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Mercurius politicus, Number 368, 18th-25th June 1657 E.195[18]

the Forest or Chase of Kings wood, and the Forest or Chase of Ashdown,
there read and agreed to.
Report was made of Amendments to the Bill for punishing of such
persons as live as high rates, and have no visible Estates, Profession.
Of Calling to maintain the same; which were twice read, and agreed
unto and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed.
A Bill for pardoning the Earl of Calmdar and the Lord Cranston,
was ordered to be eng[unr]offed.
A Bill for the stating and Ascertaining the debts upon the Publick
Faith, was read the second time, and Committed, with power to the
Committee, if they finde a difficulty therein, to propound some expedient
way to the House.
Report was made of Amendments to the Bill for Indemnity, which
were twice read; and the Bill so Amended was ordered to be engrossed.
A Bill Entituled, [unr] for preventing the multiplicity of Buildings
in and about the Suburbs of London, and within ten miles thereof,
was read the third time.
A Petition of the Lord Major, Aldermen, and Common Council
of the City of London, being [unr] was read;
The rest of the day the House Spent to debate of the Bill about new
Buildings.
Saturday, June 20.
The House resumed the debate upon the Bill for preventing the
multiplicity of Buidings &c. and spent much time therein. And the
Bill was passed.
Report was made from the Committee to whom the Proviso touching
seame[unr] was referred.
Ordered that the Bill concerning Building be presented to his Highness
the Lord Protector for his consent.
A Letter from his Highness he Lord Protector to Mr. speaker, of
the 19th of June 1657, was this day read, touching the putting off the
the Adjournment of the Parliament till Wednesday or Thursday.
Resolved that no Member of this House do depart out of this Town
from the service [unr] the House, [unr] leave of the House, until Friday
next; upon pepalty of fifty pounds.
That during the sitting of the House in the next week the matters
of money and matter of settlement, shall be first taken into consideration,
and nothing to intervene, and then ingrossed Bells to be read.
Resolved, that the House do sit the next week, both forenoon and afternoon.
Resolved, that the ing[unr]ssed Bill for the [unr] to be read this often
soon; and that the Hundred do [unr]
A Bill entired [unr] or the better observation of the Lords
day, was this day [unr] the third time, and the said Bill upon the question,
with some Amendments passed.
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