Committees and some Amendments they had made in the said Bill and so delivered in the Bill and Amendments to the House The Bill for building and erecting of a bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye neer the Town of Ross in the County of Hereford was read the third time and passed upon the Question Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp did bring from the Lords a Bill passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships entituled An Act for the establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esq and for the better enabling William Pope aforesaid to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts And another for the confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmond Verney Knight which Bill their Lordships have also passed with some Amendments Sunday Feb. 5. On Munday Feb. 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the reformation of retailing and Pawn-takers was read the first time Mr. Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had made some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered the said Bills into the House Mr. Francis Bacon Bill against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry one of the Committees in the Bill late passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments in the said Bill which being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House On Tuesday Feb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Controuler Mr. Lukenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe and the Knights and Burgesses of London and twenty four others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in a Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for the reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Provisoes were passed upon the Question On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill entituled An Act for the establishing of a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts and the Bill entituled An Act for the enabling Edmond Moleneux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies and the Bill entituled An Act against the deceitful stretching of Northern Cloath and the Bill entituled An Act for the further continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made thirty five Reginae were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the reformation of abuses in Wine-casks was read the third time and dashed upon the Question The Bill for the better execution of Judgments was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday Feb. 9. the Bill entituled An Act for reformation of Retailing-Brokers and other Pawn-takers the Bill entituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assignees notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown and a Bill entituled An Act for the better execution of Judgments were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious Pardon was once read and passed upon the Question Nota That whereas to the passing of other Bills three several readings are required here the Bill for her Majesties most gracious Pardon passed upon the first reading Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Carewe brought from the Lords the Bill entituled An Act for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and did shew that their Lordships in like manner have passed the said Bill and so delivered the same to Mr. Speaker to the end that he might carry the same up to the Upper House to be presented by him unto her Majesty in the name of the whole House Post Meridiem The Queens Majesty came to the Upper House soon after three of the clock 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 whole House presented her Majesty with the Bill of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths amongst other things desired her Majesties Royal assent to such Laws as had passed the two Houses He was answered according to her Majesties command by the Lord Keeper That she thankfully accepted of the said Gift of her loving Subjects and very well allowed of the said Speakers pains and Speech Then Mr. Smith the Clerk of the Upper House The Qu. passeth 24 publick Acts and 19 private Acts and refuses 48 Acts that had passed both Houses and then dissolves this Parl. having read the Titles of all the Acts her Majesty gave her Royal assent to twenty four publick Acts and nineteen private and refused fourty eight which had passed both the Houses After which Sir Thomas Edgerton Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England by her Majesties commandment dissolved this present Parliament An exact Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 43 Eliz. holden at Westminster anno 43 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1601. which began on Tuesday 27 Octob. and there continued until 19 Decemb. next insuing ON Tuesday Octob. 27. Oct. 27. the Parliament held according to the Summons that had been sent forth The Qu. comes to the House of Peers and the Queens Majesty was personally present in the Upper House about three of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came accompanied with the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and divers of the Nobility and Bishops There were present all sitting in their Parliament-Robes according to their several places these Noble Personages following Lift of the Peers then present The Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Tho. Edgerton Lord Leeper of the great Seal The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Marquiss of Winchester The Earl of Sussex Earl Marshal of England The Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England and Lord Steward of her Majesties Houshold The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Derby The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Cumberland The Earl of Hertford The Earl of Lincoln BISHOPS The Bishop of London The Bishop of
the manner For the first he fell into commendations of the Commonalty for the second the manner which was speedy not by perswasion or perswasive inducements but freely out of duty with great contentment In the thing which you have granted her Majesty greatly commendeth your confidence and judgments and though it be not proportionable to her occasions yet she most thank fully receiveth the same as a loving and thank-ful Prince And that no Prince was ever more unwilling to exact or receive any thing from the Subject than she our most gracious Soveraign for we all know she never was a greedy Grasper nor siraight-handed keeper And therefore she commanded me to say That you have done and so she taketh it dutifully plentifully and thank-fully For your self Mr. Speaker her Majesty commanded me to say That you have proceeded with such wisdom and discretion that it is much to your commendations and that none before you have deserved more And so he ended after an Admonition given to the Justices of Peace That they would not deserve the Epethites of prowling Justices Justices of Quarrels who counted Champerty good Chevesance sinning Justices who did suck and consume the Good of this Commonwealth and also against all those that did lie if not all the year yet at least three quarters of the year in the City of London After these Speeches ended They are dissolved her Majesty gave her Royal Assent to nineteen Publick Acts and ten Private Acts and then the Parliament was dissolved by the Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England A perfect Journal of every days Proceedings in the House of Commons at the Parliament beginning at Westminster the xxvijth day of October Anno 1601. and in the 43. Year of the Raign of Q Eliz. and ending the xixth day of December then next following Collected by Mr. Heyward Townshend one of the Members of the said House THe first day of the Parliament The Queen goes to the Parliament in an open Chariot with a Canopy of Silver about three of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty went by Land to westminster-Abby riding in a Chariot made all open only like a Canopy over her head being of Cloth of Silver with all the Bishops and Lords in their Parliament Robes according to their Degrees being marshalled by the Heraulds Where was made unto her a Sermon after the hearing whereof she went to the Upper-house of Parliament where being sate a while and the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower-house being sent for the door kept so that they went not all in notwithstanding some were within by some special means before and heard the Lord-keepers Speech made unto them which is after in effect delivered by Mr. Secretary Cicil Some of the Commons discontented in the Lower-house So that after the Knights and Burgesses had staid a good while it was told them That the Lord-keepers Speech was done and thereupon every man went away discontented In the mean time whilst her Majesty was at Sermon the Lord-Admiral came into the Court of Requests Admiral and there began to call the Knights and Burgesses by the Poil and also to swear them at the same time But because that course seemed too tedious he staid whilst Sir William Knowls Controuler of the household Sir John Stanhopp Vice-Chamberlain Sir Robert Cicil Principal Secretary of State and John Herbert Esquire second Secretary came who were all coming up from the Upper house together and then only the Knights and Burgesses were called After that the Lord Admiral and Mr. Secretary Cicil went up to the Upper-house but Mr. Controuler Sir John Stanhopp and Mr. Secretary Herbert went to the space before the Parliament House door where they sware all the Lower-house confusedly four at one time six at another eight at another taking their names that swore and who not and still as every man was Sworn he went into the house and to his place as best liked him VVhen all were Sworn and the Queen come to the Upper-House and the Lord-Keepers speech ended Then all the Privy Councel of the Lower-house came in thither and sate quiet a while and then putting their heads together Mr. Controuler stood up and spake to this effect That it was an Antient Custom in that House The Comptrouler speaks first that at those times some Man should break silence and I must confess at this time it belongs to my place It is needless to shew the use of this House because it s well known to all or most here All men knows that the speech of a multitude breedeth confusion and dissention It is therefore fit for us to chuse one to be our Speaker which for his experience may speak and for his sufficiency dare and can speak on all our Behalfs and Affairs Neither doth it stand with the Honor and Antient Usage of this House to speak but by one Neither is it answerable to the State of her Majesty to deliver unto her our mindes by the Tongues of a confused Multitude Then we are to fall into consideration what manner of person he shall be First A man Religious for Religion ought to be the foundation of our building and labour Then Honest Grave VVise Faithful and Secret These Vertues must concur in one Person able to supply this place Now having delivered unto you the necessity of a Speaker and his qualities I will deliver unto you my Opinion whom I think fit for the place referring it to your consideration and for my own part He Recommends the Recorder of London for their Speaker who seems to Admire at it not prejudicing the VVorth of any in this House I deem Mr. John Crook Recorder of London a most fit and worthy and able man for this Service At which words Mr. Crook put off his Hat with a kind of strange Admiration whose Sufficiency in all respcts and his Loyalty and Faithfulness to do our Common-wealth service is well known unto us and hath been often approved by his learned Speeches diverse times delivered before her Majesty I do not attribute so much to mine own Choice that I presume to assure you there is no Man here fitter for the same than he is but I only make bold to deliver my Opinion leaving the choise of him or any other to the free Election of every particular Member of this House And for the motion which hath been made touching the keeping out of the house during the time of the Lord Keepers Speech I do assure you it was not willingly done but through Ignorance of the Groom of the Chamber but if the House be desirous to hear the Effect thereof I will intreat some that were there at that time to satisfiy their desires The cause of which preclose was for that one Mr. Leigh during the time of the Commons swearing made a complaint to Mr. Controuler sitting in the House that they toook it in great disgrace that they were shut out After which
Fellow could say nothing for himself but only That he knew not Mr. Pemberton to be of the House So the Serjeant was commanded to Remove them both forth Mr. Johnson said Some we Pardon out of Discretion some out of Commiseration I think set all Parliaments together they will not match this Parliament with Numbers of Offences of this Nature and only our Impunity is the Cause Mr. Edmond Morgan said Mr. Speaker The Gentleman is a Man of good Sort Desert and Carriage And I think if he had known me to be of the House he would not have served me with a Subpoena Truly he came to my Lodging and acknowledged his great Fault and prayed me to Extenuate it I protest I think he did not know I was of the House And therefore I pray in regard of his Person and good Service done to Her Majesty his Offence may be as freely Remitted by the House as it is by Me And that it would please you All to Refer your Justice to Matters of greater Importance Which was marvellously well liked by the House Mr. Pemberton being asked What he could say whether William Mackerles knew him He answer'd I and that his Man had told him he said That he knew the said William was a very Knave And therefore he would not intreat the Favour of the House but let him have the Justice of the House Which Speech was generally misliked Mr. Fleetwood a Councellor of Grays-Inn shewed unto the House That one Holland a Scrivener by Temple-Bar and his Man had Beaten his Servant and he humbly prayed they might be sent for And the Question grew upon Dispute in the House whether this were Punishable And after upon a Precedent vouched by Mr. Roger Owen of 8 Hen. 4. touching a Knight of the Parliament coming towards the Parliament c. it was agreed That they should be sent for Mr. Kennel and Mackerles were brought to the Bar And after their Offence laid open by the Speaker he said It pleased the House to have so favourable Consideration of their Offence That they should only have but Three Dayes Imprisonment in the Custody of the Serjeant and pay his Fees Mr. Downold moved the House Mr. Downold moves to have the Queen's Message entered in the Journal First That the Gracious Message sent from Her Majesty might be written in the Books of the Records of this House As well it is worthy to be written in Gold as well as written and fixed in the True Hearts of every good Subject Secondly That the Honourable of this House would move Her Majesty and be an earnest Means of Speed lest that which is now meant indeed should by Protraction of Time be altered or perhaps not so happyly Effected Mr. Secretary Cecil said Secretary Cecil speaks to it I promised to be as Silent as I could Amongst much Speech of the Wise there wants not much Folly much more in Me. I do not Speak because I do dislike the Motion of that Gentleman that last spake but to defend the Diligence and Grace of the Queen It is no matter of Toy for a Prince to Notifie in Publick a Matter of this Weight Though the Idol of a Monopoly be a great Monster yet after Two or Three Dayes I doubt not but you shall see him Dismember'd And I do protest there is not any Soul living deserves Thanks in this Cause but our Sovereign Yesterday the Queen gave Order for the Draught of a Proclamation I had the Minutes thereof even now in my Hands You all know I went even now out of the House then I Read it and sent for him that should Deliver it to Her Hands Now What needs this new Zeal Mr. Davies said Mr. Davies Mr. Speaker I stood up before to Speak It was not much I had to say only this That which was deliver'd unto You from Her Sacred self I think to be Gospel that is Glad Tydings And as the Gospel is Written and Registred so would I have that also For Glad Tydings come to the Hearts of the Subjects This is all Sir George Moore said Sir George Moore This eating and fretting Disease of Monopolies I have ever detested with my Heart and the greater the Grievance is and hath been the more Inestimable is the Grace of Her Majesty in Repealing them And therefore to think we can sufficiently Record the same it were to hold a Candle before the Sun to dim the Light And seeing that She in Her Clemency and Care to Us hath taken the Matter into Her own Hands I wish the Matter may be no more spoken of much less proceeded in Sir Francis Hastings said Sir Francis Hastings It ought to be Written in the Tables of our Hearts Mr. Laurence Hide I think that this Gentleman that set this Motion on Foot spake out of Joy for Her Majesty's Grace and Zeal to have Performance of Her Promise In that he wish'd it might be Recorded in Paper here or in Parchment it is not to be intended but he also meant in our Hearts which remain no longer than we Live but Records remain longer and will give a Lively Remembrance in Ages to come And therefore for that part of his Motion I think it very Good and wish the Clerk may do accordingly Mr. Comptroller said Mr. Comptroller I think that he that moved first this Question exceedingly forgat himself and exceedingly detracted from Her Majesty who I know out of her abundant Grace and Favour to this House hath taken such speedy Course as hath been delivered by my Fellow-Councellour With that Affection She embraceth this House that in more Familiar than Princely sort it hath pleased Her to say Recommend me to the House with Thanks for their Promise and Care for the Common Good Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker My Heart is not able to conceive nor my Tongue to utter the Joy I conceive for Her Majesty's Gracious and Especial Care for our Good and Wellfare Wherefore as God said Gloriam meam alteri non dabo so may Her Majesty say in that That She Her self will be the only and speedy Agent for the Performance of our most Humble and Wished Desires Wherefore let us not doubt but as She hath been so She still will be our most Gracious Sovereign and Natural Mother unto Us Whose Dayes the Almighty God prolong to our Comforts And all the House cryed Amen On Saturday Novemb. 28. The Bill Intituled An Act for Explanation of the Statute of 39. Eliz. Cap. 6. touching Charitable Uses was Read the second time to which Mr. Tate spake and said amongst other things that That could be no Law which was contrary to the Great CHARTER of England And this was because it gave Power against the Great CHARTER which giveth Challenges to Jurors which this Law alloweth not Therefore he wished there might be a Commitment to Consider whether it were fit to be continued or repealed And the House would have appointed Monday
Historical Collections OR An exact Account of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE Four last Parliaments OF Q. ELIZABETH Of Famous Memory Wherein is contained The COMPLEAT JOURNALS Both of the Lords Commons Taken from the Original RECORDS of their Houses AS ALSO The more particular Behaviours of the Worthy Members during all the last notable Sessions comprehending the Motions Speeches and Arguments of the Renowned and Learned Secretary Cecill Sir Francis Bacon Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Edw. Hobby and divers other eminent Gentlemen Together with The most considerable Passages of the History of those times Faithfully and Laboriously Collected By Heywood Townshend Esq a Member in those Parliaments The like never Extant before LONDON Printed for T. Basset W. Crooke and W. Cademan at the George in Fleetstreet at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar and at the Popes-head in the New Exchange 1680. THE PREFACE TO The Reader THE whole Reign of our Renowned Queen Elizabeth was such a Series of admirable Events such a Pattern of wise and honest Counsel and steady Conduct such an age of hellish Plots and secret Conspiracies by the Papists on the one hand and such prudent Circumspection Female Courage and Zeal and happy Deliverances on the other that no History can deserve to be more minutely described than the Affairs in her time And though many famous Pens have already travelled therein and given us a fair prospect of her actions the subtile Contrivances and open Force of her Enemies against her sacred Life Government and the true Protestant Religion and the many providences and more than humane success which blessed and crowned her days yet we never had so full an account of her last Parliaments as is comprehended in this Volume especially so curiously as the very last is collected by Mr. Townshend a worthy Member in that Session who hath so faithfully done it that it is thought very fit even after so long an Interval to appear in publick There have been many excellent persons of the greatest abilities and worth who though they had not the ambition to struggle to be chosen into the House and were well acquainted without-doors with all the most important passages within have yet often wished they might have had the liberty of sitting there but a few days onely to observe the behaviour methods and tempers of Men so assembled and be an eye-witness how things are managed and passed there Now in this Relation there is so particular and exquisite an Account that such may even satisfie their curiosity in those very Circumstances For this is not onely the Journal-Book of what is entered upon Record but in the last Session especially there are all the particular Speeches Motions Arguments nay and the very behaviour of every one in that grand Assembly and all so painted to the life that to a considering Reader it is almost the same thing as if he had been present with them all the while Here you will finde that the Grievances they laboured to have redressed were very considerable their Arguments rational and strong though finely adorned which will be easily believed when we know the famous Secretary Cecill Sir Francis Bacon Sir Walter Rawleigh and many other solid States-men were fellow-Members in this illustrious Assembly whose Speeches alone are as I should guess a sufficient Invitation to any one that has but heard of them in our English world to know how they behaved themselves in that House of Commons which that you may do I shall make no further Preamble but conduct you into the Work it self Farewel ADVERTISEMENT ☞ That long-expected Work of Dr. William Howell's now Chancellor of Lincoln entituled The General History of the World in two Volumes in Folio the first reprinted with very large Additions and the second never before printed being a most exact History is finished Printed for T. Basset W. Crooke and W. Cademan An exact and perfect Journal of the Passages in the Vpper House of Parliament 31 Eliz. holden at Westminster Anno xxxj o Reginae Eliz. Annoque Dom. 1588. which began there Feb. 4. and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof which was on March 29. Anno Dom. 1589. THE Queens Majesty soon after that her wonderful and glorious Victory which God Almighty had given her Navie over that vainly-stiled Invincible Armado sent against her Realm of England by the King of Spain Queen summons a Parliament soon after the defeat of the Spanish Invincible Armado summon'd this her High Court of Parliament to begin on Tuesday the 12th day of November that present year 1588. and in the 30th year of her Reign that so by common Advice and Councel she might prepare and provide against the inbred malice of that Prince and Nation But other occasions of great importance requiring the deferring of the said Assembly her Majestie prorogued the same to a further day in manner and form following MEmorandum The Queen prorogues the Parliament from the 12th of Nov. to the 4th day of Feb. Whereas the Queens Majestie by her Writ summoned her Parliament to begin and be holden at Westminster this present Tuesday the 12th of November 1588. her Highness for certain great and weighty Causes and Considerations her Majestie specially moving by the advice of her Privie Council and of her Justices of both her Benches and other of her Council learned did prorogue and adjourn the said Parliament until the fourth day of February next by vertue of her Writ-Patent sealed with the Great Seal and bearing date the 15th day of October last past Whereupon at this said 12th day of November the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor William Lord Burghley Lord Treasurer The Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of London and three other Barons repaired to the Parliament-chamber commonly called the Vpper 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 Highness's said Writ had prorogued the said Parliament from the said first summoned day An. 1588. until the fourth 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 gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Praedelectis Fidelibus nostris Prelatis Magnatibus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae ac dilectis fidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgensibus dicti Regni nostri ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westm duodecimo die Novembris prox futurum inchoandum tenendum convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet salutem Cum nos pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum desensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesia Anglicana concernentibus dict Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedict teneri ordinavimus
ac vobis per seperalia Brevia nostra apud Civitat diem praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tractandum consentiendum concludendum super hiis in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque ad quartam diem Februarii prox futur duximus prorogandum Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praed comparere teneamini seu autemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum nos penitus openerari Mandanies tenore presentium firmiter injungendo precipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum quartam diem Februarii apud praedictum Civitate Westmonaster personaliter compereatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compereat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de Communi consilio dicti Regni nostri favente Domino contingerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsam apud Westm quinto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrarde And according to this Prorogation the Parliament held on the fourth day of February following when the Queen's Majesty in her accustomed state and order came to the Upper House accompanied by Sir Christopher Hatton Knight then Lord Chancellor of England and divers of the Nobility of which the Journal-book maketh mention in manner and form following On Tuesday the fourth of February Feb. 4. The Q. comes to the House of Lords in the 31th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to which day the Parliament had been last prorogued and accordingly now held the Queen's Majestie was personally present in Parliament but the Journal-book doth not mention the names of such Lords as were then present The Queen being set under her Cloath of Estate and the Lords placed in their several ranks and order and as many of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let in and standing before the Bar Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England Heads of the L. Chancellor Hatton's Speech in a well-framed and discreet Speech did there declare unto them at large 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 enjoyeth by her Government and remembred the great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas viz. Anno Dom. 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed that 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 as by councel of man is possible to be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Moneys may be in readiness and an Armie prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellor's Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Committees or Receivers and Triers of Petitions Sir Gilbert Gerrard Kt. Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of the Kings-bench Dr. Aubery and Dr. Ford. Receivers 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 Dr. Clarke and Dr. Cary. Triers 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 the Lord Cobham and the Lord Gray of Wilton Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries on the other side the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrooke the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and Lord Buckhurst During this Parliament upon several days seven Temporal Lords sent their Proxies so did five Spiritual Lords Et norandum That all the said Spiritual Lords excepting one did every one constitute two several Proctors and the fifth being John Bishop of Carlisle whose Proxie was returned February the fifth made onely one viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury his Proctor It likewise seldom happeneth that any Bishop doth nominate fewer than three or two Proctors nor any Temporal Lord more than one Nota That the Lord Burleigh had this Parliament four Proxies sent unto him viz. one from the Lord Dacres one from the Earl of Warwick one from Viscount Mountacute and one from the Lord Lumley Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox hora secunda post meridiem On Thursday February 6. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majestie was personally present coming to the said Parliament in her accustomed state and order about three of the clock in the afternoon it being the time appointed for the House of Commons to present their Speaker who they had been authorized to chuse on Tuesday last when the Parliament first began And thereupon accordingly the Queen and Lords being set and the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being let into the Upper House two of the most eminent persons of the said House did lead up to the Bar of the Upper House George Snagg Serjeant at Law Geo. Snagg their Speaker presented to the Queen Excuses himself who was chosen the Speaker of the said House of Commons who being placed at the said Bar and silence being made did in a modest and discreet Speech disable himself by reason of his many imperfections and humbly desired her Majestie to discharge him of that great Place and to nominate some other more able and sufficient Member of the same House Whereupon the Lord Chancellor by commandment from the Queen The Queen approves of him did let him know That her Majestie did very well allow of his Choice and thereupon encouraged him willingly and cheerfully to undertake and execute that Charge and Place to which he had been by the free and unanimous consent of the House of Commons elected and chosen Upon which Speech of the Lord Chancellor's the said Speaker according to the usual course and form rendering all humble thankfulness to the Queens Majestie for her underserved
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 Royal Predecessors Kings of England and Queens of England In the times of the West-Saxons a Parliament was held by the Noble Queen Ina by these words I Ina Queen of the West-Saxons The Antiquity of Parliaments in this Island have caused all my Fatherhood Aldermen and wise Commons with the Godly-men of my Kingdome to consult of weighty matters c. Which words do plainly shew the parts of this Court still observed to this day For in Queen Ina is Your Majesties most Royal Person represented The Fatherhood in antient time were those whom we call Bishops and still we call them Reverend Fathers an antient and free part of our State By Aldermen was meant your Noblemen for so honourable was the word Alderman in antient time that the Nobility only were called Aldermen By wisest Commons is signified your 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 weightiest matters so is your Highness Writ at this day Pro quibusdam arduis urgentissimis negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Ecclesiae tangentibus Your Highness Wisdome and exceeding Judgment with all careful Providence needed not our Councels yet so urgent Causes there were of this Parliament so importunate Considerations as that we may say for we cannot judge if ever Parliament was so Needful as now or ever so Honourable as this If I may be bold to say it I must presume to say that which hath been often said but what is well said cannot be too often spoken This sweet Council of ours I would compare to that sweet Commonwealth of the little Bees Sic enim parvis componere magna solebam The little Bees have but one Governour whom they all serve he is their King Quia latrea habet latiora he is placed in the midst of their habitations ut in tutissima turri they forage abroad sucking honey from every flower to bring to their King Ignavum Fucos pecus à Principibus arcent the Drones they drive out of their Hives non habentes aculeos and whoso assails their King in him immittunt aculeos tamen Rex ipse est sine aculeo Your Majesty is that Princely Governour and Noble Queen whom we all serve being protected under the shadow of your wings we live and wish you may ever sit upon your Throne over us and whosoever shall not say Amen for them we pray ut convertantur nè pereant ut confundantur nè noceant Vnder your happy Government we live upon Honey we suck upon every sweet Flower but where the Bee sucketh Honey there also the Spider draweth Poyson some such there be but such Drones and Dore-Bees we will expel the Hive and serve your Majesty and withstand any Enemy that shall assault You our Lands or Goods Our lives are prostrate at your feet to be commanded yea and thanked be God and honour be to your Majesty for it such is the power and force of your Subjects that of their own strengths they are able to encounter your greatest Enemies and though we be such yet have we a Prince that is Sine aculeo so full of that Clemency is your Majesty I come now to your Laws The Laws we have conferred upon this Session of so honourable a Parliament are of two natures the one such as have life but are ready to die except your Majesty breathe life into them again the other are Laws that never had life but being void of life do come to your Majesty to seek life The first sort are those Laws that had continuance until this Parliament and are now to receive new life or are to die for ever The other that I term capable of life are those which are newly made but have no essence until your Majesty giveth them life Two Laws there are but I must give the honour where it is due for they come from the noble wise Lords of the Vpper House the most honourable and beneficial Laws that could be desired the one a Confirmation of all Letters-Patents from your Majesties most noble Father of all Ecclesiastical Livings which that King of most renowned Memory took from those superstitious Monasteries and Priories and translated them to the erecting of many foundations of Cathedral Churches and Colledges thereby greatly furthering the maintenance of Learning and true Religion The other Law to suppress the obstinant Recusate and the dangerous Sectary both very pernicious to your Royal Government Lastly your most loving and obedient Subjects the Commons of the Lower House most humbly and with dutiful thanks stand bound unto your gracious goodness for your general and large Pardon granted unto them wherein many great Offences are pardoned but it extendeth onely to Offences done before the Parliament I have many ways since the beginning of this Parliament by ignorance and insufficiency to perform that which I should have done offended your Majesty I most humbly crave to be partaker of your most gracious Pardon The Lord Keeper then received Instructions from the Queen and afterwards replied unto the Speaker The former part of this Speech was an Answer almost verbatim to the Speaker's Oration very excellently and exactly done and those things which followed were to this or the like purpose The Lord Keeper HE said The Lord Keeper replies That her Majesty most graciously did accept of the Service and Devotions of this Parliament commending them that they had employed their time so well and spent it on necessary Affairs save onely that in some things they had spent more time than needed but she perceived some men did it more for their satisfaction than the necessity of the thing deserved She misliked also that such irreverence was shewed towards Privy-Counsellors who were not to be accounted as common Knights and Burgesses of the House Gently rebukes them for some Miscarriages that are Counsellors but during the Parliament whereas the other are standing Counsellors and for their wisdom and great service are called to the Council of State Then he said That the Queens Majesty had heard that some men in the case of great necessity and grant of Aid had seemed to regard their Country and made their necessity more than it was forgetting the urgent necessity of the time and dangers that were now eminent That her Majesty would not have the People feared with Reports of great dangers Gives them Cautions but rather to be encouraged with boldness against the Enemies of the State And therefore that she straightly charged and commanded that the mustred Companies in every County should be supplied if they were decayed and that their Provisions of Armour and Ammunition should be better than heretofore it hath been used
being still to be performed by infinite Charge her Majesty notwithstanding hears of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be received from her People though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reigns of former Kings they have been In the times of Edw. 3. and the two next before him and those three which succeeded next after him the payments of the Commons then did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in the Histories of those times to be seen but never cause so great to employ great sums of money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties Charge which at present she is at and is to continue at for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised which in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath for if with the Common-wealth it goes not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person That being in danger he that would seek then to lay up Treasure and inrich himself should be like to him that would busie himself to beautifie his house when the City wherein he dwelleth is on fire or to him that decketh up his Cabin when the Ship wherein he saileth is ready to sink To spare in that case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves Her Majesties part being onely carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands wherein men performing their duties there is no cause at all to fear for the War is just it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign of our Native Country of our Wives Children Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging this point as a poor Remembrancer to her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships Quod justum necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due Maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons that you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is You should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave learned and wise man amongst you to be your Speaker who shall be for understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your mouth to signifie your minds and to make your Petitions known unto her Highness and him upon Thursday next to present in this place The Lord Burgh was absent being the Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De-la-ware was absent because he made question of his place intending to make suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur viz. 27º diem Octobris On Thursday Octob. 27. the Queens Majesty the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Sussex great Mareschal the Earl of Nottingham Mag. Seneschall six Earls one Viscount thirteen Bishops the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain and twenty two other Barons present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Serj. Yelverton chosen Speaker being chosen Speaker of the Lower House was by divers Knights Citizens and Burgesses brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented to her Majesty who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the duty of the House in making an Election but he excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections Excuses himself and wishing earnestly that he were of sufficiency to perform the duty of that Place made humble suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the Lower House might proceed to a new Election Which Excuse was not allowed by her Majesty Is allowed commended by the Queen as the Lord Keeper delivered by answer and the Choice of the said Mr. Yelverton being by her Majesty very well approved and his Sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that Charge and Place and to present unto her Majesty on the behalf of the Lower House certain humble Petitions viz. For Access unto her Majesty Petitions for the House in the usual form For the using and enjoying of such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making answer by the Lord Keeper did yield her gracious assent Which are granted with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum mensis Novembris On Saturday 5 Novembris introductum est Breve Thomae Dom. Grey de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur Nov. 5. admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento loco salvo jure alieno The Petition of the Lord De-la-ware presented to this House for restitution of the same place in the Parliament which his Ancestors had in the Rank and Order of the Barons and referred to Committees viz. to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Bishop of London Lord Bishop of Winton Lord Zouche Lord Stafford Lord Windsor Lord Sheffield Lord North Lord St. John of Bletsoe Lord Buckhurst Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke Esq the Queens Atturney who appointed to meet at the Council-chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Sunday Nov. 6. at two of the clock in the afternoon Munday Nov. 7. An Act for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants secunda vice lect and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral three Earls three Bishops three Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Baron Ewens and Mr. Atturney General to attend their Lordships and appointed to meet at the little Council-chamber in Whitehall to morrow at four a clock in the afternoon Introductum est Breve Com. Derby quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur c. On Thursday Nov. 10. the Lord Treasurer made Report to the House what had been done by the Committees upon the Petition of the Lord De-la-ware and how it was resolved by them upon hearing and debating the matter with certain learned Counsel in the
Committees of the Lower House to come the sooner this Afternoon for this purpose they might well enough perform both the one and the other On Wednesday Feb. 1. the Bill intituled Feb. 1. An Act for the reviving continuance explanation and repealing of divers Statutes returned to the House by the Lord Chief Justice with some amendments which were presently twice read and thereupon Commandment given to be prepared ready in writing in Paper for a third reading It is agreed that a Conference shall be had with some of the Lower House about this Bill upon Friday Morning next On Friday Feb. 3. a Proviso in the Bill for recovering 300000 Acres more or less of waste Marsh and watry Ground this day twice read and the Amendments And thereupon Commandment given the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Report made by the Lord Treasurer what the substance of the Conference was between their Lordships and certain select Committees of the Lower House concerning the Bill for reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes and the same referred to the Lord Chief-Justice and other Justices for their further consideration On Saturday Feb. 4. an Act for reformation of Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers read tertia vice An Act against the deceitful stretching and Taintering of Northern Cloaths tertiavice lect An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes tertia vice lect The three Bills above-mentioned sent to the Lower House of which the two latter were returned for their consideration of certain Amendments and Proviso's added by their Lordships The Proviso thought meet by the Committees on the Bill concerning the draining and recovery of certain over flown Grounds in the County of Norfolk twice read and commanded to be engrossed A Motion by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like Motion by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereto the House assented and the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Munday Feb. 6. hora secunda post Meridiem the Proviso added by the Lower House to the Bill for the confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandis read tertia vice and thereupon the Bill expedited On Tuesday a Message from their Lordships to the Lower House delivered by Serjeant Drew and Dr. Carew for a Conference concerning a Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House The time and place being desired to be at Two of the clock this Afternoon at the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill for amendment of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertia vice and expedited On Thursday Feb. 9. at Three of the clock in the Afternoon They are dissolved Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae tunc dissolvit presens Parliamentum A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 39 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1597. begun there on Munday the 24 of Octob and Dissolved Febr. 9. Anno 40. ejusdem Reginae THe Ninth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen 1597. Oct. 24. The Parliament assembles defender of the Faith c. began at Westminster upon Munday Octob. 24 in the 39th year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights of the Shires Citizens of the Cities Burgesses of Burroughs and Barons of the Cinque-Ports did then make their appearance at Westminster being returned into the said Parliament for the same Shires Cities Burroughs and Ports before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of her Majesties most honourable Houshold Chuseth Serj. Yelverton for their Speaker and having authority to chuse their Speaker they made choice of Mr. Serjeant Yelverton to be their Speaker On Thursday Octob. 27. the House being set and before Mr. Speaker went up unto her Majesty in the Upper House Chancellor of the Exchequer moves that none may hereafter enter the House with Spurs on and pay the Serjeant his fees Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer moved and admonished that none of this House should after this present day enter into the House with their Spurs on for offending of others and withal that none do come into this House before they have paid the Serjeant's Fees due unto him according to the accustomed usage of this House in that case After which Mr. Speaker The Commens go to the Lords House with the greatest number of this House went towards the Upper House there to attend her Majesties pleasure and afterwards being admitted the said Mr. Serjeant Yelverton was presented before her Majesty and allowed of by her Speaker approved they return to the Lower House according to the usual form in that case accustomed And so returning to this House he was Speaker and took his place and sat in the Chair And then and there signified to this House that whereas in former times the Order was to have a Bill read before they did rise A caution given that no Bill could be read this day as was usual the same could not be so done at this time because her Majesty had in the Upper House adjourned this Parliament until Saturday next come seven-night being the fifth day of November next coming at eight of the clock in the Forenoon of the same day till which time he said all the Members of this House might depart and take their ease and so then every man went his way On Saturday Novemb. 5. the House met about eight of the clock in the Morning Which proved a mistake of the Speakers having through a mere mistake and errour of the Speaker and themselves conceived their House to have been adjourned by the Lord Keeper the first day of this Parliament unto this present day The Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Engrossers read the first time Mr. Finch shewing sundry great and horrible abuses committed by Vagrant and Idle persons offensive both to God and the world and further shewing the extream miserable estate of the Godly and honest sort of the poor Subjects of this Realm moved for a Committee of this House to be selected for redress thereof The Bill for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Satute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women again their wills Bill against those that take away Women against their will was read prima vice Sunday Novemb. 6. On Munday Novemb. 7. four Bills had each of them one reading the last being the Bill against Forestallers c. was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon the Citizens for London York Coventry Bristol and Gloucester Mr. Nathaniel
Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of St. Davids The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of St. Assaph The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Peterborough BARONS The Lord Zouche The Lord Cobham The Lord Stafford The Lord Grey de Wilton The Lord Dudley The Lord Lumley The Lord Sturton The Lord Windsore The Lord Mordant The Lord Wharton The Lord Rich. The L. Willoughby of Parham The Lord Sheffield The Lord Darcy of Chichester The Lord Chandois The Lord St. John of Bletsoe The Lord Compton The Lord Norreys The Lord Howard of Walden Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England made a Speech to this effect An. 1601. HE used strong perswasions both to Thankfulness and Obedience Lord Keeper's Speech and also shewed her Majesty desired the Parliament might end before Christmas He shewed the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity of the Wars between Spain and England the means and treasure we had to oppose His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made The causes of the Wars he laid down to be that they were Enemies to God the Queen and the Peace of this Kingdom that they conspired to overthrow Religion and to reduce us to a tyrannical Servitude These two Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our Estate standing thus he advised us to be provident by reason we deal with circumspect Enemies and said he was confident of good success because God hath ever and he hoped ever would bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was for by experience and judgment his tortering he giveth the means and courses he taketh for our instructions And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong arm of defence in Anno 1588 and divers others times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath brought him to even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe yet when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to ransome a servile Peace at the hands of our Enemies the Spaniards with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and Estate she brought them to an unity in Council and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards tyrannical designes which have so much galled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented unto and set on foot by the late King his Father I need not shew you nor trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Actors themselves thereof but De mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loath to speak ill of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her own bloud I mean Jewels that have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which God will ever keep her from but she hath worn them rather in triumph than for the price that hath not been valuable Receivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Kt. Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings-bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edm. Anderson Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Periam Kt. Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesly one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Swale and Dr. Hene Triers of Petitions of England Ireland Wales and Scotland Triers of Petitions The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens house the Earl of Hertford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants at their leisures to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlain's chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Lumley the Lord Burleigh All these or any four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Atturney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurer's chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-book in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Veneris prox futur viz. 30 diem Octob. On Friday Octob. 30. about one of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came by water to the Upper House and being apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of Estate divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the door with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London John Crooke Esq Recorder of London presented as Speaker their Speaker elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as could be conveniently let in And the said Speaker was led up to the bar at the lower end of the said House by Sir William Knolls Kt. Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth Most sacred and mighty Soveraign UPon your commandment His Speech your Majesties most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble servant a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but my self finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen do most humbly beseech your sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this Charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable self And that it would please you to command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great Service to be
appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I beseech your most excellent Majesty not to interpret my denial herein to proceed from any unwillingness to perform all devoted dutiful service but rather out of your Majesties clemency and goodness to interpret the same to proceed from that inward fear and trembling which hath ever possessed me when heretofore with most gracious audience it hath pleased your Majesty to license me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that under God even through your Majesties great bounty and favour I am that I am And therefore none of your Majesties most dutiful Subjects more bound to be ready and being ready to perform even the least of your Majesties commandments I therefore do most humbly beseech your Majesty that in regard the service of so great a Prince and flourishing Kingdom may the better and more effectually be effected to command your dutiful and loving Commons the Knights citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House to proceed to a new Election On Tuesday Nov. 5. Nov. 5. were two Bills read of which the first being for assurance of Land and the second for the restraint of the excessive and superfluous use of Coaches within the Realm of England Bill against excessive and superfluous use of Coaches were each of them read prima vice Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Sabbati 7 Novemb. hora decima On Saturday Nov. 7. the Bill for assurance of Lands was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Durham the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Rich and the Lord Howard of Walder and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Atturney-General were appointed to attend their Lordships On Tuesday Nov. 10. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for preservation of Phesants and Partridges was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Derby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Pembrooke the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Mordant the Lord Rich the Lord Sheifield the Lord Chandois the Lord Compton the Lord Howard of Walden and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron to attend the Lords And the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury On Thursday Nov. 12. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers and other things was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham six other Earls eight Bishops the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham and eight other Barons and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Walmesly Mr. Justice Warberton Mr. Serjeant Yelverton and Mr. Atturney-General were appointed to attend the Lords On Saturday Nov. 14. to which day the Parliament had been last continued request was made by Mr. Connisby Gent. Usher to the House and signified by the mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That forasmuch as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon the breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said Mr. Connisby supposed and alleadged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistake the Serjeant at Arms was employed therein that therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and henceforth have the right of his place in that behalf Whose Request being considered by the Lords it was thought meet That the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Presidents as could be produced therein either for the Gentleman-Usher or for the Serjeant at Arms and thereof to make Report to the House Whereupon their Lordships would proceed to the deciding of the Question between them Sunday Nov. 15. On Munday Nov. 16. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secunda vice Dominus Custos Magni Sigill continuavit praesens Parliament usq ad diem Jovis viz. 19 Novemb. On Thursday Nov. 19. the Bill for the breed and increase of Horses of Service within the Realm was read prima vice Bill for increase of Horses of service Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was to avoid and prevent divers Misdemeanours in lewd and idle persons and the other was for the confirmation of Grants made to her Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others The Lord Mordant being not able to attend for want of health certified so much to the House by the Lord Compton This day William Hogan was brought into the House from the Fleet One of the Qu. servants complains of an Arrest who having made relation of his Arrest and the time when and of the parties that arrested him declaring that he was arrested by the Under-Sheriff of Surrey and others upon the Saturday before the beginning of his Parliament and that it was known unto the said Under-Sheriff that he was her Majesties servant in Ordinary and that he thought Tolkerne who was the Creditor was not privy to the Arrest contrary to the Priviledge of that Court upon the Offer and Petition of the said William Hogan it was ordered That the said William Hogan should enter into sufficient Bond to abide the Order and Judgment of the Earl of Cumberland He is ordered to give Bond to abide Judgment c. the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Zouche for such satisfaction to be made of the Debt of 50 l. and any Costs and Charges as by the said Lords should be thought fit the Bond to be taken to the said Lords and thereupon to be discharged out of Prison and Execution And likewise that the Warden of the Fleet should be free from any trouble or damage or molestation for discharge of the said William Hogan It was likewise ordered by the Court Those who arrested him to appear at the Lords Bar. That the Under-Sheriff and any others that did arrest or assist the Arrest of the said William Hogan shall be sent for to appear
made amongst the Lords for the Poor and it was this day moved by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that the like Collection might be made at this time it was upon this Motion ordered by the House That there should now be such a Collection made and that the Lord Bishop of Chichester the Lord Bishop of Peterborough the Lord Zouche and the Lord Rich should be Collectors of the same after such Rates as have been usually given and bestowed by the Lords for the said charitable purpose as in former Parliaments and they to take order for the distribution of it On Thursday Decemb. 17. the Bill for the relief of the Poor was read secunda vice It was ordered That Edward Thomas of the Middle-Temple should be presently sent for and brought before the Lords in the House for that contrary to the Priviledge of the House he hath caused one Thomas Gerrard Gent. to be arrested And it was likewise ordered That such persons as made the Arrest or did assist in doing the same shall likewise be sent for by the Serjeant at Arms to answer their doings therein The Bill for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read secunda vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford was expedited Two other Bills had also each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for reformation of deceits and frauds in certain Auditors and their Clerks in making deceitful and untrue Particulars was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Hone. The Bill was brought back from the House of Commons entituled An An for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others and expedited The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned from the House of Commons and was expedited The Bill concerning the Assize of Fewel was read tertia vice and expedited Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad horam secundam post meridiem instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for strengthening of the Grants made for the maintenance and government of the house of the Poor called St. Bartholomew's Hospital of the foundation of King Hen. 8. was read secunda vice The Bill for recovery of many hundred thousand acres of Marshes and other Grounds subject commonly to surrounding within the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge Huntington c. was read tertia vice and expedited Upon the third reading of this Bill it was moved that certain Additions might be put in the title of the Bill and Amendments in some points in the body thereof and the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Atturney-General were required to draw the same which was done presently by them and presented to the House Whereupon the said Additions and Amendments were thrice read and then sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the same by Mr. Atturney and Dr. Hone who returned presently from the House of Commons with their allowance of the said Amendments and Addition in the title of the Counties of Sussex Essex Kent and the County Palatine of Durham Three other Bills had also each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to make the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Edward Lucas Gent. deceased Executor of the last Will and Testament of John Flowerdew Esq deceased liable c. was read secunda vice Conference was desired by the House of Commons with some of their Lordships about the Bill sent to them this day concerning the reformation of deceits and frauds of certain Auditors c. The Conference was yielded unto and appointed to be presently at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence On Friday Decemb. 18. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for her Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was read prima vice and sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp Memorandum That whereas a Bill hath been presented to the High Court of Parliament by the Company of the Mystery or Trade of Painters making thereby complaint against the Company of Plaisterers for and concerning certain wrongs pretended to be done to the said Painters by the Company of Plaisterers in using some part of their Trade of Painting contrary to the right of their Charter as is pretended and humbly seeking by the said Bill reformation of the said wrong Order of the House about the dispute between Painters and Plaisterers And whereas the said Bill passed not the Upper House of Parliament for just and good reasons moving the Lords of the Higher House to the contrary yet nevertheless the said Lords of the said Upper House have thought it meet and convenient that some course may be taken for reformation of any such wrong as may be found truly complained of and fit to be remedied and for setting some good agreement and order for the said Painters and Plaisterers so as each sort of them might exercise their Trade conveniently without incroaching one upon the other It is therefore ordered by the said Court of the Upper House of Parliament That the said complaint and cause of the said Painters which proceeded not in Parliament shall be referred to the Lord Mayor of London and the Recorder of London to be heard and examined adjudged and ordered as in Justice and Equity shall be found meet And that at the time or times of hearing of the said Cause the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Gawdy and Mr. Baron Clarke and Mr. Atturney-General or any four three or two of them shall assist and give their help for the making and establishing of some good Order and Agreement between the said two Companies And that the said Parties Complainants and also the Company of Plaisterers shall observe and keep such Order as the said Mayor the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Gawdy Mr. Baron Clarke Mr. Atturney General and Mr. Recorder of London or any six five four or three of them whereof the Lord Mayor the Lord Chief Justice of England or Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas shall be two shall be set down and prescribed Memorandum That whereas William Crayford of Mongham in the County of Kent Gent. was this day brought before the Lords in the Upper House of Parliament to answer an Information made against him That he had procured and suborned his Son William Crayford to lay sundry Executions and Outlawries on William Vaughan Gent. servant to the Earl of Shrewsbury contrary to the Priviledge of the
next Justice as a Felon On Thursday November 5. An Act touching certain Assurances used amongst Merchants was Read and rejected An Act touching Reformation of Abuses in Ale-houses Bill against Abuses in Tippling-Houses and Tipling-houses which Act after the former was Rejected was Read The Effect whereof is that for the sale of every pot of Bear being not of the Assise of a full Ale-quart the Seller shall Forfeit Three Shillings four Pence Note that no Suitor is Named in this Bill the same to endure till the end of the next Parliament Read twice this Day The Bill for Observing the Sabbath-day Read twice and Ordred to be Ingrossed Nota That by the Order of this House when a Bill is returned from Commitment the Words must be twice Read which are Amended before the Ingrossing thereof An Act against false Returns and Not Returns by Sheriffs and Bayliffs twice Read and Ordered to be Ingrossed Mr. Bacon Moves to prefer a New Bill Mr. Bacon stood up to Prefer a new Bill and said Mr. Speaker I am not of their minds that bring their Bills into this House Obscurely by delivery only to your Self or the Clerk delighting to have the Bill to be incerto Authore as though they were either Ashamed of their own Work or Afraid to Father their own Children But I Mr. Speaker have a Bill here which I know I shall be no sooner ready to Offer but you will be as ready to receive and approve I liken this Bill to that Sentence of the Poet 〈…〉 who set this as a Paradox in the Forefront of his Book First Water then Gold Preferring Necessity before Pleasure And I am of the same Opinion that things necessary for Use are better than those things glorious in Estimation This Mr. Speaker is no Bill of State nor of Novelty like a stately Gallery for Pleasure but neither to Dine in or Sleep in but this Bill is a Bill of Repose of Quiet of Profit and of true and just Dealing the Title whereof is An Act for the better Suppressing of Abuses in Weights and Measures We have turned out divers Bills without Disputation and for a House of Gravity and Wisdome as this is to bandy Bills like Balls and to be silent as if no body were of Councel with the Common wealth is unfitting in my Understanding for the State thereof I 'le tell you Mr. Speaker I 'le speak out of my own Experience that I have learn'd and observ'd having had Causes of this Nature referred to my Report That this fault of using false Weights and Measures is grown so intolerable and common that if you would Build Churches you shall not need for Battlements and Bells other things than false Weights of Lead and Brass And because I would observe the Advice that was given in the beginning of this Parliament That we should make no new Laws I have made this Bill onely a Confirmation of the Statute of 11 Hen. 7. with a few Additions to which I will speak at the passing of the Bill and shew the Reason of every particular Clause the Whole being but the revival of a former Statute for I count it far better to Scour a Stream than to Turn a Stream And the First Clause is that it Extends to the Principality of Wales to constrain them to have the like Weights with us in England Sir Robert Wroth made a motion for a Commitment to amend the Statute for the Relief of the Poor and Building of Houses of Correction made the last Parliament 39 Reginae And also for the continuance of certain Statutes which was referred to Commitment on Tuesday next in the Exchequer-Chamber By Order of the House Nota. it was agreed upon That a Committee once made and agreed upon there shall not hereafter be more Committees joined unto them for the same Bill but for any other there may Sir Robert Cecil mov'd the House Secretary Cecil makes a Motion To have their Opinions in that there wanted a Chief Member viz. a Knight of Denby-shire And he said I am to Certifie the House thus much in respect of some Disorder Committed there touching the Election by Sir Rich. Trevor and Sir John Flood to which Sir John Salisbury is a Party the Sheriff could not proceed in Election For my own part I think it fit Mr. Speaker should attend my Lord-Keeper therein quod not attend if it please you you shall hear the Letter Which was Read the Contents whereof were He Reads a Letter about a Disturbance at the Election of Knights for the Shire THat on the Twenty-first of October he kept at _____ the County-day and there being quietly Chooseing the Knight for the Shire a Cry came suddenly that Sir Richard Trevor and Sir John Flood on the one Party and Sir John Salisbury on the other were together sighting and all their Companies ready to do the like whereupon presently I went to the Church-yard where they were and there I found both Parties with their Swords drawn ready but with much ado pacifi'd them both And fearing lest by drawing such a Multitude together there might great Danger and Bloodshed happen I made Proclamation That every Man should depart by means whereof I did not Execute her Majesties Writ as I thought to have done rather choosing to adventure your Honour's Censure herein than to hazard so great Bloodshed Under Subscribed Your Honour 's most humble at Commandement Owen Vaughan Also Mr. Secretary said There was a Schedule annexed to the Letter which had some other Matters of Importance not fit to be read yet if it did please the House to command it they should Whereupon all cryed No. Sir Edward Hobby answer'd Sir Edw. Hobby takes Exceptions at his Expressions Methinks under Favor the Motion Mr. Secretary made was good but the Form therein I speak with all Reverence not fitting the State of this House For he said Mr. Speaker should Attend my Lord-Keeper Attend It is well known that the Speaker of this House is the Mouth of the whole Realm And that the whole State of the Commonalty of a Kingdom should Attend any Person I see no reason I refer it to the Consideration of the House Only this Position I hold That our Speaker is to be Commanded by none neither to attend any but the Queen only Mr. Johnson said The Speaker might ex Officio send a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown who is to certifie the Lord-Keeper and so make a New Warrant Sir Edward Stanhop said That for Election of Burgesses he had seen half a score Warrants Yesterday with Sir John Puckering's Hand to them when he was Speaker Mr. Speaker said That I may inform you of the Order of the House The Warrant must go from the Speaker to the Clerk of the Crown who is to inform the Lord-Keeper and then to make a New Writ Mr. Secretary Cecil said I should be very sorry to detract from any particular Member of
with an Amendment thought fit to be put into the Bill the Amendment thrice read and appointed to be fixed in the Schedule of the Bill On Munday Nov. 28. the Bill that was sent from the Lower House with this Title viz. an Act for the repeal of a Statute made in the 23 year of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act for the increase of Marriners and maintenance of Navigation was after the third reading returned again to the said House for their consideration and allowance as well of another Title thought more fit by the Committees to be given thereto viz. an Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made 23 of her Majesties Reign bearing the same Title as also of some Amendment in the body of the Bill added by the Committees sent by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Carew On Thursday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. the Parties that arrested the Lord Chandois servant viz. Wood and Stevenson with two others brought into the House by the Serjeant at Arms and upon some notice taken of the matter Mr. Justice Owens and Mr. Serjeant Drew were appointed to examine the same and make Report thereof to the Lords The Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain took his place this day as Baron of Hunsdon betwixt the Lord Chandois and Lord St. John of Bletsoe This day an Act concerning the School at Sownocke tertia vice lect and sent to the Commons House On Saturday Decemb. 3. An Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made 23 of her Majesties Reign bearing the same Title which Act was sent to the Lower House from hence for their consideration and allowance of this Title and some Amendments in the body of the Bill Upon the Report of Mr. Justice Owens and Mr. Serjeant Drew unto whom the Examination of the matter was committed concerning the Arrest of my Lord Chandois servant by one Stevenson a Serjeant in London at the Suit of one William Wood being found and judged to have wilfully offended therein against the Priviledge of the House were committed and sent to the Prison of the Fleet there to be kept close Prisoners until further directions from the Lords And whereas and were this day brought into the House before the Lords L. Chandois serâ—ant Barston released out of Prison as supposed partakers in the same offence they upon examination being found not to have wilfully committed any fault therein were dismissed and order given by the Lords for the discharge of Edward Barston out of the Prison of the Counter Munday Decemb. 5. an Act for the better and safer recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas read secunda vice and referred to the same Committees as before with the addition of the two Lords Chief Justices and Mr. Atturney-General The absence of the Earl of Essex the Lord Viscount Byndon the Earl of Cumberland the Lord Scroope the Lord Willoughby of Ersby and the Lord Bishop of Rochester were excused by the Lord Rich the Lord Chandois the Lord Wharton the Lord Zouche and the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells Order was given for the release of Stevenson the Serjeant who arrested my Lord Chandois his servant On Tuesday Decemb. 6. an Act for erecting of houses of correction and punishment of Wanderers prima vice lecta On Wednesday Decemb. 7. an Act for the confirmation of the Joynture of Dame Christian the Lady Sandies secunda vice lect and commanded to be ingrossed On Thursday Decemb. 8. an Act for the erecting of houses of correction and for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars secunda vice lect and referred to the Committees for the former Bill and the same time and place appointed for their meeting And also authority was given to the Committees to call such of the Lower House unto them at this meeting as they should finde cause to confer withal for the better perfecting of the Bill An Act for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying the Rectory and Personage of South-Moulton according to an Agreement secunda vice lect upon which reading it was ordered That all Parties whom this Bill may concern either on the part of Mr. Hatch or against him shall be heard openly in the House upon Munday next by their Counsel learn'd and all specialties concerning the same then to be produced to the end that it may be considered whether it shall be convenient to pass this Act or not Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General being appointed by the Lords to inform themselves against that time whether any thing be contained in the Bill that may prejudice the Poor Knights of Windsor and to make Report thereof accordingly on the part of the said poor Knights An Act for the establishing of the possession of Henry Vpton Kt. deceased and for payment of his Debts read secunda vice A Motion made by some of the Lords and agreed to by the House that there should be respit of some days taken before the third reading for any such Party or Parties as the Bill concerneth and namely any of the Wentworths to come to the House and alleadge if they finde cause why the Bill should not proceed the next Tuesday assign'd for this purpose William Cole the Knight-Marshal's man that arrested James Yorke the Lord Archbishop's servant was brought before the Lords by the Serjeant at Arms and being found upon his Examination before the Lords wilfully to have offended therein against the Priviledge of the House was Committed to the Fleet there to remain until their Lordships should give further directions for his enlargement On Friday Decemb. 9. an Act for the establishing of the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol Bill to establish Q. Eliz. Hospital in Bristol and for relief of Orphans and Poor there read secunda vice Upon this reading some Amendments were thought fit by the House to be added which were presently drawn and agreed by the House and also twice read and commanded to be ingrossed On Saturday Decemb. 10. an Act that the Lord Montjoy may dispose of his lands whereof he is Tenant in tail as other Tenants in tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do a private Statute made to the contrary 27 Hen. 8. not withstanding secunda vice lect Upon the Motion of the Lord Marquiss of Winchester it was ordered that the Cause shall be heard openly in the House on Munday-morning by the Counsel learn'd on both sides An Act for the better recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas returned and allowed by the House of Commons without any alteration expedited On Munday Decemb. 12. a Motion and Request made by the Lower House and delivered by Mr. Secretary Cecill accompanied with many others for a Conference to be had concerning the Bill entituled An Act concerning Tellers Receivers c. and assented unto Whereupon the Committees formerly named upon this Bill were appointed
with others viz. the Lord Treasurer Lord Admiral four Earls five Bishops Lord Chamberlain and twelve Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend the Lords the meeting to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon The Counsel on both parts for the Lord Marquiss of Winchester and the Lord Montjoy were admitted to publick hearing in the House and thereupon no just cause being found to hinder or to stay the proceeding of the Bill the same was commanded to be read the third time and so was expedited On Tuesday Decemb. 13. an Act against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers read tertia vice and return'd to the Lower House for their consideration of some Amendments An Act giving power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Knight Dame Mary his Wife and Robert Spencer Esq their Son to alienate certain Mannors and lands in the Counties of Dorset and Bedford read tertia vice and thereupon two Letters from the Lord Spencer to the Lord Chamberlain signifying his consent to the Bill were read On Wednesday Decemb. 14. order was given for release of William Wood out of the Fleet at whose suit Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant was arrested so as he make satisfaction to the said Barston of such charges as he was at by means of the said Arrest The like Order was made for the enlargement of William Cole that arrested John Yorke the Archbishops servant paying onely the Fees of the Fleet. On Thursday Decemb. 15. an Act for explanation of the Statute made Anno 5 Reginae concerning Labourers A Bill returned because the Amendments went ingrossed in Parchment which should have been in Paper returned from the Lower House with some Exceptions to the Schedule affixed because the Amendment was ingrossed in Parchment which according to the custom of the House should have been in Paper Certain Articles were presented in writing by the Lower House touching their Opinions and Objections concerning the Bill of Tellers c. which were delivered to Mr. Atturney to the end he might confer with the Judges upon the same and make Report to their Lordships The Bill concerning Mr. Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward c. return'd into the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees And forasmuch as it seemed to the Committees that there were in the Bill certain points that could not be well reformed a Motion was made to the House upon agreement among the Committees That the proceeding in this Bill might cease and that another course might be taken by way of Composition betwixt the Dean and Chapter of Windsor and Arthur Hatch for which purpose a Bill was brought ready drawn by Mr. Atturney-General containing a form of Composition betwixt them to be ratified if it should be thought good by Parliament On Friday Decemb. 16. a Bill for the grant of three Subsidies six Fifteenths and Tenths read the third time and expedited On Saturday Decemb. 17. an Act to preserve the property of stolen Horses in the true Owners and to reform the abuses of Vouchers in the sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets read prima vice An Act for the repressing of Offences that are in the nature of Stealth and are not Felonies by the Laws of the Realm prima vice lect On Munday Decemb. 19. certain Amendments were offered to the House by the Committees on the second reading concerning Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward the said Amendments being twice read whereupon both the Bill and the said Amendments were commanded to be forthwith ingrossed which was accordingly done and presently read the third time and sent to the Lower House by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp The Amendments in the Bill concerning Labourers formerly ingrossed in Parchment whereat some exception was taken by the Lower House and for that cause returned without their allowance to the Lords was now commanded to be written in Paper On Tuesday Decemb. 20. the Bill for erecting of houses of Correction Bill for houses of Correction and for punishment of vagabond Rogues c. was read tertia vice Dominue Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in xi o die Januar. prox sequen hora octava Wednesday Jan. 11. January 11. the Earl of Essex having been created Earl-Marshal the 18th of December last by her Majesties Letters-Patents took his place according to the said Office viz. next the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England and before the Earl of Nottingham great Steward Thursday Jan. 12. the Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm Bill for increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm return'd to the House by the Committees A Motion made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury first of the Committees that a Conference might be had with a competent number of chosen persons of the Lower House for the better perfecting of the Bill whereupon Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp were addressed to the Lower House with a Message to that effect and the time and place of meeting desired to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow by two of the clock in the afternoon Certain select Committees chosen by the Lower House concerning that Bill for the increase of People c. were sent to the Lords signifying their allowance of the time and place appointed for meeting about that Bill but desired that in the mean time they might have delivered unto them in writing such Objections of their Lordships as they do make unto the Bill to the end they might be more ready to deliver their Opinions and Resolutions at the meeting The Lords having considered of this Motion thought it unfit and not agreeable to the Order of this House to deliver the same in writing and therefore agreed that answer should be made That if upon verbal Conference they should remain unsatisfied touching the said Exceptions then they should have the same delivered unto them in writing for their further consideration thereof which Answer was presently notified to the said select Committees And in the mean season the Judges were required to set down the Objections in writing that they might be in readiness for the said Committees of the Lower House if upon the verbal Conference before-mentioned they should not be satisfied An Act for establishing the Bishoprick of Norwich and the possessions of the same against a concealed Title made thereunto read secunda vice and upon this reading it was ordered by the Lords That all Parties whom this Bill may concern should be openly heard in the House upon Saturday next in the morning to the end that it might be consider'd whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said Parties George Lester to be warned then to attend On Friday Jan. 13.