all men that do pretend any title of any thing forfeited do therefore sue to the Councell That the Queen do pay xiii l. to the Kings Houshold as the late Queen that dyed did or otherwise according to the rate of the Dower The King willeth the same according to the advise of himself and of his Councell That such Impositions as are gathered by the Popes Bulls of Volumus Imponimus of the translations of the Bishops and such like may be imployed upon the Kings War against the Scismaticks of Scotland and that such as bring into the Realm the like Bulls or Novelties may be reputed for Traytors The King granteth that no such Impositions be to the charge of the people and will write to the Pope to stay such Novelties That the two half Desmes granted by the Clergie of the Province of York may be speedily levyed and that none do save the denyers of the same upon pain to be out of the Kings protection The one half Desme is granted and for the other the King hath written for whom the King will ordain punishment if they refuse to pay That all the Bohemians and others then such as be by the Councell appointed to serve the Queen may depart the Realm by Midsummer ensuing on pain to be out of the Kings protection The King willeth that they be warned by the Chancellor Steward or Chamberlain by that time to avoyd the Realm The print touching Merchants selling Cap. 7. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form The print touching Annuities granted by the King Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The print touching Impositions on Staple Ware Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record That regard may be had to all such Sheriffs as are over-charged upon their Accompts and that all Gaoles let out by Patent may be rejoyned by the Sheriffs For regard of the Sheriffs the King granteth to his Councell power to pardon as to them shall seem good between this and the next Parliament and to the Gaoles they will be advised The print touching letters of the Signet or Privie Seal Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record The print touching the place where Assizes or Gaole-deliveries shall be Cap. 21. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form It is enacted that the 5 Lords Appellants shall receive 23 l. as is contained before 11.16 The King at the request of the Commons granteth pardon to the Citizens of London of all Treasons Fellonies and other offences of loss of life except Iohn Northampton Draper Iohn Moore and Richard Northbury Mercers saving to the King all Forfeitures and Escheates and that such as will have pardon do pursue therefore their Charters The print touching the Attainder of the Arch-Bishop of York and others Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print touching the affirmation of Judgment against the parties aforesaid Cap. 3 agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print hath no pardon by grant or procured to any the parties aforesaid Cap. 4. and agreeth with the Record as before That no man shall be impared of any misgovernance about the Kings person other than be such as are there named Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record as above That the Staple of woolls may be removed from Midleborough unto Callice before Michaelmas ensuing and that the Bullion may be there The King is willing that the Lords of his own Councell with others have power by this Parliament to appoint the same at Callice or elsewhere It is enacted that the Chancellor and Keeper of the Privie Seale shall have power to Survey the Courts of the Chancery both Benches the Exchecquer and the Receipts to remove such Officers as therein be not fit and others to place in the same It is enacted that no Comptroller or Wayer of any Ports within the Realm do enjoy their said Offices but during their good behaviour at the Kings pleasure That the King will have due consideration of the great charges sustained by the Bishop of Elye Chancellor of England to the great decay of the possessions Houses and store of Charls of York whereto the said Chancellor is translated whereunto the King by the mouth of his Steward promised to consider the same to their contentations The King at the request of the Commons createth Sir Iohn Holland his Brother to be Earl of Huntington by girding him with a Sword to have the same honour and style to him and the Males begotten of the bodies of him and Elizabeth his wife with 20. l. of the profits of the said County of Huntington He also giveth to the said Iohn and his Heirs begotten of the body of the said Elizabeth Land by year with the said 20. l. and other Lands to him before time given in which grant are recited the Letters Patents the King delivered in full Parliamâ—nt to the said Earl and him committed to sit among the Peers in the Parliament They require that the Lords Merchers of the North may remaine and dwell upon Castles and other places upon the Marches saying that if it were so the King would save great charges The King answered that he would have the Lords to doe as their Ancestors had done in the time of his Progenitors The Commons require the King that it would please him to renew his Oath made at his Coronation and that Bishops Lords and Commons may onely swear to him according to the Oath ensuing Whereupon on Wednesday the third of Iune being the 120 th day of the Parliament after a Mass of the Holy Ghost in the Church of Westminster and a Sermon made by the Archbishop of Canterbury the King reneweth his Oath with great solemnitie in the said Church of Westminster the Bishops Lords and Commons beholding the same At which time the Bishops did their Fealtie to the King and the Lords their Homage who with the Commons were then sworne openly as ensueth The effect of the Oath was that they by no means should suffer any Judgement Ordinance or Statute made in the Parliament to be repealed that they should see the good Laws and Customs of the Realm to be maintained and Peace kept After which done the Archbishop and other Bishops pronouncâ—d a solemn Excommunication against all breakers of the same On Thursday the fourth of Iune the Lords yeilded most humble thanks to the King for his great Justice done at what time the King by his Chancellor gave them hearty thanks for their Grants to him made And thus the said Chancellor willing the Knights and Burgesses to sue forth their Writs for
said Manor It is enacted that the Mayor of Northampton for the time being shall compell all Tenants as have any houses upon certain streets and places there named to * pay the same from time to time The office of the Baily of Winchelsey is granted to William Pope Esquire during his life It is enacted that all the Kings Council and other head Offices there named shall have yearly out of the Exchequer fees by way of reward there expressed Authority is given to the Kings Council to make assurances to the Kings Creditors for 50000 l. The print touching the Dutchesse of Clarence and other the Coheirs of the Earl of Kent cap. 11. agreeth with the record in effect but not in full form Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the prorogation of Assize cap. 11. agreeth with the record The like motion and answer as in the last Parliament tit 42. That all outlawries in Actions personal pronounced before the Statute of additions made 1 H. 5. may be pardoned The King will be advised The print touching days of payment to be given by English Merchants cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching the affirmation of all Judgements against Owen Glendor cap. 3. agreeth with the record That in the writ of forging of false Deeds the Venire facias may be of both Counties as well where the land doth lye as where the writ is brought The King will be advised That the Statute made Anno 7 H. 6. tit 11. touching Denmark may be utterly void and revoked The King looketh to hear from his Ambassador there and in the mean time he will be advised The same title concerneth woollen yarn of no great force The print that Executors may have Idemptitate Nominis cap. 4. agreeth with the record The Commons of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland and of the Bishoprick prayen that the Merchants of Newcastle may at all times buy and transport their wools The King will be aduised The print touching the free passage on Severn cap. 3. agreeth with the record That all Judgements given before Anno 1 H. 4. may be good albeit the Letter of Attorney of any person in the said Judgments be lost saving to Iohn Harper and Ellinor his wife in Fee their title in the Manor of Rowley in Staffs The King will be advised The print touching the liberty of the Borough of Dorchester cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the extortion of the Sheriffs of Hereford cap. 7. agreeth with the record The print touching the weighing of Cheese cap. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching the river of Ley cap. 9. agreeth with the record The print touching Attorneys to be made by religious persons in the North cap. 10. agreeth with the record That attachments and prohibitions against Tithe of great wood may be granted to every person out of either of the Benches The King will be advised In consideration of 200 l. payed by the Merchants of the Isle of Ely to certain of the County of Cambridge to buy twenty marks land by the year It is enacted that the said Inhabitants for ever shall be discharged from paying any thing towards the fees of Knights of the Shire for Cambridgeshire That two persons in every Hundred within the realm may by Commission be appointed to search the due making of woollen Cloathes and to seal the same taking therefore one penny The King will be advised Anno Decimo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae c. apud Westm. decimo septimo die Maii Teste apud Westm. vicesimo quinto die Februarii IOhanni Duci Norff. Hen. Com. Northumb. Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Warr. Johanni Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Com. Westmerland Willielmo Com. Suff. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. VVillielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni Scroope de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tibetoft Chlr. Hen. Gray de Codonore Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Willielmo de Nevill Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Johanni de Morley Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Reginaldo West Chlr. Johanni Beamond No Lord Warden The Parliament holden at Westminster the twelfth day of May in the Tenth year of King Henry the Sixth THe same twelfth day of May in the presence of the King himself sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the palace of Westminster the Lords and Commons being there also present Iohn Bishop of Bath and Wells being Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment declared the cause of the Parliament taking â—or his Theam the first of Peter Deum timete Regem honorificate By which he noted two points the first a general Counsel to Princes for knowledge to learn to obey and serve God according to the words of the Prophet Nunc Reges intelligite erudimini qui judicatis terram servite Domino in timore The second a commandement to the Subjects to learn to obey and honour the Prince according to the Apostles saying Rom. 13. Omnis anima sublimioribuâ— potestatibus subdita sit non enim est potestas c. And again Reddite omnibus debita tributum cui tributum est c. The which points he learnedly enlarged with sundry authorities examples and similitudes whereby he approved that the King and Realm of England might easily attain to the top of peace and prosperity if true fear of God and honour to the Prince were in the hearts of the Subjects wherefore for the attaining thereto and suppressing such rebels as despised the right of the Church and to destroy the Ministers of the same was the one cause of the same assembly The other cause was for due execution of Laws which was salus cujuslibet Civitatis Regni And the third cause was how to inrich the Subjects who of long time have lived in great penury He further sheweth how the Kings will was that every estate should enjoy his due liberties wherefore he willeth the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King accordingly Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Walts and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Duke
if may be devised It is enacted That the party indicted may challenge his Indictor It is enacted That every person arrested into the Marshalsey may tell his own tale and that the Officers there do not pass the Verge That the Chancellor and Treasurer may be Peers of the Realm and no Stranger appointed thereunto neither that they attend any other Office The King will appoint such Officers as shall best like him That no mean man but the best of every County may be appointed to take Accompts of such as owe to the King As next before The King will appoint such as shall best like him That the Outlaws upon the 21 Title of this Parliament may be reversed The King granteth excepting all Accomptants and Transporters of Wooll uncustomed the forfeiture of Customs therefore of Conspirators Rioters and bringers in of old false money That the King will retain all the lands and profits of the Crown The King will do herein according to advice of Councel That remedy may be had against such as remaining in Prisons do for the lucre of the Gaolers appeal sundry men of good name in forein Countries The Justices of Assize shall do them right That no Common Fine of any Country be from henceforth made but that every man may be particularly punished The King willeth the same That the excessive Fines set on the Kings Subjects by such as have Leets may be redressed The King would the same It is enacted That good examination and correction be had in Towns enfranchised touching Weights and Measures so that the Statute may be duly observed It is enacted That Commissioners shall be made of Measures Alnage and Weights except of the Alnage whereof the King hath granted certain liberties to the Flemings wherein if any default be the same shall be amended The Chancellor and Treasurer shall appoint certain Fees for every Justice of Peace It is enacted That no Sheriff from henceforth be Justice but men of good learning and name The King granted no Writs to delay the Assize taken but in case of necessity by the assent of the Nobles neither will otherwise hereafter which if he do the same to be void Such Counties as have made Fine severally or in common shall be free therefore for ever That the Kings Debtors in the Exchequer may rebate the same Kings debts for debts due to them The King will be advised That all Justices of the Peace yearly at Michaelmas certifie their Extracts into the Exchequer as Justices of Assize do according to the Statute made at York in the eighth year of Edward the Second Tit. The Statute shall be kept That the Statute of Westminster may be declared what ways a Tenant in tail may alien The Law therein heretofore shall stand It is enacted That Non-claim of Fines levied surrendred do bar no man of his Action That the Executor of the Executor may have the like Action as the Testator had and that the Administrator may have the like The case of the Executor is against the Law and to the Administrator the Bishop shall have the action sith he is to answer That no man be impleaded in Court Christian for Tenths of Wood or Underwood but in places accustomed As heretofore the same shall be It is enacted That Parceners and Jointenants against whom Recoveries were had upon any Action ancestrial on Summons and Severance may and shall have their Writs without naming the others who recovered It is enacted That a Stone of Wooll shall contain but fourteen pounds and that twenty six Stone make a Sack It is also agreed That the Sheriffs shall continue but one whole year and that all Sheriffs be removed out of their Offices the day after All-Souls and that others be therein placed by the Chancellor Treasurer and Justices and Barons of the Exchequer That the Laws of the Realm be free and denied to no man the which are now so dear as no man can well follow them Let declaration done by Ordinaries by taking upon them cognisance of the Temporal Laws be redressed They shall answer to the Law That the Kings Officers may receive the Coin of Farthings and that they may be good Sterling and not utterly revoked Let the good money be as heretofore until other order On the back-side of the Roll Are contained sundry Articles of Advice given by the Merchants of the Staple to the whole Parliament containing in effect these heretofore named To abate the prices of the Florines to raise Forty shillings Custom in every Sack of Wooll and to establish the Staple rather in England then beyond the Seas and there you may see the strange practice for abusing the Staple The Commons find great default of Provisions coming from Rome whereby strangers were enabled within this Realm to enjoy Ecclesiastical dignities and shewed divers inconveniences ensuing thereby namely the decay of Hospitality the transporting of the Treasure to nourish the Kings mortal enemies the discovering of the secrets of the Realm and the disinabling and impoverishing the Clerks within this Realm They also shew how the Pope had in most covert wise granted to two new Cardinals sundry Livings within this Realm and namely to Cardinal Parrigots above ten thousand marks yearly tax They therefore require the King and Nobles to find some remedy for that they neither could nor would any longer bear those strange oppressions or else to help them to expell out of this Realm the Popes power by force The King understanding of these mischiefs willeth that between the Lords and Commons some remedy may be had whereto he might c. Hereupon the King Lords and Commons sent for an Act made at Carlisle in the 25 year of Edward the First upon the like complaint thereby forbidding that any thing should be attempted or brought into the Realm which should tend to the blemishment of the Kings Prerogative or in prejudice of his Lords and Commons And so at this time the Act called The Act of Provision was made by common consent which generally forbiddeth the bringing in of any Bull or such trinkets from the Court of Rome or the using allowing or enjoying of any such Bull Process Instruments or such Ware as thereby at large doth appear Anno decimo Octavo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Henrico Comiti Lanc. c. apud Westm. die Lunae post Octabis Sanctae Trinitatis c. Teste Rege apud Westm. 20 Aprilis c. IOhanni de Warrenna Com. Sarum Hugoni de Courtney Com. Devon Willielmo Bohun Com. Northampton Willielmo de Clinton Com. Huntington Hugoni de Audeley Com. Glouc. Gilberto de Umfravil Com. de Anigos Laur. de Hastings Com. Pembrok
It is enacted that certain writings called Ragamanes and blanks conteined before tit 69. shall be burned 95. They grant that all the pardons granted in Anno 21 R. 2. shall be good 96. At the request of the Commons the King promiseth to be good and gracious to the Dutchess of Ireland and other his Cosins Petitions of the Commons with their Answers 97. THe print touching the Church great Charter and Charter of the Forrest Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record 98. That the Lords Spirituall Temporall and Justices be not from henceforth received to say that they durst not for fear of death to say the truth The King reputeth them all to be just and that they will give to him no contrary Counsell which if they do let complaint be made 99. The print touching express mention in every Letters Patents Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record 100. That all the Kings Chief Officers may be sworn to shun all Bribery whereof the attainted to loose all he hath Every such Officer upon attaint shall be punished for his misdoing otherwise the Statutes made do suffice 101. That no part of the Lands of the Crown be sold given or exchanged and that there be a Resuming of these Lands mentioned The King will thereof be advised 102. That every man may pursue his remedy for all havock and spoyls made since the Kings coming For spoyls done where the Kings host hath been he taketh advice to the rest he granteth 103. That all men dispossessed of any Tenements without Process of Law may be restored thereunto being done since the Kings coming in They are remitted to the Common Law 104. That Henry Prince of Wales may enjoy the Realm after the Kings decease The King granteth 105. Sir Thomas Haxey Clarke is restored as before tit 90. 106. That in consideration of the great Plague in the North it would please the King to lye in the middest of the Realm The King will be advised 106. That the King will appoint able Captains as well in England as in Wales The King meaneth no less 107. The print touching the allowance for Sheriffs Cap. 11. agreeth with the Record 108. The Commons grant to the King that he shall be as free and enjoy as great liberties as any his Progenitors before him had Whereupon the King in Parliament promised that he would not turne the same contrary to the Laws 109. The Commons pray the reversall of the Judgement given against Richard Earl of Arundell in An. 21 R. 2. and restitution of Thomas the Son and heir of the said Richard The King hath shewed favour to Thomas now Earl and to others as doth appear 110. The Commons pray for the Archbishop of Canterbury as before tit 78. which is granted 111. That such Records touching the inheritance of the said Earl of Arundell and Surry late imbezeled may be searched for and restored The King willeth 112. They make the like request for Thomas Earl of Warwick his restitution The King hath shewed favour to him as before 113. They require repeale of the Parliament made Anno 21 R. 2. with a generall Restitution of Lands and Goods of all such as lost thereby The King hath been gracious as before and to the rest he will be advised 114. The print touching Subsidies for Kersies Cap. 19. agreeth with the Record 115. The like motion and answer as is before tit 88. 116. That the Loans which King Richard borrowed may be payed The King thereof will be advised 117. The like motion and answer for Victuals taken for King Richard 118. The Citizens of Lincolne pray to be eased of their Fee Farme being 180 l. by the year the which they were unable to pay Let them sue to the King who will be gracious 119. The Burgesses of great Yarmouth pray to be eased of Desmes and Fifteens considering their Fee Farme of 60 l. Let them c. as before 120. The print touching such as be put out without title Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record 121. That none presented by the King to any Benefice being fallen shall be received before recovery had by the King He willeth that prohibition be granted according to the pretence of the Statute 122. The print touching Mills Stankes c. Cap. 12. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme 123. 〈◊〉 of no mans Beasts brought to Smithfield Market none be taken to the use of the Sheriffs of London The Sheriffs of London shall answer to the same Article 124. It is enacted that all the debts due to King Richard be payed to the King 125 The pardon made by the King to Robert Tharley Receiver of Cornewall for certain Debts wherein the King was deceived is revoked 126. It is enacted that it might be enquired by whom any the Goods or Chattels of the late King Richard be imbezelled 127. It is enacted that the Esquires Masters of the Watch in Cheshire shall for certain moneys received by them of King Richardâ— serve the King for a time at their own costs 128 It is enacted that enquirie be made of the Concealments of Customers Collectors Sheriffs and Escheators 129 The print touching Reciaunts of Searchers Cap. 13. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme 130 That the Wives of such as were forejudged of Treason or Felonie and not guilty thereof may be endowed The Common Law shall be observed 131. The like answer is made for the heirs of such as are fore-judged 132. That the attainder of the eldest Son in the life of the Father be no bar to the younger Let the Common Law run 133. The like motion and answer as is before tit 126. 127. 134. That the Fines taken of such as were of the retinue of the Duke of Gloucester and the Earls of Arundell and VVar. and such like may be repayed The King will thereof be advised 135. The print touching Process to be made against men of Cheshire Cap. 18. agreeth with the Record 136 The Commons of Salop require that enquiries may be made touching great losses by them sustained by the Kings late Army there The King will be advised 137. They pray that the King will with the same search provide some sufficient prison for misdoers Upon information the King will cause the Justices of Assize to take order therein 138. That where two Offices be found upon a diem clausit extremum the one contrary to the other that the heir found in the fiâ—st
the record The print touching subtil dealing in Thrumms cap. 23. agreeth with the record The print for payment in gold by Merchants Aliens cap. 24. agreeth with the record The print touching Assize for lands within Franchises cap. 26. agreeth with the record The print for the continuance of the Mayor of the Staple in his Office cap. 25. agreeth with the record Certain Petitions were committed to the Council by them to be determined Where the Prior of Lantham in Ireland had removed an erronious Judgement given in the Parliament in to the Kings Bench here which could not end the same he therefore prayeth to have the same ended in this Parliament whereto no answer was made Of the 28. and 29. in print this record maketh no mention Anno Nono Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humf. Duci Gloucest c. apud Westm. die Veneris ante festum Sancti Hillarii Teste Humf. Duce Gloucest Custode Agliae apud Westm. Vicesimo septimo die Novembris HEn Com. Northumb. Ricardo Com. Sarum Joh. Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Willielmo Com. Suff. Jacobo de Berckley Chlr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Willielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Waltero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tiptoft Chlr. Hen. Gray de Codonore Chlr. Waltero Fitz-walter Chlr. Willielmo de Clinton Chlr. Willielmo de Nevill Chlr. Noe Lord Warden The Parliament holden at VVestminster the Friday next before the Feast of St. Hillary in the ninth year of Henry the sixth ON the same Friday being the 12. day of Ianuary the noble Prince Humfrey Duke of Gloucester being Keeper of England sitting in royal estate in the Chamber de pinct many the Lords him there assisting and the Commons being there present for that Iohn Archbishop of York Chancellor of England who by vertue of his office ought to have declared the cause of the said Parliament by grievous sickness was unable to do the same the said Duke appointed William Linwood Doctor of the Law to do the same who did so taking his Theam Firmabitur solium regni ejus 1 Parab 22. Upon which he shewed how that the State and seat of the King might and ought to be established by a tripple vertue The first by unity the second by Peace and the third by Justice Unity he divided into three parts viz. Collectivam as in scraping goods together the other Constitutivam as in the comparison of sundry members in mans body the third Consentaneam as in the union of every mystical or body politique Peace he made three-fold viz. Peace Monastical which every man over himself hath Aeconomical as touching the governance over his houshold and Political whereby the Kings estate is most assured Justice he divided into three parts the first by every Subjects due obedience uuto the Magistrates the second by counselling his Neighbours and equals the third by relieving the poor for that the same Unity was divided within the realm by whisperers and misdemeanors whereby utter subversion was like to ensue the King hath called the same Parliament for amending of the same Whereby the Kings full mind was that every estate should enjoy all their due liberties wherefore he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the Keeper aforesaid Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Commons the 13th day of Ianuary made a report of their Speaker as in the last Parliament tit 9. On Monday the fifteenth of Ianuary the Commons presented before the Keeper and Lords aforesaid Iohn Tirrell Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with his Protestation was allowed The King by his Letters Patents granteth a safe conduct to Mr. Iohn Okilith an Irish-man to come to the presence of the King and his Council Is it to be noted that to this time and long after there came no Ambassadour into this realm before such time as they had the like safe conduct The grant of one Desme and one Fifteen and of a third of both A grant of Tonnage and Poundage for two years with the subâ—idy of like value of all Merchants strangers over and above the said Tonnage and Poundage The Commons also grant to the King that every lay person holding by a whole Knights fee shall pay to the King 20 s. and so according to the value under or over and so of the Clergy for lands purchased since the 20 E. 1. That all other persons having any hereditaments to the value of 20 l. over all reprises not holden as above shall pay unto the King 20 s. and so according to the rate Where Sir Iohn Poultney Knight late Lord Mayor of London gave to the Master of Corpus Christi Chapel besides the Chapel of St. Lawrence in Candleweek-street certain houses to pay yearly 53 s. 4 d. to the prisoners of Newgate It is enacted that the Mayor and Chamberlain for the time being shall distrain for the same Of the same Poultney the Church of St. Lawrence aforesaid to this day is called St. Lawrence Poultney It is enacted that the Prior of Christs-Church in Canterbury shall enjoy for ever and distrain for 20 s. quit-rent going out of the Tenement some time Robert le Panners in the Parish of St. Martin of Ludgate It is enacted that certain of the Kings bloud there named should intreat a peace with the Dolphin of France Lewis Iohn of Thorndon in the County of Essex Esquire prayeth that he be not impeached of any outlawry pronounced against one Lewis Iohn of the West being outlawed before the Statute of Additions the which was granted It is enacted that Rice ap Madock a Welshman should have the Kings Letters Patents to be made a Denizen Authority is given to the Chancellor of England to end the sute between Lewin le Clarke Burgess of Gaunt and William Brampton of Chestervile in Derby touching a bargain of wooll It is enacted that Iohn Tiptoft and Powis shall have in fee 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. out of the 12 l which the Prior of Huntington doth yearly pay to the King for the Manor of Hereford next Huntington and that the said Lord and his heirs may distrain therefore in the
Powis Ricardo Hastings de Welles Oweno Ogle de Ogle Mil. Edwardo Hastings de Hungerford Anno Primo Ricardi Tertii In Rotulo Parliamenti tenti apud Westm. die Veneris vicesimo tertio die Januarii Anno regni Regis Richardi Tertii primo inter alia continentur ut sequitur Mcmorand quod quaedam Billa exhibita fuit coram Domino Rege in Parliamento praedicto in haec verba WHereas late heretofore that is to say before the Consecration Coronation and Inthronization of our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third a roll of Parchment containing in writing certain Articles of the tenor under-written on the behalf and in the name of the Three Estates of this Realm of England that is to say of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and other Nobles and notable persons of the Commons in great multitude was presented and actually delivered unto our said Soveraign Lord the intent and effect expressed at large in the same roll to the which roll and to the Considerations and instant Petition comprised in the same our said Soveraign Lord for the publique weal and tranquility of this Land benignly assented Now for as much as neither the said three Estates neither the said persons which in their name presented and delivered as it is aforesaid the said roll unto our said Soveraign Lord the King were assembled in form of Parliament by reason whereof divers doubts questions and ambiguities been moved and ingendred in the minds of divers persons as it is said Therefore to the perpetual memory of the truth and declaration of the same be it ordained provided and established in this present Parliament that the tenor of the said roll with all the Contents of the same presented as is abovesaid delivered to our abovesaid Soveraign Lord the King in the name and in the behalf of the said three Estates out of Parliament Now by the said three Estates assembled in this present Parliament and by authority of the same be ratified enrolled recorded approved and authorized to the removing of the recasions of doubts and ambiguities and to all other lawfull effects that shall now thereof ensue so that all things said affirmed specified desired and remembred in the said roll and in the tenour of the same under-written in the name of the said three Estates to the effect expressed in the said roll be of the like effect vertue and force as if all the same things had been so said affirmed specified and remembred in full Parliament and by authority of the same accepted and approved the Tenor of the said roll of Parchment whereof above is made mention followeth and is such To the High and Mighty Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester PLeaseth it your Noble Grace to understand the Considerations Election and Petition under-written of us the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Realm of England and thereunto agreeable to give your assent to the Common and publique weal of this land and to the comfort and gladness of all the People of the same First we consider how that heretofore in time passed this land for many years stood in great prosperity honour and tranquility which was caused for so much as the Kings reigning used and followed the advice and counsel of certain Lords Spiritual and Temporal and other persons of approved sagenesse prudence policy and experience dreading God and having tender zeal and affection to indifferent administration of Justice and to the Common and publique weal of the land Then our Lord God was dread loved and honoured Then within the land was peace and tranquility and among the Neighbours Concord and Charity Then the malice of outward Enemies was mightily resisted and repressed and the Land honourably defended with many great and glorious victories Then the intercourse of Merchants was largely used and exercised by which things above remembred the land was greatly inriched so that as well the Merchants as the Artificers and other poor people labouring for their living in divers Occupations had competent gain to the satisfaction of them and their housholds living without miserable and intollerable poverty But afterwards when as such had the rule and governance of this land delighting in adulation and flattery and led by sensuality and concupiscence followed the counsel of persons insolent vicious and of inordinate avarice despising the Counsel of persons good vertuous and prudent such as above be remembred the prosperity of this land decreased daily so that our felicity was turned into misery and our prosperity into adversity and the order of policy and the Laws of God and man confounded whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into great misery and desolation which God defend without due provision of convenable remedy be had in this behalf in all godly haste Over this among other things more special we consider how that the time of the reign of Edw. the 4. late deceased after the ungracious pretended mariage as all England hath cause to say made betwixt the said King Edw. and Elizabeth sometimes Wife to Sir Iohn Gray Knight late naming her self and many years heretofore Queen of England the order of politique rule was perverted the Laws of God and of Gods Church c. also the Laws of Nature and of England and also the laudable customs and liberties of the same wherein every Englishman is inheritor is broken subverted and contemned against all Reason and Justice so that the Land was ruled by self-will and pleasure fear and dread all manner of Equity and Law laid apart and despised whereof ensued many inconveniencies and mischiefs as Murders Extortions and Oppressions namely of poor and impotent people so that no man was sure of his life land or livelyhood ne of his wife daughter or servant every good Maiden and Woman standing in fear to be ravished and deflowred And besides this what discords inward battels effusion of Christian mens blouds and namely by the destruction of the Nobles bloud of this land was had and committed within the same it is evident and notorious through all this Realm unto the great sorrow and heavinesse of all true English-men And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage betwixt the above-named King Edward and Elizabeth Gray was made of great presumption without the knowing and assent of the Lords of this land and also by Sorcery and Witchcraft committed by the said Elizabeth and her Mother Iaquet Dutchesse of Bedford as the common opinion of the people and the publique voice and fame is throughout all this land and hereafter if the cause shall require shall be proved sufficiently in time and place convenient And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage was made privily and secretly without
Proctor to the Commonalty of England then assembled or represented by their Knights or Burgessesâ— in the Commons House of Parliament or distinguished from the Lords and Barons like that Deed of intayl by Sir Iohn Tiptoft their Speaker in 8 H. 4. as Sir Robert Cotton imports and others would thence inferr which I shall irrefragably evidence 1. By the beginning close and subscription of this very Letter printed in the Additamenta of Matthew Paris It begins thus Sanctissimo Patri in Christo Alexandro c. COMMUNITAS COMITUM PROCERUM MAGNATUM ALIORUMQUE REGNI ANGLIAE cum subjectione debita pedum oscula beatorum And it is thus joyntly subscribed and sealed by 6. Earls and 5. other Great men Et Nos R. de Clare Gloverniae Herefordiaeâ— S. de Monteforti Legriae R. Bigod Mariscallus Angliae H. de Bohun Herefordiae Essexiae W. Albemarle J. de Placito Warwici Comites H. Bigod Justiciarius Angliae P. de Subaudia J. Filius Galfridi Jacobus de Audel Petrus de Monteforti VIâ—E TOTIUS COMMUNITATIS praesentibus Literis SIGILLA NOSTRA APPOSUIMUS IN TESTIMONIUM PRAEDIâ—TORUM The Whole COMMUNITY therefore in whose behalf or stead they signed and sealed this Letter was only the Communitas Comitum Procerum Magnatum aliorumque Regni Angliae or Whole Baronage of England mentioned in the beginning of it in whole names alone it was written not the meer Commons house or Commonalty of England either in or out of Parliament as contradistinct from the Lords And these 11. Earls Barons and Great men joyntly signed and sealed it Vice totius Communitatis as joynt Proctors to this whole Community of the Baronage of England not ten of them as Proxies to the Earls Nobles and Great men and Peter de Montfort the 11. as Speaker or Proctor to the Commons in or out of Parliament as is erroniously surmised 2ly It is most evident by the words of Mat. Paris who placeth this Letter in Anno 1458. or 41 H. 3. whereas Sir Robert Cotton and Rishanger referr it to Anno 1260. or 44 H. 3 Destinantur Nuncii solennes ad Dominum Papam ex parte Regni ET TOTIUS ANGLIAE UNIVERSITATE c. Causam autem Itineris eorum et SCRIPTUM A BARNAGIO TRANSCRIPTUM audire qui cupit in libro Additamentorum invenire praevalebit Which compared with his Istud detestabile factum Romano erat Pontifici PER BARONES significatum in this very Letter his Magnates Nobiles terrae c. And his Tale iniit Consilium UNIVERSITAS BARNAGII will undeniably manifest That the Barons and Universality of the Baronage only not the meer Commons of England writ and sent this Letter and were the tota Communitas mentioned and intended in it in whose behalf these 11 Earls and Grandees subscribed and sealed it not the UNIVERSITAS REGNI POPULARIS ETSI NON NOBILES whom Mat. Paris distinguisheth from them by this very expression in the same year and upon the same occasion who Pictavienses obsiderent et Castra eorum funditus dissiparent Wherefore neither the signing nor sealing of this Letter by them Vice totius Communitatis nor this Clause in it Etsi Dominus Rex et Magnates hoc vellent COMMUNITAS tamen ipsius ingressum in Angliam nullatenus sustinerent meant only of the Vulgar Rable or Uiversitas Regni popularis as Mat. Paris stiles them who were much inraged against him being the same in substance with that phrase in King Henry the first his Letter unto Pope Paschal not in but out of Parliament Et si ego quod absit in tanta me dejectione ponâ—rem Optimates vero et TOTUS ANGLIAE POPULUS ID NULLO MODO PATERETUR can be any convincing or probable evidence at all that this Bishop elect of Winchester was then judicially banished by the joint consent of the King Nobles and Commons in Parliament as is suggested he being forced to fly thence through fear of their arms alone not banished by their judicial sentence as they thus expresly inform the Pope in another Letter sent to him with the former to inhibit his return Maxime CUM IPSE A REGNO EXPULSUS NON EXTITERIT SED SPONTE CESSERIT non ausus exhibitionem Iustitiae quae singulis secundum Iuramenta Regis Procerum debebatur expectare Much lesse is it any proof that the Commons in that age had a Voice and consent in Parliament Iudgments of all Natures since they never had it in succeeding ages unlesse it were by way of Bill as the whole Commons House acknowledged in the Parliament of 1 H. 4. n. 79. and I have manifested at large in my Plea for the Lords no more than that they had then a Speaker or House of Commons which is clear by subsequent Parliaments in this Abridgement they had not till many years after 44 H. 3. and after the Parl. of 6 E. 3. 3ly This will most evidently appear by the Barons Letter sent to King Henry the third to Lewes Anno Dom. 1264. the 48 year of his reign from their Camp Barones alii fideles sui c. subscribed only by the Earl of Leicester and Gilbert de Clare ad Petitionem aliorum And by the Letter of Richard King of Romans Prince Edward the Kings eldest son caeterique Barones omnes Milites praedicto Regi Angliae constanter adhaerentes fide sincera opibus sent to the Barons in answer thereunto thus subscribed Rex Alemanniae Edwardus filius Regis nomine suo aliorum Regi adhaerentium Omnes nos contenti sumus praedictorum Dominorum sigillis In both which Letters the two Earls and the King of Romans and Prince Edward joyntly signed and sealed in the Name of all the Barons Knights and others of either party and not one of them as a Proctor or Speaker to the Commons and the other as Proxie to the Barons and Lords both Letters being writ from their Camp not Parliament and neither of them relating to the Commons House or Judicature in Parliament just like this Letter concerning Bishop Adomar Therefore no inference can be thence deduced to prove the Commons had either any House Speaker or Judicature in the Parliaments of 42 or 44 of Henry the third The first expresse writ I find of any Knights of Counties by name summoned to our Parliaments as Members is that of Claus. 49 H. 3. dors 10 11. requiring Sheriffs to summon 2. Knights out of every County to the Paâ—liament which was presently after the battel of Evesham the same year the Earl of Leicester was slain the Barons totally routed by Pr. Edward and King Henry rescued out of their hands when Sir Robert Cotton affirms and that most truly as I conjecture THESE VVRITS BEGAN The writs of Rot. Claus. 15. Joh. pars 2. m. 7. dorso Patents 8 H. 3. pars 3. m. 4. Dors Claus. 38 H 3. dors 13. which seem somewhat like a Summons of Knights
Law who shall be chief that all offences before them be sued to the Outlawry and that the Justice do yearly extract their doings before the King The King will be advised only they shall yearly extract their proceedings into the Treasuryâ— That no pardon be granted to any outlawed by any suggestive means but only by Parliament The Statutes made shall be observed That all Justices of the Peace may have some certain Fee The King will provide therefore That Sheriffs may continue but one year according to the Statute of Lincoln and Woodstock The Statutes therefore made shall stand and the Chancellor and others who are appointed to make choice of Sheriffs shall name able men who shall continue one year or longer according to their demeanour It is enacted That the Justices of the one Bench and of the other Justices of Assize and the Peace in every County shall determine of false Jurors and Maintainers and that the King by his Letters Patents hath charged all Archbishops meekly to pronounce in every Parish Excommunication against all such offendors That all men may have their Writs out of the Chancery for only the Fees of the Seal without any Fine according to the great Charter Nulli vendemus justiciam Such as be of course shall be so and such as be of grace the King will command the Chancellor to be therein gracious It is enacted That Bigamy shall be tryed only in Court Christian. That remedy may be had against oppressions of the Clergy for probates of Wills and Citations for trifles The King will herein do his best and chargeth the Bishops to do the like It is enacted That the Justices of Assize after their Assize taken shall not depart before they have made delivery of their Gaol on pain to lose their Fees It is enacted If any delivery be taken before any other Justices then before such Justices as are appointed thereto contrary to the Statutes of Northampton that the same may be void That every Infant acknowledging any Statute or Recognisance may at his full age averre his Nonage There is a better Law then by Averment That all men may have delivery of their Beasts which escape into any Hay or Forrest without any Fine to the Forrester who accompteth them Forfeits and that Coroners may execute their office there The Coroners shall execute their office there and Wardens of Forrests shall be commanded to keep their Officers from extorting That certain may be appointed to hear the debates between the Town of Great Yarmouth and Little Yarmouth The Judgments therefore made between them shall stand That remedy may be had for the true making of Woollen cloaths according to the Assize The King will provide for the execution of the Statute That no money be carried forth out oâ— the Realm The King will therefore provide It is enacted That no purveyance be made but only for the King That Pardon may be granted for the debts of King Iohn and Henry the Third for which Process came daily out of the Exchequer The King will provide answer the next Parliament That remedy may be had against Sheriffs and their Officers for gathering of Green wax The Statutes therefore shall stand On the back-side of the same Roll. For that the Staple was ordained to endure at the Kings pleasure It is enacted that the same Staple should be revoked and that all Merchants-strangers may freely buy any Staple-wares paying the due Custom Sundry Justices in sundry Counties appointed to enquire of the Felonies of Bennet of Normandy It is enacted The Kings Bench shall stay in Warwickshire after Easter next for that Sir Ieffery le Scroop Chief Justice is busie in the Kings weighty affairs whose place to supply Sir Richard Willoughby is appointed and Sir William Shareshall is assigned with him one of the Justices of the Bench. Anno Decimo tertio Edwardi Tertii The Remembrances of the Parliament holden at Westminster in Quindena of S. Michael Ann. 13 Edw. 3. A Proclamation was made as in 6 E. 3. tit 4. The causes of the Parliament were declared to be three viz. First for the observation of the Peace Secondly for the defence of the Marches towards Scotland Thirdly for the keeping of the Sea After the Archbishop of Canterbury who with the Bishop of Duresme and Sir Michael de la Pool came from the King beyond the Seas in message to the whole Estates declared the things there atchieved and the hazard of his own person and whole power thereby wanting necessary things out of England And by Letters sent to the Earl of Huntington and to Merchants at Pearch it was declared how the King remained about S. Quintins accompanied with Fifteen thousand armed men and a great number more It was also declared how the King and others about him for the furnishing of him and the procuring of his Allies for this enterprise stood bound in Three hundred thousand pounds the which with his honor he ought to pay before his departure So as the end was He needed Aid Whereupon the Duke of Cornwal Guardian of England and other Lords granted to the King aid as followeth For the money he wanted the Archbishop of Canterbury by the Kings Letters-Patents had Commission to grant certain things to the Lords and Commons The Lords grant to the King the tenth sheaf of all the Corn of their Demesns except of their bound Tenants the tenth fleece of Wooll and the tenth Lamb of their own store to be paid in two years And would that the great wrong set upon Wooll be revoked and that this Grant turn not into a Custom That the keeping of the Kings Wards lands may be committed to the next of the kin of the same Ward That remedy may be found against such as dying pass away their Lands to defraud the Lord of the Wardship The Commons made answer That they knew and tendred the Kings estate and were ready to aid the same only in this new Devise they durst not agree without further conference with their Countries and so praying respite until another time they promise to travel to their Countries The Commons answer to the three Causes of the Parliament in form following First touching the Peace it would much help if good Justices were appointed in every County If such as be let to Main-prise do put in good Sureties as Esquires or Gentlemen and that no pardons were granted but by Parliament For keeping of the Sea the Cinque Ports or other Haven Towns who are discharged of all other contributions should do the same aid for the Sea coasts That such as
Laws of the Realm also he will acquit himself by his Oath with one hundred Knights That he was not guilty of that for which he was banished and if his Oath be not due He will that the Archbishop Bishops and all the Priests of England do excommunicate him And yet if any man will say it against him he will defend himself by his body against all men except the Kings blood that it may please the King to end the same matters Forasmuch as Petition hath been made to the King that where villianage is alledged against the Demandant or Plaintiff the same should be tryed by the County where the partie alledging the exception doth lay the birth of the Defendant or Plaintiff to have beenâ— which Petition is against the law and usage to the great mischief of the Commons as appeareth by the pleading at the Assizes and other pleadings which are to be pleaded and determined in the Counties where the demand is or trespasses done que duissent purtant estre trop delayes a disheritance de la dit come and that which worse is If the Petition should be granted every man would alledge this exception against his adversary and would chuse a County at his pleasure whereby any freeman might by such means be made servile For by such exception alledged by un grant de la terre against a mean person the same should be tryed in a forreign County where his greatneâ—s is and where the mean man nor his Ancestors never came therefore the King will have regard to these and other mischiefs if the Petition should proceed and to the good laws and customs of the land and them to maintain without regard to the Petition of any single person against the Law of the land Whereas Lionel the Kings son and Elizabeth his wife do hold the County of Hulnester in Ireland in right and heritage of the said Elizabeth and forasmuch as if the said Elizabeth should dye without Issue the said County is to descend unto divers Persons whereof some are enemies to the King which Parceners would enter into the said heritage and would move war against the King as well in Ireland as elsewhere that against this evill and danger the King in this Parliament will provide remedy by the advice of the Prelates Counts and Barons and others of his Councel Iohn Wettenham and Walter de Cheriton Merchants desire that whereas the Commons have complained against them by divers Bills in Parliamentâ— Viz. that they have done divers extortions grievances and prejudices to the King and Commons Forasmuch as they have imployed their pains and diligence to serve the King and have therein suffered many mischiefs that the King will command the said Merchants to come before the Councel to answer whatsoever shall be objected and to declare their estate so as other Merchants hereafter may not doubt to deal with the King in Cheevances nor no other businesses as occasion shall require That none may chase or kill the Kings game when the same do scape out of the Forrests but only the Lords of the Woods and of the Soil where such game are found and that some certain punishments be ordered for them which shall do otherwise Whereas the Commons are charged to advise the King how the Peace of the land may be better kept To which was answered that in every County six persons of whom two to be des pluis grantz and two Knights and two men of Law and so more or lesse as need shall be and they to have power and Commission out of the Chancery to hear and determine the keeping of the Peace Et que counts traylebastoneries ne courgent as heretofore was assented by Parliament for they were the destruction of the people to small or no amendment of the Law or Peace nor punishment of Felons or Trespassers Wherefore because the Commons have so long continued together to their great costs and mischief they desire answer of this Bill lour deliverance Anno Vicesimo secundo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Henrico Com. Lanc. c. apud Westm. die Lunae post mediam Dominicam Quadragesimae Teste Rege apud Westmonast 14 die Februarii Consimiles Literae subscriptae WIllielmo Bohun Comiti Northampton Henrico Bohun Com. Hereff. Essex Humfrido de Courtney Com. Devon Willielmo de Clinton Com. Huntington Ricardo Com. Arundel Thomae de Bello campo Com. Warr. Johanni de Vere Com. Oxoniae Gilberto de Humfravil Com. de Anegos Roberto de Ufford Com. Suff. Laurentio de Hastings Com. Pembroke Johanni de Mowbray Henrico Fitzhugh Barthol de Burghurst seniori Henrico Piercie Rado Baroni de Stafford Ricardo Talbot de Morley Waltero de Mamcy Thomae de Berkeley Johanni de Seagrave Thomae de Lucie Johanni Harrington Petro de malo lacu le Quint. Rado Bulmer Reginaldo de Cobham Reginaldo de Grey Rogero de Grey Rogero de Chandos Johanni de Charleton Johanni de Willoughby Henrico Hussey Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Johanni Bardolfe Nicolao de Cantilupo Johanni de Fauconbridge Thomae Wake de Ridall de Bradston Thomae de Bugworth Anno Vicesimo secundo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the week in the midst of Lent Anno 22. Edwardi Tertii FOR that sundry of the Lords were not at this day come the Parliament was continned untill Tuesday and from thence Wednesday at the which day Sir William de Thorpe the Lord Chief Justice in the presence of the King and Lords by the Kings commandment declared That the Parliament was called for Two Causes The first How according to the Truce taken at Callice the King had accordingly sent Messengers to the Pope and looked for return of Answer before the last Parliament which now was not come for that also as sundry points of the Truce touching the King and his Allies were not performed And further For that sundry of the French prepared a puissant Army to invade this Realm The second cause was For the preservation of the Peace wherefore the whole Estates were willed to consult in what wise it might be releived for the attaining of his attempt The Lords and Commons took great advice from day to day and in the end answered in effect following They first shew the great charges laid upon the Commons as the reasonable aid being pardoned in 14. E. 3. whereof every Fine was forty shillings the setting forth of men the taking of victuals not paid for for the keeping of the Seas The Subsidy of Wooll amounting to Threescore thousand pounds yearly and yet without Law the lending of twenty sacks of Wooll the restraint of passing over of Wooll Notwithstanding they Grant to the King three Fifteens in three years so as the Subsidy of Wooll might cease so as David le Bruce William Douglas and other Chieftains
That the Commons House may choose Justices of Peace for every County and that they be not displaced for any surmises That the Commons House name able men and the King will choose at his pleasure The print touching Writs of Identitate nominis Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record until the Record hath name and addition which the print wanteth The print touching the price of Poultry agreeth with the Record The print touching the Remembrance of the Exchequer Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching Grocers Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record only the print wanteth this word Uti The print touching Artificers Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The print touching the decent apparelling of every estate Cap. 8. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. agreeth with the Record That such persons as in the time of the great Pestilence did let forth their Manors holden of the King in chief without licence to sundry persons for term of life may accordingly continue the same until the people be more populous The King will be advised The print touching Wines Cap. 16. agreeth with the Record only where the print hath Couchers the Record hath English Courchers which note That such as bring in any Wines from any of the Kings dominions do bring Testimonial under chief Officers hands of the prices of the same So as the Justice of the peace at their arrivall may set the assize of the same The Statute therefore shall stand The print touching exception of Villenage Cap. 17. agreeth with the Record The print touching suggestions Cap. 18. agreeth with the Record The Parliament continued on diverse prorogations until the third of November at which day the Chancellor in the presence of the King Lords and Commons shewed how the King meant to execute the Statute of Apparel and therefore charged every estate to further the same After which he demanded of the whole estates whether they would have such things as they agreed on to be by way of Ordinance or of Statute who answered by way of Ordinance for that they might amend the same at their pleasure and so the same was And so the King having given thanks to all the estates for their pains taken licenced them to depart It is to be remembred that of the seven Chapters in print touching silver vessels and of the nineteenth for finding of Hawks there is no mention made in the Record Anno Tricesimo octavo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Carissimo â—ilio suo Johanni Duci Lancastriae c. apud Westmonasterium in Octabis Sancti Hilarii c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium 4 die Decembris c. EDmondo Com. Cantabrigiae Ricardo Com. Arundel Humfrido de Bohun Com. Hereff. Essex Willielmo de Monte acuto Com. Sarum Hugo de Courtney Com. Devon Roberto de Ufford Com. Suff. Rado Com. Staff Thomae de Vere Com. Oxon. Gilberto de Umfravil Com. de Anegos Henrico de Piercie Rado de Nevill Johanni de Mowbray de Auxholm Henrico de Bello Campo Jacobo de Audley de Heleigh Johanni de Cherleton de Powys Waltero de Manny Mauritio de Berkley Rogero de Clifford Guidoni de Briae Rado de Basset Edwardo le Dispencer Johanni de Grey de Rotherfield Johanni Tibetot Thomae de Roos Thomae de Furnivall Petro de Malo lacu Johanni de Grey de Codenore Reginaldo Grey de Ruthin Thomae de Lucie Willielmo de Sayâ— Michaeli Poynings Barthol de Burgherst Gilberto Talbot Roberto de Colvill Thomae de Ughtred Johanni de Willoughby Thomae de Musgrave Willielmo de Ufford Nicholao Burnell Johanni de Huntingfield Willielmo de Scales Ranulpho Dacre Johanni de Northwood Roberto de Holland Willielmo la Zouch Rogero de Bello Campo Johanni de Strivelin Johanni de Bohun de Dunster Willielmo de Morley Rado Spigurnell Custodi Quinq Portuum Anno Tricesimo Octavo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Octaves of S. Hillary in the xxxviii year of Edward the third ON Monday the first day of the Parliament Proclamation was made in Westminster Hall that all such as were summoned to the Parliament might for that day depart and return the next morning into the Chamber de pinct there to hear the Kings pleasure At which time Simon Bishop of Ely Chancellor of England declared the cause of the Parliament taking for his Theam the saying of the Kingly Prophet Vera justitia and faithful judgement do adorn the Kings seat upon which he discourseth of such noble prowesse as the King by Gods power atchieved in his youth and maketh rehearsal of the assured good will and ready helps of the Kings Subjects to have furthered the same by the which as the King gave unto them hearty thanks so did he promise by all means to seek the common peace and tranquillity by the observation of all good Laws and by the amending of such of them as were faulty and by making new where need did require Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Aquitane and other forreign Countries and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England as above Tryers of Petitions for Aquitane as above The same day the King declared to the whole estate how daily citations and false suggestions were made to the Pope for matters determinable in his Court within the Realm and for procuring provision for Ecclesiastical dignities to the great defacing of the ancient Laws to the spoiling of his Crown to the daily conveying away of the treasure to the wasting of Ecclesiastical livings to the withdrawing of Divine Service Alms hospitality and other acceptable works and to the daily encrease of all mischiefs wherefore no person c. and by his own mouth the King requireth according to the old Statute heretofore to provide due remedie On Saturday after the Bishops Lords and Commons brought into the Parliament the Act following named in the Statute of Confirmation Ann. 38. as a saving of the liberties of the bodies of Prelates and Lords of the Realm The Act of Provisors agreeth with the print in all manner cap. 1 2 3 4. only in the Record are more biting words A Mystery not to be known of all men That no victuals or corn be carried from the North Marches into Scotland nor that any protection or pass-port be granted to any Scot to pass through the Realm The King will provide therefore That the Fines of the Chancery may be as they were at the Coronation of the King The King would them to be reasonable for the case of the people The print for the Staple to be kept in England cap. 7. agreeth with the Record That three shillings four pence layed upon every sack of Wool at Callis and all other unreasonable Impositions may cease The King
declared the causes of the Parliament in effect following viz. How the King in his weighty Affairs had always used their counsel and assent And lastly in taking the last peace with the French on conditions following viz. That the French by a day should render to the King certain Countries beyond the Seas That the same French should by a day pay unto the King certain sums of money And that he should not resort to Gascoyne or to any of the parts there and that the King in consideration thereof should for the same time leave the stile of France which he had done He further sheweth How the French had made no delivery of the Countries nor Money How further they had summoned the Earl of Erminake and the Lord de la Brett and others being of the Kings alliance to answer to certain Appeals at Paris And how the Prince of Gascoyne also being of the Kings Alliance was also summoned there to appear How also the French had sent certain Garrisons of men into Gascoyne and Ponhoy where ther had surprised certain of the Kings Castles and Forts And finally How the Prince of Gascoyne upon consultation with his Nobles and wise men had willed the King to write and use the stile of France The Chancellor therefore willed the whole Estates upon good advice to give their councel therein Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Guyenne and other places and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Guyenne c. as above On Wednesday after the Bishops Lords and Commons answered the King that with good conscience he might use the stile and name of France and thereto they give their assent Whereupon the King took the same stile and name upon him and the eleventh day of Iune the Kings Great Seal was safely laid up and another Seal engraven with the stile of France was taken and used and sundry Pattents Charters and Writs therewith sealed And the same day were all other the Kings Seals in like sort changed Upon Declaration of the Kings great necessity the Lords and Commons granted to the King for three years of Denizens for every sack of Wooll Forty three shillings four pence of every twenty dozen of Fells Forty three shillings four pence and of every Last of skins Four pounds Of Aliens for every sack of Wooll Fifty three shillings four pence of every twenty dozen of Fells Fifty three shillings four pence and of every Last of skins Five pounds six shillings eight pence over the old Custom Petitions of the Commons with their Answers It is agreed that all the Kings Forts and Fortresses shall be surveyed and edified It is agreed that remedy may be had against religious Aliens for discovering the Councel of the Realm That remedy may be had against the excessive selling of Armors and Horse-coursers The King will appoint the Officers of every Town to provide therefore It is agreed that no man be punished contrary to the Statute Such Commissions as were to enquire of Scottish Labourers within the Realm were repealed That the time of prescription may be from the Coronation of Edward the First The old Law shall stand That Silva cedua may especially be declared The Statute shall be observed The print touching the pardon of the Forrest matters cap. 4. agreeth with the Record That Sheriffs be no further charged then they shall receive The party grieved upon complaint shall have remedy That the indicted upon any Trespass or Felony may upon issue joyned have a Nisi prius against the King So the same concerneth Treason the Chancellor or keeper of the Privy Seal shall therein do right That such as dwell upon the Sea coasts may set up poles or other instruments whereby men may know the increase or decrease of the Sea In time of War the same may be to less harm and after taken away That the Acquittance of the Co-Executors refusing administration may be void The Law shall be used as heretofore The Print cap. 1. touching the repeal of the Statute made in the last Parliament tit 17. doth not agree with the Record The Print touching the Staple to be in England cap. 1. far swarveth in form from the Record quod nota The next day being the tenth of Iune the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their great travels and aide And in some sort of recompence promised to all such as should pass with him against the French that they should enjoy and bear all such Towns Castles and Possessions Persons Names Armes and Honours as they should obtain get or take of the French to them in Fee except to the King all Royalties and the Lands of the Church and that every person of his own Conquest and prowess should have Charters It is agreed that all Religious Aliens lands should be seised into to the Kings hands and let to farm to the Soveraigns of the same The King also commanded that all the Bishops should not onely muster their own servants and Tenants But also all Parsons Vicars and other religious persons of the Clergy so as they should be ready to resist the enemy And so the Parliament was dissolved Anno Quadragesimo quinto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday in the first week of Lent in the 45. Year of King Edward the third THe same day in the Chamber de Pinct the Bishop of Winchester then Chancellor in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared how the King since the last Parliament had defraid a great mass of mony and had sent over a great Army of men for the Conquest and recovery of his own and how the King was lately ascertained of the power which the French had prepared to drive the King from his Hereditaments beyond the Seas of their great Navy And further how he meant to subject the whole Realm of England wherein he willed the whole Estates to give their counsel Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Guien and other foreign places and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Guien c. as above The Lords and Commons grant unto the King a Subsidy of Fifty thousand pounds to be levied of every parish within the Realm twenty two shillings four pence so as every parish of greater value should according to his rate contribute to the parish of less value and that by Indenture It is agreed that a Staple shall be kept in Melcombe Sir Robert Thorp the Chancellor declared that forasmuch as Easter approached their Petitions
taking special bribes to pay some the Kings due debt by way of brokage All which he should do by practising with some of the Council To some part of which Articles the same Richard answereth and to the rest submitteth himself to the King touching body lands and goods Whereupon the same Richard is committed to prison at the Kings will and that all his lands tenements and goods be seised to the Kings use And to the extortions done by him while he was Farmer of the Subsidies and Customs Order was taken that by Commission throughout England it should be enquired of Also the same Richard was disfranchised William Lord Latimer was openly accused by the Commons for divers oppressions by him done as well while he served under the King in Britain as for the time he was Chamberlain to the King and his Councel namely for that he in Brittain and his Officers had taken of the people there in Victual and ransomes against the Kings will to the sum of twenty four thousand pound and at another time one hundred thousand pound estentes of gold whereof was never answered to the King one penny The particulars whereof do appear The same Lord Latimer was also accused for victual sold in Britain to the value of ten thousand Franks The same Lord Latimer was also accused for the losse of the Town and Fort of S. Saviours in Normandie while he was Captain there and of the Town of Brotherel in Brittain and of other Towns and Forts The same Lord was accused as a partaker of all the evils of Richard Lyons aforesaid particularly Whereunto the said Lord Latimer saving the tryall of his Peers offered to answer any particular persons but that would not the Commons do but generally as is aâ—oresaid Whereupon the said Lord answered every Objection and as it should seem very well avoided them in open Parliament notwithstanding there was the judgment of him in form following For that the Lord Latimer is found in full Parliament in default by his singular Councel and government against the profit of the King and Realm and namely for divers Chevisances to the Kings losse for grants procured to the destruction of the Staple and of the Town of Callis and for divers Impositions laid upon Wools he was awarded in full Parliament by the Bishops and Lords to be in prison in the keeping of the Marshall and to make fine and ransom at the Kings pleasure whereupon the Commons required that he might lose all his Offices and no longer be of the Kings Councel which the King granted And the said Lord Latimer in Parliament found certain Lords and others his Mainprisors for the forth coming of his body during the Parliament as by a Schedule doth appear and by this Mainprize the Marshall of England so offered him to be at large In the Schedule are his Mainprisors viz. one Archbishop three Bishops one Prior of S. Iohn three Earls fifteen Barons and thirteen Knights all their degrees of best renown William Ellis of great Yarmouth was accused of sundry extortions by him done while he was Farmer of the Kings petit customes there and Deputie to Richard Lyons for the Subsidie of sixpence in the pound granted to the King as by the Parliament it doth appear To which Accusation is seemeth that the said William Ellis sufficiently answered notwithstanding judgment was that he should be committed to prison and make fine at the Kings pleasure Iohn Peach of London was accused for procuring a license under the Great Seal that he only might sell sweet Wine in London and that by colour thereof he took four shillings four pence of every man for every Tun thereof sold the which he justified as lawfully he might notwithstanding judgment was given that he should be committed to prison at the Kings will besides recompence to all parties grieved The Lord Iohn Nevil was accused that during the time that he was of the Kings Privy Councel he should buy certain debts due by the King namely of the Lady Ravâ—nsham and Simon Love Merchant far under the value and for receiving of the King more wages and for a longer time for a hundred souldiers in Brittain then was due Of the Ladies own good will for the obtaining her debt he confesseth to have received ninety five pound which was not disproved Of Love he denied any such to be Love being thereupon brought into the Parliament wholly excuseth the same Lord. But because Love had the day before confessed the contrary before two Knights of the House he was committed to prison To the receiving of wages the same Lord fully cleereth himself notwithstanding judgement of Imprisonment and losse of lands and goods and offices was given of him as on others before and that he should make restitution of the ninety five pounds to the Executors of the said Ladie The King ordaineth that from thenceforth no woman should for maintenance pursue any matter in the Kings Courts and namely Alice Perrers upon losse of all that they have and banishment for ever out of the Realm An Order that the Prior of Ecclefield an alien should exhibit his Bill of Complaint against the Lord Latimer for the Parsonage of Ecclefield which the said Lord had wrongfully caused to be recovered against the said Prior. For that Adam de Bury was accused of divers deceits and wrongs done by him while he was Major of Callice and Captain of Bellingham as hereafter may appear and was sent for to come unto the Parliament and came not nor yet could be found It was agreed that all his Goods and Chattels should be arrested and so they were The Bishop of Norwich supposeth an erronious Judgment to be given against him in the Common Place for the Archdeaconry of Norwich belonging to his Presentation and prayeth that those Errors might be heard and redress thereof whereunto Answer was made that Errors by Law in the Common place are to be corrected in the Kings Bench and of the Kings Bench in the Parliament and not otherwise As well at the complaint of the men of Leistock as the pursuit of the Commons the grant late made by the King to the Town of great Yarmouth that one place in the Sea called Kirklerode annexed to the Port of Yarmouth should be utterly repealed saving all other their Liberties On Wednesday the day after S. Iohn at the request of the Commons came into the open Parliament before the Lords and Commons Richard Burdeaux the son and heir of Edward late Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the Realm of whom after the Archbishop of Canterbury had spoken words of commendation the Commons with one voice prayed that the Lords would make him Prince of Wales as his Father was who said it laid not in them but in the King only so
and Commons assembled in the place aforesaid where the said Chancellor began his long Oration with S. Paul viz. Libenter suffertis insipientes and applied it That being wise desired to hear him the contrary He proceeded with Scripture as that every Messenger bringing joyful news is welcomed Thereby proving that he should be so for that he brought joyful news of the Kings good recovery of a dangerous sickness By the which he shewed that God loved the King and Realm The King for that quos diligo castigo The King by the Psalmist saying Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus and thereby sheweth that for children no Christian Prince was so happy and confirmeth the said happiness by the above saying Et videas filios filiorum which the King saw That God thereby loved the Realm he proved by the recovery of so renowned a Prince and that his recovery to be the Fiftieth year of his Reign the year of Jubile the year of joy for that he would thereby impart to his said Subjects as well spiritual as temporal or bodily comforts He then by the similitude That if the head be sound and some particular member of the body diseased that the said infected member can receive no vertue or salve from the head inferreth that as the King being the sound head and willing to shew grace and favor to the Subjects the members the infected with vice cannot receive the same And therefore perswaded such as would be partakers thereof to conform themselves thereafter by having love without which he proveth by S. Paul that nothing doth avail He then turneth his speech to the Lords enlarging the cause whereby they were to think that the King dearly loved them forasmuch as at their requests since the last Parliament the King had advanced Richard there present to be Prince of Wales He then shewed what cause they had to embrace the said Prince by offering to him as the Princes of Cullen did to Christ all honor by throwing abroad money according to the order of the Pagans at the coming of their Prince by offering gold in token of riches and renown and myrrh in token of his honorable scepter He further sheweth that the same Prince should in their hands and hearts without all rancor be embraced and no otherwise then Simeon did Christ for that they had now seen that which long they had longed for and therein shewed how they should obey him as the Vicar and Legat of God that they might see the true peace in Israel viz. in England the inheritance of God whereof after so great victories was great hope The cause of the Parliament he sheweth to be for that the French under colour of Truce granted by the King at the mediation of the Pope and yet enduring had allied himself with the Spaniards and Scots the Kings enemies and had prepared puissant and great Armies thereby conspiring to blot out the English tongue and Nation wherein the King willed to have their faithful counsel Wherefore the Chancellor willed them to go together and give a speedy answer After this Sir Robert de Ashton the Kings Chamberlain declared That he was to move them from the King for the profit of the Realm The which words percase lay not in the Bishops mouth for that they touched the Pope viz. By protesting first that the King was ready to do all that ought to be done for the Pope But for that divers usurpations were done by the Pope to the King his Crown and Realm as by particular Bill in this Parliament should be shewed the King requireth them to seek redress Receivers of petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above T ryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above After this the Commons were willed to repair to the Chapter house of the Abbey of Westminster to treat of these matters and how money might be best levied thereto and certain Lords there named were appointed from time to time to confer with the Commons for their better help The Lords and Commons grant to the King towards his great charges Four pence of every poll man or woman passing the age of fourteen years only Beggers excepted The Commons request that the King would appoint two Earls and two Barons to receive as well their Subsidy as the Subsidy of the Clergy and the Subsidy of Woolls granted the last Parliament so as the same be imployed upon the Wars and that the High Treasurer do in no wise meddle therewith Afterwards when it was declared to how great a sum the wages of those four Treasurers would amount unto the Commons then required that the High Treasurer might then be doer therein to the use of the Wars After the two and twentieth of February certain Bishops and Lords the Chancellor Treasurer and Keeper of the Privy Seal and all the Justices by the Kings appointment went to Sheen where the King lay sick and there in their presence the Articles of the Kings general pardon as ensueth were read with other answers made to the Petitions of the Commons as hereafter follow whereunto the King agreeth and willed that they should the next day be read in the House and to make the same the last day of Parliament the which was done the next day being the three and twentieth day of February by authority of the King and of the said President Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The Print touching the Liberties of the Church the great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest cap. 1 2 3. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The Print as touching the general Pardon cap. 3. agreeth with the Record Divers Articles of pardon which are comprised in the Pardon aforesaid That all persons and Corporations may have the pardon freely without paying any thing for the Great Seal Such as for Felonies are to sue shall do the same before the Nativity of S. Iohn and pay the Fees onely That such as owe unto the King may upon their Account be allowed of all such Loans as are due to them or to any of their Ancestors The Treasurers and Barons shall make allowance of due debt That title of prescription of any liberties may as well be allowed as if it were by grant and that prescription may be from the Coronation of the King The King by advice will do herein as he shall think best That the Justices of Peace do not enquire of any Articles which are to be redressed in any Lords Leet but only of the peace and of Labourers and that they hold their Sessions four times a year The Statutes heretofore made cannot stand if this be granted That the Patent of
Reynold Chambre for being Water-Bailiff of the Thames may be revoked for that thereby he suffereth kiddles trinks and other unlawful nets to be laid and cast in the said River of Thames The Chancellor calling to him the Citizens of London the Constable of the Tower and Reynold Newport shall take Order therein The Citizens of London pray that the King will confirm to them their liberties fâ—r punishing all misdemeanours in Southwark and that Commandment be given that the Marshal do not intermeddâ—e within the part of Southwark which is called Gildable The King cannot do it without doing wrong to others The Citizens of London require the confirmation of the Kings Letters Patents made to them that no stranger should sell any Merchandise or ware to any other stranger to the end that the same should be sold again The very words of the Patent The King will be thereof informed The same Citizens prayed that they place and displace a Coroner amongst themselves answering unto the King what belongeth thereunto The King will not depart from his ancient right That no Alien do remain within the Realm during the Warrs unless he be a Merchant or Artificer and that no Englishman become any Farmer to any Alien without Licence In which Act they protest that of Temporal things they owe obeisance to none but to the King The King by advice will take order therein That all Provisors of things from Rome and their Ministers may be out of the Kings protection The Pope hath promised redresse the which if he do not the Laws therein shall stand That new perambulations of the Forrest may be made according to the old bounds out of which if any Forrester do attach a man that the attached may have his writ of false Imprisonment Many Counties are not grieved wherefore let such as be shew their plaint and they shall be heard That it may be declared what Pleas the Marshal shall hold and that prescription may be as well allowed before the Marshall as before others the Kings Justices They shall hold such as have been in the times of the Kings Progenitors That no man be impeached for hunting within the purley or without the bound of the Forrest and that there be levied no assertments The Charter of the Forrest shall be kept and to the Assart the demand is unreasonable That as well the Priest that taketh unreasonable wages as the giver thereof may either forfeit double to the King and that the same may be tried before the Kings Justices The Statute therefore made shall be executed That the next heirs of the Kings Wards may have the Wards lands in farm There is a Statute therefore made That none of the Kings Officers be maintainers of any quarrels within their Countries on pain to lose their Offices and to answer double to the party grieved The King hath forbidden his Officers so to do and if any be grieved he shall be heard That if any religious person taketh the profits of any lands whereby it may be thought to be within the compass of the Statute de Religiosis that then the King or chief Lord may enter upon the same The King intendeth not to change the Laws That the Statutes now made be not repealed but by assent of Parliament and that the Statute of Purveyors may be executed They cannot and for Purveyors the Law made shall stand That the Knights fees for coming to the Parliament may be levied of the whole County as well within Liberties as without except Cities and Towns and the bound Tenants of such as come by Writ to the Parliament Let it be as it hath been used That no Ordinance be made at the petition of the Clergy without assent of Parliament and that no man be bound by any their Constitutions made for their advantage Let this be more specially declared That such as have view of Frankpledge may have the correction of Taverners It is no Article thereof That none of the Commons be appointed any Collector of this Subsidy The King granteth it That the protection of such as lie at Calice or about Picardy only to delay such as sue them may be repealed and no such from henceforth granted Let the Kings Council be informed of such covin it shall be redressed That certain Engines used to the destruction of Fish and called Wonderchone in the manner of a Drag being used in Havens and Creeks may be forbidden Commission to certain to enquire and to certifie shall be made whereupon order shall be taken therein They prayen remedy against such Debtors as to defraud their Creditors make Feoffments by covin and thereupon flie into Sanctuary Upon the finding of such Feoffments to be so made the Creditors shall have execution of such Lands as though no such Feoffments were made That the King would pardon all Pyracies and Felonies done upon the Sea except such as be impeached of the death of Sir Henry de la Hay or of such as be impeached at the suit of the party The King will shew pardon where him liketh That divers having in their Charters That no Senescalâ— Marescal or Clerk of the Market do intermeddle within their Lâ—berties are thereby little the better for that those Officeâ—s do intermeddle for that there wanteth these words â—am in praesentia nostra quà m alibi that therefore it be commanded that none of those Officers do intermeddle The King would have them to be allowed according to Law and reason as it hath been heretofore used The like motion is made as is contained in 50 E. 3. tit 184. No Tenant ought to be received to counterplead his own conusâ—nce That no Customs of Woollen clothes granted in 44 E. 3. be paid unless the same be fulled The King hath commanded that no Woollen clothes be carried out of the Realm before they be fulled and that no Customs be paid before such fulling That such Loans as were made in the time of Thomas Brantingham Bishop of Exeter and Treasurer of England now be paid It shall be so soon as may be That no Tithe be paid for Sea-coals It shall be as it hath been That no Fines be taken for any Writs according to the Great Charter Nulli vendemus c. Let it be according to the discretion of the Chancellor as it hath been That no Knight Esquire or other be appointed to be Sheriffs Escheators Coroners Collectors or such like after his age of 60 years The King will do herein as him shall please That all Charters heretofore granted may be allowed and confirmed albeit they never were before They shall be allowed as duly heretofore
poor and that such Labourer in service by reason of any little tenure or for that he would be a Victualler be kept in the Stocks untill he serve The Statute made therefore shall be observed That no Mason Carpenter Artificer or Labourer do take any wages for the holy daies The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That the Petitions of the Commons in the 50 E. 3. whereto the Kings answer was The King willeth the same to be made in Acts for that some affirm them to be but Ordinances and no Acts. It is in part done and the rest the King will do according to reason That such as receive the Subsidy of Woolls and the Tallage of Groats granted 50 E. 3. may account in open Court before the Lords Certain be appointed to examine the receits and to make report unto the continual Council who shall take order therein That no stranger do keep any lodging within the Realm and that the goods of Strangers attached within the Realm may be restored to such Englishmen as have had their goods spoiled on the Sea in the time of Truce To the first point the King granteth except such as be leige men and to the second the King would have a stay of such goods until restitution That the Swanny-motes may be kept but at one time of the year and that no Free-man other then Officers of the Forrest be distrained to come to the Swanny-Motes The King would the Statute therefore provided to be kept That no man be imprisoned or amerced for Vert or Venison or other things against the Assize of the Forrest unless the same be contained in the Articles of the Charter of the Forrest and that every man may without impeachment chuse the Purlues The Charter and other Statutes of the Forrest shall be observed It is enacted that the perambulations of the Forrest heretofore made shall wholly stand and that no Forrester or other Minister of the Forrest have to do without but according to the assize of the Forrest That the misdemeanor of the Keeper and other Officers of the Forrest may be inquired of and snch as be removeable and faulty to be expelled The King will from time to time inquire and punish such defaults and who will complain shall be heard The Print touching debts allowed in the Exchequer cap. 5. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form That no Officer of the Exchequer or of the Kings Houshold do maintain any quarrels in their Countries and that the priviledges for the Officers of the Exchequer may be declared Touching maintenance order is before and for declaration it hath been used that all Officers and their servants with them abiding shall in all personal actions sue and be sued in the Exchequer and not elsewhere That the jurisdiction of the Marshal may be limited and that all men may have their liberties allowed as well within the Verge as without and that no Court of antient demeasnes be thereby disturbed The Marshal shall have such jurisdiction as heretofore and who will complain shall be heard That the Popes Collector be willed to gather no longer the first fruits of Benefices within this Realm being a very novelty and that no other person do any longer pay them That no man do procure any Benefice by provision from Rome upon pain to be put out of the Kings protection That no Englishman do take to farm of any Alien any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Prebend on the like pain In which Bill is rehearsed that the French had 6000 l. yearly of such livings in England The Lords of the great Council shall take order in those three Bills That religious persons buy Lands and cause others to be in Feoffee thereof and yet take no profits that the King and the Lords may take the advantage The Lords mind not to change the old Law used That the Lords Leets may have the punishment of Tavernors and that they be not disturbed for that the Leet is within the Verge It is not the Article of the view of Franckpledge but shall be used as it hath been The Mayor Aldermen and Commons of London pray that they may have the like punishment of ill doers in Southwark as in London saving to all Lords their rights It is prejudicial to the King and to the Bishops of Canterbury and Winchester They pray that they may among themselves a Coroner chuse and refuse The King cannot depart with his old right The Commons pray that whereas the Sheriffs of the Counties of Essex and Hertford are yearly charged to pay Two hundred fifty seven pounds 17 s. of the farms of Serjeants and main Farms and thereby yearly lose a hundred pounds whereof the King yearly one hundred Marks sometimes more sometimes less that the King will make his pardon certain The King will shew favour therein according to his pleasure The Sheriffs of Bedâ—ord Bucks Northampton and divers other Shires being in the same predicament pray the like remedy The King will semblably as above deal The like motion is made as in 51 E. 3. tit 53. And the like answer thereto made That all persons as well religious as otherwise having any possâ—ssiâ—ns within any walled or fortified City or Town now decayed mâ—y to the re-edifying thereof contribute as other the Townsmen there do The King will that all such shall contribute according to the assurance of their tenure heretofore used saving to every man his priviledge They pray remedy against the Popes reservations to dignities elective the same being done against the Treaty of the Pope taken with King E. 3. The Chancellor calling to him such as he shall please shall see the Record and take order therein That the Chirographer shall render tenfold as much as he shall receive more then 4 s. of every fine The Statute before made shall be kept That the Statute made that the next of the kin of the Kings Wards to whom the Lands cannot discend shall have such Wards Lands in farm during the nonage before any other may be observed The King granteth thereunto That the Assizes sued forth in King E 3. time may continue in force at the suit of the party There is remedy heretofore provided That every Writ be as well maintainable in a Hamblet which beareth a certain known name as in a Town The Law heretofore used shall stand That a Writ of Partition may as well be maintainable between strangers purchasers as between parceners and prinuyes of blood The Law as next above The Print touching Feoffments upon collusion cap. 9. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form That it may be declared whether the
summons travel or grief That all Customers and Comptrollers of England mâ—y yearly be removed The King by advice herein will do his pleasure That execution may be done upon such of the County of Chester and other Counties Palatine as are outlawed for trespasses or felonies done in their Counties The King will provide remedy therefore saving the right of himself and of other men That such English as are remaining in prison in Scotland for things done since the Truce may be delivered without ransom as the Scots in like of custom be The Wardens of such parts be appointed for the like cases a day of meeting the last of Iune at what time good order may be taken That Sheriffs of all Shiâ—â—s where the King for to certain his debts hath appointed to certain men sundry sums of those Sheriffs receipts may upon their Accompts be discharged thereof The King will be advised by his Council That Theeves and Robbeâ—s may speedily come to their deliverance Of all Statutes made therefore the Council shall appoint the best to be executed and the Justices to make deliverance as oft as need shall require That remedy may be had forasmuch as by the inter comoveage with Scots the most of the Woolls of the Shires of York Duâ—esm Westmerland Cumberland and Northumberland are transported into Scotland without any Custom The King by his Council will provide That the King will appoint certain Vessels for the keeping of Stradborough the men of which Town withâ—n two years before paid 1000 l. ransom and for the defence of the North-coasts This matter is committed to the Earl of Northumberland the Mayor of London and to certain Merchants of the North of them to be considered In a Schedule annexed to the Roll is contained the Order of the parties aforesaid for the defence of the North-sea coasts and confirmed by those Estates of the Parliament That those Sea-coasts shall be defended with two Ships and two Barges and two Bullingeâ—s armed and appointed for the Wars at the charges hereafter ensuing viz. That every Ship Boat or other Vessel whatsoever passing those Sea-coasts shall pay for every Tun of his burthen six pence except all Vessels laden with Wines or other Merchandises from Flanders to be discharged at London and Ships or other Vessels laden with Staple-ware and to be discharged at Caliâ—e The which excepted Ships shall not be safe-conducted by the Admiral of the Sea without consideration Certain named are appointed keepers of the Sea coasts and to levie the Subsidy aforesaid both by Sea and by Land Certain Merchants are appointed to be Receivers and Comptrollers of the aforesaid Subsidie The Commons of Cumberland require that it would please the King to repair the City and Castle of Carlile in manner ruined and at his charges to appoint a worthy Guardian The King is not to repair the same Citie but he will give in charge that it be done about the Castle he is repairing touching the Warden the King by his Councel will do his pleasure That provision may be found that the money carried forth of the Realm may be brought in again and not clipped within the Realm â—e carried forth again The King upon conference with the Minters and Merchants will provide the best remedie That all religious persons may according to the last Parliament depart the Realm and namely the Prior of Halenge If any man will specially complain he may be heard for the Prior of Halenge hath found surety It is enacted that no Sheriff of any County shall be Justice of Peace in the same County That the King will pay the loans of E. 3. borrowed of the Subjects in the 43. year of his raign The King will so do so soon as conveniently he may The like motion and answer that is made in the last Parliament Tit. 57. That half pence and farthings may be coyned and commandment given to sell according to the same Upon having of Bullion the King will do so That Declaration may be made of Sylva cedua As it hath been heretofore used The Print touching the Statute made at Glocester touching Riots cap. 2. doth not agree with the Record for the Record doth generally revoke the said Statute made at Glocester which note They require that the Constable and Marshal of England do surcease to hold before themselves Pleas of Treason or Felony and that the same may only be determined before the Kings Justices according to the great Charter The Lords dare not disclose the same as well for that the Heirs who claim the same Office are within age and in the Kings keeping as for that the Parliament draweth to an end But as touching the appeal of Treason made in Cornwal and depending before the said Constable and Marshal the King will take the same into his own hands as shall please him for determining the same according to the Laws saving to every one his rights That there be a certain number of Justices learned in the Law which may in every Shire be appointed and chosen by the Lords and Commons that none be by them associated their Sessions to be holden four times yearly and there to have Fees at the Sheriffs hands The King will appointable Justices no Association shall be made no remotion without consent of the Councel two or three of such of them as shall hold the Sessions shall have the sixt part of the profit of the same untill the next Parliament A Statute made that such as demand land against the King and evidence therefore by Writ shewn in the Treasury that in such case who sueth for the King shall after the return of four Writs every Writ having â—orty dayes respit answer It is willed to be executed notwithstanding any commandment of the Great or Privy Seal That the Owners of the ships taken up for the Kings service for their losses in the same may be considered and that Mariners may have the like wages as Archers have It shall be as it hath been used That none of the Commons House be appointed to be Collector Cessor or Comptroller of any aids granted now The King granteth so as before their departure they in writing declare who are most able theâ—efore That the King will grant Pardons to all such as will for the only Fee of the Great Seal of all points of Eâ—re of desperate debts of any of his Ancestors and of all points of the Forrest until the Feast of Pentecost now present The King will be advised That the Treasurer for the Wars may be discharged and that all which is or shall be granted may be received by the Treasurer of England It liketh the King It is enacted to endure untill the
next Parliament that all Merchants which shall bring in any cloth of Gold Riverchief Pearls Jewels or Furrs and all Merchants which shall transport Staple wares shall finde Surety to the Tower to the value of twelve pence in Bullion for every twenty shillings of such their Merchandise so brought in or transported That no Knight or Lady under forty pound land by the year do wear any precious Furrs cloth of Gold ribond of Gold or silk on pain to loose all that they have The King will be advised until the next Parliament It is enacted unto the next Parliament that every Goldsmith shall set his mark unto his Vessel which if it be not according to the sterling he shall forfeit it double be imprisoned and sined Certain Petitions of the Major and Aldermen of Callis touching their Liberties with the answers thereunto It is enacted that the Chancellor and Schollers of the University of Cambridge shall for five years in default of the Major and Bailiffs of the same Town of Cambridge have the punishment of all manner of Victuals Measures and Weights within the said Town and also power to punish the Major and Bayliffs and their Officers if there shall be any Victuallers for any such default And it is to be noted that of the printed Statute cap. 3. touching fained gifts and Feoffments to defeat mens Creditors there is no mention made in this Record Anno Secundo Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Gloucester the Wednesday next after the Feast of S. Luke the Evangelist in the Second year of King Richard the Second THe same Wednesday being the 20. day October and the first day of the Parliament certain of the Nobles met in a Chamber appointed in the Abby of S. Peters of Gloucester where for that divers of the Lords were not come nor the Sheriffs then returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned until the next day by the Kings commandment The same Thursday after the King with his three Uncles of Spain Cambridge and Buckingham the two Archbishops and divers other Nobles assembled in the Great Hall of the Abby of Gloucester and there appointed where the L. B. of Davids by the commandment of the King declared the cause of the Parliament as followeth viz. First for the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations of the Peace Secondly for that it was enacted that a Parliament should yearly be holden Thirdly for that the King desired to see and to consult with them so honorable an Assembly there gathered in Gods name which he commendeth willing unity and concord among them to be according to the resemblance of the Church Another great cause was for that the King being left in the midst of great Wars could not endure and maintain the same without their Aid He sheweth further that since the great villany and damage done by the Scots at Roxburgh at Truce thereupon taken for a time they the same Scots have allied themselves with the French to the end to depart from the same Truce and by all means to annoy the King and his friends All which to recite and the charges thereof to bear he willeth them deeply to consider One great mischief in the Commonweal he remembreth them viz. That the Law of the Land and the Law of Arms do not concur together by certain similitudes he wisheth them of those two Laws to make a Relative so as they may stand with the other Another mischief he noteth to wit Slanderers and sowers of discord between Nobles Gentlemen and Neighbours the which kind of men he resembleth to Dogs that eat raw flesh so applying them to eat and consume living men For all which enormities he wisheth them to seek redress and to be there the next day by eight of the clock to hear further Declarations and the Commons to keep the Chapter house within the great Cloister of the Abby aforesaid Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and for the forein Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The Friday after the two and twentieth of October the Lords and Commons assembled in the said great Hall where Sir Richard le Scroop Steward of the Kings Houshold declaring his own unworthiness there to speak shewed them how they were invironed with enemies and the King importably charged for keeping possession beyond the Seas namely that Callis cost him yearly twenty thousand pounds Brest twelve thousand marks besides Ireland Cherburgh Burdeaux and Bayn he sheweth that the old grant of the last Parliament was onely dispended in the Wars as the Officers could declare he wisleth them to consult for the rescue and the mean how to levie the charges After that the Commons came before the King where Sir Iames Pickering knight Speaker of the Parliament for the Commons maketh his Protestation as well for himself as for the whole House And first for the Commons That if he should speak any thing which happily might be ill taken it might be as as nothing so as the Commons at any time might amend the same And so much for himself He therefore rehearseth the whole charge of the Parliament pronoun the Chancellor and to the first points touching the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations for the Peace the Commons making low curtesies rendred therefore most humble thanks and pray God for the execution of the same To the aid required for the King he sheweth how in the last Parliament upon the like motion to the Commons repeating the great charges of the King by the Treasurer they then made answer that they saw no such cause of aid whereunto for the King it was then replyed that the Kings Coronation was chargeable and that if the Commons would grant such reasonable aid whereby the King might thereby provide an army that they nothing doubted but that the King of himself might continue the same without charging them of long time upon which promise and hope the Commons did then grant the same large aid and being now unable to do the same require pardon thereof thinking that a great part of the same grant remained yet in the Kings Treasury The said Sir Richard le Scroop not knowing any such promise of discharge made in the last Parliament charging them with unâ—ruth for surmising any rest of the last grant to be And thereto calleth for witness William Walworth and Iohn Philpot Citizens of London and Treasurers appointed and sworn Thereupon the Commons make request to know how and in what manner the same sums were defraied whether some were not therefore indebted and who should be Councellors and great Officers
require therein requiring due consideration of the Commons poor estate being sundry wayes greatly impoverished Whereupon was delivered unto them by the Kings great Officers and Councel a Schedule containing divers particular charges amounting to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds The Commons after came before the Lordsâ— requiring a moderation of the same sum and that it would please them to consult how the same might be levied After long debate betwixt the Lords and Commons for the levying of this sum as by sundry particular devices doth there appear the Commons offered to give an aid so as the Clergy who had the third part of the Realm would thereof pay one third part which was fifty thousand marks and the Commons an hundred thousand marks The Clergy answered That they were not to grant any aid by Parliament but of their free wills and therefore willed the Commons to do their duties and they would do their own Hereupon the Lords and Commons granted to the King of every person being man or woman passing the age of 15 years and being no begger twelve pence to be levied of every person of every parish according to their estate so as the rich doth bear with the poor and that the richest for him and his wife be not set above twenty shillings and the most poor for him and his wife no lesse then one groat They also grant to the King the Subsidies of Wools from the Feast of S. Martin then ensuing unto the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady then following in such wise as was granted in the last Parliament Sir Ralph of Ferriers knight who was arrested by the Duke of Lancaster on the Marches of Scotland for suspition of Treason as adhering unto the French the Kings enemies was brought into the Parliament before the Lords to answer thereto Divers Letters under the hand and seal of Arms of the said Sir Ralph and sent to sundry French Lords as to the Lord de la River the Earl of Longvile the Lord de Clisson the Lord Admiral and others were openly shewed and read in Parliament before the said Sir Ralph The contents of the Letters were humble commends and certification how that he in the behalf of the French had taken league and confirmed alliance with the Scots and to c. made the first payment requiring them to make the second payment occurrences touching the preparation of the English against the French request to remember his Fee and to give credit to the bearers of these Letters who were to say much and also touching the delivery of the Infants of Bois The Letters to the French Admiral willed him about Michaelmas to arrive about London where he should have a fair day to lay up Clerks the bearer of the same Letter for that he had discovered his Councel had it not been for the promise of 2000 Franks The bearers of these Letters and Entents were his said Clark one Iohn Fry and another but the most faithful were Frier William and Cannon who were often Liegers in France The Letter of Frier William to the same Sir Ralph sheweth how he sped well with the whole Councel of France that a way was found for Clark that he would bring the ransoms of the Infants of Boys and his annuity or see of the French The same Sir Ralph being brought into the Parliament by the Marshal of England required Councel which was denied him he then being willed to answer to those Letters beginneth a long circumstance of his acquaintance in France of his service there in King Edward the thirds time at which time he kept holds when others did not how he was Captain of Callis In which times he might have done hurt and did not he therefore alledged the same to prove innocency and the unlikelihood of this Whereupon the said Sir Ralph was remanded to prison and divers of his familiers being called into the Parliament house as the Parson of Brington and others together with the Beggar who first found these letters beside London the whole matter was examined and for that it appeared that certain of the Letters sent by the same Sir Ralph to the parties beyond the Seas were sealed together with other Letters senâ— from thence to the same Sir Ralph also sealed all of one hand and for that also that the seal was larger then the seal of the said Sir Ralph it seemed forged by some of his enemies for his overthrow In the end the same Sir Ralph being once or twice urged to answer whether these Letters were his or no answered That he did not remember that they were his own letters and that he was ready to approve as they should think good before which his last answer he offered the combate with any that would where from he was put And therefore as otherwise the Lords thought the same Sir Ralph to be thereof innocent wherefore he was committed to the custodies of the Earls of Warwick Stafford Salisbury Northumberland to Reynold Grey of Ruthen and the Prior of S. who became pledges body for body for the said Sir Ralph to answer when he should be called between that and the next Parliament and so the said Sir Ralph was set at large the said Letters and his Seal being of silver were delivered into the custody of Sir Iohn Cavendish chief Justice of England The Beggers being thought to be privy to this falsehood was committed to prison the Parson of Brington and other the friends of the same Sir Ralph being delivered Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the great Charter and Charter of the Forrest and other Statutes of the Realm may be observed The King granteth thereto That the Commission sealed in the last Parliament for the survery of the Kings charges may be proceeded and that the Commissioners may have reasonable Fees allowed them It pleased the King That it would please the King to provide that the Subjects may be eased of their importable Tallages to the wars The King will so do saving his honour and estate That this Tallage now granted may be only imployed upon the charge of the Earl of Buckingham and Lords with him in Britain and and for the keeping of the Sea It pleased the King that it be dispended about the defence of the Realm That the County of Chester the Bishoprick of Durham and the Cinque-ports may be comprised within this Tallage The King granteth for the Cinque ports onely That half pence and farthings may be coyned according to the Sterleage The King will do for the ease of the people That no Ship or Vessel be taken for a Deodand where any person thereout falling is drowned Upon complaint the King will shew favour as heretofore hath been That remedy may be had against the
Normans ships of the Sea The King will do the best by advice That the Statute of granting Writs of and may be observed and that all such as shall have the same may be sworn by themselves and others being of good name and that their suggestions are true in all points The Statute therefore made heretofore shall stand That no outlawry be pronounced against any man unlesse the addition Sirname Place or Town where he dwelleth be therein The Common Law with the Statutes do suffice therein That no man be put out of his lands by an enquest of Office by the Escheater nor Patent thereof granted to any person before the Kings right be discussed The Statutes therefore made shall be kept That the Sheriffs of Essex and Hartford may be discharged of the hundred and ten pound yearly which they cannot receive After the expiration of pardon of an hundred marks for two years the King granteth the like pardon to the same Sheriff for three other years The Counties of Northampton Suffolk and other Counties pray the revocation of the Charter of great Yarmouth lately made for the annexing of Kirkley rode to the same Haven of Yarmouth and that no man should buy Herring within seven miles of the same Rode The Commissions lately cerâ—ified into the Chancery by the Earl of Suffolk and others shall by new Commissions be examined for that the said liberties were granted thereupon that the King may do therein the best and in the mean season that they of Yarmouth by Writs be commanded only to use their Liberties It is enacted that all men may carry their Butter Cheese and Victuals for one year to any place being friendly to the King They pray that the bounds between the parties of Holland and Kesteven Viz. between the water of land and the water of Witham and surrounded may be by Commission newly made It pleaseth the King if no contrary cause be shewed The Commons of the County of Derby pray that the Assizes and deliverances of the same County may be holden at Derby and no more at Salop. The King will charge his Justices to keep the same in the most convenient place Upon the Complaint of the County of Sussex and Surrey It is enacted That the Sheriff of the same Shire towards his charge of Fee-farm shall upon his account be allowed yearly fifteen pound which the Earl of Arundel payeth for his liberty That provision may be had against the Popes Collectors for levying of the first fruits of Ecclesiastical dignities within the Realm There shall be granted a prohibition in all such cases and other cases where the Popes Collector shall attempt any such Novelries That all manner of Debts of King Edw. 3. may be paid The most is and the rest shall be That all Priors Aliens may be removed out of their houses and licensed to depart and never to return and that Englishmen might be placed in their Livings answering to the King at they did The King will be advised That none who hath been Sheriff shall be so again The Statutes therefore made shall suffice A pardon granted of certain Felonies under a form That remedy may be had against the hainous Riot of certain in York who displaced one Iohn Gisburghthohel the sworn Major there and unduly chose one Simon in his place and him swore to be Major Commissions shall be directed to the Earl of Northumberland and others fully to enquire and to certifie the same That two Sergeants of Arms do fetch and bring up twenty four of the heads of these Rioters to the Councel That the said Simon be commanded to surcease any longer to play the Major and that he appear before the Councel That Iohn de Gisborn be commanded by Writ to execute the Office of the said Majoralty That the Bayliffs and other Officers be appointed to attend on the said Iohn That the Statute touching Wines may more particularly express the gageage of all kinde of Wines The King would the Statutes to be viewed according to their demand Anno Quinto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster the Wednesday next after Iohn Port-Latin in the Fifth year of King Richard the Second THe same Wednesday the King in person with certain Bishops and Lords came into the Parliament But for that certain Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill the Thursday then following The same Thursday the King with sundry Bishops and Lords came into the Chamber de Pinct at Westminster whereinto all the Commons by name were called before whom Sir Richard le Scroop knight Chancellor of England declared how in the last Parliament was granted to the King the Subsidy with proviso that the same would suffice to serve the Kings turn touching shifts for money Since that the King by advice of his Great Council of Lords gathered at Windsor hath determined to make in his own person a Voyage Royal into France whereto every Lord had promised for one year to serve him with certain men of war for single wages and that upon conference with certain Merchants for money for so great an exploit they were come to talk for the only assurance of the same For which assurance and for a stay within the Realm in the Kings absence the Parliament was called whereabout he willed the Lords and Commons to consult Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoine and other places beyond the seas and the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoine c. as above The Friday following the Commons desired to know what sum would serve the King Whereto was answer Threescore thousand pounds for the which the King would give good assurance to be made unto the Creditors by the advice of the Lords and Commons The Saturday after the Knights of the Shires by themselves required of the Lords that the Merchants might be conferred withall for they had most knowledge therein Whereupon sundry Merchants there named are appointed to talk with them Whereon when the Commons had fully debated with the Knights of the shires they made relation to the Lords that they knew no way how to levy the same sum for that the Merchants fearing the example of Michael de la Pool and other Merchants who in the like shifts were undone and yet had but little gain doubted to do the same only they offered that if the Lords Esquires and Earls of the Realm would freely lend to the King any notable sum they would finde surety therefore and otherwise they would not deal For that the King perceived that the Merchants would make no means or shift for the
money the King establisheth the order ensuing for passage over of Wools thinking thereby the more speedily to come by great sums to his content The print touching Merchant strangers cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Staple to be open to all Merchants whatsoever cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print touching a Subsidy for keeping the Seas cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The print touching the old Estates that ought to come into the Parliament cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching the inquiry of Heresies cap. 5. agreeth with the Record Anno Quinto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster the day after All Souls in the fifth year of King Richard the Second FOr that this year All Souls fell on Saturday the Parliament was adjourned until Munday ensuing on which Munday the King and many Bishops and Lords came but for that sundry Sheriffs made no return of their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill Tuesday after on which day the King and Lords and Bishops came into the White Chamber at Westminster and caused the names of the Knights and Burgesses to be called where upon the default of sundry of them the Parliament was therefore adjourned unto Wednesday after On which Wednesday for that great debate rose between the Duke of Lancaster and the Earl of Northumberland so as great force of arms men and Archers armed in warlike manner on both sides came to the Parliament whereof great complaint being made to the King the King with his Councel and Nobles were much busied to appease the same the King therefore adjourned the same Parliament till Saturday after On that same Saturday the King being in Parliament and the Councel being called by their names William Cant. elect and confirmed Chancellor of England began to declare the cause of the Parliament taking for this his Theam Rex convenire fecit consilium whereupon in English he made a good Oration applying it to the good vertuous government of the King and of his reign affirming that no reign could long endure if vice reigned therein the which to redress by this Parliament that could not be by the order of the other Law the King therefore had called the same Receivers of petitions for England Ireland and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triers of petitions for England c. as above Triers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The which done the Chancellor declared That on Munday the cause of the Parliament should more especially be declared willing all men therefore to attend The Wednesday after but certainly it should seem to be the Munday the Commons were all called by their names within the Chamber Blank where Sir Hugh Segrave Treasurer of England by the Kings Commandment remembred the Oration of the Archbishop of Canterbury and said that the especiall cause was to maintain the liberties of the Church and to provide for the observation of the peace and namely to punish the horrible tumults and rebellion made against the King in those tumults who was enforced to grant manumissions to the bondmen and others of the Realm as on them having Kingly power under the Great Seal of England The which he knowing to be done against Law willed them to seek remedy accordingly due for the confirmation or revocation thereof In the end he touched the Kings great want whereof certain of the Council should make them privy And so wishing them thereof to have due consideration wished the Commons to depart to their accustomed place within the Abby of Westminster The Monday after in the third day of the Parliament being the eighteenth day of November the Commons came into the Parliament to present Sir Richard Walsgrave knight whom they had chosen their Speaker who excused himself and desired to be discharged of the office whereunto the King on his allegiance willed him to stand being chosen by his companions Thereupon the said Sir Richard maketh the common protestation He then required a more full declaration of the Kings meaning either by a mean rehearsal or by his repetition The King therefore appointed Sir Richard le Scroop knight and created Chancellor to do the same who did so and namely touching the Repeal of the Manumissions made to the Bondmen Whereto all the Commons cryed with one voice that the Appeal was good and lawful adding That such infranchisement could not pass without their consents and so upon the prayer of the Commons the same Repeal was by assent confirmed Certain Bishops Lords and Nobles upon the request of the Commons are appointed to confer with them After this Conference the Commons thought it good that the King would grant a general Pardon to the offenders in these tumults The Commons require That of the particular consultations of the Bishops Lords and Justices a hearing might be brought to them Whereunto was answered that the old custom was that the Commons should bring to the Lords their conceits and devises and not to the contrary The which the King would should be observed The Commons afterwards coming into the Parliament and making their protestation shewed that for want of good redress about the Kings person in his houshold in all his Courts touching Maintainers in every County and Purveyors the Commons were daily pilled and nothing defended against the Enemy and that it would shortly deprive the King and undo the whole State Wherefore in the same Government they intirely require remedy Whereupon the King appointed sundry Bishops Lords and Nobles to sit in Privy Council about these matters Who since that they must begin at the Head and go at the request of the Commons they in the presence of the King charged his Confessor not to come into the Court but upon the four principal Feasts The Devises of the Commons exhibited in a Schedule First that there may be appointed about the Kings person the most sage and approved wise men in the Courtâ— the like Officers for the well governance of both That the most wise and able man in the Realm may be chosen Chancellor and that he seek to redress the enormities of the Chancery That the like order may be of the Treasurer Barons and Officers of the Exchequer That the like be made touching all the Justices of both Benches and that in thâ—s year two Justices two Serjeants and four Apprentices of the Law may be sworne to declare the delay and defects of the Law and that the same may be remedied That upon the accomplishment hereof the Commons may view the names of the persons and see the Ordinances before the confirming of them The provision may be made for observing of the peace and repressing of such tumults as late were
thereof to the King and his Councell The Commons were urged to know whether they desired Peace of War for one must they chose They answered an honourable Peace for the King but for that in the Articles were contained many terms of the Civill-Law which they understood not and for that as they understood the Articles were that the King should have Guienne of the French by homage and service they knew not what to say only they hope that the King meant not to hold Callice and other Terrytories gotten by Sword of the French Whereto was said that otherwise Peace could not be granted and therefore willed the Commons to chose Peace or War who in the end rather desired Peace The Abbot of St. Edmonds Burie by a long Bill sheweth how the men of the same Town were pardoned for their late Insurrections so as they did find sufficient Sureties for their good Behaviour to the Abbot and his Successors and further sheweth that the Towns-men hitherto had shifted the same and prayeth that they may enter into Recognizance for the same which condition they in Record expressed The Prior and Covent of Montague being an Alien by their Petition declared how Sir William Seymor upon a Sciri Facias to execute a Fine for the Mannour of Omdu-Hall with the appurtenances in Somerset brought against the said Prior and Covent in the Kings Bench recovered there the said Mannour He sheweth further how the said Sciri Facias was purchased hanging a Writ of right against the said Prior to which Writ the said Prior appeared and that the said Prior was over ruled to plead further and no entrie thereof made he further sheweth matter and prayeth ayde of the King and it was over ruled without entrie thereof made whereupon he beseecheth that the roll may be newly made and amended due entries made as in the roll is mentioned which by the advise of the Justices and others their learned Counsell was granted and made wherein for the Prothonotarie or Bean-pleader are goodly forms and directions After which amendment and enrollment granted the said Prior and Covent by a Petition sheweth the old matter and Record and for certain errors therein contained prayeth the Examination and reversall of the said Judgment in Parliament and his Sciri Facias framed upon the said case to warn the said Richard to appear at the next Parliament to abide the order of the same and therein no protection be allowed for the said Richard and further that the old process and Record be at the same next Parliament all which were granted Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the liberties of the Church the great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest be maintained That no Sherriff Under-Sherriff or Escheator do remain in the office above one year The Statute made therefore shall be observed That where the Aldermen of London are yearly chosen and returned at the feast of St. Gregory the Pope they require that free choice may be made of the most able men as well of such as were the year before as of others and that yearly The King granteth thereunto as long as thereby is good government in the City Sundry Countries pray the King to make an allowance to such as have been Sherriffs for such summes as they could not receive and that provision may be made for all such as shall succeed As in times past the Chancellor and Treasurer may make allowance and for the rest the King will provide They require that the Statute made against Ravishers in the 6 th year of this King may be revoked The Statute shall continue saving to the King and other Lords their forfeiture Anno Octavo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Regi Castellae Legionis Duci Lancast. c. Apud West Teste Rege apud Westm. 28. die Sept. Charissimo Avunculo suo Edward Com. Cantabr Char. Avunc suo Tho. Com. Buck. Chariss Fratri suo Tho Com Buck. Dilecto fideli Rico. Com. Arundell Thomae Com. War Hugoni Com. Staff Edw. Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Salop. Rob. de Vere Com. Oxon. Hen. de Percy Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Iacob de Audley Willo Bardolf de Wormegay Iohi. Fallesly Chlr. Guido de Bryan Iohi. de Clinton Gilberto Talbot Iohi. de Warr. Hen. le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. Nevill de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. de Scroope Hugoni Burnell Tho. Camois Chlr Willo le Zouch de Harringworth Rogero de Clifford Iohi. Botreaux Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Michael de la Poole Rado de Lumley Willo de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botteraux Chlr. Iohi. de Bello monte Robto de Harrington Iohi. de Clifford Robto de Willougby Rico. Talbot de Blackmert Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Willo de Eure. Ioh. de Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyer Willo de Aldburgh Rico. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Thomae Darcey Thomae Morley Thomae de Bourchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Iohi. Lovell de Fishmerch Iohi. de Monteacuto Iohi. de Cherlton de Powis Rico. de Poynnings Thomae de Berkley Iohi Devereaux Simoni Burleigh Constabular Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Saturday next after the Feast of Saint MARTIN in the eighth year of the raign of K. RICHARD the 2. THe same Saturday the Parliament for certain causes by the Commandement was adjourned untill Munday ensuing and on the same Munday it was adjourned untill Tuesday next following for the like cause at the Kings Commandement The same Tuesday before the King and Lords sitting and the Knights and Burgesses standing Sir Michael de la Poole Knight Chancellor of England speaking much of the Kings great care towards the Church Commons and Laws of England sheweth the same to be the chief cause of the Parliament Then rehearsing how the King had been environed with the French Spaniard Flemming and the Scots who being confederate made great preparations to c. which were like to ensue unless Politick advice were made to resist which was one other cause of this Parliament having these adjuncts how treasure might be gathered without which no resistance could be He shewed how for these Defences the King meant to hazard his own person to any perills whatsoever that he might justly encourage all estates willingly to offer themselves and what they had to such defence Then he touched the treachery and falshood of the French for that they in the last Treaty of Peace at Callice
otherwise to be disbursed by them It was agreed by Parliament that the Subsidie of Wool-Fells Wools and Skins granted unto the King untill the time of Midsummer then ensuing should cease from the same time unto the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula for that thereby the King should be interrupted for clayming such grant as due And from the said Feast of St. Peter they granted the same Subsidy to the King for one whole year to endure It is also enacted that the Staple shall be holden in England in such place as to the King and his Councell shall be thought most meet The Duke of Lancaster complaineth by mouth to the King Bishops and Lords in full Parliament that whereas after the death of Thomas Layhane who held the Mannor of Latham in the Countie of Lancaster of the said Duke in Thonage whereby the Mannour was seized into the hands of the said Duke of Lancaster according to his Countie Pallatine of Lancaster yet notwithstanding Iohn Stanley Knight in the right of Isabella his wife Daughter and heir to the said Iohn had entred and taken the profits of the said Mannour without any Livery or other suit made in the Chancery of the said Duke for which he prayeth remedy After which upon full advise of the Justices of both Benches and others of the Kings learned Councell it was declared in the said Parliament that the entrie of the said Iohn into the Mannour as aforesaid was unlawfull and that the said Iohn ought to make suit by Petition or otherwise in the Chancery of the said Duke for the Livery of the said Mannour in such case to be sued for Whereas the King at Hounslow lodge in Tividale Created Edmund Earl of Cambridge Duke of Yorke and to have to him and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten together with 1000. l. out of the Exchecquer untill the King had provided for him in Tayl as is aforesaid Land to the value of 1000. l. The King by whole assent of Parliament confirmeth the same by girding a Sword unto him and by putting on his head a Cap and circle of Gold The like confirmation is made to Thomas late Earl of Buckingham and Essex and Constable of England being then and there created Duke of Gloucester of the like estate of Revenue and Ceremonies as is next before The like confirmation is made to Sir Michael de la Poole Knight Chancellor of England being at the place aforesaid created Earl of Suffolk to have to him and the heirs Males of his body lawfully begotten with xx l. of the profits of the Countie aforesaid together with 500. l. yearly of the Hereditaments of William Ufford late Earl of Suffolk viz. the Castle Town Mannour and honour of Eyes with the Members of Suff. the hundred of Hertsmere and Stowe in Suff. the Farme of 23. l. 6. s. 8. d. out of the Mannour of Combs in Suff. the Mannour of Gesengthorpe in Essex the Mannor of Canton in Norff. the Mannour of Hangley in Suff. the Mannour of Trendon in Suff. the Mannour of Lowstock in the hundred of Luddington in Suff. 10. l. yearly which he should pay to the King for his Mannour of Costesly in Norff. the which confirmation was by girding of a sword The like confirmation was made to Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford whom the King lately before created Marquess of Dublin during his Life the old Lands and Dominions of Ireland with all proffits revenews regalities and jurisdictions whatsoever within the same as ample as the King ought to have the same and that he should enjoy to him and to his heirs all Conquered Lands by him they except the Kings only demesne in deed or in right the which Confirmation was made by the Girding of a Sword and putting on a Circle of Gold upon his head Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the observation of sundrie Statutes Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The Commons of the Counties of Essex and Hertford require that the Sheriffs of the same may upon their Oaths be charged or discharged of their Accompts The King will provide remedie therefore The Commons of Devonshire pray that the Sheriffs of the same may make their Accompts as they did before the time of King E. the first The King by advise of the Councell will provide remedie therefore The Commons of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk pray that the Sheriffs of the same may be yearly discharged of 153 l. 13 s. 4 d. which they cannot receive by certain particulars there apparent The King by advice of his Councell will provide therefore The Commons of the Counties of Nottingham and Darby make the like request for their Sheriffs being yearly charged with 44 l. 2 s. 4 d. The King will provide remedie therefore That all persons as well within the liberties as without may be contributarie to the payment of the wages of the Knights of the Shire It shall be as it hath been used That all men upon an inquest of an office found by the Sheriff and meaning to traverse the same may upon suretie found in the Chancery take the same in Lease of the King and no other untill the right be found The Statutes so made shall be kept That the heirs of the Kings Debtors upon extent of their Lands for the King may have the same in lease doing therefore as others would therein As it hath been used it shall be The print touching villanies Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record At the request of the Commons it is enacted to endure untill the next Parliament that every Ship taken up for the Kings service shall towards their apparrelling take for every quarter 2 s. of every Tun-lighter It is enacted that none of the Commons House shall be appointed Collector or Assessor of any the Subsedies now granted They require that the Patent lately made to the Constable of the Tower of London whereby the Collector of his Office taketh Customes of Wines Oysters Mussels Rushes and other Victuals coming to London by water may be revoked The Petition of the Major and Commonaltie of London is endorsed It is enacted that the Statute of Purveyors and Buyers shall be executed and that the Justices of the Peace shall have power to hear and determine the same That the Statute of the Kings Houshold be yearly viewed once or oftner by the Chancellor Treasurer and Keeper of the Privie Seal and that the Statutes therefore appointed may be observed The King granteth to the first at his pleasure and to the second he granteth It is enacted that all Lords and other Persons having any possessions on the Marches beyond Trent
do keep thereupon saving that the King may shew favour where the same shall like him That such money as remaineth in the Prior of St Iohns of Ierusalems hands called Responcies may be converted to the Kings proffit The King willeth that the same be sent by the Covent to Rhodes to be imployed against the Miscreants That all Captains as well of the Marches as of Callice Brest Chirburgh and elsewhere may continue them in their Hands and not let the same to Farm It is enacted That Inquisition and redress may be had against such religious persons as under the License to purchase 10 l. yearly do purchase 24 or C l. The King will be advised That sufficient Suretie of the Sea be provided and the Admiralls names known The King by advise of his Councell shall provide therefore They require to know who shall be the Kings chief Officers and Governours of the State The King hath sufficient at this present and will change at his pleasure That such Patents as are granted unto any Lay-persons or secular Priest of any religious dignitie may be revoked and granted to like of profession The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The King at the petition of the Commons pardoneth the payment of Escuage for his voyage into Scotland It is enacted that the Treasurers appointed for this War shall defray no part of the Subsidy now granted otherwise than to the use of the War It is enacted that all the revenews as well in the Exchecquer as elsewhere shall be layed up for one whole year without any diminution thereof by any gift It is enacted that the Bishops of Winchester and Exeter and two Bannerets shall have power to search and to take order as well in the Cxxl. Respontions Scismaticks and other the Kings debts together with the Lords of the Councell That all Clarkes advanced to any Ecclesiast dignities or Livings by the King will grant to the King the first fruits of their Livings none otherwise than they would have done to the Pope being advanced by him It liketh the King so the Clergie will thereto accord That such as have any Fee of the King and serve him in Fee place may be appointed to serve the King on the Marches of Scotland except old and impotent It liketh the King for such as have to live on their money besides the Kings grant Note that of the Statutes of the 3.4 and 5. Chapters contained in the printed Book is no mention made in this Record Anno Decimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Avunculo suo Edw. Duci Ebor c. Apud Westm. primo die Octobris Teste Rege apud Osney viii die Augusti Chariss avunculo Tho. Duci Gloucester Chariss fratri Tho. Com. Cantii Rico. Com. Arundell Tho Com. Ware Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Rob. de Vere Marchioni Dublin Henr. Percie Com. Northumb. Michaeli de la Poole Com. Suff. Hen. Com. Derby Tho de Mowbray Com Notting Nico. de Audley de Heleigh Iohi. de Fallesly Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Guidoni de Bryan Iohi. de Clinton Gilberto de Talbot Iohi. de Ware Hen. de Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Iohi de Roos de Hamelake Willo Nevill de Raby Iohi. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. de Scroope Rico. Talbot de Blackmore Iohi de Enerenx Hugoni Burnell Willo la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Rado de Cromwell Rado Lumley Willo Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Willo Botteraux Chlr. Iohi. de Bello monte Robto de Willoughby Iohi de Clifton Iohi. de Cobham de Kent Willo de Dacre Ioh. de Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmstryer Willo de Aldburgh Rico. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Phillippo Darcey Thomae de Morley Iohi. de Bourchier Iohi Lovell de Fishmerch Iohi de Monteacuto Iohi. de Cherlton de Powis Tho. de Berkley Simoni de Burleigh Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the first oâ— October in the 10 th year of the Raign of K. Richard 2. ON this day Sir Michaell de la Poole Earl of Suffolk Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared that the principall cause of the Parliament was for that upon a Councell late gathered at Oxford the King meant in person with an Army royall to pass into the parts beyond the Seas the which his purpose of the same continued it was then to be debated in what wise and wherewith the King should pass He sheweth that four causes moveth the King to pass The first for that he might with less charges assail his enemies than against them to make the defence The second to avoyd the reproch blazed of him that he durst not pass in person The third to purchase his right to the Crown of France The fourth thereby to win Renown and Honour And sith the French did daily make themselves strong to invade the Realm he wished them to consult thereon and for the maintenance of the Laws and preservation of the Peace Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above Sir Michael de la Poole Earl of Suffolk and Chancellor of England was accused by the Commons in full Parliament before the King Bishops and Lords and had objected against him six severall Articles The first and chief of the same that he purchased Lands to a great value of the King during the time that he was Chancellor in deceit of the King The other five seemed of some importance but were onely quarrels and little matter To which Accusation the said Earl demanded of the Lords that sith he was Chancellor of England and therefore for the time represented the Kings person in his absence whether he should answer without the Kings presence for things done while he was Chancellor Secondly he said that by advice of his Counsell he had appointed Sir Richard le Scroope his Brother in Law to answer for him The Lords answered it was honest and fit for him to answer for himself Whereupon the Earl making Protestation that he might adde or diminish to his answer that which might be for him honourable by the advice of his Counsell they granted thereunto And to the first and chief Article the said Earl answered that while he was Chancellor he neither purchased Lands of the King nor the King gave any to him
and the Barons of the Exchecquer be made void That Inquisition may be made in every County of Liberties granted to any person and of the value so as upon returne of the same every Sheriff may be discharged of the same values The King will provide remedy by the advice of his Councell That no Protection to delay any man be granted That no man do carry any Victualls into Scotland or elsewhere by safe conduct or otherwise The King granteth with speciall Licence That there may be no more Serjeants at Arms than have been heretofore and that for doing otherwise than they should they may be expelled The Statutes of the Kings houshold shall be observed That no prorogation be granted from henceforth in Assize of Novell Dissesin or other Plea of Land in delay of the party If the same be demanded the King will be advised before he grant That every owner of a Ship serving the King may have for every Quarters service of the same Ship iii s iiii d. of every tun weight The King hath committed the same to his Councell to be considered of That all Bishops and Lords having their Resiants within the Counties of York Gumberland and VVestmorland may abide there upon a great pain The King will request and charge them so to do That all Grants of Comptrollers of Ports for life may be revoked and not the like hereafter granted They upon their Examinations shall continue hereafter and for their continuances the King will provide therefore That all Charters and Patents made in the time of the last Chancellor may be repealed by this Parliament The King granteth thereto by the advice of his Councell The Archbishop of Canterbury being appointed among other Lords by Commission to view the State of the Realm and being moved to answer for the execution of the same as all other Lords were maketh a long Protestation entred by word the effect whereof was That for as much as he and his Predecessors time out of minde had the Prerogative that they should and ought to be in all the Councels and Parliaments of the Prince and of the Realm and ought not to be sworn to any inferior unto the Pope and thereby ought not to be sworn yet of his meer good will saving the same his Prerogative he taketh upon him the Oath The King in full Parliament by his own mouth maketh open Protestation that for any thing which was done in the same Parliament he would not turne it to the Prejudice of him or of his Crown but that the Prerogative of him and his Crown might be saved It is to be remembred that this Parliament made an end on Wednesday the 20th of November Anno Vndecimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Ed. Duci Eborum c. apud Westm. Cro. Purificationis Mariae Teste Rege apud Windsor xvii Die Decembris CHariss Avunculo Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Chariss Consanguineo Regis Rob. Duci Hiber Chariss Fratri Regis Thom. Com. Cantii Dilecto Confanguineo Ric. Com. Arundell Tho. de Bellocampo Com. War Ed. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northum Hen. Com. Derby Tho. de Mowbray Com. Norff. Marescal Angliae Iacobo de Audley de Heleigh Ioh. de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Guid. de Bryan Ioh. de Clinton Ric. Talbot de Godricastle Ioh. de War Ric. le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Ioh. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. de Nevell de Robie Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Ric. le Scroope Ric. Talbot de Blackmore Chlr. Ioh Deureeux Hugo Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Rado Cromwell Rado de Lumbley Will. de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botreaux Chlr. Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrington Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. de Clinton Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Ioh. Beauchampe de Ridermiâ—â— Will. Dacrâ— Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho de Nevill de Halmshyre Will. de Aldburg Rico Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Phillippo Darcey Thomae de Morley Ioh. de Bourchier Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Monteacuto Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Tho. de Berkley Ioh. de Wells Philippo le de Spencer Simoni de Burley Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Vndecimo Richardi Secundi De essendo ad Parliamentum REx c. Avunculo suo Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Chariss fratri Rs. Tho. Com. Cantii Rico Com. Arundell Thom. Com. Warr. Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Hen. Com. Derby Tho. de Mowbray Com. Norff. Marresc Angliae Nico. de Audley de Heleigh Ioh. de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Guidoni de Brian Ioh. de Clinton Rico. Talbot de Greystock Ioh. de Roos de Hamelake Ioh. de Nevill de Rabie Hen. Gray de Wilton Hen. Fitz-Hugh Ric. le Scroope Ioh. Devereux Hugo Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Rado Cromwell Rado Lumley Will. Thorpe Rado Baroni de Graystock Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrington Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Ioh. de le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Ric. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Philippo Dacry Tho. Morley Ioh. Bourchier Ioh Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. Cherlton de Powis Tho. de Berkley Chlr. The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Munday after the Purification of our Lady in the eleventh year of the raign of King RICHARD the second THe same day Thomas Bishop of Ely Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement declared very wisely eloquently the cause of the Parliament viz. by what means the great troubles grew within the Realm for want of good Government might be appeased the King better counselled the Realm better governed Peace better observed the laws more straightly maintained Justice more indifferently ministred Misdemeanors more severely punished and Well-doers the better cherished How also the Realm might be best defended how the Sea kept the Marches of Scotland well guarded and the parts of Guienne valiantly acquitted whereof some part was then besiedged and how the charges about these exploits might most easily be levied Receivers of the Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triars of Petitions for England c. as above Triars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above After this Thomas Duke of Gloucester kneeling before the King said that he understood how that the King was informed that he went about to depose the King and to make himself King wherefore he offered there to declare and shew his
to be saved The Lords severally answered that it were good safely to keep him in some secret place from all concourse and that by such sufficient Persons as had not been familiar or about him 75 The Names of such Bishops Lords and Knights as assented to the Imprisonment of King Richard 76 By full consent of all Bishops and Lords it was agreed that Henry the Kings eldest Son should from henceforth be called Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitain and Cornwall Earl of Chester and heir apparent of the Realm of England 77 On Monday the 28 th day of October the King came into the Parliament into the great Hall of Westminster where by the assent of the Bishops and Lords Richard late King of England was adjudged to perpetuall Prison as above 78 On the same Monday the Commons declared to the King how that the Duke of Brittain had sent word how that he was ready to do the King all that which he ought to do and therefore prayed that the Earldom of Richmond being his inheritance might not be granted away by any Letters Patents the which the Commons required and further that the Letters Patents thereof made to the Earl of Westmerland since the last Parliament might be repealed whereunto the King made answer that the Letters Patents were granted long before 79 The Duke of York and Earl of Northumberland and others of the Bloud of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury pray the King that the same Arch Bishop might have his recoverie against Roger Walden for sundry wastes and spoyls done by the said Roger in the Arch-Bishoprick aforesaid whereto the King granted and thanked them for their motion 80 The Commons on the 3. of November pray that forasmuch as they were not made privie to the Judgment aforesaid that no Record be made to charge or to make them parties thereunto whereunto the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by the Kings Commandment answered that the Commons were only Petitioners and that all Judgments appertain to the King and to the Lords unless it were in Statutes Grants Subsidies or such like the which order the King wouâ—d from that time to be observed 81 The Earl of Northumberland and Constable of England the 10 day of November in full Parliament beseeched the King to purge him and the Earl of Westmerland Marshall of England of the reproch layed on them that they procured the King to war on Scotland whereupon the King took upon himself the same and caused the Earl of Northumberland to ask of every Lord his opinion touching the same War who encouraged the King thereunto 82 The King by the assent of the Lords and Commons enacteth that Henry his eldest Son should have and bear the name of Duke of Lancaster and be called Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitain Lancaster and Cornwall and Earl of Chester And further that all such Liberties and Franchizes as were granted to the Duke of the same Dutchie should remain unto his said eldest Son and to his Heirs Dukes of Lancaster dissevered from the Crown of England and thereupon delivered one Charter thereof made in Parliament to his eldest Son 83 The King enacteth by the assent of the Lords that a certain new people disguised in white garments and pretending great Sanctimonie and coming from beyond the Seas be in no wise suffered to tarrie or harbour within the Realm 84 The King pardoneth and receiveth into his Protection Richard Clifford then Keeper of the privie Seal Richard Oltford the Bishop of Sarum and Mr. Henry Bowell who were exempted in An 11. Richard 2. 85 The print touching Liveries Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 86 The Commons grant to the King liberty by the advise of such wise men as he should call to him to moderate or to repeal the Statute of Provisors at any time made 87 It is enacted that the Gold granted in Anâ— 20. Richard 2. Tit. 19. shall be brought to Callice unto the next Parliament 88 It is enacted that the Staple of Wooll-fells Skins Lead and Tin shall be only at Callice saving that the Merchants of Ieane Venice and other places towards the West being of the Kings amity may discharge their Merchandize at Hampton and take in such Staple ware saving also the libertie to the men of Barwick for their Woolls 89 The Commons require that all Liberties granted to any City or Town may be confirmed without any Fine with the clause licet The Chancellor shall confirm the same according as he hath used paying the Fine saving the liberties of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg 90 The City of London prayeth that the Sheriffs of the same may take Assizes in the absence of the Coroner Upon the taking of the Assize in the Guild Hall of London if the Coroner come not in upon Proclamation let the Sheriffs take the Assizes provided that the same be not in derogation of the Coroner 91 Upon the Petition of Sir Thomas Haxey Cleark the King pardoneth and revoketh the Judgment made against him in An 20. R. 2. tit 23. restoreth him to the bloud and to the recoverie of all his Goods Livings Lands and Tenements 92 William Steward alias Chedder complaineth that where he by name was presented and inducted to the Parsonage of Wotton-underegg in the County of Gloucester and there continued in possession by the space of four years untill the King by untrue suggestion presented one Sir Iohn Dowtre to the Parsonage oâ— Underegg in the Countie where there was no such Parsonage called Underegg as the said William pleaded in a Quare Impedit brought by the King upon which Writ brought the King recovereth of the said William the Parsonage of Underegg and not Underegg whereby upon a Writ sent to the Bishop of Worcester the said William was put from his Parsonage of Underegg for which mistaking and error the Judgment of the said Iohn in full Parliament was reversed and a Writ awarded to the said Bishop for the Restitution of the said William 93 Sir William Richill being in ward brought into the Parliament House before them to answer by what warrant he took and certified the confession of the Duke of Gloucester expressed in the third roll in An 21. R. 2. tit 10. and 11. and was thereof apposed by Sir Walter Clopton Chief Justice by the Kings Commandment who answered at the full declaring thereby as well sufficient authority as his sincere dealing therein upon the hearing of which every of the Lords thought he did not but justly whereupon the said Sir Walter adjudged and awarded the said Sir William acquitted thereof for ever 94.
Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at COVENTRY the sixt day of October in the sixt year of the Raign of King HENRY the Fourth 1 ON Monday the 6. of October in the great Chamber within the Priorie of Coventrie therefore appointed and hanged the Bishop of Lincolnâ— the Kings brother Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the cause of that assemblie that first the holy Church all persons and all Corporations should enjoy their liberties 2 He then took for his Theam terraeâ— upon which he learnedly discoursed how for the safetie of the Realm as well within as without and namely for the repressing of the Welch rebels for resisting Enemies of France and Brittain who daily reenforced themselves for the Invasion of the Realm and subversion of the estate for the observing of Peace and ministration of Justice the King had called the wise of the Realm by them to be counselled 3 He further sheweth how by the last Parliament was no sufficient remedie provided for the quailing of the Welch neither competent relief granted for the performance of so great exploits and â—or that the French had determined war with England and had then invaded the Dominion of Guienne they should not so much marvell at the sudden calling of this Parliament as they ought most speedily to determine for the avoiding of those so great mischiefs and imminent perils wherefore he willeth the Commons to chose and the next day to present to the King their Speaker 4 Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland 5 Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles 6 Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above 7 Tryars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above 8 On Tuesday the 7. of October the Commons presented unto the King Sir William Sturmey to be their Speaker who made the Common Protestation thereupon the Chancellor willed the Commons chiefly to consider how the King might best be relieved 9 On the 8 th day of November the Commons by the assent of the Lords granted unto the King two Desmes and two Fifteens the subsidy of Woolls Wooll-fels and Skins viz. of denizens for every sack of Wooll 43 s. 4 d. of every 240. Wooll-fels 43 s. 4 d. and for every last of Skins 5 l. of aliens 10 s. more in every parricular for two years and 3 s. of every Tun of Wine passing and repassing the Realm and 12 d. on every pound of Merchandize on condition the same should not be imployed but only to the maintenance of Wars and defence of the Realm according to the order there taken by the oversight of the Lord Furnivall and Sir Iohn Pelham Knights Treasurers appointed for the Wars 10 The same day the Lord Furnivall and Sir Iohn were sworn before the King and Lords in Parliament to execute their Offices according to the grant 11 Where sundrie Bishops Lords and others appointed to lend unto the King certain sums of money towards the rescuing of the Lord of Coytife who was besieged in his Castel by the rebels in Wales the King appointed by Parliament that such persons as so should lend should be repayed of the first payments of the subsidy then granted 12 On Saturday the 26. of October the Commons came before the King and Lords in full Parliament where they in recommending the Lords Iohn and Humphery the Kings Sons prayen the King to advance them to honourable Estates and Livings they also pray the King to remember the Duke of Yorks service in Guienne and elsewhere so as he might therefore be payed his due Fees behind They make the like request for the Earl of Somerset and Sir Thomas Beauford his brother They finally beseech the King to render to Richard Duke of Yorks brother certain Jewels to the valew of 4000 l. which were in the hands of King Richard the second 13 They make like request as is above for the rescue of the Lord Coytife besieged by the Welch in the Castle of Coytife Certain Petitions of the Commons FIrst that all such hereditaments liberties and Customes as were to the Crown in 40. E. 3. and since by any means granted to be resumed into the Kings hands for ever provided that all Towns shall enjoy their liberties except also the Lands of such as were forejudged in the 11 th Richard second and sold away 15 That all Tuns and Pipes of Wine granted to any person by the King or any his Progenitors be also resumed 16 That the Queen may be endowed of all such hereditaments as Anne the late Queen was in whose hands soever the same be and by what grant soever 17 That all grants of Edward third or any his Progenitors and before the said 40 th year may be confirmed by Parliament 18 That all Farmers to the King by any like grants may enjoy the same their Farms giving as much therefore as others will 19 That no man hereby be restrained of any warrant granted to build any Castle or Caslet or to inclose any Park 20 The King maketh answer that he will execute their requests so far forth as by the Law and his Prerogative he may do and for that the Lands of the Crown in An. 40 E. 3. were not certainly known he would appoint certain Commissioners to enquire and execute the same 21 It is enacted that for one whole year the King shall take the profits of all Annuities Fees or wages granted by King R. 2. or the King now except certain of the Chief Officers there named Justices Barons of the Exchecquer and other Officers of any his Courts whatsoever 22 And also that the King for the like term shall enjoy the like profits of all hereditaments granted as is above except such as are granted to the Queen or any of the Kings Sons and of such as have their grants by Parliament 23 That Proclamation be made that all such as have any Patents granted since 40. E. 3. of any Annuall valew for life or years do on pain of forfeiting the same bring them in by a day there prescribed to the end that such as deserve the same may have continuance and the rest revoked 24 Upon the Petition of Henrei Prince of Wales it was enacted by the Lords that the said Prince should have due payment made of 1000. Marks granted to him for the keeping of certain men at Arms for the defence of Wales 25 Where the King granted to Henry the Son of Iohn Earl of Somerset and to the heirs males of his body begotten 1000. Marks out of the Exchecquer now at the Petition of
Flower Esquire to be their Speaker who with the Common protestation was allowed All Writs Commissions and Dependants of the same made by the assembly of the Council touching this Parliament are confirmed by authority of the same Thomas Bishop of Durham Chancellor of England to the late King H. 5. in the presence of the Duke of Gloucester and other Lords in the Castle of Windsor delivered and left with the King the great Golden Seal of the realm of England whereof he willed them to be witnesses and that the same may be enrolled The Bishop of London late Chancellor of the Dutchie of Normandy delivered the same Seal of that Dutchy at Rome to the Duke of Bedford who had the governance of the same and also in the presence as is aforesaid at Windsor the great Seal of England which King H. 5. gave to him to keep and prayeth to be discharged of the same by Act of Parliament and so was It is enacted that the Kings stile shall be changed and that accordingly there might be graven upon all his Seals as followeth Henricus Rex Franciae Angliae Dominus Hiberniae To satisfie the Commons request the Duke of Gloucester declared to them that the King had appointed the Bishop of Durham to be his Chancellor William Rindroffe to be Treasurer of England and Iohn Stafford to be keeper of the Privy Seal of all which offices their Patents are made and confirmed by Parliament It is enacted that all Estates shall have their Liberties confirmed being not revoked without these words Concedimus to be in any of the said affirmations Where King H. 5. made Henry Lord Fitz-hugh Walter Hungerâ—ord Walter Beauchampe Lewis Robsart William Porter Robert Babthorpe Iohn Woodhowse and Iohn Leventhorpe Esquires the Executors of his VVill and Testament the King granteth to them 40000 l. Marks for the performance of the same VVill 19 Marks was due to the Executors of H. 4. by oversight of the overseers of the same VVill of the Duke of Gloucester and others Lords there named The schedule thereto annexed conteineth the Kings Letters Patents in form aforesaid The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King the like Subsidie of Staple-ware Tonnage and Poundage as formerly for two yeares ensuing It is enacted that all such as were imprisoned in any of the Kings Gaoles for Heresie or Lollardie should be delivered to the Ordinary of the same place to be punished It is enacted that all such Petitions as are not ended in this Parliament shall be committed to the Council to be determined according to their discretion The King by authority of Parliament granteth to the Duke of Gloucester the office of Chamberlain of England with all the profits at the Kings pleasure In like form the King granteth to the said Duke the office of Constable of England The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament appointeth Iohn Duke of Bedford Protector and Defender of the Realm and Church of England and Chief Counsellor of the King so long as the said Duke then being beyond the Seas should remain in England and in his absence only the Duke of Gloucester to supply the said office the which Duke of Gloucester in full Parliament took upon him the burthen aforesaid with protestation that the same should not redound to the prejudice of the Duke of Bedford It is enacted upon the Kings Letters Patents that the Protectors aforesaid shall during the Kings minority dispose of all the offices of the Forests Keepers of Parkes and VVarrens and all Benefices of the Kings gift being above the value of 20 Marks to continue during their lives Certain Bishops Lords and others are named to be Counsellors assisting to the Governance aforesaid The which Counsellors took upon them in form followingâ— viz. That all Justices of Peace Sheriffs Escheators Customers Comptrollers Weighers Searchers and such other Officers may be made be their advice and denomination That these Counsellors may make the most of all manner of VVards Marriages Farmes and other Casualties of the Crown That nothing be enacted by Council but by six or more at the least and in all great causes by all or the most and wherein the King is to be conferred withall that nothing be therein done without the assents of the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester That the Treasurer of England and the two Chamberlains of the Exchequer may for every of them have a key to the Kings Receipt so as they be sworn before the Councell to make none privy thereto other than the Councell That the Clarks of the Councell may be sworn duely to keep the names of the Councell who do sit and truly to enact all things done by them The which Articles with the proviso ensuing were enacted by assent provided alwayes that such officers as have the same for life or otherwise may appoint Deputies any of the Articles notwithstanding Anne Countesse of Stafford daughter and heir of Ellinor one of the daughters and heirs of Humphry de Bohun late Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England reciteth a partition made between King H. 5. and her of the inheritance of the said Earl in the ninth of his reign at what time certain Knights fees in grosse were not parted whereof she now prayeth remedy and concerning certain members of the Castle of Brecknock in Wales The Kings Councell shall have power by authority of Parliament to take order herein Bartholomew Goldbeator Master of the Mint within the Tower requireth larger Commission touching the Coynage and Exchange of mony in the said Tower albeit the King meaneth that no Minter should hold the Exchange yet to the next Parliament liketh that the said Bartholomew should keep the Exchange so he taketh not above three half pence for the Exchange of a Noble The print cap. 4. c. agreeth with 2. H. 6. tit 11. The print touching the wages of Captains cap. 5. agreeth with the record The like Act is made touching Exchangers to Rome as in 9. H. 6. tit 24. It is enacted that Thomas Chawcer Chief Butler to the King shall enjoy the said office during his life according to the Letters Patents thereof made to him by Hing H. 4. In consideration that the Prior and Covent of â—nychester otherwise called Prior Ecclesiae Herodosiae surrendred unto the King for ever the Common of pasture for forty oxen and kine and twenty hoggs with the increase within the Kings Parkes of Clarindon and Wilts and the right of one called a Stickler who was to cut wood daily for them within the said Park the King granteth to them by the
four gates of London Note that the Judgement for the same is strange that any man in a quiet time and a realm of Peace should be condemned upon a bare Indictment without arraignment or due tryal Upon the Petition of Katherine Queen of England a new Dower is to her assigned by assent of Parliament for that sundry defaults were in the same made in the last Parliament At the request of the Executors of H. 4. the King by his Letters Patents appointeth to pay to the Executors of King H. 5. 40000 Markes to the end they the last Executors should pay the first and discharge the will of H. 5. which Letters Patents are confirmed The Executors of H. 5. prayen delivery of Jewels plate and goods of the said H. to the value of 40000 Marks which is granted It is enacted that as well the Executors of H. 4. and H. 5. shall pay all the debts of those Kings due by Talley as by Debentors It is also enacted that all such as have any of the Kings jewels in gage shall not deliver the same till they be paid At the Petition of the Executors of H. 5. it is enacted that the said Executors shall have all the Wards Mariages goods debts and Chattels which were the said Kings to the payment of his debts by the oversight as in the last Parliament tit 18. The Bishop of Durham Executor to the late Archbishop of York and others prayen the payment of 900 l. â—ent to the King H. 5. upon a Tabernacle of gold late belonging to the Duke of Lancaster and to be discharged against the said Kings Executors for the delivery of the said Tabernacle both of which are confirmed by common assent It is enacted that the Bishop of Winchester shall have Letters Patents to be payed out of any the Customs 20000 Markes which he had lent to King H. 5. The King by Letters Patents appointeth certain Bishops and others to treat and finally to conclude at Durham with the Scotish Ambassadours for the delivery of Iames the Scotish King and of him to make delivery according to their Orders the which Letters Patents are confirmed by common assent Edmond Earl of March son and heir to Roger Earl of March sheweth how King H. 5. for the summ of 10000 Marks paid to certain the Kings creditors by the said Earl promised to the said Earl of word of mouth his own Mariage being then the Kings Ward the which he requireth to be confirmed by Parliament the which was granted A rehearsal by Thomas Duke of Exeter how that King H. 5. before his death should much repent to the said Duke by taking away the land of the Lord le Scroope upon the attainder of H. the last Lord for that he understood that the same were entayled to Iefferey Stephen and Iohn le Scroope his brothers and that the Lord Fitz-hugh and William Porter to whom part of the said lands were given were contented on proof of the intail to make restitution of the same Iohn Stafford Treasurer of England prayeth that the schedule indented made between him on the one part and the Executors of H. 5. on the other touching goods of the said King delivered to the said Executors to the value of 40000 Marks might be confirmed and he thereof discharged the which is granted Note the Inventory containing the Jewels Cloathes of Arras apparel and goods particularly with their prices wherein you shall see plain Gownes of the Kings of lesse value than 40 s. and such other costly apparel as the worst pages of the least Nobleman in these dayes would scorn to wear Iaques Dutchesse of Gloucester is made a Denizen by the whole assent of Parliament Anne wife of the Duke of Bedford is also made a Denizen by the Kings Letters Patents which are confirmed by the Parliament Where King H. 5. had granted to the Dukes of Bedford and Exeter and to sundry other persons certain lands parcel of the Manor of Iscelworth with sundry Priories Manors Fishings and other hereditaments to the use of the Abbesse and Covent of the Monastery of Syon they require that the same may be confirmed by common consent which is granted At the Petitions of Iohn Earl of Huntingdon being prisoner in France by common consent there was given to him towards his ransom the Earl of Gancourt and the Earl of Tokervile being French prisoners here At the Petition of Ioane Queen of England wife to H. 4. the King by common assent restored to her all her Dower and arrerages of the same and all her goods taken from her It is enacted that the Merchant Strangers shall only pay 43 s. 4 d. subsidy for every sack of wool notwithstanding the grant made in 7 H. 5. At the Petition of the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St. Leonards in York It is enacted that they doe enjoy all their threaves of Corn within the Counties of York Cumberland Westmerland and Lancaster and that they may recover the same by actions of debt or detinue It is enacted that Iohn Duke of York shall by his Attorney or Attorneys be received in any Court to sue or be sued in any action brought for any hereditaments where the reversion or remainder belongeth to the said Duke the print cap. 3. agreeth herewith The print touching the Staple at Callice cap. 4. agreeth with the record It is enacted to continue unto the next Parliament that no licence be granted to any person to transport any slight looms of Hampshire Kent Sussex and York but only at Callice It is enacted that if any person shall carry out of the Realm any Staple ware from the Staple at Callice uncustomed he shall forfeit the same and make fine and ransom at the Kings will â—â— cap. 5. agreeth herewith The print touching the Mint at Callice cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the liberties of the Church cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print that no Cordwayner shall be Tanner cap. 7. agreeth with the record That in Assizes or other VVrits of Entry no man be delayed by the Defendants affirming any reversion or remainder to be in the Kings hand where none is indeed and that all feofments or grants made by any disseisor upon collusion to the King to be void The King will be advised The Commons require that some Commission be granted to determine the manifold oppressions and misdemeanors done by Iohn Lord Talbot and Sr. William Talbot Knight his brother and by sundry other named their servants and officers to sundry the Kings Subjects within the Hundred of Norman-low in the County of Hereford being ancient demesne as
c. apud Leceist 18. die Febr. Teste apud Westm. septimo die Ianuar. HUmf. Duci Gloucestriae Tho. Duci Oxon. Johanni Duci Norfolk Hen. Com. Northumb. Humfrido Com. Stafford Jacobo de Berckley Chlr. Magistro Tho. de la VVarr VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Johanni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Reginal Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Roberto de Poynings Chlr. VVillielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. VVillielmo Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Lodovico Robessart Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Lovell de Fishmorsh Chlr. Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Waltero Hungerford Johanni Tibetot Chlr. Reginaldo le Warr Chlr. Tho. de Morle Chlr. Willielmo Cheyney Capitali Justiciario Rex Charissimo Avunculo suo Iohanni Duci Bedfordiae c. apud Lecester decimo Octavo die Februarii Teste apud Westm. Septimo die Ianuarii HUumf Duci Gloucest Thom. Duci Exoniae Joh. Duci Norfolk Humfrido Com. Stafford Jacobo de Berckley Chlr. Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Johanni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthinâ— Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillo Botreaux Chlr. Johan Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Willielmo Clinton Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Johanni Gray de Codonore Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Lodovico Robesart Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Lovell Chlr. VVillielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Johanni Tibetott Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tiptoft Chlr. No Lord Warden The Parliament holden at Leicester the eighteenth day of February in the fourth year of King Henry the Sixth BEfore the King sitting in person in the great Hall of the Castle of Leicester the Lords and Commons then being present there the Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England declared that the Kings will was that all Estates should enjoy their liberties He then took for his Theam the words of St. Paul Sic facite ut salvi sitis the which he divided into three parts The first to God protecting the faith of the Church against the invasions of the Heretiks and Lollards the second by imparting some Counsell the third by granting liberall subsedies Of which he affirmed that three vertues and commodities would follow viz. Glory to God by protecting his faith Honour to the King by receiving sound Counsell and Peace to the Subjects by liberall granting VVherefore he willed every estate to labour herein and the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The King appointeth by his Letters Patents Iohn Duke of Bedford his Commissioner to prorogue and dissolve the Parliament The twenty eighth day of February the Commons presented before the King Richard Vernon Knight to be their Speaker who with the common protestation was allowed Upon the Commons misliking of the dissention between the Nobles the Duke of Bedford and other Bishops and Lords made among themselves a solemn decree that every of them should without affection hear and end the dissention between the Duke of Gloucester and the Bishop of Winchester so as neither of them should be encouraged to break the peace To which order after every of the Lords were sworn they sent the Copy thereof to the Commons The fifth day of May it was enacted that a proclamation should be made in Leicester that all such as had any Annuity fee or office of the kings grant or confirmation and were in the Town aforesaid should there appear before the King and his Councell on VVednesday ensuing to abide further direction The variance between the Duke of Gloucester and the Bishop of Winchester by their formall Instruments is compromitted to certain Bishops and Lords who by like formality make a full order between them viz. that the Bishop should first submit himself to the King which he did whereupon the Duke of Bedford in open Parliament by the Kings commandement pronounced the said Bishop excused as well of that it was said that the said Bishop had procured one to have murdered the King being Prince as the murderer confessed who was therefore drowned by the Earl of Arundell as also of that it was said that the said Bishop should counsell and have procured H. 5. being Prince to have deprived H. 4. his Father Besides that they awarded that the said Bishop should acknowledge to the said Duke of Gloucester an offence and by his submission to pray his favour and that the Duke should promise the same and that in token thereof either of them should take the other by the hand which was done The thirteenth day of March the Bishop of Winchester for sundry causes prayeth to be discharged of the great seal whereof by common consent he was discharged The Bishop of Bath Treasurer of England was of his office also discharged The eighteenth of March Iohn Bishop of Bath and Welles late Treasurer of England by a Writ of the privy seal delivered to the Duke of Bedford the Kings great seal of gold in a leather bagg the which the Duke took and shewed openly and so sealed with his own seal and after delivered the same to Iohn Bishop of London Chancellor of England The Bishop of Durham by vertue of a privy seal to him directed delivered the last VVill and Testament with a Codicell thereto annexed of H. 5. which was sealed with the great and privy seales and the privy signet to the Lords of the privy Councell who delivered the same over safely to be kept to Mr. VVilliam Alenwick keeper of the privy seal It is enacted that the Lords of the Councell shall have full power to bind the King his heirs and successors to his Creditors by one assurance for the summe of 40000 l. At the petition of the Earl of Huntington the King by common consent releaseth to Lewes of Burbon Earl of Vandesme all the arrearages of his ransome being taken at Agincourt field The Duke of Bedford who had the keeping of the Castle at Barwick to him and his heirs males with the fee of 500 marks hath licence by common consent to appoint a Deputy there under him during his life at the Kings pleasure It is enacted that any of the feoffees of H. 5. may take the homage of fealty of any tenants holding of them It is enacted that the Kings Councell by authority of Parliament shall
in the fifteenth year of King Henry the sixth IOhn Bishop of Bath and Wells Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons by the Kings commandement declared the cause of the Parliament and took for his Theam Isa. 62. Corona Regni in manu dei c. Whereupon he shewed that three sorts of men are Crowned viz. All Christians in their baptism in token whereof they are anointed All Clerks in token of their order are shaven in token thereof All Kings in their Coronation in token whereof they wear a Crown of gold set with flowers and precious stones By the figure of the Crown he resembleth to the politique government by the flowers and stones the honours and office of a Prince as gold estimable and durable So that a Common-wealth is most firm and stable which is governed in the faithfull care of a Prince as gold is flexible to the workmen so ought every Commonalty to be at the beck of the Prince seeking the prosperity of the same The erecting and standing of the flowers in the upper part of the Crown pretendeth the Kings preheminency over the Subjects the which ought to be garnished with four Cardinal vertues viz. In the fore part ought to be Wisdom adorned with three precious stones viz. Memory of things past Circumspection to things present and Prudence of things to come On the right hand ought to be Fortitude accompanied with Courage in attempting Patience in suffering and Perseverance in well meaning On the left side ought to be Justice distributing her Arms in triple sort viz. to the best mean and lowest On the hinder part ought to be Temperance with her Trinity viz. Restraint of sensuality in fear Silence in speech and Mortification in will all which proceeding from God fully approved that the Crown of the King was in the hands of God He therefore sheweth that the same Parliament was called for three principal causes The first for Justice and Peace amongst the Subjects The second how the Commodities growing within this realm might have a ready Vent The third how the realm might be defended and the Sea kept against the Enemies and Rebels To which end he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Commons presented to the King Sir Iohn Tirrell Knight to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with the common protestation was allowed An authority is given to the Treasurer of England to pay to the Cardinal 2000 Marks The Duke of Gloucester Captain of Callice prayeth that if any mishap should happen to Callice for want of payment of the souldiers the same may not be imputed unto him At the request of Sir Iohn Cromwell Knight Lord of Fanhope the Prior and Covent of the Friers Preachers within Ludgate are incorporated to whom the said Lord granted 40. marks yearly for an Obbit in a Chapel of his own erection there called Cornwall Chapel At the Petition of Isabel late wife of Iohn Botler of Beansley in the County of Lancaster Knight the which Isabel one William Pull of Winall in the County of Chester Gentleman shamefully did ravish It is enacted that if the said William doe not yield himself after Proclamation made against him that he should be taken as a Traytor attainted The same Isabel by another Petition sheweth how the said William by duresse and means of imprisonment enforced her to mary him and by colour thereof ravished her for the which she prayeth her appeal which to her is granted Richard Widonell Knight payeth to the King 1000 l. for a Fine for marrying of Iaquett Dutchesse of Bedford without license The King by Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament granteth licence to the Duke of Gloucester and Ellinor his wife to impark 200 Acres of land in Greenwich and that their Manor of Greenwich they may embattle and build with stone and also make a Tower of Stone within the same Park At the Petition of the same Duke it is enacted that if the Customs of Callice shall not suffice to pay the Souldiers their wages that the Treasurer of England shall pay the same Iohn Earl of Oxford prayeth the pardon of 300 l. the rest of 3000 l. paid to the King for marying without licence It was answered that the same debt was assigned but otherwayes the King would remember him Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the Marshall and Kings Steward of his house cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print touching the carriage of Corn over the Seas cap. 2. agreeth with the record That the Impositions of 4 d. for every 20 s. of Merchandize paid to the officers of Bourdeaux may cease The King will be advised That the Justices may determine the treasons for burning of houses made Anno 8 H. 6. The King will be advised The print touching the Clause Vidimus in a safe-conduct cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching Suerties upon writs of Subpoena cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching VVrits of Attaint cap. 5. agreeth with the record The 19th day of March certain of the Commons being sent declared to the King that the Commons had newly chosen William Beerly Esquire to be their Speaker for that Sir Iohn Tirrell by grievous sicknesse could not attend whereupon the King allowed the same William and granted that he should enjoy the common protestation The like Desme and fifteen is granted as in the last Parliament tit 14. The like Subsidie of Wools for three years is granted as in the last Parliament tit 19. Authority is given to the Kings Councell to make assurances to the Kings Creditors for the sum of 100000 l. The Kings general pardon of all Treasons felonies forfeitures and other offences VVhere Katherine Queen of England the Kings mother was dead and had made the King sole Executor the King appointeth Roberâ— Ralston Clerk keeper of the great Wardrobe Iohn Merston and Richard Alreed Esquires to execute the said Queens will by the oversight of the Cardinal the Duke of Gloucester and the Bishop of Lincoln or any two of them to whom they should accompt Authority is given to the Lords of the Councel to answer all such Petitions as are not answered in the Parliament After which viz. the second of Iune these Bills were read and answered by certain of
those times far doth swarve from the guise now which is so far from kissing the Prince as in doing the same they do not so much as see the Prince That no Italian or other Merchant beyond the Streight of Moroccoe bring no other Merchandise within the Realm other than are growing in the same their Countries and that for good reasons in the record The King will be advised That all spiceries sold in any Port within the realm by any Merchants strangers be as clear garbelled as the same is in London upon pain to forfeit the same The King will be advised It is enacted that the fourth part of the Desme and fifteenth shall be payed to the Treasurer of the Kings houshould therewith all to make ready pay for the Kings purveyance And by the same Act it appeareth that the Revennues of the Dutchies of Lancaster and Cornwall should be imployed to the present payment of the kings purveyance for the houshold The print touching Captaiâ—s abating of Souldiers wages cap. 18. agreeth with the record The print touching souldiers going away from their Captains cap. 19. agreeth with the record Of the print cap. 3. for transporting of butter and cheese there is no mention made in the record Anno Decimo Octavo Henrici Sexti HUmfrey Duke of Gloucester Richard Duke of York John Duke of Norfolk Hen. Earl of Northumberland John Earl of Oxford Ralph Earl of Westmerland Humfrey Earl of Stafford John Earl of Somerset Tho. Earl of Devon James Lo. Berckley VVilliam Lo. Ferrers of Grobie Leonard Lo. Gray of Ruthin Richard Lo. Strange George Lo. Latimer Ralph Lo. Graystockeâ— Robert Lo. Poynings VVilliam Lo. Botreaux Thomas Lo. Dacre of Gilsland VVilliam Lo. Harrington John Lo. Audley Ralph Lo. Cromwell John Lo. Scroop of Masham William Lo. Zouch of Harringworth VValter Lo. Hungerford John Lo. Tiptoft Henry Lo. Gray of Codonore Robert Lo. Willoughbie William Lo. Fitz-hugh William Lo. Nevell William Lo. Lovell Leonard Lo. Welles Reynald VVest Chlr. John Lo. Beomont John Lo. Cromwell Henry Lo. Bourchier Thomas Lo. Clifford Anno Vicessimo Henrici Sexti Rex Humf. Duci Gloucest c. apud Westm. die Conversionis Sancti Pauli Teste apud Manerium nostrum de Schens tertio die Decembris RIcardo Duci Ebor. Johanni Duci Norsolk Johanni Com. Huntington Hen. Com. Northumb. Humâ—rido Com. Stafford Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Iohanni Com. Somerset Edoardo Com. Dorset Radul Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxoniae Willielmo Com. Suffolciae Jacobo Berckley Chlr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Edoardo de Gray de Râ—thin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni Tiptoâ—t Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni de Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Gray de Codonore Chlr. VVillielmo Fitz-Hugh Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Johanni Vicimetio de Beamont Chlr. Leonardo de VVelles Chlr. Johanni Cornwalliae Chlr. Roberto Willoughbie Chlr. Iohanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho de Boteler Chlr. Iohanni de Clifford Chlr. Roberto Morley Chrl. No Lord VVarden Anno Vicessimo Tertio Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae apud VVestm vicessimo quinto die Februarii Teste apud VVestm decimo tertio die Ianuarri RIcardo Duci Ebor. Iohanni Duci Norfolciae Joh. Duci Oxoniae Humf. Duci Buckingham Edoardo Marchioni Dorset Willielmo Marchioni Suffolciae Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon VVillielmo Com. Arundell Roberto Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxoniae Iohanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Vicecomiti Beamont Chlr. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Edoardo de Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni de Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Waltero Hungerford Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-Hugh Chlr. Hen. de Scroop de Bolton Chlr. VVillielmo de Nevill Chlr. Willielmo de Lovell Chlr. Lionelli de Welles Chlr. Roberto Willoughby Chlr. Iohanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho Butler de Sutley Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Hen. Bourchier Chlr. de Bourchier Edoardo Brooke de Cobham Chlr. Iohanni Talbot de Lilsle Chlr. Tho. de Scales Milit. Reginaldo Gray de VVilton Chlr. Roberto Hungerford Chlr. Domino de Mollins No Lord Warden named The Parliament holden at Westminster the twenty fifth day of February in the three and twentienth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in person in the Chair of Estate and of the Lords and Commons Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England Deputy of the See of Rome and Chancellor of England declared the cause of the calling of the Parliament taking for his Theam Iustitia Pax osculatae Psal. 84. Upon which he sheweth how that through the great travell of the Earl of Suffolk the Kings dear Cozen and other Noblemen Ambassadors sent into France as well for a treaty of mariage to be had between the King and Margaret the daughter of the King of Sicile as for peace to be had between the realms of England and France the same Mariage was contracted and an abstaining from Warr for a time was granted He further shewed how that the said Earl remained in France attending for the safe conducting of the said Princesse Margaret into the realm of England by which two means through Gods grace he nothing doubted but that the same truce should turn in that wise as Justice and peace should be within the realm more than the same hath been wherefore he willed the Commons to chuse and the next day to present to the King their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Commons report to the Lords that they had chosen their Speaker The third day of the Parliament the Commons presented unto the King William Burley Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse rejected he with the common Protestation was allowed The fifteenth day of March the Chancellor by the Kings commandement and assent of the Lords in the presence of the Commons prorogued the Parliament from that day unto the nineteenth day of April next ensuing at Westminster aforesaid The fifteenth day of December in the twenty fourth year c. the Chancellour prorogued the same Parliament from the same day unto
of Burie who had in his hands 456 l. 2 s. â— d. of a rest for a Collection of Disms shall pay the same to the King albeit he have general pardon for that it was no meaning of the King to pardon the same Vide 27 H. 6. Anno Tricesimo Primo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Duci Eborum c. apud Reading Sexto die Martii Teste apud Westmonast Vicesimo die Ianuarii RIcardo Duci Somerset Johanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckingham Hen. Duci Oxoniae Edwardo Com. Richmond Jaspero Com. Pembrook Ricardo Com. Warr. Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Oxon. Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Com. Wigorn. Johanni Com. VVilton Johanni Vicecom de Beamont Chlr. Johanni Talbott Vicecom de Lisle Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edwardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Edwardo Gray Domino de Grobie Chlr. Joh. de Berckley Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Rogero Hungerford sen. Milit. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Dom. de Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Johan Beauchamp Chlr. Dom. de Beauchamp Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Hen. Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Dom. de Clinton Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Edwardo de Nevel de Burgavenny Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Tho de Scales Chlr. Reginal Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Johanni Sturton de Sturton Milit. Ricardo VVodvill Domino de Rivers Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier Domino Fitz-warren Will. Bonevile Dom. de Bonevile de Chatton Milit. Hen Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Milit. Tho. Domino de Roos Mil. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins Milit. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Hoo Chlr. Tho. Gray Domino de Richmond Mil. Willielmo Beauchamp Dom. de St. Amando Tho. Percie Dom. de Egremont Mil. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. The Parliament holden at Reding the seventeenth of March in the one and thirtieth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber of refectory within the Abbey of Reding and of the Lords and Commons William Bishop of Lincoln in the absence of Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement very notably declared the cause of the Parliament namely for the good government of the realm and safe defence of the same to which end he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the fees and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The eight day of March the Commons presented to the King Thomas Thorp Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the Common protestation was allowed The Commons grant to the King one Desme and one Fifteen The Commons grant to the King Tonnage and Poundage during his life They also grant to the King during his Subsidy of woolls viz. 23 s. 4 d. for every sack of Denizens and 5 l. of Aliens and so of other Staple-ware according to the rate They also grant to the King of every Merchant not born within the realm and no Denizeâ— and keeping house 40 s. and of every such Merchant as shall remain within the realm but 6. weeks 20 s. per Annum And of every Merchant Alien being no Denizen 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. yearly during the Kings life The Speaker declared by mouth how that the Commons had granted to find in the Kings service twenty thousand Archers for half a yeares space The eighteenth day of March after thanks given to the Lords by the King himself Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid and Town of Reding to the twentieth day of April then ensuing at Westminster The King discharged the realm and Commons of 7000 Archers parcell of the 20000 before granted A due proportioning of the 13000 men granted to serve the King for every particuâ—ar County within the realm In consideration of a summe or Masse of money to be levied by the Commons the King for three yeares is content to respite the levying of 13000 Archers unlesse he be drawn by great necessity or in person to go himself to take them It is enacted that Edmund Duke of Somerset late Captain of Callice shall be payed 21648 l. 10 s. out of the Customes of the Staple wares going out of the Port of Sandwich for fees and wages due to him and other Chief Captains and Souldiers while he was Captain there A particular rate out of the grant of a fifteen for certain in every County in England allotted to the repairing of Callice and for the making of a Risebanck An allotment of 20 s. out of the Subsedy for every sack of wool is allowed towards the wages and victualling of Souldiers in Callice The Commons grant unto the King the moity of one Desme and of one fifteen After the words spoken to the Commons by the King viz. VVe thank you for your grants for the which be ye assured we will be a good and gracious Lord unto you Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England the second day of Iuly by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid unto the seventh day of November at Reding The King delivered certain Schedules in parchment signed with his seal manuell the which he willed to be enrolled and enacted The which contain ten purveyances or provisions for Edmund Earl of Richmond and Iasper Earl of Pembrook and for none other severall persons as it should seem to be exempted and out of the Statute of resumption At Reding the twenty second of November in the 32. H. 6. to which place and day the Parliament was prorogued Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbâ—ry and Chancellor of England by his Letters patents rehearseth the beginning and prorogation of the Parliament and adjourneth the same from the day aforesaid to the eleventh day of February then ensuing at VVestminster aforesaid The eleventh day of February at Reding aforesaid Iohn Earl of Worcester and Treasurer of England by the Kings Letters Patents prorogued the Parliament from the day and place aforesaid to the fourteenth day of the same moneth at Westminster The fourteenth day of February Richard Duke of York by the Kings Letters Patents of precedency presideth in the same Parliament The same fourteenth day of February
edition of banes in a private Chamber a prophane place and not openly in the face of the Church after the Law of Gods Church but contrary thereunto and the laudable custom of the Church of England and how also at the time of the contract of the same pretended Mariage and before and long time after the said King Edward was and stood maried and troth-plight to one Dame Elinor Butler daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury with whom the said King Edward had made a Pre-contract of Matrimony long time before he made the said pretended Mariage with the said Elizabeth Gray in manner and form aforesaid Which premisses being true as in very truth they be true it appeareth and followeth evidently that the said King Edward during his life and the said Elizabeth lived together sinfully and damnably in adultery against the Law of God and of his Church and therefore no marvel that the Soveraign Lord and head of the land being of such ungodly disposition and provoking the ire and indignation of our Lord God such heynous mischief and Inconveniences as are above remembred were used and committed in the Realm amongst the Subjects Also it appeareth evidently and followeth that all the issue and children of the said King Edward be Bastards and unable to inherit or claim any thing by inheritance by the Law and custom of England Moreover we consider how that afterwards by the three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 17. of the reign of the said King Edward the fourth he then being in possession of the Crown and royal Estate by Act made in the same Parliament George Duke of Clarence brother to the King Edward now deceased was convicted and attainted of High Treason as in the said Act is contained more at large because and by reason whereof all the issue of the said George was and is disabled and barred of all right and claim that in any case they might have or challenge by inheritance to the Crown and Dignity royal of this Realm by the antient Laws and Customs of this same Realm Over this we consider that you be the undoubted heir of Richard Duke of York very inheritor of the said Crown and dignity royal and as in right King of England by way of Inheritance And that at this time the premises duely considered there is none other person living but you onely that may claim the said Crowne and Dignity royal by way of Inheritance and how that you be born within this Land by reason whereof as we deem in our minds you be more naturally inclined to the prosperity and common-weal of the same And all the three Estates of the Land have and may have more certain knowledge of your birth and filiation aforesaid We consider also thâ— great Wit Prudence Justice Princely courage and the memorable and laudable acts in divers battels which as we by experience know you heretofore have done for the defence and salvation of this Realmâ— and also the great noblenesse and excellency of your birth and bloud as of him that is descended of the three most royal houses of Christendome that is to say England France and Spain Wherefore these premises duly by us considered we desiring effectually the peace tranquillity and weal publique of this Land and the reduction of the same to the antient honourable estate and prosperity And having in your great prudent Justice Princely courage and excellent vertue singular confidence have chosen in all that in us is and by that our Writing choose you high and mighty Prince our King and Soveraign Lord c. to whom we know of certain it appertaineth of Inheritance so to be chosen And hereupon we humbly desire pray and require your most Noble grace that according to this election of us theâ— Three Estates of your Land as by inheritance you will accept and take upon you the said Crown and royal dignity with all things thereunto annexed and appertaining as to you of right belonging as well by inheritance as by lawfull election and in case you so do we promise to assist and serve your Highnesse as true and faithfull Subjects and Liege-men and to live and dye with you in this matter and in every other just quarrel for certainly we be determined rather to adventure and commit us to the peril of our lives and jeopardy of death than to live in such thraldom and bondage as we have done long time heretofore oppressed and injured by Extortions and new Impositions against the Law of God and Man and the liberties and old policy and Laws of this Land wherein every Englishman is inherited Our Lord God King of all Kings by whose infinite goodnesse and eternal providence all things been principally governed in this world lighten your Soul and grant you grace to do as well in this matter as in all other that which may be according to his will and pleasure and to the common and publique weal of this Land So that after great clouds troubles storms and tempests the Sun of Justice and of Grace may shine upon us to the joy and comfort of all true-hearted English men Albeit that the right title and estate which our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third hath to and in the Crown and royal dignity of this Realm of England with all things thereunto within the same Realm and without it annexed and appertaining been just and lawfull as grounded upon the Laws of God and Nature and also upon the antient Laws and laudable Customs of this said Realm And also taken and reputed by all such persons as been learned in the abovesaid Lawes and Customs Yet neverthelesse for as much as it is considered that the most part of the people is not sufficiently learned in the abovesaid Laws and Customs whereby the truth and right in this behalf of likelihood may be hid and not clearly known to all the people and thereupon put in doubt and question And over this how that the Court of Parliament is of such authority and the people of this Land of such a nature and disposition as experience teacheth that manifestation and declaration of any truth or right made by the Three estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament and by authority of the same maketh before all other things most faith and certain quieting of mens minds and removeth the occasion of doubts and seditious language Therefore at the request and by the assent of the Three Estates of this Realm that is to say the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament and by authority of the same be it pronounced decreed and declared that our said Soveraign Lord the King was and is the very undoubted King of this Realm of England with all things thereunto within the same Realm and
without it united annexed and appertaining as well by right of consanguinity and inheritance as by lawfull election consecration and Coronation And over this that at the request and by the assent and authority abovesaid be it ordained enacted and established that the said Crown and royal dignity of this Realm and the Inheritance of the same and all other things therunto within this realm or without it united and annexed and now appertaining rest and bide in the person of our said Soveraign Lord the King during his life and after his decease in his heirs of his body begotten in especial at the request and by assent and the authority aforesaid be it ordained enacted established pronounced decreed and declared that the high and excellent Prince Edward Son of our said Lord the King be heir apparent of the same our Soveraign Lord the King to succeed to him in the abovesaid Crown and royal dignity with all things as is aforesaid thereunto united annexed and appertaining to have them after the decease of our said Soveraign Lord the King to him and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten Quae quidem Billa Communibus Regni Angliae in dicto Parliamento existentibus transportata fuit cui quidem Billae idem Communes assensum suum praebuerunt sub hiis verbis A ceste Bille les Communs sont assentes quibus quidem Billa assensu coram Domino Rege in Parliamento praedicto lectis auditis plene intellectis de assensu Dominorum Spiritualium Temporalium in dicto Parliamento similiter existentium Communitatis praedictae nec non authoritate ejusdem Parliamenti pronunciatum decretum declaratum existit omnia et singula in Billa praedicta contenta fore vera et indubia ac idem Dominus Rex de assensu dictorum trium Statuum Regni authoritate praedicta omnia singula praemissa in billa praedicta contentâ— concedit ea pro vero indubio pronunciat decernit declarat FINIS A Table of the Parliament Rolls and Writs of Summons here abridged Tempore Edw. 3. 4 Eâ— 3. p. 6. 5 E. 3. p. 9. 6 E. 3. Parl. 1. p. 11. Parl. 2. p. 12 13. 8 E. 3. p. 15. 13 E. 3. Parl. 1. p. 17. Parl. 2. p. 19. 14 E. 3. p. 22. Parl. 2. p. 25. c. 15 E. 3. p. 31. 17 E. 3 p. 35 c. 18 E. 3. p. 42 43. 20 E. 3. p. 46. 21 E. 3. p. 51. 22 E. 3. p. 68 69. 25 E. 3. p. 72 73. Parl. 2. p. 77 78. 27 E. p. 81. 28 E. 3. p. 84 85. 29 E. 3. p. 89 90. 36 E. 3. p. 92. 37 E. 3. p. 95 96. 38 E. 3. p. 99 100. 40 E. 3. p. 102. 42 E. 3. p. 104 105. 43 E. 3. p. 106 109. 45 E. 3. p. 111. 47 E. 3. p. 115 116. 50 E. 3. p. 120. Parl. 2. p. 141. 51 E. 3. p. 144. Tempore R. 2. 1 R. 2. p. 153 154. 2 R. 2. Parl. 1. p. 167. Parl. 2. p. 173. 3 R. 2. p. 181 112. 4 R. 2. p. 187 188. 5 R. 2. p. 193. Parl. 2. p. 195. 6 R. 2. p. 281. Parl. 2. p. 286. 7 R. 2. p. 289 290. Parl. 2. p. 297 498. 8 R. 2. p. 202 203. 9 R. 2. p. 307 308. 10 R 2. p. 313 314. 11 R. 2. p. 319 320 321. 12 R. 2. p. 327 328 329. 14 R. 2. p. 330 331. 15 R. 2. p. 340 341. 16 R. 2. p. 346. 17 R. 2. p. 350 351. 18 R. 2. p. 357 358. 20 R. 2. p. 359 360. 21 R. 2. p. 367. 23 R. 2. p. 382. Tempore H. 4. 1 H. 4. p. 383 384 c. 2 H. 4. p. 403 404. 4 H. 4. p. 414. 5 H. 4. p. 425. 6 H. 4. p. 435. 7 H. 4. p. 449. 8 H. 4. p. 451. 9 H. 4. p. 463 464. 11 H. 4. p. 469 470. 13 H. 4. p. 477. Tempore H. 5. 1 H. 5. p. 533 534. 2 H. 5. p. 557 538. 3 H. 5. p. 542 543. 4 H. 5. p. 549 550. 5 H. 5. p. 552 553. 7 H. 5. p. 559 560. 9 H. 5. p. 559 560. Tempore H. 6. 1 H. 6. p. 561 562. 2 H. 6. p. 566 567. 3 H. 6. p. 571 573. 4 H. 6. p. 581 582. 6 H. 6. p. 586 587. 8 H. 6. p. 591. 9 H. 6. p. 597. 10 H. 6. p. 601 602. 11 H. 6. p. 606 607. 14 H. 6. p. 613 614. 15 H. 6. p. 616 617. 18 H. 6. p. 620 621. 23 H. 6. p. 628 629. 25 H. 6. p. 632 633. 27 H. 6. p. 636 637. 28 H. 6. p. 639 640. 29 H. 6. p. 645 646. 31 H. 6. p. 648 649. 33 H. 6. p. 655 656. 38 H. 6. p. 660 661. Tempore E. 4. 1 E. 4. p. 668 669. 3 4. E. 4. p. 673 674. 7 8 E. 4. p. 679 680 683. 9 E. 4. p. 686. 12 E. 4. p. 687 688. 13 E. 4. p. 692. 14 E 4. p. 700. 17 E. 4. p. 701. 22 E. 4. p. 704. 23 E. 4. p. 708. Tempore R. 3. 1 R. 3. 709 710. A Chronological Kalender of all the Admirals Chamberlains Chancellours Clerks of Parliament Constables of England Counsellours of State Custodes or Keepers of the Realm Chief Justices and Judges of both Benches and Barons of the Eschequer Marshals Privy-Seal keepers Protectors Speakers of Parliament Stewards of the Houshold Treasurers Wardens of the Cinque-Ports and other Great Officers mentioned in this Exact Abridgment with the years of the Kings number-rolls and pages wherein they are named Admirals of England EArl of Arundel 13 E. 3. n. 13. p. 20. Earl of Huntingdon 13 E. 3. n. 14. p. 20. Sir Michael de la Pool of the North Sea 1 R. 2. p. 153. Earl of Northumberland of the North 7 R 2. n. 14. p. 291. Earl of Devonshire of the West 7 R. 2. n. 14. p. 291. John Marquesse Dorset 21 R. 2. n. 73. p. 734. Edward Earl of Salisbury John Earl of Shrewsbury John Earl of Worcester James Earl of Wiltshire and the Lord Sturton 31 H. 6. n. 40. p. 652. discharged at their requests 38 H. 6. n. 27. p. 657. Chamberlains SIr John Darcy Lord Chamberlain 20 E. 3. n. 5. p. 46. Sir Bartholmew Burgherst 25 E. 3. Parl. 2. n. 9. p. 79. 27 E. 3. n. 8. p. 82. 28 E. 3. n. 58. p. 88. William Lord Latimer 50 E. 3. n. 21. p. 122. Sir Robert de Ashton 51 E 3. n. 13. p. 145. Sir Thomas Erpingham 1 H. 4. n. 59. p. 389. Earl of Oxford by Inheritance 1 H 4. n. 1. 40 p. 397. The Lord Gray 11 H. 4. p. 479. n. 13. Humfrey Duke of Glocester 1 H. 6. n. 22. p. 564. Ralph Lord Cromwell 10 H. 6. n. 17. p. 603. Vice-Chamberlains SIr Thomas de Erpâ—ngham 2 H. 4. n. 14. p. 406. Chancellors of England BIshop of Winchester 5 E. 3. n. 1. p. â— Bishop of London 6 E. 3. n. 4. p. 11. Bishop of Winchester 6 E. 3. Parl.
from Dover thither p. 679. The Treasurer and Victualler of Callice surrender their Patents and others are appointed and confirmed in their places p. 681. Provision for its victualling and souldiers pay p. 677. Cambâ—idge University a difference between the Friers Mendicants and iâ— heard and setled by the Lords in Parliament p. 102 103. The Chancellor and Scholars thereof to punish all victuallers and defaults in weights measures c. in the Mayors default with the Mayor and Bayliâ—ts thereof and their Officersâ— p. 172. The Chancellor and Scholars Bill accusing the Mayor Bayâ—iâ—ts and Commonalty thereof for breaking nâ— their Treasury taking away and burning their Charters enforcing them under their Seal to release all their Liberties all actions real and personal and enter into bonds of great sums to them in a riotous manner for which they are fined censured in Parliament their Liberties setled into the Kings hands the Government and privileges thereof granted to the Chancellor and Scholars p. 199 200. Their grant explained and confirmed p. 304. Their Petition that neither they nor their Servants may be put to answer any Treason Felony or breach of Law before the Mayor and Bayliâ—ts who are summoned thereupon and adjudged in a contempt p. 331. The Commons pray the Lords to regard their estate p. 347 407. Their Liberties confirmed without fine p. 393. Canon Law and Constitutions of the Church would have benefices bestowed only for charity without praying or paying p. 128. Prohibitions granted in cases against the Canon Law p. 139. No man to be bound by the Clergies Constitutions made for their own advantage p. 148. Ordinaries to doe according to the Laws of the Church p. 164. The Laws of the Church to discuss and punish usury p. 285. See Vsury The Bishops by the Canonical Law not to be present in matters of treason and bloud p. 322. Nor to advise in matters of punishment p. 11. The Bishops agree to a Bill so farr forth as it swarveth not from the Law of God and the Church p. 589. Canterbury the Staple setled there in honor of Thomas Becket p. 82. An Act for its paving p. 703. A distresse for a Quitâ—rent â—rent granted to the Prior of Christ Church in Canterbury p. 599. Capras awarded against a Clerk upon the Sheriffs return p. 32. against wearers of Liveries p. 590. prayed in writs of Annuity c. p. 410. Captains to be placed and displaced by Commissioners of the Array and to forrage on the Enemy not English p. 21 22. The heirs or Execut. of Captains dead or taken prisoners prayed not to be charged to pay ought by them received p. 203. Impeached for miscarriages in Service 157 158 292 293. To be admitted to Account in the Exchequer without delay p. 296. To continue their commands in their hands and not let them to farm p. 312. Able Captains to be appointed by the King p. 395. Their wages an Act for it p. 420. To reside on their Forts p. 453. Acts touching Captains abating Soâ—â—diers wages and their departing from their Captains p. 626. A complaint against a Capt. rescuing a Prisoner in Lond. p. 695. Captains to answer for their Souldiers damages don to the subjects p. 185. Cardinals sent by the Pope to treat a Peace between England and France p. 37.614 Sundry livings preferments and great revenues granteâ— to them by the Popes Provisions in England Complaints against it p. 41 42 61 64 65 129 130 151 186. The profits of their Livings answered to the King to whom they were Enemies p. 49 129 130 186.186 All Cardinals livings against Pope Urban seised into the Kings hands p. 179 180. No Cardinal to enjoy any living in the Realm p. 317 406. The Bishop of Winchester made Cardinal his Title p. 592 593. requested to be of the Kings Council to absent himself in all affairs wherein the Pope or See of Rome were touched p. 593. His purgation from being a Traytor to the Realm His pawned Jewels of the King stayed p. 603. To attend the Council when he could p. 611. One of the Feoffees of H. 5. p. 615 622. Thomas Bourchier Archbishop of Canterb. made Cardinal p. 693. Carriages of the King to be made in an easie manner and in Summer time p. 93. Petition to be of the Kings own Carts and Horses and not charge the Commons therewith p. 135. The Clergy not to make Carriages for the King yet forced by purveyors complaint against it p. 139 165. Carlisle king of Scots appointed to serve there with 40 men p. 28. Aid required for repairing thereof being decayed spoiled and the Inhabitants unable to doe it p. 131 171. The King not to repair it but will give in charge it be done and will repair the Castle p. 171. The King prayed to provide for its defence p. 288. It s surrender to the Scots by practice treason p. 671. Caresbrocke Castle provisions for its victualling and defence p. 21 28. Castles and Forts in forein parts impeachments for their surrender to the Enemy by Cowardise Treachery or Corruption in Parliament and judgements thereupon p. 157 158 159 29â— 293 671. All such as have Castles or Forts in the North or Sea-coasts to furnish defend and reside upon them p. 185 305 466 471. Kings Castles to be joyned to the body of the County p. 335. The King to repair his Castles and not grant away their profits p. 426. None to be imprisoned in Castles nor Constable of a Castle to be a Justice of Peace p. 432. Castles or Castlets to be built by the Kings Warrant and License p. 439 619. All Captains of Castles and Forts to repair to them p. 453. To be kept by Englishmen not aliens p. 455. Those that held Castles against the king proclaimed Traytors if they deliver them not up by a set day p. 672 677. Attainder of Treason for surrendring king E. 4. his Castles to H. 6. p. 677. Catholick Faith the kings promise to defend it Commons thanks to him for its defence p. 405. neglected p. 547. Iohn Cavendish fined imprisoned for accusing the Lord Chancellor falsly of bribery p. 299 300. Challenge of the Indicter by the party indicted p. 39. Of â—he Array how to be tryed p. 458. Chamberlain of England Earl of Oxford by Inheritance p. 159 397. One of the 5 great Officers and to be of the Kings Council p. 183. To warn Aliens to depart the Kings Court p. 324. To execute his Office according to the Statutes of the Kings house p. 458. The Office with all the profits granted to the Duke of Gloucester at the Kings pleasureâ— p. 564. Ralph Lord Cromwel discharged of this Office by the Council without any offence p. 603. Chamberlains of the Eschequer to have a key to the Kings receit p. 564 565. Champertors not to be maintained by any great person p. 51. Champerty Writs and damages to be granted thereâ—n p. 128. buying of a Title of one in possession against the Councils irregular decree no
Venisor to have writs out of the Chancery to â—ayl them till the Eyre p. 1â—5 To right such Cities whose liberties and Charters are infringed by being impleaded for their Freeholds out of their Cities upon shewing their Charters there p. 133 To grant a new Charter to Southwark â—heir old being casually burnt upon sute p. 134. The Chancellor to seek to redresse the Enormities of it p. 197. The Commission and proceedings touching the Customs of the Stanneries returned into it p. 149. No watch and ward to be made of persons flying to Sanctuaries but by order out of Chanceâ—y p. 165. Exemplifications of Deeds and Chatters enrolled in Chancery defaced in the Insurrection to be granted there without fine p. 202. Motions against taking fines for writs there p. 80 203. See Writs and Fines No mans possession to be disturbed by Commission or Privy Seal out of Chancery without due answer p. 295. To be surveyed by the Chancellor and keeper of the Privy Seal and remove â—uch officers as are unsit p. 325. Rioters make a Fine in Chancery p. 343. Prohibition to the Admiralty thence for holding plea of matters triable at the Common Law p. 356. An Act touching Damages in Chancery p. 356. No Writs of Subpaena to appear at a day to be granted out of the Chancery but in cases of necessity p. 410. One bound in 1000 l. by order of Parliament upon a complaint there to hear his Judgement in Chancery p. 465. A Commission concerning the great spoils and losses of Melcomb returned into Chancery and thereupon order for their relief in their Fee-farms Tithes and Fifteens p. 467. An extent of the Fee-farm of Lyme returned in Chancery p. 468. Writs of Surety of the Peace granted out of it p. 548 605 606 611. All writs of Subpâ—na and certis de causis to be controlled and not granted of matters determinable at Common Law under a penalty p. 548. That the exception how the party hath sufficient remedy at the Common Law shall discharge any matter in the Chanceryâ— p. 560 561 That no man be bound to answer in Chancery for any matter determinable at Common-Law on pain the Plaintiff to lose 20. l. p. 567. The foundations of all Hospitals and their circumstances to be certified by all ordinaries into Chancery by a day p. 547. Proof of lands intayled to be made in Chancery before restitution to them after an attainder p. 551. Writs thence against Purveyors p. 81. No Prohibition to be granted till the circumstances there examined p. 165. Charters of privileges and exemption confirmed and all to injoy them p. 81 124.125 133 137 148 149 163 166. Sea Magna Charta Sealed with the Kings great Seal and the stile of France and England p. 209. Charters to Bristol and their liberties confirmed under the great Seal p. 119. Interpretation of Charters belongs to the King p. 166. Charters of indenization and Creations of Earls read and confirmed in Parliament p. 363. See Confirmation Patents A Charter repealed only in one illegal clause p. 123 203 The Charter of the Tinners Liberties explained and declared in Parliament p. 142. So the City of Lâ—ndons Charter p. 166. And the Charters to the Chancellor and Scholars of Cambridge p. 304. Charters lost in the Insurrection or casually burnt renewed and exemplified p. 134 202 297. Charters ordered to be revoked by Parliament and quite nulled p. 316 318 123 203 294 312 610 664. Charter-house Prior in London an Act for some ground and a Conduict p. 603. Chantries erected and confirmed by Parliament in several places p. 588 604 622 625 654 699. Chaplains of Archbishops and Bishops dispensed with for non-residence and pluralities p. 409. Chapels of ease annexed to cures to have service and Sacraments administred in them p. 580. The free Chapel of St. George in Windsor incorporated and a Dean thereof p. 594. Clerks of the Kings Chapel 260 marks given them by R. 5. ordered to be paid p. 603. Cheese Acts against and for its exportation and weighing p. 96 192 581 600 626. Cheshire men execution prayed of their outlawries for felonies trespasses rapes oppressions in sundry Counties p. 170 284 305 339 396. That they may forfeit their lands and goods for Felonies done in other places p. 305. Masters of the watch in Cheshire for certain monies received to serve the King at their own cost p. 396. An Act for processe against Cheshire men p. 396. Chester a Franchise royal and County Palatine p. 62.170 How Judgement there is to be reversed and what remedy when the Justices record the pleas before them falsly p. 62. The County of Chester not comprised within the Tallage and exempted from Taxes p. 191. Chester liberties saved p. 284. Felons there forfeit no lands and goods p. 305. The King will be advised of their liberties p. 339. An Act touching the Principality of Chester p. 369. All releases made by R. 2. to any for debts due to the Earldom of Chester not under the great Seal repealed p. 397. Prince of Wales Earl of Chester enacted to enjoy all the liberties thereof and touching adjournments in Pleas with out giving any day or entry thereof p. 467. The Principality and Earldom thereof created and setled by sundry Charters in Parliament upon the Prince p. 659. An Act of Resumption of the Earldom into the Kings hands p. 677. Prince Ed. created Earl thereof and all the hereditaments thereto belonging granted him by Patents confirmed by Parliament p. 689. Chichester the customers of it to receive the customs of Wools shipped at Lewes Its Liberties violated and Charter confirmed p. 133. The weighing of wools for Sussex to be there p. 419. Children of the King and others born beyond the Sea inheritable p. 38 39. See Aliens and Denizens A Petition that no Villains put their children to school p. 345. Children and young Councellors a long time governed the Realm almost to its utter ruine p. 384 389. Their properties Ibid. Chimenage in Forrests complained against and not to be taken but in somâ— cases p. 345 355. Church the liberties thereof confirmed enjoyed and the violations of them redressed one principal cause of calling Parliaments p. 32 33 34 39 44 61â— 64 65 92 96 100 139 140 146 158 164 165 167 169 173 174â— 175 182 185 188 195 202 281 283 287 288 294 298 301 303 305 341 351 358 360 371 394 404 409 419 424 424 437 451â— 464 466 470 478 481 534 538â— 541 544 548 549 553 554 571. Acts for their confirmationâ— Ibidem The King sworn to observe the Churches Liberty the violation of which Oath by R. 2. in enforcing all religious persons to give Horse Armes Carts when he went into Ireland banishing the Archbishop and staying Ecclesiastical proceedings is part of his impeachment p. 387 388. How the French would dispose of the English Church revenues if conquered by themâ— p. 47. The King reserves the lands of the Church in the conquest of France p. 110. Church
the King by Plague Warr and Murrain p. 176. Alice Perâ—ers or Pierce Her Impeachment banishmentâ— Petition restitution p. 123 152 158 177 304 375 534. Plate to be received into the Mint by weightâ— p. 81. See Goldsmiths Mony Plea new entred p. 296. In barr upon a Recognisance and Scire fac that he was sick or imprisoned p. 558. Pleadings to be in English p. 94. Plimouthâ— its Petition to be incorporated p. 482. Their Petition referred to the Councils order p. 622. Liberties granted and confirmed to it by Charter and Parliament p. 624. An Act against the Exactions of Searchers there p. 644. A Confirmation to the Mayor and Commonalty thereof of Liberties under a Fee farm rent to the Prior p. 678. Pluralities the Kings will write to the Pope to stay the grant of them if Ordinaries doe it not p. 460. Complaiâ—ned against See Cardinals Provisors Pope Poysoning of the Dutchess of Clarenceâ— the Judgement and processe on it repealed p. 703. Poll-mony granted by Parliament on Denizens and Aliens p. 145 168 189. 62â— 6â—8â— 649. Poolâ— made a Port-town The Mayor to waâ—â— it and take Recognizances p. 610 611. Sir Mich. de la Pool his accusation and acquittal from bribery p. 299 300. His impeachment censure p. 315 316. Poor people to have writs for Gods sake p. 60. To be aided in their Fifâ—teenths Tenths Fee farms for which Lincoln Melcomb Lyme and other places pray relief and abatement by reason of their poverty losses which are examined by Commission and they eased thereupon p. 74 421 467 468 568â— 598 398. See Quindism Fines of Labourers to be distributed among Poor Towns only not the poor of the whole Countyâ— p. 74 86 159. Half-pence and Farthings of silver to be coyned for their use p. 97. Prisoners of warr unable to ransom themselves pray the King to doe it p. 131. The Poor Merchants complain of sundry Oppressions by the rich p. 58 61. So the Poor of Yarmouth by the rich there p. 136. Pope Letters of Complaint against his Innovations Usurpations Provisions sent by the King Lords Commons to him under their Seals p. 64 65 69 129 130 460. Large bitter Complaints in Parliament against his Usurpations Extortions Provision First-fruits Taxes Simony c. the Acts remedies against them and his Collectors Usurers Brokers Sutes in the Court of Rome for Benefices conveying the Treasure out of the Realm all subjected to a Praemunire banishment and perpetual Imprisonment p. 41 42 45 49 50 51 61 64 65 74 76 80 81 82 100 102 103 109 119 128 129 130 145 147 149 151 161 180 182 186 200 294 295 316 324 330 333 334 341 346 354 387 407 408 409 418 444â— 458 460 461 467 468 536 547 574 603 623 551 560 565 588 593. Pope sends Cardinals to treat a Peace between England and France advised with and Ambassadors sent to him about it p. 14 37 90 190 43 82. The Statute of Provisors moderated to eschue debates with the Pope p. 346. Treated with as a Friend not a Iudge in the Peace with France p. 37. The warr with France not to be stayed by any Letters or requests from him p. 43. The Commons protest in Parl. they neither would nor could any longer bear his strange Oppressions Provisions desiring the King and Lords to redresse them or else to help them to expell his power out of the Realm by force p. 41 61 74. He intends to cite the King to Rome for his Homage and Tribute for England and Ireland which King Iohn by his Homage and Charter subjected to himâ— The whole Parl. resolve them to be void and against his Oath and that they would with all their power resist him and his Citations concerning it p. 102. The Popes dispensation to persons professed to inherit Lands complained of and nulled p. 149. His Bull to exempt the University of Oxford from the Archbishops visitation set aside and nulled by the King and Parliament p. 479 480 The Archbishops Protestation against the Popes power to excommunicate any Bishop in England or intermeddle in any presentations to Benefices recovered in the Kings Courts or translation of Bishopricks against the Kings will the same being to the destruction of the Realm of England alwayes so â—ree as that it had no earthly Soveraign but only subject to God p. 348. A great Scism in the Church by having 2. Popes which the King meaned to redresse p. 415. It is enacted by reason of the damnable Scism at Rome that all Bishops elect and other persons shall be confirmed by the Metropolitan upon the Kings writs without further excuse or delay p. 545. An Act that Pope Urban is the true Pope That the Livings of all Cardinals and other Rebels to him should be seised into the Kings hands and every one under a Praemunire who should procure any Provision or Instrument from any Pope but him p. 179 180.316 A Crossado granted by the Pope against the Anti-Pope and an Army raised under the Bishop of Norwich to prosecute his adherents p. 180 284 285 287 316. The Popes Notary commanded to make a publike Instrument of the Commons agreement submission in Parl. to the King and Lords to make a Peace with France p. 88. No monies to be transported hence to the Pope p. 49. A Protestation of the Commons in relation to the Pope that in temporal things they owe obedience to none but the King p. 147. The Bishops and Clergy of England sworn to the Pope whence they make a Protestation in Parliament that they neither can nor will assent to any thing Law or Statute in derogation or limitation of his power but wholly withstand the same p. 318 332 362. The Popes Rights in England provided to be saved if the French conquer it p. 47. Sent to by King R. 2. to â—aâ—ify the Oath for confirmation of and against the repeal of the Statutes Judgements in 21 R. 2. p. 371 372. For which he is impeached as a derogation of the Crown of England freed from the Pope and of its Statutes and Laws p. 387. Collectors of Impostrions by the Popes Bulls to be Traytors and those who bring them in p. 324. The Archbishop cited to Rome as one who had wrought against the Pope in this Realm The Commons pray the King would write to the Pope to purge him p. 588. Pope Martin refuseth to agree to an incorporation of Canons and Nuns together in Syon Nunnery being against the Canons there should be two Capacities in one foundation p. 589. A Cardinal admitted of the Kings Council with this Protestation that he might absent himself in all Affairs and Councils wherein the Pope or See of Rome were concernedâ— p. 593. See more in Aliens Cardinals Provisors Rome Porâ—smouth its ships p. 20. Portugal Duke of Lanc. his undertaking to enter it p. 291. The Kings subjects in it to be succoured p. 281. Posse Comitatus to be raised by the Sheriffs and Justices of every County to
Acts against them p. 284 655. Of a Ward p. 311. Rainham Mannor in Kent holden of the King in chief as of Dover Castle p. 107. Rebels and Rebellion A Commission of Array to punish them p. 25. In Ireland and Gascoign A Parliament called how to suppres them p. 182. how to punish the horrible tumults and Rebellion at home against the King p. p. 195 437 602. Ringleaders in Insurrections Rebellions excepted out of general Pardons p. 201 203 282 284 412. Such as resisted slew executed them without due processe at Law in time of rebellion pardoned p. 197. Liberties of Cambridge seised into the Kings hand for their tumult rebellion p. 199 200. Let into London p. 286. The Kings great pains and expence in suppressing them p. 404. Power given by Parliament to the Duke of Yorke declared right heir to the Crown to ride through all the Realm and suppress all Rebellions Insurrections p. 667 The Parliament adjourned because the King was enforced to goe in person to suppresse Conspiracies and Rebellions against him p. 675 Rebels by proclamation to come in and submit themselves and deliver up their Castles by a day else to be attainted of Treason p. 671 672. See Treason Iack Cade Welshmen Receit of a feme Covert in Reversion p. 30. Of the remainder in tayl in default or fraud of tenant for life p. 91 334. No tenant to be received to counterplead his own conusance p. 149. An Act for receipt of him in reversion p. 334.572 Recognisance a Scire facias to issue on it p. 56 606. Of an Infant nulled p. 103. By duresse cancelled p. 107. For the Peace pag. 605 606 611. For good behaviour p. 300 652 653. An Act touching Recognizances p. 334. To others uses to remain to their uses p. 355. To appear at a day plea in barre against it p. 558. Before the Mayor of the Staple at Calice p. 604. Error in Parliament upon Judgement given therein in the K. B. p. 606. upon Bayl taken by Justices of Peace for appearance p. 682. Recompence to parties and their Executors in Parl. p. 123. Records searched for Ireland p. 10. Averment against a Record where the Plea is misâ—entred in County-Palatins prayed p. 62. Chancellor to view the Record of the Popes Treaty with E. 3. about Provisors p. 161. Old Records concerning Prohibitions and Consultations in cases of Pensions to be searched by the Justices and to doe thereafter p. 165. Cancelling and razing sundry Records an Article against King R. 2. p. 388. Records imbezelled touching the Earl of Arundels inheritance to be searched for and restored page 395. Justices of Assise by Act to deliver all their Records into the Treasury p. 475. Kings Records to be searched for presidents for Knights wagesâ— when nothing was done in Parliament p. 536. Intail to be proved in Chancery by matter of Record before Restitution thereto upon an Attainder p. 540. All Records of the K. B. and C. B. in the time of Ed. 3. 3. R. 2. H. 4. and 5. brought into the Treasury at Westminster prayed to be brought back into the Benches again p. 625. Record of a recovery in Right of Ward imbezelled but the Copy enrolled ordered to be exemplified and taken for the record pag. 690. Attornies to have free search in Court of the Rolls thereof which the Clerks are to bring in p. 306. Re-entry of the King for non-payment of Rent except of Corporations Fee-farms p. 407. Regrators remedy prayed against them page 97. To bee attached by the Chancellor and Scholars of Cambridge p. 304. Relation a recovery in Debt and Trespasse prayed to extend to land the day of the Writ purchased as to execution which could not be but by a new Law p. 53. Releases by Duresse avoyded p. 8. 199 200 551. Subsidy released by the King p. 168. Of an heir restored by Parliament upon request to the Kings Feoffees p. 373. Released of K. R. 2. not under the great Seal made void p. 397. A Release ordered to be pleaded in barre p. 417. Release of one Coparcenor binds the other and no Account lies for it p. 419. Release of Dower p. 431. Of the King by his Letters Patents to a tenant for life and his heires of Lands p. 540 541. Of Customs of certain Wines by the King p. 552. Religious Houses violations of their privileges p. 32. Remembrancer of the Exchequer his office by Act p. 204. Rent-charges remedy against them prayed when granted by Feoffees in trust against the will of the Feoffers p. 424. Reprisals and Letters of Mart Merchants of Brabant arrested by English Merchants for wools taken up for the Duke of Brabant who are to abide the Councils order therein p. 11. Remedy and restitution prayed by English Merchants against Spanish Gallies who boarded and took their ships and goods after the truce wherein the King promiseth to doe his best p. 132. Merchants of Bristol and other places arrested for the Debts and Trespasses of other English with whom they have no acquaintance or dealing at Calice pray redresse p. 136. Merchants of York whose wools were arrested by the Lord of Arde in Holland for a debt pretended due to him for service from the King of England refusing to deliver them upon the Kings Letters or other means pray license to stay this Lords ships at Calice or in England til they be paid or answered the value which the grand Council are to remedy according to reason p. 137. The Goods of Strangers attached in England prayed to be replevied to such Englishmen as had their goods spoyled on the Sea during the Truce which is granted except they be Leiges p. 160. English Merchants to be answered of Scots goods remaining in England for their goods taken in Scotland p. 185. Englishmen whose goods are arrested in Wales without cause and not restored within 7. dayes after means made for restitution may take Welshmens goods in England of such place or Liberty p. 411. Letters of Mart prayed and granted to an Englishman against such Frenchmâ—n as have not the Kings safe conduct for his goods taken by the French iâ— they refuse to do him right p. 476. The Next Cosins of Welsh Rebels and Rioters prayed to be arrested until the Malefactors render themselves pag. 483. The London Merchants pray in Parliament a confirmation of Letters of Mart and Reprisal granted them by the King against the Merchants of Iean which is granted with provision for the safe keeping and well ordering of the goods p. 541 542. An Act touching Letters of Mart 552. That such Merchants as are robbed by the Britains during the Truce may have Letters of Martâ— prayed and committed to the Council p. 581. An act touching restitution of goods taken by the king of Denmarke and Petition that all persons who have their goods taken by the Merchants of Hauns may have their remedy against those of that Company remaining in London p. 604. That such Scots and Britains as shall sue in
lands by Parliament p 7 8 339 340 344 345 393 394 408 472 676. See Parliament Restitution Treason pardoned for a Fine p 282 348 377 551. See Pardon Judgment of hanging drawing quarteringâ— beheading in Treason p 6 7 377 378 401 568 158 81 424. Queen Dowager accused of Treason and her Sureties Lands Goods seised thereupon p 557. A Pardon reversed pleaded and insisted on in it therefore Judgment given against him that pleaded it p 377 378. Condemnation of Treason in Parliâ—ment and Forfeiture of lands goods after death p 378 381 647. Treason against K. H. 5. tryed and the Traitor executed for prison-breach under H. 6. p. 568. Treason done beyond seas to be tried before the Constable and Marshal but all others at and by the Common-Law and Justices p 171 567 568 594 595. An Act touching Inquiries of Treason for Coining p 548. Nisi Prius not allowed in it after Issue joined p 109. A Peer slandered of Treason by the Commons requires â—eparation and is assoiled by them Reports to sâ—e the Nobles at debate no better then Treason p 155. The Statute of 25 E 3 of Treasons explained by the Lords as Judges in Parliament p 426. Such as rob any Church moved to be declared a Traitor and bâ—rned for it but rejected p 684â— Treasure Complaintsâ— Acts against its transportation p 73. 128. 129 seâ— Mony Treasure trove pardon â—ard for itâ— p 349. Treasuryâ—or â—or Records p 475 625â— see Records Treasurers of Wars appointed by Parliament to receive and dispose of Subsidies Tonnage and poundage grantedâ— sworne called to an Account which they give in Parliament discharged p 145.146.155.156.167.171.172.174.175.183.184.301.313.317.324 â—29 430.454.456.464 Treasurer of England see the Catalogue of them Table 1. Refuseth to be sworne p 34. One of the Peers and great Officers 31.39.120.159.329 One of the Privy-Council p 120. To appoint Fees for Justices of Peace p 40. One to receive the Accounts of Collectors of Woolls and Subsidies p 33. Matters referred to him upon petitions in Parliament p 58.81.150 One to hear Errors in Judgments in the Exchequer p 56. To take order to pay poor Creditors p 58.75 To discharge Sheriffs of what they cannot levy p 80. To consider of the Compositions offered for Aulnage p 82. One of the Governors of Merchants Aliens p 88. To end all matters belonging to his office p 120â— 155â— His private Leâ—ter not to stay any mans payment by Pâ—ivy-seal p 138. To receive the Subsidy granted for the use of the Wars p 146 172. To give allowâ—nce for repairing a Gaol decayed p 150. To be chosen by the Lords during the Kingâ— minority p 159. Declareth the Kings want of monies and toxeth the Commons with an â—ntruth p 174. One to remove the poorer sort of Justices p 178. To be a mâ—st wise and able man p 197. One to view the Statuâ—es of the Kings house yeaâ—ly and see them duly observed pâ—12 â—12 He resignes 〈◊〉 his Office and the Key of the Exchequer to the King in Parliament Requires any one might freely complain of any thing unduly done by him is justified by the Commons and restored p 329. He and the Steward have full power to discharge the Officers of the Kings houshold for misdemeanors p 457. To remedy the complaints against Purâ—eyors p 465. To have a key to the Kingâ— Receit and sworn to make none privy to it but the Council pâ—64 â—64 565. Ordered to stay in his hands 6000 l. to find the Kings house p 608. Gives a Particular of the Kings charges and revenues to the Parlâ— Warrants come to him for above two years payment and what order to take therein p 609. No Grant to pass the King without his knowledge ibid. Authority given him to pay monies to partciular persons p 618. And Soldiers wages at Calice p 619. The revenues of the Dutchy of Lancaster to be paid to him p 667 668. The mony of the Tenths granted by the Lords to be paid to him p 691. Treasurer of the Kings houshold alloted monies for its expences pâ—52 â—52 Treaty by Commissioners with the Scots Ambassadors to conclude a Peace p 569. Of the English with the French p 614. Transportation see Corn Victuals Merchants Trent River p 57. Trespass by Clergy-men against Purveyors for purveyance on them p 165. Trial of Villenage and other things Actions to be in their proper not forein Counties and matters concerning trials in our Puny Courts p. 66 113 118 125 135 138 147 331 411 412 421 442 516 623 567 568. Truces made approved confirmed by Parl. matters concerning them and acts of hostily done in them p. 25 37 43 69 78 79 145 170 173 295 371 595 612 629 638 688 654 705. Imprisonment for taking a French ship in time of Truce and Satisfaction given p. 472. Truce-breakers an Act for processe against them p. 648.654 701. Tumults suppression p. 195 197. See Riots Tyle an act concerning it p. 704. Tyrant Common the King bound in conscience to help vanquish him and Subjects to aid him therein p. 361. Tyranny of the Prelates against the Lollards p. 456. A good decription of it and a Tyrant p. 711 712. V. VAgabonds See Beggars Variance of the return and Writ p. 168. Of the Record from the Church recovered in a Quare Impedit for which it is reversed p. 393. Venire Facias p. 97.500 Verdict p. 71. Verge p. 106 107 128 160. See Marshal Vexations of Accountants and others complained of p. 54 59 106 107 128 160. Vicars appropriation made without Vicar or Vicaridge p. 481. Vicars to be endowed within 6 Months upon all appropriations p. 605. The Appropriation of Vicaridges in Cornwall petitioned against p. 422. Victories mentioned and thanks to God for them p. 27 90 91 105 115 416 451 553 556 577 669. Victuals provided for Garrisons and the Navy p. 20 22 24 25 28 48. See Navy Victuals Victuaâ—lers and matters concerning them their transportation regulation prices forestalling c. p. 20 21 79 82 53 96 97 100 106 112 113 122 137 157 159 172 192 285 289 295 296 304 318 393 395 397 412 423 581 586 595 616 700. Villanies Villain Tenure Villenage matters concerning them their trial manumission c. p. 80 98 113 118 162 195 311 345 346 355 420 443. Universities matters concerning them p. 102 103 172 199 200 304 331 347 407 547. See Oxford Cambridge Unity Union Concord ought to be and endevoured amongst the Members Houses of Parl. People Kingdom p. 173 598 607 621 656. Visue p. 113. Voucher p. 30. Vphaven Prior and Prebend 565. Usurpation of the Crown by H. 4. p. 670. The whole estate in a manner subverted by Usurpation p. 682. Usurers and Usury punished by the Justices p. 32. Punishable by the Ordinaries in Spiritual Courts whiles living p. 33 35 433. Every one that is attainted for a Broaker of Usury to forfeit all his goods moved p. 433. The King will have the punishment of dead Usurers p.
profit Answ. Monies transported Pope Aliens Friers Secrets Pensions Proxies Answ. Kings Council Alien-Enemy Pension Abbot of Cluny Answ. Bull Rome Alien Chancellor Warden of the Cinque-Ports Presentment to Churches Answ. Dismes Quindismes Letters to the Parliament Prince of Wales Aid to make the Prince a Knight Commons Alienâ— Benefices Bishops Certificate Convocation Chancery Aliens Proclamation Arms defended Statutes of Northampton Earls Barons Lords Receivers of Petitions Triers of Petitions Adjournment of Parliament because divers Lords were not come Will. de Thorpe Causes of the Parliament War by consent of the Lords and Commons Peace of England kept Commons to consult together Speedy answer King and his Councel Commons unable to give councel touching War Nobles and Councel to advise thereof Commons assent to their determination Petitions Laws to be kept Peace disturbed Great men male-factors Maintenance of the Barretors Ordinances Barons and Justices Fees encreased Oath of Justices Oath Petitions of the Commons to be answered and endorsed before them in Parliament Ordinance Scots Devastation by War Prisoners of War Sureties for good behaviour Answ. Lords advice Staple for Wools Bruges Free trade Monopoly Sureties Price of Wooll abated Monopoly Cloth Gold Exchange Answ. Ordinance of the Staple Patent Merchants King and Council Custos Regni Council Imposition without the Commons consent Safe-conduct Sea Ships Tonnage and Poundage Answ. Impositions Safe conduct Execution upon Lands in Treasons and debt Relation Kings Councel Commâ—n Law alterable only by Statute Maintenance Pain certain Intendment of Law Fine and ransom Treason Accroachment of Royal powâ—â— Incertainty Treason declared Forfeiture for Treason Clergy King and his Councel Commons charges Commissions of Array Victuals Puâ—veâ—ance Array Charges without Parliamentâ— not to be levied Ordinances contemned Commissions illegal Supersedeas Answ Impositiâ—ns necâ—ssiâ—y Lords and some Commons assent to Impositions Purveyance Prerogative Agreement Franchises Common Law Oppression Answ. Law Answ. False money Justices of Assize Treason Ordinance No pardon Pardon disallowed Answ. Justices of Oyer and Terminer Peace Justices Pardons Taxes Subsidies Collectors of Taxes Accounts in Exchequer Berrectors Delay Vexation Atturnies Appeal Accusers Indictment Answ. Concealment Attornies Penalty Wapentakes Recoverers in Hundreds County c. Distresses Execution Delay Sale of Goods in Execution Answ. Old Law King and his Council King Councel Horses of the King Purveyance Marshal Free-quarter Constables Appraisment Payment before departure Arrest of horses and harness till paiment Bills Certainty Constables Sworne men Paiment Delay Answ. Attaint in Debt Damages Answ. Old Law Informers Damages Attaint Error Answ. Error Attaint Scire facias Garnishment Execution Answ. Old Law Judgment in the Exchequer Error Kings Bench. Answ. Error in the Exchequer-chamber Merchants Monopoly Tin Cornwal Tidman Answ. Prince Accusation Answ. Suggestion Kings Council Fines Adjournet ouâ—ler le meer Grievances Answ. Free-trade Wooll Customs Answ. Subsidy Advise with the Kings Council Sheriff Escheator Annuals and sufficient Answ. Sheriffâ— new sworne Custom Imposition Cloth Answ. King Prelates Earls and Great men deny the taking away of the new Custom for Cloth Negative voice Statutes of Winchester Answ. Purveyors Oats Prerogative Queen Prince Payment Tallages Answ. Prerogative Queen Kings children Thames Tese Ouse Trent Rivers Navigation Nusance Goors Mills Justices assigned Oppression Answ. Commission Indictment Felony Exigent Forfeiture Flight Foreign County Answ. Old Law Kings Council Crown lands and Franchises Advowsons not to be severed from it Answ. Kings Council Kings honour Horses of King Queen and Prince Free quarter Purveyance Hay Oats Ordinances Commissions Answ. Ordinances Kings profit Peoples ease Free trade Wools Custome Monopoly Imposition Extortion Merchants Oppression Parliament Answ. Merchants Wools seized Allowance by Parliament Customs Rich Merchants satisfied when the poor are leâ—t in arrear Buying poor Merchants debts Defalcation of debts due by the King Answ. Poor Merchants Treasurer Purlieu Forrests bounds Afforresting Dis-afforresting Ministers of the Forrest Indictment Oppression Vexation Forrreign Indictment Grievances Remedies fail Chancery Answ. Charter of the Forrest Purlieus Forrests Grievance Chancery Inquiry Ireland Kings revenues there Warrs Fraud Forfeiture of Offices Answ. Inquest of Office Outing possession Chancery Speedy Justice Restituâ—ion Answ. Common Law Forfeiâ—ure for Treason Tenure Lands declared Grant le Roy Charter repealed Answ. Ancient Law New Laws Commissions of Enquiry Array Exchequer Oppression Impositions against Law Fines Oppression Answâ— Impositions Necessiâ—y Consent of the Earls Barons Great men and some of the Commons not sufficient to make a Tax legal Two great Seals Writs Judicial Writs Oâ—iginal Seals Fees Extortion Small Seal Great Fees Answ. Poor men to have Writs gratis Antient Fees not to be altered Waste unpunishable Frank-marriage Answ. New Laws required Writs of Possession Devise of land Answ. New Law Tythes of Underwood Prelaâ—es Constitution Custom Prescription Great wood Answ. Tythes of Underwood Aids maâ—ntenance of Wars Merchants Confederacie Usury Deceipt Imposiâ—ions Woolls Rich and poor Mâ—rchants Brocage debts bought at undervalues Monopoly Customs Câ—llectors Exâ—â—rtion False Weights Parliament Examination of Grievances in Parliament by persons assigned by the Commons Kings prâ—fit Collusion Answ. Council of the King to examine and determine grievances Commons information Certainty Justices to enquire of false money Kings Council Pâ—pes usurpation Provisions Church-liberties Kings disherison Patrons Strangers Cardinals Answ. Councel le Roy. Probate of Wills Official Extortion Vexation Delays Answ. Prelates Bastard eigne mulier Certificate of the Ordinary Privieâ— New Certificate Answ. New Law Murders Robberies Felonies Pardons Law contemned Malefactors encouraged Answ. Pardons Councel le Roy Allowance Extortions Grievances Collectors of Wools Taxes False weights Fraud Acquittance Roy. Answ. Justices of Peace False Moneys Statute Merchants Execution Subtily Answ. Processe usual Error County Palatine False record Averment against a Record prayed Chester Durham Answ. Old Law Purveyers Victuals Present payment Answ. Sheriffs payment Sheriffs Payment Merchants robbed Enemies Safe conduct Imposition by the King Peers Prelates by Merchants assent Safe conduct to be made good by the undertakers Damages for default of the safe guarders Parliament Answ. Taxes Ships taken lost in the Kings service Destruction Navie destroyed Answ. Judgment delayed for difficulty of Law Speedy justice Answ. Justices Difficulty Parliament Ordinance Gaging of Wines Guyen Fee Extortion Dâ—ceit King and his Council Forfeiture Office forfeiâ—ed for negligence Murders Robberies Felonies Pardons Maintenance Law contemned Malefactors emboldened Answ. Pardons Councel le Roy. Aliens Provision Rome Letters to the Pope by the King Lords and Commons Seals Proctors Cardinals Delegates Notaries Proclamation Forfeiture Bulls Imprisonment Council Suit at Rome or in Court Christian to reverse Judgments in the Kings Courts Imprisonment perpetual Outlawry Abjuration Provisor Cardinals Aliens Contempt Court of Rome Court Christian Judgment in the Kings Courts Commons Church Crown Justices Serjeants Punishment Aliens Statute perpetual Wâ—its of cause Answ. Council Lords Commons advice Aliens Provisors Pope Instruction of the people Residence Relief of the poorâ— Novelties Incroachment Prerâ—gative Câ—own King Câ—uncel
Iohn Matravers 4 E. 3. n. 3. in Parliament Judgment without Indictment Attainder or calling to Answer reversed for Error Error in and by Parliament Great Councel Protection King Peers Judges of Errors in Parliament Commons in Parliament Restitution Law of the Realm Oath Compurgators Banishment Excommunication Battel Petition Villenage Trial against Law Common Law Law or County Forreign County Kings duty Law of the land Commons good Private Petition Ireland Descent of lands in Ireland to enemies prayed to be prevented and remedied by the Parliament in England Parceners War Commons impeachment and complaint Merchants Extortions Grievances Kings service Councel of the King Purgation Answer to complaints Kings game Forrest Punishment Peace Justices of Peace Lawyers Commissions Commons advise concerning the Peace Traylebastons Arbitrary Projects mischief Commons long continuing together to their great cost desire dismission Parliament adâ—journed because sundry Lords not me Cheif Justices Causes of Parliament Truce Pope Frenchmens Invasion Peace Lords and Commons advice Commons oppressions Aid reasonable Array Purveyance Guarding the Seas Subsidy Impost without Law Loans Wools. Quinesmes Scots Ransom Petitions granâ—ed Conditions Enrolled Petitions Collectors of Woolls account Answ. Maintenance Nobles Thief Lawyer Justices False money Fees Answ. Petitions answered Answ. Wool Loan Impost Customs Answ. Eyres Forrest Peace Kings pleasure Answ Scots prisoners Answ. Aids Scottish Wars Answ. Appeal Felony New Law Answ. Bridges Staple Flemish Ambassâ—dor Answ. Inquiries Aids granted Answ. Wooll Bullion Repeal Answ. Custom Woolls Accomptant Issues Process Answ. Common Law Navy Answ. Answ. Subjects ease Necessity Marshal Bail Peace Answ. Non claim Answ. Jurors Verdict Assize Law Kept Answ. Purveyors Answ. Parliament members Assessor Receiver Kings Prerogative Answ. Error Exchequer Answ. Forresters Purlieus Extortions Great Charter Perambulation Answ. Writs Chancery Writs Writs Right Petitions Kings and Lords answer to them Bill Statutes Answ. Law altered New Statutes Norwice Worsted Weavers Alnage Revocation Common profit Writs of Summons Parliament adjourned for the absence of sundry Lords Painâ—ed Chamber Parliament holden by Commission Commission read Kings absence Commons Lords absence Petitious Causes of Parliament Parliament Plague War Peace Labourers Treasure Consultation Chief Justice Commons Petitions Chancellor Clerk of Parliament Parliament Roll. Earl of Arundel Restitution Answ. Restitution Earl of Kent Earl of Arundel Arundel Castle Sir William Thorp Parliamâ—nt Peers Judges Oath Bribes Kings and Nobles Great Charter Statutes Purveyance released Labourers Answ. Popes Brocage First-fruits Answ. Rome Judgment reversed Laws of the Realm Answ. Peace Magna Charta Freehold Legal Process Answ. Answ. Merchants Necessity Money Answ. Fines Laborers Poor Steward Marshal Process Answ. Answ. Purveyance Answ. Merchants Convoys Answ Tonnage and Poundage Subsidy Wools. Answ. Sheriffs Coroners Escheators Answ. Sheriffs Kings Debts Answ. Common Pleas Great Seal Chief Justice Answ. Pardon Murder Felony Kings oath Answ. Salmons Mills Fines Chancery Answ Purveyor Timber Answ. Excommunicato capiendo Answ. Excommunication Answ. Merchants Loans Answ. Customes Account Justices of Oyer Fines Pardon False money Oppressors of Ordinaries Answ. Imposts Customs Woolfells Answ. Standard Measures Answ. Statutes altered Alnage Answ. Aliens Measure Merchant strangers Forestalling Mills Statutes Provisions Labourers Proclamation Armor Proclamation Cloth Writs of Summons Parliament misdated Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords not come Clerk of the Parliament Proclamation against Arms and Games Chief Justice Cause of the Parliament Pâ—ace Kings Title to France War Truce broken Parliaments advice required Commons Committee Conference with the Lords The French breach of Truce Commons petitions Quindismes Justices of Peace Answ. Purveyors Variance Sheriffs Answ. Loans Answ. Indictors Inquest Imprisonment Suggestion Executors Purveyors Timber Forestallers Arms Soldiers Defence of the North Marches Answ. Measures Commons House Collectors Answ. Reasonable aid Vaâ—iance Purveyors Answ Thames Lumbards Merchant strangers Money embased Process Felony Marshalsey Answ. Heirs Assets Answ. Mercants Weights Answ. Tyth-wood Answ. Exchange of gold and silver Sheriffs accounts Answ. Fines for Writs Chancery Answ. Sheep Non tenure Provisors Answ. Alnager Outlary Loans Sheriffs Feefarms Answ. Villenage Protections Plate Mint Desmes and Quinneâ—â—e Exemptions vâ—id Answ. Prisage Wines Provisorâ— Sir Iohn Montravers Pardon Purgation Pardon confirmed in Parliament Clergy Treason Imprisonment Duress Fines Priest Murder Monks hanged Circumspecte agatis Answ. Ordinance Ordinary Presentment Admission Inhibition Arch-Bishop Answ. Purveyors Church Answ. Ordinances Great Councel Proclamation Adjournment Chief Justice Causes of Parliament Staple Staple Chamberlain Wars with France Pope Subsidy required and granted by the Commons Woolls Provisors Alnag Answ. Subsidies Wars Answ. Justices of Peace Victuallers Money Sterling Answ. Staple Canterbury Answ. Wines Variance from the Record Woolls Answ. Fines outragious Commissioner Answ. Pardons Staple Writs of Summons Cheif Justices Causes of Parliament Staple Ordinances Peace with France Wars mischeif Petitions Enormities redressed Parliament Petitions Erroneous Judgment in Parliament reversed Petition The Commons have voyce in reversing a Judgment given by the Lords that is when by Bill as here Articles of impeachment Councellors condemned for good advise through malice and power Lords Judges in Parliament Pâ—ers Tâ—eâ—on Execution Judgment against Magna Charta c. 2 revoked Restitutionâ— Pâ—ers judged by Peers Open Answer Earl of Arundel Attainder Restitution Judgment against Magna Charta c. 29â— without due process and trial reversed as erroneous Restitution Ordinances Staple Justices of Peace Fines Labourers Poor Answ. Estreat Old Law Answ. Woolls Wards Old Law Answ. Outlawry Contribution Knights wages Answ. Purveyances Present pay Answ. Sheriff Purveyances Answ. Errors Lâ—ndon Attaint Lords Law not to be altered Answ. Statutes confirmed Marches of Wales Distress Old Lâ—w. Answ. Inquest returned Conspiracy Maintenance Sheriffs Jury Evidences Escheators Iron Money finer Answ. Purveyors Privy Seal Councel Common Law Forfeiture Kings widows Old Law Answ. Appeal Common Law Answ. Weights and Measures London Coroners election Writs Fines Chancery Commissions Clerks of the Crown Answ. Fines for Writs Answ. Chancellor Sheriffs Justices Circuits Fines Letters of Attorny Answ. Attaint Labourers Answ. Staple Parliament Answ. Staples Sheriffs Inquests Staple Answ. Merchants Free Trade Customs Customers Merchants Oathes Merchant strangers Answ. Chancellor Treasurer Chamberlain Peace with France Commons advice and assent demanded concerning peace They submit themselves wholly to the King and Lords Oâ—der Summons of Parliament Parliament adjourned Painted Chamber Petitions Parliament adjourned for absence of divers Lords Chief Justice Causes of Parliament Peace treated with France Ambassadors Rome King of Navar League with England against France Iersey Navars revolt French Forces Enemies Battel refused Peace Parliament Chief Justice Commons Kings travel and expence Scots Victory Peace deferred Lords and Commons conference Aids granted Subsidy conditional on Wools Impositions Great Charter Forrest Staples Receipt Sheriffs Aids to make the Kings son a knight Exchequer Answ. Purveyors Escheators Seisure Answ Justices of Peace Weights and Measures Answ. Sheriffs Coroners Sheriff Constable Gaoler Imprisonment Confederacie Judges Answ. Justices of Gaol-delivery Exigenâ— Old Law Answ. Northern Counties
Appeal Nisi prius Jurors Kings Bench. Answ. Old Law Fraudulent Conveyances Answ. Indictment Attorneys Inquest returned Exchequer Attaint Old Law Answ. Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords not come Chief Justice Causes of the Parliament Churches Reformation Peace Scotland Wools Petitions Peace and War by the Parliaments advâ—ce Lords Scotland War advised Lords advice Merchants Câ—llis Commons advice respiâ—ed Conference with Merchants Magna Charta and Statutes Purveyors Penalty for negligences Omission out of the printed Statute Kings Carriages Wines ingrossed Inquests forreign Answ. Imprisonment without due Process Answ. Mainpriâ—e Fines Answ. Wools Weights Priests wages Offendors Parliament annually Subsidy of Wools pardoned Gold and silver Answ. Peace Justices of Peace Fees Answ. Debt Exchequer Answ. Petitions answered Answ. Pardon Waste Escheators Labourers Fines Petitions answered Subsidy granted Lionel created Duke of Clarence in Parliament Duke of Lancaster Earl of Cambridge Iohn created Duke of Lancasterâ— Charter Edmond Earl of Cambridge created in Parliament Charter Pleadingâ— in English Staple Conusance Chief Justice Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords and Commons not yet come Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Subjects grieveances Churches liberties infringed Petitions Petitions Mâ—rchants-aliens Transportation of Woollen cloaths Cheese Sheep Malt Beer inhibited Commons thanks to the King Clergy to pray for the peace and good gâ—vernment oâ— the Land c. Kings good will to the Commons Answ. Statutes confirmed Ordinances Customs of Woolls Answ. Silver coin Gold Answ. Exchange Answ. Money Poor Coiners Half pence and Farthings Answ. Merchants hostlers Regrators Forestallers Ordinance Fish Merchants Corn Meal and Victuals not to be transported Proclamâ—tion Answ. Weers Nusances Answ. Nisi prius King party Kingâ— Attorneyâ— Venire facias Answ. Commons House Justices of Peace nominated by the Commons Answ. Identitate nominis Variance Poultry prices Exchequer Grocers Artificers Apparel Pestilence Alienation without licence Answ. Wines Price of Wâ—nes Testimonial Justices of Assize Answ. Villenage Suggesâ—â—ons Parliament prorogued Chancellor Apparâ—el Ordinanâ—e Statute Amâ—ndment Kings thanks Parliament dissolved Silver vessels Hawks Statutes printed not in the Record Parliament adjourned Proclamation Painted Chamber Chancellour Causes of Parliament Justice Kings good will to his Subjects Kings thanks Common Peace Good Laws Amendment of faulty Laws Petitions Kings Declaration Popes citations and Usurpations Kings Courts Provisors Ancient Laws Prerogative Treasure exported Ecclesiastical livings Divine Service Alms Hospitality Parliament Liberties Provisors Variance in the Record Transportation of Victuals and Corn prohibited Scotland Protection Scots Answ. Fines of the Chancery Answ. Peoples case Staple Impositions to cease Answ. Ships forfeited Customs cancelled Wines Suggestions Jurors Embracers Maintainers Staple Melcomb Lewes Customes Customers Lynne Royall assent Kings thanks Parliament dismissed Chancellor Painted Chamber Causes of Parliament Prince Gascoign Ireland Government of England Petitions Chancellor Causes of Parliament Popes claim of Tribute King Iohns Homage to Rome for England and Ireland Popes citation of the King to Rome Advice required Bishops Lords Commons Kings cannot subject the Kingdom to the Pope or any other but by common assent of Parliament Kings Oathâ— Popes usurpation unanimously resisted Universities Oxford Cambridge Fryers Complaint in Parliament Parliament Universities Degrees Bulls Rome King and his Council Chancellor Kings son in Law to be created an Earl Lords assent Chief Baron Parliament Aestate probanda Livery ouster le maine Age. Inspection in Parliament Reseisure Infaâ—ra Charters Recognisances Statutes Writings vacated Kings thanks Parliament dismâ—ssed Writs of Summons Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords and Commons not yet come Arch-Bishop Painted Chamber Arch-Bishop Victory over enemies Subjects loyalty Causes of Parliament Petitions Treaty King of Scots Peace Scotland Lords and Commons several advise and Answers Disinherison of the King and Crown Oath of Allegiance Thanks for Aids and Subsidies granted Subsidy granted Old Customs and new Great Charter Statutes Pardons Process of Law Commissions Escheators Labourers Victuals London Forainers Retail Merchants Wines Green wax Exchequer Aliens Callice Kings thanks for aids Lords and Commons dine with the King Sir Iohn de Lee. Robert Latimers Case Wardship Imprisonment Duress Due process of Law Kings Steward Kings Councel Unjust oppression Attachment Verge Marshalsey Jurisdiction Imprisonment Authority abused Purveyors Defrauding the King Mannor of Raynham Dover Castle Imprisonment in the Tower Constable of the Tower Kings Councel Wardship resigned to the King Recognisances vacated Lord Chancellor Causes of Parliament Parliaments counsel and assent used in all weighty affairs Peace with the French upon conditions Gascoyne Stile of French King relinquished The French breach of conditions Parliaments advise required Petitions Lords and Commons answer Stile of France Stile of France assumed by the King New Great Seal Patents Charters Writs Seals altered Subsidy granted Old Customs Forts surveyed and repaired Aliens Armour Horse-coursers Answ. No man punished contrary to Law Commissions repealed Prescription Answ. Silva cedua Tythes Answ. Pardon Forrest Sheriffs Answ. Indictment Nisi prius against the King Treason Chaâ—cellor Answ. Sea-mark Times of Wâ—r Answ. Executors refusal Aquitaâ—ned Repeal of Statutes Variance from the Record Staple King's thanks to the Lords and Commons Booty in War Conquest Charters Priors Aliens seised Clergies Array Parliament dissolved Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Kings necessity Kings Army The French Kings power by Land and Sea Englands invasion Advice of Parliament required Petitions Subsidy granted Contribution Staple Melcomb Chancellor Easter Petitions Kings thanks Parliament dismissed Great Câ—uncel summoned Chancellor Subsidy mistaken Parishâ—s Subsidy supplied Parish Church Chester Moâ—tmain Commission for the Subsidy Collectors Commissioners Knights of Counties Petitions read and answered before the Lords and Commons Parliament dismissed Great Charter Church-men removed Crowns disinherison Officers Laymen prefeâ—r'd Kings election and prerogative over his Officers Kings Councel Answ. Petitions considered Lords Lands in Capite leased Answ. Mills Fines for Writs Answ. Purveyance Measure Answ. Eyre Treilbaston Corn Victuals Wooll Green wax Extracts Certainty Parliament Answ. Sheriffâ— Trial Birth Answ. Old Law Mayors Bayliffs Sergeant Victuallâ—rs Taverners Answ. Easterlings Merchants Answ. Merchants Wool Free Trade Answ. Merchants restrained Wines Repeal of Statutes Corporations Liberties Answ. Navies decay Ships arrestedâ— Mariners Merchants restrained Masters of Ships Imposition Answ. Answ. Goods uncustomed Pardon Answ. Fortresses Answ. Assiises Justices Parents Answ. Commissioners charges Sessions Answ. Villenage Visne Answ. Possession Inquest of Office Escheator Trial. Scire facias Answ. Sheriff Escheators Answ. French Varlets Answ. Justice not to be delaid No man to answer without due process of Law Answ. Impositions Woolls Commons House Subsidy Answ. Sea-coast guarded Protections Commons loss Answ. Seals counterfeited Forgery Imprisonment perpetual Scottish money Answ. Priests Clergies assent Writs of Summons Parliament adjourned Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Peace broken by the French Kings right to France Armies King of Castile Aragon Royal Navy Publick charges Aid required Nobles Realms defence Season of War Speedy answer Committee of Lords and Câ—mmons Conference Aids granted Wars
Petitions answered Chancellor Kings thanks Commons Petitions Câ—mmons dismissed Parliament ended Petitions Subsidy granted upon condition Tonnage and Poundage Wars Commissions Fees Commons house Collectors Magna Charta Forrest Answ. Petitions answered Private petitions Answ. Cloaths Assizes London Cities Liberties Answ. Staples Calice Answ. Kings Councel Scottish silver Protection Warâ—â— Deceit Answ. Chancery Staple at Lin Woolls Answ. Tythe Wood Prohibition Answ. Ordinaries Jurisdiction Breach of Faith Labourers Answ. Purveyors Resistance Answ. Accomptants Exchequer Imprisonment Answ. Cyrographer Fines Fees Common Pleas. Answ. Labourers Justices removed Answ. Villenage Trial. Answ. Masters of ships Marriners Wages Ships pressed Necessity Answ. Allowance for tackling of ships Answ. Provisors Pope First-fruits Answ. Burgesses Bristoll a County Perambulation Chancery Charters confirmed Answ. French Prior Alieâ—s Answ. Sheriffs Bailiffâ— Answ Exchequer Suggestions Answ. Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords and Commons not yet come Proclamation for all summoned to appear Chancellor King Câ—uses of the Parliament Government of the Realm Defence of the Realm by Land and Sea Wars against enemies Advice of Parliament followed Lords and Commons advise apart Petitions Commons meet in the Chapter house at Westminster Committee of Lords to consult with them Subsidy granted Commons device Kings Council Royal assent Chancellor Treasurer Privy Seal Officers Rewards prohibited Officers Rewards prohibited Reports of matters of Council to the King Ordinances by the King and his Council Officers Ordinances repealed Sweet Wines Retail London Lord Mayor Prices of Wine Commons Protestation Allegiance King abused by ill Officers Ransoms Subsidies Wars Councils abuses Staple Bullion Shifts for money Provide Debts bought at Undervalues Richard Lyons his Impeachment Deceits Extortions Farmer of Subsidies Licences to transport Wooll and Staple-ware Impositions Change of mony Bribes to pay due debts Council His answer and submission His censure Imprisonment Seisure of his lands and goods Extortions Commissions of Enquiry Dâ—sfranchisement Lord Latimers impeachment by the Commons Oppressions Chamberlain Kings Councel Exactions Victuals Ransomes Not accounting Victuals sold Losse of S. Saviours Fort and others Câ—nfederacy with Richard Lyons His answer Triall by Peers Commons Judgment against him Ill counsel Deceit to the King Staples prejudice Callis Impositions Peers Judges Imprisonment Marshall Fines and Ransomes Commons request Officers confiscated Put from the Councel Mainprisors Marshall Mainprisors William Ellis his Impeachment Extortions Farmer of Customes Subsidy His Answer His Judgment Imprisonment Iohn Peach his Impeachment Monopoly Wines Extortion Judgement against him Imprisonment Recompence Lord Nevill impeached Privy Councellour Buying debts due to the King at undervalues Defrauding the King for souldiers wages Witnesses produced Witness imprisoned Judgment against him Imprisoment Losse of lands goods and offices Restitution Executors Women Maintenance Alice Perers Forfeiture Banishment Prior of Ecclefield Alien Complaint Lord Latimer Adam de Bury impeached Deceits wrongs Major of Callis Delinquents sent for Contempt Goods and Chattels forfeited Error in Parliament Archdeaconry of Norwich Errors in the Common Pâ—eas to be reversed in the Kings Bench and of the Kings Bench in the Parliament Complaint Commons Great Yarmouth Charter repealed in one clause only Commons request Prince of Wales created only by the King not by the Lords Kings prerogative King sick Lords and Commons attend him Kings confirmation Magna Charta Forrest Answ. Sheriffs Inquests and Juries Pannel Sheriffs oath Answ. Undersheriff Pannel Liberties Exemptions Occupations Abuses reformed Answ. Commissions repealed Extortions Commissioners of good name estate and reputation Answ. Jâ—stices Sergeants Lawyers Salmons Fish Thames Nets Answ. Commissions of Enquiry Wears Braint Thames Answ. Lombards Brokers Usury Sodomy Spies Aliens Answ. Strangers Corporations Liberties 〈…〉 shewed Châ—nceâ—â— Answ. Protectâ—â—â—â— repealed Answ. Council Ribald Beggâ—rsâ— Banishment Answ. Statute of Winchester Râ—berdsmen Counterfeits Soldiers Staple Lincoln S. Botolphs Answ. Kings pleasure Incontinency Clergy Bigamy Answ. Bailiffs Forrestsâ— Forfeiture Legal trial Chancery Mainprise Eyre Restitution Answ. Ill Couâ—cellors Officers disabled Restitution Answ. King and Lords liberty Aliens religiouâ— Rome Answ. Council Justices of Peaceâ— nominated by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Oath Fees Answ. King and Councel Church lands sold. Westm. 2. Answ. Alienationâ— Hundreds not to be farmed Answ. Indictment Coroner Murder Flight Forfeiture Justices of Goal delivery Answ. Stankes Nusances Havens Answ. Accounts Exchequer Averment Answ. Sea-coasts defence Residence Answ. Sheriffs Dâ—puties Answ. Justices of Assize Associates Answ. Yarmouth Herring Monopoly Repeal Free trade Barre Collateral warranty Assets Answ. Justices of Assize Sessions Goal deliveries Patents Answ. Sheriffs annually chosen Exchequer Extracts Escheators Answ. Commissions Dinners Perambulations of the Forrest Officers Forfeiture Dammages Answ. Charter of the Forrest Lumbards Fraud Answ. Kings Councel Seisure of lands and goods Attainder Answ. Sheriffs Undersheriffs Gaoler Justices Commissioners Answ. Bishops Probate of Wills Fees Acquittance Account Answ. Felons goods Office Traverse Old Law Answ. Account Exchequer Scottish money Sweet Wine Answ. Clerks of the Marker Fines in grosse Measures Weights Answ. Negligence Patent Escheators enquest Answ. Chancellor Champerty Damages Answ. Provisors Rome Answ. Lord Steward Marshal Jurisdiction Articuli super chartas Verge Answ. Jurisdiction Exchequer Wager of Law Prerogative Answ. Corographer Fines Fees Answ. Popes usurpations Provisors Tax to the Pope Popes extortions Brokers of Rome Simony Unworthy persons promoted Learnings decay Alien enemies Treasure exported Law of the Church Presentation Hospitality Pope Lay-Patrons Simony Popes covetousness Popes great exactions treasure out of England Churches honor Plagues of the Realm for suffering the Church to be defaced Churches reparation Jubile Letters to the Pope Great Seal Nobles Seals No money to be exported Lombards Forfeiture Imprisonment Answ. Pope Popes Collectors Aliens Spies Secrets disclosed Popes Receiver and Collector Peter-pence Mony transported Cardinals Aliens Deans Archdeacons Prebendaries Mony transported English Brokers Popes usurpation Enemies Lombards Subsidy Popes translation of Bishopricks c. Popes Collector First-fruits Provisors Rome Popes reservations Benefices Cardinals created Kings enemies Popes usurpations Kings enemies Kings regality Religious houses Free eleâ—â—ion Popes incroachment Legacies from the Pope Popes covetousness of our money Money transported Popes Collectors Cardinals Proctors Popes Collectors banished under pain of death Proctors banished Popes Collector Clergies vassalage to the Popes Collector Persons sent for to give information to the Lords and Commons Servants Beggers Vagabonds Labourers Answ. Kings Wards Commitment Prerogaâ—ive Answ. Prescription Writ of Right Mortdancester Nuper obiit Cozenage Aiel Old Law not to be changed Answ. Aliens Benefices Answ. Errors Justices of Assize Answ. General Pardon of Intrusions Prerogative Answ. Account Executors Guardian in Soccage Answ. Restitution Farmers tâ— Aliens Answ. Priors Churches Conventual Collegial Parochial Grants prejudicial to the King and Realm Answ. Forestallers Justices of Peace Answ. Infants Fines Old Law Answ. Prior Aliens Wars French Alien enemies banished Prisoners Ransome Answ. Devon Oppression Stannaries Charter explained in Parliament Cornwall Stannaries Cumberland Carlisles repair Aid Poverty Warden of the Marches Answ.
Patent Answ. Woollen cloth Alnager Loans repaid Five chief Officers not to be displaced without special fault Answ. English merchants Reprisal Scots goods Answ. Mortuaries Armour Answ. Provisions Variance from the Record Popes abuses Nâ—velties Cardinals Archdeaconry of Bath Writs of Summons Chancellor Magna Charta read Parliament adjourned because divers Lords and Commons not come by reason of the soul ways and weather Commons Writs not returned Kings Command Many Temporal Lords absent upon the Marches Kings Justices Serjeanâ—s Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Churches Libertiesâ— Peace of the Realm Warrs and Army in France and Scotland Aids expected Defence Kings Jewels pawned Gallies to keep the Seas provided by the King Aid Speedy consultation and aidâ— Receivers of Petitions Triers of Petitions Chancellor Commons house departed Their consultations Rancour and malice to be laid aside Commons consult together Speaker of the Commons Sir Iohn Oldersburgh Particulars of the Kings necessities required Commons poverty Kings Officers A particular Schedule delivered the Commons amounting to one hundred and fifty thousand pound The Commons desire a moderation of the Lords Commons grant a conditional aid if the Clergy would give such a sum Poll money Clergies Priviledges to the aids in Parliament of their free wills Poll money granted Subsidies of Wools. Sir Ralph Ferriers accused in Parliament of action of Treason before the Lords Lords Judges in Parliament Evidence against him Letters of Intelligence produced against Sir Ralph Letters to the Admiral of France Letters out of France Parliament Marshal of England Councel required and denied His answer to the Letters and Evidences Improbabiliâ—y Sâ—r Ralphâ—emanded â—emanded to prison Parliament The letters and their credits examined The Letters seem forged Sir Ralphs answer Combate offered and denied The Lords think him innocent He is bailed by Pledges body for body Next Parliament Chief Justice Begger committed to prison for forgery Great Charter and other Statutes confirmed Answ. Commission of Survâ—y sealed Fâ—es fâ—r the Commissioners Answ. Taxes Warrs Answ. Prerogative Tax how to be imployed Warrs Answ. Chester Durham Cinque Ports Answ. Half pence Farthings Answ. Ship Deodand Favour Normans Ships Answ. Error Oath Suggestion Answ. Outlawry Addition Answ. Common Law Oâ—slâ—â— of possession Eâ—quest of Office Escheator Patent Answ. Sheriffs discharge Impossibility Answ. Pardon 2. E. 3.7 8. Yarmouth Patent Revocation Monopoly Kirkley road Answ. Commissioners Yarmouth Victuals Butter Cheese Transportation â—â—â—e Lincolnshire bounds Commissions Answ. Derby Assizes Justices Answ. Sussex and Surrey Sheriffs allowance Fee farm Earl of Arundel Answ. Popes Collectors First-fruits Prohibition Answ. Debts of E. 3. be paid Prior Aliens removed Answ. Answ. Sheriffs Pardon of Felony Riot in York Major of York unduly sworn and chosen by a Writ Answ. Commissions to enquiry of the Riot Sergeants at Arms to arrest the principall rioters and bring them to the Councel The undue elected Major to cease exercising his Office and appear before the Councel Iohn de Gisborn commanded by Writ to execute this Office Wines Gageing of them Parliament adjourned becauâ—e all the Writs not return'd Painted chamber Commons all called by name Chancellor Causes of Parliament Subsidy granted with proviso Council of Lords Voyage royal into France Lords Soldiers Wages Merchants Security Causes of Parliament Lords and Commons advice Petitions Commons desire to know the sum required Loan Assurance Knights of Shires Conference with the Lords Merchants conferred with Commons and Knights debates Report to the Lords Merchants Loan by the Nobles and Gentry Assurance Merchants Mony advanced by loan Wools. Merchant strangers Staple Free trade Subsidy Seas guarded Parliament Heresie Parliament adjourned because All Souls day Parliament adjourned because sundry Sheriffs had not returned their Writs Parliament adjourned because many Knights and Burgesses made default Debates between the Duke of Lancaster and Earl of Northumberland who came with divers armed men and archers to the Parliament Parliament adjourned by reason of their armed power King Councel and Nobles desired to appease the discord The Councel called by name in Parliament Archbishop elect Chancellor of England his Oration Causes of Parliament Vice suppressed Receivers of Petitions Triers of Petitions Causes of Parliiament Commons called all by their names Treasurer of England Churches liberties Peace Tumults Rebellion Villanies Manumissions Great Seal Revocation Kings wants Aids Commons house Commons present their Speaker Sir R. VValsgrave He desires to be discharged Charged on his Allegiance to continue Speakers protestation He requireth a more full declaration of the Kings meaning Chancellor Vâ—llains Repeal of Manumissions Parliament Commâ—ns Repeal Infranchisement Commons assent Committee of Lords to confer with the Commons General Pardon desired Old order of the Parliament Commons to shew their conceits to the Lords Commons Protestation Ill government about the King Purveyors Commons pilled Enemies unresisted Privy-Council Reformation must begin at the head Kings Confessor secluded the Court. Commons devises Wise men to be appointed about thâ— Kings person Wise Officers Chancellor to be elected Chanceries enormities redressed Treasurer Barons Exchequer-Officers Justices of both Benches Serjeants c. Commons to view the Names and Ordinances before confirmed Tumults suppressed Realms great poverty by the wars Money exported Base money Low price of Wools Tin and Lead Lords and Nobles Ordinances executed General Pardon desired Law regulated Clerks of Chancâ—ry Justices Barons of Exchequer Lawyers Lords c. Report to the Lords and Commons Exchequer Pardons required confirmed in Parliament Pardon Rebels pardon Excepted personâ— Archbishop slain Treasurer slain Chief Justice slain Due remedy Pardon for those who rose not Commons request Law-made Ordinance against Purveyors Kings charges great Kings marriage with Anne daughter to the Emperor Charls Aid for safety of the King State and Common wealth Peoples ill will Commons dare not grant greater Taxes Subsidy of Wooll and Staple-wares Commons unadvised Parliament adjourned till after Christmas Further advice Queens arrival Earl of Arundel Sir Mic. de la Poole Custom of Parliament Pardons King used not to grant ought to the Commons till they granted something to him Commons answer Subsidy delayed Kings answer Pardons delayed Commons better advised Subsidy of Wools and Staple-wares granted with an interruption Pardons openly read Commons thanks Commission by Parliament to stay Riots Insurrections Rebellions Mainpâ—isors discharged Enlargementâ— Richard Clâ—ndâ—n Eâ—quire Bill of accusation Sir William Coggan Menaces Extortionâ— Combate Câ—uncel desire in Parâ—iamentâ— denied in Treason Aâ—swers amended Triall adjourned â—ouâ— of Parliament before the Justices Common Law Major and Commonalty of Cambridge accused Insurrection Universities treasurie robbed Universities Charters Chancellor and the Universities released by Duress University Seal Writs to the Mâ—jor and Commonalty of Cambridge to appear and answer in Parliament A Writ to the Major and Bailiff They appear in proper person The Commons appear by Aâ—torney Not guilty pleaded by the Major Deeds redelivered sealed gotten by Duress Râ—lease of Liberties c. by Durâ—â—â— Release of Actions Deeds by Duress cancelled Chancellor
the Record Chancellor King Causes of Parliament Kings intent to pass the Seas Councill at Oxford Kings passage Offensive War best cheapest To avoyd reproch of Cowardise To gain his right to the French Crown To gain Honour Frances invasion of England Advise thereon Laws maintenance Peace preserved Petitions Chancellor impeached by the Commons Articles against him Purchasing the Kings Lands whiles Chancellour Deceit of the King Chancellors Demuâ—rer Represents the Kings person Counsell Answer by Proxy at Councell not admitted Personall answer His Protestation and Answer Counsels advice He purchased no Lands Lands given him with his Earldoms Exchange Customs of Hull His Counsels answer His just demerit of what he had The Commons reply His Oath of Chancellor Exchange of good Lands for a casual Custome Judgement prayed Priorie of St. Anthonies Prior Alien Schismaticks Provisions Annuity Commons replication Sir William Thorpe Chief Justice His Judgement of death Forfeitures Bribes Chancellors rejoynder in Oath Difference between Thorpes Case and his Bribes Chancellor arrested at the Commons request Committed to the Constable of England Parliament Priviledge Bayled Judgement against him Oath bâ—okâ—n Lands given him restored to the King Mean profits restored H. Earldomâ— saved and 20. l. out of the County of Suffolk Judgement against him for the Lands Exchanged Lands Exchanged Priory of St. Anthony Dover Charter Great Seal Repeale Half Desm and Quâ—ndesm granted Tunnage and Poundage Subsidy of Wools and Staple commodities Upon condition Commissioners to redress Enormities Kings Councel not to be removed Grant and conditions Exemplified freely Great Seal Great Charter Forrest Patent Kings Prerogative saved Chief Officers Chancellour Treasurer Privy Seal Steward Great Councell appointed for a year Resp. Steward of his Houshold Kings Councel Cardinal Alien Prebend Benefice Resp. Priors Aliens Great Yarmouths Liberties confirmed Free Trade Herrings Justices of the B. No reward Resp. Justices charged to do right Barons of Exchecquer Inquisition Liberties granted Sheriffs allowance Resp. Kings Councell Protection Delay Victuals Scotland Safe conduct Resp. License Serjeants aâ— Arms Miâ—demeanour Expulsion Resp. Proâ—ogation Assize Nov. Delay Resp. Ships serving the King Wages Res. Kings Councell North Quarters Residâ—nâ—e Resp. Comptrollers of Ports Grants Resp. Charters repealed Chancellor Resp. Kings Councell Archbishoâ—s Protestation Commission Archbishops Prerogative Not to be sworn to any inferiour to the Pope His Oath saving his Prerogative The Kings own Protestation Prejudice of the King and Crown Prerogative saved Parliament ended Writs of Summons Writs of Summons Chancellor Causes of Parliament Troubles Want of good government King better counselled Good government Peace observed Laws maintained Justâ—ce administred Misdemeanors punâ—shed Realms defence Seas guarded Marches of Scotland Guienne Charges levied Petitions Duke of Gloucest Slander King deposed Uâ—urpation Submission to tryall of the Lords The King purgeth him Lords claim their Liberties Matters of Parliament Peeres Course of Parliament The Law thereof Laws Civill Laws Common Not the Law and rule of Parliament Lords Appellants Protestations Appeal Gods Honour Kings ayde and safetie Self preservation Arch-Bishopâ— and Clâ—â—gâ—es protestation Entred Treason Canonâ—c Law Bishopâ— absent themselves in Cases oâ— bloud Half Dâ—sme and Fifteenth gâ—anted Conditionally Seas defence No president Subsidâ—eâ— noâ— usually granted till the end of Parliaments Realms and Merchandâ—ze defence Tunnage and Poundage granted Subsidie of Staple Ware All Lords and Commons sworn in Parliament to keâ—p Peace Live and Dye in the Lords Appellantâ— quarrel Allegiance to the King Kings Prerogative Laws Parliament adjourned Easteâ—s approach Writs of Summonâ— Paâ—liament revived Subsidie granted on Woolls Wool-fells Skins Realms defence Aliens Lords charges levied Tunnage and Poundage Kings grant Lady Anne Barns Forfeiture Annuitie Kings grant of Lands confirmed Lords request Lords request Clerk of the Crown Câ—mmons request Parliament Res. Kings Attendants Kings Person Parliament Kings Councell Servants removed Lords Oath Res. Proof Oath Repeal Laws observed Peace Lands Escheatedâ— not to be grantedâ— Wars Kings profit Res. Offices Bayliwickâ— Councell Queens Contribution to the Houshold expences Dower Res. Councell Popes Impositions Bulls Novelties Kings Wars Scismaticks Scotland Treason Res. Clergies half Desme Praemunire Res. Bohemians Aliens banished Queen Praemunire Res. Notice Chancellor Steward Chamberlain Merchants Annuities Impositions Sheriffs Accounts Gaoles Res. Kings Councell Pardon Privie Seals Assizes Gaole deliverie Lords expences Commons request Pardon London Persons excepted Foâ—feitures Escheates Charters Archbishop of Yorke Attainder Judgement confirmed No Pardon Kings person Misgovernance Staples Callice Bullion Resp. Kings Councell Chancellor Privy Seal Courts of Justice surveyed Officers unfit removed Comptroller Weigher Good behaviour Kings pleasures Bishop of Ely Chancellor Commons request Sir Iohn Holland created Earl of Huntingdon Girding with a sword Tayle Creation Mony Patent confiâ—med Peers Lords Merches Residence Castâ—â—s Kings Charges saved Resp. Commons request Kings Oath renewed Oath Mass. Sermon King new sworn Fealty Homâ—ge Lords and Commons swear Lords and Commons Oath To suffer no Repeal To maintâ—in the Laws and Customâ— Peace kept Bishops Excommunication Lords thanks to the King for his Justice Kings thanks for their grants Writs of Wages Parliament ended Printed Acts not in the Record Writs of Summons Wâ—its of Summons Chancellour King Kings â—ull age Liberties enjoyed Enemies France Spaine Guienne Scotland Ireland Consultation Peace Defence Ayde raised Petitions Chancellor Treasurer Lords of the Great Councell Privy Seal Officers pray to be discharged Great Seal succeeded Exchecquer Keys Lords of Councell Complaints Cmmons respite Officers acquitted Officers restored and â—einvested Kings Councell Kings Prerogative Councellors Parliament Oath of Councellors Assize Prioress of Dâ—tford Value Paâ—liament Rom. Arch-Deaconery Kings prejudice Laws Praeminire Moâ—gage paid Lands not restored Writ to appear Parliament Common-Law Appeal Jury sufficient Bishop Dean Chapter Dean of Lincoln Liberties Tryall Writ Lords Major and Bayliffâ— of Lincoln Appearance Commonalty Contempt Assize Juries Lincoln False Verdict Attaint Kings Bench Common Pleas. Sheriff Non obstante Universitie of Cambridg Petition Ministers Major and Bayliffs of Cambridg Treason Felony Triallâ— Juâ—y Commonalty Warrant Contempt Appeal Damages Marshallsey Error Sciri facias Parliament Sureties Errors Damages Mainperners Parliament Chancellor Writs Deliverance Sciri facias Sureties Annuities Justices Banishment Ireland Wives of Exiles Non obstante Councell Priors Aliens Iuduction Exemption Non obstante Priory Clergie Subsidy on Wools granted Aliens Tunnage granted Wars Parliament Duke of Aquitaine created Crown Rod of Gold Tenure France Homage Thanks Protestation Wars Defence Charges borne Kings Councell Earl of Rutland created Annuity Okeham Forrest Sheriffwick Exchecquer Charter confirmed Archbishops and Cleargies Protestation They will assent to no Statutes restraining the Popes Authority Enrolment Protections Varianceâ— Constable Marshall Constable of Dover Forraign Plea Kent Castle Ward Answer Kings Inheritance Liveries Res. Serjants at Arms. Liveries Fraternities Resp. Chancellor Common-Law Procesâ— of Law Resp. Kings Prerogative savâ—d Sheriffs allowance Liberties Resp. Examination Kings Councell Provisions Rome Variance Forfeiture Imprisonment Chancellor Subpaena Kings Councell Chancery Common-Law Resp. Kings
Father utterly depressed the rebellious dispositions of the Welsh How also he had resisted the Conspiracies had against Christian faith and destructions of his own and other persons How further for his great Victories obtained against the French at Harfleet and Agincourt And lastly for that sundry Towns in Normandy had rendred themselves unto him He further sheweth that the chief cause of the same Assembly was for three causes The first for keeping of the Peace and observation of the Laws The second how to continue the Kings Voyage Thirdly for keeping of the Marches of Scotland wherein they ought viriliter agere which if they did he then assured them of honour and glory considering that Remuneratio virtutum est honor And so willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and to present him the next day to the said Warden Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the feas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The third day of the Parliament the Commons presented before the said Warden and Lords Roger Flower Esq to be their Speaker who with his Common protestations were allowed The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King one Desme and one Fifteen Iohn Martine William Babington William Poole William Wesburie Iohn Fame and Thomas Ralfe Apprentices at the Law and Serjeants appointed had refused the same where upon the charge of the Warden of England they took the same upon them On Tuesday the eighteenth of December and the twenty ninth day of this Parliament Sir Iohn Oldcastle of Cowling in the County of Kent Knight being outlawed upon Treason in the Kings Bench and excommunicated before the Archbishop of Canterbury for Heresies was brought before the Lords and having heard his said Conviction answered not thereto in excuse upon which Record and processe it was adjudged that he should be taken as a Traitor to the King and Realm that he should be carried to the Tower of London and from thence drawn through London to the new Gallows in St. Gyles without Temple-barr and there to be hanged and burned hanging The Record out of the Kings Bench is at large the effect whereof is That the said Sir Iohn Oldcastle and others to the number of 20. men called Lollards at St. Gyles aforesaid did conspire to subvert the state of the Clergy and to kill the King his Brother and other Nobles The Archbishop of Canterburies Instrument for his excommunication is there also at large Iohn de Holland Earl of Huntington was stayd of his Livery at the sute of the Countesse Marshall his Sister and by the Abbot of our Lord of Grace next the Tower of London for that the said Earl did not sue a Scire facias against them being Tenants of part of his Inheritance according to the last Parliament Tit. 16. Robert Penny being in execution in the Fleet upon out-law of a condemnation was let to Mainprize by the Guardian of England A motion is made that the Lord de Powis might be thanked and rewarded according to the Proclamation made for the apprehension of Sir Iohn Oldcastle Knight the Heretick Quid vultis mihi dare the brother of Iudas craveth his reward for betraying the Innocent wherein it is not to be doubted but that his lighter reward in this world was heavily revenged of God The Letters Patents made by the Bishop of Winchester for 21. Marks to be levied of Customs of all Staple Wares passing out of Southampton the which summ the said Bishop before had lent the King towards the warrs are confirmed by Parliament At the request of Thomas Duke of Exeter who at his Creation had 40 l. given him yearly out of Devon It is enacted that the said Duke shall first be payed before any other Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the Church and all Estates shall enjoy their liberties which are not repealable by the Common Law A hainous complaint against Insurrections in the end they suspect that they were Lollards and Traytors A Request that Commissions at all times be granted to enquire of them The Statutes therefore made shall be executed The Clergie at this their own Parliament cease not to rage and roar after Christian bloud tanquam Leones rugientes and whosoever did the fault they put Iohn Porter in the stocks and cried Crucifie Christ and deliver us Barrabas for now all horrible mischiefs whatsoever were imputed to the poor Lollards A long complaint and prayer of redresse of Stankes Stakes Kiddles Milnes c. levied upon rivers to great annoyances The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That such Merchants as by their resiance contribute to all taxes may have their goods free in Port Towns It shall be as heretofore it hath been That Merchants of the Staple having their goods Customed and their Cocquets therefore be not sunderly in other places therefore impeached or slandered The Lieutenant will send to know the Kings pleasure therein The print touching making of Attornies cap. 1. agreeth with the record A motion that no Collector for the Clergie be appointed out of his Deanarie The Clergie shall appoint their Collectors Anno Septimo Henrici Quinti Rex c. Consanguineo suo Henrico Percie Com. Northum apud VVestm die Lunae post Festum Sancti Andreae Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicesimo primo die Octobris RAdulpho Nevil Com. Westmerland Hugoni Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Hugoni Burnell Johanni de Welles Johanni Baroni de Graystock Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni de Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Tho. Camois VVillielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Summon Parliamenti Rex c. Henrico Percie Com. Northumb. apud Westm. decimo sexto die Octobris Teste apud Westm. Vicesimo quarto die Augusti RAdulpho Nevil Com. VVestmerland Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la VVarr VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Hugoni Burnell Johanni de Welles Johanni Baroni de Graystock Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni de Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Edwardo Cherleton de Powis VVillielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixteenth day of October in the seventh year of King Henry the Fifth ON the said sixteenth day the Bishop of Duresm Chancellor of England before the Duke of Bedford VVarden of England sitting in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster and before the Lords
and Commons declared how that the Subjects had most great cause to embrace and to pray for the King considering that for want of peace which he sunderly sought he began warr in timore Domini which being principium sapientiae he thereby attained the fruits of wisdome with victory and honour and the particulars whereof he doth not forget to shew For his proposition therefore he taketh these words bonum facientes non deficiamus upon which he sheweth how that the King being of good courage would have his Subjects to be carefull to provide for good governance and defence of the Realm and considering that his enterprize begun could not be left without eminent perils he would new provisions to be made and to be granted to the end he might end to his honour and their comforts He therefore willeth the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Tuesday the second day of the Parliament the Commons presented before the King and Lords Roger Fowler Esq to be their Speaker who with the Common protestation was allowed The thirteenth day of November the Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King one Fifteen and one Desm and one half part of them both The like order is taken for payment of such as shall lend to the King as in Anno 4 H. 5. tit 10. The names of such 23. and Lords as subscribed to the said Order It is enacted that the Lords of the Council shall have power to establish orders touching the Coin For the keeping of money within the Realm it is enacted that all necessaries shall be bought within the realm for the Kings soldiers and sent to them and also that certain woolls be bought and sent into Normandy any Statute for the Staple to the contrary notwithstanding For that Friar Iohn Randolfe the Queen Dowagers Confessor had accused her for compassing the death of the King It was enacted that all the lands and goods of Roger Doller and Petromell Brocart her Sureties should be seised and paid to the King wherein sufficient warrant is provided for all such as shall pay the same At the request of Iohn Lane Iohn Brodinge Iohn Russell Clerks and others were Indicted as it was made before the Coroner of the County of York for a Murder the which Indictment was removed into the Kings Benchâ— where indeed there was no such Indictment found It was therefore enacted that the said Indictment should be void and the said Plaintiff discharged of the same And the like of Iohn Lebard and others made against the said Russell the like order for them is taken as next above Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe like Act as in the last Parliament tit 27. The print touching Conspiracies in the Dutchy of Lancaster cap. 1. agreeth not fully with the record That a writ of Partition may be between Copartners or the Feoffees or Allies of any of them The Common Law shall be observed That a pâ—in may be limited in the Statute for the wages of Chaplains The Statute provided shall be observed That the day of Exigent may lie in the writ of Forger of false Deeds That a man being bound by recognizance to appear at a day certain for keeping of the peace and then being stayed by sicknesse imprisonment or other commandement may plead the same in barr upon a Scire facias The Common Law shall be observed That the Statute made in 13 R. 2. â—it 58 against Hunters may continue with this adjunct that every person being thereof attainted shall for every offence forfeit to the King 3 l. 6 d. 8 d. The Statutes therefore made shall be observed A motion touching the payment of an Annuity of no great force Anno Octavo Henrici Quinti Rex c. Chariss fratri Iohanni Duci Bedford c. apud Westm. secundo die Martii Teste apud Westm. decimo sexto die Februarii HUmfrido Duci Gloucestriae fratri Regis Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Radul de Nevill Com. Westmerland Ricardo Com. Warr Ricardo Com. Wigorn. Edwardo Com. Marchiae Hugo Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Johanni Welles Hen. Fitz-Hugh Jacobo Audley Johanni de Clifford Johanni Baroni de Graystocke Reginal Gray de Ruthine Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Edwardo de Cherleton de Powis Tho. Camois VVillielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Roberto Willoughbie Willielmo Clinton Johanni Talbott Domino de Furnival Johanni Gray de Codonore Willielmo Harrington Willielmo Hankeford Capitali Justiciario toto tempore istius Regis vel pro majori parte Anno Nono Henrici Quinti The Parliament holden at VVestminster the first day of December in the ninth year of King Henry the Fifth IN the presence of Iohn Duke of Bedford c. sitting as in the last Parliament tit 1. the Bishop of Durham Chancellor of England pronounced touching the Parliament and took for his Theam Lex Domini immaculata convertens animas c. Whereupon he divided the law into these three points viz. the law politick whereby men for fear of punishment forbear to do evil the law of love whereby men willingly do well the law mercenary where through coveteousnesse they rake to themselves By a similie as Christ going up to the Mount to be transfigured took only with him Peter Iames and Iohn resembled the same to man who could not by mortality be altered unlesse he had faith ascribed to Peter hope likened to Iames and love applied to Iohn which he affirmeth must proceed by the law of God which converteth souls He then shewed that the Parliament was called for two chief causes the one for establishing of good lawes the other for the defending of the frontiers of the Realm with manly courage to which end he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and to present him Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the third day of the Parliament the Commons presented before the Lieutenant of England and the Lords Richard Baynard to be their Speaker who with the common protestation was allowed The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords
Realm during the King's pleasure p. 652. Their Protestations in Parliament to be Judges onely of their Peers p. 7. To be Judges of Articles of Impeachment against Peers in Parliament c. their claim of this their Liberty p. 321 426 644. Against the Peace made with France p. 630. Against the extrajudicial Judgement of Banishment given by the King upon the Duke of Suffolk's Impeachment 644. The King to dispence with the Statute of Provisions by the Lords advice p. 342. They order a subsidy granted conditionally to be absolutely payedâ— p. 584. A Lord slandered by the Commons requires and receives reparation from themâ— p. 155. Lords slandered in Parliament purged from reports raised of them p. 392 603 657 321. Commoners imprisoned fined for slanderous and false Complaints against Lords p. 299 300 304 343. Submission of one Peer to another by Order of the Lords for an accusation and words then uttered against him p. 352. Controversies between Lords for precedency resolved in Parliament p. 172 to 578 638. Suspended from siting in the House during the debate of their precedencies there p. 573 575 577. Their Oath to the King not to alter any Act Judgement or Ordinance in Parliament 21 R. 2. p. 326 371 372. Their Oath of Allegiance to the King in Parliament p. 427 657. All of them sworn to a solemn Decree made between themselves without affection to hear and determine the controversies pending between the Duke of Glocester and Bishop of Winchester so as neither of them should be encouraged to break the peace which they sent to the Commons p. 583. The like Oath taken by them in the controversie for precedency between the Earls Marshal and Warwick p. 572 573. Sworn to observe all Ordinances touching the King's Grants c. p. 202. To help that Ordinances may be executed on all Estates p. 197. Their censure of the Duke of Lancaster's Voyage and propositions to conquer Spain p. 283. At the request of the Commons they grant a suspension of all Eyers Trailbastons Oyers and Terminers p. 347. Kept from the King and complaint thereof p. 651 652 657. They limit the Protectors power p. 589. Their thanks to the King for his good Government Care and Zeal towards them p. 340. For his great Justice done p. 326. They accord to the removing of certain persons from about the King because hated by the people p. 426 427. Lords Appellants in Parliamentâ— their Protestation Oath and Proceedingsâ— p. 321 322 374 376 to 382. Lords to be Justices of Peace in their Counties p. 79. Consent to the Commission of Array by the Judges advice p. 428. They Dine with the King p. 106 418. A Trial before them for Treason by a Jury p. 8. A Great Council of them called and the King 's Great Councilâ— p. 193. See Council The Great Officers to be Lords See Officers They judge of the priviledges of the Commons and their Speaker p. 651. See Commons Their award in Parliament between King H. 6. and the Duke of York touching the succession of the Crown upon the Dukes claim thereof and their submission assent Oath theretoâ— p. 665 666 667. Freely to uâ—ter their conceits touching the Title of the Crownâ— p. 666. The Commons to bring their conceits in Parliament to them not they theirs to the Commons p. 196. They oppose the Commons Innovations and Incroachments on their Priviledges in Parliament p. 196 135. Sâ— Commons The King's consent for a Committee of Lords to treat with the Commons a mattâ—r of Favour not Duty and he not they to name or change them p. 418 287. The Consultation about Wars properly appertains to the King and Lords not Commons p. 287 288. The Lords and Commons are to chuse their respective Committees and a Committee of Lords not to treat with the whole House but a Commitâ—â—â— only of Commons p. 135. They confirm the Indenâ—ure between the King and Duke of Glocester touching Calice c. p. 615. They cease and null the Name and Power of the Protector p. 592. Lords Marches to restore Englishmens possessions given to the Enâ—mies p. 137. Losses by Enemies complained of considered and abate Tenths p. 154 179 196 197 467 468 580 585. Loyalty of the Subjects to Ed. 3. both in Body and Goods a great Blessing for which he gives God thanks p. 105. The Commons protestation of it to the Kingâ— p. 121. Of some Nobles in deserting Rebels attested and declared by the King p. 369. Lyme Their great destruction by the Enemy alleadged for the abatement of their Feefarm and Tenths which is granted p. 468.475 Richard Lyons his Impeachment and Censure upon the Commons Petition p. 121. Who petition for his pardon and Restitution as being unjustly censured the next Parliament p. 151. M MAces before Mayors in Towns not to be of silver but onely the Kings sergeants and in London p. 46. Not to be carried out of the Liberty in Towns p. 355. Magna Charta confirmed in Parliament upon the Lords request and Commons Petitions by several new Acts and commanded to be observed p. 15 31 32 33 34 39 71 74 91 106 109 112 117 124 146 149 156 169 177 189 190 202 283 288 291 301 317 394 552. See Confirmation Churches Liberties Corporations Liberties All Great Officers and others sworn to observe it p. 32.355 Offenders against it to be punished in Parliament and elsewhere p. 33 35 106 107. All to be tried before the Kings Justices for felony and Treason according to the Great Charter not before the Constable or Marshal p. 171 670. No person to be arrested or imprisoned contrary to the form of it p. 410. Trial condemnation of a Peer others without his Peers against the form of the Great Charter though in and by Parliament to be reversed as unjust and erroneous p. 7 8 66 85 86 125 387 388. Read openly in the beginning of a Parliament by the Arch-bishops and Chancellours command p. 188. Beheading men against it and without lawful Trial Murder p. 670. Mainperners put in by persons impeached in Parliament and discharged on their acquittal p 10.122 An Act touching them in debt p. 295. When to be discharged against the King p. 433. Mainprise such as let to it for breach of Peace to put in good Sureties as Esquires or Gentlemen p. 18. To be duly made to all persons p. 93. Of persons imprisoned by Officers of the Forest for Vert and Venison p. 125. Body for body for any accused acquitted of Treason to appear when called between that and the next Parliament p. 190. Diâ—charged p. 199. Of the Earl of Suffolk after his Impeachment and answer in Parliament p. 316. Upon Error brought in Parliament to reverse a judgement in an Appeal of Murder p. 331. A Knight of Parliament killing his companion ordered not to be let to Mainprise till brought to trial p. 354. Of a Prisoner in Execution in the Fleet upon an Outlawry by the Guardian of England p. 554. See
Bayle Sureties Of body for body for one banished into the Isle of Man to be kept there p. 379. Maintenance and Maintainers inquirable by the Justices of the Bench Assize Oyer and Terminer Peace p. 15. No great Persons or Officers to maintain any Traitors Felons Trespassers maintainers breakers of Peace c. p. 51.70.147 The Lords and Commons all sworn to it in Parliament p. 608 612. Of no Plea or quarrel in Courts p. 53 156 147 160. Inquests in maintenance to be returned by the Sheriffe himself of the most lawful and nighest men p. 87. An Act touching Maintainers p. 101 688. No woman to maintain any Plea in the Kings Courts and namely Alice Piers under loss of all and banishment p 123. Her censure and banishment thereupon p. 152 158 177 304. An Act concerning it p. 297 159. Complaints against Maintainers in every Court p. 136. The Commons willed to abandon all maintainers parties p. 303. An Earl accused in Parliament for maintenance and acquitted p 304. Enquiry after Maintainers prayed p. 482. Articles proclaimed against Maintainers p. 673. The Statute against Maintenance prayed to be executed p. 688. Maâ—ors of Towns none to be a Victualer Hostler or Taverner during his Office p. 113. To see things amended in every mysterie and occupaâ—â—on p. 1â—4 To arrest breakers of the Peace within their precincts not out of them though adjoining p. 136. A complaint against the undue Election of the Mayor of York and vitious acting the Mayor duly elected and sworn is restored commanded by Writ to execute the office and the other to forbear p. 192. Mayor and Commonâ—lty of Cambridge accused of an Insurrection and not in Parliament in contempt and censured p. 199 200. See Cambridgeâ— London York Major of the Staple and of Calice See Staple Calice Major Part nothing to be enacted by the Council in great causes but by all 〈◊〉 most of them p. 564 602. Malice the ground of Mortimer's judgement afterwards reversed p. 85. Malt its transportation prohibited p 96. An Act concerning it p. 356. Malâ—olt on Wools to be revoked p. 17. Man Isle Earl of Warwick banished to it and findes bail Body for Body to continue there p. 379. Manslaughter Indictments of it in Sheriffâ— Turns prayed to continue good p 162. Manumissions of Villains by duress in the â—â—surrection revoked nulled p. 195 196 204. Marches of Scotland and North Marches Orders for their defence against the Scots for Owners of Castles in those parts to furnish fortifie and reside upon them Arrays for that purpose Aides in Parliament for their defence and other things concerning them p. 20 21 23 35 37 43 49 79 100 131 134 137 185 188 281 283 284 285 305 309 312 313 318 321 326 361 370 464 553 578 579 612 654. Marches of Walesâ— those dwelling on them pray not to be distrained or impeached in Wales but where they are Debters Suiters or Trespassers to which the King and Lords Marches promise to provide remedy p. 179. See Wales Marriage The Marriage-Treaty of the King and marriage adviseâ— of and assented to in Parliament p. 9 10 629 630. Marriage-Contract its annihilation pursued in Court-Christian p. 176. By duress complained and nulledâ— p. 619 655. Of an Infant of sâ—x yeers raâ—ified by Parliament p. 702. Widows endowed not to marry without the King's assent p. 589. The King's Widows Oath not to marry without License See Oaths p. 585. None to marry with the kindred of Owen Glendor p. 424 610. Fine by a ward for marrying without license See Fine A Mariage at thirâ—een yeers confirmed and if no mutuâ—l society and huâ—band die his Brother to marry â—er after his decease p. 695 696. Justices punish the Clergy for taking money for solemnizing Marriage p. 32. They are not to have conusance of it p. 33. The promise of K. H. 5. by word of mouth to a ward of his own marriâ—ge for the sum of 10000 l. made coâ—firmed by Parliament under H 6. p. 569. Kâ—ngs marriage without the Loâ—ds câ—nsent complained against p. 711. By Wâ—tchcraft Sorcery and after a precontract void p 711 712. Marriners and Masters driven to other Trades by restraining shipping and taking them up by Masters of the Kings Shipsâ— to the decay of the Navy complained against for redress p. 113. To be paid their wages from the day of their being appointed to serve the King and pray allowance for the tackling of their Ships 118 119. Marriners to have the like wages as Archers when taken up for the King but the former use confirmed p 172. A complaint of taking up Marriners whereby Ships are lost and burnt by the Enemies and remedy promised p. 177. An Act touching Marriners to be reâ—ressed by the Admiral p 340. The punishment of Marriners by Commâ—ssions upon suggestions of strangers complained of and they not to answer but at common Law prayed p. 466. See Ships Navy Admiral Marquess created in Parliament the manner of it p. 310 311. Degraded p. 399. A strange new title therefore restitution of a degraded Marquess to that title refused p 417. Marshals of Courts their Fees to be regulated See Chancellor Iustices Marshal of England See the first Table The Earl Marshal to see Traytors executed p. 6. To make no process but what was used in Ed. 2. reign and limited by the Statute p. 74 75. Lord Latimer upon his impeachment and censure committed to the Constable and bayled p. 316. Complaints of his holding Plea against the Statute of Actio super Chartas and things triable at Common Law his Jurisdiction and Court limited to the verge which is twelve miles p. 128 160 171 306 411 420 429 457 39 135 147 432. Acts made concerning its limitation and jurisdictionâ— p. 306 333 411 420 457 472 432. Prohibition is to be granted where they meddle of things at Common Law p. 420. Sir Ralph Ferrars impeached of treason brought into Parliament by the Marshal of England p. 190. Not to meddle within the Guild-hall of Southwark oâ— Liberties granted to others by Charters prayed p. 147 148 160. Not to hold Plea of Treason or Felony done within the Realm but only without it p. 171 594 595. Those who were to do service â— the Coronation to appear before the Marshal and others p. 389. Marshal not to bayl or release any committed to him for thâ— peace p. 70. A prisoner remitted from the Marshal to a trial before the Judges at the Commons request p. 429. A Charge of Treason in the Marshals Court againâ—â— the Marquess of Ormund by the Lieutenant of Ireland abolished by the King â—ith the Parliaments assent p 567 568. Tâ—e Clergies complaint of Arâ—ests into the Marshalsey p. 164. That every maâ— there may tell his own tale and the Officer there not pass the verge p. 39. That none of the King's Servants implead aâ—â— there denied p. 80. Sir Iohn Lee impeached for attaching men to answer in the Marshalsey when Steward of things done out of the