called them Straffordians This being informed to the House by some who were named in that List as a high breach of the Priviledge of Parliament yet being the act of a Multitude no redress was endeavoured These Tumults were accompanied with an Information of some practice in the North to distract the English Army and to debauch them against the Parliament These Passages occasioned a Debate in the House of Commons about a National Protestation to maintain the Protestant Religion against Popery the King's Person the Power of Parliament and the Rights and Liberties of the Subject May 5. This Protestation was taken by the Commons House the next day by the Lords and ordered to be generally taken by all the People of England The House of Commons then took in debate the raising of Moneys to satisfie those great Accounts of the two Armies with which the Kingdom was so highly burthened wherein a Lancashire Knight offered to procure his Majesty 650000 l. till the Subsidies should be raised if he would pass a Bill Not to Prorogue Adjourn or Dissolve this Parliament without Consent of both Houses to indure till the Grievances were redressed and to give the Parliament Credit to take up Monies This was well liked by many Parliament-men who upon the passing of such a Bill would sit the surer and the longer in their Saddles and they were so hot upon it that the same Afternoon they made a Committee to bring in such a Bill the next Morning and Whitelocke was named to draw the Bill Of forty five Lords twenty six Voted the Earl guilty of high Treason upon the fifteenth Article For levying Money in Ireland by force in a warlike manner And upon the nineteenth Article For imposing an Oath upon the Subjects in Ireland The Bill for continuance of the Parliament was brought into the House the next Morning after it was propounded and the same day it was perfected and past the House of Commons This Bill and the Act of Attainder being both past by the Commons a Conference was had with the Lords after they had passed them and a Message sent by some Lords to the King to intreat his Answer who promised to satisfie them within two days The King being much perplexed upon the tendring of these two Bills to him between the Clamours of a discontented People and an unsatisfied Conscience he took advice as some reported of several of the Bishops and of others his intimate Counsellors what to doe in this intricate Affair and that the major part of them urged to him the Opinions of the Judges that this was Treason and the Bill legal They pressed likewise the Votes of the Parliament That he was but one man that no other Expedient could be found out to appease the inraged People and that the Consequences of a furious Multitude would be very terrible Upon all which they perswaded him to pass the Bills But the chief Motive was said to be a Letter of the Earl of Strafford then sent unto him wherein the gallant Earl takes notice of these things and what is best for his Majesty in these streights and to set his Conscience at liberty He doth most humbly beseech him for prevention of such mischief as may happen by his refusal to pass the Bill to remove him out of the way towards that blessed Agreement which God I trust shall for ever establish betwixt you and your Subjects Sir my Consent herein shall more acquit you to God than all the world can do besides To a willing man there is no Injury done By these Passages and by some private dealings the King was perswaded to sign a Commission to three Lords to pass these two Bills and that he should ever be brought to it was admired by most of his Subjects as well as by Foreigners After he had signed these Bills the King sent Secretary Carleton to the Earl to acquaint him with what was done and the Motives of it especially the Earl's Consent who seriously asked the Secretary whether his Majesty had passed the Bill or not as not believing without some astonishment that the King would have done it And being again assured that it was past he rose up from his Chair lift up his Eyes to Heaven laid his Hand on his Heart and said Put not your trust in Princes nor in the Sons of men for in them there is no Salvation Great Censures as in all great businesses were past upon the King 's passing of both these Bills That the one was against his most faithful Servant and the other against himself Certainly he had great remorse thereupon and the next day May 11. he sent a Letter by the Prince to the Lords written all with his own hand That they would confer with the House of Commons to spare the life of the Earl and that it would be a high Contentment to him Some did not stick to say that this was promised to him before he signed the Bill of Attainder and to bring him to it But now the Lords House did not think fit to consent to his Majestie 's desire therein May 12. The Earl was brought to the Scaffold on the Tower-hill as he passed by he looked up to the Window where the Archbishop lay who spake to him with comfort and courage He made on the Scaffold a most ingenious charitable and pious Speech and Prayers gave some Directions touching his Children and died with charity courage and general lamentation Thus fell this Noble Earl who for natural Parts and Abilities and for improvement of knowledge by experience in the greatest Affairs for wisdom faithfulness and gallantry of mind hath left few behind him that may be ranked equal with him The Design for the Earl's escape out of the Tower was related to be discovered by three women who peeping and hearkning to the discourse of the Earl with Captain Billingsley they at the Key-hole of the Earl's Gallery-door heard them confer about the falling down of the Ship to take in the Earl and Billingsley brought a Warrant from the King with two hundred men to be received into the Tower for the safety of it but Sir William Balfour the Lieutenant refused to admit them suspecting that they came to further the Earl's escape Balfour confessed that two thousand pounds were offered him to consent to the Earl's escape and the Earl himself did not deny a Design which he said was only for his remove to some other Castle But Balfour was true to the Interest of his Country-men the Covenanters and their friends in Parliament Divers great Officers of State resigned up their Places either accounting themselves insecure or to satisfie others May 17. The Lord Cottington gave up his Place of Master of the Wards which the Lord Say had conferred on him Bishop Juxon resigned his Office of Treasurer and five Commissioners were appointed to execute it for the time The Earl of Leicester was made Lieutenant of
divers of the Officers and Soldiers of the Parliaments Army particularly Sir James Ramsey a Scot who commanded a Regiment of Horse under Essex rode hastily this morning through Vxbridge and upon that rode towards London and reported That the Parliaments Army was broken and wholly discomfited and many of the Officers slain and taken Prisoners Other Scouts brought other Intelligence quite different from the former and much more welcom They had it from divers upon the Road who were galloping to London with the News That the Earl of Essex had totally routed the King's Army killed and taken many of them and gained a full Victory But the Parliament had a great Deliverance and a small Victory the particular passages were thus The King disdaining to be pursued by Essex turns back to meet him and Oct. 23. being Sunday both the Armies drew into the Field between Kineton and Edge-hill in Warwickshire The King had the top of the Hill from whence he viewed the Parliaments Army who saluted him with three pieces of Cannon which was answered with two shot of the Kings The Fight began about two a Clock in the Afternoon the Generals of both Armies performed their parts with great Courage and Gallantry leading on their Forces with Pikes in their hands but were advised to change that posture as fitter for a private Soldier than for a General The greatest Body of the King's Horse was in his Right Wing commanded by Prince Rupert who furiously charged the Left Wing of the Parliament commanded by Commissary General Ramsey whom he routed and pursued to Kineton down with great slaughter But the Left Wing of the King's Horse had not the same success but was broken and routed by the Right Wing of the Parliaments Horse commanded by Sir William Balfour Sir Philip Stapleton the Lord Fielding and Colonel Hurrey General Lindsey being far ingaged was taken Prisoner and died presently after of his Wounds with him was taken the Lord Willoughby of Ersby his Son Sir Edmund Verney the Standard-bearer was slain and the Standard taken and rescued again by Mr. John Smith who was Knighted for it and made Standard-bearer Both Armies Horse and Foot performed their parts with great Valour and Bravery night parted the Fight and both Armies retreat each counting themselves Victors On both sides were lost between 5000 and 6000 Men. On the King's side the General Lindsey and Sir Edmund Verney on the Parliaments part Colonel Thomas Essex and Lieutenant Colonel Ramsey and the Lord S. John taken Prisoner soon after died The King marched toward Aino Essex kept upon the place where the Battel was fought and the next day marched towards Coventry Some of his Friends were very much against his marching thither but rather advised him to pursue the King and to make a fresh attacque upon him there being come in to Essex after the Battel three fresh Regiments The Lord Willoughby of Parham his Regiment of Horse and the two Regiments of Foot of Hollis and Hampden gallant stout and fresh Regiments But Essex was disswaded from it by Colonel Dalbier and some others but the three fresh Colonels Stapleton and several others advised it and probably had he with these fresh Forces made a new assault upon the King 's disordered and tyred Army it might have gone far to have put an issue to the business Upon the News of this Battel all Countreys were alarmed and frighted being a strange thing in England From Aino Oct. 27. The King sends a Proclamation of Pardon to the Cities of London and Westminster excepting onely Fulke and Manwaring Banbury Town and Castle surrendred without Blows to the King two Foot Regiments and a Troup of Horse there of the Parliaments took up Arms for the King who now brought his whole Army to Oxford and thereby the Error of the Lord Say in not fortifying this place before when it was in his power for the Parliament was the more evident Prince Rupert takes in the Lord Say's House at Broughton and made excursions near London which caused the Parliament to order Essex to bring his Army near London for their safeguard which he did and was honourably received at Westminster Novemb. the 7 th and presented with a gratuity of 5000 l. and a Declaration of his valiant and acceptable Service in the bloody Battel of Edg-hill The Papists of Lancashire were allowed to bear Arms which in many Protestants wrought a Censure on the King for too much favouring and entertaining them in his Army The Parliament order That all Apprentices who will list themselves in their Army shall have their time of that Service for their Freedom which brought many of them into their Army they also invite the Scots to come in to their assistance which the King seeks to prevent but in vain Prince Rupert ranged abroad with great Parties who committed strange insolencies and violences upon the Countrey at Ailsbury he failed of his design by the care and stoutness of Colonel Bulstrode Governour there The King takes a resolution and not without grounds of reason to advance to London and all his Army marcheth to Reading Henley and those parts Prince Rupert's Brigade quartered at Henley and of them a Regiment of Horse at Fawley Court The King marched forward with his great Army towards London and the Parliament having voted an Address to him for Peace desired a safe conduct for the Earls of Northumberland and Pembroke and for Mr. Pierpoint the Lord Weenman Sir John Evelyn and Sir John Hippsley to present their Petition to his Majesty But he excepted against Sir John Evelyn because he had proclaimed him Traytor which so irritated the Houses that they voted it a refusal of a Treaty and acquainted the City therewith But afterwards the Petition was sent to the King at Colnebrook by the other Commissioners without Sir John Evelyn and was to desire him to appoint his residence in some place near London where the Commissioners of Parliament might attend him with propositions of a Peace and the King appointed his Castle of Windsor for that purpose and desired that the Treaty might be speeded The Commissioners of Parliament being newly departed from the King he was informed That Essex had drawn forth his Cannon and Forces out of London and was advised to take in Brainford whither he advanced the same Night There were quartered part of the Regiment of Colonel Hollis who were very stout men as appeared by the resistance which they made to the King's Forces and though many of them were slain and divers driven into the River and drowned being mightily overpowred with Numbers yet they defended themselves till the Lord Brook's and Hampden's Regiment came in to their relief and when Night came on they quitted the Town and the King possessed it This being known to the Parliament Nov. 13. they sent a Committee to the City to move them to send forth their Trained Bands the next day to joyn with Essex for
Holland to the King are intercepted whereby Notice is given him of store of Ammunition and Money sent to him from thence and of an Embassadour coming from Denmark to the King and Colonel Cockeram with him The Earl of New Castle in the North hath great Forces for the King and overpowred the Lord Fairfax Norfolk Suffolk Essex Hertford Cambridge and Ely associate under the Lord Grey of Warke for the Parliament Winchester and Chester are gained by the Parliaments Forces Goring lands with the Queen's Standard and store of Officers and Ammunition from Holland and joyns with New Castle The City of London petition the King professing their grief for his distrust of them and their loyalty to him he answers that he hath a good opinion of many of them and could willingly pardon all except Pennington Ven Fowke and Manwaring and he threatens such as shall continue to assist his Adversaries The City were put in heart again by the Speeches of Mr. Rym and the Committee of Parliament to their Common Council of the Houses love to the City and resolution to live and die in their defence In the North the Parliaments Forces prevail again Sir Hugh Cholmley defeats some of the Enemies at Malton and Jan. 16. he and Sir Matthew Bointon at Gisborough rout a party of 600 killed many took 15 Prisoners whereof their Commander Slingsby was one and 200 Arms. Sir Thomas Fairfax carries Leeds and took there four Colours 500 Prisoners with much Arms and Ammunition then Wakefield and Doncaster yield themselves to the Parliament The Earl of New Castle draws down his Forces towards York to prepare for the Queen's entertainment and proclaims the Lord Fairfax and Sir Thomas Fairfax his Son Traytors and the Parliament did the like for the Earl The Parliament resolved to send some Propositions to the King and named their Commissioners two of the House of Lords and four of the House of Commons to present their Propositions to His Majesty The Lords were the Earl of Northumberland and the Lord Say the King refused to grant a safe conduct for the Lord Say because he had been proclaimed by him to be a Traitor so another was put in and four Lords and eight Commoners named to carry the Propositions to the King and January 28. the King granted his safe Conduct for them to come to him which was in this form CHARLES REX Our will and pleasure is and we do hereby streightly charge and command all the Officers and Souldiers of our present Army and all our Ministers and Subjects whatsoever to permit and suffer our Right Trusty and Right well beloved Cosins and Counsellors Algernoon Earl of Northumberland Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery William Earl of Salisbury and Henry Earl of Holland Our right trusty and right well beloved Thomas Viscount Weenman and Richard Viscount Dungarnon and our trusty and well beloved Sir John Holland and Sir William Litton Knights William Pierpoint Bulstrode Whitelocke Edmund Waller and Richard Winwood Esquires together with their Servants to pass and repass to and from us they being sent to tender us Propositions from our two Houses of Parliament This our safe Conduct under our Sign Manual and Privy Signet we charge and command them and every of them punctually to observe and obey as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perils Given at our Court at Oxford the 28. day of January 1642. After this safe Conduct sent from the King the Parliament Commissioners took their Journey to Oxford the Commissioners were admitted by the Lords two with each Lord in their Coaches which were with six gallant Horses in every Coach and a great number of their Servants on Horse back to attend them In this Equipage they came to Oxford where the Governour assigned them their quarters They had their first access to the King in the Garden of Christ Church where he was walking with the Prince and divers of the Lords attending him All of them kissed his hand not as they were ranked in the safe Conduct but according to their several degrees Mr. Pierpoint before the Knights he being an Earls Son and Mr. Winwood before Mr. Whitelocke he being the eldest Knights Son and Mr. Waller was the last The King said to him though you are the last yet you are not the worst nor the least in my favour The discovery of a Plot then in hand in London to betray the Parliament wherein Mr. Waller was ingaged with Challoner Tomkins and others which was then in agitation did manifest the King's Courtship to Mr. Waller to be for that Service After they had all kissed the King's Hand the Prince gave them his Hand to kiss The Earl of Northumberland read the Propositions to the King with a sober and stout carriage and being interrupted by the King he said smartly Your Majesty will give me leave to proceed the King answered I I and so the Earl read them all through The Heads of the Parliaments Propositions to the King were To disband his Army and return to his Parliament leave Delinquents to Trial and Papists to be disarmed To pass a Bill for abolishing Bishops c. and such other Bills as should be presented for Reformation Recusants to abjure Papacy to remove malignant Counsellors to settle the Militia as the Parliament desired to prefer to Offices such as the Parliament should name to take in all that were put out of Commissions of the Peace A Bill to vindicate the Lord Kimbolton and five Members to enter into Alliance for the Palatinate to grant a general Pardon excepting New Castle Digby and others To restore Parliament Members to their Offices and to restore their losses On the other side the King proposed That his Revenue Magazins Towns Ships and Forts be restored That what hath been done contrary to Law and the King 's Right may be recalled That all illegal power claimed or acted by Orders of Parliament be disclaimed As the King will consent to the execution of all Laws concerning Popery or Reformation so he desires a Bill for preserving the Book of Common Prayer against Sectaries that all persons excepted against in the Treaty may be tried per pares with a cessation of Arms and for a free Trade Thus way was made for a Treaty but nothing further done in it till 4. Martii after The Queen landed with Officers Money and Ammunition in the North and is conveyed to York where she forms an Army Massey attempting to storm Sudely Castle was beaten off he possesseth the Garden fires much Hay and Straw and under the smoak thereof planted his Ordnance so advantageously against it that the besieged rendred it upon quarter leaving their Arms behind A few days after Prince Rupert with 4000 Horse and Foot marcheth by it to Cirencester where the Magazine of the County lay this he took putting the Earl of Stamford's Regiment and many others to the sword took
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That he held the Pope to be the Metropolitan Bishop of the World and that there could be no true Church without Bishops The Speaker offered to the house a petition which he received from the hands of the French Ambassadour touching the French and English Merchants in matters of Trade which the House referred to the Committee of the Navy and directed that when addresses should be made to them as a Parliament they would doe right Colonel Popham was ordered to go down to Taunton to take into his charge a Regiment raised by the Country for him The Lord Inchequin's party taken at Dorchester that were Irish Rebels were there hang'd The Lord Admiral upon the General 's advance to Exeter sent the James a Ship of 1200 Tun to lye before it at Torbay that 100 are come out of the Town to him and that he hearing of eleven Ships waiting for the Queen to carry her beyond Sea sent three lusty Ships to wait on them The King marched with 7000 horse and foot to Bath and from thence towards Bristol where Hopton joyned with him Bostal-house in Bucks was re-fortified by the King's party York was rendered upon Articles to the three Parliament Generals who entred the Town and went to the Minster where they had a Sermon and thanks returned to God for the recovery of it An Order was made touching compounding for Wardships Colonel Massey wrote that the King with about 400 horse and 3000 foot was marched Westward whereof he had given notice to the General and to Sir Will. Waller and that he with three Troops of horse followed the King's Rear to keep them from plunder By Letters from the General he desires a pass for an Irish Gentlewoman Governess to the young Princess and sends a Letter which he received out of Exeter from Sir John Berkley the Governour The Irish as was informed by the King's allowance made a Declaration and Vow to assist the King against the Puritan Parliament and to defend Episcopacy and the Papists of England and protest against the Covenant and that they will proceed against all that take it The Lord Grey of Groby and Sir John Gell joyning together to reduce a Garrison of the King 's at Wilney-ferry who did many outrages to the Countrey and much infested them they used this Stratagem to get the Fort. They took about 60 Cart-loads of Hay and other combustible Matter and carried them with their Forces up to the very Fort under the shelter of which their men were secure from any hurt from the Enemy and putting fire to the combustible Matter with the advantage of the wind did so annoy the Enemy that they were driven out of the Works and their Trenches filled with the Hay and other stuff Captain Robinson the Governour offered to render upon terms to march away with Bag and Baggage but that being denied he prepared for a resolute defence but when the Parliament forces began the storm Robinson's men threw down their Arms and craved quarter which was given them and but one man killed there was taken three Captains divers inferiour Officers two Drakes and seventy common Souldiers after this they took in Wink field Manor and Shelford Manor The Parliament ordered a Letter of thanks to them The House being informed that Sir John Berkeley Governour of Exeter hanged up Captain Turpine in cold blood ordered that the Judges who condemn'd him Heath Banks Forster and Glanvile might be impeached of High Treason which was ordered against Glanvile onely being in their power Two Priests who were in the Earl of Newcastle's Army were sent up to the Parliament and ordered to be tried according to Law The Commons ordered a Letter of thanks to the Lord General for his good service in the West The Lord General sent word to the Parliament That he was advancing to relieve Plymouth and to fight with Prince Maurice Indeed there was a great Debate at the Council of War whether they should march on Westward or face about and meet the King who was marching towards them and rather fight with him than with Prince Maurice Most of the Council were of opinion to face about and to meet the King but the Lord Roberts was very earnest for them to advance into Cornwal and by the way to relieve Plymouth and from thence to march into Cornwal to fight Prince Maurice affirming that when they came into Cornwal which was his Lordship's Countrey they should find great assistance and many to come in to them by his interest among them The General followed his advice and wrote to the Parliament as before That the King was in Somersetshire and that the Queen with Bristol and Jermin were landed at Brest in France The House ordered that Mr. Hollis one of their Members shall have out of the King's Revenue the Fine which was imposed on him by the Star-chamber 3 Car. for his fidelity to the Common-wealth A Ship loaden with Arms and Ammunition for the King was taken and brought into Sunderland with 22 pieces of Ordnance in her A Committee of seven Lords and fourteen Commons was appointed to hear any complaints sent in by the Dutch Ambassadours concerning taking of Ships that right may be done A Committee most of Lawyers was appointed to consider what Ordinances were fit to be made into Laws when the King and Parliament should be agreed The Archbishop was again brought to his Trial and proofs produced against him that he should say the Pope was not Antichrist but the Head of the Church and that the Protestant and Romish Religion was all one and if the one was false so was the other and that he concealed a Plot revealed to him that 7000 men were in pay attending an opportunity to kill the King and to massacre the Protestants The Lord General sent up to the Parliament a Letter which he received from the Earl of Forth now made Earl of Brainford General of the King's Army acquainting that a Letter was sent by His Majesty from Eversham by the French Agent to be by him presented to the Parliament for Peace It was intituled A gracious Message directed to the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled at Westminster It propounded a Treaty of Peace and that Commissioners might be appointed on both sides to meet and treat thereof and it was signed by the Lord Digby Secretary A Letter came from the three Generals That now if it pleased the Parliament they believed the the King would be more inclineable to Peace than formerly This was excepted against by some who were no friends to Peace but those who longed for Peace carried it against them to have a day set to consider of this business Major General Brown was ordered to march to Abington to secure the Magazine and Artillery there The Earl of Manchester wrote to the Parliament for their advice which way the Scots Army and his should march and that the L. 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to perswade the General to embrace His Majestie 's offer and that if he would come and treat with them he should be as safe as in his own Tent and that a Committee of both parties might be nominated to treat of those matters The General 's answer was that he was trusted by the Parliament to fight and not to treat and that he would not break the trust reposed in him to treat without their consent The Parliament ordered thanks to be returned to the Lord General for his care and fidelity and supplies to be made for his Army The Assembly of Divines communicated to the Parliament a Letter sent to them from the Kirk of Scotland lamenting that Church government was not yet settled Colonel Middleton joyning with the forces under Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Colonel Jepthson and others marched to Wareham in Dorsetshire and suriously assaulting one of the Out-works beat the Enemy into the Town and they rendered it upon terms and 300 of the Garrison undertook to serve the Parliament against the Rebels in Ireland A party of the Enemy being quartered about Bisseter in Oxfordshire Captain Ennis met with them and both parties fought desperately Captain Ennis killed one that charged him furiously and divers others of the King's party were killed and taken Prisoners after this they went to Bostal House where the Garrison sallying out upon them were beaten back with loss Letters from the General certified that he had sent a party under Colonel Beere and Colonel Sheffield against Greenvile who was 1600 strong in Foot and 300 Horse and 5 Drakes that they had routed a party of his forces and taken divers Officers and 80 Men and many Horse Welbeck House was surrendred to the Earl of Manchester Mr. Darley a Member of the House was released from his imprisonment in Scarborough Castle A Letter from the Lord Inchequin to the King was read in the House wherein he declares his resolution to oppose the Irish Rebels and to defend Munster from them and beseecheth His Majesty to call in his Proclamation wherein he terms them his Subjects and to proclaim them as indeed they are blood-thirsty and cruel Rebels The Assembly had leave to debate the whole matter of the Ordinance for Ordination of Ministers and for settling the government of the Church One who attended that Debate the Question being there propounded to be put that the government by Presbytery is Jure Divino spake to that Question in the Assembly to this effect Mr. Prolocutor I might blush to speak in this reverend Assembly upon the question now in debate before you had I not by the honour of being one of your Members seen your candour to others and observed you to be most able to give satisfaction to any scruples here and to enable such as I am to satisfy objections abroad whereof I have met with some your Question it seems not being under secrecy It is said Sir That this Question is very large and comprehensive and they instance upon the terms of it Government Church Presbyteries and Jure Divino all which they say are of various significations and your meaning by them not easie to be understood The word Government you well know Sir is proper for the guidance of a Ship so Cicero useth it Et si in ipsa gubernatione negligentia Navis est eversa And so in Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the act of steering a Ship And the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence some fetch our English word Government hath the same sense All take it for the prudent and well ordering and managing of persons and affairs that men may live well and happily and this I also take to be your sense in the word Government The word Church I confess admits more variety of interpretations and I must not wast so much of your time nor is it needfull to persons of your great learning to reckon them As sometimes it is taken in the large sense of all Believers and sometimes in the sense of every particular Congregation of God's people and of Believers in a Nation and you know the Greek Poet takes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Meetings of Mirth or Jollity But to take the word in the sense wherein it was first introduced by the Popish Clergy I am sure will not be admitted by you They used indeed many Canting Expressions as Ecclesiastical and Lay Spiritual and Temporal Church and State and the like and all were to make a distinction between themselves and other men that they might be accounted more holy and as a distinct Nation in the Midst of the Nation to bring more reverence and privilege and money to them than otherwise they could obtain Some would say of the Puritans that they used a kind of Canting language to bring them into the more scorn I am sure the imputation is more just upon the Popish Clergy who by this canting would exclude all others but themselves to be of the Church of Christ and exalt themselves above their Brethren Whereas doubtless every one though never so much as they term him a Lay-man is as much a Member of the Church if he be a Believer as they that wear Cooles or Hoods or Canonical Coats or Tippets But I suppose you mean by Government of the Church the ordering and ruling of Matters and Persons having relation to the worship of God in the meetings of his people in the Church or in things belonging thereunto which by some are called Spiritual Matters Thereupon it is objected by some that Government being a Civil thing cannot be exercised about things that are Spiritual Government is onely external and Spiritual things are onely internal not capable of being ordered by any but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great Knower of Hearts and are become the power of Government of Men. But this Notion may go too far perhaps I hope to be informed by your learned Debates to a clearer understanding of it and shall pass to the next Term of the Question Presbytery This word they say was unknown till of late in the sense many do now use it that among the Jews it was the highest honour and dignity given to the Members of their Great Sanhedrim and therefore is not now so properly to be attributed to the Rulers of every small Congregation I am none of those Mr. Prolocutor who except against the Presbyterian Government I think it hath a good Foundation and hath done much good in the Church of Christ But Sir whether this Form of Government be Jure Divino or not may possibly admit of some dispute and whether it be now requisite for you to declare that it is so If the meaning be that it is Jure Divino Ecclesiastico then the question will be raised of the Magistrate's imposing Forms and upon Mens Consciences for then this will be the Magistrate's Imposition Jure Divino Ecclesiastico But if the meaning be Jure Divino Absolute
Horse 80 Prisoners Major Heron and other Commanders The Commons appointed an examination touching any neglects of their Armies and the spinning out of the War and of the late miscarriages after Newbury Fight when they had so much advantage against the Enemy By Letters from Colonel Norton he informs the House that he had received a warrant from a chief Commander in their Army to raise the siege from before Basing-house and to betake themselves to Winter quarters which was a thing unexpected to him but according to that Warrant they had withdrawn This raised new jealousies and discontents in the minds of many of the Parliament and of their Friends Mac Mahon was executed at Tyburn and Mr. Peters urg'd him to make confession but he would not unless he might have a Romish Priest The plea of Peerage of the Lord Macquire was allowed Upon Letters from Colonel Jones Governour of Farnham the King's Army being come near him the Parliament ordered some forces to be quartered there for his assistance Sir Alexander Carew being sentenced by the Court Marshal to have his Head cut off his Lady petitioned that her Husband was distracted and unfit to die and prayed a Reprieve for him which was granted An Ordinance passed for a voluntary contribution to raise the second payment to the Scots The late carriage of the Armies in suffering Donnington Castle to be relieved and quitting Newbury which was plundered and not fighting when the Parliaments forces were two for one was referred to a Committee to be examined The Parliaments forces quartered at Reading Abington and Henley where the rude Souldiers did great mischief to Friends as well as Enemies in their Houses and more in their Woods but such insolencies and mischiefs must be expected from this brood of Men or rather bruitish Souldiers who know no difference between Friends and Foes but all is Plunder that they can fasten their hands upon Kent raised 3000 men to oppose the King's march into Sussex and Surrey which was feared The power of the Court Marshal was continued for four months longer than their former time A Party of about 300 of the King's forces coming to Axminster near Lyme to fortifie it and to streighten Lyme the Governour fell upon them and at the second charge routed them killed Major Walker two Captains two Lieutenants and divers common Souldiers took four pieces of Ordnance many Arms and Prisoners and released fifty Gentlemen who had been by them taken Prisoners from their houses The Commons passed the Directory of Worship Letters from the Commissioners at Oxford informed That on the Lord's day they presented the Propositions for Peace to the King which were read by the Earl of Denbigh That the King ask'd the Committee if they had power to treat they answered no but their Commission was to receive His Majestie 's Answer in writing then the King said they should receive his Answer accordingly At the reading of the excepted persons names which the Earl of Denbigh read with great courage and temper P. Rupert and P. Maurice being present when their names were read as excepted persons they fell into a laughter at which the King seemed displeased and bid them be quiet When the Committee answered the King that they had no Commission to treat but to receive His Majestie 's Answer in writing the King replied then a Letter-carrier might have done as much as you to which the Earl of Denbigh said I suppose your Majesty looks upon us as persons of another condition than Letter-carriers The King said again I know your condition but I say that your Commission gives you power to doe no more than a Letter-carrier might have done and so they came away from the King with a little kind of dissatisfaction but some of his Lords afterwards excused to them those hasty words Surrey petitioned for relief against free quarter which was ordered and that all forces of the Parliament near London should be removed nearer to the Enemy and to inlarge their own quarters Order was given for the relief of Taunton Castle and for supplies of Abington Persons in Norwich who were imprisoned for not coming to hear Common Prayer were by Vote discharged An Ordinance passed for the inhabitants of New England to have free Trade hither without paying of Customs Two Papists being stayed at the Court of Guards affirmed that they were Parliament Souldiers under Captain Buller and the House being informed of it referred it to a Committee to be examined and order if it were so and the Captain knew it that he should be cashiered and the like for any Officer of the Parliament that should doe as he did A new Seal was made of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Whitelocke was made by the Parliament Attorney of the Dutchy The Commons referred it to the Committee of the Navy to take special notice of the gallant service done by Captain Ashley and to give him all due encouragement Sir John Boles with forces from Newark plundered divers houses in Lincolnshire of the Parliaments Friends and took away Mr. Anderson and Mr. Emmerson a Committee-man Prisoners The City by a Petition remember their forwardness in their persons and purses to serve the Parliament and desire a reimbursement of their monies lent towards reducing of Newcastle and that they might have Coals at a reasonable price which was held fit by the Commons and put in a way to be done A party of Monmouth Garrison being drawn out upon a design against the King's forces thereabouts the Lord Herbert of Ragland having notice thereof sent seven or eight of his Souldiers in the habit of Countreymen who discoursed with the Sentinels of Monmouth Castle feigning themselves Friends which made the Sentinels secure and careless upon which two Troups of Horse watching their opportunity broke through the Sentinels and possest themselves of the Castle A Ship of Exeter loaden with rich goods and cast by weather into Lyme was ordered to be sold and one moity of the goods for the Town the other for the service of the West Upon the Petition of divers Western Gentlemen driven from their habitations by the King's forces the Commons ordered a Committee to take care to provide houses and accommodations for them and this brought in divers others who were not in the like necessity but rather for their gain to obtain the like favour Sir Thomas Littleton was remanded to streighter custody in the Tower The Committee who carried the Propositions of Peace to Oxford had the King's Answer sealed up and sent to them They upon advice together thought it not fit for them to receive an Answer in that manner not being acquainted what it was nor a Copy of it as was usual in the like cases sent with it unto them and upon this they desired to be excused from receiving that Answer so sealed and made an Address to His Majesty that they might know what his Answer was and have a Copy
unless the King would grant those Propositions it would be in vain to treat of any peace There was also much discourse about the acknowledging you to be a Parliament the Earl of Lindsey said That the King had acknowledged you a Parliament by the words Lords and Commons of Parliament We answered That this was the same style his Majesty gave to the Assembly at Oxford and we could not be satisfied with that acknowledgment Then the Earl of Lindsey demanded of us how we would be acknowledged We told him thus The Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England at Westminster After this we returned to our Lodgings and acquainted our fellow Commissioners with the persons that were at the Earl of Lindsey ' s Chamber when we were there and with the matter of our discourse with them In all our discourses Mr. Hollis and my self did justifie your Propositions and vindicate your Proceedings Mr. Speaker It is no small trouble to my thoughts to have my Name questioned in this House but I am comforted in my own integrity and innocency and in my Accuser but chiefly in my Judges to whom I most humbly and most willingly submit my self After Whitelocke had spoken there was much debate in the House whether this Paper of the Lord Savile were an Accusation or Charge against them Many Gentlemen argued That it was against the Privilege of the House to take it for an Accusation being from the Lord Savile who was an Enemy come from the King's Quarters and one in contempt to both Houses of Parliament for refusing to name the person from whom he received the Letter concerning Mr. Hollis and therefore committed a close prisoner That he had not discovered this to the Parliament in five or six Months together that he had been in their quarters but after he had been complained of by Mr. Hollis about a Letter and Mr. Whitelocke was in the Chair of the Committee appointed to examine the business of that Letter Then the Lord Savile brought in a new Accusation both against Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke the Chairman to take off his testimony for Mr. Hollis Others went upon this ground That this business might be committed to see if the Lord Savile would avow his Letter and Paper and by what testimony he could make it good and that Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke might have reparation and be cleared from this aspersion But these were not their Friends and moved this out of a design to bring the business before a Committee to be examined more than out of respect to them After a long debate it was at last referred to a Committee to be examined in the general and power given to the Committee to examine any Member of the House and a Message sent to the Lords to desire that the L. Savile might be examined at this Committee Those who were of a contrary party to the Earl of Essex set their interest upon it to ruine Mr. Hollis whom they found to be a great Pillar of that Party and with him to ruine Mr. Whitelocke they being both involved in this business but they had not the same envy against Mr. Whitelocke as they had against Mr. Hollis nor could they well sever them But now having got it referred to a Committee they resolved there to put it home and were full of expectation to destroy them both which was their intention 5. A Letter from the Portugal Agent and his carriage to the Parliament referred to a Committee and how the Parliament might be vindicated therein Order that the Militia of London should put in execution the Ordinance for searching for Papists and Delinquents Proposals from the Governour of Windsor for supply of that Garrison presented to the House from the Common Council of London and referred to the Committee of the Army Sir Thomas Fairfax and Colonel Massey marched from Blandford towards Taunton their Scouts and Goring's had some Encounters but Goring understanding that Sir Tho. Fairfax was advancing towards him drew off all his horse and foot from before Taunton and went towards Exeter The Lords sent a Message to the House of Commons in answer of theirs yesterday That the Lord Savile if he pleased might be examined from time to time at the Committee to whom the business of his Letter was referred 7. Divers of Westminster in the name of the City petitioned the House for Maintenance for the Lecturers in Westminster Abbey out of the Revenues belonging to the Dean and Chapter there Thereupon an Ordinance was read and committed for regulating the College of Westminster and the Petitioners called in and acquainted with the care of the House in their business and had the thanks of the House Letters from Scout-master General Watson informed that the Enemy was wholly drawn off from before Taunton An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for making Mr. Jackson Lecturer at Gloucester and a 100 l. per annum to be settled on him and the House ordered Col. Morgan to be Governour there An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for One percent for the Captives in Argiers The King's Forces from Bolton Castle surprized Raby Castle belonging to Sir Henry Vane but were again close blocked up by Forces raised by Sir George Vane The Scots Army were on their march towards Worcester as far as Birmicham The Marquess of Argyle was in pursuit of Montross over the Hills and the Parliament of Scotland being now sate the Parliament of England appointed the Earl of Rutland the Lord Wharton Sir Henry Vane senior Sir William Ermine Mr. Hatcher and Mr. Goodwyn to be their Commissioners in Scotland The King with about 4000 horse and foot was at Hereford to raise 5000 l. Assessment and some Recruits The Committee of Salop took in Cause Castle Hawarden Castle and Lynsell House belonging to Sir Richard Lucy and sate down with their Forces before High Arcall the Lord Newport's House In the Afternoon Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke attended the Committee touching my Lord Savile's Accusation where Mr. Samuel Brown had the Chair and was no friend to them in this business but pressed matters against them more than a Chair-man was to do The Lord Savile was brought into the Committee and his Letter and Paper read to him which he owned as his and his hand to them and that he would justifie them to be true upon his Soul and his Life Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke averred the contrary but with less passion and with less indiscretion than the Lord Savile who being put to it by the Committee could not make any proof of one Particular mentioned in his Papers more than they themselves acknowledged which was the same in effect that they had said before in their Narratives in the House Every particular Clause in his Papers were severally read and he heard to them and they to make their Answers but they both did it with this reservation That what they did in this was out of their willingness
present buying of Horses and Furniture for him as an earnest of the affections of the House to him Order for Pay for the Army 24. Information from the Commissioners in the Scots Army of their Warrant to bring in Provisions for the Scots and of some complaints against that Army The House approved of those Warrants of the Commissioners and took care for payment of the Country for the Provisions brought in by them Mr. Hunt the Serjeant at Arms being dead the House gave that place to Serjeant Birkhead for Life Debate at a Conference touching Martial Law in London and about the Letters from Newarke A Petition of the Merchants of New-Castle and Sunderland referred to the Committee of the Navy 26. Upon Letters from M. G. Brown Order for one thousand eight hundred pound of Sir John Borlace his Composition to be paid for the Garrison of Abbingdon and for other Money for them They continued M. G. Brown Governor of Abbingdon for three Months longer and dispensed with his attendance in the House as a Member Order for Money for the Garrison of Henley Several Ordinances touching the arrears of the Officers late under the Lord Fairfax and for digging of Salt-Peter Another Letter came from his Majesty about a Personal Treaty wherein he smartly answers the Letters of the Parliament last sent to him in all the particulars and concludes with his earnest desires of Peace and saith it is clear to him that there is no way but a Treaty or Conquest for a final ending of such distractions as afflict this Kingdom The latter he hopes none will have the impudence or impiety to wish for and for the former if his Personal assistance be not necessary let any reasonable man judge and earnestly presseth for an Answer The King sent a Warrant under his hand to the Heads of Houses in Oxford for the reading of Divine Service established by Law daily Morning and Evening and to fast on Fridays 27. Letters from Stafford informed that Captain Stone 's Troop of an hundred beat up the Lord Molineux's Quarters near Stafford routed three hundred of the Enemy took three Captains and other Officers about an hundred Horse and many Prisoners some slain and divers wounded Order for five hundred pound for Captain Stone for his Troop and fifty pound given to his Lieutenant Proceedings upon the propositions for Peace and seven Bills to be prepared to be forthwith sent to the King to which if he shall assent then they are willing he should come to London and treat about the other matters The Bills were 1. For setling Presbyterian Government and extirpating Episcopacy 2. For prosecuting the War against the Irish Rebels 3. For the Militia to remain in the power of the Parliament 4. For payment of the Debts of the Kingdom 5. For bringing Delinquents to punishment 6. That no Honours be given but to such as have testified their affections to the Publick 7. Concerning the Priviledges of London Sir Tho. Fairfax returned from Dartmouth to the blocking up of Exeter 28. The day of the Monthly Fast in the Evening the House met and heard a Report from the Committee of Plundred Ministers of the Blasphemies of one Paul Best who denied the Trinity of the God-head and the Deity of Christ and the Holy Ghost the House ordered him to be kept close Prisoner and an Ordinance to be brought in to punish him with Death 29. Consent to amendment of some mistakes in an Ordinance The House voted that some of the Members of the Committee of both Kingdoms had done their Duties in making known some intelligence from Paris and ordered them thanks for it The Lord Montague Col. White and Mr. Robert Goodwin ordered to go Commissioners into Scotland Orders for supply of the Army A Petition for Mr. Saltmarsh to be a Lecturer in Kent opposed by divers of the County countenanced by Col. Blunt and divers others of the Parliaments Friends The Parliament of Scotland executed divers of Montrosses Party The Siege of Newarke continued streight A Treaty was had about the surrender of Chester but nothing concluded Sir William Brereton drew out a Party to incounter the Irish of whose landing in Anglesey he had Intelligence Mr. Ed. Vaughan with a small party in Merioneth-shire fell upon a hundred of the Kings Forces who were Fortifying at Dolgethly took their Captaine eighteen Prisoners and divers Horse and Arms. 30. Reference to the Committee of both Kingdoms to prevent the Incursions from Oxford into Wilts and Hant shire Orders for allowance to Preaching Ministers and for Mr. Edward Clerke High Sheriff of Oxford shire to make his Residence at Reading Proceedings upon the Propositions for Peace Mr. Tilshead met the Party from Oxford in Wilts whereof he was High-Sheriff and took thirty of their Horse and many Prisoners Letters informed the taking of Pouldram Castle by Col. Hammond That they surrendred upon conditions that Greenvile was apprehended and carried prisoner to Oxford and that Hopton was made General of the West that many intercepted Letters were sent up to the Parliament That many Devonshire Gentlemen declared for the Parliament and Sir Tho. Fairfax gave a Commission to Mr. Vowell to be a Col. 31. Debate of a Report from the Committee of Goldsmiths Hall touching Compositions of Delinquents Another Letter came from the King wherein he presseth his coming to London for a personal Treaty offers the Militia to be setled in the hands of the Parliament for seven years and that the Parliament shall nominate Officers of State Judges c. that Religion shall be setled as in the days of Queen Elizabeth having regard still to tender Consciences And for Ireland and the other Propositions to grant what was offered at the Treaty of Uxbridge and disclames the Earl of Glamorgan's Commission by which he treated with the Irish as false and no Act of his Majestys This Letter was referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms to be communicated to the Scots Commissioners and the Commons desired a conference with the Lords concerning the present sending of the seven Bills to his Majesty Vote that the Committee of both Kingdoms receive from the Lord L'isle his propositions touching Ireland Both Houses agreed upon the Ordinance touching Covent-Garden Order for the Countess of Winchester to go to her Husband where he is Prisoner Sir William Brereton intercepted a Letter from the Lord Byron to Oxford that if they had not relief by the last of January then of necessity they must surrender Chester February 1645. February 2. Debate about the Kings Letter A Conference at which the seven Bills were presented to the Lords for their Concurrence to be forthwith sent to the King Ordinance passed for Money for the Guards and other services in London Martial Law given to the Garrisons of Aylisbury and Newport Paganell Order that there should be no new motion in the House after twelve a Clock Letters informed that Sir Tho. Fairfax drawing towards Exeter the
as formerly That the propositions for Peace be hastned to him That he may come to London with safety freedom and honour where he resolves to comply with the Houses in what shall be most for the good of his Subjects That he will disband his Garrisons as by the inclosed Warrant appears only upon honourable conditions and will send for the Prince Papers came from the Scots Commissioners to the Parliament with these Letters and very fair expressions in them pursuant to the Covenant and that they had perswaded the King since his coming to their Army to give satisfaction to his Subjects and they hope such propositions will speedily be sent to his Majesty as may settle Religion and Peace in both Kingdoms and they shall willingly depart home Another paper was a Copy of that which the Committee of Estates presented to the King desiring that the Prince might not go beyond Seas 16. Progress about the propositions for Peace they agreed that the Militia should be in both houses of Parliament for twenty years Letters informed that the Scots perswaded the King to take the Covenant The Articles were almost agreed for the surrender of Oxford 17. A Letter from the King to the Prince intercepted and read in the Houses and was to this effect to tell him That he had written to his Mother about him and would have him to obey her in all things except Religion Debate about the Militia Ordinance for a Collection for the poor of Abbington 18. The Examinations and Confession of Mr. Hudson one of the Guides that led the King to the Scots Army were read and referred to the Committee who are to draw up the Declaration to be presented to the King and to the Estates of Scotland and the Committee was ordered to proceed further in these Examinations Hudson said that the King crossed the Countrey was at Henley Harrow on the Hill and at Brainford and almost perswaded to come to London and then he went to St. Albans and so to Harborough where the French Agent was to have met him with some Horse but came not from thence the King went to Stamford from thence to Downham in Norfolke where he lay at a petty Alc-house that he passed sometimes by the name of Hudson's Tutor sometimes Doctor and sometimes as Ashburnhams Servant Order for the Speaker to write to the Scots Commissioners for an answer of the last Letter of the Parliament A Petition of the Committee of Wilts of the Robberies and Cruelties of the Forces under Major General Massey quartered in those parts so that none could travail nor remain in their houses with safety A Letter ordered for Sir Tho. Fairfax to suppress them and soon after the House ordered them for Ireland A Petition of Newbury of the sufferings by the War referred to the Committee of the three Counties to cousider of a way for their relief Supplys for Garrisons and an order for Capt. Batten to be Governor of Holy Island 20. The Earl of Ormonds Quarter master with divers Letters and Papers about him was apprehended in London and a Committee named to examine him and to peruse the Papers A difference between the Committee of Kent and the Committee for the Prince Elector referred to the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations and debate about Committees in General and the oppressions and illegalities of some of them referred to a Committee to consider of restraining them Progress upon propositions for the Peace News came that the Prince was in France The Treaty for the Surrender of Oxford was agreed Farrington was willing to Surrender upon the same terms with Oxford but Wallengford still held out two of Sir Tho. Fairfax's Commissioners went into Oxford to see the Governor and Council there to sign the Articles and two from them came to Sir Tho. Fairfax to see him sign them which were as followeth Articles of Agreement concluded and agreed on by his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight General of the Forces raised by the Parliament on the one Party and the Right Honourable Sir Richard Lane Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Francis Lord Cottington Lord High Treasurer of England Will. Marquess of Hertford Edw. Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Honourable Houshould Tho. Earl of Southampton Francis Earl of Chichest Francis Lord Seymour Sir Edw. Nicholas Knt. one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State all of them being of his Majesties most honourable Privy Council and Sir Tho. Glemham Knt. c. Governor of Oxford on the other Party for and concerning the Rendring of the Garrison of Oxford as followeth 1. THat the Garrison of Oxford with the Castle Forts Mounts and places of Defence whatsoever with all the Ordnance Arms Ammunition and Provisions of War with all Magazins and Stores thereunto belonging excepting what is allowed in the ensuing Articles shall be delivered to the General Sir Thomas Fairfax or whom he shall appoint without wilful spoyl or embezlement upon Wednesday the 24th of this Instant June at ten of the Clock in the Morn or there about 2. That his Highness the Duke of York shall have an honourable Convoy to London where other of his Majesties Children are attended by his Officers and Servants and sitting accommodation for the removal of his Houshold and Goods thither and shall have an honourable Provision besitting his Dignity appointed for him by the Parliament and to remain there untill his Majestics Pleasure be known touching his setling there or elsewhere and then to be disposed accordingly to any place within fourscore miles of London and shall have such Officers and Servants to continue about him as the Parliament shall approve 3. That their Highnesses Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice shall have Liberty and Passes for themselves with their Servants Horses Arms and Goods the number of their Horses for them and their Train not exceeding seventy to repair to any place within fifty miles of London so it be not within twenty miles of London without leave from the Parliament nor in any Garrison and there to abide for the space of six Months after the rendring free from any molestation by imposition of Oaths or otherwise and shall have Passes to go beyond the Sea at any time within the said six months with their said Servants Horses Arms and Goods they ingaging themselves upon their Honours not to use the Liberty hereby granted in the mean time to any Hostility against the Parliament of England sitting at Westminster or any way wilfully to the prejudice of their affairs and they are to have the benefit of such the ensuing Articles as may concern them 4. That the Seals called the Great Seal Privy Seal the Signet and the Seals of the Kings Bench Exchequer Court of Wards Dutchy Admiralty and Prerogative as also the Sword of State shall at such time and in the presence of two such Persons as the General Sir Tho. Fairfax shall appoint be lockt up in
of his Parliaments that all differences might be composed and all Armies disbanded To which the King answered That he came to the Scots Army with intent to settle Peace and to satisfie the just desires of his good Subjects and to comply with his Parliament in all things for the good of Religion and the Happiness of his Subjects and when Peace shall be setled he will find out some honourable means for imployment of so many gallant men as are in this Army 6. Malignant Ministers to be disabled from any Livings of the Church Instructions passed for the Commissioners to go to the King with the propositions for Peace they were to demand his Majesties positive Answer to them which if not given within ten days they were to return to the Parliament Commissioners for the House of Lords were the Earls of Pembroke and Suffolke for the House of Commons Sir Jo. Danvers Sir Jo. Hippesley Mr. Robinson and Sir Walter Earle Letters from the Deputy Major of New-Castle that he had hindred Delinquents from coming to his Majesty His action was approved and order for a Declaration to give power to the Northern Committees to hinder Delinquents from coming to his Majesty Debate touching slighting of Inland Garrisons and referred to the respective Committees to do it in the North and West Vote against the Scots renewed That this Kingdom had no more need of the Scots Army and that the Scots Commissioners should be desired to take order that their Army might be withdrawn out of this Kingdom which is no longer able to bear them The Lords desired a Committee of both Houses might be appointed to reform Cambridge University and to slight that Garrison 7. Sir John Danvers desired to be excused and Mr. Robert Goodwin was named in his stead one of the Commissioners to go with the Propositions to his Majesty Captain Johnson that brought up the last Message from the King had twenty pound Divers Ordinances past for Compositions Petitions about Tyn and about the Fens Divers Ministers from the Assembly in Scotland came to the King with a Petition to him to take the Covenant but would preach to him before it were delivered Sir Peter Killegrew went to the King with the Letter of both Houses touching Ireland 8. Order for stating the Accounts of Sir Will. Brereton as Major General The Committee of Examinations dissolved not having done well Order for five thousand pound for the Forces before Litchfield and that Sir Will. Brereton should go down to that Siege Orders for relief of Ireland Reports of Compositions and Orders Worcester demanded higher Articles than Oxford had Wallingford was upon Treaty but the Governor Col. Blagge sent an high and proud Letter to the General Blagge desired a Cessation and the General agreed to it to prevent the burning of the Town which Col. Blagge intended and the Commissioners met on both parts about it The Cessation from all acts of Hostility was agreed for four days 9. Order to discharge the attendants of the Duke of York when he should come to St. Jameses and six hundred pound to buy a Coach and Apparel for him Mr. Marshall ordered to go with the Commissioners that carried the Propositions Money for the Scots Officers Intelligence that the Prince was come into France to his Mother and that the Lord Digby was gone for Ireland and that the Earl of Glamorgan was in the head of an Army there Monsieur Bellieure the French Ambassador to the Parliament landed Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice took Shipping Major General Massey took his place in the House The Treaty for Worcester broke off 10. Ordinance committed for Sale of Delinquents Estates another past for Irish and Papists to go out of London Order for all that came in upon the Articles of Oxford and Exeter to ingage before the Committees to act nothing prejudicial to the Parliament Ordinance past for Mr. Woodcocke to be Parson of St. Olave Southwarke another for redemption of Captives Letters from the general Assembly of the Kirke of Scotland after complements earnestly desire the Parliament of England timeously to settle Church-Government according to the Covenant with expressions against those who hinder Uniformity they resolve to observe the Covenant Another Letter from them to the Assembly of Divines thanking them for their care and pains in the work of Religion that Sectaries ought to be suppressed c. Another to the Lord Mayor and Common Council of London commending them for their Petition to the Parliament about Religion and mentioning those of London in Queen Maries days and the zeal of the Citizens for God commending them for their actions in the present times and for their countenancing the Assembly and the Scots Commissioners and highly incouraged them to go on The French Ambassador was received into London in great State 11. Order for reducement of the Forces of Nottingham and for Money for that work and for the losses and damages of that County Order for a pass for the Earl of Bristol to go beyond Sea according to Exeter Articles Liberty to the Earl of Cleveland upon bail to go into the Countrey for three weeks for his health The propositions for Peace fully passed both houses Money for M. G. Massey's Forces Order for slighting divers Garrisons Lieutenant Col. Lilburn brought to the Barr of the Lords House had his charge read to him but he seemed to slight it and was re-committed 13. The Houses sate not having resolved to adjourn this hot season two days in the week till they had an answer to the propositions but a Committee sate to examine the ingrossment of the propositions and to see them signed by the Speakers and the Scots Commissioners and to declare them to the Commissioners The Propositions were to sign an Act. 1. To take away all Oaths and Proclamations against the Parliament and their Actions 2. To Sign the Covenant and an Act for the general taking of it 3. To pass an Act to abolish Bishops c. 4. To confirm the Assembly 5. That Religion be setled as both Houses should agree 6. Vnity and Vniformity of Religion to be confirmed by an Act. 7. An Act against Jesuits Papists c. 8. An Act for educating Papists Children in the Protestant Religion 9. For Penalties against Papists 10. Against saying of Mass in any place 11. The like for Scotland as they shall think fit 12. For the due observation of the Lords day and against Pluralities non Residents and regulating the Vniversities in the same Act. 13. The Militia to be in the Parliament for twenty Years so for Scotland with power to raise Moneys and use the Militia c. Londons Priviledges as to their Militia confirmed 14. All Honours and Titles since the great Seal was carried from the Parliament to be void and no Peers to be but by consent of both Houses 15. To confirm the Treaty between England and Scotland and conservators of the Peace to be appointed
sent up to the Lords for payment of five hundred pound to Mr. Phips out of the Marquess of Wintons Estate for which Sir John Danvers was ingaged A Scotch Minister Preached boldly before the King at New-castle and after his Sermon called for the fifty second Psalm which begins Why dost thou Tyrant boast thy self thy wicked works to praise His Majesty thereupon stood up and called for the fifty sixth Psalm which begins Have Mercy Lord on me I pray for men would me devour The People waved the Ministers Psalm and sung that which the King called for 16. An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for disposing four thousand five hundred and fifty pounds Arrears of the Joynture of the Countess of Essex by reason of her delinquency Sir David Watkins called into the House denyed the words which Mr. Pennoyer justified to be spoken by him of Sir John Evelin and said he heard them from one Mr. Drake who was ordered to be sent for The two Speakers continued Commissioners for the great Seal twenty days longer Order for the Committee of Elections to sit and for reports every Monday from the Committee of Priviledges The Lords concurrence desired to the Treaty for the two hundred thousand pound and a hundred thousand pound of it sent away 17. Order for three thousand pound for the poor Widows c. Hostages agreed to the Scots for the two hundred thousaud pound Sir William Selby Mr. Dela Vale Sir Edward Loftus Sir Tho. Trollop Sir H. Mildmay and Sir William Browton Mr. Drake called in about speaking the words touching Sir Jo. Evelyn named one Dr. Aldwyn who said he heard it from a Member of the House referred to a Committee 18. To the Scots Paper desiring aid of this Kingdom against the Rebels in Scotland the House answered that that was no obstruction of their March or delivery up of the Garrisons which being done then the House would consider of that particular To that of charging the Countrey upon their March out of England was answered That they should take no money nor goods of the English Subjects but pay and discharge all their quarters and the form of their Receipts for the two hundred thousand pound was agreed upon The Committee of both houses ordered to meet about disposing the great Seal Sir Thomas Fairfax went towards Northampton to give order for the Convoy of the Scots Money and fifty thousand pound was carried thither for his Army 19. Order for two thousand pound for Sir Peter Killegrew for his Interest in Pendennis Castle and for a thousand pound for the burying of the Earl of Worcester and the Lord Dockra to be according to the Directory The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council and many Citizens of London presented the Petition formerly mentioned first to the Lords who gave them thanks then to the Commons who after much debate gave them thanks for all their good Services and appointed a day to consider of the Petition and also the Petition of the Gentry of Durbam Another considerable party of the City were about a different Petition 31. Orders touching the payment of the second two hundred thousand pound to the Scots and that they should not take free quarter These to be Communicated to the Scots Commissioners The Earl of Stamford for the Lords and Mr. Ashhurst and Mr. Goodwin for the Commons named Commissioners to go into Scotland to satisfie the Parliament there of all proceedings and to prevent misunderstandings between the two Kingdoms and a Committee appointed to draw instructions for them Upon a Petition of many of Durham that the Scots Army may be removed and twenty five thousand six hundred sixty six pound paid due to them since 1641 and that they may send Knights and Burgesses to the Parliament the House gave this answer that they were sensible of the Countreys sufferings and had taken course to remove the Armies and concerning their electing Knights and Burgesses for the Parliament it was referred to a Committee Col. Hoskins voted to be Governor of Lynne Both Houses agreed to an Ordinance for maintaining of the water-guards And the Lords sent an Ordinance to the Commons that none be permitted to Preach or use publick Exercise but such as had taken Degrees in the Universities and another Ordinance against such as shall disturb the Ministers in their publick Exercises 22. The House agreed that Sir Rich. Lloyd Governor of Holt should have liberty to go beyond Sea and carry three hundred pound with him and his Wise to enjoy his Land being three hundred pound per An. and they voted that Holt Flint Harding Rotheland and Ruthen Castles should be slighted Sir William Listers Lady ordered to have six hundred and ten pound of her Husbands Arrears and two thousand pound to Col Carter and five hundred pound to Major General Skippon for his extraordinary charges in convoying the two hundred thousand pound The Lords sent their Vote to the Commons That the King should come to New-Market upon the Scots Army marching away Upon debate of the City Petition the House Voted first to insist upon the breach of Priviledge in the way of this Petition and then to consider of the particulars of the Petition and for that purpose referred it to a Committee The Earl of Northumberland acquainted the Lords that some persons had a Plot to steal away the Duke of York and to carry him beyond Sea and that by advice from his Majesty two that were in the Plot were apprehended and the rest escaped Mr. Hudson the Kings Guide to the Scots was taken again by Major General Pointz and his Examination sent up to the Parliament Some Proposals from the Lord L'isle Lieutenant of Ireland for supplyes and Moneys to carry on the War there and that he would go over thither in person 23. Letters from Ireland informed That proposals were received by the Marquess of Ormond from the Rebels That the Roman Catholick Religion may be free and publick as in Paris That the Garrisons may be in their hands All Counsellors Officers and Soldiers to take an Oath to fight against the Parliamenteers and never to make Peace with them The Scots Hostages given in A Letter directed to General Leven that no free quarter be taken by his Soldiers in their march for Scotland Order for Mr. Allen to provide a Jewel as a gift of the House for General Leven Order for five hundred pound for Mrs. Chichester and four pound per mensem for the Lady Denny Widows The Duke of York confessed that the King his Father sent to him to get away Great use was made of a Press at London to Print the Lord Chancellor of Scotlands Speeches the London Petition and other things at New-castle 24. The Commons dissented from the Vote of the Lords for the Kings coming to New-Market and voted his coming to Holmesby-House in Northampton shire and to be those with such Attendants as both Houses shall think sit
of this business and had a hundred pound given him Sir Robert Pye and his Officers had thanks and pay for bringing off his Troop for Ireland the like for Col. Grave's Regiment and for other Officers and Soldiers and Quarters assigned them The Ordinance for further Indemnity and the Declaration to recall the former Declaration against the Army-pass'd the Commons Order for ten thousand pound for Soldiers late in Service The Lords agreed to the Votes concerning the Army Order for all the Members of the House forthwith to attend At a Conference between the Scots Commissioners and the Committee of both Houses the Lord Dumferling acquainted them that the King commanded him to tell them that his Majesty was unwillingly taken away by a Party of the Army and that he desired both Houses to maintain the Laws of the Land and that though his Majesty might sign many things in this condition yet he would not have them believed till further notice from him Upon occasion of this and other urgent business the House ordered to sit to morrow though the Lords day after four a clock and that Mr. Marshal be desired to pray with them Letters from the Army that the Rendezvous was held near Bury seven Regiments of Foot and six of Horse appeared Col. Whaley's Regiment was dispatched to Holmeby upon intelligence of the Party of the Army marched thither and the General sent to the Parliament the grounds of the Soldiers undertaking of themselves the business of Holmeby which they sent to the General which were That they had intimation of a design which they were able to make good of some to surprize him Col. Graves was discharged from that imployment at Holmeby and Col. Whaley in his place At the Rendezvous a Petition in the name of the Soldiery of the Army was presented to the General to this effect That they could not be satisfied with their Arrears or other returns unless they had assurance that their Enemies might not be their Judges for the future The General went to every Regiment and expressed to them that the Parliament took notice of their Civil and fair demeanour and had taken a course to satisfie their Arrears and doubted not but they would answer their other grievances advised them to moderation and discretion and not to fall into any mutinous expressions against the Parliament The Soldiers entertained him with shouts and acclamations 6. After Evening Sermon this Lords-day the House met and aftere Prayer by Mr. Marshall they fell upon the business of the Army And a Letter from the General was Read To know the pleasure of the Houses-concerning the disposal of the Kings person and the reasons given by the Souldiers for fetching him from Holmeby and the further Petition from the Souldiers of the Army Letters informed That the King asked the Troopers that brought him from Holmeby What Commission they had for so doing Cornet Joyce who Commanded them answered That His Majesty saw their Commission the King replyed That it had the fairest Frotispiece of any that he ever saw being five hundred proper men on Horseback Collonel Whaley was sent to stay the King where ever he finds him His Majesty was used with all Civility but kept with a Guard as formerly The Souldiers Petitioned the General to Cashiere such Officers as went about to divide the Army Collonel Lilburnes Regiment Cashiered some of their Officers because they Voted contrary to the rest 7. Letters from the General of the Souldiers bringing His Majesty from Holmeby and he would be at New-Market the next day and the ground of the Souldiers doing it as before That he sent Collonel Whaley and two other Regiments towards the King to secure him Whaley Certified that the King was come within four Miles of Cambridg and not willing to return to Holmeby the General sent to the Commissioners to desire them to return to Holmeby but they refused to act concerning disposing the King The General professeth that this remove was without the desire or privity of him or the body of the Army A Guard upon the King by Collonel Whaley and the General protests his resolution and the Armies to study to settle peace and the just liberties of the people and the Parliaments speedy application to these will further the Disbanding of the Army whose sence is clear from opposing Presbytery or have Independent Government set up or to hold a licentiousness in Religion but to leave all to the wisdom of the Parliament Vote to send down new Commissioners to the Army to acquaint them what the Parliament had done in satisfaction of their desires and to persuade them to a compliance with the Parliament the Lords concurred the Commissioners were the Earl of Nottingham Lord De la Ware Sir Henry Vane Jun. Skippon Scowen and Mr. Porey who went away this day Mr. Marshall and Mr. Carry discharged from attendance upon the Commissioners with the King Order for a Fast for the House only and in the House the Lords did the like Debate about the Vote of the Lords to remove His Majesty to Oatlands and resolved in the Negative The large Act of Indemnity past Leave to the Earl of Dumferling to go into France The Lords Ordered the Committee of Derby-House to take care for the security of the Parliament Letters informed a great defeat given by Sir Charles Coot to the Rebels in Ireland one thousand of them slain 8. Petition of London commanded by the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councel That all honourable means may be used to avoid shedding of more blood to give just satisfaction to the Army That the Covenant may be kept and His Majesties person preserved and both Parliaments have access to him and that Ireland may be relieved and to renew an Ordinance to suppress Tumults and prevent danger to the Parliament and City A Committee named to bring in an Ordinance according to the desire of the Petitioners and they had the heartiest thanks that the House could express for their constant affections to the Parliament and for providing Guards so seasonably for the safety of the Parliament and the continuance of their care desired Both Houses passed the Ordinance for making void the former Declaration against the Army and another for Recreation of Scholars Apprentices and Servants A very rude Address was made to the House by Reformadoes and Common Souldiers within the Line who blockt up the House door about two hours and would let no Member pass till the House granted them all their Arrears The House were in a sort forced to Order their Accompts to be stated and ten thousand pounds more than formerly added for their payment Orders for some Members to go to the States Ambassadours to excuse any mistakes and to desire the Unity and Affection of both Nations Another for three hundred pounds for the Commissioners going down to the Army and for Mr. Thomas Goodwyn to go with them That the Militia be desired to send down a
consent 5. The King not to call Parliaments in the Intervals without consent of the Councel of State 6. Elections to be free to Free-men 7. Patents and Monopolies to be removed 8. Their power to extend to Declaration of Laws and final Judgments without further Appeal than to the Representative 9. No Law to be against a Commoner but with the House of Commons Concurrence 10. No Commoner or great Officer to be exempt from Judgment of the House of Commons 11. The King to give no power to Protect or Pardon those so condemned 12. The Priviledg to be in the people in Election of Officers about Church Discipline Raising of Souldiers Freedom for what hath been done these Wars 13. Elections to be distributed equally 3. Debate of an Ordinance for setting poor people to work and for punishing of Vagrants and about the Ordinance for Tunnage and Poundage Confirmation of Truro Articles The Ordinance past for Guernsey c. The General Council of the Army agreed upon these further Heads 1. That the Proposals concerning Elections be publickly Read in each Division at their first proceeding to the Election 2. That by the Indentures of Election the persons Elected be limited to serve as Deputies for the time set 3. That a more equal course be taken and a rate if it may be on every mans Land not exceeding two shillings in the Pound in lieu of Tithes They also debated touching the Propositions to be sent to His Majesty 4. Orders for Disbanding of the disjoynted and supernumerary Forces Discharge of the Sequestration of Col. Brandling's Estate Confirmation of Exeter Articles Order for five hundred pounds for the Lord Ormond The General Councel of the Army desired some alterations and additions might be made to the Propositions to be sent to His Majesty 1. For security of the Souldiers Arrears by Deans and Chapters Lands and Compositions 2. These alterations about the Militia 1. That the Lords and Commons in future Parliaments may have the power of the Militia as well as the present 2. That where the safety of the Kingdom is concerned the Commons may exercise the Militia without the Lords they not concurring and that to bind the Commons 3. That London may have no other priviledg of the Militia than other Corporations Divers resolutions in favour of Delinquents That the Faith of the Army be kept upon Articles of Surrender That there be a General Act of Oblivion 5. Information of new designs against the Parliament and Army Debate touching the Kings Negative voice in Parliament 6. A Letter from the Scots Commissioners here mentioning the Kings being taken away from Holmeby by a party of the Army and they desiring to know from him his present condition His Majesty referred them therein to the Parliament and Army That they held it needless to apply to the Army in this matter whom they suppose are or ought to be under the Command of the Parliament That the Kingdom of Scotland finding their stability and happiness so much to depend upon the safety and preservation of the Kings person and they resolving to continue in all Loyalty under his Government have endeavoured the Composure of the unhappy differences They desire that the business of the Propositions may proceed with the mutual Councels of both Kingdoms and in the name of the Kingdom of Scotland they desire that there may be a personal Treaty with His Majesty and for that effect that the King may be invited to come to London with honour freedom and safety due to him and not to be under the power and restraint of Souldiers 8. Debate touching Provision for a constant Pay of the Army Both Houses agreed to the conference for speedy dispatch of the Propositions The General Councel of the Army desired his Excellency That for a time the Officers and Agitators should resort to the several Commands and Regiments till the General Rendezvous be over and the General shall see cause to call them together again and the same was done accordingly Collonel Jones took in divers Castles and Forts from the Rebels in Lemster 9. Letters from the General mentioning the long expectation of the Army of somewhat to have been done by the Parliament in Order to the satisfaction of the desires and Proposals of the Army that somesatisfactory answers therein would enable him and his Officers to serve the Parliament the more and to have more credit with the Army to keep them in better Order That he had appointed a General Rendezvous by the advice of the General Officers of the Army and General Councel who offered to repair to their several Charges and Regiments to improve their endeavours for quieting of them and recovering the antient Discipline of the Army He desires the House to grant the inclosed Particulars 1. Six weeks Pay if possible if not a months Pay to be presently sent to the Army 2. The Arrears to be paid out of the remainder of Bishops Lands Deans c. 3. Provision for constant Pay of the Army 4. That there be one hundred thousand pound a month for the Forces in England and Ireland and those of the supernumeraries to be disbanded 5. That Free Quarter or taking any thing from any man be punisht with death Orders for mony for the Army A Paper from some of the Agitators called The Case of the Army Voted by the House Destructive to the Priviledges of Parliament and the Fundamental Government of this Kingdom and referred to the General to find out the Authors Liberty granted to Lieutenant Collonel Lilburne to go abroad without his Keeper Order for restitution of monies seised from Mrs. Curriton The Lords appointed a Committee to draw an answer to the Letter of the Scots Commissioners about a personal Treaty They fined their absent Members an hundred pound a Man The Commons desired the Lords concurrence to several Ordinances for Moneys for the Lord Ormond for allowance for Soldiers Wives for Trade for confirming Truro Articles A Committee of the General Councel of the Army appointed to collect a summary of the Engagements Declarations and Papers of the Army of matters concerning the good of the Kingdom the Liberties of the People and the interest of the Army and to consider the case of the Army stated and a Paper called the agreement of the People to be presented to the General for his order to communicate it to the several Regiments before their Rendezvous They also made a Declaration That by their Letter to the Parliament November 5. it was no part of their intentions to hinder the sending of the Propositions to the King but only to assert the freedom of Parliament 10. A grand Committee sat about the future Pay of the Army and to prevent free Quarter Order that the Members of every County do present three names out of which the House to choose one to be High Sheriff for that County Debate of Ordinances for Money for Ireland one by sale of Rebels Lands
Militia of Wiltshire transmitted to the Lords Letters from the Isle of Wight that the Earl of Middlesex with the rest of the Parliaments Commissioners attended the King at Carisbrook Castle where the Earl read the Votes to his Majesty for the Treaty who received them with much cheerfulness and said that no man desired peace so much as he in his several relations as a King a Husband a Father a Master and that he would give ear to any motion or overture which might conduce to a good accommodation and that whosoever gained by these troubles he must needs be a loser and that he would dispatch them within the time limited 12. The Grand Committee sat about the Ordinance for the Militia At a Conference with the Lords about M r Rolph and M r Ailburton the Commons alledged that M r Rolph was committed by their Lordships without any cause in the warrant and they found reason to clear him and that Ailburton was imployed by the Scots enemies to this Kingdom and therefore not to be protected here The Lords desire the Commons concurrence to an Ordinance to disable Major General Skippon from listing any more forces in the City Order for the exchange of the rest of the Committee of Essex under restraint in Colchester Sir Peter Killegrew returned with Letters from the Isle of Wight that the King had agreed to a personal Treaty at Newport in that Island and desired that Scotland might treat also but left that to the two Houses Letters from the Bayliffes of Yarmouth to the General that they had received aLetter from Prince Charles in the Downs with a Declaration by a Fisher-man going to sell his Fish in France which was taken from him by the Admiral and this Declaration which is in print and the Letter which now they sent to the General was sent by the Fisher-man to Yarmouth That the Town made answer they would stand to their first ingagement to the Parliament and oppose all hostile attempts against them and the Kingdom His Excellency took this so well from them that he sent them word he would not put any Forces into the Town unless they and necessity should require it The Prince his Letter to the Town was that he had sent to them his Declaration as he had done to London and other places and expected their concurrence for his Majesty upon the grounds and for the ends expressed in the Declaration And that they would with courage joyn with him and the English and Scots Forces already appearing for the obtaining of a happy and well grounded peace in spight of all opposition and for the freeing of all his Majesties Subjects from Tyranny Oppression and all illegal Taxes c. 14. The Commissioners returned from the King reported their reception and passages in that business with his Majesty and his Letter to both Houses wherein he expresseth his sad condition for seven Months last past likes well of the Treaty and desires 1. That the Parliament would recall all such Votes and Orders by which people are frighted from coming writing or speaking freely to him 2. That such men of all professions whom he shall send for as of necessary use to him in this Treaty may be admitted to wait upon him that he may be in the same state of freedoom he was in when he was last at Hampton-Court 3. That the Scots may be invited to send their Commissioners to joyn in this Treaty 4. He names Newport in the Isle of Wight for the place of Treaty but thinks it would be much more conducing to a good and speedy issue to have the Treaty in some place in or near London The Lords desired the Commons concurrence that Dr. Shelden and Dr. Hammond might attend the King Letters from Sir Arthur Haselrigge That Lieutenant Colonel Henry Liburne Governour of Tinmouth Castle commanded most of his Officers and Soldiers out of the Castle upon service and reserved a few most of them he knew to be of his own mind with him in the Castle Then he discharged the Prisoners and calling all the Soldiers together he declared for himself and King Charles and that such as did not yield hereunto were dead men whereupon many of the honest Soldiers got over the Wall but a Corporal refusing to consent hereunto was presently run through by the Lieutenant Colonel who then sent to the Shields and Town desiring such as loved King Charles to joyn with him which many did accordingly That this news being presently brought to Newcastle Sir Arthur Haselrigge drew out a considerable body of Foot and one hundred Dragoons with orders to storm the Castle which they attempted but the Ladders were too short yet they forced in at the portholes and notwithstanding the Caunon playing upon them after a short dispute they became possessors of the Castle The Souldiers had quarter many within were Slain among whom the Governour of the Parliaments Soldiers three were wounded and not one Slain That the Scots play at sweep-stake take all Moveables Cows Sheep and all House-hold-stuff to the very Pot-hooks that they take children and make their parents pay ransoms for them and force women before their friends faces that Lieutenant General Cromwel was come up to them with Lambert and had taken about four of the Scots That Colonel Stephkin who had formerly betrayed Stafford to the Parliament had now a design to betray it back again to the King but was prevented by the care of Captain Stone the present Governour and was slain 15. A Verbal Message from the Common Council of London desiring the House of Commons to consider of their Votes in order to their security that the Militia of the outparts may be joyned that Major General Skippon may not list without them with a representation of the Officers of the City that they would be as faithful to the Parliament as ever The House ordered thanks to the Gentlemen and an Ordinance to be brought in for transmitting the power of raising and listing Forces to the Militia that the Committee for joyning the Militias should be revived and the other Committee added to them Sir John Hippesly and M r Bunkley who were Commissioners to the Isle of Wight had the thanks of the House Letters from Colonel Rich that the Prince landed five hundred Soldiers about three hundred Mariners and one hundred Officers and Reformandoes with orders to fall upon Colonel Rich and Colonel Hewson in their trenches they marched by Upper Deal in good order and being discovered three hundred Musquetiers were drawn off all they could get under Hewsons Lieutenant Colonel and Major Husbands with one hundred Horse The Prince his Forces marched up with great resolution and to prevent the Parliaments Horse from annoying them had marsh-ground for their action and retreat which put the Horse upon a loss not knowing how to ingage but Major Husbands wheeled about in a way of retreat This occasioned
to him A Committee appointed to consider how every County may maintain a proportionable number of the Scots Prisoners and to treat with Merchants about transporting them to forreign service Order for the Lord Grey to dispose of Duke Hamilton into safe custody till the House take further order and to keep in strong custody all the Officers then Prisoners in such places and Castles as he should think fit Letters from Colchester that the Town was surrendered according to Articles all Prisoners at Mercy the Town preserved from plunder paying fourteen thousand pounds That by the resolution of a Council of War Sir Charles Lucas Sir George L'Isle and Sir Marmaduke Gascoigne a Papist were to be shot to death That the two first were executed and the third respited That Sir Charles Lucas urged this was to be without precedent but a Parliament Souldier standing by told him that he had put to death with his own hand some of the Parliaments Souldiers in cold blood at which he was dismaid but took better courage afterwards before he died That Sir George L' Isle kissed his dead friend and then after much expostulation and discourse first with the General his Chaplain then by his own desire with one of the Lord Norwich his Chaplains and some private prayers with him Sir George died both he and Sir Charles Lucas with very much courage 30. The publick Fast-day The House passed an Ordinance for the Discipline of the English in new England 31. Votes for several persons named by the King to have leave to attend his Majesty during the Treaty only M r Dowcet and M r Legge disapproved of Order for Instructions to be prepared for the Commissioners who are to treat and for mony for their charges Order that Colonel Farre Lieutenant Colonel to the Earl of Warwick who ingaged ten thousand men of the Train'd Bands of Essex to joyn with the Enemy should be left to the Lord Fairfax to be executed as Sir Charles Lucas was A Committee appointed to confer with M r Moâ—bot about suppressing of scandalous Pamphlets and to bring in an Ordinance for that purpose Letter from the General of the particulars of the Surrender of Colchester and a Copy of the Articles with the explanations upon them That for some Satisfaction to Military Justice and in part of avenge for the innocent blood they had caused to be spilt and the trouble dammage and mischiefs they had brought upon that Town that County and Kingdom He had with the advice of a Council of War of the chief Officers both of the County Forces and the Army caused two of them who were rendred to mercy Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George L' Isle to be shot to death before any of them had quarter assured them and hopes the Parliament will not find cause in the Military execution of these two persons to think their own honour or justice prejudiced That as for the Lord Goring Lord Capel and the rest of the persons rendred to mercy and now assured of quarter whose names he sent in a List he did render to the Parliaments judgement for publick Justice and mercy to be used as they should see cause he desires that God may have the glory of his multiplied mercies In the List of the Prisoners were the Earl of Norwich Lord Capell Lord Loughborough eleven Knights nine Colonels eight Lieutenant Colonels nine Majors thirty Captains general Officers servants of the Lords and Gentlemen sixty five Lieutenants seventy two Ensigns and Cornets sixty nine Sergeants one hundred eighty three private Souldiers three thousand sixty seven Letters from Southampton that the Grand Jury found the Bill against Major Rolphe Ignoramus A Petition of the Common Council of London for Vnity and Amity between the Parliament the City and the Army approved of and thanks given to the Petitioners A Ship sent from the Prince to Garnsey taken by one of the Parliaments Ships September 1648. 1. An Ordinance for stating the accounts of Souldiers and Widows ordered to be Printed and published A place to be appointed for the Auditours Care for Augmentations for Ministers The five Commissioners for the Treaty named by the Lords were The Earl of Pembroke the Lord Say Earl of Salisbury Earl of Middlesex and the Earl of Northumberland The ten Commissioners of the House of Commons were M r Holles Lord Wenman M r Pierrepoint Sir Henry Vane junior Sir Harbottle Grimstone Mr. Samuel Brown Mr. Crew Mr. Recorder Glyn Sir John Potts and Mr. Bulkeley 2. A Letter agreed to his Majesty to acquaint him with the Commissioners named to attend him in the Treaty and that they should be dispatched to him with all convenient speed Sir Peter Killigrew sent away with this Message An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for payment of fifty thousand pounds part of the last hundred thousand pounds formerly ordered for the Scots forty thousand pounds of it for the Navy seven thousand pound for Stores and three thousand pound for the pay of the Lancashire Forces A long debate about the Militia One thousand of the Prisoners taken at Colchester sent up to London Mr. Lilly's Astrological Predictions for the years 1648 49 and 50. published 4. Both Houses agreed for those servants of his Majesty who are to attend him during the Treaty And they passed an Ordinance to inable the Commissioners to treat with his Majesty upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton-Court Those in the late insurrection in Essex c. admitted to a Composition at a fourth Value of their Estates Mr. Rolphe delivered his Remonstrance in the Lords House against the Judges and against his prosecutours and desired reparation the House ordered his discharge Lieutenant Colonel Lilburn desired reparation for the Sentences against him in the Star-chamber Order for the Committee to take care for transporting the Scots Prisoners in the first place to supply Plantations and the rest to send to Venice In a Vessel at Exeter one thousand five hundred pair of Carabins being found Order for Securing them till the matter be examined Both Houses agreed upon a day of publick Humiliation to desire a blessing upon the Treaty with his Majesty Colonel Hammonds Instructions for safe keeping his Majesty in Carisbrook Castle repealed The Colonel taking the Kings own ingagement for his going abroad in the Island Order for the Committee of the revenue to provide horses for the King to ride about the Island Upon Colonel Hammonds desire of an addition of Horse and Foot during the Treaty referred to the General and Committee of the Army and his desire for Shipping to ly about the Island referred to the Committee of the Army to prepare them The Forces of Suffolk and Essex had a rendezvous with the Army and after shaking hands and many Vollies of Shot they bid one another farewel Some Regiments marched towards Tarmouth The Lords that were Prisoners with two men a piece and twelve other
desired 4. To that concerning the Court of Wards a recompence being assured to his Majesty his heirs and successours of one hundred thousand pounds per annum The General explained his former Letter concerning the quarter given to the Lord Goring and Lord Capel that it did not extend to any other but the Military power and that they were notwithstanding liable to Tryal and Judgment by the Civil Power otherwise any who was Treacherous or had revolted might get quarter from a private Souldier and so not be further questionable With divers other reasons given by him to the same purpose Letters from Scotland that M r Parsons sent to them from the King had complaints of the miseries suffered by the late Ingagement that they refer the King to their agreement with Lanerick and their Declaration and beseech him at last to hearken to the advice of his Parliament in consenting to the propositions of both Kingdoms Especially to those concerning the Covenant and Reformation of Religion which they understand to be the Point he sticks most at and they in Honour and interest are most obliged to stick to and without which they tell him his Kingdom cannot be established in righteousness That they have also writ to the Prince dehorting him from that course of opposition he is now in and from attempting any act of hostility against that Kingdom and since all worldly policy and projects have failed that he would apply his endeavours to mediate with his Father to consent to the propositions of both Kingdoms and especially the Covenant Letters from Major General Lambert's quarters that divers of his men were set upon as they past up and down by some of the Scots and many injuries offered to the English that six of his Regiment with Quarter-Master Diamond were set upon by fourteen of the Scots and fought with them about a quarter of an hour left three of the Scots sprawling upon the ground and wounded most of the rest routed them and came off without any hurt only one of the English had a cut of his hand That the Committee of Estates taking notice of these things have indeavoured to prevent the like for the future and to give satisfaction for what is past The Lords consented to the Sergeants that were named and the Commons also the Speaker moved that Whitlock might be suspended from being a Sergeant at present in regard of Swearing the rest which was likely to fall to his share But this was opposed until Whitlock spake and shewed them the necessity that either Sir Thomas Widdrington or he must make the Speech to the rest of the Sergeants and Swear them which they could not do if both of them were to be Sworn and that upon Conference together he was perswaded to take that trouble upon himself and to have his Swearing suspended if they pleased Nevertheless the House in favour to Whitlock would not wholly excuse him but Voted that he should not be Sworn a Sergeant till further order The House passed Mr. Hatton to be Sergeant 24. Order for five hundred pound for Sir Anthony Welden in satisfaction of his losses by the Kentish Rebels against whom he was very active Upon the Generals answer to the Parliaments Letter touching Sir Henry Cholmley the question was whether he should be subject to the commands of the General or the Parliament only and Voted that he should be subject to the General Orders for disbanding Supernumerary Forces in several Counties not of the Army Debate about Ordinances for Dr. Bastwick Mr. Burton and Mr. Pryn to have reparations for the illegal Sentences against them in the Star-Chamber Both Houses agreed upon seven persons to be exempted from pardon viz. The Lord Digby Lord Cottington Sir Robert Heath Sir Francis Doddington Sir George Ratcliffe Sir Richard Greenvile and Sir Charles Dalison Several compositions past Letters from Newcastle that Cromwel Haselrigge and the Committee ordered the slighting of several Northern Garrisons that the Army coming thither was entertained with great Guns and ringing of Bells and feasting That Sir John Chiesely and others were posting up to London to declare that Kingdoms dislike of their late Armies invading England and to desire a fair correspondency Letters of a design to betray Pendennis Castle some of the conspirators were taken and one of them adjudged to death by Sir Hardresse Waller and his Council of War Another who was imployed to corrupt the private Souldiers was not tryed but sent up to the Parliament because he was no Souldier himself but a Country-man many others of them fled 25. The publick Fast-day 26. Voted that the Kings last Message concerning Episcopacy was un-satisfactory And a Committee appointed to draw up the particulars wherein it was un-satisfactory that his Majesty might have the same in writing An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for payment of Tithes to the Ministry Letters from the Committee of Estates in Scotland desiring a fair correspondency and brotherly Vnion between the two Nations And that Sir John Chiesely was intrusted to deliver by word of mouth other particulars of their desires Order that the Letter be communicated to the Lords and Sir John Chiesely referred to the Committee of Derby-house to impart further particulars to them Order for five thousand Suits of Cloaths for Cromwels Souldiers The Lords concurred that the Kings Paper concerning Episcopacy was not satisfactory 27. Voted that that part of the Kings answer concerning the taking of the Covenant is un-satisfactory Also that concerning the taking away of Arch-bishops Bishops Deans c. Also that concerning the abolishing of Popery in desiring to have it tolerated in the Queens Chappel and for her Family Also that for alienating of Bishops Lands and sale of Dans and Chapters Lands and many others A Committee appointed to draw up the Covenant in such a form as may be proper for his Majesty to take it A Committee ordered to consider of his Majesties Concessions to any part of the Propositions and to draw them up into Bills to be tendred to his Majesty An Ordinance past for repayment of Money advanced by the Merchant Adventurers for the service of the Navy 28. Letters from Colonel Jones in Ireland That the Marquess of Ormond was upon concluding a peace with the Irish Rebels the Lord Inchequin complying and all to joyn against the Parliaments party there the design hatched in England by the fomenters of the second War and the Scots who last invaded England and should then have broken out and given forth to be by Commission from the King He desires the House seriously to consider of it Order that a Message be forthwith sent to his Majesty to desire him to declarè against the Rebellion of Ireland and against this Truce with the Rebels and to require the Marquess of Ormond to forbear joyning with the Rebels against the Protestants The Parliaments Commissioners with the Army agreed with the General
and Officers 1. That in regard of the new Garrisons of Berwick and many other places that provision may be made for three thousand Foot to be continued more than the former establishment 2. More Officers of the Train 3. That the General give command against listing any new Recruits 4. Touching pay of the Army and deduction for free quarter 5. That the Army be drawn into Towns c. 6. That by Towns is meant Market Towns and the streets near to them only 30. Voted that the Kings Message as to Delinquents was un-satisfactory in all the clauses thereof And several Votes admitting of Compositions at lower rates than before and that persons excepted as to life should be admitted to composition at a full Moiety of their Estates except only seven Persons which were not then named Vote that Wiliam Powell John Clerke John Eltonhead Robert Nicholas John Parker and Robert Bernard Esquires should be made Sergents at Law Order to the Committee of Norfolk about securing a Ship and Goods cast away upon that Coast The Lords moved that the dispute about Sale of Bishops Lands might be waved at present and the rest agreed by both Houses to be sent to the King but upon reasons given by the Commons that in regard their Lordships had concurred to abolish Bishops that it could not be if their Lands should not be disposed of and divers of them had been already sold upon the authority of an Ordinance of both Houses the Lords hereupon concurred with the Commons Letters from York of Cromwels coming to Newcastle with his Army and being highly treated there and of his ordering Forces for strengthning the siege of Pomfret that the Army kept a day of thanksgiving for their good success in Scotland That a Souldier by judgment of a Council of War was shot to death for plundering in Scotland That Cromwel and his Officers had a meeting with the Gentlemen of the four Northern Counties who agreed upon a Petition to the Parliament for justice against Delinquents and for a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to be sent down to try such as they should apprehend and for pay for one thousand two hundred Foot in Berwick and a Regiment of Horse under Colonel Fenwick and for eight hundred Foot in Carlisle and a Regiment of Horse Letters from St. Albans mentioning a Petition to the General from Colonel Ingoldsbyes Regiment reciting the hazards charges and victories of the Army and good People of the Parliaments party That nothing remains to be done to make the hazards of their lives and loss of so much blood effectual but an immediate care that Justice be done upon the principal invaders of all their liberties namely the King and his party That they will live and die with the Parliament in their Declaration of non-Addresses to the King That they apprehend with grief that all their Harvest should end in Chaff and what was won in the Field should be given away in a Chamber and they doubt the issue of the Treaty will be neither just nor safe They pray his Excellency to re-establish a General Council of the Army to consider of some effectual remedies hereunto by representing it to the House of Commons as the Petitioners of London and other places have done or in such other way as his Excellency and his Council shall think fit 31. Order to injoyn all the Members of the House to pay their Assessments to the Army equal with the rest of the Subjects Vote that his Majestics answer concerning the Church was un-satisfactory Letters of the Lord Ormonds treating with the confederate Roman Catholicks in Ireland for peace Letters from Edenburgh of a Declaration to prevent injuries or abuses to Major General Lamberts Souldiers That Lieutenant General Gromwel and Sir Arthur Haselrigge were in as high honour with the well affected party in Scotland as ever any of the English were Letters from York that the Garrison of Pomfret had killed and taken divers of the Parliaments Forces that sometimes they have Cessations and drink to one another by the names of brother Roundhead and brother Cavalier That the difference between Sir Henry Cholmely and Colonel Rainsborough who shall command in chief the Forces before Pomfret gives great advantage to the Garrison there November 1648. 1. Order for the Commissioners of the Great Seal to pass a Patent of the place in the Tower formerly given to M r Nichols one of the eleven Members to hold for his life Vote that his Majesties Message concerning Ireland was un-satisfactory The like concerning raising of Monies to pay publick debts Order that the two Catechisms be sent to the Commissioners to be presented to his Majesty Letters from Doncaster that forty Horse sallied out of Pomfret towards Doncaster where they killed the Centinel then three of them rode on to Doncaster and asked for Colonel Rainsboroughs Quarters and came to his Chamber there called to him and said they had a Letter from Lieutenant General Cromwel That the Colonel rose and opened his door to them expecting such a Letter that morning and presently the three Pomfret Souldiers fell upon him shot him into the Neck and another shot him into the Heart with other Wounds and left him dead escaping away without any alarm given 2. Message from the Lords for adding fourteen days more to the Treaty with his Majesty Vote that the Kings answer touching the Court of Wards was satisfactory And that one hundred thousand pounds per annum should be setled on the King and his Heirs in lieu of the Revenue of that Count provided it be not alienated from the Crown Several Messages from the Lords in furtherance of the Treaty Information of terrible designs on foot to kill the Parliament men and of suspicion that the Earl of Warwick would prove false to the Parliament 3. A Petition of the Merchants Trading into France referred to the Committee of the Navy to examine and report the grievances complained of by them Upon a Message from the King Ordered that Dr. Vsher Bambridge Prideaux Warner Fern and Morley have leave to go to his Majesty for information of his Conscience The Commons concurred with the Lords to add fourteen daies more for the Treaty with his Majesty And ordered a Committee to propound to the Common Council of London the loan of four thousand pounds more for the Treaty Referred to Lieutenant General Cromwel to take special care and strict examination concerning the Murther of Colonel Rainsborough Vote that his Majesties answer concerning his declaring against the conjunction of the Lord Ormonds Forces with the Rebels of Ireland was un-satisfactory his Majesty justifying the Lord Ormond in that bloody act 4. Vote of both Houses that any three of the Commissioners with his Majesty one Lord and two Commoners might continue upon the business of the Treaty and the rest to return if they pleased to London Debate about guarding of the
Parliament being in great danger by reason of the Malignant party flocking up to London upon some design at the breach of the Treaty and most of them armed with Daggers and Pistols in their Pockets A Committee appointed to confer with the Common Council of London concerning the Security of the Parliament and Kingdom and to report with speed 5. The Streets were full of Bonefires this being the Gunpowder Treason day 6. The Commons concurred with the Lords that the number of the persons to be excepted from pardon should be seven and Voted three of those seven to be the Lord Digby the Earl of Newcastle and Sir Marmaduke Langdale Letters from the Gentlemen of the four Northern Counties that upon Conference with Lieutenant General Cromwel it was held necessary to have twelve hundred Foot in Berwick and six hundred Foot in Carlisle and two Regiments of Horse six hundred in a Regiment to suppress any insurrection and the Moss-troupers They desire in regard of the great sufferings of those Counties that these Forces may be maintained at the general charge of the Kingdom these being frontier Garrisons and those Counties will be willing to pay their proportions With these Letters came a Petition Complaining of the want of bread in those Counties that many Gentlemen of quality and their Families had no other drink but Water of imprisoning their persons dispeopling their Towns destroying their Corn and Goods killing their Neighbors and Country-men driving away their Cattle compelling all betwixt the Age of sixty and sixteen to bear Arms against the Parliament Of bringing in to this Kingdom a foreign Nation and delivering into the Scots hands the two considerable places of Berwick and Carlisle that many of the actors in that horrid design are returned to their homes to plot new Treasons They press for justice against those Delinquents and a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to be sent down for trial of them The House past no Vote upon this letter and Petition Letters from St. Albans of a day appointed for the meeting of the Officers of the Army and that the cry of free-quarter was so great in the ears of the Souldiers that it was to be feared it would occasion some distemper among them By this Petition and by these Letters you may take notice of the miserable effects of Civil War and of the condition of even the victors to be continued full of fears and dangers to themselves A Complaint came against the ill management of the Siege before Pontefract by Sir Henry Cholmely and Lieutenant General Cromwel was come thither 7. Orders touching the winter guard of Ships Vote That Sir Richard Greenvile Judge Jenkins Sir Francis Doddington Sir John Winter should be the rest of the seven Persons excepted from Pardon Letters that Major General Lambert with three Regiments of Horse was still in Scotland and that the well affected there could not act securely without them that they quarter upon the contrary Party Letters from the Hague that the Prince was there sick of the small Pox and that his Seamen were much discontented that the Lord Willoughby and Sir William Batten had left him 8. Upon Letters from Colonel Welden Governor of Plymouth Orders for pay for that Garrison The consideration of the Garrisons of Berwick and Carlisle referred to the Committee of Derby-House and orders for Money for disbanding supernumerary Forces Vote that no more than seven Persons should be excepted from Pardon An Ordinance past both Houses for pay of their Guards Several Lords and Commons came from the Treaty the Earl of Northumberland M r Pierrepoint and M r Holles staid behind divers also of the Kings people came away His Majesty made a further condescention touching the Church but did stick at the word Bishop yet was content he should be in the condition only of a Primer Presbyter and was not willing Bishops lands should be sold Letters from Ireland of the desperate condition of that Kingdom and the distress of Dublin by the Lord Ormonds joyning with the Rebels Letters from St. Albans that the general Council of the Army met and the Officers expressed a great sence of the odium cast upon the Army as they suspect by design to hinder their pay that they might be forced to take free-quarter 9. Upon jealousie of a design to surprise the Tower order that the Committee of the Tower do advise with the Lord Mayor concerning the security thereof and have power to remove and appoint what Guards they please there Order for an Ordinance to authorize the several Committees in the Counties to receive security of all the Delinquents in the respective Counties who have not compounded not to go above five Miles from their dwellings not to act any thing prejudicial to the Parliament and such as shall refuse this to be secured by the Committees The Commissioners returned from the Isle of Wight made report to the House of all their transactions in the Treaty and of the Kings last Concessions touching the Church That he doth not intend to make any more new Bishops during three years nor that after the three years the power of Ordination should be practised in the old manner but with consent that Bishops shall not receive any into Holy Orders without the consent of a limited number of Presbyters to be chosen in such manner as shall be agreed by his Majesty and the two Houses That his Majesty purposed after the agreement and within the three years to have a consultation with the Assembly of Divines twenty being added of his Majesties nomination for the settlement of the Church Government That his Majesty will not insist upon any provision for continuance of the Book of Common Prayer in his Majesties Chappel for himself and his Houshold but declares that he intends to use some other set form of Divine Service That he consents to Acts to be passed for a further course and more strict to prevent the saying and hearing of Mass in the Court or elsewhere That in what he hath not consented he is not really satisfied in conscience and hopes his two Houses will not put further pressures of so tender a nature upon him The Commissioners had the thanks of the House for their good service in the Treaty and a day set to debate upon his Majesties final answer Orders for relief of the maimed Souldiers and for disbanding of Supernumerary Forces 10. Ordinance for repaying mony advanced for the Treaty Order for mony for payment of the Horse-guards of the Parliament Vote that the Lords Goring Capel Loughborough the Earl of Holland Major General Laugherne and Sir John Owen shall be banished out of the Kingdom 11. Vote that his Majesties answer to the discipline of the Church and as to the continuing of Bishops is unsatisfactory The like concerning his laying aside the Common Frayer for himself and his own family The like concerning his mentioning to
summon all the Peers to his Presence the twenty fourth of September and with them to consult what in this Case is fittest to be done for his Honour and Safety of the Kingdom when the Petitioners with the rest might offer any thing conducing to these ends This was followed with a Petition of the Citizens of London Setting forth their Grievances and the Remedy by calling a Parliament Much to the same effect with the Petition of the Lords The Scots at Newcastle seize four great English Ships laden with Corn lay a Tax of Three hundred and fifty pounds a day on the Bishoprick of Durham and Three hundred pounds a day on Northumberland on pain of Plundering and committed many Injuries and Insolencies on the English where they quartered The great Council met at York 24. Septem according to summons and the King spake to them that he had called them for their advice and assistance in this time of exigency according to the custome of his predecessors That he of himself had resolved to call a Parliament to meet 3d. Novemb. next and in the mean time required their advice in those things which could not stay untill the meeting of the Parliament The War being begun with the Scots put many men to think of a posture of defence for themselves and to a provision of arms The discourses of the Scottish War were very various those who favour'd the Popish and Prelatical ways did sufficiently inveigh against the Covenanters but generally the rest of the people favoured and approved their proceedings and there was a strange spirit of division in the opinions and wishes of most men in these affairs too many not onely favouring but joyning with and assisting the proceedings of the Scots Covenanters After several meetings and debates in the great Council at York a Messenger was sent from the King and Lords to the Scots Army to give notice to them that on Tuesday next sixteen of the English Lords should meet with as many Scotch Lords at York to treat of the differences But the Scots refuse York to Treat in as not secure for their Commissioners so long as the Lieutenant of Ireland commanded there in chief who had proclaimed them Traitors in Ireland before the King had done it in England threatning to destroy their memory against whom they had high matters of complaint This was the first publick appearance of the Scots enmity against Strafford which some affirm was set on from hence and it was strange that it should not be more regarded Another place of Treaty was named at Rippon where the Commissioners on both sides met The English proposed a Cessation of Arms but the Scots as they would obey the King's commands not to advance so they could not return till they had effected their business They presented their Demands how their Army should be maintained till the Treaty ended and peace secured 2. For safe Convoys for their Commissioners 3. Safe Convoys for all Letters to and from the Parliament 4. For free trade of both Kingdomes and Newcastle trade not to be hindred At length the Commissioners on both parts agree To a Cessation of Arms. To a Contribution of 850. l. per diem for the Scots Army in Northumberland Westmorland Durham and Newcastle The River Tees to be the bound of both Armies Private Insolencies to be no breach of the Treaty with divers other conditions and their chief demands were referred to a general Treaty to be proceeded in at London Many wondred and some inveighed against this Treaty wishing the King would have put it rather to the Issue of a Battel than to have given such Terms to his Subjects in Rebellion and of this Judgment was Strafford and the Episcopal party But the other party cryed up this treaty as Just Honourable and Pious to prevent effusion of Bloud and to settle peace and the King saw plainly that both divers officers of his Army and even the private Soldiers generally which was a most remarkable Inclination had no mind to fight against the Scots which cheifly caused the King to conclude this Treaty The Resolution of calling a Parliament set many on work to canvase for places The Court laboured to bring in their friends but those who were most favour'd at Court had least respect in the Country and it was not a little strange to see what a spirit of opposition to the Court proceedings was in the hearts and actions of most of the people so that very few of that Party had the favour to be chosen members of this Parliament The Earl of Montross of great alliance in Scotland came into England to serve the King but by Hamilton's cunning as was supposed the King at his first coming to him neglected him which caused his resort to and joyning with the Covenanters being weary of them he now writes to the King to York professing his Loyalty and Service to His Majesty This Letter by Hamilton's means as was reported was stoln out of the King's pocket copyed and sent to the Convenanters they made use of it as shall be mentioned hereafter The third day of November the Parliament was to meet some perswaded the Archbishop to get it adjourned for two or three days because that the third of November was an ominous day the Parliament called on that day 20 H. 8. beginning with the fall of Cardinal Woolsey and ending in the dissolution of Abbeys but the Archbishop took little heed of such things The time of the Parliaments meeting drawing near it was considered at York whether the Earl of Strafford should repair to the house or continue in the north with the Army The King was earnest for his going up to the Parliament as one of whose service he should have great occasion and placed much confidence in his faithfulness and abilities The Earl humbly desired His Majesty to excuse his going to the Parliament alledging that he should not be able to do His Majesty any service there but should rather be a means to hinder his affairs in regard he foresaw that the great envy and ill will of the Parliament and of the Scots would be bent against him Whereas If he kept out of sight he would not be so much in their mind as he should be by shewing himself in Parliament and if they should fall upon him he being at a distance what soever they should conclude against him he might the better avoid and retire from any danger having the liberty of being out of their hands and to go over to Ireland or to some other place where he might be most serviceable to His Majesty but if he should put himself into their power by coming up to the Parliament it was evident that the house of Commons and the Scots with all their Party especially being provoked by his coming amongst them would presently fall upon him and prosecute his destruction The King notwithstanding these reasons continued
very earnest for Strafford's coming up to the Parliament for which he laid his commands upon him and told him that as he was King of England he was able to secure him from any danger and that the Parliament should not touch one hair of his head The Earl thank'd His Majesty but replyed that if there should fall out a difference between His Majesty and his Parliament concerning him that it would be a great disturbance to His Majestie 's affairs and that he had rather suffer himself than that the King's affairs should in any measure suffer by reason of his particular The King remained unalterable in his resolution concerning Strafford's coming up to the Parliament saying that he could not want his advice in the great transactions which were like to be in this Parliament and in obedience to his Commands the Earl came up to London The King in His speech to both Houses had told them that he was resolved to put himself freely upon the love and affections of His English Subjects He told them the wants of his own Army The Calamities of the Northern Countries where both Armies lay and freely leaves it to them where to begin promiseth Redress of Greivances and desires that all suspition of one another may be layd aside Some exception being taken that in his Speech he called the Scots Rebels He after explains and Justifies in his speech to the Lords The first week was spent in naming general Committees and establishing them and receiving a great many Petitions both from particular persons and some from multitudes and brought by troups of horsemen from several Counties craving redress of Grievances and of Exorbitances both in Church and State Many were inlarged out of Prison to make their complaints Prynne Burton Bastwick and others Many smart speeches were made in the House of Commons touching grievances which Mr. Pym divided into three heads 1. Against Privilege of Parliament 2. Prejudice of Religion 3. Liberty of the Subject Under the first head were reckoned 1. Restraining the Members of Parliament from speaking 2. Forbidding the Speaker to put a question 3. Imprisoning divers Members for matters done in Parliament 4. By Proceedings against them therefore in Inferiour Courts 5. Injoyning their good behaviour and continuance in prison even unto death 6. Abrupt dissolutions of Parliament Under the second head of Religion were mentioned 1. The suspension of Laws against them of the popish Religion Laws and Oaths will not restrain them the Pope dispenceth with all 2. Their places of trust and honour in the Common wealth 3. Their free Resort to London and to the Court to communicate their Councils and designs 4. As they have a College in Rome for the Pope's authority in England so they have a Nuntio here to execute it Under Innovations of Religion were brought in 1. Maintenance of Popish Tenets in Books Sermons and Disputes 2. Practice of Popish Ceremonies countenanced and enjoyed as Altars Images Crucifixes Bowings 3. Discouragement of Protestants by rigid Prosecution of the scrupulous for things indifferent no vice made so great as Inconformity 4. Incroachment of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction 1. In fining and imprisoning without Law 2. Challenging their Jurisdiction to be appropriate to their order Jure Divino 3. Contriving and publishing new Orders of Visitation in force as of Canons the boldness of Bishops and all their subordinate Officers and Officiales Under the third head the Grievances 1. By Tunnage and Poundage unduly taken 2. Composition for Knighthood 3. The unparalell'd greivance of Shipmoney 4. Enlargment of the Forests beyond the due bounds 5. Selling of Nusances by compounding for them 6. The Commission for building 7. The Commission for Depopulations 8. Vnlawful military charges by warrant of the King Letters of the Council and Orders of the Lieutenants of the Counties and their Deputies 9. Extrajudicial Declarations of Judges without hearing Council or Arguments 10. Monopolies countenanced by the Council Table and Justices of the Peace required to assist them 11. The Star Chamber Court 12. The King's Edicts and Proclamations lately used for maintaining Monopolies 13. The ambitions and corrupt Clergy preaching divine authority and absolute power in Kings to doe what they will 14. The Intermission of Parliaments The Lord Digby mentioned the late Benevolence and the New canon Oath which he called a Covenant against the King for Bishops and the Scots Covenant is against the King and Bishops Many other Speeches were made by several Members all of them to the same Effect touching grievances The King made the Lord Cottington Constable of the Tower of London and placed there a Garrison of 400 men to keep the City from Tumults But the House of Commons and others without much unsatisfied thereat the King took off the Garrison and Commission of Constable and left the command of it to a Lieutenant as before Upon the extraordinary confluence of Popish Recusants to London the King sent a Message to the Parliament that by Proclamation they should be removed to their places of abode and disarmed The House of Commons ordered that all Projectors and unlawful Monopolists be disabled to sit in the House and many members thereupon withdrew themselves and new Elections were made in their Rooms Complaint was made to the Lords House of breach of their Privilege by search of the Pockets Cabinets and Studies of the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Brooke upon the dissolving of the last Parliament Sir William Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council who did it upon command of the Secretaries of State was committed to the Fleet. The House of Commons sent up a Message to the Lords by Mr. Pym The impeachment of the Earl of Strafford of high treason upon which the Earl was committed to the black Rod and Sir George Ratcliffe his confederate was sent for out of Ireland by a Serjeant at Armes The two Armies lay a heavy burden on the Counties where they quartered to ease which the Parliament borrowed 100000 l. of the City of London Upon suit of the Lords to the King the Bishop of Lincoln was released out of the Tower The Earl of Strafford moved that he might be bayled by divers Lords who offered to be Sureties for him which was denied but a Council and a Sollicitor were assigned to him In the house there fell out a Debate touching the writs of Habeas corpus upon which Selden and the rest of his fellow prisoners demanded to be bayled and the Judges of the King's Bench did not bayle them as by Law they ought but required of them Sureties for their good behaviours This was so far aggravated by some that they moved the Prisoners might have Reparation out of the Estates of those Judges who then sate in the King's Bench when they were remanded to prison which Judges they named to be Hyde Jones and Whitelocke as for Judge Crooke who was one of that Court they excused him as differing
they afterwards were great with the King Upon receipt of the news of the Rebellion in Ireland the King was much troubled and being at that distance from his Parliament in England he sent expresses to them and referred the whole management of the Irish business to his Parliament at London November 20. the Lords Justices and Council in Ireland sent a more particular account to the Lord Lieutenant here of the Irish affairs he returned answer That he had acquainted the King at Edenburgh with all their dispatches and that His Majesty had referred the Irish business and management of the War there to his Parliament of England Some talked broadly of the Earl of Leicester's retarding so long his Service of Lieutenant of Ireland especially in such a time as then He was now pleased to Commissionate the Earl of Ormond to be his Deputy which was afterwards confirmed by the King but many wondred that the Earl did not go in his own person Some Members of the Parliament in Ireland and most of the Papists even in the Pale and generally in all places took part with the Rebels The Lord Moore stood faithfull to his King and Religion The Rebels to be revenged on him sent about a thousand men to his house three Miles from Tredah the Forces in the house were but twenty four Foot and fifteen Horse besides some few Servants and they had but six Shots of Powder apiece yet when the Rebels assaulted them they killed 140 of them All their Powder being spent and then some of their small number slain they yielded upon quarter yet the Rebels threw them out at the Windows an old Gentleman they ran through the body cut the Throat of an old blind man stripped all the women plundred the house of all the goods and so left it From Dublin they sent six hundred Foot to supply Tredah two thousand of the Rebels waited for them to intercept them and the English in a Fogg came within Musket-shot of them before they were descryed then the Captain Commanded a Counter-march in which the English were forced to take a Ditch which the Enemies thinking to be a flight they shouted and that so amazed and confounded the English that the Rebels charging them slew most of them near Gillingston-Bridge The Lord Ormond's Troop of Fifty Horse made their way through without loss of a man but by this Defeat the Rebels got store of Arms and Moneys and much encouragement The Master of a Chester Bark laden with Arms and Money for Dublin betrayed all to the Rebels who now were set down before Tredah and all the Popish Lords and Gentlemen within the Pale joyned with them About the latter end of November the King returned from Scotland he was sumptuously feasted at London by the Citizens and he banquetted them at Hampton Court and made divers of the Aldermen Knights Decemb. 2. He came to both Houses of Parliament and told them He had made as much haste from Scotland as those Affairs permitted in which he had so good success that he had left that Nation a most peaceable and contented People That he doth not find this Nation so settled as he expected but full of Jealousies and Alarms of Designs and Plots that Guards have been set to defend both Houses That he doubts not of his Subjects Affections to him by his reception at his return and mentions his own Affection to his People and so far from repenting of what he had done for them that he was willing to pass any thing more that might justly be desired for their Liberties and for maintenance of Religion Recommends to them the business of Ireland the preparations for it going on but slowly Then he sets forth a Proclamation For obedience to the Laws concerning Religion and that none introduce any Rite or Ceremonie other than those established by Law At this time this was not held by many to be very seasonable but divers were offended at it He also published a Proclamation for all the Members of Parliament To repair to the Houses by a day And Decem. 14. He again spake to both Houses To quicken them in the business of Ireland expresseth his detestation of all Rebellion particularly of this and offers his pains power and industry to contribute to that necessary work of reducing the Irish to obedience That for the Bill for pressing of Souldiers lodged with the Lords if it came to him he promiseth to pass it And because some had started the Question into a Dispute concerning the bounds of the King's Prerogative herein he offers to avoid such Debate that the Bill shall pass with a Salvo jure both for King and People And concludes conjuring them by all that is or can be dear to them or him to hasten with speed the business of Ireland Upon this the Parliament Petition the King touching the Privilege of Parliament their Birth-right declaring with all duty that the King ought not to take notice of any Matter in agitation and debate in either House but by their information nor ought to propound any Condition or Provision or Limitation to any Bill or Act in debate or preparation or to manifest or declare his Consent or Dissent Approbation or Dislike before it be presented in course nor ought to be displeased with any Debate of Parliament they being Judges of their own Errours and Offences in debating Matters depending That these Privileges have been broken of late in the Speech of his Majesty Decem. 14. particularly in mentioning the Bill of Impress offering also a provisional Clause by a Salvo jure before it was presented and withal they take notice of his Majestie 's Displeasure against such as moved a question concerning the same They desire to know the Names of such Persons as seduced his Majesty to that Item that they may be punished as his Great Council shall advise his Majesty Divers indifferent men wondered both at the King's Speech which gave the cause of Exception and was indeed notoriously against the Course and Privilege of Parliament that his Council should not inform him thereof And they also apprehended this Petition somewhat too rough in the Expressions of it to their King but the general Fate of things drove on this way to increase the Jealousies betwixt King and People and God was pleased so to order it to bring to pass what he had determined The Parliament resolve not to proceed in their Affairs till they had a satisfactory Answer to their Petition and some of them were jealous of too much favour to the Irish Rebellion by some about the King and divers went yet higher The King with some regret withdraws to Hampton Court hoping by his absence to avoid Exceptions but this increaseth discontent in the Parliament who the next day appoint a Committee to follow him thither and now they speak plainly That the whole frame of Government is out of order Among other Grievances Complaint was made by
Seal was at the first committed to the Custody of the two Speakers to be made use of by the Warrant of the Houses afterwards it was committed to the Custody of two Lords and four Commoners as Commissioners who had the Authority of Keeper of the Great Seal The Lords were the Earls of Manchester and Bullingbrook the Commoners were Mr. Brown Mr. S. John Mr. Wilde and Mr. Prideaux The Courts of Justice were not-yet open no practice for Lawyers August 12. The Earl of Lindsey being released from his Imprisonment by the Parliament came to the King at Oxford and was highly welcomed there but the Earls of Holland and Bedford found it otherwise to them For they about August 25. upon some distaste at the Parliament left them and got to Wallingford where the Governour Blagge received them with great shews of Honour and brought them from thence to the King at Oxford To him these Lords professed their Duty and Allegiance acknowledging their former Errours and promising wholly to desert the Parliament and to adhere to his Majestie 's Interest But not long after finding less favour and respect to them from the King and his Party than they expected upon this new Discontent they found means again to quit Oxford and to return to the Parliament About the same time the Earl of Clare left the Parliament and went to the King to Oxford but finding such Entertainment as Holland and Bedford had done both from the King and those about him he stoutly told the King That he intended to return to his own house in Nottinghamshire and prayed his Majestie 's leave for it The King wished him not to go but finding him resolute upon his Journey sent to have him stopped but in the mean while the Earl found means to pass the Guards and got home to Houghton and from thence to the Parliament It was said in Drollery that these three Earls had much confirmed others to continue with the Parliament for they having tried both Parties found it by Experience that this was the best to be in and to adhere unto A Book set out by Saltmarsh a Minister gave distaste to sober men by these among other his Counsells 1. That all means should be used to keep the King and his People from a sudden union 2. To cherish the War under the notion of Popery as the surest means to engage the people 3. If the King would not grant their Demands then to root him out and the Royal Line and to Collate the Crown upon some body else Some excepting against this in the house of Commons Mr. Henry Martyn said He saw no reason to condemn Mr. Saltmarsh and that it were better one Family should be destroyed than many Sir Nevill Poole moved that Mr. Martyn might explain what one Family he meant Who boldly answered The King and his Children Upon this some of the Members urged against his lewdness of life and the height and danger of these words And divers speaking sharply against Mr. Martyn he was committed to the Tower but shortly after released and re-admitted to his place in Parliament Sir Edward Coniers is removed fom his place of Lieutenant of the Tower and the Charge thereof given to the Lord Mayor Pennington The Parliaments Commissioners in Scotland send word of a fair Correspondence with the State there and their readiness to comply with the Parliament in order to which they had sent from them the Form of a Covenant to be taken by both Nations This the Parliament refers to the Assembly of Divines then sitting for their Advice in it Sir John Evelyn of Wilts had writ a Letter from the Earl of Northumberland's house at Petworth to Sir John Evelyn of Surrey which being intercepted and suspicious both of them being Members of the house of Commons were Imprisoned Both Houses passed an Ordinance August 28 for demolishing and removing all Monuments of Idolatry and Superstition out of all Churches and Chapels in England and Wales Divers Members of both Houses were Members of the Assembly of Divines and had the same liberty with the Divines to sit and debate and give their Votes in any Matter which was in consideration amongst them In which Debates Mr. Selden spake admirably and confuted divers of them in their own learning And sometimes when they had cited a Text of Scripture to prove their Assertion he would tell them Perhaps in your little Pocket Bibles with gilt Leaves which they would often pull out and read the Translation may be thus but the Greek or the Hebrew signifies thus and thus and so would totally silence them The Lord Willoughby of Parham had done great Service for the Parliament in Lincolnshire He had taken in Gainsborough and divers Prisoners there among whom was the Earl of Kingston who with the rest being sent by Water in a close Boat towards Hull A party of Cavaliers as they passed by called to the Boat to stay and because they did not the Cavaliers shot at them and the Earl with his man and no other in the Boat were slain by their own Friends The Lord Willoughby kept the Town afterwards against the Earl of Newcastle's Forces till over-powred with Numbers he was forced to surrender it upon honourable conditions Colonel Cromwell gave assistance to the Lord Willoughby and performed very gallant Service against the Earl of Newcastle's Forces This was the beginning of his great Fortunes and now he began to appear to the world He had a brave Regiment of Horse of his Country-men most of them Freeholders and Freeholders Sons and who upon matter of Conscience engaged in this Quarrel and under Cromwell And thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own Consciences and without by good Iron Arms they would as one man stand firmly and charge desperately The Parliament ordered Recruits for the Lord Willoughby and for Cromwell and both of them became in the Parliaments favour Gloucester was the general subject of discourse the King was set down before it with his whole Army the Governour Massey not only refuseth upon his Majestie 's Summons to render the City to him but sallies forth upon some of their Quarters and did cut off 300 of their men A Conspiracy of the Mace-bearer and others to kill the Governour and chief Military Officers was discovered and the betraying of the Town prevented some of the Conspirators being executed Gen. Essex advanced with his whole Body from Ailesbury towards Gloucester Aug. 29. The Enemy made a breach in the Outworks and some Assaults but was gallantly repulsed The King drew his Forces from Exeter and the West to the siege of Gloucester yet the Besiegers were very doubtful whether to continue or raise the siege Warwick Castle held out against the King's Forces and Colonel Bridges the Governour acquitted himself with much honour The Earl of Denbigh was made Major General of Coventry and some part adjacent The Lord Gray and Colonel
Parliaments Souldiers endeavouring to enter were beaten back by the Garrison Colonel Smith of Bucks escaped out of prison and was retaken Letters from the Lord General informed That the King was drawn from Exeter near Shaftsbury where Sir William Waller was That they would endeavour to prevent his coming to Bristoll or back again to Oxford and they desire that the Earl of Manchester may hasten to joyn with them The King took up a great number of horses in the Country as he passed to the high distaste and prejudice of the Inhabitants and his Majesty by this means mounted all his Foot and made them Dragoons Many Gentlemen of Wales came in to the Parliament and rendred themselves to Sir Thomas Middleton Sir William Brereton took more of the King's Forces near Chester Captain Swanley's Forces encreased in South-Wales many of the Country coming in to him Colonel Leigh presented a Petition to the Commons subscribed by four thousand Staffordshire men praying That the Differences between the Earl of Denbigh their General and some of the Country might be reconciled and the Earl sent down again amongst them Upon delivery whereof the Colonel made a long Harangue to the Commons and all was referred to a Committee Colonel Butler suspected of miscarriage in the West was sent up by the General to be examined The Order passed the Commons House thereupon for a select Committee to go along with the Army and to advise with the Council of War upon all Occurrences Colonel Kerle who revolted from the Parliament upon the loss of Bristoll went out with a party near to Monmouth to fetch provisions and being full of Jollity and security Colonel Massey fell upon them in the midst of their mirth and surprised them Kerle doubting that he should not have quarter because he had revolted from the Parliament to make some recompence he undertook to bring Massey into Monmouth and himself to march in the front which was concluded accordingly When they came to the Guards they thinking them to be their own men let down the Draw-bridge and received them into the Town who demanded it for the Parliament at which the Garrison was so amazed that many of them fled away and left their Arms the rest called for quarter and so the Town and Castle being of great consequence was reduced to the Parliament with the loss of not above six men on both parties The new Sheriffs of London were presented at the Exchequer by a Speech of Mr. Glyn the Recorder October 1644. The Commons entred upon consideration of electing new Members in the room of those who were dead or expelled by Vote The Library belonging to the See of Canterbury was given to Sion College The Ordinance for Ordination of Ministers passed both Houses The Popish party in Scotland submitted themselves and the Lord Argyle pursued the Irish Rebels into the Highlands whereupon the Earl of Calender returned again to the Leagure before Newcastle The Garrison there made many Sallies upon the Besiegers and were beaten back with loss The Conmissioners of Array in Cumberland and Westmorland met to feast and consult about raising more forces for the King and the Country-people rose up against them took forty of them prisoners and sent them to General Lesley One Greenvile a kinsman of Sir Richard Greenvile was perswaded into a Plot to betray Plymouth to Sir Richard but the Plot was discovered and Mr. Greenvile executed But the King honoured Sir Richard with Title of Baron of Lestithiel Waller sent out a party of two hundred horse to Evill under Major Clutterbocke who met a party of the King's forces and took divers of them prisoners and presently after meeting another party of about three hundred of the King's horse drawn up into a body whose Commander came out from the head of his Troops singly this caused Major Clutterbocke to do the like and they two skirmished before their parties The King's forces seeing their Commander likely to have the worst came in hastily to his rescue and slew Clutterbocke before his men came in and they upon the loss of their Major were so discouraged that they wheeled about and retreated from their Enemy The Commons set apart a day for redress of private Grievances and gave much satisfaction to divers thereof Colonel Rosseter gave a blow to the King's forces about Newark Mr. Prynne Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Newdigate were appointed to be of Council for the State against Macquire and Macmahon the Irish Rebels at their Tryal appointed to be before Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer The Commons voted in the Case of the Arch-bishop that his Council should be heard in point of Law whether in the Charge against him there be contained any Treason But that they ought not to speak to any exceptions therein for matter or form Colonel Bliere laid down his Commission and had leave to go beyond Sea and part of his Arrears paid The Militia of London desired the passing of an Ordinance for the sending forth five Regiments of the City for a reserve of the Armies and for supplies for them which passed both Houses the same day A Declaration was agreed upon to be sent to the King of France to excuse the business of the search for Macquire and Macmahon in the house where the French Agent lay Essex Manchester and Waller all took the field to encounter the King's forces in their march to Oxford and all Officers and Souldiers in London were commanded forthwith to repair to their Colours Colonel Jepson's Garrison at Portsmouth was compleated to one thousand foot and an hundred horse Chester was blocked up by Brereton A party of Colonel Hastings his men came to Loughborough on the Lord's-day rode into the Church in Sermon-time and would have taken away the Preacher out of the Pulpit but the women rescued him and proved then more valiant than their husbands or Hastings his men An Ordinance was appointed to be brought in for augmentation of the Means of Ministers where their Maintenance was very small and that to be out of Deans and Chapters Lands A party of the King's forces surprized and took in Crowland Colonel Hurrey who revolted from the Parliament when Colonel Hampden was slain and served the King had now obtained his Majestie 's Pass to go beyond Sea and came to Sir William Waller to desire the like Pass from him who refused to do it but sent him up to the Committee of both Kingdoms The Counties of Norfolk and of Cambridge petitioned for their security in the Earl of Manchester's absence and some assistance for the pay of his Army The Commons ordred that no Carter coming to London should be pressed for a Souldier The Commons appointed to take in consideration the Propositions for Peace every day till they should perfect them Mr. Hoyle a Member of the House of Commons was by general approbation chosen Lord Mayor of York and took his place there A party of the King 's
for their passage and that they were not to part with it but they shewed it to his Messenger and gave him a Copy of it with which he returned to the Governour and after some two hours attendance he sent a Troop of Horse to convoy them into the Town They went directly to the Governour 's quarters who received them not rudely but with hight enough and called for wine for them he told them that he believed the King was returned to Oxford and that it was more probable they might find him there than in any other place Amongst other discourses he and the Earl of Denbigh fell into relations of some passages of War wherein both the Earl and Colonel Blake had been Actors and both of them being high Spirits could not brook any diminution to the honour of each other or of their parties They differed upon some matters of fact and grew unto very high words insomuch as the Lord Maitland looked very pale and he and others thought that they should have their throats cut by the garrison and Blake looked very big upon them and his words were answerable All the Company held it fit to remove from this Garrison seeing the Carriage of Blake so full of insolence and incivility and with much difficulty they at last got into their Coaches and and took leave of the proud Governour The next morning they took their journey towards Oxford and upon the Hill half a mile before they came to the Town they stayed in the field till they sent a Messenger to the Governour of Oxford Sir Jacob Ashley to acquaint him with their being there to wait upon the King according to their safe Conduct whereof they sent him a Copy and desired entrance and accommodation in the City The Messenger returned that Sir Jacob Ashley would acquaint his Majesty with their being there and know his pleasure about it and then he would send to them accordingly and after three or four hours stay in the wet and cold open field then came an Officer and a Troup of horse to Convoy them into the City As they past along the streets the rude multitude the people part of that body for whom they underwent so many hazards of their lives and fortunes to preserve them in their Rights and Liberties and from Slavery and Popery which some about the King as was believed endeavoured to bring upon them Part of this People of England as they past along the Streets reviled them with the names of Traitors Rogues and Rebels and the like and threw stones and dirt into their Coaches a great incouragement and reward for their service for them They went on their way taking no notice of these affronts and abuses and were brought to their quarters to a mean Inn the sign of the Katherine Wheele next St. John's College which house was little above the degree of an Alehouse The Officer made a slight excuse to them for making them stay so long before they were admitted into the Garrison the which he said could not be till the Governour had spoken with the King which took up some time and that the providing of quarters for them was very difficult in regard the Town was so full of the King's Forces After they were setled in their quarters divers of the King 's great Officers and Lords came to visit them and some had their particular friends who came thither to them among whom was Sir Edward Hyde who came to Visit some of them and in discourse in general about the Propositions for peace profess'd his earnest desire and endeavour that they might take effect The Earl of Lindsey who then lay sick of wounds he had received sent a Gentleman in his name to visit Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke and to tell them that if he had been able to come abroad he would himself have visited them The Commissioners Servants informed them of a great bussle in the Hall of the Inne That some Officers of the King's Army came in thither to them and fell to quarrel with them called them and their Masters and the Parliament Rogues and Rebels and Traytors and would not suffer them to come near the fire upon which they quarrell'd Mr. Hollis went presently to one of the King's Officers who was there a tall big black man and taking him by the Collar shook him and told him it was basely and unworthily done of them to abuse their Servants in their own quarters and contrary to the King 's safe conduct and presently took away his Sword from him Whitelocke did the like to another great mastiff Fellow an Officer also of the King's Army and took away his Sword from him Upon this fearing some Design upon them and that more of the King's Officers and Souldiers would come in to affront them they caused the door of the Inne to be shut up and sent to acquaint the Governour with this abuse and affront offered to them He presently sent a Captain who took away those two Officers who had been disarmed and carried them to prison he excused a little the matter to the Commissioners and brought a Guard of Foot-souldiers to attend at the door of their quarters This business was much talked on among the King's Officers and Souldiers and most of them said that Hollis and Whitelocke had done well and like Gentlemen in disarming those two that offered the affront whom they much condemned and they were after this quiet The next day they had access to his Majesty who used them civilly and gave to every one of them his hand to kiss but he seemed to shew more disdain to the Scots Commissioners than to any others of their Company The Earl of Denbigh read the Propositions to his Majesty who heard them with much patience and when they were all read told them that he would consider of an Answer to be given to them Hollis and Whitelocke thought themselves obliged in civility and courtship to return a Visit to the Earl of Lindsey But all the Commissioners having agreed that none of them should singly give any Visit to any of the King's Officers or great Lords nor in company without acquainting their Fellow-commissioners therewith They thought fit to tell them their Intentions with their leave to return a Visit to the Earl of Lindsey who had so courteously first sent to visit them and all their Fellow commissioners approved thereof and wished them to doe as they intended The same Evening about Eight or Nine of the Clock Hollis and Whitelocke went to the Court to the Earl of Lindsey's Lodgings whom they found ill and in his Bed and divers Lords with him among the rest the Lord Savile then newly made Earl of Sussex The Earl of Lindsey expressed much contentment and that he took it extream kindly that they would come to visit him and treated them with extraordinary respect and courtesie and no man with him was so forward to complement them as was the Lord Savile When they had
of it to which His Majesty replied What is that to you who are but to carry what I send and if I will send the Song of Robin Hood and Little John you must carry it to which the Commissioners onely said that the business about which they came and were to return with His Majestie 's Answer was of somewhat more consequence than that Song And other passages there were which shewed the King to be then in no good humour and were wondred at in a business especially of this Importance and where the disobliging the Commissioners could be of no advantage to the King but all was endeavoured to be made up again by some of the King's Lords before the Commissioners came away and a Copy of the Answer was sent them Another exception they took to the Paper of the Answer that it was not directed to any body nor the Parliament so much as acknowledged or named in it to which the King answered that it was delivered to the Parliaments Commissioner's which was sufficient and some of his Lords told them that they could not get it otherwise chiefly because they were there as Commissioners of both Kingdoms and earnestly intreated the Commissioners for peace sake to receive it as it them was sent to them Upon Debate thereof among the Commissioners and it being considered that they must take it upon themselves to break off the Treaty for Peace in case they refused this Paper and that it was more proper for them to leave it to the Judgment of their Masters they did receive the Answer as it was sent to them Nov. 29. They returned to the Parliament and the next day at a Conference of both Houses His Majestie 's Answer was read in the preamble whereof were high expressions of his desires of Peace and he demanded a Safe Conduct for the Duke of Lenox and the Earl of Southampton to come with his Answer to the Propositions The Exceptions to this Paper of the King 's were much debated but at length out of the earnest desire of Peace it was carried to lay aside those objections And the House ordered that upon consideration of the faithfull service done by the Committee that went to His Majesty and their discreet carriage of the business the thanks of the House should be returned to them for the same and every one of them severally in their order stood up in their places and the Speaker solemnly pronounced the Thanks of the House to them December 1644. The Commons agreed upon several Gentlemen to be High Sheriffs and those who refused or to act as Justices of Peace should be sent for as Delinquents The Earl of Manchester made a long Report touching the business of Donnington Castle and in excuse of the Parliaments forces in that Action Abuses were examined of the Gentleman whom some called Prince Grissith Sir J. Hotham was Tried by the Court Marshal 1. For betraying his Trust and adhering to the Enemy proved by his Words Letters and Actions his compliance with the Lord Digby the Marquess of Newcastle and others of that party 2. His refusal to supply the Lord Fairfax with Ammunition to the great prejudice of the Parliament 3. His Scandalous Words against the Parliament 4. His endeavour to betray Hull to the Enemy 5. His Correspondence with the Queen and his seeking to escape Thirty Witnesses were examined against him and divers for him in his Defence The Parliament directed a Letter to be sent from the Lord General to Prince Rupert to this effect That if His Majesty shall send to the Parliament of England assembled at Westminster and to the Commissioners of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Scotland they would with all readiness grant a Safe Conduct for the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of South-hampton to come from the King with an Answer to the Propositions for Peace and treat with them according to His Majestie 's desire Several Ordinances passed for raising of Moneys Abington being in some distress Major General Craford with a party of the Parliaments forces relieved the Garrison plentifully and brought thither 1000 Sheep which he drove away from under the Walls of Wallingford and none of the Enemy appeared against him Sir Lewis Dives being at Dorchester with about 300 Horse and Dragoons sent a party to face Lyme and at their return Major Sydenham of Pool with about 60 Horse fell upon them in Dorchester charged them through and through wounded Dives slew many and took divers Prisoners As Sydenham faced about he saw Major Williams who had formerly killed the Mother of Sydenham in the Head of the King's Troups coming to charge him whereupon Sydenham bid his men stand close to him for he would avenge his Mother's blood on Williams or die on the place and then so violently made his way that he came up to Williams and slew him put all his men to flight and drove them through the Town and so returned to Poole Carlisle Garrison was reported to be in such want that they eat their Horses they were so closely besieged by the Parliaments forces Captain Hains escaped from imprisonment by the Enemy Colonel Cromwell being made Lieutenant General of the Earl of Manchester's Army gave great satisfaction to the Commons touching the business of Donnington Castle and seemed but cautiously enough to lay more blame on the Officers of the Lord General 's Army than upon any other And the point of privilege was debated touching the Lords transmitting of a Charge from them before it was brought up to them This reflected upon Lieutenant General Cromwel of whom the Lord General now began to have some jealousies and was advised to put to his strength to rid Cromwel out of the way and the means to be used to effect this was supposed to be by the Scots Commissioners who were not well pleased with Cromwel upon some words which he had spoken as they apprehended derogatory to the honour of their Nation One Evening very late Maynard and Whitelocke were sent for by the Lord General to Essex House and there was no excuse to be admitted nor did they know beforehand the occasion of their being sent for when they came to Essex House they were brought to the Lord General and with him were the Scots Commissioners Mr. Hollis Sir Philip Stapleton Sir Jo. Meyrick and divers others of his special Friends After Complements and that all were set down in Council the Lord General spake to them to this effect L. Gen. Mr. Maynard and Mr. Whitelocke I sent for you upon a special occasion to have your Advice and Counsel and that in a matter of very great importance concerning both Kingdoms in which my Lords the Commissioners of Scotland are concerned for their State and we for ours and they as well as we knowing your abilities and integrity are very desirous of your counsel in this great business Maynard We are come to obey your Excellencie's Commands
upon view of those proofs we shall be the better able to advise and your Lordships to judge what will be fit to be done in this matter Maynard Your Excellence and my Lord Chancellour are pleased to require our advice in this great business and we shall deal cleerly and freely with your Lordships which I think will be most acceptable to you and will in conclusion be best for your service Mr. Whitelocke hath begun thus and in speaking his own sense hath spoken much of mine and left me the less to say and I shall follow him in the same plainness and method as he hath begun which I presume will be most pleasing to your Lordships The word Incendiary is not much conversant in our Law nor often met with in our Books but more a term of the Civil Law or of State and so to be considered in this case and to be taken according to the expression wherein it is used in the Accord of the two Kingdoms and in the sense of the Parliaments of both Nations That sense of it which my Lord Chancellour hath been pleased to mention it doth bear ex vi termini and surely he that kindles the coals of contention between our brethren of Scotland and us is an Incendiary and to be punished as it is agreed on by both Kingdoms But my Lords as you have been told there must be proof made of such particulars of words or actions upon which there may be sufficient ground for a Parliament to declare their judgment that he who used such words or actions indeavoured thereby to raise differences and to kindle the fire of contention among us and so that he is an Incendiary Lieutenant General Cromwel is a person of great favour and interest with the House of Commons and with some of the House of Peers likewise and therefore there must be proofs and the more clear and evident against him to prevail with the Parliament to adjudge him to be an Incendiary I confess my Lords I do not in my private knowledge assure my self of any such particulars nor have we heard of any here and I believe it will be more difficult than perhaps some of us may imagine to fasten this upon him And if it be difficult and doubtfull it is not fit for such persons as my Lord General and the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Scotland as yet to appear in it but rather first to see what proofs may be had of particular passages which will amount to a clear proof upon which judgment may be grounded that he is an Incendiary And when such proofs shall be ready to be produced we may again wait upon your Excellence and the business will then be the more ripe for your Lordships resolution in the mean time my humble opinion is that it may be deferred Mr. Hollis and Sir Philip Stapleton and some others spake smartly to the business and mentioned some particular passages and words of Cromwel tending to prove him to be an Incendiary and they did not apprehend his interest in the House of Commons to be so much as was supposed and they would willingly have been upon the accusation of him But the Scots Commissioners were not so forward to adventure upon it for the reasons they said did satisfie them which were given by Maynard and Whitelocke until a further inquiry were made of particulars for proof to make him an Incendiary the which at length was generally consented to and about two a clock in the Morning with thanks and Complements Maynard and Whitelocke were dismissed they had some cause to believe that at this debate some who were present were false brethren and informed Cromwel of all that past among them and after that Cromwel though he took no notice of any particular passages at that time yet he seemed more kind to Whitelocke and Maynard than he had been formerly and carried on his design more actively of making way for his own advancement as will appear in progress of this insuing story The Lord sent to the Commons that a speedy answer might be given to the Papers of the States Ambassadors and for audience to be given to the French Agent and a Committee was named to consider of the manner of his reception A Report was made to the House by their Command of the particular passages betwixt His Majesty and the Committee that carried the Propositions to him which they had forborn before to mention but the House having an intimation thereof ordered the particular passages thereof to be Reported to-them which was done as I have mentioned them before The Commons ordered 6000 l. for providing store of Arms and Ammunition A party of the Newark horse being quartered near the Town Colonel Thorney fell upon them took 80 Horse one Major several inferiour Officers 2 Colonels 24 Troupers and Arms. The Commons took order for setling Magistrates in Newcastle though different from the Course of their Charter and disfranchised some of their Aldermen The Parliaments Committee at Newcastle sent up a great quantity of Coals for relief of the poor of London whereof the Commons gave notice to the Lord Mayor and orders for the distributing of them The Clause for Marriage in the Directory was agreed unto An Ordinance past for relief of Soldiers widdows Letters were ordered to several Counties for levying Arrears due to the Army and for the Deputy Lieutenants and Committees to assist the Commissioners of Excise The Commons agreed to the reception of the States Ambassadors as formerly Sir William Massey was made one of the Assembly of Divines The Court Marshal adjudged Sir John Hotham to have his head cut off Higgins the Lord General 's Trumpeter returned from Oxford where he said he was more courteously used than before and that the King commanded he should be kindly used and rewarded and that he was not as formerly hoodwink'd when they brought him in Prince Rupert by the King's direction sent a Letter to the General for a safe Conduct for the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Southampton to bring unto the Parliament of England Assembled at Westminster and the Commissioners of the Parliament of the Kingdome of Scotland an answer of the Propositions lately presented to his Majesty for a safe and well grounded peace The Commons voted that no Member of either House of Parliament shall during this war injoy or execute any office or Command Military or Civil and that an Ordinance be brought in accordingly This was moved by Mr. Zouch Tate who brought it in with a similitude of a boyle upon his thumb and was set on by that party who contrived the outing of the Lord General and to bring on their own designes and they could find no other way than by passing a Self-denying Ordinance as they called it which would serve their turn both as a specious pretence of their own integrity and waving all self ends and so plausible to the people and would also
same and Reasons for any Alteration or Explanation of them may be debated and weighed He therefore proposeth that the Parliament would appoint such number of persons as they should think fit to treat with the like number of persons to be appointed by his Majesty upon the said Propositions and such other things as shall be proposed by his Majesty for preservation and defence of the Protestant Religion with due regard to tender Consciences the Rights of the Crown the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject and the Privilege of Parliament and upon the whole matter to conclude an happy and blessed Peace Taunton Castle was relieved by Colonel Hepburne and Major Van Russe and divers of the Besiegers taken prisoners The Protestant Forces and Subjects in Munster petitioned the King's Commissioners against a further Cessation of Arms there which was to be treated on by those Commissioners with the Rebels The two Houses and the Scots Commissioners agreed upon an Answer to the King's Message sent by the Duke of Lenox and the Earl of Southampton That they did consent to a Treaty as was proposed but in regard there were many things which will take up some time for preparation thereunto both for the time and manner how to treat they have sent back his Majestie 's Messengers and will return a speedy answer by Messengers of their own They held this way the fitter to be taken because those two Lords and their Company were labouring and plotting whilst they were here against the Interest of the Parliament which was intimated to them by a Petition from the Common Council of the City An Agent of the Queen of Swedland addressed himself to the Houses by Letters from the Queen acquainting them that he had Matters of great Importance to communicate to them from the Queen his Mistres and acknowledged the Parliament and desired Audience The Self-denying Ordinance was again brought to the House to be preferred and a Clause offered to be added That it should not extend to any L. Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants Justices of Peace or Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer who were Members of either of the Houses of Parliaments Upon this Debate many spake against the Ordinance and among the rest one to this effect Mr. Speaker I am one of that number of your Servants who have no Office or Imployment but such as you are now about to except out of this Ordinance nor have ambition for any and therefore may the more freely and indifferently yet with all submission humbly offer my reasons against it as that which I apprehend may prove prejudicial to your Service It hath been objected that your House and the House of Lords is thin and empty and you the less esteemed having so few Members here many of them being imployed in Offices that they cannot attend the Houses but that by this Ordinance they will be at leisure and liberty to attend the Service of the Parliament here and the Houses be much fuller than now they are I confess Sir this is fit to be remedied but I apprehend you have a fitter way than by this Ordinance to doe it ' that is by issuing out new Writs for electing new Members in the places of those who are dead or expelled and this will satisfie the Objection and engage divers of interest and quality the more immediately in your Service Whereas this Ordinance will discontent many and the Houses will be but little the fuller by the passing of it Another Objection is that if this Ordinance do not pass the Treaty for Peace will not so well proceed but the particular Interests of Members of Parliament may retard the same but will be all taken away by this Ordinance I am to seek how this can be materially objected when I suppose whether this Ordinance pass or not yet you intend Members of Parliament only to be your Commissioners for that Treaty and in case some of then be Officers they will the better understand your businesses on which the Treaty will be grounded Another Objection is that unless this Ordinance pass the great work intended of new modelling your Armies will not so well be carried on for that by putting all out there will remain no exception I should rather have argued that by putting out all Members out of their Imployment the exception and discontent would be the more general and by leaving them still in their Imployments there would be the less competition and sollicitation for new Officers in their rooms Another Objection or Argument is that the Members of Parliament who are Officers being of equal power in Parliament will not be so obedient to your Commands as others who have smaller interests and would not so much dispute one with another Surely Sir those whose interest is the same with yours have the more reason to obey your Commands than others and have more to hazard by disobedience than others can have and in your Commands all your Members are involved and it were strange if they should be backward to obey their own Orders Nor will the Contests be so frequent and high between them and other Officers as it will be between those who will be of a more equal condition But Mr. Speaker as you consider the inconveniences if this Ordinance do not pass so you will be pleased to consider the Inconveniences if it do pass You will lay aside as brave men and who have served you with as much courage wisdom faithfulness and success as ever men served their Country Our noble General the Earls of Denbigh Warwick Manchester the Lords Roberts Willoughby and other Lords in your Armies besides those in civil Offices not excepted and of your own Members the Lord Grey Lord Fairfax Sir William Waller Lieutenant General Cromwel Mr. Hollis Sir Philip Stapleton Sir William Brereton Sir John Meyrick and many others must be laid aside if you pass this Ordinance And I am to seek and I doubt so will they be to whom you shall refer the new modelling of your Armies where to find Officers that shall excel if equal these If your Judgments are that for the Publick Service it will be expedient to remove any of them from their Commands let the same if you please be plainly made known to them from you Let them have what they deserve your thanks for their former good Services and they will not be offended that you having no more work for them do lay them aside with honour But to do a business of this nature às hath been well said by a side Wind is in my humble opinion not so becoming your Honour and Wisdom as Plainness and Gravity which are Ornaments to your Actions I shall conclude with the Example of the Grecians and Romans amongst whom Sir you know that the greatest Offices both of War and Peace were conferred upon their Senatours and their Reasons were because they having greater Interests than others were the more capable to doe them the greatest service
turned their Musquets against their fellows This so discouraged Argyle's men that they gave back and retreated which Montross perceiving fell on with great resolution upon them routed the whole body of Argyle's men killed divers and took many of them Prisioners A party of about 150 of the King 's from Skipton beat up Colonel Brandling's quarters at Heightley surprized the Guards came into the Town and took near a hundred prisoners 60 horse and other booty As they returned Colonel Lambert's men fell upon them rescued their friends and the booty took Captain Hugh's who commanded the King's party killed his Lieutenant and about 15 of his men and took about 20 of them prisoners pursuing the rest to Skipton Samon one of Lambert's Captains and about eight of his Souldiers were killed Sir John Meldrum got the Power of the Harbour at Scarborough and appointed to storm the Town 18. Orders about the Navy and new Commissioners of the Customs A Letter from Prince Rupert to the Lord General for release of some persons imprisoned contrary to Articles was referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms to have right done Sir Thomas Fairfax came privately to Town and a Committee was appointed to consider of raising Moneys and Recruits for his speedy taking of the Field About 700 of the mutinous Troops being come near London care was taken to prevent Surrey Kent and the adjacent Counties from any inconveniences by them Tobias Basely formerly a Porter condemned by the Council of War for a Spy and betraying Carriers was hanged in Smithfield Prince Griffith petitioned that since he was in custody he was poysoned and had but a few days to live Whereupon two Doctors were approved by the House to visit him 19. Four Members of the Commons House were sent by them for Sir Thomas Fairfax to bring him to the House where a Chair was set for him but he modestly refused to sit down The Speaker told him somewhat of Agamemnon and of the old Romans which I have forgotten then he informed him of the trust the Kingdom reposed in him in the Command of the Army and the good opinion they had of him for his valour and fidelity giving him thanks in the name of the House for the many and great services he had done for the publick and in the defence of Religion Laws and Liberty and incouraged him to go on as he had begun The Ordinance for Tunnage and Poundage sent up to the Lords and another touching the Excise Weymouth held out and received some relief by Sea from Poole Sir William Waller was upon his march to them The House received Letters from their Commissioners at Vxbridge with several Papers concerning the Militia and the Reply made by the King's Commissioners who took advantage the last point of time to deliver in their Reply when it might be conceived no Answer could be made to it by the Parliaments Commissioners But they being impowred by their additional Instructions to reassume the business of the Militia when they pleased the Parliament voted that their Commissioners shall have power to treat with the King's Commissioners about passing a Bill for settling the Militia in the power of the Parliament until such time as the three Kingdoms shall be reduced to peace and so declared by Parliament and three years after or else for seven years from the time of the granting the Militia and after that his Majesty to take the advice of both Houses of Parliament for the settling thereof And the Commissioners of both Kingdoms delivered in a Paper accordingly The Earl of Southampton and some others of the King's Commissioners went from Vxbridge to Oxford to the King about the business of the Treaty to receive some further directions from his Majesty therein The Doctors reported Griffith to be in no danger 20. The Ordinance for Tunnage and Poundage with the Clause for Currants passed both Houses Orders for setting forth the Fleet. Letters from Holland to the Parliament advise that Brown Bushel was at Sea with a small Fleet intended for Piracy Information of a Design to cause the Souldiers to mutiny was referred to be examined An Ordinance passed for raising of 21000 l. for the Scots Army to be repaid out of Sequestrations The Committee at Goldsmiths-hall had 30000 l. ready to be sent to the Scots Army upon their advance Southwards The King's Forces intending to keep a Guard near Harrington Brown sent out a party of Horse from Abington who suddenly fell upon them surprized the whole Guard being about nineteen and brought them prisoners to Abington After that he sent out another party who intercepted and brought away 27 horse-loads of Corn Cheese and other Provisions going towards Oxford Major Purefoy fell upon the Enemy near Oxford tooâ— a Lieutenant and other Officers 12 Troupers and Arms. The Lord Macquire was executed at Tyburn he refused to make any Confession but died desperately 21. The Parliament sent an Express to their Commissioners atVxbridge with their Vote to propound a Limitation of the Militia for three years after the three Kingdoms are declared by the King and Parliament to be settled in peace or to have it settled in the Parliament for seven years after the time the King is willing to settle it To this effect they delivered in a Paper to the King's Commissioners and endeavoured to perswade their Compliance and were full of hopes that they would have consented to it Several Ordinances passed for 20000 l. supplied by the Commissioners of Excise and an Ordinance for all Souldiers to repair to their Colours within 48 hours and an Ordinance was sent up to the Lords for the new Commissioners of the Customs Orders for the Commissioners of the Navy and for the Prince Elector 22. The Commissioners at Vxbridge sent a Letter to the Parliament with all the Papers containing the three Treaties of the three last days about Ireland wherein the Kings Commissioners did not think fit to yield to any of the Propositions but again justified the Cessation with his Majestie 's Catholick Subjects there The Parliaments Commissioners in their Reply laid home the innocent blood shed by the Irish Rebels Letters from Sir John Meldrum informed that Feb. 18. about ten a Clock the Town of Scarborough was stormed in four places by the English and Scotish Souldiers who gained the Town and Church with the loss of eleven men in the Church they took 80 Souldiers and the Governour of Hemsley Castle Cholmley perceiving the Town like to be lost fled into the Castle and was pursued and one of the Works taken but the White Tower in the Castle commanding it they beat out Meldrum's men with stones Cholmley laboured to escape by Sea in a little Pinnace he had there which he called his Running Horse but Meldrum got Boats between him and the Pinnace and forced him back again into the Caâ—tie Sir Hugh Cholmley had five Dunkirk Vessels lying in
carry away any thing that is properly belonging to any of them 18. That all Ladies Gentlewomen and other Women now in Oxford whose Husbands or Friends are absent from thence may have Passes and Protections for themselves Servants and Goods to go to and remain at the Houses of their Husbands or at their Friends as they shall desire and to go or send to London or elsewhere to obtain the Allowances out of their Husbands or Parents Estates allotted them by Ordinance of Parliament 19. That such of his Majesties Houshold Servants who shall desire to go to his Majesty may have free Liberty and Passes to go accordingly at any time within one Month next after the Rendring of the Garrison And that his Majesties Houshold stuff and other his peculiar Goods which are now in Oxford may be carried to his Majesties House at Hampton Court and his Servants under whose charge or custody any of them are shall be allowed and assisted in the procuring of Carts Boats and Carriages for the removal of them thither and there to remain till his Majesty shall otherwise dispose of them and then to be sent or disposed accordingly And that such of his Majesties Servants who are not able for the present to go unto him shall have Liberty Passes and Protections to go to and remain at his Majesties said house at Hampton Court and have liberty to attend the Committee for his Majesties Revenues to procure a competent allowance out of his Majesties Revenue for their subsistence untill his Majesty shall otherwise provide for or dispose of them 20. That all Clergy-men now in Oxford who shall not upon Composition or otherwise be restored to their Church-Livings shall have Liberty to go to London to obtain some fitting allowance for the livelihood of themselves and their Families 21. That it is intended declared and agreed That all persons comprised within these Articles shall peaceably and quietly enjoy all their Goods Debts and Moveables allowed by these Articles during the space of six Months after Rendring the Garrison and that they shall be free from all Oaths Engagements and Molestations except an Engagement by promise not to bear Arms against the Parliament nor wilfully do any Act prejudicial to their Affairs so long as they remain in their Quarters and that they shall have liberty within the space of six Months in case they should be resolved to go beyond Seas to dispose of their Goods Debts and Moveables allowed by these Articles and depart the Kingdom if they shall think fit and to have Passes for their Transportation or otherwise to stay in the Kingdom 22. That if any of these Articles shall in any point be broken or violated by any Person or Persons in Oxford or comprised within this Capitulation the fault and punishment shall be upon him or them only who made the breach or violation and shall not be imputed to or charged upon any other not assenting thereunto or not an actor in it 23. That the Duke of Richmond the Earl of Lindsey and their Servants that came forth with them shall enjoy the benefit of these Articles in whatsoever may concern them 24. That the Garrison of Farringdon shall be Rendred to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Governor Gentlemen Soldiers and all other of what quality soever within those Garrisons shall enjoy the benefit of these Articles in every particular which may concern them they rendring the Garrison accordingly as Oxford 25. That all persons comprised in these Articles shall upon request have a Certificate under the hand of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax or the future Governor of the City That such Persons were in the City at the time of the Surrender thereof and are to have the benefit of these Articles 26. That the General Sir Thomas Fairfax shall give a Pass to one or two Messengers with their Servants to go unto the King to give him an Account of the proceedings upon this Treaty and conclusion thereof and to return and receive the benefit of these Articles Dated at Water-Eaton June 20 1646. 22. The Propositions for Peace agreed upon and the City of London to have power of their own Militia they were ordered to be communicated to the Scots Commissioners here and upon their concurrence to be sent to his Majesty Mr. Dell the Generals Chaplain brought Letters and the Articles of Oxford to the Parliament Orders for Money for the Scots and about Mr. Charles Howards Composition Col. Birch Besieged Goodrich Castle 23. The Articles of Oxford approved and fifty pound gratuity to Mr. Dell and thirty pound to the Messenger Order for the Duke of York to be brought to St. Jame's and provided for in an honourable way Sir William Brereton being come into the House the Speaker by order gave him thanks for his good Services particularly for that of Chester 24. The Monthly Fast after the Sermons divers new Elected Members took the Covenant 25. Some Masters of Hospitals appointed Beumaris Town and Castle surrendred to Major General Mitton and he was voted to be Governor there Orders for Money and for a Ship at Anglesey The Marquess of Argyle and Scots Commissioners presented some papers to the Houses one was That the Quarters of their Army in the North might be inlarged and Money provided for them and other supplys as for the other Forces That Ships may be sent to prevent the landing of the Irish Rebels in Scotland That the Parliament here would send Commissioners to joyn with the Commissioners of Estates of Scotland at Newcastle to testifie the endeavours of the Scots and to assist them in perswading his Majesty to a good Peace and to have power to treat and settle the accounts between the two Kingdoms that all Forces may be disbanded and the fruits of Peace enjoyed by both Nations Another Letter was read being from the King to the Marquess of Ormond in Ireland to discharge all further Treaty with the Irish Rebels Letters informed that the Lord â—roghill had taken in the Garrison of Blaney in Ireland and given the Rebels some other small defeats Oxford was surrendred to Sir Tho. Fairfax no affront nor injury offered by any of his Soldiers to those of the Garrison when they marched forth but all the Articles punctually observed divers Irish men and Irish Women went out with them the Garrison were in all about seven Thousand men After the Governor was marched forth the Keys of the City were presented to the General who ordered three Foot Regiments to march into the Town and between them and the Citizens was courteous language and not a reproachful or uncivil word by any of the Army to them nor the least disorder They left in the City about thirty pieces of Ordnance but little provision for Man or Horse but after the Parliament Forces had entred the City the Countrey people thereabouts brought in store of Provisions The Duke of York
Army 23. Debate upon the Ordinance against Blasphemies and Heresies and the Punishment voted to be death The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London gave a congratulatory visit to Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Recorder made a Speech to him The Committee of Westminster imprisoned Bayliffs who arrested their Officers Letters from New-castle informed that the Earl of Antrim and Kilketto in Scotland refuse to lay down Arms and the rest of the Gourdons part though the King sent to them to do it Some of the Mutineers at York executed Some of the supplys for Ireland were safely landed there 24. A Report from the Committee touching the conference with the Scots Commissioners about disposing of the Kings Person in which the Scots urged that it might be done by joynt consent of both Kingdoms and in their Speeches seemed to reflect and bring an Odium upon the proceedings of the Parliament in that business and to perswade the people into such an opinion and in favour of what the Scots Commissioners had said therein That the Papers of the Speeches of the Scots Commissioners in this business had been unduly Printed to this end that the Scots had promised to bring in their positive answer to this business but had not yet done it whereupon the Committee had framed a Declaration in vindication of the Parliaments proceedings which was read Referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms to treat with the Scots Commissioners about the time and place of Payment of the first hundred thousand pound to them which was now ready and about the march of their Army out of England A Committee made to consider of the losses of the Lord Say Sir Rowland Wandesford Col. Fleet-wood and other Officers of the Court of Wards by the taking away that Court and how they may have a satisfaction Order for payment of Arrears to Sir Edward Doddesworth Commissary of the Horse to the Earl of Essex and for auditing the Arrears of the Officers of Col. Massey's Brigade and about forty thousand pound for Officers of the fourth List Letters that Dublin was well fortified to resist the Rebels 25. The Fast day and some new Members took the Covenant 26. A Declaration pass'd for Security of those who double their Money owing upon the publick Faith towards the raising of the two hundred thousand pound for the Scots Order for a new Election Order touching the ten thousand pound for the necessitous persons Widows c. Leave for Col. Popham and Mr. Gaudy to go into the Country Letters informed the landing of the English Forces at Dublin and Sir Charles Coote breaking through the Rebels Army with a Party caused them to draw further off from Dublyn and that the Lord Inchequin hath had success against the Rebels in Munster 27. The House sate till six at night about the Declaration of the Arguments and answers in the Conferences with the Scots Commissioners touching the disposing of the Kings Person The Herse and Effigies of the late Earl of Essex was cut to pieces and defaced as it stood in the Abbey of Westminster and the like barbarous action was to the Tomb of old Cambden there 28. Vote of both Houses for the Earl of Rutland to be Justice in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests and Chaces beyond Trent The House sate till five at night about the Declaration touching the Scots Papers and passed it Carried in the Negative not to be sent to the Lords for their concurrence but to be inclosed and sent in a Letter from the Speaker to the Scots Commissioners here and afterwards to be printed and published 30. Debate upon the Ordinance against Heresies and Blasphemies wherein those of the Presbyterian Judgment were very violent and severe Letters from Major General Pointz informed of a design to surprize Pomfret for the King but discovered and prevented others that his Majesty had given Commissions to divers Gentlemen in the North lately to raise Forces against the Parliament others that there was a late Conspiracy to betray Lynne The House ordered all the Conspirators to be sent for by a Serjeant at Arms and Letters to Major General Pointz and General Leven to assist the Serjeants Deputies for the apprehending of them Orders for Supplys for Money for the Garrisons of Lynne and of Portsmouth The Lords concurrence desired to the Vote for the Committee to treat with the Scots Commissioners about the time and place of payment of the two hundred thousand pound and the advance of the Scots Army Referred to the Committee of the Navy to consider of raising Money to repair the banks of Humber Letters from Ireland informed that after the Parliaments Commissioners and Forces were landed at Dublyn Road the Marquess of Ormond contrary to expectation and the former Treaty denyed to deliver possession of Dublyn to them because he had not yet received his Majesties consent thereunto and upon this the Parliaments Commissioners Shipped again the Forces to joyn with the Brittish Forces at Belfast That the Irish Rebels upon the coming of the English Forces were so terrified that they drew off and attempted nothing against Dublyn and that nothing was attempted against them by the Marquess of Ormond December 1646. December 1. Report from the Committee appointed to give in three names of Gentlemen in each County fit to be made Sheriffs and the House chose one of the three and went this day through most of the Counties Order to revive Committees that sate de die in diem that old businesses may be dispatched Order to state accompts of Massey's men The Declaration touching the Scots Papers being sent to their Commissioners they sent it back again because it came not from both Houses and the Commons ordered it to be printed It was wondred at by many that the Concurrence of the Lords was declined in this business but a great ground thereof was to have the more expedition and because the Lords were supposed would not consent to many parts of it The single and great question was Whether the Kingdom of Scotland had any right of joynt exercise of Interest in disposing of the Person of the King in the Kingdom of England The Papers Arguments Objections and Answers between the Committee of Parliament and the Scots Commissioners upon this point were very long and are in Print by themselves therefore here omitted And their proposal That the King might come to London with honour freedom and safety is there considered 2. The Ordinance sent up to the Lords for the Assesment for the Army and orders for speedy collecting it past and a complaint against Col. King for obstructing the levying of Moneys in Lincolne shire referred to a Committee A Fast appointed for averting Gods Judgments by the unseasonable Rain Debate about Provisions for the next Summers Fleet and about habeas Corpus 3. Orders touching Arrears of reduced Officers and about the ten thousand pound for Widows of Soldiers c. Order for the Speaker to write to
midnight about the City Petition and some perhaps were a little awed by the multitudes of Citizens attending at the door of the House They agreed upon a Declaration against all such Persons as take upon them to Preach or expound the Scriptures except they be Ordained And this gave much offence to those of the Independent Judgment January 1646. January 1. Orders for payment of Moneys formerly ordered to the Earl of Stamford and for eight hundred pound to the Commissioners that are to go into the North for their accommodations and their instructions Debate upon the Ordinance against Blasphemies and Heresies Vote for Sir Peter Killegrew to be sent with the Preamble and vote in answer to his Majesties last Letters 2. A Letter from General Leven complying with the Parliaments desires in their Letters to him and order given to have the Jewel ready for him Letters informed an endeavour of the King to escape from New-castle without the Scots privity and a more strict Guard upon him Orders for stay of Sir Peter Killegrew's Journey and for a thousand pound for Mr. Pury out of the Earl of Worcesters Estate and a thousand pound for Mr. Hodges in repair of their losses and for a thousand pound for Sir Robert Pye Jun. out of Sir Edmond Pye's Composition Order for allowances to the Officers of the Court of Wards 4. Upon a Letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax Orders for two thousand pound for Sir Hardress Waller of his Arrears and for two thousand pound for Col. Sidney Order to continue the two Speakers Commissioners of the Great Seal for ten days longer An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for the Government of Chester Instructions and powers agreed for the Lieuetenant of Ireland and a Sword to be born before him and Counsellors of State named for Ireland and they to have five hundred pound per An. apiece till their Estates shall be recovered An Ordinance appointed to settle the same Church-Government in Ireland as in England Vote to name Commissioners of both Houses to receive the King from the Scots and to bring him to Holmeby and the Committee of both Kingdoms to draw instructions for the Commissioners and Letters to be written to General Leven and to the Scots Commissioners at New castle to acquaint them with these Votes and that the Commissioners should speedily come for the King Letters sent from Major General Laugherne and the Committee of Haverford West informed That Mr. Hudson the Kings Guide having escaped out of Prison was by the King imployed upon another design to carry Letters to be delivered to Major General Laugherne to invite him to betray his Trust and to revolt to the King That the Major General sent up the Letters and other Papers to the Parliament and Hudson and Price one of his Agents and the examining them was referred to a Committee The Commons agreed that Mr. Godolphin Governor of Sâ—ylly upon his surrender of that Island and all Forts c. and taking the Covenant and Negative Oath should enjoy his Estate and be free from Arrests for any acts of War 6. Both Houses agreed the Instructions for the Commissioners that go to the Scots Army and to the Declaration in answer to the Kings last Letter and about disposing of his Person and to the Letters to General Leven and to the Scots Commissioners at Newcastle touching this business and Sir Peter Killegrew was to post with them to Newcastle The Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Denbigh the Lord Mountague named by the Lords and by the Commons Sir William Armine Sir Jo. Hollond Sir Walter Earle Sir John Cooke Mr. John Crew and Major General Browne Commissioners to receive the Kings Person and with such Guards as they shall think fit to bring him to Holmeby House Ordinance for Sir Anthony-Ashley-Cooper Sheriff of Wilts to live out of the County Order for Winchester Castle to be dis-garrisoned and delivered to Sir William Waller the owner A Committee named to consider of several debts owing by the Earl of Corke who is gone beyond Sea without perfecting his Composition Letters informed that the Money for the Scots was safe come to Yorke The Parliament Forces after great Storms at Sea Landed in Ireland and had course entertainment there 7. Mr. Sandys reported what places and profits Members of the House had that an Account thereof may be given Order for two thousand five hundred pound for the Commissioners that are to receive the Kings Person and their instructions debated Sir William Ermyn upon his own desire excused and Sir James Harrington Commissioner in his stead and Mr. Marshall and Mr. Carill appointed to go along with them Articles presented to the House against one Harris referred to the Justices of Peace Endeavours were in Countries to get hands to Petitions to second that of London 8. Debate upon the Ordinance against such as Preach or expound the Scriptures not being ordained Upon Petition of the Countess of Peterburgh Order that she should have her Husbands Arrears out of such Delinquents Estates as she should discover 9. Orders for ten thousand pound for the Lord Say for the loss of his place in the Court of Wards Sir Rowland Wandesford to have five thousand pound Sir Ben. Rudyeard six thousand pound and Mr. Bacon to have three hundred pound Reference to the Committee of the Navy about adding four Frigots to the next Summers Fleet. The Commons agreed with the Lords to have Goring House for the Ambassador of France Orders for Petitions to be read in rank as they were presented and for ten thousand Pound for the reduced Officers and a thousand pound to Colonel Waite for Arrears and to Summon Col. King to attend the Committee The Commissioners to name Attendants for the King 11. Major General Skippon sent up intercepted Letters from Hudson the Kings Guide to his Majesty bewailing his unhappiness in failing of success with Major General Laugherne and being again apprehended Order for a Letter to the Governor of Hull to send up Dr. Hudson in safe Custody by Land to the Parliament and reserred the Letters to a Committee Upon a Letter from Sir Tho. Fairfax Order for four thousand pound for the standing Officers of the County of York Approbation of the Convoy sent by Sir T. Fairfax with the Money to the Scots Order for four thousand five hundred pound for Sir Samuel Luke for his Arrears out of Goldsmiths Hall The Town of Cirencester elected Sir Th. Fairfax and Col. Rich for their Burgesses Debate upon the instructions of the Lord L'Isle Lieutenant of Ireland The Scots refused to surrender Belfast to the Parliaments Forces Ireland in great want of Supplys Commissioners came from the Parliament of Scotland to Newcastle to perswade the King to Sign the Propositions 12. Order for Sir Oliver Fleming Master of the Ceremonies to go to the French Ambassador to know whether he hath any thing from his Master the King of France to the Parliament that he may be dispatched
King came to Sion and dined with his Children and removed to Hampton Court News of the Sudden death of Sir Philip Stapleton at Callis of the Plague 25. The Monthly Fast-day 26. Orders for a new Election and about the Excise and an Ordinance pass'd to make Mr. Langley Master of Pembroke Colledge in Oxford Referred to a Committee to consider what is fit to be done for the security of the Parliament when the Army shall withdraw A Petition of many Citizens in behalf of Lilburne referred to the Committee where Mr. Martin had the Chair Order to put off all private business for ten days In respect of the danger of infection the General was desired to give command to the Guards attending the House to keep the passages from Clamorous Women and to suffer none to disturb the House 27. The alterations in the Propositions for peace sent from the Lords to the Commons were with some other alterations made by the Commons agreed unto and returned to the Lords again who concurred in them and they were ordered to be communicated to the Scots Commissioners Debate touching the Election of Mr. D'oyley the House not satisfied but that he was within the Rule of those who by adhering to the Kings Party were uncapable to sit in Parliament 28. Letters from the General to the House That upon consideration of the present advantage that may be made through the goodness of God of the late success of their Forces in Ireland upon advice with his Council of War he finds that there will be in readiness six thousand Foot and two thousand Horse if they may have incouragement for the Service of Ireland He desires an effectual course may be taken for Moneys and Necessaries and to remove obstructions and saith he hath appointed a certain number of Officers to wait upon such as the House shall appoint to consult upon the whole business The General removed his Quarters to Putney and his Army into larger Quarters and further then before from London The Parliaments Commissioners went to the Army and had conference with the General and his Council of War touching the sending of Forces into Ireland and the General consulted about putting a guard of Citizens into the Tower and for guards for the Parliament The old Commissioners of the Militia of London met again The Common-Council sat about an Ordinance to be pass'd for calling in of clipped Money Col. Layton was committed Prisoner by the General Sir Robert Pye taken Prisoner by some of the Army was released again by the General 30. The Houses sat not but the Committee proceeded in the examination of the business touching the late Force put upon the Parliament An Ordinance pass'd both Houses for establishing the duty of Excise Letters from Col. Whaley that the King thought himself much wronged and abused by a Paper lately published as in his name intituled His Majesties Declaration which the King wholly disowne and dislikes and that to vindicate the King by discovering and punishing the Libeller would give great satisfaction to his Majesty That the King hunted in the great Park and dined with his Children at Syon c. 31. The day of thanksgiving for the Victory in Irland The Marquess of Ormond visited the King and afterwards visited the General at Putney and was received with great kindness The Council of War sat about sending the Forces into Ireland and about placing of Guards in the Tower and for Guards for the Houses September 1647. September 1. Letters ordered to the Commissioners in the Army to treat farther with the General and to expedite the sending away of Forces into Ireland and a Committee to consider of raising Money for them Debate about security for such as shall bring in Bullion and against transporting of it and for calling in clipt Silver Orders about stating the accounts of Officers and Soldiers and about Money for the maimed Soldiers and for Money for Plymouth Garrison Several Votes of both Houses about presenting the propositions of Peace to his Majesty Debate upon a Message from the Lords with a Letter from the Estates of Scotland and from the Scots Commissioners about the business of the Lord Lotherdale and the stay of Mr. Chiesely at Newcastle desiring reparations The Lords referred it to the Committee of both Kingdoms the Commons referred it to the Committee with the Army Col. Lilburne Governor of New-castle wrote a Letter to the States of Scotland excusing the stay of Mr. Chieseley at New-castle that he knew him not nor did Mr. Chiesely show any Pass from the Scots Commissioners or from Sir Thomas Fairfax and was stayed in the time when the Tumults were at London and intelligence of endeavours to engage a Party in Scotland against the Parliament of England but as soon as he knew who Mr. Chiesley was he discharged him freely 2. Both Houses passed the Ordinance for setling the Militia of London in the old hands and some of the Committee joyned with them They also pass'd a Declaration against the crowding of Soldiers and others at the doors of both Houses A Petition in the name of the Inhabitants of Bristol 1. For settlement of Peace and to prevent another War 2. To answer the Grievances of the Army and to Vindicate them 3. To preserve the just Rights and Liberties of the People from Tyramy 4. To free the People from unlawful Powers and endeavours to suppress their Petitions 5. To remove out of the House and places of Justice unfit and uncapable persons 6. That Faithful Persons may be trusted 7. For tenderness in imposing the Covenant 8. That tender Consciences may not be grieved 9. For an Act of Oblivion 10. For speedy tryal of Prisoners 11. Against long Imprisonments 12. To compassionate Widows and maimed Soldiers 13. That Accounts may be given 14. To find out a way that Suits of Law may be less chargeable and dilatory and the Laws in a less Volumn and in English The Petitioners were called in and told That the House could not approve of some things in their Petition but gave them thanks for their good affections Upon a Letter from the General Order for a Commission to determine differences in Jersey Both Houses agreed upon an answer to the Letter of the Scots Commissioners Vote That the works about London be demolished according to a Paper from the Army to ease the charge of maintaining and keeping them 3. Order That the propositions be presented to the King on Tuesday next by the Commissioners and that the ten days for receiving his Majesties answer be altered to six days Debate of making Col. Hammond Governor of the Isle of Wight and about an Ordinance for suppressing of scurrillous Pamphlets Mr. Bainton charged with signing a Warrant for raising Horse in the City to further the late tumults was suspended the House 4. The whole day spent upon the report concerning the late tumult and force upon the Parliament Voted That Summons be sent
and assistance of a Justice of Peace 26. Debate in a Grand Committee upon the Ordinance of Tunnage and Poundage The House finished the Propositions to be sent to the King and ordered them to be presented within ten days and had a conference with the Lords for their concurrence Order for the Lead of Worcester Church to be taken off and sold A Petition from the Northern parts to both Houses for the erecting of an University at York Letters from Dublin informed that Collonel Jones having joyned to his Forces those of Collonel Cootes and Collonel Monke in all two thousand two hundred Horse and five thousand five hundred Foot took in several Castles from the Rebels then they Battered Port-Lester most of the Garrison leaped into the water and swam away the rest were put to the Sword Then some of his men without Order fell upon Athboy unexpectedly surprised the Guards and entred and possess'd the Town which was strongly fortified and five hundred men in it they took also two thousand Cows and other Cattle from the Rebels Owen their General could not get his men to ingage for want of mony 27. The Monthly Fast-day the House did set days to consider of the Ordinance for setting of poor people to Work and of the Ordinance against heinous sins and Blasphemies 28. A Petition from the Trustees for Sale of Bishops Lands about removing some obstructions referred to special Committee Impeachments against the seven Lords agreed upon and sent up to the House of Peers and an Impeachment against Sir Jo. Maynard and Collonel Midhup was apprehended for being active in the late Force upon the Parliament and Impeached of Treason Order for several Members of the House to take some of the Deputies of the Sergeant at Arms and to break open doors and seize Trunks and Papers of one Captain Vernon which Order was much opposed by some Members of the House as altogether illegal The Earl of Northumberland desired leave at any time to carry the Kings Children to His Majesty which was granted The Agitators of the five Regiments that presented the former Papers to the General and General Councel now put forth another Paper to clear themselves and that they had no intention of making divisions in the Army c. 29. The grand Committee sat about Tunnage and Poundage Several meetings were of the General-Councel of the Army 30. Order about the eight thousand pounds per annum to be paid to the Prince Elector A free Conference of both Houses touching some difference about part of the propositions and the Commons appointed a Committee to prepare reasons to satisfie the Lords why the Commons adhered to their former resolutions in those particulars November 1647. November 1. Orders for Clothes and Provisions for the Forces in Ireland and a Committee for Ireland appointed to Treat with Merchants to advance the Clothes Provisions and Ammunition to be sent over thither and to give security by the Excise the assessment of sixty thousand pounds per mensem and Delinquent Estates Order for the Chargers of the Officers of the Committee of Accounts An Information of endeavours to Raise Forces against the Parliament and Army referred to be examined by a Committee An Ordinance past giving power to Collonel Monke to execute Martial-Law Both Houses agreed upon the Propositions to be sent to the King and referred them to a Committee to be drawn up in form Some of Major General Lambert's Forces apprehended divers Moss Troopers The Committee of Estates caused the Lord Harehill to be Beheaded at Edenburgh notwithstanding the Kings Pardon he dyed boldly and after his Speech to the people he threw down two Papers among them which mentioned strange new Troubles in England A further Paper of Proposals came to the House from the Agitators of the five Regiments and of four other Regiments of Horse and of seven Regiments of Foot joyning with them They declare 1. That the people being unequally distributed by Counties Cities and Boroughs for Election of their Deputies in Parliament ought to be more indifferently proportioned according to the number of Inhabitants the Circumstances to be set down before the end of this Parliament 2. That to prevent the inconveniences by the long continuance of the same persons in Authority this present Parliament be dissolved by the last day of September next 3. That the people do of course choose themselves a Parliament once in every two years 4. That the power of this and all other future Representatives is inferiour only to theirs that choose them and extends without the consent of any other person to the Enacting Altering and Repealing of Laws to the erecting and abolishing of Offices and Courts to the appointing removing and calling to account Magistrates and Officers of all degrees to the making War and Peace to the Treating with Forreign States and generally to whatsoever is not reserved by those represented to themselves Which are these 1. That matters of Religion and Gods Worship are not at all intrusted to any Human power because therein we cannot admit or exceed a tittle of what our Consciences dictate to be the mind of God without wilful sin Nevertheless the publick way of instructing the Nation so it be not compulsive is referred to their discretion 2. That impressing or constraining any of us to serve in the War is against freedom and not allowed to our Representatives the rather because it is at their disposal 3. That after this Parliament none be questioned for any thing said or done in reference to the late differences 4. That in all Laws every person be bound alike and that Tenure Estates Charter Degree Birth or Place do not confer any exception from the ordinary course of Legal proceedings whereunto others are subjected 5. That the Laws must be equal and good and not destructive to the safety and well-being of the people These They declare to be their Native rights and are resolved to maintain them and not to depend for the settlement of our Peace and Freedom upon him that intended our bondage and brought a cruel War upon us 21. A Grand Committee Sat all day about mony for the Army and to take away Free-Quarter Letters from the Lord Inchequin for Cloaths c. for the Munster Forces The House appointed a Committee to Collect all Papers Letters and Writings or Commissions of Publick concernment in the hands of any Secretaries or Officers and to take a Catalogue of them and to preserve them in some place for Publick use New Proposals of the Army 1. That this Parliament be Dissolved by the last day of September next 2. That secure Provisions may be made for the Succession Constitution and clearing the Power of Parliaments 3. That a Parliament shall biennially meet upon the first Thursday in April every year 4. And shall sit till the last day of September after the meeting and then Dissolve and not sooner except by their own
continued one of the Sheriffs of London Divers well affected persons having raised Forces in several Counties for the defence thereof without authority of Parliament the House declared the same an acceptable Service To the end the Kingdom may be satisfied of the endeavours of the Parliament to preserve the brotherly love and Vnion with Scotland Ordered that all the Transactions Papers and Letters between the English Commissioners and the Parliament of Scotland shall be printed Ordered that the Horse listed under Colonel Butler and Quarter Master General Fincher be quartered in the Mues Letters from Colchester Leaguer that July the fifth about eight in the morning the Enemy sallied out with a thousand Horse and three hundred Foot fell suddainly upon the Parliaments Guards and surprised some of them being Country men that the rest retreated from the main Guard That Colonel Whaley perceiving the Enemies advantage got with his Horse between them and home whilest the Tower Regiment advanced towards the front and routed both Horse and Foot together and took about a hundred prisoners most of them miserably wounded the Parliaments Souldiers being the more fierce because of the poysoned bullets That about twenty of the Enemy were slain on the place most of them Gentlemen as appeared by their clothes and their white skins That Lieutenant Colonel Weston Son to Sir Rich. Weston and two Captains were taken Prisoners and the Parliaments Forces regained two Drakes from the Enemy that Lieut. Colonel Shambrooke was shot in the Body and the bullet since taken out appeared to be poysoned boyled in Copperas which much inraged the Parliaments Souldiers That Captain Moody who commanded a Troop of the Suffolk Horse ingaging boldly was taken Prisoner One Souldier had his leg shot off with a great bullet and some were wounded 7. Debate upon the City's answer to the Parliaments Proposals what security theâ— City would give for the security of his Majesty's person and of the Parliament during their Treaty at London if it should be agreed upon The City acquainted the House with a Letter they received last night from the Earl of Holland Duke of Bucks and Earl of Peterborough declaring their intentions to joyn with the Forces of Sussex Sunny and Middlesex to release and preserve his Majesty's person to bring him to his Parliament to settle Peace in the Kingdom and to preserve the known laws inviting the City to joyn with them herein at least not to be active against them Upon debate of this Letter the House voted that the Earl of Holland Duke of Bucks and Earl of Peterburgh had leavied War against the Parliament and Kingdom and in so doing were Traytors and ought to be proceeded against as Traytors and that the Estates of those Lords and of all that joyn with them be sequestred An Ordinance past for fifteen hundred pounds a Month for Forces in Lincolnshire Letters from Colchester Leaguer of the late victory by the Parliaments Forces there that the Lord Goring and Lord Capell carry thing very high but Sir Charles Lucas more moderate that Butter and cheese was at five Shillings a pound and that the Souldiers seised upon the Meal and Bread and began to be much distasted by the Towns-men especially the Women who began to be in want of victuals for themselves and Children 8. A Conference of both Houses about not insisting upon the three Bills to be sent to his Majesty Order for mony for Major General Brown A Petition of old Officers and Souldiers of the North Committed Letters from Colonel Rossiter that he met with the Pontefract Forces upon their return after their plundering Voyage and ingaged them at a place called Willoughby Field routed their whole party consisting of about a thousand Horse took both Horse and their riders the Commander in Chief and all his Officers all their bag and baggage the rest routed but not many slain Colonel Rossiter wounded in the thigh The House gave a hundred pound to Captain Norwood who brought the Letters from Colonel Rossiter Letters that the Earl of Holland and his party marched from Darking with their whole force to possess Rigate but their Design was disappointed by Major Gibbons and two Troups of Colonel Riches Horse entring the Town before That upon this the Earl of Holland and his Party Marched the next way to Kingston and were pursued by the Parliaments Horse who took some men and Horse near Nonsuch That in the way betwixt Nonsuch and Kingston the Earl of Holland drew up and faced Sir Mich. Levesey and Gibbons and some Parties on both sides skirmished That the Earl of Holland sent his Foot before to Kingston to make good his retreat thither that the Forelorns on both sides fought gallantly that the Earl was followed violently by Gibbons and a Cornet of Colonel Riches Regiment with their divisions to Kingston and routed but the Foot sent before made good their turn-pike and the Parliaments Forces did not think sit to enter the Town with them That the Parliaments Forces intending a further attempt upon the Earls men but they not answering the Alarm the Horse Guard advanced into the Town and found it quit of the Enemy who left near a hundred Horse in the Town with their carriages and themselves fled over the Bridge to Harrow on the Hill whither the Parliaments Forces were in pursuit of them That in this service were about twenty slain the Lord Francis dangerously wounded if not dead the Earl of Holland said to be shot in the shoulder Colonel Howard and some others of note hurt about a hundred prisoners and two hundred Horse taken the Earl with about three hundred gone towards S r Albans pursued by the Parliaments Forces with whom Colonel Scroope is coming to joyn Letters from Colchester leaguer that the Enemy shot much from the top of a Church till the General with his Cannon beat down part of the Church and then they ceased that the Officers tell their men and scatter papers among the Parliaments Souldiers that London appeared for them that a thousand Horse were coming to raise the siege that the Parliament was broken and many of the Members cut in pieces That in some prisoners pockets they found ten slugs done with sand and a Trumpet was sent to the Lord Goring to let him know what his Souldiers must expect That according to a Letter from the House of Lords the General returned the Lord Capels Son that Colonel Scroope is gone with Sir Michael Levesey against the Earl of Holland and his party 9. Some Prisoners being brought to town from the Army divers apprentices got together and indeavoured by a tumult to rescue them but it was prevented 10. At a Conference the Lords delivered reasons to the Commons why the three propositions should not be insisted on before a Treaty with his Majesty 1. That there may be no delay a speedy personal Treaty being so much desired and Petitioned for 2.