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A83941 England & Scotland: or, The proceedings of the Parliament of England, the Confession of the Church of Scotland. Also severall advertisements 1. To the city, and to the associated counties. 2. To those who engage themselves 1. For liberty. 2. For religion. 3. For Gods, and Christs cause. 1644 (1644) Wing E2929; Thomason E2_5; ESTC R2444 4,760 10

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England Scotland OR The proceedings of the Parliament of England The Confession of the Church of Scotland ALSO Severall Advertisements 1. To the City and to the Associated Counties 2. To those who engage themselves 1. For Liberty 2. For Religion 3. For Gods and Christs Cause LUKE 19. 41 42. And when he was come near he beheld the citie and wept over it Saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes OXFORD Printed by H. HALL 1644. TO THE READER Reader AFter many too many Pamphlets which have obscured the Truth I here present thee with a short Abstract of the proceedings untill the taking up of Arms thereby to inform thee of the true state of the present difference and from hence must thy conscience be regulated and not from the after carriage and successe of the War Vale. An Abstract of the Proceedings of Parliament from the first Convention Nov. 3. 1640. unto the taking up of Arms which was June 10. 1642. According to three distinct periods of time The first Period containing severall Acts passed by the King and both Houses of Parliament 1 FOr a Trienniall Parliament 2. For the Abolition of the Star-Chamber 3. For taking away the High-Commission court 4. Against Ship-money 5. Against Co●t and Conduct-money 6. Against Monopolies 7. For bounding all the Forrests in England 8. Concerning Tunnage and Poundage 9. For regulating the office of the Clerke of the Market 10. Concerning the businesse of Knighthood 11. For the continuance of this Parliament By which Acts the severall Grievances were remedied which the Lords had set forth in their Petition lately presented to His Majesty at Yorke A● also by the first and the last of those Acts assurance was give● of farther remedies in that kinde both for the present and for the time to come as is set forth in the Remonstrance of the state of the Kingdome Decemb. 15. The second Period containing the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament before the Tumults 1. A Bill for removing the Bishops from their Votes in the 1641. Bishops Votes Lords House passed the House of Commons In the House of Peeres after severall long free debates it was by very much the major part absolutely rejected 2. A Bil was brought into the House of Commons for the extirpation Root and branch of Bishops and of Deanes and Chapters but it passed not 3. Sir Arthur Haslerig brought in a Bill to place a Generall at Land and an Admirall at Sea with absolute power over the Subject and it was rejected 4. The House of Lords published an Order for the due observation Publick worship of the Laws concerning the publique worship of God 9. Sept. 5. A Vote passed in the House of Commons for the Book of Book of Common prayer Common Prayer in Novemb. The third Period containing the proceedings between the King and the Houses of Parliament since the Tumults 1. In Decemb. the House of Commons published a Remonstrance of the state of the Kingdome setting forth all the Errors of His Majesties Government Wherein also they declare That the Party of Bishops and Popish Lords in the House of Peeres have hindred the proceeding of divers good Bills passed Tumul●s in the Commons House concerning the Reformation of sundry great Abuses and Corruptions both in Church State And thereupon the Tumultuous People in and about London resort to Westminster with clubs and swords crying through the streets Westminster-Hall and between the two Houses No Bishops No Bishops No Popish Lords and misusing the severall Members of either House who they were informed Bishops Votes favoured not their ends and using seditious and traiterous speeches against His Majesty himselfe The Lords twice moved the House of Commons to joyn● with them in an Order against Tumults His Majesty also sent a Message to the Lord Mayor for preventing the like tumultuous Assemblies 2. Ian. 4. The King exhibited Articles of High-Treason against The Members accus●d the Lord Kymbolton and the five Members as for other matters so for endeavouring to subvert the Fundamentall Lawes and Government of this Kingdome and to deprive him of his Regall power and to place an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall power in Subjects and for raising and countenancing Tumults thereby to compell the Parliament to order limit and dispose their Proceedings as might concur with their Designs Upon an Order published by the House of Commons against the Arresting of their Members the King goes in Person to demand them The Houses thereupon adjourn themselves into London and the City takes the Members into protection under pretence of maintaining the priviledge of Parliament The neighbouring Counties also do the like as appears by their several Petitions And Ian. 11. the accused Members are guarded to Westminster with a great force both by water and land To compose these distempers his Majesty sent a Message to both Houses Ian. 20. Advising them to take into consideration all such particulars as they held necessary for upholding his just Regall power and setling his Revenue as also for establishing Religion with due regard to tender consciences in point of Ceremonies and for securing their Priviledges and the liberty of the Subject 3. For their better security whilst they should debate pursue The power of the Kingdom this Message the House of Commons Petition his Majesty that the Militia and the forts and Castles may be put in the hands of such men as they did conside in Ian. 27. Because the Major part of Lords would not concur with the House of Com. in the busines of the Militia the poor people in The Militia and about London petition the House of Commons against those Lords as Malignants and as disturbers of their peace and threaten to remove them Ian. 31. so they withdrew themselves and the Militia was carried by the remaining party of the Lords In Febr. and March Both the Houses petition the King about the Militia His Majesty condescends to commit the Execution of the Militia in the severall Counties to such men as they should r●commend unto him But this satisfied them not and they vote his Majesties Commissions of Lieutenancy to be Illegall and they settle the Militia by an Ordinance excluding his Majesty from any power in the disposition or execution of it In Aprill when his Majesty sent them the Message of his intention to go into Ireland he sent them also a Bill for setling the Militia of the whole Kingdom for one yeare in the hands of those men they had recommended unto him so that himself should not be able to execute it without the advise of the Parliament and when his Majesty should be out of the Kingdom the sole execution to be in them They on the contrary offer him a Bill for setling it absolutely in the hands of some men excluding his Majesty altogether for