that all the rest of the Fees and Profits of the said Courts shall be answered to
the Commonwealth.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Council of State to examine the whole
business touching the Tumuls which hapned last night in the City of London,
and state matter of Fact, and report their Opinion what is fit to be done therein
and how to prevent the like tumults for the future.
Ordered, That the several Regiments do go to the Quarters formerly directed
by Parliament; and that they continue in those quarters until the Commissioners
for the Army shall see cause to alter the same.
The House according to former order, resumed the debate upon the Qualifications,
and resolved, That this debate be adjourned until tomorrow morning eight of Clock.
Saturday, Feb. 4.
Mr. Speaker according to former order of this House, did after the rising
of the House, deliver the several Commissions to the Officers following viz.
To Colonel Herbert Morley his commission to be colonel of a Regiment of Foot.
To Thomas Whit his commission to be Major.
To Captain Henry Cleare
To Captain Nicholas Shepheard
To Captain William White
To Captain Robert Goffe
To Captain Richard Cunnington
To Captain John Height
Their Commissions to be captains of several companies in the said Regiment.
Together with other commissions to several Lieutenants and Ensignes
Companies in the said Regiment.
Afterward the Speaker taking the Chair, it was ordered, that John Reyner
Esq; be and is nominated and appointed sheriff for the County of Nottingham
and a commission is to pass under the Great Seal accordingly.
Ordered, That Comissioner-General George Monck do attend the Parliament
On Monday morning next, to receive the sence of the Parliament, in relation
to this signal and faithful services; and that Mr. Scot and Mr. Robinson do accompany
the said Commissioner-General George Monck to the Parliament accordingly.
The House this day made a further considerable progress in the Bill of Qualifications
for Members to sit in Parliament, in order to the filling up of the House.
From Sandwich in Kent, Feb. 3.
Here was lately brought into This Town a paper, called, a Declaration of the
Nobility, Gentry, Ministry, and Commonly of the county of Kent; the sum
whereof was, after many touches and retractions couched therein, to the diminution
of the present Parliament, in as good english as if it had been penned
at Brussels, That their desires are for a Full an Free Parliament; not a new
one, for, in the paper they explain themselves to be only for a readmitting
of the old secluded Members, so many as are alive, and that there may be a
free Election of others to supply vacant places, without any Oath previous to
their entrance: which sheweth, that they are not so much for Parliamentary
succession, as for the molding of a Parliament to their own humor.
The old Cavaliers of this County have been very active in putting this paper