the said Estates are of considerable value, and that they may not be made away
without advantage to the State, that therefore the Parliament hath passe a this Act.
That all the said goods and estate be inventored, apprized and sold except such
part thereof as shall be kept for the use of the State. That Trustees in the Act
named be appointed for the inquiry, inventoring, apprizing and securing of the said
goods, and personall estate in whole hands they shall find them to be, keeping the
originall Inventories &c. is the Clerke Registers hands duplicates hereof by him
to be returned of them to the Commissioners and Contractors appointed for sale
of them, and the third duplicate to the Treasurers.
That the Treasurers have power to commit to prison &c. And to grant out warrants
&c. Trustees to appoint the Clerk Register, 7d. per pound, for all their pains
allowed, Com. Agents, and Clerk Register to be paid by the Treasurers.
Daniel Normond of the Isle of Jersey Merchant, John Hales of London Merchant,
Clement Kinersly, John Price, Henry Par, and William Allen Gentlemen and Citizens
of London appointed Commissioners and Contractors for sale of the said good; &c.
They to Treat with Merchant adventurers, domestick and forraign, for sale of them
or otherwise they and their Agents &c. to have 5 d. per pound.
Humphrey Jones, and John Hunt Treasurers for receiving the moneys upon sale of
the said goods, and they be allowed 2 d. per pound.
That 30000 l. be lent to the Navy out of the moneys raised by sale of the said
goods &c. And to be repaid againe by them.
Some instructions also for payment of such of the Kings houshold debts, for
clothes and victualls, as shall appear just and equall, as far as it will extend.
Report was made from the Councell of State, for raising of 150000 l. upon the
credit of the Excise for the service of Ireland. The House of Commone sent to the
Lord Major of London to call a Common Councell, and chose a Committee to
treat with the Treasurers of the severall Treasuries, And the same Committee to
Treat with the Common councell for the advance thereof on the morrow.
Upon the report from the Councell of state, also concerning the Letter from
Scotland, The House Voted, that the Letter from the Parliament of Scotland to
William Leuthall Esquire is of such nature that it doth disobliege the Parliament of
England to proceed with Scotland to a treaty; And passed instructions for the Councell
of State to draw up a declara ion upon this and the former Letters, because
this doth cast aspersiens upon the demands of the Letter sent to them, from this
Parliament for a Treaty.
A report was made from Goldsmiths Hall concerning Papists, not out of mercy
in the exceptions though in Armes; two thirds of their Estates belonging to the
State by former Statutes, that they may compound for one moiety of that third
belong to their, but it passed in the negative.
Bristoll, July 3. Sir, We wonder at the slow motion for relief of sadded hearts
in Ireland; if all places and persons answered readily by activity as the necessity we
look upon engages unto us, they would not have been brought to so bad a condition
as we hear they are; Here is provided and in readinesse a thousand and sixty Barrels
of Beer for the Souldiers designed thither; We hear there is other provisions proportioned
in other places, we hope it is as ready that the worke may be no longer
retarded.