Friday, the 29th of September, 1654.
Prayers.
Scotch Affairs.
RESOLVED, That a Committee be appointed to
consider of the Affairs of Scotland; and to prepare, and
offer to the Parliament, such Things as they shall think fit,
for the further Consideration of the House: With Power
to send for Persons, Papers, Records: Viz. Lord Broghill,
Sir Wm. Strickland, Colonel Lilburne, Commissary General Whalley, Lord Lambert, Colonel Lockart, Scout-Master-General Downing, Sir Ja. Macdowell, Sir James Hamilton, Colonel Baines, Colonel Bright, Sir Wm. Boteler,
Lord Richard Cromwell, Lord Commissioner Widdrington,
Captain Howard, All the Gentlemen that serve for Scotland, Mr. Recorder, Colonel Venables, Colonel Lascells,
Mr. Strickland, Mr. Wm. Fenwick, Mr. Barnard, Sir
Robert Fenwick, Major Morgan, Mr. Smyth, Mr. Lilburne, Colonel Fines, Mr. Lechmere, Colonel Ireland,
Mr. Lermer, Lord Eures, Mr. Wm. Thompson, Mr. John
Thomson, Major Peke, Sir Charles Wolsley, Sir Anthony
Ashley Cooper, Earl of Stamford, Sir Wm. Doyly, Mr.
Turner, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Fluckett, Mr. Trenchard, Mr.
Swynton, Mr. Boys, Mr. Brisco, Mr. Sam. Disbrow, Colonel Purefoy, Sir John Temple, Colonel Hill, Colonel
Wastell, Colonel Bethell, Colonel Wood, Colonel Cox,
General Disbrow, Mr. Walter Strickland, Colonel FitzJames, Sir Robert King, Colonel Mackworth, Mr. Brussey, Mr. Hooper, Mr. Lister, Mr. Lucy, Mr. Minors, Mr.
Badger, Lord Commissioner Whitelock; All that serve for
the Four Northern Counties: And all that come to have
Voices: And this Committee are to meet on Monday in
the Afternoon, at Two of the Clock, in the Painted
Chamber.
Ordered, That this Committee do also take into Consideration the Ordinances which have passed touching
Scotland; and to present what they think fit to the House.
Irish Affairs.
Ordered, That a Committee be appointed, to consider
of the Affairs of Ireland; and such Acts, Orders, and Ordinances, as have been made touching the same; and to prepare and present to the House, what they shall conceive
fit for the Settlement and Good of that Country: With
Power to send for Persons, Papers, and Records: Viz.
Lord Broghill, Sir John Temple, Colonel Jephson, Major
Morgan, Commissary General Whalley, Mr. Lechmere,
Lord Richard Cromwell, Mr. Serjeant Glyn, Sir Robert
King, Colonel Clerk, Sir Wm. Doyley, Mr. Turner, Sir
John Temple, Sir Richard Onslow, Mr. Hoskins, Sir Charles
Wolsley, Colonel Bridges, Colonel Fines, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Lord Lambert, Sir Wm. Strickland, Mr. John
Ash, Sir John Hobart, Mr. Recorder, Colonel Jones, Sir
Richard Lucy, Major Peke, Colonel Mackworth, Mr.
Pury, Mr. Nicholls, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Bryan, Colonel Ireland, Mr. Collins, Alderman Walley, Alderman Avery,
Mr. Flud, Colonel Lockart, Mr. Dunch, Mr. Hooper,
Mr. Foxwist, Major Saunders, Mr. Stephens, Colonel
Lilburne, Mr. James Whitelock, Major-General Skippon,
Sir Henry Vane, Mr. Standish, Lieutenant-Colonel Mathewes, Colonel Carter, Mr. Recorder, Colonel Cox, Mr.
Fryer, Colonel Chadwick, Lord Henry Cromwell, Mr.
Whitway, Jenkin Lloyd, Mr. Harrington, Colonel Carter,
Colonel Crowne, Sir Antho. Ashley Cooper, Lord Dacres,
Mr. Garland, Lieutenant-Colonel Worsley, All that serve
for Ireland, Mr. Shelley, All that serve for Wales, Sir
Richard Lucy, Colonel Barksted, Scout-Master-General
Downing, Mr. Swynton, Sir John Witterong, Colonel
Montague, Mr. Gorges, Sir James Macdowell, Colonel
Bridges, Mr. Boys, Colonel Kelsey, Colonel Purefoy,
Lord Herbert, Lieutenant-Colonel Mackworth, Mr.
Gibbons, Mr. Vaughan, Colonel Harvey, Mr. Launce,
Colonel Fitz-James: And all that come to have Voices:
And are to meet in the Room within the late Lords House,
on Monday next, at Two of Clock in the Afternoon.
E. of Clanrickard.
Ordered, That the Earl of Clanrickard have Leave to
stay in England for Six Months now next coming, under
the same Benefit and Privilege as he had by his Articles.
Scandalous Ministers.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee for the
Ordinance for ejecting scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters, to receive Names for
Commissioners for the City and County of the City of
Norwich; and report them to the House.
Surrey Petition.
The humble Petition of divers of the Well-affected of
the County of Surrey was this Day read.
Settling the Government.
The House was this Day, according to former Order,
resolved into a Committee of the whole House, upon the
Government.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Mr. Hoskins was called to the Chair.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Hoskins reports from the said Committee, Their
Desire, That the House would give them Leave to sit
again, upon this Business, To-morrow Morning.
Resolved, That the House be resolved into a Committee of the whole House To-morrow Morning, upon the
Government, according to former Order.
Saturday, the 30th of September, 1654.
Prayers.
Settling the Government.
THE House was this Day, according to former Order, resolved into a Committee of the whole House,
upon the Government.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Mr. Hoskins was called to the Chair.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Hoskins reports from the Committee, The Desire
of the said Committee, That the House would give them
Leave to sit again on Monday Morning next, upon the
Government.
Resolved, That the House be resolved into a Committee of the whole House, on Monday Morning next, to
proceed upon the Government, according to former
Order.