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A34712	An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign, and the several acts in every Parliament : together with the names and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every of the said Parliaments / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ... ; revised, rectified in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several ommissions, and exact tables ... by William Prynne ...	England and Wales. Parliament.; Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6489; ESTC R1629	813,278	764

assent of Parliament the Priory Alien and Prebend of Uphaven in the Cathedrall Church of Sarum with the Chappel of Charleton belonging to the Abbey of St. Wandragisile in Normandy and licenceth the said Abbot to sell and the said Prior to buy the same Upon two Petitions of Katherine Queen Dowager of England and the King in performance of the league made between the French King and King H. 5. by two Letters Patents granted to the said Queen for her Dowry sundry Mannors Customes and other hereditaments of the Town and Principality of Wales and Dutchy of Lancaster there named to the clear yearly value of 20000 marks the which Dowry and Letters Patents are confirmed by the whole Estate wherein sundry provisoes are Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THat no man be bound to answer in the Chancery for any matter determinable at the Common Law on pain of the Plaintiff to lose 20 l. The Statute made in the 17 R. 2. shall be executed The print touching Purveyors cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print for avoiding of Irish men cap. 3. agreeth with the record A motion for the allowance of Sheriffs of no great force That all liberties granted to the Mayor Constable and Merchants of the Staple may be confirmed and that no plea hanging before the said officers be removed by writs or Letters Their liberties shall be confirmed without this Clause licet to the rest as it hath been heretofore the same shall be It is enacted that all offices granted to any person for life or in Fee by H. 4. or H. 5. shall be confirmed albeit in the grant of the same there be no expresse mention made of the value Anno Secundo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucest c. apud Westm. primo die Septembris Numerus ordo Nobilium idem quod in posteriori Parliamento praeterque quod Iacobus de Berckley omi tendus est Henrico de Percie Com. Northumb Radulpho de Nevil Com. Westmerland Magistro Tho. de la Warr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Johanni de VVelles Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Reginald Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland VVillielmo de Clinton VVillielmo de Harrington Tho. Com. Marescallo Edwardo Com. Marchiae Tho. Duci Oxoniae Ricardo Com. VVa Jacobo de Audley Ricardo Cromwell hlr Hen. Fitz-Hugh The Parliament holden at Westminster the twentieth day of October in the second year of the reign of Henry the Sixth AFter the Commission read made to Humfry Duke of Gloucester sitting as in the last Parliament tit 1. The Bishop of Durham being Chancellor of England by the Dukes commandement declared the cause of the said Parliament and took for his Theam Deum timete Regem honorificate Upon which words he shewed how we ought to fear God viz. with a child-like fear quoniam qui timet Deum diligit eum tunc illuminabitur cor ejus And that the King ought to be honoured sith this realm had their longing viz. that the King of England might be King of France the which being brought to passe by the travel and Conquests of this Kings Father enforced the same according to this saying Omnis qui diligit eum qui genuit diligit eum qui natus est He further sheweth that the Lords of the Council appointed in the last Parliament for the governance of the realm and observation of peace during the Kings minority were assembled to the end they might by advice and assent of the Commons perfect the same wherefore he willed the Commons by their assembling to choose their Speaker and to present him to the said Duke the Kings Commissary 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 22. of October the Commons presented before the Commissary and Lords Iohn Russell Esquire to be their Speaker who with the common protestation was allowed Where Iohn la Talbott of Furnivall being the Kings Lieutenant of Ireland had accused Iames Boteiler Earl of Ormond of certain treasons depending before Iohn Duke of Bedford and Constable of England in his Marshals Court the King to appease the same doth by assent of Parliament utterly abolish the said accusation and suits upon the same Note the Accusations are particularly recited The Commons doe send certain by name to the Duke of Gloucester for vouch safing to make them privy to the Treaty of the Scotish Ambassadour for the delivery and marriage of the Scotish King which they liked well The order that the Minter within the Tower shall keep the Exchange conteined in the last Parliament tit 35. is to continue at the Kings pleasure It is enacted at the petitions of the North Counties that a Coinage should be at York during the Kings pleasure and that all men doe bring in their gold there to be coyned which is not of full weight On Wednesday the 17th day of December the Chancellor by the Kings Commissary appointed and adjourned the Parliament from the same day unto the next after Saint Hillary then ensuing On the 18th day of February being the last day of the Parliament the Commons granted to the King for two years the subsidie of Poundage as in c. The names of such Bishops Lords and other persons as were appointed to be of the Kings Council All which persons took upon them to be Counsellors upon certain Articles for the Orders touching the Council far swarving from the Articles in the last Parliament tit 26. to 34. and much in derogation of the Protectors power Amongst all the Articles I find this not the worst that the Clerk of the Council should be sworn ever to preferr and to procure the poorest man his Bill and Answer And the Kings Sergeant for Council to take no money therefore Iohn Mortimer of Bishops Hatfield in the County of Hereford Knight being committed to the Tower for supposition of Treason done against H. 5. broak the Tower in the first year of this King for which breach he was indicted of Treason and thereupon the same Indictment by consent of Parliament was confirmed to be good and the same Iohn being after apprehended was at this Parliament brought against whom upon the same Indictment Judgement was given that he should be carried to the Tower drawn through London to Tibourne there to be hanged drawn and quartered his head to be set on London-bridge and his four quarters on the

and cannot afterwards upon great suit be ended in the Chancery to have their right discussed even to the disherison of divers That remedy may be provided so as without delay the right may be discussed and the party restored to his Land if his right be found Let the same Law be kept as heretofore was done and if any man find himself grieved let him shew himself specially his case and he shall have right Whereas a man for Treason doth forfeit all his lands to the King of whomsoever the same be holden that where the King doth grant away those lands without saying To hold of himself the Law may be declared in certain Whether the Donee shall hold of the King or of the former lord And where the King giveth those lands to hold of himself le quell le Chartre est repellable eant regarde a les seruises on nemy The King is pleased that in such case it shall be as it hath been in the times of his Progenitors of the Auncestors des gentz de la terre and if Declaration be hereof to be made the same shall be by good advice among other Articles whereof new Law is required Whereas Commissions went forth to enquire of all such as have in lands Five pounds Ten pounds Twenty pounds Forty pounds and above unto One hundred marks which Enquests were with much diligence per milts Gentz des Countees thereunto sworne and returned into the Chancery whereupon went forth Writs out of the Exchequer to levy of some the double of some treble that by good Enqu●sts was found for Archers Hoblers and men of war contrary to Law and also Writs went forth to levy of some small Towns which are neither Cities nor Boroughs Twenty marks Twenty pounds at pleasure without any manner of Process The Commons thereof pray remedy De si Come nostre Sieur le Roy ad promise de sun bon grace de fair droit as jouiz geeva que plendre se voudront If any such Imposition have been made the same was upon great necessity and with the assent of the Counts Barons autres Grantz and some of the Commons then present Nevertheless the King will not that such Imposition be unduly drawn in consequence Whereas the King hath ordained two Great Seals for sealing of Judicial Writs in the Common-Pleas and Kings-Bench for every of w●ich Judicial Writs the Commons pay seven pence and for Originals six pence That he will ordain a Small Seal for Judicial Writs so as men may pay but Three pence for a Seal of a Judicial Writ to the great ease of the people and then will more Writs be purchased to the Kings great advantage For now the suit is so hard and dear that the mean sort are not able to pursue their rights Unto poor men shall be given for Gods lake and it is reason that such as are able do pay as in former times hath been used That where Land is given to a man and his wife● their Estate is now dispunishable of Waste though they have no childe between them whereby often happeneth great damage and disherison to him in the Reversion That a Writ of Waste in such case may lie Let this remain among other Articles whereof new Law is required That Writs of Possession may lie of Lands devisable in case where they are not ●evised as of other Lands and in case such Lands be devised there to be saved to the Tenants their Answers Let this remain among other Articles whereof new Law is required That the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Prelates have of late made a Constitution to give Tythes of Underwood only sold where heretofore no such Tythes were paid And further that now the Church-men by force of the said Constitution do take and demand Tythes as well of Great wood as of Underwood sold contrary to that which hath been used time out of mind Wherefore as well of one point as of the other they pray remedy The Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Bishops have answered That such Tythes are not demanded by force of the said Constitution but only of Underwood Whereas divers Aids have been granted to the King for maintenance of his Wars to the intent the same should be wholly to his profit divers Merchants by confederacie amongst themselv●s have colourably and covertly by way of Usury bargained w●th the King and have imposed upon these goods great sums viz. upon every Sack of Wooll Twenty three shillings four pence de pardonne en le Bargain ou pluis sont tenus de prendre a very value les biens le ●oy on dapestera lui lour deniers que touz les auters poures de sa Come de les donor Also in their payments they have allowance of Bills gained by Brocages of Debts due by the King ou ils achatent a liure ascune 12 d. ascune per 2 s. where there is more reason the King should have that advantage then they Also after their bargain at their suit there hath been stay and forbidding that no English Wooll may pass over Sea whereby the King hath lost his Subsidy and Custom too as much as they made chi●vesance by reason of which stay the Commons could not sell their Wools to pay their Fifteens and other charges And further some of the Collectors and their Deputies in gathering the said Wools have used great extorcion upon the people by false Weights Wherefore they pray the particulars may be examined in Parliament in presence of some persons to be assigned by the Commons to the end that the goods of the people taken for the Kings use may reasonably and wholly be turned to his profit so as the parties accused may not be excused against the King by fained and colourable Answer as between Merchant and Merchant The King will appoint some of the Sages of his Council to hear and determine the things contained in this Article And if any of the Commons can inform the King for his profit of any thing contained in this Article let him set it down in certain and the Justices appointed to enquire of false money shall have power to enquire of the Processes of such Ministers That the King by advice of his Council will provide remedy against the Popes Collations now of late made to Abbies and Priories which heretofore were never seen and are against the Liberties of the Church and to the disherison of the King and other Lords that are Patrons and blemishment of the Religious persons of England when these promotions shall be collated on strangers not fit and perhaps are Cardinals The King will advise with his Council what in this case shall be best to be done The Commons pray remedy That whereas men were about to prove Wills before the Official

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 un●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

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 Marchand●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. ●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 p●easure 39. At the request of

Sexti Rex Humf. Duci Gloucest apud Cantabridg decimo die Februarii Teste apud Westm. decimo quarto die Decembris 14.16 Sed tentum apud Burium Sancti Edmondi eodem An. decimo die Februarii Ricardo Duci Eborum Johanni Duci Norfolciae Johanni Duci Oxoniae Humf. Duci Buckingham Edwardo Marchioni Dorset Willielmo Marchioni Suffolciae Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundell Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxon. Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Vicecom de Beamont Chlr. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Edwardo Gray Mil. Domino de Ferrariis de Grobie Edward Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Domino de Pomiger Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni de Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Waltero Hungerford Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Hen. de Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Willielmo de Nevil Chlr. Willielmo de Lovell Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Roberto de Willoughbie Chlr. Johan Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho Boteler de Sutley Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edwardo Brook de Cobham Chlr. Johanni Talbott de Lilsle Milit. Reginaldo VVest Chlr. Tho de Scales Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de VVilton Chlr. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins De notificando Parliamentum de Cantabrigia teneri apud Buri Edmundi Rex Humf. Duci Gloucest c. apud Buri Sancti Edmundi decimo die Februarii Numerus ordo Nobilium idem quod in posteriori Parliamento praeterquam quod Iohannes Dux Oxomiae ponendus est ante Iohannem Ducem Norfolciae JAcobo de Berckley Chlr. Edwardo Gray Chlr. Domino de Ferrariis de Grobie Edwardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. George Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. de Percie Domino de Pomiger Chlr. Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. VVillielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Hen. Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Willielmo Nevill Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Radulpho de VVilloughbie Chlr. Joh. Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Reginaldo VVest Chlr. Johanni Talbot de Lisle Milit. Tho. de Scales Chlr. Reginal Gray de Wilton Chlr. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins The Parliament holden at St. Edmonds Bury on the tenth day of February in the five and twentieth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate within the house of refectory of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmonds and of the Lords and Commons Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of England Legate of the Sea of Rome and Chancellor of England declared the cause of the same Parliament taking for his Theam Qui autem ineunt pacis consilia sequitur illos gaudium Prov. 12. Upon which he shewed that between the Ambassadors of the King and the French King order was taken for personal interview and talk of these two Kings and sufficient assurance had for the Kings passage into the parts beyond the Seas for his safe being there and like return In which cases the King was but to use their Counsel for the which the Parliament was called Also in repeating of this Theam Qui autum c. he shewed three Kinds of Counsels the first of the wicked utterly to bee shunned according to that of the Psalmist Beatus est vir qui non ambalavit in con●il●a impiorum The second of the good and learned who wrote 〈…〉 according to Isay 6. 〈◊〉 consilio suscepit actior in domusua et fecit 〈◊〉 magnam The third of the Holy Ghost expelling all doubts by working inwardly according to the Psalmist 32. Consilium autem Domini in aeternum manet cogitationes ejus a generatione ad generationem The which his Theam ●e enlarging with sundry sayings and examples concluded saying to the same end the King had called the Parliament wherefore he willed the Commons to choose and present their Speaker to the King the next day and remembred them that the Kings will was that all estates should enjoy their Liberties 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 sixteenth of February the Commons notified unto the Lords how that they had chosen their Speaker On Monday after being the fourth day of the Parliament the Commons presented unto the King William Tresham Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse rejected he with the common Protestation was allowed At the Petition of Katherine the late wife of Iohn Brockley late Alderman of London and other the Executors of the said Iohn who had 7000 marks to dispose for the soul of the said Iohn It was enacted that the said Chancellor should take order therein It is enacted that the Master and Chaplins of Trinity of Pontfract may enter and enjoy all such their lands as Robert Brown Esquire lately entred upon The Kings Letters Patents made to the Provost of Eaton of the Priory of Deerehurst and other Manors Lands and Tenements and of two Fairs at their Denomination of Laighton Bussard in Bedford confirmed by the whole estates The Kings Letters Patenss made to the Provost of the Kings College in Cambridge of sundry Manors Hereditaments and Liberties are in like manner confirmed In consideration of 4666 l. 13 s. 4 d. granted to Margaret Queen of England out of the Customs c. the King by his Letters Patents granteth to the said Queen during her life all and singular her hereditaments to the same value the which are confirmed by the whole assent At the Petition of Iohn Hampshyre and other Merchants who were spoyled on the sea by certain Britains Letters of Mart are to them granted after the Truce ended It is by the King enacted that Ellinor the late wife of the Duke of Gloucester shall be utterly barred to claim any Dower of any of the hereditaments of the said Duke There is authority given to the Kings Council to make assurance to the Kings Creditors for 100000 l. Petitions of the Commons with their Answers AT the request of four several Parsons of Churches in London who required that they and their Successors might in every of the said parishes place and displace such Schoolmasters as they thought good It was answered that they should the same doe by the advice of the

of Burie who had in his hands 456 l. 2 s. ● d. of a rest for a Collection of Disms shall pay the same to the King albeit he have general pardon for that it was no meaning of the King to pardon the same Vide 27 H. 6. Anno Tricesimo Primo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Duci Eborum c. apud Reading Sexto die Martii Teste apud Westmonast Vicesimo die Ianuarii RIcardo Duci Somerset Johanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckingham Hen. Duci Oxoniae Edwardo Com. Richmond Jaspero Com. Pembrook Ricardo Com. Warr. Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Oxon. Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Com. Wigorn. Johanni Com. VVilton Johanni Vicecom de Beamont Chlr. Johanni Talbott Vicecom de Lisle Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edwardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Edwardo Gray Domino de Grobie Chlr. Joh. de Berckley Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Rogero Hungerford sen. Milit. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Dom. de Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Johan Beauchamp Chlr. Dom. de Beauchamp Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Hen. Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Dom. de Clinton Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Edwardo de Nevel de Burgavenny Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Tho de Scales Chlr. Reginal Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Johanni Sturton de Sturton Milit. Ricardo VVodvill Domino de Rivers Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier Domino Fitz-warren Will. Bonevile Dom. de Bonevile de Chatton Milit. Hen Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Milit. Tho. Domino de Roos Mil. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins Milit. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Hoo Chlr. Tho. Gray Domino de Richmond Mil. Willielmo Beauchamp Dom. de St. Amando Tho. Percie Dom. de Egremont Mil. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. The Parliament holden at Reding the seventeenth of March in the one and thirtieth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber of refectory within the Abbey of Reding and of the Lords and Commons William Bishop of Lincoln in the absence of Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement very notably declared the cause of the Parliament namely for the good government of the realm and safe defence of the same to which end he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the fees and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The eight day of March the Commons presented to the King Thomas Thorp Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the Common protestation was allowed The Commons grant to the King one Desme and one Fifteen The Commons grant to the King Tonnage and Poundage during his life They also grant to the King during his Subsidy of woolls viz. 23 s. 4 d. for every sack of Denizens and 5 l. of Aliens and so of other Staple-ware according to the rate They also grant to the King of every Merchant not born within the realm and no Denize● and keeping house 40 s. and of every such Merchant as shall remain within the realm but 6. weeks 20 s. per Annum And of every Merchant Alien being no Denizen 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. yearly during the Kings life The Speaker declared by mouth how that the Commons had granted to find in the Kings service twenty thousand Archers for half a yeares space The eighteenth day of March after thanks given to the Lords by the King himself Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid and Town of Reding to the twentieth day of April then ensuing at Westminster The King discharged the realm and Commons of 7000 Archers parcell of the 20000 before granted A due proportioning of the 13000 men granted to serve the King for every particu●ar County within the realm In consideration of a summe or Masse of money to be levied by the Commons the King for three yeares is content to respite the levying of 13000 Archers unlesse he be drawn by great necessity or in person to go himself to take them It is enacted that Edmund Duke of Somerset late Captain of Callice shall be payed 21648 l. 10 s. out of the Customes of the Staple wares going out of the Port of Sandwich for fees and wages due to him and other Chief Captains and Souldiers while he was Captain there A particular rate out of the grant of a fifteen for certain in every County in England allotted to the repairing of Callice and for the making of a Risebanck An allotment of 20 s. out of the Subsedy for every sack of wool is allowed towards the wages and victualling of Souldiers in Callice The Commons grant unto the King the moity of one Desme and of one fifteen After the words spoken to the Commons by the King viz. VVe thank you for your grants for the which be ye assured we will be a good and gracious Lord unto you Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England the second day of Iuly by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid unto the seventh day of November at Reding The King delivered certain Schedules in parchment signed with his seal manuell the which he willed to be enrolled and enacted The which contain ten purveyances or provisions for Edmund Earl of Richmond and Iasper Earl of Pembrook and for none other severall persons as it should seem to be exempted and out of the Statute of resumption At Reding the twenty second of November in the 32. H. 6. to which place and day the Parliament was prorogued Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterb●ry and Chancellor of England by his Letters patents rehearseth the beginning and prorogation of the Parliament and adjourneth the same from the day aforesaid to the eleventh day of February then ensuing at VVestminster aforesaid The eleventh day of February at Reding aforesaid Iohn Earl of Worcester and Treasurer of England by the Kings Letters Patents prorogued the Parliament from the day and place aforesaid to the fourteenth day of the same moneth at Westminster The fourteenth day of February Richard Duke of York by the Kings Letters Patents of precedency presideth in the same Parliament The same fourteenth day of February