Die Martis 19, Octob: 1641: At the Committee of the House of COMMONS appointed to sit, during the Recesse.
IN regard of the mischievous Designes and Conspiracies now of late discovered in
Scotland, against some principall and great persons there, by some who doe professe the Popish
Religion, and which is Popishly affected, which the Committee conceives, may have
some correspondency here to doe the like mischiefe; They therefore thinke fit, and
doe order it, That the Justices of Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Survey, and the Burrough of Southwarke, doe forthwith place good Guards of men in Armes, in severall places about the City
and Southwarke, and other places neere adjoyning, to bee relieved and continued,
as they thinke fit, untill they shall receive further direction from the PARLIAMENT,
which [Page 2] is to meet to morrow; And in the meane time to observe such further direction therein,
as they shall receive from the Earle of Essex.
To the Iustices of Peace for the County of Surrey and the Borrough of Southwarke.
The Copie of a Petition delivered to Mr. Pym, concerning a hundred Pensioners in the Kings-Bench, October 19. 1641
THere was this day also a Petition delivered to Mr. Pym, concerning a hundred Pensioners in the Kings-Bench, whereupon Mr. Pym was desired to deliver his opinion, whether the imprisonment of the body for contempt
or otherwise, were not against Magna Charta, and the Priviledge of the Subject, to which Mr. Pym replyed, it befitted not him as a private man to deliver his opinion therein, but
it concerned the two houses of PARLIAMENT, the Judges, and the learned in the Law
to give verdit upon it, and upon the meeting and assembling of the House of Commons,
the Petition should be delivered, where they must attend for answer to it.
THE Copie of another Letter sent to the PARLIAMENT from Regensborough in Germany touching the Palatinate.
FRom Regensborough we receive intelligence of Letters come to the House of Parliament, That the Lantsgrave
of Hessen, and the Duke of Luneburgh, are falling off from the Swedes, which will
difficilate the Conquest of the Palatinate, by the English, but the Scots are very importunate with the King to pesecute it, promising strong ayd and honorable
allowance, and that the Dan [...] will joyne forces with us, but the Commons conceive that the burthen and charge
of the warre will fall upon the English, yet how soever they are willing to advance their designe.
A Proposition made by an honourable Lord in Scotland touching the Palatinate.
FIrst, in regard his Majesties gracious Manifest and Proposition touching the Electorall Family, having beene so generally approved
and concluded, to be both a Pious and Honourable enterprize, and therefore ought
not to be delayed or procrastinated.
But it is objected againe, that the Country is so ruined and depopulated, that if
it should be wonne, it will not (in all probability) countervaile the charge, losse,
and hazard that must first be undergone.
This Objection is not to be denyed, but to bee both fit and necessary of a State to
be considered, when their undertakings are for particular wrongs and injuries sustained,
but when as an enemy (as in this case) hath forcibly thrust a lawfull Prince out of
the whole Inheritance of his Royall Ancestors, and refuseth to restore him upon honourable
Conditions, I humbly conceive, quitting of cost ought not to over-ballance the right
and honour of a Prince so injured.
The Prince Elector is not onely forceably kept forth of his lawfull Inheritance, to
his great losse and dammage; but his Honour is thereby deepely wounded, and through
him, his Majestie, [Page 5] our Native Soveraigne, his Royall Uncle, and indeed all the Princes of the reformed
Religion, beare a share in his dishonour.
Lastly, in regard England and Scotland had lately two Armies in the field (which now, through the goodnesse of the God
of Peace, are united and disbanded) in which are many stout, and valiant Commanders
and Officers of both Nations, for the expediting of so noble an enterprise, up then,
let us be doing, and surely the Lord of Hosts will goe before the Army (that shall
fight for such a cause) and make plaine all Mountaines, that shall occurre in the
way, and give a blessed and successefull Issue, to such an honourable enterprize.
FINIS.