An Exact Diurnal OF THE PARLIAMENT OF LADIES the Parliament of Ladies Ordered by the LADIES in Parliament, That they declare that Prince Rupert, Lord Digby, Lord Capell, Lord Cottington, Dr. Williams, Mr. Walter, L. Hopton, L. Culpepper, Dr. Duppa, Sir R. Greenvill, L. Jermine, and Major Gen. Vrrey, Have all their Pardons granted to them by this COURT seal Clericus may. 6th Printed Anne Dom. 1647. seal seal seal seal seal seal seal seal AN Exact Diurnal Of the several passages in the PARLIAMENT OF THE LADIES. From Monday the first till Monday the 8th. MONDAY. COUNTESSES and other Ladies (on Monday morning early, in a Prosopopia) being met in Mary Maudlin's Hall in Oxford, they first made choice of their Speaker; and it was agreed by all, that the Lady Oboney should have the Chair, The Lady Rivers was made Chancellor Nurse Windham High Constable, The Countess of Derby High Treasurer, and the Countess of Essex High Chamberlain. The Ladies having all taken their places, Mrs. powel was appointed Chief Clerk to the House, and Mrs. Peele Chair Lady to the Close Committee, And Moll-Cut-purse was made Sergeant at Arms The first day was wholly taken up in speeches by the Countess of Derby, Nurse Windham, the Lady Rivers, and others, for redress of greivances, and Execution of Justice against some by them charged. The Countess of Derby her. SPEECH. Lady Speaker, COnsidering that I own to the benevolent aspects of the Ladies, both my heart, and all respects which may be due unto so high a Court, whose power sways more by love and Arms, than Law. In regard that I was made (by this Assembly) Lady High Treasurer: I conceive myself obliged to move for redress of some abuses against our Prelate, by some, whose Cowardly and perfidious behaviour, lost 〈◊〉 designs. The Lady Rivers her SPEECH. Lady Speaker, THis Honourable Lady Speaks sensibly, knowing her dear Lord to be hereby forced to remain in Exile, to pluck Geese, Ducks, Dotterills, and Widgeons, to retain their Plumes, we may all of us speak feelingly to this business, my motion is that Prince Rupert, and the rest that have been the cause of it, may be sent for to come before us. Nurse Windhams SPEECH. Lady Speaker, THese noble Ladies have moved well: That which I shallde sire is, That all such who have been either treacherous to our designs, or base and cowardly, may be sent for, and brought to the Barias Delinquents, and here examined before the whole House. The Lady Ohoneys SPEECH. Grave Ladies, I Am amazed at the thoughts of some base spirits, who have betrayed us; But by my consent; let them be sent for; That both they and all others may know, what it is to trespass on our levity. After a long debate about this weighty business it was Ordered by the Ladies, that the said business be taken into serious consideration the next day. Tuesday. THe Ladies being again met, debated the business, moved the day before. And Ordered to send for these Delinquents following, to be brought before them either alive or dead. A List of the Delinquents sent for Prisoners to the Ladies. Prince Rupert. Lord George Digby. Lord Capell. Lord Cottington. Doctor Williams Archbishop of York, Master Walter. Lord Hopton. Lord Culpepper. Doctor Duppa the Prince's Chaplin. Sir Rich. Greenvill. Lord Hen. Germin. Major Gen. Vrry. The warrant being delivered to the Sarjant at Arms, Mrs. Mary musters up her witty Merinidons, sends for and attacheth the Delinquents, whom she keeps prisoners, fast in Irons, lest they or any of them should make escape. Wednesday. THe Ladies being sat, Moll-Cutpurse advertised them, that the prisoners were all apprehended. Then were they called to the bar. The Lady Speaker sitting in the Cheer, and next to her, on the right hand the Lady Chancellor, and the Treasurer, and on the left hand, the Lady High Constable, and the Lady Chamberlin, and the rest of the Ladies in order, on the one side of the Hall. And on the other, before whom the trembling prisoners were brought to the Bar, and the charge brought in by the Close Committee. 1 Prince Rupert was called in, and falling on his knees, heard his charge read against him, that he hath been the chief cause of their designs miscarrying by his plundering at Edge-Hill, his wilfulness at Marston-moore, and his cowardliness at Boistoll. To all which he pleaded not guilty noble Amozons. 2. Then the Lord George Digby was called to the Bar, and charged for a Machivilian, when he was Secretary: A coward when he was General, and an Ass when he went Irish Empassadour; To which his Lordship pleaded not guilty my Ladies. 3 The Lord Capell was charged for a Plunderer, a Robearier, and a Cow●●ealer, and by that means their cause was disparadged, and made odious, as if the Armies intended to make a pray of the people. To all which his Lordship pleaded not guilty, and if it please your Ladyships. 4 The old L. Cottington, (though very loath to kneel) was forced to submit and here his charge. That he had not only often vexed the Ladies at Court by crossing their motions, but had put them into many terrible, frights, during the Leaguer at Oxford, and at last betrayed them co save his own head, which was never half so good as Prince Griffins, or the Calf's head, at the Beggar's feast. His Lordship said he was an innocent Lord, and prayed them to pity his age, and he would never trouble them. 5 Doctor Williams, late Archbishop of York, was charged (by a complaint made by the welsh Ladies against him) that he made his cousin Taffy to leap ditches and Ramplers up and down, and on both sides, in England and in Wales: and at last to leap quite away from her. His Lordship would not endure the charge. 6 Mr. Walter was brought to the Bar and charged to be a great disgracer of their sex, and that he laid open his wife's Inconstancy, so much to the world's view, that it extended to the disparidgment of some members of their Assembly, and that for the same he was charged to be a grand insendiary. To which charge he pleaded he was not guilty of any misdemeanour. 7 The Lord Hopton was charged, for that when he was Chief protector of their Ladyship's hopes to get up an Army again to hold up their Spirits, that his Lordship did in a base manner, first fly before Sir Thomas Fairfax in the West, and at last (without fight) surrender all their Horses, and Arms. To which he pleaded not guilty, my Honoured Ladies. 8 The Lord Culpepper was charged for a close Juncto man, and that he was a fomenter of divisions, between the Ladies and their Husbands; And that he had Traitorously enticed Prince Charles to go into Sicily, and so into France. To which he pleaded not guilty of offence therein. 9 Doctor Duppa is charged for hiding himself when the Prince was in most need of him; and that he was a false Prophet telling the Ladies of great victories, when they had the greatest losses; To which he pleaded nulla Errata. 10 Sir Richard Greenvill was charged for Tyrannical usadge to the Country, and that by killing and hanging divers only for revenge and pride, he lost the hearts of a great party which otherwise would have held up Episcopacy, and Common prayer, May poles, & Morrice-dancing; Wakes, and Love-meetings, which now are laid aside. Sir Richard answered. That he was the Lady's humble Servant, though they should hang him every day. 11. The Lord Harry Iermin, was Charged by the Ladies, that his Lordship was made all of Compliments towards them, not sparing them one drop of help along time, only had kept himself in quarters and a far off, leaving the rest, to fight for, or lose the English Ladies Liberties, himself taking care only to save his own skin whole To which his Lordship pleaded. Spare me, most lovely Gallants, I am clear of harming you. 12. Major General Vrrey was brought to the Bar, his charge was for Inconstancy. the most hateful thing to the Ladies, that he deserved death; lest the world should be troubled with children of his getting to be like the Father To his charge he pleaded, not guilty. The witnesses were ordered to be summoned against the next day, and then the whole matter of fact to be examined and debated. Thursday. THe Prisoners being again brought before the Ladies and witness examined, The Ladies upon result of the whole voted them all guilty, and that the next day judgement should be denounced against every one of them, according to their several offences. Friday. THe Ladies delivered judgement against the several Prisoners, as followeth. 1. Prince Rupert was Sentenced to be fast bound to a Post amongst Porcupins, and so to remain until he be stuck to death with their quills. 2. The Lord Georg Digby was condemned to be put into a Den amongst all manner of Vipers, and there to live (all the days of his life, on such Treacle as he shall make of them. and have no other food. 3 The Lord Capell was adjudged, to be stripped starknaked, (put into the valley of Hubla) to keep wasps and hornets from the hives of the laborious Bees▪ 4 The Lord Cottingtons' Sentence was to ride perpetual Post, between Spain and England, upon old decrepit, stumbling Jades; and cross the Seas in old weather-beaten French Pickero ones, to and fro, all the days of his life. 5 The Arch Bishop of York was Condemned to Exile in the lake of Lerna, and there to be confined to a Welsh Cottage, And get his living by Angling for Frogs out of those ditches. 6. Master Walter was adjudged to be banished the Company of all women, and carried to a strange land, to get his living by teaching Apes, to sing the Note of the English Cuckoo. 7. The Lord Hoptons' penalty was denounced against him, that his Lordship should serve the Cloaca's at the house of Office, all the days of his life. 8. The Lord Culpepper was adjudged to be Exiled a Bondslave for seven years into a Stigion Galloy, to record the Ghosts that pass over the Lake, and to be fed with brown Bread Crusts, and four fillips on the Nose every bit he eats. 9 Doctor Duppaners senteneed by the Ladies to serve the Scouring Women at Court, and be fed with the Cook's papers, taken from under the King's Pies, Pasties, and Tarts. 10. Sir Richard Greenvills' doom was, to be put into a Cave in the Isle of Wight, without any light but the glittering of Glow-worms and Rotten Wood, and there to fight with Rats, Mice, and Weaseils. And live upon the prey of those undermining vermin. 11. The Lord Henry Germin, his Judgement is to be confined to the Land of Pigmies, to help the Inhabitants to discover the subtle plots of the Cranes, and Herons; and assert them against such like fierce Birds that would eat them up. 12. Major General Vrry his penalties to be tied to a very high Weathercock on the top of a Steeple, and feed only on Flies and Spiders. The Lady Speaker having thus in the name of the whole House denounced Sentence against the Prisoners. The Lord Digby (in most submissive manner) prays for mitigation of his sentences: And so doth the Lord Iermin, and all the rest of the condemned Prisoners, whose brinish tears made the Lady's hearts to relent, And Ordered to consider how to show them mercy on the morrow. Saturday. THe Ladies being again solisited in behalf of the Prisoners condemned, to lessen those bitter sentenses denounced against them, debated the business; and at last Ordered that a general Reprieve should be granted to them all which was done accordingly, to the great joy of all the Prisoners, and their friends. FJNJS.