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<P>THE IMPEACHMENT by the HOUSE of COMMONS Again&s;t The Lord Major of the City of <HI>London</HI> AND Divers other Aldermen, Common-Councell men, Citizens, Mini&s;ters, Ap|prentices, and others.</P>
<P><HI>And an Order for chu&s;ing a new Lord Major, And the manner of the Tryall.</HI></P>
<P>ALSO The Sentence denounced again&s;t <HI>John Poyntz</HI> alias <HI>Morris, I&s;abel Smith, Leonard Derby,</HI> and <HI>John Harris.</HI></P>
<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his hou&s;e in Smithfield, 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>Die veneris Septem. <HI>24. 1647.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Re&s;olved upon the Que&s;tion,</HI></P>
<P>THat there appeare &s;ufficient matter to acca&s;e Sir <HI>Jo. Geyer,</HI> Knight, Mayor of the City of <HI>London,</HI> of high Trea&s;on, and further Voted, that he be committed pri&s;oner to the Tower of <HI>London,</HI> upon accu&s;ation of high Trea&s;on, for countenancing and abetting the force and tu|mult brought downe and u&s;ed again&s;t the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, the <HI>26</HI> of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, and this to be in order to his tri|all; the Hou&s;e upon debate al&s;o further Voted, the like charge of high Trea&s;on again&s;t <HI>Thomas Cullum</HI> Alder|man, and one of the Sheriffes of <HI>London, James Bunce,</HI> Alderman <HI>John Langham</HI> Alderman, and <HI>Thomas A|dams</HI> Alderman, Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> for countenancing and abetting the &s;aid force again&s;t the Hou&s;es, and that they be committed to the Tower of <HI>London.</HI> And the Committees appointed to examine the &s;aid force and tumult, were ap|pointed to prepare and bring impeachments again&s;t the &s;aid Lord Mayor and Aldermen as afore&s;aid, again&s;t munday morning next.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Die Sabbathi, Septem.</HI> 25. 1647, Re&s;olved upon the Que&s;tion,</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>That</HI> Col. Laurence Bromfield, Col. Edward Hooker, Cap. Jones, <HI>be impeached of high crimes and mi&s;demeanors, and committed to the Serjeants cu&s;tody, at|tending the hou&s;e of Commons, and that a charge of Im|peachment be drawn up again&s;t them accordingly.</HI></P>
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<P>Secondly, <HI>That</HI> Captain Mu&s;grave, Thomas Carill, Bartholomew We&s;t, Rich. Rumney, Ralph Hooker, Joh. Melton <HI>Mini&s;ter,</HI> James Studley, Richard Eortis, Mr. Will. Drake. &mdash; Brook, <HI>Apprentice to</HI> Mr. Baker <HI>of Hellens,</HI> John Harley, Daniel Hill, Edmund Pei&s;ley, <HI>Citizens of</HI> London, <HI>be indicted of high trea&s;on at the Kings bench barre; and committed to the Serjeants cu&s;tody untill their triall this next Terme, at the Court of Kings bench afore&s;aid.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Die Lunae Septemb. <HI>27. 1647.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Commons &s;ent a Me&s;&s;age to the Lords with an Impeachment again&s;t Sir <HI>John Geyer,</HI> Lord Mayor of the City of <HI>London,</HI> of high Trea&s;on in the name of all the Commons of <HI>England,</HI> for levying War again&s;t the King, Parliament, and Kingdome, and to de&s;ire their Lord&s;hips to appoint a day, and they would make good the Charge of High Trea&s;on again&s;t him. And that the City be &s;ent to, to chu&s;e a Lord Mayor to exe|cute the place during his time.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Sentence denounced again&s;t</HI> John Morris, I&s;abel Smith, Leonard Derby, <HI>&amp;</HI> John Harris.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas <HI>John Browne</HI> E&s;quire Clerke of the Par|liament did the 25. of <HI>June</HI> 1647 exhibit a charg before the Lords in Parliament, again&s;t <HI>John Morris</HI> a|lias <HI>Poyntz, Mary</HI> his wife, <HI>I&s;abel Smyth, Leonard Derby,</HI> and <HI>John Harris</HI> for forging, framing and publi&s;hing a Copy of a pretended Act of Parliament aledged to have beene made <HI>Anno</HI> 43. <HI>Elizabeth.</HI> And intitled, <HI>An Act to enable and make good a conveiance and a&s;&s;urance made of the
<PB N="3" REF="3">Mannors of chopping</HI> Ouger, Northokenden, Southoken|den, <HI>and other Lands in the County of</HI> E&s;&s;ex, and <HI>Bevies Markes</HI> alias <HI>Buries Markes</HI> in <HI>London</HI> by <HI>James Morris</HI> E&s;q; and <HI>Gabriel Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntz</HI> E&s;q; to <HI>John, Poyntz</HI> alias <HI>Morris</HI> and his Heires, and to e&s;tabli&s;h the &s;aid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mannors upon the &s;aid <HI>John Poyntz</HI> alias <HI>Morris</HI> and his Heires, accor|ding to the &s;aid conveiance, wheras in truth there neither is, nor ever was any &s;uch Act of Parliament, And for forging and counterfieting his hand writing, and &s;ub|&s;cribing the &s;aid Copy. <HI>John Browne Cler. Par.</HI></P>
<P>And the better to colour their late practi&s;es have charged the &s;aid <HI>John Browne</HI> with the lo&s;&s;e of the &s;aid Record, and denying of his owne hand. And whereas Sir <HI>Adam Littleton</HI> Barro. who had good title to part of the &s;aid Mannors &amp; Lands as in the right of Dame. <HI>Awdery</HI> his wife, who&s;e inheritance thereunto was &s;ought to be impeached by the coppy, of the &s;aid pretended Act of Parliament, complained likewi&s;e again&s;t the &s;aid per|&s;ons before their Lord&s;hips for th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aid forgery and publication in that the &s;aid <HI>John Morris, Edward Derby Iohn Harris,</HI> and <HI>I&s;abel Smyth</HI> did procure the &s;aid copy at <HI>Che&s;m&s;tow</HI> at Lent A&s;&s;izes 1646. for the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> at a tryall in an <HI>Ejectione forme,</HI> brought by <HI>Tho|mas Smyth</HI> Husband to the &s;aid <HI>I&s;abel,</HI> and Le&s;&s;ee of the &s;aid <HI>John Morris</HI> again&s;t <HI>Jo&s;ias Clerke</HI> Tennant to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Adam Littleton</HI> of part of the &s;aid Lands contained in the &s;aid pretended Act, And did pleade and affirme the &s;ame to bee a true copy of an Act of Parlia|ment; And the &s;aid <HI>Derby</HI> and <HI>Harris</HI> did fal&s;ly and pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">juriou&s;ly &s;wear in open Court, at the &s;aid tryall, that they had examined the &s;aid copy by them, produced
<PB N="4" REF="4">with the Record of the &s;aid pretended Act in the Office of the Clerke of the Parliament, and that hee did ac|knowledge the &s;aid writing to be his own hand, where|as in truth the &s;aid &s;ub&s;cription, to the &s;aid pretended Act of Parliament is counterfeit and none of the &s;aid Clerke of the Parliaments hand. And the &s;aid Sir <HI>Adam</HI> further complained of an exemplification under the great Seal of <HI>England</HI> for countenancing the &s;aid forged Coppy of the &s;aid pretended Act, by &s;ome undue means by the &s;aid parties thereunto affixed, of the parties &s;hewing whereof, proofe was made before their Lord|&s;hips.</P>
<P>All which being crimes of a very high and tran&s;cen|dent nature, and do concerne the publique ju&s;tice of the Kingdome, and of this Honourable Hou&s;e, the &s;upream|e&s;t judicatory of this Kingdome: That Acts of Parlia|ments, the highe&s;t Records in this Kndgdome &s;hould be framed invented, forged and given in evidence, and publi&s;hed as true Acts of Parliament. And the hand of the Clerke of the Parliament a &s;worne Officer forged, counterfited &amp; &s;ub&s;cribed to the &s;ame, &amp; if &s;uch bold and audacious acts &s;hould not be &s;everely puni&s;hed, no man can bee &s;afe in his life, per&s;on, or e&s;tate, they &s;aid <HI>Iohn Browne</HI> and Sir <HI>Adam Littleton</HI> de&s;ired that the per&s;ons afore&s;aid might forthwith an&s;wer the &s;aid Charges, and that their Lord&s;hips would inflict &s;uch exemplary pu|ni&s;hment upon the offenders as may deferre the like at|tempts and leud practi&s;e, in others, and give &s;uch &s;etting reparations as their Lord&s;hips in their wi&s;dome &s;hould thinke meete.</P>
<P>Whereupon the per&s;ons afore&s;aid, put in their an&s;wers to the premi&s;es and pleaded not guilty. And after the Ca&s;e had beene divers days fully heard by councell on both &s;ides and witne&s;&s;es produced at this Barre, and the
<PB N="5" REF="4">whole matter afterwards throughly weighed, debated, and fully confided of by the Hou&s;e. The Lords in Par|liament a&s;&s;embled, being fully &s;atisfied of the guilt of the &s;aid per&s;ons for the afore&s;aid high crimes charged a|gain&s;t them: doe award and adjudge</P>
<P N="1">1. That the &s;aid <HI>John Morris</HI> &s;hall pay to our Sove|raigne Lord the King the Summe of one thou&s;and Pounds, <HI>I&s;abel Smith</HI> two hundred Pounds, <HI>Leonard Derby</HI> foure hundred Pounds, and <HI>John Harris</HI> foure hundred Pounds.</P>
<P N="2">2. That the &s;aid Parties &s;hall pay to <HI>John Browne</HI> E&s;quire Clerke of the Parliament for his Damages five hundred Pounds.</P>
<P N="3">3. That all the &s;aid Parties &s;hall before their inlarge|ment out of Pri&s;on be bound to the good Behaviour during their lives, before &s;ome one of his Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of his Bench at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> with good Sure|ties.</P>
<P N="4">4. That the &s;aid Copie of the pretended Act of Parliament fal&s;ely affirmed upon Oath to have been &s;ub&s;cribed with the name of the &s;aid Clerke of the Parliament, intituled An Act to enable and make good a Conveyance and A&s;&s;urance made of the Mannours of <HI>Chepping ouger, North Kenden, South Kenden,</HI> and other Lands in the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and <HI>Bevis Markes,</HI> al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&agrave;s <HI>Buries Markes</HI> in <HI>London</HI> by <HI>James Morris</HI> and <HI>Gabriel Pointz</HI> E&s;quire to <HI>John Pointz</HI> ali&agrave;s <HI>Morris</HI> and his heires, and to e&s;tabli&s;h the &s;aid Mannours upon the &s;aid <HI>John Pointz</HI> ali&agrave;s <HI>Morris</HI> his heires, according to the &s;aid Conveyance, is hereby declared to be forged and counterfeit, and is by their Lord^p^s^. adjudged &amp; decreed to be for ever damned and cancelled, and never to be pleaded in any Court or Cau&s;e what&s;oever, nor to be admitted in Evidence, there being no Record of any
<PB N="6" REF="5">&s;uch pretended Act of Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent, to warrant the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="5">5. That all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;aid &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vera<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l per&s;ons hereby adjudged guilty of the &s;aid crimes, &s;hall ever hereafter be made uncapable to be wi ne&s;&s;es in any cau&s;e what&s;oever.</P>
<P N="6">6 That <HI>John Brown</HI> E&s;quire, Clerk of the Parlia|ment, is in the ju<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gement of this Hou&s;e free and cleer of, and from all and every the a&s;per&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns, fal&s;ities, and charges of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aid <HI>John Morris, I&s;abel Smith, Leonard Derby,</HI> and <HI>John Harris</HI> charged, uttered, divulged, and given out by them again&s;t him. Concerning the mat|ters herein mentioned, and that this Judgement &s;hall be openly read and publi&s;hed in the face of the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> at the next A&s;&s;izes to be held for that County.</P>
<P N="7">7 That the &s;aid parties &s;hall bring, or cau&s;e to bee brought into this Hou&s;e by the fifth day of <HI>October</HI> next one exemplification under the great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> concerning the Mannor of <HI>Little Munden,</HI> in the Coun|ty of <HI>Hartford,</HI> and the afore&s;aid Exemplification of the &s;aid counterfeit Act of Parliament, to which the great Seale of <HI>England</HI> is charged to have been unduly and fraudulently affixed, that &s;o the afore&s;aid forged ex|emplification may be cancelled and vacated.</P>
<P N="8">8 That they &s;hall be impri&s;oned during the plea&s;ure of this Hou&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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