Die Sabbati, 23 Januarii, 1646.
Prayers.
Army Accompts.
ACCORDING to former Order, the Grand Committee of the House sat, to take into Consideration
the Ordinance, Propositions, and Instructions, concerning
the taking the Accompts, and satisfying the Soldiers of
the Kingdom, that has served the Parliament.
Mr. Knightley in the Chair.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Knightley reports from the Grand Committee,
That the said Committee had taken into Consideration,
the Sixth Proposition; and find it to be of such vast Concernment, that they would not consider further of it, till
the House had taken some Resolution upon it: And that
the Committee had commanded him to report so much to
the House; and to desire the House to appoint some
Time when they would take the said Proposition into
Consideration.
It is thereupon Ordered, upon the Question, That, on
Monday next, after the Reports concerning Ireland, the
House do resume the Consideration of the Sixth Proposition, concerning the Satisfaction of the Arrears due to
the Soldiery, according to the Report this Day made from
the Grand Committee.