Monday, the 26th of September, 1653.
Leave of Absence.
ORDERED, That Mr. Botterell have Lease to go
into the Country.
Committee for Petitions.
Ordered, That the Reports from the Committee for
Petitions, be made To-morrow Morning.
Hampton Court.
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper reports, That he hath acquainted the Lord General with the Offer of this House,
touching the Exchange of Hampton Court for Newhall,
according to the Order: Who returns his Acknowledgement of the great Respects of the House towards him
therein; and his Desires, that the House would proceed
to dispose thereof, according to their former Resolution.
Ordered, That the House called Hampton Court, with
the Out-houses, and Gardens thereunto belonging, and
the little Park wherein it stands, be stayed from Sale,
until the Parliament take further Order; and that the
Trustees do forbear the Sale thereof, accordingly.
Irish Adventurers.
The House, according to former Order, resumed the
Debate, upon the Proviso tendered to the Bill for the
speedy and effectual Satisfaction of the Adventurers for
Lands in Ireland, &c.: And the Proviso, being put to
the Question, passed; and was ordered to be part of the
Bill.
Another Proviso was tendered unto this Bill, in these
Words; "Provided always, That if the Commander in
Chief, and the Commissioners of Parliament, in Ireland,
shall see it requisite for publick Use, or Advantage to
the Commonwealth, to retain any of the Irish in the Provinces of Ulster, Lemster, or Munster, the said Commander in Chief, and Commissioners, or any Two of
them, may license any such Person or Persons, to abide
and remain in any of the said Provinces, by Writing,
under their Hands; and such Person, so licensed, shall
incur no Danger or Penalty for abiding and remaining in
the said Provinces; notwithstanding any Act, Order, or
Ordinance to the Contrary:" Which was read the First
time.
And the Question being put, That this Proviso be
read the Second time;
It passed with the Negative.
Another Clause was tendered to this Bill, in these
Words; "And be it further Enacted, by the Authority
aforesaid, That, for the better Encouragement to the speedy
Plantation of the said Nation of Ireland, it shall and may
be lawful to and for every Person and Persons, who have
any Estate for his, her, or their own Lives, or for the
Life of any other Person or Persons in his own Right,
or in the Right of any other in any of the Lands there,
to make Leases of the same for the Term of One-andtwenty Years, to a Person or Persons who shall plant upon
the same: And that such Lease or Leases, so made, shall
be good against him, or those in Reversion or Remainder:
any Law or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:" Which was read the First time.
And the Question being put, That this Clause be
read the Second time;
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being put, That these Words do stand
in the Proviso concerning Gloucester, viz. "according
to the Rates set upon those Lands appointed by this Act
to be set forth unto the Adventurers for Irish Lands;"
It passed in the Affirmative.
Resolved, That in the Fifty-ninth Line of the Third
Press, next after the Word "Widows," these Words,
"and Orphans," be inserted.
And the Bill, so amended, with the several Provisoes
and Clauses, being put to the Question, passed; and was
ordered to be printed and published.
Resolved, That Mr. Ufflet shall be the Messenger to
carry this Act to the Commander in Chief, and the Commissioners of Parliament, in Ireland.
High Court of Justice.
Resolved, That the Report for the High Court of
Justice be brought in on Wednesday next.
Relief of Creditors.
Mr. Anlaby reports from the Committee for Prisons
and Prisoners, Further Amendments to the Bill for Relief
of Creditors and Prisoners: Which were twice read, and
agreed: And Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrossed.
Resolved, That it be referred to the same Committee,
to bring in Bills for Relief in the particular Cases of Ferdinando Earl of Hunlington, and of Robert Peyton, and
Algernoon Peyton his Brother.