularly Then they named Nottingham Beverly and other places where fights were and go on That he hath caused and procured many Thousands of the Free-People of the Nation to be slain and by Divisions Parties and Insurrections within this Land and by Invasions from Foreign parts indeavoured and procured by him and by many other evil ways and means His giving Commissions to his Son the Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Foreigners and to the Earl of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further Invasions upon this Land are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalf of the said Charles Stuart All which wicked designs and evil practices of him the said Charles Stuart have been and are carried on for the advancing and upholding of the personal interest of Will and Power and pretended Prerogative to himself and Family against the publick interest Common Right Liberty Justice and Peace of the Pâ—ople of this Nation by and for whom he was intrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth that he the said Charles Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Authour and Contriver of the said Vnnatural cruel and bloody Wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murders Rapines Burnings Spoyls Desolations Dammage and Mischief to this Nation acted or committed in the said Wars or occasioned thereby M r Pierrepoint still kept in his station though dissatisfied with present proceedings So was Sir Thomas Widdrington 27. The High Court of Justice sate in Westminster-Hall the President in his Scarlet Robe and many of the Commissioners in their best habit After the calling of the Court the King came in in his wonted posture with his Hat on as he passed by in the Hall a cry was made justice justice execution execution This was by some Souldiers and others of the Rabble The King desired to be heard the President answered that he must hear the Court and sets forth the intentions of the Court to proceed against the Prisoner and withal offered that the King might speak so it were not matter of debate The King desired that in regard he had something to say for the peace of the Kingdom and Liberty of the Subject before Sentence were given he might be heard before the Lords and Commons in the Painted Chamber Upon this the Court withdrew into the Court of Wards and the King to Sir Robert Cottons house and after about an hours debate they returned again into Westminster-Hall The Court resolved that what the King had tendered tended to delay yet if he would speak any thing for himself in Court before Sentence he might be heard Many of the Commissioners in the debate of it in the Court of Wards were against this resolution and pressed to satisfy the Kings desire and themselves to hear what the King would say to them in the Painted Chamber before Sentence but it was Voted by the major part in the Negative Upon which Colonel Harvey and some others of the Commissioners went away in discontent and never sate with them afterwards this proposal of the Kings being denied by the Commissioners the King thereupon declared himself that he had nothing more to say Then the President made a large Speech of the Kings misgovernment and that by Law Kings were accountable to their People and to the Law which was their Superiour and he instanced in several Kings who had been deposed and imprisoned by their Subjects especially in the Kings native Country where of one hundred and nine Kings most were deposed imprisoned or proceeded against for misgovernment and his own Grand-Mother removed and his Father an infant crowned After this the Clerk was commanded to read the sentence which recited the Charge and the Several Crimes of which he had been found Guilty For all which Treasons and Crimes the Court did adjudge That he the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traitor Murderer and publick enemy shall be put to death by the Severing of his head from his body The King then desired to be heard but it would not be permitted being after Sentence and as he returned through the Hall there was another cry for justice and execution Here we may take notice of the abject baseness of some vulgar spirits who seeing their King in that condition endeavoured in their small capacity further to promote his misery that they might a little curry favour with the present powers and pick thanks of their then Superiours Some of the very same persons were afterwards as clamorous for Justice against those that were the Kings Judges The Act passed for altering the forms of Writs and other proceedings in Courts of Justice which were before in the name of the King and no Concurrence of the Lords was desired A Committee appointed to draw a Proclamation to declare it High Treason for any to Proclaim any King of England without assent of the Parliament and none to preach or speak any thing contrary to the present proceedings of the Supreme Authority of this Nation the Commons of England assembled in Parliament under pain of imprisonment and such other punishments as shall be thought fit to be inflicted on them
Provisions and Ammunition Order for 100 l. to Mr. King who brought the Letters from Sir Charles Coot for his good Service Referred to the Councel of State to examine the Business of Captain Kesar mentioned in Sir Charles Coots Letter and to send for and secure him if they find cause 25 By Vote the House declared That all such English and Scots and all others that have ingaged for the Parliament of England in the Nation of Scotland and have revolted from that Service and all such as have or shall adhere unto or joyn with Charles Stuart eldest Son of the late King in that Nation are Traytors and shall have their Estates confiscate and their Persons proceeded against by Martial Law Order for these Votes to be Printed and Published and a Copy of them to be sent to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Order to forbid proceedings in the Composition of the Earl of Derby because he holds the Isle of Man against the Parliament By two Printed Papers and three Letters to the Committee of the Army for discovery of Criminal Offenders Mr. Speaker was taxed for an ill Member and that he had conveyed a great Sum of Money to the King and Matters of Falsehoods and Breach of Trust are charged on him Upon the Order of the General the Officers of the Army certifyed under their Hands That they never examined any matter touching the Speaker nor had any Order from his Excellency for that purpose to authorize it That they find the same Business had been Judicially heard before a Committee of Parliament and by them reported to the House who declared those complaints raysed and prosecuted falsely malitiously and scandalously against the Speaker and that exemplary Punishment be inflicted upon the Prosecutors The Officers of the Army conclude their Certificates That they humbly conceive the said Information raysed and promoted since the Judgement of the House as aforesaid was a practice to bring an Odium upon the Speaker who hath so highly merited from the publick An Advertisement published That if any Countryman be injured by the Souldiers taking of Free-Quarter contrary to the Act that upon Complaint to the Judge Advocate of the Army and Proof thereof made he shall have Satisfaction out of the Pay of the Souldier and Protection from the Army 27 The House sate not Letters from Dublin to the Councel of State of some Correspondence betwixt the Governour of Tredagh and Lieutenant General Jones and that Ormond came thither with 1500 Horse and 2000 Foot That Owen Roe O Neal conceiving that he had merited from the Parliament desired a Convoy for his Men to serve the Spaniard but nothing was granted Letters that the Scots Army was full of Malignants and the Nation full of Feares That nothing will give Satisfaction there but the Kings putting Malignants from him and granting the particulars of the Covenant Letters from Mr. Peters to the Councel giving them an account of the Fleets setting sail for Ireland c. Lieutenant Collonel Morrice Governour of Pontfract Castle for the King was executed according to the Sentence of the Court Marshal Letters that 5 Men of War wearing the Scots Colours set upon 5 Ships of the Parliaments killed 4 of their Men wounded 18 and did much Prejudice to the Ships The Governours of the new Corporation in London for setting the poor to work sent their Warrants requiring the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor in every Parish to return the Names to them of all such as are able to work and have not meanes to maintain themselves and of all who are not able to work and want Livelyhood 28 Order for such as neglect to take out Discharges upon their Compositions for Delinquency to be taken into Custody The Act passed prohibiting the Importing of any Wines Wool or Silk from France into England or Ireland An Act passed for admitting the Purchasers of Bishops Lands to pay the whole purchase Money by Weavers-Hall Bills Another Act passed touching the second 40000 l. charged on the Excise and Goldsmiths-Hall 29 The Publique Thanksgiving day Solemnized The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland shortly after his landing at Dublin published a Proclamation reciting the great Mercies of God to that City particularly in the late Defeat given to the Rebels who incompassed it round about and finding that notwithstanding the Goodness of God to them yet by profane Swearing Cursing and Drunkenness his holy Name is dayly dishonoured and blasphemed contrary to the Laws of God and the known Laws of that Land and to the Articles of War He commands the Major and Magistrates of the City and the Officers of the Army to put in due Execution the Laws against such Offenders and that he will punish the neglect and contempt of this Proclamation with the severest Punishment of the Law 30 The Act for relief of Prisoners of Debt was after a long Debate and difference in Opinion ordered upon the Question to be ingrossed Debate touching Fees and Salaries of the Officers belonging to the House The Arrears of Sir Adam Lostus referred to the Committee for Irish Affairs Letters from Holland That the Prince his Men run away from him for want of Mony That 2 Irish Frigots brought into Dunkirk 6 Hull Ships for Prizes Letters from Dublin That the English Fleet which came thither with the L. Lieutenant strikes a great Terrour into the Enemy That Trumpets came to Jones from Ormond Inchequin and others but he sent them back with this Answer That now all Addresses must be made to the L. Lt. Cromwel 31 Order that Serjeant Dandey Serjeant at Arms to the Councel do proclaim the Act for prohibiting the Importation of Wines Wool and Silks from France Debate touching Mr. Warners Case An Act passed touching the West-India Islands and making them subordinate to the Government of England Order for an Act to prohibite the Brewing of Ale or Beer above 10 s. the Barrel Report by the Councel of a Letter from the Lieutenant of Ireland giving an Account of his Condition after his safe Arrival and laying open his necessities for Supplies and speedy Recruits Referred to the Councel of State to consider of the Letter and Desires of the L. Lieutenant and to answer his Expectation so far forth as it may not increase the Charge of this Common-Wealth Order for Payment of the 200 l. formerly given to Captain Poulton Order for 1200 l. for C. Fielder late Governour of Portsmouth for his Service there and 1148 l. for his Arreares out of concealed Delinquents Estates to be discovered by him Upon a Report from the Councel of their Opinion That Sir Kenelm Digby is a dangerous Person and to know the pleasure of the House concerning him they Voted That he was not within the compass of the Votes for compounding for his Delinquency And that he be injoyned to depart the Common-Wealth within 20 days and not to return without leave of the House under pain of Death
the Shires and Borroughs of Scotland by their Deputies convened at Dalkeith and again at Edenburgh did accept of the said Vnion and assent thereunto For the compleating and perfecting of which Vnion Be it Ordained And it is Ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging by and with the advice and consent of his Council That all the People of Scotland and of the Isles of Orkney and Zethland and of all the Dominions and Territories belonging unto Scotland are and shall be and are hereby Incorporated into Constituted Established Declared and Confirmed one Commonwealth with England And in every Parliament to be held Successively for the said Common-wealth thirty persons shall be called from and serve for Scotland And for the more effectual preservation of this Vnion and the freedom and safety of the People of this Common-wealth so united Be it Ordained And it is Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all the people of Scotland and of the Isles of Orkney and Zethland and of all the Dominions and Territories belonging unto Scotland of what Degree or Condition soever be discharged of all Fealty Homage Service and Allegiance which is or shall be pretended Due unto any of the Issue and Posterity of Charles Stewart late King of England and Scotland or any Claiming under him or that Charles Stuart Eldest Son and James called Duke of York second Son and all other the Issue and Posterity of the said late King and all and every person and persons pretending Title from by or under him are and be disabled to hold or enjoy the Crown of Scotland and other the Dominions thereunto belonging or any of them or to have the Name Title Stile or Dignity of King or Queen of Scotland or to have and enjoy the Power and Dominion of the said Kingdom and Dominions or any of them or the Honours Mannors Lands Tenements Possessions and Hereditaments belonging or appertaining to the said Crown of Scotland or other the Dominions aforesaid or to any of them any Law Statute Vsage Ordinance or Custom in Scotland to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And it is further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the said Office Stile Dignity Power and Authority of King of Scotland and all right of the Three Estates of Scotland to Convocate or Assemble in any General Convocation or Parliament and all Conventional and Parliamentary Authority in Scotland as formerly Established and all Laws Vsages and Customs Ordaining Constituting or Confirming the same shall be and are hereby and from henceforth abolished and utterly taken away and made null and void And that this Vnion may take its more full Effect and intent Be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Arms of Scotland viz. a Cross commonly called Saint Andrews Cross be received into and born from henceforth in the Arms of this Common-wealth as a Badge of this Vnion and that all the Publick Seals Seals of Office and Seals of Bodies Civil or Corporate in Scotland which heretofore carried the Arms of the Kings of Scotland shall from henceforth instead thereof carry the Arms of this Commonwealth And be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all Customes Excise and other Imposts for Goods transported from England to Scotland and from Scotland to England by Sea or Land are and shall be so far taken off and discharged as that all Goods for the future shall pass as free and with like Priviledges and with the like Charges and Burdens from England to Scotland and from Scotland to England as goods passing from port to port or place to place in England and that all Goods shall and may pass between Scotland and any other part of this Commonwealth or the Dominions thereof with the like Privileges Freedom Charges and Burdens as such Goods do or shall pass between England and the said parts and Dominions any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwitstanding And that all goods prohibited by any Law now in force in England to be transported out of England to any Foreign parts or imported shall be and hereby are prohibited to be transported or imported by the same Law and upon the same penalties out of Scotland to any Foreign parts aforesaid or from any Forein parts into Scotland And be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all Sesses publick Impositions and Taxations whatsoever be imposed taxed and levyed from henceforth proportionably from the whole people of this Commonwealth so united And further to the end that all Dominion of Tenures and Superiorities importing Servitude and Vassalage may likewise be abolished in Scotland Be it further Declared and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all Heritors Proprietors and Possessors of Lands in Scotland or the Dominions thereunto belonging and their Heirs shall from and after the twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and four hold their respective Lands of the respective Lord and Lords by Deed Charter Patent or Enfeoffment to be renewed upon the death of every Heritor Proprietor Possessor as now they do to his Heir or Heirs by and under such yearly Rents Boons and Annual Services as are mentioned or due by any Deeds Patents Charters or Enfeofments now in being of the respective Lands therein expressed or by vertue thereof enjoyed without rendring doing or performing any other Duty Service Vassalage or Demand whatsoever by reason or occasion of the said Lands or any the Clauses or Covenants in the said Deeds Charters Patents or Enfeoffments contained saving what is hereafter herein and hereby particularly expressed and declared that is to say Heriots where the same are due Fines certain where the same is already certain and where the Fine is uncertain reasonable Fines upon the Death of the Lord and upon the Death or alienation of the Tenant or any of them where the same have usually been paid which said Fine not being already certain shall not at any time exceed one years value of the Lands and also doing suit and service to such Court and Courts Baron as shall be constituted in Scotland in such manner as is Ordained by one other Ordinance Entituled An Ordinance for Erecting Courts Baron in Scotland And be it Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Heritors Proprietors and Possessors aforesaid and their Heirs are and shall he from henceforth for ever discharged of all Fealty Homage Vassallage and Servitude which is or shall be pretended due from them or any of them unto any their Lords or Superiors whatsoever claiming Dominion or Jurisdiction over them by vertue of the said Patents Charters Deeds or Enfeoffments and other rights thereof or of any Clauses or Conditions therein contained other than as is before Declared and Ordained And that all the said Superiorities Lordships and Jurisdictions other than as aforesaid shall be and are hereby
defeated by the Parliament Forces 15. Letters to the Parliament from their Forces they approved Officers and gave Commissions 16. Letters from Lambert from Stafford and from others Sir William Dâ—venant was released out of Prison 17. Letters that the Moorlanders and others in Staffordshire were in Arms for the Parliament That Colonel Croxton held out the Castle of Chester against Sir George Booth An Insurrection in Surrey was suppressed 18. Audience appointed for the French Ambassadour Bourdeaux Letters of Sir Arthur Haslerigge's Son active in Lancashire for the Parliament 19. Letters from Lambert to the Parliament with one inclosed sent to him from Sir George Booth for capitulation with Lambert's Answer and refusal of it which the Parliament approved In the Evening a Messenger came from Lambert to the Parliament with a Relation That the Parliament Forces followed Sir George Booth so close that he could not avoid fighting with them and after a smart contest Lambert gave a total rout to Sir George Booth's Forces pursued them a great way and killed and took many of them the particulars were not yet exactly known Mr. Prideaux the Attorney General died a generous person and faithfull to the Parliaments Interest A good Chancery-man 20. The Messenger sent by Lambert declared in the House the good news of defeating Sir George Booth and his Forces And the great courage of the Officers and Souldiers of the Parliament Two Regiments from Ireland under Colonel Zankey and Axtell came over to joyn with Lambert 22. Letters to the House from Lambert and others and Captain Brown sent up by him related in the House the good success against Sir George Booth The House voted a Reward for Brown and Letters of thanks to Lambert The House agreed to a Letter to be sent to the King of Sweden drawn by Whitelocke in Answer to the King's Letter to the Parliament A Seal for the Speaker agreed The French Ambassadour had his Audience very solemnly in the House and after it the House referred it to the Council of State to confer with him 23. Letters from Lambert of the Surrender of Chester to him and Letters from him to the Council and Letters from Waring Order for a Jewel of a thousand pounds value to be bestowed on Lambert and a Letter of thanks to him and for a Thanksgiving Day to be kept Captain Spilman sent from Lambert made a full relation to the House of all Lambert's proceedings 24. Reward ordered to Jo. Roden who took the Earl of Derby Prisoner An Act for sequestring the Estates of the last Rebels passed Letters from the Parliaments Plenipotentiaries at the Zound An Account given to the House by Mr. Gibbes Minister of Newport Paganel in Bucks of the apprehending of Sir George Booth whither he came with four Servants and behind one of them himself rode in the habit of a woman but acting that part not well he was suspected and being apprehended and examined he confessed himself to be Sir George Booth and was sent up to London and by the Parliament committed to the Tower He made applications to many of the Parliament and Council by his friends for favour The Earl of Derby was taken in the habit of a Serving-man Colonel Shawcrosse and others were taken 25. Referred to the Council of State to give further Instructions to the Plenipotentiaries in the Zound 26. The Grand Committee sate upon the Bill of Vnion Leverpoole surrendred to the Parliament 27. Letters from Lambert of the surrender of Chirke Castle The Examination of Sir George Booth taken by Haslerigge and Vane referred to the Council of State 29. Orders touching the Militia's Applications from the Lord Say and others to save the life of Sir George Booth 30. Several Officers of the Army approved by the House a List of Prisoners sent to them 31. A Report to the House of the Examination of Sir George Booth September 1659. 1. The House made Provision for sick and wounded Souldiers and for the Wives and Children of those that were slain 2. Letters from the Zound and from Lambert Order for Ireton to continue Lord Mayor for another year 3. Votes touching the Pay of commissioned Officers for the Militia and touching Sequestrations and for an Engagement to be taken by the Officers in these words viz. I A. B. do hereby declare That I do renounce the pretended Title of Charles Stuart and the whole Line of the Late King James and of every other person as a single person pretending to the Government of these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging And that I will by the grace and assistance of Almighty God be true faithfull and constant to this Commonwealth against any King single Person and House of Peers and every of them and hereunto I subscribe my Name Order for Mordant Brown c. to come in by a day or else to be taken as Traytors 5. The House were busie in debate of the Government to be settled in the three Nations 7. List of the Prisoners at Chester 8. The House discharged James Nailer from his Imprisonment 9 A Committee for the Government in Scotland A Representation from the Ministers of Leicester Letter of thanks to Colonel Zanchey 10. General Mountagne returned from the Zound 12. The House were upon the Bill of Assessment the neglect whereof was ill taken by the Souldiery 13. Mr. Brooke a Member of the House at the Bar confessed his joyning with Sir George Booth for which he was disabled from being a Member of Parliament and sent to the Tower for high Treason 14. Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper voted Not guilty of the Accusation against him of having correspondence with the King The question was not brought against Whitelocke for the same matter there being no ground for it as there was for the other Some service was done for the Lady Mary Howard at the Council which was ill requited by her and her Father afterwards 15. Debate about the Irish Adventurers 16. Letters from the Commissioners at the Zound with an account of their Treaty referred to the Council of State to draw answers The Lord Ruthen petitioned for maintenance 17. Vote to dissolve the Corporation of the City of Chester and that the County be no more distinct 18. Orders for the Winters Guard of Ships and divers Officers approved 20. Order for the poor Knights of Windsor Lambert returned to London 21. Private business excluded Debate about Commissioners for the Treasury 22. The House being informed of an intended Address to them from the Army wherein were things unacceptable to them imposing on them and contrary to the privilege of Parliament they ordered Ashfield Cobbet and Duckenfield in whose hands the Original Paper thereof was to bring it into the House in the afternoon this discontented the Officers of the Army especially Lambert and those who were with him in the defeat
shall be agreed upon by the Sub-dean and the major part of the Prebendaries and also to pass all the Premises under the style and title of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westminster during the suspension of the Bishop of Lincoln from the Deanry of Westminster For the doing whereof this shall be your Warrant Lambeth-house this 22th day of November An. Dom. 1637. W. Cant. This was held by some Lawyers to be a strange Warrant and these Proceedings in the Star-chamber against these persons raised a deep distaste in the hearts of many people which some expressed by their murmurings and gave out Canterbury to be the Author of them more particularly against Lincoln upon the private Grudges and Emulation between these two Prelates The Troubles and Commotions in Scotland began to arise upon this occasion King James had designed to bring the Kirk of Scotland to a Conformity with the Church of England and for that purpose appointed some of his Scotish Bishops to Compile a Form of Liturgy a Book of Common Prayer to be used there which was done and sent to him into England for his Approbation but nothing further was effected in that business by King James King Charles his Son in prosecution of his Father's Design directed Archbishop Laud the Bishop of Ely and other Bishops to review and alter as they pleased that Service Book which they did with some material Alterations from that used in England and by the Advice of these Bishops and others this new Service Book was sent into Scotland with Command to be there read First In the Chapel of the King's House at Edenburgh the Communion to be Administred in that form and taken on their knees the Bishop in his Rochet the Minister in his Surplice The Scottish Bishops liked the matter of the Book but not the Imposing of it from our Church upon theirs nor the different Translation from the Scottish Language of some of the Psalms Epistles and Gospels which to satisfie them was amended and the Book proclaimed to be read in all Churches On Sunday July 23. The Dean of Edenburgh began to read the Book in the chief Church of the City upon which the people in a tumultuous manner filled the Church with uproar which caused the Bishop of Edenburgh to step up into the Pulpit to appease them by minding them of the holiness of the Place This inraged the Multitude the more so that the Women and Men threw Cudgels Stools and what was in the way of fury at the Bishop to the indangering of his life The Chancellor seeing this called down from the Gallery the Provost Bailiffs and Magistrates of the City then sitting there who thrust the Rabble out of the Church and made fast the Doors so the Dean proceeded in his Common Prayer only he was disturbed from the outward man the multitude without rapping at the Doors pelting the Windows with stones and making hideous noises Nevertheless the Service was ended though not the Peoples rage who assaulted the Bishop returning to his Lodging and in other Churches the peoples disorders were answerable The Chancellor and Councel so ordered the business for the Afternoon that the Common Prayer was read without disturbance only the Bishop returning to his Lodging was rudely treated The Magistrates of the City seemed to distaste these tumultuous Actions and to inquire out the Actors and by desire of the City Ministers the Magistrates drew up an Obligatory Act for Indemnity of their persons and settling of their Maintenance During Harvest men were at work and quiet that being ended many resort to Fdenburgh Petition the Councel That the Service-book may no further be prest upon them till the King 's further pleasure were known The Councel fearing danger issue three Proclamations 1 To dissolve their Meeting in relation to Church-matters and all to repair home 2. For removing the Session from Edenburgh to Lithgow 3. For calling in and burning a seditious Book Intituled A Dispute against the English Popish Ceremonies obtruded upon the Kirk of Scotland These Proclamations increased the Flame and the next day the Bishop of Galloway going to the Councel-house was followed in the Streets with Railings and the House beset with Clamours and Menaces The Earl of Trequaire going to relieve the Bishop became in the same condition with him the Lord Provost and City-councel were called to raise the Siege but they returned answer That their condition was the same surrounded with the multitude who had forced them for fear of their lives to sign a Paper to adhere to them in opposing the Service-book and to restore Ramsey Rollock and Henderson silenced Ministers The Lord Treasurer going to the Councel-house was thrown down by the throng his Hat Cloak and white Staff taken from him The Lords in this danger sent for some Noble-men and Gentlemen who were disaffected to the Service-book to come to their aid who came and quietly guarded them to their several Lodgings Then the Councel issued a Proclamation to repress the Disorders but little obedience was given to it The Citizens sent Commissioners to the Councel to have their Ministers restored and what they had promised to be performed A Petition was sent to the Councel-board not of the multitude but of Noble-men Barons Ministers Burgesses and Commons against the Liturgy and Canons This Petition was sent to the King who displeased at it gave Instructions for Adjourning the Term to Sterling 24 miles from Edenburgh to prevent confluences of people and for publishing a Proclamation forbidding such tumultuous Resorts upon the highest Penalties Upon the reading of this Proclamation at Edenburgh the Earl of Hume and the Lord Linsey and others caused their Protestation against it to be read and agreeable thereunto erected four Tables 1 Of the Nobility 2. Of the Gentry 3. Of the Burroughs 4. Of the Ministers These were to prepare what was to be propounded at the general Table consisting of several Commissioners chosen from the rest The first Act of this General Table Was a renewing of the ancient Confession of Faith of that Kirk and entering into a general Covenant to preserve the Religion there profest and the King's Person The Councel upon this Combination sent an Express by Sir John Hamilton to the King to advertise him thereof The King observed That in this Covenant contrary to what was formerly neither his own nor his Delegated Authority was Implored And whereas preceding Bands annext to Confessions were formed in defence of himself his Authority and Person This new Edition hath a Combination against all persons whatsoever himself not excepted The King though highly offended at these Affronts yet studying how to compose the Discontents sent Marquess Hamilton his high Commissioner into Scotland for settling of the Peace He stayed many days at Dalketh four miles from Edenburgh yet none of the Covenanters came to him but at the sollicitation of the City and assurance of their quiet
appointed for the two Ministers to attend the Commoners Sir Peter Killegrew was sent with the Letters to the King and was to bring back a List of the King's Commissioners for the Treaty and of their Attendants An Ordinance read and referred to a Committee of the whole House for laying the Assessment for the Armies upon the several Counties They appointed a day to consider of the business of Dunnington Castle and the Earl of Manchester The Lord Savile Earl of Sussex the Lord Piercy and the Lord Andover were consined at Oxford The business of Dunnington Castle and of the Earl of Manchester was taken into consideration and a weeks time given for the Earl to be heard therein if he please An affront done to the Commissioners of Excise in Lancashire was referred to examination and the House resolved to be severe in upholding the power of the Commissioners The Sergeant at Arms was sent to apprehend one as a Delinquent for serving of a Sub poena upon a Member of the House of Commons Goring with his forces coming before Christ-church were beaten back by Major Lower and many of them killed The Commons proceeded in the business of the new Model of the Army and nominated Sir Tho. Fairfax to command in chief and Colonel Middleton Holborn Fortescue and Barkley tobe four of the Colonels Then they appointed a Committee to consider what honour should be conferred on the Earl of Essex for his fidelity and good services to the publick the like for Sir William Belfour and to settle the payment of their Arrears to such as should not be employed in the new establishment The Commons proceeded upon the Ordinance for the new Assesment Colonel Lambert was ordered to speed down into the North to take care of the forces there he being Commissary General of the Lord Fairfax his Army when Sir Thomas Fairfax should come up Colonel Holborn took in the King's Garrison at Sydenham-house and therein about 100 Prisoners and the High Sheriff of Somersetshire and ten Commissioners of Array and after that he fell upon the Lord Hopton's forces going to joyn with Greenvile took some hundreds of them and drove the rest to Bristol The King made Prince Maurice General of Worcester Hereford and Shropshire and some of his forces began to fortifie Cambden-house Letters from Secretary Nicholas intercepted gave no hopes of Peace upon the intended Treaty Sir Peter Killegrew returned from Oxford with the King's Answer concerning the Treaty and the names of the King's Commissioners with a Safe Conduct and Propositions from the King to be treated on The Safe Conduct was inclosed in a Letter from P. Rupert to the Earl of Essex and was to this effect CHARLES REX Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Generals Lieutenants General Commanders in Chief Generals of Towns Colonels Lieutenants Colonels Captains Officers and Souldiers belonging to any of our Armies or Garrisons and to all other our Ministers and loving Subjects to whom these presents shall come Greeting Our Pleasure and Command is that every of you permit and suffer that Algernon Earl of Northumberland Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery William Earl of Salisbury Bazil Earl of Denbigh Thomas Lord Viscount Wenman Denzil Hollis William Pierpoint Sir Henry Vane Junior Oliver St. John Bulstrode Whitelocke John Crew Edmond Prideaux for the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament of England at Westminster and John Earl of Loudoun Lord Chancellour of Scotland Archibald Marquess of Argile John Lord Maitland John Lord Balmerino Sir Archibald Johnston Sir Charles Erskin George Dundas Sir Jo. Smith Mr. Hugh Kenedy and Mr. Robert Berkley for the Estates of the Parliament of Scotland together with Mr. Alexander Henderson and their Retinue mentioned in a List annexed together with the Retinue of the Scottish Commissioners not exceeding in all the number of 108 persons together with their Horses Coaches and all other Accommodations for their Journey may repair to Uxbridge from London stay there and return at their pleasure and that they and any of them be permitted freely and as often as they shall please to go themselves or send any of their Retinue to and from Uxbridge and London without any let hinderance interruption or molestation whatsoever and to these our Commands we require your due obedience as you tender our service and will answer the contrary at your utmost perils Given under our Signet at our Court at Oxford the 21. day of January 1644. By His Majestie 's Command Edw. Nicholas The King's Propositions were Signed likewise Edw. Nicholas The Names of the King's Commissioners appointed for the Treaty for whom Prince Rupert desired a Safe Conduct from the Parliament were these The Duke of Richmond Marquess Hertford Earl of Southampton Earl of Kingston Earl of Chichester Lord Seymour Lord Hatton Lord Capel Lord Culpepper Sir Orlando Bridgman Sir Edward Nicholas Secretary Sir Edward Hyde Sir Richard Lane Sir Thomas Gardiner Mr. John Ashburnham Mr. Geoffrey Palmer with Dr. Stewart Dr. Laney Dr. Shelden and their Attendants in all to the number of 108. They were to meet with the Parliaments Commissioners on Wednesday the 29. of January at Vxbridge upon the Treaty for Peace The States Ambassadours were satisfied with the Answer of the Parliament to their Papers and said they would acquaint the States therewith expressing their good affections to the Parliament The Commons in a grand Committee further debated the Ordinance for new Modelling the Army and inserted therein the names of Sir Thomas Fairfax and of Major General Skippon They proceeded upon the Directory for Church Government and voted that several Congregations be under one Classis and that the Church be governed by Congregational Classical Synodical Assemblies and that there shall be one at least in every particular Congregation to labour in the word and doctrine Both Houses referred the Papers of the Treaty to the Committee of both Kingdoms to consider what is fit to be done and ordered that the Ministers in their several Congregations on the next Wednesday the day of the publick Fast and of the beginning of the Treaty should pray to God for his blessing upon it Both Houses ordered that the Lord Macquire should come to his Trial in the King 's Bench. A difference was between the two Houses touching the Safe Conduct for the King's Commissioners the Committee of both Kingdoms having altered some of their Titles given them by the King since the Great Seal was carried away from the Parliament as the Earl of Chichester they called Lord Dunsmore Lord Culpepper Sir John Culpepper Lord Hatton Sir Christopher Hatton and the new made Knights they called Mr. Hyde Mr. Lane and Mr. Bridgeman The Lords gave their Reasons why the new Titles should be given in the Safe Conduct the Commons gave Reasons against it as contrary to one of their Propositions and at length the Titles were agreed to be
Pawlets composition at three thousand seven hundred and sixty pound allowed and four thousand and two hundred pound for the Lord Pawlet An Act for a new Seal for the Courts of Wales and for Powell Eltonhead Parker and Clerk to be Judges there Letters from Scotland that the Parliament resolved to raise an Army of seventeen thousand Foot and six thousand Horse against the Sectarian Army in England in prosecution of the Covenant they having a report that an Army of English was upon their Borders That Colonel Monroe and Colonel Fizen with a party of Horse and Foot in the Northern parts of Scotland having Declared for King Charles II. taken Enderness and increased to four thousand the Scots Parliament repealed their votes of raising an Army against England and Ordered Forces against Monroe and his Party Pontefract desired a Treaty and were full of sickness in the Garrison 6. Report from the Council of State of forty thousand Horse and Foot to be kept up in England and Ireland whereof twelve thousand for Ireland their pay to be eighty thousand pound per mensem and free-quarter to be taken off Mr. Cauton a London Minister in his Prayer before the Lord Mayor having prayed for Charles II. as lawful King referred to Mr. Steel and Mr. Coke to prosecute him in the Upper Bench for Treason upon the late Declaration Letters of proclaiming King Charles II. in Guernsey Island by Sir George Carteret Letters from Holland that the Ministers there in their Pulpits inveigh against the proceedings in England and Pray for King Charles II. Referred to the Council of State to consider what is fit to be done herein and to preserve a good correspondence betwixt the two Nations The Earl of Cambridge brought before the High Court and asked what he had further to say why sentence should not be pronounced against him spake to the same effect as formerly The Earl of Holland and Lord Goring extenuated what they could their Offences as being rash not much hurtful c. The Lord Capel briefly repeated what he had formerly said and further observed an Ordinance of Parliament That Quarter should not be given to Irish Rebels for life which implyed that quarter given to others should be inviolable for life Sir John Owen pleaded quarter The President in his Scarlet robes spake many hours in answer to the several pleas of the Prisoners and at last sentence was given against them all that their heads should be severed from their Bodies yet with relation to the Mercy of Parliament 7. Referred to a Committee to draw up an Act for taking off all priviledge from Noblemen and to make their persons as liable to Law as any Commoner An Act committed for taking away Kingly Government and another for dissolving the House of Peers The Earl of Warwick and the Countess of Holland presented a Petition for the life of the Earl of Holland and divers Ladies for the others against whom the High Court had pronounced sentence of Death After some hours Debate upon these Petitions the House resolved upon the Question not to proceed any further upon these Petitions but to leave them to the Justice of the Court that sentenced them Then the Ladies Petitioned the High Court who only reprieved the Execution for two daies 8. A New form for electing Members of the House assented to Order that the Council of State nor Committees do not sit after nine in the Morning when the House sits Orders for seventy thousand pound per mensem for the Forces in England and thirty thousand pound per mensem for the Forces in Ireland and for an Act for eighty thousand pound per mensem assessment for the Forces and free quarter to be taken off New Petitions of the condemned Lords and a Letter from the General touching their Articles and after a long Debate the Question was put of them severally and voted That the Lord Capel should not be reprieved And carried by one vote that the Lord Goring should be reprieved this one vote was the Speaker who carried the House being equally divided four and twenty of each part and he said he did it because he had formerly received some civilities from the Lord Goring and his single vote now saved his life The House was also divided upon the question whether the Earl of Holland should be reprieved or not and the Speaker gave his voice against him Thus the Lord Goring who had been no friend to the Religious party was saved and the Earl of Holland who had been a most civil person to all and a very great friend to the old Puritans and protected them in the time of his greatest interest by the same single Vote lost his life This may be a caution to us against the affectation of popularity when you see the issue of it in this Noble Gentleman who was as full of Generosity and Courtship to all Sorts of Persons and readiness to help the oppressed and to stand for the rights of the people as any person of his quality in this Nation Yet this person was by the Representatives of the people given up to execution for Treason and another Lord who never made profession of being a friend to liberty either Civil or Spiritual and exceeded the Earl as much in his Crimes as he came short of him in his popularity the life of this Lord was spared by the people The resolution touching Duke Hamiltons Reprieve past in the Negative and for Sir Jo. Owen in the Affirmative and these Votes ordered to be sent to the High Court of Justice 9. Amendments to an Act for provision for the Forces of England and Ireland assented to The House rose early being thin because of the execution of the Lords The Earl of Cambridge was brought to the Scaffold in the Palace-Yard at Westminster and after some discourse with Dr. Sibbalds a Minister that came with him he turned to the people and seeing them so great a multitude he said his voice would not serve for them to hear him and therefore directed his speech to those upon the Scaffold with him He confessed his Religion to be according to that of the Kirk of Scotland that he had ever been Loyal to the late King and wished well to his Posterity and that none more desired the peace and happiness of this and other Kingdoms than himself That his coming into England with the late Army was out of no Treasonable or ill intent but for the ends contained in the Scots Declaration and what he did was as a servant to that Parliament and Kingdom That in that imployment next to the setling of Religion the establishing the King was his greatest aim and he wished his blood in order to the Kingdom might be the last that should be spilt That if he would have confessed who invited the Scots Army into England it would probably have saved his life Then he made a short Prayer Dr. Sibbalds kneeling with
Forces of Colonel Aston about four thousand refuse to disband profess for the Covenant and are incouraged by the Clergy that Major General Lambert is gone to disband them by force if there be no other way The Scots Anti-Covenanteers offered to joyn against the Sectaries in England In the Council of State the President Bradshaw spent much of their time in urging his own long arguments which are inconvenient in State matters and his part was only to gather the sence of the Council and to state the question not to deliver his own opinion 21. Vote That Papists in Arms might compound at a Moiety of their Estates Reference to the three Commissioners of the Navy of matters relating to the Fleet A Letter from the Lord Chief Baron Wilde of the Mayor and Justices of Excester refusing to appear at the Assizes referred to the Council of State and referred to them to take care against the ingrossing of Coal from Newastle A Book of the Lancashire Ministers called the Agreement of the People referred to the Committee of plundered Ministers to examine 22. The House sate not but divers Committees to prepare business for them The Countess of Carlisle was again before the Council of State about the last Summers Ingagement A Complaint to the Council of the Army against Woolaston Keeper of Newgate and an Officer sent to desire justice against him The King of France's agreement with the Parisians was refused by them The King of Denmark sent an Ambassadour to Prince Charles to offer him assistance A Minister of the Hague in the presence of divers others his Brethren made a complemental Speech to Prince Charles and stiled him most Illustrious King The Swedish Resident at the Hague made great rejoycing for the peace in Germany at every health 30. Pieces of Ordnance were discharged two Fountains were made to run with Claret and White Wine and in their Fire Works as the Letters relate the name of the Queen of Sweeden might be read very perfectly The Parliaments Declaration of their grounds and intentions of their late transactions published 23. An Act committed for relieving and setting the poor to work Order for the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London in Person to proclaim the Act for dissolving Kingly government and a Writ agreed for proclaiming it in the Market Towns of the Several Counties by the Sheriffs Order for eight thousand pound which should have been paid to the Scots to be for the Navy Order for Commissioners to be appointed to Inventory the goods and Personal Estate of the late King Queen and Prince and apprise them for the use of the Publick Order for an Act to be brought in to satisfy well affected persons to whom the King Q. or P. were indebted before the Wars out of the value of those goods and estate but that the first 30000â— to be raised by them be for the use of the Navy the Council of State to keep such of the goods as they should think fit for the use of the Common-wealth An Act for an assessment of 90000â— per mensem Ordered to be debated in a Grand Committee Order for a Commission to the Judge and other Officers of the Admiralty to try and give sentence on such Sea-men Prisoners as revolted to the Enemy A Report from the Council of State of several great Ships to be presently set out to Sea approved Referred to them to consider of raising monies by the Forests Chaces and Parks and the timber in them which is unfit for shipping The Council of the Army named two Officers of every Regiment to meet and seek God what advice to offer to the G. concerning Ireland and the Lieutenant General Cromwell was to give in his answer to the Council of State whether he will go for Ireland or not within two daies 24. The House sate in a grand Committee upon the Ordinance for assessments for the Army The Council of the Army proposed incouragements for those who would ingage for Ireland and the Regiments to be drawn out by lot Letters that Ormond proclaimed King Charles II. in Ireland and sent a Letter to C. Jones to advise him to come in to the obedience of the King and promising him great rewards if he do it and safety to all that come in with him and leave the pretended Parliament of England who have murdered their King and would introduce Anarchy C. Jones returned answer That he understood not how his Lordship came to that power that the Parliament of England would never have consented to such a peace as his Lordship made with the Rebels without any provision for the Protestant Religion That he knew not how that could be established by an Army of Papists to whose hands his Lordship had given up that whole Kingdom that he had rather suffer in his trust than to purchase to himself the ignominy of perfidy by any advantage offered to him Letters that Pontefract Castle was surrendred upon Articles six persons were excepted whereof three escaped that the Souldiers and Officers were to go to their homes first subscribing an ingagement not to advise act or take up Arms against the Parliament or Common-Wealth of England that they had two Months provisions and forty Barrels of Powder in the Castle 25. Easter day 26. The House sate not The Council of the Army agreed for incouragement of those who shall ingage for Ireland that they shall have three months advance of their pay and of their arrears and if they be slain those to have it to whom they shall assign it That a Court of Admiralty be in Ireland c. these things to be proposed to the House for their confirmation Letters from Ireland of Ormond's preparations for his Forces that the Vlster Scots declared against the Parliament and declined Monk that the Parliaments Army there are in great want and their interest in danger to be wholly lost in that Kingdom The heads of the Articles of Peace made by Ormond were 1. That the Roman Catholicks of Ireland have free exercise of Religion all penalties to be taken off not to be obliged to the Oath of supremacy to injoy Church livings in their possession and jurisdiction 2. For a Parliament when the Catholicks shall desire it 3. All Laws made in England since 1641. in blemish of the Catholicks to be vacated 4. All Indictments against them since that time to be vacated 5. That Catholicks may be elected and vote in Parliament 6. Debts to remain as in 40. 7. The Estates of freeholders in Connaught c. to be secured 8. All incapacities of the Natives to be taken away 9. All honours trusts imployments c. to be conferred on the Catholicks as well as Protestants 10. That the King take two thousand pound per annum for the Court of Wards 11. Noble men to have but two Proxies in Parliament 12. The depending of the Parliament of Ireland upon England to be
Committee An Act brought in by the Councel of State for repealing the Statutes 23. El. and 35. El. Against Pretended Sectaries and the Statute 1. Jac. Recommitted Order for Payment of the Sallaries to the Judges of the Admiralty Order to borrow 150000 l. for Ireland An Act past for discharge of the Commissioners of the Excise upon their accounts Sir Henry Heyman and another re-admitted to sit in the House Upon the report of the L. Commissioner Whitlock Baron Gates by reason of his sickness was excused from riding the Circuit and Serjeant Green ordered to go Judge in his place Power given to the Commissioners of the Seal to grant Commissions of Sewers and of Charitable uses as any L. Chr. L. Keeper or Commssioners of the Seal used to do Letters that the Enemie had besieged Dublin that C. Hewson twice beat off their Parties with loss to them and came off with flying Colours that C. Jones sent to Chester for Corn. That the Enemy was within one Mile of Dublin from whence a Party skirmished with them and took one Captain Duncan Prisoner That London Derry was not in a very bad Condition 30 The Lord Commissioner Lisle being formerly by the House made Master of St. Cross Hospital did now voluntarily surrender it to the House again and they bestowed it upon the Sollicitor G. Mr. Cook and ordered Augmentations of Meanes to the Ministers and poor Brethren as the Lord Commissioner Lisle had formerly given Debate upon the Act for sale of the Kings Houses Parks c. And Voted that St. James House and Park Theobalds Park Windsor Castle and Little Park Greenwich House Castle and Park should be reserved from Sale for the use of the State And referred to the Councel of State to consider what other Houses should be reserved from Sale The New Park near Richmond was given to the City of London as a Testimony of the Favour of the House to them Order for saving the Timber in the Parks c. for the use of the Navy Letters from Cheshire that Ormond had besieged Dublin with 14000 Men and doubted not but to carry it in a short time and that divers Ministers in Cheshire did pray publickly for restoring Charles the Second to his Fathers Crowns and Honours July 1649. 2 A Letter from the Parliament of Scotland in answer to the Letter sent to them from the Parliament of England in high Language and invective against the late proceedings in England but desiring that Commissioners of both Kingdoms may meet and treat about a good Correspondency between the two Nations Referred to the Councel of State how to prosecute the Desires of the Parliament of England and to vindicate it from the Aspersions cast upon them by the Parliament of Scotland Captain Row who brought the Scots Answer had 100 l. given him Divers Orders for Mony and Approbation of the Generals Allowance of more than ordinary Pay in regard of Billet Mony A Petition of the Car-men setting forth the Oppressions and Exactions of the Woodmongers and desiring to be made a new Corporation of the Car-men referred to a Committee The 400 l. per annum allowed to Dr. Vsher Primate of Armagh continued Order for 70 to be of the Life Guard to the Lieutenant of Ireland and Mr. Owen to go his Chaplain and his Wife and Children to have 100 l. per annum in his Absence Letters that C. Jones put out all the Men Roman Catholicks out of Dublin that Ormond took in all the Country about Dublin and put Jones to great wants that Sir George Askue secured the Harbour for the Army to land from England and that most of the English joyned with Ormond Letters that five Witches were burnt at Edenburgh who had the marks upon them which they had from the Devil The Parliament of Scotland sent a Gentleman to the Queen and Chr. of Sweden to acquaint them with their Proceedings with England and their falling off from them upon their late transactions c. That they prepare for new Levies of 15000 Horse and Foot to be added to the 5000 now in being 3 Debate upon the Act for sale of the Parks Lands c. of the late King and Officers agreed upon Captain Martins Accounts stated and he ordered to have 1000 l. per annum Inheritance in lieu of his Arrears The Lord Grey's Accounts passed A Pardon ordered for some Prisoners condemed in the Circuits Referred to the Councel of State to take care for bringing in the Arrears of Londons Assessement Letters from Dublin that C. Jones sent out 12 Horse who charged 30 of the Enemy routed them and took Lieutenant Collonel Duncan Prisoner and wounded Captain Dungan mortally and that Ormond stood within half a mile looking on That divers Malignants are imprisoned and the Papists driven out of the Town but their Wives and Children stay That Jones his Men killed a Captain and a Lieutenant of Ormonds Horse took a Cornet and 4 Horse and lost a Quarter Master That Inchequin wrote to Jones to treat but he returned a sharp denyal Letters that Prince Charles near Antwerp was met by some eminent Persons and presented by the Arch Duke with a sumptuous Coach studded with Silver and six gallant Flanders Mares drawing it and six Saddle Horses of the Neapolitan Race That at Antwerp the Magistrates conducted him to a stately Pallace where he stayed two dayes and was entertained as if he had been King of Spain Letters from France that the Queen of Englands Pension was lessened there from 12000 Crowns to 7000 Crowns and no Pension allowed to Prince Charles but what his Mother gives him Letters from Scotland of the strange number of Witches executed there that the Kingdom was quiet and in great Expectation of their new King 4 The Act passed for sale of the Goods of the late King Queen and Prince part of the Mony to pay some of the Kings Houshold Debts and 30000 l. for the Navy Debate upon a report from the Councel of State for borrowing 150000 l. of the City for the Service of Ireland Vote that the Letter from the Parliament of Scotland to William Lental Esq doth disobliege the Parliawent of England to proceed with Scotland to a Treaty and referred to the Councel of State to draw up a Declaration upon this and the former Scots Letters Letters of 1660 Barrels of Beer with other Provisions proportionable ready at Bristol for the Souldiers designed for Ireland Letters that Captain Harris with the Phenix Frigot had rescued divers Prizes taken by the Jersy Men. 5 Orders for Mony for lame Souldiers and the Widdows of Souldiers slain Mr. Steel was chosen Recorder of London in the place of Mr. Glyn. Divers Surveys returned of Deanes and Chapters Lands The Train of Artillery and Ammunition was shipped for Ireland 6 The Account of the Lieutenant of Ireland approved and he discharged The Lord Commissioner Whitelock did voluntarily surrender the place of Attourney of the Dutchy
they killed all Straglers by the way That seven Parliament Troopers fell upon thirty Vlsters in a house and killed all of them Many Persons were slain and great mischief done by a sad accident in a Ship Chandlers House which was blown up with Gunpowder and divers Neighbours houses together with it The Speaker and the Lord General were feasted at Blackwall by a Captain lately come from the Streights 7 Letters from Carlile That the Mosse Troupers grew very insolent and committed many Robberies and Outrages upon the Borders and were harboured by the Scots but some of them were taken by the Parliaments Souldiers From Berwick That C. Hamilton who was the Death of C. Oconelly at the Storm of Trym was taken That the Scots went on to purge their Army of Sectaries and insufficient men that is such as never before were in Service 8 Letters of the great want of Physitians for the Parliament Forces and Protestants in Ireland so that any of them being sick were faine to trust themselves in the hands of Papist Doctors which they write is more than the Adventures in the Field That some chief of the Enemies Army are very zealous to make their Peace with the Parliament The House ordered the Commissioners of the great Seal to grant out a Commission and Patent for M. G. Ireton to be president of Munster Order that Mr. Thomas Goodwyn be President of Magdelen Colledge in Oxford and referred to the Committee of the Universities to consider how the Heads of Houses in the several Universities may be setled and disposed of without trouble to the House Several Orders and References to the Councel of State and Committee of the Army touching Recruits and for Supplies of Provisions Ammunition and Money for the Forces in Ireland 9 Letters from Newcastle that L. C. Hobson sent his Warrant to apprehend some Cavaliers but they and the Moss Troopers joyned together stood upon their Guard took away the Warrants by force secured themselves and disarmed the Men but a greater Party of Souldiers being sent brought them away Prisoners From Scarborough That there was a Meeting at York of the Commissioners for settling the Militia of that County where according to the Instructions from the Councel of State they were to raise 3000 Foot and 400 Horse for defence of that County and Service of the Common-wealth That the Pirates took away a great Ship within Sight of Burlington Key and carried her away From Dunstar That the Enemy surprised Ensiscoisle Castle in this manner That some Irish Gentlemen feasted the Garrison Souldiers and sent in Women to sel them Strongwater of which they drunk too much and then the Irish fell upon them took the Garrison and put all the Officers and Souldiers to the Sword That upon hearing of this the Lord Lieutenant gave Orders that the Irish should be put out of all the Garrisons in the Power of the Parliament That an Irish Frigot coming a shore for Provisions near to Cardiffe the Governour suspected and apprehended them and sent out a Party in small Boats which took the Frigot which was richly loaden with plate and other Commodities From Weymouth That in the night some Persons in Blandford proclaimed Prince Charles King of England but some of them were apprehended and Imprisoned From Yarmouth that sixty Prisoners that were in the Goal did brake Prison yet all but three of them were again apprehended 10 Account of several Companies and Parties of Souldiers willing to serve in Ireland and marched to the Seaside to be transported and many undertook the Service very chearfully Three Troopers condemned to death for killing a man but Evidence appearing to extenuate the Crime the General pardoned them The Ship which carried the Souldiers unto Guernsey returned to the general Rendezvous of the Ships at Stoakes Bay Letters of Account of Sea Affairs 11 Proposals for a Fleet to be sent into the Streights to meet with those French who have lately taken many Merchants Ships of London and disposing of their Goods refusing to make any restitution Letters that Montross could get but few to joyn in assisting Prince Charles and those he had were more by connivance than by any Act of State 12 Several Proposals made to the General and his Officers in order to the removing of Obstructions in the sale of the late Kings Lands The Parliament ordered a Letter to be written by the Speaker to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and to confer with him concerning further supplyes of Men Money and Ammunition and for the settling of the civil Government there The ground of this resolution was That the news of the Kings coming to Scotland became more probable than formerly and the Scots Proceedings in the raising of new Forces gave an Allarum to the Parliament and some of their Members who had discoursed with the Lord General upon those Matters and argued how requisite it would be to send an Army into Scotland to divert the War from England they found the General wholly averse to any such thing and by the meanes of his Lady a strict Presbyterian to be more a Friend to the Scots than they wished therefore they thought this a sit time to send for the Lieutenant of Ireland and the rather his Army being now drawn into Winter Quarters Order for Relief of some of those who suffered great loss in the late unhappy accident of the Houses in Tower-Street being blown up with Gunpowder Referred to the Councel of State to send a Letter into Russia touching the Trade there 14 Letters from Scotland That in the Pulpits they preach altogether for the Kings coming in and yet proceed to purge their Army of all Cavaleers that nothing certain was yet returned from the Lord of Libberton Letters that C. Hacker had taken 60 Moss Troopers That Montross was expected every day in Scotland One Coppe an Anabaptist in Prison a great Swearer and Curser and held that God could not damn him yet perswaded many to be of his Religion Many were drowned in the great Floods upon the melting away of the Snow 15 Letters that the Forces landed in Guernsey wanted Accomodations of Beds c. and were fain to lye in a Church ever since they were landed That two Frigots of the Prince prepared from Jersy to attempt Guernsey hearing of the Parliaments Souldiers landed there were presently diverted Letters from Oxford That the Judges sate there upon a Commission of Oyer and Terminer and at the first sitting they and the high Sheriffe Under Sheriffe Officers of the Court and Grand Jury all took the Ingagement in the Face of the Country solemnly and cheerfully That one of the Prisoners obstinately refusing to plead was pressed to death in the sight of two others who refused to plead upon which one of them pleaded but the other refusing was also pressed to death An Account of divers of C. Desboroughs Men shipped for Ireland and of the apprehending C. Slingsby and another
6 Returns of Subscriptions to the Ingagement from several Regiments and Garrisons Letters from Taunton That the Commissioners for settling the Militia in that County had agreed upon Officers of Horse and Foot to be named to the Councel of State for Commissions That C. Pine is most Active in this and all other Business of that County At a Horse Race near Blackley there being many Gallants with Pistols Swords and Arms C. Smith with the Oxfordshire Troop came thither and disarmed some of the chief and most suspected of the Company The same Captain Smith in 6 Months apprehended 50 Robbers in those Parts 30 of them were hanged Letters from Shrewsbury of the meeting of Cavaliers in that County and Suspicions of new Plots Account of Troops and Recruits marching towards Chester for Ireland 8 Letters from Newcastle That the Cavaliers report generally that the Scots and their King are agreed and thereupon many of them are gone into Scotland That course is taken to prevent them for the future That the Ministers in Yorkshire preach openly against the Ingagement That many Mosse Troopers are dayly taken From Yarmouth That Commissions came from the Councel of State for the Militia which the Bayliffes and others are putting in Execution and Souldiers list themselves and take the Ingagement very willingly That the like was done in Norwich for that City and for the County of Norfolk The like was done in Essex That the four Ships sent to guard the Fishers have much advanced the Fishing Trade From Cork That 5 Ships with Souldiers were all cast away coming from Minehead for Ireland only 20 or 30 men swam to shore That the Enemy besieged Captain Barrington in Arklow Castle and he sallyed out upon them beat them off and killed many of them That Lieutenant Collonel Axtel Governour of Rosse made several Incursions into the Enemies Quarters in the County of Kilkenny took many Prisoners and great store of Cattle Account of Recruits for Ireland Some debauch't Persons in a Tavern drinking Healths in a Balcone breaking Glasses and drawing a great deal of Company together some Souldiers who saw it went up to the Gentlemen and carryed them away Prisonees to Whitehall 9 Letters from Dunstar confirming the sad news of the 5 Ships that went from Minehead to Ireland all cast away Captain Ensor and Captain Whiting with 80 Horse and 150 Foot and all the Seamen drowned except 20 or 30. From Ireland that the Popish Clergy there have agreed to raise 7000 Men by March next and to pay them and that Antrim shall command them That the Estates of Scotland are setting out a Declaration in answer to Montrosses Declaration and conform to that of the Kirk One Hinderson proclaimed in several Streets of Newark I pronounce Charles the Second of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. as King of England although his Father suffered wrongfully Yet you cannot be Governed without a Head but now you are Governed by a stinking lowsy Committee For these words he was apprehended and sent to Prison A Petition to the General and his Councel of Officers in the behalf of 3000 maimed Souldiers and Widdows whose Husbands were slain in the Service of the Parliament the General and his Councel recommended it to C. Rich to move the House therein The Councel of State sent three of their Messengers to apprehend one Mercer who stabbed two of them that they dyed immediately and wounded the third and so escaped from them 11 Letters that an Irish Frigot boarded a Newcastle Ship near Hartlepool which the Governour seeing caused some of his Guns to be so planted that they shot the Irish Frigot through and through and caused her to hasten away and leave her Prize behind which came in safe to Hartlepool From Scotland that Libberton was returned with a Message from the King which was read but nothing done upon it that he speaks high what the King will do for and stand by Scotland yet they go on in purging the Army That an English Merchant having a cause to be pleaded there the Scots Lawyers refused to plead for him because the business was drawn up in the new way in the Name of the Councel of State About 24 Persons came in the Night to White-Fryars with Muskets as Souldiers called up the Constable and required him to go along with them to apprehend some dangerous Persons and brought him to the Lodging of Sir Edward Hales whom they knew to have a great Sum of Money there That when they came into the House they bound the Constable and Sir Edward Hales and the Master of the House broke open Trunks and carryed away with them 100 l. besides Rings Watches c. Then they locked the Doors after them left theirMuskets behind them and got away in Boats which they had laid ready at White Fryars Stairs but 7 of those thieves were afterwards apprehended 12 The House named these Persons to be of the Council of State for the Year following viz. E. of Denbigh L. C. Justice St. John Sergeant Bradshaw L. Grey of Groby M. G. Skippon Alderman Pennington Sheriffe Wilson Sir William Masham Lord Commissioner Whitelock Sir James Harrington C. Hutchinson Mr. Bond. Mr. Alderman Popham Mr. Wanton̄ C. Purefoy Mr. Jones C. Ludlow E. of Salisbury Mr. Luke Robinson L. C. Justice Rolle L. Ch. Baron Welde L. G. Fairfax L. Lt. Cromwel Mr. H. Martyn Sir Gilbert Pickering Mr. Stapely Mr. Heveningham Sir Arthur Hassterig Mr. Wallup Sir H. Vano Junior L. Lisle Sir William Armyne Sir Henry Mildmay Sir William Constable Lord Commissioner Lisle Mr. Scot. Mr. Holland Debate touching meanes of advancing the Gospel of Christ An Act touching the way of Presentations and settling of Ministers in Livings committed An additional Act for the more severe punishing of prophane Swearing and Cursing committed An Act for suppressing and punishing the abominable sins of Incest Adultery and Fornication committed 13 Letters from the West That many Presbyterians in their Pulpits prayed very Zealously for restoring the King of Scots to his Fathers Crown in England That a French Vessel which came from the Barbado's was wracked and 13 of her men lost and the rest saved Sir Bathazer Gerbier set up his Academy in White Fryers for the teaching of all manner of Arts and Sciences a good design if the conduct and Success had been answerable 14 Letters from Scotland That their King in his Message by Libberton would have exempted from any benefit of the Agreement all such as shall be found to have had a hand in the Death of his Father without mentioning whom which breeds a general Jealousy that it may reach to all that consented to the giving up of his Father at Newcastle or joyned in the Covenant with England That the King will only acknowledge the Scots Commissioners to be Commoners of Parliament during the Treaty or after as it shall succeed and private Letters were sent from the King to
to be hanged That in this Defeat at Kerny the L. Broghil slew about 700 and took 20 Captains Lieutenants and other Officers and the Standard of the Church of Munster it being a Church Army That the Horse did the Service before the Foot came up at such a Passe where 100 Musquetiers might have beaten back all the Horse in Ireland 27 From Edenburgh the Particulars of the Execution of Montrosse That being brought before the Parliament the Chancellor made a large Speech to him telling him how much formerly he was for the Covenant and how he had since broken it He told them his Cause was good and that he had not onely a Commission but particular Orders for what he did from his Majesty whom he was ingaged to be a Servant to and they also had prefessed to comply with and upon that Account however they dealt with him he would own them to be a Parliament That if they would take away his Life the World knew he regarded it not It was a debt that must once be payd and that he was willing and did much rejoyce that he must go the same way his Majestie did And it was the joy of his Heart not onely to do but to suffer for him The Parliament gave Sentence upon him that he should be hanged upon a Gibbet of six Ells and a half high and after he was hanged his Head to be severed from his Body and put upon the Toulbooth at Edenburgh his right Hand to be cut off and sent to Glascow his left to Aberdeen his right Foot to Saint Johns Towns and his left to Dundee That all the time of his Sentence and Execution he seemed to be no way altered but his Speech full of Composure when they bid him kneel he told them he would observe any Posture to manifest his Obedience especially to them who were so near to a Conjunction with his Majesty and a Minister attending to offer him Absolution he refused it from the Minister but defired him to pray with him Which the Minister refused unless he would take Absolution from him He himself prayed very zealously and suffered with great Meekness and Courage From Leverpoole That the Ingagement is willingly taken that some Powder and Match going to some Cavaliers was seized upon 28 A Bill for setling the Militia of the Commonwealth committed Order for an Act to be brought in to impower the Militia of London to raise Horse another for Westminster another to be for setting the Poor to work throughout the Nation Letters from Clonmel May 10. This Day we entered Clonmel which was quit by the Enemy the last Night after a tedious Storm which continued 4 houres Our men kept close to the Breach which they had entered all the time Save onely one accidentall Retreat in the Storm We lost in this Storm C. Cullum and some other Officers with divers private Souldiers and others wounded The Enemy had made many great Preparations within by a Traverse or Crossework and to beat our men off as they entred but afterwards many of them stole out of the Town and left some few with the Inhabitants to make Conditions in the morning our Forces pursued and killed all they could light upon 29 From Newcastle That the Scots are in dayly Expectation of their Kings landing in some Part of the North that some Parliament Ships are wafting up and downe on that Coast under Captain Hall 30 From Clonmel That C. Reynolds is wayting upon the Motions of Castlehaven with 1500 Horse and Dragoons That they found in Clonmel the stoutest Enemy that ever was found by the Army in Ireland and that there was never seen so hot a Storm of so long a Continuance and so gallantly defended neither in England nor Ireland From Portsmouth of a man of War taken with the Commission of Charles the Second From Berwicke That the Scots Commissioners went beyond their Instructions in promising their King Assistance against England that their Ministers pray for the Confusion of the Sectarian Army in England And that their Army is marching Southwards 31 From Coventry That few or none of the Commonalty of that Countey but had taken the Ingagement From Bristol That the L. Lt. of Ireland was landed there and that they fired their great Guns thrice over at his Arrival From Guernzy That M. Harrison had besieged the Castle and made 150 Shot at it From Dublin That C. Reynolds was sate downe before Tecroghan where C. Hewson met him that they made their Approaches within Pistol Shot of it without the loss of one man That it is a very strong Place never possest by the Parliaments Forces during all the time of the Rebellion That the Titular Bishop of Clogher G. of the Northern Irish marching with about 300 Horse and 4000 Foot being faced by 1000 of the Parliaments Horse retreated and many of his men dispersed From Scotland That Montrosse would have nothing to do with the Kirkemen at the time of his Execution and that the People shewed much sorrow and regret at his Death That the Scots Parliament invited the King thither and expect his sudden Arrival That the Lord Argyle late turned Royalist and other Lords are so desirous of his coming that they postpone the Churches interest thereto The L. Lt. of Ireland came to Town he was met on Hounstow-heath by many Members of Parliament and Officers of the Army and at Hide-parke saluted with great Guns and a Volly of Shot from C. Barksteads Regiment and lodged in Whitehall June 1650. 1 Great Ceremonyes and Appeareances of joy upon the coming of the L. Lt. of Ireland to London most of the Persons of Quality the Members of Parliament and Officers of the Army about the Town paid their Visits to him and congratulated the safe Arrival of his Excellence after so many Dangers both by Sea and Land wherein God had preserved him and the wonderfull Successes which he had given him 3 From Edenburgh That the Ministers are earnest in Prayer for the Kings coming but so that he may first condescend to all that is propounded That they are busie in setling Officers for his Majesties House and in purging the Army That Letters came from the King expressing much sorrow at the Report he hears that there is some blood of his good Subjects shed of late But not knowing how it is desires to understand the business fully That Sir John Vrrey and C. Spotteswood are forthwith to be beheaded From Leverpool That the Excise was quietly settled in those parts A Souldier for Swearing and Blastheaming and abusing a poor Woman to whom he owed Money was sentenced by the Court Marshal To ride the Wooden Horse an hour three days with a Gag in his mouth to run the Gantlope through two Companies of Foot to have his Sword broken over his head and to be cashiered the Army 4 Visits from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the Lord General Fairfax and the
Gospel in all void places and to unite two or three Parishes together so that none be above three Miles from the Publick meeting place and Commissioners named in the Report that such as shall be approved for publick Preachers may enjoy the maintenance set by Laws and such further as the Parliament hath or shall allow That where any scruple the payment of Tithes the neighbour Justices to set a value on those due which the owner of the Land to pay or else the Minister may sue for them That Committee held That the Incumbents Impropriators c. have a Right and Propriety in Tythes The House upon Debate of this Report the first part of it upon the question passed in the Negative It was moved in the House that the sitting of this Parliament any longer would not be for the good of the Common-wealth and that it would be fit for them to resign up their Powers to the Lord General this motion was seconded by several other Members and then the House rose And the Speaker with many Members of the House with the Mace went to Whitehall where they did by a Writing under their hands resign to his Excellency the Powers and Mr. Speaker attended with the Members did present this Resignation of their Powers to his Excellency accordingly The General with his Councel of Officers met where somethings were transacted in order to the settlement of the Government of this Nation Letters of Malignants in the North who bought up Horses and went with them towards Scotland Of Sixteen Horse within five miles of Berwick who seized some Gentlemen and others going to Berwick Fair and took their Horses Money and Clothes and then let them go That they seized upon two Soldiers and disarmed them and then dismissed them and took many Horses The Portugal Ambassadours brother made an Escape out of Newgate but was retaken The Councel of State Published a Declaration against the late Tumult at the New Exchange and forbid all persons of what quality soever to do or abet the like in any Publick place of trade or resort upon pain to be dealt with as disturbers of the Publick Peace whereof a strict account shall be taken and all Osficers to perform their duty for apprehending such Offenders and to prevent the like tumultuous Actions 14 Letters of Three prizes sent into Plymonth That the Sussex Frigot was blown up with her own Powder and about Fifty of her Men at Plymouth That there was an agreement for the Duke of Lorain to exchange his Country for Ireland That the Prince of Conde was to be King of Scotland and King Charles to be King of England onely That Middleton was Transporting from Holland great store of Arms and Ammunition to the High-lands 16 Letters of the Highlanders Levys of Men and Glencorns sending Warrants to adjacent Towns for Cloth Shoes Provisions and Money for his Soldiers or else he will exact it by force That Four of them met an Englishman going to gather up Money and killed him That the Highlanders are One thousand Foot well Armed and Five hundred Horse Of two Prizes brought into Pool by a private Man of War Captain Green That General Monck with his Squadron of Ships was in the Downs The late Parliament having resigned their Powers into the Lord Generals Hands by a Writing under their Hands and Seals The Lord General called a Councel of Officers and advised with them and with other persons of Interest in the Nation How this great burthen of governing England Scotland and Ireland with the Armies therein and the Navy at Sea should be Born and by whom They after several days seeking of God and advising in this Matter Resolved That a Councel of Godly Able and Discreet Persons should be Named consisting of twenty one and that the Lord General should be chosen Lord Protector of the Three Nations His Excellency the General about Three in the Afternoon came from Whitehall to the Chancery Court in this Equipage First went the Commissioners of the Great Seal then the Judges and Barons in their Robes after them the Counsel of the Commonwealth then the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Recorder of London after them the Lord General attended with the chief Officers of the Army a Chair of State was set in the Chancery Court and the General stood on the left hand of it uncovered till a large Writing in Parchment was read Containing the Power with which his Excellency was invested and how he was to Govern the Three Nations and the Oath to be taken by him His Excellency subscribed this Writing in the face of the Court and had the Oath given him by the Lord Commissioner Lisle and after this his Excellency sate down in the Chair covered then the Commissioners delivered up the Great Seal to him and the Lord Mayor his Sword and Cap the which his Excellency returned immediatly again to him then the Court rose and they went back to Whitehall the Lord Mayor himself uncovered carrying the Sword before the Lord Protector and coming into the Banqueting House Mr. Lockier made an Exhortation to them and so the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Judges departed The Instrument which his Excellency Subscribed was in these Words The Government of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland I. THat the Supreme Legislative Authority of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging shall be and reside in One Person and the People assembled in Parliament The Style of which Person shall be Lord PROTECTOR of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland II. That the Exercise of the chief Magistracie and Administration of the Government over the said Countries and Dominions and the People thereof shall be in the Lord PROTECTOR assisted with a Council The Number whereof shall not exceed Twenty one nor be less than Thirteen III. That all Writs Processes Commissions Patents Grants and other things which now run in the Name and Style of the Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament shall run in the Name and Style of the Lord PROTECTOR from whom for the future shall be derived all Magistracie and Honors in these three Nations and shall have the power of Pardons except in Case of Murder and Treason and benefit of all forfeitures for the Publick use And shall govern the said Countries and Dominions in all things by the Advice of the Council and according to these Presents and the Laws IV. That the Lord PROTECTOR the Parliament sitting shall dispose and order the Militia and Forces both by Sea and Land for the peace and good of the three Nations by Consent of Parliament And that the Lord PROTECTOR with the Advice and Consent of the major part of the Council shall dispose and order the Militia for the ends aforesaid in the Intervals of Parliament V. That the Lord PROTECTOR by the Advice aforesaid shall direct in all things concerning the keeping and holding of a good
and his Countenancing Orthodox Ministers and frequenting the publick Ordinances The Sweeds had good Success in Poland and in Muscovia Collonel Harvey committed to the Tower The Swedish Ambassador had Audience and related to the Protector his Masters successes A Paper of the Special Commissioners for Charitable uses read in the Churches in London inviting discoveries Cracovia was Surrendred upon Articles to the King of Sweden The Major-Generals and their several Commissioners met in several Counties to execute their Commissions The Protector and his Councel referred to Sir William Roberts and others the Examination of the Accounts of Collonel Harvey and Collonel Langham upon which they stand Committed The Ratification of the Treaty with the King of France returned by Monsieur de la Bastile the Kings Ambassador under the Kings hand and then the Protector ratified it and it was Sealed with the Great Seal of both Parties A Declaration for a publick Fast A Commission for appointing Justices of the Peace in Scotland Major Rolt arrived in Poland Envoy from the Protector to the King of Sweden A Declaration for a New Assessment The Peace between England and France proclaimed in London The French Ambassador by Invitation dined with the Protector The Swedish Ambassador having often solicited the Protector that Commissioners might be appointed to Treat with him and none being yet appointed he grew somewhat impatient and the more because none of the Grandees would vouchsafe to visit him by reason of a former Order of the long Parliament prohibiting the Conversing with Forreign Ministers neither were they willing that the Ambassador should come to them at which he wondred being so contrary to the Practice in his Countrey December 1655. Instructions published by the Protectors Councel in Scotland for the Justices of Peace in that Kingdom and for Constables and they Order the former Great Seal and Privy Seal there to be brought in The Tories in Ireland brought in the Copy of a Letter from Queen Christiana to the King of Sweden of her declaring her self to be of the Roman Catholick Religion and some Complements to the King Divers Ministers sent for by the Protector whom he acquainted with the Proposals made by Manasseth Ben Israel the Jew and referred them to the Consideration of the Ministers and others A Day of Fast publickly kept The French Ambassador went away A Brest Man of War with Commission from the Duke of York brought in the Queen Christianaes Absolution from the Church of Rome A French Man of War sunk by one of the English Fleet the Peace not being yet known Instructions to the Majors-General to take Security of all who had been in Armes for the King for their Peaceable demeanour and obedience to the Protector Audience to the Envoy of the Duke of Brandenburgh A Conference with Manasseth Ben Israel about admitting the Jewish Nation to Trade in England The Swedish Ambassador had audience The Protestors in Scotland Petitioned with Reasons against the Power of the Civil Magistrate in Church matters as contrary to Law and Scripture The Queen Christiana of Sweden Honourably received at Ferrara Additional Instructions to the Major-Generals Letters of Mr. Mannings being put to death by King Charles at Duynwald for holding Correspondence with those in England He was a Servant to Sir Edward Hyde and shot to death Audience to the Venetian Ambassador No Commissioners being yet come to the Swedish Ambassador he grew into some high expressions of his Sense of the neglect to his Master by this delay which was excused and the Protector made acquainted with it who thereupon promised to have it mended and to send suddenly to the Ambassador Mr. Meadow by Command of the Secretary of State Translated the Sweedish Treaty made by Whitelock January 1655. An Arch-Rebel in Ireland taken A Committee appointed for the business of Piedmont most of the Protectors Councel were of it Orders by the Protectors Councel in Scotland touching Delinquents payment of their Fines The Committee for Piedmont were very careful of the poor Protestants there to send relief to them The Envoy of the Elector of Brandenburgh had private Audience with the Protector Letters of the King of Sweden's prosperous Successes The Major-General and Justices of the Peace in Shropshire made strict orders for the suppressing of Drunkenness and Disorders and of Ale-Houses Players taken in New-Castle and whipt for Rogues The Sheriffs of the Several Counties declared Popish Books burnt in London The King of Sweden had a Son born at Stock-holm he was Baptized Charles Donnah o Derry the Arch Irish Traytor who had Murthered many English was Hanged at Dublin Letters of a Gallant action performed by the English in Jamaica against the Spaniards in the Indies An agreement made between the King of Sweden and the Elector of Brandenburgh The Lord Deputy Fleetwood and Collonel Sydenham told Whitelock that his Highness and the Council had appointed them to acquaint him with a Business of very great importance which is that they considering the present Condition of Affairs did hold it necessary forthwith to send an extraordinary Ambassy to the King of Swedeland about a business of the greatest Consequence and Honour that could be and most conducing to the good of the Protestant cause which was the uniting of that Interest preventing the differences that were likely to fall between that King and the Vnited Provinces and the Elector of Brandenburgh for which ends they had thoughts of Whitelock and Sir Christopher Pack to go to the King as Ambassadors from his Higness Whitelock thought he had enough of Danger and Trouble in his former Ambassy without the least reward or acknowledgment of his Service therein but instead thereof and notwithstanding the Success which God gave him yet at his return home he found Neglects and Slightings and was removed from his place of Commissioner of the Seal and was 500 l. out of Purse upon his Accounts These Considerations stuck with him and made him endeavour by all handsome pretences to be excused that Service And when Collonel Sydenham spake in commendation of Sir Christopher Pack Whitelock replyed that they might send Sir Christopher alone for he did not apprehend a necessity of sending two Ambassadors together They both to that said that the intention of sending Sir Christopher Pack was to manifest the Engagement of the City in this business and in it to put an honour upon them Whitelock alledged also that the King of Sweden's Ambassador here might probably conclude upon the Business intended without sending one from hence to him The Lord Deputy said that the Ambassador here had no Instructions for it Whitelock told him the Ambassador here he believed had instructions sufficient or might have them before Ambassadors could go from hence to Sweden And that to send him now who had been so lately with the same King would give an alarm to all the Popish Princes and
seventeen of his own men Lyme being relieved and the Siege raised the Earl of Warwick went on shore and much wondred that the Works of the Town being so slight and the Enemy so strong that yet the Town should hold out so long and against so many fierce Assaults and yet in the whole Siege the Town lost not above a hundred and twenty men but the Enemy lost two thousand Letters of Thanks were ordered to be written from the Parliament to the Town and two thousand pounds gratuity to be given them and Cloths for the Souldiers General Essex sent a Party to have relieved Lyme but Prince Maurice was gone with all his remaining Forces and the Siege raised before they came The Party sent by the Lord General to relieve Lyme marched from thence to Weymouth which was rendred to them upon terms and all their Ordnance Arms and Ammunition left behind them Prince Rupert took in Leverpoole a Garrison of the Parliaments in Lancashire but they first shipped all their Arms Ammunition and portable Goods and most of the Officers and Souldiers went on Ship-board whilst a few made good the Fort which they rendred to the Prince upon quarter yet were all put to the Sword The Lord General came to Dorchester where divers Western Gentlemen came in to him and among them the Lord Becham Son to the Marquess of Hertford The Queen was brought to Bed of a Daughter at Exeter The Parliament now ordered that the General should continue in the Western Service and Sir William Waller to attend the motions of the King's Army and that the Earl of Denbigh Sir William Brereton Colonel Massey Colonel Mitton and Colonel Rigby and their Forces should joyn with Sir William Waller The Earl of Newcastle desired a Treaty which was admitted and he demanded to march away with Bag and Baggage and Arms and Drums beating and Colourâ—s flying and that all within the Town should have liberty of Conscience the Prebends to enjoy their Places to have Common Prayer Organs Copes Surplices Hoods Crosses c. These things were denied by the Parliaments Generals but they offered the Earl of Newcastle that he and all the Commanders should go forth on horseback with their Swords and the common Souldiers to march out with Staves in their hands and a Months Pay and all else to be left behind them The Enemy desired four or five days time to consider hereof which was granted Taunton Dean was rendred to the Lord General and some other Places in the West where he was The Archbishop was again brought to his Tryal and the Matters insisted on against him were His introducing of Popery and Arminianism The Lords sent to the Commons that they could not consent to the Ordinance for secluding the Members of both Houses who had deserted the Parliament because they had already voted the Readmission of the Earl of Holland And the Commons referred it to a Committee to consider of some Expedient as to the Case of the Earl of Holland A Committee of Lawyers was appointed for sequestring and selling the Chambers in the Inns of Court belonging to malignant Lawyers The General by his Letters from Dorchester informs the Parliament that the Country thereabouts generally declared themselves for the Parliament and had furnished his Army with plenty of provisions The Lord Canoule a Scot Master of the Horse to the King came in and submitted himself to the Lord General The King left his Foot at Worcester and from thence went with two thousand Horse to Evesham where he took the Mayor and divers Aldermen of the Town and carried them with him prisoners to Oxford and brake down the Bridges after them as they passed to hinder Sir William Waller's pursuit of them they likewise burnt down many houses in the Suburbs of Worcester the better to secure the City and the like they did at Oxford and also at Abington The Siege continued before Basing-house but those that were before Greenland-house thought not fit upon the King 's coming back to Oxford to continue any Siege to Greenland-house till they might have the Forces of Major General Brown to joyn with them An Ordinance passed to impower the Committee of Oxon Berks and Bucks to raise Forces and Money to pay them and they to be under Brown's Command Troubles were in the Virginia Plantation The Archbishop was again brought to his Tryall and the same points of Popery and Arminianism urged against him and as a proof thereof the Remonstrance of the House of Commons in Parliament in the year 1628. Sir Richard Onsley's Regiment came to assist Colonel Norton lying before Basing-house to whom and to Colonel Morley the Commons sent a Letter of thanks At Weymouth the Lord General took a hundred pieces of Ordnance two thousand Musquets a thousand Swords Arms Pistols Powder and about sixty of great and small Vessels The General sent parties to Dartmouth VVareham and other places The Lord Viscount L'Isle had allowed him 1000 l. upon account of the Irish Service Plymouth Garrison sent out parties who beat up the Enemies quarters and at one time took forty and at another time a hundred and fifty horse and prisoners A Ship with Letters to the Parliament from Scotland and two other Ships loaden with Coals for London put in at Harwich and there cast Anchor and the Mariners went on shore leaving none aboard the Ships to guard them In the mean time came into the harbour a Pinnace of the King 's carrying the Parliament Colours and finding these Ships without any Guard boarded them and carried them clear away Westward The King marched from Oxford towards Bedford and several parties of his Army did very much spoil as they marched in Bucks Bedford and Hertfordshires they plundred Leighton and at Dunstable when the people were at Church they shot at the Minister in the Pulpit and committed many outrages there and in many other places Major General Brown marched out with his Forces to Barnet and from thence to St. Albans where the Forces of the Associated Counties are to meet him and the Commons took care for the supply of all of them Sir Thomas Fairfax and Major General Lesley were sent from the Leaguer before York with six thousand Horse and Dragoons and five thousand Foot to relieve Lancashire and to attend the motions of Prince Rupert Colonel Charles Fairfax sent to assist the Scots party at Sunderland beat back the Earl of Montross Musgrave and the rest into Newcastle and the Earl of Calender with a reserve of ten thousand Scots entred England to assist the Parliament The Commons took order touching the Prerogative Court and appointed Sir Nathaniel Brent to be the Judge of that Court. Letters of thanks were sent to the Lord General for his good Service and upon a Petition of the Western Gentlemen that he might continue in the Service there it was so ordered and an Ordinance appointed for the impowering a Committee of the
Aldermen and Common Council of London expressing how much the City was unsatisfyed and jealous of the listing of Horse and Foot under Major General Skippon and praying that no more may be listed unless by him and the Militia of London and that those already listed under him may be disbanded The House ordered a Committee to conferre with the Common Council about this matter and the grounds and reasons of this jealousie to be reported to the House the Lords gave great satisfaction to the Petitioners adding in their answer that they would live and dye with the Petitioners Letters from Lambert with intelligence that some additional Forces were coming to the Scots and desiring more Forces to be hastened to him the House sent the Letters to Lieutenant General Cromwel with orders for him to expedite his march North-wards News that Scarborough Castle was revolted and that the Prince was in the Downs and had not yet landed any men and that one of the Prince his Frigats was taken near Margarts by some of Sir Michael Liveseys Troups with the assistance of a Boat and two Sea-men 31. Votes for pay of arrears to the Northern Officers disbanded upon discovery of concealed money due to the State An Ordinance committed for the better regulating of the Estates of Papists and Delinquents Upon a Petition from the out-parts not to be joyned with the Militia of London the House thanked them for their constant affections and good service and referred them to attend the Committee in this business Referred to the same Committee to consider of the great abuses mentioned in their Petition for joyning of the Militias An Ordinance past the Commons for money for Armes and Ammunition Another for a Troup of Horse to be raised for the Isle of Ely and for seventy pounds a week to be raised in that Island to maintain the Troup The Letters and Commission taken in Captain Greens Frigat reported to the House and ordered to be communicated to the Common Council of London were to this effect Letters from Dublin of a difference between Preston and Owen Roe that they fought and Preston killed five hundred of Roes men and lost a hundred of his own men That the Lord of Ormond was expected at Corke upon whose coming thither was intended a General revolt in that Kingdom that a Combination of the Lord Grandison Sir Jo. Giffard Colonel Willoughby and divers others of quality to surprise Dublin City and Castle was detected and some of the Plotters imprisoned The Prince his Commission to Captain Green was thus Charles Prince of Great Britain Duke of Cornwal and Albany Highest Captain General under his Majesty of all Forces both by Sea and Land within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick c. He constitutes Green Captain and chief commander of a Ship and gives him power to do or cause to be done to the Rebels all possible damage and hostility in their Shipping Commerce and Navigation and to take and apprehend sink and fire or otherwise to impair and destroy their Ships Vessels men and goods and all things belonging to them or any that assist them c. Given at S. Germain en lay the 6 of June 1648. Letters to Sir Alexander Gibson in Scotland from one in London to this effect That in London they are generally right only Skippon makes some disturbance by Listing of Horse and Foot but that more are Listed for the King and a Petition framing in the City and the Lords have done something in it to incourage the Kings Friends I shall referre you to T. Hamilton for the business in the West for that in the North is ours already And Colonel Matthew Boynton shall be sainted 291. is not yet ready to be dispatched for Colchester which can hold out yet a month I hope you had mine of the unfortunate success of H. the Earl of Holland c. Letters from New-Castle of about four hundred Scots unarmed come for supplies to Duke Hamilton that the cry is very great of the People of Berwick Cumberland and Westmorland being turned out of all by the Scots who with wives and Children take possession the English choose rather to wander than endure such oppressions Letters from Lamberts quarters that about thirty Troups of General Cromwels Horse were joyned with Lambert that they had some bickerings with the Scots Scouts and beat them to their Guards that the English Army is much increased by Nottingham Leicester and Derby Forces August 1648. 1. Order to remove the Governor of Tâ—â—tershal Castle An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for levying of Forces in the County of Middlesex Report of the Conference with the Common Council that they were very sensible of the high favours in the Houses condescending so low to give them reasons for their Actions in Parliament and gave the House most Humble thanks for the same But withal the House were acquainted with an Act of Declaration of Common Council passed last Night for Listing of Horse by the Militia of London which was referred to the Committee to treat with the Militia about the same Order for printing the intercepted Letters going to Scotland and the Prince his Commission to Captain Green Debate of a Letter to be sent from both Houses to the Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland acquainting them how far the House hath proceeded in setling the Government of the Church and how they have been obstructed therein by the Risings in several parts of the Kingdom and by the marching of an Army of Scots in this Nation the draught of the Letter was committed Order that Major Rolfe should be bayled and Colonel Lilburne released from his imprisonment and for a Conference with the Lords about the same and a Committee named to consider how Colonel Lilburne may have satisfaction for his sufferings The Lords concurred with the Commons to treat with the King in the Isle of Wight and to an Order to send Major General Mitton into North-Wales to suppresse the Insurrections there The danger of Langer-Fort and of Loving-Land referred to the General Letters sent to several Counties about speedy payment of the Assessments of the Army Report of the Lord Riches House in Devon being taken by a Party of the Kings Letters from Colchester Leaguer that those within are very quiet that two demy-Cannons planted against S. Marys Church after a few shot brought down a great part of the steeple and the Ordnance mounted upon it and buried them in the heaps of rubbish 2. Order for a Troup of Horse and a Company of Foot to be added to the Garrison at Dover and for a hundred and twenty men to be added to the Garrison of Lonway Castle Order for Major Wildman who was committed with Lieutenant Colonel Lilburne to be discharged of his imprisonment Ordinance transmitted for an imposition upon Coals Grindstones Salt c. Both Houses agreed on these Votes 1. That a Message be sent to
to him A Committee appointed to consider how every County may maintain a proportionable number of the Scots Prisoners and to treat with Merchants about transporting them to forreign service Order for the Lord Grey to dispose of Duke Hamilton into safe custody till the House take further order and to keep in strong custody all the Officers then Prisoners in such places and Castles as he should think fit Letters from Colchester that the Town was surrendered according to Articles all Prisoners at Mercy the Town preserved from plunder paying fourteen thousand pounds That by the resolution of a Council of War Sir Charles Lucas Sir George L'Isle and Sir Marmaduke Gascoigne a Papist were to be shot to death That the two first were executed and the third respited That Sir Charles Lucas urged this was to be without precedent but a Parliament Souldier standing by told him that he had put to death with his own hand some of the Parliaments Souldiers in cold blood at which he was dismaid but took better courage afterwards before he died That Sir George L' Isle kissed his dead friend and then after much expostulation and discourse first with the General his Chaplain then by his own desire with one of the Lord Norwich his Chaplains and some private prayers with him Sir George died both he and Sir Charles Lucas with very much courage 30. The publick Fast-day The House passed an Ordinance for the Discipline of the English in new England 31. Votes for several persons named by the King to have leave to attend his Majesty during the Treaty only M r Dowcet and M r Legge disapproved of Order for Instructions to be prepared for the Commissioners who are to treat and for mony for their charges Order that Colonel Farre Lieutenant Colonel to the Earl of Warwick who ingaged ten thousand men of the Train'd Bands of Essex to joyn with the Enemy should be left to the Lord Fairfax to be executed as Sir Charles Lucas was A Committee appointed to confer with M r Moâ—bot about suppressing of scandalous Pamphlets and to bring in an Ordinance for that purpose Letter from the General of the particulars of the Surrender of Colchester and a Copy of the Articles with the explanations upon them That for some Satisfaction to Military Justice and in part of avenge for the innocent blood they had caused to be spilt and the trouble dammage and mischiefs they had brought upon that Town that County and Kingdom He had with the advice of a Council of War of the chief Officers both of the County Forces and the Army caused two of them who were rendred to mercy Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George L' Isle to be shot to death before any of them had quarter assured them and hopes the Parliament will not find cause in the Military execution of these two persons to think their own honour or justice prejudiced That as for the Lord Goring Lord Capel and the rest of the persons rendred to mercy and now assured of quarter whose names he sent in a List he did render to the Parliaments judgement for publick Justice and mercy to be used as they should see cause he desires that God may have the glory of his multiplied mercies In the List of the Prisoners were the Earl of Norwich Lord Capell Lord Loughborough eleven Knights nine Colonels eight Lieutenant Colonels nine Majors thirty Captains general Officers servants of the Lords and Gentlemen sixty five Lieutenants seventy two Ensigns and Cornets sixty nine Sergeants one hundred eighty three private Souldiers three thousand sixty seven Letters from Southampton that the Grand Jury found the Bill against Major Rolphe Ignoramus A Petition of the Common Council of London for Vnity and Amity between the Parliament the City and the Army approved of and thanks given to the Petitioners A Ship sent from the Prince to Garnsey taken by one of the Parliaments Ships September 1648. 1. An Ordinance for stating the accounts of Souldiers and Widows ordered to be Printed and published A place to be appointed for the Auditours Care for Augmentations for Ministers The five Commissioners for the Treaty named by the Lords were The Earl of Pembroke the Lord Say Earl of Salisbury Earl of Middlesex and the Earl of Northumberland The ten Commissioners of the House of Commons were M r Holles Lord Wenman M r Pierrepoint Sir Henry Vane junior Sir Harbottle Grimstone Mr. Samuel Brown Mr. Crew Mr. Recorder Glyn Sir John Potts and Mr. Bulkeley 2. A Letter agreed to his Majesty to acquaint him with the Commissioners named to attend him in the Treaty and that they should be dispatched to him with all convenient speed Sir Peter Killigrew sent away with this Message An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for payment of fifty thousand pounds part of the last hundred thousand pounds formerly ordered for the Scots forty thousand pounds of it for the Navy seven thousand pound for Stores and three thousand pound for the pay of the Lancashire Forces A long debate about the Militia One thousand of the Prisoners taken at Colchester sent up to London Mr. Lilly's Astrological Predictions for the years 1648 49 and 50. published 4. Both Houses agreed for those servants of his Majesty who are to attend him during the Treaty And they passed an Ordinance to inable the Commissioners to treat with his Majesty upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton-Court Those in the late insurrection in Essex c. admitted to a Composition at a fourth Value of their Estates Mr. Rolphe delivered his Remonstrance in the Lords House against the Judges and against his prosecutours and desired reparation the House ordered his discharge Lieutenant Colonel Lilburn desired reparation for the Sentences against him in the Star-chamber Order for the Committee to take care for transporting the Scots Prisoners in the first place to supply Plantations and the rest to send to Venice In a Vessel at Exeter one thousand five hundred pair of Carabins being found Order for Securing them till the matter be examined Both Houses agreed upon a day of publick Humiliation to desire a blessing upon the Treaty with his Majesty Colonel Hammonds Instructions for safe keeping his Majesty in Carisbrook Castle repealed The Colonel taking the Kings own ingagement for his going abroad in the Island Order for the Committee of the revenue to provide horses for the King to ride about the Island Upon Colonel Hammonds desire of an addition of Horse and Foot during the Treaty referred to the General and Committee of the Army and his desire for Shipping to ly about the Island referred to the Committee of the Army to prepare them The Forces of Suffolk and Essex had a rendezvous with the Army and after shaking hands and many Vollies of Shot they bid one another farewel Some Regiments marched towards Tarmouth The Lords that were Prisoners with two men a piece and twelve other
as both shall agree to stand with the Laws of Ireland 13. That the Council table meddle only with State matters 14. Act against transporting wooll to be null 15. Those wronged by grants to have relief 16. Wronged persons to have right 17. Restitution of Estates 18. An Act of oblivion to pass 19. Customs not to be farmed and Monopolies to be taken away 20. The Court of Castle-Chamber to be regulated 21. Acts forbidding ploughing with Horses by the tayl and burning Oats in the Straw to be nulled 22. An Act to take off grievances 23. Maritime causes to be determined in Ireland 24. No rents to be raised under pretence of defective titles 25. Interest money to be for given from 1641. 26. All this to be acted till a Parliament agree it 27. That the Catholick Commissioners agree upon such as shall be Justices of Peace and hear all causes under ten pound 28. All Governours of Forts to be by approbation of the Catholick Commissioners 29. None of the Kings rents to be paid till a further settlement by Parliament 30. Power of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer 31. Differences in Ireland to be tryed there and not in England 32. The Roman Clergy not to be molested 33. That his Majesty grant whatever else is necessary for the Catholicks Prince Rupert was upon the Irish coast with sixteen Ships many vessels were taken by him A Petition to the General and his General Council of War from the well affected Inhabitants of Lincolnshire much to the same effect with others lately presented to him and to the Parliament and which are before mentioned Two men measuring some ground in Windsor forest were asked by what Authority they did it they showed a kind of Warrant from Lieutenant General Cromwell desiring all Officers of the forest Souldiers and others to permit these men to set out some Land c. in regard there was no Justice in Eyre It were to be wished that such men as Lieutenant General Cromwell would not so irregularly meddle with such matters as these are the men were forbidden to make any divisions of the Land or ditches about it till further order 27. A Declaration passed that a Book lately published entituled the second Part of Englands new Chains discovered contained matter false Scandalous Seditious Mutinous and tending to raise a new War that the Authors and publishers of it were guilty of Treason and referred to the Council to find them out Anno 1649 Letters from Major General Lambert with the Articles of the surrender of Pontefract Castle A Letter and Petition from the Grand Jury of Yorkshire acknowledging with humble thanks the justice of the Parliament in their late proceedings and ingaging to joyn with them and desiring Pontefract Castle may be demolished and some other Forts thereabouts Vote for three hundred pounds per annum to be setled on Major General Lambert out of Pontefract honour for his good service The Lancashire Forces submitted to disband and quitted Clithero Castle Order for that Castle to be demolished and that the Council of State consider what other Inland Castles are fit to be demolished Sir Henry Cholmely sent for upon complaints against him Instructions for the Scots Commissioners to their new King were 1. That he take the Covenant 2. To put from him all who have assisted his Father in the War particularly Montross else not to Treat with him 3. To bring but one hundred with him into Scotland and none who have assisted his Father in Arms. 4. To bring no Forces into Scotland from other Nations without their consent Marquess Huntley was beheaded at the Cross in Edenburgh Letters from the Hague that the Queen of England invited Prince Charles her son into France that the States inhibited their Ministers from insisting upon matters of State and in their Pulpits and particularly not to meddle with Englands or other Kingdom 's proceedings 28. Upon a Report from the Council of State of the particulars for incouragement of those who shall ingage for Ireland with Lieutenant General Cromwell the House referred them back again to the Council to perfect Upon a Report from them of the Earl of Ormond's proclaiming the King in Ireland c. the House voted the Earl a Traitour and an Act to be brought in to attaint him Order for a Letter of thanks to Colonel Jones and a gratuity Order that no Ministers shall teach in their Pulpits any thing relating to State affairs but only to preach Christ in sincerity and an Act to be brought in for penalties to those who shall do otherwise Orders for money given away A new day given to the Lord Mayor to conform to the order for proclaiming the Act against King-ship or to give an account to the House why he hath not done it 29. The House sate not The Council of State upon examination of Lilburn Walwyn and others who owned the Book called England's new chains did commit them to the Tower The Estates of the Netherlands summoned and examined their Ministers and disallowed what they had done in relation to King Charles II. And forbad them all to meddle with State matters in their Pulpits without leave of the Magistrate The Council of State perfected the particulars for incouragement of those who shall ingage for Ireland and Lieutenant General Cromwell declared himself willing to undertake that service 30. Vote that Gresham Colledge be not exempted from the assessment to the Army nor the Doctors in Doctors Commons nor the Counties in Wales formerly exempted Order that the Speaker do sign such Letters as shall be thought fit by the Council of State to the States of Hamburgh touching Merchants Upon a Petition of the Borough of Southwark of the inequality of their rates with the County of Surrey the House held their desires just and Ordered that in all future rates they should pay the eight part of that assessed upon the County of Surrey Order for the Committee of Goldsmiths Hall to form the Votes concerning compositions of Delinquents and to have them printed and published that none may plead ignorance of them Referred to the Committee of the Army to make provision of four thousand Cassocks and breeches to be disposed of by the General to his Foot Souldiers in regard of the smallness of their pay Upon the Report of Alderman Atkins that the Lord Mayor desired to be excused from proclaiming the Act for abolishing Kingly Government the House Ordered that he be summoned to attend at the Bar to answer his contempt and disobedience herein 31. Upon a Report from the Council of State that Lieutenant General Cromwell accepted of the service for Ireland and would endeavour to the utmost of his power with Gods assistance to carry on that work against the Rebels and all that adhere to them Voted that the House doth approve of Lieutenant General Cromwell to be Commander in chief of all the
He answered That it was against several Oaths which he had taken as an Alderman of London and against his Judgement and Conscience Alderman Chambers being asked the same Question answered That his Heart did not go along in that Business Sir Thomas was disabled from being a Member of the House and disfranchised from being an Alderman or to bear any publique Office And Alderman Chambers was disabled from being an Alderman or to bear any publique Office 2 An Act passed for sale of the Goods of the late King Queen and P. but the sale of the Pictures was respited An Act passed for doubling upon the publique Faith upon Sale of Deanes and Chapters Lands Orders for the Commissioners of the Seal to issue out Writs to make Mr. Warburton C. Rigby and Mr. Ask Serjeants at Law they being to be made Judges Order for the Councel of State to bestow a House and Maintenance for Mrs. Elkinea and her Children 4 Upon a Report from the Committee of absent Members C. Russel Mr. Edwards Mr. Fr. Gourdon Mr. Hodges and Mr. Ellis were readmitted to sit in the House Petitions of many poor Prisoners for Debt that the Act may be passed for their relief An Act Published of the grounds of the next day of Publique thanksgiving A Declaration of the Officers and Soldiers of C. Hortons Regiment testifying their Adherance to the Parliament and to the General presented to his Excellency The like from M. G. Skippons Regiment and from the Town of Portsmouth Letters from Scotland that a Declaration was brought from Ireland thither against Parliament of England that at their thanksgiving the Ministers vehemently preached against the Malignants and Sectaries Letters from Chester that Dublin is in a good Condition that one of the Souldiers by sentence of the Councel of War was shot to death for moving one of his Fellows to run away to the Enemy and that Prince Rupert and Inchequin are at great Difference and so are Owen Row and Ormond Letters from Holland that the Danish Ambassador desired to borrow of the States a great Sum of Mony for the King of Scotland and offered the Sundt Security for it That at the Diet at Sweden it was resolved to assist the King of Scotland with Mony That the Lord Cottington and Sir Edward Hyde Ambassadors from the King of Scotland desired audience of his highness Leopoldus and from thence were to go for Spain 5 C. Popham one of the Generals at Sea reported to the House the good Service of the Fleet the Relief of Dublin with Provisions that Sir George Ascue is left there with some Ships that 15 of Prince Ruperts Ships are blocked up in Kinsale and desired speedy Supplyes for the Navy The House ordered Supplies accordingly and thanks to the Generals at Sea and to C. Jones and that these Successes at Sea should be remembred in the Day of thanksgiving The Councel of State gave order for Flemish Ships to transport the Horse into Ireland and for the Regiments to march to Chester and other Ports and not to stay above one night in a place Letters from Sir George Askue that he had furnished Dublin with Provisions and sent others to Sir Charles Coote and had blocked Prince Ruperts Ships at Kingsale Letters that the L. Rea and 20 other Prisoners were brought to Edenborough 6 A new Mace with the Arms of England and Ireland instead of the Kings Arms approved and delivered to Serjeant Birkhead to be used for the House and all other Maces for the Commonwealth to be of that Form Vote for 3000 l. to be given to Mr. Blackstons Wife and Children in respect of his Losses and 500 l. to his Brother out of the L. of Newcastles and L. Widdringtons Estates Order for Captain Bishop Provost Marshal to apprehend suspected Persons and to have 100 l. per annum Salary and 12 Men at one shilling per diem a piece Order for 1000 l. for a Stock to settle poor People to work Upon a Report from the Councel of State ordered that when the Speaker with the House came into the City the Lord Mayor should deliver up to him the Sword as he used to do to the King and that at the Feast the Speaker should sit above the Lord Mayor and referred it to the Councel of State to order matters of Ceremony at the Meeting Letters that the Queen of Sweden had furnished the King of Scors with great store of Ammunition A Declaration of the Officers and Souldiers of Colonel Reynolds his Regiment to the same Effect with those of other Regiments 7 The Speaker with the House of Commons the General with the Officers of the Army the L. President and Councel of State after the hearing of two Sermons went to Grocers-Hall to dine with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Councel according to their Invitation The Speaker sat first next to him the Lord Mayor then the Lord General then the Earl of Pembroke called to Whitelock to sit down being the antient Commissioner of the great Seal he desired his Lordship would be pleased first to sit down and then he would sit by him With that the Earl spake aloud as he used to do that all near him might hear What do you think that I will fit down before you I have given place heretofore to Bishop Williams to my Lord Coventry and my Lord Littlet on And you have the same place that they had and as much honour belongs to the place under a Common-wealth as under a King and you are a Gentleman as well born and bred as any of them therefore I will not sit down before you With his earnestness he caused Whitelock to sit down before him and sat himself the next to him and then the Lord President of the Councel and the other Commissioners of the great Seal the Earl of Satisbury and the Lord Howard sate next to the Earl of Pembroke and after the Commissioners of the Seal sate Lieutenant General Cromwel and other Members of Parliament and of the Councel of State At two Tables on each side of the Hall sate other Members and at a Table in the middle of the Hall sate M. G. Lambert and other Officers of the Army the Judges sate in a Room over the Parlour which was very large and the Lord Mayor Aldermen and some Common Councel men at another Table in the same Room The Musick was only Drums and Trumpets the Feast was very sumptuous no Healths drunk nor any Incivility passed and besides the overplus of the Victuals left at Dinner 400 l. was given to the poor of London 8 An Act past for settling Maintenance upon the Ministry of the Nation Report touching Relief for maimed Souldiers Widdows and Orphans of Souldiers slain Referred to the Committee of Oxford to prefer Mr. Thomas Goodwyn and Mr. Owen to be heads of Colledges in that University and that they have the hearty thanks of the House for their Sermons yesterday Some Members
Lands and Revenues of the King Queen and Prince and securing thereby the Arreares of the Souldiery again debated and Committed A Petition from the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Councel of London acquainting the House that one of the Members thereof Alderman Wilson was elected one of the Sherriffs and desired the leave of the House that he might serve according to his Election Upon the Question it was voted to be left to Alderman Wilson to except thereof if he should think fit and that the house would look upon it as an acceptable service to the Common-wealth if he would serve therein according to the election and desire of the City Alderman Wilson being very fit for that place and freely elected to it and a Conscientious worthy Person considering the Affection of the City and that God had blessed him and his Father with the gaining a plentiful Fortune in that place thought it fit for him to spend some of it and to undergo the Trouble of the place for the Honour and Service of the City A Petition of the well affected in Lancashire to the Officers of the Army reciting the Order of the Councel of State for demolishing Lancaster Castle shewing the danger thereof to the well affected praying them to be a Meanes to the General and to the Councel that it may not be done 14 Debate all day upon the Act for sale of the Kings Lands c. and Order to meet on Munday at 6 a Clock in the morning for the dispatch of this Act that the Souldiery may see the care of the Parliament for securing their Arreares before they go into Ireland Order giving further time for doubling upon the purchase of Deanes and Chapters Lands 16 An Act passed for sale of the Crown Lands to secure the Arrears of the Souldiery Order for allowing 3000 l. to Mr. John Brown Clerk of the Lords House for his Losses and referred to a Committee how to raise it Referred to the Councel of State to examine a Mutiny of the reduced Souldiers at York and to punish the Mutineers A Petition from South Wales that when Collonel Horton with his Regiment shall be drawn from thence to Ireland C. Martin or who the House shall think fit may be their Commander in Chief and they will pay his Forces Referred to the General to take care of South-Wales and the Petitioners had thanks for their good Affections Letters that the Fleet before Kingsale took a Vessel of Prince Ruperts of 11 Guns and in her Captain Leg and Sir Hugh Windham Captain Darcy and 60 Men and Ammunition That Captain Ball took a Holland Man of War of 30 Guns loaden with Stuffes and Provisions for Prince Rupert and Maurice and sent her up to the State Letters that Tredah holds out against Ormond who puts the English into Garrisons and keeps the Catholicks and the Irish in the Field to fight That Captain Jones out of Dublin fell upon Ormonds Quarters took 200 Horse killed and took 140 Men without the Loss of one Man cut their Tents and retreated to Dublin whither 4000 Quarters of Corn were brought in from Chester That the Lieutenant of Ireland was entertained with great Honour at Bristol and the Country came in great multitudes to see him that he lay there for a Wind. 17 The Act passed touching Coynes Upon a Report from the Conncel of State who had consulted therein with the General the House Voted That when the Councel should see Cause for the safty of the Common Wealth they might make an Addition of Forces both Horse and Foot to be in readiness to take the Field and march with the standing Army and they to have Pay only while they should be in Service Indemnity given to some well affected Justices of the Peace of Surrey who were sued for some things irregularly done by them Orders of Reference to Lords the Commissioners of the Seal touching Coynes Letters from Scotland that they resolve to levy a considerable Army forthwith and as they say for their own Defence Letters that Collonel Reynolds Regiment of Horse and Collonel Venable's and Collonel Hunks's Regiments of Foot were ready to be shiped Letters from Dublin that the Enemy fiercely assaulced Tredah but were beaten off with the Loss of 2000 Men that the Governour went forth with a Party of about 200 Horse and about 1500 Foot into the Enemies Camp brought away 200 of their Horse with some Bread Beer Fruit and Sack but are in great want of Provisions and can receive none from Dublin 18 Vote to discharge Mr. Abbot from being Register of the Prerogative Court and Mr. Oldsworth and Mr. Parker to have Patents for that Office Referred to a Committee to consider what to do concerning Ecclesiastical Offices and Courts An Act Passed for a Collection for the Propagation of the Gospel in New-England Leave given to Lieutenant Collonel Lilbourn to visit his sick Wife and Family Letters that Sir Charles Coot sent forth Captain St. John and Captain Taylor out of London Derry who fell upon the Enemies Quarters slew divers of them and took many Prisoners A Declaration passed in answer to the Letter from the Parliament of Scotland to vindicate the Proceedings of the Parliament of England 19 Order for the Printing and Publishing the Act declaring what Offences shall be adjudged Treason Several Orders passed relating to particular Persons and not of publick Concernment 20 Order for the Committee of Accounts to allow the Certificates of the several Sub-Commissioners for Accounts in the respective Counties Referred to the Commissioners of the Seal to consider how Monies may be raised for the Repair of Marlborough-Bridge Referred to the Committee of the Army to confer with the General and Officers of his Army how free Quarter may be totally taken off and the late Act passed for that end be put in effectual Execution and to give an Account thereof to the Councel of State Letters from Bristol from the Lieutenant of Ireland about Supplies for his Forces referred to the Committee of the Army Order for 500 l. for Mrs. Farrer of her Husbands Arrears Mr. Fell made Second Judge of Chester and the L. President Bradshaw made Chief Justice of Chester Order for 4000 l. to be paid to divers who were Labourers in Scotland Yard to his late Majesty Attourney General Prideaux moved the House in the behalf of the Lords Commissioners Whitelock and Lisle that they may have the Duke of Bucks House as a conveniency of their being together for their Service of the Seal and that they might have a Lease for 21 Years of that House The Parliament very freely ordered what Mr. Attourney desired and referred it to the Committee of Haberdashers Hall to set the Rent for it which they did the same day at 40 l. per annum and no more because of the great Charge they should be put to in the repair of it it being much ruined by the Quartering of Souldiers in it 21 Letters from Plymonth of Collonel
great Victory That an Act be brought in for settling 1000 l. per annum Land upon Lieutenant General Jones and his Heirs that thanks be sent to him and the rest for that good Service That the Councel of State prepare the Letter of thanks to be signed by the Speaker and do take into consideration the Request of Lieutenant General Jones for continuing Sir George Askue Vice Admiral of the Irish Seas That it be referred to the Trustees for Sale of the Kings Goods to choose 6 of the best Horses in Tilbury Race for Lieutenant General Jones as a Gratuity from the House That 200 l. be given to Captain Otway who brought the Letters The Petitions of the Brewers referred to the Committee of Excise and they to bring in a new Model for the Excise The Act passed for the more speedy collecting of the Excise Order for some Pentions to be continued to Souldiers Wives And for some scandalous Prmphlets and their Authors to be examined and punished and that Mr. Caughton a London Minister now in Prison be discharged Letters from Chester that Ormond was rallied to 12000 Men and had taken in some Forts Letters from Cardiffes That divers of the Lieutenant of Irelands Souldiers went away from him That C. Cooks Regiment was in a great Mutiny at Minehed and many of them went away but the Captain appeased the Mutiny and forced his Men on Ship Board 15 A Petition of the Earl and Countess of Thommond touching a debt from the Earl of Peterborough referred to a Committee An Act passed for settling 2000 l. per annum upon the Lord President Bradshaw another for 1000 l. per annum upon C. Martin out of Eynsham Another for 2000 l. per annum upon M. G. Skippon The Act published for the Composition of the Delinquents of North-Wales for 24000 l. Letters from Ireland that the Parliament having sent some Corn and 200 Souldiers to London Derry and two of Sir Charles Coots Brothers beingcome to him with 700 Horse he sallyedout of the Town and scoured the Countrey for 7 Miles on all sides of the City took many Cows and Prisoners and killed all whom he found in Arms then returned to Derry 16 A Petition from the General and his Councel of Officers to the House praying First That all penal Statutes formerly made and late Ordinances whereby many Conscientious People are molested and the Propagation of the Gospel hindered may be removed 2 That it is not their meaning that the Liberty desired by them should extend to the tolleration of Popery Prelacy the Book of Common Prayer publick Scorn and Contempt of God and his Word But desire that all open Acts of Profaneness or Drunkenness Swearing Vncleanness and the like be vigorously proceeded against and punished in all Persons whatsoever 3 That upon the Sense of the late great Mercy in Ireland they would extend Favour to those in restraint who have formerly served them and this Nation against the Common Enemy and for the future all disturbers of the publick Peace to be vigorously proceeded against 4 That speedy Consideration may be had of the great Oppressions by reason of the multiplicity of unnecessary Laws with their Intricacies and Delayes which tends to the profit of some particular men but much to the Expence and Dammage of the whole C. Goffe and Pride and other Officers who presented this Petition were called in to the Bar and the Speaker by command of the House gave them thanks for their constant good Affections and in particular for this Petition Acquainting them that the House had the things desired already under consideration and that this Petition should hasten the granting the same with all possible speed and Convenience Then it was voted That all penal Statutes and Ordinances whereby many Conscientious People are much molested and the Propagation of the Gospel hindred may be removed and referred to the Committee for bringing in an Act for ease of tender consciences to bring in the Act according to this Debate And referred it to a Committee who are to bring in an Act of Pardon to comprize herein the three proposals of this Petition And referred to the Committee concerning the Laws of the Land to consider of the 4th Proposal of this Petition The Act passed for paying 3500 l. to the Widdow of Mr. Blackstone a Member of the House An Order for Mr. Hall Attourny of the Dutchy to have the priviledge to plead within the Bar. The like Order was made for Mr. Steel and also to be freed from his Reading Order for Mr. Stevens a Member of the House and a common Lawyer to be made Judge of the Admiralty for which place he was not very fit A Declaration and Narrative past of the Grounds and Reasons for setting apart a day of publick Thanksgiving 17 Debate of the Act for Payment of the Arreares of C. Thornhaugh deceased Order for the Serjeants Men to disperse the Copies of the Act for the Thanksgiving Day and referred to the Councel of State to consider how the House may be eased of this trouble for the future and to give order for the dispersing of Papers upon the like Occasions The accounts of C. Willoughby referred to be audited A Petition of Mariners referred to a Committee An Act passed for settling 1000 l. per annum upon Lieutenant General Jones Order for an Act to settle 500 l. per annum out of the Irish Rebels Lands upon Sir Charles Coot An Act past for the Payment of their Arrears to the English Officers in Ireland for their former Services in England The House adjourned for three Days 18 Letters of confirmation of raising the Seige before London Derry by Sir Charles Cootes Brother in which Service many of the Enemy were taken Prisoners and divers slain Letters from Chester That C. Jones was again gone out of Dublin to besiege Drogheda that Ormond had dismounted most of the Irish for not fighting and had turned all the English out of Trym Castle That the Lord Lientenant of Ireland was imbarqued with his Army The House being adjourned Mr. Speaker Commissioner Keeble Mr. Chute Mr. Adams Mr. Steel and Mr. Whitelock by appointment met in the morning at Mr. Attourney General 's where they conferred together about the making new Rules for Reformation of the Proceedings in Chancery and agreed upon some general Points which they referred to some of the Company to draw up into Form 20 Letters to the Councel of State of the imbarquing of the Lieutenant of Ireland on Munday last and of Commiss G. Ireton on the Wednesday after with a great Fleet that nevertheless they left 3 Regiments behind for want of Shipping That the English Ships were very forward for the Voyage and so were the Flemish Bottomes when their Money was punctually paid them That no Provision was wanting for the Transportation of this Army and there is a considerable stock of Money with plenty of Ammunition That the
and confiscation of his Estate They also voted that Mr. Walter Montague shall depart this Nation within 10 Dayes and not to return without leave of the House upon pain of Death and confiscation of his Estate and that this Vote be sent to him Ordered that the Commissions formerly granted by the King and his privy Councel to Mr. Mayo and others for apprehending of convicted Recusants be renewed The House declared That if any after the publishing of these Votes shall harbour or conceal the Bodies of Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Montague their Estates shall be Sequestred Order for these Votes to be Printed and proclaimed in the City Referred to the Councel of State to take care for the apprehending of Sir John Winter he having stayed beyond the time formerly granted to him This being Fryday the House adjourned till next Tuesday September 1649. Sep. 1 This day the House did not sit Letters of some of the Train Horse and a Regiment of Foot designed for Ireland yet behind and Shipping expected for them Letters of a Ship in Weymouth Harbour that by the late fierce Thunder and Lightning there had her main Mast rent from the top to the bottom in 40 pieces and the Missen Mast quite hurled out of its place and so broken that if she had been at Sea it would have sunk her 3 Letters giving an account of the Parliaments Ships before Kingsale and proposals for a winter Guard and that Prince Rupert hanged 10 of his Men for offering to go away from him Letters that in Scotland they are framing new Letters to be sent to their King putting him in mind of the Covenant but for his parting with Malignants a few will serve their turn and if he saitsfy the Kirk he then becomes a godly Man That those of their Party are faithful and none other That they put no difference betwixt Malignants and Sectaries That if the King imploy excommunicated Montrofs he will be left to himself That they see it will be impossible to govern these wilder Parts of Britaine without the Name and Authority of a King That more and more Witches were condemned to the Fire 2 that day 11 the next day and 25 burnt before Letters from Chester That Ireton was designed for Munster but after 10 dayes lying at Sea he was fain to put in at Dublin That Ormond cleared Tredah of all Superfluous Persons and made it as strong as he could That the Buffe Coats were in the Pulpits of Dublin An Act passed prohibiting the bringing of Hats or Hatbands from beyond Seas An Act passed for all Officers to take the Oath to be true and faithful to the Common-Wealth of England without King or Lords One Summer for counterfeiting the Hand and Seal of the General and cozening the People thereby was committed to the Marshal Goal to be tryed for it by a Councel of War 4 Order to renew a Lease for 40 Years of Deanes Lands for relief of 20 poor People in Lincoln The Act past for discharging poor Prisoners for Debt who are unable to satisfy their Creditors Letters from St. Germins That there were great Consultations what Course should be taken by the Prince of Wales Letters that 4 Men of War Ostenders took 4 Coal Ships and sunk 3 of them gave the 4th to 40 poor Mariners to carry them home into England having taken from them all they had Letters from Ostend That there was great Endeavours to draw in Assistance for Prince Charles pretending that Ormond was possessed of Dublin and with a very great Army was preparing for England and that the Prince was going over to take Possession of Ireland That there was a Proclamation reciting that by the Mariners there going to the King of Scotland in hopes of profit the King of Spains Navy wanted men and therefore commands that upon pain of Death no Flemming or Spaniard do serve in the Ships of the King of England 5 Debate of a new Oath and Ingagement to the present Government A Proclamation from the General forbidding the Souldiers to have Hounds or Greyhounds or to kill Deer or Conyes in any Chases Parks or Warrens 6 Order for Mr. Hallowes to have his Lease renewed of Lands which he held of the Duke of Bucks Order giving more time to double upon the purchase of Deans and Chapters Lands Order touching Compositions Sir John Winter disclaimed the Pope and all Forreign Power and put himself upon the Mercy of the Parliament Letters that the Lieutenant of Ireland Mustered 17 Regiments of Foot and 5000. Horse in all 15000. 18 Souldiers brought Prisoners for stealing Deer in Surrey The Act passed for Oaths to Majors Justices of Peace and other Officers in this Form You shall Swear that you shall be true and faithful to the Common-wealth of England as it is now established without a King or House of Lords You shall well and truly Execute the Office of a Major c. Divers Compositions of Delinquents past Letters that C. Popham lost a Vessel overset with the foul Weather Mr. Love was before the Commitee of Plundered Ministers but the charge against him not proved Letters that the Lieutenant of Ireland was Marched forth out of Dublin Souldiers appointed to be tryed by a Court Martial for killing of Deer Two Souldiers Sentenced by a Court Martial one to Ride the Wooden Horse with 8 Muskets at his Heels and the other to run the Gantlope for robbing on Orchard and affronting an Officer of the Army Petitions of Maiemed Souldiers for Money Another of reduced Officers and Souldiers for their Arreares referred to a Commitee 17 Several Gentlemen of the House and of the Army and others met with some of those called Levellers to confer together and indeavour a right understanding and Agreement between all Interests And for the better effecting thereof it was moved that Walwyn Prince and Overton close Prisoners in the Tower might have the Liberty of the Tower Which the Councel thought â—it and upon their Reports to the House it was assented unto A Petition of the Garrison of Plymouth referred to a Commitee Allowed to the Earl of Denbigh 1700 l. for his Charges due to him when he was Ambassador in Italy Order for an Act for 7000 l. for the Town of Taunton out of Sir John Stowells Estate and another Delinquents The House adjourned 8 Letters of some disorder in the Garrison of Oxford somented by the Levellers and Cavaleers The Souldiers proposed to have a new Representative and this to be dissolved to have Agitators to maintain the Ingagments at Triplo-Heath c. Intercepted Letters to the L. Cotington advising the King to a seeming complyance with the Levellers as the likelyst way to do his work that they have caused the Speaker to be accused by some Discontented Prisoners and that the best Service the Kings Friends do him is to set on the Levellers C. Thomlinson and C. Ingolesby sent to Oxon to quiet the distractions
Lieutenant-General not to seize upon meddle with or any ways molest the Persons or Estates of any Excommunicated Person or any ways to discharge any other Persons whatsoever to desist from dealing or trading with the said Excommunicated Persons without order from the Common-wealth of England or their Commissioners 20. Primate received his Sentence from the Parliament at the Bar of the House upon his Knees and Lieutenant-Collonel Lilburne being brought to the Bar refused to kneel the House gave him but Twenty days to depart the Kingdom Debate upon and several Branches passed of the Act of Oblivion Vote That Mr. Hale Mr. Steel Mr. Cocke Mr. Manby Mr. Sadler Collonel Blunt Sir Hen. Blunt Mr. Berners Major-General Desborough Mr. Moyer Collonel Tomlinson Mr. Fountaine Alderman Fowke Mr. H. Peters Major Packer Sir William Roberts Mr. Meltwold Mr. Mansell Mr. Rushworth Mr. Sparrow and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper be the Committee to take into consideration what inconveniences there are in the Law how the mischiefs which grow from delays the chargeableness and irregularities in the proceedings of the Law may be prevented and the speediest way to prevent the same And to present their Opinions to the Committee of Parliament appointed for that purpose and they or any Seven of them had power to send for any Persons to confer with them in this Business and for Records An Act for compounding with Delinquents and Sequestrations and for the Committee of Haberdashers-Hall 21. Letters of the ceasing of the Plague in Ireland That 300 of the Enemies Horse were taken since the English came to their Winter Quarters That the Commanders of such as are yet out make Overtures of laying down their Arms. That many of the Rebels are in treaty to submit to the Parliament That Galloway offers to treat 23. By a Court-Marshal a Soldier that killed another being first struck by him and highly provoked was according to Num. 35. 22. adjudged only to be Imprisoned for two Months and then to pay 20 l. to the Wife of him that was killed 24. Letters That the Synod of Aberdeen had excommunicated the Lord Drum That the Marquess of Argyle had seised upon a House of Huntleys and put a Garrison into it That the Lieutenant General went to meet the Parliaments Commissioners come from England to Scotland 26. Letters That the Captain of the Success Frigot and Ten more of his Company were cast away at Leith That the Commissioners for Scotland sent forth their Summons for fit Persons to come to them to present their desires That the Lord Wareston chiefly and others were the Grand Sticklers for the Kirk Party A Letter intended to be sent from the Kirk to the Lord-General setting forth the Iniquity of the English Invasion then they inveigh against the Errors and Preaching of Troopers Against the Incorporating of Scotland with England saying it will draw on a Subordination of the Church to the State in the things of Christ Against the gathering of Private Churches and Toleration as they call it and introducing Magistrates of contrary Principles to the Church Against a Civil Headship over the Religious Constitutions 27. Vote That no Fee Perquisite or Reward shall be taken by any of the Judges of Westminster-Hall or their Servants but such Salary as shall be allowed them by the State That all the Publick Revenue shall be brought into one Receipt Instructions passed for ordering and disposing all the Forces and the Charge of them not exceeding the Establishment of the Army A Paper delivered in by the Spanish Ambassador to the Council of State and by them reported to the House read and Instructions given upon it Letters of Credence from the Queen of Sweden by Peter Spiering Silvereroone to the Parliament read and referred to the Council Letters of 2 Ships of Barnestaple taken by Pyrates 28. A Declaration published and Vindication of the Poor oppressed Commons of Scotland in relation to their present sad and Sorrowful condition wherein they were brought by that perfidious Self-seeking Party who did lately wind themselves up in the Offices of Power and Trust in that Estate and Army Wherein they submit to the Parliament of England and pray that they would put nothing upon them which may molest their weak Consciences or imply Perjury 2. That they may be governed by the English and no Scotch-man imployed in any Office of Power or Trust in Church or State who have formerly betrayed their trust 29. Letters of a Vision seen at Sea by the River Maze First about a Mans hight above the Horizon like a Flat land appeared very many Foot-men and Horse-men out of the North North-East After that appeared a Fleet of Ships out of the North and among them a great Ship which lost her Top-Mast and was made ready again and her Flag seemed of 3 Colours like the Prince of Orange his Flag That on the same height appeared a Mighty Fleet of several sorts coming one against the other and a thick Smoak like Fighting That the Smoak vanished and the Ships appeared again clear After which the Ships appeared as if they were sunk and then clear again Then a Mighty great Ship seemed to sink at the Head and the after part to stand on High and another Ship to Sail by it And in the North appeared a Lyon the Vision continued 3 Hours and the Sea-men were much afraid Lieutenant-Collonel John Lilburn took his Journey from London and many Friends went with him to the Sea side 30. Letters of a Ship wracked near to Pendennis That the Parliaments Forces in Vlster met with a Party of Tories killed and drowned 150 of them That the Barony of Burren in Ireland which they say hath neither Wood Water nor Earth enough to Hang Drown or Bury a Man refusing to pay Contribution was harrased by Sir Charles Cootes Forces That the Commissioners of the Parliament of England for the Affaires of Scotland sat at Dalkeith for Setling the business of that Nation 31. The Committee appointed to consider of the Inconveniences and Delayes in the Proceedings of Law met several times and desired the Judges in their several Courts to return to them a List of the Officers in their Courts and what Fees they receive and what Work and Imploymeut they do for the same They entred upon several Heads of Inconveniencies in the Law in relation to Estates in Tail and Copyhold Estates and that for the future they may be made liable to the payment of Debts Whitelock was often advised with by some of this Committee and none of them was more active in this Business than Mr. Hugh Peters the Minister who understood little of the Law but was very Opinionative and would frequently mention some Proceedings of Law in Holland wherein he was altogether mistaken February 1651. 2. Letters of the Proceedings of the Parliaments Commissioners at Dalkeith and the trouble of the Kirke Party 3. An Act passed for executing