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B09115	Votes of the House of Commons perused and signed to be printed according to the order of the House of Commons / by Me William Williams, Speaker.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; Williams, William, Sir, 1634-1700.	1680 (1680)	Wing E2766B; ESTC R175256	105,532	178

House do Sit together without mingling with other persons in the place prepared for them at the Tryal of the Lord Viscount Stafford and Mr. Howard Captain of the Yeomen of the Guards is desired to take care thereof HIS MAJESTIES Message to the COMMONS in PARLIAMENT CHARLES REX HIS Majestie did in His Speech at the opening of this Session desire the Advice and Assistance of His Parliament in relation to Tangier The Condition and Importance of the Place obliges His Majestie to put this House in mind again That He relies upon them for the Support of it without which it cannot be much longer Preserved His Majesty does therfore very earnestly Recommend Tangier again to the due and speedy Consideration and Care of this House The Humble ADDRESS of the COMMONS In Parliament Assembled Presented to His Majesty Munday the 29th day of November 1680. May it please your Most Excellent Majestie WE Your Majesties most obedient and Loyal Subjects The Commons in Parliament Assembled having with all Duty and Regard taken into our Serious Consideration Your Majesties late Message relating to Tangier cannot but account the present Condition of it as Your Majestie is pleased to Represent it in Your said Message after so vast a Treasure expended to make it Useful not only as one infelicity more added to the afflicted Estate of your Majesties faithful and Loyal Subjects But as one result also of the same Counsels and Designs which have brought Your Majesties Person Crown and Kingdoms into those great and imminent Dangers with which at this day they are surrounded And we are the less surprized to hear of the Exigencies of Tangier when we remember that since it became part of Your Majesties Dominions it hath several times been under the Command of popish Governours particularly under Command of a Lord Impeached and now Prisoner in the Tower for the Execrable and Horrid Popi●h Plot That the Supplies sent thither have been in great part made up of Popish Officers and Soldiers and that the Irish Papists among the So●diers of that Garrison have been the Persons most Countenanced and Encouraged To that part of your Majesties Message which expresses a reliance upon this House for the support of Tangier and a recommendation of ●t to our speedy care We do with all humility and reverence give this Answer That although in due Time and Order We shall omit nothing incumbent on Us for the preservation of every part of your Majesties Dominions and advancing the prosperity and slourishing Estate of this your Kingdom yet at this time when a Clo●d which has long threatned this Land ●s ●eady to break upon our heads in a storm of Ruine and Confusion to enter into any further consideration of this matter especially to come to any Resolutions in it before We are effectually secured from the imminent and apparent Dangers arising from the Power of Popish Persons and Councils We humbly conceive will not consist either with Our Duty to Your Majesty or the Trust reposed in Us by those We represent It is not unknown to your Majesty how restless the Endeavours and how bold the Attempts of the Popish Party for many years last past have been not only within this but other your Majesties Kingdoms to introduce the Romish and utter●y to extirpate the true Protestant Religion The several Approaches they have made towards the compassing this their Design assisted by the Treachery of perfid●ous Protestants have been so strangely successful that t is matter of Admiration to Us and which we can only ascribe to an Over-ruling Providence that your Majesties Reign is still continued over Us and that We are yet assembled to consult the means of our preservation This bloody and restless Party not content with the great Liberty they had a long time enjoyed to exercise their own Religion privately amongst themselves to pertake of an equal Freedom of their persons and Estates with your Majesties Protestant Subjects and of an Advantage above them in being excused from chargeable Offices and Employments hath so far prevailed as to find countenance for an open and avowed practice of their Superstition and Idolatry without controul in several parts of this Kingdom Great swarms of Priests and Jesuits have resorted hither and have here exercised their Jurisdiction and been daily tampering to pervert the Consciences of your Majesties Subjects Their Opposers they have found means to disgrace and if they were Judges Justices of the Peace or other Magistrates to have them turned out of Commission and in contempt of the known Laws of the Land they have practised upon people of all ●anks and qualities and gained over divers to their Religion some openly to profess it others secretly to espouse it as most conduced to the service thereof After sometime they became able to influence matters of State and Government and thereby to destroy those they cannot corrupt The continuance or Prorogation of Parliaments has been accommodated to serve the purposes of that Party Money raised upon the People to supply your Majesties extraordinary Occasions was by the preva●ence of Popish Councils imployed to make War upon a Protestant State and to advance and augment the dreadfull Power of the French King though to the apparent hazard of this and all other Protestant Countries Great numbers of your Majesties Subjects were sent into and continued in the service of that King notwithstanding the apparent Interest of your Majesties Kingdoms the Addresses of the Parliament and your Majesties gracious Proclamations to the contrary Nor can We forbear to mention how that at the beginning of the same War even the Ministers of England were made Instruments to press upon that State the acceptance of one demand among others from the French King for procuring their peace with him that they should admit the publick exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion in the United Provinces the Churches there to be divided and the Romish Priests maintained out of the publick Revenue At home if Your Majesty did at any time by the Advice of Your Privy-Council or of Your two Houses of Parliament Command the Laws to be put in Execution against Papists even from thence they gained advantage to their Party while the edge of those Laws was turned against Protestant Dissenters and the Papists escaped in a manner untoucht The Act of Parliament enjoining a Test to be taken by all Persons admitted into any Publick Office and intended for a security against Papists comeing into Employment had so little effect that either by Dispensation obtained from Rome they submitted to those Tests and held their Offices themselves or those put in their places were so favourable to the same Interests that Popery it self has rather gained than lost ground since that Act. But that their business in hand might yet more speedily and strongly proceed at length a Popish Secretary since Executed for his Treasons takes upon him to set a foot and maintain correspondereies at Rome particularly with a Native Subject of

to prosecute the plot but Popery also and to take care of the Protestant Religion Established by Law And if We join and this House go on calm●y in their Debates without heats He did not doubt but to beat down popery and all that belongs to it Mr. Harbord Reports from the Committee to whom it was referred to prepare and draw up an Address Declaring the Resolution of this House to preserve and Support the Kings person and Government and the Protestant Religion both at Home and Abroad The Address Agreed unto by the House May it please Your Most Excellent Majestie WE your Majesties most dutiful and obedient Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do with most thankful hearts acknowledge not onely your Majesties many former Royal Declarations of your adherence to the Protestant Religion in the Preservation and Protection thereof but your further Manifestation of the same in your Gracious Speech to both Houses at the Opening of this present Parliament in which your Majesty is pleased to Command us strictly and impartially to prosecute the Horrid Popish Plot without which we do fully assent to your Majesties great Judgment That neither your Person nor Government can be safe nor your Protestant Subjects it being part of the very Religion of Popery where it can obtain to extirpate all Protestants both Prince and People which hath caused in the times of your Royal Ancestors since the Reformation that great care to oblige the Subjects against their return to the Papal Yoke in the very same Oaths wherein they swear Allegiance to their Prince And as now the Eyes of all the Protestant Kingdoms and States Abroad are upon Vs and looking upon your Majesty as the Royal Head of so many Protestant Countries cannot but hope upon a happy and solid Security in our Religion at home That your Majesty will be the greatest Protection to them from whom we may expect a Mutual Assistance as being involved in the same Common Danger So we do humbly assure your Majesty That We shall be always ready to Preserve your Majesties Person and Government and to Support the Protestant Religion both at Home and Abroad And do humbly beseech your Majesty to Esteem all Persons whatsoever who shall otherwise represent Vs to your Majesty as those who design to divide between the King and his People and to defeat the Meeting and Siting of Parliaments That those Popish Designs may succeed which they well know cannot otherwise prosper And this they have made more undeniably evident in the interval of Parliaments by Contriving with unparallel'd Insolence a most damnable and wicked Design to transfer their own Crimes upon so many of your Majesties Loyal Protestant Nobility and Gentry hoping thereby to destroy those who with the greatest Zeal and Integrity endeavour to Prosecute them The house then proceded to the consideration of the Matter relating to Sir Francis Wythens a Member of this house and several Witnesses being called in and examined at the Bar of this house in that Matter And It appearing to the house upon the Confession of the said Sir Francis Wythens in his place and upon the Evidence given at the Bar of the house against him that he had presented an Address to his Majesty expressing an abhorrency to petition His Majesty for the Calling and sitting of Parliaments Resolved That Sir Francis Wythens by promoting and presenting to his Majesty an Address expressing an Abhorrency to Petition his Majesty for the Calling and sitting of Parliaments hath betrayed the undoubted Rights of the Subjects of England Ordered That Sir Francis Wythens be Expelled this House for this high Crime Ordered That Sir Francis Wythins do receive his Sentence at the Bar of this House upon his Knees from Mr. Speaker Which he received accordingly Sabbati 30. die Octobris 1680. MR. Secretary Jenkins acquaints the House That His Majesty having been Attended by such of the Members of this House as are of the Privy Council to know His Pleasure when this House should Wait upon His Majesty with their Address Declaring their Resolution to preserve His Majesty's Person c. He was pleased to appoint Three of the Clock this afternoon for this House to Attend Him in the Banquetting-house He further acquainted the House That His Majesty being Attended by such Members of this House as are of His Privy Council with the Address relating to Dr. Tongue His Majesty was pleased to return answer That he had already taken some care of Dr. Tongue and that he would take him into further Consideration Resolved That the Votes of this House be Printed being first Perused and Signed by Mr. Speaker and that Mr. Speaker nominate and appoint the persons to Print the same Seignior Francisco Ferria being called in delivered his Evidence at the Bar of this House relating to the Popish Plot. Resolved Nemine Contradicente That this House will forthwith proceed to the full Examination of the Popish Plot in order to bring the Offenders to Justice Resolved That a Committee be appointed to Inspect the Journals of the Two last Parliaments and make a Report to the House of their proceedings relating to the Popish Plot And it is referred to c. or any three of them and they are to meet this afternoon at three of the Clock in the Speakers Chamber and are to Sit de die in diem Ordered That an humble Address be made to His Majesty by such of the Members of this House as are of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council That all the Letters Papers and Evidences which have been delivered into the Privy Council relating to the horrid Popish plot may be delivered into this house Lunae 1. die Novembris 1680 MR. Secretary Jenkins acquaints the House that according to the Order of this House made on Saturday last for an humble address to be made to His Majesty by such of the Members of this House as are of His Majesties Privy Council that all such papers Letters and Evidences relating to the horrid Popish plot as have been delivered in to the Privy Council might be transmitted to this House His Majesty had been attended in this matter who was pleased to answer That the House of Lords having at their first fitting appointed a Committee for Examination of the Popish plot His Majesty had been pleased on the 24th day of the last month to Order all Examinations papers and Writings relating to the Popish plot and in the Custody of the Clerks of the Council to be sent to that Committee and that on the 27th day of October last they were all sent accordingly A Bill for the better Encouragement of the Woollen Manufacture of England by the general wearing thereof was Read the first time Resolved c. That the said Bill be Read a Second time Mr. Speaker acquaints this House that the House attended His Majesty on Saturday last in the afternoon at the Banquetting-House with their address declaring the Resolution of this House

concerning the Committing of a Member to Custody when Impeached in Parliament and to Report the same to the House The Humble ADDRESS of the COMMONS in Parliament presented to His MAJESTY to Remove George Earl of Hallifax From His presence and Counsels With His MAJESTIES Answer VVE Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled being deeply sensible of the manifold dangers and mischiefs which have been occasioned to this Your Kingdom by the Dissolution of the last Parliament and by the frequent Prorogations of this present Parliament whereby the Papists have been greatly encouraged to carry on their hellish and damnable Conspiracies against Your Royal Person and Government and the Protestant Religion now established amongst us and have had many opportunities to contrive false and malicious Plots against the Lives and Honours of several of Your loyal Protestant Subjects And having just reason to believe that the said Dissolution was Promoted by the evil and pernicious counsels of George Earl of Hallifax Do therefore most humbly pray Your Majesty for the taking away of occasions of distrust and jealousie between Your Majesty and Your Loyal Commons and that we may with greater chearfulness proceed to perfect those matters now before us which tend to the safety and honour of Your Sacred Person and Government and to the preservation of the true Protestant Religion both to our Selves our Posterity That You would be graciously pleased to remove the said George Earl of Hallifax from your Presence and Counsels for ever His Majesties Answer to the Address CHARLES R. HIs Majesty having received the Address of this House relating to the Earl of Hallifax hath thought fit to return this Answer That He conceives the said Address to be lyable to several Exceptions but having a great desire to preserve all possible good understanding with this House He chooses to decline to enter into particulars to avoid all occasions of dispute He therefore thinks fit to tell them that He doth not find the grounds in the Address of this House to be sufficient to induce Him to remove the Earl of Hallifax But He assures them at the same time that whenever this House shall in a due and regular course prove any Crime either against the said Earl of Hallifax or any other Person who either now is or shall hereafter be in his Councels He will leave him or them to their own legal defence without interposing to protect them ARTICLES of Impeachment against Edward Seymour Esq With the Vote of the COMMONS in Parliament Upon the said Articles Articles of Impeachment of High Crimes Misdemeanours and Offences against Edward Seymour Esq one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Treasurer of His Majesties Navy and one of the Members of the House of COMNONS now in Parliament Assembled Imprimis THat Whereas the Sum of Five hundred eighty four thousand nine hundred seventy Eight Pounds Two shillings Two Pence was raised by an Act of Parliament for the speedy Building of Thirty Ships of War and thereby appropriated to the said Use By which Act it was particularly directed That the Treasurer of the Navy should keep all moneys payed to him by vertue of the said Act distinct and appart from all other moneys and should Issue and pay the same by Warrant of the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy or any three or more of them and mentioning and expressing that it is for the Building for the Guns Rigging and other Furnishing of the said Thirty Ships of War and to no other Use intent or purpose whatsoever He the said Edward Seymour on or about the year One thousand six hundred seventy seven being then Treasurer of the Navy did contrary to the said Act and contrary to the Duty of his said Office lend the Sum of Ninty thousand Pound at Eight pound per Cent. parcel of the said Sum raised by the said Act being then in his hands for and towards the support and continuance of the Army then Raised after such time as by an Act of Parliament the said Army ought to have been Disbanded whereby the said two several Acts were Eluded and the said Army was continued and kept on foot to the great Disturbance Hazard and Danger of the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom And the Nation was afterwards put to a new Charge of raising and paying the sum of Two hundred thousand pound for the Disbanding of the said Army Secondly That whereas an Act of Parliament had passed for Raising of money by a Poll for Enabling His Majesty to enter into an actual War against the French King and the Money raised by Vertue of the said Act was thereby appropriated to the said Use and to the Re-payment of such Persons as should furnish His Majesty with any Sums of mony or any Stores necessary for the said Service And whereas certain East-land Merchants were desired by His Majesties Officers to furnish and supply great quantities of Stores for the Navy and as an Incouragement thereunto were assured that the Sum of Fourty thousand pound parcel of the moneys raised by the said Act was at that time actually in the hands of the said Edward Seymour which he did acknowledge so to be and did promise the said Sum should be payed to the said Merchants in part of Satisfaction for the said Stores which they did furnish upon the credit of the said Affirmation and undertaking He the said Edward Seymour did on or about the year One thousand six hundred seventy eight issue out and pay the said Sum to the Victuallers of the Navy by way of advance and for provisions not then brought in contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act Whereas the same by the provision of the said Act ought to have been payed to the East-land Merchants who had furnished His Majesty with Flax Hemp and other Necessaries for the said Service Of which said Deceit and Injustice the said Merchants did complain in the last Parliament Thirdly That the said Edward Seymour being Treasurer of the Navy and then and still having a Salary of 3000 l. per Annum clear for the same did during the time that he was Speaker of the late long Parliament receive out of the monies appointed for secret Service the Yearly Sum of 3000 l. over and above his said Salary which was constantly payed to him as well during the Intervals as the Sessions of Parliament and particularly during the Prorogation of Fifteen months Fourthly That on or about the Eighteenth year of His Majesties Reign and during a War with the States General of the United Netherlands He the said Edward Seymour being then one of the Commissioners for Prize Goods did Fradulently Unlawfully and in Deceipt of His Majesty Unlade a certain Prize Ship taken from the Subjects of the said States without any Order or Authority for the same and did House the Lading and Goods of the said Ship and Lock up the same