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18 February 1643 -- Copy of letter from the Speaker of the House of Lords to Lord Campden, desiring him to contribute towards the charges of the Parliament forces, as others of his rank have already done.

18 February 1643 -- Draft resolutions concerning the disbanding of the armies, etc.

18 February 1643 -- Alterations proposed by the House of Lords in the ordinance for weekly assessments.

18 February 1643 -- Order for the repayment to Mr Stephens and Mr Hodges, members of the House of Commons, of £720 advanced by them for furnishing arms for the forces in the county of Gloucester.

18 February 1643 -- Order for seizing the estates of malignants in the county of Lincoln.

18 February 1643 -- Letter from the committee for Northamptonshire to the Earl of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Lords, concerning the taking of Lord Vaux's timber from Harrowden.

18 February 1643 -- Petition of William Arundell. Prays that an early day may be appointed for hearing his cause against Lord Baltimore.

18 February 1643 -- Petition of Robert Shering. Prays that Richard Tito may be ordered forthwith to bring up his writ of error out of the King's Bench.

18 February 1643 -- Pass for Mrs Elizabeth Walter to travel to Barnsley, Gloucestershire, about her own private occasions.

20 February 1643 -- Petition of Dame Dorothy Leventhorpe, late wife of Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, Bart., and now wife of Thomas Holford, Esquire. Prays that Thomas Holford may be ordered to carry out the provisions of a post-nuptial agreement entered into between him and the petitioner (now in HL/PO/JO/10/4).

Annexed:

1 Copy of preceding, and upon the same paper copy of the agreement referred to.

20 February 1643 -- Petition of Margery Page, widow, late wife of William Page, one of the Barons of the Exchequer. Divers unknown persons of mean condition, armed with charged muskets and other weapons broke into her house, and carried thence all that she had, including the deeds and evidences of her estate.

20 February 1643 -- Petition of Anne Pratt, wife of Francis Pratt, haberdasher. Petitioner's husband is in the country, and will not return for a fortnight. Prays that in the meantime his goods, which have been seized, may not be taken away.

20 February 1643 -- Draft order appointing a Committee of Lords to meet the Committee of the Commons to consider of the way of proceeding in the treaty, etc.

20 February 1643 -- Petition of the inhabitants of Lambeth. On Sunday last some soldiers belonging to Captain Andrewes' company came into the church and derided the service.

Annexed:

1 Affidavit of Edward Harper and others concerning the riot.

2 Certificate of the parishioners of Lambeth that it was Hugh Cocks, one of Captain Andrewes' soldiers, that killed Thomas Coe, one of the parishioners, in the churchyard.

3 Certificate of Richard Kellett, of the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster, chirurgeon, that Edward Jones, of Lambeth, waterman, is dangerously wounded.

20 February 1643 -- Petition of Thomas Shering. Prays that the writ of error in the cause between him and Richard Tito may be brought in.

Annexed:

1 Another petition of Shering, praying that Tito may be ordered speedily to assign errors.

20 February 1643 -- Draft of the requests of the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and common council of the City of London about the raising of £60,000.

20 February 1643 -- Application for a pass for a waggon containing goods belonging to the Countess of Carnarvon to go from London to Oxford.

20 February 1643 -- Petition of John Earl of Rutland. Prays that an order may be issued restraining certain miners from working in the manors of Haddon and Harthill.

21 February 1643 -- Pass for Robert Makyn, yeoman of His Majesty's chaundry, to carry wax lights and torches to Oxford for His Majesty's service.

21 February 1643 -- Draft order in the cause, Hooper v. Jhannes.

Annexed:

1 Petition of Anthony Hooper, praying that the preceding order may be revoked.

21 February 1643 -- Pass for a servant of the Marchioness of Hertford to go to Oxford with household stuff and other necessaries for her Ladyship's use.

Annexed:

1 A note of what is wanting in my Lady's chamber.

21 February 1643 -- Draft ordinance for rating sea coals.

21 February 1643 -- Copy of preceding.

21 February 1643 -- Draft ordinance for staying the shipping in the Thames.

21 February 1643 -- Copy of the King's message concerning the cessation of arms.

21 February 1643 -- Message from the Commons for a Committee to be appointed to consult with the Lord-General concerning the cessation of arms.

21 February 1643 -- Petition of the parishioners of Mary Magdalen's, Bermondsey, in the borough of Southwark. Pray that Mr Thomas Mawle, a minister from Shropshire, may be assigned as their curate, Mr Kem, who was heretofore appointed curate, having absented himself.

21 February 1643 -- Ordinance for sequestering the living of St Margaret's, Lothbury.

Annexed:

1 Petition of Humfrey Tabor, parson of the parish of St Margaret, Lothbury. Prays that the preceding ordinance may not be put in execution.

2 Copy of preceding.

3 Another petition of Tabor. Prays that such allowance may be made to him out of the profits of the living as will keep him.

4 Copy of preceding.

5 Petition of Elizabeth, the wife of Humphrey Tabor; prays to mitigate the severity of the sentence against her husband.

21 February 1643 -- Order for the payment of £260 to William Purefoy, advanced by him for the defence of the city of Coventry.

21 February 1643 -- Ordinance for sequestering the profits of the living of St Martin's, in the Vintry, London.

21 February 1643 -- Pass for two servants and three horses of the Earl of Lindsey, to go to Warwick and back.

21 February 1643 -- Draft order that all orders and ordinances made for the advancing and levying of monies and other necessaries for the army raised by the authority of Parliament shall be executed.

23 February 1643 -- Order for Sir William Waller to execute martial law in his army.

23 February 1643 -- Copy of the King's answer concerning the putting off the general assizes and gaol delivery throughout the Kingdom.

23 February 1643 -- Order for the removal of Lord Macquire and other prisoners from the Tower to Ludgate.

23 February 1643 -- Ordinance for sequestering the profits of the living of St. Nicholas Olave, Bread Street.

23 February 1643 -- Ordinance for Nathaniel Fiennes, to raise a regiment of horse in the counties of Gloucester, Worcester, and Oxon, and to seize horses and arms belonging to delinquents.

23 February 1643 -- Petition to the Commons of Dr Echlyn, physician in ordinary to the Queen's Majesty; prays the House to order the payment of his arrears, and of his pension in future, in consideration of his attendance on the royal children.

23 February 1643 -- Petition of Daniel Featley, D.D., rector of Lambeth. Prays that John Goad and others may be called upon to answer for the false articles exhibited by them against petitioner.

24 February 1643 -- Message from the Commons for reducing the number of the Committee for the safety of the Kingdom. Rejected by the Lords.

24 February 1643 -- Pass for John Craven, Esquire, and four servants, to travel into France.

24 February 1643 -- Application for a pass for two servants of the Countess of Monmouth to go to Kenilworth.

24 February 1643 -- Application for a pass for Robert Winde and William Harrison, and two servants, to travel into France.

24 February 1643 -- Application for a protection for Wilks Fitchett, and William Shallaker.

24 February 1643 -- Order for 100 marks contribution money to be paid for the relief of the poor English who have come from Ireland into the Isle of Wight.

24 February 1643 -- Petition of Katharine Fowler, daughter of Secretary Fowler, once secretary to Queen Anne. Complains that she was arrested in a barbarous manner, and imprisoned in the Marshalsea at the suit of Daniel Calt.

25 February 1643 -- Order for the payment of £1,218 14s. to the Scots Reformado officers.

25 February 1643 -- Copy of preceding.

25 February 1643 -- Order for £300 contribution money to be paid for the service of the Lough in Ireland.

25 February 1643 -- Copy of letter from the Speaker of the House of Lords to the Committee for Northamptonshire, concerning the taking of the Lord Vaux's timber from Harrowden.

25 February 1643 -- The true and humble answer of George Baker and others to the petition of Captain John Bradley.

Annexed:

1 Copy of petition of Captain John Bradley.

27 February 1643 -- Pass for Robert Martyn, Esquire, and two servants to travel into France.

27 February 1643 -- Order for the payment of £30 to Captain Thomas Cupper for beef for the garrison at Cork.

27 February 1643 -- Petition of Richard Branthwayte. Prays leave to go to his house in Oxfordshire.

27 February 1643 -- Order for the payment of £1,500 for arrears due to the garrison at Portsmouth.

28 February 1643 -- Petition of Thomas Jenyns, Esquire. Prays for an enlargement of the last order made in the cause between petitioner and Sir Filibert Vernatti.

Annexed:

1 Copy of order in the cause.

2 Copy of a further order.

3 Copy of another order.

28 February 1643 -- Petition of Elizabeth Wiseman, wife of Thomas Wiseman. Complains that one Quarterman came to her house in Great St Helen's, Bishopsgate Street, when her husband was absent and forcibly took away goods under pretence of the Ordinance for Assessment.

28 February 1643 -- Application for a pass for two sons of Lord Coventry, with their governor and four servants, to go into France.

28 February 1643 -- Application for a pass for Richard Deards to go with some goods to Hillingdon.

28 February 1643 -- Draft order for the committal of John Grimston and others to Newgate, for killing deer in Waltham Forest.

Annexed:

1 Affidavits of John Cooks and others, under keepers, concerning the killing the deer in Waltham Forest, and Havering Park.

28 February 1643 -- Petition of Thomas Crewe and Anne his wife. Pray that Roger Mallock, the father of petitioner Anne, may be called upon to answer for converting to his own use certain monies which by an agreement entered into between him and Alice Hele, were to have been employed in the purchase of land for the use of petitioners.

28 February 1643 -- Pass for John Saladin, his wife, five children, and two servants, to travel to Geneva.

28 February 1643 -- Amended draft of the propositions for a cessation of arms.

28 February 1643 -- Copy of preceding.

28 February 1643 -- Order for the payment of £500 for Sir William Cole's regiment at Enniskillen.

28 February 1643 -- Order for the payment of £102 12s. to Mr. Laurence Loe, chirurgeon to the Lord General's person and train.

28 February 1643 -- Petition of the governor, assistants, and fellowship of Eastland merchants. Pray that a pass may be granted to two of their company to go to the King.

28 February 1643 -- Reasons why the ordinance now remaining unpassed in the Lords' House, for the raising of some moneys by some Staffordshire and Warwickshire gentlemen for the defence of the counties of Stafford and Warwick, and the counties of the cities of Coventry and Lichfield, should be presently passed.

28 February 1643 -- Draft ordinance for raising money in the counties of Warwick and Stafford.

28 February 1643 -- Ordinance for putting off the assizes.

February 1643 -- Printed copy of all the ordinances and declarations of the Lords and Commons for the assessing of all such as have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament for raising of money, plate, horse, horsemen, and arms for the defence of the King, Kingdom, and Parliament.

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 73-75