them once read whereof the last being a Bill for the fortifying of the Frontiers towards Scotland was read the third time and after the conclusion thereof sent down to the House of Commons On Wednesday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned the Lord Chancellor and divers Lords met in the Upper House but no Bills were read only the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament to nine of the Clock in the Forenoon the day following On Thursday the 16 th day of February Billa for increase of Mariners and Navigation of England was read prima vice and another Bill also of no great moment had its first reading On Saturday the 18 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act for Explanation of a Statute against forging of Evidences and Writings which with the other three Bills had each of them their first reading On Monday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned the Bill touching the Lord Compton c. was read primâ vice Two Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons which are more particularly expressed in the Journal of that House On Tuesday the 21 th day of February Three Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act ratifying an award between some private persons but there is no mention in the Original Journal-Book of any Bill read this Morning but only of the continuance of the Parliament according to the usual form On Wednesday the 22 th day of February Five Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first was a Bill against Counterfeiting of the hands of any of her Majesties Privy-Council and for the avoiding of counterfeit Instruments and Writings under Seal or counterfeiting of the Seal of any Office or Officer which said Bill was read prima vice On Thursday the 23 th day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the latter being a Bill against slanderous words and rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty with a new Addition of certain Amendments was read secundâ vice It should rather seem that only the Addition and Amendments which had been inserted de novo into this aforesaid Bill were now read the second time for the Bill it self had passed the Upper House upon the third reading on Monday the 30 th day of January foregoing and was the same Forenoon sent down to the Commons House and there passed and from them was sent up again to the Lords on Monday the 20 th of this instant February last past with a new Addition and certain Amendments So that the Bill it self which hath once passed the House is never read again but only such new Additions and Amendments as are inserted in it must be passed again de novo because they are of the same nature as if a new Bill were brought in On Saturday the 25 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned was read a Bill touching Fines and Recoveries secundâ vice and another Bill of no great moment had also its second reading Memorand that on this foresaid 25 th day of February being Saturday which day was before given to certain Parties then in difference for assignation of some Errors supposed by them to be in a certain Suit Commenced against them M r Cooper came in for the said Plaintiff and openly before the Lords in the Parliament House assigned the Errors after the hearing whereof the Lord Chancellor with consent of the Lords Ordered that the Plaintiff should have a scire facias returnable either the first day of the next Session or the first day of the next Parliament On Monday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against forging of Evidences and Writings was read primâ vice and another Bill of no great moment was read secundâ vice Then were there two Bills of no great moment sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first had its first reading Three other Bills finally after this were each of them once read whereof the last being a Bill touching my Lord Compton c. was after the second reading committed to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 28 th day of February the Bill for ratifying an Award in the Chancery concerning Copyhold and Customary Tenants of the Mannors of Moore and Newman Synderich Knyhton and Pensokes in the County of Worcester was read secundâ vice after which also seven other Bills had each of them one reading of which the fourth Bill being as the rest of no great moment was after the passing of it sent down to the House of Commons But the first Bill of the said seven which was touching the Inning of Erith and Plumsted-Marsh being upon the third reading concluded yet it was Ordered by the Lords that the same Bill should be staid from the sending of it down to the House of Commons until the Parties had brought in their several Bonds On Wednesday the first day of March the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against forging of Evidences was read tertiâ vice which coming to the Question and the numbers of the Contents on the one side and the numbers of the Not-contents on the other side found to be equal and alike with their Proxies it was Commanded to be laid up in the Desk till the next Parliament On Thursday the second day of March a Bill for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was after the second reading committed to be ingrossed Five Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was the Subsidy Bill the other four of no great moment The Bill also for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy primâ secundâ vice lecta commissa ad ingrossandum There were two other Bills each of them read once this Morning whereof the first being a Bill for the punishment of those who should counterfeit the hands of any of her Majesties Privy-Council or the Seals of others was after the third reading rejected Quod nota because it is feldom seen that any Bill after it hath passed the third reading should be rejected Then was the Parliament continued by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which time the Lords meeting there were only two Bills read primâ vice whereof the first was the Subsidy Bill and then the Lord Chancellor Adjourned the Parliament unto the day following On Friday the third day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the last was a Bill that Gavelkind Lands within the County of the City of
their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown And the Bill Intituled An Act for the better Execution of Judgment were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free pardon was once read and passed upon the Question Nota That whereas to the passing of other Bills three distinct and several Readings are required here the Bill for her Majesties most gracious Pardon passed upon the first Reading M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Carew did bring from the Lords the Bill Intituled An Act for the Grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and did shew that their Lordships have in like manner passed the same Bill and so delivered the same to M r Speaker to the end he may carry the same up into the Upper House to be presented by him unto her Majesty in the name of this whole House Nota That the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons ended here and contained no other or further Passages of this day although her Majesty came in Person in the Afternoon to the Upper House which is therefore supplied out of the fragmentary and imperfect Journal mentioned more particularly at the beginning of this present Journal as followeth The Queens Majesty came to the Upper House somewhat after three of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Thursday being the 9 th day of this instant February of which the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law their Speaker who having in the name of the House presented her Majesty with the Bill of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and amongst other things desired her Majesties Royal Assent to such Laws as had passed the two Houses he was Answered according to her Majesties Commandment by the Lord Keeper that she thankfully accepted the said Gift of her Loving Subjects and very well allowed of the said Speakers pains and Speech Then M r Smith the Clerk of the Upper House having read the Titles of all the Acts her Majesty gave her said Royal Assent to twenty four publick Acts or Statutes and to nineteen private and refused or quashed forty eight several Bills which had passed both the Houses After which Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England by her Majesties Commandment Dissolved this present Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A Journal of the passages of the Upper House of Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 43 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1601. which began there on Tuesday the 27 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 19 th Day of December ensuing Anno 44 Reginae ejusdem THIS Journal of the Upper House containing part of the passages of the Upper House in the 10 th and last Parliament of her Majesties Reign is plentifully stored not only with the ordinary business of Reading Bills with the Committing Amending and expediting of them but also with divers very useful and good Precedents touching the Liberties and Priviledges of the House it self In which also divers Speeches and other passages which were not found in the Original Book of the said House are supplied out of other private Journals of that time of very good Authority But yet to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journals is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by some Animadversion or expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it Before the particular relation of each days passages of the Upper House in this Parliament be inserted out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the said House all the Proxies both usual and unusual entred also at the beginning thereof which had been returned and delivered in unto the Clerk of the said House during the continuance of the same are here in the next place to be transcribed and set down all of them together and cannot be so orderly digested and referred to each day on which they were returned as formerly they have been For whereas before this Parliament and the last past in Anno 39 Reginae Eliz. Henry Spilman and Anthony Mason Esquires who had been successively Clerks of the said Upper House did usually enter the said Proxies at the beginning of each Journal with express mention of several days on which they were introducted or returned now Thomas Smith Esquire as well in this Parliament as in that which last preceded in the said 39 th year of her Majesty when he succeeded unto the said Anthony Mason in the place of the said Clerk of the Upper House did only generally enter them at the beginning of this present and that last foregoing Journal de Anno 39 Eliz. as aforesaid as had been formerly accustomed saving that it differed somewhat in the manner of entring them and that the several days also on which they had been introducted and delivered unto him were not at all set down or expressed Which course having heen since also followed unto this present year 1629. the said Proxies can be no more referred to the proper days as in divers foregoing Journals they have been but must be once for all generally set down at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following Literae procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae Archipiescopi Eboracensis Matthaei c. qui procuratores suos constituit Johan Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Tobiam Episcopum Dunelmen ' conjunctim divisim Nota That whereas there is an c. after the word Matthaei in the Proxie foregoing it seemeth that these words are left out viz. absentis ex licentia Dominae Reginae and so if nothing had been omitted the said Proxie as may very probably be conjectured should have been thus inserted Archiepiscopi Eboracensis Matthaei absentis ex licentia Dominae Reginae qui procuratores c. as is before set down Nota also that the Proxies are all entred in the Genitive Case and must therefore be referred to those foregoing words viz. Literae procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae Henrici Episcopi Carliolen qui procuratores suos constituit Matthaeum Archiepiscopum Eboracen ' Ricardum Episcopum Cestren ' conjunctim divisim Galsridi Episcopi Gloucestren ' qui procuratores suos constituit Ricardum Episcopum London Anthonium Episcopum Meneven ' Gulielmum Episcopum Exon ' conjunctim divisim Herberti Episcopi Hereforden ' qui procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Rossen ' Gulielmum Episcopum Coventr ' Litchfield Gulielmum Episcopum Norwicen ' conjunctim divisim Gulielmi Episcopi Norwicen ' qui procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Nota That the Bishops Proxies are set before the Proxies of the
ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 18 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Wednesday the 18 th day of February Anno Domini 1575. and was Prorogued on Thursday the 15 th day of March ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 23. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 16 th day of January Anno Domini 1580. and was Dissolved on Friday the 19 th day of April Anno Domini 1583. The Parliament held in the 27 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 23. day of November Anno Domini 1584. and was Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th day of September An. Domini 1586. Anno 28 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 28 th and 29 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Saturday the 29 th day of October Anno Domini 1586. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 23. of March Anno 29 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 31. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 4 th day of February Anno Domini 1588. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 29 th day of March Anno Domini 1589. The Parliament held in the 35 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 19 th day of November Anno Domini 1592. and was Dissolved on Tuesday the 10 th day of April Anno Domini 1593. The Parliament held in the 39. and 40. years of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 24. day of October Anno Domini 1597. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 9 th day of February An. 40 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 43. and 44 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 27 th day of October Anno Domini 1601. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 19 th day of December ensuing Anno 44. Regin ejusdem The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor or others who supplied their places as Speakers of the House of Lords during all the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH as also all the Names of all the Clerks of the said House of Parliament together with the Names of the several Speakers of the House of Commons and Clerks of the same House during all the Parliaments of the said Queens Reign The several Years of her Majesties Reign in which the said Parliaments or Sessions of Parliament were held The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor c. and of the Clerks of the House of Lords The Names of the Speakers of the House of Commons and of the Clerks of the same House IN the Parliament held in the first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England whose place was supplied Mar. 4. by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight Speaker  Francis Spilman Esquire Clerk of the Upper House ..... Seimour Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper Thomas Williams Esq Speaker The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the ninth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his being sick of the Gout First by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England after by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Richard Onslow Esq the Queens Sollicitor  The same Clerk who either died or surrendred his place before the next Parl. began in An. 13 Reg. Eliz. The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench. Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law Speaker  Anthony Mason aliàs Wilkes succeeded Francis Spilman in the place of the Clerk of the House of Lords Fulk Onslow Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fourteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied in his absence for divers days by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Robert Bell Esq Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the eighteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes in his absence by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England The same Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the twenty third Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor John Popham Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty seventh Year of Qucen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty eighth and twenty ninth Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker again  The same Clerk The same Clerk from Oct. 29. to Dec. 2. 1589. And the same Clerks Kinsman W. Onslow Gent. from Febr. 15. to March 23. ensuing In the Parliament held in the thirty first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor George Snagg Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty ninth and fortieth Years of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law Speaker  Thomas Smith Esq succeeded Clerk of the Upper House to Anthony Mason alids Wilkes The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the 43 44 Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper J. Croke Esq Recorder of London The same Clerk The same Clerk THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A o 1 o Regin Eliz. A. D. 1558 1559. The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster A o 1 o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1558. beginning there after one Prorogation of the same on Wednesday the 25 th of January and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Monday the 8 th day of May Anno Dom. 1559. QUeen Mary Deceased on Thursday the 17 th day of November in the year of our Lord 1558. and the Parliament then Assembled in the 6th and last year of her Reign thereby immediately Dissolving the thrice Excellent and Prudent Princess Queen Elizabeth according to her right and Hereditary Title without any opposition or difficulty King Philip being then very happily absent beyond the
Seas Succeeded to all the Realms and Dominions of Mary her Sister excepting Callais and those other inestimable places in France which had been most dishonourably and vainly lost in the time and towards the end of the Reign of the said Queen and finding also the Innocent Blood of Gods Saints shed for the Witness of the Truth to have stained the former Government with the just Brand and Stigma of persecuting and Tyrannical And that her Realms and Dominions were much impoverished and weakened whilst in the mean time her Enemies every where abroad were encreased not only in Number but in Strength and Power She therefore in the very entrance of her Reign well considering and foreseeing that the surest and safest way to Establish the Truth to abolish all Foreign and usurped Authority to repair the breaches and weaknesses of her said Realms and Dominions to strengthen her Kingdoms with Shipping and Munition and to revive the decayed Trade thereof was by the common advice and Council and with the Publick assent of the Body of her Realm did Summons herfirst Parliament to begin on Monday the 23th day of January having before made and appointed that wise and able Statesman Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England In the setting down of this Journal of the upper House in An. 1. Reg. Eliz. An. Dom. 1558. Summoned to begin at the day and place aforesaid I have caused to be Transcribed many things at large out of the original Journal Book Some things also of Form I have added to it which are in the very Original it self omitted in this regard only because they were but matters of Course and not much material yet I was much desirous both in this Journal of the Upper House and in that also of the House of Commons in this first year of the Queen to supply once for all the whole matter of Form that so I might the better omit it in the following Journals and have ready recourse hither unto it being all framed into one Structure or Body In this Journal of this first year is set down the ground form and return of the Writs of Summons with their usual and common differences the Commission for Prorogation and the form of Proroging the Parliament to a surther day The manner of the beginning of the Parliament with the Sitting of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal The places of Peers under age and of Noblemens Sons their Fathers living and the difference The whole form Verbatim of the Receivers and Tryers of Petitions And lastly for what or by whose Licence the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal may absent themselves from the Parliament House and send their Proxies the forms of Proxies the cause of a Vacat the several observations upon the return of such usual or unusual Proxies as were this Parliament returned the returns of which are set down at large out of the Original Journal Book it self with divers other things of the like nature and are digested as the following Passages of this first Parliament of Queen Eliz. into an orderly and exact Journal Before the Writs for the Summoning of this Parliament were sent forth the Queens Majesty did send her Warrant to Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England commanding him speedily to cause the said Writs to be made as in like cases had been formerly accustomed the usual Form of which Warrant being by Bill Signed is as followeth Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right Wel-beloved Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England Greeting Whereas we by our Council for certain great and urgent Causes concerning us the good Estate and Common-wealth of this our Realm and of the Church of England and for the good Order and continuance of the same have appointed and Ordained a Parliament to be holden at our City of Westminster the sirst day of April next coming in which case divers and sundry Writs are to be directed forth under our Great Seal of England as well for the Prelates Bishops and Nobility of this our Realm as also for the Election of Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the several Counties Cities and Burroughs Towns of the same to be present at the said Parliament at the day and place aforesaid Whereupon We Will and Command you forthwith upon the receipt hereof and by Warrant of the same to cause such and so many Writs to be made and Sealed under our Great Seal for the accomplishing of the same as in like Cases hath been heretofore used and accustomed And this Bill Signed with our own hand shall be as well unto you as to every such Clerk and Clerks as shall make and pass the same a sufficient Warrant or Discharge in that behalf given Upon this Warrant the Lord Keeper sends out the said Writs of Summons returnable the 23th day of January being Monday and bearing Date at Westminster the 5th day of December in the first year of the Queen the form of which Writ is as followeth Elizabetha Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Clarissimo Consanguineo suo Thomae Duci Norfolciae c. Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Consilij nostri pro quibusdam ardius urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quodd am Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterij vicessimo tertio die Januarij proximè futuro teneri ordinaverimus ibidem vobiscum cum Prelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo Mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quâcunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatur ' vestrumque consilium impensur ' hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem Defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedict ' expeditionemque negotiorum dictorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste me ipsà apud Westmonasterium quinto Die Decembris Anno Regni nostri primo The Writ to the Archbishop of York for the See of Canterbury was now void by the Death of Cardinal Pool was after this Form ensuing Elizabetha Dei Gratia c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Nicholao Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' c. And so to the end as it is in the Duke of Norfolks Writ unless perhaps after the word Mandamus the words following are in fide dilectione quibus nobis tenemini c. instead of these words to the Temporal Lords Sub fide Ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini The Writs that were directed to the two Marquesses of Winchester and Northampton and to
you And I shall pray as I am bound to God for your long and prosperous Reign over us Then her Majesty called the Lord Keeper and Commanded him to Answer him which he did as followeth M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard your humble Petitions and request made unto her the effect whereof she gathereth to stand in two points first for access to her person and secondly for good interpretation of your meaning and also larger Declaration thereof if need be For the former her Highness as her Noble Progenitors have done is well contented that in convenient time and for convenient Causes in convenient place and without importunity for that these parts now touched have not been afore this time so well handled as she trusteth now it shall be which considered as free access she granteth you as any other hath had For the second point because no man at all times may do so well but sometimes things may be uttered which may be mispoken for which cause in that time also you shall have her intreatable but she thinketh your circumspection to be such as she shall not therein need And so ended Now a word or two to remember you here present of both the Houses first this it is that I would advise you in this your proceeding to prefer the most weighty matters first and not trouble your selves with small matters and of no weight and therein also that all be done to understand the truth and to avoid all superfluous matters and losing or driving away of time Secondly It is profitable that you my Lords and all others that be here consider that long time requireth great expences and therefore wish you to make Expedition the rather to avoid the same And yet not meaning such Expedition that any thing needful to be done should be lightly passed over and not substantially done and seen unto but only I mean that you should settle your selves wholly to mighty matters and those which be necessary and to spare superfluous things and which needeth not And this is the sum I have to say Then the Speaker and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having made their low Reverence towards her Majesty departed to their own House and the Queen after the Lord Keeper had by her Majesties Commandment continued the Parliament unto the Morrow following returned into her Privy-Chamber and there shifted her and then repaired to her Barge and so to the Court Hactenus ex Memoriali praefato On Thursday the third day of October were three Bills read of which the last being the Bill for the better Execution of certain Statutes and for the reformation of certain disorders used in the Law was read primâ vice tunc commissa Archiepiscopo Cantuarien Duci Norfolciae Comiti Mareschall Angliae Comiti Salopiae Comiti Wigorniae Comiti Leicester Episcopo Dunelmen Episcopo Elien Episcopo Carliolen Domino Cobham Domino Grey de Wilton Domino Haistings Domino Primario Justiciario Banci Regis Domino Primario Baroni Scaccarii Scrvienti Carus Nota That this days passages are wholly transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House as are also the greatest part of the days following although the whole proceedings of Wednesday foregoing were inserted out of the before-mentioned Anonymous memorial touching the Speakers presentment and allowance which I had by me Nota also That the former Bill touching the better Execution of certain Statutes c. was not only committed upon the first reading which is not usual till after the second but committed also to the Judges being but Assistants of the Upper House and to the Queens Serjeant being but a meer Attendant upon the same jointly with the Lords the only proper and undoubted Members of that Great Council which is a matter to be observed because of later days neither the said Assistants nor Attendant are ever appointed joint Committees with the Lords as here but only Commanded by the House to attend upon the Committee and there to give such advice as shall be required from them which is no greater respect yielded them at a Committee than in the House it self sitting the Parliament and were they still admitted to be Committees as they usually were in all these first Parliaments of the Queen yet could no inconvenience ensue thereby because at a Committee things are only prepared and made ready for the House in which and no where else they ought to be concluded and expedited And Nota lastly That the Parliament was this day continued to Saturday the 5 th day of October ensuing but whether by the Lord Keeper who as it seems at this time fell sick of the Gout or by the Lord Treasurer who for a while afterwards was appointed by the Queens Commission to continue it according to the usual form and course in such case used doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is omitted through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq now Clerk of the same House On Saturday the 5 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the taking away Clergy in certain Cases was read secundâ vice commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Duci Norf. Comiti Huntington Comiti Leicester Vice-Comiti Mountague Episcopo London Episcopo Dunelmen Episcopo Lincoln Domino Clinton Domino Morley Domino Wentworth Domino Willoughby Domino North Domino Hunsdon the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron Nota That the Judges being meer Assistants and no Members of the Upper House were here also made joint Committees with the Lords which hath never been admitted of in later times These two Bills were read the Lord Keeper by reason of his being sick of the Gout abstaining this day and a good while aster from the Upper House and therefore William Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England was Authorized by verbal Commission from the Queen to supply his place and accordingly continued the Parliament unto Monday next being the 7 th day of October the form and manner whereof although the President be very rare and of great use is only entred very briefly in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in these words following Hodie dictus Thesaurarius ex Mandato Dominae Reginae eò quod Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Podagrae Morbo laboraret continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proxim horâ consuetâ Nota That here the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England did supply the Lord Keepers place in the Upper House without any Authority given him by Commission under the great Seal which in like Cases is usual and therefore it is most probable that her Majesty did by word of Mouth give him this Commandment or Commission either in private or in the presence of some other Lords of the Upper House which although it
Grey Marquess Dorset and Frances his Wife the Eldest Daughter and Coheir of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk by Mary the French Queen being the youngest Daughter of Henry the Seventh and especially seeing that the Queen of Scots having Married the Lord Darley whom she had Created Duke of Albany and had by him Issue a Son born before the beginning of this Session of Parliament who afterwards was Monarch of Great Britain and duly considering also that the Scottish Queen had during the Life of the French King her Husband by his means pretended a right to the Kingdom of England before the Queen her self in respect of the Popes Authority and that some also did not stick to set a broach the Title of the Lady Elianor being the younger Sister and Coheir with the Countess of Hartford Married to the Earl of Cumberland therefore I say all these said premisses being duly weighed by both the said Houses of Parliament it made them to be more earnest in Petitioning her Majesty at this time to the same effect although it seemeth that the Petition delivered at this time was chiefly preferred in the name of the Lords of the Upper House as that other Petition had formerly been preferred in the Name of the Commons in the first Session of this Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. whence it hath come to pass that neither of these Petitions being set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of Commons in either of these two Sessions of Parliament the times of their delivery have been exceedingly confounded together in all such several Copies as I have perused of them in which as also in Sir Robert Cotton's first Volume of the Journals of Parliament of the Queens time which are very imperfect and fragmentary they are erroneously Entred to have been both delivered in An. 1563. in which Year as also in part of the Year 1562. the Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. was continued Post Meridiem The Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer and the other Lords whose names are mentioned in the former part of this day with Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold and Sir William Cecill Knight her Majesties Principal Secretary and divers other Members of the House of Commons repaired to her Majesty this Afternoon being at her Palace of Whitehall to receive Answer from her Highness touching those two great businesses of her Marriage and the Declaration of her Successor as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 266. a. where the report of her Majesties Answer is set down which she gave this Afternoon although there be no mention at all thereof in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House And that this was the cause and ground of their attending upon her Majesty at this time appeareth also plainly by a certain Manuscript Memorial or Diary kept and set down by Sir William Cecill her Highness Principal Secretary and afterwards Lord Treasurer of England of the passages of the greatest part of her Majesties Reign in which the words are as followeth Nov. 5. The Queen had before her thirty Lords and thirty of the Commons of the Parliament to receive her Answer concerning the Petition for the Succession and for Marriage But whether the Lords preferred their said Petition this Afternoon or whether they had supplicated her Majesty any time before doth not any where certainly appear neither can I possibly gather further than by conjecture and so it is most probable that though her Majesty had notice before what their Petition was yet it was not preferred till this Afternoon For but on Saturday Morning foregoing which was the second day of this instant November it is plain that the Committees of the House of Commons as appeareth by the Original Journal-Book of the same House on Thursday the 31 th day of October fol. 264. b. on which day the said meeting of the Committees was appointed did then meet to consider and agree upon such reasons as they should shew to the Committees of the Lords whereby they might induce her Majesty both to encline to Marriage and to declare a Successor And however Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal be not nominated in either of the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House and House of Commons to have been present with the before-mentioned Lords and others yet it is plain that if the said Petition was preferred this Afternoon or whensoever else it was delivered from his mouth as may be gathered from the very Petition it self ensuing and is so also expresly set down by M r Camden in Annal Regin Eliz. edit Lugdun Batav A. D. 1625. pag. 99. and though he had abstained a while about this time from the Upper House by reason of his infirmity of the Gout yet he was now in the way of amendment and recovery repairing again to the said House on Saturday the 9. day of this instant November ensuing and therefore might very well meet the before-mentioned Lords and other the selected Members of the House of Commons at the Court this Afternoon So then it being most probable that the Lords did both prefer their Petition this Afternoon to her Majesty touching those two great matters of the Marriage and Succession and also received her Majesties Answer Therefore the said Petition doth here first ensue which the Lord Keeper pronounced in these or the like words following MOST humbly beseecheth your Excellent Majesty your Faithful Loving and Obedient Subjects all your Lords both Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in Parliament in your Upper House to be so much their good Lady and Soveraign as according to your accustomed benignity to grant a Gracious and Favourable Hearing to their Petitions and Suits which with all Humbleness and Obedience they are come hither to present to your Majesty by my Mouth in matters very nearly and dearly touching your most Royal Person the Imperial Crown of this your Realm and Universal Weal of the same which Suits for that they tend to the surety and preservation of these three things your Person Crown and Realm the Dearest Jewel that my Lords have in the Earth therefore they think themselves for divers respects greatly bound to make these Petitions as first by their Duty to God then by their Allegiance to your Highness and lastly by the Faith they ought to bear to their natural Country And like as most Gracious Soveraign by these Bonds they should have been bound to make the like Petition upon like occasion to any Prince that it should have pleased God to have appointed to Reign over them so they think themselves doubly bound to make the same to your Majesty considering that besides the Bond before-mentioned they stand also bound so to do by the great and manifold benefits they have and do receive daily at your Highness hands which shortly to speak be as great as the Fruits of Peace common quiet and Justice can give and this
had notice that divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal with Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England were Assembled in the Upper House and expected their repair thither they presently went up unto the Lords where the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Majesty under the Great Seal of England directed unto him which he Commanded the Clerk openly to read Which said Commission as also the greatest part of the foregoing days passages are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and inserted here as into the due and proper place Which very things were in part also mentioned in the Original Book of the House of Commons with the passages of this present Tuesday although in both I have not omitted to supply some things my self which might easily be gathered by the comparing of several things together The Tenor of the said Commission ensueth verbatim ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right well Beloved Chancellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England Greeting Where in the beginning of this present Parliament holden at Westminster the 12 th day of January in the fifth Year of our Reign the Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled in the same Year in the same Parliament were Commanded by us to go to their accustomed place and there to chuse among themselves one to be their Speaker according to their accustomed manner whereupon the same Knights Citizens and Burgesses did Elect and chuse one Thomas Williams Esq to be their Speaker and the same their Election did afterwards certifie unto us which we did allow and ratifie since which time this our present Parliament hath been continued by divers Prorogations until the 30. of September in this present eighth Year of our Reign at which day the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and also the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled for this present Parliament at Westminster in their accustomed places the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses have declared unto us that the said Thomas Williams since the last Session of this present Parliament is dead And thereupon have made their humble Suit and Petition unto us that they might have Licence and Commandment from us to proceed to elect among themselves one other to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come Wherefore We having certain and perfect knowledge that the said Thomas Williams is dead as they have alledged and considering their humble Petition and Request very meet and necessary to be granted have appointed and Constituted you and by these Presents We do Will Command Constitute and Appoint you for us and in our Name to call the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses before you and other the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in this our present Parliament in the Higher House of our Parliament at Westminster and there for us and in our Name to Will and Command the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses to resort to their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one sufficient and able person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament to come And after they have so made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names shall signifie the same unto us And thereupon we will further signifie our pleasure unto them what day and time they shall present the person Elected before us as heretofore hath been in like cases accustomed to be done wherefore our Will and Pleasure is that you do diligently attend about the doing of the premises and execute the same with effect In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters of Commission to be Sealed with our Great Seal of England Witness our Self at Westminster the first day of October in the Eighth Year of our Reign The residue of this Days Passages follows out of the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the said Commission had been read the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons departed into their own House where Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold declared unto them that for as much as Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor General was a Member of their said House being Elected a Burgess for the Borough of ..... in the County of Sussex they would use some means to have him restored unto them who as yet attended in the Upper House to join with them in their Election of a Speaker And thereupon notice thereof being given to the Lords of the Upper House upon Consultation had amongst them the said M r Onslow was sent down with the Queens Serjeant at Law M r Carus and M r Attorney General to shew for himself why he should not be a Member of this House who alledging many weighty reasons as well for his Office of Sollicitor as for his Writ of Attendance in the Upper House was nevertheless adjudged to be a Member of this House And thereupon proceeding to the Election M r Comptroller nominated M r Onslow to be Speaker who humbly disabled himself as well for non-ability of substance meet for that place as also for his Oath made to the Queens Majesty and required them to proceed to a new Election upon whose Arguments the House was divided and the number to have him Speaker was eighty two and the contrary was sixty And immediately M r Comptroller and M r Vice-Chamberlain brought him from his place to the Chair and there set him down On Wednesday the second day of October between three and four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired to the Upper House having notice that her Majesty with the Lords and divers others were already set in the said House expecting their coming where Richard Onslow Esq their Speaker Elect was led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said House between Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain and so presented unto her Majesty where having disabled himself in many respects he was notwithstanding allowed by her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper After which having desired free access to her Highness and pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly fail or mistake the Lord Keeper by her Majesties Commandment declared her full Assent to the said particulars And thereupon the said Speaker being now compleatly and perfectly invested in his place departed back with the residue of the House of Commons unto their own House where according to the usual Form one Bill had its first reading viz. The Bill how Sanctuary-persons shall be compellable for payment of their Debts Nota That the Passages of this Afternoon containing in them the manner of the Presentment and Allowance of
only the said Elected Knights who as those also who opposed them brought their Councel on both sides and were fully heard what they could say After which also Mr. Recorder and himself desiring fully to inquire into this matter had conferred and devised therein with the Clerk of the Crown-Office in the Chancery and comparing those Records together with some of the Statutes Ordained in those Cases they do find such difference in them tending to matter of effect and to be Answered by the Sheriff if there be cause and not for any matter in their opinions for this House to deal with whereby to cassate or make void the said Election as they take it And yet because that resteth now chiefly upon matter of Precedents to see further how this House may decide this cause he declared that Mr. Recorder and he will make further search of the Precedents in like Cases with the Clerk of the higher House for that purpose and then further to advertise this House as cause shall require Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 8 th day and on Saturday the 12 th day of this instant December foregoing The Bill for the preservation of the Haven of Plymouth was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Drake M r Wroth Mr. Edgcombe and others who were appointed to meet the third day of the next sitting of this Court in Lincolns-Inn Hall in the Afternoon of the same day A new Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses was read the first time Mr. Sollicitor touching the excessive number of penal Laws in force very intolerable to the Subjects neither possible to be kept and yet not any put in Execution as that for Apparel in King H. 8. his time and such like moved that a Committee be had of some selected Members of this House learned in the Laws to make a view of the same Laws against the next sitting of this Court after the Adjournment of the same to the end that this House may then thereupon proceed to some course of diminishing the great number of the same as upon due considerations in that behalf to be had shall be further thought meet and convenient And thereupon were named and chosen for that purpose all the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Morrice Mr. Sandes Mr. Attorney of the Wards and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday before the next Term in the Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn Hall The Bill for paving of the Town of Newark upon Trent after the third reading passed upon the question Mr. Treasurer and the residue of the Committees returning from the Lords he declared that they have received some Answer from their Lordships upon the Conference and referred the report thereof to Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer as unto whom the same was by their said Lordships appointed to be delivered over unto this House Whereupon Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer declared that their Lordships had caused the said Notes in writing to be read in the House and their Lordships found the said grievances to concern but some particular Countries and not the whole Realm to wit the Countries only of Warwick Lincoln and Essex and therefore might be considered to be reformed in time by some other convenient means But being Answered by the Committees of this House that albeit there were Petitions in writing exhibited but for these three Counties yet by Motions and Speeches in the House it well appeared to be the grief of the whole Realm Which their Lordships having understood did feelingly express how sensible they were of it and how truly they did join with us of the House of Commons in wishing the reformation thereof and were now ready to aid us with their best assistances therein as erst in the two last former Sessions of Parliament they had done at both which times her Majesty had thereupon Commanded some of the Lords of the Clergy to take care and consideration of the same causes wherein as little or nothing hath been done for case or redress of the same so their Lordships of the Upper House not minding to impute the fault thereof to any and yet remembring withal that their Lordships were present when her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord Chancellor did give Commandment unto Mr. Speaker not to deal in the House of Commons with matters concerning Religion or the Church without her Highness pleasure first known and therefore do also take the same Commandment to extend as well to their Lordships as to this House have resolved that those of the Lords which are of her Majesties Privy-Council do first move her Highness to know her Majesties Pleasure therein before they proceed any further in the matter The Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and the Master of the Rolls being sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons and admitted into the said House the said Lord Chief Justice having in his hand a Commission under the Great Seal of England declared unto Mr. Speaker that her Majesty having given Authority by Commission under the Great Seal of England unto divers of my Lords the Bishops Earls and Barons of the Upper House to Adjourn this Parliament unto the 4 th day of February next coming the said Lords Commissioners have Adjourned the same in the Upper House and their Lordships have thereupon also sent them to this House to signifie the same Adjournment over unto this House that the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and Barons of this House may likewise take notice of the same Adjournment accordingly Which thing was also after their departure out of this House declared unto this House by Mr. Speaker And so thereupon this Court by Warrant and in sorm aforesaid was adjourned unto the said 4 th day of February next coming Which done M r Vice-Chamberlain standing up and putting the House in remembrance of her Majesties most Princely and loving kindnesses signified unto this House in the former Messages and Declarations of her Highnesses thankful acceptations of the dutiful cares and travails of this House in the Service of her Majesty and the Realm moved the House that besides the rendring of our most humble and Loyal thanks unto her Highness we do being assembled altogether joyn our hearts and minds together in most humble and earnest prayer unto Almighty God for the long continuance of the most prosperous preservation of her Majesty with most due and thankful acknowledgment of his infinite benefits and blessings poured upon this whole Realm through the mediation of her Highnesses Ministry unde him And he said he had a Paper in writing in his hand devised and set down by an honest godly and learned man and which albeit it was not very well written yet he would willingly read it as well as he could if it pleased them to follow and say after him as
well thereof And thereupon made Choice of divers Lords whose names see at large on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing And they of the House of Commons appointed their Speaker and all the Privy-Council of that House and so many others as in all with the Privy-Council made up the Number of 42. Persons to join with the said Lords And they altogether understanding first her Majesties pleasure for the time of their repair to her Highness presence which was signified to be on Saturday the 12 th day of November the Lord Chancellor in the name of the Lords and the Speaker in the name of the House of Commons declared unto her Majesty That both the Lords and Commons after often Conferences and long consultation had concluded to be humble Suitors unto her Majesty by way of Petition the effect whereof was then at good length opened unto her Majesty by the Lord Chancellor and Speaker and the Petition thereupon delivered unto her Majesty in writing And where it was before desired by them of the said House of Commons that presently upon the Agreement of the Form of the Petition it might be entered into the Rolls of the Parliament the Lords thought it better to stay the enterance thereof until it were presented unto her Highness which done the Lords ordered that this Friday the 25 th day of November the said Petition should be entered into the Parliament Roll in manner and form following viz. May it please your most Excellent Majesty Our must Gracious Soveraign We your humble loving and faithful Subjects the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled having of long time to our intolerable grief seen by how manifold most dangerous and execrable practices Mary the Daughter and Heir of James the Fifth late King of Scots Dowager of France and commonly called Queen of Scots hath compassed the destruction of your Majesties sacred and most Royal Person in whose safety next under God our chief and only felicity doth consist and thereby not only to bereave us of the sincere and true Religion of Almighty God bringing us and this Noble Crown back again into the Thraldom of the Romish Tyranny but also utterly to ruinate and overthrow the happy State and Common Weal of this most Noble Realm which being from time to time by the great mercy and providence of God and your Highness singular wisdom foreseen and prevented your Majesty of your exceeding great Clemency and Princely Magnanimity hath either most graciously passed over or with singular favour tolerated although often and instantly moved by your most loving and faithful Subjects to the contrary in times of your Parliaments and at many other times and hath also protected and desended the said Scottish Queen from those great dangers which her own people for certain detestable Crimes and offences to her imputed had determined against her All which notwithstanding the same Queen was nothing moved with these and many other your Majesties most gracious favours towards her but rather obdurate in malice and by hope of continual impunity imboldened to prosecute her cruel and mischievous determination by some speedy and violent course and now lately a very dangerous Plot being conceived and set down by Anthony Babington and others That six desperate and wicked persons should undertake that wicked and most horrible enterprize to take away your Majesties Life whom God of his infinite mercy long preserve she did not only give her advice and direction upon every point and all circumstances concerning the same make earnest request to have it performed with all diligence but did also promise assurance of large reward and recompence to the doers thereof which being informed to your Majesty it pleased your Highness upon the earnest Suit of such as tendred the safety of your Royal Person and the good and quiet state of this Realm to direct your Commission under the Great Seal of England to the Lords and others of your Highness Privy-Council and certain other Lords of Parliament of the greatest and most antient Degree with some of your principal Judges to examine hear and determine the same Cause and thereupon to give Sentence or Judgment according to a Statute in that behalf made in the twenty seventh year of your most Gracious Reign By vertue whereof the more part of the same Commissioners being in number thirty six having at sundry times fully heard what was alledged and proved against the said Scottish Queen in her own presence touching the said crimes and offences and what she could say for her defence and excuse therein did after long deliberation give their Sentence and Judgment with one consent that the death and destruction of your Royal Person was imagined and compassed by the said Anthony Babington with the privity of the same Scottish Queen And that she her self did also compass and imagine the death and destruction of your most Royal Person Now for as much as we your Majesties most humble loyal and dutiful Subjects representing unto your most Excellent Majesty the universal State of your whole people of all degrees in this your Realm do well perceive and are fully satisfied that the same Sentence and Judgment is in all things most honourable just and lawful And having carefully and effectually according to our most bounden duties weighed and considered upon what ground and cause so many Traiterous complots and dangerous practices against your most Royal Person and Estate and for the invading of this Realm have for the space of many years past grown and proceeded do certainly find and are undoubtedly perswaded that all the same have been from time to time attempted and practised by and from the Scottish Queen and by her Confederates Ministers and Favourers who conceive an assured hope to atchieve speedily by your Majesties untimely death that which they have long expected and whereof during your Life which God long preserve to our inestimable Comfort they despair to wit to place her the said Scottish Queen in the Imperial and Kingly Seat of this Realm and by her to banish and destroy the Professors and professing of the true Religion of Jesus Christ and the antient Nobility of this Land and to bring this whole State and Common-Weal to Foreign Subjection and utter ruin and confusion which their malicious and traiterous purpose they will never cease to prosecute by all possible means they can so long as they may have their Eyes and Imaginations fixed upon that Lady the only ground of their treasonable hope and conceits and the only Seed-plot of all dangerous and traiterous devices and practices against your Sacred Person And seeing also what insolent boldness is grown in the heart of the same Queen through your Majesties former exceeding favours and Clemencies towards her and thereupon weighing with heavy and sorrowful hearts in what continual peril of such like desperate Conspiracies and practices your Majesties most Royal and Sacred Person and Life more dear unto us than
this Journal of the Upper House save only the return of divers unusual Proxies and a Speech used by her Majesty her self at the conclusion of the Parliament which also is supplied out of a certain Journal of the House of Commons very claborately taken by an Anonymus And Sir Christopher Haton the late Lord Chancellor being dead since the last Parliament whose death was occasioned from the grief he conceived at some harsh Speeches of her Majesty used unto him touching divers great sums due unto her from him Sir John Puckering her Highness Serjeant who had been twice before Speaker or Prolocutor of the House of Commons succeeded him in the full power and priviledges of his place though not in his title he having only the Stile of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England The Summons for this Parliament being Returnable upon this Monday the 19 th day of February it held accordingly the Queen coming privately by water accompanied with Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and many of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal There being present this day these Peers and others ensuing Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Johannes Puckering Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Wintoniae Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Angliae Comes Darby Magnus Seneschallus Comes Northumbriae Comes Salopiae Comes Cantiae Comes Wigorn. Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Huntingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembroke Comes Hartford Comes Essex Comes Lincoln Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Assaphen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Covent ' Lich. Episcopus Lincoln Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Hertf. Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Bangor Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Landaven Episcopus Salopiae Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Barones Dominus Howard mag Maresc ' Adm. Angliae Dominus Hunsdon Camerarius Reginae Dominus Strange Dominus Morley Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey Dominus Scroope Dominus Montjoy Dominus Sandes Dominus Windsor Dominus Cromwell Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby Dominus Sheffield Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus St. John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus De la Ware Dominus Crompton Dominus Norris And the Queen and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal having on their Parliamentary Robes and having seated themselves in their several places The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and repaired to the Upper House Where contrary to the Ancient use and Custome they found the door shut upon them which happened by reason that divers of the House and others having gotten in privately before and filled up the place at the Bar or Rayl at the lower end of the said House Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by Commandment from her Majesty had already made some enterance into his Speech before the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses had any Notice of it who sate in their own House expecting to be called up to the said Upper House upon her Majesties coming But the door at length being opened by her Majesties Commandment about two of the Clock in the Afternoon as many as conveniently could were let in Where the Lord Keepers Speech was directly in these words following or not much differing from them He shewed in the first place as matter of Preface and Ornament not much material somewhat touching the Antiquity Nature and use of Parliaments Then he came to set forth as the principal matter which her Majesty did desire to have made known and manifest to all her loving Subjects the great Malice of the King of Spain which he had towards this Realm And that he shewed by sundry instances as his last Invasion intended his Forces then addressed out of the Low Countries for that purpose to have been conducted by the Duke of Parma And then he proceeded in the rest of his Oration verbatim or much to the intent and purpose sollowing The high and mighty Ships that then he prepared and sent for that purpose because he found them not fit for our Seas and such a purpose he is building of Ships of a less Bulk after another Fashion some like French Ships some like the Shipping of England and many hath he gotten out of the Low Countries He is now for the better invading of England planting him in Britanie a Country of more facility to offend us than the Low Countries there he hath fortified himself in the most strong Holds of that Country In Scotland he hath of late wrought most of the Nobility to conspire against their King to give Landing to his Forces there and to assist him in his Invasion thither A greater part of the Nobility in Scotland be combined in this Conspiracy and they have received great Sums of Money for their service therein And to assure the King of Spain of their assistance they have Signed and sent their promises sealed to the King This Conspiracy the King of Scots was hardly brought to believe but that her Majesty advertised him thereof having entertained Intelligence thereof as she hath of all things done and intended in those parts And that the King might better advise thereupon her Majesty hath sent one of her Noblemen now into Scotland and the King hath assured her Majesty with all his Ability and endeavour to prevent the Spaniard whose purpose is on the North parts to assault us by Land and on the South side to invade us by Sea which is the most dangerous practice that could be devised against us And now the rage of this Enemy being such his Forces joyned with other Princes his Adherents greater the charge of her Majesty for defence of her Realm both with Forces by Sea and Armies by Land hath been such as hath both spent the Contribution of her Subjects by Subsidies and what otherwise they have offered her and also consumed her Treasure yea caused her to sell part of her Highness's Crown And it is not to be marvelled how all this is consumed but rather to be thought how her Majesty could be able to maintain and defend this her Realm against so many Realms conspired against us Wherefore we her Majesties Subjects must with all dutiful consideration think what is fit for us to do and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty in such an insupportable Charge Were the cause between Friend and Friend how much would we do for the relief one of another But the Cause is now between our Soveraign and our selves seeing there is so much difference in the Parties how much more forward ought we to be The Aid that formerly hath been granted unto her Majesty in these like Cases is with such slackness performed as that the third of that which hath been granted cometh not to her Majesty A great shew a rich grant and a long summ seemeth to be made but it is hard to be gotten and the summ not great which is paid
who accordingly were admitted to their several places Two Bills also this Morning of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for the better Assurance and Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland which was read prima vice On Thursday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Assurance of certain Lands sold to Liste Cave and others was read primâ vice On Saturday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been continued on Thursday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands was read primâ vice On Monday the 5 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being against Counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand 5 Martii introductae sunt literae procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingdon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Gulielmum Dominum Burleigh The saurarium Angliae Robertum Comitem Essex Vicecomitem Hereford ' Dominum Ferrers de Chartly Quod nota On Tuesday the 6 th day of March the Bill for the Assurance of Land sold to Lisle Cave was read tertiâ vice On Wednesday the 7 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued Retornatum est breve quo Johannes Salisburien ' Episcopus praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno There was also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons a Bill for the Naturalizing and making free of William Sidney Son of Sir Robert Sidney Knight Governor of Flushing and Dame Barbara his Wife and of Peregrine Wingfield Son and Heir of Sir John Wingfield Knight and Dame Susan Countess of Kent his Wife And this day also was one extraordinary or unusual Proxy returned from a spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which said Proxy is thus Entred in the begining of the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament 7 Martii introductae sunt literae procuratoriae Matthaei Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday the 8 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason Not long after this Bill upon the second reading had been committed to ingrossing according to a certainOrder formerly made by the Lords Francis Englefield Esquire appeared before them with one of the Learned Councel who were commanded to declare why an Act for Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason should not pass And upon Allegations made by the said Learned Councel the Lords Commanded that they should set them down in writing and deliver them to the Attorney General and that on Friday they should attend on the Judges and the Queens Learned Councel at Serjeants-Inn and shew such Deeds of Conveyance as they made mention of before the Lords That the said Lords upon Answer of the Judges and Learned Councel might proceed in the said Bill as it should seem best to their Lordships On Saturday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Naturalizing and making free of William Sidney the eldest Son of Sir Robert Sidney K t c. being read primâ vice the Lords gave in Commandment to M r Attorney General to bring on Monday certain Depositions remaining in the Exchequer concerning the Cause of Sir Francis Englefield after they had first heard the Opinion of the Judges which was delivered to the Lord Chief Justice of England On Monday the 12 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for restraining of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad was read tertia vice conclusa On Tuesday the 13 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Lands of Henry Lord Abergavenny deceased was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Lords at the Bishop of Worcesters Motion condescended to a Contribution for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London viz. That every Earl should give forty shillings every Bishop thirty shillings and every Baron twenty shillings And appointed the said Bishop and Lord Norris Collectors thereof and committed the bestowing thereof to the Earl of Essex and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby On Thursday the 15 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was read primâ vice On Friday the 16 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment of which the first being against persons Outlawed and such as will not pay their Debts and Duties was read tertia vice conclusa And then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in the usual form to Monday following On Monday the 19 th day of March the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum On Tuesday the 20 th day of March the Bill touching Sir Francis Englefield's Lands had its third reading and was concluded Four Bills were also this Forenoon sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second touching the sale of certain Mannors Lands and Tenements from Valentine Knightley Esq c. was read prima vice On Thursday the 22 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second concerning the Assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to Read Stafford Esquire and Mabell his Wife and to the Heirs of the said Read was read secunda vice On Saturday the 24 th day of March the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was upon the third reading concluded Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was concerning the lawful deprivation of Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London On Monday the 26 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been
intermedling with the Succession of the Crown which she had expresly forbidden Which Passage as also divers other particular Speeches being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are supplied out of another Journal of the same House very exactly and elaborately taken by an Anonymus being a Member of the same at this Parliament but yet with this Caution to avoid confusion that whatsoever is inserted out of the saidAnonymous Journal hath a particular Animadversion annexed unto it for discovery thereof The eighth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith begun at Westminster upon Monday being the 19 th day of February in the thirty fifth year of her Majesties Reign And thereupon many of the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons returned into the same Parliament then made their Appearances at Westminster before the Right Honourable the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of her Majesties most Honourable Houshold and did take the Oath before the said Lord Steward or his Deputies according to the Statute in that behalf lately made and provided The manner of the administring of the said Oath to the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses was as followeth The said Lord Steward removed into the Court of Requests and having called over the said Knights and others that were returned by their names M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of her Majesties Privy-Council took the said Oath before his Honour and then having appointed them his Deputies to swear the residue of the House of Commons who had then appeared according to their several returns he departed And thereupon his Lordships said Deputies proceeded to the further administrating of the aforesaid Oath to other Members of the said House who after they had taken the same entred into it and placed themselves The Fee for entring the name into the Serjeants Book is two shillings The reward to the Door-Keeper three shillings eight pence The Fee for returning the Indenture two shillings About two of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Monday her Highness with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and such others as had place there being let into the Upper House and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as many as conveniently could being at length let in The Right Honourable Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England declared the said Parliament to be called by her Highness only for Consultation and Preparation of Aid to be had and made against the mighty and great Forces of the King of Spain bent and intended against this Realm as well by some practices attempted by him in the Realm of France and with some of the Nobility of Scotland as by many other ways and means to that end and purpose And did in the end advise the said Commons to employ the time of this present Session of Parliament in the aforesaid Consultation and not to go about the making of any new Laws for the Common-Wealth at this time as well for that there are very many good Laws already in force more he said than are well executed as for that also such new Laws if they be needful may be treated of and dealt in at some other time hereafter And so willed them to repair to their accustomed place and make Choice of their Speaker Which done the said Parliament was Adjourned until Thursday next following After which the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being Assembled in the same House the Right Honourable Sir Francis Knowles Knight one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold stood up and putting the House in remembrance of the said Charge of the said Lord Keeper given unto them for chusing of their Speaker and very gravely and amply setting out sundry the good parts and commendable qualities and abilities of the Right Worshipful M r Edward Cooke Esquire Learned in the Laws of this Realm Sollicitor General to her Majesty and being a Member of this House returned into the same one of the Knights for the County of Norfolk doth in the end for his part and opinion nominate the said M r Edward Cooke to be chosen for their Speaker in this present Parliament if the residue of this House shall so think good Unto which Motion as many of the said House assented with their Voices so the said M r Edward Cooke thereupon stood up and very gravely and discreetly behaving himself as well in all due thankfulness unto this House for their said good opinion conceived of him as also in disabling himself in divers respects for the discharge due and requisite for that place humbly prayeth them to proceed to a new Election Which done the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Heneage Knight Vice-Chamberlain to her Majesty and one other of her Highness's most Honourable Privy-Council stood up and not only approving but also very much amplifying the said former sundry commendable gifts and abilities of the said M r Edward Cooke exceeding many others and comparable in his opinion and judgment with any others for that place and charge gathering also the same partly from his own late former Speech of excuses doth in the end resolutely deliver his opinion to make choice of the said M r Cooke to be their Speaker And also thereupon moving the question to the House the said M r Cooke was with one full consent and voice of the whole House nominated and chosen to be their Speaker for this present Parliament And so was thereupon presently brought by the said M r Treasurer and M r Vice-Chamberlain and set in the Chair And immediately after the House did rise and were appointed to repair thither again upon Thursday next following On Thursday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament that begun on Monday foregoing being the 19 th day of the same Month had been continued by Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by her Majesties Commandment the Queens Majesty and divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set in the Upper House the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon they repaired thither with Edward Cooke Esquire her Majesties Sollicitor their lately Elected Speaker who being led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said House by two of the most-eminent Personages of the aforesaid House of Commons after humble reverence made declared unto her Majesty his Election to the said place of Prolocutor and then alledging according to the usual course his own insufficiency did desire her Majesty to enable him to that Charge and to consider that howsoever he were the meanest that ever went before him in that place in respect of Experience yet in respect of his faithfulness he thought himself inferlour to none After which Speech her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord
much use chiefly made in the two Journals of the Upper House and House of Commons in the Parliament held in An. 1 Regin Eliz. 7. And lastly one other unusual or invulgar help for the raising up of this ensuing Structure was a Manuscript Diary I had in my Custody of the greatest part of Queen Elizabeths Reign penned by the Lord Burleigh first Principal Secretary and afterwards Lord Treasurer which said Diary did serve very well to the clearing of some things needful to the perfecting of these ensuing Journals And for Printed helps I made especially use of William Camdens Annals of Queen Elizabeths Reign penned by him in a fluent and good Latin Stile the errors whereof in these Journals are likewise discovered in their due places and of the Printed Books of Statutes as often as occasion requireth in which also some errors and mistakings which escaped in them are fully and plainly convicted and rectified These foregoing materials both in Manuscripts and Print I made use of in a general nature for all these ensuing Journals more or less Now there were also many particular helps I used for several occasions And first for the Journals of either House in An. 1 Regin Eliz. they are all Illustrated with so many quotations of all manner of Records that it would be too tedious to discuss or treat of them at large only it shall here suffice to have given this touch upon it that such as are most frequently vouched are Parliament Rolls Patent Rolls and Foreign Rolls kept within the Tower of London all which will best appear in the perusal of them Where also I had some help out of two Transcripts the one in Latine the other in French of an old Treatise Intituled De modo tenendi Parliamentum in Anglia tempore Regis Edwardi filii Etheldredi For sundry Parliaments also I had several private Journals of the House of Commons in An. 13 Regin Eliz. very imperfect and another in An. 35 Regin ejusdem moderately exact each of them taken by some Member of the House Two other I had the first a Journal of the Passages of the same House in An. 39 40 Reg. Eliz. exceedingly defective and the last de an 43 44. of the same Queen stored with excellent matters Out of all which not only the Journals of the said House of Commons but even of the Upper House also of those Parliaments are much augmented And for the Lord De la Wares Petitions inserted verbatim in the Journal of the Upper House de an 39 40 Regin Eliz. I caused it to be transcribed out of the Bundle of Acts of that Parliament remaining in the Office aforesaid of the Clerk of the Upper House and carefully examined it thereby And thus much shall serve for the materials out of which these ensuing Volumes were collected and transcribed which are all of them for the most part so authentick but especially the Original Journal-Books of either House as there can be no Exception against any thing that doth follow out of them For the second thing touching the Method I have constantly used it hath been thus First before every Journal I have prefixed the just dayes or times of the Beginning Proroguing Dissolving or Adjourning the Parliament or Session of Parliament and next under it a Summary draught of the chief scope or Argument thereof or at least of some special matter that concerned it I have in like manner placed all actions of the first day of the Parliament as Commissions of Prorogation or Adjournment or the solemn passing of her Majesty to the Upper House in the Journal of the same as most properly belonging unto it as likewise all Speeches of that day which passed in the said House on that day on which the Speaker was presented And I have in the third place constantly inserted into the Journals of the said Upper House also all Commissions of note at large all Proxies that were more rare the presence of the Lords on some special days and the names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions and there is no one day on which the House sate and did any thing but some Passages thereof are mentioned In the Journals of the House of Commons also are all things inserted and referred unto their due dayes and I know not any thing that is doubly set down in the two Journals of both the Houses in the same Parliament or Session of Parliament but only the Titles sometimes of such Bills as were sent up from one House to another and that constantly the manner of the beginning and ending of the Parliament and of the Presentment of the Speaker which is largely set down in the Journal of the Upper House is shortly touched in the House of Commons And because I know the Original Journal-Book of either House to be more judiciously observed and more to be esteemed than the Collections of any private men therefore I have distinguished by some Annotation or Animadversion what is taken out of them or what out of any other material whatsoever Nor are those Animadversions of mine own at any time added without some necessary motive or upon some good ground Very Copious indeed they are in the two first Journals of the Upper House and House of Commons in An. 1 Regin Eliz. because all matters of form were to be once for all discussed In all the other Journals they are more succinct and infrequent I confess it cost me many days besides other expences to bring these ensuing Volumes to that perfection in which I now enjoy them In which besides the abundance of the knowledge in this kind especially gained by it which Sir Edward Cooke Knight a Learned Writer of this Age calls Lex Parliamentaria I have as I much desired done some Honour to the Memory of that Glorious Queen England's Royal Elizabeth in that I have Collected in one body the sum of the agitations of all her Parliaments or at least so much of them as could possibly be gotten being a work not only singular in respect that I am the sole enjoyer of it but also because I rest confident that never any other man attempted it much less brought it to perfection Which I the rather believe because when I was one day discoursing with Sir Robert Cotten the Prime Antiquary of this our Age not long before his Decease touching the two aforesaid Volumes he had of the Journals of this Queens Reign that I wondred he would treasure up in his Library such Fragmentary and Imperfect stuff he made me no other Answer but that he was compelled to store up them because he knew not how to come by any better And certainly if this work which I have now by Gods Providence finished had been performed by any other it could not have been hid from him who was a very sedulous gatherer as of other rarities so especially of Parliamentary Passages for about the space of forty Years before his Death Touching the rarities
directed unto him for a Proxie is but an Authority to give another man's assent which cannot be transferred to a third person yet doth the sending of one Proxie sufficiently excuse any absent Lord although the Peer to whom it is directed be not present himself but as soon as that absent Lord shall have notice that he or they whom he constituted for his Procurators do themselves send their Proxies also by reason of their absence then may he send another Proxie and constitute one other or more Proctors for himself and in his stead to give his voice de Novo as the Lord Vaux did in A. 18. Jacobi Regis After those Bloody and Intestine Civil Wars which had been raised in England in the year 1642. and that Robert Earl of Essex General of the Forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament against the King had by the Power of the Independent Faction over ballancing those who desired the settling of the Presbyterian Government been laid aside and Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight placed in his Room the opposition between those two Parties in either House of Parliament growing every day higher and higher the Aged Earl of Mulgrave being an Enemy to all Faction and Innovation was much troubled that William Viscount Say and Seale the chief Promoter of the Independent Novelties did make use of his Proxie for the acting and passing those particulars which were contrary to the Judgment and Conscience of him the said Earl of Mulgrave And therefore my advise being desired by some of the Members of the House of Commons for the reminding him thereof I drew the Letter and Instrument ensuing being not only the first but the sole President also of this King which yet remains upon Record in the Office of the Clerk of the House of Peers To the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Peers pro Tempore My very good Lord I am humbly to request of your Lordship to communicate this my present Instrument under my hand and Seal to the House of Peers that it may be publickly there Read and remain upon Record in the Office of the Clerk of the same House Kenzington April 1646. I am Your Lordships humble Servant TO all Christian People to whom these presents shall come Edmund Earl of Mulgrave Greeting Know Ye that Whereas I the said Edmund Earl of Mulgrave have formerly constituted the Right Honourable William Viscount Say and Seal c. my lawful Actor and Procurator for me and in my name to give my Voice and Suffrage upon all such emergent Occasions as the same shall be requisite by the ancient Orders and Constitutions of the House of Peers That I do now by these presents Revoke and Vacate the Proxie by which I did formerly Constitute the said William Viscount Say and Seal my lawful Actor and Procurator as is aforesaid and do hereby declare the same Proxie to be utterly Annulled Vacated and Revoked to all intents and purposes whatsoever In witness whereof I have Signed and Scaled these presents this day of April in the 22th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King etc. An. Dom. 1646. This Instrument was written and ingrossed in Parchment as a Deed Poll is and to it in a Libel of Parchment was the Seal of the said Earl of Mulgrave affixed and it was read and allowed in the House of Peers Soon after the allowance of the aforesaid Instrument the said Earl of Mulgrave sent this ensuing Proxie to the Earl of Essex who made use of it in the House of Peers and it was there allowed of without any the least question or dispute OMnibus Christi Fidelibus ad quos hoc presens Scriptum pervener it Edmundus Comes de Mulgrave Salutem Noveritis me prefatum Edmundum Comitem de Mulgrave per Licentiam Serenissimi Domini nostri Regis a presenti hoc suo Parliamento inchoat ' et tent ' apud Westmonasterium etc. sufficientèr excusatum abesse nominare ordinare et constituere dilectum mihi in Christo et honorandum Virum Robertum Comitem Essex meum verum certum et indubitatum Factorem Actorem seu Procuratorem per presentes eidemque procuratori meo dare concedere plenam Authoritatem potestatem pro me nomine meo de super quibuscunque causis negotiis in Presenti hoc Parliamento exponendis seu declarandis tractandi tractatibusque hujusmodi inibi factis seu faciendis consilium auxilium nomine meo impendendi statutisque etiam ordination ' quae ex maturo deliberato judicio Domincrum in eodem Parliamento congregat ' inactitart seu ordinari contiger in t nomine meo consentiendi Caeteraque omnia singula quae in praemissis necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet requisita faciendi exercendi in tam amplis modo forma ut ego ipse facere possem aut deberem si presens personalitèr interessem Ratum Gratum habiturus totum quicquid Procuratormeus statuerit aut fecerit in praemissis In 〈◊〉 rei testimonium praesentibus subscripsi Sigillumque apposui Neither will it be impertinent to set down here how many Proxies were sent to some special Peers at this Parliament it having been my usual course to make some short remembrance of them in all their Journals of Queen Eliz's Reign upon the first day that any extraordinary Proxies were returned and I have caused not only the Presidents of this kind to be inserted here at large in respect this was the first Parliament of her Majesties Reign but also because they are more full and direct than any other that ensue to prove what hath been the ancient use and Priviledge of the Peers of the Upper House in the matter of sending and receiving of Lords Procuratory At first Nicolas Archbishop of York for the See of Canterbury remained still void since the Death of Cardinal Pool was constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of David Bishop of Peterborough Cuthbert Bishop of Durham Thomas Bishop of Ely Gilbert Bishop of Bath and Wells Henry Bishop of St. Davids and of Thomas Tresham Prior of St. Johns of Jerusalem all which Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned on Monday the 23th day of January on which this present Parliament was Summoned to have begun Francis Earl of Bedford was also Constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of 15 several Peers viz. of John Lord Mordant William Lord Paget George Lord Zouch and of Henry Lord Aburgaveny all which Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned this present Monday the 23th day of January He was also constituted the joynt Proctor of Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral Thomas Lord Sands William Lord Vaux of Heredoun William Lord Gray of Wilton and Henry Earl of Cumberland all whose Proxies are entred in such
Presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is not at all marked in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House although this entrance following of the said day be there thus Recorded viz. Die Mercurij 25. die Januarij proceres tain Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur presentes fuerunt But before this Title there is nothing specified touching the presence of her Majesty or of any of the Lords for the Letters which should be set at the beginning of the names of such Peers as this day attended her Majesty in the Upper House are not at all prefixed to any of them which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House Yet most certain it is that her Majesty Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Peers were present but the direct manner of the ranking of them in respect of the negligent omission of setting the Pr. as aforesaid at the beginning of every Lords name that was present could not be orderly and and directly entred in his place although this was the first day of this first Parliament of her Majesty nor on Saturday the 28th day of this instant January being the second day of the same because by like negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House there is no presence of any Lords there set down in the Original Journal Book of the same House nor any mention of the Speakers presentment by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons and therefore of necessity it could not be supplied until the third day of this foresaid first Parliament of her Majesty being Monday the 30th day of this instant January on which day the names of all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being entred the Letters Pr. are prefixed before the name of the Lord Keeper and of such Peers as were then present as see at large on the said Monday next ensuing and therefore that President there so expresly Transcribed may serve as a Pattern for all the residue that follow in all the Journals of the Upper House during her Majesties Reign in which there are no other names inserted but of such Lords as were marked to be present unless it be upon Thursday the 21th day of March following in the afternoon in this present Journal and on Fryday the 15th day of January in the Session of Parliament A. 5. of her Majesty in the Journal of the Upper House And although the names of her Majesty and the Lords that attended could not be exactly set down yet it will not be impertinent in the next place to insert the manner of their sitting in the said House which being not at all mentioned in the aforesaid Original Journal Book of the same A. 1. Reg. Eliz. I have therefore partly supplied it according to 3 other Presidents in these ensuing Journals on which the first was on Thursday the 12th of Jan. in the Session of Parliament A. 5. Reg. Eliz. the second on Wednesday the 2d day of Octob. pomerid ' in the second and last Session of that Parliament being held in A. 8. Reg. 〈◊〉 and the third on Monday the 2d day of Apr. in the Parliament A. 13. Regin praedict ' all which do follow in the several Journals of the Upper House Annis praesatis and it is partly supplied also out the Printed Statute A. 31. H. 8. C. 10. and partly out of that elaborate written Treatise intituled Modus tenendi Parliament ' apud Anglos first confusedly gathered by Wil. Bowyer Esq as I conceive and now lately digested into a Methodical Treatise and enlarged by H. Essing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House viz. in A. 1630. L. 1. C. 3. de loco modo sedendi Sect. 3. of the manner of sitting in Parliament at this day Her Majesty sate in the Chair of Estate and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by two Noblemen or others of Eminent Rank thereunto appointed The Two Seats on the right and left-hand of the Chair of Estate were void in respect that the first was Anciently for the King of Scots when he used to come to our Parliaments and the other on the left hand is for the Prince the immediate Heir of the Crown On the Form on the right side of the Chair of Estate which stands on the North-side of the Upper House sate the Spiritual Lords the Archbishop of York beginning the Form and the Abbot of Westminster ending it Who was the last Abbot that ever sate in the said House in England since this first Parliament of her Majesty But at this day the two Archbishops sit upon one Form by themselves and then the other Bishops in order upon two Forms on the right hand of the State the Bishop of London sits first the Bishop of Durham second and the Bishop of Winchester hath the third place and then all other Bishops according to the Antiquity of their Consecrations On the left side of the Chair of Estate which is on the South-side of the Upper House upon the foremost Form sate all the Temporal Lords above the degree of Barons The Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England beginning that Form and the Viscount Bindon ending it The Barons sate on the second Form on the left hand of the State and it should seem at this Parliament as it fell out also in the next Sessions following in A. 5. Regin Eliz. on Tuesday the 12th day of January that one Form held them all so as the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England began the said Form by reason of his Office and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it But at this day the number of Peers being much encreased divers of the Barons do sit upon other Forms Places Cross-ways at the lower end of the House Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper because he was under the degree of a Baron as also her Majesties chief Secretary being but a Knight were to have been placed at the uppermost part of the sack in the midst of the said House upon one Form by the fore recited Statute A. 3. H. 8. Cap. 10. But at this present Parliament as also at this day during her Majesties being present the Lord Keeper stood behind the Cloth of Estate on the right-hand and when her Majesty was absent then his Lordship sate on the first Woolsack which is placed athwart the House the Seal and Mace by him On the Woolsack on the North-side of the House and of the right-hand of the Estate sate the two Chief Justices and divers other Judges On the Woolsack on the left-hand of the Estate and on the South-side of the House sate the Master of the Rolls the Lord Chief Baron the Queen 's Learned Council and others And note That all these may properly besaid to sit on the Inner-side of
communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa A Bill containing certain Provisoes to be annexed to the Bill of First-fruits and Tenths was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Bill lastly for the restoring of the Supremacy of the Imperial Crown of this Realm and repealing divers Statutes made to the contrary was read the second time and Committed unto the Marquess of Winchester the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Westmerland the Earl of Shewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembrook Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Clinton Admiral the Lord Morley the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the Lord North. On Wednesday the 15th day of March a Bill containing six Provisoes to be annexed to the Bill of First-fruits and Tenths was read tertia vice conclusa Dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' Episcopo Winton ' Episcopo Wigorn ' Episcop ' Landaven ' Episcop ' Coven ' Episcop ' Exon ' Episcopo Cestren ' Episcopo Carliolen ' ac Abbat ' de Westm. Nota that the Bill having Passed the Upper House before on the 4th day of January last past was then opposed by all the Spiritual Lords there present as now also upon the passing of those Provisoes and Amendments which had been added unto it in the House of Commons amongst which Spiritual Lords the Abbot of Westminster did yet sit in Parliament and gave his free voice by which manner of alteration of the Form of Ecclesiastical Government we may observe with what mildness and wisdom this pious Princess Queen Elizabeth took it in hand far differing from those furious and bloody Enterprizes and Confusions practised in the Reign of her Sister Mary and it is to be noted that this Abbot of Westm ' with five other Abbots and Abbesses were all who were at this time lest in England and were deprived of their Promotions at the end of the Parliament with fourteen Popish Bishops amongst which were all these here named except the Bishop of Landaffe in An. Dom. 1559. and others were Consecrated in the places of the said Bishops where it is further to be noted that of 9400 Ecclesiastical persons settled in their several Promotions but 177 left their Livings to continue in their Romish Idolatry A Bill being agreed upon by the Lords to be annexed to the Bill of Supremacy was read 1 a. vice On Thursday the 16th day of March to which day the Parliament had been first continued nothing was done save only the continuance of Parliament by the Lord Keeper usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Fryday the 17th day of March the Bill for certain Provisoes and Amendments to be put in the Bill of Supremacy was read the second time commissa ad ingrossand On Saturday the 18th day of March the Bill for the restoring of the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and repealing divers Acts of Parliament made to the contrary with certain Provisoes added thereunto by the Lords and sundry other Amendments was read the third time conclus ' dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' Comite Salop Vicecomite Monutacuto Episcopo London ' Episcopo Winton ' Episcopo Wigorn ' Episcopo Landaven ' Episcopo Coven ' Episcopo Exon ' Episcopo Cestren ' Episcopo Carliol ' Abbas de Westm ' Et predicta Billa est Commissa Attornato Solicitatori Reginae in Domum Communem deferend Here also we may still note the great Lenity and mercy of this great Queen who suffered so many Heretical and obstinately Popish Bishops to hold their Sees to have free voices in Parliament besides the Abbot of Westm ' who all thus opposed the just power and Authority which the Princes of this Realm have under God himself within their Dominions and which our Ancient Kings under the darkest times of Popery did easily discern and not improbably aim at as we may see frequently specified in the Ancient and most Authentick Records of this Kingdom viz. Rotulorum Patentium a. 3. Regis Johannis numero 8. 28. Rot. Pat. a. 5. Reg. Joh. num 15. Rot. Pat. a. 10. Reg. Joh. num 3 ubi continetur salvus conductus pro Simone de Langeton Romanae sedis Cardinale ad tractand ' cum certis Episcopis modo cum applicuerit securitatem faciat quod in hoc adventu suo malum Regi vel regno suo non quaerent Rot. Pat. a. 22. H. 3. num 2. num 3. Rot. Pat. a. 25. H. 3. num 2. num 5. Rot. Pat. a. 28. H. 3. num 6. Rot. Pat. a. 33. H. 3. num 4. Rot. Pat. a. 34. H. 3. indors num 1. Rot. Pat. a. 39. H. 3. indors num 14. Rot. Pat. a. 42. H. 3. num 35. Rot. Pat. a. 45. H. 3. num 27. Rot. Pat. a. 48. H. 3. num 31. Rot. Pat. a. 51. H. 3. num 27. Rot. Pat. a. 8. E. primi 3 Rot. Pat. a. 9. E. 1. 2 in quibus continentur inhibitiones aliae literae Regis missae Joh. Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi ac clero Angliae in consiliis apud London Lambeth convocatis ne quid in eisdem attentarent in praejudicium Regis Coronae aut dignitatis suae Rot. Pat. a. 31. E. 1. 7. Rot. Romae a. 34. 35. E. 1. 4. 8. 9 rot pat a. 35. E. 1. 3. Rot. Scotiae a. 23. 24. E. 1. 6. Rot. Romae a. 1. 2. 3. E. 2. 5. 20. 22 24 25. 27. Rot. Romae a. 4. 5 6 7 8 9 10. E. 2. 14. 15. indors ejusdem Rotuli 1. Rot. Romae a. 11. 12 13 14. E. 2. 1. indors ' ejusdem Rotuli 2. Rot. Romae a. 15 16 17 18. E. 2. 23. 24. 30. Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 2. in Scedula 11. 17. ibid. Rot. Pat. a. 11. E. 2. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 15. E. 2. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 16. E. 2. parte prima sub initio Rotuli Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 2. parte prima Rot. Romae a. 1. E. 3. 5. 6. 8. Rot. Rom. a. 4. E. 3. 2. 6. Rot. Romae a. 7. a. 8. E. 3. 6. 9. Rot. Romae a. 9. a. 10. E. 3. 3. 4. 14. Rot. Romae a. 19 E. 3. 3. Rot. Romae a. 17. E. 3. 1. 3. 6. Rot. Romae a. 20. E. 3. 1. 3. Rot. Franciae a. 17. E. 3. 6. a. 28. E. 3. 2. Ubi memorabile hoc continetur quod Rex E. 3. Misit quam plures Nobiles ad tractandum de pace cum Rege Franciae coram Papa non ut coram Judice sed ut privata persona tractatore mediatore communi non in forma nec figura Ju dicij sed extrajudicialitèr amicabilitèr Rot. Pat. a. 2. E. 3. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 3. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 4. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat.
a. 7. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 8. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 11. E. 3. parte tertia Rot. Pat. a. 12. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 10. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 14. E. 3. parte tertia Rot. Pat. a. 15. E. 3. parte prima secunda Rot. Pat. a. 16. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 15. E. 3. parte tertia bis Rot. Pat. a. 16. E. 3. parte secunda bis parte tertia Rot. Pat. a. 17. E. 3. parte prima tertia Rot. Pat. a. 18. E. 3. parte secunda tertia indors Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 3. parte prima indors bis Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 3. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 3. parte tertia indors ' Rot. Pat. a. 20. E. 3. parte prima sub initio Rotuli indors ' rot pat 21. E. 3. parte prima et secunda rot pat a. 23. E. 3. parte prima et indors ' rot pat a. 24. E. 3. parte prima secunda et tertia indors ' rot pat a. 25. E. 3. parte prima secunda et tertia et indors ' rot pat a. 26. E. 3. parte prima indors ' parte secunda et tertia indors ' rot pat a. 27. E. 3. parte tertia indors ' rot pat a. 28. E. 3. parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 29. E. 3. parte tertia indors ' saepe rot pat a. 3. E. 3. parte prima ibid. et parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 31. E. 3. parte secunda et tertia indors ' rot pat a. 32. E. 3. parte prima indors et ibid. parte tertia indors ' rot pat a. 35. E. 3. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 34. E. 3. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 36. E. 3. parte prima et secunda indors ' rot pat a. 37. E. 3. parte prima indors ' et parte secunda et tertia indors ' rot pat a. 38. E. 3. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 39. E. 3. parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 40. E. 3. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 41. E. 3. parte prima et parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 42. E. 3. parte secunda rot pat a. 43. E. 3. parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 44. E. 3. parte prima et secunda indors ' rot pat a. 45. E. 3. parte secunda et parte prima tertia rot pat a. 47. E. 3. parte prima et secunda indors ' bis rot pat a. 48. E. 3. parte prima et secunda indors ' rot pat a. 49. E. 3. parte prima et indors ' rot pat a. 5. E. 3. parte prima indors ' et rot pat a. 51. E. 3. circa mediam partem Rotuli indors Rot. Pat. a. 1. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 2. R. 2. parte 1. et 2 rot pat a. 3. R. 2. parte prima indors in quo Rotulo apparet quod Rex R. 2. in die Coronationis suae juratus fuit ad prosequendum omnes Provisores Curiae Romanae contra leges et Statuta Edita Rot. Pat. a. 3. R. 2. parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 4. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 6. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 7. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 8. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 9. R. 2. parte prima indors ' parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. de A. 10. R. 2. parte prima parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 11. R. 2. parte prima indors Rot. Pat. A. 12. R. 2. parte prima Indors Rot. Pat. A. 13. R. 2. parte prima tertia Indors Rot. Pat. A. 14. R. 2. parte prima parte secunda Indors Rot. Pat. A. 16. R. 2. parte tertia Indors Rot. Pat. A 17. R. 2. parte prima Ubi apparet quod collector Calverae Apostolicae in Hibernia Sacramentum suscepit quod totaliter evertebat Primatum Papae infra Regnum Angliae attribuendo prerogativam ac summam potestatem Regi Domino suo Rot. Pat. A. 18. R. 2. parte secunda continentur haec verba directa ad Provinciales Ordinis de Monte Carmeli attendentes quod vos ad executionem Bullarum praedictarum seu aliquarum contentarum in eisdem aliqua vi vel authoritate earundem infra Regnum nostrum praedictum absque licentia authoritate nostra speciali procedere non potestis nec debetis Rot. Pat. an 19 R. 2. part prima secunda in dors Rot. Pat. an 20 R. 2. part 3. In quo continetur quod Universitas Oxon. non patiatur Bullas Papales ibidem exerceri sub amissione libertatum suarum Rot. Pat. an 21 R. 2. part 1. There is also in Rot. Pat. an 3 R. 2. part 1. this rare President of the Kings denying the Pope certain profits he claimed in England in quo patet quod cum Urbanus Papa exigebat primos fructus omnium Francorum Cardinalium habentium dignitates infra Angliam ut ad se pertinentes eo quod ipsi fuerunt sui adversarii Rex non cognoscens ca vera esse sed clamans ea ad se pertinere jure regio ex gratia sua tamen speciali in relevationem indigentiae Papae concessit dicto Papae duas Partes dictorum primorum fructuum it à quod tertia pars corundem per dispositionem Regis sit in reparationem Domorum hujusmodi Cardinalium c. There are also three other excellent Presidents to this purpose in the same Kings Reign viz. Rot. Pat. an 4 R. 2. part 2. Rot. Pat. an 6 R. 2. part 2. bis These matters being thus faithfully and undeniably vouched out of the Records or other Authority touching the antient Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown of England against the unjust Usurpations and incroachments of the Bishop of Rome which said Rights her Majesty did by this foregoing Act that passed this day as aforesaid seek to have restored and reunited to her Royal Authority Now follows the continuance of the Parliament erroneously entred through the neglect of the Clerk in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad diem crastinum mistaken for diem Lunae proximum hora nona The same day were entred divers Proxies On Monday the 20 th day of March 14. Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons viz. The Bill for the restitution in blood of Rudston Esq. The Bill for repeal of the Attainder of the late Cardinal Poole The Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge A Bill for seditious words and rumors The Bill whereby certain offences be made Treason The Bill to take away all pains and penalties made for Religion in Queen Maries time The Bill for the assurance of Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of Winchester to divers Patentees of King Ed. 6.
in the Upper House but nothing was done save only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the same House in manner and form following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came in person into the Upper House of Parliament where were then present to attend her Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal who being all set in their Parliament Robes according to their several Ranks in their due places the House of Commons had notice thereof and repaired thither with Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight their Speaker whose Speech to her Majesty and his very coming up being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House I have partly before supplyed it according to the usual course and added also the residue in like manner touching the substance of what he spake being also partly furthered in the setting down of it out of the Answer of Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal unto him whose said Answer I have also caused to be inserted at large out of a Copy thereof I had by me Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight before mentioned with as many of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let into the Upper House and he placed at the Rail or Bar at the nether end of the same made a Learned Speech to her Majesty which is termed in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 214. b. A Learned Oration the effect whereof may very probably be gathered to have been as followeth viz. He declared unto the Queens Majesty and that present Assembly with what care and speed the House of Commons had this present Parliament enacted and passed many good Laws which remaining yet as a dead Letter and without force he did humbly desire that her Majesty would be pleased by adding her Royal Assent unto them to make them living and active Laws Then he desir'd in the name of the House that her Majesty would be pleased to accept of the good endeavours and desires of the said House of Commons expressed this Parliament in all their proceedings and more especially that her Majesty would be pleased to take in good part the free gift of her said Subjects who in token of their Love and Zeal to her Majesty did with one assent offer unto her not only the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage but likewise one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths as an undoubted effect and Testimony of their Duty and thankfulness towards her Majesty for those many blessings and benefits which had accrued to the Church and State by her Highnesses most lawful and just Succession Lastly He concluded with an humble desire that her Majesty would be pleased to accept of his hearty and zealous thanks in allowing and admitting him though unworthy to that place of trust and importance and to pardon all those weaknesses and imperfections which he had unwillingly or casually discovered in the Execution of it To which said Speech of the Prolocutors Sir Nicholis Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal having first repaired to the Queen to her Chair of Estate to know her Majesties pleasure as in her name and by her Command returned him this wise and large Answer M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard how discreetly and wisely you have declar'd the proceedings of this Session in the House of Commons for Answer whereunto and for the better signification to be made to my Lords of the Upper House of the Judgment of the Parliament men and these Parliament matters her Majesties pleasure and Commandment is that I should open and utter unto you three things The one is what her Highness understandeth by your doings this Parliament of your wisdom and diligence The second what of your liberality and benevolence and therewith how comfortable the former is and how thankful the second The third what her Highness would you should do for the good Execution of the Laws devised by you and of the rest heretofore devised by others And here my Lords and Masters all albeit in labouring to bear this burthen I am much more like to fall than but to faint under it because neither am I able to perform it as the Queens Majesty hath commanded it nor as your deserts justly crave it nor as my will wisheth and desireth it Nevertheless my trust is that you will pardon my weakness and want so as no note of arrogancy or folly be ascribed to me for it seeing as you know by duty driven I do it I had rather and I know it much better for me to be silent and so to have no need of your pardon than by Speech to all your pains in hearing and to mine also in speaking to deserve to pray it if mine Office would suffer But now to the matter For the first part wherein her Majesty considereth how in the debating of the great and weighty Causes of this Parliament we have banished all suddain rash and swift proceedings dangerous Enemies to all good Counsel and in place thereof have taken such convenient leisure as the weightiness of the matters of their better consideration hath requir'd And again what freedom of Speech hath been used and permitted for the plain Declaration of every mans knowledge and Conscience yea and how men in some Cases and some places have been rather by gentle perswasions provoked than by any sharp manner of Speech by men of Council disswaded therefrom and therewith also how learnedly and cunningly the disputable matters being of moment have been agreed and reasoned how gravely and deeply weighed and considered how advisedly and considerately resolved and concluded and lastly with what nigh and universal consent they have been by you enacted and established Besides also remembring your great Studies and endeavours and diligences for the opening and declaring what may be said Pro contra in all causes of doubts to the end as it seemeth to her Highness that when all was said and heard on both parts that by any of your could be inferr'd or produc'd That that which should thereupon for all respects appear to stand most with the Honour and Glory of God and the common Wealth of the Realm might be the better and more safely agreed upon and determined When her Majesty I say remembreth and considereth these things she saith she cannot but much commend and allow your wisdom and diligence therein greatly to her comfort and consolation and much to all your praises and commendations For now her Majesty verily trusteth that like as no manner of determination in Parliament neither can nor ought by any private Man to be infringed or undone so these determinations of yours in this form begun proceeded and concluded cannot hereafter justly no not by
only stored with many good passages touching the ordinary reading committing and expediting of Bills but also with much extraordinary matter concerning the private priviledge of the House and publick state of the Church and Common-Wealth which in this great Council of the Kingdom received much alteration and change to the yet lasting honour and welfare of them both In which also as in the preceeding Journal of the Upper House I have enlarged and supplied many things in matter of form which are not found in the Original Journal-Book of the same House touching the Writ of Summons the preferring reading and passing of Bills with the committing and sending of them up to the Lords and such like Neither doth there want much enlargement out of Record or otherwise concerning the Election Presentments and Petitions of the Speaker with all other things that are materially worthy of any Animadversion or Annotation which matters of Form or Explanation I did the rather cause to be inserted in this first Journal of the Parliament during her Majesties Reign that so I might the better omit it in the following Journal and have ready recourse hither unto it being all fram'd into one structure or body in this present Journal prout sequitur Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal having received her Majesties Warrant for the making and Issuing forth of the Writs of Summons did speedily cause them to be directed to such Peers and others as were to attend in the Upper House and to the several Sheriffs of England for the Election and Chusing of the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons that were to be present in the House of Commons And although neither any thing of this which hath preceeded nor any Copy of the Writ sent to each Sheriff be at all inserted into the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons yet as I have supplied that matter which preceedeth according to the form therof which was at this time used and hath been since continued so I have thought it not amiss once for all to add here also the Copy of the Writ at this time sent forth which hath since received no alteration and was as followeth Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angl. Franc. Hib. Regina fidei defensor Ambrosio Jermyn Militi Vicecomiti Norff. Suff. salutem Quia de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis Nos statum defensionem regni nostri Angl. Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westm. Vicesimo tertio die Januarii prox futur teneri ordinavimus ibidem cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri Colloquium habere tract Tibi praecipimus firmiter injungentes quod fact â Proclamat in prox Comitat. tuo post receptionem hujus brevis nostri tenend die loco praedict duos Milites gladiis cinct magis idoneos discretos Comit. praedict de qualibet Civitate Com. illius duos Cives de quolibet Burgo duos Burgenses de discretior magis sufficientibus libere indifferenter per illos qui Proclam hujusmodi interfuer juxta formam statutarum inde edit provis legi nomina corundum Milit. Civium Burgensium sic electorum in quibusdam indentur inter te illos qui hujusmodi electioni interfuer inde conficiend sive hujusmodi elect praesentes fuerint vel absentes inseri eosque ad dict diem locum venire fac ita quod iidem Milites plenam sufficientem potestatem pro se Communitate Comit. praedicti ac dict Cives Burgenses pro se Communitat Civitatum Burgorum praedictorum divisim ab ipsis habeant ad faciendum consentiendum his quae tunc ibidem de Communi Concilio dicti regni nostri favente Deo contigerint ordinari super Negotiis antedictis it a quod pro defectu potestatis hujusmodi seu propter improvidam electionem Milit. Civium aut Burgensium praedictorum dicta Negotia infecta non remaneant quovismodo Nolumus autem quod tu nec aliquis alius Vic. dicti regni nostri aliqualiter sit electus Et Electionem illam in pleno Comitatu factam distincte aperte sub sigillo tuo sigillis corum qui electioni illi interfuerint Nobis in Cancellar nostram ad dict diem locum certifices indilate remittens nobis alteram partem Indenturarum praedictarum praesentibus consut una cum hoc breve Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium Quinto die Decembris Anno Regni nostri Primo Nota That this is not the direct Copy of any Writ that I saw sent at this very time but only applied to this time according to the usual form of a like Writ which also doth serve to discover all the Writs sent to the several Sheriffs of England differing only from this in the name of the Sheriff and County And in the said Writ foregoing it is to be noted that the words Supremum Caput Ecclesiae Anglicanae were wanting which had been omitted also in the foregoing Parliament of her Sister Mary which notwithstanding it was afterwards agreed in the House on Friday the third day of Feb. following that the Writs of Summons were well sent forth and returned and that the Parliament ought to hold accordingly In the Antient Writ also of Summons the cause of the Assembling of the Parliament was expressed which at this day is not Neither was there then any such clause in the Writ as in this foregoing doth appear viz. Nolumus autem quod tu nec aliquis alius Vicecomes dicti regni nostri aliqualiter sit Electus By reason of which words some have conceived that the Sheriff of any County ought not to be Elected or admitted a Member of the House of Commons But to this it may first be truly answered that these words were primarily inserted into the said Writ by virtue of an Ordinance only made to that end upon some special Occasion in the Parliament held in an 46 Regis Ed. 3. as appears in the Parliament Roll of that Year numero 13. remaining with divers others in the Tower of London By which said Ordinance also Lawyers were as well excluded as Sheriffs Secondly the constant practice in most times since doth sufficiently prove of how little validity the said Ordinance of Parliament was conceived to have been for the debarring of the said Sheriffs from being Members of the House of Commons For the proof whereof I have only vouched such as fell out during her Majesties Reign viz. in an 27 Regin Eliz. Decemb. 21. Tuesday Ed. Leigh Esq being returned and admitted into the House of Commons as one of the Knights for the County of Stafford was afterwards Elected to be Sheriff of the same Shire In like manner Feb. the 23. Tuesday Sir Edward Dimock Knight was both Sheriff of the County of Lincoln and a Member of the House of Commons as
appears in the Journal ensuing in an eodem 27 Regin Eliz. So also in the Parliament de an 31 Regin Eliz. Feb. 21. Friday M r Saint Pole served as one of the Knights for the County of Lincoln being also Sheriff of the same Shire And lastly in the Parliament de an 43 44 Regin Eliz. Decemb. 2. Wednesday Peter Frechevile Esq was returned one of the Knights for the County of Darby being afterwards appointed Sheriff of the same County as was also Robert Lhuyde Esq constituted Sheriff of the County of Merioneth in Wales having been formerly returned Knight for the said Shire as appeareth in the Journal of the same Parliament on Tuesday the 8 th of Decemb. In and by all which Presidents it doth appear and may probably be gathered that neither her Majesty nor the House of Commons did conceive these two places to be incompetible but that they might well stand and be in one and the same man at one and the same time For her Majesty did first make these foregoing persons Sheriffs of the several Counties aforesaid not only after they were chosen but returned also Members of the House of Commons by which it is very plain she could not be ignorant of it and therefore her self and the said House did both allow of their being made Sheriffs as a thing well agreeing with the Priviledge of their former places and the service of that House and did not therefore give them a final discharge but only Liberty of recess about their necessary affairs into the several Counties before-mentioned as in the Case of Sickness or some other temporary cause of their absenting themselves from the House which being expedited they might return again to that service for doubtless if the said House had conceived that they had been disabled from their serving there by their new Offices it would have been ordered that a Warrant should have been sent to the Clerk of the Crown to have sent down a new Writ into the foresaid Counties for a new Election to have been made as in the Case of double Returns Death or the like is used And whereas in the Parliament de an 43 44 Regin Eliz. on Wednesday the 4 th day of November Sir Andrew Nowell being both Sheriff and Knight for the County of Rutland was wholly discharged and a Writ sent out de novo for a new Election That Case differed from all the foregoing Presidents and might well upon another reason be ordered by the House For the said Sir Andrew being Sheriff of the foresaid County of Rutland was afterwards Elected one of the Knights for the same and so compelled to return himself which could not be good in Law But if the said Sir Andrew had been chosen a Knight of some other Shire during his Sheriffalty or had been constituted Sheriff by her Majesty of the said County after he had been Elected and returned a Member of the House of Commons the Case had doubtless differed and the House would never have given Order for a new Writ to have been sent forth which course they observed in the two before-cited Presidents of M r Frechevile and Mr Lhuyde in the same Parliament Thirdly if these two places should not be competible then had it now lain in the Power of her Majesty or may lie in the power of any Soveraign of this Kingdom to have disabled as many Members from serving in the House of Commons as she should or could have constituted Sheriff She might have disfurnished or any Soveraign for the time being may disfurnish the said House at any time of all or the greater part of the ablest Members thereof Nota also That those words viz. Duos Milites Gladiis cinctos were inserted into the Writ of Summons after the Parliament an 13 E. 3. as may be gathered by the Parliament Roll of the same Year And whereas some have objected in the foregoing Case to prove that a Sheriff ought always to be attendant upon the affairs of the County and cannot therefore be a Member of the House of Commons the Objection is idle for till the tenth year of Queen Eliz. the Counties of Nottingham and Derby and of Warwick and Leicester had but two several Sheriffs as were also the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk served with one Sheriff until the eighteenth Year of her Majesties Reign and so are the Counties of Sussex and Surrey served this present Year 1630. And antiently also as is plain by that MS. Catalogue of all the Sheriffs of England or the most part since the time of King H. 2. which is in many mens hands divers Counties were committed to one man as in an 1 H. 2. Richard Bassett and Awbrey de Vere were jointly constituted for Sheriffs of the several Counties of Norfolk Suffolk Northampton Essex Huntington Cambridge and Hartford and Robert Caran joined unto them for the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham From the Female Coheirs of the foresaid Richard Bassett being the Ancestor of the House of Weldon in Northamptonshire are lineally and undoubtedly descended the Families of Chaworth Stafford Knyvet Clinton Earl of Lincoln the Howards of the House of Suffolk and Clopton late of Kentwell in the County aforesaid and from the before-mentioned Awbrey de Vere is lineally descended as I take it Robert de Vere the nineteenth Earl of Oxford now living An. Dom. 1630. Upon the receit of the before-mentioned Writ and Election made accordingly the Sheriffs of every Shire made their several Returns of which the Form being set down in the old Book of Entries it shall be needless here to insert them But now having supply'd these matters of Form according to the usual Presidents the next passages follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Wednesday the 23 th of Jan. Anno Regni Regin Eliz. Primo The Parliament should have begun according to the Writs of Summons but by the Queens Commission directed to Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer and others to Prorogue the same until Wednesday the 25 th day of the same Month it was so done accordingly On Wednesday the 25 th day of Jan. The Parliament held and began according to the last Prorogation thereof but there is no mention made in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons where or by whom the Names of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House were called that so it might be seen who were present But most certain it is that at this day they took no Oath before the beginning of this present Parliament because that of Supremacy which was afterwards taken was not enjoyned by Statute till this first year of her Majesty But most likely it is that Hen. Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundell at this time Lord Steward of her Majesties Houshold did both cause their names to be called in some place near the Upper House and their Appearance to be Recorded before her
was Prorogued on Saturday the 10 th day of April then next following together with the Solemn and Royal manner of her Majesties passing to the House of Lords on either of the said Days are for the most part transcribed out of several Anonymous Memorials thereof I had in my Custody being doubtless the very Original Draughts or Autographs set down by some observant Member of one of the Houses or by some other person then present in the Upper House for it was written in a hand of that time and much interlined The Parliament was Summoned to begin at Westminster on Monday the 11 th day of Jan. An. 5 Regin Eliz. An. D. 1562. upon which day Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England with divers other Lords repaired to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the UpperHouse and then and there in presence of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses Summoned to the same Parliament the Lord Keeper declared that the Queens Majesty by reason of the evil disposition of her Health could not be present this 11 th day of January and that she hath therefore been pleased to Prorogue the same until to Morrow being the 12 th day of the same And to this purpose a Writ Patent under the Great Seal of England whereby the said Parliament was Prorogued unto the 12. day of this Instant Jan. was read publickly by the Clerk of the Upper House in these words following Elizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei desensor c. praedilectis sidelibus nostris Praelatis Magnatióus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae dilectis sidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgen dicti Regni nostri ad Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii undecimo die instantis mensis Jan. inchoand tenend convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet salutem Cum nos pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernent dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedict teneri ordinaverimus Ac vobis per separalia Brevia nostra apud Civitatem die praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tract and. consentiend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro tune ibidem proponcrentur tractarentur Quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad tempus specialiter movent dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque duodecimum diem hujus instantis Mensis Jan. duximus prorogand it a quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum undecimum diem Jan. apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum inde erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vohis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum duodecimum dicm Januarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi concilio dicti Regni nostri favente Deo contigerint ordinari Teste me ipsâ apud Westmonasterium nono die Januarii anno Regni nostri quinto This day although the Parliament began not nor any Peers sate in the Upper House but the Lord Keeper and some others of either House met only in the Parliament Chamber to Prorogue the Parliament unto the 12. day of this Instant Month as aforesaid were divers Proxies returned from many of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal who in their absence did constitute others to give their Voices for them Nota That the Duke of Norfolk was Constituted the sole or joint Proctor of four several Peers and Francis Earl of Bedford was nominated the sole or joint Proctor of seven several Lords whereof one was Thomas Archbishop of York and another of them was William Bishop of Exeter By which it doth appear not only that a Spiritual Lord did Constitute a Temporal which at this day is altogether forborn as also for a Temporal Lord to Constitute a Spiritual which was but rarely used during this Queens Reign but likewise that any Peer of the Upper House by the ancient and undoubted usages and Custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him On Tuesday the 12. day of January the Parliament held according to the Prorogation on yesterday foregoing and about eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon the Queens Majesty took her Horse at the Hall Door and proceeded in manner as followeth First All Gentlemen two and two then Esquires Knights and Bannerets and Lords being no Barons or under Age. Then the Trumpeters sounding Then the Queens Serjeant M r Carus in his Circot-Hood and Mantle unlined of Scarlet Then M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and M r Russell Sollicitor Then Anthony Browne Justice of the Common Pleas and M r Weston of the Kings Bench. Then the Barons of the Exchequer Then M r Corbett and M r Whidon two Justiees of the Kings Bench. Then Sir Thomas Saunders Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Sir James Dyer Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Then Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls in his Gown and Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and these Justices and Barons of the Exchequer in their Scarlet Mantles Hood and Circot edged with Miniver the Mantle shorter than the Circot by a foot Then Knights Counsellors in their Gowns as Sir Anthony Cooke Sir Richard Sackvile Sir William Peeters and Sir Ambrose Cane Then Sir William Cecill Chief Secretary and Sir Edward Rogers Comptroller Then William Howard bearing the Queens Cloak and Hat Then Barons in all forty but there in number 30. a. St. John of Bletso Hunsdon Hastings of Loughborough Chandois North Effingham but now as the Lord Chamberlain Darcy of Chicke Paget Sheffield Willoughby Rich Wharton Evers Cromwell St. John Mordaunt Borough Wentworth Windsor Vaux Sands Mountegle Darcy of Menell Ogle Mountjoy Lumley Latimer Scroope Grey of Wilton Stafford Cobham Dacres of the North Dacres of the South Morley Barkley Strange Zouch Audeley Clinton but now Lord Admiral and Bargaveny their Mantles Hoods and Circot furr'd and two Rows of Miniver on their right Shoulder Then proceeded the Bishops all that were there present were but twenty two as Glocester and St. Asaph Chester Carlisle and Peterborough Norwich and Exeter Lichfield and Coventry Bath and Wells Rochester and St. Davids Salisbury and Lincoln Bangor and Worcester Ely and Hereford Landaffe Chichester and Winchester Durham and London their Robes of Scarlet lined and a Hood down their back of Miniver Then the Viscounts their Robes as the Barons but that they had two Rows and an half of Miniver as the Viscount of Bindon absent Viscount
each of them read the third time and passed the House and were with two others sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary The Bill for destruction of Crows Rooks c. and other such Vermine was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill also for paving of Kentish-street near Southwark And the Bill that Sanctuary shall not be allowable for Debt were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were sent to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Post Meridiem In the Afternoon a Proviso to the Bill for repairing of Goals and a Proviso to the Bill de Excommunicato capiendo were each of them read the first and second time On Friday the 9 th day of April the Proviso added to the Bill de Excommunicat capiend was read the third time and passed the House The Bill also for destruction of Rooks Crows and Coughs and such other Vermine was read the third time and passed the House and immediately sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The new Bill for uniting of Churches in Boroughs or Towns being under the value of twenty Marks was read the first time And the Proviso lastly of this House to the Bill for repairing of Goals was read the third time and passed On Saturday the 10 th day of April It was Ordered that M r Pleddall shall have the Copies of such Examinations and Writings as have been certified into this House by the Master of the Rolls and other Committees and also that M r Francis Newdigate may have like Copies And that such Evidence as M r Pleddall hath delivered to the Committees hands may remain under their Seals and M r Pleddall's Seal in the keeping of the Officer of the Rolls that useth to keep the Evidences there Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day and on Tuesday the 30 th day of March foregoing The Bill for repairing of Goals was sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The Queens Majesties free and general Pardon Signed with her Graces Hand was brought from the Lords by M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor and immediately read the third time and passed Nota That this Bill touching her Majesties Pardon passed upon the first reading whereas other Bills do never pass till after the third A Proviso sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords touching the Bill of Bankrupts And the addition to the Bill concerning Purveyors were read the first second and third time and passed the House In the Afternoon about three of the Clock the Queens Majesty sitting in her Royal Seat M r Speaker made an Excellent Oration rehearsing divers Laws made by divers Queens of this Realm and requiring the Queen to Assent to the Acts past both Houses and presented to her Majesty the Book of Subsidy and the Book of the general Pardon with most humble thanks for the same And the Lord Keeper by the Queens Commandment gave great thanks unto the Nobility and Commons and earnestly required them severally in their Countries to look that the Laws might be Executed And touching the Succession the Queen Commanded the Lord Keeper to declare her Highness device thereof the effect and conclusion whereof was that for the great weight of the matter her Majesty minded to take further advice Vide plus concerning this matter of Succession on Thursday the 28. day of January and on Tuesday the 16. day of February foregoing Then were the several Titles of the Acts read and thirty one publick Statutes and seventeen private were made Laws by her Majesties Royal Assent And then this Parliament was Prorogued until the second day of October next At which second day of October for that the Plague was great in London and Westminster The Queens Majesties Letters Patents of Commission were directed to the Lord Treasurer of England and other Bishops and Lords of the Upper House to Prorogue this Parliament unto the fifth day of October 1564. which was done accordingly in the presence of the said Lords and a few of the House of Commons Mr. Speaker not being there At which fifth day of October this Parliament was further Prorogued by the Queens Majesties Commission Patent unto the 30. day of April the next ensuing M r Speaker not being there At which 30. day of April It was then further Prorogued unto the 4. day of October then next following M r Speaker not being there At which fourth day of October Anno Domini 1565. Anno Septimo Reginae Elizabeth It was then further Prorogued unto the 7. day of February then next following M r Speaker not being there At which 7. day of Feb. 1565. Anno Elizabethae Reginae Octavo It was then further Prorogued unto the 30. day of Sept. then next following THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 8 Regin Eliz. A. D. 1566. which began there after divers Prorogations of the same on Monday the 30 th of September and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 2 d day of Jan. Ann. 9 Regin ejusdem THIS Parliament de An. 8 Regin Eliz. being in Law but one and the same with that held in an 5 Reginae ejusdem An. Dom. 1563. although not Assembled till about three Years after was in the mean time never Dissolved but only Prorogued from time to time by six several Prorogations whereof the two first falling out in the said fifth Year of the Queen are there mentioned as most properly belonging to the first Session of this Parliament although the latter of them be entred at large in the Journal-Book de an 8 Regin Eliz. and the four last of the said fix Prorogations do all here follow before the beginning of this Journal of Parliament of the passages of the Upper House being full of excellent and rare matter as necessary matter of preparation unto it being in Law as hath been observed but the second Session of that former Parliament Assembled in An. 5 Regin Eliz. predictae whereof those two former Prorogations as they do at large appear in the end of the Journal of the Upper House of that fifth year of the Queen were the first of them from Saturday the 10 th day of April on which day that said first Session of this Parliament ended in that fifth year aforesaid to the second day of October next ensuing de an 5. Reginae ejusdem and the second Prorogation of those foresaid two former was from the said second day of October in the said fifth Year of the Queen to the 5 th day of October which should be in an 6 Regin Eliz. An. Dom. 1564. upon which foresaid 5 th day of October in an 6 Regin supradictae Annoque Dom. 1564. Prorogatum fuit ulterius praedictum Parliamentum modo forma sequentibus Memorandum quod quinto die Octobris Anno Regni Elizabethae
Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensor c. Sexto in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum fuerat convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Marchio Winton Thesaurarius Comes Suffex Comes Huntington Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Cobham Dominus Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent una cum populi atque Burgensium ut vocant satis magna frequentia praedictus Archiepiscopus Cantuarien paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dicta domina Regina ccrtis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in tricesimum diem Aprilis prox futurum atque ut tam proceribus quam populo palam fieret Regiam Majestatem ita constituisse Literas Commissorias dict Dominae Reginae Francisco Spilman Armig Clerico Parliamenti publicè clarâ voce legendas in manus tradidii Earum autem Tenor sequitur in haec verba Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Matheo Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Willielmo Marchioni Winton Thesaurario Angliae ncc non charissimis consanguineis suis Thomae Comiti Sussex Henrico Comiti Huntingdon Reverendis in Christo patribus Edmundo Episcopo London Edmundo Episcopo Roffen ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus consiliariis suis Edwardo Domino Clinton magno Admirallo suo Angliae Willielmo Domino Howard de Essingham Domino Camerario suo ac praedilectis sidelibus suis Willielmo Domino Cobham Gardiano sive Custodi quinque portuum suorum ac Henrico Domino Hunsdon salutem Cum nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitat nostram Westmonasterii duodecimo die Januarii Anno regni nostri Quinto inchoari teneri ordinaverimus à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent continuat fuerat usque decimum diem Aprilis tunc prox sequen ac post diversas Prorogationes idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in instantem Quintum diem Octobris Prorogatum ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend Sciatis tamen quod certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven idem Parliamentum nostrum ulterius Prorogand duximus de sidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimum considentes de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos tres vestrum dantes vobis novem octo septem sex quinque quatuor tribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instan die Jovis ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum nomine nostro ad in tricesimum Aprilis prox futur usque praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii Prorogand continuand ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend ideo vobis mandamus quod circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ea in formâ praedicta effect ualiter expleatis Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Magnatibus Comitibus Vice-Comitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgen ac omnibus ahis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum conventur tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod vobis in praenissis faciend pareant obediant intendant prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium Quinto die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Sexto The like Commission bearing date 30. die Aprilis An. 7 Eliz. was directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norsolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Derby Thomas Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntingdon the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham Warden of the Cinque-Ports the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon Authorizing them 17 16 15 14 13 c. or three of them to Prorogue and continue the Parliament ut supra in the other Commissions mutatis mutandis unto the 4 th day of October next coming Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 30 die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri Septimo On which 30 th day of April the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Derby the Earl of Sussex the Earls of Huntingdon Pembroke and Warwick the Bishop of London the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon did meet in the Parliament Chamber and in due and accustomed Form did Adjourn the Parliament unto the 4 th day of October according to the said Commission last specified and caused the said Commission to be publickly read by Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Parliament in hearing of the Commons then also present according to antient Custom in that behalf On the 4 th day of October Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. Septimo The like Commission ut supra bearing date the said 4 th day of October directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Sussex Chief Justice of all Forrests c. on this side Trent Ambrose Earl of Warwick Master of the Ordnance the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester Edward Lord Clinton great Admiral of England William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain Thomas Lord Wentworth and Henry Lord Hunsdon authorizing them 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 and 3. ut antea mutatis mutandis to Prorogue and continue the same Parliament in Septimum diem Februarii prox futurum Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 4 die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Septimo Which Commission was read by the Clerk of the Parliament in the Parliament Chamber in presence of ten of the Commissioners and of the Commons Memorandum quod hodie septimo die Februarii Anno Regni Eliz. Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae sidei defensor c. Octavo in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum suer at convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Nicolaus Bacon Miles Custos magni Sigilli Marchio Winton Thesaurar Dux Norfolc Comes Marescallus Marchio North Comes Sussex Comes Warwick Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Wentworth Dominus de Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent unà cum populi atque Burgen ut vocant satis magnâ frequentiâ praedictus Nicolaus Bacon
Constituted the sole and joint Proxy of eight several Temporal Lords who with six others as is aforesaid were absent this Session of Parliament from which as also from other Presidents of former and later times it may easily be gathered that any Member of the Upper House by the antient usage and custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be directed unto him although there was an Order made in the said House to the contrary A. D. 1626. That no Lord or Member whatsoever of the Upper House should for the time to come be capable of above two Proxies at the most which said Order was occasioned in respect that George Duke of Buckingham Favorite of the King Deceased and of King Charles being guilty of many Crimes did to strengthen himself by Voices not only procure divers persons to be made Members of that House but also engrossed to himself near upon twenty several Proxies Vide one other Extraordinary Proxy on Saturday the 9 th day of November and another on Sunday December the first following This Forenoon also these twenty Lords under written were appointed to repair in the Afternoon to the Queens Majesty viz. The Archbishop of York The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmoreland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Warwick Viscount Bindon Viscount Mountague The Bishop of London The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Lord Cobham The Lord Rich. The Lord Wentworth The Lord Pagett The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Hastings of Loughborough The Lord Hunsdon The business about which these Lords repaired to the Queen is not in the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House but it may be guested it was concerning those two great businesses of the Queens Marriage and the Declaration of the next Heir and Successor after the Queens Decease to the Crown which business bred so much distast afterwards between her Majesty and her Subjects in this Session so that as afterwards the Lords did Petition the Queen about it so now it should seem these Lords repaired unto her either to desire leave to prefer that Petition and that they might confer with the House of Commons about it or else to know of her Majesty a fitting time when they might repair unto her with their said Petition and so receive Answer unto it But what the Queen replied at this time is hard to be conjectured only it followeth at large that on Tuesday the 5 th day of November the Members of both Houses for that end appointed repaired to her Majesty in the Afternoon but whether they then offered up their Petitions unto her Majesty or whether the House of Commons did at this Session of Parliament prefer any Petition at all concerning those two great matters aforesaid is hard to be determined No mention is made in the Original Journal-Book of continuing the Parliament which seemeth to have happened by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday the 23 th day of October the Bill to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching the prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read primâ vice An Act declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of the Realm to be good lawful and perfect was brought from the House of Commons Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox On Thursday the 24 th day of October the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal did Assemble in the Parliament-Chamber where nothing was done but only the continuance of the Parliament until Friday next at ten of the Clock On Friday the 25 th day of October the Lord Treasurer signified to all the Lords that the Queens Highness considering the decay of his Memory and Hearing being Griefs accompanying Hoary Hairs and Old Age and understanding the Lord Keepers slow amendment intended to supply both their said defects by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and shewed forth her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England which the Clerk by Commandment openly read in haec verba ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and well Beloved Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Pleas to be holden before us Greeting Where our right trusty and well-beloved Councellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England is at this present sore visited with sickness that he is not able to travel to the Upper House of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster nor there to supply the room and place in the said Upper House amongst the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to the Office of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England hath been accustomed We minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth have named and appointed you from day to day and time to time hereafter during our pleasure to use and occupy the place and room of the said Lord Keeper in our said Upper House of Parliament amongst the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled and there to do and execute in all things from day to day and time to time as the said Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England should and might do if he were there present using and supplying the same place Wherefore we will and Command you the said Sir Robert Catlin to attend unto and about the Executing of the premisses with effect And these our Letters Patents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same in every behalf In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the 25 th day of October in the Eighth Year of Our Reign Martin The Bill to repeal a branch of a Statute made in the 23 th Year of Henry 8. touching prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read tertiâ vice and by common consent of all the Lords concluded Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati proximum On Saturday the 26 th day of October the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect was read primâ vice Memorandum The Lords after deliberate Consultation and advice taken how to proceed in the great matters of Succession and Marriage before moved by the House of Commons did this present day send Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney down unto them to signifie that they would a chosen number should be sent up unto them for their knowledge to be had of the same Vide concerning this business on Wednesday the 30 th day of October now next ensuing as also on Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Dominus
comfortable words and commanded the Parliament to be dissolved Nota That this business had many and long Agitations in the House of Commons who were especially violent in that latter branch of it touching the Declaration of a Successor as see more at large on Monday the 25 th day of November foregoing and lastly I have thought good to give a short touch that all the foregoing passages of this Afternoon touching her Majesties Presence Royal Assent Speech and Dissolving the Parliament were thus Orderly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and have here received little Alterations THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster An. 13 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1571 which began there on Monday the 2 d day of April and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 29 th day of May ensuing THIS Journal of the Upper House continuing about the space of two Months was very carelesly entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by the Clerk thereof who as it seems was Anthony Mason Esq succeeding about this time in the said Office of Clerk of the Upper House unto Francis Spilman Esq who had formerly supplied that place But yet by means of a Copious Journal I had by me of the Passages of the House of Commons in this Parliament taken by some Anonymous Member thereof and also of some Copies I had of the Speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper at the beginning and conclusion of this said Parliament this ensuing Journal is much enlarged And therefore to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Journal-Book of the Upper House by some Animadversions or Expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it Neither doth the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House want some matter of variety besides the ordinary Reading Committing and passing of Bills in respect that Sir Robert Catlyn Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal to supply the Lord Keepers place upon occasion of his sickness during some part of this said Parliament in the first entry whereof is set down out of the foresaid Anonymous Journal of the House of Commons her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Order and manner of it the substance also of which is found though somewhat more briefly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the same House On Monday the second day of April the Parliament beginning according to the Writs of Summons sent forth her Majesty about eleven of the Clock came towards Westminster in the antient accustomed most honourable Passage having first riding before her the Gentlemen Sworn to attend her Person the Batchellors Knights after them the Knights of the Bath then the Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of either Bench with the Master of the Rolls her Majesties Attorney General and Sollicitor General whom followed in Order the Bishops and after them the Earls then the Archbishop of Canterbury The Hat of Maintenance was Carried by the Marquess of Northampton and the Sword by the Earl of Sussex The place of the Lord Steward for that day was supplied by the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England the Lord Great Chamberlain was the Earl of Oxenford And the Earl Marshal by Deputation from the Duke of Norfolk was the Earl of Worcester Her Majesty sate in her Coach in her Imperial Robes and a Wreath or Coronet of Gold set with rich Pearl and Stones over her Head her Coach drawn by two Palfries covered with Crimson Velvet drawn out imbossed and imbroidered very richly Next after her Chariot followed the Earl of Leicester in respect of his Office of the Master of the Horse leading her Majesties spare Horse And then forty seven Ladies and Women of Honour The Guard in their rich Coats going on every side of them The Trumpeters before the first sounding and the Heralds riding and keeping their rooms and places Orderly In Westminster Church the Bishop of Lincoln Preached before her Majesty whose Sermon-being done her Majesty came from the Church the Lords all on foot in order as afore and over her Head a rich Canopy was carried all the way She being entred into the Upper House of Parliament and there sate in Princely and seemly sort under a high and rich Cloth of Estate her Robe was supported by the Earl of Oxenford the Earl of Sussex kneeling holding the Sword on the left hand and the Earl of Huntingdon holding the Hat of Estate and the Lords all in their Rooms on each side of the Chamber that is to say the Lords Spiritual on the right hand and the Lords Temporal on the left Nota That whereas the presence of these Lords ought here according to the usual course to have been inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it must of necessity be omitted in respect that through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time as it should seem Clerk of the said House there are none of the said Lords noted to have been present yet it may be probably guessed who they were by those who attended on Wednesday of this instant April ensuing Quod vide The Judges and her Learned Councel being at the Woollsacks in the midst of the Chamber and at her Highness Feet at each side of her kneeling one of the Grooms or Gentlemen of the Chamber their Faces towards her the Knights Citizens and Burgesses all standing below the Bar her Majesty then stood up in her Regal Seat and with a Princely Grace and singular good Countenance after a long stay spake a few words to this effect or thus Mr right Loving Lords and you our right faithful and Obedient Subjects we in the name of God for his Service and for the safety of this State are now here Assembled to his Glory I hope and pray that it may be to your Comfort and the common quiet of our yours and all ours for ever And then looking on the right side of her towards Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England standing a little beside the Cloth of Estate and somewhat back and lower from the same she willed him to shew the cause of the Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth THE Queens most Excellent Majesty our most Dread and Gracious Soveraign hath Commanded me to declare unto you the Causes of your Calling and Assembly at this time which I mean to do as briefly as I can led thereunto as one very loth to be tedious to her Majesty and also because to wise men and well-disposed as I judge you be a few words do suffice The Causes be chiefly two The one to establish or dissolve Laws as best shall serve for the Governance of the Realm
although it be not very usual yet there want not divers Presidents Vide April the 20 th Friday postea Nota also That here the Judges being but Assistants unto the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords which is usually found in all these Parliaments of her Majesties Reign until the thirty ninth of the same Dominus Custos magni Sigilli adjournavit praesens Parliamentum until to Morrow at eight of the Clock On Friday the 6 th day of April Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third touching Receivers c. deceiving the Queen of her Treasure was read secundâ vice commissa to the Earl of Hunt the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hastings of Loughborough the Lord North the Lord Hunsdon and to the Queens Attorney and M r Sollicitor Nota That here the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor who are but meer Attendants upon the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords Dominus Custos magni Sigilli adjournavit praesens Parliamentum in diem Crastinum hora nona On Saturday the 7 th day of April the Lords Assembled according to the last Adjournment and the Lord Keeper being absent Dominus Clinton vicem gerens Senescalli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proximum hora nona April the 8 th Sunday On Monday the 9 th day of April Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against such as shall bring in any Bulls c. was read prima vice and committed unto the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Pembroke and others and to the Chief Justices of the Common-Pleas Justice Southcot and Justice Carus Nota That the Judges who were but meer Assistants unto the Upper House are here made joint Committees with the Lords Vide consimise Apr. 5. Thursday And the second touching Receivers Collectors c. was read the second time eisdem Dominis quibus primò commissa fuit denuò committitur Nota That this Bill was read before the second time on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April foregoing and committed and therefore it should seem that this Bill was not now read again the second time but only some additions or amendments thereunto annexed by the Committees and thereupon the Bill was again referred unto them to be further considered of For that Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England was sick her Majesties Letters Patents were read Authorizing Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of England to supply the place of the said Lord Keeper at all times when the Lord Keeper during this present Parliament shall be absent The tenor of which here followeth verbatim ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and Right Well-beloved Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of our Common-Pleas before us to be holden Greeting Where our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Councellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England is at this time so visited with Sickness that he is not able to travel to the Upper House of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster nor there to supply the room and place in the said Upper House amongst the Lord Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to the Office of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England hath been accustomed We therefore minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth for and during every time of his absence have named and appointed you and by these Presents do Constitute name appoint and authorize you from day to day and time to time when and so often as the said Lord Keeper shall happen at any time or times during this present Parliament to be absent from his accustomed place in the Upper House to occupy use and supply the room and place of the said Lord Keeper in the said Upper House amongst the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled at every such day and time of his absence and then and there at every such time to do and execute all such things as the said Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England should or might do if he were there personally present using and supplying the same room Wherefore we will and Command you the said Sir Robert Catlin to attend to the doing and Execution of the Premises with effect And these our Letters Patents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same in every behalf In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our selves at Westminster the 9 th day of April in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign Powle Nota That this Commission is in one respect very exotick and unusual because it doth not only give Authority to the Lord Chief Justice to supply the Lord Keepers place until his recovery and return to Parliament as is ordinary in other Commissions but it doth further authorize him to supply the said Lord Keepers place at any time during this Parliament when he shall be absent as well as at this present whence in this ensuing Journal it is frequent that sometimes the Lord Keeper and sometimes the Lord Chief Justice though seldomer without any new Commission do in their several turns continue the Parliament Robertus Catlin Miles Dominus Capital Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Tuesday the 10 th day of April Billa de novo reformata per Dominos quibus pridie committebatur touching the bringing in of any Bulls or other Writings from the Bishop of Rome was read the first time The new Bill touching Receivers Treasurers Collectors c. defrauding the Queens Majesty of her Treasure was read the first time The Bill touching the Confirmation of the Attainder of Charles Earl of Westmerland Thomas Earl of Northumberland and others was read the first time The Lords requested to have Conference with certain of the House of Commons touching a Bill brought to them concerning matters of Religion whereupon Committees were appointed viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Northampton and others The Lord Keeper continued the Parliament usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 11 th day of April it was Ordered by the House that the Lords Committees for the Bill of Bankrupts may call unto them such of the House of Commons and others as they shall think good which may best inform touching any doubt or other matter that may rise upon the said Bill Two Bills also had each of them their second reading of which the second being the new Bill against the bringing in of Bulls was read the second time commissa Justiciario
and Authorize the said Sir Francis Knolles Sir James Crofts Sir Ralph Sadler Sir Walter Mildmay and Sir Thomas Smith Knights to be his Deputies for and in the ministring of the Oath to all and singular the Knights of the Shires Citizens of Cities Burgesses of Boroughs and Barons of the Ports returned and to be returned for that present Parliament according to the form of the Statute in that behalf then lately made and provided And immediately thereupon the faid Lord Steward and his Deputies did then and there Minister the said Oath to all such of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons as were then present accordingly Which done the Sermon ended and the Queens Majesty sat in her Royal Seat in the Upper House of Parliament the Commons standing at the lower end of the Chamber the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England learnedly and briefly declared the Causes of Calling the said Parliament and so in the end willed them to repair into their House and there after their accustomed manner to chuse of themselves an apt and fit man to be their Speaker and to present him to the Queens Majesty on the Wednesday next following in the Afternoon Whereupon the said Commons immediately resorted to their Common House and being there Assembled the Right Worshipful M r Christopher Wray Esq one of the Queens Majesties Serjeants at Law was by the first motion and nomination of the said M r Treasurer with one voice of the said whole House Chosen to be Speaker and placed in the Chair notwithstanding his Allegations of disabling himself and humble request for their proceeding to a new Election On Wednesday the 4 th day of April in the Afternoon Christopher Wray Esquire one of the Queens Majesties Serjeants at Law the Speaker Elect of the House of Commons was presented unto her Highness who sitting in her Royal Seat and allowing and affirming the Election after his Oration made and ordinary Petitions granted the said Lord Keeper willed him with the residue to repair to the House of Commons there to deliberate and consult upon the making of such good and wholesome Laws as might tend to the advancement of Gods Glory and preservation and safety of the Queens Majesty and the Common-Wealth of this Realm of England And thereupon the said M r Speaker and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons returned back unto their own House and being there sat one Bill according to the usual Course had its first reading which was The Bill concerning coming to Church and receiving the Communion It was this day finally agreed upon the Motion of M r Speaker that the Letany should be read every day in the House during this Parliament as in the last was used and also a Prayer by M r Speaker such as he should think fittest for this time to be begun every day at half an hour after eight of the Clock in the Morning and that each one of this House then making default should forfeit every time four pence to the poor Mans Box. On Thursday the 5 th day of April Thomas Clark and Anthony Bull of the Inner-Temple London Gentlemen were by this House committed to the Serjeants Ward until further order should be taken with them for that they presumed to enter into this House and were no Members of the same as themselves at the Bar confessed This day the House was called and thereupon Edward Lewkenor John Bullock Nicholas Plumtree Edward Goodwyn and John Garnons were Commanded to attend the order of this House to Morrow next for that the House being this day called they had entred into the House and had not as them been returned by the Clerk of the Crown except Garnons whose Case is for that he is said to be Excommunicate On Friday the 6 th day of April It was Ordered that the Burgesses for Estringsted shall remain according to the return This day M r Treasurer M r Serjeant Manwood Geffrie and Lovelace M r Feltman M r Bell and M r Mounson were appointed to confer with M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor about the return of the Burgesses following for that the same Towns returned no Burgesses the last Parliament viz. Cornwall the Boroughs of Estlow Fowley Gloucestershire the Borough of Chichester Nottinghamshire the Borough of Easiretford Kent the Borough of Queenborough Oxfordshire the Borough of Woodstock Hampshire the Borough of Christ-Church Suffolk the Boroughs of Aldburgh Eye And to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at three of the Clock in M r Treasurers Chamber at the Court. Nota That these ensuing Speeches are taken out of the before-mentioned Anonymous Journal M r Strickland a grave and ancient Man of Great Zeal stood up and made a long Discourse tending to the remembrance of Gods Goodness giving unto us the light of his Word together with the gracious disposition of her Majesty by whom as by his Instrument God hath wrought so great things and blaming our slackness and carelesness in not esteeming and following the time and blessing offered but still as men not sufficiently instructed what is truth or so that we think it not convenient to publish and profess it openly and that all reproachful Speeches of the slanderous might be stopped the draw-backs brought forward and the Over-runners such as over-run and exceed the rule of the Law reduced to a certainty he thought it Operae pretium to be occupied therein for which purpose he said the Professors of the Gospel in other Nations had writ and published to the World the Confession of their Faith as did those of Strasburgh and Franckford c. for which purpose also great Learned men in this Realm had travelled as Peter Martyr Paulus Fagius and others whose works hereupon were Extant And before this time and offer thereof was made in Parliament that it might be approved but either the slackness or somewhat else of some men in that time was the lett thereof or what else he said he would not say This Book he said rested in the Custody of M r Norton as he guessed a man neither ill disposed to Religion nor a negligent Keeper of such matters of Charge and thereupon requested that M r Norton might be required to produce the same he added also that after so many Years as now by Gods Providence we had been learning the purity of Gods truth we should not permit for any cause of Policy or other pretence any errors in matters of Doctrine to continue amongst us And therefore said he although the Book of Common-Prayer is God be praised drawn very near to the sincerity of the truth yet are there some things inserted more superstitious than in so high matters be tolerable as namely in the Administration of the Sacrament of Baptism the sign of the Cross to be made with some Ceremonies and such other Errors all which he said might well be changed without note of chopping or changing of Religion whereby the Enemies might slander us
mischief it may be to me and inconvenient also to utter the same I will not speak thereof but dutifully neither do I see any thing that is amiss at this present what was done a hundred years since I may safely tell and thus it was A Duke of this Realm wrote his Letters to a City which I know to this effect whereby he did signify that a Parliament was to be Summoned in short time and that for great causes he was to crave aid of all his Friends and reckoning them amongst the rest he wished them of four under-nominated to chuse two the Letter under the Dukes Seal is still preserved but hear you the Answer he was written to with due humbleness that they were prohibited by Law they might chuse none of them I will venture a little nearer In Queen Maries time a Council of this Realm not the Queens Privy-Council did write to a Town to chuse a Bishops Brother and a great Bishops Brother it was indeed whom they assured to be a good Catholick man and willed them to chuse to the like of him some other fit man The Council was Answered with Law And if all Towns in England had done the like in their Choice the Crown had not been so wronged and the Realm so robbed with such ease at that Parliament and truth banished as it was what hath been may be there is no impossibility It will be said I mistake it is not meant but that Towns shall be at liberty to chuse whom they list I say that Liberty is the loss of Liberty for when by Law they may do what they will they may not well deny what shall be required It is too truly said Rogando cogit qui rogat potentior And I have known one that to avoid a great mans displeasure that dwelt near him that was desirous as he knew to buy his Land did upon small occasion bind himself not to alienate his Land from his true Heirs this being known I mean that he was bound as aforesaid the great man was contented to let him keep his own quietly which otherwise he would not have done Surely Law is the only Fortress of the inferior sort of People and contrary to the Law the greater sort will not desire or expect anything Though now at this present God be praised we need not to fear the greatness of any man Justice is so well administred Yet hereafter whatsoever hath been we may fear either for maintenance of Faction or maintenance of Mischief Again I say it may be what heretofore was possibly again may be We stand and have stood of late upon the notorious manifestation of the Authority of Parliament except withal you keep the ancient usage of the same and withal endeavour the freedom thereof in effect you do nothing if I guess aright It is further said that in some Towns there are not men of discretion fit they be not the wiser said the Gentleman that spoke before for being Burgesses I can never be perswaded but that either the Lord whose the Town is be the Town never so little or the Steward if it be the Queens or some good Gentleman of the Country adjoinant will either assign them who know the Town and can be content to be free among them and to serve by their appointment for their Country and for them or else for some reasonable Fee such as be of their Learned Councel and who know them and the Country will deal for them I mean it not so strictly that those who should be chosen should of necessity be dwellers in the Town but to be either of the Town or towards the Town Borderers and near Neighbours at the least and to this effect I would the Bill were framed I stand too long hereon and abundance of matter occasioneth confusion this is all It was meant at the first and first Constitution of Parliament that men of every quarter and of all sorts should come to this Court that they should be freely chosen This in every Age hitherto hath seemed best to alter without cause is not convenient to give every Town liberty may offer in time inconvenience None so fit for every Country as those who know the same To chuse of their own it is a Liberty to lose their Liberty I think it a bad Commodity call it as you please by such kind of release in easing men of their Wealths or of some good part of their Living beshrow our Charity And in like sort and in like reason it seems to me this Law is inferred out of the Preface of the same For thus it is penned Forasmuch as some Towns are decayed and have not of their own therefore let every Town do what they list Of a particular Proposition to make a general conclusion it is against our Rules and nothing as saith the Philosopher is more absurd than non causam pro causà Some Towns cannot send fit men it standeth very strongly if you seek to help let the Plaister be fit for the sore let not the Salve be stretched too far lest the whole and sound flesh by the broad spreading of the Salve do either smart fret or fester The Medicine which healeth the sick man may be poyson for the whole and sound man All Citizens and Burgesses should not be thought alike and yet all provided for as there is due cause let there be therefore convenient consideration how to heal how to hurt And I could wish according to the weight of the matter it might be rather staid on than thus abruptly over-ruled and while we fly Scylla we fall not into Charybdis while we say that Boroughs cannot send to this High Court so fit men as be convenient that by altering the ancient usage which is the only Warrant and sole stay of freedom in Parliament it may happily be said we have no Parliament now within this Realm nor Liberty at all for any such here to be holden M r Bell in Answer of this did collect the substance of what had been said and in a long Discourse shewed that it was necessary all places should be provided for and not Boroughs only being but one of the Members of the Common-Wealth and that some of them have neither Wealth to provide fit men nor themselves any in any sort convenient He thought not amiss if in respect of those manifest wants convenient supply should be but without the Warrant of Parliament such alteration might not be He then thought it not amiss to be advised And for the objection of the danger which may ensue by reason of the Letters of Noblemen he could not he said but think it convenient to prevent the same and therefore wished that there might be the penalty of forty pound upon every Borough that should make such Election at the Nomination of any Nobleman M r Alford reasoned to this effect That above all things necessary care ought to be for the chusing and having of fit men to supply the place
passed the House of which the first was the Bill for preservation of Order and Uniformity in the Church and the second for William Skeffington Esquire The Proviso to the Bill of Subsidy for Rumney-Marsh was twice read The Bill for respite of Homage was read the third time The Proviso to the Bill for respite of Homage was twice read The Bill for respite of Homage was committed to Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Wilbraham and Mr. Popham who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at three of the Clock and to make report unto this Court to Morrow next On Saturday the 28 th day of April a Supplication for the Merchants of Dantzick touching Cony-Skins was this day read unto the House and delivered unto Mr. Treasurer The Proviso to the Bill for Fugitives was twice read and upon the question it was Ordered that the Bill shall stand as it is touching the relief of Wives and Children And the Bill was also Ordered to be ingrossed with the Proviso for the Dutchess of Feria and the Lady Jane Dormer Widow The Bill against Usury was read the third time Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for Conservation of Orders and Uniformity in the Church and another against Popish Priests disguising themselves in Serving-mens Apparel The Bill for keeping Residence in Cathedral Churches was read the first time Mr. Henry Knolles Sen. Mr. Strickland Mr. Mounson and Mr. Yelverton were appointed to sort the Bills for Religion in such order and course for proceeding one before another as they shall think meetest Vide May 17. postea The Bill for Shrewsbury was read the third time The Committees in the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion whose names see on Saturday the 21 th day of this instant April preceeding and the Committees in the Bill for respite of Homage who were nominated on Friday the 27 th day of the same Month foregoing were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Church The second Bill for Religion was read the second time and committed unto the Lord President of the Marches of Wales Sir Thomas Smith Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Norton Mr. Greenfeild Mr. Grimston Mr. Smith Mr. Fenner and Mr. Agmordsam who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at three of the Clock in the Star-Chamber Vide May 17. postea what this Bill was The Bill for Bristol was read the third time and after long Arguing passed upon the Question Mr. Serjeant Barham and Mr. Sollicitor brought two Bills from the Lords the one for the Confirmation of the Attainder of the late Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland and others and the other for reviving and continuance of certain Statutes April the 29 th Sunday On Monday the 30 th day of April Two Bills had each of them their second reading and were Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for allowance to be made unto Sheriffs for the Justices Diets Two Bills also had each of them their third reading and were likewise Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for coming to Church and receiving of the Communion On Tuesday the first day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Fugitives was read the third time and after many Arguments passed upon the Question Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Huick did desire from the Lords that some of this House may attend upon six of the Lords to Morrow Morning for Conference touching the Bill against Priests disguising themselves in Serving-mens Apparel which was granted and thereupon were appointed for that purpose Mr. Treasurer Sir Thomas Scott Sir Owen Hopton Sir Thomas Lucy Sir Henry Jones Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Cleere Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Norton Mr. Yelverton Mr. Strickland Mr. Mounson and Mr. Thomas Hussy Mr. Serjeant Barham and Mr. Attorney General did desire from the Lords that a convenient number be sent presently unto their Lordships from this House for Answer touching Articles for Religion Whereupon my Lord Deputy of Ireland Mr. Treasurer and divers others were sent for that purpose and had with them the four Bills last passed viz. The Bill against Fugitives The Bill for Bristol The Bill for William Skeffington and the Bill for Shrewsbury And afterwards returned Answer from the Lords that the Queens Majesty having been made privy to the said Articles liketh very well of them and mindeth to publish them and have them Executed by the Bishops by direction of her Highness Regal Authority of Supremacy of the Church of England and not to have the same dealt in by Parliament Nota That there was in this Parliament much and long agitation touching the reforming of several enormities and Ceremonies in matters of Religion which now at last the Queen took out of the hands of the House and promised other Amendment as appeareth by the above-mentioned Message sent from the Lords to the said House although the said matters and agitations were not thereupon deserted but continued in part as is more at large observed upon Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May ensuing where the whole beginning Progress and Issue of this business is at large collected and digested into an orderly relation The Bill for allowance to be made unto Sheriffs for the Justices Diets was read the third time M r Sollicitor and M r Doctor Lewes brought from the Lords two Bills the one against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances and the other for Constats and Exemplifications of Letters Patents to be as good and available as Letters Patents themselves The Bill of Attainder was read the first time Sir Henry Peircy Knight was appointed to be heard in this House with his Learned Council upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for Constats and Exemplifications of Letters Patents was read the first time On Wednesday the second day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading The Bill for Leases of Benefices being the fifth Bill of those seven Bills preferred this Parliament touching the reformation of matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill E was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Touching which said Bill and matters of Religion see a more full and ample Animadversion or Declaration on Thursday the 7 th day of this instant May ensuing M r Treasurer with the residue of the Commissioners having been with the Lords about the Bill against Priests disguising themselves in Serving-mens Apparel shewed that upon Conference therein had with the Lords their request is that some of the said Committees might confer with the Queens Majesties Learned Councel touching the enlargement and better Explanation of some parts of the same Bill Whereupon the House liking
wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the same so also by a like negligence are all those many and several Prorogations buried in Silence by which this Parliament was continued without Dissolution until the next meeting thereof on Wednesday the 8 th day of February in the eighteenth year of her Majesties Reign which was the second Session of this present Parliament and held about four years after the determination of this first Session by Adjournment as aforesaid so that it is very probable that there are not less than twenty several Prorogations For between that foresaid second Session in an 18 Reginae Eliz. and the third Session of this present Parliament in an 23 Reginae ejusdem which contained not above one years space more than had intervened between the two former Sessions there passed at least twenty five Prorogations as doth plainly appear in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the said Session of Parliament de an 18 Reginae praedict where they are for the most part set down either abstractedly or at large And lastly As touching the great business of the Scottish Queen so much and so long agitated in both Houses it did at this time receive no period or conclusion but in this Session of Parliament in an 14 Reginae Eliz. an Act passed both Houses against her and lastly in the Parliament de an 28 29 Reginae ejusdem she was a little before her Execution at Fortheringhay-Castle in Northamptonshire Condemned to be Worthy of Death by the Vote of both the said Houses of Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 14 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1572 which began there on Thursday the 8 th Day of May and then and there continued until the Adjournment thereof on Monday the 30 th and last Day of June next ensuing THIS Journal of the House of Commons containeth in it not only many good passages touching the ordinary reading committing and expediting of Bills but is plentifully stored also with the frequent agitation and discussion of that great business touching the Scottish Queen whose practices not only with Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk but also with the Foreign Enemies of her Majesty for the destruction and Invasion of the Realm are notably described which also is much enlarged out of a written Copy I had by me of such reasons as were conceived in the House of Commons for her speedy Execution and of the Petition also preferred to her Majesty to the same purpose which said Reasons and Petition being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons I have therefore to avoid confusion distinguished by an Annotation or Animadversion from that of the Journal it self where it hath in its due place been inserted There passed also in this said Session a Bill against the said Queen of Scots which is falsly referred in divers Copies thereof to the 23 th year of her Majesty On Thursday the 8 th day of May this first Session of the fourth Parliament of her Majesties Reign beginning at Westminster The Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln High Admiral of England and by her Highness appointed Lord Steward for this present time came to the Lower House of Parliament accompanied with divers others of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council viz. Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofts Knight Comptroller of the same Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Chancellor of her Majesties Dutchy of Lancaster and Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer And did then and there minister the Oath unto all the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons then and there Assembled The said Earl of Lincoln Constituting and Authorizing the said Sir Francis Knolles Sir James Crofts Sir Ralph Sadler and Sir Walter Mildmay to be his Deputies in and for the more speedy ministration of the said Oath according to the Statute in that behalf lately made and provided unto all such others of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons as should happen afterwards to appear upon any return during this present Parliament This day Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq was Chosen Speaker for this present Parliament But whether her Majesty were this day in Person in the Upper House or by what Authority from her said Highness the said Speaker was Elected cannot possibly be gathered out of the Original Journal of the said Upper House or that of the House of Commons but elsewhere it appears the Lord Keeper gave them Authority in the end of his Speech on Thursday foregoing On Saturday the 10 th day of May M r Speaker was by the House presented to the Queens Majesty and of her Highness well accepted and allowed who after his Oration made and the Ordinary Petitions granted repaired to the House of Commons and being set in the Chair received the Oath After which according to the usual form was read The Bill concerning Bayles to be taken in the Court of Common-Pleas was read the first time On Monday the 12 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the third being the Bill for Proclamations to be made in Parish Churches and Chappels before Outlawries was committed unto M r Gent M r Robert Snagg M r Fenner M r Humberston M r Flowerdue M r French and M r Boyes who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Church The Lords did send Sir Richard Read and M r D r Huick to require M r Speaker and this whole House forthwith to make their repair unto their Lordships in the Upper House and upon their repair thither the Lord Keeper signified unto them that the Queens Majesties Pleasure is that twenty one of the said Upper House and forty four of this House should meet to Morrow in the Morning at eight of the Clock in the Star-Chamber then and there to consult and deliberate upon matters concerning the Queen of Scots Whereunto were appointed of this House M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer My Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Maurice Berkeley Sir Hugh Pawlet Sir Thomas Scott Sir Owen Hopton Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir John Thinne Sir Hen. Gate Sir Rowland Hayward M r Doctor Wilson M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Recorder of London M r Serjeant Manwood M r Serjeant Geffry M r Mounson M r Sands M r Popham M r Yelverton M r Coleby M r Heneage M r Charles Howard M r Hatton M r Asteley M r Shute M r Hen. Knolles Sen. M r Hen. Knolles Jun. M r Peter Wentworth M r Sampole M r Norton M r William Moor. M r John Vaughan M r Tho. Randall M r John Vaughan of Caermarthen M r Greenfield Sen. M r Charles Somerset M
only to be inserted being extraordinary and less usual viz. where two spiritual Lords Constituted three Proctors apiece whereas they usually nominate but two as the Temporal Lords do but one And in respect that through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the Upper House there is no day set down on which the said Proxies were introduced therefore I have thought it most fit to insert them here at the end of the first days Passages of this present Session Although they be Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the said House before the beginning thereof in manner and form following Episcopus Wigorn. absens ex licentia Dominae Reginae constituit Procuratores suos Johannem Episcopum Herefordens Thomam Episcopum Coventr Litchf Thomam Episcopum Lincoln Episcopus Landaven absens ex licentia Dominae Reginae constituit Procuratores suos Edwinum Episcopum London Thomam Episcopum Coventr Litchf Willielmum Episcopum Assaven Nota That the Lord Burleigh had this Parliament four Proxies Entred in the Original Journal-Book in the same Order as they follow but no day is set down on which they were returned viz. from the Lord Vaux from the Marquess of Winchester from Viscount Mountacute and from the Lord Latimer On Thursday the 9 th day of February the Bill for Reformation of Apparel was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London the Lord Wentworth the Lord North the Lord Hunsdon the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor Two Bill also had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill against diminishing the Queens Majesties Coin and was read the second time Nota That this foregoing Bill had now its second reading but there is no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees as in the like Case is always usual unless it be in such Bills as are sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons ready ingrossed in Parchment upon their passing of them or else when they are fairly ingrossed in Parchment and sent from her Majesty to the House when they immediately concern her own Person State or Prerogative or some Subject whom out of Grace she intendeth to have restored in Blood Naturalized or the like and of this latter sort this present Bill seemeth to be because it concerneth her Majesties Coin unless perhaps the mentioning of the ingrossing or the referring thereof were omitted by the Clerks negligence which may sometimes happen A Writ in common form was returned summoning the Lord Chandois to come to Parliament On Friday the 11 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continaed the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents and other Assurances made by the Queens Majesty was read the second time and committed unto the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Essex the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Hereford the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley and the Lord Howard A Writ was directed and this day returned in common form summoning the Lord Stourton to come to Parliament The Parliament was continued in common form by the Lord Keeper until Monday next at nine of the Clock On Monday the 13 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents and other Assurances made by the Queens Majesty was read secundâ vice But it should rather seem that this was the first reading of this new Bill brought in by the Committees to whom the same was referred on Saturday the 11 th day of this instant February foregoing because it had its second reading on Wednesday the 15 th day and its third reading on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant Month foregoing The Bill for Reformation of Excess in Apparel was read prima vice Nota That the former Bill to this effect which had been referred to Committees on Thursday the 9 th day of this instant February foregoing was as it seemeth dashed by them and a new Bill brought in which had its first reading on this day its second reading on Wednesday and its third and last reading on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant February following On Wednesday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Monday last continued The Bill for coming to Church and receiving of the Communion was read the second time and committed unto the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Ely the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Wentworth the Lord North Justice Mounson and Justice Manwood and the Queens Sollicitor Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them their second reading and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel On Thursday the 16 th day of February the Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel and the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents were each of them read tertia vice conclusae and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Barkley and Mr. Powle Clerk of the Crown Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Repeal of a Statute made in the eighteenth year of Henry the Sixth was read prima vice and committed to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to consider of On Saturday the 18 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Repeal of a Statute made an 18 H. 6. was read secunda vice and committed to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor Nota That this Bill was committed upon the first reading on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant February foregoing to Serjeant Barham the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor by whom it should seem the Bill being brought in again without any great alteration was now recommitted upon the second reading to the two latter of them to consider further of the same according to the Order of the House Vide Febr. 22. postea The Bill for the maintenance of Rochester-Bridge which was read the first time in the beginning of this present day was now committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer of England the Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Chichester the Lord Abergavenny the Lord Cobham the Lord Buckhurst Justice Manwood and Serjeant Barham On Monday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands sold by Henry Fisher
needful to put you in remembrance that this Honourable Assembly are Assembled and come together here in this place for three special Causes of most weighty and great importance The first and principal is to make and abrogate such Laws as may be most for the preservation of our noble Soveraign The second ..... The third is to make or abrogate such Laws as may be to the chiefest surety safe-keeping and enrichment of this noble Realm of England So that I do think that the part of a faithful-hearted Subject is to do his endeavour to remove all Stumbling-Blocks out of the way that may impair or any manner of way hinder these good and Godly Causes of this our coming together I was never of Parliament but the last and the last Session at both which times I saw the Liberty of free Speech the which is the only Salve to heal all the Sores of this Common-Wealth so much and so many ways infringed and so many abuses offered to this Honourable Council as hath much grieved me even of very Conscience and love to my Prince and State Wherefore to avoid the like I do think it expedient to open the Commodities that grow to the Prince and whole State by free Speech used in this place at the least so much as my simple Wit can gather of it the which is very little in respect of that that wise Heads can say therein and so it is of the more force First All matters that concern Gods Honour through free Speech shall be propagated here and set forward and all things that do hinder it removed repulsed and taken away Next there is nothing commodious profitable or any way beneficial for the Prince or State but faithful and loving Subjects will offer it in this place Thirdly All things discommodious perillous or hurtful to the Prince or State shall be prevented even so much as seemeth good to our merciful God to put into our minds the which no doubt shall be sufficient if we do earnestly call upon him and fear him for Solomon saith The fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom Wisdom saith he breatheth Life into her Children receiveth them that seek her and will go beside them in the way of Righteousness so that our minds shall be directed to all good needful and necessary things if we call upon God with faithful hearts Fourthly If the Envious do offer any thing hurtful or perillous to the Prince or State in this place what incommodity doth grow thereby Verily I think none nay will you have me to say my simple opinion therein much good cometh thereof how forsooth for by the darkness of the Night the brightness of the Sun sheweth more excellent and clear and how can truth appear and conquer until falsehood and all subtilties that should shadow and darken it be found out for it is offered in this place a piece of fine Needle-work unto them that are most skilful therein for there cannot be a false stitch God aiding us but will be found out Fifthly This good cometh thereof a wicked purpose may the easier be prevented when it is known Sixthly An evil man can do the less harm when it is known Seventhly Sometime it happeneth that a good man will in this place for Argument sake prefer an evil cause both for that he would have a doubtful truth to be opened and manifested and also the evil prevented so that to this point I conclude that in this House which is termed a place of free Speech there is nothing so necessary for the preservation of the Prince and State as free Speech and without it is a scorn and mockery to call it a Parliament House for in truth it is none but a very School of Flattery and Dissimulation and so a fit place to serve the Devil and his Angels in and not to glorify God and benefit the Common-Wealth Now to the impediments thereof which by Gods Grace and my little Experience I will utter plainly and faithfully I will use the words of Elcha Behold I am as the new Wine which hath no vent and bursteth the new Vessels in funder therefore I will speak that I may have a vent I will open my Lips and make Answer I will regard no manner of Person no man will I spare for if I should go about to please men I know not how soon my Maker will take me away my Text is vehement the which by Gods sufferance I mean to observe hoping therewith to offend none for that of very Justice none ought to be offended for seeking to do good and saying of the truth Amongst other M r Speaker Two things do great hurt in this place of the which I do mean to speak the one is a rumour which runneth about the House and this it is take heed what you do the Queens Majesty liketh not such a matter whosoever prefereth it she will be offended with him or the contrary her Majesty liketh of such a matter whosoever speaketh against it she will be much offended with him The other sometimes a Message is brought into the House either of Commanding or Inhibiting very injurious to the freedom of Speech and Consultation I would to God M r Speaker that these two were Buried in Hell I mean rumours and Messages for wicked undoubtedly they are the reason is the Devil was the first Author of them from whom proceedeth nothing but wickedness now I will set down reasons to prove them wicked First If we be in hand with any thing for the advancement of Gods Glory were it not wicked to say the Queen liketh not of it or Commanded that we shall not deal in it greatly were these Speeches to her Majesties dishonour and an hard opinion were it M r Speaker that these things should enter into her Majesties thought much more wicked and unnatural were it that her Majesty should like or Command any thing against God or hurtful to her self and the State The Lord grant this thing may be far from her Majesties Heart Here this may be objected that if the Queens Majesty should have intelligence of any thing perillous or beneficial to her Majesties Person or the State would you not have her Majesty give knowledge thereof in this House whereby her peril may be prevented and her benefit provided for God forbid then were her Majesty in worse case than any of her Subjects And in the beginning of our Speech I shewed it to be a special Cause of our Assembly but my intent is that nothing should be done to Gods dishonour to her Majesties peril or the peril of the State And therefore I will shew the inconveniences that grow of these two First If we follow not the Princes mind Solomon saith the Kings displeasure is a Messenger of Death This is a terrible thing to weak nature for who is able to abide the fierce Countenance of his Prince but if we will discharge our Consciences and be true to God and Prince and
Right well Beloved Counsellor Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor of England Greeting Whereas in the beginning of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster the eight day of May in the fourteenth year of our Reign the Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled in the same Parliament were Commanded by us to go to their accustomed place and there to chuse to themselves one to be their Speaker according to the accustomed manner Whereupon the same Knights Citizens and Burgesses did Elect and Chuse one Robert Bell Esq afterwards Knight and Chief Baron of our Exchequer now deceased to be their Speaker and the same their Election did afterwards certifie unto us which Election we did allow and ratifie since which time this our present Parliament hath been continued by divers Prorogations until the 8 th day of February in the eighteenth year of our Reign at which time the said Parliament was holden and continued from the said 8 th day of February until the 15 th day of March then next following from which time also the said Parliament hath continued by divers and sundry Prorogations until the 16 th day of January in this present twenty third year of our Reign At which day the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and also the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses have declared unto us that the said Robert Bell since the last Session of this present Parliament is dead and thereupon have made their humble Suit and Petition to us that they might have Licence and Commandment from us to proceed to Elect amongst themselves one other to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come Wherefore we having certain and perfect knowledge that the said Robert Bell is dead as they have alledged and considering their humble Petition and Request is very meet and necessary to be granted have appointed and Constituted you and by the these Presents we do Will Command Constitute and Appoint you for us and in our Name to Call the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses before you and other the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in this our present Parliament in the Higher House of our Parliament at Westminster and there present for us and in our Name to Will and Command the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses to resort to their accustomed place and there to Elect and Chuse amongst themselves one sufficient and able Person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come and after they have once made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names shall signifie the same unto us and thereupon we will further signifie our Pleasure unto them what day and time they shall present the Person Elected before us as heretofore hath been in like Cases accustomed to be done Wherefore our Will and Pleasure is that you do diligently attend about doing of the premises and execute the same with effect In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters Patents to be Sealed with our Great Seal Witness our Self at Westminster the 16 th day of January in the twenty third Year of our Reign Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House now follows the continuance of this days Passages as also of the residue of the matters handled in the House of Commons during this Session of Parliament out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House At the return of such Members of the House of Commons into their own House as had been present in the Upper House during the time the recited Commission was in reading for many of the House of Commons conceiving that their sending for to the Upper House aforesaid being only by their own Serjeant whom they had sent up to the Lords to see if the Lord Chancellor and the rest of their Lordships were come thither or no was no orderly giving them notice of their Lordships desires in that behalf according to former usage in respect that the said Commons are to be sent for by ..... amongst the said Members as aforesaid who had been so present in the said Upper House Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Household did at his return declare that for Answer to the Suit her Majesties Commission was read to license and Command the Commons to Chuse a Speaker and that four of this House being of the Privy-Council should make report of the Election to her Majesty that her Highness might thereupon signifie her further Pleasure for appointing the day for presenting of him M r Treasurer further declared unto the House before their proceeding to Election that he and others had just now seen in the Upper House one that is a Member of this House to wit M r John Popham her Majesties Sollicitor General being one of the Citizens for Bristol and therefore made a Motion that some of this House might be sent to their Lordships with request that the said M r Popham being a Member of this House might forthwith be remanded and restored to this House again which some thought not needful to be done before the Election and others again denying that he or any other could be Chosen Speaker except he were present himself The Clerk was Commanded to read the said Precedent again of chusing M r Onslow in the said eighth year of her Majesties Reign which said Precedent see on Monday the 16 th day of this instant foregoing and thereupon that course being agreed upon to be followed the said M r Treasurer and others were sent up to the Lords to demand the restitution of the said M r Popham and brought Answer again that their Lordships had resolved he should be sent down the rather because he was a Member of this House and this House possessed of him before he was Sollicitor or had any place of Attendance in the Upper House Upon relation whereof a Motion was presently made that it was not meet or convenient to chuse a Speaker by persons that were not of the House and withal it was thought of some that divers persons being newly returned in the places of others yet living were not or ought not to be accounted Members of this House Whereupon to avoid length of Argument and the impediment of the Election the said M r Treasurer by the Assent of the House pronounced an Admonition that all such as were newly returned in the places of others yet living should forbear to repair to the House till their case were further considered Then immediately M r Anderson the Queens Serjeant at Law and Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight her Highness Attorney General brought from the Lords the said M r Popham her Majesties Sollicitor General one of the Citizens for the City of Bristol and restored him to this House as a Member of the same and so departed And then was a Motion made by M r Lewkenor for Prayer to be used before the Election that it might please God both in that and in the residue
humble Petition unto her Highness for reformation of some abuses yet remaining in the Church and most humbly renewing the speedy consideration thereof unto her Majesties good remembrance at her good will and pleasure did further most humbly beseech her Highness in the name and behalf of the whole State of the Commons of her Realm that her Majesty would at their most humble Suit the rather have a vigilant and provident care of the safety of her most Royal Person against the malicious attempts of some mighty Foreign Enemies abroad and the Trayterous practices of most unnatural disobedient Subjects both abroad and at home envying the blessed and most happy and quiet Government of this Realm under her Highness upon the thread of whose Life only next under God dependeth the Life and whole State and stay of every her good and dutiful Subjects And withal that it might please her Highness to have such good care and regard generally for the maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation the very strength and Walls of her Majesties Realms and Dominions as may seem most convenient unto her Highness most godly wisdom from time to time And so declaring that her Majesties Nobles and Commons having had consideration of her Highness great Charges many ways for defence of her Realms and People against Foreign Enemies and other Rebellious Subjects both already imployed and hereafter to be imployed have granted unto her Highness one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths which they besought her Highness to accept in good part according to their humble Duties and gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness most Gracious general and free Pardon Which done the Lord Chancellor by her Majesties Commandment Answering very Excellently and briefly the parts of M r Speaker his Oration did amongst other things deliver her Majesties most hearty thanks unto both Houses for their great and good care for the safety of her Highness Person and also of her Honour good Fame and Dignity not yet comprehending within those general thanks such Members of the House of Commons as have this Session dealt more rashly in some things than was fit for them to do and giving them withal like hearty thanks for the said Contribution of a Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths in that it was granted as willingly and frankly and also as largely and amply and to be Answered as speedily as any other like ever hath been taking the same in as good part as if it had been to her own private use where in very deed it is to be imployed to the general service and benefit of the whole Realm And so giving her Royal Assent to thirty Acts fifteen publick and fifteen private the said Lord Chancellor did by her Highness Commandment Prorogue this present Parliament until the 24 th day of April next coming Nota That all this days Passages with the manner of the Conclusion of the Parliament are wholly transcribed out of the Original Journal Book of the House of Commons and in that respect are here more largely set down than in the Journal of the Upper House and the rather because there is no Conclusion of any Parliament so exactly described in any other of the said Original Journal Books of the House of Commons during the Queens Reign The third and last Session finally of this present Parliament was upon the foresaid 24 th day of April Prorogued again unto the 29 th day of May and was at last after seventeen other Prorogations Dissolved by vertue of her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England in that behalf directed upon the 19 th day of April in the twenty fifth year of her Majesties Reign THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A. Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. which began there on Monday the 23 th Day of November and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof on Monday the 29 th Day of March Anno Domini 1585. after which it was lastly Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th Day of September Anno 28 Reginae ejusdem Anno Domini 1586. THIS Parliament Summoned and holden in the twenty seventh year of her Majesties Reign lasted a long time in respect of the continual sitting of either House for the space of about three Months at two several Meetings between which there intervened only one Adjournment of about forty days space There were no publick matters of any great consequence debated in it but many Excellent Passages for the Power Priviledge and Order of the Upper House may be observed from it At the first Prorogation thereof on Monday the 29 th day of March in Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1585. there passed near upon fifty several Acts or Statutes publick and private from which time it continued until the Dissolution thereof as abovesaid The day before the Parliament began being Sunday and the 22 th day of November the Original Journal-Book setteth down amongst others two unusual or extraordinary Proxies to have been introducted or returned thereon into the hands of the Clark of the Upper House for any Proxy if it be delivered into the hands of the said Clark whether it be before the Parliament begin or after is well returned and it is most likely that these two with some other ordinary or usual Proxies which are here omitted were delivered as aforesaid this Sunday towards the Evening because the Parliament was to begin the next Morning Which said Letters Procuratory are Entred as aforesaid in manner and form following 22 o die Novembris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Carliolen ' in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Episcopum London Item introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Willielmi Episcopi Cestren ' in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edwinum Archiepiscopum Eboracen ' Nota. That here two Bishops did constitute but one Proxy apiece whereas it seldom happeneth that any spiritual Lord nominateth fewer than two But for any further observation upon the Proxies returned this Parliament Vide on Friday the 27 th day of this instant November following On Monday the 23 th day of November the Parliament began according to the Summons Which had been sent forth The Queens Majesty went to this Parliament in her accustomed Pompous and Royal manner being attended first unto the Cathedral Church of Westminst from her Palace of Whitehall by the Lords and others where having heard a Sermon she was afterwards conducted by them in the like Royalty into the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House whither she came about two of the Clock in the Afternoon Nota That the whole manner and form aforesaid of her Majesties most Royal going to this Parliament is set down at large in M r Mills his Catalogue of Honour imprinted at London Anno Domini 1610. pag. 64. The Queen and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being all set in
by the Lords before it was thus immediately returned a thing very observable and extraordinary within a short time after the Lords themselves had received it It appeareth also in the said Journal-Book that one Bill more concerning the good Government of the City of Westminster was sent up with certain amendments to the Lords from the House of Commons and that two other Bills whereof this very Bill concerning the City of Westminster was one and the Bill for the keeping of the County-Court at Morpeth and the Town of Anwicke in the County of Northumberland was the other had been this day sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle who thereupon did presently read them prima secunda tertia vice as the Lords it should seem led by their Example did the two Bills above-mentioned this same Morning afterwards and with some small alteration sent them up to the Lords All which matter is by the negligence of M r Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House omitted in the said Original Journal-Book of that House and supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons pag. 166 167. Collected by M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the said House On Saturday the 27 th day of March the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime-Regis in the County of Dorsett was read tertia vice conclusa The Petition also of the Lord Marquess of Winchester against M r Oughtred concerning certain Accompts by him to be made was this day read before the Lords Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 29 th day of this instant March following On Monday the 29 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued a Proviso to the Bill concerning the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis added by the Lords was read tertia vice and then sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle M r Oughtred appeared before the Lords The Lord Chancellor by the advice and consent of the said Lords asked the said Oughtred whether he meant to take the benefit of a Release heretofore mentioned The said Oughtred 〈◊〉 before the said Lords that he would 〈◊〉 advantage of any Release concerning 〈◊〉 sum of twelve thousand pound and more 〈◊〉 further that the said Release extended 〈◊〉 the said sum but to other accompts before 〈◊〉 time of his Executorship The Lord Chancellor demanded further of the said Oughtred 〈◊〉 would be contented that his said Speeches should be entred by the Clerk in the Journals of the House The said Oughtred Answered that he was very well pleased therewith Whereupon the Lord Chancellor Commanded that his said Speeches should be Registred Nota That this matter was formerly debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. and before also in this present Parliament on Tuesday the 9 th day of February last past and on Tuesday the 4 th day and on Saturday the 27 th day of this instant March foregoing and Committees were likewise appointed about it on the foresaid 9 th day of February being Tuesday Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lords meeting the Bill for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon lecta est quae commum omnium Proccrum assensu conclusa est data Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend ' unà cum subsidio Temporalitatis Nota That the general Pardon passeth here upon the first reading There was also brought from the House of Commons two Bills of which the first was the Bill for the preservation of the Pier or Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset and the second being an Act for the preservation of Pheasants and Partridges with amendments was rejected for that they of the House of Commons had with their amendments taken away the principal intent of the Bill This Afternoon her Majesty Accompanied with the two Archbishops of Canterbury and York Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Lord Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Oxford and divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal were personally present in the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House who being all set in their Parliamentary Robes and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof repaired thither with John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House after his humble reverence made and some expressions of his thankfulness to her Majesty he proceeded according to the usual course to desire her Majesty to give Life to such Laws by adding her Gracious Allowance unto them as had passed either House and remained as yet but as a dead Letter and withal gave her Majesty knowledge of the free gift of the House of Commons of one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths To which Speech of the said Prolocutors the Lord Chancellor by her Majesties commandment answered That she did graciously accept of the said gift of her Commons and was come thither to give her Royal assent to divers of those Laws which had passed the two Houses Then were the Titles of all the Acts read and first the Bill of Subsidy to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Majesties Answer in manner and form following La Royne remercie ses loyaulx Subjects accepte leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelates Seigneurs Communes en se present Parliment assembles au nom de touts vous autres Subjects remercient treshumblement vostre Majesty prient a Dieu que il vous done en sante bone vie longue Nota That her Majesties Answer to these two Acts of the Subsidy and Pardon do differ from all the rest to any other Bills because in the first is expressed her Majesties thanks to the Subjects and in the second the Subjects humble acknowledgment of her said Majesties Pardon as an act of her own free grace and goodness To every publick Act allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament reads in these French words following La Royne le veult To every private Act that passeth the said Clerk of the Parliament reads the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desire These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of the Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear
John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House did according to the usual form humbly crave her Majesties most Royal Assent to such good Laws as had passed the two Houses Whereupon her Majesty having by her Assent given Life to thirty publick Acts and nineteen private the Parliament was Prorogued unto the 20 th day of May next ensuing and at last after five other Prorogations it was Dissolved upon Wednesday the 15 th day of September Anno 28 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the Upper House in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. which began there on Saturday the 29 th Day of October after two Several Prorogations thereof and then and there continued until it was at length Dissolved on Thursday the 23 th Day of March Anno 29 Reginae ejusdem THE Journal of this Parliament both in respect of the greatness of the matter handled in it being the business of Mary Queen of Scots as also of the many rare Precedents which happened in the Carriage of it the Queens Person being represented and the Lord Chancellors place supplied by others with the Adjournment and re-assembling again of the same somewhat extraordinary is and ought to be esteemed most worthy of observation And it is most plain that this Parliament was at the first beyond the Queens own expectation summoned and afterwards Assembled upon no other cause or ground than the timely and strange discovery of that bloody and merciless Treason Plotted by Babington and others for the violent cutting off her Majesties life of which Mary Queen of Scots had been first by a most Just and Honourable Tryal fully Convicted and afterwards Judicially pronounced to have been in a high nature guilty But yet her Majesty not satisfied with her so just a Tryal and Attainder assembled the Parliament on purpose that so all those former proceedings how just so ever might be further Committed and referred to the impartial examination and final Judgment of the whole Realm And that this great Council of the Kingdom was merely called together at this time about this business is most plain because the last Prorogation of ths former Parliament holden in Anno 27 Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1584. was from the 26 th day of April Anno 28 Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1586. unto the 14 th day of November then next ensuing But long before the said day the former Conspiracy being discovered about the latter end of July in Anno eodem the former Parliament was dissolved on Wednesday the fourteenth day of September following in the 28 th year of her Majesty And this new one Assembled on Saturday the 29 th day of October immediately after ensuing At which time the Queen came not to the Upper House in Person but was represented by three Commissioners not as her Majesty afterward professed because she feared the Violence of any Assassinte but because she abhorred to be an hearer of so foul and unnatural a conspiracy plotted against her by the Scottish Queen a Kinswoman so near to her Highness Yet by this means her absence doubtless drew on the greater safety and her Loving and Loyal Subjects did the more clearly perceive in how great and unavoidable danger she stood as long as that Queen lived and were therefore doubtless stirred up to consult in this so important a Cause with the greater Zeal and earnestness for the preservation of Religion the Security of her Majesties Life and the safety of these Realms Which matters the Lords of the Upper House did so seriously intend as that in this first meeting in this present Parliament which lasted from the foresaid 29 th day of October being Saturday unto the second day of December next following being Friday it appeareth not in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House that any one Bill publick or private was read or so much as once treated of This Parliament was summoned to have begun on Saturday the 15 th day of October Anno 28 Regin Eliz. at which said day her Highness for great and weighty causes and Considerations her thereunto especially moving did prolong and adjourn the said Parliament unto Thursday being the 27 th day of the said Month of October by vertue of a Writ under the Great Seal dated the eighth day of this present October whereupon on the said 15 th day of October the Archbishop of Canterbury with divers other Lords and Councellors repaired to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and there in presence of divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal the Knights Citizens and Burgesses summoned to the same Parliament did declare her Highnesses pleasure to Prorogue the same Parliament from this first summoned day until the 27 th of the said Month and thereupon the Writ for the said Prorogation was publickly read by the Clerk of the Upper House Upon the said 27 th day of October Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor of England and divers Lords with a good number of the House of Commons met again in the Parliament Chamber and did again Prorogue this present Parliament after the usual and accustomed form unto the Saturday next following being the 29 th day of this present October On which said 29 th day of October the Parliament held accordingly and the Lords in the Afternoon repaired to the Upper House and there placed themselves according to their several Degrees Upon which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses having notice that the Lords expected their presence repaired to the said House and being let in as many as could conveniently Sir Thomas Bromley the Lord Chancellor declared unto the whole Assembly that her Majesty was so hindred by great and urgent occasions as she could not be present yet had notwithstanding given full Authority to Three Members of the Upper House in her Majesties name and stead to begin the said Parliament Whose names are entred in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament in manner and form following Regina representata per Commissionarios viz. Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Comitem Darbiae Magnum Seneschallum All the Lords then present were these following Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Archiepiscopus Eboracen Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Comites Comes Oxon Magnus Camerarius Comes Kantiae Comes Darbiae Magnus Seneschallus Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Pembrook Comes Hartford Comes Lincoln Vicecomes Mountague Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Winton Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Exon. Episcopus Cestren Barones Dominus Howard Admirallus Dominus Aburgavenny Dominus Zouch Dominus Barkley Dominus Morley Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Lumley Dominus
Stourton Dominus Darcie Dominus Sandes Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Delaware Dominus Compton Dominus Cheney Dominus Norris The Lords being all set in this Order in their Parliament-Robes and the Judges placed with other Attendants and Assistants of the Upper House being also before the said Lords Commissioners had taken their places on the right side of the Chair of State the Lord Chancellor shewed forth the Queens Majesties Letters Patents by which She committed full Power to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby to supply her place in the said Parliament which were as followeth viz. Hodie cùm omnes Proceres Robis Parliamentaribus induti in suo Loco quisque sederent Milites Cives Burgenses qui ad hoc praesens Parliamentum summoniti fuerunt praesso essent jam universt tam Proceres quà m Communes Reginae adventum expectarent Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius exponit omnibus Regiam Majestatem maximis urgentissimis causis adeò esse impeditam ut non queat impraesentiarum commodè interesse ut decreverat Nihilominus inquit sua Majestas Literis suis Patentibus plenam potestatem commisit Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Johanni Cantuar. Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac praedilecto fideli suo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae ac charissimo Consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Darbiae ad facienda nomine suo omnia singula quae in dicto Parliamento gerenda essent ut per easdem Liter as Patentes 〈◊〉 apparet quas hiis dictis Dominus Cancellarius Clerico Parliamentar publicè legendas tradidit Earum autem tenor sequitur in haec verba ELizabetha Dei graetiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd cùm de advisamento Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonaster 29 o die instant mensis Octobris teneri ordinavimus quia verò propter certas causas ad Parliamentum praedictum non potuerimus interesse nos de circumspectione sideliate industria Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Johannis Cantuar. Archiepiscopi totius Angliae Primat Metropolitan ac praedilecti fidelis nostri Willielmi Domini de Burleigh Domini Thesaurarii Angliae ac charissimi Consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis Darbiae plenam fiduciam reportand eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum ad Parliamentum praedictum nomine meo inchoand tenend negotiáque praedict exponend declarand ac exponi declarari faciend necnon in negotiis illis Parliamento praedicto ac omnibus sin gulis in eo procedend ad faciend omnia singula quae pro nobis per nos pro bono regimine gubernatione praedicti Regni nostri Angliae ac aliorum Dominiorum nostrorum eidem Regno nostro pertinen ibid. fuerint faciend necnon ad Parliamentum illud si necesse fuerit continuand adjournand prorogand de assensu Concilii nostri praedicti plenam tenore praesentium committimus prtestatem Dante 's ulteriùs de assensu ejusdem Concilii nostri tam universis singulis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Vicecomitibus Baronibus Militibus quà m omnibus aliis quorum interest ad Parliamentum nostrum praedictum conventur similit tenore praesentium firmiter in Mandatis Quòd eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum intendant in praemissis in fornia praedicta In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo octavo Per ipsam Reginam c. The Letters Patents foregoing being read the said three Lords Commissioners leaving their own places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State beneath the steps Then the said Lord Chancellor going first to the said Lords and conferring a while with them went to his accustomed place and there made intimation of the Cause of this present Summons of Parliament which as he said were no usual Causes not for making of Laws whereof her Majesty thought there were more made than were duly executed nor for Fifteenths and Subsidies although there were some cause yet her Majesty would not charge her loving Subjects so far at this time But that the cause was rare and extraordinary of great weight great peril and dangerous consequence Then he declared what dangerous practices had been contrived of late and how miraculously the Providence of God had by discovery thereof beyond all humane Policy preserved her Majesty the destruction of whose Sacred Person was most traiterously compassed and imagined Here he shewed what misery the loss of so Noble a Queen would have brought to all Estates and said That although some of them had suffered according to their demerits yet one remained that by due course of Law had received her Sentence which was the chief cause of this Assembly and wherein her Majesty required their faithful advice and therefore said he you may orderly proceed therein And you of the House of Commons are to make present choice of some one amongst you to be your Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants as soon as conveniently you may Assoon as the Lord Chancellor had ended his Speech the Clerk of the Parliament stood up and read the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawdy Knight one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Barkeley and Doctor Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Essingham Lord High Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles the Archbishop of York the Earl
of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst Assoon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these Names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber And that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lords Lieutenants adjourned the Parliament until Monday next following This day were divers Proxies returned of which the Extraordinary ones were these that follow 29 o die Octobris introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Marmad Episcopi Meneven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar. Johannem Episcopum London Thomam Episcopum Wintonien Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Episcopi Cestren in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Episcopum Cantuarien Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Bangor in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Cantuarien Willielmum Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Carliolen in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edwinum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Nota That these were all the Extraordinary or unsual Proxies that are entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been returned this Parliament For whereas the Spiritual Lords do for the most part constitute two Proctors and the Temporal Lords but one and those likewise of their own Order here the Bishop of S t Davids nominated three the Bishops of Chester and Carlisle but one apiece and the Bishop of Bangor did constitute the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England his Joynt Proctor with John Bishop of Canterbury which I take to be the only Precedent with two others in Anno 5 Eliz. during all the Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth's Reign where a Spiritual Lord did nominate a Temporal for his Proctor or a Temporal Lord a Spiritual although in the Reign of Queen Mary and other times more ancient it was very usual and ordinary On Monday the 31 th of October her Majesties Person was represented as it had been on the first day of this Parliament by three Commissioners viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby great Steward of England who were stiled the Lords Lieutenants These with divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal being fet in their Parliamentary Robes in the Upper House the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon with John Puckering Serjeant at Law who had been Speaker also the last Parliament their now Prolocutor repaired thither and being as many as conveniently could let in the said M r Speaker was led up by two of the most eminent Personages of the House of Commons to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House who being there placed and having according to the usual course desired himself to be excused that so the House of Commons might make choice of some other more able Member amongst themselves it was not allowed but his former wise and discreet behaviour the last Parliament in the Execution of this very place was alledged and much commended Whereupon the said M r Speaker having made humble reverence and in very discreet and good manner submitted himself to the undertaking of the said Prolocutorship did in the end of his Speech make divers petitions of course for freedom of Speech freedom of Access to her Majesty and freedom from Arrests and Suits in the Name of the House of Commons and lastly for pardon for himself if he should unwittingly erre in the report or carriage of any thing Whereunto the Lords Commissioners by the Lord Chancellor answered That the said House of Commons and himself should enjoy and use such Priviledges as others in the times of the Queen her Noble Progenitors had accustomed to use and enjoy Nota That it doth not appear by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House whether the Speaker were presented in the Forenoon or in the Afternoon Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris prox horâ octavâ On Friday the 4 th day of November the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Assembled the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto the next day at eight of the Clock On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Lord Chancellor declared unto the Lords the foul and indirect dealings practised by the Queen of Scots against her Majesty and the whole Realm notwithstanding so many great benefits and favours which the said Queen of Scots had received of her Majesty the which matter by William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England as one unto whom the said Queen of Scots whole proceedings were better known by reason of his long Service done unto our most gracious Soveraign Lady since the beginning of her Reign were more fully dilated Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae horâ octavâ On Monday the 7 th day of November while the Lords were debating the matter of the Queen of Scots the House of Commons came up and desired a Conference with some of the Lords of this House what number it should please them to appoint about the great matter of the Queen of Scots already opened unto them Whereupon the Lords chose out to the number of twenty one viz. the Archbishops of Canterbury and York the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Kent the Earl of Rutland and the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley the Lord Shandois the Lord Buckhurst the Lord de la Ware and the Lord Norris Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 8 th day of November nothing was done but the Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor continued usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Wednesday the 9 th day of November were read divers Letters as well of Anthony Babington to the Queen of Scots as of the said Queen of Scots to the said Anthony Babington Charles Paget and others The Sentence also pronounced by the Commissioners against the Queen of Scots was read A form of a Petition agreed upon by the Committees of both Houses was
added viz. vicesimo nono In the fourth and last place the Printed Books of Statutes are likewise mistaken for Christopher Barker at this time Printer to the Queens Majesty who Printed the Statutes of this Parliament at large in Anno 1587. maketh no mention of any Parliament or meeting of Parliament in Anno 28 Regin Eliz. but mentioneth that Book of Statutes in this manner Anno 29 o Regin Eliz. at this present Session of Parliament holden by Prorogation at Westminster the 15 th day of February in the 29 th year of the Raign of our most gracious Soveraign Lady Elizabeth c. Whereas if he had intituled it truly it should have been thus At this present Parliament holden at Westminster the 29 th day of October in the 28 th and 29 th years of the Raign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lady Elizabeth c. M r Poulton also in his Abridgement of Statutes Printed by the Company of Stationers Anno Dom. 1612. setteth down a false Title before the Statutes of this Parliament viz. Statutes made at the Session of Parliament holden by Prorogation at Westminster the 29 th day of October Anno 28 Eliz. and Anno Dom. 1587. c. In which said Title there are these two notorious and gross mistakes The first in that he saith this Parliament was holden by Prorogation whereas the former Parliament held in Anno 27 o Regin Eliz. being dissolved upon the 14 th day of September in Anno 28 Regin ejusdem this Parliament begun and held in the said 28 th and 29 th years of her Majesty was newly Summoned and not held by Prorogation His second mistake is more gross than this in that he allots all these proceedings to the year of our Lord 1587. whereas both meetings did begin and end during the year 1586. reckoning the year to begin upon the 25 th day of March as in all the Journal-Books of Parliaments and the Printed Books of Statutes and all Records and private Instruments it is always observed All which may show how great inconvenience it may bring to take up things upon trust from others without searching out the truth seeing so many men in that which they were best skilled in and had doubtless so industriously travelled in yet should be so grosly mistaken for it is not worth the proof that this was an Adjournment and not a Prorogation seeing it is positively entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House on Friday the second day of December foregoing And likewise when the two Houses did meet again on Wednesday the 15 th day of February following the foresaid Journal-Book beginneth thus Die Mercurii 15 o die Februarii Domini tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subsequntur praesentes fuerunt Whereas if that meeting had been a new Session the Entrance ought to have been thus viz. Die Mercurii 15 o die Februarii in quem diem hoc praesens Parliamentum Prorogatum fuerat Proceres tam Spirituales auà m Temporales c. Or thus viz. In quem diem c. Sessio Parliament Prorogata fuit teneri inchoari apud Westminster die loco praedict Domini tam Spiritual quà m Temporal quorum nomina Subscribuntur praesentes fuerunt c. To which also may lastly be added that no Bill passing the two Houses in the first meeting of this Parliament nay for ought that can be gathered out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House no one Bill having so much as any reading there as hath been before observed and so no Royal Assent putting life into any one Law it could not be a Session but a meer meeting which continued from Saturday the 29 th of October unto Friday the second day of December in Annis 28 29. Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1586. This doubt being thus fully cleared and the mistakings upon which it grew being likewise discovered the residue of the Journal of this present Parliament upon the second meeting of the two Houses next ensueth On Wednesday the 15 th day of February Anno 29 o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1586. to which day the Parliament had been on Friday the second day of December foregoing last Adjourned The two Houses met in their several places without any presence of the Queen or Solemnity amongst the Lords by coming in their Robes or any other Pomp whatsoever because this was neither new Parliament nor new Session but a meer new meeting of either House upon an Adjournment of the former meeting thereof which began on the 29 th day of October being Saturday in Anno 28 Regin Eliz. as is aforesaid Memorandum that this day Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas shewed forth to be publickly read a Commission directed unto him from her Majesty in which appeared that the Lord Chancellor was so visited at this time with sickness that he was not able to travel to the Upper House to supply his room and place there her Majesty minding the said room and place to be supplied in all things during the absence of the said Lord Chancellor hath appointed and authorized the said Sir Edmund Anderson during the absence of the said Lord Chancellor to supply his Room as by the Tenour of the said Commission here ensuing more fully appeareth ELizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and right Well-beloved Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Chief Justice of our Court of Common-Pleas Greeting Whereas our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Chancellor Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor of England is at this time so visited with Sickness that he is not able to travel to the Upper-House of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster nor there to supply the room and place in the said Upper-House among the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to the Office of the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England hath been accustomed We minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth for and during every time of his absence have named and appointed you and by these presents do constitute name appoint and Authorize you from day to day and time to time when and as often as the said Lord Chancellor shall happen at any time or times during this present Parliament to be absent from his accustomed place in the said Upper House to occupy use and supply the room and place of the said Lord Chancellor in the Upper House amongst the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled at every such day and time of his absence And then and there at every such time to do and execute all such things as the said Lord Chancellor of England should or might do if he were there personally present using and supplying the same room Wherefore we Will and Command you the said Sir Edmund Anderson to supply the doing and Execution of the Premisses with
up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands was returned expedited and the second was a Bill for the more speedy and due Execution of certain branches of the Statute made in the twenty third year of the Queens Majesties Reign intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience with an amendment and a provision annexed quae communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa expedit ' and the third being the Bill for continuance of Statutes was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 21 th day of March primâ secundà tertiâ vice lect ' sunt the Amendments of the Bill to avoid fraudulent Assurances made in certain cases by Traitors quae commumi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa tradit ' servienti Gawdy Doctori Carew in Domum Communem deserend ' Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for limitation of time touching Writs of Errours upon Fines and Recoveries was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu rejecta est Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons which as it seemeth were of so little moment as that they are omitted in the very Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Wednesday the 22 th day of March the Bill for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was read secundâ tetriâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Gawdy and Doctor Carew being first passed by the Lords with an Amendment The first reading of this Bill appeareth not in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by that which followeth on Thursday the 23 d day of this instant March following it is plain that the Entrance of the several readings of this Bill with the Amendments thereof is much mistaken and confounded through the great negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House A Bill for the Sale of Thomas Hanford's Lands was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons The Lords having before passed a Bill to the same effect and sent it down to the House of Commons and they having rejected it without any Conference first desired and had with their Lordships therefore the Lords thought it a Precedent so strange and so far different from the Orders of this House that they of the House of Commons should reject a Bill sent from this House without Conference and frame a new Bill to the same effect and send it up that they did resolve to put it to the Question Whether this new Bill should by the Orders of this House be read here or not The whole House being particularly asked their opinions herein with one assent concluded not one gainsaying that it should not be read On Thursday the 23 d day of March the Bill for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was read secundâ tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa with the Amendments Vide concerning this matter in the beginning of the day immediately foregoing being Wednesday for it should seem that the Bill it self was then read primâ secundâ vice and the Amendments only at this time although they be both set down very confusedly through the negligence of the Clerk of the Upper House The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa tradit ' servienti Gawdy Doctori Carew in Domum Communem deferend ' Which said Bill was brought back again this morning from the said House of Commons unto the Lords with another Bill which was for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes There is no other or further business of this day set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House save only her Majesties Royal Assent given to divers Bills which had passed both Houses although she her self was absent which was done by her Majesties Letters Patents under the Great Seal Which because of the rarity of the Precedent are here verbatim transcribed together with the manner and solemnity of this days meeting out of the said Original Journal-Book in manner and form following viz. Hodie quum omnes Proceres Robis Parliament aribus induti in suo quisque loco sederent Prolocutor de Domo Communi unà cum omnibus qui ad hoc praesens Parliamentum summoniti suerant Militibus civibus Burgensibus accersitis praestò esset Edmundus Anderson Miles Capitalis Justiciarius de placito communi quia Cancellarius nondum convaluit exponit omnibus Regiam Majestatem magnis urgentissimis quibusdam negotiis adeò esse impeditam ut non queat impraesentiar ' commodè interesse Tamen inquit sua Majestas imperavit mibi ut suo nomine vobis hîc praesentibus declarem quibus Legibus seu Statutis à vobis in hoc praesenti Parliamento pro vestra parte stabilitis velit Regium assensum suum adhibere sine quo Legum vigorem obtinere non debent sicuti vos probè nôstis Et hiis dictis protendit Clerico Parliamentor ' quasdam Literas sub magno Sigillo Angliae Patentes quos ipse publicè legit Literae autem scriptae fuerunt in haec verba ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right well-beloved the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and to our Trusty and well-beloved the Knights Citizens and Burgesses the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled Greeting We have seen and perfectly understand divers and sundry Acts and Ordinances annexed and affiled to these Presents agreed and accorded by our loving Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this our present Parliament assembled and severally indorsed by you as hath been accustomed The Titles and names of which Acts hereafter do particularly ensue that is to say an Act for the Confirmation of the Attainders of Thomas late Lord Pagett and others An Act concerning Errors in Records of Attainders of High-Treason An Act to avoid frandulent Assurances made in certain Cases by Traitors An Act to prevent Extortion in Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs and Bailiffs of Franchises or Liberties in Cases of Execution An Act for the Continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes An Act for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the 23 d year of the Queens Majesties Raign intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience An Act for the Confirmation of the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands made towards satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances An Act of one Subsidy granted by the Clergy An Act for the Grant of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty An Act for the Queens Majesties most gratious general and free Pardon And albeit the
said several Acts and Ordinances by you our said Subjects the Lords and Commons in this our present Parliament Assembled be fully agreed and consented unto and seem very necessary and profitable for the Commonwealth which nevertheless be not of any force or effect in the Law without our Royal Assent given and put to the same Acts and Ordinances and every of them And forasmuch as for divers great and urgent Causes and Considerations We cannot conveniently at this present be personally in our Royal Person in our Higher House of Parliament being the place accustomed to give our Royal Assent unto such Acts and Ordinances as have been agreed upon by our said Subjects the Lords and Commons We have therefore caused these our Letters Patents to have been made and have signed and caused the same to be Sealed accordingly And by the same do declare and notify as well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons aforesaid as to all and singular other our loving Subjects That we by these Presents do give put our Royal Assent to all and singular the said Acts and Ordinances and to all Articles Clauses and Provisions in them contained and be fully agreed and consented to all and every the said Acts willing that the said Acts and every Article Clause sentence and provision in them contained from henceforth shall be of the same strength force and effect as if we had been personally present in the said Higher House and had openly and publickly in the presence of you all assented to the same Commanding also by these Presents as well our Chancellor of England to seal these our Letters Patents with our great Seal as our Trusty and well-beloved Sir Edmund Anderson Knight our Chief Justice of our Common Pleas to declare and notify this our Royal Assent in our absence in the said Higher House in the presence of you the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of our Parliament 〈◊〉 to be assembled for that purpose and the Clerk of our Parliament to Indorse the said Acts with such Terms and Words in our Name as is requisite and hath been accustomed for the same And also to Inrol these our Letters in the said Parliament Roll and these our Letters Patents shall be to every of them sufficient Warrant in that behalf And finally declare and will that after this our Royal Assent given and passed by these Presents and declared and notified as is aforesaid That then immediately the said Acts and every of them shall be taken accepted and admitted good sufficient and perfect Laws to all intents Constructions and purposes and to be put in due Execution accordingly the Continuance or Dissolution of this our Parliament or any other Use Custom thing or things to the contrary thereof notwithstanding In Witness whereof We have caused those our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the 23 th day of March in the 29 th year of our Reign Per ipsam Reginam Nota That the Clerk of the Parliament having read the said Letters Patents before set down Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas still supplying the place of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor delivered other Letters Patents unto the said Clerk openly to be read whereby eight several Commissioners were nominated and authorized to dissolve the Parliament viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Earl of Shrewsbury Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Darby Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Leicester Master of her Majesties Horse the Lord Howard Lord Admiral of England Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Cobham Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports For doubtless unless a new Commission had come forth by which these before-named Honourable Personages had been de novo nominated to this purpose the three Commissioners at first appointed in the beginning of this Parliament which see at large upon Saturday the 29 th day of October foregoing might without any other new authority though not have Dissolved the Parliament yet have Prorogued it to a further day as they had formerly Adjourned it upon Friday the second day of December foregoing unto Wednesday the 15 th day of February next ensuing which was for ten weeks space at the least but that former Authority being now at an end by these new Letters Patents the manner of their delivery the removal of the new Commissioners in them nominated and the Commission lastly it self are thus verbatim set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House Postquam verò Clericus Parliament has Literas palà m perlegisset Edmundus Anderson Miles alias etiam Literas Patentes eidem Clerico Parliamenti publicè legendas tradidit atque hîc notandum est omnes Dominos Commissionarios in Literis patentibus nominatos locis suis relictis in medio banco consedisse dum diclae Literae legerentur Earum autem tenor hic sequitur ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Consiliario suo Johanni Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Edwino Archiepiscopo Eboracen Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac etiam chavissimis Consanguineis Consiliariis suis Georgio Comiti Salop Comiti Marescallo Angliae Henrico Comiti Darbiae magno Seneschallo necnon charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Henrico Comiti Kantiae ac charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Roberto Comiti Leicestr Magistro Equorum suorum ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus Consiliariis suis Carolo Domino Howard magno Admirallo suo Angliae Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Carmerario suo Willielmo Domino Cohham Domino Gardiano quinque Portuum suorum Salutem Cùm nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum desensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concern praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii decimo quinto die Octobris ultimo praeterito inchoari teneri ordinaverimus in à quo dic idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum septimum ejusdem mensis Octobris prorogat fuerat eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum nonum diem dicti mensis Octobris prorogat ' fuerat ac ibid ' tunc tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in secundum diem Decembris tunc proximum sequentem Eódémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in decimum quintum diem Februarii tunc prox ' sequent ' adjournat ' fuit Eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in vicesimum tertium diem instantis mensis Martii Sciatis tamen certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven ' idem Parliamentum nostrum hoc instante vicesimo
day of November in the first meeting of this present Parliament on the behalf of the Borough of Grantham in the Country of Lincoln against Arthur Hall Gentleman that the said Arthur Hall had Commenced Suits against them for Wages by him demanded of the said Borough as one of the Burgesses of the Parliament in the Sessions of Parliament holden the thirteenth fourteenth eighteenth and twenty third years of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty wherein it was alledged that the said Borough ought not to be charged as well in respect of the negligent attendance of the said Mr. Hall at the said Sessions of Parliament and some other offences by him committed at some of the said Sessions as also in respect that he had made promise not to require any such Wages the Examination of the said cause on the second day of December in the last Session mistaken for Meeting of this Parliament by Order of this House was committed unto Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Chancellor of the Dutchy Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer Thomas Cromwell Robert Markham and Robert Wroth Esquires This day report was made by the said Committees that not having time during the last Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting to examine the circumstances of the cause they had in the mean Season by their Letters advertised my Lord Chancellor that the said cause was committed unto them and humbly requested his Lordship to stay the issuing forth of any further Process against the said Borough until this Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting which accordingly his Lordship had very honourably performed And the said Committees did further declare that having during this Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting sent for Mr. Hall declared unto him the effect of the complaint against him they had desired him to remit the said wages which he had demanded of the said Borough whom they found very conformable to condescend to such their request and that the said Mr. Hall then affirmed unto them that if the said Citizens of the said Borough would have made suit unto him he would upon such their own Suit then remitted the same so was he very willing to do any thing which might be grateful to this House and did freely and frankly remit the same which being well liked of by this House it was by them this day Ordered that the same should be entred accordingly On Thursday the 23 th day of March the Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was sent down from the Lords by Serjeant Gawdie and Doctor Carew which having passed the House was sent back again this Morning unto their Lordships with another Bill which was for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes This day finally the Speaker with the rest of the House of Commons being sent for into the Upper House and thereupon repairing thither two Commissions under the Great Seal were read by the first of which her Majesty being absent gave her Royal Assent to ten several Acts or Statutes which passed at this time and by the other this Parliament was dissolved Nota That all this days Passages are supplied out of the Upper House Journal THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. which began there after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 4 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 29 th Day of March Anno Domini 1589. THE Queens Majesty soon after that her wonderful and glorious Victory which God Almighty had given her Navy over that vainly stiled Invincible Armado sent against her Realm of England by the Spanish King summoned this her High Court of Parliament to begin on Tuesday the 12 th day of November that present year 1588. and the 30 th year of her Reign that so by common Advice and Counsel she might prepare and provide against the inbred malice of that Prince and Nation Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties late Vice-Chamberlain being made Lord Chancellor in the room and stead of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight who having been sick a great part of the last Parliament dyed in April following Anno 29 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1587. But other occasions of some importance requiring the deferring of the said Assembly her Majesty Prorogued the same in manner and form following Memorandum That whereas the Queens Majesty by her Writ summoned her Parliament to begin and to be holden at Westminster this present Tuesday being the 12 th day of November her Highness for certain great and weighty Causes and Considerations her Majesty specially moving by the advice of her Privy Council and of her Justices of both her Benches and other of her Council learned did Prorogue and adjourn the said Parliament until the 4 th day of February next by virtue of her Writ Patent sealed with the Great Seal and bearing date the 15 th day of October last past Whereupon at this said 12 th day of November the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of London and three other Barons repaired to the Parliament-Chamber commonly called the Upper House and there in the presence of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses summoned to the said Parliament declared That her Highness for divers good causes and considerations her specially moving by her Highnesses said Writ had Prorogued the said Parliament from this said first summoned day until the 4 th day of February next Whereupon the Writ for the said Prorogation in the presence of all that Assembly was openly read by the Clerk of the Upper House in haec verba ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Praedilectis fidelibus nostris Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae ac dilectis fidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgensibus dicti Regni nostri ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii 12 die Novembris proximè futuro inchoand ' tenend ' convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet Salutem Cùm nos pro quibusdam ardnis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedictos teneri ordinaverimus ac vobis per separalia Brevia nostra apud Civitatem diem praedictum interesse mandaverimus ad tractand consentiend concludend ' super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur Quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum nsque ad in quartum diem Februarii prox ' futurum duximus
Prorogand Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestruin ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quòd ad dictum quartum diem Februarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi Concilio dicti regni nostri favente Domino contigerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium 15. die Octobris Anno Regni nostri 30. Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrard On Tuesday the 4 th day of February in the 31. year of her Majesties Reign to which day the Parliament had been last Prorogued upon Tuesday the 12 th day of November foregoing and accordingly now held The Queens Majesty was personally present accompanied by the Lord Chancellor and divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal but the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House doth not at all mention the presence of any Lords which happened through the great negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk thereof yet it may be collected February 8. The Queen being set under her Cloth of State and the Lords placed in their Parliamentary Robes according to their several ranks and orders the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired to the said Upper House and as many of them as conveniently could being let in stood before the Rail or Bar at the nether end thereof Then Sir Christoper Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England in a Speech which he used did at large declare the Queens gracious disposition to peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyed by her government and remembred her great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas videlicet in Anno 30 Reign Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed the Cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise Persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth by the Counsel of man as is possible be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Money may be in readiness and an Army prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellors Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of Kings Bench D r Aubrey and D r Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Clerk and D r Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries beyond the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst As soon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber and that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Queen continued the Parliament unto a day to come which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' hora secunda post Meridiem On Wednesday the 5 th day of this instant February although the Upper House sate not yet was one extraordinary Proxy returned or brought in unto the Clerk of the said House as there had formerly been another of a like nature returned on Monday the third day of the said Month foregoing which because it was returned before the Parliament it self began and is entred together with that before mentioned in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the said House it shall not be much amiss to set them down both together in this place in such manner and form as they are entred in the said Journal-Book viz. Vacat 3. die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Assaphen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar ' Johannem Episcopum Roffen Hugonem Episcopum Bangoren ' Nota That though the word vacat be here placed in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Margent of this Proxy in such manner and sort as this is transcribed yet there doth not appear any reason thereof for as it may be collected by the presence of the Lords set down on Saturday the 8 th day of this instant February following neither the said Bishop of S t Asaph was present himself after the said Proxy sent nor all nor any of his Proctors absent nor himself dead which are only causes of a Vacat 5 to Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Carliolen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constitiuit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Nota That these Two Proxies are therefore called unusual and extraordinary because these two Bishops did constitute the first of them three Proctors and the last of them but one whereas for the most part the Spiritual Lords do nominate two and the Temporal Lords but one which may be collected in part out of the very Returns of this Parliament for of five Spiritual Lords that sent their Proxies three constituted two
thereof as they upon good considerations in their own conceits thought convenient And so offering the said Bill in such sort amended delivered in the same to be further dealt in by this House as this House should think good And withal moved further for avoiding of confusion hereafter and for a more orderly and speedy proceeding of this House in the making of Laws that they would from henceforth in their Commitments use to name a fewer number than they have hitherto in this Session of Parliament for the most part used to do And that those so to be named should give better Attendance in the same Commitment than hitherto they have done this Session And further that at each meeting of the same Committees at the times and places appointed for the same the names of all the said such Committees should then be first read and if the more part of them or at least the one half of them shall be present then the more part or one half of them to proceed to Conference accordingly or else not Which Motion was well liked of and allowed Sir John Parrot one of the Committees in the Bill of Quo titulo ingressus est sheweth that by reason of the great time spent yesterday in the Commitment of the Bill touching Informers and Informations upon penal Statutes he and the residue of the said Committees in this Bill could not end their Conference in the same And therefore moved another meeting again about the same this Afternoon and that her Majesties learned Councel might also be there with them Whereupon for that it was then Answered by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain that her Highness said learned Councel could not be there this Afternoon but were he well knew to be elsewhere imployed all the same whole Afternoon It was resolved that the said Committees should nevertheless then meet together and proceed in the said Conference as much as they could in the mean time until a further time might be afterwards taken for her Majesties said learned Councel to be with them On Friday the 21 th day of February the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Thomas Hanford was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Comptroller Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Alford Mr. Hare Mr. Graston and Mr. Francis Moor who were appointed to meet to Morrow Morning at seven of the Clock in the Committee Chamber of this House and then Mr. Hanford to attend the said Committees and also the Bill that passed in the last Parliament from this House to the Lords to be also delivered to the said Committees both which Bills were then delivered to Mr. Comptroller Upon a Motion made by Mr. John Stubs it is Ordered that Thomas Drury may with his free liberty by the priviledge of this House attend the Committees in the Bill for the relief of Thomas Haselrigg Esquire exhibited into this House against him and also to prosecute in the same cause without any molestation or arrest during the pleasure of this House Vide March 7. March 18 Mar. 19. following Mar. 21. Upon a Motion made by Mr. Harris that divers Members of this House having Writs of nisi prius brought against them to be tried at the Assizes in sundry places of this Realm to be holden and kept in the Circuits of this present Vacation and that Writs of Supersedeas might be awarded in those Cases in respect of the priviledge of this House due and appertaining to the Members of the same It is agreed that those of this House which shall have occasion to require such benefit of priviledge in that behalf may repair unto Mr. Speaker to declare unto him the state of their Cases and that he upon his discretion if the Cases shall so require may direct the Warrant of this House to the Lord Chancellor of England for the awarding of such Writs of Supersedeas accordingly Upon a Motion made by this House that ..... Saintpole Esquire one of the Knights in this present Parliament for the County of Lincoln being also Sheriff of the said County of Lincoln at this present time might have Licence by this House to depart into the Country about the attendance of his said Office of Sheriffwick It was granted and agreed that he might so do accordingly Nota That by this it appeareth to be a thing no ways strange or in it self incompetible for a Sheriff of any Shire to be a Member of the House of Commons and there to perform the service of that House And that the Licence given to such at any time to depart is no other than is at any time vouchsafed of course to the Members of that House upon any urgent occasions by them alledged requiring their absence for some time be it longer or shorter of which also there is a remarkable Precedent in the Journal of the House of Commons de Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. upon Friday the 4 th of December and another Precedent also in the same Parliament upon Tuesday the 23 th day of February de anno isto praedicto 27 Reginae Eliz. yet was there a Precedent in this very Case otherwise adjudged by the House after much dispute upon Wednesday the 4 th day of November in the Parliament de anno 43 44 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1601. Where Sir Andrew Nowell being Sheriff of the County of Rutland was afterwards Elected one of the Knights for the same and so compelled to return himself which perhaps also may make the difference in the Case and that where any man is first Elected a Member of the House of Commons and afterwards made Sheriff of some County his first Election stands good Vide etiam Dec. 2. de anno isto 43. The Proviso to the Bill concerning Purveyors was twice read and in the Bill these words or within were interlined in one place of the said Amendments in the said Bill and inserted in the Bill by Order of this House which were also twice read and so the Bill and Proviso Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill touching Informers were twice read and upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for repealing of certain Statutes was read the second time and upon the question committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Broughton Mr. Edward Dyer M r Grafton and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at Serjeants-Inn Hall in Chancery Lane at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Committee in the Bill touching Orford-Haven who were appointed on Thursday the 13 th day of this instant February foregoing is deferred till to morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the place formerly appointed The Commitment in the Bill against multiplicity of Suits and the excessive number of Attornies who were appointed on Monday the 17 th day of this instant February foregoing is appointed to be dealt in at one
Her Majesty thinketh this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability for that one dischargeth himself and the other is not able to satisfie what he is charged withal These things would be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this present service Her Majesty further hath willed me to signify unto you that the calling of this Parliament now is not for the making of any more new Laws and Statutes for there are already a sufficient number both of Ecclesiastical and Temporal and so many there be that rather than to burthen the Subject with more to their grievance it were fitting an Abridgment were made of those there are already Wherefore it is her Majesties Pleasure that the time be not spent therein But the principal Cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding of those intended Invasions which are now greater than were ever heretofore heard of And whereas heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and of vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance The time that is precious would not be thus spent The Sessions cannot be long by reason the Spring time 't is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countries the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits So the good hours should not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such businesses as are needful to be considered of And so willed them to Elect a Speaker As soon as the Lord Keepers Speech was ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the ancient use and form which were as followeth viz. Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clynch one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Francis Gawdy another of the Justices of the said Bench Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. They which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perrian Lord Chief Baron and Thomas Walmsley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary and Doctor Stanhop And they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton All these or any four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst These or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Treasurers Chamber Nota That all that which is set down touching the coming up of those of the House of Commons into the Higher House and the Lord Keepers Speech being before placed after the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as were this day present is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is here inserted partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of another very exact Journal of that House which was in my Custody being very diligently observed and set down by some Anonymus who was a Member of the said House during this Parliament And I have always thought it most fitting in all these several Journals ever to refer the aforesaid Speeches the Presentments of the Speakers and such other Passages as are wholly handled and agitated in the Upper House to be set down as largely as by any good Authority they may in the Journal of the same to which they do most truly and properly belong and only for Orders sake to give a short touch or remembrance of them in the Journal of the House of Commons Finally at the Conclusion of this days business the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' futurum On Thursday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the Clock in the Afternoon accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquess of Winchester and divers others of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Monday foregoing the first day of this Parliament The Queen and the Lords being thus set the House of Commons had notice thereof who immediately thereupon came up with Edward Cooke Esquire the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had Chosen for their Speaker or Prolocutor Which said Speaker being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most Eminent Personages of the House of Commons who as soon as silence was made and the rest of the said House as many as could conveniently get in had placed themselves in the space below the said Bar spake as followeth YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty Yet this their nomination is only as yet a Nomination and no Election until your Majesty giveth Allowance and Approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum Corpus until it have received light from the Sun so stand I Corpus opacum a Mute Body until your Highness bright shining Wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is to be the Mouth of such a Body as your whole Commons represent to utter what is spoken Grandia Regni My small Experience being a poor Professor of the Law can tell But how unable I
Souldiers as shall be found to have most need thereof The like whereof the Commons Assembled in this Parliament have Ordered For all the Members of that House that are absent and have not paid are to contribute in double manner Which Order is thought very just considering the Lords and others who have been absent and have been at no charge to come up and give their Attendance may very reasonably and with a great saving to their Charges contribute to this Order And if any Lord Spiritual or Temporal shall refuse or forbear thus to do which is hoped in Honour none will do there shall be ordinary means used to levy the same On Friday the 6 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for avoiding deceits used in sale of twice laid Cordage for the better preservation of the Navy of this Realm was read tertia vice conclusa Eight Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion On Saturday the 7 th day of April Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for rating of the Wages of Spinners and Weavers and to reform the falsities of Regrators of Woollen Yarn was read primâ vice On Monday the 9 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills were each of them read secundà tertiâ vice and so expedited of which the second was the Bill for the bringing of fresh Water to the Town of Stonehouse in the County of Devon Eight Bills also this Morning were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Naturalizing of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy being born beyond the Seas of English Parents and to put them in the nature of meer English was read primâ secundâ vice But it doth not appear whether this Bill were committed or no which did not only happen in this place by the negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House but also through the whole Original Journal Book of the said House this Parliament in all which although divers Bills are said to be read the second time yet it is not at all expressed whether they were thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed or further to be considered of by some select Committees of the House one of which of necessity must be put in Execution upon the said second reading of a Bill both in the Upper House and that of the House of Commons unless the Bill have its third reading also at the same time and pass the House or else be dasht upon the question and so cast out of it This Morning finally Whereas a Bill Intituled An Act touching Power and Liberty to repeal certain uses of a Deed Tripartite herein mentioned of and in certain Lands Mannors and Tenements of Anthony Cooke of Romford in the County of Essex Esquire hath been heretofore three times read and assented unto by the Lords in the which Bill there is no Saving to the Queens Majesty or any other person or persons of their lawful Estates or Titles This day there was a Saving drawn for her Majesty and all others which was offered to this House and some question and ambiguity did grow whether the Saving should be now added to the Bill And in the end it was resolved that the Saving should be added to the Bill for that it is usual and requisite to have some Saving in every Bill and for that there was nothing in the Saving contrary to any matter in the Bill and that her Majesties Right and all other be saved thereby Nevertheless upon weighty considerations the Lords have Ordered that this shall not hereafter be drawn to make any Precedent On Tuesday the 10 th day of April in the Morning were two Bills read of which the second being the Bill for the Queens most gracious and general free Pardon was read primâ vice and so passed upon the question Nota That the Bill or Act for the Queens general Pardon passeth each House upon the first reading Whereas other Bills cannot be expedited without being read three times both by the Lords and the Commons The Queens Majesty came not till the Afternoon and therefore in this place through the negligence of the Clerk the continuing of the Parliament until some hour in the Afternoon is omitted which should have been inserted in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continnavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam c. à Meridie Between five and six of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Tuesday being the tenth day of April the Queens Majesty accompanied with her Officers and daily Attendants came to the Upper House and as soon as her Majesty with the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the rest that have place there were set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof came up with their Speaker bringing with them the Bill of Subsidy The said Speaker being placed at the Bar at the lower end of the Upper House and as many of the House of Commons as could conveniently being let in after Humble Reverence done to her Majesty spake as followeth THE High Court of Parliament most High and Mighty Prince is the greatest and most ancient Court within this your Realm For before the Conquest in the High places of the West-Saxons we read of a Parliament holden and since the Conquest they have been holden by all your Noble Predecessors Kings of England In the time of the West-Saxons a Parliament was holden by the Noble King Ina by these words I Ina King of the West-Saxons have caused all my Fatherhood Aldermen and wisest Commons with the Godly men of my Kingdom to consult of weighty matters c. Which words do plainly shew all the parts of this High Court still observed to this day For by King Ina is your Majesties most Royal Person represented The Fatherhood in Ancient time were these which we call Bishops and still we call them Reverend Fathers an Ancient and chief part of our State By Aldermen were meant your Noblemen For so honourable was the word Alderman in Ancient time that the Nobility only were called Aldermen By Wisest Commons is meant and signified Knights and Burgesses and so is your Majesties Writ de discretioribus magis sufficientibus By Godliest men is meant your Convocation-House It consisteth of such as are devoted to Religion And as Godliest men do consult of weightest matters so is your Highness Writ at this day pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos Statum defensionem Regni nostri
treble Subsidies and like proportionable Fifteenths and 〈◊〉 and some by other sorts of benevolences resolved upon the question that the former Committees of this House for consultation to be had for necessary supply of Treasures to be had for the repelling of the said dangers should meet in this House in the Afternoon of this present day to confer and consult generally touching the said great dangers as also touching the remedies that the same being digested may be reported over unto this House into such form as to the same shall be thought good to the end that afterwards it may in the Afternoon be imparted unto the Lords accordingly Nota That there is no more of this days Passages found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there followed divers Speeches upon the foregoing Motion of Sir Thomas Heneage her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain concerning the great business of supply to be given to her Majesty all which are therefore inserted out of that foresaid Anonymous Journal taken by some Member of the said House during this Parliament which are there set down with very little alteration added to them in manner and form following Sir Thomas Cerill speaking next after Sir Thomas Heneage had ended his former Speech said that three Subsidies might be set down to be paid in four years and to be charged upon men of ten pound and upwards to spare them that were under Sir Henry Knivet affirmed the poverty of our Country against the reasons used The principal reason of our poverty he said was because we brought in more Foreign Wares than we vented Commodities and so by this means our money was carried out of our Country Alledging it to be like a Pond fed with a Spring but having a breach through which more passeth than cometh in so c. He made these two Motions First that the Queen should be helped by a survey taken of all mens Lands and Goods in England and so much to be yearly levyed as to serve the Queen to maintain Wars the proportion being set a hundred thousand pound yearly And secondly if this were misliked every man upon his word and power to deliver what were the profits of his Lands and worth of his goods and so a proportion to be had accordingly Sir Francis Hastings said The preparations of the Enemies Forces are both ready and great and intus they conspire therefore a great Aid must be yielded And I could wish three Subsidies to be levyed in this matter in the first of them those to be charged of five pound Lands and five Marks Goods in the second those of twelve pound Lands and eight pound Goods and in the third all to be charged as these have been Sir Walter Raleigh Answered them that spake of the Poverty of the Land which they argued by the multitude of Beggars he gave these reasons That the broken Companies in Normandy and the Low Countries who returned maimed hither never went back again to the Towns from whence they came For a multitude of Clothiers take their Looms into their own hands spinning their Wooll themselves and except we would work unto them better cheap than they can make themselves they will set none on work This grossing of so many Trades into their own hands beggereth so many as usually lived by the Trade He thought it inconvenient to have so many mens livings surveyed For many are now esteemed richer than they are and if their Land and Wealth were surveyed they would be found Beggars and so their credit which is now their Wealth would be found nothing worth He reported of his own knowledge that the West Country since the Parliament begun had taken from them the worth of four hundred and forty thousand pound They of Newcastle lie still for fear because Burdeaux Fleet was taken this year by the Enemy For the Enemy approaching us and being our Neighbour as he is gotten to be our Trades will decay every day and so our poverty encreaseth every day more and more And this is most certain the longer we defer Aid the less able shall we be to yield Aid And in the end the greater Aid will be required of us And so sparing them now we shall charge them when they shall be less able to bear it For this is most true one hundred thousand pound would have done the last year that which three will not now do and three will do this year that which six will not do hereafter So in conclusion he agreed to three Subsidies in them the three pound men to be spared and the summ which came from them to be levied upon those of ten pound and upwards and the payment to be speedy Sir Henry Umpton agreed that there should be three Subsidies granted according to the old payment only that a care should be had of assessing it on them that were best able And his conclusion was that it might be soon agreed upon for so it would be more acceptable because Tardè velle nolle instar est Sir Edward Stafford thought Subsidies were not so fit a remedy for the dangers we were in but advised rather there being ten thousand Parishes in England that it should be imposed on every Parish to find so many men for the Wars and the richer Parishes to help the poorer And the allowance for every man yearly to be twelve pound After this he moved to have the Parliament Prorogued Sir Francis Drake described the King of Spains strength and cruelty where he came and wished a frank Aid to be yielded to withstand him and he agreed to three Subsidies Serjeant Harris moved for three Subsidies but the ancient custom of payment to be retained besides no three pound men to be excused for then every man will labour by his Friend to be set three pound And that it was not needful to find men for the Field For by the Tenures of which there are three in England this is provided for The first Chivalry that is to do service in the Field the second Socage that is to find us victum vestitum by the Plough the last Frankal moign who are to pray for us to God Now every one by whom fealty is to be done by his Tenure he is to be forty dayes in the Field with his Lord. Sir Robert Cevill said I am glad to see the willingness of the House and readiness to yield Aid and having a feeling of the necessity requiring it my desire is that the Sentence which had had so many Parentheses might now be brought to a Period and the Bears Whelp that hath so many times been licked over might now be made somewhat For that is always the most Honourable Conclusion which having received many Contradictions is in the end concluded So he desired this matter of Subsidying might be committed to some special Committees in the Afternoon Sir John Fortescue thought it liberal to grant three Subsidies but did assure of his proper knowledge that three
Cancelled and rased This I read in my Book For in this Case whatsoever a man tells me 〈◊〉 believe it not unless I see it written Non lego non credo in these Cases In the twenty third of the Queen I was of Councel with one in a Cause where we tryed all means to reverse a Judgment and brought a Writ of Error in the Parliament and the Writ was issuing out of the Parliament and upon the fieri facias was set Domina Regina and it was under the Great Seal of England and the Writ was returned in Parliament So this is plain the Writ is always returnable in Parliament but if in Parliament then of the Upper House for of that House we are but a Limb. This Writ I have seen then thus returned but never any man saw a Writ returnable in the Lower House so for this I hold the Writ cannot be returnable into this House But now for the Authority we have for though this be true I say yet I speak not to take any priviledge from this House for some things there are wherein we have Authority all of us But this is certain whatsoever we do sedente Parliamento it is the Act of the whole Court for the Lords without the Commons and the Commons without the Lords can do nothing Now then at the first before the division of the House all Writs were returned proximo Parliamento but since the division of the House it hath been always used and plainly it must be returned into Chancery And to say we cannot have notice of it nor cannot judge upon the Record being in Chancery plainly we may as well as we do upon the Return of every Burgess which is made into the Chancery and the Cause is all one And the Chancery in making the Writ will not alter from that their Warrant made from this House which must be according unto ancient form for waiting the other day upon my Lord Keeper by your Commandments for the making of this Writ I desired to have a recital added in these words Quòd cùm existente Parliamento captus fuit c. with the recital of the Cause of priviledge My Lord Keeper conferring with the Judges upon it would not allow it but thought better the usual form of Habeas Corpus should be kept without any suspicion of priviledge until there appeared a Cause of priviledge for the party As for the Book of 38 H. 8. Trewinnards Case recited in my Lord Diers I have heard great learned men say that that Cause is no good Law and that the House did more than was warrantable Now for the Motion of Conference with the Judges the Case of Thorpe 31 H. 6. is not able for this point I have the Record Thorpe was Speaker in that Parliament The Parliament being Summoned to be in June it was Prorogued until September in the mean time Thorpe was taken in Execution by the Duke of York he notwithstanding this thought to have had the priviledge of the Parliament At the next Sessions the matter being greatly considered whether he could have a priviledge or no a Conference was had in the Cause with the Judges the Judges being required in humble sort refused except it were so that the House did command them for in the House of Parliament the chief Judges and their Judgments are controulable by the Court but if the House did command them they would be willing to inform them what in their opinions they knew and thought This they did in the great Cause of Thorpe and I think we should do well in doing the like Now another thing is to be considered for Judicis Officium est ut res it a temperari c. The consideration of Time must accompany a Judges Office the Parliament draweth to an end and this would be done with expedition so the party was appointed to have his Councel the next Morning in the Parliament and they to be heard and have the advice of the Judges Vide the Resolution and Conclusion of this business upon Thursday the 5 th day of this instant April ensuing Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal the residue of this days Passages and part of the next are inserted out of the Original Journal-Book it self M r Francis Bacon one of the Committees in this Bill for relief of Maimed Souldiers and Mariners appointed on Monday the 2 d day of this instant April foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the said Committees and sundry Amendments thought good to be offered by them to this House and shewing the same Amendments with the reasons of them to the House the same Amendments were well liked of by this House and assented to be inserted into this said Bill and after the twice reading of the said Amendments the said Bill so being amended was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Post Meridiem Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Naturalizing of Justin Dormer and George Sheppy born beyond the Seas had its first reading On Wednesday the fourth day of April M r Barker one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers who had been appointed on Monday the 26 th day of March foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their Amendments to the Bill praying the reading of the same Amendments which being read and ordered by the House to be inserted into the Bill the same Amendments were afterwards twice read and the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be Ingrossed M r Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Brewers shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their Amendments to the said Bill and prayeth the reading of the same Amendments which being read and Ordered by the House to be inserted in the said Bill and also twice read afterwards was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Explanation of a Branch of a Statute made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign Intitled an Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience with some Amendments to the same was read the second time Upon which divers Speeches passed in the House before the said Bill was committed some of them being of very good moment Which because they are omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self are therefore supplied out of the often before recited Anonymous Journal in manner and form following Sir Thomas Cecill Doctor Lewen M r Sands Sir Thomas Heneage Sir Edward Dimock and some others spake diversly to this Bill touching the Explanation of a Branch of the Statute made in Anno 23 Regin Eliz. for reducing disloyal Subjects to their due obedience as is aforesaid Sir Walter Raleigh said In my conceit the Brownists are worthy to be rooted out of a Commonwealth But what danger may grow to our selves if this Law pass it were fit to be considered For it is to be feared that
Anno Dom. 1601. which was the last Parliament of her Majesties Reign a greater viz. of four Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths was again yielded unto whence it is plain that whatsoever is once granted by the Subject may often be raised but seldom falleth THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 39 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1597. which began there on Monday the 24 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 9 th Day of February Anno 40 Reginae ejusdem THIS present Journal of the House of Commons is not only abundantly stored with many and sundry Passages touching the Orders Use and Priviledge of the House it self but containeth in it excellent matter touching the publick affairs of Church and State in which also her Majesty was most graciously pleased to give the said House free Liberty to reform some abuses of the first and to search into the dangers of the latter And that this said Journal might be the more exact and copious in some few places the defects thereof are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and out of a certain imperfect and fragmentary Journal of the House of Commons The ninth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. begun at Westminster upon Monday being the 24 th day of October in the thirty ninth year of her Majesties Reign Upon which day many of the Knights of the Shires Citizens of Cities Burgesses of Boroughs and Barons of Ports did make their appearance at Westminster being returned into the same Parliament for the same Shires Cities Boroughs and Ports before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of her Majesties most honourable Household And did then and there in the Room commonly called the Court of Requests take the Oath of Supremacy seven or eight at a time being Enacted by and contained in the Statute de an 1 Reginae Eliz. Cap. 1. before the said Lord Steward and before Sir William Knolles Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir Robert Cecill Principal Secretary his Lordships Deputies And thereupon the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons entring into their own House and expecting her Majesties further Pleasure her Highness then being in her Royal Seat in the Higher House of Parliament the said Commons were commanded to come before her Highness and being there Assembled the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England delivered unto the said Commons the Causes of her Majesties Calling of this Parliament and so in the end willed them to repair again into the said House of Commons and there to make choice of their Speaker according to the former laudable usage and custom of the same House in that Case accustomed and willed them to present him unto her Majesty upon the Thursday next following Which done the said Commons presently repaired unto their own House and there being Assembled and sitting some space of time very silent at last the Right Honourable Sir William Knolls one of her Highness most Honourable Privy Council and Comptroller of her Majesties Household stood up and spake to the effect following Necessity constraineth me to break off this silence and to give others cause for speech According to the usual Custom we are to chuse our Speaker and though I am least able and therefore unfit to speak in this place yet better I deem it to discover my own Imperfections than that her most sacred Majesties Commandment to me delivered should not be fulfilled or your Expectation of this first days work by all our silences to be in any sort frustrate First therefore I think it very expedient to remember the Excellent and Learned Speech of that good man my Lord Keeper at which all of us or the most part of us at the least were present who very wisely shewed the Cause of calling this Honourable Assembly shewing unto us that it is partly for the reforming those Laws which be amiss partly quite to repeal others partly to augment those that be good and partly to Enact new Laws both for the Honour and profit of her Majesty and for the benefit of the Common-wealth And in conclusion wished us to depart from whence we came and there to chuse our Speaker who ought to be the Mouth of us all and to whom we might commit such weighty affairs as in this place should be debated amongst us For unfit it is if we have occasion to go unto the Sacred presence of her Majesty to go either confusedly without order or unorderly without Judgment Now because that knowledge doth rest in certainty I will with the more speed set afoot this motion deliver my opinion unto you who is most fit for this place being a member of this House and those good abilities which I know to be in him here he made a little pause and the House hawked and spat and after silence made he proceeded unto this place of dignity and calling in my opinion here he stayed a little M r Serjeant Yelverton looking upon him is the fittest man to be preferred after which words M r Yelverton blushed and put off his Hat and after sate bare-headed for I am assured that he is yea and I dare avow it I know him to be a man wise and learned secret and circumspect Religious and faithful no way disable but every way able to supply this place Wherefore in my Judgment I deem him though I will not say best worthy amongst us yet sufficient enough to supply this place and herein if any man think I err I wish him to deliver his mind as freely as I have done if not that we all join together in giving general consent and approbation to this motion So that the whole House cried I I I let him be And then Master Comptroller made a low reverence and sat down and after a little pause and silence M r Serjeant Yelverton rose up and after a very humble reverence made spake in effect thus much WHence your unexpected choice of me to be your Mouth or Speaker should proceed I am utterly ignorant If from my merits strange it were that so few deserts should purchase suddenly so great an Honour Nor from my ability doth this your choice proceed for well known it is to a great number in this place now assembled that my Estate is nothing correspondent for the maintenance of this dignity For my Father dying left me a younger Brother and nothing to me but my bare Annuity Then growing to mans estate and some small practice of the Law I took a Wise by whom I have had many Children the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my Estate and the daily living of us
Two Committees for two several Bills made one Committee for both Bills p. 607 Common Prayer vide Uniformity Conference to be had before a Bill passed either House be rejected by the other p. 272 273. 388. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons Contribution of two shillings in the pound made by the Lords towards the Queens extraordinary charge in defence of the Realm p. 387. Contribution made by them for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London p. 462. An Order that such Lords as were absent the whole Session should pay double to what others did who constantly attended the service of the House and those that came but seldom to the House a third part more p. 463 464 Convocation-days the House of Lords either sit not or do little business on them p. 67 Crown a Bill restoring to it the ancient jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual c. p. 28 D. ABill for Denization of Peregrine Berty and Katharine Dutchess of Suffolk his Wife p. 145. of William Watson p. 148 Dissolve vide Commissions Doctors of the Civil Law made Joint-Committees with the Lords p. 145 E. EGerton Sir Thomas made Lord Keeper 38 Eliz. p. 522. His Speech to the Parliament 39 and 40 Eliz. p. 524. Q. Elizabeth enter'd on the Government Nov. 17. ann Dom. 1558. p. 1. and within nine weeks summons a Parliament viz. Jan 23. ibid. A Bill in that Parliament to make her inherit able to the late Q. Anne her Mother p. 19. she is averse from declaring a Successor p. 107. 127 128. Her sharp Speech to the Parliament in ann 8 and 9. for their Petition to that purpose p. 116. She remitteth the third payment of a Subsidy to take the Parliament off from urging her to declare a Successor p. 131. Her Pious Speech at the end of the Session 27. of her Reign p. 328. In the Parliament 28 and 29 of her Reign called upon the discovery of Babingtons conspiracy she appeared not in person but gave Commission to three Lords to supply her place with the title of Lords Lieutenants p. 377 378. Both Houses petition her to execute the sentence upon Mary Queen of Scots with her Answer thereto p. 380 381 382. Her Speech at the end of the Parliament in 35 of her Reign p. 466. Her great success against the Spaniard set forth in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. Jewels given to her Physicians to poyson her p. 599 G. GArgrave Sir Thomas chosen Speaker to the Commons in the Parliament holden 1 Eliz. p. 15. and 40. The manner of his disabling himself to the House first and then to the Queen ibid. His Petitions of course on behalf of the House of Commons p. 16. His Speech at the conclusion of the Session p. 31 Gavelkind what and in what places it obtaineth p. 272. A Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom p. 533 Gentleman-Usher of the House claims right to bring such persons before the Upper House as are accused of breach of priviledge and sayes it does not belong to the Serjeant at Arms. p. 603. He is sent for an ordinary servant of the Queens committed to the Fleet for debt upon Execution and for him that arrested him p. 605. 607. This not to injure the Serjeant at Arms in his pretensions to that office p. 607 Grace Vide Bills and Acts. H. HAtton Sir Christopher made Chancellor 29 Eliz. upon the death of Sir Thomas Bromley p. 419 Herald at Arms in ordinary to the Queen not to have priviledge from Arrest on account of the Session of Parliament p. 608. 611 Hexamshire a Bill to annex it to the County of Northumberland and its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to the Bishoprick of Durham 8 9 Eliz. p. 103. but not passed into an Act till 14 Eliz. p. 200 Horses a Bill against conveying them into Scotland 1 Eliz. being a revival of an Act made 23 H. 8. p. 21 22 Lord Hunsdon's place in Parliament between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso p. 530. 543 I. INgrossing of a Bill what p. 18. Vide Bills Injunctions to stop proceeding at Law in Parliament time p. 21 Judges who are but assistants to the Upper House made Joint Committees with the Lords p. 67. 71. 99. and so in every Parliament till 39 40 Eliz. p. 142. 527. but only to consider of some ordinary Bill and which concerned matter of Law for they were never of such Committees as were to have Conference with the Commons p. 423. They have leave from the Lord Chancellor or Keeper to sit covered in the House but are always uncovered at a Committee p. 527 K. KEeper vide Chancellor Kentish-Street in Southwark a Bill for the paving of it 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 112 L. THE River Lee a Bill to bring it to the North-side of London 13 Eliz. p. 150 Low-Country Wars a voluntary contribution of both Houses towards the maintaining of them p. 387 M. MArry see the word in the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons the Queen Petition'd by the House of Lords to marry with her Answer p. 105. 107. The advice and consent of the Parliament often required for the marrying of the Kings of England p. 117 119. Earl Marshal his place in Parliament is betwixt the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward p. 535 Queen Mary died Nov. 17. 1558. in the sixth year of her Reign p. 1 Mary Queen of Scots Vide the Table to the Commons Journal Mason Anthony Esq Clerk of the Upper House 13 Eliz. p. 137. He is succeeded by Thomas Smith Esquire in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. p. 522 Melcomb Regis Vide Weymouth Messages sent from the House of Commons to the Upper House are received by the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords at the Bar whither they are to go and meet those that come from the Commons p. 539 540 Mises not to be paid by the Shires of Wales and County Palatine of Chester when Subsidies are paid nor the contrary p. 20 Monopolies Petition'd against in 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen judges an invasion of her Prerogative ibid. N. A Bill of Naturalization of Gerson Wroth a German p. 22. of William Sidney and his Wife and of Sir John Wingfield and his Lady p. 462. of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy p. 464. of Samuel Saltingstal p. 488 Newgate the Keeper of it committed to the Fleet for not obeying an Order of the Lords for the bringing of one that was Prisoner there upon Execution and was Servant to a Peer p. 608 Duke of Norfolk a Bill for the confirmation of his marriage with the Lady Margaret his Wife 1 Eliz p. 22. and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Jointure p. 25 Earl of Nottingham his place in Parliament betwixt the Earl of Lincoln and Lord Viscount Bindon p. 543 O. OBjections against a
Bill by the Lords denied to be given in writing to the Commons till Conference first had p. 536 Onslow Richard chosen Speaker in the Parliament held 8 9 Eliz. his Speeches to the Queen at his Confirmation p. 97 98. at the Dissolution of that Parliament p. 114 115 P. THE Painters having presented a Bill against the Plaisterers which passed not the Upper House it is Ordered by that House that their complaint shall be heard and adjudged by the Lord Mayor Recorder c. p. 617 Pardon Vide Bills Parliament which is the first and last day thereof or of a particular Session p. 9. The manner of the Sovereign and Peers sitting in Parliament p. 10. 59. 96. the manner of setting down the presence of the Peers in the Journal Book p. 62 Passing of Bills Vide Bills Patents of priviledge petition'd against in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen construes to be a violation of her Prerogative p. 547 Peers to be of age before they sit in the House p. 11. 96. how attired p. 11. Vide Parliament Popish Bishops suffered to sit in the Parliament 1 Eliz. but turn'd out of their Sees at the end of the Session p. 23. How they opposed divers Bills ibid. and p. 28. 30. a dispute betwixt them and some English men come from Geneva p. 53 Presence of the Peers how marked p. 62 111. Priviledge Vide Attach The solemn Procession of the Queen and House of Lords at the opening of the Parliament 5 Eliz. p. 58. and 13 Eliz. p. 136 Prorogation Vide Writ The Sovereign after a Prorogation comes not to the Parliament with that solemnity as is usual at the first meeting p. 95. After the end of a Prorogation a new Session beginneth p. 318 Provisoes when added by the Lords unto Bills sent up to them from the Commons are written in Parchment p. 26 Proxie the form of the Licence from the Queen to a Peer to make one p. 3. a Peer ordinarily does not make one without such licence p. 270. The form of making a Proxy and entring it in the Journal-Book p. 4. and 8. The nature and use of a Proxy and the form of returning them p. 5. What an absent Peer used to forfeit if he constituted no Proxy p. 6. The form of making a Proxy without licence from the Sovereign ibid. The form of revoking a Proxy p. 7. How many Proxies one Peer is capable of receiving p. 8 9. 58. 101. 196. 598. where as also p. 314. is mentioned an Order of the Lords 2 Car. 1. that from thenceforth no Lord should be capable of above two Proxies A Commoner can constitute no Proxy and why p. 9. A spiritual Lord does not now appoint a Temporal Lord for his Proxy nor on the contrary but formerly they did p. 58. 378. A Temporal Lord usually constitutes but one Proxy and a Spiritual two p. 101. Yet a Spiritual Lord sometimes appoints but one sometimes three p. 196. 460 461. and also a Temporal sometimes two ibid. Proxies are appointed after a Prorogation as well as at the beginning of a Parliament p. 268. They may be delivered into the hands of the Clerk as well before the Parliament begin as after p. 311. Why Bishops Proxies are entred before those of the Temporal Lords p. 523. 598. In the former part of the Queens Reign they were entred in the Journal Book with express mention of the several dayes on which they were returned but in the latter part thereof and since only generally p. 597 Serjeant Puckering Lord Keeper in 35 Eliz. p. 456. His Speech to the Parliament held that year p. 457 458. He dies in 38 Eliz. Anno Domini 1596. p. 522 R. REading Vide Bills Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in the House of Lords the manner of entring them in the Journal Book p. 14 15 A Bill for Recognition of the Queens Title to the Crown of England p. 18 Restitution in bloud of Sir James Crost a Bill for it p. 21. of Sir Henry Gate ibid. of John Lord Grey ibid. of Robert Rudston ibid. of Henry Howard p. 22. of the Sons and Daughters of Edward Lewkenor p. 25. of Katherine Wife to the Lord Berkely and of her Sisters p. 27. 54 55. of Gregory Fynes ibid. of Lord Dacres of the South p. 55. of Ann Thomas Thomas Isely Thomas Diggs Thomas Brook William Cromer Cutbert Vaughan c. p. 68. of Arch-bishop Cranmer's and Lord Husseys Children p. 69. of Sir Ralph Chamberlain John Harleston and William West ibid. and p. 70. of Sir Peter Carew and Edward Turner p. 70. of Sir Thomas Wyats Children p. 146. of Henry Brereton Esq p. 147. of John Lord Stourton his Brothers and Sisters p. 230. Vid. p. 261 262. the Bills dashed p. 264 265. of Henry Lord Norris of Ricaut p. 231. of Anthony Mayney ibid. and 273. of Thomas Howard Son of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk p. 317. of Sir Thomas Parrot p. 510 S. A Saving requisite in every Bill p. 464 Queens Serjeants though but Attendants on the House made Committees p. 99. 108. Though they are to attend upon the Upper House as Councellors yet they have no voice there but may in the House of Commons if Members thereof p. 249 Serjeant at Arms whether to be employed to take into custody those that are accused of breach of priviledge of the Upper House or whether the Gentleman Usher p. 603. He is ordered to bring before the House a Lords Servant committed upon an Arrest to Newgate as also him that Arrested him for breach of Priviledge p. 607. This not to injure the Gentleman Usher's pretensions to that right ibid. Under Sheriff of Surrey committed to Prison for aiding the Arrest of an ordinary Servant of the Queen in Parliament time p. 606 Thomas Smith Esq made Clerk of the House of Lords 39 Eliz. p. 522 Queens Solicitour made a Joint-Committee with the Lords p. 142. Being chosen a Member of the House of Commons he is demanded of them to attend there but denied by the Lords p. 424 Spain's design against England set out in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. See the word in the Table to the Journal to the House of Commons Spilman Francis Clerk of the House of Lords in the Parliament 1 Eliz. p. 14. continued in that place in the Parliaments held 5 Eliz. and 8 9 Eliz. but in 13 Eliz. succeeded by Anthony Mason p. 136 Spiritual Lords why their Names are set down in the Journal Book before those of the Temporal p. 598 Star-Chamber dayes the Lords seldom sate on them p. 67 Bills of Subsidy sent from the Commons seldom alter'd by the Lords p. 69. Subsidies granted by the Clergy always ingrossed in Latin but the confirmation thereof in Parliament is in English p. 229. The Subsidy of the Clergy should be sent to the Commons in a Skin of Parchment under the Sovereigns band and seal p. 688. The body of the Grant of the Subsidies of the
no notice but by relation of his Death as her Majesty hath And her Majesty hath the more certain notice for that her self had made Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron and so his place of Speaker void as some thought although some others thought that the Chief Baron may be Speaker and she had since his Death made a new Chief Baron viz. Nota That this Argument doth very solidly and fully prove that the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons ought not at this time to have joined with the Upper House in Petitioning the Queen for liberty to chuse a new Speaker in respect that her Majesty could not but take notice of it as well as themselves and the rather at this present because she had first made Sir Robert Bell Knight their former Speaker Chief Baron of the Exchequer by which many supposed his place of Speaker was void in the said Commons House because he was to be called by Writ as a necessary attendant of the Upper House and lastly because her Majesty had now afterwards also upon his Death made another Chief Baron in his room by all which it appeared most plainly as is before urged that her Majesty could not but know as well as themselves that the said place of Speaker was void But whether M r Fulk Onslow the now Clerk of the House of Commons did conceive these reasons in his own mind and so by communicating them unto others of the said House and finding them to concur in the same opinion did thereupon Enter them in the Journal-Book of this Parliament or whether others of the House did first conceive it themselves and utter it to him in private in the said House yet certainly it having not been openly spoken in the House as appears by his own setting of it down but privately muttered it ought to have been Entred as a private opinion and not as any part of the Journal and to have been distinguished by being written in some other different hand from that in which the rest of the Journal was set down or the like But yet notwithstanding all those foresaid reasons already set down it was at last agreed by the greater number of the few Voices that the said Precedent should be followed which had before passed in the eighth year of her Highness Reign And accordingly were appointed the said M r Treasurer and Sir James Crofts Knight Comptroller of her Majesties most honourable Houshold and Thomas Wilson Esquire one of her Highnesses Principal Secretaries with a convenient number of others of the House to go to the Upper House to make Petition to the Lords for their Mediation to her Majesty for Licence to chuse a Speaker the place being void first by the making of the said Sir Robert Bell to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and lastly by his Death which Message being by the said persons executed accordingly and they brought Answer again to the House from the Lords that their Lordships had appointed all the Lords of the Privy-Council with the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Arundell and the Bishop of London to make that Suit to her Majesty and required to have four of this House being of her Majesties Privy-Council to join therein with them according to the said Precedent whereupon forasmuch as it appeared to this House that the Lords in appointing their number had varied from the said Precedent it was moved that likewise the number appointed by this House might also be altered that in precedent it might remain a thing Arbitratory to the House and that so five of this House being of the Privy-Council should be added to the Lords and the rather because it was then affirmed of some that the cause why only four of the Council being of this House were appointed in the said eighth year was for that the Lords number was then but four and for that also there were at that time but four of the Council in this House The now Lord Treasurer then being the one only Principal Secretary to her Majesty but at last the said Precedent was precisely urged and followed and the said M r Treasurer M r Comptroller and Sir Francis Walsingham Knight one of her Majesties two Principal Secretaries and Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer were appointed by this House to join with the said Lords in the said Suit to her Majesty and Order was then also given that this House should also daily assemble to continue the Session and attend the Answer of her Highnesses Pleasure therein On Tuesday the 17 th day of January some number of this House Assembled this day to attend for the causes aforesaid On Wednesday the 18 th day of January the Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln Lord Steward of the Queens Majesties most honourable Houshold came into this House and before him divers Knights Citizens and Burgesses returned into this House did openly receive and pronounce the Oath according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and he did also then and there signify and declare the right Honourable M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Secretary Wilson and M r Chancellor of the Exchequer to be his Deputies during this Session of Parliament that before them or any of them all such persons as should during this Session be returned to be of this House might openly receive and pronounce the said Oath accordingly which Deputation they did then execute This matter of the Lord Stewards Ministring the Oath of Supremacy unto such Members of the House of Commons as were newly Elected and returned to this new Session of Parliament being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the whole manner of the proceeding of her Majesty in giving Authority by her Commission under the Great Seal unto the House of Commons to Elect a new Speaker and of their receiving the said Authority out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Lords in respect that the same is but shortly and imperfectly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the said House of Commons This foresaid Wednesday Morning the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being mindful of the great business of the Election of a new Speaker which they had treated of on Monday foregoing being the 16 th day of this instant January repaired to the Upper House commonly called the Parliament Chamber where being Assembled with the Lords those noble Personages and others who had been appointed to repair unto the Queen on Monday foregoing signified her Majesties Pleasure unto all the Lords and Commons there present concerning the Choice of a new Speaker by the Members of the House of Commons And thereupon the Lord Chancellor shewed forth a Commission under the Broad Seal of England which he Commanded the Clerk openly to read the the tenor whereof was as followeth ELizabeth c. To our Right Trusty and