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 trayned 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 coppie of a letter sent from Germany to the Parliament touching the Palatinate, and an honourable proposition made concerning the same.

Die Martis 19, Octob: 1641: At the Committee of the House of COMMONS appointed to sit, during the Recesse.

IN regard of the mischie∣vous Designes and Con∣spiracies now of late dis∣covered in Scotland, against some principall and great persons there, by some who doe professe the Popish Religion, and which is Po∣pishly affected, which the Committee conceives, may have some correspon∣dency here to doe the like mischiefe; They there∣fore thinke fit, and doe order it, That the Justices of Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Survey, and the Burrough of Southwarke, doe forthwith place good Guards of men in Armes, in severall places about the City and Southwarke, and other places neere adjoyning, to bee relieved and conti∣nued, as they thinke fit, untill they shall receive further direction from the PARLIAMENT, which

is to meet to morrow; And in the meane time to observe such further direction therein, as they shall receive from the Earle of Essex.

IOHN PYM.

To the Iustices of Peace for the County of Surrey and the Bor∣rough of Southwarke.