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
Subjects whose most faithful and approved good love and fidelity towards her she more esteemeth than all the Treasures of the world besides very shortly to cause a Collection to be made of all the Laws already in force touching Purveyors and also all the constitutions of her Highnesses Household in that case and thereupon by the advice of her Judges and her Learned Council to set down such a Form and Plot for the said Redresses yea and that before the end of this present Session as shall be as good and better for the ease of the Subjects than that which this House had attempted without her Privity and in which they would have bereaved her Majesty the Honour Glory and Commendation of the same And touching the Exchequer she said it was her Chamber and so more near unto her than the Household And that in the tenth year of her Raign her Majesty had caused certain Orders and Constitutions to be set down for the due and fit course of such things in the said Court as her Subjects seem to be grieved for Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 15 th day on Monday the 17 th day and on Tuesday the 27 th day of February foregoing as also on Tuesday the 4 th day and on Thursday the 6 th day of this present March The Committees in the Bill for the Pier of Dover and Hartilpool appointed to meet this day on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing are defered till Monday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the former place M r Serjeant Shuttleworth and M r Doctor Awberry do bring from the Lords two Bills of which the first was an Act for the maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage with commendation of the same Bills to the good consideration of this House to be dealt in by the House with all convenient speed that may be M r Morrice and divers other Members of this House arguing to the Bill last read yesterday it afterwards in the end passed upon the question M r Edward Cook Esquire one of the Burgesses returned into this House for the Borough of Alborow in the County of Suffolk is for his necessary affairs licensed to depart On Monday the 10 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Writs of Covenant c. was read the third time and a Proviso for the Lord Powes and Sir Edward Herbert and their Heirs was thrice read and after many Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill the said Bill was dashed upon the question The Bill against Pluralities and Non-Residents lately passed this House was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others who returning again from thence with the said Bill shewed that their Lordships would be ready for them half an hour hence and willed them then to come again Upon which report it was thought good to attend their said Lordships leisure therein half an hour hence accordingly And afterwards the said Bill was sent up by the said M r Treasurer and others The Bill for the maintenance of the Pier of Dover with a Note of the Committees names are delivered to M r Wroth one of the Committees in the same who were appointed on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing The Bill for granting of four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies to her Majesty being ordered upon the question to be read was then read for the third reading and passed upon the question accordingly On Tuesday the 11 th day of March the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln was upon the second reading committed unto M r John Stubbs the Burgesses of Norwich the Burgesses of York and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for repairing of Dover-Haven appointed on Friday the 28 th day of February foregoing shewed that the said Committees have met and travailed in the said Bill and do think good that concerning some things in the same there be a Conference prayed with the Lords and thereupon it was assented that the Bills last passed in this House should presently be sent up and withal to make that request also unto their Lordships accordingly After which the Bill touching Pleadings in Actions of Trespass under the value of forty shillings having had its last reading this Morning and passed the House was with the Subsidy Bill sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others with Commission to pray Conference with the Lords touching the Amendments desired by this House to be made in the said Bill for Dover-Haven Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning the bringing in of salted Fish and salted Herrings was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Sir John Parrot Mr. Vice-Chamberlain the Burgesses of Orford Alborow York Norwich Lincoln Lin and Barwick and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber M r Doctor Awberry and M r Doctor Cary do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for assurance to be made of the Jointure of Anne the Wife of Henry Nevill Esquire with some Amendments which their Lordships pray to be considered of by this House M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed that they have had Conference with the Lords touching some parts of the said Bill for Dover-Haven and reciting some particularities of the same shewed that the Lords can like of such course of Amendment as by the said Committees of this House was moved unto them if the House shall think good to set down and require those Amendments And thereupon this form of amendment was assented unto by this House viz. linea 18. after the word And put out all that followeth unto these words be it in the 20 th line put out all from the end of the 20 th line unto this word that in the 30 th line Sir Edward Hobby M r Markham M r Buckley and Mr. Peter Evers were added to the Committees in the Bill for the City of Lincoln and the Bill with the names was delivered to Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees On Wednesday the 12 th day of March Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Aliens and Strangers retailing of Foreign Wares was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Comptroller Sir Robert Jermin Sir William Moor and others who were appointed to meet upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir John Parrot one of the Committees for the Pier of Hartilpool brought in the Bill in the name of himself and the residue of the said
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
and working of Wax was read the second time and committed unto M r Comptroller M r Edgecombe M r Lieutenant M r Recorder and Mr. Cromwell to consider presently in the Committee Chamber Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in the Bill for Sheriffs with some Amendments and Additions and also a new Bill touching the return of Jurors which all were read Post Meridiem The House being called and some returned into the places of others Deceased since the last Session of this present Parliament and yet some of them supposed to be living some in place of others sick and diseased and some in place of others imployed in the Queens Majesties Service it is Ordered that all the said returns of this Session be Examined and the Orders and Precedents of this House in like Cases formerly used be also considered by some of this House and thereupon report to be made to this whole House of the state of the said Returns and Precedents to the end further order may be taken therein accordingly Whereupon were appointed for that purpose M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Shirley Sir Edward Horsey Sir William Moore Sir Henry Gate Sir John Hibbott M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Diggs M r Cromwell and M r Poole William Boreman Esq one of the Burgess for the Town of Wells was Licensed by Mr. Speaker to be absent for his necessary Affairs at the next Assizes in the County of Somerset On Saturday the 25 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute of 32 H. 8. for Limitation of prescription was read the third time and passed upon the Question Tuesday next in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber is appointed for the Committees to meet together to examine the returns and defaults appearing upon the calling of the House The Bill for the better fortifying of the Borders and Frontiers towards Scotland was read the second time and after many Arguments committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House M r Treasurer of the Chamber M r Knight Marshal Sir Thomas Cecil Sir Henry Lea Sir Henry Knivett and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Monday the 27 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Examination of Witnesses in Towns Corporate was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The two Bills which passed yesterday were now sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others The Bill touching Leases of Tenants in Tail was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Sandes M r Amerdeth M r Cromwell M r Edward Stanhope and M r Shirley who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the City of Carliol was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Knight Marshal Sir Henry Knivett Sir John Dawney Sir Edward Horsey Sir Robert Stapleton Sir Henry Gate and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Dr. Barkeley did bring from the Lords word that their Lordships have appointed to meet with the Committees of this House at the Court in the Council Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon touching the Bill of disobedient Subjects It is Ordered thereupon for this time that the former Committees with some others now added and no more shall attend the Lords to Morrow in the Afternoon according to the Message brought from their Lordships in the Bill for Religion The Bill for the punishment of Hereticks called the Family of Love was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Wilson and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon It was Ordered that the House should be called again upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Tuesday the 28 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching Clothes called Tauntons and Bridgewaters was read the third time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Barkley and Mr. Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Compton The Bill against Moor-burning was read the second time The Bill touching Examination of Witnesses in Corporate Towns and these words viz. without Commission or Warrant from some of her Majesties Courts or Councels and these words or nisi prius are upon the Question Ordered to be put into the Bill and the word heretofore already in the Bill was upon the division of the House after the doubtfulness of the Question Ordered to remain in the Bill by the advantage of the number of nine persons and the Bill so amended was passed upon the Question On Wednesday the first day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for granting one Subsidy two Fifteenths and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday the second day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventry was read the third time and passed upon the Question Five Bills were sent up to the Lords by all the Privy-Council being of this House and others of which one was the Bill touching Limitation of prescription in a Formedon in the Descender and another against the false packing of Hops Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against the Corporation of the Merchant Adventurers being Freemen of the City of London was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Wilson Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower the Master of the Jewel-House M r Dale Master of the Requests and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And further that the said Committees shall have Authority to hear such proofs on both parts as shall make request to come before them touching the contents of the said Bill On Friday the third day of March the Additions and Amendments in the Bill touching Tinners and Spaliers were twice read and the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the preservation of
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
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
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
as well of the said Francis as of the Bishop of Durham whom it concerned should on Saturday then next following be heard what could on either side be said in furtherance or disallowance of the same The Bill also for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was secunda vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Tuesday the 23 th day of February the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huicke Nota That this Bill of Subsidy after it had passed the Upper House was not by them altered or amended in any thing but only sent back again unto the House of Commons to whom it did most properly belong and is on the last day of the Parliament or Session of Parliament to be brought up by the Speaker of the said House as it was at this time on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing and presented unto her Majesty by Thomas Williams Esq Prolocutor of the said House at this present Session before she gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed On Thursday the 25 th day of February the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read the first time On Saturday the 27 th day of February the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them read prima vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty and the second against carrying over Sheep Skins and Pelts over the Seas not being Staple Ware were each of them returned conclus This day according to the Order formerly taken Sir Francis Jobson with his Counsel came before the Lords and by them declared ..... And no more is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by the negligence of the Clerk the matter is so left abruptly but it doth plainly appear that it was touching the Assurance of certain Lands which concerned the Bishop of Durham ut videas on Saturday the 20 th of this Instant February foregoing On Monday the first day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughters of the late Lord Hussey was read prima vice A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions was read primâ secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Province of Canterbury and the second against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees were each of them read prima vice The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury was read secunda tertia vice conclus and was with the Bill for the Children of the Lord Hussey which had likewise this day passed the House upon the third reading sent to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read and Serjeant Carus On Wednesday the 3 d day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read tertia vice with certain Provisions thereunto annexed by the Lords which were thrice severally read conclus A Proviso annexed by the House of Commons to the Bill against forging of false Deeds was read prima secunda tertia vice commissa Domino Rich Domino Willoughby Primario Justiciario Banci Regii Justiciario Browne Quod Nota Because no Bill or Proviso is usually committed after the third reading On Thursday the 4 th day of March The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Haleston Esq The Bill against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees The Bill for the punishments of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians And the Bill for uniting of Churches within the City of Winchester were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of William West and the Bill for the Town of Southampton were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to Justice Southcote Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney Nota That these two Bills last mentioned were not only committed after the first reading which is not usual till the second but also committed to meer Assistants which are not Members of the House and therefore in both respects the President is more rare and remarkable vide consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of Jan. foregoing On Saturday the 6 th day of March The Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Edward Turner were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus commis Servienti Carus Ricardo Read in Domum Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas and the second touching Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Comite Arundel On Monday the 8 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money c. The Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper
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
also that he thought their Lordships could likewise help the same again with some Amendment to the Amendments of this House in the same Bill to be sent down hither and assented unto by this House On Thursday the 25 th day of March Thomas Patrick being brought to the Bar for serving a Subpoena upon M r Cook a Member of this House during the time of this present Session of Parliament in the behalf and at the Suit of Margery Dike was ordered upon his Submission to deliver a Copy of the Bill to M r Cook gratis to give him Twenty Shillings for the Charge of his answer and to pay the Serjeants Fees Roger Vanconge a Dutchman and Merchant Stanger being this day brought by the Serjeant to the Bar for Arresting of John Werrall Servant unto Thomas Powell Esq a Member of this House for Debt and carrying him into the Counter of Woodstreet in London And the said John Werrall being also brought to this House it was after several Examinations had by this House as well of the said Roger Vanconge as of the said John Werrall at last after many long Motions and Arguments upon the circumstances falling out in the said Examinations resolved after the doubtfulness of the greater Number of Voices upon the Question by the Division of the House That the said John Werrall should not have priviledge of this House but should first openly in the House take Oath against the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome and then be remanded to the said Prison of the Counter again in state as he was before which was so done accordingly for that it did manifestly appear unto this House as well by the Confession of the same Werrall as also by the confession and by a Letter of his own subscribed with his own hand and so confessed by himself directed to one Dakings that fraudulently and Covenously he procured himself to be received into the Service of the said M r Powell this Parliament time to escape from Arrests to the delaying and defeating of his Creditors upon which dividing of the House there were with the Yea or I eighty five Voices and with the No but sixty nine M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill touching Wards and Liveries brought in the Bill again with some Amendments and referred the same Amendments to the further reading of the Bill which Bill was then read accordingly and the Amendments twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be Ingrossed M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill touching draining of Fenns brought in the Bill again as a Bill thought good by the same Committees to be reserved till the next Parliament and to be left in the House for that purpose On Friday the 26 th day of March the Amendments and Additions in the Bill for preservation of Woods near unto the Town of Crambrook in the County of Kent was upon the second reading Ordered to be committed again to the former Committees The Bill for naturalizing of certain English mens Children born beyond the Seas was upon the third reading passed M r Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill for the increase of Pheasants and Partridges brought in the Bill again with some Amendments and the same Amendments being twice read the Bill was again after sundry speeches and Arguments committed to the former Committeees M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle did bring from the Lords two Bills of which one was the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Philip Bassett Esquire brought in the Bill again as a Bill agreed by them to be reserved until the next Parliament Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill with the Amendments for the keeping of the County Court at Morpeth and the Town of Alnwick in the County of Northumberland and another Bill being for the safe keeping of obstinate Recusants Armour was sent back again unto the said House from their Lordships who gave it presently three readings by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle The Bill touching Wardships and Liveries was read the third time and dashed upon the question there being but seventy five Voices for it and ninety five against it The Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster with the Amendments according to the last Additions was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r William Stoughton one of the Committees in the Bill against Excessive Fees and taxations in the Eclesiastical Courts brought in the Bill again On Saturday the 27 th day of March after the Letany was read and the prayers ended Mr. Speaker signified unto the House that her Majesties Commandment was that this House do not sit this present day but do assemble here again on Monday next in the Forenoon at which time they shall then know her Majesties further pleasure On Monday the 29 th day of March M r Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkeley did bring from the Lords the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset with some Amendments The Bill for increase of Pheasants and Partridges was twice read and the Amendments thereof thrice and then it was put to the Question whether or no the said Bill with the Amendments should pass And it was found that there were one hundred and thirteen Voices for the passing of the Bill and but seventy five against it The Amendments and Schedule in the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis were thrice read and so passed accordingly upon the Question The Amendments also in the Bill for the safe keeping of the Armour of obstinate Recusants were thrice read and passed upon the Question Post Meridiem Three Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the first was the Bill touching the Armour of obstinate Recusants and is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but the other two touching Pheasants and Partridges with their Amendments and touching the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis are there set down to have been sent up as aforesaid M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Serjeant Rodes did bring down from the Lords to the House of Commons the Bill of Subsidy which is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and the Bill for her Majesties Gracious general and free Pardon which being once read passed upon the Question accordingly Her Majesty with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set in the Upper House about ..... of the Clock this Afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired thither with
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
Conference or meeting of the said Committees brake up imperfectly and was further deferr'd till the next Morning The Passages of this Afternoon do now follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following Post Meridiem Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Mountague a Committee in the Bill touching Souldiers and others certified in the Bill with some Amendments whereof he prayed the reading The Amendments in the Bill for relief of Souldiers and Mariners were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Policies of Assurances used amongst Merchants was read the second time and committed unto Sir Walter Raleigh M r Doctor Caesar Sir Francis Bacon Sir Stephen Soame and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir Francis Bacon who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock The Bill touching Hat-Makers was read the third time and upon the question and division of the House passed with the Yea ninety three and with the No forty six John Yakesley Esq returned into this present Parliament one of the Burgesses for the Town of Cambridge is for his necessary affairs licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart Upon Motion made by Serjeant Harris that Anthony Curwin Servant Attendant upon William Huddleston Esq a Member of this House hath been Arrested into the Counter in the Poultrey in London at the Suit of one Matthew a Chyrurgeon It is Ordered that the Serjeant that made the said Arrest and the said Matthew should be sent for to answer in this House for their said contempt as appertaineth M r Adam and Listers Councel are appointed to be heard to Morrow On Saturday the 12 th day of December the Bill to avoid the stealing of Cattle was read the second time and committed unto Sir George Moore Mr. Maynard Mr. Brown and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of the Mannor of Sagebury aliàs Sadgbury unto John Harris and Samuel Sandys Gent. was read the third time and passed upon the question Some part of this Forenoons Passages doth now next follow out of private Journals An Act for redress of certain abuses used in Painting was read the third time It was moved by Sir George Moore and some others that the Bill might be let slip and the Cause refer'd to the Lord Mayor of London because it concerned a Controversie between the Painters and Plaisterers of London To which M r Davies Answered That the last Parliament this Bill should have past this House but it was refer'd as is now desired and Bonds made by the Plaisterers for performance of the Orders to be set down by the Lord Mayor yet all will do no good Wherefore M r Speaker I think it good to be put to the question Sir Stephen Soame desired that my Lord Mayor might not be troubled with them c. but that it might be put to the question and it seemed likely to go against the Painters But M r Heyward Townsend as it was putting to the question stood up and shewed that in the Statute of 25 Ed. 3. Cap. 3. Plaisterers were not then so called but Dawbers and Mudwall-Makers who had for their Wages by the day three pence and their Knave three half pence for so was his Labourer called they so continued till King Henry the Sevenths time who brought into England with him out of France certain men that used Plaister of Paris about the Kings Sieling and Walls whose Statute Labourers these Dawbers were These Statute Labourers learned in short time the use of Plaister of Paris and did it for the King who increased to be many then suing to the King for his Favour to Incorporate them he did fulfil their desire Incorporating them by the name of Gipsarium which was for Clay and Mud aliàs Morter-Makers An. 16 Hen. 7. being no Freemen for all their Corporation they obtained the Kings Letters in their favour to Sir William Remmington the Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen to allow them Freemen which was granted at what time came in four of them paying ten shillings a piece for their Freedoms And in three years after that manner came in to the number of twenty but they paid four pound a piece for their Freedom They renewed their Patent in King Henry the Eighths time and called themselves Plaisterers aliàs Morter-Makers for the use of Loam and Lyme They made an humble Petition and Supplication after this to Sir John Munday then Lord Mayor and to the Aldermen to grant them Ordinances for the better Rule and Government of their Company in these words viz. We the good Folks of Plaisterers in London of Plaister and Loam of the said City for redress of certain abuses of Lath-Plaister and Loam wrought in the said Craft c. and had allowed unto them search for their Company for the use of Lath Loam and Lyme In all their Corporations at no time had they the word Colours neither yet in their Ordinances For all they were incorporated by the name of Plaisterers yet in all King Henry the Eighths time they were called Dawbers as appears in the Accompts of the Chamber of London paid to such and such Dawbers for so many days so much and to their Labourers so much The Plaisterers never laid any Colour upon any of the Kings Houses nor in the Sheriffs of London but this Year They wore no Livery or Cloathing in the seventeenth of King Henry the Eighth They have been suffered to lay Alehouse Colours as red Lead and Oaker with such like and now intrude themselves to all Colours Thus they take not only their own work but Painting also and leave nothing to do for the Painter Painters and Stainers were two several Companies in King Edward the Thirds time one for Painting of Posts and all Timber-Work and the other for Staining and Painting of Cloth of great continuance The two several Companies were joined both into one by their own consents and by the consents of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City the nineteenth year of King Edward the Fourth The Painters had Orders allowed them for the use of Oyl and Colours especially named in King Henry the Fourths time from the Lord Mayor and City Painters cannot work without Colours their only mixture being Oyl and Size which the Plaisterers do now usurp and intrude into Painters have her Majesties Letters Patents dated the twenty fourth year of Elizabeth forbidding any Artificer the use of Colours and Oyl or Size after the manner of Painting but only such as have been or shall be Apprentice namely