DIE Mercurii, 30 Junii.
Domini præsentes fuerunt:
Comes Manchester, Speaker.
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Comes Warwick.
Comes Mulgrave.
Comes Sarum.
Comes Suff. |
Ds. Howard.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. North. |
Letters from the Commissioners with the King and with the Army, and from Sir T. Fairfax.
A Letter from the Lord Mountagu, was read.
(Here enter it.)
A Letter from Sir Tho. Fairefax, was read.
(Here enter it.)
A Letter from the Earl of Nottingham, was read.
(Here enter it.)
Another Letter from the Earl of Nottingham and the
Lord Wharton, was read, with a Paper inclosed from
his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairefax and the Council of
War. (Here enter them.)
Preachers at the Fast thanked.
Ordered, That Thanks be given to Doctor Smith
and Doctor Rainbow, for their Pains in their Sermons
preached this Day before their Lordships; and desired to
print their Sermons.
Letter from the Commissioners with the King, that they cannot prevent the Resort of excepted Persons to Him, till Sir T. Fairfax sends Orders.
"For the Right Honourable the Earl of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Peers pro
Tempore. These.
"My Lord,
"We received this Day your Letter of the 28th of
this Instant, with the Votes inclosed, whereby the
Duke of Richmond, Doctor Sheldon, Doctor Hamond,
and others in like Condition with them, are to be removed from about the King; for which Purpose, you
have required the Guards here to obey us, and directed
Sir Thomas Fairefax to give them Orders therein. Before, we had not any Power at all to command Colonel
Whaley or the Regiment under him; neither could we
assume an Authority which you had not given us:
And therefore we hope that this Resort to the King
will not in any Wise be imputed to us. Upon the
Receipt of those new Orders from you, we have imparted them to Colonel Whalley, whose Answer to us
is, "That when we receive the General's Orders
herein, which, according to the Votes, he conceives
he is to expect, he shall be very ready to observe the
Directions we shall give him; but as yet, having not
heard from his Excellency, he cannot give us further
Satisfaction; but shall forthwith send to the General,
and acquaint him therewith, being very ready, according to the Orders he shall receive from his Excellency,
to perform his Duty to the Parliament." In the mean
Time we are not in Capacity to discharge your Commands, and hope you will not expect that which is not
in the Power of
Hatfeild, 29 Junii, 1647.
"Your Lordship's
Most humble Servant,
Edw. Mountagu."
Letter from Sir T. Fairfax, concerning the Messenger from the Scots Commissioners being stopped.
"For the Right Honourable the Earl of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Peers pro
Tempore.
"My Lord,
"I can assure your Lordship, I am altogether ignorant
of the seizing of the Packet between Huntington and Stilton, which was going for Scotland from the Scotts Commissioners; neither was it ever brought to the Head
Quarter, that I could hear of. If I had known of any
such Thing, I should not have let it pass without
making the Actor in so foul a Business an Example.
I shall be very careful (as much as in me lies) that
none of the Army under my Command shall offer any
Interruption to the Intercourse of Packets between the
Kingdom of Scotland and their Commissioners at London; and should be very loth to be an Occasion of a
Breach of the good Correspondency betwixt the Two
Nations. About a Week since, there happened a Business at Ware, which perhaps is the Thing intended
in your Letter: There came One to the Guard, who,
being examined, said first, "He was to go to Scotland:" Being desired to produce his Pass, it was only
from Major General Webb, to go to Royston. Then
being demanded whither he was to go; he said, "To
Newmarkett, to Mr. Maxwell."Lieutenant Colonel
Tubbs, being then upon the Guard, finding him in several Stories, sent him with Two Troopers to the Head
Quarter at St. Albans, with a Bundle of Papers sealed
up in a Blank Paper, without any Direction at all; neither had he any Pass from the Commissioners of Scotland. But he no sooner came to the Head Quarter, but
he was permitted to go to Newmarkett accordingly,
with the Bundle of Papers he had with him. I
thought fit to mention this Particular, lest there should
be a Misconstruction had thereof. This being all I
have to trouble your Lordship with, I remain
Uxbridge, June 29, 1647.
"Your Lordship's
Most humble Servant,
T. Fairefax."
Letter from the Commissioners with the Army, that they have desired the Removal of it further from London.
"For the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Peers pro
Tempore. These.
"May it please your Lordship,
"We have received yours, dated Yesterday, with
the Votes of both Houses inclosed, That no Officers
or Soldiers should leave the Army without the General's Licence, and of the Houses owning the Army,
and providing for it; and have this Morning communicated them to the General; and took that Occasion to move the General, That the Business of the
Treaty may be put into a Way, and the Head Quarter to be removed at a farther Distance from London;
both which the General told us should be taken into
speedy Consideration, and that he would give us an
Account of the Resolutions with all Conveniency.
I am,
Uxbridge, 29 June, 1647. about 11 of the Clock.
"My Lords,
Your humble and faithful Servant,
C. Nottingham."
Letter from them, with the following
"For the especial Service of the Parliament.
For the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Peers.
"These. Haste, Haste.
"May it please your Lordship,
"On the Way to this Town from Uxbridge, this
Afternoon, about Six of the Clock, we received this
inclosed Paper, by a Messenger from the General;
which we thought ourselves in Duty obliged to send
unto your Lordship, and rest
Wickham, 29th June, 1647.
"Your Lordship's
Humble and faithful Servants,
C. Nottinghan. P. Wharton."
Paper from Sir T. Fairfax and Council of War, that the Army shall remove to Wickham.
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"By the Votes you were pleased to communicate to
me this Morning, I find the Parliament hath taken
into their Consideration those Propositions of the
Army, which necessarily craved some Satisfaction before the Withdrawing of it; and that their Progress
already made (though but in Part) meets with such a
Compliance in my Council of War, that it begets in
them a general Confidence of the Houses speedy and
full Answer to the remaining Propositions; and therefore, to testify the Readiness of this Army to observe
the Commands of Parliament, they have resolved to
move the Army to a farther Distance, and the Head
Quarters to be this Night Wickham; believing that
this Forwardness on their Part to satisfy both Parliament and City will (fn. *) not retard, but hasten rather
the Resolutions of the Houses, with a full Satisfaction
to the Particulars not yet answered, and also acquit
this Army of many Jealousies and unjust Aspersions
cast upon it.
"By the Appointment of his Excellency Sir
Thomas Fairefax and the Council of War.
Uxbridge, June 29, 1647.
"Jo. Rushworth.
"For the Right Honourable the Lords and
Commons Commissioners of Parliament
residing in the Army.
"Examined by Geo. Pyke."
Adjourn.
Adjourn till 10 To-morrow.