The House then ordered that he should have liberty (upon sufficient security,
to return when re-demanded) to go home to his own house; and the Lieutenant
of the Tower was ordered to take security of him accordingly.
A List of the late Kings servants reported. Such as staid here, and went not to
their Master upon his command, may be in some expectation of relief. The business
was so long, that the House broke of the same at present.
July 19.
An Act committed for enabling Commissioners to grant institution and Induction,
upon legal presentations to be Ministry.
Sir John worsenham his Estate discharged of Sequestration; for that he had not
onely the benefit of the Articles of York, but an Ordinance past the Lords, and
transmitted to the Commons for that purpose; in expectation whereof, the hath
not a few yeers depended, to the prejudice of much more then his Composition (if
made presently after his Sequestration.)
The two Lists of the servants belonging to the late King read, and'a Committee
appointed to consider of their necessities, and which are most fit to be first
relieved.
At Act Declaring what Offences shall be Adjudged Treason.
Whereas the Parliament hath Abolished the Kingly Office in England and
Ireland, and in the Dominions and Territories there unto belonging; and
having Resolved and Declared, That the People shall for the future be Governed
by its own Representatives or National Meetings in Councel, Chosen and Entrusted
by them for that purpose, hath setled the Government in the way of a Commonwealth
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 Tyranaical, Usurped or Unlawful; or that the Commons
in Parliament assembled are not the Supreme Authority of this Nations or shall
plot, contrive, or endeavor to stir up, or raise force against the present, Government,
or for the subversion or alteration of the same, and shall declare the same by
any open deed, That then every such offence shall be taken, decaned, and adjudged
by Authority of this Parliament to be high Treason. And whereas The Keepers of
the Liberty of England, and the Councel of State, constituted, and to be from time
to time constituted by Authority of Parliament, are to be under the said Representatives
in Parliament, Entrusted for the maintenance of the said Government, with
several powers and authorities limited, given and appointed unto them by the Parliament;
Be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any person
shall maliciously and advisedly plot, or endeavor the subversion of the said Keepers
of the Liberty of England, or the councel of State, and the same shall declare by any
open deed, or shall move any person or persons for the doing thereof, or stir up
the people to life against them, or either of them, their or either of their authorities,
That then every such Offence or Offences shall be taken, deemed and declared
to be High Treason. And whereas the Parliament, for their just and lawful
defence, hath rassed and levyed the Army and Forces now under the Command
of Thomas Lord Fairfax, and are at present necessitated, by reason of the