Die Martis, 10 Aprilis, 1649.
Prices of Victuals.
MR. Weaver reports Amendments to an Act for
abating the Prices of Victuals and Corn: Which
were this Day read the First and Second time; and, upon
the Question, re-committed.
Chancery.
Ordered, That the Lords Commissioners for the Great
Seal of England be authorized and required to pass under
the Great Seal of England, in usual Form, with the Alterations agreed upon, a Commission unto William Lenthall Esquire, Speaker of the Parliament, and Master of
the Rolls; Peter Phesent, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas; Phillipp Jermin, one of the Justices of the
Upper Bench; Thomas Gates, one of the Barons of the
Court of Exchequer; Sir Edward Leech Knight; John
Page Esquire; Thomas Bennett, Robert Aylett, William
Child, Thomas Heath, Doctors of the Civil Law; Edwyn
Rich, John Sadler, William Hakewill, and Edward Eltonhead, Esquires, Masters of the Chancery; to hear and
determine Causes in Chancery, in the Absence of the
Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal, in usual Form:
And that the said Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal,
do, from time to time, renew the Commission, to such
other Justices of the Upper Bench and Common Pleas,
and Barons of the Exchequer, as shall be made by
Authority of Parliament, as they shall see Cause.
Information against a Preacher.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Council of State,
to examine the Misdemeanors of * Preacher at St. Mary
Hill, near Billingsgate, upon the Information given against
him, in stirring up the People to Sedition; and to take
such Course therein as they shall think fit.
Clergy interfering with Politics.
Sir Arthur Heslerigg reports Amendments to an Act
prohibiting Ministers and Preachers, in their Praying,
Preaching, or Writing, to meddle with Matters of State:
Which were this Day read the First and Second time;
and, upon the Question, re-committed to the same
Committee.
The Question being propounded, That it be referred to
this Committee, to divide this Act into several Instruments;
and to bring them in both at the same time.
And the Question being put, That that Question be
now put;
It passed with the Affirmative.
So the main Question being put;
It was Resolved, &c. That it be referred to the Committee who brought in the Act touching Ministers, to
divide the said Act into several Instruments; and to
bring them in both at the same time: And all the Members that shall come to this Committee to have Voices:
And this Committee are to meet in the Speaker's Chamber, at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon.
Col. Lilborne, &c.
Ordered, That the Report be made from the Council
of State touching Lieutenant Colonel Lilborne, Mr.
Walwyn, and others, To-morrow Morning.
Army Arrears.
The Lord Grey reports from the Council of State,
touching Two Companies at Coventrey, under John
Brownell and Robert Beake.
Ordered, That the Committee of Warwicksheire and
Coventrey have Power to levy such Monies, by an Assessment upon the County of Warwick, and the City and
County of Coventry, as shall be requisite to pay unto the
said Two Companies the Arrears for the time past; and
continue their Payment, until they shall be thought fit, by
the Council of State, to be disbanded; and to take care
the same be paid accordingly.
Ordnance Labourers, &c.
Ordered, That the Committee of the Army do satisfy
and pay unto Twenty Labourers, Clerks, Proofmasters
of Powder and Arms, and other inferior Officers, daily
employed, Taking in and Delivering out of Stores for Land
Service extraordinary (having received no Salary, this Six
Years, from the Commonwealth), the Sum of Three hundred and Fourscore Pounds; and to distribute the same
amongst them, as formerly the said Committee have done.
Commissioner of Assessment.
Ordered, That Mr. Thomas Butler be added a Commissioner for the Assessments of Ninety thousand Pounds
per Mensem, in the County of Surrey.
Deans and Chapters Lands.
The House this Day resumed the Debate upon the
Amendments to the Bill touching Sale of the Lands of
Deans and Chapters, &c.
Ordered, That this Debate be taken up To-morrow
Morning, the first Business.