232 APPENDIX. (2.) A PASS FROM THE SPEAKER LENTHALL, (11 AUG. 1647) FOR COL. EDWARD HARLEY TO GO BEYOND THE SEA. Endorsed -" My pass to travel for six months." By vertue of an order off the Howse of Commons, These are to will and require you to suffer the bearer hearoff, Collonell Edward Harley, a member of the Howse of Commons, wth his servants and twoe horses, to ship himselfe in any port wthin this kingdom to goe beyond the sea ; heroff you may not fayle, as y" will answer the contrary at your utmost perills. Dated ye 11th of August, 1647. This pass to continue for the space off six monthes, to be accounted from ye date of ye sd order. (Signed) WM. LENTHALL, Speaker. To all comaunders, officers and soldiers, both by sea and land, and to all others whom these may conserve. No. V. THE PROTESTATION AT THE KINGS HEAD, 12 DEC. 1648. Endorsed -" Protestation at the King's Head,. &c." Wee whose names are hereunto subscribed, being members of the House of Comons and free men of England, doe hereby declare before God, and angel's, and men, that the general and officers of the armye, being raysed by authority of Plt, and for defence and mayntenance of the priviledges therof, have not, nor ought to have, any powr or jurisdiction to apprehend, secure, detaine, imprison, or remove or psons fro place to place, by any color or authority whatsoever, nor yet to question or trye us or any of us by martial' lawe or otherwise, for any offence or crime whatsoever which can or shall be objected or apprehended against vs. And that the present imprisonment and removal' of or psons is a high viola-
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