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THe Commons Assembled in Parliament, having received Information of divers Treasonable Practises and Designes of a great Peer of this House (Edward Earl of Clarendon) Commanded me to Accuse the said Edward Earl of Clarendon of Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanors; And I do here in their Names, and in the Names of the Commons of England, accuse Edward Earl of Clarendon of Treason, and other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. I am further commanded by the House of Commons, to desire your LordClarendon may forth-with be Sequestred from Parliament, and be committed to safe Custody: They further com
Resolved, &c.
That the Lords have not Complyed with the Desires of the House of Commons, concerning the Commitment of the Earl of Clarendon, and Sequestring him from Parliament; Because the House of Commons have only Accused him of Treason in general, and have not assigned, or specified any particular Treason.
I. THat the Earl of Clarendon hath designed a standing Army to be Raised, and to Govern the Kingdom thereby; AdParliament, so lay aside all thoughts of Parliament for the future, to Govern by Military Power, and to maintain the same by Free-Quarter, and Contribution.
II. That he hath in hearing of many of his Majesties Subjects, falsly and seditiously said, The King was in his Heart a Papist, Popishly affected; or words to that effect.
III. That he hath received great sums of Money for passing the Canary Pattent; and other illegal Pattents, and granted several Injunctions to stop proceedings at Law against them, and other illegal Pattents formerly granted.
IV. That he hath advised and procured divers of his Majesties Subjects to be Imprisoned against Law, in remote Islands, Gar
V. That he hath corruptly sold several Offices, contrary to Law.
VI. That he hath procured his Majesties Customes to be Farmed at under Rates, knowing the same; and great pretended Debts to be paid by his Majesty; to the payment whereof, his Majesty was not in strictness bound: And hath received great sums of Money for procuring the same.
VII. That he hath received great sums of Money from the CompaVintners, or some of them, or their Agents, for exhausting the Prices of Wine, and for freeing them from the payment of legal Penalties, which they had incurred.
VIII. That he hath in short time gained to himself a far greater Estate then can be imagined to be lawfully gained in so short a time: And contrary to his Oath, hath procured several Grants under the Great Seal from his Majesty to himself and Relations, of several of his Majesties Lands, Hereditaments, and Leases, to the dis-profit of his Majesty.
IX. That he introduced an Arbitrary Government in his Majesties Forreign Plantations, and hath caused such as Complained there
X. That he did reject and frustrate a Proposal and Undertaking, approved by his Majesty, for the Preservation of Mevis and St. Christophers, and Reducing the French Plantations to his Maje
XI. That he advised and effected the Sale of Dunkirk to the French King, being part of his Majesties Dominions, together with the Ammunition, Artillery, and all sorts of Stores there, and for no greater value then the said Ammunition, Artillery, and Stores were worth.
XII. That the said Earle did unduly cause his Majesties Letters PatEngland (to one Dr. Cronither) to be altered, and the Inrolement thereof to be unduly razed.
XIII. That he hath in an Arbitrary way, examined and drawn into question divers of his Majesties Subjects concerning their Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels, and Properties; determined thereof at the Council-Table, and stopped proceedings at Law; and threatned some that pleaded the Statute of 17 Car. 1.
XIV. That he had caused Quo Warranto's to be issued out against most of the Corporations of England by Act of Parliament, to the intent he might receive great sums of Money from them for ReCharters; which when they complyed withal, he caused the said Quo Warranto's to be discharged, and prosecution thereon to cease.
XV. That he procured the Bills of Settlement for Ireland, and re
XVI. That he hath Deluded and Betrayed his Majesty, and the Na
XVII. That he was a principal Author of that fatal Counsel of DiFleet, about June, 1666.