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15 April 1645 -- Petition of Nicholas Ryter, commander of the ship called the Golden Sun, which belongeth to the King's Majesty of Denmark Petitioner prays for the releasement of the ship and goods.

15 April 1645 -- Answer of John Earl of Bridgewater to the petition of Lady Alice Hastings.

15 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance to clear James Altham, of Marshall [Markshall], Essex, of his delinquency.

15 April 1645 -- Another draft.

15 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance to clear Christopher Rose, of Cambridge, of his delinqueney.

16 April 1645 -- List of Committee appointed to consider the ordinance for making Mr Philip Goodwin, minister at Watford, and Dr Burges, lecturer at St Paul's.

16 April 1645 -- Draft order appointing Sir Thomas Fairfax Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull.

16 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance to clear Sir Richard Stone of his delinquency.

16 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance to clear John Clark, Alderman of Coventry, of his Coventry, of his delinquency.

16 April 1645 -- Draft order for the payment of £3,000 to the forces under Major-General Langhorne.

16 April 1645 -- Draft order for the Commissioners of Excise to repay themselves £2,000 advanced for the garrison at Abingdon.

16 April 1645 -- Draft order granting a pass to the States Ambassadors.

17 April 1645 -- Paper respecting orders touching the hearing of the charge of the Earl of Denbigh against some of the Committee of Staffordshire.

17 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance to clear Sir Humphrey Forster of his delinquency.

17 April 1645 -- Petition of Lady Anne Forster, wife of Sir Humphrey Forster, Bart. Has long lived at a distance from her husband, on account of his harsh usage; Prays that in the ordinance for clearing her husband of his delinquency a special proviso may be inserted saving to her a fifth part of his estate.

Annexed:

1 Copy of order referred to in preceding.

2 Draft proviso to be inserted in the ordinance.

18 April 1645 -- Petition of John Tylson. Served the State as Commissary General for horse in the army under the command of the Earl of Manchester. Was arrested and is now imprisoned in the Gatehouse, there being no action of real debt brought against him.

18 April 1645 -- Draft letter from both Houses to the Queen of Sweden. Proposes that some indifferent place may be appointed where Commissioners from the Kingdoms of England and Sweden "may meet with ample power to treat, agree, and conclude upon the mutual conditions of that intended more strict alliance."

18 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for an allowance to be paid to the garrison at Portsmouth.

18 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance to clear Sir Richard Norton of his delinquency.

18 April 1645 -- Resolutions of the Commons, respecting the guardianship of the King's children.

19 April 1645 -- Petition of Sir Thomas Walsingham, respecting his suit against Sir John Baker.

19 April 1645 -- Draft order upon preceding.

19 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the Committee of both Kingdoms to grant commissions to all such governors, captains, etc. as shall be approved of by Parliament.

19 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance concerning the Middlesex Militia.

19 April 1645 -- Draft of the Oath to be taken by waiters, etc. for Customs, and Excise.

19 April 1645 -- Draft order for Sir Henry Vane, senior, to be added to the Committee with the Scots' Army.

19 April 1645 -- Draft order for the payment of £2,000 for supply of the urgent necessities of the Prince Elector.

19 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the Assembly of Divines to appoint a minister for Howden, York.

19 April 1645 -- Draft order for the payment of £3,000 per annum, to the Earl of Northumberland, as Governor of the King's children.

19 April 1645 -- Draft order appointing John Fielder, Governor of Farnham Castle.

19 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance appointing a Committee for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports.

21 April 1645 -- Petition of Sir John Baker by way of defence to the petition of Sir Thomas Walsingham.

22 April 1645 -- Petition of Daniel Farvax and Isaac Le Gay, merchants, respecting the hearing of their cause against Jhannes.

Annexed:

1 Copy of preceding.

2 Another copy.

3 Another petition.

4 Copy of order in the cause.

22 April 1645 -- Report from the Committee for the Admiralty respecting the command of the Fleet.

22 April 1645 -- Draft order respecting the ordnance for the train of Artillery under Sir Thomas Fairfax.

23 April 1645 -- Draft order for the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London to present the name of a fit person to be Lieutenant of the Tower.

23 April 1645 -- Petition of James Acheson, Lieutenant-Colonel. Prays for discharge, having been arrested for a debt which he is unable to pay for want of his arrears.

23 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance appointing Philip Goodwin vicar of Watford, and Dr Burges Public Lecturer of St. Paul's.

23 April 1645 -- Printed copy of preceding, etc.

23 April 1645 -- Petition of Thomas Turner, mariner. Prays that he may be freed from arrest until his cause against Cooper and Wilgrice shall be heard.

24 April 1645 -- Petition of Anne Blake, wife of William Blake. Prays that a commission may be issued for the examination of certain witnesses in Somersetshire, in her cause against Rolfe.

Annexed:

1 Copy of order referring the cause to the Lords in Parliament, and calling upon Mr Goodwin, a Member of the House of Commons, to waive his privilege.

2 Statement by Mr Goodwin that Mr Blake pretended that she could not proceed to a hearing of her cause on account of his privilege.

24 April 1645 -- Application to the Earl of Pembroke to move for an order in the matter between the Lady Alice Hastings and the Earl of Bridgewater.

24 April 1645 -- Application for a warrant for restoring a grey gelding belonging to Sir John Conyers taken away by a Parliament officer.

24 April 1645 -- Petition of William Wombwell, one of the waiters of the House. Petitioner was surveyor and searcher at the Custom House, but was dismissed without any cause Prays to be recommended to the Committee of the Navy either to allow him his salary, or to put him into his former place.

24 April 1645 -- Draft order for pistols, etc. to be furnished to the Horse of Colonel Beher's, and Colonel Dolbier's regiments.

24 April 1645 -- Another draft.

24 April 1645 -- Draft order recommending Colonel Witchcott to be Governor of Windsor Castle.

24 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance to prevent pressed men from deserting.

24 April 1645 -- Affidavit of Philip Holditch, that he served their Lordships' order for the release of Thomas Edwards, servant to the Earl of Suffolk, upon the Committee of Shropshire.

25 April 1645 -- Petition of Nicholas Loftus, Deputy Treasurer-at-Wars for Ireland. Prays for protection against Captain Christopher Whitscott, who sues petitioner for £280 for twenty butts of sack supplied to Colonel Audley Mervyn.

25 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for raising £5,000 for the forces under Sir William Brereton.

25 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the Commissioners of Excise to repay themselves £2,000 advanced for the forces in Lancashire.

25 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the Commissioners of Excise to repay themselves £2,000 advanced for the garrison of Abingdon.

25 April 1645 -- Draft order appointing Deputy-Lieutenants of the town of Northampton.

25 April 1645 -- Another draft.

25 April 1645 -- Petition of William Lord Boteler, and Edward Lord Howard, committee to the said Lord Boteler. Complain that the Earl of Salisbury has brought actions of debt against James Harrow and others, who have bought part of the timber felled by petitioners in certain coppice woods in the parish of Hatfield.

26 April 1645 -- Petition of the workmen lately employed for repairing St Paul's Church, London. Divers sums of money are due to petitioners for work done to the church.

26 April 1645 -- Statement as to the arms for which the Earl of Salisbury has been assessed by the assessors in Hertfordshire.

26 April 1645 -- Report of Mr Justice Bacon upon the causes of the imprisonment of Colonel Keyes [Kay].

Annexed:

1 Copy of the order referring the matter to Mr Justice Bacon.

26 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for raising £2,300 for the forces in Gloucestershire.

26 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance respecting the £10,000 advanced by the Merchant Adventurers.

26 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the Commissioners of Excise to repay themselves £500 advanced for the Lord General's Life Guard.

27 April 1645 -- Letter from Ri. Warde to Thomas Webb, Secretary to the Duke of Richmond and Lenox; met his letter on returning to Exeter from a journey for settling the excise in the county. He cannot send any account concerning the license of white cloths, as, on account of the enemy's garrisons at Taunton and Lyme, no white cloths have been brought from Somersetshire, Witshire, and Gloucestershire.

28 April 1645 -- Draft order that Sir Thomas Fairfax and Serjeant Major-General Skippon shall both march with the army for the relief of Taunton.

28 April 1645 -- Petition of the poor freemen of Coventry, tenants of the lands and tenements belonging to the Free Grammar School in that city. Complain of the hardship suffered by them at the hands of the Corporation.

28 April 1645 -- Petition of Philip Lord Herbert, and others. Pray for a revival of their suit against the Duke of Lennox, and Bevill Wimberley, concerning Sutton Marsh.

28 April 1645 -- Draft order of the Commons for Sir Wilfrid Lawson to be High Sheriff of Cumberland.

28 April 1645 -- Copy of letter from Colonel Oliver Cromwell to the Committee of both Kingdoms.

29 April 1645 -- Petition of Thomas Herbert, one of the Commissioners for the Army, respecting his acceptance of the executorship of the will of the late Henry Alexander.

29 April 1645 -- Affidavit of Thomas Herbert, that he is forthwith to attend the Parliament Army now ready to march, and that he cannot attend any suit or private business of his own in London.

29 April 1645 -- Draft orders appointing Brampton Gurdon, Jun., Deputy-Lieutenant for Suffolk, etc.

29 April 1645 -- Draft order appointing a Committee to draw up an answer to the letter of the Earl of Leven, General of the Scots Army.

29 April 1645 -- Draft order for taking the sequestration off the parks, house, and lands of Sir John Hamilton, in the county of Middlesex.

29 April 1645 -- Ordinance for the relief of maimed soldiers, etc.

29 April 1645 -- Copy of preceding.

29 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the payment of £2,000 for the garrison at Taunton.

29 April 1645 -- Draft order appointing a Committee for sequestering the estates of delinquents in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

29 April 1645 -- Draft order for the Commissioners of Excise to repay themselves £250 advanced to Sir John Temple.

29 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the repayment of £5000 advanced by Nathan Wright, and Francis Lenthall, for the defence of Plymouth, etc.

29 April 1645 -- Ordinance appointing John White Rector Lambeth.

29 April 1645 -- Copy of preceding.

29 April 1645 -- Petition of Samuel Carlton, Lieutenant-Colonel, for protection against his creditors.

29 April 1645 -- Certificate of Sir Edward Leech, John Page, and Dr Heath, three of the Masters of the Chancery, and Auditors Philipps and Povey to whom it was referred to examine the account between John Latch and Sir Abraham Dawes.

Annexed:

1 Copy of the account upon which the preceding certificate was grounded.

2 Copy of order referring the matter to the above-named referees.

30 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the Commissioners of Excise to repay themselves £500 advanced for the forces in Worcestershire.

30 April 1645 -- Draft ordinance for the repayment of the £10,000 advanced for the service of the West.

30 April 1645 -- Certificate of [Sir] Gilbert Gerrard and [Sir] Francis Knollys, that Henry Morris has always lived in as good repute as any of his condition in his parish.

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 6th Report, pp 54-57