ac vobis per seperalia Brevia nostra apud Civitat diem praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tractandum consentiendum concludendum super hiis in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque ad quartam diem Februarii prox futur duximus prorogandum Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praed comparere teneamini seu autemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum nos penitus openerari Mandanies tenore presentium firmiter injungendo precipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum quartam diem Februarii apud praedictum Civitate Westmonaster personaliter compereatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compereat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de Communi consilio dicti Regni nostri favente Domino contingerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsam apud Westm quinto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrarde And according to this Prorogation the Parliament held on the fourth day of February following when the Queen's Majesty in her accustomed state and order came to the Upper House accompanied by Sir Christopher Hatton Knight then Lord Chancellor of England and divers of the Nobility of which the Journal-book maketh mention in manner and form following On Tuesday the fourth of February Feb. 4. The Q. comes to the House of Lords in the 31th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to which day the Parliament had been last prorogued and accordingly now held the Queen's Majestie was personally present in Parliament but the Journal-book doth not mention the names of such Lords as were then present The Queen being set under her Cloath of Estate and the Lords placed in their several ranks and order and as many of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let in and standing before the Bar Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England Heads of the L. Chancellor Hatton's Speech in a well-framed and discreet Speech did there declare unto them at large the Queens gracious disposition to Peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyeth by her Government and remembred the great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas viz. Anno Dom. 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed that the cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth as by councel of man is possible to be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Moneys may be in readiness and an Armie prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellor's Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Committees or Receivers and Triers of Petitions Sir Gilbert Gerrard Kt. Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of the Kings-bench Dr. Aubery and Dr. Ford. Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Clarke and Dr. Cary. Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral the Lord Cobham and the Lord Gray of Wilton Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries on the other side the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrooke the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and Lord Buckhurst During this Parliament upon several days seven Temporal Lords sent their Proxies so did five Spiritual Lords Et norandum That all the said Spiritual Lords excepting one did every one constitute two several Proctors and the fifth being John Bishop of Carlisle whose Proxie was returned February the fifth made onely one viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury his Proctor It likewise seldom happeneth that any Bishop doth nominate fewer than three or two Proctors nor any Temporal Lord more than one Nota That the Lord Burleigh had this Parliament four Proxies sent unto him viz. one from the Lord Dacres one from the Earl of Warwick one from Viscount Mountacute and one from the Lord Lumley Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox hora secunda post meridiem On Thursday February 6. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majestie was personally present coming to the said Parliament in her accustomed state and order about three of the clock in the afternoon it being the time appointed for the House of Commons to present their Speaker who they had been authorized to chuse on Tuesday last when the Parliament first began And thereupon accordingly the Queen and Lords being set and the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being let into the Upper House two of the most eminent persons of the said House did lead up to the Bar of the Upper House George Snagg Serjeant at Law Geo. Snagg their Speaker presented to the Queen Excuses himself who was chosen the Speaker of the said House of Commons who being placed at the said Bar and silence being made did in a modest and discreet Speech disable himself by reason of his many imperfections and humbly desired her Majestie to discharge him of that great Place and to nominate some other more able and sufficient Member of the same House Whereupon the Lord Chancellor by commandment from the Queen The Queen approves of him did let him know That her Majestie did very well allow of his Choice and thereupon encouraged him willingly and cheerfully to undertake and execute that Charge and Place to which he had been by the free and unanimous consent of the House of Commons elected and chosen Upon which Speech of the Lord Chancellor's the said Speaker according to the usual course and form rendering all humble thankfulness to the Queens Majestie for her underserved
the Lords being thus sate An. 1592. and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as many as conveniently could be let in about two of the clock in the afternoon Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by command from the Queen spake to this effect The Lord Keeper's Speech THat though the assembling of Parliaments hath antiently been and still were for the Enacting of Laws and Reforming of Abuses and Grievances of the Subjects within the Realm The Lord Keepers Speech 〈◊〉 to direct the â—â—sâ—â—â—â—s in this Session yet at this time the Queens Majesty was desirous to have the Advice of all her loving people concerning the Defence and Preservation of her Self her Realms and Subjects from the Power and Oppression of a forreign Enemy Then he declared that this Enemy was the King of Spain and that his malice was increased by his loss and shame received in 88. That his resolution still was to invade this Kingdome The Spaniards Design of Reveenge discovered did plainly appear by his building and getting together many Ships of less bulk which would be fitter for service in our Seas than those greater Galliasses and Gallions had been in 88. That he desired some nearer place from whence to invade England and therefore at this time was labouring to plant himself in Britain a part of France And his Designes laid open That he had raised Factions in Scotland and Conspiracies against the King there finding him an enemy to his ambitious desires And therefore we her Majesties Subjects said he must with all dutiful consideration think what is fit for us to do Exâ—… them to raise Moneys and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty in such an unsupportable charge Were the cause between Friend and Friend how much would we do for the relief of one another but the cause is now between our Soveraign and our selves seeing there is so much difference in the parties how much more forward ought we to be The Aid formerly granted to her Majesty in these like cases is so ill answer'd 〈…〉 Supplies paied and with such slackness performed as that the third of that which was granted cometh not to her Majesty A great shew a rich grant and a long sum seems to be made but little it is hard to be gotten and the sum not great which is paid and 〈…〉 Her Majesty thinks this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability so that one dischargeth himself and th' other is not able to satisfie that he is charged withal these things should be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this service Wherefore it is her Majesties pleasure 〈…〉 the time be not spent in devising and enacting new Laws the number of which are so great already as it rather burtheneth than easeth the Subject but the principal cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding those intended Invasions which are now greater than ever before were heard of And where heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance the time that is precious would not be thus spent This Session cannot be long the Spring-time is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countreys the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits so the good hours would not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such business as is needful to be considered of and Thursday next is appointed the day to present the Speaker Assoon as the Lord Keeper's Speech was ended Receivers of Petitions named the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland and Wales and Scotland Sir Francis Popham Lord Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clinch one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Awbery Dr. Ford and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Peryam Lord Chief-Baron Tho. Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary Doctor Stanhop and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver them within six days next ensuing Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton all these or four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincolne the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley the Lord Buckhurst all these or any four of them Although the usual Custome in the Original Journal-books is to place all Proxies upon what days soever returnable before the beginning of the Journal it self yet I have conceived it more methodical to place all such Returns in those days upon which they were delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament and always upon the day on which the first Return was to make some short Observations of that if it be unusual and extraordinary and so to refer the view of the residue to their proper days On this instant Monday therefore being the Nineteenth day of February and the first day of the Parliament was returned only this one usual Proxie Decimonono die Februarii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Edwardi Episcopi Norwicensis in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Lond. Richardum Episcopum Peterburgen Nota This is one of those Proxies I call an usual or ordinary Proxie when a Spiritual Lord maketh but two Proctors and a Temporal Lord but one and those of their own Order but when a Temporal Lord nominateth a Spiritual Lord for his Proctor or nominateth more than one Proctor and when a Spiritual Lord nominateth a Temporal Lord for his Proctor or but one Proctor or more than two these I call unusual and extraordinay Proxies And therefore at this very time of nine Temporal Lords that sent their Proxies but one named two Lords of which see afterwards on Munday March 5. all the rest naming but one Indeed of six Spiritual Lords which sent their
Committees and some Amendments they had made in the said Bill and so delivered in the Bill and Amendments to the House The Bill for building and erecting of a bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye neer the Town of Ross in the County of Hereford was read the third time and passed upon the Question Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp did bring from the Lords a Bill passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships entituled An Act for the establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esq and for the better enabling William Pope aforesaid to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts And another for the confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmond Verney Knight which Bill their Lordships have also passed with some Amendments Sunday Feb. 5. On Munday Feb. 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the reformation of retailing and Pawn-takers was read the first time Mr. Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had made some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered the said Bills into the House Mr. Francis Bacon Bill against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry one of the Committees in the Bill late passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments in the said Bill which being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House On Tuesday Feb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Controuler Mr. Lukenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe and the Knights and Burgesses of London and twenty four others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in a Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for the reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Provisoes were passed upon the Question On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill entituled An Act for the establishing of a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts and the Bill entituled An Act for the enabling Edmond Moleneux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies and the Bill entituled An Act against the deceitful stretching of Northern Cloath and the Bill entituled An Act for the further continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made thirty five Reginae were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the reformation of abuses in Wine-casks was read the third time and dashed upon the Question The Bill for the better execution of Judgments was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday Feb. 9. the Bill entituled An Act for reformation of Retailing-Brokers and other Pawn-takers the Bill entituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assignees notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown and a Bill entituled An Act for the better execution of Judgments were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious Pardon was once read and passed upon the Question Nota That whereas to the passing of other Bills three several readings are required here the Bill for her Majesties most gracious Pardon passed upon the first reading Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Carewe brought from the Lords the Bill entituled An Act for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and did shew that their Lordships in like manner have passed the said Bill and so delivered the same to Mr. Speaker to the end that he might carry the same up to the Upper House to be presented by him unto her Majesty in the name of the whole House Post Meridiem The Queens Majesty came to the Upper House soon after three of the clock of which the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law their Speaker who having in the name of the whole House presented her Majesty with the Bill of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths amongst other things desired her Majesties Royal assent to such Laws as had passed the two Houses He was answered according to her Majesties command by the Lord Keeper That she thankfully accepted of the said Gift of her loving Subjects and very well allowed of the said Speakers pains and Speech Then Mr. Smith the Clerk of the Upper House The Qu. passeth 24 publick Acts and 19 private Acts and refuses 48 Acts that had passed both Houses and then dissolves this Parl. having read the Titles of all the Acts her Majesty gave her Royal assent to twenty four publick Acts and nineteen private and refused fourty eight which had passed both the Houses After which Sir Thomas Edgerton Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England by her Majesties commandment dissolved this present Parliament An exact Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 43 Eliz. holden at Westminster anno 43 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1601. which began on Tuesday 27 Octob. and there continued until 19 Decemb. next insuing ON Tuesday Octob. 27. Oct. 27. the Parliament held according to the Summons that had been sent forth The Qu. comes to the House of Peers and the Queens Majesty was personally present in the Upper House about three of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came accompanied with the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and divers of the Nobility and Bishops There were present all sitting in their Parliament-Robes according to their several places these Noble Personages following Lift of the Peers then present The Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Tho. Edgerton Lord Leeper of the great Seal The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Marquiss of Winchester The Earl of Sussex Earl Marshal of England The Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England and Lord Steward of her Majesties Houshold The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Derby The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Cumberland The Earl of Hertford The Earl of Lincoln BISHOPS The Bishop of London The Bishop of
Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of St. Davids The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of St. Assaph The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Peterborough BARONS The Lord Zouche The Lord Cobham The Lord Stafford The Lord Grey de Wilton The Lord Dudley The Lord Lumley The Lord Sturton The Lord Windsore The Lord Mordant The Lord Wharton The Lord Rich. The L. Willoughby of Parham The Lord Sheffield The Lord Darcy of Chichester The Lord Chandois The Lord St. John of Bletsoe The Lord Compton The Lord Norreys The Lord Howard of Walden Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England made a Speech to this effect An. 1601. HE used strong perswasions both to Thankfulness and Obedience Lord Keeper's Speech and also shewed her Majesty desired the Parliament might end before Christmas He shewed the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity of the Wars between Spain and England the means and treasure we had to oppose His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made The causes of the Wars he laid down to be that they were Enemies to God the Queen and the Peace of this Kingdom that they conspired to overthrow Religion and to reduce us to a tyrannical Servitude These two Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our Estate standing thus he advised us to be provident by reason we deal with circumspect Enemies and said he was confident of good success because God hath ever and he hoped ever would bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was for by experience and judgment his tortering he giveth the means and courses he taketh for our instructions And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong arm of defence in Anno 1588 and divers others times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath brought him to even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe yet when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to ransome a servile Peace at the hands of our Enemies the Spaniards with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and Estate she brought them to an unity in Council and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards tyrannical designes which have so much galled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented unto and set on foot by the late King his Father I need not shew you nor trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Actors themselves thereof but De mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loath to speak ill of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her own bloud I mean Jewels that have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which God will ever keep her from but she hath worn them rather in triumph than for the price that hath not been valuable Receivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Kt. Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings-bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edm. Anderson Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Periam Kt. Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesly one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Swale and Dr. Hene Triers of Petitions of England Ireland Wales and Scotland Triers of Petitions The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens house the Earl of Hertford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants at their leisures to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlain's chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Lumley the Lord Burleigh All these or any four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Atturney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurer's chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-book in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Veneris prox futur viz. 30 diem Octob. On Friday Octob. 30. about one of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came by water to the Upper House and being apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of Estate divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the door with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London John Crooke Esq Recorder of London presented as Speaker their Speaker elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as could be conveniently let in And the said Speaker was led up to the bar at the lower end of the said House by Sir William Knolls Kt. Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth Most sacred and mighty Soveraign UPon your commandment His Speech your Majesties most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble servant a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but my self finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen do most humbly beseech your sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this Charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable self And that it would please you to command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great Service to be
in hoc bello Apostolica Authoritate à nobis Administrandum ut verum fatear possem sacillime convitia quod nobis objiciunt in ipsos retundere voluptatem quam maledicendo sumpsere illam male audiendo amittere Caeterum novimus ut debiles inermes Muliercola ad convitia fugere Sed hiis praetermissis ad objecta solida veritate ex Christiana Modestate respondere Imprimis Commoneamini nos velle subditos praetensos Reginae Angliae ab obedientia debita per dei legem servitute abducere ad nos aggregare Quod maximâ ex parte à veritate alienum est Neminem enim persuadere conamur ut debitam servitutem secundum dei Legem deneget suo Principi Sed hene nostis ante multos Annos ipsam Elizabetham for so said Mr. Secretary he bluntly called her that same Elizabeth privatam esse Regno subditosque omnes absolutos esse à Juramento Fidelitatis per supremum Pontificem cui Regnans in excelsis Bex Regum omnimodum potestatem tradidit ut evellat distruat plantet aedificet ita ut ipsos Reges temporales si ad spirituale aedificiem expediret eósque ad depositionem à Regno privat quod factum esse in Regnis Angliae Hiberniae à pluribus Pontificibus supremis viz. Pio quinto Gregorio decimo tertio nunc Clemento octavo omnibus notum est quorum Diplomata extant apud nos Catholicis Loquor non protervis Haereticis qui à Fide Romanae Ecclesiae declinaverunt nam cum Caeci sunt Caecorum Duces sundamenta veritatis prorsus ignorant etiam in hoc dissentire à nobis non mirum est Sed nostri fratres Catholici in simplicitate fidei Romanae ambulentes Ecclesia Catholica consentientes quod est columna fundamentum veritatis omnia ista facile percipiant Ergo restat quod Hiberni qui vobis adherent nil adversus legem Dei fidelitatem debitam imò secundum divina praecepta obedientiam quam supremo Pontifici debent cooperentur Secundo asseritis nos Hispanos blanditiis fictitiis adulationibus Hibernos demulcire atque multa beneficia in illos exhibere quod in nostram aversissimam est natura sed hoc m o in principio facere ut simplicium animos ad nos convertentes in posterum credulitatem circa illos exercentes sanguinolentam naturam nostram ostendemus Proh Deum immortalem quis non miretur acerbam indicibilem credulitatem audaciámque vestram in his verbis ostensam Quis est enim qui non novit crudelitatem maximam quam vos Angli adversus miseros Hibernicos exercivistis exercere non desistitis vos inquam ab ipsorum animis fidem Catholicam quam coluerunt Patris eorum in quo salus aeterna consistit auferre conamini crudeliores profectò Vrsis Leonibus qui tantum temporalem vitam auferent vos tamen aeternam spiritualem Quis temporalia omnia istius florentissimi Regni demolitus est nisi Anglus videte hoc confundamini Nos vero Patriam dulcissimam foelicissimam Hispaniam omnibus scilicet bonis refertam vicem Catholicorum dolentes relinquimus eorum Clamoribus incitati qui Coelum Terrámque attingunt aures supremi Pontificis Regis nostri Philippi pulsantes misericordia moti Ad vos Milites Argentum Aurum Arma liberali manu tandem mittere decreverunt non ut erga vos Hiberni Catholici crudelitatem ut isti singunt exercerunt sed ut foeliciter vos à Diaboli faucibus ereptos à Tyrannide liberos ad pristinam vestram ingenuitatem redigant ut libere positis fidem Catholicam profiteri Ergo dilectissimi in Christo postquam jam quod per tot ante annos desiderio desiderastis praecibus lacrimis efflagitastis impetrastis jamjam Supremus Pontifex Vicarius Christi in Terris vobis imperat ut Arma in Defensionem vestrae fidei sumatis vos omnes moveo horior atque contestor Omnes in quam ad quos istae Litterae pervenerint ut quam citissime in vestra fuerit potestate ad nos cum Amicis Armis conveniatis Qui hoc fecerit nos paratos inveniet Arma nostra ceteráque possidemus ipsis communicabimus Qui aliter enim spretis nostris Conciliis saluberrimis secerit in salibra Anglorum obedientia permanserit tanquam Haereticum Hostem Ecclesiae invisum usque ad necem prosequimur Doryum de Laguia After the Parliament at the end of Hillary-Term next following the Lord Keeper by her Majesties express Command made a Speech in the Star-chamber on the 13th of February all these Personages being present viz. Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal The Archbishop of Canterbury The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold The Bishop of London Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Secretary Herbert Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir _____ Peryam Lord Chief Baron Mr. Baron Clarke Mr. Baron Savelle Mr. Justice Fenner Mr. Justice Kingsmell Mr. Justice Warberton After a silence made and some few Motions made by Mr. Atturney-General and the Queens Counsel and some others the Cryer of the Court again made silence and the Lord Keeper putting off his Hat and then putting it on again spake to this effect My Lords I Am by her Majesties commandment to deliver unto you her gracious pleasure The Lord Keeper's Speech in the Star-chamber and those things which out of her Princely wisdom and care she hath thought fit to be made known I scarce know how to enter into this matter and I am sorry that now in speaking I shall lay open the looseness of the times neither are her Majesties Proclamations regarded neither her Councils Letters respected neither her late-made Statutes and Decrees obeyed nor put in so due execution as they ought These things deserve to have a more round and strict course than have been used and we deserve not so gracious a Pardon as it hath pleased her most gracious Majesty out of her meer goodness lately to bestow upon us but this onely to divers persons and offences of those which live in degree of private men But I am to speak of Offences of Mayors Justices of Assize A Charge for the keeping of Lent strictly and men of that condition The time of Lent and abstinence from Flesh if it be not duely observed what Dearth and Penury will not almost ensue And therefore was the time of Lent well placed even in the Spring and the beginning of the increase of Beasts Her Majesties express command is That it be strictly observed and that with this caution That where fault shall be found that there extremity shall be inflicted and that no
unwittingly miscarried by himself the same might not light upon the House but upon himself and be pardoned in him To which last Speech of the Speakers the Lord Keeper also by commandment from the Queen replied That her Majesty did well allow thereof and for his Petitions which concern'd both the House and himself her Highness was willing that they should enjoy all their ancient and lawful Priviledges but with this caution That she did not allow that any man should speak unreverently or scandalously either of the Church or State And then the Lord Keeper by the Queens commandment continued the Parliament until Saturday following being Feb. 24. Nota That the aforesaid Speeches are set down more at large in the Journal of the Paslages of the Upper House of this Parliament to which they do more properly belong And on Friday the House met not Saturday Feb. 24. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons did meet in the Lower House about nine of the clock but by the Clerk of the Parliament it was signified that the Speaker had been ill at ease the night past and could not without peril of further sickness adventure to come abroad wherefore he craved in his name leave of the House to be absent that day This day Mr. Peter Wentworth and Sir Henry Bromley delivered a Petition unto the Lord Leeper A Petition delivered to the Lord Keeper by Mr. Wentworth c. for intailing the Succession to the Crown The Queen offended at it causes them to be confined therein desiring the Lords of the Upper House to be Suppliants with them of the Lower House unto her Majesty for entailing the Succession to the Crown whereof a Bill was ready drawn by them Her Majesty was highly displeased therewith after she knew thereof as a matter contrary to her former straight Commandment and charged the Council to call the Parties before them Sir Thomas Henage presently sent for them and after speech with them commanded them to forbear coming to the Parliament and not to go out from their several Lodgings About this matter A Committee appointed for this thing but few come to it in the beginning of the Parliament was a Committee appointed to be had of many wise grave and antient Parliament-men as were of the House but at this time few met at the place appointed at least such men as were expected It was appointed at this time to Mr. Stevens to peruse the penning of the Petition that should have been delivered to that House and to have provided a Speech upon the delivery of it but this office by reason of other occasions he could not attend What other things were done in that Conference were as I heard confessed unto some of the Privy Council Their Secrets discovered by some of them to the Privy Council by some of those Parties that were present at the Conference All that were except those before-named went free and were never called in question The day after being Sunday and Feb. 25. and the House sat not yet the aforesaid Mr. Wentworth Sir Henry Bromeley and some others were called before the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Lord Buckhurst and Sir Thomas Henage who intreated them very favourably and with good Speeches but so highly was her Majesty offended that they must needs commit them Wentworth and Bromeley 〈◊〉 and so they told them Whereupon Mr. Peter Wentworth was sent Prisoner to the Tower Sir Henry Bromeley and one Mr. Richard Stevens to whom Sir Henry Bromely had imparted the matter were sent to the Fleet as also Mr. Welche the other Knight for Wercestershire On Munday Feb. 26. after the Letany was read which is the first thing done when the Speaker is set in his Chair was read an Act entituled An Act for continuing her Majesties Subjects in more due Obedience This Bill contained all these Particulars following 1. The Party so indicted and convicted A Penal Act. shall forfeit all his Goods and Chattels which he hath in his own right or in the right of his Wife 2. He shall forfeit two parts of his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments if he be born under her Highness Allegiance and of the age of sixteen years 3. A Feme Covert shall lose her Dowry or Joynture which she might have by her Baron 4. If a man match with an Inheritrix being a Recusant he shall lose two parts of those Lands to the Queen and neither of them shall administrate to any man 5. Such Party being a Recusant shall be disabled to make any Purchase or Sale of Lands 6. He shall be disabled to take or make any Lease either to the use of himself or to the use of his Wife 7. A Recusant shall forfeit for keeping any such Recusant person in his house either Servant or Stranger 10 l. every month being at one time so long in his house or at several times in his yard 8. He shall be barred to bear any Office in the Land or to practise as Counsellor Doctor Sollicitor Proctor Atturney or Advocate to the Law 9. He shall have his Children taken from him if they be above the age of seven years and to be disposed of by the Lords of the Council or the Ordinary or the Judges of Assizes and their maintenance to be raised out of the third part of such Recusants Livings 10. He shall be disenabled to make any sale of any of his Goods or Chattels 11. If he be a Copyholder he shall forfeit his Copyhold during his life whereof two parts is to go to the Queen and the third to the Lord of the Mannor 12. If any person be indicted for Recusancy of malice he shall have the remedy against the party at the Common Law 13. If any person having been a Recusant shall at any time recant he shall make his submission in the Parish-Church where he dwelleth acknowledging the Queens proceedings to be just and detest the Church of Rome which he shall also do in open Court before the Judges of Assize 14. If any such person after his Recantation fall into relapse he shall lose the benefit of the former Recantation for ever 15. Lastly there is a Proviso That those that have already bought any Lands of any that now are or shall be indicted for a Recusant the Bargain shall be as good and stand in effect as if this had never been made This Bill upon a Committee received all these Alterations following whereupon it came as a new Bill again The first Article omitted altogether being thought too hard The Penal Bill amended The third That the women are to lose but two parts of Dowry or Joynture after her Husbands death The Husband not being a Recusant to forfeit no part of his Land for his Wives Recusancy The fifth All Sales made by Recusants since 2º Eliz. of Lands whereof he taketh the profits or which Conveyauce is to his use or upon any Trust or confidence to be void
being still to be performed by infinite Charge her Majesty notwithstanding hears of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be received from her People though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reigns of former Kings they have been In the times of Edw. 3. and the two next before him and those three which succeeded next after him the payments of the Commons then did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in the Histories of those times to be seen but never cause so great to employ great sums of money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties Charge which at present she is at and is to continue at for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised which in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath for if with the Common-wealth it goes not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person That being in danger he that would seek then to lay up Treasure and inrich himself should be like to him that would busie himself to beautifie his house when the City wherein he dwelleth is on fire or to him that decketh up his Cabin when the Ship wherein he saileth is ready to sink To spare in that case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves Her Majesties part being onely carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands wherein men performing their duties there is no cause at all to fear for the War is just it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign of our Native Country of our Wives Children Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging this point as a poor Remembrancer to her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships Quod justum necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due Maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons that you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is You should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave learned and wise man amongst you to be your Speaker who shall be for understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your mouth to signifie your minds and to make your Petitions known unto her Highness and him upon Thursday next to present in this place The Lord Burgh was absent being the Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De-la-ware was absent because he made question of his place intending to make suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur viz. 27º diem Octobris On Thursday Octob. 27. the Queens Majesty the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Sussex great Mareschal the Earl of Nottingham Mag. Seneschall six Earls one Viscount thirteen Bishops the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain and twenty two other Barons present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Serj. Yelverton chosen Speaker being chosen Speaker of the Lower House was by divers Knights Citizens and Burgesses brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented to her Majesty who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the duty of the House in making an Election but he excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections Excuses himself and wishing earnestly that he were of sufficiency to perform the duty of that Place made humble suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the Lower House might proceed to a new Election Which Excuse was not allowed by her Majesty Is allowed commended by the Queen as the Lord Keeper delivered by answer and the Choice of the said Mr. Yelverton being by her Majesty very well approved and his Sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that Charge and Place and to present unto her Majesty on the behalf of the Lower House certain humble Petitions viz. For Access unto her Majesty Petitions for the House in the usual form For the using and enjoying of such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making answer by the Lord Keeper did yield her gracious assent Which are granted with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum mensis Novembris On Saturday 5 Novembris introductum est Breve Thomae Dom. Grey de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur Nov. 5. admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento loco salvo jure alieno The Petition of the Lord De-la-ware presented to this House for restitution of the same place in the Parliament which his Ancestors had in the Rank and Order of the Barons and referred to Committees viz. to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Bishop of London Lord Bishop of Winton Lord Zouche Lord Stafford Lord Windsor Lord Sheffield Lord North Lord St. John of Bletsoe Lord Buckhurst Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke Esq the Queens Atturney who appointed to meet at the Council-chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Sunday Nov. 6. at two of the clock in the afternoon Munday Nov. 7. An Act for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants secunda vice lect and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral three Earls three Bishops three Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Baron Ewens and Mr. Atturney General to attend their Lordships and appointed to meet at the little Council-chamber in Whitehall to morrow at four a clock in the afternoon Introductum est Breve Com. Derby quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur c. On Thursday Nov. 10. the Lord Treasurer made Report to the House what had been done by the Committees upon the Petition of the Lord De-la-ware and how it was resolved by them upon hearing and debating the matter with certain learned Counsel in the
with others viz. the Lord Treasurer Lord Admiral four Earls five Bishops Lord Chamberlain and twelve Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend the Lords the meeting to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon The Counsel on both parts for the Lord Marquiss of Winchester and the Lord Montjoy were admitted to publick hearing in the House and thereupon no just cause being found to hinder or to stay the proceeding of the Bill the same was commanded to be read the third time and so was expedited On Tuesday Decemb. 13. an Act against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers read tertia vice and return'd to the Lower House for their consideration of some Amendments An Act giving power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Knight Dame Mary his Wife and Robert Spencer Esq their Son to alienate certain Mannors and lands in the Counties of Dorset and Bedford read tertia vice and thereupon two Letters from the Lord Spencer to the Lord Chamberlain signifying his consent to the Bill were read On Wednesday Decemb. 14. order was given for release of William Wood out of the Fleet at whose suit Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant was arrested so as he make satisfaction to the said Barston of such charges as he was at by means of the said Arrest The like Order was made for the enlargement of William Cole that arrested John Yorke the Archbishops servant paying onely the Fees of the Fleet. On Thursday Decemb. 15. an Act for explanation of the Statute made Anno 5 Reginae concerning Labourers A Bill returned because the Amendments went ingrossed in Parchment which should have been in Paper returned from the Lower House with some Exceptions to the Schedule affixed because the Amendment was ingrossed in Parchment which according to the custom of the House should have been in Paper Certain Articles were presented in writing by the Lower House touching their Opinions and Objections concerning the Bill of Tellers c. which were delivered to Mr. Atturney to the end he might confer with the Judges upon the same and make Report to their Lordships The Bill concerning Mr. Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward c. return'd into the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees And forasmuch as it seemed to the Committees that there were in the Bill certain points that could not be well reformed a Motion was made to the House upon agreement among the Committees That the proceeding in this Bill might cease and that another course might be taken by way of Composition betwixt the Dean and Chapter of Windsor and Arthur Hatch for which purpose a Bill was brought ready drawn by Mr. Atturney-General containing a form of Composition betwixt them to be ratified if it should be thought good by Parliament On Friday Decemb. 16. a Bill for the grant of three Subsidies six Fifteenths and Tenths read the third time and expedited On Saturday Decemb. 17. an Act to preserve the property of stolen Horses in the true Owners and to reform the abuses of Vouchers in the sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets read prima vice An Act for the repressing of Offences that are in the nature of Stealth and are not Felonies by the Laws of the Realm prima vice lect On Munday Decemb. 19. certain Amendments were offered to the House by the Committees on the second reading concerning Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward the said Amendments being twice read whereupon both the Bill and the said Amendments were commanded to be forthwith ingrossed which was accordingly done and presently read the third time and sent to the Lower House by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp The Amendments in the Bill concerning Labourers formerly ingrossed in Parchment whereat some exception was taken by the Lower House and for that cause returned without their allowance to the Lords was now commanded to be written in Paper On Tuesday Decemb. 20. the Bill for erecting of houses of Correction Bill for houses of Correction and for punishment of vagabond Rogues c. was read tertia vice Dominue Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in xi o die Januar. prox sequen hora octava Wednesday Jan. 11. January 11. the Earl of Essex having been created Earl-Marshal the 18th of December last by her Majesties Letters-Patents took his place according to the said Office viz. next the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England and before the Earl of Nottingham great Steward Thursday Jan. 12. the Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm Bill for increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm return'd to the House by the Committees A Motion made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury first of the Committees that a Conference might be had with a competent number of chosen persons of the Lower House for the better perfecting of the Bill whereupon Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp were addressed to the Lower House with a Message to that effect and the time and place of meeting desired to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow by two of the clock in the afternoon Certain select Committees chosen by the Lower House concerning that Bill for the increase of People c. were sent to the Lords signifying their allowance of the time and place appointed for meeting about that Bill but desired that in the mean time they might have delivered unto them in writing such Objections of their Lordships as they do make unto the Bill to the end they might be more ready to deliver their Opinions and Resolutions at the meeting The Lords having considered of this Motion thought it unfit and not agreeable to the Order of this House to deliver the same in writing and therefore agreed that answer should be made That if upon verbal Conference they should remain unsatisfied touching the said Exceptions then they should have the same delivered unto them in writing for their further consideration thereof which Answer was presently notified to the said select Committees And in the mean season the Judges were required to set down the Objections in writing that they might be in readiness for the said Committees of the Lower House if upon the verbal Conference before-mentioned they should not be satisfied An Act for establishing the Bishoprick of Norwich and the possessions of the same against a concealed Title made thereunto read secunda vice and upon this reading it was ordered by the Lords That all Parties whom this Bill may concern should be openly heard in the House upon Saturday next in the morning to the end that it might be consider'd whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said Parties George Lester to be warned then to attend On Friday Jan. 13.
next Justice as a Felon On Thursday November 5. An Act touching certain Assurances used amongst Merchants was Read and rejected An Act touching Reformation of Abuses in Ale-houses Bill against Abuses in Tippling-Houses and Tipling-houses which Act after the former was Rejected was Read The Effect whereof is that for the sale of every pot of Bear being not of the Assise of a full Ale-quart the Seller shall Forfeit Three Shillings four Pence Note that no Suitor is Named in this Bill the same to endure till the end of the next Parliament Read twice this Day The Bill for Observing the Sabbath-day Read twice and Ordred to be Ingrossed Nota That by the Order of this House when a Bill is returned from Commitment the Words must be twice Read which are Amended before the Ingrossing thereof An Act against false Returns and Not Returns by Sheriffs and Bayliffs twice Read and Ordered to be Ingrossed Mr. Bacon Moves to prefer a New Bill Mr. Bacon stood up to Prefer a new Bill and said Mr. Speaker I am not of their minds that bring their Bills into this House Obscurely by delivery only to your Self or the Clerk delighting to have the Bill to be incerto Authore as though they were either Ashamed of their own Work or Afraid to Father their own Children But I Mr. Speaker have a Bill here which I know I shall be no sooner ready to Offer but you will be as ready to receive and approve I liken this Bill to that Sentence of the Poet 〈…〉 who set this as a Paradox in the Forefront of his Book First Water then Gold Preferring Necessity before Pleasure And I am of the same Opinion that things necessary for Use are better than those things glorious in Estimation This Mr. Speaker is no Bill of State nor of Novelty like a stately Gallery for Pleasure but neither to Dine in or Sleep in but this Bill is a Bill of Repose of Quiet of Profit and of true and just Dealing the Title whereof is An Act for the better Suppressing of Abuses in Weights and Measures We have turned out divers Bills without Disputation and for a House of Gravity and Wisdome as this is to bandy Bills like Balls and to be silent as if no body were of Councel with the Common wealth is unfitting in my Understanding for the State thereof I 'le tell you Mr. Speaker I 'le speak out of my own Experience that I have learn'd and observ'd having had Causes of this Nature referred to my Report That this fault of using false Weights and Measures is grown so intolerable and common that if you would Build Churches you shall not need for Battlements and Bells other things than false Weights of Lead and Brass And because I would observe the Advice that was given in the beginning of this Parliament That we should make no new Laws I have made this Bill onely a Confirmation of the Statute of 11 Hen. 7. with a few Additions to which I will speak at the passing of the Bill and shew the Reason of every particular Clause the Whole being but the revival of a former Statute for I count it far better to Scour a Stream than to Turn a Stream And the First Clause is that it Extends to the Principality of Wales to constrain them to have the like Weights with us in England Sir Robert Wroth made a motion for a Commitment to amend the Statute for the Relief of the Poor and Building of Houses of Correction made the last Parliament 39 Reginae And also for the continuance of certain Statutes which was referred to Commitment on Tuesday next in the Exchequer-Chamber By Order of the House Nota. it was agreed upon That a Committee once made and agreed upon there shall not hereafter be more Committees joined unto them for the same Bill but for any other there may Sir Robert Cecil mov'd the House Secretary Cecil makes a Motion To have their Opinions in that there wanted a Chief Member viz. a Knight of Denby-shire And he said I am to Certifie the House thus much in respect of some Disorder Committed there touching the Election by Sir Rich. Trevor and Sir John Flood to which Sir John Salisbury is a Party the Sheriff could not proceed in Election For my own part I think it fit Mr. Speaker should attend my Lord-Keeper therein quod not attend if it please you you shall hear the Letter Which was Read the Contents whereof were He Reads a Letter about a Disturbance at the Election of Knights for the Shire THat on the Twenty-first of October he kept at _____ the County-day and there being quietly Chooseing the Knight for the Shire a Cry came suddenly that Sir Richard Trevor and Sir John Flood on the one Party and Sir John Salisbury on the other were together sighting and all their Companies ready to do the like whereupon presently I went to the Church-yard where they were and there I found both Parties with their Swords drawn ready but with much ado pacifi'd them both And fearing lest by drawing such a Multitude together there might great Danger and Bloodshed happen I made Proclamation That every Man should depart by means whereof I did not Execute her Majesties Writ as I thought to have done rather choosing to adventure your Honour's Censure herein than to hazard so great Bloodshed Under Subscribed Your Honour 's most humble at Commandement Owen Vaughan Also Mr. Secretary said There was a Schedule annexed to the Letter which had some other Matters of Importance not fit to be read yet if it did please the House to command it they should Whereupon all cryed No. Sir Edward Hobby answer'd Sir Edw. Hobby takes Exceptions at his Expressions Methinks under Favor the Motion Mr. Secretary made was good but the Form therein I speak with all Reverence not fitting the State of this House For he said Mr. Speaker should Attend my Lord-Keeper Attend It is well known that the Speaker of this House is the Mouth of the whole Realm And that the whole State of the Commonalty of a Kingdom should Attend any Person I see no reason I refer it to the Consideration of the House Only this Position I hold That our Speaker is to be Commanded by none neither to attend any but the Queen only Mr. Johnson said The Speaker might ex Officio send a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown who is to certifie the Lord-Keeper and so make a New Warrant Sir Edward Stanhop said That for Election of Burgesses he had seen half a score Warrants Yesterday with Sir John Puckering's Hand to them when he was Speaker Mr. Speaker said That I may inform you of the Order of the House The Warrant must go from the Speaker to the Clerk of the Crown who is to inform the Lord-Keeper and then to make a New Writ Mr. Secretary Cecil said I should be very sorry to detract from any particular Member of
is a Curse to all People and especially the poor Creatures that come from the Warrs Poor Friendless and Unhappy I am glad you are resolved this Statute shall be kept alive whereby in some measure those poor maimed Souls shall be provided for For both Religion and Charity willeth us to fall into Consideration of Amendment I do not this out of Popularity because I have been often times taxed by the men of War and more than any Gentleman of England For when I have seen Souldiers deceived by their Captains I have taxed them for it and that makes me odious unto them A Captain is a man of Note and able to keep himself but a Souldier is not I wish not any to think that I do speak of all Captains for I make a difference between the Corn and the Chaff The Statute is is That the poor Souldier must be Relieved either by the Country where he was Born or out of which he was Pressed But if that were amended and only to be relieved in the Country where he was Born this would yield a more certainty and greater Relief For in a mans Country either Charity Kindred or Commiseration will breed Pity But out of the Country where he was Prest that cannot be expected For the multitude prest out of some little Shire grows to be greater and the Charge more than in some other three Shires As in London where there be many Parishes infinite Housholds and Numbers Prest Besides there be divers Shires subject to great Levies and the division so small that it is a meer trifle as in Lancashire in respect of the Vicinity to Ireland where the Disease of the War is If it may please you that a Commitment may be had I shall be ready to attend it at which time I will speak further And so a Commitment was appointed Mr. Francis Moore said There is a Bill for the Reducing of the two Statutes for Souldiers into one it hath lain in the Deck this fortnight If it had been Read it might have been Committed Mr. Swale said Mr. Swale about the Tax for Dover-Haven There was a Doubt whether the Tax for Dover-Haven should be continued by force of the Statute the Tax is of Three Pence a Tun for the burthen of every Ship He said That the Seamen and Merchants for want of sufficient maintenance were turned to Fisher-men And the Fisher-man if he made but two Tuns of Trayn-Oyl with the Blubber of New-found-Land Fish this causes the Ship to be Taxed for the whole Burthen which is grievous to the Subject Much Money hath been Levied It comes to at least One Thousand Marks a Year and the Haven never the better Nay Mr. Speaker it is grown into a Proverb If a Tax be once on foot God sheild it continues not as Dover-Haven Mr. Boys said Mr. Boys plea is to continue it There was great Reason to continue the Tax in respect of the continual maintenance of the Haven which is the best in England for all Necessities It will ship as many men in three hours as any other Haven in a day And he said That besides former Expences there is now above Four-Hundred-Pounds-worth of Stones for the Reparation thereof ready upon the Haven Sir John Fortescue said Sir John Fortescue seconds him The Proverb is Tractent fabrilia fabri The Gentleman that first spake had not so good Instructions as he might have had There be Brew-houses and Bake-houses for the Provision of Victuals for Shipping the Haven will receive Ships of Three Hundred Tuns and is most necessary for the passing of all Merchants The Tax is small and times may be when the Haven shall need a great Tax at one time And if this should be taken away what then And therefore I think it most fit to be Continued Mr. Comptroller said And the Comproller speaks for it Me thinks we take a very Imprudent Course to go about at this present to take away a Tax which maintains Dover-Haven We are now in Dispute how to defend our selves from the Dunkirkers and to strengthen our own Havens If we take away this Tax we shall weaken this Haven which is the most necessary Haven of England and therefore I would wish no man to wrong the State so much and to be so respectless of the Good of the Navy by speaking out of any particular humor of his own Sir Walter Rawleigh said Sir Walter Rawleigh of the same Perswasion There be divers Havens which have been Famous and now are gone to Decay as Lynmouth and Setow and Winchelsey Rye is of little Receipt Sandwich as a Burgess of that Town said this Parliament Mr. Peake is even a going The Tax being imployed as it should be I hold it both good and necessary and there is no Trade of Fisher-men to Newfound-Land but by this Haven of Dover which if the Tax be taken away and that go to Decay Her Majesty shall lose one of the best and most necessary Havens of England which hath all the Commodities that Mr. Chancellor shewed and lieth opposite to all our Enemies Countries who may soon be with us and we not able to resist them and help our selves should we want this Haven And so it was Committed I think it therefore fit this matter should be Considered of and Committed And so it was Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker informs the House how long they are to Continue I am to deliver unto you Her Majesties Commandment That for the better and more speedy dispatch of Causes we should Sit in the Afternoons which being Moved at the first here and Her Majesty taking notice thereof well liketh and approveth of it And likewise That about this day Seven-night Her Majesties Pleasure is This Parliament shall be ended The House sate this Afternoon A Bill was Returned in to Confirm the Assurance of the Mannors or Farms of Sayeburie alias Sadgeburie and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sande Esquire and John Harris Gentleman and their Heires A Bill for the Relief of the necessity of Souldiers and Mariners was Read the first time Mr. John Hare Moved That Bills might only be Read the first or second time and not put to the Question in the Afternoon Sir Edward Hobby I Approve of the Motion that the Gentleman made And I ever held this for a Rule Manè Consilium Serò Convivium c. Mr. Richard Messenger Moved That the Collectors for the Ten Pound and Five Pound upon every private Bill might be Chosen by the House And no private Bills might be sent up to the Lords before the Fee be paid The Question was in the House Whether the Fish-mongers of London their Proviso should be added to the Statute of Continuances And the Fishmongers were Admitted to the Bar by their Council which was Mr. Nicholls of the Middle Temple He first shewed That the Fishmongers of London were an Ancient Corporation And that they had ever Twelve Men as Factors
Alehouse-keepers Corporal punishments moved to be inflicted on them p. 181 Mr. Glascock opposes it Ibid. Aliens their children to pay strangers customs p. 10 Alisbury a bill concerning their Highway-land p. 119 Apparel a bill to reform excess in it passed p. 7 125 Armour and Weapons a bill touching them p. 105 Arrest complained of p. 134 c. Artillery where was but Iron now Brass p. 59 Assurance of Land a bill for it p. 132 143 Attendants made joynt Committees with Lords as had been usual in former Parliaments of this Queen but was not so in after-times p. 5 Attorney-General reflected on p. 141 Attorneys their number see Suits their multiplicity Inconvenient that Scriveners should act as such p. 209 Auditors a bill to prevent fraud in them and their Clerks p. 146 Award a bill to establish one p. 111 B Bastardie a bill against it p. 106 A Case put about it by Mr. Wiseman discussed p. 133 Beating the servant of a Member argued p. 259 260 Beggars a bill for their extirpation p. 105 Berwick a bill for that Town p. 26 Bill after ingrossed not to be look'd into p. 209 One returned by the Lords because sent up in Parchment when it should have been Paper p. 89 Bills not to be brought into the House obscurely p. 189 Bishops Leases a bill about them p. 186 Bishoprick the greatest in England but 2200 l. per an p. 187 Blades a bill for true making those of Daggers Swords and Rapiers p. 115 Blasphemers to be severely punish'd p. 188 An Instance of the great scandal caus'd by them Ibid. Bloud a bill for the restitution of Sir Tho. Perrot p. 73 Book-debts the bill largely debated p. 282 283 An Example of a Mercer p. 271 Bread a bill for its lawful Assize p. 74 Bridges a bill for their repairing p. 110 114 Brokers retailing a bill for them p. 97 Brownists deserve to be rooted out p. 76 A Sect too well known in England p. 320 Buildings a bill for restraint of new ones p. 77 Bullion a bill to prevent its transportation p. 226 Debated and spoken to p. 227 Burgesses two in competition p. 193 A Saying of Sir Edward Hobby concerning them Ibid. L. Burleigh the oldest Parliament-man p. 93 C Caps see Hats Captains and Souldiers p. 5 6 136 Cards for Wool a bill to prevent their importation p. 110 Case of Thomas Fitz-herbert p. 27 Cask see Clap-board Catalogue of the names of Parliament-men p. 337 Causey a bill to mend that of Egham p. 114 Cecil Sir Robert Secretary his large Speech p. 182 183 184 His saying Sir Robert Wroth had offered 100 l. per an towards the War with Spain p. 185 Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton his Speech p. 2 CharitableVses a bill to prevent deceits and breaches of trust about them p. 97 Charter a bill to confirm that of K. Edw. 6. to the Hospitals about London p. 227 Chirurgeons A bill to provide able ones for Sea p. 93 A bill for the well ordering of them p. 114 A Case concerning a Cure p. 324 Church a bill against wilful abstaining from it debated p. 227 228 A bill for more diligent repair to it argued at large p. 273 274 275 Clap-board a bill concerning it p. 73 Clergie the benefit of it taken from them that steal away women without their consent p. 85 Cloaths a bill concerning several sorts p. 72 98 Cloath Northern a bill against stretching and Taintering p. 113 Cloathworkers a Committee for them p. 222 Coaches a bill to restrain their superfluous and excessive use p. 132 Colchester a bill concerning its Haven and Paving p. 74 Collection for poor Souldiers by the Lords p. 43 146 The like by the Commons p. 43 How disposed of p. 269 Command from the Queen to sit in the afternoons for dispatch being to sit but a week longer p. 309 Commons called over p. 15 28 Chuse their Speaker p. 15 53 Attend the Queen in the Council-chamber where the Speaker makes a Speech p. 261 Fall on their knees while the Qu. speaks p. 263 Are bidden to rise p. 264 Conveyances original by the Queen a bill p. 6 Cordwayners a bill concerning them p. 23 Corn a bill to stay it within the Realm p. 92 Correction a bill for houses to be erected p. 87 Cottages a bill against erecting and maintaining them p. 10 Counsel to attend on several occasions p. 28 139 140 Coyn a bill to prevent its transportation p. 201 Curriers a bill concerning them p. 23 Customs a bill to advance them p. 200 D Debates with some beat p. 297 Debts of Sir Henry Hatton a bill concerning them p. 106 Defaulters noted p. 28 Defeasances a bill for enrolling and exemplifying of them p. 109 Delays a bill to prevent them in Executions upon Judgments p. 135 Deprivation of Edm. Bonner late Bishop of London p. 68 And of divers other Bishops p. 85 Devon a bill for a Key in the North part in the River of Severn p. 144 Disorder in the House noted and reproved p. 301 Disms and Tenths a bill for their payment p. 6 Dominions why not enlarged p. 48 Doors of the Lords being shut complained of commanded to be opened p. 57 Their shutting excused p. 174 Dover-peer a bill for its maintenance p. 23 Spoken to by Sir Walter Rawleigh p. 309 And by Secretary Cecil p. 323 Doubt propounded and resolved p. 96 Double-Soal-Green a Highway neer London order'd to be amended p. 272 Draining certain grounds a bill for it p. 91 Drake Sir Francis resolved to be sent to Sea against the Spaniards p. 65 Dunkirk Pirates spoken against by Mr. Dannet his motion p. 280 281 It began with two Ships p. 280 Dunkirkers trouble our Fisher-men p. 58 Durham Writs upon Proclamations upon Exigents to be currant in that County Palatine p. 7 E Ecclesiastical Judges a bill against their excessive Fees p. 110 Eclipse a great one about noon p. 322 Election a Letter about a disturbance in the Election of Knights of the Shire p. 190 Embroiderers a bill to reform their abuses p. 222 Essex Earl created Earl Marshal and took his place p. 90 His rising p. 208 His matters p. 248 His going into Ireland 300000 l. spent since p. 199 Exchequer a bill touching the exactions there p. 17 A bill concerning Proces and Pleadings there p. 21 A bill for the observation of Rules there p. 143 Exeter a bill for confirming Letters Patents to the Merchant-adventurers there p. 115 A bill for uniting certain Churches into one Parish p. 193 Excuses for Lords absence to be made by Peers and not by others p. 135 Eye and Dunsden Security to the Citie for 20000 l. lent to the Queen p. 290 A bill to re-unite them to the Mannor of Sunning debated Ibid. F Family of Love see Brownists Felonies hereafter to be committed their punishment p. 108 Fifteens and Tenths see Subsidies Fish salted a bill concerning them p. 69 Fishing how prejudicial to the Lord Admiral p. 237 Fishmongers admitted
to the Bar with Counsel p. 309 Forcible Entries a bill to explain the Statute of 8 Hen. 6. concerning them p. 11 Forestallers a bill against them p. 102 Forms of speech in French at the passing of Acts p. 12 13 49 50 Foul play in the House complained of and briskly argued p. 321 A great stir about it Ibid. French King made great by the Queens supports p. 182 Fuel a bill for the Size of it p. 146 Furnaces see Glass-houses Fustians a bill about them p. 113 G Gaging Brewers and others to be heard about it p. 24 Garbling a bill for reforming abuses in it p. 121 Gavil-kinde a bill to alter the nature of it p. 113 Arguments about it p. 303 Glass-houses and Furnaces a bill about them p. 27 Government of Cumberland Northumberland Westmerland and Durham a bill to make it more peaceable p. 136 Grammar-School of Tunbridge a bill to assure its maintenance p. 11 Grammar-Schools a bill for good order in them p. 113 Grants made to her Majesty a bill to confirm them as also Letters Patents made by her p. 133 H Hartlepool a bill for maintenance of their Poor p. 22 Hats and Caps a bill for their true making p. 253 Hawkers a bill against them p. 210 Heale Sergeant hum'd and laugh'd at p. 205 Is shew'd his mistake Ibid. Hemp it s sowing in England opposed by Sir Walter Raleigh p. 188 Herrings see Fish salted Horses a bill for their breed and increase p. 133 To have Horse Armour and Weapons p. 7 Horse-stealing a bill to prevent it p. 6 106 Hospitals a bill for their erection p. 106 A bill for that of Lamborn p. 10 A bill for that of Bristol p. 88 A bill for that of Warwick p. 93 A bill for that of S. Bartholomew p. 221 A bill for Nevil's Hospital in Yorkshire p. 111 House the Lord De la Ware petitions for his place in it p. 83 Hue and Cry a bill touching it p. 105 Husbandry and Tillage a bill for its increase p. 5 A bill against its decay p. 97 I Impropriations a bill to relieve the Poor out of them p. 107 Inclosures and Inmates a bill to restrain them neer London and Westminster p. 77 Inclosures and Tillage a bill concerning them p. 105 Innes c. a bill to reform disorders in them p. 17 See it debated p. 278 Innovation complained of against the Lords p. 93 Their resolution thereupon p. 94 Invasions greater intented than ever heard of p. 33 Inventions new a bill to monopolize them thrown out p. 311 Journal the Lord Treasurers motion about it p. 83 Joynture a bill to assure it p. 9 See p. 95 98 142. Judges joyned Committees with the Lords p. 5 Justices of Peace their luxuriant power a Grievance p. 275 A hot contest about them p. 275 276 277 A fling at them by the by p. 268 Reflected on from the Queen p. 151 Further Reflections p. 355 A motion against their slanderers p. 277 Jurors a bill for their relief p. 69 K L. Keeper Sir John Puckering his Speech in Parliament p. 32 Answers the Speaker of the Commons p. 36 Replies to him p. 37 His second Reply p. 47 Sir Tho. Egerton his Speech p. 79 80 81 He answers the Speaker p. 150 His Speech in the Star-chamber by the Queens command p. 353 Kersies a bill to repeal a Statute made 14 Reginae p. 284 L Labourers a bill to explain the Statute 5 Reginae p. 89 Lands Bills for sale of them p. 9 88 96 Forfeited for Treason confirmed to the Queen p. 40 Proceedings thereupon Ibid. See Bills for other Sales p. 70 136 Laws superfluous and burthensome a bill to abridge and reform them p. 103 Often spoken against and argued by many p. 180 193 Lease from her Majesty a bill to confirm it p. 91 Leases made by Archbishops and Bishops a bill about them p. 107 Lessees to enjoy their Leases against all Patents p. 96 Letters Patents for Lincoln a bill to confirm them p. 67 Libel complained of called The Assembly of Fools but found to be an old Toy p. 217 License to depart given by the House p. 23 27 Licenses for Marriage their abuses moved against p. 104 Lincoln and Nottingham a bill to confirm Statutes Merchants there p. 114 Logwood a bill to establish it in dying of Cloth c. p. 111 London a bill to confirm the authority of the Lord Mayor in St. Katherines p. 224 The Sheriffs committed 35 H. 8. p. 196 Longford Estover a bill for rebuilding of it p. 103 Lords temporal present at a dissolution of Parliament p. 12 Both spiritual and temporal at commencement p. 13 129 Losses casual a bill for relief of prisoners and others so impoverished p. 107 M Maltsters a bill to suppress their multitude p. 103 Mannors and Lands a bill to give leave to alienate p. 113 Mariners a bill for their increase and maintenance p. 86 A bill for well ordering them and Sea-men p. 113 Marshals man brought before the Lords for an Arrest p. 87 Message from the Queen by Mr. Speaker about Monopolies p. 248 Seconded by Mr. Secretary Cecil p. 249 Joyfully received p. 252 Thanks ordered to be returned p. 253 A motion to record it and further spoken to p. 257 258 Another from the Queen by Mr. Comptroller p. 261 Misdemeanours in leud and idle persons a bill to prevent them p. 133 Mistake about an Adjournment p. 102 About the Question p. 66 About the manner of receiving Bills p. 94 Money transported impoverisheth the Realm p. 21 Better for this Kingdom if none in the world p. 225 Monopolies their Grievance p. 130 Several smart Speeches on that subject p. 230 c. See much more to the same purpose p. 238 239 240 c. Morter-makers alias Plaisterers p. 314 Mortmain a bill touching it p. 21 Motions made by several p. 61 68 One by Sir Arthur Gorge about Justices noted by Secretary Cecil p. 204 Another by the Speaker in behalf of the Clerk p. 16 Musters c. a bill concerning them p. 133 Lawyers to be exempted a pleasant motion p. 329 N Naturalization several bills for several persons See p. 11 40 44 69 78 144 Navie a bill for its maintenance p. 137 Navigation see Mariners Newcastle a bill to confirm Statutes Merchant acknowledged there p. 124 Newport see Dunkirk Two base Towns p. 280 Non-residents see Pluralities Northampton a bill for the Town p. 106 Norwich a bill to establish that Boshoprick against a concealed Title p. 90 Nottingham see Lincoln O Obedience a bill to continue the people in it p. 55 The Heads of it Ibid. Order of the Lords about Painters and Plaisterers p. 147 148 For the relief of Maimed Souldiers p. 42 Ordnance a bill to prohibit their transportation p. 291 Debates some for the bill and some for petitioning the Queen to revoke her Patent p. 291 292 c. The bill asleep in the Lower House p. 333 The Speaker promises to mention it in
his Speech to the Queen but does not p. 334 Which caused a Murmur Ibid. It is further spoken to Ibid. Orford-Haven a bill for its preservation p. 9 Outlawries secret a bill to avoid them p. 11 P Painters and Plaisterers to be heard p. 144 Their Case debated p. 270 271 See more p. 313 314 315 Painting a bill to prevent abuses in it p. 114 A bill of no great moment p. 191 Pamphlets published by Jesuits and Seminaries p. 331 Pardon free several bills for it p. 29 49 147 335 To be craved for extravagant Speeches in the House p. 252 Thanks for the same p. 12 150 335 It passeth at once reading whereas other bills have three p. 44 Parishes of 8800 and odde not above 600 afford a competency p. 218 Paris garden a bill to re-unite the Mannor p. 121 Parliament summoned to begin Nov. 12. prorogued to Feb. 4. 1588. p. 1 Dissolved March 29. 1589. p. 29 Passed into Acts 16 publick and 8 private Bills Ibid. Began Nov. 19. 1592. p. 31 Dissolved Apr. 10. 1593. p. 50 We have no account of the number of Bills Began Octob. 24. 1597. p. 79 Dissolved Feb. 9. 1597. p. 99 Passed into Acts 24 publick and 19 private Bills p. 127 48 Bills refused that had past both Houses Began Octob. 27. 1601. p. 129 Dissolved Decem. 19. 1601. p. 333 Passed into Acts 19 publick and ten private Bills p. 151 Parliament-man priviledged and his servant for fourteen days p. 225 One of them swooneth in the House p. 332 Several Conjectures about it Ibid. Patents Committees named for them p. 103 Patents and Patentees a List of them Ibid. Pawn-takers see retailing Brokers Pedegree of the Marquess of Winchester p. 195 Pelts see Sheep-skins People a bill to increase them p. 90 Perjury a bill to prevent it p. 221 Petty Larceny its punishment p. 71 Phesants and Partridges a bill to preserve them p. 132 Pins a bill to avoid their importation p. 92 Plaintiff to pay the Defendant costs being in Prison for want of Bail if the Suit go against him p. 123 Plaisterers see Painters Pluralities a bill against them largely debated p. 218 219 220 Plymouth a bill for the Haven p. 74 Prayer a Copie of that used daily in the Commons House p. 179 Preamble to the bill of Subsidie p. 70 Precedent a notable one p. 233 Precedents that Warrants of new Election ought to go from the Speaker the Parliament sitting p. 192 Printers a bill against their multiplicity p. 322 One over Guild-hal-gate p. 217 Priviledges of Parliament canvass'd p. 254 255 Priviledge not to say what they list but Yea or No p. 37 Broken by an Arrest complained of p. 225 Privie-Counsellors irreverence to them blamed by the Queen p. 47 Probate of Wills its abuses moved against p. 104 Process a bill for its better execution p. 70 Proclamations upon Fines at Common Law to be abridg'd p. 7 Proctors all the Spiritual Lords but one had two p. 4 Protest of the Commons p. 95 Proviso for the Lard Powes and Sir Edward Herbert p. 25 Proxies ordinary and extraordinary p. 34 38 39 Purchasers a bill to assure their Lands p. 68 Purveyors a bill to reform their disorders p. 17 The Queens care about them signified by Mr. Speaker p. 24 Q QUEEN comes to the Vpper House p. 2 4 31 45 129 334 She makes a Speech her self p. 48 Swears by God she will punish Cowards Ibid. She makes another Speech p. 263 264 265 266 Quaere Whether the Speaker have a voice p. 321 The Speaker declares he hath none by custom Ibid. What was done with the money raised for the Poor p. 333 R Raleigh Sir Walter his sharp Speech and great silence after it p. 235 He complains for liberty of speech p. 302 He blushes p. 232 Rapesdale in Lancashire a bill for its Inhabitants p. 107 Recusants and Sectaries very pernicious to Government p. 46 Recusants Popish restrained to some place p. 40 A bill about them p. 61 Relief of Thomas Hasilrig Esq a bill p. 18 Of George Ognel Esq a bill p. 20 Of the Citie of Lincoln a bill p. 25 Remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettleby to be established on Francis Kettleby p. 135 Repeal of a branch of a Statute of 4 5 Phil. Mary p. 73 Roan made Admiral threatens England p. 58 Robbing in the day-time though none in the house not admitted to Clergie a bill p. 96 Robberies a bill to suppress them p. 105 S Sabbath-breakers Examples of Gods judgments upon them p. 274 School of Tunbridge a bill for it p. 22 Schoolmaster a bill to maintain one at Wanting p. 103 Secrets of the House misrepresented and discover'd complained of p. 18 Sectaries see Recusants Seditious persons a bill to punish them p. 38 Sergeant of London sent for on an Arrest p. 85 Sheeps skins a bill touching their transportation p. 102 Sheriffs a bill to reform abuses in them and their under-Officers p. 141 Ships one English beat twenty Spanish till they got our Guns p. 293 One of the Queen 's a petty Princes wealth p. 59 One ready laden with 36 Pieces of Ordnance p. 307 Shop-books a bill to prevent double payment of debts upon them p. 111 Silk-weavers a bill to reform their abuses p. 222 Sollicitors a Bill about them Ibid. Their Character p. 201 None to sollicit but without fee p. 222 No Mechanick trades-man to be one Ibid. Souldiers see Captains A bill to reform sundry abuses done by them in the War p. 95 A Collection for them p. 41 Absent Members of both Houses to pay double p. 43 Mr. Secretary Cecil's passionate Speech for maimed Souldiers p. 307 Spain the practices of that King against England p. 183 184 The Spanish General 's Letter to the Irish Catholicks p. 351 Speaker Sir George Snag He is presented excuses himself is approved His Thanks and Petitions allowed p. 4 5 Edward Coke Esq His excuse not allowed his Petitions granted p. 53 His Speech p. 35 He speaks again p. 36 His Speech to the Queen p. 45 Serjeant Yelverton His excuses Petitions c. p. 82 He giveth a Caution p. 101 John Crook Esquire Recorder of London His Speech p. 131 149 He gives an account of the Queens Speech p. 71 272 He makes his Speech p. 334 Speeches of many worthy Members upon several occasions p. 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Spinners a bill concerning them p. 73 Spur a Motion about an ancient custom of putting off the Spurs before entrance of Members into the House p. 181 Stanes Bridge a Bill for its reparation p. 110 Star-chamber persons present there p. 353 Statutes a bill to repeal certain of them p. 19 See p. 74 Stealing of horses a Proviso against it p. 189 A bill about stealing Oxen Sheep c. p. 69 Stealers of Corn and Fruit a bill against them p. 112 Stews their Case like that of Ale-houses p. 181 Being suppressed every house is a Bawdy-house