Die Martis, 20 Augusti, 1650.
Prayers.
Norfolk Weavers.
THE humble Petition of the Mayor, Sheriffs, Justices,
Aldermen, and Common Council, of the City of
Norwich, was this Day read.
The humble Petition of the Justices of Peace, at the
General Sessions of the Publick Peace, holden for the
County of Norfolk, the Three-and-Twentieth of April
1650, assembled, was this Day read.
Ordered, That the Amendments to the Bill touching
Worstead Weavers be reported on Wednesday sevennight,
at Eleven of the Clock: And that Mr. Speaker do then
take the Chair: And that it be the first Business; nothing
to intervene.
Proceedings against Andrews.
Mr. Attorney reports from the High Court of Justice, Their Proceedings in the Tryal of Euseby Andrews
Esquire; and the Sentence passed on him, to suffer the
Pains of Death, as in case of Treason.
The humble Petition of Eusebius Andrewes, was this
Day read.
An Act for Beheading of Euseby Andrewes, for Treason,
notwithstanding the Sentence of the High Court of Justice upon him, to be drawn, hanged, and quartered, was
this Day read the First and Second time.
And, an Amendment being offered at the Table, leaving out the Eighth and Ninth Line, and the Two first
Words of the Tenth Line; and that the rest be amended
in these Words; "The said Commissioners, or any Twelve
or more of them, shall have Power, and be hereby authorized, to issue forth their Warrant to the Sheriffs of
London to do Execution upon the said Euseby Andrewes,
by severing his Head from his Body, the said former
Sentence notwithstanding;"
The said Amendments were twice read; and, upon
the Question, assented unto.
And the Question being put, That the said Act be
ingrossed;
It passed with the Negative.
And the said Act, so amended, being put to the Question, passed.
High Court of Justice.
An additional Act giving further Power to the High
Court of Justice, was this Day read the First and Second
time; and, upon the Question, committed unto Mr. Carey,
Aldermen Allen, Sir Peter Wentworth, Mr. Garland,
Mr. Corbett, Mr. Salwey, Colonel Thompson, Colonel
Marten, Mr. Nevill, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Mr. Stephens,
Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Wilde, Colonel Purefoy, Mr.
* Challoner, Alderman Atkins, Mr. Holland, Sir John
Hippisley, Mr. Edwards, Mr. John Corbett, Mr. Trenchard, Sir Henry Mildmay, Mr. Mackworth, Sir Wm.
Masham, Colonel Bossevile, Mr. Lenthall, Lord Grey,
Sir John Bourchier, Sir William Armyn, Mr. Strickland;
or any Five of them: And this Committee is to meet in
Mr. Speaker's Chamber, at Two of the Clock this Afternoon; and so de die in diem.
And Mr. Garland is to take the Charge of it.
Excise.
An Act for the Continuing of the Receipts of the Excise, for One Year, until the Twenty-ninth of September
1651, was this Day read the First and Second time.
And the Question being propounded, That the Time
for the Continuance of the Excise be for Three Years;
And the Question being put, That the Question be
now put;
It passed with the Affirmative.
And the main Question being put;
It was Resolved, by the Parliament, That the Time for
the Continuance of the Excise be for Three Years.
And the Question being put, That this Act be Committed;
It passed with the Negative.
And the Question being put, That this Act be ingrossed;
It passed with the Negative.
And the said Act, being put to the Question, passed.