Die Jovis, 16 Novembris, 1648.
Prayers.
Reduced Officers.
THE Grand Committee sat, upon the Ordinance for
raising Monies for the reduced Officers.
Mr. Whitacre in the Chair.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
King's Parole.
Mr. Lisle reports a Letter, to be sent to the Governor
of the Isle of Wight, to convey the Vote passed this House
Yesterday, touching the King's Parole.
The which was read; and, upon the Question, assented
unto; and ordered to be sent unto the Lords for their
Concurrence.
Message to Lords.
Mr. Lisle is appointed to carry it to the Lords: And
likewise the Vote Yesterday passed; and the Letter from
the Governor of the Isle of Wight, of 7 Novembris 1648;
and the Order for Sir Thomas Bedding feild to be sworn
next Mr. Samuel Browne.
Answer.
Mr. Lisle brings Answer, That the Lords do agree to
the Letter and Vote concerning the Parole; and will send
it away this Afternoon: They do likewise agree to the
Order concerning Sir Thomas Bedding field.
Banishing Lord Holland, &c.
An Ordinance for the Banishment of Henry Earl of
Holland, George Lord Goreing, Arthur Lord Capell, Henry
Hastings Esquire, Sir Henry Lyngen Knight, Sir John
Owen Knight, and Rowland Langherne Esquire, was this
Day read the First and Second time; and, upon the
Question, committed unto Mr. Samuel Browne, Mr.
Prynne, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Lane, Mr. Selden, Mr.
Waller, Mr. Twisden.
Conference desired with Lords.
Resolved, &c. That a Conference be desired with the
Lords; to signify unto them, That the Votes sent unto
them, for the Banishment of those Seven Delinquents,
were sent to the Lords for their Concurrence, that they
might be Part of the Answer to the Proposition concerning Delinquents; and no present Judgment upon those
Persons.
Sir James Harrington is appointed to go to the Lords,
to desire a Conference, by Committees of both Houses,
so soon as may stand with their Lordships Conveniency,
touching that Part of the Proposition concerning Delinquents, and relating to the Delinquents to be excepted
from Pardon, and those to be banished.
Temple Ministers.
Resolved, &c. That it be referred to the Committee of
plundered Ministers, to examine the whole Business of
the Complaint, here made, of the Sermon preached by
Mr. Lee on Sunday, in the Temple; and concerning Mr.
Johnson, and his being placed Minister there.
Keymish's Fine.
Ordered, That the Treasurers at Goldsmiths Hall are
hereby authorized and required to received the Twelve
hundred Pounds, tendered to be paid in to Goldsmiths Hall
by Sir Charles Keymish, in Part of his Fine; and to pay
forth, and issue out, the same, in Course, to such Persons as, by Order of Parliament, are appointed to receive
the same.
Ordered, That Sir Charles Keymishe be discharged,
upon good Bail.
Ships detained.
A Letter from Sherrington Farewell, one of the Sub
Commissioners of Sommersett, from Bridgwater, of 11
Novembris 1648, was this Day read; giving notice,
That Two Ships, of great Value, were put in at Minhead and Pennagh; which, upon some Grounds, they had
caused there some Stay to be made of.
Ordered, That Stay be made of those Two Ships till
further Order: And that it be referred to the Committee
of the Navy, to consider of the said Letter; and to send
down Order, presently, for Stay of the said Ships; and
to take Course for speedy examining the whole Business;
and report their Opinions to the House, What Course is
sit to be taken herein.
Conference agreed to.
Sir James Harrington brings Answer, That the Lords
do agree to a Conference, as is desired, presently, in the
Painted Chamber.
Mr. Annesley, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Lysle, Sir James Harrington, Sir Walter Erle, are appointed Managers of this
Conference.
Treaty with the King, &c.
Ordered, That no other Business than what concerns
the Treaty, and the Perfecting thereof, be taken into
Consideration To-morrow, or Saturday next: And that
the Business concerning Sir John Danvers, and the other
Matters appointed, by former Order, for Saturday next,
be proceeded in, and considered of, on Saturday Morning
next come Sevennight, the first Business.
Army.
Ordered, That the Reports concerning the Army and
Free Quarter be proceeded in, and taken into Consideration, on Monday Morning next, peremptorily, the first
Business: And that, in the mean time, it be referred to
the Committee of the Army, to consider of the Business
formerly debated, touching Assignations, touching the
Pay of the Arrears to the Army since the Fifteenth of
January last, and touching Monies to disband the Supernumeraries: And are to report their Opinions to the
House concerning them, and for putting Matters into
the speediest and most effectual Course, in order to the
taking off Free Quarter.
Mr. Annesley, Colonel Birch, Sir James Barrington,
Sir Wm. Lewis, Colonel Copley, Colonel White, are added
to this Committee, as to these Matters.
Pecke's Claims.
Whereas the Sum of Four thousand Two hundred and
Eighty-one Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Four-pence
Halspenny was, by Order of both Houses of Parliament,
of Sabbati, 21 Octobris 1648, appointed to be paid
unto Henry Pecke Esquire, in Discharge of so much owing
unto him out of the Iron Works in the Forest of Deane,
out of the Two Thirds of the Estates of Sir Thomas
Timperley, and other Recusants of the County of Suffolke,
named in the said Order, payable to the State, and
sequestered for their Recusancy: And whereas the Committee of Sequestrations of the County of Suffolke only,
and their Treasurer, and the Tenants and Occupiers of
the said Lands, are required to pay the Two Thirds of
the Rents and Profits of the said Estates, as in the said
Order, of 21 Octobris, is expressed: It is now Ordered,
by the Lords and Commons, in Parliament assembled,
That all Committees for Sequestrations, in any of the
Counties respectively, where any of the Estates of the
said Sir Thomas Timperley, or any other of the said Recusants, in the foresaid Order mentioned, lieth, their
Treasurers, and the Tenants and Occupiers of the Lands
of any of the said Recusants, in any of the said Counties,
be, and are hereby, required to take notice of the said
Order of 21 Octobris, and of this present Order; and to
yield full and ready Obedience to That and This, in all
the Clauses thereof, that they, or any of them, are concerned in respectively.