Henrico de Lanc. Com. Derbie Thom. de Bello campo Com. Warr. Johanni de Vere Com. Oxoniae Roberto de Ufford Comiti Suff. Ricardo Com. Arundel Rado Baron de Stafford Nicolao de Cantilopo Johanni de Seagrave Johanni filio Walteri Thom. de Berkley Thomae de Lucye Gilberto Talbott Reginaldo de Grey Rogero de Grey Rogero de Chandos Johanni de Nevil de Essex Johanni de Harrington Jacobo de Audley Johanni de Strange Hugoni le Despencer Petro de Malolacu quint. Rado de Nevill Ricardo Talbott Johanni de Willoughby Johanni de Charleton sen. Adamo de Welle Willielmo Deinecourt Willielmo de Chardeston Johan de Sutton de Holdeâ—nes Johanni de Fawconbridge Roberto de Morley Johanni de Leybourn Henrico Hussey Johan de Grey de Rotherfield Johan filio Richardi de Grey de Codenore Johanni de Tibetot Henrico de Percie Tho. Wake de Lyde Johanni Mowbray Henrico Fitzhugh Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Johanni Bardolfe Thomae Ughâ—red Rado de Palmer Roberto de Clifford Bartholo de Bourcheire Anno xviii Edwardi Tertii Secunda pars pro Auro Moneta proclam c. Anno Decimo octavo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Munday next after the Utaves of Trinity Anno 18. Edwardi Tertii THe same day in the presence of the King certain Lords and Commons being then assembled in St. Edwards Chamber commonly called the Chamber de pinct the Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment declared how sundry things at the last Parliament were left to be done at this And that the Archbishop of Canterbury had against the said time called a Convocation of his Clergy at which Parliament and Convocation sundry of all Estates were absent c. whereat the King did no lesse muse then he was thereat offended wherefore he charged the Archbishop for his part to punish the defaults of the Clergy and he would do the like touching the Parliament Hereupon Proclamation was made as in the last Parliament Tit. 3. Receivers of Petitions for England Gascoyn Wales Ireland Brittain Scotland and the forrain Isles and other places beyond the Seas Tryers of the Petitions aforesaid Sir Thomas de Drayton is appointed to be Clerk of the Parliament On Tuesday ensuing the Names of the Lords of the Parliament were examined before the King that such as made default might abide the Kings Order On Thursday after the Chancellor in full Parliament in the presence of the King and of his Son the Prince of Wales declared the cause of the same Parliament Viz. the Articles of the Truce and the breaches of the same particularly Whereupon the whole State were willed to advise upon them and to shew their opinion of them by Munday next ensuing The same Monday they had day untill Wednesday in the week of S. Iohn at the which day every of the Lords and Commons by themselves with one assent required the King to end the same war either by battel or by honourable peace And if the King shall attempt war eftsoons that he do not stay the same at the letters or requests of the Pope or of any whomsoever but to end the same by dint of Sword Whereunto the King agreed but for that the same could not be atchieved without aid the Clergie of Canterbury granted unto the King a Desme Triennial And the Commons granted unto the King two Fifteens of Counties and two Desmes of Cities and of Towns in form following That the same should be levied in such wise as the last was That the Commons Petitions be granted and that the same may be only imployed upon the wars with the assent of the Lords That the Prince and Sir Edward de Bayliffe may lie on the North-Marches and for that the King should passe over the Seas in person to end this quarrel they grant to the King a third fifteen To all which Conditions the King agreed Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The Print for ceasing of Commissions of the new enquiries cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The Print touching making Justices of Peace cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The Print for sorting and buying of Wools cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The Print touching weights and measures cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The Print touching exigents in trespasses cap. 5. agreeth with the Record The Print touching new Money and the Mint cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The Print touching Purveyors and the Steward and Marshal agreeth with the Record This done the Bishops and the Clergy exhibited their Petitions in number seven whereto the King answered and the same comprised in a Statute in effect following Petitions of the Clergy with their Answers The Print touching the long recital cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The Print that no Prelate be impeached of any crime before the Justices cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The Print touching the tryall of Bygamie cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The Print touching the purchasing of Lands in Mortmain agreeth with the Record The Print for not purveying in the Fees of the Church cap. 4. agreeth as before The Print touching prohibition cap. 7. agreeth with the Record The Print touching the Temporal Justices shall not enquire of process made by Ecclesiastical Officers cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The Print touching Sciri facias for Tithes cap. 7. agreeth with the Record The which Statute at the request of the Bishops and Clergy was exemplified under the great Seal and to them delivered After all this the Commons by their Petition recite the Act of Provision made in the last Parliament tit 60. And for that no punishment was provided therefore that such as incur the breach of the same by receipt procuring or Councel in stay of any temporal judgement shall lie in perpetual prison or be fore-judged the land And that all Justices of the Assizes Goal-delivery and Oyer and Terminer may determine the same That the Act of provision may continue for ever That if any Archbishop or other person religious or other do not present within four moneths some able Clerk to any dignity whereof any person hath obtained from Rome any provision but surceased the same that then the King may present some able Clerk That if any Bishop elect shall refuse to take such Brother other then by such that then such Clerk shall not enter nor enjoy his Temporalities without the Kings special licence That the King shall dispose of all such Benefices and Dignities of such Aliens his enemiâ—s as remain in such Countries of his enemies and imploy the profits thereof to the defence of the Realm That Commissions be sent into all the Kings Ports to apprehend all such persons as shall bring in any such
Instrument from Rome and to bring them forthwith before the Council to answer thereto That the Deanry of York which is to be recovered by Judgment in the Kings Court may be bestowed upon some able man within the Realm who will maintain the same against him who holdeth the same by provision from Rome being the Common Enemy to the King and to the Realm and that the mean profits may be imployed upon the defence of the Realm To all which Petitions Answer was made in form following It is agreed by the King Earls Barons Justices and other wife men of the Realm That the Petitions aforesaid be made in sufficient form of Law According to the Petitions aforesaid certain Process made against Sir William de la Pool and Reynold at Conduite out of the Exchequer is revoked as erroneous and that they shall be charged a new to accompt for monies received for the Kings Wooll notwithstanding any Letter of Acquittance to them made The which Accord was sent to the King to know his pleasure therein The Petitions of the Clerks of the Chancery That where the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the time being ought to have the Cognisance of all Pleas of Trespasses done by the said Clerks or other Servants where the Chancery shall remain yet notwithstanding the Sheriffs of London had attached one Gilbert of Chrishull a Clerk of the said Chancery in London at the suit of Killingbury a Draper upon a Bill of Trespass which Gilbert brought a Supersedeas of Priviledge to the said Sheriffs which they would not allow but drew him so find Sureties The Clerks pray remedy therefore and maintenance of their liberties The Parliament doth confirm their liberties and reciting the contempt for neglecting the Process conclude that Writs be sent to the Mayor of London to attach the Sheriffs and others who were parties and maintainers of the quarrel by their bodies to appear before the King in the Chancery at a day certain to answer as well to the Contempts of the Process as to the breach of the liberty and damage of tha party At the Petition of the Commons of Nottingham it is enacted That as wâ—ll the Gaol of Nottingham which the King hath granted to Sir Iohn Brocas during his life as all other Gaols in the like case should be annexed to the Sheriffwick of every County according to an Act made Anno 14 Edwardi Tertii That no man within Cities or Towns or elswhere do carry Maces of Silver but only the Kings Serjeants but that they carry Maces of Copper only and of no other metal The same shall be so except of the Serjeants of the City of London who may carry their Maces of silver within the liberty of London before the Mayor in the presence of the King On the back-side of the Roll The form of the Writ of Supersedeas for staying of Exigents in this Parliament before agreed The form of Supersedes for staying to proceed further in certain new Commissions before expressed The form of Supersedes for staying of Commissions for the Assise of Weights and Measures before mentioned The form of a Commission to the Barons of the Exchequer to call such Commissioners to accompt as were appointed upon the Assise of Weights and Measures The Writ of Proclamation for the free buying of Wooll The Writ that no man shall be enforced to receive Gold the sum being under Twenty shillings A Declaration made against such persons against whom Exigents should pass Of the Oaths of Justices and of the Clerks of the Chancery expressed in the Print there is no mention made in the Record Anno Vicesimo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord in the Twentieth Year of King Edward the Third COmmandment was given the same day by Sir Lionel the Kings son Lord Keeper of England that Proclamation should be made against wearing of Armor and Games in Westminster as in the last Parliament Tit. 2. A time to all such as will exhibit any Petition Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales Scotland Gascoin and other Forein Isles and Parts Tryers of the Petitions aforesaid Sir Thomas Drayton is appointed Clerk of the Parliament For that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not at this day come the Parliament was continued until Tuesday On which Tuesday for that knowledge was given that Sir Bartholmew de Burghurst Sir Iohn Darcy Lord Chamberlain Mr. Iohn Thoresby Clerk of the Privy-Seal and Mr. Iohn Charlton were arrived and come Messengers from the King at Callis and that they meant to be at the Parliament the Wednesday next the Parliament continued untill Wednesday On which day Declaration was made That since the King by his passing over the Sea and his attempt there was uncertain of his estate the Parliament was called according to the success of things there the like here might be established for the safety of the King the common peace of the whole Realm and for the avoiding of false money by which the whole Realm was damnified after which they shewed the Kings Letters Patents of credit the same being expressed by word and dated before Callice After the understanding of these Letters the same Bartholomew for and in the name of himself and of his Colleagues in the presence of the Keeper of England and of the whole estate declared the good success of the King since his arrival at Hoges in Normandie as in surprizing of many Towns and Castles of War as well at Cane as elsewhere and aso of the victory at Orestlie where the power of France was discomfited And further how the King was come before Callice from whence he meant not to depart untill by the help of God he gained the same after which he would pursue the enemies without return untill the wars were ended He further sheweth an Order between the Duke and Nobles of Normandie The Order aforesaid is particularly recited and is called The Ordinance of Normandie containing the effect following That the Duke of Normandy should passe as Chieftain with other Nobles of the same into England with forty thousand men at Arms Knights Esquires and men of good estate and forty thousand footmen An Order for bearing of their charges for keeping of the Sea and for the Duke to remain with his power in England ten weeks And it is agreed That in case the Realm of England be by the same voyage conquered that then the said conquest shall altogether be to the name and honour of the said Duke and all that which the King of England hath shall remain to the said Duke Knights and Lords And all the same which belongeth to the Nobles and secular persons of England shall be
grieved coming thither shall have right That remedy may be had against the Cyrographer for that he will not ingross any Fine within the Term until the foot of the fine be fretted unless he may have three shillings four pence or â—our shillings more then his due fee of forty shillings Let the grieved come to the Common Pleas and he shall have right That the Statute of Labourers may be executed four times in the year and that the Justices may be removed for not doing their duty The King granteth thereunto That villenage may onely be tried where it is laid and no where else The King meaneth not to alter the Law therein That Masters of ships may be paid the wages of them and their Marriners from the day of their being appointed to serve the King That taking of Ships shall not be but for necessity and payment shall be reasonable as heretofore The Masters of ships require allowance for the tackling of their ships worn by the Kings service Such allowance hath not been heretofore made They require remedy against the provisions of the Pope whereby he hath the first fruits of Ecclesiastical Dignities the treasure of the Realm which being conveyed away they cannot bear The King hath honourable Ambassadors at the Court of Rome touching these before whose return he cannot well answer The Burgesses of Bristoll require that the same Town with the Suburbs of the same may be a County of it self and that the perambulation of the bounds of the same returned into the Chancery with all the Liberties and Charters granted unto the same may be confirmed by Parliament The King granteth that the Charters Liberties and Perambulation mentioned before be confirmed under the Great Seal That no French Prior Alien be dwelling within twenty miles of the Sea coast for divers reasons there alleadged The King by Council will provide therefore That remedy may be had against Sheriffs as will take Bail of such prisoners indicted in the Toorn as were before bailed by other Sheriffs There is a Statute made therefore whereby the grieved may have remedy That remedy may be had that men be not called into the Exchequer upon suggestion without process contrary to the Statute made in the 42 of this King Let any man especially complain and he shall find remedy Anno Quinquagesimo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the Feast of St George in the 50. Year of King Edward the third THe same day most of the Lords and many of the Commons were before the King in his own Chamber where for that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not come Proclamation was made in the great Hall at Westminster that all such as were summoned to the Parliament should be there the next morning by eight of the clock At which day Sir Iohn Kâ—evit Knight Chancellor of England before the King Lords and Commons declared the causes of the Parliament to be three The first to provide for the Government of the Realm The second for the defence of the same as well beyond the Seas as on this side as well by Sea as by Land The third how he might prosecute his quarrel by War against his Enemies and maintaining the same affirming that as the King had always in all his attempts followed their good counsel so he meant herein to do no less Wherefore he willed them to go together the Lords by their selves and the Commons by their selves and speedily to consult and give answer Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above After that the Commons were willed to depart to their accustomed place being the Chapter house of the Abbot of Westminster whither they went Whereupon certain Lords and Nobles were appointed to go and consult with the Commons who are there particularly named The Lords and Commons do grant to the King the like Subsidies of Wooll Skins and Wool-Fells as were granted in the last Parliament to endure three years from the Feast of S. Michael next ensuing 47 E. 3. tit 7. An Order devised by the Commons that the King should have at least ten or twelve Councellors without whom no weighty matters should pass and for smaller matters at least six or four of them whereunto the King granted provided that the Chancellor Treasurer and Keeper of the privy Seal should by their selves end all matters belonging to their Offices and that these Councellors should take no rewards That no other of the Kings Officers or Ministers do take any reward for any matter touching their offices That report of matters of Council shall be made to the King by some one or two of the Council appointed and none others That all Ordinances made by the King and his Council shall be by all the Kings Officers executed That the Ordinances forbidding any man within London or elswhere to sell Sweet Wine by retail are repealed and that every Freeman may sell such Wines in London by retail So always that the Lord Mayor have the disposing thereof the price of the same The Commons afterwards in full Parliament making protestation of their due allegiance to the King declared That if he had faithful Councellors and Officers he could not but have passed all other Princes in treasure considering that the Ransoms of the Kings of Erance and Scotland were to him paid besides the great Subsidies here And therefore they require that falshoods and crafts of certain of the Kings Council and other persons may be tryed and punished which would long maintain his wars without any charge to the Commons And namely by trying of three points First of such of the Council as convey Staple-ware and Bullion to other places then to Calice for their own private turn Secondly of such as made shifts for money for the King deceitfully Thirdly of such as of Covin between certain of the Council and them bought of sundry the Kings Subjects debts due to the King to them for the tenth or twentieth penny Richard Lyons Merchant of London was accused by the Commons of divers deceits extortions and other misdemeanors as well for the time that he repaired to certain of the Kings Council as for the time that he was Farmer of the Kings Subsidy and Customs and namely obtaining Licences to convey over great Faizons of Wooll and Staple-ware for procuring new Impositions upon Staple-ware for devising the Change of Money for making the King for one Chevizance of Twenty marks to pay Thirty pounds for buying debts of divers men due to the King for small values for
the Sea and against the Invasion of the French and namely against the Scots for besieging Barwick against the truce To appoint how and when the 13000 Archers granted the last Parliament should be imployed To make a perfect accord and unity between the Lords To restrain the carrying forth of gold and silver To provide for the safe-keeping of the Seas To foresee that the peace may be kept in Wales For every of which Articles certain Bishops and Lords were severally appointed On Friday the third day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King Sir Iohn Wenlock Knight to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with the common protestation was allowed A long conveyance made by the King the King acquitteth Richard Duke of York Richard Earl of Warwick and Richard Earl of Sarum and them taketh to be his loyall Subjects albeit Edmond late Duke of Somerset Thomas Thorp and William Ioseph by their untrue means had caused the King to think the contrary and thereby to have raised a great power against the said Duke and others The Duke of Yorks letters sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England from Royston in May before touching his coming by force towards the King and his griefs conceived The Letters of the said Duke and Earls written to the King from Royston in May before containing their enterprize and due obeysance to the King The Letters were kept from the Kings knowledge by the Duke of Somerset and others untill such time as the said Duke of York and others met with the King at St. Albones The Duke of York and his Allyes the twenty second day of May last came to St. Albones to have spoken with the King whom the Duke of Somerset and others did resist with a great number of armed men in which conflict the same Duke of Somerset was slain The humble obeysance of the Duke of York and his Allies in coming into the Kings presence after the said conflict The acquittall of the said Duke of York and of all others coming with him to the said conflict or battel to any harms there done All which are confirmed by whole assent of Parliament the twenty third day of July in the thirty third year all the Bishops and Lords in open Parliament were sworn to be true to the King but none here are named nor their names The like order is taken for all other Lords as should after come to take the like oathes At the request of the Earles of Salisbury Shrewsbury and Worcester and of the Lord Sturton they were discharged from keeping of the Seas The one and thirtieth day of Iuly the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England in the Kings presence prorogued the Parliament from the same day and place to the twelfth day of November ensuing at Westminster The generall pardon for Treasons Felonies Contempts Trespasses c. The one and twentieth day of November in the thirty fourth year of the Kings reign the King by his Letters Patents appointed Richard Duke of York to proceed in the Parliament the which Commission was read before the Lords and then before the Commons The thiâ—teenth day of November Burley and others coming from the Commons required the Duke of York and the Lords to move the King to appoint an able Protector and Defender of the realm sith the King would not attend the same and that the Commons might have knowledge of him wherein they remembred the great ryots and murders in the VVest parts between the Earl of Devonshire and the Lord Boneville the Duke and Lords promised to answer the same The fifteenth day of November the said Burley and others of the Commons coming before the Lords renewed the aforesaid sute and had the like promise After Consultations had amongst the Lords for a Protector aâ—d Defender they thought the Duke of York most worthy therefore and thereupon made request to take the same upon him according to the presidents before the which Duke upon excusing himself requireth respite The seventeenth of November Burley and others of the Commons coming before the Lords revived their sute again as before tit 31.32 The Chancellor declareth to the Commons how that the King by the assent of the Lords had requested the Duke of York to be Protector and Defender of the realm The Duke of York makes the like protestation and demand and thereto hath the like answer as Anno 31. H. 6. tit 34 35 36 37. After Conference had with the said Duke by certain of the Lords it was agreed that the said Duke should have towards his charges yearly four thousand marks After all which Articles agreed and earnest request made by the Lords to the said Duke to take the same upon him the said Duke at their earnest contemplations accepted the same charge not as sought by himself but as laid upon him by them The like Letters Patents are made to the said Duke and to Prince Edward as An. 3. H. 6. tit 38 39. only where by the former letters they were to continue at the Kings will instead thereof these words were inserted Quousque Consanguineus noster de occupatione ejus onere nomine hujusmodi per nos in Parliamento de aviseamento assensu Dominorum Spiritualium Temporalium in Parliamento existent exoneretur The which Letters Patents are confirmed by common consent The like other Letters Patents are made to the said Duke and Prince as An. 3. H. 6. tit 40. The twenty third of November in the thirty fourth year of the Kings reign the King committeth the whole estate affaires and governance of the realm to the Lords of his Councill only for matters concerning his person they shall not proceed without making him privy thereto The King by his several Letters Patents confirmeth to his Son Edward Prince of Wales and to his heirs Kings of England his creation of the Principality and Earldom of Chester with all the particular Dominions and hereditaments belonging to the Principality and Earldom And for that the said Prince the Kings first begotten the day of his birth is and ought to be Duke of Cornwall the King granteth to the said Prince livery of the same and of all other hereditaments belonging of common consent And further it is enacted that the said Prince shall be at diet and sojourn in the Kings Court unto his age of 14. years for the which diet the King shall yearly take all the revenues and profits of the said Principality Earldom and Dutchie of the said Prince until the said Prince come to the age of 14. years allowing yearly to the said Prince towards his Wardrobe and wages 10000 l. unto
Lovell Chlr. Edwardo de Bergavenny Chlr. Edwardo Brook de Cobham Chlr. Reginal Gray de Wilton Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier de Fitz-warrin Chlr. Hen. Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Chlr. Radul Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Willielm Fines Domino de Say Chlr. Richardo Fines Domino de Dacre Chlr. Johanni Nevill de Mountague Willielmo Hastings Chlr. Hen. Stafford de South Chlr. Will. Domino Herberd Chlr. Waltero Devereux Domino de Ferrariis Chlr. Johanni Wenlock de Wenlock Ricardo Woodvill Domino de Rivers Chlr. Anthonio VVoodvill Dom. de Scales Tho. Domino Standley Chlr. Roberto Ogle Domino de Ogle Chlr. Tho. Domino Lumley Chlr. Humfrido Domino Cromwell Chlr. Johanni Bourchier Domino de Barnes Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Ricardo VVelles de VVilloughbie Chlr. Hen. Fitz-hugh Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Ricardo VVest Chlr. Aequites aurati omnes praeter Dominum Scales The Parliament holden at Westminster the twenty ninth day of April in the third year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons George Bishop of Exeter and Chancellor of England made a notable declaration of the summons of the Parliament After which he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament certain of the Commons declared unto the Lords that they had chosen their Speaker The third day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King Iohn Say Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse being rejected he with the Common protestation was received The Commons by assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King in aid 37000 l. to be levied in the Counties Cities and Towns according to a rate there The 27th day of Iune in the presence of the King Lords and Commons the Chancellor by the Kings commandement gave thanks to the Commons for their aid granted and prorogued the Parliament from the same day unto the fourth of November then ensuing at Westminster The 4th of November Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury the Kings Cozen by the Kings Letters Patents held and continued the Parliament The same 4th day of November the King of his meer grace released unto the Commons 6000 l. parcel of the aforesaid grant tit 8. whereupon it is enacted that 31000 l. shall be levyed in manner of a Fifteen and be called by the same name of a Fifteen The same fourth day the Chancellor on the Kings behalf and of his said Lieutenant adjourned the said Parliament from the said day unto the twentieth of February then ensuing at the City of York The twentieth day of February at York in the presence of the Lords and Commons William Bishop of Lincoln by the commandement of William Archbishop of York the Kings Commissary by Letters Patents held the same Parliament and adjourned the same over from the said day unto the first day of May then ensuing at York aforesaid The cause of the said prorogation was for that the King was enforced to goe in person to Gloucester for the repressing of Conspiracies and rebellions against him Anno Quarto Edwardi Quarti THe same first day of May the Lords and Commons being assembled in the great Hall within the Palace of the Archbishop of York certain of the Kings Letters Patents made unto Richard Earl of Warwick and of Salisbury were read which authorized the said Earl to hold and continue the said Parliament from the said day unto the twenty fifth of November then ensuing at York After the reading whereof the Abbot of Fountaines thereunto appointed by the Kings Privy seal prorogued the same accordingly The cause hereof was that the King was busily occupied in the Marches of the North for the repressing of Rebels and defence of a Forein Invasion The twenty fifth of Novemb. in the fourth year of the King in the Hall of the said Archbishop of York the King by like Letters Patents made to the said Earl of Warwick and Salisbury for holding and proroguing the said Parliament from the same day unto the twenty sixth day of Ianuary then ensuing at Westminster read after which the Abbot of St. Maries of York by the Kings appointment declared and prorogued the same accordingly Petitions of the Commons with their Answers A Large Act touching the true making of broad Cloaths and touching all particular working and Officers belonging thereto very necessary although the same be not printed for that in the same year the same was repealed The print touching the shipping of Woolls cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print that no Corn shall be brought into the land cap. 2. agreeth with the record White Wheat was sold at 6 s. 8. d. the quarter The print touching apparell cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching Silk-women cap. 31. agreeth with the record The print touching Artificers and Handicrafts men cap. 4. agreeth with the record Acts and Ordinances made the 26. day of Ianuary Anno quarto Edwardi Quarti THe Commons by assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King the Subsidies hereafter for and during his life viz. Tonnage and Poundage of every English Merchant for every Sack of Wooll 33 s. 4 d. of every 240 Wooll-fells 33 s. 4 d. and of every Last of Hides 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. Of every Merchant Stranger as well Denizen as otherwise for every Sack of Wooll 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. of every Last of Hides 3 l. 13 s. 4 d. of every 240 Wooll-fells 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. A provision that the Town of Callice and the Souldiers there may be victualled and payed with part of the said Subsidies according to a rate there That the Treasurer of Callice doe yearly accompt in the Exchequer on a pain that the said Treasurer for the time being may dispose of all offices of Accompt in Callice or the Marches of the same to what person him liketh to hold the same at the Kings will Two particular provisions are therein the one for the Dean of St. Martins le Grange in London the other for the Easterlings The attainders of certain persons as hereafter do ensue Of Henry Beauford late Duke of Somerset for rearing of war against the King and joyning with H. 6. at the battel of Epham in the County of Northumberland the 8. day of May last Of Ralph Percie
Knight for rendring the Kings Castles of Bambourg and Dunstamburgh unto H. 6. and for rearing the warr against the King at Heggelamore in Northumberland on the Feast day of St. Mark last past Of Humphrey Nevil Knight for taking part with the said H. 6. at Bamburgh the first day of April last past Of Henry Bellingham and Thomas Phillips Knights and many other Esquires Gentlemen and Yeomen for taking part with the said King Henry the sixth at Bamburgh the last day of May last past Of Edmond Beaufort and Iohn Beaufort brethren and of the said Henry Duke of Somerset William Carie alias Caree Knight and others for adhering unto Margaret late Queen of England Of William Stocke of Warrington in the County of Northampton Knight and sundry other Esquires Gentlemen and Yeomen for adhering unto the said H. 6. Unto all which the King had granted Pardon in Anno primo And of David ap Iean ap Eynean and other Welshmen for keeping of the Castle of Hardlough in Wales against the King It is enacted that the attainders of the said Duke of Somerset Humfrey Nevil and Henry Bellingham made in Anno 1. shall stand and that the restitutions to them made shall be voyd The Attainders of Ralph Fercy and others That proclamation be made against Thomas Phillips Edmond Beaufort Iohn Beaufort William Carie alias Caree Knights and others to yield themselves to the Kings grace by a day or else to stand attainted of Treason and to incurr the pains of the same An Act of Resumption whereby the King taketh into his hands all manner of Hereditaments of his Crown Principality of Wales Dutchies of Cornwall and Lancaster and Earldom of Chester from the feast of the Purification of our Lady last before in such sort as he had or ought to have had the same the 4th of March in the first year of his reign any Letters Patents to grant or the contrary notwithstanding That all grants leases c. made by the King before the said Feast of any of the hereditaments of his Dutchy of York or Earldom of March be also void whereunto are annexed sundry provisions An infinite number of particular provisions Henry the Son of Philip Wentworth Knight is restored in bloud to the said Philip for Lands the said Philip had none It is enacted all such gifts and grants as the King shall make of goods and lands to Anne his Sister wife to Henry Duke of Exeter shall be to all intents good in Law to the only use of the said Anne and that she plead and be impleaded by the name of Anne Dutchesse of Exeter At the Petition of Iohn Earl of Oxford the Statute made Anno 1 H. 4. in affirmance of the Statute made Anno 11 R. 2. cap. 5. against Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland is utterly repealed in which new Act of repeal there are seven provisions which abridge much the grant Whereas the 32861 l. which was due to the Mayor and Company of the Merchants of the Staple in Callice the King by authority of Parliament in contentation of the same assigneth them to take a yearly rate of the Subsidies of wooll untill payment had A long confirmation made unto the Abbesse of Sion of their erection and of all their particular hereditaments The words of the Creation ofâ— the Dutchy of Cornwall and annexing of the same to the Crown by Parliament Anno 11 E. 3. Therein also is a general provision and one particular provision viz. that the Mayor of London in succession shall have the search view and correction of the river of Thames A long Confirmation made to the Mayor and Commonalty of Plymouth in Devon paying yearly to the Prior of Plymouth 29 l. 6 s. 8 d. of fee-farm the said Prior having also further Prerogatives in the said Town Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching making of Clothes cap. 1. agreeth with the record the same is remembred before tit The print for shipping of Merchandize of Staple cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print for shipping of woolâ—s at Newcastle cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print for buying of wools cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching Merchandise of the Dutchie of Burgundie cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching Suerties found to Customers and Comptrollers cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching Cordwayners cap. 7. agreeth with the record The print touching Horners cap. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching Paten-makers cap. 9. agreeth with the record The print touching passengers from Dover to Callice cap. 10. agreeth with the record c. The like motion and answer as Anno 1 E. 4. tit 43. That the Statute made Anno 45 E. 3. touching free passing of boats in rivers may be observed and that no person do interrupt any mans passage upon or by the river of Severn The King will be advised Anno Septimo Edwardi Quarti Rex c. Charissimo Fratri suo Georgio Duci Clarentiae salut apud Westm. tertio die Iulii Teste rege apud Westm. vigesimo octavo die Februarii IOhanni Duci Norfolciae Johanni Duci Suffolciae Ricardo Com. Warr. Sarum Ricardo Com. Rivers Willielmo Com. Arundel Edwardo Tibetot Com. Wigorum Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Johanni Com. Northumb. Johan Nevil Com. Northampton qui postea factus Marchio Montiacuto Chlr. Radulpho Graystock Chlr. Anthonio de Scales Georgio Latimer Chlr. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Tho. de Scroope de Masham Chlr. Johanni Beauchamp de Beauchamp Chlr. Johanni de Audley Chlr. Edwardo Nevil de Bergavenny Chlr. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Reginal Gray de Wilton Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier de Fitz-warrin Chlr. Hen. Fitz-hugh Chlr. Johanni Strange Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Ricardo VVest Chlr. Willielmo Hastings de Hastings Chlr. Waltero Devereux de Ferres Hen. Bromfleet de Vessey Chlr. Humf. Stafford de Southwick Chlr. Johanni Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Willielm Fines de Say Chlr. Richardo Fines de Daâ—re Chlr. Roberto Ogle Chlr. Will. Herbert Chlr. Tho. Lumley de Lumley Chlr. Humfrido Cromwell Chlr. Tho. Stanley de Stanley Chlr. Johanni Wenlock de Wenlock Chlr. Ricardo VVelles de VVilloughbie Chlr. Johanni Bourchier de Barnes Chlr. Waltero Blunt de Mountioy Chlr. Equites aurati omnes The Parliament holden at Westminster the Third of Iuly in the seventh year of King Edward the Fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in his Chair of State in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons William Bishop of Lincoln in the absence of George Archbishop of York Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement
Duci Gloucest Johanni Duci Norfolciae Johanni Duci Suffolciae Ricardo Com. Warr. Sarum Hen. Com. Essex Willielmo Com. Arundel Johanni Com. Salopiae Edwardo Com. Cantiae Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Johanni Com. Northumb. Johan Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Graystock Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Johanni Bernes Chlr. Tho. le Scroope de Masham Chlr. Johanni Beauchamp de Beauchamp Edwardo de Nevil de Bergavenny Chlr. Reginal Gray de Wilton Willielmo Bourchier de Fitz-warrin Chlr. Waltero Blunt de Mountjoy Johanni Strange Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Ricardo VVest Chlr. Johanni Denham de Cary Chlr. VVill. Hastings de Hastings VValtero Devereux de Ferris Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Bolton Radul Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Hen. Fitz-hugh Chlr. VVillielmo Fenis de Say Chlr. Ricardo Fenis de Dacre Chlr. Roberto Ogle Chlr. Tho. Lumley Chlr. Humf. Bourchier de Cromwell Chlr. Tho. de Stanley Chlr. Johanni Wenlock de VVenlock Chlr. Ricardo VVelles de VVilloughbie Chlr. VVillielmo Sturton de Sturton Chlr. VVillielmo Lovell de Morley Milites omnes praeter Morley Anno Duodecimo Edwardi Quarti Rex c. Charissimo fratri suo Georgio Duci Clarentiae c. apud Westm. sexto die Octobris Teste apud Westm. decimo nono die Augusti RIcardo Duci Gloucest Johanni Duci Norfolciae Johanni Duci Suffolciae VVillielmo Com. Arundell Hen. Com. Essex Edwardo Com. Cantii Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Hen. Com. Northumb. Anth. Com. Rivers Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Com. VVilts Radulpho Graystock Chlr. Tâ—o le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Johanni Beauchamp de Beauchamp Chlr. Johanni de Audley Chlr. Edwardo Nevill de Bergavenny Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de VVilton Johanni Strange Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Johanni Howard Chlr. Ricardo West Chlr. VValtero Devereux de Ferrars Chlr. Johan le Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Radul Buteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Lumley de Lumley Chlr. Tho. Stanley de Stanley Chlr. Radulpho Fenis de Dacre Chlr. Johan Brook de Cobham Chlr. VValtero Blunt de Mountjoy Chlr. VVill. Sturton de Sturton Chlr. Johanni Bourchier de Bernes Chlr. Fulconi Bourchier de Fitz-warrin Chlr. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. VVillielm Hastings de Hastings Chlr. VVillielmo Berkley Chlr. Johanni Denham de Cary Denham Milites omnes except Denham The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixth day of October in the twelfth year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of State in the Chamber de pinct within the Palace at Westminster and of the Lords and Commons Robert Bishop of Bath and Welles Chancellor of England made a notable declaration of the summons of the Parliament after which he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present to the King their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Commons declared to the Lords that they had chosen their Speaker The fourth day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King William Allington Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the Common protestation was allowed The last day of November the Commons grant to the King 14000 Archers to serve the King at their costs for one year the same to be levyed out of all mens lands according to a proportion The Lords Spirituall and Temporall by themselves grant unto the King towards the furniture aforesaid the tenth part of one whole yeares revenue of all and singular their possessions The Commons by a long protestation require that the Statute made against ryots maintenance oppressions and for labourers may be executed The same day by the Kings commandement the Bishop of Rochester after thanks giving to the Commons for their grant doth prorogue the Parliament from the same day unto the eighth of February then ensuing at Westminster The King by Letters Patents createth Edward his first begotten son Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester the which is confirmed by common consent The King by other Letters Patents granteth unto the said Prince the hereditaments belonging to the said Principality and Earldome The King by other Letters Patents delivereth to the said Prince the Dutchy of Cornwall with the whole appurtenances all which grants are confirmed by assent of Parliament with sundry provisions Henry Percie Knight son and heir to Henry Percie late Lord of Northumberland is restored in bloud to the said Earldome and to all such hereditaments of the same Earl as came to the Kings hands the second day of March in Ann. 9. E. 4. and the attainder made against the said Earl An. 1. E. 4. tit 17. is made void The attainder made against William Grinsby Esq in An. 1. E. 4. is made void and he restored Robert Talbois Esq son and heir to William Talbois Knight is restored to the bloud and lands of the said William and the attainder of the said William An. 1. E. 4. tit 19. is made void George Brown Knight son of Tho. Brown of London is likewise restored as heir of the said Thomas notwithstanding any attainder made against the said George by verdict An. 38. H. 6. Robert Bulling Gentleman is restored and the attainder An. 1. E. 4. is made void â—homas Maidwell son and heir of Iohn Maidwell of Kirton in Lindsey in the County of Lincoln Gent. is restored to bloud and lands of the said Iohn Maidwell and the attainder had against him the said Iohn An. 1. E. 4. made void Edmond Cornwall son and heir to Thomas Cornwall is restored as above and the attainder had against the said Thomas An. 1. E. 4. is made void The like restitution of bloud and lands is made to Everard Digbie son and heir of Everard Digby late of Stockdry in Rutland Esq and the attainder had against the father An. 1. E. 4. is made void It is enacted that William Lord Berckley and Ioan his wife and the heirs of the sad William shall peaceably enjoy the Mannor and Burrough of Wotton under Egg the Mannor of Symond Hall and Erlingham with their appurtenances in the County of Gloucester against Margaret Viscountesse Lisle late the wife of Thomas Talbot late Viscount Lisle paying yearly to the said Margaret during her life 100 l. with certain provisions Ralph Nevil son and heir of Iohn Nevil Knight late Lord Nevil is restored to the bloud and lands of the said Iohn and the attainder had against the said Iohn An. 1. E. 4. is made void wherein certain provisions are Henry Roos Knight is restored in bloud and lands and the attainder had against him An. 1. E. 4. is made void Thomas Ormond
and kept St. Michaels Mount against the King The Commons grant to the King one Desm and one Fifteen and three parts of either of them The fourteenth day of March Anno 14 E. 4. after the reading of the grant aforesaid and of the Petitions ensuing the Bishop of Lincoln Chancellor of England on the Kings behalf gave thanks to all the estates and so dissolved the Parliament Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print Anno 12 E. 4. cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print touching Subsidies cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching bow-staves cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print of adnulling of Letters Patents made for searchers of Victuals cap. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching Escheators cap. 9. agreeth with the record The print for Liveries to be given by the Prince cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print for shipping of woolls cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching Sewers cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching Wears and Fish-garthes cap. 7. agreeth with the record That the acquittal of certain Welshmen by name upon certain Felonies being unduly done and taken before Thomas Brampton and Iohn Wymes Justices of Assize in Hereff. Anno 13 E. 4. may be void it is enacted William Hyde a Burgesse for Chippingham in Wilâ—s being in Execution in the Kings Bench upon a Capias ad satisfaciend prayeth to be delivered by a writ out of the Chancery the which is granted saving the right to the other men to have execution after the Parliament ended The 23. of Ianuary Anno 14 E. 4. these Petitions ensuing were enacted An Act for the payment of the Kings debts upon Patents Bill or Talley due from Anno 10. The print touching the Kings Tenants going in his warrs cap. 1. agreeth with his record The print touching protections for such as goe into the Kings warrs cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching breaking of Truce cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the shipping of woolls cap. 3. agreeth with the record Anno Decimo Septimo Edwardi Quarti The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixteenth day of Ianuary in the seventeeth year of King Edward the Fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct otherwise called St. Edwards Chamber and of the Lords and Commons Thomas Bishop of Lincoln and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement declared the cause of the calling of the said Parliament taking for his Theam Dominus regit me nihil mihi deâ—rit Upon which he largely treated of the obedience of the Subjects due to the Prince and shewed out of the Old and New Testaments by sundry examples of such grievous plagues as ensued the rebell and disobedient and the saying of St. Paul Non sine causa Rex gladium portat He further sheweth how the Majesty of the King was upholden by the hand of the Counsel of God whereby he was advanced to the seat of his Ancestors He concludeth under the person of the King under the persons of the Bishops and Lords and under the persons of the Commons Si dominus regit me nihil mihi deerit sed in loco pascuae illos collocabit After which he willed the Commons the next day to chuse their Speaker among their selves and accordingly to present him to the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament certain of the Commons declared unto the Lords how they had chosen their Speaker The fourth day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King William Allington to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the common protestation was allowed An Act shewing how the King had created Richard his second Son Duke of York and Norfolk Earl Marshal and Warren and Nottingham and had appointed his said Son to mary with Anne the daughter and heir of Iohn late Duke of Norfolk the said Anne being then of the age of six years Wherefore it is enacted that if the said Anne should happen to dye before issue had by the said Duke of York that then the said Duke should enjoy during his life sundry Baronies Honors Castles Manors Knights fees and other hereditaments by name in Wales Sussex and other Countries parcel of the inheritance of the said Anne A Confirmation of the Joynture rated by particulars to Elizabeth Dutchesse of Norfolk late the wife of Iohn Duke of Norfolk all which premises with all other the reversions of the hereditaments of the said Duke of Norfolk are granted to the said Duke of York during his life certain particular provisions for the Lord Howard the Lord Barkeley and others Richard Duke of Gloucester and Anne his wife in the right of his said wife assured to the King in fee the Castle and Manor of Elvel with the appurtenances in Wales in exchange whereof the King gave to the said Duke and to Anne in fee the Castle and Manor of Ugmore in Wales with Clauses of re-entry for either party in cases of eviction the which assurances are confirmed by Parliament The Duke of Suffolk giveth to the King in fee the Manors of Eastwordlebam and Westwordleham with the appurtenances in Southampton for the Manors of Dudington and Ascot with the appurtenances in Oxon in fee with the like Clause as before the which is confirmed as before It is enacted that Richard Duke of Gloucester and Anne his wife and the heirs of them and the Executors and Assigns of the said Duke may lawfully Alien discontinue and grant away sundry Advowsons there named of the inheritance of the said Anne in Mortmain or otherwise notwithstanding the Statute made in Anno 14 E. 4. tit 22. Where the King had created George Nevil the son of Iohn Nevil late Marquesse of Mountacute and made him Duke of Bedford the King by authority of Parliament revoketh the said Creation and all titles of honour as well from the said George and from the said John At the Petition of Roger Twyndowe Esquire Cosin and heir of Anckenett Twyndowe late wife of William Twyndowe Esquire deceased viz. son of Iohn son of the said William and Anckenett the judgement and processe had against the said Anckenett at Ware Anno 16. E. 4. for poysoning of Isabel late the wife of George Duke of Clarence is utterly repealed It is to be noted that the said Anckenett suffered death for the act aforesaid at
Ware whose Indictment and processe thereon is annexed to the record Elizabeth Notâ—hill the sister and heir of Anthony Notehill late of Riston in Holderness in the County of York Knight and Cosin and heir of Anthony Notehill late of the same Esquire son of the same Anthony and Walter the Attainders against them Anno 1 E. 4. made void The attainder against Thomas Vere Knight Anno 13 E. 4. tit 35. is revoked and he restored to the Manor of Dillingham in the County of Cambridge and all other his hereditaments William Finderne Knight son and heir of Thomas Findern Knight is restored to the bloud and lands of the said Thomas and the Attainder of the said Thomas Anno 1 E. 4. made void A long Order for the paving of the City of Canterbury The like Statute for the paving of the Town of Taunton in Somersetshire The like for the Town of Ciciter The like for the Town of Southampton Ralph Ashton Knight reciteth the matter contained Anno 12 E. 4. tit 37. and sheweth how the said Roger with sundry other there named in most riotous wife since the said Act detained and kept the Manor of Great Lener against which riots order by processe is granted with provisions Where Richard Heron of London Merchant sued Iohn Walden late Mayor of the Staple at Callice and Philip Harbery Merchants of the same in the Court at Bruges in Flanders and other forein Courts It is enacted that if the said Richard doe not after Proclamation made in London surcease the forein sutes that he then shall be out of the Kings protection Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching money cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print for Courts of Piepowder cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print against unlawfull games cap. 2. agreeth with the record A long Act for the apparelling of every estate The print for making of tyle cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching sealing of Cloathes cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching the Sheriffs return cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the revocation of a Parliament holden Anno 9 E. 4. agreeth with the record It is enacted that John at Will a Burgesse for Exeter being condemned during the Parliament in the Exchequer upon 8. several Informations by the pursute of John Taylor of the same Town shall have as many Supersedeas therefore as he will until his coming home An Act to continue unto the next Parliament that all Irishmen born or coming of Irish and which doe remain within England doe repair and remain in Ireland or else to pay yearly a certain sum there rated for the defence of the same Anno Vicesimo secundo Edwardi Quarti Rex c. Charissimo suo filio primogenito Edwardo Principi Walliae c. apud Westm. Vicesimo die Ianuarii Teste Rege apud Westm. decimo quinto die Novembris 1482. RIcardo Duci Eborum Ricardo Duci Gloucest Johanni Duci Suffolciae Hen. Duci Buckingham Tho. Marchioni Dorset VVillielmo Com. Arundell Hen. Com. Essex Edwardo Com. Cantii Radulph Com. Westmerland Hen. Com. Northumb. Anth. Com. Rivers Willielmo Com. Huntington Radulpho Graystock Chlr. Tho. le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Ricardo Beauchamp de Beauchamp Chlr. Johanni de Audley Chlr. Georgio Nevil Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de VVilton Chlr. Georgio Standley de Standley Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Johanni Howard Chlr. Ricardo West Chlr. VValtero Devereux de Ferrars Chlr. Johan le Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Tho. Lumley de Lumley Chlr. Tho. Standley de Standley Chlr. Richardo Fines de Dacre Chlr. Johanni Brooke de Cobham Chlr. Johan Blunt de Mountjoy Chlr. Johan Sturton de Sturton Chlr. Johan Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Willielmo Hastings de Hastings Chlr. VVillielmo Viscount Berckley Chlr. Johanni Denham de Cary Denham Chlr. Edwardo Gray de Lisle Fran. Lovell de Lovell Chlr. Ricardo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Tho. Arundell de Montrevers Mil. Humâ— Dacre de Gilsland Johanni Gray de Powis Ricardo Hastings de Welles Oweno Ogle de Ogle Mil. Edwardo Hastings de Hungerford The Parliament holden at Westminster the twentieth day of Ianuary in the Two and twentieth year of the reign of Edward the Fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of estate in the Chamber de pinct commonly called St. Edwards Chamber within the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons then there assembled the Archbishop of York Chancellor of England made a notable Declaration of the calling of the Parliament taking for his Theam Dominus illuminatio mea et salus mea after which he willed the Commons the next day to choose their Speaker and to present him to the King Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament certain of the Commons declared unto the Lords how they had made choice of their Speaker The third day the Commons presented unto the King Iohn Wood Esquire to be their Speaker whose Excuse made was refused and he with the Common protestation was allowed The fifteenth day of February the Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King one Desm and one Fifteen to be levied of the Laity except 6000 l. to be bestowed upon decayed Towns A yearly Subsidie granted to be levied of all Strangers as well the Denizens as otherwise At the request of the Commons the King granted that all the Statutes concerning Weights and Measures of Labourers Beggars and Vagabonds should be proclamed and observed A yearly rent out of the Kings Customes and other Revenues for paying the provision taken up for his houshold amounting to 11000 l. Where the Prince was seized of sundry Manors in the County of Dorset there by name as in the right of his Dutchy of Cornwall the same Manors are given to William Earl of Huntington son and heir of William Herbert Knight late Earl of Pembrook in general tail in exchange for sundry Honours Castles and Manors in Wales all which by the same authority of Parliament are annexed to the said Dutchie The King by authority of Parliament giveth to Richard Duke of Gloucester and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten the Wardship and office of North Marches together with the Castle Town Lordship and Fee-farm of Carlisle with all the Customs and profits the Castle and Fee-farm of Bowcastle with all the appurtenances and Nichol Forest and all the Kings hereditaments as of his
edition of banes in a private Chamber a prophane place and not openly in the face of the Church after the Law of Gods Church but contrary thereunto and the laudable custom of the Church of England and how also at the time of the contract of the same pretended Mariage and before and long time after the said King Edward was and stood maried and troth-plight to one Dame Elinor Butler daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury with whom the said King Edward had made a Pre-contract of Matrimony long time before he made the said pretended Mariage with the said Elizabeth Gray in manner and form aforesaid Which premisses being true as in very truth they be true it appeareth and followeth evidently that the said King Edward during his life and the said Elizabeth lived together sinfully and damnably in adultery against the Law of God and of his Church and therefore no marvel that the Soveraign Lord and head of the land being of such ungodly disposition and provoking the ire and indignation of our Lord God such heynous mischief and Inconveniences as are above remembred were used and committed in the Realm amongst the Subjects Also it appeareth evidently and followeth that all the issue and children of the said King Edward be Bastards and unable to inherit or claim any thing by inheritance by the Law and custom of England Moreover we consider how that afterwards by the three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 17. of the reign of the said King Edward the fourth he then being in possession of the Crown and royal Estate by Act made in the same Parliament George Duke of Clarence brother to the King Edward now deceased was convicted and attainted of High Treason as in the said Act is contained more at large because and by reason whereof all the issue of the said George was and is disabled and barred of all right and claim that in any case they might have or challenge by inheritance to the Crown and Dignity royal of this Realm by the antient Laws and Customs of this same Realm Over this we consider that you be the undoubted heir of Richard Duke of York very inheritor of the said Crown and dignity royal and as in right King of England by way of Inheritance And that at this time the premises duely considered there is none other person living but you onely that may claim the said Crowne and Dignity royal by way of Inheritance and how that you be born within this Land by reason whereof as we deem in our minds you be more naturally inclined to the prosperity and common-weal of the same And all the three Estates of the Land have and may have more certain knowledge of your birth and filiation aforesaid We consider also thâ— great Wit Prudence Justice Princely courage and the memorable and laudable acts in divers battels which as we by experience know you heretofore have done for the defence and salvation of this Realmâ— and also the great noblenesse and excellency of your birth and bloud as of him that is descended of the three most royal houses of Christendome that is to say England France and Spain Wherefore these premises duly by us considered we desiring effectually the peace tranquillity and weal publique of this Land and the reduction of the same to the antient honourable estate and prosperity And having in your great prudent Justice Princely courage and excellent vertue singular confidence have chosen in all that in us is and by that our Writing choose you high and mighty Prince our King and Soveraign Lord c. to whom we know of certain it appertaineth of Inheritance so to be chosen And hereupon we humbly desire pray and require your most Noble grace that according to this election of us theâ— Three Estates of your Land as by inheritance you will accept and take upon you the said Crown and royal dignity with all things thereunto annexed and appertaining as to you of right belonging as well by inheritance as by lawfull election and in case you so do we promise to assist and serve your Highnesse as true and faithfull Subjects and Liege-men and to live and dye with you in this matter and in every other just quarrel for certainly we be determined rather to adventure and commit us to the peril of our lives and jeopardy of death than to live in such thraldom and bondage as we have done long time heretofore oppressed and injured by Extortions and new Impositions against the Law of God and Man and the liberties and old policy and Laws of this Land wherein every Englishman is inherited Our Lord God King of all Kings by whose infinite goodnesse and eternal providence all things been principally governed in this world lighten your Soul and grant you grace to do as well in this matter as in all other that which may be according to his will and pleasure and to the common and publique weal of this Land So that after great clouds troubles storms and tempests the Sun of Justice and of Grace may shine upon us to the joy and comfort of all true-hearted English men Albeit that the right title and estate which our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third hath to and in the Crown and royal dignity of this Realm of England with all things thereunto within the same Realm and without it annexed and appertaining been just and lawfull as grounded upon the Laws of God and Nature and also upon the antient Laws and laudable Customs of this said Realm And also taken and reputed by all such persons as been learned in the abovesaid Lawes and Customs Yet neverthelesse for as much as it is considered that the most part of the people is not sufficiently learned in the abovesaid Laws and Customs whereby the truth and right in this behalf of likelihood may be hid and not clearly known to all the people and thereupon put in doubt and question And over this how that the Court of Parliament is of such authority and the people of this Land of such a nature and disposition as experience teacheth that manifestation and declaration of any truth or right made by the Three estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament and by authority of the same maketh before all other things most faith and certain quieting of mens minds and removeth the occasion of doubts and seditious language Therefore at the request and by the assent of the Three Estates of this Realm that is to say the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament and by authority of the same be it pronounced decreed and declared that our said Soveraign Lord the King was and is the very undoubted King of this Realm of England with all things thereunto within the same Realm and
be advised It is enacted that all religious persons for lands purchased since the twentieth of Edw. 3. and paying no Desmie therefore amongst the Clergie shall pay fifteens After this Mr. Iohn Charlton one of the Messengers aforesaid brought Letters from the Bishop of Durham from the Earls of Northampton Arundel Warwick Oxon and Suffolk and from Sir Hugh le Dispencer Lord of Glamorgan directed to the whole estate of Parliament and purporting that where the King at his arrivall at Hoges in Normandie had made his eldest son the Prince of Wales a Knight whereby he ought to have aid of the Realm as appertaineth Viz. forty shillings for every Knights Fee whereunto they all granted and took Order for the speedy levying of the same It is ordered in full Parliament at the request of the Commons that the Benefices of all Aliens should be seized into the Kings hand and he to take the profit of the same and that all Bishops should before the next Convocation certifie into the Chancery the Names of all Aliens their Benefices and values An Act as before that no Alien should send any Letters Tit. 42â— Anno Vicesimo primo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the morrow after S. Hilary in the 21 year of the Reign of King Edw. 3. of England and of France the 8 th PRoclamation made the first day by the Kings Commandment That no person shall use or bear any Arms within London and the Suburbs or in any place between the said City and Pallace of Westminster nor in no other part of the Pallace by Land or by Water except such of the Kings people as he shall appoint to keep the Kings peace and the Kings Ministers according to the Statute of Northampton yet Earls and Barons may wear their swords except in the Kings presence and place of Councel Receivers of Petitions for England and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for the Clergy Triers of Petitions Because divers Lords were not come the Parliament was continued from day to day thrice Viz. until Thursday following at which time William de Thorp in presence of the King Prelates Earls Barons and Commons declared that the Parliament was called for two causes the first Concerning the War which the King had undertaken by the consent of the Lords and Commons against his enemies of France The second How the peace of England may be kept Whereupon the King willed the Commons to consult together and that within four dayes they should give answer to the King and his Councel what they think therein The fourth day the Commons declare That they are not able to Councel any thing touching the point of the war wherefore they desire in that behalf to be excused and that the King will thereof advise with his Nobles and Councel and what shall be so amongst them determined they the Commons will assent unto confirm and establish Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the Laws of Holy Church and of the Land and that the Peace be kept for which purpose they desire That no great person do maintain no Traitors Felons Robbers Trespassers against the peace Barretors Maintainers Confederators Embracers of business Conspirators Champtors and the like by which falsities the Peace is disturbed and the Laws frustrated and that certain Ordinances be made for punishment of such Offendors That to the intent that the Laws may be duly and indifferently ministred the King will be pleased so to encrease the fees of the knight Barons Justices Ministers and Officers and that they may be sworn to take nothing Touching the first point the King will call the great persons to him and will move this Article to them and with their advice will ordain such remedy as shall be pleasing to God and man Touching the second the King will advise what other Ministers shall be fit to take the Oath and will do what shall be needfull That all these Petitions which be for the common profit may be answered in Parliament before the Commons so as they may know the Endorsment and have remedie according to the Ordinance of Parliament That whereas the Scots by Covin with Philip de Valâ—is in the Kings absence did enter the Realm of England with all their hoast burning and destroying the Land and feloniously committing robberies murders c. And whereas in a Battel at Durham divers of them were slain and some of their Chieftains as David de Brays William Douglas and others were by force there taken and are in the Kings power that he will be pleased so to take order with them by his Councel that he and his people be not in little danger and that they may give surety for their good behaviour The King by advice de ses Grantz will provide so as shall be best Whereas the Staple of Wooll which is holden at Bruges in Flanders hath used to be free so as all Merchants might there freely buy merchandise and carry the same from thence whither they lift by Land or Sea and now the same freedom is restrained so as none can freely buy and carry from thence according to the antient usage with them of Flanders and Brabant And they of Brabant cannot bring their Wools bought in the Staple out of the Town of Bruges without sureties that the Wools shall be uttered in the Country of Brabant or that they bring Letters from the Town of Bruges without sureties in what Town of Brabant those Wools shall be uttered whereby the price of Wooll is much abased Also the three good Towns of Flanders Gant Bruges Ipre will not suffer the small Towns which were wont to buy great quantities of Wools to make Cloth but do destroy their Instruments to the abasement likewise of the price of Wools. Also the paiment of Gold is at so high a price in those parts that a man shall lose in Exchange the third penny and more for which matters it may please the Parliament to provide remedy The King will that the Ordinance of the Staple shall be viewed and that Thomas Melchburn with whom the Patent touching that Ordinance doth remain be called to bring the same with him and that some Merchants of the Country who best understand this matter and the King by advice of his Council will provide remedy Whereas in a Council holden by Lionel the Kings son the Guardian of England it was in the 21 year of the King ordered without the Commons That for keeping the Realm and safe conduct of ships should be taken upon every sack of Wooll passing the seas two shillings upon every Tun of Wine two shillings upon every pound Desavoires brought back into the Realm six pence and this charge to continue until Michaelmas next coming which charge is yet demanded
That the Commons House may choose Justices of Peace for every County and that they be not displaced for any surmises That the Commons House name able men and the King will choose at his pleasure The print touching Writs of Identitate nominis Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record until the Record hath name and addition which the print wanteth The print touching the price of Poultry agreeth with the Record The print touching the Remembrance of the Exchequer Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching Grocers Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record only the print wanteth this word Uti The print touching Artificers Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The print touching the decent apparelling of every estate Cap. 8. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. agreeth with the Record That such persons as in the time of the great Pestilence did let forth their Manors holden of the King in chief without licence to sundry persons for term of life may accordingly continue the same until the people be more populous The King will be advised The print touching Wines Cap. 16. agreeth with the Record only where the print hath Couchers the Record hath English Courchers which note That such as bring in any Wines from any of the Kings dominions do bring Testimonial under chief Officers hands of the prices of the same So as the Justice of the peace at their arrivall may set the assize of the same The Statute therefore shall stand The print touching exception of Villenage Cap. 17. agreeth with the Record The print touching suggestions Cap. 18. agreeth with the Record The Parliament continued on diverse prorogations until the third of November at which day the Chancellor in the presence of the King Lords and Commons shewed how the King meant to execute the Statute of Apparel and therefore charged every estate to further the same After which he demanded of the whole estates whether they would have such things as they agreed on to be by way of Ordinance or of Statute who answered by way of Ordinance for that they might amend the same at their pleasure and so the same was And so the King having given thanks to all the estates for their pains taken licenced them to depart It is to be remembred that of the seven Chapters in print touching silver vessels and of the nineteenth for finding of Hawks there is no mention made in the Record Anno Tricesimo octavo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Carissimo â—ilio suo Johanni Duci Lancastriae c. apud Westmonasterium in Octabis Sancti Hilarii c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium 4 die Decembris c. EDmondo Com. Cantabrigiae Ricardo Com. Arundel Humfrido de Bohun Com. Hereff. Essex Willielmo de Monte acuto Com. Sarum Hugo de Courtney Com. Devon Roberto de Ufford Com. Suff. Rado Com. Staff Thomae de Vere Com. Oxon. Gilberto de Umfravil Com. de Anegos Henrico de Piercie Rado de Nevill Johanni de Mowbray de Auxholm Henrico de Bello Campo Jacobo de Audley de Heleigh Johanni de Cherleton de Powys Waltero de Manny Mauritio de Berkley Rogero de Clifford Guidoni de Briae Rado de Basset Edwardo le Dispencer Johanni de Grey de Rotherfield Johanni Tibetot Thomae de Roos Thomae de Furnivall Petro de Malo lacu Johanni de Grey de Codenore Reginaldo Grey de Ruthin Thomae de Lucie Willielmo de Sayâ— Michaeli Poynings Barthol de Burgherst Gilberto Talbot Roberto de Colvill Thomae de Ughtred Johanni de Willoughby Thomae de Musgrave Willielmo de Ufford Nicholao Burnell Johanni de Huntingfield Willielmo de Scales Ranulpho Dacre Johanni de Northwood Roberto de Holland Willielmo la Zouch Rogero de Bello Campo Johanni de Strivelin Johanni de Bohun de Dunster Willielmo de Morley Rado Spigurnell Custodi Quinq Portuum Anno Tricesimo Octavo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Octaves of S. Hillary in the xxxviii year of Edward the third ON Monday the first day of the Parliament Proclamation was made in Westminster Hall that all such as were summoned to the Parliament might for that day depart and return the next morning into the Chamber de pinct there to hear the Kings pleasure At which time Simon Bishop of Ely Chancellor of England declared the cause of the Parliament taking for his Theam the saying of the Kingly Prophet Vera justitia and faithful judgement do adorn the Kings seat upon which he discourseth of such noble prowesse as the King by Gods power atchieved in his youth and maketh rehearsal of the assured good will and ready helps of the Kings Subjects to have furthered the same by the which as the King gave unto them hearty thanks so did he promise by all means to seek the common peace and tranquillity by the observation of all good Laws and by the amending of such of them as were faulty and by making new where need did require Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Aquitane and other forreign Countries and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England as above Tryers of Petitions for Aquitane as above The same day the King declared to the whole estate how daily citations and false suggestions were made to the Pope for matters determinable in his Court within the Realm and for procuring provision for Ecclesiastical dignities to the great defacing of the ancient Laws to the spoiling of his Crown to the daily conveying away of the treasure to the wasting of Ecclesiastical livings to the withdrawing of Divine Service Alms hospitality and other acceptable works and to the daily encrease of all mischiefs wherefore no person c. and by his own mouth the King requireth according to the old Statute heretofore to provide due remedie On Saturday after the Bishops Lords and Commons brought into the Parliament the Act following named in the Statute of Confirmation Ann. 38. as a saving of the liberties of the bodies of Prelates and Lords of the Realm The Act of Provisors agreeth with the print in all manner cap. 1 2 3 4. only in the Record are more biting words A Mystery not to be known of all men That no victuals or corn be carried from the North Marches into Scotland nor that any protection or pass-port be granted to any Scot to pass through the Realm The King will provide therefore That the Fines of the Chancery may be as they were at the Coronation of the King The King would them to be reasonable for the case of the people The print for the Staple to be kept in England cap. 7. agreeth with the Record That three shillings four pence layed upon every sack of Wool at Callis and all other unreasonable Impositions may cease The King
Westminster the Monday the first day of May in the 42 year of the reign of King Edward the Third AT this day for that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not come the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared to the Lords and Commons then assembled in the Chamber de Pinct that the Kings pleasure was that the Parliament should be continued until the Thursday ensuing On the said Thursday the said Arch-Bishop in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared that the King yeelded to God his most hearty thanks for giving him Victory over his Enemies for the quiet government of his Realm and for the great Loyalty of his Subjects both in Body and Goods the which Blessing and good Estate as he decreed to continue and amend so that he might the better accomplish the same he had therefore called the Parliament Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other forein places and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The next day the same Arch-Bishop declared that of the long treaty between the Kings Councel and David le Bruce of Scotland this was the last offer of the said David viz. that he offered peace so as he might freely enjoy to him in Fee the whole Realm of Scotland without any subjection or any other thing which mâ—ght be accounted a perpetual charge Of which Peace the Lords and Commons being willed to give their advice made several Answers that they could not assent to any such peace but to the disherison of the King and of his Crown and to the great danger of themselves being sworn to the same After that the said Arch-Bishop on the Kings behalf gave to the whole Estates thanks for their Aids and Subsidies granted to the King and shewed further the great need of the same Whereupon the Lords and Commons granted to the King for two years the Subsidy of Wooll viz. of every sack of Wooll 30 s. 8 d. so much of every 2â—0 Fells and of every Last of skins 4 l. over the old Custom 6 s. 8 d of every sack of Wooll and so much of twenty dozen of Fells and 13 s. 4 d. of every last of skins Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching the keeping of the great Charter cap. 1. agreeth with the Record onely the print wanteth and all other Statutes The print of Pardons agreeth with the Record The print that none be put to answer without due process of Law cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching Commissions cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching Escheators cap. 5. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form quod nota The print touching Labourers cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The print touching Victualls in London cap. 7. agreeth with the Record Note that the Londoners required that no Forainer should retail any Wine Merchandize or Victualls in London which was not granted The print touching the restraint of English Merchants to fetch Gascoyne wine cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The print touching green wax out of the Exchequer cap. 9. agreeth with the Record The print touching such as be born at Callice cap. 10. agreeth with the Record The 21. of May the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their coming and aide granted on which day all the Lords and sundry of the Commons dined with the King after which dinner Sir Iohn de Lee was brought before the King Lords and Commons next aforesaid to answer to certain Objections following and first to the complaint of William Latimer as followeth The King had granted the Wardship of Robert Latimer the Son and Heir of Sir Robert Latimer with certain Mannors during the same minority to the Bishop of Sarum whose estate the same William had and after the King granted the same to Sir Iohn Lee. The same William surmised that the said Sir Iohn being of power sent for him to London where he by duress of Imprisonment enforced the said William to surrender his Estate to him And by Recognizance therefore the same Sir Iohn excuseth himself for that the Grant was made unto him the which was not allowed for that the said VVilliam was not put out by due process of Law Another matter was objected against the said Sir Iohn for that during such time as he was Steward of the Kings House he should cause sundry men to be attached and to come before him as before the Kings Councel in places where he pleased where being out of Councel he caused men to answer as to things before the Councel That he as Steward having thereby authority onely within the Verge did notwithstanding cause sundry to be attached out of the Verge as Iohn Goddard and others making them to answer in the Marshalsâ—y of things done out of the Verge and other-some committed to the Tower of his own Authority as Iohn Sibill Edmond Urdsales and others That he had of his own authority against the Justices commandment discharged out of Newgate Hugh Lavenham Purveyor who had appealed sundry men of Felony That he bargained with Sir Nicholas Lovayn for the keeping of the Mannor of Rainham in Kent the which the same Sir Nicholas claimed to hold during the minority of the Son and Heir of Iohn Saunton where the said Iohn of Lee knew that the said Mannor was holden of the King in chief as of the Castle of Dover Of all which points for that the same Sir Iohn could not purge himself he was commanded to the Tower of London there to remain as prisoner until he had made Fines at the Kings will And commandment given to Sir Allen of Buxhal Constable of the Tower to keep him accordingly And so the Lords and Commons departed After that the said Sir Iohn being brought to Westminster before the Kings Councel and being there demanded of the same William Lattimer made answer that as freely as the King had granted to him the Wardship aforesaid so freely did he surrender the same into the Kings hands Whereupon by the same Councel it was ordered that the Wardship aforesaid should be reseised into the Kings hands and delivered unto the said William Lattimer according to the Grant made to the said Bishop and that all Recognizances and conveyances made by the said William to the said Sir Iohn should be void saving the Kings right Anno Quadragessimo Tertio Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Octaves of St. Trinity in the 43. Year of Edward the Third THe Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England the same day in the Chamber de Pinct in the presence of the King Lords and Commons
to be saved The Lords severally answered that it were good safely to keep him in some secret place from all concourse and that by such sufficient Persons as had not been familiar or about him 75 The Names of such Bishops Lords and Knights as assented to the Imprisonment of King Richard 76 By full consent of all Bishops and Lords it was agreed that Henry the Kings eldest Son should from henceforth be called Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitain and Cornwall Earl of Chester and heir apparent of the Realm of England 77 On Monday the 28 th day of October the King came into the Parliament into the great Hall of Westminster where by the assent of the Bishops and Lords Richard late King of England was adjudged to perpetuall Prison as above 78 On the same Monday the Commons declared to the King how that the Duke of Brittain had sent word how that he was ready to do the King all that which he ought to do and therefore prayed that the Earldom of Richmond being his inheritance might not be granted away by any Letters Patents the which the Commons required and further that the Letters Patents thereof made to the Earl of Westmerland since the last Parliament might be repealed whereunto the King made answer that the Letters Patents were granted long before 79 The Duke of York and Earl of Northumberland and others of the Bloud of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury pray the King that the same Arch Bishop might have his recoverie against Roger Walden for sundry wastes and spoyls done by the said Roger in the Arch-Bishoprick aforesaid whereto the King granted and thanked them for their motion 80 The Commons on the 3. of November pray that forasmuch as they were not made privie to the Judgment aforesaid that no Record be made to charge or to make them parties thereunto whereunto the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by the Kings Commandment answered that the Commons were only Petitioners and that all Judgments appertain to the King and to the Lords unless it were in Statutes Grants Subsidies or such like the which order the King wouâ—d from that time to be observed 81 The Earl of Northumberland and Constable of England the 10 day of November in full Parliament beseeched the King to purge him and the Earl of Westmerland Marshall of England of the reproch layed on them that they procured the King to war on Scotland whereupon the King took upon himself the same and caused the Earl of Northumberland to ask of every Lord his opinion touching the same War who encouraged the King thereunto 82 The King by the assent of the Lords and Commons enacteth that Henry his eldest Son should have and bear the name of Duke of Lancaster and be called Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitain Lancaster and Cornwall and Earl of Chester And further that all such Liberties and Franchizes as were granted to the Duke of the same Dutchie should remain unto his said eldest Son and to his Heirs Dukes of Lancaster dissevered from the Crown of England and thereupon delivered one Charter thereof made in Parliament to his eldest Son 83 The King enacteth by the assent of the Lords that a certain new people disguised in white garments and pretending great Sanctimonie and coming from beyond the Seas be in no wise suffered to tarrie or harbour within the Realm 84 The King pardoneth and receiveth into his Protection Richard Clifford then Keeper of the privie Seal Richard Oltford the Bishop of Sarum and Mr. Henry Bowell who were exempted in An 11. Richard 2. 85 The print touching Liveries Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 86 The Commons grant to the King liberty by the advise of such wise men as he should call to him to moderate or to repeal the Statute of Provisors at any time made 87 It is enacted that the Gold granted in Anâ— 20. Richard 2. Tit. 19. shall be brought to Callice unto the next Parliament 88 It is enacted that the Staple of Wooll-fells Skins Lead and Tin shall be only at Callice saving that the Merchants of Ieane Venice and other places towards the West being of the Kings amity may discharge their Merchandize at Hampton and take in such Staple ware saving also the libertie to the men of Barwick for their Woolls 89 The Commons require that all Liberties granted to any City or Town may be confirmed without any Fine with the clause licet The Chancellor shall confirm the same according as he hath used paying the Fine saving the liberties of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg 90 The City of London prayeth that the Sheriffs of the same may take Assizes in the absence of the Coroner Upon the taking of the Assize in the Guild Hall of London if the Coroner come not in upon Proclamation let the Sheriffs take the Assizes provided that the same be not in derogation of the Coroner 91 Upon the Petition of Sir Thomas Haxey Cleark the King pardoneth and revoketh the Judgment made against him in An 20. R. 2. tit 23. restoreth him to the bloud and to the recoverie of all his Goods Livings Lands and Tenements 92 William Steward alias Chedder complaineth that where he by name was presented and inducted to the Parsonage of Wotton-underegg in the County of Gloucester and there continued in possession by the space of four years untill the King by untrue suggestion presented one Sir Iohn Dowtre to the Parsonage oâ— Underegg in the Countie where there was no such Parsonage called Underegg as the said William pleaded in a Quare Impedit brought by the King upon which Writ brought the King recovereth of the said William the Parsonage of Underegg and not Underegg whereby upon a Writ sent to the Bishop of Worcester the said William was put from his Parsonage of Underegg for which mistaking and error the Judgment of the said Iohn in full Parliament was reversed and a Writ awarded to the said Bishop for the Restitution of the said William 93 Sir William Richill being in ward brought into the Parliament House before them to answer by what warrant he took and certified the confession of the Duke of Gloucester expressed in the third roll in An 21. R. 2. tit 10. and 11. and was thereof apposed by Sir Walter Clopton Chief Justice by the Kings Commandment who answered at the full declaring thereby as well sufficient authority as his sincere dealing therein upon the hearing of which every of the Lords thought he did not but justly whereupon the said Sir Walter adjudged and awarded the said Sir William acquitted thereof for ever 94.
And so alledging Bella faciamus ut pacem habeamus quia finis belli pax est He sheweth that the King meant to use their Counsell and therefore called the Commons to choose and to present their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the third day of the Parliament the Commons coming before the King and Lords presented Roger Flower to be their Speaker who made the common protestation and the same allowed The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King two whole Desmes and two fifteens to be levied of the Laity It is enacted that all such persons as shall before lend mony to the King shall freely have Letters Patents to be payed of the first mony coming of the subsidie aforesaid All which to perform if an end should come to the King the Dukes of Clarence Bedford and Gloucester for every of their selves faithfully promised to accomplish The names of certain Bishops and other Lords who subscribed to the Articles aforesaid A generall pardon granted by the King nothing touching life or losse of member On Wednesday the eighteenth of November being the last day of the Parliament the King sitting in his Royall Estate in full Parliament created Thomas Beauford Earl of Dorset to be Earl of Exeter after which the King commandeth him to sit in Parliament according to his estate A League and Alliance between the King his heirs and succesors Kings of England and Sigismond King of the Romans his heirs and successors Kings of the Romans are confirmed by whole assent of Parliament Note the Instrument of Alliance for the same is long and very effectuall Robert Whittington Esq and Ony his son complaining shew how that certain of the servants of Richard Old-castle Esq and the borderers of Wales by durance of imprisonment enforced the said Robert to release to the said Richard and Walter Hakelnyt Esq all manner of Actions for all which they prayen remedy The Kings Councell shall have power to call the parties before them and to end the same Iohn de Holland son of Iohn de Holland Earl of Huntington prayeth to be restored in bloud 2. H. 4. son of E. his wife to the said Iohn his father and to Richard his eldest brother who died without issue and to all the entailed lands of Iohn the Father as well of the Dutchy of Cornwall as otherwise except certain Mannors by name parcell of the said Dutchy so as he may freely enter into them The King enableth him in bloud according to his Petition and to all the intailed lands so as he first prove the same in the Chancery except as before and except all other lands parcell of the said Dutchy saving the fee simple lands to the King so as he do sue a Scire facias against the said Tenants for such whereof he should be in suit Iohn Allen and others Merchants of Coventry prayen restitution of 600 marks of old coin put into the hands of Richard Garmer late Master of the Mint within the Tower of London to be newly coined for that all the goods of the said Richard were seised to the Kings use by the Earl of Arundell Treasurer of England Upon proof hereof before the Councell they shall see the same payed so farr as the goods will extend William Clifford Constable of Bourdeaux complaining sheweth how that he had gotten the Town and Castle Rewle in Guyenne wherein he was besieged and could not keep the same without some succours the which he prayeth The King will accomplish the same with opportunity A motion is made that the suit hanging in the Court of Rome and in the Councell of Constance between Roger Frank and Iohn de Rippon touching the Abbey of Founteynes being very tedious may be ended The King will addresse his Letters to the Ambassadors at Constance to sollicite the end David Howell of Pembrook prayeth a pardon for all Treasons Felonies and Trespasses The King will be advised The print touching Irish Bishops c. cap. 6. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the great Charter c. cap. 1. agreeth with record The print touching allowance of Sheriffs cap. 2. having these words is of extracts therein swarveth from the record quod nota The print touching Patent-makers cap. 3. agreeth with the record The King releaseth to Iohn Tutburie the Customes of certain Wines The print touching servants wages cap. 4. agreeth with the record The like motion and answer as in the last Parliament tit 31. That none of the Kings Subjects be barred of their due debtsâ— or suits for the same by colour of protection granted to any Prior Alien but during such time as they shall serve the King beyond the seas The Prerogative and Common lawes shall be maintained The print touching Merchants Aliens cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching the free pardon c. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching Peace-breakers and Letters of Mart cap. 7. agreeth with the Record Anno Quinto Henrici Quinti Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Thomae Duci Exon. salt c. apud Westm. decimo sexto die Novembris Teste Iohanne Duce Bedford Custode Angliae apud VVestm quinto die Octobris CHariss Consang suo Hen. de Percie Com. Northumberland Radulpho Nevill Com. Westmerland Edwardo de Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Hugoni Burnell Johanni de Welles Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbot Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Tho. Camois Willielmo Botreaux Tho. de Dacre de Gilsland The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixteenth day of November in the fifth year of King Henry the Fifth ON the sixteenth day of November in the presence of the puissant Prince Iohn Duke of Bedford Brother and Lieutenant to the King and Warden of England sitting in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster the Bishop of Durham the Chancellor of England by his commandement in the presence of him the Lords and Commons declared that the Kings will was that the Church and all Estates should enjoy their liberties He then took for his Theam Confortamini viriliter agite et gloriosi eritis Upon which words he shewed what great comfort ought to have been considering that the King in the life of his
print touching the Kings pardon to the Clergie cap. 6. agreeth with the record Of the three Chapters in print this record maketh no mention Anno Vicessimo Octavo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Willielmo Duci Suffelciae apud Westm. Sexto die Novembris Teste apud S. Vicesimo tertio Septembris IOhanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckinghamiae Hen. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxoniae Johanni Com. Wigorum Jacob. Com. Wilton Johanni Vicecom Beamont Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Edwardo Gray Milit. Domino de Grobie Edoardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Henrico Poynings Domino de Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Johanni Beauchamp milit Domino de Beauchamp Jacobo Fynes milit Domino de Say de Seal Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VVillielmo Fitz-Hugh Chlr. Willielmo le Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Leoni de VVelles Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Radulpho Willoughbie Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Henrico Vicecom Bourchier Edwardo Brook de Cobham Chlr. Johanni Talbot de Lisle Milit. Reginaldo West Chlr. Johanni Sturton Milit. Domino de Sturton Tho. de Scales Chlr. Reginaldo de Wilton Ricardo Wodvill Milit. Dom. de Rivers Willielmo Bourchier Milit. Domino de Fitz-warrin Willielmo Boneville de Clinton chaton Hen. Bromflet Domino de Vessey Tho. Domino Roos Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins Milit. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Hore Chlr. No Lord VVarden The Parliament holden at Westminster on the Sixth day of November in the Twenty eighth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury declared how that the King had really prorogued the same Parliament in London for avoiding the infectious air of Westminster wherefore he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present to the King their Speaker The fear of the Plague it seems caused the Archbishop to forget his Oration and the Clerk of the Parliament to enroll him as Chancellor Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Saturday the eighth day of November the Commons presented to the King Sir Iohn Popham Knight to be their Speaker whose excuse was received and he thereof discharged The same day the Commons presented to the King William Tresham to be their Speaker who with the Common protestation was allowed The fourth day of December the Parliament was adjourned from London to Westminster really to be holden by the Chancellor in the presence of the King Lords and Commons viz. the next day The seventeenth day of December the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England in the presence of the King gave thanks on his behalf to the three estateâ— and prorogued the Parliament from the said day unto the twenty second of Ianuary next ensuing at Westminster The twenty second of Ianuary the Chancellor was discharged and Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of York was appointed Chancellor by the King The thirtieth day of March the Chancellor by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the said day unto the twenty ninth of April then ensuing at Leicester The Commons grant unto â—he King a subsedy viz. that every person having franck tenement by free Deed copte grant of Annuity or office to the clear yearly value of 20 s. to pay 6 d. and so from 20 s. to 20 l. from 20 l. to 200 l. yearly 12 d. for the pound from 200 l. to pay 2 s. for every 20 s. as Well for the Laity as the Clergie Gardians of Wards men having fees and all Corporations to pay accordingly Severall summes to a great value out of the Kings Revenues and fee farms are allowed to bear and pay charges of the Kings houshold The twenty second day of Ianuary the Duke of Suffolk requireth the King that he may be especially accused and be heard to answer to that which many men reported him to be an untrue man The Dukes protestation made to the King sheweth how his father and three of his brethren died in service of the King and of his father and Grandfather and that he himself had served in the warres thirty four years and being but a Knight and taken prisoner payed for his ransome 2000 l. that he had been of the order of the Garter thirty yeares and a Counsellor to the King for fifteen yeares that he had been seventeen yeares in the warres Without returning home and so asking Gods mercie as he had been true to the King and his realm he required his purgation The twenty sixth day of Ianuary the Commons require that the Duke for his confession might be committed to ward the Lords and Iustices upon consultation thought there was no good cause unlesse some speciall matter were objected against him The twenty eighth day of Ianuary the Speaker declared how the Duke of Suffolk as it was said had sold this realm to the French who had prepared to come hither and that the same Duke for his own defence had furnished the Castle of Wallingford with all warlike munition upon whose request the said Duke was then committed to the Tower of London The seventh day of February the Speaker of the Commons the Chancellor and the Lords sent to them by the King a Bill of Articles and accused William de la Pool Duke of Suffolk late of Ewelm in the Connty of Oxford of sundry treasons viz. First that the said Duke having the wardship of Margaret the daughter and heir of Iohn Duke of Somersetâ— whom he meant to marry to Iohn his Sonne and thereby for want of issue of the King to claim the Crown and to procure the French King by the means of certain French Lords there named to depose the King The 2d for that he procured the delivery of the Duke of Orleans in the 27 H. 6. and practising with him to cause the French to recover France from the King The 3d. touching the promise of delivery of Manns and Maine to require the King of Sicile the Kings enemy with the assent of the other Ambassadors The 4th for disclosing the Kings Counsel to the Earl of Dunnois bastard of Orleance and to others of the French The 5th for opening to the French the strength of the Kings piles Ordinance and munition beyond the seas The 6th that the said Duke by disclosing the
of Burie who had in his hands 456 l. 2 s. â— d. of a rest for a Collection of Disms shall pay the same to the King albeit he have general pardon for that it was no meaning of the King to pardon the same Vide 27 H. 6. Anno Tricesimo Primo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Duci Eborum c. apud Reading Sexto die Martii Teste apud Westmonast Vicesimo die Ianuarii RIcardo Duci Somerset Johanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckingham Hen. Duci Oxoniae Edwardo Com. Richmond Jaspero Com. Pembrook Ricardo Com. Warr. Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Oxon. Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Com. Wigorn. Johanni Com. VVilton Johanni Vicecom de Beamont Chlr. Johanni Talbott Vicecom de Lisle Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edwardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Edwardo Gray Domino de Grobie Chlr. Joh. de Berckley Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Rogero Hungerford sen. Milit. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Dom. de Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Johan Beauchamp Chlr. Dom. de Beauchamp Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Hen. Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Dom. de Clinton Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Edwardo de Nevel de Burgavenny Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Tho de Scales Chlr. Reginal Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Johanni Sturton de Sturton Milit. Ricardo VVodvill Domino de Rivers Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier Domino Fitz-warren Will. Bonevile Dom. de Bonevile de Chatton Milit. Hen Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Milit. Tho. Domino de Roos Mil. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins Milit. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Hoo Chlr. Tho. Gray Domino de Richmond Mil. Willielmo Beauchamp Dom. de St. Amando Tho. Percie Dom. de Egremont Mil. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. The Parliament holden at Reding the seventeenth of March in the one and thirtieth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber of refectory within the Abbey of Reding and of the Lords and Commons William Bishop of Lincoln in the absence of Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement very notably declared the cause of the Parliament namely for the good government of the realm and safe defence of the same to which end he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the fees and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The eight day of March the Commons presented to the King Thomas Thorp Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the Common protestation was allowed The Commons grant to the King one Desme and one Fifteen The Commons grant to the King Tonnage and Poundage during his life They also grant to the King during his Subsidy of woolls viz. 23 s. 4 d. for every sack of Denizens and 5 l. of Aliens and so of other Staple-ware according to the rate They also grant to the King of every Merchant not born within the realm and no Denizeâ— and keeping house 40 s. and of every such Merchant as shall remain within the realm but 6. weeks 20 s. per Annum And of every Merchant Alien being no Denizen 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. yearly during the Kings life The Speaker declared by mouth how that the Commons had granted to find in the Kings service twenty thousand Archers for half a yeares space The eighteenth day of March after thanks given to the Lords by the King himself Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid and Town of Reding to the twentieth day of April then ensuing at Westminster The King discharged the realm and Commons of 7000 Archers parcell of the 20000 before granted A due proportioning of the 13000 men granted to serve the King for every particuâ—ar County within the realm In consideration of a summe or Masse of money to be levied by the Commons the King for three yeares is content to respite the levying of 13000 Archers unlesse he be drawn by great necessity or in person to go himself to take them It is enacted that Edmund Duke of Somerset late Captain of Callice shall be payed 21648 l. 10 s. out of the Customes of the Staple wares going out of the Port of Sandwich for fees and wages due to him and other Chief Captains and Souldiers while he was Captain there A particular rate out of the grant of a fifteen for certain in every County in England allotted to the repairing of Callice and for the making of a Risebanck An allotment of 20 s. out of the Subsedy for every sack of wool is allowed towards the wages and victualling of Souldiers in Callice The Commons grant unto the King the moity of one Desme and of one fifteen After the words spoken to the Commons by the King viz. VVe thank you for your grants for the which be ye assured we will be a good and gracious Lord unto you Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England the second day of Iuly by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid unto the seventh day of November at Reding The King delivered certain Schedules in parchment signed with his seal manuell the which he willed to be enrolled and enacted The which contain ten purveyances or provisions for Edmund Earl of Richmond and Iasper Earl of Pembrook and for none other severall persons as it should seem to be exempted and out of the Statute of resumption At Reding the twenty second of November in the 32. H. 6. to which place and day the Parliament was prorogued Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbâ—ry and Chancellor of England by his Letters patents rehearseth the beginning and prorogation of the Parliament and adjourneth the same from the day aforesaid to the eleventh day of February then ensuing at VVestminster aforesaid The eleventh day of February at Reding aforesaid Iohn Earl of Worcester and Treasurer of England by the Kings Letters Patents prorogued the Parliament from the day and place aforesaid to the fourteenth day of the same moneth at Westminster The fourteenth day of February Richard Duke of York by the Kings Letters Patents of precedency presideth in the same Parliament The same fourteenth day of February
the Commons made request unto the King and Lords that Thomas Thorp their Speaker and Walter Rail a member of their house who were in prison might be set at liberty according to their privileges On Friday the fifteenth day of February the Duke of York came before the Lords and shewed how the Duke of York in the vacation had recovered Damages in an Action of Trespasse against the said Thorp by verdict in the Kings Exchequer for carrying away the goods of the said Duke of York out of Durham house for the which he remained in execution and prayeth that he may continue the same The Judges being demanded of their Counsell herein make answer that it was not their part to Judge of the Parliament which was Judge of the law only they said that generall Supersedeas of Parliament there was none but especiall there was in which case of speciall Supersedeas every member of the Commons house ought to enjoy the same unlesse the same be in cases of treason felonie surety for the peace or for a condemnation before the Parliament After which answer made the Lords determined that the said Thorp should remain in execution notwithstanding the privilege and sent certain of themselves to the Commons to require them on the Kings behalf to choose a new Speaker The tenth day of February certain of the Commons were sent to the Lords to make declaration now they had newly chosen in the place of Thomas Thorp Thomas Charleton Knight to be their Speaker the Chancellor answered the King liked him and willed them to proceed with effect On Tuesday the nineteenth day of March the Commons required the Lords to remember the hazard of Callice the safe keeping of the seas and that the Subsidy granted might be imployed upon the same they also requiâ—â—â—he Lords to hold them excused of any other Subsidies and finally they require that a grave Councell may be ready to answer all which is promised Certain Lords by name were appointed to go to the King lying sick at VVindsor and to know his pleasure touching two Articles The first to know who should be Archbishop of Canterbury and who Chancellor of England in the place of Iohn Kemp by whose death the King was to dispose of them The second to know whether certain being named to be of the Councell liked him or no The said Lords messengers the twenty fifth of March report to all the Lords how they had been with the King at VVindsor and after three severall repaires earnest perswasions with the King they could by no means have answer or token of answer only they said the King was sick Whereas the Lords the twenty seventh of March had appointed the Duke of York to be Protector and Defendor of the realm so long as the same should please the King the same Duke the twenty eighth day of the same Moneth required the Lords Answer to the Articles following First that it be enacted that the said Duke doe take upon him the same offices at the only appointment of the Lords and nothing of his own desire or seeking The like Articles shall be made for the same as was made during the Kings minority That all the Lords will assist the Duke therein It is agreed by all lawfull means To prescribe the power thereby given to the said Duke He shall be chief of Council Protector and Defendor which implyeth a personal attendance against forein Invasion and inward rebellion and no authority of governance so as the same be no prejudice to the Prince To appoint how much the said Duke shall take for the exercise of the same The presidents shall be seen and the Duke conferred withall upon which an Act shall be made The King by his Letters Patents appointeth the said Duke to be his chief Counsellor Protector and Defendor of this realm at the Kings will and as unto such time as Edward the Prince shall come to the age of discretion the which the Duke in full Parliament took on him to perform The like Letters Patents are made to Edward the Prince as Anno 1 H. 6. tit 25. with the yearly fee of 2000 Marks onely besides allowance for riding and such other exploits provided the same be not prejudicial to any grant made to Margaret Queen of England Richard Earl of Salisbury Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury Iohn Earl of Worcester Iames Earl of Wiltshire and the Lord Sturton are appointed to keep the seas to whom is appointed for three years Tonnage and Poundage granted in the last Parliament The fifteenth day of April in the 32 year it is agreed that towards the furniture of the Lords aforesaid there shall be a loan made of certain Cities and Towns there named of particular summs and they to be answered of the same out of certain Customs and Subsidies A certain particular rate out of the Kings revenues and fee-farms is allotted to the Treasurer of the Kings house for paying the Kings provision taken up therefore The like Statute made Anno 28 H. 6. tit 13. it is repealed Where Robert Poynings of Southwark Esquire being the Carver Sword-bearer and chief doer with Iack Cade and had his pardon upon which he with certain sureties by recognizance was bound in the Chancery for his good behaviour since which time he had done many riots and namely by raising and going with men armed against the Law in Kent wherefore it is enacted that an Extent upon the said recognizance shall goe against the said Poynings and his Sureties and his and their lands and goods A certain Fine is specially taxed upon every Lord for not coming to the Parliament according to their degree It is enacted that the Mayor Constable and Fellowship of the Merchants of the Staple shall be paid 10000 marks out of the subsidy of wooll at Callice the which they lent towards the payment of the Souldiers wages there The King by his Letters Patents created Edward his Son Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester to him and to his heirs Kings of England with the Ceremonies thereto belonging the which are confirmed by the hands of the Lords there named and by the Commons Thomas Earl of Devonshire was accused of treason and acquitted of the same by his Peers before Humfrey Duke of Buckingham Steward of England for the time being And for that the Duke of York thought the honesty of the said Earl to be touched whereupon the said Earl protesting his loyalty referred further tryal as a Knight should doe upon which Declaration the Lords acquitted him as a loyal Subject The King by his Letters Patents enableth Edmond of Hadsham and Iasper of Hatfield the sons of Queen Katherine his Mother to be the Kings
upon whose Petitions the said attainders have been revoked In consideration of 23000 l. due by the King to the Mayor and Merchants of the Staple the King by a long act granteth to them a Fifteen as Anno 7 E. 4. tit 9. In a Roll entituled Anno Decimo Quarto where indeed the same was Anno Decimo Tertio THe re-assembly of the Parliament prorogued unto the sixth day of October in Anno 13. and from the same continued from day to day to the thirteenth of December then ensuing The hostility and contention which was between the King and the Merchants of England of the one part and the Duke of Hauns or the Stilliards of the other part from the 21. day of November in Anno E. 4. unto the 19. day of September in Anno 13 E. 4. are utterly appeased so as every Merchant of either part to the said 19. day may lawfully require of the other part his own and a free intercourse between those Countries and Merchants for ever to be had To which end the King by his Letters Patents confirmeth to the said Merchants of the Stilliard their old liberties granted to all Merchant strangers of every Country by name by King E. 1. but after granted by especiall name to the Merchants of the Stilliard by E. 2. wherein is to be seen their Customes rated and the Kings grant not to 〈◊〉 the same all which by act of Parliament is confirmed Iohn Fortescue Knight is restored to bloud and lands and the attainder had against him An. 1. E. 4. made void William Shetford Cousin and heir to Ioan one of the sisters and heirs of William Burnen Knight complaineth that he was wrongfully disseised of and in the moity of the Mannor of Treycorn Hamet Donebant Deliow Doyl Wenell Delydowbolin Deliem Carbolyn and Lamlyn with the appurtenances in Cornwall by Thomas Bodnegate Cousin and heir to Alice the other sister and heires to the said William and that the premisses were assured to Elizabeth the wife of Iohn Welles for life sometime the wife of the said Thomas at whose petition power is given to the Chancellor and two Justices to end the same An act of Resumption for the King to take all the hereditaments of the Crown Dutchies of Lancaster and York from the feast of St. Thomas in Anno Dom. 1473 whereof the King was seized the fourth day of March An. 1. E. 4. or which came to the Kings hand at any time since by attainder or otherwise A speciall Commission given to the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster for assuring the payment of certain of the Kings debts granted out of the same Dutchy and to passe under the seal of the said Dutchy A number of provisions and namely one that the same should not prejudice the Corporation union and annexion of the Dutchy of Lancaster and County Palatine nor the officers or tenants of the same In this time was Thomas Bourchier a Cardinall and Archbishop of Canterbury At this time was Iohn Howard Knight Lord Howard At this time was Sir Ralph Verney Knight Citizen and Alderman of London A provision for Iohn Blackhead A provision for VVilliam Hattclyffe the Kings Secretary We must not forget a provision for mother Cobb Midwife to Elizabeth the Kings best beloved wife Queen of England A provision for liberties granted to certain towns in the Isle of Haxling in the County of Southampton in An. 8. E. 4. The fourteenth day of December in the thirteenth year the Bishop of Duresm Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons after thanks giving on the Kings behalf to every estate by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament unto the twentieth day of Ianuary then ensuing at VVestminster The re-assumption of the Parliament the twentieth day of Ianuary aforesaid and continuance of the same to the first day of February then ensuing The said first day of February in the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate the Lords and Commons the Bishop of Duresm Chancellor remembred the Commons that the same assembly was for consultation how the King might proceed in the warrs and for that they heard nothing from his brother of Burgundy whereon he much depended he by the Kings commandment prorogued the Parliament from the said day unto the ninth of May then ensuing Anno Decimo Quarto Edwardi Quarti THe re-assumption of the Parliament the ninth day of May and so continued unto the twenty eighth day of May then ensuing The King by the common consent granteth that George Duke of Clarence and Isabel his wife and Richard Duke of Gloucester and Anne his wife daughter and heir to Richard Nevill late Earl of Warwick and daughters and heirs apparent to Anne Countesse of Warwick shall enjoy to them and to the heirs of their said wives all the hereditaments belonging to the said Anne in such wise as if the said Anne were dead and that their said wives should be of bloud to the said Anne and enjoy all benefits accordingly and the said Anne therefore for ever barred That the said Dukes and their wives and the heirs of their said wives may make partition of the premisses to be good in Law and that the said Dukes or either of them over-living his wife shall during his life enjoy her property That all alienations discontinuances charges and incumbrances suffered by any of the said Dukes or their wives to debarr the other of their said purparties to be utterly void That if the said Duke of Gloucester be at any time after divorced from the said Anne after newly her mariage and suffer any such incumbrances as above to be void And further if the said Duke Richard upon such divorce doth the uttermost to be reconciled during his wifes life that then after the death of his said wife he shall enjoy her purparty A provision that the said Dukes and their wives might exchange with the King the Lordship Manor and Wapentake of Chestersield and Scurnsdale with the appurtenances in the same The effect of the grant made to the Mayor and Company of Staples in Anno 12 E. 4. tit 59. is in manner recited and thereby enacted that the said Mayor during the said term shall pay 1000 marks for the fees and rewards of the Kings Justices Sergeants and Attorneys A long complaint made by Robert Billesden one of the Sheriffs of London and Henry Newton one of the Sergeants against Robert Gibbs a Captain for succouring and taking away of one Thomas Bishop Grocer of London being arrested and in the custody of the said Henry whereupon order was taken that the said Sheriff and Henry should be discharged of the rescues
aforesaid and have their remedy against the said Gibbs and Bishop The twenty eighth day of May the Bishop of Lincoln Chancellor of England in the presence of the King and the three Estates prorogued the Parliament unto the sixth day of Iune then ensuing The re-assumption of the Parliament on the said sixth day of Iune and continuance of the same unto the eighteenth day of Iuly then ensuing Thomas Daniel of Risinge in the County of Norfolk Esquire is restored to bloud and lands and the Attainder against him 1 E. 4. made void In a Roll entituled the 13. where the same should be 14. being a number of the 12. year IN the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the sixth day of October in Anno 12 E. 4. and by sundry prorogations continued unto the sixth of Iune in Anno 14 E. 4. It was enacted that Katherine the wife of William Hastings Knight Lord Hastings and before the wife of Bonvile late Lord Harrington the younger Cosin and heir to William Lord Harrington the elder and Cosin and heir apparent to William before Lord Bonvile should for and during her life enjoy the Manor of Chaton Thurle-Bare and Mariot in Somersetshire and certain lands in Foxill in Devonshire together with the Dominion or Manor of Aldingham the Manor or Castle of Gleston with lands in sundry other Counties to the value of 500 marks parcel of the inheritance of the said Lord Bonvile and Harrington and to her assured And where the said Lord Harrington and Bonvile the younger had issue by the said Katherine one only daughter called Cicill a mariage should be had It was accorded that at the age of 13. years of the said Cicill a mariage should be had between the said Cicill and Thomas the eldest son of the Queen between whom if there were no mutual society that then the said Cicill should marry with Richard the brother of the said Thomas It is also enacted that the said Cicill at the age of 14. years may assure all her hereditaments to the said Thomas and Richard for and during their lives as aforesaid Iohn Bazin Cosin and heir of Iohn Florey Knight of Cloford in the County of Somerset is restored to bloud and lands of the said Iohn Florey and the attainder of the said Florey Anno 4 E. 4. made void Thomas Lyteley of London Grocer is restored to bloud and lands and his attainder Anno 1 E. 4. made void Richard Welby and William Dunthorne Town-clerks of London Executors to William Haddon Draper of London complain against Thomas Marsh and Iames Finch Shereman of London for cautelous conveying of their goods and lands to defraud their Creditors to whom remedy is granted that the said Debtors should answer to the law upon Proclamation The eighteenth day of Iuly the Commons grant to the King one Desm and one Fifteen and 51117 l. 4 s. 7 d. ob q. in full payment of the wages for 14000 Archers granted before towards the payment whereof every County City and Town is severally taxed The grant is very long The same eighteenth day Thomas Bishop of Lincoln Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament unto the three and twentieth day of February then ensuing at Westminster The re-assumption of the Parliament the said three and twentieth day of February Anno 14 E. 4. An Ordinance for the speedy levying of the Tenth of all revenues and profits granted to the King Anno 12 E. 4. An Act for Feoffment to Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and to sundry others of sundry the hereditaments of the Dutchy of Lancaster to the performance of the Kings last Will and Testament It is enacted that all the Officers and Governours of the said Dutchie shall continue the exercise of their said Offices as before the making thereof It is also enacted that all Leases and Demises Grants Offices Fees Annuities Presentations and Advowsons be made from henceforth during the life of the King in his own name by warrant from his Highnesse and under his Seal of the Dutchy now being the seal therof as it hath been used and accustomed in times past It is also enacted that from henceforth all Leases as above shall be made by the said Archbishop and others or the longest liver of them by warrant and under the Seal of the said Dutchy The house called the Style-house otherwise the Stilliard in the parish of Alhallows in London is by authority of Parliament assigned to the Merchants of the Hauns and to their Successors for ever together with other Tenements to the same belonging yielding yearly to the Mayor of London 70 l. and other rents to others At the Petition of Richard Duke of Gloucester the King spareth the attainting of Iohn Nevil late Marquesse Montacute and by authority of Parliament giveth to the said Duke and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten sundry Honors Baronies Castles Manors and other hereditaments which late were Richard Nevils late Earl of Warwick The like estate by authority of Parliament the King giveth to his Brother George Duke of Clarence of and in the Manors of Claveringe with the appurtenances in Essex and Mantion or Menson called the Harber and two Houses adjoyning thereto in London which late were the said Earles of Warwick In exchange of the Manor and Wapentake of Chesterfield and Scaruesdale in the County of Derby and of the Manor of Bushey in Hartfordshire allotted to Richard Duke of Gloucester and Anne his wife Cosin and heir of Alice Countesse of Salisbury viz. one of the daughters and heirs of Richard late Earl of Warwick son and heir to the said Alice and given to the King in fee the King giveth to the said Duke and Anne and to the said Anne in fee the Manor of Cottinghem with the Advowson of the same in the County of York which late belonged to Richard late Duke of York the Kings Father and the Castle and Town of Scardesburgh with the Fee-farm of the same and other liberties A provision that if any of the premisses given by the King be recovered from the said Duke or Anne or the heirs of the said Anne that then they or the heirs of the said Anne may re-enter upon the premisses by them sold. Where the King by his Letters Patents in Anno 14. had given to George Duke of Clarence in especial tail the Manors of Stampford Courtney Torbrian Stappleton in the County of Devon Haslebury Iwarne Courtney in Dorsetshire Kingesden besides Ilchester in Somersetshire the King revoketh the same gift and by authority of Parliament giveth the premisses to the said Duke in fâ—e to hold of the King by Knights service the which gift was made Anno 15 E. 4. by
at the Bar and that no man speak with the Jury after they depart therefrom It is enacted The print how the Escheators shall answer the profits of the Lands of the Kings Tenants cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print that no iron be carried out of the Realm cap. 5. agreeth with the Record That the King will appoint a time when the Coyn shall be made finer With opportunity the King meaneth the same It is Enacted that no Purveyor being arrested for any misdemeanor shall have any privy Seal to cause such as arrested him to come before the Councel to answer the King but have his remedy at the Common Law That the King have the forfeitures of his Widows Dowagers but not of such as hold joyntly with their Husbands The old Law shall stand That the Writ of Appeal brought hanging another may abate the other The Common Law therein used shall continue That Weights and Measures may henceforth be made in the Town of London so as all Counties do accordingly conform themselves There is an Estander in the Treasury where every man readily may have the same The print for the election of the Coroners agreeth with the Record That the Writs of the Chancery may be at reasonable prices and that the Clerks of the Crown and others for Commissions and such like do content themselves with the Kings allowance As heretofore the same shall be That Fines for Writs may be reasonably made in every of the Kings Courts The Chancellor shall do as heretofore The print for the continuance of the Sheriffs cap. 7. agreeth with the Record The Commons beyond Trent require that the Justices of the one Bench or the other may yearly come twice amongst them for taking cognizance of fines and Letters of Attorney of the unable The King will be advised The Print touching Attaint given not having respect to the quantity of damages cap. 8. agreeth with the Record That Laborers may take corn for their wages The Statute made shall be observed That the Staple may always continue in England The same shall so continue until the next Parliament and not to be altered without the assent of the Parliament The Print touching sundry Ordinances of the Staple cap. 30. agreeth with the Record The Print touching the Bounds of the Staple cap. 15. agreeth with the Record The Print touching Sheriffs using to take Inquests for the indicting of any cap. 9. agreeth with the Record That Merchants strangers require that the Ordinances of the Staple may be speedily executed The King willeth the same It is enacted that that the Statute made that all Merchants coming into this Realm with their Merchandizes might sell the same to any person whatsoever and of the same to make exchange or to buy Wares paying the Customs therefore is confirmed to continue That the Customers do dispatch all such Merchants coming in with their Wares and that those Merchants for prices of their Wares may be credited upon their Letters and Oathes It is enacted that some of the Kings Councel may be appointed to be Governor to such Merchant strangers The Chancellor or Treasurer shall supply the same when he may attend if not some learned Justices shall be appointed therefore After all this Sir Bartholmew Burgherst the Kings Chamberlain declared to the whole House that there was a Treaty of Peace between the King and the French and a good hope of a final concord wherefore he demanded of the Commons whether they would agree all of them wholly therein submitted themselves to the order of the King and of his Nobles whereupon Sir Mich. of Northumberland Keeper of the Kings privy Seal commanded sir Iohn of Swinley the Notary Papal to make thereof publick Instrument Anno Vicesimo nono Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Edwardo Principi Walliae Duci Cornubiae Com. Cestriae filio suo primogenito c. apud Westmonasterium in crastino die Sancti Martini Teste Rege apud Westmonast 20 die Septembris Consimiles Literae sabscriptae HEnrico Duci Lancastriae Humfrido de Bohun Com. Hereff. Essex Willielmo de Bohun Com Northumberland Ricardo Com. Arundel Rogero de Mortuo maâ—i Com. Marchiae Rado Com. Stafford Hugoni de Courtney Com. Devon Gilberto Humfravil Com. de Anegos Johanni de Mowbray Henrico de Piercie Rado de Nevill Waltero de Manny Johanni de Grey de Codenore Guidoni de Brian Thomae Ughtred Johanni de Cobham Johanni de Bello campo Com. Warr. Ricardo Talbot Roberto Morley Willielmo de Huntingfield Thomae de Lucie Petro de Malo lacu Reginaldo de Grey seniori Reginaldo de Grey de Ruâ—hin Johanni de Willoughbie de Ersby Rogero Chandos Johanni de Cherlton Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Nicholao de Sancto Mauro Roberto de Scales Michaeli de Poynings Rogero de Strange Johanni Bardolfe Willielmo Deynecourt Johanni Tibitot Johanni Fitzwalter Waltero de Fawconbridge Willielmo Baroni de Greystock Willielmo de Dacre Thomae de Musgrave Thomae de Furnival Thomae Bradeston Johanni de Grey de Rotherfield Roberto de Colvill Nicholao Burnell Henrico le Scroope Johanni de Bello Campo de Somerset Johanni Deyncourt Rogero de Mortuo Mari Com. Marchiae Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Vicesimo nono Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the day after Saint Martin the Bishop in Winter in the 29. Year of Edward the Third THe Parliament for certain causes was adjourned until Monday next after the Feast of Saint Edmond the Martyr then ensuing Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales Gascoin the Isles and other Forein places Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above The Monday aforesaid for that sundry of the Lords were not come the Parliament was continued until Wednesday ensuing at which time Sir William Shareshall the Kings Chief Justice in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the Kings pleasure was that Sir William de Manny should make declaration to the same Assembly for that he had the most knowledge therein After which Sir William began to declare how that the King had treated of a Peace with the French and how for the accomplishment thereof he had sent the Duke of Lancaster and others as Ambassadors to Rome where by means of the French things could not take good success How that during the said Dukes abode at Rome the King of Navar had complained to the same Duke of sundry damages done to him by the French and by oath affirmed how he would most willingly enter into League with the King and for assurance of the same would with as great a power as he could enforce himself to meet the King at Iersey How the King at the return of the same Duke and
and Commons assembled in the place aforesaid where the said Chancellor began his long Oration with S. Paul viz. Libenter suffertis insipientes and applied it That being wise desired to hear him the contrary He proceeded with Scripture as that every Messenger bringing joyful news is welcomed Thereby proving that he should be so for that he brought joyful news of the Kings good recovery of a dangerous sickness By the which he shewed that God loved the King and Realm The King for that quos diligo castigo The King by the Psalmist saying Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus and thereby sheweth that for children no Christian Prince was so happy and confirmeth the said happiness by the above saying Et videas filios filiorum which the King saw That God thereby loved the Realm he proved by the recovery of so renowned a Prince and that his recovery to be the Fiftieth year of his Reign the year of Jubile the year of joy for that he would thereby impart to his said Subjects as well spiritual as temporal or bodily comforts He then by the similitude That if the head be sound and some particular member of the body diseased that the said infected member can receive no vertue or salve from the head inferreth that as the King being the sound head and willing to shew grace and favor to the Subjects the members the infected with vice cannot receive the same And therefore perswaded such as would be partakers thereof to conform themselves thereafter by having love without which he proveth by S. Paul that nothing doth avail He then turneth his speech to the Lords enlarging the cause whereby they were to think that the King dearly loved them forasmuch as at their requests since the last Parliament the King had advanced Richard there present to be Prince of Wales He then shewed what cause they had to embrace the said Prince by offering to him as the Princes of Cullen did to Christ all honor by throwing abroad money according to the order of the Pagans at the coming of their Prince by offering gold in token of riches and renown and myrrh in token of his honorable scepter He further sheweth that the same Prince should in their hands and hearts without all rancor be embraced and no otherwise then Simeon did Christ for that they had now seen that which long they had longed for and therein shewed how they should obey him as the Vicar and Legat of God that they might see the true peace in Israel viz. in England the inheritance of God whereof after so great victories was great hope The cause of the Parliament he sheweth to be for that the French under colour of Truce granted by the King at the mediation of the Pope and yet enduring had allied himself with the Spaniards and Scots the Kings enemies and had prepared puissant and great Armies thereby conspiring to blot out the English tongue and Nation wherein the King willed to have their faithful counsel Wherefore the Chancellor willed them to go together and give a speedy answer After this Sir Robert de Ashton the Kings Chamberlain declared That he was to move them from the King for the profit of the Realm The which words percase lay not in the Bishops mouth for that they touched the Pope viz. By protesting first that the King was ready to do all that ought to be done for the Pope But for that divers usurpations were done by the Pope to the King his Crown and Realm as by particular Bill in this Parliament should be shewed the King requireth them to seek redress Receivers of petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above T ryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above After this the Commons were willed to repair to the Chapter house of the Abbey of Westminster to treat of these matters and how money might be best levied thereto and certain Lords there named were appointed from time to time to confer with the Commons for their better help The Lords and Commons grant to the King towards his great charges Four pence of every poll man or woman passing the age of fourteen years only Beggers excepted The Commons request that the King would appoint two Earls and two Barons to receive as well their Subsidy as the Subsidy of the Clergy and the Subsidy of Woolls granted the last Parliament so as the same be imployed upon the Wars and that the High Treasurer do in no wise meddle therewith Afterwards when it was declared to how great a sum the wages of those four Treasurers would amount unto the Commons then required that the High Treasurer might then be doer therein to the use of the Wars After the two and twentieth of February certain Bishops and Lords the Chancellor Treasurer and Keeper of the Privy Seal and all the Justices by the Kings appointment went to Sheen where the King lay sick and there in their presence the Articles of the Kings general pardon as ensueth were read with other answers made to the Petitions of the Commons as hereafter follow whereunto the King agreeth and willed that they should the next day be read in the House and to make the same the last day of Parliament the which was done the next day being the three and twentieth day of February by authority of the King and of the said President Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The Print touching the Liberties of the Church the great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest cap. 1 2 3. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The Print as touching the general Pardon cap. 3. agreeth with the Record Divers Articles of pardon which are comprised in the Pardon aforesaid That all persons and Corporations may have the pardon freely without paying any thing for the Great Seal Such as for Felonies are to sue shall do the same before the Nativity of S. Iohn and pay the Fees onely That such as owe unto the King may upon their Account be allowed of all such Loans as are due to them or to any of their Ancestors The Treasurers and Barons shall make allowance of due debt That title of prescription of any liberties may as well be allowed as if it were by grant and that prescription may be from the Coronation of the King The King by advice will do herein as he shall think best That the Justices of Peace do not enquire of any Articles which are to be redressed in any Lords Leet but only of the peace and of Labourers and that they hold their Sessions four times a year The Statutes heretofore made cannot stand if this be granted That the Patent of
forhead and brest and first calling on the name of CHRIST claimed the Kingdome and Crown of England with the appurtenances then being void as his Inheritance descending by right from King Henry the Third through Gods grace through help of his Kindred and Friends 55 After which claim made and consultations had amongst the Lords and Estates they altogether assented that the same Duke should raign over them and fortwith so soon as the same King shewed unto the Estates the Signet of King Richard purporting the same their election The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury took the same King Henry by the right hand and brought him to the Royall Seat where King Henry on his knees made a short prayer after which the two Arch-Bishops brought and caused King Henry to sit in the Royall Seat 56 And before the people could make an end of their joying the Arch Bishop of Canterbury made a short Collation taking this for his Theam Vir dominabitur vobis 1. Reg. 9. He discourseth thereupon and saith God forgetting his offence where he said Dabo pueros Principes eorum Esai 3. turns the same into mercie and saies Vir dominabitur populo He then sheweth the properties of a Child that soon promiseth and soon forgetteth by which inconveniences no Kingdom could stand He sheweth then the conditions of a man which is to understand to love and to persist in truth And so applying the rule of King Richard to a Childs rule and the rule of this King to the rule of a man by discommending the one and commending the other 57 Which Collation ended King Henry openly gave thanks to the whole Estates and protested that by way of conquest he meant not to diminish any mans right but of such as had been against the Common Wealth 58 After this for that the power of all Officers ceased the King appointed his chief Officers and Justices who were sworn after the accustomed manner Proclamation was made that on Monday next after the Feast of St. Michaell the Parliament should be called at Westminster so as on the Saturday before all such as claimed to do any service at the said Coronation should be before the Steward Constable and Marshall of England at the White Hall of the Palace of Westminster 59 On Wednesday which was the next day after the Commissioners viz. the Bishop of Asaph for Arch-Bishops and Bishops the Abbot of Glastonbury for all religious Persons and the Earl of Gloucester for Dukes and Earls the Lord Berkley for Barons and Bannerets Sir Thomas Erpingham Chamberlain for Batchellors and Commons of the South Sir Thomas Gray for Batchellors and Commons of the North Sir William Thurning and Iohn Markham Justices for the whole Estates came to the Tower to King Richard of whom Sir William Thurning for and in the name of them all pronounced the Sentence of deposition and the words of resignation of Homage and Loyaltie 60 The which are at large recorded to the effect aforesaid 61 After which words spoken the said King answered that he looked not after rule but after all this he hoped that his Cosen would be a good Lord to him Who throughly marketh this tragedy shall not read the same without tears and who well noteth the sequell shall see new Lords new Laws and for new bloud-shed fresh revenge to ensue 62 On Monday the day of St. Edward King and Confessor the same King Henry was Crowned at Westminster with all solemnitie and honour that appertained at which day sundry of the Lords and others did their service due at such Coronation As doth appear hereafter 63 On Tuseday after the Commons presented to the King Iohn Cheney for their Speaker whom the King accepted who forthwith made the Common Protestation which the King allowed 64 On Wednesday ensuing the same Sir Iohn with the Commons came before the King at what time Sir Iohn declared that for a sodain disease he was unable to serve and how the Commons in his place had chosen Sir Iohn Doreward beseeching the King to allow the same Sir Iohn Doreward to be the Speaker for the Commons 65 The same Wednesday the same Sir Iohn Doreward made the common Protestation for him and the whole Commons as before the which the King allowed 66 The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords towards the Wars with Scotland defence of Callice provision for Ireland amendment of the State and in hope of their requests to be granted granted to the King for three years the Subsidie of Wools Skins and Wooll-fells viz. 50 s. for every sack of Denizens and four Pound of Strangers one Desme and one Fifteen 67 The print touching the repeal of the Parliament An o 21. R. 2. Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect though not in form 68 The print touching the affirmation of the Parliament made An o 11. Richard 2. Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record as next before 69 The print Cap. 5. touching the restitution of the Lords and others forejudged in An o 2. R. 2. agreeth with the Record as above 70 It is enacted that all blank writings whatsoever which the City of London and 17. other Counties for fear sealed to King Richard shall be utterly void 71 They will the same and that from henceforth no such Commission be granted to any the Nobles to aid all matters as were granted in 21 R. 2. And further the print touching Treason cap. 10. agreeth with the Record 72 By the motion and means of the Archbishop of Canterbury every of the Lords and Commons upon demand assented and required that Henry the Kings eldest Son might be created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester and further that he should succeed the King in the Realm of England whom they promised to accept and obey accordingly 73 Whereupon the King sitting in his Royall Seat in full Parliament set on a Circle on the head of the said Henry his eldest Son and gave to him a Golden Ring on his finger and put into his hand a Rod of Gold and after kissed him and thereof gave to him a Charter and so created him Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chesterâ— and thereupon caused him being so arrayed by the Duke of York his Uncle to be brought into the place in Parliament appointed for the Principalitie Note that all the aforesaid Process was done the first Wednesday in the Parliament 74 On Thursday after the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury willed all the Lords in no wise to disclose any thing should be spoke upon which the Earl of Northumberland demanded of the Lords what were best to be done for the life of the late King Richard whom they would by all means
Father utterly depressed the rebellious dispositions of the Welsh How also he had resisted the Conspiracies had against Christian faith and destructions of his own and other persons How further for his great Victories obtained against the French at Harfleet and Agincourt And lastly for that sundry Towns in Normandy had rendred themselves unto him He further sheweth that the chief cause of the same Assembly was for three causes The first for keeping of the Peace and observation of the Laws The second how to continue the Kings Voyage Thirdly for keeping of the Marches of Scotland wherein they ought viriliter agere which if they did he then assured them of honour and glory considering that Remuneratio virtutum est honor And so willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and to present him the next day to the said Warden Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the feas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The third day of the Parliament the Commons presented before the said Warden and Lords Roger Flower Esq to be their Speaker who with his Common protestations were allowed The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King one Desme and one Fifteen Iohn Martine William Babington William Poole William Wesburie Iohn Fame and Thomas Ralfe Apprentices at the Law and Serjeants appointed had refused the same where upon the charge of the Warden of England they took the same upon them On Tuesday the eighteenth of December and the twenty ninth day of this Parliament Sir Iohn Oldcastle of Cowling in the County of Kent Knight being outlawed upon Treason in the Kings Bench and excommunicated before the Archbishop of Canterbury for Heresies was brought before the Lords and having heard his said Conviction answered not thereto in excuse upon which Record and processe it was adjudged that he should be taken as a Traitor to the King and Realm that he should be carried to the Tower of London and from thence drawn through London to the new Gallows in St. Gyles without Temple-barr and there to be hanged and burned hanging The Record out of the Kings Bench is at large the effect whereof is That the said Sir Iohn Oldcastle and others to the number of 20. men called Lollards at St. Gyles aforesaid did conspire to subvert the state of the Clergy and to kill the King his Brother and other Nobles The Archbishop of Canterburies Instrument for his excommunication is there also at large Iohn de Holland Earl of Huntington was stayd of his Livery at the sute of the Countesse Marshall his Sister and by the Abbot of our Lord of Grace next the Tower of London for that the said Earl did not sue a Scire facias against them being Tenants of part of his Inheritance according to the last Parliament Tit. 16. Robert Penny being in execution in the Fleet upon out-law of a condemnation was let to Mainprize by the Guardian of England A motion is made that the Lord de Powis might be thanked and rewarded according to the Proclamation made for the apprehension of Sir Iohn Oldcastle Knight the Heretick Quid vultis mihi dare the brother of Iudas craveth his reward for betraying the Innocent wherein it is not to be doubted but that his lighter reward in this world was heavily revenged of God The Letters Patents made by the Bishop of Winchester for 21. Marks to be levied of Customs of all Staple Wares passing out of Southampton the which summ the said Bishop before had lent the King towards the warrs are confirmed by Parliament At the request of Thomas Duke of Exeter who at his Creation had 40 l. given him yearly out of Devon It is enacted that the said Duke shall first be payed before any other Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the Church and all Estates shall enjoy their liberties which are not repealable by the Common Law A hainous complaint against Insurrections in the end they suspect that they were Lollards and Traytors A Request that Commissions at all times be granted to enquire of them The Statutes therefore made shall be executed The Clergie at this their own Parliament cease not to rage and roar after Christian bloud tanquam Leones rugientes and whosoever did the fault they put Iohn Porter in the stocks and cried Crucifie Christ and deliver us Barrabas for now all horrible mischiefs whatsoever were imputed to the poor Lollards A long complaint and prayer of redresse of Stankes Stakes Kiddles Milnes c. levied upon rivers to great annoyances The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That such Merchants as by their resiance contribute to all taxes may have their goods free in Port Towns It shall be as heretofore it hath been That Merchants of the Staple having their goods Customed and their Cocquets therefore be not sunderly in other places therefore impeached or slandered The Lieutenant will send to know the Kings pleasure therein The print touching making of Attornies cap. 1. agreeth with the record A motion that no Collector for the Clergie be appointed out of his Deanarie The Clergie shall appoint their Collectors Anno Septimo Henrici Quinti Rex c. Consanguineo suo Henrico Percie Com. Northum apud VVestm die Lunae post Festum Sancti Andreae Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicesimo primo die Octobris RAdulpho Nevil Com. Westmerland Hugoni Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Hugoni Burnell Johanni de Welles Johanni Baroni de Graystock Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni de Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Tho. Camois VVillielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Summon Parliamenti Rex c. Henrico Percie Com. Northumb. apud Westm. decimo sexto die Octobris Teste apud Westm. Vicesimo quarto die Augusti RAdulpho Nevil Com. VVestmerland Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la VVarr VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Hugoni Burnell Johanni de Welles Johanni Baroni de Graystock Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni de Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Edwardo Cherleton de Powis VVillielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixteenth day of October in the seventh year of King Henry the Fifth ON the said sixteenth day the Bishop of Duresm Chancellor of England before the Duke of Bedford VVarden of England sitting in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster and before the Lords
France Practice to deliver Manns Main to the King of Sicily the Kings Enemy Disclosing the Kings Couns to the French Disclosing to the Fr. the Kings forces c. For causing the Peace to be broken Supporting the Ks. Enem staying arms For not comprising the K. of Aragon D. of Britany in the last peace Commons pray the Attic. to be enacted New Articles by the Commons Procuring the King to give away his Crown Lands For procuring Lib. in derogation of the Com. Law Justice Procuring Honors and Pensions For causing the K. to give away a Cast. c. The Author of Guienns revolt from the King For procuring the keeping of Towns offices on unworthy persons Causing an Imposition on victuals to pleasure an Enemy Procuring grants from the K. in Normandy to Frenchmen his chiefest Enemies For procuring the K. to promise to attend in person at a Convention in France Misimployment of Subsidies Spending the Kings Treasure c. Consuming the Ksâ— Treas For procuring himself to be E. of Pembroke c. For conveying out the Kings treasure For staying of process on an Appeal c. For procuring a Pardon for a Murderer c. For procuring his Confederates to be made Sheriffs For fighting with the Kings Allies c. Art to be enrolled The D. to answ them The D. brought by writ to the Parl. The Articles read to him He desires Copies of them Kept in the Kings Palace in the Tower tâ—ll answer by certain Esquires He appears and kneels Denies the 8. articles of treason The 1. impossible He referreth himself to some Actâ— of Council to many of the rest and the Kings Patents The other Lords privy thereto Bishop of Chichester Privy Seal His 2. Appearance before the Lords The Chancellor repeats his Answer That he put not himself upon his Peerage Protesteth his Innocency Referreth himself to the King He put not himself on his Peerage The King acquiâ—s him of Treason King Banishment Banâ—sheth him upon the Articles of misdemeanoâ— not as his Judge but Arbitratoâ— to whom he appealed The Lords Protestation against it enrolled Resumption Exactions Searchers Plymouth Distresses Welshmen VVill. Talboys Privilege of Parl. Assault Ralph L. Cromwell Kings Council Imprisonment in the Tower Damages Common Baretter Cloaths Brabant Pardon Sheriffs Patents Oastlers Brewers Abbot of Buâ—y Disms Officers Extortion Fees Resp. Writs of Summons King Archbishop of York Cardinall Chancellor Causes of Parliam Defence of the Realm Seas garding Supplies Army Iusurrections Suppression Commons to chuse and present a Speaker Petitions Sir Will. Oldhall Speaker Presented Protestation Subsidy altered Complaint and Appeal of murder by the wife VVelshmen Murder Writs of Proclamation for the Male-factors to render themselves Appearance Imprisonment Appeal Triall Appeal by the sons Parliament prorogued Parliament prorogued Kings poverty Customs Justices wages and Liveries Allom. Merchants of Iean To be repaid for it out of the Customs of Staple wares The Allom sold for present Monies Monopoly None to bring in or sell Allom in 2. years Persons banished the Kings Court because the people speak ill of them Commons Clerk Kings Secretary General accusation Ill fame Resp. King consents for one year unless they be Lords Petitions Resumption Iack Cade Attainder Truce-breakers Patents York Arrears of Disms to be paid notwithstanding the Kings pardon Deceit Writs of Summons King W. Bishop of Lincoln Archbishop Chancellor Causes of Parliament Good Government Def. of the Realm Commons to choose their Speaker Petitions Thomas Thorp Speaker Presented Excuse Protestation Dism Fifteen granted Tonnage and Poundage for life Subsidy of wools Staple commodities Merchants Aliens Poll-money Speaker Commons to find 20000 Archers for half a year Kings thanks to the Lords Chancellour Parliament prorogued Archers King dischargeth them of 7000. Archers Souldiers proportionably raised The levying of 13000 men respited for a sum of mony Great Necessity Câ—llice Commandeâ—s Captains and Souldâ—ers arrests paid out of the Customes Callice repair out of the Quindisms Victuals and Souldiers pay of Callice out of the Customes Moity of a Desme Quindesme granted Kings thanks to the Commons for their grant Parliament prorogued Schedules sealed with the Kings seal Enrolled Exemptions from resumptions Parliament prorogued Patents Parliament adjourned Iohn Earl of VVorcester Treasurer of England Parliament prorogued Richard Duke of York President of the Parliament Patents Privilege of Parliament Thorp the Speaker VValter Rayle imprisoned The Speaker imprisoned upon an execution at the Duke of Yorks sute Judges not to judge of Parliaments privileges Parliament Judge of the Law its privileges Their advise Supersedeas speciall No priviledge in Treason Felony Breach of Peace Lords Judges of the Speakers privilege His privilege denyed A new Speaker orderd to be chosen A new Speaker elected Sr Thomas Charleton Approved by the King Commons request to the Lords Callice danger Seas safeguard Subsidies rightly imployed No other subsidies Great Councell to answer all Committee of Lords Kings sicknesse Articles Who. Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Chancellor Privy Counsellers nominated to the King Their report The King gives no answer King sick The Lords make the Duke of York Protector and Defendor of the Realm during the Kings pleasure Articles Lords power Protector Resp. Kings Minority All the Ls. will assist Resp. Protectors power and office Resp. Hâ—s Salary Resp. Kings Letters Patents conferring his power of Chief Counsellor and Protector Prince Edward Fee of 2000 marks Queen Margaret Admirals to keep the Seas appointed by Parliament Tonnage and Poundage Loan by Cities and Towns to be repaid out of the Customs Kings Houshold expences assigned Treasurer of the Houshold Robert Poynings Iack Cade Pardon Recogn sureties in Chancery for the good behaviour Recogn forfeited Extended on the parties and Sureties Lands and goods Lords fined for absence Staple Callice Souldiers wages to be paid out of the Subsidy of it Edward Prince of Wales created by Letters Patents Earl of Chester Confirmed by the Lords Commons Th. E. of Devonshire Treason Trial and Acquittal by Peers Hen. D. of Buckingh Steward of England Protestation Loyalty Further Tryal Lords acquit him Denizens E. of Richmond created Precedency above all Earls The whole County and honor of Richmond granted him Warranty Earl of Pembrook created by Patent Precedency of other Earls The whole County Honor Dominion of Pembroke entailed on him Confirmed by Parliament Lands granted to the E. of Richmond Tayl general Tenure by Fealty Duke of York Captain of Callice Articles required Ready payment Staple Subsidy in part released Tho. of Acres Hospitalâ— Lands given conferred to it by Parliament Romans Chauntery in Shoreditch confirmed Patents Queens Annuity of 1000 l. out of the Customs confirmed Patents Queens Dower confirmed Patent Aâ—â—ears to the Earl of Shrewsbury to be paid out of the Customs confirmed Ralph L. Cromwell Surety of the Peace against the Duke of Exeter granted in Parliament Iack Cade Attainder William Oldhalls Attainder confirmed Privy Seals Attachments
and Commons declared how that the Subjects had most great cause to embrace and to pray for the King considering that for want of peace which he sunderly sought he began warr in timore Domini which being principium sapientiae he thereby attained the fruits of wisdome with victory and honour and the particulars whereof he doth not forget to shew For his proposition therefore he taketh these words bonum facientes non deficiamus upon which he sheweth how that the King being of good courage would have his Subjects to be carefull to provide for good governance and defence of the Realm and considering that his enterprize begun could not be left without eminent perils he would new provisions to be made and to be granted to the end he might end to his honour and their comforts He therefore willeth the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Tuesday the second day of the Parliament the Commons presented before the King and Lords Roger Fowler Esq to be their Speaker who with the Common protestation was allowed The thirteenth day of November the Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King one Fifteen and one Desm and one half part of them both The like order is taken for payment of such as shall lend to the King as in Anno 4 H. 5. tit 10. The names of such 23. and Lords as subscribed to the said Order It is enacted that the Lords of the Council shall have power to establish orders touching the Coin For the keeping of money within the Realm it is enacted that all necessaries shall be bought within the realm for the Kings soldiers and sent to them and also that certain woolls be bought and sent into Normandy any Statute for the Staple to the contrary notwithstanding For that Friar Iohn Randolfe the Queen Dowagers Confessor had accused her for compassing the death of the King It was enacted that all the lands and goods of Roger Doller and Petromell Brocart her Sureties should be seised and paid to the King wherein sufficient warrant is provided for all such as shall pay the same At the request of Iohn Lane Iohn Brodinge Iohn Russell Clerks and others were Indicted as it was made before the Coroner of the County of York for a Murder the which Indictment was removed into the Kings Benchâ— where indeed there was no such Indictment found It was therefore enacted that the said Indictment should be void and the said Plaintiff discharged of the same And the like of Iohn Lebard and others made against the said Russell the like order for them is taken as next above Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe like Act as in the last Parliament tit 27. The print touching Conspiracies in the Dutchy of Lancaster cap. 1. agreeth not fully with the record That a writ of Partition may be between Copartners or the Feoffees or Allies of any of them The Common Law shall be observed That a pâ—in may be limited in the Statute for the wages of Chaplains The Statute provided shall be observed That the day of Exigent may lie in the writ of Forger of false Deeds That a man being bound by recognizance to appear at a day certain for keeping of the peace and then being stayed by sicknesse imprisonment or other commandement may plead the same in barr upon a Scire facias The Common Law shall be observed That the Statute made in 13 R. 2. â—it 58 against Hunters may continue with this adjunct that every person being thereof attainted shall for every offence forfeit to the King 3 l. 6 d. 8 d. The Statutes therefore made shall be observed A motion touching the payment of an Annuity of no great force Anno Octavo Henrici Quinti Rex c. Chariss fratri Iohanni Duci Bedford c. apud Westm. secundo die Martii Teste apud Westm. decimo sexto die Februarii HUmfrido Duci Gloucestriae fratri Regis Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Radul de Nevill Com. Westmerland Ricardo Com. Warr Ricardo Com. Wigorn. Edwardo Com. Marchiae Hugo Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Johanni Welles Hen. Fitz-Hugh Jacobo Audley Johanni de Clifford Johanni Baroni de Graystocke Reginal Gray de Ruthine Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Edwardo de Cherleton de Powis Tho. Camois VVillielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Roberto Willoughbie Willielmo Clinton Johanni Talbott Domino de Furnival Johanni Gray de Codonore Willielmo Harrington Willielmo Hankeford Capitali Justiciario toto tempore istius Regis vel pro majori parte Anno Nono Henrici Quinti The Parliament holden at VVestminster the first day of December in the ninth year of King Henry the Fifth IN the presence of Iohn Duke of Bedford c. sitting as in the last Parliament tit 1. the Bishop of Durham Chancellor of England pronounced touching the Parliament and took for his Theam Lex Domini immaculata convertens animas c. Whereupon he divided the law into these three points viz. the law politick whereby men for fear of punishment forbear to do evil the law of love whereby men willingly do well the law mercenary where through coveteousnesse they rake to themselves By a similie as Christ going up to the Mount to be transfigured took only with him Peter Iames and Iohn resembled the same to man who could not by mortality be altered unlesse he had faith ascribed to Peter hope likened to Iames and love applied to Iohn which he affirmeth must proceed by the law of God which converteth souls He then shewed that the Parliament was called for two chief causes the one for establishing of good lawes the other for the defending of the frontiers of the Realm with manly courage to which end he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and to present him Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the third day of the Parliament the Commons presented before the Lieutenant of England and the Lords Richard Baynard to be their Speaker who with the common protestation was allowed The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords