Justices, all Officers and Ministers of Justice, for the time being
do administer Justice, and proceed in their respective places and
Offices accordingly, which resolved with the reasons thereof, shall
be hereafter published in a large Declaration touching the same.
And it is hereby ordered and appointed that this Declaration shall
be forthwith proclaimed in westminister Hall, and at the old Exchange,
and the Judges in their respective Courts at Westminster
and at the first sitting thereof, are to cause this Declaration to bee
publikely read, and the Sherifts in their severall Counties, are to
cause this Declaration to be likewise published.
Hen. Scobel, Cler. Parl, Dom.Com.
Thursday Feb. 8.
ANd to the end that all persons whatsoever may be brought
within the compasse of the Fundamental Laws of the Land, it
was resolved upon the question, That a Committee should be appointed
to draw up an Act for making of the Estates both of the
late members of the House of Peers, and all members of the house
of Commons liable to Law for the payment of Debts, which is the
chief self-denying Act that hath been brought in since the Parliament
began.
The new great Seal was brought into the House, and approved;
whereupon the old great Seal was likewise brought in by the commissioners,
and in the presence of the House was broken to pieces
by a Smith as the other was formerly in the House of Peers.
Then the House insisted on the choise of Commissioners for this
new Seal, and nominated Mr. Kibble, Mr. whitlocke, and Mr. Lisle.
The House also nominated such persons as they thought sit to be
Justices of Peace in the severall Counties of this Kingdom.
Out of France came letters to this effect. The difference betwixt
the King and the Parl. continues still, and the Cardinal Mazarines
(which is but a stranger, an Italian born) with the Forces for the
King and Queen Regent, had began a Leaguer before the City, stopping
all passages on two sides thereof.
Hereupon the Prince Du Condy (against the Parliament Forces)
went for h with a considerable Briggade of Horse and Foot, and after
a sharp dispute the Prince Du Condy get the worst, and so opened
a fairer passage into the City.
There hath been a Treaty for a pacification of peace, but the