Die Mercurii, 12 Septembris, 1649.
Prayers.
Court of Wards.
ORDERED, That Mr. Blagrave make Report touching the Officers of the Court of Wards, on This-day-fortnight, the first Business.
Hawkings' Accompts.
Ordered, That the Commissioners, Trustees, and Treasurers, appointed by Ordinance of the Fifth of June 1648,
intituled, "An additional Ordinance of the Lords and
Commons, assembled in Parliament, for the Explaining
and Inlarging of an Ordinance, made by the said Lords
and Commons the Thirteenth Day of January 1647,
for raising Fifty thousand Pounds for the speedy Relief
of Ireland, and reducing the Rebels there," be authorized and required to pass and allow of the Accompts of
William Hawkings, Commissary General of the Victual in
Ireland, stated by the Persons authorized for that Purpose,
and allow of the same for what is due to him since the
Making of the said Ordinance; and to give allowance
thereof, in such Sort, as by the said Act they are enabled
and impowered to do, for what was due before, or at,
the Making of the said Ordinance.
Ale and Beer.
Mr. Garland reports Amendments to an Act prohibiting to brew, for Sale, any Ale or Beer above Ten Shillings the Barrel, besides the Excise: Which Amendments,
being twice read, and some Alterations made at the Table,
were, upon the Question, agreed.
And the Question being put, That the said Act be
ingrossed;
It passed with the Negative.
And the Act, so amended, was, upon the Question,
passed; and ordered to be printed and published.
Army Accompts.
Ordered, That the Commissioners of the County of
Lincolne be authorized and required to state the Accompt
of the Officers and Soldiers of the Regiment late Colonel Rossiter's, and now Colonel Twisleton's, for their Service done, as well before their Admission into the new
Model, as since, according to the Ordinance of the
Twenty-fourth of December 1647, and the Method therein prescribed: And that they certify the same to the Committee at Worcester House: Who are to examine and
allow the same, according to the Rules to them given;
and to give Debentures accordingly.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Commissioners for
Accompts, at Worcester House, to take the Accompts of
Major Gamaliel Purefoy; and to state the same, according to the Rules to them given; and to give Debentures
accordingly.
Pickering's Accompts.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Commissioners for
Accompts, at Worcester House, to take the Accompts of
Colonel John Pickering, deceased; and to state the same,
according to the Rules to them given; and to give
Debentures accordingly.
Browne's Claims.
Mr. Salway reports from the Committee, an Act for
satisfying John Browne Esquire the Sum of Three thousand Pounds, out of the Sequestrations of Henry Farmer
Esquire, Sir George Winter Knight, and Part of the
Estate of the Earl of Newcastle.
Which was this Day read the First time.
And the Question being put, That the Act be now
read the Second time;
The House was divided.
The Yeas went forth.
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Mr. Robinson, |
Tellers for the Noes: |
20. |
| Mr. Marten, |
With the Noes, |
| Mr. Challener, |
Tellers for the Yeas: |
17. |
| Colonel Fielder, |
With the Yeas, |
So it passed with the Negative.
Navy.
Ordered, That Colonel Thompson do make Report
from the Navy on Friday next.
Sir T. Jervois, &c.
Ordered, That Mr. Garland do report the Amendments to the Acts for Sir Thomas Jervois, and Mr.
Wallop; To-morrow, the first Business.
Petition from Norwich.
The House being informed, That there were, at the
Door, some Petitioners from Norwich;
They were called in; And, being come to the Bar,
they presented a Petition.
Which (after the Petitioners were withdrawn) was
read; and was intituled, "the humble Petition of the
Mayor, Sheriff, Alderman, and Common Council of the
City of Norwich."
Riot at Norwich.
Mr. Garland reports from the Committee, concerning
the Riot at Norwich, as followeth; viz.
A Report from the Committee of Complaints, of the
Riot at Norwich, upon the Two-and-twentieth, Three-and-twentieth, and Four-and-twentieth of April, 1648.
The Eighteenth of April 1648, one of the Sheriffs
and Aldermen, and divers Citizens, of the City of Norwich presented their Petition to this House; therein,
amongst, other Things, complaining, that Mr. John Utting, their then present Mayor, had combined with
divers Malignants, to elect unduly some Persons in the
Place of Aldermen, contrary to their Oaths, and Orders
and Ordinances of this Parliament; as also, by his Authority, countenancing malignant and sequestred Ministers
publickly to preach in the said City, to the great endangering the Peace thereof: Whereupon the said Petition
was referred to the Committee of Complaints; and the
said Mr. Utting, the then present Mayor, was sent for
in safe Custody: And thereupon a Messenger was sent
for him accordingly; who repairing to him, told him
his Errand: Whereupon the said Mr. Utting, the then
Mayor, and Mr. Tooley, caused the Town Clerk to draw
a Petition for his Staying; which, being dispersed up
and down the City for Hands, and read in the Church,
caused great Concourse of People; so that One thousand
of the Rioters broke into the Sheriff's House, and got
Arms: Which the Mayor knowing of, was negligent
to appease them; and refused to let a Troop of Horse
be sent for to suppress them; but caused the Gates to be
shut, that they might not come in: But one being killed
in the City, the Troopers were let in; who, firing upon
the Rioters, and they upon the Troopers, by Casualty
the Committee House was blown up, and about Forty
Persons slain; and Damage thereby done to the Value
of Twenty thousand Pounds at the least.
Mr. Tooley was a great Countenancer of the said Mr.
Utting, and the Rioters; and got Mr. Utting Thirty
Pounds of the City's Stock to be lent him, upon his
coming up to London; which the City refusing to allow,
he and one Mr. Blomfield detained Three hundred Pounds
of the City's Money in their Hands.
There have been Eight executed for this Riot.
And that this Committee are of Opinion the said Mr.
Utting, the then Mayor, and the said Mr. Tooley, are
Grand Delinquents, by the promoting, abetting, and
contriving the Petition, whereby the said Riot happened.
Resolved, &c. That Mr. Tooley and Mr. John Utting
be Delinquents within the Ordinance of Sequestration.
Ordered, That the said Mr. Tooley, and Mr. John Utting
be sent for, by the Serjeant at Arms attending this House,
as Delinquents.