imbodyed in any division, circuit, province, &c. may chuse and send
out some delegates. members, officers, to meet in one Session, lesser Parliament,
Presbytery or Assembly, for ordering all such affairs as there
occur, according to the word, if appertaining alone to that division.
5. That all such Churches, and the Members thereof, have voyces
in Flections of such as are to sit in Generall Assemblies or Church-Parliament
(so often as occasion is) and those elected to fit there as
Christs Officers, and the Churches Representatives, and to determine
all things by the Word, as that Law that God will exalt alone,
and make honorable.
6. That you take speciall care to send out and incourage godly
Preachers, that may go into the rest of the Kingdome to preach the
Gospel, that so when others are converted, and the Son of God
makes them free, they may enjoy the former freedoms with the rest
of the Saines.
Saturday, Feb. 17.
This day the High court of Jostice fate againe in Westminster- hall
the Lord Capell was first brought to the Bar and severall witnesses examined
concerning his escape out of the Tower, viz, Col. West Lieut.
of the Tower. Lawxnll Hall, Lewis Davis, Sachary Standard, Lieute.
of Robert Muunings, and Nathaniell Rannock, Marsnall, who clearely
proved his escape, and the manner of it: The Lord Capell pleaded that
he did not escape as he was a prisoner of War, but as he was sent to the
Tower in another condition. The Court resolved to take this plea into
consideration, and the prisoner was withdrawne.
This day the Earl of Cambridge being btought to the Bar, he first
urged, that the Councel which were assigned to him, could not be ready
to plead, by reason of their not having longer warning; and that
it was not proper for them to plead in matter of Law, till the fact was
proved: After this, the Court declaring, that he had been often moved
to make his defence, he proceeded in it and first he produced his Commission
from the Parliament of Scotland, to command all the forces of
that kingdom; after that the order of the command all the forces of
that Kingdom; after that the order of the Committee of Estates for
his march into England; and then the latge Printed Declaration from
Scotland, of the ground of their Armies advance into England, was produced
and read, the Earl pleading the ends of it being for his Majesties
honor, the settling of Religion, and Covenant: he also pleaded the