of your Agreement, of your 8 years services &c, Truly they may change the
Common-wealth again into a Kingdom, and what not? But some, more hasty
then wise, will lay, The standing Army or Militia will help this; indeed you
must then grant them the supream Power, and grant also, That they cannot
prove corrupt as well as Parliaments; neither of which by any that is solid and
honest can without blemish to his wisdom or honesty aver.This I labour in, not
to perpetuare this Parliament, but to make known, that till the people are pleased
(their burden being all taken off, which in a few moneths will be done unless
continued by themselves,) We must please our selves with what we have, being
thereby secure, rather then please the four people by desiring a change, to
out total and final rine.
Saturday, May 19.
This day the House took into Consideration the Cafes of several Delinquents,
who complained much of the great fines which were laid upon them for their
Delinquency, as not able to pay the same; The House hereupon Voted a Mitigation
of the Fine impoled upon Sir Roger Twisden, being a third part of his
Estate, and Ordered he should pay but a tenth. Likewise Sir Benjamin Ayliffe,
and Sir John Hewet are admitted to Composition at Goldsmiths Hall, and all
those particular Calca appointed for the Consideration of the House for Mitigation,
referred unto the Committee at Goldsmiths Hall, to hear and determine the
same according to the Instructions formerly given them by the House, and all
Delinquents that have compounded with the Committee of Goldsmiths Hall,
and whose Ordinance for Pardon have past both Houses, Ordered forthwith to
pay in their second Moyeties, and not to expect any reivew, and all such whose
Ordinances have past the Commons only, and not the Lords, (except such who
are to have the benefit of Articles.
A Declaration of the Parliament of England, of their just Resentment of the horrid
auber perpetrated on the body of Isaac Dorislaus, Doctor of the Laws, there resident
at the Hague, on the 12 of May, 1649.
Whereas Issac Dorislaus, Doctor of the Laws, and one of the Judges of the high
Court of Admiralty of this Common-wealth, was lately imployed from the
said Common-wealth as their publique Minister to be resident, together with
Walter Strickland Elq; a Member of Parliament, resident there, with the High
and Mighty Lords, The State General of the United Provinces, to whom be had
Credentials and Instructions for maintaining a right Understanding and good
Correspondency between the Nations, according to the ancient Allyances and
Treaties, and was within few days after his arrival there, notwithstanding his
said publique character, barbarously and execrably murdered by armed men,
violently runhing into his lodging; The Parliament of England have thought
fit to Declare, and be it hereby Declared, That they have a very tender sense and
resentment of the said barbarous murdered, of the said Dr. Coriolanus there Resident,
and of the affront and dishonor that is there by done to this Common-wealth;
And although the particular instruments and Actors of this execrable wickedness
are not yet clearly known, which the said Parliament doubt not but the Divine
Justice will in time discover, and being to just and a due punishment;
yet it is sufficiently manifest by their previous threatening, to have proceeded
from that party from whom all the troubles of this Nation have formerly sprung,
she being slaves to that Tyranny from which this Common-wealth hath happily