Parliament debate

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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · tower imprisonment · dutch naval raid · crime and punishment · council of war · censorship and the press

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys primary

Samuel Pepys · 1659-01-01 to 1669 (diary entries)
Act of Indemnity; and in the House of Commons, between the > Act for the rendering none capable of preferment or employment in the State, but who have been loyall and constant to the King and (277/495)

Pepys reports Commissioner Pett’s imprisonment in the Tower, a rumored Dutch ship explosion, and talk at the Navy office that money shortages may lead to Parliament being called or not.

they begin to fear the main. He and every body cries out of the office of the Ordnance, for their neglects, both at Gravesend and Upner, and every where else. 18th. To the office, and by and by word was brought me that Commissioner Pett is brought to the Tower, and there laid up close prisoner; which puts me into a fright, lest they may do the same with us as they do with him. Great news to-night of the blowing up…