Die Sabbati, 7 Aprilis, 1649.
Prayers.
Prices of Victuals.
ORDERED, That the Act for abating the Prices of
Victuals be reported on Monday next, the first
Business.
Proclaiming abolition of Monarchy.
Ordered, That the Order of the Three-and-twentieth
Day of March last, for the Lord Mayor and Sheriff of
London to proclaim the Act for abolishing Kingship, be
revived to the now Lord Mayor and Sheriff of London,
to proclaim the Act for abolishing Kingship: And that
the Aldermen of the City of London do also attend the
Lord Mayor and Sheriff at the proclaiming the said Act.
Alderman Penington is to give them Notice of this
Order.
Justices.
Ordered, That the Lords Commissioners for the Great
Seal do, on Tuesday next, present to this House, Names
of fit Persons to be Justices, for filling up all the void
Places of the Justices of the several Benches and Courts
in Westminster.
Aldermen of London.
Resolved, &c. That Sir John Gayer Knight, Alderman
of the City of London, be disabled and discharged from
being an Alderman of the said City of London: And that
the City do proceed to elect another Alderman, in his
stead, according to usual Course.
Resolved, &c. That Thomas Adams, Alderman of the
City of London, be disabled and discharged from being an
Alderman of the said City of London: And that the City
do proceed to elect another Alderman, in his stead, according to usual Course.
Resolved, &c. That John Langham, Alderman of the
City of London, be disabled and discharged from being an
Alderman of the said City of London: And that the City
do proceed to elect another Alderman, in his stead, according to usual Course.
Resolved, &c. That James Bunce, Alderman of the
City of London, be disabled and discharged from being an
Alderman of the said City of London: And that the City
do proceed to elect another Alderman, in his stead, according to the usual Course.
Resolved, &c. That Abraham Reynaldson; Alderman
of the City of London, be disabled and discharged from
being an Alderman of the said City of London: And that
the City do proceed to elect another Alderman, in his
stead, according to usual Course.
Informations against a Member.
Ordered, That it be referred unto Colonel Harvey,
Mr. Hill, Sir John Danvers, Colonel Moore, Mr. Edwards,
Major General Skippon, Mr. Say, Mr. Challener, Mr.
Carey, Mr. Smyth, Colonel Wauton, Sir Peter Wentworth, Mr. Gurdon, Mr. Pury, Mr. Weaver, Alderman
Wilson, Mr. Leman, Alderman Atkins, Mr. Pelham, Mr.
Cawley, Lord Mounson, Sir Thomas Wrath, Mr. Garland,
or any Three of them, with Power to receive the Informations given against Sheriff Browne, a Member of this
House, and Examinations, touching his engaging with the
Scotts, and with the Earl of Holland; and other Misdemeanors wherewith he is charged: With further Power
also, to take the Informations and Examinations against
the rest of the Members of this House, who are imprisoned,
or under Restraint: And the said Committee are to meet
on Monday in the Afternoon, in the Court of Wards:
And the especial Care hereof is more particularly referred
to Mr. Edmund Harvey and Mr. Hill.
Hamlets Militia.
Ordered, That the Act for the Militia of the Hamlets
be read on Wednesday next.
Rutland Rate.
The Question being propounded, That there be any
Alteration of the Rate set on the County of Rutland;
The Question being put, That that Question be now
put;
It passed with the Negative.
Army Assessments.
Resolved, &c. That the Name of John White be put
out of the Act for Assessments for the Army.
An Act for Raising of Ninety thousand Pounds per mensem, for the Maintenance of the Forces raised by Authority of Parliament, for the Service of England, and
Ireland, for Six Months, from the Twenty-fifth of March
1649, to the Twenty-ninth of September 1649, was this
Day read the Third Time; and, upon the Question,
passed.
Free Quarters.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee of the
Army, to bring in an Act, with Rules, How to take
off Free Quarter, Quarter, Free Billet, and all other
Charges, from the People, saving the Assessment of
Ninety thousand Pounds per mensem; and also to confer
with the General and Officers, How the same may be
done; and bring it in on Tuesday Morning.