that may be levied and the rest Order should be taken for the discharge thereof Michael Poultney Esquire Burgess for Lichfeild Robert Buckstones Burgess for Horsam in Sussex and Henry Green Citizen for the City of Hereford were for their several affairs Licensed to be absent On Thursday the 18 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill of Bowyers was read the third time and passed the House The Bill against phantastical Prophecies The Bill for punishment of Witchcrafts And the Bill against wilful Perjury were each of them read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the uniting of Churches by the Bishop so that the value be not above 24 l of the Churches united with two others were each of them read the first time On Friday the 19 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for punishment of Invocations of evil Spirits And the last That Fines or Recoveries with Voucher though the Original be imbezelled shall be good were each of them read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 20 th day of March the Bill for continuance of Statutes to endure for ever was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Clare and others not named And the Bill against Bankrupts being read also the second time was as may be gathered committed to M r Mersh and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21 th day of January foregoing M r Serjeant Carus and M r Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill against Washing and Clipping of money The Bill touching Leases made by Viscount Bindon and his Wife with two others Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was for the punishment of Witchcraft and another touching Fines and Recoveries with Voucher c. with two others of no great moment and immediately the Bill that Clipping or Washing of money shall be Treason The Bill for preservation of Woods in Sussex were each of them read the first time John Gardner Gent. Burgess for Dorchester in Dorset was for his affairs Licensed to be absent Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the relief of the poor And the Bill for the uniting of Parish Churches in Cities and Corporate Towns to the value of 24 l were each of them read the second time John Darrington Esq one of the Knights for the County of Huntington is for his affairs Licensed to be absent On Monday the 22 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Clipping and Washing of Monies shall be Treason was read the second time but not committed nor ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords It was Ordered that William Gerrard a necessary Witness for M r Pledal as he saith may be served by the Serjeant to attend Mr. Haddon at the rising of the House one of the Committees with the Master of the Rolls Mr. Recorder and Sir William Arnold and Mr. Norton discharged of this Examination Vide plus on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the paving of Kentish-street was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed John Dorrington Esq Knight for Huntington Humphrey Quarnby Burgess for Nottingham William Dawtrye Knight for Suffex Simon Thellwall Knight for Denbigh for their several necessary affairs were Licensed to be absent Three Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill touching Demurrers in Law On Tuesday the 23 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Clipping and Washing of money shall be Felony was read the third time and passed the House The Bill for encrease of Tillage was brought from the Lords by M r Serjeant Carus Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Leases to be made by the Lord Thomas Howard Viscount Bindon and his Wife And the second that Henry Howard Esq shall not discontinue Lands that shall descend were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Wednesday the 24 th day of March Two Bills had each of them their second reading of which the latter being the Bill for Assignment of forty thousand twenty seven pound four shillings and two pence half penny to the Expences of the Queens Houshold which Bill notwithstanding that it had passed the Upper House and been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing yet it was committed or at least referred to M r Vice-Chamberlain being an Officer of her Majesties said Houshold to be further considered of and was lastly passed in the House of Commons upon the third reading on Saturday the third day of April ensuing and was then immediately returned back to the Lords by M r Comptroller Two Bills were each of them read the third time of which one being the Bill for Fulling of Caps by foot and hand was dashed upon the Question Morris William Knight for the County of Carnarvon for his weighty affairs was Licensed to be absent On Thursday the 25 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Abergavenny may make Leases for twenty Years or three Lives And the second that Henry Howard Esq shall not discontinue Lands descending to him were each of them read the third time and passed And the third being the Bill for the Annuity of six pound thirteen shillings and four pence out of Wandlesworth in Surrey being the Archbishop of Yorks Lands to the School of Guildford was read the third time but it should seem the House did desire to consider further of this Bill and thereupon passed it not at this time but gave it a fourth reading on Tuesday the 30 th day of this instant March ensuing and then it passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for payment of Alneagers Fees for Sealing Cloaths in Lancashire was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Friday the 26 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being that the Lord Howard and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife may make Leases c. was read the third time and passed On Saturday the 27 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Bible and the
now credibly informed to this House by John Aldrich Gentleman one of the Citizens returned for the City of Norwich and also by Sir Roger Woodhouse Knight one of the Knights for the said County of Norff. and also by Edward Grimstone Esquire one of the Burgesses for the Town of Ipswich in the County of Suff. that the said Thomas Beamont is impotent and incurably sick and diseased it was at the earnest motion of the said John Aldrich made to this House for another Citizen to be chosen and returned for the said City of Norwich in the place and stead of the said Thomas Beamont Ordered and resolved by this House that a Warrant be made forthwith by this House to the Clerk of the Crown-Office in the Chancery for the directing of a new Writ for the chusing and returning of another Citizen of the said City of Norwich in the place and stead of the said Thomas Beamont accordingly And for as much as Hugh Graves one of the Citizens for the City of York did the last former Session of this present Parliament move the House and make request that by Order of this House another Citizen might be chosen and returned for the said City of York in lieu and stead of Gregory Peacocke his fellow Citizen being then and yet still incurably sick and diseased and for that also that Robert Askewith is already returned and hath attended this present Session in the room and place of the said Gregory Peacocke it was now Ordered and resolved by this House that the said Robert shall stand and remain still as a Citizen for the said City of York in the lieu and place of the said Gregory Peacocke according to the return thereof made The Bill for the Lord Zouch was after sundry Motions and Arguments put to the Question and dashed It was also upon further consideration of the said returns and defaults Ordered and resolved That Thomas Fleming Gentleman being returned into this Session and appearing in the place of James Dalton one of the Burgesses for Kingstone upon Hull in the County of York being incurably sick and diseased shall stand and continue according to the return in that behalf already made And that John Fawcher likewise returned a Burgess for the said Town of Kingston upon Hull in the lieu and stead of James Clerkson sick and Samuel Cox Esquire returned a Burgess for the City of Rochester in the County of Kent in the room and place of William Partridge Esquire being sick Sir William Drury Knight returned a Burgess for Castle Riseing in the County of Norff. in the room and place of Edward Flowerdewe Esq being sick Richard Mollineux Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Wigan in the County of Lancaster in the room and place of Edward Fitton Esquire being in the Queens Majesties Service Fulke Grevill Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Southampton in the room and place of Sir Henry Wallop Knight being in the Queens Majesties Service and Richard Herbert Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Montgomery in the room and place of Rowland Pugh Esquire supposed to be dead but yet known to be in plain life shall be forthwith amoved from their said places and the said James Clerkson Edward Flowerdew Esquire Edward Fitton Esquire William Partridge Esquire Sir Henry Wallop Knight and Rowland Pugh Esq and every of them shall stand and continue for their said several rooms and places notwithstanding any such causes of sickness the Queens Majesties Service or supposed allegation of being dead Vide Januar 19. Januar. 21. antea And it is also further agreed upon and resolved by this House That during the time of sitting of this Court there do not any time any Writ go out for the chusing or returning of any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron without the Warrant of this House first directed for the same to the Clerk of the Crown according to the ancient Jurisdiction and Authority of this House in that behalf accustomed and used Nota. This resolution of the House is no other than had been formerly taken by them in the beginning of this Parliament upon Saturday the 21 th day of January foregoing which also was further ratified and confirmed by the opinion and judgment of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight at this time Lord Chancellor of England M r Doctor Gibbon and M r Doctor Clerk did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships did desire present Conference with ten of this House or more touching the Bill lately passed in this House concerning Iron-Mills Whereupon were appointed M r Comptroller M r Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Shirley Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London M r Norton M r Cowper M r Aldersey M r Gaymes and M r Leife The Bill against certain deceitful stuff used in the dying of Cloths was sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and the said Committees and the provision passed and assented unto and amended according to the request of their Lordships The Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation all the Amendments Provisions and Additions being three times read was passed upon the Question Where by a former Order of this House Arthur Hall Esquire was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London there to remain by the space of six Months and so much longer as until himself should willingly make a general revocation or retractation under his hand in writing of certain Errors and slanders contained in a certain Book set forth in print and published in part greatly tending to the slander and reproach of Sir Robert Bell Knight deceased late Speaker of this present Parliament and of sundry other particular Members of this House and also of the Power Antiquity and Authority of this House to the satisfaction of this House or of such Order as this House should take for the same during the continuance of this present Session of Parliament as by the same Order made and set down by this House upon Tuesday being the 14 th day of February foregoing in this present Session of Parliament more at large doth and may appear And where also the said Arthur Hall hath ever since the said Order taken remained in the said Prison of the Tower and yet still doth and hath not at all made any revocation or retractation of the said slanders errors and untruths to the satisfaction of this said House according to the said Order It is now therefore Ordered and resolved by this House That the further allowance of such revocation or retractation to be hereafter made as aforesaid shall be referred unto the Right Honourable Sir Francis Knolles K t one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofte Knight one other of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Comptroller of her Majesties said most Honourable Houshold Sir Christopher Hatton Knight one other of her Highness said most Honourable
by the Lords before it was thus immediately returned a thing very observable and extraordinary within a short time after the Lords themselves had received it It appeareth also in the said Journal-Book that one Bill more concerning the good Government of the City of Westminster was sent up with certain amendments to the Lords from the House of Commons and that two other Bills whereof this very Bill concerning the City of Westminster was one and the Bill for the keeping of the County-Court at Morpeth and the Town of Anwicke in the County of Northumberland was the other had been this day sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle who thereupon did presently read them prima secunda tertia vice as the Lords it should seem led by their Example did the two Bills above-mentioned this same Morning afterwards and with some small alteration sent them up to the Lords All which matter is by the negligence of M r Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House omitted in the said Original Journal-Book of that House and supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons pag. 166 167. Collected by M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the said House On Saturday the 27 th day of March the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime-Regis in the County of Dorsett was read tertia vice conclusa The Petition also of the Lord Marquess of Winchester against M r Oughtred concerning certain Accompts by him to be made was this day read before the Lords Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 29 th day of this instant March following On Monday the 29 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued a Proviso to the Bill concerning the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis added by the Lords was read tertia vice and then sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle M r Oughtred appeared before the Lords The Lord Chancellor by the advice and consent of the said Lords asked the said Oughtred whether he meant to take the benefit of a Release heretofore mentioned The said Oughtred 〈◊〉 before the said Lords that he would 〈◊〉 advantage of any Release concerning 〈◊〉 sum of twelve thousand pound and more 〈◊〉 further that the said Release extended 〈◊〉 the said sum but to other accompts before 〈◊〉 time of his Executorship The Lord Chancellor demanded further of the said Oughtred 〈◊〉 would be contented that his said Speeches should be entred by the Clerk in the Journals of the House The said Oughtred Answered that he was very well pleased therewith Whereupon the Lord Chancellor Commanded that his said Speeches should be Registred Nota That this matter was formerly debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. and before also in this present Parliament on Tuesday the 9 th day of February last past and on Tuesday the 4 th day and on Saturday the 27 th day of this instant March foregoing and Committees were likewise appointed about it on the foresaid 9 th day of February being Tuesday Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lords meeting the Bill for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon lecta est quae commum omnium Proccrum assensu conclusa est data Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend ' unà cum subsidio Temporalitatis Nota That the general Pardon passeth here upon the first reading There was also brought from the House of Commons two Bills of which the first was the Bill for the preservation of the Pier or Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset and the second being an Act for the preservation of Pheasants and Partridges with amendments was rejected for that they of the House of Commons had with their amendments taken away the principal intent of the Bill This Afternoon her Majesty Accompanied with the two Archbishops of Canterbury and York Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Lord Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Oxford and divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal were personally present in the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House who being all set in their Parliamentary Robes and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof repaired thither with John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House after his humble reverence made and some expressions of his thankfulness to her Majesty he proceeded according to the usual course to desire her Majesty to give Life to such Laws by adding her Gracious Allowance unto them as had passed either House and remained as yet but as a dead Letter and withal gave her Majesty knowledge of the free gift of the House of Commons of one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths To which Speech of the said Prolocutors the Lord Chancellor by her Majesties commandment answered That she did graciously accept of the said gift of her Commons and was come thither to give her Royal assent to divers of those Laws which had passed the two Houses Then were the Titles of all the Acts read and first the Bill of Subsidy to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Majesties Answer in manner and form following La Royne remercie ses loyaulx Subjects accepte leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelates Seigneurs Communes en se present Parliment assembles au nom de touts vous autres Subjects remercient treshumblement vostre Majesty prient a Dieu que il vous done en sante bone vie longue Nota That her Majesties Answer to these two Acts of the Subsidy and Pardon do differ from all the rest to any other Bills because in the first is expressed her Majesties thanks to the Subjects and in the second the Subjects humble acknowledgment of her said Majesties Pardon as an act of her own free grace and goodness To every publick Act allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament reads in these French words following La Royne le veult To every private Act that passeth the said Clerk of the Parliament reads the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desire These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of the Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear
said Motion or any other tending to the safety of her Majesties Person may be very well delivered and remembred to the Committees in the great Cause by any member of the House M r Dennis Hollis offereth a Bill to this House in the behalf of the Curriers of London Whereupon M r Speaker put the House in remembrance of her Majesties pleasure before signified unto this house to forbear the making of new Laws and to spend the time in the great Causes for which this Parliament was specially summoned yet because in the mean time of dealing in the said great Cause in Committee or otherwise there should be nothing to occupy the House withal it is thought good at such times to have some Bills read in the House reserving always due regard and place to the said great Cause And thereupon the said Bill was read accordingly The Bill touching the Curriers was read the first time The Bill also for limitation of time touching Writs of Error growing by fraud had its first reading M r Chadley one of the Knights returned for the County of Devon offereth a Bill to this House touching Cloth-making within the said County out of Cities Market Towns and Corporate Towns Whereupon the said Bill was then read accordingly The Bill touching Clothiers in the County of Devon had its first reading Edmund Moore of Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex Tallow-chandler and John Turner of the same Butcher being both of them in the Serjeants Custody for presuming to come into this House sitting the House and being no Members of the same it is upon opinion that they did it of ignorance and meer simplicity and not of any pretended purpose and also upon their humble submission of themselves unto this House and like humble request and Petition of Pardon for the same Agreed by this House that they shall be discharged and set at Liberty taking first the Oath of Supremacy openly in this House which they so then did and afterward departed On Munday the 7 th day of November The Bill touching Fines and Recoveries levied before the Justices of the Common Pleas whereunto any of the said Justices are parties was read the first time Sir William Herbert being returned into this House Knight for the County of Monmouth offereth a Bill into this House for the relief of certain Orphans within the said County of Monmouth and prayeth that the same Bill may be read which was so then read accordingly The Bill for relief of certain Orphans in the County of Monmouth had its first reading M r Bulkely offereth a Bill unto this House touching Clothes made in this Realm to be shipped and transported over the Seas and prayeth the same may be read which was thereupon so done accordingly The Bill touching Clothes made to be transported over the Seas had its first reading Sir Robert Jermin likewise offereth another Bill touching Clothiers and Cloth-making in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex and prayeth the reading thereof which in no wise he would have moved if the House should have been any ways occupied in the great Cause the speedy course and proceeding whereof he most earnestly desireth and prayeth The Bill touching Clothiers and Clothes made in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was read the first time M r Vice-Chamberlain shewed that the Committees in the great Cause did meet according to the Commission therein of this House unto them and that then also they did appoint another Meeting therein to be this Afternoon and shewed withal That some of the Committees of this House being of the Privy Council do understand that the Lords will not in this great and weighty Cause any way deal or meddle amongst themselves nor in any other matter besides until they shall have first heard therein from this House for Conference to be prayed with them by this House and therefore moved That now whilst their Lordships do yet sit the Privy Council with some few others of this House be presently sent to their Lordships to move for Conference and to know their Lordships pleasure for the time and place of Meeting Whereupon for that purpose it was ordered That all the Privy Council being of this House Sir Henry Gate M r Sollicitor and Sir William Moore should presently repair to their Lordships to the higher House who did so accordingly It should seem that in the mean time after the going up of M r Treasurer and the rest and before their return from the Lords these matters following were handled viz. The Bill touching Orford-Haven was read the second time and thereupon committed unto Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Higham Sir Henry Cobham M r Cromwell M r Layer and all others that were Committees in the same Cause the last Parliament to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle Temple Hall at three of the Clock After sundry Speeches to the Bill touching Inrollments upon the second reading thereof and being then reserved to convenient time and this present time falling out to be convenient for that purpose it is upon the question both for the committing and ingrossing quite dashed and rejected The Bill touching Curriers had its second reading M r Treasurer and the residue of the Committees being returned from the Lords as it should seem much about the time that the House had finished the disputing and reading of the foresaid Bills he shewed that he and the residue have according to the Appointment of this House moved the Lords for Conference touching the said great Cause which their Lordships did very well like of and have appointed that the former Committees of this House in the said Cause do meet this Afternoon in the Parliament-Chamber with such Committee of their Lordships as their Lordships for that purpose do appoint which he saith he thinketh to be twenty or thereabouts And so thereupon were the Names of the said Committees of this House read and they required to give their Attendances therein at the said time and place accordingly On Tuesday the 8 th day of November M r Doctor Turner shewed unto this House That he is fully perswaded that her Majesties safety cannot be sufficiently provided for by the speedy cutting off of the Queen of Scots unless some good means withal be had for the rooting out of Papistry either by making of some good new Laws for that purpose or else by the good and due Execution of the Laws already in force which as he greatly wisheth and referreth to the grave consideration of this House so concluding in his own Conscience that no Papist can be a good Subject he did offer a Bill to this House containing as he thinketh some convenient form of matter tending to the effect of his Motion and prayeth the same may be read Whereupon M r Speaker finding the Title of the said Bill to purport the Safety of her Majesties Person putteth the House in remembrance that by their own appointment and direction that matter was referred to certain Committees
Mr. Recorder of London making a large and plentiful discourse of the ancient priviledges and liberties of this House furnished with recital of sundry Precedents and examples and lastly coming down to the matter in hand sheweth that Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Commons Pleas told him this morning that the said Lord Chancellor and the Judges had resolved that the said first Writ ought to be returned and had so given order to the Sheriff and Clerk of the Crown And that he thereupon answered the said Sir Edmund Anderson again that the censure thereof belonged unto this House and not unto them and that he for his part would take no notice thereof at their hands of their so doing but only by way of instructions and not otherwise And so concluded with the allowance of the good course and order of this House in setting down and entring the said Judgement accordingly as before Mr. Vice-Chamberlain shewed unto the House that according to their appointment he hath been an humble suitor unto her Majesty on the behalf of this House for access there to be had unto her Highness to exhibit their Petition unto her Majesty And that her Majesty thereupon hath very Graciously granted to hear them at the Court upon to morrow next between one and two of the Clock in the Afternoon signifying also unto them further that her Majesty having heard that the Lords do appoint them twenty of themselves of the Higher House to attend her Majesty also for the same purpose so her Highness thinketh meet that forty of this House were likewise appointed for this House which She thinketh to be a sufficient number but is nevertheless well pleased if the House shall think good to send a more or greater Number at their discretions but leaveth the same to their own considerations Which her Majesties most Gracious Favour as the whole House did take it in most joyful and dutiful part So did they then desire the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain that he would in the name of this whole House present unto her Majesty their most humble and dutiful thanks for the same her Highnesses most gracious clemency and great loving kindness towards them Which so to do the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain told them he purposed God willing in the Afternoon of this present day And these were appointed by this House to attend upon her Majesty to morrow at the Court as many of the former Committees as would whose names see at large on Friday the 4 th day of this instant November foregoing and also Sir Henry Barkeley Sir William Mohun Sir Edward Dymocke Sir Thomas Jones Sir Henry Bagnell Sir Andrew Nevill Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Farmer Sir Edward Osborne Mr. Henry Bromley Mr. Ralph Horsey Mr. James Croft and Mr. Tasborough then added unto them which done upon a Motion that for as much as the Knights for the County of Norsolk and the Burgesses for all the Boroughs within the same County saving only the Citizens for the City of Norwich were returned and certified into this House this present day and not before the Petition might therefore be read again in this House in the presence of the same Knights and Burgesses to the intent that they being made privy thereof might also yield their Assents to the same Petition whereby the rather the same being for a matter of so great moment might in very deed be the Action of the whole House then being possessed and consisting of all the Members thereof the same Petition was read by the Clerk and well liked of agreed unto and allowed by the voices of the said Knights and Burgesses upon the question thereof unto them made in that behalf by Mr. Speaker And afterwards Mr. Vice-Chamberlain made a motion that Mr. Speaker be put in remembrance by this House besides the residue of his reasons to be shewed to her Majesty for maintenance of the parts of the said Petition to urge if need be to her Majesty the matter and necessity of the late Instruments of Association respecting especially the Consciences of a great number of her Highnesses good and Loyal subjects which cannot be dispensed with by Laws whereupon request was so made by the House to Mr. Speaker accordingly Mr. Treasurer shewed that yesterday he and others of the Committees in the great Cause presented unto the Lords in the Upper House the Request of this House unto their Lordships to have the said Petition entred and recorded in the Upper House there to remain as an Act. Whereunto their Lordships assented and willed that the same might first be ingrossed in Parchment and so delivered to their Lordships this present Forenoon shewing further That the Clerk of this House then had the same already ingrossed and exact accordingly but that the same could not that day be sent to their Lordships for that their Lordships did not sit this Forenoon and therefore he said it must be delivered at some other time And so then the House did rise and this Court was adjourned till Monday next following Memorandum That in the Afternoon of this present day the said Petition ingrossed was delivered into the hands of the Lord Chancellor by the Appointment of Mr. Speaker and so lest with his Lordship On Saturday the 12 th day of November although the House of Commons sate not any part of the day in their proper place yet in the Afternoon according to her Majesties direction sent unto the House yesterday by Sir Christopher Hatton her Vice-Chamberlain John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker with all the Privy Council and divers other Members of the said House whose Names see before on Friday the 4 th day and on Friday the 11 th day of this instant November last past repaired to her Majesty unto the Court there to joyn with Sir Thomas Bromiey Lord Chancellor and twenty Temporal Lords of the Upper House in presenting a certain Petition which had been agreed upon by both Houses unto her Highness for the speedy Execution of Mary late Queen of Scots according to that just Sentence which had been pronounced against her And to move her Majesty thereunto the said Speaker of the House of Commons did use many excellent and solid reasons which were all found in a certain Memorial written with his own hand being as followeth Unless Execution of this just Sentence be done 1. Your Majesties Person cannot any while be safe 2. The Religion cannot long continue amongst us 3. The most flourishing present State of this Realm must shortly receive a woful Fall 4. And consequently in sparing her your Majesty shall not only give courage and hardiness to the Enemies of God of your Majesties self and of your Kingdom but shall discomfort and daunt with despair the hearts of your loving People and so deservedly provoke the heavy hand and wrath of God And that summarily for the reasons ensuing First forasmuch as concerns the danger of your Majesty Both she and her Favourers think
Nursing Mother unto us Whose dayes the Almighty God prolong to all our Comforts All said Amen On Saturday the 28 th day of November the Bill for the maintenance of Shipping and increase of Mariners was read the first time Sir George Moore one of the Committees in the Bill touching Fines to be levyed in the County of the City of Chester brought in the Bill amended by the Committees The Amendments in the Bill touching Fines to be levyed in the County of the City of Chester were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching draining of Grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington c. was read the second time and committed unto the Queens Learned Councel being of this House the Knights and Burgesses for the Shires named in the Bill my Lord Clinton and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Mr. Mountague made Report of the meeting of the Committees in the Bill touching the Jointure of the Countess of Bedford and Proviso thereunto which he brought in with some Amendments The Amendments in the Bill for the Jointure of the Countess of Bedford and the Proviso thereunto annext were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Sir William Wray shewed the meeting of the Committees in the Bill touching Drunkenness with some Amendments The Amendments in the Bill touching Drunkenness were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Lands given to Charitable uses c. was read the second time and committeed to the Committees for repeal of Statutes whose names see on Thursday the 5 th day of November foregoing and there were added unto them the Queens Learned Councel being Members of this House the Masters of Requests Sir Edward Stafford Sir Edward Hobbie and divers others and appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And the Committees to have Authority as well to put into the Bill of Repeal or in the Bill of continuance of Statutes the former Act made in the last Parliament touching Lands given to charitable uses as to deal in this present Bill if it shall so seem good unto them M r Secretary declared that according to the direction of this House her Majesty hath been informed of the exceeding and inestimable joy and comfort which this House hath received by a Message lately published sent from her Highness by M r Speaker And hath been likewise moved to signify her Highnesses pleasure touching the determination of this House in appointing Mr. Speaker with some selected Company of the same to render the most humble and dutiful thanks of this whole House for the said most gracious most princely and comfortable Message And her gracious Answer was That her Majesty being acquainted with the said desires of this House did vouchsafe that Mr. Speaker with forty fifty or a hundred of this House such as should thereunto be appointed should have access unto her Majesty for the same purpose upon Monday next in the Afternoon at the Court and should be all welcome Whereupon were appointed the Knights for all the Shires My Lord Hayward my Lord Clinton all Knights Members of this House the Citizens and Knights for London the Masters of Requests Mr. Bacon Mr. Francis Lee Mr. Dr. Parkins Mr. Warcup Mr. Dr. Bennet Mr. Dr. James Mr. Davies Mr. Martin and Mr. Simnel Robert Holland Scrivener and Lawrence Brook his Servant were brought to the Bar and being charged by Mr. Speaker with their offence against this House in offering an abuse unto a Member of the same in striking and ill intreating of Mr. 〈◊〉 and his servant attending upon him 〈◊〉 presence it was upon the hearing and debating of the matter Ordered upon the question that the said Robert Holland and Lawrence Brook his servant should be committed Prisoners to the Serjeant of this House for the space of five days and then to be discharged paying the Fees of the Serjeant and the Clerk The Bill that the Lord Marquess of Winchester may dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tayle as other Tenants in Tayle by the Laws and Statutes of the Realm may do c. was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy Council being Members of this House all the Queen 's Learned Councel likewise Sir Robert Wroth Sir Fdward Moore Sir Francis Hastings Sir Walter Raleigh and others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Edward Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Christopher Hillyard Esquire returned into this present Parliament a Burgess for the Borough of Heydon in the County of York for that he is visited with sickness and thereby unable to give his Attendance is licensed by Mr Speaker to depart home Henry Hastings Esquire one of the Knights for the County of Leicester is licensed by Mr. Speaker for his necessary affairs to depart into his Countrey after having left with the Serjeant ten shillings for the Poor On Monday the 30. day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for repairing and amending of Bridges near the City of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland was read the first time M r D r Caesar brought in the Bill touching the making of a Haven or Pier on the North part of Severn c. with some Amendments Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Poulterers of London was read the first time and rejected M r Dale one of the Committees in the Bill touching Feltmakers who were appointed on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and brought in the Bill with a Proviso annext and some Amendments Thus far of the passages of this day out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons Now followeth a certain Message by Sir William Knolls her Majesties Comptroller which he delivered in her Highnesses name unto the House out of the private Journal Mr. Comptroller said I am to certify you of her Highness's gladness and willingness to hear the acceptable News that was delivered unto her from this House of our humble and earnest desire all to see her Majesty and shew our thankfulness She commanded me to tell you That the reason of her limitation of having a convenient number was that the place whereunto we should come was not big enough to receive us all but she saith that she is glad that there is such a Sympathy betwixt her and us And she is well pleased that this Afternoon at three of the Clock we should attend her and without
Seas Succeeded to all the Realms and Dominions of Mary her Sister excepting Callais and those other inestimable places in France which had been most dishonourably and vainly lost in the time and towards the end of the Reign of the said Queen and finding also the Innocent Blood of Gods Saints shed for the Witness of the Truth to have stained the former Government with the just Brand and Stigma of persecuting and Tyrannical And that her Realms and Dominions were much impoverished and weakened whilst in the mean time her Enemies every where abroad were encreased not only in Number but in Strength and Power She therefore in the very entrance of her Reign well considering and foreseeing that the surest and safest way to Establish the Truth to abolish all Foreign and usurped Authority to repair the breaches and weaknesses of her said Realms and Dominions to strengthen her Kingdoms with Shipping and Munition and to revive the decayed Trade thereof was by the common advice and Council and with the Publick assent of the Body of her Realm did Summons herfirst Parliament to begin on Monday the 23th day of January having before made and appointed that wise and able Statesman Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England In the setting down of this Journal of the upper House in An. 1. Reg. Eliz. An. Dom. 1558. Summoned to begin at the day and place aforesaid I have caused to be Transcribed many things at large out of the original Journal Book Some things also of Form I have added to it which are in the very Original it self omitted in this regard only because they were but matters of Course and not much material yet I was much desirous both in this Journal of the Upper House and in that also of the House of Commons in this first year of the Queen to supply once for all the whole matter of Form that so I might the better omit it in the following Journals and have ready recourse hither unto it being all framed into one Structure or Body In this Journal of this first year is set down the ground form and return of the Writs of Summons with their usual and common differences the Commission for Prorogation and the form of Proroging the Parliament to a surther day The manner of the beginning of the Parliament with the Sitting of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal The places of Peers under age and of Noblemens Sons their Fathers living and the difference The whole form Verbatim of the Receivers and Tryers of Petitions And lastly for what or by whose Licence the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal may absent themselves from the Parliament House and send their Proxies the forms of Proxies the cause of a Vacat the several observations upon the return of such usual or unusual Proxies as were this Parliament returned the returns of which are set down at large out of the Original Journal Book it self with divers other things of the like nature and are digested as the following Passages of this first Parliament of Queen Eliz. into an orderly and exact Journal Before the Writs for the Summoning of this Parliament were sent forth the Queens Majesty did send her Warrant to Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England commanding him speedily to cause the said Writs to be made as in like cases had been formerly accustomed the usual Form of which Warrant being by Bill Signed is as followeth Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right Wel-beloved Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England Greeting Whereas we by our Council for certain great and urgent Causes concerning us the good Estate and Common-wealth of this our Realm and of the Church of England and for the good Order and continuance of the same have appointed and Ordained a Parliament to be holden at our City of Westminster the sirst day of April next coming in which case divers and sundry Writs are to be directed forth under our Great Seal of England as well for the Prelates Bishops and Nobility of this our Realm as also for the Election of Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the several Counties Cities and Burroughs Towns of the same to be present at the said Parliament at the day and place aforesaid Whereupon We Will and Command you forthwith upon the receipt hereof and by Warrant of the same to cause such and so many Writs to be made and Sealed under our Great Seal for the accomplishing of the same as in like Cases hath been heretofore used and accustomed And this Bill Signed with our own hand shall be as well unto you as to every such Clerk and Clerks as shall make and pass the same a sufficient Warrant or Discharge in that behalf given Upon this Warrant the Lord Keeper sends out the said Writs of Summons returnable the 23th day of January being Monday and bearing Date at Westminster the 5th day of December in the first year of the Queen the form of which Writ is as followeth Elizabetha Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Clarissimo Consanguineo suo Thomae Duci Norfolciae c. Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Consilij nostri pro quibusdam ardius urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quodd am Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterij vicessimo tertio die Januarij proximè futuro teneri ordinaverimus ibidem vobiscum cum Prelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo Mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quâcunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatur ' vestrumque consilium impensur ' hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem Defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedict ' expeditionemque negotiorum dictorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste me ipsà apud Westmonasterium quinto Die Decembris Anno Regni nostri primo The Writ to the Archbishop of York for the See of Canterbury was now void by the Death of Cardinal Pool was after this Form ensuing Elizabetha Dei Gratia c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Nicholao Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' c. And so to the end as it is in the Duke of Norfolks Writ unless perhaps after the word Mandamus the words following are in fide dilectione quibus nobis tenemini c. instead of these words to the Temporal Lords Sub fide Ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini The Writs that were directed to the two Marquesses of Winchester and Northampton and to
as well of the said Francis as of the Bishop of Durham whom it concerned should on Saturday then next following be heard what could on either side be said in furtherance or disallowance of the same The Bill also for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was secunda vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Tuesday the 23 th day of February the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huicke Nota That this Bill of Subsidy after it had passed the Upper House was not by them altered or amended in any thing but only sent back again unto the House of Commons to whom it did most properly belong and is on the last day of the Parliament or Session of Parliament to be brought up by the Speaker of the said House as it was at this time on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing and presented unto her Majesty by Thomas Williams Esq Prolocutor of the said House at this present Session before she gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed On Thursday the 25 th day of February the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read the first time On Saturday the 27 th day of February the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them read prima vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty and the second against carrying over Sheep Skins and Pelts over the Seas not being Staple Ware were each of them returned conclus This day according to the Order formerly taken Sir Francis Jobson with his Counsel came before the Lords and by them declared ..... And no more is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by the negligence of the Clerk the matter is so left abruptly but it doth plainly appear that it was touching the Assurance of certain Lands which concerned the Bishop of Durham ut videas on Saturday the 20 th of this Instant February foregoing On Monday the first day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughters of the late Lord Hussey was read prima vice A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions was read primâ secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Province of Canterbury and the second against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees were each of them read prima vice The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury was read secunda tertia vice conclus and was with the Bill for the Children of the Lord Hussey which had likewise this day passed the House upon the third reading sent to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read and Serjeant Carus On Wednesday the 3 d day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read tertia vice with certain Provisions thereunto annexed by the Lords which were thrice severally read conclus A Proviso annexed by the House of Commons to the Bill against forging of false Deeds was read prima secunda tertia vice commissa Domino Rich Domino Willoughby Primario Justiciario Banci Regii Justiciario Browne Quod Nota Because no Bill or Proviso is usually committed after the third reading On Thursday the 4 th day of March The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Haleston Esq The Bill against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees The Bill for the punishments of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians And the Bill for uniting of Churches within the City of Winchester were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of William West and the Bill for the Town of Southampton were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to Justice Southcote Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney Nota That these two Bills last mentioned were not only committed after the first reading which is not usual till the second but also committed to meer Assistants which are not Members of the House and therefore in both respects the President is more rare and remarkable vide consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of Jan. foregoing On Saturday the 6 th day of March The Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Edward Turner were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus commis Servienti Carus Ricardo Read in Domum Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas and the second touching Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Comite Arundel On Monday the 8 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money c. The Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper
of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be all one And the Bill touching the true fulling and thicking of Caps were each of them read the third time and concluded Et unà cum aliâ Billa For the making Denizens of certain Children born beyond the Seas commissae sunt Attorn Dom. Reginae Doctori Huick in Dom. Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under three thousand pound Lands or Fees was returned conclus And the last was the Bill that the Hospital Church of St. Katherine near the Tower of London shall be a Parish Church and for the erecting of a School Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Inchantments Sorceries and Witchcraft was read the first time On Tuesday the 9 th day of March Nine Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir PeterCarew Knight And the second against Inchantments Sorceries Witchcrafts c. were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be engrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been formerly sent to the Lords from the House of Commons The sixth being the Bill for the uniting and annexing of Churches was read primâ vice commissa Justiciario Southcot ut in duos libros redigatur On Wednesday the 10 th day of March the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of William West And the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Sir William Carew Knight were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Eight other Bills had each of them one reading of which the three last the one for Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Another touching the Lord Viscount Bindon And the third for the relief of the Poor were each of them read secunda vice On Thursday the 11 th day of March the Bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas The Bill against fond and phantastical Prophecies And the Bill for the punishment of the vice of Buggery were each of them read tertia vice conclusae commissae sunt Attornato Dominae Reginae Doctori Yale in Domum Communem deferend Six other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Forgers of false Deeds and Writings and the third being the Bill for Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed were each of them read tertia vice conclus Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and the second declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them returned conclus On Saturday the 13 th day of March the Bill touching the Town of Southampton was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Bill touching the Boyers of Westminster was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum The Bill also for Confirmation of divers Liberties granted by Letters Patents to the City of Exeter was read tertiâ vice And a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords being read prima secunda tertia vice the Bill was concluded Commun omnium procerum assensu On Monday the 15 th day of March Seven Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that the Hospital of St. Katherines near the Tower of London shall be a Parish Church and for the erecting of a School was read primâ vice and committed to the Bishop of London Quod nota For Bills are not usually committed until the second reading vide tamen consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of January foregoing The fourth also being the Bill for the Enrolment of Bargains and Sales in the Queens Majesties Courts of Record in Lancaster Chester and Durham was read tertiâ vice commissa Servienti Carus Attornato Dominae Reginae unà cum Bill Civitat Exon. in Domum Communem deferend Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlaine Knight and John Harleston Esq And the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas Daughter and Heir of William Thomas Esq were each of them returned conclus On Tuesday 16. day of March the Bill for the relief of the Poor The Bill for uniting of Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate The Bill for the Boyers of London Westminster and Southwark And the Bill for the Confirmation of a Grant made by Letters Patents to the Town of Southampton touching the bringing of Malmesies and Sweet Wines by Merchant Strangers were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusae The Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions which had been before here passed and concluded in the Upper House and sent down by them to the House of Commons and from the Commons sent back again to the Lords with certain Provisoes and Amendments added thereunto The said Bill needed no new reading but the said Provisoes and Amendments which had been added since it had passed the Upper House were now read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice all at once and so passed The Bills for Southampton and the Boyers of Westminster were sent down to the House of Commons by M r Sollicitor and D r Yale and from thence were returned two other Bills which had passed the Upper House the one for sundry politick Constitutions for the encrease of the Navy and the other for the Restitution in Blood of William West On Wednesday the 17 th day of March the Bill for Assignment for the Queens Houshold was read tertiâ vice and with the Bill for uniting of Churches in Towns Corporate and for relief of the Poor was sent from the Lords to the House of Commons The Bill for allowance to be made to the Sheriffs being called for the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal declared to the Lords that the Queen would her self take Order therein which her pleasure and determination she willed him to signifie unto them on her behalf On Thursday the 18. day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill against Filing Washing and Clipping of Coins was read the second time and committed to be ingrossed The Bill concerning Viscount Bindon and the Bill for Tillage were Ordered this day to be ingrossed On Saturday the 20. day of March the Bill touching peculiar Jurisdictions was upon the second reading committed
were appointed to be considered of presently by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Smith Mr. Wilson Master of the Requests Mr. Heneage Mr. Fortescue and others The Bill touching Grants made by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Smith Mr. Captain of the Guards and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Dr. Berkley did bring from the Lords the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy The Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness with two others of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for toleration of certain Clothiers within the Counties of Wiltshire Somerset and Gloucestar were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Vaughan and Mr. Dr. Berkley did bring from the Lords the Bill for Confirmation of an Hospital in Leicester Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the true making of Woollen-Cloths was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Saturday the third day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Tythes of Hallifax was read the second time but no mention is made whether it was ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the Lords on Thursday the first day of this instant March foregoing The Bill touching the Children of Strangers Parents born in this Realm was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Norton Mr. Cowper Mr. Cromwell Mr. Snagg Mr. Alford and Mr. Dalton Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Serjeant Barham brought word from the Lords that on Monday next at Eight of the Clock in the Morning the Lords have appointed to have Conference with the Committees of this House touching the Bills for Confirmation of Letters Patents and the Bill touching the Lands of the late Rebels in the North parts Whereupon it was Ordered that the former Committee for the said Bill of Confirmation of Letters Patents have added unto them Mr. Norton Mr. Topcliffe and Sir George Bowes Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries within the County Palatine of Chester was read the third time and passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Assize of Wood within the City of London was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Rowland Hayward and others to confer to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon at Mr. Treasurers Chamber The Bill for the Hospital in the Town of Leicester was read the first second and third time and passed the House Quod nota The Bill finally for two Justices to be had in Wales and the County Palatine of Chester was read the second time but no mention is made either that it was referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent from the Lords On Monday the 5 th day of March the Bill for the paving of the City of Chichester was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for mending the High-ways and Bridges near Oxford was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Rochester-Bridge and the Bill for Trial of nisi prius in the County of Middlesex and the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries in the County Palatine of Chester with four others of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Artificers Foreign and Denizens was read the first time and committed unto the Masters of the Requests Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber and others to meet at Guild-hall to Morrow in the Afternoon at three of the Clock The Bill touching Inholders common Cooks and Wine-Sellers c. was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Doctor Yale and M r Doctor Berkley did bring from the Lords the Bill touching Presentations by Lapse with some Amendments which Bill was before sent unto them from this House The Bill for toleration of certain Clothiers in the Counties of Wilts Somerset and Gloucester was sent up unto the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Inholders c. was committed unto the former Committees and unto M r Stanhope M r Edgcomb M r Dalton M r Alford M r Scone and M r S t John who were appointed to meet here this Afternoon in the Committee Chamber of this House Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their second reading of which the first being the Bill touching Goldsmiths c. was Ordered to be ingrossed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill against the wearing and using of unlawful Weapons was twice read The new Bill of Jeofailes was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Trials by Juries was read the second time and committed unto M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Henry Knivet Sir George Penrudock M r Sampoole M r Brown and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at seven of the Clock in the Morning in the Committee Chamber of this House Four Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against taking and killing of Partridges and Pesants was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 6 th day of March four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching the Tanning and Currying of Leather was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others The Bill against the Inning of Salt-Marshes was twice read and committed unto M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Andrews Sir William Winter Sir Valentine Brown Sir George Penrudock and others to be considered of presently Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the second being the Bill for reformation of Jeofailes and the third against the abuses of Goldsmiths were sent up to the Lords with the Bill for Chepstow by M r Comptroller and
House of Commons Whereupon the Speaker moved the said House to appoint some to amend those things which the Lords had yielded to have reformed that so the Bill might pass but the whole House a very few excepted said they would hear no more of it and so it stayed without any further proceeding because it appeared the House of Commons did not think their Objections sufficiently answered by the Lords This foregoing proceeding of the two Houses in the above-mentioned Bill touching Authority to be given to the Justices of her Majesties Forests c. being transcribed out of the Copy thereof I had by me now follows the next days Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Friday the 9 th day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of the Lord Norris was twice read The Bill for re-edifying of the Town of Cringleford near unto the City of Norwich was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords with the Bill for the Hospital in the Town of Leicester by M r Treasurer and others The Bill touching Suffolk Cloths and Essex Cloths was read the first time and committed unto M r Secretary Smith M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Nicholas Arnold and others to have Conference touching the double searching of Cloths generally now presently in the Committee-Chamber The Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords M r Chancellor of the Exchequer touching the Petition for reformation of Discipline in the Church did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships having moved the Queens Majesty touching the said Petition her Highness answered their Lordships that her Majesty before the Parliament had a care to provide in that case of her own disposition and at the beginning of this Session her Highness had Conference therein with some of the Bishops and gave them in Charge to see due reformation thereof wherein as her Majesty thinketh they will have good consideration according unto her pleasure and express Commandment in that behalf So did her Highness most graciously and honourably declare further that if the said Bishops should neglect or omit their Duties therein then her Majesty by her Supream Power and Authority over the Church of England would speedily see such good redress therein as might satisfie the expectation of her loving Subjects to their good contentation which Message and Report was most thankfully and joyfully received by the whole House with one accord And immediately thereupon John Crook Esquire one of the Knights for the County of Buckingham took occasion in most humble and dutiful wise to make a Motion unto the House for another Petition to be moved to the Lords for perswading of her Majesty for Marriage Vide concerning Church-Discipline on Wednesday the 29 th day of February preceeding and on Friday the second day of this instant March foregoing and touching the Queens Marriage on Monday the 12 th day of the same Month of March ensuing The new Bill also for the Lady Wainman was read the first time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Lord Viscount Howard of Bindon was twice read Six other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Henry Lord Norris another for Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and a third for Preservation of Pheasants and Partridges were each of them read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 10 th day of March Two Bills had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was for repressing of Murders and Felonies in the Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness and another for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges The Bill against excess in Apparel was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House M r Captain of the Guard M r Treasurer of the Chamber the Masters of Requests and others who were appointed to meet at the Exchequer-Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Doctor Barkley and M r Powle did bring from the Lords a Bill for the Hospital of S t Cross with special commendation for expediting thereof and Declaration of the assent of the Parties given in that behalf before their Lordships Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Lady Wainman was read the third time and passed the House M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords two Bills with Amendments and Provisoes which before passed the House viz. the Bill for repairing and amending of the Bridges and High-ways near Oxford and the Bill for maintenance of Colledges in the Universities and of Eaton and Winchester The Bill against Arthur Hall Esquire Edward Smalley and Matthew Kirtleton his Servant was read the first time Edward Smalley Servant unto Arthur Hall Esq appearing in this House this day at the Bar it was pronounced unto him by M r Speaker in the name and by the appointment and order of this House for Execution of the former Judgment of this House awarded against him That he the said Edward Smalley shall be forthwith committed Prisoner from this House to the Tower of London and there remain for one whole Month next ensuing from this present day and further after the same Month expired until such time as good and sufficient assurance shall be had and made for payment of 100 l of good and lawful money of England to be paid unto William Hewet Administrator of the goods Chattels and Debts of Melchisedech Malory Gent. deceased upon the first day of the next Term according to the former Order in that behalf by this House made and set down and also forty Shillings for the Serjeants Fees the notice of which assurance for the true payment of the said hundred pounds in form aforesaid to be certified unto M r Lieutenant of the Tower by M r Recorder of London before any delivery or setting at liberty of the said Edward Smalley to be in any wise had or made at any time after the Expiration of the said Month as is aforesaid and that he shall not be delivered out of Prison before such notice certified whether the same be before the said first day of the next Term or after Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 16 th day Monday the 20 th day Wednesday the 22 th day Monday the 27 th day and on Tuesday the 28 th day of February preceeding as also on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing
are due unto her This then is one of the Provisions which we ought to take care of in this Council whereby we may both enjoy still that happy Peace we live in and the Pope take the less boldness to trouble us by any favour he shall find here The next is Provision of Forces sufficient to Answer any violence that may be offered either here or abroad for the which you know it is requisite that her Majesty do make Preparation both by Sea and by Land God hath placed this Kingdom in an Island environed with the Sea as with a natural and strong Wall whereby we are not subject to those sudden Invasions which other Frontier Countries be One of our greatest defences standing by Sea the number of good Ships is of the most importance for us What the Queens Navy is how many notable Ships and how far behind the Navy of any other Prince is known to all men and therewith also it may be easily considered how great Charges be incident to the same Necessary also it is that her Majesty have Forces by Land sufficient to chastise the Rebels in Ireland and to repress any Foreign attempts either there or here For which Services either by Land or by Sea her Majesty needeth not as other Princes are fain to do to entertain necessary Souldiers of Foreign Countries hardly gotten costly and dangerously kept and in the end little or no service done them but may bring sufficient Forces of her own natural Subjects ready and easy to be levied that carry with them willing valiant and faithful minds such as few Nations may easily compare with But these Forces with their Furniture and Munition can neither be prepared nor maintained to have continuance without provision of Treasure sufficient to bear the Charge being as you know termed of old Nervus belli This belongeth to us to consider and that in time there be not lack of the Sinews that must hold together the strength of our Body And because through the malice of our Enemies her Majesty is driven to keep great Forces in Ireland for the better suppressing of that Rebellion to her exceeding Charge and for that also it is uncertain how sudden and how great other attempts may be therefore in reason our supply of that maintenance ought to be the more especially the Wars being at this day so costly as every man in his private expence may easily judg But lest that peradventure some may judge that the Contribution granted by us now five Years past both frankly and dutifully might suffice for many years without any new I dare assure you for the acquaintance I have though I be unworthy with those her Majesties Affairs that the same hath not been sufficient to Answer the extraordinary Charges happened since then especially those of Ireland by the one half but her Majesty hath supplied the rest out of her own Revenues sparing from her self to serve the necessity of the Realm and shunning thereby Loans upon interest as a most pestilent Cancer that is able to devour even the States of Princes Which being so as it is most true we are not to think upon the charge that is past but the good we have received by it being by that provision well and honourably desended against the malice of our Enemies And therefore considering the great benefit we have received by the last payment being easily taxed and easily born whereby we have kept all the rest in Peace let us as provident Councellors of this State prepare again in time that which may be able to withstand the mischiefs intended against us To do this willingly and liberally our duty to our Queen and Country and our Safeties move us The love and duty that we owe to our most Gracious Queen by whose Ministry God hath done so great things for us even such as be wonderful in the Eyes of the World ought to make us more careful for her preservation and security than for our own A Princess known by long experience to be a principal Patron of the Gospel vertuous wise faithful just unspotted in word and deed merciful temperate a maintainer of Peace and Justice amongst her People without respect to Persons a Queen besides of this noble Realm our Native Country renowned of the World which our Enemies daily gape to over-run if by force or sleight they could do it For such a Queen and such a Country and for the defence of the Honour and Safety of them both nothing ought to be dear unto us that with most willing hearts we should not spend and adventure freely The same love and duty that we owe to our Gracious Soveraign and to this our Native Country ought to make us all to think upon the Realm of Ireland as upon a principal Member of this Crown having continued so this four hundred Years or more To lose that Land or any part thereof which the Enemies seek would not only bring with it dishonour but also prove a thing most dangerous to England considering the nearness of that Realm to this and the goodness of so many notable Havens as be there Again to reform that Nation by planting there of Religion and Justice which the Enemies labour to interrupt is most godly and necessary the neglecting whereof hath and will continue that People in all Irreligion and Disorder to the great offence of God and to the infinite Charge of this Realm Finally let us be mindful also of our safety thereby to avoid so great dangers not seen afar off but imminent over our heads The quietness that we have by the Peaceable Government of her Majesty doth make us to enjoy all that is ours in more freedom than any Nation under the Sun at this day but let not that breed in us a careless Security as though this clear Sun-light could never be darkened but let us think certainly that the Pope and his Favourers do both envy our Felicity and leave no practice unsought to over-throw the same And if any man be so dull as I trust there be none here that he cannot conceive the blessedness of this our golden Peace except he felt the lack of it let him but cast his Eyes over the Seas into our Neighbours Countries and there behold what trouble the Pope and his Ministers have stirred against such as profess the same Religion of Jesus Christ as we do there he may find Depopulations and Devastations of whole Provinces and Countries over-throwing spoiling and sacking of Cities and Towns Imprisoning ransoming and murthering of all kind of People besides other infinite Calamities which the insolency of War doth usually bring with it From these God in his Mercy hath delivered us but this nevertheless is the State and condition that our Enemies would see us in if by any device they could bring it to pass and to that end be then assured they will spare for no cost nor leave any means unassayed Therefore to conclude seeing the malice of
Bill so amended requiring that the same should now be presently read as for the first reading thereof Whereupon the said Bill was read accordingly for the first reading The Committees in M r Hydes Bill are appointed to meet on Monday Morning next in the Treasury Chamber It is Ordered that the House be called upon Monday next in the Afternoon On Monday the 20 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the paving a Street without Aldgate was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill for Explanation of the Statute of Limitation made in the 37 th year of H. 〈◊〉 was brought in by M r Cromwell one of the Committees with some amendments The Bill for ratification of a Decree between Mr. Hyde and Mr. Darrell was brought in by the Committees and the amendments being twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Thomas Scott one of the Committees in the Bill against the Family of Love who were appointed on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant February foregoing brought in the old Bill with a new Bill also for that purpose drawn by the said Committees but he protested not assented unto only by himself and that for one only Article in the same new Bill contained Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. Beale Mr. Topcliffe Mr. Cromwell Mr. Newdigate Mr. Alford and Mr. Layton were added to the former Committees in the Bill touching the Attornies and appointed to meet in the Inner-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight Deceased was read the second time The Bill against slanderous Speeches and rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty was brought in by the Committees with certain Amendments and Additions all three times read and so now the Bill was read the third time and passed upon the Question and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others together with the other Bill passed this day viz. the Bill for paving of the Street without Aldgate Mr. Treasurer Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Moore Mr. Recorder Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. Wroth Mr. Cromwell and others were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-Chamber on Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon for the Bill touching the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham and Licence given to all persons and parties whom it may concern to bring their Learned Councel as well before the said Committees as also before this House if it shall be so thought requisite The Bill touching coloured Cloths made in the Counties of Suff. and Essex was read the second time and committed to the former Committees for Cloths and the Bill was delivered to M r Grimston On Tuesday the 21 th day of February Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of Limitation of prescription of 32 H. 8. with the Amendments was twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Partition of the Lands late of the Lord Latimer Deceased was brought in by the Committees with a Proviso for the Earl of Oxford and Sir Thomas Tindale the same Proviso being twice read the Bill and Proviso were Ordered to be ingrossed by assent of both parties The Bill for Assize of Fewel and touching Iron-Mills were brought in by M r Comptroller with a new Bill for the Assize of Fewel another touching Glass-Houses and another for the Assize of Fewel within the City of Worcester The Bill last read was upon the Question and Division of the House passed with the advantage of the number of twelve Voices The three Bills last passed were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the new Bill for the punishing of the Family of Love was read the first time M r Serjeant Anderson and M r Doctor Clark did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships having considered of the Amendments and Additions of this House in a Bill touching slanderous Speeches and Rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty and minding to understand the meaning and intent of this House in some part of the same Amendments and Additions have appointed twelve of themselves to have Conference with some of this House to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Council Chamber at the Court and did pray that a convenient number of this House might be appointed to meet with them at the said time and place for Conference with the Lords in that behalf accordingly Whereupon were appointed for that purpose all those of this House which were in the former Committee of the same Bill before whose names see on Wednesday the first day of this instant February foregoing On Wednesday the 22 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making of Hats and Caps was read the second time and committed unto M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Rowland Haywood M r Recorder M r Askwith M r Perry and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Lieutenant of the Tower who with the rest was appointed to meet at Guild-hall upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Thursday the 23 th day of February the Bill against sowing of Lineseed or Hempseed within the County of Hertford by force of any penal Laws was read the second time and committed unto Sir Henry Cock Sir Henry Knivett Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Scott Sir James Harrington Sir William More and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William More aforesaid who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true folding and winding of Woolls was read the second time and committed unto Sir Rowland Hayward Sir George Turpin Sir James Barrington M r Keale M r Benbridge and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Benbridge who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Church at two of the Clock On Friday the 24 th day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for re-edifying of the Borough of New-Woodstock was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching the Mayor Bayliffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventry was brought in by M r Grimsditch with Amendments agreed upon by all the Parties to the same Bill Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true melting
7 th day Friday the 9 th day and Saturday the 10 th day Tuesday the 13 th day Friday the 16 th day and Monday the 19 th day of this instant March foregoing This day the House was called and those Members of this House which were then present and did appear did pay into the hands of M r Robert Wroth and M r Warren Esquires their Charitable Contributions to the Relief of the poor in such proportion as had been agreed upon on Monday the 19 th day of this instant March foregoing viz. every Privy Councellor of the House 30. shillings every Knight in degree and every one returned a Knight of a Shire though not of that degree and every Serjeant at Law or Doctor of Law because I suppose they are in some respects accounted equal to Knights twenty shillings and every Borough of the Cinque Ports and every Burgess of the House five shillings There was also gven by every Member of the House twelve pence a piece to the Serjeant of the said House for his Attendance and for the Charges of a Clock set up by him for the use of the House There is also one passage of this day more set down in the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned in the beginning of this present Journal which is omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self being as follweth A poor Burgess of the House refused to pay his said Contribution of five shillings would only pay two shillings six pence whereupon the Speaker would have Committed him for disobeying the Order of the said House but most of the Members of the same were against it and so he escaped Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal The passages of the next day following are in part inserted out of the Original Journal-Book it self On Friday the 23 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Woollen Cloaths and Kerseyes made in the County of Devon out of Cities Towns Corporate and Market Towns was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore all the Knights and Burgesses of Norfolk York Surrey Kent Somerset Devon and Cornwall M r Serjeant Harris and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir William Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in this House M r Attorney of the Dutchy one of the Committees in the Bill for M r Anthony Cook shewed that he and the residue of the Committees in that Bill appointed on Friday 16 th day of this instant March foregoing have met and had Conference together and that for sundry respects then opened by him to the House they thought good to frame a new Bill And so offered the same new Bill praying it might be read M r Tasborough one of the Committees in the Bill for relief of Jurors appearing upon Tryals bringeth in the old Bill with some Amendments and prayeth that the same Amendments may be allowed of by the House hereupon they were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed but the Bill remained without any further course or question at that time M r Serjeant Harris one of the Committees in the Bill for M r Ognall which had been appointed on Friday the 16 th day of this instant March foregoing offereth a Report of the travel of some of the Committees but it was upon a Counter-Motion made by ..... And so it leaves imperfectly but it should seem upon the said Counter-Motion made by some other Member of the House the said Report offered to be made by Serjeant Harris was for this time put by The Bill for Explanation and Confirmation of her Majesties Title to the Lands late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Nathanael Bacon and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Finch one of the Committees in the Bill for the Lord Burgavenny which had been appointed on Thursday the 20 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that he and the residue of the Committees have met and considered of the parts of the said Bill and find some defects in the same chiefly in matter of form and offered such Amendments unto the House as they thought fit and prayed the same to be read which being read by the Clerk it was Ordered by the House that those Amendments should be added to the said Bill in a Schedule After which Report made by M r Finch it should seem that there followed further dispute this day touching that weighty business of Aliens retailing of Foreign Wares which being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self is therefore inserted out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned in the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. M r Palmer Burgess for London delivered the Bill for retailing and signfied that the Committees could not agree upon it so desired that it would be considered by the House what is fit in their opinions to be done But the said M r Palmer was none of the said Committees The Speaker was thereupon ready to put it unto the Question whether the Bill should be ingrossed but the House would not have it so suddenly put to the Question M r Palmer proceeded and said That the Strangers of late are grown to so great a number that they being but forty open Retaylors have undone since the last Parliament sixty at least of our English Retaylors for so many are now Beggars that were forty pound Subsidy in the Queens Book Their retailing hath inhanced the price of all Wares such as they retail for when they retailed not but our English used the sale of fine Lawnes Hollands and Cambricks they were better cheap by fifteen pound in an hundred The Retailors here are but Factors to such as are Merchants beyond the Seas so they are both Merchants and Factors a thing which if we should use beyond the Seas the Law would be fiery to us or fire should be our Law if we withstood And those places where we trade with our Cloth should we retail it also we should so inhaunce the price that they would not be very glad of our Traffick But this mischief is suffered amongst us by the Dutch It is to be proved that there were twenty Retaylors in London that passed ten or twelve thousand pound a piece in a year and this twenty thousand pound a year at the least the Strangers carry out of the Realm for of our Commodities they esteem nothing Where it was said the other day our Merchants did carry our Coin out of the Realm there is a restraint now that none shall do it And it is to be shewed that the Merchants do Weekly bring in twelve or fifteen hundred pound and sometimes
foregoing The Bill for the establishing of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain concealed title made thereunto was read secunda vice Upon this reading it was Ordered by the Lords that all parties whom this Bill may concern should be openly heard in the House upon Saturday next in the Morning being the 14 th day of this instant January to the end it might be considered whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said parties and George Lester then to be warned to attend Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 14 th day of December foregoing as also on Saturday the 14 th day Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant January following Another Bill also of no great moment touching Clothiers was read secunda vice and referr'd to Committees Vide plus de ista materia die sequente Certain Amendments were offered unto the House by the Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for the Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children and others born beyond the Seas Which Amendments were presently twice read And thereupon both the Bill and the Amendments were read the third time and returned unto the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Carew On Friday the 13 th day of January the Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read primâ vice The said Kirkham and Ambrose Willoughby Esq are to be warned to attend the Lords on Monday Morning next being the 16 th day of this instant February at which time it is appointed that the said Bill shall be read the second time Vide touching this matter on Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant January following The Bill against deceitful stretching and tentering of Northern Cloth was read secundâ vice and committed to the Earl of Shrewsbury Viscount Bindon the Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing The same Committees time and place appointed upon the Bill for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Cloths c. the former Committees being part of this number having not had time to perfect the same who had been appointed yesterday Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to preserve the property of stoln Horses in the true Owners of Vouchers in sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets was read tertia vice and refused The Bill concerning the recovery and draining from the water certain overflown grounds in the County of Norfolk was read secundâ vice and referr'd to the same Committees upon the Bill formerly read of that kind concerning three hundred thousand Acres c. whose names see before on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing with Addition of the Lord S t John and M r Attorney to attend appointed to meet at the same time and place c. And such parties as the same may concern to be warned to attend also On Saturday the 14 th day of January certain Objections unto the Bill Intituled An Act for the increase of people c. were set down in writing by M r Attorney General and brought into the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And the same was sent to the House of Commons for their consideration thereof according to a Proviso made by their Lordships to the Select Committees of the House of Commons at the meeting yesterday about that Bill by Mr. Attorney General and Dr. Stanhop Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Friday the 20th day of the same Month following Upon Motion made by the Lord Archbishop that the Committees for the Bill of Tillage had not time to perfect the same at the meeting formerly Assigned It was Ordered by the House that the said Committees should meet again about it at the great Council Chamber c. The like Motion was made touching the Bill of Broakers and Pawn takers and the like Order Certain Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons sent to the Lords to desire a Conference with a competent number of that House concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added to the Bill Intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Corrections and punishment of Bogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars Whereupon choice was made of the Lord Archbishop the Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Winchester being part of the number formerly appointed upon that Bill the three Chief Justices Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Attorney to attend And the same presently signified to the said Knights and Burgesses but with this caution That whatsoever had been amended or added by their Lordships could not now be altered by the Orders of the House Howbeit to yield the House of Commons satisfaction of the reasons that moved their Lordships to make those Amendments they assented to the Conference and the meeting was appointed to be in the outward Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament on Monday the sixteenth day of this instant January following by eight of the Clock in the Morning On which said Monday see more of this matter The Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties services concerning the Wars was read primâ vice The Councel Learned as well on the part of the Bishop of Norwich and his Tenants as on the part and behalf of George Lester were heard openly in the House but for the present no further Order or proceeding therein Vide touching this business on Tuesday the 20 th day of December last past and on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month next ensuing The Earl of Essex not able to attend for want of health was certified by the Lord North. The Bishop of Landaff absent by reason of sickness signified by the Bishop of Chester On Monday the 16 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the City of Lincoln and the Town corporate of Nottingham was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer of England the Earl of Essex Earl Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Lord
Evers the Lord North the Lord St. John and the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Clench M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney General to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing Report was made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that upon the meeting of such of the Lords of the Upper House as were appointed this day to confer with certain select Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships to the Bill intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction c. The said Knights and Burgesses do hold themselves satisfied upon the reason alledged by their Lordships in some part of the said Amendments but not in all Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing Kirkham was called into the House before their Lordships and after he had been heard what he was able to say in his own behalf concerning the Bill the same was read the second time viz. The Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read secundâ vice and Ordered to be engrossed Vide concerning this Bill on Friday the 13 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month immediately ensuing Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for repressing of offences that are of the nature of stealth c. was returned unto the House by the Earl of Essex the first of the Committees with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently thrice read and sent by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop to the House of Commons for their consideration A Motion was made that a Proviso should be added to the Bill concerning the Bishoprick of Norwich which Proviso was presently drawn in the House by M r Attorney and thereupon read And for the more expedition in the proceeding of the Bill it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Bishop of London the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Cobham should confer with a competent number of the House of Commons about the said Proviso Whereupon M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney were sent to the said House of Commons to signifie the same Who presently assented to a meeting and made their repair to their Lordships forthwith accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and on Thursday the 12 th day and on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January last past as also on Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month immediately ensuing Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for confirmation and better assurance and conveyance of certain Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments given and intended to an Hospital or Meason de Dieu in Warwick founded and established by the Earl of Leicester Vide postea concerning this Bill on to Morrow following On Tuesday the 17 th day of January it was agreed upon in the House that the Committees upon the Bill for maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage who were appointed on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing should meet for perfecting of the same at the great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall this present day by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop Vide touching this business on Friday the 13 th day and on Monday the 16 th day of this instant January foregoing Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation and better assurance and Conveyance of certain Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments given and intended to an Hospital or Meason de Dieu in Warwick founded and established by the late Earl of Leicester was read primâ vice George Ognell and the parties that follow the Bill for the Hospital to be heard openly in the House by their Councel Learned to Morrow the 18. day of this instant January in the Morning Vide concerning this business on Monday the 16. day of this instant January foregoing in fine Diei A Proviso drawn by M r Attorney by Commandment of the House and appointed to be added to the Bill for establishing the Bishoprick of Norwich c. was twice read and commanded to be ingrossed And then both the Bill and the Proviso being read the third time were returned to the House of Commons for their consideration of the Proviso Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and on Thursday the 12. day Saturday the 14. and on Monday the 16. day of this instant January foregoing The Earl Marshal was added to the Bill concerning Accomptants Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for some better staying of Corn within the Land to give liberty to English Subjects sometimes to buy Wheat c. and to sell the same again in the same kind for the better relief of the Common-Wealth was read tertiâ vice and rejected On Wednesday the 18 th day of January the Lord Keeper signified to the House that the parties that follow the Bill for the Hospital of Warwick are not provided of their Councel Learned Whereupon the House assigned them a new day viz. Friday Morning the 20. day of this instant January following Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 16. day and on Tuesday the 17. day of this instant Month foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two last the one for the avoiding of bringing in of Pins and the other for the better furnishing and supplying of skilful Chirurgeons in and to the Land and Sea services for her Majesty and the Realm were each of them upon the second reading rejected The Earl Marshal was added to the Bill for Broakers and Pawn-takers The Committees upon the Bill for confirmation of Statute Merchants in the Cities of Lincoln and Town of Nottingham and the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellors and Receivors were appointed to meet this present day The Councel learned on both sides upon the Bill concerning M r Mollineux were appointed to be heard openly in the House on Saturday next being the 21 th day of this instant January and warning to be given in the mean while thereof to the parties The Amendments agreed upon by the Councel upon the Bill of Tillage who were appointed on Wednesday the
Anno Dom. 1601. which was the last Parliament of her Majesties Reign a greater viz. of four Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths was again yielded unto whence it is plain that whatsoever is once granted by the Subject may often be raised but seldom falleth THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 39 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1597. which began there on Monday the 24 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 9 th Day of February Anno 40 Reginae ejusdem THIS present Journal of the House of Commons is not only abundantly stored with many and sundry Passages touching the Orders Use and Priviledge of the House it self but containeth in it excellent matter touching the publick affairs of Church and State in which also her Majesty was most graciously pleased to give the said House free Liberty to reform some abuses of the first and to search into the dangers of the latter And that this said Journal might be the more exact and copious in some few places the defects thereof are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and out of a certain imperfect and fragmentary Journal of the House of Commons The ninth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. begun at Westminster upon Monday being the 24 th day of October in the thirty ninth year of her Majesties Reign Upon which day many of the Knights of the Shires Citizens of Cities Burgesses of Boroughs and Barons of Ports did make their appearance at Westminster being returned into the same Parliament for the same Shires Cities Boroughs and Ports before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of her Majesties most honourable Household And did then and there in the Room commonly called the Court of Requests take the Oath of Supremacy seven or eight at a time being Enacted by and contained in the Statute de an 1 Reginae Eliz. Cap. 1. before the said Lord Steward and before Sir William Knolles Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir Robert Cecill Principal Secretary his Lordships Deputies And thereupon the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons entring into their own House and expecting her Majesties further Pleasure her Highness then being in her Royal Seat in the Higher House of Parliament the said Commons were commanded to come before her Highness and being there Assembled the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England delivered unto the said Commons the Causes of her Majesties Calling of this Parliament and so in the end willed them to repair again into the said House of Commons and there to make choice of their Speaker according to the former laudable usage and custom of the same House in that Case accustomed and willed them to present him unto her Majesty upon the Thursday next following Which done the said Commons presently repaired unto their own House and there being Assembled and sitting some space of time very silent at last the Right Honourable Sir William Knolls one of her Highness most Honourable Privy Council and Comptroller of her Majesties Household stood up and spake to the effect following Necessity constraineth me to break off this silence and to give others cause for speech According to the usual Custom we are to chuse our Speaker and though I am least able and therefore unfit to speak in this place yet better I deem it to discover my own Imperfections than that her most sacred Majesties Commandment to me delivered should not be fulfilled or your Expectation of this first days work by all our silences to be in any sort frustrate First therefore I think it very expedient to remember the Excellent and Learned Speech of that good man my Lord Keeper at which all of us or the most part of us at the least were present who very wisely shewed the Cause of calling this Honourable Assembly shewing unto us that it is partly for the reforming those Laws which be amiss partly quite to repeal others partly to augment those that be good and partly to Enact new Laws both for the Honour and profit of her Majesty and for the benefit of the Common-wealth And in conclusion wished us to depart from whence we came and there to chuse our Speaker who ought to be the Mouth of us all and to whom we might commit such weighty affairs as in this place should be debated amongst us For unfit it is if we have occasion to go unto the Sacred presence of her Majesty to go either confusedly without order or unorderly without Judgment Now because that knowledge doth rest in certainty I will with the more speed set afoot this motion deliver my opinion unto you who is most fit for this place being a member of this House and those good abilities which I know to be in him here he made a little pause and the House hawked and spat and after silence made he proceeded unto this place of dignity and calling in my opinion here he stayed a little M r Serjeant Yelverton looking upon him is the fittest man to be preferred after which words M r Yelverton blushed and put off his Hat and after sate bare-headed for I am assured that he is yea and I dare avow it I know him to be a man wise and learned secret and circumspect Religious and faithful no way disable but every way able to supply this place Wherefore in my Judgment I deem him though I will not say best worthy amongst us yet sufficient enough to supply this place and herein if any man think I err I wish him to deliver his mind as freely as I have done if not that we all join together in giving general consent and approbation to this motion So that the whole House cried I I I let him be And then Master Comptroller made a low reverence and sat down and after a little pause and silence M r Serjeant Yelverton rose up and after a very humble reverence made spake in effect thus much WHence your unexpected choice of me to be your Mouth or Speaker should proceed I am utterly ignorant If from my merits strange it were that so few deserts should purchase suddenly so great an Honour Nor from my ability doth this your choice proceed for well known it is to a great number in this place now assembled that my Estate is nothing correspondent for the maintenance of this dignity For my Father dying left me a younger Brother and nothing to me but my bare Annuity Then growing to mans estate and some small practice of the Law I took a Wise by whom I have had many Children the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my Estate and the daily living of us
the abuses of Patents of priviledge it was ordered to be further referred to the former Committees and unto all the Serjeants at Law being Members of this House Mr. Attorneys of the Court of Wards and of the Dutchy Sir Thomas Cecill and Sir Thomas Cornwallis who were appointed to meet on Saturday next in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber to set down in Writing what shall be by them thought fit and delivered unto her Majesty by the Mouth of Mr. Speaker in the behalf of this House Mr. Rosse moving for Priviledge was joyned with the former Committees for Priviledge Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Carew do bring from the Lords a Bill intituled An Act for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian and Mary Sands Sir Edward Hobby moved concerning the wanting of some Members of this House not returned into the Book by the Clerk of the Crown The Bill for the increase of People for the strength and service of the Realm was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Council being Members of this House Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Mountague Sir Thomas Cecill Mr. Pelham and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Francis Bacon who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to alter the nature of Gavelkind Lands was read the third time and past upon the question The Proviso in the Bill concerning the Town-Lands of Wanting was read the third time and passed upon the question On Friday the 11 th day of December Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the retaining well ordering and governing of Mariners and Seamen was upon the second reading committed unto all the Burgesses of Port-Towns the Burgesses for York the Knights and Citizens for London Master Doctor Caesar Mr. Wally and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Doctor Caesar who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for relieving of Clothiers in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Doctor Caesar Mr. Edward Hubbard Mr. Ford the Burgesses of Coventry and others And the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Ford who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for establishing of good Orders in Grammar Schools was read the second time and upon the several questions for the committing and the ingrossing was rejected Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the City of Lincoln and Town Corporate of Nottingham was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller and others of which one was the Bill concerning Fustians and another for the repairing of Stains Bridge and Egham Cawsey The Bill also for Tillage and Husbandry was read the first time M r Hext one of the Committees in the Bill against Stealing of Corn and Fruit shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments of some parts of the Bill and so delivered in the said Bill to the House Sir Edward Hobby moved that the Clerk of the Crown Office in the Chancery and the Clerk also of this House do attend to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber upon the Committees for Returns with their Books of the Returns of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of this present Parliament M r Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill to preserve the property of stoln Horses in the true owners brought in the Bill with some Amendments which being thrice read was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Bill for increase of People for the defence and service of the Realm who were appointed Yesterday shewed some Amendments therein by the Committees and delivered in the Bill with the Amendments and the Amendments being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Colebrand one of the Committees in the Bill for the better staying of Corn within the Realm who were appointed on the day next foregoing brought in the said Bill with some Amendments Ognelt with his Councel was appointed to be heard in the House upon Monday Morning next and soin like manner the Councel for the Hospital of Warwick The Amendments in the Bill for recovering of certain Waste Marish and Watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely and in the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Bourchier one of the Committees in the Bill for Lessees against Patentees c. who were appointed on Saturday the third day of this instant December foregoing delivered in the Bill with certain Amendments and a Proviso added unto it Monday next was this day appointed for the hearing of the Councel of Mr. Throgmorton and of Sir Moyle Finch and of the Lord Cobham in this House and that they have each of them but one Councel apiece The Bill for the Lord Marquess of Winchester was apon the second reading committed unto Mr. Wingfield Mr. Doctor Caesar M r Mainard Mr. Henry Mountague Mr. Francis Moore and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Francis Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Wiseman one of the Committees in the Bill for Bays who were appointed on Thursday the 8 th day of this Instant December foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments in the same which Amendments being twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners being twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill concerning the Possessions of the Bishoprick of Norwich being twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Serjeant Harries one of the Committees in the Bill of establishing of an Award made between Edward Cotten Gent. and Thomas Harvey Yeoman who were appointed on Tuesday the 6 th day of this instant December foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the said Committees and delivered in the same Bill Whereupon it was Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the well Ordering of such as do practise the Science of Chirurgery was read the second time and after the doubtfulness of the question three several times put it was upon the division of the House dashed with the difference of twenty nine voices videlicet with the
the Speaker in her Majesties name to the House out of the private Journal M r Speaker said First I am by her Majesties Commission to make Report unto you of that rotable and excellent Speech which her Majesty delivered I shall deliver unto you but a shadow of that substance but I greatly rejoice that so many were there present who are well able to supply to others the true Report of her Majesties Speech It pleased her Majesty to shew in what gracious part she accepted our Loyalties She said she rejoyced not so much to be a Queen as to be a Queen over so thankful a People and that God had made her a means to save us from Shame Tyranny and Oppression She did accept of our intended Present which she said manifested our Love and Loyalty most graciously affirming that she never was any greedy Griper or Fastholder and what we did present she would not hoard it For the thanks which were yielded for her great regard of us she willed me to return her thanks to you most graciously and to tell you that her Heart never inclined to pass any Grant but upon suggestion that it was for the good of the Subjects And now that the contrary hath appeared she took it graciously that the knowledge thereof came from her Subjects She ever set the last Judgment before her Eyes and never thought arose in her but for the good of her People If her Grants were abused to their Hurt against her Will she hoped God would not lay their Culps and offences to her Charge and the principal Members not touched And had it not been for these her good Subjects she had fallen from Lapse into Error Those that did speak she thought spake not out of spleen or displeasure to the Grants but to deliver the grief of their hearts which above any Earthly Pleasure she respected She said she was not allured with the Royal Authority of a King neither did she attribute any thing unto her self but all to the Glory of God She said the Cares and Trouble of a Crown are known only to them that wear it and were it not more for Conscience sake than for any desert or want of disposition in her these Patentees should not escape without condign Punishment She desired not to Reign longer than that her Government and Reign should be for our good She said we well might have a Prince of more wisdom and sufficiency but of more Love and Affection we should never have Her Majesty delivered a Commandment to M r Comptroller and M r Secretary that the Gentlemen of the Country should be brought to kiss her Hand before they departed The residue of this dayes Passages do follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self as also part of the next The Amendments in the Bill touching Shop-Books were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury was read the second time and committed unto the Queens Learned Council being Members of this House M r Attorneys of the Dutchy and the Court of Wards Sir Moyle Finch Sir Anthony Cope M r Townsend M r Bacon and others And the Bill was delivered to M r Townsend who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for charitable uses was delivered to Mr. Barington On Wednesday the second day of December Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being for the Assurance of the Parsonage and Vicaridge of Rotherstone to Tho. Venables Esq was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Burgesses for Chester and Cheshire the Burgesses for Oxford Sir Edward Hobbie and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Moore made Report of the meeting of the Committees in the Bill touching the Hospitals and of some Amendments therein The Amendments in the Bill for the three Hospitals were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for the Amendments of Double Soal green was read the second time and committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Robert Wroth Sir William Lane and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Friday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill to reform abuses used bv the Clerk of the Market was read the second time and thereupon M r Frechevile one of the Knights for Derbyshire spake unto it In that I speak being least worthy I hope it will be deemed to proceed from affection not presumption Besides I have learnt it for a Rule in this House it is better to venture Credit than Conscience There are three things to be considered in this Bill the inconveniency the necessity of the remedy and the conveniency of the punishment For the inconveniency no man but knows it who knows the State of his Country In mine there is nothing more generally complained of than the inequality of measures for the rich have two measures with the one he buyes and ingrosseth Corn in the Country that is the greater with the other he retails it at home to his poor Neighbours that 's by the lesser This is to the great and just complaint of all So after many other matters moved upon Statutes the Bill was committed to M r Frechvile M r Wiseman M r Johnson Sir George Moore Sir Robert Wroth Sir John Egerton the Burgesses and Citizens of all Cities and Corporate Towns the Knights for Norfolk M r Francis Moore M r Zachary Lock M r Warcup M r Simnell M r Doyle and M r Thomas Caesar who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the more diligent resort to Church upon Sundays was read the second time unto which divers Speeches were had in the House M r Roger Owen said that he misliked the Bill for two respects the one for the Penalty the other in respect of the Party punishing that is the Justice For the first the Penalty is twelve pence It is well known that the poorest Recusant in England ought as well as the rich to pay his twenty pound and for want of Lands and Goods his Body is lyable And therefore we shall double punish him which is against Law For the other touching the Justice I think it too great a trouble and they are ever loaden with a number of penal Statutes yea a whole Alphabet as appears by Hussey in the time of Henry the Seventh And this is a matter so obvious that a Justice of Peace his House will be like a Quarter Sessions with the multitude of these Complaints I think also it is an infringement of Magna Charta for that gives Tryal per pares but this