AN ORDER MADE BY THE COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS And directed to the Iustices of Peace in Middlesex and Surrey.  
For the raising of the trained Bands, and placing of good Guards about the City, On Tuesday, October 19. 1641.  
Whereunto is annexed a Petition delivered to Mr Pym concerning one hundred Pensioners in the Kings Bench.  
With the copy of a Letter sent from Germany to the PARLIAMENT ttouching the Palatinate: And an honouradle Proposition made concerning the same.  
LONDON, Printed for John Thomas. 1641.   

Die Martis 19, Octob: 1641: At the Committee of the House of COMMONS appointed to sit, during the recess.  
IN regard of the mischievous designs and Conspiracies now of late discovered in Scotland, against some principal and great persons there, by some who do profess the Popish Religion, and which is Popishly affencted, which the Committee conceives, may have some correspondency here to do the like mischief; They therefore think fit, and do order it, That the Justices of Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Survey, and the burrow of southwark, do forthwith place good Guards of men in arms, in several places about the City and southwark, and other places near adjoining, to bee relieved and continued, as they think fit, until they shall receive further direction from the PARLIAMENT, which is to meet to morrow; And in the mean time to observe such further direction therein, as they shall receive from the earl of Essex.  
John PYM.  
To the Iustices of Peace for the County of Surrey and the borough of southwark.   

The copy of a Petition delivered to Mr. Pym, concerning a hundred Pensioners in the Kings-Bench, October 19. 1641  
THere was this day also a Petition delivered to Mr. Pym, concerning a hundred Pensioners in the Kings-Bench, whereupon Mr. Pym was desired to deliver his opinion, whether the imprisonment of the body for contempt or otherwise, were not against Magna Charta, and the privilege of the Subject, to which Mr. Pym replied, it befitted not him as a private man to deliver his opinion therein, but it concerned the two houses of PARLIAMENT, the Judges, and the learned in the Law to give verdict upon it, and upon the meeting and assembling of the House of Commons, the Petition should be delivered, where they must attend for answer to it.   

THE copy of another Letter sent to the PARLIAMENT from Regensborough in Germany touching the Palatinate.  
FRom Regensborough we receive intelligence of Letters come to the House of Parliament, That the Lantsgrave of Hessen, and the Duke of Luneburgh, are falling off from the Swedes, which will difficilate the Conquest of the Palatinate, by the English, but the Scots are very importunate with the King to pesecute it, promising strong aid and honourable allowance, and that the Dan● will join forces with us, but the Commons conceive that the burden and charge of the war will fall upon the English, yet how soever they are willing to advance their design.   

A Proposition made by an honourable Lord in Scotland touching the Palatinate.  
FIrst, in regard his Majesties gracious Manifest and Proposition touching the electoral Family, having been so generally approved and concluded, to be both a Pious and Honourable enterprise, and therefore ought not to be delayed or procrastinated.  
But it is objected again, that the Country is so ruined and depopulated, that if it should be won, it will not( in all probability) countervail the charge, loss, and hazard that must first be undergone.  
This Objection is not to be denied, but to bee both fit and necessary of a State to be considered, when their undertakings are for particular wrongs and injuries sustained, but when as an enemy( as in this case) hath forcibly thrust a lawful Prince out of the whole Inheritance of his royal Ancestors, and refuseth to restore him upon honourable Conditions, I humbly conceive, quitting of cost ought not to overbalance the right and honour of a Prince so injured.  
The Prince Elector is not onely forcibly kept forth of his lawful Inheritance, to his great loss and damage; but his Honour is thereby deeply wounded, and through him, his majesty, our Native sovereign, his royal Uncle, and indeed all the Princes of the reformed Religion, bear a share in his dishonour.  
Lastly, in regard England and Scotland had lately two Armies in the field( which now, through the goodness of the God of Peace, are united and disbanded) in which are many stout, and valiant Commanders and Officers of both Nations, for the expediting of so noble an enterprise, up then, let us be doing, and surely the Lord of Hosts will go before the Army( that shall fight for such a cause) and make plain all Mountaines, that shall occur in the way, and give a blessed and successful Issue, to such an honourable enterprise.  
FINIS.