Friday, the 12th of March, 1651.
Prayers.
Customs.
THE humble Petition of the late Farmers of the
Customs being presented to the House;
Resolved, That this Petition be read:
And the said Petition was read, accordingly.
Embassy from Denmark.
The House being acquainted, That the publick Minister from the King of Denmark is come to the Court
of Wards;
Ordered, That Lord Commissioner Lisle, Mr. Love, Sir
Peter Wentworth, Sir John Hippisley, Lord Commissioner
Whitelock, Earl of Pembroke, Sir James Harrington, Sir
Wm. Masham, Mr. * Edwards, Sir Henry Vane, Lord
Grey, be appointed a Committee to give Audience to the
said publick Minister from the King of Denmark.
Forests and Chaces.
Resolved, That it be referred to a Committee, to consider how the Forests and Chaces belonging to the Commonwealth, or any of them, may be improved, for the
Advantage of the Publick; and report their Opinion to
the House.
Resolved, That This be referred to the Committee of
the Navy: And all that come to that Committee, as to
this Business, to have Voices; And this Committee have
Power to send for Persons, Papers, and Witnesses.
Resolved, That these Words "having especial Regard
to the Poor, and to the just Rights of all Persons claiming
any thing therein," be added to the First Vote.
And so it was Resolved, That it be referred to a Committee, to consider how the Forests and Chaces belonging
to the Commonwealth, or any of them, may be improved,
for the Advantage of the Publick; having especial Regard to the Poor, and to the just Rights of all Persons
claiming any thing therein; and to report their Opinion
to the House.
Council of Officers Petition.
Ordered, That the Petition of the Council of Officers
of the Army be referred to the Committee of the Army:
And that the Committee for Obstructions for Sale of the
Honours, &c. of the late King, Queen, and Prince, be
added to the Committee of the Army, as to this Business:
And that they consider of the said Petition, and report
their Opinions therein to the Parliament.
Embassy from Denmark.
The Lord Commissioner Whitelock reports from the
Committee appointed to receive the Publick Minister
from the King of Denmarke, That the said Publick Minister, after a short Preamble of Compliment, did deliver
his Letters of Credence from the King his Master; with
Papers, in Latin and English, of what he delivered by
Word of Mouth to the Committee: The said Letters of
Credence and Papers were this Day read.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Council of State,
to hear the said Publick Minister of the said King of
Denmark, and to treat with him.
Impresting Seamen.
An Act for impresting of Seamen was this Day read
the First and Second time.
The Question being put, To agree to the Preamble in
this Act;
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being put, That this Word "therefore"
stand in the Bill;
The Question being put, That this Act, so amended,
be ingrossed;
It passed with the Negative.
And the said Act, so amended, being put to the Question, passed: And it is
Ordered, That the same be forthwith printed and
published.
Claims on Public Faith.
Mr. James Challoner reports from the Committee to
whom it was referred to consider of Qualifications of
Persons to receive their Public Faith out of the Ten
thousand Pounds in the Hands of the Treasurers at War,
some additional Resolutions of the said Committee.
Resolved, That the Committee for Indemnity do forthwith send to the Commissioners for the Assessments of
the several Counties, from whence Certificates have been
heretofore returned, a List of the Persons on whose Behalf they have received such Certificates: And that the
said Commissioners of each County, or any Three of
them, do thereupon return, to the Treasurers at Weavers-Hall, in a Book fairly written, the Names of so many of
the said Persons contained in the said Lists, as they shall
find to be within the Qualifications to have Benefit of the
Votes of Parliament of the 13th of January last.
The said Return to be made by the first of June next;
and certified under the Hands and Seals of the said
Committee, or any Three of them.
Resolved, That the said Commissioners for Assessments,
or any Three of them, do likewise authorize, under their
Hands and Seals, their Treasurer, or such other Person as
they shall think fit, to receive of the Treasurers at WeaversHall the Proportion of Money to be paid to the said
County, according to the said former Votes; whose Receipt shall be to the said Treasurers a sufficient Discharge;
and, upon Receipt thereof, do forthwith issue the same
to the Person on whose Behalf they shall certify.
Resolved, That the Commissioners for Assessments
have Power to administer an Oath to the Persons on
whose Behalf they shall certify, That, according to the
Second, Fourth, and Fifth Qualifications, they have not
assigned their Debts, nor have received Satisfaction for
the same, either by Allowance thereof out of their Fifth
and Twentieth Part thereof, or any otherwise; nor have
any visible Estate or Income of the Value of Forty
Pounds, or upwards.
Resolved, That these Votes be reported to the House,
that they may be added to the former Votes of the 13th
of January last.
The Question being put, That the Clause in the said
Resolutions, concerning the incident Charges to Weavers
Hall, do stand;
It passed with the Negative.
Resolved, by the Parliament, That there be an Alteration in the former Vote; and instead of "40l. per
Ann." it be made "40l;" and the Words "per Ann."
omitted.
Resolved, by the Parliament, that "the first of April,"
be made "the first of June next."
Resolved, That this House doth agree to the said
Report, so amended.
Letter read.
A Letter from Lieutenant General Ludlow, from Dublin, of the Second of March 1651, was this Day read.
Grant to Reynolds.
Resolved, by the Parliament, That Lands of Inheritance, of the clear yearly Value of Five hundred Pounds
per Ann. of some of the Lands forfeited to the Commonwealth in Ireland, be settled upon Commissary General
Reynolds, and his Heirs, as a Mark of the Parliament's
Favour to him, for his eminent and faithful Services to
this Commonwealth: And that it be referred to the
Commissioners of the Parliament now in Ireland, to set
out the same; and to take care that he have the present
Benefit thereof.
Ordered, That an Act be brought in for settling the
same accordingly: And Mr. Love is to bring in an Act,
accordingly.
The House, according to former Order, adjourned
itself to Tuesday Morning next, Eight of Clock.