July, 1645
[1 July, 1645.]
Names of Committee to prepare propositions for relief of Ireland.
Whereas late informations are come from several parts of
Ireland, and more particularly from the Province of Munster,
importing the great extremities and danger that Kingdom is re
duced unto, which must of necessity be taken into a serious and
speedy consideration: Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords
and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the Earl of Kent,
Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Suffolk, Earl of Salisbury, Earl of
Denby, Earl of Bullinbroke, Lord North, Lord Willoughby, Lord
Montague, Lord Howard, Mr. Hollis, Colonel William Jephson,
Sir Iohn Clothworthy, Sir Iohn Evelin, Senior, Mr. Whitehead,
Master Robert Goodwyn, Mr. Lisle, Mr. Raynolds, Sir William
Brereton, Mr. Maynard, Mr. Rigby, Colonel Moor, Mr. Roll, Sir
Walter Erle, Mr. Knightly and Mr. Tate, Sir Philip Stapleton,
Sir Will. Strickland, Colonel Morley, Mr. Button, or any five of
them, be a Committee to receive, prepare and consider of Propositions for the speedy relief of that Kingdom, and particularly
for the Province of Munster, and to prepare them in such order
for the two Houses of Parliament, as may most facilitate the
affairs of that distressed Kingdom; And are to sit constantly for
the affairs aforesaid, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and
oftner as occasion shall require, in such place as they shall
think fit.