Appendix

For the increase of the shipping and the encouragement of the navigation of this nation, which under the good providence and protection of God is so great a means of the welfare and safety of this Commonwealth: be it enacted by this present Parliament, and the authority thereof, that from and after the first day of December, one thousand six hundred fifty and one, and from thence forwards, no goods or commodities whatsoever of the growth, production or manufacture of Asia, Africa or America, or of any part thereof; or of any islands belonging to them, or which are described or laid down in the usual maps or cards of those places, as well of the English plantations as others, shall be imported or brought into this Commonwealth of England, or into Ireland, or any other lands, islands, plantations, or territories to this Commonwealth belonging, or in their possession, in any other ship or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but only in such as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of this Commonwealth, or the plantations thereof, as the proprietors or right owners thereof; and whereof the master and mariners are also for the most part of them of the people of this Commonwealth, under the penalty of the forfeiture and loss of all the goods that shall be imported contrary to this act; as also of the ship (with all her tackle, guns and apparel) in which the said goods or commodities shall be so brought in and imported; the one moiety to the use of the Commonwealth, and the other moiety to the use and behoof of any person or persons who shall seize the goods or commodities, and shall prosecute the same in any court of record within this Commonwealth.

And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no goods or commodities of the growth, production, or manufacture of Europe, or of any part thereof, shall after the first day of December, one thousand six hundred fifty and one, be imported or brought into this Commonwealth of England, or into Ireland, or any other lands, islands, plantations or territories to this Commonwealth belonging, or in their possession, in any ship or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but in such as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of this Commonwealth, as the true owners and proprietors thereof, and in no other, except only such foreign ships and vessels as do truly and properly belong to the people of that country or place, of which the said goods are the growth, production or manufacture; or to such ports where the said goods can only be, or most usually are first shipped for transportation; and that under the same penalty of forfeiture and loss expressed in the former branch of this Act, the said forfeitures to be recovered and employed as is therein expressed.

And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no goods or commodities that are of foreign growth, production or manufacture, and which are to be brought into this Commonwealth in shipping belonging to the people thereof, shall be by them shipped or brought from any other place or places, country or countries, but only from those of their said growth, production, or manufacture, or from those ports where the said goods and commodities can only, or are, or usually have been first shipped for transportation; and from none other places or countries, under the same penalty of forfeiture and loss expressed in the first branch of this Act, the said forfeitures to be recovered and employed as is therein expressed.

And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no sort of cod-fish, ling, herring, pilchard, or any other kind of salted fish, usually fished for and caught by the people of this nation; nor any oil made, or that shall be made of any kind of fish whatsoever, nor any whale-fins, or whale-bones, shall from henceforth be imported into this Commonwealth or into Ireland, or any other lands, islands, plantations, or territories thereto belonging, or in their possession, but only such as shall be caught in vessels that do or shall truly and properly belong to the people of this nation, as proprietors and right owners thereof; and the said fish to be cured, and the oil aforesaid made by the people of this Commonwealth, under the penalty and loss expressed in the first branch of this present Act; the said forfeit to be recovered and employed as is there expressed.

And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no sort of cod, ling, herring or pilchard, or any other kind of salted fish whatsoever, which shall be caught and cured by the people of this Commonwealth, shall be from and after the first of February, one thousand six hundred fifty three, exported from any place or places belonging to this Commonwealth, in any other ship or ships, vessel or vessels, save only in such as do truly and properly appertain to the people of this Commonwealth, as right owners; and whereof the master and mariners are for the most part of them English, under the penalty and loss expressed in the said first branch of this present Act; the said forfeit to be recovered and employed as is there expressed.

Provided always, that this Act, nor anything therein contained, extend not, or be meant to restrain the importation of any of the commodities of the Straits or Levant seas, laden in the shipping of this nation as aforesaid, at the usual ports or places for lading of them heretofore, within the said Straits or Levant seas, though the said commodities be not of the very growth of the said places.

Provided also, that this Act nor anything therein contained, extend not, nor be meant to restrain the importing of any East India commodities laden in the shipping of this nation, at the usual port or places for lading of them heretofore in any part of those seas, to the southward and eastward of Cabo Bona Esperanza, although the said ports be not the very places of their growth.

Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the people of this Commonwealth, in vessels or ships to them belonging, and whereof the master and mariners are of this nation as aforesaid, to load and bring in from any of the ports of Spain and Portugal, all sorts of goods or commodities that have come from, or any way belonged unto the plantations or dominions of either of them respectively.

Be it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from henceforth it shall not be lawful to any person or persons whatsoever to load or cause to be laden and carried in any bottom or bottoms, ship or ships, vessel or vessels, whatsoever, whereof any stranger or strangers born (unless such be denizens or naturalized) be owners, or masters, any fish, victual, wares, or things of what kind or nature soever the same shall be, from one port or creek of this Commonwealth, to another port or creek of the same, under penalty to every one that shall offend contrary to the true meaning of this branch of this present Act, to forfeit all the goods that shall be so laden or carried, as also the ship upon which they shall be so laden or carried, the same forfeit to be recovered and employed as directed in the first branch of this present Act.

Lastly, that this Act nor anything therein contained, extend not to bullion, nor yet to any goods taken, or that shall be taken by way of reprisal by any ship or ships, having commission from this commonwealth.

Provided, that this Act, or anything therein contained, shall not extend, nor be construed to extend to any silk or silk wares which shall be brought by land from any part of Italy, and there bought with the proceed of English commodities, sold either for money or in barter; but that it shall and may be lawful for any of the people of this Commonwealth to ship the same in English vessels from Ostend, Nieuport, Rotterdam, Middelburg, Amsterdam, or any ports thereabouts, the owners and proprietors first making oath by themselves, or other credible witnesses, before the Commissioners of the Customs for the time being or their deputies, or one of the Barons of the Exchequer, that the goods aforesaid were so bought for his or their own proper account in Italy.

Printed in England at the University Press, Oxford

By John Johnson Printer to the University

Thus anticipating the well-known clause in the Act of Settlement.

[Aug. 6, 1625. Debates in the House of Commons in 1625 (Camden Soc.), Appendix, p. 139. See Hist. of Engl. v. 414.]

On religion.

I.e. considering.

[Aug. 12, 1625. Debates in the House of Commons in 1625 (Camden Soc.), p. 125. See Hist. of Engl. v. 431.]

[March 15, 1626. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS., 22,474, fol. 19. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 78.]

I.e. the negotiations with Spain, in 1624.

[March 29, 1626. Rushworth, i. 221 seq. See Hist of Engl. vi. 82.]

[April 5, 1626. Rushworth, i. 243 seq. See Hist. of Engl. vi. p. 85.]

The date there given of April 4 is incorrect.

[Presented to the House of Lords, May 10, 1626. Lords’ Journals, iii. 619. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 98-107.]

I.e. Havre de Grâce.

‘Offenders,’ in L. J.

[Presented to the House of Lords, June 8, 1626. Lords’ Journals, iii. 656. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 116.]

I. e. ‘without the Duke’s acting in the matter.’

Shoeburyness.

Professor Burrows has suggested to me that this must be the ‘Rocks of Nore’ to the east of Hastings.

‘Unlawful,’ in L. J.

I. e. 162¾.

[March 14, 1626. Lords’ Journals, iii. 526. See Hist of Engl. vi. 91, 92.]

[March 30, 1626. Lords’ Journals, iii. 544. See Hist of Engl. vi. 94.]

On April 17, Bristol, who had come to London and justified his action that the King’s writ of summons was of greater weight than a letter from the Lord Keeper, accused Buckingham before the House of Lords. On the 21st, Charles accused him of high treason before the same House.

[March 31, 1626. Lords’ Journals, iii. 563.]

[April 19, 1626. Lords’ Journals, iii. 564. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 92.]

Arundel was at last released on June 5.

[July 7, 1626. S. P. Dom. xxxi. 30, 31. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 125.]

The agreement was merely by resolution. No bill having been founded on it, it had no legal force.

[July 26, 1626. Rymer’s Fœdera, xviii. 737. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 125.]

[Sept. 23, 1626. S. P. Dom. xxxv. 42, 43. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 144.]

The battle of Lutter, August 17, 1626.

A similar Commission for London, containing 100 names, dated Feb. 5. 1628, is printed in Rymer, xviii. 835-8.

A mark is 6s. 8d.

A noble is 3s. 2d.

An abstract of these instructions is given in Rushworth, i. 418, 419, under ten heads only.

[Nov. 15-28, 1627. State Trials, iii. 114-139. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 213.]

The writ is in the ordinary form.

I.e. bailable.

[Stat. 25 Edw. III, cap. 4; 28 Edw. III, cap. 3; and other Statutes, recited and examined.].

See Hist. of Engl. 1603-1642, vi. 244.

Printed text, ‘by.’

[April 29, 1628. Harl. MSS. 1771, fol. 123. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 264-5.]

‘convicted’ in MS.

[June 7, 1628. 3 Car. I, cap. 1. Statutes of the Realm, v. 23. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 274-309.]

This is now held not to have been a statute. See Stubbs, Const. Hist. (ed. 1875), ii. 143, Select Charters, p. 87.

I have failed to discover this statute.

In 1484, 1 Ric. III. c. 2.

9 Hen. III. 29.

28 Ed. III. 3.

37 Ed. III. 18; 38 Ed. III. 9; 42. Ed. III. 3; 17 Ric. II. 6.

25 Ed. III. 9.

9 Hen. III. 29; 25 Ed. III. 4; 28 Ed. III. 3.

[June 25, 1628. Rushworth, i. 628. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 323.]

Tonnage and Poundage was granted for life to Edward IV in 1464 (3 & 4 Ed. IV), Rot. Parl. v. 508. It was also granted in 1483 to Richard III for life (1 Ric. III), ib. vi. 238.

[June 26, 1628. Lords’ Journals, iii. 879. See Hist. of Engl. vi. 324.]

A general remonstrance on the misgovernment of the kingdom, in which Buckingham was named as the author of abuses, had been presented to the King on June 17.

See No. 11.

The last clause of this paragraph is corrected from Parl. Hist. ii. 434.

[November, 1628. Commonly printed with the Book of Common Prayer. See Hist. of Engl. vii. 20.]

[February 24, 1628-9. Cobbett’s Parliamentary History, ii. col. 483. See Hist. of Engl. vii. 65.]

Hist. of Engl. vi. 238.

A gag for the new gospel! No! a new gag for an old goose. 1624.

Immediate address unto God alone . . . enlarged to a just treatise of invocation of saints. 1624.

Appello Caesarem, 1625.

A collection of private devotions . . . called the Hours of Prayer, 1627.

Probably the Fall of Man, by Godfrey Goodman, published in 1616. He was now Bishop of Gloucester. A new edition was issued in 1629 against his wish.

Francis White.

John Buckeridge.

John Howson.

Richard Neile.

William Laud.

[March 2, 1628-9. Rushworth, i. 660. See Hist. of Engl. vii. 75.]

This protestation was recited by Holles after the Speaker had been held down in his chair, as the King was approaching to break open the door of the House of Commons.

[March 10, 1628/9. Rushworth, i. App. 1. See Hist. of Engl. vii. 78.]

Christian IV.

i. e. The Petition of Right.

See p. 75.

Sir John Coke.

Note by Rushworth: ‘Here are the passages concerning the members’ deportment in the House, mentioned in this Declaration, which we forbear to repeat, in regard the same are at large expressed in the Information in the Star Chamber, before mentioned.’

The full title is, ‘The King’s Majesty’s declaration to his subjects concerning lawful sports to be used. Imprinted at Lond. by Robert Barker, Printer to the King’s most excellent Majesty: and by the Assigns of Robert Bill, m.dc.xxxiii.’

[October 18, 1633. See Hist. of Engl. vii. 318-324.]

See 33 Henry VIII. c. ix. § 11.

[November 3, 1633. Prynne’s Canterbury’s Doome, 88. See Hist. of Engl. vii. 310.]

Sir Henry Marten.

[October 20, 1634. Rushworth, ii. 257. See Hist. of Engl. vii. 356, 369.]

In 1635 the writs were extended to the inland counties.

An earlier opinion had been given by the Judges at Finch’s instance in November, 1635 (Rushworth, iii. App. 249), to the following effect:—‘I am of opinion that, as when the benefit doth more particularly redound to the ports or maritime parts, as in case of piracy or depredations upon the seas, that the charge hath been, and may be lawfully imposed upon them according to precedents of former times; so when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger (of which His Majesty is the only judge), then the charge of the defence ought to be borne by all the realm in general. This I hold agreeably both to law and reason.’

[February 7, 1637. Rushworth, ii. 355. See Hist. of Engl. viii. 207.]

[November, 1637. Rushworth, ii. 481. See Hist. of Engl. viii. 271.]

[1638. State Trials, iii. col. 1090. See Hist. of Engl. viii. 278.]

Corrected from Stowe MSS. 187/2.

One of Hampden’s counsel.

[February 27, 1638. Rushworth, ii. 734. See IIist. of Engl. viii. 329.]

[August 28, 1640. State Papers, Charles I, Domestic, cccclxv. 16. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 199.]

Baron Kimbolton in his own right.

The signatures as here given are no doubt the correct ones, as the copy on which they appear has a note on it in Nicholas’s hand. Other copies with a different set of signatures were in circulation, one of which, containing several errors, appears in Rushworth. As the signatures are scattered about the paper, I have placed them in order of precedence.

[September 7, 1640. Rushworth, iii. 1257. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 201.]

[December 11, 1640. Rushworth, iv. 93. See Hist. of Eng. ix. 247.]

[February 15, 1640/1. 16 Car. I. cap. 1. Statutes of the Realm, v. 54. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 253, 262, 290.]

It was at that time the custom that the royal assent was given to Bills at the end of the Session, and it was consequently argued that the assent put an end to the Session.

[May 3, 1641. Rushworth, viii. 735. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 353.]

The Scottish army and the English army opposed to it.

[May 10, 1641. Statutes of the Realm, v. 177. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 329-366.]

Note by Rushworth: ‘This proviso hath occasioned the common discourse and opinion that this judgment against the Earl was enacted never to be drawn into precedent in Parliament, whereas it expressly respects only judges in inferior courts.’

[May 10, 1641. 17 Car. I. cap. 7. Statutes of the Realm, v. 103. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 359, 367.]

[June 22, 1641. 17 Car. I. cap. 8. Statutes of the Realm, v. 104. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 400.]

[June 24, 1641. Rushworth, iv. 298. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 401.]

The Earl of Holland.

The Pope’s agent at the Queen’s Court.

The Earl of Northumberland.

Indorsed ‘The Bishops’ Bill. Hodie 1d vice lecta est Billa, 1o Julii, 1641. 2d vice lecta est 3o Julii, 1641. Committed to the whole House.’

[House of Lords’ MSS. First reading July 1, second reading July 3, 1641. See Fuller, Church History, ed. Brewer, vi. 188; Hist. of Engl. ix. 409.]

Fuller says that the bishops and divines, directed by the lords ‘to consult together for correction of what was amiss’ in the Church ‘and to settle peace,’ of which John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, was chairman, considered four subjects:—Innovations in doctrine; innovations in discipline; the Common Prayer; and regulation of government. Their proposal on the latter head, he says, ‘was not brought in, because the Bishop of Lincoln had undertaken the draft thereof, but not finished it.’ Fuller seems to have been mistaken, as the Bill here given was certainly brought into the House of Lords, and can hardly be other than that proposed by Williams.

Convention in MS.

[July 5, 1641. Statutes of the Realm, v. 110. 17 Car. I. cap. 10. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 404.]

5 E. III. c. 9.

Magna Carta, 9 H. III. c. 29.

25 E. III. st. 5. c. 4.

28 E. III. c. 3.

42 E. III. c. 3.

36 E. III. c. 15.

3 H. VII. c. 1. § 1.

21 H. VIII. c. 20.

Allegation of absence from lawful reasons.

Annexed to the original Act in a separate schedule.

Annexed to the original Act in a separate schedule.

[July 5, 1641. 17 Car. I. cap. 11. Statutes of the Realm, v. 112. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 404.]

[August 7, 1641. 17 Car. I. cap. 14. Statutes of the Realm, v. 116. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 415.]

[August 7, 1641. 17 Car. I. cap. 16. Statutes of the Realm, v. 119. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 415.]

Borders.

Measurements.

1 E. III. st. 2. c. 1.

[August 10, 1641. 17 Car. I. cap. 20. Statutes of the Realm, v. 131. See Hist. of Engl. ix. 417.

[September 1, 1641. Journals of the House of Commons, ii. 279. See Hist. of Engl. x. 14.]

[September 9, 1641. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, and by the Assigns of John Bill. See Hist. of Engl. x. 16.]

I. e. 1640/1.

[November 8, 1641. Journals of the House of Lords, iv. 431. See Hist. of Engl. x. 55-57.]

Presented to the Lords on November 9.

The preceding instructions relate to the preparations for the Irish war.

[November 25, 1641. Rushworth, iv. 430. See Hist. of Engl. x. 84.]

[Presented to the King, December 1, 1641. Rushworth, iv. 437. See Hist. of Engl. x. 59-64, 71-79, 88.]

I. e. inferior to Parliament.

Sir John Eliot.

The Book of Rates was issued from time to time by the King to state the value of goods according to the current prices of the day. This was necessary because Poundage was laid on goods by the £1 value, not on their weight or measure. Most writers confuse this Book of Rates with the setting of impositions by patent, which was a very different thing.

I.e. ordered to be paid by instalments.

Eliab in Rushworth.

[December 10, 1641. Rushworth, iv. 456. See Hist. of Engl. x. 98.]

[December 23, 1641. Rushworth, iv. 452. See Hist. of Engl. x. 108.]

Sir Thomas Jermyn. See Journals of the House of Commons, ii. 330.

[January 3, 1642. Journals of the House of Lords, iv. 501. See Hist. of Engl. x. 130.]

[January 17, 164½. Rushworth, iv. 484. See Journals of the House of Commons, ii. 373, 383.]

I. e. evidently.

[February 13, 164½. 17 Car. I, cap. 27. Statutes of the Realm, v. 138. See Hist. of Engl. x. 165.]

I.e. 164½.

[February 13, 164½. 17 Car. I, cap. 28. Statutes of the Realm, v. 138. See Hist. of Engl. x. 166.]

[March 5, 164½. Journals of the House of Lords, iv. 587. See Hist. of Engl. x. 167, 171.]

A very similar Ordinance was sent up to the Lords on Feb. 15 and accepted by them on the 16th (Journals of the House of Lords, iv. 587). It was sent to the King, and his answer having been voted to be a denial, the Lords returned the Ordinance to the Commons in a slightly altered form. It was finally adopted by both Houses on March 5.

‘by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty,’ is here inserted in the Ordinance of February 16.

‘most’ is omitted in the Ordinance of February 16.

‘by His Majesty’s authority, signified unto them by’ stands in the Ordinance of February 16 in the place of ‘from.’

[April 8, 1642. Journals of the House of Lords, iv. 706. See Hist. of Engl. x. 186.]

[May 27, 1642. Journals of the House of Lords, v. 111. See Hist. of Engl. x. 202.]

This is not printed amongst the Statutes of the Realm. See No. 54.

[June 1, 1642. Journals of the House of Lords, v. 97. See Hist. of Engl. x. 196.]

Rushworth (iv. 772) gives the date of June 2, but see Lords’ Journals, v. 100. In my History I have followed Rushworth’s date. The propositions may not have been actually despatched till that day. At all events June 1 is the date of their final acceptance by the Houses.

[June 6, 1642. Journals of the House of Lords, v. 112. See Hist. of Engl. x. 200.]

No. 52.

[June 12, 1642. Rushworth, iv. 657. See Hist. of Engl. x. 202.]

Rolls of Parliament, iii. 526.

[July 12, 1642. Rushworth, iv. 755. See Hist. of Engl. x. 211.]

[February 1, 164⅔. Rushworth, v. 165. See Great Civil War, i. 89.]

I.e. Lord Herbert of Raglan, afterwards created, by warrant only, Earl of Glamorgan.

I.e. 164½.

I.e. the following Jan. 10, 164¾.

[Taken by the House of Commons, September 25, 1643. Rushworth, v. 478. See Great Civil War, i. 229-236.]

[February 16, 164¾. Journals of the House of Lords, vi. 430. See Great Civil War, i. 306.]

As we should now say, ‘members of the Committee.’

[May 22, 1644. Journals of the House of Commons, iii. 504. See Great Civil War, i. 343.]

[Presented to the King, November 24, 1644. Journals of the House of Lords, vii. 54. See Great Civil War, ii. 76, 85, 124.

See Journals of the House of Lords, vii. 82.

Articles 12 and 13 with the preamble of 14 are misplaced by Rushworth.

I.e. the treaty of 1641.

The figure is omitted in the Journals.

[January 21, 1645. Rushworth, v. 858.]

[April 3, 1645. Rushworth, vi. 16. See Great Civil War, ii. 188-191.]

In the first Ordinance sent up by the Commons on December 19, 1644, and thrown out by the Lords on January 13, 164⅘, members of either Houses were absolutely disqualified from serving.

[April 5, 1645. Rushworth, vi. 141.]

[February 24, 164⅚. Lords’ Journals, viii. 183.]

[Sent to the King, July 13, 1646. Rushworth, vi. 309. See Great Civil War, iii. 127.]

[August 1, 1646. Journals of the House of Lords, viii. 460. See Great Civil War, iii. 133.]

[December 20, 1646. Journals of the House of Lords, viii. 627. See Great Civil War, iii. 183.]

[January 29,February 8, 1646/7 Archives des Affairs Étrangères, Angleterre, lv. fol. 185. See Great Civil War, iii. 213.]

This document is only known to exist in the French form.

‘Le mémoire cy joint est ce que les Presbytériens qui veulent un Roy et se veulent bien passer du Covenant, et quelques personnes de qualité de party contraire, jugent que le Roy de la G. B. doit envoyer à ce Parlement arrivant à Homby.’ Bellievre to Mazarin, Jan. 29-Feb. 8, 1647. Arch. des Aff. Etr. Angl. lv. p. 177.

[May 12, 1647. Journals of the House of Lords, ix. 193. See Great Civil War, iii. 252.]

The Houses had for some time been engaged in amending the Propositions sent to Newcastle, but had been interrupted by their quarrel with the army.

I. e. Holmby House.

As a Scottish Commissioner.

[August 1, 1647. Rushworth, vii. 731. See Great Civil War, iii. 329-333, 340-343.]

Rushworth, vii. 569.

[Despatched by the King September 9, 1647. Rushworth, vii. 810. See Great Civil War, iii. 361, 366.]

[Received by the House of Lords, November 17, 1647. Parliamentary History, iii. 799. See Masson’s Life of Milton, iii. 577. See Great Civil War, iv. 24.]

[An agreement of the People for a firm and present peace, &c., E. 412, 21. October 28, 1647. See Great Civil War, iii. 383-394.]

I.e. in March in every other year.

[Passed the House of Lords December 14, 1647. Old Parliamentary History, vi. 405. See Great Civil War, iv. 31, 36.]

The references in square brackets are inserted in place of those in the Parliamentary History.

i.e. 164⅚. See No. 65.

The same as the fifteenth, p. 297, except that there it is styled an ‘Act for Confirmation of the Treaties,’ &c., and these words are omitted in the new Proposition, with (all other Ordinances and proceedings passed between the two kingdoms, and whereunto they are obliged by the aforesaid Treaties). There are also some alterations in the names of the Commissioners.

? Second.

[December 26, 1647. Clarendon MSS. 2685, 2686. See Great Civil War, iv. 39.]

The words in brackets are evidently the work of the copyist. What follows is taken from No. 2685, in Clarendon’s hand.

[December 26, 1647. The Lauderdale Papers, Camden Society, i. 2. See Great Civil War, iv. 41.]

This originally stood: ‘That Scottish men at least to the number of the third part.’

The words in brackets are inserted in the margin in Charles’s hand, instead of ‘aforesaid,’ &c.

This additional Agreement was sealed with Charles’s signet. It was originally dated Carisbrook, 26 Dec. 1647, but the date is scratched out. Lauderdale told Burnet of its existence. Hyde wrote on the back of his copy of the Engagement (Clar. MSS. 2685), that these terms occur in a copy in the possession of Lord Culpepper which he saw, but of which he was not allowed to take a copy. He also states that they did not occur in the copy in the hands of Prince Rupert.

[December 28, 1647. Old Parliamentary History, xvi. 483. See Great Civil War, iv. 41.]

[January 17, 164⅞. Old Parliamentary History, xvi. 489. See Great Civil War, vi. 50-53.]

From henceforth the Commons gave the name of ‘Act’ to an Ordinance which had passed their House only.

[Passed the Commons January 6, 1648/9. Old Parliamentary History, xviii. 489. See Great Civil War, iv. 288-291.]

[January 15, 1648/9. Old Parliamentary History, xviii. 519. See Great Civil War, iv. 295.]

For the Agreement of the People as originally drawn up in October, 1647, see No. 74. It is here printed with the subsequent modifications, as presented to the House of Commons on January 20. The petition which accompanied it (Old Parl. Hist. xviii. 516) was dated January 15, and that may therefore be taken as the date when the Agreement received the final approbation of the Council of the Officers.

[January 20, 1648/9. Rushworth, vii. 1396. See Great Civil War, iv. 299.]

[January 21, 1648/9. Rushworth, vii. 1403.]

[January 27, 1648-9. Rushworth, vii. 1418. See Great Civil War, iv. 312.]

[January 29, 1648/9. Rushworth, vii. 1426. See Great Civil War, iv. 309.]

[February 13, 1648/9. Parliamentary Order Book, State Papers, Domestic Interregnum, 87. 1. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 3-5.]

[February 22, 1649. Old Parliamentary History, xix. 38. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 6, 7.]

[March 17, 1649. Scobell, ii. 7. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 39.]

[March 19, 1649. Scobell, ii. 8. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 3.]

[May 19, 1649. Scobell, ii. 30. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 57.]

[July 17, 1649. Scobell, ii. 65. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 55.]

[January 2, 1650. Civil War Tracts, E. 1060, No. 77. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, i. 193.]

[September 27, 1650. Scobell, ii. 131. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, ii. 3.]

[August 12, 1652. Scobell, ii. 197. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, iv. 82-5.]

[April 22, 1653. Old Parliamentary History, xx. 137. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, ii. 271.]

[June 6, 1653. Old Parliamentary History, xx. 151. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, ii. 283.]

[December 16, 1653. Old Parliamentary History, xx. 248. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, ii. 331-336.]

The names of fifteen members are given here.

[April 12, 1654. Scobell, ii. 293. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, ii. 103.]

[June 27, 1654. Civil War Tracts, Press Mark E 1064, p. 431. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, iii. 172.]

[June 27, 1654. Civil War Tracts, Press Mark E 1064, p. 439. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, iii. 173.]

[1654-5. From a MS. in the possession of Lord Braye. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, iii. 197-220, 234-245.]

MS. authoritive.

hunter in MS.

? a quorum.

This clause was altered by the insertion of the words in italics on Jan. 12. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, iii. 241.

[May 25, 1657. Scobell, ii. 378. See Masson’s Life of Milton, v. 121.]

i.e. 165½.

i. e. 164½.

In quoting the articles, it should be remembered that both Scobell and the official publication (B. M. Press Mark, E 1065, 18) number them wrongly from this point.

[June 26, 1657. Scobell, ii. 450. See Masson’s Life of Milton, v. 142.]

i.e. 16 49/50.

i.e. 16 49/50.

[December 10, 1657. Old Parliamentary History, xxi. 166.]

[April 4, 1660. Old Parliamentary History, xxii. 238. See Masoon’s Life of Milton, v. 697.]

[Oct. 9, 1651. Scobell’s Acts of Parliament, pt. ii, p. 176. See Commonwealth and Protectorate, ii. 147.]

When this Act was re-enacted after the Restoration many changes were made, the most important being that the prohibition of importing in foreign bottoms was extended to exports (12 Car. II, cap. 18).

‘The Straits’ are the Straits of Gibraltar, but the term includes the Mediterranean, or, as here, the western part of it.

The Cape of Good Hope.