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A45963 An account of the sessions of Parliament in Ireland, 1692 Ireland. Parliament. 1693 (1693) Wing I297; ESTC R16095 11,048 30

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Suits was twice read and committed to a select Committee but it was not Reported to the House at the time of the Prorogation On Monday the 31st Saturday having been spent in the last reading and passing the Bill for an Additional Excise and in debates about a controverted Election a Bill for settling a Militia in this Kingdom which had been brought into the House on the 24th was read the first time but it proposing a much greater Number to be raised upon several Counties than there were Protestant Inhabitants in the said Countys and lodging too great a Power in Commissioners of Array for these and other Reasons was rejected however the House being sensible that a Bill for settling a Militia wou'd be very requisite for this Kingdom resolved to consider of it on Tuesday the first of November in a Committee of the whole House and then came to a Vote that a Militia by Law established was absolutely necessary for preserving the Peace of this Kingdom and made a considerable Progress in forming of it and appointed to proceed on it again on the 3d. of November A Committee having formerly been appointed amongst other things to inspect what Laws had been made in England since the 10. H. 7. and were fit to be enacted in this Kingdom and the House pursuant to their Report having voted several of them in particular to be necessary ordered the said Committee to attend the Lord Lieutenant in Council with the said Votes and humbly to desire that Bills might be prepared accordingly but his Excellency not coming to Council on the day the House was informed his Excellency wou'd be for this purpose attended there The House on Wednesday the 2d ordered an Address to be made to his Excellency to know his pleasure therein and his Excellency thereupon was pleased to appoint Friday the 4th in the Afternoon to be attended with the said Votes At the same time his Excellency was also pleased to accept of the Commons Address in behalf of their Chaplain and in a most obliging manner to declare that their Address shou'd be always acceptable to him This day also the House received a Message from his Excellency recommending to them the taking the Bill for punishing Mutineers and Deserters by Martial Law into speedy Consideration This Bill was brought into the House the 28th of October and had been twice Read and Committed one of the Secretaries pressed that it might be taken from the Committee and immediately read a third time but the House conceiving it more proper to be debated in a Committee Resolved accordingly and thinking the former Number thereof too few to debate a matter of so great moment ordered that all that came shou'd have Votes and to be Reported next Morning On Thursday the 3d. the said Bill being Reported with the Amendments was rejected by the House it containing not one fifth part of the Act made in England to that purpose and the part in that English Act relating to the good of the Subject and the Kingdom in general by obliging the Officers to orderly Quarters faithful Payment of the Souldiers and to just and true Musters being quite left out And whereas the English Act is to continue only for one Year this was to continue for three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament But a Committee was then appointed to meet that Afternoon and prepare Heads of a Bill agreeable to the said English Act. Soon after the rejecting this Bill several of the Members were informed that the Parliament wou'd be immediately Prorogued or D●ssolved A large Report was then made to the House from a select Committee representing Discoveries of very great Consequence drawn from the Accounts relating to the forseited Irish Estates both Real and Personal but the House receiving information That his Excellency was come to the House of Lords This Report was ordered to lye on the Table A Message was brought by the Usher of the Black Rod requiring the House of Commons immediately to attend his Excellency in the Lord's House The House accordingly went up to the House of Lords his Excellency being seated in his Robes gave the Royal Assent to four Bills viz. The Act of Recognition The Act of Excise The Act for Encouragement of Protestant Strangers and the Act for taking Affidavits in the Country the Mony Bill was passed with the usual Form viz. that their Majesties thank their Loyal Subjects and accepted their Benevolence The House were somewhat surprized at this unexpected Resolution having expected to sit at least the next day and did not apprehend what occasion they had given of Displeasure to his Excellency to put so sudden an end to the Session when the day before he expressed himself so favourably to them in answer to their Addresses and assigned them the day after this for the Committee to attend him in Council but they were more surprized to hear his Excellency charge them in his Speech That they had not answered the Ends for which they were called together but had behaved themselves undutifully and ungratefully in invading their Majesties Perogative a Charge of such a nature as sounded very harsh in the Ears of Gentlemen who looked upon themselves and the rest of the Protestants in this Kingdom to be as obsequiously devoted to their Majesties Interest as any of their Majesties Subject a Qualification and Temper which they knew was not likely to recommend them to those amongst whom they lived and therefore could not but with the highest regret and trouble hear his Excellency cast them off from their just Claim to the most unfeigned Dutifulness and Affection to their Majesties which they held as dear to them as their Lives and at the same time expose them to the Insultings of their most implacable and malitious Adversaries who they knew were ever warchful and ready to improve all Advantages against them who cou'd not but look upon a Protestant Parliament with trouble and therefore rejoyced to see it meet with such Treatment They reflected on what they had done that cou'd possibly occasion so severe a Censure but his Excellency in his next Sentence was pleased to clear this point to them by referring to their printed Votes of the 27th of October That it is the sole and undoubted Right of the House of Commons to prepare Heads of Mony Bills and to their rejecting a Mony Bill the next day because it had not it's Rise in their House This the Gentlemen of the House of Commons cou'd not but very much admire of considering how maturely and with what deference to their Majesties Prerogative those things had been debated in the House and not only consented to but first proposed as an Expedient by some who have always both before and since comply'd with the Directions of the Government without Reserve all the Votes relating to the Expedient being likewise Resolved without one Negative Voice But for these Reasons his Excellency declared That