Die Jovis, 4 Julii, 1650.
Prayers.
Disturbance at a Committee.
MR. Millington reports from the Committee of
Plundered Ministers, the Proceedings of that
Committee, in examining Mr. Jenkins, Minister of Christ
Church, and some Tumults there, by divers Persons which
come there.
Ordered, That Mr. Nevill, Colonel Downes, Colonel
Temple, Major Lister, Mr. * Gold, Colonel Philip Jones,
Colonel Wayte, Alderman Allen, Colonel Marten, Captain
Skinner, Mr. Moyle, Sir Henry Vane senior, Sir James
Harington, Earl of Salisbury, Lord Howard, Mr. Ralegh,
Colonel Fielder, Mr. Henry Darley, Sir Tho. Wroth, Mr.
Stockdale, Colonel Bosseville, Colonel James Temple, Sir
John Hippisley, Mr. Leman, Mr. Masham, Mr. Lowry,
Mr. Dormer, Mr. Fell, Mr. Baker, Mr. Toll, Mr. Andrewes, Mr. John Ashe, Colonel Wauton, be added to the
Committee for plundered Ministers.
Resolved, That this Business touching the further Proceeding against Mr. Jenkins, be re-committed to the same
Committee.
The Question being propounded, That Mr. Jenkins
be sent for to the Bar as a Delinquent;
The Question being put, That this Question be now
put;
It passed with the Negative.
Resolved, That the Parliament doth declare, That the
several Committees of the Members of Parliament have
Power, and ought to secure any Persons who shall make
any Disturbance before any such Committee, or offer any
Affront to them, until the Parliament be acquainted
therewith, or that such Committee shall take other
Order.
Resolved, That the Tumult at the Committee of plundered Ministers, on the Twenty-seventh of June last, and
the whole Carriage and Deportment of Mr. Jenkins, Minister of Christ Church, be referred to the Consideration
of the Council of State; to examine the whole Matter;
and to do therein what they shall think fit and necessary
for the publick Peace and Safety.
Excise.
Ordered, That the Act touching the Excise be reported
on Tuesday Morning next, the first Business.
Delinquents Estates.
Ordered, That the Report of the Amendments to the
Act for Sale of Delinquents Estates be made on Thursday
Morning next, the first Business.
Transactions with Portugall.
A Letter from aboard the Resolution, from Portugall,
from Colonel Edward Popham and Colonel Robert Blake,
of the Twelfth Day of June 1650, was this Day read.
A Letter from Mr. Charles Vane, Resident for the Parliament of England to the King of Portugall, dated the
Fifth of June 1650, was this Day read.
A Paper, sent from Colonel Edw. Popham, and Colonel
Robert Blake to the King of Portugall, of the Sixth
of June 1650, was this Day read.
Resolved, That Mr. Charles Vane, Agent for the Parliament in Portugall, be called in.
Resolved, That this House doth accept of the good
Service done by Mr. Charles Vane, as Resident for the Parliament at Lisbone: And that Mr. Speaker do give him
the Thanks of the House.
Resolved, That the Parliament doth approve of the
Proceedings of the Generals of the Fleet at Lisbone.
Resolved, That a Letter of Thanks be written to the
Generals of the Fleet at Lisbone; and to refer them to
such further Instructions as they shall receive from the
Council of State: And that the Council of State do prepare the said Letter: And that Mr. Speaker be impowered
to sign the said Letter; and the Council of the State to
send such further Instructions as they shall think fit.
The House being informed, That Mr. Charles Vane,
late Resident from the Parliament to the King of Portugall, was at the Door;
He was called in: And, being come to the Bar, Mr.
Speaker did declare unto him, That the Parliament doth
accept of the good Services done by him in that Employment; and, according to the Order, gave him the Thanks
of the House: And acquainted him, If there were any
thing further to make known to the House, in that Transaction, the Parliament was willing to hear it.
Whereupon Mr. Vane gave the House an Account of
all the Proceedings, both of himself and the Generals of
Sea, with the King of Portugall and in that Service.
Resolved, That it be referred to the Council of State,
to take this whole Business into Consideration; and see
that Justice be done to this Commonwealth upon the
Kingdom of Portugall.
Resolved, That it be referred to the Council of State,
forthwith to send particular and effectual Instructions to
the Generals of the Fleet at Lisbone; and likewise to take
a severe Account of the Abuse in the defective Victuals
sent in the Fleet; and likewise take care for the Punishment of the Offenders.
Resolved, That it be referred to the Council of State,
to take Mr. Charles Vane into Consideration, in reference
to the good Service by him performed in his Employment
to Portugall.
Resolved, That it be referred to the Council of State,
to consider of the best and speediest Way how to free the
Merchants that are imprisoned in Portugall; and to take
the most effectual Course therein.
Persons to be tried.
Mr. Thomas Challoner reports from the Council of State,
"That Captain John Randolph be the Man who is to be
presented to the Parliament, to be the Sixth Man who is
to be tried by the High Court of Justice; he being taken
in the Insurrection of the Earl of Holland."
Resolved, That Wm. Davenant, otherwise called Sir
Wm. Davenant, be one of the Six Persons to be tried by
the High Court of Justice.
Ordered, That the Act giving further Power to the
High Court of Justice, be reported To-morrow at Eleven
of Clock.
Letter read.
A Letter from Mr. Strickland, Agent for the Parliament, from the Hague, of the Day of
was this Day read.
Ordered, That this Letter, and the Letters from Portugall, be all returned to the Council of State.
And were accordingly delivered to Mr. Scott.