Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 11, 1660-1666. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.
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In this section
DIE Lunæ, 7 die Maii.
PRAYERS, by
Domini præsentes fuerunt:
Message to the H. C. with the Marquis of Winton's Order.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Hobert and Mr. Glascocke:
To desire their Concurrence in the Order for preventing of Waste upon the Lord Marquis of Winchester's Estate.
Bill to prevent Disputes concerning the Parliament.
The House was adjourned into a Committee during Pleasure, to consider of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes, concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament."
The House was resumed.
King to be proclaimed.
ORDERED, That His Majesty shall be proclaimed King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, and of all the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging;" and the Time to be further considered of.
Message from the H. C. for the E. of Manchester to be One of the Commissioners of the Great Seal;-and with a Declaration to prevent Riots.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Annesley; who brought these Particulars:
1. That the House of Commons doth agree with the Lords, that the Earl of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Peers, be, and is hereby nominated and appointed, One of the Commissioners for the Great Seal; and that he be added to those who have the present Custody thereof, till further Order.
2. A Declaration for continuing of Officers in His Majesty's Name, and preventing of Riots and Tumults, &c.
Read, and Agreed to, and ordered to be forthwith printed and published. (Here enter it.)
The Answer returned was:
Answer.
That their Lordships do concur with the House of Commons in this Declaration.
Bill to prevent Disputes concerning the Parliament.
After this, the House was again adjourned into a Committee during Pleasure, to debate the Bill for removing of all Questions and Disputes for the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament.
The House being resumed;
The Earl of Manchester reported, "That the Lords think fit to offer a Proviso and an Amendment to the aforesaid Bill."
Which being read Twice, and approved of, then the said Bill was read the Third Time, with the said Proviso and Alteration.
And the Question being put, "Whether this Bill shall pass as a Law, with this Proviso and Alteration?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
It is ORDERED, To be sent to the House of Commons, for their Concurrence.
Committee of Privileges.
ORDERED, That the Earl of Berks be added to the Committee for Privileges; likewise the Duke of Bucks, Earl of Exeter, Earl Monmouth, the Lord Tenham, Lord Morley, Lord Sandys, Lord De la Warr.
King's Statues to be set up.
It is referred to the Committee of Privileges, to consider the Setting up the Statue of the late King, in Scotland, Ireland, and in The Covent Garden.
Message to the H. C. with a Bill.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Eltonhead and Mr. Rich:
To let them know, that their Lordships have agreed to the Bill concerning the preventing the Questions about this Parliament, &c. with a Proviso and Amendment, wherein their Lordships desire their Concurrence.
Answer from thence.
Mr. Hobart and Mr. Glascock return with this Answer from the House of Commons to a Message sent on Saturday last:
That they concur and agree with this House, in the Order sent down concerning the Duke of Bucks.
(Here enter it.
Message to the H. C. for Committees to meet, about the King being proclaimed.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by the Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Baron:
To let them know, that this House hath resolved, That His Majesty shall be proclaimed "King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, and all the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging:" And that this House hath nominated a Committee of Four Lords, to meet this Afternoon, at Four of the Clock, in the Prince's Lodgings, to consider of the Manner, Time, and Form, of the same; and that the House of Commons will appoint a Committee of a proportionable Number of the House of Commons, to join with their Lordships: To which Purpose, these (fn. 1) Lords following were named. Committees:
Ly. Jermyn and Long, about the Chancery Records.
Upon Report from the Committee for Petitions, concerning the Records of the Chancery to be taken out of Mr. Walter Long's Hands, until the Business depending between him and the Lady Jermin be decided:
It is ORDERED, That this Business between him and the said Lady shall be heard To-morrow in the Afternoon, before the Lords Committees for Petitions; and their Report thereof to be made to this House on Wednesday Morning.
Answer from the H. C.
The Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Baron return with this Answer from the House of Commons:
That they do concur with their Lordships in the whole Message concerning the Proclaiming of His Majesty; and they have nominated a Committee of their House, of a proportionable Number, to meet this Afternoon, as is desired.
ORDERED, That the Earl of Exeter be added to the Committee, to prepare a Bill for the constituting General Monck Captain General.
Answers from the H. C.
Mr. Hobart and Mr. Glascock return with this Answer from the House of Commons:
That they will send an Answer, by Messengers of their own, concerning the Marquis of Winchester's Order.
Mr. Eltonhead and Mr. Hobart return with this Answer from the House of Commons:
That they do agree with their Lordships in the Proviso and Alteration in the Bill concerning preventing the Questions and Disputes concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament.
General Montague, Leave to send an Answer to the King:
A Letter from General Mountague, at Sea, was read; and ORDERED, That the Speaker of this House do write a Letter to General Mountague, to give him Thanks from this House, for his Respects to this House; and to let him know, that this House do give General Monck and him Leave to send such an Answer, either jointly or severally, as they think fit, to His Majesty.
The Letter followeth:
Letter from him, desiring Leave to do so.
"My Lord,
"This Morning I received His Majesty's most Gracious Declaration, dated 4/14; of April, 1660, and a Letter of the same Date, directed to General Monke and myself, to be communicated to the Fleet; the which I have done accordingly: And it being the Desire of all the Commanders, Officers, and Seamen of the Fleet here, that his Excellency the Lord General Monke and myself should express unto His Majesty their great Joyfulness of Heart, for His said Gracious Declaration and Purpose expressed toward them in the said Letter, as also their Loyalty and Duty to Him, I humbly entreat your Lordship's Favour to understand, whether it be your Pleasure that such an Answer be returned unto His Majesty. Remaining,
Nazeby, in The Downes, 4 May 1660.
"My Lord,
"Your Lordship's
"Most humble and faithful Servant,
"E. Mountagu."
Poors Money.
ORDERED, That the Sub-committee for Privileges do consider how the Money collected for the Poor at the late Fast shall be disposed of; and report the same to the House.
Declaration against Tumults, Riots, &c.
"The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament having received several Informations, that there hath been divers Tumults, Riots, Outrages, and Misdemeanors lately committed, in sundry Parts of this Realm, by unquiet and discontented Spirits, to the Disturbance of the Public Peace, and Fomenting of new Troubles, do hereby order and declare, That all Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Constables, and other Ministers of Public Justice, that were in Office the 25th Day of April, 1660, shall be continued in their respective Offices, and shall exercise the same in the King's Majesty's Name and Style, and shall use their best Endeavours to suppress and prevent all Riots, Tumults, unlawful Assemblies, and Misdemeanors whatsoever, against the Laws and Peace of this Realm, and all treasonable and seditious Words, Reports, and Rumours, against His Majesty's Royal Person and Authority; and proceed against all Offenders therein according to Law and Justice. And all Military Officers and Soldiers, and all others, are to be aiding and assisting to them therein."
Order for staying Waste on the D. of Bucks' Lands, and for stopping the Rents in the Tenants Hands.
"That the Duke of Buckingham having had his Estate sequestered and sold, not only without the Concurrence of the House of Lords, but also against their Vote of Indemnity sent down to the House of Commons in his Behalf, and that his being in Arms was in his Minority: The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, conceiving his Case to be singular, have ordered, That there be a Stop and Stay of demolishing, or defacing of, or committing Waste in, the Houses and Lands, or any of them, whereof the Duke of Buckingham, or Katherine late Dutchess of Bucks his Mother, or either of them, was or were seised, in Possession or Reversion, the First Day of July, 1651; and that no Timber or Woods be selled, or cut down, of any of the said Lands, or any Part thereof; and that no Wood or Timber selled, and now remaining thereon, be taken away, or removed from the same Lands; and that all the Rents of the said Lands be stopped in the Tenants Hands respectively, and a Stay and Stop is hereby made accordingly; and this to continue till the Pleasure of both Houses be further signified concerning the same: And all Persons whom it may concern are hereby required to yield Obedience to this Order."
A Letter was read, from the Portugall Ambassador, thus directed,
Letter from the Portuguese Ambassador, concerning Antonio Vas.
"For the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament.
"Right Honourable Lords,
"I received an Order from your Lordships, by the Gentleman Usher of that House, upon last Friday, about one Antonio Vas, a Priest, and a Subject of His Majesty the King my Master, and a domestic Servant of my House. This being a Matter already resolved upon by this last Parliament and Council of State, who were pleased to deliver him up unto me after he hath once made his Escape from my House, considering the Reasons I then presented unto them, whereof I send your Lordships the very Copy inclosed. And acquainting His Majesty with the Parliament's and Council's Proceedings, His Majesty was graciously pleased to write a Letter of Thanks unto the Parliament of England, which was accordingly delivered and read; whereof I also send here the Copy inclosed. And from the Parliament I had this Answer, "That the Prisoner was my own, and I might remit him when I pleased;" so that I intended to carry him along with me, having made up a Treaty with the yet Council of State. But, having new Orders from His Majesty to continue here, and sending the Treaty over by One of His Majesty's Ministers, I do desire of your Honours, that it may be put in Execution what His Majesty desired of the Parliament; that is, the Security and Transportation of the said Antonio Vas to Portugall, of which the Security of Portugall depends, and consequently the Interest of England. And in Conclusion I represent unto your Lordships Three Things:
"The First, That this Petition is most false, for I am not, nor never was a Member of the Inquisition; neither this Man is guilty of any Crime besides High Treason, and to have Intelligence with the Castillians; which I affirm unto your Lordships, in the Name of the King my Master, to be so.
"Secondly, That this said Antonio Vas was with Don Fernando Telles, who betrayed the Embassage of the King in Holland, with a general Scandal to all Europe, betraying the Public Faith and Law of Nations; so that, these dangerous Times, this Man being guilty of Treason, and having once run away, it would prove very prejudicial unto me any other Resolution. And I am not to expect that my Ruin should be the Reward of what I deserve from the English Nation.
"Thirdly, That this is a Matter already resolved, and now only suggested by one Marcas Dias, who hath a Hand in this Man's Escape from my House; and is a Traitor banished out of Portugall, and daily endeavours with great Sums of Money to bribe my Servants to give Intelligence to Castile of what I act here; which is very prejudicial to both States: Which I have endured, only not to seem troublesome to your Lordships, who now are (fn. 2) employed in greater Things.
"I hope that the Clearness and Verity of this short Narrative will satisfy your Lordships, as Justice and Law of Nations do secure me; and myself in particular shall study to deserve of your Lordships, whom God Almighty protect."
From my House in Wildestreet, 17/7; of April, 1660.
Adjourn.
House adjourned till 9a cras.