House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 30 April 1651

Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 6, 1648-1651. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1802.

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'House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 30 April 1651', in Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 6, 1648-1651, (London, 1802) pp. 568. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-jrnl/vol6/p568a [accessed 19 March 2024]

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Wednesday, 30th April, 1651.

Prayers.

Parliaments and Election.

THE House, according to former Order, was this Day resolved into a Grand Committee, upon the Heads of a Bill for future Parliaments, and for regulating Elections.

Mr. Speaker left the Chair.

Mr. Say took the Chair.

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.

Wogan's Arrears.

The humble Petition of Colonel Thomas Wogan, a Member of Parliament, was this Day read.

Ordered, by the Parliament, That the Sum of Three hundred Threescore Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Ninepence, due to Colonel Thomas Wogan, for his Arrears, upon Account, as Captain of a Troop of Horse, under the Command of the late Earl of Essex, be charged upon the Publick Revenue, and paid to the said Colonel Thomas Wogan, or his Assigns: And that Mr. Bond and Sir Henry Mildmay do take care to see the same be forthwith paid unto him, or his Assigns, accordingly.

Reports deferred.

Ordered, That the Reports from the Committee of the Navy be made on Tuesday Morning next.

Tythes, &c.

An Act for continuing an Ordinance of this present Parliament, intituled, An additional Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the true Payment of Tythes and other Duties, until the Day of, was this Day read the First time.

And the Question being put, That the said Act be now read the Second time;

It passed with the Affirmative.

And the said Act was now read the Second time accordingly.