VOTES of the HOUSE of COMMONS FOR Divers of their Members, to Answer an Impeachment, and the times set to Each of them. Mr. John Macquire condemned to bee hanged, four others quit, the manner of their trial. Mr. Stewart sick of the Plague. ALSO Papers from the AGITATORS of the ARMY, to his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX: IN Prosecution of their Remonstrance against the Members that were engaged in the late intended war. 7 ber 6th Printed at London by Robert Ibbitson, 1647. Papers delivered by the Agitators of the Army to his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX May it please your Excellency, WHereas upon the 23 of August last, the Conscience of our duty to God and the Kingdom to prosecute our Protestation constrained us to declare our sense of the inviolable engagement of the Army, immediately to restrain those late usurpers of Parliamentary power from sitting in Parliament, to obstruct all proceedings tending to the kingdoms peace: and notwithstanding we have waited with much patience, expecting that the Parliaments zeal to the public good would have made those Intruders and Designers of mischief a burden so intolerable to their spirits, that they would rather have called for the Armys assistance to eject them, then to have permitted them to sit there; yet all our expectations are hitherto, frustrate, and no endeavours to that end are visible, we therefore in faithfulness to our principles and in a deep sense of the blood and confusion that threatens the Nation, by reason of the delays of removing the peoples burdens, and clearing and securing their Rights and Freedoms, which proceeds from those Incendiaries sitting in Parliament, cannot but humbly represent once more to your Excellency. That we are weary of waiting and that the peoples growing miseries and distresses presseth us not to forbear any longer to use the utmost of our endeavours to make our Protestation real and effectual in restraining all those Usurpers and Incendiaries from sitting in Parliament in case they should not immediately be removed, that then those retarders and obstructors of the Freedom of all Parliamentary actings, being expelled from the House; that wicked design of our enemies to make the Army burdensome to the Nation by enforcing them to take free-quarter through want of pay might be crushed, and the Parliament might proceed speedily to settle the kingdoms Peace, Which is the continued desire of us whose names are subscribed, Jo. Renolds Fran. Allen Will. Rainsborow jo. Willoughby Geo. Ioyce Fran. White Edw. Vaughan Nath. Foxgill jo. Dober joh. Wells John Wilson John Blackmore Tobias Bridge Wil. Ioans Tho. Sheapard not, underwood jo. Wood Steven comb Nich. Rawlins Rich. Nixon Tho. Robinson Edw. Sexby Timo. Thornbrough Rich. johnson Henry Githings Rich. Grant Wil. prior Edw. twig Edw. Orpin Wil. knolls jo. tailor Will. Wilkinson Geo. Stenson Rich. Flower Rich. Thomas Edm. Garne Rich. Creed Tho. Michel. jo. Radman jacob Summers Bart. Willock. Septemb. 2, 1647. several Votes of the House of Commons concerning some of the Members who acted in the promoting of the late intended war. Die Sabbati Septem. 4. 1647 ▪ UPon Reports from the Committee for the examinations of the mutinies, and the forcing the Houses, and the designs of the late intended war, the House of Commons ordered. First, That Sir John Clotworthy, Sir William Lewis, Col. Long, & Sir William Waller Members of the House of Commons, who are gone beyond the Seas, bee summoned to appear before the House within the space of six weeks, to deliver in their answers, to the Impeachment against them. Secondly, That Mr. Bainton a Member of the House of Commons be suspended the House during pleasure. Thirdly, That Col. Anthony nichols, a Member of the House of Commons who being sent up prisoner from the Army, and delivered to the custody of one of the Officers of the House, and after made an escape, be summoned to appear before the House, and deliver in his Answer to the Impeachment against him within the space of six weeks. Fourthly, That Mr. Glynn Recorder of the City of London, a Member of the House of Commons, who is at his House at Westminster, be summoned to appear before the House, on monday next Septem. 6. 1647. to deliver in his Answer to the Impeachment against him. Fiftly, That avant general Massey a Member of the House of Commons who is gone beyond the Seas, bee summoned to deliver in his Answer within six weekes time, to the Impeachment against him. sixthly, That Sir John Maynard a Member of the House of Commons who is at his house at Tooting, four miles from London, be summoned to appear before the House on Tuesday ▪ next Sep. 7. 1647. to deliver in his Answer to the Impeachment against him. At the Sessions in the Old-Bayliffe for the goal delivery for the Prisoners in New-Gate, which ended on Saturday Sep. 4. 1647. SIX persons were imprisoned in Newgate about the riot and murder at Guild-Hall by colonel general Poyntz, and the Reformadoes. 1. One Mr. Stewart, was not brought to the Bench to be tried this Sessions, because he is infected with the plague. 2. Some others imprisoned not found guilty 3. John Macquire, an irishmen( formerly an officer under the earl of Essex, And after Captain-Leiu. to colonel cook was accused to be one of the chief of the Riotours, and was indicted for murder( some said his sword was seen bloody.) The said John Macquire, pleaded not guilty, confessed that he was there, but had no sword at all, that when he saw them with drawn swords, he took a paring shovel out of a womans hand, that he had no other weapon, and used that only for his defence; and pleaded moreover that he had been long in the Parliaments service: And argued his case thus, that the wound was with a sword wherewith the party that dyed was wounded, which could not be his weapon, it being a paring shovel. After the witnesses were all heard, and the said Macquere had spoken what he would, the Jury received their charge, and being agreed delivered in their verdict: That the said John Macquire is guilty of a Riot. The Recorder advertised the Jury that they must either bring it in muther or clear him, for he was indicted for murder, and not for a Riot. Then the Jury withdrew again, and delivered in their verdict the second time, That the said John Macquire is guilty of murder. For which the Bench have adjudged him to be hanged. FINIS.