DIE Sabbati, videlicet, 13 die Augusti.
PRAYERS.
Lord Kymbolton, Speaker this Day.
Letter to the Earl of Bedford, about the Marquis of Hertford.
A Letter written to the Earl of Bedford, from Mr.
Wm. Strode, was read; shewing, "That the Marquis
Hertford, &c. are at Sherborne." (Here enter it.)
Lord Digby's Judgement.
Ordered, That this House will take into Consideration the Judgement against the Lord George Digby on
Tuesday next.
Gentleman Usher's Bill for extraordinary Expences.
Doctor Aylett and Doctor Heath reported their Certificate to this House, concerning the Bill of Mr. Maxwell, Gentleman Usher attending this House, being for
extraordinary Expences which he hath laid out; which
being read, this House approved of the same, and Ordered it accordingly; and that it be recommended to
the House of Commons, for to think of some Course for
the Payment thereof. (Here enter it.)
Message from the H. C. with
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Greene; who brought up divers Particulars:
Sir Thomas Dawes's Bill; and a Declaration about the King's Proclamation, concerning the Earl of Essex. Sent back to the H. C.
1. An Act concerning Sir Tho. Dawes, &c.
2. A Declaration, concerning the King's late Proclamation, touching the Earl of Essex and others.
The House, taking this Declaration into Consideration, made some Amendments and Alterations in it, and
sent it down, by Message, to the House of Commons,
by Doctor Aylett and Doctor Heath, to let them know,
that this House agrees to the said Declaration, with the
Amendments and Additions.
The rest of this Report is to be made on Monday next.
Mr. Strode's Letter to the Earl of Bedford, that the Marquis of Hertford is at Sherborne.
"My Lord,
"Presuming your Honour to be upon the Way, or
rather in our County this Day, Mr. Pym's Letters
telling us you would depart from London towards us
Monday last, I have not sent you the State of our
Country, but inclosed it, by this Bearer, to Mr. Pym
and Mr. Strode, with Directions to acquaint your
Lordship with it, if you should be in the Town: The
Marquis Hertford, Lord Pawlett, and Lord Seymour,
with Stowell, Hopton, Smith, Hawley, Windham, and
the rest of our Incendiaries, are now retired into Sherborne; in all, about Three Hundred Horse, and One
Hundred Foot. Had we the Happiness to have your
Lordship's Presence, with the Parliament Horse promised us, we should soon send them far from our
Coasts, and most of them safe unto the Parliament. I
beseech your Lordship's present Assistance, and Pardon for these my hasty Expressions; remaining
Street-Grange, Aug. 11, 1642.
"Your Honour's most obliged
and most humble Servant,
"Will. Strode."
Message from the H. C. to impeach the Marquis of Hertford, Earl of Northampton, and Mr. Hastings.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Sir Robt. Harley, Knight of the Bath; who said, "He
was commanded, by the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the House of Commons, in their Name, and
of all the Commons of England, to accuse, and did
accuse, Wm. Marquis Hertford, Spencer Earl of North'ton, Henry Hastings, Esquire, Second Son to the Earl
of Huntingdon, of High Treason, for actual levying
War against the King and Kingdom; and desired
that speedy Proceedings may be had against them,
as to Law and Justice shall appertain."
Proclamation-Writs to be issued for their Appearance.
Ordered, That the Clerk of the Crown shall issue
forth Proclamation-Writs, directed to the Sheriffs, to summon Wm. Marquis Hertford, Spencer Earl of North'ton,
and Henry Hastings, to appear before the Lords in Parliament, on the 29th of this Instant August, to answer
to their Impeachment of High Treason, sub Pœna Convictionis.
The Answer returned to the Messengers was:
Answer to the H. C.
That this House will appoint a speedy Day to proceed against them.
The Lord Viscount Say & Seale acquainted this House,
"That he hath received a Letter from divers Gentlemen of Oxfordshire;" which was read, as follows: videlicet,
Letter from Henley on Thames, with a circular Letter sent round the County by the Commissioners of Array.
"May it please your Lordship,
"This inclosed is the Copy of Letters brought to us
this Day, by a Servant of Mr. Hone, to the Warden
and Corporation of Henley; and others, of the same Expression in Substance, are sent to the adjoining Towns
in Oxfordshire, and, I presume, throughout the Country, at least this Side thereof. We thought it our
Duties to give a speedy Notice of it, and to intreat
your Lordship's Direction thereupon, which may come
Time enough to us before the Meeting at Wattlington. The Lords and Gentlemen, whose Names are
subscribed to the Papers, are in Commission, and, as
we are informed, were present at the late disorderly
Action at Banbury, which they so much complain of;
and it is given out that they came hither for the Preservation of the Peace. We find no great Forwardness in our Neighbours to attend at Wattlington; for
our Parts, we shall endeavour, to the utmost of our
Power, to obey the Commands of Parliament; and are
"Your Lordship's most humble Servants,
Henley on Thames, Aug. 12, 1642.
"Francis Steven, Warden.
Robert Knolles.
Bulstrode Whitelocke.
Edw. Clerke."
Next the Paper, subscribed by the Commissioners,
was read, in bæc verba: videlicet,
Circular Letter from the Commissioners of Array for Oxfordshire.
"Out of a hearty Sense of the great Peril we have
escaped, through God's Mercy, by the passing to and
through our County of certain disorderly Trains of
armed Men, whereby a very great Damage (if not
Desolation) might generally have prevailed upon us;
it hath therefore pleased the Right (fn. *) Honourable
Thomas Earl of Bar'shire, according to the Instance
and earnest Suit of divers of the Inhabitants of this
County, to him and us made, to join with us in Opinion, that every Gentleman and Freeholder, and all
others (who must needs participate of the general Calamity of such disorderly Troops), should have a General Meeting: Therefore, lest, by our Negligence
and Backwardness, we should cause the Seat of all the
Troubles and present Distractions of this Kingdom to
be placed in this County, we do hereby desire all the
Gentlemen and Freeholders, and such as are sensible of
the growing Misery within your Town, to meet the
said Earl and us, at Watlington, on Monday next,
the 15th of this Instant August, by Eight of the Clock
in the Forenoon, to consider and agree upon some
Course whereby we may defend ourselves and Country
from the imminent Dangers which now threaten us.
Given under our Hands, this 10th Day of August,
Anno Domini 1642.
"Your very loving Friends,
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"Berkshire.
Jo. Lovelace.
Jo. Curson. |
Robt. Dormer.
Ricd. Branthwaite.
Barth. Hone." |
Order for the Deputy Lieutenants to prevent them from putting their Commission in Execution.
Upon Consideration hereof, this House Ordered,
That the Lord Viscount Say & Seale, Lord Lieutenant
of the County of Oxon, do send down to the Deputy
Lieutenants for that County, to require them, from this
House, that they do what they may, to restrain this General Meeting of the Gentlemen and Freeholders of that
County, being called together by the Commissioners of
Array, which Commission is declared by both Houses of
Parliament to be illegal, and destructive to all the Laws
made to preserve the Liberty of the Subjects of England;
this Warrant sent by them being disguised under the
Pretence of preserving the Peace of the County against
the disorderly Troops of armed Men; whereby the Country was lately put into great Danger; when the Truth is,
that they themselves, or the chiefest of them, were aiding,
assisting, and countenancing the said Troops, which, to
abuse the People, they now complain of. The Deputy
Lieutenants shall therefore labour to give a right Information unto the People of their Intentions, which can
be no other but to set on Foot that illegal Commission of
Array, to disarm the Country that shall not subject themselves thereunto, according to the Course that the Commissioners of Array in other Counties have taken, and,
by sending abroad this Order, endeavour to disabuse the
People, and thereby prevent and forbid all such Meetings and Assemblies, upon any Warrants directed by the
Commissioners of Array, or any other, contrary to the
Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament.
And it was further Ordered, That, because the Earl of
Berks and the Lord Lovelace have been summoned to
give their Attendance on this House according to their
Writs, but have not done, they shall be sent for as Delinquents; and the Gentleman Usher, or his Deputy,
shall attach them, and bring them before the Lords in
Parliament, to answer their said Contempt to this House;
and the Lord Lieutenant and Deputy Lieutenants of the
County of Oxon, and the Sheriff, and all other His Majesty's Officers, shall be assisting herein: And lastly it is
Ordered, That the other Commissioners, videlicet, Sir
Jo. Curson, Sir Rob't Dormer, Richard Branthwaite, and
Barth. Hone, Esquires, shall attend and appear presently
before this House.
Report of Mr. Maxwell's, the Gentleman Usher's, Bill, for extraordinary Expences.
"In Obedience to an Order from this most Honourable House of Peers, of the Second of August Instant,
we have taken into Consideration the Gentleman
Usher's Bill, hereunto annexed; and, upon due Examination of the same, by such Orders, Certificates,
and other Informations produced before us, to make
the Truth thereof appear in each Particular, we find
the said Gentleman Usher hath disbursed and laid out,
in Services performed by Command of this Honourable House, according to the Particulars of his said
Bill, the Sum of Six Hundred and Three Pounds,
Twelve Shillings: All which we humbly submit to
this most Honourable Court.
"Robert Aylett. Tho. Heath.
"The Accompts of the Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod, for such Charges and Disbursements which
he hath made by the Appointment of the Lords
assembled in Parliament, since the Beginning thereof, videlicet, 3 Octobris, 1640, to this present:
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£. |
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d. |
| "Imprimis, For his Attendance from the Beginning of the Parliament, in serving Orders in and about London, which, he saith, amount to 526 Orders, or thereabouts, |
30 |
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| "For carrying Two Orders to Portsmouth, and Two to The Cinque Ports, in the Business of Mr. Jerm. Suck. Percy, Croffts, |
10 |
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| "For Two Messengers to Portsm. Cinque Ports, Dover, and Sherborne, for Lord Digby, |
15 |
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00 |
| "For riding Post, to stay his Lordship's Waggons, to Portsm. Meere, and Sherborne, |
13 |
06 |
08 |
| "For Three Messengers, carrying 8 Orders to 8 several Counties, for Edward Dering, |
14 |
16 |
06 |
| "Paid for Six Journies, for 32 Witnesses, or thereabout, in Sir Edward Dering's Business, |
12 |
13 |
00 |
| "To Monmouthshire, for the Magazine, and disarming the Earl of Worcester, Two several Journies, |
9 |
08 |
06 |
| "To the Mayor of Pembrooke and Haverfordwest, for Colonel Beding, 200 Miles, |
7 |
00 |
00 |
| "Journies into many Counties (videlicet, 8), for the Militia, Lieutenancy, Array, and Magazine, |
18 |
00 |
00 |
| "For 24 Journies to Yorke, and the County, |
230 |
00 |
00 |
| "For fetching back the Lord Seymor, Post, |
2 |
16 |
00 |
| "For Six several Journies to Lincolne, and the County, to the Lord Willoughby and the Sheriff, Post, |
48 |
00 |
00 |
| "For 4 Journies to the Earl of Warwick, on Shipboard, Post, |
13 |
06 |
8 |
| "Several Orders about ONeale, to Norff, Essex, Kent, South'ton, Sussex, Cinque Ports, Surrey, Midd', Post, |
35 |
12 |
00 |
| "To Chester and Cheshire, for the Earl Rivers, 11th of July, 1642, |
10 |
00 |
00 |
| "To West Chester, for Colonel Butler and others, |
12 |
00 |
00 |
| "Post, to the Earl of Exeter, |
4 |
00 |
00 |
| "Three Journies to Lancashire, for the Papist Priest, the Lord Strang, the Array, and Magazine, |
18 |
06 |
00 |
| "For Summons for Lord Dunsemore and Lord Lovelace, Two Orders to Oxford, and Blanlesh, and Hampton Court, |
1 |
15 |
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| "For Deer-stealers, to Windsor Forest and Waltham, and sending them to the House of Correction, |
5 |
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00 |
| "For Four Impeachments, Leicestershire, Mr. Hastings, Sir John Bale, Mr. Pate, and others, |
6 |
00 |
00 |
| "To Captain Bassett, in Cornwell, for Witnesses, |
6 |
00 |
00 |
| "For Mr. Palmes, in Rutlandshire, |
3 |
00 |
00 |
| "To the Sheriff of Surrey, and others, Sir William Middleton, Sir John Lenthall, |
1 |
00 |
00 |
| "For John Hollingsworth, from Uxeton, in Staffordshire; they met him 30 Miles off, |
2 |
00 |
00 |
| "For Parson Cherrey, Captain Appleton, and others, 54 Miles in Essex and Suff, |
2 |
00 |
00 |
| "Staying the Mayor of Northampton from going to the King, |
1 |
00 |
00 |
| "For Sir Tho. Boswell, in Kent, 20 Miles beyond Maydeston, |
2 |
00 |
00 |
| "For Mr. Alston, in Essex, 50 Miles, |
1 |
10 |
00 |
| "To the Earl of Warwick, on Shipboard, 3 Journies, |
6 |
00 |
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| "For the Bishop of Ely, to his House there, |
1 |
10 |
00 |
| "To the Lord Brooke, and Sheriff and Justices of Warwickshire, |
2 |
00 |
00 |
| "For the Rioters from Bedford, |
3 |
00 |
00 |
| "Three Journies for Sir Lewis Dives, to Bedford, |
6 |
00 |
00 |
| "For attaching the Earl of Devonshire, an Order to the Earl of Rutland, Sheriff of Derby, and the Justices, |
5 |
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559 |
10 |
04 |
| "For riding for Marquis Hartford, Lord Strowbridge, and Lord Pawlett, |
13 |
06 |
08 |
| "For Justice Mallett, |
3 |
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00 |
| "Sending for the Sheriff of Shropshire, and 4 others, |
10 |
00 |
00 |
| "For Lord Mohun, and High Sheriff of Cornwell, and others, with an Order to the Earl of Bath, |
15 |
00 |
00 |
| "For Lord Carlile, at Waltham, |
00 |
15 |
00 |
| "To the Earl of Warwicke, |
2 |
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| "August 13th, 1642. |
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Declaration in Answer to the King's Proclamation, about the Earl of Essex, and his Officers, &c.
"The Lords and Commons having received, in a
Letter from His Majesty, a printed Paper, intituled,
"A Proclamation for the suppressing of the present
Rebellion under the Command of Robert Earl of
Essex; and the Gracious Offer of His Majesty's Free
Pardon, to him, and all such of his Adherents as shall
within Six Days after the Date thereof lay down their
Arms;" do Declare, and publish, That the Matter of
this libelous and scandalous Paper is the Venom of
those traiterous Counsellors about His Majesty, long
since discovered, and so often complained of, by both
Houses of Parliament; who having for many Years
together carried a wicked Design to alter Religion,
and to introduce Popery, Superstition, and Ignorance
(the ready Way to an arbitrary and tyrannical Government); and, for that Purpose, not only maintained
Agents at Rome, but invited and procured sundry
Nuncios, or Agents, to be sent into this Kingdom,
from the Pope, by which Means Popery and Superstition was so far advanced, that nothing but the convening of this Parliament (occasioned by the coming of
the Scotts) could in all human Reason have prevented
them in their Design; the only true Reason why these
mischievous Counsellors, maligning that Power which
opposes itself against their destructive and horrid Counsels, have now at last, as the Master-piece of their Machinations, advised His Majesty, in Effect, to proclaim
at once His House of Peers, the Hereditary Counsellors of the Kingdom, and His House of Commons,
the Representative Body of the whole Commons of
the Kingdom, to be all Rebels and Traitors, and, by
that Paper, have endeavoured so far to blind the Eyes
of the People, as to make them guilty of their own
Destruction, by helping to subdue and destroy the Parliament (the only Means under God to preserve their
Religion, Law, and Liberties); and to persuade the
Kingdom, that His Majesty, by the Assistance of Papists and Persons popishly affected, will maintain the
Protestant Religion; that, by the Help of Men outlawed, and of desperate Fortunes, will maintain the
Laws of the Land, and, with Fugitives from Parliament, and Traitors, and Delinquents to the Parliament,
will preserve the Privileges thereof; an Attempt so
desperate, and so transcendently wicked, that the Lords
and Commons do unanimously publish, and Declare,
That all they who have advised, contrived, abetted, or
countenanced, or hereafter shall abet and countenance,
the said Proclamation, to be Traitors and Enemies to
God, the King, and Kingdom, and to be guilty of the
highest Degree of Treason that can be committed
against the King and Kingdom; and that they will,
by the Assistance of Almighty God, and of all honest
English Protestants and Lovers of their Country, do
their best Endeavours (even to the utmost Hazard of
their Lives and Fortunes) to bring all such unparalleled
Traitors to a speedy and exemplary Punishment.
"And whereas the Lords and Commons in Parliament did formerly choose the Earl of Essex to be Captain General of such Forces as are or shall be raised,
for the Maintenance and Preservation of the true
Protestant Religion, the King's Person, the Laws of
the Land, the Peace of the Kingdom, the Liberty
and Property of the Subject, and the Rights and Privileges of Parliament: The said Lords and Commons do now Declare, That they will maintain and
assist him, and adhere unto him, the said Earl, with
their Lives and Estates, in the same Cause, as, in Conscience and Duty to God, the King, and their Country, they are bound to do.
"And lastly, the Lords and Commons do further
Declare, That, notwithstanding those wicked Counsellors, which inclined His Majesty to make War against
our Brethren of Scotland, and, by Prayers and Proclamations read in Churches, to pronounce them Rebels and Traitors; that with-held His Majesty from
setting forth any Proclamation against those bloody
Rebels in Ireland till January last, although their Rebellion brake forth the Three and Twentieth of
October before; and, notwithstanding the Importunity
of both Houses of Parliament, that a Declaration
might issue to that Purpose, have now advised and
prevailed with His Majesty, by this Proclamation, to
invite His Subjects to destroy His Parliament and
good People by a Civil War, and by that Means to
bring Ruin, Confusion, and perpetual Slavery, upon
the surviving Part of a then-wretched Kingdom:
Yet the Lords and Commons, to witness their constant and unshaken Loyalty and Affection to His
Majesty, do solemnly Declare, That, if His Majesty
shall immediately disband all His Forces, and be pleased
to abandon those wicked Counsellors, and leave them
to condign Punishment, and return and hearken to
the wholesome Advice of His Great Council; they
will really endeavour to make both His Majesty and
His Posterity as great, rich, and potent, as much
beloved at Home, and feared Abroad, as any Prince
that ever swayed this Scepter; which is their firm and
constant Resolution."