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1 March 1643 -- Petition of the Hon. Robert Fane, Petitioner, who is a student in the Middle Temple, prays that a pass may be granted him to go to his sister's, the Lady Elizabeth Cope's house at Bruerne.

1 March 1643 -- Request of Sir Edward Rodney, for liberty to visit his family in the Old Palace Yard.

1 March 1643 -- Draft Report of the Committee to whom was referred the cause between Lady Leventhorpe and Thomas Holford.

Annexed:

1 Affidavit of Edward Lyndsell that he was unable to find Mr Holford, and served the order for the hearing upon one of his servants.

1 March 1643 -- Petition of divers of the inhabitants of Lewisham, in the county of Kent. Notwithstanding an order that Mr John Bachiler should preach a weekly lecture in the parish church of Lewisham, he has been much molested by Mr Abraham Calfe, the vicar.

1 March 1643 -- Copy of preceding.

2 March 1643 -- Two draft reports from the Committee for assessing Lords in Northamptonshire and Rutland.

2 March 1643 -- Draft resolutions of Lords and Commons upon the King's "Proclamation forbidding all his loving subjects of the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, to raise any forces without His Majesty's consent, or to enter into any association or protestation for the assistance of the rebellion against His Majesty."

Annexed:

1 Printed copy of the Proclamation.

2 March 1643 -- Order for the repayment of £700 to Mr Stephens and others, advanced by them for the equipment of Sir William Waller's army.

3 March 1643 -- Order for a trial of the coin in the pix in the Mint by a sufficient jury.

3 March 1643 -- Petition of Aurelian Townsend. Is threatened with arrest by Isaac Tulley, silkman, from whom he ordered silk and silver fringes for Lord Kinalmeaky.

3 March 1643 -- Ordinance for raising money for the maintenance of the Parliament army.

3 March 1643 -- Ordinance for the security of those advancing money towards the £60,000 to be raised in London.

3 March 1643 -- Order for the payment of £794 to the Lord Say and Seale for the household expenses of the King's children at St James'.

3 March 1643 -- Order for all merchants to perfect their entries in the Custom house.

3 March 1643 -- Order for the Spanish merchants concerning the ship "St Clair."

3 March 1643 -- Order for sequestering the living of St Andrew's Wardropp, London.

3 March 1643 -- Order for sequestering the living of St Alban's, Wood Street, London.

3 March 1643 -- Order for sequestering the living of St Mary Magdalen, near Old Fish Street, London.

3 March 1643 -- Order for sequestering the living of Bassishaw, London.

3 March 1643 -- Order for sequestering the living of Rayne, Essex.

4 March 1643 -- Petition of Captain David Forrest, executor of the will of David Ramsey. Prays that Fabian Philips may be ordered to account for the profits of the office of Philizer for the city of London.

4 March 1643 -- Copy of the Speaker's letter to the Lord General, concerning the molesting and searching of the Duke of Vendosme on his journey to Oxford.

4 March 1643 -- Order for the muster of the trained bands, and volunteers at Taunton.

4 March 1643 -- Order to compel the soldiers at Taunton to do their duty, and for a watch to be set there.

4 March 1643 -- Ordinance explaining certain things in the ordinance for the weekly assessment.

6 March 1643 -- List of Committee appointed by the Lords to confer with the Commons about the King's answers.

6 March 1643 -- Application for a pass for Mr George Sanderson, one of the Count of Egmont's gentlemen, to go to Paris.

Annexed:

1 Draft pass for ---- to go beyond seas.

6 March 1643 -- Order for the payment of £1,000, with consideration to the executors of the late Lord Brooke, which sum was formerly lent to the Parliament.

6 March 1643 -- Order for Mr Samuel Cordewell to carry saltpetre and other materials necessary for the making of gunpowder to his works near Guildford.

6 March 1643 -- Order for raising money for the relief of maimed soldiers and their families.

7 March 1643 -- Application for a pass for Lady Stafford to go to Oxford.

7 March 1643 -- Message from the Commons concerning a committee to consult with the Lord General about the cessation of arms.

7 March 1643 -- Order for entrenching and fortifying the city of London.

7 March 1643 -- Petition of John Vanhaesdoncke; complains that the inhabitants of Holme and Thornham, Norfolk, have pulled down the fences of certain reclaimed lands in the salt marshes there.

8 March 1643 -- Resolution insisting upon the nomination of the Earl of Northumberland and the Viscount Say and Seale, as committees to be sent to His Majesty.

8 March 1643 -- Applications for passes for Sir Henry St George, Mrs Gerrard, and others.

8 March 1643 -- Petition of Thomas Overman and John Hardwicke against John Doughty, with reference to proceedings in a writ of error.

8 March 1643 -- Copy of preceding.

Annexed:

1 Petition of John Doughty that the cause may be speedily heard.

8 March 1643 -- Printed copy of the King's proclamation forbidding all assessing, collecting, and paying of the twentieth part, and of all weekly taxes, by colour of orders or ordinances, and all entering into protestations and associations against His Majesty.

8 March 1643 -- Certificate from Sir Charles Morgan, colonel of a regiment of foot, under the Lords, Estates, and Governor of Bergen-op-Zoom, to let the bearers, belonging to Captain Floyd's company hindrance.

8 March 1643 -- Copy of a warrant from Lord Rivers and others [Commissioners of Array], for the seizing and sequestering of the goods of all persons within the city or county of Chester, who have or shall aid or abet the rebellion.

9 March 1643 -- Application for a pass for Lady Isabella Thynne to go to Oxford.

9 March 1643 -- Application for a pass for two officers of the Wardrobe to go to Oxford.

9 March 1643 -- Pass for Valentine Wanley to go to Holland.

9 March 1643 -- Pass for John Daintrey and Joseph Atkinson, servants to His Majesty, to go to Oxford with necessaries for His Majesty's use.

9 March 1643 -- Message from the Commons with votes respecting the marching of the Lord General, etc.

10 March 1643 -- Pass for Sir Theodore Mayherne to go into Holland with his wife, family, and goods, and for Lady Mayherne to send a trunk there without being searched.

11 March 1643 -- Petition of Henry Noel, second son of the Lord Viscount Campden, touching his imprisonment by direction of the Lord Grey.

11 March 1643 -- Petition of Thomas Moyser, Prays for further time to assign errors in the writ of error depending between him and Ashton Nuttall and others.

Annexed:

1 Copy of order for petitioner to assign errors.

2 Affidavit of Thomas Moyser that the county of York, where petitioner's house is, is now in such great trouble that he is unable to go or send thither for his writings.

3 Another petition of Moyser to Edward Earl of Manchester; prays his Lordship to procure him further time to assign errors, as he has had his house plundered.

13 March 1643 -- Petition of Thomas Coningsbie, High Sheriff of the county of Hertford. Petitioner's wife and children coming to town in their coach, one Gregson took away two of his horses by power of some warrant, but contrary to the ordinance.

Annexed:

1 Petition of same.

13 March 1643 -- Order for sequestering the living of St Bennett's Shenhog [Sherehog], London.

13 March 1643 -- Order for sequestering the living of Kirke Burton, in the county of York.

13 March 1643 -- Order for sequestering the living of Cranbrook, Kent.

13 March 1643 -- Order for the payment of £500 for the supply and relief of Duncannon Fort.

13 March 1643 -- Order allowing a third part of all prizes taken by the King's ships to the officers and seamen, and of those taken by merchants, one third to the officers and seamen, and one third to the owners.

14 March 1643 -- The humble petition and remonstrance of Henry Noel, second son of the Lord Viscount Campden. Details at great length the circumstances of the attack upon his house at Luffenham, in the county of Rutland, by the forces under Lord Grey.

Annexed:

1 Letter from William Atton, at Brooke, (Viscount Campden's house) to Thomas Noel. There are forces at Wickham which have seized upon all my Lord's and Mr Henry Noel's stock there, and have entered their houses and grounds.

2 Petition of Henry Skipwith; petitioner coming as a friend and near kinsman to visit Mr Henry Noel in the county of Rutland, was there taken with Mr Noel by Lord Grey and sent prisoner to London.

[14 March 1643] -- Copy of the letter sent from the Speaker to the Mayor and aldermen of Bristol, to thank them for their activity in the service of Parliament.

14 March 1643 -- Application for a pass for Francois de Lizola, the Emperor's agent, to go to Oxford.

14 March 1643 -- Draft order to seize the estates of delinquents concerned in the late conspiracy at Bristol.

15 March 1643 -- Petition of Thomas Nettervill, prisoner in Wood Street Compter. Prays that he may be released upon bail.

15 March 1643 -- Petition of Thomas Horth, merchant, and others, owners of the ship "Mayflower" of Yarmouth. The ship having set sail for the Straits was by contrary winds driven into Falmouth, and was there made stay of by Sir Nicholas Slanyng for His Majesty.

15 March 1643 -- Petition of Anne Heycock, widow. Complains that John Tunbridge, her neighbour, by an encroachment, has interfered with the completion of her house now in course of construction in St Clement's parish.

Annexed:

1 Copy of report of Lord Maltravers and Inigo Jones upon the encroachments.

15 March 1643 -- Application from the French Ambassador that three days may be granted to him to deliver in his reasons why the Capuchin Friars at Denmark House should not be sent away.

16 March 1643 -- Petition of Edward Hudson, clerk. Prays to be recommended for the living of Chartham, Kent.

16 March 1643 -- List of committee to whom preceding petition was referred.

16 March 1643 -- Petition of Ralph Freke. Prays that a pass may be granted to him to go into Wiltshire where his estate lies.

16 March 1643 -- Application of John Holland and Thomas Skynner to the Earl of Manchester, for a pass to go to Oxford about the business of the merchant adventurers.

16 March 1643 -- Draft order for protection of the house and goods of William Savill, servant to the Earl of Rutland.

17 March 1643 -- Information of Thomas Wells and others of seditious words spoken by Edmund Rayner, of Lambeth, against the King.

17 March 1643 -- Information of George Fuller and others, of blasphemous words spoken by Edmund Cheesman, waterman.

17 March 1643 -- Petition of John Kayes, minister of the Gospel and lecturer of St Nicholas Acons, London. Prays to be recommended for the living of Sundridge, Kent.

17 March 1643 -- Application for a pass for Lord Stanhope and his family to go into France.

17 March 1643 -- Draft order for passes for Robert Buchanan and Thomas Edwards, yeomen of the wine cellar to His Majesty to go to Oxford.

17 March 1643 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Malet, one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench. Prisoner in the Tower. Prays that he may have leave to go abroad with his keeper and return to his prison every night.

18 March 1643 -- Order for a pass to be granted to William Hustler, sadler to Prince Charles, to go to Oxford with two saddles, with their furniture, for the Prince and the Duke of York.

Annexed:

1 Copy of the pass.

2 Petition of William Hustler. Has been arrested at the suit of Ingram and his wife, and remains a prisoner in the Poultry Counter, notwithstanding the pass which had been granted to him.

Some documents may have been removed from this file to the Parchment Collection, the Large Parchments or the Parchment Main Papers. Where this has occurred it is noted in brackets in the descriptions above. Please see relevant entries in the Parchment Collection (HL/PO/JO/10/2), Large Parchments (HL/PO/JO/10/3) or Parchment Main Papers (HL/PO/JO/10/4) for further details.

See Journals of the House of Lords for the same date for entries relating to the laying of these papers.

Calendared in HMC 5th Report, pp 75-77