DIE Lunæ, videlicet, 7 die Martii.
PRAYERS.
Answer from the H. C. about a Conference concerning Proofs of some Particulars in the Declaration.
The Messengers that went on Saturday, with the Message
to the House of Commons, return with this Answer:
"That the House of Commons will meet, and give a
Free Conference this Morning, in the Painted Chamber, and bring their Proofs."
Doubts to be propounded at this Conference.
The Declaration is to be read at this Conference;
and, if any Lord doubt of any Particular, if he propound his Doubt, then the House of Commons are to
produce such Proofs as they have to maintain; but no
Debate is to be at this Conference, being only to hear;
all Dispute to be respited till the Lords come into the
House, and take the Particulars into Consideration.
Commission of Lieutenancy brought in.
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The Earls of Essex,
Pembrooke,
Suffolke, and
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This Day brought in their Commissions of Lieutenancy. |
Mr. Sydenham concerning Lands in Derbyshire.
Upon the humble Desire of Edward Sydenham, Esquire,
made this Day unto the House, "That he (in his own
Particular touching some Lands of his, lying in a Forest
or Chace, divided into the Wards or Commons, called
Holland, Cheven, and Belparr Wards, in the County
of Derby) might take the Benefit of a Public Order of
this House, dated the 13th of July 1641, touching
quiet Possessions;" it is Ordered, That the said Mr.
Sydenham shall have a Copy of the said Order delivered him, under the Clerk of the Parliament's Hand;
and that he may make the same Benefit and Use of it as
though it had been made in his own particular Case.
Sir William Killegrew for quieting his Possessions in Lincolnshire.
Ordered, That Sir William Killegrewe, Knight, shall
have a Copy of the General Order touching Possessions,
being made the 13th of July last, to be dated this present 7th of March, and directed to the present Sheriff
of Lincolneshire.
Then this House was adjourned during Pleasure, and
the Lords went to the Conference; which being ended,
the House was resumed, and the Lords returned into this
House.
Then the Declaration, which is to be presented to the
King from both Houses, was read, in hæc verba: videlicet,
"May it please Your Majesty,
Declaration of both Houses about Fears and Jealousies.
"Although the Expressions in Your Majesty's Message of the Second of this Instant March, doth
give just Cause of Sorrow to us Your faithful Subjects, the Lords and Commons in Parliament; yet it
is not without some Mixture of Confidence and Hope,
considering they proceeded from the Mis-apprehensions of our Actions and Intentions, which, having no
Ground of Truth or Reality, may by Your Majesty's
Justice and Wisdom be removed, when Your Majesty
shall be fully informed that those Fears and Jealousies
of ours, which Your Majesty thinks to be causeless, and
without any just Ground, do necessarily and clearly arise
from those Dangers and Distempers into which the
mischievous and evil Counsels about You have brought
this Kingdom; and that those other Fears and Jealousies, by which, Your Favour, Your Royal Presence, and
Confidence have been withdrawn from Your Parliament, have no Foundation or Subsistance in any Action, Intention, or Miscarriage of ours, but are merely grounded upon the Falsehood and Malice of those,
who, for the supporting and somenting their own
wicked Designs, against the (fn. *) Religion and Peace of
the Kingdom, do seek to deprive Your Majesty of the
Strength and Affection of Your People, them of Your
Grace and Protection, and thereby to subvert both
Your Royal Person and the whole Kingdom to Ruin
and Destruction.
"To satisfy Your Majesty's Judgement and Conscience in both these Points, we desire to make a clear
and free Declaration of the Causes of our Fears and
Jealousies, which we offer to Your Majesty in these
Particulars:
"1. That the Designs of altering Religion, in this and
in Your other Kingdoms, hath been potently carried
on by those in greatest Authority about You for divers Years together; the Queen's Agent at Rome, and
the Pope's Agent or Nuncio here, are not only Evidences of this Design, but have been great Actors in
it.
"2. That the War with Scotland was procured to
make War for this Intent, and chiefly incited and fomented by the Papists, and others Popishly affected,
whereof we have many Evidences, especially their free
and general Contribution to it.
"That the Rebellion in Ireland was framed and contrived here in England, and that the English Papists
should have risen about the same Time, we have se
veral Testimonies and Advertisement from Ireland;
and that it is a common Speech among the Rebels,
wherewith concur other Evidences and Observations of the suspicious Meetings and Consultations;
the tumultuary and seditious Carriage of those of that
Religion in divers Parts of this Kingdom, about the
Time of the breaking out of the Irish Rebellion; the
Deposition of O'Connelly; the Information of Mr.
Cole, Minister; the Letter of Tristram Whetcombe; the
Deposition of Tho. Crant, and many others which we
may produce, do all agree in this; the public Declaration of the Lords, Gentlemen, and others, of The
Pale, that they would join with the Rebels, whom
they call the Irish Army, or any other, to recover
unto His Majesty His Royal Prerogative, wrested from
Him by the Puritan Faction in the Houses of Parliament in England, or to maintain the same against all
others; as also to maintain Episcopal Jurisdiction, and
the Lawfulness thereof; these Two being the Quarrels upon which His Majesty's late Army in the North
should have been incensed against us.
"The great Cause we have to doubt, that that late
Design, styled, The Queen's Pious Intention, was for
the Alteration of Religion in this Kingdom; for Success whereof the Pope's Nuncio, the Count Rosetti,
enjoined Fasting and Praying to be observed every
Week by the English Papists, which appeared to us
by one of the Original Letters, directed by him to a
Priest in Lancashire.
"The Boldness of the Irish Rebels; in affirming they
do nothing but by Authority from the King, that they
call themselves the Queen's Army.
"That the Prey or Booty which they take from the
English they mark with the Queen's Mark; that their
Purpose was to come to England after they had done
in Ireland; and sundry others, especially in the aforementioned Letter from Tristram Whetcomb, the Mayor
of Kinsale, to his Brother Benjamin Whetcombe, wherein there is this Passage, That many other strange Speeches
they utter about Religion and our Court of England,
which he dares not commit to Paper.
"The manifold Attempts to provoke Your Majesty's
late Army, and the Army of the Scotts, and to raise
a Faction in the City of London, and other Parts of the
Kingdom; that those who have been Actors in those
Businesses have had their Dependance, their Countenance, and Encouragement from the Court: Witness
the Treason whereof Mr. Germyn and others stand
accused, who was transported beyond Sea, by Warrant under Your Majesty's Hand, after Your Majesty
had given Assurance to Your Parliament, that Your
Majesty had laid a strict Command upon all Your
Servants, that none of them should depart from
Court; and that dangerous Petition delivered to Captain Legg, by Your Majesty's own Hand, accompanied
with a Direction signed with C. R.
"The false and scandalous Accusation against the
Lord Kymbolton, and the Five Members of the House
of Commons, tendered to the Parliament by Your
Majesty's own Command, endeavoured to be justified
in the City by Your own Presence and Persuasion,
and to be put in Execution upon their Persons by
Your Majesty's Demand of them in the House of
Commons, in so terrible and violent a Manner as far
exceeded all former Breach of Privileges of Parliament
acted by Your Majesty, or any of Your Predecessors;
whatsoever Your own Intentions were, divers bloody
and desperate Persons, which attended Your Majesty,
discovered their Affections and Resolutions to have
massacred and destroyed the Members of that House, if
the Absence of those Persons accused had not, by
God's Providence, stopped the giving of that Word
which they expected, for the setting them upon that
barbarous and bloody Act.
"The Listing of so many Officers, Soldiers, and
others, putting them into Pay, and under Command
of Colonels, feasting and caressing them in an unusual Manner at Whitehall, thereby maintaining
them in the violent Assaults and other Injuries, which
they offered to divers of Your Subjects coming that
Way in a lawful and peaceable Manner; the carrying
them out of Town, after which they were told by the
Lord Digby that the King removed on Purpose that
they might not be trampled in the Dirt, and keeping
them so long in Pay, endeavouring to engage the
Gentlemen of the Inns of Court in the same Course,
the plotting and designing of a perpetual Guard about
Your Majesty, the labouring to infuse into Your Majesty's Subjects an evil Opinion of the Parliament
through the whole Kingdom, and other Symptoms of
a Disposition of raising Arms, and dividing Your People by a Civil War, in which Combustion Ireland
must needs be lost, and this Kingdom miserably wasted
and consumed, if not wholly ruined and destroyed.
"That, after a Vote had passed in the House of Commons, declaring that the Lord Digby
(fn. *) had appeared, in
a Warlike Manner, upon Kingston-upon-Thames, to the
Terror and Fright of Your Majesty's good Subjects,
and Disturbance of the public Peace of the Kingdom,
and that therefore the Lords should be moved to require his Attendance; he should nevertheless be of
that Credit with Your Majesty as to be sent away, by
Your own Warrant to Sir John Pennington to land him
beyond the Sea, from whence he vented his own traiterous Conceptions, that Your Majesty should declare
Yourself, and retire to a Place of Strength in this
Kingdom, as if Your Majesty could not be safe among
Your People; and withall took that transcendent Boldness to write unto the Queen, offering to entertain
Correspondency with Her Majesty by Cyphers, intimating some Service which he might do in those Parts,
for which he desired Your Majesty's Instructions;
whereby, in Probability, he intended the procuring
of some Foreign Force, to strengthen Your Majesty in
that Condition to which he would have brought You;
which false and malicious Counsel and Advice, we
have great Cause to doubt, made too deep an Impression in Your Majesty, considering the Course You
are pleased to take of absenting Yourself from Your
Parliament, and carrying the Prince with You, which
seems to express a Purpose in Your Majesty to keep
Yourself in a Readiness for the acting of it.
"The manifold Advertisements which we have had,
from Rome, Venice, Paris, and other Parts, that they
still expect that Your Majesty has some great Design
in Hand, for the altering of Religion, the breaking
the Neck of Your Parliament, that You will yet find
Means to compass that Design, that the Pope's Nuncio hath solicited the Kings of France and Spaine to
lend Your Majesty Four Thousand Men a-piece, to
help to maintain Your Royalty against the Parliament;
and this of Foreign Force, as it is the most pernicious
and malignant Design of all the rest, so we hope it is,
and shall always be, farthest from Your Majesty's
Thoughts, because no Man can believe You will give
up Your People and Your Kingdom to be despoiled
by Strangers, if You did not likewise intend to change
both Your Profession in Religion and the public Profession of the Kingdom, that so You might still be more
assured of those Foreign States of the Popish Religion,
for Your future Support and Defence.
"These are some of the Grounds of our Fears and
Jealousies, which made us so earnestly implore Your
Royal Authority and Protection, for our Defence and
Security, in all the Ways of Humility and Submission;
which being denied by Your Majesty, seduced by evil
Counsel, we do, with Sorrow for the great unavoidable Misery and Danger which thereby is like to fall
upon Your own Person and Your Kingdoms, apply ourselves to the Use of that Power, for the Security and Defence of both, which, by the funda
mental Laws and Constitutions of this Kingdom, resides in us; yet resolving to keep ourselves within the
Bound of Faithfulness and Allegiance to Your Sacred
Person and Your Crown; so as, to the Second Sort
of Jealousies and Fears of us expressed by Your Majesty we shall give a shorter, but as true and as faithful an Answer.
"Whereas Your Majesty is pleased to say, That,
for Your Residence near the Parliament, You wish it
might be so safe and honourable that You had no
Cause to absent Yourself from Whitehall; this we
take as the greatest Breach of Privilege of Parliament
that can be offered, as the heaviest Misery to Yourself,
and Imputation upon us, that can be imagined, and
the most mischievous Effect of evil Counsels; it roots
up the strongest Foundation of the Safety and Honour
which the Crown affords; it seems, as much as may
be, to cast upon the Parliament such a Charge as is
inconsistent with the Nature of that Great Council,
being the Body whereof Your Majesty is Head; it
strikes at the very Being both of King and Parliament, depriving Your Majesty, in Your own Apprehension, of their Fidelity, and them of Your Protection, which are the mutual Bands and Supports of
Government and Subjection.
"We have, according to Your Majesty's Desire, laid
our Hands upon our Hearts; we have asked ourselves
in the strictest Examination of our Consciences; we
have searched our Affections, our Thoughts; considered our Actions; and we find none that can give
Your Majesty any just Occasion to absent Yourself
from Whitehall and the Parliament; but that You may
with more Honour and Safety continue there than in
any other Place.
"Your Majesty lays a general Tax upon us; if You
will be graciously pleased to let us know the Particulars, we shall give a clear and satisfactory Answer;
but what Hope can we have of ever giving Your Majesty Satisfaction, when the Particulars, which You
have been made believe were true, and being produced and made known to us, appeared to be false,
and Your Majesty notwithstanding will neither punish
nor produce the Authors, but go on to contract new
Jealousies and Fears, upon general and uncertain
Grounds, affording us no Means or Possibility of particular Answer, to the clearing of ourselves? for
Proof whereof we beseech Your Majesty to consider
these Instances:
"The Speeches alledged to be spoken in a Meeting
of divers Members of both Houses at Kensington, concerning a Purpose of restraining the Queen and
Prince, which afterwards was denied and disavowed;
yet Your Majesty refused to name the Authors, though
humbly desired by both Houses.
"The Report of Articles framed against the Queen's
Majesty, given out by some of near Relation to the
Court; but, when it was publicly and constantly disclaimed, the Credit seemed to be withdrawn from it;
but the Authors, being kept safe, will always be ready for Exploits of the same Kind, wherewith Your
Majesty and the Queen will be often troubled, if this
Course be taken to cherish and secure them in such
wicked and malicious Slanders.
"The heavy Charge and Accusation of the Lord
Kymbolton, and the Five Members of the House of
Commons, who refused no Trial or Examination,
which might stand with the Privilege of Parliament;
yet no Authors, no Witnesses produced, against
whom they may have Reparation for the great Injury and Infamy cast upon them, notwithstanding
Three several Petitions of both Houses, and the Authority of Two Acts of Parliament vouched in the
last of those Petitions.
"We beseech Your Majesty to consider in what
State You are; how easy and fair a Way You have
to Happiness, Honour, Greatness, Plenty, and Security, if You will join with the Parliament and Your
faithful Subjects, in Defence of the Religion and
public Good of the Kingdom; this is all we expect
from You; and for this we shall return to You
our Lives, Fortunes, and uttermost Endeavours to
support Your Majesty, Your just Sovereignty, and
Power over us; but it is not Words that can secure
us, in these our humble Desires: We cannot but too
well and sorrowfully remember what Gracious Messages we had from You this Summer, when, with
Your Privity, the bringing up of the Army was in
Agitation: We cannot but with the like Affections
re-call to our Minds how, not Two Days before You
gave Directions for the above-mentioned Accusation,
and Your own coming to the Commons House, that
House received from Your Majesty a Gracious Message, that You would always have Care of their Privileges as of Your own Prerogative, of the Safety
of their Persons as of Your own Children: That
which we expect, which will give us Assurance that
You have no Thought but of Peace and Justice to
Your People, must be some real Effect of Your
Goodness to them, in granting those Things, which
the present Necessity of the Kingdom do inforce us
to desire; and, in the First Place, that Your Majesty
will be graciously pleased to put from You those
wicked and mischievous Counsellors, which have
caused all these Dangers and Distractions, and to
continue Your own Residence and the Prince's near
London and the Parliament, which we hope will be a
happy Beginning of Contentment and Confidence betwixt Your Majesty and Your People, and be followed
with many succeeding Blessings of Honour and Greatness to Your Majesty, and of Security and Prosperity
to them."
This being read; the House took into Debate the
Particulars; and, having maturely considered of them,
It was Resolved, upon the Question,
To be presented to the King.
That this House agrees with the House of Commons
in this Declaration; and that it be presented to the
King.
Protest against it.
These Lords following, before the putting of the
Question, asked Leave of the House to enter their Dissents to this Vote; which the House granted: videlicet,
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The L. Gr. Chamberlain.
Comes South'ton.
Comes North'ton.
Comes Devon.
Comes Cleveland. |
Ds. Mowbray.
Ds. Willoughby de Earsby.
Ds. De Grey.
Ds. Rich.
Ds. Howard De Charlton.
Ds. Savill.
Ds. Dunsemour.
Ds. Seymour.
Ds. Capell. |
No Copies of the Declaration to be delivered out.
Ordered, That no Copies of this Declaration shall
be delivered out.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Sir Edward Leech and Doctor Bennett.
Message to the H. C. that the Lords agree to the Declaration.
To let them know, that this House hath considered of
the Declaration brought up from them, which is to be
presented to the King; and their Lordships do agree
with the House of Commons therein.
Adjourn.
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens
Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in post meridiem
hujus instantis diei, hora 2a, Dominis sic decernentibus.
Post meridiem.
PRAYERS.
Message from the H. C. for the Declaration about Fears and Jealousies to be presented to the King.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Mr. Carie:
To desire their Lordships would please to appoint
some Messengers to present the Declaration to the
King.
Hereupon the House appointed these Lords following
to attend the King, with the Declaration; and are to set
forward To- (fn. *) morrow Morning: videlicet,
Committee to present it.
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The E. of Pembrooke.
E. of Holland. |
Ds. Dunsemore.
Ds. Seymour. |
The Answer returned was:
Answer to the H. C.
That this House hath appointed Four Lords to attend
the King, with the Declaration; and their Lordships do
desire, that the House of Commons would appoint a proportionable Number of their House to join with them.
Commissions of Array to be brought in.
Ordered, That the Earl of Essex shall bring in his
Commission of Array; and this Order to be general to
all others who have the like Commissions.
Provision of Powder.
Ordered, That this House do send to the House of
Commons about Provision of Powder, for the Defence
of the Kingdom.
Riot in The King's Bench Prison.
The Sheriff of the County of Surrey was called; and
having (fn. *) made a Narrative of the Manner of the Riot in
Southwarke, at The King's Bench, he withdrew; and
this House Ordered, That the said Sheriff shall be
dismissed from any further Attendance concerning this
Business; and that the Parties that were Actors in this
Business shall be proceeded in according to Law.
A Letter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from the Council there.
A Letter was read, directed to the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, from the Council of Ireland, dated the 22d
February 1641, mentioning, "That one Mr. Wisehart,
Son of Sir John Wisehart, should report some scandalous
Words to the Lord Blany and Captain Perkins, concerning the Earl of Ormond, as if he should give Intelligence to the Rebels of the Proceedings of the Lords
Justices and Council against them."
Wisehart and Perkins to be examined, for Words against the Earl of Ormond.
Therefore, to vindicate the Honour of the Earl of Ormond, this House Ordered, That the said Mr. Wiseharte
and Captain Perkins shall be summoned to appear presently before this House; and, upon Examination of
the Business, this House will proceed according to Justice.
Another Letter concerning Sir Phelim O'Neale, &c.
Another Letter was read, directed to the Lord Lieutenant, from the Council of Ireland, dated the 27th of
February. The chief Particulars were: "That Sir Phelim O'Neale stiles him Earl of Tyron: That Sir Richard Greenvile and Captain Muncke are arrived at
Dublin, with Fifteen Hundred Foot and Four Hundred
Horse: That there is there great Want of Money,
the Soldiers being Seventeen Weeks behind in Pay;
also the great Want of Corn and Provisions, both for
Men and Horse; desiring that Arms and Cloaths for
the Soldiers may be speedily sent, and more Men."
Ordered, That this last Letter is referred to the
Committee for the Irish Affairs, to be speedily considered
of.
Next, was read a Copy of a Pass given by Sir Phelym
O'Neale: videlicet,
Sir Phelim O'neal's Pass, to J. Greir.
"Whereas we are pleased to take into our Protection the Bearer hereof, John Greir; we therefore
pray all our Colonels, Captains, and other inferior
Officers of our Armies, and all others to whom these
Presents shall happen to come, to suffer and permit
the said John Greir to pass and re-pass, about his and
our lawful Affairs, he behaving himself soberly and
honestly, without his taking up Arms against us;
which we require all the aforesaid Officers to take
Notice of this our Warrant, as ye or any of you will
answer to the contrary. Given at Ardmagh, this 14th
of November 1641.
"Phelim O'Neill."
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Sir Robert Harley, Knight of the Bath:
Message from H. C. to sit a while.
To desire their Lordships would please to sit a while,
for they intend to come up to their Lordships about a
Business of high Importance.
The Answer returned to these Messengers was:
Answer.
That this House will sit a while, as is desired.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Mr. Reynolds:
Message from the H. C. about the Receipt of Subscription Monies.
To desire their Lordships to join with them in an Order, appointing certain Persons to be Receivers and Treasurers of the Money which will come in upon the Subscription for the Adventure of Ireland; and also to agree
with the House of Commons in a Form of a Receipt,
which the Receivers are to give for the said Monies:
Order to appoint Receivers of the Subscription Monies.
"It is this Day Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That John Warner, John Towse,
Thomas Andrewes, Aldermen, and Laurence Halsteed,
Esquire, or any Two of them, shall receive all such
Subscriptions, and Sums of Money, as shall be subscribed and paid in, according to the Printed Propositions made for the speedy reducing of the Rebels of
Ireland, and assented unto by His Majesty and both
Houses of Parliament; and are daily to attend that
Service at the Chamber of London, from Eight of
the Clock till Eleven in the Forenoon, and from Two
of the Clock till Five in the Afternoon; and it is
further Ordered, That this Order shall be forthwith
printed and published."
Ordered, That this House agrees with the House
of Commons in this Order.
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whose Names are subscribed, being Persons authorized to receive all such Sums as shall be paid
in the Chamber of London, the Sum of
, being the Part of
, by him subscribed, to be employed
according to certain Propositions, made for the
speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels of
Ireland, and confirmed by the Assent of His Majesty, and the Lords and Commons in Parliament.
We say received the Sum of." |
Ordered, That this House agrees with the House
of Commons in this Receipt; and that this and the
Order before be forthwith printed and published.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Anthony Earby:
Message from the H. C. with a Letter and Examinations concerning the Earl of St. Albans.
To deliver to their Lordships a Letter, sent from
Plimouth, and an Examination concerning the Earl of
Saint Albanes; and that, upon (fn. *) Sight hereof, the House
of Commons have withdrawn their Order of granting
Leave to transport the Earl of St. Albanes Arms from
hence into Ireland; and they desire their Lordships
would withdraw their Order likewise.
A Letter from the Mayor of Plymouth, concerning the Earl of St. Albans.
The Letter was read, written from Thomas Cerly,
Mayor, dated at Plimouth, the 4th of March, the Effect was: "A Ship is stayed going for Ireland, wherein
are Arms for Horse, which belong to the Earl of St.
Albanes."
Also an Information was read, of one Marke Pagett,
lately come out of Ireland, taken before the Mayor of
Plymouth, the 4th of March 1641, the Effect was:
"That he heard, when he was in Ireland, that the Earl
of St. Albanes was gone out to the Rebels."
The Answer returned was:
Answer to the H. C.
That their Lordships will return an Answer, by Messengers of their own.
Message to the H. C. for a Conference about this Business.
And, after Consideration of the aforesaid Message,
this House Resolved, To have a Conference with the
House of Commons, and to give them these Reasons
following why they think it not fit to stay the Arms of
the Earl of St. Albanes:
The Lords Reasons for not staying the Earl of St. Albans's Arms.
"1. Because it is but the Hearsay of a single Witness.
"2. The Arms are but Thirty; and so he cannot do
much Hurt with them.
"3. His Father's Service and his own Carriage,
known and approved of to many of this House, will
by this seem to be forgotten and be questioned.
"4. He is of some good Power in that Country; and
such a Stop as this might provoke all those that had
Dependance on him, which this House would not
willingly do."
Message from the H. C. with the Commission for the Marquis of Argyle, with Amendments.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons by Mr. Hampden; who brought up the Commission
to be given to the Marquis of Argyle, to carry Men for
the Service of Ireland; and that the Scotts Commissioners desire that some Amendments might be made therein; to which the House of Commons have agreed, and
desires their Lordships Concurrence therein.
The Amendments being (fn. *) read, this House agreed
with the House of Commons thereunto.
To be prepared for the Great Seal.
Ordered, That the Clerk of the Crown shall ingross the Commission for the Marquis of Argyle, and
prepare it for the Great Seal.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Mr. Pym:
Message from the H. C. with
To present to their Lordships Considerations some
Reasons, which the House of Commons think fit to be
delivered to the King, either in Writing or by Word of
Mouth, by those Messengers that are to go (fn. †) to the King
with the Declaration.
The Reasons were read, in hæc verba: videlicet,
Reasons to be delivered to the King, by the Messengers who carry the Declaration against Fears and Jealousies.
"The Lords and Commons have commanded us to
present unto Your Majesty this further Addition to
their former Declaration:
"That your Majesty's Return, and Continuance near
the Parliament, is a Matter, in their Apprehension,
of so great Necessity and Importance, towards the
Preservation of Your Royal Person and Your Kingdoms, that they cannot think they have discharged
their Duties in the single Expression of their Desires,
unless they add some further Reasons to back it with:
"1. Your Majesty's Absence will cause Men to believe that it is out of Design to discourage the Undertakers, and hinder the other Provisions for raising
Money for the Defence of Ireland.
"2. It will very much hearten the Rebels there, and
disaffected Persons in this Kingdom, as being an Evidence and Effect of the Jealousy betwixt Your Majesty and Your People.
"3. That it will much weaken and withdraw the
Affection of the Subject from Your Majesty, without
which a Prince is deprived of His chiefest Strength
and Lustre, and left naked to the greatest Dangers
and Miseries that can be imagined.
"4. That it will invite and encourage the Enemies
of our Religion and the State, in Foreign Parts, to
the attempting and acting of their evil Designs and
Intentions towards us.
"5. That it causeth a great Interruption in the Proceedings of Parliament.
"These Considerations threaten so great Danger to
Your Majesty's Person, and to all Your Dominions,
that, as Your Majesty's Great Council, they hold it
necessary to represent to You this their faithful Advice, that so, whatsoever followeth, they may be excused before God and Man."
To be delivered with the Declaration.
Ordered, That this House agrees with the House
of Commons, that these Reasons shall be presented to
the King in Writing, by those Messengers of both
Houses that deliver the Declaration to His Majesty; and
to be as an Addition to the Declaration.
The Answer returned to the Messengers was:
Answer to the H. C.
That this House agrees with the House of Commons
in these Reasons now brought up; and have appointed
that the Messengers that present the Declaration to the
King shall likewise deliver these Reasons to Him.
Cause of the Attorney General to be proceeded in.
Ordered, That the Cause against Mr. Attorney
General shall be proceeded in To-morrow, at One of
the Clock in the Afternoon.
Message to the H. C. to acquaint them with it.
A Message was sent down to the House of Commons,
by Sir Edward Leech and Doctor Bennett:
To let them know so much.
Lord Keeper Leave to be Absent, and the Earl of Leicester Speaker in his Place.
The Lord Keeper, being not well, desired the House
would give him Leave to go to his own House; which
being granted, the Earl of Leycester, Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, was appointed to be Speaker for this Day.
The Messengers return with this Answer:
Answer from the H. C.
That they have delivered their Message to the House
of Commons, concerning Mr. Attorney.
Order for Serjeant Major Hammond, etc. to recruit their Companies for Holland.
Ordered, That Serjeant Major Hamond, Captain
Throgmorton, and Captain Loyd, shall be permitted to
entertain, and transport into The Low Countries, for the
Supply of their own particular Companies there, and
for the Service of The States of the United Provinces, the
Number of Thirty Men apiece, Voluntiers, by Way
of Recruits, according to former Liberty granted by
His Majesty and the Parliament, for the supplying of
other Companies in the like Kind.
Sir Jo. Blagrave's Bill.
Hodie 3a
vice lecta est Billa, An Act to enable Sir
John Blagrave to make a Wife a Jointure.
Which being put to the Question, it was Resolved,
To pass as a Law.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Sir Edward Leech and Doctor Bennett:
To deliver to them the Bill concerning Sir John Blagrave.
Adjourn.
Comes Leycester declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Martis, videlicet, 8m diem
instantis Martii, hora prima post meridiem, Dominis sic
decernentibus.