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
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
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
was the Bill for the Incorporation and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset and the second for the Town of Southampton The Bill touching Licences and Dispensations was committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and others and to Doctor Lewis and Doctor Huick The Bill lastly for limitation of the Fees of Councellors and others towards the Law was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second touching the Limitation of Fees of Councellors and others towards the Law was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Vaughan Four Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill against Fugitives over the Seas the second for Incorporation of both Universities with a new Proviso added by the House of Commons and certain Amendments which were thrice read and assented unto the third for reviving and continuance of Statutes and the last touching corrupt Presentations The Bill touching severance of Sheriffs of sundry Counties was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or ordered to be ingrossed in regard it had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons on Wednesday the 23 th day of this instant Month of May preceeding of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the same Month foregoing The Bill against Fugitives was sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale with the latter Proviso put out and all other Amendments Three Bills were brought from the House of Commons the first against Fugitives over the Seas and the second for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ nonâ May the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for John Tirrell Esq and the second for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Two Bills were sent at several times unto the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the bringing in of the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London was returned with a new Proviso and certain Amendments added by them of the House of Commons And the second also for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Berkeley and the Lady Katherine his Wife was returned with certain Amendments and a Proviso added thereunto Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords meeting the Bill for the bringing in of the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London was read tertiâ vice with certain Provisoes and Amendments added thereunto by the House of Commons and Assented unto by the Lords Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 29 th day of May the Bill touching the Queens Majesties most Gracious General and free Pardon was read primâ vice conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Six Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first being for the continuance of the severance of Sheriffs in sundry Counties and the second to make the Lands Goods and Chattels of Tellors c. liable to the payment of their Debts were each of them returned conclusae The Bill of the Queens Majesties general and free Pardon was returned conclusa Note that Robert Bowyer Esq who succeeded Sir Thomas Smith in the place of Clerk of the Upper House in An. 6 Jacobi Regis in his Abridgment of the Journals of the said House during the Queens Reign hath in this place upon the sending up of the aforesaid Bill of Pardon left this Animadversion following viz. It seemeth the Clerks negligence that the sending of this Bill to the Lower House is not set down in the Journal-Book also by entrance of the returning thereof it seemeth that the same was sent single alone by special Messengers and not with the other six Bills Nota also That all the following passages of this Afternoon excepting the entrance only of the Dissolution of the Parliament are all transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and the Speech of Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper was transcribed out of a Copy thereof which I had by me as was also the manner of her Majesties passing the several Acts supplied by my self according to the ordinary use of a former President thereof None of all which passages excepting that only touching the entrance of the Dissolution of the said Parliament are at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House But do now come to be supplied out of those other above-mentioned Manuscript Monuments and in the first place out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following About four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queens Majestie being sat in her Royal Seat in the Upper House M r Speaker made his Oration presented unto her Majesty the Book of the Subsidy and in the name of the whole House gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness general and free Pardon and prayed her Majesties Royal Assent unto such Acts and Laws as had passed both the Houses in this Session This being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 39. a. now follows the Answer of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal at large which he made unto the Speakers Speech being transcribed out of a Copy I had by me M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard and doth very well understand how discreetly and wisely you have declared the Proceedings of this Session in the Nether House for Answer whereof and for the better signification of what her Majesties opinion is both of Parliament men and Parliament matters this is to let you understand her Majesty hath Commanded me to say unto you that like as the greatest number of them of the Lower House have in the proceedings of this Sessions shewed themselves modest discreet and dutiful as becomes good and loving Subjects and meet for the places that they be called unto So there be certain of them although not many in number who in the proceeding of this Session have shewed themselves audacious arrogant and presumptuous calling her Majesties Grants
hard for amongst many other ways there is one plain evident and easie and that is where offences do abound in any Country contrary to the Laws which the Justices should so reform and there be nothing done by them for the Reformation of those offences I do not see but this makes a full charge of their uncarefulness and negligence whereby they are well worthy upon Certificate made as is aforesaid to be removed of all Governance to their perpetual ignominy and to the Commendation of all those that remain as good Officers And besides to set forth other pains upon them as by Law may be justified if this were once or twice done I doubt not but the Examples following of the doing of it would cause greater diligence to be used in the Execution of Laws than now there is And the better to understand which be those Justices that do offend why might there not be order taken that the name of every Justice that hath not prosecuted any Offender for any offence committed contrary to any Law which by the Commission that he is in he is authorized to see punished might be entred into some Rolls and also how often and how many of those kind of offences he hath also prosecuted for a declaration of his diligence whereby it might appear when such Visitation should come who hath been careful and who hath been negligent to the end that the slothful drowzy Drones might be severed from the diligent and careful Bees And like as I could wish this to be done concerning Offices of mean degree so do I desire that the same course might be taken with the great and greatest for so it should be Equable But if there be nothing done therein but things left as they have been then must you look to have your Laws Executed as they have been if not worse for words will not reform these matters as I have seen by proof And this is the sum of what I have to say at this time concerning the Execution of Laws This Speech of the Lord Keepers being thus transcribed out of the before-mentioned Copy thereof now follows the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed as it is set down in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in an 39 Reg. Eliz. although it be omitted in that of this present Parliament The Title of the Bill of Subsidy being read after the publick and private Acts the Clerk of the said House standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Roigne remercie ses Loyaulx subjects accepte lour benevolence ainst le veult The said Clerk having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Title of her Majesties Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelats Seigneurs Communes en ce present Parliament Assembles au nom de touts vos autres subjects remercient tres humblement vostre Majesty prient à Dieu qu' il vous done santé bone vie longe To every one of the publick Acts allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament read these French words following La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk read the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desiré These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that passed are to be written by the said Clerk at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament reads these French words following viz. La Roigne s' advisera Her Majesty finally having given her Royal Assent to twenty eight publick Acts and thirteen private Dissolved the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Dissolvit praesens Parliamentum THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 13 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1571 which began there on Monday the 2 d day of April and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 29 th day of May ensuing THIS present Journal of the House of Commons de an 13 Regin Eliz. is not only plentifully stored with all usual Passages touching the Orders and Priviledges of the House but is most worthy to be had in Eternal Remembrance in respect of the long agitation and judicious debatement of matters of Religion and Ecclesiastical Government for the Reformation of which the said House did express a great deal of earnest zeal and care although all in the issue came to nothing out of that old Principle inculcated into her Majesty by some politick Head and misapplyed by her viz. that nothing must be innovated in matters of Religion All which matters with those also less extraordinary are more largely set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons than was usual in the former Journals of her Majesties Reign by reason that Fulk Onslow Esq did as may be guessed succeed in the place of Clerk of the said House unto ..... Seymour Esq somewhat before the beginning of this Parliament Which said Journal is also much perfected out of an imperfect Journal of the same House I had by me taken by some Anonymous Member of the said House at this Parliament in which to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said imperfect Journal is distinguished by some Animadversion The third Parliament of Queen Elizabeth held in the Thirteenth Year of her Majesties most happy and prosperous Reign begun at the City of Westminster upon Monday the second day of April and during the time that her Majesty was at the Sermon at Westminster Church whither she had repaired about ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the said Monday the Lord Clinton High Admiral of England accompanied with divers of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council that is to say Sir Francis Knolles K t Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofts K t Comptroller of the same Sir Ralph Sadler K t Chancellor of her Majesties Dutchy of Lancaster Sir Walter Mildmay K t Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer and Sir Thomas Smith Knight repaired into the Lower House of Parliament And there in the presence and hearing of a great number of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same Parliament Assembled the said Lord Clinton signified that the Queens Majesty had called and appointed him to be the Steward of her Highness most Honourable Houshold to continue during her Majesties pleasure which being likewise affirmed and testified by the said other of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council the said Lord Steward then further declared that he did then and there name Constitute
Bill against flying with long-winged Hawks under certain degrees was read prima vice Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crast. hora nona On Saturday the 7 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making proving and marking of Callivers Muskets Hand-Guns Dags and other small Ordnance was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Lord Grey the Lord Evers the Lord North the Lord Chandois and the Lord Norris and to Justice Harper And the fourth and last being the Bill touching Hawks and preservation of Game was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Lord Darcy the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John de Bletsoe the Lord Compton the Lord Cheyney and Justice Wray Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proxim hora nona On Monday the 9 th day of June Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that the inhabitants of the City of Winchester and of the Liberty of Soke adjoining to the same may use the Trade of Cloth-making and take Apprentices was read prima vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them their second reading of which the second being the Bill for the Partition of certain Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight and their Heirs was read secunda vice 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 House of Commons The Bill lastly being for the School of Tunbridge was committed unto the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Wentworth the Lord Norris being doubtless brought in this day by the Committees nominated on Wednesday the 4 th of this instant June foregoing but it was not at all now read but had its second reading with a new Proviso added unto it on the Morrow following and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June and was committed the third time upon the third reading Vide a like President on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Tuesday the 10 th day of June Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the severance of the Sheriffwick of Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire and the second for the punishment of such as shall rebelliously take or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castles Fortresses c. were each of them returned conclus The Bill for the better and further assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent was read secunda vice with a new Proviso added thereunto by the Lords which was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon request made by the House of Commons to have Conference with some of the Lords to be appointed by the House touching the great Bill of the Queen of Scots were appointed these Lords following viz. The Archbishop of York The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Leicester The Earl of Essex The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Lord Burleigh The Lord Grey The Lord Wentworth The Lord Chandois and The Lord North. But no Judges were nominated because they were to confer with the House of Commons Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 12 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora nona Nota That as it did not appear before on Thursday the 5 th day of this instant June so neither is it expressed here by what Authority the Lord Keeper is re-authorised to exercise the same again which hapned through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House The Presidents are familiar in other Journals of this Queens Reign where this Authority hath been given to the Lord Chief Justice or some other to supply the Lord Keeper's place by Commission under the Great Seal and that the readmittance of the Lord Keeper to the Executing of his said place again was by like Commission but here it is possible that either were at this time here Executed by some other Authority On Wednesday the 11 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Sea-Marks and the reviving of a Statute that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read tertia vice conclusa Three Bills were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons by Doctor Vaughan and Doctor Huick of which one was the Bill for continuance of Statutes The Bill to revive a Statute made an 1. of the Queens Majesties Reign inhibiting the transporting out of the Realm of Leather Tallow and Raw-Hides was returned from the House of Commons conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in vicesimum quartum diem Junii prox hora nona mané On Tuesday the 24 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Wooll and Yarn may be bought and sold in the Markets and Fairs to be kept in the Borough of New Woodstock in the County of Oxon was read prima vice Three Bills also were sent to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for Partition to be made between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfield Knight and their Heirs On Wednesday the 25 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusions of Tenants for Term of life and such others was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent formerly from the House of Commons The Bill for the Inning of Plumsted-Marsh in the County of Kent being surrounded was returned from the House of Commons conclusa On Thursday the 26 th day of June The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Sermon to be had in the Church of S t Paul in London every Holyday in the Afternoon for ever was read secunda vice but no mention that it was committed or Ordered
the Bill for the Jurors of Middlesex was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Robert Wroth Mr. Newdigate Mr. Dalton Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Gent. On Friday the 23 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the City of Worcester was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Comptroller in the name of all the Committees in the great cause declared from her Majesty her very good and thankful acceptation of the great care of this House for her Majesties Safety and that moved partly in Conscience and partly in Honour minding to defer not to reject the determination of this House to proceed in the Choice of a Bill against the Scottish Queen in the highest degree of Treason both in Life and Title liketh better with all convenient speed to proceed in a second Bill to the other part of the said former Choice which her Majesties pleasure was should be signified unto this House by those of her Privy-Council being of this House and so likewise to the Lords by some others of her Privy-Council being also of that House Vide concerning this business on Thursday the 26 th day of June following Upon a Motion made by Mr. Speaker it was agreed by the House that the former Committees shall signifie unto the Lords of the Upper House that after Declaration made unto this House from her Majesty of her disposition to have the second part of the former choice proceeded in with Expedition and to defer and not to reject the first part of the same This House nevertheless with one whole voice and consent do still rely upon the said first part as most necessary without any liking or allowance of the second And further to make request unto the Lords to understand whether upon the like report of her Majesties like pleasure declared unto their Lordships that they of that House do think good nevertheless to continue the proceeding with the former Choice like as this House doth and if yea then to confer further with their Lordships for their good advices and joining therein accordingly And also to signify unto their Lordships that the whole opinion of this House is that her Majesties safety cannot stand without Execution of the Duke this present Session And that it might please their Lordships in Petition thereof unto her Highness to join with this House Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 31 th day of this instant May ensuing Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Weights and Measures was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Owen Hopton Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Stanhope and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Temple Church Mr. Treasurer reported to the House the delivery of the two Bills of Rites and Ceremonies to her Majesty together with the humble request of this House most humbly to beseech her Highness not to conceive ill opinion of this House if it so were that her Majesty should not like well of the said Bills or of the Parties that preferred them And declared further that her Majesty seemed utterly to mislike of the first Bill and of him that brought the same into the House and that her Highness express will and pleasure was that no Preacher or Minister should be impeached or indicted or otherwise molested or troubled as the preamble of the said Bill did purport adding these comfortable words farther that her Majesty as Defender of the Faith will aid and maintain all good Protestants to the discouraging of all Papists Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Free Grammar-School of Tunbridge was read the first time and committed unto M r Recorder of London M r Coleby M r Norton M r Matthew Dale who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Afternoon in Guildhall M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor brought word from the Lords that touching the Petitions lastly made unto them this present day by this House their Lordships will to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Forenoon have Conference together therein and so then make Answer of them unto this House On Saturday the 24 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against injuries offered by Corporations in the City of London to divers Foreign Artificers was read the first time and committed unto M r Seckford Sir Owen Hopton Sir Rowland Hayward M r Moor and M r Cure who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Guildhall M r Serjeant Barham and Doctor Huick brought from the Lords three Bills viz. The Bill of Tales de circumstantibus heretofore passed this House to have certain words therein inserted An Act against such as shall conspire or practise the Enlargement of any Prisoner committed for High Treason And an Act for the punishment of such as shall rebelliously take or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castles Fortresses c. The Bill for preservation of Timber and Fuel was read the time and passed and was with four other Bills of no great moment sent to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others with further Commission to have Conference with their Lordships touching some Amendments to be had in the Bill of Vagabonds and also touching the opinion of this House for the necessity of the speedy Execution of the Duke and also to pray their Lordships Answer to the Petition of this House made yesterday unto them as for their liking to proceed with the first part of the former Choice and for their advices and conjoining with this House in the Order of the same proceeding The Bill for Planting and setting of Hops was read the first time M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords M r Treasurer made report of the delivery of the said Bills to the Lords and of the residue of their said Commission from this House to their Lordships with Answer from them that they like well and allow of the opinion of this House to proceed in the first degree of Choice in the great Cause and that their Lordships will therein join with this House and have appointed to have Conference with the Committees of this House this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber for the order and manner of the same proceeding and then also with the same Committees to have Conference touching the Bill of Vagabonds and that as touching Petition to be made to the Queens Majesty for the present Execution of the Duke their Lordship 's not misliking the opinion of the House in that matter neither discouraging this House in that Enterprize do refuse to join with this House in that Petition to
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
one reading of which the first being the Bill for the payment of Tythes in the Town of Reading as in the City of London and the last for repairing of the Gaol of S t Edmonds-Bury and of Brandon-Bride in Com. Suff. were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusa On Saturday the 10 th day of March Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness and another was for a Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy Nine Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Hospital of S r Crosse near Winchester was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Barkley and M r Powle Clerk of the Crown and another being a Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Henry Norris Knight Lord Norris of Ricot was read secunda vice 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 House of Commons About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against the defeating of Dilapidations and against Leases to be made of Spiritual Promotions and the second for remedy against the Plaintiff for false Complaint were each of them read secundâ vice but no mention is made whether they were Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth Weynman his Wife on the one part and Francis Weynman Gent. on the other part was read primâ vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of abuses in Goldsmiths was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand and the second being the Bill for preservation of Feasants and Partridges was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewes and M r Vaughan On Monday the 12 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth Weynman on the one part and Francis Weynman Gent. on the other part was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that it was Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons on Saturday the 10 th of this instant March foregoing The Bill also for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney was read primâ secundâ vice which as it should seem was in honour of the said Anthony Mayney Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the maintenance of Colleges in the Universities of Winchester and Eaton and another for the repairing and amending of Bridges and High-ways near unto the City of Oxford Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Nota That here the Lord Keeper continueth again the Parliament which had been performed by the Lord Treasurer from Saturday the third day of this instant March foregoing until this present Monday the 12 th day of the same but whether the one or the other were by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal or by any other Authority appeareth not in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but seemeth to have been omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the same About which foresaid hour in the Afternoon the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to take away Clergy from Offenders in Rape or Burglary and an Order for the delivery of Clerks Convict without Purgation with certain amendments and a Proviso was read tertiâ vice conclusa As also the Bill for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayncy Esquire An Act to redress Disorders in common Informers was sent to the Lords from the House of Commons The Bill lastly for Toleration of certain Clothiers in the Counties of Wilts Somerset and Gloucester was read tertiâ vice conclusa Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ octavâ Vide touching the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Treasurer on Saturday the third day of this instant March foregoing On Tuesday the 13 th day of March Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for annexing of Gate-side to the Town of New-Castle and the seventh being for the Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth his Wife on the one part and Francis Weynman Gentleman on the other part with a Proviso and certain Amendments were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusae and sent to the House of Commons by her Majesties Attorney General M r Barkley and M r Powle The Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire with a Proviso added by the House of Commons was sent from thence to the Lords The Bill lastly for reformation of Jeofailes was read tertiâ vice conclusa commissa Magistro Vaughan Magistro Powle in Domum Communem deferend Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Vide concerning this continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing About which hour in the Afternoon the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the restitution in Blood of John Lord Stourton with a new Proviso added by the said House After which three other Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was concerning Offices found in Counties Palatines and the last for reformation of Jeofailes On Wednesday the 14 th day of March the Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel was read secundâ vice but no mention of committing or ingrossing because it had been sent from the Lords About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious
were appointed to have Conference in the Star-Chamber to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon for drawing of a Bill against the oppression of common Promoters The Bill lastly for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness was read the second time On Saturday the 11 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for M r Hatton was read the first time Upon sundry Arguments made unto the Bill for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness it was committed unto M r Treasurer Sir Rowland Hayward Sir Nichlas Arnold M r More M r Robert Bowes M r Atkins M r Alford M r Aldrich M r Sampoole M r Norton M r Cromwell M r Snagg M r Layton M r Waye M r Popham M r Woley M r Fleet M r Honnywood M r Longley M r Ailmer M r Newdigate M r William Thomas M r Tate M r Owen M r Grimston and M r Cure to meet at this House upon Monday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon Christopher Dighton Gent. one of the Citizens for the City of Worcester was licensed by M r Speaker to take his Journey unto the said City of Worcester for Execution of Dedimus potestatem in the Service of our Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty On Monday the 13 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill that in Actions upon the Case brought for words the County may be traversed was read the second time and committed presently after this Forenoon M r Treasurer for himself and the residue of the Committees for the Subsidy whose names see on Friday the 10 th day of this instant February foregoing declared that upon Conference had amongst them at their meeting together upon Friday last they did then Assent unto certain Articles for drawing of a Bill for one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths to be paid at several times whereupon the same Articles were read by the Clerk and then by Order of the House were the same Articles delivered to some of the Committees being of the Privy-Council that some of the Queens Majesties Learned Councel may by Warrant from this House cause the same Bill to be drawn accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 27 th day of this instant February ensuing The Bill for traversing of the County in Actions upon the Case was committed unto M r Seckford Master of the Requests M r Colshill M r Newdigate and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Temple Church The Petitions touching Ports was read and committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House the Lord Russell M r Captain of the Guard Sir Thomas Scott Sir William Winter M r Recorder of London the Burgesses for Dover M r Sampoole M r Grice Mr. John Hastings Mr. Norton Sir Arthur Basset Mr. Diggs Sir Henry Gate Sir Henry Wallop Mr. Langley Mr. Hawkins Richardson Mr. Randall Mr. Gardiner Mr. Sanders Mr. Jenison Mr. Beale Mr. Honnywood Mr. Tremaine Sir George Speak Mr. Captain of the Wight Sir Henry Ratcliffe Mr. Elesdon Mr. Layton and the Burgesses of Linne to meet to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir Nicholas Arnold Mr. Snagg Mr. Norton and Mr. Atkins were added to the former Committees for drawing of a Bill against the Promoters whose names see on Friday the 10 th day of February to meet upon Thursday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Treasury-Chamber near the Star-Chamber The Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Baber Mr. Yelverlon and others to meet at three of the Clock this present day in the Exchequer Chamber Charles Johnson of the Inner Temple Gent. being Examined at the Bar for coming into this House this present day the House sitting confessing himself to be no Member of this House is Ordered that M r Wilson Master of the Requests Mr. Recorder of London and Mr. Cromwell to examine him wherein he seigned to excuse himself by ignorance he was committed to the Serjeants Ward till further Order should be taken by this House Sir Richard Read and Mr. Doctor Berkley brought into this House a Bill from the Lords touching the diminishing and impairing of the Coins of this Realm and of other Foreign Coins not currant within this Realm Two Bills lastly had each of them their several readings of which the second being the Bill for the preservation of the Lords Seignories was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 14 th day of February the Bill for Mr. Hatton was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Heneage Mr. Cromwell Mr. Dalton Mr. John Spencer Mr. Norton and Mr. Alford to examine the suggestion of the Bill touching the consent of the parties to the passing of the same Bill whereupon Mr. John Spencer one of the Committees being also one of the persons named in the said Bill so resolved the residue of the Committees that upon the report thereof made to the House by Mr. Treasurer it was presently Ordered that the Bill should be ingrossed and the Proviso omitted and left out The Bill for the true payment of the Debts of William Isley Esquire was read the second time and the Proviso to the same Bill being twice read it was committed to Mr. Secretary Walsingham Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber and others Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Jeofailes was read the first time On Wednesday the 15 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against diminishing and impairing the Coins of this Realm or of other Foreign Realms currant within this Realm was read the second time and committed to Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Smith Mr. Secretary Walsingham Mr. Captain of the Guard Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. Heneage Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Sandes Mr. Darrington Mr. Popham and Mr. Norton to confer with the Lords at the next time that any Bill shall be sent to the Lords from this House The Bill against Bastardy was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Secretary Smith Sir Thomas Scott and others to meet upon Friday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Star-Chamber The Bill for reformation of Jeofailes c. was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Seckford Master of the Requests Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Recorder of London and others The Bill for the Freemen of the
City of London was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon sundry Motions this day made touching the further proceeding with or delivery of Charles Johnson Prisoner in the Serjeants Ward it was Ordered that the matter be referred to be further resolved to Morrow next sitting the Court. Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 13 th day of this instant February foregoing On Thursday the 16 th day of February the Bill for one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths was read the first time Vide concerning this Bill of the Subsidy on Wednesday the 27 th day of this instant February ensuing Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Nicholas Arnold and Mr. Serjeant Lovelace were appointed to Examine the matter touching the Arrest of Mr. Hall's Servant before Mr. Speaker at his Chamber this Afternoon Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 10 th day of March ensuing The Bill touching the making of Woollen Cloths in the Counties of Wilts Somerset and Gloucester was read the first time Mr. Doctor Berkley and Mr. Powle brought from the Lords the Bill against excess in Apparel and the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents The Bill touching the making of Woollen Cloths was committed unto Mr. Comptroller Sir Rowland Hayward Sir John Thynne and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next at the Guild-hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill lastly for assurances of Lands late of Edward Dacre was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Friday the 17 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill against making of double double Ale and double double Beer and the fifth against Inholders and Tiplers were each of them read the first time and committed unto Sir Henry Gates Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Edward Popham and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at Westminster-Hall at three of the Clock Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against the dangerous abusing of Daggs Pistolets c. was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Secretary Smith Mr. Comptroller Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower and others to meet upon Tuesday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The new Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was read the first time Upon sundry Motions it was concluded by this House that according to the old precedents of this House Mr. Serjeant Ieffrie being one of the Knights returned for Sussex may have Voice or give his attendance in this House as a Member of the same notwithstanding his attendance in the Upper House as one of the Queens Serjeants for his Councel there as the place where he hath no Voice indeed nor is any Member of the same The Bill for reformation of Under-Sheriffs and other Officers was read the second time and committed on the day next following Quod nota On Saturday the 18 th day of February Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for cutting and working of tanned Leather was read the first time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir John Thynne Sir George Bowes and others to meet upon Tuesday next at the Guildhall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for assurance of Lands to be made without Coven was read the second time and argued unto by Mr. Ireland Mr. Fenner Mr. Brickhed Mr. Mersh Mr. Flowerdewe Mr. Popham and others Mr. Comptroller Sir John Finch Sir Henry Gate Sir Morrice Berkley Sir Arthur Basset and divers others were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Temple Church at two of the Clock in the Afternoon upon the Committee of the Bill of Sheriffs On Monday the 20 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 27 th day of this instant February ensuing The Provisoes also to the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines c. were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon the Question and also upon the Division of the House it was Ordered that Edward Smalley Yeoman Servant unto Arthur Hall Esquire one of the Burgesses for Grantham shall have priviledge Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 10 th day of March following On Tuesday the 21 th day of February Six Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was for the perfecting of Grants made by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich and the second was touching certain Prisoners in Execution escaped out of the Kings Bench. Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House and were sent to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which one was for the Freemen of the City of London and another of Woodstock The Masters of the Request M r Recorder M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Sampoole and Mr. Snagg were appointed to meet at the Rolls Chappel between two and three of the Clock this day in the Afternoon touching the manner of delivery of Mr. Hall's Servant Vide de ista materia on Saturday the 10 th day of March following The Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was read the third time and passed the House and a Proviso to the same Bill was thrice read The Committees in the Bill for Jeofailes were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-lane at two of the Clock Two Provisoes to the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of William Isley Esquire were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills finally of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Butlerage and Prisage of Wines was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Secretary Smith Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others who were appointed to meet on Friday next in the Afternoon in Chequer Chamber at two of the Clock On Wednesday the 22 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of William Isley Esq was read the third time and passed upon the Question Nota Report was made by Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy upon the Committee for the delivery of Mr. Hall's Man that the Committees found no precedent for setting at large by the Mace any person in Arrest but only by Writ and that by divers precedents of Records perused by the said Committees it appeareth
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
others The Bill for Trial by Juries was Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 7 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the paving of the City of Chichester was read the third time and passed the House The Bill for the maintenance of the Colledges in the Universities and of Eaton and Winchester was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Butlerage and prisage of Wines was read the first time The Bill for collateral Warranties was twice read and committed unto the Master of the Wardrobe Sir Henry Knivet Mr. Serjeant Jeffries Mr. Colby Mr. French Mr. Snagg Mr. Lewkenor and others to confer this Afternoon Peremptory day was given for the Councel of the Lady Waynman and her adverse party to be here at this House to Morrow next at eight of the Clock in the Forenoon All the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Captain of the Guard the Masters of the Requests Sir Nicholas Arnold Mr. Sampoole and Mr. Cromwell were appointed to meet this Afternoon at one of the Clock in the Chequer Chamber but it doth not appear about what business these foresaid Members of the House of Commons were appointed to meet All the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Captain of the Guard Mr. Serjeant Lovelace and Mr. Serjeant Jeffryes were added to the former Committees for Fines and Recoveries Mr. Pursell Mr. Glascoe Mr. Hanmer Mr. Townesend Mr. Davies Mr. Bostock Mr. Price Mr. Aylmer and Mr. Broughton were appointed to have Conference with the Lords this Afternoon touching the Bills for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries in the County Palatine of Chester and in Wales and also touching some general Bill for that purpose to be devised Mr. Treasurer Sir Nicholas Arnold Mr. Cromwell Mr. Sandes and Mr. Sampoole were appointed to confer presently with the Lords touching the Bill of Rogues The Bill for the having of two Justices in the Shires of Wales was read the third time and passed the House Mr. Doctor Yale and Mr. Doctor Barkley brought from the Lords a Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Stourton The Bill for reformation of Letters Patents was read the third time with some Amendments The Bill to take away the benefit of Clergy from such as commit Rapes and Burglaries and touching the purgation of Clerks Convict was thrice read and committed unto Sir Henry Knivett M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Serjeant Jeffries M r Sampoole M r Windham M r Atkins M r Dannet M r Diggs and others M r Doctor Yale and M r Powle did bring from the Lords a Bill touching certain Authority given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests Chaces and Parks with commendation for expedition M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Vaughan did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do require that the Committees of this House may confer with them to Morrow in the Morning before eight of the Clock in the Parliament Chamber The Bill against the abuse of Goldsmiths the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents the Bill touching fraudulent Conveyances by the late Rebels in the North and the Bill for paving of the City of Chichester with one other of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others Post Meridiem In the Afternoon an Abstract of a Devise for setting the Poor on work by the sowing and using of Rape-seed Hemp-seed and Flax-seed was read to this House Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for repairing of High-ways and Bridges near Oxford Upon the question it was Ordered that M r Hall be sequestred the House while the matter touching the supposed contempt done to this House be argued and debated Edward Smalley upon the question was adjudged guilty of contempt and abusing of this House by fraudulent practice of procuring himself to be Arrested upon the Execution of his own assent and intention to be discharged as well of his Imprisonment as of the said Execution Matthew Kirtleton School-Master to M r Hall was likewise upon another question adjudged guilty by this House of like contempt and abusing of this House in Confederacy and practice with the said Smalley in the intentions aforesaid Upon another question it was adjudged by the House that the said Smalley be for his misdemeanor and contempt committed to the Prison of the Tower Upon the like question it was also adjudged by this House that the said Kirtleton School-Master be also for his said lewd demeanor and contempt in abusing of this House committed to the Prison of the Tower Upon another question it was also resolved that the Serjeant of this House be commanded to bring the said Edward Smalley and the said Matthew Kirtleton School-Master to M r Hall into the House to Morrow next in the Forenoon to hear and receive their said Judgments accordingly And further that the matter wherein the said ARthur Hall Esq is supposed to be touched either in the privity of the said matter of arrest or in the abusing of the Committees of this House shall be deferred to be further dealt in till to Morrow Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant March ensuing On Thursday the 8 th day of March Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for maintenance of the Colledges in the Universities and of Eaton and Winchester was read the third time and passed with two Provisoes added M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Yelverton M r Boyer M r Layton and M r Robert Bowes were sent to the Lords to confer presently touching the amendments in the Bill of fraudulent Conveyances made by the late Rebels in the North. Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against buying and selling of rooms and places in Colledges and Schools and the second for maintenance of Colledges in the Universities and of Eaton and Winchester had each of them their third reading and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords with two others by Secretary Smith and others The new Bill for High-ways was read the first time and committed to certain of the House to be presently amended The Bill for certain Authority to be given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests Chaces Parks and Warrens was read the first time Vide de ista materia in fine hujus diei M r Doctor Barkley and M r Powle did bring from the Lords a Bill entitled an Act for the Lord Viscount Hayward of Bindon and Henry Hayward Esquire and Francis his Wife with commendation for expedition Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against abuses of Licence for transportation of prohibited Wares was read the
House of Commons Whereupon the Speaker moved the said House to appoint some to amend those things which the Lords had yielded to have reformed that so the Bill might pass but the whole House a very few excepted said they would hear no more of it and so it stayed without any further proceeding because it appeared the House of Commons did not think their Objections sufficiently answered by the Lords This foregoing proceeding of the two Houses in the above-mentioned Bill touching Authority to be given to the Justices of her Majesties Forests c. being transcribed out of the Copy thereof I had by me now follows the next days Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Friday the 9 th day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of the Lord Norris was twice read The Bill for re-edifying of the Town of Cringleford near unto the City of Norwich was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords with the Bill for the Hospital in the Town of Leicester by M r Treasurer and others The Bill touching Suffolk Cloths and Essex Cloths was read the first time and committed unto M r Secretary Smith M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Nicholas Arnold and others to have Conference touching the double searching of Cloths generally now presently in the Committee-Chamber The Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords M r Chancellor of the Exchequer touching the Petition for reformation of Discipline in the Church did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships having moved the Queens Majesty touching the said Petition her Highness answered their Lordships that her Majesty before the Parliament had a care to provide in that case of her own disposition and at the beginning of this Session her Highness had Conference therein with some of the Bishops and gave them in Charge to see due reformation thereof wherein as her Majesty thinketh they will have good consideration according unto her pleasure and express Commandment in that behalf So did her Highness most graciously and honourably declare further that if the said Bishops should neglect or omit their Duties therein then her Majesty by her Supream Power and Authority over the Church of England would speedily see such good redress therein as might satisfie the expectation of her loving Subjects to their good contentation which Message and Report was most thankfully and joyfully received by the whole House with one accord And immediately thereupon John Crook Esquire one of the Knights for the County of Buckingham took occasion in most humble and dutiful wise to make a Motion unto the House for another Petition to be moved to the Lords for perswading of her Majesty for Marriage Vide concerning Church-Discipline on Wednesday the 29 th day of February preceeding and on Friday the second day of this instant March foregoing and touching the Queens Marriage on Monday the 12 th day of the same Month of March ensuing The new Bill also for the Lady Wainman was read the first time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Lord Viscount Howard of Bindon was twice read Six other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Henry Lord Norris another for Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and a third for Preservation of Pheasants and Partridges were each of them read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 10 th day of March Two Bills had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was for repressing of Murders and Felonies in the Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness and another for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges The Bill against excess in Apparel was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House M r Captain of the Guard M r Treasurer of the Chamber the Masters of Requests and others who were appointed to meet at the Exchequer-Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Doctor Barkley and M r Powle did bring from the Lords a Bill for the Hospital of S t Cross with special commendation for expediting thereof and Declaration of the assent of the Parties given in that behalf before their Lordships Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Lady Wainman was read the third time and passed the House M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords two Bills with Amendments and Provisoes which before passed the House viz. the Bill for repairing and amending of the Bridges and High-ways near Oxford and the Bill for maintenance of Colledges in the Universities and of Eaton and Winchester The Bill against Arthur Hall Esquire Edward Smalley and Matthew Kirtleton his Servant was read the first time Edward Smalley Servant unto Arthur Hall Esq appearing in this House this day at the Bar it was pronounced unto him by M r Speaker in the name and by the appointment and order of this House for Execution of the former Judgment of this House awarded against him That he the said Edward Smalley shall be forthwith committed Prisoner from this House to the Tower of London and there remain for one whole Month next ensuing from this present day and further after the same Month expired until such time as good and sufficient assurance shall be had and made for payment of 100 l of good and lawful money of England to be paid unto William Hewet Administrator of the goods Chattels and Debts of Melchisedech Malory Gent. deceased upon the first day of the next Term according to the former Order in that behalf by this House made and set down and also forty Shillings for the Serjeants Fees the notice of which assurance for the true payment of the said hundred pounds in form aforesaid to be certified unto M r Lieutenant of the Tower by M r Recorder of London before any delivery or setting at liberty of the said Edward Smalley to be in any wise had or made at any time after the Expiration of the said Month as is aforesaid and that he shall not be delivered out of Prison before such notice certified whether the same be before the said first day of the next Term or after Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 16 th day Monday the 20 th day Wednesday the 22 th day Monday the 27 th day and on Tuesday the 28 th day of February preceeding as also on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing
in the days of our Predecessors by the punishment of such inconsiderate and disorderly Speakers hath appeared And so to return Let this serve us for an Example to beware that we offend not in the like hereafter lest that in forgetting our duties so far we may give just cause to our gracious Soveraign to think that this her Clemency hath given occasion of further boldness and thereby so much grieve and provoke her as contrary to her most gracious and mild consideration she be constrained to change her natural Clemency into necessary and just severity a thing that he trusted should never happen amongst wise and dutiful men such as the Members of this House are thought always to be Between which Speech and the reftoring of the said M r Wentworth unto the House although it be not mentioned in the before-cited written Memorial of the said Speech I had by me as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons these ensuing Passages intervened in the said House as followeth viz. M r Treasurer M r John Thynne Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Gate M r Marsh and M r Cromwell were sent to the Lords for Conference presently touching the reforming of some amendments of this House in the Bill which came from the Lords for taking away the benefit of the Clergy from persons Convict of Rape and Burglary M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords the Bill for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges All the Privy-Councel being of this House the Lord Russell M r Captain of the Guard the Masters of Requests M r Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Wardrobe the Master of the Jewel-House Sir Henry Knivett Sir Thomas Scott Sir John Thynne Sir William Winter M r Crooke M r Popham M r Yelverton M r Norton M r Sampoole M r Alford and M r Skinner were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber touching Conference for the manner of Petition to be made unto the Queens Majesty touching Marriage Vide on Friday the 9 th day of this instant March foregoing and on Wednesday March the 14 th in the Afternoon ensuing These intervening Passages being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the manner of the restoring of the aforesaid Peter Wentworth Esquire being partly transcribed out of the abovesaid Original Journal-Book and partly out of the before-mentioned written Memorial or Copy thereof in manner and form ensuing M r Peter Wentworth was brought by the Serjeant at Arms that attended the House to the Bar within the same and after some Declaration made unto him by M r Speaker in the name of the whole House both of his own great fault and offence and also of her Majesties great and bountiful mercy shewed unto him and after his humble Submission upon his Knees acknowledging his fault and craving her Majesties Pardon and Favour he was received again into the House and restored to his place to the great contentment of all that were present This business of M r Wentworth being thus at large set down now follows a great part of the residue of this dayes Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self The Bill for the Lord Stourton was read the third time in setting down of which Bill it seemeth the time of the reading is erroneously entred for this was doubtless the second reading and that the third as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book it self was not until Tuesday the 13 th day of this instant March ensuing when the Bill also passed and it is the rather probable that this was but the second reading as is also set down in a written Memorial of this business I had by me in respect that it was upon this reading spoken unto ' and referred to Committees but as it should seem before the said Bill was agitated in the House or referred to Committees this business intervened which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did bring from the Lords the Bill touching taking away the benefit of the Clergy from Persons Convict of Rape and Burglary to be amended in the former addition of amendment thereof by this House whereupon the same being presently amended was together with the Bill of Addition to the former Statutes for amending and repairing of High-ways the Bill with the Amendments and Proviso for the repairing of the Bridges and High-ways near unto the City of Oxford the Bill for the Hospital of S t Cross near Winchester and the Bill for the Lord Viscount Howard of Bindon sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary Smith and others with the Bill also for maintenance of the Universities and of the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester to be reformed in the Amendments of their Lordships in the same Bill Which business being over-passed as it is inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the dispute in the House upon the foresaid second reading of the Lord Stourton's Bill which is supplied out of a written Memorial or Copy of that business I had by me with very little alteration or addition It was first alledged in the House of Commons against the further proceeding of the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Lord Stourton whose Father was Attainted of Murther and thereby his Blood corrupted by some in the said House that the said party who now sued to be restored in Blood had before given cause for men to think that he would not hereafter be worthy of so much favour and by some other that there wanted in the Bill sufficient provision for such as had been Purchasers from his Father Grandfather and other his Ancestors To the first Objection it was said in the House That seeing her Majesty had so graciously yielded to his Petition there was no doubt but she was well satisfied in all such things as might touch him and therefore no cause that this House should mislike her gracious Favours to be extended to any of her Subjects in such Cases but rather to hope that he being a young Nobleman would prove a good Servant to her Majesty and the Realm as divers of his Ancestors had done The second Objection was thought worthy of consideration That if the saving which was already in the Bill were not sufficient there might be other provision added This dispute concerning the foresaid Bill being thus transcribed out of the foresaid written Memorial or Copy thereof I had by me now follows the Committees names who were appointed thereupon out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons being as followeth M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the Master of the Wardrobe M r Recorder of London M r Norton M r Sampoole M r Dalton M r Savile M r Marsh M r Yelverton M r
tertia vice and so concluded but the rest had each of them but one reading and no more On Tuesday the 14 th day of March Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the fortifying of the Borders towards Scotland was read secundâ vice On Wednesday the 15 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading apiece of which the last being the Bill for the fortifying of the Borders towards Scotland was read tertiâ vice and so concluded Six Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last being a Bill touching Iron-Mills near unto the City of London on the River of Thames was read primâ vice On Thursday the 16 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the last being a Bill touching deceit in dying of Cloths was read tertia vice and then sent down to the House of Commons On Friday the 17 th day of March Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was for the fortifying of the Borders towards Scotland with request that certain words might be left out for that they were superfluous It seemeth the Commons having formerly given the Lords distast about this Bill as may appear on Wednesday the 8 th day of March last past did now send unto them about some amendments which their Lordships had added to the said Bill which before they would alter or once read for the Bill it self had already passed both Houses they gave them notice thereof on this instant Friday the 17 th day of this instant March desiring as may easily be collected that some supefluous words might be put out of the said amendments whereupon it seemeth the Upper House did yield to this respectful and seasonable request of the Commons although it be not mentioned in the Original Journal-Book for the Bill being altered according to their desires and sent down again to them this Forenoon they there presently passed the said amendments and returned the Bill concluded Two other Bills were also sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being a Bill for the repressing of seditious practices against the Queens Majesty was read primâ secundâ vice On Saturday the 18 th day of March the Bill for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of the Navigation returned from the House of Commons conclusa with certain amendments and a Proviso added by them which was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa est Two other Bills also of no great moment whereof the last touching Iron-Mills about the City of London c. was read tertiâ vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa with certain amendments and two Provisoes to be taken out were sent down to the House of Commons Then was Entred the continuance of the Parliament in these words viz. Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem At which hour the Lords meeting the two former Bills last above-mentioned which had been sent down to the House of Commons were returned from them up to the Lords again concluded Not long after the Lords were set her Majesty came to the Upper House and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice of her Majesty being there with John Popham their Speaker repaired unto the said House and as many as could conveniently being let in the said Speaker standing at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House after his humble reverence made and some expressions of his zealous affection towards her Majesty and humble acknowledgment of her many gracious favours towards him he then proceeded according to the usual course to desire her Majesties Assent to such wholsome Laws as in this Session of Parliament had passed either House and withal did in the name of the House of Commons humbly offer unto her Majesty the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths as a small testimonial of their unfeigned Lovalty and thankful acknowledgment of the great happiness they enjoyed under her Majesties most gracious Government To which Speech the Lord Chancellor having received instructions from her Majesty Answered that she did graciously accept the said Speakers many dutiful expressions and did well allow of those wholsome Laws they had made hoping that all such whose places it might concern would be careful to put them in Execution And lastly concluded with her Majesties thankful acceptance of the aforesaid Subsidy Fifteenths and Tenths granted unto her by the House of Commons Then were the Titles of all the publick and private Acts read in their due Order and her Majesties Assent thereunto and then the Bill of Subsidies to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Roigne remercie ses loiaulx subjects accept leur henevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelats Seigneurs Communes en se present Parlement assembles an nom de touts vous autres Subjects remercient tres humblement vostre Majestie prient a dieu que ils vous donne sante bonne vie longue Nota That here to the Subsidy Bill because it is the meer gift of the Subject the Queens Consent is not required for the passing of it but as it is joined with her thankful acceptance nor to the Bill of Pardon because it is Originally her free gift is other circumstance required than that the thankful acceptance thereof by the Lords and Commons be likewise expressed it being but once read in either House before it come thus at last to be expedited Then followed the Prorogation of the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book in manner and form following Dominus Cancellarius ex mandato Dominae Reginae tune praesentis Prorogavit praesens Parliamentum usque in vicesimum quartum diem Aprilis proximum futurum At which day this said Parliament was again Prorogued and so was still continued by sixteen other Prorogations each after other till it was at last Dissolved upon the 19 th day of April in the twenty fifth year of her Majesties Reign the substance of all which Prorogations with the manner of the Dissolution doth next follow Nota The word or term Adjourned is used for Prorogued throughout Vicesimo quarto die Aprilis in quem diem Prorogatum fuerat hoc praesens Parliamentum Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor the Bishop of London and the Lord Cromwell Commissioners c. did Adjourn the Parliament ad in 29 diem Maii. Vicesimo nono die Maii in
Right well Beloved Counsellor Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor of England Greeting Whereas in the beginning of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster the eight day of May in the fourteenth year of our Reign the Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled in the same Parliament were Commanded by us to go to their accustomed place and there to chuse to themselves one to be their Speaker according to the accustomed manner Whereupon the same Knights Citizens and Burgesses did Elect and Chuse one Robert Bell Esq afterwards Knight and Chief Baron of our Exchequer now deceased to be their Speaker and the same their Election did afterwards certifie unto us which Election we did allow and ratifie since which time this our present Parliament hath been continued by divers Prorogations until the 8 th day of February in the eighteenth year of our Reign at which time the said Parliament was holden and continued from the said 8 th day of February until the 15 th day of March then next following from which time also the said Parliament hath continued by divers and sundry Prorogations until the 16 th day of January in this present twenty third year of our Reign At which day the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and also the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses have declared unto us that the said Robert Bell since the last Session of this present Parliament is dead and thereupon have made their humble Suit and Petition to us that they might have Licence and Commandment from us to proceed to Elect amongst themselves one other to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come Wherefore we having certain and perfect knowledge that the said Robert Bell is dead as they have alledged and considering their humble Petition and Request is very meet and necessary to be granted have appointed and Constituted you and by the these Presents we do Will Command Constitute and Appoint you for us and in our Name to Call the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses before you and other the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in this our present Parliament in the Higher House of our Parliament at Westminster and there present for us and in our Name to Will and Command the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses to resort to their accustomed place and there to Elect and Chuse amongst themselves one sufficient and able Person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come and after they have once made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names shall signifie the same unto us and thereupon we will further signifie our Pleasure unto them what day and time they shall present the Person Elected before us as heretofore hath been in like Cases accustomed to be done Wherefore our Will and Pleasure is that you do diligently attend about doing of the premises and execute the same with effect In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters Patents to be Sealed with our Great Seal Witness our Self at Westminster the 16 th day of January in the twenty third Year of our Reign Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House now follows the continuance of this days Passages as also of the residue of the matters handled in the House of Commons during this Session of Parliament out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House At the return of such Members of the House of Commons into their own House as had been present in the Upper House during the time the recited Commission was in reading for many of the House of Commons conceiving that their sending for to the Upper House aforesaid being only by their own Serjeant whom they had sent up to the Lords to see if the Lord Chancellor and the rest of their Lordships were come thither or no was no orderly giving them notice of their Lordships desires in that behalf according to former usage in respect that the said Commons are to be sent for by ..... amongst the said Members as aforesaid who had been so present in the said Upper House Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Household did at his return declare that for Answer to the Suit her Majesties Commission was read to license and Command the Commons to Chuse a Speaker and that four of this House being of the Privy-Council should make report of the Election to her Majesty that her Highness might thereupon signifie her further Pleasure for appointing the day for presenting of him M r Treasurer further declared unto the House before their proceeding to Election that he and others had just now seen in the Upper House one that is a Member of this House to wit M r John Popham her Majesties Sollicitor General being one of the Citizens for Bristol and therefore made a Motion that some of this House might be sent to their Lordships with request that the said M r Popham being a Member of this House might forthwith be remanded and restored to this House again which some thought not needful to be done before the Election and others again denying that he or any other could be Chosen Speaker except he were present himself The Clerk was Commanded to read the said Precedent again of chusing M r Onslow in the said eighth year of her Majesties Reign which said Precedent see on Monday the 16 th day of this instant foregoing and thereupon that course being agreed upon to be followed the said M r Treasurer and others were sent up to the Lords to demand the restitution of the said M r Popham and brought Answer again that their Lordships had resolved he should be sent down the rather because he was a Member of this House and this House possessed of him before he was Sollicitor or had any place of Attendance in the Upper House Upon relation whereof a Motion was presently made that it was not meet or convenient to chuse a Speaker by persons that were not of the House and withal it was thought of some that divers persons being newly returned in the places of others yet living were not or ought not to be accounted Members of this House Whereupon to avoid length of Argument and the impediment of the Election the said M r Treasurer by the Assent of the House pronounced an Admonition that all such as were newly returned in the places of others yet living should forbear to repair to the House till their case were further considered Then immediately M r Anderson the Queens Serjeant at Law and Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight her Highness Attorney General brought from the Lords the said M r Popham her Majesties Sollicitor General one of the Citizens for the City of Bristol and restored him to this House as a Member of the same and so departed And then was a Motion made by M r Lewkenor for Prayer to be used before the Election that it might please God both in that and in the residue
in the Committee Chamber of this House Three other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for addition for paving the street without Aldgate was read the second time and committed to M r Secretary Wilson M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir William Winter Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Robert Wroth and Mr. Aldersey who were appointed to meet on Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Court in Mr. Secretaries Chamber Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Gibbon did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the Hospital of Ledbury in the County of Hereford Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against the forging of Deeds and Evidences c. was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Treasurer moved that the Committees of this House which were yesterday with the Lords might meet together at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill against counterfeit Instruments and counterfeit Seals of Offices was read the third time and after many Arguments both against the Bill and with the Bill was referred to further Argument till to Morrow next On Friday the 10 th day of February Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first touching Gavelkind Land within the City of Exeter and the last being the Bill for granting of one Subsidy two Fifteenths and Tenths had each of them their first reading On Saturday the 11 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true making of Woollen-Cloths and the Bill for the abolishing of certain deceitful stuffs used in dying of Cloths were each of them read the second time and committed to the former Committees for Cloths who were appointed on Saturday the 4 th day of this instant February foregoing After sundry further Arguments upon the Bill touching counterfeit Seals it was upon the Question Ordered that Committees be appointed to consider of the Bill as it standeth only in the matter of the Seals of Corporations to be holpen with a Proviso And thereupon also Authority was given unto the former Committees and unto Mr. Thomas Sampoole Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Recorder Mr. Carleton Mr. Norton Mr. S t Leiger Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Atkins who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Morning at seven of the Clock in the Committee Chamber of this House The Bill for Explanation of the Statute for forging of Evidences and Writings was read the third time and passed upon the Question after the amendment of certain words likewise three times read Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against inordinate selling of Wooll and Yarn was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Bointon Sir William Moore M r George Speak M r Layton M r Keale and others who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon at the Guild-Hall Mr. Cromwell one of the Committees in the Bill for ratification of an award for certain Copyholders in the County of Worcester who were appointed on Monday the 6 th day of this instant February foregoing brought in the Bill with the amendment of one Letter in a mans name viz. Dallowe for Ballowe and also with an Addition of a general saving Which being twice read the Bill upon the Question was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Secretary Wilson one of the Committees for the paving of a Street without Aldgate who were appointed on Thursday the 9 th day of this instant February foregoing brought in the Bill which being amended in these words put out viz. the same and these words put in viz. the lately paved which words being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed The new Bill against the Erecting of Iron Mills near the City of London and River of Thames was read the first time Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire that the Committees of this House appointed to meet with their Lordships in the Bill for Religion do meet with them to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber Whereupon the House being moved it was resolved they should so do and so it was Answered unto the said Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Doctor Barkley accordingly Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Doctor Clark did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the fortifying of the Borders towards Scotland After sundry Arguments made to the Bill last read it is upon the doubtfulness in the Answer to the Question resolved upon the Division of the House that the Bill to be drawn by the Committees shall contain the number of eighteen Miles distant from the City of London by the difference of forty three persons And upon another Question clearly resolved that the same Bill so to be drawn shall contain but eight Miles from the River of Thames And upon another Question it is Ordered that the House be called upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Nota That there is no mention made of Monday the 13 th day of this instant February or of any Passages thereof in the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book of the same House and it may thereupon be very probably concluded that the said House sate not upon the said day which may seem the more strange also because the Lords of the Upper House did sit On Tuesday the 14 th day of February the Bill for ratification of an award made between William Hide Esq and William Darrell Esquire was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. Cromwell Mr. Boyes and Mr. Norton and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Norton Two 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 32 H. 8. for limitation of prescription was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Serjeant Fenner Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe and Mr. Cromwell and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Cromwell M r Vice-Chamberlain for himself and the residue of the Committees appointed to Examine M r Hall the Printer the Scrivener and all other persons privy to the setting forth and publishing of the Book declared that they had charged the said M r Hall with contempt against this House the last Session in that being injoined by this House to appear he departed out of Town in contempt of the Court and afterwards testified the same his wilful contempt by an unseemly Letter addressed by him to this House and charged him further with divers Articles of great importance selected by the said Committees out of
Bill so amended requiring that the same should now be presently read as for the first reading thereof Whereupon the said Bill was read accordingly for the first reading The Committees in M r Hydes Bill are appointed to meet on Monday Morning next in the Treasury Chamber It is Ordered that the House be called upon Monday next in the Afternoon On Monday the 20 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the paving a Street without Aldgate was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill for Explanation of the Statute of Limitation made in the 37 th year of H. 〈◊〉 was brought in by M r Cromwell one of the Committees with some amendments The Bill for ratification of a Decree between Mr. Hyde and Mr. Darrell was brought in by the Committees and the amendments being twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Thomas Scott one of the Committees in the Bill against the Family of Love who were appointed on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant February foregoing brought in the old Bill with a new Bill also for that purpose drawn by the said Committees but he protested not assented unto only by himself and that for one only Article in the same new Bill contained Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. Beale Mr. Topcliffe Mr. Cromwell Mr. Newdigate Mr. Alford and Mr. Layton were added to the former Committees in the Bill touching the Attornies and appointed to meet in the Inner-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight Deceased was read the second time The Bill against slanderous Speeches and rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty was brought in by the Committees with certain Amendments and Additions all three times read and so now the Bill was read the third time and passed upon the Question and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others together with the other Bill passed this day viz. the Bill for paving of the Street without Aldgate Mr. Treasurer Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Moore Mr. Recorder Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. Wroth Mr. Cromwell and others were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-Chamber on Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon for the Bill touching the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham and Licence given to all persons and parties whom it may concern to bring their Learned Councel as well before the said Committees as also before this House if it shall be so thought requisite The Bill touching coloured Cloths made in the Counties of Suff. and Essex was read the second time and committed to the former Committees for Cloths and the Bill was delivered to M r Grimston On Tuesday the 21 th day of February Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of Limitation of prescription of 32 H. 8. with the Amendments was twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Partition of the Lands late of the Lord Latimer Deceased was brought in by the Committees with a Proviso for the Earl of Oxford and Sir Thomas Tindale the same Proviso being twice read the Bill and Proviso were Ordered to be ingrossed by assent of both parties The Bill for Assize of Fewel and touching Iron-Mills were brought in by M r Comptroller with a new Bill for the Assize of Fewel another touching glass-Glass-Houses and another for the Assize of Fewel within the City of Worcester The Bill last read was upon the Question and Division of the House passed with the advantage of the number of twelve Voices The three Bills last passed were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the new Bill for the punishing of the Family of Love was read the first time M r Serjeant Anderson and M r Doctor Clark did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships having considered of the Amendments and Additions of this House in a Bill touching slanderous Speeches and Rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty and minding to understand the meaning and intent of this House in some part of the same Amendments and Additions have appointed twelve of themselves to have Conference with some of this House to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Council Chamber at the Court and did pray that a convenient number of this House might be appointed to meet with them at the said time and place for Conference with the Lords in that behalf accordingly Whereupon were appointed for that purpose all those of this House which were in the former Committee of the same Bill before whose names see on Wednesday the first day of this instant February foregoing On Wednesday the 22 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making of Hats and Caps was read the second time and committed unto M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Rowland Haywood M r Recorder M r Askwith M r Perry and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Lieutenant of the Tower who with the rest was appointed to meet at Guild-hall upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Thursday the 23 th day of February the Bill against sowing of Lineseed or Hempseed within the County of Hertford by force of any penal Laws was read the second time and committed unto Sir Henry Cock Sir Henry Knivett Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Scott Sir James Harrington Sir William More and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William More aforesaid who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true folding and winding of Woolls was read the second time and committed unto Sir Rowland Hayward Sir George Turpin Sir James Barrington M r Keale M r Benbridge and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Benbridge who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Church at two of the Clock On Friday the 24 th day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for re-edifying of the Borough of New-Woodstock was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching the Mayor Bayliffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventry was brought in by M r Grimsditch with Amendments agreed upon by all the Parties to the same Bill Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true melting
Woods was read the second time After sundry Motions and Arguments touching some Reformations in matters of Religion contained in the Petitions exhibited unto this House the last Session of this present Parliament it was at last resolved by the whole House that Mr. Vice-Chamberlain both Mr. Secretaries and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer shall by Order of this House and in the name of this whole House move the Lords of the Clergy to continue unto her Majesty the prosecution of the purposes of reformation which they the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretaries and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer had before of themselves and not as from this House moved unto their Lordships and also shall further impart unto their Lordships the earnest desire of this House for redress of such other griefs contained likewise in the said Petitions as have been touched this day in the said Motions and Arguments as to their good wisdoms shall seem meet And then upon a Motion made by M r Speaker it was further agreed that all the said Speeches Motions and Arguments should by the whole House be deemed in every man to proceed of good and godly zeal without any evil intent or meaning at all and so and for such to be construed and reported accordingly and not otherwise or in any other manner Vide March the 7 th On Saturday the 4 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for naturalizing of certain English mens Children born beyond the Seas was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill touching Wrecks of the Seas was read the second time and the Amendments were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against disobedience to her Majesty in respect of the usurped See of Rome c. was brought in by M r Treasurer one of the Committees and then read the first time and was also upon the Question Ordered by this House to be now presently read again and so was read the second time and after many Speeches was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Lewes did bring from the Lords three Bills viz. One for Consirmation of a Subsidy of the Clergy Another for increase of Mariners and for the maintenance of the Navy And the third for the Inning of Erith and Plumsted Marsh. The Bill for Leases for Tenant in Tail was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill for re-edifying of Cardiffe-Bridge and the Bill for Leases of Tenant in Tail were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary Wilson and others Three Bills had each of them their third reading and passed upon the Question of which the last was the Bill touching Cloths called Tauntons and Bridgewaters Post Meridiem The Bill for repair of Dover-Haven was read the second time and committed unto Sir William Winter Sir Edward Horsey Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Sands Mr. Dalton and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Sir Edward Horsey who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Monday next at seven of the Clock in the Forenoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the Hospital of Ledbury in the County of Hereford was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Skidmore Mr. Cromwell Mr. Philipps Mr. Powley and Mr. Edward Stanhope and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Cromwell who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Committee Chamber of this House upon Monday next at seven of the Clock in the Forenoon Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the maintenance of Mariners and of Navigation was read the first time The Bill touching Iron-Mills near the City of London and the River of Thames was read the second time and this reading to stand for no reading Quod nota On Monday the 6 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill to retain the Queens Subjects in their due obedience was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Doctor Gibbon and Mr. Doctor Clark did bring from the Lords a Bill touching a certain Rent-Charge unto the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and his Successors out of the Lands of Edward Fisher Esquire Six Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by all the Privy-Council being Members of this House of which one was the Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and another to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience with special recommendation from this House unto their Lordships touching the latter of the said Bills The Bill for the repairing of Dover-Haven was twice read and committed unto the former Committees and all the Privy-Council being Members of this House M r Dale Master of the Requests and Mr. Recorder of London were added unto them and appointed to meet at the Exchequer Chamber upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Tuesday the 7 th day of March the Bill against secret Conveyances and deceitful sale os Lands was read the first time Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer declared that Mr. Vice-Chamberlain both Mr. Secretaries and himself have according to their Commission from this House conferred with some of my Lords the Bishops touching the griefs of this House for some things very requisite to be reformed in the Church as the great number of unlearned and unable Ministers the great abuse of Excommunication for every matter of small moment the Commutation of Penance and the great multitude of Dispensations and Pluralities and other things very hurtful to the Church and in the name of this House desired their Lordships to join with them in Petition to her Majesty for reformation of the said abuses declaring further that they found some of the said Lords the Bishops not only ready to confess and grant the said defects and abuses wishing due redress thereof but also very willing to join with the said Committees in moving of her Majesty in that behalf Whereupon they afterwards joined in humble suit together unto her Highness and received her Majesties most Gracious Answer That as her Highness had the last Session of Parliament of her own good consideration and before any Petition or Suit thereof made by this House committed the charge and consideration thereof unto some of her Highness Clergy who had not performed the same according to her Highness Commandment so her Majesty would eftsoons commit the same unto such others of them as with all convenient speed without remissness and slackness should see the same accomplished accordingly in such sort as the same shall neither be delayed nor undone For the which as they did all render unto her Majesty most humble and dutiful thanks so did Mr. Chancellor further declare that the only cause why no due reformation hath been
reformed the said Bill according to some parts of the Alterations sent by this House unto them and did also bring a Bill from their Lordships touching Edward Lord Zouch with special recommendation also from their Lordship to this House for expediting the Bill for the Hospital of Ledbury which was before sent from their Lordships to this House Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham K t deceased was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder M r Sands M r Cowper M r Alford and M r Norton who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon this present day On Friday the 10 th day of March Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the repairing of Dover Haven was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords two Bills viz. one for restitution in blood of Philip Earl of Arundel another for the Pardon and Restitution in Blood of John and Dudley S r Leger with request also to this House to have consideration of the Bill of Fines and Recoveries which came to this House from their Lordships The Bill for the repair of Dover Haven was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others The Bill touching the true making melting and working of Wax was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill for the relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight deceased were twice read and so the Bill upon the question was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London M r Cromwell M r Cobly and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at Serjeants-Inn Hall On Saturday the 11 th day of March Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two last the one being for the Inning of Erith and Plumsted Marsh and the other for reformation of errors in Fines and Recoveries were each of them read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill touching slanderous words rumors and other seditious practices against her Majesty which coming first from the Lords unto this House and afterward with some alterations and Additions passed this House and so sent up again unto their Lordships and again sithence brought from thence to this House with some other alterations by their Lordships made unto the said former Additions and Alterations of this House and not disallowing the amendments of this House was upon the Question after sundry Motions and Arguments resolved by this House to be sent up again unto their Lordships and left with them as a Bill that this House cannot deal withal On Monday the 13 th day of March the Bill for relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight deceased was read the third time and passed upon the Question Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries and another for the restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for confirmation of an assurance of a certain yearly Rent-Charge of eighty two pounds ten shillings to the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and his Successors was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Treasurer with others which carried up the last Bills to the Lords coming into this House again from their Lordships Mr. Treasurer did declare that after he had delivered the other Bill he then shewed their Lordships that this House had sent up to be left with their Lordships a Bill against slanderous words and rumors and other seditious practices against her Majesty for that the same Bill when it was last sent to this House by their Lordships was and is such as this House cannot deal with and that thereupon the Lord Chancellor answered that as their said Lordships were not to take knowledge of the opinion of this House touching the state of the said Bill so their Lordships would not receive the said Bill Which Report being made by M r Treasurer the Bill was thereupon left in this House Vide March the 14 th Tuesday following The Bill touching Iron-Mills near unto the City of London and the River of Thames was read the third time and three Provisoes likewise thrice read and all after many Arguments passed upon the Question M r Doctor Barkley and M r Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords a Bill for the Exposition of the Statute of Bankrupts and also that their Lordships do require a Conference to be had with ten of their Lordships at two of the Clock this Afternoon at the Court in the Council Chamber touching the Bill for maintenance of the Borders towards Scotland and thereupon were appointed the former Committees in the same matter who were appointed on Saturday the 25 th day of February foregoing The Bill for the Lord Zouch and the Bill for the Lord Compton had each of them one reading being the second reading After some Motions and Speeches offered upon the reading of the said Bill for the Lord Zouch it was resolved That as well the Lord Zouch with his Learned Councel as also any person or persons any thing claiming or pretending in the Lands mentioned in the said Bill and their Councel should be heard in this House to Morrow next And that Sir James Dyer Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas should likewise there be heard in this House to Morrow next touching the Record mentioned in the said Bill and remaining in the said Court of Common-Pleas and also that the same Record should likewise be then brought into this House there to be seen and perused for the better satisfaction of this House in their further proceedings in the said Bill And withal that M r Speaker should by Order of this House give notice unto the said Lord Chief Justice to be here at the said time and bring with him the said Record accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day and on Friday the 17 th day of this instant March following On Tuesday the 14 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against secret Conveyances and deceitful sale of Lands was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London Mr. Atkins Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Cowper and others who were appointed to meet in the Middle Temple Hall at two of the Clock this Afternoon Sir James Dyer Knight Lord Chief
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
horâ consuetâ On Monday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was a Bill for returning of Justices Jurors and for expedition of Trials The Lords Ordered that Edward Fisher and Katherine his Wife should personally appear before them on Wednesday next the 17 th day of this instant February for the better satisfying of their Lordships of their consent to the passing of a Bill Entituled An Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne Giles Flood Christopher Puckering and their Heirs Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 17 th day of this instant February ensuing The Lords also Ordered that the Master of the Rolls the Lord Chief Baron Justice Gawdy and Baron Shute should have the hearing of the matter of the Writ of Error between Akrode c. and M r Whawley On Tuesday the 16 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the continuance of a former Statute Intituled An Act to redress disorders in common Informers upon penal Laws made in the eighteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and had been brought to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill against Class-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born On Wednesday the 17 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last save one being the Bill concerning the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rodes and the Queens Attorney Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon At which time as the Lords had Ordered M r Edward Fisher with his Councel viz. M r Serjeant Walmesley and M r Cowper appeared before them The Lords having heard the consent of the said Edward Fisher to the passing of the Bill Intituled Au Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne c. and their Heirs committed again the said Edward Fisher to the Custody of the Warden of the Fleet and further Ordered that the bringing of the said Edward Fisher before their Lordships at their Commandment should not in any wise be prejudicial to the said Warden The said Edward Fisher and his Councel made two Petitions to the Lords the one that the Preamble of the Act alledging the cause of the making of the same Act to be for doubtfulness of his ill dealing because he was judged in the Star-Chamber to have made two false and forged Writings to the prejudice of the said Bargains might be amended and that the same might be taken out of the Act and not to remain in perpetual memory of his shame for ever The second that Serjeant Puckering to whose behalf the said Lands were sold having him and his Lands in Execution upon a Statute of eight thousand pound for not performance of the Covenants of the same yet also enjoying the Lands sold would release him the said Execution and take a new Statute in that behalf to which the said Serjeant Puckering whom the cause chiefly concerned being present by the appointment of the Lords answered as to the first request That if to alter or take out of the said Act the said Preamble being parcell of the Bill and matter passed from the House of Commons to this Honourable House in that form should be no hurt or prejudice to the Bill so passed from the Lower House to the Lords he was well content therewith and therein submitted himself to their honourable Lordships And as to the second Request he Answered That whensoever the said Edward Fisher shall have cleared and discharged the said Lands and Tenements by him bargained and sold as aforesaid of and from all Statutes Staple and Recognizances charges and incumbrances liable or chargeable upon the same then he having a new like Recognizance in nature of a Statute Staple made unto him by the said Edward Fisher of the sum of eight thousand pound for performance of Covenants mentioned in the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale from thenceforth to be performed unto which Recognizance all the Lands and Tenements of the said Edward Fisher which shall not be sold for the payment of his Debts shall be liable and chargeable and that there were no former Statutes and Recognizances knowledged by the said Edward Fisher to the prejudice of the same he was contented then after that done to discharge the said new Execution having and takeing a new Recognizance in form aforesaid Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 15 th day of this instant February foregoing On Thursday the 18 th day of February Nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two first were upon the third reading concluded and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and D r Carey the one being the Bill to explain the Statute concerning Tellors and Receivors c. made An. 13 Reginae Eliz. and the other being for the better relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge within the City of Canterbury Nota That the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons sets down a third Bill assented unto and concluded at this time The last of the said Bills touching divers Assurances made by the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Exeter was read secunda vice commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Comiti Sussex Episcopo Exon. Domino Stourton Domino Buckhurst On Saturday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued a Proviso added by the House of Commons to the Bill concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others was read and concluded The Bill also to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife and Tredolias Leza and his Wife during the Minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne was read secundâ vice The Lords appointed Monday next in the Afternoon for the hearing of the Cause and have given Order that the Parties shall have warning to be then there with their Councel by two of the Clock in the Afternoon Five other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the well-ordering and governing of the Savoy was read the third time and sent to the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for preservation of Grain and Game with
incorporation of Christs Hospital was read tertia vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa data Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend And the second being the Bill to give her Majesty Authority to alter and new make a Kalendar according to the Kalendar now used in other Countries was read prima vice Four Bills also of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill whereby Marriage was declared lawful at all times of the Year Two other Bills were lastly read each of them secunda vice of which the last being the Bill for the grant of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read secunda vice About two of the Clock in the Afternoon to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Haven of Plymouth was read secunda vice The Amendments lastly in the Bill concerning the Hospital of East-Bridge were read prima secunda tertia vice conclusae dissentientibus Vicecomite Mountague Comite Hertford On Wednesday the 17 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa The fourth also being an Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto the Lord Hunsdon was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum After which Robert Elrington and Alice his Wife mentioned in the said Bill touching the Lord Hunsdons assurance came into the House and gave their consent to the passing of the said Bill The Bill against the making of Starch was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons and had its first reading After which lastly three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Herrings into the Realm was read secunda vice On Thursday the 18 th day of March six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon and the second being the Bill touching the breadth of white Woollen Clothes made within the Counties of Wilts Glocester and Oxon ' with the amendments were each of them read tertia vice conclusae datae servienti Rodes It should seem that these Bills were delivered to him to carry down to the House of Commons although so much be not expressed There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills of no great moment of which the first being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses and the third for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day were each of them read the first time Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Saturday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing But what the intent or scope of this Bill was her Majesty refusing to pass it upon the last day of this Parliament cannot be certainly set down it being not now remaining in the bundle of the Acts de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. in the Clerk of the Upper House his Office in which said bundle I searched for it on Thursday the 8 th day of October in the year 1629. About two of the Clock in the Afternoon to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament Proceres tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subscribuntur praesentes fuerunt and so is the entrance of every sitting in the Afternoon upon such continuance ut supra viz. the same form which is used in entring the sitting of the House in the Forenoon which for brevity is in this Collection elsewhere omitted Two Bills had this Afternoon each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and sraudulent Conveyances with certain amendments was read tertia vice On Friday the 29 th day of March five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and fraudulent Conveyances with the amendments was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa data servienti Rodes Doctori Barkeley in domum communem deferend Nota That this Bill is said to have been read tertia vice in the Afternoon of the day past which was Thursday and therefore it could not be now read again but to reconcile this difference it should seem the Bill it self had then its third reading and the amendments but the second and this day the said amendments passed upon the third reading but the Bill it self which had passed yesterday was no more read which by the negligence of Mr. Mason at this time Clerk of the Parliament was suffered to be set down thus confusedly in the Original Journal-Book and so to stand On Saturday the 20 th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute made Anno 13 of the Queens Majesty entituled An Act to make the Lauds Tenements Goods and Chattels of Receivors c. liable to pay their debts was read prima secunda tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Three other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons nine Bills of which the first was an Act for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster and the second being for the Subsidy of the Clergy was returned and expedited The Lord Bishop of Exeter shewed unto the Lord Chancellor Sir Francis Walsingham's Letter dated at the Court this 14 th day of March 1584. importing her Majesties licence for the said Bishop to depart home to his charge Nota That it appeareth not by the Original Journal-Book whether the Bishop of Exeter aforesaid absenting himself for this time from the Parliament by her Majesties licence did constitute any Proctor or no and it should seem that he did not because his departure from it was but for some few weeks during the last sitting thereof and that also in open Parliament and as it were with the allowance also of the rest of the Lords On Monday the 22 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales with a Proviso added by the Lords from the Earl of Kent was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa
by the Lords before it was thus immediately returned a thing very observable and extraordinary within a short time after the Lords themselves had received it It appeareth also in the said Journal-Book that one Bill more concerning the good Government of the City of Westminster was sent up with certain amendments to the Lords from the House of Commons and that two other Bills whereof this very Bill concerning the City of Westminster was one and the Bill for the keeping of the County-Court at Morpeth and the Town of Anwicke in the County of Northumberland was the other had been this day sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle who thereupon did presently read them prima secunda tertia vice as the Lords it should seem led by their Example did the two Bills above-mentioned this same Morning afterwards and with some small alteration sent them up to the Lords All which matter is by the negligence of M r Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House omitted in the said Original Journal-Book of that House and supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons pag. 166 167. Collected by M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the said House On Saturday the 27 th day of March the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime-Regis in the County of Dorsett was read tertia vice conclusa The Petition also of the Lord Marquess of Winchester against M r Oughtred concerning certain Accompts by him to be made was this day read before the Lords Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 29 th day of this instant March following On Monday the 29 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued a Proviso to the Bill concerning the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis added by the Lords was read tertia vice and then sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle M r Oughtred appeared before the Lords The Lord Chancellor by the advice and consent of the said Lords asked the said Oughtred whether he meant to take the benefit of a Release heretofore mentioned The said Oughtred 〈◊〉 before the said Lords that he would 〈◊〉 advantage of any Release concerning 〈◊〉 sum of twelve thousand pound and more 〈◊〉 further that the said Release extended 〈◊〉 the said sum but to other accompts before 〈◊〉 time of his Executorship The Lord Chancellor demanded further of the said Oughtred 〈◊〉 would be contented that his said Speeches should be entred by the Clerk in the Journals of the House The said Oughtred Answered that he was very well pleased therewith Whereupon the Lord Chancellor Commanded that his said Speeches should be Registred Nota That this matter was formerly debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. and before also in this present Parliament on Tuesday the 9 th day of February last past and on Tuesday the 4 th day and on Saturday the 27 th day of this instant March foregoing and Committees were likewise appointed about it on the foresaid 9 th day of February being Tuesday Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lords meeting the Bill for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon lecta est quae commum omnium Proccrum assensu conclusa est data Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend ' unà cum subsidio Temporalitatis Nota That the general Pardon passeth here upon the first reading There was also brought from the House of Commons two Bills of which the first was the Bill for the preservation of the Pier or Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset and the second being an Act for the preservation of Pheasants and Partridges with amendments was rejected for that they of the House of Commons had with their amendments taken away the principal intent of the Bill This Afternoon her Majesty Accompanied with the two Archbishops of Canterbury and York Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Lord Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Oxford and divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal were personally present in the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House who being all set in their Parliamentary Robes and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof repaired thither with John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House after his humble reverence made and some expressions of his thankfulness to her Majesty he proceeded according to the usual course to desire her Majesty to give Life to such Laws by adding her Gracious Allowance unto them as had passed either House and remained as yet but as a dead Letter and withal gave her Majesty knowledge of the free gift of the House of Commons of one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths To which Speech of the said Prolocutors the Lord Chancellor by her Majesties commandment answered That she did graciously accept of the said gift of her Commons and was come thither to give her Royal assent to divers of those Laws which had passed the two Houses Then were the Titles of all the Acts read and first the Bill of Subsidy to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Majesties Answer in manner and form following La Royne remercie ses loyaulx Subjects accepte leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelates Seigneurs Communes en se present Parliment assembles au nom de touts vous autres Subjects remercient treshumblement vostre Majesty prient a Dieu que il vous done en sante bone vie longue Nota That her Majesties Answer to these two Acts of the Subsidy and Pardon do differ from all the rest to any other Bills because in the first is expressed her Majesties thanks to the Subjects and in the second the Subjects humble acknowledgment of her said Majesties Pardon as an act of her own free grace and goodness To every publick Act allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament reads in these French words following La Royne le veult To every private Act that passeth the said Clerk of the Parliament reads the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desire These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of the Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear
touching Collectors of Issues by Juries was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Nathanael Bacon Mr. Henry Barkley and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Barkley who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Middle-Temple Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Lords did this Morning send down to the House of Commons a Bill touching the assurance of certain Lands to Sir Thomas Lucy Knight and others The business of Mr. Arthur Hall of which the House had been informed upon their first meeting this Morning was before the rising of the House referred to Mr. Wolley Mr. Cromwell Mr. Diggs and Mr. Sandes to peruse the order touching the same against Monday next being the day appointed by the House for the said Mr. Hall to appear before them On Monday the 14 th day of December further day was given unto the Committees for the Bill touching Tanners c. and to meet at the Yeeld-Hall alias Guild-Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted unto Walter Rawleigh Esquire for the discovery of Foreign Countries was read primâ vice Three Petitions touching the liberty of Godly Preachers and to exercise and continue their Ministries and also for the speedy supply of able and sufficient men into divers places now destitute and void of the ordinary means of Salvation were offered unto the House the first by Sir Thomas Lucy the second by Sir Edward Dymock and the third by Mr. Gates which were all thereupon read and further proceedings therein deferred until a more convenient time Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day of February following and more largely on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing Which notwithstanding Doctor Turner a little after rose up and put the House in remembrance of a Bill and Book heretofore offered by him unto the said House which had been digested and framed by certain Godly and Learned Ministers and which said Bill and Book did tend to no other end as he conceived than the Glory of God the Safety of her Majesty and the benefit of the Common-Wealth and therefore prayed that it might be read Against which Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold spake first but in few words and after him Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain more largely who pressed and moved the House so far therein that it was at length resolved that the said Book and Bill should not be read But touching all necessary and fit liberty of the aforesaid Ministers or supply of able men in places that wanted they did not doubt but that her Majesty would take some speedy order concerning the same according to whatsoever was justly required either in the aforesaid Petitions that had been read or in the last mentioned Book and Bill the reading whereof had been forborn of which also the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain did affirm that he doubted not but that it would be done accordingly Vide concerning this business on Saturday the 27 th day of March following He also further moved that for the better and more speedy expedition of other great matters now in hand this Court would be pleased to appoint to sit again at two of the Clock this Afternoon to give reading to a Bill but now lately finished wherein provision was made for the safety and preservation of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person Which he the rather desired because he conceived that this House would very shortly be adjourned till after Christmas The Bill against fraudulent Conveyances was read the third time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the before-mentioned Bill for provision to be made for safety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the quiet State of the Realm was read the first time The Bill also for provision of maintenance for Ministers and Preachers in Towns Corporate c. was after the second reading and much dispute put to the question whether it should be committed and upon the division of the House the major part of the Voices fell out to be against the commitment After which also upon another Question whether it should be ingrossed or no the Bill it self was lastly upon another division of the House dashed The Bill lastly for Confirmation of Letters Patents made unto M r Walter Rawleigh was read the second time and committed unto M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Secretary Sir Philip Sidney Sir Francis Drake Sir Richard Greensield Sir William Courtnay Sir William Mohun and others On Tuesday the 15 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the relief of the Creditors of Edward Fisher Esquire was after the second reading committed unto M r Sollicitor M r Morrice M r Cromwell M r John Fisher and M r Cradock who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn-Hall The Committees for M r Rawleighs Bill were appointed to meet presently in the Committee-Chamber of this House The Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster was after the second reading committed unto Sir George Carie M r Recorder of London M r Thomas Knivet M r Thomas Cecill and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the open Exchequer-Court The Bill against Informers was brought in by M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the name of all the Committees with allowance of the same only he further moved the reviving and continuing the former Act in that behalf made in the 18 th year of her Majesties Reign The Bill for provision to be made for the surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the good estate of the Realm was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Ling was brought in again by Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees without any thing done in the same for that the Committees could not in their meeting assent to any alteration of the same Bill The Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests and such like disobedient persons was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 16 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being a new one touching Hue and Cry was read the first time M r Ash one of the Committees in the Bill for Swearing of Under-Sheriffs in the name of himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill framed by them praying the reading thereof M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for disposing of Parsonages impropriate to charitable and pious uses for himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill praying the reading thereof The Bill for perfecting of Assurances was upon the second reading committed unto M r
of the said Mr. Kirle After which the said Mr. Anthony Kirle was brought again to the Bar and there kneeling upon his knees was asked by Mr. Speaker whether he had received of Mr. Stepneth any Money for the Charges of the said Attachment He answered he had not but his Attorney had And being asked whether his Attorney did receive it to his use or no He said his Attorney did allow it to him in the payment for the Copy of Mr. Stepneth his Answer And then Mr. Speaker pronounced unto him the said Judgment in form aforesaid in the Name of this whole House After the pronouncing whereof he humbly besought this House of their favourable goodness to grant him liberty to follow some Causes of his own and also some other of his Clients but it was denied him and so he was had away by the Serjeant And after his departure upon some motions that Consideration might be had of his Clients Causes the Term now continuing but one day more it was referred to Mr. Speaker's liberty to let him follow his own Causes and his Clients with his Keeper attending upon him Vide principium hujus materiae die praecedente vide consimilem casum in Parliamento de Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. on Friday the 12 th day of February On Friday the 12 th day of February five Bills were had in agitation in the House whereof two concerning the Government of the City of Westminster and the assurance of Sir Thomas Lucy were brought into the House by the several Committees of them with Proviso's and Amendments added unto them which they did humbly offer to the Consideration of the House and the other three of no great moment had two of them one reading apiece and the third two readings which was the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster viz. the body of the Bill had one reading and the Amendments two and then it was ordered to be ingrossed upon the Question One of the said three Bills last mentioned to have been read was a new Bill brought into the House for the true answering of the Debts of Edward Fisher Esquire after the first reading whereof upon a Motion made concerning it it was Ordered that the said Edward Fisher should be sent to by the Serjeant of this House to warn him to be in this House himself upon Monday next if it please him to procure himself a Writ for that purpose or else that his Councel be then there for him to shew cause if he have any why this House should not proceed to the expediting and passing of the same Vide plus de ista materia on Monday the 15 th day of this instant February following On Saturday the 13 th day of February the Bill touching the breadth of Woollen-Cloths was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Heneage Sir John Peeter and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet on Monday next in the Afternoon in the Parliament Chamber or Pension Chamber of the Middle-Temple M r Recorder of London M r Morrice and M r Penruddock were appointed to hear and examine the State and manner of the serving of Process upon any the Members of this House from time to time during this Session as occasion thereof shall fall out and after such information and intelligences thereof then further to impart the same to this House as occasion shall serve for further resolution Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of 21 H. 8. touching Pluralities of Benefices c. was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Drew Drewry Sir Robert Germin Sir Richard Knightley M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall A Proviso to the Bill concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Morrice M r Atkins and M r Alford were added to the former Committees to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall to hear M r Arnold and his Councel touching the said Bill and Proviso The Amendments in the Bill against Glass-Houses and Glass-making was twice read and Ordered to be with the Bill ingrossed On Monday the 15 th day of February M r William Stoughton offered unto this House a certain supplication in Parchment of certain abuses in the Ministry within the County of Leicester and also a note of certain Articles in Paper concerning some disorders in the Bishops Ministry and also M r Edward Lewkenor offered another Petition in Parchment touching the abuses in the Ministry in the behalf of the Inhabitants in the East part of the County of Sussex All which by Order of the House were read And then also was read another like Petition in Paper for the Inhabitants of the Parish of Holkstone in the County of Kent which was before the last Adjournment of this Court offered unto this House by M r John Moore and after sundry Speeches and Motions had touching the said Petitions M r Chancellor of the Exchequer putting the House in mind of the like Petitions in effect offered unto this House in the sitting before the last Adjournment and imparted to the Lords by a Committee of this House with humble Suit unto their Lordships to be a mean therein to her Majesty desired them that they would now forbear any further to deal with these Petitions until this House have first received Answer from the Lords of the said others alledging further that he had very lately put some of their Lordships in remembrance thereof on the behalf of this House and that he was Answered we should hear from their Lordships to Morrow next touching their Answer of the same Petitions Whereupon it was then thought good by this whole House to expect their Lordships said Answer therein till then accordingly Vide concerning Petitions on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing The Committees in the Bills for Actions upon the Case for perfecting of Assurances and for Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn Hall Upon a Motion made by M r Edward Lewkenor that some of this House may be appointed to draw a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to be used in this House for the great benefits and blessings of God bestowed upon this whole Realm in her Majesty and for the long continuance of the same especially in this time of Consultation this day appointed to be had and prosecuted in making of Laws for the preservation and safety of her Majesties most Royal Person It was agreed That the said Mr. Lewkenor himself should take such of this House to him as he should think good and devise and digest the same form of
pleased to think well of himself and the rest of his Brethren now living if not in respect of their places yet for Charity sake and for that some of them were Preachers when many of the House of Commons had been in their Cradles Upon this Relation made by M r Treasurer unto the House of Commons touching their Lordships Answer delivered by the Archbishop of York and the Lord Treasurer to himself and the rest of the Committees touching the foresaid Petitions divers Motions and sundry long Speeches were made in the conclusion whereof it was at last agreed that first the former Committees calling to them such other grave Members of this House learned in Divinity and in the Common Laws of the Realm and also in Canon Law as they shall think good shall confer together in the Exchequer Chamber to Morrow in the Afternoon touching the Answer of the Lords unto this House concerning the Petitions of this House exhibited unto their Lordships and after such Conference and consideration had of the same Answer then to resolve for further proceeding therein as then shall be thought meetest by this House Vide concerning this business on Monday the 14 th day Wednesday the 16 th day and on Monday the 21 th day of December foregoing As also on Monday the 15 th day Tuesday the 16 th Thursday the 18 th and on Monday the 22 th day of this instant February last past M r Wharton one of the Committees in the Bills touching Curriers Shoomakers c. brought in the old Bill and also a new On Friday the 26 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being a new Bill against Idleness and Incontinent Life and for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds was upon the second reading committed to the former Committees and M r Grafton M r Doctor Fletcher M r Alford and M r Lewkgnor were added unto them who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall A Bill against unlawful Licences to Marry was upon the first reading committed unto Sir Robert Germin M r Strickland M r Sands M r Greenfield and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Sands who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill against unlawful Marriages in some cases was upon the second reading committed to the former Committees in the Bill against incontinent life c. and the Bill was delivered to M r Doctor Fletcher M r Beale the Master of the Requests and M r Aldersey were added unto them The Bill for swearing of Bishops and Archbishops was read the second time M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees for framing of a Bill against fraudulent Conveyances shewed that the said Committees had met and travelled therein and drawn a new Bill accordingly and thereupon delivered in the same Bill together with the former old Bill which was sent from the Lords On Saturday the 27 th day of February Four Bill of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime-Regis was upon the second reading thereof committed unto M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Fitz James M r Hammon M r Hassard and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Hassard who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Tuesday the second day of March following in the Afternoon in the open Court in the Exchequer The Bill for bringing in of staple Fish and Ling had its second reading A Proviso to the Bill for Barwick upon Trent was twice read and upon the Question it was resolved that both the Bill and the Proviso must not be committed but ingrossed The Bill for Preservation of Plymouth-Haven passed upon the Question after the third reading and was presently sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others with request to their Lordships to know whether their Lordships have sought out their Precedents touching the Bill for the Sabbath day vide on Wednesday the 17 th day of March ensuing Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge in Canterbury was read the third time but passed not the House because M r Sollicitor was by them appointed to be added to the former Committees in the Bill and all of them to consider of the Queens Majesties Interest to an Annual Rent of Seven Pound Ten Shillings issuing out of the possessions of the said Hospital that the House being further advertised thereof the Bill may go to the question M r Treasurer and others coming from the Lords he shewed that according to the appointment of this House they have moved their Lordships to know their pleasure touching the search of the Precedents concerning the further proceeding in the Bill for the better observation of the Sabbath day and that the Lord Chancellor answered that the Lords had caused the said Precedents to be searched and do find them true as they were alledged by the Committees of this House saying further that because both the said Precedents are but new and only in her Majesties time their Lordships would have further search of more ancient Precedents and then afterwards their Lordships will make further answer therein unto this House And the said M r Treasurer further then declared that their Lordships desired that a Committee of this House might be appointed to have conference with their Lordships upon Munday next in the Afternoon touching the Bill for the good government of the City of Westminster lately sent from this House to their Lordships Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Wednesday the 17 th day of March following M r Vice-Chamberlain moved that the Committees for the framing of the Bill for her Majesties safety and those also for the Bill for continuance of Statutes which M r Hammon added unto them may meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and those also that are appointed for Conference touching the answer to the Petitions Vide concerning these Petitions on the day immediately foregoing where further references are made to such other days upon which they are handled On Munday the first day of March the House being set though of no great number M r Speaker being absent and the Letany and prayers first said by the Clerk in the House the Clerk afterwards signified unto this House from M r Speaker his present occasion of absence by reason of taking some Physick yesterday whereby he now at this instant kepeth his Bed and is not able without danger of greater peril of extremity to give his attendance in this House at this time And further that he desireth this whole House to bear with his said necessary occasion of absence for this present day well hoping he shall be the better able to
do them service the whole residue of this Session afterwards All which done the House did then rise and every man departed away well satisfied accordingly and were sorry for his Sickness Whereupon it seemeth they adjourned the House until to Morrow On Tuesday the 2 d day of March M r Hammon one of the Committees in the Bill for continuance of Statutes brought in the same Bill Four other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Augmentation of Justices Fees was upon the second reading committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Recorder and others But the time and place when and where these Committees were to meet is through the Clerks negligence wholly omitted M r Cromwell one of the Committees in the Bill against Licences granted to Marry brought in the old Bill and also a new The Bill for the maintenance of the Hospital of East-bridge in Canterbury was brought in again with a Proviso agreed upon by M r Sollicitor and M r Recorder of London which Proviso was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill last read touching Tellors and Receivors was now committed unto M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Sollicitor and others and the Bill was delivered to the said M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon Nota That the Bill touching Eastbridge had been before committed on Saturday the 20 th day of this instant February to M r Recorder and others and by him afterwards brought into the House again on the Saturday following being the 27 th day of the same Month just in the same sort as it had been committed unto them upon the foresaid day after the second reading But the House it seemeth desiring that further consideration should be had therein the Committees desired M r Sollicitor and M r Recorder to consider thereof accordingly who thereupon this day brought it in again with a new Proviso which being twice read the said Bill touching the Hospital of Eastbridge in Canterbury was with the said Bill committed to be ingrossed The Bill for assurances of certain Lands and Tenements to Jonas Scott was upon the third reading assented unto M r Cromwell was added to the former Committees for Examination of Process upon the Members of this House and to make report to Morrow accordingly thereof unto this House The Bill against covenous and fraudulent Conveyances was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Recorder Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Morrice and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Recorder who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Upon Friday next in the Afternoon the House was appointed to be called The Bill touching Apprentices in the City of London was committed unto Mr. Woodruffe Mr. Recorder Mr. Cromwell Mr. Wroth and others but no mention is made either of the time or place when and where these foresaid Committees were appointed to meet On Wednesday the third day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against the detestable sin of Adultery had its first reading and the sixth being the Bill for the true Answering of Tythes was upon the second reading committed to the former Committees and Mr. Recorder and Mr. Conisby were added unto them Mr. Vice-Chamberlain touching the Bill for the safety of her Majesties most Royal Person declaring the often meeting of the Committees in the same who have been sometimes commanded to other services besides in the mean time shewed that the same Committees have drawn a Bill for that purpose and offereth the same to the House praying it might be read and thereupon it was then read accordingly viz. The new Bill for the safety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person was read the first time Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Attorney did bring from the Lords two Bills viz. the one touching Jesuits with some amendments and a Proviso and the other touching certain assurances from the Bishop of Winchester and the Dean and Chapter of the same with request also from their Lordships that the Committees of this House in the Bill for the better Government of the City of Westminster may presently be sent to have Conference with their Lordships in the same Bill and but in a small thing concerning the same The Bill for the repairing and maintenance of the Sea-Banks and Sea-Works on the Coasts of Norf. and the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to Jonas Scott were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others with request of this House also that their Lordships would have the Bill for the better observation of the Sabbath day in remembrance for the better expediting thereof Vide de Billa Sabbathi on Wednesday the 17 th day of this instant March following The Bill for two Fifteenths and Tenths and one entire Subsidy was read the first time Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed the delivering of the Bills and Message and that their Lordships would send an Answer of the Message as soon as they have considered of the Precedents which their Clerk delivered unto them this day Mr. Serjeant Gawdie and Mr. Serjeant Rodes did desire from their Lordships that this House would appoint that six of this House and the Clerk may have Conference with their Lordships to Morrow in the Morning before the sitting of the Court touching the Orders of amendments in Bills in both Houses Whereupon were appointed for that purpose Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Saudes Mr. Cromwell Sir William Moore and Mr. Morrice but thought needless that the Clerk should attend therein for that all the Precedents of amendments in both Houses are always left and do still remain with the Clerk of the Upper House Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 27 th day of February foregoing On Thursday the fourth day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning certain assurances of the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Exeter had its first reading Mr. Thimbleby upon a Motion made by Mr. Speaker was Licensed to repair home into the Country to an Assizes Sir Robert Germin also being sick was upon a Motion made Licenced to be absent for the recovery of his Health The Bill for the preservation of Grain and Game was upon the second reading committed to Sir Edward Hobby Sir John Tracy Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Henry Nevill Sir Thomas Lucy and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Sir Thomas Lucy who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Parliament-House or Parlour of the Middle-Temple The Bill for maintenance of the Pier and Cob of Lime Regis and the Bill against unlawful
Sir Francis Drake and others and the Bill was deliverd to M r Prowze who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall It was ordered upon a motion this day by M r Recorder of London that a Warrant for a Writ of Priviledge be awarded for setting at liberty of John Pepler now prisoner for debt in the Counter in London servant unto Sir Philip Sidney a Member of this House A new Proviso and certain amendments now newly added to the Bill for maintenance of the Hospital of Eastbridge in Canterbury were three times read and all passed upon the question The Bill for keeping the County Court at Morpeth for the County of Northumberland was upon the second reading committed unto M r Treasurer M r Comptroller Sir Thomas Heneage and others and the Bill was delivered to the said M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Court The amendments in the Bill against Idle and Incontinent life and for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds and the Proviso for Southwark were twice read the said Proviso was committed and the Bill in the mean time order ed to be ingrossed M r Doctor Barkley and M r Doctor Carey did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire that a Committee of this House may be appointed to have conference with their Lordships this Afternoon touching the Bill for the breadth of Cloaths lately sent from this House unto their Lordships Whereupon the former Committees of this House in the same Bill are appointed for that purpose accordingly Three Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others whereof the last was touching certain Assurances of the Bishop of Exeter and the Dean and Chapter of the same On Tuesday the 16 th day of March four Bill of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the establishment of the Company of Curriers of London had its first reading and the fourth touching the taking of Apprentices was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore M r Sollicitor M r Recorder and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn Hall The Bill for the true using and making of Malt was upon the second reading committed unto M r Treasurer M r John Hare Sir William Moore and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Cromwell one of the Committees touching Devonshire Kersies called Dozens brought in the Bill with some amendments Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against the abuse of Corn and Grain had its third reading and certain amendments which had been added unto it after they were twice read were ingrossed Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Treasurer and others of which the last was the Bill concerning the Water-Bayliff The amendments and additions to the Bill that the Lands Tenements c. of Tellors Receivors c. shall be lyable to the payment of their debts were twice read and the additions ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills were sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons of which the last was for the Incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherburn and the first for the Grant of a Subsidy of the Clergy with the confirmation of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury which said Bill is mentioned in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have passed this day but not to have been sent down to the House of Commons The Bill that Recusants shall not have Armour Weapons or shot in their Custody was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privie Council Sir Henry Cock Sir John Higham M r Atturney of the Wards and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer The Bill for the maintenance of Forts Bulwarks c. near to the Town of Southampton had its second reading and was rejected upon the question Post Meridiem Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the second being a new Bill for the true answering of Tythes had its first reading and the third being the Bill for the establishment of an Award made between the Lord Rich and Sir Tho. Barrington Knight was read the third time and committed unto M r Audeley M r Atie M r Wiseman and M r Grafton who were appointed to meet to morrow Morning in the Exchequer Court On Wednesday the 17 th day of March The Bill touching Slanderous Books and Libels was read the first time and upon the question rejected The Bill for keeping of the County Court at Morpeth for the County of Northumberland was brought in again by M r Treasurer one of the Committees who reported to the House that the Committees thought good in the Bill after the word Morpeth in the 31 th line of the same Bill to have these words or Alnwick inserted and put in by the Lords The Amendments and Schedule in the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster were twice read and committed to M r Treasurer M r Recorder M r Cromwell M r Grafton and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Court The Bill touching Apprentices was brought in again by M r Attorney of the Wards one of the Committees who reported that he attended for the residue of the Committees yesterday at the place and time appointed but that none of them came thither The Bill against Idle and Incontinent Life and and for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds was read the third time and two Provisoes added unto it were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon the said Bill and the Proviso passed upon the Question Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Powle did bring from the Lords a Bill for the paving of the Town of New Windsor and a Message from their Lordships for present Conference with some of this House touching the Bill against fraudulent Conveyances c. before passed from this House unto them with further Message from their Lordships that their Lordships have sent sundry Bills to this House which are not returned unto them again and therefore think that those Bills have not that ordinary course of reading and expedition which were requisite and therefore do pray better speed in those Bills that are nearest and readiest to the course of passing and then to deal with other Bills as their course shall require Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Morrice Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Grafton and Mr. Alford were appointed presently to repair to the Lords for Conference
of the Committees in the Bill for the Curriers brought in the Bill with some Amendments and declared further that upon their Conference together they misliked much of many parts of the Bill as to have persons made free of London by Act of Parliament and that it should breed a very hard course and prejudicial precedent to all sorts of Artificers dwelling within three Miles of the City of London Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill touching the true making of Malt shewed that they have met but have done nothing in the same Bill and so brought in the same Bill to be now read only for the reviving of the former Statute in that behalf without any Alteration or Addition which Bill was then in that course so read accordingly and the Amendment therein for the limitation of the continuance twice read and so the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests and such other disobedient Subjects being perfected according to the said Agreement of this House therein were now upon the question likewise passed and assented unto accordingly Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords the Bill against Covenous and fraudulent Conveyances returned with some Amendments Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for the better Execution of the Statute of the thirteenth of her Majesties Reign for reformation of certain disorders in the Ministers of the Church was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Amendments in the Bill touching the breadth of Wollen Cloths were read three times and so the said Amendments passed upon the question The Bill against fraudulent means used to defeat Wardships Liveries and primer seisins was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords the Bill for preservation of Timber in the County of Surrey Sussex and Kent returned with some Amendments and a request also from their Lordships that some of this House may be appointed to have Conference with their Lordships at three of the Clock this Afternoon touching a branch in the Bill for continuance of Statutes which concerneth the eating of Fish upon Wednesday Whereupon were appointed thereunto all the Privy-Council Mr. Morrice Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Heneage Sir Henry Cock Mr. Cromwell Mr. Recorder and others Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the perfecting of assurances was read the third time and stayed from the question till to Morrow On Saturday the 20 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the better imploying of Lands Tenements c. to the repairing of Highways and for the relief of the Poor had its third reading and was rejected upon the question The Amendments in the Bill against Moor-burning were twice read and agreed to be inserted in the ingrossed Bill and being so presently inserted was read the third time and passed upon the question The Amendments in the Bill against Covenous and fraudulent Conveyances were twice read and agreed unto by the House and Ordered to be ingrossed in the Bill accordingly Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumstead-Marsh and in the Bill for the incorporation of the Hospital of Eastbridge brought in the same Bill with some Amendments Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for the better Execution of the Statute of the thirteenth of her Majesty for reformation of disorders of Ministers of the Church brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill praying that the said new Bill may be read which was thereupon twice read and Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed There were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons nine Bills by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the last was the Bill for Chichester-Haven The Amendments in the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumstead-Marsh were thrice read and agreed upon by the House to be passed with the Bill and Mr. Baptist on the one part with one Jacob Seal on the other part were heard in the House and after their departure out again the House did offer some Speeches and Motions in the matter but did rise without any resolutions therein Vide March 24. postea On Monday the 22 th day of March the Bill for the draining of Fens Marshes c. was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Richard Knightley Mr. John North and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill against excessive Fees and Taxations in Ecclesiastical Courts was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Beale Mr. Strickland Mr. Thomson Sir William Herbert Mr. Morris and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for perfecting of Assurances after sundry Arguments was read the fourth time and again after the same reading thereof the Bill was referred to the Conference of the former Committees as also of Mr. Owen Mr. Shirley Mr. Dalton and Mr. David Williams to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber to confer this Bill with that against Covenous and fraudulent Conveyances together and aftewards further to inform this House Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords three Bills viz. The Bill with one only word amended touching Artificers using the Cutting of Leather which before passed in this House the Bill with some Amendments and Additions for reformations of errors in Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales and Counties Palatine and a Bill to provide remedy for her Majesties Wardships Liveries and primer seizins in certain Cases And they also shewed that their Lordships did desire present Conference with half a dozen of this House touching the good Government of the City of Westminster Whereupon were presently appointed Mr. Treasurer Mr. Robert Cecill Mr. Recorder Mr. Cromwell Mr. Wroth Mr. Owen and Mr. Morrice who returning from their Lordships shewed that their Lordships do not very well allow of the Addition of this House in the said Bill to restrain the Liberty and Jurisdiction of the Dean of Westminster as well in his own Liberty as in his Government of the Prebendaries and Ministers of the Church there and so he thinketh their Lordships will add something to that purpose to the Additions of this House The second Proviso to the Bill for incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherborn was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill
for the Execution of the Statute of the thirteenth of the Queens Majesty for reformation of certain disorders in the Ministers of the Church was read the third time and after many Arguments passed upon the question On Tuesday the 23 th day of March Mr. Attorney of the Wards one of the Committees in the Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent means used to defeat Wardships Liveries and primer seisins brought in the same Bill again which had this day its first reading Mr. Morrice one of the Committees in the Bill for perfecting of Assurances brought in the same And also the Bill against Covenous and fraudulent Conveyances and also a new Bill The Amendments in the Bill touching the taking of Apprentices were twice read and Committeed to the former Committees and to Mr. Williams Mr. Hare Mr. Cromwell Mr. Wroth Mr. Cole and Mr. Prowze and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meetu pon Thursday next in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill against defeating of Wardships Liveries and primer Scisins Shewed that the Committees have travailed and for some things by them thought requisite to be amended do think if this House shall so like That some of the same Committees may pray Conference with the Lords therein Whereupon it was agreed that the said former Committees or some convenient number of them may so do And then Four Bills of no great Moment were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of which the last was the Bill for the Paving of the Town of New-Windsor in the County of Berks. Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherborn neer Durham was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill for disarming of Recusants were twice read and the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Upon further Arguments and Motions had touching the proceeding in the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumstead Marsh it was agreed that M r Smith M r Baptist M r Youngue and Roger James be warned by the Serjeant of this House to be here to morrow Morning that upon some Conference to be had with them by this House the said Bill may the better proceed to the passing On Wednesday the Twenty fourth day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Philip Bassett Esquire was upon the second reading Committed unto M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Chancellor Sir Richard Knghtley M r Digby and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Vice-Chamberlain all these to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber And the second being the Bill for suppressing of Pirates and Piracy was upon the second reading Committed unto M r Treasurer Sir Drew Drewrie Sir Nicholas Woodruff M r Richard Brown M r Docter Fletcher and others who were appointed to meet on Saturday next in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Amendments and Additions in the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Common recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales and Counties Palatine were read Three times and passed accordingly M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Doctor Barkely did bring from the Lords word that their Lordships do presently desire Conference with some of this House touching the Bill for Continuance of Statutes The Bill for the incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherborn near Durham with two others of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others who were also appointed to attend the Lords in the Conference touching the Bill for continuance of Statutes according to their Lordships requests M r Vice-Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill against frauds used in defeating of Wardships Liveries and primer Seisins shewed that they have met and travailed in the same Bill and have thought good to make a new Bill but yet nevertheless not meaning to impeach the old Bill coming from the Lords and that the said new Bill he said he thought was not so sufficiently considered of by the said Committees but that it requireth further consideration amongst them praying notwithstanding a present reading of the said Bill Which was thereupon so read accordingly M r Grafton one of the Committees in the Bill for preservation of Woods near Crambrook in Kent brought in the Bill again Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the true payment of Tythes was read the Third time and after many long Arguments dashed upon the Question M r Chancellor of the Exchequer returning from the Lords shewed that this morning as he came to this House he found M r Baptist M r Customer Smith and the Sollicitor of Jacob Seal who were all of them agreed to such Conditions of recompence and consideration to be had towards the said Jacob as that the Bill may with their liking be read to the passing whereupon the Amendments ..... same ..... But that which should here follow is through the negligence of the Clerk wholly omitted yet it may seem as may be Collected out of a former passage of this business on Tuesday the 23 d day of this instant March foregoing that this Bill here mentioned by Sir Walter Mildmay Chancellor of the Exchequer was the Bill touching the Inning of Erith and Plumstead Marsh and that the Amendments of the same Bill which had been formerly thrice read on Saturday the 20 th day of this instant March did at this time pass the House M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords M r Treasurer shewed that the cause for which their Lordships desired conference was that in respect of the great experienced benefit grown to increase of the Navy and Mariners of this Realm by the late Law for eating of Fish upon Wednesdays their Lordships wished a Provision to be made for the eating of Fish and no flesh at all hereafter upon the Wednesday in all places of this Realm Twenty five miles distant from the Sea and also in the Cities of London York and Bristol and in all places of this Realm within five miles of the said Cities Whereunto he said as he and the residue could say nothing because they knew not the pleasure of this House therein so he said he thought their Lordships Additions in the Bill passed this House unto the Lords for the good Government of the City of Westminster did seek too much to abridge the Dean of Westminster being the Lord of the said Borough in his Liberty and Jurisdiction of his own House and Servants and of the Prebendaries and other Churchmen and their Servants being all under his own peculiar government And
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
this House to attend the Lords yesterday at Court touching the Bill of Captains and Souldiers were there accordingly and shewed unto their Lordships the opinion of this House touching the same Bill and that their Lordships did make answer unto the same But what their answers were is wholly omitted through the negligence of the Clerk Mr. Doctor Carie and Mr. Powle do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire present Conference with some of this House in a Bill for continuation and perfecting of certain Statutes and thereupon it was upon relation thereof made to the House by Mr Speaker ordered that the former Committees in the same Bill and divers others now added unto them be presently sent to their Lordships accordingly and withal the Bill for confirmation of two Subsidies granted by the Clergy and the Bill touching Jurors both which passed the House this Morning and the Bill touching the Free School of Tunbridge in Kent were sent up to their Lordships by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others with request of this House for special Commendation to be made to their Lordships for their favourable considerations of the said Bill touching the said Jurors The Bill for maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council Mr. Cromwell Mr. Wroth and others to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill that the Children of Aliens shall pay Strangers Customs was read the second time and after many Speeches both ways it was committed to the former Committees to meet at the said former time and place and both the same Bills were delivered to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain On Wednesday the 26 th day of March the Bill concerning Denizens Children was read the second time the Bill also against Strangers retailing of Foreign Wares was amended by the Committee appointed on Wednesday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing which said Amendments being brought in by them with the Bill were now twice read although it be mistaken in the Original Journal-Book that the Bill it self had its second reading Mr. Doctor Cary and Mr. Powle did bring from the Lords the Bill against privy and secret Outlawries which had its first reading Sir John Parrott shewed that her Majesty told him that she thought it requisite that provision were had for her Majesty as well as for her Subjects against the imbozelling and purloining of her Armour Weapons and other Habiliments of War and offereth a Bill to the House to that end and prayeth a present reading of the same The Bill against imbezelling of Armour Munition and other Habiliments of War was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed and read the third time and passed upon the question and presently sent up to the Lords by Sir John Parrot and others The House was this day called and the defaults noted upon a former Motion this day made by Sir John Parrot by her Majesties Pleasure upon some intelligence given to her Highness of the small number of the Members of this House presently attending the service of the same the one half at the least supposed to be absent Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and the residue of the Committees returning from the Lords he shewed that according to the Commission of this House they prayed Conference with their Lordships touching such parts in the Bill concerning Houses of Husbandry and Tillage as this House had thought meet to be considered of and that thereupon their Lordships asked them if they then were ready for Conference Whereunto he and the residue Answered they were And thereupon the Committees of this House being sequestred their Lordships did send unto them a Committee of themselves unto whom he and the residue of the Committees of this House did impart the opinion of this House touching the said Bill together with such Amendments of the same as this House prayed their Lordships Assent and good-liking unto And that thereupon the Committees of the Lords willing the Committees of this House to stay a while for Answer went in again to the Lords and some of them shortly after returning brought from their Lordships this Answer That we of this House were possessed of the said Bill and might do therewith as should seem good unto us and that when it should come back again to them their Lordships would then likewise do therewith as they should think good On Thursday the 27 th day of March the Bill against secret Outlawries had its second and third reading and passed upon the Question The Councel learned both of the Earl of Warwick and also of George Ognell were brought into this House to the Bar and heard at large and then sequestred again and afterwards being called in again received their Answer of this House by the Mouth of Mr. Speaker Vide principium dici Martis diei 25 Martii instantis The Bill against Forestalling regrating and ingrossing had its first reading and upon another Motion was read again and upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments and a Proviso in the Bill for maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage being thrice read and the Bill read the third time the said Bill Amendments and Proviso passed upon the question Mr. Doctor Cary and Mr. Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln with some Amendments of their Lordships unto the same with further Advertisement from the Lords that their Lordships do suspend their proceeding in the Bill for continuance and perfecting of certain Statutes lately sent from this House to their Lordships until their Lordships do hear from this House of the Proceedings of this House in the Bill for maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage The Bill against privy and secret Outlawries and the Bill with Amendments and Proviso lately passed in this House are sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others Nota That both the sending down of the former Bill from the Lords and the sending up of this latter to their Lordships are omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House where it should seem there being no Bill read the Clerk of that House being then Anthony Mason did very negligently omit the Entrance of any thing else besides the continuance of the Parliament to a further day The Bill to avoid Horse-stealing had its third reading and passed upon the question On Friday the 28 th day of March the Amendments of the Lords in the Bill touching forcible Entries and also the Amendments of this House being all thrice read are agreed by this House upon the question to be passed accordingly The Bill against Forestalling Regrating and Ingrossing was upon the question and division of the House Ordered to be presently read for the third reading thereof viz. with the Yea fifty six and with the No thirty A Proviso to the same Bill was offered to the House and twice read and ingrossed and also once read for the
ingrossing thereof and so the Bill upon the question and division of the House was passed by the yielding of the negative Voices without going through with telling of the whole numbers on both sides and was sent presently up to the Lords by Sir John Parrot and a little after two other Bills the one to avoid Horse-stealing and the other touching forcible Entries were likewise sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others The Bill against such as steal and imbezel the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty being put in trust with the same was read the first time The Bill that Aliens Children shall pay Strangers Customs was read the third time and a Proviso added unto it thrice read the Bill and Proviso upon the question and division of the House dashed with the Yea sixty four and with the No seventy four Mr. Doctor Cary and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln with an Addition of this word yearly added to their former Amendments for the explaining of the same Amendments All which Amendments being thrice read were upon the question assented unto by this House Nota That this Bill was brought down from the Lords to the House yesterday and therefore it should seem upon some doubts the House made touching their Lordships Amendments it was carried back again and those Amendments explained by the word above-mentioned and so being brought down again this day the said Amendments were thrice read and passed the House On Saturday the 29 th day of March Mr. Doctor Stanhop and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for continuation and perfecting of certain Statutes with a Schedule unto the same added and annexed by their Lordships and the same Schedule being thrice read passed upon the Question The Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being perfected according to the Amendments of the Lords and the Bill also for continuance of Statutes with the Schedule to the same were sent up to the Lords by the Master of the Wardrobe and others The Amendments of the Committees of this House to the Bill against excess of Apparel was denied upon the Question to be opened unto the House The Bill against such as steal or imbezel the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty was brought in again by Mr. Harris one of the Committees in the same as not to be sufficiently considered of for lack of time the same Bill consisting of many parts Mr. Serjeant Puckering and Mr. Serjeant Shuttleworth did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do pray present Conference with some twenty or more of this House to meet with their Lordships in the nether room of the Upper House and the rest not to depart until the return of the same Committees Whereupon were appointed for that purpose all the Privy Council of this House Sir William Hatton Mr. Wroth Mr. North Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Wade Mr. Mills Mr. Juers Mr. Henry Grey Sir Edward Dymock Mr. Robert Bowes Mr. Harris Mr. Heydon Mr. Francis Moore Sir George Barne Mr. Robert Cecill Mr. Shirley Mr. Dyer Mr. Hare Mr. Ralph Bowes Sir Francis Hinde Mr. Preston Mr. White Mr. Hill Mr. Henry Brooke and the Master of the Jewel-House Mr. Treasurer in the name of the rest of the Committees did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships have had Conference amongst themselves of the great practices and Treasons heretofore intended against her Majesties Person State and Kingdom And therefore ..... What should here follow is wholly omitted by the great negligence of Mr. Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons as also the Speeches of Mr. Vice-Chamberlain of Mr. Secretary Wolley of Sir John Parrot Mr. Comptroller and of Mr. Fortescue for the inserting of which said Speeches there is left a blank of near upon two whole Pages and yet it may be probably gathered what the scope and end of all the said several and respective Speeches were out of a question following which Mr. Speaker propounded at the end of them viz. That seeing most of all those Treasons which had been practised against her Majesty had been either Plotted in Spain or procured by Spain and all the Rebellions during her Highness Reign raised either in England or Ireland had been countenanced from thence to which as the upshot of all that his late intended ambitious and blood-thirsty Conquest yet fresh in memory may be added That therefore her Majesty would be pleased to denounce open War against him the said King of Spain as against a most dangerous Enemy of her Majesty and her Realms Upon the said Speeches Mr. Speaker maketh the question and thereupon it was resolved by the whole House for joining with their Lordships in request to her Majesty to be delivered by the Mouth of Mr. Speaker for concurring with their Lordships for denouncing of War against the King of Spain at the time of his going up with the Subsidy and after the offer and delivery of the same Subsidy Mr. Doctor Cary and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords two Bills viz. The Act of the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon and also the Act of four Fifteenths and Tenths and two Subsidies which had before passed this House The Bill of the Queens Majesties most general and free Pardon being once read passed thereupon Which said Bill so passed was presently sent up to the Lords by M r Fortescue and others Nota That this is all which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and therefore the Conclusion and Dissolution of this Parliament next ensuing are supplied out of that of the Upper House Her Majesty being as it should seem this very Forenoon come unto the Upper House and there set the House of Commons having notice thereof with Serjeant Snagg their Speaker repaired thither who after his delivery of the Bill of Subsidy did move her Majesty as may be very probably conjectured according to the former resolution had this day in the said House as aforesaid that her Majesty would be pleased to denounce open War against the Spanish King who had so lately threatned destruction to her Majesty and her Realms by that his not long since open and Hostile Invasion After which her Majesty having given her Royal Assent unto the passing of sixteen publick Acts and eight private Acts being all the Statutes that passed this Parliament Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor by her Majesties Commandment Dissolved the same THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 35 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1592. which began there on Monday the 19 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 10 th Day of April Anno Domini 1593. THERE is little extraordinary in
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
one of the Committees in the Bill against counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands appointed on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that he and the residue of the Committees have met together and upon the end of their Travel therein do all of them think it a very dangerous Bill and not fit in their opinions to pass this House And did further think good to leave the same to the good consideration of this House And because it is a Bill which came from the Lords they thought good with 〈◊〉 said report first made to deliver the said Bill again into this House and so there to leave it in such sort as it is and not otherwise The Bill concerning the Lands late of Henry late Lord Burgavenny was upon the second reading committed unto M r Thomas Fane Sir Henry Knivett M r Recorder of London and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir William Haward one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Four Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of which the first was touching the sale of Raven's Lands and another touching salted Fish It is Ordered that touching the Bill against Alien Strangers selling by way of Retail whereof report was now made by M r Recorder of London one of the Committees in the same Bill of that which was done yesterday by such of the Committees as then did meet or at the least by the more part of them viz. by five there being in very deed but nine in all both parts should be heard to Morrow in this House with their Council The Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents to the Mayor Sheriff Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Serjeant Owen and M r Powle did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships desire Conference with the Committees of this House upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Chamber next the Upper House touching the Continuance of Statutes and relief of poor maimed Souldiers if this House shall so like Which Message being opened to the House by M r Speaker it was Ordered by this whole House that the former Committees of this House whose names see before on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing should attend their Lordships at the said time and place accordingly Which resolution of this House was also thereupon signified from this House to their Lordships by the said M r Serjeant Owen and M r Powle The Bill for the better expedition of Justice in the Court of Star-Chamber was read the second time After the reading of which Bill M r Francis Bacon stood up and and spake very earnestly against it by means whereof as it should afterwards seem the Bill was Dashed Which said Speech containing divers matters of good moment in it although it be omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self yet I have thought good to supply it out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal being in manner and form following M r Francis Bacon after silence made spake as followeth Neither Profit nor Peril shall move me to speak against my Consciene in this place Yet because I am a party interessed in this Office which the Bill aims at so may I seem to speak with feeling my self also not thinking it fit that being here a Judge I should speak also as a party yet I beseech you as the manner is in places Judicial if the Judge be a party though he sit not there as Judge yet may he defend and speak at the Bar as a party in his own Case So I beseech you because I may hap to yield reason to the satisfying of any that yet may stand for the Bill let me be heard to speak at the Bar. And then he offered to go to the Bar but the House in favour would needs have him speak in the place where he sat First there is cunning shewed in the Bill and for that my Lord Keeper might be affected it seems to give him the bestowing of the Clerks places Secondly to insinuate with practising Lawyers it gives them a Fee For no Interrogatories should be administred whereto their hand was not under Thirdly it offered also some kindness to me for it gave a present Forfeiture of the Office upon sundry defaults Fifthly to the subject in general it pretended a very great relief So that it carried a plausible show but indeed the Bill was in it self prejudicial to her Majesty inconvenient to the Judges of that Court and burthensome to the Subject Prejudicial to her Majesty for it makes a diminution of her Inheritance Inconvenient for the Clerks place hath always been in her Gift and this Bill would carry it to the Lord Keeper who never before had it It is an Indignity offered unto the Court for that the Clerk must be Ordered by an Act of Parliament as if their wisdom and Care were not sufficent to relieve any abuses they should find in their Officers to the grief of the Subject Great Injury is offered to the parties interessed for first an Office which is incident unto the Clerk is given from him he shall not have the appointing of his own Examiner And again the Ancient Fee hath always been twelve pence the sheet and as much in other Courts therefore this is not tolerable And considering the place of his Attendance his place is in the highest Court wherefore in reason his Fee is to have proportion with his Attendance Now where relief and Ease were pretended to the Subjects no such thing will come by the Bill but rather a greater Charge for it gives a Fee for Judicial Acts as for making Reports for which no such Fee is due It appoints that a Councellors hand must be to all Interrogatories so their Clyents must pay a Fee more than usually Also whereas he used upon Commission the parties talking with their Deponents to have Cause presently to draw Interrogatories they thought not ..... before now they cannot minister any such Interrogatories nay to every Commission sitting they must bring their Councel which will be an exceeding great charge Besides the Commissioners are bound under a pain not to accept Interrogatories that are not signed under a Councellors hand so the Commissioners must take notice at their peril who be Councellors admitted to the parties who not These with many other reasons There was much division thereupon Wherefore the Speaker propounded the question that as many as will not have the Bill rejected say I and the other to say No. The voice was so indifferent that it could not be discerned which were greater Then the question grew whether part should go out those that said I or those that said
the Bill and after Report made by him of the Travel of the Committees therein the Bill was read for the third reading and passed upon the Question Mr. Finch one of the Committees in the Bill for Continuation Explanation and perfecting of certain Statutes who had been appointed on Wednesday the 28 th day of this instant March foregoing reporteth the meeting and Travel of the Committees and also the Amendments of the Bill in sundry things which Amendments after many long Arguments and sundry questions with the division of the House were in the end Ordered to be inserted into the said Bill On Friday the 30 th day of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Broughton and Sir Edward Dyer were appointed to attend my Lord Keeper touching the Return of the Habeas Corpus cum Causa for the bringing up of the Body of Mr. Fitzherbert Esquire Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the first day Friday the second day and on Saturday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing as also on Tuesday April the 3 d and on Thursday April the 5 th postea The Amendments in the Bill for Continuation Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late of Sir Francis Englefield Knight being twice read to the House and the Bill it self and the same Amendments read the third time also passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill for Continuation Explanation and perfecting of certain Statutes being twice read were upon the Question after many and sundry Arguments to divers particular points in the same Ordered upon the question in the end to be ingrossed M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill for maintenance of the Haven of Colchester and the paving of the Town appointed on Thursday the 29 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that he and the residue of the Committees have met together and upon their Conference thought good to suppress the said Bill for that they could not conveniently agree to such conclusion in the same as might satisfie the Inhabitants of the said Town And shewed further the imparting of himself and the other Committees unto the Lords touching the Collection and distribution of the money to poor maimed Souldiers And that thereupon their Lordships had appointed four of themselves for that purpose which in that Case should join with such of this House as by this House shall be appointed Whereupon M r Vice-Chamberlain was Ordered to give their Lordships most humble thanks and to shew them that after their Lordships shall have sent the Bill again to this House in such sort passed as their Lordships shall think meet this House will thereupon then do therein what shall appertain Doctor Carew and M r Powle do bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy together with the instrument for the same with request also from their Lordships to this House for speedy Expedition of the same A Proviso to the Bill concerning the over-length of broad Cloth was offered to the House and after the twice reading thereof was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Treasurer Mr. Warren Sir Francis Drake Mr. Wroth Mr. Doctor Herbert Sir Henry Unton Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Thomas Morgan Mr. Oliver S t John Sir Thomas Baskervile Sir Thomas Shirley Mr. John Hart Mr. Flower Sir Robert Sidney Sir Thomas Conisby are appointed to join with the Lords in the joint disposing of the Contribution of both Houses collected towards the relief of poor maimed Souldiers Nota That this is all which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons of this days Passages and therefore there being an excellent Vote or Resolution of the House touching the Addition and Amendments of Bills after their passing of either House set down in the often before-recited Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal I have thought good to have it inserted in manner and form following If a Bill having passed the Upper House be sent down to the House of Commons and be likewise upon the third reading allowed and expedited in that House and from them sent back again to their Lordships with Alterations and Amendments thereunto added here the Lords may either reject the said Bill or must pass it with the said Additions and that nothing more can be inserted into the said Bill by their Lordships but they must frame either a new Bill in the same matter or business or send down the former old Bill with other Additions or Provisoes as a new Bill Or if a Bill being sent from the Lords to the House of Commons do pass the said House also as it had their Lordships before the sending down it can never be again dealt in further by them Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal The next days Passages follow out of the Original Journal-Book it self On Saturday the 31 th day of March the Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy and read the first Time passed upon the Question The Bill touching Casks brought in with more Amendments by Mr. Wroth one of the Committees and the same Amendments being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for reviving continuing explanation and perfecting of certain Statutes was read the third time And after sundry Arguments the two Provisoes touching the dealing with the reputed Fathers of Bastards being withdrawn upon the Question the Bill upon the Question was passed afterwards accordingly Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Ford do bring from the Lords two Bills the one Intituled an Act for the restraint of new Buildings converting of great Houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and near unto the City of London and Westminster and the other for the Explanation of a branch of a Statute made in the twenty third year of the Queens Majesties Reign Intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience with some Additions to the same with a Message also from their Lordships to know the pleasure of this House touching their Lordships request for the further Explanation by their Lordships to be made of some part of the Amendments of this House in the Bill lately passed their Lordships and sent hither unto this House and afterwards by this House returned again unto their Lordships with some Amendments of this House Intituled An Act for restraint of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad And the said Mr. Doctor Ford also shewed that their Lordships prayed Expedition of the said Bills now brought down for that the time of Parliament is like now to grow very short Mr. Speaker remembred unto the House the effect of the said Message from the Lords whereupon it was resolved by the House that Answer should be made unto the said Mr. Attorney and Mr. Doctor Ford That if their Lordships should add any declaratory Proviso
the like whereof was in the Statute of 13 o of her Majesties Reign Nota That the business so much before agitated touching M r Fitzherbert received this day the final resolution of the House as is plainly set down in the often before-cited Anonymous Journal although it be wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self which said Case was singly this Thomas Fitzherberts being elected a Burgess of the Parliament two hours after his Election and before the return of the Writ to the Sheriff with the Indenture of his Election the said Sheriff Arresteth him upon a Capias utlagatum in an Outlawry after Judgment at the Queens Suit as may be collected out of the reasons given of their said Resolution and then his Indenture was returned to the Sheriff Upon all which matters there grew two Questions First whether the said M r Fitzherbert were a Member of the House And secondly admitting he were yet whether he ought to have priviledge Which said matters having been formerly much debated on Thursday the first day Friday the second Saturday the 17 th day and on Friday the 30 th day of March last past as also on Tuesday the third day of this instant April foregoing received now at last the Judgment of the House which is inserted out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal in manner and form following The Judgment of the House was That Thomas Fitzherbert was by his Election a Member thereof yet that he ought not to have priviledge in three respects First Because he was taken in Execution before the return of the Indenture of his Election Secondly Because he had been Outlawed at the Queens Suit and was now taken in Execution for her Majesties debt Thirdly and lastly in regard that he was so taken by the Sheriff neither Sedente Parliamento nor eundo nor redeundo Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal the rest of this present Journal that ensueth to the very end and dissolution thereof is wholly supplied out of the Original Journal-Book it self The Bill concerning Clapboards and Casks which as it seemeth was read presently after the foresaid resolution of the House given in the said Case of M r Fitzherbert had the third reading and passed upon the Question M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Carey do bring from the Lords the Bill for renewing continuing explanation and perfecting of certain Statutes lately passed this House with some Amendments and a Proviso which Bill was sent up to their Lordships from this House The Bill for necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read the third time and passed upon the Question Upon a Motion made by Francis Neale Esq one of the Burgesses for the Borough of Grantham in the County of Lincoln That he was upon Sunday last in the Afternoon Arrested upon an Execution by a Serjeant called John Lightburn at the Suit of one Wessellen Weblen a Beer-Brewer and shewing further that he had satisfied the money due upon the said Execution but yet nevertheless in regard of the preservation of the Liberties and priviledges of this House thought it his duty to make this House acquainted with the matter and so refer and leave it to their grave Wisdoms Whereupon it was upon the Question Ordered that the Serjeant of this House should in the name of this House give warning unto the said Weblen and Lightborn to give their attendance upon this House to Morrow to answer their contempt accordingly Vide diem sequentem On Friday the 6 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for restraint of new building converting of great Houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and near unto the City of London and Westminster was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council the Knights and Burgesses of London M r Francis Bacon and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Wroth one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill concerning Devonshire Kerseys was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Proviso in the Bill for reviving continuing Explanation and perfecting of certain Statutes the Amendments being first read and Ordered afterwards to be inserted was three times read and they were all passed upon the question accordingly The Proviso of the Lords to explain the Amendments of this House in the Bill which passed their Lordships and was sent down to this House for the restraining of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad was three times read and passed upon the Question The Bill to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion was read the third time and passed upon the Question Eight Bills which lately passed this House viz. the Bill to give liberty to the Lord Harrowden to sell certain Lands for the payment of his debts The Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers The Bill touching Clap-boards and Casks The Bill for relief of Souldiers and Mariners The Bill concerning Devonshire Kerseys The Bill for reviving and perfecting divers Statutes with a new Proviso The Bill for restraining of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad And the Bill to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r Doctor Carey and M r Powle do bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for the avoiding of deceit used in making and selling of twice laid Cordage and for the better preserving of the Navy of this Realm and prayed from their Lordships the speedy expediting of the same Bill for that this Parliament draweth near unto an end Whereupon the same Bill was twice read and committed unto Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Drake M r Lewkenor M r Wroth M r Finch and M r Flower and the Bill was delivered to Sir Francis Drake who were appointed to meet in the Afternoon of this present day The Bill against persons Outlawed and such as will not pay their debts was read the second and third time and dashed upon the question M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill for Explanation of a branch made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience with some Addition to the same shewed the meeting of the said Committees yesterday their long tarrying together in the end their desisting without any determinable resolutions occasioned by reason of many and sundry Arguments and opinions and afterwards somewhat intimating the unkindness of the Lords in neglecting the said Bill in this House adviseth that a Conference be prayed with their Lordships for the better effecting of a convenient Law to be provided for meeting with the disordered
being also three times read the said Bill with some Additions and Amendments passed upon the Question On Monday the 9 th day of April Wesselen Weblen Bear-Brewer and John Lightburn Serjeant at Mace Prisoners at the Bar are after admonition given them by M r Speaker discharged by the Order of this House of their Imprisonment paying their Fees Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 5 th day and on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April immediately foregoing M r Chancellour of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for Explanation of a Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8. as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they have considered of some small amendments and shewed further that four several Provisoes were offered to them touching the said Bill one by M r Adams and one by M r ..... Tipper and one by M r Daws and so offereth both the Bill and the Amendments and the said former Provisoes also leaving all the same to the further consideration of this House Six Bills which last passed this House of which the first was the Bill for avoiding of deceit used in making and selling of twice laid Cordage and for the better preserving of the Navy of this Realm and the second for Mr. Anthony Cook were sent up to the Lords by Sir Robert Cecil and others Upon sundry arguments touching the Proviso offered by Sir Thomas Shirley to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of 34 Hen. 8. c. it was upon the Question denied to be received and the Proviso for Mr. Stanhop was upon the Question and division of the House denied to be received with the difference of forty Persons viz. with the No one hundred twenty nine and with the Yea eighty nine Mr. Serjeant Owen and Doctor Carey do bring word from their Lordships that their Lordships do desire to know whether this House have any Bills ready to send up unto them shewing that their Lordships are now at good leisure And willed them to put this House in remembrance of the expediting of two Bills which were sent from their Lordships to this House viz. the Bill for Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8. a Bill touching Grants made to his Majesty as also for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others and the Bill for restraint of new Buildings c. Which Message being opened to the House Answer was made that one of the said Bills being presently in debate in the House should by and by be returned unto their Lordships The Bill for Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8 as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others was read the third time and passed upon the Question and was presently sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others Mr. Fuller one of the Committees in the Bill for restraint of new Buildings and converting of great Houses into several Tenements and restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and near the Cities of London and Westminster who had been appointed on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April foregoing shewed the meeting and Travel of the Committees and their Opinions for leaving out of one Clause in the Bill and gave the Reasons which being liked of and allowed by the House the Bill was read the third time and after many Arguments both for the Bill and against the Bill it passed upon the Question On Tuesday the 10 th day of April Sir John Hart one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Coopers appointed on Saturday the 24 th day of March foregoing brought in the Bill again as not dealt in by the Committees for lack of convenient time The Bill for restraint of new building converting of great Houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and near unto the Cities of London and Westminster with one amendment to the same Bill was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer Sir John Wolley and others with a remembrance to move their Lordships for sending down the Bill for the Grant of three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty to the end M r Speaker may this Afternoon present the same unto her Majesty according to the former accustomed usage of this House M r Serjeant Owen M r Attorney General and M r Powle do bring from the Lords an Act intituled An Act for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon The Bill intituled an Act for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was read and then passed upon the Question and was presently sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others Post Meridiem This day in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came into the Upper House of Parliament and there sitting in her Royal Throne M r Speaker accompanied with the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired unto the said Upper House where making an Excellent Oration unto her Highness and giving unto her Majesty most humble thanks on the behalf of this House for her Highness most gracious and favourable acceptation of their dutiful service and offering unto her Majesty in their names the Act for three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths her Highness gave the Royal assent to fourteen publick Bills and thirteen private Bills and so dissolved this Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An exact and perfect Journal of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 39 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1597. which began there on Monday the 24 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 9 th Day of February Anno 40. Reginae ejusdem THIS Journal of the House of Lords and all the rest that have since followed both the Queens Reign and in the Reigns of King James and King Charles her Successors unto this present year 1629. have been more exactly and largely taken than before For Thomas Smith Esquire now succeeding unto Anthony Mason Esquire formerly Clerk of the said House of Lords was much more careful in observing and setting down the dayly passages thereof this Parliament than the said M r Mason had been In which the said Sir Thomas Smith's successors for he was afterwards Knighted have much exceeded him also by the large and diligent digesting of the particular agitations of every day upon which the said House did sit Only the Return of the Proxies as is presently more fully declared was more distinctly entred by the abovenamed M r Anthony Mason than hath been since accustomed At this Parliament also there succeeded a new Lord Keeper For Sir John
Darcy de Chiche Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John de Bletso Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Compton These Lords Spiritual and Temporal being sat and her Majesty placed in her Chair of Estate the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons upon notice thereof repaired thither and being as many as conveniently could let in Sir Thomas Egerton by her Majesties Commandment spake as followeth viz. THE Queens most Excellent Majesty my most Gracious and Dread Soveraign hath commanded me to declare unto you my Lords and others here present the Causes which have moved her Highness to summon this High Court of Parliament at this time Which before I can express I must confess truly That the Royal presence of her Majesty the view of your Lordships and this honourable Assembly together with the consideration of the weightiness of the service and my own weakness do much appal me and cause me to fear Wherefore if either through fear I forget or through the many wants and imperfections which I have I fail to perform that duty which is required I do most humbly crave pardon of her Majesty and beseech your Lordships to bear with me The great and Princely Care which her Highness now hath as heretofore she hath ever had to preserve her Kingdoms in Peace and Safety from all Foreign Attempts hath caused her at this present to assemble this honourable and great Council of her Realm to advise of the best and most needful means whereby to continue this her peaceable happy Government and to withstand the malice of her weighty and implacable Enemies which hitherto by the space of many years through her provident and Princely Wisdom hath been performed to the great and inestimable benefit of her Subjects as that the simplest amongst them could not but see and the wisest but admire their happiness therein the whole Realm enjoying Peace in all Security wherein our Neighbour Countries have been torn in pieces and tormented continually with cruel and bloody Wars This her Majesty is pleased to ascribe to the mighty Power and Infinite Mercy of the Almighty And therefore it shall well become us all of all sorts most thankfully upon the Knees of our Hearts to acknowledge no less unto his holy name who of his infinite goodness still preserves her Highness and send her many years over us all in Happiness to Reign In this her blessed Government her Highness chief care and regard above all hath been of the Honour and Service of Almighty God that true Religion might be planted and maintained in the hearts of her people through all the parts of her Realms and as well in that behalf as for the peace and benefits of her Subjects she hath from time to time established many good Laws to meet with the disorders and to punish the offences of wicked and ungodly men that continuing in their bad ways they might not be hardned and go forward in their wickedness For Mora in peccato dat incrementum sceleri And whereas the number of Laws already made is very great some of them being obsolete and worn out of use others idle and vain serving to no purpose some again over-heavy and too severe for the offence others too loose and slack for the faults they are to punish and many so full of difficulty to be understood that they cause many Controversies and much trouble to arise amongst the Subjects You are to enter into a due consideration of the Laws and where you find superfluity to prune and cut off where defect to supply and where ambiguity to explain that they be not burthensome but profitable to the Common-Wealth Which being a Service of importance and very needful to be required yet as nothing is to be regarded if due mean be not had to withstand the malice and the force of those professed Enemies which seek the destruction of the whole State this before and above all is to be thought of and with most endeavour and care to be provided for For in vain are Laws made and to little purpose will they serve be they never so good if such prevail as go about to make a Conquest of the Kingdom Wars heretofore were wont to be made either of Ambition to enlarge Dominions or of revenge to quit injuries But this against us is not so in this the Holy Religion of God is sought to be rooted out the whole Realm to be subdued and the precious life of her Excellent Majesty to be taken away Which hitherto by the powerful hand and great goodness of the Almighty hath been preserved mauger the Devil the Pope and the Spanish Tyrant and all the mischievous designs of all her Enemies Wherefore it is high time that this be looked unto and that no way be left unsought nor means unused which may serve for defence thereof Her Majesty hath not spared to disburse a Mass of Treasure and to sell her Land for maintenance of her Armies by Sea and Land whereby with such small helps as from her Subjects have been yielded she hath defended and kept safe her Dominions from all such forcible attempts as have been made Which being still to be performed by infinite charge her Majesty doth notwithstanding hear of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be returned from her people though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reign of former Kings they have been In the time of Edward the third the two next before him and those three which succeded after him the payments of the Commons did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in Histories to be seen but never cause so great to imploy great sums of Money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties exceeding charge which at this present she is at and is to continue for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised who in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath For if with the Common-wealth it go not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person that being in danger He that would seek to lay up Treasure and so inrich himself should be like to him that would busy himself to beautify his House when the City where he dwelleth were on fire or to deck up his Cabbin when the Ship wherein he saileth were ready to drown so as perish he must of necessity either with it or for it To spare in that Case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves her Majesties part only being carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands Wherein men performing their Duties there is no Cause at all to fear for this War is just
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
said Committees were appointed to meet in the former place at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this day and the Bill with a note of the Committees names was then delivered to Mr. Comptroller And thereupon the meeting for the matter of Tillage was deferr'd from this Afternoon till to Morrow in the Afternoon Three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others of which the two last were one for the establishing of the Town-Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks to the relief of the Poor c. And the last was the Bill for repeal of the Statute of the twenty third year of her Majesty Intituled An Act for encrease of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation The Bill concerning certain Lands of Sir John Spencer Knight Mary his Wife and Robert his Son was read the first time M r Winch one of the Committees in the Bill for keeping of Horses from stealing who were appointed on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meetings of the Committees and sundry particulars of their Travels therein And that resting partly upon the Fairs in sundry Countreys to be certainly set down by those that best know the same Countreys the Bill was recommitted to the same Committees to meet at the former place upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Arthur Hatch was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Sandes Mr. Philips Mr. Crew Mr. Finch Mr. Francis Popham Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Mr. Finch one of the Committees for drawing of a Bill for the reformation of the abuses by Licences for Marriages without Banes shewed that some of the Committees have met at sundry times for the drawing of a Bill for that purpose and that himself hath by their appointment drawn such a Bill and shewed the same to such of the Committees as were assembled at their last meeting being but very few of them at that time and so leaveth it to the Choice of the House either to appoint another day for the meeting of another greater number of the said Committees that they may be acquainted with the substance of the same Bill or else to receive the same Bill into this House presently at their own good pleasure And thereupon he was required by this House to deliver in the said Bill which he then so did accordingly and delivered the same to Mr. Speaker On Wednesday the 23 th day of November Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Leases made by Archbishops and Bishops was upon the second reading rejected upon the question for commitment and so likewise upon the question for ingrossing The Bill for repealing part of the Charter granted to the Town of Yarmouth was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth M r Fulk Grevill all the Burgesles of the Port Towns and Knights for Norfolk and Suffolk Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and others who were appointed to meet on Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Walgrave moved touching the Transporting of a great number of Herrings to Leghorn which occasioneth both a very great scarcity of Herrings within the Realm and is he saith a great means of spending much Butter and Cheese to the great inhancing of the prices thereof by reason of the said scarcity of Herrings And having drawn a Bill for redress thereof offered the said Bill to the House and delivered the same to M r Speaker accordingly Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the speedy punishment of certain Felonies hereafter to be committed was upon the second reading committed to the former Committees for relief of Poor and punishment of Rogues c. whose names see before on Tuesday the 22 th day of this instant November foregoing and M r Wiseman M r Littell and M r Lea were added unto them And the Bill was delivered to Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Francis Moore one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Vnton deceased who were appointed on Monday the 21 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and opening divers parts of the said Bill at large shewed further the adding of a Proviso which Proviso being twice read the Bill and Proviso were upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Thomas Cecill one of the Committees in the Bill for the Town of Northampton who were appointed on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and some part of their travel and so delivered in the Bill referring the same to the further pleasure of this House And so the Bill upon the question was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Bill to restrain the Carriage of Worsted Yarn out of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk unwrought who were appointed on Friday the 18 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees without concluding upon any thing And thereupon further day was given to the former Committees to meet again about the same upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and the Bill was delivered to the said M r Snagg Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords An Act passed with their Lordships concerning the confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the Beginning of her Majesties Raign with recommendation thereof from their Lordships unto this House Which being after their departure back again signified unto the House by Mr. Speaker it was shortly after found by Sir Edward Hobby that the said Act was not rightly and duely endorsed by their Lordships the same Indorsement being made above the Contents of the said Act which ought to have been made under it Whereupon the House being made privy thereof by Mr. Speaker Mr. Comptroller being accompanied with divers Members of this House was sent to the Lords with the said Act to signify the error and pray the Amendment Vide plus concerning this matter in fine hujus diei The Bill concerning Coopers was read the second time and upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed M r Comptroller and the residue returning from the Lords shewed unto this House that they have delivered the said Act together with the said Message of this House unto their Lordships according to the said charge given them by
lately passed this House to preserve the property of stoln Horses and for the true making of Bays One other Bill likewise passed in this House this present day Intituled An Act for the better staying of Corn within the Realm c. And also the Bill concerning the City of Bristol and the Bill for erecting of Hospitals and Houses of Correction and abiding Houses for the Poor perfected according to their Lordships Amendments in both the same Bills albeit their Lordships direction in some Amendments were repugnant to the former accustomed ancient Orders of Parliament in such Cases used as in annexing those Amendments to the said Bill ingrossed in Parchment and indorsed with Soit baille aux Communes where the same Amendments so annexed ought to have been set down in Paper and without any indorsement in the same Paper at all And one other Bill lately passed this House for the Explanation of the Statute made in the 5 th year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers which Bill being lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships was afterwards passed by their Lordships with the Amendment of one only word and so sent down unto this House from their Lordships which Amendment being affiled to the said Bill and ingrossed in Parchment and so ingrossed with Soit baille aux Communes was sent also to their Lordships to pray that the said Amendments may be returned unto this House in Paper affiled to the said Bill without any indorsement in the said Paper according to the ancient form of Parliament in such Case used to the end this House may thereupon proceed to the due and orderly perfecting of the same Amendments accordingly Vide concerning this matter at large upon Thursday the 20 th day of this instant December ensuing where this matter is fully handled The Bill for increase of people for the service and strength of the Realm was read the third time and after many Arguments and speeches to the said Bill for the passing thereof and sundry contradictory speeches but only to some parts or branches of the same Bill till such time as the day was far spent and the matter then in hand being of very great wight and moment M r Speaker moved to know the pleasure of the House whether they would in that regard be pleased to defer the said matter to be further argued till to Morrow Whereof as many of the Members of this House seemed to like well so many others urging the contrary it grew in the end to a question whether the said matter should be deferred for further Argument till to Morrow or else be presently continued It was upon the doubtfulness of the voices upon the putting of the question ordered by the division of the House with the difference and advantage of nine Voices or Poles viz. with the Yea one hundred and eight and with the No one hundred and seventeen that the said Argument should not be any longer continued this day and thereupon the Court did immediately rise On Friday the 16 th day of December Five Bills had each of them the third reading and passed upon the question of which one was against the stretching and tentering of Northern Cloth and another against the transporting of Sheep-Skins and Pelts and a little after all the said five Bills so passed in the House were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others The Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was upon the second reading committed unto M r Comptroller M r Secretary M r Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy Sir William Moore M r Edward Lewkenor Sir Francis Hastings and others And the Bill was delivered to the said Sir William Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Bill for Provision of a Preacher in the Tower of London who were appointed on Monday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the said Committees and by their appointment delivered in the Bill as not fit to have any Course or passing in this House After many arguments in the Bill for increase of People for the service and strength of the Realm both with the Bill and also against it a Motion was made that a Proviso ingrossed in Parchment might be added to the same Bill which was three times read And the Bill and Proviso being put to the question the same did pass accordingly upon the question And it was then Ordered that the said Proviso should be inserted and written in the end of the said Bill as a parcel of the same On Saturday the 17 th day of December the Bill for the relieving of Cloathiers concerning the weight of short broad coloured Cloths to be made within the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was read the third time and passed upon the question and also upon the division of the House with the difference and advantage of twenty six Voices viz. with the Yea one hundred and five and with the No seventy nine which being done and a Motion thereupon made by some that those which did sit against the Bill might rise and go forth to fetch and bring in the Bill into this House accompanied with the residue of the Members of this House according to the ancient orders of the House in such Case used M r Speaker did thereupon move that in regard of the preciousness of this present time the Parliament being so near an end it might please this-House in yielding and assenting to the due allowance of the right of the said Order in the said Course thereof in the Ceremony of bringing in this Bill the Execution of the same may for this time be omitted and forborn in regard of the shortness of the time and was thereupon so assented unto and Ordered accordingly upon the question Nota That there is an excellent Precedent of the full performance of this Ceremony on Thursday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing with which also agrees another like Precedent which fell out in the Parliament in an 31 Regin Eliz. upon Friday the 21. day of March and yet this present passage is somewhat more rare than either of those in respect that the said Ceremony contrary to the antient usage of the House of Commons was omitted upon the Motion of the Speaker after it had been put to the question and overruled by the major part of voices The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was read the third time and passed upon the question and after many Arguments was sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary and others The Council on both sides in the Bill concerning the Possessions of the Bishop of Norwich were heard at the Barr and the Bill after the Council sequestred was put to the question and so passed accordingly On Monday the 19 th day of December the Amendments in the Bill concerning the
Order After which ended and her Majesties Assent thereunto then the Dissolution of the Parliament followed by the Lord Keeper which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in these words following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Dissolvit hoc praesens Parliamentum THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 43 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1601. which began there on Tuesday the 27 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 19 th Day of December ensuing Anno 44 Reginae ejusdem THIS large and copious Journal containeth in it not only a number of excellent Passages concerning the Orders and Priviledge of the House of Commons which are usually found in other Journals of the same House but also much matter touching the publick State and that great grievance of the Realm by reason of Patents of Priviledge or Monopolies in the abdication or censure of which her Majesty most graciously concurr'd with her Subjects In which also a great number of Speeches and other Passages which were not found in the Original Journal-Book of the said House are supplied out of a Journal of the same House taken at this Parliament by one of the Members thereof But yet to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons by some Animadversion or expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it The tenth Parliament of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. begun at Westminster upon Tuesday being the 27 th day of October in the forty third year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights for the Shires Citizens for Cities Burgesses for Boroughs and Barons for Ports returned into the same Parliament did make their appearance at Westminster aforesaid before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral and Lord Steward of her Highnesses most Honourable Houshold and did then and there take the Oath according to the Statute in that behalf made and provided tendred by the said Earl or by his Deputies who were Sir William Knolls Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir John Stanhop her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir Robert Cecill Principal Secretary and John Herbert Esq second Secretary After which all the said Lord Steward's Deputies and some others of the House of Commons having gotten into the Upper House and her Majesty with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set the greatest part of the residue of the Members of the said House of Commons had notice thereof about four of the Clock in the Afternoon being at that time still suting in the said House and expecting her Majesties Pleasure to be sent for up unto the said Upper House according to the antient usage and custom of former Parliaments And thereupon the said residue repaired immediately unto the Door of the said House but could not be let in the Door being still kept shut and so returned back again unto their own House much discontented Shortly after which time the Right Honourable Sir William Knolls one of the Deputies aforesaid came down into the said House of Commons and so being there set with the said residue for some little space of time M r Richard Lieffe one of the Barons returned into this present Parliament for the Port of Hastings in the County of Sussex stood up and shewing unto the said Comptroller the wrong done unto the greatest part of the Members of this House in their not being suffered to come into the said Upper House to hear her Majesties Pleasure signified by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England humbly desired the said Comptroller to be a means that the effect thereof might be imparted unto some of the Members of this House for their better satisfactions Which as his Honour did think very reasonable and meet to be done at convenient time so did he impute the said fault wholly to the Gentleman-Usher of the said Upper House Which done and the residue of the said Deputies being shortly after come into the said House of Commons and there sitting the said M r Comptroller after some pause stood up and shewing unto this House that his place was to break the silence of this House for that time and putting the House in mind to make Choice of a Speaker according to her Majesties Pleasure given unto them in that behalf shewed that in his opinion he thinketh M r John Crooke Recorder of London returned one of the Knights for the City of London into this present Parliament to be a very fit able and sufficient Man to supply the whole Charge of the said Office of Speaker being a Gentleman very Religious very Judicious of a good Conscience and well furnished with all other good parts yet leaveth nevertheless the further consideration thereof to this House and so did sit again Which done and no one contrary Voice at all being delivered the said M r Crooke after some large Pause first taken stood up and very Learnedly and Eloquently endeavoured to disable himself at large for the burthen of that charge alledging his great defects both of Nature and of Art fit to supply that place and shewing all full Complements for the same to abound in many other Learned and grave Members of this House in the end prayed most humbly that they would accept of his due excuse and be pleased to proceed to a new Election and did then sit down again Whereupon the said M r Comptroller did stand up and said that hearing no negative Voice he took it for a due Election and demanding the further opinion of this House therein they all Answered Yea and gave their Assents Whereupon the said M r Comptroller and the Right Honourable Sir John Stanhop her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain immediately went to the said M r John Crooke and did set him in the Chair which done the said M r Crooke after some little pause did stand up and yielding unto this whole House most humble thanks for their great good opinion of him and loving favour towards him and praying them to accept of his willing mind and readiness and to bear with his unableness and wants in the service of this House referr'd himself to their good favours And then the said M r Comptroller signified further unto this House that her Majesties Pleasure was that the Members of this House having made choice of their Speaker should present him unto her Highness upon Friday next following in the Afternoon And so then every man departed and went his way On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and
Henry the Third King John King Stephen c. which was the occasion of their Hemming M r Monntague of the Middle-Temple said that there were no such Precedents and if all Preambles of Subsidies were looked upon he should find it were of Free Gift And although her Majesty requireth this at our hands yet it is in us to give not in her to exact of Duty And for the Precedents there be none such but touching a tenth Fleece of Wooll and a tenth Sheaf of Corn that was granted to Edward the Third at his going to the Conquest of France because all the Money then in the Land to be levyed by way of Subsidy would not be any way answerable to raise that great Mass he desired And so having these Tenths he sold them to private men to gain that Subsidy and so raised Money to himself for his Enterprize Thus far out of the said private Journal the residue of this dayes Passages that follow and those also of the day ensuing are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the same House The Queens Learned Councel and all the Serjeants at Law being Members of the House after the foregoing long dispute touching the Subsidy and the conclusion thereof are appointed by the House to draw into the form of a Bill the Articles agreed upon by the Committees for the Subsidy and also the days of payment agreed upon by the said House this present day and Ordered to meet at their Pleasures as often as they shall think sit from day to day and from time to time Vide plus de ista materia December 5. Saturday postea On Tuesday the 10 th day of November Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against blasphemous Swearing was read the second time and committed unto Sir Francis Hastings Sir Robert Wroth Sir George Moor Sir Thomas Leighton and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for uniting and consolidation of certain small Churches in the City of Exeter was read the second time and committed unto Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Darcie M r Sollicitor M r Serjeant Heyle M r Secretary Harris all the Doctors of the Civil Law and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Robinson Citizen of London was brought to the Bar by the Serjeant and charged by M r Speaker in the name of this House with his offence in procuring to be Arrested one Wooddall Servant Attendant upon William Cooke Esq a Member of this House to the great contempt indignity and prejudice of this whole House And the Members thereof being asked what he could say for himself for his defence answered that he was heartily sorry for that he had given any cause of offence unto this House most humbly craving Pardon for the same And most confidently protested and affirmed that he knew not nor ever heard before the said Arrest made that the said Wooddall was Servant or belonging to any Member of this House but had delivered the Warrant by which he was Arrested unto the Officer long before the Parliament began Whereupon after some Speeches had therein he was by the Order of this House discharged paying his Fees to the Serjeant and Clerk Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the benefit of Merchants and advancement of her Majesties Customs and Subsidies both Inwards and Outwards was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council and Learned Councel being Members of this House the Knights and Citizens of London Sir Walter Raleigh and others And the Bill was delivered to M r Secretary Herbert who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Thursday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and all her Majesties Customers and Officers appertaining to the Custom-House and other Merchants to have warning to be then and there present to attend the Committees On Wednesday the 9 th day of November M r Snigg made Report of the meeting of the Committees and of their travel in two Bills viz. That the Plaintiff in Writs of Error shall give good Bail brought in with some Amendments and Alterations and the other against fraudulent Administration of Intestates goods without any Amendments And so delivereth them in and prayeth the reading The Amendments in the Bill that the Plaintiffs in Writs of Error shall give good Bail were twice read And also the Bill against Intestates Goods were Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Inhabitants of Rachdale in the County of Lancaster was read the second time and committed unto M r Francis Moore M r Holcroft the Knights for Lancaster M r Hancock M r Beeston and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Middle Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for abbreviation of Michaelmas Term was read the second time and upon the question whether it should be committed or no the Knights and Citizens of London were against it And therefore upon the nominating of the Committees it was doubted and questioned whether they could be admitted into the said Committee or no. Which dispute because it is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons is therefore supplied out of that often before-cited private Journal of the same House Sir Edward Hobbie spake first and said that it was against the Order of the House to admit the Knights and Citizens of London to be of the Committee because they had given their Voice already against the body of the Bill M r Secretary Cecill said I am willing to speak in two respects the one touching the Bill it self the other touching the Controversie in the House about the Commitment Touching the Bill I dare not upon my own Judgment be so venturous or bold to reject this Bill unless first it might have a Commitment For the wisdom of that time when it was first instituted was so apt to look into imperfections that doubtless if an inconvenience had been but espied they would streight have avoided it Therefore in my opinion it is not fit for us to look into the Actions of former Ages but upon mature and advised deliberation I do therefore greatly commend the Wisdom of this House in Committing this Bill and others of the like nature before we reject them For the other part though it be a Rule in the House that those against the Bill should be no Committees yet in a case of so great consequence and so greatly touching the State of the City of London there is no reason but that they may have their particular Voices as Committees as well as every
Member of this House neither have we reason to exclude them more than any other especially they being chosen for the most principal City of this Kingdom which is the Chamber of her Majesty whom we should the rather respect for her Majesties sake who doth and will remember their Loyalty and Faithfulness shewed unto her in the late dangerous Action viz. the Earl of Essex's rising for which if ever Prince had Cause of thankfulness unto her Subjects doubtless her Majesty is to confess as much In my opinion therefore we should do great wrong and purchase great blame at their hands that sent them hither in Trust if in a matter of this consequence and so particularly touching the State of this City we should not admit them Committees M r Wiseman said that by committing of a Bill the House allowed of the body thereof though they disallowed of some imperfections in the same and therefore committed it to some chosen men of Trust to reform or amend any thing therein which they found imperfect And it is to be presumed that he that will give his No to the Committing of a Bill will be wholly against the Bill And therefore the House allowing of this Bill to be committed are in my opinion to disallow any that will be against the body of the Bill for being Committees M r Comptroller said he was of opinion for the reason before alledged that they ought to be Committees but he moved another question Whether a Committee speaking against the Bill at the Commitment may also speak at the ingrossing thereof in the House and have his free Voice Sir Edward Hobbie said that may be resolved upon by many Precedents And for mine own opinion I think that he that is against the body of the Bill can be no Committee And he that being a Committee speaketh against the Bill may also speak hereafter in the House Mr. Fulk Grcvil said That a Committee was an artificial body framed out of us who are the general body And therefore that which is spoken at the Committees evanescit it is gone when the body which is the Commitment is dissolved and then every particular Committee is no more a part of the artificial body but of us the general body when he hath his free voice as though he had never spoken before Then Mr. Speaker stood up and said I will propound two questions The first if when a man hath spoken against the body of the Bill he may be a Committee The second whether any Member of this house after having been a Committee in any Bill may afterwards speak in the Negative part against the said Bill Now quoth he I will propound the first question All they that will have a Man that hath been against the body of the Bill to be a Committee let them shew their opinions by saying Yea and not one said Yea. All they that will not say No All said No. So he did for the second question and not one said No but all Yea. Which said Order and resolution was appointed by the House to be entred for a future Precedent accordingly Then he put it to the question whether they of London notwithstanding this Order in respect this Commitment greatly concerneth the State of the City should be Committees And the Yeas were greater than the Noes And thereupon the said Knights and Citizens for London were nominated with the other Committees whose names are now here in the next place inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House in manner and form following All the Privy Council and all the Queens Learned Councel being Members of the House All the Serjeants at Law being of this House Sir George Moore Sir Thomas Conisbie Sir Charles Cavendish Sir Michael Sands Sir Edward Hobbie Sir William Wray the Knights for the Twelve Shires of Wales the Knights for Cornwall and Devonshire the Burgesses for the Borough Towns beyond Trent the Burgesses for Lancaster M r Wingfield M r Thynne M r Fulke Grevill Sir John Egerton Sir Francis Hastings M r Carew M r Francis Moore M r Maynard M r Varney M r Swaine Sir Robert Wroth Sir Jerom Bowes Sir Molle Finch Sir Francis Darcy the Knights and Citizens for London M r Barrington M r Hancock M r Tate and M r Thomas Jones And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to M r Fulk Grevill who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Thursday the 12 th day of November Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to avoid trifling and frivolous Suits in Law was read the second time and committed unto M r Lashbrooke M r Hubbard and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock The Bill against Common Sollicitors c. was read the second time and committed to the last former Committees who were appointed to meet at the same time and place The Bill against fraudulent Administration of Intestates goods and the Bill for avoiding of unnecessary delays of Execution upon Judgments were each of them read the third time and passed upon the question and were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller Mr. Secretary Herbert and others Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Denization of certain persons born beyond the Seas was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed John Baker was brought to the Bar and charged by Mr. Speaker in the name of this House with contempt committed by him against the Liberties and Priviledges of this House in Arresting of one ..... Wooddall servant unto William Cooke a Member of this House who answered that he knew not that the said Wooddall did belong unto the said Mr. Cooke or unto any other Member of this House and was by the Order of this House committed to the Serjeant's Custody until to Morrow at which time the House hath appointed to take surther Order therein The Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents from her Highness to others was read the second time and committed unto all the Queens Privy Council being of this House Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Tanfield and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Mr. Secretary Herbert who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bills formerly appointed to have been sitten upon in Committee upon Saturday next are deferred until Monday in the Afternoon On Friday the 13 th day of November the Bill for the restraining of Butchers in and about the City of London from selling and covetous Ingrossers from buying of Fells and Sheep-Skins c. had its first reading Two Bills had each of them one reading
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
Apology for my self I have held the favour of this House as dear as my Life and I have been told that I deserved to be taxed Yesterday of the House I protest my Zeal to have the business go forward in a right and hopeful course and my fear to displease her Majesty by a harsh and rash proceeding made me so much to lay aside my discretion that I said it might rather be termed a School than a Council or to that effect But by this Speech if any think I called him School-Boy he both wrongs me and mistakes me Shall I tell you what Demosthenes said to the Clamours which the Athenians made that they were Pueriles dignos pueris And yet that was to a popular State And I wish that whatsoever is here spoken may be buried within these Walls Let us take Example of the Jewish Synagogue who would always Sepelire Senatum cum honore and not blast their own Follies and Imperfections If any man in this House speak wisely we do him great wrong to interrupt him if foolishly let us hear him out we shall have the more cause to tax him And I do heartily pray that no Member of this House may plus verbis offendere quà m consilio juvare M r Francis Moore said I must confess M r Speaker I moved the House both the last Parliament and this touching this point but I never meant and I hope this House thinketh so to set limits and bounds to the Prerogative Royal. But now seeing it hath pleased her Majesty of her self out of the abundance of her Princely goodness to set at liberty her Subjects from the thraldom of those Monopolies from which there was no Town City or Country free I would be bold in one motion to offer two considerations to this House The first that M r Speaker might go unto her Majesty to yield her most humble and hearty thanks and withal to shew the joy of her Subjects for their delivery and their thankfulness unto her for the same The other that where divers Speeches have been made extravagantly in this House which doubtless have been told her Majesty and perhaps all ill conceived of by her I would therefore that M r Speaker not only should satisfy her Majesty by way of Apology therein but also humbly crave pardon for the same Mr. Wingfield said My heart is not able to conceive the joy which I feel and I assure you my Tongue cannot utter the same If a sentence of Everlasting happiness had been pronounced unto me it could not have made me shew more outward joy than now I do which I cannot refrain to express and here as I think he wept There could nothing have been more acceptable to the Subject than this Message And I verily think if ever any of her Majesties words be meritorious before God this is I do agree withall my heart in the first part of the Gentlemans motion that last spake but do utterly mislike the latter For it is not to be intended we should have had so good and gratious a Message if the truth of some particular Speeches had been delivered unto her And now for us to accuse our selves by excusing a fault with which we are not charged were a thing in my opinion inconvenient and unfitting the wisdom of this House Mr. George Moore spake to the same effect Sir Francis Bacon spake to the same effect also and in the end concluded thus Neseio quid peccati portet haec purgatio So it was put to the question and concluded That thanks should be returned by the Speaker and some twelve were named to go with him as a convenient number and intreaty made to the Privy Council to obtain liberty to be admitted On Thursday the 26 th day of November the Bill for the Amendment of the Highway called Double sole Green in the County of Middlesex was read the first time Mr. Fretchvill offered to the consideration of the House a Bill to reform the abuses in weights and measures and declared the necessity of reformation therein and prayeth the reading Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Feltmakers was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Citizens for London Sir George Moore the Knights for Middlesex and Surrey Mr. Wiseman and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the better furnishing of her Majesties Navy Royal touching Cordage was upon the first reading rejected Mr. Doctor Parkins made Report of the meeting of the Committees in the Bill for the benefit of Merchants and advancement of her Majesties Custom And that the Committees do think it a Bill in their opinions not to be any more dealt in by this House for many reasons by him delivered The Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read the first time Vide concerning this Bill on Saturday the 5 th day of December next following Mr. Jones one of the Committees in the Bill for Landoveroure who were appointed on Tuesday the 24 th of this instant November foregoing certifieth in the Bill with some Amendments therein by the Committees M r Secretary Cecill said If I should tell you otherwise than truth in matter of so great consequence I should need no other process than my own Conscience That to so gratious a Message there was never returned more infinite thanks we all are assured From the Queen I have received a short Answer in these words You can give me no more thanks for that which I have promised than I can and will give you thanks for that which you have already performed meaning the Subsides and Fifteenths So inseparable are the qualities of the Prince and the Subject Good for the one and for the other If by true interpretation of the Law Voluntas reputatur pro facto you shall not need your good will being already known use any actual thanks neither will she receive any till by a more affected consummation she hath compleated that work at that time she will be well pleased to receive your thanks and to return to you her best favours Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 5 th day of December following On Friday the 27 th day of November four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the enlarging of the Statute of the first year of her Majesties Reign touching the breed of Fish was read the first time and rejected Two Bills of like consequence had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true payment of Tythes within the Walls of the City of Norwich was read the second time and committed unto the Citizens for Norwich Sir Francis Hastings M r
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
for continuance repeal and explanation of Statutes was twice read Provisoes for Dover-Haven in the Bill for continuance and repeal of Statutes were twice read and committed unto M r Comptroller Sir Walter Raleigh M r Snigg Sir John Lewson and others M r Francis Bacon made Report of the travel of the Committees in the Bill touching Policies of Assurances and brought in the Bill with some Amendments and prayed the reading thereof The Amendments in the Bill touching Policies of Assurances used amongst Merchants were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed M r Doctor Swale and M r Coppin did bring from the Lords the two Bills formerly passed in this House the one Intituled An Act touching Orders in the Exchequer with a Proviso added to the same by their Lordships likewise passed with the Lords and another touching the Jointure of Lucie Countess of Bedford with certain Amendments and two Provisoes added Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Repeal of An Act made in the fourteenth Year of her Majesties Reign touching the reforming the length of Kersies was read the second time and committed unto Sir George Moore Sir Edward Moore M r Kingsmell M r Popham the Burgesses of Clothing Towns and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Court The Two Bills last passed were sent to the Lords by M r Secretary Cecill and others the Committees appointed to have Conference with the Lords this Afternoon M r Philipps one of the Committees in the Bill against misimploying of Lands Stocks and Stores given to Charitable Uses brought in the Bill with some Amendments added by the Committees of which he praveth the reading The Amendments in the Bill against misimploying of Lands Stocks and Stores of Money given to Charitable Uses were twice read and the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed The Proviso that came from the Lords in the Bill touching Orders in the Court of Exchequer was twice had and committed presently to be considered of by M r Sollicitor and M r Winch in the Committee Chamber of this House The Bill for the repairing of two Bridges near the City of Carlisle in the Country of Cumberland was read the third time and passed upon the question Two Bills also had each of them their third reading and passed upon the question of which the first was the Bill concerning the Assize of Fuel Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follow the passages touching the Arrest of a Servant of a Member of the same out of a private Journal M r Davies moved the House and shewed that a Servant of Mr. Huddleston Knight for Cumberland being some twelve Months since hurt in the Hand went unto one Matthews a Chirurgion by Fleet-Bridge who for ten pounds undertook the Cure the man gave him a Bill of ten pound for the said 〈◊〉 which he the said Matthews could not perform without leaving a great scar and withal a little 〈◊〉 in his hand notwithstanding he paid the Chirurgion eight pound But upon what suggestion I know not Matthews hath sued Mr. Huddleston's man for the whole ten pound and Arrested him upon an Execution into the Counter The man told him he was Mr. Huddlestons Servant and that his Master was a Member of this House and a Knight of a Shire and that he was thereby priviledged from Arrests and wisht to be discharged but Matthews and the Serjeant answered him they cared not for his Master nor for the priviledge and said that he was not priviledged from an Execution And so being carried to the Counter he told the like there to the Clerks who affirmed likewise that priviledges could not extend to Executions and therefore would not discharge him And therefore I pray in the behalf of the Gentleman that both Matthews and the Clerks and Serjeant may be sent for And so they were Ordered to appear to Morrow in the Afternoon The Bill touching Captains Souldiers and Mariners and other her Majesties Services in the Wars was read the first time Post Meridiem Sir Robert Wroth a Committee in the Bill for Relief of the Poor brought in the Bill with the Amendments and a Proviso added by the Committees The Proviso and Amendments in the Bill for the relief of the Poor were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills had each of them their third reading of which the second being the Bill for the confirming the Authority and Government of the Mayor Sheriffs and Aldermen of London within S t Katherin's Christ Church was upon the question of Amendments in the Bill and the division of the House dashed with the difference of forty three voices viz. with the Yea forty nine and with the No eighty six The Bill touching matters in Policies of Assurances was read the third time and passed upon the question Mr. Wirgfield a Committee in the Bill touching the draining of surrounded Grounds in the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Suffolk and Norsolk c. brought in the Bill with some Amendments and a Proviso added by the Committees and prayed the reading thereof The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill touching draining of surrounded Grounds in the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northhampton c. were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for the more peaceable Government of the Counties of Cumberland Northumberland and Westmerland with the Bishoprick of Durham was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy Council being Members of this House the Knights of Cumberland Northumberland and Westmerland and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Morning in the Committee Chamber of this House On Tuesday the 15 th day of December Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for avoiding of idleness and setting the Poor on work was read the second time and upon the question for committing or ingrossing dashed Mr. Dr. Stanhop and Mr. Dr. Hone did bring from the Lords a Bill that passed in this House intituled An Act for the making of an Harbour or Key on the North parts of Devon in the River of Severn for the safeguard of men and Shipping c. with the Amendment of one word to be put out viz. the word Free The Amendment brought down from the Lords in the Bill touching a Harbour or Key to be made c. was thrice read and assented unto by the House and so passed upon the question Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the relief of Theophilus Adams c. was read the third time and after Councel heard on all parts dashed upon the question Sir Edward Hobbie a Committee in the Bill touching Kettlebie and Kettlcbie shewed the travel of the Committees in framing of a new Bill by consent of Parties and so delivered in
House as shall be sent from this House unto the Lords with the Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy may by direction of this House recommend unto their Lordships the Bill against transportation of Iron Ordnance with request of their Lordships good furtherance to the passage of the same The Amendments and Provisoes in the Bill touching Confirmation of Grants made to her Majesty and of Letters Patents from her Majesty to others were read the third time and passed upon the question Sir Robert Wroth moved that an Order may be set down how the Collection made in this House for relief of the poor may be distributed Whereupon it is Ordered that the Souldiers now remaining about the City of London shall be relieved out of the money Collected of the Members of this House in such sort as to the Officers thereunto appointed shall be thought fit The Officers appointed for the distribution of the Collection are Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Fettiplace Mr. Wade Sir Francis Darcie Mr. Trevor and Mr. Brown And that they join with the Officers in like case appointed by the Lords Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of a certain branch of An Act made in the twenty eighth year of her Majesty touching Recusants was read the second time and committed but no time or place appointed for the meeting Mr. Belgrave moved That whereas an Information hath been Exhibited into the Court of Star Chamber in the name of Mr. Attorney General against him upon suggestion that he should offer abuse unto this House humbly prayed that he may be Ordered and censored by this House if it shall so fall out and seem sit unto this House upon further Examination to be had therein Vide plus post Meridiem Mr. Secretary Cecill declared her Majesties Pleasure to be that her Highness purposeth God willing to Dissolve this Assembly of Parliament to Morrow Post Meridiem The Bill for the changing of the Sirname of the Wallers into the Sirname of the Debdens was read the second time Mr. Serjeant Telverion and Mr. Doctor Hone did bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for reformation of deceits in Auditors and their Clerks in making untrue particulars And also they do declare that whereas the Lords have received some Bills from this House which their Lordships do think to expedite and shall need perhaps some small Amendments therefore they do desire that this House may sit somewhat longer than they purposed before for the final perfecting and consummating of the same The Bill for reformation of Deceits in Auditors and their Clerks in making untrue particulars was read twice and committed unto M r Secretary Cecill Mr. Comptroller Sir Walter Raleigh and others who were appointed to consider presently in the Court of Wards upon the said Bill And after some short space of time and Conference therein had it was after their return into this House thought meet the said Committees should confer with the Lords therein and afterwards report the same unto this House The Bill touching Brewers c. was read the second time and committed to the Burgesses of Southwark The Bill touching unlawful sized Bread and the Bill touching buyers of Butter and Cheese were each of them read the second time and committed to the former Committees The Bill also against using of false Dice was read the first time M r Attorney General and M r D r Hone did bring from the Lords a Bill that before passed this House intituled An Act touching the draining of certain surrounded Grounds in the Counties of Huntington Cambridge Lincoln Northampton Suffolk and Norfolk amended and with some additions of more Counties viz. Sussex Essex Kent and the Bishoprick of Durham The Amendments in the Bill touching surrounded Grounds were thrice read and Ordered upon the question to be inserted into the same and so the Bill passed The draught of an Order touching Mr. Belgrave was once read and committed to be considered of presently in the Committee Chamber by Sir Edward Stafford Mr. Henry Mountague Mr. Brown Mr. Doyley Sir Francis Darcie Sir John Cotton and Sir John Grey The Draught of an Order considered of and brought in by the Committees was read and Ordered by the House upon the question to be entred as the Act of the House viz. Whereas one George Belgrave in the County of Leicester Esquire a Member of this House hath made complaint of an Information exhibited against him into the Court of Star-Chamber pretending an abuse in the highest matters as are those wich do concern the most Honourable and High Court of Parliament and hath appealed unto this House for that the Information was filed sedente Curiâ And whereas the House did refer to the Committees for Returns and Priviledges the Examination of the Cause alledged in the Information and the substance thereof having been related unto this House This House thereupon did upon the question again moved and largely debated pronounce and declare the said George Belgrave to be free in their Judgements from any abuse offered to this House and that he is not to be molested for any such imputation And have resolved that this shall be entred as An Act of this House Vide de istâ materiâ Dec. 3. Dec. 7. Dec. 8. Dec. 10. Dec. 11. antea The Bill to restrain Butchers in and about the City of London from buying c. And the Bill touching Practitioners in Physick were each of them read the second time and committed as afore to the former Committees for Brewers The Bill touching the shipping of Coals near Newcastle was read the second time and committed with the rest to the former Committees but no mention of time or place The Bill for redress of abuses in taking of Pawns and the appointing of a Lumbard was read the second time and committed as abovesaid To Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Morning those that were nominated by this House to distribute the Money collected for the relief of the Poor and likewise those appointed by the Lords are appointed to be at the Sessions House in the Old Bayly to take Order for the said distribution Upon a motion made by Mr. Fettiplace the names of such as have not paid towards the relief of the Poor and maimed Souldiers were read which were about forty four On Friday the 18 th day of December as the Speaker was coming to the House in the Morning the Pardon was delivered unto him which he took and delivered unto the House which they sent back again because it was not brought according to course The Collection for the Clerk of twelve pence a piece according to Mr. Wingfield's motion yesterday was made and amounted to about twenty five pound Mr. Bowyer Secretary to the Lord Treasurer sitting in the Middle of the House on the left side as you come in next to Mr. Skipwith of Lincolns Inn swooned upon a suddain
them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the County Palatine of Durham and the Isle of Ely was upon the second reading committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Northumberland the Bishop of London and others Dominus Thesaurarius in absentia Domini Custodis magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox hora nona Nota That there appeareth no Commission or other Authority in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by which the Lord Treasurer supplied the Lord Keepers place but most probable it is that either the Commission it self is negligently omitted by Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the same House or that the Lord Treasurer did continue it only upon her Majesties verbal Authority and Command as it is very likely the Lord Chief Justice did supply the Lord Keeper's place on Thursday the 5 th day of June in the first Session of this very Parliament in Anno 14 Reginae Eliz. And it is certain that Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal growing at this time after which he did not long live both Aged and Sickly gave occasion to her Majesty by reason of his weakness to Authorize others more frequently to supply his place than it is otherwise likely she would have done Vide Consimil Mar. 4. in An. 1 Eliz. On Monday the 5 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching the Lord Viscount Bindou and Henry Howard his Son was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the assurance of certain Lands to Sir John Rivers Knight and another for the perpetual maintenance of Rochester-Bridge Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 6 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness was read the second time but no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons The Bill for the true Tanning and Currying of Leather was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Viscount Bindon and Henry Howard his Son was read tertiâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for the repairing of Chepstow-Bridge and the third was the Bill for Reformation of the Jeofails Two Bills finally had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill whereby certain Authority was given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Parks Forests and Chases was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora nona On Wednesday the 7 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the restitution in Blood of John Lord Stourton his Brother and Sisters was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by D r Yale and D r Barkley Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill whereby certain Authority was given to the Justices of the Queens Parks Forests and Chases was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Yale and M r Powle Clerk of the Crown Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of the which one was for the Confirmation of Letters Patents with certain Amendments and another for avoiding of sraudulent Gifts by the late Rebels in the North. The Bill lastly for the Trial of Nisi prius in the County of Middlesex was read secunda vice 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 House of Commons Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ nonâ On Thursday the 8 th day of March Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for maintenance of the Colleges in the Universities of Winchester and Eaton and the second against buying and selling of Rooms and Places in Colleges and Schools were each of them read primâ vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for setting the poor on work and for the avoiding of Idleness was read tertia vice conclusa with a Proviso added by the Lords and certain Amendments and sent to the House of Commons by D r Vaughan and D r Yale Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Toleration of certain Cloths in Com. Wilts Somers and Dors. the fifth for Reformation of Disorders in common Informers the sixth for the payment of Tythes in the Town of Reading in like sort as it is in the City of London the seventh touching Benefices Impropriate the eighth for reformation of Abuses in Goldsmiths and the last being the Bill for the reformation of Jeofailes 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 House of Commons Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the making of certain Denizens and another for avoiding fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances made by the late Rebels in the North. On Friday the 9 th of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the repairing and amending of Highways and Bridges near unto Oxford and the sixth and last being the Bill that the Plaintiff shall be sworn upon his Bill as the Defendant is sworn upon his Answer was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Hospital at Leicester was returned conclusa Four Bills of no great moment lastly had each of them
fact therein or in the Election at all And that his Lordship would direct a Writ for chusing of another Burgess for the said Borough of Newtown in the stead of the said John Dudley And that his Lordship would in the said Writ insert the said Cause of misbehaviour so as before alledged Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of the assurance unto certain Purchasers of Lands sold by Sir Richard Knightley Knight M r Valentine Knightley and M r Edward Knightley Esquires was upon the second reading committed unto M r Serjeant Yelverton Sir Henry Umpton M r Cradock and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill to take away the benefit of Clergy in some Cases was twice read and committed unto the former Committees in the last former Bill and M r Richard Brown Gentleman was added unto them who with the rest was appointed to meet at the same time and place as in the said last former Bill viz. to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Two other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of the sale of the Lands of William Raven Gentleman made unto Lisle Cave and others was twice read and committed unto M r Heale M r Serjeant Yelverton Sir Henry Knivet M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Vice-Chamberlain shewed that he and the residue of the Committees of this House for Conference with the Lords did meet together yesterday in the Afternoon according to the appointment of this House and that after many Speeches and Arguments gravely ' delivered by sundry of the said Committees the greater part of them did assent and agree unto the granting of a triple Subsidy and of six Fifteenths and Tenths to be yielded to her Majesty towards the provision against the great and imminent perils and dangers of this Realm The same triple Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths to be levyed and paid in four years in a certain form which they had set down in Articles that is to say one intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at one payment in the first year and one other intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at one other payment in the second year and one intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at two payments in the third and fourth years Which done he moved further to know the resolution of the House Whether it would please them to give liking to the said travel of the said Committees in the said Cause or that it might be their pleasures to resolve of any such other course therein as they may have Warrant to impart unto the Lords this Afternoon according to the promise of this House to the Lords Whereupon after many long and grave Speeches and Arguments by divers of the said Members of this House it was agreed by them all without any contradiction that the proportion should be a treble Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths And the said Articles for the manner of payment being read by the Clerk of the House seemed for the most part to be well liked of Whereupon after some Motions to the Question M r Speaker dividing it into two several parts the one for the number of the said three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and the other for the manner and time of levying and payment of the same three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths it was upon the same several questions severally resolved by the whole House the proportion to be a treble Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths and the manner of paying and levying the same to be made in four years according to the said Articles thereof read And then were the said Committees appointed and authorized by this House to signify the said resolution of this House unto their Lordships in the Afternoon of this present day accordingly and to be reported unto their said Lordships by Sir Robert Cecill for that M r Vice-Chamberlain was then at that very instant very sharply grieved and pained with his infirmity of the Gout On Friday the 9 th day of March the Bill concerning Woollen-Cloths called Vesses c. was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Knolles Sir John Hart M r Recorder of London M r Wroth and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir John Harrington and Sir Thomas Wilkes are added to the former Committees in the Bill for Confirmation of Assurances unto certain Purchasors of Lands sold by Sir Richard Knightley K r M r Valentine Knightley and M r Edward Knightley Esquires appointed yesterday The Committees in the Bill touching Recusants nominated on Wednesday the 28 th day of February foregoing are appointed to meet in this House at two of the Clock this Afternoon The Committees in the Bill also for Naturalizing of Samuel Saltingstall and others nominated on Monday the sixth day of this instant March soregoing are appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers was read the first time The Bill for the Confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland is deferred till to Morrow to be further dealt in Sir Robert Cecill reporteth at large the Message of this House yesterday by him and the residue of the Committees of this House delivered unto their Lordships and their Lordships good acceptation of the same Which done after sundry other speeches of divers Members of this House it was resolved upon the Question that the former Committees of this House for the Subsidy their names being then read by the Clerk of this House should meet in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day for the setting down of Articles for the drawing of the Bill for the granting of the Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths to be paid in four years according to the former resolution of this House therein The Bill against springing Uses and Perpetuities was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Council being of this House all the Knights of the Shires returned unto this House M r Cradock and others who were appointed to meet in this House upon Tuesday at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Richard Hutton Gentleman one of the Burgesses returned for the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey is upon a Motion made by M r Recorder of London and also after some Report made by M r Speaker of the opinion and pleasure of the Lord Keeper in that Case adjudged upon the question to be a Member of the House
No M r Speaker said the Order of the House is that the I being for the Bill must go out and the No against the Bill doth always sit The reason is that the Inventor that will have a new Law is to go out and bring it in and they that are for the Law in possession must keep the House for they sit to continue it Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal The further Passages of this day and part of the next do follow out of the Original Journal-Book it self M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for Explanation and Confirmation of her Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late of Sir Francis Englefield Knight Attainted of High Treason On Wednesday the 21 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the maintenance of the Haven in the Town of Colchester and for the paving of the same Town had its first reading The Amendments in the Bill touching the breadth of Plunkets Azures and Blues being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill for the more speedy and due Execution of Process against Recusants being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed The Councel on both sides were this day heard at large in this House in the Bill against Aliens selling by way of retail any Foreign Commodities and afterwards sequestred Which done the Amendments intended by the Committees in the said Bill were read unto the House and after the reading Ordered upon the question to be inserted into the same Bill accordingly After which there followed divers long Speeches and Arguments on both sides both with the Bill and against the Bill which said Speeches being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are in respect of the great weight of this matter touching Aliens now controverted supplied out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. M r Francis Moore of the Middle-Temple being as it should seem at the Bar of Councel with the City of London and in their behalf to speak for the making of a new Law by the Order of the House spake first and did at large set forth the inconveniencies that grew to our Nation and Tradesmen by suffering I Tradesmen to retail First because that Strangers Wares are better than ours which causeth that our Retaylors have no sale of their Wares They sell cheaper though their Wares be as good as ours And this is by reason they have Factors beyond the Seas that are their Friends and Kinsfolks and so they save that Charge A thing to be noted And wheresoever they are our own native Retaylors are Beggars They receive Gentlemen and Yeomens Sons to be their Apprentices themselves being Retaylors and this is no Trade afterwards for them to live on So many Beggars be made consuming their time under them Their retailing Beggering our Retaylors makes a diminution of the Queens Subsidies Their riches and multitude makes our Estate poorer and weaker for they stick upon our wealth and carry it into Foreign Countries In the Statute Richard 3. Cap. 9. there appeareth the like Complaint that now is which being then made unto the King was then remedied as appeareth by the Statute And for the Objections made First that it were against Charity that Strangers sleeing hither for Religion and relief should be restrained from the means of getting their livings Secondly that their retailing 〈◊〉 seneth the prices of our Wares and encreaseth the number of Buyers and Thirdly that it were violating of their priviledge if we have them by their diminution The priviledge of S t Martins hath always been allowed and now not to be denied To Answer to these in Order First Charity must be mixt with Policy for to give of Charity to our own Beggering were but Prodigality and such Charity we use for we allow them all Trades that they have been brought up in but retailing is a thing that they were never brought up unto in their own Countries so no reason to allow it them here To the second they buy of us and sell as brought from beyond Seas and upon this opinion sell our own Wares dearer than we can do Their priviledge of Denization is not to be allowed above the priviledge of Birth and our Natives are not allowed to Retail and Merchandize as they do And it may appear by a former Statute that notwithstanding their Denization they have been bound under the Statute 34 H. 8. And though the Stranger Merchants pay double Subsidies yet Strangers Retaylors do not but are taxed by the place and that under value because their goods and wealth is secret but barr retailing and they will all of them be Merchants and so the Subsidy shall be doubled S t Martins was first allowed for a Sanctuary and for that Cause had his priviledge and not to be so ill a Neighbour to the City as to rob it as it doth and by former Statutes St. Martins hath been barred as by the Statute 21 H. 8. appeareth only the Statute of 1. H. 8. exempted it M r Proud of Lincolns-Inn being as it should seem at the Bar of Councel with the Strangers and in their behalf to speak made particular Answer to M r Moore for Strangers in resisting his Answers to the five Objections Then he offered if the Liberties of the Natives born might be granted to Strangers they would seek no more for they desired but to trade in all parts of the Realm M r Hill of Lincolns-Inn of Councel also with the Strangers spake next and said Make it Law that they shall not retail and the Merchants hereafter will require a Law that they may not use Merchandise and so the Shoo-maker Taylor and others that they may not use their Trades and in denying them one you take away all Upon this instant M r Speaker delivered a Bill which desired they might be barred of such Trades as to be Shoo-makers and such like But this Bill was thought to be put in by the Strangers themselves of Policy This I thought And besides these Retaylors themselves be not Aliens but far Foreigners such as have forsaken their own Countries and Liberties to live here in ours and home they dare not resort Further of the things they retail we have no Company or Trade here in England and therefore it were unreasonable to bar them of their said Retailing It should seem that these three last before-named were all of the Councel of either part that spoke at the Bar and that the Speeches following were all of them uttered by several Members of the House Sir John Wolley spake next as it should seem after the Councel of either part had been heard at the Bar and said This Bill
should be ill for London for the Riches and Renown of the City cometh by entertaining of Strangers and giving liberty unto them Antwerp and Venice could never have been so rich and famous but by entertaining of Strangers and by that means have gained all the intercourse of the World M r Fuller spake next against Alien Retaylors and said The Exclamations of the City are exceeding pitiful and great against these Strangers nay had not these latter quiet times in their own Countries and our troubles made many of them retire home the Citizens would have been in uproar against them The which if the Government of the City repress not they will be apt enough to it It is no Charity to have this pity on them to our own utter undoing for of them there ought none to be sworn a Denizen but he should first swear he is not worth five pound This is to be noted in these Strangers they will not converse with us they will not marry with us they will not buy any thing of our Country-men Their retailing is the cause that all things be at that price with us For they make Lawns Velvets Rashes Taffaraes Linnen-Cloth and all this they sell to us also Now whosoever maketh a thing and selleth a thing raiseth the price of it The Retailing Stranger buyeth nothing of our Country Commodities but all he layeth out he buyeth from beyond the Seas The Searchers have sometimes taken seven thousand pound of theirs at a time Sir Edward Dymock speaking for the Strangers said The Beggery of our home Retaylors comes not by the Strangers Retailing but by our home ingrossers so that if our Retaylors might be at the first hand they might sell as good cheap as the Strangers But this Bill is thrust into the House by our home Ingrossers of Policy that their beggering of our Retaylors might be imputed to the Strangers Retailing The Strangers here purchase dear And beyond the Seas it is lawful for the Strangers in the places of the best Traffick to trade in any thing In Venice any Stranger may buy sell or purchase House or Lands and dispose thereof by his Will or otherwise at his pleasure as freely as any Citizen And this may we do then in some sort The Strangers are not they that transport our Coin but it is our Merchants For it is to be seen in all the Low-Countries where her Majesty uttereth much Treasure there is not so much English Coin to be had as in the same Towns where the Merchants trade And of my own Experience I know a Town in the Low-Countries where a Contract of twenty pound was made by an English Merchant and he agreed to pay it all in English Angels M r Dalton against the Strangers said That ingrossing ought to be suffered amongst Merchants because otherwise the Commodities lying to be sold in parcels would be consumed in Expences before the Ship were discharged Therefore for Merchandise sake this is to be suffered He imputed the Beggery of the City to Strangers and said that in some one Parish there were a thousand lived by Begging M r Finch spake for the Strangers and said We ought not to be uncharitable but this must be the Rule None must so relieve Strangers as by it to begger themselves But for their riches it groweth chiefly by Parsimony and where they dwell I see not that the Nation is so much grieved at them as here in London for they contribute to all Scots and Lots as we do Though they be a Church by themselves their Example is profitable amongst us for their Children are no sooner able to go but they are taught to serve God and to flee idleness for the least of them earneth his meat by his labour Our Nation is sure more blessed for their sakes Wherefore as the Scripture saith Let us not grieve the Soul of the stranger If this Stranger be both a Merchant and a Retaylor there 's a Law against him 15 Eliz. c. 2. But as I am for the Strangers of the Church so not against any Law that should be made against such Strangers as be not of the Church but here only for Merchandize and those who have for Conscience sake only may again the fire being quenched safely return into their own Countries In 6 R. 2. An Act was made what Wares strangers should retayle and what not but what is understood by this word retailing or how far it is stretched I know not If Retayling stretch to sell that which they make here as well as that which is brought from beyond Seas this is too hard a Construction In the days of Queen Mary when our Cause was as theirs is now those Countries did allow us that liberty which now we seek to deuy them They are strangers now we may be strangers hereafter So let us do as we would be done unto Serjeant Drew said There is no reason we should be without respect to Strangers yet our Charity must be done with a feeling of our Countrymens grief And although I think it not fit that the Law should look back to have old men long inhabiting here now to become Apprentices yet that all things should be at liberty to all strangers as it is that were not convenient Wherefore I could wish there might be a Law for those that should come hereafter only and the strangers that be now might be restrained to their Retayling of some Wares especially My Motion therefore is That the House would continue the Committee of the Bill until a further day that it may receive Motion from their deliberation Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal the residue of this days passages that follow and part of the next are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book it self After the aforesaid Speeches and Arguments the said Bill against Aliens selling by Retail was upon the question recommitted unto the former Committees who had been appointed on Tuesday the 6 th day of this Instant March foregoing to meet again about the same Bill in the Afternoon of this present day and the Bill was also delivered to M r Dalton one of the same Committees Sir William Bevel Knight one of the Knights returned for the County of Cornwal in respect of his Wises extream sickness is by M r Speaker licensed to depart Thomas Maylard one of the Burgesses for Hertford is for his necessary business at the Assizes licensed by M r Speaker to depart On Thursday the 22 d day of March the Bill for the Grant of three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the question Nota That this Bill of the Subsidy in respect of the greatness of the sum passed the House of Commons with very great difficulty as may appear by those several days upon which it was agitated 〈◊〉 on Monday the 25 th day of February and on Friday the second day Saturday the third day Tuesday the 6 th day Wednesday the