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
and working of Wax was read the second time and committed unto M r Comptroller M r Edgecombe M r Lieutenant M r Recorder and Mr. Cromwell to consider presently in the Committee Chamber Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in the Bill for Sheriffs with some Amendments and Additions and also a new Bill touching the return of Jurors which all were read Post Meridiem The House being called and some returned into the places of others Deceased since the last Session of this present Parliament and yet some of them supposed to be living some in place of others sick and diseased and some in place of others imployed in the Queens Majesties Service it is Ordered that all the said returns of this Session be Examined and the Orders and Precedents of this House in like Cases formerly used be also considered by some of this House and thereupon report to be made to this whole House of the state of the said Returns and Precedents to the end further order may be taken therein accordingly Whereupon were appointed for that purpose M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Shirley Sir Edward Horsey Sir William Moore Sir Henry Gate Sir John Hibbott M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Diggs M r Cromwell and M r Poole William Boreman Esq one of the Burgess for the Town of Wells was Licensed by Mr. Speaker to be absent for his necessary Affairs at the next Assizes in the County of Somerset On Saturday the 25 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute of 32 H. 8. for Limitation of prescription was read the third time and passed upon the Question Tuesday next in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber is appointed for the Committees to meet together to examine the returns and defaults appearing upon the calling of the House The Bill for the better fortifying of the Borders and Frontiers towards Scotland was read the second time and after many Arguments committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House M r Treasurer of the Chamber M r Knight Marshal Sir Thomas Cecil Sir Henry Lea Sir Henry Knivett and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Monday the 27 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Examination of Witnesses in Towns Corporate was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The two Bills which passed yesterday were now sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others The Bill touching Leases of Tenants in Tail was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Sandes M r Amerdeth M r Cromwell M r Edward Stanhope and M r Shirley who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the City of Carliol was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Knight Marshal Sir Henry Knivett Sir John Dawney Sir Edward Horsey Sir Robert Stapleton Sir Henry Gate and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Dr. Barkeley did bring from the Lords word that their Lordships have appointed to meet with the Committees of this House at the Court in the Council Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon touching the Bill of disobedient Subjects It is Ordered thereupon for this time that the former Committees with some others now added and no more shall attend the Lords to Morrow in the Afternoon according to the Message brought from their Lordships in the Bill for Religion The Bill for the punishment of Hereticks called the Family of Love was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Wilson and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon It was Ordered that the House should be called again upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Tuesday the 28 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching Clothes called Tauntons and Bridgewaters was read the third time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Barkley and Mr. Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Compton The Bill against Moor-burning was read the second time The Bill touching Examination of Witnesses in Corporate Towns and these words viz. without Commission or Warrant from some of her Majesties Courts or Councels and these words or nisi prius are upon the Question Ordered to be put into the Bill and the word heretofore already in the Bill was upon the division of the House after the doubtfulness of the Question Ordered to remain in the Bill by the advantage of the number of nine persons and the Bill so amended was passed upon the Question On Wednesday the first day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for granting one Subsidy two Fifteenths and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday the second day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventry was read the third time and passed upon the Question Five Bills were sent up to the Lords by all the Privy-Council being of this House and others of which one was the Bill touching Limitation of prescription in a Formedon in the Descender and another against the false packing of Hops Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against the Corporation of the Merchant Adventurers being Freemen of the City of London was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Wilson Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower the Master of the Jewel-House M r Dale Master of the Requests and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And further that the said Committees shall have Authority to hear such proofs on both parts as shall make request to come before them touching the contents of the said Bill On Friday the third day of March the Additions and Amendments in the Bill touching Tinners and Spaliers were twice read and the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the preservation of
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
Committees The Bill for the Pier of Hartilpool aforesaid was read the third time and after many Arguments both with the Bill and likewise against the Bill it was deferred to be further disputed and argued unto to Morrow On Thursday the 13 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Richard Southwell was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Secretary Wolley Mr. John Stanhope Mr. Haydon Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill concerning Leases made of Lands parcel of the Possessions of the Bishoprick of Oxford was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer the Master of the Wardrobe Mr. Cromwell the Knights for the County of Oxford Mr. Oglethorp and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for repealing of certain Statutes with some Amendments was read and afterwards referred to be further considered of by Mr. Grafton Mr. Harris and Mr. Cromwell and the Bill was then delivered to Mr. Cromwell The Amendments in the Bill for the maintenance of Dover-Haven being opened to the House and the Bill read in such sort amended was passed upon the question after a Proviso offered for the Cinque-Ports first refused upon another former question Mr. Doctor Ford and Mr. Doctor Cary do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House and sent up to their Lordships for the better recovery of costs and damages against Informers and passed since by their Lordships with a Proviso and some Amendments annexed to the same Bill After divers Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill but whether it were the Bill last before-mentioned to have been sent down from the Lords it appeareth not although it seemeth to have been the same and after a Proviso received upon the question and some Amendment also of one word in the Bill viz. Sunderland to be put in the 14 th line and the word Soulderland to be put out of the Bill And the said Bill with the Proviso and Amendment aforesaid being put to the question was dashed upon the question and also upon the division of the House by the advantage of three persons viz. with the Yea a hundred twenty six and with the No a hundred twenty nine The Bill touching the bringing in of salted Fish and Herrings into this Realm was delivered to Mr. Wroth one of the Committees in the same On Friday the 14 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Town of Barwick was read the second time and thereupon committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Grimston the Burgesses of Barwick Mr. Robert Bowes and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Cromwell who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill touching the Children of Aliens and Denizens was upon the second reading committed unto the Committees in the Bill for Retailers appointed on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing and for both to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Mortmain was read the third time and some Amendments then made being thrice read also was after many Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill passed upon the question Mr. Serjeant Shuttleworth and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill for the preservation of the Haven of Orford in the County of Suffolk lately passed this House and since passed with their Lordships with a Proviso by them added in their passing of the same which Proviso being thereupon presently thrice read the same Proviso then passed also upon the question On Saturday the 15 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill to avoid Horse-stealing had its first reading The Amendments in the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln being twice read and the Bill also read in such sort amended the Bill was upon the question committed to the former Committees and unto M r Vice-Chamberlain Sir John Parrot M r Alford the Master of the Wardrobe Sir Robert Jermin and others who were appointed to meet this present day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Doctor Clark and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill against the Erecting and maintenance of Cottages The former Committees were appointed on Mar. 11. Tuesday The Bill and Committees names concerning Leases made of the Lands parcel of the possession of the Bishoprick of Oxford was delivered to Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees And so likewise the Bill and Committees names touching Aliens and Strangers retailing of Foreign Wares and also touching the Children of Aliens and Denizens The Bill and Committees names concerning Richard Southwell Esquire was delivered unto Mr. George Moor one of the Committees in the same The Amendmènts in the Bill for relief of the Curriers being twice read the Bill was Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed On Monday the 17 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for pursuit of Hue and Cry was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Shirley Mr. Harris Mr. Wroth Sir William Moor Mr. William Fleetwood and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for Pleading at large in an Ejectione firmae had its first and second reading and an Amendment twice read and upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers was brought in by Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees without any thing done and further report made and so likewise the Bill for Denizens Children Mr. Speaker signified unto the House that her Majesties gracious pleasure was that it be signified unto them that four of this House be specially chosen to have Conference with some of the Lords of her Highness most Honourable Privy Council and other Officers of her Houshold for convenient Orders and Constitutions to be made for ..... But what should here follow is by the great negligence of Mr. Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons wholly omitted yet it should seem that her Majesty did now by Mr. Speaker send word to the said House that upon the above-mentioned Conference so had and passed according to her Majesties Prescription the said House might proceed in the two Bills so often before agitated on Saturday the 15 th day on Monday the 17 th and on Thursday the 27 th day of February foregoing and on Tuesday
being also three times read the said Bill with some Additions and Amendments passed upon the Question On Monday the 9 th day of April Wesselen Weblen Bear-Brewer and John Lightburn Serjeant at Mace Prisoners at the Bar are after admonition given them by M r Speaker discharged by the Order of this House of their Imprisonment paying their Fees Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 5 th day and on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April immediately foregoing M r Chancellour of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for Explanation of a Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8. as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they have considered of some small amendments and shewed further that four several Provisoes were offered to them touching the said Bill one by M r Adams and one by M r ..... Tipper and one by M r Daws and so offereth both the Bill and the Amendments and the said former Provisoes also leaving all the same to the further consideration of this House Six Bills which last passed this House of which the first was the Bill for avoiding of deceit used in making and selling of twice laid Cordage and for the better preserving of the Navy of this Realm and the second for Mr. Anthony Cook were sent up to the Lords by Sir Robert Cecil and others Upon sundry arguments touching the Proviso offered by Sir Thomas Shirley to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of 34 Hen. 8. c. it was upon the Question denied to be received and the Proviso for Mr. Stanhop was upon the Question and division of the House denied to be received with the difference of forty Persons viz. with the No one hundred twenty nine and with the Yea eighty nine Mr. Serjeant Owen and Doctor Carey do bring word from their Lordships that their Lordships do desire to know whether this House have any Bills ready to send up unto them shewing that their Lordships are now at good leisure And willed them to put this House in remembrance of the expediting of two Bills which were sent from their Lordships to this House viz. the Bill for Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8. a Bill touching Grants made to his Majesty as also for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others and the Bill for restraint of new Buildings c. Which Message being opened to the House Answer was made that one of the said Bills being presently in debate in the House should by and by be returned unto their Lordships The Bill for Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8 as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others was read the third time and passed upon the Question and was presently sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others Mr. Fuller one of the Committees in the Bill for restraint of new Buildings and converting of great Houses into several Tenements and restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and near the Cities of London and Westminster who had been appointed on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April foregoing shewed the meeting and Travel of the Committees and their Opinions for leaving out of one Clause in the Bill and gave the Reasons which being liked of and allowed by the House the Bill was read the third time and after many Arguments both for the Bill and against the Bill it passed upon the Question On Tuesday the 10 th day of April Sir John Hart one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Coopers appointed on Saturday the 24 th day of March foregoing brought in the Bill again as not dealt in by the Committees for lack of convenient time The Bill for restraint of new building converting of great Houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and near unto the Cities of London and Westminster with one amendment to the same Bill was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer Sir John Wolley and others with a remembrance to move their Lordships for sending down the Bill for the Grant of three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty to the end M r Speaker may this Afternoon present the same unto her Majesty according to the former accustomed usage of this House M r Serjeant Owen M r Attorney General and M r Powle do bring from the Lords an Act intituled An Act for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon The Bill intituled an Act for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was read and then passed upon the Question and was presently sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others Post Meridiem This day in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came into the Upper House of Parliament and there sitting in her Royal Throne M r Speaker accompanied with the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired unto the said Upper House where making an Excellent Oration unto her Highness and giving unto her Majesty most humble thanks on the behalf of this House for her Highness most gracious and favourable acceptation of their dutiful service and offering unto her Majesty in their names the Act for three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths her Highness gave the Royal assent to fourteen publick Bills and thirteen private Bills and so dissolved this Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An exact and perfect Journal of the House of Lords 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 Journal of the House of Lords and all the rest that have since followed both the Queens Reign and in the Reigns of King James and King Charles her Successors unto this present year 1629. have been more exactly and largely taken than before For Thomas Smith Esquire now succeeding unto Anthony Mason Esquire formerly Clerk of the said House of Lords was much more careful in observing and setting down the dayly passages thereof this Parliament than the said M r Mason had been In which the said Sir Thomas Smith's successors for he was afterwards Knighted have much exceeded him also by the large and diligent digesting of the particular agitations of every day upon which the said House did sit Only the Return of the Proxies as is presently more fully declared was more distinctly entred by the abovenamed M r Anthony Mason than hath been since accustomed At this Parliament also there succeeded a new Lord Keeper For Sir John
us proceed by Bill and see if the Queen would have denied it Another that the Patents should be brought here before us and cancelled and this were bravely done Others would have us to proceed by way of Petition which Course doubtless is best but for the first and especially for the second it is so ridiculous that I think we should have as bad success as the Devil himself would have wished in so good a Cause Why if idle courses had been followed we should have gone forsooth to the Queen with a Petition to have repealed a Patent of Monopoly of Tabaco Pipes which M r Wingfields note had and I know not how many conceits but I wish every man to rest satisfied till the Committees have brought in their resolutions according to your Commandments On Wednesday the 25 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the levying of Fines in the County and City of Chester was read the second time and committed unto all the Queens Learned Councel being of this House the Knights and Burgesses for the County and City of Chester Sir John Egerton and others who were appointed to meet upon Friday next in the Inner-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Sir Edward Hobbie made Report of the Committees travel in the Bill touching M r Nevill and delivered in the Bill with some Amendments and a Proviso The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill for Mr. Nevill were twice read and Ordered with the Bill to be ingrossed and not to be read the third time until her Majesties Pleasure be further known to be signified unto this House by Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Speaker or some other thereunto appointed The Amendments in the Bill touching trifling Suits were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill to prevent double payment of Debt upon Shop-Books was read the second time and committed unto Sir Walter Raleigh Mr. Beeston Sir Francis Hastings and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Beeston who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Inner-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon upon Friday next The Committees for the Exchequer Bill who were appointed on Saturday the 21 th day of this instant November foregoing brought in the Bill with some Amendments and after some Speeches therein had upon the question resolved that it should be presently recommitted to be considered of in the Committee Chamber of this House and thereunto are appointed Mr. Mountague Mr. Winch Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Jones Mr. Martin Mr. Tate Mr. Johnson c. Mr. Henry Mountague brought in the Bill touching Process and Pleadings in the Court of Exchequer with Report of the Amendments The Amendments in the Bill for Orders in the Court of Exchequer were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Speaker after a silence and every man marvelling why the Speaker stood up spake to this effect It pleased her Majesty to command me to attend upon her Yesterday in the Afternoon from whom I am to deliver unto you all her Majesties most gracious Message sent by my unworthy Self She yields you all hearty thanks for your care and special regard of those things that concern her State Kingdom and consequently our Selves whose good she had always tendred as her own for our speedy resolution in making of so hasty and free a Subsidy which commonly succeeded and never went before our Councels and for our Loyalty I do assure you with such and so great Zeal and Affection she uttered and shewed the same that to express it our tongues are not able neither our hearts to conceive it It pleased her Majesty to say unto me that if she had an hundred tongues she could not express our hearty earty good Wills And further she said that as she had ever held our good most dear so the last day of our or her Life should witness it And that the least of her Subjects was not grieved and she not touched She appealed to the Throne of Almighty God how careful she hath been and will be to defend her People from all Oppressions She said that partly by intimation of her Council and partly by divers Petitions that have been delivered unto her both going to the Chapel and also to walk abroad she understood that divers Patents which she had granted were grievous to her Subjects and that the Substitutes of the Patentees had used great Oppressions But she said she never assented to grant any thing which was Malum in se. And if in the abuse of her Grant there be any thing evil which she took knowledge there was she her self would take present Order of reformation I cannot express unto you the Apparent Indignation of her Majesty towards these abuses She said that her Kingly Prerogative for so she termed it was tender and therefore desireth us not to fear or doubt of her careful reformation for she said that her Commandment was given a little before the late troubles meaning the Earl of Essex's matters but had an unfortunate Event but that in the middest of her most great and weighty occasions she thought upon them And that this should not suffice but that further Order should be taken presently and not in futuro for that also was another word which I take it her Majesty used and that some should be presently repealed some suspended and none put in Execution but such as should first have a Tryal according to the Law for the good of the People Against the abuses her wrath was so incensed that she said that she neither could nor would suffer such to escape with impunity So to my unspeakable comfort she hath made me the Messenger of this her gracious Thankfulness and Care Now we see that the Axe of her Princely Justice is laid to the Root of the Tree and so we see her gracious goodness hath prevented our Counsels and Consultations God make us thankful and send her long to Reign amongst us If through weakness of memory want of utterance or frailty of my Self I have omitted any thing of her Majesties Commands I do most humbly crave Pardon for the same And do beseech the Honourable Persons which assist this Chair and were present before her Majesty at the delivery hereof to supply and help my imperfections which joined with my fear have caused me no doubt to forget something which I should have delivered unto you After a little pause and silent talking one with another M r Secretary Cecill stood up and said There needs no supply of the Memory of the Speaker But because it pleased him to desire some that be about him to aid his delivery and because the rest of my Fellows be silent I will take upon me to deliver some thing which I both then heard and since know I was present with the rest of my Fellow Counsellors and the Message was the same
the Bill for the Jurors of Middlesex was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Robert Wroth Mr. Newdigate Mr. Dalton Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Gent. On Friday the 23 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the City of Worcester was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Comptroller in the name of all the Committees in the great cause declared from her Majesty her very good and thankful acceptation of the great care of this House for her Majesties Safety and that moved partly in Conscience and partly in Honour minding to defer not to reject the determination of this House to proceed in the Choice of a Bill against the Scottish Queen in the highest degree of Treason both in Life and Title liketh better with all convenient speed to proceed in a second Bill to the other part of the said former Choice which her Majesties pleasure was should be signified unto this House by those of her Privy-Council being of this House and so likewise to the Lords by some others of her Privy-Council being also of that House Vide concerning this business on Thursday the 26 th day of June following Upon a Motion made by Mr. Speaker it was agreed by the House that the former Committees shall signifie unto the Lords of the Upper House that after Declaration made unto this House from her Majesty of her disposition to have the second part of the former choice proceeded in with Expedition and to defer and not to reject the first part of the same This House nevertheless with one whole voice and consent do still rely upon the said first part as most necessary without any liking or allowance of the second And further to make request unto the Lords to understand whether upon the like report of her Majesties like pleasure declared unto their Lordships that they of that House do think good nevertheless to continue the proceeding with the former Choice like as this House doth and if yea then to confer further with their Lordships for their good advices and joining therein accordingly And also to signify unto their Lordships that the whole opinion of this House is that her Majesties safety cannot stand without Execution of the Duke this present Session And that it might please their Lordships in Petition thereof unto her Highness to join with this House Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 31 th day of this instant May ensuing Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Weights and Measures was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Owen Hopton Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Stanhope and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Temple Church Mr. Treasurer reported to the House the delivery of the two Bills of Rites and Ceremonies to her Majesty together with the humble request of this House most humbly to beseech her Highness not to conceive ill opinion of this House if it so were that her Majesty should not like well of the said Bills or of the Parties that preferred them And declared further that her Majesty seemed utterly to mislike of the first Bill and of him that brought the same into the House and that her Highness express will and pleasure was that no Preacher or Minister should be impeached or indicted or otherwise molested or troubled as the preamble of the said Bill did purport adding these comfortable words farther that her Majesty as Defender of the Faith will aid and maintain all good Protestants to the discouraging of all Papists Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Free Grammar-School of Tunbridge was read the first time and committed unto M r Recorder of London M r Coleby M r Norton M r Matthew Dale who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Afternoon in Guildhall M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor brought word from the Lords that touching the Petitions lastly made unto them this present day by this House their Lordships will to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Forenoon have Conference together therein and so then make Answer of them unto this House On Saturday the 24 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against injuries offered by Corporations in the City of London to divers Foreign Artificers was read the first time and committed unto M r Seckford Sir Owen Hopton Sir Rowland Hayward M r Moor and M r Cure who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Guildhall M r Serjeant Barham and Doctor Huick brought from the Lords three Bills viz. The Bill of Tales de circumstantibus heretofore passed this House to have certain words therein inserted An Act against such as shall conspire or practise the Enlargement of any Prisoner committed for High Treason And an Act for the punishment of such as shall rebelliously take or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castles Fortresses c. The Bill for preservation of Timber and Fuel was read the time and passed and was with four other Bills of no great moment sent to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others with further Commission to have Conference with their Lordships touching some Amendments to be had in the Bill of Vagabonds and also touching the opinion of this House for the necessity of the speedy Execution of the Duke and also to pray their Lordships Answer to the Petition of this House made yesterday unto them as for their liking to proceed with the first part of the former Choice and for their advices and conjoining with this House in the Order of the same proceeding The Bill for Planting and setting of Hops was read the first time M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords M r Treasurer made report of the delivery of the said Bills to the Lords and of the residue of their said Commission from this House to their Lordships with Answer from them that they like well and allow of the opinion of this House to proceed in the first degree of Choice in the great Cause and that their Lordships will therein join with this House and have appointed to have Conference with the Committees of this House this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber for the order and manner of the same proceeding and then also with the same Committees to have Conference touching the Bill of Vagabonds and that as touching Petition to be made to the Queens Majesty for the present Execution of the Duke their Lordship 's not misliking the opinion of the House in that matter neither discouraging this House in that Enterprize do refuse to join with this House in that Petition to
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
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
incorporation of Christs Hospital was read tertia vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa data Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend And the second being the Bill to give her Majesty Authority to alter and new make a Kalendar according to the Kalendar now used in other Countries was read prima vice Four Bills also of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill whereby Marriage was declared lawful at all times of the Year Two other Bills were lastly read each of them secunda vice of which the last being the Bill for the grant of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read secunda vice About two of the Clock in the Afternoon to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Haven of Plymouth was read secunda vice The Amendments lastly in the Bill concerning the Hospital of East-Bridge were read prima secunda tertia vice conclusae dissentientibus Vicecomite Mountague Comite Hertford On Wednesday the 17 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa The fourth also being an Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto the Lord Hunsdon was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum After which Robert Elrington and Alice his Wife mentioned in the said Bill touching the Lord Hunsdons assurance came into the House and gave their consent to the passing of the said Bill The Bill against the making of Starch was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons and had its first reading After which lastly three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Herrings into the Realm was read secunda vice On Thursday the 18 th day of March six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon and the second being the Bill touching the breadth of white Woollen Clothes made within the Counties of Wilts Glocester and Oxon ' with the amendments were each of them read tertia vice conclusae datae servienti Rodes It should seem that these Bills were delivered to him to carry down to the House of Commons although so much be not expressed There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills of no great moment of which the first being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses and the third for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day were each of them read the first time Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Saturday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing But what the intent or scope of this Bill was her Majesty refusing to pass it upon the last day of this Parliament cannot be certainly set down it being not now remaining in the bundle of the Acts de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. in the Clerk of the Upper House his Office in which said bundle I searched for it on Thursday the 8 th day of October in the year 1629. About two of the Clock in the Afternoon to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament Proceres tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subscribuntur praesentes fuerunt and so is the entrance of every sitting in the Afternoon upon such continuance ut supra viz. the same form which is used in entring the sitting of the House in the Forenoon which for brevity is in this Collection elsewhere omitted Two Bills had this Afternoon each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and sraudulent Conveyances with certain amendments was read tertia vice On Friday the 29 th day of March five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and fraudulent Conveyances with the amendments was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa data servienti Rodes Doctori Barkeley in domum communem deferend Nota That this Bill is said to have been read tertia vice in the Afternoon of the day past which was Thursday and therefore it could not be now read again but to reconcile this difference it should seem the Bill it self had then its third reading and the amendments but the second and this day the said amendments passed upon the third reading but the Bill it self which had passed yesterday was no more read which by the negligence of Mr. Mason at this time Clerk of the Parliament was suffered to be set down thus confusedly in the Original Journal-Book and so to stand On Saturday the 20 th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute made Anno 13 of the Queens Majesty entituled An Act to make the Lauds Tenements Goods and Chattels of Receivors c. liable to pay their debts was read prima secunda tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Three other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons nine Bills of which the first was an Act for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster and the second being for the Subsidy of the Clergy was returned and expedited The Lord Bishop of Exeter shewed unto the Lord Chancellor Sir Francis Walsingham's Letter dated at the Court this 14 th day of March 1584. importing her Majesties licence for the said Bishop to depart home to his charge Nota That it appeareth not by the Original Journal-Book whether the Bishop of Exeter aforesaid absenting himself for this time from the Parliament by her Majesties licence did constitute any Proctor or no and it should seem that he did not because his departure from it was but for some few weeks during the last sitting thereof and that also in open Parliament and as it were with the allowance also of the rest of the Lords On Monday the 22 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales with a Proviso added by the Lords from the Earl of Kent was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa
touching Collectors of Issues by Juries was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Nathanael Bacon Mr. Henry Barkley and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Barkley who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Middle-Temple Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Lords did this Morning send down to the House of Commons a Bill touching the assurance of certain Lands to Sir Thomas Lucy Knight and others The business of Mr. Arthur Hall of which the House had been informed upon their first meeting this Morning was before the rising of the House referred to Mr. Wolley Mr. Cromwell Mr. Diggs and Mr. Sandes to peruse the order touching the same against Monday next being the day appointed by the House for the said Mr. Hall to appear before them On Monday the 14 th day of December further day was given unto the Committees for the Bill touching Tanners c. and to meet at the Yeeld-Hall alias Guild-Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted unto Walter Rawleigh Esquire for the discovery of Foreign Countries was read primâ vice Three Petitions touching the liberty of Godly Preachers and to exercise and continue their Ministries and also for the speedy supply of able and sufficient men into divers places now destitute and void of the ordinary means of Salvation were offered unto the House the first by Sir Thomas Lucy the second by Sir Edward Dymock and the third by Mr. Gates which were all thereupon read and further proceedings therein deferred until a more convenient time Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day of February following and more largely on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing Which notwithstanding Doctor Turner a little after rose up and put the House in remembrance of a Bill and Book heretofore offered by him unto the said House which had been digested and framed by certain Godly and Learned Ministers and which said Bill and Book did tend to no other end as he conceived than the Glory of God the Safety of her Majesty and the benefit of the Common-Wealth and therefore prayed that it might be read Against which Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold spake first but in few words and after him Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain more largely who pressed and moved the House so far therein that it was at length resolved that the said Book and Bill should not be read But touching all necessary and fit liberty of the aforesaid Ministers or supply of able men in places that wanted they did not doubt but that her Majesty would take some speedy order concerning the same according to whatsoever was justly required either in the aforesaid Petitions that had been read or in the last mentioned Book and Bill the reading whereof had been forborn of which also the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain did affirm that he doubted not but that it would be done accordingly Vide concerning this business on Saturday the 27 th day of March following He also further moved that for the better and more speedy expedition of other great matters now in hand this Court would be pleased to appoint to sit again at two of the Clock this Afternoon to give reading to a Bill but now lately finished wherein provision was made for the safety and preservation of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person Which he the rather desired because he conceived that this House would very shortly be adjourned till after Christmas The Bill against fraudulent Conveyances was read the third time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the before-mentioned Bill for provision to be made for safety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the quiet State of the Realm was read the first time The Bill also for provision of maintenance for Ministers and Preachers in Towns Corporate c. was after the second reading and much dispute put to the question whether it should be committed and upon the division of the House the major part of the Voices fell out to be against the commitment After which also upon another Question whether it should be ingrossed or no the Bill it self was lastly upon another division of the House dashed The Bill lastly for Confirmation of Letters Patents made unto M r Walter Rawleigh was read the second time and committed unto M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Secretary Sir Philip Sidney Sir Francis Drake Sir Richard Greensield Sir William Courtnay Sir William Mohun and others On Tuesday the 15 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the relief of the Creditors of Edward Fisher Esquire was after the second reading committed unto M r Sollicitor M r Morrice M r Cromwell M r John Fisher and M r Cradock who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn-Hall The Committees for M r Rawleighs Bill were appointed to meet presently in the Committee-Chamber of this House The Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster was after the second reading committed unto Sir George Carie M r Recorder of London M r Thomas Knivet M r Thomas Cecill and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the open Exchequer-Court The Bill against Informers was brought in by M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the name of all the Committees with allowance of the same only he further moved the reviving and continuing the former Act in that behalf made in the 18 th year of her Majesties Reign The Bill for provision to be made for the surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the good estate of the Realm was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Ling was brought in again by Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees without any thing done in the same for that the Committees could not in their meeting assent to any alteration of the same Bill The Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests and such like disobedient persons was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 16 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being a new one touching Hue and Cry was read the first time M r Ash one of the Committees in the Bill for Swearing of Under-Sheriffs in the name of himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill framed by them praying the reading thereof M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for disposing of Parsonages impropriate to charitable and pious uses for himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill praying the reading thereof The Bill for perfecting of Assurances was upon the second reading committed unto M r
of the said Mr. Kirle After which the said Mr. Anthony Kirle was brought again to the Bar and there kneeling upon his knees was asked by Mr. Speaker whether he had received of Mr. Stepneth any Money for the Charges of the said Attachment He answered he had not but his Attorney had And being asked whether his Attorney did receive it to his use or no He said his Attorney did allow it to him in the payment for the Copy of Mr. Stepneth his Answer And then Mr. Speaker pronounced unto him the said Judgment in form aforesaid in the Name of this whole House After the pronouncing whereof he humbly besought this House of their favourable goodness to grant him liberty to follow some Causes of his own and also some other of his Clients but it was denied him and so he was had away by the Serjeant And after his departure upon some motions that Consideration might be had of his Clients Causes the Term now continuing but one day more it was referred to Mr. Speaker's liberty to let him follow his own Causes and his Clients with his Keeper attending upon him Vide principium hujus materiae die praecedente vide consimilem casum in Parliamento de Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. on Friday the 12 th day of February On Friday the 12 th day of February five Bills were had in agitation in the House whereof two concerning the Government of the City of Westminster and the assurance of Sir Thomas Lucy were brought into the House by the several Committees of them with Proviso's and Amendments added unto them which they did humbly offer to the Consideration of the House and the other three of no great moment had two of them one reading apiece and the third two readings which was the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster viz. the body of the Bill had one reading and the Amendments two and then it was ordered to be ingrossed upon the Question One of the said three Bills last mentioned to have been read was a new Bill brought into the House for the true answering of the Debts of Edward Fisher Esquire after the first reading whereof upon a Motion made concerning it it was Ordered that the said Edward Fisher should be sent to by the Serjeant of this House to warn him to be in this House himself upon Monday next if it please him to procure himself a Writ for that purpose or else that his Councel be then there for him to shew cause if he have any why this House should not proceed to the expediting and passing of the same Vide plus de ista materia on Monday the 15 th day of this instant February following On Saturday the 13 th day of February the Bill touching the breadth of Woollen-Cloths was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Heneage Sir John Peeter and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet on Monday next in the Afternoon in the Parliament Chamber or Pension Chamber of the Middle-Temple M r Recorder of London M r Morrice and M r Penruddock were appointed to hear and examine the State and manner of the serving of Process upon any the Members of this House from time to time during this Session as occasion thereof shall fall out and after such information and intelligences thereof then further to impart the same to this House as occasion shall serve for further resolution Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of 21 H. 8. touching Pluralities of Benefices c. was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Drew Drewry Sir Robert Germin Sir Richard Knightley M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall A Proviso to the Bill concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Morrice M r Atkins and M r Alford were added to the former Committees to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall to hear M r Arnold and his Councel touching the said Bill and Proviso The Amendments in the Bill against Glass-Houses and Glass-making was twice read and Ordered to be with the Bill ingrossed On Monday the 15 th day of February M r William Stoughton offered unto this House a certain supplication in Parchment of certain abuses in the Ministry within the County of Leicester and also a note of certain Articles in Paper concerning some disorders in the Bishops Ministry and also M r Edward Lewkenor offered another Petition in Parchment touching the abuses in the Ministry in the behalf of the Inhabitants in the East part of the County of Sussex All which by Order of the House were read And then also was read another like Petition in Paper for the Inhabitants of the Parish of Holkstone in the County of Kent which was before the last Adjournment of this Court offered unto this House by M r John Moore and after sundry Speeches and Motions had touching the said Petitions M r Chancellor of the Exchequer putting the House in mind of the like Petitions in effect offered unto this House in the sitting before the last Adjournment and imparted to the Lords by a Committee of this House with humble Suit unto their Lordships to be a mean therein to her Majesty desired them that they would now forbear any further to deal with these Petitions until this House have first received Answer from the Lords of the said others alledging further that he had very lately put some of their Lordships in remembrance thereof on the behalf of this House and that he was Answered we should hear from their Lordships to Morrow next touching their Answer of the same Petitions Whereupon it was then thought good by this whole House to expect their Lordships said Answer therein till then accordingly Vide concerning Petitions on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing The Committees in the Bills for Actions upon the Case for perfecting of Assurances and for Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn Hall Upon a Motion made by M r Edward Lewkenor that some of this House may be appointed to draw a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to be used in this House for the great benefits and blessings of God bestowed upon this whole Realm in her Majesty and for the long continuance of the same especially in this time of Consultation this day appointed to be had and prosecuted in making of Laws for the preservation and safety of her Majesties most Royal Person It was agreed That the said Mr. Lewkenor himself should take such of this House to him as he should think good and devise and digest the same form of
th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and after long Arguments upon the second of the said Bills being for the better ordering and good Government of the City of Westminster it was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Treasurer Sir Thomas Heneage and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Richard Carey one of the Committees in the Bill for plain white straights and pinned white straights brought in the Bill with new Amendments which Amendments being also twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills of no great moment were Ordered to be ingrossed the first after the Bill it self had been read the second time being against trying of Tythes of Lands in Foreign Counties the second after certain Amendments and Additions unto it had been twice read it being the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis in Dorsetshire The Amendments in the Bill touching Latitats of the Peace being twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for reformation of errors in Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales had its third reading Mr. Attorney of the Wards one of the Committees in the Bill for perfecting of assurances brought in the Bill again Mr. Vernon with his Learned Councel was upon a Motion by one of this House appointed to be heard who came into this House with his Councel accordingly where being heard at large and the Councel also of the other fide they were sequestred out of the House and after their departure it was resolved after many and long Arguments upon the question that a Proviso be added to the Bill And thereupon Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder Mr. Sandes and others were appointed to draw the Proviso Post Meridiem Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill touching Highways another for continuance of Statutes and a third concerning Tanners Curriers Shoomakers c. being all new Bills were each of them read the first time On Tuesday the 9 th day of March Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the better imploying of Lands Tenements c. for the repairing of Highways c. were each of them upon the second reading committed to the former Committees and to Mr. Cromwell Mr. Edgecombe Mr. Barker and Mr. Shirley But the time and place when and where the said Committees should meet is wholly omitted through the negligence of the Clerk Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards and Mr. Shirley brought in the Bill again against delays in Executions with some Amendments only in form A Proviso by Mr. Cradock offered to the Bill of safety and the Proviso read and rejected and the Bill passed upon the question without the said Proviso The Bill touching Jesuits c. being somewhat considered in the Amendments and the Additions in the same once read after some Speeches and Arguments touching the same Amendments and Additions was committed further to be considered of unto all the Privy Council being Members of this House Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Recorder Mr. Sands Sir William Moore Mr. Diggs Mr. Doctor James Mr. Heyle Sir Thomas Heneage Sir Henry Cocke Sir Drew Drewry and others who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber A Bill also that Actions upon the Case and for Tryal of title of Lands shall not be brought in Foreign Counties passed upon the question after the third reading The Amendments in the Bill against delay of Executions was twice read and thereupon the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 10 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them their second reading of which the first touching the true making of Hats and Caps was rejected and the second touching the Water-Bayliff was upon the second reading committeed unto M r Treasurer Sir Henry Nevill Sir Nicholas Woodruffe and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Nicholas Woodruffe and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber A Proviso to the Bill for Shoomakers c. was thrice read and the Bill with the Same Proviso being put to the question passed A Proviso to the Bill touching Tellors and Receivors c. was twice read and the Proviso and Bill committed to the former Committees and there were added unto them these following viz. M r Sollicitor M r John Hare M r Skinner M r Aldred M r Fenner and M r Audeley who were appointed to meet in the Committee Chamber of this House to morrow Morning A Proviso also agreed unto by the Committees and to be added to the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales and Counties Palatine with the privity and likeing also of M r Vernon himself and one of his Councel and of the Sollicitor and one of the Councel learned of Sir Edward Herbert Knight was brought in by M r Sollicitor and being twice read was ordered to be ingrossed Six Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Treasurer and others of which the last being a Bill against delay of Executions did at this time pass the House upon the third reading immediately before it was sent up ut supra Four-Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset had its third reading upon which a Proviso was offered unto it which being twice read was allowed by the House and ordered to be ingrossed and so was ingrossed in the end of the said Bill and afterwards read the third time And so thereupon the Bill passed upon the question M r Treasurer with the residue returning from the Lords he shewed that they have moved their Lordships for conference in certain points touching the Bill of Jesuits and that the Committees of this House moved their Lordships to amend some such words in their own amendments as which albeit the Committees of that House thought meet to be done for the matter yet they said they could not do it but by order of the House And the said M r Treasurer said that yet nevertheless because that imperfection might be very well holpen by a Proviso of this House he wished rather to take that course in the matter than further to urge the Lords in that point And said further that for other parts also of their Lordships amendments and additions to the said Bill it was thought good by the Committees of both the said Houses to have further conference together therein again for the more
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
Subjects whose most faithful and approved good love and fidelity towards her she more esteemeth than all the Treasures of the world besides very shortly to cause a Collection to be made of all the Laws already in force touching Purveyors and also all the constitutions of her Highnesses Household in that case and thereupon by the advice of her Judges and her Learned Council to set down such a Form and Plot for the said Redresses yea and that before the end of this present Session as shall be as good and better for the ease of the Subjects than that which this House had attempted without her Privity and in which they would have bereaved her Majesty the Honour Glory and Commendation of the same And touching the Exchequer she said it was her Chamber and so more near unto her than the Household And that in the tenth year of her Raign her Majesty had caused certain Orders and Constitutions to be set down for the due and fit course of such things in the said Court as her Subjects seem to be grieved for Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 15 th day on Monday the 17 th day and on Tuesday the 27 th day of February foregoing as also on Tuesday the 4 th day and on Thursday the 6 th day of this present March The Committees in the Bill for the Pier of Dover and Hartilpool appointed to meet this day on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing are defered till Monday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the former place M r Serjeant Shuttleworth and M r Doctor Awberry do bring from the Lords two Bills of which the first was an Act for the maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage with commendation of the same Bills to the good consideration of this House to be dealt in by the House with all convenient speed that may be M r Morrice and divers other Members of this House arguing to the Bill last read yesterday it afterwards in the end passed upon the question M r Edward Cook Esquire one of the Burgesses returned into this House for the Borough of Alborow in the County of Suffolk is for his necessary affairs licensed to depart On Monday the 10 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Writs of Covenant c. was read the third time and a Proviso for the Lord Powes and Sir Edward Herbert and their Heirs was thrice read and after many Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill the said Bill was dashed upon the question The Bill against Pluralities and Non-Residents lately passed this House was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others who returning again from thence with the said Bill shewed that their Lordships would be ready for them half an hour hence and willed them then to come again Upon which report it was thought good to attend their said Lordships leisure therein half an hour hence accordingly And afterwards the said Bill was sent up by the said M r Treasurer and others The Bill for the maintenance of the Pier of Dover with a Note of the Committees names are delivered to M r Wroth one of the Committees in the same who were appointed on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing The Bill for granting of four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies to her Majesty being ordered upon the question to be read was then read for the third reading and passed upon the question accordingly On Tuesday the 11 th day of March the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln was upon the second reading committed unto M r John Stubbs the Burgesses of Norwich the Burgesses of York and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for repairing of Dover-Haven appointed on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing shewed that the said Committees have met and travailed in the said Bill and do think good that concerning some things in the same there be a Conference prayed with the Lords and thereupon it was assented that the Bills last passed in this House should presently be sent up and withal to make that request also unto their Lordships accordingly After which the Bill touching Pleadings in Actions of Trespass under the value of forty shillings having had its last reading this Morning and passed the House was with the Subsidy Bill sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others with Commission to pray Conference with the Lords touching the Amendments desired by this House to be made in the said Bill for Dover-Haven Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning the bringing in of salted Fish and salted Herrings was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Sir John Parrot Mr. Vice-Chamberlain the Burgesses of Orford Alborow York Norwich Lincoln Lin and Barwick and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber M r Doctor Awberry and M r Doctor Cary do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for assurance to be made of the Jointure of Anne the Wife of Henry Nevill Esquire with some Amendments which their Lordships pray to be considered of by this House M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed that they have had Conference with the Lords touching some parts of the said Bill for Dover-Haven and reciting some particularities of the same shewed that the Lords can like of such course of Amendment as by the said Committees of this House was moved unto them if the House shall think good to set down and require those Amendments And thereupon this form of amendment was assented unto by this House viz. linea 18. after the word And put out all that followeth unto these words be it in the 20 th line put out all from the end of the 20 th line unto this word that in the 30 th line Sir Edward Hobby M r Markham M r Buckley and Mr. Peter Evers were added to the Committees in the Bill for the City of Lincoln and the Bill with the names was delivered to Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees On Wednesday the 12 th day of March Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Aliens and Strangers retailing of Foreign Wares was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Comptroller Sir Robert Jermin Sir William Moor and others who were appointed to meet upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir John Parrot one of the Committees for the Pier of Hartilpool brought in the Bill in the name of himself and the residue of the said
themselves to join in Conference with the Committee of this House and have appointed the place to be in the Chamber next to the Upper House of Parliament and the time to be to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And thereupon the Committee of this House appointed to have conferred amongst themselves for the matter of the Subsidy this present Afternoon in this House are appointed to defer their further consultation therein until the said other Committees of this House appointed for the said general Conference with the Lords shall have further acquainted this House of their travail and treaty to be first had with the said Committees of the Lords And also the meeting of the Committees in the Bill for reducing of disloyal Subjects to their due obedience is now signified to the same Committees to be held in the Afternoon of this present day in this place On Tuesday the 6 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read the second time Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees for Returns and Priviledges shewed that for the Borough of Camelford in the County of Cornwall one Richard Leech was returned to the Sheriff for a Burgess by a false Return And that afterwards Sir George Carew Knight was returned Burgess by the true Return And alledging that the said Richard Leech offered to yield the place to Sir George Carew moved the Order of this House therein And thereupon M r Speaker was appointed to move the Lord Keeper in the said Case for this Order either in the allowance of the said Sir George Carew in the place of the said Richard Leech or else in awarding a new Writ for the chusing another at his Lordships pleasure And so for his Lordships Order in the Case of the Burgess returned for the Borough of Southwark in the allowance of Richard Hutton already returned or else in awarding of a new Writ for chusing of another at his Lordships pleasure And so also for his Lordships Order in altering the name of John Dudley to the name of Thomas Dudley in the Return of one of the Burgesses of Newtown in the County of Southampton or else to award a new Writ at his Lordships pleasure The Bill against Aliens born to sell by way of retail Foreign Wares brought into this Realm was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Wolley Sir Edward Stafford Sir Robert Sidney M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill touching M r Read Stafford c. was upon the second reading committed unto M r Heyle Sir Edward Stafford Sir Henry Umpton Sir Thomas West and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Star Chamber M r Vice-Chamberlain putting the House in remembrance of their resolution yesterday for praying Conference with their Lordships touching the great dangers and necessary remedies to be considered of and which was then so signified unto their Lordships by the House which return from their Lordships of the time and place appointed by them for that Conference being at two of the Clock in the Afternoon this present day in the Chamber next to the Upper House of Parliament moved that it may be presently resolved in this House wherein and how far the said Committees of this House shall have Warrant to treat with the Committees of the Lords It was after many Speeches of sundry Members of this House very well delivered to divers effects and purposes resolved and agreed by the whole House upon the Question that the said Committees of the House should have Authority to confer with the said Committees of the Lords generally concerning the said dangers and remedies as occasion should serve But not in any manner of wise to conclude or resolve of any thing in the said Conference particularly without the further privity or assent of this whole House to be had in that behalf upon the report of the said Committees to be first made unto this House of their Proceedings in the said Conference to be had this present day as aforesaid Nota That there is no more found of this days Passages in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there be almost two pages left blank by M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the said House with intention doubtless at the first to have inserted them and therefore they are very largely and fully supplied out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal very elaborately taken by some Member of the same House during this Parliament where it appeareth that after the aforesaid Speech of Sir Thomas Heneage her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain M r Oliver S t John spake next in the manner and form following M r Oliver S t John said he thought that M r Vice-Chamberlain did mistake the thing we agreed upon that we went not to confer with their Lordships in any thing that we had to deliver but to understand of things from them the Conference being offered from them and not from us Sir Walter Raleigh Answered M r S t John that he mistook M r Vice-Chamberlain and the thing agreed by the House for we agreed all to a general Conference but not in particular for the Subsidy for this we refused If we confer generally it must be of our dangers and of the remedies which must be by means if of means it must be of Money and Aid So our Conference must needs be of Subsidy or rather Aid but to agree upon this with any resolution either in the matter or substance it is not our meaning Sir Robert Cecill answered M r S t John that he mistaking M r Vice-Chamberlain did wrong him in saying he delivered the Message insufficiently or untruly and so would have the priviledge of the House and that it should be delivered by the Committees whether M r Vice-Chamberlain did report truly and if truly then M r S t John to answer it and so said Sir John Woolley The House having cleared Sir Thomas Heneage Vice-Chamberlain he said he would have no other satisfaction than to be cleared by the House And protested he thought no ill of the Gentleman but allowed him for speaking as he thought Sir Henry Umpton agreed to the Conference and was glad the last days No and this were so well concluded and moved that we might not be deprived of thanks to agree unto a treble Subsidy before we went to confer M r Frowick Grevill said There are two scruples in the House which I would gladly satisfy the one the priviledge of the House the other the poverty of the people For Precedents they are but Examples of things past Now every Example ought to be stronger than
and thereupon the Oath being taken by him before M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the said Richard Hutton came into this House and took his place in the same accordingly Sir John Hart one of the Knights returned for the City of London putting the House in remembrance once of a Report lately made by some of the Committees of this House touching a Speech lately delivered by some of the Committees of the Lords touching the late Assessment of the late double Subsidy amongst others in the City of London alledging that in London there was none Assessed at above two hundred pounds and not past four such nor yet past eight at one hundred pounds shewed that the Honorable person that delivered the said Speech to the said Committees of this House had not been rightly informed in that matter And shewed further that in very deed at the last Assessment of the Subsidy within the said City of London there were two and thirty persons taxed at two hundred pounds and upwards whereof some at two hundred and twenty and some at two hundred and fifty pounds And one hundred forty and eight persons at one hundred pounds and upward whereof some at one hundred and ten some at one hundred and twenty some at one hundred and forty some at one hundred and fifty some at one hundred and sixty and some at one hundred and eighty pounds And eighty persons at three hundred pounds and some at three hundred and fifty pounds and four persons at four hundred pounds Besides sive hundred forty and four persons at fifty pounds and upwards whereof some at sixty some at seventy some at eighty and some at ninety pounds The Bill concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London was upon the second reading committed unto M r Hubbert M r Heale Sir Henry Knivet M r Wroth and others who were appointed to meet in this House upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 10 th day of March M r Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill against the stealing of Oxen Sheep and Lambs shewed that he and the residue of the Committees in the same Bill have met together and added some amendments to the same Bill and offereth both the Bill and amendments to the House Which amendments being inserted into the Bill by the Clerk of this House and the same amendments then also twice read the Bill upon the question was ordered to be Ingrossed The Bill for relief of Jurors upon Tryals between party and party was upon the second reading committed unto M r Tasborough M r Recorder of London M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Tasborough who with the rest was appointed to meet this day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents unto the Mayor Sheriff Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Hastings M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber Mr. Chancellour of the Exchequer reporteth the travel of himself and the residue of the Committees for setting down of Articles for the Subsidy and shewed that they have drawn the said Articles and offereth the same to the House to be read Which being then read by the Clerk of the House and in some part thereof reformed by the assent of the whole House to wit in that Article which concerned the priviledge of the Cinque-Ports and that Article also which concerned such persons as in regard of having several habitations should be Assessed in the said Subsidies in several places upon the doubtfulness of the voices to the question twice propounded Whether the strangers resident in the Cinque-Ports shall be charged with the payment of the said Subsidies or not it was upon the division of the House adjudged that they shall not be charged with the said payments by the difference of thirty persons viz. with the Yea a hundred and eighteen and with the No a hundred forty eight in all two hundred sixty six And afterwards it was Ordered that the said Articles should be delivered to the former Committees for the Preamble to prepare the same And also the said Rates according to the said Articles to be set down in the Bill Nota That after this business touching the Cinque-Ports there followeth a Motion made by M r Wroth touching some Members of the House who had been Imprisoned in the beginning of this Parliament of which see on Sunday the 25 th day of February foregoing which remaineth very legible in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although it be crossed out The reason of which said crossing out is very hard to conjecture in regard that the said Motion was doubtless made this Morning as doth plainly appear also by the often before-cited Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal out of which it is supplied in manner and form following M r Wroth made a Motion that in respect that some Countries might complain of the Tax of these many Subsidies their Knights and Burgesses never consenting unto them nor being present at the grant And because an Instrument taking away some of its strings cannot give its pleasant sound Therefore desired that we might be humble and earnest Suitors to her Majesty that she would be pleased to set at liberty those Members of the House that were restrained To this was Answered by all the Privy Councellors that her Majesty had Committed them for Causes best known to her self and for us to press her Majesty with this Suit we should but hinder them whose good we seek And it is not to be doubted but her Majesty of her gracious disposition will shortly of her self yield to them that which we would ask for them and it will like her better to have it left unto her self than sought by us Thus far out of the said Anonymous Journal and the residue of this days Passages do follow out of the Original Journal-Book it self Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being against Counterfeiting of Councellors or Principal Officers hands was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Wolley Sir Walter Raleigh M r George Moore and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Sir Walter Harecourt K t one of the Knights for the County of Suffolk in regard of the present extremity of his Wifes Sickness is licensed by M r Speaker to depart home into his Country James Goodwyn Gent ' one of the Burgesses returned for the City of Wells in the County of Somerset is for his necessary businesses licensed by
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
two thousand weight of strange Coin Now whereas it is so much urged to be against that Charity which is commended to us by Moses towards the Stranger let Moses tell us who is that Stranger even the Fatherless and Widow Wherefore from them we must not reap too clean but cast out some handfuls for them to gather up when we gather our Vintage or when we gather our Corn we must not gather too clean But shall we be put out to gleaning and give our Fields to them That were beyond Charity Wherefore let Moses be expounded by the same Spirit The Apostle saith That he that provideth not for his Family is worse than an Infidel Let us then have an Eye to our Country and our poor Country-men You be here as Patres Patriae you be here as amongst the Romans the Patres conscripti I beseech you have respect unto this City upon whose flourishing Estate the whole Realm dependeth Sir Walter Raleigh spake next and said Whereas it is pretended That for Strangers it is against Charity against Honour against profit to expel them in my opinion it is no matter of Charity to relieve them For first such as fly hither have forsaken their own King and Religion is no pretext for them for we have no Dutchmen here but such as came from those Princes where the Gospel is Preached and here they live disliking our Church For Honour It is Honour to use Strangers as we be used amongst Strangers And it is a lightness in a Common-Wealth yea a baseness in a Nation to give a liberty to another Na which we cannot receive again In Antwerp where our intercourse was most we were never suffered to have a Taylor or a Shoemaker to dwell there Nay at Millain where there are three hundred pound English men they cannot have so much as a Barber amongst them And for Profit they are all of the House of Almoigne who pay nothing yet eat out our profits and supplant our own Nation Custom indeed they pay paying fifteen pence where we pay twelve pence but they are discharged of Subsidies The nature of the Dutchman is to fly to no man but for his profit and they will obey no man long now under Spain now under Mounfort now under the Prince of Orange but under no Governour long The Dutchman by his Policy hath gotten Trading with all the World into his hands yea he is now entring into the Trade of Scarborough Fishing and the Fishing of the New-found Lands which is the stay of the West-Countries They are the people that maintain the King of Spain in his Greatness Were it not for them he were never able to make out such Armies and Navies by Sea it cost her Majesty sixteen thousand pound a year the maintaining of these Countries and yet for all this they Arm her Enemies against her Therefore I see no reason that so much respect should be given unto them And so to conclude in the whole cause I see no matter of Honour no matter of Charity no Profit in relieving them Sir Robert Cecill spake next and said When I first heard this Bill read I promised my self silence for it speaks of Trades wherein I have no skill But upon so great dispute as it hath received on both sides and that very throughly and wisely my understanding is cleared and I see that now which I saw not before What the word Retailing meant I understood not before but now it is brought to a matter of Charity to relieve Strangers and especially such as do not grieve our Eyes This hath brought great Honour to our Kingdom for it is accounted the refuge of distressed Nations for our Arms have been open unto them to cast themselves into our Bosoms But yet our Charity unto them must not hinder or injure our selves Now as the Bill is it is not sufficient for this purpose And if it be put to a Question it must either be dashed or put to ingrossing And for my own Conscience if the Question be now made I am not resolved to give my Voice It were not for the gravity of the House nor the credit of the Committees to have it rejected upon the sudden and as it is now it is not fit to pass in my conceit I see the Citizens themselves will be well assenting unto the reforming of the same for M r Recorder yesterday speaking with Zeal for the City yet with good regard thought the Bill might receive great moderation And thereupon the House was well pleased to stay the Bill and commit it again to the former Committees to whom were further added Sir Robert Cecill Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Henry Knivet M r Wroth and others who were appointed to meet with the former Committees who had been nominated on Tuesday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing this Afternoon at two of the Clock in this House Now followeth the next days Passages and some others ensuing out of the Original Journal-Book On Saturday the 24 th day of March the Bill touching Clapboards and Casks was twice read and committed unto the Committees that follow viz. M r Treasurer M r Wroth M r Francis Bacon M r Finch and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill and Committees names touching the Lands late Sir Francis Englefields Knight Attainted of High Treason who had been nominated on Thursday the 22 th day of this instant March foregoing were delivered to M r Vice-Chamberlain The Bill for relief of maimed Souldiers and Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees whose names see before on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing and Sir Robert Cecill M r Richard Brown M r Hubberd and others were added unto them and appointed to meet on Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Robert Cecill Vicle plus March 28. M r Speaker being moved by M r Edgecombe to read the private Bill for the Town of Stonchouse and offering to have the Bill read first which came from the Lords touching Popish Recusants being a publick Bill and remembred from her Majesty It was upon the further arguing of Sir Edward Dymock put to the question of the House whether the same Bill for the Town of Stonchouse should be read or no and upon the Question made was Ordered no. Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of which one was the Bill for Subsidy and the other touching the Sale of the Gray-Fryers in Cambridge M r Serjeant Owen and M r Doctor Stamhop do bring from the Lords a Bill intituled An Act to give liberty to the Lord Harrowden to sell certain Lands for the payment of his debts The Bill for restraining of Popish Recusants to some
be thought ill or hurtful unto the general State And I would be sorry to see within this Kingdom that piece of Ovids Verse prove true jam seges ubi Troja fuit so in England instead of a whole Town full of people nought but green Fields but a Shepherd and a Dog The Eye of Experience is the sure Eye but the Eye of Wisdom is the quick-sighted Eye and by Experience we daily see Nemo putat illud videri turpe quod sibi sit quaestuosum And therefore there is almost no Conscience made in destroying the savour of the life Bread I mean for Panis sapor vitae And therefore a strict and rigorous Law had need to be made against those Viperous natures who fulfil the Proverb Si non posse quod vult velle tamen quod potest which if it be made by us and life given unto it by Execution in our several Counties no doubt but they will prove Laws tending to Gods Honour the renown of her Majesty the same of this Parliament and the everlasting good of this Kingdom And therefore I think them worthy to be read and received Thus far out of the aforesaid fragmentary and imperfect Journal that which follows is out of the Original Journal-Book it self In the end of which said Speech as it should seem the said M r Bacon did move the House that a Committee might be appointed to consider of the said matter touching Inclosures Which done Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer in like manner shewed his opinion in this Case much answerable to the said Speech of the said M r Bacon and so moving for a Committee to that end the House did nominate all the Privy Council being Members of this House all the Knights of the Counties and all the Citizens of the Cities returned into this present Parliament Sir Edward Hobby M r Francis Bacon M r Nathaniel Bacon Sir Wiliam Moore M r Sollicitor M r Finch and divers others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day M r Finch shewing sundry great and horrible abuses of idle and vagrant Persons greatly offensive both to God and the world And further shewing the extream and miserable estate of the Godly and honest sort of the poor Subjects of this Realm moved for a Committee of this House to be selected for consideration to be had for redress thereof Whereupon the same was referred to the former Committees in the Bill touching Inclosures and converting of Tillage into Pasture M r Speaker putteth the House in remembrance for a Committee to be nominated to deal and travel in the examination of such Causes as shall occur in this House touching Priviledge and Returns during this present Sessions of Parliament and from time to time to make Report to this House of their travel and proceedings therein as occasion shall serve Whereupon were nominated all the Privy Council being Members of the House Sir William Moore M r Recorder of London Sir Thomas Knivet M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Attorney of the Court of Wards M r Doctor Heyward Master of the Requests M r Luke M r Edward Lukenour M r William Cecill M r Robert Wroth Sir William Eyre Sir Francis Hastings M r Miles Sandes M r Michael Stanhop M r Francis Bacon Sir Edward Hobbie M r Sollicitor M r Tasbrough M r Conisby M r George Moore Sir Edward Hastings M r Finch M r Crew M r Peak M r Serjeant Hayle M r Lyel M r Jeram Horsey M r Hubbard M r Amersam M r Edward Boer M r Litten M r Nathaniel Bacon M r Angeire M r Combes and M r Robert Knolls who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber Sir Thomas Knivet being a Member of this House returned one of the Citizens of the City of Westminster shewed unto this House that being a Member of this House he was since the beginning of this Parliament served with a Subpoena to appear in the Chancery which he taketh to be done to the infringing of the priviledge and liberties of this House Wherein praying the consideration of this House in that behalf he is referred to attend the Committees formerly nominated at the said time and place before appointed Vide November 9. The Bill for taking away of Clergy from Offenders against a Statute made in 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women against their wills unlawfully was read the first time On Monday the 7 th day of November Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers was upon the second reading committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Francis Bacon the Citizens for London York Coventry Bristol and Gloucester M r Nathaniel Bacon and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and the Bill and Committees names were delivered upon Tuesday next following to M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees The Bill for taking away of Clergy from Offenders against a Statute made in the third year of H. 7 th concerning the taking away of Women against their wills unlawfully was upon the second reading committed unto M r Sollicitor M r Peutridge M r Recorder of London M r Bayes Mr. Finch Mr. Bourcher and Mr. Duport to go presently together into the Committee Chamber of this House who taking the Bill with them and returning again very soon after they had inserted into the Bill these words viz. hereafter to be committed Which words being read unto the House and not well liked of were strucken out and these words were set down therein by the consent of the House viz. to be committed after the end of this present Session of Parliament and were then twice read And so the Bill upon the question was Ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 8 th day of Nov. Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching the transporting of Sheep-Skins and Pelts was read the first time Mr. George Moore shewed the great and burthensome charge of the Subjects of this Realm being compelled upon great penalties with the keeping and having of sundry sorts of Armour and Weapons which are altogether unprofitable for any use or service and are charged nevertheless with the finding and providing of such other Armour and Weapons besides from time to time as the Captains which were appointed to take charge upon any occasion of service will call for and appoint at their own pleasure And so for redress thereof and for some certainty to be set down by Law touching the having and keeping of such Armour and Weapons moved that a selected number of this House may be appointed to have Conference and consideration about the same Whereupon were
named for that purpose M r Comptroller Sir George Carey Sir George Gifford Sir Thomas Conisby Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Henry Bromley Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hastings M r Thomas Knivet M r George Moore Sir Edward Hobby Sir William Brereton Mr. Leonard Sir John Stacy Sir Henry Norris Mr. Francis Bacon Sir Edmund Carey Sir William Moore Mr. Recorder Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Edmond Boyer Sir Richard Knightley Sir Gervase Clifton the Knights for all Shires Sir Anthony Cope all Deputy Lieutenants of Shires being Members of this House Sir Henry Bamfield Mr. Oglethorp Mr. Miles Sandes Mr. Warwick Heyle Sir Henry Nevill Mr. Francis Foscue Sir William Woolgrave Sir William Aire Sir Henry Gawdie Sir Robert Southwell Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Henry Finch Mr. Bourchier Mr. Boyes Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. John Boyer Mr. Edward Lewkenor Mr. Robert Sackvile Mr. Tasbrough Mr. Francis Goodwyn Mr. Angier Mr. Emersam Mr. John Lees and Mr. Adrian Gilbert and appointed to meet in this House upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and the Committees names were delivered to Mr. Comptroller Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the due performance of the last Will and Testament of George Durant was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobbie Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Wimarke Sir Robert Wingfeild Mr. John Wingfeild Mr. Oglethorpe Sir Thomas Cecill and Mr. James Harrington who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Court at two of the Clock and the Bill was delivered to Sir Thomas Cecill one of the said Committees Sir Francis Hastings moved for the abridging and reforming the excessive number of superfluous and burthensom penal Laws Which Motion being seconded by Mr. Francis Bacon and others the consideration of the managing thereof was committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House all the Serjeants at Law being likewise Members of this House all the Lawyers of this House Mr. Miles Sandes Mr. Tasbrough Mr. George Moore Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. George Rotheram Mr. Stephenson Mr. Conisbie Mr. Dykes Mr. Crompton and others and all the Knights for the Counties and for the City of London returned into this House Sir William Moore Sir Edward Hobbie Mr. Heyle Sir Thomas Hobbie and Mr. Hubbard who were appointed to meet in this House upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy one of the Committees for the Examination of matters of priviledge and of Returns whose names see on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that he and sundry others of the Committees had met together about those businesses according to the charge of this House in that behalf imposed upon them and that the other Committees did appoint him to make report unto this House of their travels in this said business And shewed that as concerning the Liberties and Priviledges of the Members of this House they are of opinion that the serving of the Subpoena upon Mr. Thomas Knivet one of the Members of this House signified by himself unto this House on Saturday immediately foregoing is a manifest contempt committed against this whole House to the apparent prejudice of the Liberties and Priviledges of this House as by some Precedents under the Clerk of this House his hand in like former Cases accustomed and shewed further unto the said Committees it did appear in that by reason of such Process served upon any Member of this House the same Member so served with such Process must needs of force be withdrawn from his Service in this House both in his mind and in his person by the meer necessity of following his own private business occasioned by the said Process so served upon him And therefore do resolve that the said Mr. Thomas Knivet ought to be freed from the serving of the said Subpoena And because the said Mr. Knivet affirmed unto the said Committees that the Parties that served the said Subpoena upon him did execute the same in very dutiful and lowly manner and that also the said party being examined by the said Committees did affirm and protest unto them that he did not know the said Mr. Knivet to be a Member of this House when he served him with the said Subpoena the Committees were of Opinion to have the said party remitted without any further punishment to be inflicted upon him for the same if this House should so think good and else not And where one Precedent in Quinto of Queen Mary was shewed unto the said Committees whereby it appeared that a Member of this place at that time being served with a Subpoena out of the Chancery in Parliament time was upon Declaration thereof made unto this House allowed to have the benefit and priviledge of this House and for the due accomplishment thereof this House did then send two Members of the same to the then Lord Chancellor of England requiring his Lordship in the name of this whole House to revoke the said Subpoena as by the same Precedent may appear he shewed that the resolution of the said Committees in this Case for the said Mr. Knivet is that in like manner two of the Members of this House may be sent by the Order of this House in the name of the whole House to the now Lord Keeper to require his Lordship to revoke the said Subpoena served upon thesai d Mr. Knivet if this House shall so think good And further as concerning Returns that he and the residue of the Committees had seen the Return of the Sheriff of the County of Dorset for the electing into this Parliament the Burgesses of the Borough of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis heretofore two distinct Boroughs but of late years united and incorporated into one by her Majesties Letters Patents with ability and priviledge nevertheless to elect four Burgesses into the Parliament as in former times they had used to do when they were distinct Boroughs And that the Mayor Bayliffs Commonalty and Burgesses of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis had upon the Sheriffs Precept directed unto them elected four Burgesses and returned them under the Seal of their Corporation and that the Bayliffs have elected two others besides which four Burgesses are certified into this House from the Clerk of the Crown and are sworn into the same House accordingly but the said other two Burgesses are neither certified nor sworn into this House neither elected by Precept from the said Sheriffs for any thing the said Committees could perceive And that therefore their Opinion was that the said four Burgesses so as aforesaid duly and orderly elected and returned should still continue Members of this House and not the other two so indirectly returned if it shall be so thought good unto this House for that the said two Burgesses if they find themselves aggrieved or injured in the
Friday the 11 th day of this instant November foregoing delivered some particular informations to Mr. Chancellor and a Licence with a Blank to M r Speaker Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 16 th day of this Instant November foregoing M r Winch one of the Committees in the Bill to keep Horses from stealing who were appointed on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and some Amendments in divers parts of the Bill and so delivereth in the Bill with some Amendments and the Bill was re-delivered unto him again to be further considered of by the Committees and the Committees names were read and thereupon were appointed to meet again at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Bourcher moved the House touching the discovery of the Counsel of the same by some Member thereof as it should seem for his said motion is set down very briefly and imperfectly in the Original Journal-Book of the said House neither is there any other issue of it there inserted than that Sir Edward Hobbie moved to have the matter proceeded to further Examination and the Party to be named Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in the Articles for the three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths with the manners and days of Payments which being read unto the House and well liked of were presently delivered to Mr. Sollicitor to draw the Book Vide December the seventh Wednesday postea On Tuesday the 22 d day of November the Bill for the necessary habitation and relief of the Poor Aged Lame and Blind in every Parish was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars who were appointed on Saturday the 19 th day of this Instant November foregoing The Bill for relief of Hospitals poor Prisoners and others impoverished by casual losses was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues c. Vide Committees names pag. seq The Bill for Supply of Relief unto the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the said former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues c. The Bill for setting the Poor on work was read the second time and dashed upon the third question for the Committee and rejected upon the question for ingrossing The Bill for petite Forfeitures to go to the relief of the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees in the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars Sir Edward Hobby moved the House for priviledge for Sir John Tracie being a Member of this House and now presently at the Common Pleas to be put on a Jury Whereupon the Serjeant of this House was presently sent with the Mace to call the said Sir John Tracie to his attendance in this House which was thereupon so done accordingly and the said Sir John then returned to this House The Bill for the better relief of Souldiers and Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars who were appointed on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing and Mr. Arnold was added unto them The Bill for the better governing of Hospitals and Lands given to the relief of the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for the erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars and Mr. Hubbard was added unto them The Bill for Hospitality was read the second time and dashed upon the questions for committing and ingrossing The Bill for the relief of the Poor out of Impropriations and other Church Livings was read the second time And after some Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill upon the doubtfulness of the double question for the committing was upon the division of the House rejected with the difference of twenty nine Voices viz. with the Yea a hundred and seventeen and with the No a hundred forty six The Bill for levying of certain sums of money due to the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars And the Bill for extirpation of Beggery was committed to the same Committees And then were the said eleven Bills concerning the relief of the Poor and the punishment of idle and sturdy Beggars delivered to Sir Robert Wroth together with the names of the Committees whose names being for the most part omitted upon the said Saturday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing when the said first Bill touching the erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars was first committed unto them are here all expresly named with such as were added unto them Now in respect that nine other Bills were this present Tuesday referr'd likewise to them as Committees to consider of them being a thing scarce to be pattern'd that one and the same Committee had at one and the same time eleven Bills in agitation before them though all upon the matter tending to a like end and purpose the said Committees were as followeth viz. Mr. George Moore Masters Attorneys of the Dutchy and Court of Wards Mr. Francis Bacon Sir Thomas Philips Sir Thomas Cecill Sir William Moore Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Edward Philips Mr. Recorder of London Sir Thomas Maunsell All the Readers of the Houses of Court Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Miles Sandes Mr. Finch Mr. Colbrond Mr. Edmund Boyer Mr. Edward Leukenor Mr. Henry Warner Mr. John Boyer Mr. Rosse Mr. Whalley Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Lea Mr. Hext Mr. Richard Mills Mr. Thomas Smith Mr. Lea of Lincolns-Inn All the Serjeants at Law Mr. James Harrington Mr. Wingfield Sir Thomas Hobbie Sir Anthony Cope Mr. Mark Steward Mr. Henry Yelverton Mr. William Coke Mr. George Rotheram Mr. Fettiplace Mr. Winch Mr. Hide All the Knights of Shires the Burgesses of Hull Mr. John Hare Mr. Coleman Mr. Hugh Biston All Citizens of Cities and Mr. Tasborough to which Committees this present Tuesday also were added Mr. Arnold and Mr. Hubbard Sir Edward Hobbie one of the Committees in the Bill against Counterfeiting of the hands of the Lords who were appointed on Saturday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed their meeting yesterday and complaining that albeit Yesterday last in the Afternoon was appointed for their meeting and the Committees names with the time and place read yesterday in the House none except Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor himself and one other more of the said Committees came to the said Committee so that nothing was done therein And so the names of the said Committees being eftsoons now read by the Clerk the
And that the said Serjeant should also bring Robert Treswell himself at the time and place prefixed Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant December following Motion was made by the Lord Keeper on the behalf of the Lord Chandois signifying that his Lordship was constrained to repair into the Country for the finding of an Office which did greatly import him in his Estate and therefore desired their Lordships allowance of his absence for some few days whereunto they willingly assented Memorandum That whereas it was formerly Ordered that the Keeper of the Prison of Newgate having in his Custody William Vaughan Servant to the Earl of Shrewsbury upon Execution should bring the person of the said William Vaughan on Wednesday the second day of this instant December before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal into the Upper House of the High Court of Parliament of which Order the said Keeper having taken notice by a Serjeant at Arms did notwithstanding refuse to bring the said Prisoner into the Court and for the said refusal and contempt was the same day by Order of the Court committed to the Prison of the Fleet And Order likewise was given that such Precedents as could be found touching the proceeding of the Court in like case of Arrest in Execution should be produced at the next sitting of the said Court It is therefore upon view and consideration of divers Precedents and Remembrances produced this day and differing from the manner of proceeding Ordered by the said Court that the Lord Keeper shall forthwith make out a Writ of priviledge of Parliament to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex to have the body of the said Prisoner William Vaughan with the Cause of his Imprisonment before the said High Court at the Upper House to Morrow the 4 th day of this instant December by eight of the Clock in the Morning Vide December 19 th Saturday postea A Copy of the Order last above-specified concerning William Vaughan subscribed by the Clerk of the Parliament was delivered to the Lord Keeper for making out of the Writ On Friday the 4 th day of December the Bill against Drunkards and Common Haunters of Alehouses and Taverns The Bill for levying of Fines with Proclamation of Lands within the City of Chester The Bill for enabling of Edward Nevil of Berling in the County of Kent and Sir Henry Nevil Knight c. And the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by King Edward the Sixth to Sir Edward Seymour Knight were each of them read secundâ vice But no mention made either of their Commitment or Ingrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Bill for the suppressing of the multitude of Alehouses and Tipling Houses was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Doctor Carew and M r Coppin Clerk of the Crown Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands for part of a Jointure to Lucy Countess of Bedford was read the second time and committed to the Earl of Worcester and others who were appointed to meet at the Earl of Worcesters Chamber at the Court to Morrow by two of the Clock in the Afternoon And the Bill was delivered to the said Earl of Worcester Whereas Order was taken at the last sitting of the Court of Parliament viz. 3 o die Decembris that a Writ of Priviledge of Parliament should be made out by the Lord Keeper unto the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for the having of the body of William Vaughan Prisoner in Newgate together with the Cause of his Imprisonment before the said Court this present day the said Writ having been thereupon made out by the Lord Keeper and the same together with the said Prisoner William Vaughan and the Cause of his Imprisonment being returned and brought this day into the Court by the Under-Sheriff of the County of Middlesex and the said Prisoner William Vaughan having there made Declaration of the notorious frauds and practices used by William Crayford and others for the Arresting of the said Vaughan And likewise Crayford having been heard what he could say for himself in that behalf Forasmuch as it appeared unto the Lords that besides the breach of the Priviledge of the said High Court the said Crayford had fraudulently and malitiously taken out and laid upon the said Vaughan divers Writs of Execution and Outlawry of many years past and utterly without the privity and knowledge of most of the parties to whom the said Suits appertained of which parties some were avowed to have been a good while since Deceased It is therefore agreed and Ordered by the general consent of the Court That the said William Vaughan shall be forthwith discharged out of Prison and Execution and the said Sheriff shall be free from any trouble damage or molestation for his said discharge And it is likewise Ordered that for satisfaction of any such Debts as shall be found due to be paid by the said Vaughan upon the Arrest mentioned and recited in the aforesaid return of the Sheriffs Writ the said Vaughan shall enter into sufficient Bond to stand to such Order as shall be set down by certain of the Lords of the Parliament namely the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Pembrook the Lord Bishop of Durham the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Windsor and the Lord S t John to whom by the Court the Ordering thereof is committed And moreover it is Ordered that the said Crayford shall be returned to the Prison of the Fleet and kept Close Prisoner until further direction be given for his Enlargement And that the Keeper of Newgate lately Committed to the Fleet for not bringing the Prisoner into the Court shall be presently discharged Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant December following On Saturday the 5 th of December the Bill for maintenance of the Navy increase of Mariners and avoiding the scarcity of Victuals was read primâ vice Report was made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees in the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers c. whose names see before on Thursday the 12 th day of November foregoing that the said Committees having oftentimes met and confer'd about that Bill did find so many imperfections in the same as it could not conveniently be amended And therefore thought it meet to draw a new Bill instead thereof which he presented to the House The Bill Intituled An Act for the more peaceable Government of the parts of Cumberland Northumberland c. was returned to the House with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill commanded to be ingrossed The Bill concerning Captains Souldiers and others retained in the Queen Services in the Wars was read primâ vice One Bill was
Answer they would have none other Mr. Speaker said it could not be intended against his will for his hand is to the Indenture but he moved whether it should be intended that this Sir Anthony Nowell were una eadem persona or no And though it were yet whether they could take notice thereof not being certified out of the Chancery To which all the House said there was no other of the name Then Mr. Comptroller stood up and moved that in respect the Return was joint and that they did disallow Sir Anthony Nowell he desired to be resolved of the Learned Masters of the Law in this House whether all the Return were insufficient and so Sir John Harrington to be excluded To which all the whole House said No. Mr. Serjeant Harris said No because the said Warrant is affirmative to chuse any but the Sheriff who is excepted by special words so that the Return of the other is warranted but that of himself is void Sir Edward Hobbie Answered and said nay then Mr. Serjeant if you stand on that I think there are few Knights in this House lawfully chosen for the words of the Writ and Statute are that he must be Commorant within the County which but few are To which not one word was Answered And that Clause was hushed up Mr. Speaker said Well I will put it to the question which shall be twofold one whether the Return be void the other whether a new Warrant shall be sent forth To which being twice moved all cryed I I I not one man said No. Sir Edward Hobbie said Mr. Speaker the Warrant must go from your self for in the twenty seventh Year of this Queen when Parrie was Burgess for Queenborough a new Election was made and the Warrant was sent from the Speaker Nota That this resolution of the House is directly contrary to a former Precedent agreed on in the House of Commons upon Friday the 21 th day of February in the Parliament de An. xxxi o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1588 1589. where Mr. S t Poole being both Knight for the County of Lincoln and Sheriff of the same also was notwithstanding allowed to retain his place in the said House as a Member thereof and had only Licence given unto him to depart into the said County about the business of his said Sheriffwick in no other form or manner than is vouchsafed of course to the Members of the said House upon any urgent occasions by them alledged requiring their absence for some time be it longer or shorter Where other Precedents also to this purpose are vouched and yet perhaps both the said Precedents may stand good and be reconciled with this difference that where any man is first Sheriff of some County and then Elected a Knight of the same or a Citizen Burgess or Baron of any City Borough or Cinque-Port of the same that in this Case his Election is void because it must of necessity follow as in this Case of Sir Andrew Nowell it did that he must return himself which cannot be good in Law But where a man is first Elected a Member of the House of Commons be it Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron and is afterwards made Sheriff of some County here his first Election standeth good as it should seem also it doth although he may be first made a Sheriff of some County and be afterwards Elected a Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron of and in some other Shire or County And the reason of all is plain in respect that in all these latter Cases his Return cannot be made by himself but by the Sheriff of the County where he is Chosen This only holds good in the Case of Knight of the Shire The Bill for Explanation of such Statutes as touch Leases to be made by Archbishops and Bishops was read the second time and rejected after Mr. Boise had spoken to it as followeth To which only Mr. Boise stood up and said that this Act would be prejudicial to the Bishop present and the Successor to their Servants and to the Bishops own Farmers and Tenants To the Bishop present in the maintenance of his Estate which cometh only by continual Fines which if they be taken away then are they not able to maintain that Hospitality and keep that retinue either belonging to their place or answerable to their living For consider the Revenue of the greatest Bithoprick in England it is but two thousand two hundred pounds whereof he payeth for Annual Subsidies to the Queen five hundred pounds And what damage we shall do both to him and his Successor herein his Revenue being so beneficial to her Majesty I refer to all your Judgments To the Successor it must needs be more hurtful For when he first cometh in he payeth First-Fruits and yet is not allowed to make his benefit by Fines which all Bishops Farmers are content to do so that he is cast one whole Annual value behind hand and perhaps hath no power neither to make Leases in twelve or sixteen Years This Mr. Speaker will induce the Ministers of the Word not to seek Bishopricks whereby we may bring the Clergy both to Poverty and Contempt from which they have ever been carefully defended and provided for even by the most antient Statutes and Laws of this Land now extant Hurtful it is to their Servants for this may be every Mans Case We know very many good Gentlemens Sons serve Bishops and how can they reward their long and faithful Services but only by means of granting over of these Fines or some other means out of their Spiritual Function But this Act is good for the Courtier but I may speak no more of that point Lastly Mr. Speaker my self am Farmer to a Bishop and I speak this as in my own Case on my knowledge to the House that it is ordinary upon every Grant after four or five years ever 〈◊〉 and take a new Lease but I refer it to the consideration of the House to do their Pleasure 〈◊〉 Only this I can certifie That I have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Bill the last Parliament exhibited to this purpose which I having confer'd together with the present Bill do find them to be word for word all one And the last was rejected Whereupon this was also as is before-mentioned rejected Thus far out of the afore-mentioned private Journal the residue of this days Passages that follows are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self The Bill that Plaintiffs in Writs of Error shall give good Bayl was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Carie Mr. Tanfield and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill against fraudulent Administration of Intestates Goods was upon the second reading committed unto the last former Committees in the Bill for Writs of Error to meet at the same time and place The Bill against excessive and
Henry the Third King John King Stephen c. which was the occasion of their Hemming M r Monntague of the Middle-Temple said that there were no such Precedents and if all Preambles of Subsidies were looked upon he should find it were of Free Gift And although her Majesty requireth this at our hands yet it is in us to give not in her to exact of Duty And for the Precedents there be none such but touching a tenth Fleece of Wooll and a tenth Sheaf of Corn that was granted to Edward the Third at his going to the Conquest of France because all the Money then in the Land to be levyed by way of Subsidy would not be any way answerable to raise that great Mass he desired And so having these Tenths he sold them to private men to gain that Subsidy and so raised Money to himself for his Enterprize Thus far out of the said private Journal the residue of this dayes Passages that follow and those also of the day ensuing are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the same House The Queens Learned Councel and all the Serjeants at Law being Members of the House after the foregoing long dispute touching the Subsidy and the conclusion thereof are appointed by the House to draw into the form of a Bill the Articles agreed upon by the Committees for the Subsidy and also the days of payment agreed upon by the said House this present day and Ordered to meet at their Pleasures as often as they shall think sit from day to day and from time to time Vide plus de ista materia December 5. Saturday postea On Tuesday the 10 th day of November Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against blasphemous Swearing was read the second time and committed unto Sir Francis Hastings Sir Robert Wroth Sir George Moor Sir Thomas Leighton and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for uniting and consolidation of certain small Churches in the City of Exeter was read the second time and committed unto Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Darcie M r Sollicitor M r Serjeant Heyle M r Secretary Harris all the Doctors of the Civil Law and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Robinson Citizen of London was brought to the Bar by the Serjeant and charged by M r Speaker in the name of this House with his offence in procuring to be Arrested one Wooddall Servant Attendant upon William Cooke Esq a Member of this House to the great contempt indignity and prejudice of this whole House And the Members thereof being asked what he could say for himself for his defence answered that he was heartily sorry for that he had given any cause of offence unto this House most humbly craving Pardon for the same And most confidently protested and affirmed that he knew not nor ever heard before the said Arrest made that the said Wooddall was Servant or belonging to any Member of this House but had delivered the Warrant by which he was Arrested unto the Officer long before the Parliament began Whereupon after some Speeches had therein he was by the Order of this House discharged paying his Fees to the Serjeant and Clerk Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the benefit of Merchants and advancement of her Majesties Customs and Subsidies both Inwards and Outwards was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council and Learned Councel being Members of this House the Knights and Citizens of London Sir Walter Raleigh and others And the Bill was delivered to M r Secretary Herbert who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Thursday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and all her Majesties Customers and Officers appertaining to the Custom-House and other Merchants to have warning to be then and there present to attend the Committees On Wednesday the 9 th day of November M r Snigg made Report of the meeting of the Committees and of their travel in two Bills viz. That the Plaintiff in Writs of Error shall give good Bail brought in with some Amendments and Alterations and the other against fraudulent Administration of Intestates goods without any Amendments And so delivereth them in and prayeth the reading The Amendments in the Bill that the Plaintiffs in Writs of Error shall give good Bail were twice read And also the Bill against Intestates Goods were Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Inhabitants of Rachdale in the County of Lancaster was read the second time and committed unto M r Francis Moore M r Holcroft the Knights for Lancaster M r Hancock M r Beeston and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Middle Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for abbreviation of Michaelmas Term was read the second time and upon the question whether it should be committed or no the Knights and Citizens of London were against it And therefore upon the nominating of the Committees it was doubted and questioned whether they could be admitted into the said Committee or no. Which dispute because it is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons is therefore supplied out of that often before-cited private Journal of the same House Sir Edward Hobbie spake first and said that it was against the Order of the House to admit the Knights and Citizens of London to be of the Committee because they had given their Voice already against the body of the Bill M r Secretary Cecill said I am willing to speak in two respects the one touching the Bill it self the other touching the Controversie in the House about the Commitment Touching the Bill I dare not upon my own Judgment be so venturous or bold to reject this Bill unless first it might have a Commitment For the wisdom of that time when it was first instituted was so apt to look into imperfections that doubtless if an inconvenience had been but espied they would streight have avoided it Therefore in my opinion it is not fit for us to look into the Actions of former Ages but upon mature and advised deliberation I do therefore greatly commend the Wisdom of this House in Committing this Bill and others of the like nature before we reject them For the other part though it be a Rule in the House that those against the Bill should be no Committees yet in a case of so great consequence and so greatly touching the State of the City of London there is no reason but that they may have their particular Voices as Committees as well as every
some imputation of slander to be offered unto her Majesty I mean by the Gentleman that first mentioned Tinn which was M r Martin for that being one of the principal commodities of this Kingdom and being in Cornwall it hath ever so long as there were any belonged to the Dukes of Cornwall and they had special Patents of Priviledge It pleased her Majesty freely to bestow upon me that priviledge And that Patent being word for word the very same the Duke's is and because by reason of mine Office of Lord Warden of the Stannary I can sufficiently inform this House of the State thereof I will make bold to deliver it unto you When the Tinn is taken out of the Mine and melted and refined then is every piece containing one hundred weight sealed with the Duke's Seal Now I will tell you that before the granting of my Patent whether Tinn were but of seventeen shillings and so upward to fifty shillings a hundred yet the Poor Workmen never had above two shillings the week finding themselves But since my Patent whosoever will work may and buy Tinn at what price soever they have four shillings a week truly paid There is no Poor that will work there but may and have that wages Notwithstanding if all others may be repealed I will give my consent as freely to the cancelling of this as any Member of this House Sir Francis Hastings said It is a special honour to this Assembly to give freedom of speech to all And howsoever some have been heretofore troubled yet I joy to see so great reformation that we may speak quietly and be heard peaceably Every man hath not like sence or judgment neither is every mans memory alike I wish that if any Gentleman that speaks of this or any other subject as injurious shall let fall any word amiss or unpleasing that it may be attributed rather to hastiness than want of duty This Speech proceeded in respect of Sir Walter Raleighs Speech as also of the great silence after it M r Snigg wisht a Committee to devise a course Sir Robert Wroth wisht a Committee in which a course might be devised how her Majesty might know our griefs M r Downland said As I would be no lett or over vehement in any thing so I am not sottish or senseless of the common grievance of the Common-Wealth If we proceed by way of Petition we can have no more gracious Answer than we had the last Parliament to our Petitions But since that Parliament we have no reformation And the reason why I think no reformation hath been had is because I never heard the cry against Monopolies greater and more vehement M r Johnson said M r Speaker I 'le be very short and say only thus much I would we were all so happy that her gracious self had heard but the fifth part of that that every one of us hath heard this day I think verily in my Soul and Conscience we should not be more desirous in having those Monopolies called in than she would be earnest therein her self The Bill aforesaid for Explanation of the Common Law touching Letters Patents was after the foregoing several long Arguments Ordered upon the question to be committed unto all the Privy Council and Learned Councel of this House Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Stafford Sir Edward Hobbie Sir George Moore Sir Robert Wroth and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Francis Hastings who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 21 th day of November Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for levying of Fines with Proclamations of Lands within the County of the City of Chester and the second to reform the abuse of Tainters had each of them their first reading M r Francis Moore made Report of the meeting of the Committees of the Bill touching Sir Edward Seymour who were appointed on Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the Amendments in the same and brought in the Bill Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons Now follows one passage of this day touching the Priviledge of the House out of the often before-cited private Journal of the said House Sir Edward Hobbie said A Gentleman a good Member of this House Sir John Gray was served with a Subpoena in the Chancery ad respondendum the 30 th of November ad sectam Roberti Atkins if no Order be taken herein for my own part I think both the House and the Priviledges thereof will grow in contempt I wish the Serjeant may be sent for and the Party and that some exemplary punishment may be shewed M r Doyley said M r Speaker we spend much time which is precious in disputing of Priviledges and other matters of small importance for my own part I think fit no time should be spent herein but that a Writ of Priviledge may be granted M r Johnson said M r Speaker our own lenity is the cause of this contempt and till some special punishment be shewed I think it will not be otherwise Thus far out of the aforesaid private Journal Now follows the residue of the Passages of this Forenoon out of the Original Journal-Book it self The Bill against Taintering of Woollen Cloths was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees in the Bill for Cloths and Clothworkers and Ordered that Merchants and Drapers do attend the Committees and be heard therein as appertains And Sir Edward Stafford M r Fulk Grevill and M r Barkley were added to the former Committees The Amendments in the Bill touching Sir Edward Seymour Knight Deceased and Edward Seymour Esq were twice read and Ordered with the Bill to be ingrossed The Bill for the making of an Haven or Key on the North part of Severn was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Burgesses for the Counties of Devon Cornwall Somerset and South-Wales all the Queens Learned Councel the Batons of the Cinque Ports and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the Assurance of the Jointure of 〈◊〉 Countess of Bedford was read the second time and committed unto all the Queens Learned Councel being Members of this House Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobbie and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer set down and established by vertue of her Majesties Privy Seal was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees in the first Bill and unto all the Privy Council and Learned Councel of her Majesty being Members of this House Masters Attornies of the Dutchy and Court of Wards M r Francis
Apology for my self I have held the favour of this House as dear as my Life and I have been told that I deserved to be taxed Yesterday of the House I protest my Zeal to have the business go forward in a right and hopeful course and my fear to displease her Majesty by a harsh and rash proceeding made me so much to lay aside my discretion that I said it might rather be termed a School than a Council or to that effect But by this Speech if any think I called him School-Boy he both wrongs me and mistakes me Shall I tell you what Demosthenes said to the Clamours which the Athenians made that they were Pueriles dignos pueris And yet that was to a popular State And I wish that whatsoever is here spoken may be buried within these Walls Let us take Example of the Jewish Synagogue who would always Sepelire Senatum cum honore and not blast their own Follies and Imperfections If any man in this House speak wisely we do him great wrong to interrupt him if foolishly let us hear him out we shall have the more cause to tax him And I do heartily pray that no Member of this House may plus verbis offendere quà m consilio juvare M r Francis Moore said I must confess M r Speaker I moved the House both the last Parliament and this touching this point but I never meant and I hope this House thinketh so to set limits and bounds to the Prerogative Royal. But now seeing it hath pleased her Majesty of her self out of the abundance of her Princely goodness to set at liberty her Subjects from the thraldom of those Monopolies from which there was no Town City or Country free I would be bold in one motion to offer two considerations to this House The first that M r Speaker might go unto her Majesty to yield her most humble and hearty thanks and withal to shew the joy of her Subjects for their delivery and their thankfulness unto her for the same The other that where divers Speeches have been made extravagantly in this House which doubtless have been told her Majesty and perhaps all ill conceived of by her I would therefore that M r Speaker not only should satisfy her Majesty by way of Apology therein but also humbly crave pardon for the same Mr. Wingfield said My heart is not able to conceive the joy which I feel and I assure you my Tongue cannot utter the same If a sentence of Everlasting happiness had been pronounced unto me it could not have made me shew more outward joy than now I do which I cannot refrain to express and here as I think he wept There could nothing have been more acceptable to the Subject than this Message And I verily think if ever any of her Majesties words be meritorious before God this is I do agree withall my heart in the first part of the Gentlemans motion that last spake but do utterly mislike the latter For it is not to be intended we should have had so good and gratious a Message if the truth of some particular Speeches had been delivered unto her And now for us to accuse our selves by excusing a fault with which we are not charged were a thing in my opinion inconvenient and unfitting the wisdom of this House Mr. George Moore spake to the same effect Sir Francis Bacon spake to the same effect also and in the end concluded thus Neseio quid peccati portet haec purgatio So it was put to the question and concluded That thanks should be returned by the Speaker and some twelve were named to go with him as a convenient number and intreaty made to the Privy Council to obtain liberty to be admitted On Thursday the 26 th day of November the Bill for the Amendment of the Highway called Double sole Green in the County of Middlesex was read the first time Mr. Fretchvill offered to the consideration of the House a Bill to reform the abuses in weights and measures and declared the necessity of reformation therein and prayeth the reading Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Feltmakers was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Citizens for London Sir George Moore the Knights for Middlesex and Surrey Mr. Wiseman and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the better furnishing of her Majesties Navy Royal touching Cordage was upon the first reading rejected Mr. Doctor Parkins made Report of the meeting of the Committees in the Bill for the benefit of Merchants and advancement of her Majesties Custom And that the Committees do think it a Bill in their opinions not to be any more dealt in by this House for many reasons by him delivered The Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read the first time Vide concerning this Bill on Saturday the 5 th day of December next following Mr. Jones one of the Committees in the Bill for Landoveroure who were appointed on Tuesday the 24 th of this instant November foregoing certifieth in the Bill with some Amendments therein by the Committees M r Secretary Cecill said If I should tell you otherwise than truth in matter of so great consequence I should need no other process than my own Conscience That to so gratious a Message there was never returned more infinite thanks we all are assured From the Queen I have received a short Answer in these words You can give me no more thanks for that which I have promised than I can and will give you thanks for that which you have already performed meaning the Subsides and Fifteenths So inseparable are the qualities of the Prince and the Subject Good for the one and for the other If by true interpretation of the Law Voluntas reputatur pro facto you shall not need your good will being already known use any actual thanks neither will she receive any till by a more affected consummation she hath compleated that work at that time she will be well pleased to receive your thanks and to return to you her best favours Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 5 th day of December following On Friday the 27 th day of November four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the enlarging of the Statute of the first year of her Majesties Reign touching the breed of Fish was read the first time and rejected Two Bills of like consequence had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true payment of Tythes within the Walls of the City of Norwich was read the second time and committed unto the Citizens for Norwich Sir Francis Hastings M r
Fretchvill the Knights for Norfolk M r John Hare and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Sir Francis Hastings offered a new Bill touching resorting to the Church on Sunday and prayed the acceptance thereof and the reading The Bill for the more diligent resorting to the Church on Sunday had its first reading Thus far of the Passages of this day out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the residue is out of the private Journal The Speaker stood up and wisht the House to advise what they would do with the Prisoners that served Sir Edmund Morgan and M r Pemerton with Subpoena's and shewed that they were ready at the Door to attend M r Tate said I will be bold to offer two Precedents to this House touching serving of Subpoena's yet first let us enter into consideration of the force of the Priviledges we now have It is manifest and I think no man doubteth but that heretofore the Houses of Parliament were both one without division and that the United Body of the Parliament had the same Priviledges and Jurisdictions which we now have And though there be Session or separation of the United Body yet the Priviledges do remain still entire For by most antient Records of this Realm it may plainly appear that the same Priviledges serve both Houses The first Precedent is in King Edward the first his dayes when the Templers had certain Tenants of the Parliament House which were behind with their Rents and they made humble Petition to the King that they might either distrain their Bodies or Goods for the same The King as it appeareth Answered Non videtur honestum quòd aliquis de Magno Parliamento nostro distringatur So that it seems we are Priviledged from all kind of distress whatsoever The second is one Pogo de Clare who did presume to serve a Citation upon Edmond Earl of Cornwall within Westminster-Hall as he was going to the Parliament House for which he was sent to the Tower and made to submit himself de alto basso and a Fine of twenty thousand Marks imposed upon him which he truly paid Besides because Westminster-Hall was within the Precinct Liberties of the Abbot of Westminster he was Fined a thousand pound for that contempt But by Mediation of the Bishop it was remitted to a hundred pound which he also truly paid to the Abbot And our use at this day is not warranted by antient course of Precedents for if a man had been Arrested upon a Subpoena upon notice given he should have had a Writ of Priviledge which of course her Majesty must have allowed Then he made a long Speech upon Trewinnard and Skewish's Case 35 Hen. 8. Dyer fol. 55. Pl. 8. 36 H. 8. 59. Pl. 17 c. See the Book at large M r Bretten shewed that a Member of this House M r Philips the Lawyer was served with a Privy-Seal out of the Court of Wards by one Thomas Deane Servant to one M rs Chamberlain a Widow who when he delivered the Process being told it would be taken in evil part by the House said he cared not and that the House would punish him for it and bring him on his Knees he Answered his Mistress would 〈◊〉 him out and she made no doubt but she should find as good Friends there as he had Whereupon the House willed that she and her Servant should be sent for by the Serjeant M r Holcrost shewed the House that many Complaints were made but none punished many sent for but none appeared There was a matter Complained of by one M r Morrice a Gentleman that had his Man Arrested at his Heels by the Sheriffs of Shrewsbury and nothing was done therein M r Morrice said that after the House had given Order to the Serjeant to go he came said he unto me to certifie him of the Parties and of the particulars And what he hath since done therein I know not M r Roger Owen said May it please you M r Speaker my self being chosen for the Shire think it my part to speak something seeing the Burgesses for the Town neglect their duties in not speaking True it is that such Order was given from the House but the Gentleman M r Morrice and some others being willing to let me have the Examination of the matter came before me and upon Examination a wise Examination no doubt quoth M r Secretary I sound that he was no menial Servant but only a Servant that brought him part of the way and was to go no further with him towards the Parliament Whereupon I think the Serjeant having so much notice stayed M r Browne of Grayes-Inn said M r Speaker it seemeth this matter is shufled up I humbly pray the Serjeant may be heard And all the House cryed I I. After three Congies made the Serjeant shewed that he was with M r Morrice and that he offered him to send one of his men but because he was in doubt of finding them he desired some part of his Fees or money for his charges or Horses or else he would find Horses or get one of his fellow Serjeants to go because he could not well be spared from this Service if not he would for his more Expedition procure a Pursevant to go with a Warrant under M r Speaker's hand and some of the Honourable of the Councel in this House for the more speedy Passage All which courses M r Morrice rejected And I hope the House meant not I should go or send on my own Purse or hazard the charge my self And therefore I hope this will be sufficient for my discharge And all the House cryed I I I. So no more was said of that matter for the Speaker seemed to favour the cause and therefore he presently stood up and asked if the House would have the Prisoners in which served Sir Edmund Morgan and M r Pemerton and by this shift the former matter was shufled up Christopher Kennell and William Mackerells were brought to the Bar the one for serving Sir Edmund Morgan with a Subpoena the other with serving Mr. Pemerton with the like Writ Christopher Kennell said M r Speaker and the rest of this Honourable House I am though poor a Gentleman born and known to many in this Assembly This perhaps may be a cause to aggravate my offence I hope there is no man that doth not know me and I am sure there is no man which doth know me but thinketh I would not willfully commit such an offence as this is I have been sometimes though unworthy a Member of this House and I have seen and known the Justice of the House in the like Cases But M r Speaker if there be either honesty or Christianity in me by the same I do protest that I knew not Sir Edmund Morgan was of this House of Parliament which I think he will avouch himself And as soon as I heard it
into the Star-Chamber containing no matter of substance or note other than matter very dishonourable to this House therefore I humbly pray it may be refer'd to be considered of by the Committees for the Priviledges of the House whose names see on Saturday the 31 th day of October foregoing And all said I I I and he delivered the Information to the Speaker Vide December 16. Wednesday The Bill for the re-uniting the Mannor of Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read the second time and committed presently to be considered of in the Committee Chamber by M r Sollicitor Sir Francis Bacon and others and to have Conference with the Lords touching the same Bill The Bill for the Naturalizing of Josepho de Lupo and others was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the ingrossed Bill touching Shop-Books were three times read and thereupon much disputed on To this Bill M r Zachary Lock began to speak who for very fear shook that he could not proceed but stood still a while and at length sat down M r Bacon speaking of this Bill said that Bills were wont to be committed with pleasure but now we would scarce hear them with Patience The Merchants Books be springing Books every year they encrease M r Henshaw amongst other Speeches shewed that it was easy to cross a Merchants Book which a man might see at all times but if one should give the Merchant a Bond when he had many thrust together perhaps he would intreat the Gentleman to come some other time for it who if he should in the mean time die his Executors are without remedy c. Serjeant Harris said These Merchants Books be like Basingstoak Reckonings over night five shillings and six pence if you pay it if not in the Morning it is grown to a just Noble This Debt is a sleeping Debt and will lull Young Gentlemen into the Merchants Books with the golden Hooks of being trusted by the Merchant and his Expectation after his Fathers Decease These are matters dangerous and may prove hurtful wherefore I think it a good Bill M r John Harris said Where it is said there can be no wager of Law against a Merchants Book in London it is true but first the Merchant must swear the Debt M r Thomas Jones said It is my Chance now to speak something and that without Hemming or Hawing I think this Law is a good Law Streight reckonings make long Friends As far goes the penny as the penny Master Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt Pay the reckoning over night and you shall not be troubled in the Morning If ready money be mensura publica let every man cut his Coat according to his Cloth When the old Suit is in the Wane let him tarry till his money bring a new Suit in the increase Therefore I think the Law to be good and I wish a good passage M r Hackwell of Lincolns-Inn said I am a man of that rank and condition that I never sell I seldom buy and pay ready money and the safest course this Bill offers to me for my particular But the great mischief that will redound by it to the Commons is that which makes me speak I am not transported with such vehemency but if I may be answered I 'le lay down the Buckler This Bill hath a good Face and an ill Body It hath a very good Head-piece I mean the Title If I may intreat you to put on a good deal of Patience for a little time I will make it somewhat plain We must lay down the respects of our own persons and put on others and their affections for whom we speak for they speak by us If the matter which is spoken of toucheth the poor then think me a poor man He that speaks sometimes he must be a Lawyer sometimes a Painter sometimes a Merchant sometimes a mean Artificer Most men desire forbearance this Bill destroys it which tends to the gain and good of the Creditors and good also of the Buyer but seeking to avoid a mischief we fall into an inconveniency for the manner is unproportionable and unjust If the Buyer be so negligent that he will not care to see himself discharged must we needs make a Law to help his Folly The Proverb is Caveat Emptor If this Law go forwards the Augmentation of Confidence in his antient habiliments cannot be preserved For if it be a hard Year the poor Artificer which hath Wife Children and Houshold and lives by the sweat of his Brows cannot live for he hath no money to buy all by the penny but perhaps he hath Credit which perhaps may help his present necessary Estate Besides I can teach you all a trick how for twelve pence you shall avoid this Statute And that is put in an Original within a Year and so let it lie Dormant After this Motion the House after four hours Argument and sitting till three quarters after twelve was divided the I's had a hundred fifty one Voices and the Noes a hundred and two So the Bill passed by forty nine Voices Then the Noes should have fetcht in the Bill and gone out with it because it was at the passage of the Bill but because time was past and it was very late and there were great Commitments this Afternoon they were dispensed withal Nota That these are Excellent Precedents touching the manner of bringing in a Bill upon the division of Voices and withal upon what ground the Ceremony it self was omitted to which purpose also there fell out like Precedents on Friday the 21 th day of March in Anno 31 Regin Fliz. and on Thursday 21. day of December in Anno 39 Reginae ejusdem On Friday the 4 th day of December Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for confirming the Authority and Government of the Mayor Sheriffs and Aldermen of the City of I ondon within S t Katherine Christ Church was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Citizens for London M r Doctor Caesar Sir Robert Wroth Sir Moyle Finch Sir George Moore and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Doctors Commons M r Calfield made Report of the mecting of the Committees in the Bill for the Assurance of the Parsonage and Vicaridge of Rotherston c. with some Amendments The Amendments in the Bill touchine the Assurance of the Parsonage and Vicaridge of Rotherston c. were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Robert Wroth reported the meeting of the Committees in the Bill for the draining of Grounds in the County of Norsolk and brought in the Bill with some Amendments The Amendments in the Bill touching draining of surrounded Grounds in Norsolk were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Subornation of Perjury was brought in with some
House as shall be sent from this House unto the Lords with the Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy may by direction of this House recommend unto their Lordships the Bill against transportation of Iron Ordnance with request of their Lordships good furtherance to the passage of the same The Amendments and Provisoes in the Bill touching Confirmation of Grants made to her Majesty and of Letters Patents from her Majesty to others were read the third time and passed upon the question Sir Robert Wroth moved that an Order may be set down how the Collection made in this House for relief of the poor may be distributed Whereupon it is Ordered that the Souldiers now remaining about the City of London shall be relieved out of the money Collected of the Members of this House in such sort as to the Officers thereunto appointed shall be thought fit The Officers appointed for the distribution of the Collection are Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Fettiplace Mr. Wade Sir Francis Darcie Mr. Trevor and Mr. Brown And that they join with the Officers in like case appointed by the Lords Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of a certain branch of An Act made in the twenty eighth year of her Majesty touching Recusants was read the second time and committed but no time or place appointed for the meeting Mr. Belgrave moved That whereas an Information hath been Exhibited into the Court of Star Chamber in the name of Mr. Attorney General against him upon suggestion that he should offer abuse unto this House humbly prayed that he may be Ordered and censored by this House if it shall so fall out and seem sit unto this House upon further Examination to be had therein Vide plus post Meridiem Mr. Secretary Cecill declared her Majesties Pleasure to be that her Highness purposeth God willing to Dissolve this Assembly of Parliament to Morrow Post Meridiem The Bill for the changing of the Sirname of the Wallers into the Sirname of the Debdens was read the second time Mr. Serjeant Telverion and Mr. Doctor Hone did bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for reformation of deceits in Auditors and their Clerks in making untrue particulars And also they do declare that whereas the Lords have received some Bills from this House which their Lordships do think to expedite and shall need perhaps some small Amendments therefore they do desire that this House may sit somewhat longer than they purposed before for the final perfecting and consummating of the same The Bill for reformation of Deceits in Auditors and their Clerks in making untrue particulars was read twice and committed unto M r Secretary Cecill Mr. Comptroller Sir Walter Raleigh and others who were appointed to consider presently in the Court of Wards upon the said Bill And after some short space of time and Conference therein had it was after their return into this House thought meet the said Committees should confer with the Lords therein and afterwards report the same unto this House The Bill touching Brewers c. was read the second time and committed to the Burgesses of Southwark The Bill touching unlawful sized Bread and the Bill touching buyers of Butter and Cheese were each of them read the second time and committed to the former Committees The Bill also against using of false Dice was read the first time M r Attorney General and M r D r Hone did bring from the Lords a Bill that before passed this House intituled An Act touching the draining of certain surrounded Grounds in the Counties of Huntington Cambridge Lincoln Northampton Suffolk and Norfolk amended and with some additions of more Counties viz. Sussex Essex Kent and the Bishoprick of Durham The Amendments in the Bill touching surrounded Grounds were thrice read and Ordered upon the question to be inserted into the same and so the Bill passed The draught of an Order touching Mr. Belgrave was once read and committed to be considered of presently in the Committee Chamber by Sir Edward Stafford Mr. Henry Mountague Mr. Brown Mr. Doyley Sir Francis Darcie Sir John Cotton and Sir John Grey The Draught of an Order considered of and brought in by the Committees was read and Ordered by the House upon the question to be entred as the Act of the House viz. Whereas one George Belgrave in the County of Leicester Esquire a Member of this House hath made complaint of an Information exhibited against him into the Court of Star-Chamber pretending an abuse in the highest matters as are those wich do concern the most Honourable and High Court of Parliament and hath appealed unto this House for that the Information was filed sedente Curiâ And whereas the House did refer to the Committees for Returns and Priviledges the Examination of the Cause alledged in the Information and the substance thereof having been related unto this House This House thereupon did upon the question again moved and largely debated pronounce and declare the said George Belgrave to be free in their Judgements from any abuse offered to this House and that he is not to be molested for any such imputation And have resolved that this shall be entred as An Act of this House Vide de istâ materiâ Dec. 3. Dec. 7. Dec. 8. Dec. 10. Dec. 11. antea The Bill to restrain Butchers in and about the City of London from buying c. And the Bill touching Practitioners in Physick were each of them read the second time and committed as afore to the former Committees for Brewers The Bill touching the shipping of Coals near Newcastle was read the second time and committed with the rest to the former Committees but no mention of time or place The Bill for redress of abuses in taking of Pawns and the appointing of a Lumbard was read the second time and committed as abovesaid To Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Morning those that were nominated by this House to distribute the Money collected for the relief of the Poor and likewise those appointed by the Lords are appointed to be at the Sessions House in the Old Bayly to take Order for the said distribution Upon a motion made by Mr. Fettiplace the names of such as have not paid towards the relief of the Poor and maimed Souldiers were read which were about forty four On Friday the 18 th day of December as the Speaker was coming to the House in the Morning the Pardon was delivered unto him which he took and delivered unto the House which they sent back again because it was not brought according to course The Collection for the Clerk of twelve pence a piece according to Mr. Wingfield's motion yesterday was made and amounted to about twenty five pound Mr. Bowyer Secretary to the Lord Treasurer sitting in the Middle of the House on the left side as you come in next to Mr. Skipwith of Lincolns Inn swooned upon a suddain
in some such matters as he hath favoured hath without Licence of this House spoken to the Bill and in some other Cases which he did not favour and like of he would prejudice the Speeches of the Members of this House with the Question On Friday the 17 th day of March the Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation was read the third time The Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against the Queens most Excellent Majesty which passed in this House yesterday was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and all the residue of the Privy-Council being of this House and then present with others and also the Bill for the Borders wherein their Lordships are to be moved for the perfecting only of the sence in some parts of their Amendments that this House may proceed to their further dealing in the said Bill accordingly M r Serjeant Anderson and M r Doctor Gibbon did bring from the Lords again the Bill for the Borders amended according to the request of this House with Commendation also from her Majesty from the Lords of the Bill for the maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation Whereupon the amendments being finished and three times read and passed upon the question the Bill was remanded unto their Lordships by M r Comptroller and others together with the Bill against deceitful stuff used in dying of Cloths wherein their Lordships are to be moved for the perfecting of some part of their Lordships Amendments sent by them to this House viz. the mistaking of a line in the Bill to the end that the same being done this House may proceed in perfecting of the said Bill accordingly in the said amendments M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Henry Ratclyffe Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Aldersey M r Wroth M r Cromwell Mr. Norton Mr. Alford and Mr. Grice were appointed to consider presently in the Committee Chamber of the Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation The Bill for the Lord Zouch was read the third time M r Comptroller returning from the Lords brought word from their Lordships that they do add some amendments to the Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against her Majesty and did pray that when their Lordships shall now forthwith send down the same Bill and amendments to this House it may then have speedy Expedition and did eftsoons recommend unto this House the Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Clark did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do pray present Conference with half a score of this House touching the Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against her Majesty And thereupon were appointed Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Vice-Chamberlam Sir Thomas Sampoole Mr. Doctor Dale Master of the Requests Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Cromwell Mr. Cowper and Mr. Alford to confer with their Lordships accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the first day of February foregoing M r Doctor Lewes did bring from the Lords the Bill for abolishing certain deceitful stuff used in the dying of Cloths with the reformation in their Lordships said amendments done and made according to the Request of this House to their Lordships in that behalf It is Ordered upon the Question that the Bill for the Lord Zouch be committed to be reformed by M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Cromwell M r Wentworth M r Snagg M r Diggs M r S t Leger M r Lewkenor M r Carleton and M r Ameredith and appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon Vide de ista materia on Tuesday the 14 th of this instant March foregoing Mr. Treasurer and others coming from Conference with the Lords Mr. Treasurer declared that their Lordships have delivered unto them certain notes in writing to move unto the House touching the Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against her Majesty which notes in writing were by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain declared that their Lordships would feel the opinion of this House whether this House could be content to leave in force unrepealed so much of the Statute of the first and second of King Philip and Queen Mary as concerneth such matter as in this said Bill is not provided for or met with as partly touching slanderous words against Noblemen and the Lords of the Clergy And further whether this House can like to have the words directly or indirectly added to the said Bill in such parts thereof as do make mention of tending to her Majesties Death It was upon the Question of these Motions to the House in these points resolved That the repeal of the said Statute of the first and second of King Philip and Queen Mary should stand in sort as it is already passed by this House in the said Bill for that her Majesty may at any time by her Commission renew or receive thereof repealed at her Highness Pleasure And also that these words or any words directly to that effect shall be put in and inserted in their Lordships said notes to be added to the said Bill in that part thereof which maketh mention of any person willing wishing or desiring her Majesties Death Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the first day of February foregoing On Saturday the 18 th day of March the Amendments and Proviso in the Bill against certain deceitful stuff used in the dying of Cloths was read the third time and passed upon the question Mr. Cromwell one of the Committees for Examination of the returns and defaults noted upon the last calling of the House made report unto the House of the state of the same Examinations Whereupon after sundry Motions and Arguments it was resolved by the House That all such Persons as have not been duly returned into this present Parliament as in lieu and place of others absent being either sick or employed in her Majesties Services or otherwise and not dead shall be for this time holden excused of their attendance and of their sitting in this House until this present time but shall from henceforth stand and be utterly discharged and disabled of their said rooms and places in the stead of such other persons not being dead unless special Order shall be therein taken by this House to the contrary And then perusing the said returns and defaults and also the former Precedents of this House in like Cases it is adjudged and Ordered by this House That Edward Flowerdewe Esq Serjeant at Law and who the last former Session of this present Parliament did stand and appear a Burgess of Castle-Riseing in the County of Norff. and was nevertheless returned into this present Session of Parliament a Citizen for the City of Norwich in lieu and place of Thomas Beamont sick shall still stand and remain in his place for Castle-Riseing and not for the said City of Norwich And for as much also as it is