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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65910	Memorials of the English affairs, or, An historical account of what passed from the beginning of the reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second his happy restauration containing the publick transactions, civil and military : together with the private consultations and secrets of the cabinet.	Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 6.; Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1986; ESTC R13122	1,537,120	725

Hostility against them And offers them so doing Indemnity 17. Debates in Parliament upon the Provisoes to be added to the Act of Oblivion and many of them past A Declaration of the Commissioners for the Assesments in York-shire for equality in rates to all upon a Survey of the value of every Township and of the Estate of every Person in each Town which is liable to the Assessments Letters That divers Commissioners from the several Counties in Scotland came in to the English Commissioners at Dalkeith according to Summons That a Frigat of the Paliaments came safe into Lieth Road with 80000 l. for pay of the Forces there And another with Forty Scots Prisoners released Of much Losses at Sea by the Storms Of one of the Parliaments Ships Sunk within an hour after the Men in her were Landed Major-General Lambert was appointed to go Lord-Deputy for Ireland A Declaration of the English Commissioners in Scotland of the Union of them with England in one Common-wealth concerning Forfeitures and Confiscations of Estates according to several qualifications That for promoting of Holyness and the power of Godlyness all possible care should be used for publishing the Gospel of Christ in all parts of this Land and maintenance to the Faithful dispencers thereof and care taken for removing of Scandalous Persons in the work of the Ministry and placing others fitly qualified with Guifts for instructing the People in their stead And incouragement be given from all Authority to such as shall joyn in the Service of God according to the usage of the Church of Scotland in their Peaceable and inoffensive exercise of the same And others not satisfied with that Form shall serve and worship God in other Gospel way And that Magistrates and Officers fearing God may be set up to be a terror to Evil doers and such as shall live peaceably and yield obedience to the Authority of the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England exercised in Scotland are capable of and shall enjoy the respective benefits and favours held forth in the Parliaments Declaration And all Merchants and Trades-men and Handy-Crafts-men not having Estates above 500 l. Sterling and all other persons not having Estates of above 200 l. not Prisoners or Soldiers who shall live peaceably and yield obedience to the Parliament of England Shall be freed from all Forfeitures and Confiscations for any thing formerly done by them in reference to the Wars and be received into the Protection of the Parliament and Injoy the Liberties and Grants as shall be fit Except Moss-Troopers or others who have Murthered any Soldiers contrary to the Laws of War or any English People contrary to the Laws of Scotland 21. Proceedings of the Committee of Adventurers for Ireland who all assented to the Propositions of the Committee one was for doubling their former Adventures A Share of Lands reserved for the Soldiers The Committee for regulating the Law passed some Resolutions touching personal Actions As that If the Defendant in a Personal action before pleading tender satisfaction to the Plaintiff with Costs of Suit and it appear afterwards at the Tryal to the Jury sufficient and not accepted of the Plaintiff to lose his own and pay the others Costs in the Suit That Summons be the first Process in all personal Actions with the true date when sued forth and Executed upon Oath and returnable within 15 Days after the Service the Defendant to have a Copy from the Original under Seal given or left at his House and the Cause of the Suit set down in the body of the Writ that upon default of appearing a further Process be granted to Arrest the Party till he appear or give Warrant And in case of Non-Appearance the Defendants Lands and Goods to be distrained to a certain value till he appear or give Warrant 23. Letters That the Kirkists in Fife refused to let the Summons of the English Commissioners be read but as a Committee of War appointed Two of their Company to come to Dalkeith by virtue of old powers That the Ministers speak loudly against the Declarations of the Parliament and of their Commissioners That Collonel Cooper with the Parliaments Fleet Landed 800 Men at Orkney and Collonel Overton arrived there and possest it for the Parliament of England Commissioners for some Counties in Scotland were dismissed by the English Commissioners having power only to Treat and not to conclude Other Commissioners had a Paper delivered to them 1. To consent to be Incorporated with the Common-wealth of England 2. To declare a Submission to that Government which should in the mean time be established 3. That they be ready to present such matters as may conduce to the putting those particulars into practice To which particulars those Commissioners gave their free assent in writing as they were desired 24. The Act of Oblivion and general Pardon with the Provisoes passed Letters of Credence from the Burgomasters and Senators of Lubeck Bremen and Hamburgh for themselves and in the name of the rest of the Hans Towns unto Lion of Aisema their Resident were read Order for an Act to give 5 l. to any who shall apprehend Robbers or Burglars Letters That a Party of about 80 of the Enemy came privately into the Parliaments quarters about Galloway and took a prey of 100 Cows and 200 Sheep but as they returned a party of the Parliament rescued the Prey killed 60 of the Enemy and took an Ensign Prisoner That the Chief Gunner of Galloway came out to the Parliaments Forces and informed them that there was a high Mutiny in the Town and Preston durst not appear to quiet them That Collonel Zanchey and Collonel Axtel took the advantage of the Frost and gained a pass over a Bog to Fitz-Patricks quarters but he was marched away the day before Zanchey and Axtell took his strong hold in the Bog and put all to the Sword That about the Fort was an Irish Town which the Rebels named Dublin for its Strength and Riches it consisted of 800 ●abbins which Zanchey and Axtell fired and put 500 to the Sword and in it found good plunder Silver Strong-water 30000 Bushels of Wheat 200 Cows and 80 Horse That all parts of Scotland are within the power of the Parliament of England except some few places in Argyles Country and about the Highlands of no consequence who sent for a pass to come to the English Commissioners A Petition was presented to the Parliament in the name of divers well Affected in the Northern Counties telling them That there remains yet to be done by them the takeing away of Tithes and Law as now it stands the most antient badges of Ecclesiastical and Civil Tyranny What else can be expected from such swarms of Lawyers Attorneys Sollicitors and nourished with the bread of Oppression by long and tedious Suits What hope of Justice when the greatest stress of mens causes in all Courts depends chiefly upon those men who

But this perswaded little among them the Common People few of them understanding English and the Gentry being generally against the Parliament and rising in most parts of South-Wales as soon as the Parliament Forces were gone from them 6. The Commissioners of the Customs advanced twenty thousand pound for the Navy The Votes sent up to the Lords concerning a new Address to the King c. Orders to sell the Duke of York's Houses and two hundred pound of the Money for lame Soldiers 8. Debate about the business of the Church Letters from the North That since the surprisal of Berwicke Sir Thomas Glemham and Sir Philip Musgrave have taken Carlisle That Langdale promised much to Captain Batten if he would keep Holy Island for the King but he refused That Sir Arthur Hazlerigge sent Forces to secure some other places that Langdale gives out that he is General of the five Northern Counties by Commission from Prince Charles and perswades them to Arm for the King Thus a new War was begun and new perplexities upon the Parliament but it turned only to the uniting of their Party again Major General Lambert sent Forces to secure Appleby Raby and other places The Parliaments friends in those parts fled to Newcastle The Parliaments Commissioners in Scotland delivered in Papers to the Parliament of Scotland touching the taking of Berwicke and Carlisle but had no answer to them they went on earnestly with their preparations for War in that Parliament 9. A Petition from the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councel of London to the House That they are willing to undertake the guarding of the Houses the Militia being setled and they authorised That their nomination of the Lieutenant of the Tower being suspended and importation of Bullion hindred and Merchandising diverted Trade is much decayed They pray that the Committee of the Militia may be nominated by the Common Councel to be approved by both Houses of Parliament and the like for the Lieutenant of the Tower and the Soldiers now there removed and that Merchants may be invited to bring in Bullion The House passed several Votes according to the desires of the Petitioners and acquainted them therewith and told them The House doubted not but that their confidence in the City and affection to them would be answered with Love Trust and obedience from them to the Parliament Letters from Sir Arthur Hazlerigge of the condition of the North and of Captain Battens refusal to revolt to the King for which the House ordered thanks to be sent to him and continued his Government Letters from the Speaker to the Committees of every County to meet and to observe the motions and practices of disaffected Persons and such as they find active to endanger the Peace of their Country to secure them and to provide for the safety and for securing of places of strength that the Parliament may without disturbance intend the settlement of the peace of the Kingdom Vote that the General be desired to advance in Person into the North with such Forces as he shall think fit to reduce those places that are possessed by the Enemy and to prevent any danger in those parts and that a Committee acquaint the General with the grounds of these Votes Letters that the Duke of York was come into Holland Letters from Dublyn that Col. Monke defeated a Party of Owen Mac Arts Forces in Vlster killed between five hundred and a thousand of them and took all their Arms and Baggage That Corn is there at twenty shillings a Bushel and many perish for hunger 10. Ordinance committed giving power to Committees to secure disaffected and tumultuous Persons in South-Wales Another for Money for fortifying Bristol in some new places A Petition of many reduced Officers for part of their Arrears referred to a Committee Instructions passed to the Commissioners in Scotland to acquaint the Parliament there how ill the two Houses here resent the Title of their last Letter to which an Answer will be sent in convenient time Letters from Wales That when Collonel Hewes Governor of Chepstow Castle was absent Sir Nicholas Kemish and Mr. Thomas Lewis got possession of the Castle in the night at a Port and that Collonel Herbert got together some of the Parliaments Forces and besieged it 11. An Ordinance committed for satisfying Debts due from Delinquents to well affected persons Letters from Wales That the Forces under Collonel Horton about three thousand Horse and Foot fought with the Welch Forces under Major General Laugherne Major General Stradling Collonel Powel and others being near eight thousand men who were totally routed by Collonel Horton and Collonel Bethel Stradling taken Prisoner and Laugherne wounded twenty six Captains and an hundred and fifty Officers and three thousand Soldiers of the Welch taken Prisoners many Colours and Arms and divers slain The House gave Captain Mercer an hundred pound and Collonel Bethel an hundred and fifty pound for bringing this good news and ordered a day of thanksgiving for it and that Captain Wogan not the Revolter who had done with the rest gallant Service in this Action should have his Arrears audited They ordered also that the Land formerly given to Major General Laugherne and a thousand pound per Annum more out of the Delinquents Estates who were in this Action should be sold and the proceed thereof given as a gratuity from the Parliament to Collonel Horton and the Officers and Soldiers who ingaged in this action Order for a Declaration that all who should engage in any War Commotion or insurrection against the Parliament should dye without Mercy The Lords were put in mind to proceed against Judge Jenkins A Committee appointed for disposing of the Welch Prisoners 12. Upon debate of the Scots Letter a Committee was appointed to draw up an answer from the two Houses Order for a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to be sent down into Wales and Mr. Eltonhead Brother to the Master of Chancery and Mr. Parker to be Judges for Tryal of the Riotors there and that the General send for the Officers and chief Prisoners taken by Collonel Horton's Forces and try them by a Councel of War The City were desired to call a Common Council that the good success in Wales might be communicated to them and they desired to take course for the Collecting of the Arrears due to the Army upon the General 's March Northward Order upon the General 's Letters for Arms Ammunition and Money for the Forces that are to march with him into the North. 13. An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for setling the Militia of the Kingdom A Tumult in Saint Edmonds Bury about taking down of a May-pole which came to the Plundering of some but was neer abated Order for the Members serving for that County to go down and take care to suppress all Tumults there Endeavours to put a Garrison of the Kings into Ash-by-de-la-zouch was prevented 15. The