Wednesday, 8th February, 1659.
Prayers.
Pension to Gardiner.
ORDERED, That the Council of State do give
Order for the present Payment of the Pension of
Twenty Shillings a Week, to Maurice Gardiner Merchant:
And that the Petition of Maurice Gardner, of London,
Merchant, be referred to the Committee of Inspections;
to examine the Matter of Fact; and consider, How the
Petitioner may be relieved; and report their Opinion
therein to the Parliament.
Sir A. Dick.
Ordered, That the Protection formerly granted to Sir
Andrew Dick, for Six Months, be, and is hereby continued for Six Months longer: And that Mr. Speaker do
sign a Protection, accordingly.
Army Appointments.
A List of the Names of Officers in Colonel Smithson's
Regiment, late Colonel Robert Lilburne's was read; and
are as followeth; viz.
George Smithson, Colonel and Captain; Thomas Fairfax,
Captain-Lieutenant; Thomas Smithson, Cornet; Robert
Harrison, Quarter-master.
Thomas Strangwaies, Major and Captain; Wm. Smith,
Lieutenant; Arthur Jegon, Cornet; Wm. Francis,
Quarter-master.
Francis Wilkinson, Captain; Richard Skipper, Lieutenant; Anthony Pinckney, Cornet; Gabriel Ratsey,
Quarter-master.
Wm. Peverell, Captain; John Smith, Lieutenant; Robert Cabbell Cornet; George Kitchinman, Quarter-master.
Tho. Lilburne, Captain; Thomas Skelton, Lieutenant;
Richard Freeman, Cornet; Robert Markindall, Quartermaster.
Wm. Wheatley, Captain; John Thirkhill, Lieutenant;
Henry Strangwaies, Cornet; Henry Wheatley, Quartermaster; Wm. Dodd, Surgeon.
And every Officer, being severally put to the Question,
was approved; and assented unto. And It is
Ordered, That Commissions be made forth for them
accordingly.
Sir Arthur Hesilrig reports, the several Lists following; viz.
A List of Names of Officers of Colonel Thomas
Saunders' Regiment: Which was read.
A List of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham's Regiment:
Which was read.
A List of Names of Officers in the Regiment of
Colonel George Twisleton: Which was read.
He also reports, that John Greene may be CaptainLieutenant, and Mathew Boynton Cornet, in Colonel
Matthew Alured his Regiment:
And that Colonel Thomas Eyre be Governor of HurstCastle in Hampshire.
And that John Stiler may be Captain in Colonel George
Fleetwoode's Regiment in the Room of Captain John
Dober; and that Barnaby Lisle may be an Ensign in the
said Regiment, in the room of Joseph Jones:
And that Major Henry Wansey be Governor of the
Isle of Guernsey; and to be Captain of a Foot-Company
in the said Island:
And that the respective Officers in Colonel Henry
Lillingston's Regiment, hereafter expressed, be reported
to the Parliament, for their Approbation; viz.
George Fynes, Major and Captain; Alexander
Crawford, Ensign.
Thomas Mitchell, Lieutenant to Captain Cooke;
Richard Wither, Ensign.
Herbert Bord, Lieutenant to Captain Landy; Lawrence Fullove, Ensign to Captain Wandell; George
Fitz-Williams, Ensign to Captain Monckton:
Which were all read.
Colonel Lambert.
Mr. Nicholas Love reports from the Council of State,
That the Council is informed, That Colonel Lambert is,
or lately was, secretly in London; with the Council's Opinion, That, in order to the Commonwealth's Service, he
may, by their Order, be summoned, under Penalty, to appear before the Council of State, on Monday next; and
give Security before the Council, to do nothing to the
Prejudice of this Commonwealth; and forthwith, after
such Security given, to depart the Town, to Holmby; and
not to remove thence without Order from the Parliament.
The Question being propounded That the Parliament
doth agree with the Council of State, That Colonel Lambert be summoned under a Penalty, to appear before the
Council of State, on Monday next; and give good Security
before the Council, to do nothing to the Prejudice of this
Commonwealth; and forthwith, after such Security given,
to depart the Town to Holmby; and not to remove thence
without Order from the Parliament;
And the Question being put, That that Question be
now put;
It passed with the Negative.
Ordered, That it be referred unto a Committee, who
are to withdraw, to prepare Summons, upon the Debate
in the House, to summon Colonel John Lambert: Viz.
unto Mr. Say, Lord Lisle, Mr. West, Sir Peter Wentworth,
Mr. Dormer, Mr. Love; or any Three of them.
Irish Affairs.
Ordered, That Lieutenant-General Ludlow do give an
Account to the Parliament of the Affairs in Ireland, on
this Day Sevennight.
Elections.
The House resumed the Debate upon the Report
touching the Qualifications.
The First Paragraph was read.
Resolved, That all and every Person and Persons, seised
of an Estate or Freehold, in Possession in his own Right,
or in Right of his Wife, of the clear yearly Value of
Forty Shillings by the Year, above all Reprizes, shall be
capable to elect Members to serve in Parliament for the
respective Counties in England and Wales, so as he or
they be not disabled by this Act.
The next Paragraph was read.
The Question being put, That this Clause in this Paragraph; viz. "And forasmuch as the Good and Welfare
of the People of this Commonwealth, doth depend, next
under the Blessing of Almighty God, on the Constitution
of Parliaments; and because it is the Duty of this Parliament, as much as in them lieth, to provide for the certain
Choosing, Meeting, and Sitting of Parliaments, with such
Qualifications, and other Circumstances of Freedom,
Choice, and Equality, in Distribution of Members, as may
most conduce to the lasting Freedom and Good of this
Commonwealth;" do stand in this Paragraph;
It passed with the Negative.
Resolved, That these Words, "advised, or any ways,"
be added, in this Clause, next after the Word, "assisted;"
and that these Words, "and are hereby," be added next
before the Word "disabled."
And the said Clause, so amended, being put to the
Question, was agreed upon: And so It was
Resolved, That such Person and Persons, who have advised, aided, or any ways assisted or abetted the Rebellion
of Ireland; and those who do or shall profess the Popish
Religion; be, and are hereby disabled, and made uncapable, for ever to be elected, or to give any Vote in the
Election of any Member to sit or serve in Parliament.
And the next Paragraph being read;
Resolved, That these Words; viz. "unless he or they have since been restored, and made capable, by this Parliament;" be added, next after the Words "since the
First Day of January 1641;" and that the rest of the
Clause following be omitted.
Resolved, That these Words; viz. "or been employed by Commission from this Parliament, since the 7th of May 1659, and have since continued faithful to the
Parliament;" be added to this Clause, next after the Words "capable, by this Parliament."
Ordered, That this Debate be adjourned until Tomorrow Morning, Eight a Clock.