be not very usual yet there want not Presidents of the same nature as I was assured by Henry Elsing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House upon Friday the 16 th day of April 1630. and that especially in former times as of King Edward the third and others the Lord Keepers place was during his absence for the most part supplied by vertue of the Kings verbal Command and seldom by Commission October the 6 th Sunday On Monday the 7 th day of October An Act to make void fraudulent Gifts Bargains and Alienations made for the deceiving of Creditors was read primâ vice and committed to Justice Dyer Quod nota The Lord Treasurer continued the Parliament until the next day at nine of the Clock On Tuesday the 8 th day of October the Bill that no man killing any person by misfortune at twelve score or longer mark shall therefore forfeit his Lands Tenements or Goods was read primâ vice Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliament usque in diem Jovis prox horâ nonâ On Thursday the 10 th day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill that no man killing any person at twelvescore prick or longer mark shall forfeit his Goods or Chattels in which Bill for that it toucheth the Queens Prerogative it was thought not convenient to proceed further without her Highness pleasure first known in the same Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona and so every sitting day until Friday the 25 th day of October exclusivè the Parliament was continued in this Form by the Lord Treasurer except Monday the 21 th day and Tuesday the 22 th day of October on both which days the House did sit and Bills were read but in the Original Journal-Book is no mention of continuing the Court by any person which seemeth to have happened by negligence of the Clerk and after the said 25 th day of October on which Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission to supply the place of the Lord Keeper during his Sickness it was continued until Saturday the 9 th day of November ensuing when Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal repaired again to the Upper House and there continued his place till the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament On Saturday the 12 th day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy for Creditors against Bankrupts was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice Dyer and Justice Southcote to be by them considered against the next meeting Quod nota October the 13 th Sunday On Monday the 14 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the taking away of Clergy from Pick-Purses and Cut-Purses was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 15 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the two first the one being the Bill to take away the benefit of the Clergy from certain Offenders for some Felonies for which by the Common Law they could not be denied it was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa And the other being a Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the fault of the Original Writ majore Procerum numero assentientium conclusa est And the said two Bills so concluded were committed unto the Queens Attorney and M r Martin to be carried down to the House of Commons On Wednesday the 16. day of October the Lords did meet in the Parliament Chamber and nothing done but the Parliament continued by the Lord Treasurer in usual Form until Thursday the 17. day of October On Thursday the 17. day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to Naturalize John Stafford born beyond the Seas was primâ vice lect and the third being against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy against Bankrupts was by the consent of all the Lords concluded On Saturday the 19. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by the Lord Treasurer the Bill for the punishment of the negligence and false return of Writs by under-Sheriffs and Bayliffs was by common consent of the Lords concluded and with two other Bills before concluded was sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and the Attorney General On Monday the 21. day of October the Bill for annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons viz. One to take the benefit of Clergy from certain Offendors returned exped And another to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching prices of Barrells and Kilderkins On Tuesday the 22. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Northumberland the Earls of Westmoreland and Bedford the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Carlisle the Lord Evers the Lord Rich and the Lord North and to Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus Nota That here a Judge being but an Assistant and a Serjeant being but an Attendant upon the Upper House are made Joint-Committees with the Lords Ut vide plus on Thursday the third day of this instant October foregoing Nota also That an Extraordinary Proxy is Entered in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been introduced this day being as followeth viz. 22 die Octobris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Cuthberti Domini Ogle in quibus Procuratores constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford Johannem Dominum Lumley This I call an Extraordinary Proxy in respect that a Temporal Lord did Constitute two Proctors whereas usually they nominate but one and the Spiritual Lords for the most part two and this Proxy of the Lord Ogle's may the rather seem unusual in respect that of sixteen Temporal Lords who were absent by her Majesties Licence from this Session of Parliament there was but one more viz. Francis Earl of Bedford ut vide on Saturday the 9. day of November following who Constituted above one Proxy It is also worth the noting that Robert Earl of Leicester being at this time a Favorite was
order as they be here set down in the aforesaid Journal Book to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February The Proxies also of Edward Earl of Derby John Earl of Oxford Henry Lord Strange Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon and Henry Lord Morley by which the said Earl of Bedford was Constituted their sole or joynt Proctor are entred in the same order they are Transcribed in the before mentioned Original Journal Book to have been returned on Saturday the 18th day of March ensuing And lastly the said Earl of Bedford was Constituted the joynt Proctor with Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of Oliver Lord St. John of Bletto whose Letters Procuratory are entred to have been returned on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral was Constituted the sole Proctor of William Lord Burgh Edward Lord Windsor and William Lord Euers whose Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of this Parliament to have been returned on this Monday the 23th day of this January He was also Constituted the joynt Proctor of William Lord Grey of Wilton whose Proxie is entred as aforesaid to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February ensuing the Proxie also of Francis Earl of Huntington is entred as before to have been returned on Saturday the 18th day of March following by which he Constituted the said Lord Clinton his joynt Proctor with Henry Lord Hastings And for the Proxie of John Lord Darcie of Darcie entred there as before to have been returned on this day likewise he is Constituted his sole Proctor And lastly the said Lord Clinton Lord Admiral was Constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of William Lord Willoughby of Parham Edward Lord Hastings of Louthbury and of Oliver Lord St. John of Blestoe whose Proxies are entred to have been returned on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing By these three foregoing Presidents it doth plainly appear as also from all other Presidents of former and latter times that any Member of the Upper House by the ancient usage and Custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be directed unto him although there were an Order made in the said House to the contrary upon the day of Anno Regis Caroli An. Dom. 1626. That no Lord cr Member whatsoever of the Upper House should for the time to come be capable of above two Proxies at the most which said order was occasioned in respect that George Duke of Bucks both the favorite of the King deceased and of King Charles now Reigning this present year 1630 did to strengthen himself by voices not only procure divers persons to be made Members of that House but also ingrossed to himself near upon 20. several Proxies And now if this doubt or conceipt should arise in any mans mind that therefore the Lords have a greater Priviledge than the Members of the House of Commons because they can appoint others to serve in and supply their places in their absence which the Commons cannot they are much deceived and mistaken for it is plain that the chief end of a Proxie is that the Upper House may have all its Members either in person or by representation and therefore the Lords Spiritual and Temporal who are Summoned thither in their own right have anciently had and still do retain the liberty of Constituting their Procurators whereas every Member of the House of Commons appeareth and doth serve in the right of that County City Burrough and Port for which he is Elected and Chosen which being a Trust and Confidence reposed in them can be no more transferred from him to a third person than can the Proxie of the Lords be from him to whom it is directed if he shall be absent likewise and therefore if any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron after he is Elected and returned shall before the meeting of the House be disabled by Sickness Attainder or other Cause from serving in the same then presently order is given from the House to the Clerk of the Crown for the sending thither a second Writ for a new Election so that the said House may not remain without any Member that appertains unto it And this I conceive Tantamount unto a Proxie which cannot be granted but when the absence of the Lord that sends it is perpetual during that whole Parliament or Session for which he Constitutes one or more Proctors for if he repair to the Upper House any time after and serve in Person his Proxie is presently void On Wednesday the 25th day of Ian. the Parliament was held according to the last Prorogation thereof on Monday the 23th day of this instant Ianuary foregoing and therefore this day is to be reckoned the first day of the Parliament and it was the error of Seimour Esq at this time Clerk of the House of Commons that in the Original Journal Book of the same House fol. 186. a. he accounteth and setteth down the Parliament to have begun on the aforesaid 23th day of Ianuary when it was only prorogued by which he would make that to be the first day thereof True it is that Anciently if the Parliament had been Prorogued on that day to which the Summons thereof had referred in the beginning of it they were so far from accounting that day the first of the ensuing Parliaments that new Writs of Summons were thereupon sent forth and a new day appointed for the beginning thereof as appears in the Parliament Rolls Anno 23. Edw. 1. die 20. Novemb. An. 60. Edw. 1. die 11. Decembris A. 33. Edw. 1. die 13. Julij A. 11. Edw. 2. die 3. Martij But yet it hath been the constant usage most Anciently and doth doubtless hold at this day also that if the King do come in Person to the Parliament on that day to which the Writs of Summons do refer and there cause it to be referred to another day in his own presence then shall that day be accounted the first day of the Parliament of which there are many Presidents also in the Parliament Rolls still remaining in the Tower of London prout in A. 6. Edw. 3. Octobris Sti ' Hillarij A. 14. Edw. 3. tempore Quadragessimi A. 15. Edw. 3. Quindena Paschae and of divers other Parliaments in his time and in the time of King R. 2. his Successor And thus also the last day of the Parliament or of any particular Session is counted to be that on which the Royal assent is given to one or more Acts of Parliament yet if that Parliament or Sessions be adjourned to another day on which the Sovereign doth again come in Person and cause it to be dissolved or further Prorogued then that latter day is to be accounted the last day thereof of which there is one only President during all the Reign of Queen Eliz ' viz. in the Original Journal Book A. 18. Dictae Reginae on Thursday the 15th day of March. The
Petition by her Commandment and direction it was sent unto the Lords into the Upper House by Sir Robert Cecill then her Majesties Secretary and endorsed on the back side thus in his own hand Her Majesty hath commanded me to signifie unto your Lordships that upon the humble Suit of the Lord de la Ware she is pleased this Petition be considered and determined in the House Robert Cecill Which Petition being this 5 th day of November sent unto the House was there read as followeth To the Queens most Excellent Majesty BEseecheth your most Excellent Majesty your most humble Subject Thomas le Ware K r That whereas Thomas sometimes Lord Le Ware Ancestor and great Grandfather of your said Subject whose Heir Male he is That is to say your Subject is Son and Heir to William who was Son and Heir to George who was Brother and Heir to Thomas who was Son and Heir to the said Thomas your Subject's great Grandfather in the third year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth your Noble Father by Writ of Summons of Parliament of the said King Henry the Eighth came to the Parliament then holden at Westminster in the said third year and so continually the said Thomas the great Grandfather and his Heirs Males Ancestors of your Suppliant in many other Parliaments holden as well in the time of the said King Henry the Eighth as in the time of your Noble Brother King Edward the Sixth and in the time of your Dear Sister Queen Mary have come in their proper persons by their Writs and Commandment until the Parliament holden at Westminster in the first and second years of King Philip and Queen Mary which was after the Death of the said Thomas your Suppliants great Grandfather and of Thomas his Son that had not any Issue of his Body and of the said George who died in the Life of his Brother Thomas the said William Father of your Suppliant being the Son and Heir of the said George and Heir Male to his said great Grandfather to which Parliament he was not summoned for that he stood by Act of Parliament holden before at Westminster in the third year of the said Edward the Sixth disabled to claim and enjoy the dignity of the Seigniory of the Lord La Ware during his Life and the said William being now dead your said Suppliant is come to this present Parliament in his proper person by your Writ and Commandment May it please your most gracious Majesty to consider the Premisles and thereupon to Grant and Ordain by advice of your most wise Council in this present Parliament Assembled That your said Suppliant may have his place in this present Parliament in your presence as his Ancestors Lords La Ware have had in the said Parliament before this time This Petition being read it was referr'd to these Committees following viz. The Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winton the Lord Zouch the Lord Stafford the Lord Windsor the Lord Shefsield the Lord North the Lord S t John of Bletso the Lord Buckhurst Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perriam Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke the Queens Attorney who were appointed to meet at the Council-Chamber in Whitehall on Sunday the 6 th day of November at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Where what they did and what Judgment the Lords and the whole House gave in this Case followeth afterwards on Thursday the 10 th of this instant November and on Monday the 14 th day of the same On Monday the 7 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Baron Evans and M r Attorney General to attend the Lords appointed to meet at the Little Council-Chamber at Whitehall to Morrow being the 8 th day of November at four of the Clock in the Afternoon See more of this on Monday the 14 th of November following Nota That here upon the Commitment of an ordinary Bill the Judges are said to be appointed to attend the Committee of the Lords and are not nominated as Joint-Committees with them which is usually to be seen in every former Parliament almost of her Majesties Reign and therefore it should seem that either the Lords of the Upper House themselves did alter and abolish the said ancient Priviledges which the Judges had of being constituted Joint-Committees with them in respect that they were no Members of but only Assistants unto the said Upper House or else that Thomas Smith Esquire now Clerk of the said House was more careful and diligent in the distinct and exact setting down that the said Judges were not nominated as Joint-Committees but only to attend such Lords Committees as were appointed by the said House which Anthony Mason Esquire his Predecessor in the said place had for the most part neglected to distinguish And yet the said M r Mason may in some sort be justly excused of any universal or continual carelessness in this kind in respect that where the Lords Committees were appointed either to treat with the Committees of the House of Commons or by themselves about any matter of weight there the Judges and her Majesties Learned Councel are always set down as appointed to attend the said Lords Committees But when an ordinary Bill only was committed upon the second reading and especially if it concerned matter of Law there the Judges for the most part and sometimes also the Queens Learned Councel were nominated as Joint-Committees with them But whatsoever the usage hath been in former times most certain it is that not only in this present Parliament but in all that have been since unto this present year 1629. the said Judges being Assistants unto and the King 's Learned Councel being Attendants upon the said Upper House have never been nominated as Joint-Committees with their Lordships but have always been appointed to attend them And which may make it seem the more strange Whereas the Judges have liberty in the said Upper House it self upon leave given them by the Lord Keeper or the Lord Chancellor for the time being to cover their heads at a Committee they are now always accustomed to sit bare and uncovered which said course finally was constantly observed during all the continuance of this present Parliament as may appear not only by the instance foregoing but by those many other Committees which followed on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant November on
Winchester to the Patentees of King Edw. VI. was read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed The new Provisoes from the Lords in the Bill for the First-fruits were read the first time and the Proviso from the Lords in the Bill of Treasons was read the third time and passed the House The Bill for allowance of Sheriffs for the Justices Diets and the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Robert Rudston were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill for thicking of Caps in Mills was read the third time and upon the question was dashed The Bill lastly for renewing one of the Fairs at Linn Regis and the Bill for the new Parish Church of Abernant in Wales were each of them read the third time and passed the House Robert Buxton Burgess of Brembre in Sussex was Licensed to be absent for the Duke of Norfolks Affairs On Friday the 17 th day of March the Bill for the Shipping of Woollen Cloaths of 5 l 10 s over the Sea The Bill for Artificers in Kent and Sussex And the Bill against carrying over Sea of Leather Hides or Tallow to be Felony were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill that no persons shall be punished for using the Religion used in King Edwards last Year was read the first and second time and Ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill that Licenses shall be good but during the Princes Reign was read the second time and Ordered likewise to be ingrossed The Bill for true Answering of Customs and unlading of Goods in the day time was read the first time and as it should seem referr'd to M r Chancellor to be considered Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the Jointure of the Dutchess of Norfolk and another against seditious words and rumours against the Queen had each of them their third reading and passed the House On Saturday the 18 th day of March the Bill against buying of Horses to sell shortly again And the Bill for the Assizes to be kept in the Town of Stafford were each of them read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill against unlawful Assemblies was read the first time and as it should seem committed to M r Smith to consider of it Three Bills lastly had each of them their third reading of which one being the Bill for Assurance of divers Mannors late parcel of the Bishoprick of Winchester to King Edward the Sixths Patentees was upon the Question passed the House The Bill for the Supremacy was brought from the Lords by M r Attorney to be reformed Vid. concerning this Bill on Thursday the 27 th of April ensuing John Malock Burgess for Linne and Robert Moone Burgess for Britport for their several Affairs have Licence to be absent On Monday the 20 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching the Assizes and Gaol-Delivery was read the third time and passed the House and was presently sent up to the Lords with divers others by M r Vice-Chamberlain The Bill that the Queen shall make Rules for Colledges and Schools was read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill for continuance of the last Act for Rebellions was read the first time The Proviso sent from the Lords with the Bill of First-Fruits was read the second time And the Proviso and Reformation in the Bill of Supremacy was read the first time de qua vide on Thursday the 27 th of April ensuing On Tuesday the 21 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Tanning and selling of Tann'd Leather was read the first time The Bill against unlawful Assemblies was read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed And the Proviso and Reformation in the Bill touching Supremacy was read the second time Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill that the Queens Majesty shall make Orders in Collegiate Churches was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others The new Bill against Cancelling of Records by Warrant or otherwise was read the first time Two Bills also had each of them their second reading of which one was the Bill to make lawful the Deprivations of the Bishops of London Winchester Worcester and Chichester in the time of King Edward the VI. The Bill that the Queens Highness shall Collate or appoint Bishops in Bishopricks being Vacant was read the first and second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 22 th day of March the Bill to continue the Act for Rebellious Assemblies The Bill for Collating of Bishops by the Queens Highness and without Rites and Ceremonies And the Bill for Tanners and selling of Tann'd Leather were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller The Provisoes and Additions by the Lords in the Bill of Supremacy and the Provisoes from the Lords in the Bill of First-Fruits were read the third time and passed the House Four other Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last was the Bill to revive the Act against Carriage of Horses into Scotland and was read the third time and passed and was with three others sent up to the Lords by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy On Thursday the 23 th day of March it was reported to this House by ..... one of the Burgesses that Mr. Story had not well used himself being a Member of this House to go before the Lords and be of Counsel with the Bishop of Winchester against the Patentees which by the House was taken to be a fault Whereupon M r Story excused himself by ignorance of any such Order And nevertheless had since considered of it and doth acknowledge it not to be well done and therefore required the House to remit it which willingly by the House was remitted Vide touching this business on Wednesday the first day Friday the third Saturday the fourth and on Monday the Sixth day of this instant March foregoing On Friday the 24 day of March for weighty Affairs to be done in this Parliament according to the Example of the Upper House this Court of the House of Commons is according to former Presidents Adjourned until Monday the third day of April next coming But upon what occasion the House of Commons was this day Adjourned doth not at all appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but most probable it is that it was by reason of a disputation had and agitated this
attempt the destruction of your Majesty and us all that live by you We fear a Faction of Hereticks in your Realm Contentious and malicious Papists lest they most unnaturally against their Country most madly against their own Safety and most treacherously against your Highness not only hope for the woful day of your Death but also lay in wait to advance some Title under which they may revive their late unspeakable Cruelty to the destruction of Goods Possessions and Bodies and thraldom of the Souls and Consciences of your faithful and Christian Subjects We see nothing to withstand their desire but your only Life their Unkindness and Cruelty we have tasted we fear much to what attempt the hope of such opportunity nothing withstanding them but your Life will move them We find how necessary it is for your preservation that there be more set and known between your Majesties Life and their desire We see on the other side how there can be no such danger to your Majesty by ambition of any Apparent Heir established by your benefit and advancement for want of Issue of your Majesties Royal Body as you are now subject unto by reason of their desire and hope We know not how many pretend Titles and Trust to succeed you whose secret desire we so much more fear because neither their number force nor likelihood of disposition is known unto us and so we can the less beware of them for your preservation We find also by good proof that the certain limitation of the Crown of France hath in that Realm procured so great quiet as neither the person of the Prince in Possession hath been indangered by secret or open practice nor the Common-Weal molested by civil dissention through any quarrel attempted for the Title of that Crown And somewhat near home we have remembred the miserable estate of Scotland after the Death of King Alexander without any certain Heir or limitation to whom the Crown of Scotland should remain by reason whereof the whole estate of that Realm was left open to the ambition of many Competitors and most grievous desolation and spoil that grew upon such division which afterwards gave occasion to King James the Fifth to limit the Crown of Scotland to certain Noble Families of that Realm whereby they at this present enjoy that quiet surety which we want And all your Majesties most Noble Progenitors Kings of this Realm have been in this behalf so careful that from the Conquest till this present day the Realm was never left as it is now without a certain Heir living and known to whom the Crown after the Death of the Prince should appertain So as your Majesty of your singular Care for us and our Posterity hath at this time Assembled us for establishing of this great and only stay of our Safeties We again Most Gracious Sovereign Lady acknowledge our selves and all that we have to depend upon your Preservation being according to our bounden Duty most careful of the same are in most humble manner come to your Majesties presence And I the Mouth appointed for them together with and in the name of all your most loving natural and obedient Subjects do present unto you our most lowly Suit and Petition That for asmuch as of your Majesties Person would come the most redoubted and best Heirs of your Crown such as in time to come we would most Comfortably see and our Posterity most Joyfully Obey It may please your Most Excellent Majesty for our sakes for our preservation and comforts and at our most humble Suit to take to your self some Honourable Husband whom it shall please you to join unto in Mariage whom whatsoever he be that your Majesty shall choose we protest and promise with all humility and reverence to Honour Love and Serve as to our most bounden duty shall appertain And where by the Statute which your most noble Father Assented unto of his most Princely and Fatherly Zeal for his most loving Subjects for the limitation of the Succession of the Emperial Crown of this Realm Your Majesty is the last expresly named within the body of the same Act and for that your Subjects cannot judge nor do know any thing of the form or validity of any further limitations set in certain for want of Heirs of your Body whereby some great dangerous doubt remaineth in their Hearts to their great grief peril and unquietness It may also please your Majesty by Proclamation of certainty already provided if any such be or else by limitations of certainty if none be to provide a most gracious remedy in this great necessity which by your most Honourable and Motherly Carefulness for them hath occasioned this Assembly That in this convenient time of Parliament upon your late danger most graciously called by you for that cause your Grace may now extend to us that great benefit which otherwise or at other times perhaps shall never be able to be done again so not only we but all ours hereafter and for ever shall owe no less to your Majesties propagation of Succession than we do already owe to your most Famous Grandfather King Henry the Seventh his uniting of Division And your Subjects on their behalfs for your Majesties further Assurance whereupon their own preservation wholly dependeth shall imploy their whole endeavours and Wits and Power to renew devise and establish the most strong and beneficial Acts and Laws of Preservation and Surety of your Majesty and of your Issue in the Emperial Crown of this Realm and the most penal sharp and terrible Statutes to all that shall but once practise and attempt or conceive against your Safety that by any possible means they may invent or establish with such limitations of conditions and restraints to all in Remainders such grievous pains and narrow Animadversions to all that shall enterprize or imagine any thing in prejudice of your Highness and your Issue as your Majesty shall not have any cause of suspicion but most assured ground of Confidence in all your faithful Subjects continually Watching and Warding for your Preservation which God long continue that you may see your Childrens Children to his Honour and our Comfort and encline your Gracious Ear to our most humble Petitions This Petition of the House of Commons delivered by Thomas Williams Esq their Speaker to her Majesty this Afternoon as aforesaid to which see her Majesties further Answer sent to the said House on Tuesday the 16 th day of February ensuing now follows the residue of the passages of this Journal out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House On Friday the 29 th day of January Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the sixth being the Bill for Fines to be levyed in the County Palatine of Durham was read the third time and passed the House For that John Hippesley Esq is returned a Burgess for Wotten-Basset in Wiltshire and also for Wells in Somersetshire and doth appear for
another Bill against Moor-burning in the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and Durham with an amendment added unto it by the Lords were upon the third reading sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and Doctor Ford. Three Bills also had each of them one reading being brought from the House of Commons of which the first was for redress of erroneous Judgments in the Court called the Kings-Bench Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which time the Lords Assembling themselves two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Glass-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born was read the first time This Afternoon also the Lords having heard the Councel of both Parties touching the Bill Intituled An Act to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife and Tredolias Leza and Anne his Wife during the minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne for a more speedy end of the said cause with the consent of the said Parties committed the matter to the hearing of certain of the Lords which should be named by the Parties themselves The Plaintiff Anne did chuse the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Arundell the Bishop of Salisbury and the Lord North and M r Vinion the Defendant chose the Lord Steward the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Exeter and the Lord Buckhurst And further Ordered that the said Lords should end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then to certifie the State of the matter as they found it to the whole House And the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief Baron were appointed to attend the Lords On Tuesday the 23 th day of February Six Bill s of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the furtherance of Justice was read prima vice Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was concerning the Jointure of the Countess of Huntington On Wednesday the 24 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better assurance of her Majesties Letters Patents granted for the better foundation of the Hospital called Sherborn-House was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopo London Domino Darcy Domino Evers the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Gawdy On Thursday the 25 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents to the Masters Fellows and Scholars of Clare-Hall in Cambridge was read secunda vice but no mention is made whether it was Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees On Saturday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for following of Hue and Cry was read secunda vice and committed to one Earl three Lords the Lord Chief Baron and one Judge Where still Nota the Judges are joint Committees with the Lords One Bill also touching Plymouth-Haven was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons And three other Bills of no great moment the first concerning Rochester-Bridge was read secunda vice On Monday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for returning of sufficient Jurors for the better expediting of Trials was read tertia vice and concluded The Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes were appointed Committees to hear the matter between M r Vinion and M r Tredolias Leza and his Wife and Commission given to the said Committees to end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then the Parties with their Councel to be before the Lords at this House upon Thursday next Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. was read secunda vice with certain Amendments and a Proviso added by the Lords On Wednesday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Monday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. with the Amendments and Provisoes added by the Lords was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjcant Rodes and the Queens Attorney Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the repairing and maintenance of the Sea-Banks and Sea-Works on the Sea-Coast in the County of Norf. Committees were appointed to hear the matter between the Lord Willoughby and M r Heronden who were chosen by the Parties themselves viz. the Earl of Kent and the Lord Zouch for the Lord Willoughby and Viscount Mountague and the Lord Cobham for M r Heronden And the Lords further Ordered that the said Lords Committees should end the matter between the said Parties if they could Committees lastly were this day Chosen to examine the Record touching passing Amendments of Amendments moved by the House of Commons viz. the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Suff. Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Hunsdon the Lord Buckhurst the Master of the Rolls and M r Attorney about the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day to which the House of Commons had added Amendments upon Amendments The Precedents they named were the Bills for Treasons and bringing in of Bulls Acts passed in Anno 13 o of the Queen Nota That this Bill concerning the Sabbath as hath been before observed was long in passing the two Houses and much debated betwixt them being committed and Amendments upon Amendments added unto it which as appeareth in this place was the cause of some Disputation between the Lords and the said Commons Of the other several Passages of this Bill Vide on Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Monday the 14 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing As also on Thursday the 4 th day Saturday the 6 th day and on Saturday the 13 th day of this instant March following Nota also That the Master of the Rolls and the Queens Attorney being no Members of the Upper House are here made joint-Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 4 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands in the Counties of Norsolk Suff. Lincoln and Warwick unto the Lord Willoughby of Willoughby
ingrossing thereof and so the Bill upon the question and division of the House was passed by the yielding of the negative Voices without going through with telling of the whole numbers on both sides and was sent presently up to the Lords by Sir John Parrot and a little after two other Bills the one to avoid Horse-stealing and the other touching forcible Entries were likewise sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others The Bill against such as steal and imbezel the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty being put in trust with the same was read the first time The Bill that Aliens Children shall pay Strangers Customs was read the third time and a Proviso added unto it thrice read the Bill and Proviso upon the question and division of the House dashed with the Yea sixty four and with the No seventy four Mr. Doctor Cary and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln with an Addition of this word yearly added to their former Amendments for the explaining of the same Amendments All which Amendments being thrice read were upon the question assented unto by this House Nota That this Bill was brought down from the Lords to the House yesterday and therefore it should seem upon some doubts the House made touching their Lordships Amendments it was carried back again and those Amendments explained by the word above-mentioned and so being brought down again this day the said Amendments were thrice read and passed the House On Saturday the 29 th day of March Mr. Doctor Stanhop and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for continuation and perfecting of certain Statutes with a Schedule unto the same added and annexed by their Lordships and the same Schedule being thrice read passed upon the Question The Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being perfected according to the Amendments of the Lords and the Bill also for continuance of Statutes with the Schedule to the same were sent up to the Lords by the Master of the Wardrobe and others The Amendments of the Committees of this House to the Bill against excess of Apparel was denied upon the Question to be opened unto the House The Bill against such as steal or imbezel the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty was brought in again by Mr. Harris one of the Committees in the same as not to be sufficiently considered of for lack of time the same Bill consisting of many parts Mr. Serjeant Puckering and Mr. Serjeant Shuttleworth did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do pray present Conference with some twenty or more of this House to meet with their Lordships in the nether room of the Upper House and the rest not to depart until the return of the same Committees Whereupon were appointed for that purpose all the Privy Council of this House Sir William Hatton Mr. Wroth Mr. North Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Wade Mr. Mills Mr. Juers Mr. Henry Grey Sir Edward Dymock Mr. Robert Bowes Mr. Harris Mr. Heydon Mr. Francis Moore Sir George Barne Mr. Robert Cecill Mr. Shirley Mr. Dyer Mr. Hare Mr. Ralph Bowes Sir Francis Hinde Mr. Preston Mr. White Mr. Hill Mr. Henry Brooke and the Master of the Jewel-House Mr. Treasurer in the name of the rest of the Committees did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships have had Conference amongst themselves of the great practices and Treasons heretofore intended against her Majesties Person State and Kingdom And therefore ..... What should here follow is wholly omitted by the great negligence of Mr. Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons as also the Speeches of Mr. Vice-Chamberlain of Mr. Secretary Wolley of Sir John Parrot Mr. Comptroller and of Mr. Fortescue for the inserting of which said Speeches there is left a blank of near upon two whole Pages and yet it may be probably gathered what the scope and end of all the said several and respective Speeches were out of a question following which Mr. Speaker propounded at the end of them viz. That seeing most of all those Treasons which had been practised against her Majesty had been either Plotted in Spain or procured by Spain and all the Rebellions during her Highness Reign raised either in England or Ireland had been countenanced from thence to which as the upshot of all that his late intended ambitious and blood-thirsty Conquest yet fresh in memory may be added That therefore her Majesty would be pleased to denounce open War against him the said King of Spain as against a most dangerous Enemy of her Majesty and her Realms Upon the said Speeches Mr. Speaker maketh the question and thereupon it was resolved by the whole House for joining with their Lordships in request to her Majesty to be delivered by the Mouth of Mr. Speaker for concurring with their Lordships for denouncing of War against the King of Spain at the time of his going up with the Subsidy and after the offer and delivery of the same Subsidy Mr. Doctor Cary and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords two Bills viz. The Act of the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon and also the Act of four Fifteenths and Tenths and two Subsidies which had before passed this House The Bill of the Queens Majesties most general and free Pardon being once read passed thereupon Which said Bill so passed was presently sent up to the Lords by M r Fortescue and others Nota That this is all which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and therefore the Conclusion and Dissolution of this Parliament next ensuing are supplied out of that of the Upper House Her Majesty being as it should seem this very Forenoon come unto the Upper House and there set the House of Commons having notice thereof with Serjeant Snagg their Speaker repaired thither who after his delivery of the Bill of Subsidy did move her Majesty as may be very probably conjectured according to the former resolution had this day in the said House as aforesaid that her Majesty would be pleased to denounce open War against the Spanish King who had so lately threatned destruction to her Majesty and her Realms by that his not long since open and Hostile Invasion After which her Majesty having given her Royal Assent unto the passing of sixteen publick Acts and eight private Acts being all the Statutes that passed this Parliament Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor by her Majesties Commandment Dissolved the same THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 35 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1592. which began there on Monday the 19 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 10 th Day of April Anno Domini 1593. THERE is little extraordinary in
Town of Northampton Mr. Edward Mountague Sir Edward Hobbie and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir Thomas Cecill All which were appointed to meet at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this day at Sir Thomas Cecill's House Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees for the Information of Grants lately moved in this House in Ecclesiastical Causes moved for a new day of meeting Whereupon Monday next in the Afternoon was appointed for the same and to be in this House Nota That although her Majesty had formerly been exceeding unwilling and opposite to all manner of Innovations in Ecclesiastical Government yet understanding at this Parliament of divers gross and great abuses therein she had on Monday the 14 th day of this instant November foregoing not only given leave and liberty to the House of Commons to treat thereof but also had encouraged them to proceed in the reformation thereof by a Message brought unto the said House by Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Whereupon the aforesaid Committee here mentioned by Sir Edward Hobby was appointed Touching whose further proceedings in the said matter see on Monday the 21 th and on Tuesday the 22 th day of this instant November ensuing The Bill for keeping of Horses from stealing was upon the second reading committed unto M r Hubberd Sir Robert Wroth M r Maynard M r Portington Sir William Brereton M r Henry Nevill M r Pennington and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to M r Hubberd who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Amendments in the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers were twice read and the Bill was committed to the former Committees who were appointed to meet on Monday the 7 th day of this instant November foregoing And there were added unto them M r Hext Sir Robert Wroth M r Francis Moore M r Litton M r Henry Maynard Sir George Carew M r Henry Hubberd all Barons of Ports and Sir Nicholas Parker who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall And the Bill was delivered to M r Francis Moore and M r Lawrence Hide The Proviso which came from the Lords in the Bill from taking Clergy from certain Offendors and lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships was three times read and passed upon the question M r Hext one of the Committees in the Bill for the Town of Langford Estover who were appointed on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and many Causes wherefore he thinketh the Bill very unmeet to have any passing in this House Whereupon none offering to speak for the said Bill the same was rejected upon the question for ingrossing The Bill for repeal of a Statute of the twenty third of the Queens Majesty Intituled An Act for encrease of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation had its first reading And after some Speeches both with the Bill and against it it was in the end passed upon the question Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer shewed unto the House that this Afternoon being appointed for two Commitments the one touching Monopolies and Patents of Priviledge and the other for the true Answering of the Tenths and Subsidies from the Clergy to her Majesty in both which himself is a Committee amongst others and that himself and M r Secretary Cecill are specially commanded to wait upon her Highness this Afternoon and therefore cannot attend the said Commitments and so moving for a new day of meeting wished the same to be upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Which albeit it was well liked of and yielded unto by some yet was it over-ruled by number of Voices That as concerning the said Monopolies and Patents of Priviledge the said Commitments should be continued to be held in the Afternoon of this present day in this House Vide plus touching this business on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant November foregoing On Thursday the 17 th day of November Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last concerning the Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Unton Knight deceased had its first reading M r Thomas Jewks is added to the former Committees for Examination of Priviledges and Returns who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing and are to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill also for erecting of Houses of Correction and the punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars was read the first time On Friday the 18 th day of November Twelve Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for erecting of Hospitals or abiding or Working-Houses for the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Hart M r Recorder of London M r Tasbrough all the Readers of the Middle-Temple M r Boyce M r Henry Bellasis and others And the Bill was delivered with the Committees names to the said M r Boyce who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Francis Moore one of the Committees in the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers who were appointed on Monday the 17 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that the Committees have withdrawn out of the said Bill those points that concerned Corn Grain and other Victuals and have framed a new Bill for that purpose Intituled An Act to make void Contracts upon Ingrossing of Corn Grain or Victual which had its first reading And the old Bill for as much thereof as was not withdrawn was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Francis Hastings M r Francis Bacon and M r Secretary moved touching the further preparing of the Bills for the re-edifying of Houses and encrease of Tillage Whereupon after some other Speeches it was resolved that the Committees therein should meet again for the same this Afternoon in this House The Bill against dying of Cloths with black Wood alias Logwood was upon the second reading committed unto the Citizens for London York Coventry Canterbury Bristol the Burgesses of Hull and Redding M r Finch and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir John Hart who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Guild Hall upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Sherley one of the Committees for continuance of Statutes who were appointed on Friday the 11 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that the greater number of the residue of the Committees being Yesterday imployed in sundry other Committees could not be present at the same Committee and so prayed another day of meeting Whereupon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon was appointed at the former place viz. the Inner-Temple Hall The Bill to restrain the carrying of Worsted-Yarn