The proceedings, votes, resolves, and acts of the late half-quarter Parliament, called the Rump

Monday, February 6.

This day there was a Petition presented to the House, in the name of sun∣dry Welsh Farmers, which was as followeth:

To the reeght Honoraple, &c.

The Humble Pettishon of sundry Shentlemen of Walles:

Doth most humply shoh to your Worsip••,

THat whereas there were sundry fery creat Repells in our famous Coun∣tries of Walles, who did rise hup in repellion against your Worsips, and would have killed and slain all your cood Worsips, as we are fery well aple to testifie unto your Worsips, once more py Cods crace in Parlament assem∣pled; And whereas the Ring leater of these pase Repells was a fery creat Shentleman of Walles, a man of a fery creat power, and of a fery creat E∣state, py name Sir Hugh Middleton, and whereas we so understand that you are coing apout to sell all his fery creat means,

May it therfore pless a your cood Worsips, if you will sell such cood penyworths as your cood Worsips formerly have done, as tere is no toubt, putr your cood Worsips must be forced to do, to lett your poor Petishners have a cood pargain of your cood Worsips, as soon as another, for py Cods plutree nells wee pee Shentlemen of Walles, and will pay your cood Worsips fery honestly, and pe∣sides that we shall pe efer pound to pray, &c.

The Petition being read, the Petitioners were called in, and received the thanks of the House, which the Speaker did give them accordingly.

Ordered, That a Letter be sent down to Colonel Overton, to know upon what grounds he dares keep Hull for Jesus Christ, while they are the Supream Authority of the Nation?

They also resolved upon the form of an Oath, which was this:

YOu shall Swear to be faithful and constant to Us, our Heirs, Execu∣tors, and Assigns, from generation to generation, as long as the world endures, and longer, if possible may be. That you shall obey us in every thing, whether lawful or unlawful. And that you set your Con∣sciences adrift in a Bowl-dish in the middle of the Thames, where you may never see them more, when you enter intoour service; without which burthen you can never be fit and qualified for our employments. That you shall subscribe with you own blood, as the devil bindeth Witches when he makes them enter into Covenants.