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
into the hands of Members of both Houses the question was put whether that question should be put or not and carried in the Negative Voted That it should be disposed into hands of three Commissioners That the Members of both Houses late Commissioners of the great Seal as a token of Favour from the Parliament and Kingdom should have a thousand pound bestowed on them for all their faithful Services That the Earl of Salisbury one of the late Commissioners should have the thanks of the House That the Members of the Commons late Commissioners of the Seal should have the priviledge to plead within the Bar next to the Sollicitor General of the King An Ordinance voted to be brought in for setling five thousand pounds per An. upon Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Heirs Many Aldermen and Common Council-men of London desired to know the pleasure of the House whether the Works about the City should be slighted or not and if not then they desired twelve thousand pounds for the Maintainance of them the House appointed the Committee of the Army to treat with the Militia of London about it Letters informed that the Popish Clergy at Waterford have pronounced the supreme Council at Kilkenny to be perjured for agreeing to the Peace and proceed to excommunicate them 2. The House sate in a Grand Committee till seven at night upon the Ordinance for disposing of Bishops Lands 3 Private Petitions heard Order for two thousand pounds for the Officers and Garrison of Dover and for payment of the debts of the State to some Handy-crafts men and for two thousand pound for Col. Sandersons Regiment upon their disbanding Order for seizing upon a new Impression of the Common-Prayer Referred to a Committee to find out the Author and Printer of a Pamphlet called Yet another word to the Wise that they may be punished 5. Ordinance for setling two hundred pound per An. on Mr. Hugh Peters Order for a new Election The Negotiations of some Captains of the Parliaments Ships with the Marquess of Ormond confirmed as to lending to him Arms and Ammunition against the Rebels and order for Letters of thanks to Captain Willoughby one of those Captaius Orders for supplys for Ireland Ordinance sent up to the Lords for sale of Bishops Lands Treasurers and Trustees for it named Letters informed That the Estates of Scotland had fully agreed to the Scots Army marching out of England and the Garrisons to be delivered up upon payment of the two hundred thousand pound as was agreed The Irish Rebels drew their Forces towards Dublin and the Marquess of Ormond prepared for defence Col. Bethel was called into the House and had their thanks for his good Services Beaumarice Castle in Anglesey was surrendred to the use of the Parliament upon Articles Order that all Commissions made to Sea Captains which were as from the King and Parliament which some of them interpreted to the prejudice of the Parliaments Service should be altered and made in the name of the Parliament only Order for Money out of Delinquents Estates in Wilts for disbanding the Forces there The Confession of Faith brought in from the Assembly debated Order for one thousand seven hundred pound out of Delinquents Estates in Lincoln-shire to be paid to the Earl of Lincolne which he had disbursed for the Parliaments Service A French Pyrat taken by the Parliaments Ships The Irish Rebels prevailed A Conference by the Committee of Lords and Commons with the Scots Commissioners about disposing of the Kings Person 7. Upon Letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax for Pay and Cloathing for the Army Ordered that the Assesment be continued for six Months longer for the pay of them Order for three pound a week for maintenance of the Widow and Children of Mr. Franklyn a Member of the House that dyed a Prisoner to the Kings Party and that the Arrears of M. Franklyn be computed and paid Order for hastning the payment of ten thousand pound to the poor Widows and for relief of Tenants whose Land-lords were of the Kings Party For supplys for the Northern Forces 8. Composition of the Lord Savile allowed and out of it a thousand pound was ordered for the Widow and Children of Captain Askwith who laid out nine hundred and sixty pound in raising a Troop of Horse for the Parliament Votes That Sir Rowland Wandesford Sir Tho. Beddingfield and Mr. Jo. Bradshaw be Commissioners of the great Seal for six Months sent up to the Lords 9. Progress upon the Articles of Faith Votes of both Houses that Captain Pen be Captain of the Assurance Frigot The Committee of both Houses debated with the Scots Commissioners about disposing of the Kings Person An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for four hundred pound for the poor Irish Protestants here The Lords desired the concurrence of the Commons in the Ordinance for dissolving of all Countrey Committees 10. Debate upon the Accounts of Sir Will. Brereton as Major General and a Committee named to consider of the pay of ten pound per diem to every Major General and of their incident charges and of the free quarter and provisions taken by them They ordered five thousand pound to Sir Will. Brereton out of such Delinquents Estates not yet compounded for as he should nominate Order that the Tax of one per cent for Plymouth shall continue till January 1 and no longer Vote for a Balleting box to be made 12. Report of seven Ordinances drawn out of the Propositions for Peace 1. For justifying and confirming the Proceedings of Parliament 2. For setling the Militia of England and Ireland in the Parliament for twenty Years 3. For confirming the Treaty with Scotland 4. For making void all Titles under the great Seal after it was carried away 5. For confirming the present great Seal and all Acts done thereby 6. For making void the Irish Cessation 7. For disposing Offices by consent of Parliament All these except that of the Militia and Scots Treaty pass'd and sent upto the Lords An Ordinance appointed to be drawn to injoyn all to take the Covenant Order touching Compositions of Delinquents A Malignant chosen Major of Berwick sent for and the old Major continued A Petition of many Officers and Soldiers of the Parliaments That they may not be prosecuted at Law for things done by them in the war and as Soldiers upon sundry Exigencies Conference about disposing of the Person of the King A Committee appointed to treat with the Commissioners come from the Marquess of Ormond The French Ambassador and Agent were with the King at Newcastle The Plague broke forth there brought from London Letters informed that divers Inhabitants of Northumberland had left their habitations by reason of the oppression by the Soldiers quartered with them 13. The Lords concurred to the Ordinance for sale of Bishops Lands for advance of two hundred thousand pounds for the Scots Army and to take away the power of Committees for disposing
go towards the Swedish Army but the King's Fleet in the Downs saluting him by the way and his own Ship discharging a Vollay at his landing at Bolloigne and by other means he was discovered and denying himself upon examination he was secured by a Guard and the King of France took this Passage ill from him and he was a great while kept in the nature of a Prisoner The Scots Commissioners returned home to Edenburgh the same night the 19th of November that a great part of the Castle Wall fell down with the Cannons mounted which some of the Covenanters supposed to be done by way of treachery to them and opposed the reedifying of it by the King's Command not permitting Materials to be brought to repair it Whereat the King was highly offended and concluded upon force to bring them to obedience for which end he chose a select number of His Council into the Cabbinet of the Scottish Affairs Some gave out that this was done by the Archbishop Laud's advice and to keep out Pembroke Salisbury Holland and others late Commissioners in the Pacification whom the Arch-bishop is said to call the hunting Lords but Hamilton was kept in at last their number was brought to three onely the Archbishop Strafford Lieutenant of Ireland and Hamilton This Junto met the 5th of December where the King discoursed of the present Evils and necessity of suddain preventing the growth of them before it should be beyond remedy which he declared in his Judgment ought to be by the assistance and consent of a Parliament in England Strafford acknowledged it the best means and highly approved and magnified the King's Resolution herein the Archbishop was said to agree therein and Strafford had the honour of the Peoples good opinion for promoting this Resolution A Parliament was likewise to be called in Ireland and Strafford to go thither and return back again to the Parliament here which was appointed to meet the 13th of April following In the mean time and it was a strange time for such a Business so near the sitting of a Parliament the King tells his Lords That it will be long ere the Parliament meet and Subsidies granted by them will be long in levying In the Interim his Affairs will suffer without some speedy course for Supplies Hereupon the Lords told him they would engage their own Credits Strafford begins and subscribes for Twenty thousand pounds Richmond the like Hamilton excuseth himself for poverty most of the rest subscribed and some few refused The Judges and Officers of Courts of Justice Ecclesiastical and Temporal were assessed by the Councel according to the Quality and Profit of their Places The Queen employed Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Walter Mountague to labour the Papists for a liberal Contribution to the King which they gained and thereupon some styled the Forces raised The Popish Army The News of a Parliament to be called raised the Expectations of many for good and did set divers on labouring to get themselves to be chosen Parliament-men and the Courtiers to get their Friends chosen The beginning of January died the Lord Coventry who had been Keeper of the great Seal above fifteen years He raised a great Fortune and Barony for his Posterity was of no transcendent Parts or Fame but as some gave out He died in a seasonable time The Scot's Covenanters sent new Commissioners to the King The Earl of Dunferling the Lord Loudon Sir William Douglass and Mr. Berkeley the two last not mentioned in the Commission The Lords only authorized to plead Integrity and demonstrate their Fidelity but not impowred to propose any Particulars towards a Mediation to the King's satisfaction They had great Resort to them and many secret Councels held with them by the discontented English chiefly by those who favoured Presbytery and were no friends to Bishops or had suffer'd in the late Censures in the Star-chamber Exchequer High Commission and other Judicatories Those also who inclined to a Republick had much Correspendence with them and they courted all fomented every Discontent and made large and religious Promises of future happy times The Earls of Essex Bedford Holland the Lord Say Hampden Pym and divers other Lords and Gentlemen of great interest and quality were deep in with them The Covenanters in this time imprison divers Lords and others affected to the King's Service They procure from the Hollanders divers Officers Scots and others with liberty to keep their Commands there and great store of Arms and Ammunition upon trust but those Officers in the Hollanders Pay who came over to serve the King were there cashiered the King would say of them both That they were lost by favours and won by punishment The Covenanters proclaim their Discontents and implore Aid from the French King by a Letter under the hands of many of their Principal Actors which they the less doubted upon confidence of Cardinal Richlieu and Con the Pope's Nuntio The Original Letter hapned to be brought to our King and it being found to be the character of the Lord Loudon he was though a Commissioner from the Covenanters committed to the Tower It was said they were encouraged to take Arms from Cardinal Richlieu by his Chaplain Chamberlain a Scot whom he sent to them and by Letters which Hepburn a Page to his Eminence brought to divers here and in Scotland They seized upon Edenburgh Sterlin and Dunbarton Castles They are reported likewise to offer the Isles of Orkney and Shetland to the King of Denmark and to desire Assistance from him and from the Swedes Hollanders and Poland That the Jesuits had their Hands and Wits in promoting these Troubles is set forth in a long Letter to the Archbishop Laud from a Noble-man of Bohemia one Andreas ab Habernfield which Mr. Pryn hath published in Print upon trust as he useth to do as well as others Mr. Bagshaw was Reader of the Middle-Temple in the Lent Vacation this year He was a hard Student and much inclin'd to the Nonconformist's way and to publish some of his Learning in favour of them He chose for his Statute to read upon 25 Edw. 3. ch 7. In his speech in the Hall he said He had intended to meddle with Prohibitions but not with Tacitus to follow truth too neer the heels for fear of his teeth nor too far off lest he lose it and so neither to offend nor be offended In his first Case he made one Point Whether it be a good Act of Parliament which is made without assent of the Lords spiritual The Reader argued Affirmatively 1. That they do not sit in Parliament as Bishops but by reason of the Baronies annexed to their Bishopricks which was done 5 W. 1. and all of them have Baronies except the Bishop of Man and he is not called to Parliament 2. He cited some Parliaments to be held without any Bishops Kelwayes Reports 7 Hen. 8. fol. 184. That the presence of Bishops in
and divers great Lords remained in Oxford till they might receive the Kings order for which they had sent Messengers to him The next day the Citizens opened their Shops and there was a full Market again Farringdon was likewise surrendred and accommodation was sent for to London for removal of the Duke of York thither and surely no action or agreement either of War or Peace was ever more punctually observed than was this of the Oxford Articles Order for an Express to be sent to Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice that the Parliament took notice of their breach of the Oxford Articles by coming so near to London as Oatlands and requiring them to transport themselves beyond Seas within ten days if it could be or else to lose the benefit of those Articles Debate about the Preamble to the Propositions for Peace 27. The propositions for Peace were all agreed and a Committee named to consider of the manner of passing them and another Committee to be as Conservators of the Peace between both Kingdoms 29. Debate about the dismantling of Garrisons that of Oxford put off that of Winchester voted to be slighted Referred to the Committee of the Army to take care for the security of the City upon the repair of so many Delinquents thither from the Kings Quarters Order about the Judges who are to go Circuits and for allowances for them The General Commanded a select Council Cromwell Ireton Lambert Fleet-wood and Whitelocke to consult about disposing part of the Army to several Places and Sieges where there was need of them and also about the reducing of Wallingford and what conditions to send to them According to their advice Articles were drawn up to be sent to Wallingford and Whitelocke was made use of as their Secretary and there were two Regiments sent thither two more to Ragland and four Regiments to Worcester 30. The Princes Rupert and Maurice sent a very respectful answer to the Parliaments Letter to them that they were sorry that they had given them any offence had no intention to do it and would obey their orders The Prince Elector had leave to go and see his Brethren A Committee named to draw up an additional proposition for confirmation of the great Seal and invalidating of Acts passed by the Seal which was carried away to Oxford One Morgan a Popish Priest executed July 1646. July 1. Debate upon Ordinances touching the Excise and for moneys for Soldiers and Widows Order for reception of the French Ambassador one of the Lords and two of the Commons to come to him at his first landing The Garrison of Worcester agreed to a Treaty for the surrender of it 2. The Earl of Kent voted to be L. Lieutenant of Bedfordshire Orders that all Papists and Irish be put out of the lines of Communication and out of Corporations and that they that came from Oxford should be in their lodgings by nine a Clock the like for others that came out of any of the Kings Garrisons and that they have no Arms and that at Guild-hall they produce their Passes and ingage not to bear Arms against the Parliament and this order to be published by beat of Drum and sound of Trumpet Thus we may see that even after almost a Conquest yet they apprehended no safety such are the issues and miseries of a Civil War that the Victors are full of fears from those whom they have subdued no quiet no security O let our Prayers be to God never to have such calamitous times again Letters from Major General Mitton informed the readiness and assistance of Bishop Williams to promote the Parliaments affairs and particularly for the reducing of the Castle of Conwey giving his advice and being very active in that and all other matters for the Parliament 3. Letters from Sir Tho. Fairfax gave an account of the disposal of his Forces since the rendition of Oxford and the state he had put that City in and he sent up the great Seals and several other Seals which were there rendred to him Mr. Harbert one of the Commissioners for the Army presented the Seals to the House The great Seal which was carried away from the Parliament the Privy Seal the Signet Royal the Seal of the Kings Bench the Seals of the Exchequer and of the Court of Wards and of the Admiralty and the Sword Order for all those Seals to be broken and the Sword to be kept in the Kings Wardrobe Vote for the Earl of Salisbury to be one of the Commissioners of the great Seal in the place of the Earl of Bullingbroke deceased The proposition past the Commons and sent up to the Lords for making void what passed under the great Seal at Oxford and honours in Ireland and for confirming the great Seal here to which the Lords agreed and it was ordered to be communicated to the Scots Commissioners Order for Letters from both Houses to the King to desire him to send order to the Marquess of Ormond to deliver the Forts in Ireland in his hands to such as the Parliament should appoint A Petition from L. C. Lilburne to the Commons appealing from the judgment of the Lords who had Committed him referred to a Committee to consider of the priviledges of the Commoners of England 4. L. G. Pointz called into the House gave them an account of the Northern Forces they ordered a thousand pound to him in part of his Arrears and two hundred pound as a guift to buy him a Sword and a brace of Geldings and ordered three hundred pound per An. to him and his Heirs and gave him the thanks of the House Ordinance for ten thousand pounds for the Northern Forces Petition of London shewing that they intended to Petition the King a Copy of which they presented to the House for their approbation the House appointed a time to consider of it The Lords gave the City thanks for the like Petition Col. Jones his Regiment to be hastned for Ireland Papers from the Scots Commissioners which they received from New-Castle presented to the House One was a Declaration from General Leven and his Officers That they will adhere to the Covenant and will preserve the Vnion between the two Kingdoms and not countenance any disaffected to either Parliament that they abhor all wayes contrary to the Covenant Disclaim the Kings Letter to the Marquess of Ormond That as they came into England out of affection and not in a mercenary way so they will be as willing to return home and want of Pay shall be no hindrance thereunto and that the Kings unexpected coming to their Army hath not wrought in them any thing contrary to the Covenant Another Paper was a Petition of General Leven and his Officers to the King That his Majesty would take a speedy course to settle Religion and Church-Government the Liberties Priviledges of his Kingdoms to sign the Covenant and to comply with the Councils
of Offices and desired the concurrence of the Commons to take away all Countrey Committees An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for an Assesment for the Garrison of Bristol and Glocester Vote for an Ordinance for fifty three thousand pounds per mensem assesment for the Army Debate touching the Confession of Faith An Ordinance past for constituting the three Commissioners of the Seal with a Provisoe that if any of them be chosen a Member of the Parliament he shall leave his place Vote for continuing the Seal-bearer The Ordinance past for sale of Bishops Lands and to secure the two hundred thousand pound to the Scots 14. The House sate in a grand Committee upon the Ordinance against Heresies Report of the Marquess of Ormond That he desired supplys and Moneys for the Forces with him and that he would either come to London or go beyond Sea or serve in Ireland as the Parliament pleased and surrender Dublin c. re-committed to treat further upon the surrender of Dublin and the other Garrisons A Letter from Ormond to the King and another to London laid aside not to be delivered The Ordinance for the Commissioners of the great Seal again presented to the Lords at a conferrence with some alterations as reserving power to make Justices of the Peace to present to Parsonages c. The House sent and seized at the Press the Papers of the Lord Chancellors Speeches then in Printing touching the disposal of the Kings Person and took the Printer and Bookseller into Custody for doing it without licence of the Houses though they had the warrant of the Scots Commissioners for it 15. A Pass from both houses to transport sixteen Naggs beyond Seas A Committee named to bring in an Ordinance for the Indemnity of Officers and Soldiers who have taken necessaries in the time of War and are now prosecuted for it at Law and the Committee to receive Complaints and give relief in the mean time A Letter from the Scots Commissioners desired the enlargement of the Stationer and Printer of their Speeches and the Printer and Stationer submitted referred to a further examination Ordinances sent up to the Lords for ten thousand pound for the poor Widows for four hundred pound for the poor Irish Protestants here for setling the Militia and for the Treaties with Scotland 16. A Committee named to consider of Printing the Septuagint Bible A Conference about the Printing of the Lord Chancellor of Scotland's Speeches An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for transporting of Persons to foreign Plantations The House sate in a grand Committee in the afternoon about the Assesments for the Army 17. Order that the Marquess of Hertford his Lady or others who had seized Money or Writings in Essex House should restore them to the Executors of the Earl viz. the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Warwick and Mr. Sollicitor St. John A Committee named to whom the probate of this and all other Wills was referred and also a Petition of the Doctors of Civil Law concerning the probate of Wills Order that neither the Marquess of Hartford nor any other who had born Arms against the Parliament should go with the Corps of the Earl of Essex at his Funeral Vote for fifteen thousand pound for the Forces in Ireland and for five thousand pound for the Forces of Major General Pointz Sir Fr. Willoughby one of the Lord Ormonds Commissioners sent back to inform him what the Parliament had done 19. Debate about the Trustees for sale of Bishops Lands Order that all the Members of the House do attend the Funeral of the Earl of Essex and that the House be adjourned for that day as the Lords had done In the afternoon the House sate till six at night upon the Ordinance for sale of Bishops Lands The General with Major General Massey went to the Devizes where a rendezvous was appointed for the disbanding of such of Major General Massey's Forces as would not go for Ireland 20. One Arrested contrary to the Articles of Oxford the Serjeants sent for as Delinquents upon a certificate from Sir Tho. Fairfax Difference about the Commissioners of the Seal The Lords named four more to be added to the three named by the Commons they altered their former Vote for the three Commissioners and ordered an Ordinance to be brought in to establish the former fix Commissioners Members of both Houses Order that Col. Mitton offer resonable conditions to the Garrisons in Wales not yet reduced which if they refuse within twenty days that then they shall not be received to Mercy and referred to a Committee to consider of imploying those Forces for Ireland after the rest of the Garrisons should be reduced and a Letter sent to Col. Mitton to acquaint him with these Votes Votes for Mr. Bish to be Garter King at Arms and Mr. Bish to be Clarentiaux Mr. Riley to be Norwâ—y and a Committee to regulate their Fees Ordinance for sale of Bishops Lands The Money and Writings of the Earl of Essex taken away were restored Captain Betten voted to be Vice-Admiral of the Winter Fleet. Dunkirk was surrendred to the French upon Articles great solemnities of Thanksgiving great Guns and Bonefires for it in France 21. The House sate in a Grand Committee upon the Ordinance for Sale of Bishops Lands A Committee named to consider of regulating the Chancery and to receive complaints touching Fees of that or any other Court of Equity within the Kingdom Referred to the same Committee to consider who are fit to be Justices of the Peace and who not in all Counties The Funeral of the Earl of Essex was solemnized with great State All the Members of both Houses Sir Thomas Fairfax the Civil and Military Officers then in Town and the Forces of the City a very great number of Coaches and Multitudes of people present at it The General had been at the Devizes to disband the Brigade of Major General Massey which was done with little trouble and few of them listed themselves for Ireland From the Disbanding the General hasted up to London and was at the Funeral of the Earl of Essex 23. The old Commissioners of the Seal had been voted to be continued upon the constituting new Commissioners now the old Commissioners were voted down again and an Ordinance past and sent to the Lords to make the two Speakers Commissioners of the Seal till twenty days after this Term. This incertainty and change of Resolution in the House was much discoursed of by some who were not their friends they were reflected upon for it But they excused themselves by reason of the difference in Opinion from them by the Lords and now they began to be more apprehensive than formerly that so great a trust as the Custody of the Seal was most proper and fit to be only in their own Members Order for a Commission to enable the Master of the Rolls and the Judges to hear and determine for the
need of it nor of Cloaths more than to cover nakedness That they will not defend themselves by Arms but will submit unto Authority and wait till the promised opportunity be offered which they conceive to be at hand And that as their Fore-fathers lived in Tents so it would be suitable to their condition now to live in the same with more to the like effect While they were before the General they stood with their Hats on and being demanded the reason thereof they said because he was but their fellow Creature being asked the meaning of that place Give honour to whom honour is due they said their mouths should be stopped that gave them that offence This was set down the more largely because it was the beginning of the appearance of this opinion and that we might the better understand and avoid these weak perswasions The Council of the Army after a solemn seeking of God by prayer cast Lots which Regiments of the old Army should go for Ireland there were fourteen Regiments of Horse and fourteen of Foot of the established Army which came to the Lot And it being resolved that four Regiments of Horse and four of Foot should go upon the service ten Blanks and four Papers with Ireland writ in them were put into a Hat and being all shuffled together were drawn out by a Child who gave to an Officer of each Regiment in the Lot the Lot of that Regiment and being in this impartial and inoffensive way no Regiment could take exceptions at it The Regiments whose Lot it fell to go were of Horse Iretons Scroopes Hortons and Lamberts of Foot Ewers Cooks Hewsons and Deans Several troops of Dragoons and all the Officers whose Regiments were to go expressed much forwardness Letters from the Hague that the Swedish Ambassadour there saluted the King of Scotland and condoled the death of his Father and that he and the Danish Ambassadour invited the States to joyn with them in assisting the King of Scots to gain his birth-right 21. Monies charged upon the Excise Ordered to be taken off from that Receipt and charged upon Deans and Chapters Lands Order that the Speaker be Authorised from Time to Time to Sign such Letters as should be agreed on by the Council of State to be sent to the States of the United Provinces The General sent an Order for Major General Laughern Colonel Poyer and Colonel Powell to draw Lots which of them should die the other two to be spared their lives In two of the Lots was written Life given by God the third Lot was a Blank the Prisoners were not willing to draw their own destiny but a Child drew the Lots and gave them and the Lot fell to Colonel Poyer to die The Commissioners sate in Chancery by seven a Clock in the Morning and heard many motions because two of the Motion daies in this Term were disappointed by the Fast-days After the Motions they heard eleven Causes then they rose 23. An Act recommitted for setting the Poor People to work and punishing Vagrants The Act for punishing Criminal matters by the Court of Admiralty passed The Act passed for repealing the former Act for observation of a Monthly Fast and requiring such to be kept as Fast-days which should be appointed by special order of Parliament Licence given for the French Ambassadour to transport eight Horses and eight Mares Custom Free The Amendments passed to the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters Lands and Rowland Wilson Esq was Voted one of the Trustees Vote for one hundred pounds per annum for Mounsieur du Moulin out of the twenty thousand pound per annum for Augmentation to Ministers Some hundreds of Women attended the House with a Petition on the behalf of Lilburn and the rest it was reproachful and almost Scolding and much to the same effect with former Petitions for them An Act passed to authorise the Court of Admiralty to proced to Sentence in divers causes notwithstanding prohibitions to the contrary Colonel Popham one of the Admirals was out at Sea with one Squadron of Ships Colonel Blake and Colonel Dean the other two Admirals were with another Squadron in the Downs A petition to the General and Officers of the Army for poor Prisoners for debt to be released A Flemish Ship bound for Ireland was taken with sixty Field Officers and one hundred other Officers Cavaliers Letters from Scotland that the Levies of Souldiers there go on apace that divers new Insurrections were in that Kingdom that their new King was unwilling to put away Montross from him The Council of State wrote to Major General Ashton to disband Captain Bambers Troop by force and to secure the Officers of it because they had disobeyed the Orders of the Council and taken Free-quarter 24. Upon a Petition from Kendal referred to the Council of State to consider of Convoys for Merchants Ships and to send to Hamburgh and other parts for Corn to be imported A Petition from Colonel Poyers wife for sparing her Husbands life laid aside The Women were again at the House with a Petition in the behalf of Lilburn and the rest but could not get it received Orders for six Commissioners of the Customs and about other Officers of the Customs The King put off his answer to the Scots Commissioners with him at the Hague telling them he was to receive the Sacrament keep a day of Humiliation and entertain several Foreign Ambassadours and until these things were over he desired to be excused The Prince Elector gave the King a Visit had a Chair set for him was desired to put on his Hat and parted friendly from the King who sent the Lord Treasurer Cottington and the Lord Keeper in his name afterwards to give the Prince Elector a Visit 25. Upon a Letter from the Earl of Northumberland the House Voted That the Lady Elizabeth one of the late Kings Children should not have leave to go beyond Seas That the Kings Children should not be put under the tuition of any Member of Parliament That Sir Edward Harrington should be intrusted with them That three thousand pound per annum be allowed to him for their maintenance The forms of the new Coyn were agreed on by the House to be thus On the one side to be the Arms of England and a Laurel and a Palm on each side with this inscription about it The Commonwealth of England On the other side of the Coyn to be the Arms of England and Ireland with this inscription God with Vs Order that the Attorney General bring in Indentures and an Act for establishing this form of Coyn. The Women Petitioners again attended at the door of the House for an answer to their Petition concerning Lilburn and the rest The House sent them this answer by the Sergeant That the Matter they petitioned about was of an higher concernment than they understood that the House
transported for Spain That old Van Trump was dead killed with a Cannon shot in the late Fight with the English and that many others of Note were slain Upon Information of designs in hand against the Parliament Order for an Act for Erecting a High Court of Justice That a Standard was set up for the King of Scots in the Highlands and Middleton was among them and some landed out of Ireland and came to them 15. Letters that the Highlanders were up in a body of Four Thousand Glencarn their General Middleton and some other English Officers and the Earl of Argyles Son was with them Of the Refractoriness of the Scots Ministers That the Hollanders endeavoured to lessen their losses in the late Fight that the States keep Guards in several places to prevent tumults and give it out that the English were beaten in the late Fight that twenty five of their Ships carried themselves as Rogues and kept without Cannon shot 16. The Act passed touching Marriages A Committee appointed for Trade and to receive Informations touching the good of the Common-wealth Order for an Act touching Publick Debts Votes concerning the Publick Revenue Mr. Lilburn's Trial at the Sessions proceeded 17. Order for a Grand day of Thanksgiving for the success against the Dutch and the Declaration and Narrative of that business was passed 19. Several Persons secured by the Commander in Chief in Scotland for having intelligence with the Highlanders That Argyle set out a Proclamation declaring all those to be Traitors who joyned with his Son That the King of Scots his Standard was set up in the Highlands and they were raising more Forces to joyn with Glencarn in the Lowlands That Middleton was landed in the Highlands with Arms and Ammunition 20 Of three Dutch Prizes taken by the French A Charge against Sir John Lenthall referred to a Committee Order for an Act for Redress of Grievances touching Prisons and Prisoners A Committee to consider of a new body of Law Orders touching Arrears of some Officers in Ireland and for Sale of some Delinquents Lands to defray publick Charges About twenty Dutch Vessels taken by Lawson who had Fifty Sayl upon the Holland Coast and more going out to him The Jury found Lilburn not Guilty he pleaded long for himself Vice Admiral Lawson with Sixty Ships was upon the Coast of Holland before the Dutch had got out Letters from Holland acknowledging Their loss in the late Fight to have been Twenty Seven Ships and of Men slain drowned wounded and prisoners Six Thousand That the English Merchants there left the Country for fear of the rage of the People that at the Hague they began to be sensible that they had not a Victory That the Dutch labour to get France to them That the States clapt up Three English Men pretending they had Correspondency with England one of them they Rackt and threw the other Two into the Dungeon They appointed a day of publick Fasting and Prayer 23 The House was called and the absent Members appointed to Attend by a day Orders upon Reports from the Committee of Petitions Order for an Act to take care of Ideots Lunaticks and Infants Order for Hampton Court and the Parks there to be sold An Act passed touching Marriages and the Registring of them and of Births and Burials 25 The Solemn day of Thanskgiving for the Victory against the Dutch 26 Letters that Collonel Morgan marched with some Forces to Innerness but the Highlanders being about Seven Hundred in a body and Three Hundred Horse would not force the English nearer than two miles distance and that upon the news then coming to them of the Victory at Sea against the Dutch they presently dispersed themselves 27 Vessels chased into Plymouth and Falmouth being Merchant Men. A Convoy appointed for them 29 Lilburn marched towards the Highlands to suppress any Commotions in those parts The Ministers in Scotland published their Reasons against the Declaration of the English Commissioners and in Justification of their praying for the King and the Answer to those Reasons 30 An Act passed for the bringing in the Arrears of the Excise Referred to the Council to examine and take order to punish a Riot lately committed in Staffordshire in pulling up the Fences of some inclosures and laying the Grounds unto the Common fields again Vote for all Occupyers of Deans and Chapters Lands yet concealed from the State to discover the same by a day on pain of Sequestration Order of the Committee of Petitions for Petitioners in private Matters to set the Matters down in Writing in particular and the Witnesses names to each particular 31 Letters of a Fleet of twenty Sayl of Hollanders gone towards the Orkneys and an express sent thither from the English Fleet. That the Highlanders in Commotion in Scotland were dispersed September 1653. Septemb. 1. Upon Information to the Council of the escape of divers Dutch Prisoners and their being Shipped and transported again into Holland they Prohibite any to Transport them unless they have Certificates from the Parliament of their Discharge from their Imprisonment 2 Many Ministers did forbear to Pray for the King by name but Prayed for all in Distress from the highest to the lowest A Petition to the House from the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of London wherein they Pray That the pretious Truths of the Gospel may be preserved in Purity and the Dispensers thereof being approved to be Learned Godly and void of offence may be sent forth to Preach the Gospel That their setled maintenance by Law may be confirmed and their Just properties preserved That the Vniversities may be zealously countenanced and incouraged The Petitioners had thanks for their good affections and were desired to continue their care of the Peace and safety of the City 3 Orders touching Compositions of Delinquents The Ship Love from Surat richly laden was followed by Seven Dutch Ships who viewing her posture and strength did not make any attempt upon her The Parliaments Frigots lying before the Vlye took Eighteen Dutch Vessels some of them Fishermen and some Busses and sent them to Yarmouth 5 Long Papers sent up to London of Answers to the Scotch Ministers Papers of Reasons why they ought not to be troubled for Fraying for the King 6 Letters that near Mallaga an English Ship brake through a whole Squadron of the Dutch and by all their Shot at her had not one Man killed or wounded Many Freebooters upon the Coast of Falmouth That the Lilly Frigot had taken two Freebooters of the French And Order given by the Council of State to the Admiralty for the Trial of them because they had a Commission from the King of Scots 7 Particular Letters of the business of the French Freebooters 8 Letters of Seventeen Sayl of the Dutch Ships in the Streights disturbing that Trade and that they had taken One English Vessel That the Highlanders were all quiet Messengers sent to Collonel Lilburn to
Collonel Morgan in his late Ingagement with Glencarn and Kinmore killed One hundred and twenty of their men took Twenty seven Prisoners with all their Ammunition and most of their Arms and Eighty Horse That the business in Sweden goes on very hopefully the Lord Ambassadour has great great Repute with the Queen and the Grand Chancellour and his New Credentials are very well accepted of by them That the Ambassadors were Landed from Holland with Power to ratifie the Articles of Peace with England The Lords Newport and Youngshall Ambassadours Extraordinary from the States General Arrived with Eighty Persons in their Retinue and very Gallant 28 An Ordinance of the Lord Protector and his Council Published for the Reviving of the Jurisdiction of the County Pallatine of Lancaster and for holding Assize there Letters that Athol Glencarn Glencary and Kinmore were drawing all their Forces together about Four thousand to be Revenged of Collonel Morgan That they have taken off all their Garrisons and intend a flying Army and to Lodge their Ammunition in Woods Of a Scotch-man who in a Vision was warned to go to their General and tell him That because of their wicked living the Judgments of God would light on them The Scot not going to the General was warned in a Second Vision to go to him or else that the Judgment of God would fall upon him and was presently struck Dumb and declared all this by Writing and his Resolution to go to their General and to declare this to him in Writing March 1653. March 1. A Publick Minister from the Arch-Duke Leopoldus had Audience from the Lord Protector The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Recorder of London attended the Lord Protector and his Council about the business of a Corporation to the City of Westminster That the Lord Ambassadour Whitlock goes on very hopefully in Sweden but they are a little stumbled at the detention of Swedish Ships in England 2 Letters that the Duke of Lorain was seized upon and secured by the Arch-Duke Leopold 3 Letters that many of Athols Men forsook him and that his Levys did take little Effect the Country being grown weary of his Oppressions That one of Collonel Daniells Men running away to Athol was taken again and Hanged That others ran away from Collonel Daniels Regement That Major General Lamberts Regiment of Horse and Commissary General Whaleys were come near to the Highlands That the States Ambassadors came in great state through London in Coaches 4 Letters that the English Fleet Road at St. Hellens Point near the Isle of Wight The Dutch Ambassadors had Audience of the Lord Protector in the Banqueting House at Whitehall which was richly hanged and a Chair of State for the Lord Protector and Chair for the Ambassadors and a great multitude of people They acquainted his Highness That all their Provinces had consented to the Articles of Peace and had Impowred them to Ratifie the Articles and they desired a Cessation of Arms in the mean time An Ambassador was Landed from the King of Denmark to the Lord Protector 5 That Lieutenant Hellin with Six Troopers charged six of the Enemies ten miles into the Hills and took them their Horses and Arms and one of them being an English-man refused Quarter and was killed That Major Bridge with a Party took Six of the Enemy and seven Horses That young Montross had like to have killed the Lord Lorn 7 Of English Seamen Pressed for the Fleet. Of an English Barque taken by a Dutch Man of War who restored Her and secured Her from a Brest Man of War Of an English Ship brought in Prize into the Texel by a Dutch private Man of War 8 An Ordinance for Approbation of Ministers by Commissioners That six Members of the Lord Protectors Council were appointed Commissioners to meet with the Dutch Ambassadors to Sign the Articles of Peace with them That still both the English and the Dutch prepared to increase their Navies 9 Orders by the Lord Protector for all to repair to their Charges in Scotland 10 Of Barques taken by the Dutch Free-booters in the North. Of one hundred and forty Dutch Ships Arrived at the Vlye from the East Country That Middleton was gone for Scotland with two small Men of War and a little Ammunition and some Arms and about Three hundred Voluntiers 11 Letters that Middleton was Landed in the Highlands That the Lord Protector went on amain in his Preparations for the Sea and caused divers Marriners to be Pressed and drew out some Land Soldiers to put aboard the Ships 13 Letters that the Highlanders upon Middletons coming to them give out that he brought with him Two thousand five hundred Foot and five hundred Horse whereas he had under Three hundred in all That Captain Witter sent out a Party to skirmish with Captain Johnson before Blair Castle and Johnson and one more were killed That Captain Masons Troup and Captain Palmers Troup about Dunfrize fell soul upon one another by occasion of one of their Centries who was a Scotchman and thinking they had been Enemies six of them were killed and many wounded before they knew the mistake 14 Letters that Monsieur Chaunt the French Ambassadour with the States labours to put on the Interest of his Master and to have him Comprehended in the Peace betwixt the two Common-wealths That an east-East-land Fleet of One hundred and fifty Sail had brought to the Netherlands the necessary Commodities for Shipping that were wanting in those Countries That the King of Scots was still at Paris but had no encouragement to stay in that Court who much desired Peace with the Lord Protector 15 The Lord Protectors Commissioners met with the Dutch Ambassadors at their Lodgings to examine Papers and to compare the Articles of Peace agreed upon with the ingrossment of them That the Portsmouth Frigot and the Constant Warwick met with Beach the Admiral of the Brest Pyrates and pursued him till night when the Two Frigots were parted Beach roaving to and again in the Night chanced to light again upon the Constant Warwick and thinking she had been a Merchants Ship came up to her to Board her The Captain of the Warwick demanded who it was and Beach answered he was the Portsmouth Frigot but the Warwick suspecting him bad him stand off then Beach perceiving his mistake made away but the Warwick being a good Saylor made after him and kept him company all the Night That about Six in the Morning Beach begun the Fight firing Three Guns which were answered by the Warwick and the Fight lasted till Two in the Afternoon when Beach and his Men called for Quarter and had it That Beach had five Foot Water in the Hold when he yielded That he had Two hundred Men in his Ship whereof Twenty were killed in the Fight That his Ship was a Gallant New Vessel of Forty two Guns whereof Thirty were Mounted Anno 1654 That there were taken with him Nine Captains
made sad and strengthen the hands of the wicked that he should not return from his wicked way It being obvious to us where ever we come that few or none take pleasure in your proceedings but the Cavaliers who make their boast of you and place their confidence in you which as it is irkesom to us to hear so we trust and shall pray that the Lord will preserve you from such a defection as knowing that never any prospered that helped them 2. Whether this suddain resolution against your Brethren of the Army on account of their late Transactions have not some proportion with what the Israelites intended against the Tribes of Reuben Gad and the half Tribe of Manasseh when they had built an Altar of Memorial on this side Jordan And whether the same means if used by you for information of matter of fact as by them might not through the Lord's blessing have the same effect and thereby not only blood-shed be prevented but the work of Reformation carried on And truly though we shall not undertake to justifie the Army in their late Actions as being very unable to judge of such important Affairs not having been of the Council yet we hope that in the integrity of their heart and innocency of their hands they have done this thing which we apprehend to be the ground of your dissatisfaction And on this occasion we crave leave to remind you That as you were satisfied with the former Dissolution of this very Parliament in the year 1653. and were pleased to continue your Command at Sea in that juncture when as the undertaking of the late Lord General Cromwell was not so clear to others and through the blessing of God obtained two signal Victories against the Dutch even in that Interregnum so we earnestly desire you will hearken unto and receive satisfaction from the Officers of the Army in what they have to offer in this particular 3. We humbly offer to consideration Whether in your own observation it be not apparent that this Army have in their actings hitherto cordially designed the advancement of God's glory and the promoting and encouragement of godliness and vertue though in persons of different judgments and perswasions And whether the Cause of God and his people hath not hereby been preserved and maintained against all opposition 4. Whether by such undertaking if prosecuted the common Enemy in Scotland will not soon recover strength and become as obnoxious to England as in former times though of late through your singular Prudence Industry and Care they have been kept under And whether the espousing of an Interest distinct from your Brethren of the Army in England as is reported contrary to those righteous Principles that have hitherto been contended for will not instead of purchasing our desired Liberties render the good people of these Nations to a condition of perfect thraldom and bondage The state of Affairs being such in our weak apprehensions we have taken this freedom to unbosom our hearts to your Honour and shall earnestly pray they may take some place with you in order to the begetting of a good understanding and agreement between your self and your Brethren here that both you and they as also our selves in our several stations by Land and Sea may with one heart and consent be found doing the Lords work in this present Generation in opposition to all corrupt Interests whatsoever In attending whereunto a blessing may be expected from the Lord. In him we are Novem. 4. 1659. Your Honour 's humble Servants Richard Stainer John Lambert Tho. Bunn John Bourn Robert Clark Tho. Sparling Bartholom Ketcher Charles Wager Will. Goodson Anthony Earning Rich. Newberry Henry Fen Franc. Allen Nath. Brown Peter Bowen John Stoakes Robert Story Henry Pack John Grove Edw. Witheridge Richard Haddock Christoph Myngs Commissions granted to raise Voluntiers 10. Letters to Monk and his Officers to the same purpose from the Forces in Ireland It was agreed that three Commissioners of Monk's part should treat with three Commissioners on Fleetwood's part 11. Monk's three Commissioners coming to York discoursed there with Lambert and so far satisfied him of the reality of Monk's Intentions for Peace that Lambert sent Orders to stop his Forces from marching further Northward This being informed to the Committee of Safety it was moved to write to Lambert to advance with all his Forces speedily to Monk to indeavour to attaque him before he should be better provided and it was said by some that they suspected the reality of Monk's Intentions for Peace but believed rather that he sought delays This advice was not taken The Committee of Safety made this Order Whereas this Committee have thought it necessary for the better management of the publick Revenue of this Commonwealth to appoint several persons to be Commissioners of the Treasury and have directed a Commission giving them powers in that behalf to be engrossed to pass the great Seal of England These are therefore to authorize you to pass the said Commission under the said Great Seal accordingly For doing whereof this shall be your Warrant Given at the Committee of Safety at Whitehall the 11th of Novem. 1659. Signed in the Name and by order of the Committee of Safety A. Johnson President To Bulstrode Lord Whitelocke Keeper of the Great Seal of England They also made this Order Whereas this Committee have found it necessary for preservation of the peace and safety of the City of London to appoint several persons to be Commissioners for the Militia of the said City and Liberty thereof and have directed a Commission in that behalf to be engrossed to pass the Great Seal of England These are therefore to authorize you to pass the said Commission under the said Great Seal accordingly for doing whereof this shall be your Warrant Given at the Committee at Whitehall this 11th day of November 1659. Signed and delivered as the other 12. An account of their Forces given by the Militia of London and other Militia's to the Committee of Safety Monk's three Commissioners arrived to Treat 16. The Treaty proceeded with the three Commissioners of Monk and three of Fleetwood's and they agreed upon some Articles They agreed that a Committee of Nineteen should be appointed Five for England not Members of the Army which were Whitelocke Vane Ludlow Salwey and Berry and Five for Scotland St. John Wareston Harrington Scot and Thompson the rest for England Scotland and Ireland to be Members of the Army They to determine of the qualifications of Members of the Parliament That two Field Officers of every Regiment and one Commissioned Officer of every Garrison and ten Officers of the Fleet shall meet as a General Council to advise touching the Form of Government 16. This Argument was concluded Letters from the Commissioners in Ireland of the quiet posture there 17. Monk gave more cause of the suspicion of his design 18. Fleetwood was advised not to
to the Army Votes upon the representation of the Army The Parliament Censured Cromwell Army Desires of the City Remonstrance of the Army Letter to the King Vote Army Eleven Members leave the House Sir Philip Stapleton flyes Letters from the Army Votes The Eleven Members Army The Eleven Members London Petition Answer Petitions Army Eleven Members Petition Prince Elector Vote Treaty Eleven Members Militia Fairfax Tumultuous Meetings Eleven Members Eleven Members Apprentices their Petition Answer Parliament Order Petition Answer Major General Pointz Ormond Kings Children Fairfax Eleven Members Col. Birch Ireland Eleven Members Tumults Army New Proposals Vote Petition Vote Conventicles Militia Army London Petition Apprentices Force upon the Parliament Kirk Fairfax City Militia Army Eleven Members Col. Jones Votes Militia Fairfax K. Children Lenthal Army Southwarke Fairfax Petition The City Rendezvous Pr. Elector Southwarke City Letters to Fairfax Col. Rainsborough Fairfax his Answer Fairfax enters Westminster Ordinances March through London Debate The Tower Fairfax Debate Great-Seal City Scotland Expedient Southwark Fairfax Petitions to him Apprentices Ordinance Col. Jones Victory in Ireland Ormond Assizes Col. Lamb. Oatlands Petition Eleven Members Army Remonstraâ—â—â— Eleven Members Ireland Eleven Members Brewers â—iâ—y Sir Philip Stapleton dyed Fairsaxâ— King Mr. Chiesely Petition of Bristol Answer Vote The Eleven Members Biddles Pamphlet Ireland Propositions for Peace Glyn. Army for mony Impeachments The City importuned Proposals by the Army to the King The Kings answer Petitions City Southwark Resolved Impeachments Vote Army Declaration Vote City Army Resolution Propositions for Peace Army Force upon the Parliament Lord Major sent to the Tower Delinquents Ireland Stratagem Scotland Army Sweden Propositions for Peace Force upon the Parliament Divine Army Force upon the Parliament Lambert Gifted men Army Army Maynard Army The Lords Votes Church-Government Commons Votes Indulgence Religion Additional Propositions Lilbure Army French Ambassador Assembly Propositions for Peace â—â—â—â—â—â—land Propositions for Peace York â—â—â—land Force upon the Parliament Army Prince Elector Scotland Army Army New Proposals Further Heads Army Scots Army Vote Army The Kings escape from Hampton Court His Letters King in the Isle of Wight Rendezvous Cromwell The Kings Letter Religion Militia Col. Hewson Col. 〈◊〉 Ciâ—â— Seditious Petition Assembly Lords Conference For Dissolving the Parliament Personal Treaty City Petition Army City Lord Inchequin Letters taken Kings Letters to Fairfax City Petion Answer Votes about Petitions German Prophet Petitions Great Seal Army Great Seal Letters from the King Ireland Commissioners to the King Answer to the Scots Armagh Declaration Scots Commissioners Army Saltmarsh Col. Rainsborough Isle of Wight Scots Commissioners Ireland New-cast Christ-maâ— day The Kings Person Mutiny Isle of â—ight Votes foâ— no Addresses Priviledges Isle of Wight Pamphlets Papers taken Isle of Wight Army's Address Ireland Scots Commissioners Declaration to the Lords Library Lilburns Wildman Lilburne and Wildman Tumults Isle of Wight Disbanding Discontented Officers Ireland Lord Willoughby The eleven Members Riotors The Kings Houshold Seven Impeached Lords City The eleven Members Navy Holland Impeached Lords Lord Wiloughby Taunton Army Non Addresses Tumults Disbanding Judge Jâ—â—kins Maynâ—d Isle of Wigh Judge Jenkins Duke of York Pamphlets Disbanding 〈◊〉 Scotlaâ—â— Commissioners of the Great Seal Pembroke Castle Scotland Force upon the Parliament Petition York â—â—ogan Impeachments Scotland Committee of danger Priviledge Sr. Hardrsss Waller Commissioners of the Great Seal Ireland Lord Fairfax dyes Scotland Col. 〈◊〉 Plot upon the Tower Mr. Wake An. 48. Car. 24. Col. Poyer Iâ—eland Oath Remonstrance Ireland Ireland Lord Iâ—chequin Church Tumultâ— Lord Inchequin Col. Jones Scotland Covenant Scotland Committee of Danger Prince Elector Col. Poyer Scotland Tumult of Apprentices Scotland City â—Votes Tumult Admiralty Great Seal London Assembly Lord Inchequin revolved Sermon Commissioners of the Great Seal Scotland Grand Jury Impeachments Scotland Oxford Collonel Poyer Oxford Earl of Pembroke Voteâ—â— Duke of York House called Scotland Prince Elector Aldermen London Norwich Riot Magazinefired Petition London Posts and Chains Answer Vote Duke of York Blasphemy Langdale City Petition Scotland Demands Essex Petition Answer Declaration Scotland Wales Berwick Carlisle London Petition London Petition Answer Vote Ireland Collonel Horton Victory in Wales May-pole Rioters York Kirk Petition â—nswer â—mâ—it City Chepstow Militia May-Pole Prince Elector London Parliament and City London Wales York Scotland Pontfret Castle Petition City Petition Answer Kent Vote Rioters in Kent Kent Chepstow Ships Revolt Vote Sir Hardress Waller Kent The North. Kentish Rioters Fairfax Petition Answer Kentish-men 〈◊〉 Scotland Kint. Maidston Fairfax Goring London 11. Members c. discharged Kent Goring Votes Indemnity Scotland Pontefract Castle surprised Spanish Ambassador Walet Assembly of Divine Dover Castle Goring Jersey Câ—â—it 〈◊〉 Goring D. of Gloucester Lancashire Revolted Ships Essex Revolted Ships Aspersions on the Parliament Goring Colchester Goring Colchester Langdale Lambert Scotland Votes Pembroke Colchester Sir Charles Lucas Colchester Committee of obstructions Colchester Pulpit Scotland Colchester Fairfax London Petition Answer Colchester Petitions Votes Petition Lady Capell Colchester Colchester Goring the 3 Bills Pontefrâ—â— Vote C. 〈◊〉 Pembroke Colchester London Petition Answer Haselrigge D. Buckingham E. Holland Colchester Poysoned bullets Vote Colchester 3. Bills Pontefract F. Holland Colchester 3. Bills C. Rossiter London Explanations Colchester Earl of Holland Langdale Hamilton Lambert Hamilton Pembroke Castle surrendered The 3 Biâ— Isle of Wight Colchester The three Propositions Personal Treaty Colchester Hamilton Lambert Scots London Petition Colchester Declaration Insurrection Votes Colshester Hamiltons Army Reasons for the three Prepositions Lords Answer Commons Reply Lambert Colchester Lambert Lord Willoughby 3. Propositions Isle of Wight Yarmouth the Princes Declaration London Petition Answer Petition Commission Letters London Colchester Votes Commissioners for the Isle of â—ight D. York The Prince London Kent Votes Colchester Yarmouth Colchester Self-denying Ordinance Colchester S. Hadress Waller Cromwell Scarborough Scots Monk Letter from the Prince Fleet. Lord Willoughby London Petition Answer Petition Officers Colchester Answer to City Petition From the King ThePrince E. Middlesex Commissioners with the King Conference Personal Treaty Yarmouth Princes Letter The Kings Letter C. Henry Lilburn Haselrigge Scots London C. Rich. Concurrence C. Martin Scots Letter E. Lauderdale Manifesto Debate Vote Colchester the Princes Letter Answer Treaty Passes Suburbs Skippon C. Harly Colchester Letter to Fairfax Petition Petition to Fairfax Fairfax his Answer to the Letter Cromwell Instructions for C. Hammond Star-chamber Colchester Cromwell Preson Wight Cromwell Colchester Leaguer Fairfax's Answer Deal Castle D. Hamilton Colchester D. Hamilton The Prince Colchâ—ster Treaty Scots Colchester surrenderd Lucas Colchester particulars London Commissioners to treat in the Isle of Wight Treaty Humiliation C. Hammond Prisoners Monroe Elections Star-Chamber New-Castle Treaty E. Cleveland Prince Answer from the King Fleet. Kent Colchester Cromwell Treaty Petition Answer Petition Revolted Ships North. Cromwell Scots York City Treaty Ipswich Fairfax Treaty Isle of Wight Cromwell Scott Pontifract Scarborough Duke Hamilton Treaty Army Treaty Prince Charles Treaty
Fortification at Leith and their meetings and Councils and inforce Subscription to the late Assembly at Glasgow contrary to the King's declaration they Brand those who had taken Arms for the King as Incendiaries and Traytors and null all the Acts of the College of Justice Matters being in this doubtful posture the King had little mind to see himself affronted and thought that these distempers might be better born and sooner quieted at a distance Therefore towards the latter end of July he returns to England This year was the great and strange Eruption of fire near the Ferrera Islands with a horrible noise and carrying a huge quantity of earth with it whereby became a new Island and continuing in burning The King being returned to London with his pacification the same was not well relished by many of his Subjects who held it dishonourable to him and to this nation especially having so brave an Army with him far exceeding the Covenanters forces both in Horse and Foot by whom he might have constrained them to reason but those who inclined to Presbytery or were discontented at some publick actions were the better pleased with this pacification August 6. According to the King's Direction the general Assembly â—ate at Edenburgh who abolished Episcopacy the 5 Articles of Perth the high Commission the Liturgy and the Book of Canons all this was assented to by the Earl of Trequayre the King 's new Commissioner The Marquess Hamilton having gotten himself out of this troublesome imployment The Assembly being risen the Parliament sate and highly debated about the choice of the Lords of the Articles in regard the Bishops were abolished The Ancient course was that the King first named eight Bishops they chose eight Noblemen who chose so many Barons and they the like number of Burgesses these thirty two with eight officers of the Crown made up fourty who were to consider upon such Articles as were to be brought to Parliament and this Committee were called Lords of the Articles The Commissioner demanded that the King instead of the eight Bishops whom he used to name might now in their place name eight Noblemen which for this time was consented to but voted that for the future every State should chuse their own Commissioner Anno 1639 Then they debated about constituting the third Estate and what to be brought in in lieu of the Bishops The Commissioner urged for the King to have 14 Laicks of such as were called Abbots and Priors to represent the third Estate but it was voted that the third Estate should be compleated by small Barons who represented the Commonalty Then they framed an Act rescissory touching the Exchequer Judicatory Proxies and Ward-Lands to the displeasure of the King who apprehending them to indeavour a new form of Government and to eclipse his Regal Power order'd his Commissioner to prorogue them Which being signified to the Parliament they made a Declaration that this Prorogation was of no force in Law being without consent of the Parliament that they might justify their continuance of sitting but in regard to his Majesty they would only at present make a Remonstrance to him of the reasons of their Propositions and Proceedings after which if their Enemies should prevaile by false suggestions that then it should not be to them an imputation that they were constrain'd to take such course as might best secure the Kirk and Kingdom from the extremity of Confusion and Misery Their Deputies the Earl of Dunferlin and the Lord Loudon came to the King with this Remonstrance and there was come the Earl of Trequayre the King's Commissioner a Committee of the Council heard both Parts and many passionate Expressions and Recriminations between them The Deputies justified the Acts of the Assembly and Parliament and desired they might be ratified the which the Committee thought not fit to be done as lessening the Sovereign Authority and that there was no way but by force to reduce the Covenanters The Scots had delivered a Paper to some of the English Lords intituled some Conditions of His Majestie 's Treaty with His Subjects of Scotland before the English Nobility The Privy Council judging this Paper to be false and scandalous to his Majesty and the late Pacification were suitors to His Majesty that it might be burnt by the hand of the Hangman and all Copies of it to be brought in for which a Proclamation was issued The Spanish Fleet of about 70 Saile bound for Dunkirke with recruits of Men and Money met with some of the Holland Fleet and sank two of them the rest made to Dunkirke where the Holland Admiral lay who came forth with his Fleet and joyning together betwixt Dover and Callice attacked the Spanish Fleet took two of their Gallions sunk another and shatter'd the rest though but 25 Saile and the Spaniard's 60 and having forced them upon the English Coast near Dover the Dutch fell off to Sea not willing to attempt any thing against the Spaniard within the Dominions of the King of England The Spanish Resident in London importuned the King to keep off the Hollanders for two Tides the Dutch Ambassador made application to him against the Spaniards the King in amity with both resolved to stand newter and forbids His Subjects to transport any of the Spaniards to Dunkirke but their Admiral by night conveyed away 14 Dunkirke Ships and 4000 men in them The King sent the Earl of Arundel on Board the Spanish Admiral Don Antonio D' oquendo to desire him to retreat upon the next fair Wind because he would not have any Ingagement upon His Seas but the Wind continued long contrary and the Dutch had great Supplies wherewith they encompassed their Enemies within Pistol-shot for some days At length Van Trump the Dutch Admiral ingaged them and by Cannon and Fire-ships forced them to cut their Cables and of 53 Spanish Ships 23 ran on shoar and stranded in the Downs of which three were burnt two sunk and two perished on the shoar the rest were manned by the English to save them from the Dutch With the other 30 Ships Don Oquendo put to Sea where in a Fogg the Dutch again ingaged them fired the Admiral of Portugal took 11 of their Ships three were lost upon the Coast of France one near Dover five sunk in the Fight and onely 10 escaped with their Admiral Oquendo into Dunkirke This Armado was believed by many to have been designed for an Invasion of England and many Discourses pro and con were vented about it The Prince Elector came into England by advice of the Prince of Orange to solicite his Uncle to procure him the command of the Army of Duke Bernard who was lately dead the King desired the French Ambassadour to move it to his Master who willingly undertook it and that Cardinal Richlieu would be ready to further it In the mean time the Prince by ill advice passed through France in disguise to