and not to have been so suddenly assented to as is noted in the foresaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal But that the Speaker perceiving the Privy Counsellors of the House desirous to have the Bill expedited did over-reach the House in the subtile putting of the Question by which means it had been only considered of in the Committee-Chamber by those eighteen Members of the House appointed in the beginning of this Forenoon and by them brought back again into the House before the ending thereof and so was agreed on by the said House as is aforesaid The Bill for Vesses which was committed on Friday the 9 th day of this instant March foregoing was delivered to Sir Francis Hastings one of the Committees The Bill for Perpetuities committed on Friday the 9 th day of this instant March foregoing was delivered to Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees The Bill against Counterfeiting of Counsellors Hands c. committed on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant March foregoing was delivered to Sir William Knolls one of the Committees Nota That the Bill against Recusants which had been newly brought in by the Committees on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March immediately foregoing and the old Bill rejected and had in the beginning of this Forenoon been read the second time was now in the end of the same spoken unto by divers Members of the House Which speeches containing in them matter of good consequence are wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self and are therefore supplied out of the aforefaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned in the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following M r Sands spake to the Bill for Recusants that it might be as it went first for Recusants generally and not restrained to Popish Recusants only So that under this Bill there might be included Brownists and Barrowists M r Lewes shewed that it was not fit that the Bill should include any other than Popish Recusants M r Speaker said that the Preamble of this Bill being conferred with the body of this Bill other Recusants than Popish Recusants could not be comprized therein For the Title of the Bill and the Preamble run only in this manner Against such as are enemies opposed to our State and adherents to the Pope So another Bill might be framed against those persons but these cannot be comprized therein M r Dalton would have Recusants that be Brownists comprized in the Bill as well as Popish Recusants and to that end would have the Preamble altered and be to repress disloyal Subjects and to impose upon them more due obedience and so to go directly to the Act Be it Enacted leaving out all the Preamble for he cited some Bills overthrown as he said only by reason of superfluous words in the Preamble Doctor Lewin made a long Speech His end was only to have the Brownists and Barrowists as well provided against as Papists but whether in this Bill or in some other he left that to the Wisdom of the House After which Speeches the said Bill was committed again to the former Committees which were appointed on Wednesday the 28 th day of Febr. last past Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal that which follows is out of the Original Journal-Book it self On Wednesday the 14 th day of March Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees in the Bill touching M r Read Stafford brought in the Bill with some amendments and opening the effects of the said Amendments to the House the same Amendments then also being read by the Clerk It was Ordered by this House that the same Amendments should be inserted accordingly into the same Bill The Bill for M r Anthony Cook had it first reading M r Richard Lewkenor one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening the Contents of the same Amendments to the House the same Amendments also being then read to the House by the Clerk it was Ordered by this House that the same Amendments should be inserted in the said Bill accordingly M r John Hare one of the Committees in the Bill concerning M r Valentine Knightley brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening the Contents of the said Amendments to the House the same Amendments being then also read to the House by the Clerk It was Ordered by this House that the same Amendments should be also inserted into the said Bill accordingly The Bill for reducing of her Majesties Subjects to their due obedience committed Yesterday to the former Committees who were appointed on Wednesday the 28 th day of February last past was this day delivered to M r Treasurer one of the Committees M r Lewes one of the Committees in the Bill touching salted Fish and salted Herrings brought in the Bill with some amendments and shewing the Contents of the said Amendments and the same being read by the Clerk of the House it was Ordered bythis House that the said Amendments should be inserted in the said Bill accordingly M r Serjeant Yelverton one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Exemplifications of Fines and Recoveries brought in the Bill with some Amendments which Amendments being twice read the Bill after many Speeches both with and against the same Bill was dasht upon the question for ingrossing Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching the over-lengths of broad Cloth was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer the Burgesses of Worcester and Coventry the Knights and Citizens of Yorkshire and the City of York and others who were appointed to meet upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in this House Richard Goodwin returned one of the Citizens for the City of Wells in the County of Somerset is for his better recovery of health licenced by Mr. Speaker to depart home into his Country and the said Mr. Goodwyn left two shillings and six pence with the Serjeant of the House to be distributed amongst the Poor The Bill to avoid stealing of Oxen Kine Sheep and other Cattle was upon the third reading dashed upon the Question On Thursday the 15 th day of March Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees in the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents to the Mayor Sheriff Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln appointed on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant March foregoing brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening the Contents of the same Amendments the said Amendments were afterwards read by the Clerk and then upon the question agreed by the House to be inserted in the said Bill accordingly Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Execution of Process was upon the second reading committed unto M
Mr. Speaker to depart home It should seem by these two words viz. Non sol set in the Margent over against the names of these two last mentioned members of the House that the said Members did not leave any money with the Serjeant of the House to be distributed amongst the poor at their departure Which I conceive is here noted because two others that departed at this time also into the Country upon like occasions did either of them leave money with the said Serjeant to be so distributed as now immediately followeth Giles Hutchins Gent ' returned a Citizen into this present Parliament for the City of New Sar. is licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart upon his necessary occasion by reason of the extream Sickness of Mr. William Blaker and the said Mr. Hutchins left with the Serjeant of this House two shillings and four pence to be distributed amongst the poor John Cotten Esquire one of the Knights returned into this present Parliament for the County of Cambridge is in respect of the present Sickness of Sir John Cotten Knight Father of the said John Cotten Esquire licensed to depart into his Country for this time And the said Mr. Cotten left with the said Serjeant twelve pence to be given to the poor On Monday the 12 th day of March Mr. Lewes one of the Committees in the Bill concerning salted Fish and salted Herrings shewed that he and the residue of the Committees have taken pains in consideration of the said Bill and have added a Proviso to the said Bill and prayeth the twice reading of the same Proviso and that then the same Proviso and Bill may be Ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon the same Proviso being twice read the said Bill and Proviso after some Speeches both against and with them were upon the question referred to the former Committees who were appointed on Monday the 5 th day of this instant March foregoing to be considered of in the Afternoon of this present day in the Exchequer Chamber The Bills committed for confirmation of Letters Patents to the Mayors Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of Lincoln and concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London are delivered to Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees in the same The Bill for reducing of disloyal Subjects to their due Obedience was brought in by the Committees and also a new Bill made for that purpose with prayer that the same Bill may be read But what those alterations were upon which the old Bill was rejected and a new Bill framed are not set down in the Original Journal-Book it self and therefore because it is a matter of no small consequence and may also be of some use I have inserted the particulars thereof out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal which are there set down in manner and form following The particulars of the first Bill exhibited against Recusants 1. THE party so Indicted and Convicted shall forfeit all his Goods and Chattles which he hath in his own right or in the right of his Wife 2. Item He shall forfeit two parts of his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments if he be born under her Highness Allegiance of the Age of sixteen years 3. Item A Feme Covert shall lose her Dower or Jointure which she might have by her Baron 4. Item If a Man match with an Inheritrix being a Recusant he shall lose two parts of those Lands to the Queen Neither of them shall Administrate to any Man 5. Item Such a party being a Recusant shall be disabled to make any purchase or sale of Lands 6. Item He shall be disinabled either to take or make any Lease to the use of himself or to the use of his Wife 7. Item A Recusant shall forfeit for keeping any such Recusant Person in his House either Servant or Stranger ten pound every Month being at one time so long in his House or at several times in the year 8. Item He shall be barred to bear any Office in the Land or to practise as Councellor Doctor Sollicitor Proctor Attorney or Advocate to the Law 9. Item He shall have his Children taken from him if they be above the Age of seven years which are to be disposed of by the Lords of the Council or the Ordinary or the Judges of Assizes for the time being and their maintenance to be raised out of a third part of such a Recusants Living 10. Item He shall be disinabled to make any bargain or sale of any of his Goods or Chattles 11. Item If he be a Copyholder he shall forfeit his Copyhold during his Life whereof two parts is to go to the Queen and the third to the Lord. 12. Item If any person be Indicted for Recusancy of Malice he shall have his remedy against the party at the Common Law 13. Item If any person having been a Recusant shall at any time recant he shall make his submission in the Parish Church where he dwelleth acknowledging the Queens Proceedings to be just and detesting the Church of Rome which he shall also do in open Court before the Judges of Assize 14. Item If any such person after such Recantation fall into relapse he shall lose the benefit of the former Recantation for ever Lastly There is a Proviso that those that have already bought Lands of any that are or shall be Indicted for a Recusant the Bargain shall be as good and stand in effect as if this had never been made This Bill by the aforesaid Committees received all these alterations following whereupon it came in as a new Bill again THE two first Articles altogether omitted being thought too hard The third that the Woman is to lose but two parts of her Jointure or Dower after her Husbands Death The fourth That the Husband not being Recusant is to forfeit no part of his Land for his Wives Recusancy The fifth All Sales made by Recusants since 2 Eliz. of Lands whereof he taketh the profits or which Conveyance is upon any trust and confidence to be void as to the Queen as for two parts of the profits to be answered her and so all Sales hereafter to be made by any Recusant Convicted the Sale being bonâ fide c. The sixth They shall be disinabled to be Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs c. The ninth Children being ten years old until they be sixteen years to be disposed of at the appointment of four Privy-Councellors the Justices of Assize the Bishop of the Diocess Justices of Peace If the third part of the Lands suffice not for maintenance the rest to be levyed of the Parents goods The eleventh Recusants that be Copyholders to forfeit two parts to the Lord of the Mannor if the Lord be no Recusant and if he be then to the Queen The thirteenth Protesting that he doth not come under colour of any dispensation or other allowance from the Pope but for Conscience and Religion Thus far
Seas Succeeded to all the Realms and Dominions of Mary her Sister excepting Callais and those other inestimable places in France which had been most dishonourably and vainly lost in the time and towards the end of the Reign of the said Queen and finding also the Innocent Blood of Gods Saints shed for the Witness of the Truth to have stained the former Government with the just Brand and Stigma of persecuting and Tyrannical And that her Realms and Dominions were much impoverished and weakened whilst in the mean time her Enemies every where abroad were encreased not only in Number but in Strength and Power She therefore in the very entrance of her Reign well considering and foreseeing that the surest and safest way to Establish the Truth to abolish all Foreign and usurped Authority to repair the breaches and weaknesses of her said Realms and Dominions to strengthen her Kingdoms with Shipping and Munition and to revive the decayed Trade thereof was by the common advice and Council and with the Publick assent of the Body of her Realm did Summons herfirst Parliament to begin on Monday the 23th day of January having before made and appointed that wise and able Statesman Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England In the setting down of this Journal of the upper House in An. 1. Reg. Eliz. An. Dom. 1558. Summoned to begin at the day and place aforesaid I have caused to be Transcribed many things at large out of the original Journal Book Some things also of Form I have added to it which are in the very Original it self omitted in this regard only because they were but matters of Course and not much material yet I was much desirous both in this Journal of the Upper House and in that also of the House of Commons in this first year of the Queen to supply once for all the whole matter of Form that so I might the better omit it in the following Journals and have ready recourse hither unto it being all framed into one Structure or Body In this Journal of this first year is set down the ground form and return of the Writs of Summons with their usual and common differences the Commission for Prorogation and the form of Proroging the Parliament to a surther day The manner of the beginning of the Parliament with the Sitting of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal The places of Peers under age and of Noblemens Sons their Fathers living and the difference The whole form Verbatim of the Receivers and Tryers of Petitions And lastly for what or by whose Licence the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal may absent themselves from the Parliament House and send their Proxies the forms of Proxies the cause of a Vacat the several observations upon the return of such usual or unusual Proxies as were this Parliament returned the returns of which are set down at large out of the Original Journal Book it self with divers other things of the like nature and are digested as the following Passages of this first Parliament of Queen Eliz. into an orderly and exact Journal Before the Writs for the Summoning of this Parliament were sent forth the Queens Majesty did send her Warrant to Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England commanding him speedily to cause the said Writs to be made as in like cases had been formerly accustomed the usual Form of which Warrant being by Bill Signed is as followeth Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right Wel-beloved Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England Greeting Whereas we by our Council for certain great and urgent Causes concerning us the good Estate and Common-wealth of this our Realm and of the Church of England and for the good Order and continuance of the same have appointed and Ordained a Parliament to be holden at our City of Westminster the sirst day of April next coming in which case divers and sundry Writs are to be directed forth under our Great Seal of England as well for the Prelates Bishops and Nobility of this our Realm as also for the Election of Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the several Counties Cities and Burroughs Towns of the same to be present at the said Parliament at the day and place aforesaid Whereupon We Will and Command you forthwith upon the receipt hereof and by Warrant of the same to cause such and so many Writs to be made and Sealed under our Great Seal for the accomplishing of the same as in like Cases hath been heretofore used and accustomed And this Bill Signed with our own hand shall be as well unto you as to every such Clerk and Clerks as shall make and pass the same a sufficient Warrant or Discharge in that behalf given Upon this Warrant the Lord Keeper sends out the said Writs of Summons returnable the 23th day of January being Monday and bearing Date at Westminster the 5th day of December in the first year of the Queen the form of which Writ is as followeth Elizabetha Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Clarissimo Consanguineo suo Thomae Duci Norfolciae c. Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Consilij nostri pro quibusdam ardius urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quodd am Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterij vicessimo tertio die Januarij proximè futuro teneri ordinaverimus ibidem vobiscum cum Prelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo Mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quâcunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatur ' vestrumque consilium impensur ' hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem Defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedict ' expeditionemque negotiorum dictorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste me ipsà apud Westmonasterium quinto Die Decembris Anno Regni nostri primo The Writ to the Archbishop of York for the See of Canterbury was now void by the Death of Cardinal Pool was after this Form ensuing Elizabetha Dei Gratia c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Nicholao Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' c. And so to the end as it is in the Duke of Norfolks Writ unless perhaps after the word Mandamus the words following are in fide dilectione quibus nobis tenemini c. instead of these words to the Temporal Lords Sub fide Ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini The Writs that were directed to the two Marquesses of Winchester and Northampton and to
order as they be here set down in the aforesaid Journal Book to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February The Proxies also of Edward Earl of Derby John Earl of Oxford Henry Lord Strange Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon and Henry Lord Morley by which the said Earl of Bedford was Constituted their sole or joynt Proctor are entred in the same order they are Transcribed in the before mentioned Original Journal Book to have been returned on Saturday the 18th day of March ensuing And lastly the said Earl of Bedford was Constituted the joynt Proctor with Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of Oliver Lord St. John of Bletto whose Letters Procuratory are entred to have been returned on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral was Constituted the sole Proctor of William Lord Burgh Edward Lord Windsor and William Lord Euers whose Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of this Parliament to have been returned on this Monday the 23th day of this January He was also Constituted the joynt Proctor of William Lord Grey of Wilton whose Proxie is entred as aforesaid to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February ensuing the Proxie also of Francis Earl of Huntington is entred as before to have been returned on Saturday the 18th day of March following by which he Constituted the said Lord Clinton his joynt Proctor with Henry Lord Hastings And for the Proxie of John Lord Darcie of Darcie entred there as before to have been returned on this day likewise he is Constituted his sole Proctor And lastly the said Lord Clinton Lord Admiral was Constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of William Lord Willoughby of Parham Edward Lord Hastings of Louthbury and of Oliver Lord St. John of Blestoe whose Proxies are entred to have been returned on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing By these three foregoing Presidents it doth plainly appear as also from all other Presidents of former and latter times that any Member of the Upper House by the ancient usage and Custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be directed unto him although there were an Order made in the said House to the contrary upon the day of Anno Regis Caroli An. Dom. 1626. That no Lord cr Member whatsoever of the Upper House should for the time to come be capable of above two Proxies at the most which said order was occasioned in respect that George Duke of Bucks both the favorite of the King deceased and of King Charles now Reigning this present year 1630 did to strengthen himself by voices not only procure divers persons to be made Members of that House but also ingrossed to himself near upon 20. several Proxies And now if this doubt or conceipt should arise in any mans mind that therefore the Lords have a greater Priviledge than the Members of the House of Commons because they can appoint others to serve in and supply their places in their absence which the Commons cannot they are much deceived and mistaken for it is plain that the chief end of a Proxie is that the Upper House may have all its Members either in person or by representation and therefore the Lords Spiritual and Temporal who are Summoned thither in their own right have anciently had and still do retain the liberty of Constituting their Procurators whereas every Member of the House of Commons appeareth and doth serve in the right of that County City Burrough and Port for which he is Elected and Chosen which being a Trust and Confidence reposed in them can be no more transferred from him to a third person than can the Proxie of the Lords be from him to whom it is directed if he shall be absent likewise and therefore if any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron after he is Elected and returned shall before the meeting of the House be disabled by Sickness Attainder or other Cause from serving in the same then presently order is given from the House to the Clerk of the Crown for the sending thither a second Writ for a new Election so that the said House may not remain without any Member that appertains unto it And this I conceive Tantamount unto a Proxie which cannot be granted but when the absence of the Lord that sends it is perpetual during that whole Parliament or Session for which he Constitutes one or more Proctors for if he repair to the Upper House any time after and serve in Person his Proxie is presently void On Wednesday the 25th day of Ian. the Parliament was held according to the last Prorogation thereof on Monday the 23th day of this instant Ianuary foregoing and therefore this day is to be reckoned the first day of the Parliament and it was the error of Seimour Esq at this time Clerk of the House of Commons that in the Original Journal Book of the same House fol. 186. a. he accounteth and setteth down the Parliament to have begun on the aforesaid 23th day of Ianuary when it was only prorogued by which he would make that to be the first day thereof True it is that Anciently if the Parliament had been Prorogued on that day to which the Summons thereof had referred in the beginning of it they were so far from accounting that day the first of the ensuing Parliaments that new Writs of Summons were thereupon sent forth and a new day appointed for the beginning thereof as appears in the Parliament Rolls Anno 23. Edw. 1. die 20. Novemb. An. 60. Edw. 1. die 11. Decembris A. 33. Edw. 1. die 13. Julij A. 11. Edw. 2. die 3. Martij But yet it hath been the constant usage most Anciently and doth doubtless hold at this day also that if the King do come in Person to the Parliament on that day to which the Writs of Summons do refer and there cause it to be referred to another day in his own presence then shall that day be accounted the first day of the Parliament of which there are many Presidents also in the Parliament Rolls still remaining in the Tower of London prout in A. 6. Edw. 3. Octobris Sti ' Hillarij A. 14. Edw. 3. tempore Quadragessimi A. 15. Edw. 3. Quindena Paschae and of divers other Parliaments in his time and in the time of King R. 2. his Successor And thus also the last day of the Parliament or of any particular Session is counted to be that on which the Royal assent is given to one or more Acts of Parliament yet if that Parliament or Sessions be adjourned to another day on which the Sovereign doth again come in Person and cause it to be dissolved or further Prorogued then that latter day is to be accounted the last day thereof of which there is one only President during all the Reign of Queen Eliz ' viz. in the Original Journal Book A. 18. Dictae Reginae on Thursday the 15th day of March. The
well of that course of proceeding it is agreed that the Committees for the Bill against the untrue demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors and for the Bill against Bulls c. procured from the See of Rome and such like Bills as shall hereafter come from their Lordships needful to be considered or added unto or altered shall make request unto the Lords for Conference and privity in that behalf to be had and made with them as they in the said former Bill have used and done towards this House The Bill for respite of Homage was committed unto Sir Walter Mildmay M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Mounson M r Sampoole Mr. Wilbraham Mr. Popham and Mr. Fenner to consider of this Afternoon at three of the Clock at the Rolls and to deliver it again to the House to Morrow Morning in such sort as now it is if in the mean time they shall not alter the same or some part thereof On Thursday the third day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for increase of Tillage and maintenance of Navigation was read the first time The Bill for the Order of Ministers being the second of those seven Bills preferred this Parliament touching the matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill B was read the fourth time and passed Touching all which said Bills of matters of Religion see a more ample and full Animadversion or Declaration on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May ensuing The Bill for allowance to be made unto Sheriffs for the Justices Diets was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for making Peregrine Barty free Denizen was read three times and passed the House as also the Bill against Usury after they had been brought from the Lords by Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Vaughan It was Ordered that Sir Nicholas Points Knight one of the Knights from the County of Glocester shall have a Writ of Priviledge for his Servant Thomas Wickham being attached in the City of London upon two Actions of Trespass the one at the Suit of Christopher Temple Goldsmith and the other at the Suit of Fr. Acton Grocer On Friday the 4 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Licences and Dispensations granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Sir Thomas Smith Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Norton Mr. Greenfeild Mr. Eglenby Mr. Strickland and Mr. Yelverton The Bill for Fines and Recoveries was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for coming to Church and receiving of the Communion was read the third time and passed the House It was Ordered that the Officer which made the Arrest upon Sir Henry Clinton's Servants and also the party that procured the same do appear here to Morrow at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon Three Bills lastly had each of them their second reading and were thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for respite of Homage and the last was for South-hampton On Saturday the 5 th day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the River of Welland was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Confirmation of Attainders was read the second time at which time Sir Henry Peircy Knight with Mr. Fetiplace being of his Learned Councel were present And Wednesday next was given them to be further heard again The Bill for respite of Homage was read the third time and sent up to the Lords with the Bill for the coming to Church and receiving of the Communion by Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Scott Sir Francis Hastings Sir William Pawlet Sir John Thinne Sir Owen Hopton Sir Henry Gate Sir William Buts Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Thomas Lucy Sir Robert Lane Mr. Austley Mr. Stokes Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Sampoole Mr. Mounson Mr. Norton Mr. Yelverton Mr. More Mr. Henry Knolles Mr. Carleton Mr. Strickland Mr. John Hastings and Mr. Halliard On Monday the 7 th day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Licences and Dispensations granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Leases of Benefices being the fifth of those seven Bills preferred this Parliament touching the Reformation of matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill E was read the third time and passed the House Touching all which said Bills and matters of Religion see at large on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May ensuing The Provisoes to the Bill against Vagabonds were twice read Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Tuesday the 8 th day of May the Bill for the maintenance of Navigation was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Sir John S t Leger Sir Owen Hopton Sir Richard Buckley Mr. Holstock Mr. Grimston Mr. Mohun Mr. John Hastings Mr. Grice Mr. Crownier Mr. Wilford Mr. Humberston Mr. Pelham Mr. Lieff Mr. Gerby Mr. Gaire Mr. Downing Mr. Norton Mr. Popham Mr. Strickland and Mr. Thornton who were appointed to meet at the Star-Chamber to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for South-hampton was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Wednesday the 9 th day of May the Bill for Maurice Radney Esq was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed It was Ordered upon a Motion made by Mr. Norton that upon Friday next coming the House do begin to sit at three of the Clock in the Afternoon and to continue till five and so every Monday Wednesday and Friday until the end of this Session of Parliament which time to be imployed only in the first reading of private Bills The Bill against Promoters was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill to avoid corrupt Presentations being the fourth Bill of those seven preferred this Parliament touching the reformation of the matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill D was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Touching which Bills and matters of Religion see a more full Animadversion or Declaration on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May following The Bill against Bulls c. procured from
M r Mounson M r Yelverton M r Cooper M r Beamond M r Sampole and M r Knyvet were appointed to meet at the Savoy at three of the Clock this Afternoon at M r Chancellors of the Dutchy for Conference in the Bill of fraudulent Conveyances of Lands On Wednesday June the 4 th Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the new Bill for assurances by Corporations was read the first time The Bill also for the City and Soke of Winchester was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon the Question it was Ordered by this House that the Lord Compton do before the Committees make his Answer to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber at three of the Clock Unto the Bill Exhibited by the Earl of Kent which was in open Court signified unto the Lord Compton and upon another Question day was given unto both the said Parties with their Councel to be here present at the report of the Committees upon Friday next in the Morning unless the same Committees shall upon further motion of this House for that purpose in the mean time pray Saturday M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords the Bill to revive an Act against the transporting of Leather Tallow and Raw-Hides M r Treasurer M r Comptroller and M r Chancellor of the Dutchy were added to the former Committees for the Earl of Kent his Bill The Bill for the true making proving and marking of Calivers and the Bill for the School of Tunbridge were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were with two others sent up to the Lords by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and others The Bill against such as shall keep or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castles Fortresses c. The Bill against such as go about to enlarge any Person Imprisoned for Treason and the Bill for annexing of Hexam and Hexamshire to the County of Northumberland were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Thursday the 5 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex was read the first time The Bill for the City of Worcester was read the third time and was rejected upon the Division of the House with the difference of six persons Five Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House and were sent up unto the Lords by M r Treasurer and others of which one was for Partition of Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight and another for Plumstead Marsh. M r Serjeant Barham and M r Attorney General did bring from the Lords the Bill against Mary the Daughter and Heir of James the Fifth late King of Scots commonly called the Queen of Scots with Recommendation of the said Bill from their Lordships and pray a present reading thereof this day And did further signifie the time of the Year considered the Queens Majesties pleasure is that this House do proceed in that and other weighty Causes laying apart all private matters Vide Thursday 26 th of June postea The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was read the first time On Friday the 6 th day of June the Bill for Coggshall Cloaths was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Serjeant was commanded by the House to warn Andrew Fisher that he make his personal appearance here presently this Forenoon immediately after that the Lords now dealing in the Committee of his Cause shall have left off their present Conference And Sir Thomas Scott M r S t Leger M r Norton and others of the Committees of this House in the matter before the Bill passed were presently sent from this House to the said Lords Committees to inform them of the former proceedings of the said Committees of this House in the matter Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the new Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances of Lands was read the first time The Bill against the bringing in of Foreign Wares forbidden was stayed the third reading till another time The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was read the second time M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Serjeant Manwood Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards Mr. Popham Mr. Mounson Mr. Yelverton and Mr. Norton to have Conference for the understanding of the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots to meet this Afternoon and all Arguments to be received as upon the second reading of the Bill until it shall be read the third time It is Ordered by the House to sit at Afternoons from three of the Clock till six and to proceed but only in private Bills and not to go to the Question of any such Bill if it concern any Town or Shire unless the Knights of such Shire or Shires or the Burgesses of such Town or Towns shall then be present Andrew Fisher being called this day to the Bar and charged with certain Objections was further Adjourned to make his appearance here in this Court to Morrow next coming Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the second was the new Bill for Weights and Measures Mr. Weekes and Mr. Dennis with their Councel were appointed to be heard to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon and Dennis at his peril for the other to be heard in his absence Day was given to the Earl of Kent and the Lord Compton with their Councel on both sides to be heard to Morrow at four of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 7 th day of June Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against covenous Vouchers and another for Woodstock were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Sir William Harper Knight was read the first time being a new Bill Mr. Attorney and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill against such as do withhold from the Queens Majesty any Forts c. with certain Amendments by their Lordships added unto the former Amendments of this House Mr. Coleby and Mr. Flowerdew were added to the former Committees in the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill that none serving any Subject shall be a Justice of Peace or High Constable was read the first time The Bill for repairing the Wayes and Bridges near Oxford was read
the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be engrossed because it had been sent from the Lords Upon the Argument in the matter between the Earl of Kent and the Lord Compton by their Learned Councel of both sides this House thinketh good to be further advised upon the matter and so it was signified unto their Lordships and their Councel On Monday the 9 th day of June the Bill for Mr. Smith was read the first and second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill that no Servant of any Subjects shall be a Justice of Peace or High Constable was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed Mr. Sandes Mr. Fenner and Mr. Shute were appointed presently to consider and correct the Bill of my Lord of Kent exhibited against the Lord Compton Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of Fugitives was read the third time and with the Bill for Presentations by Lapse and two others of no great moment sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others Upon the Question it was resolved by this House that some Committees of this House be appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Proviso to the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots Mr. Comptroller Mr. Treasurer Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Doctor Wilson Master of the Requests Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Cromwell Mr. Langhorne Mr. Fenner Mr. Snagg Mr. Dalton Mr. S t Leger and Mr. Cowper were for that purpose added to the former Committees Vide touching this matter on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant June following and Monday the 19 th of May foregoing Post Meridiem In the Afternoon three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Severance of Sheriffs in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex was read the third time and passed upon the Question Upon the Question it was Ordered that the matter be presently proceeded in to the hearing between the Earl of Kent and my Lord Compton notwithstanding my Lord Compton his Allegations of the want of his Councel and the hearing to be dealt in only touching the matter of the release and the procuring of the same Geo. Goscoigne and Tho. Cole being produced Vide de ista materia in die praecedente On Tuesday the 10 th day of June Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that no Houshold Servant or Retainer to any Subject shall be a Justice of Peace or High Constable And the third for Cogshall were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Seckford Master of the Requests and others Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Huick did signify from the Lords that their Lordships have appointed a Committee to have Conference with the Committees of this House in the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots and that their Lordships do require the same to be done presently Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 26 th of this instant June following The Bill for the transporting of Corn was read the second and third time and passed upon the Question Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Town of Stafford was read the first time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the marking of tanned Leather was read the first time Six Bills also had each of them their second reading of which the first was the Bill for Corporations and the last for the Earl of Kent was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed and both the Parties to be in this House with their Learned Councel at the next Session of this Court to be holden next after this present day On Wednesday the 11 th day of June Mr. Doctor Huick and Mr. Doctor Vaughan did bring word from the Lords that having understood the Queens Majesties Pleasure to be that they should adjourn their Sessions until Tuesday come Se'nnight they did signifie the same unto this House to the end this House may likewise Adjourn until the same time and nevertheless to continue the Session this Forenoon and send unto them such Bills as are already passed this House or shall pass this Forenoon Upon the Question Mr. Snagg was by the whole Voice of the House purged of the words and meaning which it was pretended he should have heretofore uttered in this House to the dishonour and discontentation of the Lords of the Upper House The Bill touching the transporting of Leather and Tallow was sent up to the Lords by all the Privy Council being of this House and others The Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances of Lands was read the third time and passed the House Mr. Doctor Huick and Mr. Doctor Vaughan did bring from the Lords three Bills of which the first was touching Sea-Marks and the second for Partition of Lands to be had between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight and their Heirs The Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances of Lands and the Bill for Partition of Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others and by them brought back again for that the Lords were risen and gone The Bill for Grants by Corporations was read the third time and passed the House The Court was this day Adjourned until Tuesday come S'ennight next coming On Tuesday the 24 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Lands and Tenements within the County and City of Exeter was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Grants by Corporations with two others of no great moment was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others with request to be by them made unto their Lordships for their Answer touching Conference in the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots The Bill against delays in Judgment at the Common Law was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was sent to the Lords to see and consider by Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Dr. Wilson Mr. Serjeant Manwood and Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards The Bill against delays in Judgment was upon the Question committed unto Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Serjeant Jefferies Mr. Popham and Mr. Sands who were appointed to meet at the Temple Church at two of the Clock this
Afternoon and to make report and to return the Bill to Morrow Morning Further day was given for the Earl of Kent and the Lord Compton with their Learned Councel to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Forenoon On Wednesday the 25 th day of June my Lord of Kent appearing in the House it was signified that the Queens Majesties Pleasure is that for this time the matter between him and the Lord Compton be deferred for that the said Lord Compton is presently appointed to attend upon the Duke Memorancy to Dover as by Letters from the Lord Burleigh directed unto M r Speaker and containing her Highness said Pleasure in that behalf amongst other things appeareth The Bill for Continuation of certain Statutes was read the first time and committed unto Mr. Atkins M r Dale M r Beamond M r Greenfeild M r March M r Cardinall M r Layton and Mr. Honywood who were appointed to meet here to Morrow Morning at six of the Clock The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was read the third time and passed the House and the Proviso to the same Bill had also its third reading Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Severance of the Sheriffs of the Counties of Bed and Bucks was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills also had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which one was touching the inordinate length of Kersies and another for the Town of Stafford On Thursday the 26 th day of June the Bill for marking of Tanned Leather was twice read Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which one was the Bill touching Lands within the County of the City of Exeter and another against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots Touching which Bill and business of the said Queen see on Monday the 12 th day Thursday the 15 th day Monday the 19 th day Wednesday the 21 th day Friday the 23 th and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May preceeding as also on Thursday the 5 th day Friday the 6 th day Tuesday the 10 th day Tuesday the 24 th day and on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant June The Bill for Hemp and Cordage was twice read Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Marsh Mr. Grice Mr. Hastings Mr. Grimston Mr. Norton Mr. Barrey Mr. Atkins Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Honywood Mr. Shute Mr. Burie and Mr. Greenfeild were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill of Continuation of Statutes And the Bill touching Sea-Marks and the Bill for the Severance of the Sheriffs of Bedf. and Bucks were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Doctor Wilson and the said other Committees Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Lewes did bring from the Lords the Bill touching Recoveries passed in this House before with a Branch of Repeal of the Statute of 32 H. 8. added by the Lords The Bill against delays in Judgment was read the third time and the Proviso twice read and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Serjeant Barham brought from the Lords the former Bill touching Sea-Marks with allowance of the Amendments Mr. Serjeant Barham and Mr. Attorney General did bring from the Lords the Bill for Continuation of Statutes with allowance of the Amendments On Friday the 27 th day of June the Bill touching Sea-Marks was read the third time The Bill for Continuation of certain Statutes was twice read with all the Additions and the Provisoes were each of them thrice read The Bill for Recoveries by Collusion suffered by Tenants for term of life and the Bill for the Continuation of Statutes with another Bill also of no great moment were each of them sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer Mr. Doctor Wilson and others Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives with Additions by them made and request for Expedition and reading thereof Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Addition to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was thrice read and passed The Proviso for the Dutchy of Lancaster made by this House unto the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was thrice read and passed upon the Question On Saturday the 28 th day of June The Proviso touching the Dutchy of Lancaster in the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was by Order of this House withdrawn and a new one added and thrice read and pass'd for that the former wanted sufficient penning to carry the meaning of this House Post Meridiem The Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives with the Provisoes and Amendments and also the Bill concerning the Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords the Bill touching Grants made unto Hospitals Mr. Doctor Lewes brought word from the Lords that their Lordships did desire present Conference with some of this House in the Bill concerning the length of Kersies for which purpose were sent Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Grimston Mr. Gresham Mr. Norton Mr. Langley Mr. Brownell Mr. Fleet Mr. Appleby Mr. Chester and Mr. Sekerson The Bill for Hospitals was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Hugh Pawlett Sir Maurice Berkley Sir Owen Hopton and Sir Henry Gate The Bill against delays in Judgment at the Common Law passed after many Arguments and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others with special Commendations from this House Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill for the Statute made for the Town of Shrewsbury with a Proviso The Proviso to the Bill for Shrewsbury was read three times On Monday the 30 th day of June the Bill for Shrewsbury was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others It was this day Ordered by this House upon the Question that touching the Bill passed in this House for the School of Tunbridge and Andrew Fisher these words following shall be set down viz. Memorandum That the Bill concerning Tunbridge-School and Andrew Fisher in which Bill one Deed made in the name of Henry Fisher is supposed to be forged was committed to the Right Honourable Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Scott c. who have certified to this House that they found great untruth and impudency in the said Andrew Fisher And that for very vehement presumptions they think very Evil of the Deed. Nevertheless upon Fishers Submission they have been contented to withdraw out of the Bill all words that touched him in infamy And so the Bill penned passed this House with assent on both sides as well to help Tunbridge-School as others that had bought Land of the said Andrews Father bonâ fide And the said Committeés have
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
them once read whereof the last being a Bill for the fortifying of the Frontiers towards Scotland was read the third time and after the conclusion thereof sent down to the House of Commons On Wednesday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned the Lord Chancellor and divers Lords met in the Upper House but no Bills were read only the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament to nine of the Clock in the Forenoon the day following On Thursday the 16 th day of February Billa for increase of Mariners and Navigation of England was read prima vice and another Bill also of no great moment had its first reading On Saturday the 18 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act for Explanation of a Statute against forging of Evidences and Writings which with the other three Bills had each of them their first reading On Monday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned the Bill touching the Lord Compton c. was read primâ vice Two Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons which are more particularly expressed in the Journal of that House On Tuesday the 21 th day of February Three Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act ratifying an award between some private persons but there is no mention in the Original Journal-Book of any Bill read this Morning but only of the continuance of the Parliament according to the usual form On Wednesday the 22 th day of February Five Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first was a Bill against Counterfeiting of the hands of any of her Majesties Privy-Council and for the avoiding of counterfeit Instruments and Writings under Seal or counterfeiting of the Seal of any Office or Officer which said Bill was read prima vice On Thursday the 23 th day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the latter being a Bill against slanderous words and rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty with a new Addition of certain Amendments was read secundâ vice It should rather seem that only the Addition and Amendments which had been inserted de novo into this aforesaid Bill were now read the second time for the Bill it self had passed the Upper House upon the third reading on Monday the 30 th day of January foregoing and was the same Forenoon sent down to the Commons House and there passed and from them was sent up again to the Lords on Monday the 20 th of this instant February last past with a new Addition and certain Amendments So that the Bill it self which hath once passed the House is never read again but only such new Additions and Amendments as are inserted in it must be passed again de novo because they are of the same nature as if a new Bill were brought in On Saturday the 25 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned was read a Bill touching Fines and Recoveries secundâ vice and another Bill of no great moment had also its second reading Memorand that on this foresaid 25 th day of February being Saturday which day was before given to certain Parties then in difference for assignation of some Errors supposed by them to be in a certain Suit Commenced against them M r Cooper came in for the said Plaintiff and openly before the Lords in the Parliament House assigned the Errors after the hearing whereof the Lord Chancellor with consent of the Lords Ordered that the Plaintiff should have a scire facias returnable either the first day of the next Session or the first day of the next Parliament On Monday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against forging of Evidences and Writings was read primâ vice and another Bill of no great moment was read secundâ vice Then were there two Bills of no great moment sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first had its first reading Three other Bills finally after this were each of them once read whereof the last being a Bill touching my Lord Compton c. was after the second reading committed to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 28 th day of February the Bill for ratifying an Award in the Chancery concerning Copyhold and Customary Tenants of the Mannors of Moore and Newman Synderich Knyhton and Pensokes in the County of Worcester was read secundâ vice after which also seven other Bills had each of them one reading of which the fourth Bill being as the rest of no great moment was after the passing of it sent down to the House of Commons But the first Bill of the said seven which was touching the Inning of Erith and Plumsted-Marsh being upon the third reading concluded yet it was Ordered by the Lords that the same Bill should be staid from the sending of it down to the House of Commons until the Parties had brought in their several Bonds On Wednesday the first day of March the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against forging of Evidences was read tertiâ vice which coming to the Question and the numbers of the Contents on the one side and the numbers of the Not-contents on the other side found to be equal and alike with their Proxies it was Commanded to be laid up in the Desk till the next Parliament On Thursday the second day of March a Bill for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was after the second reading committed to be ingrossed Five Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was the Subsidy Bill the other four of no great moment The Bill also for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy primâ secundâ vice lecta commissa ad ingrossandum There were two other Bills each of them read once this Morning whereof the first being a Bill for the punishment of those who should counterfeit the hands of any of her Majesties Privy-Council or the Seals of others was after the third reading rejected Quod nota because it is feldom seen that any Bill after it hath passed the third reading should be rejected Then was the Parliament continued by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which time the Lords meeting there were only two Bills read primâ vice whereof the first was the Subsidy Bill and then the Lord Chancellor Adjourned the Parliament unto the day following On Friday the third day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the last was a Bill that Gavelkind Lands within the County of the City of
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
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
said Motion or any other tending to the safety of her Majesties Person may be very well delivered and remembred to the Committees in the great Cause by any member of the House M r Dennis Hollis offereth a Bill to this House in the behalf of the Curriers of London Whereupon M r Speaker put the House in remembrance of her Majesties pleasure before signified unto this house to forbear the making of new Laws and to spend the time in the great Causes for which this Parliament was specially summoned yet because in the mean time of dealing in the said great Cause in Committee or otherwise there should be nothing to occupy the House withal it is thought good at such times to have some Bills read in the House reserving always due regard and place to the said great Cause And thereupon the said Bill was read accordingly The Bill touching the Curriers was read the first time The Bill also for limitation of time touching Writs of Error growing by fraud had its first reading M r Chadley one of the Knights returned for the County of Devon offereth a Bill to this House touching Cloth-making within the said County out of Cities Market Towns and Corporate Towns Whereupon the said Bill was then read accordingly The Bill touching Clothiers in the County of Devon had its first reading Edmund Moore of Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex Tallow-chandler and John Turner of the same Butcher being both of them in the Serjeants Custody for presuming to come into this House sitting the House and being no Members of the same it is upon opinion that they did it of ignorance and meer simplicity and not of any pretended purpose and also upon their humble submission of themselves unto this House and like humble request and Petition of Pardon for the same Agreed by this House that they shall be discharged and set at Liberty taking first the Oath of Supremacy openly in this House which they so then did and afterward departed On Munday the 7 th day of November The Bill touching Fines and Recoveries levied before the Justices of the Common Pleas whereunto any of the said Justices are parties was read the first time Sir William Herbert being returned into this House Knight for the County of Monmouth offereth a Bill into this House for the relief of certain Orphans within the said County of Monmouth and prayeth that the same Bill may be read which was so then read accordingly The Bill for relief of certain Orphans in the County of Monmouth had its first reading M r Bulkely offereth a Bill unto this House touching Clothes made in this Realm to be shipped and transported over the Seas and prayeth the same may be read which was thereupon so done accordingly The Bill touching Clothes made to be transported over the Seas had its first reading Sir Robert Jermin likewise offereth another Bill touching Clothiers and Cloth-making in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex and prayeth the reading thereof which in no wise he would have moved if the House should have been any ways occupied in the great Cause the speedy course and proceeding whereof he most earnestly desireth and prayeth The Bill touching Clothiers and Clothes made in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was read the first time M r Vice-Chamberlain shewed that the Committees in the great Cause did meet according to the Commission therein of this House unto them and that then also they did appoint another Meeting therein to be this Afternoon and shewed withal That some of the Committees of this House being of the Privy Council do understand that the Lords will not in this great and weighty Cause any way deal or meddle amongst themselves nor in any other matter besides until they shall have first heard therein from this House for Conference to be prayed with them by this House and therefore moved That now whilst their Lordships do yet sit the Privy Council with some few others of this House be presently sent to their Lordships to move for Conference and to know their Lordships pleasure for the time and place of Meeting Whereupon for that purpose it was ordered That all the Privy Council being of this House Sir Henry Gate M r Sollicitor and Sir William Moore should presently repair to their Lordships to the higher House who did so accordingly It should seem that in the mean time after the going up of M r Treasurer and the rest and before their return from the Lords these matters following were handled viz. The Bill touching Orford-Haven was read the second time and thereupon committed unto Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Higham Sir Henry Cobham M r Cromwell M r Layer and all others that were Committees in the same Cause the last Parliament to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle Temple Hall at three of the Clock After sundry Speeches to the Bill touching Inrollments upon the second reading thereof and being then reserved to convenient time and this present time falling out to be convenient for that purpose it is upon the question both for the committing and ingrossing quite dashed and rejected The Bill touching Curriers had its second reading M r Treasurer and the residue of the Committees being returned from the Lords as it should seem much about the time that the House had finished the disputing and reading of the foresaid Bills he shewed that he and the residue have according to the Appointment of this House moved the Lords for Conference touching the said great Cause which their Lordships did very well like of and have appointed that the former Committees of this House in the said Cause do meet this Afternoon in the Parliament-Chamber with such Committee of their Lordships as their Lordships for that purpose do appoint which he saith he thinketh to be twenty or thereabouts And so thereupon were the Names of the said Committees of this House read and they required to give their Attendances therein at the said time and place accordingly On Tuesday the 8 th day of November M r Doctor Turner shewed unto this House That he is fully perswaded that her Majesties safety cannot be sufficiently provided for by the speedy cutting off of the Queen of Scots unless some good means withal be had for the rooting out of Papistry either by making of some good new Laws for that purpose or else by the good and due Execution of the Laws already in force which as he greatly wisheth and referreth to the grave consideration of this House so concluding in his own Conscience that no Papist can be a good Subject he did offer a Bill to this House containing as he thinketh some convenient form of matter tending to the effect of his Motion and prayeth the same may be read Whereupon M r Speaker finding the Title of the said Bill to purport the Safety of her Majesties Person putteth the House in remembrance that by their own appointment and direction that matter was referred to certain Committees
Mr. Recorder of London making a large and plentiful discourse of the ancient priviledges and liberties of this House furnished with recital of sundry Precedents and examples and lastly coming down to the matter in hand sheweth that Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Commons Pleas told him this morning that the said Lord Chancellor and the Judges had resolved that the said first Writ ought to be returned and had so given order to the Sheriff and Clerk of the Crown And that he thereupon answered the said Sir Edmund Anderson again that the censure thereof belonged unto this House and not unto them and that he for his part would take no notice thereof at their hands of their so doing but only by way of instructions and not otherwise And so concluded with the allowance of the good course and order of this House in setting down and entring the said Judgement accordingly as before Mr. Vice-Chamberlain shewed unto the House that according to their appointment he hath been an humble suitor unto her Majesty on the behalf of this House for access there to be had unto her Highness to exhibit their Petition unto her Majesty And that her Majesty thereupon hath very Graciously granted to hear them at the Court upon to morrow next between one and two of the Clock in the Afternoon signifying also unto them further that her Majesty having heard that the Lords do appoint them twenty of themselves of the Higher House to attend her Majesty also for the same purpose so her Highness thinketh meet that forty of this House were likewise appointed for this House which She thinketh to be a sufficient number but is nevertheless well pleased if the House shall think good to send a more or greater Number at their discretions but leaveth the same to their own considerations Which her Majesties most Gracious Favour as the whole House did take it in most joyful and dutiful part So did they then desire the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain that he would in the name of this whole House present unto her Majesty their most humble and dutiful thanks for the same her Highnesses most gracious clemency and great loving kindness towards them Which so to do the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain told them he purposed God willing in the Afternoon of this present day And these were appointed by this House to attend upon her Majesty to morrow at the Court as many of the former Committees as would whose names see at large on Friday the 4 th day of this instant November foregoing and also Sir Henry Barkeley Sir William Mohun Sir Edward Dymocke Sir Thomas Jones Sir Henry Bagnell Sir Andrew Nevill Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Farmer Sir Edward Osborne Mr. Henry Bromley Mr. Ralph Horsey Mr. James Croft and Mr. Tasborough then added unto them which done upon a Motion that for as much as the Knights for the County of Norsolk and the Burgesses for all the Boroughs within the same County saving only the Citizens for the City of Norwich were returned and certified into this House this present day and not before the Petition might therefore be read again in this House in the presence of the same Knights and Burgesses to the intent that they being made privy thereof might also yield their Assents to the same Petition whereby the rather the same being for a matter of so great moment might in very deed be the Action of the whole House then being possessed and consisting of all the Members thereof the same Petition was read by the Clerk and well liked of agreed unto and allowed by the voices of the said Knights and Burgesses upon the question thereof unto them made in that behalf by Mr. Speaker And afterwards Mr. Vice-Chamberlain made a motion that Mr. Speaker be put in remembrance by this House besides the residue of his reasons to be shewed to her Majesty for maintenance of the parts of the said Petition to urge if need be to her Majesty the matter and necessity of the late Instruments of Association respecting especially the Consciences of a great number of her Highnesses good and Loyal subjects which cannot be dispensed with by Laws whereupon request was so made by the House to Mr. Speaker accordingly Mr. Treasurer shewed that yesterday he and others of the Committees in the great Cause presented unto the Lords in the Upper House the Request of this House unto their Lordships to have the said Petition entred and recorded in the Upper House there to remain as an Act. Whereunto their Lordships assented and willed that the same might first be ingrossed in Parchment and so delivered to their Lordships this present Forenoon shewing further That the Clerk of this House then had the same already ingrossed and exact accordingly but that the same could not that day be sent to their Lordships for that their Lordships did not sit this Forenoon and therefore he said it must be delivered at some other time And so then the House did rise and this Court was adjourned till Monday next following Memorandum That in the Afternoon of this present day the said Petition ingrossed was delivered into the hands of the Lord Chancellor by the Appointment of Mr. Speaker and so lest with his Lordship On Saturday the 12 th day of November although the House of Commons sate not any part of the day in their proper place yet in the Afternoon according to her Majesties direction sent unto the House yesterday by Sir Christopher Hatton her Vice-Chamberlain John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker with all the Privy Council and divers other Members of the said House whose Names see before on Friday the 4 th day and on Friday the 11 th day of this instant November last past repaired to her Majesty unto the Court there to joyn with Sir Thomas Bromiey Lord Chancellor and twenty Temporal Lords of the Upper House in presenting a certain Petition which had been agreed upon by both Houses unto her Highness for the speedy Execution of Mary late Queen of Scots according to that just Sentence which had been pronounced against her And to move her Majesty thereunto the said Speaker of the House of Commons did use many excellent and solid reasons which were all found in a certain Memorial written with his own hand being as followeth Unless Execution of this just Sentence be done 1. Your Majesties Person cannot any while be safe 2. The Religion cannot long continue amongst us 3. The most flourishing present State of this Realm must shortly receive a woful Fall 4. And consequently in sparing her your Majesty shall not only give courage and hardiness to the Enemies of God of your Majesties self and of your Kingdom but shall discomfort and daunt with despair the hearts of your loving People and so deservedly provoke the heavy hand and wrath of God And that summarily for the reasons ensuing First forasmuch as concerns the danger of your Majesty Both she and her Favourers think
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
second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted by the Queens Majesty to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln in the thirty ninth year of her Reign for the taking the acknowledgment of Statutes Merchants was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Lord Zouch the Lord Windsor the Lord Wharton the Lord Rich and M r Justice Clinch to attend their Lordships The Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchants Strangers was read tertiâ vice Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the first day and on Friday the third day of this Instant February foregoing The Proviso added in the House of Commons concerning the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was this day twice read The Proviso thought meet by the Committees in the Bill concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain overflowen grounds in the County of Norfolk was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed A Motion was made by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like motion was made by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereunto the House assented And the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Monday the 6 th day of February the Bill for the confirmation of Letters Patents granted by the Queens Majesty to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees with a Proviso thought necessary to be added Excuse was made by the Earl Marshal for the absence of the Earl of Sussex in regard of his unhealthiness The like excuse was made by the Bishop of Rochester for the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties debts c. and the second against the Excess of Apparel The Bill for the explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners c. The Bill for the recovering of three hundred thousand Acres of Marsh-grounds more or less with one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in secundam horam post-meridian At which time the Amendments and Proviso added by the Committees to the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln c. were twice read The Proviso also added by the House of Commons to the Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandes was read the third time and thereupon the Bill was expedited Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more speedy paying of the Queens Majesties debts and for the better explanation of the Act made Anno 13 o of the Queen intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels of Tellors Receivors c. liable to the payment of their Debts was read secundâ vice Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 7 th day of February Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against the Excess of Apparel was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl Marshal the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland and others Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles Sir John Forteseue and others of which the second being the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was sent back with some Amendments which were presently twice read The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rent during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was returned with some Amendments by the Lord Chief Justice with a Proviso thought meet to be added Which Proviso and Amendments were once read A Message was sent to the House of Commons from their Lordships by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Carew for a Conference concerning the Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House and the time and place was desired to be this Afternoon by two of the Clock in the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam postmeridianam At which time the Amendments in the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry were read secundâ vice The Amendments and Provisoes thought meet to be added to the Bill concerning Patentees were read the second time and thereupon commandment was given that the said Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments written in Paper ready for the third reading The Bill for Amendments of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read secundâ vice The Bill for reviving continuance Explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes was returned with their allowance of the Amendments and Proviso added by their Lordships Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum On Wednesday the 8 th day of February the Amendments in the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry were read the third time as they were ingrossed in the Bill And thereupon the same Bill with the Amendments were expedited The Bill also for Amendments of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertiâ vice and expedited The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees c. notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was returned to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop for their considerations of the said Amendments and Provisoes No continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Book of the Upper House which seemeth to have happened by the Error of Thomas Smith Esquire at this time Clerk of the same On Thursday the 9 th day of February Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the further continuance and Explanation of an Act made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is was returned with the
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
Serjeant Harris and Serjeant Heyle were added unto them M r Simnell one of the Committees in the Committee touching the abuses for Licences for Mariages without Banes appointed on Friday the 11. day of this instant November foregoing shewed that the Committees have met together but did not conclude of any thing by reason that it was doubtful whether they were to treat of that matter only or else both of the same and also touching the stealing away of Mens Children without assent of their Parents and touching the abuses in the Probates of Testaments and Processes ex Officio by Ecclesiastical Officers in matters of the same being before several propounded at the Motion of sundry Members of this House Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer shewed that her Majesty did yesterday last call Mr. Secretary and himself unto her and telling them that her Highness had been informed of the horrible and great incestuous Marriages discovered in this House and minding due punishment and redress of the same commanded them to take information of the grievances in particular of the Members of this House that her Highness having certain notice thereof may thereupon give order for the due punishment and redress accordingly Whereupon after sundry other Speeches tending to sundry courses but yet most of them very well liking and approving the said Message delivered to this House therein from her Majesty by the said Mr. Chancellor it was in the end resolved that the former Committees who were appointed on Friday the 11 th day of this instant November foregoing to draw a Bill for reformation of abuses occasioned by Licences granted for Marriages without Banes asking should meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Court at two of the Clock for that purpose and that Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Francis Hastings Sir Robert Wroth Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Robert Wingfield Mr. Fulk Grevill Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Symnell Mr. George Moore Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Francis Goodwyn Sir Edward Hastings Sir Henry Worth Sir Anthony Cope Sir William Moore Mr. Hexte Sir John Sudmore Mr. Finch and Mr. Francis Moore should receive Informations of the grievances touching Ecclesiastical Causes this day moved in the House and should meet to that purpose upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Vide Nov. 16. M r Francis Bacon one of the selected Committees concerning Inclosures and Tillage moved for a time to be appointed for the same selected Committees to impart their travels therein to the general Committees who were appointed in the same Cause upon Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing to the end that thereupon the same may afterwards be reported unto this House accordingly Whereupon it was Ordered that they should for that purpose meet in this House to Morrow next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Francis Moore one of the Committees in the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers c. shewed the meeting of the Committees in that Bill and some Amendments by them made in the same and so delivereth in the same Bill so amended The Bill for repressing of Robberies and touching Huy and Cry was read the second time and upon the question for Commitment was denied to be committed and upon another question for the ingrossing was denied to be ingrossed and so rejected On Tuesday the 15 th day of November Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for extirpation of Beggars was read the first time Sir Robert Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill for Repeal of the Statute of the 23 d year of the Queen Intituled An Act for encrease of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation who were appointed on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing brought in the Bill with some Amendments made by the Committees which Amendments being twice read in the House the Bill was afterwards and after some Speeches against the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed upon the question M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed in this House for the taking away of Clergy from Offendors against the Statute made 3 Henr. 7. concerning the taking away of Women against their Wills unlawfully which Bill their Lordships have also passed with a Proviso thereunto annext The Bill concerning the establishing of the Town-Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Chancellor of the Exchequer putting the House in remembrance of the Speech delivered unto this House by the Lord Keeper upon the first day of this present Parliament by her Majesties direction touching the Causes of her Highnesses calling of this Parliament and shewing at large her Majesties great and excessive Charges sustained for the defence of her Highnesses Realms and Dominions against the force of the King of Spain amounting to more than a treble value of the last three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted unto her in the last Parliament and declaring further the great necessity of some Mass of Treasure to be provided towards the supply of her Highness Charges in the continuation of the maintenance of her Majesties Forces in defence of her Highness Realms Dominions and Subjects against the Forces and Invasions of the said King of Spain and further referring the particularities of the designs and attempts of the said King of Spain since the last Parliament to be reported unto this House by M r Secretary moved for a selected Committee of this House to be nominated to treat and consult concerning that matter M r Secretary Cecill shewed at large the purposes practices and attempts of the said King of Spain against her Majesty and her Realms Dominions and Subjects in divers sorts and at sundry times together with his great overthrows in the same by the mighty hand of God and of her Highnesses Forces to his perpetual ignominy and great dishonour throughout the whole World And so after a large discourse most excellently delivered by him concluded with a Motion for proceeding to the said Committees Whereupon some Speeches being had to that end by Sir Edward Hobby and Mr. Francis Bacon It was agreed that all the Privy-Council being Members of this House all the Knights returned for the Counties into this present Parliament and all Citizens for Cities returned into this House should meet about the said business on Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in this House and any other of this House then to come to them also at their pleasures that will Vide plus on Wednesday the 7 th day of December following On Wednesday the 16 th day of November Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Town of Northampton was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights for the County of Northampton and the Burgesses for the
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
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
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
Nursing Mother unto us Whose dayes the Almighty God prolong to all our Comforts All said Amen On Saturday the 28 th day of November the Bill for the maintenance of Shipping and increase of Mariners was read the first time Sir George Moore one of the Committees in the Bill touching Fines to be levyed in the County of the City of Chester brought in the Bill amended by the Committees The Amendments in the Bill touching Fines to be levyed in the County of the City of Chester were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching draining of Grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington c. was read the second time and committed unto the Queens Learned Councel being of this House the Knights and Burgesses for the Shires named in the Bill my Lord Clinton and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Mr. Mountague made Report of the meeting of the Committees in the Bill touching the Jointure of the Countess of Bedford and Proviso thereunto which he brought in with some Amendments The Amendments in the Bill for the Jointure of the Countess of Bedford and the Proviso thereunto annext were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Sir William Wray shewed the meeting of the Committees in the Bill touching Drunkenness with some Amendments The Amendments in the Bill touching Drunkenness were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Lands given to Charitable uses c. was read the second time and committeed to the Committees for repeal of Statutes whose names see on Thursday the 5 th day of November foregoing and there were added unto them the Queens Learned Councel being Members of this House the Masters of Requests Sir Edward Stafford Sir Edward Hobbie and divers others and appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And the Committees to have Authority as well to put into the Bill of Repeal or in the Bill of continuance of Statutes the former Act made in the last Parliament touching Lands given to charitable uses as to deal in this present Bill if it shall so seem good unto them M r Secretary declared that according to the direction of this House her Majesty hath been informed of the exceeding and inestimable joy and comfort which this House hath received by a Message lately published sent from her Highness by M r Speaker And hath been likewise moved to signify her Highnesses pleasure touching the determination of this House in appointing Mr. Speaker with some selected Company of the same to render the most humble and dutiful thanks of this whole House for the said most gracious most princely and comfortable Message And her gracious Answer was That her Majesty being acquainted with the said desires of this House did vouchsafe that Mr. Speaker with forty fifty or a hundred of this House such as should thereunto be appointed should have access unto her Majesty for the same purpose upon Monday next in the Afternoon at the Court and should be all welcome Whereupon were appointed the Knights for all the Shires My Lord Hayward my Lord Clinton all Knights Members of this House the Citizens and Knights for London the Masters of Requests Mr. Bacon Mr. Francis Lee Mr. Dr. Parkins Mr. Warcup Mr. Dr. Bennet Mr. Dr. James Mr. Davies Mr. Martin and Mr. Simnel Robert Holland Scrivener and Lawrence Brook his Servant were brought to the Bar and being charged by Mr. Speaker with their offence against this House in offering an abuse unto a Member of the same in striking and ill intreating of Mr. 〈◊〉 and his servant attending upon him 〈◊〉 presence it was upon the hearing and debating of the matter Ordered upon the question that the said Robert Holland and Lawrence Brook his servant should be committed Prisoners to the Serjeant of this House for the space of five days and then to be discharged paying the Fees of the Serjeant and the Clerk The Bill that the Lord Marquess of Winchester may dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tayle as other Tenants in Tayle by the Laws and Statutes of the Realm may do c. was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy Council being Members of this House all the Queen 's Learned Councel likewise Sir Robert Wroth Sir Fdward Moore Sir Francis Hastings Sir Walter Raleigh and others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Edward Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Christopher Hillyard Esquire returned into this present Parliament a Burgess for the Borough of Heydon in the County of York for that he is visited with sickness and thereby unable to give his Attendance is licensed by Mr Speaker to depart home Henry Hastings Esquire one of the Knights for the County of Leicester is licensed by Mr. Speaker for his necessary affairs to depart into his Countrey after having left with the Serjeant ten shillings for the Poor On Monday the 30. day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for repairing and amending of Bridges near the City of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland was read the first time M r D r Caesar brought in the Bill touching the making of a Haven or Pier on the North part of Severn c. with some Amendments Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Poulterers of London was read the first time and rejected M r Dale one of the Committees in the Bill touching Feltmakers who were appointed on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and brought in the Bill with a Proviso annext and some Amendments Thus far of the passages of this day out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons Now followeth a certain Message by Sir William Knolls her Majesties Comptroller which he delivered in her Highnesses name unto the House out of the private Journal Mr. Comptroller said I am to certify you of her Highness's gladness and willingness to hear the acceptable News that was delivered unto her from this House of our humble and earnest desire all to see her Majesty and shew our thankfulness She commanded me to tell you That the reason of her limitation of having a convenient number was that the place whereunto we should come was not big enough to receive us all but she saith that she is glad that there is such a Sympathy betwixt her and us And she is well pleased that this Afternoon at three of the Clock we should attend her and without
the sale of Lands ten pound and likewise for every Bill for consumation of partiuclar Joyntures the sum of five pound to be distributed in such sort as this House shall further appoint Upon a motion made by M r Secretary Cecill that the Charity and Collection made by the Members of this House for the relief of the Poor during this present Session of Parliament may especially be extended to the comfort of the poor maimed Souldiers now remaining in and about the City of London it was most willlingly and readily assented unto by the whole House M r Dannet Burgess for Yarmouth said May it please you M r Speaker The duty I owe to my Sovereign and Country makes me bold to crave your Patience to hear me The matter that I shall speak of is twosold the first concerneth the Honour of the Queen the second the safety of our Country two very high points for me to handle and require a more eloquent Discourse than I am able to make I will use no circumstance or with superfluous matter abuse the time which is very precious but to the matter I have been of the Parliament five or six times and I have always observed by this House and I would willingly be resolved by the Honourable about the Chair that all the Wars of her Majesty are Wars offensive and I do not hear the contrary How then windes it that such a number of her Majestie Subjects be spoiled robb'd beaten wounded themselves taken used with such extream torture rack'd carried away imprisoned ransomed sined and some executed and all this time no Wars But give me leave for these ten Years I am sure the Subjects of this Land on the Sea-Coast have undergone these Tyrannies and by whom even by two base Towns Dunkirk and Newport Dunkirk at first began with two Ships and are now encreased to almost twenty They are at home at Supper and the next day here with us I must needs confess the great charge that I know the Lord Admiral is at continually by lying ready to take these Pirates Send to take them they straight 〈◊〉 home if our Ships return they are streight here again I dare boldly say it they have done England more hurt since they began than all France either in the time of Hen. 8. Edw. 6. or Queen Mary If it be so that these two base Towns shall so confront the Power of this Land I see no reason why they should be suffered for it is a great dishonour both unto the Queen and unto the Kingdom I have heard many say that the Navies are the Walls of the Kingdom but we suffer our Ships still to be destroyed some to be burnt and some to be sunk We may compare our Seamen to Sheep feeding upon a fair Mountain in the midst whereof stands a little Grove full of Wolves Why M r Speaker we are so plagued with them that they be so bold as now and then to take our Harvest-men tardy with Ambuscadoes I speak with grief and it was reported unto me by a Scottish-man that Duke Allert and the Infanta should plainly publish that they would pull down so many of the Walls of England that they would easily make an Entry And it had been better for Sea-Coast men to have given the Queen an hundred Subsidies that they had been long since supprest My humble Motion is that it would please the House to enter into consideration of these things for the honour good and safety both of the Queen and of the Kingdom M r Peake said I must needs shew unto this House upon so good an occasion offered how grievously the Town of Sandwich for which I serve is vexed and almost undone insomuch as in that Town there is neither Owner Master or Mariner that hath not felt it Her Majesty is continually at Charge but what ensueth or cometh of it I never yet knew If in the County of Kent at Shooters Hill Gadd's Hill Baram Down c. there should many and ofter Robberies be committed and the Justices look not to it this were but an ill part Every day men come home their Goods and all they have taken away yea their very Apparel and if the Ships might also be carried away they would do it This would be amended and looked into We had need to cherish this Subject I think him to be the best and most necessary Member of the Common-Wealth I mean the Navigator M r Martin said I like not these extravagant Speeches in the manner though I mislike them not in the matter They are like to men whose Houses being on Fire run out into the street like Madmen for getting themselves of help That that Cottage of Dunkirk the flourishing Estate whereof is a dishonour to our Nation should so much offend us when we never offer to suppress them it is no marvail I think there is no man but understands the grief But I wish that those who at first propounded to the House this matter had also laid down some project though never so small of remedy otherwise such cursory Motions as these be cannot be but very distastful to the House M r Lithe said Within these twelve dayes one man lost two hundred pound only by Dunkirkers who took the same away M r Secretary Cecill said My Speech shall only tend to advance the Motion of the Gentleman that spake first in this point If we would have remedy we are to consider two things First That it will be a matter of charge and secondly That there must be a distribution thereof For the first I leave it to you for the second it is out of my Element Withal I must excuse them that have Authority to remedy this For unless you would have a continual charge unto her Majesty by having Ships lying betwixt us and Dunkirk it is impossible but that at sometimes these Robberies will be committed I could very well agree to bring this Motion to some head being a matter in mine opinion very considerable in a Committee And all said I I I. M r Dannet said I would only move the House that some Masters of Ships and Seamen might be sent for to attend at the Committee Whereupon it was Ordered to be considered of and refer'd to Committees viz. all the Privy Council being Members of this House the Queens Learned Councel being of this House Sir Walter Raleigh the Burgesses for Ports and Sea-faring Towns the Knights of the Shires for Maritime Counties the Masters of Request M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Francis Hastings Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill touching Fines within the County of the City of Chester was read the third time and past upon the question M r Tate said I would only move the House that whereas an Information is exhibited by the Earl of Huntington against a Member of this House M r Belgrave