time The House of Lords Voted Nemine contradicente That no Lord ought to be Committed sitting the Parliament but by Judgment of the Parliament except for Treason Felony or breach of the Peace And in Pursuance thereof they Voted a Remonstrance to the King to declare their Right and to Pray his Majesty to release the Earl of Arundel which was presented but no Answer being given to it the Lords presented another Petition to the King for an Answer to their former Petition to which the King returned his dislike The Exception taken by the King was at the Words to have a present Answer whereupon the word present was left out in a New Petition which pleased the King who sent for the Lords to Whitehall and Courted them but thinks they mistrust him and shews the difference of the Cause of Commitment of the Members of the House of Commons and the Earl of Arundel and saith He hath just cause of detaining the Earl of Arundel in prison which he will acquaint them with as soon as possibly he can The Lords present a new Petition to the King That he would be pleased to release the Earl or to declare the cause of detaining him in Prison That it was contrary to their priviledge To which the King answered That he would give them satisfaction before the end of this Session The House Adjourned till the next day and after that for a week and then at their Meeting the King signified to them That he would within a Fortnight either release the Earl or show the Cause And at the new meeting of the Lords the King took off the Restraint of the Earl of Arundel The Commons Committed Mr. Moor one of their Members for speaking words reflecting upon the King At this time Cambridge chose the Duke of Bucks for their Chancellour to please the King and shew their dislike to the Commons The Earl of Berks Name was in Competition but he had too much Courtship and too little Spirit to Contest and so he desisted The House of Commons would have Interposed by their Letter against the Dukes choice but the King forbad it challenging those Matters to belong to him and Justified the Duke to the House and by Letter to Cambridge approved their Choice of the Duke The Duke with an Ingenious Speech ushered in his Answer to the Impeachment of the Commons whom he courted yet Justified himself and said That his accuser Common Fame was too subtle a Body for him to Contest with and he doubted not but in time it would be found that Common Fame had abused both them and him His Answer to the several Thirteen Articles against him was distinct and in most of them carryed a fair colour and the chief strength of his Answer was upon the Knowledge of the King and his Father and their direction of the particular passages with his obedience thereunto and following the Advice of the Councel He denys having the Twenty thousand pound of the Earl of Manchester or Six hundred pound of the Earl of Middlesex or the Ten thousand pound of the East India Company but saith the King had those Sums and the Earl of Manchester had satisfaction by the Kings lands for the Twenty thousand pound and the Six thousand pound was given by the King to Sir Henry Mildmay He absolutly denys that he applyed the Plaister or gave the Drink to King James in his sickness but the King knowing that the Duke had been cured of an Ague by a Plaister and a Drink the King would have them and took them some of his Phisitians then being present and allowing them and tasting the drink He concludes with praying the benefit of the General Pardon of King James and this Kings Coronation Pardon to be allowed him The King sent to the Commons to quicken them about the Subsidies They Petitioned the King about Recusants and named those in Places of Government and Trust and Pray they may be put out and by their desire they attend the King where by their Speaker and in Writing they profess their Affection and Loyalty to the King but they desire that His Majesty would not permit the Duke to have any more access to him They agreed upon a Remonstrance against the Duke and concerning the taking of Tunnage and Poundage though not granted to him by Parliament And this they did because they heard that the King intended to Dissolve the Parliament and by Petition they prayed him not to Dissolve it but the King would not receive the Petition but said He was resolved to Dissolve the Parliament and directed a Commission for that purpose and accordingly the Parliament was Dissolved June the Fifteenth one thousand six hundred twenty six unhappily Thus this great warm and Ruffling Parliament had its Period The Common dispersed Copies of their intended Remonstrance which is in Rushworths Collections with the Grounds and Causes held forth by the Kings Declaration for Dissolving this and the former Parliament and the King published a Proclamation against the Parliaments Remonstrance and for the suppressing of it Sir Thomas Chamberlain chief Justice of Chester dyed and Sir John Hobert Baronett chief Justice of the Common Pleas who was a Learned Judge a grave and smooth man After the Parliament was dissolved the King caused an Information to be preferred in the Star-chamber against the Duke of Buckingham for the same Matters contained in the Articles of Impeachment in the Parliament against him to which the Duke put in his Answer and Witnesses were examined but it came not to hearing The privy Councel advised the King to take Tunnage and Poundage and an Instrument to be past under the Great Seal for his taking of it until it could be past by Parliament A Commission Issued to compound with Recusants The King required a Loan of Money and sent to London and the Port Towns to furnish Ships for guard of the Seas Noy a great Antiquary and afterwards Attourney General had much to do in this business of Shipmoney The Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of Dorsetshire excused themselves and said The Case was without president London being rated twenty Ships desired an abatement to ten and two Pinnaces the Councel denyed it and in Answer to their presidents said That the Presidents in former times were Obedience and not Direction A Benevolence was likewise required Then a General Fast was appointed Commissions Issued out for Musters and power of Martial Law was given and the Inhabitants of the Sea Coasts required to repair to and dwell upon their Estates Ships were sent by our King to the Elbe which discontented the Hamburgers they were recalled The King of Denmark declares to assist the Elector Palatine against the Emperour Tilly Fights with him and gives him a Defeat Our King requires a general Loan according to the rate of the Subsidy with promises to repay and that it shall be no president To the imposing of Loans was added the Billetting of Souldiers Martial Law was
and Mr. Herbert came from the General to the Parliament and made report to the Commons of the General 's progress in the West as before mentioned and that the General came to Bedman in Cornwal they desire the House to take care for supplies for the General 's Army and that Forces might be sent to be in the Rear of the King's Army Sir Peter Osborn and Sir Thomas Fanshaw for deserting the Parliament whereof they were Members were discharged of their Offices which were conferred upon others A party of the Lord Robert's Brigade was sent to pursue Greenvile and his Army which was about 3000 strong and fell upon him at Lestithiel in Cornwal killed divers of Greenvile's men and took many Prisoners The General took in Foy a Haven and place of importance with several ships there and in all 17 pieces of Ordnance and summoned the Countrey to come in to his assistance By Letters from the Lord Inchequin Lord Brohale and Burchet from Ireland they certify the Parliament That they had thrust the Rebels out of most part of the Port-towns in Munster that many considerable places there have declared for the Parliament and that those Lords have 12000 men in Arms for the Parliaments service they desire some supplies and send over a Declaration of the Protestants there against the cessation The City of London petitioned that obstructions in Justice might be removed that Delinquents might be proceeded against speedily and that the City debts might be paid out of Delinquents Estates General Hastings for the King sent out a party to relieve Wink field Manor besieged by the Earl of Denbigh and Sir John Gell who marched out with 500 Horse sent them lately by Sir William Waller fell upon the Enemy killed many of them and took 150 Prisoners The Earl of Calender with some of the Scots forces took in Hartlepoole in the Bishoprick of Durham and Stockton places of importance for the Parliament and another party of the Scots under Sir John Meldrum besieged Leverpoole in Lancashire The French Ambassadour sent a Letter to the Speaker wherein he acknowledged that the Parliament at Westminster was the Parliament of England and informed that he had a Message to them from the King his Master this was referred to the Committee concerning the Dutch Ambassadours The Commons gave 150 l. gratuity to the Governour of Lyme and some provision of money formerly ordered for Glocester was transferred to Plymouth which was ill taken by Colonel Massey Several Ordinances past for giving power to Committees in several Counties and the Irish Remonstrance was permitted to be printed Commissary Copley was inlarged upon bail A Committee of the Lawyers of the House were ordered to consider of the plea of the Archbishop upon the Act of Oblivion and to report their opinions to the House Captain Moulton did some service for the Parliament in Pembrokeshire The Earl of Antrim landed in the North of Scotland with 2500 Irish and the Marquess of Argile went to resist them with a considerable Army General Leven advanced toward Newcastle to joyn with the Earl of Calender in besieging that City Colonel Massey having drawn out his Forces against Berkley Castle Colonel Myn with about 700 of the King's Forces entred Glocestershire and began to spoil the Countrey and to streighten Glocester Massey wheeled about and fought with them slew Colonel Myn and about 100 of his men and Lieutenant Colonel Mercy and took one Colonel four Majors divers inferiour Officers and about 300 common Souldiers Of his part Colonel Hartley was shot in the Arm some others wounded but not above three men slain Orders were made concerning relief to be sent to Ireland and for supplies of the Earl of Manchester's Army and the Forces of Sir William Waller Colonel Middleton sent up to the Parliament from Sarum many Copes Surplices Tippets Hoods Plate and the Picture of the Virgin Mary taken in the Minster there other Relicks being divided amongst the Souldiers Colonel Doddington with a party of the King's Forces came to Dorchester and was repulsed by Major Sydenham The Commons ordered 250 l. out of the Lord Capel's Woods to the Window of Colonel Meldrum slain in their service and 50 l. to another like Widow They gave power to Waller for exchange of Prisoners except such as had been Parliament men and some others A party of about 1600 from Oxford came to surprize Sir William Waller's Forces at Abington but were repulsed and Sir Richard Grimes and some others of them slain and about 40 taken Prisoners The three Generals and the Committeeresiding with them had a meeting and consultation how to dispose of their forces for the service of the Parliament and agreed upon several considerable things and concluded That if any of the three Armies should be in any distress upon notice thereof all the others should come in to their assistance The Parliament in Scotland voted the Earl of Montross and other Lords taking part against them to be traitours and confiscated their Estates The King being joyned with the Lord Hopton and Prince Maurice followed General Essex into Cornwal and drove away all the Cattel and took away all the Provisions to streighten the Parliaments Army The Parliament ordered Lieutenant General Middleton with the 3000 Horse now with him to march with all speed to the assistance of the Lord General and 4000 Horse more to be sent speedily after him but it was too late Upon the motion of the Assembly of Divines a day was appointed for publick humiliation to implore the assistance of God for the prosperous undertaking of the Lord General Divers of the County of Lincoln were desirous that Colonel King might be restored to his Commands in that Countrey Colonel Hastings coming to plunder some Carriers at Belgrave was beaten back with losse by a party from Leicester The Earl of Calender took Gate-side and blockt up Newcastle on that side beating back a party of the Garrison that sallied out upon him and General Leven marched towards him Sir Thomas Middleton and Sir William Brereton took about 320 Horse of Prince Rupert's Regiment 60 Prisoners many Arms and much Pillage Colonel Ashton took 200 of the Earl of Derby's Horse near Preston Letters came from the Lord General from Lestithiel in Cornwal and in them a Letter inclosed from the King to the Lord General dated Aug. 6. with another Letter from Prince Maurice and the Earl of Brainford the King's General dated Aug. 9. and another Letter from the Lord Hopton and most of the King 's chief Officers to the Lord General The King's Letter was with more than ordinary mildness inviting the General to join with him in that which is both their aims to make the Kingdom happy and to ingage the King to him in the highest degree and if any shall oppose them to make them happy against their wills and promiseth great rewards to him and his Army The Letters from the others were
Ordinance The Commons voted to hear no private business for ten days Mr. Roger Lestrange was tryed for a Spy before the Court-Marshal coming from the King's quarters without Drum Trumpet or Pass to betray Lynne Garrison Sir Thomas Middleton and Colonel Mitton took in a Garrison of the King 's near Mountgomery and in it Colonel Ballard the Governour Llayd the high Sheriff divers Officers two Foot Colours sixty common Souldiers with store of Arms and Pillage The Assembly of Divines presented to the House some further Additions to the Directory for Worship Much time was spent to settle the payment of the Northern Armies and to enable the Scots to march Southwards The Commons concluded their Debate upon the Directory for Worship A Letter was agreed to be written to the Parliament of Scotland from both Houses here to express the great ingagement of this Kingdom to them for their brotherly assistance The Lords upon the Petition of Sir John Hotham and his Son thought fit to pardon the Father and desired the Concurrence of the Commons therein but upon the Question it was carried in the Negative not to be taken by them into consideration The Court-Marshal gave judgment upon Mr. Lestrange The Commons passed an Ordinance for continuing the Court-Marshal for three Months longer and another for disfranchizing some Aldermen of York The Commons ordered the Commissioners of the Great Seal to issue out the Sheriffs Patents to the Messengers of the Seal The Lords debated the Self-denying Ordinance They concurred with the Commons to refer the business of the Treaty upon the Propositions for Peace to the Committee of both Kingdoms Major General Brown marched out with a Party towards Oxford and was near taking the Fort Royall there but his Design was discovered and prevented yet he brought away forty men and horse with him Several Orders were made for Money for the Scots and other Armies and for supply of the Forces in Ireland Divers of Bucks petitioned against the Outrages of the Parliaments Forces in that County Colonel Bulstrode was made Governour of Henley and Phillis Court but he was shortly after called away to his Regiment and Colonel Charles Doyley made Governour there But he and the Souldiers falling out they had like to have killed him and he would stay there no longer and Colonel Piuter Temple succeeded him Sir John Hotham was going to his Execution and much company expecting it on Tower-hill when a Messenger came with a Reprieve from the Lords But the Commons sent to the Lieutenant of the Tower to know the reason of deferring the Execution when they did not consent to any Reprieve for him The Lord Fairfax his forces took in Pomfret Town and close blocked up the Castle and other Castles thereabouts Colonel Bright fell upon a party of the King 's under Sir William Cobbes took divers Officers and Souldiers and good Horses from them A party of the Newark forces in the night time surprized some of the Parliaments forces and took near two Troups of them The Leicester forces drove the forces of Hastings out of Ashby-Town into the Tower and took divers Prisoners and Arms. Prince Maurice laid down his Commission for the West and the Lord Hopton was made General there and laboured to get a new Army January 1644. The Directory for Worship was finished by the Commons and sent up to the Lords by Mr. Rouse Upon the Debate touching the Reprieve of Sir Jo. Hotham by the Lords the Commons voted that no Officer made by Ordinance of both Houses should stay the execution of Justice by any order of either House without the concurrence of both Houses They likewise ordered that the Lieutenant of the Tower do proceed to the Execution of Sir John Hotham according to the Sentence of the Court Marshal Captain Hotham his Son sent a Petition to the Lords and another to the Commons praying his Pardon but it was denied and the same day his Head was cut off Mr. L'Estrange petitioned the Lords that his Case might be heard before the Parliament which was consented to by both Houses Letters were ordered to be written by the Speaker to Sussex Surrey and Hampshire for raising of Dragoons formerly undertaken One hundred and fifty horse from Oxford possessed themselves of Beselsley Mr. Speaker's House near Abington intending to fortifie it but Major General Brown sent out a party under Colonel Boswel to whom upon his summons they rendered the House on conditions to march away onely one who had formerly broke Prison at Abington was denied that favour Sergeant Wilde Mr. Brown and Mr. Nicholas offered Reasons and Arguments to the Lords that the Matters proved against the Archbishop were Treason An Answer was ordered to be given to the Papers of the Scots Commissioners to be sent by them to the Parliament of Scotland A Committee of both Houses was named to receive from the Sweedish Agent some matters which he said he had further to impart to them from the Queen Sir John Hotham in the Morning before his Execution procured a motion in the House of Commons for his Pardon which took up a Debate and Sir John being brought to the Scaffold on Tower-hill expected the good news of his Pardon and the time was protracted till two a Clock in the Afternoon but the Commons would not grant his desire He spake shortly to the people and Mr. Peters prayed with him and spake to the people in his Name and told them that Sir John ' s Father said to him when he was going forth to be a Souldier Son when the Crown of England lies at stake you will have fighting enough He was somewhat fearfull of death and his head was cut off The Committee of both Kingdoms reported their opinion to the Lords That the place for the Treaty of Peace should be Uxbridge and the Commissioners to be four Lords and eight Commoners and four Scots Commissioners to which the Lords agreed and sent to the Commons for their concurrence Both Houses agreed to send Commissioners to the Parliament and Assembly in Scotland The Queen of Sweden's Letter to the Parliament was read and contained a Narrative of the King of Denmark's hard usage of the Crown of Sweden and the great affection that Queen bears to England The Directory of Worship was fully agreed upon by both Houses and ordered to be printed and two of the Assembly to take care thereof and that a course shall be taken for publishing and settling of it to be generally used The Commons ordered that the Assembly of Divines should write a Congratulatory Letter to the Assembly in Scotland and to acquaint them what they had done and that the Parliament here had agreed in those Matters The Lords agreed to the Ordinance for Attainder of the Archbishop of High Treason and to be hanged drawn and quarter'd for it The Commons agreed that the place for the Treaty should be Vxbridge the Commissioners for
and a Person well affected to the present Government Orders for Provisions for the Admirals at Sea and concerning the Customes Upon a report from the Councel of State of the Examination of three of the Servants of Dr. Dorislaus concerning the murder of their Master Order for a Declaration to be published in that Business and for 200 l. per annum to be given to his Son for life and 500 l. a piece to his Daughters and 250 l. for his Funeral Upon the Petition of Widdows whose Husbands were slain in the Parliaments Service refered to a Committee to consider of the State of Hospitals and how in them or otherwise Provision may be made for the Wives and Children of such and for maimed Soldiers Letters from the Generals Quarters that he was marching towards the mutinous Troops and sent a Letter to them to Marlborough requiring their Obedience and to submit or else tells them what they must expect They sent an Answer with Expressions of an respect to the General acknowledged themselves his Souldiers but as to the Journey for Ireland they could not go with safe Consciences being contrary to their Ingagement at Triploe Heath They desire according thereunto that a general Councel of the Army may be called consisting of two Officers and two Souldiers of every Regiment with the general Officers and in their Judgments they will acquiesce Letters from Scotland that those in London Derry sallied out and gave a great Defeat to the Besiegers and that the Committee of Estates in Scotland published a Declaration against Middleton Ogleby and the Gourdons as Traytors 15. Debate divers hours in a grand Committee and afterwards in the House about putting a Period to this Parliament and referred to a Committee to consider of the settling the Successions of future Parliaments and regulating their Elections present Heads to the House concerning the same Order that the Lieutenant of the Tower take care that Lilburn and the rest have necessary Provisions for their Subsistence Letters that the General marched after the Mutineers who were twelve Colours and attempting to march over Newbridge towards Oxford but were forced back by Colonel Reynolds then they went over at a Ford and marched to Burford That the General pursued them and about twelve a clock at night coming near the Town sent a Forlorn under Captain Okey Who drew up a Party of Dragoons which met with the Mutineers Scouts drove them into the Town and so fell in with them and the Generals Regiment of Horse and other Forces followed That the Mutineers made some Resistance by firing out at the Windows but the Generals Officers setting the Miseries they would bring themselves and the Town into they yielded upon Quarter which was given to them There were taken in the Town near 900 Horse and Arms and 400 Prisoners and 12 Colours being almost their whole Party and not above 40 that were in the Town escaped Letters from the Hague that the States cause earnest Inquisition to be made after these that murdered Dr. Dorislaus and promised 1000 Guilders to him that bringeth any of them and published it death to any who shall harbour any of the Murderers That the Danish Ambassador sits with the P. his Councel the Swedes promise men enough and Lorraine his Assistance but that Money is wanting That C. Bard a Baronet was apprehended by Order of the States and Montross and the L. Hoptan questioned for the Murder of Dorislaus Orders touching the Imposition upon New-Castle Coales to take off as much as might be of it and about Provisions for the Garrisons of New-Castle Tinmouth and Berwick and Carlisle Order for the Commissioners of the Seal to issue out a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to try some Mosse Troopers Referred to a Committee to consider of bringing in Fines and Compositions notwithstanding Judgments and Extents upon Delinquents Estates Order about Collectors Accounts Upon a Report from the Councel of State that Sir Robert Harley Mr. of the Mint refused to stamp any Coyn with any other stamp than formerly The House ordered that a Tryal of the Pixe should be made at Sir Robert Harlie's charge they put him out of his place and made Dr. Gourdon the Physitian Mr. of the Mint in his room The House approved Sir Arthur Haselrigg his putting Captain Batten out from being Governour of the Holy Island Letters from the General to the House of his taking and dispersing the Mutineers the House gave Captain Bridges who brought the Letter 150 l. to buy him Horses Referred to the Councel of State to examine the Correspondence between some in London and the Mutineers Cornet Dean and Tomson the chief of the Mutineers were by a Councel of War sentenced to die and Dean was very penitent The General sent out his Warrant to all Justices of Peace to apprehend any of the Mutineers that should be found in those parts that they might be brought to Tryal 17 Debate all day of the case of Sir John Danvers and the Lady Gargrave his Sister about the Will of the Earl of Danby their Brother the House declared the Will to be void and referred the matter to a Committee A Declaration of C. Whaley and all his Officers and Souldiers reciting the good Intentions of the Parliament and near the effecting for settling the peace of the Nation setting out a Fleet to secure Trade and prevent Invasions providing for the Pay of the Army and their Arrears and taking off free Quarter and for the Relief of Ireland Which are endeavoured to be obstructed by the designs of the common Enemy to the ruine of that Nation and dishonour of the Army and hazard of this Common Wealth That divers have wickedly gone about to divide the Army to perswade those Soldiers to whose lot it is fallen to go for Ireland to refuse that Service and to seek by force to dissolve the Parliament and Councel of State and cast off the General They disclaim these traiterous Plots and Actions and utterly abhor them and resolve to continue their due Obedience to the Parliament the General Lieutenant General and others in Authority and ingage to stand and fall with them 18 An Act for establishing of Courts in every County for the probate of Wills Administrations Marriages Divorces c. was upon the Question rejected and referred to a Committee to draw up another Act for the same purpose according to the sense of the House in this Debate Debate touching the taking away of Tithes The House declared their Sence of the care of the States of Holland to find out the Authors of the horrid Murder of Dr. Dorislaus and hoped that the States would be careful of the Parliaments Agent Mr. Strickland now there Instructions agreed for the Mr. of the Ceremonies for a message to be delivered by him to the States Ambassador here The House declared That the Lives of those Persons of the Kings party who were excepted from pardon should
was gone to St. Johns Town and the Forces to Sterling Voted to seclude all private business for a Month. An Act for Incouragement and Indemnity of all such as ingage in the Parliaments Service Letters that the Enemy had quitted Edenburgh and Leith and left there 24 Pieces of Ordinance That a Son of Mr. Burgoine one of the Commissioners for the Militia at the Cross in Coventry proclaimed King Charles the Second and was apprehended for it but escaped 12 Letters of the settlement of the Militia in several Counties And Suspicions of Designs to raise new Troubles against the Parliament 13 Letters that the Scots were driven like Turkies by the English Souldiers and went along cursing their King and Clergy for insnaring them in misery That a Scots Captain taken Prisoner told the English Officers That their Ministers advised them if they were taken they should throw away their Bibles for if the English took any with Bibles they should have no Quarter That the words in most of their Colours were Covenant Religion King and Kingdom the same when they came in with D. Hamilton That the day before the Ingagement they consulted of sending Propositions to the English that they should have leave to pass into England with their Swords drawn leaving their Ordnance Armes and Ammunition behind And they had thoughts of sending those they should take Prisoners beyond Sea 14 Letters that the English Officers were fain to break the Pikes and many Muskets they had taken from the Scots there not being conveniency to send them for England That the Governour of Berwick gave to each Scotch Prisoner for one day three Biskets and a pottle of Pease which they said was more than their own Officers gave them three days together 16 Letters from a private hand describing the Religion Laws and Government of Scotland both Civil and Military with a character of their People and manners not much to their Honour That August the 21st The English shipped near 600 of their Sick men for Berwick and the Scots observing many boats going off thought they intended to ship away all their Foot and Ammunition and with their Horse to escape for England Whereupon the Scots pursued the English to Dunbarre and considered of sending them to the Barbadoes if they refused such Propositions as they should offer them and thinking they had the English in a net did Ingage with them That they having taken 20 of C. Prides Men they killed three of them and wounded the rest in cold blood That the English were in a sad posture very many of their men sicks and wanting Provisions the Enemy having made up the Passes before them the whole Scots Army on the right hand and the Sea on the left hand of them and the whole Nation of Scotland behind them That the Scots having a resolution to fall upon the English were prevented by the unseasonableness of the weather and Cromwell and his Officers seeing no other way resolved to fall on them which was done and after one hours hot dispute they were deseated and quitted Edenburgh and Leith which was the same day possessed by the English Army The Letter sharply censures them to be a People who delight to enslave others yet are of a Servile and slavish condition themselves a People whose Freedom is Service whose Mercies are cruel A Kirk whose Religion is Formality and whose Government is Tyranny a Generation of very Hippocrites and Vipers whom no Oaths or Covenants can bind no Courtesies or Civilities obliege 17 An Act passed for a day of publique Thanksgiving for the Victory against the Scots An Answer passed to the Kings late Declaration and published An Act passed against the Electing and Swearing Majors and other Officers upon the Lords day Order for Mr. Caryl and Mr. Owen to go into Scotland according to the desire of the Lord General Recruits of 600 drawn out of C. Barksteds Regiment for Scotland Rules given concerning Augmentations of Ministers Livings Sir John Gell was tryed before the High Court of Justice Several Ministers of London appeared before a Committee for not observing the Thanksgiving day for the Victory against the Scots Letters that the General had settled things at Edenburgh and Leith That since his coming to Edenburgh not a man had appeared out of the Castle That upon news of the Victory at Dunbar brought to the King He thanked God that he was so rid of the Scots and said the Kirk might now see their Errour in prohibiting him to be in Person with their Army and keeping out the English and the rest of his Followers That he is now with the Army about Sterling 19 The Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councel of London kept a day of Thanksgiving by themselves for the Victory in Scotland and invited divers Officers of the Army Parliament Men and other Gentlemen to dine with them at Guild-Hall That the Ministers about Taunton would not observe the day of Thanksgiving for the Victory in Scotland but prayed indirectly to the contrary 20 Letters of the decrease of the Plague in Dublyn That the Lord Deputy in his March through Wicklowe took from the Rebels 3000 Cows and advanced towards Athlow That Money was arrived for the Souldiers That Sir Hardress Waller was set down before Limberick That the Enemy sallyed out of Waterford upon C. Essex his Quarters took many of his Troop horses killed some few of his men sorely wounded his Lieutenant and himself hardly escaped That the Enemy are drawing all their strength together and give out that they will fight the English From Edinburgh That the G. Marched with his Army and Six days Provision from thence towards Sterling having left Forces in Edinburgh and Leith and cast up a Work cross the Streets of Edinburgh between his Forces and the Castle and there was little or no Action between them and his Forces That the General sent all his sick Souldiers to a Lord's House in Leith where they had good Accommodations and great Care taken of them That the King insists to have the L. Ruthen G. but the Kirk will have none but the L. Lowthian and the old L. Leuen is laid aside with Dishonour That the Scots are upon Raising new Forces That in Edenburgh they took 3000 new Foot-Arms which the Scots had not time to carry away nor put into the Castle they were in so great a Confusion That in Leith they took store of French-Wines part of which was spent to refresh the Souldiers who for too long time before had drunk nothing but Water the rest is to be sold for the benefit of the Army That about 1500 Foot and 1000 Horse of Recruits were come from England to the Army in Scotland That the L. Lowden's Cabinet was taken in the Fight and in it Copies of his Letters to the King and other Papers of consequence he being Chancellor but ill beloved of the Scots and upbraided by them for Whoredom and other Sins 21. A Member
bring in the Enemy thereabouts to the Parliament of England Whereupon the Forces removed and a Cornet of Collonel Okey coming to his Regiment with a small Party was set upon by many Moss-Troopers who gave seven of them quarter yet afterwards killed them in cold Blood and only the Cornet and four more scaped That Collonel Heane was shipping with his Men at Weymouth for the design of Jersey 18. Letters That Captain Benboe was shot to death at Shrewsbury according to the Sentence of the Court-Martial and that the Earl of Derby was beheaded at Bolton the same day That Captain Duckinfield with his Men were shipped for the Isle of Man 20. Letters of the Particulars of the Earl of Derbies Death who carried himself with stoutness and Christian-like temper 21. Letters came from Holland That the Scots King was landed there with the Duke of Buck's and the Lord Wilmot and others in Sea-mens Cloaths and that upon the news thereof the Princess Royal and many with her went to Scheveling where they met the King That an English Man of War meeting with some Dutch Fishermen demanded of them the Tenth Herring as an acknowledgement of the Sovereignty of England in those Seas but the Dutch denying it they fell from words to blows and the Dutch shooting first at the English the English Man of War sunk one of their Ships and all their Men were lost Others relate That the Quarrel began upon the English Man of War requiring the Dutch-men to strike Sail to him according to the usage and they refusing it he sunk one of them Of the dispersing of Dungans Forces by Collonel Reynolds and his recovery of some Castles and joyning with Collonel Zanchey That Fitz-Patrick stormed Castle-Jorne and took 30 of the Parliaments Soldiers and ingaged Collonel Hewsons Troop took 25 and killed 27 of them That the Irish are numerous and desperate That Two Congregational Churches were gathered in Dublin 22. Debate upon the Bills for a New Representative and on a Bill for propagation of the Gospel and ordered that they be considered de die in diem till ended Letters of Forces shipped from Chester against the Isle of Man being 3000 Men and between 30 and 40 Sail. Mr. John Sayer condemned by a Court-Marshal at Chester to be hanged for Treason but upon his Penitence was reprieved That Collonel Venables rose from the Siege of Dundalke in Cavan That the Irish attempted Bellinger but were beaten off with the loss of 40 of their Men and divers of their Officers and Soldiers wounded 23. Letters of some Endeavours for new Levies in Scotland 24. The Thanksgiving-day observed solemnly Letters That the Scots are ready to embrace what the Parliament of England shall require of them That divers Ministers confer at Edenburgh and are permitted That Argyle and Huntley are raising Forces yet have none in a Body but a few stragling Highlanders That an English Soldier for lying with a Scots Woman was by Sentence of the Court-Marshal together with the Woman whipped through Edenburgh and a Scotch Laâ—s that held the Candle to them in the Action lighted them all the way and was duck'd with them That Augustine the Moss-Trooper took an English Sutler and 60 l. in Money at Monrosse That Argyle sent a Trumpet to Sterling to desire a Treaty and that the Scots generally desired to be governed by the English That the Lord chef-Chef-Justice St. John Sir Henry Vane jun ' major-Major-General Lambert Major-General Deane Lieutenant-General Monk Collonel Fenwicke Alderman Tichburne and Major Sallowey were appointed Commissioners for the Affairs of Scotland and being there it was hoped they would soon settle the Civil Affairs there 25. Letters That many of the Scotch Prisoners and others at Shrewsbury were dead of a Contagious Feaver That there was no certainty of the King of Scots Arrival in Holland and that upon the Rumor of it the States propounded to pass a Decree That no forreign Prince or Noble-man should come into their Dominions without their Privity That Meen heere Scape and Meen heer Parre were nominated Ambassadors for England 27. Letters That the King of Scots was arrived in France and got to Paris met by the way and conducted thither by the Duke of Orleans and visited by the Queen his Mother and divers of the great Lords That he told them his Adventures after the Battle of Worcester to this effect That about Six a Clock in the Evening his Army being in all likelihood beaten he quitted Worcester with a Party of Horse and marched towards Lancashire being fearful of being pursued and lest some of the Scots Officers should deliver him up he with the Lord Wilmot quitted their Horses and sent the Party of Horse upon their March That he and the Lord Wilmot betook themselves the second days march from Worcester into a Tree where they remained until night and then marched on foot that night That the third day they took Sanctuary in a Wood and night approaching marched on foot towards Lancashire where they were received by a Lady who furnished them with Cloaths for a disguise and cut off their Hair very short Having reposed two or three days the Lady resolved to endeavour to ship them out of England to which purpose she riding behind the King and Wilmot as another Servant by they went to Bristol But finding a narrow and hot Inquiry there they went to London where they stayed three Weeks and the King went up and down in London in a Gentlewomans Habit and at Westminster-Hall he saw the States Arms and the Scots Colours That the Lord Wilmot procured a Merchant to hire a Ship of 40 Tuns to transport them which cost them 120 l. but as soon as the Lord Wilmot was entred the Bark and the King as his Servant the Master of the Vessel came to him and told him That he knew the King and in case it should be known he could expect no mercy which Saying troubled them But at length what with Money and Promises they Prevailed and so set Sail for Haver de gras and there landed and from thence went to Rohan where they were cloathed and wrote from thence to Paris That this Arrival of the King stopped the French King from sending Ambassadors for England That the King sent for the Lords Inchequin Taffe and Ormond That the Lord Taffe had treated with the Duke of Lorrein for his undertaking the Business of Ireland That divers Prisoners presented a Petition to the Lord General reciting That the Law was the Badge of the Norman Bondage and that Prisons were Sanctuaries to Rich Men Prisoners and Tortures to the Poorer sort who were not able to fee Lawyers and Goalers They pray the General into whose Hands the Sword is put to free them from oppression and slavery and to restore the Nations fundamental Laws and Liberties and to gain a new Representative and that the Poor may have Justice and Arrests
which was furthered by Whitelocke's advice to the Protector 20. The Commissioners of the Treasury made several reports to the Protector and Council of Arrears of money due to the state and upon advice with them his Highness and the Council made several orders for the Collecting and bringing in of those Arrears December 1657. 1. News of the King of Sweden's proceedings in the Isle of Funen 3. The distaste between the Protector and Bradshaw was perceived to increase 6. Order for the prosecution of some persons who had committed very great wasts and spoils in Forests 7. The Protector was perswaded to take to heart and to further the relief of the poor persecuted Protestants in the Vallies of Piedmont and to send an Agent to the Duke of Savoy to negotiate for favour to them as other Princes had done 11. Writs of Summons under the great Seal were sent to divers persons to sit as Members in the other House of Parliament The Form of the Writs was the same with those which were sent to summon the Peers in Parliament They were in all sixty among whom were divers Noblemen Knights and Gentlemen of ancient Families and good Estates and some Colonels and Officers of the Army Their Names were as followeth The Lord Richard Cromwell the Protectors eldest Son The Lord Henry Cromwell his other Son Lord Deputy of Ireland Nathaniel Fiennes John Lisle Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal Henry Lawrence Lord President of his Highness Privy Council The Lord Charles Fleetwood Robert Earl of Warwick Edmund Earl of Mulgrave Edward Earl of Manchester William Viscount Say and Seal Lord John Cleypole Master of the Horse Philip Viscount Lisle eldest Son to the Earl of Leicester Charles Viscount Howard Philip Lord Wharton Thomas Lord Fauconbridge Lord John Desborough Lord Edward Mountague Generals at Sea George Lord Eure. The Lord Whitelocke Sir Gilbert Pickering Colonel William Sydenham Sir Charles Wolseley Baronet Major General Philip Skippon Lord Strickland Colonel Philip Jones Sir William Strickland Francis Rous Esq John Fiennes Esq Sir Francis Russel Baronet Sir Thomas Honnywood Knight Sir Arthur Hasilrigge Baronet Sir John Hobart Sir Richard Onslow Knight Sir Gilbert Gerard. Sir William Roberts Knight John Glyn Oliver St. John Lords chief Justices William Pierpoint Esq John Jones Esq John Crew Esq Alexander Popham Esq Sir Christopher Pack Sir Robert Tichborn Edward Whalley Esq Sir John Barksted Knight Lieutenant of the Tower of London Sir George Fleetwood Sir Thomas Pride Richard Ingolsby Esq Sir John Hewson James Berry Esq William Goffe Esq Thomas Cooper Esq Edmund Thomas Esq George Monk Commander in chief of his Highness Forces in Scotland David Earl of Cassils in Scotland Sir William Lockart Sir Archibald Johnston of Warriston William Steele Lord Chancellour of Ireland The Lord Broghil Brother to the Earl of Corke in Ireland Sir Matthew Tomlinson 16. Colonel Sir John Reynolds who commanded the English Forces that joyned with the King of France was in a Pink coming over with Colonel White and others from Mardike for England and upon Goodwin Sands the Pink was cast away and all their men in her were drowned Among them was one William de Vaux a young man a good Scholar and very ingenious and being in a great storm in a former Voyage he vainly said That if ever he went to Sea again he would be contented that God should let him be drowned And now being again at Sea the Judgment imprecated by him did fall upon him and he was now drowned 24. The Commissioners of the Treasury prepared the business of the Contract with Commissioners for the Excise and new Impost 25. Some Congregations being met to observe this day according to former solemnity and the Protector being moved that Souldiers might be sent to suppress them he was advised against it as that which was contrary to the Liberty of Conscience so much owned and pleaded for by the Protector and his friends but it being contrary to Ordinances of Parliament which were also opposed in the passing of them that these days should be so solemnized the Protector gave way to it and those Meetings were suppressed by the Souldiers January 1657. 1. Whitelocke having lent Mr. Rushworth some Manuscripts he attended Whitelocke to shew him his Historical Collections as his Highness had ordered 3. A Meeting of the Gentlemen of the County of Bucks at Merchant-Taylors Hall where they had a great Feast 9. The Lord Willoughby petition'd the Protector for his Highness Order to go into the Country to dispatch some necessary business in relation to his Estate and promising to return to Prison which Petition the Protector granted 12. The Protector resolved to have a Collection for the poor persecuted Protestants of Piedmont 20. The Parliament met according to their Adjournment and the Members of the other House summoned by Writ met and sate in the Lords House as the Lords used to do formerly The Protector came thither and the Speaker with the House of Commons being sent for by the Black Rod came to the Lords House where the Protector made a solemn Speech to them but was short by reason of his Indisposition of health and after him the Lord Commissioner Fiennes spake to them more at large My Lords and Gentlemen of both the most honourable Houses of Parliament AMongst the manifold and various Dispensations of God's Providence of late years this is one and it is a signal and remarkable Providence that we see this day in this place a Chief Magistrate and two Houses of Parliament Jacob speaking to his Son Joseph said I had not thought to have seen thy face and lo God hath shewed me thy seed also Meaning his two Sons Ephraim and Manasseh And may not many amongst us well say some years since We had not thought to have seen a Chief Magistrate again amongst us and lo God hath shewn us a Chief Magistrate in his two Houses of Parliament Now may the good God make them like Ephraim and Manasseh that the three Nations may be blest in them saying God make thee like these two Houses of Parliament which two like Leah and Rachel did build the House of Israel May you do worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlehem May it be your great business to procure the peace the safety and the prosperity of these three Nations and these things too not for themselves only but in order yet to greater and higher ends the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ amongst us and the Glory of God in the good of all men but especially of the Churches of God amongst men which as they are God's most precious Jewels and his chiefest care so must they also hold the choicest place in the eyes and in the hearts of all those that act under him and are cloathed with his power and authority In order to the great and glorious end you may please in the first place to reflect upon the Posture that
of the Paâ—liament Montross Obstructions Jones Ireton U 〈◊〉 ties Ireland Cromwel sent for Reasons Scotland Ingagement Courts Marshal Durham Reports Pembroke Scots Declaration Kings Lands New Representatives Acts of Parliament proclaimed Ireland Report Letters from Rome February Gospel Stile Scotland Humiliation publick Register Hinderson Scotland Academy Scotland Army humilation Ingagement Scotland Ireland Gospel Scotland Preachers â—ct for â—eamen March Ministirs Ingagement Taunton Scots â—reland vote Sabboth Blasphemy Blasphemy Ireland Army Petition Ireland 〈◊〉 Judge Nicholas Ireland Letters London Address Answer April New Inventions L. Broghall 〈◊〉 Ireland 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orders G. Blake Scots Ireland Kilkenny Witches Petition Vote Montrosse Massey Letter Cromwell 〈◊〉 Army Petition Scots Bonds Ireland Proposals Ireland Montross defeated May. Leeds Montress Kirk Montresse Adultery Act. H. Martin trepaâ— Montross Montross Scots Army Law Scotland Ireland 〈…〉 Ireland Clonmel Scots Ireland Scotland Cromwel Cromwel June Blake Scotland Cromwel Scotland Ireland army Ascham Murdered Lady Fitz-gerald acts South-wales Iuncto of State Resolution to invade Scotland Fairfax unsatisfy'd Conference with Fairfax Farfax Lays down his Commission Cromwell made General Court Marshal Ireland Scots Cromwel Scotland Act against Swearing Fleet. Barbados Message from the Scots York Ireland Victory Scotland Letters from Sir Charles Coot July High Court of Justice Plague Cromwel Adultery Act. Scots Scotland Blasphemy Proclamation Portugal Russia Amsterdam Ireland Cromwel G. Lesly Proclamation Baâ—bados Scotland August Amsterdam Spain Scotland Ireland Scotland Scotland H. C. of Justice Scots Scots Officers Cromwel Ireland Scotland Septemb. Call from God Fleer Scots Cromwell Victory at Dunbarre Scots Ministers Colours hung in Westminster Hall Scots London Ireland 〈◊〉 Ministers Letter from Cromwel Another Letter Barbados Blasphemy Ireland Scotland Proclamation sir John Gell. Lady Elizabeth H. C. of â—ustice Scots Barbados Scotland October Ireland Petition Scotland Portugal Kirk Ireland Scots The Engagement Trained Bands Fleet. The Law in English Scotland Cromwel Return of Iuries Cromwel Blasphemy Scots Pr Rupert Scots Ireland Novem. Law-business Irish Scots Proclamation Ministers Moss-Troopers Middleton The English Laws Kirk Ireland Victory C. Axtel December Blake Scots Portugal Sermon Scots Letters from Cromwel Declarations H. C. of Justice Blake Blake Scotland Spanish Ambassador Blake January Scotland Edenburgh Castle sâ—t rendred Scots H. C. of Justice Ireland Portugal Ambassador Coronaâ— at Schone Gr. Seal Scotland Blake New Seal Kirk February Kirk Aysebam Ambassadors to the States Hume-Castle Kings-Armes Ministery Hume-Castle Fenwick Councel of State Court-Marshal Cromwel Ireland Blake Mr. Fryes Book Ireland March Scotland Admirals Revolters Cook Dangerous Opinions Scotland English Ambassadors Holland April Apseley Ireland Van Trump Pyrates Kirk Ireland English Ambassadors Coalition Scilly Island May. Scots Scotland Scilly Island Petition Massey Scotland Cromwel P. Edward English English Ambassadors Scots Cromwell Holland Scotland June Sir George Ascut Scilly Island Ireland Scotland Mr. Love Scots English Ambassadors Holland Mr. Love Scots Lord Broghill Ireland July Ireland Scotland Mr. Love Cromwell Ireland Scots Cromwell Mr. Love Petition St. James's Fair. Jersey Ireland Scotland Love Cromwell Lambert Victory in Scotland Primers Ireland August Fise Battle Ministers Questions Brunt Island Mr. Love Scotland Cromweâ— Harrison Ireland Lord Broghill London Scots invade England Co. Alured Preston Harrison Oxford Letters from Lambert Mr. Love Scots Motion Sterling Castle Scots Letters from Fleetwood E. Derby Ministers Worcester Septem Scotland Worcester Vote C. Alured Tory. Ireland Monk Worcester Fight Letters from Cromwel Harrison Scotland Dundee Massey Sir Arth. Haselrigge Ireland Dundee Dundee Cromwel Scots Cromwel Fast-day Scots General Popham Ireland New Representative Hewson Okey C. Alured Scotland E. Derby October Conspirators Scotland Countess of Derby E. Derby Bill for a New Parliament Conspirators London Scots Moss-Troopers E. Derby King landed in Holland English and Dutch quarrel Ireland Bills Scots Discipline Commissioners for Scotland Holland Ambassadors The Kings Escape from Worcester Prisoners Petition Novem. Jersey taken Argyle Monk Isle of Man Jersey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isle of Man Scotland Jersey Votes for Dissolution Jersey Ireland Monk Kirk Huntley Massey Jersey Council of State Ireland Limbrick surrendred Scotland Scotland Jersey Ireland Decem. Ireton dies Preaching Cromwel Conference Petitions Scotland Dutch Ambassadors Votes Dutch Ambassadors Jersey Scotland Dutch Ambassadors Ireton Advice Jersey Elizabeth Castle Lambert Law Barbadoes Scotland Jersey Ayscham Januar. Scotland Haselrigge Scotland Monke Lilburne Committee of the Law Court-Marshal Scotland Votes Sweden Declaration Sea Vision 〈◊〉 Committee of Law H. Peters Februa Acts. Scotland Declaration Ireland Jersey Dutch Scotland Hewson Sir George Ascue Barbadoes Lambert Declaration Committee of Law Scotland Kens Town Ireland Petition Answer Scotland Hans Towns Holland March Blake Kirk Covenant Scotland Ireland Barbadors taken Lord willoughby Ireland â—â—ts Union Petition Danish Minister Scotland Union Ireland Bills Union Scotland Frigots Argyle April Dutch Union Ireland Lieutenant-General Ludlow Ireland Cracovian Catechisme Kirk Ireland Union Dutch Ambassadors Union Scotland Merchants Ireland Vote Hamilton Sir George Ascue Barbadon Scotland France L. Willoughby Sweden Conde Argyle May. Union Representative Captain How Judges in Scotland Ireland Fleet. Dutch Flag Ireland Van Trump Dutch Ambassadors Fight in the Downs Ireland June Throckmorton Judges Scotland Scotland Dunotter Castle Blake Dutch Paper Answer Scotland Dutch Ambassador Fight at Sea Blake Ireland Vote Cromwel Lambert distated Whitelocke Ireland Scotland Kirk Prerogative Sir George Ascue Register Kirk Tumult Storm Petition Votes in Answer to Dutch Paper Dutch Ambassadors Hewson Ireland Blake Ascue July Ireland Ascues Sea Fight Highlands Blake Dr. Winston Fleetwood Ascue Ireland Scots Dutch Fleet. Ascue Highlands Blake Kirke Highlands Dutch-Fleet Q. Sweeden Scots Presbyterian Blake Ascue Kirke Blake Ireland Blake Ireland Highlands Van Trump Ascue St. Pauls Van Trump August Army Petition Answer Cromwel Blake Kirk Ascue Fight Committee for Ireland Ascue Blake Scotland Blake Pen. Compalint Virginia Highlands Dutch Fleet. De Wit Denmark Septem Ireland Blake Wales Ireland â—udges â—rcuits in Scotland Highlands Dutch Bill Parl. Blake Dutch Mutiny Scotland English Judges Blake D. Tuscany Portugal Ambassador October Dutch Fleet. Witches Sea fight Ireland Storm Union Blake Denmark De Witt. Denmark Dutch Denmark Union Ireland Alderman Fowk Kirke Witches Scotland Dutch Petition Union Novem. Dutch Fleet. Union Cromwell Whitelock Blake Monk Parliament Navy Scotland Forreign Ministers Seamenincouraged Februa Placard Sea Fight Cromwell and Army against Parliament Prince Rupert Captain Bodiley Lord Lisle Holland March Scots Dutch Scotland Army Holland Anno 1653. Scots Declaration Sea Fight Irish Scotland Captain Appleton Ministers Sweden Cromwell Colliers April Irish Pamphlet Holland Scots Van Trump Cromwell Parliament turned out of Doors Kirk Cromwell Holland Declaration Great-Seal Sea Captains Scotland Dutch Holland Fleet. May. Durham Acknowledgments Coynen Cromwell Fleet. Dutch Kings-Bench Prison Army Ireland Bodiley Army Ireland Dâ—al Dutch Danâ—s French Ambassador Fleet. Ireland Highlands Army Dutch Ireland Cromwell Van Trump London Addresses Radnor Fleet. Van Trump Scots Jus divinum Sea Fight Dean Monk
executed and the Soldiers committed great outrages Sir Randâ—l Crew Chief Justice not favouring the Loan was put out of his Place and Sir Nicholas Hide who drew the Dukes Answer in Parliament was preferred to be the Chief Justice The Bishop of Lineoln for speaking words against the Government and for countenancing Non-Conformists was complained of by Sir John Lamb and others and they Informed That Fasts were kept and Money Collected by the Puritans for the Palatinat and that the Bishop would not proceed against them The Bishop got a Copy of the Informations against him Bishop Laud was Jealous that Lincoln Endeavour'd to be reconciled to the Duke Six thousand English in service with the States were commanded thence under General Morgan to join with the King of Denmark Some who refused to lend Money to the King were forced to Serve in the Kings Ships then going forth and refusers in the Country were some of them Committed and the meaner sort pressed to serve as Soldiers Dr. Sibthorp published a Sermon Preached by him to Promote the Kings Affairs wherein he delivered his Opinion That the King might make Laws and do whatsoever pleaseth him Dr. Mainwaring Preached the same Divinity and highly against the power of Parliaments The Papists were forward in the Loan and the Puritans were Recusants in it Abount this time the Earl of Denbigh had one hundred Sayl of Ships under his command in our Seas but his Excellency having no Commission to Fight suffer'd divers English Vessels to be taken away by our Enemies in his view without Rescue by their Countrymen Some Ships taken for Prize being brought before him as Admiral it was wondred at that almost all of them were by him adjudged to be no Prize and so released but one Captain pursued a released Ship and took her again brought her to London and in the Admiralty she was adjudged Prize and he Enjoyed the benefit whatever the Earl of Denbigh did before Distastes and Jealousies were raised about the Government of the Queens Family wherein the King held himself traduced by some French Servants who said that the King bad nothing to do with them he being an Heretick The Queen was brought to Insist upon it as part of the Articles that She should name all Her Servants and some unkindness arose upon it The King was also distasted That her Priests made the Queen to walk to Tyburn on Pennance Upon these passages the King dismist and sent back into France all the Queens French retinue acquainting the French King with it and Excusing it to him but it was ill resented in France and by them held contrary to the Articles of Marriage The Jarring with France brake out to an open War which was fomented by an Abbot here in disfavour with Cardinal Richlieu to put an affront upon the Cardinal and Mr. Walter Mountague Endeavoured to further it and the pretence was to assist those of the Religion in France Our King took that ground and the denial of Count Mansfields Men to land in France and the influence of the Councils of the House of Austria upon those of France and the Imbargo of our Merchants Ships there sufficient causes for a War The Duke of Bucks is appointed Admiral and General of the Sea and Land Forces prepared against France And hath power to make Knights c. He comes before Rochel with one hundred Sayl of Ships and desires them to joyn with him in behalf of the Protestants in France but the Rochellers returning thanks to our King and to the Duke answered That they were bound by Vnion and Oath not to do any thing without the consent of the rest of the Religion The Duke was advised to land his Men at the Isle of Oleron which was weak and ill provided and not at the Isle of Rea which was strong and well provided but he altered his Design and Sailed to Rea and there landed Twelve hundred Men whom the French encountred but the English forced their way and all the Army was landed in the Island Yet did they not take their advantage against the French but suffered the Governor to have five days to recover his loss and to get in as he did new Forces and Provisions in the mean time the Duke published a Manifesto of the Causes of this War particularly the King of France his Imploying our Ships against Rochel contrary to his promise and agreement The Gentlemen here who refused to pay the Loan were confined into other Counties and in close Imprisonment and some of them in common Goals Sir John Elliot one of them in a Petition to the King sets forth the Illegality of the Loan or of any Tax without Parliament taking this way to Inform the King what his Councel did not and he alledgeth his Conscience not to submit to it and prays his liberty but could not obtain it Sir Peter Haiman another refuser was sent upon an Errand as far as the Palatinate The Arch-Bishop Abbot was suspended for refusing to licence Dr. Sibthorps Book a Sermon for Absolute Power and a Commission was granted to several Bishops to exercise the Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction Of all which proceedings touching himself the Archbishop left a grave and ingenious Narrative which may be read at large in Rushworths Collections Five of the Imprisoned Gentlemen by Habeas Corpus were brought to the Kings Bench and by their Councel Assigned took Exceptions to the Return for that it had not the cause of their Commitment but of their detainer in Prison per speciale Mandatum Regis which is no particular cause and the Law being most tender of the Subjects Liberty Noy Selden Brampston Calthrope and others who were of Councel for the Prisoners prayed they might be Released and Discharged Heath the Kings Attourney at another Day argued in Maintenance of the Return Hide chief Justice declared the Opinion of the Court That the Return was Positive and Absolute by the Kings special command and the signification of it by the Lords of the Council is only to inform the Court. And that the Habeas Corpus is not to return the Cause of the Imprisonment but of the detention in Prison that the matter of this Return is sufficient and the Court is not to examine the truth of the Return but must take it as it is So the Prisoners were Remaunded The Report of this Case may be found in Rushworths Collections Anno 1627 The King resolves to send supplies to the Isle of Rea and Souldiers and Mariners are press'd for that purpose but many of them not liking the business run away from their Conductors hereupon it was resolved by all the Judges That If one be retained to serve the King beyond Seas and press money deliver'd to him and by Indenture he be deliver'd to a Conductor to lead him to the Port where he is to be shipped and he run away from the Conductor that this it Felony by the Statutes 7 H. 7. ch
Kingdom shall not be laid down till Delinquents be left to Justice that their Estates may discharge the Debts of the Commonwealth The Souldiers commit Outrages which the King and Parliament labour to rectifie Sir Thomas Barrington and Mr. Grimstone in Essex seize upon Sir John Lucas and his Lady and commit them to Prisons and Lucas is proclaimed Traytor The Parliament for repayment of Loans upon Publick Faith order Satisfaction out of the Estates of Delinquents The Lord Strange is impeached of high Treason for raising Lancashire-men by whom one Percivall was killed The King adjourned Michaelmas Term and proclaims Nichols Macworth and Hunt of Shrop-shire to be Traytors The Lord Fairfax and Mr. Bellasis conclude a Neutrality for Yorkshire but the Parliament declare the Lord Fairfax not bound to observe the Articles but to assist the Parliament The Earl of Essex's Colours was a deep Yellow others setting up another Colour were held Malignants and ill-affected to the Parliaments Cause So small a thing is taken notice of in the Jealousies of War Intelligence being given to the House of Commons that the Earl of Berkshire and divers Gentlemen of principal quality in Oxfordshire intended shortly to put in execution the King's Commission of Array at Wattleton They commanded Whitelocke to use his utmost Endeavours to prevent the execution of that Commission in Oxfordshire and to apprehend such of the Commissioners as should meet for that purpose and the better to enable him hereunto they ordered some of the Regiment of Horse of Colonel Goodwyn and of the Regiment of Foot of Colonel Hampden to attend his Commands The Commissioners of Array having appointed their Meeting at Wattleton at a day and the Country summoned to come in to them Whitelocke sent for the Forces appointed to meet him and in the Afternoon came to him a Troop of Horse and a Company of Foot and Hampden himself with them and when they were met they had Information that the Commissioners having notice of the Parliaments Forces being in the Field thought not fit to continue at Wattleton but brake off their business and not taking leave or dismissing the Country the Commissioners with their Company hasted to Sir Robert Dormer's house and thither they were pursued and when the Parliaments Company beleagured the house they fired some Musquets and Pistols at them but finding themselves too weak for the Parliament Party and that they went about to storm the house they presently yielded upon quarter Most of the Commissioners of Array were got away only the Earl of Berkshire and two or three more were taken and conveyed to London The House of Lords committed the Earl and the rest to Prison where he lay for a long time after The King's General was first the Marquess of Hertford and shortly after the Earl of Lindsey divers of his Forces quartered near Hull seemed as if they had some design of beleaguring it Sir John Hotham and Sir John Meldram his Assistant sallied out upon them surprized them killed some and took others Prisoners and shortly after having a supply of five hundred men from London they sallied out again and discomfited some of their Forces and burnt a Barn with some Ammunition of the King 's in it and this was the first place where blood was drawn in this Contest The King marched from Nottingham to Stafford and Leicester and so to Wales and at Shrewsbury his Army encreased to a considerable body The Parliament Forces rendezvous'd at S. Albans and from thence marched Northward to meet the King with a Petition from both Houses and these Directions to their General 1. To restrain all profaneness in the Army 2. To march and fight the King's Army and by Battel or otherwise to rescue his Person and the Prince and Duke of York from those about him 3. To present the Petition to his Majesty and if he shall please to withdraw himself from his Army and resort to his Parliament then to cause those Forces to disband and to guard the King in his Return 4. To declare pardon to those that will withdraw fom the King except Richmond Cumberland Newcastle Rivers Caernarvan Newark Falkland Nicholas Porter and Hyde 5. To receive and certifie Contributions to be repaid 6. To protect the good people and to restore their losses 7. To apprehend Traytors and Delinquents 8. To observe further Directions He had a Committee with him who with the General were to take Subscriptions of Loans and order Matters concerning Malignants and to consider of the good of the Army The Parliament finding Supplies and Officers sent by the Queen from Holland to the King they sent over to the States Mr. Strickland to be their Resident in the Low Countries and with him a Declaration from the Lords and Commons The effect of it was To acquaint them with the affairs and proceedings of the Parliament and that it was not expected that they who had formerly received the assistance of the English to recover their Liberty should now assist those whose design was to deprive the English Nation of their Rights and Liberties Goring held Portsmouth for the King and hearing the County Trained Bands designed to surprize it he met and skirmished with them and retired to the Town but Sir John Meyrick's Regiment and a Troup of Horse being sent by the Parliament to joyn with the Countrey they so streightned Goring that though Marquess Hertford hastened to his Relief yet he surrendred the Town and took Ship for Holland The Marquess giving a Brush to the Earl of Bedford by the way seised upon Sherburne Castle and from thence marched to the King to Shrewsbury Sir John Biron with some Troups for the King was unexpectedly set upon at Brackley by the Towns-men and some Troups of the Parliament in his March to Oxford by whom he received some loss yet came on to Oxford The Lord Say Lieutenant of Oxfordshire being then in the Countrey upon this Alarm sent to Whitelocke and the rest of his Deputy-Lieutenants to bring what Forces they could to meet him near Oxford to remove the Lord Biron Whitelocke had a gallant Company of Horse of his Neighbours under his command When he came near Oxford his Scouts brought him intelligence that the Lord Say with a Regiment of Dragoons and the Lord St. John with him and several Companies of his Regiment of Foot were upon their march towards the place appointed for their Rendezvouse but that Sir John Biron hearing of their approach had quitted the Town Whitelocke went on till he met the Lord Say and with him were the Lord St. John the Lord Weenman and most of his Deputy-Lieutenants and their Forces were in all above 3000 Horse and Dragoons and Foot with whom they entred the City without any resistance and were welcomed by the Towns-men more than by the Scholars Yet besides the Mayor and Aldermen the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Houses and Proctors gave my Lord Say a visit and protested all
their Forces The Governour of Poole set upon the Queens Regiment of horse marching that way near Blandford slew sixteen of them took about forty prisoners a hundred brave horse two Colours and much Popish trumpery and lost but one man and a few hurt Colonel Lambert fell upon a party of the King's horse near Plumpton in Yorkshire took about a hundred and forty Horse the Commander in chief an Irish Rebel three Captains and many prisoners The King faced the Parliaments Armies with his horse and in the mean time drew away his Foot towards Newbury whither he followed with the horse Captain Fincher waiting on their march surprised sixty of their horse Orders were sent to the several Counties to be in a posture of defence and the Chirurgeons were sent down with Medicaments to the Army and Mr. Bell to provide them An Ordinance passed that no quarter should be given to any of the Irish Rebels taken either at Sea or Land By a Letter from Pembroke was certified that some of Prince Rupert's Forces particularly of the Irish Rebels drove away their Cattel risled their Houses eat and destroyed all their Provisions burnt their Villages and standing Corn destroyed all Sexes and Degrees Aged and unarmed persons were stripped naked by them â—and some they inhumanely murthered in cold blood others they half hanged and afterwards stigmatized and burnt their flesh off from their bodies to the bare bones and yet suffered them to live in great torture The Commons ordered that all the Judges and King's Council should meet to consider of the Tryal of Macquire and Macmahon An Ordinance passed to free the Heir of Sir William Fairfax who was slain in the Parliaments Service from Wardship An Order past to admit the Prince Elector to come when he pleased to the Assembly of Divines to hear their Debates according to his Highnesse's desire Newcastle Town not agreeing to Propositions of a Treaty the Scots stormed and entred part of the Town and became Masters of it that Sir John Merlay and others for the King fled to the Castle and offered to render it upon quarter which was denied but that they should render at mercy Some of the Scots Officers were slain as Major Hepburne and others but more of the Enemy Publick thanks to God were ordered to be given for the mercy in gaining Newcastle Sergeant Whitfield had the thanks of the House for his pains in preparing the Evidence for the Tryal of Macquire and Macmahon and the former Lord chief Justice Bramston was ordered to be advised with in that Business An Ordinance passed for the sale of some Delinquents Lands in Essex By Letters from the Commissioners in the Army it was certified that the Armies were near engagement that the King's horse faced the Parliaments Forces within a mile their Foot and Artillery marched up and were drawn into Bartalia at Bucklebury and nothing more done that day but they resolved the next day to charge the King's Forces if they would stand to it and they desired provisions might be sent to the Army Two Barges loaded with Bisket and Cheese were sent to Reading to be conveyed to the Army The Houses being informed that the Lord General was not well and stayed behind the Army they sent a Committee of Lords and Commons to visit him and to express the affections of both Houses to him This was not as was given out a piece of Courtship but I think real and there was cause enough that it should be so the General having so highly deserved from them Yet there were some had Designs against him and were desirous to remove him from his Command because they were jealous that he was too much inclined to peace and favouring of the King and his party I think I knew as much of his mind as others did and always observed him to wish for peace yet not upon any dishonourable or unjust terms he was a Lover of Monarchy and Nobility which he suspected some designed to destroy together with Gentry Ministry and Magistracy which humour began then to boyl up but he resolved to support them and wanted not advice to that end But the Jealousies upon him who was a most faithful and gallant man and servant to the publick gave him great trouble in his thoughts and they did work so high with his Enemies that some gave out he was by private intimation to forbear engaging in this Service and for certain he was not in it A party of the King 's coming to relieve Banbury were repulsed by Captain Fiennes their Bag and Baggage taken divers of them killed and some of them taken prisoners The City Propositions to be sent with the general Propositions for peace were voted and approved Divers Citizens petitioned That Justice might be done against Delinquents especially the two grand Incendiaries the Bishop of Canterbury and Wren and that the Commons House might be recruited with new Members Sir John Hotham petitioned That he might not be tryed by the Commissioners for the Court-Marshal and demanded the Judgment of the House thereupon and offered his Reasons but they would not hear them The Commons being informed that in probability the Armies were now engaged they sent to the Assembly of Divines to spend some time in Prayer for the good success of the Parliaments Forces which was done accordingly In the Evening the same day news came to the Parliament of a considerable Victory obtained by their Forces against the King's Army near Newbury That the Fight began on Sunday October 27th about Three a Clock in the Afternoon That before Seven they had nine pieces of Ordnance from the Enemy took the Earl of Cleveland and three hundred prisoners killed Charles Goring Son to the Lord Goring Sir Humphrey Mildmayâ—s eldest Son and divers others of quality and that the King about Twelve at Night marched with a party towards Wallingford Another party of the Kings under the Earl of Northampton came to relieve Banbury and taking the Besiegers at unawares made their way into the Castle and relieved it and made good their Retreat Scout-master General Bedford came to the house with Letters from the Commissioners in the Army of the particulars of the Battel at Newbury to this effect That after a Weeks tedious but speedy march of the Lord General 's Infantry and one nights refreshment at Reading in two days further progress they drew up before Newbury as near the Town as the Enemies Cannon would suffer this was upon Friday Oct. 25. The King kept within the Town guarded by his Artillery but his Body of Horse and Foot drew out into Speen-field the midway between the Town and Castle both to make his Army seem more numerous and to imbattel them in a place of extraordinary advantage that day afforded nothing but an Interview the interposing River hindred the desire to fight On the King's part appeared rather a declining to be engag'd either that their numbers
committed many outrages and the next day he lay at Belvoir Castle and the next day at Stamford which was very suddain As they past along some Forces from Burleigh and Leicester fell upon their Rear took 80 horse 4 Colours divers Arms and about 20 prisoners of the L. St. Paul's Regiment The Van of the King's Army being as far as Huntington by Stilton a party under Captain Gibs and Captain Poe from Huntington skirmished with the Van killed divers and retreated to Huntington On Sunday last in the Afternoon the King's Forces entred Huntington after some resistance made at the Bridge by Captain Bennet with his Foot till he his Lieutenant and many of his men were slain the King's Souldiers miserably plundered the Town and the Counties of Bedford and Cambridge and took away their horses and goods Aug. 21. Sir Thomas Fairfax sat down before Bristol Colonel Ireton with a Brigade of four Regiments of Horse and Dragoons and 500 Foot quartered onthat side next Gloucester Sir Thomas Fairfax on the other side Prince Rupert made several attempts to escape out of Bristol with his horse but was beaten back with loss he fired Bedmister and some other Villages near Bristol and the whole Temple Street in the City his strength in the City was said to be 900 horse 2500 Foot and 1500 Auxiliaries the Prince disarmed divers of the Citizens Order that Sherbourne Castle should be demolished Massey with 2000 horse attended Goring's motions 26. A Petition of divers Citizens on the behalf of Lieutenant Colonel Lilburne shewing his former opposing of Tyranny and oppression and his late good Services desiring the causes of his commitment may be examined and maintenance allowed him The Speaker returned answer to the Petition That Lieutenant Colonel Lilburne was committed by order of the House and referred to a legal Tryal that the House did not approve of the time of presenting this Petition but in convenient time they would do further therein according to Justice that they had upon a former Petition from him allowed him 100 l. for his Subssistance Sir John Tyrrells composition of 600 l. approved and 500 l. of it ordered for the Garrison of Newport Paganell Supplies ordered for several Forces An Ordinance past for setling the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster in the hands of the Lord Grey Speaker of the Lords House and of the Speaker Lenthall 27. The House sate and being informed of the plunderings by the King's Forces in their march in the associated Counties they ordered the Earl of Warwick to be General of that Association and forthwith to go thither and command the Forces for the security of those Counties Shrewbury Forces took in Linsell House and a 100 horse and armes there and the King's Forces quitted and fired Dowley Castle The Scots Forces finished three Mines at Hereford and intended a storm there 28. Letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax desired pay for his Army supplies for his Magazine and recruits for which the House made several Orders An Ordinance sent to the Lords for Elections in Eaton College as formerly and for their discharge from Taxes Order for 750 l. for M. G. Brown in part of his Arrears and a little to sweeten him Order for 4. pounds a week for Sir George Grelley out of his own Estate being sequestred The King gave several Allarums to Cambridge faced them with a party of horse and his Forces plundered the Country where they went laid great Taxes upon Towns to be paid presently and so they marched forwards Understanding that the Country were rising and some Forces from Cambridge coming against him he went to Wobourne where some of his straglers were taken his Forces plundered much in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and within 5 miles of S. Albans some skirmishes were between parties of them and of the Parliaments Forces under M. Cokaine and some killed and taken prisoners A Parliament Ship took a French Vessel bound for Excester and therein divers Letters of Consequence from the Queen to the King Four hundred and fifty Prisoners taken by M. G. Langherne took the Covenant to serve the Parliament against the Rebels in Ireland whither they were sent with supplies for Younghall 29. The Prisoners taken at Sherburne were sent up to London and Sir Lewis Dives and Sir John Strangeway's kneeling at the Barr were committed to the Tower for high Treason Orders for restraint of the abuses of Keepers in permitting the Parliaments prisoners to go abroad The King came to Oxford and many of his straglers were taken up by the horse of Alesbury and the Adjacent Counties Order for M. G. Brown to go down to his charge and for Mr. Dunch and Mr. Whitelocke to conferr with him about it 30. Debate concerning the Northern horse that mutinyed and Orders for their march Southwards and with other Forces to attend the King's motions Colonel Thornhaugh who brought the Letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax was called in and had the thanks of the House for his good services and two horses bestowed on him Order for a Day of Humiliation for praying a blessing on Scotland and on Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army and for Cessation of the Plague in both Kingdoms Orders touching Sequestrations and supplies for Forces in Leicester-shire and for disbanding some Forces raised in the Associated Counties upon the Allarum of the King 's coming thither September 1645. 1. Upon a Petition from the Militia of London the House ordered that the Committee of the Militia at the Savoy should execute the Warrants of the Militia of London upon the Ordinance for searching for Delinquents and Papists and turning them out of the lines of Communication and should be saved harmless therein by the House They also took care for the payment of the Arrears to the Waggoners of Sir James Harrington's Brigade Orders for Writs for New Elections in several places And that none who had taken up Arms against the Parliament should be capable to be chosen a member of Parliament Orders for pay for the Garrison of Leicester and for a Collection for the poor in that Town and County Order for the Committee of the three Counties to sign a Warrant to their Treasurer for a fortnights pay for Reformadoes Intelligence came that the Clubmen of Gloucester and Somerset-shire have expressed good affection to Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army That Somerset-shire raised 2000 men who joyned with a party of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army and they took the strong Fort of Ports-head-point and in it 6 peices of Ordnance a Demy Culverin and 200 Arms and that 36 of the Garrison had terms to go to their houses the rest were run away before one of the terms was an Oath never to bear Arms against the Parliament That the Parliament Forces seized upon a Ship in Avon with 12 peices of Ordnance 50 prisoners and store of Ammunition That Sir Bernard Ashley and Colonel Daniell riding out of the works at Bristol to see the
them that they might not be burdensom to the Countrey The Houses approved the Letter to be sent from the City to the Army they sate late this night and ordered to sit again to morrow though Sunday 13. After the Evening Sermon the House sate and had a Letter from their Commissioners at St. Albans That Sir Tho. Widdrington and Col. White had acquainted the General with the additional instructions 14. Both Houses named a Committee to draw up a Declaration what they had done and intended to do for the ease of the People and for the Soldiery and for settlement of Peace and that a Committee was appointed to consider what place is fit for the King to come unto for the applications of both Kingdoms to be made to him for setling Peace Upon a Petition of divers Officers Order for a Declaration that hereafter none should presume on pain of Death to meet in a tumultuous way as they had lately done and the Militia to send a considerable Guard to the House Captain Falconbridge and Captain White ordered to bring the trained bands of Westminster for guards to the House A Committee of both Houses to draw a Declaration what the Army hath demanded and what the Houses have offered The Commons being informed that divers of the Parliaments old Officers and Soldiers were in the Hall and Palace they sent to them to withdraw Letters from Ireland that some of the Rebels were returned out of Scotland into Vlster That the Parliaments Commissioners and Col. Jones with some Forces were landed at Dublyn That the Lord Inchequin sent a Party to surprize some Castle near Waterford the Rebels Sallied out and were beaten back about a hundred of them slain and wounded many Prisoners and much Cattle taken 15. Order of both Houses that the General be required to deliver the Person of the King to such Persons as both Houses shall appoint to be placed at Richmond under such manner as they shall think fit to the intent that the Propositions agreed upon by both Kingdoms may be speedily presented to his Majesty for the setling a safe and well grounded Peace That the Persons to whom the King shall be delivered shall be the Commissioners now with him or any three of them That the Guards to receive Orders from the Commissioners shall be Col. Rossiter and his Regiment Order for Col. Birch to have the publique Faith for four thousand nine hundred pound upon his Accounts Officers whose accounts are not stated to have one months pay for Subsistence Order for the Committee of Indemnity to discharge those that are or shall be under restraint for any thing done tempore loco belli A Months Pay to Col. Graves his Forces Letters from the Commissioners in the Army informed that the Votes concerning those that would come away from the Army did much distast them The Results from the Army were 1. The Heads of a Charge against divers Members of the House of Commons which they delivered in to be speeded by the Parliament and when they should be admitted would appoint fit Persons on their and the Kingdoms behalf to prosecute and make good the same 2. If the Parliament shall admit these things at the desire of the Army and proceed for a general satisfaction therein then they desire 1. That the Persons Impeached may be suspended else they can expect no good issue if the same persons who have appeared most active in the late proceedings to the prejudice and provocation of the Army and hazarding the Peace of the Kingdom shall continue in the same Power and Judges of these things 2. For a Months Pay and a resolution thereupon in two days 3. That those of the Army may have as much Pay as they who have ingaged for Ireland or come away from the Army 4. That none who have so deserted the Army may have any more Pay till the rest of the Army be first satisfied in their Arrears 5. That during the transactions of this business the Parliament would not suffer as some have designed any new Forces to be raised in this Kingdom or to be brought out of any other Kingdom hither or any thing else to be done that may carry the Face of a new War or may indanger the settlement of the Liberties and Peace of this Kingdom 6. That the Parliament would be pleased without any delay to put these things into a speedy way of resolution and dispatch the present condition of the Kingdom and Army and of the King not admitting delayes 16. A Charge came to the Houses from Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Officers and Soldiers of the Army against eleven Members of the House of Commons whereby they are charged with obstructing the business of Ireland to have been Actors against the Army and against the laws and Liberties of the Subject and Obstructors of Justice The Members Charged were Denzill Hollis Esquire Sir Philip Stapleton Sir William Lewis Sir John Clot-worthy Sir William Waller Sr. Jo. Maynard M. G. Massey Mr. Recorder Glyn Col. Walter Long Col. Edward Harley and Mr. Anthony Nichols After reading of the Charge the Members severally made some defence thereunto and desired it might be put into a speedy way of tryal A Declaration of the Army was sent from the Commissioners vindicating their proceedings and their desires for the setling and securing their own and the Kingdoms common rest freedom peace and safety The Commissioners of the City returned from the Army with expressions of Love and the Common Council voted to send a Letter to the Army with leave from the Houses that according to their desire no Forces shall be raised against them and that they will move the Parliament for Money to pay the Army and that they may withdraw further from the City The Army further desired of the Parliament 1. That the Houses may be speedily purged of such as ought not to sit there 2. That those persons who have abused the Parliament and Army and indangered the Kingdom may speedily be disabled from doing the like 3. That some time may be set for the continuance of this and future Parliaments and new Elections made successively according to the Bill for Triennial Parliaments 4. That Provision be made that future Parliaments may not be dissolved at the Kings pleasure without their consent but continue the set time 5. That the right of the People to represent to the Parliament their grievances by Petition may be vindicated 6. That the large Powers given to Committees or deputy Lieutenants during the War as appear not necessary to be continued may be taken away and such as are necessary may be put into a regulated way and left to as little Arbitrariness as the nature and necessity thereof will bear 7. They wish that the Kingdom may be righted and satisfied in point of Accounts and other things wherein the Common-wealth may be conceived to have been wronged 8. That publick Justice being satisfied by some few Examples
of the worst of excepted Persons some course may be taken by a general Act of Oblivion or otherwise whereby the seeds of future War or Fears may be taken away In these Declarations and transactions of the Army Col. Ireton was chiefly imployed or took upon him the business of the Pen. And having been bred in the middle Temple and learned some grounds of the Law of England and being of a working and laborious Brain and Fancy he set himself much upon these businesses and was therein encouraged and assisted by Lieutenant General Cromwell his Father in Law and by Col. Lambert who had likewise studied in the Inns of Court and was of a subtle and working brain An Account was given by the Commissioners of the City of their transactions with the Army and was approved by the House A Petition was presented to the General in the name of Bucks men subscribed by a thousand hands extolling the merits and atchievements of the General and Army and expressing their readiness to joyn with them to bring to just Censures any that should endeavor to make them odious to the Parliament or Kingdom Both Houses ordered That the several Orders made by the Committee of Safety for the Listing and drawing together of any Forces of Counties shall be void and also the Order for Col. Dalbier and others to bring in a list of such Gentlemen and Reformadoes as are willing to ingage in the Parliaments Service 17. Orders for securing of Arms and Ammunition and for a Pass for the Lord Lotherdale and other Scots to go the King and for a Months pay for the Army in part of the three months pay for disbanding or ingaging for Ireland Orders for a Letter to the General to require him to retreat with his Army forty miles from London and another to the Commissioners in the Army to acquaint them with the votes for a Months pay Upon Letters from Col. Blunt of the misdemeanors of Sir Robert Pyes Troopers in Kent the examination thereof and the easing of the County of Kent referred to a Committee An Ordinance pass'd for indemnity of the Forces that deserted the Army Order for a Months pay for Col. Rossiters Regiment and for the Forces of Tinmouth and Newcastle A Petition from Hartfordshire subscribed with twelve hundred hands and presented by two hundred Knights and Gentlemen to the General much to the same effect as the former from Essex Bucks c. and that Malignants might not be elected Members of Parliament nor put in any places of trust and that the Parliament and others who had received any of the Parliaments Money might be called to account 18. Orders for issuing Money for Soldiers and for Guards for the Treasurers The Letter from the Common-Council of London to the Army now brought to the House was not approved of 19. A second Letter from the Common-Council to Sir Thomas Fairfax was brought to the House for their approbation and after a long debate the House left the Common-Council to themselves to write what Letter they thought fit to the General and they sent one to the General and his Officers The Commissioners attending the King sent to Sir Thomas Fairfax to know his Answer to the Votes concerning the disposal of the Kings person to Richmond The Lord Mayor with the advice of the Aldermen and Common-Council published a command for all the Trained-Bands and Auxiliaries to appear at their Colours taking notice of their former backwardness for suppressing of tumults and unlawful Assemblies in the City It was strange to see how several Counties and the Citizens of London began to make all their applications to the General and Army omitting the Parliament and all looked upon the Army in the chief place and were affraid of doing any thing contrary to them Mr. Peters went to the King to New-Market and had much discourse with him 21. Letters from Major General Laugherne of an Insurrection in Wales who declared themselves for the King and Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Major General went to suppress them Letters from Major General Pointz for Commission to stop the mutinying of the Soldiers and for Pay for them Sir Peter Killegrew sent with Letters to the Commissiones attending the King and to the King with the Votes for his removing to Richmond Votes Passed upon the representation of the Army 1. That no Person that hath been in actual War against the Parliament or acted in the Commission of Array or voluntarily aided the King or received Pardon from him shall presume to sit in the House 2. That if they do sit they shall incur the displeasure of the House 3. That the Committee for examining such cases be revived 4. That a Declaration be brought in for any who have any charge against any Member of the House to come in 5. That the Committee bring in by a day such charges as are already before them against by any Members 6. That the Report of Elections be brought in by a short day Orders for Pay of the Soldiers Divers Censures pass'd upon the Parliament for their Cow Votes and resolution to comply with a Mutinous Army who had their Pay and Power from them Others approved them as prudent respecting the time and to avoid blood Some wished the first Votes and severe prosecuting the business of disbanding had been declined which occasioned this trouble Cromwell began now to mount still higher and carried his business with great subtilty An Impeachment was against his Enemies in Parliament and business of the Army guided by his Son in Law Ireton and others under Cromwell Letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax of his submission to the Votes of Parliament for the Kings going to Richmond and the House ordered the house to be prepared for him The Agitators of the Army sent to the Trinity-House concerning the Navy Ordered that Sir Robert Pye's Troop do not return to the Army without leave of the Parliament Sir Thomas Fairfax published a Proclamation that no Soldier of his Army molest any Countrey men or others or abuse any in their Quarters or Marches 22. Letters from the General and Commissioners in the Army of the receipt of the Parliaments Votes and the Moneths Pay and that shortly there would be a Council of War about them and then would be returned a positive and no doubt a satisfactory answer Order for proceedings against Judge Jenkins and Mr. Sollicitor St. John Sergeant Jermyn Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Prynne to prosecute him Order for a Months Pay for the Forces of the Northern Association and for Major General Pointz to secure such as disturb his Forces and to quiet his Regiments Order to put out the Justices of Peace as were of the Insurrection in Wales and the Letters of Major General Laugherne to be sent to the G. desiring him to take care for quieting those distempers about which the General sent to them and for supplyes for Laughernes Forces The Ordinance pass'd for
difficulties they had undergone in subduing their enemies and received little pay though Taxes were generally paid desiring that the Army may be divided into the Counties proportionable to the Tax they pay and that their Arrears may be thought of The House after a long debate Voted That the desires of the Souldiery be forthwith satisfied and that speedy care be taken for setling of their Arrears Several other Petitions were presented to the General from the Officers and Souldiers of the Army one from Commissary General Iretons Regiment was to this effect That there may be a strict Scrutiny for discovery of the contrivers or incouragers of the late rebellion and second War and Justice done upon them 2. And upon all criminal Persons especially obstructers of justice and such as have betrayed their trust or been Authors of shedding the innocent blood 3. That the same fault may have the same punishment in the person of King or Lord as in the Person of the poorest Commoner 4. That all may be proceeded against as Traitours who act or speak in the Kings behalf till he shall be acquitted of the guilt of shedding innocent blood 5. For their pay and for proceedings against those that withhold it and for their Arrears 6. That the intolerable oppression of free Quarter may be immediately taken off And about the establishment of their pay in the Counties 7. They declare that they shall constantly endeavour to defend Magistracy and property with their Lives and Fortunes This was a subtle Petition and the beginning of the design against the Kings Person but not discerned till afterwards An Ordinance past for maintaining a Troop of Horse in Surry out of the Sequestrations of that Country Orders for bringing in the Arrears of the Assessment for the Army Sir Charels Kemish was committed Letters from the Commissioners of the Treaty with Papers of their Transactions Order for disbanding the supernumerary Forces in Lancashire The Lords House past all the Judges and Sergeants except Sergeant Wilde to be Chief Baron and Sergeant Rolle to be Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. They also advised as to the Voting of Sir Thomas Widdrington and Whitelock to be the Kings Sergeants and Whitelock's being Attorney of the Dutchy which was upon Whitelock's desire 19. The Papers from the Isle of Wight were touching Delinquents His Majesty consented that all who have any hand in plotting designing or assisting the Rebellion in Ireland shall expect no Pardon That all other Delinquents in the first Branch of that Proposition may moderately compound for their Estates that such of them as the two Houses will insist on shall not be admitted to his Council and shall be restrained from coming to the Court at such distance as the Houses shall think fit and shall not have any Office of imployment in the Commonwealth without consent of both Houses or shall absent themselves for some time out of the Kingdom That all other Delinquents shall submit to a moderate composition and for three years not to serve as Members or Assistants in either House without the consent of both Houses of Parliament His Majesties propositions which the Commissioners of the Parliament were not authorized to receive were 1. That he might be put into a condition of freedom Honour and safety 2. To be restored to his Lands and Revenues 3. That he may have composition for the Court of Wards and such of his Revenues as he shall part with 4. That there may be an Act of Oblivion and Indemnity M r Vines gave in a paper in answer to his Majesties to satisfy his Conscience touching Bishops Upon these and other papers from their Commissioners they had a very long and quick debate Vote that the Lords days and Fast-days during the time of this Treaty shall be accounted no part of the twenty days allowed for it By which a weeks time longer was gained for the Treaty The House resolved into a Grand Committee to debate the Ordinance for payment of the reduced Officers The Lords concurrence desired to an Ordinance for payment of four thousand eight hundred pounds to Mr. Pecke in respect of his losses 20. The Merchant Adventurers Company had the thanks of the House for ingaging for ten thousand pound for the service of the Navy Letters from Sir Henry Cholmely complaining that the General had given Commission to Colonel Rainsborough to command in chief the Forces before Pontefract Castle whereas he had a Commission before from the Committee of the Militia of Yorkshire to be Commander in chief of them and that the disparagement was great to him and desires an Order in it The House referred the Letter and the whole business to the General to settle it and to preserve the honour of Sir Henry Cholmely and to take care that the business be carried on against the enemy One hundred pounds bestowed upon Captain Wolfe and twenty pound upon Mr. Noble who brought the news of the surrender of Carlisle Debate about an Ordinance for Doctor Bastwick and about the last Message from the King 21. Debate touching means wholly to take off Free-quarter and Ordered that the Members be imployed to use their best endeavours to bring in the arrears of the Assessments as a means to take off Free-quarter and some were sent down to the General to confer and advise with him how the Forces may be reduced to the Establishment and paid and to advise with such Officers as the General shall appoint about these matters Colonel King of Lincolnshire sent for to answer before the Committee of the Army to a Charge against him touching the Army The Commissioners of the Seal met with the Judges to confer together about the business of the new Sergeants for sending forth the Writs to them and other matters for ordering of that business 23. Vote to disband all the supernumerary Forces in the several Counties and the Committees to pay them their Arrears and the General Ordered to slight Bridgwater Bath and Dunstar or to man them Sir Peter Killigrew brought a Message from the Isle of Wight of his Majesties further Concessions touching Episcopacy 1. He consented to the abolishing of Archbishops Chancellors Deans and Chapters c. and the whole Hierarchy save Bishops 2. To confirm the form of Church Government for three years and no other to be used and the exercise of Episcopal Government to be wholly suspended during that time 3. That none shall be exercised after that time other than Ordination restrained to the Council and assistance of Presbyters but such and in such manner as shall be agreed by his Majesty and his two Houses whereby until such agreement or if it be not otherwise agreed Episcopal jurisdiction is wholly laid aside His Majesty also consented to the Nomination of great Officers to be by both Houses for ten years 2. To the proposition concerning the City of London as is desired 3. To that concerning the Great Seal as is
Hall and the Drums beat in the Palace-yard after which Proclamation was made to give notice that the Commissioners for Tryal of the King were to sit again to morrow and that all those who had any thing to say against the King might then be heard The House of Commons then sitting Ordered Sergeant Dendy to make the like Proclamation at the Old Exchange and in Cheapside London which was done accordingly Vote that the name of any one particular person should not be inserted as the style of any Common Writ or otherwise for the time to come and referred it to the Committee for setling proceedings in Courts of Justice to consider how the style should be Votes that the present Great Seal shall be broken and a new one forthwith made and in the mean time all proceedings under the present Great Seal to be good till the new one be confirmed That the Armes of England and of Ireland shall be engraven on one side of the new Great Seal with this inscription The Great Seal of England That on the other side of the Seal shall be the Sculpture or Map of the House of Commons sitting with these words engraven on that side In the first year of freedom by Gods blessing restored 1648. This was for the most part the fancy of Mr. Henry Martin a noted Member of the House of Commons more particularly the inscriptions Order for pay of Colonel Whites Regiment The General set forth a proclamation reciting the flocking of Malignants to London as there was ground to believe to raise new troubles and the Order of Parliament impowering him to expel them the City and ten miles distant therefrom which accordingly he enjoyns by this proclamation and that the Delinquents depart within four and twenty hours A Petition to the General and his Council from the Officers and Souldiers in the Isle of Wight c. mentioning the late delusive Treaty with the King and danger of new troubles they declare their conjunction with the Army in their desires in the large Remonstrance and in their present proceedings which they desire may be prosecuted c. The Proclamation was made by Sergeant Dendy whilst the Courts of Justice sate in Westminster-Hall to the no small interruption of them About Eleven a Clock the House of Commons sent for the Mace out of Chancery Sergeant Dendy having that of the House thereupon the Commissioners rose and went home 10. Order for the Sergeant at Armes to take Mr. Pryn into custody for denying their authority The Commissioners for Tryal of the King met and chose Sergeant Bradshaw for their President Mr. Steel to be Attorney General Mr. Coke Sollicitor General and they with Dr. Dorislaus and Mr. Aske to draw up and manage the Charge against the King Mr. Waller moved for a Habeas Corpus for Mr. Pryn a Member of the House lately apprehended as is before mentioned This being a matter of Priviledge of Parliament and Mr. Pryn being committed by order of the Commons the Commissioners thought it fit to advise with that House before they granted the Habeas Corpus The rest of the Commissioners of the Seal desired Whitelock to go presently into the House to know their pleasure in this business which he did and the House not being sate he conferred with the Speaker and divers of the Members about it and told them that by the Law a Habeas Corpus could not be denyed They commended the Commissioners respect to the House and agreed that a Habeas Corpus could not be denyed So Whitelock returned to the Court and they thought fit to grant the Habeas Corpus In the evening one of the Sergeants men brought Whitelock an Order of the House requiring Sir Thomas Widdrington and him by name to attend the Committee to morrow about setling the course of Justice 11. Debate touching the Navy Report of the Sergeants men who served Mr. Pryn with the Warrant of the House to take him into custody that Mr. Pryn answered him that as he was coming to the House to perform his duty there for the County for which he was elected he was apprehended by Sir Hardress Waller and Colonel Pride and secured as a Prisoner ever since that being not discharged of the said imprisonment he could not submit to that order which the Sergeants man had for any other restraint to be laid upon him and therefore he refused to obey the same The House Ordered the answer to be read of the General Council of the Army concerning the Secluded and secured Members the substance whereof they approved and appointed a Committee to consider what was fit further to be done thereupon and set a day to consider of the particular case of Mr. Pryn. A visit to the Lord Chief Justice Rolles a wise and Learned man He seemed much to scruple the casting off of the Lords House and was troubled at it Yet he greatly incouraged to attend the House of Commons notwithstanding the present Force upon them which could not dispense with their attendance and performance of their duty who had no Force upon them in particular The Committee for proceedings in Courts of Justice had a great debate what style shall be used in Commissions and Writs instead of the wonted style Carolus Dei gratia c. 12. Petition of the Trustees and others for the Sale of Bishops-lands that that business might he confirmed by Patent under the Great Seal of England Order for the Sollicitor General to draw up a Patent to pass the Seal accordingly The Commissioners for Tryal of the King being to sit in the Afternoon the House adjourned the earlier 13. Ordinances past for regulating the affairs of the Navy Reference to the Committee of the Navy to conferr with the Lord Admiral about sending some Ships to Goree in Holland and North-ward and if he were not in Town that then the Committee should do it of themselves and all Officers and Mariners were required to obey their Orders Order for Sir George Ascue to be desired to go with Captain Moulton in this expedition and several other Orders made concerning the Fleet. Two Petitions from the Inhabitants of Devon and Exon Gentlemen and Ministers c. desiring Justice upon the principal causers of the first and second War and a firm Peace The General Council of Officers concluded upon the agreement of the People and added some Trustees to the Lord Grey Sir Jo. Danvers c. for making the divisions for elections in the several Counties The High Court of Justice sate for Tryal of the King their whole time was spent about setling the Court and calling over their Members and to summon those who being named Commissioners did not appear amongst whom Colonel Rowland Wilson a person of great worth and integrity refused to act as a Commissioner though named in this business or to sit with them They agreed that
Court of Justice sate in the afternoon and heard proofs to the Impeachment the King was brought from Windsor to St. James's in Order to his Tryal The General Councel of the Army met and the draught of the agreement of the People was subscribed by many of them and Sir Hardress Waller and sixteen other Officers were appointed to present it to morrow to the House of Commons Information of a Vessel taken by Colonel Russel Governour of Guernsey and Captain Burley in her A Petition from North-Wales to the Councel of the Army complying with their Remonstrance c. for which the Councel gave them thanks The two Lords Commissioners of the Seal still refused to joyn in signing Warrants for Writs to adjourn the Term whereupon Sir Tho. Widdrington and Mr. Whitelock went to the Speaker and acquainted him with all passages and their intentions in this business to procure an Act of the House of Commons to command Sir Thomas Widdrington and Mr. Whitelock to sign Warrants without the Lords for Writs to adjourn the Term and to draw an Act for that purpose the Speaker approved of this way and offered that he would present the Act to the House for this purpose 20. Lieutenant General Hammond and divers chief Officers of the Army presented to the House in the name of all the Army from the General Council of the Army a Petition and a Writing concluded on by them intituled an Agreement of the People of England desiring a serious and speedy consideration thereof by the House The Petition was read but not the Writing it being long and the House having resolved to rise at twelve a Clock in regard the Commissioners for Tryal of the King were to sit in the afternoon yet they returned to the Officers this answer and Ordered That the thanks of the House should be given to these Officers for their particular and great services to the Kingdom and that they be desired to return the hearty thanks of the House to his Excellency the Lord General and all the Army for all their unwearied and gallant services to the Nation And that the Petition with this answer should be forthwith printed and published that the Kingdom might take notice of the Union and affection between the Parliament and Army and for the Agreement and Declaration they should be taken into speedy and serious consideration Upon a conference betwixt the King and Mr. Hugh Peters and the King desiring that one of his own Chaplains might be permitted to come to him for his satisfaction in some scruples of conscience Doctor Juxon Bishop of London was Ordered to go to his Majesty Order that the Commoners Commissioners of the Great Seal should issue forth Writs for adjourning of the Term though the Lords Commissioners did not joyn with them The High Court of Justice sate in the place in Westminster-Hall made for them the President had the Sword and Mace carryed before him and twenty Gentlemen attended as his guard with Partizans commanded by Colonel Fox After an O yes and silence made The Act of the Commons of England for sitting of the Court was read and the Court was called sixty of the Members appeared The King was brought from St James's to White-Hall and from thence by Water guarded with Musquetiers in Boats to Sir Robert Cottons House near Westminster-Hall and from thence to the Bar of the Court attended by Colonel Hacker with about thirty Officers and Gentlemen with Halberts At his coming to the Foot of the stairs he was met with the Mace of the Court and conducted to a chair within the Bar where he sate down in the Face of the Court they all being covered as well as his Majesty The Lord President in a short speech acquainted the King with the cause of his bringing thither in Order to his Tryal upon a charge against him by the Commons of England which was then to be read and his Majesty to give his answer thereunto The King Offered to speak before reading of the Charge but upon some interruption was silent and the Charge was read By which he was charged in the name of Charles Stuart King of England as Guilty of all the Blood that had been shed at Kenton Brainford Newbury and other places where he had been present in Arms against the Parliament and other particulars very large The King smiled at the reading of his Charge and after it was read demanded of the President by what lawful Authority he was brought thither and being answered in the name of the Commons of England He replyed he saw no Lords there which should make a Parliament including the King and urged that the Kingdom of England was hereditary and not successive and that he should betray his trust if he acknowledged or made answer to them for that be was not convinced that they were a lawful Authority After he had been often demanded to answer and refused he was remanded to Sir Robert Cottons House and thence to St. James's and the High Court adjourned and kept a Fast together at White-Hall Sir Thomas Widdrington seemed to scruple the signing of Warrants without the Lords for adjourning of the Term. 22. The Commissioners of Scotland delivered some Papers to the House and declared that Scotland had an undoubted interest in the person of the King that he was not delivered to the English Commissioners at New-Castle for the ruine of his person but for a speedier settlement of the Peace of his Kingdom That they extream'y dissent and declare against the Tryal of him and that this present way of proceeding against him leaves a deep impression on them and sits heavy on all their Spirits in regard of the great miseries that are like to ensue upon the Kingdoms And they moved for leave of the House to make their personal Addresses to the King The House referred it to a Committee to draw up an answer to the Parliament of Scotland This Declaration with some Papers from the Parliament of Scotland were likewise presented by their Commissioners to the Lord General A Letter to the General from the Officers before Pontefract Castle concurring in the Action of trying the King secluding the Members of Parliament who carried on corrupt designs and acknowledging the present proceedings of the Army to be the work of God alone The High Court of Justice sate and the King was again brought to the Bar. Mr. Coke Sollicitor General moved That whereas the Prisoner had refused to make answer to the Charge against him that now he might be directed to make a positive answer either by way of confession or negation which if he shall refuse to do that the matter of the Charge may be taken pro confesso and the Court may proceed according to Justice The President then required the King to answer to the Charge against him by the Commons of England of High Treason c. The King confessed
which the House had formerly conferred upon him the House approved thereof and bestowed the place upon Mr. Hall to hold quam diu bene se gesserit An Act passed for altering the Seal of the Dutchy A Woman committed to the Marshal and ordered to be sent by a Justice of Peace to the House of Correction for abusing Sir James Harrington Order for a day of Humiliation to seek God for his Blessing upon the Expedition for Ireland Order for the Speaker to give a Pass for the Holland Ambassador to transport 4 Horses into Holland Custome free Order for the Attourney General to bring in an Act to prohibit the transportation of Horses Order that Mr. Attourney General Mr. Steel and Mr. Hurst should attend the Commissioners for Articles as Councel for the State An Act passed to settle the Master of the Mint Office A Letter from the General to the House recommending the Desires of the Grand Jury of Yorkshire to have Courts of Justice settled in that County referred to a Committee 500 l. ordered to the Dutch Officers C. Allured made Receiver of Yorkshire Letters from Dublin that the L. Mohun and his Troop ran away to the Enemy So did Sir William Armstrongs Troop and Lt. C. Yeomans Troop That Drogheda and divers other of the Parliaments Garrisons were besieged and could not hold out nor was C. Jones able to relieve them That C. Trevor and divers others out of C. Monks Quarters went to the Enemy That all Markets were hindered and all Provision very scarce and dear Letters from Bruxels that the Scots King was gone for France to salute the King and Queen and thence to go to the Queen his Mother who sent to him Piercy and Jermyn to let him know it was the Advice of the Councel of France and Hers that he agree with the Scots upon any Terms Upon Complaint to the States on behalf of the Scots King That some of the Parliaments Ships destroyed the Antelope in Helford Sluce the States ordered that the King had Liberty to act the same upon any of the Parliaments Ships in any Harbour within their Dominions Letters that a Fleet of English Ships in the Sound fought with the Danish Fleet about Demand of Custom and worsted the Danes but 7 Swedish Ships coming in and joyning with the Danes they worsted the English 7 Long Debate upon the Act for repealing several Statutes against pretended Sectaries and who come not to Church to hear Divine Service and recommitted The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland had leave before his going away to present several Petitions to the House for divers Friends which were read and Orders made upon them Letters from Dublin that Captain Otway beat up Ormonds Horse Guards killed 50 and took divers Prisoners that Inchequen besieged Tredah and was bravely repulsed and lost many Men. The Lieutenant of Ireland presented more Petitions to the House upon which Orders were made and divers of them were for Pensions to many Irish Gentlemen and Ladies in Distress Orders for stating Sir George Askue's Arrears and divers others and for Mr. Knight the Generals Chaplain to have Liberty to double upon the purchase of Deanes and Chapters Lands Votes against Ministers preaching and praying seditiously and against the present Authority and to promote the Interest of the Children of the late King or that disobey the Orders of Parliament that they shall be Sequestred Letters that some Malignants at Preston in Lancashire proclaimed Charles the Second King at the Market Cross and nothing was there done against them Letters from Ireland That Sir Robert Stuart had taken the Castle of Kilmore by Storm with 14 Guns and had lost 50 Men. That C. Jones by a Salley cut off 60 of Ormonds Men that Sir George Askue kept open the Passage by Water That the L. Inchequin sent a Summons to C. Jones to render Dublin to the use of the King To which he returned a smart Answer remembring Inchequin of his former Professions and Engagements for the Parliaments Cause and his now assisting the bloody Rebels and Papists against the Protestant English from which he advised him to desist least he bring Misery upon his own Family 10 Upon a Report of the Councel of State of the want of Powder referred back to them to consider of some fit way for the making and providing of Salt-peter And upon their Report the Committee was revived to treat with the Common Councel about borrowing 150000 l. for Ireland The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland went out of Town in very noble Equipage with Coaches and six Horses a piece his Life Guard of 80 who had all been Officers and a great number of Attendants A Petition of the Journey-men Taylors to the General for relieving their Fellows by a meeting for which they ask his leave Letters from Holland that the Scots King was come to Paris That in all his Journey he had such Entertainment as never before was given by Catholicks to one of the Protestant Religion 11 The day of publick Humiliation Letters from the Navy of several Vessels taken at Sea by Captain Harris with the Phaenix Frigot Upon the Lord Lieutenant his going to Ireland three Ministers did pray and the Lieutenant himself and Goff and C. Harrison did expound some places of Scripture excellently well and pertinent to the Occasion 12 Long Debate about the Act for sale of the Kings Lands The Common Councel provided to lend the Parliament 150000 l. for Ireland Letters that three Ships loaden with Corn were arrived at Dublin from Chester A Petition of the Officers ingaged for Ireland acknowledging the Integrity and Justice and Labour of the House and as their last Request they humbly pray That all Drunkenness profane Swearing Vncleanness Abuses of the Lords Day c. may be restrained not tolerated under their Power That Proceedings in Law may be in English cheap certain c. and all Suits and Differences first be arbitrated by three Neighbours and if they cannot determine it then to certify the Court. That all Mens Lands and Houses may be registred in every Parish with their Incumbrances That Tithes may be taken away and 2 s. in the pound paid for all Lands out of which the Ministers to be maintained and the Poor That publick Debts may be payed That Receivers may account and Prisoners for Debts be relieved Referred to the Committee to consider what things are fit to be done before the House adjourn and the Lord Lieutenant desired to return the thanks of the House to the Petitioners for their good Affections and for their Engagement for Ireland An Account of the Parliaments Navy that C. Dean with his Squadron lay upon the Western Road C. Popham between the Downs and Portsmouth and Blake blocked up Kingsale Sir George Askue lay in Dublin Road other Ships Northward and some to secure the Transportation of Corn and Provisions from Chester Bristol c. to Ireland 13 The Act for sale of the
6 Returns of Subscriptions to the Ingagement from several Regiments and Garrisons Letters from Taunton That the Commissioners for settling the Militia in that County had agreed upon Officers of Horse and Foot to be named to the Councel of State for Commissions That C. Pine is most Active in this and all other Business of that County At a Horse Race near Blackley there being many Gallants with Pistols Swords and Arms C. Smith with the Oxfordshire Troop came thither and disarmed some of the chief and most suspected of the Company The same Captain Smith in 6 Months apprehended 50 Robbers in those Parts 30 of them were hanged Letters from Shrewsbury of the meeting of Cavaliers in that County and Suspicions of new Plots Account of Troops and Recruits marching towards Chester for Ireland 8 Letters from Newcastle That the Cavaliers report generally that the Scots and their King are agreed and thereupon many of them are gone into Scotland That course is taken to prevent them for the future That the Ministers in Yorkshire preach openly against the Ingagement That many Mosse Troopers are dayly taken From Yarmouth That Commissions came from the Councel of State for the Militia which the Bayliffes and others are putting in Execution and Souldiers list themselves and take the Ingagement very willingly That the like was done in Norwich for that City and for the County of Norfolk The like was done in Essex That the four Ships sent to guard the Fishers have much advanced the Fishing Trade From Cork That 5 Ships with Souldiers were all cast away coming from Minehead for Ireland only 20 or 30 men swam to shore That the Enemy besieged Captain Barrington in Arklow Castle and he sallyed out upon them beat them off and killed many of them That Lieutenant Collonel Axtel Governour of Rosse made several Incursions into the Enemies Quarters in the County of Kilkenny took many Prisoners and great store of Cattle Account of Recruits for Ireland Some debauch't Persons in a Tavern drinking Healths in a Balcone breaking Glasses and drawing a great deal of Company together some Souldiers who saw it went up to the Gentlemen and carryed them away Prisonees to Whitehall 9 Letters from Dunstar confirming the sad news of the 5 Ships that went from Minehead to Ireland all cast away Captain Ensor and Captain Whiting with 80 Horse and 150 Foot and all the Seamen drowned except 20 or 30. From Ireland that the Popish Clergy there have agreed to raise 7000 Men by March next and to pay them and that Antrim shall command them That the Estates of Scotland are setting out a Declaration in answer to Montrosses Declaration and conform to that of the Kirk One Hinderson proclaimed in several Streets of Newark I pronounce Charles the Second of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. as King of England although his Father suffered wrongfully Yet you cannot be Governed without a Head but now you are Governed by a stinking lowsy Committee For these words he was apprehended and sent to Prison A Petition to the General and his Councel of Officers in the behalf of 3000 maimed Souldiers and Widdows whose Husbands were slain in the Service of the Parliament the General and his Councel recommended it to C. Rich to move the House therein The Councel of State sent three of their Messengers to apprehend one Mercer who stabbed two of them that they dyed immediately and wounded the third and so escaped from them 11 Letters that an Irish Frigot boarded a Newcastle Ship near Hartlepool which the Governour seeing caused some of his Guns to be so planted that they shot the Irish Frigot through and through and caused her to hasten away and leave her Prize behind which came in safe to Hartlepool From Scotland that Libberton was returned with a Message from the King which was read but nothing done upon it that he speaks high what the King will do for and stand by Scotland yet they go on in purging the Army That an English Merchant having a cause to be pleaded there the Scots Lawyers refused to plead for him because the business was drawn up in the new way in the Name of the Councel of State About 24 Persons came in the Night to White-Fryars with Muskets as Souldiers called up the Constable and required him to go along with them to apprehend some dangerous Persons and brought him to the Lodging of Sir Edward Hales whom they knew to have a great Sum of Money there That when they came into the House they bound the Constable and Sir Edward Hales and the Master of the House broke open Trunks and carryed away with them 100 l. besides Rings Watches c. Then they locked the Doors after them left theirMuskets behind them and got away in Boats which they had laid ready at White Fryars Stairs but 7 of those thieves were afterwards apprehended 12 The House named these Persons to be of the Council of State for the Year following viz. E. of Denbigh L. C. Justice St. John Sergeant Bradshaw L. Grey of Groby M. G. Skippon Alderman Pennington Sheriffe Wilson Sir William Masham Lord Commissioner Whitelock Sir James Harrington C. Hutchinson Mr. Bond. Mr. Alderman Popham Mr. Wanton̄ C. Purefoy Mr. Jones C. Ludlow E. of Salisbury Mr. Luke Robinson L. C. Justice Rolle L. Ch. Baron Welde L. G. Fairfax L. Lt. Cromwel Mr. H. Martyn Sir Gilbert Pickering Mr. Stapely Mr. Heveningham Sir Arthur Hassterig Mr. Wallup Sir H. Vano Junior L. Lisle Sir William Armyne Sir Henry Mildmay Sir William Constable Lord Commissioner Lisle Mr. Scot. Mr. Holland Debate touching meanes of advancing the Gospel of Christ An Act touching the way of Presentations and settling of Ministers in Livings committed An additional Act for the more severe punishing of prophane Swearing and Cursing committed An Act for suppressing and punishing the abominable sins of Incest Adultery and Fornication committed 13 Letters from the West That many Presbyterians in their Pulpits prayed very Zealously for restoring the King of Scots to his Fathers Crown in England That a French Vessel which came from the Barbado's was wracked and 13 of her men lost and the rest saved Sir Bathazer Gerbier set up his Academy in White Fryers for the teaching of all manner of Arts and Sciences a good design if the conduct and Success had been answerable 14 Letters from Scotland That their King in his Message by Libberton would have exempted from any benefit of the Agreement all such as shall be found to have had a hand in the Death of his Father without mentioning whom which breeds a general Jealousy that it may reach to all that consented to the giving up of his Father at Newcastle or joyned in the Covenant with England That the King will only acknowledge the Scots Commissioners to be Commoners of Parliament during the Treaty or after as it shall succeed and private Letters were sent from the King to
much wounded with several other Pensons of Quality and 200 Horse and have killed 2 or 300 more of the Enemy so that I do verily believe there were at least in all 3000 killed Those Officers of ours that were most eminently instrumental in this great Victory were C. Fenwick C. Rich. Coot Lt. C. Gore and Captain Duckinfield Whom I have presumed to add because their merits have justly deserved this my Acknowledgement to the end if your Honours think fit some mark of Honour may be conferred upon them 9 The Parliament ordered a day of publick thanksgiving for the Victory obtained by their Forces under Sir Charles Coot in Ireland An Act passed for the Tryal of Sir John Stowell David Jenkins Walter Slingesby Brown Bushell William Davenant and C. Gerrard by an high Court of Justice Letters of the ceasing of the Plague about Tiverton 10 Letters of the spreading oft he Plague in Shrewsbury That the Governour commanded all the Souldiers that were ill to be in the Field and all that were well to continue in the Castle and not to stir out of it From Chester That the Parliaments Forces in Ireland are 4000 Horse and Foot That Trecoghan with 1700 Foot is taken in 11 Letters that the Royal Presbyterians about Exon raised many false Reports to disparage the Proceeding of Parliament for which some of them were secured till they should produce their Author That the Plague was much dispersed in Salop and half the Inhabitants removed from thence 12 Letters that since the taking of Trecoghan the Army was sat down before Carlowe in Ireland And That the Earl of Antrim was come in to the Lord Deputy That eight Officers of C. Axtels Regiment riding upon the Highway were murdered by those bloody highway Rogues called the Tories That a Party sent out by the Lord Deputy fell on some of the Earl of Castlehavens Forces killed 140 of them and took twice so many Arms the rest fled to Carlowe where they are now besieged That Waterford yet holds out but in great distress the Plague and Famine encreasing much upon them 13 Letters of Cromwels being at Durham and marching 24 Miles-a day That the King was at St. Johns Town and the Committee of Estates had sent back all his Followers and commanded them to depart the Kingdom by a day upon great Penalties That the Scots Horse upon the Borders were there only to forward the new Levies and are since retreated and the new Levies go on very fast there That Sir Arthur Haselrigg came from Newcastle where he is Governour to meet the General Cromwell at Durham That seven Ships were taken and brought into Newcastle one loaden with Arms and Ammunition for Scotland and in another of them two Purses to carry the Great Seal of Scotland one very rich for the day of the Coronation and many Letters from an Alderman of London at the Hague to the King That one of the Parliaments Ships going into the Frith of Scotland the People rose and secured both Ship and men till they drunk the Kings Health upon their knees and then they were discharged 15 Letters of the General his coming to Newcastle where Sir Arthur Haselrigge the Governour entertained him with much Gallantry and they kept a Fast to pray for a Blessing upon their expedition into Scotland The next day they agreed upon the Letter to be sent to their Brethren in Scotland in general to satisfy them of the grounds of their present Ingagement That the Scots have chosen a Councel by whose advice the King is to Govern That the Nobility and Gentry flock to him That the Royalists and Presbyterians in Lancashire joyn together to disturb the Parliaments Affairs in those parts against the Army of Sectaries as they call it 16 An Act passed for setting the Militia of the Common-wealth with Instructions for the Commissioners An Act passed for Sheriffs to appoint Deputies to receive and transmit the Acts Orders and directions of Parliament and Councel of State and to make return thereof Debate of the business of Treasurer of the Navy An Act for bringing down the Prizes of Corn and Grain and preventing abuses in Meal and in forestalling committed 17 The Letter from the Parliament of Scotland together with the Messenger C. Grey were sent to the General to be by him with a sufficient Guard sent into Scotland and also the Answer of the Parliament of England to that Letter 18 An Act passed touching the removal of Malignants and Papists out of London c. Letters of the great Levies in Scotland and multitudes drunk with Carowsing the Kings Health That the Ministers press the People to serve the King against the English Army of Sectaries which they prophesied the Lord would blast and published may gross mistakes or untruths touching the Parliament of England their Affairs particularly in Ireland That the King had given Satisfaction to the Scots in all things they desired of him and a Proclamation was published at Edenburgh giving the King all his Royal Power and at that time the Cross was covered with Crimson Velvet and Cloth of Tissue Dr. Lewen a Civilian being apprehended for a Spy and having found about him divers Commissions from the Prince to himself and others was executed according to a Sentence of the Court Marshal 19 Letters of a Man of War of Scilly brought in Prize to Plymouth Of C. Desboroughs giving the charge at the Sessions at Exon to the Contentment of the Country and of a Woman of Taunton condemned upon the new Act for adultery with a Priest 20 Letters of the General his advance to Berwick Of the Armies Declaration sent into Scotland of the Grounds of their March into that Kingdom one Copy of it sent to the Scots General another to the Parliament and a third to the Committee of Estates That the Scots Ministers in their Prayers say That if God will not deliver them from the Sectaries he shall not be their God That the Town of Newcastle feasted the General and his Officers That the Lord Deputy lies with the Army before Waterford Duncannon and Carlowe 22 Letters that many who formerly served the Parliament of England in their Army are now in the Scots Army That the Earl of Newcastle and some others were sent away out of Scotland That Massy is to command a Regiment in their Army That an Act passed in Scotland for all Persons to come into their Armies and none to stay in the Countries lest they should relieve the English Army That G. Louen Published a Proclamation That no Malignant should come near his Army till they had submitted to the Parliament An Act passed and several Orders touching the Militia of London and Westminster An Act passed against Atheistical Blasphemous and Execrable Opinions and the unlawful meetings of such Persons A Declaration passed concerning Delinquents Compositions An Act passed to prohibit Trade between this Commonwealth and Scotland Upon a Report from the Councel of State
exercise and discharge of their Trust and we shall be ready in our places to yield them as becomes us our utmost Assistance to sit in safety for the improving present opportunity for setling and securing the peace and freedom of this Commonwealth praying for the presence and blessing of God upon their endeavours Signed by direction of the Lord Fleetwood and the Council of Officers of the Army Tho. Sandford Secretary May 6. 1659. â—ambert Berry Cooper Haslerigge Lilburn Ashfield Salmon Zanchey Kelsey Okey Blackwell Haynes Allen Packer and Pierson went to the old Speaker Lenthal with this Declaration to the Rolls and presented it to him and divers of the Members of the long Parliament came thither afterwards to advise with the Speaker and declared their willingness to meet again which they appointed to Morrow-morning in the Painted-Chamber 7. They met accordingly and in a body went together to the House Lambert guarding them with Souldiers Then they passed a Declaration touching their Meeting and their purpose to secure the Property and Liberty of the people both as Men and as Christians and that without a single Person Kingship or House of Peers and to uphold Magistracy and Ministry 8. A Sermon was Preached in the House by Dr. Owen 9. The House appointed a Committee of Safety most of them Souldiers except Vane and Scot and ordered that all Officers should be such as feared God and were faithfull to the Cause Letters of General Monk to Fleetwood of the Concurrence of the Army in Scotland with the Army at London Letters ordered to be sent to the particular Members of this Parliament to come and discharge their duty 11. An Act passed for the continuing of Sheriffs Justices of Peace c. in England and in Scotland and Ireland 12. An Address to the Parliament with their Desires in it from many in and about London and their Protestation to stand by this Parliament The like Address to this Parliament from the Officers of the Army These Passages gave the more hopes to many that this Parliament thus restored might be blessed of God for settling the Peace and Liberty of the Nation and the more because they were upon the first right foundation of that long Parliament which had done so great things and therefore divers were the better satisfied to go on with them 13. The Parliament named a Council of State and several Gentlemen not Members of the House were also of it their Names were as followeth Thomas Lord Fairfax M. G. Lambert Col J. Desborough Col. James Bury John Bradshaw Serjeant at Law Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Arthur Haslerigge Sir Henry Vane L. G. Ludlow L. G. Fleetwood Major Salwey Col. Morley Mr. Scot Mr. Wallop Sir James Harrington Col. Wanton Col. Jo. Jones Col. Sydenham Col. Sydney Mr. Nevil Mr. Thomas Chaloner Colonel Downes Lord chief Justice St. John Col. Thompson Lord Commissioner Whitelocke Col. Dixwell Mr. Reynolds Josiah Barners Sir Archibold Johnson Sir Robert Honywood 14. An Act for a new Great Seal different from that whereof Fiennes L'Isle and Whitelocke were Commissioners and so their Office ceased 15. Newdigate Atkins Archer and Parker were made Judges and Easter Term was continued 16. An Act passed appointing Judges for Probate of Wills Applications from Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and his Brother about the payment of their Salary as Masters of the Requests to the Protector and Serjeant Lynne about his Arrears of his Salary Votes passed for Pay of the Army and Navy and for Sale of Whitehall and Somerset-house 17. Address to the Parliament from the Army in Scotland Right honourable THat a Nation may be born in a day is a truth which this days experience witnesseth unto us against all the dictates of humane Reason and that a glorious Cause whose Interest was laid low even in the dust should be in one day restored to its life and lustre when almost all the Asserters of it had so manifestly declined it by a defection of many years cannot be imputed to less than the greatest and most powerfull manifestation of the Arm of God that ever this or former Generations saw or heard of In the sense of this the greatest of our Temporal Mercies we now come to address to your Honours as those whose presence we have so long wanted that had you staid but a little longer it might have been left to be enquired what England was we mean what was become of that People by whom God for so many years filled the World with so much admiration and terrour But though this great Work be as most justly it ought to be wonderfull in our eyes yet when we consider its Author who calls things that are not as if they were bringeth down to the Pit and raiseth up again we see that nothing is difficult to Faith and the Promises of God are sure and stable even then when in the eye of man no less than impossible We cannot but acknowledge to our exceeding great sorrow and shame that our selves though we hope most of us through weakness and frailty not out of design have very much contributed to those Provocations which have caused God to depart from our Israel and we could hearâ—ily wish that even amongst those that help to make up your own number there had not been an helping hand to this sad and deplorable work But we see when God's hour is come and the time of his people's deliverance even the set time is at hand he cometh skipping over all the Mountains of sin and unworthiness that we daily cast in the way We are not willing to detain your Honours too long upon this subject and therefore besecching the God of all our Mercies to heal the backslidings of his people and not to charge unto their account in this his day of their deliverance their miscarriages whilst they were wandering in dark and slippery places after the imaginations of their own hearts we with all bumility and affection in the first place congratulate you in this your happy hestauration to the Government of these Nations which God was pleased once so to own in your hands as to make you both the praise and wonder of the Earth the glory and rejoycing of his People and the terrour of your Adversaries and we acknowledge it a singular condescention in you in this day of 〈◊〉 great difficulties to take upon you so heavy a burthen And sceing his late Highness hath been pleased to manifest so much self-denial and love to his Country in appearing for the Interest thereof against his own we humbly intreat that some speedy care may be taken for him and his family together with her Highness Dowager that there may be such an honourable Provision settled upon them and such other Dignities as are suitable to the former great Services of that Family to these Nations And in the next place we cannot but humbly beseech you now you
his place in the House and was questioned for his acting during the late Interruption to which he made an ingenious Answer And it was voted That he should forthwith repair to his house at Raby in the County of Durham and remain there during the pleasure of the Parliament And he was discharged from being a Member of this Parliament Lambert Decborough Ashfield Berry Kelsey Cobbet and Creed were confined to their several Houses furthest off from London And the Council of State ordered to send for and confine other Officers of the Army who had acted against the Parliament in the late Interruption 10. Order to consider this Day seven-night of the Members of Parliament against whom Matters are objected 11. Scot made Custos Rotulorum of Westminster Vnton Crook made Colonel of Berry's Regiment Walton of that late Colonel Morley's and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper of that Regiment of Horse late the Lord Fleetwood's Letters that Monk was come as far as York with about 5000 men 12. Letters from Monk from Newcastle brought by Mr. Gumbell who had a hundred pounds given him Order for the Speaker to seal a Commission of Oyer and Terminer for London Thanks sent to General Morgan for his good Service Letters of submission from Ludlow and Corbet from Ireland Lists of Officers brought in 13. The Speaker being sick had leave to absent for ten dayes and Mr. Say was Speaker pro tempore The Great Seal delivered to the Speaker Lenthal till further order of the House 14. Order for the Council to secure the Officers formerly confined or any other that do not repair to their Houses in the Country to which they are confined Order for Scot to be Secretary of State Letters of Monk's advance to Newark with sixty six Companies of foot and two and twenty Troops of Horse 16. Flattering Letters of Monk's carriage in Scotland when there Alderman Bunce and others released out of Prison Mr. Scot and Mr. Luke Robinson ordered to go to meet Monk and to congratulate from the Parliament his great Services and good success and his repairing towards London and to let him know that the House would provide money for his Forces 17. The House proceeded against Colonel Sydenham for acting against them during the Interruption and after his Answer discharged him from being a Member of this Parliament Then they proceeded against Major Salwey and voted him to be suspended from sitting in Parliament and to be sent to the Tower during the Parliaments pleasure Downing was sent Agent to the States of the Netherlands Widdrington Tyrrell and Fountain Voted to be Commissioners of the Seal Newdigate to be chief Justice Hill and Nicholas Judges of the Vpper Bench St. John chief Justice Windham and Archer Judges of the Common Pleas Wilde chief Baron Thorpe and Parker Barons of the Exchequer 19. Officers out of Ireland brought into the House gave an account of Affairs there and brought Letters from Sir Hardress Waller Sir Charles Coote Sir Theophilus Jones with Articles of Treason against Ludlow Corbet Jones and Thomlinson former Commissioners there The Powers formerly granted to them were suspended by the House And they appointed new Commissioners for Ireland Sir Hardress Waller Mr. Weaver Robert Goodwyn Sir Charles Coote and Colonel Markham Order for Ludlow and the rest to attend the House to answer to the Articles of Treason against them The Officers of Ireland had thanks The Great Seal was delivered in the House to Widdrington Tyrrell and Fountain Commissioners given in the House to several Officers of the Army A Letter to Monk to congratulate him sent by three of the City 21. Letters from Monk of his approach near London desiring the Order of Parliament how to dispose of his Forces for their Service and protesting all faithfulness and obedience to them Letters from Monk to Overton about the security of Hull and their adhering to this Parliament to which Overton the Governour made an ingenious Answer that reflected upon Monk as to the secluded Members and a single Person 23. Commissions given out to Officers The House agreed upon a Declaration Letters of a Tumult in Excester the people declaring for a free Parliament quieted Letters that Monk and his Forces were complemented in their march and Addresses made by some for the secluded Members by others for a free Parliament That Monk gave the hearing to all but declared his purpose to none That Hull is for this Parliament 24. Order That Colonel Charles Fleetwood the L. Whitelocke Mr. Strickland and Mr. Holland do attend the House this day sevennight Order That Papers of the Committee of safety and Council of Officers be brought in to the Clerk of the Parliament and Mr. Scobell to attend the House and all Members to attend the House this Day sevennight on pain of 20 l. Order for the Members to name Justices of Peace The People of Berks met at Abbington upon a false rumour that a Knight of the Shire was to be chosen 25. Orders about monies and touching the Militia Forces Sir Robert Pye and Major Fincher committed to the Tower for delivering a seditious Paper to the Speaker Letters That Scot and Robinson the Parliaments Commissioners to Monk went out to meet him six miles from Leicester and the Forces with Monk gave Vollies of shot and the Bells rang where Monk came and many Gentlemen of the Countries came and saluted him Monk alighted from his Horse to salute the Parliaments Commissioners and went with them in their Coach to Leicester and there supped with them in their Quarters multitudes of People came to see them and Monk expressed the height of respect to the Commissioners The Mayor and Aldermen banquetted Monk The Officers of the Army in Ireland wrote to Ludlow to surrender the Fort of Duncannon to the Parliament 26. The House was busie about the assessment and sate all Day Order about discoveries of monies due to the Commonwealth Order for an Act to justifie the proceedings of Monk he was made Custos Rotulorum of Devon Letters from Monk and from the Commissioners with him who highly extoll his respects to the Parliament and his faithfulness to them and his civilities to their Commissioners Mr. Gomble Monk's Chaplain recommended by the House to be a fellow of Eaton College Lambert confined to Holmeby 27. Order about a suit between Mr. Nevil and the High Sheriff concerning a return of his Election Votes about the Committee of the Army and about the Admiralty And divers Officers of the Army approved 28. Letters of Monk's coming to Northampton with the Parliaments Commissioners that a hundred Gentlemen presented a Paper to Monk desiring him to be instrumental for the secluded Members or for a free Parliament to which he answered That he was but a servant to the Parliament in a Military capacity and these things of great and civil concernment
Ireland Anglesey Treaty Lots Scarborough C. Ashton Assembly Cromwell Declaration Isle of Wight Cromwell Scotland Cromwell Mank Admiralâ—y Vote Admiralty Assaults Petition Letter from the King Chaplains Vote Monroe Petition Cromwell Free quarter Scotland Monk Goring Capel Petition Berwick and Carlisle Isle of Wight reduced Officers Isle of Wight Sacriledge Liturgy Scotland Petitions Isle of Wight Vote Serjeants at Law Judges Isle of Wight Petition Appleby Cromwel Ireland Isle of Wight Army Petitions Isle of Wight Propositions Mr. Vines Vote Sir Henry Cholmely Free quarter Isle of Wight L. Goring and L. Capel Scotland Lambert Sir Henry Cholmley Exempted from pardon Newcastle Vote Scotland Votes Unsatisfactory Ireland Army Votes Bishops Lands Cromwel Petitions Army Vote Pomfret Rainsborough killed Vote Isle of wight Vote Isle of night Excepted from pardon Northern Counties Petition Army Excepted from pardon Lambert Pardon Isle of Wight Ireland Army Isle of Wight Banishment Votes Isle of Wight Excepted persons Army Lambert Pontefract Army Isle of Wight E. Warwick Votes Speech Sermon Isle of Wight Scotland Treason Isle of Wight Anny Speech to the Serjeants Remonstrance Isle of Wight Excepted persons New Sergeant C. Birch Judges Isle of Wight 〈◊〉 Sheriffs Army Isle of Wight Army Isle of Wight Army Declaration Isle of Wight Army London Isle of Wight Army Army The King removed Pontefract Scarborough Ireland Vote Army C. Pride's force upon the House Army Army-Proposals Secluded Members Army City Agreement of the people Ireton Army Votes Army Prisoners Vote Militia Army Hurst Castle Secluded Members Army-Declaration Malignants Expedient Army Army Secluded Members Petition Army City Design against the King Debates Scarborough Navy Dissecting Memberâ— Lord Willoughby Petition Mr. Elsing Petitions The King Widdrington and Whitelok The King Allegiance Charge Lilburn Fasts Distractions Kings Judges Vote Elsing Players Scotland Presbyterians The King Lords Navy Lords Journal Vote Votes London Scots Style London Ireland The King Lords Proclamation Votes Style Great Seal H. Martin Proclamation Petition Pryn. Kings Tryal Pryn. Habeas Corpus Pryn. Secluded Members Chief Justice Rolles Style Navy Petition Agreement of the people High Court of Justice Great Seal Speaker Army Perplexiâ—es Petition High Court of Justice Declaration France Style Scotland Petitions High Court 〈◊〉 Justice Commissioners of the great Seal House of Lords Lieutenant of the Ordnance High Court of Justice Agreement of the people Petition Great Seal Army Petition Answer The King Great Seal High Court of Justice Scotland Army High Court of Justice Commissioners of the great Seal Lady Fairfax Style High Court of Justice H. C. of Justice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 C. of â—ustice France Style Heads of the Charge H. C. of Justice Style Proclamation Secluded Members Dutch Ambassadors Style Kings Children Scots Kings Speech Dr. Juxon Dutch Ambassadors Duke Hamilton Monthly Fast Secluded Members Vote D. Hamilton c. L. Capell Lords Surrey Petition Kent's Petition High Court of Justice House of Lords Dutch Ambassadors High Court of Justice Pamphlets Scotland Debate House of Lords Voted useless Debts Ireland Debate Vote Council of State Commissions Great Seal Judges Great Seal Widdrington Whitelockâ— Commissioners of the Great Seal Style Justices of the Peace Judges Vote Timber Scotland H. C. of Justice Upper Bench. New Oath E. of Holland Navy New Oaths Scotland Februa Council of State H. C. of Justice L. Capel Hamilton Council of State Powers Hamilton Dutch Ambassadors L. Goring Sir John Owen Seals L. Capel Hamilton Prince Elector Cromwell Hamilton Scotland Pontefract Test Scruples Earl of Warwick L. Capel Expedient Hamilton Army Vote Earl of Holland Navy Cromwel Scots Paper Declaration Lilburd Petition Hamilton E. of Holland Ireland Scotland Fasts Scots March London Norwich Army C. Whaley Petition Standard Sir George Ascue Earl of Holland Hamilton Charge Vote Prince Elector Scotland Standing Army Hamilton Votes L. Capell L. Goring Earl of Holland Hamilton Hamilton Earl of Holland L. Capel General Seal Poor Prisoners Wales Bradshaw Prisoners of War Pontefract Scotland Norfolk Petition Council of State Scotland Prince Elector Vote Tryals for life Ireland Cromwel Durch Ambasadour Kingly Office abolished Elections Petition Pamphlet Fairfax Alcoran House of Peers abolished Animosities Lady Carlisle Scotland Disband Bradshaw Denmark Kingly government Cromwell Ireland Ormond C. Jones Pontefract surrendred 1649. Ireland Irish Peace Cromwell Pamphlet Yorkshire Scots Instructions Huntley Dutch Ireland Preachers Ministers Cromwell April Souâ—â—wark London Cromwell Fairfax C. Potley Lord M. of London Petitions Anabaptists M. Huntly Declaration of Religion Alderman Atkins Petition New Oath L. Mayor Ships Petition London London Prisoners Great Seal London Lilburnâ— Whitelock C. Powel M. G. Laughern London Hague Ministers Priviledge Iustices of the Peace Ministers New Stamp Guinneâ— Earl of Pembroke Knight of the Shire Petitions Lilburn Pool Prince Rupert Ireland Tythes London Levellers Lilburn Lady Capel Ireland Fast-days Poor Debtors Levellers Lots for Ireland King of Scots Speaker Laughern Powel Poyer cast Lots for Life Du Moulin Petition for Lilburn Navy Scotland Petition Lilburn The King of Scots P. Elector Kings Children NewCoyn Women petition for Lilburn Answer Poytr Act of Oblivion Vote Henry Martyn A project for Learning Speaker Mutiny Kings Children M r Lockier Funeral Ireland Famine Scots Treasons Levellers Form of Government May. Ambassador Petitions Dr. Dorislaus Levellers Levellers Act for Treason Dr. Dorislaus Levellers routed Dorislaus Master of the Mint Declaration Dorislaus Levellerâ— Dorislâ—us Comonwealth Licensing Books 〈◊〉 D. of Glocester Sir Thomas Fairfax London invites the Parliament Dinner Declaration Judges Sir Thomas Soames Alderman Chambers New Mace June Speaker Parliament feasted Vote Dorislaus Scotland July Acts. Cromwell Scotland The Kings Houses Letter to the Parliament Ireland Prince Charles Vote Yorkshire Petitions Ministers Ireland Taylors Petitions Ireland Ireland St. James Library Scotland Ireland Monk Scotland Acts August Debate Ireland Scots Declaration Poor Prisoners Monk question'd Vote Dublin Ormond Routed Scotland Monk Jones Petition Answer Votes Sir Charles Coot Chancery Irish Letters Morrice and Blackbourn Ireland Tender Consciences Lilbourn Complaints French Trade Votes Lieuten of Ireland Ireland Sir Thomas Coot Vote Speaker taxed Army Poor Proclamation 〈…〉 C. Fielder Sir K. Digby Walter Montague Scots Letters Poor Prisoners Sir J. Winter Oath Levellers Intercept Letters Levellers at Oxford Septemb. Cardinal Mazarine Levellers Strickland Irish Affairs proclamation Mr. Peters Votes Irish Instructions Lerellen Duke of 〈◊〉 Psalms â—â—ellers Declaration Army Humiliation Letters from Hugh Peters Letters from Cromwel October Drogheda Scots Petition Acts. Scots Overtures Montross Negotiation in Spain Reasons Novemb. Intelligence Prince Maurice Prince â—â—pert Cromwel Parliament Lawyers Rot. Parl. N. 13. Rot. parl Rot. parl 2. N. 4. dorse Hist Eng. Anno 1404. p. 37. Ypodiâ—ma Neustriae aâ—â— 1404. The Iriment Votes Army Letters from Ireland Letters from Scotland Montross Denmark C. Bampfield Scots Kings Lands Ireland Sir Allen Apsly Scotland Montross Victory in Ireland Montro ss The Ingagement Acts of Parliament London Petition Lilburn Declaration of the Kirk Inchequin Janua Ireland L. 〈◊〉 Frigots Iealousâ—
go towards the Swedish Army but the King's Fleet in the Downs saluting him by the way and his own Ship discharging a Vollay at his landing at Bolloigne and by other means he was discovered and denying himself upon examination he was secured by a Guard and the King of France took this Passage ill from him and he was a great while kept in the nature of a Prisoner The Scots Commissioners returned home to Edenburgh the same night the 19th of November that a great part of the Castle Wall fell down with the Cannons mounted which some of the Covenanters supposed to be done by way of treachery to them and opposed the reedifying of it by the King's Command not permitting Materials to be brought to repair it Whereat the King was highly offended and concluded upon force to bring them to obedience for which end he chose a select number of His Council into the Cabbinet of the Scottish Affairs Some gave out that this was done by the Archbishop Laud's advice and to keep out Pembroke Salisbury Holland and others late Commissioners in the Pacification whom the Arch-bishop is said to call the hunting Lords but Hamilton was kept in at last their number was brought to three onely the Archbishop Strafford Lieutenant of Ireland and Hamilton This Junto met the 5th of December where the King discoursed of the present Evils and necessity of suddain preventing the growth of them before it should be beyond remedy which he declared in his Judgment ought to be by the assistance and consent of a Parliament in England Strafford acknowledged it the best means and highly approved and magnified the King's Resolution herein the Archbishop was said to agree therein and Strafford had the honour of the Peoples good opinion for promoting this Resolution A Parliament was likewise to be called in Ireland and Strafford to go thither and return back again to the Parliament here which was appointed to meet the 13th of April following In the mean time and it was a strange time for such a Business so near the sitting of a Parliament the King tells his Lords That it will be long ere the Parliament meet and Subsidies granted by them will be long in levying In the Interim his Affairs will suffer without some speedy course for Supplies Hereupon the Lords told him they would engage their own Credits Strafford begins and subscribes for Twenty thousand pounds Richmond the like Hamilton excuseth himself for poverty most of the rest subscribed and some few refused The Judges and Officers of Courts of Justice Ecclesiastical and Temporal were assessed by the Councel according to the Quality and Profit of their Places The Queen employed Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Walter Mountague to labour the Papists for a liberal Contribution to the King which they gained and thereupon some styled the Forces raised The Popish Army The News of a Parliament to be called raised the Expectations of many for good and did set divers on labouring to get themselves to be chosen Parliament-men and the Courtiers to get their Friends chosen The beginning of January died the Lord Coventry who had been Keeper of the great Seal above fifteen years He raised a great Fortune and Barony for his Posterity was of no transcendent Parts or Fame but as some gave out He died in a seasonable time The Scot's Covenanters sent new Commissioners to the King The Earl of Dunferling the Lord Loudon Sir William Douglass and Mr. Berkeley the two last not mentioned in the Commission The Lords only authorized to plead Integrity and demonstrate their Fidelity but not impowred to propose any Particulars towards a Mediation to the King's satisfaction They had great Resort to them and many secret Councels held with them by the discontented English chiefly by those who favoured Presbytery and were no friends to Bishops or had suffer'd in the late Censures in the Star-chamber Exchequer High Commission and other Judicatories Those also who inclined to a Republick had much Correspendence with them and they courted all fomented every Discontent and made large and religious Promises of future happy times The Earls of Essex Bedford Holland the Lord Say Hampden Pym and divers other Lords and Gentlemen of great interest and quality were deep in with them The Covenanters in this time imprison divers Lords and others affected to the King's Service They procure from the Hollanders divers Officers Scots and others with liberty to keep their Commands there and great store of Arms and Ammunition upon trust but those Officers in the Hollanders Pay who came over to serve the King were there cashiered the King would say of them both That they were lost by favours and won by punishment The Covenanters proclaim their Discontents and implore Aid from the French King by a Letter under the hands of many of their Principal Actors which they the less doubted upon confidence of Cardinal Richlieu and Con the Pope's Nuntio The Original Letter hapned to be brought to our King and it being found to be the character of the Lord Loudon he was though a Commissioner from the Covenanters committed to the Tower It was said they were encouraged to take Arms from Cardinal Richlieu by his Chaplain Chamberlain a Scot whom he sent to them and by Letters which Hepburn a Page to his Eminence brought to divers here and in Scotland They seized upon Edenburgh Sterlin and Dunbarton Castles They are reported likewise to offer the Isles of Orkney and Shetland to the King of Denmark and to desire Assistance from him and from the Swedes Hollanders and Poland That the Jesuits had their Hands and Wits in promoting these Troubles is set forth in a long Letter to the Archbishop Laud from a Noble-man of Bohemia one Andreas ab Habernfield which Mr. Pryn hath published in Print upon trust as he useth to do as well as others Mr. Bagshaw was Reader of the Middle-Temple in the Lent Vacation this year He was a hard Student and much inclin'd to the Nonconformist's way and to publish some of his Learning in favour of them He chose for his Statute to read upon 25 Edw. 3. ch 7. In his speech in the Hall he said He had intended to meddle with Prohibitions but not with Tacitus to follow truth too neer the heels for fear of his teeth nor too far off lest he lose it and so neither to offend nor be offended In his first Case he made one Point Whether it be a good Act of Parliament which is made without assent of the Lords spiritual The Reader argued Affirmatively 1. That they do not sit in Parliament as Bishops but by reason of the Baronies annexed to their Bishopricks which was done 5 W. 1. and all of them have Baronies except the Bishop of Man and he is not called to Parliament 2. He cited some Parliaments to be held without any Bishops Kelwayes Reports 7 Hen. 8. fol. 184. That the presence of Bishops in
in opinion from the rest Whitelocke a Member of the House and Son to the Judge knew this to be mistaken as to the fact and spake in the behalf of his father to this effect That it was not unknown to divers worthy Members of the House that Judge Whitelocke had been a faithfull able and stout assertor of the rights and liberties of the free-born Subjects of this Kingdome for which he had been many ways a sufferer And particularly by a streight and close imprisonment for what he said and did as a Member of this honourable House in a former Parliament And he appeals to those noble Gentlemen who cannot but remember those passages and some who were then sufferers with him And for his opinion and carriage in the case of Habeas corpus 't is affirmed to have been the same with that of Judge Crooke and he appeals for this to the honourable Gentlemen who were concerned in it and others who were present then in Court Hampden and divers others seconded this motion who affirmed very much of the matter of fact and expressed themselves with great respect and honour to the memory of the deceased Judge who was thereupon reckoned by the house in the same Degree with Judge Crooke as to their censure and proceedings One Mr. Heyward an active Justice of Peace in Westminster had drawn up a Catalogue of the Recusants there for the Committee of Religion which occasioned one James a Papist to stab Heyward in Westminster-hall but not to death and James was privately punished Prynne and Burton were conducted into London from their several Prisons by many hundreds of horse and foot in great Pompe and defiance of Justice and they petitioned the House of Commons for dammages against their Prosecutors Sir Francis Windebanke Secretary of State and a great intimate of Archbishop Laud having been questioned for repreiving Jesuits and Preists and suspected of worse matters to prevent any further tryall he escaped into France where he remained to his death as is reported a professed Papist The House of Commons Voted 1. That the charge of Shipmoney was against the Law the Subjects Right and Property and contrary to former Resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right 2. That the extrajudicial opinion of the Judges was against the Law c. ut prius 3. That the Shipwrits were against the Law 4. That the Judgement in Mr. Hampden's Case about Shipmoney was against Law c. The House of Lords passed the same Votes and the next day a Committee was appointed to draw up a Charge of Treason against such as had been abettors therein the Lord Keeper Finch and the rest of the Judges The House of Commons having ingaged to present to the Lords particular Articles of their Charge of high Treason against the Earl of Strafford they now were moved to appoint a select Committee to prepare and draw up those Articles and to manage the evidence against the Earl at his Tryall and that this Committee should be under an Ingagement of Secrecy in regard of the Nature and greatness of the business Of this Committee were named Pym Hampden Hollis Lord Digby Stroud and Sir Walter Earle Selden St. John Maynard Palmer Glynne and Whitelocke Whitelocke was chosen Chairman of the Committee the Papers were all delivered to his custody and trust and an ingagement of secrecy was made solemnly in the nature of a Voluntary Oath by every one of the Committee and they did sit almost every day to prepare the Articles of the charge against the Earl of Strafford 11. Decem. Alderman Pennington with some hundreds following him presented the Citizens Petition subscribed by 15000. against the discipline and Ceremonies of the Church The House of Commons 15. Decem. Resolved That the Clergy in a Synod or Convocation hath no power to make Laws Canons or Constitutions to bind either Laity or Clergy without the Parliament And that the Canons made by the late Convocation are against the fundamental Laws of this Realm the King's Prerogative Propriety of the Subject the Rights of Parliament and do tend to faction and sedition They also voted that a Bill should be brought in to fine those of the Clergy who sate in the late Convocation and were Actors in making those Canons The like proceedings were to be had against the Judges for their opinions and Judgment in the Case of Shipmoney Mr. Hollis is sent up to the Lords with an Impeachment of high Treason against Archbishop Laud and the Scots joyned him with the Earl of Strafford as Incendiaries in the National differences Upon reading of both charges the Archbishop was committed to the black Rod. The Scots Commissioners conclude their accusation against him That if the Pope had been in his place he could not have been more zealous against the reformed Churches to reduce them to the Heresies Doctrines Supersitions Idolatries of Rome c. They likewise exhibited a charge against the Earl of Strafford's confident Sir George Ratcliffe and having secured the great Statesman Strafford and the great Churchman Laud the Commons prepare to impeach the chief Officer of Law the Lord Keeper Finch of high Treason He having notice thereof desired leave of the House to be admitted to speak for himself before them which was granted and a Chair set for him near to the Bar he came into the House carrying the Purse himself and when the Speaker told him that his Lordship might sit he made a low obeysance and laying down the Seal and his hat in the Chair himself leaning on the backside of it made a very elegant and ingenious speech in his own vindication Captare Benevolentiam and delivered with an excellent grace and gesture as well as words His beginning was thus Mr. Speaker I give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but to preserve your good opinion of me for I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with date obolum Bellisario with your favour than be never so high and honoured with your displeasure His Conclusion was If I may not live to serve you I desire I may dye in your good opinion and favour Many were exceedingly taken with his Eloquence and carriage and it was a sad sight to see a Person of his Greatness parts and favour to appear in such a Posture before such an Assembly to plead for his life and fortunes Upon these following particulars he was the same day voted a Traytor 1. For Refusing to read the Remonstrance against the Lord Treasurer Weston 4 Car. when the Parliament desired it 2. For Solliciting perswading and threatning the Judges to deliver their opinions for the levying of Ship-money 3. For several illegal Actions in Forest matters 4. For ill Offices done in making the King to dissolve the last Parliament and causing his declaration thereupon to be put forth The
of England and Ireland Then a sealed Paper was produced which being opened and read appeared to be sent from the Parliament of Ireland declaring that the Commons there had Voted the Earl guilty of high Treason At this the Earl being much transported said There was a Conspiracy against him to take away his life The Committee of the House of Commons took hold of those words and required Justice from the Lords against the Earl who standing Impeached of high Treason accused the Parliaments of two Kingdoms of a Conspiracy against him Hereupon the Earl falling upon his knees humbly craved pardon for the Inconsiderateness of the expression protesting seriously that he did not thereby intend either Parliament but some particular persons and so that Matter was past over Then the Committee offered to the Lords three new Articles to be annexed to the Charge and desired that the Earl might presently give his Answer to them To which the Earl replyed That the Process being closed he hoped he should not be ordered to answer any adventitious and unexpected Charge without more convenient time assigned But the Lords finding the Articles to be of no great Importance he was urged to a present Answer which he then made to them March the 24th the Committee proceeded upon the Articles of the Charge and after Glynne had ended his part Maynard proceeded upon the following Articles and after him Mr. Palmer managed the ensuing Articles as to the aggravation of them and inforcing the Evidence upon them and his part extended to the seven last Articles upon the which Whitelocke was appointed to manage the Evidence Anno 1641. Car. 17 These Articles on his part were Matters of very high nature and some of them particularly the twenty fourth Article relating to the design of bringing over the Army in Ireland into Scotland and so to England to reduce this Kingdom Whitelocke having spoken with Sir Henry Vane the elder and with the other Witnesses to the twenty fourth Article and finding that their Testimony would not make good the Matter of that Article thought it not honourable for the House of Commons to proceed upon an Article whereof they could not make a clear proof and thereupon proposed it to the Committee to omit that Article in his proceedings The Committee were of the same opinion but upon Sir Walter Earle's undertaking to manage it they left that Article to him upon which Whitelocke after he had inforced the Evidence upon the twenty third Article sate down and Sir Walter Earl with much gravity and confidence began to aggravate the Matters in the twenty fourth Article and the dangerous Consequence and high Crime in it and called forth the Witnesses to prove the particulars which he had at large opened Some of the Witnesses were not in England those of them who came in being sworn spake little to the purpose and did not prove the Matter at all of that Article upon which the Knight was very blank and out of countenance But the Earl of Strafford who lost no advantage of his Defence rising up from his Seat made a low obeysance as he was used to do to the Lords and spake to this effect My Lords I am a poor Gentleman a Prisoner at the Bar against whom several persons learned in the Laws and of great ability for pleading and strength of reason and other noble persons of great parts and eloquence have enforced the particular Matters of my Charge and I had well hoped they had been drawing towards an end But now my Lords unexpectedly a new and great Pleader sets upon me tired out before and this noble Knight hath laid a heavy burden indeed upon my shoulders he hath opened more hainous Crimes against me than all those Gentlemen who have gone before The learned Gentleman who urged the Matters of the last Articles against me when he came to this twenty fourth Article sate down and seemed to decline it and yet he left nothing material which was not urged home by him But this noble Knight goes beyond all and indeed beyond the Article it self observing things not contained in it and impossible to be And could he have proved this it had been truly a Miracle But I humbly beg your Lordships pardon I am not willing to spend any of your time impertinently I shall only say this That where nothing is proved against me I know your Lordships great wisdom and justice will expect no defence from me After the Earl was sate down the Lord Digby stood up and in a very witty rhetorical speech took off Sir Walter Earle Desired their Lordships to pass by a mistake that this Article was not intended for prosecution as might appear by the Gentleman 's declining of it who managed the former He moved That this twenty fourth Article might be omitted and their Lordships not to receive any further trouble in the urging of it or defence to it and that they would be pleased to look upon what that noble Knight had said but as a Superfâ—tation After the Lord Digby had spoken Whitelocke presently rose up and after the Lords 〈◊〉 done smiling he proceeded with the twenty fifth Article The Queen who was present at the Tryal inquired who that Knight was whom the Lord Digby relieved and being told his name was Sir Walter Earle She said that water Dog did bark but not bite but the rest did bite close The Earl of Strafford speaking of the Committee who managed the Evidence against him and particularly of the Lawyers said to a private friend that Glynne and Maynard used him like Advocates but Palmer and Whitelocke used him like Gentlemen and yet left out nothing material to be urged against him When the Committee had gone through all the Articles they moved That if the Earl had any thing to say further in his defence that he might do it the Earl obtained with difficulty time till the next Morning The next day both Houses being met the Lieutenant of the Tower acquainted them that the Earl had been extream ill the last Night of a violent Fit of the Stone and was not able to come abroad this Day and humbly desired their Lordships excuse This caused them to adjourn to the next Morning and in the Afternoon some of the Lords were sent from the House to see in what condition the Earl was who found him somewhat recovered and he hoped so as he might attend them the next Day Then the House met again April the 10th and the Commons desired liberty to produce an additional piece of Evidence to the twenty third Article The Earl craved the same liberty for himself concerning some Testimonies not yet exhibited on his behalf this the Committee opposed but the Lords thought it equal and after a warm Debate upon it the Commons rose in some discontent not so much as appointing a day for their next meeting April 12. In the House of Commons Mr. Pym produced a Paper of some Notes taken by Secretary Vane
mightily increased the Scots Successes animated other Subjects to their illegal Pretences and impious Actions and in this time of the King's absence in Scotland the Irish Flames of Rebellion brake forth having been thus kindled The last year the Parliament at Dublin sent a Committee hither with a Remonstrance to the King of their Grievances and Pressures under the Government of the Earl of Strafford whom they had accused of high Treason The King gave them most favourable Answers and Redresses and parted with much of his own to give contentment to his Irish Subjects Mr. Wainsford Deputy there to the Earl of Strafford Lieutenant being dead the King by Commission constituted the Lord Ditton and Sir William Parsons in the Government there but finding Ditton not well liked he made Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlace generally approved to be the Lords Justices there These applyed themselves to give all satisfaction to the people they abated the Subsidies given in Strafford's time from 40000 l. to 12000 l. Passed an Act of Limitation much desired to settle all Estates for sixty years precedent and another for relinquishing the King's Right found for him by Inquisition to four Counties in Connaght and other Territories He declared the Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Papists there were permitted a private enjoyment of their Religion and a general good Agreement was had between the English and Irish In this Security the Irish Army was disbanded after which and in the King's absence in Scotland about October 23. there brake forth so horrid black and flagitious a Rebellion in Ireland as cannot be parallell'd in the Stories of any other Nation This was fomented and contrived by their Popish Priests and Lawyers some of their Maxims in Law were That any one being slain in Rebellion though found by Record gave the King no Forfeiture That though many thousands were in Arms and exercising the violences of War yet if they professed not to rise against the King it was no Rebellion That if one were Outlawed for Treason his Heir might reverse the Outlawry and be restored These and the like Tenets they published in their Parliaments and endeavoured a Suspension of Poyning's Act and the Act for annexing that Kingdom to the Crown of England and assumed a power of Judicature in Criminal and Capital Causes to be in their Parliament They took advantage of the Scots Sucesses of their Favourers in England and our Distractions here of the disbanding the Army there and the Death of the Earl of Strafford They raise Forces give out that the Queen was in the head of them and the King was coming with an Army to them and the Scots had made a League with them that they were authorised by the King's Commission and asserted his Cause against the Puritans of England To their Country-men they scatter Advertisements out of England of a Statute there lately made That all Irish shall come to the Protestant Worship on pain of loss of Goods for the first Offence of Lands for the second and of Life for the third Offence They give them hope to recover their Liberties and ancient Customs to shake off the English Yoke to have a King of their own Nation and to possess Goods and Estates of the English These Motives they published in Print That the King and Queen were curbed by the Puritans and their Prerogatives abolished which these as loyal Subjects take to heart and that the Catholick Religion is suppressed in England and the Catholicks there persecuted with all rigour even to death and that the Puritans in Ireland have threatned to doe the same there That in Ireland the Catholicks are made uncapable of any Office to the decay of them in their Estates Education and Learning That the Government of their Country is in the hand of Strangers who come thither poor and mean yet soon rise to wealth and honour by oppressing the Natives That there have been threatnings to send Forces to compel the Consciences of the Irish and to cut their Throats and that the Catholicks are not allowed to have any Arms or Ammunition but the Protestants and Puritans may Vpon all which they saw no way but to attempt to seize upon Arms where they could get them to save their Lives maintain the King and Queen their Religion and Country Upon these pretences and manifest untruths they ground their taking up of Arms. The first suspicion whereof was by Sir William Cole who about Octob. 11. wrote to the Lords Justices of great resort to Sir Phelim Oneale and to the Lord Macquierre and they were exceeding busie about dispatches About October 21. He wrote another Letter to them of what some Irish had revealed to him of a design to seize the Castle of Dublin to murther the Lords Justices and Councel and all the Protestants there and throughout the Kingdom But this Letter came not to their hands When many of the Conspirators were come to Dublin and met there at a Tavern one Owen O Conelly an Irish-man but a true Protestant came to Sir William Parsons about Nine a Clock at Night with a broken relation of a great Conspiracy to seize the Castle the next morning and that Mac Mahon who was one of them had told him so much Parsons seeing Conelly distempered with drink gave the less credit to his relation but wished him to return to Mac Mahon to get out of him what he could further of the Plot and to return to him again that Night Yet he did not so slight the Information but that secretly he ordered strong Guards in several places and assembled the Councel where they expected the return of Conelly who coming to them was seized on by the Guards who had carried him to Prison and so prevented the discovery of the Plot had not a Servant of Sir VVilliam Parsons accidentally come by and rescued Conelly and brought him somewhat recovered of his drinking unto the Lords Justices and Councel who confessed that a few days before upon Letters from Mac Mahon he went to meet him at Connaght but he being gone to Dublin Conelly followed him thither and they two went to the lodging of the Lord Macquierre that by the way Mac Mahon told O Conelly that this Night there would be a great number of Irish Noblemen Papists in Dublin who with himself would take the Castle by Morning then force the City by the Ordnance and destroy all the Protestants and so divers others were ordered in all parts of the Kingdom to seize and destroy all the English at an Hour designed viz. to Morrow by Ten a Clock and that no posting nor speed could prevent it That Conelly moved Mac Mahon to discover it rather to the State to prevent the mischief But he answered He could not help it yet that they owned their allegiance to the King and pay it to him but what they did was against the tyrannical Government over them and
Treason against the four Judges and to consider of a way to vindicate the Lords and Members of the Commons so indicted Several more forces about 1500 landed from Ireland in Wales and Sir William Brereton wrote to the Parliament that some of them were of the Rebels and the Lord Byron is joined with them The like power was given to Sir William Brereton and Sir Thomas Middleton for sequestrations and levying of moneys in Wales as was given to the Earl of Manchester in the associate Counties Five hundred of the Prisoners taken by Sir William Waller at Alton took the Covenant and served under him The Parliament wrote to General Essex to advance with his Army to joyn with Waller Essex answered that he held it not convenient for their Service and a little discontent began to kindle betwixt him and the House of Commons and the Committee of Safety The Commons ordered that none should elect or be elected Common Council men or Officers in London but such as had taken the Covenant The Commissioners of the Great Seal sate in the Queens Court Decemb. 22. and sealed above 500 Writs so desirous were people to have the course of Justice to proceed Colonel Brown is made Major General of the City Forces appointed to go to Sir William Waller Essex sent 600 Horse to Waller and removed his Army from St. Albans to Windsor to be the more in readiness to assist Waller and divers Kentish Forces came in to him and he sate down before Arundel Castle Duke Hamilton proscribed in Scotland gets to Oxford and there is committed close Prisoner an unhappy or unsteady man and by this you see the uncertainty of Greatness and of Princes favours Sir John Meldrum and Sir William Savile took in the Fort at Barton and after that Gainsborough for the Parliament about 600 Prisoners some of them Officers of Quality store of Arms and Ammunition The Parliament sate on Christmas day 1643. The Earls of Bedford and of Clare came from Oxford back again to the Parliament A Letter was intercepted from Oxford to Sir Peter Killegrew which brought him into suspicion Colonel Hutchinson Governour of Nottingham Castle acquainted the Parliament with an offer of the Earl of New Castle to pay him 10000 l. and to make him a Lord and Governour of that Castle to him and his heirs if he would deliver it to him for the King which Hutchinson refused The Scots Army of about 12000 advanced near to Berwick and publish a Declaration as they march of the justness of their undertakings in assistance of the Parliament Major General Skippon took Grafton House and in it Sir John Digby with 20 Officers of note and Horse and 200 Foot Arms and Money Some differences fell out at Coventry between the Earl of Denbigh and Colonel Purefoy a Member of the House of Commons they were both sent for to London and reconciled Many of the Protestants in Ireland refuse to submit to the cessation and joyn with the Scots Forces The King of Denmark providing to send assistance to the King of England and sending for men to the King of Poland to infest the Swedes the Letters being intercepted the Swedes enter Denmark and take sundry places there Colonel Fiennes was sentenced by the Council of War to be beheaded for the surrender of Bristol The King issued a Proclamation for adjourning the Parliament to Oxford and all the Members who had deserted the Parliament or been disabled met at Oxford General Essex came to London from St. Albans and was not well pleased with some Members and proceedings of the House of Commons Jan. 1643. The Earl of Bedford lately come from Oxford to the General to St. Albans was sent to London and committed to the Black Rod. Prince Maurice his Forces before Plimouth received a blow from the Garrison and the Princes men falling sick of the Camp Disease whereof many died he raised the siege Colonel Boswell with 800 Horse from Coventry took by storm Sir Thomas Holt's House 80 Prisoners store of Goods Money and Plate General Essex sent a new Commission with further powers to Sir William Waller which pleased the House of Commons A Plot was confest of setting on work a Petition from the City to the King for peace and to invite his Majesty to London and the Plotters were committed to Prison Mr. Riley a Clerk belonging to the Records in the Tower was committed for intelligence with Oxford The King sent Proclamations to the several Sheriffs to adjourn the Parliament to Oxford and to summon the Members of that County to appear at Oxford 22. of this month whereupon the Commons order their House to be called the same day Another Proclamation from the King was to adjourn the next Term and all the Courts of Justice from London which the Proclamation calls the Rebellious City to Oxford but the Parliament forbad it Arundel Castle was surrendred to Sir William Waller to mercy there were taken in it Sir William Ford High Sheriff Sir Edward Bishop Colonel Banfield and divers Gentlemen of Sussex 50 Reformades 1200 Prisoners with their Arms Money and with Pillage The Parliament imparted to the City at a Common Hall the late discovered Plot to make a difference between the Parliament and City to divert the Scots advancing hither and to raise a general Combustion under the pretence of Peace Sir Bazil Brooke and Mr. Riley were chief agents in this Plot. The Lord Byron took in Beeston Castle in Cheshire for the King The Parliament ordered the Commissioners of the Great Seal to issue forth a Proclamation for holding the next Term at Westminster and all Judges and Officers to attend here under pein of sequestration and forfeiture of their Offices The Lords sent to the Commons to hasten the impeachment against the Queen A new Ordinance of Excise passed The Lord Goring's Letter to the Queen was intercepted by which he gives her an account of Supplies of Money and Arms coming from France to our King that Monsieur Harecourt was to treat with the Parliament as the King should direct him and that all but two or three Jewels of the Crown were now pawned for money Upon this Letter and other Informations the Commons impeached the Lord Goring of High Treason and ordered the Letters of the French Ministers of State to be brought to the Committee of Safety A Party of Horse under Colonel Ashton in Lancashire marching to joyn with Sir William Brereton were by the way surprized and routed by the Lord Byron Brereton upon this alarm fell upon the Rear of the Lord Byron's Forces and killed and took many of them Major Brookban was shot to death for deserting his Colours and revolting to the King The Parliament wrote to Monsieur de Harecourt at Oxford to acquaint him with their grounds of stopping the Pacquet from France and with the Lord Goring's Letter from thence One Lord and Sir H. Mildmay and Sir William
from him and to the inhabitants of Surrey for satisfaction of their charges for supply of Sir William Waller A thousand Countrey men came in to Colonel Massey who represented the condition of his Garrison to the Parliament who ordered supplies for him and the Earl of Manchester was ordered with 4000 Horse and 5000 Foot to attend the motion of Prince Rupert The Lord Fairfax his Forces joyned with the Scots and care was taken to supply the Earl of Manchester Sir William Waller sent out a party which fell upon a Convoy of the Enemies for supply of Basing House and took of them divers Officers 40 Souldiers 1000 Sheep and fat cattle and money Sir John Gell routed 2 Troups of Colonel Goring's Regiment of Horse and dispersed the rest The Earl of Warwick took 8 ships bound for Bristol York was close besieged by the Scots and the Lord Fairfax his Forces The Dutch Embassadour and the Parliament courted each other but nothing came to effect between them The King's Forces whereof many were Irish burnt Bemister Cerne and Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire The Commons ordered that no private business should be heard in the House before the Armies were upon their march The Propositions for Peace were brought into the House and Read and Debated and the Debate adjourned The Marquess Huntley in Scotland made some commotion on behalf of the King but the Earl of Argile quieted him The Anti-Parliament at Oxford had written Letters to the Estates of Scotland dehorting them from giving any assistance to those at Westminster who were in arms against the King and these Letters set forth the unlawfulness and injustice of such undertakings and actions The Estates of Scotland sent up this Letter to the Parliament with a Copy of their answer to it which was to this effect That their expedition into England was not intended till all other means were first assayed and disappointed they deny not the Parliaments invitation of them and they declare that their pitty to see England bleed and their sense of the danger of their own Religion and Laws were the chief cause of their taking up Armes That they held not the invitation of the Parliament any ways invalid because they at Oxford are wanting or others are gone beyond the Seas having either wilfully deserted the Parliament or been expelled for Delinquency or why those that stay in Parliament are not a sufficient number without those at Oxford they do not apprehend with much of the like matter which was well accepted by the Parliament May 1644. An Ordinance for the supply of the Earl of Manchester's forces stuck with the Lords An Ordinance was published to prevent the adjournment of the Term or any the Courts of Justice from Westminster and all Judges and Officers were commanded to attend their places here Some 30 firelocks of the Garrison of Northampton being surprized by the Enemy and carried Prisoners to Banbury the Northampton forces marched forth entered Banbury fetched off all their Prisoners and took about 30 of them Sir Thomas Fairfax and Major General Lesley closely pursued the Earl of Newcastle's horse Southward The Archbishop of Canterbury came again to his tryal the evidence against him was mannaged by Mr. Nicholas Captain Swanley took in the town of Caernarvon with 400 Prisoners Arms Ammunition and much Pillage Plymouth sallyed out upon the besiegers took 40 Prisoners Horse Arms Ammunition The Speaker and some Members of the House were sent to the Dutch Ambassadours to complement and take leave of them The Commons sent to acquaint the City that they were preparing Propositions for Peace and desired to know from them what concerned their particular for which the City returned their humble thanks Particular Letters were ordered to be written from the Houses to the Scots General and to the Lord Fairfax and his son in acknowledgment of their good services The Lord General wrote to the Houses to appoint a Committee to reside with the Army and to supply the Army Mr. Rolles a Member of the House had satisfaction voted to be given him for his losses in opposing the King's taking of Tunnage and Poundage when it was not granted by Parliament At the taking of Caermarthen by Captain Swanly many Irish Rebels were thrown into the Sea The Earl of Manchester took the City of Lincoln by storm and in it Sir Francis Fane the Governor three Colonels many inferiour Officers 800 Common Souldiers 1000 Armes 8 pieces of Ordnance all their Armes Ammunition and pillage given to the Souldiers and 80 of them were slain A new Ordinance passed for abolishing all Popish Reliques fixed to Tombes or other places and all Organs Images c. The Earl of Holland desired licence to accompany the Lord General in the present expedition which the Lords granted but the Commons denyed which upon my knowledge distasted the General Sir Philip Stapleton and Hollis were two of the most secret Counsellors and Friends the General had they often advised with him about his affairs for his good and the advantage of the Parliament but he was not well fixed Newcastle's horse coming to relieve Lincolne were beaten back by Manchester's The siege of York was continued and the Scots and the Lord Fairfax's forces drawn very near to the wals The Lord Say Mr. of the Wards and the Officers of that Court sate Mr. Charles Fleetwood was made Receiver General and Mr. Miles Corbet Clerk of the Wards Captain Fox with one Troop of Horse went to Bewdely the enemies Garrison and in the night under pretence of being one of the Princes Troops passed the Guards to the main Guard where he killed the Sentinels seized the Guard and took Sir Thomas Littleton and divers persons of Quality prisoners The Londoners presented a Petition to the Lords desiring their free and mutual concurrence with the Commons in the great affairs now in agitation which was not well taken by the Lords A party of the King's horse came to Henly requiring the inhabitants to carry in all their Provisions for men and horse to Oxford else the Town should be burnt and faln upon by the Souldiers but Captain Buller being quartered not far from thence and hearing of it came unexpectedly and fell upon the enemy and rescued the Town Colonel Massey with his own forces and some of the Regiments of the Lord Stamford Colonel Devereux and Colonel Purefoy took Westbury by assault divers Officers and 60 Souldiers the same night he marched to little Deane and meeting with a party of the Enemy under Captain Congrave and Wigmore he slew them and 7 or 8 more and took divers prisoners Then he stormed Newnam a strong fort who shot at his Trumpet sent to summon them and that so inraged Massey's men that they entered the Town and slew about 40 took divers Officers and 130 common Souldiers and store of Arms. A new Ordinance for settling the Committee of both Kingdomes was sent up to the Lords who denyed to
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
for the Recruits to be sent to Sir T. F. The Ordinance past for putting Surrey into a posture of Defence and for pay for Farnham Garrison and another for 20000 l. towards reducing Oxford The Antiparliament sate again at Oxford and were about a Declaration to encourage their party and taking care for Money and Recruits for the King Colonel Baxter Governour of Reading went out with a party and faced Wallingford near their Works 2 Debate about Church affairs One Lusher had been apprehended for a Romish Priest the Spanish Ambassadour owned Lusher as his Servant and in favour of the Ambassadour both Houses discharged Lusher and ordered him to depart the Kingdom in ten daies Both Houses ordered the continuance of the Commissioners of the Great Seal and of the Master of the Rolls for six Months longer notwithstanding the Self-denying Ordinance Mr. Gourden a Member of the House of Commons presented to them a Letter from the Lord Savile with a Paper inclosed in it and desired that they might be read and after some Debate they were read The Letter was expressing his affections to the Parliament to whom he had come from the King and submitted himself and taken the Oath enjoyned in observance whereof and of his duty to the Parliament under whose protection he was he held himself obliged to discover to them what he knew concerning two of their Members who had done contrary to their trust and to the prejudice of the Parliament in the matters contained in the inclosed Paper That Paper set forth That Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke being persons well affected to the King and to his Cause were nevertheless two of the Parliaments Commissioners lately sent to Oxford to His Majesty with Propositions from the Parliament for Peace That they being at Oxford did contrary to their trust and to the prejudice of the Parliament treat and advise with the King and some great Lords about him namely the Earl of Lindsey the Earl of Southampton and others about the King's Answer to those Propositions and did give a Paper in writing what they advised the King's answer should be That their advice in the said Paper was followed by the King and some of the very words thereof were made use of in the King's Answer and that both before and after that time they held intelligence and correspondence with the King and his party at Oxford Much other Matter was in the Paper to the like effect and upon the reading of it divers of the House were very high and moved that Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke might make a present Answer to this Paper or Charge as some called it Mr. Hollis presently in his place made his Answer to the matter of the Paper and therein unadvisedly and suddenly confessed more than he needed to have done but denied any intelligence or correspondence by him with any of the King's party Mr. Whitelocke was not in Town this Morning and knew nothing of this business but after Mr. Hollis had spoken Mr. John L'Isle stood up and acquainted the House that Mr. Whitelocke being then absent if they pleased he would undertake to give him notice to attend the House the next Day which was ordered But some were not satisfied therewith and they fiercely moved That this being a charge of High Treason against two of their Members in whom the offence was greater than in others that they would proceed with equal justice and that both Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke might be committed to the Tower Mr. Hollis who was present to be sent thither and a Warrant to apprehend Mr. Whitelocke and to carry him thither also Upon this Sir William Lewys stood up and with as much vigour on the other side said He could not but wonder at the justice of those who would commit a man to the Tower before he was heard and the other after he had fully answered that which they called a Charge That he could not admit it to be a Charge but a Scandalous and Libellous Paper against two worthy Members of the House who they all knew had served the Parliament faithfully and to the utmost hazard of their Lives and Fortunes And because they had done so and were so capable of doing further and more service to the Parliament therefore one of their enemies was come hither to cast a bone among them and to raise differences amongst the Members of Parliament a likely way when their other designs failed them to doe mischief to the Parliament He desired them to consider the person of him whom they called the Accuser who was indeed an Accuser of the Brethren that it was the Lord Savile now cloathed with a new Title from the King of Earl of Sussex and perhaps this present service was to be part of that by which he was yet to merit his new Title That still he was the same man who was first of the Parliament party then revolted from them to the King and now was revolted from the King to the Parliament again and that a Paper brought in from this person should be looked upon as a Charge against two worthy Members of their House or be in the least a ground to commit them to the Tower he could not sufficiently wonder at the reason or justice of such a motion as that was He rather thought it more reasonable and just and accordingly moved that this Libel this Paper might be thrown out of the House and the contriver of it the Lord Savile be under more streight custody and examined who set him on to promote this business and that Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke might not be put to the trouble of any further attendance about it This smart motion of Sir William Lewys so contrary to the former being spoken by him with great ingenuity and mettle and seconded by Sir Philip Stapleton and others of that party so wrought upon the House that the motion for commitment to the Tower was laid aside and Mr. L'Isle ordered to give notice to Mr. Whitelocke that the House required his attendance there the next day Carlisle was surrendred to the Parliament and Sir Thomas Glenham the Governour and the Garrison Souldiers had a Convoy by the Articles of surrender to Newark 3. At a Conference the Letters of the surrender of Carlisle were imparted to the Lords and agreed to send a Committee to the Common Council of London to acquaint them with some of the King's Letters taken at Naseby A Committee appointed to consider of the Northern Garrisons upon the borders of Scotland The King was at Ragland Castle to gather Recruits Sir T. F. was at Marlborough the Garrison of Taunton had often Skirmishes with Goring's Forces and at one time took 120 of their horse the besiegers drew off most of their horse to their Out-guards Between 4000 and 5000 Clubmen being up in Dorsetshire and Wilts carried themselves very tumultuously and forced the Parliaments quarters at Sturmister divers slain and wounded
no mistaking That it was resolved as a thing of ceremony and respect that they should make Visits but not to any of those who were excepted persons and to refuse them being in the Enemies quarters they thought not fit That they agreed that by way of discourse they should endeavour all they could that the Propositions might be granted in general that the King should allow them the Title of Parliament next the Government and settlement of the Church and lastly the Militia That they did agree that in all their discourses this should be the subject matter and that they should press the obtaining of them That Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke did acquaint the Committee that they had an intention to visit the Earl of Lindsey and he thinks the Earl of Southampton and very suddenly after they did acquaint them that they had been there and of a long discourse which they had together That to say particularly what the discourse was he could not charge his Memory but in general it was the discourse that past at that meeting That he remembers but one visit they spake of and it was a part of their agreement to acquaint one another with all the circumstances of their visits That the Earl of Lindsey and the Earl of Southampton and he thinks the Lord Savile were named by Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke to have been at that Meeting That he was told by them among other things that they had little hopes that they should have satisfaction in their desires That he doth not remember any mention of a Paper given in by them to the Earl of Lindsey That the Intelligence they had there was various some had hopes of a good Issue of the business others had not That Mr. Pierpoint had ill relations of the Commissioners to their disparagement And at the Conference with Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke there were very ill characters given of them He desired that nothing might be taken as positive from him concerning persons After the Earl of Denbigh the L. Wenman told the Committee that there was an agreement among the Commissioners of the Parliament at Oxford as the Earl of Denbigh had related it to pay Civilities and Visits to those that were civil to them but not to any who were excepted in the Propositions from Pardon That he remembers not whether they did agree to press the granting of the Propositions any of them more than the others onely by discourse among themselves that they should press those that were of most difficulty to be granted That they were acquainted by Mr. Hollis and Mr. Whitelocke with their visiting of the Earl of Lindsey That to his best remembrance they said the Earl of Southampton and the Lord Savile were there and mentioned the particulars of their discourse but he did not remember them nor that they acquainted them with any hopes they had of having the Propositions granted He remembred that Mr. Hollis said a little before their coming out of Town that he had a Paper again which he spake publickly That in their discourse they did insist principally and they found it was thought fit to do so upon the Propositions concerning Religion and the Militia and he did think that the Earl of Lindsey was spoken of when Mr. Hollis said that he had a Paper again That he and Mr. Whitelocke were coming by All Souls College and he intended to visit Sir Thomas Aylsbury but hearing that Sir Edw. Hyde was there who was a person excepted Mr. Whitelocke did forbear to goe in thither Others of the Commissioners who were at Oxford with the Propositions did declare themselves to the same effect that the Earl of Denbigh and the Lord Wenman had done and so the Committee rose 14. The Assembly presented to the House a Book which they had examined full of Blasphemies and Heresies but that since the Printing of it the Authour was dead and they desired the House would put some publick example of Justice upon it The House referred to the Committee of Examinations to find out the Printer of this Book to be proceeded against according to Justice and ordered that all the Books should be brought in by the Booksellers and be burnt by the Hangman and they gave thanks to the Assembly for their care in this business A List was sent to the Parliament of the Persons slain and taken by Sir Thomas Fairfax at the Battle of Langport of Goring's part 2 Quarter Masters General 60 other Officers and 200 Soldiers slain and 100 drowned Goring Sir Thomas Aston and others wounded Prisoners taken the L. General of their Ordnance 3 Colonels 40 other Officers and 1900 Souldiers and 2000 Horse 31 Cornets of horse 20 Colours of foot 4000 Arms 2 Field pieces and 3 loads of Ammunition Of Sir Thomas Fairfax his part were slain 2 Reformado Captains a Captain Lieutenant and about 50 Soldiers Colonel Cooke Major Bethel and about 16 of his Troop wounded A day of Thanksgiving ordered to be kept for the Victory at Langport and the Ministers desired to remember the goodness of God in preserving this City from the plague A Collection ordered to be on that day for the poor plundered people of the West Sir William Ermine and Mr. Berwis two Members of the House who had been Commissioners in the North had the thanks of the House for their good Service there Major General Pointz met with a party of the King 's from Sandall Castle killed three of them and took 16 of them prisoners The Scots Commissioners here gave notice to Mr. H. and Mr. Wh. by their friends that they had certain intercepted Papers and Letters of the Lord Savile's which he was sending to Oxford and the chief scope and end of them was to be informed from thence whether Mr. Hollis or Mr. Whitelocke kept intelligence with the Duke of Richmond the Earl of Lindsey or any others of the King's party that he might have the more whereof to accuse them here It was thought fit by their friends that the Scots Commissioners should be desired to acquaint the House of Commons with the Papers upon which it should be moved there to refer them to the Committee for the Lord Savile's business and the same was done accordingly This afternoon that Committee met and these Papers were brought unto them by the Lord Wareston and another of the Scots Commissioners with a Complement expressing their desire to serve the Parliament in any thing within their knowledge and power The Papers being read to the effect before mentioned the Lord Savile was called in and the Papers shewed to him and he owned them to be his hand Being asked what Warrant he had to hold intelgence with the King's party at Oxford he being now within the Parliaments Quarters and come in to them He answered that he was authorised to do this by the Sub-committee for private and secret intelligence for the Committee of both Kingdomes Being again asked who of
Forces at Bath for the streightning of Bristol and a Letter inclosed from Lieutenant General Cromwel to Sir T. Fairfax That in his march to Shaftsbury he found 10000 Clubmen in a Body and Mr. Newman in the head of them that he sent to know the Cause of their being in Arms and Mr. Newman came to him told him the causes were two 1. To have an account of their fellows taken at Shaftsbury 2. To secure themselves from plunder That Cromwel told them No account was due concerning their fellows taken at Shaftsbury but yet he assured them that his General onely intended that if they were found upon due tryal to have committed any offence they should be punished according to Law otherwise to be released To the second he assured them that his General would not suffer any of them to be plundered or injured but upon Complaint against any of his Souldiers would doe them Justice That hereupon the Clubmen as being well satisfied departed to their own homes That after this about Shaftsbury he met with 2000 more Clubmen whom he sent to in a peaceable way to depart home but they fired upon his Messenger he sent again twice more to them to disperse themselves but they still shot at his Messengers and said they expected the Lord Hopton to come to them and killed two of Cromwel's men Whereupon he ordered M. Desborrough to charge them who killed about 20 of them and took the Gentlemen who were in the head of them and 300 Prisoners whom Cromwel desired he might send home and keep the Gentlemen onely Prisoners The House referred it to Sir Thomas Fairfax to discharge such of the Prisoners as he pleased and sent up an Ordinance to the Lords to continue Lieutenant General Cromwel in his Command for four Months longer notwithstanding the Selfdenying-Ordinance A Petition from the Assembly declared plainly their claim Jure divino of power to suspend from the Sacrament all such as they should judge to be scandalous or ignorant 9. Major General Brown had given a Commission to M. Temple to be Governour of Newport Paganell and Sir Thomas Fairfax desired that Lieutenant Colonel Cokaine might be Governour there which the House resolved and that Major General Brown had no Authority to give such a Commission 400 l. Ordered for the Earl of Essex his reformado Officers and Orders for other monies for several Forces Captain Moore appointed to be Governour of Monmouth The Committee of Examinations by Order of the House committed L. Col. Lilburn to Newgate for writing a Seditious Book Order to search for Papists and Delinquents Letters informed that Captain Allen with 95 Dragoons from Burleigh-house fell upon 200 of the Newarke and Belvoir horse commanded by Sir Robert Dalison routed them killed 5 took several Officers and 50 Prisoners 80 Horse and rescued the Countrymen and plunder which they had taken 11. The House approved of the Commitment of L. Col. Lilburne An Ordinance sent to the Lords for giving the publick Faith to such as had paid their 5th and 20th part An Order for discharge of Col. Waites attendance on the House and for revoking his suspension from his Government Major General Pointz took the Church and Outworks of the Castle of Skipton divers of their horse and men and their Conduit water Col. Pye and Col. Sheffeild came with their own Regiments and 700 recruit horse to Sherburn the King's recruits went on slowly The Composition for delinquency of Sir John Tyrrel for 800 l. and of Sir John Mushamp for 600 l. were confirmed and Ordered that none should compound under 2 years value of their Estates Order for discharge of Reformadoes Quarters Major Moore continued Governour of Gaunt-house and Col. Russel of Ely Order for auditing Reformadoes Debenters A Petition to the Lords from the Assembly about Non-admission to the Sacrament and punishing such as derogated from the Directory or used the Common-prayer Book An Ordinance past for money for the Northern Association The French defeated the Spanish Army in Germany 10000 killed and taken 1000 Arms 57 pieces of Ordnance 300 barrels of Powder 100 Carriages 100 Colours and all their bag and baggage In a general Assembly in France our Queen moved for aid for her Husband but they denyed it The King left Wales and went with 3000 of his horse Northwards Some Clubmen were up in Berkshire 13. Upon the King's advance Northward the House took care of the Forces about Newarke and about Hull and sent notice of the King's motion to the Scots Army who sent 4000 horse and foot after him The House took care for Gloucester Garrison and appointed Col. Morgan Governour of all the Forces in that County and in Monmouth Glamorgan and Herefordshires Pay desired for Sir Thomas Fairfax his Army Major General Brown submitted himself to the House to be commanded by them and it was referred to the Committee of the three Counties to examine some affronts offered to him by some under his Command and the House resolved to give him reparation The Garrison of Phillis Court mutinied against Captain Doiley and had like to have killed him but for the present it was pacified and Major General Brown was desired to goe to Henley to settle that busines The House in debate of a Petition from the Burrough of Southwarke desiring a New Election of Burgesses Mr. White one of their Burgesses being dead and Mr. Bagshaw the other being excluded Some were of opinion that a New Election might prove inconvenient and of danger others pressed it as the Right of the Subject to have Burgesses upon the Question to defer it for a month longer it was carryed in the Negative And the House resolved into a grand Committee to consider of it Orders for money and touching supernumerary Forces in the Northern Association Major General Langherne fell upon a party of the King 's under Major General Stradling and M. Ennerton near Haverford West gave them a great overthrow took 400 Prisoners divers Officers of note 1000 Arms 20 Colours and 4 pieces of Ordnance and retook Haverford West Letters from the Scots Army before Hereford inform of their proceedings at the Leaguer of their want of money Ammunition and Provisions that the Country will bring in none and the Scots Souldiers feed upon Apples Pease and green Wheat which is unwholsom and they are much discontented to be thus used for their kindness A months pay ordered for the Scots Army and care taken for their future pay Letters to the Northern Association to joyn their Forces with those of the Scots gone after the King Plate and rich Hangings taken at Bridgwater and sent up by Sir Thomas Fairfax ordered to be sold and the money to be sent to Sir Thomas Fairfax to give to his Souldiers for their Encouragement Order for a Declaration to be drawn and sent into North Wales of the causes of the Parliaments taking Arms and Copies
desired for the Scots Foot intending to besiege Newark Orders for Col. Welden to be Governour of Plymouth for giving Sir John Banks his Books to Mr. Maynard and the Books to Mr. Vaughan of Lincolns-Inn to Mr. Recorder Glyn. Letters read that were taken in the Lord Digby's Coach some of them ordered to be published As that of the King to the Marquess of Ormond touching the Irish Rebels and one touching the Earl of Thomond upon which his Estate here was ordered to be sequestred Letters informed the taking of Tiverton Castle 23. The House received Letters from Sir T. F. of the motions of his Army in the West That the Enemy designed with 2000 horse to break through his Quarters towards Oxford That they taking the darkness of the Night passed by his Guards fell into the Quarters of his Dragoons and took 50 prisoners That he marched after the Enemy with his whole Army lay in the field all night to prevent their going by him and quartered part of his Army along the River Ex near to Exeter to prevent the Enemies return and with the rest marched to Tiverton where M. G. Massey was sent before The Governour of Tiverton resolving to hold out Sir T. F. resolved to storm it and after the morning Sermon on the Lord's-day one of his Canoneers with a great shot brake the Chain of the Draw-bridge whereby it fell down and the Parliament Souldiers immediately entred and got over the works with little opposition The Enemy fled into the Castle and Church and had quarter for their lives Col. Sir Gilbert Talbot and about 200 more were taken prisoners and they found there 4 pieces of Ordnance and 40 Barrels of Powder 34 Officers 168 common Souldiers a Spy and a Minister Order for Recruits for the Army Order that the Earl of Devon being beyond Seas should return by a day Order to sequester the Estates of such as refused to pay Taxes in Sussex 24. An Ordinance for disfranchising of some of Bristoll and settling the Government there and the Militia Ordinance touching Ordination of Ministers and others touching Monies The Jewel provided for Sir Thomas Fairfax appointed to be presented to him by a Member of the House A Messenger from Sir Tho. Fairfax related that he was before Exeter and a numberof Clubmen of Devonshire under Colonel Popham assisted him 25. New High-Sheriffs named and Writs for new Elections granted The Commissioners sent to the Scots Army about their delivering up the places Garrisoned by them had the thanks of the House for their good Service L. G. Points Besieged Newark where the King was and Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice Consideration of Differences between the Committee of Derby and Sir Jo. Gell. 27. Both Houses agreed in making the Speaker Master of the Rolls Order for all Commanders of Forces to be under Sr. Tho. Fairfax Col. Dalbier named to Command the Forces for Besieging Dunnington Castle Letters informed the taking of Carmarthen by Major General Langherne whereby the whole County was reduced and so was Monmouth-Shire by taking of Monmouth Town and Castle by Col. Morgan in which they had seven pieces of Ordnance and store of Ammunition Order for thanks to God for this success and a Letter of thanks to Col. Morgan Sir Trevor Williams was made Governor of Monmouth The House gave 1500 l. to Mr. Green Chair-man of the Committee of the Navy and 500 l. per Annum for the future for his Service at that Committee a reward which few others obtained 28. Mr. Browne made a Speech in the Kings Bench and then swore Mr. Justice Rolles to be one of the Judges Serjeant Pheasant was sworn of a Judge of the Common Pleas and Serjcant Atkins a Baron of the Exchequer Mr. Soliciter and Serjeant Wild made Speeches to them Goring went out of Exeter with 1000 Horse before Cromwel came up thither upon which Sir Tho. Fairfax drew off part of his Forces after him 30. The Lords sent their Concurrence to the Commons in several Ordinances for the Government of Bristoll for the Isle of Wight and for Westminster Colledge The Commons Ordered new Elections for Knights in Bucks and for other places Upon a Letter from Sir William Vavasor Prisoner to the Parliament he had a Pass to go beyond Sea ingaging never to return to take up Arms against the Parliament and they ordered that if any who have Passes to go beyond Sea shall return and take up Arms against the Parliament they shall have neither Pardon nor Quarter Goring went to the farther part of Devon-shire and Sr. Tho. Fairfax returned towards Exeter where Goring had burnt most part of three Parishes to make the rest more tenable The Garrison of Chester made divers resolute Sallies upon the Besiegers and were beaten back and the Forces of M. G. Pointz slew many of them in the Streets Sir Will. Byron the Lord Byrons Brother got together four hundred Horse about Holt Castle upon notice whereof Col. Jones drew out a Party of Horse from before the Leaguer fell upon the Enemy in the Field who worsted the Forlorn-Hope of Jones but he rallied them and after a sharp dispute routed them took Sir William Byron and others of Quality Prisoners divers Troopers slew forty and took forty Horse Sir William Wain-waring was slain by the Parliament Forces in Chester Street News was brought of a great difference between Col. Gerrard and the Lord Bellasis Governor of Newark about the Lord Digby and the King had much ado to reconcile it 31. An Ordinance past for putting in Execution the Seal for Lancaster Doctor Oldesworth Was Bayled upon good Security to speak or act nothing prejudicial to the Parliament Order for the Covenant to be tendred to all that come in to compound for their Delinquency and such as refuse it to be secured The Gentlemen of Bucks withdrew to consider about the business of the Countrey and Mr. Fountain carried himself very high Letters from Col. Rossiter informed that Prince Rupert Prince Maurice G. Gâ—â—â—ard the Lord Hawley Sir Richard Willis and about four hundred other Gentlemen of Quality the meanest whereof was a Captain had laid down their Commissions deserted the King and betook them to Wotton-House fourteen Miles from Newarke where they stood upon their Guard They subscribed a Declaration that if they may obtain from the Parliament a Pass to go beyond Sea they will all engage upon their Honour and Oath never to return to take up Arms against the Parliament and sent to Col. Rossiter to acquaint him herewith the Messenger informed that the Prince had sent to Mr. G. Pointz to the same purpose and offers of Surrendring of Welbeck House to him The House referred this matter to the Committee of both Kingdoms to report their opinions what was sit to be done in it News came that Sir Tho. Fairfax set his Posts for Besieging Excester that Cromwell was come up to him and a Party
of Offices and desired the concurrence of the Commons to take away all Countrey Committees An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for an Assesment for the Garrison of Bristol and Glocester Vote for an Ordinance for fifty three thousand pounds per mensem assesment for the Army Debate touching the Confession of Faith An Ordinance past for constituting the three Commissioners of the Seal with a Provisoe that if any of them be chosen a Member of the Parliament he shall leave his place Vote for continuing the Seal-bearer The Ordinance past for sale of Bishops Lands and to secure the two hundred thousand pound to the Scots 14. The House sate in a grand Committee upon the Ordinance against Heresies Report of the Marquess of Ormond That he desired supplys and Moneys for the Forces with him and that he would either come to London or go beyond Sea or serve in Ireland as the Parliament pleased and surrender Dublin c. re-committed to treat further upon the surrender of Dublin and the other Garrisons A Letter from Ormond to the King and another to London laid aside not to be delivered The Ordinance for the Commissioners of the great Seal again presented to the Lords at a conferrence with some alterations as reserving power to make Justices of the Peace to present to Parsonages c. The House sent and seized at the Press the Papers of the Lord Chancellors Speeches then in Printing touching the disposal of the Kings Person and took the Printer and Bookseller into Custody for doing it without licence of the Houses though they had the warrant of the Scots Commissioners for it 15. A Pass from both houses to transport sixteen Naggs beyond Seas A Committee named to bring in an Ordinance for the Indemnity of Officers and Soldiers who have taken necessaries in the time of War and are now prosecuted for it at Law and the Committee to receive Complaints and give relief in the mean time A Letter from the Scots Commissioners desired the enlargement of the Stationer and Printer of their Speeches and the Printer and Stationer submitted referred to a further examination Ordinances sent up to the Lords for ten thousand pound for the poor Widows for four hundred pound for the poor Irish Protestants here for setling the Militia and for the Treaties with Scotland 16. A Committee named to consider of Printing the Septuagint Bible A Conference about the Printing of the Lord Chancellor of Scotland's Speeches An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for transporting of Persons to foreign Plantations The House sate in a grand Committee in the afternoon about the Assesments for the Army 17. Order that the Marquess of Hertford his Lady or others who had seized Money or Writings in Essex House should restore them to the Executors of the Earl viz. the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Warwick and Mr. Sollicitor St. John A Committee named to whom the probate of this and all other Wills was referred and also a Petition of the Doctors of Civil Law concerning the probate of Wills Order that neither the Marquess of Hartford nor any other who had born Arms against the Parliament should go with the Corps of the Earl of Essex at his Funeral Vote for fifteen thousand pound for the Forces in Ireland and for five thousand pound for the Forces of Major General Pointz Sir Fr. Willoughby one of the Lord Ormonds Commissioners sent back to inform him what the Parliament had done 19. Debate about the Trustees for sale of Bishops Lands Order that all the Members of the House do attend the Funeral of the Earl of Essex and that the House be adjourned for that day as the Lords had done In the afternoon the House sate till six at night upon the Ordinance for sale of Bishops Lands The General with Major General Massey went to the Devizes where a rendezvous was appointed for the disbanding of such of Major General Massey's Forces as would not go for Ireland 20. One Arrested contrary to the Articles of Oxford the Serjeants sent for as Delinquents upon a certificate from Sir Tho. Fairfax Difference about the Commissioners of the Seal The Lords named four more to be added to the three named by the Commons they altered their former Vote for the three Commissioners and ordered an Ordinance to be brought in to establish the former fix Commissioners Members of both Houses Order that Col. Mitton offer resonable conditions to the Garrisons in Wales not yet reduced which if they refuse within twenty days that then they shall not be received to Mercy and referred to a Committee to consider of imploying those Forces for Ireland after the rest of the Garrisons should be reduced and a Letter sent to Col. Mitton to acquaint him with these Votes Votes for Mr. Bish to be Garter King at Arms and Mr. Bish to be Clarentiaux Mr. Riley to be Norwâ—y and a Committee to regulate their Fees Ordinance for sale of Bishops Lands The Money and Writings of the Earl of Essex taken away were restored Captain Betten voted to be Vice-Admiral of the Winter Fleet. Dunkirk was surrendred to the French upon Articles great solemnities of Thanksgiving great Guns and Bonefires for it in France 21. The House sate in a Grand Committee upon the Ordinance for Sale of Bishops Lands A Committee named to consider of regulating the Chancery and to receive complaints touching Fees of that or any other Court of Equity within the Kingdom Referred to the same Committee to consider who are fit to be Justices of the Peace and who not in all Counties The Funeral of the Earl of Essex was solemnized with great State All the Members of both Houses Sir Thomas Fairfax the Civil and Military Officers then in Town and the Forces of the City a very great number of Coaches and Multitudes of people present at it The General had been at the Devizes to disband the Brigade of Major General Massey which was done with little trouble and few of them listed themselves for Ireland From the Disbanding the General hasted up to London and was at the Funeral of the Earl of Essex 23. The old Commissioners of the Seal had been voted to be continued upon the constituting new Commissioners now the old Commissioners were voted down again and an Ordinance past and sent to the Lords to make the two Speakers Commissioners of the Seal till twenty days after this Term. This incertainty and change of Resolution in the House was much discoursed of by some who were not their friends they were reflected upon for it But they excused themselves by reason of the difference in Opinion from them by the Lords and now they began to be more apprehensive than formerly that so great a trust as the Custody of the Seal was most proper and fit to be only in their own Members Order for a Commission to enable the Master of the Rolls and the Judges to hear and determine for the
Order about Soldiers Widows and Officers 27. A report from the Commissioners who treated with the General and his Officers about part of the Army going into Ireland and the result of the Officers and about the Petition intended from the Army Order to desire the General to use means to stop the progress of the Petition and thanks were given to the Commissioners and the House declared the good esteem they had of the Army 29. The Lords desired the concurrence of the Commons to an answer to the last Message from the King That they cannot consent to his desire in sending any of his Chaplains named in his Letter because they are disaffected to the present Government of the Church and have not taken the Covenant but for others of his Chaplains who have taken the Covenant if his Majesty please they will send them to him They desired the Commons concurrence also to the Ordinances for putting down Countrey Committees for prohibiting the killing of some flesh meats for eight weeks and for power to the Northern Committee Letters to Col. Harley and Col. Rossiter Members of the House from some of their Soldiers informed that the Petition of the Army was carried on and was subscribed by many and those who refused it threatned to be cashiered and that the subscriptions were to be sent to Lieutenant General Hammond Col. Hammond Col. Ireton Col. Rich. Order that a Letter be written from the Speaker to the General to hinder the progress of this Petition and a Declaration to require a desisting in it By this we may take notice how soon the Officers and Soldiers of an Army though never so successful and well disciplined will through want of Action fall into disorder and designs of trouble The Parliament took great care to prevent this and others were as busie to foment it Hammond Ireton Skippon and others were ordered to reside in the Army and some of their Quarters to be removed Car. 23 Vote that three Regiments of Horse under M. G. Pointz C. Bethel and C. Copley be continued and all the Foot of the Northern Association except those in Garrisons to be disbanded and all the Foot in England and Wales except those in Garrisons or such as are to be sent for Ireland shall be disbanded At a second meeting of the Officers of the Army at Saffron Walden by the desire of Sir William Waller and the rest of the Parliaments Commissioners this question was propounded to every Officer distinctly Whether upon the Votes and Resolutions of the House of Commons now read do you find cause to alter or recede from the third quaere concerning assurance of pay and subsistence It was resolved in the Negative by all except Col. Harley Col. Fortescue and Capt. Young The same question being proposed concerning the fourth Article To have satisfaction in payment of Arrears and Indemnity Resolved in the Negative by all except Captain Young The like question being proposed concerning the first quaere To know what particular Regiments Troops or Companies of this Army are to be continued in this Kingdom it pass'd likewise in the Negative All referring to the Votes yesterday Several other Officers that came in to the meeting agreed with the other Captain Young receded from what he concurred in yesterday and resolved upon the main question That he will engage with as many of his Soldiers as he can get and several other Officers did the like 30. Divers Compositions passed Letters from St. Malloe in France advising that a Pyrate about Jersey had made Prize of a vessel of the Parliaments going for Ireland with Cloath and Apparel for six thousand Soldiers Order for a Letter to the Parliaments Agent in France to desire the King to seize the Pyrate and restore the Ship The Lords desired the concurrence of the Commons to some desires of the Dutch Ambassador and for a Pass for him to go to the King and to an Ordinance for setling the Militia of London A Committee named to treat with the City of London about the loan of two hundred thousand pound upon the Assessment of sixty thousand pound per mensem that they might provide Money for sending the Forces into Ireland and to pay off those that were to be disbanded and to pay the Army here Both Houses passed a Declaration against the Petion in the Army as set on foot by some evil Spirits purposely to raise a Distemper and mutiny in the Army Pardons what is past and forbids further proceeding by any of them in that Petition The Parliament of Scotland named their Commissioners to joyn with the Commissioners of the Parliament of England to perswade the King to pass the Propositions for Peace Harleigh Castle the last in Wales surrendred to Col. Mitton whose Soldiers put a Guard upon Col. Jones for their pay 31. Very long Prayers and Sermons this Monthly Fast day as usual April 1647. April 1. Orders for the Letter to the Agent in France and for Ships to keep in Pyrates Voted That the Civil Government in Ireland shall be distinct from the Military and be by two Lords Justices as formerly That the Military Government shall be by a Commander in Chief and be to be directed by Commissioners on the Place Sir William Waller was named to be Commander in chief there but it came not to the Vote Letters from Sir Thomas Fairfax informed that he had Communicated the Letter and Votes of the House to the Officers of his Army touching the Petition on Foot among them That they expressed a deep sence of their unhappiness in being misunderstood in their clear intention which were no other than by way of Petition to represent to him those inconveniencies which would necessarily befall most of the Army after disbanding desiring that as much as he should think fit might submissively be made known to the House of Commons and assuring him that they would wholly acquiesce in whatsoever he should think fit to offer and the House to grant That he had sent up Hammond Lilburne and some other Officers to give the House a full account of this business and that he doubts not of the Armys Obedience Hammond Pride and the other Officers sent up by the General were called into the House and Pride was charged to have read the Petition at the head of a Regiment where was threats to those that should not subscribe it which Pride denyed and they were all required to return to their charges and to suppress the Petition 2. Debate of the Ordinance for the Militia of London Vote That the Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland should be stiled Field-Martial and his pay be six pound a day and Major General Skippon to be Field Martial there and that Golonel Massey should be Lieutenant General of the Horse under him A Committee of both Houses named to go into the City for borrowing two hundred thousand pound for the service of England and Ireland 3. The House
the Commissioners with the King That he is willing to settle Presbytery for three years and the Militia as he before offered but others he is not satisfied to assent unto but desires to put himself upon the Proposals of the Army and that they may be taken into consideration Some private Treaties were said to have been by some Officers of the Army with the King and instructions given by Cromwell and others That if he would assent to their Proposals lower than those of the Parliament that the Army would settle him again in his Throne But the unfortunate as to him his Bishops persuaded him against what he was inclined in his own judgment to have agreed unto and thereby ruined him and themselves at the present 13. The Commissioners returned with His Majesties answer to the Propositions He waves those now sent to him or any Treaty upon them and flies to the Proposals of the Army urgeth a Treaty upon them and such as he shall make professeth he will give satisfaction for settling the Protestant Religion with Liberty to tender Consciences to secure the Laws Liberty and Property and Priviledges of Parliament and of those concerning Scotland he will Treat apart with the Scots Commissioners A Copy of this answer was sent by the King to Sir Thomas Fairfax Many Addresses were dayly made by Petitions and otherwise to the General upon particular grievances and he and his Councel of War returned prudent answers to them The Agitators of the Army presented a Paper to the General in behalf of many who were in Prison for words spoken by them against the King in the time of the War and the General certified the same by Letter to the Parliament Letters from the North of the wise and just managing of the affairs in those parts by Major General Lambert That by his Councel of War he sentenced one Macro an Irish man a notorious proved Drunkard and Swearer to be bored through the Tongue with a red hot Iron imprisoned fourteen days with Bread and Water and to be Cashiered the like Sentences were against others to the contentment of the people 14. Upon reading the Kings answer to the Propositions for Peace a day was appointed by either House to consider of it and that in the mean time it be communicated to the Scots Commissioners Upon earnest Letters from the General in behalf of James Symbâ—l and others in Prison for speaking of words against the King in the time of War for which Justice Bacon and Sergeant Creswel Commited them the House referred their Cases to the Committee of Imdemnity with power to release the Prisoners if they found cause A Petition from divers Bucks men against Tithes and Free Quarter answered that the House would take the business of Tithes into consideration in covenient time and were now in debate touching Free Quarter Debate upon the report concerning Lieutenant Collonel Lilburne and touching some Compositions and a Vote to take off the Sequestration of Sir Robert Nappiers Estate The Common-Councel of London thought it discretion to comply with the desires of the Parliament and Army in advancing fifty thousand pounds for the Army and had such addition of security for it as they proposed 15. An Ordinance committed for settling some Lands of the Earl of Worcesters upon the Lord Say Sir Benjamin Rudyeard and Sir Rowland Wandesford for reparation of their losses by the taking away of the Court of Wards Orders for Commitment of some Actors in the late great Tumult A report of the proceedings of the Commissioners in the Army and a debate touching Tithes and referred to a Committee to consider of a way to redress the grievances in this business of Tithes Several Petitions from Oxfordshire Heriford-shire and other Countries against Tithes referred to a Committee A Petition of the Inhabitants of Southwark That the Houses may be purged of such as assisted in the late Tumults and Force upon the Parliament when the Members were driven away was laid aside for the present 16. the Petitions of London Southwark Oxfordshire Bucks Hertfordshire c. For purging the House of all Members that Sat in the absence of the Speakers was debated and resolved That the proceedings in that time should be Null but that no Member should be questioned for being then present in the House but such as were Actors in the Tumult City engagement and design of a new War The Petitioners had thanks for their good affections and were desired to be be satisfied in this business Order for an Impeachment of high Crimes and Misdemeanours against Mr. Glyn and against Collonel Copley and for the Lords to be desired to appoint a day for the Commons to bring in their particular Charge against the seven Impeached Lords Both Houses past the Ordinance concerning Delinquents Compositions and some particular Ordinances for taking off Sequestrations of the Estates of the Lady Bankes and her Son Sir Richard Price and others The Commons Concurrence desired to Ordinances touching Payment of Fee Farm Rents by Members of Parliament and recovery of monies due by Bonds given in the Court of Wards Debate touching the lessening of the Forces in England and Votes touching the Forces to be sent into Ireland and for Pay for them and referred to the Commissioners in the Army to Treat further with the General and his Field-Officers concerning these particulars 17. Orders touching the months gratuity appointed for the Army and the months Pay for them and about the fifty thousand pounds and touching the Charge against the seven Lords Vote That for present security of this Kingdom till affairs be settled here and in order to the future relief of Ireland seven thousand two hundred Horse one thousand Dragoons and eighteen thousand Foot be kept up in England The Scots Forces under Lieutenant General David Lesley Qnartering upon the Borders gave some cause of offence to the English many of their Commanders resorted often to Berwick 18. The Establishment of the Army and Garrisons was referred to the General and Commissioners of Parliament in the Army with reference to the former Orders of the House Information from Ireland of some underhand dealing and invitation of the Lord Inchequin and Col. Jones to joyn with the Scots Forces in Vlster After a Sermon in Putney Church the General many great Officers Field Officers inferiour Officers and Agitators met in the Church debated the Proposals of the Army and altered some few things in them and were full of the Sermon which was Preached by Mr. Peters The General and his Council agreed upon a Declaration concerning the delays in raising money for the Army and Garrisons and the sufferings of the Country by free Quarter occasioned by those wants and the hindrance of disbanding the Forces not necessary to be kept up and of relieving Ireland all this caused by their neglect on whom the Parliament did depend and especially they take notice of the delayes of
Sequestration discharged of Doctor Hall Bishop of Norwich Order for Monies for repair of some Castles and Garrisons Votes for great Guns and supplys to be sent to Col. Jones into Ireland Debate in the Lords House touching a Proclamation against the Lord Willoughby and giving time to the other six Lords to put in their Answer 17. An Ordinance sent up to the Lords for selling the Lead of Worcester Steeple and imploying the Money for repairing of some adjacent Churches and some Hospitals in the City The Ordinance committed for attainting of Judge Jenkins Order for the Sheriffs of South-Wales to assist in the disbanding of the Forces there Referred to the Committee of Derby House to remove Obstructions in the Disbanding of the Forces Order for the Committee of the Army to pay off the Forces of Dover Castle that are to be disbanded and for renewing the Ordinance for maintenance of the Army for six Months longer 18. Letters from Col. Hammond with some intercepted Letters to the King referred to the Committee at Derby House Leave given to Mr. Barwis a Member of the House to execute the place of Major of Carlile Upon Letters of the mutinous condition of Plymouth Garrison for want of Pay Order for six thousand Pounds more than before for them Order for the Governor of the Isle of Wight to place and displace such persons as are to attend his Majesty as he shall think fit 19. Order for rewards for discoverers of the authors of some Pamphlets which were Blasphemous to God and Scandalous to the Parliament Two days in the Week ordered to consider of the Excise and Customs Leave given to the Lawyers to go the next Lent-Circuits Debate and Ordinances for Money for the Navy Upon hearing of proofs the Ordinance passed to be sent up to the Lords for attainting of Judge Jenkins 21. Judge Jenkins brought to the Bar of the House refused to kneel denyed their authority told them that they wronged the King willing that the Laws might be protected that there could be no Law without a King and used high expressions against the Parliament and their authority The House fined him a thousand pound for his contempt At another time when his charge was read against him at the Bar for giving Judgement of Death against men for assisting the Parliament and for being himself in Arms against the Parliament and perswading others to do the like and for denying the Power of the Parliament c. and asked what he had to say thereunto he told them that they had no power to try him and he would give no other answer After many Witnesses examined in the House to prove the matters of Fact contained in the Charge the House passed the Ordinance for Impeaching of Judge Jenkins and ordered it to be sent up to the Lords An Account by Letters from the Commissioners of the two Houses in Scotland of their transactions with the Committee of Estates there and of the meeting of the Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland and of part of the report made from the Commissioners of Scotland who were at London to the Committee of Estates An Ordinance passed both Houses for the Judges that are to go the Circuits in the next Assizes A Petition in behalf of Lieutenant Collonel Lilburne and Mr. Wildman laid aside Letters from the North that free Quarter was quite taken off and the private Soldiers all reduced 22. Report of a Letter from the Duke of York to the King intercepted and being only dutiful expressions to the King his Father and the Duke expressing he was sorry he had transgressed the Ordinance of Parliament The House only ordered that the Earl of Northumberland continue his care in the safe keeping of the Duke and the rest of the Kings Children and to place and displace Attendants about them and Delinquents were forbidden to have any resort to them Ordinances passed both Houses for Mr. Fenwick to be restored to a Fellowship in Cambridge for Money for the Navy and for some Garrisons Letters from Ireland of Successes by the Lord Inchequin Col. Jones and Col. Monk against the Rebels notwithstanding the want of Pay the hunger and nakedness of the English Soldiers 23. The Monthly Fast-day after Sermons upon long debate the Ordinance was committed for the better observing the Lords day Fast-days and other days for holy duties Order for two Scandalous and Blasphemous Pamphlets one intituled the Parliaments ten Commandments The other The New Testament of our Lords and Saviours the House of Commons be burnt by the Hangman A Paper was presented to the General of the desires of his Life-guard concerning their disbanding which not receiving that reception as was expected from the Committee and some having told them they were looked upon as disbanded men Divers of the life-guard went to Cornet Hall's lodging in Greys-Inne-Lane and fetched away the Colours of the Life-guard and carried them to a place at Snow-Hill 24. Debate till late at night about the Declaration in answer to the Scots last Papers Letters giving account of the disbanding the supernumerary Forces The General being tired with multiplicity of business and Petitions of London appointed Cromwell Ireton Fleetwood and divers other Officers and such Field Officers as were in Town or any five of them to meet every day in White-Hall to receive Petitions and consider of businesses relating to the Army and for the better preparing of dispatches 25. Debate from Morning till night upon the Declaration in answer to the Scots last Papers A Petition to the General from the Officers under M. G. Laugherne expressing the Services and Losses their Arrears of Pay for two years and an half praying the General 's recommendation of them to the Parliament aad stating their accounts The General and Lieutenant General and other Officers met as a Court-Marshal about the business of taking away the Colours by the Life-guard and which was looked upon as a great dis-respect and dishonour to the General one Mr. Clerke a chief Actor in it was found guilty of Mutiny and disobeying Superior Officers and adjudged to be shot to death 26. Debate all day upon the Declaration in answer to the Scots last Papers The General 's Life-Guard presented an humble and ingenious Petition to his Excellency acknowledging their fault and begging his Pardon and give a testimony of the great Honesty Valour Fidelity and integrity of Mr. Clerke condemned to dye and very humbly implore the General 's Mercy to him Clerke likewise humbly Petitioned for Mercy and acknowledged the Justice of the Court Marshal and the General gave him his Pardon 28. Debate this whole day upon the Declaration in answer to the Scots Papers wherein they set forth the whole transaction with the Scots their due observance of the Treaties and Covenants and the breach of them by the Scots c. Letters from Scotland That the Parliaments Commissioners at Edenburgh had no Lodgings provided for them but
were forced to lye in Taverns that they are unwilling Mr. Marshal should preach there and many of them would willingly be in England again that many endeavor to engage a Party against England The Soldiers in the North were disbanded according to the Parliaments Order and the Countrey eased of their Free Quarter Dr. Leyfield was by the Court-Marshal acquitted of the accusation against him for Counterfeiting the General 's hand The like acquittal of the Officers of Col. Herberts Regiment accused for conspiring against Glocester 29. The Declaration passed the Commons in answer to the Scots Papers Voted by both Houses that none shall raise any men to be transported beyond Sea without Warrant from the Committee at Derby House The Committee of Estates excepted against the Credentials of the English Commissioners because they were directed to the Parliament of Scotland which did not then sit but only the Committee of Estates But the English Commissioners shewed their Instructions to the Committee of Estates also Col. Jones took in the Town of Kildare upon Quarter only and a house near to another Garrison within half a mile of Kildare being accidentally on fire the English Soldiers before Kildare seeing it ran down thither and entred pell mell into the Garrison and took possession of it and several other small Garrisons were rendred to Sir Tho. Armstrong sent by Col. Jones to them Divers other Castles and Garrisons were taken in by Col. Jones and some were fired by the Rebels March 1647. March 1. Debate touching the Church-business Order of both Houses for Hampton Court to be made ready for the Kings Children to be there Sir Jacob Ashley admitted to compound Order to consider to morrow of disposing the Great Seal and no other business to intervene Order to continue the Comittee of the Admiralty for seven Months Order for a guard of Ships for the Northern Coasts and trade of Fishing there Order touching the Commissioners of the Customs 2. Order for three new Elections Order that the Earl of Kent Sir Tho. Widdrington and Bulstrode Whitelocke Esquire shall be Commissioners for the Great Seal of England for twelve Months and that an Ordinance be brought in accordingly Which Ordinance was brought in and read and passed the House of Commons and ordered to be sent to the House of Lords for their Concurrence These Commissioners were said to be agreed upon by the private juncto of Cromwell's party before-hand to be trusted with this great charge and in the debate of the business several others of both Houses were propounded but after a great debate these three only were pitched upon The Earl of Kent being a very honest just man of good rational parts and abilities and of an antient great Family who would be a Countenance to this business was held a fit person for the Lords House Sir Tho. Widdrington being a Gentleman of known integrity and of great abilities in his Profession and brother in Law to the General whose Sister he had married was very fit to be one of the House of Commons to be intrusted with so weighty an imployment Whitelocke was well known and understood in the House by his long attendance there and by them judged not uncapable of this imployment besides the General had an affection for him and he had a good interest in the House and Cromwell and his Party were willing to ingage him as far as they could with them Letters from the Committee of Pembroke shire that Mr. Poyer formerly Major of Pembroke and now Governor of that Castle refused to deliver it up to Col. Flemming who had a Commission from the General to be Governor of it Order for an Ordinance to settle this business 3. Order for a new Election Letters from the Committee of Kent concerning the Propositions of that County in the Assesment for the Army referred to the grand Committee for that Ordinance 4. A Committee to draw up an Ordinance to prevent and suppress all private Ducls and Quarrels An Ordinance passed both Houses for reducing of Pembroke Castle and requiring the General to bring Col. Poyer and his adherents to Justice The General sent this Ordinance to the Forces before Pembroke Castle with orders for them to send it to Col. Poyer into the Castle and to signifie to him that if he did not render the Castle in twelve hours after this notice then they were to endeavour by force to reduce it Debate touching the Commissioners of the Customs and their Officers Orders for relief of maimed Soldiers and Widows and Letters to the Judges in their several Circuits to put in execution the Ordinances concerning them Three French Ships taken by the Parliaments ship under Captain Pen. 6. Ordinance sent up to the Lords for the further establishment and maintenance of the Army Order to sell the Coats of the Kings Guard to buy fire and candle for the Forces at White Hall and the Mues Orders touching Compositions to commit those Delinquents who refused to compound A Patent Ordered for Mr. Petty for seventeen years to teach his art of double writing Letters from the Commissioners in Scotland of their Proceedings Debate about the business of the Fennes The Committee of Estates in Scotland ordered the disbanding of their Army by a day if danger did not in the mean time appear and they appointed a Committee called the Committee of danger 7. The Ordinance sent up to the Lords for setling Lands of the Earl of Worcester of two thousand five hundred pound yearly value upon Lieutenant General Cromwell and his Heirs in recompence of his great service Order for the Ordinance to be brought in for setling five thousand pound per An. upon the General Sir GilbertGerrard ordered to be Chancellor of the Duchy Mr. Miles Corbet and Mr. Robert Goodwin were by order made Registers of the Chancery in the place of Col. Long one of the eleven impeached Members Additional instructions concerning the Miscarriages of the Scots Commissioners here were passed and ordered to be sent to the Parliaments Commissioners in Scotland and the large Declaration in answer to the Scots Papers passed both Houses and was ordered to be Printed The Composition of Sir Jacob Ashley and others passed The Town of Hull sent a long Letter to the General setting forth divers Calumnies raised against them their own former actions relating to the reception and assistance of Sir Jo. Hotham and his Son and their refusing and resisting the Earl of Newcastle and others testifying their great affection and service to the Parliament and vindicating their integrity Then they complained against their present Governor Col. Overton for imposing upon them free Billet for his Soldiers when free quarter was taken off from all the Countrey and they hoped to reap the fruits of Peace and settlement and they pray relief herein from his Excellency The General gave answer to the Letter That he though it unreasonable that Town should be exempt more than others from free Billet
about monies for the Navy Letters from Scotland of preparations there to raise an Army and men being Listed in all parts on pretence to put that Kingdom in a posture of defence and that they are preparing Proposals to be sent to the Parliament for a personal Treaty with the King That the English in Edenburgh were in all about two thousand and have four pence a day allowed to the Souldiers 18. Sergeant Welde a Member of the House and one of the Judges in the last Circuit in the West reported a presentment of the Grand Jury of Sommersetshire Acknowledging the great care and pains of the Parliament for the Peace of the Nation particularly in the late Votes touching the King desiring the Judges to return their humble thanks to the Parliament and their resolutions to adhere to them in prosecution thereof The danger of their Country by Malignants Apostates and Newtrals from whose power they desired to be freed The Dearth of Corn and excessive multitude of Ale-Houses and Malsters wherein they desire remedy and against Forestallers Ingrossers and Regrators and against Malignants being in Offices and practising as Counsellours and Attorneys The Judges and Grand Jurors had the thanks of the House and referred to a Committee to nominate able and well affected persons to be Justices of the Peace in those Counties Order for an Ordinance to impower the Committees in the respective Counties to secure all suspected and disaffected turbulent persons Which passed not without much opposition as a thing of ill consequence and example especially by those who professed to be so highly for the Liberty of the Nation Thanks given to the Sheriffs of Norwich for their good affections Order to renew the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Judges to go down to try the late Rioters at Canterbury The Commons desired the Lords to proceed upon the Impeachments against the seven Lords and against the Citizens and against Judg Jenkins and to pass the Ordinance for making Mr. Steele Recorder of London in Mr. Glyn's place 19. The Commissioners of the Customs refused to advance thirty thousand pounds for the Navy which others offered to do if they might be Commissioners but the House would not put forth the old Commissioners till they were reimbursed the monies formerly advanced by them The House accepted ten thousand pounds Composition for Sir Jo. Strangeways and ordered it for the use of the Navy Order to remove Prisoners from the Tower to Warwick Castle Windsor Castle and Wallingford Castle Collonel Fortescue recommended to the General for imployment in the Army and an order for his Arrears To the Papers of the Parliaments Commissioners in Scotland the Parliament there gave this answer 1. To that of the amity between the two Kingdoms they do on their part desire it and will labour to continue it 2. For delivery of Captain Wogan Sir Thomas Glemham and the other English Delinquents they say it is not contained in the Treaties they not taking these to be Incendiaries between the two Kingdoms but only between the King and England 3. They approve of the matter of their Commissioners Declaration and the Parliament answer to it they conceive not satisfactory Sir John Geere late Lord Mayor of London was brought to the Lords Bar and refused to kneel was fined five hundred pound and committed to the Tower and a day set for him to put in his desires for Counsel Debate about mony for the Navy The Earl of Pembroke Chancellour of the University of Oxford went thither and made Dr. Reynolds his Vice-Chancellour put him into possession of the Deanery of Christ-Church by the Souldiers breaking open the Deans Lodgings which were shut against him The like he did for Dr. Palmer at All Souls Colledg where Dr. Sheldon denyed the Chancellours Authority not being derived from the King So did Dr. Bayle at St. Johns Colledg where Mr. Cheynel was put in to be President and Mr. Wilkins at Wadham Colledg 20. An Ordinance debated and committed for raising fifty thousand pounds for Ireland An Ordinance debated for securing all disaffected and tumultuous persons Another for punishing defaulters upon Musters in Kent Letters from Wales That Collonel Poyer increased in strength and that many of Laughernes men after they were Disbanded and had received their Pay went and joyned with Poyer and That Collonel Powel is joyned with him That they force the Country to Musters and great Taxes 21. Debate of Ordinances for settling of Ministers The thanks of the House ordered to the Earl of Pembroke for his settling and reforming the University of Oxford And That such as refused to submit to the power of the Visitors there should be expelled and That the Tenants of the Colledges should pay their Rents to such as the Parliament appointed to receive them And That these Votes be Printed The Ordinance sent up to the Lords for securing all the disaffected Riotous party in England An explanatory Ordinance for Ireland past Letters from Collonel Horton of his being near to Pembroke Castle and resolution to ingage Poyers men as soon as he could 22. Upon debate of the Letters from the Commissioners in Scotland It was Voted That the answer of the Parliament of Scotland to the demands of the English Commissioners touching Captain Wogan and other Delinquents is no ways satisfactory and that their Commissioners in Scotland insist upon their demands and press the Parliament of Scotland for a further answer thereunto An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for ascertaining and securing the Arrears of the Soldiery At a Conference the Lords acquainted the Commons That the Duke of York with the Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Elizabeth being together playing in a Room the last night after Supper by themselves the Duke of York privately slipt from them down the back Stairs without Cloak or Coat in his Shoos and Stockings and by the way of the Privy-Garden having got a Key of the Door he escaped away through the Park and could not be found none of his servants were missing who attended him Letters to the General to send for a Lieutenant who with his Souldiers took Free Quarter about Barnstable and to examine the business and do Justice to the Country and the House passed a new Ordinance for taking away Free Quarter 24. The House of Commons was called and there appeared and Sate three hundred and six of their Members and referred to a Committee to report the cases of those who were absent and none to go out of Town without leave A new Instruction past for the Commissioners in Scotland to insist upon their demands to the Parliament there to deliver up Incendiaries Divers Captains agreed upon for the Summers Fleet. Letters from Scotland That preparations for War go on there but opposed by the Kirk yet the other party prevails That Wogans Troop increaseth and the Parliament there declared That they will preserve the Union and ends of the
Mariners of the shipping belonging to the River of Thames and a third Petition from the Master Warden and Fellows of Trinity House all for the personal Treaty with the King were presented to the House and a Committee appointed to draw up an answer to them Order for a Months pay for the Lancashire Forces and for the thanks of the House to Colonel Ashton their Commander Upon Information of an Insurrection in Sussex referred to the Committee of Derby house to take course for the subduing of them Upon Letters from the General ordered that the Committee of the Army take care speedily to send down to the Army provisions and other necessaries which they want An Ordinance to impower the Committee of Essex to raise money for payment of the Forces in their County now raised Order for security of their arrears to those Officers and Souldiers who came off from the Army for the service of Ireland Order for six hundred Pounds for victualling the Fort and Castle of Chester and that the late Actors in a design there be tryed by Martial Law Letters from Colchester leaguer that the Enemy is debarred from all manner of provisions that a party of the Suffolk Forces from Cattaway bridge took ten Troopers of the Enemy plundering and afterwards went to Sir Harbottle Grimstons house which they found miserably ruined and all the goods taken away and torn 30. Upon a report from the Committee for the business of the personal Treaty the Lords agreed to these Votes 1. That the Vote of Jan. 3. 1647. forbidding any addresses to be made to or received from his Majesty should be made null 2. That the three propositions sent into Scotland and to be presented to his Majesty before a personal Treaty be had should not be insisted upon and that his Majesty be removed to some of his Houses within ten miles of London to which the Lords desired the Commons concurrence The Lords recommended to the Commons the Petition of the Lady Capell that she may have her eldest Son again who is one of those sent down to the General to be used in the same manner as the Committee are under restraint by the Lord Goring The House ordered a Letter to be sent to the General with the Lady Capell's petition inclosed and that the General be desired to do therein as may stand with the Justice and honour of the Parliament M r Dowsett upon a Message from the Lords was ordered to attend that House in the business of M r Rolfe who was committed Order for the Committees of Sussex and of Worcestershire to raise Forces for suppressing Insurrections and preserving the Peace of those Counties The Ordinance passed for payment of the Forces of Essex and another for ten thousand pounds for Bristol Debate upon the Ordinance touching Religion Letters from Colchester leaguer that the Enemy plaid with their great Guns but did no hurt by reason of the deepness of the Trenches then they fell to annoy the besiegers with small shot out of M r Grimsion's House but the General 's great Cannon shooting through and through the House cutting off the Legs and Arms of many of them they fled into the Town and set that and other Houses with it on fire That the Enemy sallyed out on the other side towards Suffolk which the Parliaments Horse discovering they lined the hedges with Dragoons and went on with a party of Horse as if they had incant to charge and then faced about as running away from the Enemy who pursued them to the place where the Dragoons were who did so gall them with shot that they retreated leaving some slain and others desperately wounded That the next morning they sallyed out again with three troops of Horse five hundred Foot and a Drake but the Parliaments Foot coming up too late to them they brought away some Cattle and killed M r Sandford though their friend the owner of them The Barbarous Common Souldier will know no distinction between Friends and Foes eithers goods come alike to their rapine and upon an hasty word they no more regard the bloud of a Friend than of an Enemy and so it was with M r Sandford A Captain taken prisoner near Harwich Captain Brown came from the North to the General with Intelligence that the Enemy had quitted the Isle of Axholme July 1648. 1. Debate upon the report That the three Bills sent into Scotland should not be insisted upon c. ordered to be resumed to morrow and all the Members to attend Vote to approve what the Lord Grey of Groby and Captain Temple had done in raising a considerable Body of Forces in Leicestershire and commanding them Order for Committees to go down into the several Counties to take care for raising monies for the Forces before Colchester and in Essex Letters from Colchester Leaguer that those in the Town are so block't up that they cannot get provisions that the Works are near finished and that the besiegers perdu's lye so near the Enemy that they can hear them discourse drink healths c. The General sent to offer an exchange of the Lord Capell's Son for Sir William Masham and two affidavits that by the Earl of Norwich's and the Officers directions their Souldiers had chewed bullets and cast in Sand delivered to them out of their stores which being contrary to the Law of Armes the General required that the same might be forborn for the future Concerning the Lord Capell's Son the Lord Goring returned answer that he conceived it inhumane and that if all the Committee had been offered to him he would have disdained the Motion and that he joyed to see any of his if no other way yet by their sufferings to pay the Duty they owe to the King and known Laws To that concerning bullets all the three Generals denyed any such command or practice but for rough cast slugs they were the best they could send on the sudden 3. A long Debate whether the three Bills viz. 1. For setling the Presbyterian Government for three years 2. For recalling Declarations and Proclamations against the Parliament 3. For setling the Militia in the Parliament shall be sent as propositions to which his Majesty is to give his approbation by subscribing his hand before a Treaty and to give assurance to passe them into Acts so soon as he shall come to London and sit in Parliament It was carried by Vote in the affirmative Upon Information that the King's Party were listing of men in London and some of them who were apprehended for it were rescued the House for the better guarding and securing themselves and the City orderd five thousand Pounds for raising a new Regiment of Horse to be under the Command of Major General Skippon and declared it an acceptable service in such as would send in Horse or Arms for that purpose An Ordinance past for raising fourteen thousand pounds out of the Estates of Delinquents in Kent and
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
the Committee of Colchester did in assisting the Army with the Norfolk Forces and ordered a Letter of thanks to the Committee of Norfolk for the same 20. A Letter from the King for a safe-conduct for some persons to come from Scotland to the King and to return the House not knowing the persons and whether they were capable to be admitted to come to his Majesty referred to their Members who were late Commissioners in Scotland to consider of those persons and to report their opinion to the House Order for a new Election An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for re-payment of ten thousand pound lent by some Citizens for the service of the King and the Commissioners for the Treaty and several other Ordinances past for mony and for the Prince Electors Allowance Divers apprehended for counterfeiting mony Letters from Amsterdam that Prince Charles was brought to the Hague with thirty Coaches and solemnly feasted and entertained and that he gave order for new rigging and fitting the revolted Ships out of the prizes he had lately taken That the Mariners in the revolted Ships continue their insolence and debauchery running on shoare drinking and quarrelling that divers have been killed and some thrown over Board 21. The House denyed safe-conduct for the Lord Carnagy one of the persons for whom the King desired it and for Sir Alexander Gibson it was also denyed and ordered a Letter to the King of the reasons of this denial Order for a thousand pound to one in Colchester well affected to the Parliament whose House was fired and five hundred pound to another out of Delinquents Estates there Letters from Ireland that the Forces of Colonel Jones and of Colonel Monk were marched into the Enemies Country to destroy or fetch in their harvest wherein they had advantage by the divisions of the Rebels Commanders and that Colonel Jones had taken in some Strong holds in Kilkenny Letters from Anglesey of the differences between the Lord Bulkely and the Lord Byron that the Island is in an uproar and that Colonel Mitton with a strong power is marching towards them 22. Order for discharge of fifteen hundred firelocks lately taken in a Ship An Ordinance transmitted to the Lords for allowing the Accounts of the Commissioners of the Excise Order for all who ingaged in the late tumults to be put out from being Justices of the Peace Deputy Lieutenants or from any other imployment Reference to a Committee of the Petitions of the Widows who have lost their Husbands in Ireland An Ordinance for Dr. Chamberlain to have the Improvement of all Bathes for fourteen years committed Order to exclude all private business for fourteen daies 23. Order for an hundred and fifty pound for Major Rolphe Order for mony for the Commissioners of the Treaty The King desired a part of the preamble which seems to lay the bloud-shed upon him may be respited till the end of the Treaty Order for a Letter of thanks to the Comissioners for the Treaty for their prudent managing thereof and to acquaint them with the care of the House for their accommodation Two were condemned at Oxford for attempting to betray that Garrison and cast lots for their lives it fell upon him that was least guilty and most free in his Confession and therefore some of the Assembly of Divines and others mediated with the General for his Pardon Two others were condemned and one of them executed for running away from their Colours to the Enemy at Colchester 25. Upon a Letter from the Lieutenant General order for a Fort to be built at Yarmouth A Committee named to examine Debenters whether the Souldiers were absent at the time of their Debenters Letters from Colonel Bethel and Colonel Lassels of the taking of Scarborough Town and a list of the Prisoners The House left it to them to dispose of the Prisoners and to examine which of them had ingaged never to bear Arms against the Parliament that they may be tryed Order for an Impeachment against the Lord Goring and an Act of Attainder against the Lord Capell to be brought in Addition to the Committee to examine Duke Hamilton and the Prisoners of Kent Order for the Committee at Derby House to give a Commission to Colonel Ashton to be Major General of the Lancashire Brigade and to have the pay of forty Shillings per diem besides the pay of a Colonel of Horse and a Colonel of Foot The relieving of the besiegers of Scarborough with Ammunition approved and as much to be restored to Colonel Overton who did it from Hull Major General Brown one of the Sheriffs of London acquainted the House with a Letter he received from the King for the reprieve of some Prisoners convicted for Robbers being sons of his servant Major Knight The House ordered them to be left to the Justice of the Law The Lords ordered a stay of the Sale of goods seised for the delinquency of the Lord Maitland The Lords concurred in the Ordinances for the Scribes of the Assembly to print the Lesser Catechism and to have the benesit of it for one year and to the Prince Electors Ordinance Letters from Lieutenant General Cromwell that the Scots denying to surrender Berwick inforced the Parliaments Army to pass Tweed else they could not besiege it nor could they pursue the Enemy who had lately made much spoyle in England That he sent over Major General Lambert with part of the Army That Monroe left neither Corn nor Cattle in Northumberland that Cromwell sent Colonel Bright and Scout Master General Rows to the Marquess of Argyle to consult about assisting him according to his request those of Monroe's party being too strong for him Cromwell published a Proclamation upon his entring of Scotland That where as the Parliament's Army marched thither to pursue the Enemy that lately invaded England and for the recovery of Berwick and Carlisle He declares that if any Officer or Souldier under his Command shall take or demand any mony or shall violently take any Horses Goods or Victuals without order or shall abuse the people in any sort they shall be punished according to the Articles of War this to be published at every Troup and Company Signed Cromwell Upon a meeting of the Commissioners of the Seal they agreed upon the names of Judges and Serjeants to be presented to the House 26. The House was called and a hundred and fifty Members were absent and a new call Ordered Letters from the King for passes for some of his to go to Scotland and from thence to come to his Majesty Letters from the Navy that the Earl of Warwick had taken an Irish Ship loaden with tallow c. Letters from the Isle of Wight that the two first days of the Treaty were spent in laying down the method that nothing should be binding but what was in writing and not that till the end of the Treaty and that
Thomas Widdrington Sir Thomas Beddingfield Mr. Keble M r Thorpe and M r Bradshaw Out of Lincolns Inn M r Sollicitor M r Samuel Brown M r Recorder Glyn and M r Earle Out of the Middle Temple Mâ— Whitelock Mr. Coniers and Mr. Puleston Out of the Inner Temple Mr. Chapman Mr. Gates and Mr. Will. Littleton Order that Serjeant Rolles should be made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench that Serjeant Iermyn and Mr. Samuel Brown should be made Justices of the same Court That Mr. Sollicitor should be chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Bedingfield and Mr. Serjeant Creswell should be Justices of that Court. That Serjeant Wilde should be Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer and Mr. Gates a Baron of the Exchequer That Mr. Whitelock should be Attorney General of the Dutchy and one of the Kings Serjeants that Mr. Prideaux should be Sollicitor General and Sir Thomas Widdrington one of the Kings Serjeants The House approved of all those whom the Commissioners of the Seal named to be Judges and Serjeants except Mr. Hatton of the middle-Temple upon whom the question was not put 13. Vote that leases renewed with Deans and Chapters since a day past should be void An Ordinance past by the Commons for abolishing Deans and Chapters c. An Ordinance past both Houses for the Governour of Dover-Castle to be Lieutenant of it Vote for a charge to be prepared against Mr. Dowcet The Declaration prohibiting the Souldiery from repayring to London upon pretence of having their arrears was past and ordered to be Printed and published and sent to the several Sheriffs to be proclaimed Letters from the Isle of Wight that the King had consented 1. That an Act of Parliament be passed to make void the Cessation and all Treaties and conclusions of Peace with the Rebels in Ireland without the consent of both Houses of Parliament and the Prosecution of the war there to be left to the two Houses and the King to assist them and do no Act to hinder or disturb them 2. The Reformation of Religion in Ireland to be settled by the Parliament of England 3. The Chief Governours and Officers in Ireland to be nominated by the Parliament of England This to be for twenty years from 1. July 1648. 14. Voted for the Lord Admiral to continue at Goree in order to the reducing of the revolted Ships and orders for the Committee of the Navy to make provisions and take care for mony for the Fleet. 16. Upon a Petition of the Common Council of London for a supply of ministers in the City and for an allowance to them out of Deans and Chapters Lands referred to a Committee to consider thereof and of the want of a good ministry in other Parts of the Kingdom Order that those who took a Bark at Rye of the Kings Party should have the benefit of it Debate about satisfying of a debt out of Sir Jo. Stowells Estate to Sir Henry Holcroft but not allowed and an order for tryal of Sir John Stowell Letters that Lieut. General Ashton relieved Cockermouth and pursued the Enemy to Appleby which was rendred to the Parliament and taken in it five Knights twenty five Colonels nine Lieutenant Colonels six Majors forty six Captains seventeen Lieutenants ten Cornets three Ensigns five Pieces one thousand two hundred Horse one thousand Arms and all their Bag and Baggage Letters that Lieutenant General Cromwel was received with great Ceremony at Edenburgh where he demanded that none who had been in Action in the late wicked Ingagement and Invasion might hence forward be imployed in any publick Place of Trust to which the Committee of Estates there gave a satisfactory answer He had also visits and Conferences with Commissioners from the Kirke and from the Provost and Magistrates of Edenburgh and a strong Guard of Souldiers at his Lodging At the time of his being at Edenburgh several other demands were made by him to the Committee of Estates who gave him very fair answer and he reserved liberty for the Parliament of England to make such further demands as they should think requisite The Charges of Lieutenant General Cromwels entertainment and of all his Company during the time of their being at Edenburgh were defraied by the Lord Provost of the City by Order of the Committee of Estates and Cromwel Haselrigge and the rest of their company were entertained by General Leven the Lord Argyle and many other Lords at a sumptuous Banquet in the Castle At their going away the Castle Saluted them with many great Guns and Vollies of small Shot and divers Lords convoyed them out of the City That in Edenburgh was a Proclamation for all Malignants to depart the City and not remain within six miles of it 17. The House Voted to Adjourn for six days but the Lords dissenting they recalled ' their Vote Upon Letters from Colonel Ashton of the surrender of Appleby Castle referred to the Committee of the North what to do with the Castle and how to secure the Arms Ordnance and Ammunition there in Lancaster Castle and gave thirty pounds to the Messenger Letters from Lieutenant General Cromwel of his proceedings in Scotland and his return to Carlisle the House approved of it and ordered a Letter of thanks to be written to him The Commons Voted Sir William Parsons and Sir John Temple to be Commissioners for the Great Seal of Ireland and dissented from the Lords who Voted to have a Chancellour there Letters from the Isle of Wight that the King had assented to all the Propositions except that of the Church with some qualifications That an Act be passed for raising Monies to pay the publick Debts and if the King assent not to it that then if it pass both Houses it shall be valid in Law That by Act of Parliament all Peers made since the Lord Littleton carried away or that the Great Scal was carried away to Oxford May 10. 1642. and who shall hereafter be made shall not sit or Vote in Parliament without the consent of both Houses and that all Honours and Titles conferred on any since May 20. 1642. shall be void Letters from the Hague that the Prince with the revolted Ships is still in Goree Road his Seamen discontented That the Lord Culpeppeâ— was sent to them with Mony and they said they might thank the Earl of Warwick for it that the Lord Culpepper was accused for betraying the secrets of the Prince to the Parliament and that the Lord Percy was committed for giving the lie in the Prince his presence Letters that the Lord of Ormond was landed at Wexford in Ireland and brought with him four thousand Arms and five hundred Curassiers part of the Supply designed for the Scots That the English Army were in great want of pay and provisions 18. Letters from the Lord General Fairfax intimating the proceedings of the Army and that several Petitions were promoting among the Souldiery of the
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
have some other form of Prayer in his own Chappel The like concerning his consent to Bills to prevent the saying and hearing of Masse all unsatisfactory Order that the Commissioners do press his Majesty further for his final answer to the business of the Church and inform him of these Votes and the Lords concurrence herein to be desired Order of both Houses that the Committee appointed to draw the Kings concessions upon the whole Treaty into Bills do meet for speedy dispatch of that business 13. Vote upon his Majestie 's propositions 1. That a Committee named do draw up something for his Majesties coming to London and present it to the House and instructions for the terms his Majesty being already in freedom honour and safety at the Treaty 2. That it be referred to a Committee to consider of his Majestie 's desires concerning his revenues 3. That an Act of Oblivion shall be presented to his Majesty to be passed with such limitations as shall be agreed on by both Houses The Lords concurred with the Commons concerning the seven persons to be excepted from Pardon only instead of the Earl of New-Castle and Sir Jo. Winter they voted Sir Geo. Ratcliffe and the Lord Byron to be two of the seven Both House passed Instructions for the Commissioners of the Great Seal for the making of new Sergeants and the Judges according to the former orders of the Houses Justice Rolles to bring in his former Patent and to receive a new Commission under the Great Seal to be Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Mr. Brown to have seniority of Sergeant Jermyn Brown having been a Commissioner of the great Seale and the rest that were Commissioners of the Great Seal having had priority to plead within the Barr to be Seniors and Sir Thomas Bedingfield Mr. Recorder c. in order Letters from the General that having had a meeting of the Officers of the Army he apprehends their general sad resentment of the many pressures upon the Kingdom particularly that of free-quarter whereby they and the Souldiers who have faithfully served the Parliament are even a burden to themselves because they are so much to the poor Country Complains of the great want of pay and necessaries for the Army desires an effectual provision therein to prevent those ill consequences which otherwise delay therein may produce Letters from the North. That Lambert and his men received a dismission from the Committee of Estates and were upon their March for England and they gave him many expressions of thanks for his good service done to that Kingdom Lieutenant General Cromwell sent a summons to the Governour of Pontefract Castle to render it to the use of the Parliament and the Governour desired to be satisfied that he had power to perform the conditions The first Sergeants approved before the Commissioners of the Great Seal in the Queens Court but they did not call them in until the House of Commons had passed the order for the precedency of M r Brown before Sir Thomas Bedingfield and M r Recorder at which most of them did grumble 14. The account of Colonel Gould stated and allowed and four thousand four hundred and forty three pound ordered to him and an Ordinance for it transmitted to the Lords Ten thousand pound inserted into an Ordinance formerly past for five thousand pound for the guards of the Horse of the Parliament Debate about taking off free-quarter and disbanding Supernumeraries and a question for adding three thousand pound to the Establishment of the Army in regard of the Garrisons of Berwick and Carlisle past in the Negative which discontented the Army and was therefore thought by some to be put on the rather The Lords concurred in the banishment of the four persons voted by the Commons but in regard that three of them are Peers of the House they desired that the Ordinance for it might begin in their House A Message from his Majesty that he did consent to the little Catechism with the addition of a preface and also that the Parliament dispose of all great Offices for twenty years as they desire Letters from the Earl of Warwick and a Declaration in vindication of himself and the scandal cast upon him by a false Pamphlet and lying report that he resolved to joyn with the Prince in case the Treaty took not effect 15. Colonel Rossiter had the thanks of the House for his good services Vote that his Majestie 's coming to London shall be with honour freedom and Safety so soon as the concessions of the Treaty shall be agreed upon 2. That he shall have his Lands and revenues made good to him according to the Laws 3. What he shall pass away of his legal right he shall have allowance in compensation thereof 4. That an Act of Oblivion shall be presented to his Majesty c. Both Houses agreed to these Votes and to send them to his Majesty Upon Letters from Lieutenant General Cromwell of the wants of his Forces referred to the Committee of the Army to consider of the particulars and to supply them Order for two hundred and fifty Barrels of powder with match and bullet proportionable for the Forces before Pontefract and Scarbrough The Commons adhered to their vote to except the Earl of New-Castle and Sir Jo. Winter from pardon Letters from the Hague that Prince Charles was upon recovery that Prince Rupert was made Admiral and the Lord Gerrard Vice-Admiral that some of the revolted Ships were come in to the Earl of Warwick and those Sea-men that continued with the Prince were disorderly The Commissioners of the great Seal went into the Kings Bench where they sat in the middle the Judges on each side of them And there they did swear the Lord Chief Justice of that Court Judge Rolles and Sir Tho. Widdrington made a very learned speech to him From the Kings Bench they went to the Exchequer and sat in the Court the Barons on each hand of them and a great Company both of Lawyers and others thronging round about the Court there they did swear Serjeant Wilde to be chief Baron and Whitelock made the speech to him which because it clears some mistakes concerning the antiquity of that Court was thought fit to be here inserted M r Serjeant Wilde THE Lords and Commons in Parliament taking notice of the great inconvenience in the Course of Justice for want of the antient and usual number of Judges in each of the high Courts at Westminster whereby is occasioned delay and both Suitors and others are the less satisfied and being desirous and careful that Justice may be Administred more Majorum and equal right done to all men according to the custom of England they have resolved to fill up the Benches with persons of approved fidelity and affection to the publick and of piety Learning and integrity and having found by long experience among themselves that you Mr. Serjeant
Court the Statute of W. 1. c. 29. and the Mirrour of Justices agree in an excellent direction in this point When a good cause is destroyed by misinformations or unlawful subtleties or deceits let the instruments thereof take heed of the wo denounced by the prophet against them that call good evil and evil good that put darkness for light and light for darkness their root shall be rottenness and shall go up as dust Remember that in your Oath for one verb you shall serve you have two adverbs well and truly The duty of Advocates to their Clients are general and particular The general consist in three things Secrecy Diligence and Fidelity 1. For Secrecy Advocates are a kind of Confessors and ought to be such to whom the Client may with confidence lay open his evidences and the naked truth of his case sub Sigillo and he ought not to discover them to his Clients prejudice nor will the Law compel him to it 2. For Diligence much is required in an Advocate in receiving instructions not only by breviats but by looking into the Books themselves in perusing Deeds in drawing Conveyances and Pleas in studying the points in Law and in giving a constant and careful attendance and endeavour in his Clients causes 3. For Fidelity it is accounted vinculum Societatis the name of unfaithfulness is hateful in all and more in Advocates than others whom the Client trusts with his livelyhood without which his life is irkesome and the unfaithfulness or fraud of the one is the ruin of the other Virgil in his fiction of Aeneas going down to Hell sets these in the front of Crimes Hic quibus invisi fratres dum vita manebat Pulsatusve Parens aut fraus innexa clienti Inclusi paenam expectant For your duty to particular Clients you may consider That some are rich yet with such theremust be no endeavour to lengthen causes to continue Fees Some are poor yet their business must not be neglected if their cause be honest they are not the worst Clients though they fill not your purses they will fill the ears of God with prayers for you and he who is the defender of the poor will repay your Charity Some Clients are of mean capacity you must take the more pains to instruct your self to understand their business Some are of quick capacity and confidence yet you must not trust to their information Some are peaceable detain them not but send them home the sooner Some are contentious advise them to reconcilement with their Adversary Amongst your Clients and all others endeavour to gain and preserve that estimation and respect which is due to your degree and to a just honest and discreet person Among your Neighbours in the Country never foment but pacify contentions the French proverb is Bonne terre mavuais chemin Bon Advocat mavuais voicin I hope this will never by any here be turned into English The next and last words which I shall note in your Writ are Servientis ad legem The name Sergeant is antient some would fetch it from the French word Sergent as Pasquier in his Recherches but that word is also Saxon. You are indeed Servientes but it is Ad legem your Fee is honorarium and you are or ought to be Patroni Clientium Viduae Orphano Adjutores The Conservators of the peace as in my Lord Cokes preface to his 10. Rep. were antiently called Servientes pacis and the tenure by Grand Sergeantry is the most honourable Sergeants were also called in Latin Narratores as my Lord Coke and Sir Roger Owen observe And in the Book in the Tower 14 E. 2. f. 89. One prayes that he may have Narratores in placitis ipsum tangentibus notwithstanding the Laws of Wales In the records in the Treasury 25 E. 1. one Thomas Marshall justified the maintenance of a cause for that he was Communis Serviens Narrator coram Justitiariis alibi ubi melius ad hoc conduci poterit and as a Counsellor he advised him They were antiently called likewise Countors as is noted by Sir Roger Owen and my Lord Coke because the Count comprehendeth the Substance of the Original Writ and the foundation of the suit and of that Part as the worthiest they took their name and lost it not in the reign of E. 1. and at this day every Sergeant at his creation doth count in some real Action at the Common-Pleas Bar. In the Statute of W. 1. 3 E. 1. he is called Sergeant Countor and in the Stat. 28 E. 1. c. 11. is this clause Nest my a entender que home ne poet aueer Councildes Countors des Sages gents Chaucer calls them Countors and in the Mirrour of Justices there is a Chapter of Countors the like in the grand Coustumier of Normandy and in the text and gloss of both these Countors are agreed to be Advocates who plead and defend mens causes in Judicial Courts The rest of the words of your Writ prefix a day and command you to prepare your selves to take this state and degree upon you Accordingly some of you have formerly appeared upon your Writs which have been ordered to be filed and your appearances recorded The rest of you have now appeared upon your Writs which have been read and the like order given as for the others and we are ready to admit you to take your Oaths And what honour and advantage hath been gained by any the most eminent of your predecessours in this degree I do heartily wish may be multiplied unto you Mr. Sergeant S t John and to all the rest of these worthy Gentlemen your Brethren 20. Vote for money for the Forces in Carlisle and Northumberland c. Several Officers of the Army presented to the Commons not to the Lords the Large Remonstrance of the Army with a Letter from the General to the House desiring the Renonstrance might have a present reading and the things propounded therein be timely considered and that no failing in Circumstances or expressions may prejudice the reason or Justice of what was tendered The preamble of the Remonstrance shewed the miscarriages of the King and of the Parliament severally and in Treaties between them especially that Treaty wherein they now are That they conceive the Parliament hath abundant cause to lay aside any further proceedings in this Treaty and to return to their votes of non-addresses and to reject the Kings demands for himself and his Party and that he may no more come to Government nor to London That Delinquents be no more bargained with nor partially dealt with Nor protected nor pardonable by any other power only moderated upon submission and among these Offenders they offer 1. That the King be brought to Justice as the Capital cause of all 2. That a day be set for the Prince and Duke of York to come in and if they do not then to be declared Traitors if they do come in to be proceeded against or remitted
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
impartial Commissioners be appointed to try the late Mutineers in Norwich and Kent and other Counties 3. That course be taken for Payment of the publick debts out of Delinquents Estates and that taxes may be made easy and laid proportionably and so levyed 4. That Malignants be incapable of Offices or being Parliament men that under the notion of a Peer we be not voted into ruine by those that could not beat us into it and that a Committee be ordained to order affairs of State in the intervals of Parliament 5. That the power of the Militia be not put into the hands of Malignants or Neuters but of faithful persons to the Parliament 6. That the Army whose faithfulness we acknowledge may be vindicated especially for their late proceedings in order to impartial justice upon the Capital Offender the best means to establish this almost destroyed Nation that free-quarter be taken away and constant pay provided for the Army Another Petition was from the Garrison of Hull of their adherence to the late Remonstrance of the Army 26. The House approved the Articles of surrender of Scarborough and gave forty pound a piece to the Messengers that brought the news Mr. Elsing Clerk of the Parliament desired to quit his place by reason as he alledged of his indisposition of health to execute the same but most men understood his reason to be and he acknowledged it to Whitelock and others of his friends because he would have no hand in the business against the King He was a man of very great parts and ingenuous education he had travelled much and was very learned especially in the Latin French and Italian Languages and was a great Student and a very just and honest man and the most excellent Clerk both to take and express the sence of the House that I believe ever sate there so great a help to the Speaker and to the House in helping to state the questions and to draw up the Orders free from exceptions that it much conduced to the dispatch of business and the service of the Parliament He was a particular friend of Whitelocks and M r Selden was fond of him The House ordered M r Phelpes formerly Clerk to the Committee of plundered Ministers to officiate in M r Elsing's place and by a Deputation from him Upon the Petition of the East India Merchants order for them to have leave to transport thirteen thousand pound in Bullion Order for procuring six thousand pound for provisions and service for the Navy Divers Petitions to the Commons and to the General in complyance with the Armies Remonstrance among them one was to the General from Colonel Mackworth and the Officers and Souldiers in Salop. Inveighing against the personal Treaty and concurring with the late Remonstrance of the Army praying the General to continue to represent to the Commons these desires of their friends and not to hearken to the Counsels of their Enemies and to make a present settlement without any more addresses to the King And that his Excellency would endeavour that justice may be done upon the Authors of our troubles and blood-shed in the three Kingdoms in some exemplary way suitable to their crimes and without respect of persons That for taking off the grievances and burdens by free-quarter unequal taxes corrupt proceedings in Courts of Justice and other gross miscarriages in government to be reformed they will depend upon the Ordinary remedy by Parliament till God declare by evident demonstrations of his will in the passages of his providence that that extraordinary is to be resorted unto which is never denyed in case of Extremity to any People They resolve God strengthning them to follow his Excellency and the rest of those conductors raised up and Spirited for so great a work through a Sea of bloud to attain the fruition thereof Letters from Windsor that his Majesty removing from Hurst-Castle when he came to Winchester the Mayor and his brethren met him delivered him the Mace and made a speech to him That the Commander of that party who guarded the King told the Mayor that the Parliament had voted no more addresses to the King on pain of high Treason and by this address they made to him that they were within the danger of being Traytors That the Mayor and his brethren humbly asked pardon for it excusing themselves that they knew not any thing of that vote and that they would be more cautious for the future Letters from Dublin that they are quiet there by reason of the distractions among the Rebels whose divisions daily increase This Morning Sir Thomas Widdrington and Mr. Whitelock being together Mr. Smith who was Clerk to the Committee for preparing the charge against the King came to them with a Message from the Committee that they required them to come to them this day they having some matters of importance wherein they desired their advice and assistance and that they must not fail them They knew what the business was and Whitelock told Sir Tho. Widdrington that he was resolved not to meddle in that business about the Tryal of the King it being contrary to his judgement as he had declared himself in the House Sir Tho. Widdrington said he was of the same judgment and would have no hand in that business but he knew not whither to go to be out of the way and that the Committee might not know whither to send to him Whitelock replyed that his Coach was ready and he was this Morning going out of Town purposely to avoid this business and if he pleased to go with him they might be quiet at his House in the Country till this business should be over and he should be glad of his Company He willingly consented to go with Whitelock and was not long in preparing himself for the journey 27. The monthly Fast day and neither of the Houses sate The Council of War ordered that nothing be done upon the knee to the King and that all ceremonies of state to him be left off and his attendance to be with fewer and at less charge 28. Order for the City of London to proceed to the electing a new Common Council according to the former Ordinance by which Malignants are excluded And that the illegal Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and all other of the like nature be referred to a Committee to the end they may for the future be taken away The Committee for drawing up a charge against the King and to consider of the manner of his Tryal reported an Ordinance for attainting the King of high Treason and for trying him by such Commissioners as should be named in the Ordinance The Charge was to this effect That Charles Stuart had acted contrary to his trust in departing from the Parliament setting up his standard making a War against them and thereby been the occasion of much blood-shed and misery to the People whom he was set over for good that
Guilty whereby he may come to a fair Tryal that as by an implicit confession it may be taken pro confesso as it hath been done to those who deserved more favour than the Prisoner and that therefore speedy judgement be pronounced against him President Sir you have heard what is moved by the Council in behalf of the Kingdom against you Sir you may well remember and if you do not the Court cannot forget what dilatory dealings the Court hath found at your hands you were to propound some questions you had your resolution upon them You were told over and over again that the Court did affirm their own jurisdiction that it was not for you nor for any other man to dispute the jurisdiction of the Supreme and highest Authority of England from which there is no appeals and touching which there must be no dispute yet you did persist in such carriage as you gave no manner of obedience nor did you acknowledge any Authority in them nor the High Court that constituted this Court of Justice Sir I must let you know from the Court that they are very sensible of these delays of yours and that they ought not being thus authorised by the Supreme Court of England to be thus trifled withal and that they might in justice if they pleased and according to the rules of justice take advantage of these delaies and proceed to pronounce judgment against you Yet nevertheless they are pleased to give direction and on their behalfs I do require you that you make a positive answer to this Charge that is against you Sir in plain terms for Justice knows no respect of persons you are to give your positive and final answer in plain English whether you be Guilty or Not guilty of these Treasons laid to your Charge King After a little pause When I was here yesterday I desired to speak for the Liberties of the people of England I was interrupted I desire to know yet whether I may speak freely or not President Sir You have had the resolution of the Court upon the like question that last day and you were told that having such a Charge of so high a nature against you and your work was that you ought to ackowledge the jurisdiction of the Court and to answer to your Charge Sir if you unswer to your Charge which the Court gives you leave now to do though they might have taken the advantage of your contempt yet if you be able to answer to your Charge when you have once answered you shall be heard at large make the best defence you can But Sir I must let you know from the Court as their commands that you are not to be permitted to issue out into any other discourses till such time as you have given a positive answer concerning the matter that is charged upon you King For the Charge I value it not a rush it is the Liberty of the people of England that I stand for for me to acknowledge a new Court that I never heard of before I that am your King that should be an example to all the people of England to uphold justice to maintain the old Laws indeed I do not know how to do it You spake very well the first day that I came here on Saturday of the obligations that I had laid upon me by God to the maintenance of the Liberties of my people the same obligation you spake of I do acknowledge to God that I owe to him and to my People to defend as much as in me lies the antient Laws Therefore until that I may know that this is not against the fundamental Laws of the Kingdom by your favour I can put in no particular answer if you will give me time I will shew you my reasons why I cannot do it and thus Here being interrupted he said By your favour you ought not to interrupt me how I came here I know not there 's no Law for it to make your King your Prisoner I was in a Treaty upon the publick Faith of the Kingdom that was the known two Houses of Parliament that was the Representative of the Kingdom and when that I had almost made an end of the Treaty then I was hurried away and brought hither and therefore Here the President said Sir You must know the pleasure of the Court. King By your favour Sir President Nay Sir by your favour you may not be permitted to fall into these discourses you appear as a Delinquent you have not acknowledged the Authority of the Court the Court craves it not of you but once more they command you to give your positive answer Clerk Do your duty King Duty Sir Then the Clerk read a paper requiring the King to give a positive and final answer by way of confession or denyal of the Charge King Sir I say again to you so that I might give satisfaction to the people of England of the clearness of my proceedings not by way of answer nor in this way but to satisfy them that I have done nothing against that trust that hath been committed to me I would do it but to acknowledge a new Court against their Priviledges to alter the fundamental Laws of the Kingdom Sir you must excuse me President Sir This is the third time that you have publickly disavowed this Court and put an affront upon it but how far you have preserved the Liberties of the people your actions have spoke it but truly Sir mens intentions ought to be known by their actions you have written your meaning in bloody Characters throughout the Kingdom But Sir you understand the pleasure of the Court. Clerk record the default And Gentlemen you that took the charge of the Prisoner take him back again King I will say this one word more to you if it were my own particular I would not say any more to interrupt you President Sir you have heard the pleasure of the Court and you are notwithstanding you will not understand it to find that you are before a Court of Justice Then the King went forth with his Guards to Sir Robert Cottons house where he lay 24. The House only met and adjourned The High Court of Justice was expected to sit but they sent an Usher to tell the people there assembled that the Court was busy in the Painted Chamber examining witnesses in relation to the present affairs and should not sit in Westminster-Hall that day but that all persons appointed to be there were to appear on further summons About four a clock this afternoon all the Judges by appointment met at Sergeants-Inn to advise with the Committee about the new style of Writs in which matter the Judges seemed not to be very forward to joyn with them 25. The House met and adjourned The High Court of Justice met and proceeded in examination of Witnesses to prove the Charge against the King some proved that they saw him present at the setting up of his
Painted Chamber and such who had any evidence to give against the Earl of Holland Earl of Cambridge Lord Goring Lord Capell and Sir John Owen or any of them were to repair thither where they might be heard A Committee to examine the Authours and publishers of a Pamphlet and such as have preached printed and published seditiously the proceedings in bringing the King to justice and to prepare an Act to restrain the preaching and printing any thing against the proceedings of the House and of the High Court of Justice Letters from Scotland that the Parliament and priests there are at much variance that they bring all to the stool of repentance that were in the last invasion of England yet they are now as much as ever Enemies to the proceedings of the Parliament and Army in England That they talk big of raising an Army in revenge of the Kings Blood and all will joyn unanimously against the Sectaries of England and ground themselves upon breach of the Covenant Letters from New-Castle that many Ships were loaden with Coals for London and the Coast clear and their Governour Sir Arthur Haselrigge and some Officers of the Garrison were gone for London Letters from Pontefract that upon notice of the Kings execution the Garrison made a stout Salley but were beaten in again In the House the debate was long and smart concerning the Lords House 6. Debate concerning the House of Lords and the question being put whether the House of Commons should take the advice of the House of Lords in the exercise of the Legislative power of the Kingdom it was carried in the Negative by many voices Then they voted That the House of Peers in Parliament is useless and dangerous and ought to be abolished and that an Act be brought in to this purpose A Committee named to draw up an Act for making the Estates both of the late Members of Peers and likewise of the House of Commons liable to the Law for payment of all debts Referred to a Committee to consider of a way to take away all Appeals to the Lords and to discharge all persons committed by them in relation thereunto and how the Peers may be elected Burgesses and Knights to serve in the House of Commons Debate what Government to set up in England and Ireland and whether Kingship should be abolished or not Divers Sheriffs made Scruple of acting in their Office because of the Death of the King Order for instructions to be drawn up therein Order for Sergeant Bradshaw to make a Deputy in Guild-Hall where he is Judge in regard of his imployment in the High Court The accounts allowed of the Charges of the Kings Tryal Letters that the Irish Pyrates take divers vessels at Sea from the English and that the several Parties in Ireland are agreed to carry on the designs of the Prince of Wales It was put upon Whitelock to draw an Act to take away the House of Lords wherein he desired to have been excused in regard he was not in the house when the vote passed and had Declared his opinion against it but he could not get excused 7. Debate whether the Government by Kings should be abolished and upon the Question whether it should be referred to a grand Committee of the whole House it was carried in the Negative Then after a long and quick Debate they passed this vote Resolved upon the Question by the Commons of England in Parliament assembled That it hath been found by experience and this House doth declare That the Office of a King in this Nation and to have the power thereof in any single person is unnecessary burthensome and dangerous to the liberty safety and publick interest of the People of this Nation and therefore ought to be abolished and that an Act be brought in to that purpose A Committee appointed to bring in names of persons not exceeding forty to be a Councel of State Instructions passed for drawing new Commissions for the Judges the new Great Seal being ready The Judges appointed to meet with the Speaker and a Committee of the House about the Judges Commissions The High Court of Justice sate receiving witnesses and preparing the Charges against the five persons to be tryed The Earl of Holland sent up by post that he was dangerously sick at Warwick-Castle The Corps of the late King was removed from St. James's to Windsor to be interred in St. George's Chappel there and monies allowed for it An Act appointed to be brought in to make Sir Thomas Widdrington and Whitelock Commissioners of the new Great Seal with a blank for others to be added 8. Instructions passed for Commissions to the Judges of whom six agreed to hold viz. Rolles Jermyn St. John Pheasant Wilde and Yates provided that by Act of the Commons the fundamental Laws be not abolished The other six Judges viz. Bacon Brown Bedingfield Creswell Trevor and Atkins were not satisfied to hold Order for altering the Judges Oaths formerly in the name of the King now to be in the People A Committee appointed to bring in a list of fit persons to be Justices of peace in every County Instructions passed for rewards to such as shall bring in any of the revolted Ships The Duke of Richmond and others had leave to attend the late Kings funeral at Windsor Widdrington and Whitelock without the Lords who were in Commission with them yet having an Act of the House of Commons for it they went with the old great Seal to the House Mr. Malbon the usual Seal-bearer carried it to the door where Widdrington and Whitclock took the Purse and Seal in it and both of them holding it brought it in solemnly into the house all the Members being silent and laid it down upon the Table in the house Then the House past an Act for the old Seal to be broken and a work-man was brought into the house with his tools who in the Face of the house upon the Floor brake the old Seal in pieces and the house gave to Widdrington and Whitelock the pieces and purse of the old Seal After this the House passed another Act for establishing the new Great Seal to be the Great Seal of England Then they read another Act to constitute Widdrington and Whitelock to be Commissioners of the New Great Seal which occasioned Sir Thomas Widdrington to stand up and excuse himself very earnestly because of his unhealthfulness but that excuse would not be allowed Then he further excused himself by reason of some scruples in conscience which he had concerning the acting in this high place though he did acknowledge the Authority and submit to it and had Acted by vertue of it in signing a Warrant for a Writ to adjourn the Term and bringing in the new Great Seal without the Lords Commissioners Upon a long Debate the House did excuse Widdrington and to manifest their respects for his former services
and that they took no Notice of his scrupling their Authority they Ordered that he should practise within the Bar and gave him a quarters wages more than was due to him Whitelock's name was next in the Act and he was to declare himself whether he would accept of this imployment or not this point he had considered with as much seriousness as he could which the matter required and he had often advised with his Friends about it being before hand acquainted that he should be named for one of the Commissioners The most considerable particulars were that he was already very deeply ingaged with this Party that the business to be undertaken by him was the Execution of Law and Justice without which men could not live one by another a thing of absolute necessity to be done Yet many objections were made against his acceptance of this place which being mentioned by him in his speech to the House to be excused it is thought fit here to insert that speech as near as it could be taken M r Speaker I AM now to declare my self whether I will accept or refuse the highest place of Ordinary Judicature in the Kingdom to which your favour and good Opinion hath been pleased to name me I shall plainly lay before you the motives that occurr to me both for the acceptance and refusal of it and my humble suit upon them and I shall submit all to your pleasure and judgment The motives I shall confine my self unto are four of either sort 1. For my acceptance of it may be the honour of the service the greatness of the place which may sway much with some others but not with me whose ambition is of a lower stature I never affected great places it is sufficient honour to me to be a Member of this honourable House I desire no further honour and if honour be in honorante good actions will render a man more honourable than the ceremonies and pageantry of high places which may take with some of gayer Spirits more than it doth with me 2. The second Motive for acceptance is the profit of the place and that is very considerable with most men I bless God he hath given me means convenient for me and I hope he will bless that to me and keep me from wasting that which must be a provision for many Children And to me Mr. Speaker this is not so great a motive as it may be to others because those that know my course can testify that the benefit of my practice was more than the Salary of this Office though I acknowledge your bounty to your Servants 3. The third Motive is the command which this great Officer hath over the persons and fortunes of men which is a pleasing thing and much sought after by men in this world the spirit of domination being natural to us But Sir in this I am of my Lord of St. Albans Judgment who holds that men in great place are so far from having command that they are very slaves themselves slaves to great men and slaves to business and cannot command so much as their own time 4. The fourth Motive is the end of the service which is to do right and justice to men to relieve the oppressed to serve God and to serve you and my Country which will be done by a due performance of the duty of this place And this to me especially at this time is the greatest and strongest motive of all others Yet give me leave Sir on the other side to lay before you the motives for my refusal of this imployment which in my humble opinion do far overballance the other 1. The first of these motives is the trouble of the place which hath the greatest and most constant labour in it of any other place in England this Shop of justice must be alwaies open nullus recedat a Cancellaria sine remedio The business of the Chancery is certainly more than of any other Court the trouble must needs be the greater and the burden the heavyer too heavy for me to bear It is trouble enough and no easy duty for one man to attend the service of this House it is more than doubled by being a Commissioner of the Great Seal whereof I have some experience and it hath brought me to be of the Poets opinion Beatus ille qui procul negotiis a condition longed for by me 2. The second Motive for my refusal is the danger of this imployment through the envy of men more in these times than others and through the importance of the business in the which as in War non licet his peccare There will be Watch-men enough for one failing and one Party almost in every cause determined by him will be ready to accuse and condemn him no man can sit in this place but he must expose his person and fortune to no little danger 3. The third Motive is the difficulty of this imployment some will labour to conceal or obscure the truth as much as eloquence learning and subtlety can invent and it is hard to discern the clear truth through these shadows The Judges of the Common Law have certain rules to guide them a Keeper of the Seals hath nothing but his own conscience to direct him and that is ofttimes deceitful The proceedings in Chancery are secundum arbitrium boni viri and this arbitrium differeth as much in several men as their Countenances differ That which is right in one mans Eyes is wrong in anothers nothing is more difficult than to satisfy in Judgment and this leads me to the last and strongest motive for my refusal of this imployment which is 4. My unfitness and want of ability to under go it I mention not my want of ability of Body though this place require much Pains Labour and continual attendance and my health is not a little impaired and my Bodily infirmities increased by my late services but I hold my self obliged to lay down my Life to serve you I may more insist upon my want of abilities of mind to perform this great Charge and this is best known to my self though I confess it hath been too much likewise discovered to you both upon former occasions and at this persent and it were not fit to honour me by this place and to dishonour your selves by my weak execution of it Perhaps it may be objected that these are but pretences whereof you are the most proper Judges I do acknowledge that it will not become me to oppose my judgment to yours but I am most conscious to my self of my own disabilities and beg your consideration of them A greater objection is that if I decline this service at this time it will be a kind of disowning your Authority as unwarrantable and illegal and a giving of my Judgment against your proceedings upon the present alterations made by you This Sir is far from me and I suppose I have given my testimony otherwise in the
or Parks and that if any do it a Troop of Horse shall be quartered on that place to prevent the like 10. Orders for setling the Dutchy Seal and about some private affairs Letters from Scotland of their threatning revenge for the Kings blood that some there proclaimed Prince Charles King of Sotland which was not contradicted by the Parliament nor Kirk there The High Court of Justice sate in Westminster-Hall about fifty of the members present the Earl of Cambridge Lord Goring Lord Capel and Sir Jo. Owen were brought before them and the President made a Speech to them of the occasion of their coming thither to tryal for Treason and other high Crimes after which they were all commanded to withdraw except the Earl of Cambridge Then Mr. Steel Attorney General for the Common-wealth set forth the notoriousness of the facts of the Prisoner at the Bar by his invading the Kingdom committing many Murders and Rapines and all under pretence of the Covenant that as the War was called Hypocritarium bellum so he might be called Hypocritarius Princeps He desired the Charge might be read and that the Earl might make answer to it After the Charge read the Earl of Cambridge Pleaded that he was of another Nation and what he did was as a servant to that Kingdom and not as a Contriver of it neither was he ever Naturalized Earl of Cambridge that he knew of that he was a Prisoner of War and had Articles given him The Court caused the Act to be read for Naturalization of his Father and consequently of him being his Heir The Lord Goring was next brought to the Bar and his Charge being read to him he Pleaded not Guilty and was dismissed behaving himself with great respect to the Court. The Lord Capell pleaded That he was a Prisoner to the Lord General and had conditions given him and his life promised him that if all the Magistrates in Christendom were combined together they could not call him in question He never minded nor looked upon the Court but upon the people on all sides and with an austere countenance Sir John Owen pleaded not Guilty The next day the Earl of Cambridge being brought to theBar M r Steel moved that he might answer his Charge which the President required him to do The Earl desired time to put things into a method and that he might send to Major General Lambert by whom he had Articles given and to Scotland from whence he received his Commission The Court gave him two days to answer and upon his motion for Counsel he had liberty to name them which he said he could not not knowing any one Counsellour in England The Lord Capell brought in and demanded to plead in chief to his Charge did again insist upon the Articles of Colchester whereby he said he had fair quarter given him and that all the Gowns in the world had nothing to do with him 12. Orders appointing the several Judges to go the Circuits this Lent and for compleating the number of Judges in the several Courts and Voted that the Kings-Bench Court should be called the Vpper Bench. An Act passed for some amendments in their Commissions and for a new Oath to be given them well and truly to serve the Common-wealth in the Office of a Justice of the Vpper Bench c. according to the best of their skill and knowledge A Certificate of the Doctor and Apothecary of the Earl of Holland that he could not with safety of his life be removed up to London and a Petition of his Lady for favour to him referred to the High Court of Justice to send for him if they should think fit Colonel Dean Colonel Popham and Colonel Blake added to the Commissioners of the Navy An Act for a new Oath to be taken by every Free-man in London and in all other Corporations and for repealing the Statutes 1 Eliz. and 3 Jac. of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Letters from Edenburgh that Prince Charles was proclaimed King of Scotland by consent of the Parliament there with Solemnity and agreed that one Earl one Baron one Burgess and one Divine be sent to invite him thither The late Kings Body was interred at Windsor Castle but the Common-Prayer not permitted to be used at his Burial The last day of the Term the Commissioners sate till two a clock hearing motions then they rose and gave the new Oath and sealed new Patents to the several Judges according to the new Act. 13. All private business put off for seven daies Order for a new Stamp for Coyn. Debate touching power and instructions to be given to a Council of State and referred to a Committee to bring in names An Act read for sale of Deans and Chapters Lands The High Court of Justice sate and the Lord Capel being brought into the Court the Attorney General moved that the Prisoner might make good his Plea The President told the Lord Capel that he had put in a plea concerning Articles for proof whereof the Lord General was by order of the Court there present that he had liberty to ask any thing of him if not then the Council of the Common-wealth were to offer what they could in proof of it Then the Attorney General went on and produced the Generals Letter to the Parliament upon the rendition of Colchester and the Articles and the Explanation of them whereby and upon the testimony of the Lord General and General Ireton Colonel Whaley and Colonel Barksted all present by order of the Court it appeared That the Lord Capell was to have fair quarter for his life which was explained to be afreedom from any execution of the Sword but not any protection from the judicial proceedings of a Civil Court and mercy was explained to be only from the promiscuous execution of the Sword but that he might be tryed by a Council of War But of this Learning I hope none of this Nation will have use hereafter It was clearly proved that the Articles were only to free him from the present power of the Sword to take away his life and Colonel Berksted swore that he told him the day after the Articles that he believed the Parliament would proceed against them that were taken at Colchester as Traytors The Council moved for judgment against the Lord Capel that he should be Hanged Drawn and Quartered at which he seemed to startle and after a short Speech to the Court he concluded that how ever he was dealt with here he hoped for a better resurrection hereafter Then the Earl of Cambridge was brought to the Bar and required to make good his Plea he thanked the Court for the time they had given which he said was so short that he could not be provided Upon his desire there were assigned to him for Council Mr. Chute Mr. Hales Mr. Parsons and Dr. Walker He desired leave to send to Scotland and further
time it was answered That it was for Prisoners to prepare their proofs against the Tryal he having been in Prison so long he replied that during his six Months imprisonment he never sent about any private business but only to get Monies to maintain him and prayed the mercy of the Court that if they would spare him he might be useful and that he was sorry for what he had done He had two daies time longer given to him to prepare for his defence 14. Vote for thirty eight persons to be of the Council of State viz. Earl of Denbigh Mulgrave Pembroke Salisbury Lord Gray Fairfax General Grey of Groby Lord L'Isle Rolles St. John Wilde Bradshaw Cromwell Skippon Pickering Massam Haselrigg Harrington Vane jun. Danvers Armine Mildmay Constable Pennington Wilson Whitelock Martin Ludlow Stapeley Heveningham Wallop Hutchinson Bond Al. Popham Valentine Walton Scot Purefoy Jones Their powers were 1. To command and settle the Militia of England and Ireland 2. To set forth such a Navy as they should think fit 3. To appoint Magazines and Stores and to dispose them c. 4. To sit and execute the powers given them for a Year Instruction passed for altering Patents of Sheriffs and their Oath and a list of all the Justices of Peace brought into the House Major General Middleton who was upon his parole at Berwick brake his word and went to Scotland 15. An Act passed touching the accounts of Sheriffs Debate upon the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters lands The High Court of Justice sate and the Earl of Cambridge moved the Court for further time and new Council in regard that those formerly assigned to him for Council refused to plead for him which was granted to him In the House were the Dutch Ambassadors in person to receive the answer to their Papers and addresses 16. Ceremonies upon the Dutch Ambassadors going away Some Sheriffs nominated Order for moneys for the Judges going their Circuits The High Court of Justice sate and the Lord Goring was brought to the Bar Mr. Coke Sollicitor General set forth the heâ—nousness of his Crimes at Colchester in Kent Essex c. He said he could not deny the matter of fact in much of them but should clear himself of some particulars Divers witnesses were produced vivâ voce who proved the Death of several of the Parliament Party before Colchester the shooting of poisoned bullets boyled in Copperas from the Town the cruel usage of the Prisoners in Colchester the Lord Gorings reviling them calling them Rebellious Rogues the burning of six hundred Houses at Colchester and many other particulars The Lord Goring by way of defence made a Narrative of his proceedings since his last coming into England acknowledged his receiving a Commission from the Prince and his giving Commissions to others That what he did was out of a good intention for Peace and accommodation That Treason not being in the intention he could not be guilty of it that he intended not to raise Forces against the Parliament he pleaded his Peerage and the Articles of Colchester by which quarter was given him To this the Council for the Common-wealth replyed that a mans Actions did best expound his intentions that the Lord Goring ' s Actions spake him guilty of Murder Treason c. that to his Peerage the power by which the Court sate was an answer That for the Articles of Colchester though he had at first waved them by pleading not guilty yet he should have as full a benefit of them as the Lord Capel who had largely pleaded for them Against Sir John Owen witnesses testifyed the Death of the high Sheriff of Caernarven and others Sir John alledged that what he did was to free himself from violence and plunder but it was proved that he was in the first War had the Articles of Conway upon which he was admitted to compound took the Covenant and Negative Oath and yet ingaged a second time The Earl of Holland was removed from Warwick Castle to London 17. A Declaration passed in answer to the Scots Papers and was Ordered to be delivered to their Commissioners and to be printed and published Order to allow one thousand pound per annum Salary to each of the Commissioners of the Seal Order for the Council of State to sit and the Members that desired it to have lodgings in White-Hall Vote for two Seals for the Committee of Estates ingraven with the Arms of England and Ireland and this inscription the Committee of Estates appointed by Parliament Order for the General and Colonel Rich to sit in the House as Burgesses elected for Cirencester The Speaker acquainted the House with a Letter he received from the Prince Elector of his intentions to return to his own Country with some acknowledgement of thanks for favours to him appointed to be read on Munday next The High Court of Justice sate and witnesses proved the escape of the Lord Capel out of the Tower he pleaded that he did not escape as he was a Prisoner of War but as he was sent to the Tower in another condition The Earl of Cambridge urged that the Council assigned to him were not ready for want of longer time and held it not proper for them to plead in matter of Law till the fact were first proved The Court declared that he had been often moved to make his defence whereupon he proceeded in it produced his Commissions from the Parliament to command all the Forces of that Kingdom and the order of the Committee of Estates there for him to advance into England then the large Declaration from Scotland He pleaded the ends thereof being for his Majesties honour the setling of Religion and the Covenant he also pleaded the Articles agreed unto by Major General Lambert when he yielded himself Prisoner whereby he was assured by him of quarter and life to prove which he produced the Lord Grey Colonel Lilburn and M r Peters for witnesses Concerning the point of Naturalization he pleaded that his Father being naturalized could not make him a subject of England no more than the Son of an English-man born in any Foreign Parts was intituled thereby to any inheritance here that he had a Petition and Bill prepared for his Naturalization but it passed not Colonel Whichcot the Governour and the Marshal of Windsor-Castle proved the Earls escape after he had passed his word to the Governour to be a true Prisoner the Earl earnestly denyed this and offered upon it a Challenge to the Governour were he not in his present capacity but it was left to the judgment of the Court. 19. The Letter from the Prince Elector was read of the grounds of his return to his own Country returning humble thanks for the favour of the Parliament to him desiring the continuance of his stipend and the arrears of it to be paid The House Ordered the arrears to be paid him and the Speaker to give him
a Pass for himself and his attendants forty Horse but none other to go over with him Report by Lieutenant General Cromwell from the Committee of Estates that according to the Order of the House nineteen of the Committee had subscribed for approving the Kings execution but that two and twenty of the Committee had refused Not but that they confest except one the Commons in Parliament to be the supreme power of the Nation and that they would live and dye with them in what they should do for the future But they could not confirm what they had done in relation to the King and Lords this report was committed Debate about disbanding the Kentish Forces and referred to a Committee to examine the publishing of Papers to Proclaim the Prince to be King The high Court of Justice sate and witnesses proved that the Earl of Cambridge was Prisoner to the Lord Grey before the Articles with Major General Lambert were concluded Letters produced signed with his own hand to Sir Marmaduke Langdale touching the carrying on of the design in England and passages touching his Friends in Colchester Proved also that he was called by the late Kings Writ to sit in Parliament in the Lord Houses by the name of Earl of Cambridge and appeared as Earl of Cambridge and acted as a Peer of England sitting in the Lords House and in divers Committees That as a Peer of England he took the National Covenant and subscribed to it Cambridge in the House of Peers and took the Negative Oath before the Commissioners of the Great Seal as a Peer of England Letters from Scotland that Sir Joseph Douglas was chosen by their Parliament to go to their new Proclaimed King to acquaint him with what the Parliament had done and to desire him to take heed of evil Counsellours That they are putting the Kingdom into a posture of defence Colonels chosen in all the Shires and every fourth man to be arrayed and trained Letters from Pontefract that one Beaumont a Priest was executed for corresponding with the Garrison in Characters and he chose to dye rather than to discover the Characters At the Council of State they were all demanded to subscribe the test appointed by Parliament for approving all that was done concerning the King and Kingship and for taking away the House of Lords and against the Scots invasion c. All the Lords and divers other Members of the Council refused to subscribe this test the General desired to be spared for what was past as to subscribing but he and the rest of the refusers affirmed that for the future if the Parliament thought them worthy to be imployed they would joyn with them and faithfully serve them Many of the Commons refusers to sign it as it then was made divers scruples some to one part of it some to another Whitelock scrupled that part of approving the proceedings of the High Court of Justice because he was not privy to them nor did know what they were in particular nor ever heard any report of them made to the house and not knowing what they were he could not sign that paper to approve of them the like was said by divers others 20. Offer for Merchants approved to send out Ships at their own charge in the next Summers Fleet. Order for three thousand pound for the Maimed Souldiers and for Sale of the Crown Jewels Hangings and goods to raise money for the Navy An Act for the Commons to call Common Councels in London Debate about the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters Lands 21. Letters directed from the House to the Judges in their Circuits to give order for due payment of the Excise and that all rioters against it be punished Upon a report from the Council of State an Act passed for repealing the Commission to the Earl of Warwick as Lord Admiral and an Act Ordered to be brought in giving power to the Commissioners of the Navy to command the Fleet as the Lord Admiral had done An Act passed for the Company of Weavers in London The Hart Frigat revolted to the Prince the Sea-men set the Captain on shore the Prince was courted at the Hague as King but not by the States publickly The High Court of Justice sate and their order was read to the Lord Capel that they would hear what he could say this day and then proceed to judgement He said he was to be comprehended wholly in the Martial Law and urged the Articles again which excepted Tryal after by Parliament that divers that were in Colchester in his condition had compounded That breaking Prison for Treason by Common Law was but felony and benefit of Clergy might be had at last when he could not get the resolution of the Court to be referred to a Tryal by Martial Law He moved that he might not be barred of additional defence and that if he must be judged by the Common Law he hoped he might have the full benefit of it He urged for it the late Act which saith though King and Lords be laid aside yet the fundamental Laws shall be in Force He recommended to the Court Magna Charta and the Petition of Right and prest the consideration of the Act made in favour of those who assisted K. Hen. 7. and the exception in the Acts touching the Lord Strafford and Canterbury that they should not be drawn in precedent He desired to see his Jury and that they might see him and to be tryed by his Peers and said he believed that a precedent could not be given of a subject tryed for his life but either by Bill in Parliament or by a Jury Witnesses were heard against the Earl of Cambridge 22. Debate about the business of the Navy and to incourage the Sea-men Order that the Councel of State take care for preserving the Library Medals and Statues at St. James's An expedient assented unto for the Members of the Council of State that they should subscribe the test to approve of what shall be done by the Commons in Parliament the supreme Authority of this Nation but nothing of confirming what was past Referred to the Council of State to take care for the preserving of Timber for the Navy The Earl of Cambridge brought before the High Court produced his witnesses some of whom were disallowed being Officers under him and so Participes Criminis He pleaded that he had not broken the Negative Oath for he had not ingaged against the Parliament but for the ends in the Scots Declaration His Council moved that they might with the Council of the Common-Wealth state the case of the Earl but this was denyed being in case of Treason and that the Earl's Council could only declare their opinions in point of Law Upon the Earl's desire he had further time granted him The Council of the Army Ordered some to prepare a draught of such things as might be presented by them to the
had power to do it and secured him by a party of his Forces that he was ordered to be banished by Parliament paying one hundred thousand pound for his Delinquency 27. The House sate not The Earl of Holland was brought to the High Court and the Charge of High Treason read against him and aggravated by the Sollicitor General that the Earl was an eminent Courtier and probably did ill Offices and perswaded the King to go from the Parliament and went afterwards himself to Oxford That he returned from thence had his Sequestration taken off that he published a Declaration promising in the word of a Gentleman and a Christian that he would stand by the Parliament he took the Negative Oath and the Covenant Yet the last Year he ingaged and probably contriv'd the insurrection wherein the Duke of Bucks and his Brother and others were drawn in and he boasted that he should shortly be twelve thousand strong and master the Parliament and restore the King The Earl pleaded that his fact was not Capital but Criminal that he had quarter given him when he was taken at St. Needs and that both Houses had past an Order since for his banishment the which excused the aggravations especially in his last Action Letters that a Peace was confirmed by Articles between Ormond and the Catholick Party in Ireland and a Proclamation by Ormond for all to obey it Letters from Scotland that the Messengers from their Parliament were come to the King that the Scots Parliament made a Law that Adultery should be punished by Death 28. The Monthly Fast Order for a day of publick humiliation through out the Kingdom A Committee appointed to bring in an Act to take away the Monthly Fasts and to have Fast-daies Ordered as there shall be particular occasion A Committee to draw up a new Oath instead of that of Supremacy to be taken by Papists The Scots Commissioners being apprehended at Gravesend referred to the Council of State to send them to Scotland with a guard by Land and that they write a Letter to the Parliament of Scotland of their late carriage and to know how far that Parliament will owne the same An Act passed giving power to any ten of the Common Council of London to call a Court and forty Members to be a Common Council in case the Lord Mayor and Aldermen refuse An Act past for disabling the Malignant Magistracy of Norwich March 1648. 1. The House sate not The Council of state made several Orders in relation to the Navy and that the Committee of the Army do certify to them the arrears of the Army and what proceedings have been about setling their Debenters Upon a Petition of the Countess of Holland to the High Court and proof of the Earls being very sick the Court gave him further time to answer The Council of the Army passed a Petition to present to the House and the General presented to them a Letter subscribed by eight Troupers of several Regiments and delivered to him The effect of it was to assert the Souldiers right to Petition without their Officers consent and it was high against the Council of State and High Court. This was ill resented by the Officers and each of them present by the poll disavowed and disapproved the Letter as tending to divide and disunite the Army five of the eight Troupers were committed till they should be cleared by a Court Martial 2. Colonel Whaley and divers other Officers of the Army presented a Letter from the General with a Petition from the General Council of the Army to which the General concurred Their desires were 1. That Free quarter be forthwith totally taken away 2. For provision for constant pay of the Army 3. For Receivers to account 4. Abuses of Clipt money to be redressed 5. Souldiers accounts to be stated and Debenters given out 6. Security for them by Deans and Chapters lands or otherwise 7. For satisfaction for Souldiers Horses slain or lost in Fight 8. For Maintenance for maimed Souldiers and Widows of Souldiers 9. For relief of Ireland 10. For the supply of the Irish Officers come from Inchequin c. Order that these matters be taken into consideration and thanks returned to the Petitioners Referred to the Council of State to consider what Forces are fit to be maintained in this Kingdom and in Ireland and to bring in an estimate that the House may make an establishment for all Order for recruits of Horse according to the Petition Referred to the Council of State to consider what is fit for the House to do at present concerning Ireland Referred to a Committee to consider of the Standard in the old Palace and of taking it down and selling it Order for Sir George Ascue to command as Admiral of the Irish Seas and for several others to be Commanders of Ships Order for two hundred pound for the Irish Officers An Act past concerning Sequestred Estates in the Northern Counties to be sold for ease of the People Referred to the Committee of the Army to remove the obstructions in stating the Souldiers accounts An Act read and committed for bringing receivers c. to account 3. The Earl of Holland before the High Court pleaded the same plea he had done before of free quarter given him and witnesses were examined on both sides he desired Council but it was denyed The Earl of Cambridge made an additional defence not much varying from what he had said before in answer whereunto the Council of the Common-Wealth did speake five or six hours Four of the eight Troupers who presented the Petition to the General and General Council were brought and tryed before the Court Martial and the Paper delivered by them to the General was adjudged by the Court to be scandalous to the Parliament the Council of State the High Court of Justice and tending to divide the Army Upon the fifth Article of War against reproachful and scandalous words and actions the Court Martial sentenced these four Troupers to ride the Horse with their Faces to the tayl their swords to be broken over their heads and to be cashiered the Army 5. Upon a Report from the Council of State an estimate was made by them of the Charge of all Forces in Field and Garrison in England and Ireland to be one hundred and sixty thousand pound per mensem Order for an Act to be brought in thereupon An Act passed to impower the Commissioners of the Navy to execute Martial Law An Act read to abolish Kingly government Order for the Council of State to consider of increase of allowance for incouragment to such Officers of the Fleet as shall deliver back their Charges without imbezlement of the stores or other abuses to the State Referred to the Commissioners of the Admiralty to provide a Convoy and Ship of War for the Prince Elector and his retinue Sir John
as both shall agree to stand with the Laws of Ireland 13. That the Council table meddle only with State matters 14. Act against transporting wooll to be null 15. Those wronged by grants to have relief 16. Wronged persons to have right 17. Restitution of Estates 18. An Act of oblivion to pass 19. Customs not to be farmed and Monopolies to be taken away 20. The Court of Castle-Chamber to be regulated 21. Acts forbidding ploughing with Horses by the tayl and burning Oats in the Straw to be nulled 22. An Act to take off grievances 23. Maritime causes to be determined in Ireland 24. No rents to be raised under pretence of defective titles 25. Interest money to be for given from 1641. 26. All this to be acted till a Parliament agree it 27. That the Catholick Commissioners agree upon such as shall be Justices of Peace and hear all causes under ten pound 28. All Governours of Forts to be by approbation of the Catholick Commissioners 29. None of the Kings rents to be paid till a further settlement by Parliament 30. Power of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer 31. Differences in Ireland to be tryed there and not in England 32. The Roman Clergy not to be molested 33. That his Majesty grant whatever else is necessary for the Catholicks Prince Rupert was upon the Irish coast with sixteen Ships many vessels were taken by him A Petition to the General and his General Council of War from the well affected Inhabitants of Lincolnshire much to the same effect with others lately presented to him and to the Parliament and which are before mentioned Two men measuring some ground in Windsor forest were asked by what Authority they did it they showed a kind of Warrant from Lieutenant General Cromwell desiring all Officers of the forest Souldiers and others to permit these men to set out some Land c. in regard there was no Justice in Eyre It were to be wished that such men as Lieutenant General Cromwell would not so irregularly meddle with such matters as these are the men were forbidden to make any divisions of the Land or ditches about it till further order 27. A Declaration passed that a Book lately published entituled the second Part of Englands new Chains discovered contained matter false Scandalous Seditious Mutinous and tending to raise a new War that the Authors and publishers of it were guilty of Treason and referred to the Council to find them out Anno 1649 Letters from Major General Lambert with the Articles of the surrender of Pontefract Castle A Letter and Petition from the Grand Jury of Yorkshire acknowledging with humble thanks the justice of the Parliament in their late proceedings and ingaging to joyn with them and desiring Pontefract Castle may be demolished and some other Forts thereabouts Vote for three hundred pounds per annum to be setled on Major General Lambert out of Pontefract honour for his good service The Lancashire Forces submitted to disband and quitted Clithero Castle Order for that Castle to be demolished and that the Council of State consider what other Inland Castles are fit to be demolished Sir Henry Cholmely sent for upon complaints against him Instructions for the Scots Commissioners to their new King were 1. That he take the Covenant 2. To put from him all who have assisted his Father in the War particularly Montross else not to Treat with him 3. To bring but one hundred with him into Scotland and none who have assisted his Father in Arms. 4. To bring no Forces into Scotland from other Nations without their consent Marquess Huntley was beheaded at the Cross in Edenburgh Letters from the Hague that the Queen of England invited Prince Charles her son into France that the States inhibited their Ministers from insisting upon matters of State and in their Pulpits and particularly not to meddle with Englands or other Kingdom 's proceedings 28. Upon a Report from the Council of State of the particulars for incouragement of those who shall ingage for Ireland with Lieutenant General Cromwell the House referred them back again to the Council to perfect Upon a Report from them of the Earl of Ormond's proclaiming the King in Ireland c. the House voted the Earl a Traitour and an Act to be brought in to attaint him Order for a Letter of thanks to Colonel Jones and a gratuity Order that no Ministers shall teach in their Pulpits any thing relating to State affairs but only to preach Christ in sincerity and an Act to be brought in for penalties to those who shall do otherwise Orders for money given away A new day given to the Lord Mayor to conform to the order for proclaiming the Act against King-ship or to give an account to the House why he hath not done it 29. The House sate not The Council of State upon examination of Lilburn Walwyn and others who owned the Book called England's new chains did commit them to the Tower The Estates of the Netherlands summoned and examined their Ministers and disallowed what they had done in relation to King Charles II. And forbad them all to meddle with State matters in their Pulpits without leave of the Magistrate The Council of State perfected the particulars for incouragement of those who shall ingage for Ireland and Lieutenant General Cromwell declared himself willing to undertake that service 30. Vote that Gresham Colledge be not exempted from the assessment to the Army nor the Doctors in Doctors Commons nor the Counties in Wales formerly exempted Order that the Speaker do sign such Letters as shall be thought fit by the Council of State to the States of Hamburgh touching Merchants Upon a Petition of the Borough of Southwark of the inequality of their rates with the County of Surrey the House held their desires just and Ordered that in all future rates they should pay the eight part of that assessed upon the County of Surrey Order for the Committee of Goldsmiths Hall to form the Votes concerning compositions of Delinquents and to have them printed and published that none may plead ignorance of them Referred to the Committee of the Army to make provision of four thousand Cassocks and breeches to be disposed of by the General to his Foot Souldiers in regard of the smallness of their pay Upon the Report of Alderman Atkins that the Lord Mayor desired to be excused from proclaiming the Act for abolishing Kingly Government the House Ordered that he be summoned to attend at the Bar to answer his contempt and disobedience herein 31. Upon a Report from the Council of State that Lieutenant General Cromwell accepted of the service for Ireland and would endeavour to the utmost of his power with Gods assistance to carry on that work against the Rebels and all that adhere to them Voted that the House doth approve of Lieutenant General Cromwell to be Commander in chief of all the
knowledge of the languages and being one whom they could trust c. but he insisted upon the former matters of excuse and so the business as to him went off 12. Order for a Writ to elect a new Burgess for Carlisle in the place of M r Barwis deceased An Ordinance committed to give power to the Committee of Admiralty to proceed to sentence of Death in Criminal causes Order for the Committee to meet the Common Council of London this afternoon for borrowing one hundred and twenty thousand pound for Ireland A long debate upon the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters lands and provisoes in it for allowances out of those lands to itinerary Ministers and disposing their impropriations for additional means to the Ministery recommitted An Act for inventorying the late Kings goods committed and a Committee appointed to consider of the Sale of his Deer and Parks reserving such as shall be needful for the State The Common Council of London were willing to lend one hundred and twenty thousand pound for Ireland but disliked the security proposed and the Committees agreed to treat upon further security The Council of War after full hearing of the parties and witnesses passed sentence of Death against Colonel Powell and Major General Laughern as they had done upon Colonel Poyer before upon the two first Articles of War That such as have intelligence with the Enemy or any communication with them without direction from the General shall be punished as Traitors and Rebels and that none shall relieve the Enemy with money victuals ammunition or harbour or receive any of them upon pain of Death The wife of Major General Laughern presented a Petition to the Court Martial imploring their mercy to her husband and that this one unadvised act of his might not cause all his former eminent services to be forgot and the great loss of her and his Children and two Sisters by his Death At Bristol were discovered three brass pieces of Ordnance made up in Fatts sent from London and directed to the Lord Inchequin in Ireland In the Evening the Commissioners of the Seal the Lord General the Lieutenant General Cromwel the Chief Justice Rolls the Chief Baron and many Gentlemen of the House as a Committee of Parliament went to the Common Council of London to borrow of them 120000 l for Ireland The Common Council gave them a fair and hopeful answer by their Recorder 13. Upon a Report from the Committee of Yesterdays transactions with the Common Council and their forwardness and desire in that business a Committee was appointed to treat with a Committee of Common Council concerning the advance of the 120000 l for Ireland and to give them the thanks of the House for their willingness to promote this business Order for monies for the Garrisons of Barwick and Carlisle to be disposed as the Governour of New-Castle shall direct An Act committed for appointing Treasurers for the ninety thousand pound assessment no Member of the Army to be of this Committee Letters from the Hague that the Prince Elector arrived there was slighted by the King of Scotland and his Court that the States appointed a Council to assist the King to treat with the Scots Commissioners and commanded all their Ministers to pray for no Kings or Princes but those under whose Government they are Letters from Excester that the Mayor and Justices there refuse to Execute their Office and to punish any offenders perswaded to it by the Ministers who also inveigh against those that open the Flood-gate of wickedness 14. Order that upon any suit commenced against any Member of Parliament the Commissioners of the Seal and the Judges shall certify such Members thereof respectively and if after such notice they shall refuse to answer or plead according to the usual proceedings of Law That then the Commissioners of the Seal and the Judges shall award such process against their persons and Estates as according to Law is meet and such Members to have no more priviledge in person or Estate than any other Commoner Referred to the Commissioners of the Seal and to the Judges in their Circuits to receive complaints against any disaffected Justices of Peace and upon proof of the charges against them to remove them from being Justices of the Peace as they shall see cause and to put other well affected persons into Commission in their stead A Committee appointed to receive Informations and complaints against such Ministers as in their Pulpits vilify and asperse the Anthority and late proceedings of Parliament and to proceed against such Ministers according to justice Referred to the Council of State to consider of a stamp for the gold newly brought from Guinnea and for the advantage of the State and incouragement of the Merchants And to consider how the statutes against transportation of gold and Silver may be strictly put in Execution and how the melting of Coyn here and selling of Silver for beyond Seas may be prevented An Act committed for appointing of Commissioners and Treasurers for prize goods and disposing of all prohibited commodities for the advantage of the State and for putting all statutes concerning the same into Execution Referred to the Council of State a proposition of Colonel Temple to stop the transportation of Bullion and all prohibited commodities Order that the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal be required to give in the names of such persons as they conceive will be fit for Judges to supply the places that are vacant 16. Upon the Death of Sir Francis Pile Knight of the shire for Berks a Writ issued out for a new election and the Sheriff returned the Earl of Pembroke with all his titles to be chosen Knight of the shire for Berks primae impressionis the House approved of the election and admitted the Earl a Member of the House of Commons and his Lordship attended by many eminent Members was received into the House with great respect Referred to a Committee to examine and consider the impositions laid upon Corn and Coals and the ingrossing of Corn the Earl of Pembroke named of this Committee Oxford Petition referred to the Committee for regulating the University of Oxford Order that none go beyond Seas without licence and an ingagement to act nothing against the Common-Wealth A Petition from Colonel Poyer for Mercy A Petition often thousand well affected persons of London Westminster Southwark and the Hamletts in the behalf of Lilburn Walwyn Prince and Overton Complaining of the illegal proceedings against them by power of Souldiers and undue examinations of them c. and prayeth their inlargement from prison and that for the future no person may be censured condemned or molested concerning life limb liberty or estate but for the breach of some Law first made and published and that the Tryals of all such causes may be left to subordinate Magistrates and ordinary proper Courts of Justice That the
gave an answer to their Husbands and therefore desired them to go home and look after their own business and meddle with their huswifry Order for a Bill to settle the twenty thousand pound for Augmentation to Ministers c. Col. Poyer was shot to death in Covent-Garden and died very penitently 26. Upon a report from the Council of State that they thought for setling the peace of the Nation that there should be an Act of Oblivion the House Ordered one to be drawn up And Voted That the time to be set in the Act of Oblivion from which no Action or Suit shall be commenced or prosecuted for any thing said or done in the time of War shall be before the first day of this Term. Order that such as shall discover any monies raised to be imployed against the Parliament should have the sixth part of what they should discover and the remainder to be imployed for the service of Ireland in this Expedition Order that the Committee of the Revenue do speedily pay to Colonel Henry Martyn a Member of the House three thousand pound which Sum he had formerly advanced for the service of this Nation Order touching the arrears of the Dutchy of Lancaster Referred in a special manner to the Commissioners of the Seal to relieve according to equity and justice such persons as have lain under the power of the Enemy and have been thereby disabled to pay their debts yet are sued at Law and liable to great penalties Referred to the Council of State to receive from two Gentlemen a Proposition made by them for the great advance of Learning and Arts and to treat with the Gentlemen thereupon and report their opinions to the House Orders touching the Officers of the Customs Order for the Barons of the Exchequer and the Committee of the Revenue to consult together how the Arrears due by Papists may be collected and that the Arrears of Fee-farm rents be speedily paid Order for the Speaker to sign Letters from time to time tendered to him by the Committee of the Army Five Troopers condemned to die by the Council of War for a mutiny at the Bull in Bishopsgate-street refusing to march upon their Colonels Orders and violently fetching away the Colours from the Cornets quarters Upon their humble Petition the General pardoned them but another one Lockier was executed The Levellers were driven away from St. George's Hill in Surry by the Country people 27. Debate of the Act for Sale of Deans and Chapters Lands Order for the Committee to meet touching Colonel Pophams arrears Sir Edward Harrington desired to be excused from taking the charge of the Kings Children Order for one thousand three hundred pound for Plymouth Garrison Mr. Andrews re-admitted a Member 28. The House spent the whole day about perfecting the Act for sale of Deans and Chapters Lands 30. The Act passed for Sale of Deans and Chapters Lands and ordered to be Printed An Act passed giving power to the Commissioners to administer an Oath agreed upon in some cases of the Customs Letters from Lancashire of their want of Bread so that many Families were starved that there were many Souldiers quartered pretending for Ireland shew no Commission yet make Assessments for fourteen shillings a week for a Horse-man and seize goods for default and free-quarter and give the seed Corn to their Horses Referred to the Council of State and by them to the General to reduce those in Lancashire An Act passed for Justices of Peace for the County Palatine of Lancashire as for other Counties By Order of the House the Speaker sent Letters to the Commissioners in the several Counties for the speedy collecting the Assessment of ninety thousand pound per mens for the Forces in England and Ireland Some who counterfeited the Pass of the Council and by pretence thereof got Money in Suffolk which they said was for the relief of Ireland were committed to Peter-house Order of the General that no Regiment that is to stay in England do entertain any of the Forces designed for Ireland Mr. Lockier a Trooper who was Shot to death by sentence of the Court Martial was buried in this manner About one hundred went before the Corps and five and six in a File the Corps was then brought with six Trumpets sounding a Souldiers Knell then the Troopers Horse came cloathed all over in mourning and led by a Footman The Corps was adorned with bundles of Rosemary one half stained in blood and the Sword of the deceased with them Some thousands followed in Ranks and Files all had Sea-Green and Black Ribbon tied on their Hats and to their Breasts and the Women brought up the Rear At the new Church-Yard in Westminster some thousands more of the better sort met them who thought not fit to march through the City many looked upon this Funeral as an affront to the Parliament and Army others called them Levellers but they took no notice of any of them Letters from Ireland that Colonel Tothills Regiment of one thousand two hundred and fifty was not landed but beaten back by Tempest to Anglesey That London-Derry could not hold out the Siege That Colonel Monk stood off and did nothing being as he said not in a capacity Letters from Newcastle that many in Cumberland and Westmerland died in the high ways for want of bread and divers left their habitations travelling with their Wives and Children to other parts to get relief but could have none That the Committees and Justices of the Peace of Cumberland Signed a Certificate That there were thirty thousand Families that had neither Seed nor Bread-corn nor Money to buy either and they desired a Collection for them which was made but much too little to relieve so great a multitude Letters from Berwick that the Scots troubles increase that there are among them five for the King for one against him that they are incensed at the death of the Duke and Marquess Huntly and expect an agreement with the King That they take divers English Cavaliers into their Army May 1649. May 1. Debate of an Act to make many things Treason in relation to the Common-wealth As malitiously to affirm the present Government to be tyrannical usurped on unlawful Or that the Commons in Parliament are not the Supream Authority or to endeavour to alter the Government Or to affirm the Parliament or Councel of State to be tyrannical or unlawful or to endeavour to subvert them or stir up Sedition against them Or for Souldiers to contrive the Death of their General or Lieutenant General or others to endeavour to raise Monies or War against the Parliament or to joyn to invade England or Ireland to counterfeit the Great Seal or to kill any Member of Parliament or Judge in their Duty An Act committed for settling the Republique Letters from General Popham from Faymouth that he fought with a Squadron of Prince Ruperts
Ships took the Guinney Frigot which had 34 Guns and 20 other Vessels Letters from Ireland that Dublyn was in great danger and that Ormond had totally routed two Regiments of the Parliament Party Letters from Bristol that the Levellers were very active in those parts and took much with the People Lilbourn Walwyn Prince Overton published their Agreement of the People to this Effect 1 The Supream Authority of this Nation to be a Representative of 400. 2 That 200 be an House and the major Voice concluding to the Nation 3 All publick Officers to be capable of Subjection those of Salary not to be Members 4 No Members of one Representative to be chosen of the next 5 This Parliament to end the first Wednesday in August 1649. 6 If this omit to order it that the People proceed to Elections 7 A new Representative to be the next day after this is dissolved 8 The next and future Parliaments each to stand for one whole Year 9 The Power to be without consent of any 10 They not to make Laws to compel in matters of Religion 11 None to be compelled to fight by Sea or Land against his Conscience 12 None to be questioned concerning the Warrs but in pursuance to Authority 13 All Priviledges of any Person from Courts of Justice to be null 14 Not to give Judgement against any where no Law was provided before 15 Not to depend longer upon the incertain Inclination of Parliament 16 None to be punished for refusing to answer against themselves 17 No appeal after 6 Months after the end of Representatives 18 None to be exempted for beyond-Seatrade where others are free 19 No Excise or Custom to be above four Months after next Parliament 20 Mens Persons not to be imprisoned for Debt nor their Estates free 21 Mens Lives not to be taken away but for Murder or the like 22 Men upon Tryals for Life Liberty c. to have Witnesses heard 23 Tithes not to continue longer than the next Representative 24 Every Parish to choose their own Minister and to force none to pay 25 Conviction for Life Liberty c. to be by twelve Neighbours sworn 26 None to be exempted from Offices for his Religion only 27 The People in all Counties to choose all their Publique Officers 28 Future Representations to justify all Debts Arrears c. 29 No Forces to be raised but by the Representations in being 30 This Agreement not to be nulled no Estates levelled nor all things common Montrosse was sent Ambassador into Spain to declare the Kings sad Condition the executing of his Father and keeping him from his Birthright the like to be to France Denmark and Sweden 2 Several Petitions presented from London in behalf of Lilbourn and the rest from Essex for the same from Cambridgeshire about Sea Breaches from London for payment of publick Faith Mony another for Relief of such have been sentenced for adhering to the Parliament another in behalf of the Commons of Lincolnshire Another Petition from Suffolk to the like Effect with former Petitions for taking away Tiths c. and for Liberty of Conscience the Petitioners had thanks for their former good Services and Present civil Petitioning 3 The Publick Fast Day One Elliot a Person towards the Law and others ingaged Souldiers in the Execution of civil Process the General declared his dislike thereof in a Letter to the Lord Chief Justice and prayed his care to punish it One Doâ— committed to the Marshal to be tryed by a Councel of War for pretending a Commission from the Officers of the Army to collect Arrears due for Spiritual Livings and thereby got great Sums into his hands Also two more for counterfeiting the Generals Hand and Seal to Protections for which they received Mony 4 Referred to a Committee to regulate the Vniversity of Cambridge Upon a report from the Councel of State ordered that the Guinny Frigot lately taken be victualled mann'd and set out to Sea Referred to the Committee of the Admiralty to consider of the Articles given to the Captain and Seamen upon the taking of that Friget and whether they may be proceeded against or not and touching the Irish Mariners and the English that revolted Referred to the Councel of State to consider how the Mariners and others detained Prisoners in Scylley and Jersy may be relieved and discharged the like upon the Petition of Mariners Wives The Committee ordered to consider of the indirect dealings in the Sale of Bishops Lands and removing Obstructions therein An Act for discharge of Delinquents in Essex who have compounded An Act passed for settling the Rectory and Glebelands of Burford upon a Member 5 Order for the Isle of Anglesey to have the like Benefit for Compounding as South Wales had Order for L. C. Throckmorton to have a concealed Estate discovered by him towards his Arrears he proving it to belong to a Delinquent The L. Howard chosen and admitted to be Burgess for Carlisle Order for the Speaker to give Passes to those who by the Articles of Pontfract were to go beyond Sea Petition for Payment of Publique Faith Mony Order for the Accounts of a Member to be stated and his Arrears paid out of such concealed Delinquents Estates as he should discover Referred to a Committee to consider of the Petitions and Grievances of all who have not Articles upon Rendition of Garrisons performed to them 7 Order to discharge from Sequestrations the Lady Capels joynture Orders for the Arreares of Colonel Rich. Mr. Francis Pierepoint satisfyed the Committee and was re-admitted to sit in the House Order that the Speaker Sign Letters to forrain Ministers with a Copy of the Act for seizing all Ships that have Prince Charles his Commission Order that the Ingagements for the Navy may be doubled upon Deanes and Chapters Lands Referred to a Committee to consider how the Town of Leverpool may be relieved for Losses Upon their Petitions Orders for Pardon and Inlargement of the L. Goring C. Owen Langhern and Powel Letters from Berwick that things in Scotland were bad that the People increase in Discontent and Affection to the Royal Party The private Souldiers of C. Scroopes Regiment of Horse published their Resolutions not to go for Ireland till the Ingagements of the Parliament were performed here 8 Voted not to continue the Allowance of 12000 l. to the Queen of Bohemia and that the Committee of the Revenue make a List for the House of all Pensions and suspend the Payment of them The Question whether the Councel of State should pay 1500 l. to the Earl of Rutland for demolishing Belvoir Castle passed in the Negative Order for the Commissioners of the Seal to send a Writ to the Lord Mayor to cause to be proclaimed the Act touching Prize Ships and Goods Iretons Regiment were in Disorder upon Letters from Colonel Scroopes Regiment to joyn in their Resolution not to go for Ireland the like of Colonel Reynold's Regiment and
caused to be published in Scotland for Justifying of his Proceedings Mr. Windram Layds of Libberton though hardly drawn to it was at length dispatched away with a Message to the Scots King after his arrival in Jersy he waited for an audience till an Agent that had come from Ireland was dismist Then being admitted to the Princes Presence he presented to him the Desires and Offers of the States of Scotland which were to this Effect 1 That he would sign the Covenant and pass an Act for all Persons in Scotland to take it and to ratifyall that had been done there concerning the same 2 That he would pass divers Acts of the Parliament of Scotland which were ratifyed by their two last Sessions as for his approbation of their disclaiming Dr. Hamiltons Design for receiving the several Acts made by the English for the Militia for the Kings of Scotland to have no negative voice in that Parliament 3 That he would withdraw his Commissions to Montross for raising Forces to be sent from beyond Seas into Scotland and to give present Order for the stopping thereof 4 That he would put away all Papists from about him and let none be of his Councel but known Protestants 5 That he would appoint some place about Holland to treat with Commissioners from the Estates of Scotland wro would send eminent Lords to him to treat and conclude there upon all particulars and from the time he should come into Holland they would provide for him what should be necessary to make him and his Train to reside in a Regal manner 6 That he would give a speedy Answer to their Desires These Propositions were much debated by the Prince his Councel who were of a different Sense concerning them nor could a present Answer to them be agreed upon the Priuce having ingaged himself to the Queen his Mother not to do any thing in matters of Importance without first acquainting her therewith and having her advice about them It was thought fit also speedily to acqnaint Montross with this Business Some of the Prince his Councel were for rejecting these Propositions as dishonorable and disadvantagious Others were for accepting them and a speedy agreement with that Party in Scotland which was most prevalent and by whom the Prince had greater Probability of obtaining the Crown than by Montross his Designs which were full of hazard and uncertainty Letters also came from the Queen urging that if the Scots Propositions seemed at present too severe and insupportable there might hereafter be opportunity as soon as he had obtained the Kingdom to free himself at least in some measure from the Inconveniences of them The main of his Councel tended to this that according to the Exigence of his Affairs at present it was absolutely necessary to comply with the Kirk of Scotland Montross advised the same and that the Banishment of himself might not hinder it but to that the King answered that he had found him so faithful and to have performed so eminent Services both to his Father and to himself that he could not in Justice or Honour leave him and desired him to urge him no further to it In regard the Answer to the Scots Propositions required some considerable time because it could not be compleated to be returned by the L. of Libberton Sir William Flemming was sent as Agent before hand to Edenburgh from thence to give Advice of the Affairs in Scotland that thereby the Councel might the better know how to frame the Answer Sir John Berkeley and C. Slingsby were sent into the West of England to sollicite the Kings Friends to rise in Arms for their Prince and being accidentally discovered by a Country Fellow were apprehended by the Committee of the County and sent Prisoners to Truroe The Prince had Ambassadors with the Emperour the Duke of Muscovia the State of Venice the Great Turk and with the King of Spain to whom the Substance of the Ambassy was 1 That the Parliament of England having been in Arms against his Father and prevailed against him and caused him to be put to Death 2 That he being Son and Heir to the late King was yet kept out of his Kingdom by the aforesaid Parliament 3 That he desired the King of Spain's Neighbourly Assistance and that he would afford him what Aid he could to Establish him into his Rights and Dignities in the Kingdoms To this the King of Spain made Answer 1 That he was sorry for his Fathers ill Success wishing he had been more prosperous 2 That he condold with him for his Fathers Death and was much affected with Sorrow at the manner of it 3 That concerning the difference between him and the Parliament and the Rights on the one or the other Side they being Matters out of his Territories and Jurisdiction he could not take Cognizance of them nor should he meddle therein But for any thing within his own Dominions he should be ready to do him what lawful Favour he could November 1649. The Princes continuance at Jersy was by his Councel held not fit to be much longer upon these Reasons 1 Because there was a considerable Fleet of the Parliaments come already to Portsmouth with store of Provisions and it was necessary to prevent the danger that might fall upon them in case those Ships should make an attempt upon the Island which that they would do was the more probable because there were already men landed in Jersy 2 That if they should lye under that hazard they knew not where to expect Relief except all other Services should be neglected and Prince Rupert and Montross called hither which would be the ruine of their Designs 3 That their removal would give great Satisfaction to the Kingdom of Scotland and be an Encouragement to their Friends in England 4 That thereby they should be the more free from Hazards and Dangers both as to themselves and others that should make addresses to them The Councel of State in England had good Intelligence of all the Transactions of the Prince and of his Councel which they procured by their Mony whereof some of the Prince his Servants were needy and would betray their Master for it The times were licentious and men took strange Liberty to calumniate all in Authority and to clamour if they had not what themselves thought fit respecting themselves and their private Interest and Concerns much more than the Rules of Right and Justice and the Law it self When the King of Portugal could neither by Force nor Intreaties be perswaded to cast off Prince Rupert out of his Protection the English Admirals resolved with patience to awaite his coming out and a long time they kept him in there till at last want of Provisions made them retire and give the Prince room Who immediately steered from thence to Malaga but in the Voyage perplexed with extraordinary Storms he lost his Brother Maurice who in the Vice Admiral was never since
the public Treasuries in London and several Counties The high Court of Justice sate 6 From Exeter That the Judges of Assise there had much settled the People Minds asto the present Government in their Charges to the Grand Jury wherein the Lord Chief Justice Rolles and Judge Nicholas were very much commended An Account of Shipping some Troops designed for Ireland From Tossiter That the Officers and People in that Country did generally and chearfully subscribe the Ingagement From Liscard That the Committee were very active in settling the Militia and the Country were ready to come in and be listed 8 From Chester That Kilkenny was surrendred upon Articles unto the Lord Lieutenant That C. Hewson in his return to Dublin with part of his Brigade took Scarlough the great Tory and divers Priests and Fryars accidentally and that the Lord Lieutenant besieged Cartherlow From Scarborough That the Governour having notice of a small Man of War belonging to the Prince he got a Northsea Vessel and sent Captain Lassels with 50 men in her to see if they could meet with the Pyrate who lay near to that Harbour That the Pirate espying this little Vessel at Seacame out to her set upon her her men having Orders to keep close and not be seen till the word given and assoon as the Pyrates were ready to board the Souldiers came forth and fell on them forced their Men being 29 under deck and brought away them and their Ship to Scarborough six of their Men and one Captain being slain and all the men in the Pyrates Ship were Papists and those who had long used this Course of Piracy 9 An Act and Declaration passed for imposing Penalties upon such as purchase any Crown Lands as original Creditors and pay with assigned or false Bills An Additional Act Passed for the furthur ease and relief of poor Prisoners Order that the Lords Commissioners of the great Seal take care that all Indictments Outlawries and other Acts against any Person for adhering to the Parliament remaining upon Record be searched out taken off the File cancelled and burnt as things scandalous and void Order that all Patents for granting any Title of Honour to any Person after the carrying away of the great Seal to Oxford be annulled and made void And that they do not take that title to whom it is granted nor any presume to give it them and that the Lords Commissioners do prepare an Act for that purpose An Act read for laying an Imposition upon Coals towards the building of Ships An Act read against transportation of Gold and Bullion out of this Nation beyond Seas An Additional Act passed for providing Maintenance for Ministers by Augmentations Vote That no Merchant or Trader beyond Seas shall have any Place in the Custome House during the time that he tradeth That the Arms of the King be taken down in all Ships and the Generals at Sea to see it done That the Arms of the King be taken down in all Churches and Chappels and the Justices of Peace Churchwardens and other Officers ordered to see it done That the Councel of State have power to remove from London and 20 Miles distance from thence all such Delinquents whose abode there they shall Judge to be dangerous An Act passed impowring Commissioners to put in execution the Powers formerly given to the Commissioners for compounding with Delinquents the Committee of Habberdashers Hall c. 10 An Account of transporting Forces for Ireland Letters that Ormond is desirous to go out of Ireland and Inchequin to come in to the Parliament From Lisbon That G. Blake with the Parliaments Fleet arrived there and understood that Prince Rupert intended to set sail from thence within two days whereupon Blake sent to the King of Portugal for leave to come into the River of Lisbon and coming near with his Ships the Castle shot at him That upon this Blake came to an Anchor and sent a Boat to know the Reason why they shot at him the Captain of the great Castle made answer That they had no Order from the King to let them come in That the Merchants Ships that came with Blake seeing this set sail for the Streights After this the King sent one of his greatest Nobles to congratulate with Blake and to desire him not to come in except the weather proved bad whereby he could not ride where he was it being his Majesties Fear that he and Prince Rupeit would quarrel and fight in his Harbour The Kng also sent to Blake a large present of fresh Provisious for his Refreshment That the weather beginning to be foul Blake came into the Bay of Wyers in the River two Miles from Prince Rupert whose men came dayly from him to Blake and one of his Ships the Swallow was coming away but was discovered and the Boatswain clapt in Chains That the Admiral had not above 40 Seamen in his Ship and very few in the rest of his Fleet. That Captain Molton went on Shore from Blake to satisfy the King of the Falsities of Prince Ruperts Declaration 11 A Scots Vessel taken by an Irish Man of War was rescued by a Dutchman The Commissioners settled the Militia in Courwall From Chepsto That at the Assises was as great an appearance of Gentlemen and Freeholders as ever was seen in that Country One tryed and found guilty there for poisoning his Wife and was upon his own words greatly suspected to have poisoned his four Wives and three Children Orders issued That every Regiment of Foot should be recruited to 1200 the Collonels Company to be 200 the Lt. Collonels Company 160 the Majors 140 and the other seven Companies to be 100 a piece Anno 1650 12 From Scotland That notice being had of their Commissioners arriving in Holland the Kirk kept a day of humiliation to seek God for a Blessing upon the Treaty and injoyned the like through Scotland That many German Officers are there expecting imployment when the King comes thither That Cromwel granting Liberty of Conscience to the Irish they will all submit to him 13 From Dublin That the Governour C. Hewson after he had taken Lawlinbridge by order marched with a strong party and met the Lord Lieutenant at Gouran five Miles from Kilkenny and March 19. entred the Town without Opposition That the Castle stood on t and after a sharp dispute upon one attempt to storm the Common Souldiers that they might have Quarter for themselves delivered up their Officers viz. C. Hammon M. Townly two Captains one Quarter Master one Lieutenant and a Priest March 22 All the Officers were shot to death except the Lieutenant who was spared for that he joyned with the Souldiers to deliver up the Officers and the Priest was hanged The Souldiers that were English took up Arms with ours Next day our Forces marched towards Kilkenny and March 24th were necessitated to attempt a Storm to divert the Enemies Forces from falling upon a Party of
to hunt after them a Party of the Enemies Horse fell suddenly upon them and took 64 of them Prisoners That Mr. White who formerly betrayed the Bogg of Allen to the Rebeils coming from them to Dublin was met with and killed by the Tories That the Lord Deputy Ireton came to the Siege of Catherlow and sent Collonel Axtel with 1100 Horse and Foot to Tecrohan That the Lady Fitz-Gerald whom the Souldiers called Col. Mary she defending Tecrohan wrote to her Husband for Supplyes else that she must be forced to surrender upon Conditions and that none in the Castle but one doth know her wants 22 Letters of much trouble in Scotland by reason of the Army of English Sectaries marching Northwards That one Whitford another of the Assacinates of Dr. Dorislaus was executed in Scotland as one of Montrosses Party 24 Letters that the King had left Holland and either was already or would shortly be in Scotland That a Holland Ship Loaden with goods for Edenburch was taken by the Parliaments ships and brought to Newcastle That the Scotch Levyes proceed apace and some Lords are questioned for having a hand in the Invasion of Montross 25 Orders touching the Forces marching Northwards and about Recruits for Ireland and for Widdows maintenance whose Husbands were slain in the Parliaments Service An Act passed for continuance of the Committee for the Army and Treasurers at War An Act passed for constituting M. G. Skippon Commander in chief of all the Forces in London and the Lines of Communication The Act touching Articles of War continued for six Months Debate of an Act for suppressing Raunters An humble Acknowledgment to the Parliament from the Gentlemen and well affected of South-Wales with thankfulness and Profession of their future duty and Obedience And the Speaker gave them the hearty Thanks of the Parliament The juncto of the Councel of State with whom Cromwel consulted having Intelligence of the Kings resolution for Scotland and of the Laws there made of Forces to assist him in his intended Invasion of England whereof they had more than ordinary assurance They thought it therefore not prudent to be behind hand with their Enemy nor to be put to an after Game to stay till they should first invade England but rather to carry the War from their native Country into Scotland As to the Objection that their invading Scotland would be contrary to the Covenant they were satisfyed that the Covenant was by the Scots broken and dissolved before and was not now binding betwixt the two Nations and the levying of Forces In Scotland and marchinng some of them to the Borders of England with the Hostile Acts done by them formerly were sufficient Grounds for the Parliament to provide for the Security of themselves and Countreymen the which could not be so effectually done as by carrying the War which they designed upon us unto their own Doors Upon these and many other weighty considerations it was resolved here That having a formed Army well provided and experienced they would march it forthwith into Scotland to prevent the Scots Marching iuto England and the Miseries accompanying their Forces to our Conutreymen The Ld. G. Fairfax being advised with herein seemed at first to like well of it but afterwards being hourly perswaded by the Presbyteriam Ministers and his own Lady who was a great Patroness of them he declared himself unsatisfyed that there was a just ground for the Parlament of England to send their Army to Invade Scotland But in case the Scots should invade England then he was forward to ingage against them in defence of his own Country The Councel of State fomewhat troubled at his Excellencies scruples appointed Cromwel Lambert Harrison St. John and Whitelock a Committee to confer hereupon with Fairfax and to endeavanr to satisfy him of the Justice and lawfulness of this undertaking The Committee met with the L. G. Fairfax and being shut up together in a room in Whitehall they went first to Prayer that God would direct them in this business and Cromwel began and most of the Committee prayed after which they discoursed to this effect Cromwel My Lord General we are commanded by the Councel of State to conferr with your Excellency touching the present design whereof you have heard some debate in the Councel of marching the Army under your Command into Scotland and because there seemed to be some hesitation in your self as to that Journey this Committee were appointed to endeavour to give your Excellency Satisfaction in any doubts of yours which may arise concerning that affair and the Grounds of that resolution of the Councel for the Journey into Scotland Lord General I am very glad of the Opportunity of conferring with this Committee where I find so many of my particular Friends as well as of the Commonwealth about this great business of our March into Scotland wherein I do acknowledge my self not fully satisfyed as to the grounds and justice of our Invasion upon our Brethren of Scotland and I shall be glad to receive satisfaction therein by you Lambert Will your Excellency be pleased to favour us with the particular Causes of your Dissatisfaction Lord General I shall very freely do it and I think I need not make to you or to any that know me any Protestation of the continuance of my Duty and Affection to the Parliament and my readyness to serve them in any thing wherein my Conscience will give me leave Harrison There cannot be more desired nor expected from your Excellency Whitelock No Man can doubt of the Fidelity and Affection of your Excellency to the Service of the Commonwealth you have given ample Testimony thereof and it will be much for the advantage of their affairs if we may be able to give you satisfaction as I hope we shall touching the particular points wherein your doubts arise St. John I pray my Lord be pleased to acquaint us with your particular Objections against this Journey Lord General My Lords you will give me leave then withall freeness to say to you that I think it doubtful whether we have a just cause to make an Invasion upon Scotland With them we are joyned in the national League and Covenant and now for us contrary thereunto and without sufficient cause given us by them to enter into their Country with an Army and to make War upon them is that which I cannot see the justice of nor how we shall be able to justify the lawfulness of it before God or Men. Cromwel I confess My Lord that if they have given us no cause to invade them it will not be justifyable for us to do it and to make War upon them without a sufficient ground for it will be contrary to that which in Conscience we ought to do and displeasing both to God and good men But My Lord if they have invaded us as your Lordship knows they have done since the national Covenant and contrary
of the Defeat given to C. Ker. That there is a great Distraction and mighty Workings of God upon the hearts of divers Religious People in Scotland both Ministers and others much of it tending to the Justification of your Cause A Declaration was published in Scotland of the King and Committee of Estates concerning the Remonstrance of Col. Straughan and his Party And another Declaration and Resolution of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland 17 An Act passed for continuing two former Acts touching Elections in London of Commmon-Councel-men c. Vote That the Fee called Damna Clericorum or Dammage Cleer shall be taken away and an Act to be brought in for that purpose An Act passed for the Sale of the L. Deincourt's Lands Upon a Report from the Councel of State of all the Proceedings of the High Court of Justice upon the Trial of the King the House Ordered them to be Recorded amongst the Records of Parliament and to be transmitted into the Chancery and other Cours at Westminster and to the Custos Rotulorum of the several Counties That an Ambassador from the King of Portugal to the Parliament was arrived in the Isle of Wight 18 Letters from the Admirals at Sea That upon a Letter from the Councel of State to improve all Opportunities for the Service of the State he took the French Man of War and went on in pursuit of P. Rupert That Blake pursued the Prince to the Port of Carthagena belonging to the King of Spain where the Prince with five Ships was put in and Blake sent to the Governor That an Enemy to the State of England was come thither That he had Orders from the Parliament to pursue him c. and the King of Spain being in Amity with the Parliament Blake desired leave to take all Advantages there against an Enemy To this the Governor returned Answer That he could not take any Notice of the Difference of any Nations or Persons among themselves only such as were Declared Enemies to the King his Master that they came in thither for Safety and therefore he could not but give them Protection and that he would do the like to them assuring them all Safety if they also did come in whilst they should stay there That Blake sent a Reply pressing the Governour for leave to fall upon the Prince and thanking him for his Offer to himself But the Governour sent to the King of Spain to know his pleasure herein and in the mean time Blake waited without the Harbour That since the Defeat of C. Ker they took 100 Horse more about Aire and Col. Straughan came in to Major General Lambert with about 60 Horse many of them Officers Jasper Collins was hanged at Charing-Cross for extorting Money from the Countrey and other Outrages as he marched with Recruits towards Ireland Another was tied by the Thumbs to the Gibbet for concealing a Design to betray Walling-ford-Castle where he was a Souldier Two others whipped at the Gibbet for running from their Colours 19 Letters That the Money and Supplies sent from the Parliament to the Army were arrived at Leith That three of the Parliaments Souldiers defended a weak House three hours together in their Shirts against 100 Moss-Troopers 20 Letters That Prince Rupert came to Malago and other Ports and fired and sunk divers English Merchants Ships and demanded the Master of a London Ship who had signed the Petition against the Personal Treaty saying that he would boyl him in Pitch but the Governour of Malago refused to deliver up the Master to him Of a French Ship sent in Prize to Poole by Capt. Mildmay 21 Letters That Blake fell upon Prince Rupert in Malago Road sunk two or three of his Ships run on Shore and exposed to Ship-wrack the rest of his Fleet only two Ships escaped wherein it is conceived Prince Rupert and his Brother Prince Maurice were and Blake in chace of them That when the Great Guns and Mortar-pieces played against Edenburgh-Castle they hung out a Flag of Defiance but after they had played a while and some Execution done by them those in the Castle hung out another Flag for a Treaty And sent a Messenger to the General that they might have time to send to their Friends at Sterling to know by what time they might expect Relief from them and if their expectation was not answered therein that then they would treat for Surrender of the Castle Or if this should be denied then they desired that some of the Scots Prisoners with the General might be permitted to come into the Castle to speak with them which the General granted That the Souldiers in the Castle were many of them sick for want of Water 23 Letters That the Battery went on against Edenburgh Castle and dismounted three of their Guns and shattered their Platform in pieces Copies sent to the Parliament of the Summons sent by the General to the Governour of Edenburgh Castle with his Answer and the General 's Replies 24 Upon a Petition of the Adventurers for Lands in Ireland a Committee appointed to consider of it and to state the Matter of Fact of that Business An Act passed giving power to the Lieutenant General Deputy and Commissioners of Ireland and declaring several Laws to be in force in Ireland Order touching the Trade of Gold and Silver Wyer A safe Conduct granted for the Ambassador of Portugal to repair to London Upon Information by the Speaker That the Spanish Ambassador had been with him and delivered to him a Copy of the Credentials directed to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England and Signed by the King of Spain the House Ordered That the Ambassador should have Audience The General sent his Letter to the Commanders at Chester Conwey and and other parts commanding That none of the Souldiers offer to give any Disturbance to Justice in the Case of Cheadle who had murdered Bulkley Letters That the High Court of Justice at Norfolk had condemned six of the Mutiniers in the late Insurrection who were Executed at Norwich 25 Letters That Prince Rupert was got on shoar in Spain and being demanded by C. Blake the King of Spain refused to deliver up the Person of the Prince but sent a Messenger to the Parliament about it 26 Letters That Sir Arthur Haselrigg and Mr. Scot members of the Councel of State were come to Edenburgh That the King made a Speech in the Parliament at St. Johns Town expressing much Joy that he was the first Covenanted King of the Nation 27 Letters That Major General Lambert was come to Edenburgh with C. Ker and other Prisoners That after much Execution done by the great Guns and Mortar-pieces in Edenburgh Castle and the General denying them to send to the Committee of Estates The Governour admitted a Treaty and the Commissioners agreed upon the Surrender of the Castle to the L. General Cromwel with all the Ordnance Arms Magazine and
Furniture of War upon Honourable Articles and Hostages given to perform them That in the Castle were 52 Pieces of Ordnance many of them Brass 1000 Arms and great store of Ammunition and Provision 28 The General published a Proclamation for the observation of the Articles for Surrender of Edenburg Castle by all the Officers and Souldiers of his Army on pain of Death 30 An Account of the Surrender of Edenburgh Castle with a Copy of the Articles of Rendition sent up to the Parliament This was related to be the first time that Edinburgh Castle was taken being the strongest and best fortified and provided in Scotland The Goods in it were of great Value but by the Articles the Owners had liberty to fetch them away The taking in of this chief Strength the Army not being far off yet affording no Relief was looked upon as very strange in relation to them and very successful as to the General and the Affairs of Parliament Letters That the Governour of Carlisle sent a Party of 1000 into Scotland who took in some small Forts and divers Prisoners and Goods The High Court of Justice proceeded to the Trial of several more Offenders in the late Insurrection in Norfolk 31 Upon the General his Letters of the Surrender of Edenburgh Castle the House ordered a Day of Thanksgiving for that and the other late Successes of the Parliaments Forces January 1650. 1 A particular Account of the whole Action of G. Blake in destroying of P. Rupert's Fleet. Letters of a Ship cast away in the West and upon the Shipwrack a Man and a Boy were cast into a Câ—â—ft and saved alive after they had lain there from Tuesday until Friday 2 An Examination of a Prisoner who related the Danger of the Lord Ormond Inchequin and others of the King's Party at Sea from Ireland And That the Popish Clergy had Excommunicated Ormond and all his Adherents That the Irish were got together 7000 Foot and 1500 Horse 3 A Corporal hanged for taking a Mare from a Constable and beating and wounding him and making Uproars in the Town and affrighting the People Another ran the Cantelope for Drunkenness and being found in bed with a Woman not his Wife Others whipped for running from their Colours 4 Letters That the Court at Sterling were much troubled at the Surrender of Edinburgh Castle 6 Letters That the Scots are agreed to make use of all sorts of their People in their Defensive War and Commissions are given to the Malignants but divers thereupon have laid down their Commands and are dissatisfied That the Kirk were now as zealous to admit the Malignants as they were formerly to purge them out of the Army That the Kirk have commanded notice to be taken in every Parish of those that speak favourably of the Sectaries that they may be Excommunicated And That he is called a Sectary who talks of a Malignant That the English Malignants are all received again That the High Court of Justice in Norfolk had Condemned twenty four Persons for the late Insurrection of whom twenty were Executed 7 An Act passed for setting apart the Day for publick Thanksgiving and a Declaration of the Grounds thereof Several Votes passed touching the publick Accounts of the Commonwealth and Augmentations for Maintenance of Ministers 8 Letters That the Irish would have cast off their King because of his agreeing with the Scots and aisoâ—ning his Fathers ways But That others excused the King as forced to do what he did in Scotland 9 Letters That some Merchants Ships of England making a stop at Crock-haven in Ireland the Irish came on Board them and pretended that they were weary of the King's Ministers and would be for the Parliament of England whereupon the Masters of the Ships invited them to Dinner on Ship-board and they again invited the Masters to a Dinner with them on Shoar That whilst the Masters were at Dinner with the Irish they had fitted out some Boats with Men and went and surprized and took the Ships and all the Men left in them 10 The Portugal Ambassador had Audience in the House and delivered his Credential Letters being rightly directed Prolocutori Parliamenti Reâ—publicae Angliae else they would not have received them 11 A Committee was appointed to meet with the Portugal Ambassador who spake to them in his own Language the Portuguese Tongue and recounted the ancient Amity between the Crown of Portugal and the Common-wealth of England the continuance whereof he said was desired by the King his Master The Chair-man of the Committee answered That they would report to the Parliament what his Excellency had said to them And so after Ceremonies they parted The Committee came in with the Mace before them into the Court of Wards Chamber prepared for the Ambassador after he was come thither but the Ambassador went first away Letters of the Crowning of the King at Schone in Scotland 13 Letters of the Ceremonies of the King's Coronation their Bonfires scattering of Monies riding in their Parliament Robes Healths and other Solemnities That their great Business is to levy new Forces all are received that will come in against the common Enemy the English Two Ministers were imprisoned for speaking against this That the South of Scotland do conform to the English Army pay Contribution and remain in their Habitations That divers of the Souldiers who were in Edenburgh Castle were imprisoned after the Surrender of it for Mutiny and forcing their Governour to yield it up That the Scots intend with a new Army to slip into England That the Marquess of Argyle and two of the Clergy put the Crown upon the King's Head which was Silver double gilt Order for 10 l. to be given to any one who shall apprehend a Felon and the Sheriff to pay it 14 An Act passed for continuance of the Committee of the Army and Treasurers at War An Act passed for encouraging the importation of Bullion An Act passed to authorize the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal to issue forth Commissions under the Great Seal to Delegates to hear and determine the Business of Mrs. Puckering and Mr. Welch who forced her to speak Words of Marriage to him and carried her forcibly out of England to Dunkirk And the Commissioners to have power to send for Parties and to examine all pretended Marriages of this Nature and as they find by the Proofs brought before them to give Sentence either to confirm or make void the said Marriages An Act passed for taking away Damage-Cleer Letters That the King was appointed Captain General of the Scots Army and Duke Hamilton is to be Lieutenant General David Lesley to be Major General and Middleton Lieutenant General of the Horse and Massey to be Major General of the English 15 Letters of a Woman hanged at Oxford who was recovered to Life again by the Doctors and said That she felt no Pain nor remembred any thing that was done to her at
to the Councel of State to order the Stores and Magazines both for Sea and Land Service as they shall think best for the advantage of the Common-wealth Pardon 's passed for divers poor Prisoners upon Certificates of the Judges Order for an Act to confine Papists and Delinquents to their Houses Letters that the King was active in surveying his Garrisons and new Levies 26 Letters that two Dutchmen loaden with salt came to an anchor within half a League of Dartmouth Castle That presently after two Jersy Pirates came up with them cut their Cables by the half and carried them away That the Castle shot at them but could not reach them 27 Order by the Parliament That the Officers for the Recruits for Ireland shall constantly attend their Charges and the Forces to march directly to their Ports and in their march to Quarter in Inns and Ale-houses and to pay for what they have Referred to the Councel of State to send this order into the several Counties where the Recruits are to pass to the Commissioners of the Militia and for the Assessement and to the Constables that it be observed 28 Letters that the Irish having distressed a Party of the Parliaments Forces another commanded Party marched from Kilkenny to relieve them and after five weeks march in such a season of the Year into such inaccessable places they scattered the Enemy driving them out of many strong Holds some whereof they had taken from the Parliaments Forces That after pursuing them with Fire and Sword and utterly destroying that part of the Countrey which was part of the Enemies chief fastness and Refuge in their return home the Parliaments Foot ingaged with the Enemies at their own play and upon their own terms in such fastnesses of Woods and Boggs that the Parliaments Horse could not come near But God shewing himself the Irish were not able to abide but quickly fled leaving their Ammunition and store of their Arms behind them and some hundreds of them fell by the Sword in this Expedition March 1650. March 1 Letters of Jeysey Pyrates very bold upon the Western Coast That Tantallon Castle in Scotland after battery and playing with Granadoes was surrendred upon Mercy there being in it 91 Officers and Souldiers and that this cleared the Passage between Edenburgh and Berwick The High Court of Justice sentenced Sir Henry Hide late Agent for the King in Turkey to be beheaded for sundry Treasons and Crimes committed by him against the Common-wealth 3 Letters that the General and Officers of the Army in Scotland kept a Day of Humiliation for the Sins of the Army That thirty sale of Ships were lately come into Leith with Supplies from London for the Army That one of them was cast away That the King went into the North of Scotland to hasten the Levies and came to Aberdeen to compose their differences but the Presbytery there opposed their Proceedings especially in the receiving of Huntley and that the Chancellours Power is down That Faux Castle was surrendred to the General That the Countrey about Edenburgh sent in 100 Horse for Assistance of the General That C. Ludlow Shipped with his Men for Ireland 4 The Parliament ordered a day to be set apart to seek a Blessing from God upon their Councels at home and their Forces abroad by Sea and Land An Act passed for C. Pophain and C. Blake and C. Dean or any two of them to be Admirals and Generals of the Fleet for the year ensuing An Act impowring the Councel of State and the Admirals at Sea for the pressing of men as there shall be cause Amendments passed to a Bill for a new Invention in melting down of Metalls with Coal 5 No Letters came from Scotland nor from Ireland 6 Letters of several Ships taken by Pyrates of Jersy and Scylly Of the willingness of Recruits about Exon to go for Scotland 7 The business of Mrs Jane Puckering and Mr. Joseph Wâ—lch about his forcing of her to a pretended Marriage and carrying her beyond Sea to Dunkirk was heard by the Commissioners appointed for hearing and determing thereof by a special Act of Parliament made for that purpose Letters that a Party of the Parliaments Garrison at Lithgow fell upon a Party of Scots and took 30 Prisoners and slew a Lieutenant and three or four of the Enemy Several Scots Officers were imprisoned at St. Johns Town for receiving Money and not raising their men according to their Commissions That the Sea brake in near Yarmouth and drowned many Cattle and a great part of the Countrey 10 Letters that General Cromwel was sick in Scotland Of great Preparations in the Isle of Man to assist the King Of Dutch Ships arrived at Dundâ—â— with Ammunition for the King That the Lords Ambassadours St. John and Strickland took Shipping on the Lords day for the low Countries 11 An Act passed for continuing the Customes and Book of Rates for a year Vote that no Fullers-earth or Clay nor Oare of Lead or Tin be transported beyond Sea Order touching Sequestrations Order That all English and Scots who have been under the Pay of the Parliament in Ireland and have revolted and betrayed their Trust and have assisted the King are Traitors and Rebels and their Estates to be confiscate and their Persons to be proceeded against as Traitors 12 Letters that C. Hewson had taken in several petty Garrisons near Athelow That M. Arnup with a Lieutenant and twenty men were set upon in Wicklow by a Party too strong for him the Lieutenant nine or ten of the men were slain the rest escaped 13 The publick Fast Day observed in London and Westminster 14 Letters of the Judges of Assise brought into Chard by the Sheriffe and Souldiers of the Militia with vollies of Shot many of the Justices and Gentlemen of the Country absenting themselves 15 Letters That after the taking of Temptallon Castle the Garrisons at Calanderhouse and Blackness were quitted by the Scots Of the want of Frigots upon the Western Seas to keep in the Jersy and Scilly Pyrats 17 Letters that the English Fishermen were taken by the Scots at Sea and their Ships and Goods carryed away and their Persons Prisoners And that divers Scots Men of War are set out to the great dammage of Trade Of the Jersy and Scilly Pyrates taking several Merchants Ships and none of the Parliaments Frigots to help them That upon C. Hewsons march into Westmeath the Enemy got together 3000 in the Kings County and 5000 in Finagh Quartered within ten Miles of Hewson and had their Fastnesses yet durst never appear to fight with him but fled from him 18 An Act passed for continuing a former Act for removing all Papists all Officers and Souldiers of Fortune and divers Delinquents from London and Westminster and confining them within five Miles of their Dwellings and to incourage such as shall discover Papists and Jesuits and their Receivers and Abetters Order that the Lords Commissioners of
the Parliament before the Battery of the Town That they suspended their answer for one day and then sent for a Treaty for surrender and for a cessation in the mean time That the Lord Deputy consented to a Treaty but denyed a cessation that they are much divided in the Town and the greater part was for a Surrender That Clanrickard and Castle haven were gone to Sea and their Army broken in peices and none can tell how That the Lieutenant General took in several Castles and one by storm with his Horse and Dragoons only and that Collonel Reynolds was with him in those actions and that Collonel Zankey had relieved a Garrison of the Parliaments and took in several Forts from the Enemy 5. Letters That the Scots Army was drawn out on this side Sterling and thereupon the General drew out his Army from Edenburgh and they lay in the Field to be in a fit posture to receive the Enemy but the Scots went back and the English incamped upon Penthland Hills That the Camp was in an excellent Martial posture and figure and the General was in his Tent. That many English Ladies were there to view the Leaguer Mr. Love was sentenced by the High Court of Justice for the Treasons proved against him to be beheaded 7. Letters of both Armies in Scotland drawing neerer one to another That the Mosse Toopers took 4 Horsmen and 6 Prisoners Of a Prize loaden with Salt brought into Lieth That the Governour of Lieth sent a party into Edenburgh to search for Arms where they found many in private Houses and brought them away to Lieth That the General had in his Army 14 Regiments of Horse 12 Regiments of Foot and 16 pieces of Ordinance and that both Armies were within 8 or 9 miles ofone another and that some of their Scouts have met That the English Army saw the Scots Leaguer That they were 15000 Foot and 6000 Horse That the Scots have great differences among themselves That Hamilton carrys all and Argyle his party are down That some Ministers have put out a new Remonstrance against the taking in of some notorious Malignants Letters of Alderman Jacksons house near Bristol burned with his Children in it 8. The Parliament passed a Vote for putting down the Marshals Court in Southwark An Act passed for keeping the Assizes at Durham Officers named in the Bill for sale of some Delinquents Lands An Act passed for continuing the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster Letters That the Ships with Mony and Provisions were safely arrived in Ireland The Lord Deputy set forth a Proclamation for observing a day of Thanksgiving for the safe and seasonable Passage over the Shannon 9. Letters That Major Scot was sent out with a party to discover the Scots Army and gave them an Allarum that they drew up their Horses into Bodies 10. Letters of a quarrel between some of the Oxford Shire Troops and some Country Men. Of prizes brought in one loaded with 5000 bushels of wheat 11. Letters That God hath struck such a terror into the Camp of the Enemy that of all their Field Army in Ireland so much boasted of there was not 1000 Men in a body in any County to oppose the Parliaments Army That they would all go to the King of Spain if his Resident with them could furnish them with Mony yet he hath agreed for 4000. That Sr. Charles Coote is sat down before Galloway That the strong Castle by Lymbrick was surrendred upon quarter and that Collonel Tottel for killing some of the Enemy who had quarter given them was cashiered by the General That Lymbrick is in Treaty for surrender That Wheat is worth there 7 l. a Barrel That Massy wrote a vapouring Letter for exchange of a Prisoner but the General would not agree to it That the General marched towards the Scots Army lying at Torwood and there was Pickeering between both parties the English took 12 of the Scots and killed divers they killed none of the English but one man and all the Scots as they passed by him either Pistoled him or Cut him or Pricked him with their Rapiers in a barbarous manner That the King was in the Field to incourage them That the first rank of their Troops were Armed compleat They give out their Army to be 29000 but t is supposed they are 200000 That they had intrenched themselves and planted great Guns so that they could not be attempted with less danger than Storming a Garrison That some of the English Pickeering without order were indangered by the Enemy but relieved by Collonel Okey who beat the Scots from a Hill they had for advantage That both Armies drew to their Quarters about a Mile from each other That in the night the Enemy drew some great Guns to the top of an hill from whence they made about 40 Shot early in the morning and killed two or three of the English That the General Cromwel planted 2 Cannons and played upon them and did some execution and seeing the Scots would not ingage but upon their great advantage the General called a Councel of War in the Field and by their advice drew off to the Vale to see if the Scots would follow them and forsake their Hills which they did not and so the English Army returned back to their former Quarters at Lithgow 12. A List of the several Regiments of the English Army with their Collonels sent up being 14 Regiments of Horse 12 Regiments of Foot and 6 Troops of Dragoons 4 daies Provision more was delivered out to the Army for a new March and Design 14. Letters That Cromwel marched up again to the Scots but their Foot were intrenched and their Horse lay so that the English could not ingage them there being a River and Boggs between them and though Cromwel came up to the Teeth of them and viewed all their Bodies yet they would not come forth That the English took 8 Scots Prisoners and killed divers in Pickeering and beat them up to their Works and waited for them about 8 hours but they kept in and so the English went to their Quarters and the Scots followed them with a small party who were quickly beaten back That Athelow and Lymbrick were both surrendred to the Parliament That 5 English Vessels were taken prize by Boats from Jersey carrying 4 or 5 great Guns a piece in them That the States were sending the Lord Joachimi Ambassador to England to perfect what the English Ambassadors had there begun An Indictment of Felony at the Assizes in Kent was found against Joseph Welsh and others for assaulting Mrs. Jane Pukering and carrying her to Erith and compelling her contrary to her will to say words importing a Marriage c. 15. Mr. Love petitioned the Parliament and divers other Petitions were presented on his behalf for pardon of his life but after much debate upon the question it passed in the Negative On the day appointed for his
the General come up to us that we have 9000 Horse and between 3 or 4000 Foot to give them battle if they force us to ingage That not one County in England appeared in the least for the King but generally they raised Forces against him yet his Army marched without committing any outrage or doing any injury to the Country The Parliament passed an act to impower the Militias of London c. to raise Foot That the Earl of Derby was landed but with 250 Foot and 60 Horse unarmed that the Enemy seemed to bend towards North Wales The Councel of State during this action had almost hourly Messengers going out and returning from the several Forces carrying advice and directions to them and bringing to the Councel an account of their motions and designs and of the Enemies motions It could hardly be that any affair of this nature could be managed with more Diligence Courage and Prudence than this was nor peradventure was there ever so great a Body of men so well Armed and Provided got together in so short a time as were now raised and sent away to joyn with the rest of the Forces attending the King 20. Letters That they supposed it would be 8 days before the General could get up to the Enemy A Dutch prize brought into Plymouth loaden with Ammunition for the King and richly guilded 21. An account of Forces raised in Salop and the Neighbour Countries and breaking of Bridges and indeavouring to divert the course of the Scots Army That the Governour of Stafford went to Harrison with 700 Men. That 4000 of the Generals Foot march in their Shirts 20 Miles a day and have their Cloaths and Arms carried by the Country 22. Mr. Love the Minister and Mr. Gibbons were beheaded at Tower-Hill according to the Sentence of the High-Court of Justice The Under-keeper of Newgate having treated for the escape of Mr. Gibbons and received 100 l. in hand and a bond for 100 l. more after this discovered it and secured Gibbons Letters from Lambert to the Council with an intercepted Letter the Copy whereof he had sent to the General The Letter intercepted was taken from a Scots Prisoner it was from the King to Collonel Massey for leaving out a clause in the Letter from the Presbitery in the Army to the Ministers of Lancashire for taking notice of former Malignancy of Persons That the Scots began to plunder extreamly and many of them were weak 23. Letters That the Scots were marched from Nantwich towards Newport and steered for London That the General was expected within one day and That the Scots were come to Litchfield That 5000 Country men appeared with Horses at Coventry ready to serve the Parliament That Lambert and Harrison were at Vttoxeter and the Scots at Nantwich their Foot discontented and sick with their long marches and the King came to them with Cap in hand desiring them to march a little further That Harrison and Lambert had sent some Forces to Worcester to secure that place lest the King should make it a Quarter or Garrison and that Gloucester was supplyed That the next day they expected to joyn with the General That the Governour of Stafford made a Sally upon a party of the Scots and killed some of them and gave an Allarum to the whole Army That a Declaration was lately published by the King That the Scots were marched to Whit-Church the way to Wales That they hoped to hinder the Earl of Derby from raising any Forces in Lancashire and if they make a halt as t is supposed they must by reason of the weariness of their Infantry the Major-General hopes to give a good account of that business That Lieutenant-General Monk had the Castle of Sterling surrendred to him upon Articles with all their Ordinance and Ammunition 25. Letters That Collonel Pintchback had deserted the King and disliked his way That the Highlanders in Sterling Castle beat a parley without the consent of the Governour being frighted with the Morter pieces and threatned to throw the Officers over the walls if they did hinder them and said they would fight for their King but not for their Countries geer That the Soldiers had broken open divers Trunks in the Castle and carried out with them most of the best geer That in the Castle were 40 pieces of Ordinance 27 of them brass Guns and Provision for 500 Men for 12 Moneths 50 Barrels of Beef and about 5000 Arms. That all the Records of Scotland Chair and Cloath of State the Sword and other rich furniture of the Kings the Earl of Marr's Coronet and Stirrops of Gold with his Parliament Robes and store of the goods of the Country were in the Castle which they carried away according to the Articles little or nothing being imbezelled but what was by their own Men. That Sterling was one of the strongest and most magnificent Castles of Scotland and a pass of the greatest consequence That Collonel Okey took some in the West of Scotland who were raising Forces there That the Scots came to Worcester where the Country Forces made a gallant resistance and beat back the Enemy several times but the Towns-Men having laid down their Arms and some of them shooting at the Parliament Soldiers out of the Windows they removed their Ammunition while 30 Men only resisted the Enemy and beat them back and then withdrew and left the Town to the Enemy and came to Glocester That the King sent a Summons to Collonel Mackeworth Governour of Shrewsbury inviting him to surrender that Garrison to him but the Governour returned him a peremptory denial That the King sent also Letters to Sir Thomas Middleton to raise Forces for him in Mont-gomery-shire but he detained the Messenger Prisoner and sent up the Letter to the Parliament That Lieutenant-General Fleetwood and Collonel Desborough and other Officers met with Cromwel at Warwick Letters That Lymbrick was in great streits that the Irish increased in numbers that they had surprised a Garrison of the Parliaments the Soldiers being asleep and stormed Fenagh but were beaten off with great loss The trained bands of London Westminster c. drew out into Tuttle-Fields in all about 14000 the Speaker and divers Members of the Parliament were there to see them 26. The Parliament kept this a day of humiliation at St. Margarets Church in Westminster A Letter from the King to the City of London was burnt by the Hangman and the Parliaments Declaration was Published by beat of Drum and sound of Trumpet proclaiming all those to be Traitors and Rebels that do or shall adhere to the King and his party Letters from Lieutenant-General Fleetwood That the Scots had left a party in Worcester and had transported their Army over Severne intending to secure the passes and invite their Friends to them and to refresh their wearied Army That they have Summoned the Country to come in to repair to the works and Royal fort at Worcester Indeed
another over Tame Our Foot disputed the Hedges with much Courage and Resolution the Fight began on the other side Severne and our Foot from this side began it they clearing the way for the rest to come over after them The Right Wing of Lieutenant General Fleet-woods Forces came over the Bridge of Tame while the Left Wing disputed the Bridge at Poyke which Dispute lasted a long time and was very hot but the Lord gave our Men to gain ground of the Enemy till we had beaten them out of the Ground While this was doing the Enemy Rallying made a very bold Sally out on this side of the Town and came with great Bodies of Horse and Foot supposing most of our Army had been drawn out on the other side they gave our Men a very hot Salute and put them to a little retreat and disorder But in a short while the Lord gave us Victory on this side also our Foot did very Noble and Gallant Service and they disputed with them not only the Hedges but followed them boldly to the very Mouth of their Canon which was planted on their Mountain-Works At length we gained their Works and planted their Guns against them in the Town and we hear that some of our Horse and Foot are in the North and East end of the Town the night came on so fast that we could not pursue further Most of their Horse escaped but my Lord General dispatched Major General Harrisons Brigade after them we cannot yet give an account who are taken or slain but we conceive the number of their Slain far exceeds the number of the Prisoners but I guess the number of the Killed and Taken to be about 8 or 10000. Tomorrow we shall be able to give you fuller relation Our Quartermaster-General and Captain Jones is slain and Mr. Howard Captain of the Life-guard is wounded and Major General Lamberts Horse was shot under him Yours to serve you Robert Stapleton Sept. 3. 1651. Other Letters came to the same effect 5. Letters of the Militia Troops riding up and down the Counties to prevent Insurrections Of a Pinnace of the Earl of Derbies taken by one of the Parliaments Ships A Letter from General Cromwel to the Speaker of the Victory at Worcester but the Particulars in one following 6. A more particular Letter from the Lord General Cromwel to the Parliament thus I am not able yet to give you an exact Account of the great things the Lord hath done for this Common-wealth and for his People and yet I am unwilling to be silent but according to my Duty shall represent it to you as it comes to hand This Battle was fought with various Success for some hours but still hopeful on your part and in the end became an absolute Victory and so full an one as proved a total Defeat and Ruine of the Enemies Army and Possession of the Town our Men entring at the Enemies heels and fighting with them in the Streets with very great Courage took all their Baggage and Artillery What the Slain are I can give you no Account because we have not taken an exact View but they are very many and must needs be so because the Dispute was long and very near at hand and often at push of Pike and from one defence to another There are about 6 or 7000 Prisoners taken here and many Officers and Noble-men of Quality Duke Hamilton the Earl of Rothes and divers other Noble-men I hear the Earl of Lauderdale many Officers of great Quality and some that will be fit Subjects of your Justice We have sent very considerable Parties after the flying Enemy I hear they have taken considerable numbers of Prisoners and are very close in the Pursuit Indeed I hear the Country riseth upon them every where and I believe the Forces that lay through Providence at Bewdley and in Shrop-shire and Stafford-shire and those with Collonel Lilburne were in a condition as if this had been foreseen to intercept what should return A more particular Account than this will be prepared for you as we are able I heard they had not many more than 1000 Horse in their Body that fled and I believe we have near 4000 Forces following and interposing between them and home Their Army was about 16000 strong and fought ours on Worcester side Severne almost with their whole whilst we had ingaged half our Army on the other side but with Parties of theirs Indeed it was a stiff Business yet I do not think we have lost 200 Men your new raised Forces did perform singular good Service for which they deserve a very high Estimation and Acknowledgement as also for their willingness thereunto For as much as the same hath added so much to the Reputation of your Affairs they are all dispatched home again which I hope will be much for the ease and satisfaction of the Country which is a great Fruit of the Successes The Dimensions of this Mercy are above my Thoughts it is for ought I know a Crowning Mercy surely if it be not such a one we shall have if this provoke those that are concerned in it to Thankfulness and the Parliament to do the Will of him who hath done his Will for it and for the Nation whose good Pleasure is to establish the Nation and the Change of the Government by making the People so willing to the Defence thereof and so signally to bless the Endeavours of your Servants in this late great Work I am bold humbly to beg that all Thoughts may tend to the promoting of his Honour who hath wrought so great Salvation and that the Fatness of these continued Mercies may not occasion Pride and Wantonness as formerly the like hath done to a Chosen People But that the Fear of the Lord even for his Mercies may keep an Authority and a People so prospered and blessed and witnessed to humble and faithful that Justice and Righteousness Mercy and Truth may flow from you as a Thankful Return to our Glorious God this shall be the Prayer of Sir Your most Humble and Worcester Sept. 4. 1651. Obedient Servant O. Cromwell The Parliament ordered a Thanks giving-day and the Letters of the General to be read by the Ministers From Major General Harrison We are in Pursuit of the Enemy about 4000 we have taken more already of them 1400 Horse and Foot many considerable Persons among them the Lord Cleveland and the Earl of Derby they make no resistance when any of ours overtake them but ride Post and in great confusion their King being the foremost Mr. Scot and Major Salleway returned from Worcester a particular Account they could not give because all things were then in confusion Lords Knights and Gentlemen were then plucking out of holes by the Soldiers The Common Prisoners they were driving to the Cathedral Church in Worcester and what with the dead Bodies of Men and the dead Horses of the Enemy filling the Streets there was such a
nastiness that a Man could hardly abide the Town Yet the Lord General had his Quarters in Worcester the Walls whereof he hath ordered to be pulled down to the ground and the Dikes filled up The Lord Hamilton's Leg was broken and he sent to the General for a Chyrurgeon to dress his Wounds the Militia Forces behaved themselves gallantly 5000 out of Norfolk and Suffolk came in cheerfully the same night of the Fight the Lord General dismissed them all home The Regiment of Surrey under Sir Richard Onslow and the Troop under Captain Walter St. John marched hard to come up to the Ingagement Prisoners taken Three English Earls Seven Scotch Lords of Knights Four of Collonels Lieutenant Collonels Majors Captains and other Officers about 640. the Kings Standard and 158 Colours taken 10000 Prisoners and above 2000 slain the Kings Coach and Horses with rich Goods and all Arms Bag and Baggage taken On the Parliaments part slain 100 Soldiers and 300 wounded Quarter-Master-General Mosely and Captain Jones slain and no other Officers of note Captain Howard and another Captain wounded 8. A Particular Account from Lieutenant General Fleetwood of the whole Action at Worcester of 3000 slain 10000 taken Prisoners with all their Arms Bag and Baggage the Flight and Pursuit of the Enemy c. Letters from Scotland That a Party of the Parliaments from Edenburgh after an hours Fight took Dumfrice and the Country who made opposition contrary to their Ingagement smarted for it That Lieutenant General Monk having received a scornful Answer to his Summons from the Governour of Dundee he stormed the Town and in a quarter of an hour became Master of it That Major General Lumsdain and 600 of the Enemy were slain and there was in the Town good store of Arms and Ammunition 11 Pieces of Ordnance and 60 Sail of Ships in the Harbour From Cheshire That 1000 of the Kings Horse passing through Sanebarch on a fair day the Towns-men and Country-men as they passed by fell upon them with Clubs and Staves and the Poles of their Stalls knocked them down and took about 100 of them That the Country rise upon the Routed Scots and kill and take many of them 9. A Proclamation for the apprehending of the King and a Promise of 1000 l. to any that shall do it Order for a day of Thanksgiving throughout the Kingdom for the Success at Worcester and an Act to be brought in for an Annual Observation of the third day of Sept. Letters That Sir Philip Musgrave and others raising Forces about Galloway were taken and killed by a Party from Edenburgh being in all about 500. That Major General Massey came into Leicester-shire but not being able to go further by reason of his Wounds wrote a Letter to the Countess of Stamford and surrendred himself to the Lord Grey her Son That Sir Arthur Haselrigge Governour of Newcastle upon notice of the Defeat at Worcester and the Kings Escape Northwards sent to the Militia Forces and to the Sheriffs of the Four Northern Counties to raise the Posse Comitatus and to the Lieutenant General Monk and Forces in Scotland to way-lay those that fled and went out himself with a Party for that purpose The Parliament appointed Four of their Members to go out of Town to meet the General upon his way from Worcester to London and to congratulate from the Parliament the great Successes that God had given him 10. Letters from Ireland That the Irish lie up and down in small Parties robbing Passengers by the High-way but meet not in a Body being divided in their Councels that Lymbrick and Galloway hold out That Collonel Zanchey was sent out with 2500 Foot and 28 Troops of Horse and Dragoons into Connaght upon Intelligence of the Enemies gathering to an Head there to ingage them or to strengthen Sir Charles Coote about Galloway but upon his marching over the Enemy presently dispersed The Four Members of Parliament appointed to go out of Town to meet the General went this day to Alisbury 11. Letters That a Party of the Parliaments Forces marched 40 Miles a day in Pursuit of the Enemy and at Lancaster fell upon some of them routed them killed about 20 and took 200 Prisoners That 200 more of them were taken about Shisnal in Shrop-shire the Earl of Derby Earl of Lauderdale and divers others of Quality That Major General Harrison had taken 2000 of the Scots in the Pursuit and left but 1000 of them in a Body That the Countries rose upon them That a Party of the Parliaments about Warrington fell unadvisedly on their Rear and lost some Men. Complaint That the Countrey are much burdened with the Prisoners there being no allowance for them That five of them were put to death in Cheshire and five more appointed to be executed the next day That at the taking of Dundee in Scotland were slain between 7 and 800 Scots and taken 50 Sail of Ships 40 great Guns and Provisions and that with the Plunder of the Town the Soldiers were grown rich and gallant a private Soldier hardly to be known from an Officer That the Lieutenant General sent a Summons to Monrose near the Highlands The four Members went from Alisbury on the way the General was to come and met him and delivered their Message to him from the Parliament The General received them with all kindness and respect and after Salutations and Ceremonies passed he rode with them cross the Fields where Mr. Winwoods Hawks met them and the General with them and many Officers went a little out of the way a Hawking and came that night to Aylesbury There they had much discourse and my Lord chief-Chief-Justice St. John more than all the rest with the General and they supped together The General gave to each of them that were sent to him a Horse and two Scots Prisoners for a Present and Token of his thankful Reception of the Parliaments respect to him in sending them to meet and congratulate him 12. Letters That at the Storming of Dundee divers of the Parliaments Horse-men went on foot with Sword and Pistol to assist the Foot-men and got into the Town as soon as the other and not above Ten Men killed on the Parliaments Part and 800 of the Enemy That it was the richest Town of the bigness in England or Scotland That some of the English Soldiers got in the Storm 500 l a piece That the Inhabitants of St. Andrews sent to Lieutenant General Monk That they would submit to his Summons and deliver up their Arms and Ammunition which was accepted but because they refused former Offers the Lieutenant General fined them 50 l. to the Soldiery Cromwel came to London in great Solemnity and Triumph accompanied with the Four Commissioners of Parliament many chief Officers of the Army and others of Quality There met him in the Fields the Speaker of Parliament the Lord President and many Members of Parliament and of the
the Judgment of Banishment against Lieutenant-Collonel Lilborne An Act passed to make void all Titles of Honour Dignities or Precedencies given by the late King since 4 June 1641. Referred to the Committee for considering of things of greatest Importance to take care for ascertaining the Debts on Publick Faith Order for constant Pay and Supplies for the Forces in Ireland Order for Moneys for Incident Charges to be disposed of by the Committee for removing Obstructions in the Sale of Forfeited Lands 4. One who undertook to cure the Blind and Deaf took Money before-hand of divers People and then ran away 5. Letters that by the late great Snows and Rain in Ireland the Waters rose so high that it drowned and spoiled most of the Corn and Provisions which the Rebels had got into Islands so that they were in a starving Condition That a Party of Collonel Venables men surprised some of the Rebels at their Markets took 20 Horse Slew 20 Men and 120 of them were Drowned 6. Letters that a Petition was presented to the Commissioners at Dalkeith that Dundee might chuse Officers according to their ancient Custome and Rights the Commissioners ordered them to bring in their Charter by a day A Copy of the Letter sent to Major-Ceneral Lambert and intended for the Lord-General Cromwell from the Lord Wareston and other Presbyterians setting forth That they made their Addresses to him because he had charge of those Forces that had unjustly Invaded that Land and had shed the Blood of many of the Saints of Scotland But they confess themselves justly punished for their late Treaty with the King but this doth no way justifie the Instruments They charge the Army with divers Errors countenancing of deposed Ministers to Preach silencing of Ministers that Preach of State proceedings and suffering Officers to Preach Scandalizing the Ministers subordinating the Church to the State in things of Christ which will tolerate the gathering of Churches in Scotland as it is in England Abridging the Assembly of the Kirke and imposing Magistrates principled against the Government of the Kirke They offer compliance in any thing not against their Conscience and the Liberty of the Kirke and Intreat the Major-General to imploy his indeavours with the rest of the Commissioners of England for the obtaining of their desires That the City of Edenburgh had a Commission to choose new Officers and such as should be chosen were to take an Oath of Fidelity to the Common-Wealth of England Letters That the Grandees of the Rebells in Ireland have often meetings to draw up Propositions in order to a Submission to the Parliament of England but cannot agree 7. Letters That many of the Commissioners of Shires and Buroughs in Scotland are chosen to attend the English Commissioners at Dalkeith The Committee for Regulating the Law presented several Results to the Committee of Parliament appointed to receive them 9. Letters That the Oath of Fidelity to the Common-wealth of England much troubled the new chosen Burgesses of Edenburgh That there were great Contests in their Presbyteries and contradictory Orders by them and Appeals to the English Commissioners The English Commissioners published another Declaration for equal Execution of Justice and for the present appointed Persons to Administer Justice till the Judicatories should be Established and forbid any power under the King or any other than under the Common-wealth of England Letters That the Army in Ireland was disposed into convenient Quarters to meet with the Enemy if they came abroad and Collonel Reynolds to lye with a nimble Party of 3000 Horse and Foot to be ready upon any occasion A Copy of the Articles between the Irish and the Duke of Lorraine sent to the Parliament whereby Lorraine was to have the Lordship Spiering Silvercroon Agent from the Queen of Sweden to the Parliament dyed in the Strand 10. The Act of Oblivion passed and some Provisoes to be added to it debated Order for paying Mariners and for lessening the publick charge Order for the lord-Lord-General to send down all the Officers belonging to the Forces in Scotland which was upon Letters from the Commissioners A Declaration of the Inhabitants of Jersey of their Fidelity to the Parliament of England with praise to God for his Justice and giving Success to the Parliaments Forces and beating out the Tyrant Carteret That 3000 Subscribed this Declaration and took the Ingagement Of the opposition of the Presbyters in Devon ' 11. An Account of the Frigats on the Western-Coast and that a great Fleet of Dutch-men of War lay there abouts that the Dutch Captains were rough against the English and demanded Restitution of some of their Ships taken by the English 13. Letters That a small Party of Highlanders Murthered five of the Parliaments Soldiers in their Beds near Innerness and another Party stole away some Cattle That the Scots Ministers pray for their King and the Prisoners in England That Argyles Countrey refused the Warrants sent thither for Contribution by the Parliaments Officers The English Commissioners published a Proclamation against entertaining any Scots in their house without giving up their names to the Governour of the place and that no Scot have any Armes 14. Letters That the English Commissioners in Ireland had settled the Affairs there and were returned to Dublin That Collonel Hewson sent out a Party who killed a whole Troop of Tories except two only That Captain Clerk took 200 Tun of Wheat and Rye carrying to relieve Golloway That Bellitan a strong hold of the Rebels was Stormed by Collonel Zanchey and Collonel Axtell and taken and 4 or 500 of the Rebels killed The Parliament ordered their Committee to call together the Adventurers for Ireland who met and chose a Committee of their own to make Proposals to the Parliament for Setling that Business with their Consent From Sir George Ascues Fleet That he had taken Eleven Dutch and One English Ship at the Barbadoes And that Sir George Shot many Pieces at their chief Castle and they Shot at him and killed one man That he took Two more Dutch Ships loaden with Provisions and Horses Sugar c. That he sent Summons to the Lord Willoughby who answered that he would keep that place for the King That he was informed the King was near London and that all the Countrey came in to him as a Dutch Ship related to him 16. Letters That Sir George Ascue came within half a Musquet Shot of the Fort at the Barbadoes that the Ships he took there were of great Value That his Voyage thither was 10 Weeks and 2 Days yet none of his Men Sick The Commissioners from the Parliament in the Fleet with Sir George Ascue sent a Declaration to the Inhabitants of the Barbadoes to perswade them to submit to the Parliament of England and to desert the Lord Willoughby and his Party there that this course they thought fit to take before they used any acts of
Commission and take care for the visiting of the Charter-house Hospital near Kingston upon Hull 27. Letters That Lieutenant-Collonel Throckmorton met with Duncan who had 500 Foot and 400 Horse near Wexford who had taken all the Cattle and left not a Cow to give Milk That at the first Charge the Irish behaved themselves gallantly and put the English to some disorder yet the Irish did not pursue till the English had rallied and upon the Second Charge the English beat up the Irish to their Horse and so put them to the rout killed 200 of them and many Officers Prisoners and lost but 30 Men and 60 wounded 28. Letters That the Judges at Edenburgh met and heard a good Sermon and then sate in the Court of Justice and Mr. Smith one of them made a Speech to the Company of the occasion of their meeting and to take off some aspersions cast upon the Parliament by the Ministers as if they countenanced Heresies and Blasphemies Then they caused the Act of Parliament against Heresies to be read and concluded That he doubted not but they should give satisfaction to the People of Scotland in the due administration of Justice to them Then a List of the Fees of Officers was read and the Auditory seemed to be much contented Of Recruits shipped for Ireland and of some Vessels taken by Pyrates 29. Letters of the Arrival of Sir George Ascue and his Fleet at Plymouth from the Barbadoes with 36 Prizes 31. Of the Siege of Dunotter Castle in Scotland and the high Terms they astand upon That the High-Sheriffs appointed in Scotland went to execute their Offices Of differences among the Ministers in Scotland and the Lord Wareston and others consulting against the Assembly of the Kirk That the People questioned divers great Men before the new Judges for former injuries and oppressions That Collonel Dungan wrote a civil Letter to Lieutenant-Collonel Throckmorton That since he was Master of the Field by a fair Dispute he desired a civil usage of the Prisoners he had taken and a List of them and whether Ransomes would be taken for them June 1652. 1. Letters That the Holland Fleet was battered and made unfit for fight That the Plague was at Leverpoole The Parliament ordered a day of publick Humiliation and Fast through England and Wales and appointed a Committee to prepare a Declaration of the grounds of the Fast Order for preserving Books and Manuscripts at Winchester Report of a Paper from the Agent of the Queen of Sweden and another from the Ambassador of the King of Denmark read in the House and Answers to them agreed upon Votes That nothing in the Articles of Rendition of Limbrick shall extend to any Toleration of the Popish Religion 2. Debate in Parliament how some Retrenchment may be made of the charge of the Common-wealth with safety and how the Revenue of the State may be improved and a Committee was appointed to consider thereof Vote That all Annual Salaries to Officers for sale of Lands of Bishops and of Deans and Chapters be suspended till further order 4. Letters That the Hollanders took into their Ships many Pick-axes Spades Shovels and Barrows which caused a suspition of their intent to land That there was an Imbargo put upon the Dutch Ships in Scotland That the English Forces before Dunotter Gastle in Scotland playing with their Guns as it and having shot in about Twelve Granadoes which broke into their great Tower and killed Seven Men those in the Castle notwithstanding their high terms before yielded upon Conditions only to march out half a Mile with their Arms and then to lay them down That this was the last Garrison in Scotland unreduced That the Fleet under General Blake was much encreased in Ships and Men That he with his Officers and Sea-men kept several days of Humiliation in the Fleet Of another Ingagement between Captain Moulton with some Ships against some of the Dutch who were beaten by the English 5. Letters That Prince Rupert took an English Merchants Ship with 39 Guns and made her his Rear-Admiral and put in her French and Dutch Mariners and used the English Mariners very hardly who consulted among themselves and one of them a Carpenter took his advantage to single out the Captain and the rest took to single out an outlandish Mariner to each of them And thus they subdued and brought away the Vessel into Plymouth with the Captain and Officers of the Ships Prisoners The Parliament order a Reward to these Mariners and an Act to be brought in to encourage others upon the like occasion That Prince Rupert met with a Merchant from Guinny richly laden 7. Letters That great Riches were in Dunotter Castle the Sword Scepter and Crown but they could not be found Divers Highlanders submitted to the Parliament The Sails of the Dutch Ships were brought on shore at Leith A Petition to the Parliament from the Owners and Commoners in Lincoln-shire Fens for satisfaction for Injuries formerly done to them An Additional Act passed for sale of Fee-farm Rents 9. The Parliament kept a Solemn day of Humiliation 10. Order for the Reception of Meen heer Paw Ambassador Extraordinary from the States-General A Narrative was published of the late Engagement between the English Fleet and Van Trump The former publick Minister of the States presented a Paper to the Council of State Taking God the Searcher of Mans Heart to witness that the most unhappy Fight of the Ships of both Common-wealths did happen against the Knowledge and Will of the Lords States-General of the Vnited Netherlands and that with grief and astonishment they received the fatal News of that unhappy rash Action That they did consult and endeavour to find out what remedy chiefly may be applied to mitigate that raw and bloody Wound to which end they have written to gather a Solemn Meeting or Parliament of all the Provinces whereby they do not doubt but an help will be found out for those troubles and a better hope of our Treaty in hand which thing being now most earnestly agitated by our Lords for the common good of both Nations to shun that detestable shedding of Christian Blood so much desired and would be dearly bought by the Common Enemies of both Nations and of the Reformed Religion We again do crave this most Honourable Council and beseech you by the Pledges both of the Common Religion and Liberty mean while to suffer nothing to be done out of too much heat that afterwards may prove neither revocable nor repairable by too late idle Vows and Wishes but rather that you would let us receive a kind Answer without further delay upon our last request Signed J. Catz G. Schaep Vanderpeere To this the Parliament gave this Answer That calling to mind with what continued Demonstration of Friendship and sincere Affections from the very beginning of their intestine troubles they have proceeded towards their Neighbours of the Vnited Provinces they Do
Fleet thereby but being disappointed thereof the common people were earnest for a Peace with England That the King of Denmark stood off expecting the issue of the Business betwixt England and Holland and fearing the danger of Sweden That Monsieur Burdeaux was Arrived Ambassador from the French King to the Common-wealth of England That the Generals of the Fleet sent Orders from Aberdeen for all English Ships in the Service of the State upon the Coast of Scotland to follow and joyn with them 19. Letters from the Fleet that they were still in pursuit of the Dutch Fleet upon the Coast of Scotland but had no other Intelligence of them than what they had formerly given to the Councel 20. Collonel Jones and Collonel Ryley agreed upon Articles in Ireland for pardon of some of the Rebels and for Indempnity and Transportation of them 21. Letters That the Captain of Clanrannold one of the chief Clans in the North Highlands had taken the tender to be faithful to the Common-wealth of England and desired a Commission to set out a private Man of War against the Dutch That Captain Diamond brought into Pool 8 Dutch Merchant Ships prizes 23. That Collonel Atkins took a Dutch Pacquet-boat with some Letters of Concernment from Holland to Van-Trump Letters from the Forces in Scotland under Collonel Lilburne directed to major-Major-General Lambert to be communicated to the Army in England highly approving of the action of Dissolving the Parliament and ingaging to live and dye with Cromwell and his Councel of Officers in the further prosecution of this cause and for procuring of Justice and Righteousness and freedom to be settled to this Nation 25. That the Holland Merchants who went round about by Scotland had slipped by the English Fleet and were returned safe into their Harbour with their Convoy Van Trump and his Men of War which raised the Spirits of the States and their People 26. The Rebels in Cork and Kerry lessened their General O Sullinan Beer fled to France and the remaining Collonels sent to the Lord Broghill for terms of submission A young Conspiracy to bring in Charles 2d discovered at Yonghall and the Conspirators apprehended 27. Cromwell and his Councel of Officers resolved to Summon select Persons to be nominated by themselves out of every County who should be as a Representative of the whole Nation 28. Cromwell and his Councel of Officers sat close this week about choosing Persons to sit in the next Representative They also published a Declaration for continuing the old Commissioners for Assessments in the several Counties and the present Tax for 3 months longer They appointed a Committee to consider how the Receipts of the Customs and excise might be best managed and brought into one Office Van Trump came with his Fleet into Dover Road having Convoyed home all the Merchants he discharged many Shots against the Town of Dover whereby some Houses were prejudiced but no person Slain the English Fleet were to the North of Scotland That Dover Castle and the Forts playing upon Van Trumps Fleet they tacked about and stood to the Southward that they took three small Vessels of the English bound from London to Rohan 30. Several Aldermen and others of London made an Address to Cromwell for reinvesting the late Parliament whereupon divers others of London made an Address to Cromwel testifying their dislike of and dissent from the former and their resolution to adhere to Cromwell To Cromwell and his Councel of Officers came the humble acknowledgment and Congratulation of the Churches of Christ and other well affected Persons to their proceeding in the County of Radnor Two Dutch Prizes loaden with Wines taken by two of the English Frigots An Account of several Ships of War going to the Fleet and of a guard of Ships appointed to ply to the North Foreland for security of the Fisher-men 31. Of a single English Man of War who met with several Dutch Fleets of above 300 Merchant men with their Convoys some from Russia some from France and the English Ship putting up the Danish Colours and setting only some Danes on the Deck which they had on board their Ship they came off cleer from the Dutch Letters from the Hague that Trumps design in going out towards the Downs was to Fire such English Ships as he should find there or in their Harbour or upon the English Coast before their grand Fleet should return June 1653. 1. The General of the English Fleet being returned near the Texel called a Councel of War and sent orders for all Men of War in the River and other parts that are ready to Sail to come and join with them An Account that Van Trump was at Goree with 120 Men of War and expected more to join with him 2. Letters That the English Fleet was at Yarmouth and the Dutch Fleet at the back of the Goodwin 3. Letters of differences among the Remonstrators in Scotland about the point of Jus divinum of their Government of the Kirk That upon the English Fleets appearing near the Texel divers rich Men of Roterdam and other parts fled into the Country and left their Houses that the People cry out for Peace with England Of a Dutch Prize taken near Plimouth That a private English Man of War of about 8 Guns took 3 rich Dutch Prizes Letters and Messengers from the Fleet did bring the news That yesterday about noon the English Fleet ingaged the Dutch about the North Foreland and the Ingagement continued very hot and sharp till near night in which time one of the Dutch Admirals was blown up and 3 or 4 Sunk but not one of the English Ships lost only General Dean on the first on-set was slain by a great shot This day 't was observed that the Fleets were ingaged again and the report of the great Guns were heard in London and other places remote from Sea 4. Letters from General Monk of the Fight at Sea with the Dutch that for 3 hours the dispute was very sharp on both sides which continued from 3 to 6 in the Evening at which time the Enemy bore away right before the wind and little more was done only the Frigots gave chase so long as there was light One of the Dutch Admirals was blown up and 3 or 4 Sunk General Dean slain A Messenger brought News from the Fleet that they had taken 20 of the Dutch Men of War and fired and sunk many more of them 6. Letters from the Generals at Sea to Cromwell and they to the Councel of State of the first days Fight with the Dutch at Sea and of the second days Fight with them which continued 4 hours after which they endeavoured to get away from the English as fast as they could the particulars were not fully known what Ships were taken and sunk and what men Slain but a List was sent to the Councel
the Fleet Rid in Stoakes Bay May 1654. May 1. Letters that Captain Rogers who was Agent with Glencarn from the King was Executed at Edenburgh upon sentence of the Court Martial for a Spye That General Monck was Arrived at Lieth That a Scotch Gentleman with six of his Men defended a little Tower against the Highlanders and killed four of them A Letter Signed by all the Officers of the Army in Ireland acknowledging the Lord Protector 2 A Proclamation by the Lord Protector for a Cessation of all Acts of Hostility between the Commonwealth of England and that of the Vnited Provinces and for Restitution of Ships and Goods taken after the time mentioned in the Articles of Peace An Address from the Justices of the Peace Magistracy Officers and Grand Jury of Shropshire to the Lord Protector acknowledging his Government 3 Ships sent out from the Texel to call in the Dutch Freebooters That the Lord Ambassador Whitelock pressed for a Conclusion in his business in Sweden and that the Queen had discharged most of her Servants in order to her Resignation 4 That the Lord Protector and his Council did not sit so frequently as formerly and all things went according unto their desire 5 Letters that Collonel Morgan saw the Enemy but could not Engage them for want of Boats to pass the Water and therefore retreated to his Quarters That General Monck was making preparations to visit the Enemy 6 Letters that Middletons numbers did decrease and sometimes increase Of Five French Ships taken by a Frigot and of an English Ship taken by a Private Brest Man of War 8 Letters that General Monk had meetings with the Officers of the Army and they resolved to go to Collonel Morgan That the Peace with England was Proclaimed in Holland and a Day of Thanksgiving appointed for it 9 An Address to the Lord Protector from the Town and County of Pool to the same Effect as others were Letters that the Lord Ambassador Whitelock made a firm Alliance with Sweden and was expected at Hamburgh in few days An Ordinance Published touching the further Sale of Deans and Chapters Lands 10 A Declaration of the Lord Protector for a Day of Thanksgiving for the Peace with Holland and for the late seasonable Rain 11 Of a Discovery made by an Indian to an English Ship of a Plot against them Of a Council of Officers about the dividing the Lands in Ireland A Congratulatory Letter sent from the Army in Ireland to the Lord Protector Of the Solemn Reception of General Monck at Edenburgh and the Proclaiming the Lord Protector there the Feasting of General Monk and the Fire-works That the Highlanders expected the King amongst them and received Supplies of Men Armes and Money by Two Ships from Dunkirk 12 Letters that in Ireland there wanted men to Till the Land That few Tories were left there That Two Brest Men of War came near to Leverpool Letters that in Holland there sticks one particular which hath occasioned some trouble at the Hague to witt his Highness and the Two Ambassadors here who serve for the Province of Holland viz. Beveningk and Newport the other knowing nothing of it agreed a Secret Article That the Province of Holland should not of themselves ever consent That the States General should make the Prince of Orange or any of his Line Stadtholder or Captain General of their Forces by Sea or Land After the Generality had Ratified the Treaty this was propounded in the Assembly of the States every one before having sworn secrecy upon the propounding of it great dissatisfaction arose amongst them but at last they past it being Dissenters Four Noblemen and four Soveraign Towns of the Nobles that agreed to it were Bredrode General of their Forces Opdam Admiral of their Fleet Notwithstanding the Secrecy it came the next day to the States General The other six Provinces have protested against it and Accuse the Two Ambassadors as having done not only beside but against their Instructions But Holland will carry it through all though I verily believe they have great difficulties to contest with the Animosities and Jealousies which are occasioned by this will not easily be Extinguished His Highness hath not yet received the Ratification of this Article from Holland but expects it daily although all endeavours will be used to perswade his Highness to go from it There is included in this Peace besides Denmark the Suissers Hans Townes Count of Oldenburgh the Duke of Holstein and Alliance with Sweden being made there will be a good understanding between most of the Protestant States and opportunities may through Gods Blessing arise from thence to promote that Interest All the question is what is to be done with the Two Crowns of France and Spain They both seek our Friendship and Alliance but nothing is yet done with either of them I trust God will lead to such an Interest as will be for his Glory and the good of this State The Denmark Agent Rosenwing had his Publick Audience since which he hath offered nothing so that the Advertisement concerning him in reference to the Isles of Orcades came in very good time The Treaty with Portugal is not yet come to any Agreement the business of his Brother yet sticks his Highness hath now ordered his Tryal by a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer The Commissioners are my Lord Rolles Justice Atkins Serjeant Steel Doctor Zouch Doctor Clerk Doctor Turner Sir Henry Blunt Mr. Lucy and Alderman Tichburn 13 Letters that the French Pickaroons did much trouble the Fishermen about Rye 15 That the Enemy will not come near to Collonel Morgan A Proclamation by the Commander in Chief in Scotland for Pardon of those in Rebellion who shall come in by a Day And for their Parents and Relations if they shall come in And Imposing a Fine upon every Parish and Presbytery whereof any one continueth in Rebellion if they do not discover him and rewards to those that shall Apprehend any of the Rebels and their Principal Commanders or kill them Order of the Justices of Peace of Wales against Licences to Drovers c. 16 The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London Dined with His Highness the Lord Protector 17 An Ordinance for suspending the Proceedings of the Judges touching relief of poor Prisoners and Creditors 18 Mounsieur Burdeaux the French Ambassadour had Audience by the Lord Protector 19 An Ordinance Published concerning the better repairing of the Highways and another for relief of Debtors in Scotland in some Cases of Extremity That the Lord Ambassador Whitclock having happily Concluded his business with the Crown of Sweden was upon his Journey homewards That Preparations were made for the Queens Resignation and for Crowning the King Charles 20 That Ireland was setled in as much Peace as it was before the Rebellion That General Monk was Marching Northward and Middleton and his Party were raising new Forces That Middletons Brother
Articles to Captain Swayn 13 An Ordinance past for reviving the Judges at Salters-Hall and for releif of Creditors and poor Prisoners which formerly was in force and for some time laid aside by Ordinance of the Lord Protector and his Councel 14 An Ordinance published for an Assesment to be continued for six Months at 120000 l. for maintenance of the Armies and Navy for the three first Months and at 90000 l. for the three last months An Ordinance to inable Judges to keep Assizes at Durham 16 A privy search made through out the Town for persons suspected to be in the Plot against the Lord Protector and his Government and divers Examinations taken and an Ordinance published for an high Court of Justice to try the Conspirators 17 Letters of two Troupes newly leavied by the Enemy routed by the English that Lieutetenant Moor took a Captain and seven of another Party another took a Captain and eight more and Captain Daniel took thirteen of another Party and killed divers 19 Letters that the English in Parties had sometimes in one Day marched Sixty Miles after the Enemy and killed and taken many of them That Collonel Daniel took Four hundred Men and Horse from them going to a Rendezvous 20 The Earl of Oxford and other Persons were Apprehended as Conspirators in the late Plot against the Lord Protector An Ordinance past for Continuance of the Commissioners of the Admiralty Of Two Brest Men of War assaulting a Fleet of English Vessels loaden with Coals and other Commodities which were rescued by Captain Gawden who had a small Ship with Four Guns only yet Fought singly with the Brest Pyrate and made them Flye That the English at Saint Maloes in France were abused by the French without any Provocation and beaten by them in Tumults and one English Man thrown by them over the Key of which he dyed The like insolencies offered by the Papists to the Protestants at Rheimes 21 An Ordinance past for bringing the Publick Revenue into one Treasury Letters of the Insolencies and Drunkenness of the Enemy in Scotland 23 An Ordinance past for giving further time for Approbation of Publick Preachers Letters that since the Peace with England Trade was much revived in the Netherlands and that Eight hundred Vessels were from divers Parts come into the Port of Rotterdam besides those come into their other Harbours That General Monck was come into the High-lands and sent a Summons to a Garrison of the Enemies in Lough Tay and the Governour Answered He would keep it for the King to the last drop of his Blood He being perswaded that the English would not get over the Water to him but perceiving them to make a passage over with Planks his Courage abated and he yielded the Garrison upon terms proposed by General Monck the place was very considerable 24 Letters that General Monk passed by some Garrisons of the Enemies and would not spend time to Besiege them but left them to be reduced by some English Garrisons near them Of a Party sent from Edenburgh which slew Three Tories and took twelve Prisoners and many Horse from them 26 Letters that Collonel Morgan was Marched into the Highlands in Scotland to indeavour to ingage Montross before his Conjunction with Middleton That Lieutenant Collonel Bryan was Landed with a Party from Ireland to assist the Highlanders From Dublin that all things were well there only some interruption for want of the new Authority and that they had sent some of their Forces into Scotland to assist General Monks Provisions Shipped from Chester for the North of Scotland That in Ireland they were reducing Supernumeraries and had Armes come for them which they were to have for their security in their Plantations An Ordinance Published for further incouragement of Adventurers for Ireland and of the Solers and Planters there 27 The High Court of Justice Sate the Lord Commissioner Lisle was President Order of the Lord Protector and his Councel about the Election of Members for the Parliament Letters of the Lord Ambassador Whitelocks Journey in Germany and the Caresses made to him at Lubeck and at Hamburgh 29 An Ordinance published for distribution of the Election for Scotland The like for distribution of the Election of Members in Ireland for the next Parliament in England they to be also thirty and they to have Vote with the Members in the Parliament of England as those thirty from Scotland also are to have their Votes A Romish Priest who was formerly condemned and pardoned and banished and now returned again was Hanged Drawn and Quartered 29 That the King of Scots and his two Brothers went to visit the Jesuit's College at Chantilli and were entertained with divers Speeches extraordinary respects and compliments and with a sumptuous Collation 30 An Ordinance Published against Duels Challenges and all Provocations thereunto The High Court of Justice sate in the Chancery prepared for them and first Mr. Somerset Fox was brought before them who Confessed much of that which was charged against him by Mr. Attorney Prideaux Mr. Solicitor Ellis and Mr. Serjeant Glyn the Protectors Council Then Mr. John Gerrard and Mr. Vowel were brought before them and charged for a Conspiracy to Murder the Lord Protector as he should be going to Hampton Court to seize the Guards and make themselves Masters of the City and Tower and Magazines and to proclaim the King with other Treasons all which they denyed and several Witnesses were heard to prove the charge against them and then the Court Adjourned July 1654. July 1 Letters that Colonel Morgan upon sight of the Highlanders went out with a party to engage them but they sted That Captain Goodfellow with a party took Ten Scotch Prisoners and 60 Horse the Captain was Killed much Provision taken from them That 40 English with their Swords naked did Swim over to an Istand that stood out against them and took it and many Provisions Plate money and other goods in it 3 That Argyle joined with the English Letters of General Monck his taking of Fosse and Lough-Gery in the Highlands That Colonel Bryan with the Forces which he brought from Ireland Killed divers of the High-landers and among them three Commanders of great Note were slain 4 The High Court of Justice sat and Ad journed A Conference with the French Ambassador about a Treaty of Peace 5 The Portugal Ambassador's Brother and two other Portuguises were tried before Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Kings-Bench He pleaded That he was not onely the Ambassador's Brother but had a Commission to himself to be Ambassador when His Brother should be absent and that by the Law of Nations he was priviledged from his Trial and he demanded Councel The point of priviledg of Ambassadors by the Common Law and by the Civil Law and by the Law of Nations was long debated by the Court and the Lord Protectors Councel and the
and this honourable Councel that I may obtain your Pardon 7 Letters that the Highlanders lying in Ambuscado fell upon some of Colonel Bryan's men that came from Ireland and were careless and that the Highlanders killed Eighty of them and two Lieutenants 8 Mr. Bond was sent to the three condemned Prisoners in the Tower to advise them touching the state of their Souls but they were obstinate except Mr. Fox who was penitent The Portugal Ambassador's Brother was Reprieved 10 The Portugal Ambassador's Brother endeavoured an Escape but was prevented The English Boy who was in the Murder with the Portugal Ambassador's Brother was Hanged at Tyburn Mr. Vowell was Hanged at the Meuse-gate Mr. Fox was Reprieved Mr. Gerrard was Beheaded at Tower-hill The Portugal Ambassador's Brother was conveyed from Newgate to Tower-hill in a Coach and six Horses in mourning with divers of his Brothers Retinue with him On the Scaffold he spake something to those that understood him in excuse of his offence laying the blame of the quarrel and murder upon the English in that business After a few private words and passages of Popish Devotion with his Confessor he gave him his Beads and Crucifix laid his Head on the Block and it was chopt off at two blows The rest condemned for the Murder were all Reprieved The Articles of Peace were signed by the Portugal Ambassador who thereupon went out of Town Letters that those of Zealand and Friesland were discontented at an Order made by the States of Holland That the Prince of Orange nor any descending from the late King of England should be Admiral of Holland or have power over the Militia But upon a Letter to them from the Lord Protector they were pacified 11 Letters that a Party of Fourty English fell upon two hundred and twenty Highlanders routed them killed twelve of them one Captain and two Cornets wounded thirty and took thirty Prisoners and thirty two Horses That Captain Hilliard took of the Highlanders a Major two Captains and fifteen Prisoners and as many Horses Another met with a Cornet and nine Men and took them all That General Monk built a Fort at Loughhaber Order that the Sheriff making an undue Return of any Parliament Election shall forfeit one hundred Marks and the Returns to be examined by the Councel Letters from Sweden That upon the thirtieth day of May the Queen at Vpsale made a Solemn Resignation of her Crown and Government in this manner About nine a Clock in the Morning the Queen being Attyred in Her Royal Robes and Apparel of Purple Velvet with Her Crown upon Her Head and Attended by Her Officers and Servants came into the Room prepared for that occasion where was a Table with a rich Carpet and five great Cushions laid upon it most of the Grandees and Officers of the Court and Army were present Upon one of the Cushions was laid the Sword of State upon another of them was laid the Scepter upon another the Ball and upon the fourth Cushion was laid the Keys The Queen being come into the Room after a little pause made a short Speech to the Company acquainting them with Her Resolution to Resign the Crown and Government of this Kingdom to Her Cousin the Prince Hereditary of Sweden there standing by Her to whom She wished all Happiness and good Success in the Management of the publick Affairs of this Nation that upon Her earnest desire the Ricksdagh not sitting after long Debate and much Sollicitation on her part had at last though unwillingly given their Assent to this Her Resolution and that now She was come to put the same in Execution before all those Honorable Witnesses there present Then She desired that some of them would take the Crown from off Her Head but none of them would do it She Her Self laid down the Scepter upon one of the Cushions on the Table and the Ball on another Cushion but seeing none of them stir to take the Crown from off Her Head She called to Grave Tot and the Barron Steinbergh and expressy commanded them to do it who after some backwardness being again commanded by Her they took the Crown from off Her Majesties Head and laid it down upon the fifth Cushion on the Table After that was done some others by Her came and took off the Royal Robes wherewith She was Cloathed and laid them down upon the Table Then the Queen having thus resigned the Crown and Devested Her Self of Her Royal Apparrel Crown and other Ensigns of Royalty making a Cursey to Her Cousin the Prince and to the rest of the Company She retired into Her own Chamber not making any show outwardly of Repentance or Reluctancy for what She had done but with the like Behaviour and Confidence as at other times betook Her Self to Her own particular Occasions For this Act of the Queens Resignation they had no president For the Solemnity of the Kings Coronation they had many from which the Coronation of this King was not much different and was in short thus After the Queen was withdrawn to Her private Chamber the Ricks Officers and Senators humbly desired the Prince that He would be pleased to walk to the Cathedral Church in Vpsale where the Archbishop and other Prelates were ready to attend His Royal Highness and to perform the Solemnities of His Coronation The whole Company went thither in this Order The Officers and Servants of the Court went first in a very great Number together with many Officers of the Army and other Gentlemen after them came the Nobility Gentlemen Barons and Earls Members of the Ricksdagh then followed the Ricks Senators two and two in Ranks after them the sive Ricks Officers first the Ricks Scatz Master or Treasurer who carryed the Keys next him the Ricks Chancellor who carried the Globe after him the Ricks Admiral who bare the Scepter then one in the place of the Feldthere or General who carried the Sword and after him the Ricks Drotsett or Chief Justice who carried the Crown Next to him came the King Himself in His ordinary Habit with a huge Troop following Him and the Streets and Windows full of Crowds of People with the Guards and Souldiers in their Arms as they past by Being thus come to the Cathedral-Church at the Door stood the Arch-bishop with a Horn of Oyl in his hand accompanied with other Bishops and Clergy-men he received the Prince at the Church-Door and conducted him to the High Altar where they had Prayers and there the Archbishop Anointed the Prince with the Oyl then they put upon Him the Royal Robes and put the Crown upon His Head the Scepter in His Right Hand and the Ball in His Left Hand and so He was Invested into the Royal Dignity and Declared with all His Titles King of Swedes Goths and Vandals c. Drums Trumpets and loud Acclamations of the People were added to the Proclaiming of their new King all of them expressed their high Joy that it was done
Souldiery Industry of their Merchants and Artificers and Laboriousness of their Husbandmen They are generally much like the English and the more likely to Correspond and Agree in Amity with us They have store of Men Arms and Shipping to join with us upon any occasion and whereby both you and they may be strengthn'd against your Enemies and be the more considerable throughout the World They are Just and Faithful in their Actions and Undertakings as the English are and Honorable in their Performances nor are they Engaged to any of our Enemies or such as you may have Cause to suspect but their Differences and Contententions have rather been with those who have contended with you and therefore they are the more likely to observe their Alliance with you They first sought to his Highness and this Common-wealth for an Amity with us and sent several Persons of Honour as publick Ministers hither for that purpose and their Queen and the present King have Testified great affection to this Nation and justly expected some return of it from you again These and many other Motives grounded upon Reason and Wisdom of State persuaded those who sate at the Helm here to judge it fit to send from hence an Ambassador to that Crown to conclude an Amity with them for the Advantage of Trade and mutual Assistance of one another Herein their Judgment did not fail them it was very requisite to send an Ambassador thither but perhaps you may see a Failer of their Judgment in the Choice of a Person so unfit for so Weighty an Imployment Yet they would not excuse him you will believe that he had no Ambition for such a Service and at such a time but he obeyed the Commands of those whom he served undertook the Imployment and can say without Vanity performed his Duty therein to the utmost of his Capacity with Diligence and Faithfulness and God was pleased to own him in it I pass over the Dangerous Voyage by Sea in November through your then Enemies and the cold Journey by Land in December and come to the Court at Vpsale which was Splendid and High replenished not only with gallant outsides but with Persons of great Abilities within both of the Civil and Military Condition Upon my first Ignorance of their Ceremonies I fell into some dislike with several of their Grandees who thought me not enough submissive others thought the better of me for insisting upon the Right of my Nation Vindicating their Honour and not sneaking to those with whom I had to do I followed my own Reason and what pleased God to direct me for your Service and in order to the Good of the Protestant Interest In my Treaty I applyed my self upon all occasions to the Queen Her Self and never to the Senate wherewith Her Majesty was not distasted In the Transactions of my Affairs I Endeavoured to gain the best Intelligence I could from Home and from that Court and spared no cost to gain it the one made me the more considerable there the other was of great Advantage to me in my Negotiation But Sir I was to Incounter with great difficulties and opposition the King of Denmark's Ambassador the Holland Resident with all their Party and Friends some of the most Considerable in the Court and Army and of great Numbers opposed me and endeavoured to Affront me and my Company but by that were no Gainers The French Polish and German Publick Ministers as much as they could covertly sought to hinder me but on the other side I found the Spanish publick Mister there who was a Person of great Ingenuity and in much Favour with the Queen a great Friend and Assistant to me Several great Officers of the Army as General Wrangell Grave Horn Grave Wittenburge Grave Bannier Grave Leenhough and divers others were Friends to me and of the Civil Officers and other Senators the Baron Bundt Steinlorke Grave Tot the Rix Droit or Chief Justice the Grave Braghe and Chiefly the old Chancellor Oxenstiern was my Chief Friend and helper in my Business Prince Adolphe the present Kings Brother was no ill Willer to it the King that now is a great Friend to it and manifested more particular Respect to you in the Person of your Servant than he was ever known to do any of the like Quality or to any State whatsoever And the Queen her Self was resolved to have the Business done so much had I gained of her Favour and satisfied her of your Interest and Respects to her But above all some of my own Countrymen were fierce against me especially those of the Scots Nation both of the Army and Traders whom I little considered yet knew their humors and that they would rayl at me in the Morning and afterwards come to my Table to Dinner and I caused my Officers to welcome them accordingly To Counterwork these I was not without Friends of my own Nation whereof divers were of the like Condition and Eminent amongst them was the General Douglas a Scotch Gentle-man who was very Civil to me So was a true English Gentleman General Major Sir George Fleetwood a Person of great Interest and Respect in those Parts and with all that know him he Testified extraordinary Respect and Affection to you and to your Servant and was very Courteous and helpful to me Those who opposed or indeavoured to affront me in your Business I forbear to name not for their sakes but least it might be prejudicial to your Friends there and to your own future occasions But Sir we ought to look higher than to the greatest and wisest of Men it was the Goodness and Mercy of God who gave a Blessing to your Proceedings and a desired Success to this Treaty which we ought to acknowledg with humble Thankfulness and the weaker the Instruments were the more his Power and Goodness appears in it He was Pleased to give Success to that Negotiation under my hands and after many Delays and Debates and all the Opposition that could be made to give a Conclusion to it I made an Alliance betwixt the Common-wealth and that Crown Ratified by the then Queen and the present King under their hands and under their Great Seal of Sweden The Instrument thereof I presented to His Highness and His Councel at my Return home who caused a strict Perusal and Examination thereof to be made and finding it punctually according to my Instructions did approve of it and of my poor Service in it and His Highness Ratified the other part of the Treaty to which the Great Seal of England was affixed the transcript whereof with the Original of the other are at your Command to be produced I shall not presume to Judg of the Advantages by this Alliance to this Nation and to the Protestant Interest through the World this Honorable House are best able to Judge thereof and of the Duty of their Servant and his performance thereof who submits all to their Wisdom and savourable Construction And being
and his Countenancing Orthodox Ministers and frequenting the publick Ordinances The Sweeds had good Success in Poland and in Muscovia Collonel Harvey committed to the Tower The Swedish Ambassador had Audience and related to the Protector his Masters successes A Paper of the Special Commissioners for Charitable uses read in the Churches in London inviting discoveries Cracovia was Surrendred upon Articles to the King of Sweden The Major-Generals and their several Commissioners met in several Counties to execute their Commissions The Protector and his Councel referred to Sir William Roberts and others the Examination of the Accounts of Collonel Harvey and Collonel Langham upon which they stand Committed The Ratification of the Treaty with the King of France returned by Monsieur de la Bastile the Kings Ambassador under the Kings hand and then the Protector ratified it and it was Sealed with the Great Seal of both Parties A Declaration for a publick Fast A Commission for appointing Justices of the Peace in Scotland Major Rolt arrived in Poland Envoy from the Protector to the King of Sweden A Declaration for a New Assessment The Peace between England and France proclaimed in London The French Ambassador by Invitation dined with the Protector The Swedish Ambassador having often solicited the Protector that Commissioners might be appointed to Treat with him and none being yet appointed he grew somewhat impatient and the more because none of the Grandees would vouchsafe to visit him by reason of a former Order of the long Parliament prohibiting the Conversing with Forreign Ministers neither were they willing that the Ambassador should come to them at which he wondred being so contrary to the Practice in his Countrey December 1655. Instructions published by the Protectors Councel in Scotland for the Justices of Peace in that Kingdom and for Constables and they Order the former Great Seal and Privy Seal there to be brought in The Tories in Ireland brought in the Copy of a Letter from Queen Christiana to the King of Sweden of her declaring her self to be of the Roman Catholick Religion and some Complements to the King Divers Ministers sent for by the Protector whom he acquainted with the Proposals made by Manasseth Ben Israel the Jew and referred them to the Consideration of the Ministers and others A Day of Fast publickly kept The French Ambassador went away A Brest Man of War with Commission from the Duke of York brought in the Queen Christianaes Absolution from the Church of Rome A French Man of War sunk by one of the English Fleet the Peace not being yet known Instructions to the Majors-General to take Security of all who had been in Armes for the King for their Peaceable demeanour and obedience to the Protector Audience to the Envoy of the Duke of Brandenburgh A Conference with Manasseth Ben Israel about admitting the Jewish Nation to Trade in England The Swedish Ambassador had audience The Protestors in Scotland Petitioned with Reasons against the Power of the Civil Magistrate in Church matters as contrary to Law and Scripture The Queen Christiana of Sweden Honourably received at Ferrara Additional Instructions to the Major-Generals Letters of Mr. Mannings being put to death by King Charles at Duynwald for holding Correspondence with those in England He was a Servant to Sir Edward Hyde and shot to death Audience to the Venetian Ambassador No Commissioners being yet come to the Swedish Ambassador he grew into some high expressions of his Sense of the neglect to his Master by this delay which was excused and the Protector made acquainted with it who thereupon promised to have it mended and to send suddenly to the Ambassador Mr. Meadow by Command of the Secretary of State Translated the Sweedish Treaty made by Whitelock January 1655. An Arch-Rebel in Ireland taken A Committee appointed for the business of Piedmont most of the Protectors Councel were of it Orders by the Protectors Councel in Scotland touching Delinquents payment of their Fines The Committee for Piedmont were very careful of the poor Protestants there to send relief to them The Envoy of the Elector of Brandenburgh had private Audience with the Protector Letters of the King of Sweden's prosperous Successes The major-Major-General and Justices of the Peace in Shropshire made strict orders for the suppressing of Drunkenness and Disorders and of Ale-Houses Players taken in New-Castle and whipt for Rogues The Sheriffs of the Several Counties declared Popish Books burnt in London The King of Sweden had a Son born at Stock-holm he was Baptized Charles Donnah o Derry the Arch Irish Traytor who had Murthered many English was Hanged at Dublin Letters of a Gallant action performed by the English in Jamaica against the Spaniards in the Indies An agreement made between the King of Sweden and the Elector of Brandenburgh The Lord Deputy Fleetwood and Collonel Sydenham told Whitelock that his Highness and the Council had appointed them to acquaint him with a Business of very great importance which is that they considering the present Condition of Affairs did hold it necessary forthwith to send an extraordinary Ambassy to the King of Swedeland about a business of the greatest Consequence and Honour that could be and most conducing to the good of the Protestant cause which was the uniting of that Interest preventing the differences that were likely to fall between that King and the Vnited Provinces and the Elector of Brandenburgh for which ends they had thoughts of Whitelock and Sir Christopher Pack to go to the King as Ambassadors from his Higness Whitelock thought he had enough of Danger and Trouble in his former Ambassy without the least reward or acknowledgment of his Service therein but instead thereof and notwithstanding the Success which God gave him yet at his return home he found Neglects and Slightings and was removed from his place of Commissioner of the Seal and was 500 l. out of Purse upon his Accounts These Considerations stuck with him and made him endeavour by all handsome pretences to be excused that Service And when Collonel Sydenham spake in commendation of Sir Christopher Pack Whitelock replyed that they might send Sir Christopher alone for he did not apprehend a necessity of sending two Ambassadors together They both to that said that the intention of sending Sir Christopher Pack was to manifest the Engagement of the City in this business and in it to put an honour upon them Whitelock alledged also that the King of Sweden's Ambassador here might probably conclude upon the Business intended without sending one from hence to him The Lord Deputy said that the Ambassador here had no Instructions for it Whitelock told him the Ambassador here he believed had instructions sufficient or might have them before Ambassadors could go from hence to Sweden And that to send him now who had been so lately with the same King would give an alarm to all the Popish Princes and
and particularly concerning our English Frigots he was very Inquisitive to know of Sir George whether he esteemed them the best of any sort of Ships for fight Sr. George answered freely that he did not esteem them the best Ships for fight but held the old fashioned English Ships of the biggest rate best for fight and being asked his reason said because they were stronger than the Frigots would endure the shaking of their own Guns and the blows of the Enemies Guns better than the Frigots could and were firm and like a Castle in the Sea and not so easy to be boarded as the Frigots being higher built The Ambassador replyed that they themselves could not so easily board another Ship being so high built Sir George answered that when they came to boarding they that assailed had not so great a trouble of going down their own Ship as going up to the Enemies and the high building was no hindrance to their boarding of another but was the better defence for themselves The Ambassador also objected that they could not so easily come about and fetch up another Ship as the Frigots could Sr. George answered that they could easily enough tack about upon any occasion in fight but confessed that they could not so soon fetch up another Ship nor take or leave as the Frigots could which he said was rather an Inducement to cowardise than courage and some Captains when they knew they could leave an Enemy as they pleased would ingage in the fewer blows whereas the old built Ships must stand to it and the men knowing that there was no running away would have the better mettal to fight it out The Ambassador asked which would last longest the Ships built after the old fashion or the Frigots Sr George answered that the old building was more strong and substantial than the building of the Frigots which were made long and light for sailing and therefore could not last so long as the other and they carrying many Guns and being thus made their own Guns did much shake and wear them more than the Guns of the others did They had much discourse of this nature which added pleasure to the entertainment in his return home the Ambassador went into Hampton Court to take his leave of the Lady Elizabeth Cleypoole and her Sisters where he was received with much state 16. Letters came to the Swedish Ambassador of his Masters great Victory obtained against the King of Poland 20. The Swedish Ambassador designed to have gone away this day but his Jewel other present of twelve hundred pounds worth of white Cloth which the Protector gave him not being ready he was well contented to stay for them and they were now resolved to be bestowed on him since the news of his Masters great Victory against the King of Poland 23. The Ambassador having been yesterday to take his last leave of the Protector who gave him his present and complements sufficient besides and an ample pass under his Highness own Hand and Seal than which nothing more could be demanded or expected the Ambassador was this day to go to Graves-End and the Lord Strickland and Sr. Gilbert Pickering were appointed by the Council to accompany the Ambassador to the Water-side the Protectors Coaches and many other Coaches were appointed to conduct him in State to the Tower wharf where the Protectors Barges were attending upon him the Ambassador wore the rich Jewel which the Protector gave him tyed with a blew ribbon to his button-holes The Jewel was his Highness Picture in a case of Gold about the bigness of a five shillings piece of Silver set round the case with sixteen fair Diamonds each Diamond valued at 60 l. in all worth about 1000 l. September 1656. 3. The Protector and his Council kept a solemn day of thanksgiving for the 2 victories obtained at Dunbar and Worcester on this day of the month 4. Sir William Davenant printed his Opera notwithstanding the nicety of the Times 17. This being the day appointed for the meeting of the Parliament the Protector and the members of Parliament came to the Abbey Church at Westminster where they heard a Sermon preached by Dr. John Owen Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford After Sermon His Highness and the members went to the Painted-Chamber where he made a Speech to them and then they went to the House upon their going in the Members received Certificates in this form County of Bucks THese are to Certifie That is returned by Indenture one of the Knights to serve in this Present Parliament for the said County and approved by his Highness Council 17 Sep. 1656. Nath. Tayler Clerk of the Common-wealth in Chancery Sir Thomas Widdrington was chosen Speaker 18. The House resolved to keep a Fast day on Wednesday next and they appointed a Committee to prepare a Declaration for a General Fast throughout the three Nations They appointed Grand Committees for Elections Religion Grievances Courts of Justice and for Trade A Bill was read for renouncing and disanulling the pretended Title of Charles Stuart 19. The same Bill was read the second time 22. Some amendments to this Bill for renouncing c. were reported to the House from the Committee and agreed and the Bill ordered to be Ingrossed A Report being made to the House from the Council of the Reasons why some Persons returned for Members were not admitted into the House upon the Question It was Resolved That those persons should make their application to the Council for approbation Upon which several of the Members that were chosen to serve in Parliament and not approved by the Council published a Remonstrance in these words WHen our worthy Ancestors have been Met in Parliament and have found Oppression and Tyranny supported by such strong hands that they could not prevail to secure their Countries Lives and Liberties by wholesome Laws They have often made their Protestations against the Injustice and Oppression and forewarned the People of their danger To omit other Instances so did the Commons in Parliament in the Third and Fourth year of the late King when he Challenged a Power to take Tonnage and Poundage without the Peoples Consent in Parliament they made their Protestation * That whosoever should Counsel or Advise the leavying of Tonnage and Poundage for the King not being granted him by the Parliament or should act or be an Instrument therein should be reputed a Capital Enemy to the Kingdom and Common-wealth And also that whatsoever Merchant or other Person should voluntarily yield or pay Tonnage or Poundage not being granted by Parliament should be reputed a betrayer of the Liberties of England and an Enemy to the same In like manner We who have been duely Chosen by the People to be Members of the Parliament that should now have Met and have an undoubted right to Meet Sit and Vote in Parliament although we are oppressed by force of Arms and shut out of the usual
lost only one Troop which was sunk by the breaking of the Ice whilst the Troop were marching upon it 16. The Contract was confirmed by the Council touching Tonnage and Poundage and the Excise wherein the Commissioners of the Treasury took pains 19. Whitelocke was much retired and not satisfied with the publick transactions March 1657. 1. Applications from a Scotch Lord to the Protector to restore this Lord to a place in Scotland from which he had been unjustly removed 16. The Funeral of Alderman Wright 17. The Cavalier Party were again at work upon a new Design whereof the Protector had Intelligence from abroad and from some of the Actors here about this he advised and sent for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London and acquainted them with it and desired their care to put the City into a posture of defence 18. A Petition and Representation was delivered to his Highness from the City of London of their faithfulness and duty to him 19. Divers the like Addresses were made from General Monk's and other Regiments and his Highness answered them with thanks 20. News of the Peace concluded between the Kings of Sweden and Denmark 24. The Protector ordered 200 l. to be paid out of the Treasury to Manasseh Ben Israel the Jewish Rabbi April 1658. 11. A Collection for the persecuted Protestants in Poland and in Bohemia 12. The Protector by Letters Patents made four Baronets 17. The Protector advised about setting up a High Court of Justice for tryal of the Conspirators now in Prison he was advised rather to have them proceeded against in the ordinary course of Tryals at the Common Law but his Highness was too much in love with the new way and thought it to be the more effectual and would the more terrifie the Offenders 19. Several Addresses were made to the Protector from Regiments of the Army and from the Forces in Mardike with professions to adhere to him The Protector in his Answer to some of them did impart to them The present designs of the Enemy that Commissions were sent over hither from the King of Scots and that he had 4000 men in Flanders ready to be Imbarqued into England to joyn with his Party here and Ships ready to transport them and therefore it behoved all honest men to provide for a defence and to joyn heartily together 22. Thus the Protector 's Party were full of unquietness and alarms and yet it pleased God to keep up their Spirits from being daunted 24. Whitclocke and the rest of the Commissioners of the Treasury the Recorder of London and the Masters of the Requests or any two of them appointed by the Council a Committee to hear Appeals from Guernsey and Jersey and to report their opinions therein to the Council 27. The Commissiâ—â— of the Seal and of the Treasury the Judges and many others were nominated Commissioners under the great Seal for the tryal of the present Conspirators against the Protector and Governour and Whitclocke was one of them but he never sate with them it being against his judgment May 1658. 1. Serjeant Maynard was by Patent made his Highness Serjeant at Law 13. Sir Roger Mostyn was secured and a Prisoner to Colonel Carter at Conway 15. Sir Roger Mostyns liberty was procured upon his Paroll to be at his own house at Mostyn engaging to doe nothing prejudicial to the present Government 17. Sir John Borlace and several others were secured at this time 20. News of the Progress of the English and French Forces before Dunkirk 21. Thirty Apprentices Prisoners in the Tower upon the new Plot were examined It was advised that Lenity should be used towards them 25. The Tryal of Dr. Hewet before the new Commissioners of the High Court of Justice this day the Doctor did not carry himself prudently June 1658. 5. Mr. Mordant one of the great Actors in the new Conspiracy had favour from the Commissioners 6. News of the total Defeat given to the Spanish Army which came to relieve Dunkirk and of the gallant Service performed by the English wherein the Lord Ambassadour Lockart gained much honour 1200 Spaniards were slain and 2000 taken prisoners the English and French did gallantly 8. Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Hewet were beheaded at Tower-hill 9. Sir Humphrey Bennet being to be tryed for the new Conspiracy Applications were made by his friends to the Commissioners of the High Court of Justice for favour to him and his life was saved but the kindness of his friends not remembred 15. Audience to the Duke of Crequi and Monsieur Mancini sent from the King of France and from the Cardinal Mazarine to the Protector to congratulate the Success of the King 's and the Protector 's joynt Forces and to complement his Highness who answered their Complements and expressed like affection to the alliance with his Majesty of France 21. Intelligence of the surrender of Dunkirk and that the King of France the Cardinal and General Lockart entred the Town with their Forces and Lockart was put into the possession and command of it 23. Whitelocke having been formerly employed by the Protector together with Mr. Bond and no others about a Proposal for betraying this Town by the then Spanish Governour of it unto the Protector for money which the Protector then refused as a dishonourable Action some Overtures were made to Whitelocke to be Governour of that place upon Lockart's Imployment in other Services but Whitelocke was not satisfied to undertake it though it was a Command very honourable and profitable nor was he ambitious of that Preferment or endeavouring to obtain it 24. News of the taking of Bergen by the English and French 26. Sir Thomas Widdrington was made Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer 30. According to Whitelocke's former advice to the Protector wherein Thurlo agreed divers others of the new Conspirators were referred to be tryed at the Vpper Bench Bar after the course of the Common Law July 1658. 2. Several of the new Conspirators tryed and found guilty 6. Several of them were executed in London and at Tyburn 8. Mr. Hugh Peters related the Passages of Mardike and Dunkirk where he preached to the Souldiers 14. Upon a Report from the Commissioners of the Treasury the Protector and Council made several Orders for bringing in money in arrear to the State 17. Mr. Ryley the Herald and Clerk of the Records in the Tower promised great Service about the Calendring of the Records 18. The Protector was at Hampton Court and his Council there with him 21. The Protector kept a day of Thanksgiving for the Successes in Flanders 24. News of the Siege of Gravelin by the English and French Forces August 1658. 6. A general meeting of the Adventurers for Ireland 7. News of the death of the Lady Elizabeth Cleypole yesterday at Hampton Court she was a Lady of excellent Parts dear to her Parents and civil to all persons and courteous
28. Divers Souldiers and Agitators apprehended in several places May 1660. 1. Sir John Greenvile of the Bed-Chamber to the King brought from Breda his Majesties Letter and Declaration to the House of Lords His message and declaration to the House of Commons His Letter and Declaration to Monk to be communicated to his Officers And His Majesties Letter and Declaration to the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of London By the Declaration The King grants a free generall pardon to all that shall lay hold of it within forty daies except such as the Parliament shall except and a liberty to tender Consciences and that none be questioned for difference of Opinion in matters of Religion which do not disturb the Peace of the Kingdom That differences and all things relating to grants sales and purchases shall be determined in Parliament and he will consent to Acts for that purpose and for satisfaction of the Arrears to Monk ' s Officers and Souldiers and they to be received into His Majesties Service and Pay These things being read in the House of Commons Mr. Luke Robinson formerly a most fierce man did now first magnifie his grace and goodness The Lords House gave thanks to Sir John Greenvile and declared That according to the ancient and fundamentall Laws of this Kingdom the Government is and ought to be by King Lords and Commons And the Lords desired that some way may be considered how to make up the Breaches and to obtain the King's return again to his people They voted a Committee to joyn with a Committee of the House of Commons to consider of an answer to His Majesties Gracious Letter and Declaration and to prepare something in order to this business The King's Letter and Declaration to the House of Commons was read and his Letter to Monk and they named a Committee to prepare an answer to the King's Letter expressing the joyfull sense of the House of His Gracious offers and their humble thanks for them with profession of their Loyalty and Duty to his Majesty and that they will give a speedy answer to His Gracious Proposals The House resolved to present 50000 l. to the King and the Committee ordered to go to the City to advance it upon security and interest and to treat about raising a further summ for the Army Order for Monk to communicate his Letter from the King to the Officers and Souldiers and to return an answer to the King which Monk did accordingly and it was received with great joy Order to enter the King's Letter in the Journall Book The Commons agreed with the Lords Vote of Government by King Lords and Commons and appointed a Committee to search the Journals what Acts or Orders there had been made inconsistent herewith An Assessment agreed of 70000 l. per mensem for three months Bonfires and ringing of Bells and great Guns fired in joy of these resolves 2. An Address to Monk from the Officers of the Army rejoycing in his Majesties offers of Indemnity of Liberty of Conscience satisfaction of Arrears and confirmation of purchases read in Parliament Dr. Clerges a Member of the House had leave to go to the King from Monk Sir John Greenvile that brought the King's Letter had the thanks of the House and 500 l. ordered for him to buy him a jewell The City had leave to send an answer to the King's Letter to them Letters that Lambert's party were all discharged and dispersed The City agreed to lend 50000 l. to the House of Commons 3. Orders touching returns of Elections The Lords agreed upon some of their Members six to be sent to the King and the Common Council of London did the like and gave 300 l. to the L. Mordant and Sir John Greenvile who brought the Letters from the King to buy each of them a Ring 4. The Commons agreed to an Order of the Lords for favour to the D. of Bucks for restoring his Estate The House gave leave to the Members of the Common Council named by them to go to the King and resolved to send twelve of their own Members to His Majesty Dr. Clerges with others went to the King with Monk's answer to the King's Letters to him and the Address of the Army 5. Orders touching returning of Elections An Opinion being discoursed abroad That the Long Parliament could not be dissolved but by themselves and the King 's and Lords consent which was not had for their dissolving and another Opinion being given out That if the Long Parliament were dissolved then the Trienniall Parliament was to take place and no other by that Act of Parliament The Commons thereupon passed a Bill for removing of disputes touching the sitting of this Parliament And they passed a Declaration for adjourning part of next Easter Term to which the Lords concurred and the Commons agreed that the E. of Manchester be one of the L. L. Commissioners for the Great Seal G. Mountague at Sea to whom the Letter to Monk was also directed from the King upon the receipt of it and of the Declaration he called together the Officers of the several Ships and communicated the Letter and Declaration to them who expressed great joy and satisfaction therein and desired Mountague to represent the same with their humble thanks to his Majesty Then Mountague fired the first Gun himself and all his Ships answered it round with loud Acclamations as their General had done crying God bless the King and the General gave two Pipes of Canary to his men 7. Order of the Common Council that at his Majesties return the new Park which Oliver had given them should be presented to the King and he assured that the City had only kept it as Stewards for his Majesty The Commons gave leave to General Mountague to return an answer to the King's Letter to him Resolved by both Houses that the King be proclaimed to morrow King of England Scotland France and Ireland and a Committee of both Houses to consider of the manner of it A Declaration against tumults and to continue Justices of Peace and other Officers in their places The King's Statue again set up in Guild-Hall and the States Armes taken down and the Kings Arms set up in their place Monk removed his Guards out of the City Collonel Salmon discharged upon security New Flags and Standards and Paintings ordered for the Ships 8. Resolved by the Commons That the King be desired to make a speedy return to his Parliament and to the exercise of his Kingly Office A Committee appointed to consider of the manner of his Majesties return and to prepare things necessary for his Reception The King was solemnly proclaimed at Westminster Hall-Gate the Lords and Commons standing bare by the Heralds whilst the Proclamation was made Then he was proclaimed in the several usual places in the City the Lord Mayor Recorder and Officers being present
Petition Another answer to the Petition of Right June 7th Dr. Lambe Votes against Bishop Neal and Laud and the Duke Remonstrance Message Remonstrance Parliament Prorogued to Octo. 20. The Duke stabbed by Felton Parliament Prorogued to Jan. 20. Merchants imprisoned for Tunnage and Poundage Felton Tunnage and Poundage Jan. 20. King's Speech Message Message for Tunnage and Poundage The Commons declaration The King's Answer Grievances Message Votes Protestation Message Members committed Parliament dissolved King's Speech Resolutions of Judges Habeas corpus Habeas corpus Habeas corpus Information in the-Star Chamber against the Members Habeas corpus The Judges perplext Members taken off Good behaviour Proceedings against Selden c. Information in the Star-chamber Information in the Kings Bench. Prohibitions Queen of Bohemia A Peace with France Prince Charls born May 29. King of Sweden Dr. Leighton stygmatized Peace with Spain King of Sweden Marquess Hambleton Papists in Ireland Earl of Essex Impropriations Huntley The High Commission Court Message to the Chief Justice The King 's express Command The Judges answer Walter dies His Opinion His Patent Lord Audley's Tryal Rea and Ramsey Appeal of Treason Judges Opinions Sir Nich. Hyde Questions to the Judges touching the Clergy Oxford Book of Sports Repair of Pauls Sir Paul Pindar The Princess Mary born Ambassador to Sweden Dr. Lamb. City of London fined Judge Whitelocke dies Abbot dies Laud made Archbishop of Canterbury Wentworth sent into Ireland King of Sweden slain Wallestein murthered Prynne's Histriomastix Prynne sent to the Tower The King's progress to Scotland October 13. the Duke of York born October 18. Masque of the Inns of Court Dr. Bastwick Bishops independent of the King Mare liberum Mare clausum Shipmoney Ambassador of Sweden slighted Noy dies Balmerino Treasurer Weston dies Sir Edw. Coke dies Spotswood A Fleet set out Lord Keeper's Speech The peace at Praguë Hollandâ—rs present Juxton made Treasurer Letters for Shipmony Laud's Visitation Northumberland Admiral Ferdinand the 2d Hampden refuses Ship-money Judges Opinion about Ship-money Croke alters his mind Arundel sent to the Emperor Burton Bastwick Pâ—yn Prince Elector defeated Sentence against Bishop of Lincoln Osbaldston Laud's Warrant Troubles in Scotland Proclamations Scot's Petition Hamilton Covenanters Answ The King's Declaration Covenanters Protest Hamilton's Proposals Declaration Covenanters protest Argile Covenanters prepare for War Calvin Whitgift's Articles Episcopacy restored The Queen mother in England Preparations for War with the Scots Arundel General Declaration The Covenanters Answer The King at York revokes several projects and Monopolies Articles of pacification The Covenanters perform not Assembly at Edenburgh Parliament Lords of the Articles The Parliament in Scotland prorogu'd Their Declaration Spanish Fleet beaten by the Dutch Prince Elector made Prisoner in France A Parliament appointed Subscriptions Coventry dies Commissioners from Scotland Loudon sent to the Tower Bagshaw's Reading A Parliament Glanvil Speaker Message from the King Sir H. Vane censured The Parliament dissolv'd Laud blam'd Convocation continues sitting Anno 1640. Tumult of Prentices Oath imposed by the Convocation Their Canons Knighthood Money Londoners discontented A Royal Army Duke of Glocester born Scots declared Rebels Conway Lesley The English worsted Wilmot Conway accused The Scots Petition The Kings Answer Demands of the Scots The Lords Petition The Kings Answer Petition of the Citizens of London The Council at York The Scotish War variously discoursed of Message to the Scots Complaint against Strafford Treaty at Rippon The Scots demands The Treaty variously censured Montross 3. Novem. a day ominous Strafford Perswaded to go to the Parliament Speech to the Parliament Petitions Pym of Grievances Lord Digby Proclamations against Papists Earl of Warwick Impeachment against Strafford Habeas Corpus Judges Crook and Whitelocke cleared Prynne and Burton Windebank Votes Committee against Strafford Alderman Pennington Votes Laud Impeacht Lord Keeper Finch His Speech Articles against Finch Petitions King's Speech Demands of the Scots yielded to Judge Berkley Triennial Parliament The Kings Speech Votes Foreign Affairs Strafford Disputes touching the tryal Undertakers Tryal of Strafford Sir Henry Vane Councel for Strafford Bill of Attainder Commons Petition The King's Answer Tumult Practices upon the Army Protestation Bill for continuing the Parliament Strafford voted guilty Letter from Strafford to the King Censures Balfour Great Officers resign their Places Discontents in the Army Officers Petition Church-Government Armagh Tonnage and Poundage granted High Commission Court Star-chamber Queen Mother dies Dr. Wren Ship-money Judges Essex Armies disbanded Parliament adjourn'd Irish Rebellion Earl of Leicester Irish Maxims Motives Owen O'Conelly Mac Mahon O Neale Votes The King's return from Scotland Speech in Parliament Proclamation Speech Parliament Petition Grievances of the Court Marshal Hyde Remonstrance Protestation Palmer Tumults Irish Oath Irish Cruelties Vote Articles against the five Members The King in the House of Commons The 〈◊〉 Speech The Spâ—â—ker The Action diversly censured Declaration Vote Tumults Bishops Protest Bishops accused of high Treason London Petition The King's Answer Petition Tumults The King removes to Hampton Court Five Members return to the House Lord Digby Lunsford Message Petition Answer Petitions Answer Bill for disabling Bishops Essex Holland Letters intercepted The Queen to Holland Pym. Militia Message Petition Skippon Petition Militia Answer Bill for Ireland Militia Petition Vote Declaration Militia Answer Vote Message Anno. 1642. Lords Report Answer Address at York Message Hull Reasons Answer Hotham Hull Messages Vote Militia Gardiner Different Opinions Declaration Scots interpose Vote Order Nineteen Propositions Commission of Array Lord Keeper Littleton Protestation at York Declaration Message Earl of Warwick Lord Willoughby Votes for an Army Petition Money rais'd Several proclaim'd Traytors Declaration Standard at Nottingham Message Answer Reply Vote Colours Hull Directions to the General Declaration Oxford King's Speech Vote Yorkshire Cornwal Edghill Fight The King at Oxford Essex An Address for Peace Petition Skippon his Speeches Turnham-green The King's Forces retreat Vote Message Petition Letters intercepted Petition Answer City Sir Hugh Cholmley Propositions for Peace Safe Conduct Treaty at Oxford Propositions The King's Propositions Massey Scots come in Lesley Ireland Richlieu dies Lewys the XIII dies Commissioners at Oxford Message Treaty breaks off Lord Brook E. Northampton Covenant Pym dies Waller Hampden Germany Swedes Henrietta Maria. Great Seal Sir W. Waller defeated Hotham Bristol taken by P. Rupert Great Seal H. Martyn Selden Earl of Kingston Cromwell Gloucester Massey Members disabled Gen. Essex Covenant Col. Potley Gloucester relieved Judge Berkley sentenced Newbery fight Lord Falkland Covenant General Essex Sir Philip Stapleton Pasquils Laud. Ormond Poole Dr. Featly Sir Nic. Crispe French Embassadour Manchester Ministers French Embassador Proclamations Commissioners for Scotland Great Seal Laud his Tryal Earl of Holland Col. Rigby Covenant Answer to Fr. Embassadour C. Mostyn Great Seal Fr. Embassadour Scotland Waller Great Seal Irish Proposals Indictment of H. Treason G. Essex Gr. Seal D. Hamilton C. Hutchinson Scots Army Parliament at Oxford Proclamations Plot. Letter intercepted Goring
to the Presbyterian Government and none other That Liberty of Conscience granted shall extend to none that shall Preach Print or Publish any thing contrary to the first fifteen of the thirty-nine Articles except the eighth That it extend not to Popish Recusants or taking away any Poenal Laws against them Order by the Lords that the Marquess of Winton have three Months longer time to be abroad Committees appointed to draw things into form and touching the Prorogation of the Parliament and touching Justices of the Peace and Grand-Jury-men 14. Debate touching the end of Sessions of Parliament and this Session to end in twelve Months after the passing the Bill and afterwards the Sessions to be Triennial The Commons voted Liberty to tender Consciences by way of Indulgence and much to the effect as the Lords had before voted A Letter from the King to the General That he would write to the Parliament that his Majesties Children might not yet be removed to St James's but remain for a night or two within 15. Debate upon the Ordinance for Tunnage and Poundage Proceedings upon the Propositions concerning Church-Government The General Councel of the Army at Putney resolved That every Trooper should abate 12d per diem in lieu of free Quarter and every Foot Soldier 4d per diem 16. Debate touching Religion and Voted That the Indulgence as to tender Consciences shall not extend to tolerate the Common Prayer The Lords sent the Propositions to the Commons for their concurrence to be sent to the King with some alterations The Commons referred them to a Committee to peruse wherein they agreed or disagreed from the former Propositions Suspition of designs to bring in the Scots to assist the King 18. Proceedings upon the Propositions to be sent to the King the same as before Added to put a period to this Parliament a year after the passing of this Act. For Elections of Justices of Peace and Grand Jury-men The King to return to his Parliament and have his Rights Queen and Children restored to him Some alterations made by the Commons and referred to a Committee Debate Seven Delinquents to be excepted from pardon of life Complaints against Stage-players and an Ordinance to suppress them Debate upon L. C. Liburne's Case committed by the Lords against which he complained by a long Speech Mr. Belliure the French Ambassador took his leave of the King The Gourdons rose in Arms in Scotland and Major General Miadleton gave a defeat to some of them The Agitators of five Regiments of Horse presented some high Papers to the General as the sence of the Army which was not so but of these Agitators The General answered their Letter That he thought it meet to be presented to the General Councel 19. A grand Committee to consider of Moneys for Pay of the Army out of the Excise Bishops Lands c. Letter from the French Ambassador about his taking leave and desiring a Pass Debate about Coaches c. for his Journey Order that three Lords and six Commoners give the Ambassador a visit at his departure Ordinance against Stage-plays carried up to the Lords Col. Jones took in four Castles from the Rebels but could not force them to fight though at advantages Power given to suppress the Moss-Troopers 20. Several Votes pass'd upon the Proposition of Persons excepted from Pardon agreed to be seven and touching Estates and Offices c. 21. Proceedings and several new Votes upon the Propositions A Petition from Sir William Roberts and the other contractors for the sale of Bishops Lands of the Obstructions in that business referred to a Committee to consider of a way for removal of them The Lords agreed with the Commons in the Ordinance for suppressing Stage-Players 22. A Petition of the East-India Company referred to a Committee Order for twelve hundred pound for Lieutenant Collonel Goll's Arrears An Ordinance committed for Payment of all Arrears to the Soldiers particularly to some of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army and ordered out of the Sale of Bishops Lands after the precedent engagements thereupon The Assembly presented to the House a Catechisme drawn up by them Referred to the Committee of the Army and to the Committee of the Navy to inquire what Arms Ammunition and Ordnances belonging to the Publick are in any private hands or not made use of for the service of the State and to restore such as belong to any who are well affected to the Parliament and the rest to be brought in to the Tower or made use of for the Navy The General and General Councel of the Army met at Putney and had much debate touching the Papers presented by the Agitators of the five Regiments which were disliked by the General and his Officers and they appointed a Committee to consider of the Paper printed intituled the Case of the Army to send for such Parties as they shall think fit and to prepare something to be offered to the next General Councel and for vindication of the Army from the aspersions cast upon them by that Paper They were also to consider of a way for the speedy bringing in of monies upon Compositions to be offered to the House from the General Councel and of an abatement of the Pay of Non-Commissioned Officers and to prepare Rules for Quartering of Souldiers for the ease of the Country and about some Troopers lately taken in to be Disbanded about Waggoners and payment of Arrears 23. A Letter from the Scots Commissioners here to give notice to the Houses That there was a command laid upon them to attend the King which they did this day at Hampton-Court Orders for mony for the Army Proceedings upon the Propositions and Voted That the Tithes belonging to Deans and Chapters shall be imployed towards the maintenance of a Preaching Minister 25. Votes for Pay of the Arrears of Souldiers out of the Estates of Delinquents the remainder of Bishops Lands and Forest Lands this to be inserted in the Propositions and an Act to Null the Court of Wards and the King to have twenty thousand pounds per An. in lieu thereof and that the two Houses shall nominate all the chief Officers in Ireland and also in England A Committee of both Houses for Forrein Affairs to consider of a Message from the Ambassadour of France A Case of Indemnity determined The Committee of Estates in Scotland considering the dangers then imminent to Religion His Majesties Person and Authority the Union betwixt the Kingdoms and Peace of that Kingdom fully represented to them in Letters from the Commissioners in London and by several informations found it necessary in regard thereof that the Army be kept up till March next Letters from the North of the care of Major General Lambert for equal Quartering of his Souldiers and for punishment of some to run the Gantelope for Plundering and for meddling to assist in taking possession of a parcel of Tithes and taking in the advice
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
to whomsoever should secure the Duke and notice sent hereof to my Lord Mayor A Messenger with one of the Warrants to be sent by the Post was stopped and examined by some Troupers in Southwark whom he told of the escape of Duke Hamilton Not long after as these Troupers marched about the streets they perceived a man knocking very earnestly at an Inn gate in Southwark and asked him what he was and his business he answered that he came to Dover Carrier who lodged there and he was to go down with the Carrier in his Waggon The Troupers more strictly observing him one of them told him he believed that he was a Scotch-man and that he had seen him in Hamilton's Army which he denyed but presently another of the Troupers said plainly he believed that it was Hamilton himself though disguised for he very well knew his favour and was at the taking of him and they had heard a little before that he had escaped out of Windsor-Castle Hereupon they presently searched him and found about him forty pound in gold a Diamond Ring valued at a hundred pound and other good prize for the Troupers who this morning brought him by Water to White-hall where a strong guard was put upon him The House gave one hundred and twenty pound to the Troupers who apprehended the Duke besides what they found about him Sir Lewis Dives escaped the last Night and Mr. Holder the Prince's Agent escaped through the House of Office in White-hall standing over the Thames The escapes of these persons put the House in debate of bringing Hamilton the Earl of Holland Laughern Poyer Powell and other chief Delinquents to a speedy Tryal They appointed a Committee to bring in an Act for constituting a Court for the Tryal of these persons and Ordered the Earl of Holland to be forthwith removed to London This being the monthly Fast-day it was moved in the House when they sate after the Sermons to have two Ministers appointed to preach as was usual the next Fast-day but some held the course of keeping a constant monthly Fast not to be so proper but savouring of too much formality and that it was fitter to appoint daies of publick humiliation upon special occasions upon debate whereof no Ministers were named to preach the next monthly Fast-day February 1648. 1. The Act passed That such Members as had voted 5. Dec. last that the late Kings concessions to the propositions were a sufficient ground for setling a peace in this Nation should not be readmitted to sit as Members of this Parliament And that such Members as were then in the House and gave their votes in the Negative should enter their dissent to the said vote and such as were absent to declare their disaproving thereof before they be admitted to sit as Members Many Members declared their dissent to that vote Voted that Duke Hamilton the Earl of Holland Lord Goring Lord Capel and Colonel Owen shall be the next persons to be proceeded against for justice After this the Lord Capell by a desperate attempt escaped this Evening out of the Tower over the Moat and Warrants were sent out and one hundred pound promised to any that should take him A Message from the Lord for a Committee to be named of both Houses to consider of a way to settle this Nation Order to consider to morrow whether the Lords Messenger should be called in or not and whether the House should take any cognizance thereof Order for adjourning the Term for eight days A Petition from Surrey That the Militia may be put into faithful hands and Neuters and suspected persons rendred uncapable of trust That Magistrates and Officers may be chosen by the well affected persons and Delinquents neither to chuse nor to be chosen That Tythes may be taken off and a more â—ust way provided for the maintenance of the Ministry That a Committee for accounts may be in each County and that free-quarter may be taken off This Petition was referred to a Committee and the House took notice of the seasonableness of it and the good affections of the Petitioners and gave them thanks The High Court met to prepare matters for the Tryal of Duke Hamilton the Earl of Holland and others The Commissioners of the Seal met but did not think fit to seal any Writs or do any business because of the Kings Death 2. A Petition from Kent to the same effect with that of Surrey referred to the Committee for settlement and the Petitioners had thanks Vote for this Summers Fleet to be seventy three Sail of Ships and about six thousand men this upon conference with Merchants and for dispersing the Prince's Fleet and incouragement of trade Orders for victuals and money for this Fleet. Divers Members of the Parliament of the Army of the City and private Gentlemen in all to the number of sixty whereof fifteen to be of the Quorum were by Act made a High Court of Justice for Tryal of Duke Hamilton the Earl of Holland and others Order for establishing Colonel Henry Martyn's Regiment Upon the Dutch Ambassadors desire Ordered that what was delivered by them to the House in relation to their Ambassie may not be printed Order for Colonel Reynolds Regiment to be compleated and added to the establishment 3. The Act passed for the new High Court of Justice Divers Members entered their dissent to the Vote 5. Dec. last Two Water-men of London discovered and apprehended the Lord Capell in a house at Lambeth the House gave forty pound to the Water-men 5. Debate till six a Clock at Night whether the House of Lords should be continued a Court of Judicature or a Court Consultatory only and whether it should be referred to a Committee to consider what power or constitution the Lords should have and it being dark it was upon the question carried in the Negative not to have Candles and the debate adjourned till to morrow The Lords sent again for a Committee of both Houses to consider of setling the Kingdom but their Messengers were not called in An answer agreed to the Dutch Ambassadors returning thanks to the States for their desire of continuing amity with this Kingdom professing their desire of the like and care to continue the same They thanked them also for their grave advice concerning the King and let them understand that the Commons of England had proceeded according to the Laws of the Land in what they had done and as they leave all other Nations and Kingdoms to move according to their rights and Laws so they hope none will think ill if they Act according to those of England and that they shall be alwaies ready to shew themselves Friends to the Vnited Provinces The High Court of Justice sate in the Painted Chamber and elected the Lord President and Officers as were before they agreed upon a Proclamation That they had adjourned themselves till to morrow morning in the