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A63022	Historical collections, or, An exact account of the proceedings of the four last parliaments of Q. Elizabeth of famous memory wherein is contained the compleat journals both of Lords & Commons, taken from the original records of their houses : as also the more particular behaviours of the worthy members during all the last notable sessions, comprehending the motions, speeches, and arguments of the renowned and learned secretary Cecill, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Rawleigh, Sir Edw. Hobby, and divers other eminent gentlemen : together with the most considerable passages of the history of those times / faithfully and laboriously collected, by Heywood Townshend ...	Townshend, Hayward, b. 1577.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1991; ESTC R39726	326,663	354

would be looked into and remembred Wherefore Mr. Speaker I desire some Committees should be appointed of the sufficientest and wisest men in the House to consider thereupon Sir John Wooley to the like effect FIrst saying Sir John Wooley's Speech That upon the cause of the danger the Realm was now in and of the remedy his Speech should consist which he likened to a natural Body which the more the principal Member was in danger the greater means should be used for the preservation thereof Roan being now made Admiral of France by the League should say he was a poor Admiral now but that he doubted not but shortly he should be able to bring such a Navy to Sea as should terrifie the Queen of England Also he shewed how the Princes of the Holy League had conspired the Overthrow of this Realm the Extirpation of Religion and the Confusion of her Majesty and her Royal Subjects And he exhorted the House now the season of the year grows on which called many of the Knights and Burgesses to be in their Countries besides the Sickness being in the Town so that many of that House knew not whether he lodged in a house infected or not that they would seek to dispatch and end the Parliament so soon as might be He also shewed how the Dunkirkers troubled our Fisher-men in small Barques upon the Sea-coasts and so moved that this matter might be committed to some of the sufficientest in the House He also exhorted the House to a speedy agreeing of a Subsidy which considering the dangers we were in and that it was for our own good as also for her Majesties he hoped no good Subject but would most willingly agree to it Also he shewed that the Wars which the King of Spain brought upon this Nation had cost her Majesty a Million of money but this he avouched that where it cost her Majesty one it cost the King of Spain three Sir John Fortescue THey that spake before me spake sufficiently of the Authors of ours Troubles and of the great danger which is now eminent upon us insomuch that it is come to this point now Non utrum imperare sed utrum vivere I will speak of nothing but that which concerns my Calling Her Majesty not onely being careful for the preservation of her own Realm but of her Neighbours also she hath not onely defended her own Subjects from being invaded but also hath aided Strangers which wanted money with whom otherwise it would have gone very ill by this time and also with our selves insomuch that the burthen of four Kingdoms hath rested upon her Majesty and maintained with her Purse England France Ireland and Scotland For how could the French King at his first coming to the Crown have held out against those Leaguers had not her Majesty assisted him with her men and money which hath cost her Majesty above 100000 l. for 't is well known the French King had not been able to withstand the Duke of Parma's coming into France had it not been for our English-men and money As for the Low Countries it stood her Majesty yearly ever since she undertook the defence of them in 150000 l. all which her Majesty bestowed for the good of this Realm to free us from War at home Besides when her Majesty came to the Crown she found it four Millions indebted her Navy when she came to view it she found it greatly decayed Yet all this she hath discharged and thanks be to God she is nothing indebted And now she is able to match any Prince in Europe which the Spaniards found when they came to invade us yea she hath with her Ships compassed the whole world whereby this Land is made famous through all Nations She did finde her Navy furnished onely with Iron Pieces but she hath furnished it with Artillery of Brass so that one of her Ships is not a Subjects but rather a petty Princes wealth As for her own private Expences they have been little in Building she hath consumed little or nothing and for her Apparel it is Royal and Princely becoming her Calling but not sumptuous or excessive the Charges of her house small yea never less in any Kings time and shortly by Gods grace she will free her Subjects from that trouble which hath come by the means of Purveyors Wherefore she trusteth that every good Subject will assist her Majesty with his Purse seeing it concerns his own good and the preservation of his estate for before any of us would lose the least member of his body we would bestow a great deal and stick for no cost or charges how much more ought we in this politick body whereof not onely a member but the whole body is in jeopardy if we do not make haste to the preservation of it And for these Subsidies which are granted to her Majesty now-a-days they are less by half than they were in the time of Henry the Eighth Now although her Majesty hath borrowed some money of her Subjects besides her Subsidies yet hath she truely repaid every one fully He desired the matter might be put to a Committee to consider of Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Speaker THat which these honourable Personages have spoken of their Experience Sir Francis Bacon's Speech may it please you to give me leave likewise to deliver of my common knowledge The cause of assembling all Parliaments hath been hitherto for Laws or Moneys the one being the sinews of Peace the other of War To the one I am not privy but the other I should know I did take great contentment in her Majesties Speech the other day delivered by the Lord Keeper how that it was a thing not to be done suddenly or at one Parliament nor scarce a year would suffice to purge the statute-Statute-book nor lessen it the Volume of Laws being so many in number that neither common people can half practise them nor the Lawyers sufficiently understand them than the which nothing would tend more to the praise of her Majesty The Romans they appointed ten men who were to correct or recall all former Laws and to set forth those twelve Tables so much of all men commended The Athenians likewise appointed six to that purpose And Lewis the the ninth King of France did the like in reforming his Laws On Tuesday Feb. 27. a Bill was read for transporting of Cloath the first time Mr. Morris Atturney of the Court of Wards MY Religion towards God Mr. Morris's Speech my Allegiance to her Majesty the many Oaths that I have taken for the maintaining of her Supremacy causeth me to offer to your considerations matters concerning the sacred Majesty of God the Prerogative and Supremacy of her Majesty the Priviledges of the Laws and the Liberties of us all After some touch upon the usage of Ecclesiastical Discipline by the Prelates he laid down these three things Lawless Inquisition injurious Subscription and binding Absolution to which he spake severally shewing the

Law brought before the said Committees by the said Lord That the Place which he claimed in the Order and Rank of the Barons was due unto him viz. next after the Lord Willoughby of Ersby which Report being made to the House and the Voices of all the Lords being demanded the Opinions of the Committees was allowed by the consent of all the Lords the Lord Willoughby onely excepted And the Lord Keeper was desired to acquaint her Majesty with the Determination of the House and to know her pleasure concerning the same The Lord Treasurer made a Motion to the House journal- The Treasurers Motion about the journal-Journal-book that forasmuch as the journal-Journal-books kept heretofore by the Clerk of the Parliament seemed to have some Errours in them in misplacing the Lords so as it was doubted how the same might be of true Record That it would please their Lordships to take order that the said Books that should from henceforth be kept by the Clerk of the Parliament may be viewed and perused every Parliament by certain Lords of the House to be appointed for that purpose and the List of the names of the Lords in their order to be subscribed by them taking unto them for their better information the King at Arms and that this Order might begin this present Parliament On Saturday Nov. 12. the Bill for taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders A Bill against the benefit of Clergy for such as take away women against their wills against a Statute made Anno 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of women against their wills was read secunda vice On Munday Nov. 14. the Lord Treasurer moved the House that such Lords as were absent from the Farliament and had not sent their Proxies and such others as had made their appearance at the beginning of the Parliament and have since neglected their attendance may be admonished to reform the same Upon the same day upon the Petition of the Lord De-la ware exhibited to her Majesty concerning his place in the Order of the Barons of the Parliament and with her Majesties commandment and direction presented unto the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in this present Parliament the fifth of this instant November and referred the same day upon the reading unto Committees as is recorded in the Session of the same day the said Committees having at the time and place appointed assembled themselves and advisedly considered of the said Petition and of all Arguments that were brought and alleadged both for the Petition and against it did resolve and determine That in their opinions the said Petition of the said Lord De-la-ware was just and that the Place which he sought was due unto him viz. to have his place betwixt the Lord Willoughby of Ersby and the Lord Berkley being the same place which his great Grandfather had held before as appeareth by Record Of which Resolution and Determination Report having been made by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer first of the Committees the tenth of this instant November in the Session of the same day as before is recorded and the same being allowed and approved of by the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal then present in the House it was thought meet and ordered That her Majesty should be acquainted by the Lord Keeper with the Opinion and Resolution of this House Which having been performed by his Lordship her Majesty having allowed of the proceedings of this House and of the determination of the Question touching the place of the said Lord De-la-ware as hath been declared to this House by the Lord Keeper it was and is agreed and ordered by her Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal That the Lord De-la-ware should be brought into the House and placed in the room and order before mentioned to have place and voice betwixt the Lord Willoughby and Lord Berkley which was accordingly done this day The Lord De-la ware was brought in his Parliament-robes unto the place aforesaid by the Lord Zouch supplying the place of the Lord Willoughby and by the Lord Berkley in their Robes Garter the King of Arms attending them and doing his service according to his Office On Tuesday Nov. 15. an Act for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Statute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of women against their wills unlawfully together with the Proviso annexed unto it by the consent of the House was read On Saturday Nov. 19. the absence of the Lord Marquiss of Winton and the Earl of Huntingdon severally excused by two of the Temporal Lords and the like Excuse delivered by the Bishop of Norwich for the Bishop of Chichester's absence Report was made by the Lord Keeper that the Earl of Essex received not his Writ of Summons until the 17th of this month through the negligence of the Messenger to whom the same was delivered and now his Lordship wanting health to give his attendance desired to be excused for his absence the Earls of Worcester and Southampton testifying of his sickness Introduct est Breve Richardi Dom. Eure quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad locum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento salvo jure alieno On Munday Nov. 21. a Bill for the confirmation of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign was read On Tuesday Nov. 22. a Bill formerly sent to the Commons with a Proviso from this House thereto added concerning taking away of Clergy from Offenders that take away women against their wills unlawfully expedited The Committees upon the Bill of Tellers and Receivers meeting at the little Chamber near the Chamber of the Parliament-presence and conferring on the Bill and the Provisoes that were thought on and came in question amongst them by reason of sundry doubts that were moved did refer the Bill to her Majesties Atturney-General to be reviewed On Thursday Nov. 24. an Act for the better explanation and execution of the Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning tellers and Receivers prima vice lect This Bill was renewed by Mr. Atturney-General by the appointment of the Committees to whom the former Bill was referred as is mentioned in a Note in the last Session and brought instead of the former Bill On Saturday Nov. 26. an Act for the explanation and execution of an Act in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning Tellers Receivers c. secunda vice lect and commanded to be ingrossed A Serjeant at Arms to be sent for one Winwood A Serjeant at Arms sent to take a City-Serjeant into custody and one Stevenson a Serjeant at Mace of London who arrested Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant contrary to the Priviledge of the House The Bill for repeal of a Statute made 23 of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was brought into the House by the Committees

of the Chancery Sir Francis Hastings said Sir Francis Hastings By the Leave of your Honourable Favours I will shew you that I my self was yesterday with the Lord Keeper and how honourably I heard him speak of this House That he desireth no more than to shew the Love and Duty he beareth to this House as also that himself would be our immediate Officer and would be willing and glad to receive a Warrant from us so it might be directed to him for his Discharge be it in what Terms soever we pleased And he said he doubted not but if this Honourable House knew so much they would rather choose him than any other Minister Thus much I thought fit to certify this House of which being spoken in private unto me I now deliver in publick unto you For my own Advice I think nothing can be more Honourable to this House than to have a person of so great Estate to whom we may direct our Warrant as our Minister Mr. Francis Bacon said Mr. Bacon It is far more Honourable for this House in my Opinion when our Warrant shall move the Principal Member of Justice than when it shall command a base petty or inferiour Servant to the Clerk of the Crown or the Clerk of the Petty-Bag It will be said our Warrant emanuit improvide when we shall direct our Warrant to these base Officers when we may move the great Seal of England by it even as soon as either Petty-Bag or Petty Officer Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker I was ever Zealous and Jealous of the Privileges and Orders of this House I was commanded by you to send forth a Warrant for the Election of a Knight and Burgesse I found a Resolution and judgment Agreed and Resolved That during the time of the Sitting of this House the Speaker for any new Election is to make a Warrant directed to the Clerk of the Crown so that in my doing thereof I hope I have done rightly Mr. Secretary Cecil said 〈…〉 I shall move unto you a Conclusion which will end this Controversy and in the mean time be a Saving unto all persons I mean not to second my former Errour for which I was excepted to That is that Mr. Speaker or any Member of this House should attend my Lord Keeper but that four of this House might be Assigned to go unto my Lord Keeper to know the cause of the Stay as also his Lordship's request unto this House And that other six may be Assigned to call before them the Clerk of the Crown the Clerk of the Petty-bag and the Clerk of this House with their Precedents and Books to see to whom this Warrant hath in former times been directed and whether the Privileges in former times have daunced a Pavan too and Pro and according to the time have been altered This to be done this afternoon and to certify the House to morrow And then We to make a Determinate Resolution To which all said It was a good Motion Mr. Holteroft a Knight for Cheshire said May it please you Mr. Speaker the County-day for Denbyshire is on Thursday next and therefore there had need be speed made or else there can be no Election this Parliament Mr. Speaker said Will 't please you to name the six Committees So the House Named Sir Edward Hobby Serjeant Harris Sir Francis Hastings and three others Mr. Speaker also said Will 't please you to Nominate the four to go to the Lord Keeper So the House 〈◊〉 Mr. Seceretary Hubbart Sir Edward Stafford Sir Edward Stanhop and Mr. Fulk Grevil On Saturday Novemb. 14. The Bill for the Confirmation of the Sale of Lands made by Leaes Lord Mordant Deceased The Bill for Amending the Statute made 8 Reginae concerning the making of Hats A Bill to enable Sir Edward Markham Knight to sell Lands was Read and committed The Committee to meet on Friday in the afternoon in the Court of Wards The Bill for the Repealing of certain Statutes for the Reforming of certain Abuses in Cloathing in the County of Somerset Mr. Johnson said Mr. Johnson informed that he is Sub●…d Mr. Speaker I being a Member of this House I thought it my Duty to Inform you That my self and divers others are served with Subpanas I do not this either that I am loath to answer or desire to delay Justice but to Inform the House thereof by Peradventure it might be a Precedent or some prejudice to the Priviledge of this House Here is one which is now delivered into my Hand The House Cryed Read it So the Clerk Read it Edvardo Mountague Jacobo Harrington c. indorsatur Stephanus Riddlesden sequitur hoc Another was read Michaëli Hicks Thomae Lowe in Cancellaria Another Henrico Jackman Jeronimo Horsey in Scaccaria ad sectam Thomae Cornwallis Armigeri per Billam Anglicanam Another Michaëli Same 's Riccardo Same 's in Banco Reginae ad Testificandum inter Reginam Johannem Stray After the Reading of which he certified the House thus much That the Informer came to his Lodging this Morning as he was coming out of the Doors and asked for him he told him He was the Man Then quoth the Informer the Queen Greets you well What 's this quoth I A Subpoena quoth the Informer and I charge you to appear upon it according to the Contents Then I told him I was of this House and could not Attend He answered me again There it is I care not look you to it at your Peril Mr. David Waterhouse stood up and shewed David Waterhouse shews Reasons for the Allowing it That the Subpoena came out of his Office and further shewed The Necessity of Obeying it For that a Cause for want of a Witness might be lost And therefore if the Hearing be appointed at a Day certain the Client might peradventure be undone if he should not have this Subpoena ad Testificandum in due time both served and appeared unto Sir Edward Hobby alledged divers Precedents in this Point Sir Edward Hobby shews Precedents against it as the 10th of February 27 Reginae Mr. Kerle served one Roger Stepney with a Subpoena into the Star-Chamber for which he was adjudged to the Serjeant at Arms Keeping for Six Dayes and to pay Five Marks Charges And the 25th of March 27 Reginae Mr. Crook served a Member of this House with a Subpoena into the Chancery and for so doing was adjudged to give a Copy of the Bill and Twenty Shillings for Charges and was committed to the Serjeant's Keeping Mr. Wiseman said Seconded by Mr. Wiseman against it That notwithstanding the Allegation and Excuse of the Gentleman that spake in Favour of the Subpoena ad Testificandum I think it deserveth no more Favour than the other For if the Necessity of the Cause were such that he must needs be served and spared out of this House the Party ought to ask Leave of the House or at least of

next Justice as a Felon On Thursday November 5. An Act touching certain Assurances used amongst Merchants was Read and rejected An Act touching Reformation of Abuses in Ale-houses Bill against Abuses in Tippling-Houses and Tipling-houses which Act after the former was Rejected was Read The Effect whereof is that for the sale of every pot of Bear being not of the Assise of a full Ale-quart the Seller shall Forfeit Three Shillings four Pence Note that no Suitor is Named in this Bill the same to endure till the end of the next Parliament Read twice this Day The Bill for Observing the Sabbath-day Read twice and Ordred to be Ingrossed Nota That by the Order of this House when a Bill is returned from Commitment the Words must be twice Read which are Amended before the Ingrossing thereof An Act against false Returns and Not Returns by Sheriffs and Bayliffs twice Read and Ordered to be Ingrossed Mr. Bacon Moves to prefer a New Bill Mr. Bacon stood up to Prefer a new Bill and said Mr. Speaker I am not of their minds that bring their Bills into this House Obscurely by delivery only to your Self or the Clerk delighting to have the Bill to be incerto Authore as though they were either Ashamed of their own Work or Afraid to Father their own Children But I Mr. Speaker have a Bill here which I know I shall be no sooner ready to Offer but you will be as ready to receive and approve I liken this Bill to that Sentence of the Poet 〈…〉 who set this as a Paradox in the Forefront of his Book First Water then Gold Preferring Necessity before Pleasure And I am of the same Opinion that things necessary for Use are better than those things glorious in Estimation This Mr. Speaker is no Bill of State nor of Novelty like a stately Gallery for Pleasure but neither to Dine in or Sleep in but this Bill is a Bill of Repose of Quiet of Profit and of true and just Dealing the Title whereof is An Act for the better Suppressing of Abuses in Weights and Measures We have turned out divers Bills without Disputation and for a House of Gravity and Wisdome as this is to bandy Bills like Balls and to be silent as if no body were of Councel with the Common wealth is unfitting in my Understanding for the State thereof I 'le tell you Mr. Speaker I 'le speak out of my own Experience that I have learn'd and observ'd having had Causes of this Nature referred to my Report That this fault of using false Weights and Measures is grown so intolerable and common that if you would Build Churches you shall not need for Battlements and Bells other things than false Weights of Lead and Brass And because I would observe the Advice that was given in the beginning of this Parliament That we should make no new Laws I have made this Bill onely a Confirmation of the Statute of 11 Hen. 7. with a few Additions to which I will speak at the passing of the Bill and shew the Reason of every particular Clause the Whole being but the revival of a former Statute for I count it far better to Scour a Stream than to Turn a Stream And the First Clause is that it Extends to the Principality of Wales to constrain them to have the like Weights with us in England Sir Robert Wroth made a motion for a Commitment to amend the Statute for the Relief of the Poor and Building of Houses of Correction made the last Parliament 39 Reginae And also for the continuance of certain Statutes which was referred to Commitment on Tuesday next in the Exchequer-Chamber By Order of the House Nota. it was agreed upon That a Committee once made and agreed upon there shall not hereafter be more Committees joined unto them for the same Bill but for any other there may Sir Robert Cecil mov'd the House Secretary Cecil makes a Motion To have their Opinions in that there wanted a Chief Member viz. a Knight of Denby-shire And he said I am to Certifie the House thus much in respect of some Disorder Committed there touching the Election by Sir Rich. Trevor and Sir John Flood to which Sir John Salisbury is a Party the Sheriff could not proceed in Election For my own part I think it fit Mr. Speaker should attend my Lord-Keeper therein quod not attend if it please you you shall hear the Letter Which was Read the Contents whereof were He Reads a Letter about a Disturbance at the Election of Knights for the Shire THat on the Twenty-first of October he kept at _____ the County-day and there being quietly Chooseing the Knight for the Shire a Cry came suddenly that Sir Richard Trevor and Sir John Flood on the one Party and Sir John Salisbury on the other were together sighting and all their Companies ready to do the like whereupon presently I went to the Church-yard where they were and there I found both Parties with their Swords drawn ready but with much ado pacifi'd them both And fearing lest by drawing such a Multitude together there might great Danger and Bloodshed happen I made Proclamation That every Man should depart by means whereof I did not Execute her Majesties Writ as I thought to have done rather choosing to adventure your Honour's Censure herein than to hazard so great Bloodshed Under Subscribed Your Honour 's most humble at Commandement Owen Vaughan Also Mr. Secretary said There was a Schedule annexed to the Letter which had some other Matters of Importance not fit to be read yet if it did please the House to command it they should Whereupon all cryed No. Sir Edward Hobby answer'd Sir Edw. Hobby takes Exceptions at his Expressions Methinks under Favor the Motion Mr. Secretary made was good but the Form therein I speak with all Reverence not fitting the State of this House For he said Mr. Speaker should Attend my Lord-Keeper Attend It is well known that the Speaker of this House is the Mouth of the whole Realm And that the whole State of the Commonalty of a Kingdom should Attend any Person I see no reason I refer it to the Consideration of the House Only this Position I hold That our Speaker is to be Commanded by none neither to attend any but the Queen only Mr. Johnson said The Speaker might ex Officio send a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown who is to certifie the Lord-Keeper and so make a New Warrant Sir Edward Stanhop said That for Election of Burgesses he had seen half a score Warrants Yesterday with Sir John Puckering's Hand to them when he was Speaker Mr. Speaker said That I may inform you of the Order of the House The Warrant must go from the Speaker to the Clerk of the Crown who is to inform the Lord-Keeper and then to make a New Writ Mr. Secretary Cecil said I should be very sorry to detract from any particular Member of

put in Execution our Commandments and also increase the Majesly and Henour of this House Which he most heartily wished might ever continue And for my part I can assure you we cannot wish him to be more Honourable or more Agreeable to this House than we found him Mr. Doyley of Lincolns-Inn Mr. Doyley said Mr. Speaker As I take it there is a Precedent this Parliament which will decide this Question For there is an Honourable Person in this House being Chosen with my self Burgess for Wallingford and also Knight of the Shire chose to be Knight And a Warrant went from You Mr. Speaker directed to the Clerk of the Crown for Election of a New Burgess who is Chosen and Sworn and is now a Member of this House Mr. Thomas Fortescue by Name Mr. Fleming Mr. Fleming the Queen's Sollicitor said The Clerk of the Crown is our Immediate Officer He is to be Attendant between the Two Doors of the Upper-house and the Lower-house When any Warrant-General is required he is to Subscribe it to Certifie it c. He is to convey our Minds and Messages to the Upper-house yea this Warrant is to be directed unto him Then all the House cryed The House calls to put it to the Question to have it put to the Question Then the Speaker stood up The Speaker divides into Three Questions or Parts and said The Question must stand on Three Parts First If the Warrant shall be directed to the Clerk of the Crown Secondly If to the Lord-Keeper Thirdly If without any Direction The House The House Murmurs after this Speech was in a great Murmur and very Loud Then stood up one and said Mr. Speaker Let the First Question stand and then all will be at an end Then said the Speaker Shall the First Question stand And all said Yea. Then he said All that will have the Warrant directed to the Clerk of the Crown say Yea And all that will not cry No. And the Yeas got it a little Then he asked The Question determined If they would have this Order entered of Record And all cryed Yea Yea. Sunday Novemb. 15. On Monday Novemb. 16. A Bill for the Enabling of Edward Moluneux Esquire to sell Lands for Payment of his Debts A Bill for the Strengthening of Her Majesty's Forces in the North-Parts of the Realm and especially for the County of Cumberland A Bill for the Confirmation of the Charters of King Edward the Sixth made for the Hospitals of St. Bartholomew's Bridewel and St. Thomas in London A Bill for the Putting-down and Abolishing of certain Idle Courts kept every Three Weeks by Arch-Deacons and their Officials and Commissaries and Registers Mr. Henry Doyley of Lincolns-Inn made a Motion and said Mr. Speaker I think my self bound in Conscience Mr. Doyley complains of a Libel called The Assembly of Fools to certifie you of an Infamous Libel that is Printed and Spread abroad since the Beginning of this Parliament Saving your Presence Mr. Speaker It is called The Assembly of Fools I desire the Printer that Printed it may be sent for He dwells right over Guild-Hall-Gate The House wondred much at this Motion and great Murmuring there was At last the Speaker asked him Where the Book was and Where he saw it He answer'd In the Hands of one Mr. Henry Davies his Clerk of Lincolns-Inn but the Clerk's Name he knew not The Serjeant upon Consultation was sent for Mr. Davies and his Man into the Hall After a while they came up and notice being given thereof the Man was only sent for into the House who being asked by the Speaker What was his Name He said It was John Baker Being asked Of whom he had the aforesaid Book He said Of Jeremy Gouge of Cliffords-Inn Being asked How long he had had it He answered Three or Four Dayes Being asked If he knew it to be a Libellous or Seditious Book He answered That he never knew any such Matter in it Being asked Where the Book was He answered At his Master's-Chamber Then the Serjeant was commanded to take him forth and to command one of his Men to go with him to Lincolns-Inn to fetch the Book Then the Speaker asked If they would have his Master in But Mr. Doyley stood up and said Mr. Davies was a very honest Gentleman and shewed him the Book first and wished him to complain to this House thereof and he found great Fault with it Therefore he wished that Mr. Davies might be staid until the Book was brought and then if they pleased to send for him into the House they might And so he was staid In the mean time Mr. Davy's Man went to his Chamber for the Book which after it was brought The Libel scanned and found to be an old foolish Toy called Jack of Dover for which the Informer was Laugh'd at and well scanned by the Privy-Councel it was found to be a meer Toy and an Old Book Entituled The Second Part of Jack of Dover A Thing both Stale and Foolish For which Mr. Doyley was well Laughed at and thereby his Credit much impeached in the Opinion of the House Whereupon Mr. Speaker asked If they would have Mr. Davies and his Man called in And all cryed No No. Then If they should be Discharged And all cryed Yea Yea. A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Buying and Selling of Spices and other Merchandize A Bill for Redress of certain Inconveniencies An Act against Pluralities of Benesices in the Statute of 21 Hen. 8. Cap. 13. Entituled An Act against Pluralities of Benesices for taking of Farms by Spiritual Men and for Residence was Read Secunda Vice Dr. Dunn spake against this Bill Dr. Dunn oppos● it and said That it was no Reason that Men of Unequal Desert should be Equally Benesiced or Equallized with the Best Dr. Crompton Dr. Crompton seconds him amongst many other Speeches wished That Plurality of Offices might be taken from the Layity and then Pluralities of Benefices from the Clergy Also in former Ages he said Impropriations were given to the Spiritualty and then no Pluralities allowed As also Spiritual Men bound by Ecclesiastical Canons and their own Vow from Marriage so that they might Live with far less Charge than now they do But having taken from them Impropriations they cannot keep that Hospitality that is required And next Marriage being Tolerated amongst them they Lived at greater Charge both of Wife and Children One Benefice of small Cure sufficeth not Sir George Moore said Sir George Moore for the Bill He thought the Bill most fit to be Committed it being in the General Scope a Good Law and tending to a Good and Religious End But such is the Iniquity of this Age that for want of a Good Law of this Nature many Souls do not only Languish but Perish Everlastingly for want of Spiritual Food I think therfore though there be some Imperfections in the Bill yet the Body and

Fellow could say nothing for himself but only That he knew not Mr. Pemberton to be of the House So the Serjeant was commanded to Remove them both forth Mr. Johnson said Some we Pardon out of Discretion some out of Commiseration I think set all Parliaments together they will not match this Parliament with Numbers of Offences of this Nature and only our Impunity is the Cause Mr. Edmond Morgan said Mr. Speaker The Gentleman is a Man of good Sort Desert and Carriage And I think if he had known me to be of the House he would not have served me with a Subpoena Truly he came to my Lodging and acknowledged his great Fault and prayed me to Extenuate it I protest I think he did not know I was of the House And therefore I pray in regard of his Person and good Service done to Her Majesty his Offence may be as freely Remitted by the House as it is by Me And that it would please you All to Refer your Justice to Matters of greater Importance Which was marvellously well liked by the House Mr. Pemberton being asked What he could say whether William Mackerles knew him He answer'd I and that his Man had told him he said That he knew the said William was a very Knave And therefore he would not intreat the Favour of the House but let him have the Justice of the House Which Speech was generally misliked Mr. Fleetwood a Councellor of Grays-Inn shewed unto the House That one Holland a Scrivener by Temple-Bar and his Man had Beaten his Servant and he humbly prayed they might be sent for And the Question grew upon Dispute in the House whether this were Punishable And after upon a Precedent vouched by Mr. Roger Owen of 8 Hen. 4. touching a Knight of the Parliament coming towards the Parliament c. it was agreed That they should be sent for Mr. Kennel and Mackerles were brought to the Bar And after their Offence laid open by the Speaker he said It pleased the House to have so favourable Consideration of their Offence That they should only have but Three Dayes Imprisonment in the Custody of the Serjeant and pay his Fees Mr. Downold moved the House Mr. Downold moves to have the Queen's Message entered in the Journal First That the Gracious Message sent from Her Majesty might be written in the Books of the Records of this House As well it is worthy to be written in Gold as well as written and fixed in the True Hearts of every good Subject Secondly That the Honourable of this House would move Her Majesty and be an earnest Means of Speed lest that which is now meant indeed should by Protraction of Time be altered or perhaps not so happyly Effected Mr. Secretary Cecil said Secretary Cecil speaks to it I promised to be as Silent as I could Amongst much Speech of the Wise there wants not much Folly much more in Me. I do not Speak because I do dislike the Motion of that Gentleman that last spake but to defend the Diligence and Grace of the Queen It is no matter of Toy for a Prince to Notifie in Publick a Matter of this Weight Though the Idol of a Monopoly be a great Monster yet after Two or Three Dayes I doubt not but you shall see him Dismember'd And I do protest there is not any Soul living deserves Thanks in this Cause but our Sovereign Yesterday the Queen gave Order for the Draught of a Proclamation I had the Minutes thereof even now in my Hands You all know I went even now out of the House then I Read it and sent for him that should Deliver it to Her Hands Now What needs this new Zeal Mr. Davies said Mr. Davies Mr. Speaker I stood up before to Speak It was not much I had to say only this That which was deliver'd unto You from Her Sacred self I think to be Gospel that is Glad Tydings And as the Gospel is Written and Registred so would I have that also For Glad Tydings come to the Hearts of the Subjects This is all Sir George Moore said Sir George Moore This eating and fretting Disease of Monopolies I have ever detested with my Heart and the greater the Grievance is and hath been the more Inestimable is the Grace of Her Majesty in Repealing them And therefore to think we can sufficiently Record the same it were to hold a Candle before the Sun to dim the Light And seeing that She in Her Clemency and Care to Us hath taken the Matter into Her own Hands I wish the Matter may be no more spoken of much less proceeded in Sir Francis Hastings said Sir Francis Hastings It ought to be Written in the Tables of our Hearts Mr. Laurence Hide I think that this Gentleman that set this Motion on Foot spake out of Joy for Her Majesty's Grace and Zeal to have Performance of Her Promise In that he wish'd it might be Recorded in Paper here or in Parchment it is not to be intended but he also meant in our Hearts which remain no longer than we Live but Records remain longer and will give a Lively Remembrance in Ages to come And therefore for that part of his Motion I think it very Good and wish the Clerk may do accordingly Mr. Comptroller said Mr. Comptroller I think that he that moved first this Question exceedingly forgat himself and exceedingly detracted from Her Majesty who I know out of her abundant Grace and Favour to this House hath taken such speedy Course as hath been delivered by my Fellow-Councellour With that Affection She embraceth this House that in more Familiar than Princely sort it hath pleased Her to say Recommend me to the House with Thanks for their Promise and Care for the Common Good Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker My Heart is not able to conceive nor my Tongue to utter the Joy I conceive for Her Majesty's Gracious and Especial Care for our Good and Wellfare Wherefore as God said Gloriam meam alteri non dabo so may Her Majesty say in that That She Her self will be the only and speedy Agent for the Performance of our most Humble and Wished Desires Wherefore let us not doubt but as She hath been so She still will be our most Gracious Sovereign and Natural Mother unto Us Whose Dayes the Almighty God prolong to our Comforts And all the House cryed Amen On Saturday Novemb. 28. The Bill Intituled An Act for Explanation of the Statute of 39. Eliz. Cap. 6. touching Charitable Uses was Read the second time to which Mr. Tate spake and said amongst other things that That could be no Law which was contrary to the Great CHARTER of England And this was because it gave Power against the Great CHARTER which giveth Challenges to Jurors which this Law alloweth not Therefore he wished there might be a Commitment to Consider whether it were fit to be continued or repealed And the House would have appointed Monday