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A35827	The journals of all the Parliaments during the reign of Queen Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and House of Commons / collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes ... Knight and Baronet ; revised and published by Paul Bowes ..., Esq.	D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.; Bowes, Paul, d. 1702.	1682 (1682)	Wing D1250; ESTC R303	1,345,519	734

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

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

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