AN ORDER FROM THE house Of Commons in Parliament, Assembled for the Protection and rescuing of any Member of the House, that shall bee attached without Order from the House. As also, An Order for their sitting at Grocers-hall: With a Discovery of 1500. of arms, provided by the Arch-Bishop of york. January the 6. 1641. arms of Charles I C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE London Printed by The: pain, in Red-Crosse-streete 1641. January the 6. 1641. REport came to the Committee of the House of Commons, sitting at Guild-Hall in London, that John Williams, Arch-Bishop of york, late Bishop of lincoln, provided 1500. arms, which he bargained with one Mr. Nalian, in Baldens Rents, in Grays-Inne-Layne, at fourteen pound the score, to provide for him, all which was done but some few daies before the said Bishop of york with the other 11. Bishops were Committed to the Tower for high Treason: And these arms, the Complainant doth not doubt but to discover where they are to be found. Also the said Gentleman( who discovered this plot, being a Gentleman of the Inner Temple,) did report to some friends of his that he went with the Cavileroes at White Hall: and he protested that it grieved him to see what deboist men the Cavelist were. And he demanded fo some of them, whether they did not intend to stand out against the Parliament especially against M. Pimme,&, And one of them answered to this effect, that he loved M. Pimme from the bottom of his hart, he knew him to be so honest a Gentleman and so harmless: and moreover they said that the would not by any means offer the least hurt in the world to any Member of the House. But they said, that they had a good mind to pillidge the City. There was a debate about there sitting on the morrow being friday, the 7. of janu. 1641. about their sitting in some more convenient place. Some propounded Guild Hall to be a convenient plac, in respect( not only of that hall alone but) because Haberdashers Hall is so nere to it also. others thought Grocers Hall fitter for the purpose, &c. Resolved upon the question. THat the Committee should meet on the next day( being friday, at Grocers Hall. An Order by the house of Commons. 1641. IT is this Day Resolved, upon the Question, and Ordered by the Commons House of PARLIAMENT, that if any Persons what-soever, shall come to the Lodgings, of any Member of this House, and there to offer to seal the trunks, doors, or Papers of any Member of the House, or to Seize upon their Persons; that then such Members shall require the aid of the Constables to keep such Persons in safe custody, till this House do give further Order. And this House doth further Declare, that If any Person what-soever, shall offer to arrest, or detain the Person of any Member of this house, without first acquainting this house therewith, and receiving further Order from this house: That it is lawful for such Members, or any Person, to assist, and to stand upon his, or their Gvard or Defence, and to make Resistance, according to the Protestation taken, to defend the privileges of the Parliament. This was red three times at the Guild-Hall, in the presence of many thousand Citizens, with great acclamation and joy. God save the KING. FINIS.