Die Lunæ, 4 Junii, 1649.
Prayers.
Admission of Members.
RESOLVED, &c. That Mr. Frampton Gourdon
be admitted into the House.
Resolved, &c. That Mr. Thomas Hodges be admitted
into the House.
Resolved, &c. That Mr. Ellis be admitted into the
House.
Clerk of Upper Bench.
Ordered, That the Lords Commissioners for the Great
Seal be authorized and required to issue a Warrant..the
Attorney General for the State, to prepare a Grant of the
Office of Clerk of the Upper Bench to Andrew Broughton
Gentleman: And that the said Lords Commissioners be
authorized and required to pass the said Grant, under the
Great Seal accordingly.
Relief under Articles.
Major Salwey reports Amendments to the Act for the
Relief of all such Persons as have been, are, or shall be,
sued, molested, or any-ways damnified, contrary to Articles or Conditions granted in Time of War: Which
Amendments were twice read.
The Question being propounded, That Five only be
of the Quorum of the Commissioners nominated in this
Act;
And the Question being put, That this Question be
now put;
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being propounded, That Nine be the
Quorum of those Commissioners;
And the Question being put, That that Question be
now put;
It passed with the Affirmative.
And so the main Question being put;
It was Resolved, &c. That the Quorum of the Commissioners nominated in this Act touching Articles, be
Nine.
Admission of Members.
Colonel Hutchinson reports from the Committee touching absent Members, That Colonel Russell hath given that
Committee Satisfaction.
Ordered, That Colonel Russell be admitted into the
House.
Mr. Scott reports from the Committee touching absent
Members, That Mr. Richard Edwards hath given that
Committee Satisfaction.
Ordered, That Mr. Richard Edwards, of Bedfordsheire,
be admitted into the House.
Committee for Lancashire.
Ordered, That William West, Thomas Hunt, James
Thorneton, James Hunter, William Waller, Captain *
Garner, be added to the Committee for Lancasheire, for
the raising of the Ninety thousand Pounds per Mensem
for the Army.
Relief under Articles.
Resolved, &c. That the Act touching Articles be recommitted; with the Sense of the House, That the Party
complaining shall have the Benefit of such Articles, so
far as, in Justice, they ought to have by the said Articles,
where they have not had the same, and have not forfeited
their Right thereunto; without charging any Costs or
Damages upon the Commonwealth, or any Person or
Persons against whom the Complaint is made: And that
the same be brought in To-morrow Morning.
Prisoners.
Ordered, That the Act touching Prisoners be reported
To-morrow Morning.