exercise and discharge of their Trust and we shall be ready in our places to yield them as becomes us our utmost Assistance to sit in safety for the improving present opportunity for setling and securing the peace and freedom of this Commonwealth praying for the presence and blessing of God upon their endeavours Signed by direction of the Lord Fleetwood and the Council of Officers of the Army Tho. Sandford Secretary May 6. 1659. â—ambert Berry Cooper Haslerigge Lilburn Ashfield Salmon Zanchey Kelsey Okey Blackwell Haynes Allen Packer and Pierson went to the old Speaker Lenthal with this Declaration to the Rolls and presented it to him and divers of the Members of the long Parliament came thither afterwards to advise with the Speaker and declared their willingness to meet again which they appointed to Morrow-morning in the Painted-Chamber 7. They met accordingly and in a body went together to the House Lambert guarding them with Souldiers Then they passed a Declaration touching their Meeting and their purpose to secure the Property and Liberty of the people both as Men and as Christians and that without a single Person Kingship or House of Peers and to uphold Magistracy and Ministry 8. A Sermon was Preached in the House by Dr. Owen 9. The House appointed a Committee of Safety most of them Souldiers except Vane and Scot and ordered that all Officers should be such as feared God and were faithfull to the Cause Letters of General Monk to Fleetwood of the Concurrence of the Army in Scotland with the Army at London Letters ordered to be sent to the particular Members of this Parliament to come and discharge their duty 11. An Act passed for the continuing of Sheriffs Justices of Peace c. in England and in Scotland and Ireland 12. An Address to the Parliament with their Desires in it from many in and about London and their Protestation to stand by this Parliament The like Address to this Parliament from the Officers of the Army These Passages gave the more hopes to many that this Parliament thus restored might be blessed of God for settling the Peace and Liberty of the Nation and the more because they were upon the first right foundation of that long Parliament which had done so great things and therefore divers were the better satisfied to go on with them 13. The Parliament named a Council of State and several Gentlemen not Members of the House were also of it their Names were as followeth Thomas Lord Fairfax M. G. Lambert Col J. Desborough Col. James Bury John Bradshaw Serjeant at Law Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Arthur Haslerigge Sir Henry Vane L. G. Ludlow L. G. Fleetwood Major Salwey Col. Morley Mr. Scot Mr. Wallop Sir James Harrington Col. Wanton Col. Jo. Jones Col. Sydenham Col. Sydney Mr. Nevil Mr. Thomas Chaloner Colonel Downes Lord chief Justice St. John Col. Thompson Lord Commissioner Whitelocke Col. Dixwell Mr. Reynolds Josiah Barners Sir Archibold Johnson Sir Robert Honywood 14. An Act for a new Great Seal different from that whereof Fiennes L'Isle and Whitelocke were Commissioners and so their Office ceased 15. Newdigate Atkins Archer and Parker were made Judges and Easter Term was continued 16. An Act passed appointing Judges for Probate of Wills Applications from Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and his Brother about the payment of their Salary as Masters of the Requests to the Protector and Serjeant Lynne about his Arrears of his Salary Votes passed for Pay of the Army and Navy and for Sale of Whitehall and Somerset-house 17. Address to the Parliament from the Army in Scotland Right honourable THat a Nation may be born in a day is a truth which this days experience witnesseth unto us against all the dictates of humane Reason and that a glorious Cause whose Interest was laid low even in the dust should be in one day restored to its life and lustre when almost all the Asserters of it had so manifestly declined it by a defection of many years cannot be imputed to less than the greatest and most powerfull manifestation of the Arm of God that ever this or former Generations saw or heard of In the sense of this the greatest of our Temporal Mercies we now come to address to your Honours as those whose presence we have so long wanted that had you staid but a little longer it might have been left to be enquired what England was we mean what was become of that People by whom God for so many years filled the World with so much admiration and terrour But though this great Work be as most justly it ought to be wonderfull in our eyes yet when we consider its Author who calls things that are not as if they were bringeth down to the Pit and raiseth up again we see that nothing is difficult to Faith and the Promises of God are sure and stable even then when in the eye of man no less than impossible We cannot but acknowledge to our exceeding great sorrow and shame that our selves though we hope most of us through weakness and frailty not out of design have very much contributed to those Provocations which have caused God to depart from our Israel and we could hearâ—ily wish that even amongst those that help to make up your own number there had not been an helping hand to this sad and deplorable work But we see when God's hour is come and the time of his people's deliverance even the set time is at hand he cometh skipping over all the Mountains of sin and unworthiness that we daily cast in the way We are not willing to detain your Honours too long upon this subject and therefore besecching the God of all our Mercies to heal the backslidings of his people and not to charge unto their account in this his day of their deliverance their miscarriages whilst they were wandering in dark and slippery places after the imaginations of their own hearts we with all bumility and affection in the first place congratulate you in this your happy hestauration to the Government of these Nations which God was pleased once so to own in your hands as to make you both the praise and wonder of the Earth the glory and rejoycing of his People and the terrour of your Adversaries and we acknowledge it a singular condescention in you in this day of 〈◊〉 great difficulties to take upon you so heavy a burthen And sceing his late Highness hath been pleased to manifest so much self-denial and love to his Country in appearing for the Interest thereof against his own we humbly intreat that some speedy care may be taken for him and his family together with her Highness Dowager that there may be such an honourable Provision settled upon them and such other Dignities as are suitable to the former great Services of that Family to these Nations And in the next place we cannot but humbly beseech you now you
The day of the Assembly the Marquess his Commission was read and the next day a declaration and protestation was presented to the Commissioner in the name of the Archbishops and Bishops against the Assembly and containing a Nullity of it This was denyed to be read against which refusal The Commissioner entred a Protestation and took Instruments thereupon In the debate of Elections they left no man standing as a Commissioner who was not fully of their mind but the admission of Lay Elders past not without an high contest Many places protested against the Legality of their Session and the King having nominated six Lords of his Privy Council to be Assessors to his Commissioner in that Assembly they refused to entertain them or allow their suffrage affirming that If the King himself were present he should have but one Vote and that no negative one The Commissioner seeing no good likely to be done by continuing the Assembly and upon consultation the Council advising to dissolve it he went thither and caused a Paper to be read which was a Declaration the same in effect with the Proclamation discharging the Service Book Book of Canons c. After the Reading of it the Commissioner signed it and required it to be entred in the Books of the Assembly provided that the registring thereof be no approbation of the Lawfulness of the Assembly and protested that whatsoever should be done or said in it should not be obliging or reputed as an Act of a General Assembly The Commissioner assembled the Council to draw up a Proclamation for dissolving the Assembly which being agreed on was subscribed by all but the Earl of Argile who now began to shew himself for the Covenanters party The publishing of the Proclamation was Incountred with a Protestation of the Covenanters That is was lawful for them to continue the Assembly and that they would still adhere to all their former Protestations In pursuance hereof they presently declared six former General Assemblies which they thought would be against them to be null then they deprived all the Bishops and some they excommunicated and soon after they abolished Episcopacy it self as inconsistent with the Laws of that Church The Commissioner being returned in discontent for England the Covenanters began to levy Souldiers to impose Taxes to raise Fortifications to block up some and seise others of the King's Castles and to prepare for War This was the Fountain from whence our ensuing troubles did spring and therefore may deserve the larger Relation and tend the more to the full knowledge and understanding of our following story It was now 100 years since Calvin first set his foot into Geneva from whence the Bishop being expelled it was necessary to Institute some other Ecclesiastical Government Calvin being of great credit and esteem in that City the framing of this new Government was committed to his care he observing the civil state there to be Democratical he thought it must best suit therewith and with the liking of the People to frame the Ecclesiastical Government agreeable thereunto He therefore formed a Consistory of Elders a great part whereof were Lay men and they were to manage all matters Ecclesiastical This pleased the People of Geneva and some Entituled it to a Jus Divinum and it found good reception in the Gallican and Belgick Churches where it was generally setled The next design was to plant it in Britaine for which end Beza writes to Queen Elizabeth recommending this form to her as the onely thing to be desired in England ' s Reformation the Queen was loth to proscribe Episcopacy and to entertain this new model of Presbytery and therefore gave Beza his saying but not his desires and shortly after she and the Parliament whereof some Members inclined to this way were admonished in several treatises written and dedicated to them to abolish Episcopacy as Antichristian But the Queen and the Parliament stood fixed and could not be wrought to any unsettlement of the ancient discipline by Episcopacy In Scotland the new form prospered better for there about the year 1560. The Earl of Murray Prior of St. Andrews the Queen 's base Brother with his party Knox Buchanan and others gave such a shock to Popery as made every thing and by consequence Episcopacy which stood near it to Reel Yet in 20 years it could not be supplanted but it was gained upon by degrees first in an Assembly 1580. It was ordered that all Bishops on pain of Excommunication should resign up their offices and about three years after the Parliament the King being a minor annext their temporalties to the Crown of Scotland This was supposed to be Instigated from some of the Nobility and Ministers from England Whereupon the then Archbishop Whitgift by the Queen's command contrived three Articles in the late Canons to which all were to subscribe at their taking of holy orders 1. Acknowledging the Supremacy of the Queen 2. Professing conformity to the Book of Common Prayer and approbation of the Book of Ordering of Bishops Priests and Deacons 3. Assenting to the 39 Articles of the Church of England In Scotland the Hierarchy began somewhat to revive again by their Parliaments ratifying the Clergy as the third Estate 1584. But the other Party 1592. prevailed with that state to ratify their Discipline Thus Episcopacy and Presbytery took their turns of Government for about 30 years But about the year 1598. King James caused the Prelates in Scotland to be restored to their Votes in Parliament and in his Book Basilicon Doron he expressed no great affection to the Consistorian Government 1603. At his accession to the Crown of England he was urged by Petition of 1000 Ministers against Episcopacy but he slighted it and by several Acts of Parliament in Scotland he rescinded what had been formerly enacted there to the prejudice of Episcopacy and from that time till these commotions this year in Scotland the Presbyters did not appear in opposition In October Mary de Medices the Queen Mother of France came into England the people were generally discontented at her coming and at her followers which some observed to be the Sword or Pestilence and that her restless Spirit Imbroyled all where she came That her combining with Monsieur the Duke of Orleans and the ill success of that Enterprise made France too hot for her and drave her to Bruxells where the Cardinal Infanta carressed her a while but there she was pursued with such curses that for fear of violence to her person she quitted that Country and betook herself to the protection of the Prince of Orange where she stay'd not long but receiving an invitation from the Queen her daughter she repayred into England The King perceiving that the Scots intended nothing but War thought not fit to yield them the start but by advice of the Archbishop Laud and others he hastened his levies of men and money and because this was the Bishops War
Fortification at Leith and their meetings and Councils and inforce Subscription to the late Assembly at Glasgow contrary to the King's declaration they Brand those who had taken Arms for the King as Incendiaries and Traytors and null all the Acts of the College of Justice Matters being in this doubtful posture the King had little mind to see himself affronted and thought that these distempers might be better born and sooner quieted at a distance Therefore towards the latter end of July he returns to England This year was the great and strange Eruption of fire near the Ferrera Islands with a horrible noise and carrying a huge quantity of earth with it whereby became a new Island and continuing in burning The King being returned to London with his pacification the same was not well relished by many of his Subjects who held it dishonourable to him and to this nation especially having so brave an Army with him far exceeding the Covenanters forces both in Horse and Foot by whom he might have constrained them to reason but those who inclined to Presbytery or were discontented at some publick actions were the better pleased with this pacification August 6. According to the King's Direction the general Assembly â—ate at Edenburgh who abolished Episcopacy the 5 Articles of Perth the high Commission the Liturgy and the Book of Canons all this was assented to by the Earl of Trequayre the King 's new Commissioner The Marquess Hamilton having gotten himself out of this troublesome imployment The Assembly being risen the Parliament sate and highly debated about the choice of the Lords of the Articles in regard the Bishops were abolished The Ancient course was that the King first named eight Bishops they chose eight Noblemen who chose so many Barons and they the like number of Burgesses these thirty two with eight officers of the Crown made up fourty who were to consider upon such Articles as were to be brought to Parliament and this Committee were called Lords of the Articles The Commissioner demanded that the King instead of the eight Bishops whom he used to name might now in their place name eight Noblemen which for this time was consented to but voted that for the future every State should chuse their own Commissioner Anno 1639 Then they debated about constituting the third Estate and what to be brought in in lieu of the Bishops The Commissioner urged for the King to have 14 Laicks of such as were called Abbots and Priors to represent the third Estate but it was voted that the third Estate should be compleated by small Barons who represented the Commonalty Then they framed an Act rescissory touching the Exchequer Judicatory Proxies and Ward-Lands to the displeasure of the King who apprehending them to indeavour a new form of Government and to eclipse his Regal Power order'd his Commissioner to prorogue them Which being signified to the Parliament they made a Declaration that this Prorogation was of no force in Law being without consent of the Parliament that they might justify their continuance of sitting but in regard to his Majesty they would only at present make a Remonstrance to him of the reasons of their Propositions and Proceedings after which if their Enemies should prevaile by false suggestions that then it should not be to them an imputation that they were constrain'd to take such course as might best secure the Kirk and Kingdom from the extremity of Confusion and Misery Their Deputies the Earl of Dunferlin and the Lord Loudon came to the King with this Remonstrance and there was come the Earl of Trequayre the King's Commissioner a Committee of the Council heard both Parts and many passionate Expressions and Recriminations between them The Deputies justified the Acts of the Assembly and Parliament and desired they might be ratified the which the Committee thought not fit to be done as lessening the Sovereign Authority and that there was no way but by force to reduce the Covenanters The Scots had delivered a Paper to some of the English Lords intituled some Conditions of His Majestie 's Treaty with His Subjects of Scotland before the English Nobility The Privy Council judging this Paper to be false and scandalous to his Majesty and the late Pacification were suitors to His Majesty that it might be burnt by the hand of the Hangman and all Copies of it to be brought in for which a Proclamation was issued The Spanish Fleet of about 70 Saile bound for Dunkirke with recruits of Men and Money met with some of the Holland Fleet and sank two of them the rest made to Dunkirke where the Holland Admiral lay who came forth with his Fleet and joyning together betwixt Dover and Callice attacked the Spanish Fleet took two of their Gallions sunk another and shatter'd the rest though but 25 Saile and the Spaniard's 60 and having forced them upon the English Coast near Dover the Dutch fell off to Sea not willing to attempt any thing against the Spaniard within the Dominions of the King of England The Spanish Resident in London importuned the King to keep off the Hollanders for two Tides the Dutch Ambassador made application to him against the Spaniards the King in amity with both resolved to stand newter and forbids His Subjects to transport any of the Spaniards to Dunkirke but their Admiral by night conveyed away 14 Dunkirke Ships and 4000 men in them The King sent the Earl of Arundel on Board the Spanish Admiral Don Antonio D' oquendo to desire him to retreat upon the next fair Wind because he would not have any Ingagement upon His Seas but the Wind continued long contrary and the Dutch had great Supplies wherewith they encompassed their Enemies within Pistol-shot for some days At length Van Trump the Dutch Admiral ingaged them and by Cannon and Fire-ships forced them to cut their Cables and of 53 Spanish Ships 23 ran on shoar and stranded in the Downs of which three were burnt two sunk and two perished on the shoar the rest were manned by the English to save them from the Dutch With the other 30 Ships Don Oquendo put to Sea where in a Fogg the Dutch again ingaged them fired the Admiral of Portugal took 11 of their Ships three were lost upon the Coast of France one near Dover five sunk in the Fight and onely 10 escaped with their Admiral Oquendo into Dunkirke This Armado was believed by many to have been designed for an Invasion of England and many Discourses pro and con were vented about it The Prince Elector came into England by advice of the Prince of Orange to solicite his Uncle to procure him the command of the Army of Duke Bernard who was lately dead the King desired the French Ambassadour to move it to his Master who willingly undertook it and that Cardinal Richlieu would be ready to further it In the mean time the Prince by ill advice passed through France in disguise to
into the hands of Members of both Houses the question was put whether that question should be put or not and carried in the Negative Voted That it should be disposed into hands of three Commissioners That the Members of both Houses late Commissioners of the great Seal as a token of Favour from the Parliament and Kingdom should have a thousand pound bestowed on them for all their faithful Services That the Earl of Salisbury one of the late Commissioners should have the thanks of the House That the Members of the Commons late Commissioners of the Seal should have the priviledge to plead within the Bar next to the Sollicitor General of the King An Ordinance voted to be brought in for setling five thousand pounds per An. upon Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Heirs Many Aldermen and Common Council-men of London desired to know the pleasure of the House whether the Works about the City should be slighted or not and if not then they desired twelve thousand pounds for the Maintainance of them the House appointed the Committee of the Army to treat with the Militia of London about it Letters informed that the Popish Clergy at Waterford have pronounced the supreme Council at Kilkenny to be perjured for agreeing to the Peace and proceed to excommunicate them 2. The House sate in a Grand Committee till seven at night upon the Ordinance for disposing of Bishops Lands 3 Private Petitions heard Order for two thousand pounds for the Officers and Garrison of Dover and for payment of the debts of the State to some Handy-crafts men and for two thousand pound for Col. Sandersons Regiment upon their disbanding Order for seizing upon a new Impression of the Common-Prayer Referred to a Committee to find out the Author and Printer of a Pamphlet called Yet another word to the Wise that they may be punished 5. Ordinance for setling two hundred pound per An. on Mr. Hugh Peters Order for a new Election The Negotiations of some Captains of the Parliaments Ships with the Marquess of Ormond confirmed as to lending to him Arms and Ammunition against the Rebels and order for Letters of thanks to Captain Willoughby one of those Captaius Orders for supplys for Ireland Ordinance sent up to the Lords for sale of Bishops Lands Treasurers and Trustees for it named Letters informed That the Estates of Scotland had fully agreed to the Scots Army marching out of England and the Garrisons to be delivered up upon payment of the two hundred thousand pound as was agreed The Irish Rebels drew their Forces towards Dublin and the Marquess of Ormond prepared for defence Col. Bethel was called into the House and had their thanks for his good Services Beaumarice Castle in Anglesey was surrendred to the use of the Parliament upon Articles Order that all Commissions made to Sea Captains which were as from the King and Parliament which some of them interpreted to the prejudice of the Parliaments Service should be altered and made in the name of the Parliament only Order for Money out of Delinquents Estates in Wilts for disbanding the Forces there The Confession of Faith brought in from the Assembly debated Order for one thousand seven hundred pound out of Delinquents Estates in Lincoln-shire to be paid to the Earl of Lincolne which he had disbursed for the Parliaments Service A French Pyrat taken by the Parliaments Ships The Irish Rebels prevailed A Conference by the Committee of Lords and Commons with the Scots Commissioners about disposing of the Kings Person 7. Upon Letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax for Pay and Cloathing for the Army Ordered that the Assesment be continued for six Months longer for the pay of them Order for three pound a week for maintenance of the Widow and Children of Mr. Franklyn a Member of the House that dyed a Prisoner to the Kings Party and that the Arrears of M. Franklyn be computed and paid Order for hastning the payment of ten thousand pound to the poor Widows and for relief of Tenants whose Land-lords were of the Kings Party For supplys for the Northern Forces 8. Composition of the Lord Savile allowed and out of it a thousand pound was ordered for the Widow and Children of Captain Askwith who laid out nine hundred and sixty pound in raising a Troop of Horse for the Parliament Votes That Sir Rowland Wandesford Sir Tho. Beddingfield and Mr. Jo. Bradshaw be Commissioners of the great Seal for six Months sent up to the Lords 9. Progress upon the Articles of Faith Votes of both Houses that Captain Pen be Captain of the Assurance Frigot The Committee of both Houses debated with the Scots Commissioners about disposing of the Kings Person An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for four hundred pound for the poor Irish Protestants here The Lords desired the concurrence of the Commons in the Ordinance for dissolving of all Countrey Committees 10. Debate upon the Accounts of Sir Will. Brereton as Major General and a Committee named to consider of the pay of ten pound per diem to every Major General and of their incident charges and of the free quarter and provisions taken by them They ordered five thousand pound to Sir Will. Brereton out of such Delinquents Estates not yet compounded for as he should nominate Order that the Tax of one per cent for Plymouth shall continue till January 1 and no longer Vote for a Balleting box to be made 12. Report of seven Ordinances drawn out of the Propositions for Peace 1. For justifying and confirming the Proceedings of Parliament 2. For setling the Militia of England and Ireland in the Parliament for twenty Years 3. For confirming the Treaty with Scotland 4. For making void all Titles under the great Seal after it was carried away 5. For confirming the present great Seal and all Acts done thereby 6. For making void the Irish Cessation 7. For disposing Offices by consent of Parliament All these except that of the Militia and Scots Treaty pass'd and sent upto the Lords An Ordinance appointed to be drawn to injoyn all to take the Covenant Order touching Compositions of Delinquents A Malignant chosen Major of Berwick sent for and the old Major continued A Petition of many Officers and Soldiers of the Parliaments That they may not be prosecuted at Law for things done by them in the war and as Soldiers upon sundry Exigencies Conference about disposing of the Person of the King A Committee appointed to treat with the Commissioners come from the Marquess of Ormond The French Ambassador and Agent were with the King at Newcastle The Plague broke forth there brought from London Letters informed that divers Inhabitants of Northumberland had left their habitations by reason of the oppression by the Soldiers quartered with them 13. The Lords concurred to the Ordinance for sale of Bishops Lands for advance of two hundred thousand pounds for the Scots Army and to take away the power of Committees for disposing
suppose that as the Gentlemen themselves will forbear to offer the contrary so they expect the Wisdom and Justice of the House will not admit of any thing to the contrary to interrupt the proceedings upon the general affairs The House passed these Votes That no Officer or Souldier of the Army shall leave the Army without Licence or Discharge from the General That they do own this Army as their Army and will make provision for their maintenance and for their Pay equally with those that have deserted the Army Referred to the Committee of the Army to make provision accordingly Referred to the Commissioners in the Army to be earnest with the General That no obstruction or discouragement be given by the Souldiers to the levying of the Excise and other Assessments An Ordinance Read for saving harmless all well affected persons from any Bonds c. extorted from them by the Enemy in the time of War Referred to the Commissioners of the Great Seal to bring in a List of Judges for the next Circuit 29. An Ordinance past both Houses for Collonel Butler to be Governour of the Isle of Scilley A Petition from the Eleven Members except the Recorder Glyn to come to a speedy Tryal he earnestly advised his Brethren against this Petition but they were wilful and he would not joyn in it A day set for the particular Charge of the Army to be brought in against the Eleven Members Order for the Accounts to be stated of Collonel Graves and Collonel Pyes Forces and that the Officers and Souldiers come off from the Army advance for Ireland or be Disbanded An Ordinance committed for Souldiers not Inhabitants to depart the City Both Houses granted a Pass to the Dutch Ambassador to go to the King and so to return home 30 The Fast-day after Sermon A Committee appointed about reedifying the Church of Torrington Another to consider of able persons for accommodation in Religion Order for the Magistrates of the City to be careful to execute the Ordinances for observation of the Lords-day and Fast-days and for inquiry what Malignant Ministers have been admitted into Benefices Letters from the Commissioners in the Army and from Sir Thomas Fairfax That the last Votes of the House had met with such complyance in his Councel of War that in confidence of this further progress about the desires of the Army and in submission to the Votes of Parliament the Army had removed their Quarters further from London and were to be this night at Wicombe The Commissioners in the Army were desired by the Councel of War to procure from the Parliament a full answer to the last Propositions of the Army before which they cannot conclude any thing upon the Treaty Mr. Patrick Young formerly His Majesties Library-keeper at St. James's and a great Scholar with the assistance of Selden and Whitlock undertook the Printing of the Septuagint Translation of the Bible whereof he had in his custody a famous antient Copy if not an Original Manuscript July 1647. July 1. Orders about Pay for the Army That the King shall reside no nearer London than the Quarters of the Army will be born That the Committee do meet about accommodation in Religion Information of one Cousens an Alderman of Newcastle Negotiating to bring the Scots again into England The Lords were desired to expedite the Propositions to be sent to the King It was reported That part of the Charge against the Eleven Members particularly against Mr. Hollis would be the business of the Lord Savile's Information against him and Whitelock two years since 2. A Petition from the Common-Councel 1. That Command be given that no Officer or Souldier come within the Lines of Communication upon pretence to share monies for their Arrears 2. That such as are Paid may depart the City within two days 3. That all who have been in Arms against the Parliament may depart the City 4. That such as have come in from the Army may be otherwise disposed of 5. That all bring in concealed Goods 6. That the revenue be mannaged by Rules 7. That the Parliament would lay aside lesser businesses and prepare such Laws for the Kings concurrence as may settle the Government of the Church secure the people from Arbitrary Power and to restore his Majesty to his just Rights and Authority 8. That all Officers of State and Justice may be Persons of Honour of considerable Interest and known Integrity 9. That speedy care be had of Ireland 10. That Correspondence with Scotland according to the Covenant be maintained 11. That Elections may be examined and the House purged of such as are unduely Elected or have been against the Parliament 12. For a course to decide Admiralty Causes 13. That satisfaction being made by Delinquents an Act of Oblivion may be passed The Petitioners had thanks for their good affections and answer That most of the particulars were under consideration Some of the Members attended the less in the House when these matters were in agitation being unsatisfied that the Army and City should thus seem to impose upon the Parliament Reference to the Committee of Cheshire about Pay and lessening of the Garrison of Chester Orders about the affairs of Ireland That two thousand six hundred pounds be paid to the Lord of Ormond and for mony for Advance and Transport of Forces into Ireland and that three Commissioners be sent into Munster One of the Knights of Essex presented a Petition from part of that County and the Gentlemen that brought it had thanks for their good Affections and the House took notice of the delivery of it in a Parliamentary way Other Petitions from Norfolk and Suffolk Letters from the General and his Officers with a Declaration of the Army disclaiming a Pamphlet called Heads presented by the Army to the Kings Majesty and another called Articles agreed upon betwixt the King and the Army as false scandalous and injurious to them and which they detest and desire the Authors may be found out Letters from the Commissioners in the Army certified That the General had appointed Lieutenant General Cromwell Collonel Ireton Collonel Fleetwood Collonel Rainsborough Collonel Harrison Collonel Sir Har-Waller Collonel Rich Collonel Lambert Collonel Hammond and Major Rainsborough or any five of them to Treat with the Parliaments Commissioners upon the Papers sent from the Army to the Parliament and their Votes To the Vote touching the Eleven Members was answered That the Councel of War had a great willingness to answer the expectation of the House in all things so in this particular but the things being of great importance and the persons charged many it had taken more time than was expected they therefore desire respite for three or four days when they would bring in the particular Charge against the Eleven Members and the Kingdom shall see that they have not impeached the Gentlemen out of any private respects but their duty to the Publick The
and they then would bring up the Charge and Proofs Order about a new Lord Mayor Captain Batten laid down his Commission of Vice Admiral and Col. Rainsborough was voted in his place and a list of the Captains and Ships agreed upon for this Winters Flect Petitioners of Somerset shire had thanks for their good affections A thousand pound ordered for Col. Rainsborough for his Arrears An Ordinance to make void Elections of Delinquent Majors c. and order for the Speaker to write to the Corporations to make new Elections The like for Delinquent Sheriffs and no Delinquent to have a Voice in Elections Ordinances pass'd for Money for Lynne Garrison and for Cloaths for Soldiers Letters from Ireland of the good success of the Lord Inchequin taking twelve Castles in Tipperary and the Castle of Cahir in this manner An English Trooper was wounded and taken by the Rebels and carried into Cahir-Castle Col. Hepsely having observed some defects in the Works had a mind to get into the Castle to see them and was permitted to come in a disguise as a Chyrurgeon to dress the Troopers wounds Having thus espyed the defects in the Works he led on a Party to that place and Stormed the Castle A Letter was ordered to the Lord Inchequin to desire him to send over some of his Officers in safe Custody against whom some things were charged Col. Jones marched out of Dublin with a strong Party The Estates in Scotland ordered their Forces to be disbanded unless the Committee of Estates think fit to continue them in case the Kingdom be in any danger of trouble the person of the King in any hazard or the Nation like to be dishonoured and such as refuse to disband to be taken as Mutineers Major General Lambert quieted the difference about Quarter between the Soldiers and the Richmond-shire men and appeased a Mutiny with stoutness and sent a Party against the Moss-Troopers 28. Both Houses pass'd an Ordinance for suppressing Scandalous and unlicensed Pamphlets the Execution of it was left to the Militia of London and to the Committees of the several adjacent Counties An Ordinance was read for levying the Arrears to the Army of the City of London A Letter from the General Council of the Army to Lieutenant General Cromwel was read in the House mentioning the danger of Mutinys and loss of the Army and of new distractions for want of Pay and desiring him to acquaint the House therewith and to be a means to procure Money The Ordinance passed for thirty thousand pound for the Army and an Order for the Months gratuity and Months Pay Debate of Ordinances for Money for Soldiers Widows and touching Arrears A Letter agreed upon by both Houses from the Parliament to the Queen of Sweden and the state of the matter of Fact of what passed between the Ships of England and Sweden ordered to be delivered to the Swedish Agent Election of a new Lord Major of London 29. The Monthly Fast-day 30. Alderman Warner was presented to the Lords for the new Lord Major for the next year and for the remaining time of the last Lord Major now in Prison and approved of and sworn for both times The Ordinance read for continuing Tunnage and Poundage for two years and referred to the Committee of the Navy to treat with the Commissioners of the Customs about Money for the Winter-Guards Upon debate what should be further tendred to his Majesty upon the Propositions it was voted 1. That the Proposition concerning the prosecution of the War in Ireland by both Houses and in the intervals by a Committee 2. That the Proposition for making void the Cessation with the Irish Rebels 3. That the Proposition for nominating the chief Officers of England and Ireland by both Houses and in the intervals by a Committee be again tendered to his Majesty and drawn into Bills for his consent 4. The three Treaties between England and Scotland ordered to be considered and how far they stand in relation to the desire of his Majesty and that the Lords concurrence be desired October 1647. October 1. Order for Money for Officers and Widows in distress and for the poor English Irish Order for a Declaration That both Houses intend to desist from prosecuting any more that were active or abettors in the late tumults and force upon the Parliament than those whom they have already voted against Order about Cursitors places referred to the two Speakers Orders for removing Prisoners in the Tower to other Prisons The Impeachment agreed unto against Lieutenant Collonel Baines The Ordinance for Delinquents to have no voice in the Election of Officers pass'd and sent to the Lords 2. Some appointed to be examined upon the late tumult and the Declaration committed that no more should be questioned whereby peoples minds were quieted but this was not to extend to any Members of the House reduced Officers or Delinquents Pardon 's granted to some Prisoners Debate upon the Confession of Faith presented by the Assembly A Paper from the Army desiring 1. That the House would grant to the General and such Officers and Soldiers as he should appoint full power with the directions of the Committee of the Army to levy by way of distress from the City the Arrears due to the Army 2. That the Parliament would set a Penalty upon those that put them to this trouble of distreining 3. That they would give the like power and penalty for levying all the Arrears in other places 4. And that the Houses would provide for their own Guards so as the Army might Quarter further from the City 4. Vote for twenty thousand pound a Month above the 60 thousand pounds for the nine thousand Horse and Foot designed for Ireland and towards the Charge of that War And other Votes touching the Forces and Government there Order for two months Pay for all the Garrisons that are put out and so disbanded and all of the Army who are not of the Establishment nor to go for Ireland to be cashiered An Ordinance pass'd for money another for Guernsey c. and Col. Birch Col. Ludlow Mr. Harrington and Mr. Weaver named Commissioners for this business The Letter from the General touching the Arrears of the Army referred to the Committee of the Army Orders touching Guards for the Tower The Lords concurred with some small alterations about the Propositions to be again sent to the King The Lords ordered the Sequestration of the D. of Bucks his Estate to be taken off and recommended to the Commons the Earl of Newport's Petition for lessening of his Compositions and ordered the continuance of the allowance of eight hundred pound per An. to the Bishop of Durham and desired the Commons concurrence Both Houses pass'd the Ordinance for disabling Delinquents to have voices in Elections 5. Debate upon the Ordinance for Turinage and Poundage and Orders for Money for Mr. Prince Order for four hundred pound
and that he would be ready to use his endeavour in what might conduce to the good of the Town Letters informed of some armed Forces that marched through Lancashire and Westmerland towards the borders of Scotland 8. Debate upon private Petitions Orders to provide for Reformadoes and Soldiers Widows Six of the Impeached Lords Petitioned for further time for their answers and it was granted them till the twelfth of April next Order of both Houses for Mr. Marshall to return from Scotland An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for the sale of some Lands of the Earl of Newcastle to Col. Whaley Order for Money for poor Widows of Soldiers and a reward given to the Auditors of the Soldiers Accounts Letters from Holland certified that the Lord Willoughby of Parham was come thither 9. The House debated and confirmed the ingagement of their Members who were forced by the tumults from Westminster and the subscription by them Aug. 4 1647. testifying a zeal to the Publick and a resolution to vindicate the honour and freedom of Parliament Divers Inhabitants of Bucks presented a Petition and remonstrance to the House acknowledging with thanks their unwearied Labours for the Publick the great successes God had given them and the continuance of their care and faithfulness They resolve to adhere unto and stand by the Parliament to their utmost ability against all opposers They desire them to proceed to a speedy setling of the Civil Government as may most conduce to the freedom and happiness of the Nation to promote Religion according to the Word of God to incourage able Ministers and to cast out such as are Scandalous and to be tender of the Consciences of those whose Conversation is as becometh the Gospel to relieve Ireland and to secure themselves from violence The Petitioners had the thanks of the House for their constant good affections and the Speaker told them that the House had ordered their Petition to be Printed as a pattern for other Counties and would consider of the particulars of their Petition in convenient time Order touching Augmentations for Ministers Sir John Strangeways upon his Petition was admitted to his Composition and the Money which should be raised thereby was ordered for the Navy 10. Order for an Ordinance for electing a Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councelmen of York as had been formerly for London Debate upon the confession of Faith 11. Debate about the draining of the Fennes in Lincoln-shire c. and about matters presented by the Committee of Accounts which were referred to a Committee Upon Information that the Troop which marched through Lancashire towards the borders of Scotland was Captain Wogans Troop and he with them who had slighted several Orders of the General 's and now hoped to find invitation to Scotland The General sent Orders to Col. Lambert and to the Sheriffs of the Northern Counties to stop Col. Wogans March and to deal with him and his Party as Disturbers of the publick Peace 13. Upon reading the Impeachment and hearing of Proofs against Sir John Gayer late Lord Major of London the House pass'd the Articles against him the like against Alderman Bunce Alderman Adams Alderman Langham and ordered them to be sent up to the Lords and their Lordships be acquainted that the House is ready to make good their Charge against the Aldermen The House approved of the Ingagements of Col. Welden for supplyes for the Garrison of Plymouth and ordered them to be paid accordingly Order to desire the Parliament of Scotland to give direction to seize and apprehend Captain Wogans Forces or any such that shall march into Scotland being discontented Persons who endeavour to forment new differences Reference to the Committee for Irish Affairs to examine and state the business concerning accounts for Provlsions for London-derry between Mr. Goring and Mr. Thornton Merchants Mr. Dell who was Chaplain to the General took his leave of the Army and retired to his private home Letters from Scotland informed That the Divines there have presented to the Parliament their resolution against adhering to on joyning with the King and his Party That a Letter from the King to the Commissioners of the Kirk was voted by them of a dangerous consequence that some of the Kirk are joyned to the Committee of danger who have in consideration these particulars 1. The danger of Religion in both Kingdoms 2. The carrying on of the Covenant 3. The state of the King 4. Monarchical Government 5. The danger Scotland is in 6. The Vnion of the two Kingdoms That the English Horse which are come into Scotland are not received the English Commissioners declaring to the Parliament there that these Horse come not by any authority of the Parliament of England They lye at their own charge and pay Quarter 14. Divers Compositions passed An Explanatory Ordinance for sale of Bishops Lands sent up to the Lords Reference of a Petition touching matter of Priviledge upon a Bond from a peer who doth not now sit in the House of Lords Sir Hardress Waller published a Declaration or Representation to the Counties of Devonshire and Cornwall where he commanded the Forces Expressing the Honour and Justice of the Parliament and their General in their proceedings and in the distribution of the Forces in those Counties and touching the Assessments and freeing the Countreys from the burden of free Quarter perswading them to complyance with the Orders of Parliament and to pay the Assessments and promiseth his utmost endeavour in his Station to preserve and further the Peace and good of those Counties 15. A Message from the Lords to the Commons That their Lordsnips had agreed to the Ordinance for the maintenance of the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax Also that they had agreed to the Ordinance for committing the custody of the great Seal of England into the hands of Commissioners of both Houses viz. The Earl of Kent Sir Thomas Widdrington Knight and Bulstrode Whitelocke Esquire for one year only their Lordships desired that the Lord Grey of Werke might be added to the said Commissioners and that one Lord and one Commoner might be of the Quorum And in regard the Commissioners of the House of Commons were in the Circuits and shall not return till the beginning of the next Term whereby much dammage would accrue to the Subject by not having Commissions and Writs Sealed before the Term as usually it was desired that the Earl of Kent and the Lord Grey might have power to sign Commissions and Writs till the tenth of April next to which the Commons after some debate assented The Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for the custody of the great Seal was of this Tenor Die Mercurii 15 Martii 1647. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for Committing the Great Seal of England into the Hands and Custody of Commissioners The Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled do Order and Ordain
and be it Ordained That the Great Seal of England shall be committed to the custody and keeping of Henry Earl of Kent William Lord Grey of Werke Sir Thomas Widdrington Knight and Bulstrode Whitelocke Esquire who are hereby Ordained Commissioners for that purpose for and during the time of one whole year from the Passing of this Ordinance Which said Persons are hereby constituted and appointed to be Commissioners for the Custody of the said Great Seal of England during the time aforesaid and they or any two of them whereof one Member of the Lords House also one Member of the House of Commons shall have and are hereby authorized to have the Custody and Keeping Ordering and Disposing thereof as also all such and the like Powers and Authorities as any Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal of England for the time being hath Lawfully had and used or ought to have had or used John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum Henry Elsinge Cler. Parliam Dom. Com. Orders upon private Petitions of Grievances Letters from Ireland That the Lord Inchequin relieved some Garrisons of the English in Tipperary entred Carricke and Fortified a Pass to make good his Retreat blew open the Gate of Cullen by a Petard entred the Town took two Castles by Assault and put three hundred Soldiers to the Sword and some Women notwithstanding order to the contrary and then took in another strong Castle upon Mercy That Owen Roe Oneal is dead and the Supreme Councel fled from Kilkenny That the Parliaments Ships took three of the Rebells Ships loaden with Ammunition and Captain Ball took an Irish Man of War 16. Orders for taking off several Sequestrations in performance of Articles of War Ten thousand pound accepted for the Composition of Sir Jo. Strangeway and his Son and ordered for the Navy The Lord Fairfax Father to the General having a bruise on his Foot where a Corn was growing it festred and turn'd to a Gangrene which brought a Feaver upon him whereof he died at York March 13. and was much lamented Order that Sir Thomas Fairfax his Son should be Keeper of Pontefract Castle Custos Rotulorum of York-shire and chief Ranger c. in the place of his Father Order for Papists to be admitted to Compositions in performance of the Articles of Oxford 17. Long debate upon the Confession of Faith allmost all the day Several Ordinances pass'd for placing Ministers in vacant Benefices 18. The House sate not but according to their Order the Grand Committee sate about the business of the Fennes in Lincoln-shire 20. a Petition of London Merchants complaining of Pyrats and decay of Trade was referred to a Committee of Trade which was revived with power to consider of removing Obstructions in Trade and to receive all Petitions concerning the advance of Trade And referred to the Committee of the Admiralty to provide a sufficient guard for the Merchants Ships Letters of the Proceedings of the Commissioners in Scotland and of their Letters to the Major of Berwicke giving him notice of a design to surprize that Town and the Major's Answer Order for a Letter of thanks to the Major and to desire him to preserve the Town from Garrisoning according to the Treaty and order to the General to prevent any inconvenience by such meetings of the Cavaliers and Papists Letters from York of another Troop Landed from Ireland at Chester which marched towards Scotland That the Lord Fairfax the General 's Father was honourably buried Letters from Scotland of Divisions in their Parliament Some for raising an Army against the Sectaries in England others for the King and a third Party for no War The Clergy were for an Oath to be generally taken That Presbyterial Government be maintained that the King be not restored till he sign the Covenant to endeavour the extirpation of all Sectaries especially Erastianisme that the Ecclesiastical power is not subject to the Civil that the Kings Negative Vote in England be taken away Captain Wogan had Money sent to him in Scotland to pay his Quarters but by whom will not be discovered there are four hundred Foot and a Troop of Horse of the English in a Body 21. Letters that Col. Poyer held out in Pembroke Castle against the orders of Parliament and the Forces sent thither by the General that in the Morning he is sober and penitent and in the afternoon drunk and full of Plots that he put four or five of his Companions in the best Apparel he could get and by Sunrising put them out at the Sally-port and received them in again at the Gate himself with great Ceremony giving out in the Town that they were Commanders sent out of France to him from the Prince of Wales and more were to follow That when he hears news that pleaseth him then he puts forth bloody Colours and declares for the King and Common-Prayer when he hears other news then he is for the Oath and Covenant and puts forth blew and white Colours That one day he fired all his Guns on the Parliaments Forces without any occasion that afterwards he was very quiet yet the next day he vowed that not one of the Parliaments Forces should go away alive and calls the General King Thomas That the Parliaments Forces lye close and make no Shot at him but none of his men dare peep out of Town Upon Summons sent to him his answer was that if they might have their Arrears Disbursements and Indemnity they would give up the Castle The House ordered the General to send sufficient Forces to reduce Col. Poyer and Pembroke Castle an Ordinance to remove him from being Major of Pembroke and to constitute another Order for a Months Pay for the Forces in the Isle of Wight and for an allowance for four Gentlemen attending his Majesty Debate about Compositions upon surrenders of Garrisons A Plot was discovered by the General to surprize the Tower this night 22. Orders upon many private Petitions Ordinance past touching the Collecting of the Rents of Westminster Colledge The Commons agreed with the Lords in the Doctrinal part of the Confession of Faith but altered the Title from the Confession of Faith to be Articles of Faith agreed upon by both Houses 23. Debate touching Oxford Articles and about clipped and false Money Ordinance about reimbursing the Committee of Surrey for Money laid out by them for the Soldiery Order for a Writ for a new Election 24. Debate about setling of a good Ministry in some vacant places and Ordinances for some particular Parishes Order for two thousand pound for repairing the Library at Cambridge to be raised out of Deans and Chapters Revenues and an Order for incouragement of the Heads of Colledges there The General sent strict Orders for the disbanding of Major General Laugherne's Forces according to the Orders of Parliament and for the reducing of Col. Poyer 25. The Ordinance passed both Houses for setling the business of the Navy
Thomas Widdrington Sir Thomas Beddingfield Mr. Keble M r Thorpe and M r Bradshaw Out of Lincolns Inn M r Sollicitor M r Samuel Brown M r Recorder Glyn and M r Earle Out of the Middle Temple Mâ— Whitelock Mr. Coniers and Mr. Puleston Out of the Inner Temple Mr. Chapman Mr. Gates and Mr. Will. Littleton Order that Serjeant Rolles should be made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench that Serjeant Iermyn and Mr. Samuel Brown should be made Justices of the same Court That Mr. Sollicitor should be chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Bedingfield and Mr. Serjeant Creswell should be Justices of that Court. That Serjeant Wilde should be Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer and Mr. Gates a Baron of the Exchequer That Mr. Whitelock should be Attorney General of the Dutchy and one of the Kings Serjeants that Mr. Prideaux should be Sollicitor General and Sir Thomas Widdrington one of the Kings Serjeants The House approved of all those whom the Commissioners of the Seal named to be Judges and Serjeants except Mr. Hatton of the middle-Temple upon whom the question was not put 13. Vote that leases renewed with Deans and Chapters since a day past should be void An Ordinance past by the Commons for abolishing Deans and Chapters c. An Ordinance past both Houses for the Governour of Dover-Castle to be Lieutenant of it Vote for a charge to be prepared against Mr. Dowcet The Declaration prohibiting the Souldiery from repayring to London upon pretence of having their arrears was past and ordered to be Printed and published and sent to the several Sheriffs to be proclaimed Letters from the Isle of Wight that the King had consented 1. That an Act of Parliament be passed to make void the Cessation and all Treaties and conclusions of Peace with the Rebels in Ireland without the consent of both Houses of Parliament and the Prosecution of the war there to be left to the two Houses and the King to assist them and do no Act to hinder or disturb them 2. The Reformation of Religion in Ireland to be settled by the Parliament of England 3. The Chief Governours and Officers in Ireland to be nominated by the Parliament of England This to be for twenty years from 1. July 1648. 14. Voted for the Lord Admiral to continue at Goree in order to the reducing of the revolted Ships and orders for the Committee of the Navy to make provisions and take care for mony for the Fleet. 16. Upon a Petition of the Common Council of London for a supply of ministers in the City and for an allowance to them out of Deans and Chapters Lands referred to a Committee to consider thereof and of the want of a good ministry in other Parts of the Kingdom Order that those who took a Bark at Rye of the Kings Party should have the benefit of it Debate about satisfying of a debt out of Sir Jo. Stowells Estate to Sir Henry Holcroft but not allowed and an order for tryal of Sir John Stowell Letters that Lieut. General Ashton relieved Cockermouth and pursued the Enemy to Appleby which was rendred to the Parliament and taken in it five Knights twenty five Colonels nine Lieutenant Colonels six Majors forty six Captains seventeen Lieutenants ten Cornets three Ensigns five Pieces one thousand two hundred Horse one thousand Arms and all their Bag and Baggage Letters that Lieutenant General Cromwel was received with great Ceremony at Edenburgh where he demanded that none who had been in Action in the late wicked Ingagement and Invasion might hence forward be imployed in any publick Place of Trust to which the Committee of Estates there gave a satisfactory answer He had also visits and Conferences with Commissioners from the Kirke and from the Provost and Magistrates of Edenburgh and a strong Guard of Souldiers at his Lodging At the time of his being at Edenburgh several other demands were made by him to the Committee of Estates who gave him very fair answer and he reserved liberty for the Parliament of England to make such further demands as they should think requisite The Charges of Lieutenant General Cromwels entertainment and of all his Company during the time of their being at Edenburgh were defraied by the Lord Provost of the City by Order of the Committee of Estates and Cromwel Haselrigge and the rest of their company were entertained by General Leven the Lord Argyle and many other Lords at a sumptuous Banquet in the Castle At their going away the Castle Saluted them with many great Guns and Vollies of small Shot and divers Lords convoyed them out of the City That in Edenburgh was a Proclamation for all Malignants to depart the City and not remain within six miles of it 17. The House Voted to Adjourn for six days but the Lords dissenting they recalled ' their Vote Upon Letters from Colonel Ashton of the surrender of Appleby Castle referred to the Committee of the North what to do with the Castle and how to secure the Arms Ordnance and Ammunition there in Lancaster Castle and gave thirty pounds to the Messenger Letters from Lieutenant General Cromwel of his proceedings in Scotland and his return to Carlisle the House approved of it and ordered a Letter of thanks to be written to him The Commons Voted Sir William Parsons and Sir John Temple to be Commissioners for the Great Seal of Ireland and dissented from the Lords who Voted to have a Chancellour there Letters from the Isle of Wight that the King had assented to all the Propositions except that of the Church with some qualifications That an Act be passed for raising Monies to pay the publick Debts and if the King assent not to it that then if it pass both Houses it shall be valid in Law That by Act of Parliament all Peers made since the Lord Littleton carried away or that the Great Scal was carried away to Oxford May 10. 1642. and who shall hereafter be made shall not sit or Vote in Parliament without the consent of both Houses and that all Honours and Titles conferred on any since May 20. 1642. shall be void Letters from the Hague that the Prince with the revolted Ships is still in Goree Road his Seamen discontented That the Lord Culpeppeâ— was sent to them with Mony and they said they might thank the Earl of Warwick for it that the Lord Culpepper was accused for betraying the secrets of the Prince to the Parliament and that the Lord Percy was committed for giving the lie in the Prince his presence Letters that the Lord of Ormond was landed at Wexford in Ireland and brought with him four thousand Arms and five hundred Curassiers part of the Supply designed for the Scots That the English Army were in great want of pay and provisions 18. Letters from the Lord General Fairfax intimating the proceedings of the Army and that several Petitions were promoting among the Souldiery of the
Hall and the Drums beat in the Palace-yard after which Proclamation was made to give notice that the Commissioners for Tryal of the King were to sit again to morrow and that all those who had any thing to say against the King might then be heard The House of Commons then sitting Ordered Sergeant Dendy to make the like Proclamation at the Old Exchange and in Cheapside London which was done accordingly Vote that the name of any one particular person should not be inserted as the style of any Common Writ or otherwise for the time to come and referred it to the Committee for setling proceedings in Courts of Justice to consider how the style should be Votes that the present Great Seal shall be broken and a new one forthwith made and in the mean time all proceedings under the present Great Seal to be good till the new one be confirmed That the Armes of England and of Ireland shall be engraven on one side of the new Great Seal with this inscription The Great Seal of England That on the other side of the Seal shall be the Sculpture or Map of the House of Commons sitting with these words engraven on that side In the first year of freedom by Gods blessing restored 1648. This was for the most part the fancy of Mr. Henry Martin a noted Member of the House of Commons more particularly the inscriptions Order for pay of Colonel Whites Regiment The General set forth a proclamation reciting the flocking of Malignants to London as there was ground to believe to raise new troubles and the Order of Parliament impowering him to expel them the City and ten miles distant therefrom which accordingly he enjoyns by this proclamation and that the Delinquents depart within four and twenty hours A Petition to the General and his Council from the Officers and Souldiers in the Isle of Wight c. mentioning the late delusive Treaty with the King and danger of new troubles they declare their conjunction with the Army in their desires in the large Remonstrance and in their present proceedings which they desire may be prosecuted c. The Proclamation was made by Sergeant Dendy whilst the Courts of Justice sate in Westminster-Hall to the no small interruption of them About Eleven a Clock the House of Commons sent for the Mace out of Chancery Sergeant Dendy having that of the House thereupon the Commissioners rose and went home 10. Order for the Sergeant at Armes to take Mr. Pryn into custody for denying their authority The Commissioners for Tryal of the King met and chose Sergeant Bradshaw for their President Mr. Steel to be Attorney General Mr. Coke Sollicitor General and they with Dr. Dorislaus and Mr. Aske to draw up and manage the Charge against the King Mr. Waller moved for a Habeas Corpus for Mr. Pryn a Member of the House lately apprehended as is before mentioned This being a matter of Priviledge of Parliament and Mr. Pryn being committed by order of the Commons the Commissioners thought it fit to advise with that House before they granted the Habeas Corpus The rest of the Commissioners of the Seal desired Whitelock to go presently into the House to know their pleasure in this business which he did and the House not being sate he conferred with the Speaker and divers of the Members about it and told them that by the Law a Habeas Corpus could not be denyed They commended the Commissioners respect to the House and agreed that a Habeas Corpus could not be denyed So Whitelock returned to the Court and they thought fit to grant the Habeas Corpus In the evening one of the Sergeants men brought Whitelock an Order of the House requiring Sir Thomas Widdrington and him by name to attend the Committee to morrow about setling the course of Justice 11. Debate touching the Navy Report of the Sergeants men who served Mr. Pryn with the Warrant of the House to take him into custody that Mr. Pryn answered him that as he was coming to the House to perform his duty there for the County for which he was elected he was apprehended by Sir Hardress Waller and Colonel Pride and secured as a Prisoner ever since that being not discharged of the said imprisonment he could not submit to that order which the Sergeants man had for any other restraint to be laid upon him and therefore he refused to obey the same The House Ordered the answer to be read of the General Council of the Army concerning the Secluded and secured Members the substance whereof they approved and appointed a Committee to consider what was fit further to be done thereupon and set a day to consider of the particular case of Mr. Pryn. A visit to the Lord Chief Justice Rolles a wise and Learned man He seemed much to scruple the casting off of the Lords House and was troubled at it Yet he greatly incouraged to attend the House of Commons notwithstanding the present Force upon them which could not dispense with their attendance and performance of their duty who had no Force upon them in particular The Committee for proceedings in Courts of Justice had a great debate what style shall be used in Commissions and Writs instead of the wonted style Carolus Dei gratia c. 12. Petition of the Trustees and others for the Sale of Bishops-lands that that business might he confirmed by Patent under the Great Seal of England Order for the Sollicitor General to draw up a Patent to pass the Seal accordingly The Commissioners for Tryal of the King being to sit in the Afternoon the House adjourned the earlier 13. Ordinances past for regulating the affairs of the Navy Reference to the Committee of the Navy to conferr with the Lord Admiral about sending some Ships to Goree in Holland and North-ward and if he were not in Town that then the Committee should do it of themselves and all Officers and Mariners were required to obey their Orders Order for Sir George Ascue to be desired to go with Captain Moulton in this expedition and several other Orders made concerning the Fleet. Two Petitions from the Inhabitants of Devon and Exon Gentlemen and Ministers c. desiring Justice upon the principal causers of the first and second War and a firm Peace The General Council of Officers concluded upon the agreement of the People and added some Trustees to the Lord Grey Sir Jo. Danvers c. for making the divisions for elections in the several Counties The High Court of Justice sate for Tryal of the King their whole time was spent about setling the Court and calling over their Members and to summon those who being named Commissioners did not appear amongst whom Colonel Rowland Wilson a person of great worth and integrity refused to act as a Commissioner though named in this business or to sit with them They agreed that
The King desired that in respect sentence of death was past upon him and the time of his execution might be nigh that the House would give him leave to see his Children and that he might have D r Juxon to be private with him in his Chamber and to give him the Sacrament This was ordered accordingly and Dr. Juxon preached before the King in his private lodgings this night at White-Hall 28. The Commissioners of the High Court of Justice kept a Fast in the Chappel at White-Hall 29. The House sate early and one of the secluded Members coming in they Voted That such Members as 5. Dec. last Voted that the Kings concessions were a ground of setling peace in this Nation should not be readmitted but disabled to sit as Members for the future The Dutch Ambassadours had their Audience in the House they read their Instructions and Credentials in French and promised Copies of them in English to morrow but would not part with the Originals Their business was to interceed for the Kings life and to preserve a fair correspondence betwixt this Nation and the States An Act passed for alteration of names and forms in Writs Grants Patents procedings in Courts c. That in England Ireland and Berwick c. instead of the style title and teste of the King shall be used Custodes libertatis Angliae Authoritate Parliamenti c. That the date shall be the year of our Lord and no other That instead of the former words Juratores pro Domino Rege c. the words now to be used shall be Juratores pro Republica Instead of the words Contra pacem dignitatem vel Coronam nostram the words shall be Contra pacem Publicam That all Writs Patents Commissions c. shall stand good notwithstanding the death of the King The High Court of Justice sate and appointed the time and place for the Execution of the King The Kings Children came from Syon-House tovisit him at S t Iames's he took the Princess in his Arms and kissed her and gave her two Seals with Diamonds and prayed for the blessing of God upon her and the rest of his children and there was great weeping The Prince Elector the Duke of Richmond and others made suit to see him which he refused Letters from Scotland that the Ministers there preach against the Army in England and the proceedings against their King they say they are bound by their Covenant to preserve Monarchy and that in the Race of the present King That their Parliament have passed several votes against those that were in the late ingagament against England Letters that Prince Rupert was at Sea with about fourteen of the revolted Ships and took divers Merchant men the Parliament having no Ships abroad The Commissioners met at Mr. Browns House where the Seal lay to have had a Private Seal but by reason of my Lord Grey's absence who had the key and because of the sentence given against the King they did not seal any thing but they heard divers Petitions 30. The King walked from St. James's through the Park guarded with a Regiment of Foot and Partisans to White-Hall Divers Gentlemen went bare before him D r Juxon followed next to him and Colonel Thomlinson had the charge of him they brought him to the Cabinet-Chamber where he continued at his devotion He refused to dine having before taken the Sacrament but about twelve a clock at noon he drank a Glass of Claret Wine and eat a piece of Bread from thence he went with D r Juxon Colonel Thomlison Colonel Hacker and the Guards through the Banqueting House adjoyning to which the Scaffold was erected it was hung round with black and the Floor covered with black and the Ax and block laid in the middle of it Divers Companies of Foot and Horse were on every side of the Scaffold and great multitudes of People came to be spectators the King looked earnestly on the Block asked if there were no place higher and directing his speech to the Gentlemen upon the Scaffold he spake to this effect I shall be very little heard of any Body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I did submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it is my duty to God first and to my Country for to clear my self both as an honest man and a good King and a good Christian I shall begin first with my innocency in troth I think it not very needful for me to insist long upon this for all the world knows that I never did begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witness to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend for to incroach upon their priviledges They began upon me it is the Militia they began upon they confest that the Militia was mine but they thought it fit to have it from me and to be short if any Body will look to the dates of Commissions theirs and mine and likewise to the Declarations they will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles not I. So that as to the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of it I will not I am in Charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I do believe that ill Instruments between them and me have been the chief cause of all this Blood-shed so that by way of speaking as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too Yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgments are just upon me many times he does pay justice by an unjust sentence that is Ordinary I only say this that an unjust sentence that I suffered for to take effect is punished now by an unjust sentence upon me that is so far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man pointing to Dr. Juxon that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the world and even those in particular that have been the Chief causers of my Death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my Charity must go further I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with St. Stephen that this be not laid to their Charge nay not only so but that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdom for Charity commands me not only to forgive particular men but
time it was answered That it was for Prisoners to prepare their proofs against the Tryal he having been in Prison so long he replied that during his six Months imprisonment he never sent about any private business but only to get Monies to maintain him and prayed the mercy of the Court that if they would spare him he might be useful and that he was sorry for what he had done He had two daies time longer given to him to prepare for his defence 14. Vote for thirty eight persons to be of the Council of State viz. Earl of Denbigh Mulgrave Pembroke Salisbury Lord Gray Fairfax General Grey of Groby Lord L'Isle Rolles St. John Wilde Bradshaw Cromwell Skippon Pickering Massam Haselrigg Harrington Vane jun. Danvers Armine Mildmay Constable Pennington Wilson Whitelock Martin Ludlow Stapeley Heveningham Wallop Hutchinson Bond Al. Popham Valentine Walton Scot Purefoy Jones Their powers were 1. To command and settle the Militia of England and Ireland 2. To set forth such a Navy as they should think fit 3. To appoint Magazines and Stores and to dispose them c. 4. To sit and execute the powers given them for a Year Instruction passed for altering Patents of Sheriffs and their Oath and a list of all the Justices of Peace brought into the House Major General Middleton who was upon his parole at Berwick brake his word and went to Scotland 15. An Act passed touching the accounts of Sheriffs Debate upon the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters lands The High Court of Justice sate and the Earl of Cambridge moved the Court for further time and new Council in regard that those formerly assigned to him for Council refused to plead for him which was granted to him In the House were the Dutch Ambassadors in person to receive the answer to their Papers and addresses 16. Ceremonies upon the Dutch Ambassadors going away Some Sheriffs nominated Order for moneys for the Judges going their Circuits The High Court of Justice sate and the Lord Goring was brought to the Bar Mr. Coke Sollicitor General set forth the heâ—nousness of his Crimes at Colchester in Kent Essex c. He said he could not deny the matter of fact in much of them but should clear himself of some particulars Divers witnesses were produced vivâ voce who proved the Death of several of the Parliament Party before Colchester the shooting of poisoned bullets boyled in Copperas from the Town the cruel usage of the Prisoners in Colchester the Lord Gorings reviling them calling them Rebellious Rogues the burning of six hundred Houses at Colchester and many other particulars The Lord Goring by way of defence made a Narrative of his proceedings since his last coming into England acknowledged his receiving a Commission from the Prince and his giving Commissions to others That what he did was out of a good intention for Peace and accommodation That Treason not being in the intention he could not be guilty of it that he intended not to raise Forces against the Parliament he pleaded his Peerage and the Articles of Colchester by which quarter was given him To this the Council for the Common-wealth replyed that a mans Actions did best expound his intentions that the Lord Goring ' s Actions spake him guilty of Murder Treason c. that to his Peerage the power by which the Court sate was an answer That for the Articles of Colchester though he had at first waved them by pleading not guilty yet he should have as full a benefit of them as the Lord Capel who had largely pleaded for them Against Sir John Owen witnesses testifyed the Death of the high Sheriff of Caernarven and others Sir John alledged that what he did was to free himself from violence and plunder but it was proved that he was in the first War had the Articles of Conway upon which he was admitted to compound took the Covenant and Negative Oath and yet ingaged a second time The Earl of Holland was removed from Warwick Castle to London 17. A Declaration passed in answer to the Scots Papers and was Ordered to be delivered to their Commissioners and to be printed and published Order to allow one thousand pound per annum Salary to each of the Commissioners of the Seal Order for the Council of State to sit and the Members that desired it to have lodgings in White-Hall Vote for two Seals for the Committee of Estates ingraven with the Arms of England and Ireland and this inscription the Committee of Estates appointed by Parliament Order for the General and Colonel Rich to sit in the House as Burgesses elected for Cirencester The Speaker acquainted the House with a Letter he received from the Prince Elector of his intentions to return to his own Country with some acknowledgement of thanks for favours to him appointed to be read on Munday next The High Court of Justice sate and witnesses proved the escape of the Lord Capel out of the Tower he pleaded that he did not escape as he was a Prisoner of War but as he was sent to the Tower in another condition The Earl of Cambridge urged that the Council assigned to him were not ready for want of longer time and held it not proper for them to plead in matter of Law till the fact were first proved The Court declared that he had been often moved to make his defence whereupon he proceeded in it produced his Commissions from the Parliament to command all the Forces of that Kingdom and the order of the Committee of Estates there for him to advance into England then the large Declaration from Scotland He pleaded the ends thereof being for his Majesties honour the setling of Religion and the Covenant he also pleaded the Articles agreed unto by Major General Lambert when he yielded himself Prisoner whereby he was assured by him of quarter and life to prove which he produced the Lord Grey Colonel Lilburn and M r Peters for witnesses Concerning the point of Naturalization he pleaded that his Father being naturalized could not make him a subject of England no more than the Son of an English-man born in any Foreign Parts was intituled thereby to any inheritance here that he had a Petition and Bill prepared for his Naturalization but it passed not Colonel Whichcot the Governour and the Marshal of Windsor-Castle proved the Earls escape after he had passed his word to the Governour to be a true Prisoner the Earl earnestly denyed this and offered upon it a Challenge to the Governour were he not in his present capacity but it was left to the judgment of the Court. 19. The Letter from the Prince Elector was read of the grounds of his return to his own Country returning humble thanks for the favour of the Parliament to him desiring the continuance of his stipend and the arrears of it to be paid The House Ordered the arrears to be paid him and the Speaker to give him
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
other Provisoes Referred to the Committee of Goldsmiths Hall to take into consideration the Business concerning the Souldiery and Ministers in Lancashire that such satisfaction may be given them as may tend to the Service of the Commonwealth and to take into consideration the Troupe of Horse in Oxfordshire and to pay it out of the Sequestrations in Oxfordshire until further order from the House or Councel of State 26 Ordered that the Lord Commissioners of the great Seal do take care that Writs be issued out and sent down into every County to the several Sheriffs to proclaim the Act touching the Ingagement This Course of proclaiming new Acts of Parliament was very antient and constantly used especially in elder times as appears by the Records but of late disused It was thought fit to have it revived again that the People might be informed what Acts were passed which they were not so fully by the Printing as by proclaiming of them at their Markets Orders touching the Composition of Delinquents Votes for taking off the additional Exercise upon most of the Commodities mentioned in the last Act touching the Excise Letters from Ireland of C. Hewsons taking in some Forts near Dublin 28 Letters that the Scots had no Answer from Sir George Windram Laird of Libberton but that the King would be satisfyed from him whether his Subjects of Scotland would ingage to Establish him in England as King That he is not yet removed from Jersy That divers Souldiers came from Ireland into Orkney Letters That the States Provincial of Holland have resolved to send an Agent into England for their better Correspondence with the Parliament 29 Letters from Ireland of taking the Fort upon the Bogg of Allan of a Dutch Ship of 300 Tun cast away upon that Coast that the Lord Lieutenant had sent to besiege Eniscorsie Castle belonging to Mr. Wallop a Member of the House which the Enemy had lately surprised That the Lord Lieutenant visited all the English Garrisons in Munster and gave Orders to them That Inchequin was in Kerrcy That 16 of the Enemies Horse came from Duncannon to the Lord Lieutenant 30 Letters from Holly-Head that a Vessel bound for London Derry with Coals Cloaths and other Merchants Goods was taken by a Scots Man of War the Mariners and sixteen Passengers put on Shore the Owner and Master carryed away Prisoners That the Gentlemen and Commonalty of Ireland do generally submit to the Lord Lieutenants Orders From York That a Minister lately informed that there would be shortly a Massacre of the well affected in the Nation From Shrewsbury That many Cavaliers wear Ribbands with Motto's God prosper That the Ministers incourage them and Preach against the present Government They report an Agreement between the King of Scots and his People of that Kingdom upon the terms proposed at the Isle Wight and that the Presbyterians of England will joyn From Plymouth That a Vessel of Dartmouth was by a storm forced into the Mounts Bay and wracked and all lost save one Person Returns of Subscriptions to the Ingagement 31 The Town of Pool having warned a general Sessions to be held not one Justice came to joyn with them The Act giving 10 l. to him that shall apprehend a Fellon caused the Countrymen to apprehend many of the Thieves and Robbers in all places and the Mony was duely paid to them February 1649. Feb. 1. Divers People took away by violence from the Owners Wheat and other Corn carrying to Market to Basing-Stoak and beat the Carters and some of them being imprisoned for it the rest brake the Prison and let out them and other Malefactors Letters from Rome That there an Agent from England and the English Priests seem very confident that within few Years their Religion would be Established in England 2 At a Court Marshal in C. Prides Regiment a Souldier was sentenced to run the Gantlope and afterwards to be cashiered for threatning to cut his fellow Souldiers throats in case King Charles the Second came in and for swearing and drunkenness Another had the like sentence having been found to have been in Arms against the Parliament and then came in to them and at his disbanding gave out threatning words against the Officers The Parliament Voted that a Book written by one Coppes intituled a fiery flying Roll c. contained many horrid Blasphemies and damnable and detestable Opinions and that the Book and all Copies of it that can be found shall be burnt by the hands of the Hangman A Petition from Wiltshire for Propagation of the Gospel c. approved by the House and in order thereto they appointed every Fryday to consider al wayes for the better advancing the Gospel of Christ An Act committed for the better propagating of the Gospel in Wales The Parliament ordered touching Negotiations with Forraign Princes and States That the Stile and Title to be used by this Parliament in all Negotiations shall be Parliamentum Rei-publicae Anglicae And the Style when any address shall be made to them The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England And no other Title to be used Order for an Act to be brought in for the Punishment of insolent Profanations of the Sabbath and Adultery The Parliament upon the hearing Sir Jacob Garrets Business sentenced three of his false Accusers to stand in the Pillory Thus they took upon them and exercised all manner of Jurisdiction and sentenced Persons Secundum Arbitrium 4 Letters that Jermin and other Lords and Courtiers are hastning from Paris to Breda hearing that the Scots are sending Money to defray the charges of their King and Court there That the Scots are busy in purging their Army but are startied at the news of the Parliament sending for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland That they report the ground thereof to be That he is routed in Ireland and That the Parliament of England fear new Troubles Yet the Scots sent an Express into Ireland to know the certainty 5 Letters of the Losses by Pirates about Scarborough From Weymouth That one Mr. Thomas May was secured by the Governour there and to be sent up in Custody to London for raysing false Rumors concerning the Parliament and the General From Portsmouth That G. Deane came thither with the Phenix and informed of several Vessels with Recruits for Ireland cast away An Act passed for a day of publick Humiliation throughout England and Wales to seek God for a Blessing upon the Proceedings of Parliament and their Armies in England and Ireland Debate about an Act for a publick Register to inroll all Deeds and to find Incumbrances upon all Estates and Lands An Additional Act passed for removing of Obstructions in the sale of the late Kings Lands c. A Petition from Westminster for settling the civil Government there referred to the Committee for Corporations Debate of an Act for regulating and erecting a Corporation in Norfolk concerning the Worsted-Weavers and Yarn-Men
contract for Ships and Provisions to be sent to the Plantations in America Order about Monies for Convoyes An Act Passed for easing the Charge of Lords of Mannors and their Bayliffes in passing their Accounts in the Exchequer 6 Letters of some small Prizes brought into Plymouth That the Prince of Orange was dead of the Small Pox. 7 Letters That some Pyrates took three Ships out of Plymouth-Road at Noon-day That thousands came in voluntarily to take the Engagement without any Summons That the Commissioners for charitable uses at Taunton found out great Sums of Money due to the poor Letters That the L. Deputy gave a Defeat to the Enemy in Munster That those in Lymerick refused to Treat for Surrender of the Town and the L. Deputy prepared to build a Fort against it That the L. Ormond hanged some Mass-Priests and thereby lost the Affections of the Irish That C. Cooke fought with the Wickloe-Tories and took prisoner Shurlocke their great Captain That upon the L. Deputies Approach to Athelow they quitted the Town and burnt it and guarded the Pass over the River to the Castle That the Deputy left Sir Charles Coote there and marched to Lymerick and in the way took in several Garrisons That the Plague was much ceased in Ireland 9 Letters Of a London-Ship split upon the Rocks near Dartmouth That the Royal-Party and the Kirk-Party in Scotland were reconciled and all engaged against the English Army 11 Letters That 2000 were daily at work upon the new Fortifications at Leith and when they meet with a Rock they boar holes in it and blow it abroad with Gunpowder That Middleton refusing to come in when the King sent for him was Excommunicated by the Kirk That David Lesley's Army have no mind to fight with Middleton's men That they being upon the King's Interest only have to colour their Pretences set forth a Declaration Entituled A Declaration of the Noblemen in Arms for Vnion in the prosecution of the Cause of God and Relief of the Kingdoms That Middleton and the rest of his Party refused an Act of Indempnity unless they might be admitted as others to Places of Trust which the Kirk and Estates would not permit yet all of them are like to agree That the Scots prisoners taken at the Battel of Dunbar at their first coming to Newcastle got into the Gardens and fed so greedily upon the raw Cabbage that they poysoned their Bodies That 1600 of them died 500 more of them were sick and 900 in health who are set to work there 12 The Committee revived to examine some Complaints made against Ranters An Act committed for turning all Books of Law into English and for all Process and Proceedings in Courts of Justice to be in English The Act committed for the Assessment of 120000 l. per mensem Upon Report from the Councel of State several Votes passed in order for Reparation to the English Merchants who had been injured by the French An Act passed to make Prize of Portugal Ships and Merchandise The Parliament named the Sheriffs for the several Shires of England and Wales for the year enâ—â—ing Five of C. Barkstead's Souldiers rode the wooden Horse in Smithfield and two of them were whipped for attempting to rob in Smithfield and a Trooper condemned to be shot to death for killing his Fellow-Souldier 13 Letters That a Cook of a Ship of Bremen upon what Discontent was unknown did at Lee near Gravesend mix Mercury with the Pottage and poysoned the Master and 11 men being all in the Ship so that they all died within 24 hours after and the Murderer escaped away An Account of Provisions shipping from Pendennis for Ireland 14 An account of many Subscribing the Engagement at Oxon and of setling the Militia there Convoys appointed to be constantly attending upon the Merchants Ships and they required not to send abroad without them An Account of two Ships laden with Provisionâ—â—ent to G. Blake riding before Lisbon Recruits for Ireland who ran away and were retaken one of them was hanged and others did run the Gantelope for abusing some Countreymen and the Court-Martial published some Orders for preventing the like Inconveniences for the future Other Souldiers were punished for erroneous Tenents and scandalous Prophaneness 15 Letters That the E. of Clanrickard took in two or three little Places Garrison'd by the Parliaments Army That the Irish upon an advantage fell upon a party of C. Cookes men and the Dispute lasted many hours between them at length C. Cooke routed the Irish killed three or four hundred of them and took two Colonels prisoners Letters That some Waggoners of the G. with 36 traine Horses were surprized in their Quarters within a Mile of Edenburgh That C. Straughan was inclinable to come in and joyn with the English Army That the Laird of Brady one of the Commissioners that brought the King from Holland into Scotland came from the Court to the Committee of Estates and declared his sorrow for having a hand in that Action That the King removed to Dumferling fearing to be fetcht away by the Royal Party That Middleton was 8000 strong 18 Letters That the Army was quartered in Edenburgh Leith and the Villages 8 miles compass about That there are great Differences Discharge amongst the Scots and the King endeavours to reconcile all 19 Order of Parliament for Discharge of all Sums due for respit of Homage and Fines for Alienation and for all mean Rates c. Referred to a Committee to draw Instructions for the Barons of the Exchequer touching the Poll-Bill c. An Act passed for Regulating the making of Norwich-Stuffs Letters That many came away from Straughan to St. Johns Town and some from David Lesly came to Middleton The G. published a Proclamation That if any of his Souldiers were robbed or killed in the Country he would require restitution and life for life of the Parish where the fact should be committed unless they discovered the Offender 20 Letters of a Ship with Goods bound for Ireland taken by Scilly Pyrates near Minhead That the Princess of Orange was brought to bed of a Son 21 Letters Of Ministers rayling in their Pulpits in several Counties against the Present Government and yet that more than were summoned came in to take the Engagement That the Plague was ceased in Shrewsbury Of two Dutch Ships loaden cast away near Dartmouth Letters That C. Monk with a Party of 1600 was sent to take in Derlington-House a Nest of the Moss-Troopers who killed many Souldiers of the Army That M. G. Lambert came before the House and cast up their Batteries the same night so that their great Guns were ready to play the next Morning by the Break of Day That their great Shot played and the fourth Shot of their Mortar-piece tore the inner Gate beat down the Draw-Bridge into the Moat and killed the Lieutenant of the Moss-Troopers so that they called for Quarter Which would not
and in the same sence are used in the Customary That which puts it further out of scruple is that there are yet extant the Manuscripts themselves of the Saxon Laws made in the Parliamentary Councels held by them here which are in the Language and Character of those times and contain in them many of those things which are in the Norman Customary It is no improbable Opinion that there was a former establishment of our Laws in Normandy before the time of H. 1. and that it was by Edward the Confessor who as all Writers of our History agree was a great Collector and Compiler of our English Laws He lived a long time with his Kinsman Duke William in Normandy who was willing to please the Confessor in hopes to be appointed by him to be his Successor wherein the Dukes expectation did not fail him The Confessor having no Children and finding Normandy without a setled Government and wanting Laws advised with his Kinsman Duke William to receive from him the Laws of England which he had collected and to establish them in Normandy which Duke William and his Lords readily accepted for the Good of their People and thereby obliged the Confessor Another Proof hereof is That such Laws as the Normans had before the time of D. William were different from those in the Customary and from the English Laws As their Law that the Husband should be hanged if the Wife were a Thief and he did not discover it The meaner People were as Slaves and the like and the trial of Theft by Ordeil which then was not in England Wigorniensis reports That the Normans who came in with Queen Emma the Wife of Ethelred were so hated of the English for their Injustice and false Judgment that in the time of King Canutus they were for this cause banished and it is the less probable that they being so unjust themselves should introduce so just Laws as ours are Between the Conquest of Normandy by Rollo and the Invasion of England by Duke William there were not above 160 Years that of Normandy was about An. 912. that of England An. 1060. It is not then consonant to reason That those Normans Pagans a rough Martial People descended from so many barbarous Nations should in the time of 150 Years establish such excellent Laws among themselves and so different from the French Laws among whom they were and all parts in the World except England And such Laws which were not onely fit for their Dukedom and small Territory but fit also for this Kingdom which in those dayes was the second in Europe for antiquity and worth by confession of most Forreign Historians If we will give Credit to their own Authors this Point will be sufficiently evinced by them these words are in the Proheme of the Customary which is titled Descriptio Normanniae Hucusque Normannicae consuetudinis latorem sive datorem Sanctum Edvardum Angliae regem c. The same is witnessed by Chronica Chronicorum That St. Edward King of England gave the Laws to the Normans when he was long harboured there And that he made both the Laws of England and Normandy appears sufficiently by the conformity of them for which he cites several particulars as of Appeals and the Custom of England ad probandum aliquid per credentiam duodecem hominum Vicinorum which he sayeth remained in Normandy to that day Polydore forgetting himself what he wrote in another place sayeth of King Henry the Seventh That when a doubt was made upon the Proposal of Marriage of his Daughter to Scotland that thereby England night in time be subject unto Scotland The King answered No and that England as the greater will draw it to Scotland being the less and incorporate it to the Laws of England as sayeth the Historian it did Normandy though the Owner thereof was Conquere in England And Sir Roger Owen in his Manuscript affirms That there is not any of our Historians that lived in the space of 200 Years immediately after the Conquest which doth describe our Laws to be taken away and the Norman Custome introduced by the Conquerour Some of them and not improbably mention the alteration of some part of them and the bringing in some Norman Customes effectual for the keeping of the Peace There is yet behind the great Argument most insisted on and often urged by the Gentlemen of another Opinion which is the Title of William who is called the Conquerour from whence they conclude That by his Conquest he changed the Laws and Government of this Nation and that his Successors reckon the beginning of their Reigns from his Conquest To this is answered that â posse ad esse non valet argumentum the conquering of the Land is one thing the introducing of new Laws is another thing but there is direct Proof to the contrary of this Argument Duke William never surnamed himself the Conquerour nor was so called in his life time as may appear by all the Letters Patents and Deeds that he made wherein he is called Gulielmus Rex Dux c. never Conquestor and our antient Historians give him the same Titles and not that of Conquerour In the Title of Nubrigensis's Book he is surnamed William the Bastard Malmsbury calls him W. 1. Hoveden W. the Elder Adam de Monmouth sayeth That 1. E. 3. this word Conquest was found out to denote and distinguish the certain Edward because two of the same name were Predecessors to this King and to the Conquerour who claimed the Crown as Heir to Edward the Confessor but saith he we call him the Conquerour for that he overcame Harold Duke William himself claimed to be King of England as Successor and adopted Heir of the Confessor by his Will and Harolds renouncing of his Title by Oath The Register of St. Albans Math. Paris and others attest that the Barons of England did homage to him as Successor and he relyed on them in his Forreign Wars and the check given to him by the Kentish men and the Forces gathered by the Abbot of St. Albans brought him to ingage to confirm the Laws of the Confessor and as his Successor by legal right they admitted him to be their King Volaterus writes That he was made Heir to the Confessor and was Vncle to him Another affirms That Edward by his Will left England to him Paulus Aemilius and Fulgasius are to the same purpose Pope Alexander the Second sent him a Banner as witness that with a safe Conscience he mighe expel Harold the Tyrant because the Crown was due to him by the Confessors Will and by Harolds Oath Agreeable hereunto are Gemiticensis Walsingham Malmsbury Huntington Ingulphus Paris Pike Wendover Caxton Gisborn and others The antient Deeds of the Abby of Westminster which were sometimes in my Custody do prove this King William in his Charter to them sets forth his own Title to the Crown thus Beneficio Concessionis Cognati mei gloriosi Regis Edvardi In his
and met with 3000 Foot and 300 Horse under Clenrickard who had taken some of the Parliaments Garrisons and blockt up a Pass That C. Axtel faced a Pass which was strongly fortified and manned with Horse and Foot and a deep River between him and the Enemy they had an hours Dispute on both sides the River in which the Enemy lost 150 Horse Axtel lost but one Lieutenant and six wounded That by reason of the steepness of the Banks of the River the Souldiers could not get up and so retreated That Axtel having an additional strength in all 1800 Foot and 1000 Horse and Dragoons he advanced towards the Enemy who were above 4000 and got into an Island into which there is one Pass with a Bogg on each side and the Pass fortified in several places one behind another as Reserves all which must be gained before one could enter into the Island That Axtel's men made an attempt upon the Enemy about an hour before night and after a small Dispute gained two of their Guards and at the third Guard they came to the Butt-End of the Musket but Axtel's men forced their Entrance into the Island and the Enemy were totally routed That they lost all their Arms 200 Horse all their Waggons Oxen Tents and what was in the Camp of Provisions and Ammunition That besides those that were killed many of the Irish were drowned That 500 of them were driven into the Shannon by a Party of the Parliaments Horse and were drowned all in one company together That not above 300 of their whole Party escaped yet Axtel lost but one Captain Goffe with 8 common Souldiers and 20 wounded That after this Defeat the Enemy fired and quitted the Garrisons they had taken and fled and Axtel returned to Kilkenny That the next day he Marched out again to find out another Party of the Enemy who infested that Countrey That Nenagh Castle was Surrendred to the L. Deputy who drew off from Limerick by reason of the unseasonable time of the Year Upon reading of this Letter in the House they ordered Thanks to be given the next Lords Day in the several Churches in London for this Victory The Act passed for the 120000 l. Assessment per mensem 27 Letters of the refractoriness of the Magistrates and Ministers of Weymouth to the Parliaments Orders 28 Letters That C. Cooke with 3000 men fell upon the Enemy being 5000 routed and killed of them about 1500 near Limerick That three Ships were wrecked near Plymouth by Storms 29 Letters That C. Blake hearing of a French Man of War lying to take the English Merchants coming out of the Streights he with the Phoenix and his own Fri got found out and fell upon the Frenchman and after some honrs Fight took and brought her into Cadiz That C. Mildmay took another French Ship laden with rich Commodities 30 Letters That the Jersey Pyrates took two Dartmouth Ships and three other Ships Of the increase of the Plague about Exeter That by Great Shot from the Castle eight or nine Persons were killed most of them Scots and three Women December 1650. 2 Letters of an Insurrection in Norfolk begun for the King but soon dispersed by some Troops of Colonel Rich his Regiment Letters of C. Monk's being set down before Brothwick-Castle and of a Ship with Arms come in to the Enemy That some Differences were between the Committee of Estates and the Kirk about their General Meeting but over-voted by the Ministers to comply with the King That upon the News of the Parliaments Victory in Scotland the King of Portugal released the English Merchants and resolved to send an Ambassador into England to the Parliament A Souldier Sentenced to death for running away from his Colours upon his March to Scotland 3 An Act passed for Mr. Manby that no other shall make use of his Invention for boiling of Liquors for 14 years 4 Letters of a Minister in Taunton endcavouring in his Sermon to possess the People That the present Magistrates in England were against Jesus Christ 5 That some London-Ships in sight with French-Ships fired themselves and the French together That the French-Ship taken by C. Blake was worth a Million 6 Letters That Whaley and others to the number of 5000 Men were marched towards Scotland to joyn with the Army That in his March he took in Dalkeith-Castle the Wall whereof was 13 Foot broad at the top and in it he took store of Arms Ammunition and Provisions That the English Souldiers married divers of the Scots women 7 An Account to the Parliament by an Officer of C Rich who was present at the suppressing the Insurrection in Norfolk 9 Letters That C. Ker attempting to fall on Major General Lambert in his Quarters his men took the Alarm incompassed C. Ker's men being all Horse killed 100 of them took 100 Prisoners and 400 Horse That the Kingly Party carried it to Vote C. Straughan's Declaration to be scandalous and tending to Division but questioned none of the Parties to it but divers Lords and Ministers protested against this Vote That the First of January next the King's Coronation is appointed and in the mean time two Fasts one for the Sins of the King and his Family the other for the Sins of the Kirk and State 10 An Act passed for establishing an High Court of Justice in Norfolk c. for punishing the late Insurrections there Votes passed touching Additional Pay for the Souldiers and for preventing of free Quarter 11 Letters of the Death of the Queen Regent of France Of Letters come to the Spanish Ambassador at London carried first to the Councel of State 12 Letters of the Militia setled in several Places Of the ceasing of the Plague in Shrewsbury and thereupon that the Markets were as full as ever 13 Letters That in the Pursuit of C. Ker's Men the C. himself was taken Prisoner and wounded That yet the Scots reported Major General Lambert was taken Prisoner and all his Party five Regiments defeated and a Scotchman swore that he saw Major General Lambert and twelve Colours carried into Sterling That the King is to make his Repentance for his endeavour to escape That the purging of the Kirk and State is intended but no Malignant to be excluded but those of the Honest Party to be laid aside 14 Letters That one Levinston a Minister one of the Commissioners sent to the King at Breda came to the Committee of Estates professing sorrow for his acting as a Commissioner and that the Blood spilt at Dunbar lay upon the Commissioners that he would retire and repent That Captain Hammond was killed from the Castle That the Great Guns and a Mortar-piece were come from London to Leith And That the Souldiers were much pleased with the good Bisquet sent them from London 16 Letters from the General to the Speaker of the Results of the Treaties with Colonel Straughan and other Scots Officers and an Account
and Imprisonments may be taken away 28. Order for Mr. Goodwyn and Dr. Owen to preach in Oxford and for Masters of Art to preach in their turns Letters That the Marquess of Argyle studied how to make his peace with England and Monros could raise but few Men. That the Garrison at Ludlow were willingly disbanded and expressed a great affection one to another Of the neglect of the Minister of Taunton and other Ministers to celebrate the Thanksgiving-day 30. Letters That Collonel Heyne with his Regiment and other Forces after being beaten back by a Storm at last anchored under Jersey and resolved to attempt the Island the next day though the Sea was very rough because else their Horses would be starved That the same night the Storm ceased and at Three the next Morning by advice of the Councel of War they boated their Men but could not land till about 11 at night and then ran their Boats on ground and the Soldiers leaping into the Sea most of them Neck high they got to Shoar Where they were desperately charged with a Body of Horse for about half an hour after which the Enemy fled and the Parliaments Forces took Eight Pieces of Ordnance and marched a Mile into the Island finding no Enemy to oppose them That the next Morning they marched to several Forts and found in them Guns and Colours left That Parties brought in divers Prisoners to them The next day they drew on a Hill in the sight of Elizabeth Castle where the Enemy quitted the Fort under the Hill They also quitted and surrendred another Fort and went to Elizabeth Castle that here they had 14 Guns That Collonel Heyne sate down before Argyle Castle and in taking this Island lost but three or four Men and about 25 wounded That Sir George Carteret the Governour had 4000 Men. 31. Letters That the Marquess of Argyle sent a Trumpet to Lieutenant-General Monk desiring That some Persons well affected to the good of both Kingdoms might meet and treat about settlement and to prevent the shedding of more Blood The Lieutenant-General answered That he would not treat without Order of Parliament That the meeting of the Ministers at Edenburgh was dissolved without doing any thing That Captain Fannes the Governour of Anderwick was dead That the Forces sent against the Isle of Man were under Sail with a fair Wind. November 1651. 1. Letters That Sir Timothy Fetherston was executed at Chester according to the Sentence of the Court-Marshal and used only a few Prayers out of the Common-Prayer-Book Letters That the Parliaments Forces killed 100 Tories in Ireland took 50 and 500 Arms. 3. Letters That all the Parliaments Forces Horse and Foot were landed in the Isle of Man that the Islanders sent their Boats to bring them on Shoar and did secure Bartlet the great Pyrate and divers others That the Countess of Derby was retired to Peele Castle That the Parliaments Forces sent to Jersey after much conflicting with Seas and Winds and other difficulties and a short dispute with the Enemy landed about 11 a Clock at night That the Enemy after a hot Charge with their Horse fled and forsook divers small Forts That the next day they took the Tower of St. Andrews with 14 Guns in it which was a Refuge to their Ships That Sir George Carteret the Governour retreated to Elizabeth Castle which General Blake had blocked up The Parliament ordered That the Ministers of London and Westminster do on the fifth of November next in their several Congregations give thanks to God for the gaining of Jersey Island That the Governour of Bas Island in Scotland was summoned to deliver up the Island to the Parliament of England or else that his Lady and his Two Brothers in the Town should be sent up to the Parliament and that the Lady wrote to her Husband to surrender it 4. The Parliament passed the List of Sheriffs for the several Counties of England and Wales A List passed of Ships for the next Years Guard with Instructions to the Council of State for disposing of them Letters That the King of Scots for two days after the Defeat at Worcester staid in Woods near the Place and Trees and that some of Cromwels Soldiers looked into those Woods but found him not That he cut off his Hair and wore a Red Perriwig and was two or three days in Cromwels Army as a Boy or Servant to a Gentleman That he went to Sea in a Marriners Habit and landed at Diepe and had not Money to carry them to Paris Letters That a Party of the Parliaments Army stormed Mulick Castle in Ireland killed 34 of their Men and took 140 Prisoners but lost 80 Men. That Collonel Russel Commander of the Forces before Galloway had made strong Works there which those from the Town attempted to storm but were beaten off with loss That Lymbrick was surrendred to the Parliament all the Garrison had Quarter for their Lives only the Town was plundered and the Army drawn off to besiege Galloway That Shurlock the great Tory was slain 5. The Gunpowder-treason-day was solemnly observed 7. Letters That the Marquess of Argyle had summoned a Parliament in Scotland That divers Gentlemen in Scotland had a meeting to consider of some Propositions to be presented to the Commissioners of the Parliament of England in order to their Submission to them Of Recruits come from England to Scotland and of some Scots taken that fled away from the Battle of Worcester That the Lieutenant-General published a Proclamation in Scotland forbidding the raising of the English Coin to an higher rate than it was currant in England That there are great Divisions among the Clergy in Scotland 8. Letters That the whole Isle of Man with all the Forts and Castles in it were surrendred to the Parliaments Forces That the Parliaments Forces in Jersey had besieged Elizabeth Castle which was very strong situate upon a Rock in the Sea 10. Letters of the Particulars of the taking of the Isle of Man the Summons sent to the Countess of Derby and her Soldiers deserting of her and the Articles of Rendition of it to the Parliament without a Shot or Blow struck That they had there great store of Arms and Ammunition and Ordnance 11. The Parliament spent several days in debate of the Business for a New Representative They approved the Articles for the Isle of Man and ordered a Letter of Thanks to Collonel Duckenfield and Collonel Birch for their good Service in that Action and gave the Messenger that brought the News 100 l. and referred it to the Council of State to consider of preserving that Island for the benefit of the Parliament James Hinde the great High-way-man was examined before the Council of State and confess'd his serving of the King in England Scotland and Ireland and was sent to Newgate 12. Letters That the Lord Wareston and others sate privately in a Committee at Edenburgh preparing
Salop four For the County of Stafford six viz. For the City of Lichfield one For the Town of Stafford one For the Borough of Newcastle on the Line one For the County of Stafford three For the County of Somerset sixteen viz. For the Borough of Taunton two For the City of Bath one For the City of Wells one For the Borough of Bridgewater one For the County of Somerset eleven For the City of Bristol two For the County of Southampton fourteen viz. For the City of Winchester one For the Town of Southampton one For the Town of Portsmouth one For the Isle of Wight two For the Borough of Andover one For the County of Southampton eight For the County of Suffolk sixteen viz. For the Borough of Ipswich two For the Borough of Bury St. Edmonds two For the Borough of Dunwich one For the Borough of Sudbury one For the County of Suffolk ten For the County of Surrey ten viz. For the Borough of Southwark two For the Borough of Gilford one For the Borough of Rygate one For the County of Surrey six For the County of Sussex fourteen viz. For the City of Chichester one For the Borough of Lewis one For the Borough of East-greenstead one For the Borough of Arundel one For the Borough of Rye one For the County of Sussex nine For the County of Westmorland two For the County of Warwick seven viz. For the City of Coventry two For the Borough of Warwick one For the County of Warwick four For the County of Worcester seven viz. For the City and County of the City of Worcester two For the County of Worcester five For the County of Wilts fourteen viz. For the City of New Sarum two For the Borough of Marleborough one For the Borough of the Devizes one For the County of Wilts ten For the County of Anglesey two For the County of Brecon two For the County of Cardigan two For the County of Carmarthen two For the County of Carnarvon two For the County of Denbigh two For the County of Flint two For the County of Glamorgan three viz. For the Town of Cardiffe one For the County of Glamorgan two For the County of Merioneth one For the County of Montgomery two For the County of Pembrook three viz. For the Town of Haverfordwest one For the County of Pembrook two For the County of Raduor two The distribution of the Persons to be chosen for Scotland and the several Counties Cities and Places within the same shall be according to such proportions and number as shall be agreed upon and declared by the Lord Protector and the major part of the Council before the sending forth Writs of Summons for the next Parliament The distribution of the Persons to be chosen for Ireland and the several Counties Cities and places within the same shall be according to such proportions and number as shall be agreed upon and declared by the Lord Protector and the Major part of the Council before the sending forth Writs of Summons for the next Parliament XI That the summons to Parliament shall be by Writ under the Great Seal of England directed to the Sheriffs of the several and respective Counties with such alteration as may suit with the present Government to be made by the Lord Protector and his Council which the Chancellour Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal shall seal issue and send abroad by Warrant from the Lord Protector If the Lord Protector shall not give warrant for issuing of Writs of Summons for the next Parliament before the first day of June one thousand six hundred fifty four or for the Triennial Parliaments before the first day of August in every third year to be accounted as aforesaid That then the Chancellour Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being shall without any Warrant or direction within seven days after the said first day of June One thousand six hundred fifty four Seal Issue and send abroad Writs of Summons changing therein what is to be changed as aforesaid to the several and respective Sheriffs of England Scotland and Ireland for summoning the Parliament to meet at Westminster the third of September next and shall likewise within seven days after the said first day of August in every third year to be accounted from the Dissolution of the precedent Parliament Seal Issue and send abroad several Writs of Summons changing therein what is to be changed as aforesaid for summoning the Parliament to meet at Westminster the sixth of November in that third year That the said several and respective Sheriffs shall within ten days after the receipt of such Writs as aforesaid cause the same to be proclaimed and published in every Market-town within his County upon the Market-days thereof between Twelve and Three of the Clock and shall then also publish and declare the certain day of the week and moneth for choosing Members to serve in Parliament for the Body of the said County according to the tenour of the said Writ which shall be upon Wednesday five Weeks after the date of the Writ and shall likewise declare the place where the Election shall be made for which purpose he shall appoint the most convenient place for the whole County to meet in and shall send Precepts for Elections to be made in all and every City Town Borough or place within his County where Elections are to be made by vertue of these Presents to the Mayor Sheriff or other Head Officer of such City Town Borough or place within three days after the receipt of such Writ and Writs which the said Mayors Sheriffs and Officers respectively are to make publication of and of the certain day for such Elections to be made in the said City Town or place aforesaid and to cause Elections to be made accordingly XII That at the day and place of Elections the Sheriff of each County and the said Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs and other Head-Officers within their Cities Towns Boroughs and places respectively shall take view of the said Elections and shall make return into the Chancery within twenty days after the said Elections of the persons Elected by the greater number of Electors under their hands and seals between him on the one part and the Electors on the other part wherein shall be contained That the persons Elected shall not have power to alter the Government as it is hereby setled in one single Person and a Parliament XIII That the Sheriff who shall wittingly and willingly make any false return or neglect his duty shall incur the penalty of Two thousand Marks of lawful English Money the one mâ—ity to the Lord Protector and the other moity to such person as will sue for the same XIV That all and every person and persons who have ayded advised assisted or abetted in any War against the Parliament since the First day of January One thousand six hundred forty one unless they have been since in the service of the
they fell into divers of their Quarters and took many Prisoners 7 Letters of a chase of a French Ship which ran on ground Of a Dutch Ship of Three hundred Tuns brought in Prize That the Brest Men of War took Two Vessels of Milford Of all the Vnited Provinces but Friezland agreeing to the Articles of Peace with England That the French Ambassadour in Holland laboured to continue the War between England and Holland and offered to bear half the Charge of it but the States would not consent unto it that nevertheless the States go on with their preparations for the Sea-war That there will be a great distraction and trouble among the People in case the Peace with England be not concluded 8 The Lord Protector Dined in London with the Lord Mayor and Common Council by their invitation at which the Recorder made a Speech to his Highness The Intertainment was in a Magnificent manner the Streets Railed on both sides and the Rayls covered with Blew-cloath Twelve Lacquayes in rich Liveries the Field Officers bravely Mounted the Guards c. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen met his Highness on Horseback in their Robes and his Highness Knighted the Lord Mayor when he went away 9 The Lord Protector appointed certain days to hear Petitions from the Masters of the Requests the Lord Protector made several Serjeants at Law 10 Letters that the Irish had a general Fast and that some of the Tories took Twelve Surveyors of the Lands as they were Travelling Of a Dutch Pyrate brought into Burlington Bay That some small bodies of the Irish were got together That a Private man of War brought in a Dutch Ship and a French Ship Prizes and of fifteen other Dutch Ships brought in Prizes 11 Of the Highlanders burning Corn and out-houses and doing much mischief to the Scots who would not afford them Supplyes and help their Leavys 13 A Servant to Myn Here Beverling the Dutch Ambassador in England brought News That all the Vnited Provinces had assented to the Articles of Peace with England Letters of the general inclinations of the People in the Netherlands to have a Peace with England for that another Summers War and their loss of another years Free Trade and Fishing would hardly be born by the Multitude That all the Orange Party and Cavaliers are against the Peace and discontented at it That Middleton was going with about Two hundred Cavaliers towards the Highlanders 14 Letters of a Party of the Enemy that came to Dunbarton and but Twelve of the Horse got ready and Charged them very shoutly they being Twenty five Horse and took their Lieutenant that Commanded them and Two more and Wounded all the rest From Vpsale that the Change of Government in England was well resented in Sweden and the Lord Ambassadors Credentialls from the Lord Protector were well received by the Queen of Sweden The Commissioners for Accounts being informed that some pretending Authority from them do summon People in the several Counties to places where they meet to draw up Accounts and Claims and exact unreasonable Fees for the doing it The Commissioners declare that they gave no such Authority to any person but leave the People to their own liberty and conveniency and will see those abuses punished 15 The Council of the Protector sate close and had got Intelligence from the Army in all places and from the Fleet. 16 Letters that the Lord Protector was Proclaimed at Dublin but not so soon and so chearfully as he was in the North. The Articles were agreed to transplant the Munster-Tories into Flanders 17 That Kenmore with a Body of Two thousand Men lay quiet expecting the issue of the Dutch Treaty That Collonel Wogan was dead and most of his Party sought to get out of Scotland again That an English Lieutenant with Twelve Dragoons took Four of Glencarns own Troop and Eight Horse That Glencarn by Proclamation threatned Fire and Sword to all that did not supply him That six English Souldiers were set upon by Fifty Highlanders who took Three and killed Two of them and the other escaped That Collonel Drummond was got to the High-landers with Instructions from the King and to see whether they were in such a posture as that the King might adventure to come to them 18 Eleven Persons were sent Prisoners to the Tower and some of them examined about a Plot against the Lord Protector and the present Government A Private Man of War from the Holy Island brought in two Prizes loaden with East-Country goods 20 An Address to the Lord Protector from the Minsters of Leistershire Two Ordinances of the Lord Protector and his Council Published one for the Monthly Assessment of Twelve hundred thousand pounds for six Months to be continued the other for an Explanation of a former Ordinance touching Treasons 21 Letters that Collonel Morgan with a Party of Twelve hundred Horse Foot and Dragoons fell upon 〈◊〉 and Kinmores Army being Two thousand and Routed them totally and pursued them Seven miles into the Hills That Captain Moltlows fell upon a House in Argibeshire and took it with all the Men Armes and Ammunition in it and fired the House That Lieutenant Collonel Coâ—â—rel Marched from Glascoiâ— to Reduce the Garrison of Ross Dew but before he came near it the Enemy ran away and left word they had no orders to Fight 22 That Captain Foster with the Phoenix Frigot brought in a Swedish Ship for Prize having Prohibited Goods on Board her That Captain 〈◊〉 with the Amity in company of Captain Fosturâ— fought with a Zealand Man of War and Killed and Wounded most of her Men yet She would not yield till Captain Foster came in to the Amity 23 Letters of Credence 〈◊〉 Monsieur Bourdeaux to be Ambassadour Extraordinary from the French King to the Lord Protector The King of Scots was to go from Paris upon the Peace with England The Dutch Admiral Prohibited all their Merchant-men from going to Sea till the Cessation of Armes came from England That the Sâ—aâ—es are sending Ambassadors Extraordinary to the Lord Protector to Sign the Peace with England Of English Merchants Ships taken by the Brest Men of War and rescued by the English Frigots 24 Letters that Collonel Daniel with One thousand men took in the Lord Athols House by Storm killed only three of the Enemies the rest cryed for Quarter and had it Collonel Daniel lost but one Man and took in the House Two Lieutenants one Ensign two Serjeants two Cornets and one hundred and nineteen Souldiers eighty Musquets some Fire-locks and Swords sixteen pound of Powder and twenty five Troop Houses That there was in the House much more Meat Mault and Oaes which Collonel Daniel could not carry away and therefore he set fire to a barrel of Powder and those Provision and blew up them and the House together 25 That one of the late Collonel Wogans Men with Three of his best Horses ran away to an English Garrison That
Armed Parties began to gather into a Body In Shropshire Sir Thomas Harris with a Party Endeavoured to surprize Shrewsbury Castle but was prevented and taken Prisoner Others were prevented at Chirke Castle endeavouring to Surprize it and the like was in other Places This Design the Protector had a jealousie was countenanced by the Parliament and he gave out that to be a cause of the Dissolving of them In Scotland Middleton and others of his Party the principal Men sent Proposals to the Parliaments Commander there upon which they offered to lay down Armes The Kings Party were very Active and had many meetings about New Castle some of their Letters were intercepted and sent to the Protector Some Quakers at Hasington in Northumberland coming to the Minister on the Sabbath day and speaking to him the Country People fell upon the Quakers and almost killed one or two of them who going out fell on their Knees and prayed God to Pardon the People who knew not what they did and afterwards speaking to the People so convinced them of the evil they had done in beating of them that the Country People fell a Quarrelling among themselves with those who occasioned it and beat one another more than they had before beaten the Quakers The Brest Men of War did much damage to the English Merchants in the Western Seas which were not well guarded by the States Ships whereof Complaint was made yet two of them were taken A great Fire happened in Fleet-street next door to the Red Lyon Inn and both Houses were burnt Letters of several Scots Commanders of the Kings Party taken by the English Forces in Scotland Major John Wildman was seized upon by a Party of Mr. Butlers Horse and carryed Prisoner from Exton near Marlborough where he was taken unto Chepstow-Castle They found him in his Chamber the Door being open leaning upon his Elbow and dictating to his Man who sat Writing by him They seized the Papers that which the Man was writing was sent up to the Protector it was thus Entituled and Written The DECLARATION of the free and well-affected People of England now in Armes against the Tyrant Oliver Cromwel Esq BEing satisfied in our Judgment and Consciences of the present necessity to take up Armes for the Defence of our Native Rights and Freedoms which are wholly invaded and swallowed up in the Pride and Ambition of Oliver Cromwell who calls himself Lord Protector of England and hath rendred all English-men no better than his Vassals we expect to be branded with the infamous Name of Rebells and Traitors or to be mis-represented both to the Army City and Country as common Enemics disturbers of the publick Peace arbitrary Cavaliers Levellers or under some other odious Notion that may provoke the Army and People to endeavour our Destruction but if we may prevail to be heard before we be Condimned and Executed we shall submit our cause and righteous End we seek to the judgment of the Army and every honest English-man and if the Army it self according to their many Engagements will undertake and their strength be sufficient to Redeem us from our present Slavery and settle that Right and Freedom unto which our Birth gave us Title we shall readily lay down our present Arms. The whole Christian World knows that our English Earth hath been Drunk with Blood these Twelve years through the great Contest for Right and Freedom and the whole Treasure of the Nation exhausted in that quarrel how then can any Man whose hand or heart hath been ingaged in that bloody Contest either acquit himself to God his Conscience or his Country in yielding up tamely and silently all the Laws Rights and Liberties of England into an Vsurpers hand We have for many years pattently born all kinds of Oppression Arbitrariness and Tyranny and suffered under such heavy burdens of Exercise and Taxes as England never knew in former Ages having been fed by him that now calls himself Lord Protector and his Army with specious pretences and most alluring Promises seconded with many appeals to God for their Integrity of heart in them that true English Liberty should be setled and secured impartial Justice provided for Arbitrary Powers Abolished and every Yoak of Oppression broken and every Burden eased And we did believe as they told us That our present sufferings were only like a rough stormy Passage to the Haven of Justice Right and Freedom we could not suspect these Ambitious Designs in Cromwell and his Confederates that are now Proclaimed to the World we could not think it possible that a Man of such a mean Quality and Estate as he should Aspire to make himself an absolute Lord and Tyrant over Three Potent Nations but above all his pretended Zeal for God and his People his high professions of Godliness Simplicity and Integrity his hypocritical Prayers and days of Fasting to seek the Lord his dissembled humility and meekness and his frequent compassionate Tears upon every occasion we say these things together with his Engagements publick and private his most solemn Protestations with Imprecations of Vengeance upon Himself and Family if he Dissembled and his most frequent Appeals to God for the truth of his Professions and Declarations that he design'd nothing but securing the Liberties of Gods People and Administration of Impartial Justice and sought no Power Honour Riches or Greatness to himself or any particular Party or Interest we say these things rocked us so asleep with the pleasant Dreams of Liberty and Justice until he hath made a Sacrifice of all our Laws Liberties and Properties unto his own Ambition and now is not afraid to own what he before disclaimed and declared against He that formerly Protested before the dreadful God and to the long Parliament That He and his Army should be wholly Subject to their Civil Authority and that whosoever should attempt any violence against them should make his way through his Blood he now owns the breaking them in pieces with scorn and contempt He that declared so much Humility and Self-denial claims and owns a Power Supream to Parliaments and exerciseth an Absolute Dominion over the Laws and Estates of Three Nations He that seemed so Zealous for Liberty now dares own every private English-man his Vassal and their Parliaments his Slaves He Publisheth in his Printed Speeches to his Parliament That the benefit all English-men have in the Execution of any Laws amongst them is from him and the Authority that their Parliaments have and shall have is wholly derived from him He hath Published to the whole World that he hath dissolved all Civil Government and that he had in himself an Absolute Vnlimited Arbitrary Power without check or controul until he put some limits upon himself if he may be believed in his paper of Government Now what Patroon in Argeire ever claimed more Mastery over his Slaves bought in the Market than this Claim of Cromwells extends unto over us If we have the benefit of the Execution
The Ambassador replyed That he did believe the Protector was at present in no Condition to part with much money and that there would be some time before this design could be set on foot by which time probably the Protector might be better able to spare money than now he is and that he thought it would be better Husbandry for England to spare 200000 l. a year for this War which would be a good Diversion and trouble the King of Spain more than now we do by spending two Millions a year upon our Fleets and in sending to Jamaica That it was true the Treaty of Ausbergh was not concerning the English Nation but the Protestants of Germany were highly concerned in it and consequently of all Christendom and the Emperour having broken that Treaty in many points there was a just ground thereby of falling upon him and the reason why he mentioned the maintenance of that Treaty was because France was already oblidged in a Treaty with Sweden for the maintenance of the Treaty of Ausbergh and England joyning likewise therein France would be Engaged with them and that Crown was a good Ballance Whereas if the Vnion with the King of Sweden should be against the House of Austria and the King of Spain It would cause the Peace which was so much Endeavour'd between France and Spain to be brought to Effect and France would hardly be brought into such an Vnion against the House of Austria because it would seem as too much against the Papists in General wherein France would be shy to Joyn. Whitelock made a doubt what great advantage would be to England by the King of Sweden's falling upon the Emperor which would but little concern the war between us and Spain as to give us advantage thereby against Spain To which the Ambassador alledged That Spain was somuch concerned in any thing relating to the Emperor that he must support him to support himself and whosoever fell upon the Emperor made Spain his Enemy and hindred from him the supplyes which he constantly had especially of men out of Germany and did necessitate Spain to a charge of supplying and assisting the Emperour whereby would be caused a diversion of great advantage to England and Spain once appearing as undoubtedly they would for the Emperour Sweden and they presently became Enemyes and all the Commodities of the King of Sweden which were of necessary use to Spain would be restrained from them without which they could not subsist and that there would be no need of Specifying Pitch and Tar and Hemp to be Contrebanda Goods Whitelock replied That Germany was a great distance from England within the Land and we could have nothing to do with them by Sea that if the Emperor should be set upon by the King of Sweden probably Spain would assist him but so covertly and craftily that Sweden nor England could take publick notice or advantage thereof That in case the King of Sweden should travail towards Flanders that would make the King of Spain look about him Indeed To this the Ambassador said only That there was a Large Countrey to pass over before they could come to Flanders But that in time something might be done he said that France had gained well by that Treaty of Ausbergh and so had all Countries that had been in Alliance with the Crown of Sweden Whitelock said That he was sufficiently satisfied of the Honour and Justice of that Crown in those publick Transactions and that the Protector was as careful to preserve his own Honour and the Faith of the Nation in those Treaties which he had made with other Princes and States and that was the reason which caused him to be so careful that the Dutch might be Included in such Treaties as he should make with others because there was an Article to that purpose in the late Treaty made with them which he was careful to observe as all other Treaties and that might the more satisfie the Ambassador of a just performance of what was or should be agreed upon with his Master To which the Ambassador replyed That he did believe as much but was of opinion that the Article which was mentioned in the late Dutch Treaty did not restrain the Protector from making the nearer Alliance with Sweden without them but when it should be made then they were by that Article to be admitted into such new Treaty if they pleased And thereupon they read over together that Article of the Dutch Treaty which seemed to carry the sence that was observed by the Ambassador who said further That there was no intention of excluding the Dutch or the King of Denmark or any other Protestants out of this intended Vnion but that they should be admitted and invited into it and he believed they would be the sooner brought into it if they first saw Sweden and England joyned together whereas to have a general meeting and Treaty first would be very difficult if not Impossible to be effected That several Interests would draw several ways But if they saw the King of Sweden and the Protector once conjoyned it would be the strongest argument in the World to persuade the rest into the same Vnion and such as would oppose ought to be taken for Enemies That the King of Denmark was now upon a Treaty with the King of Sweden whom he would not disturb and had not yet concluded by reason of England desiring first to hear from the Protector about it That the Emperour had now no fear of the King of Sweden's troubling him as might appear by his sending at this time 15000 Men into Flanders for the King of Spain Which Body of Men he would not have now sent out of his own Country if he had doubted the King of Sweden's falling upon him and that no Prince in Christendom had offered the espousing of the Protectors Interest as his Master had done Which deserved to be regarded by him Whitelock answered That the same was much regarded by the Protector and deservedly and that no Nation in Europe was of so much consideration to the King of Sweden as England especially in regard of their Men and Ships altho they had not Money to spare at this time it was not because of any Poverty of the Nation but by reason of their present and Extraordinary occasion of great Expences about their Publick Affairs especially of their Navy whereby the strength of the Nation was increased They had likewise discourse concerning Commissioners to be appointed on each part to consider of Damages sustained in the last War with the Dutch and to give just Restitution Wherein Whitelock proposed That it might be convenient for those Commissioners to have likewise a power if any Ships on either part were brought in to examine the matter speedily and if any wrong were done to award satisfaction and cause the Party that had done it to make amends and the Admiralty Court of which his Excellency had so much complained not to
and his Council and that not suddenly but after a strict and neer disquisition and examination by a Committee of the Council of every Article of the Treaty and comparing them with the Powers Instructions given to Whitelock when he went Ambassador and that Committee having made Report to the Council That they found nothing done by Whitelock contrary unto but pursuant and according to the Instructions given him and to the advantage of the State The Council and the Protector confirmed unanimously the Treaty by Whitelock made at Vpsall and afterwards his Highness sent an express Envoy namely his own Kinsman Mr. Rolle with the ratification of this Treaty under the great Seal of England to his Majesty the King of Sweden and now after two years there falls out a War between Spain and England begun by us which was in our power to have forborn and one or two Articles in the Treaty made so long before may prove Inconvenient as to this War This will not be found by indifferent Men any objection of much weight against the Treaty nor Cause to lay blame upon the Ambassador who made it The Article of Contrabanda Goods is upon the same grounds to be excused as that of Passes alike left to the Council to specifie the particulars and after an Examination alike confirmed with this That seldome any Treaty is made without the Specification of them and the late Council of State did give in a Paper unto Mnr. Bonele the Queen of Swedens Commissioner here specifying Contrebanda Goods in the time of our War with the Low Countries which was a Precedent and Warrant for Whitelock to do the like As to the 2d objection concerning his being a Lawyer he said he accounted his Procession his greatest Honour and that it did not make him the less capable of serving his Country as the late Long Parliament thought by whom he was constantly elected to be of the Council and former ages had the like good opinion of his Profession but if the present age were wiser than our Ancestors it was because they had 200000 Men in Arms to prove them so and if they disliked the profession of the Law It was because the Law is the only opposer of unlimited will and Arbitrariness which did not love to be curbed And he thought it was no great unhappiness to him to be out of those publick transactions of this time which he conceived might not prove in case of another change wholly free in themselves from all manner of objections and perhaps in some particulars wherein the trouble of being informed that they were contrary to the Law of England would not have been to the prejudice either of the Actors or of their Actions but in time it will be understood that the Law was a good Bulwark for the defence of the rights of the People of England 6. The Swedes Ambassador again complained of the delays in his business and that when he had desired to have the Articles of this Treaty put into Latine according to the custom in Treaties that it was 14 dayes they made him stay for that Translation and sent it to one Mr. Milton a blind man to put them into Latine who he said must use an Amanuensis to read it to him and that Amanuensis might publish the matter of the Articles as he pleased and that it seemed strange to him there should be none but a blind Man capable of putting a few Articles into Latine That the Chancellor with his own hand penned the Articles made at Vpsall and so he heard the Ambassador Whitelock did for those on his part The Imployment of Mr. Milton was excused to him because several other Servants of the Council fit for that Imployment were then absent 8. Upon Summons the Lord Fiennes Strickland Whitelock and Secretary Thurloe met at the Council Chamber and they spent about an hour in considering the several particulars of the present Treaty with the Swedish Ambassador his proposals of alteration in some points formerly treated on with him and the Councils Votes therein they went from thence to the Ambassador all but the Secretary and Complements being past they fell to their business and most of the alterations propounded by the Ambassador being but difference of Expression only were agreed The main things upon which they differed were Whether Pitch Tarr Hemp c. should be Contrebanda goods or not The Ambassador was earnest that they should not and remembred his former Arguments and Reasons upon this point and said that his Master could not consent unto it for Examples Sake to others The Lord Fiennes urged the vote and resolution of the Council upon great debate and reason during the time only of our War with Spain who could not subsist without the Commodity and if we should permit it to be no Contrebanda goods with the Swedes the like would be expected by the Dutch and other Nations and thereby we should give way to the furnishing of our Enemies with that which they most wanted and where-with they could most offend us The Ambassador alleadged the inconvenience to their Trade if it should be admitted that it was their Native Commodity and not of any other Nation that the Swedes had little Traffick with Spain that other Nations would supply them if the Swedes did not That in the list of Contrebanda goods given in by the former Council of State to Mur. Bonele these Commodities were omitted and so he hoped would be now and the rather because it was agreed at the Treaty at Upsale that they should be specified within 4 Moneths and it was then taken for granted as the Lord Whitelock knew well that these Commodities should not be taken for Contrebanda Whitelock answered That at the Treaty at Upsale the General was only agreed that there should be a Specification within 4 Moneths in which time none was here on the part of Sweden to agree to a denomination of particulars That it was left to the future Agreement to Specifie them and no particulars agreed upon at Upsale that sinee that time there was a great Change both in our Affairs and in those of the King of Sweden which must necessarily be regarded in the Specification of Contrebanda goods and our War with Spain did require a Special Care not to suffer them to be furnished with such Commodities with which they would most offend us as the Lord Fiennes had declared that if the Swedes had little Traffick to Spain his Excellency might with the less prejudice to them agree that these Commodities should be Contrebanda That the Paper given to Mnr. Bonele was when we had no War with Spain or any other Nation perhaps the Commodities not then in debate Strickland mentioned the Low Countreys prohibiting these Commodities to be brought to us in our War with them Mnr. Coyett said That was never submitted unto by any Nation that could be strong enough to withstand it The Ambassador said
Officers Commissioners of the Seal and of the Treasury and his Council The Earl of Warwick carried the Sword before him and the Lord Mayor of London carried the City Sword His Highness standing under the Cloth of State the Speaker in the Name of the Parliament presented to him 1. A Robe of Purple Velvet lined with Ermine which the Speaker assisted by Whitelocke and others put upon his Highness then he delivered to him the Bible richly gilt and bossed after that the Speaker girt the Sword about his Highness and delivered into his hand the Scepter of massie Gold and then made a Speech to him upon those several things presented to him wishing him all prosperity in his Government and gave him the Oath and Mr. Manton by Prayer recommended his Highness the Parliament the Council the Forces by Land and Sea and the whole Government and People of the three Nations to the blessing and protection of God After this the people gave several great shouts and the Trumpets sounding the Protector sate in the Chair of State holding the Scepter in his hand on his right side sate the Ambassadour of France on the left side the Ambassadour of the Vnited Provinces Near to his Highness stood his Son Richard the Lord Deputy Fleetwood Claypole Master of the Horse his Highness Council and Officers of State the Earl of Warwick held the Sword on the right side of the Chair and the Lord Mayor of London held the City Sword on the left hand of the Chair near the Earl of Warwick stood the Lord Viscount Lisle general Mountague and Whitelocke each of them having a drawn Sword in their hands Then the Trumpets sounded and an Herauld proclaimed his Highness Title and Proclamation was made and loud Acclamations of the People God save the Lord Protector The Ceremonies being ended His Highness having his Train carried by the Lord Sherwood Mr. Rich the Earl of Warwick's Grandchild and by the Lord Roberts his Son accompanied by the Ambassadours and attended as before went in State to Westminster-Hall Gate where he took his rich Coach In the upper end of it himself sate in his Robes in the other end sate the Earl of Warwick in one Boot sate his Son Richard and Whitelocke with a drawn Sword in his hand and in the other Boot sate the Lord Viscount L'Isle and General Mountague with Swords drawn in their hands Cleypole led the Horse of Honour in rich Caparisons the Life Guard and other Guards attended the Coach the Officers and the rest followed in Coaches to White-hall The Speaker and members of Parliament went to the House where they passed some Votes and ordered them to be presented to his Highness Then according to the Act of Parliament the House adjourned it self till the twentieth of January next The Bills passed by his Highness this Parliament besides those mentioned before were An Act for the preventing of the multiplicity of Buildings in and about the Suburbs of London and within ten miles thereof An Act for quiet enjoying of sequestred Parsonages and Vicarages by the present Incumbent An Act for discovering convicting and repressing of Popish Recusants An Act and Declaration touching several Acts and Ordinances made since the twentieth of April 1653. and before the third of September 1654. and other Acts c. Instructions agreed upon in Parliament for Joseph Aylloffe Thomas Skipwith Jeremy Banes Adam Ayre Esq James Robinson and William Marr Gent. Commissioners for surveying the Forrest of Sher-wood Robert Frank John Kensey Thomas Wats Esq and George Sargeant Gent. Commissioners for surveying the Forrest or Chase of Need-wood James Stedman Robert Tayler Thomas Tanner Esq and John Halsey Gent. Commissioners for surveying the Forest or Chase of Kingswood Henry Dewell William Dawges Joseph Gamage Esq Richard Johnson Gent. Commissioners for surveying the Forrest or Chase of Ashdown or Lancaster great Park John Baynton Hugh Web Esq Major Rolph and Nicholas Gunton Gent. Commissioners for surveying Enfield Chase in pursuance of an Act of this present Parliament Intituled an Act and Declaration touching several Acts and Ordinances made since the twentieth of April 1653. and before the third of September 1654. and other Acts c. An Act for punishing of such persons as live at high rates and have no visible Estate Profession or Calling answerable thereunto An Act for Indempnifiing of such persons as have acted for the service of the publick An Act for the better observation of the Lord's Day An Act for raising of fifteen thousand pounds Sterling in Scotland An Act for an Assessment at the rate of five and thirty thousand pounds by the month upon England six thousand pounds by the month upon Scotland and nine thousand pounds by the month upon Ireland for three years from the twenty fourth of June 1657. for a Temporary supply towards the mantainance of the Armys and Navys of this Common-wealth An Additional Act for the better Improvement and advancing the Receipts of the Excise and new Impost A Book of Values of Merchandize imported according to which Excise is to be paid by the first Buyer An Act for continuing and establishing the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and for reviving an Act for the better packing of Butter and redress of abuses therein An Act for the better suppressing of Theft upon the Borders of England and Scotland and for discovery of High-way-men and other Felons An Act for the improvement of the Revenue of the Customs and Excise An Act for the assuring confirming and settling of Lands and Estates in Ireland An Act for the Attainder of the Rebels in Ireland An Act for the settling of the Postage of England Scotland and Ireland An Act for the Adjournment of this present Parliament from the 26th of June 1657 unto the 20th of January next ensuing The humble additional and explanatory Petition and Advice in these words TO HIS HIGHNESS THE LORD PROTECTOR OF THE Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging The humble Additional and Explanatory Petition and Advice of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses now assembled in the Parliament of this Common-wealth WHereas upon the humble Petition and Advice of the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses now assembled in the Parliament of this Common-wealth lately presented and consented unto by your Highness certain Doubts and Questions have arisen concerning some particulars therein comprised for explanation whereof May it please your Highness to declare and consent unto the Additions and Explanations hereafter mentioned and may it be declared with your Highness Consent In the fourth Article That such person and persons as invaded England under Duke Hamilton in the year 1648 Or advised consented assisted or voluntarily contributed unto that War and were for that cause debarred from publick trust by the Parliament of Scotland be uncapable to Elect or be Elected to sit and serve as Members of Parliament or in any other place of publick trust relating unto the fourth and thirteenth