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A43880	Historical collections, or, A brief account of the most remarkable transactions of the two last Parliaments consisting of I. The speeches, votes, accusations, addresses, and article of impeachment, &c., II. The bills of association, exclusion, and repeal of 35 Eliz. &c., III. The several informations, messages, narratives, orders, petitions, protestation of the Lords, and resolves of both Houses, etc., IV. The tryal and sentence of William Howard Lord Viscount of Stafford in Westminster Hall, his speech and execution on the scaffold at Tower Hill with many other memorable passages and proceedings of the two last Parliaments, held and dissolved at Westminster and Oxford, V. A perfect list of each Paraliament, VI. His Majesty's declaration, shewing the causes and reasons that moved him to dissolve the two last Parliaments.		1682 (1682)	Wing H2100; ESTC R32032	89,184	314

of Popery and the French Interest and a dangerous Enemy to the King and Kingdom The same day also they made two other Resolves That whosoever should lend or cause to be lent any Mony upon the Branches of the King's Revenue arising by Customs Excise or Hearth-mony should be adjudg'd Obstructors of the Sitting of Parliaments and be responsable in Parliament 2. That whosoever should accept or buy any Tally of Anticipation upon any part of the King's Revenue or whoever should pay such Tally should be deem'd guilty of of the same Offence and be liable to be question'd in Parliament Saturday the 8 th of Jan. the Lords gave notice to the House that they had appointed the Saturday following to hear Mr. Seymor's Cause upon his Impeachment and that the House might reply if they thought fit Monday the 10 th of Jan. being the last day of their Session several Resolves were made 1. That whoever advis'd his Majesty to prorogue the Parliament to any other purpose than in order to the passing the Bill of Exclusion was a Betrayer of the King the Kingdom and the Protestant Religion and a Pensioner to France 2. That the Members for the City of London should return the Thanks of the House to the City for their manifest Loyalty to the King their Charge and Vigilancy for the preservation of his Majesty and the Protestant Religion 3. That it was their Opinion that the City was burnt by the Papists designing to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Power in the Nation 4. That the Commissioners of the Customs had willfully broken the Law for prohibiting the Importation of French Wines and other Commodities which if they should continue they should be question'd in Parliament 5. That it was their Opinion that the D. of Monmouth had been remov'd from his Offices and Commands by the Influence of the D. of York and therefore order'd that Application should be made to his Majesty to restore him to all his said Commands and Employments 6. That it was their Opinion that the prosecuting of Protestant Dissenters upon the Penal Laws was a grievance to the Subject and an Encouragement to Popery a weakening of the Protestant Interest and dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom These Resolutions were no sooner past but they were summon'd by the Usher of the Black Rod to attend his Majesty in the House of Peers at what time his Majesty was pleas'd to signifie his pleasure for a Prorogation till the 20 th of the Month. Before the Prorogation was pronounc'd by the Lord Chancellor his Majesty was pleas'd to sign three Bills two publick and one private The two publick Acts were an additional Act for Burying in Wollen and an Act for prohibiting the Importation of Cattel from Ireland Fa. Seing then there were no more Bills sign'd there is no question to be made but that there were the more depending and if I do not mistake you promis'd to give me a Catalogue of all those that were under Consideration Tr. I did so and to shew you I did not intend to deceive your Expectation I have here collected them together as they came in their Order to be debated the Bill of Exclusion excepted of which you have already had the Heads Bills depending in the last Parliament 1. A Bill for the Encouragment of Wollen Manufacture 2. A Bill for Exportation of Leather 3. An Act for the better regulating the Tryals of Peers in England 4. Two Bills for the regulating Elections of Members in the Commons House of Parliament 5. A Bill for the continuance of two Acts An Act for preventing Planting Tobacco in England and a Bill for Exporting Beer Ale and Mum. 6. A Bill for Repeal of an Act made the 35 th of Q. Elizabeth 7. A Bill for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council in the Marches of Wales 8. A Bill for ascertaining Fines upon Convictions of Misdemeanors 9. A Bill for supplying the Laws against Bankrupts 10. A Bill for Exportation of Cloth and other wollen Manufactures 11. A Bill to restrain Papists from coming or residing within the Cities of London and Westminster or within 20 miles of the same and from wearing any Arms. 12. A Bill that the Judges should hold their Places and Salaries only quamdiu se bene gesserint 13. A Bill prohibiting Importation of Cattel from Scotland 14. Two Bills for the ease of Protestant Dissenters 15. A Bill for Banishing all the most considerable Papists in England out of his Majesties Dominions 16. A Bill for uniting all his Majesty's Protestant Subjects to the Church of England 17. A Bill for repealing the Act for the well Governing of Corporations 18. A Bill to prevent Simony 19. A Bill to prevent Vexatious Actions 20. A Bill to prevent Brewers from being Justices of the Peace in the place where they exercise that Trade 21. A Bill for the better Discovery of Settlements of Estates for superstitious uses 22. A Bill for the more easie collecting the Duty of Hearth-Mony Several other Bills were order'd to be brought in which never came to be debated As A Bill for regulating and preventing the increase of the Poor A Bill for the regulating Hackney Coaches repairing paving and cleansing the Streets and op'ning of passages in and about the City A Bill for repair of the High ways A Bill to punish Atheism Swearing and Debauchery A Bill for regulating abuses in making of Casks Barrels c. A Bill for Naturalization of Foreign Protestants And The Bill of Association The Bill of Ease to all Protestant Dissenters being perfected by the House of Commons tho' not assented to by the Peers was afterwards Printed at large of which these are the Chief Heads 1. That all persons convicted or prosecuted by vertue of an Act made in the 35. year of Q. Eliz. and another Act made in the 3. of K. James for Recusancy that shall take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and make and sue for such Declaration to be made in the Court of Exchequer Assizes or Quarter Sessions shall be discharg'd of all penalties forfeitures and seizures by force of the said Statutes without Composition or Fee 2. That no Persons taking the Oaths aforesaid and subscribing the Declaration foresaid shall be prosecuted upon the said Acts in any Ecclesiastical Court by reason of their Non-conforming to the Church of England Provided that no persons dissenting from the Church of England and meeting in any place for Religious Worship with the Doors lock'd and bar'd during their so meeting together shall receive any Benefit from this Law Neither shall any of the persons aforesaid be exempted from paying Tithes or other Parochial duties 3. That if any person dissenting from the Church of England shall be chosen into any Parish-Office it shall be lawful for him to execute the same by a sufficient Deputy Provided the said Deputy be allow'd by two or more of the Justices of the Peace 4. That no Dissenter in Holy Orders

Act for securing the Protestant Religion by disabling James D. of York to inherit the Imperiall Crowns of England and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging and the Lord Russel was order'd to carry it up to the Lords for their Concurrence Friday the Twelfth of November some time was spent in reading the Engrossed Bill sent up on the Wednesday before from the Lords for freeing the City and Court c. from Popish Inhabitants c. Of which and of others no farther proceeded in it is enough to speak of their transmitment from one House to another as being such as dy'd among the rest in the Birth After this and some Amendments made of the Returns for the Burrough of Haslemere in Surrey Mr. Bourk Mr. Macnamarr and Eustace Comine being severally called in gave their several Accompts of some proceedings relating to the Popish Plot in Ireland Of their Informations I shall briefly recite the Heads in their Order That of Mr. Bourk was briefly thus That being by the Kindness of one Major Butler admitted to the knowledg of the Earl of Tyrone and by that means frequently keeping his Lordship Company in his pastimes both at home and abroad he observ'd that the said Earl and the Major would be allway extrolling the French King and praying for his Prosperitie That he farther observed a Continual resort of Papists and Suspitious Persons to the said Earls House That being one Morning private with his Lordship his Lordship told him That he had intelligence out of France that the French were very Powerful and that Parlez Francois would be plentifully heard in Ireland ere long That in farther discourse his Lordship drew out of his Pocket a great Quantitie of Papers rol'd up and delivered him to subscribe his name in one of them and that upon a sudden Glance he could read the names of some that he knew to be persons ill affected to his Majesty and his Government That upon his refusal to Subscribe his Lordship calld him Cowar'd and drew his Sword half out of his Scabbard to have kill'd him but was prevented by the unexpected coming in of another Gentleman That from that time forward his Lordship us'd several means to Ruine him and threw him into Waterford Gaol From whence he wrote five Letters to the Lord Lieutenant of his hard Vsage and what he had to say as to the Conspiracy but could have no Answer That being got out of Waterford Gaol he gave in his Informations against the said Earl at Dublin where though his Lordship were bound over to answer the Informant at Waterford Assizes yet such was his power over the Judges and the Jury that he easily got himself acquitted So that finding Ireland then too hot for him the Informant was forc'd to retire into England to make his Appeale The heads of Macnamar's Information were these That one William Bradley Esq a Justice of the Peace in the County of waterford having first made him take an Oath of Secrecie gave him to understand that the Earle of Tyrone had received a Commission from the French King to be a Colonel of Horse in the County of Waterford and that the said Bradley was to be his Lieutenant Col. and therefore desir'd him to provide himselfe of Horse and Arms and get as many as he could trust promising him a Captains Place That after Bradley had unfolded to him the aforesaid Treason he met with the E. of Tyrone who ask'd him privately whether Bradley had said any thing to him who answering he had the E. bid him be very private and then shewed him a List of several that were to be Superiour Officers in several Counties of Ireland which he took special notice of as knowing several of the Persons That the said E. at the same time told him that he had a Commission from the French King under his Hand and Seal to be a Col. of Horse in the County of Waterford and that there was hardly a County in Ireland where Persons were not appointed by the French King for the same purpose with other discourse of the same Nature The Substance of Eustace Comins Information was this That living with one Keadagh Magher his Relation in Karignisurie in the County of Tipperary Treasurer for the Confederates in Ireland he was privy to the Payment of several Considerable Sums to several Considerable Persons upon the accompt of the Plot by the directions of Plunket titular Primate of Ireland Bremand Titular Archbishop of Cashel and Powes Deane of Waterford who had the disposal of the said Money That there was a meeting of the Irish Clergy with the Titular Primate at John Walshe's House who was Lawyer for the D. of Ormond in the County of Tipperary where they agreed to give every Judge that would goe the Circuite and befriend them upon Occasion 200 l. a piece That the Sum of 200 l. was secur'd to Sir John Davis upon the same accompt he being then a Judge at Clonmel of which he was an Eye Witness Lastly after the recital of many other Circumstances of his being pursu'd and imprison'd by Sir John Davis and several other Justices of the Peace Contrary to their duty for his discovery he affirmed that the Papists had Barbarously Murther'd the said Keadagh Magher their Treasurer when they found that he detested their design and was turned Protestant The House having heard these Informations order'd that an Address should be made to his Majesty for their several Pardons and that his Majesty would be pleas'd to take them into his care and protection After this a Message was sent to the Lords to acquaint them with the Resolution of the House to proceed to the Tryal of the Lords in the Tower and that they intended to begin with William Viscount Stafford and therefore desired their Lordships to appoint a day as also that the Lords in the Tower might be confin'd and kept from a Correspondence one with another as Persons Impeached and Committed for high Treason ought to be To which the Lords return'd for answer That as to that part of the Message relating to Confinement and Correspondence they had already given Order therein as the House had desired and for the latter for appointing a day for the Tryal they did appoint Tuesday come fortnight Thereupon they order'd a farther Address to be made to his Majesty That all Papers Writings Examinations and Evidences relating to the Popish Plot which had been deliver'd to the Clerks of the Council or the Secretaries since the dissolution of the last Parliament should be transmitted to the House and order'd that Serjeant Maynard Mr. George Pelham and Mr. Paul Foly should be added to the Committee appointed to prepare Evidence against the Lords in the Tower They likewise order'd That another Address should be made to his Majesty That he would be pleased to give orders for Issuing out a Sum of Money to defray the Charges of Summoning the Witnesses and other Expences incident to the

whereas the Sum of Five hundred Eighty four thousand nine hundred seventy eight Pounds two shillings two pence was rais'd by Act of Parliament for the speedy building Thirty Ships of War and thereby appropriated to that use and whereas it was Provided by the said Act That the Treasurer of the Navy should keep the said Money apart and pay it forth to no other use or intent but only for the building and Rigging of the said Thirty Ships Yet that he contrary to the said Act and his duty did lend the sum of 90000 l. Parcel of the said Mony at Eight percent for the support and continuance of an Army that then ought to have been disbanded by Act of Parliament whereby two Acts were Eluded and the Army Continu'd to the great hazard and danger of the Peace and Safety of the Nation Secondly That whereas the Pole-mony was rais'd by Act of Parliament to enable his Majesty to enter into an Actual War against the French King and only for that use And whereas certain Eastland Merchants did undertake to furnish his Majesties Stores upon assurance of Forty thousand pounds parcel of the said Mony deposited in the hands of the said Mr. Seymour as was by him acknowledged yet that he the said Mr. Seymour pay'd away the said Forty thousand pounds to the Victuallers of the Navy by way of advance and for Provisions not brought in Whereas by the Provision of the Act the said Money should have been paid to the said East-land Merchants Thirdly That norwithstanding he had 3000 l. a year for attending the Office of Treasurer yet that out of the Money appointed for secret service he received 3000 l. a year more which was duly paid him as well during the Sessions as during the Intervals of Parliament and particularly during the Prorogation of Fifteen Months Fourthly That on or about the Eighteenth year of his Majesties Reign during the Dutch War the said Ed. Seymour being one of the Commissioners of Prize Goods did fraudulently and in deceit of his Maiesty unlade a certain prize Ship taken from the Dutch without any Authority for so doing and sell the Goods pretending them to be only Muscovado Sugars And accompted with his Majesty for such whereas in truth the Ship was laden with Cocheneel and Indico goods of great value Saturday the Twenty seventh of November nothing was done to the advantage of this Compendium only that whereas the Commons had sent a Message to the Peers to desire them to appoint a Committee to joyn with a Committee of theirs for adjusting the Methods and Circumstances relating to the Tryals of the Lords in the Tower the Lords return'd their Answer this day That they had appointed a Committee of their Members in Complyance with the Message of the Commons to which purpose they had appointed five Lords to meet in the afternoon in the Court of Wards Where upon the Commons elected ten of their Members to meet the said Lords according to the appointment Monday November 29. nothing was done remarkable to our purpose In the afternoon according to appointment the House attended his Majesty in the Banquetting House where they presented him with their Address in Answer to his Message relating to Tangier to this Effect That having taken into their serious consideration his Majesties late Message relating to Tangier could not but accompt the present Condition of it after so vast a Treasure expended to make it useful not only as one Infelicity more added to the afflicted State of the Nation but as the result of those Counsels which had brought his Majesties Person and Kingdoms into those imminent Dangers which at present surrounded them that they were the less surpriz'd to hear of the Exigence of Tangier remembring that since it became a part of the English Dominions it had been several times commanded by Popish Governours in particular a Lord impeached and in the Tower for the Popish Plot and that the supplies sent thither consisted most of Popish Officers and Soldiers And therefore as to his Majesties recommendation of it to their Care they did with all Humility and reverence Answer That though in due time they should omit nothing incumbent upon them for preservation of every part of his Majesties Dominions yet when such a storm of Ruin and Confusion threatn'd the Land to come to any resolutions in that matter before they were secured from the dangers arising from the Power of Popish Persons and Councils they did not conceive would consist either with their duty or their Trust Then they dilated upon the restless endeavours of the Popish Party the miraculous discovery of their designs and their Continu'd influence at Court and the Arbitrary proceedings of corrupted Justice in the intervals of Parliament all which they represented at large to his Majesty And therefore out of their Allegiance to his Majesty their Zeal to Religion their faithfulness to their Country they had upon mature deliberation propos'd one Remedy of those great Evils without which all others would prove vain and fruitless So that if after all the Private Suggestions of the accomplices of the Popish Party should yet prevail to obstruct their faithful Endeavours they should have this remaining Comfort to have freed themselves from the Guilt of that blood and desolation which is like to ensue But yet that their only hope next under God was in his Majesty that by his great wisdom and goodness they should be secur'd from Popery and all the Evils attending it and that none but Persons of known Fidelity to his Majesty and sincere affection to the Protestant Religion should be put into any employment Civil or Military that while they should give a Supply to Tangier they might be assur'd they did not augment the strength of the Popish adversary nor encrease the publick danger Which desires of theirs if his Majesty would vouchsafe to grant they would not only be ready to assist his Majesty in defence of Tangier but do whatsoever else should be in their power to enable his Majesty to protect the Protestant Religion both at home and abroad and to repel the attempts of his and the Kingdoms Enemies Fame What was the Answer which his Majesty was pleas'd to give to this Address Truth I find no mention of any in the accompt which the Commons gave of their own Transactions which makes me forbear to insert the Vulgar Reports And now between the next day which was the Thirtieth of November and the Eighth of December you must expect a vacancy of Parliamentary business both Houses being busied in the Tryal of the Lord Stafford from day to day till that time For though the House did sit in the Afternoons yet it was either to release Prisoners or hear Petitions which are things altogether out of our Diocess The Tryal began the Thirtieth of November 1680. and continu'd till the Seventeenth of December following The first day the Lord High Steward Heneage Lord Finch Lord High Chancelor of England