Saturday, the 23d of July, 1653.
Customs.
A BILL for compelling the late Farmers of the
Customs, and their Under-Sharers, to pay their
proportionable Shares and Parts of the Composition of
One hundred and Fifty thousand Pounds, formerly paid
to the Use of the Commonwealth, by some of the said
Farmers, was this Day read the Second time; and, upon
the Question, committed to the Committee of Trade:
Who have Power to send for Persons, Papers, Records,
and Witnesses.
Relief of Tenants.
Ordered, That it be referred to a Committee to consider how Relief may be given unto Tenants against the
Oppression of Delinquent, Malignant, or Popish Landlords, or Lords of Manors; and to prepare an Act for
that Purpose; and report it to the House: Viz. To the
Committee of the Law.
The humble Petition of some of the Tenants of the
Manor of Spalding, in the County of Lincoln, whose
Names are hereunto subscribed, was this Day read.
The Question being put, That this be referred to a
Committee, upon the whole Debate of this House;
It passed in the Negative.
Leave of Absence.
Resolved, That Colonel Bennett shall have Leave, for
some Time, to go into the Country about his necessary
Occasions.
The Question being put, That he have Leave to be
absent for Two Months;
It passed in the Negative.
Resolved, That he have Leave to be absent for Six
Months.
Judges of Admiralty.
Colonel Sidenham reports, from the Council of State,
That they have taken Consideration of Persons to be
Judges of the Admiralty; and cannot find any Persons
more fit than those whom they formerly did present; and
Lislebone Long Esquire to be added to them.
Resolved, That Dr. Godolphine shall be one of the
Judges of the Admiralty.
The Question being put, That Dr. Turner be one of
the Judges of the Admiralty;
It passed in the Negative.
Resolved, That Lislebone Long be one of the Judges of
the Admiralty.
Resolved, That there be Three Judges of the Admiralty.
The Question being put, That there be more than
Three Judges of the Admiralty;
It passed in the Negative.
The Question being propounded, That there be a
Civil Lawyer in the Place of the Third Judge of the
Admiralty;
And the Question being put, That that Question be
now put;
The House was divided.
The Noes went forth.
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Colonel Blunt, |
Tellers for the Yeas: |
48. |
| Mr. Barbone, |
With the Yeas, |
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Alderman Titchborne, |
Tellers for the Noes: |
51. |
| Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper, |
With the Noes, |
So it passed in the Negative.
Resolved, &c. That this Debate be adjourned till
Monday Morning next.