Monday, the 14th of November, 1653.
Assessments.
ORDERED, That the Amendments to the Bill for
the Assessments, be reported the first Business Tomorrow Morning.
Navy Committee.
Mr. Moyer reports from the Committee for Preservations of the Customs, The Opinion of that Committee;
THAT the same Powers which were heretofore granted
to the late Committee of the Navy, and lately transferred
by Order of Parliament of the 5th of September last,
upon the Council of State, in reference to the Redemption
of English Captives, and Disposal of Monies raised by
Act of Parliament for that Use; as also that the Power
of Disposal of Monies arising by the Collection of the
new Impost upon Coals, between the 12th of October and
the First of April in each Year successively, for the Relief
of the Poor, granted to the late Committee of the Navy by
Act of Parliament of the 28th of March 1651; may be
settled and vested in such Persons as the Parliament shall
please to appoint.
Ordered, by the Parliament, That the same Powers
which were heretofore granted to the late Committee of
the Navy, and lately transferred, by Order of Parliament
of the 5th of September last, upon the Council of State,
in reference to the Redemption of English Captives, and
Disposal of Monies raised by Act of Parliament for that
Use; as also the Power of the Disposal of Monies arising
by the Collection of the new Impost upon Coals, between
the 12th of October and the First of April, in each Year
successively, for the Relief of the Poor, granted to the late
Committee of the Navy by Act of Parliament of the 28th
of March 1651; be settled and vested in the Committee
for Regulating of Customs; to proceed therein as the said
Committee of the Navy were enabled to do.
Resolved, That Mr. Hugh Courtney and Mr. Hollestre
be added to that Committee.
E. of Shrewsbury.
Colonel Rous reports from the Committee for Petitions,
The humble Petition of John Earl of Shrewsbury, together
with the State of his Case, as it was certified from the
Commissioners at Haberdashers-Hall, thereunto annexed:
Which were now read.
Resolved, That this Judgment of the Commissioners
for Compounding, concerning the Earl of Shrewsbury,
shall stand.
Carter's Petition.
He also reports, The humble Petition of Richard Carter
of Cullum, Mayor, in the County of Cornwall: Which
was this Day read, with a Schedule.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee of Petitions, to bring in a Bill to enable the Sale of the several
Parcels of Lands contained in the said Schedule, for
Payment of Debts; keeping the Remainders of the rest
as they were before.
Kendall's Petition.
He also reports the humble Petition of Henry Kendall,
of Smithsby in the County of Cornwall, Esquire, and
of Henry Kendall his eldest Son, being of the Age of
Nineteen Years and a Half: Which was now read.
Stafford's, &c. Estate.
A Bill to enable John Stafford Esquire and Verney Noell
Esquire, to make Sale of the Manor of Twycross in the
County of Leicester, and for the Settling of the Manor of
Smithsby in the County of Derby, was this Day read the
First time; and appointed to be read the Second time
on this Day Sevennight.
Late King's Property.
A Bill, intituled, A further additional Act for Sale of
the Goods belonging to the late King, Queen, and Prince,
was this Day read the First and Second time; and, upon
the Question, committed to the Committee for Petitions:
And that they have Power to present five Names of
Persons to the Trustees in this Bill.
Postage.
Ordered, That the Report touching the Post-Business,
be reported on Saturday next.
Letters read.
A Letter from the Burgomasters and Senators of the
Free Imperial City of Lubeck, dated the 24 of October
1653, was this Day read.
Another Letter from the Senate of Hamburgh, dated
the 25th of October 1653, was this Day read.
Ordered, That these Letters be referred to the Council
of State, to prepare such Answers to be given to them,
as they shall think fit.