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<P>THE LADIES, A SECOND TIME, ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT.</P>
<P>A Continuation of the Parliament of LADIES.</P>
<P>Their Votes, Orders, and Declarations.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Martis Augu&s;t</HI> 2. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Ordered by the Ladies a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that the&s;e their Votes, Orders, and Declarations, be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>T. Temple Cler.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mrs Martha Peele Me&s;&s;enger.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Printed in the Yeare 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>The Parliament of Ladies.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Secunda Pars</HEAD>
<P>_THE Ladies well affected, whom in my fir&s;t, I told you were A&s;&s;em|bled at Spring Garden, and upon emergent occa&s;ion, had adjourned their Hou&s;e, for that while they were imployed about the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ff<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">yres of the publ<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">cke, their Lords had a|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span"> to hunt forbi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">den G<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">me; and ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">ure con&s;ideration, that it is a &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e axiome, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 word"> begins at home, they held it convenient, to ad|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span"> for a certaine time; and h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ving reduced their L<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 span"> to a privation to a&s;&s;emble <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> meet in Parliament a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">  b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">fo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e: for that Ph<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">lo&s;ophicall Lady, the Lady <HI>May</HI> had &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">yd, that the acts of Governours, cannot p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ibly have any &s;trong influence upon the publicke, &s;o long as things were not punctually p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">rformed at home; but no &s;ooner had the Ladies effected their wi&s;hes, and having by their earne&s;t allurements, con&s;trayned their Lords to hunt the game more often then they were willing to do, e&s;pecially in their owne (&mdash;) berries, &s;o &s;ufficiently aba|ted their affections to that &s;port, that they began to be al|together weary and tyred, vowing for the future, that to hunt their owne game, was enough and more, then the &s;tate of their bodies required; the Ladies with a great deal of jucundity and contentment, a&s;&s;embled them&s;elves to|gether againe.</P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="4">
In the fir&s;t place they tooke into con&s;ideration, the &s;ale of the Bi&s;hops Lands, and upon the Que&s;tion re&s;olved:</P>
<P>That the Bi&s;hopricke of Lincolne, of Worce&s;ter, of Ely, and Durham, &s;hould remayn intire; for that though the Bi&s;hops of tho&s;e Sees, had in other matters of con|cernment, &s;hewed them&s;elves very aver&s;e, yet to the La|dies a&s;&s;embled, they had beene very free and cordiall, e|ven to their utmo&s;t abilities, and had in &s;ome private per|formances, ayded them more &s;trongly then any &s;ecular man what&s;oever. That the Lady <HI>Denbigh</HI> &s;hould have power to in&s;tate the Bi&s;hop of Lincolne in his See, the Lady <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> the B<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hop of Ely the Lady <HI>Scot</HI> the Bi|&s;hop of Durham, the Lady <HI>Stanford</HI> the B<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hop of Wor|ce&s;ter, each of the&s;e L<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">es to have power re&s;pectively, to &s;ettle the &s;ayd Bi&s;hops in their fir&s;t and full power; and in c<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e of re&s;i&s;tance, to arme the well affected of the Country again&s;t tho&s;e that &s;hall make oppo&s;ition: but with this provi&s;o, that for the future, the &s;ayd Ladies &s;hall not ingro&s;&s;e to them&s;elves, all the performances of the&s;e Clergy men as before, but that their abilities &s;hall be e&s;teemed for the u&s;e of the whole Hou&s;e in generall.</P>
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<HEAD>Re&s;olved upon the Que&s;tion.</HEAD>
<P>That the Lands and Revenews belonging to the Sees of Canterbury and Yorke be &s;old, to a molehill, for that the Bi&s;hops of tho&s;e Dioce&s;&s;es, have from the beginning, beene ob&s;erved to be nothing well affected to the de&s;ires of the Hou&s;e; and that no notable thing is recorded that they have ever done demon&s;tratively, &s;hewing their wil|lingne&s;&s;e and ability, but that they ever gathered money, and but &s;eldome coverd (&mdash;).</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="4">
That the Lady <HI>Oxford,</HI> the Lady <HI>May;</HI> and the Lady <HI>Tufton,</HI> be appointed and furni&s;hed with power to accom|pli&s;h the Order of the hou&s;e; and the rather, for that the extreame hate the &s;ayd Ladies beare to tho&s;e men, of what ranke &s;oever, that were not willing, to their utmo&s;t abilities, to accompli&s;h the will of the Hou&s;e, would be a &s;ufficient in&s;tigation to incite them to proceed with vigor.</P>
<P>While the&s;e things were in agitation, in comes a Me&s;|&s;enger from the Hou&s;e of Commons, de&s;iring their La|di&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ps concurrence with an Order to be i&s;&s;ued out by the authority of both Hou&s;es, <HI>viz.</HI> that all Malignant Mini|&s;ters &s;hould be prohibited from entring into pulpets, for that many of them, contrary to a former expre&s;&s;e Order, preached each Sabbath day, both in City and Country, divulging doctrine of very dangerous con&s;equence, and &s;candalous to the Hou&s;es; their Ladi&s;hips heereupon, fell into debate, and had much controverting about the word En<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">er, the Lady <HI>Barrington</HI> affirming, that the Commons by this, made an ab&s;olute intrenchment on their priviled|ges: for though to the Commons it would cau&s;e no de|triment, yet to them the abridgement of Entrance, might occa&s;ion much &s;orrow and vexation, being one of their chiefe immunities; they therefore returned An&s;wer, that they could not pa&s;&s;e it, for that to divers of the Malignant Mini&s;ters, <HI>viz.</HI> Dr. <HI>Griffin,</HI> Mr. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ieve,</HI> Mr. <HI>Cady, cum mul|tis aliis,</HI> they were infinitely ingaged, as to men that had entred their pulpits to their exceeding comforts, when as they were altogether de&s;titute of con&s;olation; the one at <HI>Abington,</HI> the other at <HI>Maid&s;tone,</HI> the other at <HI>Stoke,</HI> upon which the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was waved, and proceeded no far|ther.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="5">
The Hou&s;e then appointed Committees, <HI>viz.</HI> the La|dy <HI>Newport,</HI> the Lady <HI>Buckingham,</HI> and the Lady <HI>Carlile,</HI> to &s;ee to the compounding of Delinquents for their e|&s;tates; the Lady <HI>Carlile,</HI> notwith&s;tanding her age, and ug|line&s;&s;e, would not come to compo&s;ition with <HI>Arundell,</HI> for his Delinquency in de&s;erting and complying with the Lady <HI>Tuften:</HI> Captaine <HI>Edwards</HI> was al&s;o brought in for a Delinquent; but he ap<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">log<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">zed for him&s;elfe, that he would not have for&s;aken the &s;ervice of the State, and in particular of the Lady <HI>Newport,</HI> but that he ob&s;erved that her (&mdash;) was like a well, alwaies exhau&s;ted with two buc|kets, for that he was no &s;ooner out but <HI>Waller</HI> was in, and therefore he was the more to be excu&s;ed, for that he left not the &s;aid Lady altogether de&s;titute of a&mdash;&amp;c.</P>
<P>This day a Petition came from the Lady <HI>Waller,</HI> de&s;i|ring that &s;he might be re&s;tored againe to her place in the Hou&s;e, pro<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ting that &s;he was well affected, though her Knight were fled away with <HI>Maynard,</HI> and <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey;</HI> but it was alledged again&s;t her, that &s;he was utterly <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ncapable of &s;itting in Parliament, for that while her Knight with <HI>Glin,</HI> and <HI>Stapleton,</HI> were indeavouring a new war, &s;he al|&s;o was found in armes under Col. <HI>Pointz;</HI> but upon her importunity, the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was put off for another dayes hearing.</P>
<P>The Hou&s;e then tooke into con&s;ideration the impious act of the Lady <HI>Powland,</HI> who changing the Engli&s;h, for French ayre, had entred into a Mona&s;tery, &amp; was become a Nunne: the Hou&s;e con&s;idering the great prejudice that this her example might produce, voted her guilty of high
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Tre<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;on, and that when&s;oever &s;hee &s;hould be taken, &s;hee &s;hould &s;uffer as a Traytor; and to prevent the like danger, for the future, made this en&s;uing Order, and then adjour|ned for that day.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Veneris, Augu&s;t 6. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>The Ladies A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, taking into con|&s;ideration the late Act of the Lady <HI>Powland,</HI> who contra|ry to the Law of nature, and &s;en&s;e of the hou&s;e, hath for|&s;aken the &s;ociety of men, to be a reclu&s;e, o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> c<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">oi&s;tered Nunne, and not without griefe beholding the effects, which &s;uch an example may occa&s;ion, doe order, and de|cree, that the &s;aid Lady <HI>Powland</HI> for her fact &s;o commit|ted, &s;hall &s;uffer death without mercy, if &s;he ever be taken: and for the future, they ordaine that none &s;hal be &s;o hardy as to attempt the like, under paine of forfeiting life and e&s;tate; but &s;hall to their u<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">mo&s;t abilities &s;trive to increa&s;e and multiply, and for their incouragement therein, it is by the&s;e pre&s;ents ordained by the Ladies A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that the Females of great Brittaine &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ll have free leave, and licen&s;e in ca&s;e of their husbands di&s;ability, to u&s;e the performances of their elde&s;t &s;ervant, and if he faile, of their neere neighbour, and this without &s;cruple or que&s;tion.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>T. Temple Clarke.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The Ladies a&s;&s;embling againe the next day, The fir&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was a report from the Committee for Delin|quents e&s;tates, who named in the fir&s;t place, the right Honorable, the Lord <HI>Mountague,</HI> who was impeached for a Delinquent to the hou&s;e, and had de&s;erted the Lady
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<HI>Virrian,</HI> and had allied him&s;elfe to the Lady <HI>Kirbe;</HI> but the hou&s;e taking into con&s;ideration his former &s;peciall &s;er|vices to many of them in generall, and in particular to the Lady <HI>Bedford,</HI> and the Lady <HI>Stamford,</HI> the Lady <HI>Stamford</HI> avouching that he was a man well gifted, and had a large tallent, and one that had indured many dangerous incoun|ters in the &s;ervice of the hou&s;e, and had been in the Chy|rurgions hands, they therefore ordered that his delinquen|cy &s;hould be taken off, and he to have free leave to be at the &s;ervice of the Lady <HI>Kirbe,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>It was moved then, by the learned Lady, the Lady <HI>May,</HI> that the day of humiliation might be appointed to im|plore a ble&s;&s;ing on the indeavours of men, and that they might be inabled to goe through &s;titch with their under|takings, and become every day more and more active, which was pa&s;&s;ed, and a Me&s;&s;enger &s;ent to the Commons for their concurrence.</P>
<P>Their Ladi&s;hips then received word that a Me&s;&s;enger waited at the doore, &s;ent from the hou&s;e of Commons, to wit, Mr. <HI>Howard,</HI> and Mrs. <HI>Gle&s;coth,</HI> who being admitted in, delivered their bill, which was to de&s;ire their concur|rence to a Petition with Propo&s;itions to be &s;ent to his Ma|je&s;ty for a &s;afe and well grounded peace, which their La|di&s;hips pa&s;&s;ed, and ordered the Lady <HI>Thinne</HI> and the La|dy <HI>May,</HI> to joyne with two of the Hou&s;e of Commons, and they joyntly to be urgent upon his Maje&s;ty to &s;igne the Propo&s;itions, and &s;o for that day adjourned their hou&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="7" REF="6">
The next day the hou&s;e being met, a Petition was deli|vered, intituled the humble Petition of many thou&s;ands of Citizens Wives, in and about the City of London, the &s;ub&s;tance of which was, that whereas divers weake per|&s;ons were crept into places, beyond their abilitie, and had undertaken that which the Petitioners found by common experience, they were not able to performe, they there|fore de&s;ired that men of abler parts, and greater abilities, might be put in their roomes; which would be to the Petitioners infinite advantage, the hou&s;e having heard their Petition, ordered hearty thankes to be given them, for their good affections to the State, and that the Lady <HI>Devon&s;hire,</HI> the Lady <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> and the Lady <HI>Bullin|brooke,</HI> &s;hould be a Committee appointed to con&s;ider of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>It was then mooved by the Lady <HI>Norton,</HI> that a day of thank&s;giving might be appointed for the Armies happy entrance into the City without tumult, for the exceeding great indeavours of the Commanders of the Army to plea&s;ure the hou&s;e, thankes returned to Sir <HI>Thomas Faire|fax</HI> for his many able performances in the &s;ervice of the Lady <HI>Denbigh,</HI> to <HI>Cromwell</HI> for his valiant charging per|formed in the &s;ervice of the Lady <HI>Newport,</HI> which Order being &s;ent to the Commons for their concurrence, they &s;ent it back with their a&s;&s;ent and additions; that thankes al&s;o &s;hould be given, that they had &s;o fairely drawne their necks out of the collar, and had laid the weight of their owne crimes, upon the backs of <HI>Waller, Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> and <HI>Pointz,</HI> leaving tho&s;e le&s;&s;e interre&s;&s;ed in the impeachment then them&s;elves in the lurch; Mr. <HI>Craddock</HI> de&s;ired to preach
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in the forenoone&punc; but the Sermon to be in Engli&s;h, and not in Wel&s;h, and notice to be given him that he &s;hould have care not to blurt out the language of the <HI>Cambro-Brittanians,</HI> in&s;tead of the Romans, as he did once at St. <HI>Michaels</HI> Cornehill; Mr. <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> to be in the afternoone, and that he be de&s;ired to pray with his eyes open, and not to offer up his ori&s;ons blindly, that is to &s;ay, with hipocri|ticall confidence, and that Mrs. <HI>Cooke</HI> be prohibited from accompanying him three dayes afore, le&s;t he &s;uffer &s;ome diminution of memory.</P>
<P>Word was brought in that Mr. <HI>Peters</HI> &s;tood at the doore, and had a me&s;&s;age of import to relate to the hou&s;e, who immediately commanded him to be brought in; who after obei&s;ance told them, that he gave thankes to God, who had appointed him to be the happy Me&s;&s;enger of blisfull newes, to wit, that <HI>Digby</HI> was againe reconciled to the Lady <HI>Tuften,</HI> and once more doted upon this pain|ted face, which newes becau&s;e it highly plea&s;ed the hou&s;e; they ordered Mr. <HI>Peters</HI> twenty pounds for a gratuity, and that he &s;hould prepare him&s;elfe to preach before them the next Fa&s;t day; for that they intended then to be very merry.</P>
<P>A Paper was drawne up, and &s;ent to the Synod, by e&s;peciall order from the Hou&s;e, de&s;iring them to give a &s;peedy an&s;wer to the &s;atisfaction of the hou&s;e, to the&s;e following que&s;tions.</P>
<P><PB N="9" REF="7">
F<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;t, what is meant by that place where it is &s;aid, and <HI>Iud<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h</HI> went in unto her, and lay with her, and why there is &s;uch a Tautology?</P>
<P>Secondly, by what meanes came it to pa&s;&s;e that <HI>Lot</HI> was able to performe the act of generation with his two Daughters, and to ply his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e &s;o notably, as to get them with child, and yet not know when they lay downe, nor when they ro&s;e up?</P>
<P>The Me&s;&s;enger bearing this Order to the A&s;&s;embly, they returned an&s;wer, that they would give a &s;olution to the&s;e Queries with all convenient &s;peede.</P>
<P>A complaint was brought in again&s;t one <HI>Paul Be&s;t,</HI> who had broached many damnable, and hereticall Doct|rines, among&s;t the re&s;t one was, that women were uncapa|ble of eternity, as wanting that immortall &s;ub&s;tance, which was injected into Adam, to wit the &s;oule; and his rea&s;on was, for that he read that God breathed into A|dam, and he became a living &s;oule; but woman was made of man, participating only of his earthly &s;ub&s;tance, no mention of any &s;oule infu&s;ed into her; for he &s;aid wo|man was ordained only for the earth, but man only for heaven, and this he &s;aid was the rea&s;on that women were &s;o &s;en&s;uall of &s;uch ravenous, and infatiate appetites, being like other creatures only of the earth, earthly: the hou&s;e having heard the contents of the complaint, became greatly inraged, and ordered that the bookes or pam|phlets, which the &s;aid <HI>Paul Be&s;t</HI> had compiled, and di|vulged, maintaining this errour, &s;hould be gathered toge|ther,
<PB N="10" REF="8">
and openly burnt by the common hangman, him|&s;elfe to be kept clo&s;e Pri&s;oner till further order, and in the meane time a Declaration to be &s;et forth evidently pro|ving that women have &s;oules; the chiefe argument to be this, that &s;eeing the Divell is a &s;pirit without a body, and yet is c<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ble of eternity; &s;o women being bodies with|out &s;oules, may al&s;o be capable of eternity.</P>
<P>Then the Ladies tooke into con&s;ideration the great decay of Males, occa&s;ioned by the late unnaturall warre, and therefore ordered.</P>
<LETTER>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Mercur. Augu&s;t 13. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>It is by the&s;e pre&s;ents Ordered and Decreed, by the Ladies a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That fora&s;|much, as by the late unnaturall Warre, many men of great abilities and able performances, were cut off, not only to the prejudice of this Hou&s;e, but of the whole Kingdome, as by &s;everall Petitions from ma|ny thou&s;ands of un&s;upplied Women, may appeare: Be it therefore Ordered and Ordayned, for the more &s;peedy repleni&s;hing of the Kingdome, that it &s;hall be lawfull, for the time to come, for any Woman Vene|reou&s;ly inclined, and capable of more then is put upon her, to u&s;e the ayd and a&s;si&s;tance, not onely of the men of her owne Nation, but al&s;o of any other For|raigner,
<PB N="11" REF="8">
whether Frnchman, Spaniard, or Ger|man, to the end there may be a&s;peedy &s;upply of Males for tho&s;e were lately ma&s;&s;acred, and the Kingdome furni&s;hed with able and active men,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>T. Temple Cler. Parl.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The H<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;e then adjourned for that day, and on the morrow a&s;&s;embled againe, where the fir&s;t thing they <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ell upon, was, a Complaint th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> was made again&s;t Players, who contrary to an Ordinance, had &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> up &s;hop againe, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cted divers P<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ayes, at the two hou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">s, th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Fortune, and Salisbury Court. Whereupon it was demanded what Plaies they were, and an&s;wer being given, that one of them was the &s;cornefull Lady, the hou&s;e tooke it in high disdaine, and as an ab&s;olute contemp of their po|wer; and therefore ordered that Alderman <HI>Atkins</HI> &s;hould make a journey on purpo&s;e to &s;uppre&s;&s;e them; and al&s;o ordered that an Act &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">uld be pa&s;&s;ed to prohibit that Play to be herafter acted; but divers Ladies were offended at this Order, intended for the &s;upp<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ing of Playes, as the Lady <HI>Munmouth</HI> who lik't Sir <HI>Iohn Suck<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ins</HI> play &s;o well, that &s;he p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">wned her Jewels to maintayne his backe: and the Lady <HI>Stanford, Franke Beaumonts</HI> Play &s;o well, &s;et|ting his Scornfull Lady a&s;ide, &s;hee would often admit him in, when her Lord was kept at &s;taves end: a great confu&s;ion happening about this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Playes, they at length concluded, that a Committee of Ladies &s;hould
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be cho&s;en on purpo&s;e to con&s;ider of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Their Ladi&s;hips then taking into con&s;iderations, the many pre&s;&s;ing affayres which they were like to lie under, Ordered, that Dr. <HI>Strickland,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Burges,</HI> (a man furni&s;hed with a large talent) and Doctor <HI>Chamber laine,</HI> &s;hould be A&s;&s;i&s;tants to the Hou&s;e, that &s;o the Ladies might receive &s;uch comfortable di&s;tillations, as tho&s;e worthy men were able to affoord them.</P>
<P>In the la&s;t place, the Ladies being to adjourne, for &s;ome Months, &s;ent to the A&s;&s;embly of Divines, to know whether they had according to their de&s;ires, wrote any thing tending to the &s;olution of the Que&s;tions by them propounded; but An&s;wer being returned, that the A&s;|&s;embly of Divines were now in deepe Con&s;ultation, to proove that the two lewd Elders, who tempted <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> to wickedne&s;&s;e, might have a Di&s;pen&s;ation from the Na|tionall A&s;&s;embly; the Ladies were content to bee re&s;ol|ved at their ley&s;ure: and having Ordered the&s;e their proceedings to bee Printed and Publi&s;hed, adjourned their Hou&s;e.</P>
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