it not for these contempts being convened before the high Commission Court he was fined in a great sum and committed to prison where he lay a long time and being upon a Habeas corpus brought to the Bar the cause of his committment was returned default in his canonical obedience He was first bayled and afterwards delivered upon this reason because breach of canonical obedience is an offence punishable by the ordinary by Ecclesiastical censures and not by the Commissioners Ecclesiastical by Fine and Impriscnment Strowde Hollis Selden and Valentine were brought to the Bar by several Habeas Corpora and the cause of their committment returned one Warrant from the Council and another Warrant from the King for Sedition and Contempts and whether this was a good Return or no was argued One Atkinson sued a servant of the King and the Lord Chamberlain committed him because he did it without his leave and upon his Habeas corpus Atkinson was delivered which the Earl of Montgomery Lord Chamberlain taking ill the same day that Atkinson was delivered he again committed him in contempt of the Court and admiration of all wise men Jones Whitelocke and Croke Hyde denying it gave a Warrant for a new Habeas corpus but before the return of it the Lord Chamberlain upon wiser thoughts discharged Atkinson from prison The King's Attorney Heath a fit Instrument for those times preferred an Information in the Star Chamber against Elliot and the other Parliament men there named setting forth their misdemeanours in the late Parliament and all those proceedings He preferred another Information against Chambers in the Star Chamber setting forth the King 's Gracious Government the great privileges of the Merchants and the small duties they paid then the words spoken by Chambers at the Council Table That Merchants have more incouragement and are less scrued up in Turkey than in England Chambers confest the words but said he spake them of the under officers of the Customes who had much wronged him and not reflecting upon the King or Council or the Government Yet the Court fined him 2000 l. and to make a submission which he refused underwriting that he did abhor and detest it as unjust and false The Fine was Estreated into the Exchequer where he pleaded Magna Charta and other Statutes against the Fine by the King and his Council in the Star Chamber it not being by Legal Judgment of his Peers nor saving his Merchandise But the Barons would not suffer his Plea to be filed Afterwards he brought his Habeas corpus but the Judges remanded him and after 12 years Imprisonment and long waiting for satisfaction for his losses from the long Parliament he at last dyed in want The Judges were somewhat perplexed about the Habeas corpus for the Parliament men and wrote an humble and stout letter to the King that by their oaths they were to bayle the Prisoners but thought fit before they did it or published their opinions therein to inform His Majesty thereof and humbly to advise him as had been done by his Noble progenitors in like case to send a direction to his Justices of his Bench to bayle the prisoners But the Lord Keeper would not acknowledge to Whitelocke who was sent to him from the rest of his Brethren about this business that he had shewed the Judges Letter to the King but dissembled the matter and told him that he and his Brethren must attend the King at Greenwich at a day appointed by him Accordingly the Judges attended the King who was not pleased with their determination but commanded them not to deliver any opinion in this case without consulting with the rest of the Judges who delayed the business and would hear arguments in the case as well as the Judges of the King's Bench had done and so the business was put off till the end of the Term. Then the Court of Kings Bench being ready to deliver their opinions the Prisoners were removed to other prisons and a Letter came to the Judges from the King that this was done because of their insolent carriage at the Bar. And so they did not appear Some Constables and other mean men committed by the Council and bringing their Habeas corpora were removed from Pursevant to Pursevant and could have no benefit of the Law Some advised the King to have no more Parliaments but to abolish them as Lewis the 11 th of France did and a Pamphlet was divulged to this purpose The King took another course to gain Eminent Parliament men that were against him to become of his party and to doe him service He took Sir Thomas Wentworth into favour and his Countryman Sir John Savile and they were made Privy Councellors Sir Dudley Digges was made Master of the Rolls Noy was made the King's Attorney and Littleton his Sollicitor The Judges of the King's Bench were sent for by the Lord Keeper to be in London on Michaelmas day the chief Justice Hyde and Whitelocke were sent for to the King at Hampton Court who advised with them about the Imprisoned Parliament men and both these Judges did what good offices they could to bring on the King to heal these breaches The first day of Michaelmas Term Mr Mason moved for the Prisoners to have the resolution of the Court. All the Judges declared that they were contented the prisoners should be Bayled but that they must also find suerties for their good behaviour Selden prayed that his suerties for his bailment might be taken and the matter of the good behaviour omitted as a distinct thing and all the rest of the prisoners stood to the same that Selden moved but the Court remanded them to the Tower because they would not find suerties for their good Behaviour It was intimated to them from good hands that if they would petition the King they should be discharged and all the trouble ended but they refused to do it and were detained in prison Sir Miles Hobert and some other prisoners moved the King's Bench for some more freedom in their imprisonment but then it could not be obtained In the same Term an Information was exhibited by the King's Attorney against Selden Hollis and Valentine in the King's Bench setting forth the same Matters in effect as were in the Information in the Star-chamber The like was against Sir John Elliot and for the words spoken by him in Parliament That the Council and Judges conspired to trample under their feet the Liberties of the Subject and the Privileges of Parliament This was said to be done by way of Conspiracy by all the Defendants as to their Actions in Parliament and that it was done falso malitiose seditiose to sowe discord between the King and the Great Ones and People And he said it to be Vi armis that they forced the Speaker to keep in his Chair The Defendants pleaded to the Jurisdiction of the Court because the offences
greatly mistaken especially in their Censures not so proper for Historians nor becoming the Authors towards so knowing and active Princes Councils and Commanders as they are pleased frequently to judge and to condemn that they are not to be relyed on for they are much different from the truth of the proceedings of those honourable Actors in that War The Marquess of Hambleton sent Rea to the King of Sweden to offer his Assistance and that he would bring over Forces to him but some suspected the Marquess to have a deeper design under this pretence to begin to raise Forces to back his intended purpose of making himself King of Scotland But the Marquess being full of subtilty and in great favour with the King he wiped off all suspicion of himself goes on with raising of his Army and conducted it into Germany But so little care was taken of provisions and accommodations for his Men that they were brought into a sick and shatter'd condition so that they mouldred away in a short time and the Marquess was forced to return to England without gaining any great Renown by this action wherein he neither did Service to the King of Sweden nor to himself or to the Protestant Cause in Germany The Papists in Ireland grew into a great height Monasteries were there erected Papists frequented their publick Meetings and Masses with as much confidence and as often as the Protestants did their Churches and some of their Priests being apprehended by authority of the Governours were tumultuously rescued by the people of Dublin The Earl of Essex made a second adventure of Marriage with a Daughter of Sir William Pawlet who was of great Beauty but little Fortune some suspicion was raised touching her and a Divorce perswaded but she had at length a Child and the Earl her Husband owned it The Feoffees in trust for the buying in of Impropriations to be bestowed upon preaching Ministers were brought into the Exchequer for the breach of their trust and for bestowing Maintenance upon Nonconformists their Corporation was dissolved and their Money adjudged to the King Huntley before-mentioned being grievously censured in the High Commission Court and by them imprisoned brought his Action of false Imprisonment against the Keeper Mr. Barker and some of the Commissioners by name The Attorney General by the command of the King moved the King's Bench that the Commissioners might be spared and the proceedings to be only against the Gaoler upon much debate it was at last ordered that two of the Commissioners only should answer The Archbishop of Canterbury who did blow the Coal in this business and had ingaged the Commissioners in the Cause being first set on foot by himself in wrong courses did press the King by the Bishop of London to stay the Proceedings against the Commissioners The King sent his Advocate Dr. Rives to the Chief Justice requiring him that there should be no further proceeding in the Cause till he had spoken with him The Chief Justice answered We receive the Message but upon Consultation together the Judges conceived the Message not to stand with their Oaths commanding an indefinite stay of a Cause between Party and Party and might stop the course of Justice so long as the King would And they conceived the Doctor no fit Messenger all Messages from the King to them being usually by the Lord Keeper or the King's Attorney in Causes touching the course of Justice By the Courts desire the Chief Justice acquainted the Lord Keeper herewith and Bishop Laud and they both said the Message was mistaken and that the King intended to be in Town again within seven or eight days and then to speak with the Judges about it This Interpretation qualified the Message and the Lord Keeper feemed to agree that the Commissioners ought not to be exempted from answering but that there should be as much slowness in it as might stand with Justice otherwise the Commissioners would be weary of their places to be put to such trouble and charges Judge Whitelocke insisted on three Points 1. That it was against Law to Exempt or Privilege any man from answering the Action of another that would sue him 2. If the Court should Exempt any where should they begin and where should they end 3. That it stood with the King 's Monarchical Power that it might be lawful for any Subject to Complain before him of any other Subject and to be answered in that Complaint The High Commissinoners not contented with the Judges Answer herein caused the King to assume the Matter to himself who sent for the Judges and in the presence of the Lord Keeper and others Commanded the Judges not to put the Defendants to Answer This was at the Importunity of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London pressed the business violently on the behalf of the Commissioners At last they parted charged with the King 's Express Command that they should not put the Commissioners to answer and the Judges stoutly answered that they could not without breach of their Oaths perform that Command and so they parted in displeasure Afterwards by the King 's special Command this Matter was handled at the Council-table in presence of the Judges and after long debate and hearing of the Bishops of London and Winchester two of the Privy-council and of the Judges and King's Attorney it was agreed that the Commissioners should answer And by the stout carriage and honesty of the Judges this was a good and quiet end of an angry Cause Anno 1631. Anno 1631 Some of the Imprisoned Parliament-men upon their Petition were remov'd from the Prisons wherein they then were to other Prisons to prevent the danger of the Sickness then increasing Sir Miles Hobert put in Sureties for his good behaviour and so was discharged from his Imprisonment Sir John Walter died a grave and learned Judge he fell into the King's displeasure charged by his Majesty for dealing cautelously and not plainly with him in the business concerning the Parliament-men as if he had given his Opinion to the King privately one way and thereby brought him on the Stage and there left him and then was of another Judgment His Opinion was contrary to all the rest of the Judges That a Parliament-man for misdemeanour in the House criminally out of his Office and duty might be only imprisoned and not further proceeded against which seemed very strange to the other Judges because it could not appear whether the Party had committed an Offence unless he might be admitted to his Answer The King discharged him of his Service by Message yet he kept his place of chief Baron and would not leave it but by legal proceeding because his Patent of it was Quam diu se bene gesserit and it must be tryed whether he did bene se gerere or not He never sate in Court after the King forbad him yet held his place till he died The
Judges were sent for to be consulted with touching the Tryal of the Lord Audley who was Indicted for a Rape committed upon his Wife with his assistance by one of his own Servants and for Buggery The Tryal was very solemn before the Lord Keeper made Lord High Steward for that day and eight Judges Assistants and twenty seven Peers the Jury or Judges of the Fact The Matters were of the most horrid and foul wickedness that ever was heard of and therefore I have esteemed it not convenient to preserve the memory of the particulars of such infamous and beastly Abominations By Letters from the Lord Keeper all the Judges of the King's Bench were required to come up to London and the business was for their Advice touching the Conference had in Germany between certain Scots about making of the Marquess Hambleton Head of a Party against the King and his Kingdoms of England and Scotland and what was sit for the King to do thereupon The Lord Rea a Scotch Baron did Impeach Ramsey and Meldram for moving him to this Conspiracy They denied it punctually and no Witness could be produced Ramsey a Souldier offered to clear himself by Combate that he was innocent and the Appellant Rea accepted of the Challenge The King was desirous it should be put upon a Duel and the Judges were consulted with 1. What the Offence was 2. Where the Tryal should be 1. They all with the Lord Keeper were of Opinion That it was an high and horrible Treason if that in the Examinations were true 2. That the Tryal might be by an Appeal of Treason upon which Combate might be joyned but that the King must make a Constable durante bene-placito for the Marshal could not take the Appeal without him and that it must be after the manner of the Civil Law the Judges not to intermeddle Car. 6 The Judges were also of Opinion That this proceeding before the Constable and Marshal was as it was before the Stat. 35 H. 8. c. 2. and that that Statute devised a way how to try foreign Treasons in England but did not take away the other and that the Stat. 1 Mar. cap. 10. did not take it away nor intend it and that a Conviction in this Appeal was no corruption of Blood nor a forfeiture at the Common Law According to the advice of the Judges there was a Court of the Constable and Marshal appointed and the Earl of Lindsey made Constable for that purpose and the proceedings between Rea and Ramsey in that Court were very solemn and multitudes of people attending that Novelty In this Tryal it was delivered for Doctrine That if the Defendant do send a Challenge to the Appellant it is a proof of the Defendant's guilt That no Testimony is to be neglected in matter of Treason And the Story in Livy was cited That it is not base to undergo any Office to save a Nation but that it was unbecoming a gentle-man to fish for Circumstances and then to be an Informer That in France the holding up of the Hand is taking an Oath and in this Case it was urged That if Ramsey be guilty of Treason that Rea is so likewise for that both did speak the words in the Accusation The Business was taken up by the King through the interest of the Marquess Hambleton whose Servant Ramsey was and the Lord Rea returned to his Command under the King of Sweden in Germany Sir Nicholas Hyde chief Justice of the King's Bench died in August this year he was promoted to that place by the Duke of Buckingham and demeaned himself in it with good Integrity and prudence in those difficult times he was somewhat reserved and not affable In Michaelmas Term certain Questions were propounded to the Judges touching the Clergy 1. Whether Clergy-men were bound to find Watch and Ward Day or Night To this the Answer was deferred till the Judges had informed themselves of the practice in the Countries where they went Circuit 2. Whether Clergy-men might be compelled to take Apprentices by the Stat. 43 El. of the Poor On this all agreed that no man was out of the Statute but there was a discretion to be used in the Justices of Peace to consider where it was fit to put the Child to be kept and where it was fitter to take money toward the putting of it out And it was held that the meaning of the Statute was not for the Education of them in Arts but for Charity to keep them and relieve them from turning to Roguery and Idleness so a man's House was as it were an Hospital in that case rather than a Shop of Trade for they might be brought up to Husbandry Cookery Dayery and the like Services in an house This Case I have reported because it sheweth somewhat of the expectation and temper of the Clergy in that time The same likewise appeared by proceedings against some of the University of Oxford for Sermons preached by them against Arminianism and upon other Points of Religion then in Controversie upon which divers of them were censured and some expelled the University Much difference of Opinion was also preached and published touching the Observation of the Lord s-day And in the North they kept their Wakes and Ale-meetings upon the Sabbath-day Whereof complaint being made at the Assizes Judge Richardson was so hardy as to make an Order to suppress them But the Bishops took this as an Intruding upon the Ecclesiastical Power and Bishop Laud complaining of it to the King the Judge was checkt and occasion was taken from hence to republish the former Book for allowance of Pasttimes upon the Lord's-day which was not very pleasing to many who were no Puritans as well as to them generally About this time the Repair of Pauls was set on work chiefly by the Zeal of Bishop Laud and new Images and Ornaments other than formerly were set up to the discontent of many persons The King came himself to this Church and made a kind of Procession to view it and granted a Commission to some Bishops and others to have a Contribution and to see the Work done Some affirm that about Eighty thousand pounds was gathered for it and Sir Paul Pindar is remembred to have laid out Nineteen thousand pounds of his own Money towards it A piece of London Bridge was burnt down The King fell sick of the Small-pox but was well recovered again to the joy of his Subjects Anno 1632. Car. 8 The Chancellor of Poland came Ambassador hither for Assistance against the Turks and got some Money and two thousand Men of our King He was bred up a Lawyer and at length came to be a principal Civil Officer of Justice and was also at the same time a great Commander in the Army In November our Queen was brought to Bed of the Princess Mary Our King sent an Ambassador to the King of Sweden in behalf of the Prince Elector in
His Majestie 's care and zeal to preserve his and the Kingdome 's honour in the dominion of the Sea by a powerfull Fleet. And you are to let them know how just it is for His Majesty to require Shipmoney for the common defence and with what alacrity and chearfulness they are bound in duty to contribute Some of the Judges put on this business in their charges at the Assises with great zeal and gravity to advance the King's pleasure but they did not convince many of the Legality of that business The Hollanders made a League with the French they were to Invade Flanders by Land and to infest Dunkirke and the Hollanders to doe it by Sea They prevailed at Diest and Tellemont but the Insolencies of the French and Dutch Souldiers caused the natives to beat both of their Armies out of the Country and the English Fleet perswaded powerfully the Hollanders to remove from before Dunkirke The Affairs in Germany were somewhat mitigated by the conclusion of the peace at Prague and the Protestants were reduced to their profession as it was setled in the year 1627. Some fiery spirits on both sides fomented by Cardinal Richelieu sought to undermine the peace and to reduce all again to a new Quarrel but the Emperor pursued the agreement confirmed the peace and forced many to an observance of it The Swedes were generally discontented with the peace The Elector of Saxony offered them a 100000 rize Dollars for a Reward but they refused it and held what they had gotten in Pomerland and elsewhere and what they had about Phelesbergh the Chancellor Oxenstierne put into the hands of the French A Ship loaden with many rich spoils of Germany and Goods of a very great value belonging to the Chancellor was cast away and the goods sunk in the Sea within a league of the Coast of Sweden In November this year arrived the Prince Elector in England to sollicite our King his Uncle for his assistance to the restauration of his Nephew to his dignity and Patrimony he was received here with all ceremonies and courtesies answerable to his quality and near alliance and soon after him his third Brother Prince Rupert arrived here also In December the Queen was brought to bed of a second daughter named Elizabeth to congratulate her Majestie 's safe delivery the Hollanders sent hither a solemn Ambassy and a noble present A huge peice of Amber Greece two fair China Basons almost Transparent a curious Clock and four rare peices of Tintinell and Tytian's painting Some supposed that they did it to Ingratiate the more with our King in regard his Fleet was so powerful at Sea and they saw him resolved to maintain his Right and Dominion there In March the Treasurers staffe was given by the King to Dr. William Juxton Bishop of London who was commended to His Majesty by the Arch-bishop Laud his old freind and predecessor in the Presidentship of St. John's Colledge in Oxford He was a Commoner in that Colledge and studied the Civil Law and therein took the degree of Batchellor and afterwards of Doctor of the Laws Yet with his Law he studyed likewise divinity took orders and was presented to the Parsonage of Somerton in Oxfordshire where he had a convenient livelyhood and there he sometimes resided and sometimes at St. John's Colledge He was much delighted with Hunting and kept a pack of good Hounds and had them so well ordered and hunted and chiefly by his own skill and direction that they exceeded all other Hounds in England for the pleasure and orderly hunting of them He was a person of great parts and temper and had as much command of himself as of his hounds he was full of ingenuity and meekness not apt to give offence to any and willing to doe good to all The Privy Council wrote Letters to every High Sheriff of England directing them for the taxing and levying of the Shipmoney and yet with great care and equality much beyond what was observed in following taxes But the guilding of this illegal Pill would not cause it to be swallowed down but many people especially of the knowing Gentry expressed great discontent at this new assessment and burthen as an Imposition against Law and the rights of the Subject The Plague was this year in London but by the mercy of God did not increase so much as was feared Anno 1635 The Earl of Berks whose fortune was lower than his mind betook himself to some new Projects whereof he became a Countenancer and Partner hoping to gain much by them to repair his Estate and had gotten a Patent from the King for the sole making of a new kind of Kiln for making of Malt and laboured to bring the same in use he was to have money of all those who set up this new Kiln This year by a Flood neer Glucstade in Holstein were drowned six thousand Persons and about fifty thousand Cattle And by the Plague there died in Leyden in Holland twenty thousand persons besides those that died in the rest of the Towns of that Countrey The Archbishop Laud made his Visitation and strictly enjoyned and expected a conformity to his Orders one of them which gave most distaste to many was That the Communion-table should be removed in every Church from the body of the Church or Chancel to the upper East-end of the Chancel and the side of the Table to be set against the Wall Altar-wise with a Rail or Ballaster about it Which was opposed by divers and the Bishop of Lincoln wrote a Book called the Holy Table shewing the Practice of the Primitive times and Arguments against this Innovation Anno 1636. Car. 12 The King's Navy of sixty Men of War under the Command of the Earl of Northumberland Admiral seized and sunk divers of the Dutch Busses in the Northern Seas and they fled to our King craving his leave by his Grant to Fish and Trade with the English which the King was ready to Indulge them Ferdinand the second Emperour aged and infirm summoned a Dyet at Ratisbone to be held the sixteenth of September when his Son Ferdinand the 3d. was Elected King of the Romans and was shortly after upon the death of his Father made Emperour Mr. John Hampden a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Buckinghamshire and of a great Estate and Parts denied the payment of Shipmoney as an illegal Tax He often advised in this great Business with Holborn Saint John Whitelocke and others of his friends and counsel Several other Gentlemen refused the payment of this Tax of Ship-money Whereupon the King was advised by the Lord chief Justice Finch and others to require the Opinion of his Judges which he did stating the case in a Letter to them After much sollicitation by the chief Justice Finch promising Preferment to some and highly threatning others whom he found doubting he got from them in Answer to the King's Letter and Case their
to imitate Scotland who got ther Priviledge by that course And Mac Mahon swore that they would not part but go together to the Castle and if this Matter were discovered some Body should die for it Whereupon Conelly feigned some necessity of easement to go out of the Chamber left his Sword in pawn and Mac Mahon's Man came down with him into the Yard where in a trice he leaped over a Wall and two Pales and so came to the Lord Justice Parsons Examined Octob. 22. 1641. Owen O Conelly Presently upon this the Justices sent and seised Mac Mahon and his man and they before the Councell confessed all the Plot that on that very day all the Forts and Castles in Ireland would be surprised that he and Mac Guire and Hugh Bim Brian O-neale and others 20 out of each County were to surprise Dublin Castle Thatâ— all the Nobility and Gentry Papists were confederates herein and however they used him now in their power his bloud would be revenged Then Mac Guire and others were suddenly seised on and the Town filling with strangers the Councel removed into the Castle upon the Rumor hereof Bim and Moore and others chief of the Conspiratours escaped and divers others who found friends to help them but about fourty of the meaner sort of them were taken The next day the Lords Justices proclamed this discovery and that all good Subjects should betake themselves to their defence and to advertise them of all occurrences and that no levies of men be made for foreign service The same night the Lord Blancy arrived with the news of the Surprisal of his House his Wife and Children by the Rebells This execrable Rebellion began in Vlster and every day and hour ill news came of fearful Massacres upon the English which increased a fear of the like at Dublin by the Papists there The Council seised upon what money they could some Artillery Armes for 10000 men 1500 barrels of powder and match and lead stored by the Earl of Strafford The old Army was but 2297 foot and 943 horse and these dispersed Yet the Council sent to several Garrisons to march to Dublin They dispatched Letters to the King in Scotland and to the Lord Lieutenant in London of the Rebellion and the state of the Kingdom and the small number of their forces they pray supplies and that Conelly the discoverer and messenger may be rewarded All their dispatches were sent by Sea the Rebells having stopped the Land passages The Lords of the English pale repair to the Council offer their faith and service and the Rebels in Vlster by the latter end of October had possest themselves of allmost all that Province Such English as had gotten into any places of strength able to indure a siege yet upon good terms rendring themselves were sure to be murdered in cold bloud men women and children And for the Scots they professed they would and did indeed spare them that they might the more easily swallow them up afterwards Phelim O Neale a man but of mean parts or courage was their General he was of near alliance to the late Earl of Tirone bred in England a Student in Lincolns-Inn and till of late a Protestant lived lazily till now elected by his Countrymen to be their leader He with a numerous Rabble marched to Lisnagamy near the Scots and fell upon them without mercy with other forces he came up into the Pale took in Dondalke then marched to Ardee seven miles from Tredah The news from Dublin was posted to Tredah and there incountred with news of the Treacherous surprisal of divers Castles in the North. The Lord Moore brought some Horse to the Town whither he came to escape the Rebels The Town drew out some old peices scoured and planted them and four out of a Merchants Ship with some powder and Captain Gibson commanded there Sir Faithful Fortescue leaving his charge Some forces sallyed out upon the Rebels and got from them who hastily fled away some plunder and Cows and 80 Prisoners whereof six onely were hanged Many treacherous designs of the Town Papists fayled Sir Henry Tichburne came to be Governor with 100 horse and 1000 foot not without some Jealousie of the Protestants There was dropped in the streets a Declaration of the Catholicks of Ireland framed upon presumption that the design had been effected and to the like purpose as is before remembred The first Letters of the business from the Lords Justices and Council arrived at London the last of October and were delivered that evening Next morning the Lords House sent them down to the House of Commons by the Lord Keeper Lord Privy Seal and 14 other Lords who had chayrs in the House and sate while the Letters were read and then departed The House presently resolved into a Committee and ordered That 50000 l. be forthwith provided The Lords to be moved that Members of both Houses should move the City of London to lend this money That a Committee of both Houses consider of the affairs of Ireland O Conelly to have 500 l. presently and 200 l. per Annum in Land All Papists of quality in England to be secured None but Merchants to pass without Certificate to Ireland To all which the Lords agreed They voted many other particulars in Order to supply for Ireland and a pardon to be offered The Lords Justices and Council in Ireland neglected no means in their power by fortifying Dublin and other Castles and places and making provisions for defence against the Rebels they also granted out Commissions to diverse Noblemen and Gentlemen and some of them Papists whom they in prudence thought not fit yet to suspect though they afterwards joyned in the Rebellion with the rest They also delivered Armes to many of them who imployed them to cut the throats of the English such were the Lord Gormanstone and others and by the midst of November several Counties declared for the Rebels in Leimster and other Provinces the miserable English men women and children whom they took were savagely butchered by them and those who fled from them came to Dublin for Succour where wanting relief they perished so that the publick burying places would not contain their dead bodies The Lord Ormond and several others came with some forces to Dublin The Members of the Irish Parliament were discontented that it had been adjourned for so long a time as next February to please them they were called together for one day to make their Protestation against the Rebellion there was but a thin meeting of them and but a saint Protestation against the Rebels the Popish Members not induring to have it called a Rebellion but traiterous and rebellious actions of some persons against which they protested They sent Commissioners to treat with the Rebels in the North who tore the Order of Parliament and returned a scornfull answer The Lord Ditton and the Lord Taff coming for London were committed and their papers seised and
1100 Prisoners and 3000 Arms. These Prisoners were led in much triumph to Oxford where the King and Lords looked on them and too many smiled at their misery being tied together with cords almost naked beaten and driven along like Dogs Among them was a proper handsome man of a very white Skin where it could be seen for the blood of his wounds he not being able to goe was set naked upon the bare back of an Horse his wounds gaping and his Body smeared with blood yet he sate upright upon the Horse with an undaunted countenance and when near the King a brawling woman cried out to him Ah you traiterly Rogue you are well enough served he with a scornfull look towards her answered you base Whore and instantly dropped off dead from his Horse And the beginning of such cruelty by English men towards their Countreymen was afterwards too too much followed Prince Rupert summons Gloucester which Massey resolves to hold out and the better to strengthen himself deserts Sudeley and other Out-Garrisons The Welsh Army under the Earl of Worcester and the Lord Herbert his Son having beaten Colonel Burroughs his Regiment sit down before Gloucester which they summoned but Massey returned a scornfull Answer Colonel Fines came to him with 200 Horse and Dragoons and not long after Sir William Waller with his Forces The Welsh were routed and the Earl after sive weeks siege without any memorable Action departed The Scots pass over the Tyne with a compleat Army into England to assist the Parliament Their General was Lesley who had been an old Commander in the service of the Swedes where he had great and deserved Reputation He was a person of great worth and honour not so good a Clerk as a Souldier The Pope sent into Ireland to encourage the Rebels there bestows upon them his fatherly Benediction and plenary Absolution The Germans received several defeats from the Swedes in Germany and from the French and this year died the famous Polititian Cardinal Richlieu and not long after him his Master Lewys the XIII King of France died in the midst of his Catalonian Conquests leaving his Son Lewys the XIV under the tuition and government of his Mother the Queen Dowager and of Cardinal Mazarin Richlieu's Successour Anno 1643. Car. 19 The Nineteenth year of King Charles 1643. begins with a Treaty of Peace between Him and the Parliament who had named for their Commissioners two Lords the Earl of Northumberland and the Lord Say and four Commons Mr. Pierpoint Sir William Ermyn Sir John Holland and Mr. Whitelocke The King excepted against the Lord Say as before is mentioned therefore he did not goe but the other 5 Commissioners The Earl of Northumberland carried with him his own Plate and Housholdstuff and Accommodations even to Wine and Provisions which were brought from London to them to Oxford where they lived in as much Height and Nobleness as the Earl of Northumberland used to doe and that is scarce exceeded by any Subject Anno 1643 The King used them with great favour and civility and his General Ruthen and divers of his Lords and Officers came frequently to their Table and they had very friendly discourses and treatments together The King himself did them the honour sometimes to accept of part of their Wine and Provisions which the Earl sent to him when they had any thing extraordinary The Commissioners finding Whitelocke's Pen usefull in the service did put him upon drawing of all their Papers to the King which were transcribed afterwards by their Secretaries Their Instructions were very strict and tied them up to treat with none but the King himself whom they often attended at his Lodgings in Christ-Church and had access at all times when they desired it and were allowed by His Majesty a very free debate with him He had commonly waiting on him when he treated with them Prince Rupert and the Lord Keeper Littleton the Earl of Southampton the Lord Chief Justice Banks and several Lords of his Council who never debated any Matters with them but gave their Opinions to the King in those things which he demanded of them and sometimes would put the King in mind of some particular things but otherwise they did not speak at all In this Treaty the King manifested his great Parts and Abilities strength of Reason and quickness of Apprehension with much patience in hearing what was objected against him wherein he allowed all freedom and would himself sum up the Arguments and give a most clear Judgment upon them His unhappiness was that he had a better Opinion of others Judgments than of his own though they were weaker than his own and of this the Parliament Commissioners had experience to their great trouble They were often waiting on the King and debating some points of the Treaty with him untill Midnight before they could come to a conclusion Upon one of the most material points they pressed His Majesty with their Reasons and best Arguments they could use to grant what they desired The King said he was fully satisfied and promised to give them his Answer in writing according to their desire but because it was then past Midnight and too late to put it into writing he would have it drawn up the next Morning when he commanded them to wait on him again and then he would give them his Answer in writing as it was now agreed upon They went to their lodgings full of Joyfull hopes to receive this Answer the next morning and which being given would have much conduced to a happy issue and success of this Treaty and they had the King's word for it and they waited on him the next morning at the hour appointed But instead of that Answear which they expected and were promised the King gave them a Paper quite contrary to what was concluded the Night before and very much tending to the breach of the Treaty They did humbly expostulate this with His Majesty and pressed him upon his Royal word and the ill Consequences which they feared would follow upon this his new Paper But the King told them he had altered his mind and that this Paper which he now gave them was his Answer which he was now resolved to make upon their last Debate And they could obtain no other from him which occasioned much sadness and trouble to them Some of his own Friends of whom the Commissioners enquired touching this passage informed them that after they were gone from the King and that his Council were also gone away some of his Bed Chamber and they went higher hearing from him what Answer he had promised and doubting that it would tend to such an Issue of the Treaty as they did not wish they being rather for the continuance of the War They never left pressing and perswading of the King till they prevailed with him to change his former Resolutions and to give order for his Answer to be drawn as it was
their Forces The Governour of Poole set upon the Queens Regiment of horse marching that way near Blandford slew sixteen of them took about forty prisoners a hundred brave horse two Colours and much Popish trumpery and lost but one man and a few hurt Colonel Lambert fell upon a party of the King's horse near Plumpton in Yorkshire took about a hundred and forty Horse the Commander in chief an Irish Rebel three Captains and many prisoners The King faced the Parliaments Armies with his horse and in the mean time drew away his Foot towards Newbury whither he followed with the horse Captain Fincher waiting on their march surprised sixty of their horse Orders were sent to the several Counties to be in a posture of defence and the Chirurgeons were sent down with Medicaments to the Army and Mr. Bell to provide them An Ordinance passed that no quarter should be given to any of the Irish Rebels taken either at Sea or Land By a Letter from Pembroke was certified that some of Prince Rupert's Forces particularly of the Irish Rebels drove away their Cattel risled their Houses eat and destroyed all their Provisions burnt their Villages and standing Corn destroyed all Sexes and Degrees Aged and unarmed persons were stripped naked by them â—and some they inhumanely murthered in cold blood others they half hanged and afterwards stigmatized and burnt their flesh off from their bodies to the bare bones and yet suffered them to live in great torture The Commons ordered that all the Judges and King's Council should meet to consider of the Tryal of Macquire and Macmahon An Ordinance passed to free the Heir of Sir William Fairfax who was slain in the Parliaments Service from Wardship An Order past to admit the Prince Elector to come when he pleased to the Assembly of Divines to hear their Debates according to his Highnesse's desire Newcastle Town not agreeing to Propositions of a Treaty the Scots stormed and entred part of the Town and became Masters of it that Sir John Merlay and others for the King fled to the Castle and offered to render it upon quarter which was denied but that they should render at mercy Some of the Scots Officers were slain as Major Hepburne and others but more of the Enemy Publick thanks to God were ordered to be given for the mercy in gaining Newcastle Sergeant Whitfield had the thanks of the House for his pains in preparing the Evidence for the Tryal of Macquire and Macmahon and the former Lord chief Justice Bramston was ordered to be advised with in that Business An Ordinance passed for the sale of some Delinquents Lands in Essex By Letters from the Commissioners in the Army it was certified that the Armies were near engagement that the King's horse faced the Parliaments Forces within a mile their Foot and Artillery marched up and were drawn into Bartalia at Bucklebury and nothing more done that day but they resolved the next day to charge the King's Forces if they would stand to it and they desired provisions might be sent to the Army Two Barges loaded with Bisket and Cheese were sent to Reading to be conveyed to the Army The Houses being informed that the Lord General was not well and stayed behind the Army they sent a Committee of Lords and Commons to visit him and to express the affections of both Houses to him This was not as was given out a piece of Courtship but I think real and there was cause enough that it should be so the General having so highly deserved from them Yet there were some had Designs against him and were desirous to remove him from his Command because they were jealous that he was too much inclined to peace and favouring of the King and his party I think I knew as much of his mind as others did and always observed him to wish for peace yet not upon any dishonourable or unjust terms he was a Lover of Monarchy and Nobility which he suspected some designed to destroy together with Gentry Ministry and Magistracy which humour began then to boyl up but he resolved to support them and wanted not advice to that end But the Jealousies upon him who was a most faithful and gallant man and servant to the publick gave him great trouble in his thoughts and they did work so high with his Enemies that some gave out he was by private intimation to forbear engaging in this Service and for certain he was not in it A party of the King 's coming to relieve Banbury were repulsed by Captain Fiennes their Bag and Baggage taken divers of them killed and some of them taken prisoners The City Propositions to be sent with the general Propositions for peace were voted and approved Divers Citizens petitioned That Justice might be done against Delinquents especially the two grand Incendiaries the Bishop of Canterbury and Wren and that the Commons House might be recruited with new Members Sir John Hotham petitioned That he might not be tryed by the Commissioners for the Court-Marshal and demanded the Judgment of the House thereupon and offered his Reasons but they would not hear them The Commons being informed that in probability the Armies were now engaged they sent to the Assembly of Divines to spend some time in Prayer for the good success of the Parliaments Forces which was done accordingly In the Evening the same day news came to the Parliament of a considerable Victory obtained by their Forces against the King's Army near Newbury That the Fight began on Sunday October 27th about Three a Clock in the Afternoon That before Seven they had nine pieces of Ordnance from the Enemy took the Earl of Cleveland and three hundred prisoners killed Charles Goring Son to the Lord Goring Sir Humphrey Mildmayâ—s eldest Son and divers others of quality and that the King about Twelve at Night marched with a party towards Wallingford Another party of the Kings under the Earl of Northampton came to relieve Banbury and taking the Besiegers at unawares made their way into the Castle and relieved it and made good their Retreat Scout-master General Bedford came to the house with Letters from the Commissioners in the Army of the particulars of the Battel at Newbury to this effect That after a Weeks tedious but speedy march of the Lord General 's Infantry and one nights refreshment at Reading in two days further progress they drew up before Newbury as near the Town as the Enemies Cannon would suffer this was upon Friday Oct. 25. The King kept within the Town guarded by his Artillery but his Body of Horse and Foot drew out into Speen-field the midway between the Town and Castle both to make his Army seem more numerous and to imbattel them in a place of extraordinary advantage that day afforded nothing but an Interview the interposing River hindred the desire to fight On the King's part appeared rather a declining to be engag'd either that their numbers
and sent to the Lords Order of both Houses for the Library of the Arch Bishop to be given to the University of Cambridge Orders about the next Summers Fleet. Ordinances touching the Clerks places of the privy Signet and the Water-Bayliffs place and for four thousand pound for Col. Barton out of Delinquents Estates for his Arrears The Lords proceeded upon the City Petition and named a Committee to consider of punishing Hereticks and Schismaticks 11. Order for two thousand pound for the Executors of Sir Jo. Meldrum for his Arrears Ordinance committed for safe custody of Prisoners and yet that they may be liable to Suits Orders touching Compositions 12. The grand Committee sate about Religion and the Ordinance against Preachers not being Ordained 13. Grand Committee sate upon the same business A Committee appointed to moderate the Fees of the Registers in Chancery Receipts of the Scots for the two hundred thousand pound ordered to be entred in the House-Journal and in the Exchequer and the Lords desired to enter them in the Journal of their House Order for indemnity of the Treasurers Vote for an addition to a Committee The King came to Nottingham 15. Order for the Members to give in notes under their hands of the several Garrisons and the charge of them in the respective Counties Order to confirm the Articles of Truro A Committee to examine a complaint against the Lord Mohun that he had killed divers men in cold blood and therefore should not be admitted to his Composition Orders concerning new Elections and for Priviledge for Col. Rigby's Servants and for three hundred pound to Mrs. Herle for her late Husbands Arrears and for two thousand pound to Col. Cely Governor of Lime a Member of the House for his Arrears An Ordinance from the Lords to prohibit the killing of Beef Veal and Lamb for eight weeks Another to take away all Country Committees both Committed by the Commons The Lords concurred in the Ordinances for removing the Library from Lambeth to Cambridge and in that for Sir Jo. Meldrum's Executor A great tumult in Smithfield the Excise-house pulled down the Lord Mayor published a Proclamation that whosoever could bring in the chief actors in it should have five pound and many were committed to Prison about it Success of some of the Parliaments Forces in Ireland care for men and provisions thither Sir Thomas Fairfax went and met the King who stopped his Horse Sir Thomas Fairfax allighted and kissed the Kings hand and afterward mounted and discoursed with the King as they passed towards Nottingham The King said to one of the Commissioners That the General was a man of honour and kept his word with him Divers of the Kings Officers were apprehended upon suspition and imprisoned by the Commissioners The Scots passed Berwick into Scotland most of them were to be disbanded General Leven executed one for Murder who was one of his Soldiers and the Countrey were well pleased with it 16. The Sheriffs of London came to the House and informed them of the tumult in Smithfield about the Excise-house and the Commitment of many for it The House gave them thanks and ordered that the Malefactors be proceeded against at the Sessions The Declaration of the grounds of laying and continuing the Excise committed New Members admitted The Lords pass'd the Confession of Faith as the Assembly gave it in A Petition to the Lords from Suffolke of the same effect with the London Petition with an addition that the Armies may be disbanded The Lords gave them thanks for their good affections for the Petition and the particulars of it they would speedily take into consideration 17. Debate of disbanding Forces and dismantling Garrisons the several Members gave an account of all their Counties and sate till eight at night then resolved that the Army should first be taken into debate Ordinance for nine thousand pound for the works of London sent to the Lords 18. Order that a Body of five thousand horse and a thousand Dragoons be continued for the service of the Kingdom and at the charge of the Kingdom Letters from the Commissioners with the King at Holmeby desired that they might be discharged from that great charge Ordinances for Compositions Ordinance for six thousand pound for Nottingham House The People flocked to see the King as he passed by 19. The House sate from Morning to nine at night and voted that no more Foot should be maintained than what was sufficient to man the Garrisons 20. Orders for Members to go into the Countrey Letters from the Earl of Ormond to Mr Salleway and others with propositions for surrender of Dublyn and other Forts in Ireland Lords concurrence to divers Ordinances A Letter from the King from Holmeby to both Houses Desired That in regard he was not satisfied with the Presbyterian Government that Doctor Sheldon and divers others of his Chaplains or any two of them might be permitted to come to him by whom he might receive satisfaction The House voted to send to the King to sign the Propositions The Declaration concerning the Excize past the House and care taken for ease of the poor in the payment of Excize Benson a Delinquent apprehended by the City Martial and committed close Prisoner 22. Upon the report of all the transactions between the Parliaments Commissioners and the Marquess of Ormond the House approved what the Commissioners had done and gave them thanks Orders for ten thousand pound for the Forces which shall go to possess Dublin and three thousand pound to the Marquess of Ormond and referred to the Committee of the Irish Affairs to manage the whole business of the Marquess of Ormond and they to give an Account of the Money Forces and Supplys for Ireland A Letter assented to That the House agreed to Ormonds propositions and to acquaint him that the Sequestration of his Estate should be taken off Letters to the Lord Inchequin and others to assist in this business The Earl of Pembroke had leave to come from Holmeby to London Both Houses voted Mr. Bradshaw to be Chief Justice of Chester and to refer it to the Commissioners of the Seal to consider of fit persons to be Judges in Wales The Declaration pass'd concerning the Excise with Instructions to the Officers The Lords made an Order against the spoylers of the Kings Game 23. Leave to divers Members to go into the Countrey and for Mr. Crew to come from Holmeby to London And a vote pass'd that the Commissioners who stay with the King shall have the same Authority as when they were all together Votes for dismantling of Garrisons The King desied to come to or near London Letters informed that the Scots were all gone out of England and their whole Army disbanded except five thousand Foot and fifteen Troops of Horse 24. The Monthly Fast day some new Members took the Covenant 25. The French Ambassador desired Audience and a day was set for it The Sequestrations of Sir Henry
bayling of Sergeant Glanvile Order of the Lords against Counterfeiting and Clipping the Kings Coin 16. Ordinance Read for making Mr. Bradshaw Chief Justice of Chester Votes for Captains of Ships for the next Summers Guard for Packet Boats for Ireland and Convoys for Merchants Ships Votes That the Houses intend to carry on the War for Ireland with the Forces of England and the Scots Forces there to be called away paying what is due to them and the Scots Commissioners here and the Parliament of Scotland to be acquainted herewith Order to treat with the General and his Field Officers how the Forces designed out of that Army may be disposed of for Ireland and sixty thousand pounds Voted for Pay per Mens of the Forces there and in England 17. A Petition from the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councel of London Professing their Zeal to the Parliament and to the Covenant and their apprehensions of the advance of the Army not yet Disbanded nearer to the City and of a dangerous Petition now on Foot in the City the Copy whereof they annexed pray that the Army may be removed and Disbanded and the dangerous Petition suppressed and that they may yearly chuse their Militia The House answered them That most of the particulars in their Petition were under consideration and that the House would do what may be most for the ease safety and satisfaction fo the City and Kingdom that the annexed Petition was referred to a Committee and they had thanks for their sincere Affection Divers Governours of Garrisons Voted Fifty pounds a day allowed for the Kings Expences Collonel Jones Ordered by the Committee for Ireland to take Possession of Dublin with two thousand men 18. The Commons again Voted Sir John Brampston Sir Thomas Bedingfield and Mr. Chute to be Commissioners of the Seal The Lords Voted Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Warburton Mr. Keble and Mr. Littleton Mr. Powell and Mr. Clerke Mr. Lewis and Mr. Elkenhead to be Judges in Wales The House passed several Compositions of Delinquents 19. Report of the Counter-Petition in London and That the Committee had imprisoned one Tewleday an active man for that Petition Many excused him as being as lawful for those of one Judgment as of another to Petition the Parliament but it was carried in the House to approve of his Commitment and Mr. Tewleday was sent for in safe custody Order of both Houses to remove the Kings Children into the Country Orders for new Elections Some disturbance was in the Army about going into Ireland and for Petitioning the Parliament and Offence taken at the Essex Petition which reflected upon them but all was appeased and they promised not to Petition before they had acquainted their General therewith 20. The Ordinance Read for the Assessement of sixty thousand pounds per Mens for the Forces Order for the House to adjourn every Friday till Tuesday after Divers Citizens came to the House to avow the Petition complained of by the City Petition The Commissioners of the Great Seal continued for twenty days longer 22. The Ordinance for sixty thousand pounds per mens referred to a Grand Committee and the same proportions as formerly observed A Petition from the reduced Officers answered with a reproof for their giving directions to the Parliament Upon information of a great Riot in Moorfields and assaulting and Plundering the House of Mr. Hobbard a Justice because he Committed one for Tipling on the Lords day in Sermon time Both Houses past an Order for putting in due Execution the Laws for prevention of Riots and Tumults and for better observation of the Lords day and Fast days The Commons Voted that Mr. Hobbart should have reparation Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Field-Officers met with the Parliaments Commissioners at Saffron Walden about sending Eight thousand Foot and Four thousand Horse into Ireland the Officers as to a personal Engagement to go thither could then make no answer but agreed whether they go in person or not yet they shall endeavour to advance the Service among those under their respective Commands They desired satisfaction in Four Particulars 1. Vnder whose Command in chief they were to go 2. What particular Regiments Troops or Companies were to be continued in England 3. What assurance for Pay and subsistence for those that go to Ireland 4. Satisfaction in point of Arrears and Indemnity for past services A Petition was presented to these Officers from the Army to be by them presented to the General and by him if he thought fit to the Parliament upon these Heads 1. For indemnity for actions as Souldiers 2. For satisfaction of Arrears 3. That neither Horse nor Foot may be Pressed to serve 4. For relief of Widows and Maimed Souldiers 5. For Pay till disbanded 23. Mr. Bolton admitted one of the Assembly Mr. Cooke's Sequestration taken off The Ordinance recommitted for regulating the University of Oxford and the Ministers sent down thither to Preach Ordered to continue there and two hundred pounds allowed to them Order for Collonel Jones going for Dublin to have power of Martial Law A Pass for the Dutch Ambassadour to go to the King Debate upon the Ordinance of the Fleet and for Lambeth Library Votes touching Sequestrations The Parliaments Commissioners agreed with the Marquess of Ormond for the surrender of Dublin and other Forts in Ireland and returned to England with Hostages from the Marquess The Parliament of Scotland answered the English Commissioners That they could not render Belfast in Ireland whilst they had an Army there but upon Paying off their Arrears they will render Belfast and all they have in Possession The Jewel was presented to General Leven from the Parliament of England to whom the General wrote a Letter of thanks The Plague broke out in Edingburgh 24. Votes for Governours of Garrisons Anno 1647 Order of both Houses to free the States Ambassadors from Custom and Excise for things for his own use Orders that no private business be debated for ten days and for re-payment of Money to the Customers and for thanks to their Commissioners in Scotland The Lords gave Reasons to the Commons against the Armys quartering in the Association or near London 25. Votes for Governors of Garrisons Order for the Lord Herbert to have possession of his own Castle A Committee of both Houses to receive some intelligence which the Prince Elector desired to communicate to the Parliament of great concernment to the Protestant Religion Order that the Master and Wardens of the Stationers endeavour to find out the Authors and Printers of a Book called a warning piece c. to suppress it and to seize the Books 26. Order to bayl Mr. Tulida and his business referred to a Committee Votes for Governors of Garrisons Order for Money for Col. Birch who agreed to transport a thousand Foot and two Troops of Horse into Ireland A long report of what is paid and what in Arrears to the Army
the Princes men to advance to firmer ground in confidence of victory which the Parliaments Horse took advantage of Flanked the Prince his men and were almost in the rear of them The three hundred Musquetiers at the same time charged the Princes men and put them in disorder and the Parliaments men fell to execution about two hundred of the Prince his men were slain on the place and in the pursuit of whom many were of quality one hundred prisoners and three hundred Arms were taken Many of them were wounded and not above one hundred serviceable men thought to return to the Ships some fled to the Castle from whence Forces came out to fetch them in but were beaten back and left Arms behind them Of the Parliaments Forces Colonel Rich's Quarter-Master was slain Major Husbands his Lieutenant wounded three Horse-men and four Foot-men killed Order for a Letter of thanks to Colonel Rich and that Major Husbands who brought the news and lost divers horses in the fight should have one hundred and fifty pounds to buy him more horses and that Colonel Hewson should have one hundred and fifty pound to buy him horses The Grand Committee sat for the Militia in the afternoon 16. The Lords desired the Commons concurrence to these Votes 1. That the Treaty be according to these Votes 2. That the Votes against further addresses to the King be recalled 3. That such persons as his Majesty shall send for in the Treaty be admitted to wait on him and that he be in the same freedome as he was at Hampton-Court 4. That such servants as he shall appoint may wait upon him 5. That the place for the Treaty be in Newport in the Isle of Wight 6. That the Scots be invited to treat upon the propositions presented at Hampton-Court 7. That his Majesty be admitted to invite the Scots to treat upon those propositions 8. That the Instructions to Colonel Hammond be recalled 9. That five Lords and ten Commoners be chosen to treat with the King 10. That it be referred to the Committee of Lords and Commons for peace to prepare all things in readiness for speeding of the Treaty The Commons ordered these Votes to be considered de die in diem till they be finished and nothing to intervene Upon Information that Colonel Martin a Member of the House and Colonel Ayres and M r Walrond were raising of Horse in Berks and took Horses from the inhabitants against their wills and had no authority from the Parliament for it The House ordered Colonel Martin to attend them and Colonel Ayres and M r Walrond to be sent for in safe custody for this action The Committee of Estates of Scotland sent a Letter to the Prince wherein next to his Fathers restraint they bewail his Highness long absence from that Kingdom his right by descent and now that their Forces are again in England they humbly beg his Highness's presence to countenance their endeavours for religion and his Fathers reestablishment And if he will intrust his person among them they ingage the Publick Faith of that Kingdom for his Highness being in honour freedom and safety whilst he shall be with them in Scotland or in their Army in England with Liberty to return when he shall please and this was sent to him by the Earl of Lauderdale 18. Both Houses passed a Manifesto that whereas they had not been able to afford to the Protestants in Ireland such supplies and relief as was necessary for them and therefore had imployed M r Derrick Hoast M r Corseilles M r Maurice Thomson and M r Laurence their Commissioners to the States of the United Provinces to sollicite contribution and relief from thence for Ireland who had there collected by Voluntary contribution thirty one thousand two hundred and eighteen pounds twelve shillings five pence and was disposed of for victual The Lords and Commons take Notice of the great affection of the people of the Vnited Provinces herein and acknowledge their pious and Charitable sense of the miserable condition of their distressed brethren in Ireland and their benevolence for relief of those Protestants and do give their most hearty thanks to the Commissioners and to the Treasurers there named and to all others who have without any Salary assisted in that work After long debate whether the Commons should concurr with the Lords in the Vote to invite the Scots to the Treaty it was carryed in the Negative The Commissioners of the Seal had a meeting with the Judges about their riding of this Summers circuits and they resolved to know the pleasure of the Houses therein 19. Vote that if his Majesty shall think fit to send for any of the Scottish Nation to advise with him concerning the affairs of the Kingdom of Scotland only the Houses will give them a safe-conduct Vote for ten of the House of Commons to joyn with five Lords as Commissioners to treat with the King Order that the Judges be desired to go their several circuits as formerly appointed except some Counties where the Kings Forces were and that they may avoid going to any place where they shall apprehend to be any danger Order that the chief Justices of Chester shall go down Letters from Colchester Leaguer that five came out of the Town and said that the Cryes of Women and Children and the poorer sort in the Town are very great and that they are like to starve that Goring will permit none who are well affected to the Parliament to come out of the Town unless some of his party may come with them That a Woman and five Children one sucking at her Breast came out of the Town and fell on her knees before the Parliaments Guards begging leave to pass the line but they were forced to turn her back again lest hundreds more should follow her to the prejudice of the service That those who come out of the Town affirm that all the Dogs and Cats and most of the Horses there are already eaten That a Trumpeter came from the Enemy in Colchester desiring leave to send to know whether they may have relief or not and if they see no hopes of any within twenty days then to treat but the Lord General denyed this desire That they in the Town refused to exchange the Earl of Cleveland for one of the Committee that the Women and Children were at the Lord Gorings lodging for bread who told them they must eat their Children if they wanted the Women replyed that they would put out his Lordships Eyes and highly reviled him The Prince sent a Letter to the Lord General Fairfax for moderation to be used towards Major General Langhorn Colonel Powel Colonel Poyer and others who acted by Commission from him otherwise he should be necessitated to proceed contrary to his intentions against such as should fall into his hands Subscribed Your Loving Friend Charles P. The General returned answer that he had
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
difficulties they had undergone in subduing their enemies and received little pay though Taxes were generally paid desiring that the Army may be divided into the Counties proportionable to the Tax they pay and that their Arrears may be thought of The House after a long debate Voted That the desires of the Souldiery be forthwith satisfied and that speedy care be taken for setling of their Arrears Several other Petitions were presented to the General from the Officers and Souldiers of the Army one from Commissary General Iretons Regiment was to this effect That there may be a strict Scrutiny for discovery of the contrivers or incouragers of the late rebellion and second War and Justice done upon them 2. And upon all criminal Persons especially obstructers of justice and such as have betrayed their trust or been Authors of shedding the innocent blood 3. That the same fault may have the same punishment in the person of King or Lord as in the Person of the poorest Commoner 4. That all may be proceeded against as Traitours who act or speak in the Kings behalf till he shall be acquitted of the guilt of shedding innocent blood 5. For their pay and for proceedings against those that withhold it and for their Arrears 6. That the intolerable oppression of free Quarter may be immediately taken off And about the establishment of their pay in the Counties 7. They declare that they shall constantly endeavour to defend Magistracy and property with their Lives and Fortunes This was a subtle Petition and the beginning of the design against the Kings Person but not discerned till afterwards An Ordinance past for maintaining a Troop of Horse in Surry out of the Sequestrations of that Country Orders for bringing in the Arrears of the Assessment for the Army Sir Charels Kemish was committed Letters from the Commissioners of the Treaty with Papers of their Transactions Order for disbanding the supernumerary Forces in Lancashire The Lords House past all the Judges and Sergeants except Sergeant Wilde to be Chief Baron and Sergeant Rolle to be Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. They also advised as to the Voting of Sir Thomas Widdrington and Whitelock to be the Kings Sergeants and Whitelock's being Attorney of the Dutchy which was upon Whitelock's desire 19. The Papers from the Isle of Wight were touching Delinquents His Majesty consented that all who have any hand in plotting designing or assisting the Rebellion in Ireland shall expect no Pardon That all other Delinquents in the first Branch of that Proposition may moderately compound for their Estates that such of them as the two Houses will insist on shall not be admitted to his Council and shall be restrained from coming to the Court at such distance as the Houses shall think fit and shall not have any Office of imployment in the Commonwealth without consent of both Houses or shall absent themselves for some time out of the Kingdom That all other Delinquents shall submit to a moderate composition and for three years not to serve as Members or Assistants in either House without the consent of both Houses of Parliament His Majesties propositions which the Commissioners of the Parliament were not authorized to receive were 1. That he might be put into a condition of freedom Honour and safety 2. To be restored to his Lands and Revenues 3. That he may have composition for the Court of Wards and such of his Revenues as he shall part with 4. That there may be an Act of Oblivion and Indemnity M r Vines gave in a paper in answer to his Majesties to satisfy his Conscience touching Bishops Upon these and other papers from their Commissioners they had a very long and quick debate Vote that the Lords days and Fast-days during the time of this Treaty shall be accounted no part of the twenty days allowed for it By which a weeks time longer was gained for the Treaty The House resolved into a Grand Committee to debate the Ordinance for payment of the reduced Officers The Lords concurrence desired to an Ordinance for payment of four thousand eight hundred pounds to Mr. Pecke in respect of his losses 20. The Merchant Adventurers Company had the thanks of the House for ingaging for ten thousand pound for the service of the Navy Letters from Sir Henry Cholmely complaining that the General had given Commission to Colonel Rainsborough to command in chief the Forces before Pontefract Castle whereas he had a Commission before from the Committee of the Militia of Yorkshire to be Commander in chief of them and that the disparagement was great to him and desires an Order in it The House referred the Letter and the whole business to the General to settle it and to preserve the honour of Sir Henry Cholmely and to take care that the business be carried on against the enemy One hundred pounds bestowed upon Captain Wolfe and twenty pound upon Mr. Noble who brought the news of the surrender of Carlisle Debate about an Ordinance for Doctor Bastwick and about the last Message from the King 21. Debate touching means wholly to take off Free-quarter and Ordered that the Members be imployed to use their best endeavours to bring in the arrears of the Assessments as a means to take off Free-quarter and some were sent down to the General to confer and advise with him how the Forces may be reduced to the Establishment and paid and to advise with such Officers as the General shall appoint about these matters Colonel King of Lincolnshire sent for to answer before the Committee of the Army to a Charge against him touching the Army The Commissioners of the Seal met with the Judges to confer together about the business of the new Sergeants for sending forth the Writs to them and other matters for ordering of that business 23. Vote to disband all the supernumerary Forces in the several Counties and the Committees to pay them their Arrears and the General Ordered to slight Bridgwater Bath and Dunstar or to man them Sir Peter Killigrew brought a Message from the Isle of Wight of his Majesties further Concessions touching Episcopacy 1. He consented to the abolishing of Archbishops Chancellors Deans and Chapters c. and the whole Hierarchy save Bishops 2. To confirm the form of Church Government for three years and no other to be used and the exercise of Episcopal Government to be wholly suspended during that time 3. That none shall be exercised after that time other than Ordination restrained to the Council and assistance of Presbyters but such and in such manner as shall be agreed by his Majesty and his two Houses whereby until such agreement or if it be not otherwise agreed Episcopal jurisdiction is wholly laid aside His Majesty also consented to the Nomination of great Officers to be by both Houses for ten years 2. To the proposition concerning the City of London as is desired 3. To that concerning the Great Seal as is
have some other form of Prayer in his own Chappel The like concerning his consent to Bills to prevent the saying and hearing of Masse all unsatisfactory Order that the Commissioners do press his Majesty further for his final answer to the business of the Church and inform him of these Votes and the Lords concurrence herein to be desired Order of both Houses that the Committee appointed to draw the Kings concessions upon the whole Treaty into Bills do meet for speedy dispatch of that business 13. Vote upon his Majestie 's propositions 1. That a Committee named do draw up something for his Majesties coming to London and present it to the House and instructions for the terms his Majesty being already in freedom honour and safety at the Treaty 2. That it be referred to a Committee to consider of his Majestie 's desires concerning his revenues 3. That an Act of Oblivion shall be presented to his Majesty to be passed with such limitations as shall be agreed on by both Houses The Lords concurred with the Commons concerning the seven persons to be excepted from Pardon only instead of the Earl of New-Castle and Sir Jo. Winter they voted Sir Geo. Ratcliffe and the Lord Byron to be two of the seven Both House passed Instructions for the Commissioners of the Great Seal for the making of new Sergeants and the Judges according to the former orders of the Houses Justice Rolles to bring in his former Patent and to receive a new Commission under the Great Seal to be Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Mr. Brown to have seniority of Sergeant Jermyn Brown having been a Commissioner of the great Seale and the rest that were Commissioners of the Great Seal having had priority to plead within the Barr to be Seniors and Sir Thomas Bedingfield Mr. Recorder c. in order Letters from the General that having had a meeting of the Officers of the Army he apprehends their general sad resentment of the many pressures upon the Kingdom particularly that of free-quarter whereby they and the Souldiers who have faithfully served the Parliament are even a burden to themselves because they are so much to the poor Country Complains of the great want of pay and necessaries for the Army desires an effectual provision therein to prevent those ill consequences which otherwise delay therein may produce Letters from the North. That Lambert and his men received a dismission from the Committee of Estates and were upon their March for England and they gave him many expressions of thanks for his good service done to that Kingdom Lieutenant General Cromwell sent a summons to the Governour of Pontefract Castle to render it to the use of the Parliament and the Governour desired to be satisfied that he had power to perform the conditions The first Sergeants approved before the Commissioners of the Great Seal in the Queens Court but they did not call them in until the House of Commons had passed the order for the precedency of M r Brown before Sir Thomas Bedingfield and M r Recorder at which most of them did grumble 14. The account of Colonel Gould stated and allowed and four thousand four hundred and forty three pound ordered to him and an Ordinance for it transmitted to the Lords Ten thousand pound inserted into an Ordinance formerly past for five thousand pound for the guards of the Horse of the Parliament Debate about taking off free-quarter and disbanding Supernumeraries and a question for adding three thousand pound to the Establishment of the Army in regard of the Garrisons of Berwick and Carlisle past in the Negative which discontented the Army and was therefore thought by some to be put on the rather The Lords concurred in the banishment of the four persons voted by the Commons but in regard that three of them are Peers of the House they desired that the Ordinance for it might begin in their House A Message from his Majesty that he did consent to the little Catechism with the addition of a preface and also that the Parliament dispose of all great Offices for twenty years as they desire Letters from the Earl of Warwick and a Declaration in vindication of himself and the scandal cast upon him by a false Pamphlet and lying report that he resolved to joyn with the Prince in case the Treaty took not effect 15. Colonel Rossiter had the thanks of the House for his good services Vote that his Majestie 's coming to London shall be with honour freedom and Safety so soon as the concessions of the Treaty shall be agreed upon 2. That he shall have his Lands and revenues made good to him according to the Laws 3. What he shall pass away of his legal right he shall have allowance in compensation thereof 4. That an Act of Oblivion shall be presented to his Majesty c. Both Houses agreed to these Votes and to send them to his Majesty Upon Letters from Lieutenant General Cromwell of the wants of his Forces referred to the Committee of the Army to consider of the particulars and to supply them Order for two hundred and fifty Barrels of powder with match and bullet proportionable for the Forces before Pontefract and Scarbrough The Commons adhered to their vote to except the Earl of New-Castle and Sir Jo. Winter from pardon Letters from the Hague that Prince Charles was upon recovery that Prince Rupert was made Admiral and the Lord Gerrard Vice-Admiral that some of the revolted Ships were come in to the Earl of Warwick and those Sea-men that continued with the Prince were disorderly The Commissioners of the great Seal went into the Kings Bench where they sat in the middle the Judges on each side of them And there they did swear the Lord Chief Justice of that Court Judge Rolles and Sir Tho. Widdrington made a very learned speech to him From the Kings Bench they went to the Exchequer and sat in the Court the Barons on each hand of them and a great Company both of Lawyers and others thronging round about the Court there they did swear Serjeant Wilde to be chief Baron and Whitelock made the speech to him which because it clears some mistakes concerning the antiquity of that Court was thought fit to be here inserted M r Serjeant Wilde THE Lords and Commons in Parliament taking notice of the great inconvenience in the Course of Justice for want of the antient and usual number of Judges in each of the high Courts at Westminster whereby is occasioned delay and both Suitors and others are the less satisfied and being desirous and careful that Justice may be Administred more Majorum and equal right done to all men according to the custom of England they have resolved to fill up the Benches with persons of approved fidelity and affection to the publick and of piety Learning and integrity and having found by long experience among themselves that you Mr. Serjeant
as they give satisfaction 3. That publick Justice may be done upon some Capital causers and actors in this War 4. That the rest upon submission may have mercy for their lives 5. That the Souldiers may have their arrears and publick debts be paid out of Deliquents Estates 6. That a period be set to this Parliament and a provision for new and more equal Representatives of the People Then they offer rules for this Representative power and that it be the Supream power That no King be hereafter admitted but upon Election of and in trust for the People by such Representative That the General settlement be done by this Parliament and established by a general contract and agreement of the People with subscriptions thereunto and none to be capable of benefit by this agreement without subscribing thereunto nor any King be admitted to the Crown or any other to any Office without Subscribing to it These things they press as good for this and other Kingdoms and hope it will not be taken ill because from an Army and so servants when their Masters are servants and trustees for the Kingdom This Remonstrance induced a long and high debate some inveighing sharply against the insolency of it others palliated and excused the matters in it and some did not stick to justify it most were silent because it came from the Army and feared the like to be done by them as had been done formerly in fine the debate was adjourned 27. Ordinance transmitted to the Lords touching the Sale of Bishops Lands Order to stay all process against any for selling Tobacco without licence from former Patentees of that Monoply and referred to a Committee to examine that matter the like order touching the Office of Wine licences An additional proposition past by the Commons to be sent to the King that he would pass such Acts as should be presented to him by both Houses for strengthning the Vnion between England and Scotland Both Houses agreed to continue the Earl of New-Castle one of the seven to be excepted from Pardon and Sir Jo. Byron to be put in for another in stead of Sir John Winter Order of both Houses for three thousand pound for Colonel Rossiter and all the Forces in Lincolnshire except his Troup to be disbanded Letters from the Isle of Wight that the King refused to pass any thing against the Marquess of Ormond until the Treaty be wholly ended and that he adheres to his former resolution concerning Bishops and that their Lands be leased only for 99. years and not sold The Commissioners of the great Seal sate in Chancery without Sir Tho. Widdrington and heard many Motions till past two a Clock then the new Serjeants came in their party-coloured Robes and their servants and the Gentlemen of the Inns of Court with them after they were come the Judges of the Kings Bench and after them the Commissioners of the great Seal went to the Common-Pleas Court where they sate in the middle of the Bench the Chief Justice of the Kings Bench on the Right hand of the Earl of Kent and the Lord Chief Baron on Whitelocks Left hand and the other Judges on either hand of them in their antiquity and the Barons of the Exchequer on a form on the Right side of the Court. The new Serjeants were brought up in their antiquity singly by two of their Elder Brethren to the bar where they Counted and when they had done a Gentlemen their Friend appointed by them did deliver their several Rings to the Earl of Kent first then to my Lord Grey next to Whitelock then to the Chief Justice and Chief Baron and to the rest of the Judges and Barons in their Antiquity This ceremony held till past four a Clock in the afternoon 22. Orders touching levying the assessments and disbanding supernumerary Forces Upon a Report from the Committee of the Army the House approved of the General his drawing the Army into Towns and Garrisons and of his Listing no more Forces and disbanding supernumeraries An Ordinance past for five thousand pound out of the Delinquents Estates in Essex for the gratuity promised to the Souldiers that were before Colchester Upon the desire of Colonel Birch a Member of the House the place of high Steward of Lemster with the profits thereof was conferred on him being void by the Delinquency of Sir Walter Pye And upon the desire of M r Thomas Waller of Grey's Inn Order for the Commissioners of the great Seal to pass a Patent to constitute him the Judge of the Isle of Ely Letters from the Hague that six more of the revolted Ships were come in and that a Challenge past betwixt Prince Rupert and the Lord Culpepper The Commissioners heard some causes and a few Motions in Chancery and then rose and went to the Kings Bench where they did swear Serjeant Brown a Judge of that Court Sir Thomas Widdrington made a short speech to him which he answered and then took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and of a Judge Then the Earl of Kent delivered to the Secondary of the Kings Bench the Patent for him to be a Judge of that Court which was read and afterwards the Earl of Kent delivered the Patent to Sergeant Brown and he took his place of the third Judge of that Court. From thence they went to the Common-Pleas where Sir Tho. Widdrington made a short speech to M r Sergeant S r John and Sergeant Bedingfield who answered him and then their Patents were read and delivered to them and Sergeant S r John was sworn Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and Sergeant Bedingfield the Puisne Judge of that Court. From thence they went back to the Kings Bench where Whitelock made a short speech to Sergeant Jermyn and he answered him and then his Patent was read and delivered to him and he took the Oaths and his place of a Fuisne Judge of that Court. From thence they went into the Exchequer where Sir Thomas Widdrington spake not long to M r Gate who answered him and was sworn and received his Patent and was made a Baron of that Court. 23. Letters from the Isle of Wight with his Majesties ultimate answer concerning Bishops That he cannot with a good conscience consent to the total abolition of the function and power of Bishops nor to the intire and absolute alienation of their Lands as is desired because he is yet per swaded in his judgment that the former is Apostolical in the institution and that to take away the latter is Sacriledge Neither can his Majesty communicate in a publick form of Divine service and administration of the Sacraments where it is wholly uncertain what the Minister will offer to God To this the Commissioners answered That it was not the Apostolical Bishop which the Bill desired his Majesty to remove but that Episcopacy which was formerly established by Law in this Kingdom grown up to an height of outward pomp and
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
Forces of Colonel Aston about four thousand refuse to disband profess for the Covenant and are incouraged by the Clergy that Major General Lambert is gone to disband them by force if there be no other way The Scots Anti-Covenanteers offered to joyn against the Sectaries in England In the Council of State the President Bradshaw spent much of their time in urging his own long arguments which are inconvenient in State matters and his part was only to gather the sence of the Council and to state the question not to deliver his own opinion 21. Vote That Papists in Arms might compound at a Moiety of their Estates Reference to the three Commissioners of the Navy of matters relating to the Fleet A Letter from the Lord Chief Baron Wilde of the Mayor and Justices of Excester refusing to appear at the Assizes referred to the Council of State and referred to them to take care against the ingrossing of Coal from Newastle A Book of the Lancashire Ministers called the Agreement of the People referred to the Committee of plundered Ministers to examine 22. The House sate not but divers Committees to prepare business for them The Countess of Carlisle was again before the Council of State about the last Summers Ingagement A Complaint to the Council of the Army against Woolaston Keeper of Newgate and an Officer sent to desire justice against him The King of France's agreement with the Parisians was refused by them The King of Denmark sent an Ambassadour to Prince Charles to offer him assistance A Minister of the Hague in the presence of divers others his Brethren made a complemental Speech to Prince Charles and stiled him most Illustrious King The Swedish Resident at the Hague made great rejoycing for the peace in Germany at every health 30. Pieces of Ordnance were discharged two Fountains were made to run with Claret and White Wine and in their Fire Works as the Letters relate the name of the Queen of Sweeden might be read very perfectly The Parliaments Declaration of their grounds and intentions of their late transactions published 23. An Act committed for relieving and setting the poor to work Order for the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London in Person to proclaim the Act for dissolving Kingly government and a Writ agreed for proclaiming it in the Market Towns of the Several Counties by the Sheriffs Order for eight thousand pound which should have been paid to the Scots to be for the Navy Order for Commissioners to be appointed to Inventory the goods and Personal Estate of the late King Queen and Prince and apprise them for the use of the Publick Order for an Act to be brought in to satisfy well affected persons to whom the King Q. or P. were indebted before the Wars out of the value of those goods and estate but that the first 30000â— to be raised by them be for the use of the Navy the Council of State to keep such of the goods as they should think fit for the use of the Common-wealth An Act for an assessment of 90000â— per mensem Ordered to be debated in a Grand Committee Order for a Commission to the Judge and other Officers of the Admiralty to try and give sentence on such Sea-men Prisoners as revolted to the Enemy A Report from the Council of State of several great Ships to be presently set out to Sea approved Referred to them to consider of raising monies by the Forests Chaces and Parks and the timber in them which is unfit for shipping The Council of the Army named two Officers of every Regiment to meet and seek God what advice to offer to the G. concerning Ireland and the Lieutenant General Cromwell was to give in his answer to the Council of State whether he will go for Ireland or not within two daies 24. The House sate in a grand Committee upon the Ordinance for assessments for the Army The Council of the Army proposed incouragements for those who would ingage for Ireland and the Regiments to be drawn out by lot Letters that Ormond proclaimed King Charles II. in Ireland and sent a Letter to C. Jones to advise him to come in to the obedience of the King and promising him great rewards if he do it and safety to all that come in with him and leave the pretended Parliament of England who have murdered their King and would introduce Anarchy C. Jones returned answer That he understood not how his Lordship came to that power that the Parliament of England would never have consented to such a peace as his Lordship made with the Rebels without any provision for the Protestant Religion That he knew not how that could be established by an Army of Papists to whose hands his Lordship had given up that whole Kingdom that he had rather suffer in his trust than to purchase to himself the ignominy of perfidy by any advantage offered to him Letters that Pontefract Castle was surrendred upon Articles six persons were excepted whereof three escaped that the Souldiers and Officers were to go to their homes first subscribing an ingagement not to advise act or take up Arms against the Parliament or Common-Wealth of England that they had two Months provisions and forty Barrels of Powder in the Castle 25. Easter day 26. The House sate not The Council of the Army agreed for incouragement of those who shall ingage for Ireland that they shall have three months advance of their pay and of their arrears and if they be slain those to have it to whom they shall assign it That a Court of Admiralty be in Ireland c. these things to be proposed to the House for their confirmation Letters from Ireland of Ormond's preparations for his Forces that the Vlster Scots declared against the Parliament and declined Monk that the Parliaments Army there are in great want and their interest in danger to be wholly lost in that Kingdom The heads of the Articles of Peace made by Ormond were 1. That the Roman Catholicks of Ireland have free exercise of Religion all penalties to be taken off not to be obliged to the Oath of supremacy to injoy Church livings in their possession and jurisdiction 2. For a Parliament when the Catholicks shall desire it 3. All Laws made in England since 1641. in blemish of the Catholicks to be vacated 4. All Indictments against them since that time to be vacated 5. That Catholicks may be elected and vote in Parliament 6. Debts to remain as in 40. 7. The Estates of freeholders in Connaught c. to be secured 8. All incapacities of the Natives to be taken away 9. All honours trusts imployments c. to be conferred on the Catholicks as well as Protestants 10. That the King take two thousand pound per annum for the Court of Wards 11. Noble men to have but two Proxies in Parliament 12. The depending of the Parliament of Ireland upon England to be
knowledge of the languages and being one whom they could trust c. but he insisted upon the former matters of excuse and so the business as to him went off 12. Order for a Writ to elect a new Burgess for Carlisle in the place of M r Barwis deceased An Ordinance committed to give power to the Committee of Admiralty to proceed to sentence of Death in Criminal causes Order for the Committee to meet the Common Council of London this afternoon for borrowing one hundred and twenty thousand pound for Ireland A long debate upon the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters lands and provisoes in it for allowances out of those lands to itinerary Ministers and disposing their impropriations for additional means to the Ministery recommitted An Act for inventorying the late Kings goods committed and a Committee appointed to consider of the Sale of his Deer and Parks reserving such as shall be needful for the State The Common Council of London were willing to lend one hundred and twenty thousand pound for Ireland but disliked the security proposed and the Committees agreed to treat upon further security The Council of War after full hearing of the parties and witnesses passed sentence of Death against Colonel Powell and Major General Laughern as they had done upon Colonel Poyer before upon the two first Articles of War That such as have intelligence with the Enemy or any communication with them without direction from the General shall be punished as Traitors and Rebels and that none shall relieve the Enemy with money victuals ammunition or harbour or receive any of them upon pain of Death The wife of Major General Laughern presented a Petition to the Court Martial imploring their mercy to her husband and that this one unadvised act of his might not cause all his former eminent services to be forgot and the great loss of her and his Children and two Sisters by his Death At Bristol were discovered three brass pieces of Ordnance made up in Fatts sent from London and directed to the Lord Inchequin in Ireland In the Evening the Commissioners of the Seal the Lord General the Lieutenant General Cromwel the Chief Justice Rolls the Chief Baron and many Gentlemen of the House as a Committee of Parliament went to the Common Council of London to borrow of them 120000 l for Ireland The Common Council gave them a fair and hopeful answer by their Recorder 13. Upon a Report from the Committee of Yesterdays transactions with the Common Council and their forwardness and desire in that business a Committee was appointed to treat with a Committee of Common Council concerning the advance of the 120000 l for Ireland and to give them the thanks of the House for their willingness to promote this business Order for monies for the Garrisons of Barwick and Carlisle to be disposed as the Governour of New-Castle shall direct An Act committed for appointing Treasurers for the ninety thousand pound assessment no Member of the Army to be of this Committee Letters from the Hague that the Prince Elector arrived there was slighted by the King of Scotland and his Court that the States appointed a Council to assist the King to treat with the Scots Commissioners and commanded all their Ministers to pray for no Kings or Princes but those under whose Government they are Letters from Excester that the Mayor and Justices there refuse to Execute their Office and to punish any offenders perswaded to it by the Ministers who also inveigh against those that open the Flood-gate of wickedness 14. Order that upon any suit commenced against any Member of Parliament the Commissioners of the Seal and the Judges shall certify such Members thereof respectively and if after such notice they shall refuse to answer or plead according to the usual proceedings of Law That then the Commissioners of the Seal and the Judges shall award such process against their persons and Estates as according to Law is meet and such Members to have no more priviledge in person or Estate than any other Commoner Referred to the Commissioners of the Seal and to the Judges in their Circuits to receive complaints against any disaffected Justices of Peace and upon proof of the charges against them to remove them from being Justices of the Peace as they shall see cause and to put other well affected persons into Commission in their stead A Committee appointed to receive Informations and complaints against such Ministers as in their Pulpits vilify and asperse the Anthority and late proceedings of Parliament and to proceed against such Ministers according to justice Referred to the Council of State to consider of a stamp for the gold newly brought from Guinnea and for the advantage of the State and incouragement of the Merchants And to consider how the statutes against transportation of gold and Silver may be strictly put in Execution and how the melting of Coyn here and selling of Silver for beyond Seas may be prevented An Act committed for appointing of Commissioners and Treasurers for prize goods and disposing of all prohibited commodities for the advantage of the State and for putting all statutes concerning the same into Execution Referred to the Council of State a proposition of Colonel Temple to stop the transportation of Bullion and all prohibited commodities Order that the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal be required to give in the names of such persons as they conceive will be fit for Judges to supply the places that are vacant 16. Upon the Death of Sir Francis Pile Knight of the shire for Berks a Writ issued out for a new election and the Sheriff returned the Earl of Pembroke with all his titles to be chosen Knight of the shire for Berks primae impressionis the House approved of the election and admitted the Earl a Member of the House of Commons and his Lordship attended by many eminent Members was received into the House with great respect Referred to a Committee to examine and consider the impositions laid upon Corn and Coals and the ingrossing of Corn the Earl of Pembroke named of this Committee Oxford Petition referred to the Committee for regulating the University of Oxford Order that none go beyond Seas without licence and an ingagement to act nothing against the Common-Wealth A Petition from Colonel Poyer for Mercy A Petition often thousand well affected persons of London Westminster Southwark and the Hamletts in the behalf of Lilburn Walwyn Prince and Overton Complaining of the illegal proceedings against them by power of Souldiers and undue examinations of them c. and prayeth their inlargement from prison and that for the future no person may be censured condemned or molested concerning life limb liberty or estate but for the breach of some Law first made and published and that the Tryals of all such causes may be left to subordinate Magistrates and ordinary proper Courts of Justice That the
Ships took the Guinney Frigot which had 34 Guns and 20 other Vessels Letters from Ireland that Dublyn was in great danger and that Ormond had totally routed two Regiments of the Parliament Party Letters from Bristol that the Levellers were very active in those parts and took much with the People Lilbourn Walwyn Prince Overton published their Agreement of the People to this Effect 1 The Supream Authority of this Nation to be a Representative of 400. 2 That 200 be an House and the major Voice concluding to the Nation 3 All publick Officers to be capable of Subjection those of Salary not to be Members 4 No Members of one Representative to be chosen of the next 5 This Parliament to end the first Wednesday in August 1649. 6 If this omit to order it that the People proceed to Elections 7 A new Representative to be the next day after this is dissolved 8 The next and future Parliaments each to stand for one whole Year 9 The Power to be without consent of any 10 They not to make Laws to compel in matters of Religion 11 None to be compelled to fight by Sea or Land against his Conscience 12 None to be questioned concerning the Warrs but in pursuance to Authority 13 All Priviledges of any Person from Courts of Justice to be null 14 Not to give Judgement against any where no Law was provided before 15 Not to depend longer upon the incertain Inclination of Parliament 16 None to be punished for refusing to answer against themselves 17 No appeal after 6 Months after the end of Representatives 18 None to be exempted for beyond-Seatrade where others are free 19 No Excise or Custom to be above four Months after next Parliament 20 Mens Persons not to be imprisoned for Debt nor their Estates free 21 Mens Lives not to be taken away but for Murder or the like 22 Men upon Tryals for Life Liberty c. to have Witnesses heard 23 Tithes not to continue longer than the next Representative 24 Every Parish to choose their own Minister and to force none to pay 25 Conviction for Life Liberty c. to be by twelve Neighbours sworn 26 None to be exempted from Offices for his Religion only 27 The People in all Counties to choose all their Publique Officers 28 Future Representations to justify all Debts Arrears c. 29 No Forces to be raised but by the Representations in being 30 This Agreement not to be nulled no Estates levelled nor all things common Montrosse was sent Ambassador into Spain to declare the Kings sad Condition the executing of his Father and keeping him from his Birthright the like to be to France Denmark and Sweden 2 Several Petitions presented from London in behalf of Lilbourn and the rest from Essex for the same from Cambridgeshire about Sea Breaches from London for payment of publick Faith Mony another for Relief of such have been sentenced for adhering to the Parliament another in behalf of the Commons of Lincolnshire Another Petition from Suffolk to the like Effect with former Petitions for taking away Tiths c. and for Liberty of Conscience the Petitioners had thanks for their former good Services and Present civil Petitioning 3 The Publick Fast Day One Elliot a Person towards the Law and others ingaged Souldiers in the Execution of civil Process the General declared his dislike thereof in a Letter to the Lord Chief Justice and prayed his care to punish it One Doâ— committed to the Marshal to be tryed by a Councel of War for pretending a Commission from the Officers of the Army to collect Arrears due for Spiritual Livings and thereby got great Sums into his hands Also two more for counterfeiting the Generals Hand and Seal to Protections for which they received Mony 4 Referred to a Committee to regulate the Vniversity of Cambridge Upon a report from the Councel of State ordered that the Guinny Frigot lately taken be victualled mann'd and set out to Sea Referred to the Committee of the Admiralty to consider of the Articles given to the Captain and Seamen upon the taking of that Friget and whether they may be proceeded against or not and touching the Irish Mariners and the English that revolted Referred to the Councel of State to consider how the Mariners and others detained Prisoners in Scylley and Jersy may be relieved and discharged the like upon the Petition of Mariners Wives The Committee ordered to consider of the indirect dealings in the Sale of Bishops Lands and removing Obstructions therein An Act for discharge of Delinquents in Essex who have compounded An Act passed for settling the Rectory and Glebelands of Burford upon a Member 5 Order for the Isle of Anglesey to have the like Benefit for Compounding as South Wales had Order for L. C. Throckmorton to have a concealed Estate discovered by him towards his Arrears he proving it to belong to a Delinquent The L. Howard chosen and admitted to be Burgess for Carlisle Order for the Speaker to give Passes to those who by the Articles of Pontfract were to go beyond Sea Petition for Payment of Publique Faith Mony Order for the Accounts of a Member to be stated and his Arrears paid out of such concealed Delinquents Estates as he should discover Referred to a Committee to consider of the Petitions and Grievances of all who have not Articles upon Rendition of Garrisons performed to them 7 Order to discharge from Sequestrations the Lady Capels joynture Orders for the Arreares of Colonel Rich. Mr. Francis Pierepoint satisfyed the Committee and was re-admitted to sit in the House Order that the Speaker Sign Letters to forrain Ministers with a Copy of the Act for seizing all Ships that have Prince Charles his Commission Order that the Ingagements for the Navy may be doubled upon Deanes and Chapters Lands Referred to a Committee to consider how the Town of Leverpool may be relieved for Losses Upon their Petitions Orders for Pardon and Inlargement of the L. Goring C. Owen Langhern and Powel Letters from Berwick that things in Scotland were bad that the People increase in Discontent and Affection to the Royal Party The private Souldiers of C. Scroopes Regiment of Horse published their Resolutions not to go for Ireland till the Ingagements of the Parliament were performed here 8 Voted not to continue the Allowance of 12000 l. to the Queen of Bohemia and that the Committee of the Revenue make a List for the House of all Pensions and suspend the Payment of them The Question whether the Councel of State should pay 1500 l. to the Earl of Rutland for demolishing Belvoir Castle passed in the Negative Order for the Commissioners of the Seal to send a Writ to the Lord Mayor to cause to be proclaimed the Act touching Prize Ships and Goods Iretons Regiment were in Disorder upon Letters from Colonel Scroopes Regiment to joyn in their Resolution not to go for Ireland the like of Colonel Reynold's Regiment and
the public Treasuries in London and several Counties The high Court of Justice sate 6 From Exeter That the Judges of Assise there had much settled the People Minds asto the present Government in their Charges to the Grand Jury wherein the Lord Chief Justice Rolles and Judge Nicholas were very much commended An Account of Shipping some Troops designed for Ireland From Tossiter That the Officers and People in that Country did generally and chearfully subscribe the Ingagement From Liscard That the Committee were very active in settling the Militia and the Country were ready to come in and be listed 8 From Chester That Kilkenny was surrendred upon Articles unto the Lord Lieutenant That C. Hewson in his return to Dublin with part of his Brigade took Scarlough the great Tory and divers Priests and Fryars accidentally and that the Lord Lieutenant besieged Cartherlow From Scarborough That the Governour having notice of a small Man of War belonging to the Prince he got a Northsea Vessel and sent Captain Lassels with 50 men in her to see if they could meet with the Pyrate who lay near to that Harbour That the Pirate espying this little Vessel at Seacame out to her set upon her her men having Orders to keep close and not be seen till the word given and assoon as the Pyrates were ready to board the Souldiers came forth and fell on them forced their Men being 29 under deck and brought away them and their Ship to Scarborough six of their Men and one Captain being slain and all the men in the Pyrates Ship were Papists and those who had long used this Course of Piracy 9 An Act and Declaration passed for imposing Penalties upon such as purchase any Crown Lands as original Creditors and pay with assigned or false Bills An Additional Act Passed for the furthur ease and relief of poor Prisoners Order that the Lords Commissioners of the great Seal take care that all Indictments Outlawries and other Acts against any Person for adhering to the Parliament remaining upon Record be searched out taken off the File cancelled and burnt as things scandalous and void Order that all Patents for granting any Title of Honour to any Person after the carrying away of the great Seal to Oxford be annulled and made void And that they do not take that title to whom it is granted nor any presume to give it them and that the Lords Commissioners do prepare an Act for that purpose An Act read for laying an Imposition upon Coals towards the building of Ships An Act read against transportation of Gold and Bullion out of this Nation beyond Seas An Additional Act passed for providing Maintenance for Ministers by Augmentations Vote That no Merchant or Trader beyond Seas shall have any Place in the Custome House during the time that he tradeth That the Arms of the King be taken down in all Ships and the Generals at Sea to see it done That the Arms of the King be taken down in all Churches and Chappels and the Justices of Peace Churchwardens and other Officers ordered to see it done That the Councel of State have power to remove from London and 20 Miles distance from thence all such Delinquents whose abode there they shall Judge to be dangerous An Act passed impowring Commissioners to put in execution the Powers formerly given to the Commissioners for compounding with Delinquents the Committee of Habberdashers Hall c. 10 An Account of transporting Forces for Ireland Letters that Ormond is desirous to go out of Ireland and Inchequin to come in to the Parliament From Lisbon That G. Blake with the Parliaments Fleet arrived there and understood that Prince Rupert intended to set sail from thence within two days whereupon Blake sent to the King of Portugal for leave to come into the River of Lisbon and coming near with his Ships the Castle shot at him That upon this Blake came to an Anchor and sent a Boat to know the Reason why they shot at him the Captain of the great Castle made answer That they had no Order from the King to let them come in That the Merchants Ships that came with Blake seeing this set sail for the Streights After this the King sent one of his greatest Nobles to congratulate with Blake and to desire him not to come in except the weather proved bad whereby he could not ride where he was it being his Majesties Fear that he and Prince Rupeit would quarrel and fight in his Harbour The Kng also sent to Blake a large present of fresh Provisious for his Refreshment That the weather beginning to be foul Blake came into the Bay of Wyers in the River two Miles from Prince Rupert whose men came dayly from him to Blake and one of his Ships the Swallow was coming away but was discovered and the Boatswain clapt in Chains That the Admiral had not above 40 Seamen in his Ship and very few in the rest of his Fleet. That Captain Molton went on Shore from Blake to satisfy the King of the Falsities of Prince Ruperts Declaration 11 A Scots Vessel taken by an Irish Man of War was rescued by a Dutchman The Commissioners settled the Militia in Courwall From Chepsto That at the Assises was as great an appearance of Gentlemen and Freeholders as ever was seen in that Country One tryed and found guilty there for poisoning his Wife and was upon his own words greatly suspected to have poisoned his four Wives and three Children Orders issued That every Regiment of Foot should be recruited to 1200 the Collonels Company to be 200 the Lt. Collonels Company 160 the Majors 140 and the other seven Companies to be 100 a piece Anno 1650 12 From Scotland That notice being had of their Commissioners arriving in Holland the Kirk kept a day of humiliation to seek God for a Blessing upon the Treaty and injoyned the like through Scotland That many German Officers are there expecting imployment when the King comes thither That Cromwel granting Liberty of Conscience to the Irish they will all submit to him 13 From Dublin That the Governour C. Hewson after he had taken Lawlinbridge by order marched with a strong party and met the Lord Lieutenant at Gouran five Miles from Kilkenny and March 19. entred the Town without Opposition That the Castle stood on t and after a sharp dispute upon one attempt to storm the Common Souldiers that they might have Quarter for themselves delivered up their Officers viz. C. Hammon M. Townly two Captains one Quarter Master one Lieutenant and a Priest March 22 All the Officers were shot to death except the Lieutenant who was spared for that he joyned with the Souldiers to deliver up the Officers and the Priest was hanged The Souldiers that were English took up Arms with ours Next day our Forces marched towards Kilkenny and March 24th were necessitated to attempt a Storm to divert the Enemies Forces from falling upon a Party of
that time 16 Letters That General Blake sent in four Prizes one was a French Man of War with forty Copper Guns whose Captain being commanded on Bord by General Blake he asked him if he was willing to lay down his Sword the Captain answered No. Then Blake bid him return to his Ship and fight it out as long as he was able which he did and after two hours Fight he came in and submitted and kissing his Sword delivered it to Blake who sent him and his Ship with the rest into England 17 Letters of a Remonstrance of divers Ministers sent to the Commissioners of the Kirk against their present Proceedings but the Ministers were threatned to be proceeded against unless they desist 18 Letters that the Scots Army was 8000 Horse and 8000 Foot and they resolved to bring it up to 50000 and then to give Battle to the English Army That C. Fenwick took Possession of Edenburgh Castle as Governour thereof That a Party of Dragoons took a Ship loaden with Herrings going to the Scots 20 Letters that at the Coronation of the King in Scotland many Speeches were made to him and the Kirk promised him good Success if he did hearken to their Councel That he gave them fair Answers and signed the Covenant and promised to defend them and maintain their Laws Government and Covenant That a Party of 800 choice Horse attempted the Quarters of the English at Lithlingow but were beaten back Letters of great Mischiefs Murders and Plunderings by the Tories in Ireland many of whom the Governour of Dublin had killed and taken That the Governour is turning the Papists out of Dublin 21 A Pardon granted to four Persons condemned to dye by the High Court of Justice for the late Insurrection in Norfolk A new Seal for the Parliament approved and an Act passed for the use of it and that it shall be Treason to Counterfeit it 22 Letters That at the Assises at Taunton two men accused a poor Fellow and preferred eight Indictments against him for stealing eight Sheep but upon the Tryal some being accidentally present came in as Witnesses and fully proved that those eight Sheep were stolen by the Accusers themselves who were Indicted for it and hardly escaped the Gallows Letters That the States of Holland Zealand and Groningen did acknowledge the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England 23 Letters that one Story a Souldier was hanged by sentence of the Court Marshal for killing a Countreyman and another Souldier accescessary to it was hanged on the same Gibbet whil'st one walked ten paces and was then cut down and recovered to Life again 24 Letters that some Conntrey-men Scots were hanged in chains by sentence of the Judge Advocate of the English Army for killing some of the English Souldiers That several Rendezvouzes of the Scots Army were appointed and the King present at them That the Commissioners of the Kirk presented a Remonstrance to the King at St. Johns Town 25 Letters that the Kirk pressed the King to humble himself and to quit the Nation of their Enemies now in the Bowels of the Kingdom 27 Letters of a Mutiny at Sterling which David Lesly had much to do to appease That the General intends to attempt Hume Castle That a Ship loaden with Cloaths and Provisions from London submitted to a Garrison of the Scots on the Sea through the Malignancy of the Master That the Kirk set forth an Exhortation to their Brethren at Edenburgh from Communion with the English or any that desert the Kirk That there were Jealousies between Argyle and Hamilton 28 An Act passed for continuing the Act for the Militia A Charge of the Grand Jury of Northumberland against one Musgrave who had much traduced Sir Arthur Haselrigg ordered by the Councel of State and Musgrave committed 29 Letters that means are used in Spain by the King and his Councel to give Satisfaction to the Parliament of England for the Murder of their publick Agent Mr. Ayscham there but that the Church opposed the punishing of the Murderers being fled to Sanctuary But the Parliament insisted upon it to the Spanish Ambassadour here to have them punished or no further Treaty with that Crown 30 Letters of divisions among the Irish by the Popish Clergy And Opposition made against Ormond and Inchequin That the Rebels in Kerry being 5000 Foot and 500 Horse dispersed the Quarters of C. Le Hunt And that Major General Waller was gone to fight them That divers Robberies and Murders were committed near Tade after and the Thieves demanded of those they robbed whether they had taken the Ingagement 31 Letters of the Kings going about to several Rendezvous and Garrisons to encourage the Souldiers That a Party of Horse from Sterling took seven or eight stragling Souldiers of the Parliâ— ments February 1650. 1 The Parliament appointed the Lord Chief Justice St. John and Mr. Strickland to go Ambassadors extraordinary to the States of the United Provinces Strickland had been Agent there before and for his Experience thought â—it to be sent with St. John who was Cromwells Creature and his Disposition suited with such an Imployment which met with good Abilities though not much versed in Forraign Affairs or Languages Mr. Strickland was an honest rational Gentle-man and versed in the Dutch Business but St. John was looked upon as the principal man The number of Ships and men agreed upon for the reducing of the Barbadoes A difference between C. Sidney Governour of Dover and his Officers referred to the Councel of State 3 Letters of an allarm taken by the Enemy at Sterling upon notice that the English Army intended a March thither That many of their new listed men run away That C. Fenwick Summon'd Hume Castle to be surrendred to General Cromwel But the Governour answered That he knew not Cromwel and for his Castle it was built upon a Rock That the General Assembly of the Rebels in Ireland which they call their Parliament declared their due and perfect obedience to his Majesty Yet that they will insist upon the Articles of Peace and provide against the violation of them And that the King being in the hands of the Scots Presbyterians who had vowed the extirpation of their Religion they would receive no Governour from him whil'st he was in this unfree Condition 4 Order that the Kings Arms be taken down in all publick places and the Armes of the Common-wealth set up in the room thereof and the charge of it paid out of the Parish-Rates and the Justices of Peace Church-wardens and other Officers to see this order executed An Additional Act passed for the sale of Fee-Farm Rents Letters of the Commissioners safe arrival in Ireland 5 Letters that the Ministers about Leverpoole refused to observe the Thanksgiving Day Of several Prizes brought in 6 Letters of an agreement of the Ministers of Somerset and Devon to refuse subscribing the Ingagement or observing the Orders of Parliament
Common-wealth and there are enough besides me that can testifie it and I believe our Ingagements for this Common-wealth have been and are as deep as most mens and there never was more need of advice and solid hearty Counsel than the present State of our Affairs doth require Whitelock I suppose no man will mention his particular ingagement in this cause at the same time when your Excellencies ingagement is remembred yet to my capacity and in my station few men have ingaged further than I have done and that besides the goodness of your own nature and personal knowledge of me will keep you from any jealousie of my Faithfulness Cromwel I wish there were no more ground of Suspition of others than of you I can trust you with my life and the most secret matters relating to our business and to that end I have now desired a little private discourse with you and really My Lord there is very great cause for us to consider the dangerous condition we are all in and how to make good our station to improve the Mercies and Successes which God hath given us and not to be fooled out of them again nor to be broken in pieces by our particular jarrings and animosities one against another but to unite our Councels and hands and hearts to make good what we have so dearly bought with so much hazard blood and treasure and that the Lord having given us an entire Conquest over our Enemies we should not now hazard all again by our private Janglings and bring those Mischiefs upon our selves which our Enemies could never do Whitelock My Lord I look upon our present danger as greater than ever it was in the Field and as your Excellency truly observes our Proneness to destroy our Selves when our Enemies could not do it It is no strange thing for a gallant Army as yours is after full conquest of their Enemies to grow into Factions and Ambitious designs and it is a wonder to me that they are not in high Mutinies their Spirits being active and few thinking their services to be duely rewarded and the emulation of the Officers breaking out daily more and more in this time of their vacancy from their imployment besides the private Soldiers it may be feared will in this time of their Idleness grow into disorder and it is your excellent Conduct which under God hath kept them so long in discipline and free from Mutinies Cromwell I have used and shall use the utmost of my poor endeavours to keep them all in order and obedience Whitelock Your Excellency hath done it hitherto even to admiration Cromwell Truly God hath blest me in it exceedingly and I hope will do so still Your Lordship hath observed most truly the inclinations of the Officers of the Army to particular Factions and to murmurings that they are not rewarded according to their deserts that others who have adventured least have gained most and they have neither profit nor preferment nor place in government which others hold who have undergone no hardships nor hazards for the Common-wealth and herein they have too much of truth yet their insolency is very great and their influence upon the private Soldiers works them to the like discontents and murmurings Then as for the Members of Parliament the Army begins to have a strange distast against them and I wish there were not too much cause for it and really their pride and ambition and self-seeking ingrossing all places of honour and profit to themselves and their Friends and their daily breaking forth into new and violent parties and factions Their delays of Business and design to perpetuate themselves and to continue the power in their own hands their medling in private matters between party and party contrary to the institution of Parliaments and their injustice and partiality in those matters and the Scandalous Lives of some of the chief of them these things My Lord do give too much ground for people to open their mouthes against them and to dislike them Nor can they be kept within the bounds of Justice and Law or Reason they themselves being the supream Power of the Nation lyable to no account to any nor to be controuled or regulated by any other power there being none superior or coordinate with them So that unless there be some Authority and Power so full and so high as to restrain and keep things in better order and that may be a check to these exorbitancies it will be impossible in humane reason to prevent our ruine Whitelock I confess the danger we are in by these extravagancies and inordinate powers is more than I doubt is generally apprehended yet as to that part of it which concerns the Soldiery your Excellencies power and Commission is sufficient already to restrain and keep them in their due obedience and blessed be God you have done it hitherto and I doubt not but by your wisedome you will be able still to do it As to the Members of Parliament I confess the greatest difficulty lies there your Commission being from them and they being acknowledged the Supream Power of the Nation subject to no controls nor allowing any appeal from them Yet I am sure your Excellency will not look upon them as generally depraved too many of them are much to blame in those things you have mentioned and many unfit things have passed among them but I hope well of the Major part of them when great matters come to a decision Cromwell My Lord there is little hopes of a good settlement to be made by them really there is not but a great deal of fear that they will destroy again what the Lord hath done gratiously for them and us we all forget God and God will forget us and give us up to confusion and these men will help it on if they be suffered to proceed in their wayes some course must be thought on to curb and restrain them or we shall be ruined by them Whitelock We our selves have acknowledged them the Supream power and taken our Commissions and Authority in the highest concernments from them and how to restrain and curb them after this it will be hard to find out a way for it Cromwell What if a man should take upon him to be King Whitelock I think that remedy would be worse than the disease Cromwell Why do you think so Whitelock As to your own person the Title of King would be of no advantage because you have the full Kingly power in you already concerning the Militia as you are General As to the nomination of Civil Officers those whom you think fittest are seldom refused and although you have no negative Vote in the passing of Laws yet what you dislike will not easily be carried and the Taxes are already setled and in your Power to dispose the money raised And as to Forrain Affairs though the Ceremonial Application be made to the Parliament yet the expectation of good or bad Success in it is from
mischief to the Exchange had they not been prevented The Parliaments Horse at the Mews taking the Allaram apprehended some of the Portugueses and the rest of them ran to the Ambassadors House whether Collonel Whaley pursued them and beset the Ambassadors House with his Horse acquainted him with the Murder and Insolency committed by his followers shewed him some of them whom he had taken Prisoners and required the chief of the rest to be delivered up to the hand of Justice The Ambassador insisted upon his priviledge as Ambassador but seeing nothing else would satisfy he at length delivered up his Brother and one of the Knights of Malta and some others and promised to secure the rest to be forth coming After which the Ambassador made his Address to the Lord General and chiefly for his Brother but the General told him the business did concern the publick and therefore his Excellencies Address must be to the Parliament and the Council of State 23. Letters that upon the complaints of the Merchants at Stockholm to the Queen of Sweedland of the Abuses they had received at Sea by the Holland Men of War the Queen clapt up two Dutch Merchants into Prison and seized upon all Dutch Mens Estates till She should be further satisfied The Brother of the Portugal Ambassador and his Company who committed the Murder at the Exchange were Examined by the Lord Chief Justice Rolles and the Ambassadors Brother and four others were Committed to Newgate in order to their Trial. 24. Letters That a Knight of Malta Commander of a Man of War of France took an English Merchant man in the Streights That the French Pickaroons did much mischief on the Coast near Jersey That Captain Chainberlain an old Pyrate sent a Letter to Colonel Hean Governour of Jersey That if the Jersey Men would not contribute toward his maintenance he Swore by the Heavens that he would throw as many of them as he did meet with into the bottom of the Sea 25. Letters of the Insolencies committed by the Highlanders That the Marquiss of Loignac travelling between Brussels and Dunkirk was murdered by Thieves and all his Company only the Post-boy hardly escaped 26. Letters of Merchant Ships arrived at Dartmonth safely and of some English Vessels taken by the Pickaroons of Brest Of a Prize brought into Plymouth which pretends to be a Sweedish Ship 28. Orders touching the account of Officers and Souldiers and Stating their Arrears and for paying and securing them out of forfeited Lands in Ireland Letters that Eight Dutch Men of War in the Streights had taken Fifteen Merchantmen of London and Bristol Trading from New-found Land with Fish to the Streights and two more of them were taken by a Brest Pickaroon at the Lands end Of divers Witches Examined and sent to Prison some of them called Black Witches who killed Men Women and Children and Cattle by their Witchcrafts and others of them called White Witches who healed them that were bewitched by the other and that this was Confessed by them 29 Letters that Mounsieur Chanute late Ambassadour from France to Sweden was now come Ambassadour Extraordinary to the States General and came with a very great Train The Dutch Deputies meet daily with the English Commissioners at White-hall about the Treaty of Peace 30 Letters of great Preparations in Holland to recruit their Navy That Middleton hath leave from the States to Transport what Armes and Amunition he pleased to Scotland That the Emperour had declared for the Scots King against the Commonwealth of England December 1653. 1 Letters that the Queen of Sweden had seized upon the Persons and Estates of some Dutch in Sweden which caused the Dane to fear her closure with England That the King of Denmarks Fleet of Fourteen Men of War met with several English Merchant-men and Examined them and finding that they were English let them pass quietly 2 Of mischiefs done by the Highlanders Of harmes done by the French Picaroons and Dutch Freebooters upon the Western Coasts 3 Of many Merchants Ships staying in Deal Road for Convoyes and that the Parliaments Fleet were most of them yet at Tilbury-Hope whither the rest of the Frigots were falling down to them as fast as they could get to be ready 5 Letters that the Barons of Athol refused to assist the Highlanders who thereupon took some of the Barons Prisoners and others of them fled to one of the English Garrisons and that this caused much discontent in the Country That the further Highlanders Plundered all that come in their way and every Two Men among them devour a Sheep in one day that when they have got Plunder they run home That they depend much upon Kenmores Party consisting of Scots Irish French and English that they will not Ingage with the English 6 General Blake General Monk General Desborough and General Pen made of the Committee of the Admiralty and Navy with divers others by Act of this Parliament for Six Months Letters of Sixteen Private Men of War at Brest of Four Prizes brought into Plymouth and of Three more great Ships taken 7 Orders taken for the Relief of Marleborough upon a Collection for the loss by the late Fire there 8 Letters of preparations for One hundred and twenty Ships to go forth from Holland in the Spring that the Lords there are close and silent That Middleton had great favour there Of several Frigots in Plymouth made ready to put to Sea 9 Letters of a Ship set upon by the Dutch at Leghorn-road but rescued by the Castle Of two Dutch Ships brought in Prize to Pool by Private Men of War that divers Dutch Pirates joyned with those of Brest That the Earl of Athols Men left him in the Highlands and his Tenants refused to pay him Rents of other small Parties in other places of Scotland 10 Of the Mischiefs done by the French Pickaroons and an English Frigot coming near them they hasted away That General Monck set Sail from Tilbury Hope with all the Ships then ready 12 Of differences between Glencarn and Glengary who shall be Superiour in Command of the Highlanders That the Gentlemen in those parts were summoned by the Commander in Chief of the Parliament Forces and most of them Signed an Engagement to be faithful to the Common-wealth of England and not to Assist the Highlanders That the Queen of Sweden was gone from Stock-holm to Vpsale 13 Upon a Report from the Committee touching Tithes That the Commissioners be sent into all Counties divided into Six Circuits Three Commissioners into each Circuit from London and Four or Six of every County The Commissioners to have Power to eject all Ministers who are not of good behaviour and holy in Conversation or not apt and able to teach or hold not forth the faithful Word or be not diligent or labour not in the Word and Doctrine nor be greedy of filthy lucre And that they be impowred to settle Godly and able Persons to settle the
Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being shall have power to hear and determine such corruption and miscarriage and to award and inflict punishment as the nature of the Offence shall deserve which punishment shall not be pardoned or remitted by the Lord Protector And in the interval of Parliaments the major part of the Council with the consent of the Lord Protector may for Corruption or other Miscarriage as aforesaid suspend any of their number from the exercise of their Trust if they shall find it just until the matter shall be heard and examined as aforesaid XXVI That the Lord Protector and the major part of the Council aforesaid may at any time before the meeting of the next Parliament add to the Council such persons as they shall think fit provided the number of the Council be not made thereby to exceed One and twenty and the Quorum to be proportioned accordingly by the Lord Protector and the major part of the Council XXVII That a constant yearly Revenue shall be raised setled and establisht for maintaining of Ten thousand Horse and Dragoons and twenty thousand Foot in England Scotland and Ireland for the Defence and Security thereof and also for the convenient number of Ships for guarding of the Seas besides Two hundred thousand pounds per annum for defraying the other necessary Charges for administration of Justice and other Expences of the Government Which Revenue shall be raised by the Customs and such other ways and means as shall be agreed upon by the Lord Protector and Council and shall not be taken away or diminishe nor the way agreed upon for raising the same altered but by the consent of the Lord Protector and the Parliament XXVIII That the said yearly Revenue shall be paid into the Publick Treasury and shall be issued out for the Vses aforesaid XXIX That in case there shall not be cause hereafter to keep up so great a Defence at Land or Sea but that there be an abatement made thereof the Money which will be saved thereby shall remain in Bank for the Publick Service and not be employed to any other use but by consent of Parliament or in the intervals of Parliament by the Lord Protector and major part of the Council XXX That the raising of Money for defraying the Charge of present extraordinary Forces both at Land and Sea in respect of the present Wars shall be by consent in Parliament and not otherwise save only that the Lord Protector with the consent of the major part of the Council for preventing the Disorders and Dangers which may otherwise fall out both at Sea and Land shall have power until the meeting of the first Parliament to raise Money for the purposes aforesaid and also to make Laws and Ordinances for the Peace and Welfare of these Nations where it shall be necessary which shall be binding and in force until Order shall be taken in Parliament concerning the same XXXI That the Lands Tenements Rents Royalties Jurisdictions and Hereditaments which remain yet unsold or undisposed of by Act or Ordinance of Parliament belonging to the Common-wealth Except the Forests and Chases and the Honours and Manors belonging to the same the Lands of the Rebels in Ireland lying in the four Counties of Dublin Cork Kildare and Katerlaugh the Lands forfeited by the People of Scotland in the late Wars and also the Lands of Papists and Delinquents in England who have not yet compounded shall be vested in the Lord Protector To hold to him and his Successors Lord Protectors of these Nations and shall not be aliened but by consent in Parliament And all Debts Fines Issues Amerciaments Penalties and Profits certain and casual due to the Keepers of the Liberties of England by Authority of Parliament shall be due to the Lord Protector and be payable into his Publick Receipt and shall be recovered and prosecuted in his Name XXXII That the Office of the Lord Protector over these Nations shall be Elective and not Hereditary and upon the Death of the Lord Protector another fit Person shall be forthwith Elected to Succeed him in the Government which Election shall be by the Council who immediatly upon the death of the Lord Protector shall assemble in the Chamber where they usually sit in Council and having given notice to all their number of the cause of their Assembling shall being Thirteen at least present proceed to the Election and before they depart out of the said Chamber shall Elect a fit person to succeed in the Government and forthwith cause Proclamation thereof to be made in all the three Nations as shall be requisite And the Person that they or the major part of them shall Elect as aforesaid shall be and shall be taken to be Lord Protector over these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging 〈◊〉 Provided that none of the Children of the late King nor any of his Line or Family be Elected to be Lord Protector or other chief Magistrate over these Nations or any the Dominions thereto belonging And until the aforesaid Election be past the Council shall take care of the Government and administer in all things us fully as the Lord Protector or the Lord Protector and Council are enabled to do XXXIII That Oliver Cromwel Captain General of the Forces of England Scotland and Ireland shall be and is hereby declared to be Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging for his life XXXIV That the Chancellor Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal the Treasurer Admiral Chief Governors of Ireland and Scotland and the Chief Justices of both the Benches shall be chosen by the approbation of Parliament and in the intervals of Parliament by the approbation of the major part of the Council to be afterwards approved by the Parliament XXXV That the Christian Religion contained in the Scriptures be held forth and recommended as the publick Profession of these Nations and that as soon as may be a Provision less subject to scruple and contention and more certain than the present be made for the Encouragement and Maintenance of able and painful Teachers for instructing the People and for discovery and confutation of Error Heresie and whatever is contrary to sound Doctrine And that until such Provision be made the present Maintenance shall not be taken away nor impeached XXXVI That to the publick Profession held forth none shall be compelled by penalties or otherwise but that endeavours be used to win them by sound Doctrine and the Example of a good Conversation XXXVII That such as profess Faith in God by Jesus Christ though differing in judgment from the Doctrine Worship or Discipline publickly held forth shall not be restrained from but shall be protected in the profession of the Faith and exercise of their Religion so as they abuse not this liberty to the civil Injury of others and to the actual disturbance of the Publick Peace on
fell into the Lord of Kinoules Quarters took seven or eight Prisoners and about twelve Horse killed one rescued the Lord of Egles Sheriff dispersed the Regiment and the Lord of Kinoule hardly escaped The Lord Protector was Proclaimed by sound of Trumpet in the Pallace yard at Westminster at the Old Exchange and several other places in London divers of the Councel and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen in their Robes with three Serjeants at Armes with their Maces and the Heraulds attending And command to Publish the same Proclamation in all Counties 20. Letters of a Dutch Prize taken by a Private Man of War and brought to Hull 21 A Proclamation Published by his Highness the Lord Protector with the consent of his Councel for continuing all Persons being in Office for the Execution of Publick Justice at the time of the late change of Government until his Highness further direction in these Words OLiver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland considering That whereas the exercise of the chief Magistracy and the Administration of Government within the said Commonwealth is Invested and Established in his Highness assisted with a Council and lest thereupon the setled and ordinary course of Justice in the Commonwealth if remedy were not provided might receive interruption his Highness in his care of the State and publick Justice thereof reserving to future consideration the reformation and redress of any abuses by misgovernment upon better knowledge taken thereof is pleased and doth hereby expresly signifie declare and ordain by and with the advice and consent of his Council who have power until the meeting of the next Parliament to make Laws and Ordinances for the Peace and Welfare of these Nations where it shall be necessary which shall be binding and in force until Order shall be taken in Parliament concerning the same that all persons who on the Tenty day of this instant December were duly and lawfully possessed of any place of Judicature or Office of Authority Jurisdiction or Government within this Commonwealth shall be and shall so hold themselves continued in the said Offices and Places respectively as formerly they held and enjoyed the same and not otherwise until his Highness pleasure be further known And all Commissions Patents and other Grants which respect or relate unto the doing and executing of Publick Justice and all Proceedings of what Nature soever in Courts of Common Law or Equity or in the Court of Admiralty or by Commissioners of Sewers shall stand and be in the same and like force to all Intents and Purposes as the same were on the said Tenth day of this instant December until further Order given by his Highness therein And that in the mean time for preservation of the publick Peace and necessary proceedings in matters of Justice and for safety of the State all the said Persons of whatsoever Place Power Degree or Condition may not fail every one severally according to his respective Place Office or Charge to proceed in the performance and execution of all Duties thereunto belonging as formerly appertaining to them and every of them whilst the former Government was in being Given at White-Hall this 21st of December in the year of our Lord 1653. 22 Letters that the States of the Netherlands keep from their People the knowledge of the Offers of England for coalition and Peace with them Of great Preparations for the Sea against the Spring of above One hundred Sayl of Ships of War 23 Letters of the Highlanders dividing themselves in several Territories that they often remove their Quarters and are in want of Provisions That a Party of the English killed three and a Captain of the Lord Lords 24 Letters of two Dutch Prizes brought in by a Private Man of War That the Dutch about the Lands-end took an English Ship which came from New England That some French Wines were taken and brought into Deal That the Highlanders make so high Demands from the Country that they are not able to supply them 26 Letters that Captain Hart about Dumfrize with a Party of English pursued some of the Enemies by the tract of the Snow and fell upon them took Sixty five Horses sixteen Prisoners and many Armes and four of them slain they fought very Resolutly for a while Captain Hart lost but one Man and sixteen Wounded That the late Change of Government in England was well Resented by the Army in Scotland and they were unanimous to obey the Lord Protector That some Gentlemen about Ruthen Castle in Scotland sent to Captain Hill the Governour to know if an Enemy should come into those Parts whether he would give them leave to furnish the Enemy with Provisions c. to rid them out of the Country to which he answered That if any did so they should forfeit their Lives and Estates Then he showes them the Power of the State of England and their kind dealing with the People of Scotland under their Power and the inconsiderableness of those in Armes against the State of England concludes with an absolute forbidding of them to give any Assistance to the Enemy and to pay in their Sesses Letters from Swedland of the safe Arrival of the Lord Ambassadour Whitelock and of his gallant Reception there 27 The Lord Protector and his Councel passed several Ordinances For continuing the Excise and the Commissioners For the continuing the Act for Redemption of Captives For alteration of several Names and Formes used heretofore in Courts Writs Grants Patents Commissions c. and setling Proceedings in Courts of Law and Equity Divers Prizes taken by Captain Newberry between the Isle of Wight and the French Coast and several other Prizes taken and brought in by others of the Parliament Frigots 28 An Order Published of the Protector and his Counsel for reviving of a former Act for the Probat of Wills and granting Administrations Letters that Chanut Ambassadour from the French King with the States did freely offer to them an Alliance and Assistance from his Master if they would break with Spain and England That Captain Crispin pursued some French Vessels into Conquet Road where he Anchored and the Town and Country came down to assist the Pickaroons and Dutch there and Crispin made Two hundred and thirty great Shot into the Town and did much spoil to the Ships which got close under the Houses 29 The Lord Protector and his Councel sate very close in Ordering their dispatches to the several Forces in England Scotland and Ireland and to their Publick Ministers abroad 30 The Lord Protector with his Councel and the Officers of his Army kept a Day of Humiliation at Whitehall That the Lord Protector was Solemnly Proclaimed at Plymouth the Magistrates present in their Robes the Trumpets sounding and Guns firing the Bells Ringing and Shouts and great Acclamations of Joy of the People Of Two English Ships loaded with Masts c. coming from New England taken by three Dutch-men of War
result of the Court was That by all those Laws the proceedings in this Case were justified And that no Councel could be allowed to the Ambassador's Brother in matter of Fact but if in the proceedings of his Trial he should desire Councel as to matter in Law it should be allowed him After much persuasion he and the rest pleaded Not Guilty and to be Tried by God and the Country and a Jury was called of half English and half Foreigners Adjounred till the next day for their Trial. An Ordinance published impowring the Commissioners of the Customes and others by persons under them to suppress drunkenness prophane Cursing and Swearing 6 An Ordinance published prohibiting Horse-Races for Six Months because of the late Plots The Portugal Ambassador's Brother was again brought before the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Upper Bench and Tried by a Jury of six Denizens and six Aliens he pleaded his ignorance in the Laws of England and desired to have Councel Assigned him but the Court told him That they were of Councel equal to him as to the Commonwealth and upon hearing of the Witnesses the Jury found the Ambassador's Brother and Four more Guilty of Murder and Felony The Lord Chief Justice Rolls gave Sentence against them to be Hanged and a day appointed for Execution but by the desire of the Prisoners it was respited two days The Lord Commissioner Lisle President of the High Court of Justice made a long Speech to Fox Gerrard and Vowel to convince them of the wickedness of their Design and then the Sentence of the Court was read against them severally That upon mature consideration of the Treasons and Murders Plotted and Contrived by them against his Highness the Lord Protector and the Common-wealth and raising a Bloody War in the same the Court did adjudge them to be Hanged Mr. Gerrard moved that he might be Beheaded or shot to death like a Soldier and petitioned the Lord Protector to that purpose This day Whitelock gave account to the Protector and his Councel of his Embassy in Sweden and spake to this effect May it please your Highness I Attend by your Command to give an account of the discharge of that great Trust and weighty Burthen which through the Assistance of God I have undergone in my Imployment to Sueden with the Success of that Negotiation wherein I shall not waste much of your time for which you have other great Affairs but in as few words as I can I shall with clearness and truth acquaint your Highness and this Honourable Councel with those matters which I apprehend most fit and worthy of your knowledge After the Receipt of my Commission and Instructions from the Parliament thensitting to go Ambassador unto Sueden I neglected no time how unseasonable soever to Transport my self unto that Countrey Vpon the 5th of November I Embarqued at the Hope and after ten days Voyage through many Storms Enemies and Dangers it pleased God on the 15 of November to bring me in Safety with all my Company into the Port of Gottenburgh The next day I dispatched two of my Servants to the Court with Letters to Prince Adolphe the Grand Master and to the Ricks Chancellor of Sueden to advertise them of my arrival and to desire their Advice whither I was to direct my Journey to attend the Queen In the City I received many Civilities and Testimonies of respect to the Commonwealth from the Magistrates Officers and others there and a small Contest I had with a Dutchman a Vice-Admiral of her Majesties about our War with his Countreymen and about some Prizes brought in by me wherein I took the Liberty to justifie the proceedings of this State and after submission I ordered the Release of a small Dutch Prize taken by one of my Ships Having refreshed my self and Company some days in this place I began my Land-Journey the last day of November the Military Officers accompanied me out of Town the Citizens and Garison Souldiers stood to their Arms and with many Volleys of great and small shot the Bullets making somewhat too near Complements they gave me an honorable Farewell In our Journey we met with extream hardships both in the weather and want of necessary accommodations In the greater Towns where we quartered the Magistrates and Officers shewed great respect to our Commonwealth onely in one Town a little Affront was given in words by a Prâ—â—tor who acknowledged his Fault and it appeared to proceed more from Drink than Judgment In all places the Officers took great care to furnish me with what the Countrey would afford which I wanted the ways were repaired Wagons and Horses brought in and all done that could be by the special Command of Her Majesty After twenty one days in our Land-Journey near Four hundred Miles from Gottenburg up into the Countrey in that Climate in December through all our Difficulties it pleased God to bring us safe to Upsale upon the twentieth of December About half a League from the Town the Master of the Ceremonies and after him two of his Ricks Senators with the Queens Coaches the Spanish Residents and divers of the great Officers met me and with more than ordinary Ceremonies conducted me to an house in the Town by the Queens order taken and furnished for me Divers Complements passed from the Queen her self and many in that Court expressing muâ—h respect to this Commonwealth in the person of your Servant By favour I obtained my first Audience from the Queen on the twenty third of December the particular passages whereof as of most other matters which I have to mention were in my Letters imparted as they fell out to Mr. Secretary Thurloe and by him I presume unto your Highness and the Councel Two or three days after this I procured a private Audience from Her Majesty when I shewed her my Commission and appointed to wait on her again with my Proposals The Spanish Resident Don Piementel expressed very high respect to this Commonwealth and particular affection to me who knowing his great favour with the Queen I contracted an Intimacy of Friendship with him I had the like with Mr. Woolfeldt the King of Denmark ' s Brother in Law and grew into good acquaintance with Grave Wrangel Grave Tot the Queens Favourite Grave Leonhagh Baron Bond Baron Vanderlin and several other Senators and great men especially I got into the favor and affection of the old Chancellor Mr. Lagerfeldt Secretary Canterstein Mr. Ravins and several others were usesul to me and of my Countreymen I had the Assistance of General Major Fleetwood a faithful Servant to England and my noble friend Colonel Hambleton the Lord Douglas Mr. Bloome and some others gave me their Assistance Having thus given your Highness some account of persons I come now to the matter of my Negotiation wherein these persons were exceedingly useful By Piementel ' s advice I made my applications to the Queen her self and as much as I could put the
and Captain Graham I also sent out Major Bridge with a Party of Horse and Dragoons who fell upon some of their scattered Horse and Foot under Macgrigger who was left to bring the straglers after the Foot to Loughaber these after some resistance ran away The Major took some Prisoners with divers of their tyred Horses with Baggage and amongst the rest the Earl of Athols Portmantue wherein were these inclosed Papers which I thought it my Duty to send to Your Highness as also the inclosed directed into Ireland which was Letters intercepted Camp near Weems Castle July 21. 1654. I remain Your Highness most humble Servant George Monk The Letter from Collonel Morgan was this Sir Upon the nineteenth instant about six or seven at night upon our march toward Rannaough our Scouts discovered a Party of the Enemy which afterwards proved to be Middleton with all his Force to the number of eight hundred They were on the North-side of Loughgarry Major Knight and my self being at the head of our Forlorn perceiving them to face about we made to them with all speed and sent back orders for the rest of our Horse to march up after us we presently put them to the rout pursued them about six Miles and forced them to disperse three ways so that Major Lâ—sle Captain Ducket and my self followed them one way Major Knight Captain Pockley Captain Day Captain Merryman another and Captain Legg and Captain Ginuel the other we killed and took many of the Rogues and near three hundred Horses taken Middleton was dismounted and very much wounded as some of the Prisoners affirm his charging Horse was taken by one of my Servants with Gallant Furniture and a Rich Case of Pistols One of Captain Babingtons Troop took his Sumpter wherein was Rich Apparel his Commissions and Instructions with divers other Letters to him One of Collonel Riches Troop took Kinmoors Charging Horse Mideleton and Kinmoore with divers others were fain to use of their Heels over the Bogs and if the Night and the Bog had not prevented us I believe we had left but very few of them undestroyed But those that escaped are Totally disenabled they had twelve hundred Foot within five Miles of them which I hear are much dispersed and gone towards their Homes their intentions as the Prisoners Inform me were to March to Caithness where they expected the Arrival of some Ships with Men Arms and Ammunition In all this Action the Lord was pleased to appear for us for we had not above four Men wounded none killed and two Horses Shot I am your affectionate Servant Thomas Morgan From the Camp near Badinas July 22. 1654. One of Gerrards Conspiracy that had escaped through a House of Office was retaken in Norwich where he practised Physick Letters that the Scots King arrived at Lieg and went from thence to the Spaw August 1654. August 1 The Protector and his Councel passed two Ordinances one touching the Adventurers for Lands in Ireland the other for Regulating the Jurisdiction of the Chancery The Dutch Ambassadors had Audience of the Protector and Informed him That in Order to satisfy the Losses sustain'd in Denmark their Superiours had sent over some Treasure in Plate Bullion Dollers and other Coyn which was ordered to secured and Coyned in the Tower They also Congratulated his Highness for the Victory over the Forces under Middleton The Commissioners sent to Denmark brought back the English Ships detained there And report the Plague to be hot in those Parts The Province of Friezland declared for the Prince of Orange Middleton after his Defeat in the Highlands went South and Monk after him the Scots prepared for new Leaveys Monk designed to drive Middletons Party towards Collonel Morgan He and Middleton having both ordered to Quarter the same Night at Loughgarry the Enemy looking only back towards Moak thought not of Morgan who met them and Engaged them but they soon fled and lost many of their Horses and some Men. Middleton one of the first that ran away and Manroe their Foot are thereupon dispersed Captain Beke and Major Bridg took divers of them and in some Portmantles several Letters and Papers from the King to the Earl of Athol 2 Other Letters of the former Defeat of Middletons Forces and of many of his Men taken by the Parliament Forces and by the Country 3 Orders of the Commissioners touching the Sale of Bishops-Lands and the Lands of Deans and Chapters 4 The Protector and his Council appointed Commissioners for the Exchequer the three Lords Commissioners Whitelock Lisle and Widdrington Chief Justices Rolls and St. John Collonel Sydenham Collonel Mountague and Mr. Maskam Of Middletons Horse three hundred were taken and one hundred were Bogged He had two Horses Shot under him his Sumpter Horse taken and therein his Commissions and Instructions from the King 5 The Province of Gelderland and four other Provinces chose the Prince of Orange to be their General and Admiral The Portugal Ambassador at Gravesend in his Voyage homewards was Arrested by some Merchants of London to whom he owed great Sums of Money which they had Lent him here and they stopped his Journey Five English Frigots met with the Fleet of French Laden with Salt for the Kings Store-Houses and sunk the two Convoys and carried away the other Ships with their Lading into Plymouth 7 Middleton got together as many as he could of his scattered Horses and had but one hundred whereas before he had eight hundred Glencarn gathered others Morgan went out to prevent their Joyning many came in to Collonel Fitches and submitted to the Parliament divers of them were rifled in the Country An Ordinance of Indempnity passed for the English Protestants in Ireland 8 More of Middletons scattered Forces taken up by the English 9 A Swedish Ship and a Hamburger taken for Prize because they were bound for France The Queen of Sweden Arrived at Antwerp in Mans Apparel and the next day went abroad drest in Womans Apparel 10 The Queen of Sweden highly extolled in Letters for her Parts and Learning 11 Orders of the Committee of Adventurers in Ireland The Protector and his Councel passed an Additional Ordinance for Relief of Creditors and Poor Prisoners 12 General Monk marched after Glencarn who desired to Capitulate Three French Prizes brought in 14 Middletons Brigade was lesned from fourteen hundred to one hundred Two hundred Prisoners Shipped for the Berbadoes General Monk Fired the Houses in Glencamerons bounds they being in Arms against the English they Murdered sixty English Soldiers in cold blood whom they surprized Violent Storms in the Highlands drove down the Hill five hundred Cows and Goats and Sheep into the Glen where General Monk Quartered which his Souldiers made use of In a March of three days the English saw only one Scoth Man and two Women In their March to Brawling for eight Miles the way was so Boggy that one hundred Bagage-Horses were left
for the several Burgs in Scotland 23 Divers Noblemen and others of Scotland who had Fines imposed on them by an Ordinance of the Protector and his Council came into the English Commissioners to offer what they could for Remission of those Mulcts 25 Debate about the Ordinance for ejecting Scandalous and Ignorant Ministers and ordered that the Members for the several Counties do bring in the names of fit persons to be Commissioners in this Act in the respective Counties 26 An Ordinance of the Protector and his Councel made a little before the Parliament sat was now Published appointing Commissioners to survey Forests Mannors Lands c. of the late King Another for the taking an Act of moneys upon the Act for Propagation of the Gospel in Wales Another for bringing in several branches of the revenue under the management of the Commissioners of the Treasury and Exchequer Three small Prizes brought in 27 The Lord Louden late Chancellor of Scotland was seized upon by some of his own Party intending to make their Peace by him but he got off from them receiving a shot in his Neck Collonel Morgan came out of Scotland for England and Collonel Overton was sent into the north of Scotland to Command in his place Bremen sent Commissioners to the States of Holland to desire their assistance to repel the Swede Count William of Nassau went from one good Town to another in Holland feasting the Magistrates and people to gain their affections tâ— the Prince of Orange M. Howard Son to the Earl of Arundel slew one Mr. Holland in the passage going to the Star-Chamber where a Committee sat 28 The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Councel of London Published their Order in pursuance of an Ordinance of the Lord Protector and his Councel for restraint of Hackney Coaches 29 A new Lord Mayor of London chosen Alderman Pack The new Sheriffs of London were Sworn in the Exchequer 30 The Grand Committee of Parliament debated the Articles of Government and came to some further Results and Votes upon several parts of them which they ordered to be Reported to the House forthwith October 1654. Oct. 2 The Marquess of Montross and his party in Scotland came in upon the like Articles as the Earl of Athol had done Those of Bremen were much put to it by the Swede 3 The business betwen England and the States of Holland in relation to their East-India Company was concluded by Commissioners on both parts to their Contentment Commissioners met to reconcile the differences betwixt the Sweeds and Bremen 4 A French Prize was brought in and seven more French Prizes Bankers sent in 5 Much Endeavour in Holland for setting up the Orange Party 6 The Parliament being resolved into a Grand Committee sat every day upon the Articles of Government Three Hundred Members of the House had subscribed the Recognition Letters of the Death of the Old Chancellor of Sweden Oxensterne and that his Son Grave Erit Oxensterne was to succeed him 7 Middleton ranged up and down in Argile Countrey in Scotland with about 40 Horse and some Foot but few came in to him to add to his Numbers 9 Twelve French ships taken by Captain Gethings and four more of the English Fleet. Some more Parliament men were chosen in Scotland 10 Divers Members returned for several places where they were Elected made their Elections in the House for which of those places they would serve and new Writs issued for Electing Members in the Places waved by them Questions about some of the Elections of Parliament men for Scotland were heard at the Committee of Priviledges In regard of the Plenty of Corn butter and Cheese which God gave us this year It was referred to a Committee to consider how some incouragement may be had for the transportation thereof and the Statutes in force against Ingrossers A Committee appointed to consider of the Ordinances made by the Protector and his Councel 11 The Solemn Fast kept 12 The House sat in a Grand Committee about the Government 13 The Highlanders in Scotland having stollen 100 Cattle from the Low-lands a Party of the English Army routed them killed a Lieutenant Collonel and one or two others and routed the rest 14 Lawson defeated the French in Caneda and took their Forts from them 16 Sir Mungo Murray taken Prisoner in the Highlands by Captain Elsemore and his Party routed 17 The Inhabitants of Ireland being very sensible of the mischiefs done to them by the Tories made head against them slew divers and brought their heads into Kilkenny The business of transplanting distasted the Irish more than any other thing At Delfe in Holland a Magazine of 700 barrels of Powder was casually set on Fire burnt about 300 Houses and a great Number of People and in the Hague 3 miles distant their glass windows were beaten down with the blow Four French Vessels sent in Prizes 18 Working in the Netherlands for advancement of the Party of the Prince of Orange 19 The House sat this day and the three former days in a Grand Committee about the Government and had much debate whether it should be Elective or Hereditary as to the single person the Protector of the Common-wealth 20 The Inhabitants of Edenburgh were very cross to the Parliaments Souldiers quartered among them 21 The Parliament continued sitting in a Grand Committee upon the Articles of Government 23 Four more French Prizes brought into Plimouth 24 Hammond one of the Parliaments Commissioners died at Dublin Two English Souldiers brought to the Gallows in Edenburgh for Robery one was hanged and the other saved by Lot and more Souldiers were then Scourged at the Gallows Foot for the same offence The Clergy in Scotland refused to observe the Fast-day ordered by the Protector it being their Principle Not to receive any directions for the keeping Fasts from the Civil Magistrate A Party of the Scots taken and killed in the Highlands by a small party of the English Forces 25 A Committee appointed to bring in a Bill for the relief of Creditors and poor prisoners The Committee for Religion sat and the Committee for regulating of the Chancery The Parliament approved and Confirmed the present Lord Deputy of Ireland the present Lords Commissioners of the great Seal of England the Commissioners of the Treasury and the two Chief Justices 26 The Parliament continued the consideration of the Government 27 Don Antonio Piementelle appointed to go Ambassador extraordinary from the King of Spain to the King of Sweden At Delph in Holland by the late fire 500 persons were Killed 250 wounded and 500 houses burnt to Ashes 28 Brest Pirates took four English Ships and Barques 30 The new Lord Maior of London Alderman Packe took his Oath before then Baronsof the Exchequer In a great Fire in Edenburgh the English Souldiers were so active to stop it that thereby they gained much upon the affections of
Alexander Popham John Goodwyn Francis Thorpe Anthony Ashley-Cooper John Southby Richard Greenhill Thomas Adams Richard Browne Richard Darly Thomas St. Nicholas William James John Boyse Charles Hall John Jones William Wolley Richard Radcliffe William Saville Theophilus Biddolph Henry Mildmay Harbottle Grimstone William Welby Charles Hussey Edmund Harvey John Sicklemore William Doyly Ralph Hare John Hubbard Oliver Raymond Jeremy Bentley Philip Woodhouse John Buxton William Bloyle William Gibbs Thomas Southerton Thomas Bowes Edward Harloe John Hanson Clement Throckmorton Daniel Wall Henry Worth Richard Luey John Witrong George Courthop Samuel Got John Buckland Robert Long John Northcott John Young John Dodderida Henry Hungerford Salisbury Edward Yooker William Morris John Hale Edward Turner Challoner Chute Daniel Shatterden Thomas Styles Richard Beale John Scylliard Walter Moyle Walter Vinsent John Gell Henry Atlington Henry Tempest James Clavering John Stanhop Peneston Whaley Abel Barker Samuel Moore Thomas Miners John Bowyer Samuel Jones John Aston Richard Hinton Andrew Lloyd Edward Hooper Richard Wyren John Fagg Thomas Rivers Henry Peckham Charles Lloyd John Thurlane William Fisher John Gore Rowland Litton 23. The House ordered that no Private Petition should be read in the House for a month and that no Petition presented to the Parliament be printed before it is read in the House 24. The fast day 26. The Bill Intituled An Act for Renouncing and disannulling the pretended Title of Charles Stuart c. was read the Third time and passed 29. Several members being absent the House ordered That all persons that have been or shall be approved do attend on Munday next Alderman Tichburn was chosen Lord Mayor of the City of London October 1656. 1. Upon consideration of the business of the Spanish War the House resolved That the War against the Spaniard was undertaken upon just and necessary grounds and for the good of the People of this Common-wealth and the Parliament doth approve thereof and will by Gods blessing assist his Highness therein and appointed a day to consider of the manner of carrying on that War A Petition of one Aged Ninety Six Years For arrears of Wages due to him as Servant to the late King James and King Charles 2. A Letter from Captain Stayner to General Blake and General Montague sent by them to the Protector wherein was an Account of the Ingagement with the West India Spanish Fleet that the Vice Admiral and one more were sunk and two Burnt and one taken and that the Captain saith she hath in her two millions of Silver and that it was believed the Vice Admiral had as much That the Plymouth Frigot chased another of the Spanish Ships who ran a shore between St. Peters and Cape Degar A Thanksgiving day appointed for the success The Lord Willoughby moved the Protector for his Inlargement out of Prison and for leave to go to Surrinam 6. The French Ambassador had audience 11. The House approved the Lord Commissioner Fiennes and the Lord Commissioner L'isle to be Commissioners of the great Seal and the Lord Cheif Justice Glynn to be Chief Justice of the Upper Bench. 31. James Naylor and others being in prison at Bristol and accused for Blasphemies and other great misdemeanors a Committee was appointed to send for them and to Examine the matter and Witnesses November 1656. 1. Letters That care is taken to bring the Silver from Portsmouth that was taken in the Spanish Gallion 4. Upon General Montague's coming into the House the Speaker gave him the thanks of the House for his great and good Services done for this Common-wealth at Sea 12. Debates to take away the Court of Wards and for the Vnion of Scotland and England 15. Debates touching Registring of Marriages and Burials 17. Proceedings upon the Bill for the Vnion of Scotland and England 27. The Protector came to the Painted Chamber and sent a Serjeant at Arms to give notice to the House that he was come the Speaker and the whole House went to the Painted Chamber where his Highness in the presence of the Lord President and the rest of the Council The Lords Commissioners of the great Seal The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury The Lords Chief Justices of the Benches The Master of the Rolls and the rest of the Judges gave his consent to these following Bills An Act That passing of Bills shall not determine this present session of Parliament An Act for renouncing and disanulling the pretended Title of Charles Stuart c. An Act for the security of his Highness the Lord Protector his Person and continuance of the nation in Peace and Safety An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries An Act for the Exportation of several commodities of the Breed Growths and Manufacture of this Common-wealth December 1656. 1. Applications to several members by the Spanish Merchants in the business of their trade 2. Applications by the Doctors and other Civilians for keeping up their Profession 4. The Earl of Abercorne sollicited upon his petition in Parliament 6. James Nayler was sent for and heard at the bar of the House it was thought by many that he was too fiercely prosecuted by some rigid men 8. The House resolved That James Nayler is guilty of horrid Blasphemy and that he is a grand Impostor and a great Seducer of the People The Bill to take away purveyance and another for Navigatiou were read 13. Several members spake to make an end of the business of James Naylor which had taken up too much of their time 17. Mr. Speaker by order of the House pronounced Judgment against James Naylor to stand in the Pillory two hours at Westminster to be whipped by the Hangman through the streets from Westminster to the Old Exchange and there to stand in the Pillory two hours more and that his Tongue be bored through with a Hot Iron and that he be stigmatized in the forehead with the lettter B. And that he be afterwards sent to Bristol and conveyed through the City on a Horse bare ridged and his face backward and there likewise whipped in the Market-place And that from thence he should be brought to London and committed to Prison in Bridewel and there to be restrained from all Company and kept to hard labour till he shall be released by Parliament and during that time to be debarred from the use of Pen Ink and Paper and to have no relief but what he earns by his labour 23. The House were debating how to provide mony for the War with Spain whilst some Members took liberty of absence 24. A Bill for probate of Wills and granting of Administration read 25. A Bill for preservation of the Timber in the Forrest of Dean ordered to be Ingrossed 31. The House voted that all absent Members that should not attend on that day fortnight should forfeit 20 l. to be paid before they come into the House January 1656. 2.
which was furthered by Whitelocke's advice to the Protector 20. The Commissioners of the Treasury made several reports to the Protector and Council of Arrears of money due to the state and upon advice with them his Highness and the Council made several orders for the Collecting and bringing in of those Arrears December 1657. 1. News of the King of Sweden's proceedings in the Isle of Funen 3. The distaste between the Protector and Bradshaw was perceived to increase 6. Order for the prosecution of some persons who had committed very great wasts and spoils in Forests 7. The Protector was perswaded to take to heart and to further the relief of the poor persecuted Protestants in the Vallies of Piedmont and to send an Agent to the Duke of Savoy to negotiate for favour to them as other Princes had done 11. Writs of Summons under the great Seal were sent to divers persons to sit as Members in the other House of Parliament The Form of the Writs was the same with those which were sent to summon the Peers in Parliament They were in all sixty among whom were divers Noblemen Knights and Gentlemen of ancient Families and good Estates and some Colonels and Officers of the Army Their Names were as followeth The Lord Richard Cromwell the Protectors eldest Son The Lord Henry Cromwell his other Son Lord Deputy of Ireland Nathaniel Fiennes John Lisle Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal Henry Lawrence Lord President of his Highness Privy Council The Lord Charles Fleetwood Robert Earl of Warwick Edmund Earl of Mulgrave Edward Earl of Manchester William Viscount Say and Seal Lord John Cleypole Master of the Horse Philip Viscount Lisle eldest Son to the Earl of Leicester Charles Viscount Howard Philip Lord Wharton Thomas Lord Fauconbridge Lord John Desborough Lord Edward Mountague Generals at Sea George Lord Eure. The Lord Whitelocke Sir Gilbert Pickering Colonel William Sydenham Sir Charles Wolseley Baronet Major General Philip Skippon Lord Strickland Colonel Philip Jones Sir William Strickland Francis Rous Esq John Fiennes Esq Sir Francis Russel Baronet Sir Thomas Honnywood Knight Sir Arthur Hasilrigge Baronet Sir John Hobart Sir Richard Onslow Knight Sir Gilbert Gerard. Sir William Roberts Knight John Glyn Oliver St. John Lords chief Justices William Pierpoint Esq John Jones Esq John Crew Esq Alexander Popham Esq Sir Christopher Pack Sir Robert Tichborn Edward Whalley Esq Sir John Barksted Knight Lieutenant of the Tower of London Sir George Fleetwood Sir Thomas Pride Richard Ingolsby Esq Sir John Hewson James Berry Esq William Goffe Esq Thomas Cooper Esq Edmund Thomas Esq George Monk Commander in chief of his Highness Forces in Scotland David Earl of Cassils in Scotland Sir William Lockart Sir Archibald Johnston of Warriston William Steele Lord Chancellour of Ireland The Lord Broghil Brother to the Earl of Corke in Ireland Sir Matthew Tomlinson 16. Colonel Sir John Reynolds who commanded the English Forces that joyned with the King of France was in a Pink coming over with Colonel White and others from Mardike for England and upon Goodwin Sands the Pink was cast away and all their men in her were drowned Among them was one William de Vaux a young man a good Scholar and very ingenious and being in a great storm in a former Voyage he vainly said That if ever he went to Sea again he would be contented that God should let him be drowned And now being again at Sea the Judgment imprecated by him did fall upon him and he was now drowned 24. The Commissioners of the Treasury prepared the business of the Contract with Commissioners for the Excise and new Impost 25. Some Congregations being met to observe this day according to former solemnity and the Protector being moved that Souldiers might be sent to suppress them he was advised against it as that which was contrary to the Liberty of Conscience so much owned and pleaded for by the Protector and his friends but it being contrary to Ordinances of Parliament which were also opposed in the passing of them that these days should be so solemnized the Protector gave way to it and those Meetings were suppressed by the Souldiers January 1657. 1. Whitelocke having lent Mr. Rushworth some Manuscripts he attended Whitelocke to shew him his Historical Collections as his Highness had ordered 3. A Meeting of the Gentlemen of the County of Bucks at Merchant-Taylors Hall where they had a great Feast 9. The Lord Willoughby petition'd the Protector for his Highness Order to go into the Country to dispatch some necessary business in relation to his Estate and promising to return to Prison which Petition the Protector granted 12. The Protector resolved to have a Collection for the poor persecuted Protestants of Piedmont 20. The Parliament met according to their Adjournment and the Members of the other House summoned by Writ met and sate in the Lords House as the Lords used to do formerly The Protector came thither and the Speaker with the House of Commons being sent for by the Black Rod came to the Lords House where the Protector made a solemn Speech to them but was short by reason of his Indisposition of health and after him the Lord Commissioner Fiennes spake to them more at large My Lords and Gentlemen of both the most honourable Houses of Parliament AMongst the manifold and various Dispensations of God's Providence of late years this is one and it is a signal and remarkable Providence that we see this day in this place a Chief Magistrate and two Houses of Parliament Jacob speaking to his Son Joseph said I had not thought to have seen thy face and lo God hath shewed me thy seed also Meaning his two Sons Ephraim and Manasseh And may not many amongst us well say some years since We had not thought to have seen a Chief Magistrate again amongst us and lo God hath shewn us a Chief Magistrate in his two Houses of Parliament Now may the good God make them like Ephraim and Manasseh that the three Nations may be blest in them saying God make thee like these two Houses of Parliament which two like Leah and Rachel did build the House of Israel May you do worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlehem May it be your great business to procure the peace the safety and the prosperity of these three Nations and these things too not for themselves only but in order yet to greater and higher ends the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ amongst us and the Glory of God in the good of all men but especially of the Churches of God amongst men which as they are God's most precious Jewels and his chiefest care so must they also hold the choicest place in the eyes and in the hearts of all those that act under him and are cloathed with his power and authority In order to the great and glorious end you may please in the first place to reflect upon the Posture that
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
time The House of Lords Voted Nemine contradicente That no Lord ought to be Committed sitting the Parliament but by Judgment of the Parliament except for Treason Felony or breach of the Peace And in Pursuance thereof they Voted a Remonstrance to the King to declare their Right and to Pray his Majesty to release the Earl of Arundel which was presented but no Answer being given to it the Lords presented another Petition to the King for an Answer to their former Petition to which the King returned his dislike The Exception taken by the King was at the Words to have a present Answer whereupon the word present was left out in a New Petition which pleased the King who sent for the Lords to Whitehall and Courted them but thinks they mistrust him and shews the difference of the Cause of Commitment of the Members of the House of Commons and the Earl of Arundel and saith He hath just cause of detaining the Earl of Arundel in prison which he will acquaint them with as soon as possibly he can The Lords present a new Petition to the King That he would be pleased to release the Earl or to declare the cause of detaining him in Prison That it was contrary to their priviledge To which the King answered That he would give them satisfaction before the end of this Session The House Adjourned till the next day and after that for a week and then at their Meeting the King signified to them That he would within a Fortnight either release the Earl or show the Cause And at the new meeting of the Lords the King took off the Restraint of the Earl of Arundel The Commons Committed Mr. Moor one of their Members for speaking words reflecting upon the King At this time Cambridge chose the Duke of Bucks for their Chancellour to please the King and shew their dislike to the Commons The Earl of Berks Name was in Competition but he had too much Courtship and too little Spirit to Contest and so he desisted The House of Commons would have Interposed by their Letter against the Dukes choice but the King forbad it challenging those Matters to belong to him and Justified the Duke to the House and by Letter to Cambridge approved their Choice of the Duke The Duke with an Ingenious Speech ushered in his Answer to the Impeachment of the Commons whom he courted yet Justified himself and said That his accuser Common Fame was too subtle a Body for him to Contest with and he doubted not but in time it would be found that Common Fame had abused both them and him His Answer to the several Thirteen Articles against him was distinct and in most of them carryed a fair colour and the chief strength of his Answer was upon the Knowledge of the King and his Father and their direction of the particular passages with his obedience thereunto and following the Advice of the Councel He denys having the Twenty thousand pound of the Earl of Manchester or Six hundred pound of the Earl of Middlesex or the Ten thousand pound of the East India Company but saith the King had those Sums and the Earl of Manchester had satisfaction by the Kings lands for the Twenty thousand pound and the Six thousand pound was given by the King to Sir Henry Mildmay He absolutly denys that he applyed the Plaister or gave the Drink to King James in his sickness but the King knowing that the Duke had been cured of an Ague by a Plaister and a Drink the King would have them and took them some of his Phisitians then being present and allowing them and tasting the drink He concludes with praying the benefit of the General Pardon of King James and this Kings Coronation Pardon to be allowed him The King sent to the Commons to quicken them about the Subsidies They Petitioned the King about Recusants and named those in Places of Government and Trust and Pray they may be put out and by their desire they attend the King where by their Speaker and in Writing they profess their Affection and Loyalty to the King but they desire that His Majesty would not permit the Duke to have any more access to him They agreed upon a Remonstrance against the Duke and concerning the taking of Tunnage and Poundage though not granted to him by Parliament And this they did because they heard that the King intended to Dissolve the Parliament and by Petition they prayed him not to Dissolve it but the King would not receive the Petition but said He was resolved to Dissolve the Parliament and directed a Commission for that purpose and accordingly the Parliament was Dissolved June the Fifteenth one thousand six hundred twenty six unhappily Thus this great warm and Ruffling Parliament had its Period The Common dispersed Copies of their intended Remonstrance which is in Rushworths Collections with the Grounds and Causes held forth by the Kings Declaration for Dissolving this and the former Parliament and the King published a Proclamation against the Parliaments Remonstrance and for the suppressing of it Sir Thomas Chamberlain chief Justice of Chester dyed and Sir John Hobert Baronett chief Justice of the Common Pleas who was a Learned Judge a grave and smooth man After the Parliament was dissolved the King caused an Information to be preferred in the Star-chamber against the Duke of Buckingham for the same Matters contained in the Articles of Impeachment in the Parliament against him to which the Duke put in his Answer and Witnesses were examined but it came not to hearing The privy Councel advised the King to take Tunnage and Poundage and an Instrument to be past under the Great Seal for his taking of it until it could be past by Parliament A Commission Issued to compound with Recusants The King required a Loan of Money and sent to London and the Port Towns to furnish Ships for guard of the Seas Noy a great Antiquary and afterwards Attourney General had much to do in this business of Shipmoney The Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of Dorsetshire excused themselves and said The Case was without president London being rated twenty Ships desired an abatement to ten and two Pinnaces the Councel denyed it and in Answer to their presidents said That the Presidents in former times were Obedience and not Direction A Benevolence was likewise required Then a General Fast was appointed Commissions Issued out for Musters and power of Martial Law was given and the Inhabitants of the Sea Coasts required to repair to and dwell upon their Estates Ships were sent by our King to the Elbe which discontented the Hamburgers they were recalled The King of Denmark declares to assist the Elector Palatine against the Emperour Tilly Fights with him and gives him a Defeat Our King requires a general Loan according to the rate of the Subsidy with promises to repay and that it shall be no president To the imposing of Loans was added the Billetting of Souldiers Martial Law was
executed and the Soldiers committed great outrages Sir Randâ—l Crew Chief Justice not favouring the Loan was put out of his Place and Sir Nicholas Hide who drew the Dukes Answer in Parliament was preferred to be the Chief Justice The Bishop of Lineoln for speaking words against the Government and for countenancing Non-Conformists was complained of by Sir John Lamb and others and they Informed That Fasts were kept and Money Collected by the Puritans for the Palatinat and that the Bishop would not proceed against them The Bishop got a Copy of the Informations against him Bishop Laud was Jealous that Lincoln Endeavour'd to be reconciled to the Duke Six thousand English in service with the States were commanded thence under General Morgan to join with the King of Denmark Some who refused to lend Money to the King were forced to Serve in the Kings Ships then going forth and refusers in the Country were some of them Committed and the meaner sort pressed to serve as Soldiers Dr. Sibthorp published a Sermon Preached by him to Promote the Kings Affairs wherein he delivered his Opinion That the King might make Laws and do whatsoever pleaseth him Dr. Mainwaring Preached the same Divinity and highly against the power of Parliaments The Papists were forward in the Loan and the Puritans were Recusants in it Abount this time the Earl of Denbigh had one hundred Sayl of Ships under his command in our Seas but his Excellency having no Commission to Fight suffer'd divers English Vessels to be taken away by our Enemies in his view without Rescue by their Countrymen Some Ships taken for Prize being brought before him as Admiral it was wondred at that almost all of them were by him adjudged to be no Prize and so released but one Captain pursued a released Ship and took her again brought her to London and in the Admiralty she was adjudged Prize and he Enjoyed the benefit whatever the Earl of Denbigh did before Distastes and Jealousies were raised about the Government of the Queens Family wherein the King held himself traduced by some French Servants who said that the King bad nothing to do with them he being an Heretick The Queen was brought to Insist upon it as part of the Articles that She should name all Her Servants and some unkindness arose upon it The King was also distasted That her Priests made the Queen to walk to Tyburn on Pennance Upon these passages the King dismist and sent back into France all the Queens French retinue acquainting the French King with it and Excusing it to him but it was ill resented in France and by them held contrary to the Articles of Marriage The Jarring with France brake out to an open War which was fomented by an Abbot here in disfavour with Cardinal Richlieu to put an affront upon the Cardinal and Mr. Walter Mountague Endeavoured to further it and the pretence was to assist those of the Religion in France Our King took that ground and the denial of Count Mansfields Men to land in France and the influence of the Councils of the House of Austria upon those of France and the Imbargo of our Merchants Ships there sufficient causes for a War The Duke of Bucks is appointed Admiral and General of the Sea and Land Forces prepared against France And hath power to make Knights c. He comes before Rochel with one hundred Sayl of Ships and desires them to joyn with him in behalf of the Protestants in France but the Rochellers returning thanks to our King and to the Duke answered That they were bound by Vnion and Oath not to do any thing without the consent of the rest of the Religion The Duke was advised to land his Men at the Isle of Oleron which was weak and ill provided and not at the Isle of Rea which was strong and well provided but he altered his Design and Sailed to Rea and there landed Twelve hundred Men whom the French encountred but the English forced their way and all the Army was landed in the Island Yet did they not take their advantage against the French but suffered the Governor to have five days to recover his loss and to get in as he did new Forces and Provisions in the mean time the Duke published a Manifesto of the Causes of this War particularly the King of France his Imploying our Ships against Rochel contrary to his promise and agreement The Gentlemen here who refused to pay the Loan were confined into other Counties and in close Imprisonment and some of them in common Goals Sir John Elliot one of them in a Petition to the King sets forth the Illegality of the Loan or of any Tax without Parliament taking this way to Inform the King what his Councel did not and he alledgeth his Conscience not to submit to it and prays his liberty but could not obtain it Sir Peter Haiman another refuser was sent upon an Errand as far as the Palatinate The Arch-Bishop Abbot was suspended for refusing to licence Dr. Sibthorps Book a Sermon for Absolute Power and a Commission was granted to several Bishops to exercise the Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction Of all which proceedings touching himself the Archbishop left a grave and ingenious Narrative which may be read at large in Rushworths Collections Five of the Imprisoned Gentlemen by Habeas Corpus were brought to the Kings Bench and by their Councel Assigned took Exceptions to the Return for that it had not the cause of their Commitment but of their detainer in Prison per speciale Mandatum Regis which is no particular cause and the Law being most tender of the Subjects Liberty Noy Selden Brampston Calthrope and others who were of Councel for the Prisoners prayed they might be Released and Discharged Heath the Kings Attourney at another Day argued in Maintenance of the Return Hide chief Justice declared the Opinion of the Court That the Return was Positive and Absolute by the Kings special command and the signification of it by the Lords of the Council is only to inform the Court. And that the Habeas Corpus is not to return the Cause of the Imprisonment but of the detention in Prison that the matter of this Return is sufficient and the Court is not to examine the truth of the Return but must take it as it is So the Prisoners were Remaunded The Report of this Case may be found in Rushworths Collections Anno 1627 The King resolves to send supplies to the Isle of Rea and Souldiers and Mariners are press'd for that purpose but many of them not liking the business run away from their Conductors hereupon it was resolved by all the Judges That If one be retained to serve the King beyond Seas and press money deliver'd to him and by Indenture he be deliver'd to a Conductor to lead him to the Port where he is to be shipped and he run away from the Conductor that this it Felony by the Statutes 7 H. 7. ch
Commissioners to the General declaring their inclinableness to Peace entreating his Excellency that the Army might not advance this way nor intermeddle with the Rights and Priviledges of the City Conceiving that their strengthning of the City for the preservation thereof was no just cause to provoke the Souldiery and as for the Petition the Parliament had already declared their sence thereof and it had never been formally presented to them 29. Militia of London ordered That no persons should disturb the Parliament and if any did the Commander of the Guards should prosecute his Commission to kill and slay c. Upon intelligence That the Army was advancing Orders were given for the Trained Bands to go to the Works and for Raising Auxiliaries and all to come the next Morning who were able to bear Arms. all this part of the action and that which follows was contrived and directed by the Eleven Members and their Friends Collonel Jones Marching into the Rebels Country was by them overpowered six for one yet made a gallant retreat losing only two Officers and about ten Souldiers and killed divers of the Rebels 30. According to the Adjournment some Members met in either House but the Speakers came not and after some expectation the Lords chose the Lord Grey and the Commons then present chose Mr. Pelham to be Speaker Pro tempore and Mr. Sergeant Birkhead not appearing they put Mr. Norfolk into his place he made use of the City Mace the other being carried away and the Sergeant coming afterwards to offer his service was not admitted Then the House proceeded to Vote 1. That the King should come to London 2. That the Militia of the City have power to raise such Forces as they shall think fit for defence of the City 3. That they may choose a Commander in chief to be approved by the House and he to choose Officers to be approved by the Militia The Sheriff and Common-Councel who attended the House this Morning returned to the City and a Common-Councel in the Afternoon chose Major General Massey to Command in chief their Forces The Militia ordered all the Reformadoes Officers c. to appear to morrow in St. James's Fields and the Forces to be put into Regiments A Letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax to the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councel to this effect Mentioning The Armies complyance with their former desire to remove to this distance and the assurance given them by the City of their concurrence for the settlement of Peace and Liberty against which they never offered one objection or ground of dissent and their resolution to secure the Parliament and their Priviledges from any violence or attempt the reason given by the City for their late Listing of new Forces That upon this confidence the Army was disposed into several parts for the ease of the Kingdom to above one hundred and ten Miles distance and had given up themselves to their Proposals for a comfortable settlement and were in a hopeful way for the relief of Ireland That the Army cannot but be deeply sensible of the unparalelled violation acted upon the Parliament on Monday last by a multitude from the City because therein the Guards sent from the City did not only neglect their duty for security of the Parliament from such violence and the whole City to yield any relief to the Houses in that extremity but they are assured from Eye and Ear Witnesses that divers of the Common-Councel gave great incouragement to it Which doth not only gain-say their former professions but does violence to those many obligations that by their Charter Protestation and sundry other ways lye upon them to protect the Parliament That he cannot but look upon them who are in Authority as accountable to the Kingdom for the interruption of the hopeful way of Peace and settlement for this Nation and for relieving Ireland occasioned by the late destructive ingagements especially by the latter horrid and prodigious Force done upon the Parliament tending to dissolve all Government Upon which score the Army and the whole Kingdom shall have cause to put every thing of the like Nature that may happen to the Parliament or to any who are friends to them and to the Army except by the wisdom care and industry of the City the chief actors may be detected secured and given up to Justice and the best endeavour used to prevent the like for the future 31. The Lords desired the Commons concurrence for removal of the Kings Children into Loudon for their security There was a great appearance of Reformadoes Officers c. in St. James's fields and Order was given for staying and Listing of Horses in the City and that all the Shops should be shut up A Declaration was published in the name of the Speaker Lenthal of the reasons why he absented himself from the House The Army after a hard March lodged the last night at Vxbridge Letters from them certified That the General was tender of the City but laying to heart those unparalelled passages on Munday last at Westminster he is sensible of his Obligations to the Parliament That the Army are resolved what other neglect soever hath been for their security yet as God shall inable them they will use their best endeavours for preservation of the Parliament from violence One of the three Block-Houses at Gravesend was secured by a party of the Army Most of the Eleven Members Sat in the House and in the Afternoon Major General Massey Sir William Waller and Lieutenant General Points Listed the Reformadoes The City published their Declaration mentioning the Armies surprising of the King at Holmeby and denyed his resitlence nearer London than their Quarters That the City have endeavoured the settlement of the Kingdom relief of Ireland ease of their fellow Subjects and a good understanding between themselves and the Army That the Priviledges of Parliament have been violated by the Armies causing the eleven Members to withdraw and the Militia of London now demanded which had been established by Ordinance and is subject to no other Cognizance but of the King and Parliament That they desire nothing more than that his Majesty may be in a free and honourable condition and capacity and whilst he is environed by an Army and under their power he can neither freely grant nor will there be hope to enjoy what he grants in this condition That they are resolved earnestly yet with Humility to apply themselves to the Parliament to this Purpose and hope that all good Subjects who are touched with any sence of that Duty and Allegiance which by the Law of God and man they owe unto their King will unanimously joyn with them therein They state the difference between them and the Army to be That they could not submit the Militia of the City to be altered at the will of the Army after it had been so orderly setled in the hands of such as were
but it is for the People's sake A reverence to the person of the Judge procures a reverence to the Law pronounced by him but I shall hasten to speak a few words of the duty belonging to your Office as you are the Chief Judge of this Court and in your Circuits and other publick imployments in the Common-wealth For the duty of a Judge there cannot be a better direction than that Council which Iethro gave to Moses for the appointing of Judges That they should be men of Courage and men of truth fearing God and hating Covetousness For Courage I remember in a speech upon the like occasion with this of a Judge whose memory I have particular cause to honour That the life of a Judge is Militia quaedam if not Martyrium quoddam in both which Courage is requisite against the assaults of Friends of family of servants and the many importunities and temptations which he shall meet withal and a Martyr he must be in bearing the provocations censures scandals and reproaches which will be cast upon every Judge one Party being always displeased and not sparing especially in these times to censure the Judgment be it never so upright He must want no Courage to resist even the highest and greatest Powers The Stat. 2 E. 3. cap. 8. saith it is accorded and established that it shall not be commanded by the great Seal nor the little Seal to disturb or delay Common right and though such Commandment do come the Justices shall not therefore leave to do right in any point and to execute this Law requireth Courage Pursuant to this is the Statute 14 E. 3. c. 14. and the Parliament Roll 45 E. 3. n. 44. and 2 R. 2. n. 51. and all these are only declaratory of the Common Law as is evident before any of these Statutes by the close Roll 7 E. 2. M. 15. where in a Writ to the Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the King commandeth quod propter aliquae Mandata vobis sub magno aut privato Sigillo they should not forbear to do right Justitiam nemini denegando nec ctiam deferendo and in our Books 1 E. 3. fol. 26. and 2 E. 3. fol. 3. if the King command the Judges to do that which cannot be done by Law they shall not do it According to Magna Charta nulli negabimus nulli deferemus Justitiam vel rectum and this the words of your Oath enjoyn The old Law of Edward the Confessor in Lambert fol. 38. commands the Judges to be equal to all nec quicquam formident quin jus Commun◠audacter libereque dicant For this we have an excellent President in Matthew Paris fol. 971. 41 H. 3. who relates that nobiles firmius confaederati constituerunt sibi Justitiarium virum ingenuum militen◠illustrem legum terrae peritum Hugonem Bigod qui Officium Justitiarii strenue peragens nullatenus permittat jus regni vacillare this is good Example of a Chief Justice and this jus regni is highly intrusted with every judge and I doubt not but that your self who have this trust hitherto so well performed and the rest whom the Parliament shall preferr will perform this great trust with Courage against which fear is not admitted for an excuse for so is the Petition of the Commons in the Parliament Roll 1. H. 4. n. 47. That the Lords nor the Judges be not received in time to come for their excuse to say that they durst not do or say the Law or their intent for doubt of Death because ils sont plus temis de raison de garder leur serment que de doubter mort ou aucune forfeiture one word comprehends all upon this subject in the first of Deuteronomy a Judge must not fear the face of man In the next place they are directed to be men of truth for the finding out whereof there are many incidents requisite as first Learning In the Parliament Rolls 17 E. 3. the Commons petition that none may be made Justices but men of Learning and King Alfred took great care in appointing and examining his Judges that they should be Learned as Asser Menevensis testifies and Bracton saith of an unlearned Judge ex alto corruit quia volare satagit antequam pennas assumat The Parliament have manifested their care for the choice of Learned persons to be Judges witness your self Mr. Serjeant and those reverend Brethren of yours whom you will find upon the Benches men able to understand and convince the subtleties of any arguments tending to obscure the truth and thus Judges ought to be qualified Industry is as requisite for the finding out of truth the burden of our profession growes the heavier when we are the less able to bear it a Judge is more conversant with his Books and more spent with travail and attendance upon the affairs of others in his old Age than was required of him when a young Student Oportet Judicem cuncta rimari Patience is also necessary for the finding out of truth when the Judgment is clouded with passion the truth will not be clearly discerned the digest directs a Judge not to give opprobriosa verba to any in Judgment no impertinences importunities clamours nor reproaches must move him he is to learn from the unbeseemingness and intemperances of others passions the better how to govern his own He must also be patient in allowing sufficient time both for that which is not material as for that which is the distinction is not easy but by the discretion and ingenuity of Councel ' The Law of Henry 1. in Lambert 186. saith ipsi co-agentes frequenter interrogandi sunt an amplius dicere velint an inde judicari quia multa per surreptionem eveniunt the words of our Judgments are significant to this purpose and shew the patience of your predecessors visis plenius intellectis maturà deliberatione habit◠consideratum est This was of so high esteem among the Romans that Cicero affirms Sola Judicis justitia est patentia and surely that Judge doth seldom determine justly that doth not hear patiently Advice is very requisite for knowing the truth and it hath been the custom of the reverend Judges in doubtful Cases to have the opinion and advice of their Brethren according to that direction 1 E. 3. fol. 11. where one Judge tells his Companion that he should not begin a new thing until he had heard his fellows 7 H. 6. a Judge of the the Common-Pleas sent into the Hall to know the opinion of the Judges of the Kings Bench and of the Barons of the Exchequer in a Cause then before him In the Raign of E. 2. and upwards when any difficulty was then all the Judges and Sages of the Law determined it and their Assembly and resolution was entred in the Roll. In the great Case of the Quare Impedit between the King and the Prior of Worcester concerning an appropriation the record saith ad quem diem c. examinatis
to my observations upon the words of your Writ which I shall take in order as they are 1. Quia de Advisamento Concilii nostri c. These words are in the Writs of Creation of Peers and in the Summons of them both Spiritual and Temporal and of the Judges and Kings Council to the Parliament and in your Writs but in no other except upon some high and weighty occasions touching the publick safety and the like And for your greater Honour this Council by advice of which you are called to this degree is the great Council of the Kingdom The Next words in your Writ are Ordinavimus vos c. in the plural Number in the second person which is an Enalage of Number chiefly to express Excellency in the Person to whom it is referred Selden in his Titles of Honour f. 121. showeth the use of it in the Jewish Nation and in France Spain Germany and other Countries and always is in dignity of the party to whom applyed and the stile of the Chancery is so only to the Peers the Judges the Kings Council and to Sergeants Therefore 29 E. 3. f. 44. In a Quare Impedit the Writ was Precipite and excepted against as false Latin but Thorp said it was not false Latin but the plural Number only to express Reverence to the person the other answered that no such reverence is done to a Sheriff and for this the Writ was abated The next words in your Writ are ad Statum c. which sheweth dignity and honour given to them The Author of the Manuscript formerly cited by me allows the Sergeants but little state where he saith they kept their Pillars at Pauls where their Clients might find them as if they did little better than Emendicare panem This was somewhat far from Westminster-Hall and as far from truth being grounded upon a mistake of one of their Ceremonies of State where they went to Pauls to Offer A Manuscript of the Call of Fitz James and other Sergeants 11 H. 8. saith that their Steward brought every one of them to a several Pillar in Pauls and there left them a time for their private Devotions no Convenient time for Clients In the Register a Writ of Ex gravi Querela mentions a devise to a Priest to say Mass at a Pillar in Pauls and I believe most of us both in this and other great Churches have seen old people kneeling at the Pillars in their private prayers Our old English Poet Chaucer whom I think not unproper to cite being one of the greatest Clerks and Wits of his time had a better Opinion of the state of a Sergeant as he expresseth in his Prologue of the Sergeant A Sergeant at Law wary and wise That oft had bin at the pervise There was also full of rich Excellence Discreet he was and of great Reverence And in his description of the Franklyn he saith of him At Sessions there was he Lord and Sire Full oft had he bin Knight of the Shire A Sheriff had he bin and a Countor Was no where such a worthy Vavasor A Countor was a Sergeant and a Vavasour was the next in degree to a Baron We find in many of our Year-Books especially in E. 3's time that they were joyned with Knights in Assizes Trials of Challenges c. 38 H. 6. f. 31. Prisot saith to the Sergeants they would have no worship by such an Act c. and that word was given to the Lords in those days By the Statute 12 R. 2. c. 10. the same priviledge which is given to the Judges for absence from the Sessions is given also to the Sergeants 34 Hen. 6. Brook Nosme 5. saith that serviens adlegem est nosme de dignity comme Chivalier and it is character indelebilis no accession of honour or Office or remotion from them takes away this dignity but he remains a Sergeant still Their Robes and Officers their bounty in-giving Rings their Feasts which Fortescue saith were coronationis instar and continued antiently seven days and as Holingshed notes Kings and Queens were often present at them and all their Ceremonies and Solemnities in their Creation do sufficiently express the state due unto them The next words in your Writ are Et gradum c. This is a degree of such eminency that the professours of Law in no Nation are honoured with the like with such Solemnities and state as I have before mentioned and by Mandate under the publick Seal of the Common-wealth I find indeed in the preface to the Digest several appellations given to the Students of that Law that they called them Dupondios or Justinianeos and when of further standing Papinianistas When they had proceeded further they called them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and lastly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the title and degree of Doctour of the Laws I acknowledge to merit very much of respect and honour as to the degree and persons honoured with it But such state and degree as this of Sergeants at Law is not among the Municipal Lawyers of any other Nation though all kingdoms have their Municipal Laws and Lawyers as well as we Degrees are rewards of study and learning Nec enim Virtutem amplectimur ipsam Praemia si tollas They are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a spur to-virtue and witnesses of learning And since Gentle-men you have already obtained that depth in your profession as renders you capable of this degree that resolution of all true lovers of learning is worthy of you 1. To say Senesco discens proceed in your Studies still Your predecessors for their learning have been often advised with by the Judges as appears in our Books and by the Parliament as may be seen in the Rolls thereof 2. By this degree you become Chief Advocates of the Common Law an attribute given by Fortescue who was a Sergeant and Chief Justice and Lord Chancellour It imports no less than all antiquity hath appropriated unto Sergeants at Law the practice of that great and Universal Court where all that concerns Meum tuum the inheritances and property of all the people of England are heard and determined This degree Ordaining you to be Chief Advocates the duty of whom pertains to you to be performed and may not be declined by you I hold it not impertinent to mention something to you of the duties of an Advocate which are some of them to the Courts and some to Clients To the Courts of Justice he owes reverence they being the high Tribunals of Law of which Doctor and Student and the Statute Marlebridge saith omnes tam Majores quam Minores justitiam recipiant and therefore great respect and reverence is due to them from all persons and more from Advocates than from any others 2. An Advocate owes to the Court a just and true information the zeal of his Clients cause as it must not transport him to irreverence so it must not mislead him to untruths in his information of the
General Council of the Army had much debate concerning the matters of Religion relating to their new Representative and of the power of the Representative in Civils Sir Thomas Widdrington and M r Whitelock met staid all the day together to draw some heads upon yesterdaies discourse and to endeavour to bring the Army into some fitter temper They were likewise to frame somewhat in order to the restitution of the Secluded Members for an answer for the Army to the Messages of the House to the Army touching their Members under restraint and heads for a Declaration what the Parliament intendeth for the settlement of the Kingdom to be considered of and offered to the Parliament and Council of the Army This was a work of no small difficulty and danger yet at this time not to be declined by them both the Members of the House and chief Officers of the Army having ingaged and trusted them only therein they prayed to God to direct them in it and that neither of them might receive any prejudice but the Kingdom might receive good by this their imployment and the Courses of the Army be moderated as it was in some measure at this time though it brake out again into violence afterwards 23. A Committee of the Common Council informed the House that the Citizens of London were so generally ingaged in the Petition for a personal Treaty that if the restriction in the late Ordinance should stand that none of them should be capable to be elected Officers of the City there would want sufficient persons to be chosen to supply necessary Offices in the City Referred to a Committee to consider of some expedient in this business A sharp debate about bringing the great Delinquents of the Kingdom to speedy punishment And now was set on Foot and begun their great design of taking away the King whom divers in the debate did not stick to name for the greatest Delinquent and to be proceeded against in Justice Others insisted upon it that he was not capable of being brought to justice by his Subjects but by God alone and that having subdued him and his Party there was no need of any thing further but to secure the Parliament from their Enemies rising against them any more and that might be done without bringing the King to any judicial tryal a thing not read of in any History But those of the fierce Party prosecuted their design with all eagerness and those of a contrary opinion either durst not oppose knowing they should be presently secluded the House if they did or seeing that no opposition would be to any effect or purpose It was endeavoured wholly to have put the business upon the Army that if they would have the thing done they should do it themselves as most proper for such an irregular and unheard of business to be done in an irregular way and by such irregular men but they were subtle enough to see and avoid that and to make those whom they left sitting in the Parliament to be their stalcs and to do their most dirty work for them many of whom they found and perswaded to be strangely forward to ingage in it Insomuch that it was carryed by vote in the House of Commons to name a Committee of thirty eight persons to consider of drawing up a charge and for that purpose to receive all informations and examinations of all Witnesses for the matters of fact against the King and all other Delinquents that may be thought sit to be brought to condigne punishment Letters from Colonel Bethel to the General of the surrender of Scarborough-Castle to him upon Articles for the use of the Parliament that there was in the Castle good store of all manner of provisions especially Rye and fifty Barrels of powder with Ammunition for many Months From the Parliaments Ships in the Downes came a Declaration to the General of their free Concurrence with the Army in their Remonstrance knowing the things to be just and good The King was expected to be at Windsor this Night and Colonel Thomlinson commanded the Guards about him upon Colonel Harrisons coming away Major Pitsford taken at Pembroke and staying here contrary to the Articles of surrender thereof was by the Court Martial sentenced to be shot to Death The Lord Wenman expressed himself very high against the Army having been seised and secluded the House by them which was no small provocation Mr. Whitelock and Sir Thomas Widdrington went together according to appointment to the Speakers house There met them divers Gentlemen of the House and they consulted about setling the Kingdom by the Parliament and not to leave all to the Sword and Sir Thomas Widdrington and M r Whitelock spake their minds freely to them some of them were wholly against any King at all others were against having the present King or his eldest or second Son to be King others were for the third Son the Duke of Gloucester who was among them and might be educated as they should appoint to be made King They came after a long debate to no resolution at all but appointed to meet again on next Monday 25. The Commons sate though it was Christ-mas day and made some Orders about the association of Somersetshire with the adjacent Counties Order for one thousand pound for Mr. Withers being moneys lent by him to the Parliament Five Members declared their dissent to the vote Dec. 5. 1648. The Committee named to consider how to proceed in a way of justice against the King were injoyned to meet this Afternoon Debate whether the secluded Members should be re-admitted A dispute between the two Houses whether thirty three thousand pound formerly granted to the Lord Willoughby as Part of his arrears and by him assigned to his Creditors who accepted the security should now be granted away to others in prejudice of the Lord Willoughbys Creditors which the Lords held not just The Lords who sate in the House being very few they Ordered that all the Lords who were within twenty miles should appear to morrow and those more remote within fourteen days after receipt of this Order some moved it might be under the pain of five hundred pound but that was not agreed unto A Petition to the Commons from Norfolk and Norwich reciting the former and present evils and praying 1. That present inquiry be made who have been the chief instruments of the King in the former or latter War and in the late bringing in of the Scots and that he himself and all such as have been the most notorious incendiaries and instruments in shedding of blood may without delay be brought to impartial Justice 2. That Courts of Justice Judges and Officers and Fecs may be certain and Laws in the vulgar tongue and Justice be speedy and without respect of persons and as may most agree with the rule of Christian duty just reason and the birth-right and priviledge of English-men and that
Receipt of the Customs to the Revenue Debate of an Act to constitute Commissioners to discharge poor Prisoners who have lain long in Prison and have no Estates to pay their debts and to force those who have Estates yet keep them and continue Prisoners but have liberty for their Keepers and will not pay their debts but go abroad as if they were not Prisoners The House Adjourned till the afternoon but there were so few Members that they could not sit Letters that a Ship of Washford in Ireland landed some men in the night on the Coast of Wales under the House of one M r Griffith Jones and told him that they were for Prince Charles King of Ireland whereupon he opened his doors but they carried him away Prisoner and plundered his House yet a party of the Parliament Horse quartered not far off came in saved some of the goods and took the Quarter-Master of the Ship and five Marriners At the Council of State Sergeant Bradshaw took his place of Lord President of the Council but he seemed not much versed in such businesses and spent much of their time by his own long speeches 12. Major General Laughern Poyer and Powel referred to be tryed by a Court Martial And referred to a Committee to consider of other Prisoners of War who are fit to be banished who for perpetual Imprisonment who for Execution and who for Composition Mr. Walter Montague Prisoner had leave upon security to go beyond Seas Order to reduce interest Money to six per Cent. Committees appointed about Compositions of Delinquents and about the several Receipts for Monies Order for the Arrears of Colonel Thorney slain in Lincolnshire in the Parliaments service to be stated and his Son to have one hundred pound per annum Sergeant Bradshaw made Chief Justice of Wales The Garison of Pontefract brake off their Treaty of Rendition because Major General Lambert insisted to have some excepted from mercy whereupon some Papers with Stones were thrown over the Walls to inform the Souldiers of it and then they came to a new Treaty Letters from Scotland that the Enemy at Enderness marched out four thousand strong and expected six thousand Danes to join with them that the Parliament there were very angry at the stopping of their Commissioners in England and that they are near to an agreement with their new King Charles II. A Petition from divers well affected in Norfolk directed to his Excellency Thomas Fairfax Lord General of the Forces raised for the defence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the inlargement of the liberty of the well affected English Recites the Sins and corruptions of the times and in all professions and prays 1. That none but men of known integrity fidelity and well affected to the cause in hand may be put into any Office military or civil and no Delinquent to be trusted in any Office 2. That no longer the Scandalous ignorant and Malignant Clergy may take the word of God into their mouths but a Godly and painful Ministry to be placed throughout the Kingdom that for their maintenance all Rectories may be restored those in the hands of well affected men to have a valuable recompence out of the Bishops Lands those in Delinquents hands to be taken away Tythes to be wholly taken away and every Minister to have one hundred pounds per annum to be rated equally upon the respective Parishes 3. That the Lords day Fast-days and the like be kept wholly from all manner of imployment except upon necessity 4. That the Laws against Swearing Cursing and Drunkenness be put in execution that there may be no more Inns nor Ale-Houses but what are needful to entertain Strangers going about lawful businesses and no Gaming nor any to be Vnlicensed 5. Papists to have no more but to maintain themselves reasonably and their Children to be bred Protestants 6. Schools and the Vniversities to be purged 7. That all Courts in the Country be put down and all causes under ten pounds value to be judged by two or three Neighbours to be chosen by the Parties and Perjury and Subornation of it to be death All Suits in Equity to be tryed by Juries not by Common Law Witnesses to be examined before the Judge except betwen two Nobles Knights c. who are able to stand a long Suit in Chancery No cause to hang above two Terms Lawyers to be reduced to a smaller number and their fees be be less and certain and but one Counsel in small causes 8. That who will may purchase Lands to be Freehold in Soccage for a reasonable Fine and that the base Oath of Fealty and Homage may make no more perjured Souls in the Kingdom 9. That the Army be purged of all disaffected to the cause and swearing and other sins be punished therein 10. That all taxes be taken off and the Army paid and satisfaction to the well affected out of Delinquents estates Deans and Chapters Lands c. that the Crown Lands defray the Pensions of the Judges the charges of the Navy c. 11. That Authors Printers and publishers of Scandalous and lying Pamphlets be supprest and severely punished 12. That Clipt and counterfeit Money be called in 13. That Fairs be kept only in Market Towns and small Fairs forbidden 14. For purging the Parliament setting Godly Guards about them bringing Capital Offenders to Justice and setling religion according to the mind of God Letters from the Hague that the Prince was there generally owned as King that the Episcopal Doctors flocked to him that Dr. Critton had a check for his railing Sermons The House sate not at the Councel of State they had some intelligence that looked dangerously and they expected difficulties That which seemed of most threatning was their own divisions and such Petitions as that before mentioned 14. A Letter from the Parliament of Scotland about the confinement of their Commissioners and justifying the papers delivered in by them Referred to the Council of State Referred to them to consider of Forces to be sent to Ireland and to nominate a General and other Chief Officers One of the Parliaments Frigats went to Sir George Carteret to Guernsey who after he had got possession of her turned off all the Mariners An Act passed for a new Seal for Cheshire Flintshire c. Order that Whitelock be injoyned to bring in a Declaration to satisfy the people touching the proceedings of Parliament Order for divers Members and the Master of the Ceremonies to attend the Prince Elector to Gravesend That the Committee of the Revenue provide Barges c. and that the Speaker and Members wait on the Prince to take leave of him Upon a report from the Council of State Voted that Sir Jo. Stowell and Judge Jenkins be tryed for their life That Wren Bishop of Ely and the Marquess of Winchester be not tryed for life but imprisoned till further order of the House
and a Person well affected to the present Government Orders for Provisions for the Admirals at Sea and concerning the Customes Upon a report from the Councel of State of the Examination of three of the Servants of Dr. Dorislaus concerning the murder of their Master Order for a Declaration to be published in that Business and for 200 l. per annum to be given to his Son for life and 500 l. a piece to his Daughters and 250 l. for his Funeral Upon the Petition of Widdows whose Husbands were slain in the Parliaments Service refered to a Committee to consider of the State of Hospitals and how in them or otherwise Provision may be made for the Wives and Children of such and for maimed Soldiers Letters from the Generals Quarters that he was marching towards the mutinous Troops and sent a Letter to them to Marlborough requiring their Obedience and to submit or else tells them what they must expect They sent an Answer with Expressions of an respect to the General acknowledged themselves his Souldiers but as to the Journey for Ireland they could not go with safe Consciences being contrary to their Ingagement at Triploe Heath They desire according thereunto that a general Councel of the Army may be called consisting of two Officers and two Souldiers of every Regiment with the general Officers and in their Judgments they will acquiesce Letters from Scotland that those in London Derry sallied out and gave a great Defeat to the Besiegers and that the Committee of Estates in Scotland published a Declaration against Middleton Ogleby and the Gourdons as Traytors 15. Debate divers hours in a grand Committee and afterwards in the House about putting a Period to this Parliament and referred to a Committee to consider of the settling the Successions of future Parliaments and regulating their Elections present Heads to the House concerning the same Order that the Lieutenant of the Tower take care that Lilburn and the rest have necessary Provisions for their Subsistence Letters that the General marched after the Mutineers who were twelve Colours and attempting to march over Newbridge towards Oxford but were forced back by Colonel Reynolds then they went over at a Ford and marched to Burford That the General pursued them and about twelve a clock at night coming near the Town sent a Forlorn under Captain Okey Who drew up a Party of Dragoons which met with the Mutineers Scouts drove them into the Town and so fell in with them and the Generals Regiment of Horse and other Forces followed That the Mutineers made some Resistance by firing out at the Windows but the Generals Officers setting the Miseries they would bring themselves and the Town into they yielded upon Quarter which was given to them There were taken in the Town near 900 Horse and Arms and 400 Prisoners and 12 Colours being almost their whole Party and not above 40 that were in the Town escaped Letters from the Hague that the States cause earnest Inquisition to be made after these that murdered Dr. Dorislaus and promised 1000 Guilders to him that bringeth any of them and published it death to any who shall harbour any of the Murderers That the Danish Ambassador sits with the P. his Councel the Swedes promise men enough and Lorraine his Assistance but that Money is wanting That C. Bard a Baronet was apprehended by Order of the States and Montross and the L. Hoptan questioned for the Murder of Dorislaus Orders touching the Imposition upon New-Castle Coales to take off as much as might be of it and about Provisions for the Garrisons of New-Castle Tinmouth and Berwick and Carlisle Order for the Commissioners of the Seal to issue out a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to try some Mosse Troopers Referred to a Committee to consider of bringing in Fines and Compositions notwithstanding Judgments and Extents upon Delinquents Estates Order about Collectors Accounts Upon a Report from the Councel of State that Sir Robert Harley Mr. of the Mint refused to stamp any Coyn with any other stamp than formerly The House ordered that a Tryal of the Pixe should be made at Sir Robert Harlie's charge they put him out of his place and made Dr. Gourdon the Physitian Mr. of the Mint in his room The House approved Sir Arthur Haselrigg his putting Captain Batten out from being Governour of the Holy Island Letters from the General to the House of his taking and dispersing the Mutineers the House gave Captain Bridges who brought the Letter 150 l. to buy him Horses Referred to the Councel of State to examine the Correspondence between some in London and the Mutineers Cornet Dean and Tomson the chief of the Mutineers were by a Councel of War sentenced to die and Dean was very penitent The General sent out his Warrant to all Justices of Peace to apprehend any of the Mutineers that should be found in those parts that they might be brought to Tryal 17 Debate all day of the case of Sir John Danvers and the Lady Gargrave his Sister about the Will of the Earl of Danby their Brother the House declared the Will to be void and referred the matter to a Committee A Declaration of C. Whaley and all his Officers and Souldiers reciting the good Intentions of the Parliament and near the effecting for settling the peace of the Nation setting out a Fleet to secure Trade and prevent Invasions providing for the Pay of the Army and their Arrears and taking off free Quarter and for the Relief of Ireland Which are endeavoured to be obstructed by the designs of the common Enemy to the ruine of that Nation and dishonour of the Army and hazard of this Common Wealth That divers have wickedly gone about to divide the Army to perswade those Soldiers to whose lot it is fallen to go for Ireland to refuse that Service and to seek by force to dissolve the Parliament and Councel of State and cast off the General They disclaim these traiterous Plots and Actions and utterly abhor them and resolve to continue their due Obedience to the Parliament the General Lieutenant General and others in Authority and ingage to stand and fall with them 18 An Act for establishing of Courts in every County for the probate of Wills Administrations Marriages Divorces c. was upon the Question rejected and referred to a Committee to draw up another Act for the same purpose according to the sense of the House in this Debate Debate touching the taking away of Tithes The House declared their Sence of the care of the States of Holland to find out the Authors of the horrid Murder of Dr. Dorislaus and hoped that the States would be careful of the Parliaments Agent Mr. Strickland now there Instructions agreed for the Mr. of the Ceremonies for a message to be delivered by him to the States Ambassador here The House declared That the Lives of those Persons of the Kings party who were excepted from pardon should
Referred to a Committee to consider how Deeds remaining with the Records of the Court of Wards may be delivered out to the Owners Referred to a Committee to consider what Powers are fit to be continued to the Committee of Haberdaeshers-Hall and to examine their Accounts Orders touching Sequestrations and Compositions of Delinquents The Parliaments Ships took five Officers going for Ireland in a Ship of the States and sent them up Prisoners Letters from Lancashire of great Scarcity of Corn and that the Famine was sore among them after which the Plague overspread it self in many parts of the Countrey taking away whole Families together and few escaped where any House was visited and that the Levellers got into Arms but were suppressed speedily by the Governour 29 The Act passed for draining the great Level of the Fennes Another past for the 20000 l. per annum for maintainance of Ministers and Schollars c. Upon a report by Lieutenant General Cromwel of the readiness of the Soldiers to go for Ireland if Mony were provided for them several Orders were made for that purpose The Petitions of Sir Peter Temple and his Wife and of his Creditors referred to a Committee Letters from Chester of relief of Dublin with Provisions from England Letters from the Hague that the Prince could not obtain from the States such an assistance of Shipping as he desired The Governour of Jersy invited the Prince thither and put out of the Island all whom he suspected to be well affected to the Parliament The Parliaments Ships took two Ships and thirty Pieces of Ordinance going for Ireland to the Rebels and many English Officers Some of them suspected to have had a hand in the Murder of Dr. Dorislaus were sent Prisoners to Pendennis Castle 30 Referred to a Committee to state the Business of the Isle of Anglesey in Relation to their Compositions and Sir Hugh Owen's Sequestrations discharged upon the Articles of Anglesey Referred to the Committee of the Navy to examine the Accounts and Business of Captain Dick and Captain Coningham in Relation to Ireland and to bring in an Act for settlement thereof the like for the Business of my L. Forbes and concerning the Original Contract with the Adventurers for Ireland Debate touching the Arrears of the Dutch Officers Referred to the two chief Justices and chief Baron to prepare an Act for settling the business between the Miners in Derbyshire and the Earl of Rutland Letters from Ireland that the little Quantity of Corn lately brought in thither hath much refreshed and incouraged the Inhabitants and Souldiers and that the Parliaments Ships have cleared that Coast that the Rebels are in much Division among themselves The Act for abolishing Kingly Government and establishing a Free State was solemnly proclaimed in London by the Lord Mayor and twelve Aldermen present with him Letters of the General his going to the Isle of Wight to view it and the Castles there and his Entertainment with the great Guns and Feasting and of his coming from thence to Southampton where he was saluted with great Guns round the Town and great Feasting That from thence he went to Portsmouth upon the same business to view the Fortifications from thence he came to Guildford the Major and Officers there shewed him all respect and near the Town he had a rendezvous of the Army He spake to the several Regiments exhorting them to Obedience and shewing them the danger that the late Mutineers might have brought the whole Nation into if God had not prevented it 31 A Committee from the Common Councel of London brought a Message to the House to desire them on the day of thanksgiving for suppressing the Levellers to dine with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Councel at Grocers-Hall and that they might have the favour to Solemnize that Day with the House at such a Church as they should be pleased to nominate Voted that Christ-Church should be the Place of meeting for the Parliament and City to solemnize that Day that the House did accept of the Invitation from the City and ordered the hearty thanks of the House to be given them for their constant and great Affections to the Parliament and Nation The Committee of common Councel then invited the General and Officers of the Army to the same Feast which was well accepted of by them and thanks returned to the City Report of proclaiming the Act against King-ship in the City and that Alderman Chambers and Sir Thomas Soames would not accompany the Lord Mayor therein for which contempt they were ordered to appear at the Bar of the House Order for the Accounts of Mr. Rowland Wilson as Muster Master General of the Forces of Warwick and Coventry to be Stated Referred to the Committee of absent Members to consider what Members have not appeared in the House Jan. 11th last and what Members are and what Members are fit to be admitted and what expelled Order to get in 6000 l. in the hands of Mr. Gel a Member of the house Receiver for Derbyshire unaccounted for A Representation of the Officers and Souldiers of Lieutenant General Cromwells Regiment to the General reciting the great Successes God had given to the Army under his Conduct and the late horrid and unnatural Defection of some of them from the Parliament and General his Authority That from their Hearts they disown the having any hand in countenancing the Revolt and Capitulation of the 12 Troops of the Army or any others or the Papers which have scandalized the Parliament Councel of State or Army and bless God for the General his reducing of them They profess to hazard their Lives and all that is dear to them for Preservation of this Parliament and while they are Souldiers to submit to the General his Authority over them under the Parliament A Declaration came from Portsmouth in Vindication of themselves and others touching the Levellers June 1649. 1 Upon a Report from the Commissioners of the great Seal of the Names of fit Persons to be Judges and Barons of the Exchequer the house voted That Serjeant Nicholas and Mr. Ask be Judges of the upper Bench. That Serjeant Puleston and Peter Warburton Esq be Judges of the Common Pleas. That Serjeant Thorp and C. Rigby be Barons of the Exchequer And that the Commissioners of the Seal do grant them Patents accordingly That Mr. Broughton be Clerk of the Crown of the upper Bench in the Place of Mr. Ask he being made a Judge An Act passed declaring the Grounds of the next thanksgiving Day Upon the Generals desire the House confirmed what C. Pine had done in Somer setshire in raising Force there against the Levellers by Letters from the General he and Sir T. Wroth had the thanks of the House for what they did Sir Thomas Soames being called to the Bar and asked why having notice of the proclaiming the Act against Kingship he did not attend the Lord Mayor at the doing of it
Lands and Revenues of the King Queen and Prince and securing thereby the Arreares of the Souldiery again debated and Committed A Petition from the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Councel of London acquainting the House that one of the Members thereof Alderman Wilson was elected one of the Sherriffs and desired the leave of the House that he might serve according to his Election Upon the Question it was voted to be left to Alderman Wilson to except thereof if he should think fit and that the house would look upon it as an acceptable service to the Common-wealth if he would serve therein according to the election and desire of the City Alderman Wilson being very fit for that place and freely elected to it and a Conscientious worthy Person considering the Affection of the City and that God had blessed him and his Father with the gaining a plentiful Fortune in that place thought it fit for him to spend some of it and to undergo the Trouble of the place for the Honour and Service of the City A Petition of the well affected in Lancashire to the Officers of the Army reciting the Order of the Councel of State for demolishing Lancaster Castle shewing the danger thereof to the well affected praying them to be a Meanes to the General and to the Councel that it may not be done 14 Debate all day upon the Act for sale of the Kings Lands c. and Order to meet on Munday at 6 a Clock in the morning for the dispatch of this Act that the Souldiery may see the care of the Parliament for securing their Arreares before they go into Ireland Order giving further time for doubling upon the purchase of Deanes and Chapters Lands 16 An Act passed for sale of the Crown Lands to secure the Arrears of the Souldiery Order for allowing 3000 l. to Mr. John Brown Clerk of the Lords House for his Losses and referred to a Committee how to raise it Referred to the Councel of State to examine a Mutiny of the reduced Souldiers at York and to punish the Mutineers A Petition from South Wales that when Collonel Horton with his Regiment shall be drawn from thence to Ireland C. Martin or who the House shall think fit may be their Commander in Chief and they will pay his Forces Referred to the General to take care of South-Wales and the Petitioners had thanks for their good Affections Letters that the Fleet before Kingsale took a Vessel of Prince Ruperts of 11 Guns and in her Captain Leg and Sir Hugh Windham Captain Darcy and 60 Men and Ammunition That Captain Ball took a Holland Man of War of 30 Guns loaden with Stuffes and Provisions for Prince Rupert and Maurice and sent her up to the State Letters that Tredah holds out against Ormond who puts the English into Garrisons and keeps the Catholicks and the Irish in the Field to fight That Captain Jones out of Dublin fell upon Ormonds Quarters took 200 Horse killed and took 140 Men without the Loss of one Man cut their Tents and retreated to Dublin whither 4000 Quarters of Corn were brought in from Chester That the Lieutenant of Ireland was entertained with great Honour at Bristol and the Country came in great multitudes to see him that he lay there for a Wind. 17 The Act passed touching Coynes Upon a Report from the Conncel of State who had consulted therein with the General the House Voted That when the Councel should see Cause for the safty of the Common Wealth they might make an Addition of Forces both Horse and Foot to be in readiness to take the Field and march with the standing Army and they to have Pay only while they should be in Service Indemnity given to some well affected Justices of the Peace of Surrey who were sued for some things irregularly done by them Orders of Reference to Lords the Commissioners of the Seal touching Coynes Letters from Scotland that they resolve to levy a considerable Army forthwith and as they say for their own Defence Letters that Collonel Reynolds Regiment of Horse and Collonel Venable's and Collonel Hunks's Regiments of Foot were ready to be shiped Letters from Dublin that the Enemy fiercely assaulced Tredah but were beaten off with the Loss of 2000 Men that the Governour went forth with a Party of about 200 Horse and about 1500 Foot into the Enemies Camp brought away 200 of their Horse with some Bread Beer Fruit and Sack but are in great want of Provisions and can receive none from Dublin 18 Vote to discharge Mr. Abbot from being Register of the Prerogative Court and Mr. Oldsworth and Mr. Parker to have Patents for that Office Referred to a Committee to consider what to do concerning Ecclesiastical Offices and Courts An Act Passed for a Collection for the Propagation of the Gospel in New-England Leave given to Lieutenant Collonel Lilbourn to visit his sick Wife and Family Letters that Sir Charles Coot sent forth Captain St. John and Captain Taylor out of London Derry who fell upon the Enemies Quarters slew divers of them and took many Prisoners A Declaration passed in answer to the Letter from the Parliament of Scotland to vindicate the Proceedings of the Parliament of England 19 Order for the Printing and Publishing the Act declaring what Offences shall be adjudged Treason Several Orders passed relating to particular Persons and not of publick Concernment 20 Order for the Committee of Accounts to allow the Certificates of the several Sub-Commissioners for Accounts in the respective Counties Referred to the Commissioners of the Seal to consider how Monies may be raised for the Repair of Marlborough-Bridge Referred to the Committee of the Army to confer with the General and Officers of his Army how free Quarter may be totally taken off and the late Act passed for that end be put in effectual Execution and to give an Account thereof to the Councel of State Letters from Bristol from the Lieutenant of Ireland about Supplies for his Forces referred to the Committee of the Army Order for 500 l. for Mrs. Farrer of her Husbands Arrears Mr. Fell made Second Judge of Chester and the L. President Bradshaw made Chief Justice of Chester Order for 4000 l. to be paid to divers who were Labourers in Scotland Yard to his late Majesty Attourney General Prideaux moved the House in the behalf of the Lords Commissioners Whitelock and Lisle that they may have the Duke of Bucks House as a conveniency of their being together for their Service of the Seal and that they might have a Lease for 21 Years of that House The Parliament very freely ordered what Mr. Attourney desired and referred it to the Committee of Haberdashers Hall to set the Rent for it which they did the same day at 40 l. per annum and no more because of the great Charge they should be put to in the repair of it it being much ruined by the Quartering of Souldiers in it 21 Letters from Plymonth of Collonel
setling business there and taking off free quarter The Parliament approved the Articles of Rendition of Cornet Castle in Guernsey and of Elizabeth Castle in Jersey and ordered Sir Philip Carterets Lands to be restored to him accordingly That the Commissioners for compounding do send over some to sequester the Estates of those in Jersey which are to be sequestred and that 1000 l. which shall be raised thereof shall be given to those who were banished out of Jersey 5. Letters That Dunbarton Castle was surrendred upon Articles to Major-General Lambert 6. Referred to the Council of State to treat with the Dutch Ambassadors upon a Paper delivered in by them Upon a Report of a Paper given in to the Council of State by the Spanish Ambassador the Parliament referred it back to the Council and injoyned them to insist with the Ambassador for Justice for the Murder of Mr. Ayscham who was Agent there for the Parliament An Act passed appointing a Committee for the Army and Treasurers at War 8. Letters advising the Parliament to pass an Act of Oblivion and to take away Tithes c. 9. Letters That Collonel Venables attempted the reducing of Ballinacargy and beat down the Castle about the Enemies Ears but for want of Powder and Provisions he was forced to draw off Of the Streights Fleet going off from Pendennis That Captain Chapman maintained a gallant Fight with Three Ships from 11 at noon till night and sunk one of them and was much torn in the Fight and lost Three Men and Ten Wounded The Parliament debated again the Business of regulating the Law and Proceedings therein The Courts of Kings-Bench and Chancery were by order of the Parliament removed to one side of Westminster-hall 10. That Mr. Eliot was committed to New-gate Several Dutch Vessels seised upon by vertue of the late Act of Parliament upon report of the state of the Case of the East-land Merchants were ordered to be discharged 12. Letters of a great Meeting of the Ministers and Lay-men at Edenburgh and their Debates very high especially of the Kirk-men That a Dutch Ship was taken in the Frith loaden with Commodities not of her own growth contrary to the late Act and made Prize That a Moss-Trooper was sentenced by the Court-Marshal to be whipped with his Comrade for entring a Country-mans House by violence and a Soldier to be tyed to the Gallows and whipped for stealing a Sheep though he restored it again Major-General Lambert published a Proclamation against a great abuse of differing values of Coins Of Two Prizes brought into Yarmouth rescued from the Pyrates who much infested the North Coast Of four Vessels of French Wine taken That Prince Ruperts Admiral Ship was sunk and another wracked and the Prince and his Brother only saved That Admiral Pen sent some Ships after the rest of them Report of Odwears coming in with 3000 Tories in Ireland to submit to the Parliament 13. Order for an Act to sell all the rest of the Fee-Farm Rents Votes for payment of such as lent under 10 l. upon publick Faith without doubling Referred to the Council of State to confer with the Lord-General about nominating of a fit Person to be Commander in Chief for Ireland and to report their Opinions to the House Debate about the next Summers Fleet to be 120 Sail. 14. Letters That Captain Augustine the great Robber in Scotland upon disbanding of Marquess Huntleys Forces went into the Orcades and there took Ship for Norway Order not to fortifie Innernesse because of the great charge and the poverty of the Town That 100 Aegyptians were rambling in the High-lands and cheating the Country That the Regiments in Scotland were very full above 1000 in a Regiment That 1000 Highlanders appeared at the Summons of the Marquess of Argyle as was usual that out of them he might choose 30 to attend him to the Major-General That Major-General Lambert and Deane went towards Aberdeen and were entertained by the way with Vollies of great Shot and Solemnity 15. Letters That when the Wind is Westerly few Ships touch at Scilly That a Hamburgher Ship was wracked there and a Coffin taken up out of the Sea which was in her having the Body of the Young Duke of Holtsteine in it Of a great Earthquake in Scilly Islands 16. Letters That Sir George Carteret and his Company had but course entertainment at St. Mallows only himself and nine more suffered to come into that Town where he staid a short time and then went to Paris to the King A Thanksgiving-day was kept in Jersey for the good success in reducing that Island and the great Guns were fired 17. That the Major-General courted the Presbyterians at Dundee that they with the Lieutenant-General were setling the Affairs of the Country and to put on the Assessment and to take off free quarter That the Commissioners for Scotland were with their Retinue at Berwick where they intended to stay three or four days That the Lord Major of York feasted them Of Recruits and Provisions for Ireland preparing Debate of Mr. Primates Petition against Sir Arthur Haselrigge and the Commissioners for compounding and about a Book against them referred to a Committee but the Proceedings of the Commissioners were approved by the House and Primate was fined 3000 l. to the Common-wealth 2000 l. to Sir Arthur Haselrigge for his Damages and 2000 l. to four of the Commissioners for compounding The like was voted against Lieutenant-Collonel Lilburne of a Fine of 7000 l. and that he should be banished out of England Scotland and Ireland and the Petition and Book to be burned by the Common Hangman 19. Letters That the Kirk-men in Scotland speak little against the War or for Peace but rather foment the War That the Lord of Drum being summoned to come before the Kirk-men â—he summoned them to appear before Collonel Overton alleadging that he was under the Protection of the Parliament of England and could not acknowledge any other Jurisdiction or Judicatory in Scotland But if as private Christians they required him to purge himself of not being a Papist he would do it Of great pride and insolency of the Presbyteries in Scotland That the Lord of Drum wrote a Letter of Thanks to Lieutenant General Monk for relieving those who were oppressed in their Consciences by the Presbyteries and acquaints him with the Proceedings of the Presbytery of Aberdeen against him and his Appeal from them That Lieutenant-General Monk ordered That no Oaths should be imposed by any of the Kirk Officers upon any Person without order from the State of England nor any Covenant and if they do that he will deal with them as Enemies And that who shall tender or take any Oath or Covenant so imposed and against Conscience without leave of the Common-wealth of England shall be taken as Enemies and the Provost and Bailiffs of Aberdeen were to proclaim this And all Civil Officers were commanded by the
and this honourable Councel that I may obtain your Pardon 7 Letters that the Highlanders lying in Ambuscado fell upon some of Colonel Bryan's men that came from Ireland and were careless and that the Highlanders killed Eighty of them and two Lieutenants 8 Mr. Bond was sent to the three condemned Prisoners in the Tower to advise them touching the state of their Souls but they were obstinate except Mr. Fox who was penitent The Portugal Ambassador's Brother was Reprieved 10 The Portugal Ambassador's Brother endeavoured an Escape but was prevented The English Boy who was in the Murder with the Portugal Ambassador's Brother was Hanged at Tyburn Mr. Vowell was Hanged at the Meuse-gate Mr. Fox was Reprieved Mr. Gerrard was Beheaded at Tower-hill The Portugal Ambassador's Brother was conveyed from Newgate to Tower-hill in a Coach and six Horses in mourning with divers of his Brothers Retinue with him On the Scaffold he spake something to those that understood him in excuse of his offence laying the blame of the quarrel and murder upon the English in that business After a few private words and passages of Popish Devotion with his Confessor he gave him his Beads and Crucifix laid his Head on the Block and it was chopt off at two blows The rest condemned for the Murder were all Reprieved The Articles of Peace were signed by the Portugal Ambassador who thereupon went out of Town Letters that those of Zealand and Friesland were discontented at an Order made by the States of Holland That the Prince of Orange nor any descending from the late King of England should be Admiral of Holland or have power over the Militia But upon a Letter to them from the Lord Protector they were pacified 11 Letters that a Party of Fourty English fell upon two hundred and twenty Highlanders routed them killed twelve of them one Captain and two Cornets wounded thirty and took thirty Prisoners and thirty two Horses That Captain Hilliard took of the Highlanders a Major two Captains and fifteen Prisoners and as many Horses Another met with a Cornet and nine Men and took them all That General Monk built a Fort at Loughhaber Order that the Sheriff making an undue Return of any Parliament Election shall forfeit one hundred Marks and the Returns to be examined by the Councel Letters from Sweden That upon the thirtieth day of May the Queen at Vpsale made a Solemn Resignation of her Crown and Government in this manner About nine a Clock in the Morning the Queen being Attyred in Her Royal Robes and Apparel of Purple Velvet with Her Crown upon Her Head and Attended by Her Officers and Servants came into the Room prepared for that occasion where was a Table with a rich Carpet and five great Cushions laid upon it most of the Grandees and Officers of the Court and Army were present Upon one of the Cushions was laid the Sword of State upon another of them was laid the Scepter upon another the Ball and upon the fourth Cushion was laid the Keys The Queen being come into the Room after a little pause made a short Speech to the Company acquainting them with Her Resolution to Resign the Crown and Government of this Kingdom to Her Cousin the Prince Hereditary of Sweden there standing by Her to whom She wished all Happiness and good Success in the Management of the publick Affairs of this Nation that upon Her earnest desire the Ricksdagh not sitting after long Debate and much Sollicitation on her part had at last though unwillingly given their Assent to this Her Resolution and that now She was come to put the same in Execution before all those Honorable Witnesses there present Then She desired that some of them would take the Crown from off Her Head but none of them would do it She Her Self laid down the Scepter upon one of the Cushions on the Table and the Ball on another Cushion but seeing none of them stir to take the Crown from off Her Head She called to Grave Tot and the Barron Steinbergh and expressy commanded them to do it who after some backwardness being again commanded by Her they took the Crown from off Her Majesties Head and laid it down upon the fifth Cushion on the Table After that was done some others by Her came and took off the Royal Robes wherewith She was Cloathed and laid them down upon the Table Then the Queen having thus resigned the Crown and Devested Her Self of Her Royal Apparrel Crown and other Ensigns of Royalty making a Cursey to Her Cousin the Prince and to the rest of the Company She retired into Her own Chamber not making any show outwardly of Repentance or Reluctancy for what She had done but with the like Behaviour and Confidence as at other times betook Her Self to Her own particular Occasions For this Act of the Queens Resignation they had no president For the Solemnity of the Kings Coronation they had many from which the Coronation of this King was not much different and was in short thus After the Queen was withdrawn to Her private Chamber the Ricks Officers and Senators humbly desired the Prince that He would be pleased to walk to the Cathedral Church in Vpsale where the Archbishop and other Prelates were ready to attend His Royal Highness and to perform the Solemnities of His Coronation The whole Company went thither in this Order The Officers and Servants of the Court went first in a very great Number together with many Officers of the Army and other Gentlemen after them came the Nobility Gentlemen Barons and Earls Members of the Ricksdagh then followed the Ricks Senators two and two in Ranks after them the sive Ricks Officers first the Ricks Scatz Master or Treasurer who carryed the Keys next him the Ricks Chancellor who carried the Globe after him the Ricks Admiral who bare the Scepter then one in the place of the Feldthere or General who carried the Sword and after him the Ricks Drotsett or Chief Justice who carried the Crown Next to him came the King Himself in His ordinary Habit with a huge Troop following Him and the Streets and Windows full of Crowds of People with the Guards and Souldiers in their Arms as they past by Being thus come to the Cathedral-Church at the Door stood the Arch-bishop with a Horn of Oyl in his hand accompanied with other Bishops and Clergy-men he received the Prince at the Church-Door and conducted him to the High Altar where they had Prayers and there the Archbishop Anointed the Prince with the Oyl then they put upon Him the Royal Robes and put the Crown upon His Head the Scepter in His Right Hand and the Ball in His Left Hand and so He was Invested into the Royal Dignity and Declared with all His Titles King of Swedes Goths and Vandals c. Drums Trumpets and loud Acclamations of the People were added to the Proclaiming of their new King all of them expressed their high Joy that it was done
Souldiery Industry of their Merchants and Artificers and Laboriousness of their Husbandmen They are generally much like the English and the more likely to Correspond and Agree in Amity with us They have store of Men Arms and Shipping to join with us upon any occasion and whereby both you and they may be strengthn'd against your Enemies and be the more considerable throughout the World They are Just and Faithful in their Actions and Undertakings as the English are and Honorable in their Performances nor are they Engaged to any of our Enemies or such as you may have Cause to suspect but their Differences and Contententions have rather been with those who have contended with you and therefore they are the more likely to observe their Alliance with you They first sought to his Highness and this Common-wealth for an Amity with us and sent several Persons of Honour as publick Ministers hither for that purpose and their Queen and the present King have Testified great affection to this Nation and justly expected some return of it from you again These and many other Motives grounded upon Reason and Wisdom of State persuaded those who sate at the Helm here to judge it fit to send from hence an Ambassador to that Crown to conclude an Amity with them for the Advantage of Trade and mutual Assistance of one another Herein their Judgment did not fail them it was very requisite to send an Ambassador thither but perhaps you may see a Failer of their Judgment in the Choice of a Person so unfit for so Weighty an Imployment Yet they would not excuse him you will believe that he had no Ambition for such a Service and at such a time but he obeyed the Commands of those whom he served undertook the Imployment and can say without Vanity performed his Duty therein to the utmost of his Capacity with Diligence and Faithfulness and God was pleased to own him in it I pass over the Dangerous Voyage by Sea in November through your then Enemies and the cold Journey by Land in December and come to the Court at Vpsale which was Splendid and High replenished not only with gallant outsides but with Persons of great Abilities within both of the Civil and Military Condition Upon my first Ignorance of their Ceremonies I fell into some dislike with several of their Grandees who thought me not enough submissive others thought the better of me for insisting upon the Right of my Nation Vindicating their Honour and not sneaking to those with whom I had to do I followed my own Reason and what pleased God to direct me for your Service and in order to the Good of the Protestant Interest In my Treaty I applyed my self upon all occasions to the Queen Her Self and never to the Senate wherewith Her Majesty was not distasted In the Transactions of my Affairs I Endeavoured to gain the best Intelligence I could from Home and from that Court and spared no cost to gain it the one made me the more considerable there the other was of great Advantage to me in my Negotiation But Sir I was to Incounter with great difficulties and opposition the King of Denmark's Ambassador the Holland Resident with all their Party and Friends some of the most Considerable in the Court and Army and of great Numbers opposed me and endeavoured to Affront me and my Company but by that were no Gainers The French Polish and German Publick Ministers as much as they could covertly sought to hinder me but on the other side I found the Spanish publick Mister there who was a Person of great Ingenuity and in much Favour with the Queen a great Friend and Assistant to me Several great Officers of the Army as General Wrangell Grave Horn Grave Wittenburge Grave Bannier Grave Leenhough and divers others were Friends to me and of the Civil Officers and other Senators the Baron Bundt Steinlorke Grave Tot the Rix Droit or Chief Justice the Grave Braghe and Chiefly the old Chancellor Oxenstiern was my Chief Friend and helper in my Business Prince Adolphe the present Kings Brother was no ill Willer to it the King that now is a great Friend to it and manifested more particular Respect to you in the Person of your Servant than he was ever known to do any of the like Quality or to any State whatsoever And the Queen her Self was resolved to have the Business done so much had I gained of her Favour and satisfied her of your Interest and Respects to her But above all some of my own Countrymen were fierce against me especially those of the Scots Nation both of the Army and Traders whom I little considered yet knew their humors and that they would rayl at me in the Morning and afterwards come to my Table to Dinner and I caused my Officers to welcome them accordingly To Counterwork these I was not without Friends of my own Nation whereof divers were of the like Condition and Eminent amongst them was the General Douglas a Scotch Gentle-man who was very Civil to me So was a true English Gentleman General Major Sir George Fleetwood a Person of great Interest and Respect in those Parts and with all that know him he Testified extraordinary Respect and Affection to you and to your Servant and was very Courteous and helpful to me Those who opposed or indeavoured to affront me in your Business I forbear to name not for their sakes but least it might be prejudicial to your Friends there and to your own future occasions But Sir we ought to look higher than to the greatest and wisest of Men it was the Goodness and Mercy of God who gave a Blessing to your Proceedings and a desired Success to this Treaty which we ought to acknowledg with humble Thankfulness and the weaker the Instruments were the more his Power and Goodness appears in it He was Pleased to give Success to that Negotiation under my hands and after many Delays and Debates and all the Opposition that could be made to give a Conclusion to it I made an Alliance betwixt the Common-wealth and that Crown Ratified by the then Queen and the present King under their hands and under their Great Seal of Sweden The Instrument thereof I presented to His Highness and His Councel at my Return home who caused a strict Perusal and Examination thereof to be made and finding it punctually according to my Instructions did approve of it and of my poor Service in it and His Highness Ratified the other part of the Treaty to which the Great Seal of England was affixed the transcript whereof with the Original of the other are at your Command to be produced I shall not presume to Judg of the Advantages by this Alliance to this Nation and to the Protestant Interest through the World this Honorable House are best able to Judge thereof and of the Duty of their Servant and his performance thereof who submits all to their Wisdom and savourable Construction And being
shall be left by the party acusing in writing under his hand with the party accused or in his absence at his house in the County City or Town for which he shall be chosen if he have any such house or if not with the Sheriff of the County if he be chosen for a County or with the Chief Magistrate of the City or Borough of which he is chosen And that the number of persons to be Elected and chosen to Sit and serve in Parliament for ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and the distribution of the persons so chosen within the Counties Cities and Boroughs of them respectively may be according to such proportions as sholl be agreed upon and Declared in this present Parliament V That your Highness will consent That none be called to Sit and Vote in the other House but such as are not disabled but qualified according to the Qualifications mentioned in the former Article being such as shall be nominated by your Highness and approved by this House and that they exceed not Seventy in number nor be under the number of Forty whereof the Quorum to be One and twenty who shall not give any Vote by Proxies and that as any of them do dye or be Legally removed no new ones be admitted to Sit and Vote in their rooms but by consent of the House it self That the other House do not proceed in any Civil Causes except in Writs of Error in Cases adjourned from Inferior Courts into the Parliament for difficulty in Cases of Petitions against Proceedings in Courts ef Equity and in Cases of the Priviledges of their own House That they do not proceed in any Criminal Causes whatsoever against any person criminally but upon an Impeachment ef the Commons assembled in Parliament and by their consent That they do not proceed in any Cause either Civil or Criminal but according to the known Laws of the Land and the due course and Custom of Parliament That no final Determinations or Judgments be by any Members of that House in any Cause there depending either Civil Criminal or Mixt as Commissioners or Delegates to be nominated by that House But all such final Determinations and Judgments to be by the House it self Any Law or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding VI. That in all other particulars which concern the calling and holding of Parliaments your Highness will be pleased That the Laws and Statutes of the Land be observed and kept and that no Laws be Altered and Suspended Abrogated or Repealed or new Law made but by Act of Parliament VII And to the end there may be a constant Revenue for Support of the Government and for the Safety and Defence of these Nations by Sea and Land We declare our willingness to Settle forthwith a Yearly Revenue of Thirteen hundred thousand Pounds whereof Ten hundred thousand Pounds for the Navy and Army and Three hundred thousand pounds for the Support of the Government and no part thereof to be raised by a Land Tax And this not to be altered without the consent of the Three Estates in Parliament And to grant such other Temporary Supplies according as the Commons Assembled in Parliament shall from time to time adjudge the necessities of these Nations to require And do pray Your Highness That it be Declared and Enacted That no Charge be laid nor no person be compelled to contribute to any Gift Loan Benevolence Tax Tallage Aid or other like Charge without common consent by Act of Parliament which is a Freedom the People of these Nations ought by the Laws to Inherit VIII That none may be added or admitted to the Privy Council of your Highness or Successors but such as are of known Piety and undoubted affection to the Rights of these Nations and a just Christian Liberty in matters of Religion nor without consent of the Council to be afterwards approved by both Houses of Parliament and shall not afterwards be removed but by consent of Parliament but may in the Intervals of Parliament be suspended from the Exercise of his Place by your Highness or your Successors and the Council for just cause and that the number of the Council shall not be above One and twenty whereof the Quorum to be Seven and not under As also that after Your Highness death the Commander in Chief under Your Successors of such Army or Armies as shall be necessary to be kept in England Scotland or Ireland as also all such Field-Officers at Land or Generals at Sea which after that time shall be newly made and Constituted by Your Successors be by consent of the Council and not otherwise And that the standing Forces of this Commonwealth shall be disposed of by the Chief Magistrate by consent of both Houses of Parliament sitting the Parliament and in the Intervals of Parliament by the Chief Magistrate by the Advice of the Council And also that your Highness and Successors will be pleased to Exercise your Government over these Nations by the Advice of your Council IX And that the Chancellor Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal of England the Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury there the Admiral the Chief Governour of Ireland the Chancellor Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal of Ireland the Chief Justices of both the Benches and the Chief Baron in England and Ireland the Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland and such Officers of State there as by Act of Parliament in Scotland are to be approved by Parliament and the Judges in Scotland hereafter to be made shall be approved of by both Houses of Parliament X And whereas your Highness out of your zeal to the glory of God and the propagation of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ hath been pleased to encourage a Godly Ministry in these Nations We earnestly desire that such as do openly revile them or their Assemblies or disturb them in the Worship or Service of God to the dishonour of God scandal of good men or breach of the peace may be punished according to Law And where the Laws are defective that your Highness will give consent to such Laws as shall be made in that behalf XI That the true Protestant Christian Religion as it is contained in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and no other be held forth and asserted for the publique profession of these Nations And that a Confession of Faith to be agreed by your Highness and the Parliament according to the Rule and Warrant of the Sciptures be asserted held forth and recommended to the people of these Nations That none may be suffered or permitted by opprobrious Words or Writing maliciously or contemptuously to Revile or Reproach the Confession of Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid And such who profess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his Eternal Son the true God and in the Holy Spirit God coequal with the Father and the Son one God blessed for ever and do acknowlege the
his place in the House and was questioned for his acting during the late Interruption to which he made an ingenious Answer And it was voted That he should forthwith repair to his house at Raby in the County of Durham and remain there during the pleasure of the Parliament And he was discharged from being a Member of this Parliament Lambert Decborough Ashfield Berry Kelsey Cobbet and Creed were confined to their several Houses furthest off from London And the Council of State ordered to send for and confine other Officers of the Army who had acted against the Parliament in the late Interruption 10. Order to consider this Day seven-night of the Members of Parliament against whom Matters are objected 11. Scot made Custos Rotulorum of Westminster Vnton Crook made Colonel of Berry's Regiment Walton of that late Colonel Morley's and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper of that Regiment of Horse late the Lord Fleetwood's Letters that Monk was come as far as York with about 5000 men 12. Letters from Monk from Newcastle brought by Mr. Gumbell who had a hundred pounds given him Order for the Speaker to seal a Commission of Oyer and Terminer for London Thanks sent to General Morgan for his good Service Letters of submission from Ludlow and Corbet from Ireland Lists of Officers brought in 13. The Speaker being sick had leave to absent for ten dayes and Mr. Say was Speaker pro tempore The Great Seal delivered to the Speaker Lenthal till further order of the House 14. Order for the Council to secure the Officers formerly confined or any other that do not repair to their Houses in the Country to which they are confined Order for Scot to be Secretary of State Letters of Monk's advance to Newark with sixty six Companies of foot and two and twenty Troops of Horse 16. Flattering Letters of Monk's carriage in Scotland when there Alderman Bunce and others released out of Prison Mr. Scot and Mr. Luke Robinson ordered to go to meet Monk and to congratulate from the Parliament his great Services and good success and his repairing towards London and to let him know that the House would provide money for his Forces 17. The House proceeded against Colonel Sydenham for acting against them during the Interruption and after his Answer discharged him from being a Member of this Parliament Then they proceeded against Major Salwey and voted him to be suspended from sitting in Parliament and to be sent to the Tower during the Parliaments pleasure Downing was sent Agent to the States of the Netherlands Widdrington Tyrrell and Fountain Voted to be Commissioners of the Seal Newdigate to be chief Justice Hill and Nicholas Judges of the Vpper Bench St. John chief Justice Windham and Archer Judges of the Common Pleas Wilde chief Baron Thorpe and Parker Barons of the Exchequer 19. Officers out of Ireland brought into the House gave an account of Affairs there and brought Letters from Sir Hardress Waller Sir Charles Coote Sir Theophilus Jones with Articles of Treason against Ludlow Corbet Jones and Thomlinson former Commissioners there The Powers formerly granted to them were suspended by the House And they appointed new Commissioners for Ireland Sir Hardress Waller Mr. Weaver Robert Goodwyn Sir Charles Coote and Colonel Markham Order for Ludlow and the rest to attend the House to answer to the Articles of Treason against them The Officers of Ireland had thanks The Great Seal was delivered in the House to Widdrington Tyrrell and Fountain Commissioners given in the House to several Officers of the Army A Letter to Monk to congratulate him sent by three of the City 21. Letters from Monk of his approach near London desiring the Order of Parliament how to dispose of his Forces for their Service and protesting all faithfulness and obedience to them Letters from Monk to Overton about the security of Hull and their adhering to this Parliament to which Overton the Governour made an ingenious Answer that reflected upon Monk as to the secluded Members and a single Person 23. Commissions given out to Officers The House agreed upon a Declaration Letters of a Tumult in Excester the people declaring for a free Parliament quieted Letters that Monk and his Forces were complemented in their march and Addresses made by some for the secluded Members by others for a free Parliament That Monk gave the hearing to all but declared his purpose to none That Hull is for this Parliament 24. Order That Colonel Charles Fleetwood the L. Whitelocke Mr. Strickland and Mr. Holland do attend the House this day sevennight Order That Papers of the Committee of safety and Council of Officers be brought in to the Clerk of the Parliament and Mr. Scobell to attend the House and all Members to attend the House this Day sevennight on pain of 20 l. Order for the Members to name Justices of Peace The People of Berks met at Abbington upon a false rumour that a Knight of the Shire was to be chosen 25. Orders about monies and touching the Militia Forces Sir Robert Pye and Major Fincher committed to the Tower for delivering a seditious Paper to the Speaker Letters That Scot and Robinson the Parliaments Commissioners to Monk went out to meet him six miles from Leicester and the Forces with Monk gave Vollies of shot and the Bells rang where Monk came and many Gentlemen of the Countries came and saluted him Monk alighted from his Horse to salute the Parliaments Commissioners and went with them in their Coach to Leicester and there supped with them in their Quarters multitudes of People came to see them and Monk expressed the height of respect to the Commissioners The Mayor and Aldermen banquetted Monk The Officers of the Army in Ireland wrote to Ludlow to surrender the Fort of Duncannon to the Parliament 26. The House was busie about the assessment and sate all Day Order about discoveries of monies due to the Commonwealth Order for an Act to justifie the proceedings of Monk he was made Custos Rotulorum of Devon Letters from Monk and from the Commissioners with him who highly extoll his respects to the Parliament and his faithfulness to them and his civilities to their Commissioners Mr. Gomble Monk's Chaplain recommended by the House to be a fellow of Eaton College Lambert confined to Holmeby 27. Order about a suit between Mr. Nevil and the High Sheriff concerning a return of his Election Votes about the Committee of the Army and about the Admiralty And divers Officers of the Army approved 28. Letters of Monk's coming to Northampton with the Parliaments Commissioners that a hundred Gentlemen presented a Paper to Monk desiring him to be instrumental for the secluded Members or for a free Parliament to which he answered That he was but a servant to the Parliament in a Military capacity and these things of great and civil concernment
Council of State though he was a Member of the House and referred his further examination to the Council His crime was for perswading his Souldiers to obey the Parliament and to stand against Charles Stuart The like Approbation of what the Council had done in the case of Haslerigge and his further examination referred to the Council Letters that Overton perswaded divers Officers to stand against having a single person in the Government the Council reported this and referred to them Letters from Sir George Ascue of the King of Sweden's Death of a Feaver at Gottenburg Lambert committed to the Tower by the Council of State Letters that the King went from Brussels to Calais 8. Votes touching the Militias A Proclamation for executing the Laws against the Papists 9. Votes touching the Assessment The Bill for calling a new Parliament 25 of April committed and the Committee to consider of Qualifications 10. Orders touching the Militia of London and other Militias in a generall Bill Letters from Overton to Monk and to the Council wherein he submits to their commands and protests his faithfullness in defence of his Countries rights against any Arbitrary or Kingly Innovation He was discharged of his command In his Letter to Monk he fears running back to the Old Bondage of Kingship and puts Monk in mind of his former Declarations for a Commonwealth Letters from Lawson and his Officers Resolutions to acquiesce in the Determinations of Parliament and his Excellency the like of other Forces Sir Peter Killegrew made Governour of Pendennis Castle by Monk and Mr. Maurice made by him Governour of Plymouth Meetings of some Persons of Quality with Monk and his Officers about bringing in of the King Colonel Fairfax made by Monk Governour of Hull and Overton obeyed Order to take off from the File the examination of Sir George Booth and his Lady Orders touching the Trinity House The Act past for the Proclamation to put the Laws in execution against Popish Priests and Recusants Hollis made Custos Rotulorum of Dorset The Act past for the Militia of London The Act of the Militia past with a clause that every Commissioner before he acted shall acknowledge and declare That the War undertaken by both Houses of Parliament in their defence against the Forces raised in the name of the late King was just and lawfull and that Magistracy and Ministry are the Ordinances of God 13. The engagement to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth without a King or House of Lords voted to be discharged and all orders for taking it expunged Serjeant Mainard Prinne and others to see it done Vote to discharge Dr. Owen from being Dean of Christ-Church and Dr. Reynolds to be put into that place Orders for maimed Souldiers 14. An Act passed for Approbation of Ministers Vote to disable those who had assisted in the Irish Rebellion or are Papists to serve as Members of Parliament and of those who have been in the War against the Parliament to serve as Members of the next Parliament Sir George Gerrard made Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Mr. Lechmore Attorny of the Dutchy and the Speaker Lenthall Chamberlain of Chester Serjeant Waller Chief Justice of Chester Serjeant Seys and Mr. Jones Judges of North-Wales Mr. Foxwist to judge in Chester Mr. Corbet Mr. Hoskins and Mr. Manley Judges in Wales Power to the Council of State to issue forth Proclamations as they shall find cause till the sitting of the next Parliament Monk God-Father to Lenthal's Son Monck feasted at Cloathworkers-Hall The Publick Minister of Sweden had audience at the Council of State and declared the King's Death Monk chosen M. G. of the City Forces and advised them to disarm dangerous persons and to keep Guards 15. Resolution of the House that Prizage Wines ought to to pay no customs Almost 10000 l. given to M. G. Brown secured and 20000 l. given to Monk An Act to put in suit securities taken in the Protectors name Orders touching monies The Registers Office in Chancery granted to Mr. Corbet and Mr. Goodwin the grant of it to them was vacated and the difference about that Office betwixt Mr. Walter Long and the Lady Jermin referred to Hollis and Grimstone A Bill passed giving powers to the Council of State in the intervall of Parliament Credentials from the King of Sweden and Credentials to Philip Sidney and Sir Robert Honywood to that King referred to the Council of State A Bill passed for the Courts of Justice in Ireland Order to release Lambert upon his Parole Dr. Wren discharged of his Imprisonment and the Council impowered to discharge such others as they think fit Order to stay felling woods in the L. S. John's L. Craven's Estates The Act for the Militia in England and Wales passed 16. An Act for conferring 20000 l. upon Monk read thrice this day and passed and to make him Steward and Keeper of Hampton Court. An Act past for setling Incumbents in sequestred livings A Letter from Monk about the Bill of the Militia shewing himself unsatisfied in some clauses of it but upon a message to him by some of the Members he seemed satisfied but some thought this Interposition by him too high The Act passed for dissolving this Parliament with a Proviso not to infringe the Rights of the House of Peers A Day of Humiliation appointed to seek God for a blessing upon the next Parliament The Form of the Writ agreed for Elections for the next Parliament Thus this Parliament having from this day dissolved themselves every one departed to their particular occasions 17. Several Proclamations issued by the Council for preservation of the Peace 19. Many made their Applications to the King at Brussels and some obtained good Rewards from him who never merited any thing of him others obtained Pardons 20. A Declaration from the Lord Broghill and his Officers in Ireland for a free Parliament Colonel Berry committed by the Council Haslerigge Desborough and Kelsey passed their words to the Council to submit to the Government and to be peaceable The Common-council invited the Council of State and Monk for their own Safety to reside in the City till the sitting of the Parliament but they with thanks to the City did not accept it Much sollicitation was in all parts to get to be Parliament-men 24. The French Ambassadour visited General Monk whom he found no accomplished Courtier or States-man 26. Several Elections of Parliament-men were certified fit for the intended business 30. Letters that the King of Denmark refused the Peace mediated between him and Sweden 31. Proclamations issued out by the Council in order to the preservation of the Peace Mr. Praise-God Barebones signed an Engagement to the Council of State not to act any thing in disturbance of the Peace Mr. Scot did the like and his great friend Monk began to be more
Petition Another answer to the Petition of Right June 7th Dr. Lambe Votes against Bishop Neal and Laud and the Duke Remonstrance Message Remonstrance Parliament Prorogued to Octo. 20. The Duke stabbed by Felton Parliament Prorogued to Jan. 20. Merchants imprisoned for Tunnage and Poundage Felton Tunnage and Poundage Jan. 20. King's Speech Message Message for Tunnage and Poundage The Commons declaration The King's Answer Grievances Message Votes Protestation Message Members committed Parliament dissolved King's Speech Resolutions of Judges Habeas corpus Habeas corpus Habeas corpus Information in the-Star Chamber against the Members Habeas corpus The Judges perplext Members taken off Good behaviour Proceedings against Selden c. Information in the Star-chamber Information in the Kings Bench. Prohibitions Queen of Bohemia A Peace with France Prince Charls born May 29. King of Sweden Dr. Leighton stygmatized Peace with Spain King of Sweden Marquess Hambleton Papists in Ireland Earl of Essex Impropriations Huntley The High Commission Court Message to the Chief Justice The King 's express Command The Judges answer Walter dies His Opinion His Patent Lord Audley's Tryal Rea and Ramsey Appeal of Treason Judges Opinions Sir Nich. Hyde Questions to the Judges touching the Clergy Oxford Book of Sports Repair of Pauls Sir Paul Pindar The Princess Mary born Ambassador to Sweden Dr. Lamb. City of London fined Judge Whitelocke dies Abbot dies Laud made Archbishop of Canterbury Wentworth sent into Ireland King of Sweden slain Wallestein murthered Prynne's Histriomastix Prynne sent to the Tower The King's progress to Scotland October 13. the Duke of York born October 18. Masque of the Inns of Court Dr. Bastwick Bishops independent of the King Mare liberum Mare clausum Shipmoney Ambassador of Sweden slighted Noy dies Balmerino Treasurer Weston dies Sir Edw. Coke dies Spotswood A Fleet set out Lord Keeper's Speech The peace at Praguë Hollandâ—rs present Juxton made Treasurer Letters for Shipmony Laud's Visitation Northumberland Admiral Ferdinand the 2d Hampden refuses Ship-money Judges Opinion about Ship-money Croke alters his mind Arundel sent to the Emperor Burton Bastwick Pâ—yn Prince Elector defeated Sentence against Bishop of Lincoln Osbaldston Laud's Warrant Troubles in Scotland Proclamations Scot's Petition Hamilton Covenanters Answ The King's Declaration Covenanters Protest Hamilton's Proposals Declaration Covenanters protest Argile Covenanters prepare for War Calvin Whitgift's Articles Episcopacy restored The Queen mother in England Preparations for War with the Scots Arundel General Declaration The Covenanters Answer The King at York revokes several projects and Monopolies Articles of pacification The Covenanters perform not Assembly at Edenburgh Parliament Lords of the Articles The Parliament in Scotland prorogu'd Their Declaration Spanish Fleet beaten by the Dutch Prince Elector made Prisoner in France A Parliament appointed Subscriptions Coventry dies Commissioners from Scotland Loudon sent to the Tower Bagshaw's Reading A Parliament Glanvil Speaker Message from the King Sir H. Vane censured The Parliament dissolv'd Laud blam'd Convocation continues sitting Anno 1640. Tumult of Prentices Oath imposed by the Convocation Their Canons Knighthood Money Londoners discontented A Royal Army Duke of Glocester born Scots declared Rebels Conway Lesley The English worsted Wilmot Conway accused The Scots Petition The Kings Answer Demands of the Scots The Lords Petition The Kings Answer Petition of the Citizens of London The Council at York The Scotish War variously discoursed of Message to the Scots Complaint against Strafford Treaty at Rippon The Scots demands The Treaty variously censured Montross 3. Novem. a day ominous Strafford Perswaded to go to the Parliament Speech to the Parliament Petitions Pym of Grievances Lord Digby Proclamations against Papists Earl of Warwick Impeachment against Strafford Habeas Corpus Judges Crook and Whitelocke cleared Prynne and Burton Windebank Votes Committee against Strafford Alderman Pennington Votes Laud Impeacht Lord Keeper Finch His Speech Articles against Finch Petitions King's Speech Demands of the Scots yielded to Judge Berkley Triennial Parliament The Kings Speech Votes Foreign Affairs Strafford Disputes touching the tryal Undertakers Tryal of Strafford Sir Henry Vane Councel for Strafford Bill of Attainder Commons Petition The King's Answer Tumult Practices upon the Army Protestation Bill for continuing the Parliament Strafford voted guilty Letter from Strafford to the King Censures Balfour Great Officers resign their Places Discontents in the Army Officers Petition Church-Government Armagh Tonnage and Poundage granted High Commission Court Star-chamber Queen Mother dies Dr. Wren Ship-money Judges Essex Armies disbanded Parliament adjourn'd Irish Rebellion Earl of Leicester Irish Maxims Motives Owen O'Conelly Mac Mahon O Neale Votes The King's return from Scotland Speech in Parliament Proclamation Speech Parliament Petition Grievances of the Court Marshal Hyde Remonstrance Protestation Palmer Tumults Irish Oath Irish Cruelties Vote Articles against the five Members The King in the House of Commons The 〈◊〉 Speech The Spâ—â—ker The Action diversly censured Declaration Vote Tumults Bishops Protest Bishops accused of high Treason London Petition The King's Answer Petition Tumults The King removes to Hampton Court Five Members return to the House Lord Digby Lunsford Message Petition Answer Petitions Answer Bill for disabling Bishops Essex Holland Letters intercepted The Queen to Holland Pym. Militia Message Petition Skippon Petition Militia Answer Bill for Ireland Militia Petition Vote Declaration Militia Answer Vote Message Anno. 1642. Lords Report Answer Address at York Message Hull Reasons Answer Hotham Hull Messages Vote Militia Gardiner Different Opinions Declaration Scots interpose Vote Order Nineteen Propositions Commission of Array Lord Keeper Littleton Protestation at York Declaration Message Earl of Warwick Lord Willoughby Votes for an Army Petition Money rais'd Several proclaim'd Traytors Declaration Standard at Nottingham Message Answer Reply Vote Colours Hull Directions to the General Declaration Oxford King's Speech Vote Yorkshire Cornwal Edghill Fight The King at Oxford Essex An Address for Peace Petition Skippon his Speeches Turnham-green The King's Forces retreat Vote Message Petition Letters intercepted Petition Answer City Sir Hugh Cholmley Propositions for Peace Safe Conduct Treaty at Oxford Propositions The King's Propositions Massey Scots come in Lesley Ireland Richlieu dies Lewys the XIII dies Commissioners at Oxford Message Treaty breaks off Lord Brook E. Northampton Covenant Pym dies Waller Hampden Germany Swedes Henrietta Maria. Great Seal Sir W. Waller defeated Hotham Bristol taken by P. Rupert Great Seal H. Martyn Selden Earl of Kingston Cromwell Gloucester Massey Members disabled Gen. Essex Covenant Col. Potley Gloucester relieved Judge Berkley sentenced Newbery fight Lord Falkland Covenant General Essex Sir Philip Stapleton Pasquils Laud. Ormond Poole Dr. Featly Sir Nic. Crispe French Embassadour Manchester Ministers French Embassador Proclamations Commissioners for Scotland Great Seal Laud his Tryal Earl of Holland Col. Rigby Covenant Answer to Fr. Embassadour C. Mostyn Great Seal Fr. Embassadour Scotland Waller Great Seal Irish Proposals Indictment of H. Treason G. Essex Gr. Seal D. Hamilton C. Hutchinson Scots Army Parliament at Oxford Proclamations Plot. Letter intercepted Goring