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2 October 1643 -- Notes of scandalous words spoken by Mr Walker against the Lord Say and Seale, etc.

2 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance for Christ's Hospital to be free from all taxes and assessments.

2 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance for fortifying the Isle of Wight.

5 October 1643 -- Petition of John Wynyard; as keeper of the Palace at Westminster has a little house under the Prince's 'tiring rooms, which the groom porter made use of during his residence; he is now gone to Oxford, and petitioner prays that he may enjoy the house.

5 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance enabling Adam Lawrence and others, committees in Holland, to pursue the business concerning Ireland, severally as well as jointly.

5 October 1643 -- Draft order for payment of £886 18s. for Captain Upton's troop of horse in Ireland.

5 October 1643 -- Draft order for payment of £886 18s. to Colonel Arthur Hill, three months' pay for one troop of horse in Ireland.

5 October 1643 -- Draft order for payment of £1,172 14s. for arrears to men lately employed in the train of artillery in Ireland.

5 October 1643 -- Draft order upon a petition of Oliver Bowles, giving him leave to land forty-five small casks of currants from Holland upon payment of customs.

6 October 1643 -- Notes of proceedings on this and subsequent days.

7 October 1643 -- Petition of inhabitants of Leighton Beaudesert [Buzzard], in the county of Bedford; pray that the parishioners may be ordered to pay the accustomed tithes to the now vicar Mr Rathband.

7 October 1643 -- Petition of the University of Cambridge, some members of colleges before the war broke out sent plate to His Majesty, and now some persons pretending authority from Parliament are sequestering their libraries, goods, and revenues.

7 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance for repayment of £30,000 out of the income from the excise to the merchant adventurers.

7 October 1643 -- Draft order for repayment of those who shall advance £8,000 for the present supply of the lord general's army.

7 October 1643 -- Affidavit of Philip Thomas; that he served two sergeants, John Burdett and John Duell, who arrested him, contrary to privilege, with the order to appear, and that Leech, solicitor to Tooley, at whose suit petitioner was arrested, spoke contemptuously of the order.

Annexed:

1 Affidavit of Philip Thomas, that Scriven, an attorney, told Burdett and Duell, they were base rogues if they appeared upon the order.

2 Similar affidavit of Gilbert Thomas.

7 October 1643 -- Answer of Clement Walker; refuses to submit to the judgment of the House as against the liberty of the subject.

Annexed:

1 Notes of preceding.

9 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance touching the lands of Sir William Brooke, Knight, of Cooling Castle, in the county of Kent, deceased.

9 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance authorizing the committee at Northampton to levy money for the defence of the county.

9 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance concerning forces to be sent by the committee of the militia of the city of London for the recovering of Reading.

9 October 1643 -- Draft answer to the French Ambassador (Prince d'Harcourt) declining to release Mr. Walter Montague, sent secretly to England with letters from the Queen Regent of France.

9 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance raising the prices of wines in consequence of the new excise, etc.

10 October 1643 -- Petition of the governor, assistants and fellowship of Eastland merchants; complain of the excessive duties imposed on their commodities by the King of Denmark, and that five of their ships have been seized and detained in the Sound.

10 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance appointing Mr John Tilsley, vicar of Dean Church, in the county of Lancaster.

10 October 1643 -- Petition of John Hart, one of His Majesty's bargemen; complains of having been unjustly arrested for debt by Thomas Blacklyn, a sergeant, at the suit of Hugh Busbye, a woodmonger in London.

Annexed:

1 Certificate of Nowell Warner and others that Hart is a sworn servant of His Majesty.

11 October 1643 -- Petition of Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland; prisioner in the Tower, the committees in the counties of Kent, Cambridge, and Huntingdon, have sequestered his estates in those counties; he prays for present and future protection from such sequestrations.

11 October 1643 -- Draft order for repayment of £8,000 to the Commissioners of excise.

11 October 1643 -- Draft order for the Earl of Manchester, to levy all monies that have been assessed and not paid in Suffolk, Herts, Essex, etc.

11 October 1643 -- Petition of William Spencer, prisoner. After various examinations nothing prejudicial to the State has been found against him; prays to be set at liberty.

12 October 1643 -- Petition of George Glipson, Richard Flowood, Thomas Pouter, and Richard Clarke, prisoners in the Fleet: petitioners were committed for selling wood out of Enfield chase, they pray for speedy enlargement.

12 October 1643 -- Certificate of Mr Recorder Glynn, that Francis Newton, Thomas Mayo, and James Wadesworth, messengers, have performed the services stated in their petition, as appears by the annexed certificates, and are deserving of reward.

Annexed:

1 Order referring the petition to the recorder.

2 Certificate of the clerk of the peace for the county of Middlesex, that John Hammond and others have been convicted as popish priests, and Margaret Powell for harbouring such persons on the prosecution of Newton, Mayo, and Wadesworth.

3 Certificate of Ralph Briscoe, clerk of Newgate, of the names of nine persons, convicted as Romish priests on the evidence of Newton, Mayo, and Wadesworth, of whom seven were executed at Tyburn.

4 Copy of letter from the committee of the Commons for examinations, to the Lord Mayor of the city of London, recommending Newton, Mayo, and Wadesworth for recompense for their services in having procured the conviction of more popish priests and Jesuits, than have been convicted by any other means.

12 October 1643 -- Petition of the owners and merchants of the ship "Clare," lately arrived from the West Indies, with a cargo of money, cochineal, hides, ginger, and other goods, to the value of £80,000: petitioners complain of various orders under which £30,000 has been taken from the ship.

12 October 1643 -- Letter from Francis Lord Dacre, at Hurstmonceux, to Lord Grey of Warke, Speaker of the House of Lords, pro tempore; has received the order of the House to attend on Sunday morning (to take the covenant), but prays leave to be absent till that day sennight, on account of the ways, the weather, and his own infirmity.

12 October 1643 -- The Earl of Elgin [Lord Bruce], at Knowlton, to Lord Grey of Warke, Speaker of the House of Peers, pro tempore; is in physic, and therefore fears he cannot come by Sunday.

16 October 1643 -- Draft letter informing Peers of the day fixed for the taking of the covenant, with list of Peers absent at the taking of the same, and notes of proceedings on other days.

16 October 1643 -- Message from the Commons, with an order for adding Thomas Sanders to the committee for the county of Derby.

16 October 1643 -- Message from the Commons with an order for Mr Daniel Cawdrey, to be a member of the assembly of divines in the place of Dr Harris.

16 October 1643 -- Draft order for the committee of Lords and Commons to enforce the payment of arrears of money assessed for the great affairs of the kingdom, by distress and imprisonment.

16 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance for the repayment of all such sums of money as are or shall be lent by any person or persons for the speedy bringing of our brethren of Scotland into this realm for our assistance in this present war.

16 October 1643 -- Petition of Edward Lord Howard, praying to have the wardship of his brother-in-law, Lord Boteler, an idiot.

17 October 1643 -- Message from the Commons, with an order for appointment of a committee to advise with the Lord General for the speedy advancing of the armies.

17 October 1643 -- Petition of the Mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London, governors of Christ's Hospital, and Anne Hawes, widow; upon a former petition against Nicholas Hawes, an order was made that he should sue out his livery; this he has now done.

17 October 1643 -- Draft orders of the Commons for invalidating the Great Seal of England, and all acts done by and under it, since it was taken away from the Parliament.

18 October 1643 -- Draft order that £1,500 belonging to the governors of Sutton Hospital, now in the custody of John Clarke, should be employed for the service of the Commonwealth in the maintenance of the garrison of Gloucester.

18 October 1643 -- Petition of divers officers and soldiers of several regiments under the command of the Right Hon. Henry Earl of Stamford, General of the western forces; pray for payment of their arrears to encourage them in their resolutions of sacrificing their dearest blood for their country.

Annexed:

1 Petition of Lieutenant Colonel Freeman and others: pray for speedy payment of their arrears.

2 Certificate from officers employed in the West of England, that when the unfortunate city of Exeter was besieged, the mayor and deputy lieutenants promised them and their soldiers payment of the arrears due to them.

18 October 1643 -- Draft order for the trained bands of Middlesex. etc., to march where the Lord General shall direct.

18 October 1643 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Trevor, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, acknowledging his error of judgment in the case of ship money.

18 October 1643 -- Copy of preceding.

18 October 1643 -- Petition of John Clayton, recorder of the borough of Leeds; petitioner having represented to the committee for sequestrations that he had lost all his estate in Yorkshire, prays the House to confirm the committee's recommendation.

19 October 1643 -- Printed book containing a copy of a declaration of the Lords Justices in Ireland of the 19th of Sept. 1643, ratifying and publishing the articles for a cessation with the Irish, also a copy of the articles, and of an instrument touching the manner of payment of £30,800 agreed to be paid to the King by the Irish Roman Catholics.

19 October 1643 -- Draft order appointing a committee to join with a committee of the Commons to consider the preceding declaration and articles.

19 October 1643 -- Demand of the Commons for judgment against Baron Trevor.

Annexed:

1 Articles of the House of Commons against Sir Thomas Trevor, Knight, one of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, impeaching him for his judgment given in the case of ship money (now in HL/PO/JO/10/4).

19 October 1643 -- Petition of inhabitants of the town of Harwich, have lately received Thomas Wood as preacher of their town, who informed the House that he was an orthodox divine; yet he enveighs against the Church of England, refuses to bury, baptise, or marry, except after a fashion of his own etc., etc.

20 October 1643 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Trevor, Knight, one of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer; praying to be released from imprisonment.

20 October 1643 -- Draft order appointing a Committee to join with the Committee of the assembly to meet and treat with the divines of Scotland, concerning a form of church government, etc.

20 October 1643 -- Copy of preceding.

20 October 1643 -- Draft order for adding Lincolnshire to the ordinance for raising of the twentieth part.

20 October 1643 -- Petition of Clement Walker, one of the deputy lieutenants and committees for the county of Somerset; petitioner has been summoned by the Lord General to attend a council of war, but being a prisoner in the Tower, he is unable to prosecute the matter; prays he may have liberty for the present to prepare for the council of war, and till it is over, to lie in his own house near Westminster Hall.

21 October 1643 -- Petition of Arthur Needham; prays that after the goods in the Black Lodgings, in the Inner Temple, formerly the Lord Keeper Littleton's, intrusted to petitioner by Sergeant Littleton, have been inventoried, they may be left in petitioner's custody.

21 October 1643 -- Draft order appointing Richard Shute to the Cocket Office in the place of Sir John Wolstenholme.

21 October 1643 -- Draft order for payment of £50 to Captain Skrimpshire.

21 October 1643 -- Petition of parishioners of St Alphage, Cripplegate; the presentation to their parsonage, now void by the death of Mr Sedgwick, pray that the choice may be left to them.

Annexed:

1 Petition of Nehemiah Dodd, minister in the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster ; on the recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Commons and others, the Bishop of London conferred the parsonage of St Alphage, Cripplegate, upon petitioner.

2 Letter from Denzil Holles and others at the Commons House to [the parishioners of St Alphage, Cripplegate], recommending Nehemiah Dodd for acceptance as their minister.

23 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance for the more speedy raising of the monies formerly imposed, and yet unpaid within the city of London and liberties thereof.

23 October 1643 -- Draft ordinance for the further enlargement of a former ordinance made for the speedy raising of monies, and furnishing one or more magazine or magazines of arms and ammunition, and other necessary charges for and concerning the raising of horse and other military forces within the hamlets, of the Tower, the city of Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and other parts of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey.

Annexed:

1 Amendments to preceding.

24 October 1643 -- Petition of six poor almsmen of Eastham, in the county of Essex, founded by Giles Breame, petitioners' cause was referred to Lord Chief Justice Brampston, who made his report thereon; Petitioners pray either to give a final hearing to their grievances, or refer the matter to the committee of obstructions. This petition is written on the fly-leaf of a small pamphlet entitled, "A Breviate or true relation of the unchristian like dealing of Sir Giles Allington, the Lady Kempe, the Lord Keeper Coventry, Mr Coniers, of Waltham Stow, in the county of Essex, Councillor at Law, and Mr Draper, son to the Lady Kempe, in keeping the poor almsmen of Eastham from their right."

Annexed:

1 Copy of preceding petition and pamphlet.

2 Petition of the almsmen.

3 Printed copy of preceding, with statement of their case.

4 Copy of report of Lord Chief Justice Brampston.

5 Printed copy of preceding.

6 Another copy.

7 Petition of the almsmen, praying that their cause may be heard, or referred to the committee of obstructions.

8 Petition of Dame Sarah Kempe, widow. Prays that some convenient day may be appointed for hearing counsel for all sides on the whole matter.

24 October 1643 -- Petition of Edward White, steward and receiver of the rents of the Right Hon. the Lord Petre, His Majesty's ward: The committee for sequestrations, have sequestered two-thirds of Lord Petre's estate, real and personal, as if he were a papist and delinquent, when he is neither: petitioner prays for justice and consideration.

Annexed:

1 A memorial of what has been paid out of Lord Petre's estate, in Essex, towards the service of the King and Parliament, with a statement in support of the petition.

24 October 1643 -- Petition of William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, that he may have counsel assigned to him, may have some money out of his estate, and all his books and papers, etc.

24 October 1643 -- Petition of the committee of the additional forces by sea for Ireland; praying that means may be taken to force those adventurers who have not yet paid their proportions to do so at once.

Annexed:

1 A list of the adventurers who have not paid their subscriptions, with the sums due from them.

24 October 1643 -- Notes of proceedings this day, etc.

Some documents may have been removed from this file to the Parchment Collection, the Large Parchments or the Parchment Main Papers. Where this has occurred it is noted in brackets in the descriptions above. Please see relevant entries in the Parchment Collection (HL/PO/JO/10/2), Large Parchments (HL/PO/JO/10/3) or Parchment Main Papers (HL/PO/JO/10/4) for further details.

See Journals of the House of Lords for the same date for entries relating to the laying of these papers.

Calendared in HMC 5th Report, pp 108-111