and levying of Huâ— and Cry And it was by the King Bishops Lords and Commons enacted and agreed that a sentence of Excommunication should be published in every Church throughout the Realm 1. To excommunicate all Breakers of the Peace 2. To excommunicate all such as should defend receive or be privie thereunto 3. That all Obligations and such like instruments thereupon made be utterly void so far as lyeth in the Bishop and all others or by them dispenced By the fift and sixt titles before it may appear that at this time the Lords and Commons were of one House and that then there was no Speaker for the Commons Touching the Kings Voyage to the Holy Land it was thought too timely and therefore deferred for three years Touching the Treaty with the French and alliance by Marriage The King by Sir Ieffery le Scroop sheweth How the French King declareth to the Kings Ambassador that so as the King would come over in person he should finde great friendship Of whom requiâ—ing advice therein Answer was made That for those respectâ— they agreed thereunto deferring the Kings expedition into Ireland for one year so as aid might be sent in the mean time The Saturday next after the beginning of the Parliament the same was dissolved Touching the debate between Sir Iohn Grey of Rotherfield and Sir William de la Zouch which was heard before the King and his Councel in whose presence there fell great woâ—ds between them so as the said Iohn drew his knife upon him in the Kings presence for the which they were both commanded to prison and being after brought forth to their answers the said William was delivered and the said Iohn recommitted to prison during the Kings pleasure Anno Sexto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the morrow after the Nativity of our Lady in the Sixth year of King E. 3. THe Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England declareth That the Parliament was called touching French affairs and the Kings expedition thither for repressing his Enemies At this day were proclaimed the Articles contained in the last Parliament 1.2.3 The Parliament was adjourned until Thursday following at what time considering the news from the North they doubted the Scots arrival Whereforeâ— the Bishops by themselves the Lords by themselves and the Knights by themselves advised the King to stay his journey into Ireland and to send thither a new supply of men and money to stay within the Realm and with an armed power to go towards the North there to lie ready for the Scot. Towards which Exploit They granted to the King one Disme and one Fifteen to be levied of the Laity so as the King will live of his own without grieving of his Subjects with outragious prizes or such like Whereupon The King revoked the new Commissions for reaâ—ing of Tallages and promiseth from henceforth to remise the same according to the old rate Anno Sexto Edwardi Tertii The Remembrances of the Parliament summoned at York the Friday next before the Feast of S. Michael in the Sixth year of Edward the Third Mense Decembris MEmorandum That the Parliament began before the King came to York On Friday the King was not come to York but remained not far from thence looking for the coming of such as were warned thereto Wherefore at this day the Parliament was adjourned till Monday after and from Monday until Tuesday then ensuing At which day Sir Ieffery le Scroop Knight by the Kâ—nâ—s commandment shewed the Kings approach thither which was uttered in the last Parliament And for that he understood that Edward Bayliol had proclaimed himself King of Scotland he required Councel of the whole Estate viz. Whether it were better for him to assail Scotland or to claim the Demesne of the same or else by making himself party to take the advantage and thereby to enjoy the services as other his Ancestors had But forasmuch as most of the States were absent the Assembly require the continuance of the Parliament until the Utas of S. Hilary then next ensuing at York which was granted and new Summons eâ—pecially awarded to evâ—ry pâ—rson with especial charge to attend so as the affâ—irs between the King and thâ— Realm might not be delayed for the debate betwixt the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for their supreme bearing of their Crosses To thâ—s Parliament came no other of the Clergy then the Archbishop of York the Bishops of Lincoln and Carlile and the Abbots of York and Selby The Archbishop of Canterbury came not nor any other of his Province and all for bearing of the Cross. Whereby the same was not only loss of the opportunity to Scotland but also an importable charge to the whole Estate by a new Reassembly The Reassembly of the Parliament adjourned unto York unto the Uta's of S. Hilary 6. Eâ— 3. REceivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne Ireland Wales and the Foreign Isles Tryers of Petitions for England Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above An Order for the trying of Petitions as well before the King as before the Lords It was enacted That the Articles expressed in the last Parliamâ—nt should be proclaimed by the Steward and Marshal and by the Mayor and Bailiffs at York The same day commandment was given to the Mayor of York in the presence of the King in full Parliament to see the Peace kept in the same City and Suburbs thereof and to arrest them that did the contrary The Thursday after being the second day of the Parliament Sir Godfrey le Scroop in the presence of the King declareth to the whole Estates the Circumstances of the two last Assemblies and how the Bishop of Winchester and others were appointed to consult on certain causes The Saturday after the Bishop of Winchester and other Committees declared how he and they had consulted on the whole matter but for that the same greatly imported they were not therein fully resolved whereupon they wish the King to take advice of the Pope and of the French King for his better proceeding therein And further That the King would appoint Wardens of the Marches of the North. Whereupon the Commons had license to depart and the Lords commanded to attend unto the next day at which time the Parliament was dissolved Anno Octavo Edwardi Tertii Petitions and Acts moved at the Parliament holden at York the next before S. Peter in Cathedra 8. E. 3. IT was enacted That the great Charter of the Forrest and other Statutes should be observed and that such Statutes as be obscure by good advice shall be made plain That in every County be appointed one Justice of the Peace learned in the
Insula de Ruber monte Rogero de Mortuo mari de Wigmore Roberto de Colvill Berthol de Burgherst seniori Guidoni de Bian. Johanni de Bello campo de Warr. Ricardo Lovel Nicholao Burnell Edwardo de Monteacuto Thomae Ughtred Roberâ—o de Scales Henâ—ico le Scroâ—pe Johaâ—ni de Cobham Michaâ—li de Poyntz Bartholm de Burcheir Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Vicesimo quinto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday in the Utaves of the Purification of our Lady in the xxv year of Edward the Third FOR that sundry of the Lords were not the same day come the Parliament was continued untill Thursday and from Thursday to Friday then ensuing at which day Sir Lionel the Kings son with sundry Nobles did assemble in the Chamber de Pint where the Kings Commission was read the which authorized the said Lionel in his absence to begin and proceed therein untill the Kings coming The Commission sheweth the cause of the same to be for that the King in passing towards the parts beyond the Seas could not be there the which was openly read before the Commons On Monday after for that sundry of the Lords were making speed to come up to the Parliament it was continued untill Tuesday ensuing Receivers of Petitions for England Gascoyne Scotland Ireland Britain and other forrein Isles and places On Tuesday the causes wherefore the Parliament was called were declared in presence of the King and Nobles viz. First for that the King had summoned a Parliament in the 22 c. the which he could not end by reason of the great pestilence nor keep any since by the continuance of the same plague and by Affairs touching War and for that the peace was not kept and that Labourers would not do their service and for that the Treasure of the Realm was also conveyed away was the Parliament called of all which points the whole State were willed to consult All which causes Sir William Shareshall Knight the Chief Justice to the King willed the Commons to weigh and well to provide therefore This last and next title above doth approve that the printed Statute entituled to be made in 23 Edw. 3. could in no wise then be made and so mistaken Tryers of Petitions for England Wales Ireland Gascoyne Britain and other forain Isles and places The proces and matter there following were delivered by the Bishop of Winchester then Chancellor to Iohn of Codington Clerk of the Parliament in the Kings behalf to be entred into the Roll of the same Parliament Richard E. of Arundel by his petition praieth that his restitution granted in 4 E. 3. may be by this Parliament better declared and confirmed The King willeth that this petition may be by the wise men examined and a restitution accordingly to be made and confirmed Then the last Act made 4 E. 3. tit 13. touching this Earl is recited and this thereunto adjoyned viz. that it is by the King and whole State agreed that the said restitution be confirmed and that the same shall be of such force and effect that Iohn now Earl of Kent nor his Heirs shall not challenge nor have against the said Richard E. of Arundel in any Court of England or in Wales by Writ or otherwise by any petition in Parliament any of the possessions of the said Iohn or Edmond his Father or Edmond his eldest Brother ever had to the said Castle of Arundel or of any part c. So as the said Richard by this restitution shall have the like estate as he should have had by discent of inheritance as well to all other hereditaments whereof the said Edmond Earl of Arundel his Father died seised in England or in Wales as of the said Castle The King caused to be brought before him in full Parliament the Recrod of Judgment had against Sir Will. Thorp by his late Chief Justice caused the same openly to be read before the Nobles of the Parliament to hear every of their advises all whom affirmed the Judgment to be rightly given considering that he had against his Oath received Bribes and therefore it was agreed by the whole Parliament that if the like case should hereafter happen the King might take to him such Nobles as he should best think and therein do according to his pleasure Petitions of the Commons with their Answer It is Enacted that the great Charter and other Statutes be observed and the King in consideration of the great dearth of Corn releaseth the half of his provision appointed to be taken up by the Purveyors That remedy may be had against Labourers The answer doth appear hereafter in a Statute made heretofore That remedy may be had against the Popes reservations by which Broakage and means the Pope receiveth the first fruits of all Ecclesiastical dignities a more destruction to the Realm then all the wars The Answer doth appear in a Statute hereafter made therefore That the like remedy may be had against such as in the Court of Rome pursue to undo any Judgment given in the Kings Court as if he enforced to undo the Laws of the Realm There is a sufficient remedy provided by Law That the Statute made for the peace may be kept It pleaseth the King That no man be put to answer of his Free-hold or of any thing that toucheth life member or fine by opposite before the Councel but by due process of Law Touching Free-hold the King agreeth and of the rest will be advised That no Merchant other then for your Merchants for their great necessity do carry over the good money The King will be advised That the fines of Laborers may be paid to the chief taxes of this Fifteen in aid of the poor The surplusage thereof shall be imployed as hereafter may appear That the Steward and Marshal and their Deputies do make no other Process then was used in the time of King Edward the Second and limited by the Statute therefore provided The King would the Statute to be kept and the Complaint to be heard That no Purveyance be made for Hay or Oats for Horses The Statute shall be observed That the payment of Merchants for wafting over their goods may cease The King will be advised Such payments in short time grew to be a custom called Tonnage and Poundage That the Subsidy of Wool viz. of every Sack may cease The same was granted to the King for a time yet enduring That Sheriffs Escheators and Coroners may have sufficient in their Counties The Statutes made shall be kept That remedy may be had against Sheriffs not paying the Kings duties The Treasurer upon complaint shall pay the same That every Judgment
year of King Henry the Sixth AT the beginning of the Parliament before the King sitting in person in the chair of Estate in the painted Chamber there being the Lords and Commons the Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England declared that the Kings will was that all Estates should enjoy their liberties and for his Theam he took these words Gloria honor pax omni operanti bonum the which he divided into three parts viz. bonum honestum as which consisted in due obeysance of the Subjectâ— bonum delâ—ctabile as which stood in giving good Counsell and bonum utile which was by free and willing sustentation or relieving the Prince and Commonwealth By the first God was most glorified by the second the Prince best honoured by the third the Subjects saâ—ety governed according to the saying of Luke Gloria in excelsis Deo in terra pax hominibus bona voluntas Glory is given to God by due obedience of the Subjects the Prince is honoured by sound Counsell the Subjects governed in peace by relieving the Prince wherein he affirmeth that Princes ought to be obeyed though they were evil according to the saying of Peter obedite praepositis for albeit they were not good yet for that they commanded many good things to be observed they ought to be obeyed and remembreth Sicut Princeps tenetur regere regaliter sic plebs obedire The second division touching sound Counsell he allegeth Sapient 12. Salus ubi multa consilia and therein shewing how the Elephant had three properties the one for that he wanted a gall the second â—or that he was inflexible and could not bow the third for that he was of a most sound and perfect memory the which properties by application he wished to be in all Counsellers First that wanting a gall they should thereby be free from all malice rancor and envy by being inflexible that they should worship no reward nor in Judgement respect any person of a ripe memory that they by remembring perils past might prevent dangers to come The third for relieving the King he proved that the same ought to be done with all readinesse of mind considering that God by the young Prince his chosen vessel had not only governed them in safety but also given to them honourable victories and great conquests all which ought to enforce them more willingly to offer than the same should readily be taken Wherefore he willeth the Commons by their assembling to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the second of May the Commons presented before the King and Lords Sr. Tho. Nanton knight to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with his protestation was allowed A great debate arose upon the Claim of Iohn Earl Marshall against Richard Earl of Warr touching the higher place in the Parliament house both of which Earles were commanded not to come at the house till the matters were fully heard but that the Councell learned of either of them should be heard what they could say touching the same And for that the Lords should be Judges of the same the Duke of Gloucester being Protector and other the Bishops Lords and others of the lower house swore upon the Gospel that they would uprightly judge the case leaving all affection For the proving of the Earl Marshalls title Roger Hunt of his Councell learned exhibited to the Lords a Pedegree shewing that the said Earl Marshall came of the bloud royall and gave the Armes of England whereby he ought to be preferred Note the said Pedegree proveth the Earl Marshall to come of the bloud royall from E. 1. It farther sheweth the said Earl to be allyed in bloud to the King from Thomas Earl of Lancaster It also affirmeth the said Earl to be allied in bloud to the King by the line of the Earl of Arundell To all this Sr. Walter Beauchamp Knight being of the Councell learned of the Earl of Warr. answereth and by many authorities sheweth that Antiquitie hath had superioritie above the bloud royall and so enforced the title of the Earl of Warr. but chiefly he relyeth upon the possession of the Earl of Warwick Herein is to be noted that the affirmations answers and replications of both parties being very long contain many good reasons and sundry lines of Noble-men very delectable to be read The Councell for both these Earles were instant for Judgement in the end it was devised and the said Earl Marshall for pacifying of the same required that he might be restored to be Duke of Norfolk according to the Creation of Thomas his father as brother and heir to Thomas who died without issue son of the said Thomas his father the which for sundry considerations worthy the sight was granted On Friday the fifteenth day of May the Duke of Gloucester by the Kings Letters Patents there read proroged the Parliament from the same day unto the Thursday then ensuing Iohn Lord Talbot with other Lords there named were bound by recognizance in the Chancery that the said Iohn should keep the peace towards Hugh Wenlockward that he should appear at the next Parliament The Lords of the Parliament by name promised by their faiths to the Bishop of VVinchester that they will not hinder but further such assurance as shall be made to the said Bishop by the King for money to him lent The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King the Subsidie of wools for three years and Tonnage and Poundage for one year upon condition that Merchants Aliens should hardly be looked unto Touching the charge of Scotish hostages according to one Article of league it is enacted that the Wardens of the Marches shall not hereafter be impeached for attempting any hostage for the other but that upon their oathes they be discharged And further that they may take two or more hostages for one as of good will and no duty It is enacted that the quarrell and combat betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Burgaine do in no case proceed but that the same by the Kings Letters Patents be committed to the old French King the Kings mother and to the regent of France and that the Duke of Burgain do deliver into indifferent hands the person of my Lord of Gloucester It is enacted that the Kings Councell shall have power to make assurances to the Bishop of Winchester and other of the
record A motion touching the pardon of H. 5. of no great force That the Statute made Anno 3 H. 6. tit 44. touching the river of Ley may be observed with this adjunct that all Bayliffs and other Officers within the precinct of the same do attend upon the Justices and that the Justices for every of their Sessions may have like fees as Justices of peace have The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That all the Statutes touching the Staple may be confirmed and that no licenses be granted That all men may have their free passage in Dragges and Floats upon the river of Severn without any thing paying therefore The King will be advised The print touching the Commission of Sewers cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching the shipping of Merchants cap. 6. agreeth with the record It is enacted that the Lords of the Councell shall have power to end all petitions not ended by Parliament by the advice of the Justices Whereof sundry bills and petitions the twenty fifth day of Iune were by certain of the Lords there named in the Starr-chamber answered and endorsed Anno Octavo Henrici Sexti The Parliament holden at Westminster the day next after the Feast of St. Matthew in the Eighth year of King Henry the Sixth ON Thursday being the next day after St. Matthew the twentieth day of September before the king himself then sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct the Lords and Commons being there present Iohn Arch-Bishop of York and Chancellor of England declared learnedly the cause of the same Parliament taking for his Theam Luke 11. Quomodo stabit regnum c. The which text as to the realm of England he divided into two parts the one by way of admiration the other by way of question He noted causes three viz. want of Faith the which was the root of all vice Eò quod sine side impossibile est placere Deo the second the want of due Fear being the author of every good mind Nam qui nihil timet negliget the third for want of upright Justice being the pillar of every Kingdome namely ex Iustitia sequitur pax ex pace rerum abundantia maxime procreatur In place of which three vertues he shewed that within this realm three vices reigned namely Infidelity by errors and heresies Obstinacy instead of fear and Oppression in place of Justice Through Infidelity he shewed how Iean and the late Kingdome of Bohemia were destroyed Fear he divided into two parts the one spirituall and vertuous as fearing God and man for God the other carnall and vicious as whereby murmure and rebellion spring which procured destruction such as happened to Chore Dathan and Abiram Numb 16. He also proveth that for oppression ensued transferring of kingdomes according to Eccles. 10. regnum alienum in regnum transfertur propter inâ—usâ—icias injurias So farre to the first by way of admiration to the second by way of question He affirmed that if true Faith due Fear and upright Justice might be restored there was then no doubt but that this kingdome should flourish He further sheweth that as the Prince was bound to defend the Subjects and to keep peace so ought the Subjects to minister to the Prince liberally of their goods to the atchieving of the same to which end the same Parliament was called wherefore he willed the Commons to choose and to present their Speaker the next day unto the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Friday the second day of the Parliament the Commons by certain of their fellowes declared unto the Lords how they had chosen one William Allington Esquire to be their Speaker and required respite for presenting of him untill the Monday following which was granted On Monday the sixteenth of September the Commons presented before the king and Lords the aforesaid William whose excuse being refused he with the common protestation was allowed The twelfth day of December the Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King one whole Desme and one fifteen to be levyed of the laity It was enacted that the King and his Councell should treat with the Duke of Burbon touching his ransome For that the King the sixth day of November in this present year in the day of Coronation had taken upon him the protection and defence of this realm It seemeth good to the Bishops and Lords upon good advise that the name and power of Protector and Defendor granted to the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester should from the same day of Coronation utterly cease and that they the said Dukes should have the name of principall Counsellors any order to the contrary notwithstanding the which name of Protector and Defender as touching his own person the Duke of Bedford in full Parliament did release so alwayes as the same should not hurt the title of Duke of Bedford The twenty ninth day of December the Commons at the Contemplation of Henry Bishop of Winchester and new made Cardinall granted one other Desme and fifteen to be levied of the laity Note the title of the said Cardinall is as followeth Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Dominus Henricus permissione divina titl Sancti Eusebii Presbyterii Cardinalis de Anglia nuncupatus The same Commons do also grant to the King Tonnage and Poundage to continue unto the next Parliament The Chancellor by the Kings commandement declareth how that the King by the assent of the Bishops and Lords had prorogued the same Parliament from the said twentieth day of December unto the Monday next after the feast of St. Hillary then ensuing at Westminster aforesaid For that no Cardinall is to be of any Kings Councell but at his own pleasure the Bishops and Lords assented that humble request should be made to the said Cardinall to vouchsafe to be made of the Councill with this protestation that the said Cardinall should absent himself in all affaires and Councills of the King wherein the Pope or See of Rome was touched upon which request â—o made the Cardinall took upon him the same in form aforesaid The King by common consent hath given to the Lord Talbot being prisoner in France as towards his importable ransome Sir William Bircham Knight a French Prisoner if that the same Sr. William were not to be impeached for the death of the Duke of Burgundy And it
be advised It is enacted that all religious persons for lands purchased since the twentieth of Edw. 3. and paying no Desmie therefore amongst the Clergie shall pay fifteens After this Mr. Iohn Charlton one of the Messengers aforesaid brought Letters from the Bishop of Durham from the Earls of Northampton Arundel Warwick Oxon and Suffolk and from Sir Hugh le Dispencer Lord of Glamorgan directed to the whole estate of Parliament and purporting that where the King at his arrivall at Hoges in Normandie had made his eldest son the Prince of Wales a Knight whereby he ought to have aid of the Realm as appertaineth Viz. forty shillings for every Knights Fee whereunto they all granted and took Order for the speedy levying of the same It is ordered in full Parliament at the request of the Commons that the Benefices of all Aliens should be seized into the Kings hand and he to take the profit of the same and that all Bishops should before the next Convocation certifie into the Chancery the Names of all Aliens their Benefices and values An Act as before that no Alien should send any Letters Tit. 42â— Anno Vicesimo primo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the morrow after S. Hilary in the 21 year of the Reign of King Edw. 3. of England and of France the 8 th PRoclamation made the first day by the Kings Commandment That no person shall use or bear any Arms within London and the Suburbs or in any place between the said City and Pallace of Westminster nor in no other part of the Pallace by Land or by Water except such of the Kings people as he shall appoint to keep the Kings peace and the Kings Ministers according to the Statute of Northampton yet Earls and Barons may wear their swords except in the Kings presence and place of Councel Receivers of Petitions for England and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for the Clergy Triers of Petitions Because divers Lords were not come the Parliament was continued from day to day thrice Viz. until Thursday following at which time William de Thorp in presence of the King Prelates Earls Barons and Commons declared that the Parliament was called for two causes the first Concerning the War which the King had undertaken by the consent of the Lords and Commons against his enemies of France The second How the peace of England may be kept Whereupon the King willed the Commons to consult together and that within four dayes they should give answer to the King and his Councel what they think therein The fourth day the Commons declare That they are not able to Councel any thing touching the point of the war wherefore they desire in that behalf to be excused and that the King will thereof advise with his Nobles and Councel and what shall be so amongst them determined they the Commons will assent unto confirm and establish Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the Laws of Holy Church and of the Land and that the Peace be kept for which purpose they desire That no great person do maintain no Traitors Felons Robbers Trespassers against the peace Barretors Maintainers Confederators Embracers of business Conspirators Champtors and the like by which falsities the Peace is disturbed and the Laws frustrated and that certain Ordinances be made for punishment of such Offendors That to the intent that the Laws may be duly and indifferently ministred the King will be pleased so to encrease the fees of the knight Barons Justices Ministers and Officers and that they may be sworn to take nothing Touching the first point the King will call the great persons to him and will move this Article to them and with their advice will ordain such remedy as shall be pleasing to God and man Touching the second the King will advise what other Ministers shall be fit to take the Oath and will do what shall be needfull That all these Petitions which be for the common profit may be answered in Parliament before the Commons so as they may know the Endorsment and have remedie according to the Ordinance of Parliament That whereas the Scots by Covin with Philip de Valâ—is in the Kings absence did enter the Realm of England with all their hoast burning and destroying the Land and feloniously committing robberies murders c. And whereas in a Battel at Durham divers of them were slain and some of their Chieftains as David de Brays William Douglas and others were by force there taken and are in the Kings power that he will be pleased so to take order with them by his Councel that he and his people be not in little danger and that they may give surety for their good behaviour The King by advice de ses Grantz will provide so as shall be best Whereas the Staple of Wooll which is holden at Bruges in Flanders hath used to be free so as all Merchants might there freely buy merchandise and carry the same from thence whither they lift by Land or Sea and now the same freedom is restrained so as none can freely buy and carry from thence according to the antient usage with them of Flanders and Brabant And they of Brabant cannot bring their Wools bought in the Staple out of the Town of Bruges without sureties that the Wools shall be uttered in the Country of Brabant or that they bring Letters from the Town of Bruges without sureties in what Town of Brabant those Wools shall be uttered whereby the price of Wooll is much abased Also the three good Towns of Flanders Gant Bruges Ipre will not suffer the small Towns which were wont to buy great quantities of Wools to make Cloth but do destroy their Instruments to the abasement likewise of the price of Wools. Also the paiment of Gold is at so high a price in those parts that a man shall lose in Exchange the third penny and more for which matters it may please the Parliament to provide remedy The King will that the Ordinance of the Staple shall be viewed and that Thomas Melchburn with whom the Patent touching that Ordinance doth remain be called to bring the same with him and that some Merchants of the Country who best understand this matter and the King by advice of his Council will provide remedy Whereas in a Council holden by Lionel the Kings son the Guardian of England it was in the 21 year of the King ordered without the Commons That for keeping the Realm and safe conduct of ships should be taken upon every sack of Wooll passing the seas two shillings upon every Tun of Wine two shillings upon every pound Desavoires brought back into the Realm six pence and this charge to continue until Michaelmas next coming which charge is yet demanded
Westminster the Monday the first day of May in the 42 year of the reign of King Edward the Third AT this day for that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not come the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared to the Lords and Commons then assembled in the Chamber de Pinct that the Kings pleasure was that the Parliament should be continued until the Thursday ensuing On the said Thursday the said Arch-Bishop in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared that the King yeelded to God his most hearty thanks for giving him Victory over his Enemies for the quiet government of his Realm and for the great Loyalty of his Subjects both in Body and Goods the which Blessing and good Estate as he decreed to continue and amend so that he might the better accomplish the same he had therefore called the Parliament Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other forein places and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The next day the same Arch-Bishop declared that of the long treaty between the Kings Councel and David le Bruce of Scotland this was the last offer of the said David viz. that he offered peace so as he might freely enjoy to him in Fee the whole Realm of Scotland without any subjection or any other thing which mâ—ght be accounted a perpetual charge Of which Peace the Lords and Commons being willed to give their advice made several Answers that they could not assent to any such peace but to the disherison of the King and of his Crown and to the great danger of themselves being sworn to the same After that the said Arch-Bishop on the Kings behalf gave to the whole Estates thanks for their Aids and Subsidies granted to the King and shewed further the great need of the same Whereupon the Lords and Commons granted to the King for two years the Subsidy of Wooll viz. of every sack of Wooll 30 s. 8 d. so much of every 2â—0 Fells and of every Last of skins 4 l. over the old Custom 6 s. 8 d of every sack of Wooll and so much of twenty dozen of Fells and 13 s. 4 d. of every last of skins Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching the keeping of the great Charter cap. 1. agreeth with the Record onely the print wanteth and all other Statutes The print of Pardons agreeth with the Record The print that none be put to answer without due process of Law cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching Commissions cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching Escheators cap. 5. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form quod nota The print touching Labourers cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The print touching Victualls in London cap. 7. agreeth with the Record Note that the Londoners required that no Forainer should retail any Wine Merchandize or Victualls in London which was not granted The print touching the restraint of English Merchants to fetch Gascoyne wine cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The print touching green wax out of the Exchequer cap. 9. agreeth with the Record The print touching such as be born at Callice cap. 10. agreeth with the Record The 21. of May the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their coming and aide granted on which day all the Lords and sundry of the Commons dined with the King after which dinner Sir Iohn de Lee was brought before the King Lords and Commons next aforesaid to answer to certain Objections following and first to the complaint of William Latimer as followeth The King had granted the Wardship of Robert Latimer the Son and Heir of Sir Robert Latimer with certain Mannors during the same minority to the Bishop of Sarum whose estate the same William had and after the King granted the same to Sir Iohn Lee. The same William surmised that the said Sir Iohn being of power sent for him to London where he by duress of Imprisonment enforced the said William to surrender his Estate to him And by Recognizance therefore the same Sir Iohn excuseth himself for that the Grant was made unto him the which was not allowed for that the said VVilliam was not put out by due process of Law Another matter was objected against the said Sir Iohn for that during such time as he was Steward of the Kings House he should cause sundry men to be attached and to come before him as before the Kings Councel in places where he pleased where being out of Councel he caused men to answer as to things before the Councel That he as Steward having thereby authority onely within the Verge did notwithstanding cause sundry to be attached out of the Verge as Iohn Goddard and others making them to answer in the Marshalsâ—y of things done out of the Verge and other-some committed to the Tower of his own Authority as Iohn Sibill Edmond Urdsales and others That he had of his own authority against the Justices commandment discharged out of Newgate Hugh Lavenham Purveyor who had appealed sundry men of Felony That he bargained with Sir Nicholas Lovayn for the keeping of the Mannor of Rainham in Kent the which the same Sir Nicholas claimed to hold during the minority of the Son and Heir of Iohn Saunton where the said Iohn of Lee knew that the said Mannor was holden of the King in chief as of the Castle of Dover Of all which points for that the same Sir Iohn could not purge himself he was commanded to the Tower of London there to remain as prisoner until he had made Fines at the Kings will And commandment given to Sir Allen of Buxhal Constable of the Tower to keep him accordingly And so the Lords and Commons departed After that the said Sir Iohn being brought to Westminster before the Kings Councel and being there demanded of the same William Lattimer made answer that as freely as the King had granted to him the Wardship aforesaid so freely did he surrender the same into the Kings hands Whereupon by the same Councel it was ordered that the Wardship aforesaid should be reseised into the Kings hands and delivered unto the said William Lattimer according to the Grant made to the said Bishop and that all Recognizances and conveyances made by the said William to the said Sir Iohn should be void saving the Kings right Anno Quadragessimo Tertio Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Octaves of St. Trinity in the 43. Year of Edward the Third THe Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England the same day in the Chamber de Pinct in the presence of the King Lords and Commons
Answer as next above cannot be read Anno Quadragesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Ricardo Com. Arundel c. apud Westmonasterium crastino Trinitatis Edmundi Regis proximo futuro c. Teste Rege apud Westmonast 4. Octobris HUgoni de Courtney Com. Devon Edwardo de Mortuo mari Com. Marchiae Charissimo filio nostro Com. Canterbr Willielmo de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Gilberto Humfravil Com. de Anegos Johanni de Charlton de Powys Willielmo de Latymer Guidoni de Brian Gilberto Talbot Johanni de Clinton Willielmo de Botreaux Johanni de War Henâ—ico de Scroope Warrinae de Insula Rogero de Bello Campo Johanni de Monteacuto Rogero de Strange de Blackmers Nicholao Burnel Johanni Gray de Codenore Reginaldo Grey de Ruthin Johanni Grey de Rotherfield Ricardo de Staffort Johanni de Cobham de Kent Willielmo de Furnival Willielmo de Say Willielmo de Huntingfield Johanni de Northwood Johanni Mohun de Dunster Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Strange de Knokyn Johanni Buttort Lucy de Ponings Jacobo de Audley de Helighe Almarico de Sancto amando Radolph de Dacre Rogero de Clifford Petro de malo lacu Et Thomae de Musgrave Willielmo de Lattymer Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Quadragesimo Septimo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the next day after St. Edmond the King in the 47 Year of Edward the Third THe same day Proclamation was made in VVestminster-hall that all such as were summoned to the Parliament might depart and be there the next morning in the Painted Chamber to hear the causes of the Parliament The same next day Sir Iohn Knyvet being Chancellor before the King Lords and Commons declared how for the peace broken by the French the King to resist the same his Adversary and for the obtaining of his right had sent over great Armies of men and lately his Son the King of Castile and Arragon and Duke of Lancaster had atchieved many great exploits to the overthrow oâ— his Enemies and nobly acquitted himself How the King further had set forth a royal Navy of ships to all which charges albeit the Subjects to their pains contributed yet was the same far more infinite charge to the Prince Remembring then that such Nobles and others as hazarded their lives for the whole Realms defence ought speedily to be refreshed with fresh succours and aid and the rather for that the enemy did never make himself by sea and land Therefore the King willed them throughly to weigh those matters and for that the season of War began to wear away it required more speedy answer they were willed therefore then to depart and to be there the next day The next day certain of the Commons came to the Lords House and required that certain of the Lords there named would vouchsafe to confer with the Commons Whereupon they went presently into the Chamberlains Chamber to treat with the Commons On Thursday in the week of St. Andrew the Lords and Commons upon consultation in aid of the Wars granted to the King as is contained written in a Schedule indented without any Seals thereunto annexed the copy whereof is under-written the which being given to the King was read before him and the Commons require Answer to their Petitions which was promised After that the Chancellor on the Kings behalf gave unto the whole Estates great thanks and it was willed that such of the Commons as would wait on their Petitions might so do and that the rest that would might depart And so the Parliament ended Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The effect of the Schedule aforesaid and of the copy of the same The Lords and Commons grant to the King two Fifteens to be paid in two years of every twenty shillings of Merchandize coming into the Realm or going out six pâ—nce for two years except of Woolls Skines and Wooll-Fells And also the Subsidy of Woolls for two years upon condition that if the Wars do cease within two years then the latter payments of all their Grants to cease They pray that these Grants may be imploied upon the Wars They pray that every Shire may have their Commissions without any thing paying They further pray that none of the Commons House be appointed to be a Collector for any of these Grants Vide Subsidy 46 E. 3. tit 10. Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest be kept It pleaseth the King That right to every mans Petition now exhibited may be ministred Let that be eschewed which toucheth any private person The print touching the Assizes of broad cloathes cap. 1. agreeth with the Record That the City of London and all other Cities and Towns may enjoy all their Liberties any Statute notwithstanding Let them particularly shew the breach of any liberty and they shall be answered That the Staple may onely be kept at Callice and no Patent and Grant to be made to the contrary The King will appoint the Staple as by the Councel he shall think best The print touching Scottish silver coyn cap. 2. agreeth with the Record That any having a protection for serving in the Wars and do thereof fail by one moneth to the deceit of the Kings people such protection to be void Let the grieved come into the Chancery and he shall have remedy Certain Counties there named do pray that for the ease of their carriage of Wools that a Staple might be at Lyn. The King granteth thereunto so as the Staple at Yarmouth do continue That for Tythe of Wood above twenty years groweth may be enacted no Tythe to be due and that in all such cases a prohibition may be granted Such prohibitions shall be granted as heretofore hath been used They require remedy against Ordinaries for that upon this term Fidei lasio they take upon them cognizance of debt and to punish Labourers for that they make sundry blanks whereupon men by sudden citing are much hindred For the first the Common Law serveth To the second let the special matter be shewed and it shall be heard That the Statute made whereby buyers for the Kings Houshold should pay readily shall stand and that no man be impeached for resisting them therein The Statute therefore provided shall be kept and who will complain shall be heard That all Accomptants in Exchequer shewing cause of discharge may so be without delay on pain of imprisonment for the Officers A Statute is made therefore and the
could not of his own accord agree with any Nobleman for his Lievetenant that then the Bishop should take upon him the charge and generall lycense was granted to all men to pass on with the same Bishop except the retinew of the King and other Nobles After this the Commons desired the King to grant audience to the Lord de la War who was lately arrived from Spain and was to declare how the King might come to an honourable peace with Spain the which they much desired whereto was an answer made that the King would advise with his Councell and therein do what should appertain to his honour Anno Septimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Johanni Regi Castellae c. Apud Westm. die Lunae ante Festum omnium Sanctorum Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicessimo die Augusti Charissimo Avunculo Rs. Edward Com. Cantabr Chariss Avunculo Rs. Tho. Com. Buck. Chariss Fratri Rs. Tho. Com. Cantii Dilecto fideli Rico. Com. Arundell Thomae Com. War Hugoni Com. Staff Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacute Com. Salop Rob. de Vere Com. Oxon. Hen. de Percy Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Iacob de Audley Will. Bardolf de Wormegay Guido de Bryan Ioh. de Clinton Gilber Talbot Ioh. de Ware Hen. le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. Nevill de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. le Scroope Hugoni Burnell Will. Zouch de Harringworth Rogero de Clifford Iohi. Buttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Michael de la Poole Will. de Thorpe Will. de Winhesser Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botteraux Chlr. Iohi. de Bello monte Robto de Harrington Robto de Willougby Iohi. de Clifton Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Hugoni de Darcy Ioh. de Strange de Knoking Tho. de Nevill de Halmshir Will. de Aldburgh Ric. Seymor Rado Basset de Drayton Thomae Darcey Thomae Morley Ioh. de Bourchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Ioh. Lovell de Fishmarch Ioh. de Monteacuto Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Ric. de Poynings Thomae de Berkley Simoni de Burley Constabular Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Monday next before the Feast of All-Saints in the seventh year of King RICHARD the 2. THe same Monday being the 25. of October sundrie of the Bishops and Lords being assembled looked for the coming of the others but for that sundrie of them were not come and the Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill the next day ensuing The Thursday after being the next day the Bishops Lords and others of the upper-House came into the Parliament in the Chamber de-pinct at Westminst whereunto all the Knights and Burgesses were in the presence of the King called by name at which time Sir Michaell de la Poole Knight being Chancellor began first to excuse his unworthiness to that place and declared that he was forced thereto which done he sheweth the cause of the Parliament to be as followeth For that the great Truce with the Scots was to end at Candlemas ensuing for which cause the Duke of Lancaster being sent into Scotland was returned with answer that the Scots would send to London certain that should intreate therein as well for such Peace if it might succeed as for preparation of War which more was doubted was the first cause of consultation Another cause was for that the King was to prepare also against three mighty and mortall enemies Spain France and lately Flanders Here then he proved by many reasons that it was better for us to assail then to be assailed to seek them at home than to suffer them to come to us and that it would so be manifestly shewed further proving that they must not lay the cause of these wars to the King considering that with the Crown the Wars descended to the King also Lastly he sheweth another cause to be for the maintenance of good Laws and preservation of the Peace and also in his former matter he remembreth them for giving ayd to the King for the supportation of these his great charges Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivors of Petitions for Gascoygn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above After this the Chancellor declared the King charged the Lords by their selves and the Commons by themselves to consult about these weighty matters and for mony to serve his necessity laying in the mean time all other matters apart The Lords and Commons granted unto the King one fifteen to be levyed according to a Schedule enrolled The Schedule conteineth the grant of the fifteen and of the payment and of the grant of vi d. of every pound of Merchandize and ii s. of every Tun of Wine on these conditions viz. That the Clergy shall grant the like for their parts and that all estates whatsoever be contributary thereto And that the service of the Bishop of Norwich and of his Captains with the treasure by them received not of them deserved nor well imployed may onely be examined and imployed to the use of the King The Earl of Northumberland promised for himself and the Earl of Devonshire Admirall of the West safely to keep the Seas so far as the charge granted by the Commons therefore would serve viz. of vi d. of every pound of Merchandize and ii s. of every Tun of Wine The Bishop of Norwich being accused for not doing his service according to promise and for receiving of severall summes as well on this side the Seas as beyond requireth respit to answer protesting earnestly therein to shew his innocency and being charged particularly of the receipt of 10000. Francks of gold for giving up the Castle of Graveling to the French he fully purgeth himself thereof And in repeating the matter it fell out that 5000. Francks of Gold given for the said Castle were in the hands of Sir Robert Farmers man who charged in Parliament confesseth the having thereof but maketh a fair excuse for the secret taking wherefore he was committed to prison untill he made payment thereof and untill further order for his enlargement were taken At that time Proclamation was made that all such as had received any mony beyond the Seas of the enemy or of any other for any cause other than for due wages should the next day bring the same into the Chancery or else to be taken as Traytors this Proclamation was made the sixteenth of November Bryars Crossingham and Iohn Spickworth Esquires
Estate in that behalf as the Lords of the Parliament would award whereupon the King said openly in the Parliament that he thought that the said Duke was nothing faultie and therefore held him excused In the Parliament all the Lords as well Spirituall as Temporal being present claimed their Liberties and Franchises viz. that all weightie matters in the same Parliament which should be after moved touching the Peeres of the Land ought to be determined and judged and discussed by the course of the Parliament and not by the Civill Law nor yet by the Common Laws of the Land used in other more Courts of the Realm the which clayme and liberties the King most willingly allowed and granted thereto in full Parliament In full Parliament also the 5. Lords Appellants viz. Tho. Duke of Gloucester Henry Earl of Darby Rich. Earl of Arundell Tho. Earl of Worcester and Thomas Earl Marshall made their open protestations that whatsoever they attempted touching their Appeal and Suit in this Parliament or before they and their partakers did the same chiefly to the honour of God the ayde and safetie of the King the Realm and their own Lives In this Parliament the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury made openly solemne protestation for himself and the whole Clergie of his Province entred by word The effect whereof was that albeit he might lawfully be present at all their Parliaments yet for that in this Parliament matters of Treason were to be intreated off whereat by the Canonical Law they might not be present they therefore absented themselves saving their liberties therein otherwise The like protestations did the Bishops of Durham and Carlile make On Tusâ—day the 10 th of March being the 26 th day of this Parliament the Lords and Commons granted to the King one Half Desme and half Fifteenth for the defence of the Sea so as the same be thereon only imployed and so as the same be not made or taken for an example being given before the end of the Parliament whereby any Subsidy should be hereafter demanded before the end of the Parliament On Friday the 20 th of March and the 36 th day of the Parliament the Lords and Commons granted to the King in defence of the Realm and safetie of Merchandize 3 s. of every Tun of Wine and 12 d. of every pound of Merchandize except of Staple Ware and also they granted to the King the Subsidy of Staple Ware The same day all the Lords Bishops and Commons were openly sworne in Parliament upon the Cross of Canterbury that they should see the Peace kept that they should live and dy in the quarrell and defence of the bodies of the 5. Lords named Tit. 8. if any thing were against them attempted saving their allegiance to the King and their due obedience to his Prerogative and Laws The same Friday for that Easter approached the Parliament by Common assent of the whole estates was continued from the said Friday untill Monday next after the Quindene of Easter then ensuing and thereupon Writs were made to all the Lords summoned to the Parliament to be then there On Monday the same Parliament revived his course according to the request of the Lords and Commons On Tuseday the 2. day of Iune being the 30 th of that Parliament the Lords and Commons granted to the King in defence of the Realm one Subsidy of Wooll Skins and Wooll-fells carryed forth of the Realm viz. of every sack of Wooll over and above the old custome of 6 s. 8 d. and 44 s. 4 d. of Denizens and of Strangers 46 s. 8 d. of every Last of skins over the custome of one Mark 4 l. 6 s. 8 d. of Denizens 4 l. 13 s. 4 d. of Strangers of every CC Wooll-fells over the old custome of 6 s. 8 d. of Aliens for one whole year upon condition that the said Lords named in Tit. 8. may receive the c. in manner of this grant and Subsidy untill they have levyed the 20000 l. towards their charges layed out for the honour and safety of the King and of the Realm They also grant unto the King for one whole year as is contained before in Tit 1. The King by Parliament granted to Dame Anne the late Wife of Sir Iames Barnes Kt. the Mannour of West-Horkey with the appurtenances in Surrey being by the forfeiture of the said Sir Iames untill she were marryed or otherwise advanced freely The King also by the like assent granted to Sir William Fulthorpe Kt. his Father and being in the Kings hands to have the same Annuity during the life of the said Sir Roger. The King by like assent granted to Dame Katherine daughter of the Earl of Staff deceased and to Michaell de la Poole the Son of her Husband certain Mannours in the Counties of Lincolne and Not. the which Sir Michael de la Poole his Father late Earl of Suffolk long before any forfeiture had given the said Dame Katherine and to her said Husband and to the Heirs of their two bodyes lawfully begotten the which grant the King made at the request of the Earl of Warw. and other Lords Cosins and Allies of the said Dame Katherine The King at the request of the 5. Lords Appellants Tit. 8. granted to ayde Ieffrey Martin Cleark of the Crown and at the request of the Commons granted to ayde Iohn de Scardeburgh Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THat the Parliament may be holden in the Quindena of Michaelmas then ensuing The King will be advised That no person do intermeddle about the Kings person or affairs of the Realm other than those that be appointed by those of the Parliament or other than such as be assigned by the Lords of the continuall Councell That those Lords may remove all persons in the Kings Houshold and place others as they think that those Lords be sworn as in the oath there is contained To the first the King granteth to the second upon proof of any ones unworthiness about his person and declaration to him made he shall be removed and others placed The effect of the aforesaid Oath was that he should by no means suffer any Judgment Ordinance or Statute made in this Parliament to be repealed at any time to come that he should see the Laws observed and the Peace kept That no hereditaments or other profits then escheated to the King be granted to any during the Wars and that no Person do attempt to crave any of the same but that the same be imployed to the Kings best profit The King granteth except Offices and Bayliwicks and such gifts as he hath made in the Parliament so as
shewed to the Earl of Northumberland and further declared that this third time in worship of the Trinitie the Lords Bishops and they were sworne to be true to the King to the Prince and to his issue and to every one of the Kings sons severally succeeding the Crown of England albeit the same was more then needed for the which the King gave thanks unto them 18. The same day at the request of the Commons the King commanded the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland in token of perfect amity to kiss each other in open Parliament and to take each other by the hand thrice which they did and so often they kissed each other as they took hands being thrice and promised that their tenants and men should do the like 19. The same day the Commons prayed that such might be appointed to be the Kings Officers of Household as were renouned for vertue and that the Lords and Commons might be privie thereto 20. Friday the two and twentieth of February at the request of the Commons the Earls of Northumberland and Dunbar in token of amity before the King and Lords in full Parliament took each other by the hand and kissed one the other 21. The same day at the request of the Commons the King in full Parliament affirmeth the Archbishop of Canterbury the Duke of Yorke the Earl of Northumberland and other Lords which were suspected to be of the Confederacie of Sir Henry Percy to be his true Liegemen and that they nor any of them should not be impeached therefore by the King or his heirs at any time ensuing 22. The Commons rehearsing how King E. 3. in the parliament holden in the eleven of his raign created his eldest son Duke of Cornwall and the same Dukedome annexed to the Crown with divers Hereditaments by his Letters Patents by authority of the same never to be dismembred or sold away they therefore pray the King to resume and sieze and to unite again to the said Dutchy such Lands as were sold away by Prince Edward King Richard or by the King himself The same Petition was answered in effect following It is accorded by the King and Lords that the Prince by the advice of his Councell shall have his scire facias or other his best means of recovery wherein shall be allowed no protection or praying in ayde of the King unless it be for Sir Iohn Cornwall and Elizabeth his wife late wife of Iohn Holland late Earl of Huntington and for such persons to whom the King is bound by warrantie and thereby to render in value all such cases the Prince shall sue to the King 24. The Commons do amend the Commission for the arraying or mustering of men and watching of the Beacons and pray the King that from thenceforth there should no other forme thereof be made whereto the King with the assent of the Lords after consultation therein had with the Judges of the Realm granted 25. The forme and President of the same Commission 26. At the request of the Commons certain Lords especially appointed agreed on the Articles ensuing First that all strangers taking part with the Anti-pope be not about the Kings person but do avoyd the Realm 27. That other strangers Catholicks as those of Dutchland be appointed to remain upon such Frontiers within the Realm where Garrisons are 28. That all French persons Brittains Lombards Italians and Bavarians whatsoever may be removed out of the House of the King and Queen except the Queens Daughters Maria St. Miches Alder and Iohn Purian and their Wives 29 That no VVelchman be about the Kings person 30. All which Articles on Thursday the one and twentieth of February the King by assent of the Lords established in full Parliament gave in full charge to his chief Officers of Houshold there named to put the same in execution who at Supper then following did the same 31. After which for more comfort of the Queen and her Daughters the King by the assent of the Lords established in full Parliament assigned to the Queen besides the persons aforenamed two Knights a Damosell two Chamborers one Mistress two Esquires one Nurse and one Chamborer for the Queens Daughters and a Messenger to go between at certain times 32. The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Act of Parliament the Commission at large granted that certain Revenues and Custome there expressed and amounting to the sum of 10100 l. should be yearly payd to the Treasurer of his House for the charges of the same his House In which grant amongst other things it appeareth that the profits of the Hamper in the Chancery at this time was onely worth 2000 l. per Annum 33. On Saturday the first day of March the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared to all the Lords in the Kings presence that the Kings will was that the Common Laws of the Realm should by no means be delayed that the Lords should take order for the Kings expences of Houshold and that there should be appointed certain Treasurers of the Wars who should imploy what was granted to the VVar onely whereto the King agreed and the Commons also 34. It is enacted that the Prior of Okeborne Proctor of the Abbey of Fishcamp in Normandie and all others Priors Coventuall should remain in England for that they were Catholicks and that all religious persons borne French should depart the Realm and English put in their places 35. The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared openly in the Parliament that where there came on his head a Debt in the Exchecquer of 200 l. while Sir Roger Welden was Treasurer of England in the time of King Richard he protested that he owed no such debt and prayed that the same his Protestation might be entred 36. At the request of the Commons it was enacted that if War should happen between the King and the French and the Flemmings that then the Kings Councell should have power to remove the Staple from Callice to what place they thought best and that no Patent should be granted to carry any of the said Marchandâ—ze to any other place Vide post tit 55. 37. The King at the sundry requests of the Councell doth name and appoint as there doth appear certain Bishops Lords and others to be of his great continuall Councell 38. â—or that the Sheriffs of Rutland had returned one William Ondeby for Knight for the same Shire and not Thomas de Thorpe who was chosen he was commanded to amend the same returne by returning Thomas Thorpe and further was committed to the Fleet and to Fine and Ransome at the Kings pâ—easure 39. At the request of
enrolled of Record That for resisting of Welch Rebells the Prince might abide in Wales and have power given him by Commission as of record might appear That no Hereditaments conquered from the Welch be given for one quarter of a year after Whereto was answered that the King would not grant any without advise That the time for the avoidance of the French and Britains out of the Realm be appointed It was answered it shall with all convenient speed That it would please the King to hold the Commons excused for that report was made that they had talked of the Kings person otherwise then them beseemed which was untrue and so the King by answer took the same The names of certain of the Commons appointed to treat with the Lords touching the safeguard of the Seas The Order touching the safeguard of the Seas First That the Merchants Marriners and Owners of English ships shall provide and finde sufficient and able ships for 2000 able fighting men and 1000 Marriners for a year and a half For which their charges they shall have upon account 12 d. of every pound of Merchandize 3 s. of every Tun of Wine and the fourth part of the Subsidy of Wools Wooll-fells and skins granted in the last Parliament The Merchants for the levying of the aforesaid sums shall have privy Seals as oft as they shall need The Merchants shall enjoy all such prizes as they shall take having due consideration of the Kings Chieftains if he shall any appoint The Merchants require 4000 l. in prest whereunto was answered That the King had it not If the Royal Navy of the enemy shall happen to be on the Sea and the King to make out against them the Merchants aforesaid shall then have one moneths warning to provideâ— The Merchants aforesaid shall have reasonable warning of any Peace or Truce taken after which they shall have due consideration of all their charges The Merchants aforesaid shall name two persons the one for the South the other for the North who by commission shall have the like power as other Admirals have had touching the same On the same third day of April the King for certain weighty affairs adjourned the same Parliament from the said third day unto the Quinden of Easter then ensuing to be holden at the same place of Westminster aforesaid and licensed the Lords and Commons for that time to depart The Re-assembly of the Parliament ON Monday the Quindena of Easter being the 25. day of April for certain great causes the Parliament was from day to day adjourned unto the Friday ensuing on which day the Archbishop of York with sundry Bishops the Duke of York with sundry Lords came and treated of matters concerning the Parliament On Saturday the 8. of May it was enacted by the whole assent that certain strangers by name who seemed to be Officers about the Queen should by a day depart the Realm and all others the like whereupon a Writ to proclaim the same was sent by assent of Parliament to the Sheriffs of London and that they should bring in all Patents of Lands or Annuities granted to them by the King or Queen On Saturday the 15. of May the Commons came before the King where the Speaker prayed that he might under protection have viz. as large Speech as any Speaker before that time had and that Richard Cliderow one of the Admirals appointed for the Sea might go there unto the which the King granted At the request of the Commons the King appointed certain by name to be of the Council and that by authority of Parliament On Monday the 24 of May the Speaker required to know whether the Lords of the Kingsâ— Council appointed would take up the same The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for himself and the rest of the Council answered yea so there were sufficient treasure otherwise not The same day the Speaker required provision for the great dearth at Callice remembring sundry great charges of the Commons and that same notwithstanding the whole Land of Guienne and Irelaâ—d stood in hazard of losing as well for which as for the Sea and others he requireth politick provision The King answered that he would appoint the Council so to do He also requireth that all Captains beyond the Seas might repair speedily to their â—orts and Peirs as the Earl of Somerset was to Callice bent And that he might be pardoned if he had spoken any thing displeasant to the King or Lords the which the King granted On Tuesday the 25. of May the Lord Lovel and William Doyley before the King and Lords swore to abide the arbitrement of six persons theâ—e named of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and York as Umpiers therein touching the Mannor of Hinton near Brackley in the County of Northampton with the Appurtenances On Friday the fourth of Iune it was enacted that the Commission for the arraying and mustering of men made 5. H. 4. should not concern the Clergy It was the same day enacted that certain there named should have power to determine all controversies between the Merchants of Haunce and Pence and the English merchants according to a Commission thereof made On Monday the seventh of Iune the Speaker required that he might freely resort to his former protestation which was granted The Crown of England with all the Hereditaments and Rights whatsoever was by authority of Parliament with large conveyance entailed to the King and to the Heirs males of his body lawfuâ—ly begotten in like sort to the Prince and for default to the Lords Thomas and Humphrey successively but the conveyance is crossed and on the Margent is written a Vacat the which conveyance was exemplified under the Great Seal The same Speaker on the said day requireth that the Prince may be sent into Wales with all speed considering the rebellion of the Earl of Northumberland and others He also remembreth the King to provide remedy against the deceit of the Customers and Searchers the charge of Ireland and the little safety of the same the great charges of the Kings House in all which he wisheth provision The 19. day of Iune the Commons came before the King where the Speaker requireth that he may return to his former protestation and that good Government might be by the Council and they to be reasonably rewarded therefore He also requireth that the Queen may be endowed with Ten thousand Marks of Lands as other Queens before had been He also remembreth to the King certain persons by name and he desireth that they may be considered for their service Certain are appointed Auditors to take the accounts of the Lord Furnival and Sir Iohn Pelham for that they were Treasurers of the Wars as appeareth 6 H.
4. tit 10. They make the like request as in the end of the 12. tit of the last Parliament Certain Bishops Lords and Justices by the assent of the Duke of York and Philip his Wiâ—e and one of the Daughters and Heirs of Iohn Lord of Mohun and Ioan his Wife and Elizabeth Countess of Sarum and Richard le Strange of Knokin other coâ—heirs of the said Lord Iohn of Mohun and Ioan his Wife of the one party are appointed by a certain day to determine the right touching the Castle and Mannor of Dunstar the Mannor of Minehead Culverton and Carampton with the Hundred of Carampton in Somerset the which Arbitrators in open Parliament are sworn to do the same He also requireth the King to consider the Petitions of Sir Bartholmew Verdon and his Companions weighing their service done in Wales and elsewhere the which petition the King granteth He also exhibiteth to the King certain Petitions of which some were read some were not wherefore he requireth that all might be read the which the King granteth and they are as followeth That the three parts of the Subsidy granted to the Merchants for keeping of the Sea be payed their fourth part shall be only imployed for defence of the Realm That all Aliens may avoid the Realm except Denizons men of the Church impotent persons and Dutchmen That all Lands and other profits let out for life or years by the King or his Progenitors may be improved to a more value That all the Revenues and profits of the Realm being granted since the beginning of the Parliament may be resumed into the Kings hands and reserved to the maintenance of his House and that the outragious charges of the Kings House may be speedily qualified For sundry reasonable considerations the King adjourneth the Parliament from the 19. day of Iune unto the Quindena of S. Michael then ensuing On Wednesday the Quindena of St. Michael being the 15. day of October uuto the which day the Parliament was adjourned for that sundry of the Lords and Commons being called made default and for other considerations the said Parliament was continued until the Friday ensuing the which Friday and Saturday followingâ— the Parliament was continued until the Monday ensuing On the 17. day of November the Commons came before the King where Sir Iohn Tibetott their Speaker required the confirmation of his first protestation which was granted Upon the motion of the same Sir Iohn the King charged the Lords and Commons on their allegiances that they should particularly enquire of the evill Governments and provide remedy therefore The same day he required by mouth that the Castle of Manlion which was the key of the three Realms and which was kept by Sir Charles de Navar an Alien might be kept by Englishmen only That all the Fines and ransoms of the Welchmen may be imployed to the Wars of the same That certain Castles might lie for Hostages for the Earl of Douglas and that the other Scottish prisoners should not slightly be delivered considering that they were the flower of Scotland The conveyance touching the Crown of England expressed before under the 38. tit is made void and the same Crown assured to the King and his Sons in general tail according to the Print 7 H. 4. cap. 2. In which limitation of the Crown among other things this clause is contained touching the Dutchy of Lancaster Per hoc tamen Statutum sive ordinationem quoad Ducatum Lancastriae ejusque jura possessiones honores consuetudines cum suis pertinenciis universis ac successionem modum succedendi in Ducatu praedict sive in capite sive in membris nihil mutare innovare intendimus sed in omnibus prâ—aemissis aliis quibuscunque modis formis quib us ante hoc statum Ducatus ipsi regi administrari gubernari solebat antiqua jura statuta consuetudines ejusdem Ducatus teneri exequi illibate observari in posterum volumus statuimus decernimus declaramus hoc nostro statuto quocunquâ— alio in hoc Parliamento non obstante At this time the Clergy suborned Henry Prince for and in the name of the Bishops and Lords and Sir Iohn Tibetott the Speaker for and in the name of the Commons to exhibite a long and bloody Bill against certain men called Lollards namely against them that preached or taught any thing against the temporal Livings of the Clergy Other points touching Lollardy I read none onely this is to be marked for their better expedition in this exploit they joyned prophesies touching the Kings estate and such as whispered and bruited that King Richard should be living the which they inserted to the end that by the same subtilty they might the better atcheive against the poor Lollards aforesaid Wherein note a most unlawful and monstrous Tyranny For the request of the same Bill was That every Officer or other Minister whatsoever might apprehend and enquire of such Lollards without any other Commission and that no Sanctuary should hold them At the Petition of Thomas Lord Furnival and Sir Iohn Telham Knight appointed Treasurers for the Wars in An. 6. H. 4. tit 9. It is assented that certain Auditors in this Parliament assigned to take their Accompts shall make to them due allowance and that upon the same Accompt they their Heirs and Land Tenants shall be clearly discharged At the request of the Commons it was enacted that no person of what estate soever should be impeached for any act done in any of the Voyages of Journeys in any the Commissions since the Kings reign being done in the Kings behalf At the request of the Commons it was enacted that certain of the Commons House should be at the ingrossing of the Roll of this Parliament The Speaker on the behalf of the Commons requireth that the Lords of the Council might be sworn to observe the Articles ensuing The Arch Bishop of Canterbury for himself and others refuseth to swear but offereth to do what they may The King thereupon chargeth the same Arch-Bishop and others of the Council on their Allegiance to take the Oath who took the same accordingly And further at the same request it is assented that all others the Kings Officers of his houshold and of all his Courts should be sworne to accomplish the same oath The first That worthy Councellors and Officers should be appointed and not to be removed without good proof That no due Grants be stayed at the Great or Privy Seal That none about the Kings person do persue any suit or quarrel by any other means then by the order of the Common Law That no Officer be appointed by any mediation contrary to the Laws That order may be taken for the governance of the Kings
Ignorance not unto the Commons Anno Nono Henrici Quarti Rex c. Henrico filio suo Principi Walliae Duci Cornubiae c. salutem apud Gloucest â—o die Octobris Teste Rege 26 die Augusti EDwardo Duci Eborum Johanni Com. Somerset Edwardo Com. Cant. Edwardo de Courtney Com. Devon Thom. Com. Arundel Michaeli de la Pool Com. Suff. Rado Nevil Com. Westmerland Ricardo Com. War Richardo Com. Oxoniae Barth Bourchier Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Mr. Tho de la War Stephano le Scroope de Masham Willielmo Roos de Hamalake Hen. Fitz-hugh Willielmo de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Morley Hugo Burnel Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Wells Rado de Cromwel Rado Baroni de Greystock Roberto de Harrington Johanni Darcy Willielmo de Willoughby Johanni Cobham Chlr. Tho. Nevil de Halmeshire Willielmo Beauchamp de Burgavenney Johanni Lovel de Fishmerch Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Petro de malo lacu Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Ricardo Seymore Tho. Camois Johanni Tutchet Hen. de Bello monte Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poinings Gilberto Talbott Thomae Erpingham Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Nono Henrici Quarti The Parliament holden at Gloucester the 20. of October iâ— the Ninth year of King Henry the Fourth ON Thursday the 20. of October for that sundry of the Commons house upon calling made default the Parliament was continued until the Monday ensuing On Monday the 24. of October the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment in the presence of him the Lords and Commons declared the cause of the same Assembly and for his Theme took these words Regem honorificate And thereby for three causes approved that the King ought to be honored First for that the King by maintaining the liberty of the Church honored God and therefore ought to be honored Secondly He ought to be honored for his great care towards his Subjects as well in the observation of all Laws as for the defence against the Forein Enemies Thirdly for that since the time of his Coronation he shewed favor and pardon to any offendor that craved the same He further sheweth how in necessity every member of mans body would seek comfort of the head as the chief and by application turned the same to the honoring of the King as the head He further willeth them the same afternoon to choose their Speaker and to present him the next day to the King and further to consider the Rebellion of the Welsh-men the safe keeping of the Sea the defence of Guienne Calice and Ireland and the Marches of the North and how by their aid the same might be defended Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above On Tuesday the 25. of October the Commons presented their Speaker Thomas Chawcer who after excuse of himself made and affirmation of him he made the common Protestation which was granted On Wednesday the 9. of November the Comons came before the King where the said Speaker repeated his former Protestation and began to rehearse the grant of the Subsidies and the oaths of the Lords for the disposition of the same Whereunto the Chancellor answered that no Accompts were made to the Commons for the disposition aforesaid and that the Lords having little thanks thereof would by no means take the like oath again whereof the King on his request held them excused After which the said Speaker made great complaint against Purveyors Whereto the Steward and Treasurer of the Kings house answered that upon special grant the same shall be remedied This done the said Speaker presented a Bill on the behalf of Sir Thomas Brook against William Widecombe upon the reading of which the same Speaker required Judgment against the same William whereof advice was taken and the said William bound in 1000 l. to hear his Judgment in the Chancery On Monday the 14. day of November upon the coming of the Commons before the King and Lords the Speaker shewed the great discommodity for not keeping the sea and for that such as had lands in the Marches of Wales dwelled not thereon and prayed due consideration thereof the which was promised At the request of the same Speaker certain Lords by name were appointed to confer with the Commons Touching the request of the Merchants made in the last Parliament tit 142. the King granteth that Richard Oliderow late Admiral for the South and West be allowed 2668 l. to him due and that he be discharged of all Accompts At the request of the Commons the King granteâ—h to Thomas Sye and Iohn Camby the Priory of Hinkley being two Aliens during the wars for the yearly Rent of 41 l. A long Circumstance is made for words and displeasure taken between the Lords and Commons touching the grant of a Subsidy the 21. day of November For the appeasing whereof on Friday the last day of this Parliament this Order was taken viz. That in all Parliaments in the absence of the King it should be lawful as well to the Lords by themselves as to the Commons by themselves to debate of all matters touching the Realm and of the remedies and not to disclose the same to the King before a determination thereof made and that by the mouth of the Speaker The which Order was made for that part of the aforesaid displeasure arose by the means that in the question of the Subsidy the Lords made the King sundry times privy thereto and brought answer therein from the King upon which the Commons answered that the same was agaiâ—st their liberties On the same last day of the Parliament the Speaker required that the Commons might depart with as great liberty as they had done heretofore and that sufficient means might be found for the keeping of the seas and resistance of the Welsh men The Speaker also in the behalf of the Commons prayed the King to give thanks to the Prince for his great travels in Wales for the which as well the King as the Prince gave thanks to the Commons after which the Prince kneeling before the King purgeth the Duke of York of certain disloyal reports agaâ—nst him uttered by affirming him in open Parliament to be a true and loyal Knight The same Speaker moved the King to advance his Sons the Lords Thomas Iohn and Humfrey to some honourable names and livings and to charge the Lords Marchers of Wales to keep their Castles and other Fortresses The Lords and Commons granted to the King one Desme and half and the like Subsidie for Staple and other Merchandize for two years
the record The print touching subtil dealing in Thrumms cap. 23. agreeth with the record The print for payment in gold by Merchants Aliens cap. 24. agreeth with the record The print touching Assize for lands within Franchises cap. 26. agreeth with the record The print for the continuance of the Mayor of the Staple in his Office cap. 25. agreeth with the record Certain Petitions were committed to the Council by them to be determined Where the Prior of Lantham in Ireland had removed an erronious Judgement given in the Parliament in to the Kings Bench here which could not end the same he therefore prayeth to have the same ended in this Parliament whereto no answer was made Of the 28. and 29. in print this record maketh no mention Anno Nono Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humf. Duci Gloucest c. apud Westm. die Veneris ante festum Sancti Hillarii Teste Humf. Duce Gloucest Custode Agliae apud Westm. Vicesimo septimo die Novembris HEn Com. Northumb. Ricardo Com. Sarum Joh. Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Willielmo Com. Suff. Jacobo de Berckley Chlr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Willielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Waltero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tiptoft Chlr. Hen. Gray de Codonore Chlr. Waltero Fitz-walter Chlr. Willielmo de Clinton Chlr. Willielmo de Nevill Chlr. Noe Lord Warden The Parliament holden at VVestminster the Friday next before the Feast of St. Hillary in the ninth year of Henry the sixth ON the same Friday being the 12. day of Ianuary the noble Prince Humfrey Duke of Gloucester being Keeper of England sitting in royal estate in the Chamber de pinct many the Lords him there assisting and the Commons being there present for that Iohn Archbishop of York Chancellor of England who by vertue of his office ought to have declared the cause of the said Parliament by grievous sickness was unable to do the same the said Duke appointed William Linwood Doctor of the Law to do the same who did so taking his Theam Firmabitur solium regni ejus 1 Parab 22. Upon which he shewed how that the State and seat of the King might and ought to be established by a tripple vertue The first by unity the second by Peace and the third by Justice Unity he divided into three parts viz. Collectivam as in scraping goods together the other Constitutivam as in the comparison of sundry members in mans body the third Consentaneam as in the union of every mystical or body politique Peace he made three-fold viz. Peace Monastical which every man over himself hath Aeconomical as touching the governance over his houshold and Political whereby the Kings estate is most assured Justice he divided into three parts the first by every Subjects due obedience uuto the Magistrates the second by counselling his Neighbours and equals the third by relieving the poor for that the same Unity was divided within the realm by whisperers and misdemeanors whereby utter subversion was like to ensue the King hath called the same Parliament for amending of the same Whereby the Kings full mind was that every estate should enjoy all their due liberties wherefore he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the Keeper aforesaid Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Commons the 13th day of Ianuary made a report of their Speaker as in the last Parliament tit 9. On Monday the fifteenth of Ianuary the Commons presented before the Keeper and Lords aforesaid Iohn Tirrell Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with his Protestation was allowed The King by his Letters Patents granteth a safe conduct to Mr. Iohn Okilith an Irish-man to come to the presence of the King and his Council Is it to be noted that to this time and long after there came no Ambassadour into this realm before such time as they had the like safe conduct The grant of one Desme and one Fifteen and of a third of both A grant of Tonnage and Poundage for two years with the subâ—idy of like value of all Merchants strangers over and above the said Tonnage and Poundage The Commons also grant to the King that every lay person holding by a whole Knights fee shall pay to the King 20 s. and so according to the value under or over and so of the Clergy for lands purchased since the 20 E. 1. That all other persons having any hereditaments to the value of 20 l. over all reprises not holden as above shall pay unto the King 20 s. and so according to the rate Where Sir Iohn Poultney Knight late Lord Mayor of London gave to the Master of Corpus Christi Chapel besides the Chapel of St. Lawrence in Candleweek-street certain houses to pay yearly 53 s. 4 d. to the prisoners of Newgate It is enacted that the Mayor and Chamberlain for the time being shall distrain for the same Of the same Poultney the Church of St. Lawrence aforesaid to this day is called St. Lawrence Poultney It is enacted that the Prior of Christs-Church in Canterbury shall enjoy for ever and distrain for 20 s. quit-rent going out of the Tenement some time Robert le Panners in the Parish of St. Martin of Ludgate It is enacted that certain of the Kings bloud there named should intreat a peace with the Dolphin of France Lewis Iohn of Thorndon in the County of Essex Esquire prayeth that he be not impeached of any outlawry pronounced against one Lewis Iohn of the West being outlawed before the Statute of Additions the which was granted It is enacted that Rice ap Madock a Welshman should have the Kings Letters Patents to be made a Denizen Authority is given to the Chancellor of England to end the sute between Lewin le Clarke Burgess of Gaunt and William Brampton of Chestervile in Derby touching a bargain of wooll It is enacted that Iohn Tiptoft and Powis shall have in fee 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. out of the 12 l which the Prior of Huntington doth yearly pay to the King for the Manor of Hereford next Huntington and that the said Lord and his heirs may distrain therefore in the
the Commons made request unto the King and Lords that Thomas Thorp their Speaker and Walter Rail a member of their house who were in prison might be set at liberty according to their privileges On Friday the fifteenth day of February the Duke of York came before the Lords and shewed how the Duke of York in the vacation had recovered Damages in an Action of Trespasse against the said Thorp by verdict in the Kings Exchequer for carrying away the goods of the said Duke of York out of Durham house for the which he remained in execution and prayeth that he may continue the same The Judges being demanded of their Counsell herein make answer that it was not their part to Judge of the Parliament which was Judge of the law only they said that generall Supersedeas of Parliament there was none but especiall there was in which case of speciall Supersedeas every member of the Commons house ought to enjoy the same unlesse the same be in cases of treason felonie surety for the peace or for a condemnation before the Parliament After which answer made the Lords determined that the said Thorp should remain in execution notwithstanding the privilege and sent certain of themselves to the Commons to require them on the Kings behalf to choose a new Speaker The tenth day of February certain of the Commons were sent to the Lords to make declaration now they had newly chosen in the place of Thomas Thorp Thomas Charleton Knight to be their Speaker the Chancellor answered the King liked him and willed them to proceed with effect On Tuesday the nineteenth day of March the Commons required the Lords to remember the hazard of Callice the safe keeping of the seas and that the Subsidy granted might be imployed upon the same they also requiâ—â—â—he Lords to hold them excused of any other Subsidies and finally they require that a grave Councell may be ready to answer all which is promised Certain Lords by name were appointed to go to the King lying sick at VVindsor and to know his pleasure touching two Articles The first to know who should be Archbishop of Canterbury and who Chancellor of England in the place of Iohn Kemp by whose death the King was to dispose of them The second to know whether certain being named to be of the Councell liked him or no The said Lords messengers the twenty fifth of March report to all the Lords how they had been with the King at VVindsor and after three severall repaires earnest perswasions with the King they could by no means have answer or token of answer only they said the King was sick Whereas the Lords the twenty seventh of March had appointed the Duke of York to be Protector and Defendor of the realm so long as the same should please the King the same Duke the twenty eighth day of the same Moneth required the Lords Answer to the Articles following First that it be enacted that the said Duke doe take upon him the same offices at the only appointment of the Lords and nothing of his own desire or seeking The like Articles shall be made for the same as was made during the Kings minority That all the Lords will assist the Duke therein It is agreed by all lawfull means To prescribe the power thereby given to the said Duke He shall be chief of Council Protector and Defendor which implyeth a personal attendance against forein Invasion and inward rebellion and no authority of governance so as the same be no prejudice to the Prince To appoint how much the said Duke shall take for the exercise of the same The presidents shall be seen and the Duke conferred withall upon which an Act shall be made The King by his Letters Patents appointeth the said Duke to be his chief Counsellor Protector and Defendor of this realm at the Kings will and as unto such time as Edward the Prince shall come to the age of discretion the which the Duke in full Parliament took on him to perform The like Letters Patents are made to Edward the Prince as Anno 1 H. 6. tit 25. with the yearly fee of 2000 Marks onely besides allowance for riding and such other exploits provided the same be not prejudicial to any grant made to Margaret Queen of England Richard Earl of Salisbury Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury Iohn Earl of Worcester Iames Earl of Wiltshire and the Lord Sturton are appointed to keep the seas to whom is appointed for three years Tonnage and Poundage granted in the last Parliament The fifteenth day of April in the 32 year it is agreed that towards the furniture of the Lords aforesaid there shall be a loan made of certain Cities and Towns there named of particular summs and they to be answered of the same out of certain Customs and Subsidies A certain particular rate out of the Kings revenues and fee-farms is allotted to the Treasurer of the Kings house for paying the Kings provision taken up therefore The like Statute made Anno 28 H. 6. tit 13. it is repealed Where Robert Poynings of Southwark Esquire being the Carver Sword-bearer and chief doer with Iack Cade and had his pardon upon which he with certain sureties by recognizance was bound in the Chancery for his good behaviour since which time he had done many riots and namely by raising and going with men armed against the Law in Kent wherefore it is enacted that an Extent upon the said recognizance shall goe against the said Poynings and his Sureties and his and their lands and goods A certain Fine is specially taxed upon every Lord for not coming to the Parliament according to their degree It is enacted that the Mayor Constable and Fellowship of the Merchants of the Staple shall be paid 10000 marks out of the subsidy of wooll at Callice the which they lent towards the payment of the Souldiers wages there The King by his Letters Patents created Edward his Son Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester to him and to his heirs Kings of England with the Ceremonies thereto belonging the which are confirmed by the hands of the Lords there named and by the Commons Thomas Earl of Devonshire was accused of treason and acquitted of the same by his Peers before Humfrey Duke of Buckingham Steward of England for the time being And for that the Duke of York thought the honesty of the said Earl to be touched whereupon the said Earl protesting his loyalty referred further tryal as a Knight should doe upon which Declaration the Lords acquitted him as a loyal Subject The King by his Letters Patents enableth Edmond of Hadsham and Iasper of Hatfield the sons of Queen Katherine his Mother to be the Kings
the Sea and against the Invasion of the French and namely against the Scots for besieging Barwick against the truce To appoint how and when the 13000 Archers granted the last Parliament should be imployed To make a perfect accord and unity between the Lords To restrain the carrying forth of gold and silver To provide for the safe-keeping of the Seas To foresee that the peace may be kept in Wales For every of which Articles certain Bishops and Lords were severally appointed On Friday the third day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King Sir Iohn Wenlock Knight to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with the common protestation was allowed A long conveyance made by the King the King acquitteth Richard Duke of York Richard Earl of Warwick and Richard Earl of Sarum and them taketh to be his loyall Subjects albeit Edmond late Duke of Somerset Thomas Thorp and William Ioseph by their untrue means had caused the King to think the contrary and thereby to have raised a great power against the said Duke and others The Duke of Yorks letters sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England from Royston in May before touching his coming by force towards the King and his griefs conceived The Letters of the said Duke and Earls written to the King from Royston in May before containing their enterprize and due obeysance to the King The Letters were kept from the Kings knowledge by the Duke of Somerset and others untill such time as the said Duke of York and others met with the King at St. Albones The Duke of York and his Allyes the twenty second day of May last came to St. Albones to have spoken with the King whom the Duke of Somerset and others did resist with a great number of armed men in which conflict the same Duke of Somerset was slain The humble obeysance of the Duke of York and his Allies in coming into the Kings presence after the said conflict The acquittall of the said Duke of York and of all others coming with him to the said conflict or battel to any harms there done All which are confirmed by whole assent of Parliament the twenty third day of July in the thirty third year all the Bishops and Lords in open Parliament were sworn to be true to the King but none here are named nor their names The like order is taken for all other Lords as should after come to take the like oathes At the request of the Earles of Salisbury Shrewsbury and Worcester and of the Lord Sturton they were discharged from keeping of the Seas The one and thirtieth day of Iuly the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England in the Kings presence prorogued the Parliament from the same day and place to the twelfth day of November ensuing at Westminster The generall pardon for Treasons Felonies Contempts Trespasses c. The one and twentieth day of November in the thirty fourth year of the Kings reign the King by his Letters Patents appointed Richard Duke of York to proceed in the Parliament the which Commission was read before the Lords and then before the Commons The thiâ—teenth day of November Burley and others coming from the Commons required the Duke of York and the Lords to move the King to appoint an able Protector and Defender of the realm sith the King would not attend the same and that the Commons might have knowledge of him wherein they remembred the great ryots and murders in the VVest parts between the Earl of Devonshire and the Lord Boneville the Duke and Lords promised to answer the same The fifteenth day of November the said Burley and others of the Commons coming before the Lords renewed the aforesaid sute and had the like promise After Consultations had amongst the Lords for a Protector aâ—d Defender they thought the Duke of York most worthy therefore and thereupon made request to take the same upon him according to the presidents before the which Duke upon excusing himself requireth respite The seventeenth of November Burley and others of the Commons coming before the Lords revived their sute again as before tit 31.32 The Chancellor declareth to the Commons how that the King by the assent of the Lords had requested the Duke of York to be Protector and Defender of the realm The Duke of York makes the like protestation and demand and thereto hath the like answer as Anno 31. H. 6. tit 34 35 36 37. After Conference had with the said Duke by certain of the Lords it was agreed that the said Duke should have towards his charges yearly four thousand marks After all which Articles agreed and earnest request made by the Lords to the said Duke to take the same upon him the said Duke at their earnest contemplations accepted the same charge not as sought by himself but as laid upon him by them The like Letters Patents are made to the said Duke and to Prince Edward as An. 3. H. 6. tit 38 39. only where by the former letters they were to continue at the Kings will instead thereof these words were inserted Quousque Consanguineus noster de occupatione ejus onere nomine hujusmodi per nos in Parliamento de aviseamento assensu Dominorum Spiritualium Temporalium in Parliamento existent exoneretur The which Letters Patents are confirmed by common consent The like other Letters Patents are made to the said Duke and Prince as An. 3. H. 6. tit 40. The twenty third of November in the thirty fourth year of the Kings reign the King committeth the whole estate affaires and governance of the realm to the Lords of his Councill only for matters concerning his person they shall not proceed without making him privy thereto The King by his several Letters Patents confirmeth to his Son Edward Prince of Wales and to his heirs Kings of England his creation of the Principality and Earldom of Chester with all the particular Dominions and hereditaments belonging to the Principality and Earldom And for that the said Prince the Kings first begotten the day of his birth is and ought to be Duke of Cornwall the King granteth to the said Prince livery of the same and of all other hereditaments belonging of common consent And further it is enacted that the said Prince shall be at diet and sojourn in the Kings Court unto his age of 14. years for the which diet the King shall yearly take all the revenues and profits of the said Principality Earldom and Dutchie of the said Prince until the said Prince come to the age of 14. years allowing yearly to the said Prince towards his Wardrobe and wages 10000 l. unto
do take Four hundred Sacks of Cumberland and Westmerland at four marks every sack to pay over and above the Custom as aforesaid Walter de le Prist of Melt Bonbray and Hugh Coskhead Merchants of Barto upon Humber have Five hundred sacks of Leicester for eight marks the sack One hundred sacks of Rutland for 4 l. 10 s. the sack over c. to pay as before Thomas Colls Richard Weston Adam de la Hone and Iohn Retoun have of Salop Four hundred sacks at 6 l. 6 s. 4 d. One hundred sacks of Stuff at 5 l. 6 s. 8 d. the sack c. over and above as before Writs sent to every Sheriff to execute the 18 Title before That there wanted Merchants to buy any more Ware The Merchants of Bard and Permich upon payment of the Ninths in sundry Countries there named appoint to pay to sundry of the Kings Creditors beyond the Seas the sum of 28695 l. 15 s. 2 d. and that certain of the Kings jewels lying in gage therefore should be delivered Sir William de la Pool appointed to pay to the King before Michaelmas Three hundred marks beyond the Seas so as he might have his Competent of Wooll or else the first Ninths granted in Suffolk Remembrances for the King to keep promise TO keep the Sea and to purvey for the Navy and to defend the Isles of Iersey and Gernsey That Anthony Bath do deliver the Kings Jewels Touching assignment made to Conrade Clipping and Goddeck de Renley for the Customs of England That Five hundred sacks of Wooll in Gloucester be assigned to Queen Philip for the paiment of her Debts A Letter sent from the Lords of the Parliament to the King by Sir William Trussel containing the Grant of their Ninths and their policy of Wooll for the present shift The Postscript requireth the King to buy at Sluce and other Ports of Zealand for the greatest store of Wools were conveyed by stealth Another Letter in private sent as it seemeth from some of the Council to the effect of their Letters A special and rare Cause both for Law and power of Parliament The cause is very long but the abridgement here containeth the whole matter in Law as followeth Sir Iohn Stanton and Anne his wife by Fine give unto Thomas de Cranthorn certain lands in Helleston the same Thomas thereby reverted them back to the same Iohn and Anne his wife to the heirs of Anne After which Sir Ieffery Stanton brought his Formedon en le descender against the said Iohn and Anne for the Premises wherein after Essoins and other delays used by the said Iohn the same Anne upon prayer was received and vouched to warrant the said Iohn the which voucher Sir Ieffery counterpleaded Anne verifieth and saith If the Court shall rule her to answer further she was ready upon which Counter-plea they demurred in Law in the Common Pleas upon which Demurrer for that the said Sir Ieffery could not get the Judges to proceed in judgement he in the last Parliament by his Petition prayeth the examination of the matter and to have judgement After which the House of Parliament do cause the Kings Writ under the great Seal containing the whole matter and transcript of the same to be sent to the Justices of the Common Pleas willing them thereby that if the matter so stood that then they should without delay proceed to judgement After this an Alias in the nature aforesaid or else to signifie the cause was directed to the Justices as aforesaid who yet did nothing upon which matter the same Sir Ieffery by another Petition requireth that the Judges may be commanded to proceed to judgement or else they may come into the House with the whole Record so as in the Parliament judgement may be given on the one party Whereupon the whole House commanded Sir Thomas of Drayton Clerk of the Parliament to go to Sir Iohn Stoner and other of his companions of the Common Pleas and to require them according to the Plea pleaded to proceed to judgement and if they could not so do for difficulty that then they should at a day come into the House and bring with them the whole Process and Record The Justices at the day came into the Parliament House with the Record aforesaid where in the presence of all the Lords Justices and others of the Kings Councel learned it was agreed that the said Sir Ieffery being a stranger to the Fine might well aver that Thomas had nothing therein and that Anne could not vouch Iohn her husband nor be received to the averment aforesaid notwithstanding her Protestation in the Court c. wherefore it was agreed that the said Ieffery should recover And thereupon a Writ under the great Seal was sent to the said Justices to give judgment accordingly Anno Decimo quinto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Munday in Easter week 15 Edw. 3. IT is agreed that Sir Thomas Drayton shall be Clerk of the Parliament The Articles contained in the third Title of the last Parliament are proclaimed in Westminster Hall Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales Scotland Gascoin and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions as aforesaid For that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not come the Parliament was continued from day to day untill Thursday ensuing The same day the cause of the Parliament was declared to be how the King might be answered of the grant of the ninth which was to him given in consideration that he should passe in person against the enemy Philip de Valois who had taken away part of the Dutchy of Guienne much part of which grant was kept from the King by evill Officers Another cause how more plenty of money might be had and whether Florences were to be currant with the Sterling Declaration was also made that such as found themselves grieved with the King or his Officers should upon complaint find remedy From this Thursday untill Thursday after the Parliament was continued from day to day on this point that the Nobles of this Land should not be put to answer but in open Parliament by their Peers whereupon are named four Bishops four Earls and four Barons to draw the Plot. These persons being in their devise assigned to the effect aforesaid as hereafter doth ensue under the name of which Peers they bring the Chancellor and Treasurer and such like Officers and that all Estates may injoy their liberties The same day the King came into S. Edwards Chamber commonly called The Chamber de pinct before whom all the Lords and Commons the Archbishop of Canterbury humbled himself and required his favour which he granted After which the Archbishop desired that where he was defamed through the Realm that he might be arraigned in open
in the Common Pleas may pass under the Seal of the Chief Justice as in cases of Eyer so as the charges of the Great Seal may cease The motion seemeth unreasonable That no pardon be granted to any Murtherer or Felon but where the King may save his oath The King granteth thereunto That the Statute of Edw. 3. tit 20. may be observed The Answer is in an Act made hereafter therefore Answ. It is enacted that the Statute of Westminster made against the destruction of Salmons may be kept and that all Mills set on Rivers be thrown down That the Fines of the Chancery Writs may be abated That the King would the Chancellor should consider the state of the person That no Purveyor of Timber do take away trees about any mans house and that exceptions thereof be in all their Commissions The King granteth thereunto That no Writ de Excommunicato capiendo before a Scire facias be directed to cause the party to answer The same cannot be granted That the partie may answer to the cause after Letters of Excommunication Answer as next before That the Merchants may be paid their Loans in every Sack of Wooll Walter of Chirton the Kings Farmer of his Customs hath not yet accompted It is Enacted that the Justices of Oyer and Terminer shall cease and take the Fines of the parties in their presence and by their own accord No pardon shall be granted to bringers in of false money That remedy may be had against the oppressors of Ordinaries and â—heir Officers The Laws of the Land and of the Church shall be observed A complaint for taking of forty six shillings eight pence Custom for every three hundred Wooll Fells where the old Custom was three shillings four pence for every hundred The old Custom recieved ought not to be withdrawn That a Standard of all manner of measures may be in every Country If there be not there shall be That no Statute be altered for any private cause Let a more explanation be made against the next Parliament A motion touching the Alnage and measure of Cloth answered by a special Statute made thereof in this year The Print touching those that were born in the parts beyond the Seas cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The Print touching the measure and content of Woollen Clothes Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching Merchandizes to be sold by Merchants strangers Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print against Forestalling Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The print for pulling down of Mills set upon Rivers Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record It is to be noted that the next four Statutes above in the print were noted to be made at the Utaves of St. Hillary in the 25. where the same was nothing so as may appear Along Statute called the Statute of Provisions being an Act against the Popes tyrannous oppressions and detestable enormities agreeth with the print Cap 1 2. The print touching Labourers Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record On the Backside of the Roll. In it is contained the Proclamation forbidding the wearing of Armour and Plays or Games in or about Westminster according to the 20. Edw. 3. tit 1. The Writ of Proclamation for the true making of Woollen Cloathes Anno Vicesimo quinto Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Edwardo Principi Walliae Duci Cornubiae Com. Cestriae apud Westmonasterium die Veneris in Fest. Sancti Hillarii Teste Rege apud Westm 19. die Novembris HEnrico Duci Lanc. Johanni Com. Kanc. Willielmo de Bohun Com. Hereff. Essex Hugoni de Courtney Com. Devon Willielmo de Clinton Com. Huntington Ricardo Com. Arundel Thomae de Bello Campo Com. Warwick Johanni de Vere Com. Oxoniae Gilberto de Humfravil Com. Anegos Roberto de Ufford Com. Suff. Willielmo de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Johanni de Mowbray Henrico de Piercie Willielmo de Roos de Hamalake Rado de Nevill Ricardo Talbot Roberto Morley Waltero de Manney Johanni de Segrave Willielmo de Huntingfield Thomae de Berkley Thomae de Lucie Petro de Malo lacu le Quint Reginaldo de Cobham Henrico Fitzhugh Reginaldo de Grey Seniori Rogero de Grey Johanni de Willoughbie Rogero de Candos Johanni de Charleton Williel la Zouch de Harringworthâ— Johanni Bardoff Juniori Johanni Bardolf Willielmo Deynecourt Nich. de Cantilupo Johanni Talbott Johanni Fitzwalter Waltero de Falconbridge Willielmo Baroni de Greystock Willielmo de Dacre Thomae de Musgrave Thomae de Furnivall Thomae de Bradeston Roberto Fitzpayne Johanni de Grey de Rotherfeild Johanni de Grey de Codnore Johanni Darcy de Gnayth Johanni de Insula de Rubeo monte Ric. de Mortuo mari de Wigmore Roberto de Colvill Barthol de Burgherst Seniori Guidoni de Bryan Richardo de Sancto Mauro Jacobo de Andelia Nicho. Burnell Edwardo de Monteacuto Thomae Ughtred Roberto de Scales Henrico de Scroop Johanni de Cobham Michaeli de Poyntz Johan de Bello Campo de Somers Johanni Matravers Consimiles Litterae dirigantur Bartholomeo de Burgherst Constabulario Castri Dover custodi quinque Portuum ad mittend Baron pro Portubus dicto Parliamento Anno Vicesimo quinto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Friday the Feast of Saint Hillary in the 25. year of Edward the Third THis Parliament should seem to be before the last considering that King Edward the third begun to Raign the second day of Ianuary and the Feast of Saint Hillary was next and before the Utaves of the purification of our Ladie at which time the Parliament next before was holden which cannot be but the last Parliament was truly placed and this as much displaced That the last Parliament was truly placed it appeared by the same Parliament tit 4. and the note following Besides all this the title following requireth that the fines of the Statutes of Laborers made at the last Parliament c. which Statute was made in very deed at the last Parliament and not in this Further to sundry persons viz. tit 21 30 43 44 and 46. answer was made there were answers in the last Parliament and so there were Now to the Parliament it seemeth that this Parliament could not be holden at this time and that for two causes First for that Hillary was before the Purification and so this Parliament could not be holden Another is in the 54 55 and 56. following the pardon of Sir Iohn Montravers is confirmed which shewed in full Parliament beareth dare the 8 of February â—6 Edward the Third so it seemeth this Parliament was holden rather in 27 E. 3. On Friday the King being accompanied with sundry Lords assembled in the Chamber de â—int where Sir William Shareshall the Kings Chief Justice made Declaration that the
11. agreeth with the Record That more plenty of gold and silver may be had The King will do the same by advice The prâ—nt for the Session of the peace cap. 12. agreeth with the Record That the Justices of peace may have reasonable Fees and that they may enquire as well within Liberties as without The King will take Order therein That no man be impeached of any debt in the Exchequer after payment made and his Tallie had out The Chancellor Treasurer and others shall take Order therein That private Petitions now exhibited wherein the Lords endorse Coram Rege may be answered by the King before this Parliament be ended The King granteth thereunto The pardon cap. unico agreeth with the Record The print touching Waste done by the Escheators agreeth with the Record The print touching Fines of Labourers Cap. 14. agreeth with the Record but not fully which note The thirteenth day of November being the last day of the Parliament after the Petitions answered the Lords and Commons granted to the King for three years the Subsidy of Woolls Wooll-sells and Skins After this the Chancellor declared how that the King intended to advance to honor such of his sons as were of full age Namely that his son Lionel then being in Ireland should have the name of the Duke of Clarence to him and to his heirs males of his body lawfully begotten And that his son Iohn should in like manner be Duke of Lancaster and that his son Edmond should be Earl of Cambridge in Fee After which the King in full Parliament did girt his son Iohn with a sword and set on his head a Cap of fur and upon the same a Circlet of gold and pearls and named him Duke of Lancaster and thereof gave to him a Charter In like manner the King girded his son Edmond with a sword and named him Earl of Cambridge and thereof gave to him a Charter The Print touching pleading in the English tongue Cap. 15. agreeth with the Record Only where the Print is That all such Pleas should be enrolled in Latine the Record doth nothing warrant the same The Print touching such Actions whereof the Mayor and Constables of the Staple shall have Cognisance Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record Anno Tricesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Carissimo filio suo Johanni Duci Lancastriae c. apud Westmonasterium in Octabis Sancti Michaelis Teste Rege apud Westmonast primo die Junii EDmondo Com. Cantabrigiae Ricardo Com. Arundel Humfrido de Bohun Com. Hereff Essex Willielmo de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hugoni de Courtney Com. Devon Roberto de Ufford Com. Suff. Rado de Stafford Thomae de Vere Com. Oxoniae Gilberto Humfravil Com. de Anegos Henrico de Piercie Rado de Nevill Johanni de Mowbray de Axholm Henrico de Bello Campo Johanni de Audley de Heligh Johanni de Charleton de Poys Waltero de Manney Mauritio de Berkley Rogero de Clifford Guidoni de Bryan Rado de Basset Johanni Bardolf de Wirmsley Willielmo Deynecourt Johanni Talbott Thomae de Roos Thomae de Furnival Petro de Malo lacu Johanni Grey de Codenore Reginaldo Grey de Ruthine Thomae de Lucie Willielmo de Say Nicho. de Poynings Barthol de Burgherst Gilberto Talbot Roberto de Colvill Thomae de Ughtred Johanni de Willoughbie Thomae de Musgrave Rogero de la Warr. Nicho. Burnell Johanni de Huntingfield Johanni de Kirton Ranulpho de Dacre Johanni de Widhurst Johanni Northwood Roberto de Holland Willielmo la Zouch Rogero de Bello Campo Johanni de Strivelin Johanni de Mohun de Dunster Roberto de Herle Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Tricesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Friday in the Octaves of S. Michael in the 37. Year of Edward the Third FOr that sundry of both Houses were not the same day come Sir Henry Green the Kings Chief Justice in the presence of the King Lords and Commons continued the Parliament until Friday ensuing On Friday the Bishop of Ely then Chancellor in the presence of the Lords and Commons made declaration of the calling of the same Parliament viz. For that the King being desirous to know the grief of his Subjects and namely of Outrages done against the liberties of the Church and for redressing enormities by exhibiting Petitions Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Aquitain and other Forein places and the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England as above Tryers of Petitions for Aquitain as above On Wednesday after commandment was given That no man should transport Woollen clothes Butter Cheese Sheep Malt or Beer But that the Merchants of Almain might carry Worsteds and Streight clothes And that the Merchants of Gascoin might carry Woollen clothes to the value of the Wines brought in Petitions of the Commons with their Answers They give the King most humble thanks for his great goodness to them shewed and uttered by his own mouth in the last Parliament They pray That the King will require the Archbishop and all other of the Clergy to pray for his Estate for the peace and good government of the Land and for the continuance of the Kings good will towards the Commons The same prayeth the King The Print for the confirmation of all Statutes not repealed Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record That the Ordinance for the Custom of Wools made at the first Parliament may continue They cannot be remedied without great deliberation That the Silver-coin may remain within the Realm and that Gold be paid to Merchants for Wares With opportunity the same shall be done That no more then one penny be taken for the exchange of a Noble It cannot conveniently be done That the Coyners do coyn the half of Silver into Half-pence and Farthings for the use of the poor The same is so appointed That remedy may be had against Merchants Hostlers Regrators Forestallers of Wates Fish Wine and Corn. The Ordinance for Fish sold at Blackney shall be kept For the execution whereof William of Wickingham and Iohn de Barry are appointed And order to be made against Merchants for carrying forth of Corn Meal and such other Victuals A Proclamation hath been and now newly is made to the contrary A remedy to be found against Wears and such other Engines on Rivers to the annoyance of Boats The Statute therefore made shall be kept That Nisi prius may be taken in every plea in what Court soever where the King is party And that if the Kings Attorney do not persue a Venire facias for the Jury that then the Justices may grant the same Upon complaint shewed the Chancellor or Keeper of the Privy-seal shall take order
people That such as shall of their own authority lay new Impositions without assent of Parliament may lose life member and other forfeitures Let the Common Law heretofore used run A long Bill against the Broakersâ— and corrupt recovery of Religious persons by the taking of Sheriffs that any notwithstanding such Recoveries may have tryall and upon the matter found those religious persons to be punished therefore as therein is contained with many other matters touching the same The Law therein heretofore used shall be kept That all Wapentakes and Hundreds let to farm may be repealed and none hereafter to be granted and that all Bayliffs may be sufficient and able The Statutes made therefore shall be kept That remedy may be had so as there may be reasonable warning given for the holding of Wapentakes and Hundreds The Statutes therefore made shall be kept That Presentments may be made but twice in the year in Leets or great Wapentakes That none but such as be resiant do come to any Wapentake or Hundred There are Statutes provided therefore Against Bailiffs of Markets and Fairs who attach men out of their Jurisdictions There are Statutes made therefore Against Bailiffs being Farmers of Wapentakes or Hundreds and thereby procure plaints in other mens Names and sue great sums by dividing the same into less sums Let them hold themselves to the Statutes Petitions exhibited by the Clergy and their Answers That all consultations may readily be granted in the suit for tithes of Silva cedua and that no Attachment do ensue the same A Consultation granted doth suffice and if need be there may be a special clause for Prohibitions granted or to be granted That the Ordinary may according to the Ecclesiastical laws punish such as do fraudulently procure consultations That in matters touching the punishing of the soul the Kings Prohibition may cease or a Consultation be granted That in demands of Pensions by one Church from another no prohibition be granted The Justices shall meet in the presence of certain Bishops who shall take order therein to content In a Case of Tithes upon objection that the tithes exceed the fourth part of the value of the Church a prohibition is granted against the Canonical sanction That the Kings Purveyors take up of the Clergy and cause them also to make carriage for the King against their traditions and Statutes therefore made That if the matter of Tithes under the names of Cattailes be depending before any temporal Judge that the Ecclesiastical Judge affirming the contrary shall decide the same That upon any conditional consultation the Ecclesiastical Judge may take upon him the very true understanding thereof and so proceed therein That no man shall have any Prohibition unless he do bring to the Chancellor the Libel signed with the Judges seals before whom it is hanging for the more perspicuity thereof That no Clerk or his servant being with him be arrested by any Offâ—cer being in the Church-yard or other sacred place or in carrying the Communion to any man The King granteth the same so as none do keep himself in the Sanctuary by covin The Commons of the Town of Calice pray that the Staple may only be holden there The King granteth that it shall be holden there and no where else in the parts beyond the seas as well of all Staple-ware as of Lead Tin Worsted Butter Cheese Feathers c. Note in the Request next above was said then when the Staple stood there upon all Rodes forth by the Captain the Mayor of the Staple fuâ—nished him forth of the Merchants and their servants to the number of One hundred Bill-men and Two hundred Archers without any wages That the old Charter of Mahant Countess of Artois and confirmed by the King may be allowed except the trial of land and liberties of Staple The King will be hereof advised That in stead of Baily-Eskmins and Cornmans granted in their old Charter they may have a Mayor and twelve Aldermen and the Mayor one of the twelve at their election as in London And where the Mayor heretofore without any charge had Two hundred pounds fee that he may have but one hundred pounds beaâ—ing the charge of six men as every Alderman now doth They shall have such Mayor and Aldermen so as they be Englishmen and to bear the reputation of the payments and such like charges of the Town towards the bearing of which they shall have the Office of Wine Beer and Ale the Stallage of Drapersâ— Mercers and Butchers the Pickage in the Market all Issues Fines Profits and Amerciaments of the Mayors Court excepting to the King the Finâ—s of Strayes and bloodshed and Escheats of lands and goods They to be discharged of all Watches and Ward but only before their houses Many other liberties are also to the same Townsmen of Calice granted worthy to be seen The Commons after the delivery of the Bill aforesaid required that they might be executed That done the Chancellor willed the Commons to sue their Writs for their Fees according to the Custom After that the Bishops arised and took their leaves of the King And so this Parliament ended at Eltham the which continued from day to day from the beginning unto this present Thursday tâ—e sixth of Iuly in the whole ten weeks and more Anno Quinquagesimo Edwardi Tertii Rot. Parliamenti tent apud Westm. die Lunae prox post Festum Sancti Georgii Anno regni Regis Edwardi Tertii post Conquestum Angliae quinquagesimo Franciae tricesimo Commons Petitions CY apres ensuyent les petitions bailles au Parlament per les Communes ove les responces faictes a icellis in le Parliament Pour la Cittie de Londres A nostre Sieur le Roy a son bon Conseil monstrent les lieges Maior Aldermannes Communes de la Cittie de Londres que come ils au plusieurs fois persuis es divers Parlements davoir consideration come ils sont empouris aneautiz per cause que leurs Franchises per lay ses nobles progenitors a eux grantsâ— confirmes luer sont restraints en grande parte tolles ore al darrain Parlement tenus a Westm. leur afuest rendres que ilz duisiont declarer leur gravances en special ils aurent bon remedie desque grevances entre divers sont que chacun estranger poet demeurer en la dicte Cittie tener hostiel estre Brocour vendre aicheter tous maniers marchandises a retaile estranger vendre estranger pour revendre a grand en cherussement de les merchandises de faire leur demeure outre 40 jours la ou en temps passe nul estranges Marchant nul deâ— Cestes points solint
next Parliament that all Merchants which shall bring in any cloth of Gold Riverchief Pearls Jewels or Furrs and all Merchants which shall transport Staple wares shall finde Surety to the Tower to the value of twelve pence in Bullion for every twenty shillings of such their Merchandise so brought in or transported That no Knight or Lady under forty pound land by the year do wear any precious Furrs cloth of Gold ribond of Gold or silk on pain to loose all that they have The King will be advised until the next Parliament It is enacted unto the next Parliament that every Goldsmith shall set his mark unto his Vessel which if it be not according to the sterling he shall forfeit it double be imprisoned and sined Certain Petitions of the Major and Aldermen of Callis touching their Liberties with the answers thereunto It is enacted that the Chancellor and Schollers of the University of Cambridge shall for five years in default of the Major and Bailiffs of the same Town of Cambridge have the punishment of all manner of Victuals Measures and Weights within the said Town and also power to punish the Major and Bayliffs and their Officers if there shall be any Victuallers for any such default And it is to be noted that of the printed Statute cap. 3. touching fained gifts and Feoffments to defeat mens Creditors there is no mention made in this Record Anno Secundo Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Gloucester the Wednesday next after the Feast of S. Luke the Evangelist in the Second year of King Richard the Second THe same Wednesday being the 20. day October and the first day of the Parliament certain of the Nobles met in a Chamber appointed in the Abby of S. Peters of Gloucester where for that divers of the Lords were not come nor the Sheriffs then returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned until the next day by the Kings commandment The same Thursday after the King with his three Uncles of Spain Cambridge and Buckingham the two Archbishops and divers other Nobles assembled in the Great Hall of the Abby of Gloucester and there appointed where the L. B. of Davids by the commandment of the King declared the cause of the Parliament as followeth viz. First for the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations of the Peace Secondly for that it was enacted that a Parliament should yearly be holden Thirdly for that the King desired to see and to consult with them so honorable an Assembly there gathered in Gods name which he commendeth willing unity and concord among them to be according to the resemblance of the Church Another great cause was for that the King being left in the midst of great Wars could not endure and maintain the same without their Aid He sheweth further that since the great villany and damage done by the Scots at Roxburgh at Truce thereupon taken for a time they the same Scots have allied themselves with the French to the end to depart from the same Truce and by all means to annoy the King and his friends All which to recite and the charges thereof to bear he willeth them deeply to consider One great mischief in the Commonweal he remembreth them viz. That the Law of the Land and the Law of Arms do not concur together by certain similitudes he wisheth them of those two Laws to make a Relative so as they may stand with the other Another mischief he noteth to wit Slanderers and sowers of discord between Nobles Gentlemen and Neighbours the which kind of men he resembleth to Dogs that eat raw flesh so applying them to eat and consume living men For all which enormities he wisheth them to seek redress and to be there the next day by eight of the clock to hear further Declarations and the Commons to keep the Chapter house within the great Cloister of the Abby aforesaid Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and for the forein Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The Friday after the two and twentieth of October the Lords and Commons assembled in the said great Hall where Sir Richard le Scroop Steward of the Kings Houshold declaring his own unworthiness there to speak shewed them how they were invironed with enemies and the King importably charged for keeping possession beyond the Seas namely that Callis cost him yearly twenty thousand pounds Brest twelve thousand marks besides Ireland Cherburgh Burdeaux and Bayn he sheweth that the old grant of the last Parliament was onely dispended in the Wars as the Officers could declare he wisleth them to consult for the rescue and the mean how to levie the charges After that the Commons came before the King where Sir Iames Pickering knight Speaker of the Parliament for the Commons maketh his Protestation as well for himself as for the whole House And first for the Commons That if he should speak any thing which happily might be ill taken it might be as as nothing so as the Commons at any time might amend the same And so much for himself He therefore rehearseth the whole charge of the Parliament pronoun the Chancellor and to the first points touching the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations for the Peace the Commons making low curtesies rendred therefore most humble thanks and pray God for the execution of the same To the aid required for the King he sheweth how in the last Parliament upon the like motion to the Commons repeating the great charges of the King by the Treasurer they then made answer that they saw no such cause of aid whereunto for the King it was then replyed that the Kings Coronation was chargeable and that if the Commons would grant such reasonable aid whereby the King might thereby provide an army that they nothing doubted but that the King of himself might continue the same without charging them of long time upon which promise and hope the Commons did then grant the same large aid and being now unable to do the same require pardon thereof thinking that a great part of the same grant remained yet in the Kings Treasury The said Sir Richard le Scroop not knowing any such promise of discharge made in the last Parliament charging them with unâ—ruth for surmising any rest of the last grant to be And thereto calleth for witness William Walworth and Iohn Philpot Citizens of London and Treasurers appointed and sworn Thereupon the Commons make request to know how and in what manner the same sums were defraied whether some were not therefore indebted and who should be Councellors and great Officers
whereon he wisheth throughly to consult Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoineâ— and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoine c. as above At this time commandement was given that all persons and Estates should return the next day to hear the cause of the Parliament more fully uttered The Thursday after being the next day the Bishop of Hereford by the Kings commandement declared the cause more fully saying that four things did chiefly encourage to adventure on that thing which they desired to atchieve whereof two appertained not to the proof viz. to Array and not Array the other two were Doubt and Hope as Doubt caused dismaying and fear so Hope caused honour to be atchieved He then setteth forth before them the miserable nakedness of the Realm as round beset with enemies and such not like to be conquered if doubt or negligence possessed mens hearts For hope to be had for resisting this he sheweth to be by two means viz. the one was with allyance with the Flemmings who offered their service to the King against his enemies The other was the offer of the Duke of Lancaster for the conquest of Portugal and Spain so as the Realm would lend him but 60000 l. which he would pay according to his offer made in the last Parliament He willed them to consult how money to the least loss of the Commons may be raysed for the enterprizing of these two voyages of Flanders and Spain or at the least of the one of them viz. Spain whereto all men should much the more be encouraged and have good hope considering that by two Croiseris the one granted to the Duke of Lancaster against Spain the other to the Bishop of Norwich against the Anti-Pope and all his accomplâ—ces the Pope hath thereby granted to all such as went sought or dyed in the quarrell full remission of all their sins The Commons having this their charge departed towards their place in the Abbey at Westminster but before they did any thing therein they made request to have certain especiall Lords by name assigned unto them with whom they might consult the which was granted their names then appearing After this the Lords and Commons granted to the King one fifteenth and one Tenth out of the Cities and Towns to be levyed in such wise as the last grant was and no otherwise to be imployed upon the defence of the Realm as to the King by the advise of his Councell and Lords of the Realm should seem good Thomas Feedon Richard Moory and Richard Dell as principall doers in the late insurrection and namely for burning and destroying the house and Mannours of the Order of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England are excepted out of the pardon and therefore their names were delivered into the Kings Bench that the like process might be made against them as against other Traytors Iohn Hene of London Iohn Battail and Thomas Battail with Sir Michaell Dagworth Kt. do in the Parliamemt wholly submit themselves to the order of the King and his Councel touching their long suit sustained in the Kings Bench for the mannour of Bradwell in Essex The King by assent of the Parliament for the fine of a thousand Marks having granted to the Citizens of York pardon of all Treasons Felonies c. The like pardon he granteth to the Burgesses and Commonaltie of Scarbourgh for 900. Marks fine whereof the Commonaltie 400. Marks and forty of the best Burgesses of the same Town the other 500. Marks except Robert Aolam and Robert Killington who for their severall Fines were also pardoned The King granteth the like pardon to the Burgesses of Beverley for the fine of 1100 Marks except persons there named A pardon to Adam Perkin of Homeson for the death of William Clarke of Winslow for the fine of 10. Marks A pardon to Ralph Fitz-Iohn of Aston for murdering his wife Agnes in Ashton wood A pardon to the Citizens of York A pardon to the Burgesses of Scarborow It is enacted that the Staple at Callice may be removed from thence to any other Town and to provide such orders therefore as to the King and his Councell shall seem meet The Lords being required by the King to shew their fantasies touching the Duke of Lancasters offer for the assayling of Spain as is aforesaid do think the same very good and honourable but to the number levying but two thousand men at Armes and so many Archers they think very small Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the liberty of the Church the great Charter and Charter of the Forrest and Purveyors Cap. 1. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form The print touching abatement of Writs Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching assize of Nusance Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect though not in form The print touching lading of Merchandize in English bottomes Cap. 8. agrees with the Record in effect but much swarveth in form That no man shall charge another mans land with any Annuity unless he can prove seisin and payment of the Annuity The King will be thereof advised That the King will keep sufficiently the Sea considering that he hath vi d. of every pound The King by advise will provide remedy That remedy may be had against Aliens having any Ecclesiastical dignity and living The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print touching retayling of sweet Wines Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form In consideration of wars like to ensue with Scotland they require that the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishop of Durisme the Earl of Northumberland and the Lords Nevill and Clifford may lye in their Countries and that it would please the King and Queen to approach to York To the Lords the King granteth if they have no good excuse to the rest the King will doe by his Councell The Print touching the Enrolments and exemplifications of Deeds Cap. 4. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in forme It is enacted that during two years ensuing no Fair shall be holden and that during one year no trail-baston shall be That Eschanges may be between Merchant and Merchant notwithstanding any Act in the last Parliament The Chancellor being required may grant Licence if the same be reasonable That the King will appoint a sufficient Admirall for the North who by good order may take upon him to keep the Sea Coasts there The King granteth thereto That no Justices of the Law be
enacted that the Statutes made in the first year of King E. 3. Cap. 7. and in the second Parliament shall be observed The print touching false Entries of the Clarks c. Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record That such Clarks of either of the Benches that shall refuse to bring into the Courts the Rolls whereby Attornyes may have free search shall be imprisoned for one whole year and Fine with the King Who findeth himself grieved may complain to the Chancellor and shall finde remedy That remedy may be had against Clarks of the Exchecquer who will not allow the Pardons of King E. 3. to the party without great Charges Who hath cause to complain may so do and be heard That a generall Pardon of all Felonies and other Trespasses and Offences may be granted The King will thereof be advised It is enacted that no Plea which shall concern the Common Laws shall be tryed before the Constable or the Marshall Anno Octavo Richardi Secundi De Faciendo servitio in Comitiva Regis versus Scotos Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Joh. Regi Castellae Novum Castr. 14. die Julii Teste Rege apud Westm. 13. Die Maii. CHariss Avunculo suo Ed. Com. Cant. Chariss Avunculo suo Tho. Com. Buck. Chariss fratri suo Tho. Com. Cantii Rico Com. Arundell Thom. Com. Warr. Hugoni Com. Staff Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Rob. de Vere Com. Oxoniae Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Iocobo de Audley de Heleigh Will. Bardolf de VVermigay Ric. Poynings Guidoni de Brian Ioh. de Clinton Gilberto Talbot Ioh. le VVare Henrico le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Ioh. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. Nevill de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Tho. de Berkley Ioh. de Fabsley Chlr. Will. le Zouch de Harringworth Hugoni Burnell Rogero Clifford Ioh. Buttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Michael de la Poole Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botreaux Chlr. Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrigton Rob. de Willoughby Thomae Camois Chlr. Ric. Talbot de Blackmore Ioh. de Clinton Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Ric. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Philippo Darcy Tho. de Morley Ioh. Burchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Monteacutâ— Symoni de Burleigh Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Nono Richardi Secundi Rex c. Regi Castellae c. apud Westm. post Festum Sancti Luci die Veneris c. Teste Rege apud Westm. quinto die Decembris CHariss Avunculo Ed. Duci Eborum Chariss Avunculo Tho. Duci Albemarliae Chariss fratri Tho. Com. Cantii Rado Com. Arundell Thom. Com. Warr. Hugoni Com. Staff Ed. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Rob. de Vere Com. Oxoniae Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Hen. Com. Derby Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Mich. de la Poole Com. Suffolke Iocobo de Audley de Heleigh Will. Bardolf de VVermigay Guidoni de Brian Ioh. de Clinton Ioh. le VVare Henrico le Scroope Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Ioh. Nevell de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Henrico Fitz Hugh Ric. de Scroope Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Ioh. Buttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Will. de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botreaux Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrigton Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. de Cliffourd Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre VVill. de Alderburgh Ric. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Philippo Darcy Tho. de Morley Tho. Bourchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Monteacuto Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Ric. de Poynings Tho. Camois Chlr. Ric. Talbot de Blackmore Chlr. Ioh. Devereux Symoni de Burleigh Custodi Quinque Portuum The PARLIAMENT holden at WESTMINSTER the Friday next after the Feast of St. LUKE in the ninth year of the raign of King RICHARD the 2. THe same Friday for that sundry of the Nobles were not come nor the Sheriffs returned their Writs the Parliament by the Kings commandement was adjourned untill the next day and the same next day it was adjourned untill the Munday then ensuing On the which Munday Michael de la Poole Earl of Suffolk and Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons pronounced the cause of the Parliament to be how the State of the Realm being assaulted on every side with most mortall enemies might be defended and preserved the Defence he shewed to consist in four points whereof two concerned outward or forrain affairs and two inward or affairs within the Realm The one of the inward affairs was touching the Staple the other concerning Money or Coyn. The first of forrain affairs was what was to be attempted for defence The second how the same War might be nourished and maintained Touching the Staple he thought best that the same were planted within the Realm considering that the Burgesses of Callice and other towns beyond the Seas grew very rich thereby and good towns at home within the Realm were much decayed And so much for the Common profit Touching the King he affirmed that the Subsidie of Wools yeelded more to the King when the Staple was kept in England by 1000. marks yearly than it did now being holden beyond the Seas Touching the Coyn he sheweth that weighing how all Nations much thirsted thereafter and therefore conveyed much over wherefore the best was to raise them by raising the value That the Realm was best defended by pursuing the enemy by sharpe War and he perswaded by many reasons that it was better to seek than to be sought and that a Subsidie was out of necessity to be granted which was as manifest as being offered to the King would be plausible about all which he willed them to consult Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoygn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Lords and Commons granted to the King a Fifteen and half a Fifteen towards the voyage of Iohn King Castell and Portugall Duke of Lancaster and for the safe keeping of the Sea and Defence of the Marches The voyage of the same King and Duke was appointed into Spain and agreed by Parliament upon certain considerations The last being so as no part of the said Subsidie was
enacted that the Statutes made touching Sheriffs and Escheators shall be observed The print touching Scottish money Cap. 12. agreeth with the Record Sundry Counties there named complain of the overcharging of Sheriffs and pray redress The King hath given full power to his Counsell to shew favour to every Sheriff upon his Accompt as to them shall seem reasonable That the Ordinance made in the 11th year whereby all Lands then Escheated to the King should be sold to his most profit may be confirmed Upon a more speciall Declaration right shall be ministred The King pardoneth to the Commons of Cumberland Northumberland and Westmerland all sums of money demanded in the Exchecquer by the name of divers Debts and their reliefs That redress may be had against the manifold Oppressions and other Trespasses done by the Men of Cheshire in the Counties bordering thereunto The King will be advised touching the Libertie of Cheshire They pray that against the horrible vice of Usury then termed Schefes and practised as well by the Clergie as Laytie the Order made by Iohn Nott late Mayor of London may be executed through the Realm The King willeth that those Ordinances be viewed and if the same be found to be necessary that the same be then affirmed The print touching the entertainment of Merchant strangers Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record It is enacted that no Denizen do Ship or cocquet Wools or Marchandize in his own name which belong to strangers to debar the King of his Custome on pain of Forfeiture The print touching Customers and Comptrollers Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record onely there wanteth touching Customers of Towns where the Staple should be within the Realm the which the print wanteth The Bakers Brewers and Buyers of Corne do claime 8. Bushels to the Quarter striked onely and no more The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That these words silva Cedua may be explained so as no man be driven to pay Tithe Wood to the contrary It shall be used as heretofore it hath been The King hath granted to the men of the Isls of Garnsie and Iersie Sercke and Aureny that they during the space of 8. dayes shall be free of all manner of Tolls Exactions and Customs within the Realm as his Leiges The Merchants of Kersies require that they may freely transport the said Kersies for the old Custome It is enacted that no Estues or Brothell Houses be kept in Southwarke but in the Common places therefore appointed Certain Port Towns require that the Admirall doe hold no Plea of trespass contract or Covenant done within their Liberties The King will appoint certain of his Councell to examine the matter and to take Order therein untill the next Parliament That remedy may be had against Mills Stanks Kiddells and such like Engines and Devises levyed upon the Thames The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print touching the gaging of Renish Wines Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The King at the request of the Commons by the assent of the Parliament repealeth the Judgement given against Iohn de Northampton late Mayor of London for certain Treasons and other Fellonies They require remedy against the outragious taking of Wages of Masters of Ships and Marriners The Admirall shall appoint them to take reasonable wages or punishment These things being done the Lords and Commons give humble thanks for the good Government and carefull zeale to them borne And the King gave thanks to them for their grants to him made And thereupon the Chancellor willed the Knights and Burgesses to sue Writs for their Fees and so the Parliament ended the third day of December And Note that of the 7th Chapter in print touching the Passage of them out of the Realm to be onely at Dartmouth is no mention made in this Record Anno Decimo quinto Richardi Secundi Rex c. Johi Duci Aquitaniae Lancastriae c. apud Westm. Cro. Annimar c. Teste Rege apud Westm. Septimo Die Novembris CHariss Avunculo Regis Ed. Duci Ebor. Chariss Avunculo Regis Tho. Duci Gloucest Chariss Consanguineo Regis Ed. Com. Rutland Chariss fratri Regis Tho. Com. Cantii Chariss Fratri Regis Iohi. de Holland Com. de Huntingt Rico. Com. Arundell Chariss Consanguineo Regis Hen. Com. Derbie Tho. Com. Warr. Edwro de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Maresc Nottingham Tho. Com. Stafford Iohi. de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Tho. de Morley Chlr. Iohi. Bourchier Iohi. Lovell de Fishmerch Iohi. de Cherleton de Powis Iohi. Clinton Rico. Talbot de Godrickcastle Iohi. le Ware Hen. le Scroope Iohi. de Roos de Hamelake Rado Nevill de Raby Iohi. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Hen. Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. le Scroope Iohi. Devereux Hugo Burnell Willo la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. Berkley Iohi. de Welles Philippo le Dispencer Hen. de Scto Amando Tho. de Clifford Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Greystock Willo Botreaux Milit. Iohi. de Bellomonte Robto de Harrington Robto de Willoughby Iohi. Cobham de Kent Willo de Dacre Iohi. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Phillippo Darcey Waltero Fitz-Walter Tho. Bardolf de Wermegey Ioh. Devereux Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the next day â—ftâ—r All Souls in the Fifteenth year of the Raâ—gn of King Richard the 2. THe Friday being the same next day the Archbishop of Yorke Primate and Chancellor of England by the Kings appointment before him being present declared very wisely the causes of the Parliament As first the Church then the Laws and further that all Cities and Towns should enjoy all their Liberties as amply as ever they did He then shewed that the Parliament was summoâ—ed for three chief causes First for the observation of Peace and maintenance of the Laws The Second how the prices of Wools too much abâ—sed might be enhaunced And how the Wars of the same happily begun after the expiration of the truce might in best wise be maintained Thirdly touching the Statutes of Provision to see how the Holy Father might have that to him belonged Reddite quae sunt Cesaris Caesari quae sunt Dei Deo Receivers of the Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triars of Petitions for England c. as above Triars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above It is
be resident upon his Office and that no comptroller upon pain of imprisonment do exercise his Office by deputie 109 The print touching Searchers Cap. 21. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 110 The print touching Judgment in pleas reall and personall Cap. 23. agreeth with the Record 111 That the Kings debt touching Purveyance of Victuals taken up may be payed So soon as the same may be 112 That remedie may be had against such Feoffees in trust of Lands or Rents as do charge the same with rent-charges against the will of the Feoffers Let the Kings Councell be advised hereof untill the next Parliament 113 That all such Abbots Priors Knights Esquires and other the Kings true Subjects as were lately impeached wrongfully by William Taylor late of Lampworth a Common Prover in the Kings Bench of sundry haynous Crimes for the which the said William was hanged drawen and quartered may be discharged and acquitted by the Kings Writ to be sent to the Justices of the Kings Bench. The grant of the King and the Writ sent to the same Justices Anno quinto Henrici quarti The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the next day after Saint HILLARIE in the fifth year of King HENRY the Fourth ON MUnday the fourteenth day of Ianuary being the first day of the Parliament the Bishop of London Brother to the King and Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the cause of the Parliament and that the Kings will was that the holy Church all persons and Corporations should enjoy their Liberties 2. He took then for his Theame these words multitudo sapientum and thereby learnedly declared that by Councell every Realm was governed and resembled every man to the body of a man and applyed the right hand to the Church and the left hand to the Temporaltie and the other Members to the Commonaltie of all which Members and Estates the King being willing to have Councell had therefore called the same Parliament and that for sundry causes 3. First for the utter appeasing of Welch Rebellions for rebelling of the malice of the Duke of Orleance and the Earl of St. Paule who had bent themselves wholly against the King and the Realm and namely by their late arrivall in the Isle of Wight where they took the repulse To consider the imminent perill of the Marches of Callice Guienne and other like Dominions to remember the wars of Ireland and Scotland and not to forget to take an order touching the late Rebellions of Henry Percy and other their Adherents at the Battail of Shrewsbury and so willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker 4. Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland 5. Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. 6. Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above 7. Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyn c. as above 8. On Tuseday the fifteenth day of Ianuary the Commons came before the King and presented for their Speaker Sir Arnold Savage who excused himself thereof but the King would not receive the same but allowed the election thereupon Sir Arnold made the Common Protestation for himself and the Commons which was accepted 9. On VVednesday the sixteenth of Ianuary the Commons came before the King and desired him to have regard to the charges for the repressing of the VVelch Rebels and keeping of the Sea to consult of the great charges of his House That the King and the Prince would give Liveries according to the Statute made 10. That the King would provide for the repayring of his Castles and Houses and namely for his Castle at Windsor which were greatly in decay and not to grant away the profits of those Castles and Houses and notwithstanding to stand to the repayring of the same without which he could not but run to the great charging of the Commons and to the subversion of the whole estate 11. On Friday the eighteenth day of February the Earl of Northumberland came into the Parliament before the King and the Lords and there by his Petition to the King acknowledged to have done against his allegiance and namely for gathering of power and giving of Liveries wherefore he prayeth pardon and the rather for that upon the Kings Letters he yeilded himself and came to the King into York whereas he might have kept himself away 12. The which Petition the King delivered to the Justices by them to be considered Whereupon the Lords made Protestation that the order thereof belonged to them And so they as Peers of this Parliament to whom such Judgement belonged in weighing the Statute of 27 E. 3. touching treasons and the Statute of Liveries made in this Kings time adjudged the same to be no treason nor Felonie but onely trespass fineable to the King 13. For which Judgement the said Earl gave great thanks to the King and Lords And at the request of the said Earl he the same Earl was then sworn to be true Liegeman to the King to the Prince the Kings eldest son and to the heirs of his body begotten and to every of the Kings Sons and to their issue succeeding the Crown of England according to the Laws and that done the King pardoneth the said Earl his Fine and Ransome 14. After which the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed the King that forasmuch as he and the Duke of Yorke with other Bishops and Lords were of sundry suspected to have been of the Confederacy of the said Henry Percie that the said Earl might publish the truth the Earl upon the Kings commandement by his oath purgeth them all thereof 15. And on this day the levying of War of the said Sir Henry Percie and others was adjudged treason by the King and Lords in full Parliament 16. At the request of the Commons the Lords accorded that four speciall persons should be removed out of the Kings House viz. the Kings Confessors the Abbot of Dore Master Richard Durham and Crosby of the Chamber Whereupon Saturday the ninth of February the said Confessor Durham and Crosbie came into the Parliament before the King and Lords where the King excused them saying that he then knew no cause wherefore they should be removed but onely for that they were hated of the people and therefore charged them to depart from his House according to the agreement and the like he would also have pronounced against the Abbot if he had been present 17. On the same Saturday the Commons gave great thanks to the King in full Parliament for the favour
the said Earl the King by the assent of the whole Parliament granteth to the said Earl and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten the said 1000. Marks out of the Exchecquer untill he provide to him the said Earl Land to that valew 26 At the request of Iohn Cornwall Knight and Elizabeth his wife Countess of Huntington the King in full Parliament granteth to them the custodie and profits of the Abbey of Fescamp in Normandie during the wars for a yearly rent 27 At the request of Sir Stephen le Scroope of Masham Knight the King by assent of Parliament confirmeth to the said Stephen in fee for the Mannour of Flaxfleet in the Countie of York ten Marks of Rent with the Appurtenances in Northallerton and 20 l. yearly to be taken of the Farm of Kingstone upon Hull by the hands of the Bayliffs there 28 At the Petition of the Prior of the Cathedrall Church of the Virgin Mary of Coventrie the King granted by assent of the Bishops and Lords that out of the Conduit of water running to the said Priory no man do make any head or rock or break the same Conduit without the assent of the said Prior and that the same Prior and their Successors may at all time freely amend or repair the said Conduit and that no man do cast any ordure or other filth into their water called Sherborn on pain of ten pounds to the King and treble damages to the Prior for either of the said defaults 29 Upon the Petition of the Prior of St. Anne of the order of Carthuse next Coventrie the King by authority of Parliament restoreth the said Prior to the Priorie and Mannour of Swonsey and to the Vicaridge of the same which to the Prior by lycense of King Richard 2. was given by the Abbot of St. George and Bathe of the order of St. Bennet French And note that the said Prior by his Petition requireth to be restored also to the Mannour of dry Drayton whereof the King by his restitution makes no mention 30 Sir Bartholmew Verdon Knight and others named in the 5 th H. 4 th tit 53. maketh the like request to be generally restored to their bloud and to all their hereditaments by entrie thereto without any further suit the which the King by common consent granteth 31 For that the Scire facias of Robert Deynecourt against Errour in Ralph Adderley for errour hanging in Parliament was returned tarde venit It was therefore accorded that the said Roger should purchase a new Scire facias returnable in the next Parliament if he so would and that the process should be continued 32 On Friday the last day of the Parliament the Commons before the King prayen that the Ordinance touching the Wars should be executed and that the Lords Mâ—rchers of Wales do sufficiently man their Castles against the Welchmen 33 That the Goods taken upon the sea of such as be friends to the Realm may be restored 34 That money borrowed for saving of the honour of the Lord Iohn the Kings Son and the Estate of the Realm may be answered 35 That it will please the King to consider the painfull service of the Duke of York whilst he was the Kings Lieutenant of Guienne and that he may be payed what to him iâ— due 36 That it would please the King to remember the serâ—vice of Sir Thomas Erpingham Sir Thomas Bâ—mpson Iohn Northbury and other valiant Knights and Eâ—quires who adventured themselves with the King at his coming into the Kingdom 37 Upon the Petition of the Merchants of Italie the King by common consent revoketh the Statute mâ—de in the lâ—st Parliament as forbidding to keep their Merchandize unsold by the space of one quarter of a year and setteth them at libertie to sell the same as they might before the same Statute provided that they shall not carry away any of their Merchandize once brought into the Realm It agreeth with the print Cap. 4 th 38 That the Exchange may be between Merchant and Merchant and for Clearks and Pilgrims notwithstanding the order made in the last Parliament that all Money delivered by exchange in England should be imployed within the same Realm The King will be thereof advised 39 That the Merchants of Italie may chose their hosts where they like and be not appointed thereto as was provided the last Parliament The Statute therefore shall be observed 40 It is enacted that the Merchants of Italie shall pay but four Marks Subsidie for every sack of Wooll as Eglishmen do 41 That those Merchants may have some day of payment of their Customes The King will thereof be advised 42 That Customers and other Officers of Towns and Ports may be commanded to intreat those Merchants according to reason The King willeth the same 43 That those Merchants in all actions of debt accompt or trespass may be tryed before the Kings Councell Major or Aldermen of London by Merchants Law and not by enquest It shall continue as heretofore 44 That all Brokers coming from beyond the Seas may be banished the Realm by writ out of the Chancery if to those Merchants strangers seems unfit Upon due proof before the Chancellor he shall do therein accordingly 45 That those Merchants of Italie may imploy their money upon any English ware as well as upon Staple wares The King will thereof be advised Petitions of the Commons with their Answers 46 THat some certain place may be appointed for the Staple if wars should be betweeen this Realm and Flanders The King will be advised 47 That the owners of every Ship or other Vessell serving the King may have allowance of every Tun weight of the same Vessell 3 s. 4 d. for every quarter towards the apparrelling of the same Ship The Statutes therefore appointed shall be observed 48 That no stranger born be Customer or the like Officer neither enjoy any benefice within the Realm nor that any Welchman be suffered to go to Rome The King will be advised 49 Upon the motion of the Commons the King resumeth into his hands all the hereditaments which were the dower of Anne late Queen of England and granted away by him or by King Richard to any person whatsoever except to the Kings Sons all which shall remain in dower to the Queen now 50 That all such Commissioners as are fined for not sitting upon the same and did not know thereof may upon their Oaths in the Exchecquer be discharged As it hath been the same shall be 51 A motion to have certain of the lower house discharged of Collection of the Subsidies granted 52 That
otherwise albeit the Feoffees had grauted to the King a longer time The print touching Liveries to be granted to women cap. 2. agreeth with the record The which Act passed upon the Petition of Iohn Nevill Knight and Isabell his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Edmond Goldesthorp Knight Anno Primo Edwardi Quarti Rex c. Iohan. Duci Norfolciae Parliamentum apud Westm. sexto die Iulii c. Teste Rege apud VVestm Vicesimo tertio die RIcardo Com. Warr. Johanni Com. Oxoniae Willielmo Com. Arundel Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Mil. Edwardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho Graystock Chlr. Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Johan Domino de Beauchamp Chlr. Johan de Audley Chlr. Tho. le Scroope de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Joh. le Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Johanni Domino de Clinton Chlr. Johan Lovell Chlr. Edwardo Nevil Dom. de Burgavenny Chlr. Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Reginal Gray de VVilton Chlr. Johanni Sturton Dom. de Sturton Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier de Fitzwarren Chlr. Hen Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Chlr. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Gray de Richmond Chlr. Johan Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Willielmo Fynes Domino de Say Chlr. Willielmo Fynes Domino de Dacre Chlr. VVillelmo Nevill de Fauconbridge Chlr. Johanni Bourchier de Barnes Chlr. Ricardo VVelles de VVilloughby Chlr. Hen. Fitz-hugh Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Ricardo West Chlr. Tho. Standley Chlr. Johanni Nevill Domino de Mountioye Chlr. Milites omnes excepti Audley et Clynton et eo quod Scotorum Rex intravit apud Carliolum hoc Parliamentum fuit prorogatum usque ad quartum diem Novembris prox sequentem Ac tunc tenebatur et sedebant Domini in ordine subscripto De dicto Parliamento tenendo apud Westmonast quarto die Novembris Rex c. Iohanni Duci Norfolciae c. apud Westm quarto die Novembris Teste apud Westm. Decimo tertio die Iunii Numerus et ordo Nobilium idem quod in posteriori Summonitione in omnibus The Parliament holden at VVestminster the fourth day of November in the First year of the reign of King Edward the fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons George Bishop of Exeter made a notable Declaration of the cause of the summons of the Parliament taking for his Theam Ier. 7. Bonas facite vias studia vestra After which he called the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Friday the third day of the Parliament the Commons presented unto the King Sir Iames Strangewaies Knight to be their Speaker whose excuse being rejected he with the common protestation was allowed The Commons by their Speaker in an Oration doe commend the Kings notable courage against his enemies and gave God thanks for victories given him A long Declaration of the Kings title to the Crown of England containing in effect first as in An. 39. H. 6. tit 11. The tyrannous usurpation of H. 4. with his heinous murdering of King R. 2. An Act that King E. 4. was and is undoubted King of England from the fourth day of March last before and that all the estates yielded themselves obeysant Subjects to the said E. 4. and his heirs for ever affirming the reign of H. 4. to be an Intrusion and only usurpation It is also enacted that King E. 4. was seized of the Crown and profits of the realm of England from the said fourth day of March in such wise as King R. 2. enjoyed the same in An. 23. In which act is one provision and one generall provision for all mens rights other then of such as claim by the grant of H. 4. H. 5. H. 6. The said Henry of Darbie otherwise H. 4. and the heirs of his body coming are utterly disabled to enjoy any inheritance estate or profits within this realm or Dominions of the same for ever A whole recitall of the concord made between H. 6. and Richard Duke of York and the King now in An. 39. H. 6. and breach of the same by sundry means there declared By which breach it is declared that King E. 4. was discharged out of the same concord and that no title of the same concord should bind this King A number of particular provisions The tenants of the Mannor of Eastmain in Hampshire belonging to the Bishop of Winchester complain against the said Bishop for raising of new Customes upon them and pretending that they were free-holders and copy-holders which was committed to certain Lords and Justices and upon their report enacted that the said Tenants were in fault and that they should continue the said customes and services A long attainder of sundry persons following for the death of Richard Duke of York and others viz. Henry the 6. Margaret late Queen Edward called Prince of Wales Henry late Duke of Somerset Henry Earl of Northumberland How William Lord Boniville and Sir Tho. Kuriell Knights of the garter and William Gower Standar-bearer to Richard Duke of York were against law beheaded and murdered The attainder of Thomas Courtney late Earl of Devonshire Thomas Lord Roos Iohn late Lord Nevil Baldwyn Fulsthurst Alexander Hedie Nicholas Latimer Iames Luterell Edmund Mountford Thomas Fundern Hen. Lewis Iohn Heron of Ford Richard Tustall Hen. Bellingham Robert Whittingham Knights and of Andrew Trollopp late of Guinescoe Esq and of sundry other Esquires Gentlemen and Yeomen for being at the death of the Duke of York at Wakefield the thirtieth day of December late before Henry Duke of Exeter William Viscount Beamont Iohn late Lord Rongemont Gray Randall late Lord Dacre Humphry Datren Philip Wentworth William Rawkesley Edmond Hampden Thomas Findrey Iohn Courtney Iohn Ormond alias Botler William Milley Symon Haines William Holland called the bastard of Exeter Thomas Ormond alias Botler Thomas Everingham Henry Roâ—s of Rockingham with sundry Esquires Gentlemen Yeomen and Priests and sundry attainted persons are attainted for being against King E. 4. the twenty ninth day of March before being Palm Sunday in the fields called Saxon fields and Tawton fields in the County of York King H. 6. Queen Margaret Prince Edward and some others of the chief before attainted for delivering of the Town of Barwick to Iames King of Scots on the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist last before The persons next aforesaid with Iasper Earl of Pembrook Iames