The House had in consideration the great inconvenience accruing
by delay of justice in the Bishoprick of Durham: and thereupon
ordered that an Act should be drawn up for enabling the Judges who
ride the Northern Circuit, to hold the Assises at Durham, that
justice may be impartially executed. Here we may behold the extraordinary
vigilancy of the high Court of Parliament, who pry into
the very further parts of their Dominions, with an Eagle-sighted
eye to discover injustice: and then with high wisdome redress the
fault, and punish the offenders.
It was ordered by the House upon consideration and debate had
of the great and worthy services done by the Lord President Bradshaw,
for the Publick good: for all which he hath not had any return;
It was ordered that 10 0 pound be paid him immediately,
and that 2000 pounds per annum be setled upon him and his heires;
If Rewards and Honours be the greatest encouragements to vertuous
Actions (as most certainly they be) then is this rightly placed, he
being a man of that gallant Spirit and Resolution, as daunts Envy it
self to repine at him.
From France it is certified by letters, that the coales of the late
Fire of Division, are not yet wholly quenched, though they be covered
with the embers or ashes of dissembled Reconciliation;
for the People murmure, the Souldiers threat, and hardly are kept
from publick contentions, witness the quarrel between some of the
Kings and some of the Parliaments Forces in the Suburbs of Paris
this week: between whom was a skirmish, wherein some were
slain, and some others wounded, which hath much incensed the Parizans
against them: that they begin to think of Libertie and freeing
themselves from their slavish subjection: if they would but take to
them the hearts and courages of men, as well as the shapes, they
would never endure such an intollerable yoke.
Prince Charles hath absolutely refused the Scots Commissioners to
take the Covenant, and tell them that if they will not hearken to
him, which he adviseth them, he is assured of friends enough, by the
strength of whose ayde, with the help of those among themselves
conjoyned he should be setled. Well, bragg on, promises of preferment
are but mean Assurances to build so high upon, and may happen
to prove like a house without a foundation, fail at the least blast, like a
Reed, which if a man lean on, instead of bearing him up, it runs into
his hand, which hither to he has found to be true, and hereafter will
quarenda pecunia primumest: and so long as he wants money he
shall be sure to have Friends few enough.