A Petition was presented by some of Lievt, Col. Iohn Lilburns friendsting
froth that one of his Children lately dyed of the small pox, and that his wife
is very sick, And therefore pray that he may have liberty, o visit his family, when
upon the house gave instructions to Col. West Lievt of the Tower, that he take
security for him, and admit him to go to his own house.
Mr. Abbot was discharged of the office of Register to the Prerogative Court,
and Mr. Os worth and Mr. Parker; Ordered to have a Pattent thereof, under the
Great Seal of England.
A Letter came from the Lord Lievtenant of Ireland dated at Bristoll, desiring
that hast may be made for sending down unto him Ammunition and other necessaries
for the service of the present expedition promised. In this Letter his Lordship
gives an account of his present proceedings in relation to that undertaking and
of the drawing most of his forces to the water sideready to take shipping. This Letter
was referred to the Councell of State to take care that those things, which his
Lordship wrote for may speedily be sent unto him,
Tuesday July 17.
THe house past an act declaring what shall be adjudged Treason, which being
of generall concernment, and yet not very long I shall here give it you
verbatim.
WHereas the Parliament hath abolished the Kingly Office in England and
Ireland and in the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging; and
having resolved and declared, That the People shall for the future be Governed
by its own Representatives or Nationall Meetings in Councell, chosen and entrusted
by them for that purpose, hath setled the Government in the way of a common-wealth
and Free-State without king or House of Lords: Be it enacted by
this present Parliament, and by the authority of the same, that if any person shall
maliciously or advisedly publish, by writing Printing or openly declaring that the
said Government is Tvrannicall Usurped or Unlawfull; or that the commons in
Parliament assembled are not the Supreme authority of this Nation; or shall plot
contrive or endeavour to stir up, or raise force against the present Government, or
for the subversion or Alteration of the same and shal declare the same by an open
deed, that then every such Offence shall be taken, deemed and adjudged by authority
of this present Parliament to be High Treason. That if any per-son not being
an Officer, Soldier, or Member of the Army, shall plot, contrive or endeavour
to stir up any Mutiny in the said Army, or withdraw any Souldiers or Officers
from their obedience to their Superiour Officers or from the present Government
as aforesaid; or shall procure invite ayd or assist any Forraigners or Strangers to
Invade England or Ireland or shall adhere to any forces raised by the Enemies
of the Parliament or Common-wealth, or Keepers of the Liberty of England; or
if any person shall counterfeit the great Seal of England, for the time being used