Government so also to demonstrate the great Malice and Cruelty of the King of Spain backed and assisted by so many Potent Allies and that therefore it would be most necessary that some timely consultation be had for speedy preparation to be made whereby to resist all his future attempts And that lastly he did thereupon move the House to think of some supply to be given to her Majesty both in respect of her late great Charges and also for the better enabling her to provide for the future safety of her Highness Dominions And that the latter part of the foresaid Speech of Sir Walter Mildmay Chancellor of the Exchequer was touching some Aid to be given to her Majesty it is most probable in respect that the next business which is set down to have followed at the end of his said Speech is the appointing of these Committees following to consider of a Bill of Subsidy to be framed for her Majesties Aid viz. All the Privy Council being of the House the first Knight returned for every Shire and in the absence of the first the second M r Cromwell Sir Edward Dyer M r Morrice M r Beal M r Ancon Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Skinner Mr. Doctor Lewin Mr. William James Mr. Fairfax Mr. Thomas Liefield Mr. Arthur Throckmorton Mr. Fleming Mr. Thomas Hamman Mr. Robinson Mr. Michaell Sands Mr. Rugg Mr. Tasborough Mr. George Moor Mr. Richard Brown Mr. York Mr. Walter Jones Mr. Cope Mr. Alford Mr. Grimston Mr. Finns Mr. Bacon Sir Henry Gray Mr. Owtred Mr. Aldersey Mr. Hutton Mr. Humphrey Conisbie Mr. Robert Sackvile Mr. John Stubbs Mr. William Brunker Mr. Tanfield Mr. Fanshaw Mr. Vivian Mr. Davers Mr. Sands and Mr. Weeks who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at three of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber Vide Febr. 17. The Committees touching Informers whose names see on Saturday the 8 th day of this instant February foregoing are deferred to Friday next in the Afternoon which had been appointed on the foresaid Saturday to have met this Afternoon M r Speaker moved the House in the behalf of M r Fulk Onslow the Clerk of the same that having of late been long sick and yet somewhat recovered albeit but weak still and sickly and enjoying his Office by Letters Patents of the Grant of her Majesty to exercise the same by himself and his sufficient Deputy or Deputies it might please this House in his absence if he shall happen in regard of his health and necessary ease sometimes to withdraw himself from the exercise of his Office in this House in his own person to accept therein the attendance and service of such of his own Clerks or Servants as before his intermedling therein within this House shall first have taken the Oath usually ministred unto all the Members of this House And thereupon it was so granted and assented unto by this whole House accordingly On Wednesday the 12 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill touching Orford-Haven in the County of Suffolk Upon a Motion made unto this House by M r Puleston Esquire returned into this House Knight for the County of Flynt that William Aylmer Esquire did since the beginning of this Session of Parliament cause a Subpoena to be served upon him out of the Court of Star-Chamber to the prejudice of the Liberties and Priviledge of this House to Answer unto a Bill there containing almost forty sheets of paper and so praying the Order of this House offereth forth a Precedent of this House under the hand of the Clerk of this House heretofore in a like Case between one M r Alban Stepneth a Member of this House and M r Anthony Kirle Gent. which said Case was discussed in the Parliament de Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. on Wednesday the 10 th day and on Thursday the 11 th day of February which Precedent being read by the Clerk it was after some Speeches resolved that the said M r Aylmer should be called into this House by the Serjeant to Answer the said matter Whereupon the said Mr. Aylmer being brought to the Bar M r Speaker in the name of this House charged him with the said contempt and required his Answer thereunto who in all reverent and humble sort shewed that the said Bill whereupon the said Subpoena was awarded did concern a wrong not only unto her Majesty but also unto this honourable House in an indirect course of proceeding in the Election of the Knights for the County of Denbigh into this present Parliament procured by the said M r Puleston and so intimating that the said Bill and serving of the said Subpoena did tend to the maintenance he well hoped of the Liberties and Priviledges of this House he was sequestred the House and the said Mr. Puleston likewise and then after some further Speeches had it was partly withal for the good opinion that many Members of this House did conceive of the said Mr. Aylmer being oftntimes heretofore a Member of this House and an honest and grave Gentleman resolved that the said Cause with the circumstances thereof comprehended in the said Bill should be considered of by some Committees of this House and so afterwards report to be made of the same accordingly And that the said Mr. Aylmer should then give his attendance upon the said Committees and presently withal be left to his own liberty free from any Custody or restraint of the Serjeant of this House and shall also be charged by M r Speaker in the name of this whole House to surcease his said Suit and proceeding against the said Mr. Puleston in the mean time And thereupon Mr. Vice-chamberlain Mr. Recorder of London Sir William Moor Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Cromwell Sir Edward Dymock Mr. Wroth Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Grymston Mr. Conisby Mr. Morgan Mr. Morrice Mr. Cook and Mr. Harris were nominated for that purpose and appointed to meet upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And then the said Mr. Aylmer being brought in again to the Bar Mr. Speaker signifyed unto him the said Order of this House in that behalf discharging him from the Custody of the said Serjeant and requiring him to give his attendance upon the said Committees at the said time and place accordingly and also to forbear any further to proceed in the mean time against the said Mr. Puleston Whereunto he willingly assented Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to avoid the abuses grown in forestalling regrating and ingrossing was read the second time and after many Speeches and Arguments had upon the same was committed unto Sir Valentine Dale Master of the Requests Mr. Recorder of London Sir Edward Dymock and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Star-Chamber The Committees in the Bill touching Clergy in some
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
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
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
the other a silent thought may serve For I thought it had been so desired as none other Tree's blossom should have been minded or ever any hope of any Fruit had been denied you And yet by the way if any here doubt that I am by Vow or determination bent never to trade in that kind of Life put out that kind of Heresy for your belief is there in a wry For though I can think it best for a private Woman yet I do strive with my self to think it not meet for a Prince and if I can bend my liking to your need I will not resist such a mind But to the last think not that you had needed this desire if I had seen a time so fit and it so ripe to be denounced The greatness of the cause therefore and need of your returns doth make me say that which I think the wise may easily guess that as a short time for so long continuance ought not to pass by roat as many tell their Tales even so as cause by Conference with the Learned shall show me matter worth the utterance for your behoof so shall I more gladly persue your good after my dayes than with all my Prayers whilst I live be means to linger my living thread And thus much more than I thought will I add for your Comfort I have good Record in this place that other means than you mention have been thought of perchance for your good as much as for my surety no less which if presently and conveniently could have been Executed it had not been now deferred or over-slipped But I hope I shall die in quiet with Nunc dimittis which cannot be without I see some glimpse of your following surety after my graved bones Nota That neither the foregoing Petition nor this latter Answer of her Majesty are found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House but now the residue of the passages of the said Journal do for the most part follow out of the same On Wednesday the 6 th day of November the Bill for declaring of the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect was read tertiâ vice quae cum quadam provisione annex in loco alterius provisionis adempt absciss disannex communi Procerum assensu conclusa est dissentientibus Comite Northumberland Comite Westmoreland Comite Worcester Comite Sussex Vice-Comite Mountague Domino Morley Domino Dudley Domino Dacre Domino Mounteagle Domino Cromwell Domino Mordant postea cum Billâ for the annexing of Hexhamshire unto the County of Northumberland and the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the same unto the See or Bishoprick of Duresm deliberata fuit Magistro Vaugham Doctori Yale in Domum Communem deferend Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox On Thursday the 7 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of Leases to be made by Morris Ridney and Joan his Wife was read primâ vice Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbathi prox ix Novembris On Saturday the 9 th day of November the Bill for the graving of Alneagers Seals to be within the Tower of London was read secundâ vice commissa est Domino Marchioni Winton Thesaurar Angliae Domino Capitali Baroni ad supervidend considerand amendand Nota That here the Lord Chief Baron being but an Assistant of the Upper House and no Member thereof is made a joint-Committee with the Lord Marquess of Winchester of which see more on Thursday the third day of October fore-going The Bill also to restrain the Carriage of Woolls of the growth of Pembroke Carmarthen and Cardiganshires out of the Counties where they grew was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand And the Bill lastly for the repealing of a branch of a Statute made An. 32 H. 8. for the Stature of Horses was read secundâ vice commissa Episcopo Elien Domino Clinton Admiral Domino Willoughby DominoSheffeild Domino North Domino S t John de Bletsoe Servienti Carus Nota That a Serjeant being but an Attendant upon the Upper House and no Member thereof is made a joint-Committee with the Lords Vide touching this matter on Thursday the 3 d day of October foregoing Then the Clerk read openly the Commission following ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and well Beloved Councellor Sir Nicholas Bacon K t Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England and to our Right Trusty and right well Beloved Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Pleas before us to be holden Greeting Whereas We upon consideration that you the said Lord Keeper of our Great Seal were lately sore visited with Sickness that you were 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 Lord Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to your Office appertaineth did therefore by our Letters Patents of Commission bearing date the 25 th day of October in this present eighth Year of our Reign nominate appoint and authorize you the said Sir Robert Catlin from day to day and time to time from thenceforth 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 our Great Seal should or might do if he were there present using and supplying the same place as in our said Letters Patents it doth and may at large appear And forasmuch as we understand that you the said Lord Keeper of our Great Seal are at this present in such state of health as ye are well able to travel to the said Upper House of our Parliament and there to supply the said room and place your self as heretofore ye have done We do therefore by these presents fully and absolutely determine our pleasure touching any further Execution by you the said Sir Robert Catlin of the said Commission before-mentioned And therefore we do signifie to you the said Sir Robert Catlin that our pleasure is that ye do from the date of these presents surcease from the Execution of the said Commission and every part thereof And we do also by these presents Command and authorize you the said Lord Keeper of our Great Seal from henceforth and from time to time hereafter to resort to your accustomed room and place in our said Higher House of Parliament and there to do and Execute from time to time all things that appertaineth to your office
although it be not very usual yet there want not divers Presidents Vide April the 20 th Friday postea Nota also That here the Judges being but Assistants unto the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords which is usually found in all these Parliaments of her Majesties Reign until the thirty ninth of the same Dominus Custos magni Sigilli adjournavit praesens Parliamentum until to Morrow at eight of the Clock On Friday the 6 th day of April Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third touching Receivers c. deceiving the Queen of her Treasure was read secundâ vice commissa to the Earl of Hunt the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hastings of Loughborough the Lord North the Lord Hunsdon and to the Queens Attorney and M r Sollicitor Nota That here the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor who are but meer Attendants upon the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords Dominus Custos magni Sigilli adjournavit praesens Parliamentum in diem Crastinum hora nona On Saturday the 7 th day of April the Lords Assembled according to the last Adjournment and the Lord Keeper being absent Dominus Clinton vicem gerens Senescalli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proximum hora nona April the 8 th Sunday On Monday the 9 th day of April Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against such as shall bring in any Bulls c. was read prima vice and committed unto the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Pembroke and others and to the Chief Justices of the Common-Pleas Justice Southcot and Justice Carus Nota That the Judges who were but meer Assistants unto the Upper House are here made joint Committees with the Lords Vide consimise Apr. 5. Thursday And the second touching Receivers Collectors c. was read the second time eisdem Dominis quibus primò commissa fuit denuò committitur Nota That this Bill was read before the second time on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April foregoing and committed and therefore it should seem that this Bill was not now read again the second time but only some additions or amendments thereunto annexed by the Committees and thereupon the Bill was again referred unto them to be further considered of For that Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England was sick her Majesties Letters Patents were read Authorizing Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of England to supply the place of the said Lord Keeper at all times when the Lord Keeper during this present Parliament shall be absent The tenor of which here followeth verbatim ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and Right Well-beloved Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of our Common-Pleas before us to be holden Greeting Where our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Councellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England is at this time so 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 Lord 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 therefore minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth for and during every time of his absence have named and appointed you and by these Presents do Constitute name appoint and authorize you from day to day and time to time when and so often as the said Lord Keeper shall happen at any time or times during this present Parliament to be absent from his accustomed place in the Upper House to occupy use and supply the room and place of the said Lord Keeper in the said Upper House amongst the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled at every such day and time of his absence and then and there at every such time to do and execute all such things as the said Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England should or might do if he were there personally present using and supplying the same room Wherefore we will and Command you the said Sir Robert Catlin to attend to the doing and Execution of the Premises 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 selves at Westminster the 9 th day of April in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign Powle Nota That this Commission is in one respect very exotick and unusual because it doth not only give Authority to the Lord Chief Justice to supply the Lord Keepers place until his recovery and return to Parliament as is ordinary in other Commissions but it doth further authorize him to supply the said Lord Keepers place at any time during this Parliament when he shall be absent as well as at this present whence in this ensuing Journal it is frequent that sometimes the Lord Keeper and sometimes the Lord Chief Justice though seldomer without any new Commission do in their several turns continue the Parliament Robertus Catlin Miles Dominus Capital Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Tuesday the 10 th day of April Billa de novo reformata per Dominos quibus pridie committebatur touching the bringing in of any Bulls or other Writings from the Bishop of Rome was read the first time The new Bill touching Receivers Treasurers Collectors c. defrauding the Queens Majesty of her Treasure was read the first time The Bill touching the Confirmation of the Attainder of Charles Earl of Westmerland Thomas Earl of Northumberland and others was read the first time The Lords requested to have Conference with certain of the House of Commons touching a Bill brought to them concerning matters of Religion whereupon Committees were appointed viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Northampton and others The Lord Keeper continued the Parliament usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 11 th day of April it was Ordered by the House that the Lords Committees for the Bill of Bankrupts may call unto them such of the House of Commons and others as they shall think good which may best inform touching any doubt or other matter that may rise upon the said Bill Two Bills also had each of them their second reading of which the second being the new Bill against the bringing in of Bulls was read the second time commissa Justiciario
Dominus Darcie Dominus Mounteagle Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Darcy de Chiche Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Buckhurst Dominus de la Ware Dominus Cheyne Dominus Norris Her Majesty with the Lords being set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired to the Upper House with John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker and being as many as could conveniently let in the said Speaker was led up between two of the most eminent Personages of the House of Commons to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House and being there placed after humble reverence made he declared that the said House of Commons amongst many other more able Members of the said House had Elected and Chosen him for their Speaker and that knowing his manifold weaknesses and inability to undergo so great a Charge he did there implore her Gracious Majesty to free him from the same and to Command them to Elect and chuse amongst themselves some other more Experienced and better fitted for that imployment To which the Lord Chancellor having received Instructions from her Majesty Answered that the said Speaker had shewed a great deal of humility and modesty in disabling himself but that her Highness well knowing his great sufficiency did very well allow and approve of the choice which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons had made of him to be their Speaker Whereupon the said Speaker after humble reverence made and many expressions of his great thankfulness to her Majesty for her gracious Approbation of him made certain Petitions of Course in the name of the House of Commons viz. for freedom of speech and freedom of access to her Majesty and that themselves and their necessary attendants might be exempted from Suits and Arrests in such manner and form as hath been accustomed and lastly that if himself should in any thing mistake or misreport the sayings or doings of the said House it might be imputed unto himself and that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to pardon it To which Speech the Lord Chancellor having further instructions from her Majesty replied that all such liberties and immunities as had been formerly enjoyed in the like case in the times of any of her Majesties most Royal Progenitors should still be continued unto them The Writ was returned this day whereby Henry Lord Wentworth was Summoned to the Parliament who thereupon admissus fuit ad sunm praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo cuiquam jure suo Then followed the continuance of the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. in these words following Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox horâ consuetâ On Friday the 27 th day of November although the Upper House sate not because the Parliament had been continued yesterday unto Saturday Morning at nine of the Clock yet were divers Proxies returned or introducted whereof the only unusual or extraordinary one was this ensuing viz. 27 die Novembris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingtoniae in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford Robertum Comitem Leicester Nota That whereas the Temporal Lords do very seldom constitute more than one Proctor the Earl of Huntington here nominateth two which appeared also by the other Proxies returned this Parliament for of three other Earls and eleven Barons who were absent this Parliament by her Majesties Licence not any of them constituted more than one Proctor apiece whereas on the other side the spiritual Lords do for the most part nominate two Proctors at the least for of nine Bishops who were likewise absent during this Parliament two of them only nominated each his Proctor Ut vide on Sunday the 22 th day of this instant November foregoing and the other seven made every of them two Proctors Nota also that Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester had this Parliament ten several Proxies sent unto him all Entred in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book in such order as they now follow viz. from Edward Lord Dudley Henry Lord Scroop Lodowick Lord Mordant Edward Lord Stafford Henry Lord of Abergavenny Edward Earl of Lincoln Ambrose Earl of Warwick Henry Earl of Huntington who constituted Francis Earl of Bedford joint Proctor with him Lord Audeley and John Lord Lumley By which and many other Precedents in all other Parliaments it plainly appeareth that any Lord of the Upper House was capable of as many Proxies as should be sent unto him until in Anno 2 do Caroli Regis Anno Domini 1626. It was Ordered by the Lords then sitting in Parliament that no Member of the said House should be capable of above two Proxies at the most On Saturday the 28 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent Conveyances was read the first time Hodie returnatum est breve quo Henricus Comes Suffex praesenti huic Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum admissus fuit salvo jure alieno Nota That the daily continuing of the Parliament in those words Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. is hereafter omitted as matter of course unless where somewhat in it doth happen extraordinary or unusual in respect of the time place or manner On Monday the 30 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for appointing fit and convenient places for Landing and Shipping of Merchandize On Tuesday the first day of December whereas James Diggs one of the ordinary Gentlemen of my Lord's Grace of Canterbury was committed to the Fleet upon a Reddit se in the Exchequer since the beginning of this present Parliament the Lords at the Motion of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury claiming the ancient priviledge of this High Court gave Commandment to the Gentleman Usher that the said James should be brought before them And this day the said Lords having openly heard both Sir Roger Manwood then Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and the same James Diggs They Ordered that the said Diggs by vertue of the priviledge of this Court should be enlarged and set at liberty And it was further Ordered that the Warden of the Fleet should be discharged of the Prisoner and of the Action that might be brought against him the said Warden of the same Lastly Touching the Lord Chief Baron the said Lords have resolved for such causes and reasons as they have heard that the said Lord
Clock in the Afternoon of this present day and the Bill with a note of the said names was delivered then to Sir Edward Dymock one of the said Committees The Committees names in the Bill for repeal of certain Statutes appointed on Friday the 21 th day of this instant February foregoing were read by the Clerk and the Committees appointed to meet at the Rolls at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day and the Bill with a note of the said Committees names was then delivered to Mr. Cromwell one of the said Committees The Bill touching Mortmain with a note of the names of the Committees in the same was delivered to Humfrey Waring Servant to Mr. Aldersey one of the Committees in the same Bill to be by him delivered to the said Mr. Aldersey but it appeareth not certainly in what place or upon what occasion the said Bill was delivered to the Servant of the above-named Mr. Aldersey for although it be Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons amongst such other matters as were debated in the House yet it is most probable it was delivered unto him out of the House either after or upon the very rising thereof On Wednesday the 26 th day of February the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers was read the first time and argued unto by Mr. Outred Sir Edward Dymock Mr. Cromwell Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Treasurer Mr. North and Mr. Markham and afterwards Mr. Cromwell Mr. Outred Mr. Serjeant Walmesiey Mr. North Mr. Wroth Sir William Moor Sir Edward Dymock Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Markham and Sir Ralph Bourchier were appointed to Article to the said Bill and to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Cromwell Upon a Speech used by Mr. Alsord purporting that some that had spoken to the said Bill had uttered some words of rejecting the same Bill and casting it out of the House where in very deed there was no such Speech used at all by any that had spoken to the said Bill nor yet any word tending to such effect It was upon the Question resolved by the Judgment of the whole House that there had been no such Speech used at all by any of them that did speak Mr. Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Forestallers Regraters and Ingrossers shewed the meeting and travail of the Committees in the said Bill and that they had made a new Bill and shewing the reasons moving them so to do sufficiently and at large offereth in the end the new Bill and prayeth the good and speedy expediting of the same On Thursday the 27 th day of February the Bill for sour Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire subsidies had its second reading M r Serjeant Puckering and M r Sollicitor do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships have this morning received a Message from her Majesty delivered unto them by two of the Lords of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council which Message their said Lordships of the Upper House do mind to impart unto this House and pray that some convenient number of this House may to that end be appointed to meet with fourteen of their Lordships in the Room next to the Higher House of Parliament either this present Forenoon or else to Morrow in the Forenoon at the choice of this House and so requiring the answer of this House presently they departed and stayed without in the mean time Where the said Message being opened by M r Speaker It was resolved upon the Question that twenty eight or thirty of this House should attend upon their Lordships this present Forenoon accordingly And then the said M r Serjeant Puckering and M r Sollicitor being called in again and receiving the answer of this House by the Mouth of M r Speaker all the Privy Council being of this House and now present viz. four Sir Henry Cobham Sir Henry Gray Sir William Moore Sir Edward Dyer Sir George Bary Sir Edward Hobby Sir Edward Dymock Sir Henry Knyvet Sir Thomas Palmer Sir George Moore M r Serjeant Walmesley M r Francis Hastings M r Alford M r Wroth Sir Richard Knightly Sir Robert Jermin M r Heydon M r Recorder of London M r Beamond M r Cook M r Beale M r Cradock M r Markham M r Lieutenant of the Tower M r Tho. Knivet M r Cromwell M r Richard Brown M r Conisby Sir Philip Butler and Mr. Outred were nominated and sent up to the Higher House to attend the said fourteen Committees of the Lords touching their imparting unto this House the said Message delivered unto them from her Majesty and the paper Bill touching Purveyors was deliver'd to Mr. Cromwell one of the said Committees and the Note of the Committees names to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain M r Recorder one of the Committees in the Bill for Reformation of disorders of common Inns and other Victualling Houses shewed the meeting and travail of the Committees and some Causes which moved them to deal only with that part thereof which concerneth Casks and the Gaging of Vessels for Beer and Ale and so offereth a new Bill for that purpose with request for good expediting thereof Mr. Apsley moved this House touching the great inconveniences grown by the great number of Pluralities and Non-Residents and offereth a Bill for Reformation thereof praying the same might be presently read which was so done by the order of the House accordingly The Council and the Residue returned from the Lords and Mr. Treasurer reported that my Lord Treasurer shewed them that the Message from her Majesty delivered this day unto the Lords of the Upper House was concerning two Bills lately passed this House and sent to the Upper House the one concerning Purveyors and the other touching Process and Pleadings in the Court of Exchequer a thing misliked of her Majesty in both those Cases the one tending to the Officers and Ministers of her own Household and the other to the Officers and Ministers of her own Court of her own Revenues in both of which if any should demean themselves any way unlawfully or untruly her Majesty was of her self he said both able and willing to see due Reformation and so would do to publick example of others upon any of the said Officers or Ministers which at any time should be found to offend in any particularity either in her said Household or in her said Court. Whereupon after sundry Motions Speeches and advices what might best be done for satisfying her Majesty of the doings of this House concerning their dealings in both the said Bills either by way of excuse or confession or otherwise howsoever It was in the end resolved to make choice of some Committee of this House both to consider further of the course and also to search such Precedents as might best serve for that purpose And then were named the said former Committees and Mr. John Hare Mr. Morrice Mr. Clark Mr.