you urge as necessary and Gospel Truths and because all your Indifferences Prayers and Preachings have been and are more for advancing your own Interest and Factions to hinderance of a blessed Peace betwixt the Two Nations than for the advancement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I therefore upon these Principles do not at all fear that which ye call the dreadful Sentence of Excommunication For either ye are infallible in your Proceedings and Judgments or ye are fallible the first I think you will not arrogate to your selves for that were the highest Point of Popery albeit ye often practise in Deeds what ye deny in Words And your so frequent Changes will prove it to be evidently false If ye be fallible I am not much afraid of your fallible Sentence since I have so great reason to think ye actually erre by urging me to swear That Presbyterian Government as ye use it is the only Government which Christ hath established in his Church So that of late ye have made it the 3d Mark of the true Kirk I acknowledge and receive those words of our Saviour which ye act Tell the Kirk and if he will not hear the Kirk let him be to thee as a Heathen But I do not approve your Interpretation and Application of them for by this means ye assume unto your selves the Name of the whole Kirk as if all others who did not approve your Discipline were false Kirks and thereby ye furnish too strong an Argument to the Papists against Luther and other Reformers who would not hear nor obey the Papistical Kirk albeit there was no other Kirk nor Congregation then setled Therefore I care no more for your Excommunication than you care for the Popes And whereas ye pretend to shew that Presbyterian Government is established by the Word of God citing 1 Tim. 4. 14. May not I as justly cite to you the Chapter immediately going before where the Apostle speaks of the Office and Duty of Bishops and to give you Two for One. He resumes also the same words in the first to Titus which if they be taken according to the words may be as strong an Argument for the Bishops but such Arguments as these are meer Logomachies every one throwing the Word of God to their own Sense and Interest And because ye find the word of Presbytery once in the Scripture ye think ye have won the Point which would make no more for you than for the Papists who call their Priests Presbyters and the Congregation of their Presbytery Ye turn the word Presbyter an Elder and in your Presbytery which should be turned Eldership as it is in my own House Bible printed Anno 1630. as being derived from Presbytery ye admit only Ministers whereas according to the Word they should be all Elders By which it may appear that ye could only act that one place for your selves in the whole Word of God which makes more against you than for you I do not question about Names I doubt only about the thing ye intend by it for I can see no Authority neither in the Word of God nor in the practise of any Kirk as ye use it nor in any approved Author and if you did esteem so much of the Kirk as ye would have me do of your Presbytery ye ought not to have given me such ensample by protesting against the late National Assembly which is the Supream Representative Body of the Kirk in this Land Whereby your selves are liable to censure as Schismaticks and therefore have no power to censure me I acknowledge God is honoured by Oaths yet that must receive some limitation they must be taken in Judgment in Truth and upon necessity Now I appeal to your own Consciences whether you have observed these Conditions in your urging so many dreadful Oaths upon this miserable Nation these years by-past not only in the Covenant but in your Solemn League with your Presbyterian Brethren of England Whereby ye inforced all Men to swear to establish by Arms that Tyranny there as ye had done here how many have ye inforced by threatning and execution of your Kirk-Censure and the severity of the Civil Law falling upon them depriving Men of their Estates to swear and subscribe to all ye enjoyned or could invent albeit ye knew them to be of far contrary Judgment Wherein ye did imitate that feigned and false Mother who before Solomon was contented to have the Child divided by which her Hypocrisie was found out by that most wise Prince By which means ye have made this Nation guilty of horrible Perjury besides many other heynous sins I wish to God ye had remembred or would yet remember how much ye cryed out against the Tyranny of Bishops when they were urging some of your number who were refractory to Episcopacy that there should be had some regard to tender Consciences which were of another Judgment But so soon as ye got the Power into your hands neither Minister nor Laird Man Woman nor Child was spared nor no regard had unto them whatever Quality or Condition they were of all were forced not only to obey you but which is the greatest Point of Tyranny over Mens Consciences they were made to swear that they thought as you would have them albeit to your own knowledge many thought the contrary But there was no regard you would have it so to satisfie your ambition and crooked ends Ye abhorred and detested the Title of Lords in the Bishops but ye have usurped without the Name the Power of Popes which was so much the more inconsequential in you that professing and shewing your selves so often fallible yet ye exacted one infallible Obedience Wherein if you have observed Christs Rule which commands That whatsoever we would that Men should do unto us we should do the same to them ye have reason to look to it and if ye had reason to complain of the Bishops I and many others have had much more reason to complain of you for your little finger hath been heavier than all their hands as woful Experience hath shewed I wonder that ye should write that Presbyterian Government is established by Law in England and that which ye call Independency is only tolerated and connived at this is a matter of Fact well known that Presbyterians have no power of censuring or forcing Men to swear as ye do assume to your selves The Common-wealth of England will never permit such a Tyramy to be established for that were to involve themselves in a greater slavery of Conscience than they were in before under the Bishops Both Reason amd Experience plead against you in this matter and therefore you must pardon me if I do not give credit to your bare Relation without some more proof Whereas you accuse me of Blasphemy for calling your Summons Libels and Pasquills c. because in them ye cited the Word of God I wonder much of your rashness in Judgment that you cannot discern between your
Habits Chariots Musick and all other parts of the former Solemnity and in the same state and equipage as it was before presented This also gave great contentment to their Majesties and no less to the Citizens especially to those of the younger sort and of the female sex and it was to the great honour and no less charge of the Lord May or Freeman The persons imployed in this Masque were paid justly and liberally some of the Musick had one hundred pounds apiece so that the whole charge of the Musick came to about a thousand pounds The Clothes of the Horsemen and the Liveries of their Pages and Lacquies which were at their own particular charge were reckon'd one with another at a hundred pound a Suit at the least and one hundred of those Suits to amount to ten thousand pounds The charges of all the rest of the Masque and matters belonging to it were reckon'd at as much more and so the charge of the whole Masque which was born by the Societies and by the particular Members of it was accounted to be above one and twenty thousand pounds A little while after the Masque was performed the Committee order'd Sir John Finch Mr. Gerling Mr. Hyde and Whitelocke to attend the King and Queen in the name of the four Inns of Court to return their humble thanks for their Majesties gracious acceptance of the tender of their service in the late Masque They were first brought to the King who gave to all of them his hand to kiss then Sir John Finch in the name of the rest spake to the King to this effect Sir by the Command of your Majestie 's most affectionate and loyall Subjects the Readers and Gentlemen of the Four Inns of Court we are here to attend you with their most humble thanks for your great Favour to them in your gracious acceptance of the tender of their Service and Affections to your Majesty in the late Masque presented to you and for vouchsafing your Royal Presence at it The King with great affability and pleasingness answered him presently to this purpose Gentlemen pray assure those from whom you come that we are exceeding well pleased with that Testimony which they lately gave us of their great respect and affection to us which was very acceptable and performed with that Gallantry and in so excellent a manner that I cannot but give them thanks for it and shall be ready upon all occasions to manifest the good opinion I have of them and to do them and you in particular any favour From the King they were brought to the Queen and kissed her hand and Sir John Finch her Attorney having made the like Complement to her Majesty she answered quick and well pleased That she never saw any Masque more noble nor beter performed than this was which she took as a particular respect to her self as well as to the King her Husband and desired that her thanks might be returned to the Gentlemen for it This being reported to the Benchers of each Society they gave thanks to their respective Members that were of the Committee for the Honour they had done to the Society by the well ordering of that business of the Masque Thus these Dreams past and these Pompes vanished It will be now time to return to the publick story of the latter part of this year The Arch-bishop Laud procured a sharp sentence to be passed in the Star Chamber against Prynne that he should be imprisoned during his life fined 5000 l. expelled Lincolns-Inne Disbarred and Disabled to Practice Degraded of his Degree in the University be set on the Pillory and his Ears to be cut off and his Book to be burnt by the common Hangman which sentence was as severely Executed But before the fine was estreated the Archbishop and other high Commissioners by their Warrant caused Prynne's Books and Papers to be seised upon and brought away from his Lodging and had them perused and sifted to find matter against him of which Prynne complaining in the Star Chamber the Arch-bishop denyed any such Warrant During Prynnes Imprisonment Dr. Bastwick a Physician was brought into the High Commission Court for his Book called Elenchus Papismi Flagellum Episcoporum Latialium in Answer to one Short a Papist who maintained the Pope's Supremacy the Mass and Popery And Bastwick's Epistle to his Book declared that he intended nothing against our Bishops but against those of Rome Yet this Dr. was sentenced by the high Commissioners in a thousand pound Fine to be Excommunicated debarred his practice of Physick his Books to be burnt and he to be Imprisoned till he made a Recantation and this was for maintaining the King's Prerogative against Papacy as the Doctor pleaded But on the other part one who was a fierce Papist named Chowney wrote a Book in defence of the Popish Religion and of the Church of Rome averring it to be a true Church and the Book was dedicated to and Patronized by the Archbishop so far was Chowney from being punished and questioned for that Doctrine In the censure of Bastwick all the Bishops then present denied openly that they held their Jurisdiction as Bishops from the King for which perhaps they might have been censured themselves in H. 2. or E. 3. times But they affirmed That they had their Jurisdiction from God only which denial of the Supremacy of the King under God H. 8. would have taken ill and it may be would have confuted them by his Kingly Arguments and Regiâ manu but these Bishops publickly disavowed their dependance on the King And the Archbishop maintained the Book of Chowney and that the Romish Church was a true Church and erred not in Fundamentals and somewhat was noted to pass from him and other Bishops in defaming the holy Scriptures and Calvin was very much slighted and abused by them I cannot precisely aver all this though I heard most of it as it is here set down and heard the rest of it to this purpose from those who were present at the debating of these matters in the high Commission Court Anno 1634. Car. 9 Our Coasts were much infested by Pyrats even by Turks and Algiers men to the great prejudice of trade The Dutch men became almost Masters of the Sea in the Northern fishing Overtures were made concerning Herring fishing and Busses for our own Coasts and to prevent Strangers Some petty quarrels fell out between us and the Hollanders about those matters of fishing upon which Grotius did write his Book of Mare liberum but is clearly answered by that learned treatise of Selden's called Mare clausum The King finding the Controversie begun and that it must be maintained by force which his want of money could not doe He by the advice of his Attorney Noy and of the Lord Keeper Coventry who as far as his learning in those matters did extend and that was not far did approve and assist the project And by
Opinions in these words We are of Opinion that when the good and safety of the Kingdom in general is concerned and the whole Kingdom in danger Your Majesty may by Writ under the Great Seal of England Command all Your Subjects of this Your Kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victual and Ammunition and for such time as Your Majesty shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the Kingdom from such peril and danger And that by Law Your Majesty may compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of Opinion that in such case Your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the dangers and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided This Opinion was Signed by Davenport Denham Hatton Jones Croke Trever Bramston Finch Vernon Berkley Crawley Weston This Opinion and Subscription of the Judges was Inrolled in all the Courts of Westminster and much distasted many Gentlemen of the Country and of their own Profession as a thing Extrajudicial unusual and of very ill consequence in this great Business or in any other The King upon this Opinion of his Judges gave order for proceeding against Hampden in the Exchequer where he pleaded and the King's Council demurring the Point in Law came to be argued for the King by his Council and for Hamden by his Council and afterwards the Judges particularly argued this great Point at the Bench and all of them except Hutton and Croke argued and gave their Judgments for the King The Arguments both at the Bar and Bench were full ofrare and excellent Learning especially in matter of Record and History but they are too voluminous to be here inserted Judge Croke of whom I speak knowingly was resolved to deliver his Opinion for the King and to that end had prepared his Argument Yet a few days before he was to argue upon Discourse with some of his nearest Relations and most serious thoughts of this business and being heartned by his Lady who was a very good and pious woman and told her husband upon this occasion That she hoped he would doe nothing against his Conscience for fear of any danger or prejudice to him or his Family and that she would be contented to suffer want or any misery with him rather than be an occasion for him to doe or say any thing against his Judgment and Conscience Upon these and many the like Incouragements but chiefly upon his better thoughts he suddenly altered his Purpose and Arguments and when it came to his turn contrary to expectation he argued and declared his Opinion against the King But Hampden and many others of Quality and Interest in their Countries were unsatisfied with this Judgment and continued to the utmost of their power in opposition to it yet could not at that time give any further stop or hinderance to the prosecution of the business of Ship-money but it remained Alta mente repostum The Earl of Arundel was sent Ambassador to the new Emperor Ferdinand the Third where he stayed and treated some Months about the restitution of the King's Nephew the Prince Elector but being opposed by the Duke of Bavaria who had gotten possession of part of the Palsegrave's Territories and by others after their Interest and being discontented at the delays they put upon him in the Treaty at the Dyet the Ambassador without taking any leave or effecting any thing for which he was sent returned home in much distaste and choller Anno 1637. Car. 13 The Sickness began to increase in London which caused many to post into the Country and kept others from coming to Town and it was thought fit to adjourn part of the Term. Three Delinquents were sentenced in the Star-Chamber Mr. Burton a Divine for writing and printing two smart and sharp Tracts against Episcopacy Doctor Bastwick a Physician for writing Books reproachfull against the Prelates particularly against Archbishop Laud and Bishop Juxton And in his Answer to the Information against him in the Star-chamber he hath this Passage Anno 1637 That the Prelates are Invaders of the King's Prerogative Royal Contemners and Despisers of the holy Scriptures Advancers of Popery Superstition Idolatry and Prophaneness Also they abuse the King's Authority to the Oppression of his loyalest Subjects and therein exercise great Cruelty Tyranny and Injustice and in execution of those impious Performances they shew neither wit honesty nor temperance Nor are they either Servants of God or of the King but of the Devil being Enemies of God and the King and of every living thing that is good All which the said Dr. Bastwick is ready to maintain c. None of the Doctors friends could prevail with him to expunge this and other the like Passages out of his Answer The third Defendant was Mr. Prynn of Lincolns-Inn a Barrister at Law for writing a Book scandalous to the King and Church who had been there censured before and was now fined five thousand pounds to loose the remainder of his Ears on the Pillory to be stygmatized on both Cheeks with an S. for Schismatick and to be perpetually imprisoned in Caernarvan Castle Burton and Bastwick were fined five thousand pounds apiece to loose their Ears in the Pillory and to be imprisoned the one in Launceston Castle and the other in Lancaster Castle The Prince Elector and his Brother Prince Rupert departed into Holland and having gotten together a small Army marched into Westphalia and besieged Limgea but was fought with by the Emperor's General Halisfeild his Army discomfited two thousand of them slain and his brother Prince Rupert and the Lord Craven taken Prisoners himself hardly escaping by flight The Bishop of Lincoln was brought to a Sentence in the Star-chamber for disloyal words charged to be spoken by him against the King and for suborning Witnesses to conceal a Truth and to stifle a Crime He was at last fined ten thousand pounds committed to the Tower during pleasure suspended ab Officio Beneficio and referred to the High Commission Court for that which concerned their Jurisdiction Mr. Osbaldston was also heavily sentenced in the Star-chamber upon the Business of the Bishop of Lincoln but he got out of the way leaving a Paper in his Study with this Inscription That Lambert Osbaldston was gone beyond Canterbury But Canterbury after this Sentence sends this Warrant to the King's Sollicitor Mr. Sollicitor It is his Majestie 's pleasure that you prepare a Commission to the Prebendaries of the Collegiate Church of Westminster authorising them to keep their Audits and other Capitular Meetings at their usual times to treat and compound with the Tenants for Leases and to pass the same accordingly choose Officers confirm and execute all other lawful Acts for the good and benefit of the College and the said Prebendaries And to take out the Common or Chapter Seal for sealing such Leases and Grants as
in general and to propound remedies Debate about the Ordinance for Sale of Deans and Chapters Lands 7. Report of the arrears of the Assessment to the Army to be three hundred fourteen thousand three hundred fifty one pounds for which fifty thousand pound was in arrear in London Order that the Collectors who had not brought in the arrears should be taken into custody and that the Members of the House write to the Committees of the several Counties Letters from Lieutenant General Cromwell of the Surrender of Berwick and Carlisle to him The House approved what he had done and ordered the pay of the Forces there a hundred pound given to the Messenger Letters from the Isle of Wight that the King gave a Paper of reasons to the Parliaments Commissioners why he could not condescend to take away Bishops and Government by Bishops which he conceived to be of Apostolical institution and alledged several Scriptures to that purpose He also propounded some quaeries concerning Presbyterian Government wherein he desired to be satisfied the Commissioners referred it to M r Marshall M r Vines M r Caryll and M r Seaman who were with them to draw up an answer for satisfaction of his Majesty 9. Debate of an Ordinance for a hundred thousand pound for paying the Arrears of reduced Officers and Souldiers and Upon information that they were coming to London from all Parts of the Kingdom Order for a declaration to give them notice that the House is passing an Ordinance for satisfaction of their arrears and that their coming up to London will hinder the great business of the Kingdom and to forbid their coming up upon that or any other pretence whatsoever Order to admit Colonel Butler to his Composition upon Pembrokes Articles The Lords House being called there were about thirty Lords with them Letters from the Isle of Wight that his Majesty gave in to the Commissioners his objections touching the alteration of Church Government and the Ministers then with the Parliaments Commissioners gave in a Paper for answer and satisfaction to the Kings Scruples and as to the obiection that the Sale of Bishops Lands was sacriledge the Commissioners said it lay so much in the Laws of the Land that the Ministers could not judge of â—it That in their Debate touching the Liturgy the King asked what fault they found in the Common Prayer Book to which was replyed that the Liturgy was taken out of the Masse-Book only spoyled in the Translation and that King James had so considered it The King said that if it were good in it self that did not make it ill That his Majesty offered a limited Episcopacy Letters from Lieutenant General Cromwell of the particulars of the rendring of Berwick and Carlisle to the Parliament and desiring that Sir Arthur Haselrigge may supply Berwick being so considerable a place with Guns and Ammunition from New-Castle That both Parties in Scotland were agreed to disband all Forces except fifteen hundred Horse and Foot under General Leven to be kept to see all remaining Forces disbanded that he had some things to desire from the Committee of Estates in Scotland for the service of the Parliament of England for which purpose he was himself going to them The Chancellour of Scotland by command of the Committee of Estates of Scotland writ a Letter to Lieutenant General Cromwell giving him thanks for the many civilities and kind respect he had shewed to that Kingdom and that they had sent Commissioners to him to acquaint him with the agreement betwixt them in Armes in Scotland wherein they had been careful to avoid any thing that might give offence to the Parliament of England They acknowledge advantage hath come to them by the near distance of the English Forces in preventing new troubles whereof they shall be alwaies mindful and endeavour to preserve the Union and a good correspondence betwixt the two Kingdoms 10. A Petition from New-Castle desiring that before the Treaty be ended impartial and speedy Justice may be executed upon the incendiaries fomenters and Actors in the first and second War Another from York and from Hull that the treacherous and Implacable Enemies may be destroyed and exemplary justice done upon them without partiality or delay and their Estates to go towards discharging arrears and publick debts Another Petition to the same purpose but all laid aside by the House 11. Letters from the Commissioners in the Isle of Wight that his Majesty had consented to the settling of the Militia by Sea and Land as in the Proposition and that he will consent to an Act of Parliament to confirm for three years the form of Church Government and Directory for worship presented to him But that he is not satisfied in his conscience or can be content to the utter abolishing of Episcopacy the Substance whereof he conceives to consist in the power of Ordination and Jurisdiction as they were exercised by the Apostles themselves and others by authority derived from them Superiour to Presbyters and Deacons in the Primitive times His Majesties resolution being to comply with his two Houses for the alteration and regulating of his present Hierarchy and Government so as Episcopacy reduced to the Primitive usage may be settled and continued in the Church and if his two Houses shall so advise his Majesty will be content to lessen the extent and multiply the number of the Dioceses That he will consent to the sitting of the Assembly of Divines as formerly he offered and to confirm the publick use of the Directory and will consent to the repeal of so much of all Statutes as only concern the Book of Common Prayer and taking the same away out of all Churches provided that the use of it be continued to his Majesty That he will consent to an Act for the better observation of the Lords day and to prevent saying of Mass That he was not satisfied to take the Covenant or to impose it upon others and conceives his two Houses will not insist upon it and the rather because the ends of it will be obtained by the agreement if happily concluded Upon Debate of this Paper from his Majesty whether as concerning matter of Religion it was satisfactory or not it was voted in the Negative and a Letter ordered to be Writ to the Commissioners to proceed in the Treaty according to their Instructions and that till the Proposition for Religion were signed they should not proceed to the debate of any of the new and that notice should be taken of the extraordinary wise management of this Treaty by the Commissioners An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for five thousand pound for pay of the Horse-guards attending the Parliament Orders touching mony and Provisions for the Fleet. 12. Upon a report from the Commissioners of the Seal the House ordered that there should be a new call of Serjeants at Law and voted to be Serjeants Out of Grays Inn Sir
greatness and found by Experience to be a grievance to the subject a hindrance of piety an incroachment upon the power of the Civil Magistrate and so a burthen to the persons purses and consciences of men Whereupon the Parliament finding it to be for the honour of your Majesty and profit of the Subject to take it away desire this Bill for that purpose not inedling with the Apostolical Bishop nor determining what that Bishops is whom the Apostles mention in Scripture but only to put him down by a Law who was set up by a Law Nothing can be more proper for Parliaments than to alter repeal or make Laws as Experience teacheth to be for the good of the Commonwealth but Admitting that Apostolical Bishops were within the purport of this Bill they humbly conceive it doth not follow that therefore in Conscience it must not be passed for they may not grant that no occasion can make that alterable which is found to have sure foundation only in the practice of the Apostles not in a precept For the Sale of Bishops Lands which his Majesty apprehends to be Sacriledge they humbly offer that Bishopricks being dissolved their Lands as of all Corporations naturally by the Laws of the Land revert to the Crown which is their founder and Patron and heretofore held it no Sacriledge to dispose of Bishops Lands to its own and others use by Act of Parliament which was an Ordinary practice in his predecessors Besides that they might say that in all ages and even under the Ceremonial Law imminent and urgent necessity especially by the publick hath dispensed with the otherwise imploying of Consecrated things As to that that his Majesty cannot communicate in a publick form of divine service where it is uncertain what the Minister will offer to God They answer that the Directory is certain as to the matter leaving it to the Minister to inlarge or express in words according to his discretion for the exercise of his gifts and they add that it can be no objection against joyning with a Minister in a Prayer not to know before hand the very words that he will say for then one must not hear any Prayer before Sermon where every several Minister hath a several form and must vary still according to occasion That what his Majesty hath already consented to concerning Bishops leaves it solely in his own power for their return again to their former power after three years and to have the Negative voice in Ordination which they humbly conceive the Scripture holds not forth to have been in that Bishop who is there mentioned in these Writings of the Apostles and consequently that which his Majesty endeavours to preserve not to be the primitive Office of a Bishop That the intention of the Parliament is not to Offer violence to his Majesties Conscience but that he will be pleased to rectify it by being better informed that both he and his People may have cause of rejoycing The Lord Grey of Groby had the thanks of the House for taking Marquess Hamilton Prisoner and dispersing a Brigad of his Horse The House spent almost the whole day in nominating Sheriffs for all the Counties of the Kingdom Many Rumours were of the Armies coming again to the Houses 24. Upon a Letter from the Lord Admiral Order touching the raising of twenty thousand pound for the Mariners that come in from the revolted Ships and for other affairs of the Navy and for providing money for the Summers Fleet. Vote for the Earl of Arundel to be admitted to his Composition for six thousand pound in regard he had suffered losses by the Parliament's Forces and that this six thousand pound should be paid for the use of the Navy 25. Orders touching Sheriffs Orders for Slighting the Garrisons of Ashby de la Zouch and Bulling-brook A Petition of one Maurice complaining of the arbitrary proceedings of the House of Lords concerning an Estate of three thousand pound per annum referred to be examined by a Committee Votes for disbanding Forces The Commissioners of the great Seal went into the Queen's Court and there they did swear Mâ— Prideaux to be the King's Sollicitor 27. Letters from Colonel Hammond with one inclosed from the General to him to require Colonel Hammond to repair to his Excellency to the Head quarters and that Colonel Ewers was appointed to take the charge of his Majesty in the Isle of Wight The Commons Voted Colonel Hammond to stay in the Isle of Wight to attend his Charge there and the General to be acquainted with this vote and Letters to be sent to the Admiral to send some Ships for security of the Isle of Wight and that they obey the Orders of Colonel Hammond Letters from the Head quarters that the Officers spent yesterday wholly in prayer that they consult how to effect what is in their Remonstrance and are resolute to bring Delinquents to punishment and to settle the Kingdom in peace with what necessary Laws are wanting for the benefit and ease of the subject and that a Petition came to the General from the Forces in Wales and in the North to expedite this work A Messenger brought word to Windsor that Colonel Ewers had the Custody of his Majesty and that Colonel Hammond was upon the way to Windsor Upon Information of the wants of Plymouth Garrison orders for raising four thousand pound for them and Colonel Welden to go thither Debate whether the new Sergeants should send a Ring to the King and put off Letters from the Leaguer at Pontefract that the Garrison Souldiers come away from thence and many move for Passes that they made a Sally and were beaten in again that all the Regiments in the North have petitioned the General against the Treaty and for Justice which were recommended and sent by Lieutenant General Cromwell to the Lord General 28. Order for Captain Skinner and the rest of the men in the Crescent Frigat lately taken to be brought to judgment for Pyracy after the Course of the Admiralty Order for Sequestrations of Delinquents in the North for raising money to disband the Supernumeraries there And for satisfaction of the Lancashire Forces Order touching new Sheriffs Order that the Estate of the Lord Lovelace be again sequestred if he refuse to pay five hundred pound to Colonel Temple as part of his arrears The Lord of Ormond knighted divers in Ireland 29. The publick Fast day Letters from Colonel Hammond with a Copy of the Orders from the General Council of the Army and their Letter to Colonel Ewers and others for securing his Majesties person in the Isle of Wight The House Ordered a Letter to the General to acquaint him that these Orders and instructions from him to Colonel Ewers for securing his Majestie 's person in the Isle of Wight were contrary to their resolutions and instructions given to Colonel Hammond and that it was the pleasure of the House that his Excellency recal the