Numb. 303
A Perfect Diurnall
OF SOME
PASSAGES
IN
PARLIAMENT.
And the daily proceedings of the Army under his Excellency
the Lord Fairfax.
From Munday May 14. to Munday May 21. 1649.
Collected for the Satisfaction of such as desire to be truly informed.
Printed by E.G. and F.L. For Francis Coles and Laurence Blaiklocke: And are to be
sold at their shops in the old-Baily, and at Temple-Bar.
Beginning Munday May 14
This day the house passed the Act declaring what shall
be Treason against the State or present government.
The Act it selfe for better notice to all take as followeth:
WHereas the Parliament hath abolished the Kingly
office in England and Ireland, and in the Dominions
and Territories there unto belonging, and hath Resolved
and declared, That the people shall for the futures be
Governed by its owns Representatives, or National meetings
in councell, chosen and entrusted by them for that purpose,
hath fested the Government in way of a Commonwealth,
and free State without King or House of Lords: Be it enacted by this present Parliament,
and by the authority of the same, That if any person shall maliciously or advisedly publish by
Writing, Printing, on openly Declaring. That the said Government is Tyrannical, Usurped
or Uniawfull; or that the Commons in Parliament assembled are not the Supreme Authority
of this Nation; or shall for, Contride or Endeavor to stir up or raise Force against the present
Government, or for the [unr] or alteration of the same, and shall declare the same by
any open deed, That then every such Office shall be Taken, Deemed and Adjudged, by the
Authority of this Parliament to be High Treason. And whereas the Keepers of the Liberty
of England. The Councell of State, constituted, and to be from time to time constituted by Authority
of Parliament, and are to be under the said Representatives in Parliament. Entrusted
for the maintenance of the said Government, with severall Powers and Authorities limited,
given and appointed unto them by the Parliament; Be it Likewise Enacted by the authority