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A35827	The journals of all the Parliaments during the reign of Queen Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and House of Commons / collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes ... Knight and Baronet ; revised and published by Paul Bowes ..., Esq.	D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.; Bowes, Paul, d. 1702.	1682 (1682)	Wing D1250; ESTC R303	1,345,519	734

Mountague and Viscount Hereford present Then the Earls but nineteen present the Earl of Hertford the Earl of Pembroke Bedford Southampton Warwick Bath Huntington Sussex Cumberland Rutland Worcester Darby Shrewsbury Westmoreland Northumberland Oxford and Arundel their Robes of Scarlet with their Rows of Miniver Then the Marquess of Winchester but now as Lord Treasurer and the Marquess of Northampton the Duke of Norfolk went as Earl Marshal Then the Lord Keepers Serjeant and Seal and after Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in his Gown Here Clarenceux and Norroy Then the Queens Serjeant at Arms and after Garter Then the Duke of Norfolk with the gilt Rod as Marshal the Lord Treasurer with the Cap of Estate and the Earl of Worcester with the Sword Then the Queens Majesty on Horseback a little behind the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain her Grace Apparelled in her Mantle opened before furr'd with Ermines and her Kirtle of Crimson Velvet close before and close Sleeves but the Hands turned up with Ermines and a Hood hanging low round about her Neck of Ermins Over all a rich Coller set with Stones and other Jewels and on her Head a rich Caul And the next after Her the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse leading the spare Horse And after all other Ladies two and two in their Ordinary Apparel By side the Queen went her Footmen and along on either side of her went the Pensioners with their Axes after the Ladies followed the Captain of the Guard Sir William St. Loe and after him the Guard In which Order Her Majesty proceeded to the North Door of the Church of Westminster where the Dean there and the Dean of the Chappel met her and the whole Chappel in Copes and S t Edwards Staff with the Inlet in the top was delivered unto her her Arm for the bearing thereof assisted by the Baron of Hunsdon the Canopy born over her by Charles Howard Esq Sir George Howard Sir Richard Blunt Sir Ed. Warner Sir John Perrott and Sir William Fitz-Williams Knights her Graces Train born up and assisted for the weight thereof from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain and so orderly proceeded to the Travers beside the Table of Administration Although other Princes have used to be placed in the Quire till the Offering but not now because there was neither Communion nor Offering and so she being placed all the Lords sate down on Forms besides the Travers the Spiritualty on the North side and the Temporalty on the South side the Sword and the Cap of Estate laid down on the Table Then the Quire sung the English Procession which ended M r Noell Dean of Pauls began his Sermon and first made his Prayer orderly for the Queens Majesty and the Universal Church and especially for that Honourable Assembly of three Estates there present that they might make such Laws as should be to Gods Glory and the good of the Realm The Sermon being ended and a Psalm sung her Majesty and the rest orderly on foot proceeded out of the South Door where she delivered the Dean the Scepter and so proceeded into the Parliament Chamber where the Queen stayed a while in her Privy Chamber till all the Lords and others were placed and then her Highness came forth and went and fate her down in her Royal Place and Chair of Estate the Sword and Cap of Maintenance born before her and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain The Lord Keeper sate alone upon the uppermost Sack until the Queen was sate and then went and stood without the Rail on the right hand the Cloth of Estate and the Lord Treasurer holding the Cap of Estate on the right hand before the Queen Garter standing by him and on the left hand standing the Earl of Worcester with the Sword and by him the Lord Chamberlain The Duke of Norfolk began the first Form and the Viscount Mountague for that the Viscount Bindon was not there ended it The Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral began the Form behind that of Barons and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it The Archbishop of Canterbury began the Bishops Form and the Bishop of Glocester ended the same On the Woolsack on the right hand and Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer Chief Justices Sir William Peter Anthony Browne Corbett Weston and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the left hand and Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Saunders Chief Baron Justice Widdon Serjeant Carus and M r Russell the Queens Sollicitor and at their Backs sate Sir Richard Read Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan On the other Sack sate Doctor Huicke Spilman Clerk of the Parliament and M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and behind them kneeled M r 〈◊〉 Allen Dyeter Nicasius Cliffe and Permitter At the side hand of the Queen sate on the ground three or four Ladies and no more and at the back of the Rail behind the Cloth of Estate kneeled the Earls of Oxford and Rutland under Age the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roos the Lord Herbert of Cardiffe and divers other Noblemens Sons and Heirs Nota That these foregoing passages touching the solemn manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House are not at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the same but are transcribed out of a written Copy or memorial of them I had by me as doth also the Lord Keepers Speech follow out of the same in the next place The Queens Majesty being set as aforesaid under the Cloth of Estate the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same repaired to the Upper House and being as many as conveniently could let in she Commanded Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper to open the cause of Calling and Assembling this Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth My Lords and others of this Honourable Assembly YOU shall understand that my most Dread and Sovereign Lady the Queens Majesty here present hath Commanded me to declare the occasion of this Assembly which I am not able but unmeet to do as it ought to be done among such a noble wise and discreet Company Howbeit knowing the Experience of her Majesty bearing with such as do their good wills and your Honours Patience in bearing with me in the like afore this time it encourageth me the better herein not doubting of the like at this present Therefore my Lords the occasion is that necessary matters be provided for propounded and scanned and after agreed upon and ended which afterwards shall remain and continue which matters in my Judgment may well be divided into two parts one touching Religion for the setting forth of Gods Honour and Glory and the other concerning Policy for the Common-Wealth as

dealings of Treasurers and Receivers the Reformation of the Exchequer for Homage c. and for the granting of Licences by the Queen contrary to the form of sundry Statutes Hereupon Sir Humphrey Gilbert standing up and some Introduction made to crave patience and toleration of the House he endeavoured to prove the Motion of M r Bell made some days before to be a vain device to be thought of and perillous to be treated of since it tended to the derogation of the Prerogative Imperial which who should attempt in his fancy could not otherwise be accounted than an open Enemy For what difference is to say the Queen is not to use the priviledge of the Crown and to say she is not Queen since they are so linked together that the one without the other may not possibly be or subsist We are said he to give to a common Constable the right and regard of his Office which if we should deny her what is it other than to make her meaner than the meanest And albeit Experience hath shewed such and so great Clemency in her Majesty as might make us perhaps forfeit our selves yet it is not good to sport or venture too much with Princes yea let be that our meaning be good yet if it be not so thought of how then He remembred the Fable of the Hare which fled upon the Proclamation that all Horned Beasts should depart the Court lest his Ears should be said Horns this did he further inculcate with this further signification that if we should in any sort meddle with those matters her Majesty might look to her own Power and thereby finding her validity to suppress the strength of the challenged Liberty and to challenge and use her Power any way to do as did Lewes of France who as he termed it delivered the Crown there out of Wardship which the said French King did upon like occasion He also said that other Kings had absolute Power as Denmark and Portugal where as the Crown became more free so are all the Subjects thereby the rather made Slaves This Speech was disliked as implying many occasions of mischief but for the present he was not answered further than that it seemed he did mistake the meaning of the House and of the Gentleman that made the Motion who would it otherwise to be taken nor otherwise for the House to deal in the matter than to shew their common griefs in due and seemly sort unto her Majesty The Parliament was then by the consent of the House for that it was Easter Eve Adjourned until Thursday next and it was agreed that they should from thenceforth come to the House at seven of the Clock in the Morning during which said time of Easter M r Strickland so often before-mentioned for the Exhibiting the Bill for Reformation of Ceremonies and his Speech thereupon was called before the Lords of the Privy-Council and required to attend upon them and to make stay from coming to the House in the mean season Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal of the House of Commons The entrance into the next days Passages ensueth out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the said House in manner and form following On Thursday the 19 th day of April to which day the House of Commons had been on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant April foregoing Adjourned The Bill for the restraining of Kentish and Sussex Cloths to be sold at the Fairs at Maidston was read the first time The Bill for the validity of Burgesses not resiant was read the second time upon which ensued divers Arguments which being altogether omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are therefore supplied out of that often before-cited Anonymous Journal The first man that spoke effectually to this Bill was M r Warnecombe of Hereford who standing up said to this effect That it behoveth all those which were Burgesses to see to that Bill for quoth he this may touch and over-reach their whole Liberties as not having whereunto to stay but that Lords Letters shall from henceforth bear all the sway and to this effect was all that he said M r Norton first made Explanation of the meaning of the Bill to be he said to shame the imperfection of Choice which is too often seen by sending of unfit men and lest happily any thing might be objected to the imperfection of the Parliament which may seem to be scant sufficient by reason of the choice made by Boroughs for the most part of Strangers whereas by the positive Law no man ought to be Chosen Burgess for any Borough but only Resiants and Inhabitants He said further that the choice should be of such as were able and fit for so great a place and imployment without respect of priviledge of place or degree for that by reason of his being a Burgess it might not be intended or thought he was any thing the wiser withal he argued that the whole Body of the Realm and the good Service of the same was rather to be respected than the private regard of Place Priviledge or Degree of any Person Then M r Speaker moved the Opinion of the House whether they could like the Bill should be ingrossed and coming to the Question some said No but the greatest number seemed to say Yea. Whereupon one standing up whose name is not expressed in the said Anonymous Journal said thus I run wholly with the pretence of the Bill that Boroughs decayed may be eased or relieved knowing assuredly the same Honourable for the Realm and in many respects profitable and commodious to those who do inhabit the Countries adjacent to such decayed Towns That it is so I will not stand to perswade How far this Law may help them I know not if they be decayed then it is most fit for them that of their own Company there may be some who feeling the smart can best make relation of their estate and knowing the Country may devise and advise of such helps as without the hurts of other places may restore the old ruines All things are in change and nothing so suppressed but by God's Grace the same may in time by Policy be raised up But to open my meaning shortly the question is What sort of men are to come to this Court and publick Consultation in Parliament Whether from every Quarter Country and Town there should come as I might say home-dwellers or otherwise men chosen by directions it forceth not whom I am surely of mind that neither for the good service of her Majesty safety of our Country or standing with the liberty which of right we may challenge being born Subjects within the Realm this scope is to be given or such loosness in choice to be permitted That the whole Land of this Realm we know is to be for three purposes imployed and thereby three sorts of men are as it were created The one part given in Frank Almoigne or for Divine Service