Tuesday, 7 October, 1656.
Nat. Bill.
RESOLVED, That Alexander Vassye be added
to the Bill for Naturalization.
Committees.
Ordered, That, in the Order made Yesterday, for the
Serjeant at Arms to make Provision for the Committees
of Parliament, the Words " and other Necessaries" be
added.
Swearing.
Resolved, That the Consideration of the Laws touching
profane Swearing, and the Defects therein, be referred
to the Committee for Alehouses and Drunkenness.
Resolved, That Mr. Butler be added to that Committee.
Artificers Wages.
Ordered, That it be referred to a Committee to consider
of the Statutes and Laws touching the Wages of Artificers,
Labourers, and Servants, and to present a Bill for further
Redress herein; and for the more effectual putting the
same in Execution: Viz. to Lord Chief Justice Glyn,
Colonel Cock, Colonel Dawkins, Mr. Robinson, Colonel
Rous, Mr. Westlake, Alderman Foote, Mr. Bampfeild,
Major Dewy, Major General Boteler, Colonel Fitz James,
Captain Blackwell, Mr. Stanley, Colonel Shapcott, Mr.
Jenkins, Major-General Berry, Alderman Pack, Mr.
Porter, Mr. Cobb, Sir Richard Pigot, Judge Advocate
Whaley, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Lloyd, Attorney . . . Duchy, Mr.
Buller, Mr. Heley, Mr. Recorder of London, Colonel
Mathews, Mr. Aldworth, Major Searle, Mr. Butler, Mr.
Dunch, Lord Commissioner Whitelock, Sir Wm. Roberts,
Major Burton, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Colonel Wilton, Mr.
Stone, Mr. Arthur Upton, Colonel Fitz, Mr. Timbes,
Major-General Bridg, Mr. Clerk, Mr. Reynell, Major
Blake: And are to meet this Afternoon, at Two of the
Clock, in the Exchequer-Chamber.
Ordered, That it be referred to the same Committee
to take into Consideration the Habits and Fashions of
Servants and Labourers; and to prepare a Bill for the
remedying the Abuses therein.
Leave of Absence.
Ordered, That Major Dewy have Leave to go into the
Country, for Three Weeks.
Corn and Meal.
An Act for repealing a Branch of a certain Act of Parliament, intituled, An Act touching Corn and Meal, was
this Day read the Second time; and, upon the Question,
committed to Colonel Cock, Mr. Fowell, Judge Advocate
Whaley, Lord Chief Justice Glyn, General Desbrow, Lord
Whitelock, Mr. George Smyth, Mr. Westlake, Mr. Carey,
Colonel Blake, Lord Strickland, Mr. Hoskins, Colonel
John Jones, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Colonel Mathewes,
Colonel Bethell, Major General Haines, Mr. Francis
Bacon, Colonel Wood, Mr. Thomas Gorges, Mr. Bond,
Attorney of the Duchy, Mr. Drake, Colonel Sidenham,
Mr. Bampfeild, Sir Sam. Sleigh, Major Beake, MajorGeneral Berry, Colonel Gorges, Colonel Rogers, Mr.
Solicitor, Major-General Kelsey, Colonel Salmon, Mr.
Recorder of London, Mr. Lucy, Major-General Boteler,
Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. Jenkinson, Mr. Wm. Lister,
Mr. Young, Major-General Whaley, Colonel Purefoy, Mr.
Maidston, Mr. Gyles, and all the Gentlemen of the Long
Robe: And are to meet this Afternoon, at Two of the
Clock in the Duchy-Chamber.
Oaths.
A Bill against customary Oaths, was this Day read the
Second time; and, upon the Question, committed to Sir
Christofer Pack, Mr. Highland, Alderman Foote, Colonel
Cock, Sir Gilbert Pickering, General Desbrow, Captain
Baynes, Lord Commissioner Whitelock, Sir Wm. Strickland, Major Morgan, Mr. Rous, Mr. Solicitor-General,
Lord Chief Justice Glyn, Attorney of the Duchy, Colonel
Chadwick, Mr. Ashton, Mr. Pury, Mr. Fleetwood, Mr.
Harvey, Major-General Bridge, Mr. Church, Mr. Fothringale, Lord Rich. Cromwell, Mr. Recorder, Lord Broghill,
Colonel Shuttleworth, Mr. Yong, Colonel Milton, Sir
Roger Burgoyne, Mr. Trevor, Mr. Bond, Mr. Bank, Mr.
Bampfeild, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Lloyd, Lord Commissioner
Fyennes, Mr. Aldworth, Mr. Bedford, Lord Strickland,
Mr. Berkley, Colonel Jones, Major-General Berry, Colonel
Dawkins, Mr. Pitts, Sir John Hobart, Lord Evers, Mr.
Hampden, Major-General Whaley, Mr. Croke, Major
Beake, Colonel Twisleton, Major-General Kelsey, Colonel
Mathewes, Sir John Reynolds, Mr. Tye, Major-General
Boteler, Mr. Moody, Mr. Tymbes, Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, Mr. Robinson, Judge Advocate Whaley; and
all that serve for Corporations: And they are to meet on
Thursday next, at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon, in
the Inner Court of Wards.
Registers.
Ordered, That the Bill for Registers, be read the Second
time, on Friday next.
Security of Protector's Person.
Colonel Goffe reports from the Committee, Amendments to the Bill for the Security of his Highness the
Lord Protector his Person, and Continuance of the
Nation in Peace and Safety; together with the Names
of the Commissioners, to be inserted in the respective
Commissions: Which were twice read.
He also reports the Names of three other Persons, to
be added to the Commissioners for England: viz. Sir
Thomas Honywood, Wm. Purefoy Esquire, * Heley, of
Salisbury, Esquire.
The Question being put, That the Words, "directly
or indirectly," in the Amendments, do stand;
It passed in the Affirmative.
And the Amendments, being put to the Question,
were agreed: And the Blanks in the Names were filled
up at the Table.
Resolved, That the Quorum of the Commission for
England be Seventeen.
Resolved, That the Quorum of the Commission for
Scotland shall be Thirteen.
Resolved, That the Quorum of the Commission for
Ireland be Thirteen.
The Question being put, That there be a Quorum of
Persons in the Bill;
It passed in the Negative.
Resolved, That the Clause and Clauses of the Quorum
of Persons in the Commission for England be left out of
the Bill.
Resolved, That the Clause and Clauses of the Quorum
of Persons in the Commission for Scotland be left out of
the Bill.
Resolved, That the Clause and Clauses of the Quorum
for Persons in the Commission for Ireland be left out of
the Bill.
Resolved, That, in the Line of the last Folio
of the Bill, next before the Word "Session," the Word
"last" be inserted.
Resolved, That this Bill, thus amended, be ingrossed.
Leave of Absence.
Resolved, That Captain Crofts have Leave to go into
the Country.
The House adjourned itself till Thursday Morning
next, Eight of Clock.