comfortable words and commanded the Parliament to be dissolved Nota That this business had many and long Agitations in the House of Commons who were especially violent in that latter branch of it touching the Declaration of a Successor as see more at large on Monday the 25 th day of November foregoing and lastly I have thought good to give a short touch that all the foregoing passages of this Afternoon touching her Majesties Presence Royal Assent Speech and Dissolving the Parliament were thus Orderly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and have here received little Alterations THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster An. 13 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1571 which began there on Monday the 2 d day of April and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 29 th day of May ensuing THIS Journal of the Upper House continuing about the space of two Months was very carelesly entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by the Clerk thereof who as it seems was Anthony Mason Esq succeeding about this time in the said Office of Clerk of the Upper House unto Francis Spilman Esq who had formerly supplied that place But yet by means of a Copious Journal I had by me of the Passages of the House of Commons in this Parliament taken by some Anonymous Member thereof and also of some Copies I had of the Speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper at the beginning and conclusion of this said Parliament this ensuing Journal is much enlarged And therefore to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Journal-Book of the Upper House by some Animadversions or Expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it Neither doth the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House want some matter of variety besides the ordinary Reading Committing and passing of Bills in respect that Sir Robert Catlyn Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal to supply the Lord Keepers place upon occasion of his sickness during some part of this said Parliament in the first entry whereof is set down out of the foresaid Anonymous Journal of the House of Commons her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Order and manner of it the substance also of which is found though somewhat more briefly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the same House On Monday the second day of April the Parliament beginning according to the Writs of Summons sent forth her Majesty about eleven of the Clock came towards Westminster in the antient accustomed most honourable Passage having first riding before her the Gentlemen Sworn to attend her Person the Batchellors Knights after them the Knights of the Bath then the Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of either Bench with the Master of the Rolls her Majesties Attorney General and Sollicitor General whom followed in Order the Bishops and after them the Earls then the Archbishop of Canterbury The Hat of Maintenance was Carried by the Marquess of Northampton and the Sword by the Earl of Sussex The place of the Lord Steward for that day was supplied by the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England the Lord Great Chamberlain was the Earl of Oxenford And the Earl Marshal by Deputation from the Duke of Norfolk was the Earl of Worcester Her Majesty sate in her Coach in her Imperial Robes and a Wreath or Coronet of Gold set with rich Pearl and Stones over her Head her Coach drawn by two Palfries covered with Crimson Velvet drawn out imbossed and imbroidered very richly Next after her Chariot followed the Earl of Leicester in respect of his Office of the Master of the Horse leading her Majesties spare Horse And then forty seven Ladies and Women of Honour The Guard in their rich Coats going on every side of them The Trumpeters before the first sounding and the Heralds riding and keeping their rooms and places Orderly In Westminster Church the Bishop of Lincoln Preached before her Majesty whose Sermon-being done her Majesty came from the Church the Lords all on foot in order as afore and over her Head a rich Canopy was carried all the way She being entred into the Upper House of Parliament and there sate in Princely and seemly sort under a high and rich Cloth of Estate her Robe was supported by the Earl of Oxenford the Earl of Sussex kneeling holding the Sword on the left hand and the Earl of Huntingdon holding the Hat of Estate and the Lords all in their Rooms on each side of the Chamber that is to say the Lords Spiritual on the right hand and the Lords Temporal on the left Nota That whereas the presence of these Lords ought here according to the usual course to have been inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it must of necessity be omitted in respect that through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time as it should seem Clerk of the said House there are none of the said Lords noted to have been present yet it may be probably guessed who they were by those who attended on Wednesday of this instant April ensuing Quod vide The Judges and her Learned Councel being at the Woollsacks in the midst of the Chamber and at her Highness Feet at each side of her kneeling one of the Grooms or Gentlemen of the Chamber their Faces towards her the Knights Citizens and Burgesses all standing below the Bar her Majesty then stood up in her Regal Seat and with a Princely Grace and singular good Countenance after a long stay spake a few words to this effect or thus Mr right Loving Lords and you our right faithful and Obedient Subjects we in the name of God for his Service and for the safety of this State are now here Assembled to his Glory I hope and pray that it may be to your Comfort and the common quiet of our yours and all ours for ever And then looking on the right side of her towards Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England standing a little beside the Cloth of Estate and somewhat back and lower from the same she willed him to shew the cause of the Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth THE Queens most Excellent Majesty our most Dread and Gracious Soveraign hath Commanded me to declare unto you the Causes of your Calling and Assembly at this time which I mean to do as briefly as I can led thereunto as one very loth to be tedious to her Majesty and also because to wise men and well-disposed as I judge you be a few words do suffice The Causes be chiefly two The one to establish or dissolve Laws as best shall serve for the Governance of the Realm
wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the same so also by a like negligence are all those many and several Prorogations buried in Silence by which this Parliament was continued without Dissolution until the next meeting thereof on Wednesday the 8 th day of February in the eighteenth year of her Majesties Reign which was the second Session of this present Parliament and held about four years after the determination of this first Session by Adjournment as aforesaid so that it is very probable that there are not less than twenty several Prorogations For between that foresaid second Session in an 18 Reginae Eliz. and the third Session of this present Parliament in an 23 Reginae ejusdem which contained not above one years space more than had intervened between the two former Sessions there passed at least twenty five Prorogations as doth plainly appear in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the said Session of Parliament de an 18 Reginae praedict where they are for the most part set down either abstractedly or at large And lastly As touching the great business of the Scottish Queen so much and so long agitated in both Houses it did at this time receive no period or conclusion but in this Session of Parliament in an 14 Reginae Eliz. an Act passed both Houses against her and lastly in the Parliament de an 28 29 Reginae ejusdem she was a little before her Execution at Fortheringhay-Castle in Northamptonshire Condemned to be Worthy of Death by the Vote of both the said Houses of Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 14 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1572 which began there on Thursday the 8 th Day of May and then and there continued until the Adjournment thereof on Monday the 30 th and last Day of June next ensuing THIS Journal of the House of Commons containeth in it not only many good passages touching the ordinary reading committing and expediting of Bills but is plentifully stored also with the frequent agitation and discussion of that great business touching the Scottish Queen whose practices not only with Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk but also with the Foreign Enemies of her Majesty for the destruction and Invasion of the Realm are notably described which also is much enlarged out of a written Copy I had by me of such reasons as were conceived in the House of Commons for her speedy Execution and of the Petition also preferred to her Majesty to the same purpose which said Reasons and Petition being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons I have therefore to avoid confusion distinguished by an Annotation or Animadversion from that of the Journal it self where it hath in its due place been inserted There passed also in this said Session a Bill against the said Queen of Scots which is falsly referred in divers Copies thereof to the 23 th year of her Majesty On Thursday the 8 th day of May this first Session of the fourth Parliament of her Majesties Reign beginning at Westminster The Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln High Admiral of England and by her Highness appointed Lord Steward for this present time came to the Lower House of Parliament accompanied with divers others of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council viz. Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofts Knight Comptroller of the same Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Chancellor of her Majesties Dutchy of Lancaster and Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer And did then and there minister the Oath unto all the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons then and there Assembled The said Earl of Lincoln Constituting and Authorizing the said Sir Francis Knolles Sir James Crofts Sir Ralph Sadler and Sir Walter Mildmay to be his Deputies in and for the more speedy ministration of the said Oath according to the Statute in that behalf lately made and provided unto all such others of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons as should happen afterwards to appear upon any return during this present Parliament This day Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq was Chosen Speaker for this present Parliament But whether her Majesty were this day in Person in the Upper House or by what Authority from her said Highness the said Speaker was Elected cannot possibly be gathered out of the Original Journal of the said Upper House or that of the House of Commons but elsewhere it appears the Lord Keeper gave them Authority in the end of his Speech on Thursday foregoing On Saturday the 10 th day of May M r Speaker was by the House presented to the Queens Majesty and of her Highness well accepted and allowed who after his Oration made and the Ordinary Petitions granted repaired to the House of Commons and being set in the Chair received the Oath After which according to the usual form was read The Bill concerning Bayles to be taken in the Court of Common-Pleas was read the first time On Monday the 12 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the third being the Bill for Proclamations to be made in Parish Churches and Chappels before Outlawries was committed unto M r Gent M r Robert Snagg M r Fenner M r Humberston M r Flowerdue M r French and M r Boyes who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Church The Lords did send Sir Richard Read and M r D r Huick to require M r Speaker and this whole House forthwith to make their repair unto their Lordships in the Upper House and upon their repair thither the Lord Keeper signified unto them that the Queens Majesties Pleasure is that twenty one of the said Upper House and forty four of this House should meet to Morrow in the Morning at eight of the Clock in the Star-Chamber then and there to consult and deliberate upon matters concerning the Queen of Scots Whereunto were appointed of this House M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer My Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Maurice Berkeley Sir Hugh Pawlet Sir Thomas Scott Sir Owen Hopton Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir John Thinne Sir Hen. Gate Sir Rowland Hayward M r Doctor Wilson M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Recorder of London M r Serjeant Manwood M r Serjeant Geffry M r Mounson M r Sands M r Popham M r Yelverton M r Coleby M r Heneage M r Charles Howard M r Hatton M r Asteley M r Shute M r Hen. Knolles Sen. M r Hen. Knolles Jun. M r Peter Wentworth M r Sampole M r Norton M r William Moor. M r John Vaughan M r Tho. Randall M r John Vaughan of Caermarthen M r Greenfield Sen. M r Charles Somerset M
their several places the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof who thereupon repairing thither as many as conveniently could were let in and standing all together at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor by the Queen Commandment declared unto them the Causes of the Assembling of this Parliament But what those Causes were neither the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House nor that of the House of Commons do at all mention in setting down the other daily Passages of this Parliament de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. But in respect they are set down the above-mentioned Catalogue of Honour imprinted at London An. Domini 1610. pag. 〈◊〉 and that it is most probable that were there inserted out of the Collections or Memorial of some Member of the House of Commons at this Parliament therefore I have thought good to supply it verbatim as it is there set down The said Lord Chancellor declared unto them in her Majesties name that this Assembly of Parliament was for three causes called viz. For the glory of Almighty God and the furthering of Religion for the health and preservation of her Royal Majesty and the welfare of the Common-Weal Which after that he had a loud and most eloquently at large declared turning his Speech unto the Knights and Burgesses standing on a heap together below he willed them to make choice of their Prolocutor and to give notice of him so Chosen unto the Lords of the Privy-Council from whom they should expect what the Queens Pleasure and Answer was concerning him so Chosen to be afterward presented The substance of this Speech being so shortly set down in the said Catalogue of Honour I thought good to transcribe although it were imprinted because it doth much augment and perfect this present Journal of the Upper House The residue whereof doth next in order follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House there being only added now and then as the occasion offered it self some Observations and Animadversions upon it Nota Also that no names of any of the Lords Spiritual or Temporal are noted to have been present this day which happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament but it may be conjectured who they were by the names of such whose presence is noted on Thursday next following being the 26 th day of this instant November on which said day the presence of such Lords as attended this Parliament is first marked Then follow the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions which is the more remarkable at this time because it is said that the Clerk of the Parliament did read them by the Lord Chancellors Commandment whereas it should seem at other times and which is agreeable also to the course at this day he doth presently stand up of himself as soon as the Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers Speech is ended and reads the said Receivors and Triors names yet the entrance aforesaid is at this time set down in the said Journal-Book in manner and form following Tunc having before-mentioned the Lord Chancellors Speech Parliamenti Clericus ex mandato Cancellarn omnibus Petitionibus exhiberi volentibus Receptorum Examinatorum nomina formâ subsequenti recitavit Then follows all in French of which the names were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Lord Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawel Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Doctor Clarke and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron Francis Windam one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awbery and Doctor Barkley Such as will deliver Petitions must so do within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Leicester Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Darby the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Effingham Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Gray of Wilton the Lord North. All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and the Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Archbishop of York the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Norwich the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Breve returnatum which was returned this Morning quo Johannes Episcopus Gloucestren praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 24 th day of November the Lords met in the Upper House but nothing was done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor until nine of the Clock the next Morning On Wednesday the 25 th day of November there was a like meeting of the Lords but nothing done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon the day following But no presence of the Lords is noted on this day in the Original Journal-Book On Thursday the 26 th day of November the Commons having chosen their Speaker who upon his Presentment to the Queen was this day to be allowed of in the said place her Majesty Accompanied with divers of the Nobility came into the Upper House about three of the Clock in the Afternoon whose name and the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as are marked in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament to have been present this day do here ensue Regina Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Dominus Thomas Bromley Miles Cancellarius Archiepiscopus Eboracen Dominus Barleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Comes Arundell Comes Kantiae Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Vice-Comes Mountague Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Winton Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Norwicen Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Cestren Barones Dominus Howard Camerar Dominus Zouch Dominus Willoughbie Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy
Stourton Dominus Darcie Dominus Sandes Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Delaware Dominus Compton Dominus Cheney Dominus Norris The Lords being all set in this Order in their Parliament-Robes and the Judges placed with other Attendants and Assistants of the Upper House being also before the said Lords Commissioners had taken their places on the right side of the Chair of State the Lord Chancellor shewed forth the Queens Majesties Letters Patents by which She committed full Power to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby to supply her place in the said Parliament which were as followeth viz. Hodie cùm omnes Proceres Robis Parliamentaribus induti in suo Loco quisque sederent Milites Cives Burgenses qui ad hoc praesens Parliamentum summoniti fuerunt praesso essent jam universt tam Proceres quà m Communes Reginae adventum expectarent Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius exponit omnibus Regiam Majestatem maximis urgentissimis causis adeò esse impeditam ut non queat impraesentiarum commodè interesse ut decreverat Nihilominus inquit sua Majestas Literis suis Patentibus plenam potestatem commisit Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Johanni Cantuar. Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac praedilecto fideli suo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae ac charissimo Consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Darbiae ad facienda nomine suo omnia singula quae in dicto Parliamento gerenda essent ut per easdem Liter as Patentes 〈◊〉 apparet quas hiis dictis Dominus Cancellarius Clerico Parliamentar publicè legendas tradidit Earum autem tenor sequitur in haec verba ELizabetha Dei graetiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd cùm de advisamento Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonaster 29 o die instant mensis Octobris teneri ordinavimus quia verò propter certas causas ad Parliamentum praedictum non potuerimus interesse nos de circumspectione sideliate industria Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Johannis Cantuar. Archiepiscopi totius Angliae Primat Metropolitan ac praedilecti fidelis nostri Willielmi Domini de Burleigh Domini Thesaurarii Angliae ac charissimi Consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis Darbiae plenam fiduciam reportand eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum ad Parliamentum praedictum nomine meo inchoand tenend negotiáque praedict exponend declarand ac exponi declarari faciend necnon in negotiis illis Parliamento praedicto ac omnibus sin gulis in eo procedend ad faciend omnia singula quae pro nobis per nos pro bono regimine gubernatione praedicti Regni nostri Angliae ac aliorum Dominiorum nostrorum eidem Regno nostro pertinen ibid. fuerint faciend necnon ad Parliamentum illud si necesse fuerit continuand adjournand prorogand de assensu Concilii nostri praedicti plenam tenore praesentium committimus prtestatem Dante 's ulteriùs de assensu ejusdem Concilii nostri tam universis singulis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Vicecomitibus Baronibus Militibus quà m omnibus aliis quorum interest ad Parliamentum nostrum praedictum conventur similit tenore praesentium firmiter in Mandatis Quòd eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum intendant in praemissis in fornia praedicta In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo octavo Per ipsam Reginam c. The Letters Patents foregoing being read the said three Lords Commissioners leaving their own places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State beneath the steps Then the said Lord Chancellor going first to the said Lords and conferring a while with them went to his accustomed place and there made intimation of the Cause of this present Summons of Parliament which as he said were no usual Causes not for making of Laws whereof her Majesty thought there were more made than were duly executed nor for Fifteenths and Subsidies although there were some cause yet her Majesty would not charge her loving Subjects so far at this time But that the cause was rare and extraordinary of great weight great peril and dangerous consequence Then he declared what dangerous practices had been contrived of late and how miraculously the Providence of God had by discovery thereof beyond all humane Policy preserved her Majesty the destruction of whose Sacred Person was most traiterously compassed and imagined Here he shewed what misery the loss of so Noble a Queen would have brought to all Estates and said That although some of them had suffered according to their demerits yet one remained that by due course of Law had received her Sentence which was the chief cause of this Assembly and wherein her Majesty required their faithful advice and therefore said he you may orderly proceed therein And you of the House of Commons are to make present choice of some one amongst you to be your Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants as soon as conveniently you may Assoon as the Lord Chancellor had ended his Speech the Clerk of the Parliament stood up and read the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawdy Knight one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Barkeley and Doctor Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Essingham Lord High Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles the Archbishop of York the Earl
of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst Assoon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these Names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber And that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lords Lieutenants adjourned the Parliament until Monday next following This day were divers Proxies returned of which the Extraordinary ones were these that follow 29 o die Octobris introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Marmad Episcopi Meneven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar. Johannem Episcopum London Thomam Episcopum Wintonien Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Episcopi Cestren in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Episcopum Cantuarien Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Bangor in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Cantuarien Willielmum Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Carliolen in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edwinum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Nota That these were all the Extraordinary or unsual Proxies that are entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been returned this Parliament For whereas the Spiritual Lords do for the most part constitute two Proctors and the Temporal Lords but one and those likewise of their own Order here the Bishop of S t Davids nominated three the Bishops of Chester and Carlisle but one apiece and the Bishop of Bangor did constitute the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England his Joynt Proctor with John Bishop of Canterbury which I take to be the only Precedent with two others in Anno 5 Eliz. during all the Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth's Reign where a Spiritual Lord did nominate a Temporal for his Proctor or a Temporal Lord a Spiritual although in the Reign of Queen Mary and other times more ancient it was very usual and ordinary On Monday the 31 th of October her Majesties Person was represented as it had been on the first day of this Parliament by three Commissioners viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby great Steward of England who were stiled the Lords Lieutenants These with divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal being fet in their Parliamentary Robes in the Upper House the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon with John Puckering Serjeant at Law who had been Speaker also the last Parliament their now Prolocutor repaired thither and being as many as conveniently could let in the said M r Speaker was led up by two of the most eminent Personages of the House of Commons to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House who being there placed and having according to the usual course desired himself to be excused that so the House of Commons might make choice of some other more able Member amongst themselves it was not allowed but his former wise and discreet behaviour the last Parliament in the Execution of this very place was alledged and much commended Whereupon the said M r Speaker having made humble reverence and in very discreet and good manner submitted himself to the undertaking of the said Prolocutorship did in the end of his Speech make divers petitions of course for freedom of Speech freedom of Access to her Majesty and freedom from Arrests and Suits in the Name of the House of Commons and lastly for pardon for himself if he should unwittingly erre in the report or carriage of any thing Whereunto the Lords Commissioners by the Lord Chancellor answered That the said House of Commons and himself should enjoy and use such Priviledges as others in the times of the Queen her Noble Progenitors had accustomed to use and enjoy Nota That it doth not appear by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House whether the Speaker were presented in the Forenoon or in the Afternoon Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris prox horâ octavâ On Friday the 4 th day of November the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Assembled the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto the next day at eight of the Clock On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Lord Chancellor declared unto the Lords the foul and indirect dealings practised by the Queen of Scots against her Majesty and the whole Realm notwithstanding so many great benefits and favours which the said Queen of Scots had received of her Majesty the which matter by William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England as one unto whom the said Queen of Scots whole proceedings were better known by reason of his long Service done unto our most gracious Soveraign Lady since the beginning of her Reign were more fully dilated Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae horâ octavâ On Monday the 7 th day of November while the Lords were debating the matter of the Queen of Scots the House of Commons came up and desired a Conference with some of the Lords of this House what number it should please them to appoint about the great matter of the Queen of Scots already opened unto them Whereupon the Lords chose out to the number of twenty one viz. the Archbishops of Canterbury and York the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Kent the Earl of Rutland and the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley the Lord Shandois the Lord Buckhurst the Lord de la Ware and the Lord Norris Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 8 th day of November nothing was done but the Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor continued usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Wednesday the 9 th day of November were read divers Letters as well of Anthony Babington to the Queen of Scots as of the said Queen of Scots to the said Anthony Babington Charles Paget and others The Sentence also pronounced by the Commissioners against the Queen of Scots was read A form of a Petition agreed upon by the Committees of both Houses was
said several Acts and Ordinances by you our said Subjects the Lords and Commons in this our present Parliament Assembled be fully agreed and consented unto and seem very necessary and profitable for the Commonwealth which nevertheless be not of any force or effect in the Law without our Royal Assent given and put to the same Acts and Ordinances and every of them And forasmuch as for divers great and urgent Causes and Considerations We cannot conveniently at this present be personally in our Royal Person in our Higher House of Parliament being the place accustomed to give our Royal Assent unto such Acts and Ordinances as have been agreed upon by our said Subjects the Lords and Commons We have therefore caused these our Letters Patents to have been made and have signed and caused the same to be Sealed accordingly And by the same do declare and notify as well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons aforesaid as to all and singular other our loving Subjects That we by these Presents do give put our Royal Assent to all and singular the said Acts and Ordinances and to all Articles Clauses and Provisions in them contained and be fully agreed and consented to all and every the said Acts willing that the said Acts and every Article Clause sentence and provision in them contained from henceforth shall be of the same strength force and effect as if we had been personally present in the said Higher House and had openly and publickly in the presence of you all assented to the same Commanding also by these Presents as well our Chancellor of England to seal these our Letters Patents with our great Seal as our Trusty and well-beloved Sir Edmund Anderson Knight our Chief Justice of our Common Pleas to declare and notify this our Royal Assent in our absence in the said Higher House in the presence of you the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of our Parliament 〈◊〉 to be assembled for that purpose and the Clerk of our Parliament to Indorse the said Acts with such Terms and Words in our Name as is requisite and hath been accustomed for the same And also to Inrol these our Letters in the said Parliament Roll and these our Letters Patents shall be to every of them sufficient Warrant in that behalf And finally declare and will that after this our Royal Assent given and passed by these Presents and declared and notified as is aforesaid That then immediately the said Acts and every of them shall be taken accepted and admitted good sufficient and perfect Laws to all intents Constructions and purposes and to be put in due Execution accordingly the Continuance or Dissolution of this our Parliament or any other Use Custom thing or things to the contrary thereof notwithstanding In Witness whereof We have caused those our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the 23 th day of March in the 29 th year of our Reign Per ipsam Reginam Nota That the Clerk of the Parliament having read the said Letters Patents before set down Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas still supplying the place of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor delivered other Letters Patents unto the said Clerk openly to be read whereby eight several Commissioners were nominated and authorized to dissolve the Parliament viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Earl of Shrewsbury Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Darby Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Leicester Master of her Majesties Horse the Lord Howard Lord Admiral of England Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Cobham Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports For doubtless unless a new Commission had come forth by which these before-named Honourable Personages had been de novo nominated to this purpose the three Commissioners at first appointed in the beginning of this Parliament which see at large upon Saturday the 29 th day of October foregoing might without any other new authority though not have Dissolved the Parliament yet have Prorogued it to a further day as they had formerly Adjourned it upon Friday the second day of December foregoing unto Wednesday the 15 th day of February next ensuing which was for ten weeks space at the least but that former Authority being now at an end by these new Letters Patents the manner of their delivery the removal of the new Commissioners in them nominated and the Commission lastly it self are thus verbatim set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House Postquam verò Clericus Parliament has Literas palà m perlegisset Edmundus Anderson Miles alias etiam Literas Patentes eidem Clerico Parliamenti publicè legendas tradidit atque hîc notandum est omnes Dominos Commissionarios in Literis patentibus nominatos locis suis relictis in medio banco consedisse dum diclae Literae legerentur Earum autem tenor hic sequitur ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Consiliario suo Johanni Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Edwino Archiepiscopo Eboracen Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac etiam chavissimis Consanguineis Consiliariis suis Georgio Comiti Salop Comiti Marescallo Angliae Henrico Comiti Darbiae magno Seneschallo necnon charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Henrico Comiti Kantiae ac charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Roberto Comiti Leicestr Magistro Equorum suorum ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus Consiliariis suis Carolo Domino Howard magno Admirallo suo Angliae Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Carmerario suo Willielmo Domino Cohham Domino Gardiano quinque Portuum suorum Salutem Cùm nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum desensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concern praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii decimo quinto die Octobris ultimo praeterito inchoari teneri ordinaverimus in à quo dic idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum septimum ejusdem mensis Octobris prorogat fuerat eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum nonum diem dicti mensis Octobris prorogat ' fuerat ac ibid ' tunc tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in secundum diem Decembris tunc proximum sequentem Eódémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in decimum quintum diem Februarii tunc prox ' sequent ' adjournat ' fuit Eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in vicesimum tertium diem instantis mensis Martii Sciatis tamen certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven ' idem Parliamentum nostrum hoc instante vicesimo
Her Majesty thinketh this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability for that one dischargeth himself and the other is not able to satisfie what he is charged withal These things would be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this present service Her Majesty further hath willed me to signify unto you that the calling of this Parliament now is not for the making of any more new Laws and Statutes for there are already a sufficient number both of Ecclesiastical and Temporal and so many there be that rather than to burthen the Subject with more to their grievance it were fitting an Abridgment were made of those there are already Wherefore it is her Majesties Pleasure that the time be not spent therein But the principal Cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding of those intended Invasions which are now greater than were ever heretofore heard of And whereas heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and of vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance The time that is precious would not be thus spent The Sessions cannot be long by reason the Spring time 't is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countries the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits So the good hours should not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such businesses as are needful to be considered of And so willed them to Elect a Speaker As soon as the Lord Keepers Speech was ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the ancient use and form which were as followeth viz. Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clynch one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Francis Gawdy another of the Justices of the said Bench Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. They which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perrian Lord Chief Baron and Thomas Walmsley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary and Doctor Stanhop And they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton All these or any four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst These or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Treasurers Chamber Nota That all that which is set down touching the coming up of those of the House of Commons into the Higher House and the Lord Keepers Speech being before placed after the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as were this day present is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is here inserted partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of another very exact Journal of that House which was in my Custody being very diligently observed and set down by some Anonymus who was a Member of the said House during this Parliament And I have always thought it most fitting in all these several Journals ever to refer the aforesaid Speeches the Presentments of the Speakers and such other Passages as are wholly handled and agitated in the Upper House to be set down as largely as by any good Authority they may in the Journal of the same to which they do most truly and properly belong and only for Orders sake to give a short touch or remembrance of them in the Journal of the House of Commons Finally at the Conclusion of this days business the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' futurum On Thursday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the Clock in the Afternoon accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquess of Winchester and divers others of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Monday foregoing the first day of this Parliament The Queen and the Lords being thus set the House of Commons had notice thereof who immediately thereupon came up with Edward Cooke Esquire the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had Chosen for their Speaker or Prolocutor Which said Speaker being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most Eminent Personages of the House of Commons who as soon as silence was made and the rest of the said House as many as could conveniently get in had placed themselves in the space below the said Bar spake as followeth YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty Yet this their nomination is only as yet a Nomination and no Election until your Majesty giveth Allowance and Approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum Corpus until it have received light from the Sun so stand I Corpus opacum a Mute Body until your Highness bright shining Wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is to be the Mouth of such a Body as your whole Commons represent to utter what is spoken Grandia Regni My small Experience being a poor Professor of the Law can tell But how unable I
it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign and of our natural Country of our Wives our Children our Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging of this point as a poor remembrance of her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships quod justum est 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 to the end 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 wise and Learned man among you to be your Speaker who shall be for an understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your Mouth to signify your minds and to make your Petitions known to her Highness and him on Thursday next to present in this place Nota that this foregoing Speech of the Lord Keeper is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is supplied by me out of a Copy thereof lying by me which I conceive to have been very truely transcribed out of the Original and I have always conceived it most proper to refer this and such like other Speeches if warranted by any good authority to the Journal of the said Upper House because they are delivered in it and only for Order sake to have some short Memorial thereof in the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses were departed down to their own House the Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French which were as followeth viz. Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice John Clinch one of the Justices of the Kings Bench Francis Gaudy one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Carew and Dr. Stanhop Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Willam Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the said Common Pleas Dr. Lewen and Dr. Cousins and they who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six days Tryers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Sussex great Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of the Queens Household and Lord Admiral of England the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Cobham and the Lord North. All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants shall hold their place when their leisure serveth in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries 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 Worcester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and also the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure serveth shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber The Lord Burgh absent being at this time Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De la Ware absent because he made question of his place intending to make Suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dicto 24 o die Octobris viz. Primo die hujus Parliamenti Introductum est breve quo Archiepiscopus Eboracen ' praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissas est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno 〈◊〉 brevia introduct sunt 4. Comitibus 10. Episcopis 5. Baronibus Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis proximum futurum viz. 27 diem Octobris On Thursday the 27 th day of October the Queens Majesty repaired in the-Afternoon to the Upper House of Parliament accompanied with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal who attended her Majesty this said day in the House being for the most part the same that are mentioned to have been present there on Monday the 24 th day of this instant October foregoing Of which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice M r Serjeant Yelverton being chosen Prolocutor or Speaker of the said House was by them brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolles Controller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented Who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the Duty of the House of Commons in making an Election but excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections and wishing earnestly 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 said House of Commons might proceed to a new Election Which excuse was not allowed by her Majesty as the Lord Keeper delivered by Answer but the choice of the said M r Yelverton was 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 to present to her Majesty in the behalf of the said House of Commons certain humble Petitions for access unto her Majesty in the behalf of the said House upon needful occasions and for the using and enjoying 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 Mouth of the Lord Keeper did yield her Gracious Assent 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 Octobris On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read primâ vice Introductum est breve Thomae Domini Gray de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno The Earl of Lincoln's excuse by reason of sickness presented by the Lord Treasurer Thomas Lord de la Ware having petitioned the Queens Majesty for his Ancient and right Place of Precedence in and amongst the Peers in Parliament and her Majesty well allowing his said
Journal-Book of the Upper House viz. Die Mercurii viz. undecimo die Januarii to which day the Parliament had been last Adjourned on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing Domini tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Thomas Egerton Miles Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurar Angliae Comites Comes Essex Magnus Marescallus Angliae Comes Nottingham Magnus Seneschallus Comes Northumbr ' Comes Salopiae Comes Darbiae Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen ' Episcopus Peterburgen ' Episcopus Bathon ' Wellen ' Episcopus Landaven ' Episcopus Cestren ' Episcopus Cicestren ' Barones Dominus Hunsdon Camerarius Dominus Zouch Dominus La Ware Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Scroope Dominus Stourton Dominus Sandes Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Darcy de Chich. Dominus North. Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Compton Nota That though I do usually observe in all these Journals never to have the presence of the Lords transcribed but at the beginning only of a new Parliament or at least a new Session yet I have observed it here though but at the beginning of a new meeting in respect that the presence of the Lords before set down at the beginning of this Parliament on Monday the 24 th day of October being much greater than that of this day could not serve to be any rule for the presence of those that attended at this new meeting which is for the most part the chiefest reason why the presence of the Lords is marked on the first day of the Parliament or on the next day from the first on which they be noted if through the Clerk of the Upper House his negligence as it often happeneth it be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the said day A second but less material cause why I have their names transcribed is to see the due places and precedences of the Lords Temporal This Wednesday as soon as the Lords were set it should seem that the Earl of Essex having been created Earl Marshall the 28 th day of December last before this instant took his place according to his said Office viz. next after the Earl of Oxon Chamberlain of England and before the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward and Lord Admiral The said Earl Marshal having taken his 〈◊〉 as aforesaid was added to the Committees in the Bill intituled An Act for encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm who were appointed on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing His Lordship also was added to the Committees upon the Bill for the relief of the Poor in times of extream dearth who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber at Whitehall upon Friday the 13 th day of this instant January following by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Committees upon the Bill concerning Broakers and Pawntakers were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber c. upon Friday the 13 th day of this instant January following by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage was read secunda vice and referred to the same Committees which are for the Bill for encrease of people c. who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber c. on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and to meet at the same time and place Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for recovery of three hundred thousand Acres of waste Marish and watery grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Bishop of Peterborough the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich and the Bishop of Chichester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord De la Ware the Lord Cobham the Lord Rich the Lord Darcie of Chich the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst and M r Justice Gaudie and M r Serjeant Drew to attend their Lordships All which were appointed to meet at the little Chamber near the Chamber of Parliament presence on Saturday the 14 th day of January following in the Morning before the House sit On Thursday the 12 th day of January the Bill entitled An Act for encrease of People for the service and defence of the Realm was returned unto the House by the Committees who were appointed on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and a Motion was made by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees that a Conference might be had with a competent number of chosen persons of the House of Commons for the better perfecting of the Bill Whereupon M r Attorney and M r Doctor Stanhop were addressed to the House of Commons with a Message to that effect and the time and place of meeting desired to be at the great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall to Morrow being the 13 th day of this instant January ensuing by two of the Clock in the Afternoon Certain Select Committees who were chosen by the House of Commons concerning the said Bill for increase of People c. were sent to the Lords signifying their allowance of the time and place appointed for meeting about that Bill and desired in the mean time to have delivered unto them in writing such Objections as their Lordships do make unto the said Bill to the end they might be the more ready to deliver their Opinions and resolutions at the said 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 Objections 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 said Objections in writing that it might be in readiness for the said Committees of the House of Commons if upon the verbal Conference they should not be satisfied Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January following Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the making of Bayes in the Counties of Essex and Suffolk was read secundà vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Rich the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Baron and M r Attorney General to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this Attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November
brought him even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to Ransom a servile Peace at our enemies the Spaniards hands with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low-Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and State she brought them to an Unity in Counsel and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards Tyrannical designs which have so much gauled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented to and set on foot by commandment of the late King his Father I need not shew you neither trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Authors themselves But de mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loth to speak of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her blood I mean Jewels which have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which I hope God will ever keep from her but she hath rather worn them in Triumph than for the price which hath not been greatly valuable Then he fell to perswade us because new occasions were offered of consultations to be provident in provision of means for our own defence and safety seeing the King of Spain means to make England miserable by beginning with Ireland neither doth he begin with the Rebels but even with the Territory of the Queen her self He shewed that Treasure must be our means for Treasure is the sinews of War Nota That the substance of this Speech is only here inserted as it was afterwards repeated in the said House upon Tuesday the third day of November which next ensued by Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principal Secretary who had done it to satisfy divers Members of the same who could not get into the Upper House to hear it this first day of the Parliament as is aforesaid Now follow the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the said House As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and that such of her Majesties Privy-Council and others of the House of Commons as had privately got in and heard it were departed down to their own House Thomas Smith Esq Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Knight Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings Bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Carew and D r Stanhop Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir William Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Swale and D r Howard They who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six dayes Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess 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 Hartford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch 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 also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place at the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of 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 Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Le Ware the Lord Lumley and the Lord Burleigh All these or four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure did serve them to meet and hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-Book in manner and form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris proximè futurum viz. 30 m diem Octobris Nota That although there be some short mention made of the Presentment of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House yet because it is very imperfectly and briefly Entred there I have therefore supplied it somewhat largely out of a private Journal of the House of Commons On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon her Majesty came by Water to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and being Apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of State divers also of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the Door of the said House with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London their Speaker Elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as conveniently could let in and the said Speaker was led up to the Bar or Rayl at the lower end of the same House by the hands of Sir William Knolles Knight Comptroller 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 Sovereign Upon your Majesties Commandment your most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble Servant being a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen I do most humbly beseech your Sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable Self And that it would please you to Command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great service to be appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I beseech your most excellent Majesty not to interpret my denial herein to proceed from any unwillingness to perform all devoted dutiful service but rather out of your Majesties Clemency and Goodness to interpret the same to proceed from that inward fear and trembling which hath ever possessed me when heretofore with most gracious Audience it hath pleased your Majesty to Licence me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that
Two Committees for two several Bills made one Committee for both Bills p. 607 Common Prayer vide Uniformity Conference to be had before a Bill passed either House be rejected by the other p. 272 273. 388. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons Contribution of two shillings in the pound made by the Lords towards the Queens extraordinary charge in defence of the Realm p. 387. Contribution made by them for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London p. 462. An Order that such Lords as were absent the whole Session should pay double to what others did who constantly attended the service of the House and those that came but seldom to the House a third part more p. 463 464 Convocation-days the House of Lords either sit not or do little business on them p. 67 Crown a Bill restoring to it the ancient jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual c. p. 28 D. ABill for Denization of Peregrine Berty and Katharine Dutchess of Suffolk his Wife p. 145. of William Watson p. 148 Dissolve vide Commissions Doctors of the Civil Law made Joint-Committees with the Lords p. 145 E. EGerton Sir Thomas made Lord Keeper 38 Eliz. p. 522. His Speech to the Parliament 39 and 40 Eliz. p. 524. Q. Elizabeth enter'd on the Government Nov. 17. ann Dom. 1558. p. 1. and within nine weeks summons a Parliament viz. Jan 23. ibid. A Bill in that Parliament to make her inherit able to the late Q. Anne her Mother p. 19. she is averse from declaring a Successor p. 107. 127 128. Her sharp Speech to the Parliament in ann 8 and 9. for their Petition to that purpose p. 116. She remitteth the third payment of a Subsidy to take the Parliament off from urging her to declare a Successor p. 131. Her Pious Speech at the end of the Session 27. of her Reign p. 328. In the Parliament 28 and 29 of her Reign called upon the discovery of Babingtons conspiracy she appeared not in person but gave Commission to three Lords to supply her place with the title of Lords Lieutenants p. 377 378. Both Houses petition her to execute the sentence upon Mary Queen of Scots with her Answer thereto p. 380 381 382. Her Speech at the end of the Parliament in 35 of her Reign p. 466. Her great success against the Spaniard set forth in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. Jewels given to her Physicians to poyson her p. 599 G. GArgrave Sir Thomas chosen Speaker to the Commons in the Parliament holden 1 Eliz. p. 15. and 40. The manner of his disabling himself to the House first and then to the Queen ibid. His Petitions of course on behalf of the House of Commons p. 16. His Speech at the conclusion of the Session p. 31 Gavelkind what and in what places it obtaineth p. 272. A Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom p. 533 Gentleman-Usher of the House claims right to bring such persons before the Upper House as are accused of breach of priviledge and sayes it does not belong to the Serjeant at Arms. p. 603. He is sent for an ordinary servant of the Queens committed to the Fleet for debt upon Execution and for him that arrested him p. 605. 607. This not to injure the Serjeant at Arms in his pretensions to that office p. 607 Grace Vide Bills and Acts. H. HAtton Sir Christopher made Chancellor 29 Eliz. upon the death of Sir Thomas Bromley p. 419 Herald at Arms in ordinary to the Queen not to have priviledge from Arrest on account of the Session of Parliament p. 608. 611 Hexamshire a Bill to annex it to the County of Northumberland and its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to the Bishoprick of Durham 8 9 Eliz. p. 103. but not passed into an Act till 14 Eliz. p. 200 Horses a Bill against conveying them into Scotland 1 Eliz. being a revival of an Act made 23 H. 8. p. 21 22 Lord Hunsdon's place in Parliament between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso p. 530. 543 I. INgrossing of a Bill what p. 18. Vide Bills Injunctions to stop proceeding at Law in Parliament time p. 21 Judges who are but assistants to the Upper House made Joint Committees with the Lords p. 67. 71. 99. and so in every Parliament till 39 40 Eliz. p. 142. 527. but only to consider of some ordinary Bill and which concerned matter of Law for they were never of such Committees as were to have Conference with the Commons p. 423. They have leave from the Lord Chancellor or Keeper to sit covered in the House but are always uncovered at a Committee p. 527 K. KEeper vide Chancellor Kentish-Street in Southwark a Bill for the paving of it 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 112 L. THE River Lee a Bill to bring it to the North-side of London 13 Eliz. p. 150 Low-Country Wars a voluntary contribution of both Houses towards the maintaining of them p. 387 M. MArry see the word in the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons the Queen Petition'd by the House of Lords to marry with her Answer p. 105. 107. The advice and consent of the Parliament often required for the marrying of the Kings of England p. 117 119. Earl Marshal his place in Parliament is betwixt the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward p. 535 Queen Mary died Nov. 17. 1558. in the sixth year of her Reign p. 1 Mary Queen of Scots Vide the Table to the Commons Journal Mason Anthony Esq Clerk of the Upper House 13 Eliz. p. 137. He is succeeded by Thomas Smith Esquire in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. p. 522 Melcomb Regis Vide Weymouth Messages sent from the House of Commons to the Upper House are received by the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords at the Bar whither they are to go and meet those that come from the Commons p. 539 540 Mises not to be paid by the Shires of Wales and County Palatine of Chester when Subsidies are paid nor the contrary p. 20 Monopolies Petition'd against in 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen judges an invasion of her Prerogative ibid. N. A Bill of Naturalization of Gerson Wroth a German p. 22. of William Sidney and his Wife and of Sir John Wingfield and his Lady p. 462. of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy p. 464. of Samuel Saltingstal p. 488 Newgate the Keeper of it committed to the Fleet for not obeying an Order of the Lords for the bringing of one that was Prisoner there upon Execution and was Servant to a Peer p. 608 Duke of Norfolk a Bill for the confirmation of his marriage with the Lady Margaret his Wife 1 Eliz p. 22. and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Jointure p. 25 Earl of Nottingham his place in Parliament betwixt the Earl of Lincoln and Lord Viscount Bindon p. 543 O. OBjections against a
divina Abbas Monasterii beatae Mariae sanctique Botolphi de Thorney subjectionem et fidelitatem omnimodas cum orationibus assiduis et devotis ad comparend ' pro me et nomine meo in Parliamento vestro coram vestra regia celsitudine vicessimo die Mensis Januarij prox ' futur ' post datum presens apud Westm ' favente gratia Spiritûs sancti felicitor inchoand ' Nè personali comparitione in eodem penes vestram regiam celsitudinem quoties opus sucrit excusand ' precipuè pretextu adversae valetudinis nostrae caeterisque ex causis justis veris et probabilibus quod interesse non valemus prout affectamus Qua proptervestrae Regiae humilitèr celsitudini supplicamus quatenus absentiam nostram personalem in hà c parte excusatam gratiose dignetur habere vestrae Clementia Majestatis et ut vestro Mandato in quantum possumus in omnibus pareamus Reverendos in Christo Patres Sancti Albani Sti ' Edmundi de Bury Sti ' benedicti de Ranisy et Sti ' Gutlaci de Coland ' Abbates conjunctim et divisim et corum quemlibet nostros veros et Legitimos procuratores Atturnatosque fideles tenore presentium constituimus et ordinamus promittens me ratum gratum et firmum perpetuo habiturum quicquid praedicti pro me et nomine meo fecerint vel alter fecerit in premissis seu aliquo promissor ' vestrae Regiae celsitudini humilitèr supplico quatenus absentiam meam personalem hac vice ex Regia mansuetudine habere dignemini gratiose excusatam In cujus Rei testimonium Sigillum nostrum Commune present ' est appensum Dat' apud Thorney praedict ' decimo quarto die Mensis Januarij An. Regni Regis Henrici Octavi Quinto Sometimes also the said Sickness or cause of Absence is Testified by Oath as appears in the Original Journal of the Upper House A. 6. H. 8. Feb. die 12. where James Marshal servant to the Lord Scroop made Affidavit of his Lord's detention by Sickness But even Anciently if the Parliament were to be Assembled by reason of some great and extraordinary occasion And that the King declared in his Writ of Summons that he would not admit of any Proxies ista vice then none did presume to send them but upon the King's Licence first obtained as appears ex Rotulo Parliamenti A. 6. Ed. 3. die 27. Januarij A. 22. Ed. 3. die 20. Novemb. A. 6. Ric. 2. die 2. Jan. ct A. 11. Ric. 2. die 20. Martij But of later times since the 38th year of H. 8. the Lords in their very Proxies do express their absence to be by the King or Queen's Licence and oftentimes the Clerk of the Upper House doth insert the Memorial of their return with their expression of their absence by the said Licence And in making of Proxies it hath always been at the free Choice and Election of a Spiritual Lord that sent the said Proxie to constitute some other Spiritual Lord or a Temporal Lord or both and so likewise mutatis mutandis hath the liberty been of a Temporal Lord although there appears but three Presidents thereof during her Majesties Reign of which the first was in A. 5. Regin Eliz. where William Bishop of Exeter constituted for his Proctor Francis Earl of Bedford And the second in A. eodem Regin ejusdem where Thomas Archbishop of York Constituted the Earl of Bedford his joynt Proctor with Richard Bishop of Ely and Rowland Bishop of Bangor And the third and last in A. 28. 29. Regin praedict ' where Hugh Bishop of Bangor did Constitute William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England his joynt Proctor with John Archbishop of Canterbury but in former time the Presidents of this nature are more frequent For there was so little observation kept in this kind as sometimes the Lords Spiritual and Temporal did Constitute the Judges and Barons of the Exchequer being but attendants on the House for their Proctors and sometimes Strangers as the Abbot of Selby in Edward the third's time Constituted John Goldale a Monk of that house and William R. Clerk his Proctors and these also were sometimes appointed Tryers of Petitions joyntly with the Lords as appears A. 14. Ed. 3. and sometimes Committees with the Lords prout patet ex rotulo Parliam ' de A. 14. Ed. 3. N. 13. 14. 18. These Animadversions being thus premised of Proxies in general now follow some others that concern the Particular Proxies foregoing and the residue that were returned at this Session on Saturday the 4th day of February ensuing and on Wednesday the 8th day and on Saturday the 18th day of March following and on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing And therefore in the first place it shall not be amiss to make remembrance that in the Journal of this Parliament I have caused the entry of all Proxies whatsoever as well ordinary as extraordinary to be Transcribed because it is the first Parliament of her Majesty whereas in most of the residue I have only caused those to be inserted into my Journals which were extraordinary and unusual And whereas the word Vacat is added at the beginning of the entrance of the return of the Proxie of Thomas Tresham Prior of St. Johns of Jerusalem in England as also before that of William Lord Euers which are before amongst others set down The reason of the first I cannot possibly Guess because neither the Archbishop of York to whom the said Thomas Tresham had sent his Proxie was himself absent nor the said Prior present nor dead before the return of his said Proxie as may easily be gathered but for the other it is plain that the Lord Clinton whom the Lord Euers did Constitute for his Proctor was absent at the beginning of this Parliament and did himself send his Proxie which is entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February although the word Vacat be prefixed also before the entrance of the return of the same because he afterwards came to the Parliament himself and served in Person in the Upper House the greatest part of the continuance thereof and from these examples may be gathered the true Causes both why and when a Proxie that is returned becometh void either when the Peer or Lord that sends the Proxie dies himself or comes to the House in Person before the end of the Parliament or that the Proctor or Proctors whom he constitutes do die or be otherwise absent and send their Proxies themselves for in this latter case those Proxies are to be repealed by the Lord Chancellor as there is a President for it in the end of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House A. 33. et 34. H. 8. in the case of Nevil Lord Latimer for though the absent Lord or Lords to whom the Proxie is directed do constitute other Proctors yet they cannot execute such Proxies as are
notwithstanding all the disbursements of these her great Charges yet she was as I right well know very hardly brought to and perswaded to call this Parliament in which she should be driven to require any aid or by any means to charge her Subjects if by any other means it might have been holpen and so her Majesty her self Commanded to be declared And I for my part and so do others very well know for the Commons little think or consider what a trouble want is to her whereby she is forced to ask of them which surely is against her nature but that she is thereunto forced for the surety of this Realm And for that the nether House cannot being so many together but of necessity must have one to be a Mouth Aider or Instructer unto them for the opening of matters which is called the Speaker Therefore go and Assemble your selves together and Elect one a discreet wise and learned Man to be your Speaker and on Friday next the Queens Majesty appointeth to repair hither again for to receive the Presentment of him accordingly The manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Lord Keepers Speech being supplied out of that written Copy or Anonymous Memorial I had by me as aforesaid now follow the Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House Then the Clerk of the Parliament read in French the Names of such as should receive hear and try the Petitions for England France Scotland Ireland Gascoigne and Guyen c. which were as followeth Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Anthony Browne Knight Sir Richard Read Knight and Doctor Huicke And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver them in six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles viz. Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Saunders Knight Chief Baron Justice Weston M r John Vaughan and Doctor Yale And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marquess of Winchester Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Clinton Admiral of England the Lord Rich all these together or four of the Prelates and Lords calling to them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeant when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries and parts beyond the Sea viz. The Archbishop of York the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Oxon the Lord Howard the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Abergaveny the Lord Wentworth the Lord Willoughby and the Lord North all they together or four of the Prelates and Lords aforesaid calling to them the Queens Serjeant Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber These Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions foregoing being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there should follow out of the same the Adjournment or Continuance of the Parliament by the Queens Majesty or the Lord Keeper by her Commandment but the same being wholly omitted through the negligence of Francis Spilman Clerk of the same it is in part supplied out of that before-mentioned memorial Copy of this present days passages following Then the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament till Friday next and then the Queen returned to her Chamber and shifted her and so did all the Lords and then waited on her to the Water side where she took her Boat and departed to Whiteball from whence she came and they till Friday at their pleasures upon which ensuing Friday her Majesty came again to the Upper House but the manner and form thereof being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and only found in the foresaid Anonymous Memorials I had by me is therefore inserted out of the same in manner and form following On Friday the 15 th day of Jan. 1562. the Queens Majesty at her Privy-Stairs took Boat and went by Water to the Parliament-House about two of the Clock the Lords and Heralds waiting on her to the Landing place on the back side of the Parliament and so brought her to her Privy-Chamber where she shifted her and put on her Robes and the Lords theirs as the first day and then she repaired to her Seat and the Lords to theirs with their Serjeants and Gentlemen-Ushers before her the Lord Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Estate the Duke of Norsolk the Rod of the Marshalsie and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and the Baron of Hunsdon sustained her Mantle from her Arms And her Train was born by the Lord Chamberlain Vice-Chamberlain and M r Ashley Master of the Jewel-House and the Lord Keeper standing at the back of the Rail on the right and the Lord Treasurer on the left And because this is the first Session of the Second Parliament of her Majesty I thought it worth the labour to cause the presence of her Majesty and the Lords spiritual and Temporal to be inserted directly according unto the Copy thereof in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House Die Veneris 15 to Januar. Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt Pr. Regina Pr. Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Pr. Archiepiscopus Eboracen Pr. Episcopus London Pr. Episcopus Dunelmen Pr. Episcopus Winton Pr. Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Landaph Pr. Episcopus Hereford Pr. Episcopus Elien Pr. Episcopus Wigorn. Pr. Episcopus Bangoren Pr. Episcopus Lincoln Pr. Episcopus Sarum Pr. Episcopus Meneven Pr. Episcopus Rofsen Pr. Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Pr. Episcopus Coven Lichfeild Pr. Episcopus Exon. Pr. Episcopus Norwicen Pr. Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Carliolen Pr. Episcopus Cestren Pr. Episcopus Assaven Pr. Episcopus Gloucestren Nota That this is the very express manner and form by which the presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is set down and marked out upon this present Friday being the first day of this her Highnesses Second Session of her Parliament and at the beginning of every Lords name that was present are the Letters Pr. prefixed by which it appeareth and may certainly be concluded that all they before whose names those Letters are not set down and entred were then absent which hath been the constant course
same so that the referring of a Bill to Committees is scarce discoverable in respect that the name only of one of them is for the most part mentioned yet the manner of the Burgesses taking the Oath of Supremacy which was never in use before this Session of Parliament it having been enjoined by Statute in the first year of her Majesties Reign together with the manner of the Election and Presentment of the Speaker is very Methodically and Orderly entered And lastly whereas there is mention made in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons aforesaid that the Speaker with the whole House did exhibit their Petition to the Queens Majesty on Thursday 23. day of January in the Afternoon touching her Marriage and the Limitation of the Succession of the Crown which said Petition is there omitted I have therefore caused it to be inserted at large out of a Copy thereof I had by me which I gather by all concurring circumstances to be the very same which is only generally remembred in the said Original Journal-Books as aforesaid The second Parliament of the most Noble Princess Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England c. begun at Westminster on Monday the 11. day of January in the fifth Year of her Gracious Reign By her Highness Commission directed to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Steward the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk c. to Prorogue the same Parliament until the 12. day of the same Month viz. the Morrow following And the Knights and Burgesses being sent for to come unto the Lords in the Upper House without any appearance of their names taken then by the Lord Steward and Lord Treasurer the Lord Keeper shewed in few words that the Queens Majesty was somewhat sick of a Stitch wherefore she had sent her Writ for the Prorogation until the Morrow which was done accordingly And on the Morrow being the 12. day of January about ten of the Clock the Queens Majesty with the Lords and Bishops in Parliament Robes did ride from the Palace to Westminster-Church and there heard a Sermon during which the Earl of Arundel being Lord Steward repaired unto Whitehall and there Recorded the Appearance of the Knights and Burgesses at which time also as may very well be collected by comparing this instant days passages with those of Thursday the third day of October in the Journal of the House of Commons de an 8 9 Regin Eliz. following the said Lord Steward did doubtless either in his own person or by his Deputies administer the Oath of Supremacy according to the Statute de an 1 Eliz. Cap. 1. to such Knights Citizens and Burgesses as were at this time present and appeared And after the Queen coming from the Church and being set in her Royal Seat in the Upper House and the Commons standing at the lower end of the Chamber The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal with great Eloquence declared this Parliament to be called for Religion Discipline and Aid to the State in defence of Enemies with Excellent Dilation of those Causes And in the end willed the Commons to repair to their House and there to chuse a discreet grave and wise man to be their Speaker and to present him to the Queens Majesty on Friday next in the Afternoon immediately the Commons resorted to their Common House where after they were set M r Comptroller standing up rehearsed the Lord Keepers Oration for the Election of a Speaker and said that in his Opinion M r Thomas Williams Esq one of the Fellows of the Inner-Temple being grave learned and wise was very meet to that Office whereupon the whole House with one intire Voice cried M r Williams M r Williams And then M r Williams standing up and reverently disabling himself required the House to proceed to a new Election unto whom M r Secretary Cecill Answering that the House had gravely considered of him and therefore required him to take the place and he approaching was led and set in the Chair by M r Comptroller and it was agreed by the House to meet all there again on Friday next at one of the Clock in the Afternoon to present M r Speaker to the Queens Majesty On Friday the 15 th of January in the Afternoon M r Speaker with the rest of the House of Commons went before the Queen in her Royal Seat where M r Speaker most humbly disabled himself requiring that a new Election might be made to the which the Queens Majesty confirming the same Election by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper M r Speaker made an Excellent Oration and in the end made the accustomed Petitions which being granted the Lord Keeper willed him with the rest to resort to the House of Commons there to deliberate upon matters necessary which being done The Bill for increase of Woods in Champain Grounds and saving of Bark of Timber to be felled was read the first time On Saturday the 16. day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one was touching Servants to serve their Masters And the other to put down an Iron-Mill near Guilford and were each of them read the first time A motion was this day made by a Burgess at length for the Succession of the Crown of which see more on Thursday the 28 th day of this Instant January ensuing January the 17 th day Sunday On Monday the 18 th day of January Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one and the first reading of which the second was the Bill for the assurance of the Mannors of Whiteacre and Whiteacre Burgh to Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk his Wife from Walter Herenden being a Feoffee in Trust. Certain Arguments were this day had in the House by divers wise Personages for motion to be made for the Queens Marriage and Succession of the Crown On Tuesday the 19 th day of January the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs upon their Accompts for Justices Diets was read the first time M r Speaker with the Counsel and twenty four more of the House were appointed to meet this Afternoon to draw Articles of Petition for the Queens Marriage and Succession Vide Concerning this business on Thursday the 28. day of this Instant January following M r Comptroller is nominated one of them For that it seemed to the House being very full that they were a greater number than were returned therefore the names were immediately called and as they were called they departed out of the House and in the end ten or eleven remained who said they were returned and would bring Warrants thereof On Wednesday the 20. day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs upon their Accompts for Justices Diets was read the second time and as it should seem Committed to M r Sackvill and others see a like
Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensor c. Sexto in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum fuerat convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Marchio Winton Thesaurarius Comes Suffex Comes Huntington Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Cobham Dominus Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent una cum populi atque Burgensium ut vocant satis magna frequentia praedictus Archiepiscopus Cantuarien paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dicta domina Regina ccrtis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in tricesimum diem Aprilis prox futurum atque ut tam proceribus quam populo palam fieret Regiam Majestatem ita constituisse Literas Commissorias dict Dominae Reginae Francisco Spilman Armig Clerico Parliamenti publicè clarâ voce legendas in manus tradidii Earum autem Tenor sequitur in haec verba Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Matheo Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Willielmo Marchioni Winton Thesaurario Angliae ncc non charissimis consanguineis suis Thomae Comiti Sussex Henrico Comiti Huntingdon Reverendis in Christo patribus Edmundo Episcopo London Edmundo Episcopo Roffen ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus consiliariis suis Edwardo Domino Clinton magno Admirallo suo Angliae Willielmo Domino Howard de Essingham Domino Camerario suo ac praedilectis sidelibus suis Willielmo Domino Cobham Gardiano sive Custodi quinque portuum suorum ac Henrico Domino Hunsdon salutem Cum nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitat nostram Westmonasterii duodecimo die Januarii Anno regni nostri Quinto inchoari teneri ordinaverimus à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent continuat fuerat usque decimum diem Aprilis tunc prox sequen ac post diversas Prorogationes idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in instantem Quintum diem Octobris Prorogatum ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend Sciatis tamen quod certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven idem Parliamentum nostrum ulterius Prorogand duximus de sidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimum considentes de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos tres vestrum dantes vobis novem octo septem sex quinque quatuor tribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instan die Jovis ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum nomine nostro ad in tricesimum Aprilis prox futur usque praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii Prorogand continuand ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend ideo vobis mandamus quod circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ea in formâ praedicta effect ualiter expleatis Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Magnatibus Comitibus Vice-Comitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgen ac omnibus ahis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum conventur tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod vobis in praenissis faciend pareant obediant intendant prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium Quinto die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Sexto The like Commission bearing date 30. die Aprilis An. 7 Eliz. was directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norsolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Derby Thomas Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntingdon the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham Warden of the Cinque-Ports the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon Authorizing them 17 16 15 14 13 c. or three of them to Prorogue and continue the Parliament ut supra in the other Commissions mutatis mutandis unto the 4 th day of October next coming Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 30 die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri Septimo On which 30 th day of April the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Derby the Earl of Sussex the Earls of Huntingdon Pembroke and Warwick the Bishop of London the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon did meet in the Parliament Chamber and in due and accustomed Form did Adjourn the Parliament unto the 4 th day of October according to the said Commission last specified and caused the said Commission to be publickly read by Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Parliament in hearing of the Commons then also present according to antient Custom in that behalf On the 4 th day of October Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. Septimo The like Commission ut supra bearing date the said 4 th day of October directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Sussex Chief Justice of all Forrests c. on this side Trent Ambrose Earl of Warwick Master of the Ordnance the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester Edward Lord Clinton great Admiral of England William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain Thomas Lord Wentworth and Henry Lord Hunsdon authorizing them 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 and 3. ut antea mutatis mutandis to Prorogue and continue the same Parliament in Septimum diem Februarii prox futurum Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 4 die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Septimo Which Commission was read by the Clerk of the Parliament in the Parliament Chamber in presence of ten of the Commissioners and of the Commons Memorandum quod hodie septimo die Februarii Anno Regni Eliz. Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae sidei defensor c. Octavo in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum suer at convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Nicolaus Bacon Miles Custos magni Sigilli Marchio Winton Thesaurar Dux Norfolc Comes Marescallus Marchio North Comes Sussex Comes Warwick Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Wentworth Dominus de Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent unà cum populi atque Burgen ut vocant satis magnâ frequentiâ praedictus Nicolaus Bacon
Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dictâ Dominâ Reginâ certis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in 30 diem Septembris prox futur These foregoing Prorogations of this present Session of Parliament being thus at large or abstractedly transcribed now follows in Order the Assembling and Meeting of both Houses in their several places on Monday the 30 th day of September to which day it had been last Prorogued so that either House going on where they last left there was no Meeting in the Upper House at all of both Houses nor the Queen came not in Person as she used to do when a new Parliament began nor hath it ever been used in latter times upon a meer Prorogation but yet on Wednesday the second day of October following by reason of the Choice of a new Speaker in the House of Commons which was occasioned by the Death of the former the Queens Majesty came in her accustomed Royalty as at the beginning of a Parliament is usual and there admitted of their new Speaker presented unto her whom they had Chosen but the day before by vertue of her Majesties Commission all which in due Form and Order follows On Monday the 30. day of September to which day this present Session of Parliament had been last Prorogued there Assembled in the Upper House according to the usual form and course as also the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons did in their own proper place Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England the Lord Archbishop of York the Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Marquess of Northampton with divers Earls Viscounts Bishops and Barons the particular setting down of whose names is purposely omitted here although it were the first day of their Assembling together because they are at large set down on the second day of October following being Wednesday when by reason of her Majesties coming in Person to the Upper House the presence of the Lords was somewhat greater than upon this instant Monday Hodiè retornatum fuit Breve quo Edwardus Dominus Stafford ad praesens Parliament summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae locum salvo semper jure superioris sedentis Consimile pro Henrico Domino Paget Consimile pro Rogero Domino North. Consimile pro Roberto Comite Leicestriae Consimile pro Henrico Comite Westmorl This day Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Cecill Knight her Highness Principal Secretary and Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Highness Dutchy of Lancaster four Chief Members of the House of Commons and divers others of that Assembly to the number of twenty persons being sent up to the Lords from that House upon some urgent and weighty occasions desired to be admitted into the Upper House there to make known to their Lordships somewhat wherein they should require their advice and need their assistance upon which being admitted the said M r Comptroller assisted with the Personages and Company aforesaid did in comely order and discreet modesty make manifest and known unto the said Lords that Thomas Williams Esquire their late Speà ker in the last Session of this Parliament in the fifth Year of the Queens Majesty that now is was bereft from them by Death which had been openly and manifestly made known and testified unto them for remedy of which defection they humbly prayed their Lordships advice after which the Lord Keeper first requiring the said Personages a while to withdraw themselves and then commending the Order of the matter to the Lords sitting in consultation for the same it was by them all upon considerate advice therein had thought fit to signifie unto the said Commons by the Personages aforesaid that they thought it expedient and good the said Lord Keeper the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke his Grace of Norfolk and the Lord Marquess of Northampton with the four forecited Personages of the said House of Commons being also of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council should in the name of both of the Assemblies with all humbleness and due celerity make intimation of their said Estate and the Petition thereupon depending unto her said Highness to which advice the said House of Commons upon knowledge had of the same wholly assented Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis primum Octobris On Tuesday the first day of October the Bill for the making void of fraudulent Gifts and Alienations was read primâ vice The Queen having been moved as it seemeth the day past about the Death of the former Speaker and the Choice of a new one in the House of Commons by those eight Right Honourable Personages who were then and there named to move her Highness in it did give Order that this present Tuesday both the Lords and Commons should Assemble and meet together in the Parliament Chamber there to receive her Majesties Answer Where being Assembled the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Highness under the great Seal of England which was directed unto him only the tenor whereof is set down at large in the Journal of the House of Commons de An. isto 8 Regin Eliz. to which House it properly belonged viz. That in respect Thomas Williams Esq the former Speaker was dead therefore the Lord Keeper was for her Majesty and in her Name to will and Command the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons to resort unto their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one able and sufficient person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come And after they should have made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names should signifie the same unto her Majesty and thereupon her Highness would further signifie her pleasure unto them what day and time they should present him so Elected before her as it had been used formerly in like Cases to be done There was this day no other Bill or other business agitated in the Upper House for immediately upon the reading of the last above-mentioned Commission the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the said House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque diem Mercurii secundum diem Octobris On Wednesday the second day of October it seemeth there was no meeting of the Lords nor any thing done in the Forenoon neither is any mention made in the foregoing continuance of this Parliament by the Lord Keeper to what Hour of this Wednesday it was continued
which is usual in other continuations of it But the reason why they met not till the Afternoon seemeth to be because then the Queens Majesty her self came thither to whom Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor having been Chosen Speaker for the House of Commons the day past was presented and admitted by her in manner and form as followeth About three of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Wednesday the second day of October the Queens Majesty took her Barge and Landed on the back-side of the Parliament-Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword the Lady Strainge her Trayn with the Lords in their daily Apparel and the Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament Robes and took their places in manner and form following In which it is to be noted that no part of this days passages already set down is found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is either transcribed out of a certain Anonymous memorial I had by me in which the presentment of the Speaker this day is somewhat exactly set down or was supplied by my self upon the comparing of several things together Now follow the Names of the Lords and others as aforesaid First on the Form on the North-side together with the Upper Form at the nether end sate the Bishops as followeth Younge Archbishop of York Grindall Bishop of London Pilkington Bishop of Durham Sands Bishop of Winchester Birkley Bishop of Bath and Wells Bett. Bishop of Carlisle Barlow Bishop of Chichester Alleo Bishop of Exeter Gest. Bishop of Rochester Skamler Bishop of Peterburgh Horne Bishop of Worcester Bullingham Bishop of Lincoln Bentam Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Denham Bishop of Chester Scorie Bishop of Hereford Davies Bishop of S t Davids Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester Nota That these names with those that follow being transcribed in a different manner from all others in the residue of the Journals of the Queens time were so found with the Names of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal added to them in that before-mentioned Anonymous memorial of this present Wednesdays passages being the second day of October and were therefore transcribed out of it as is aforesaid rather than out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House although the Series of them that were present set down there did serve well to rectifie those foregoing and these also that next ensue At the foremost Form on the South-side sate these Peers viz. William Paulet Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshall of England William Parre Marquess of Northampton Thomas Peircie Earl of Northumberland Charles Nevill Earl of Westmorland George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury William Sommerset alias Plantagenet Earl of Worcester Thomas Ratcliff Earl of Sussex Henry Haistings Earl of Huntingdon Edward Seymor Earl of Hartford Robert Sutton alias Dudley Earl of Leicester and Master of the Horse Anthony Brown Viscount Mountague Nota That Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford Lord Great Chamberlain of England Edward Mannors Earl of Rutland William Bowrchier Earl of Bath and Henry Wriotheisly Earl of South-hampton were at this time under Age and in Ward to the Queen and therefore they were not admitted to take their places in the Uppermost House but if they were present did either stand besides the upper part of the Rail at the higher end of the said House or were admitted to kneel at the upper end of the same House near the Chair of State at this time and upon like solemn days for no Peer is admitted to have his free Voice or sit as a Member of that Great Council untill he have accomplished his full Age unless by the special Grace of the Prince At the Form at their back and the nether Form at the nether end sate these Peers Fynes Lord Clinton as Lord Admiral sate first amongst the Barons Howard Lord Effingham as Lord Chamberlain of her Majesties Houshold sate second Nevill Lord of Burgaveny sate in his due place of preheminence and so the rest that follow unless such as were misplaced by the Clerks error which is too frequent Zouch Lord Zouch Standley Lord Strange Birkley Lord Birkley Parker Lord Morley Brooke Lord Cobham Stafford Lord Stafford Gray Lord Gray of Wilton Sutton Lord Dudley Lumley Lord Lumley Blunt Lord Mountjoy Darcy Lord Darcy of Mevill Standley Lord Mounteagle Sands Lord Sands Vaux Lord Vaux Windsor Lord Windsor Wentworth Lord Wentworth Burrough Lord Borough Mordant Lord Mordant Cromwell Lord Cromwell Evers Lord Evers Willoughby Lord Willoughby Sheffeild Lord Sheffeild Paget Lord Paget Darcy de Chiche Dominus Darcy North Lord North of Carthelige Bridges Lord Shandois Haistings Lord Haistings of Loughborough Carey Lord Carey of Hunsdon S t John Lord S t John of Bletsoe Nota That Dutchet Lord Audley and the Lord Dacres of the North were under Age. All which Peers abovesaid had their Mantles Hood and Circots furred with Miniver their Arms put on the right side and the Duke of Norfolk had Bars of Miniver the Marquess of Winchester and Northampton had three Bars of Miniver the Earls likewise the Viscounts two and the Barons two Item On the upper Sack of Wooll sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail On the Woolsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the Queens two Chief Justices M r Corbet Weston and Southcote Justices of both Benches on the Woolsack on the Southside sate Sir William Cecill the Queens Principal Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Sanders Chief Baron Baron Whiddon ..... Carus the Queens Serjeant ..... Gerrard the Queens Attorney and on the nether Sack sate M r Vaughan and Yale Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and M r Peile his Joint Patentee And behind them kneeled Smith Clerk of the Council and Jones Clerk of the Signet Permiter and Dister Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and after stood on her right hand the Duke of Norfolk carrying his Marshals Rod and on her left hand the Earl of Northumberland with the Sword the Heralds also and Serjeants at Arms being before her her Majesties Mantle was born up on either side from her Shoulders by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord of Hunsdon who also stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she stood up her Train was born by the Lady Strange assisted by Sir Francis Knolles Vice-Chamberlain at the left hand of the Queen and on the South-side kneeled the Ladies and at the Rail at the Queens back on the right hand stood the Lord Keeper and on the left hand the Lord Treasurer Then the Queen
Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Saunders Knight Lord Chief Baron Richard Weston one of the Justices of Welsh one of the Justices of D r Lewis D r Yale and D r Vaughan Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord North. Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles The Archbishop of York the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Howard of Esfingham Chamberlain of the Queen the Lord Windsor the Lord Hastings of Loughborough and the Lord Carie of Hùnsdon Hodiè retornatum breve quo Edwardus Comes Oxon. praesenti huic Parliamento summonitus fuit qui admissus fuit ad suum in sedendo praeheminentiae locum salvo cuique jure suo The like Writs returned for Henry Earl of Pembroke and William Lord Sands Hodiè retornatum fuit breve quo Richardus Episcopus Carliolen praesenti buic Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus fuit ad suum in sedendo praeheminentiae locum salvo jure alieno On Wednesday the 4 th day of April in the Afternoon but at or about what hour appeareth not although it may probably be guessed that it was about three of the Clock her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in the Upper House whose names are marked to have been present this day in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House being as followeth Regina Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Winton Episcopus Hereforden Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Lincolnien Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Norwicen Episcopus Carliolen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Assaven Episcopus Glocestren Episcopus Bangoren Episcopus Landaven Nicolaus Bacon Miles Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Marchio Northampton Comes Arundell Comes Oxon. Comes Wigorn. Comes Sussex Comes Southampton Comes Bedford Comes Pembroke Comes Leicester Vice-Comes Hereford Vice-Comes Mountague Which are all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal sitting on the two Upper Forms noted to be present this day Nota That the Spiritual Lords are always thus placed in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House on the dexter side not in respect of their precedency but as it should seem because the Archbishop of Canterbury the chief of them is the first Peer of England and so the residue of the Clergy are placed next after him in respect of their Ecclesiastical Dignities The next that follow are the Barons who are placed in the said Journal-Book in respect of their several places and precedencies as followeth Barones Dominus Clinton Admirallus Angliae Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Burgavenny Dominus Strainge Dominus Dacres de Souch Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Gray de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Darcie Dominus Mountegle Dominus Vauxes Dominus Windesor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Burgh Dominus Crumwell Dominus Evers Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby Dominus Paget Dominus Darcie de Chich. Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus Haistings de Loughborough Dominus Hunsdon Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Buckhurst Dominus De la Ware Her Majesty and the Lords being thus set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired to the Upper House with Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law their lately Elected Speaker whose presentation to her Majesty and allowance by her being not mentioned in the Original Journal-Book of the said House are therefore wholly transcribed out of that before-cited Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal the same also in effect being contained in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 10. a. The said Speaker being led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House by two of the most Honourable Personages of the House of Commons did there after three Reverences made humbly beseech her Majesty according to the usual course that albeit he could not obtain of the Commons who had Elected him to be their Speaker for such causes as he had alledged to be disbunthened of that place that so some other more fit and able might be chosen that yet her Highness would vouchsafe to have consideration of the greatness of the Service and therefore to require them eftsoons to return to the House and to make a new Choice To which his Petition the Lord Keeper by her Majesties Commandment Answered and said That as well for that her Highness had understood of him as for that the Commons had chosen him his Request could not be granted Whereupon the said Speaker being allowed he desired to be heard to say somewhat concerning the orderly Government of a Common-Weal which to be duly done he said there were three things requisite Religion Authority and Laws By Religion he said we do not only know God aright but also how to Obey the King or Queen whom God shall assign to Reign over us and that not in Temporal Causes but in Spiritual or Ecclesiastical in which wholly her Majesties Power is absolute And leaving all proofs of Divinity to the Bishops and Fathers as he said he would he prov'd the same by the practice of Princes within this Realm and first made remembrance of Lucius the first Christian King who having written to Elut herius the Pope 1300. Years past for the Roman Laws he was Answered that he had the Holy Scriptures out of the which he might draw to himself and for his Subjects Laws by his own good discretion for that he was the Vicar of Christ over the People of Brittain The Conqueror he said in the Erection of Battell-Abby granted that the Church should be free from all Episcopal Jurisdiction Henry the Third gave to Ranulph Bishop of London the Archbishoprick of Canterbury by these words Rex c. Sciatis quod dedimus Dilect nostro Ranulpho Archiepiscop Cantuarien quem instituimus Anulo Baculo The Ring he said was the sign of perfection The Staff the sign of Pastoral Rule which he could not do if these Kings had not had and used the Ecclesiastical Powers In the Reports of the Law we find that an Excommunication of a certain person came from the Pope under his Leaden Bull and was shewed in abatement of an Action brought at the Common Law which besides that it was of no force the King and Judges were of Mind that he who brought it had deserved Death so to presume on any Foreign Authority which Authority being now by Gods Grace and her Highness means abolished and the freedom of Consciences and the truth
without a Head thus do therefore it resteth that you according to your antient Order of your selves chuse some wise and discreet man who after he hath been by you chosen and presented and that presentation by the Queens Majesty allowed shall then be your Speaker and Day is given c. This Speech being thus transcribed out of the Copy I had of it as is aforesaid now follow the names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House which the Clerk of the same readeth in French as soon as the Lord Keepers Speech is ended and which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir William Cordell Knight Master of the Rolls Sir John Widdon Knight one of the Justices of the ----- Sir Richard Read K t one of the Justices of the ----- and D r Huick and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six dayes next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Sanders Knight Lord Chief Baron Richard Weston one of the Justices of the ----- John Southcott one of the Justices of the ----- Doctor Lewis Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Oxford the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Windsor and the Lord North. All these or four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Islands beyond the Seas The Archbishop of York the Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral of England the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Burleigh Principal Secretary the Lord Wentworth the Lord Buckhurst All they or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurer's Chamber Hodiè retornatum est breve Dom. Reginae quo Henricus Compton de Compton Chevalier praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus est qui praesens admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo cuique jure suo And two other Writs were returned in like manner by which Henry Cheyney of Toddington and Henry Lord Norris of Ricott were Summoned to be present this Parliament who were accordingly admitted to their due places saving to all others their right Nota That there is no entrance in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of any Continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the said House There were also divers Proxies returned on this present Thursday being the 8 th day of May but whether before or after the Continuance of the Parliament appeareth not in which two Spiritual Lords Constituted each of them two Proctors apiece according to the usual and frequent manner and are therefore omitted but four other Bishops nominating either three Proctors apiece or but one which is somewhat extraordinary therefore they are here inserted Die 8 o Maij introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Landaven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Nicolaum Wigorn. Richardum Meneven Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Jacobi Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edmundum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Johannis Herefordensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Matthaeum Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum Edwin London Nicolaum Wigorn. Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Thomae Assavensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Robertum Wintonien Nicolaum Wigorn. ac Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Now although it be most usual for the Spiritual Lords to name two Proctors yet here four of six varied from it three of them exceeding that number and the other nominating but one It is likewise as usual for the Temporal Lords to Constitute but one Proctor and it is an Action worthy observation where they nominate more for in this very Parliament of fifteen Temporal Lords that sent Proxies but one nominated two Proctors which see afterwards on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May following and all the rest Constituted but one Proctor apiece which being trivial and ordinary are omitted Nota Also that the Earl of Leicester had this Parliament eight Proxies sent unto him viz. from George Earl of Shrewsbury Edward Earl of Darby Henry Lord Scroop Edward Lord Dudley Anthony Viscount Mountacute Gregory Lord Dacres William Lord Sands and Edward Earl of Lincoln all which seem to have been returned on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May in such order as they are here set down Nota That the Lord Burleigh also Principal Secretary to her Majesty had six Proxies sent unto him this Parliament viz. from John Marquess of Winchester Henry Lord Hunsdon Thomas Lord Buckhurst John Lord Latimer Edward Earl of Lincoln who made also the Earl of Leicester his joint Proctor with him and Robert Lord Rich. These also are set down in the Journal-Book to have been returned the 12 th day of May in such order as they are here set down but now by a late Order made in the Upper House an 2 do Caroli Regis no Lord is capable of above two Proxies Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it doth not appear at all whether her Majesty or any of the Lords were present on Saturday following being the tenth day of this instant May it appearing plainly that neither House sate on Friday the 9 th day of the same nor what was done thereon and therefore the Passages of the same are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Saturday the 10 th day of May in the Afternoon her Majesty being come to the Upper House with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being there also set and the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq their Speaker Elect who was led up unto the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House by two of the most Eminent Personages of the Commons and presented to her Majesty whom she allowed and Confirmed
in the said place of Prolocutor or Speaker notwithstanding his Excuse made and disabling himself according to the usual form After which the said Speaker being now fully and absolutely invested in his said place did after his humble thanks rendred to her Majesty in the Conclusion of his Speech make certain Petitions of course in the behalf of himself and the House of Commons viz. for the free access to her Majesty freedom of Speech and freedom from Arrests and Suits during the Continuance of the Parliament and for Pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly mistake or offend All which being graciously allowed by her Majesty she arose and departed Nota That there is no entrance in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of the Continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq now Clerk of the same For it is plain the Lords did sit again on Monday following in the Forenoon to some hour of which it is most likely it was continued and the passages whereof as also of all the other days on which the said House sate do now in order follow out of the aforesaid Original Journal-Book of the same May the 11 th Sunday On Monday the 12 th of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued as is most likely the presence of the Lords is first noted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House which were as followeth their Names only being altered into English The Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of York Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England The Marquess of Winchester Comites The Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England The Earl of Kent The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Rutland The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Pembroke The Earl of Hartford The Earl of Leicester The Earl of Essex Viscount Bindon Episcopi The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of S t Davids The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Bishop of Peterborough The Bishop of Norwich The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Bangor The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Rochester Barones The Lord Howard of Effingham Chamberlain to the Queen The Lord Burleigh Secretary to the Queen The Lord Abergaveny The Lord Strange The Lord Dacres The Lord Stafford The Lord Grey of Wilton The Lord Mountjoy The Lord Darcy The Lord Mounteagle The Lord Sands The Lord Windsor The Lord Wentworth The Lord Burrough The Lord S t John of Basing The Lord Cromwell The Lord Evers The Lord Wharton The Lord Willoughby of Parham The Lord Pagett The Lord Darcy of Chich. The Lord North. The Lord Chandois The Lord S t John of Bletsoe The Lord Buckhurst The Lord De la Ware The Lord Compton The Lord Cheyney The Lord Norris This day also by Order and Consent of the whole House were appointed to confer with such number of the House of Commons as should please the said House to appoint for the more speedy and better direction of them in the great matter touching the Queen of Scots these Lords undernamed viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of York The Earl of Oxford The Earl of Kent The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Leicester The Earl of Essex The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Rochester The Lord Chamberlain The Lord Burleigh The Lord Grey The Lord Windsor The Lord Wentworth The Lord North and the Lord Chandois Who were appointed to meet in the Star-Chamber at eight of the Clock in the Morning the next day Vide on Wednesday May the 28 th ensuing The Bill for preservation of Wood and Timber was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Cantuar. Comiti Lincoln Comiti Sussex Comiti Leicester Episcopo Elien Episcopo Wigorn. Episcopo Meneven Domino Howard Domino Camerario Domino Burleigh Domino Windsor Domino Wentworth Domino Pagett Domino Chandois Domino Buckhurst Justiciario Southcott Justic. Weston The Bill for punishment of Vagabonds and for relief of the poor was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Cantuar. Comiti Huntington Comiti Rutland Comiti Pembroke Comiti Hertford Episcopo London Episcopo Wigorn. Episcopo Meneven Episcopo Bangor Domino Grey Domino S t John Domino Evers Domino S t John de Bletsoe Justiciario Harper Christophero Wray Servienti ad Legem Nota That here a Bill is not only committed upon the first reading but a Judge who is but a meer Assistant unto the Upper House and a Serjeant who is but a meen Attendant thereon are made joint Committees with the Lords as in the Bill foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hurâ Octavâ This day also was brought in the Proxy of Edward Earl of Lincoln into the Upper House and as it seemeth the Proxies of fourteen other Temporal Lords viz. One Marquess two Earls one Viscount and ten Barons But there is no mention made in the Original Journal-Book whether they were returned before or after the Continuance of the Parliament according to the usual form as aforesaid which was in the Afternoon of this present Monday where each Temporal Lord nominateth one Proctor and therefore were admitted but the Earl of Lincoln nominating two Proctors which is somewhat extraordinary is transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book as followeth 12 th Maij introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Edwardi Comitis Lincoln in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Robertum Comitem Leicester Willielmum Dominum Burleigh On Tuesday the 13 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill against corrupt Presentations was read Primâ vice Nota Because the daily continuing of the Parliament in these words Dominus Custos magni Sigilli c. is but matter of course it is afterwards through the whole Journal-Book omitted unless something extraordinary fall out either in respect of the person time or manner of continuing of it On Wednesday the 14 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued on the day next foregoing divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled but nothing was done save only the Continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper to the day next following at eight of the Clock On Thursday the 15 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been yesterday continued the Bill for the punishment of Vagabonds and relief of the Poor was read secunda vice but there is no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees of which doubtless there can be no other reason seeing it was not sent up
Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo primo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo septimo Nota That by these Letters Patents the Parliament was adjourned forty four days viz. from Monday the 21 th day of December unto Thursday the 4 th day of February ensuing From which as also from many other like Precedents it appeareth that it is and always hath been the power of the Prince not only to summon dissolve and prorogue but also to adjourn his Parliament at his pleasure yet this must be done either by himself in person or by matter of Record yet it is also in the power of either House when they shall think it expedient to adjourn it self The meeting of the two Houses at the end of this foresaid Adjournment was in such manner as it useth to be at the end of a Prorogation without all Solemnity and Pomp yet with this difference At the end of every Prorogation a new Session beginneth though the same Parliament continueth but at the end of an Adjournment there beginneth neither new Session nor new Parliament but be the Adjournment for one day or for many the business is so entred upon at the next meeting as it was left and as it stood at the time of the Adjournment Yet because the Adjournment was for so many days I have caused all the Names of the Lords who were present this Thursday following being the 4 th day of February to be transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book which course though it be usually observed in all these Journals at the beginning only of a new Parliament or at least of a new Session yet it is in one respect somewhat necessary at the beginning of this new meeting after the Adjournment because the presence of the Lords on this said ensuing Thursday though it appears not that any new Proxies were returned which is usual after a long Adjournment as well as after a Prorogation differeth much from that former number of the Lords noted to have been present on Tuesday the 26 th day of November foregoing as may appear by this which followeth On Thursday the 4 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Monday the 21 th day of December last past by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal adjourned the Lords and Commons repaired each of them without all manner of Pomp or Solemnity to their several Houses and there fell upon such ordinary business as had been left unperfected at their last Adjournment The Names of the Lords who were this day present in the Upper House being as followeth out of the Original Journal-Book Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Archiepiscopus Eboracen Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Marchio Winton Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Comes Leicester Magnus Seneschallus Comes Kantiae Comes Sussex Vice-Comes Mountague Episcopi Episcopus Winton Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Oxon. Episcopus Meneven Barones Dominus Zouch Dominus Willoughbie Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Darcy de Chiche Dominus North. Dominus Hunsdon Dominus de la Ware Dominus Compton Dominus Norris This day also three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents granted to the Queens Colledge in Oxford was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by two Serjeants at Law And the last being the Bill for the Savoy was read secunda vice commissa Archiepiscopis Cantuar Eboracen Dominis Thesaurario Seneschallo Comitibus Kantiae Bedford Episcopis London Winton Dominis North Hunsdon Baroni Shute Servienti Gawdy On Saturday the 6 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued returnatum fuit breve quo Episcopus Wigorn. praesenti Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo jure alieno The Bill also against Jesuits Seminary Priests and other such like disobedient persons was read prima vice commissa Archrepiscopo Cantuar. Domino Thesaurario Domino Senesebatio Comiti Kantiae Comiti Bedford Episcopo London Episcopo Winton Episcopo Sarisburien Domino Camerario Domino Cobham Domino North Domino Hunsdon Domino Primario Justiciario Baroni Shute On Monday the 8 th day of February the Bill for the paving of Lewes was read secunda vice commissa On Tuesday the 9 th day of February Returnatum suit breve quo Thomas Dominus Darcy de Chiche praesenti Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo jure alieno Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses The matter which had been debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de anno 23 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1580. between M r Oughtred and the Lord Marquess of Winchester concerning certain accompts was again this Tuesday Morning brought into the Upper House before the Lords who for the more speedy ending of the same committed it with the consent of the parties unto the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Hartford Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley and the Lord North. And it is Ordered that the said Lords should hear and end the matter between the Parties if they could or otherwise to make report thereof to the whole House and appointed the Lord Chief Justice of England Justice Windham and Serjeant Gawdy to attend the Lords Vide plus concerning this matter on Thursday the 4 th day of March ensuing Nota That here the Judges and the Queens Council are not nominated as joint Committees with the Lords but only appointed to attend upon them which is very rare in any Parliaments of the Queens time until in Anno 39 43 Reginae ejusdem On Wednesday the 10 th day of February four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses was read prima vice On Thursday the 11 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better foundation and relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge in the City of Canterbury was read prima vice Five Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for paving Newark upon Trent in the County of Nottingham Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox
to allow the Clerk of the Parliament reads in French these words following La Royne s'advisera Nota That all the Acts which passed this Parliament were in number forty nine whereof thirty were publick and nineteen private ut vide in the Statute-Book at large printed Anno Domini 1585. Nota also That the express and direct manner of her Majesties giving her Royal assent to such Acts as passed at this Parliament as is before set down is not so entred in the Original Journal-Book of the same but is supplied out of that de Anno 39 Reginae Eliz. where it is at large inserted according to which Precedent the form being always the same the rest of the Journals of her Majesties Regin as well as this present Journal are enlarged and perfected To the further amplifying of which also here doth now in the next place ensue a most pious and gracious Speech of her Majesty's uttered by her upon the conclusion of this Parliament which being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is therefore supplied out of a Copy thereof I had by me written by John Stow the Chronicler with his own hand being verbatim as followeth MY Lords and ye of the Lower House my silence must not injure the Owner so much as to suppose a Substitute sufficient to render you the thanks that my heart yieldeth you not so much for the safe keeping of my life for which your care appears so manifest as for the neglecting your private future peril not regarding other way than my present State No Prince herein I confess can be surer tied or faster bound than I am with the link of your good will and can for that but yield a heart and a head to seek for ever all your best yet one matter toucheth me so near as I may not overskip Religion the ground on which all other matters ought to take root and being corrupted may marr all the tree And that there be some fault-finders with the Order of the Clergy which so may make a slander to my self and the Church whose over-Ruler God hath made me whose negligence cannot be excused if any Schisms or Errours heretical were suffered Thus much I must say that some faults and negligences may grow and be as in all other great Charges it happeneth and what vocation without All which if you my Lords of the Clergy do not amend I mean to depose you Look ye therefore well to your Charges This may be amended without heedless or open exclamations I am supposed to have many studies but most Philosophical I must yield this to be true that I suppose few that be no Professors have read more And I need not tell you that I am so simple that I understand not nor so forgetful that I remember not and yet amidst my many Volumes I hope Gods Book hath not been my seldomest Lectures in which we find that which by reason for my part we ought to believe that seeing so great wickedness and greeves in the World in which we live but as way-faring Pilgrims we must suppose that God would never have made us but for a better place and of more comfort than we find here I know no Creature that breatheth whose life standeth hourly in more peril for it than mine own who entred not into my state without sight of manifold dangers of life and Crown as one that had the mightiest and greatest to wrestle with Then it followeth that I regarded it so much as I left my life behind my care and so you see that you wrong me too much if any such there be as doubt my coldness in that behalf for if I were not perswaded that mine were the true way of Gods will God forbid that I should live to prescribe it to you Take you heed lest Ecclesiastes say not too true They that fear the hoary frost the snow shall fall upon them I see many over-bold with God Almighty making too many subtle scannings of his blessed will as Lawyers do with humane Testaments The presumption is so great as I may not suffer it yet mind I not hereby to animate Romanists which what Adversaries they be to mine Estate is sufficiently known nor tolerate new-fangleness I mean to guide them both by Gods holy true Rule In both parts be perils and of the latter I must pronounce them dangerous to a Kingly Rule to have every man according to his own censure to make a doom of the validity and privity of his Princes Government with a common veil and cover of Gods Word whose followers must not be judged but by private mens exposition God defend you from such a Ruler that so evil will guide you Now I conclude that your love and care neither is nor shall be bestowed upon a careless Prince but such as but for your good will passeth as little for this World as who careth least with thanks for your free Subsidy a manifest shew of the abundance of your good wills the which I assure you but to be imployed to your weal I could be better pleased to return than receive This Speech of her Majesty being thus transcribed out of the foresaid Copy written by John Stow the Chronicler as is already mentioned now followeth the Prorogation of the Parliament which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following Domina ipsa Regina prorogavit praesens Parliamentum usque in vicesimum diem Maii proximum Upon which said 20 th day of May the Parliament was again prorogued and so continued by five other several Prorogations unto Wednesday the 14 th day of September in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. upon which said 14 th day of September it was at last dissolved The manner of which Dissolution and the substance of all the foresaid Prorogations do next ensue Memorandum quòd vicesimo die Maii Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. 27 o convenêre Proceres tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subscribuntur Johannes Archiepisiopus Cantuar. Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Angliae Henricus Comes Darby Johannes Episiopus London Edwardus Dominus Zouch Qui cùm convenissent Dominus Cancellarius Literas Regias commissarias Anthonio Mason Clerico Parliamenti publicè legendas in manus tradidit The tenor whereof was a Commission unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Chancellor the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Oxford Lord great Chamberlain of England George Earl of Shrewsbury Earl Marshal of England and six other Earls also to the Earl of Warwick Master of the Ordnance four other Earls Charissimóque Consanguineo suo Anthonio Vicecomiti Mountague John Bishop of London John Bishop of Sarum John Bishop of Rechester Charles Lord Howard Lord Chamberlain of her Majesties House and eight other Barons giving to them or any three or more of them 〈◊〉 potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instante die Jovis ad praesens Parliamentum
Prorogand Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestruin ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quòd ad dictum quartum diem Februarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi Concilio dicti regni nostri favente Domino contigerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium 15. die Octobris Anno Regni nostri 30. Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrard On Tuesday the 4 th day of February in the 31. year of her Majesties Reign to which day the Parliament had been last Prorogued upon Tuesday the 12 th day of November foregoing and accordingly now held The Queens Majesty was personally present accompanied by the Lord Chancellor and divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal but the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House doth not at all mention the presence of any Lords which happened through the great negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk thereof yet it may be collected February 8. The Queen being set under her Cloth of State and the Lords placed in their Parliamentary Robes according to their several ranks and orders the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired to the said Upper House and as many of them as conveniently could being let in stood before the Rail or Bar at the nether end thereof Then Sir Christoper Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England in a Speech which he used did at large declare the Queens gracious disposition to peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyed by her government and remembred her great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas videlicet in Anno 30 Reign Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed the Cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise Persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth by the Counsel of man as is possible be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Money may be in readiness and an Army prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellors Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of Kings Bench D r Aubrey and D r Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Clerk and D r Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries beyond the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst As soon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber and that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Queen continued the Parliament unto a day to come which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' hora secunda post Meridiem On Wednesday the 5 th day of this instant February although the Upper House sate not yet was one extraordinary Proxy returned or brought in unto the Clerk of the said House as there had formerly been another of a like nature returned on Monday the third day of the said Month foregoing which because it was returned before the Parliament it self began and is entred together with that before mentioned in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the said House it shall not be much amiss to set them down both together in this place in such manner and form as they are entred in the said Journal-Book viz. Vacat 3. die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Assaphen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar ' Johannem Episcopum Roffen Hugonem Episcopum Bangoren ' Nota That though the word vacat be here placed in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Margent of this Proxy in such manner and sort as this is transcribed yet there doth not appear any reason thereof for as it may be collected by the presence of the Lords set down on Saturday the 8 th day of this instant February following neither the said Bishop of S t Asaph was present himself after the said Proxy sent nor all nor any of his Proctors absent nor himself dead which are only causes of a Vacat 5 to Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Carliolen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constitiuit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Nota That these Two Proxies are therefore called unusual and extraordinary because these two Bishops did constitute the first of them three Proctors and the last of them but one whereas for the most part the Spiritual Lords do nominate two and the Temporal Lords but one which may be collected in part out of the very Returns of this Parliament for of five Spiritual Lords that sent their Proxies three constituted two
Petition by her Commandment and direction it was sent unto the Lords into the Upper House by Sir Robert Cecill then her Majesties Secretary and endorsed on the back side thus in his own hand Her Majesty hath commanded me to signifie unto your Lordships that upon the humble Suit of the Lord de la Ware she is pleased this Petition be considered and determined in the House Robert Cecill Which Petition being this 5 th day of November sent unto the House was there read as followeth To the Queens most Excellent Majesty BEseecheth your most Excellent Majesty your most humble Subject Thomas le Ware K r That whereas Thomas sometimes Lord Le Ware Ancestor and great Grandfather of your said Subject whose Heir Male he is That is to say your Subject is Son and Heir to William who was Son and Heir to George who was Brother and Heir to Thomas who was Son and Heir to the said Thomas your Subject's great Grandfather in the third year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth your Noble Father by Writ of Summons of Parliament of the said King Henry the Eighth came to the Parliament then holden at Westminster in the said third year and so continually the said Thomas the great Grandfather and his Heirs Males Ancestors of your Suppliant in many other Parliaments holden as well in the time of the said King Henry the Eighth as in the time of your Noble Brother King Edward the Sixth and in the time of your Dear Sister Queen Mary have come in their proper persons by their Writs and Commandment until the Parliament holden at Westminster in the first and second years of King Philip and Queen Mary which was after the Death of the said Thomas your Suppliants great Grandfather and of Thomas his Son that had not any Issue of his Body and of the said George who died in the Life of his Brother Thomas the said William Father of your Suppliant being the Son and Heir of the said George and Heir Male to his said great Grandfather to which Parliament he was not summoned for that he stood by Act of Parliament holden before at Westminster in the third year of the said Edward the Sixth disabled to claim and enjoy the dignity of the Seigniory of the Lord La Ware during his Life and the said William being now dead your said Suppliant is come to this present Parliament in his proper person by your Writ and Commandment May it please your most gracious Majesty to consider the Premisles and thereupon to Grant and Ordain by advice of your most wise Council in this present Parliament Assembled That your said Suppliant may have his place in this present Parliament in your presence as his Ancestors Lords La Ware have had in the said Parliament before this time This Petition being read it was referr'd to these Committees following viz. The Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winton the Lord Zouch the Lord Stafford the Lord Windsor the Lord Shefsield the Lord North the Lord S t John of Bletso the Lord Buckhurst Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perriam Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke the Queens Attorney who were appointed to meet at the Council-Chamber in Whitehall on Sunday the 6 th day of November at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Where what they did and what Judgment the Lords and the whole House gave in this Case followeth afterwards on Thursday the 10 th of this instant November and on Monday the 14 th day of the same On Monday the 7 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Baron Evans and M r Attorney General to attend the Lords appointed to meet at the Little Council-Chamber at Whitehall to Morrow being the 8 th day of November at four of the Clock in the Afternoon See more of this on Monday the 14 th of November following Nota That here upon the Commitment of an ordinary Bill the Judges are said to be appointed to attend the Committee of the Lords and are not nominated as Joint-Committees with them which is usually to be seen in every former Parliament almost of her Majesties Reign and therefore it should seem that either the Lords of the Upper House themselves did alter and abolish the said ancient Priviledges which the Judges had of being constituted Joint-Committees with them in respect that they were no Members of but only Assistants unto the said Upper House or else that Thomas Smith Esquire now Clerk of the said House was more careful and diligent in the distinct and exact setting down that the said Judges were not nominated as Joint-Committees but only to attend such Lords Committees as were appointed by the said House which Anthony Mason Esquire his Predecessor in the said place had for the most part neglected to distinguish And yet the said M r Mason may in some sort be justly excused of any universal or continual carelessness in this kind in respect that where the Lords Committees were appointed either to treat with the Committees of the House of Commons or by themselves about any matter of weight there the Judges and her Majesties Learned Councel are always set down as appointed to attend the said Lords Committees But when an ordinary Bill only was committed upon the second reading and especially if it concerned matter of Law there the Judges for the most part and sometimes also the Queens Learned Councel were nominated as Joint-Committees with them But whatsoever the usage hath been in former times most certain it is that not only in this present Parliament but in all that have been since unto this present year 1629. the said Judges being Assistants unto and the King 's Learned Councel being Attendants upon the said Upper House have never been nominated as Joint-Committees with their Lordships but have always been appointed to attend them And which may make it seem the more strange Whereas the Judges have liberty in the said Upper House it self upon leave given them by the Lord Keeper or the Lord Chancellor for the time being to cover their heads at a Committee they are now always accustomed to sit bare and uncovered which said course finally was constantly observed during all the continuance of this present Parliament as may appear not only by the instance foregoing but by those many other Committees which followed on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant November on
sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and M r D r Carew The Bill for the relief of the poor in times of extream dearth of Corn was read secunda vice and referr'd to these Committees following viz. The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Southampton the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield the Bishop of Hereford the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Bishop of Chester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord De la Ware the Lord Cobham the Lord Mountjoy the Lord Darcy the Lord Windsor the Lord North the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John the Lord Buckhurst The two Chief Justices the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Gaudy M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney General to attend the Lords Vide plus antea November 7 th Monday These Committees to meet at the little Council Chamber at the Court of Whitehall on Saturday next being the 10 th day of this instant December at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read secunda vice and referr'd to the Committees for the former Bill and the same time and place appointed for meeting And also Authority was given to the said Committees to call such of the House of Commons unto them at this meeting as they should find cause to confer withal for the better perfecting of the Bill Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying the Rectory or Parsonage of South Molton according to an Agreement thereof had c. was read secundâ vice Upon which reading it was Ordered that all parties whom this Bill may concern either on the part of M r Hatch or against him shall be heard openly in the House upon Monday next the 12 th day of this instant December by their Councel Learned and all specialties concerning the same to be then produced to the end it may be considered whether it shall be convenient to pass this Bill or no M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney being appointed by the Lords to inform themselves against that time whether any thing be contained in the Bill that may prejudice the poor Knights of Windsor and to make Report thereof accordingly on the part of the said poor Knights Vide December 12 th postea The Bill lastly for the establishing of the Possession of Sir Henry Unton Knight lately deceased and for payment of his Debts was read secunda vice A Motion was made by some of the Lords and approved by the House that there should be respite of some days taken before the third reading for any such Party or Parties as the Bill concerneth and namely any of the Wentworths to come to the House and alledge if they find cause why the Bill should not proceed And the next Tuesday was assigned for this purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Knight Marshal's Man that arrested John York the Lord Archbishops Servant was brought before the Lords this day by the Serjeant at Armes and being found upon his Examination before the Lords to have wilfully offended therein against the priviledge of the House was committed to the Prison of the Fleet there to remain till their Lordships should give direction for his enlargement Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant December following On Friday the 9 th day of December Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for establishing of the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol and for relief of the Orphans and Poor there was read secundâ vice upon the reading whereof some Amendments were thought sit by the House to be added which were presently drawn and agreed upon by the same House which being twice read the Bill with the said Amendments were Ordered to be ingrossed Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Mountjoy may dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as other Tenants in Tail may do a private Statute made 27 Hen. 8. to the contrary notwithstanding was with three other of the said Bills being of no great moment read primâ vice The fifth was the Bill for repairing the Bridges of Newport and Carlioll in the County of Monmouth The sixth was for the establishing the Town Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks which Bill was returned with allowance of the Proviso so added by their Lordships after the same was presented by the House of Commons And the seventh and last was the Bill for the establishment of the new Colledge of the poor at Cobham in the County of Kent which was returned into the House without any Alteration On Saturday the 10 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice of which the first being the Bill for the erecting of Hospitals or abiding and working Houses for the Poor with another Bill of no great consequence which had been formerly sent up from the House of Commons to their Lordships were now with some Amendments sent down again from them to the said Commons by Serjeant Drew and Doctor Stanhop The Bill Entituled An Act against Forestallers Regraters and Engrossers was returned into the House by the Committees who were appointed on Monday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there omitted as a matter of small consequence with some Amendments which were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Mountjoy may dispose of his Lands as other Tenants in Tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do a private Statute made An. 27 H. 8. to the contrary notwithstanding was secunda vice lect Upon the Motion of the Lord Marquess of Winchester It was Ordered that the Cause should be heard openly in the House upon Monday Morning next by the Learned Councel on both sides Vide Decemb. 12. sequen Three Bills also of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the better and safer recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common Pleas and was returned and allowed by the said House of Commons without any Alteration On Monday the 12 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing a Motion and request was
had by the House of Commons and delivered by M r Secretary accompanied with many others for a Conference to be had concerning the Bill intituled An Act concerning Tellors Receivors c. Whereupon the House nominated the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral and divers other Lords both Earls Bishops and Barons as Committees to confer with such a number of the House of Commons as should confer with the Lords touching the said Bill The Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Lord Chief Baron M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney being appointed to attend the Lords and the meeting to be at the great Councel Table at the Court at Whitehal to Morrow being the 13 th day of this instant December at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first concerning Stains Bridge was read tertiâ vice expedit The Councel on both parties viz. for Arthur Hatch on the one part and of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor of the other were admitted to publick hearing in the House And thereupon the Bill of Arthur Hatch was referred to Committees being Peers and Members of the House and the Lord Chief Justice of England and M r Attorney to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 8 th day of this instant December foregoing The Councel on both parts for the Lord Marquess of Minchester on the one part and the Lord Wountjoy of the other were admitted to publick hearing in the House And thereupon no just cause to hinder or stay the proceeding of the Bill appearing the same was commanded to be read the third time and so was expedited Vide touching this business on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing The Committees upon the Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom who were appointed on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as matter of small consequence returned the same to the House without alteration On Tuesday the 13 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts and Legacies was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury and others and M r Justice Gaudie and M r Serjeant Crew to attend their Lordships Which Committees were Ordered to meet at the Earl of Lincolns House in Cannon Row on Thursday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for relief of the poor was read primâ vice Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Forestallers Regraters and Ingrossers was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of some Amendments The Bill giving power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Knight Mary his Wife and Robert Spencer Esquire their Son to alienate certain Mannors and Lands in the County of Dorset and Bedford was read secunda vice And thereupon two Letters from the Lady Spencer to the Lord Chamberlain were read in the House signifying her pleasure and consent to the Bill The Bill for explanation of the Statute made in the 5 th year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers was read secundâ vice And a motion being made in the House for some Amendent of the Bill the Amendment was presently agreed on in the said House On Wednesday the 14 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for explanation of the Statute made in the 5 th year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers was read tertiâ vice and thereupon was sent down to the House of Commons from whence it had been formerly brought up to their Lordships with some Amendments added thereunto by M r Attorney and D r Stanhop The Bill for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller and others This day Order was given for the release of M r Wood out of the prison of the Fleet at whose Suit the Lord Chandois his Servant called Edward Barston was arrested so as he make satisfaction unto the said Barston of such charges as he was at by means of that Arrest Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 26 th day of November foregoing as also on Thursday the first day Saturday the third day and on Monday the 5 th day of this instant December last past The like Order taken for the enlargement of William Cole that arrested John Yorke the Lord Archbishops Servant paying only the Fees of the Fleet. Vide touching this business on Thursday the eighth day of this instant December foregoing Certain Amendments were thought fit by the Committees to be added to the Bill intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggers which Amendments were twice read and upon consideration of the same direction was given to some of the said Committees viz. the Lord North the Lord S t John and the Lord Buckhurst to review the said Amendments for reformation of some defects found therein by the House and the Lord Chief Justice of England appointed to attend them On Thursday the 15 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for grant of three Subsidies and six Fiftenths and Tenths was read prima vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for establishing the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol for relief of the Orphans and Poor there and was returned with allowance of the Amendments Certain Articles were presented in writing by the House of Commons touching their opinions and objections concerning the Bill of Tellors and Receivors which were delivered to M r Attorney to the end he might confer with the Judges upon the same and make Report to the Lords The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward was returned into the House by the Lord Treasurer first of the Committees who said that there were in the Bill certain Points that could not be well reformed whereupon motion was made to the House upon agreement amongst 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
Trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses was returned to the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which were twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso engrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Upon a Motion by the Earl Marshal that the Committees in the Bill against lewd and wandring persons who were appointed Yesterday had not convenient time this Morning to perfect the said Bill according to the Order of the House agreed upon Yesterday their Lordships appointed the said Committees to meet again about the same to Morrow Morning before the House sit The Bill entituled An Act for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committees appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with divers selected persons of the House of Commons this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges and especially to the Lord Chief Justice to draw a new Bill Whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read primâ vice The Bill against carrying of Pelts c. was returned into the House by the Earl Marshal Excuse was made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hereford's absence for want of health The like excuse by the Lord Chandois for the Lord La Ware The Earl Marshal signified unto the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffeild have leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday the 27 th day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas was read secundâ vice but no mention that it was committed The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read secundâ vice Certain Amendments upon this Bill were drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and being allowed by the House were also twice read and thereupon the Bill with the said Amendments was commanded presently to be engrossed The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Viscount Bindon the Lord Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Wharton the Lord Darcie of Chich and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Two Bills lastly had each of them their third reading of which the first being the Bill to reform deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses with some Amendments was returned to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of the said Amendments The Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral took his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Bindon And the Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso On Saturday the 28 th day of January the Bill for the lawful making of Bayes c. The Bill to restrain the excessive making of Malt and one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and Doctor Carew The Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Sandes the Lord Chandois and the Lord Compton and M r Baron Clerke and M r Baron Evers or either of them to attend their Lordships The Bill lastly for confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read secundâ vice But no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book that this Bill was committed for at the next sitting viz. Die Lunae 30 o die Januarii the same Bill was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop On Monday the 30 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for retailing Broakers and other Pawn-takers was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And because the Committees found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to proceed they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read primâ vice The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths which was committed on Friday the 27 th day of this instant January foregoing was returned to the House by the first of the Committees and therewithal because the same was by the said Committees thought defective a new Bill of the same title was likewise presented Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the fourth being the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was returned with the allowance of an Amendment which was added by the Lords Sir Robert Cecill and other Knights and Burgesses that brought the seven Bills last mentioned and moved the House for a Conference concerning the Bill sent from their Lordships Intituled An Act for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars to which Conference the Lords assented and the time and place appointed to Morrow in the Afternoon at the Great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall and the same Committees that were formerly appointed on Monday the 16 th day of this instant January foregoing and the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham were added unto them The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq to sell the Lands c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Rutland the first of the Committees or Arbitrators with Amendments which
only for Order to leave some short Memorial of them in the Journals of the House of Commons Now follows the continuance of the Parliament out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House where it is Entred in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis quintum Mensis Novembris After which as is set down in the foresaid private Journal room being made the Queen came through the Commons to go to the great Chamber who graciously offering her hand to the Speaker he kist it but not one word she spake unto him and as she went through the Commons very few said God save your Majesty as they were wont in all great Assemblies and so she returned back again to Whitehal by Water Now follow the next days Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Thursday the 5 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Friday the 30 th day of October foregoing were two Bills read of which the first being for Assurance of Lands and the second for the restraint of the excessive and superfluous use of Coaches within the Realm of England were each of them read primâ vice On Saturday the 7 th day of November the Bill for Assurance of Lands was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Durham the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Rich the Lord Howard of Walden and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Lord Chief Baron and M r Attorney General were appointed to attend their Lordships The Bill to restrain the excessive use of Coaches within this Realm of England was read secundâ vice and rejected Hereupon Motion was made by the Lord Keeper that forasmuch as the said Bill did in some sort concern the maintenance of Horses within this Realm consideration might be had of the Statutes heretofore made and Ordained touching the breed and maintenance of Horses And that M r Attorney General should peruse and consider of the said Statutes and of some fit Bill to be drawn and prefer'd to the House touching the same and concerning the use of Coaches And that he should acquaint therewith the Committees appointed for the Bill before-mentioned for Assurance of Lands Which Motion was approved by the House The Bill for the preservation of Pheasants and Partridges was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 10 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Derby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Pembrook and divers others to attend the Lords Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges upon the Lords Committees on Thursday the 3 d day of this instant November foregoing who were appointed to meet at the Little Chamber near the Parliament presence and the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury On Thursday the 12 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Tuesday foregoing The Bill concerning Musters Souldiers and other things appertaining thereunto was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal And the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Walmesley M r Justice Warberton M r Serjeant Yelverton and M r Attorney General were appointed to attend the Lords Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and M r Secretary Herbert of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Administration of Intestates goods was read primâ vice The Bill for Assurance of Lands was this day returned to the House with certain Amendments by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees which Amendments were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill was appointed to be ingrossed Memorandum That upon the reading of the said Amendments the Lord Bishop of London one of the Committees did offer to speak unto the Bill or unto the said Amendments Whereupon a doubt was moved by the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward whether it were agreeable to the good Order and Antient Custom of the House that the said Lord Bishop being one of the Committees and dissenting from the rest in some matter either of the Bill or of the Amendments might speak thereunto upon the bringing in and presenting of the Amendments or no. Which doubt being upon this occasion propounded in generality to the House by the Lord Keeper and put to the question It was adjudged and resolved by the major part That any Committee might speak in like case either to the body of the Bill or to the Amendments upon the bringing in of the same before it be ingrossed Upon which resolution Order was given to the Clerk of the Parliament that a remembrance or observation thereof should be Entred in the Journal-Book for the resolving and clearing of the like doubt if it should happen hereafter And thereupon after the reading of the Amendments the said Lord Bishop of London proceeded to his Speech and the Bill was appointed to be ingrossed as aforesaid Vide in the Parliament de an 39 Regin Eliz. on Tuesday the 24 th day of January Memorandum Report was made unto the House by the Lord Zouch of one William Hogan an Ordinary Servant of the Queens Majesty Arrested and Imprisoned upon an Execution by one John Tolkerne since the beginning of the Parliament And a Motion was likewise made by his Lordship to know the Judgment and resolution of the House in this point whether any Ordinary Servant of her Majesty though he be none of the Parliament be not priviledged and protected from Arrest during the time of the Parliament by vertue of his said Service to her Majesty in like sort as the Servants of the Lords of the Parliament attending the said Lords their Masters are priviledged and freed for that time from any Arrests of their Persons And withal being Arrested upon Execution whether in this Case he may by good Order of this House be discharged Which Motion and doubt the Lord Zouch professed that he did the rather propound because though there were divers Examples of former times touching the Servants of the Lords of the Parliament the like to this concerning one of the Queens Servants had not been so far as was remembred brought in question heretofore And therefore it pleased the Lords to take
to him for setting forth a Book derogatory to the authority of Parliaments c. p. 291. D r Parry a Member of the House committed to his custody and why p. 341. A Currier committed to his Custody for saying The Curriers could not have justice in the House c. p. 366. Several persons committed to him for presuming to come into the House not being Members p. 394. 486. 565. passim A Motion that the Members should pay him his Fees before they come into the House p. 550. One committed to his Ward for disturbing a Member by way of an Appearance p. 593. If he be to go into the Country to fetch any accused for breach of priviledge he may desire part of his expences of the Complainant before he begin his Journey p. 655. Vide the word Gentleman-Usher in the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Servants of Parliament men Vide Priviledge M r Seymore Clerk of the Parliament from 1 to 9 Eliz. p. 43. 122 Sheriffs when and where they may be chosen for Knights of the Shire and when and where not p. 38. 625. One Man formerly Sheriff of several Counties p. 39. A Bill that they should be allowed for the Justices Diets p. 51. 79. The Queen stops the Bill saying that she will her self take order therein p. 71. 88. A Bill for several Sheriffs in several Counties p. 129. 150. A Bill that Sheriffs Undersheriffs and Bailiffs of Liberties shall take Oaths dashed p. 135. A Member of a Parliament may be made a Sheriff p. 336. 355. 665. and on the contrary a Sheriff may be chosen a Knight of the Shire but not for the County of which he is Sheriff p. 436. 624 625 Shop-Books a Bill to prevent the double payment of debts upon them well spoken to p. 666 667 Sidney Colleà ge in Cambridge upon what occasion founded p. 503 Simony a Bill for prevention of it in presentations to Benefices with a speech thereupon p. 165 Sirname altered by an Act of Parliament p. 687 George Snagg Serjeant at Law chosen Speaker 31 Eliz. p. 428 Solicitor General chosen Speaker 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 121. again 35 Eliz. p. 469. He is to attend in the Upper House though he be chosen a Member of the House of Commons if he be call'd thereto by her Maiesties Writ before he was elected a Member p. 441 442 Common Solicitors a Bill against them in 43 Eliz. well spoken to by him that brought it in p. 631 Maimed Souldiers the Money collected in the Parliament 43 Eliz. chiefly bestowed upon them p. 665. 687. Husbandmen make the best Foot-souldiers p. 674 Spain reputed the Author of all the Treasons and Rebellions in Queen Elizabeths time p. 454. Both Houses join in a Petition to the Queen that she will proclaim War against Spain ibid. Several speeches in the Parliament 35 Eliz. containing an history of the methods the King of Spain used for the Conquest of England p. 471 472 473. 484. He invades Ireland with 4000. in 43 Eliz. p. 623. His pretence is to defend the Catholick Cause p. 624 Speak if two or three offer to speak together that party that is going to speak against the last Speaker is to be heard first p. 493. None to be interrupted while he is speaking p. 633. 640 Speaker of the House of Commons his antiquity p. 40. After he is nominated he uses to uncover himself p. 549. He is commonly nominated by the Comptroller of the Household p. 621. passim After Election he is placed in the Chair either by M r Comptroller alone or by him with another p. 79. 621 c. Two Questions concerning the Election of a Speaker proposed and answered p. 41. How he is presented to the Sovereign ibid. Their excusing or disabling of themselves meerly formal or complementive being sometimes done sometimes not ibid. p. 42. Their Petitions of course to the King or Queen after confirmation p. 16 42 43. 98 c. He makes his Speech now according to his own pleasure but formerly by the directions of the House p. 42. The story of Thorp Speaker in an 31 H. 6. p. 56. 516. He is not always present at Prorogations p. 119. When the Speaker dies in the interval of a Prorogation what method taken to chuse a new one p. 267 268. 278 279 280. The Speaker is to be presented and allowed before the House can determine or resolve on any thing p. 282. He may speak to a Bill with the leave of the House p. 515. He is of that dignity that he is to be commanded by none nor to attend any but the Sovereign p. 627. When any new Election is to be made sitting the Parliament he is to direct a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to issue out the Writ ibid. p. 628. A great contest whether such Warrant be to be directed to the said Clerk or to the Lord Keeper but carried for the former p. 636 637 638 639. Bills are commonly perused by the Speaker before thy are received into the House p. 637. He hath no voice in the passing of a Bill p. 683 684 Liberty of Speech of absolute necessity in Parliaments p. 236 237 238 239 240. 259 Star-Chamber a Bill for the better expedition of Justice in it with a notable Speech against the Bill p. 504. A Bill exhibited therein by a Peer against a Member of the House of Commons Vide Belgrave ante Bill to make Steel in England 8 9 Eliz. p. 132 Steward of the Household administers the Oath of Supremacy to the Members p. 122. Who is his Deputy of course ibid. He may appoint several Deputies p. 155. 205 c. The Heirs of the Lord Stourton restored in blood with a notable Conference about the Bill betwixt the two Houses wherein the liberties of the House of Commons are asserted p. 263 Disloyal Subjects a Bill to reduce them to their due obedience 35 Eliz. p. 498. Several Speeches upon it p. 500. 517 Subpoena not to be served on a Member p. 347 348. 553. 637. What punishment was inflicted on one for serving such Subpoena p. 373. Two Members sent to the Lord Keeper to have the Subpoena revoked p. 553 554 Subsidy the Queen remitteth the third payment of one p. 131. Bill of Subsidy when it hath passed both Houses is to remain in the House of Commons till the end of the Session and then to be presented by the Speaker to the Sovereign p. 309. Subsidies use to be first offered by the Commons p. 483. Thought to be against the priviledge of the House for the Lords to join with them therein or to prescribe to them how much to give ibid. 485 486. 488. The danger of encreasing the number of Subsidies p. 494. Three Subsidies not given at one time till 35 Eliz. and then with caution that it should not be made a Precedent p. 569. Yet there were the same number given 39 40 Eliz. and four in 43 Eliz. ib.