ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 18 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Wednesday the 18 th day of February Anno Domini 1575. and was Prorogued on Thursday the 15 th day of March ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 23. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 16 th day of January Anno Domini 1580. and was Dissolved on Friday the 19 th day of April Anno Domini 1583. The Parliament held in the 27 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 23. day of November Anno Domini 1584. and was Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th day of September An. Domini 1586. Anno 28 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 28 th and 29 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Saturday the 29 th day of October Anno Domini 1586. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 23. of March Anno 29 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 31. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 4 th day of February Anno Domini 1588. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 29 th day of March Anno Domini 1589. The Parliament held in the 35 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 19 th day of November Anno Domini 1592. and was Dissolved on Tuesday the 10 th day of April Anno Domini 1593. The Parliament held in the 39. and 40. years of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 24. day of October Anno Domini 1597. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 9 th day of February An. 40 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 43. and 44 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 27 th day of October Anno Domini 1601. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 19 th day of December ensuing Anno 44. Regin ejusdem The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor or others who supplied their places as Speakers of the House of Lords during all the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH as also all the Names of all the Clerks of the said House of Parliament together with the Names of the several Speakers of the House of Commons and Clerks of the same House during all the Parliaments of the said Queens Reign The several Years of her Majesties Reign in which the said Parliaments or Sessions of Parliament were held The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor c. and of the Clerks of the House of Lords The Names of the Speakers of the House of Commons and of the Clerks of the same House IN the Parliament held in the first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England whose place was supplied Mar. 4. by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight Speaker  Francis Spilman Esquire Clerk of the Upper House ..... Seimour Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper Thomas Williams Esq Speaker The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the ninth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his being sick of the Gout First by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England after by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Richard Onslow Esq the Queens Sollicitor  The same Clerk who either died or surrendred his place before the next Parl. began in An. 13 Reg. Eliz. The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench. Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law Speaker  Anthony Mason aliàs Wilkes succeeded Francis Spilman in the place of the Clerk of the House of Lords Fulk Onslow Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fourteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied in his absence for divers days by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Robert Bell Esq Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the eighteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes in his absence by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England The same Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the twenty third Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor John Popham Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty seventh Year of Qucen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty eighth and twenty ninth Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker again  The same Clerk The same Clerk from Oct. 29. to Dec. 2. 1589. And the same Clerks Kinsman W. Onslow Gent. from Febr. 15. to March 23. ensuing In the Parliament held in the thirty first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor George Snagg Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty ninth and fortieth Years of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law Speaker  Thomas Smith Esq succeeded Clerk of the Upper House to Anthony Mason alids Wilkes The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the 43 44 Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper J. Croke Esq Recorder of London The same Clerk The same Clerk THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A o 1 o Regin Eliz. A. D. 1558 1559. The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster A o 1 o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1558. beginning there after one Prorogation of the same on Wednesday the 25 th of January and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Monday the 8 th day of May Anno Dom. 1559. QUeen Mary Deceased on Thursday the 17 th day of November in the year of our Lord 1558. and the Parliament then Assembled in the 6th and last year of her Reign thereby immediately Dissolving the thrice Excellent and Prudent Princess Queen Elizabeth according to her right and Hereditary Title without any opposition or difficulty King Philip being then very happily absent beyond the
brought him even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to Ransom a servile Peace at our enemies the Spaniards hands with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low-Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and State she brought them to an Unity in Counsel and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards Tyrannical designs which have so much gauled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented to and set on foot by commandment of the late King his Father I need not shew you neither trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Authors themselves But de mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loth to speak of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her blood I mean Jewels which have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which I hope God will ever keep from her but she hath rather worn them in Triumph than for the price which hath not been greatly valuable Then he fell to perswade us because new occasions were offered of consultations to be provident in provision of means for our own defence and safety seeing the King of Spain means to make England miserable by beginning with Ireland neither doth he begin with the Rebels but even with the Territory of the Queen her self He shewed that Treasure must be our means for Treasure is the sinews of War Nota That the substance of this Speech is only here inserted as it was afterwards repeated in the said House upon Tuesday the third day of November which next ensued by Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principal Secretary who had done it to satisfy divers Members of the same who could not get into the Upper House to hear it this first day of the Parliament as is aforesaid Now follow the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the said House As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and that such of her Majesties Privy-Council and others of the House of Commons as had privately got in and heard it were departed down to their own House Thomas Smith Esq Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Knight Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings Bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Carew and D r Stanhop Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir William Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Swale and D r Howard They who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six dayes Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens House the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place at the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Le Ware the Lord Lumley and the Lord Burleigh All these or four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure did serve them to meet and hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-Book in manner and form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris proximè futurum viz. 30 m diem Octobris Nota That although there be some short mention made of the Presentment of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House yet because it is very imperfectly and briefly Entred there I have therefore supplied it somewhat largely out of a private Journal of the House of Commons On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon her Majesty came by Water to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and being Apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of State divers also of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the Door of the said House with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London their Speaker Elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as conveniently could let in and the said Speaker was led up to the Bar or Rayl at the lower end of the same House by the hands of Sir William Knolles Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth MOST Sacred and Mighty Sovereign Upon your Majesties Commandment your most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble Servant being a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen I do most humbly beseech your Sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable Self And that it would please you to Command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great service to be appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I beseech your most excellent Majesty not to interpret my denial herein to proceed from any unwillingness to perform all devoted dutiful service but rather out of your Majesties Clemency and Goodness to interpret the same to proceed from that inward fear and trembling which hath ever possessed me when heretofore with most gracious Audience it hath pleased your Majesty to Licence me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that
appears in the Journal ensuing in an eodem 27 Regin Eliz. So also in the Parliament de an 31 Regin Eliz. Feb. 21. Friday M r Saint Pole served as one of the Knights for the County of Lincoln being also Sheriff of the same Shire And lastly in the Parliament de an 43 44 Regin Eliz. Decemb. 2. Wednesday Peter Frechevile Esq was returned one of the Knights for the County of Darby being afterwards appointed Sheriff of the same County as was also Robert Lhuyde Esq constituted Sheriff of the County of Merioneth in Wales having been formerly returned Knight for the said Shire as appeareth in the Journal of the same Parliament on Tuesday the 8 th of Decemb. In and by all which Presidents it doth appear and may probably be gathered that neither her Majesty nor the House of Commons did conceive these two places to be incompetible but that they might well stand and be in one and the same man at one and the same time For her Majesty did first make these foregoing persons Sheriffs of the several Counties aforesaid not only after they were chosen but returned also Members of the House of Commons by which it is very plain she could not be ignorant of it and therefore her self and the said House did both allow of their being made Sheriffs as a thing well agreeing with the Priviledge of their former places and the service of that House and did not therefore give them a final discharge but only Liberty of recess about their necessary affairs into the several Counties before-mentioned as in the Case of Sickness or some other temporary cause of their absenting themselves from the House which being expedited they might return again to that service for doubtless if the said House had conceived that they had been disabled from their serving there by their new Offices it would have been ordered that a Warrant should have been sent to the Clerk of the Crown to have sent down a new Writ into the foresaid Counties for a new Election to have been made as in the Case of double Returns Death or the like is used And whereas in the Parliament de an 43 44 Regin Eliz. on Wednesday the 4 th day of November Sir Andrew Nowell being both Sheriff and Knight for the County of Rutland was wholly discharged and a Writ sent out de novo for a new Election That Case differed from all the foregoing Presidents and might well upon another reason be ordered by the House For the said Sir Andrew being Sheriff of the foresaid County of Rutland was afterwards Elected one of the Knights for the same and so compelled to return himself which could not be good in Law But if the said Sir Andrew had been chosen a Knight of some other Shire during his Sheriffalty or had been constituted Sheriff by her Majesty of the said County after he had been Elected and returned a Member of the House of Commons the Case had doubtless differed and the House would never have given Order for a new Writ to have been sent forth which course they observed in the two before-cited Presidents of M r Frechevile and Mr Lhuyde in the same Parliament Thirdly if these two places should not be competible then had it now lain in the Power of her Majesty or may lie in the power of any Soveraign of this Kingdom to have disabled as many Members from serving in the House of Commons as she should or could have constituted Sheriff She might have disfurnished or any Soveraign for the time being may disfurnish the said House at any time of all or the greater part of the ablest Members thereof Nota also That those words viz. Duos Milites Gladiis cinctos were inserted into the Writ of Summons after the Parliament an 13 E. 3. as may be gathered by the Parliament Roll of the same Year And whereas some have objected in the foregoing Case to prove that a Sheriff ought always to be attendant upon the affairs of the County and cannot therefore be a Member of the House of Commons the Objection is idle for till the tenth year of Queen Eliz. the Counties of Nottingham and Derby and of Warwick and Leicester had but two several Sheriffs as were also the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk served with one Sheriff until the eighteenth Year of her Majesties Reign and so are the Counties of Sussex and Surrey served this present Year 1630. And antiently also as is plain by that MS. Catalogue of all the Sheriffs of England or the most part since the time of King H. 2. which is in many mens hands divers Counties were committed to one man as in an 1 H. 2. Richard Bassett and Awbrey de Vere were jointly constituted for Sheriffs of the several Counties of Norfolk Suffolk Northampton Essex Huntington Cambridge and Hartford and Robert Caran joined unto them for the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham From the Female Coheirs of the foresaid Richard Bassett being the Ancestor of the House of Weldon in Northamptonshire are lineally and undoubtedly descended the Families of Chaworth Stafford Knyvet Clinton Earl of Lincoln the Howards of the House of Suffolk and Clopton late of Kentwell in the County aforesaid and from the before-mentioned Awbrey de Vere is lineally descended as I take it Robert de Vere the nineteenth Earl of Oxford now living An. Dom. 1630. Upon the receit of the before-mentioned Writ and Election made accordingly the Sheriffs of every Shire made their several Returns of which the Form being set down in the old Book of Entries it shall be needless here to insert them But now having supply'd these matters of Form according to the usual Presidents the next passages follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Wednesday the 23 th of Jan. Anno Regni Regin Eliz. Primo The Parliament should have begun according to the Writs of Summons but by the Queens Commission directed to Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer and others to Prorogue the same until Wednesday the 25 th day of the same Month it was so done accordingly On Wednesday the 25 th day of Jan. The Parliament held and began according to the last Prorogation thereof but there is no mention made in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons where or by whom the Names of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House were called that so it might be seen who were present But most certain it is that at this day they took no Oath before the beginning of this present Parliament because that of Supremacy which was afterwards taken was not enjoyned by Statute till this first year of her Majesty But most likely it is that Hen. Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundell at this time Lord Steward of her Majesties Houshold did both cause their names to be called in some place near the Upper House and their Appearance to be Recorded before her
notwithstanding all the disbursements of these her great Charges yet she was as I right well know very hardly brought to and perswaded to call this Parliament in which she should be driven to require any aid or by any means to charge her Subjects if by any other means it might have been holpen and so her Majesty her self Commanded to be declared And I for my part and so do others very well know for the Commons little think or consider what a trouble want is to her whereby she is forced to ask of them which surely is against her nature but that she is thereunto forced for the surety of this Realm And for that the nether House cannot being so many together but of necessity must have one to be a Mouth Aider or Instructer unto them for the opening of matters which is called the Speaker Therefore go and Assemble your selves together and Elect one a discreet wise and learned Man to be your Speaker and on Friday next the Queens Majesty appointeth to repair hither again for to receive the Presentment of him accordingly The manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Lord Keepers Speech being supplied out of that written Copy or Anonymous Memorial I had by me as aforesaid now follow the Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House Then the Clerk of the Parliament read in French the Names of such as should receive hear and try the Petitions for England France Scotland Ireland Gascoigne and Guyen c. which were as followeth Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Anthony Browne Knight Sir Richard Read Knight and Doctor Huicke And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver them in six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles viz. Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Saunders Knight Chief Baron Justice Weston M r John Vaughan and Doctor Yale And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marquess of Winchester Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Clinton Admiral of England the Lord Rich all these together or four of the Prelates and Lords calling to them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeant when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries and parts beyond the Sea viz. The Archbishop of York the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Oxon the Lord Howard the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Abergaveny the Lord Wentworth the Lord Willoughby and the Lord North all they together or four of the Prelates and Lords aforesaid calling to them the Queens Serjeant Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber These Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions foregoing being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there should follow out of the same the Adjournment or Continuance of the Parliament by the Queens Majesty or the Lord Keeper by her Commandment but the same being wholly omitted through the negligence of Francis Spilman Clerk of the same it is in part supplied out of that before-mentioned memorial Copy of this present days passages following Then the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament till Friday next and then the Queen returned to her Chamber and shifted her and so did all the Lords and then waited on her to the Water side where she took her Boat and departed to Whiteball from whence she came and they till Friday at their pleasures upon which ensuing Friday her Majesty came again to the Upper House but the manner and form thereof being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and only found in the foresaid Anonymous Memorials I had by me is therefore inserted out of the same in manner and form following On Friday the 15 th day of Jan. 1562. the Queens Majesty at her Privy-Stairs took Boat and went by Water to the Parliament-House about two of the Clock the Lords and Heralds waiting on her to the Landing place on the back side of the Parliament and so brought her to her Privy-Chamber where she shifted her and put on her Robes and the Lords theirs as the first day and then she repaired to her Seat and the Lords to theirs with their Serjeants and Gentlemen-Ushers before her the Lord Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Estate the Duke of Norsolk the Rod of the Marshalsie and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and the Baron of Hunsdon sustained her Mantle from her Arms And her Train was born by the Lord Chamberlain Vice-Chamberlain and M r Ashley Master of the Jewel-House and the Lord Keeper standing at the back of the Rail on the right and the Lord Treasurer on the left And because this is the first Session of the Second Parliament of her Majesty I thought it worth the labour to cause the presence of her Majesty and the Lords spiritual and Temporal to be inserted directly according unto the Copy thereof in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House Die Veneris 15 to Januar. Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt Pr. Regina Pr. Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Pr. Archiepiscopus Eboracen Pr. Episcopus London Pr. Episcopus Dunelmen Pr. Episcopus Winton Pr. Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Landaph Pr. Episcopus Hereford Pr. Episcopus Elien Pr. Episcopus Wigorn. Pr. Episcopus Bangoren Pr. Episcopus Lincoln Pr. Episcopus Sarum Pr. Episcopus Meneven Pr. Episcopus Rofsen Pr. Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Pr. Episcopus Coven Lichfeild Pr. Episcopus Exon. Pr. Episcopus Norwicen Pr. Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Carliolen Pr. Episcopus Cestren Pr. Episcopus Assaven Pr. Episcopus Gloucestren Nota That this is the very express manner and form by which the presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is set down and marked out upon this present Friday being the first day of this her Highnesses Second Session of her Parliament and at the beginning of every Lords name that was present are the Letters Pr. prefixed by which it appeareth and may certainly be concluded that all they before whose names those Letters are not set down and entred were then absent which hath been the constant course
same so that the referring of a Bill to Committees is scarce discoverable in respect that the name only of one of them is for the most part mentioned yet the manner of the Burgesses taking the Oath of Supremacy which was never in use before this Session of Parliament it having been enjoined by Statute in the first year of her Majesties Reign together with the manner of the Election and Presentment of the Speaker is very Methodically and Orderly entered And lastly whereas there is mention made in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons aforesaid that the Speaker with the whole House did exhibit their Petition to the Queens Majesty on Thursday 23. day of January in the Afternoon touching her Marriage and the Limitation of the Succession of the Crown which said Petition is there omitted I have therefore caused it to be inserted at large out of a Copy thereof I had by me which I gather by all concurring circumstances to be the very same which is only generally remembred in the said Original Journal-Books as aforesaid The second Parliament of the most Noble Princess Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England c. begun at Westminster on Monday the 11. day of January in the fifth Year of her Gracious Reign By her Highness Commission directed to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Steward the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk c. to Prorogue the same Parliament until the 12. day of the same Month viz. the Morrow following And the Knights and Burgesses being sent for to come unto the Lords in the Upper House without any appearance of their names taken then by the Lord Steward and Lord Treasurer the Lord Keeper shewed in few words that the Queens Majesty was somewhat sick of a Stitch wherefore she had sent her Writ for the Prorogation until the Morrow which was done accordingly And on the Morrow being the 12. day of January about ten of the Clock the Queens Majesty with the Lords and Bishops in Parliament Robes did ride from the Palace to Westminster-Church and there heard a Sermon during which the Earl of Arundel being Lord Steward repaired unto Whitehall and there Recorded the Appearance of the Knights and Burgesses at which time also as may very well be collected by comparing this instant days passages with those of Thursday the third day of October in the Journal of the House of Commons de an 8 9 Regin Eliz. following the said Lord Steward did doubtless either in his own person or by his Deputies administer the Oath of Supremacy according to the Statute de an 1 Eliz. Cap. 1. to such Knights Citizens and Burgesses as were at this time present and appeared And after the Queen coming from the Church and being set in her Royal Seat in the Upper House and the Commons standing at the lower end of the Chamber The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal with great Eloquence declared this Parliament to be called for Religion Discipline and Aid to the State in defence of Enemies with Excellent Dilation of those Causes And in the end willed the Commons to repair to their House and there to chuse a discreet grave and wise man to be their Speaker and to present him to the Queens Majesty on Friday next in the Afternoon immediately the Commons resorted to their Common House where after they were set M r Comptroller standing up rehearsed the Lord Keepers Oration for the Election of a Speaker and said that in his Opinion M r Thomas Williams Esq one of the Fellows of the Inner-Temple being grave learned and wise was very meet to that Office whereupon the whole House with one intire Voice cried M r Williams M r Williams And then M r Williams standing up and reverently disabling himself required the House to proceed to a new Election unto whom M r Secretary Cecill Answering that the House had gravely considered of him and therefore required him to take the place and he approaching was led and set in the Chair by M r Comptroller and it was agreed by the House to meet all there again on Friday next at one of the Clock in the Afternoon to present M r Speaker to the Queens Majesty On Friday the 15 th of January in the Afternoon M r Speaker with the rest of the House of Commons went before the Queen in her Royal Seat where M r Speaker most humbly disabled himself requiring that a new Election might be made to the which the Queens Majesty confirming the same Election by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper M r Speaker made an Excellent Oration and in the end made the accustomed Petitions which being granted the Lord Keeper willed him with the rest to resort to the House of Commons there to deliberate upon matters necessary which being done The Bill for increase of Woods in Champain Grounds and saving of Bark of Timber to be felled was read the first time On Saturday the 16. day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one was touching Servants to serve their Masters And the other to put down an Iron-Mill near Guilford and were each of them read the first time A motion was this day made by a Burgess at length for the Succession of the Crown of which see more on Thursday the 28 th day of this Instant January ensuing January the 17 th day Sunday On Monday the 18 th day of January Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one and the first reading of which the second was the Bill for the assurance of the Mannors of Whiteacre and Whiteacre Burgh to Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk his Wife from Walter Herenden being a Feoffee in Trust. Certain Arguments were this day had in the House by divers wise Personages for motion to be made for the Queens Marriage and Succession of the Crown On Tuesday the 19 th day of January the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs upon their Accompts for Justices Diets was read the first time M r Speaker with the Counsel and twenty four more of the House were appointed to meet this Afternoon to draw Articles of Petition for the Queens Marriage and Succession Vide Concerning this business on Thursday the 28. day of this Instant January following M r Comptroller is nominated one of them For that it seemed to the House being very full that they were a greater number than were returned therefore the names were immediately called and as they were called they departed out of the House and in the end ten or eleven remained who said they were returned and would bring Warrants thereof On Wednesday the 20. day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs upon their Accompts for Justices Diets was read the second time and as it should seem Committed to M r Sackvill and others see a like
Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dictâ Dominâ Reginâ certis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in 30 diem Septembris prox futur These foregoing Prorogations of this present Session of Parliament being thus at large or abstractedly transcribed now follows in Order the Assembling and Meeting of both Houses in their several places on Monday the 30 th day of September to which day it had been last Prorogued so that either House going on where they last left there was no Meeting in the Upper House at all of both Houses nor the Queen came not in Person as she used to do when a new Parliament began nor hath it ever been used in latter times upon a meer Prorogation but yet on Wednesday the second day of October following by reason of the Choice of a new Speaker in the House of Commons which was occasioned by the Death of the former the Queens Majesty came in her accustomed Royalty as at the beginning of a Parliament is usual and there admitted of their new Speaker presented unto her whom they had Chosen but the day before by vertue of her Majesties Commission all which in due Form and Order follows On Monday the 30. day of September to which day this present Session of Parliament had been last Prorogued there Assembled in the Upper House according to the usual form and course as also the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons did in their own proper place Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England the Lord Archbishop of York the Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Marquess of Northampton with divers Earls Viscounts Bishops and Barons the particular setting down of whose names is purposely omitted here although it were the first day of their Assembling together because they are at large set down on the second day of October following being Wednesday when by reason of her Majesties coming in Person to the Upper House the presence of the Lords was somewhat greater than upon this instant Monday Hodiè retornatum fuit Breve quo Edwardus Dominus Stafford ad praesens Parliament summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae locum salvo semper jure superioris sedentis Consimile pro Henrico Domino Paget Consimile pro Rogero Domino North. Consimile pro Roberto Comite Leicestriae Consimile pro Henrico Comite Westmorl This day Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Cecill Knight her Highness Principal Secretary and Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Highness Dutchy of Lancaster four Chief Members of the House of Commons and divers others of that Assembly to the number of twenty persons being sent up to the Lords from that House upon some urgent and weighty occasions desired to be admitted into the Upper House there to make known to their Lordships somewhat wherein they should require their advice and need their assistance upon which being admitted the said M r Comptroller assisted with the Personages and Company aforesaid did in comely order and discreet modesty make manifest and known unto the said Lords that Thomas Williams Esquire their late Speà ker in the last Session of this Parliament in the fifth Year of the Queens Majesty that now is was bereft from them by Death which had been openly and manifestly made known and testified unto them for remedy of which defection they humbly prayed their Lordships advice after which the Lord Keeper first requiring the said Personages a while to withdraw themselves and then commending the Order of the matter to the Lords sitting in consultation for the same it was by them all upon considerate advice therein had thought fit to signifie unto the said Commons by the Personages aforesaid that they thought it expedient and good the said Lord Keeper the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke his Grace of Norfolk and the Lord Marquess of Northampton with the four forecited Personages of the said House of Commons being also of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council should in the name of both of the Assemblies with all humbleness and due celerity make intimation of their said Estate and the Petition thereupon depending unto her said Highness to which advice the said House of Commons upon knowledge had of the same wholly assented Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis primum Octobris On Tuesday the first day of October the Bill for the making void of fraudulent Gifts and Alienations was read primâ vice The Queen having been moved as it seemeth the day past about the Death of the former Speaker and the Choice of a new one in the House of Commons by those eight Right Honourable Personages who were then and there named to move her Highness in it did give Order that this present Tuesday both the Lords and Commons should Assemble and meet together in the Parliament Chamber there to receive her Majesties Answer Where being Assembled the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Highness under the great Seal of England which was directed unto him only the tenor whereof is set down at large in the Journal of the House of Commons de An. isto 8 Regin Eliz. to which House it properly belonged viz. That in respect Thomas Williams Esq the former Speaker was dead therefore the Lord Keeper was for her Majesty and in her Name to will and Command the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons to resort unto their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one able and sufficient person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come And after they should have made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names should signifie the same unto her Majesty and thereupon her Highness would further signifie her pleasure unto them what day and time they should present him so Elected before her as it had been used formerly in like Cases to be done There was this day no other Bill or other business agitated in the Upper House for immediately upon the reading of the last above-mentioned Commission the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the said House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque diem Mercurii secundum diem Octobris On Wednesday the second day of October it seemeth there was no meeting of the Lords nor any thing done in the Forenoon neither is any mention made in the foregoing continuance of this Parliament by the Lord Keeper to what Hour of this Wednesday it was continued
Constituted the sole and joint Proxy of eight several Temporal Lords who with six others as is aforesaid were absent this Session of Parliament from which as also from other Presidents of former and later times it may easily be gathered that any Member of the Upper House by the antient usage and custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be directed unto him although there was an Order made in the said House to the contrary A. D. 1626. That no Lord or Member whatsoever of the Upper House should for the time to come be capable of above two Proxies at the most which said Order was occasioned in respect that George Duke of Buckingham Favorite of the King Deceased and of King Charles being guilty of many Crimes did to strengthen himself by Voices not only procure divers persons to be made Members of that House but also engrossed to himself near upon twenty several Proxies Vide one other Extraordinary Proxy on Saturday the 9 th day of November and another on Sunday December the first following This Forenoon also these twenty Lords under written were appointed to repair in the Afternoon to the Queens Majesty viz. The Archbishop of York The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmoreland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Warwick Viscount Bindon Viscount Mountague The Bishop of London The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Lord Cobham The Lord Rich. The Lord Wentworth The Lord Pagett The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Hastings of Loughborough The Lord Hunsdon The business about which these Lords repaired to the Queen is not in the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House but it may be guested it was concerning those two great businesses of the Queens Marriage and the Declaration of the next Heir and Successor after the Queens Decease to the Crown which business bred so much distast afterwards between her Majesty and her Subjects in this Session so that as afterwards the Lords did Petition the Queen about it so now it should seem these Lords repaired unto her either to desire leave to prefer that Petition and that they might confer with the House of Commons about it or else to know of her Majesty a fitting time when they might repair unto her with their said Petition and so receive Answer unto it But what the Queen replied at this time is hard to be conjectured only it followeth at large that on Tuesday the 5 th day of November the Members of both Houses for that end appointed repaired to her Majesty in the Afternoon but whether they then offered up their Petitions unto her Majesty or whether the House of Commons did at this Session of Parliament prefer any Petition at all concerning those two great matters aforesaid is hard to be determined No mention is made in the Original Journal-Book of continuing the Parliament which seemeth to have happened by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday the 23 th day of October the Bill to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching the prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read primâ vice An Act declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of the Realm to be good lawful and perfect was brought from the House of Commons Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox On Thursday the 24 th day of October the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal did Assemble in the Parliament-Chamber where nothing was done but only the continuance of the Parliament until Friday next at ten of the Clock On Friday the 25 th day of October the Lord Treasurer signified to all the Lords that the Queens Highness considering the decay of his Memory and Hearing being Griefs accompanying Hoary Hairs and Old Age and understanding the Lord Keepers slow amendment intended to supply both their said defects by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and shewed forth her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England which the Clerk by Commandment openly read in haec verba ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and well Beloved Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Pleas to be holden before us Greeting Where our right trusty and well-beloved Councellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England is at this present sore visited with sickness that he is not able to travel to the Upper House of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster nor there to supply the room and place in the said Upper House amongst the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to the Office of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England hath been accustomed We minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth have named and appointed you from day to day and time to time hereafter during our pleasure to use and occupy the place and room of the said Lord Keeper in our said Upper House of Parliament amongst the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled and there to do and execute in all things from day to day and time to time as the said Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England should and might do if he were there present using and supplying the same place Wherefore we will and Command you the said Sir Robert Catlin to attend unto and about the Executing of the premisses with effect And these our Letters Patents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same in every behalf In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the 25 th day of October in the Eighth Year of Our Reign Martin The Bill to repeal a branch of a Statute made in the 23 th Year of Henry 8. touching prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read tertiâ vice and by common consent of all the Lords concluded Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati proximum On Saturday the 26 th day of October the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect was read primâ vice Memorandum The Lords after deliberate Consultation and advice taken how to proceed in the great matters of Succession and Marriage before moved by the House of Commons did this present day send Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney down unto them to signifie that they would a chosen number should be sent up unto them for their knowledge to be had of the same Vide concerning this business on Wednesday the 30 th day of October now next ensuing as also on Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Dominus
wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the same so also by a like negligence are all those many and several Prorogations buried in Silence by which this Parliament was continued without Dissolution until the next meeting thereof on Wednesday the 8 th day of February in the eighteenth year of her Majesties Reign which was the second Session of this present Parliament and held about four years after the determination of this first Session by Adjournment as aforesaid so that it is very probable that there are not less than twenty several Prorogations For between that foresaid second Session in an 18 Reginae Eliz. and the third Session of this present Parliament in an 23 Reginae ejusdem which contained not above one years space more than had intervened between the two former Sessions there passed at least twenty five Prorogations as doth plainly appear in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the said Session of Parliament de an 18 Reginae praedict where they are for the most part set down either abstractedly or at large And lastly As touching the great business of the Scottish Queen so much and so long agitated in both Houses it did at this time receive no period or conclusion but in this Session of Parliament in an 14 Reginae Eliz. an Act passed both Houses against her and lastly in the Parliament de an 28 29 Reginae ejusdem she was a little before her Execution at Fortheringhay-Castle in Northamptonshire Condemned to be Worthy of Death by the Vote of both the said Houses of Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 14 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1572 which began there on Thursday the 8 th Day of May and then and there continued until the Adjournment thereof on Monday the 30 th and last Day of June next ensuing THIS Journal of the House of Commons containeth in it not only many good passages touching the ordinary reading committing and expediting of Bills but is plentifully stored also with the frequent agitation and discussion of that great business touching the Scottish Queen whose practices not only with Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk but also with the Foreign Enemies of her Majesty for the destruction and Invasion of the Realm are notably described which also is much enlarged out of a written Copy I had by me of such reasons as were conceived in the House of Commons for her speedy Execution and of the Petition also preferred to her Majesty to the same purpose which said Reasons and Petition being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons I have therefore to avoid confusion distinguished by an Annotation or Animadversion from that of the Journal it self where it hath in its due place been inserted There passed also in this said Session a Bill against the said Queen of Scots which is falsly referred in divers Copies thereof to the 23 th year of her Majesty On Thursday the 8 th day of May this first Session of the fourth Parliament of her Majesties Reign beginning at Westminster The Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln High Admiral of England and by her Highness appointed Lord Steward for this present time came to the Lower House of Parliament accompanied with divers others of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council viz. Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofts Knight Comptroller of the same Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Chancellor of her Majesties Dutchy of Lancaster and Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer And did then and there minister the Oath unto all the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons then and there Assembled The said Earl of Lincoln Constituting and Authorizing the said Sir Francis Knolles Sir James Crofts Sir Ralph Sadler and Sir Walter Mildmay to be his Deputies in and for the more speedy ministration of the said Oath according to the Statute in that behalf lately made and provided unto all such others of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons as should happen afterwards to appear upon any return during this present Parliament This day Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq was Chosen Speaker for this present Parliament But whether her Majesty were this day in Person in the Upper House or by what Authority from her said Highness the said Speaker was Elected cannot possibly be gathered out of the Original Journal of the said Upper House or that of the House of Commons but elsewhere it appears the Lord Keeper gave them Authority in the end of his Speech on Thursday foregoing On Saturday the 10 th day of May M r Speaker was by the House presented to the Queens Majesty and of her Highness well accepted and allowed who after his Oration made and the Ordinary Petitions granted repaired to the House of Commons and being set in the Chair received the Oath After which according to the usual form was read The Bill concerning Bayles to be taken in the Court of Common-Pleas was read the first time On Monday the 12 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the third being the Bill for Proclamations to be made in Parish Churches and Chappels before Outlawries was committed unto M r Gent M r Robert Snagg M r Fenner M r Humberston M r Flowerdue M r French and M r Boyes who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Church The Lords did send Sir Richard Read and M r D r Huick to require M r Speaker and this whole House forthwith to make their repair unto their Lordships in the Upper House and upon their repair thither the Lord Keeper signified unto them that the Queens Majesties Pleasure is that twenty one of the said Upper House and forty four of this House should meet to Morrow in the Morning at eight of the Clock in the Star-Chamber then and there to consult and deliberate upon matters concerning the Queen of Scots Whereunto were appointed of this House M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer My Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Maurice Berkeley Sir Hugh Pawlet Sir Thomas Scott Sir Owen Hopton Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir John Thinne Sir Hen. Gate Sir Rowland Hayward M r Doctor Wilson M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Recorder of London M r Serjeant Manwood M r Serjeant Geffry M r Mounson M r Sands M r Popham M r Yelverton M r Coleby M r Heneage M r Charles Howard M r Hatton M r Asteley M r Shute M r Hen. Knolles Sen. M r Hen. Knolles Jun. M r Peter Wentworth M r Sampole M r Norton M r William Moor. M r John Vaughan M r Tho. Randall M r John Vaughan of Caermarthen M r Greenfield Sen. M r Charles Somerset M
now credibly informed to this House by John Aldrich Gentleman one of the Citizens returned for the City of Norwich and also by Sir Roger Woodhouse Knight one of the Knights for the said County of Norff. and also by Edward Grimstone Esquire one of the Burgesses for the Town of Ipswich in the County of Suff. that the said Thomas Beamont is impotent and incurably sick and diseased it was at the earnest motion of the said John Aldrich made to this House for another Citizen to be chosen and returned for the said City of Norwich in the place and stead of the said Thomas Beamont Ordered and resolved by this House that a Warrant be made forthwith by this House to the Clerk of the Crown-Office in the Chancery for the directing of a new Writ for the chusing and returning of another Citizen of the said City of Norwich in the place and stead of the said Thomas Beamont accordingly And for as much as Hugh Graves one of the Citizens for the City of York did the last former Session of this present Parliament move the House and make request that by Order of this House another Citizen might be chosen and returned for the said City of York in lieu and stead of Gregory Peacocke his fellow Citizen being then and yet still incurably sick and diseased and for that also that Robert Askewith is already returned and hath attended this present Session in the room and place of the said Gregory Peacocke it was now Ordered and resolved by this House that the said Robert shall stand and remain still as a Citizen for the said City of York in the lieu and place of the said Gregory Peacocke according to the return thereof made The Bill for the Lord Zouch was after sundry Motions and Arguments put to the Question and dashed It was also upon further consideration of the said returns and defaults Ordered and resolved That Thomas Fleming Gentleman being returned into this Session and appearing in the place of James Dalton one of the Burgesses for Kingstone upon Hull in the County of York being incurably sick and diseased shall stand and continue according to the return in that behalf already made And that John Fawcher likewise returned a Burgess for the said Town of Kingston upon Hull in the lieu and stead of James Clerkson sick and Samuel Cox Esquire returned a Burgess for the City of Rochester in the County of Kent in the room and place of William Partridge Esquire being sick Sir William Drury Knight returned a Burgess for Castle Riseing in the County of Norff. in the room and place of Edward Flowerdewe Esq being sick Richard Mollineux Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Wigan in the County of Lancaster in the room and place of Edward Fitton Esquire being in the Queens Majesties Service Fulke Grevill Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Southampton in the room and place of Sir Henry Wallop Knight being in the Queens Majesties Service and Richard Herbert Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Montgomery in the room and place of Rowland Pugh Esquire supposed to be dead but yet known to be in plain life shall be forthwith amoved from their said places and the said James Clerkson Edward Flowerdew Esquire Edward Fitton Esquire William Partridge Esquire Sir Henry Wallop Knight and Rowland Pugh Esq and every of them shall stand and continue for their said several rooms and places notwithstanding any such causes of sickness the Queens Majesties Service or supposed allegation of being dead Vide Januar 19. Januar. 21. antea And it is also further agreed upon and resolved by this House That during the time of sitting of this Court there do not any time any Writ go out for the chusing or returning of any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron without the Warrant of this House first directed for the same to the Clerk of the Crown according to the ancient Jurisdiction and Authority of this House in that behalf accustomed and used Nota. This resolution of the House is no other than had been formerly taken by them in the beginning of this Parliament upon Saturday the 21 th day of January foregoing which also was further ratified and confirmed by the opinion and judgment of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight at this time Lord Chancellor of England M r Doctor Gibbon and M r Doctor Clerk did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships did desire present Conference with ten of this House or more touching the Bill lately passed in this House concerning Iron-Mills Whereupon were appointed M r Comptroller M r Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Shirley Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London M r Norton M r Cowper M r Aldersey M r Gaymes and M r Leife The Bill against certain deceitful stuff used in the dying of Cloths was sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and the said Committees and the provision passed and assented unto and amended according to the request of their Lordships The Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation all the Amendments Provisions and Additions being three times read was passed upon the Question Where by a former Order of this House Arthur Hall Esquire was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London there to remain by the space of six Months and so much longer as until himself should willingly make a general revocation or retractation under his hand in writing of certain Errors and slanders contained in a certain Book set forth in print and published in part greatly tending to the slander and reproach of Sir Robert Bell Knight deceased late Speaker of this present Parliament and of sundry other particular Members of this House and also of the Power Antiquity and Authority of this House to the satisfaction of this House or of such Order as this House should take for the same during the continuance of this present Session of Parliament as by the same Order made and set down by this House upon Tuesday being the 14 th day of February foregoing in this present Session of Parliament more at large doth and may appear And where also the said Arthur Hall hath ever since the said Order taken remained in the said Prison of the Tower and yet still doth and hath not at all made any revocation or retractation of the said slanders errors and untruths to the satisfaction of this said House according to the said Order It is now therefore Ordered and resolved by this House That the further allowance of such revocation or retractation to be hereafter made as aforesaid shall be referred unto the Right Honourable Sir Francis Knolles K t one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofte Knight one other of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Comptroller of her Majesties said most Honourable Houshold Sir Christopher Hatton Knight one other of her Highness said most Honourable
of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst Assoon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these Names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber And that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lords Lieutenants adjourned the Parliament until Monday next following This day were divers Proxies returned of which the Extraordinary ones were these that follow 29 o die Octobris introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Marmad Episcopi Meneven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar. Johannem Episcopum London Thomam Episcopum Wintonien Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Episcopi Cestren in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Episcopum Cantuarien Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Bangor in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Cantuarien Willielmum Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Carliolen in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edwinum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Nota That these were all the Extraordinary or unsual Proxies that are entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been returned this Parliament For whereas the Spiritual Lords do for the most part constitute two Proctors and the Temporal Lords but one and those likewise of their own Order here the Bishop of S t Davids nominated three the Bishops of Chester and Carlisle but one apiece and the Bishop of Bangor did constitute the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England his Joynt Proctor with John Bishop of Canterbury which I take to be the only Precedent with two others in Anno 5 Eliz. during all the Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth's Reign where a Spiritual Lord did nominate a Temporal for his Proctor or a Temporal Lord a Spiritual although in the Reign of Queen Mary and other times more ancient it was very usual and ordinary On Monday the 31 th of October her Majesties Person was represented as it had been on the first day of this Parliament by three Commissioners viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby great Steward of England who were stiled the Lords Lieutenants These with divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal being fet in their Parliamentary Robes in the Upper House the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon with John Puckering Serjeant at Law who had been Speaker also the last Parliament their now Prolocutor repaired thither and being as many as conveniently could let in the said M r Speaker was led up by two of the most eminent Personages of the House of Commons to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House who being there placed and having according to the usual course desired himself to be excused that so the House of Commons might make choice of some other more able Member amongst themselves it was not allowed but his former wise and discreet behaviour the last Parliament in the Execution of this very place was alledged and much commended Whereupon the said M r Speaker having made humble reverence and in very discreet and good manner submitted himself to the undertaking of the said Prolocutorship did in the end of his Speech make divers petitions of course for freedom of Speech freedom of Access to her Majesty and freedom from Arrests and Suits in the Name of the House of Commons and lastly for pardon for himself if he should unwittingly erre in the report or carriage of any thing Whereunto the Lords Commissioners by the Lord Chancellor answered That the said House of Commons and himself should enjoy and use such Priviledges as others in the times of the Queen her Noble Progenitors had accustomed to use and enjoy Nota That it doth not appear by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House whether the Speaker were presented in the Forenoon or in the Afternoon Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris prox horâ octavâ On Friday the 4 th day of November the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Assembled the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto the next day at eight of the Clock On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Lord Chancellor declared unto the Lords the foul and indirect dealings practised by the Queen of Scots against her Majesty and the whole Realm notwithstanding so many great benefits and favours which the said Queen of Scots had received of her Majesty the which matter by William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England as one unto whom the said Queen of Scots whole proceedings were better known by reason of his long Service done unto our most gracious Soveraign Lady since the beginning of her Reign were more fully dilated Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae horâ octavâ On Monday the 7 th day of November while the Lords were debating the matter of the Queen of Scots the House of Commons came up and desired a Conference with some of the Lords of this House what number it should please them to appoint about the great matter of the Queen of Scots already opened unto them Whereupon the Lords chose out to the number of twenty one viz. the Archbishops of Canterbury and York the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Kent the Earl of Rutland and the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley the Lord Shandois the Lord Buckhurst the Lord de la Ware and the Lord Norris Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 8 th day of November nothing was done but the Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor continued usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Wednesday the 9 th day of November were read divers Letters as well of Anthony Babington to the Queen of Scots as of the said Queen of Scots to the said Anthony Babington Charles Paget and others The Sentence also pronounced by the Commissioners against the Queen of Scots was read A form of a Petition agreed upon by the Committees of both Houses was
Prorogand Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestruin ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quòd ad dictum quartum diem Februarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi Concilio dicti regni nostri favente Domino contigerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium 15. die Octobris Anno Regni nostri 30. Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrard On Tuesday the 4 th day of February in the 31. year of her Majesties Reign to which day the Parliament had been last Prorogued upon Tuesday the 12 th day of November foregoing and accordingly now held The Queens Majesty was personally present accompanied by the Lord Chancellor and divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal but the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House doth not at all mention the presence of any Lords which happened through the great negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk thereof yet it may be collected February 8. The Queen being set under her Cloth of State and the Lords placed in their Parliamentary Robes according to their several ranks and orders the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired to the said Upper House and as many of them as conveniently could being let in stood before the Rail or Bar at the nether end thereof Then Sir Christoper Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England in a Speech which he used did at large declare the Queens gracious disposition to peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyed by her government and remembred her great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas videlicet in Anno 30 Reign Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed the Cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise Persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth by the Counsel of man as is possible be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Money may be in readiness and an Army prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellors Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of Kings Bench D r Aubrey and D r Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Clerk and D r Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries beyond the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst As soon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber and that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Queen continued the Parliament unto a day to come which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' hora secunda post Meridiem On Wednesday the 5 th day of this instant February although the Upper House sate not yet was one extraordinary Proxy returned or brought in unto the Clerk of the said House as there had formerly been another of a like nature returned on Monday the third day of the said Month foregoing which because it was returned before the Parliament it self began and is entred together with that before mentioned in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the said House it shall not be much amiss to set them down both together in this place in such manner and form as they are entred in the said Journal-Book viz. Vacat 3. die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Assaphen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar ' Johannem Episcopum Roffen Hugonem Episcopum Bangoren ' Nota That though the word vacat be here placed in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Margent of this Proxy in such manner and sort as this is transcribed yet there doth not appear any reason thereof for as it may be collected by the presence of the Lords set down on Saturday the 8 th day of this instant February following neither the said Bishop of S t Asaph was present himself after the said Proxy sent nor all nor any of his Proctors absent nor himself dead which are only causes of a Vacat 5 to Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Carliolen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constitiuit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Nota That these Two Proxies are therefore called unusual and extraordinary because these two Bishops did constitute the first of them three Proctors and the last of them but one whereas for the most part the Spiritual Lords do nominate two and the Temporal Lords but one which may be collected in part out of the very Returns of this Parliament for of five Spiritual Lords that sent their Proxies three constituted two
Her Majesty thinketh this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability for that one dischargeth himself and the other is not able to satisfie what he is charged withal These things would be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this present service Her Majesty further hath willed me to signify unto you that the calling of this Parliament now is not for the making of any more new Laws and Statutes for there are already a sufficient number both of Ecclesiastical and Temporal and so many there be that rather than to burthen the Subject with more to their grievance it were fitting an Abridgment were made of those there are already Wherefore it is her Majesties Pleasure that the time be not spent therein But the principal Cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding of those intended Invasions which are now greater than were ever heretofore heard of And whereas heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and of vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance The time that is precious would not be thus spent The Sessions cannot be long by reason the Spring time 't is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countries the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits So the good hours should not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such businesses as are needful to be considered of And so willed them to Elect a Speaker As soon as the Lord Keepers Speech was ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the ancient use and form which were as followeth viz. Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clynch one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Francis Gawdy another of the Justices of the said Bench Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. They which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perrian Lord Chief Baron and Thomas Walmsley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary and Doctor Stanhop And they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton All these or any four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst These or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Treasurers Chamber Nota That all that which is set down touching the coming up of those of the House of Commons into the Higher House and the Lord Keepers Speech being before placed after the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as were this day present is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is here inserted partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of another very exact Journal of that House which was in my Custody being very diligently observed and set down by some Anonymus who was a Member of the said House during this Parliament And I have always thought it most fitting in all these several Journals ever to refer the aforesaid Speeches the Presentments of the Speakers and such other Passages as are wholly handled and agitated in the Upper House to be set down as largely as by any good Authority they may in the Journal of the same to which they do most truly and properly belong and only for Orders sake to give a short touch or remembrance of them in the Journal of the House of Commons Finally at the Conclusion of this days business the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' futurum On Thursday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the Clock in the Afternoon accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquess of Winchester and divers others of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Monday foregoing the first day of this Parliament The Queen and the Lords being thus set the House of Commons had notice thereof who immediately thereupon came up with Edward Cooke Esquire the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had Chosen for their Speaker or Prolocutor Which said Speaker being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most Eminent Personages of the House of Commons who as soon as silence was made and the rest of the said House as many as could conveniently get in had placed themselves in the space below the said Bar spake as followeth YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty Yet this their nomination is only as yet a Nomination and no Election until your Majesty giveth Allowance and Approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum Corpus until it have received light from the Sun so stand I Corpus opacum a Mute Body until your Highness bright shining Wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is to be the Mouth of such a Body as your whole Commons represent to utter what is spoken Grandia Regni My small Experience being a poor Professor of the Law can tell But how unable I
it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign and of our natural Country of our Wives our Children our Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging of this point as a poor remembrance of her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships quod justum est necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons to the end you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is you should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave wise and Learned man among you to be your Speaker who shall be for an understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your Mouth to signify your minds and to make your Petitions known to her Highness and him on Thursday next to present in this place Nota that this foregoing Speech of the Lord Keeper is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is supplied by me out of a Copy thereof lying by me which I conceive to have been very truely transcribed out of the Original and I have always conceived it most proper to refer this and such like other Speeches if warranted by any good authority to the Journal of the said Upper House because they are delivered in it and only for Order sake to have some short Memorial thereof in the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses were departed down to their own House the Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French which were as followeth viz. Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice John Clinch one of the Justices of the Kings Bench Francis Gaudy one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Carew and Dr. Stanhop Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Willam Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the said Common Pleas Dr. Lewen and Dr. Cousins and they who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six days Tryers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Sussex great Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of the Queens Household and Lord Admiral of England the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Cobham and the Lord North. All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants shall hold their place when their leisure serveth in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and also the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure serveth shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber The Lord Burgh absent being at this time Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De la Ware absent because he made question of his place intending to make Suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dicto 24 o die Octobris viz. Primo die hujus Parliamenti Introductum est breve quo Archiepiscopus Eboracen ' praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissas est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno 〈◊〉 brevia introduct sunt 4. Comitibus 10. Episcopis 5. Baronibus Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis proximum futurum viz. 27 diem Octobris On Thursday the 27 th day of October the Queens Majesty repaired in the-Afternoon to the Upper House of Parliament accompanied with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal who attended her Majesty this said day in the House being for the most part the same that are mentioned to have been present there on Monday the 24 th day of this instant October foregoing Of which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice M r Serjeant Yelverton being chosen Prolocutor or Speaker of the said House was by them brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolles Controller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented Who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the Duty of the House of Commons in making an Election but excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections and wishing earnestly he were of sufficiency to perform the Duty of that place made humble Suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the said House of Commons might proceed to a new Election Which excuse was not allowed by her Majesty as the Lord Keeper delivered by Answer but the choice of the said M r Yelverton was by her Majesty very well approved and his sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that charge and to present to her Majesty in the behalf of the said House of Commons certain humble Petitions for access unto her Majesty in the behalf of the said House upon needful occasions and for the using and enjoying such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making Answer by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper did yield her Gracious Assent with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum Mensis Octobris On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read primâ vice Introductum est breve Thomae Domini Gray de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno The Earl of Lincoln's excuse by reason of sickness presented by the Lord Treasurer Thomas Lord de la Ware having petitioned the Queens Majesty for his Ancient and right Place of Precedence in and amongst the Peers in Parliament and her Majesty well allowing his said
only for Order to leave some short Memorial of them in the Journals of the House of Commons Now follows the continuance of the Parliament out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House where it is Entred in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis quintum Mensis Novembris After which as is set down in the foresaid private Journal room being made the Queen came through the Commons to go to the great Chamber who graciously offering her hand to the Speaker he kist it but not one word she spake unto him and as she went through the Commons very few said God save your Majesty as they were wont in all great Assemblies and so she returned back again to Whitehal by Water Now follow the next days Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Thursday the 5 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Friday the 30 th day of October foregoing were two Bills read of which the first being for Assurance of Lands and the second for the restraint of the excessive and superfluous use of Coaches within the Realm of England were each of them read primâ vice On Saturday the 7 th day of November the Bill for Assurance of Lands was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Durham the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Rich the Lord Howard of Walden and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Lord Chief Baron and M r Attorney General were appointed to attend their Lordships The Bill to restrain the excessive use of Coaches within this Realm of England was read secundâ vice and rejected Hereupon Motion was made by the Lord Keeper that forasmuch as the said Bill did in some sort concern the maintenance of Horses within this Realm consideration might be had of the Statutes heretofore made and Ordained touching the breed and maintenance of Horses And that M r Attorney General should peruse and consider of the said Statutes and of some fit Bill to be drawn and prefer'd to the House touching the same and concerning the use of Coaches And that he should acquaint therewith the Committees appointed for the Bill before-mentioned for Assurance of Lands Which Motion was approved by the House The Bill for the preservation of Pheasants and Partridges was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 10 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Derby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Pembrook and divers others to attend the Lords Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges upon the Lords Committees on Thursday the 3 d day of this instant November foregoing who were appointed to meet at the Little Chamber near the Parliament presence and the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury On Thursday the 12 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Tuesday foregoing The Bill concerning Musters Souldiers and other things appertaining thereunto was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal And the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Walmesley M r Justice Warberton M r Serjeant Yelverton and M r Attorney General were appointed to attend the Lords Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and M r Secretary Herbert of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Administration of Intestates goods was read primâ vice The Bill for Assurance of Lands was this day returned to the House with certain Amendments by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees which Amendments were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill was appointed to be ingrossed Memorandum That upon the reading of the said Amendments the Lord Bishop of London one of the Committees did offer to speak unto the Bill or unto the said Amendments Whereupon a doubt was moved by the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward whether it were agreeable to the good Order and Antient Custom of the House that the said Lord Bishop being one of the Committees and dissenting from the rest in some matter either of the Bill or of the Amendments might speak thereunto upon the bringing in and presenting of the Amendments or no. Which doubt being upon this occasion propounded in generality to the House by the Lord Keeper and put to the question It was adjudged and resolved by the major part That any Committee might speak in like case either to the body of the Bill or to the Amendments upon the bringing in of the same before it be ingrossed Upon which resolution Order was given to the Clerk of the Parliament that a remembrance or observation thereof should be Entred in the Journal-Book for the resolving and clearing of the like doubt if it should happen hereafter And thereupon after the reading of the Amendments the said Lord Bishop of London proceeded to his Speech and the Bill was appointed to be ingrossed as aforesaid Vide in the Parliament de an 39 Regin Eliz. on Tuesday the 24 th day of January Memorandum Report was made unto the House by the Lord Zouch of one William Hogan an Ordinary Servant of the Queens Majesty Arrested and Imprisoned upon an Execution by one John Tolkerne since the beginning of the Parliament And a Motion was likewise made by his Lordship to know the Judgment and resolution of the House in this point whether any Ordinary Servant of her Majesty though he be none of the Parliament be not priviledged and protected from Arrest during the time of the Parliament by vertue of his said Service to her Majesty in like sort as the Servants of the Lords of the Parliament attending the said Lords their Masters are priviledged and freed for that time from any Arrests of their Persons And withal being Arrested upon Execution whether in this Case he may by good Order of this House be discharged Which Motion and doubt the Lord Zouch professed that he did the rather propound because though there were divers Examples of former times touching the Servants of the Lords of the Parliament the like to this concerning one of the Queens Servants had not been so far as was remembred brought in question heretofore And therefore it pleased the Lords to take
knowledge of this Motion and to give Order that Tolkerne should be sent for at whose Suit the Arrest was made And withal that such Precedents as the Clerk of the Parliament could shew should be looked out and made known to the House Vide plus concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November following On Saturday the 14 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by occasion of sending for the aforesaid Tolkerne request was made by M r Conisbie Gentleman Usher to the House and signified by the Mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That for as much as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said M r Conisbie supposed and alledged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistaking as he thought the Serjeant at Arms was imployed therein That therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and from henceforth have the Right of his place in that behalf Whose request being considered of by the Lords it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Precedents as could be produced therein either for the Gentleman-Usher or for the Serjeant at Arms and thereof to make Report to the House whereupon their Lordships would proceed to the deciding of the question between them Vide concerning this business on Tuesday the first day of December next following The meeting of the Committees about the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers c. who were nominated on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing and appointed to meet this Afternoon was upon Motion to the House by some of the Committees deserr'd until Monday next being the 16 th day of this instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper that the Gentleman-Usher might be sent to such Lords as are absent from the Parliament and have not sent their Proxies to admonish them thereof Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for suppressing the multitude of Ale-Houses and Tippling-Houses was read secundâ vice and committed to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Rich the Lord Sheffield the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton and the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The third Bill also being for the avoiding of unnecessary delayes of Executions upon Judgment in Debt was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of S t Asaph the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The Lord Zouch renewed his former motion concerning the Arrest of William Hogan her Majesties Ordinary servant at the suit of John Tolkerne Whereupon the Clerk of the Parliament was required to shew forth all such Precedents as he had found touching the Arrests of any Persons priviledged by Parliament having received directions from the Lords for that purpose as is before Recorded of which sort out of the Journal-Book remaining in his custody there were to be found only these four hereunder mentioned and no more 1. Anno 27. Reginae Fliz. die Martis primo die Decembris of James Diggs servant to my Lords Grace of Canterbury 2. Anno 27. Reginae Eliz. die Lunae 7. Die Decembris of Robert Finneis servant to the Lord Viscount Binden 3. Item in the last Parliament of 39 Eliz. 26. die Novembris of Edward Barston servant to the Lord Chandois and 8. die Decembris of John York the Lord Arch-Bishops servant 4. Item Anno 14. Reginae die ultimo Junii It appeareth that the Lord Cromwel made complaint unto the Parliament of an Attachment served upon his Person and that his Lordship was by Order of the Parliament discharged of the Attachment but whether this Attachment was served in the time of the Parliament it doth not certainly appear Which said Precedents being accordingly presented to the Lord Keeper the same were presently read together with certain Observations out of a Book written by Richard Crompton Esquire Intituled the Authority and Jurisdiction of the Queens Courts concerning the proceedings of the House in the like case of George Ferrers Gent. an ordinary servant to King Henry 8. about the thirty fourth year of his Reign This being done albeit sundry Motions were thereupon made by divers of the Lords for a present proceeding in this matter nevertheless because the said Tolkerne having been formerly sent for could not yet be found and also in respect there was less appearance of the Lords this day than at other times and this matter concerning the priviledge of the House was of great importance and therefore required a more full Assembly Stay was made of any further proceeding until Thursday next being the 19 th day of this instant November And in the mean time it was Ordered that Tolkerne should again be sent for to appear before the Lords in the House that day by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this Instant November following On Monday the 16 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secundâ vice Motion was made by the Lord Sheffield upon reading of this Bill that Thomas Crompton Son of Thomas Crompton Esquire deceased with Henry Best Francis Jackson and others whom it may concern should be heard in the House whether they or any of them could pretend any right or Interest in these Lands in respect of a Grant heretofore made thereof by her Majesty to the said Thomas Crompton Which Motion was well approved by the House and Ordered that the Gentleman Usher should move the said parties to appear before their Lordships in the House for that purpose upon Saturday next the 21. day of this Instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning and to bring them such persons as are interested in the Conveyance of those Lands Vide December 7 th Monday postea Memorandum That the
Two Committees for two several Bills made one Committee for both Bills p. 607 Common Prayer vide Uniformity Conference to be had before a Bill passed either House be rejected by the other p. 272 273. 388. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons Contribution of two shillings in the pound made by the Lords towards the Queens extraordinary charge in defence of the Realm p. 387. Contribution made by them for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London p. 462. An Order that such Lords as were absent the whole Session should pay double to what others did who constantly attended the service of the House and those that came but seldom to the House a third part more p. 463 464 Convocation-days the House of Lords either sit not or do little business on them p. 67 Crown a Bill restoring to it the ancient jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual c. p. 28 D. ABill for Denization of Peregrine Berty and Katharine Dutchess of Suffolk his Wife p. 145. of William Watson p. 148 Dissolve vide Commissions Doctors of the Civil Law made Joint-Committees with the Lords p. 145 E. EGerton Sir Thomas made Lord Keeper 38 Eliz. p. 522. His Speech to the Parliament 39 and 40 Eliz. p. 524. Q. Elizabeth enter'd on the Government Nov. 17. ann Dom. 1558. p. 1. and within nine weeks summons a Parliament viz. Jan 23. ibid. A Bill in that Parliament to make her inherit able to the late Q. Anne her Mother p. 19. she is averse from declaring a Successor p. 107. 127 128. Her sharp Speech to the Parliament in ann 8 and 9. for their Petition to that purpose p. 116. She remitteth the third payment of a Subsidy to take the Parliament off from urging her to declare a Successor p. 131. Her Pious Speech at the end of the Session 27. of her Reign p. 328. In the Parliament 28 and 29 of her Reign called upon the discovery of Babingtons conspiracy she appeared not in person but gave Commission to three Lords to supply her place with the title of Lords Lieutenants p. 377 378. Both Houses petition her to execute the sentence upon Mary Queen of Scots with her Answer thereto p. 380 381 382. Her Speech at the end of the Parliament in 35 of her Reign p. 466. Her great success against the Spaniard set forth in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. Jewels given to her Physicians to poyson her p. 599 G. GArgrave Sir Thomas chosen Speaker to the Commons in the Parliament holden 1 Eliz. p. 15. and 40. The manner of his disabling himself to the House first and then to the Queen ibid. His Petitions of course on behalf of the House of Commons p. 16. His Speech at the conclusion of the Session p. 31 Gavelkind what and in what places it obtaineth p. 272. A Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom p. 533 Gentleman-Usher of the House claims right to bring such persons before the Upper House as are accused of breach of priviledge and sayes it does not belong to the Serjeant at Arms. p. 603. He is sent for an ordinary servant of the Queens committed to the Fleet for debt upon Execution and for him that arrested him p. 605. 607. This not to injure the Serjeant at Arms in his pretensions to that office p. 607 Grace Vide Bills and Acts. H. HAtton Sir Christopher made Chancellor 29 Eliz. upon the death of Sir Thomas Bromley p. 419 Herald at Arms in ordinary to the Queen not to have priviledge from Arrest on account of the Session of Parliament p. 608. 611 Hexamshire a Bill to annex it to the County of Northumberland and its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to the Bishoprick of Durham 8 9 Eliz. p. 103. but not passed into an Act till 14 Eliz. p. 200 Horses a Bill against conveying them into Scotland 1 Eliz. being a revival of an Act made 23 H. 8. p. 21 22 Lord Hunsdon's place in Parliament between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso p. 530. 543 I. INgrossing of a Bill what p. 18. Vide Bills Injunctions to stop proceeding at Law in Parliament time p. 21 Judges who are but assistants to the Upper House made Joint Committees with the Lords p. 67. 71. 99. and so in every Parliament till 39 40 Eliz. p. 142. 527. but only to consider of some ordinary Bill and which concerned matter of Law for they were never of such Committees as were to have Conference with the Commons p. 423. They have leave from the Lord Chancellor or Keeper to sit covered in the House but are always uncovered at a Committee p. 527 K. KEeper vide Chancellor Kentish-Street in Southwark a Bill for the paving of it 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 112 L. THE River Lee a Bill to bring it to the North-side of London 13 Eliz. p. 150 Low-Country Wars a voluntary contribution of both Houses towards the maintaining of them p. 387 M. MArry see the word in the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons the Queen Petition'd by the House of Lords to marry with her Answer p. 105. 107. The advice and consent of the Parliament often required for the marrying of the Kings of England p. 117 119. Earl Marshal his place in Parliament is betwixt the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward p. 535 Queen Mary died Nov. 17. 1558. in the sixth year of her Reign p. 1 Mary Queen of Scots Vide the Table to the Commons Journal Mason Anthony Esq Clerk of the Upper House 13 Eliz. p. 137. He is succeeded by Thomas Smith Esquire in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. p. 522 Melcomb Regis Vide Weymouth Messages sent from the House of Commons to the Upper House are received by the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords at the Bar whither they are to go and meet those that come from the Commons p. 539 540 Mises not to be paid by the Shires of Wales and County Palatine of Chester when Subsidies are paid nor the contrary p. 20 Monopolies Petition'd against in 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen judges an invasion of her Prerogative ibid. N. A Bill of Naturalization of Gerson Wroth a German p. 22. of William Sidney and his Wife and of Sir John Wingfield and his Lady p. 462. of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy p. 464. of Samuel Saltingstal p. 488 Newgate the Keeper of it committed to the Fleet for not obeying an Order of the Lords for the bringing of one that was Prisoner there upon Execution and was Servant to a Peer p. 608 Duke of Norfolk a Bill for the confirmation of his marriage with the Lady Margaret his Wife 1 Eliz p. 22. and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Jointure p. 25 Earl of Nottingham his place in Parliament betwixt the Earl of Lincoln and Lord Viscount Bindon p. 543 O. OBjections against a
a. 7. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 8. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 11. E. 3. parte tertia Rot. Pat. a. 12. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 10. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 14. E. 3. parte tertia Rot. Pat. a. 15. E. 3. parte prima secunda Rot. Pat. a. 16. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 15. E. 3. parte tertia bis Rot. Pat. a. 16. E. 3. parte secunda bis parte tertia Rot. Pat. a. 17. E. 3. parte prima tertia Rot. Pat. a. 18. E. 3. parte secunda tertia indors Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 3. parte prima indors bis Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 3. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 3. parte tertia indors ' Rot. Pat. a. 20. E. 3. parte prima sub initio Rotuli indors ' rot pat 21. E. 3. parte prima et secunda rot pat a. 23. E. 3. parte prima et indors ' rot pat a. 24. E. 3. parte prima secunda et tertia indors ' rot pat a. 25. E. 3. parte prima secunda et tertia et indors ' rot pat a. 26. E. 3. parte prima indors ' parte secunda et tertia indors ' rot pat a. 27. E. 3. parte tertia indors ' rot pat a. 28. E. 3. parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 29. E. 3. parte tertia indors ' saepe rot pat a. 3. E. 3. parte prima ibid. et parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 31. E. 3. parte secunda et tertia indors ' rot pat a. 32. E. 3. parte prima indors et ibid. parte tertia indors ' rot pat a. 35. E. 3. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 34. E. 3. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 36. E. 3. parte prima et secunda indors ' rot pat a. 37. E. 3. parte prima indors ' et parte secunda et tertia indors ' rot pat a. 38. E. 3. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 39. E. 3. parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 40. E. 3. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 41. E. 3. parte prima et parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 42. E. 3. parte secunda rot pat a. 43. E. 3. parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 44. E. 3. parte prima et secunda indors ' rot pat a. 45. E. 3. parte secunda et parte prima tertia rot pat a. 47. E. 3. parte prima et secunda indors ' bis rot pat a. 48. E. 3. parte prima et secunda indors ' rot pat a. 49. E. 3. parte prima et indors ' rot pat a. 5. E. 3. parte prima indors ' et rot pat a. 51. E. 3. circa mediam partem Rotuli indors Rot. Pat. a. 1. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 2. R. 2. parte 1. et 2 rot pat a. 3. R. 2. parte prima indors in quo Rotulo apparet quod Rex R. 2. in die Coronationis suae juratus fuit ad prosequendum omnes Provisores Curiae Romanae contra leges et Statuta Edita Rot. Pat. a. 3. R. 2. parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 4. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 6. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 7. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 8. R. 2. parte prima indors ' rot pat a. 9. R. 2. parte prima indors ' parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. de A. 10. R. 2. parte prima parte secunda indors ' rot pat a. 11. R. 2. parte prima indors Rot. Pat. A. 12. R. 2. parte prima Indors Rot. Pat. A. 13. R. 2. parte prima tertia Indors Rot. Pat. A. 14. R. 2. parte prima parte secunda Indors Rot. Pat. A. 16. R. 2. parte tertia Indors Rot. Pat. A 17. R. 2. parte prima Ubi apparet quod collector Calverae Apostolicae in Hibernia Sacramentum suscepit quod totaliter evertebat Primatum Papae infra Regnum Angliae attribuendo prerogativam ac summam potestatem Regi Domino suo Rot. Pat. A. 18. R. 2. parte secunda continentur haec verba directa ad Provinciales Ordinis de Monte Carmeli attendentes quod vos ad executionem Bullarum praedictarum seu aliquarum contentarum in eisdem aliqua vi vel authoritate earundem infra Regnum nostrum praedictum absque licentia authoritate nostra speciali procedere non potestis nec debetis Rot. Pat. an 19 R. 2. part prima secunda in dors Rot. Pat. an 20 R. 2. part 3. In quo continetur quod Universitas Oxon. non patiatur Bullas Papales ibidem exerceri sub amissione libertatum suarum Rot. Pat. an 21 R. 2. part 1. There is also in Rot. Pat. an 3 R. 2. part 1. this rare President of the Kings denying the Pope certain profits he claimed in England in quo patet quod cum Urbanus Papa exigebat primos fructus omnium Francorum Cardinalium habentium dignitates infra Angliam ut ad se pertinentes eo quod ipsi fuerunt sui adversarii Rex non cognoscens ca vera esse sed clamans ea ad se pertinere jure regio ex gratia sua tamen speciali in relevationem indigentiae Papae concessit dicto Papae duas Partes dictorum primorum fructuum it à quod tertia pars corundem per dispositionem Regis sit in reparationem Domorum hujusmodi Cardinalium c. There are also three other excellent Presidents to this purpose in the same Kings Reign viz. Rot. Pat. an 4 R. 2. part 2. Rot. Pat. an 6 R. 2. part 2. bis These matters being thus faithfully and undeniably vouched out of the Records or other Authority touching the antient Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown of England against the unjust Usurpations and incroachments of the Bishop of Rome which said Rights her Majesty did by this foregoing Act that passed this day as aforesaid seek to have restored and reunited to her Royal Authority Now follows the continuance of the Parliament erroneously entred through the neglect of the Clerk in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad diem crastinum mistaken for diem Lunae proximum hora nona The same day were entred divers Proxies On Monday the 20 th day of March 14. Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons viz. The Bill for the restitution in blood of Rudston Esq. The Bill for repeal of the Attainder of the late Cardinal Poole The Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge A Bill for seditious words and rumors The Bill whereby certain offences be made Treason The Bill to take away all pains and penalties made for Religion in Queen Maries time The Bill for the assurance of Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of Winchester to divers Patentees of King Ed. 6.
Grey Marquess Dorset and Frances his Wife the Eldest Daughter and Coheir of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk by Mary the French Queen being the youngest Daughter of Henry the Seventh and especially seeing that the Queen of Scots having Married the Lord Darley whom she had Created Duke of Albany and had by him Issue a Son born before the beginning of this Session of Parliament who afterwards was Monarch of Great Britain and duly considering also that the Scottish Queen had during the Life of the French King her Husband by his means pretended a right to the Kingdom of England before the Queen her self in respect of the Popes Authority and that some also did not stick to set a broach the Title of the Lady Elianor being the younger Sister and Coheir with the Countess of Hartford Married to the Earl of Cumberland therefore I say all these said premisses being duly weighed by both the said Houses of Parliament it made them to be more earnest in Petitioning her Majesty at this time to the same effect although it seemeth that the Petition delivered at this time was chiefly preferred in the name of the Lords of the Upper House as that other Petition had formerly been preferred in the Name of the Commons in the first Session of this Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. whence it hath come to pass that neither of these Petitions being set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of Commons in either of these two Sessions of Parliament the times of their delivery have been exceedingly confounded together in all such several Copies as I have perused of them in which as also in Sir Robert Cotton's first Volume of the Journals of Parliament of the Queens time which are very imperfect and fragmentary they are erroneously Entred to have been both delivered in An. 1563. in which Year as also in part of the Year 1562. the Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. was continued Post Meridiem The Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer and the other Lords whose names are mentioned in the former part of this day with Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold and Sir William Cecill Knight her Majesties Principal Secretary and divers other Members of the House of Commons repaired to her Majesty this Afternoon being at her Palace of Whitehall to receive Answer from her Highness touching those two great businesses of her Marriage and the Declaration of her Successor as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 266. a. where the report of her Majesties Answer is set down which she gave this Afternoon although there be no mention at all thereof in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House And that this was the cause and ground of their attending upon her Majesty at this time appeareth also plainly by a certain Manuscript Memorial or Diary kept and set down by Sir William Cecill her Highness Principal Secretary and afterwards Lord Treasurer of England of the passages of the greatest part of her Majesties Reign in which the words are as followeth Nov. 5. The Queen had before her thirty Lords and thirty of the Commons of the Parliament to receive her Answer concerning the Petition for the Succession and for Marriage But whether the Lords preferred their said Petition this Afternoon or whether they had supplicated her Majesty any time before doth not any where certainly appear neither can I possibly gather further than by conjecture and so it is most probable that though her Majesty had notice before what their Petition was yet it was not preferred till this Afternoon For but on Saturday Morning foregoing which was the second day of this instant November it is plain that the Committees of the House of Commons as appeareth by the Original Journal-Book of the same House on Thursday the 31 th day of October fol. 264. b. on which day the said meeting of the Committees was appointed did then meet to consider and agree upon such reasons as they should shew to the Committees of the Lords whereby they might induce her Majesty both to encline to Marriage and to declare a Successor And however Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal be not nominated in either of the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House and House of Commons to have been present with the before-mentioned Lords and others yet it is plain that if the said Petition was preferred this Afternoon or whensoever else it was delivered from his mouth as may be gathered from the very Petition it self ensuing and is so also expresly set down by M r Camden in Annal Regin Eliz. edit Lugdun Batav A. D. 1625. pag. 99. and though he had abstained a while about this time from the Upper House by reason of his infirmity of the Gout yet he was now in the way of amendment and recovery repairing again to the said House on Saturday the 9. day of this instant November ensuing and therefore might very well meet the before-mentioned Lords and other the selected Members of the House of Commons at the Court this Afternoon So then it being most probable that the Lords did both prefer their Petition this Afternoon to her Majesty touching those two great matters of the Marriage and Succession and also received her Majesties Answer Therefore the said Petition doth here first ensue which the Lord Keeper pronounced in these or the like words following MOST humbly beseecheth your Excellent Majesty your Faithful Loving and Obedient Subjects all your Lords both Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in Parliament in your Upper House to be so much their good Lady and Soveraign as according to your accustomed benignity to grant a Gracious and Favourable Hearing to their Petitions and Suits which with all Humbleness and Obedience they are come hither to present to your Majesty by my Mouth in matters very nearly and dearly touching your most Royal Person the Imperial Crown of this your Realm and Universal Weal of the same which Suits for that they tend to the surety and preservation of these three things your Person Crown and Realm the Dearest Jewel that my Lords have in the Earth therefore they think themselves for divers respects greatly bound to make these Petitions as first by their Duty to God then by their Allegiance to your Highness and lastly by the Faith they ought to bear to their natural Country And like as most Gracious Soveraign by these Bonds they should have been bound to make the like Petition upon like occasion to any Prince that it should have pleased God to have appointed to Reign over them so they think themselves doubly bound to make the same to your Majesty considering that besides the Bond before-mentioned they stand also bound so to do by the great and manifold benefits they have and do receive daily at your Highness hands which shortly to speak be as great as the Fruits of Peace common quiet and Justice can give and this
Speeches of this present Afternoon Now solloweth the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed out of one of the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House durante Regno Regin Eliz. viz. in an 30. although it be not so expresly set down in that of this present Session of Parliament Then were the Titles of all the Acts read in their due Order and the Bill of Subsidy to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Roigne remercie ses loyaulx subjects accepte leur henevolence auxi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelats Seigneurs Communes en ce present Parliament assembles au nom de touts vous autres subjects remercient tres-humblement vostre Majesty prient à Dieu que il vous done en santè bonne vie longue Nota That here to the Subsidy Bill because it is the meer gift of the Subject the Queens Consent is not required for the passing of it but as it is joined with her thankful acceptance Nor to the Bill of Pardon because it is originally her free gift is any other circumstance required than that the thankful acceptance thereof by the Lords and Commons be likewise expressed it being but once read in either House before it come thus at last to be expedited Now to all other Bills either private or publick the Queens express consent though in different words is always requisite as followeth viz. The Bills of Subsidy and Pardon being passed in manner and form as aforesaid then were the publick Acts read to every one of which allowed by the Queén the Clerk of the Parliament read in French these words following viz. La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk of the Parliament read the Queens Answer in these French words following viz. Soit fait come il est desire These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of the Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament reads in these French words following viz. La Roigne s' advisera THen the Queen standing up said after she had given her Royal Assent unto nineteen publick Acts and thirteen private My Lords and others the Commons of this Assembly although the Lord Keeper hath according to Order very well Answered in my Name yet as a Periphrasis I have a few words further to speak unto you Notwithstanding I have not been used nor love to do it in such open Assemblies yet now not to the end to amend his talk but remembring that commonly Princes own words be better printed in the hearers memory than those spoken by her Command I mean to say thus much unto you I have in this Assembly found so much dissimulation where I always professed plainness that I marvail thereat yea two Faces under one Hood and the Body rotten being covered with two Vizors Succession and Liberty which they determined must be either presently granted denied or deferred In granting whereof they had their desires and denying or deferring thereof those things being so plaudable as indeed to all men they are they thought to work me that mischief which never Foreign Enemy could bring to pass which is the hatred of my Commons But alas they began to pierce the Vessel before the Wine was fined and began a thing not foreseeing the end how by this means I have seen my well-willers from mine Enemies and can as me seemeth very well divide the House into four First the Broachers and workers thereof who are in the greatest fault Secondly The Speakers who by Eloquent Tales perswaded others are in the next degree Thirdly The agreers who being so light of Credit that the Eloquence of the Tales so overcame them that they gave more Credit thereunto than unto their own Wits And lastly those that sate still Mute and medled not therewith but rather wondred disallowing the matter who in my Opinion are most to be Excused But do you think that either I am unmindful of your Surety by Succession wherein is all my Care considering I know my self to be mortal No I warrant you Or that I went about to break your Liberberties No it was never in my meaning but to stay you before you sell into the Ditch For all things have their time And although perhaps you may have after me one better Learned or Wiser yet I assure you none more careful over you And therefore henceforth whether I live to see the like Assembly or no or whoever it be yet beware however you prove your Princes Patience as you have now done mine And now to conclude all this nonwithstanding not meaning to make a Lent of Christmas the most part of you may assure your selves that you depart in your Princes Grace Then she spake openly to the Lord Keeper saying My Lord You will do as I bad Who then said aloud The Queens Majesty hath agreed to Dissolve this Parliament Therefore every man may take his ease and depart at his pleasure And the Queen rose and went and shifted her and took her Barge and returned to the Court being past six of the Clock and then after her rising she made Anthony Browne one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas a Knight That the advice and consent of the Common-Council or Parliament was often required for the Marrying of the Kings of England 1. WIlliam Duke of Normandy sending Ambassadors to King Harold to deliver up the Crown of England to him and to Marry the Dukes Daughter Herald returned him this Answer Si de filia sua quam debui in uxorem ut asserit ducere agit super Regnum Angliae mulierem extraneam inconsultis Principibus words of a large extension used in those times by Historians me nec debere nec sine grandi injuria posse adducere noverit Malmesbury that antient and famous Historian recites it thus Quae dixi de puellae nuptiis referens de Regno addebat praesumptuosum fuisse quod absque Generali Senatus Populi Conventu Edicto alienam illi haereditatem juraverit 2. William the Son of H. I. being dead Rex legalis Conjugii nexu olim solutus ne quid ulterius inhonestum committeret Consilio Radulphi Cantuar Pontificis Principum Regni quos omnes in Epiphania Domini sub uno Londoniae congregavit decrevit sibi in uxorem Atheleidem filiam Godfredi Ducis Lotharingiae 3. King John being Divorced the new Queen was Crowned de communi assensu concordi voluntate Archiepiscoporum Episcoporum Comitum Baronum Cleri Populi totius Regni 4. H.
at and if offences were then her Majesties Clemency and Mercy the more to be commended Misericordia ejus super omnia opera ejus Besides like as it hath pleased God ten years and more by the Ministry of our said Soveraign to bless this Realm with those two inestimable benefits of Peace and Clemency so there is no cause but the same might by Gods Grace have continued twenty Years longer without intermission had not the Raging Romanist Rebels entertained the matter And here it is to be noted that this Merciful and Peaceful Reign of ten Years and more hath hapned in the time of Christs Religion now established I cannot think that any man can follow me in this in the time of the Romish Religion since the Conquest Nay a man might affirm that this is an Example for times to come without any like in times past comparing Singula singulis what should I say these be the true Fruits of true Religion I could further remember you of the Fruits of Justice the benefit of restoring your Money to Finess yea I could put you in mind but I think it needs not it happened so late of a Subsidy granted whereof the Queens Majesty of her own bountifulness remitted the one half was the like here in England ever seen or heard of But being out of doubt that these benefits already remembred be sufficient of themselves to move you to be thankful to your Power I leave any longer to detain you in this point And albeit a Subject cannot yield any benefit to his Soveraign in the same nature that he receiveth it because every benefit is more than Duty and more than Duty a Subject cannot yield to his Soveraign Yet can it not be denied but a Subjects acknowledging of benefits received joined with good will to yield as far as Liberty will reach doth sufficiently satisfie for the Subject for ultra posse non est esse To your best actions therefore address ye And thus much concerning benefits Now to the second part concerning urging by Necessity true it is that the extraordinary matters of Charge happened since the last Assembly here urging to have by necessity a relief granted amongst many others be these First The great Charge in suppressing the late Northern Rebellion with Charges also in reforming those the Queens Majesties Enemies in Scotland that assisted the Rebels and made Rodes into England The continual growing Expences by reason of Ireland as in subduing the Rebels within that Realm and withstanding the Scots Northward and other Foreign Forces intending Invasion Southward To these three Charges by Land you may add a fourth by Sea as the preparation and setting forth of Ships partly for the defence against all Foreign Forces suspected and intended partly for the safe conducting of the Wares and Merchandizes in greater strength and longer cut than heretofore hath been used These and such like extraordinary Charges whereof there be sundry with the remains of old Charges not possible to be born by the ordinary Revenue and yet of necessity to be expended do greatly exceed any extraordinary aid therefore commonly granted Again the great decay of the Queens Majesties Customs by reason of stay and alteration of Traffick albeit upon just occasion hath bred no small want for although in time it is not to be doubted but that will grow again to his old course and continue with great Surety Yet in the mean time this want must some way be supplied for you know the Horse must be provided for whilst the Grass is in growing At the least let us do so much for our selves as we do for our Horses For our selves it is that are to be relieved in this Case This I must needs say that if the Queens Majesty did use in matters of Expence to do as commonly Princes heretofore have used to do then with the more difficulty might such extraordinary aid be assented unto and yet of necessity to be had to withstand a greater necessity It hath been used in times past that Princes pleasures and delights have been commonly followed in matters of Charge as things of necessity And now because God be praised the relieving of the Realms necessity is become the Princes Pleasure and Delight a noble Conversion God continue it and make us as we ought to be earnestly thankful for it A Princely Example shewed by a Soveraign for Subjects to follow To descend in some particulars What need I to remember unto you how the gorgeous sumptuous superfluous Buildings of time past be for the Realms good by her Majesty in this time turned into necessary Buildings and upholdings The chargeable glittering glorious Triumphs into delectable Pastimes and Shows Embassadors of Charge into such as be void of excess and yet honourable and comely These and such like are dangerous dams able to dry up the flowing Fountains of any Treasure and yet these imperfections have been commonly Princes Peculiars especially young One free from these was accounted Rara avis c. and yet God be thanked a Phoenix a Blessed Bird of this kind God hath blessed us with I think it may be affirmed and that truly that there hath not been any matter of great Charge taken in hand by her Majesty in this happy Reign of twelve Years and more that hath not been thought before convenient to be done for the Weal and profit of the Realm so far her Highness is from spending of Treasure in vain matters and therefore the rather how can a man make any difficulty to contribute according to his Power specially in maintaining of his Sovereign his Country his Self his Wife and Children and what not having so long a proof by experience of such an imployment Here I would put you in mind of extraordinary Charges to come which in reason seems evident but so I should be over tedious unto you and frustra sit per plura quod sieri potest per pauciora And therefore here I make an end doubting that I have tarried you longer than I promised or meant or perchance needed your wisdoms and good inclinations considered But you know things are to be done both in form and matter And my trust is that if I had stayed I may be warranted by either or by both that you will take it in good part Thus far out of the Copy of this foregoing Speech As soon as the Lord Keepers Speech was ended then the Clerk of the Upper House read the names of Receivers and Tryers of Petitions in French whose names are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and were as followeth Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir William Cordell Knight Master of the Rolls Sir John Widden Knight one of the Justices of Sir Richard Read Knight and D r Huick who were Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and the parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir James Dyer Knight
hard for amongst many other ways there is one plain evident and easie and that is where offences do abound in any Country contrary to the Laws which the Justices should so reform and there be nothing done by them for the Reformation of those offences I do not see but this makes a full charge of their uncarefulness and negligence whereby they are well worthy upon Certificate made as is aforesaid to be removed of all Governance to their perpetual ignominy and to the Commendation of all those that remain as good Officers And besides to set forth other pains upon them as by Law may be justified if this were once or twice done I doubt not but the Examples following of the doing of it would cause greater diligence to be used in the Execution of Laws than now there is And the better to understand which be those Justices that do offend why might there not be order taken that the name of every Justice that hath not prosecuted any Offender for any offence committed contrary to any Law which by the Commission that he is in he is authorized to see punished might be entred into some Rolls and also how often and how many of those kind of offences he hath also prosecuted for a declaration of his diligence whereby it might appear when such Visitation should come who hath been careful and who hath been negligent to the end that the slothful drowzy Drones might be severed from the diligent and careful Bees And like as I could wish this to be done concerning Offices of mean degree so do I desire that the same course might be taken with the great and greatest for so it should be Equable But if there be nothing done therein but things left as they have been then must you look to have your Laws Executed as they have been if not worse for words will not reform these matters as I have seen by proof And this is the sum of what I have to say at this time concerning the Execution of Laws This Speech of the Lord Keepers being thus transcribed out of the before-mentioned Copy thereof now follows the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed as it is set down in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in an 39 Reg. Eliz. although it be omitted in that of this present Parliament The Title of the Bill of Subsidy being read after the publick and private Acts the Clerk of the said House standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Roigne remercie ses Loyaulx subjects accepte lour benevolence ainst le veult The said Clerk having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Title of her Majesties Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelats Seigneurs Communes en ce present Parliament Assembles au nom de touts vos autres subjects remercient tres humblement vostre Majesty prient à Dieu qu' il vous done santé bone vie longe To every one of the publick Acts allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament read these French words following La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk read the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desiré These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that passed are to be written by the said Clerk at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament reads these French words following viz. La Roigne s' advisera Her Majesty finally having given her Royal Assent to twenty eight publick Acts and thirteen private Dissolved the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Dissolvit praesens Parliamentum THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 13 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1571 which began there on Monday the 2 d day of April and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 29 th day of May ensuing THIS present Journal of the House of Commons de an 13 Regin Eliz. is not only plentifully stored with all usual Passages touching the Orders and Priviledges of the House but is most worthy to be had in Eternal Remembrance in respect of the long agitation and judicious debatement of matters of Religion and Ecclesiastical Government for the Reformation of which the said House did express a great deal of earnest zeal and care although all in the issue came to nothing out of that old Principle inculcated into her Majesty by some politick Head and misapplyed by her viz. that nothing must be innovated in matters of Religion All which matters with those also less extraordinary are more largely set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons than was usual in the former Journals of her Majesties Reign by reason that Fulk Onslow Esq did as may be guessed succeed in the place of Clerk of the said House unto ..... Seymour Esq somewhat before the beginning of this Parliament Which said Journal is also much perfected out of an imperfect Journal of the same House I had by me taken by some Anonymous Member of the said House at this Parliament in which to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said imperfect Journal is distinguished by some Animadversion The third Parliament of Queen Elizabeth held in the Thirteenth Year of her Majesties most happy and prosperous Reign begun at the City of Westminster upon Monday the second day of April and during the time that her Majesty was at the Sermon at Westminster Church whither she had repaired about ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the said Monday the Lord Clinton High Admiral of England accompanied with divers of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council that is to say Sir Francis Knolles K t Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofts K t Comptroller of the same Sir Ralph Sadler K t Chancellor of her Majesties Dutchy of Lancaster Sir Walter Mildmay K t Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer and Sir Thomas Smith Knight repaired into the Lower House of Parliament And there in the presence and hearing of a great number of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same Parliament Assembled the said Lord Clinton signified that the Queens Majesty had called and appointed him to be the Steward of her Highness most Honourable Houshold to continue during her Majesties pleasure which being likewise affirmed and testified by the said other of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council the said Lord Steward then further declared that he did then and there name Constitute
original of the creation of Patronages being considered it appeareth that nothing is left to the Patron of right The manner of their original he shewed at large and that the same was granted Deo Ecclesiae and concluded that the Patron had nothing of worth or value but a bare nomination if it be truly used since that dealing sincerely he is neither to respect Commodity Blood Affection Friendship nor any thing else but the worth and sufficiency of the Man c. The Bill against Vagabonds was read the first time after which ensued divers Speeches which is not commonly used until after the second reading and therefore they are the rather transcribed out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal M r St. John moved that an old Bill before this time exhibited into the Lower House concerning this matter might be perused M r Sands endeavoured to prove this Law for Beggars to be over sharp and bloody standing much on the care which is to be had for the Poor saying that it might be possible with some travail had by the Justices to relieve every man at his own house and to stay them from wandring this experience he shewed and what was done in the Country of Worcester M r Treasurer talked to this effect that he would have a Bridcwel in every Town and every Tipler in the County to yield twelve pence yearly to the maintenance thereof M r Wilson a Master of the requests argued thus that poor of necessity we must have for so Christ hath said until his latter coming and as that is true so said he also that Beggars by Gods word might not be amongst his People Ne sit mendicus inter vos His Experience he shewed through the greatest part of Christendome concluding that such looseness and lewdness was no where as here he said it was no Charity to give to such a one as we know not being a stranger unto us Thus said he did the Locrenses constitute by their Laws Even as of Thieves did the Grecians judge of them To the pain of the Constables for their remiss dealings he wished might be conjoined Imprisonment On Saturday the 14 th day of April the Bill for one William Skevington was read whereby was supposed a deceit practised by one Sacheveril for conveying of Land contrary to the true meaning by subtile forging of a false deed in place of the true deed which being read it shewed the confession of Sacheveril and prayed restitution with discharge of all mean incumbrances during such time as it was in the possession of Sacheveril M r Fleetwood endeavoured to prove that all such sinister false fraudulent or convenous dealings being opened in that place albeit that the party pray not redress yet being made apparent to that High Court ought not to be pretermitted without due consideration and convenient punishment to be by the House assigned and the party to be brought to the Bar of that House for proof thereof he shewed in the time of King Henry the Fourth that the abusing of one of that House coming home into his Country for what he had done or spoken in the House was afterwards adjudged of in that place and a Law presently made for what before was not thought upon the like he shewed to be done in Henry the Eighth his time concerning an Excommunication had at Serjeants-Inn c. He also remembred a President of one John Rue who for that he meaning to have deceived a Merchant of London in sale of certain sums of money due unto him to be paid out of the Exchequer as he pretended whereas in truth the money was before received by him who sold the Debt Judgment was given for the subtilty of the loss of his goods the profit of his Lands and perpetual Imprisonment For every Conspiracy the Judgment is by Law said he villanous even as in the Case of Attaint to have the Houses turned up the Meadows Eared c. He shewed also that in the time of Edward the Third one meaning to cause the price of Wooll to fall gave out that there was likelihood of Wars to be between the King of England and the King of Denmark by which means the Traffick of the Staple was like to be stayed Whereupon it was presently ordained that he should be banished though for that purpose there were no Law before After this Speech as it should seem Committees were appointed for this Bill whose names being not found in the aforesaid Anonymous Journal out of which the preceeding Speeches are transcribed they are therefore supplied out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the House of Commons and were as followeth viz. Sir John Thinne M r Stokes M r Bell M r Fleetwood M r Bedell and M r Smith to meet in the Star-Chamber upon Wednesday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the Free Grammar-School in Southwark was read the first time For the Bill of Treasons and Additions it was Ordered that such of the Committees as are Learned in the Laws shall have Authority to conser with the Queens Majesties Learned Councel touching the same Bill and Additions The Bill for Reformation of the Book of Common-Prayer was read the first time after which the Bill being preferred by M r Strickland ensued divers long Arguments which being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are therefore supplied with some small alteration where need required out of that often before-cited elaborate Anonymous Journal of the same House in manner and form following M r Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold reasoned to this effect That if the matters mentioned to be reformed were Heretical then verily they were presently to be condemned but if they are but matters of Ceremony then it behoveth us to refer the same to her Majesty who hath Authority as Chief of the Church to deal herein And for us to meddle with matters of her Prerogative quoth he it were not expedient Withal he said what Cause there might be to make her Majesty not to run and join with those who seem to be most earnest We are not to search whether it be for that in time and order she hopeth to bring them with her or what other secret cause or scruple there may be in the heart of Princes it is not for all people to know M r Comptroller argued to this effect as afore commending the Zeal but that the place and time were not fit And since we knowledge her to be Supream Head we are not in these petty matters to run before the Ball which to do and therein to offend were great folly how forewarned we were herein he did refer to our consideration insinuating in some sort that our heady and hasty proceedings contrary to and before the Law did rather hinder than help Hereupon one Pistor with a grave and seemly Countenance and good natural Eloquence shewed how Conscience enforced him to speak and rather to hazard his Credit than to the
and it was agreed by the consent of the whole House M r Carleton offered again to speak saying with some repetition that what he had to move was for the liberty of the House but the Speaker notwithstanding and the House out of a tender care as it seemeth to give no further distast to her Majesty did stay him On Wednesday the 25 th day of January the Bill for Children born in England of Fathers that were Aliens not to be accounted or reputed as English was read the second time M r Cromwell now upon the second reading as the Order is spake against the Bill M r Norton for it with Motion also that Englishmen taking Oath to the Pope or Foreign Potentates beyond Sea for Obedience in England shall have no benefit as Englishmen M r Broughton spake against the said Bill Sir Francis Knolles Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold spake for it and M r Dalton spake against it Whereupon the said Bill was after the foresaid second reading according to the course and order in that case usual and accustomed committed to M r Treasurer aforesaid M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Doctor Dale one of the Masters of Requests M r Norton M r Aldrich M r Aldersey M r Dalton M r Fleetwood Recorder of London and M r Serjeant Fenner who were appointed to meet on Friday the 27 th day of January now next following at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Vice-Chamberlain brought Answer from her Majesty of her most gracious acceptation of the Submission and of her Majesties Admonition and Confidence of their discreet proceeding with one special note that they do not misreport the cause of her misliking which was not for that they desired Fasting and Prayer but for the manner in presuming to indict a form of publick Fast without Order and without her Privity which was to intrude upon her Authority Ecclesiastical Sir Walter Mildmay spake next and delivered a most Honourable Grave Wise and Honest Speech which being not found either in the first Original draught of the Journal of the House of Commons taken by Fulk Onslow Esq Clerk of the same nor otherwise set down in one other fair transcribed Copy of the said Journal by the same M r Onslow's direction then abstractedly and summarily taken I have therefore caused it to be transcribed at large out of a Copy of the said Speech I had by me in manner and form following The principal cause of our Assembly here being to consult of matters that do concern the Realm I have thought good with your patience to remember you of such things as for the weight and necessity of them I take to be worthy of your considerations Wherein I mean to note unto you what I have conceived first of the present state we be in next of the dangers we may justly be in doubt of and lastly what provision ought to be made in time to prevent or resist them These shewed as briefly as the matters will suffer I leave them to your Judgments to proceed further as you shall find it expedient That our most Gracious Queen did at her first Entry loosen us from the Yoke of Rome and did restore unto this Realm the most pure and holy Religion of the Gospel which for a time was over-shadowed with Popery is known of all the World and felt of us to our singular Comforts But from hence as from the Root hath sprung that implacable malice of the Pope and his Confederates against her whereby they have and do seek not only to trouble but if they could to bring the Realm again into a Thraldom the rather for that they hold this as a firm and setled Opinion that England is the only setled Monarchy that most doth maintain and countenance Religion being the Chief Sanctuary for the afflicted Members of the Church that fly thither from the Tyranny of Rome as men being in danger of Shipwrack do from a raging and tempestuous Sea to a calm and quiet Haven This being so what hath not the Pope assaied to annoy the Queen and her State thereby as he thinketh to remove this great obstacle that standeth between him and the over-flowing of the World again with Popery For the proof whereof these may suffice The Northern Rebellion stirred up by the Pope and the quarrel for Popery The maintenance sithence of those Rebels and other Fugitives The publishing of a most impudent blasphemous and malicious Bull against our most Rightful Queen The Invasion into Ireland by James Fitz Marrice with the assistance of some English Rebels The raising of a dangerous Rebellion in Ireland by the Earl of Desmond and others intending thereby to make a general Revolt of all the whole Realm The late Invasion of Strangers into Ireland and their fortifying it The Pope turned thus the venom of his Curses and the Pens of his malicious Parasites into men of War and Weapons to win that by Force which otherwise he could not do And though all these are said to be done by the Pope and in his name yet who seeth not that they be maintained under-hand by some Princes his Confederates And if any man be in doubt of that let him but note from whence the last Invasion into Ireland came of what Country the Ships and of what Nation the most part of the Souldiers were and by direction of whose Ministers they received their Victual and Furniture For the Pope of himself at this present is far unable to make War upon any Prince of that Estate which her Majesty is of having lost as you know many years by the Preaching of the Gospel those infinite Revenues which he was wont to have out of England Scotland Germany Switzerland Denmark and others and now out of France and the Low Countries so as we are to think that his name only is used and all or the most part of the charge born by others The Queen nevertheless by the Almighty Power of God standeth fast maugre the Pope and all his Friends having hitherto resisted all attempts against her to her great honor and their great shame As The Rebellion in the North suppressed without effusion of Blood wherein her Majesty may say as Caesar did veni vidi vici so expedite and so honourable was the Victory that God did give her by the diligence and valour of those noble men that had the conducting thereof The Enterprize of James Fitz Morrice defeated and himself slain The Italians pulled out by the ears at Smirwick in Ireland and cut in pieces by the notable Service of a noble Captain and Valiant Souldiers Neither these nor any other threatnings or fears of danger hath or doth make her to stagger or relent in the Cause of Religion but like a constant Christian Princess she still holdeth fast the profession of the Gospel that hath so long upholden her and made us to live in Peace twenty two Years and more under her most Gracious Government
had been already Ordained to provide for the preservation of her Majesties Person to terrifie Ireland and to provide sufficient Forces at home both by Land and Sea The great expence that her Majesty had been at even since the last Parliament did appear plainly in respect of divers places and Forts which had been repaired much Powder and Munition had been stored up and her Navy also since that time increased besides many other extraordinary Charges and Expences which she had been at in the assisting of her Allies and the preserving of Ireland and that her Majesty did specially shun danger from Ireland of which they conceived this Proverb to be true Look to Ireland if we will rest quiet in England And therefore it seemeth some of the Privy-Council did move to think of what supply were now fit to be given to her Majesty towards the supporting and sustaining of all her said great Expences and Charges On Wednesday the 24 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for imploying of Lands and Tenements given to the maintenance of High-ways Bridges c. was read the second time and committed unto M r Wroth Mr. Sandes Mr. Cradock and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Sands who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Mr. John North and Mr. Heile were added to the former Committees for continuance of Statutes the Bill and Provisoes and also the Bill for Cables Halters and Ropes were delivered to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain who with the rest was to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards one of the Committees in the Bill for Jonas Scot brought in the Bill again into the Court. It seemeth that some of the Privy-Council or others moved this day for consideration to be had in what measure and manner they should supply her Majesty by Subsidy And it seemeth that the House did thereupon further assent unto it All which is very negligently omitted by Mr. Fulk Ouslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons for there is only set down the names of the Committees in manner and form following viz. All the Privy-Council being Members of this House the Lord Russell Sir Philip Sidney Sir Thomas Heneage Mr. Sollicitor Sir William Moore Sir Robert Germin Sir George Carie Sir Henry Nevill Mr. George Rotheram Mr. Sandes Sir William Mohun Sir Robert Bowes Mr. John North Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Trenchard Mr. Ralph Evers Sir John Tracy Mr. Bevill Sir Henry Cock Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Mollineux Mr. Wroth Mr. William Herbert Sir Thomas Manners Sir Drew Drewry Mr. Digby Mr. Edward Audeley Mr. Leveson Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Henry Barkley Sir Thomas Shirley Mr. Anthony Mildmay Mr. Henry Talbot Mr. Russell Sir Thomas Lucie all the Knights for Wales Sir Nicholas Woodroofe Mr. Recorder Mr. Robinson Mr. Layer and Mr. Wolley who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber for the Subsidy At the nominating of this Committee as it seemeth the whole Treasons plotted between Henry Nevill and Doctor Parry according to their own Confessions were related where these fragmentary particulars only through the Clerks negligence are set down to this or the like purpose following viz. That the said Doctor Parry having behaved himself unreverently and disorderly in the House of Commons upon revealing his mind to her Majesty which he denied to do there had been pardoned both by her Majesty and the House as see on Thursday the 17 th day of December and on Friday the 18 th day of the same Month as also on Thursday the 18 th day and on Tuesday the 23 th day of this instant February foregoing And since upon discovery of fouler matters had been Imprisoned and disabled from being a Member of this House That the said Nevill and he had had divers Conferences and Projects for the advancement of the King of Spains Conquest of England from whose Wars the said Nevill having served in them had lately returned poor into England That the said Parry and Nevill had amongst other things Plotted to go into the North there to raise Rebellion or to take the Island in Kent or to sell Barwick or lastly to Murther her Majesty That they had read together Doctor Allens Seditious Book concerning the Deposition and Murthering of Heretical Princes as he styles them That they had sworn together mutual Secrecy with divers other matters partly agreed upon between the said Nevill and Parry in their Confessions and partly confessed by either of them singly and deemed by the other To which purpose Sir Christopher Hatton Vice-Chamberlain made a very exact and Elaborate Speech of which there are only some short heads or notes set down in the Original Journal-Book much to the purpose following viz. That the said Nevill and Parry had resolved either to Murther her Majesty in her Garden at S t James's or else to set upon her whilst she should be in her Coach in the Fields each of them having for their assistance five or six men with Pistols That Nevill began first to be touched with remorse of Conscience and notwithstanding his Oath of Secrecy did threaten Parry that except he would desist from his said intended Treason he would reveal it That the said Nevill thereupon departing from the said Parry upon his next meeting again with him continued with him in the same mind and still refused to join with him in the Execution of their former Complotted Treason and that shortly after Parries Commitment and Imprisonment he had discovered it That the said Parrey in the Year 1580. having been Pardoned by the Queen after a Capital offence committed by him departed with Licence into France where being reconciled to the Roman Church he travelled to Venice and there having been diversly and severally instructed and incouraged by Benedict Palmes a Jesuit by Campegio the Pones Nuntio there and lastly again afterwards at Paris in France by one Morgan an Agent of the Queen of Scots here upon the Encouragement of Cardinal Como and the Pope himself he returned into England with a mind full of Treason and Disloyalty with divers other things in the like purpose which are at large set down in Annal. Regin Eliz. conscript à Guiliel Cambden Edit Latinè Lugd. Bat. Anno Domini 1625. à pag. 391. ad pag. 395. Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day and on Friday the 18 th day of December foregoing as also on Thursday the 18 th day and on Tuesday the 23 th day of this instant February last past On Thursday the 25 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for repairing of Sea-Banks and Sea-Works was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed The Articles for two Fifteenths and Tenths and one entire Subsidy
of the same Parliaments for certain causes the House then moving disabled for ever afterwards to be any Member of this House at all hath of late brought a Writ against the Inhabitants of the said Borough for his wages amongst other times in attendance at the late Session of Parliament holden at Westminster in the 27 th year of her Highnesses Raign during which time as also a great part of some other of the said former Parliaments he did not serve in the said House but was for some causes as aforesaid disabled to be any Member of this House and was also then committed Prisoner to the Tower of London And so prayeth the advice and order of this Honourable House therein unto the censure and order whereof the said Inhabitants do in most humble and dutiful wise submit themselves And so shewed the said Writ which was then read by the Clerk After the reading whereof and some speeches had touching the former proceedings in this House against the said M r Hall as well in disabling him to be any more a Member of this House as also touching his said imprisonment the matter was referred to further consideration after search of the Precedents and Entries of this House heretofore had and made in the course of the said cause Vide diem Veneries 2 um diem Decembris diem Mercurii 22 um diem Martii postea M r Treasurer shewed that the Committees in the Cause for Conference to be had touching the answer to be made by this House to the Message lately delivered from her Majesty did meet according to the Commission of this House and after long and much debating and many great arguments it appeared very evidently by most strong reason that no other way whatsoever can be taken for the safety and continuance of true Religion of her Majesties most Royal Person and of the peaceable Estate of this Realm but only by Justice to be done upon the Queen of Scots according to her demerits Which Justice as her Majesty ought of duty to cause to be done so they resolved utterly to insist upon the prosecution of the former Petition unto her Highness as the one only way and none other to be performed in the said Cause And so left to some other of the said Committees the more particular discourses of their said Conferences Whereupon M r Vice-Chamberlain very excellently plainly and aptly shewed the manner of their Treaty in the said Conference and of the Reasons therein both brought and confuted touching any manner of possible or conjectural course of the said safety other than only by the death of the said Queen of Scots as neither by likelihood of reformation in her Person hope of strait guarding or keeping of her or of any caution of hostages to be taken for her reciting and applying most apt and invincible reasons in the several proofs thereof and so concluding his own opinion also only to be such and none other wished that if any member of the House could concèive or shew any other course or device tending to the purport of the said Message than hath been erst now remembred or in the said Committee offered he would shew the same And if not that then M r Speaker would move the question for the consent of the whole House to the continuance of prosecuting that said Petition together with the said Committees Whereupon after some little pause and none offering any speech to other end M r Speaker moving the question to the House it was resolved by the whole House to insist only upon the said Petition accordingly And also after sundry other speeches had tending all to the same resolution and some of them urging the remembrance purpose and present consideration of the former Association it was ordered that to morrow when the Lords do sit in the Upper House the former Committees of this House M r Robert Cecill being now added unto them do repair unto their Lordships for Conference with their Lordships touching the said resolution of this House in answer to her Majesties said Message And also with request to their Lordships to give Licence unto this House to join with their Lordships in the said Answer to her Majesty if it so please them M r Comptroller shewing his full assent and good liking of the said conclusion touching the prosecution of the said Petition only and of none other course at all as well in his former delivery thereof upon treaty of the said cause as now at this present declared further That he thinketh himself to have been in some of his late former speeches in that matter mistaken and misconceived by some of this House rather of ignorance in them he thinketh than of any evil disposition and purpose and so affirming earnest and devout prayer to God to incline her Majesties heart to the Petition of this House as a thing much importing he moveth that some apt and special course of prayer to that end might be devised and set down by some of this House and be not only exercised here in thus House every day but also by all the members of this House elsewhere abroad and also privately in their Chambers and Lodgings M r Treasurer liking well the motion and good meaning of M r Comptroller touching Prayer to be exercised as before shewed that fit Prayers for that purpose and extant in print are already used in this House and so may also be by the Members of the same privately by themselves and doth willingly wish the same might be so executed accordingly Sir John Higham assenting very readily to the continuation of pursuing the said Petition urged further very zealously and earnestly the burthen of the Oath of Association and so thereby amongst other things of great and necessary consideration and importance prayeth her Majesty may be solicited to the speedy execution of Justice upon the person of the Queen of Scots Mr. Recorder bending many Speeches and reciting many Precedents of Petitions in former times granted by sundry of her Majesties most noble Progenitors Kings of England to the subjects of this Realm at the humble Suits and Petitions of the Speaker and Commons of the Lower House which the Lords of the Upper House in those days could not obtain at their hands doth not only perswade very earnestly the said insisting of this House upon the said Petition but also undoubted assuredness of her Majesties granting and performing of the same as a thing answerable both unto her Highness most merciful loving and tender care over her good Subjects as also to the very necessity of the case Mr. Cope moved that Mr. Speaker might put it to the Question for the resolution of this House touching the prosecution of the said Petition with all good and fit speed Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer putting the House in remembrance of their resolution therein given already even now at this very instant Court upon the Question then propounded by Mr. Speaker moved the going forward
Hospitality And therefore whereas these two meetings are placed in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons very incongruously in two distinct and several Journals as if they had been two distinct and several Sessions they are here rightly placed together and so the passages of the said second meeting do now follow in due course and order On Wednesday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been Adjourned by the Lords Commissioners aforesaid on Friday the 2 d day of December foregoing the two Houses met in their several places without any pomp or Solemnity this being as hath been before observed neither new Parliament nor new Session but a mere new meeting of either House upon the said Adjournment of the former meeting thereof which began on the 29 th day of October being Saturday in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. as is aforesaid The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being set M r Serjeant Puckering then Speaker thereof informed the House that M r Fulk Onslow Clerk of the Parliament was so weakned by Sickness that he could not at this present exercise his place Therefore he had appointed M r William Onslow his Knisman a Member of this House here present to supply it and therefore asked their allowance which they very willingly granted The same time M r Cromwell moved the House for that at their Petition her Majesty had done Justice upon the Scottish Queen to the greater Safeguard of her Majesties Person and the whole Realm he thought it fit that her Majesty might receive from them their humble thanks which motion was well liked but at this time it proceeded no further Two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first was touching Fines and Recoveries before the Justices of the Common Pleas and the second for limitation of time touching Writs of Error growing by fraud The same day M r Vice-Chamberlain commanded as he said by her Majesty moved the House for that this Parliament was not expected to hold at this time many of the Nobility being Lieutenants in their Countries and others principal Members of this House were absent by occasion whereof those great weighty causes for which this Parliament is called cannot have such deep consultation as is fit Therefore he thought it convenient to have an Adjournment and therefore to move the Lords of the Upper House for the liking thereof Which motion being well liked M r Vice-Chamberlain and a convenient number of the House so many as would without nomination did attend him to the Lords who upon his return from the Lords made report that they having considered of the motion found the same want and therefore yielded to an Adjournment of the Parliament until Wednesday next being the 22 d day of this instant Month of February if this House would condescend unto it Unto which Adjournment this House also yielded which consent M r Vice-Chamberlain did there presently signifie to the Lords and upon his return the House brake up On Wednesday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last adjourned upon Wednesday the 15 th day of this instant February foregoing the House again sitting the Right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Vice-Chamberlain to her Majesty and one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council used this Speech in effect to the House viz. That it was her Majesties pleasure to have dangers disclosed and to have the House know that she thanked God for the goodness of the House that she wished the Session mistaken for Meeting to be short that men of Government might go home for matter of Government hospitality and defence and to take another time for making of Laws saving such as be now of necessity The dangers which her Majesty meaneth proceed of ancient malice and are to be prepared for and God called upon for aid The principal heads of the dangers The Catholicks abroad the Pope the King of Spain the Princes of the League the Papists at home and their Ministers The principal root hereof The Council of Trent which agreed to extirp Christian Religion which they term Heresie whereunto divers Princes assented and bound themselves in solemn manner Pope Pius Quint us sent her Excommunication against her Majesty Dr. Mourton and Mendoza a Spanish Ambassadour bestirred them a Northern Rebellion was bred the Pope and the rest practised for the Scottish Queen and she being acquainted proceeds by her means Pope Paulus the Thirteenth proceeds and sends Jesuits and Seminaries to England and Ireland and they proceed to inveagle the Subjects and disswade them from obedience Visko beginneth a Rebellion in Ireland James Fitz-Morris furthereth the Execution thereof Doctor Sanders and Desmond stir new Rebellion there and wrote into England c. Parry was moved to kill her Majesty and perswaded it was meritorious Pope Sixtus the Fifth imitateth the other Popes to execute their former devices and writeth to the Cardinal of Lorain and Guise that he will overthrow the Gospel which Mr. Vice-Chamberlain honourably termed the glorious Gospel and therefore moved them to join with the Princes of the League and to practise to win the King of Scots and to set up the Scottish Queen in England and made his reckoning of the Cantons that be Popish the Switzers the Duke of Savoy the Duke of Ferrara King of Spain and King of France A chief Instrument to work this was one Carew called also Father Henry He was sent into Germany and over Italy and France wrote to the Scottish Queen that the Powers will join to overthrow England and make known the effect of his labour to the Pope Invasion should have been made into England and Ireland the last year and not unlike to be attempted this year The Pope excommunicateth the King of Navar The Pope accounteth not of Popish preaching and perswasions that way but nevertheless moveth all to use the word and for maintenance thereof spareth his Treasure otherwise and withdraweth maintenance from Jesuits Seminaries and divers others Letters were found with the Scottish Queen which prove all these to be true If we serve Almighty God in sincerity of heart we need not to fear It is to be remembred that the King of Spain sought to recover some part of his Fathers credit by using our Treasure and force to get S t Quintines but he soon made his advantage of it and regarded not our Territories in France but suffered the loss of Calice and all our Territories and after the death of Queen Mary what he could Her Majesty sought for his good will sending the Lord Mountague the Lord Cobham Sir Thomas Chamberlain Knight M r Maun and others and they were but hardly used some of them were offered great indignity and M r Mauns Son forced by strength to do a kind of Penance He comforted the Queens Enemies he giveth colour of Wars he chargeth the Queen that her Subjects have aided his Rebels in the Low Countries with
countenancing Monsieur with Money at Cambray with sending her Nobility with him into the Low Countries with the actions of Sir Francis Drake with assistance of the Low Countries Of the purpose of the Combined Princes Their shew is to deal with the King of Navarr to extirp him but their drift is to ruinate Religion not only there but to set upon and to work the ruine of it here also Wherein the King of Spain and Guise are now very busie Their malice is the more for executing the Scottish Queen but their hope is the less The King of Spain his designments are to invade England and Ireland His Preparation Three hundred sixty Sail of Spain Eighty Gallies from Venice and Genoua One Galliass with six hundred armed men from the Duke of Florence Twelve thousand men maintained by Italy and the Pope Six thousand by the Spanish Clergy Twelve thousand by his Nobility and Gentlemen of Spain It is reported that ten thousand of these be Horsemen I think it not all true but something there is We must look to the Papists at home and abroad It hath touched us in the blood of the Nobility and the blood of many Subjects They practise to frame Subjects against all duty and bring in Doctrine of lawfulness and merit to kill the Queen and have sent their Instruments abroad to that purpose Two manner of forces are to be handled Assistance to the Low Countries defence by force otherwise That God may assist us in Justice in Right in Defence against those Princes The assistance is acceptable that will be profitable Her Majesty oweth relief there in Honour according to the Leagues especially between us and the House of Burgundy which Leagues differ from Leagues growing between Prince and Prince for they grew between the people and this State We are bound to help them in Honour according to the Leagues Many Marriages and many Secrecies have been long between us and the relieving of the afflictions of that people may not be omitted The heads of their miseries are The Spanish Inquisition by Placard using strange tortures not to be suffered great impositions without and against Law sending some of their people into Spain and there tyrannized over their Noblemen done away taking their Towns and setting Tyrants over them to use them like Dogs The purpose was to bring the Low Countries into a Monarchal seat and then vae nobis The Queens dealing there is warranted by God The Queen is occasioned of necessity for safety of her Dominions and us that that Country may be preserved that the English Commodities may be vented there with readiness with safety and with profit the recovery thereof will be good for this Country and Crown it may not be suffered that a Neighbour should grow too strong he uttered that as though it were not meet another Prince should have it for examples whereof he commended the Princes of Italy and especially the Duke of Florence for using that policy Henry the 7 th for aiding the Duke of Brittany with eight thousand men rather than the King of France after he had found great friendship of them both that the King of France might not grow too strong The King of Spain seeketh to be yet greater for he hath already a Seat in Council amongst the Princes of Germany by reason of Territories his Father got there And if he could he would frame the Low Countries to his desire As to the pretence of Injuries before remembred As to the first going over her Majesty misliked it and punished some of the Captains he named Sir Humfrey Gilbert for one Concerning Monsieur the first time her Majesty drew him from proceeding for the Low Countries The second time she consented that he should only assist the Low Countries which Monsieur afterwards abused contrary to her Majesties meaning Concerning M r Drakes first Voyage her Majesty knew it not and when he came home she seized the whole Mass of Substance brought by him to satisfie the King of Spain if cause so required and thereupon desired Certificate for Invasion into Ireland Concerning M r Drake's last Voyage it was to meet with the restraints and seisures in Spain and their purpose of War was thereupon discovered for there was found by the Master of M r Bonds Ship who took the Corrigedore and others a Commission from the King of Spain whereby he termed us his Rebels as he termed the Low Countries He then remembred another grievance not touched before which was the entertaining of Don Anthony Which he answered to be done in Honorable Courtesie because of his State who was a King anointed and crowned though his seat was not long untroubled and coming hither in honourable and courteous manner though something weakned required the entertainment he had Then he iterated that the great grief is Religion and said that all godly ones are bound to defend it He then said God endue us to fear him and all things shall prosper He said her Majesty protesteth sincere service to God and to leave the Crown in peace c. commended her courage against their malice esteeming it not less than the stoutest Kings in Europe M r Chancellor of the Exchequer after M r Vice-Chamberlain his speeches ended remembred some of the former and inferred and so concluded that the great preparations of War which was fit speedily to be thought of and provided would grow chargeable and therefore thought it fit with expedition that the House should appoint a convenient number of the same to set down Articles for a Subsidy Whereupon are appointed Committees for concluding and drawing of Articles for the Subsidy and other great Causes all the Privy Council being of this House the first Knight for every Shire and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon One Bill lastly being for the better payment of Debts and Legacies by Executors and Administrators was read the first time On Thursday the 23 d day of February three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against delay of execution in Actions of Debt was read the first time The Committees appointed for Conference touching a Loan or Benevolence to be offered to her Majesty are M r Francis Bacon M r Edward Lewkenor and others On Friday the 24 th day of February four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill to avoid many dangers touching Records of Fines levyed in the Court of Common Pleas was upon the second reading committed unto M r Recorder of London M r Morrice M r Drew and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Recorder who with the rest was appointed to meet in Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstrect on Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Sir Thomas Scot Sir Henry Knyvet M r Thomas Knyvet and M r Topclyffe are appointed by this House to search
am to do this Office my present Speech doth tell that of a number in this House I am most unfit For amongst them are many grave many learned many deep wise men and those of ripe Judgments But I am untimely Fruit not yet ripe but a Bud scarcely blossomed So as I fear me your Majesty will say Neglectâ frugi eliguntur folia Amongst so many fair Fruit ye have plucked a shaking Leaf If I may be so bold as to remember a Speech which I cannot forget used the last Parliament in your Majesties own Mouth Many come hither ad consulendum qui nesciunt quid sit consulendum a just reprehension to many as to my self also an untimely Fruit my years and judgment ill besitting the gravity of this place But howsoever I know my self the meanest and inferiour unto all that ever were before me in this place yet in faithfulness of service and dutifulness of love I think not my self inferiour to any that ever were before me And amidst my many imperfections yet this is my comfort I never knew any in this place but if your Majesty gave them favour God who called them to the place gave them also the blessing to discharge it The Lord Keeper having received Instructions from the Queen Answered him M r Sollicitor Her Graces most Excellent Majesty hath willed me to signify unto you that she hath ever well conceived of you since she first heard of you which will appear when her Highness Elected you from others to serve her self But by this your modest wise and well composed Speech you give her Majesty further occasion to conceive of you above that which ever she thought was in you by endeavouring to deject and abase your self and your desert you have discovered and made known your worthiness and sufficiency to discharge the place you are called to And whereas you account your self Corpus opacum her Majesty by the Influence of her Vertue and Wisdom doth enlighten you and not only alloweth and approveth you but much thanketh the Lower House and commendeth their discretion in making so good a Choice and Electing so fit a Man Wherefore now Mr. Speaker proceed in your Office and go forward to your Commendation as you have begun The Lord Keepers Speech being ended the Speaker began a new Speech COnsidering the great and wonderful Blessings besides the long Peace we have enjoyed under your Graces most Happy and Victorious Reign and remembring with what Wisdom and Justice your Grace hath Reigned over us we have Cause daily to praise God that ever you were given us and the hazard that your Majesty hath adventured and the Charge that you have born for us and our safety ought to make us ready to lay down our selves and all our living at your Feet to do you service c. After this he related the great Attempts of her Majesties Enemies against us especially the Pope and the King of Spain who adhered unto him How wonderfully we were delivered in Eighty eight and what a favour God therein manifested unto her Majesty His Speech after this tended wholly to shew out of the History of England and the old State how the Kings of England ever since Henry the Thirds time have maintained themselves to be Supreme Head over all Causes within their own Dominions And then reciting the Laws that every one made in his time for maintaining their own Supremacy and excluding the Pope he drew down this proof by a Statute of every King since Henry the Third to Edward the Sixth This ended he came to speak of Laws that were so great and so many already that they were fit to be termed Elephantinae Leges Therefore to make more Laws it might seem superfluous And to him that might ask Quid causa ut crescant tot magna volumina Legis It may be Answered In promptu causa est crescit in orbe malum The malice of our Arch-Enemy the Devil though it were always great yet never greater than now and that Dolus Malum being crept in so far amongst men it was requisite that sharp Ordinances should be provided to prevent them and all care to be used for her Majesties Preservation Now am I to make unto your Majesty three Petitions in the name of the Commons First That liberty of Speech and freedom from Arrests according to the Ancient Custom of Parliament be granted to your Subjects Secondly That we may have access unto your Royal Person to present those things that shall be considered amongst us Lastly That your Majesty will give us your Royal Assent to the things that are agreed upon But this said last Petition seems to have been mistaken by that Anonymus out of whom this said Speech is transcribed as aforesaid for this Petition is proper and usual at the end of a Sessions upon a Prorogation or of a Parliament upon a Dissolution when the two Houses have passed divers Acts which only want the Royal Assent to put life into them And doubtless the third Petition which should have ensued here was for freedom from Arrests for themselves and their necessary Attendants which being wholly omitted I have before caused to be inserted though more briefly in its proper place And thus this mistake being cleared the residue of the said Speakers Speech ensueth And for my self I humbly beseech your Majesty if any Speech shall fall from me or behaviour found in me not decent and fit that it may not be imputed blame upon the House but laid upon me and pardoned in me To this Speech the Lord Keeper having received new Instructions from the Queen made his Reply in which he first commended the Speaker greatly for it And then he added some Examples of History for the Kings Supremacy in Henr. 2. and Kings before the Conquest As to the deliverance we received from our Enemies and the Peace we enjoyed the Queen would have the praise of all those attributed to God only And touching the Commendations given to her self she said Well might we have a wiser Prince but never should they have one that more regarded them and in Justice would carry an evener stroke without exception of persons and such a Prince she wisht they might always have To your three demands the Queen Answereth Liberty of Speech is granted you but how far this is to be thought on there be two things of most necessity and those two do most harm which are Wit and Speech The one exercised in Invention and the other in uttering things invented Priviledge of Speech is granted but you must know what priviledge you have not to speak every one what he listeth or what cometh in his brain to utter that but your priviledge is I or No. Wherefore M r Speaker her Majesties Pleasure is that if you perceive any idle Heads which will not stick to hazard their own Estates which will meddle with reforming the Church and transforming the Common-Wealth and do exhibite any Bills to such purpose
Souldiers as shall be found to have most need thereof The like whereof the Commons Assembled in this Parliament have Ordered For all the Members of that House that are absent and have not paid are to contribute in double manner Which Order is thought very just considering the Lords and others who have been absent and have been at no charge to come up and give their Attendance may very reasonably and with a great saving to their Charges contribute to this Order And if any Lord Spiritual or Temporal shall refuse or forbear thus to do which is hoped in Honour none will do there shall be ordinary means used to levy the same On Friday the 6 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for avoiding deceits used in sale of twice laid Cordage for the better preservation of the Navy of this Realm was read tertia vice conclusa Eight Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion On Saturday the 7 th day of April Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for rating of the Wages of Spinners and Weavers and to reform the falsities of Regrators of Woollen Yarn was read primâ vice On Monday the 9 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills were each of them read secundà tertiâ vice and so expedited of which the second was the Bill for the bringing of fresh Water to the Town of Stonehouse in the County of Devon Eight Bills also this Morning were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Naturalizing of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy being born beyond the Seas of English Parents and to put them in the nature of meer English was read primâ secundâ vice But it doth not appear whether this Bill were committed or no which did not only happen in this place by the negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House but also through the whole Original Journal Book of the said House this Parliament in all which although divers Bills are said to be read the second time yet it is not at all expressed whether they were thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed or further to be considered of by some select Committees of the House one of which of necessity must be put in Execution upon the said second reading of a Bill both in the Upper House and that of the House of Commons unless the Bill have its third reading also at the same time and pass the House or else be dasht upon the question and so cast out of it This Morning finally Whereas a Bill Intituled An Act touching Power and Liberty to repeal certain uses of a Deed Tripartite herein mentioned of and in certain Lands Mannors and Tenements of Anthony Cooke of Romford in the County of Essex Esquire hath been heretofore three times read and assented unto by the Lords in the which Bill there is no Saving to the Queens Majesty or any other person or persons of their lawful Estates or Titles This day there was a Saving drawn for her Majesty and all others which was offered to this House and some question and ambiguity did grow whether the Saving should be now added to the Bill And in the end it was resolved that the Saving should be added to the Bill for that it is usual and requisite to have some Saving in every Bill and for that there was nothing in the Saving contrary to any matter in the Bill and that her Majesties Right and all other be saved thereby Nevertheless upon weighty considerations the Lords have Ordered that this shall not hereafter be drawn to make any Precedent On Tuesday the 10 th day of April in the Morning were two Bills read of which the second being the Bill for the Queens most gracious and general free Pardon was read primâ vice and so passed upon the question Nota That the Bill or Act for the Queens general Pardon passeth each House upon the first reading Whereas other Bills cannot be expedited without being read three times both by the Lords and the Commons The Queens Majesty came not till the Afternoon and therefore in this place through the negligence of the Clerk the continuing of the Parliament until some hour in the Afternoon is omitted which should have been inserted in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continnavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam c. à Meridie Between five and six of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Tuesday being the tenth day of April the Queens Majesty accompanied with her Officers and daily Attendants came to the Upper House and as soon as her Majesty with the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the rest that have place there were set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof came up with their Speaker bringing with them the Bill of Subsidy The said Speaker being placed at the Bar at the lower end of the Upper House and as many of the House of Commons as could conveniently being let in after Humble Reverence done to her Majesty spake as followeth THE High Court of Parliament most High and Mighty Prince is the greatest and most ancient Court within this your Realm For before the Conquest in the High places of the West-Saxons we read of a Parliament holden and since the Conquest they have been holden by all your Noble Predecessors Kings of England In the time of the West-Saxons a Parliament was holden by the Noble King Ina by these words I Ina King of the West-Saxons have caused all my Fatherhood Aldermen and wisest Commons with the Godly men of my Kingdom to consult of weighty matters c. Which words do plainly shew all the parts of this High Court still observed to this day For by King Ina is your Majesties most Royal Person represented The Fatherhood in Ancient time were these which we call Bishops and still we call them Reverend Fathers an Ancient and chief part of our State By Aldermen were meant your Noblemen For so honourable was the word Alderman in Ancient time that the Nobility only were called Aldermen By Wisest Commons is meant and signified Knights and Burgesses and so is your Majesties Writ de discretioribus magis sufficientibus By Godliest men is meant your Convocation-House It consisteth of such as are devoted to Religion And as Godliest men do consult of weightest matters so is your Highness Writ at this day pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos Statum defensionem Regni nostri
Keeper having allowed and approved his Election the said Speaker having in a second Speech shortly touched her Highness happy and victorious Reign and somewhat largely proved the antientSupremacy of the Kings of England in Ecclesiastical matters did in the end of his said Speech make certain Petitions of course in the name of the House of Commons First For liberty of Speech Secondly For freedom from Arrests And thirdly For Access unto her Majesty And lastly For Pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly be mistaken To which Speech the Lord Keeper having received new Instructions from her Majesty made a reply in particular to the several branches of the said Speakers Speech And to his three demands he Answered that liberty of Speech was granted in respect of the I and No but not that every one should speak what he listed And touching freedom from Arrests and Access to her Majesty he advised that they might be cautiously made use of Nota That none of these Particulars touching the Presentment of the Speaker are set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons but are abstracted out of another Journal of the same House taken by an Anonymous Member of the same during the Parliament mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal yet it appeareth plainly by the very Original Journal-Book it self Fol. 262. l. that the Prosocutor was this day presented to her Majesty where the words are as followeth viz. Jovis xxii do Febr. 92. This Day M r Speaker was presented unto her Majesty Which said words being only here a little otherwise placed for Order sake than there have a large Blank left at the end of them of somewhat above half a page with intention no doubt at the first to have inserted the whole manner of the proceeding both of this presentment and admission After the Return also of the Speaker now compleatly invested in that place with the rest of the House of Commons one Bill was read according to the usual form in that Case accustomed which is set down in the said Journal-Book in these words following viz. The Bill that a Bar at large may be pleaded in any Action of Ejectione firmae was read the first time M r Speaker immediately after the reading of this Bill and his opening of the contents of the same to this House shewed unto them from her Majesty that her Highness had Adjourned mistaken for continued the Higher House till Saturday next And also that her Majesties pleasure likewise was that this House should therefore be Adjourned till the same time which being so done accordingly this House did then rise and every man went away On Saturday the 24 th day of February the House being set and a great number of the Members of the same assembled M r Speaker not then as yet being come to the House some of the House said one to another they heard he was sick And one affirmed it to be so indeed shewing that he had been with him this Morning himself and left him sick in his Bed and his Physician and his Wife with him and some others supposing that he would shortly signify unto this House the Cause of that his absence moved that the Clerk might in the mean time proceed to saying of the Litany and Prayers Which being so done accordingly the Serjeant of this House presently after the said Prayers finished brought word from M r Speaker unto the Right Honourable Sir John Woolley Knight one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and a Member of this House and then present in the same House that he had been this last Night and also was this present Forenoon so extreamly pained with a wind in his Stomach and Loosness of Body that he could not as yet without his further great peril and danger adventure into the Air at this time which otherwise most willingly he would have done And willed that the Clerk of this House might signify unto the House the said estate of his Case and in his name to desire their good favourable considerations of the same not doubting their gentle and courteous acceptance of that his so reasonable excuse as by this House hath also been in former time used in like Case towards some other his Predecessors in the place he now serveth And to shew them he trusteth in God he shall be able to attend them in this House upon the next day of sitting which will be Monday next The Effect of which Message being then signified unto this House by the said Clerk of the House all the said Members of this House being very sorry for M r Speaker his sickness rested well satisfied And so the House did rise and every man departed away Nota That this is all which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons touching this days business and therefore that which followeth is supplied out of that Anonymous Journal mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal touching the residue of this days passages This day M r Peter Wentworth and Sir Henry Bromley delivered a Petition unto the Lord Keeper therein desiring the Lords of the Upper House to be suppliants with them of the lower House unto her Majesty for Entailing the Succession of the Crown whereof a Bill was readily drawn by them Her Majesty was highly displeased therewith after she knew therof as a matter contrary to her former strait Commandment and charged the Council to call the parties before them Sir Thomas Heneage presently sent for them and after Speeches had with them commanded them to forbear the Parliament and not to go out from their several Lodgings The day after being Sunday and the 25 th of Febr. though the House sate not yet they were called before the Lord Treasurer the Lord Buckhurst and Sir Thomas Heneage The Lords intreated them favourably and with good Speeches But so highly was her Majesty offended that they must needs commit them and so they told them Whereupon M r Peter Wentworth was sent Prisoner unto the Tower Sir Henry Bromley and one M r Richard Stevens to whom Sir Henry Bromley had imparted the matter were sent to the Fleet as also M r Welch the other Knight for Worcestershire Vide Mar. 10. About this matter in the beginning of the Parliament was appointed a Committee to be had of many grave wise and ancient Parliament men which were of the House but at this time few met at the place appointed at least not such as were expected It was appointed also at this time to M r Stevens to peruse the penning of the Petition that should have been delivered to that House and to have provided a Speech upon the delivery of it But this Office by reason of other occasions he could not attend What other things were done or spoken in that Conference were as I heard confessed to some of the Privy-Council by some of those Parties that were present at that Conference All that were there
we were so secure and never thought that the King of Spain would have set up his Rest for England Then sent he his Navy termed Invincible and was almost upon the Banks of us before we were aware Yea we were so slack in provision that it was too late to make resistance had not God preserved us His attempt against us by seeking to win the Low-Countries and to obtain Ireland being but trifles and partly devices which I mean not to trouble you with he hath now of late gone about to win France wherein he hath greatly prevailed as in Lorrain and in other parts as you have heard but specially in Britany having most part of the Port Towns in his Possession whither he still sendeth supply daily and reinforces them every four or five Months which part is always open and his men and forces never wanting This Province he especially desireth for it lyeth most fitly to annoy us whither he may send forces continually and there have his Navy in a readiness the which he could not so easily unless he had the wind in a bag Besides having this Province he might keep us from Traffick to Rochell and Burdeaux as he doth in the Straights from Tripoly and S t Jean de Lucc And so hinder us from carrying forth and bringing into this Land any Commodities from those parts whereby the Realm might be inriched and her Majesties Impost ever eased being one of the greatest Revenues of her Crown He hath also gone about with them of Stade and the King of Poland one of his own Faction and who by reason he cannot do in that Kingdom what he listeth he may not so easily command him to impeach or hinder our Traffick in those Eastern parts which if he could bring to pass you see how hurtful it would be to this Land But to descend yet lower into these latter Actions He hath seen it is but a folly to make Woodden Bridges to pass into Ireland therefore he hath found out a safer way and stronger passage into it by Land and that by Scotland which though it be not talked of on the Exchange nor Preached at Paul's Cross yet it is most true and in Scotland as common as the high-way That he hath procured unto him many of the Nobility It may be he hath sent thither no great Navy and that her Majesty would not suffer him to do yet do what she can some one Paltry Fly-Boat may escape her Majesties Ships and carry gold enough in her to make them Traytors and stir them to Sedition These things her Majesty understood before and Advertized the King thereof which the effect hath proved to be true For unless I be deceived the last Letter that came from thence might shew that the King is gone to make a Rode into the North and to bring back the Lord Bothwell and the Lord Huntley The King of Spain's malice thus daily increaseth against us and seeketh also to stir up Sedition amongst us by his Instruments The number also of Papists daily increaseth or at least wise becomes more manifest My advice is that you would consult how to withstand such imminent dangers which the greater they be the sooner they would be looked into and remembred Wherefore I would desire M r Speaker that he would appoint some Committees of the sufficientest and wisest men in the House to consider thereon Sir John Wolley spake to the like Effect saying that upon the Cause of the danger the Realm was now in and of the remedy his Speech should consist which he likened to a natural Body in which the more danger the principal Member was in the greater means there should be used for the preservation thereof Roan being made now Admiral of France by the League should say that he was a poor Admiral now but yet he doubted not ' but that shortly he should be able to bring such a Navy as should terrify the Queen of England Also he shewed how the Princes of the Holy League had conspired the overthrow of the Realm the extirpation of Religion and the confusion of her Majesty and her Loyal Subjects And exhorted the House now because the season of the year groweth on which calleth many of the Knights and Burgesses to be in their Countries besides the Sickness being in the Town so that many of that House he thought knew not whether they lodged in Houses infected or not that they would seek to dispatch and end the Parliament so soon as might be He also shewed how the Dunkirkers trouled our Fishermen in small Barks upon the Sea-coasts And so that this matter might be Committed to some of the sufficientest in the House He also exhorted the House to a speedy agreeing of a Subsidy which considering the dangers we were in and that it was for our own good as also for her Majesty's he hoped that no good Subject but would willingly agree to it Also he shewed that the Wars with the King of Spain had cost her Majesty a Million of Money but this he avouched that where it cost her Majesty one it cost the King of Spain three Then Sir John Fortescue spake and said They that spake before me spake sufficiently of the Authors of our trouble of the great danger which is now imminent insomuch that as it is come to that point now Non utrùm imperare sed utrùm vivere I will speak of nothing but that which concerns my Calling Her Majesty not being only careful for the preservation of Her own Realm but of her Neighbours also she hath not only defended her own Subjects from being invaded but also hath aided Strangers which wanted Money with whom otherwise it would have gone ill by this time both with them and ourselves Insomuch that the burthen of four Kingdoms hath rested upon her Majesty which she hath maintained with her Purse England France Ireland and Scotland For how could the French King at his first coming to the Crown have held out against those Leaguers had not her Majesty assisted him with her Men and Money which hath cost her Majesty about a hundred thonsand pound For 't is well known that the French King had not been able to withstand the Duke of Parma's coming into France had it not been for our Englishmen and Money As for the Low Countries they have stood her Majesty in yearly since she undertook the defence of them one hundred and fifty thousand pound All which her Majesty bestowed for the good of the Realm to free us from War at home Besides when her Majesty came to the Crown she found it four Millions indebted her Navy when she came to view it she found greatly decayed Yet all this hath discharged and thanks be to God is nothing indebted and now she is able to match any Prince in Europe which the Spaniards found when they came to invade as Yea she hath with her Ships compassed the whole world whereby this Land is made famous throughout all places
who said that in the 27 th year of the Queen the like Motion had been made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time and suddain ending of the Parliament nothing was done therein Notwithstanding he said that now this motion being so happily made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time nothing was done he thought it fit for a Committee He was seconded again by M r Wiseman of Lincolns-Inn who was of the same mind and said That divers particular Laws of his knowledge were now both needless to be performed as also dangerous to the Subject by reason of the Penalties Whereupon the House agreed that the said Bill should be committed and Committees were nominated which are inserted out of the Orinal Journal-Book it self viz. All the Privy Council being Members of this House M r D r Caesar Master of Requests Sir Edward Hobbie M r Wiseman M r D r Crompton M r D r Perkins M r D r Dunn the Knights and Citizens for London the Knights and Citizens for Norwich Sir Walter Raleigh M r Tanfield M r Francis Bacon M r Robert Wingfield Sir Robert Wroth Sir George Moore Sir Moile Finch Sir John Harrington Sir Thomas Leighton M r Snigg M r Phillipps M r Winch Mr. Tho. Culpepper Mr. Hide Mr. Oldsworth Mr. Maynard the Lord Howard Sir Richard Knightley Sir Robert Carey the Lord Clinton Mr. Dale Mr. William Lane Mr. Michael Stanhop Mr. Warcop Sir Henry Nevil Sir Arthur George Sir Edward Hungerford Sir William Strowde Sir William Courtney Mr. John Egerton Mr. Dr. James Sir Crew Rawleigh Mr. Boyse Sir Henry Brunker and Sir Thomas Gerrard who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Friday next in the Afternoon The Bill for the explanation of such Statutes as touch Leases to be made by Archbishops and Bishops was read the first time Monition was this day given by Mr. Speaker unto the Members of this House that they would forbear from henceforth to come into this House with their Spurs on in regard it is very offensive to many others of the residue of them Thus far out of the Original Book it self Others also although nothing were done therein moved to have Boots and Rapiers taken away as is set down in the above mentioned private Journal On Tuesday the 3 d day of November Upon a Motion made by Mr. Speaker on the behalf of Mr. Fulk Onslow the Clerk of this House for that it hath pleased God to visit him with an Ague That it would please this House to vouchsafe their allowance unto Cadwallader Tydder his Servant to execute the place in his absence as Deputy unto the said Mr. Onslow until it shall please God to restore him to health Which was willingly assented unto by the whole House and by Order of the whole House the said Tydder took the Oath of Supremacy Nota That there was a like precedent in the second meeting of the Parliament after an Adjournment thereof in Anno 28 29. Regin Eliz. An. Dom. 1586. when upon the like Motion of the Speaker on Wednesday the 15 th day of February William Onslow kinsman of the said Mr. Fulk Onslow being at that time a Member of the House of Commons was during his sickness allowed by the said House to exercise and supply the place of Clerk thereof as at this present time Cadwallader Tydder servant to the said Mr. Fulk Onslow was licensed to supply the same Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the better preserving the breed of Horses and to avoid the common stealing of them was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobbie Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Walter Cope Mr. Fulk Grevil Mr. Hide and others who were appointed to meet on Monday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Robert Wroth. The Bill to reform the Abuses in Inns Victualling-Houses c. was read the second time and being put to the question for committing was upon the question refused to be committed Upon a Motion made by Mr. Leife that whereas many Members of this House which could not come to the Upper House upon the first day of this Parliament the Door being kept shut to hear her Majesties pleasure signified by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper of the Causes of her Majesties calling of this Parliament they might in some sort be satisfied of the same He putteth Mr. Comptroller in mind of his Honours promise to relate the same unto them Who thereupon desired Mr. Secretary Cecil because he the said Mr. Comptroller was not there himself to make the same relation which the said Mr. Secretary doing at large The chief intent and scope thereof appeared to aim at the setting forth of two things especially the First the Danger the Kingdom stood in in respect of the power and malice of the Spaniard the Second that timely provision of Treasure might be made for the prevention Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book it self M r Secretary Cecil's Speech which followeth being spoken after that he had repeated the Lord Keepers Speech is inserted out of the beforecited private Journal of the House in manner and form following For my own advice touching the particular Counsels of this House I wish that we would not trouble our selves with any fantastick speeches or idle Bills but rather such as be for the general good both light in conception and facile in execution Now seeing it hath pleased you all hitherto with patience to hear me if with your favour I may particularize and show the grounds of the former delivered Speech touching the State of Ireland I shall be very glad both for my own discharge and for your satisfaction The King of Spain having quit himself of France by a base and servile Peace forgetteth not to follow the Objects of his Fathers Ambition England and the Low-Countries He hath made Overtures of Peace which if they might both be honourable and for the publick good I hold him neither a wise nor an honest man would impugn them He hath put an Army into Ireland the number Four thousand Souldiers under the conduct of a valiant expert and hardy Captain who chooseth rather than return into his own Country without any famous enterprize to live and dy in this service These Four thousand are three parts Natural Spaniards and of his best expert Souldiers except them of the Low-Countries Those he could not spare because of his enterprize of Ostend And how dangerous the loss of that Town would be to this Land I think there is no man of experience but can witness with me For he would easily be Master of all that Coast so that the Trade betwen England and the Low-Countries would be quite dissolved Yea he would be so dangerous a Neighbour to us that we which are now Tenants by discretion are
to do our Countries good bereave them of that good help we may justly Administer M r Speaker Qui vadit planè vadit sanè Let us lay down our griefs in the Preamble of our Bill and make it by way of Petition And I doubt not but her Majesty being truly informed of it will give her Royal Assent M r Secretary Herbert said The making of Armamentaria is a Regality belonging only to the power of the King and the Crown of England and therefore no man can either cast or transport without Licence It stood perhaps with the Policy of former times to suffer transportation but as the times alter so doth the Government And we doubt it is now very hurtful and prejudicial to the State and therefore I am of opinion that it is very fit this transportation should be stayed and I concur only with them which would have it by way of Petition and not by Bill M r William Hackwell of Lincolns-Inn said I know the Authority of the Worthy Counsellor that last spake will incline you to yield to this Objection Yet notwithstanding I beseech you suppose him to be a man of my Condition or me to be a man of his sort so I doubt not but our persons being equalized the matter will soon be decided Where he saith transportation is necessary to aid our Friends and retain their Alliance I Answer That it is the subtilty and covetousness of our Friends who finding the inestimable gain and treasure they have by Ordnance brought from us do not only desire them for gain but also to gain to themselves Confederates by which means succouring our Friends we aid our Enemies For look whatsoever we give them we deduct from our selves Now let us stop this transportation and that greatly weakens their Forces by which means they will never be able to encounter us hand to hand Our Ordnance this pretious Jewel of our Realm worth even all we have is as familiarly sold in the Countries of our Confederates as any thing within this Land but being stopt they must be fain to take supply from their Ports to their Ships from their Ships to the Field c. Sir Francis Hastings said How swiftly and sweetly her Majesty apprehends our late griefs I think there is no Subject but knoweth For us then to deal in a matter so highly touching her Prerogative we should give her Majesty just cause to deny our Proceedings by Bill I think therefore by laying open our griefs in a Petition it will move the heart of her Majesty as much being a Case of this consequence as our first Motion by M r Speaker hath done And therefore I am of Opinion there is no way but this way Sir George Moore said It is in vain to dispute of the matter when the manner is only in question and as vain to lose the matter by over-long dispute of the manner The late experience of her Majesties Love and Clemency towards us and of her Care over us striketh such an awful regard into my heart that I wholly dislike this proceeding by Bill and only do approve our former Motion by way of Petition M r Hyde said M r Speaker It is doubted by some that this Bill will not pass by reason of the sudden ending of the Parliament for that I think if we give not too much stop to private Bills this Bill would quickly pass And I see no reason but we may well proceed by Bill and not touch her Majesties Prerogative for her Majesty is not more careful and watchful of her Prerogative than the noble Princes of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth her Father and King Edward the Sixth her Brother were Then there was no doubt or mention of the Prerogative And therefore I think our surest and soundest course is by way of Bill c. M r Comptroller said I wish we should deal in such manner as we may have our desire and that I think we shall sooner obtain in speaking unto the Queen by way of Petition than in proceeding by way of Bill and Contestation We must note that her Self and her Progenitors will not be forced And I do not hold this course by way of Bill either to stand with respect or duty M r Swale of the Middle-Temple said I would but move thus much to the House if we let slip this Law and proceed by way of Petition then is there no Law to prohibit but the Law of 33 Hen. 8. and 2 d of Edw. 6. And those Laws give so small a remedy that it is no recompence to the loss of the thing M r Serjeant Harris said It hath been thought that the former Statutes do not stretch to Ordnance made of Iron But may it please the House to commit the Bill there shall be shewed to the Committees four or five Precedents and late Judgments that Iron Guns come within this Law M r Sollicitor Flemming said The Gentleman that spake last said very true for it was lately in Matchivells Case in the Exchequer So the Bill was committed to all the Privy Council and all the Queens Learned Councel being of this House Sir Walter Raleigh the Knights and Citizens of London Sir Francis Hastings M r Grevill Sir Robert Wroth Sir Robert Mansell Sir Richard Knightley Sir George Moore and divers others who were appointed to meet in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Then followed a dispute touching the Information against M r Belgrave a Member of the same M r Belgrave said Mr. Speaker Modesty forbids me to speak in my own Case that so nearly concerneth me but necessity urgeth me to appeal to this High Court True it is there was an Information exhibited against me in the Star-Chamber by an Honourable Person of the Upper House the Earl of Huntington in the name of Mr. Attorney General for a Misdemeanor committed to this High Court the substance of that Information I confess yet I am to be an humble Suitor unto this House whether an Information is to be exhibited this House sitting against any Member thereof And for my own part I do submit my self to abide such Censure as this House shall in their Wisdoms think convenient Sir George Moore said viewing the Information I find the words to be against the High Court of Parliament which is as well the Upper House as this House and therefore I wish there might be a Conference with the Lords herein Now this House is but part and a Member of the Parliament and therefore we solely cannot proceed Mr. Serjeant Harris said In the 36 th of Hen. 8. when Ferris Case was who was a Member of this House did not we proceed without any Conference with the Lords Here might be libera suffragin and no man of this House to be chosen by any Friends or Mediation of any great Man neither ought we to be tyed by any Blue Coat in the World But as our Persons are Priviledged so should our Speeches be
Conference or meeting of the said Committees brake up imperfectly and was further deferr'd till the next Morning The Passages of this Afternoon do now follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following Post Meridiem Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Mountague a Committee in the Bill touching Souldiers and others certified in the Bill with some Amendments whereof he prayed the reading The Amendments in the Bill for relief of Souldiers and Mariners were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Policies of Assurances used amongst Merchants was read the second time and committed unto Sir Walter Raleigh M r Doctor Caesar Sir Francis Bacon Sir Stephen Soame and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir Francis Bacon who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock The Bill touching Hat-Makers was read the third time and upon the question and division of the House passed with the Yea ninety three and with the No forty six John Yakesley Esq returned into this present Parliament one of the Burgesses for the Town of Cambridge is for his necessary affairs licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart Upon Motion made by Serjeant Harris that Anthony Curwin Servant Attendant upon William Huddleston Esq a Member of this House hath been Arrested into the Counter in the Poultrey in London at the Suit of one Matthew a Chyrurgeon It is Ordered that the Serjeant that made the said Arrest and the said Matthew should be sent for to answer in this House for their said contempt as appertaineth M r Adam and Listers Councel are appointed to be heard to Morrow On Saturday the 12 th day of December the Bill to avoid the stealing of Cattle was read the second time and committed unto Sir George Moore Mr. Maynard Mr. Brown and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of the Mannor of Sagebury aliàs Sadgbury unto John Harris and Samuel Sandys Gent. was read the third time and passed upon the question Some part of this Forenoons Passages doth now next follow out of private Journals An Act for redress of certain abuses used in Painting was read the third time It was moved by Sir George Moore and some others that the Bill might be let slip and the Cause refer'd to the Lord Mayor of London because it concerned a Controversie between the Painters and Plaisterers of London To which M r Davies Answered That the last Parliament this Bill should have past this House but it was refer'd as is now desired and Bonds made by the Plaisterers for performance of the Orders to be set down by the Lord Mayor yet all will do no good Wherefore M r Speaker I think it good to be put to the question Sir Stephen Soame desired that my Lord Mayor might not be troubled with them c. but that it might be put to the question and it seemed likely to go against the Painters But M r Heyward Townsend as it was putting to the question stood up and shewed that in the Statute of 25 Ed. 3. Cap. 3. Plaisterers were not then so called but Dawbers and Mudwall-Makers who had for their Wages by the day three pence and their Knave three half pence for so was his Labourer called they so continued till King Henry the Sevenths time who brought into England with him out of France certain men that used Plaister of Paris about the Kings Sieling and Walls whose Statute Labourers these Dawbers were These Statute Labourers learned in short time the use of Plaister of Paris and did it for the King who increased to be many then suing to the King for his Favour to Incorporate them he did fulfil their desire Incorporating them by the name of Gipsarium which was for Clay and Mud aliàs Morter-Makers An. 16 Hen. 7. being no Freemen for all their Corporation they obtained the Kings Letters in their favour to Sir William Remmington the Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen to allow them Freemen which was granted at what time came in four of them paying ten shillings a piece for their Freedoms And in three years after that manner came in to the number of twenty but they paid four pound a piece for their Freedom They renewed their Patent in King Henry the Eighths time and called themselves Plaisterers aliàs Morter-Makers for the use of Loam and Lyme They made an humble Petition and Supplication after this to Sir John Munday then Lord Mayor and to the Aldermen to grant them Ordinances for the better Rule and Government of their Company in these words viz. We the good Folks of Plaisterers in London of Plaister and Loam of the said City for redress of certain abuses of Lath-Plaister and Loam wrought in the said Craft c. and had allowed unto them search for their Company for the use of Lath Loam and Lyme In all their Corporations at no time had they the word Colours neither yet in their Ordinances For all they were incorporated by the name of Plaisterers yet in all King Henry the Eighths time they were called Dawbers as appears in the Accompts of the Chamber of London paid to such and such Dawbers for so many days so much and to their Labourers so much The Plaisterers never laid any Colour upon any of the Kings Houses nor in the Sheriffs of London but this Year They wore no Livery or Cloathing in the seventeenth of King Henry the Eighth They have been suffered to lay Alehouse Colours as red Lead and Oaker with such like and now intrude themselves to all Colours Thus they take not only their own work but Painting also and leave nothing to do for the Painter Painters and Stainers were two several Companies in King Edward the Thirds time one for Painting of Posts and all Timber-Work and the other for Staining and Painting of Cloth of great continuance The two several Companies were joined both into one by their own consents and by the consents of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City the nineteenth year of King Edward the Fourth The Painters had Orders allowed them for the use of Oyl and Colours especially named in King Henry the Fourths time from the Lord Mayor and City Painters cannot work without Colours their only mixture being Oyl and Size which the Plaisterers do now usurp and intrude into Painters have her Majesties Letters Patents dated the twenty fourth year of Elizabeth forbidding any Artificer the use of Colours and Oyl or Size after the manner of Painting but only such as have been or shall be Apprentice namely
Clergy is but once read in the House but the preface and confirmation of it thrice p. 615. Bills of Subsidy how passed into Acts. p. 274. Three Subsidies not granted at once before 35 Eliz. and then with a Proviso that it should not be drawn into a Precedent yet the like number were granted the next Parliament viz. 39 40 Eliz. and four in the next after that viz. 43 Eliz. p. 547. 615 Succession to the Crown how many pretended to it in Queen Elizabeths time p. 104 Successor the Queen Petition'd to declare her Successor p. 105 Summon Vide Writ Sunday a Bill in 43 Eliz. that Fairs or Markets shall not be holden thereon p. 613 Supremacy a Bill for restoring it to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and repealing divers Statutes to the contrary 1 Eliz. p. 21. 23. Many proofs that in the darkest times of Popery the Kings of England did judge it to belong to them p. 24 T. TOnnage and Poundage a Bill for them I Eliz. p. 19 Trinity Hall in Cambridge a Bill for the Incorporation of it p. 22 Tryors of Petitions Vide Receivors U. VAcat what the word means when set before the entrance of the return of a Proxy p. 7 A Bill for Uniformity of Common Prayer c. passed 1 Eliz. though opposed by several p. 30 Universities A Bill for the Incorporation of them 13 Eliz. p. 149 Voices affirmative and negative when equal in number the negative carry it p. 605 Usher Vide Gentleman Usher W. LOrd de la Ware his Case p. 526. his place in Parliament is determined to be between the Lord Willoughby of Eresby and the Lord Berkeley p. 528 Warrant the form of one to the Lord Chancellor or Keeper to issue out Writs for Summoning a Parliament p. 2 Weymouth and Melcomb Regis a Bill for the uniting of them into one Corporation 13 Eliz. p. 149 Williams Tho. Speaker in the House of Commons 5 Eliz. his Speeches to the Queen at his confirmation p. 63 64. at the ending of the Session p. 74. he died before the Session of the same Parliament 8 9 Eliz. p. 95 Writ the form of the Writ whereby a Peer is Summoned to Parliament with its differences in regard of the Temporal and Spiritual Lords p. 2. The Writ for Proroguing the Parliament p. 3. 57. 77. 93. 419. An Alphabetical TABLE Directing to the principal matters contained in the JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A. ABsence of a Member from the House through sickness or his being in service of Ambassage c. resolved to be no sufficient cause to remove him p. 244. unless the sickness in all likelihood be irrecoverable p. 430 the like resolved p. 307. but the contrary p. 281 282. especially if the absent Member desire that another may be chosen in his stead p. 429. Members absent a whole Session fired by the House the Knights 201. the Burgesses c. ICl a piece p. 309. Any Member may be absent if he be licensed by M r Speaker thereto 〈◊〉 Additions may be made by the Commens to the Additions of the Lords in any Bill p. 354. vide Bill Adjournment of the House by the Queen the manner of it p. 345. In what Cases the Commons are not adjourned by the Adjournment of the Lords p. 550 551. 621 622. Adultery a Bill against it rejected and why p. 641 Ale-Houses a Bill to suppress the multitude of them dashed and why p. 676 Aliens a Bill that they shall not sell Foreign Wares by Retail with many Speeches pro and contra p. 503 ----- 509 Alms given by the House at the end of one Session how much p. 135. vide Collection Alneager of Lancaster to seal the Cloaths made there a Bill to that purpose p. 91. Another that Alneagers seals shall be engraved by the Graver of the Mint p. 134. but dashed ibid. Amendments in Bills ought to be writ in paper not in parchment and without any indorsement p. 573 574 vide Bill Answers in writing to objections sent in writing from the Lords against any Bill that has passed the Commons are read in the House after they have been drawn by the Committees p. 583 c. The Lord Keeper gives Answer to such Messages as are sent from the Commons sitting in his place covered and the Messengers standing without the Bar. p. 585 Apparel vide the word in the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Unprofitable Armour the being obliged to keep it adjudged a great grievance p. 552. The making of Armour is a Regality belonging to the Crown p. 671 Arrests vide Priviledge Art a Bill that whosoever invented any profitable Art or added thereto should have a Monopoly of the same for his life dashed p. 678. Articuli how many and what p. 670 B. BArrowists Vide Brownists Basset Richard living in the time of Hen. II. what Families descended from his female Coheirs p. 39 Robert Bell Esq chosen Speaker in the Parliament 14 Eliz. p. 205. continued Speaker in the Session 18 Eliz. but died before that in 23 Eliz. p. 277 Mr. Belgrave's Case who being a Member of the House of Commons had an Information exhibited against him in the Star-Chamber by the Earl of Huntington p. 666. 669. 672 673. 677 678. An Order entred as the Act of the House that he ought not to be molested in that manner p. 688. One Bill ought always to be read after the presentment and allowance of the Speaker before the House arise p. 44. 121. c. though it has been sometimes omitted through mistake p. 550. The manner of delivering a Bill from the Lords to the Commons p. 45. from the Commons to the Lords 585. The manner of passing a Bill in the House of Commons p. 45. Bills seldom spoken to till after the second Reading p. 165. c. Two Bills the one concerning Purveyors the other the Court of Exchequer having passed the Lower House the Queen forbids any proceeding in them by the Lords with an account of what the Commons did in that Case p. 440. 442. 444. Yet afterwards she gives leave to proceed p. 446. 448. 450. Two Bills for draining of Marish Grounds being almost finished the Queen forbids their being read any more in the House p. 594. No Bill to pass without being spoken to p. 491. Why when a Bill is put to the question and there is a division of the House the No's sit in their places and the I's go out p. 505. 573. If the I's exceed the No's then the No's are to go out also to fetch and bring in the Bill again which the I's had carried out p. 573 574. This ceremony sometimes omitted p. 574. 667. A Bill having past the Upper House and being sent down to the Commons is there allowed and expedited with Additions and Amendments when it is returned to the Lords they must either pass it with those Additions or reject it wholly p. 513. How Amendments Provisoes or Schedules added by
to him for setting forth a Book derogatory to the authority of Parliaments c. p. 291. D r Parry a Member of the House committed to his custody and why p. 341. A Currier committed to his Custody for saying The Curriers could not have justice in the House c. p. 366. Several persons committed to him for presuming to come into the House not being Members p. 394. 486. 565. passim A Motion that the Members should pay him his Fees before they come into the House p. 550. One committed to his Ward for disturbing a Member by way of an Appearance p. 593. If he be to go into the Country to fetch any accused for breach of priviledge he may desire part of his expences of the Complainant before he begin his Journey p. 655. Vide the word Gentleman-Usher in the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Servants of Parliament men Vide Priviledge M r Seymore Clerk of the Parliament from 1 to 9 Eliz. p. 43. 122 Sheriffs when and where they may be chosen for Knights of the Shire and when and where not p. 38. 625. One Man formerly Sheriff of several Counties p. 39. A Bill that they should be allowed for the Justices Diets p. 51. 79. The Queen stops the Bill saying that she will her self take order therein p. 71. 88. A Bill for several Sheriffs in several Counties p. 129. 150. A Bill that Sheriffs Undersheriffs and Bailiffs of Liberties shall take Oaths dashed p. 135. A Member of a Parliament may be made a Sheriff p. 336. 355. 665. and on the contrary a Sheriff may be chosen a Knight of the Shire but not for the County of which he is Sheriff p. 436. 624 625 Shop-Books a Bill to prevent the double payment of debts upon them well spoken to p. 666 667 Sidney Colleà ge in Cambridge upon what occasion founded p. 503 Simony a Bill for prevention of it in presentations to Benefices with a speech thereupon p. 165 Sirname altered by an Act of Parliament p. 687 George Snagg Serjeant at Law chosen Speaker 31 Eliz. p. 428 Solicitor General chosen Speaker 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 121. again 35 Eliz. p. 469. He is to attend in the Upper House though he be chosen a Member of the House of Commons if he be call'd thereto by her Maiesties Writ before he was elected a Member p. 441 442 Common Solicitors a Bill against them in 43 Eliz. well spoken to by him that brought it in p. 631 Maimed Souldiers the Money collected in the Parliament 43 Eliz. chiefly bestowed upon them p. 665. 687. Husbandmen make the best Foot-souldiers p. 674 Spain reputed the Author of all the Treasons and Rebellions in Queen Elizabeths time p. 454. Both Houses join in a Petition to the Queen that she will proclaim War against Spain ibid. Several speeches in the Parliament 35 Eliz. containing an history of the methods the King of Spain used for the Conquest of England p. 471 472 473. 484. He invades Ireland with 4000. in 43 Eliz. p. 623. His pretence is to defend the Catholick Cause p. 624 Speak if two or three offer to speak together that party that is going to speak against the last Speaker is to be heard first p. 493. None to be interrupted while he is speaking p. 633. 640 Speaker of the House of Commons his antiquity p. 40. After he is nominated he uses to uncover himself p. 549. He is commonly nominated by the Comptroller of the Household p. 621. passim After Election he is placed in the Chair either by M r Comptroller alone or by him with another p. 79. 621 c. Two Questions concerning the Election of a Speaker proposed and answered p. 41. How he is presented to the Sovereign ibid. Their excusing or disabling of themselves meerly formal or complementive being sometimes done sometimes not ibid. p. 42. Their Petitions of course to the King or Queen after confirmation p. 16 42 43. 98 c. He makes his Speech now according to his own pleasure but formerly by the directions of the House p. 42. The story of Thorp Speaker in an 31 H. 6. p. 56. 516. He is not always present at Prorogations p. 119. When the Speaker dies in the interval of a Prorogation what method taken to chuse a new one p. 267 268. 278 279 280. The Speaker is to be presented and allowed before the House can determine or resolve on any thing p. 282. He may speak to a Bill with the leave of the House p. 515. He is of that dignity that he is to be commanded by none nor to attend any but the Sovereign p. 627. When any new Election is to be made sitting the Parliament he is to direct a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to issue out the Writ ibid. p. 628. A great contest whether such Warrant be to be directed to the said Clerk or to the Lord Keeper but carried for the former p. 636 637 638 639. Bills are commonly perused by the Speaker before thy are received into the House p. 637. He hath no voice in the passing of a Bill p. 683 684 Liberty of Speech of absolute necessity in Parliaments p. 236 237 238 239 240. 259 Star-Chamber a Bill for the better expedition of Justice in it with a notable Speech against the Bill p. 504. A Bill exhibited therein by a Peer against a Member of the House of Commons Vide Belgrave ante Bill to make Steel in England 8 9 Eliz. p. 132 Steward of the Household administers the Oath of Supremacy to the Members p. 122. Who is his Deputy of course ibid. He may appoint several Deputies p. 155. 205 c. The Heirs of the Lord Stourton restored in blood with a notable Conference about the Bill betwixt the two Houses wherein the liberties of the House of Commons are asserted p. 263 Disloyal Subjects a Bill to reduce them to their due obedience 35 Eliz. p. 498. Several Speeches upon it p. 500. 517 Subpoena not to be served on a Member p. 347 348. 553. 637. What punishment was inflicted on one for serving such Subpoena p. 373. Two Members sent to the Lord Keeper to have the Subpoena revoked p. 553 554 Subsidy the Queen remitteth the third payment of one p. 131. Bill of Subsidy when it hath passed both Houses is to remain in the House of Commons till the end of the Session and then to be presented by the Speaker to the Sovereign p. 309. Subsidies use to be first offered by the Commons p. 483. Thought to be against the priviledge of the House for the Lords to join with them therein or to prescribe to them how much to give ibid. 485 486. 488. The danger of encreasing the number of Subsidies p. 494. Three Subsidies not given at one time till 35 Eliz. and then with caution that it should not be made a Precedent p. 569. Yet there were the same number given 39 40 Eliz. and four in 43 Eliz. ib.
intermedling with the Succession of the Crown which she had expresly forbidden Which Passage as also divers other particular Speeches being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are supplied out of another Journal of the same House very exactly and elaborately taken by an Anonymus being a Member of the same at this Parliament but yet with this Caution to avoid confusion that whatsoever is inserted out of the saidAnonymous Journal hath a particular Animadversion annexed unto it for discovery thereof The eighth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith begun at Westminster upon Monday being the 19 th day of February in the thirty fifth year of her Majesties Reign And thereupon many of the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons returned into the same Parliament then made their Appearances at Westminster before the Right Honourable the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of her Majesties most Honourable Houshold and did take the Oath before the said Lord Steward or his Deputies according to the Statute in that behalf lately made and provided The manner of the administring of the said Oath to the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses was as followeth The said Lord Steward removed into the Court of Requests and having called over the said Knights and others that were returned by their names M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of her Majesties Privy-Council took the said Oath before his Honour and then having appointed them his Deputies to swear the residue of the House of Commons who had then appeared according to their several returns he departed And thereupon his Lordships said Deputies proceeded to the further administrating of the aforesaid Oath to other Members of the said House who after they had taken the same entred into it and placed themselves The Fee for entring the name into the Serjeants Book is two shillings The reward to the Door-Keeper three shillings eight pence The Fee for returning the Indenture two shillings About two of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Monday her Highness with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and such others as had place there being let into the Upper House and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as many as conveniently could being at length let in The Right Honourable Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England declared the said Parliament to be called by her Highness only for Consultation and Preparation of Aid to be had and made against the mighty and great Forces of the King of Spain bent and intended against this Realm as well by some practices attempted by him in the Realm of France and with some of the Nobility of Scotland as by many other ways and means to that end and purpose And did in the end advise the said Commons to employ the time of this present Session of Parliament in the aforesaid Consultation and not to go about the making of any new Laws for the Common-Wealth at this time as well for that there are very many good Laws already in force more he said than are well executed as for that also such new Laws if they be needful may be treated of and dealt in at some other time hereafter And so willed them to repair to their accustomed place and make Choice of their Speaker Which done the said Parliament was Adjourned until Thursday next following After which the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being Assembled in the same House the Right Honourable Sir Francis Knowles Knight one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold stood up and putting the House in remembrance of the said Charge of the said Lord Keeper given unto them for chusing of their Speaker and very gravely and amply setting out sundry the good parts and commendable qualities and abilities of the Right Worshipful M r Edward Cooke Esquire Learned in the Laws of this Realm Sollicitor General to her Majesty and being a Member of this House returned into the same one of the Knights for the County of Norfolk doth in the end for his part and opinion nominate the said M r Edward Cooke to be chosen for their Speaker in this present Parliament if the residue of this House shall so think good Unto which Motion as many of the said House assented with their Voices so the said M r Edward Cooke thereupon stood up and very gravely and discreetly behaving himself as well in all due thankfulness unto this House for their said good opinion conceived of him as also in disabling himself in divers respects for the discharge due and requisite for that place humbly prayeth them to proceed to a new Election Which done the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Heneage Knight Vice-Chamberlain to her Majesty and one other of her Highness's most Honourable Privy-Council stood up and not only approving but also very much amplifying the said former sundry commendable gifts and abilities of the said M r Edward Cooke exceeding many others and comparable in his opinion and judgment with any others for that place and charge gathering also the same partly from his own late former Speech of excuses doth in the end resolutely deliver his opinion to make choice of the said M r Cooke to be their Speaker And also thereupon moving the question to the House the said M r Cooke was with one full consent and voice of the whole House nominated and chosen to be their Speaker for this present Parliament And so was thereupon presently brought by the said M r Treasurer and M r Vice-Chamberlain and set in the Chair And immediately after the House did rise and were appointed to repair thither again upon Thursday next following On Thursday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament that begun on Monday foregoing being the 19 th day of the same Month had been continued by Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by her Majesties Commandment the Queens Majesty and divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set in the Upper House the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon they repaired thither with Edward Cooke Esquire her Majesties Sollicitor their lately Elected Speaker who being led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said House by two of the most-eminent Personages of the aforesaid House of Commons after humble reverence made declared unto her Majesty his Election to the said place of Prolocutor and then alledging according to the usual course his own insufficiency did desire her Majesty to enable him to that Charge and to consider that howsoever he were the meanest that ever went before him in that place in respect of Experience yet in respect of his faithfulness he thought himself inferlour to none After which Speech her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord