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

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this to be their inherent Fundamental Right and that the same was not taken away by any Act of Parliament in this Kingdom as in reason they thought none cou'd be so good Judges of the properest and easiest way of taxing the Subject as they and even since Poyning's Act those Rights of the House are found Asserted in the Journals on the bringing in of Mony Bills whereof they did not prepare the Heads and it is found to be a standing Order in the said Journals That no Bill to Tax the Subject be brought into the House without leave of the House first obtained But the House considering that their Majesties Occasions required an immediate Supply and that probably there might not be time allowed during this Session for Bills of their own preparing to be returned from England according to Form they were necessitated to consider how to reconcile these points The first Expedient thought on was this The Additional Excise Bill of the two seemed most consistent with the State of this Kingdom to be passed into an Act tho the House observed several Matters of just Exception in it as the inequality of Taxing different Liquors the Taxing of some Liquors under the notion of an Additional Duty which had not been Taxed before and continuing the former Incertainty of Measures to be relieved against which last a Petition of the Brewers had been preferred and lay upon the Table setting forth that the Kings Duty had been of late by the means of Sir James Shaen and others the then Farmers of the Revenue who were likewise Commissioners of the Excise and consequently Judges for their own Advantages levyed by them of a Gallon of 217 Cubical Inches tho for several years after the first passing the Act of Excise in this Kingdom the measures by which the King's Officers then levyed that Duty and by which the Brewers always have and are now by Law obliged to sell is a Gallon of 282 Inches proposing withal such an encrease of Duty to be made as shou'd answer the loss the Revenue might sustain by Regulation of the Measure This Petition and Complaint how reasonable soever it might be in it self was not thought fit to be taken into consideration lest it might retard the reading and passing the said Bill So that Postponing this and the other Exceptions the House thought an Expedient might be found for passing this Bill as it was by voting first an Additional Duty exactly corresponding with the said Bill in all the parts of it And these Heads so prepared being tender'd to the Lord Lieutenant and Council to be drawn into a Bill and transmitted the House might receive the Bill already sent as transmitted from England and framed on their heads And accordingly they passed the said Vote for such Additional Excise On Tuesday the 25th the House received Reports from Committees particularly concerning CivilBills as of late practiced at Assizes without any Foundation in Law upon pretence of being a more expeditious and cheap way of recovering Debts and Damages Which the House voted to be Arbitrary Illegal and a Burthen to the Subject and that an Address shou'd be presented to the Lord Lieutenant in Council to prepare a Bill which might answer what was of advantage in this practice without oppressing the Subject by giving an unlimited Power to the Judges Then by order of the day the House resolved into a Committee to consider the State of the Nation and it being proposed that the best means to settle this Kingdom in a lasting Happiness wou'd be to find out the causes of its Misery The Committee resolved on and voted among other Reasons these two following to be assigned for it First the great countenance given to the Irish Papists in the Reign of K. C. 2d and their being employ'd by the late King James Secondly the obstruction of the course of Justice by Illegal Protections granted since the defeat at the Boyne A motion was made in debate of this latter that particulars might be instanced and the persons who granted them named to the end their Majesties might know who they were that had so much abused their Authority committed to them but some scrupled it because of the great Characters they bore and the Committee soon breaking up this was deferred till its next Sitting which was on the 27th and then it was only concluded the Members being willing the Speaker shou'd resume the Chair in order to proceed on the Excise Bill to name persons at the next Sitting thereof which was appointed on the 29th and so from day to day but this Committee still gave place to that for considering the Supply no Report was ever made to the House from the said Committee but on November the 1st it was ordered to sit on the 4th and nothing to intervene Wednesday and Thursday the 26th 27th were taken up in debating other Expedients for the difficulty mention'd on Monday that then offer'd not being found to answer the Ends after several proposed some that were moved by Members who had pressed the Reading of the Bill and were suppo●ed to speak what was Agreeable to the Government took place which were to assert the Priviledges of the House by a Vote to read the Excise Bill in order to pass it and reject the Corn Bill Accordingly this Excise Bill was thus read and so successively every day till it was passed On Friday the 28th the Corn Bill according to the former Expedient was rejected and the reason given because it had not its Rise in the House of Commons The House then Resolved it self into a Committee and proceeded to consider further of Method to answer the Contents of the Corn Bill by some other Tax that their Majesties might receive the full Supply demanded It was considered that the Corn Bill wou'd have yielded no Mony until Summer 1693. and part thereof not until Michaelmas following and they thought they might by other means raise the Sum much sooner and more equally The several ways of raising Mony was throughly debated and at length the Committee unanimously agreed on a Poll Bill for several Reasons of which the following was not the least They were in hopes to have passed this Bill before the end of the Session by Adjournment till a Bill prepared according to Heads agreed on by them might have been transmitted into England and returned hither to be passed this wou'd have been an immediate Fund which with the Excise Bill wou'd have amounted to much more than the Sum required They who were for this in the House cou'd not suppose that these Proceedings wou'd have been any ways displeasing to the Government The same day three ingrossed Bills were sent down from the Lords viz. an Act for punishing Mutineers and Deserters an Act for Encouragement of Protestant Strangers and An Act for preventing Vexatious Suits Of these the Bill for encouraging Protestant Strangers c. was read in three days passed And the Bill for preventing Vexatious