Thursday, the 15th Day of May, 1651.
Prayers.
Privilege-Arrest of a Member.
ORDERED, by the Parliament, That the Business
touching the Arresting of Colonel James Temple, a
Member of Parliament, be referred to the Committee for
regulating the Proceedings in Law; to state the Matter
of Fact; and report their Proceedings therein to the Parliament: With Power to send for Person, Papers, and
what else may conduce to the Business.
Dover Castle.
Ordered, That the Council of State be impowered and
authorized, for the present, to give a Commission to Lieutenant Colonel Kelsey to be Governor of Dover Castle:
And that the said Council do send to the Lord General,
to dispatch him a Commission for the Government of it,
accordingly.
Delinquents Estates.
The House this Day resumed the Debate upon the Act
for Sale of the Estates of divers Delinquents.
Resolved, by the Parliament, That, in all Places of the
Bill, where the Word "Contractors" is, the same be
omitted; and the Word "Trustees" to be inserted.
Resolved, That the Time of determining Claims be
before the First Day of August 1651.
The Question being put, That the Power given to the
Committee by this Act, "To hear, receive, and determine, all Claims, before the First Day of August 1651,"
do stand so amended;
It passed with the Affirmative.
The Question being put, That these Words; viz.
"Such Stewards of Manors, and;" do stand in the Bill;
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being put, That the Proviso in the next
Clause touching Stewards, do stand in the Bill;
It passed with the Negative.
Resolved, That, instead of "any Five of the said Trustees," these Words, "the Lords Commissioners for the
Great Seal of England, or One of them," be inserted.
The Question being put, That these Words; viz.
"desire and give Warrant to the Trustees to;" do stand
in the Bill;
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being put, That these Words; viz. "all
Rents and;" do stand in this Bill;
It passed with the Negative.
Resolved, That these Words, "herein mentioned," be
made "thereof."
Resolved, That these Words; viz. "and that all and
every Person and Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate;"
be added in this Bill.
The Question being put, That the Second Instruction
for the Treasurers do stand in the Bill;
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being put, That this Clause, beginning
with these Words, "And that the said Trustees," and
ending with these Words, "for which they shall be sold,"
do stand in the Bill;
It passed with the Negative.
Resolved, That the Clause, beginning with these Words;
viz. "That the said Treasurers," and ending with these
Words, "paying their Clerks and Tellers;" do stard
in this Act.
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being put, That the Salary of a Peny
in the Pound for the Treasurers named in this Act, do
stand;
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being put, That this Clause in the Act,
beginning thus, "And be it further Enacted, That the
said Trustees, &c." and ending thus, "Copy of Court
Roll respectively," do stand in the Act;
It passed with the Negative.
Resolved, That these Words, "respective Contractors,"
be omitted; and that the Word "Trustees" be inserted.
The Question being put, That these Words; viz.
"every Tenant of the Premises, or any Part thereof;
and;" do stand in the Bill;
It passed with the Negative.
The Question being put, That these Words; viz. "of
all Rents, and;" do stand in the Bill;
It passed with the Negative.
Interest of Money.
Ordered, That the Bill to bring Money to Six Pounds
in the Hundred, be read To-morrow Morning, the first
Business.
Resident from Tuscany.
A Letter from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, of the
Two-and-twentieth of April 1651, was this Day read.
A Letter to Mr. Speaker, from Avierigo Salvetti, Resident of the Grand Duke of Tuscany of the Tenth of May
1651, was this Day read.
Resolved, That the said Resident be received, and have
Audience, by a Committee of this House, in Manner
agreeable to the Rules for Reception of Residents.
Resolved, That the Time for the said Resident to have
Audience shall be on Wednesday next.
Resolved, That Sir Oliver Fleming Knight, Master of
the Ceremonies, do give notice of these Votes to the said
Resident; and attend him, in fitting Manner, on that
Day, to the Place of Audience.