that have heard their discourse, supposing they have spoken of Prince Charles or
the like, It is thought fit to have this published, for perhaps hereby some more of
them may be discovered and apprehended.
But as the Councell this day said in the Lord Capels case, it is not alike [unr] cases
so parallel actions by the events, as when King Rules bad one of his subjects to
shoot at a Deer, and by accident he killed a man, the King condemned him not for
the murther, &c. Saturday 17 Feb.
AN Act passed the Commons concerning Sheriffes. That to the end that there day be [unr]
of proceedings in any part of the Kingdome, through the want of a Sheriffe, [unr] pride of
the old Sheriffes shall be expired, and not in all places new ones settled. That therefore by the authority
of this Act it is Enacted, That all the old Sheriffes in every respective place, both of them
shal continue notwithstanding the expiration of their former Commission, until such those [unr]
shall new Sheriffes be placed in their roomes.
And another Act also passed concerning Justices of peace to the end that there shall [unr]
of them in this vacancy, That (in every respective place) all of them shall continue that were [unr]
Commission when the King was put to death, untill new ones be settled.
The Commons passed an Act for settling of the Salaries for the Commissioners
of the great seal 1000 l. a year out of the Revenue And so to the Judges.
This day the high Court of Justice being sat in Westminster Hall, the Lord Capell was brought
to the Bar, and severall Witnesses against him, upon the business of his escape from the [unr].
The Lieutenant of the Tower, and the Warder who had the charge of him in the Tower, gave
in their evidences concerning his escape from thence, over the Wall and the More, and have [unr]
the rope hanging, by which he had escaped downe.
The Watermen also, and the Officer that tooke him, gave in their evidence, how he was discovered
and taken at Lambeth; how he was disguized, and would have perswaded them that they
were mistaken, but being better informed, and satisfied that it was the Lord Capell, they brought
him away to Whitehall,
After him, the Earle of Cambridge was brought to the Barre, his plea was moved by the Councell
for the State, to be made good; but he pleaded, that he had not had time enough to [unr]
with his Councell (nor were any of his Councell there) and againe prayed for longer time, which
was wondered at, that he should still, after so often additionall time, preffe for longer time.
The Earle of Cambridge pleaded that what he did was by Commission from
the Parliament of Scotland, the Commission was produced. It was asked how
the Commission chanced not to be passed under the great Seale. The Earle said
that Commissions (in that Kingdom) do not use to passe the great Seale, but
by Ordinance of Parliament. Divers other papers was produced by him. Severall
witnesses were produced, as his man, one Cile, &c.
The Earle of Cambridge pleads his Authority from the Parliament of
Scotland, his comming in to be for brotherly assistance, as at the first; and the
Articles of mercy; all which were argued.
He also produced Master Peters the Minister, who was brought in as a witnesse
about the Articles, and other passages, when he surrendred at Utoxeter;
of which Master Peters made a large Narrative.
The Councell of State being finished, sate this day in order to their Setling,
with the Commons, this day completed; the place of meeting is to be Darby
House; their time is to be for a yeare after this present. The Answer to the
Scots Papers was againe brought in and debated.
The Chiefe passages this week are,
The Tryall of Duke Hambleton, and the Lord Capel on Saturday last, And of [unr]
Lord Goring, and Sir John Owen, on Friday last: The sitting of the Councell of State
at Derby House, on Saturday last. The Parliaments Answer to the Scots Papers. A [unr]
plot discovered in London, of two or three hundred Listed under a now Prince, D[unr] of
them taken and sent to severall prisons. A Message to Prince Charles, And how he sell down
dead, when be heard of the King his Fathers death.
FINIS.