England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
The Lords continue the debate. Andrew Newport to Sir R. Leveson. 1660, Aug. 2.
The House of Lords are still upon debate of the several heads of the Act of Indemnity; the moderate speech of the king's stopped the career they intended, so that they satisfied themselves with the excepting of five more persons for life to be added to the seven that the House of Commons left to the law, and in estate none shall be punished: these five are Lambert, Haselrig, Sir H. Vane, Colonel Axtell, and Colonel Hacker; the four first of these were of the twenty | |
26 | that the House of Commons intended to punish in their estates; Hacker was the man to whom the warrant was directed to see the king executed. But the House of Lords have ordered also that if any of the remaining sixteen shall hereafter presume to bear any office, civil, military, or ecclesiastical, that they shall receive no benefit from the Act of Indemnity; 'tis disputed whether the House of Commons will allow the pardon of these sixteen when the Act is returned to them. |
The same to the same. , Aug. 7. | |
To-day the Lords thought fit to except some persons from receiving benefit by the Act of Indemnity that sat upon Lords Hamilton, Holland, Derby, and Capell, Colonel Croxton, John Blackwell, one Wiburd, and Mr. Edmund Wareing. | |