Abridgement be very exactly done by so learned and eminent an Antiquary whose Name it bears yet through the carelesness of the Clerks who transcribed it I find here and there some mistakes in the Number roll and some omissions of material Words Clauses yea of the whole Parliament Rolls of Ed. 2.46 E. 3. with some two or three Rolls more yet extant not abridged in any Copy I have seen which the publishing or perusal of the Parliament rolls at large will easily supply I being unwilling to adde any Appendix of mine own to this deceased Authors surviving industry Besides in one particular of moment I find both a mistranslation of the French and a mistaken Inference grounded on it by the Compiler of this Abridgement of which I thought necessary to give the Reader special Notice to rectifie his mistake which hath seduced many especially being since seconded therein by Sir Edw. Cook In the Abridgement of the Parliament Roll of 6 E. 3. n. 5 6. whereas it is translated The Bishops and Proctors of the Clergy went by themselves to consult therein And THE LORDS AND COMMONS BY THEMSELVES The LORDS AND COMMONS RETURN c. The word there translated Commons is in the Roll and French GRANTZ with a dash or GRANDEES in both placesâ— and should be thus rendred in English The Lords Barons and other GREAT MEN not Commons by themselves And the said Earls Barons et autres Grantz AND OTHER GREAT MEN not Commons by the mouth of Sir Henry Beaumont c. The Knights of Shires and Commons being twice together distinguished from the Earls Barons and Great men in this very Number-Roll which I shall transcribe to clear this mistake and the inference grounded thereonâ— Et les ditz Countz Barons et auters Grantz per eux mesmes Les quex Countz Barons et auters Grantz puis revindrent et respondient touz au Roy par la bouch de Beaumond c. Les quels choses issint ordainiez per le ditz Countz Barons et auters Grantz luez devant nostre Seiur le Roy et les Prelates Chivalers des Countees et les Gentz de Comune here put in contradistinction to the Earls Lords and Great men and not present with them at their private debates but severed from them as well as the Bishops and Clergy and present only when they made their report to the King Prelates Knights Commons and whole Parliament assembled together upon this occasion in one place fueront plaisantz a eux touz et per nostre Seiur le Roy Prelates Countz Barons et auters Grantz et auxint per les Chivalers des Countees et GENTZ DES COMUNE here again distinguished from the Lords and Great men fueront pleinment assentuz accordez c. Now mark the inference thence made by the Abridger n. 10. By the 5. and 6. Titles before may appear THAT AT THIS TIME THE LORDS AND COMMONS WERE OF ONE HOUSE and that then there was no Speaker for the Commons That the Commons had then no Speaker I conceive is an undoubted truth since we find not any Speaker they had mentioned in the Rolls before the Parliaments of 51 E. 3. n. 89. and 1 R. 2. n. 16 17. But that the Lords and Commons were then of one House and sate and consulted together is a clear mistake directly contrary to this very record whereon it is grounded which expresly resolves That the Earls Barons and Great mâ—n went by themselves to consult as well as the Bishops and Clergy and that the Knights and Commons went not with them to consult but were called together to hear their report made by Sir Henry Beaumont to which they all gave their assents Sir Edward Cook in his 4. Institutes c. 1. p. 4â— hath propagated this mistake and thus backed it with some additions of his own CERTAIN IT IS THAT AT THE FIRST BOTH HOUSES of Lords and Commons SATE TOGETHER as it appeareth by Modus tenendi Parliamentum vide Rot. Parliamenti 5 E. 3. n. 3. and in other places of the same Roll and in 6 E. 3. in divers places it appeareth THAT THE LORDS AND COMMONS SATE TOGETHER But under the favour of this Reverend Judge as this Modus tenendi Parâ—iamentum he so much magnifies and insists on is a meer Spurious Forgery and Imposture full of gross errors absurdities not antienter than King Rich the 2. reign some part of it being taken out of 11 R. 2 and no such antient Record in the Confessors Conquerors or Henry the 2. reigns nor of such venerable Authority or Antiquity as Sir Edw. by many confident averrments without any colour of truth affirms it to be in his 4 Institutes p. 12.349 and elswhere as Mr. Selden manifests in his Titles of Honour part 2. p. 613 685 691 738. to 745 and I have further evidenced in My Levellers Levelled and third Part of A Seasonable Legal and Historical Vindication c. of the good old Fundamental Liberties Rights Laws of England p. 314. and the very Treatise it self will evidence to any person who is but meanly versed in Antiquities or Parliamentary Records So the Roll of 5 E. 3. n. 3. proves no such thing That both Houses then sate together but the contrary that the Lords and Commons sate and consulted apart by themselves and that certain Lords as a special Committee only not Lords House then treated consulted with them but no otherwise And the Roll of 6 E. 3. proves expresly that the Commons sate not together as one House with the Lords but apart from them To put this out of all further controversie Parl. 2.6 E 3. n. 3. is express That the Bishops by themselves THE LORDS BY THEMSELVES AND THE COMMONS BY THEMSELVES consulted and advised the King touching the War with Scotland The like you may read in 13 E. 3. n. 4 to 10.13 E. 3. Parl. 2. n. 5 6 7 8.14 E. 3. n. 6.7.17 E. 3. n. 9 10 11.18 E. 3. n. 10 11.20 E. 3. n. 10 11.21 E. 3. n. 4 5.25 E. 3. n. 6 7.36 E. 3. n. 6 7.40 E. 3. n. 8.42 E. 3. n. 7 4â— E. 3. n. 5 6.50 E. 3. n. 3 8 11 12. c. 51 E. 3. n. 18. and sundry other records throughout the reign of King Edward the 3d and in other Parliaments since Wherfore I wonder much at this gross confident mistake in Sir Edward Cook against so many express Records and that in his very Treatise touching Parliaments which is full of other mistakes To instance in other particulars for the Readers information Sir Edward Cooke in his 4 Institutes c. 1. p. 23. hath 5 or 6 gross mistakes together touching the Iudicature in Parliament which I have at large demonstrated refuted in my Plea for the Lords long since Particularly he there asserts Rot. Parl. 1 H. 4.79 is no Act of Parliament but an Ordinance when as you may see by this Abridgement of of it that it is neither an Act
could not of his own accord agree with any Nobleman for his Lievetenant that then the Bishop should take upon him the charge and generall lycense was granted to all men to pass on with the same Bishop except the retinew of the King and other Nobles After this the Commons desired the King to grant audience to the Lord de la War who was lately arrived from Spain and was to declare how the King might come to an honourable peace with Spain the which they much desired whereto was an answer made that the King would advise with his Councell and therein do what should appertain to his honour Anno Septimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Johanni Regi Castellae c. Apud Westm. die Lunae ante Festum omnium Sanctorum Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicessimo die Augusti Charissimo Avunculo Rs. Edward Com. Cantabr Chariss Avunculo Rs. Tho. Com. Buck. Chariss Fratri Rs. Tho. Com. Cantii Dilecto fideli Rico. Com. Arundell Thomae Com. War Hugoni Com. Staff Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacute Com. Salop Rob. de Vere Com. Oxon. Hen. de Percy Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Iacob de Audley Will. Bardolf de Wormegay Guido de Bryan Ioh. de Clinton Gilber Talbot Ioh. de Ware Hen. le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. Nevill de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. le Scroope Hugoni Burnell Will. Zouch de Harringworth Rogero de Clifford Iohi. Buttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Michael de la Poole Will. de Thorpe Will. de Winhesser Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botteraux Chlr. Iohi. de Bello monte Robto de Harrington Robto de Willougby Iohi. de Clifton Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Hugoni de Darcy Ioh. de Strange de Knoking Tho. de Nevill de Halmshir Will. de Aldburgh Ric. Seymor Rado Basset de Drayton Thomae Darcey Thomae Morley Ioh. de Bourchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Ioh. Lovell de Fishmarch Ioh. de Monteacuto Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Ric. de Poynings Thomae de Berkley Simoni de Burley Constabular Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Monday next before the Feast of All-Saints in the seventh year of King RICHARD the 2. THe same Monday being the 25. of October sundrie of the Bishops and Lords being assembled looked for the coming of the others but for that sundrie of them were not come and the Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill the next day ensuing The Thursday after being the next day the Bishops Lords and others of the upper-upper-House came into the Parliament in the Chamber de-pinct at Westminst whereunto all the Knights and Burgesses were in the presence of the King called by name at which time Sir Michaell de la Poole Knight being Chancellor began first to excuse his unworthiness to that place and declared that he was forced thereto which done he sheweth the cause of the Parliament to be as followeth For that the great Truce with the Scots was to end at Candlemas ensuing for which cause the Duke of Lancaster being sent into Scotland was returned with answer that the Scots would send to London certain that should intreate therein as well for such Peace if it might succeed as for preparation of War which more was doubted was the first cause of consultation Another cause was for that the King was to prepare also against three mighty and mortall enemies Spain France and lately Flanders Here then he proved by many reasons that it was better for us to assail then to be assailed to seek them at home than to suffer them to come to us and that it would so be manifestly shewed further proving that they must not lay the cause of these wars to the King considering that with the Crown the Wars descended to the King also Lastly he sheweth another cause to be for the maintenance of good Laws and preservation of the Peace and also in his former matter he remembreth them for giving ayd to the King for the supportation of these his great charges Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivors of Petitions for Gascoygn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above After this the Chancellor declared the King charged the Lords by their selves and the Commons by themselves to consult about these weighty matters and for mony to serve his necessity laying in the mean time all other matters apart The Lords and Commons granted unto the King one fifteen to be levyed according to a Schedule enrolled The Schedule conteineth the grant of the fifteen and of the payment and of the grant of vi d. of every pound of Merchandize and ii s. of every Tun of Wine on these conditions viz. That the Clergy shall grant the like for their parts and that all estates whatsoever be contributary thereto And that the service of the Bishop of Norwich and of his Captains with the treasure by them received not of them deserved nor well imployed may onely be examined and imployed to the use of the King The Earl of Northumberland promised for himself and the Earl of Devonshire Admirall of the West safely to keep the Seas so far as the charge granted by the Commons therefore would serve viz. of vi d. of every pound of Merchandize and ii s. of every Tun of Wine The Bishop of Norwich being accused for not doing his service according to promise and for receiving of severall summes as well on this side the Seas as beyond requireth respit to answer protesting earnestly therein to shew his innocency and being charged particularly of the receipt of 10000. Francks of gold for giving up the Castle of Graveling to the French he fully purgeth himself thereof And in repeating the matter it fell out that 5000. Francks of Gold given for the said Castle were in the hands of Sir Robert Farmers man who charged in Parliament confesseth the having thereof but maketh a fair excuse for the secret taking wherefore he was committed to prison untill he made payment thereof and untill further order for his enlargement were taken At that time Proclamation was made that all such as had received any mony beyond the Seas of the enemy or of any other for any cause other than for due wages should the next day bring the same into the Chancery or else to be taken as Traytors this Proclamation was made the sixteenth of November Bryars Crossingham and Iohn Spickworth Esquires
house Chamber and Wardrobe That all revenues and profits of the Crown and Realm may be imployed to the charges next aforesaid That no person on a pain do receive or take by way of gift any the profits aforesaid That two certain days in the week may be appointed for all Suitors to exhibit their Petitions to the King and that some may be appointed to receive and give answer to the same That no man do prefer any Bill or suit to the King on any other days That none of the Council hold plea of any matter determinable at the Common Law That all Statutes touching Buyers and Purveyors may be executed That no one of the Kings Council shall give comfort to any suitor before determination had in full Council That no matters of Council be dispatched but by full assent unless the same require great haste in which cases word shall be sent to such Councellors as be absent to the end their advice may be known The 15 16 17 18 19 and 20 Articles contain That none of the Kings higher Officers or other under-Officers or Clerks of any of his Courts or of his houshold shall take none other then their accustomed Fees nor that they do appoint any Minister under them to do the same That the Queen do pay for the journey to the Kings house as Queen Philip late did That none of the Officers of the Marshalsies of the Kings house or Clerk of the Market do hold any plea other then they did in the time of E. 1. That all the Sheriffs before the election of Knights of the Shire shall by open Proclamation in their Counties appoint fifteen dayes respite the day and place That all the Kings great Officers of every Court and of his House shall maintain the Common Laws That all Aliens being no Denizens do make Fines by a day with the King That the Steward and Treasurer of the Kings house have full power to discharge the Serjeants and other Officers of the Kings house for their misdemeanors That the said Officers and Chamberlain of the Kings house may execute the said offices according to the Statutes of the Kings house That no Officer Judicial or other Minister within the Kings house or in any his Courts have none of the said Offices but at will That every of the chief Officers of the Kings house and Courts shall make yearly due enquiries of all misdemeanors and misprisions done under them and thereof make report to the Kings Council That the Array of the special Assise challenged be tryed at large as in general Assises and that the Sheriff do take nothing for making any Pannel between party and party That all the Articles aforesaid shall only continue unto the end of the next Parliament The King for Six hundred pounds and other considerations granteth to Ralph de Cuer and Peter de la Hay the keeping of the Temporalties of the Bishoprick of Durham to the use of Thomas Langley Clerk Bishop elect by provision from Rome which was before granted to Iohn of Lancaster one of the Kings sons Where the Dean and Chapter of Pauls by the grant of E. 3. was to pay yearly to the King One thousand pounds for the Custody of the Temporalties of the Bishoprick of London for so long as the vacation thereof should endure the King granteth the same to Henry Bishop of Winchester and others to the use of Nicholas Bulbewich Clerk Bishop elect there by the Kings gift Edward Duke of York had the Kings gift of the Lands in Glamorgan in Wales which Constance le Despencer held paying yearly Three hundred pounds the which Rent the said Duke purchased of the King The Wardship of the body and custody of the lands of the Heir of the Lord Fitzwalter was granted to the Earl of Somerset Sundry Letters-patents were made between Philip Dutchess of Ireland and Richard Earl of Oxford touching certain Mannors and other Hereditaments The Castle of Keventhliz and all the Mannors Regalities and Appurtenances of Wertheromon Kandre Cotrich Melbeneth Pilluth Knigthon and Knocklaire in the Marches of Wales are granted to Richard Lord Gray during the minority of Edmond the son and heir of Roger late Earl of March and also the Wardship of the body and lands of the son and heir of Iohn Brightley of Devon was granted to the said Lord. Roger Deynecourt hath Forty marks yearly during his life by the cancelling of the Letters-patents of Richard Stanhop knight by the hands of the Sheriff of Nottingham David Holbath is made a Denizen by the Kings Letters-patents and assent of Parliament Richard Gabriel Clerk hath during his life certain lands in Iopplepenne in the Town of Caleshowethy in Devon to the value of Forty six shillings eight pence Alexander de Knight hath the Wardship of the body and lands of Iohn Daniel the brother and heir of Thomas Daniel of South-hampton holden of the Earl Marshal by Knights service being in the Kings hands by the Insurrection of the said Earl The King pardoneth to Agnes the which was the wife of Thomas Raliegh seventeen pound two shillings five pence for certain arrearages due for the lands of the heir of the said Thomas late in ward The King pardoneth to Sir Iohn Tibetot Knight in fee all the lands and hereditaments of Richard ap Griffith ap Voethus in the Counties of Carmarthen and Cardigan and elsewhere in the Principalities of Southwales for that he was adherent to Owen Glendor Rebel and Traitor and also the Office and keeping the Forrest of Wabridg and Sapeley in the County of Huntington without any thing yielding therefore and further the King gave to him the goods and chattels of Peter Friswick Carpenter a Felon amounting to one hundred and fifty pounds Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching Liberties c. cap. 1. agreeth with the Record That no Tithes be payed for any slates or stones digged out of any quarries Tithes of the same shall be payed where it hath been used to be payed and not elsewhere At the request of the Commons the King granteth that the Statute made in his first year for the discharge of Sheriffs should be kept and for that the same sufficeth not for their discharges the King granteth that Lords of the Councel should have power by the next Parliament to take order therein That payment may be made for Victuals taken by the Kings Purveyors from the time of his Coronation The King is willing to do the same and that all the Statutes of Purveyors be observed The print touching costs cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The print touching Protections for Gaolers cap. 4. agreeth with the Record A long motion for the decent apparreling of every particular estate
of Gloucester declared to the Bishops and Lords that the Declaration of the Commons how that the Lords meant in perfect unity to serve would encourage them to labour with effect where the said Duke promised that although he were principal Counsellor yet would he doe nothing without the assent of most of them the which unity of the Lords was the next day declared to the Commons by the Chancellor The â—ourteenth day of May the Commons presented before the King Iohn Russell Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with the Common Protestation was allowed A grant of half a Dism and half a Fifteen A grant for one year of the Subsidy of wools and the like Tonnage and Poundage as in the last Parliament tit 24. The King releaseth the increase of the Poundage of 6 d. in every pound set upon Merchant strangers The Cardinal in full Parliament declareth that he being in Flanders in the way to Rome returned back into the realm of his own will to purge himself of a bruit that he should be a Traytor to the Realm whereof the Duke of Gloucester by the Kings Commandement purged him But the truth is as by the next title following may appear that the Cardinal having certain of the Kings Jewels in gage meant to have them brought after him which Jewels were arrested and stayed at Sandwich by the Kings commandement wherupon the Cardinal in a fustian fume came in post for the recovery of them Tonching the Jewels stayed at Sandwich as before to the great hinderance of the Cardinal this order was taken that the Cardinal should pay to the King 6000 l. more for them and lend to him 14000 l. which was done The King by the Common assent of all the Estates pardoneth to the said Cardinal all offences punishments and pains incurred by him against the Statutes of Provisors At the Petition of Ralph Lord Cromwell it was declared by the Lords that the Lord Cromwell was discharged of the office of the Kings Chamberlain not for any offence but for that it seemed good so to the Council At the Petitions of the Executors of Richard Whittington Citizen and Mercer of London all the conveyances touching the erection of Whittingtons College in London founded by the said Richard are by common consent to be confirmed At the Petition of the Clarks of the Chapel among whom King H. 5. had given 200 marks order is granted for the payment of the same At the Petition of the Commons order is taken for the payment of the fees and wages of the Kings Justices Serjeants and Attorneys It is enacted that the Prior of the Charter-house in London doe enjoy a certain ground for ever coming from Islington to their said house c. for a Conduict paying to Iohn Foreby Esq and Margery his wife 12 d. yearly and to the heirs of Margery the said Margery enjoying the herbage thereof in fee. The Kings Letters Patents made to the Abbesse of Sion for transferring themselves from the first place of erection unto another are confirmed by common consent The Kings Letters Patents made to Margaret Sernfield late the wife of Nicolas Sernfield Knight of the Manors of Bourgh and Helston in the County of Cornwall during her life confirmed by common consent Certain Accomptants of the Kings houshold by name are pardoned according to the order of the house At the Petition of Richard Duke of Yorke son of Richard brother of Edward late Duke of York and Cosen to Edmond late Earl of March shall have his livery of all the hereditaments of the said late Duke and Earl The foundation of Robert Thresk Clerk of the Chauntery of St. Anne in the Church of Thresk with licence to the Mr. of the same to purchase lands are confirmed by common consent It is enacted that certain appointed by the Feoffees of H. 5. shall of the profits of his lands in use levy 8000 l. to the payment of certain of the Kings house In the title aforesaid are to be seen as well the names of the feoffees in trust as of the Executors of King H. 5. The King createth Sir Iohn Cornwall Knight Baron of Fannhoppe and thereby to sit and enjoy the liberty of a Baronie Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching Recognizance before the Mayor of the Staple at Callice cap. 1. agreeth with the record That the Defendants in an Appeal of Mayme may make his Attorney The King will be advised The Commons of Hereford prayen that none be amerced by the Sheriffs for any presentments before him in his turn but by honest persons before the Justices in their Sessions The King will be advised That the Statute made in the 7th of H. 4. cap. 17. touching the intreating of Merchant strangers may be executed with this adjunct viz. pains on the Merchants and officers of every Town for not executing The King will be advised The print touching the election of Knights of the Parliament cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching the restitution of goods taken by the King of Denmark cap. 3. agreeth with the record That none be compelled to be examined in Parliament or elswhere touching his Franck Tenant The King will be advised The Commons of Cornwall prayen and have like answer as before in this year tit 31. That all such persons as have their goods taken by the Merchants of Hauns in their parts may have their remedy by action in London against the Merchants of Hauns there remaining The King will be advised That no Merchant or other be impeached for the seal of any Cloath broad or narrow after such time as the Alnager hath sealed the same and Custom paid The King will be advised A motion for speedy redress of and in the actions of all such as were or should be of the Commons house The King will be advised That all parsonages appropriated not endowing of Vicars upon the same within six moneths shall be disapproriated The King will be advised The print touching the entry of such as shall appear in the Kings Courts in proper person cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the bringing of Stone to Callice cap. 5th is utterly against the record which repealeth the Statute therefore made in An. 21 R. 2. where the print reviveth the same A motion and device for the true making of Gascoyne wines The King will send these Petitions to the Officers of Guienne to appoint them to take order therein The Statute against the extortions of Sheriffs made Anno 9 H. 6. tit 41. is
lands sold to be recovered p. 126. The Crown dis-inherited by the Realms Government by Churchmen who are dis-officed p. 112. The suppression of Rebels disposing the right of the Church and attempting to destroy the Ministers thereof one cause of the Parl of 10 H. 6. p. 602. Cinqueports bound to guard the Seas for which they have Privileges p. 18. They set out 30 ships to guard the Sea and bear half the charges the Council promising to bear the other half p. 20. The Officers of Dover Castle to make no process by capias out of the Liberties of the Cinqueports p. 132. Bought most of the hundred of Costlenig in Sussex yet would not contribute any thing to them p. 136. To contribute to the Tallage granted by Parl. p. 191. Circumspecte agatis to be kept in all points p. 81. Cirsteaux Monkes a Bill and Act against them p. 406 407. Citations for trifles complained of as an oppression p. 15. Clarindon Park a release of Common and Estovers in it p. 365. Clergy their Petitions in Parliament against grievances and their answers p. 23 32 44 45 81 139 140. 148 151 164 165. Arrayed mustered p. 110. not to be arrayed p. 454. To pay Taxes with the Laity for some of their temporal possessions of later times purchased p. 163. Not to contribute nor their Tenants to Knights wages p. 1. Judgements in Parliament reversed because the Clergy not present at them whereupon they make a Procter in Cases of treason and blood p. 368 371. Put from their temporal offices p. 112. Imprisoned without due process a grievance p. 32. A Capias not to be awarded against them without a writ to the Bishop p. 32. Much wasted and to be comforted p. 547. To appoint their Collectors p. 555. Their incroachments against Law to be redressed p. 175. Not to allow sanctuary in cases of Debt Account Trespass but only where the life and member of a man are in danger p. 76. Not to grant any aid but by themselves at their free-wills not Commons pleasures p. 189. Letters to the Archbishop and Clergy of York to contribute to the aid of the Northern parts p. 18. Their Oppressions complained of p. 16. See Bishops and Probate of Wills Their Protestation and Liberties See Archbishop and Bishops Clergy not to be allowed in Treason p. 53. nor in case oâ— Bigamy p. 125 162. Allowed in felony p. 631. Clerks convict delivered over to the Ordinary p. 362. to live always in prison p. 639. The Bishop to look narrowly to their purgation p. 163. Clerk of the Parliament his election and office p. 22 30 31 36 43 46 73 78 362 406 416 430. Clerk of the Commons p. 647. Clerks of Chancery exempted from Knights wages p. 1. To be sued only in Chancery for Trespasse their Privilege confirmed by Parliament p. 45. One of them murdered p. 81. Clerk of the Council his Office and Oath p. 365 368. Clerk of the Crown his Office p. 87 323 362 415. Clerk of the Hanaper to pay the Judges Kings Attorney and Serjeants their wages p. 623. Clerks of the Kings Bench Common Place and Exchequer refusing to bring in records and allow pardons complained of and remedy ordered p. 306. Not to be Attornies p. 346. To be able and such as appoint them to answer for them p. 571. Their misprisions ordered to be amended p. 545 560 585. Clerks appointed for the Navy and Warr p. 20 21. Clerk of the Ordinance his office p. 612. Clerk of the Pipe and an Act concerning him p. 204. Clerk of the Merkets not to take Fines in grosse of any Towns p. 127 134. To punish according to the quality of the fault without taking any fines where he doth not his office p. 127 134. Not to intermeddle within Liberties and Townes contrary to their Charters p. 148 161. An Act concerning him p. 333. Clipping See Money Cloth wollen Cloaths of all sorts Acts and Petitions for making measuring sealing and Custom concerning the same p. 52 57 76 80 82 96 117 133 149 185 299 334 335 345 347 397 419 433 460 468 472 476 482 483 542 601 605 625 639 645 676 678 682 683 705. Cluny Abbot an yearly pension of 2000 l. paid to him moved to cease p. 50. Cocquet every man to cocquet wools in his own name p. 335. Merchants having their Cocquets and goods customed not to be impeached p. 555. Sir William Cogans case and accusation p. 199. Collectors of Subsidies Wools c. vexed in the Exchequer after their Accounts made by Barrectors and denied to make Attornies complained of and renued unless in case of concealments p. 54 55. Their extortions frauds complained of and examined p. 61 62 69. appointed by the Knights of Shires p. 112. That none be a Collector after his age of 60 years prayed p. 149. To account upon Oath before â—he Barons of the Exchequer according to the Roll between them and the Controllers p. 202. Of Kent to account by names of Hundreds not persons or Towns p. 355. Their conconcealments inquired after p. 396. To be allowed such particular summs they could not collect p. 460. For the Clergy appointed by themselves p. 555. An Act for the recovery of one Collector against another p. 561. That no religious Alien be a Collector of Desms p. 616. An Act touching the Collection of Tenths p. 624. A discharge of Desms collected desired by the Collector p. 644. Arrears of a Collection of Desms in the Collectors hands ordered to be paid notwithstanding the general pardon as being contrary to the Kings meaning p. 648 396. None of the Commons house to be Collectors See Commons Collusion Covin Deceit Fraud Feofment by Collusion to deceive the Lords of Wards to be redressed p. 17. Of Collectors of wools complained of and examined p. 62 69. In wines through the Gangers neglect p. 63. Richard Lyons and others impeached in Parl. for deceiving the King p. 121 122 123 158.292 293 315 316 626. For defrauding Souldiers of their wages p. 123. See Captains Counterfeit Souldiers and Gentlemen to be punished p. 125. Colourers of alien Enemies goods and the Customs of aliens to be inquired of and punished p. 127 476. Corrupt recoveries of religious persons a Bill against them p. 138. Such as keep in Sanctuaries by Covin to be arrested p. 140 175 176. Protections of such who lie beyond Sea by Covin to delay such as sue them to be revoked p. 118 148. Petitions and Acts against Feofments by Collusion and Fraud p. 162 172 444 540 696. Against fraudulent enfeoffing the King by procurement of religious persons to extinquish the Lords tenure and procure Mortmain p. 203. Frauds of Usurers to be punished at Common law p. 286. Religious persons Fraudâ— in purchasing more lands than they are licensed to be inquired of p. 312. An Appeal by practice suppressed p. 331. Against the Collusion of religious persons who cause their Villains to marry inherittixes p. 355. Articles against R. 2.
upon Oath to prove a Deed Livery p. 157. Judges Lawyers Doctors of Divine Civil and Canon Law examined and sworn before the King to deliver their Opinions touching the Priviledges of Sanctuaries in debt c. p. 176. Suggestions of Writs sworn to be true by the parties and others of good name p. 191. Collectors of Tenths to account upon Oath p. 202. The Major of Londons Oath by Act p. 286. The Chancellor impeached for breaking his Oath in defrauding the King c. p. 315 316. Archbishop not to be sworn to any inferior to the Pope yet taketh Oath of a Privy Councellour voluntarily saving his Prerogative p. 318. The Oath of the Mayors of the Staple by Act p. 337. The Bishops and Commons would have favour shewed to the banished Justices so as they incur not the breach of their Oaths and Conscience p. 353. The Oath of the Earl of Glocesterâ— in Parliament never to implead the King or other Lords in possession for the Lands of his Ancestors upon his restitution p. 373. An Oath inrolled in Chancery for all Bishops Successors Lords heirs to take confirmed by the Pope to binde them the Kings Successors Kingdom in perpetuity p. 369 371 372 375 387. A resignation of all Subjects Oaths and Allegiance to R. 2. p. 385 390. Atturneys Oath before an exigent issue that the contract or Trespass was in the same County p. 413. Scots indenized to be sworn to the King p. 418. Sheriffs to be discharged on their Oaths in the Exchequer p. 419 466. The Kings chief Officers to be sworn to shun all Bribery p. 394. The Customers sworn to be resident on their Office p. 424. Earl of Northumberland purgeth suspected Lords upon his Oathâ— p. 426. An Oath in Parliament before King and Lords to abide an Arbitrement p. 454. Privy Councellors and the Archbishop charged by the King on their Allegiance to take the Oath then presentedâ— them by Parliament which they did p. 456. The Lords Oath for disposing the subsidy grantedâ— p. 464. All Aliens coming into the Realm except Merchants to protest to live and die in the Kings quarell p. 472. The Prince not sworn when all the rest of the Council and Justices were for his Worthiness p. 473. Atturnies of both Benches to be sworn every Term to deal faithfully and truly and cashiered if they do not p. 475. Every Juror to be sworn to say whether he or any other for him received any thing p. 536. Clerk of the Council sworn duly to enter the Names of the Council that siâ— and their Acts p. 565. And to pass promote the poorest Man's Bill and Answer and the King's Sergeants for counsel therein to take no money p. 568. All Officers of the King 's having Patents in Courts to be sworn to appoint able Clerks and Ministers under them p. 571. The Lords and Commons Oath in Parliament impartially to judge the Case of Precedency between the Earls Marshal and Warwick without affection p. 373 378. Warders of the Marches of England and Scotland to be discharged upon their Oathes touching hostages p. 579. Livery of Dower to the Dutchess of Norwich upon her Oath not to marry p. 580. The Lords sworn without affection to hear and end the dissention between the Duke of Glocester and Bishop of Winchester in Parliament p. 583. All the Lords and Commons sworn in Parliament and others by Commission not to retain any Offendor of the Law or maintain any Title or quarrel p. 608.612 An Administrator of an Alien Merchant sworn to pay his Debts p. 623. An Oath against the Law of God voidâ— p. 666. Oath of the Duke of York and his Heirs in Parliament to perform the award made by the Lords touching the Crown between H. 6. and him and the Lords Oath to the Duke and his Heirs and their Oaths to defend the Lords for this agreement p. 667. Oath of secrecy taken by those who murdered the Duke of Glocester upon the sacrament in Caliâ—â— p. 400. Oath of the Major of London in the Exchequer p. 294. There are within the Realm too many forsworn already therefore imposing a New Oath was refused p. 33. Obit perpetual for two Countesses to be erectedâ— p. 169. Obligations of an Infant made void p. 103. To others uses to remain good after their Attainders p. 355. By Duresses in the Insurrection repealed and nulled p. 200. Blank ones sealed to R. 2. through fear nulled Burned p. 391 394. Officers fraud referred to certain persons to determine p. 10. When how and where traversâ—ble p. 59 127 138 396 397 421 460 624 311 411 461 473 474 475 580. The party not to be outeâ— upon it ibid. Where repugnant which shall stand p. 396 367 410. Where to be taken by the Escheator where by Commissioners p. 580. See Inquest Escheators Office Officers Great and other publick Officers to be freely elected by the King p. 39 112 312 317 329 374 375. See King Council By the Lords and Parliament p. 32 34 155 159 174â— 288. See Commons King Lords Council To be of the wisest best and ablest men in the Realm p. 197 288 457. Ill Officers complained of a Declaration That such who were grieved by the King or his Officers upon complaint should finde remedy p. 31 35. Great Officers and Judges sworn to observe the Laws and Great Charter p. 32 34. See Oath Iustices Council Complaints against the King's Officers in Parliament they censured removed for misdemeanors p. 32 33 34 35 39 121 122 123 315 316 368 641 642 643 644. The King to resume their Offices every Parliament and they to answer to all complaints p. 34 35. which they resign in Parliament till cleared and then are re-admitted p. 329. Customers Controllers and Surveyers Offices forfeited by letting them to Farms p. 38. No Aliens to be Officers p. 39. Old Servants and Officers of the King to be first preferred p. 594 608. All to be of sufficient Inheritance to answer p. 159. To maintain no Peace-breakers Offenders Suites Quarrels p. 51. See Maintenance To forfeit their Offices to be disabled to enjoy them upon default found in them and for neglect and misdemeanors p. 59.122 123 63 147 149 160 295 457 127 394. To be sworn p. 80. See Oath Laymen only to be principal Officers in the King's Courts and House not Clergy-men p. 112. To end all matters belonging to their Offices p. 120 155. None to be compelled to bear any Office after sixty yeers of Age prayed p. 149. To be all sworn to shun all Bribery and to lose all they have upon Attainder p. 349. No Officers high or low or any under them to take other then their accustomed Fees and no Officer to be appointed by any mediation contrary to the Laws p. 457. No Officer Judicial or Ministerial in the King's Courts or House to have their Offices but at Will and yeerly to make inquiries of all misdemeanors and misprisions done under them and report them to the King's
Parliament see Denizens A Feme-covert made capable to sue and be sued An Infant declared to be of full age and persons attainted of Treason either in or out of Parliament restored in blood and lands in and by Parliament see those Titles and Restitution Difficult cases in Law which cannot be decided or resolved by the Judges to be adjourned into and resolved by Parliament p 30 63 163 560 38 39. Judgments given without legal process hearing trial or without just cause through malice faction power in one Parliament commonly complained against nulled reversed in another p 6 7 8 65 86 1â—0 151 152 158 177 304 339 340 372 373 386 387 388 393 394 408 672 678. see Restitution Whole Parliaments and their Acts reversed nulled as illegal by succeeding Parliaments especially when packed held by power faction unduly elected nominated by the Kings Letters not chosen by the peoples free Votes and when they have prescribed new kinds of Oath Acts to perpetuate their Judgments Acts Devices to bind posterity never to revoke them or transferred the whole power in Parliament into the hands of some selected Time-serving Members in the absence of the rest p 38.371.390.665.704 See 34 H 6. cap. 1â— 17 E. 4. cap. 7. 15 E. 3. stat 2 Means to expedite businesses in Parliament p 303. Iudgments given in Parliament in cases of Treason Impeachments for several crimes slanders of Peers breaches of priviledges Error and the like by the King and Lords jointly or Lords alone both upon Peers and Commons as sole Iudges in Parliament without the Commons together with Capital censures of beheading hanging drawing quartering imprisonment banishment fine and forfeiture both of lands goods offices inflicted upon offenders by the King and Lords alone as sole Judges in Parliament p 6.7.8.85.86.106.107.121.122.123.157.158.176.177 190 292.293.294.304.316.330.338.342.343.353.363.368.373.376.377.378.379.380.392.394â— 399 400.401.407.417.430.539.560.578.610.643.644.665.666â— 667. Goods seised for a Contempt in not appearing in Parliament upon summons to answer a Complaint p 123. Persons attainted of Treason Felony are to be censured by order of Parliamentâ— if they shall not appear and render themselvs in Parliament upon proclamation by a set day p 6.7.66.353.354.361 433â— 618.619.623.641.643.646 699.612 The Statute of such as make affrayes on Lords or Knights p Examinations taken by and before the King and Lords in Parliament of Witnesses and of Lawyers Common Civil Canon and Doctors of Divinity in the case of Sanctuary upon oath p 138.157.158.176.299.372 See Oath Sundry Oaths prescâ—ibed and taken in Parliament by the Lords and Commons Privy Councellors Great Officers of State Justices Barons and others See Oath King R. 2. after the resignation of his Crown articled against deposed adjudged to perpetual prison in Parliament for his misgovernment The Articles proceedings against him at large recited and secrecie required that none should disclose any thing spoken in that Debate p 384.385.386.387.388.399 390.391 King Henry the Sixth with his Queen and Son the Prince of Wales attainted in Parliament of High Treason deprived of the Inheritance of the Crown c. p 664. to 676. King Edward the fourth his Issue bastardized and the Crown setled by election and descent on R 3. by his power and policy in Parliament in the name of the three Estates The Instrument and Act at large for that purpose p 710. to 714â— King Henry the fourth declared by Parliament an Intruder Usurper Murderer of R. 2. the Heirs of his body wholly disinherited of the Crown and all their Inheritance and Estates within the Realm p 670. K. Edward the fourth discharged of his agreement with Henry the sixth to enjoy the Crown during his life and declared actual King and right heir to the Crown from a day certain by Parliament p 670. So King Richard the Third after him declared undoubted and only Heir to the Crown by the Law of God and Nature p 710. to 714. But these were Notes above Ela and acted rather by the Law of the longest Sword then of the Parliament or Kingdomsâ— Protectors and defenders of the Realm appointed and their power limited declared by the Parliament See Protector References of Petitions and matters complained of in Parliament to the King himself the Councel Chancellor Chancery Treasurer See those Titles Of matters triable at the Common Law to the Justices Courts of Law and a Legal Triall p 48 138 171 184 197 300 310.624 670 693. The Judges consulted with in Parliament in matters of Law and Priviledges their answers and advice therein p 651. See Iustices of the Bench. All weighty matters moved in it touching the Peers ought not to be discussed judged determined by the Civil or Common Laws used in other Courts but by the Court of Parliament p 321. The Judges ought not to judge of the Parliaments priviledges which is Judge of the Law and them p 651. Priviledge of Members of Parliament or their Servants from Arrests and Executions holds in all cases except Treason Felony and breach of the Peace in which cases they may be arrested or forced to put in Sureties for the Peace in Chancery p. 12 14 299 354 548 571 578 596 605 606 611 654 664. Knights Burgesses of Parliament and their Servants taken and imprisoned upon Execution during the Parliament released out of prison to attend the House but to be taken again in execution after the Parliament ended p 433 596 651 665 701 704. Thomas Thorpe taken in Execution during the prorogation of the Parliament adjudged not to have his priviledge but to remain in execution and a new Speaker thereupon chosen in his place p 651. An Act that such who make affrays on Lords or Knights of Parliament shall pay double damages p 433. Cheddars case 612 632 644. Talboys committed to the Tower for a year without Bail or Mainprise for offering to slay the Lord Cromwell in Parliament time and to answer the same besides p. â—44 The King and Lords Judges of the breaches of the Priviledges Elections of the Commons House p 651. See Commons Lords Elections of Knights Their Members not to be Assessors or Collectors of Subsidies granted of grace by the King not their priviledge See Collectors Publike matters in Parliament to be preferred dispatched before private p 31.169.300.303 Consideration of things taken till the Writs returnable in and referred to the next Parliament p 32 34.38.39.53.126.128.131.157.169.172.335.339.347.348.424.450.466.467.48â—.483 Reports of matters referred made to the Parliament p 137.152.184.197.483.651.652.670 Messengers and Letters sent from the King to the Parliament p 46.47.638 Letters of the King Lords Commons under the Great Seal the Lords Commons Seals to the Pope against his Innovations and Provisions p 129. see Provisors Pope A Clerk sent for to inform them of their abuses more fully p 119.130 Judgments against persons in Parliament not to be pardoned or repealed See Pardon and p 323 369â— 371.372 Judgments in cases of Treason Blood reversed in Parliament because the Prelates not present at them whereupon they make a Lay-Proxy to represent
by all persons Realms safetie Reprâ—â—â—â—ng rebels and enemies within and without â—nvasion of Engâ—and peace Justice parliaments advise Welchmens quelling â—ide competent French war Guienne invaded parliaments sodain calling Speedy resolutions Commons to chuse and present their Speaker petitions Sir William Sturmey Speaker presented protestation Kings relief Two Desmes and Fifteens Subsidy of Woolls Wooll-fels Skins Tunage and Poundage granted for 2 d. Conditionally to be imploid only in the warrant and defence of the Realm Lord Furnivall Sir Iohn Pelham Treasurers for the wars appointed Treasurers for the wars sworn in Parliament Money lent to be repaid out of the Subsidy Welch rebels Commons request for the Kings Sons advancement Duke of York Good sâ—â—vice in wars to be rewarded Arrears paid Jewels Lord Coytifes rescue Welch rebels Petitions Resumption of the Câ—own Landâ— and Râ—venues Liberties of Towns Grants of Wineâ— resumâ—d Queens Dower Kings Grants confirmed Farmers to the King Farms injoyed Castle Caslet parke Law Kings prerogative Commissioners to inquire and execute Resumption for an year Annuities and Fees granted Châ—â—â— Officers Justices Barons of Exchecquer Resumption of Lands granted â—or an year Queen Kings Sons Grants by parliament Proclamation Patents broughâ— in Forfeiture Resumption Lords enact Prince of Wales Souldiers wages Defence of Wales Annuity out of the Exchecquer to the Earl of Sommerset confiâ—med by Parliament Sir Iohn Cornwall Grant in Parliament Abbey of Fescamp Wars Sir Stephen Scroope Annuity confirmed by Parliament Petition Grant by assent of the Bishops and Loâ—ds Prior of Coventrie Conduit of water Sherborn water Penalty Treble damages Petition Restitution of a Prioâ— and Lands in Parliamentâ— by the Kings Sir Bartholmew Verdon Restitution to bloud and Lands Scire facias Errour in Parliament â—arde reâ—urned Process continued Ordinance for Waâ—â— Lords Merchers of â—ales Castles mannedâ— Welch Friends Goods restored Râ—pâ—â—alâ— Loan money repaid Duke of Yorks a â—â—aâ—s to be â—aâ—d Souldiâ—rs services 〈◊〉 and recompenced Petition Itaâ—â—aâ— Merchants Staâ—ute revoked Exchange between Merchants Money Res. Italian Merchants Hosts Election Res. Italian Merchants Subsidy Merchants Customes Resp. Customers Officers of Ports Merchants well intreated Res. Merchants Triall for debt Account Trespass Law of Merchants Kings Councell Aldermen of London Res. Alien Brokers banished Chancery Res. Italian Merchants English wares Staple wares Res. Petitions Staple Wars Res. Ships in the Kings service Certain allowance for weight and apparrellingâ— Res. Aliens Officer Customer Welchmen Rome Res. Commons motion Resumption Queens Dower Commissioners Fines for neglect Oath Exchecquer Discharge Res. Commons not to be Collectors of the Subsidie Callice New exactions Res. Kings debt paid Tallies Res. Woolls shipping Ipswich Yarmouth Res. Villains Res. Subsidie of 6 s. 8 diâ— abated Mis-entry in the roll reformed Provisions Rome Letters Patents Accountss Officers Variance Foot of Fines Statute revoked Resp. King and his Councell may revoke an Act. Petitions Errour in Parliament to reverse a Fine and Judgment Falshoods Feoffments by Collusion Resp. Commissioners Kings thanks to Lords and Commons Parliament dissolved Writâ— of Summons Writs of Sâ—mmons Parliament proroged Painted Chamber Lord Chancellor King Causes of Parliament Liberties to be injoyed by all persons His Theam Good Government Welchmens Rebellion French Scots Guienne Callice Irish Parliament advicâ— Gâ—ds Law Peace Victory Petitions Sir Iohn Tibetott Speaker presented His excuse His election confirmed One Desme and Fifteeen granted Chancellor Treaty of Peace Proclamation Cessation Speaker presented Protestation Confirmation of the Commonâ— Liberties and Priviledges Amendment of their Bill by message to the Lords Speaker makes sundry remembrances before the King Good Governance Confirmaâ—ion of Liberties Guarding the Sea Guien Speaker Enrolment of the Speakers protestation Princes Residents in Wales Commission Wales Welchmen Conquest Gifâ—s French and Britains banishedâ— Answâ— Answ. False reports of the Commons discourse of the King Seas safeguard Committee Merchants Mariners c. to provide ships and men to guard the Seas Tonnage Poundage c. assigned them to defray the charge Privy Seals Prizâ—s taken to be enjoyed by them Imprest money required Enemies royal Navy One months warning Notice of peace Charges allowed Two Admirals to be nominated for the South and North. Parliament adâ—ourned Parliament re-assembled Parliament adjourned from day to day Lords Treaty Aliens about the Queen banished by name Proclamation by assent of Parliament Resumption of Lands and Annuities Speaker prayeth as large liberty of â—peech as any Speaker before himâ— Admiral elected to go to Sea Commons Privy Council Speaker Lords of the Council assent to thâ—ir election upon condition Speakers request Provisions for Calice Guienne Ireland Provision Kings Council Captains to repair to theirs Forts and A mier Speâ—ker desires Pardon Oath to abâ—de an Arâ—iâ—â—â—ment Hinton near Brackley Commission Array Câ—â—â—gy Musters Arbiterâ—â—â— Merchants Contâ—oversies Speakers â—equest Pâ—oâ—estaâ—ion Câ—own entailed Exemplification Speaker Prince sent into â—ales Rebellion Câ—stomers fraud Searchâ—rs Ireland Kings Houshold charges Commons Spâ—aker Protestation Good Government Council Reward Queens Dower Good service rerewarded Auditors Accounts Treasurers of War Gods service Aâ—biterment â—â—parceners Lord Mohun Castle Mannor Duâ—ster Minâ—head Culverton Carampton Mannor and Hundred Arbitrators sworn in Parliament Petitionâ— Sir Barthol Verdon Service in Wales Speaker Petitions read Merchants Subsidy Seas safeguard Realms defence Aliens banished Denizons Impotent persons Dutchmen Kingslands leased Improvement Resumption Kings housholds maintenance Expences moderatedâ— Parliament adjourned Parliament adjourned Lords and Commons called Their default Commons Speakers protestation confirmed Speakers motion Kings charge to the Lords and Commons Allegiance â—ll Government â— enquired Castle of Manlion Alien removed Wlechmens Fines and Ransoms Prisoners of War Hostages Scottish prisonerâ— Crown entailed Charter vacated Crown entailed Ducat Lancanst Non obstante Prince Henry Speaker Bill against Lollards Preaching against the Clergies temporalitieâ—â— Prophesiâ—s Slanders of the Lollards Pollicy of the Popish Clergy Tyranny Officers Imprisonmment Inquiry without Commission Sanctuary Petition Treasurers of war Auditors Account Due allowance Discharge Commons request Indempnity Impeachment Voyages Kings behalf Commons request Commons House Parliaments Roll engrossed Speaker Lords of the Council to swear Oath refused by the Lord. The King chargeth them on their allegiance to take the Oath All the Kâ—ngs Officers sworne to accomplish the Oath Worthy Officers No due grants to be staid Great seal Privy seal Maintenance of Suits Order of Law Officers Mediation Kâ—ins house Chamber Wardrobe Kings revenues imployed Gifts Profits Petitions received and answered Councellors Jurisdiction Common-Law Purveyors Suitors Countenance Full assent c. Officers Fees Extortion Queen Marshalsey Clerk of the Market Sheriffs Election of Knights fifteen days notice Kings great Officers Common Laws Aliens Fines Steward and Treasurer of the Kings house Servants misdemeanors Officers of the Kings house Chamberlain Statutes Judicial Officers and others at will only Officers Enquiry Misdemeanors Report to the Council Array Challenge Assise special Sheriffs fees Pannel Temporary Articles Custody of the Temporalties of Durham granted Bâ—shop elect
Lord Scroop Restitution Tayl. Petition Lord Fitz-Hugh Escheators of York Office returned Office by Commissioners Duke of Gloucester Monyes lent by the King Security for it taken by the Councell Petitions Merchants Staple Custome Goods perished and lost Resp. Councel Merchants Staple Sarploss Weights Resp. Parsons Vicars Service and Sacraments Chappels of ease Resp. Parsons Vicars Non-residence Forfeiture Resp. Arch bishops Impeachment Accusation Good fame Sanctuaries Sureties Resp. Northumberland Sheriffs extortions Head pence Resp. Kings Councell Merchants robbed Letters of Mart. Resp. Victuals Souldiers quartering Resp. Masons River of Ley. Sheep transported Imprisonment Treason Felony Lollardy Speedy tryall Resp. Treasurers Accounts Exchequer Due debts Tallye Resp. Butter and Cheese Justices of Peace Sewers Resp. Concealment of Customes Feoffees Tayl. Resp. Writs of Summons Writs of Summons King Chancellor Liberties of all Estates to be enjoyed Faith of the Church Hereticks Lollards Counsell Subsedy Glory to God Honour to the King Sound Counsell Peace Speaker elected Presented Petitions Commissioners to prorogue and dissolve the Parliament Sr. Richard Vernon Speaker Protestation Commons Decree Dissention between the Nobles Dissention to be ended Breach of Peace Lords sworn by order from the Commons Message to the Commons Proclamation Annuity and office from the King Appearance King and Councell Duke of Gloucester Bishop of VVinchester Dissention comprimised by the Lords Bishop excused from Treason suggested Princes death Kings Deposing Award Submission Reconciliation Discharge from the Great Seal Treasurer discharged Privy Seal Great Seal Bishop of Bath Chancellor Bishop of Durham Kings last Will and Codicell Lords of Privy Councel Keeper of the Privy Seal Lords of the Councell King bound by them to satisfy Creditors Petition Earl of Vandesme Ransom released Keeper of Barwick Castle Fee Deputy Kings pleasure Kings feoffees Homage Fealty Kings Councell Bills ended by them out of Parliament Tonnage Poundage Condition Lord Chancellor Commission Parliament prorogued Subsedy Tonnage Poundage granted Prior of St. Trinity Denizens Pardon for sheep-stealing Merchants Hauns Liberties Alderman of London Iudge Petitions Merchants Subsedies Customes Wools lost Councell Presentation Benefices Alien Praemunire Resp. Patron Presentation Non-residence Resp. Bishops Bribery Sheriffs Aliens banished Queen Resp. Chancellor License Alienation Kings widows Marriage Ancient Custome Resp. Clarks misprision Knights of Parliâ—mentâ— Victuals transportation Assize Protections Writs of Summons Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Kings duty Subjects duty Forein Invasion Peace kept Justice indifferently administred Princes relief Defence Obedience Submission to Laws Liberties enjoyed Expedition Speakers choice and presentation Petitions Iohn Tirrill Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Chancellor Patent Parliament Prorogued Kings Council Tonnage Poundage granted Subsidy Archbishop of Cant. Letters Patents confirmed Chauntry Prior Alien Patents Lord Roos Special Livery Patents Release Kings Jewels gaged Account Executors Chancellor Commons Pope Rome Archbish. purgation Patents Annuity Nuns of Sion Petition Kings debts paid Kings Executors Pardon of Debts to H. 5. his servants Petition Wales Denizen Protection Protectors power Protector refuseth to sit in Parliament Council and Lords answer Protector Protectors power and duty Realms defence against Enemies and Rebels Tutors Leiutenants Governors Regents Principal Counsellor Protectors place in Parliament Abbesse and Nuns of Sion Corporation Pope Martin Canons Mariage Contract with any Queen of England prohibited without the Kings special License Forfeiture Bishops conditional assent to a Bill Law of God Petitions Exigents Mayor of the Staple Pleas. Law of Merchants Common Law Resp. Array Assize Variance Merchants Fine and Ransom Resp. Resp. Chancellor Licenses License of Alienations Wales Tryals Resp. Lords Merchers Justices of Peace Capias Exigent Liveries Mayor of London Resp. Sewers Thames Resp. Labourers Statutes continued Outlary Lancaster Resp. Election of Knights Pardon River of Ley. Bayliffs Justices Fees Resp. Staple Licences Drags Floats Severn Resp. Sewers Shipping Merchants Lords of Cauncel Petitions ended by them Justices advice Bills and Petitions answered out of Parliament Starchamber King Painted Chamber Chancellour Causes of Parliament Faith Fear Justice Peace Infidelity Errors Heresie Obstinacy Oppression Bohemia Fear of God Carnall fear Oppression translates Kingdoms True Faith Due Fear Upright Justice Kings duty Subjects Duty Aids to the King Speakers choice and presentation Petitions Committee of Commons William Allington Speaker His presentation respited Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Desme and Quindesm granted King and Council Duke of Burbon his ransom Kings Coronation Kings Protection of the Realm The Name and Power of the Protector and Defender abrogated Kings principal Counsellour Duke of Bedford releaseth his Title of Protector Bishop of Winchester made a Cardinal Disme and Quindisme granted The Cardinals Title Tonnage and Poundage granted Chancellour Parliament prorogued No Cardinal to be of the Kings Council but at his pleasure Cardinal requested to be of the Kings Council Cardinals Protestation Pope See of Rome Lord Talbots ransom Prisoners of War Impeachment Service of the King without wages Duke of Orleans Prisoner of War Safe custody Duke of Burbon Prisoner of war Bishop of Carlisle Election Lord and Tenants variances Cardigan Abbot of Stanford Councell Assurances to pay debts Callice Staple Treasurer Souldiers wages Reparations Subsidy of Wolâ— granted Disms Quindisms payment shortned Articles touching the Kings Council established Officers Old Servants of the King preferred The Councils promise to perform the Articles Petitions Revocation Burdeaux Imposition Riots Forest of Deane Windsor Chapel Corporation Dean of the Free-Chapel of Winsor Convocation Privilege Denmark Sewers Liveries Weights Burning of Houses Treason Out of the Realm Appeals Trial. Constable Marshall Laws of the Realm Resp. Election of Knights Sheriffs Processe Exchequer Resp. Kings Council Burgesses Writs for Wages Sheriffs Resp. Justices of Peace Piracies Resp. Breakers of Truces Scotland Resp. Soldiers Victualls Free-quarter Resp. Contribution Knights wages Burgesses Resp. Labourers Lambs wool Subsidy Poundage Resp. Forcible entries Variance Processe Indictments Appeals Apprentices London Errors assigned Protections Felons Fugitive Amendment of Records Escheators Privilege of Parl. A Burgesses servant delivered out of execution Commos House Chancellor Commission Re-execuâ—â—on No Arrest but for Treason Felony Peace Shipping Staple Staple Prices Mint Callice Merchandise Callice Newcastle Barwick-Calliâ—e Wools. Deceit Thrumms Gold Merchants Aliens Assize Franchises Mayor of the Staple Petitions committed to the Councils determination Ireland Error in the Parliament in Ireland corrected in the Kings B. Parl. here Printed Acts not in the record Writs of Summons Humfry Duke of Gloucester Keeper of England Painted Chamber Chancellor Sicknesses Dr. William Linwood Causes of Parliament King and Kingdom established Unity Peace Justice Peace Justice Obedience of Magistrates Counsel Relief of the poor Due liberties enjoyed Speaker chosen and presented Petitions Commons reported their Speaker Iohn Tirrel Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Safe Conduct granteth Iohn Okilith Ireland Ambassadors Safe-Conduct Dism Quindism granted Tonnage Poundage granted Merchants strangers Subsidy upon lands 20 s. on every 20 l. Lands Knights
nor Ordinance but only the Kings Answer by the Archbishops mouth to the Commons prayer That the Commons were only Petitioners and THAT ALL JUDGEMENTS APPERTAIN UNTO THE KING AND LORDS unlesse it were in Statutes c. After which he subjoyns Rot. Parl. 2. H. 5. n. 13. Error assigned that the Lords gave judgement without petition or assent of the Commons when as there is no such Error therein assigned and the judgement there alleged to be erroneous was confirmed by the Lords as you may read in this Abridgement and more fully in my Plea for the Lords To pretermit many more of his Mistakes in his very Chapter of Parliaments which this Abridgement will both discover and rectifie I shall touch but upon one more In his 4. Instit. p. 10. he hath this passage Walsingham saith that in Anno Domini 1404. which was Anno 6 H. 4 in the writs of the Summons of Parliament there was added by the King a Commandement in the Writ THAT NO LAWYER SHOULD BE RETURNED KNIGHT OR BURGESSE But the Historian was deceived FOR THERE IS NO SUCH CLAUSE IN THOSE WRITS but it was wrought by the Kings Letters by pretext of an Ordinance in the Lords House in 46 E. 3. In which passage there are three mistakes together 1. A misrecital of Thomas of Walsinghams words That no Lawyer or Apprentice should be elected Knight of the Shire without any mention of Burgesses Direxit ergo Rex writes he BREVIA Vicecomitibus NE QUOSQUAM PRO COMITATIBUS ELIGERENT QUOVISMODO MILITES QUI IN JURE REGNI VEL DOCTI FUISSENT VEL APPRENTICII Sed tales omnino mitterentur ad hoc negotium quos conslat ignorare cujusque Iuris methodum FACTUMqUE EST ITA Whence he stiles it in his Margin PARLIAMENTUM INDOCTORUM To which he subjoyns in his Ypodigma Neustriae this observation In hoc Parliamento concessa fuit Regi taxa insolita et incolis tricabilis et valde gravis Cujus modum praesentibus inseruissem nisi Concessores ipsi Authores dicti Tallagii in perpetuum latere posteros maluissent Nempe sub ea tantum conditione concedebatur ne traheretur posterius in exemplum nec servarentur ejus evidentâ—ae in the sauraria Regia nec in Scaccario sed Scripturae vel recordationes ejusdem protiÌ„nus post datum compotum cremarentur nec emitterentur Brevia seu Commissiones contra Collectores vel Inquisitores hujus negotii de melius inquirendo A good president for the burning abolishing of all late records of illegal excessive Taxes Excises imposed and levied on the English Nation for so many years together without intermission 2ly A charging of Walsingham who lived in those times and knew them better than Sir Edward Cooke with a direct mistake and untruth That there is no such clause in the writs then issued as he recites when as it is most apparent by the writs themselves remaining on Record in the Tower in the Clause Roll of 5 H. 4. pars 2. m. 4 Dorso which I have perused with mine own eyes for my own and others satisfaction and by diverse Notes and Transcripts thereof which I have seen in Manuscripts that there was this clause inserted into all the writs of Summons then issued to exclude the Sheriffs themselves with all Apprentices and Men of the Law from being elected Knights Citizens or Burgesses Nolumus autem quod tu seu aliquis alius Vicecomes regni nostri aut APPRENTICIUS SIVE ALIQUIS ALIUS HOMO AD LEGEM ALIQUALITER SIT ELECTUS Et habeas ibi nomina praedictorum Militum Civium Burgensium hoc Breve Teste Rege apud Lichefield 25 die Augusti on which day the writs of Summon both to the Archbishops Bishops and Temporal Lords bear date all entred together in the same Roll. I wonder therefore upon what ground or misinformation Sir Edward Cook could so confidently averr the contrary and tax this Historian for a mistake in this wherein he was most right and himself alone so palpably mistaken whose confidence made me of his opinion till I sifted out the truth by a more diligent search of the Record it self not mentioned in this Abridgement 3ly In averring that this was wrought by the Kings Letters by pretext of an Ordinance of the Lords House in 46 E. 3. when that he stiles an Ordinance of that the Lords House was an Ordinance or Act of Parliament Ordinances and Acts of Parliament being both one and the same as â— have elsewhere unanswerably proved againsâ— Sir Edward Cooks new mistaken Doctrine made by the whole Parliament not Lords House alone excluding all Practising Lawyers all Sheriffs from being elected Knights of Shires or receiving wages for their Service in that Parliament for the reasons therein mentioned which Ordinance I shall here insert at large out of the Parliament Roll of 46 E. 3. num 13. Auxi un Ordenance fait en mesme la Parlement fuit luez en manere come ensuet Pur ceo que Gentz de Ley que pursuont diverses busoignes en les Courts le Roy pur singuleres persones oue queux ils sont procurent et font mettre pleuseurs Petitions en Parlementz en nom des Comons que riens lour touche mes sâ—lement les singulers persones ou queuz ils font de moiez Auxi Viscontz que sont Communes Ministres au people et devient demurrer sur lour Office pur droit faire a chuny sont nomez et ont este devant ces heures et retornez eâ— Parlementz Chivalers des Countees per mesmes les Viscontz Est accorde et assenta en cest Parlement que desormes NUL HOME DE LEY PURSUONT BUSOIGNES EN LA COURTE LE ROY ne Viscount pur le temps que il est Viscount SOIENT RETOURNEZ NE ACCEPTEZ CHIVALERS DES COUNTEES ne que ces qui sont GENTZ DE LEY et Viscountz ore retournez au Parlement EIENT GAGEZ Num. 14. Mes voâ—t le Roy que Chivalers et SERJAUNTZ des meulz Vaues du paiis soiâ—z retornez desore Chivalers en Parliamentz et quils sount estuz en plein Counte An Ordinance most fit to be put in actual execution against such practising Lawyers who make suâ—e to be elected Parliament Members only or principally to get Clyents Practice and Prae-audience of others at the Barr and to promote their Clients or Friends causes in the House rather than diligently to discharge their publike Duties faithfully in the Parliament according to their trusts as too many have done of later ages as well as when this Ordinance was first enacted In the reading of this Abridgement I shall advise the Reader First to distinguish between the Parliament Rolls abbreviated and the Abridgers Observations on them here and there which are no part of the Record it self Such are all his Observations concerning the Agreement of or Disagreement and Variance of our printed Statutes from the Records and the like which cause
Proctor to the Commonalty of England then assembled or represented by their Knights or Burgessesâ— in the Commons House of Parliament or distinguished from the Lords and Barons like that Deed of intayl by Sir Iohn Tiptoft their Speaker in 8 H. 4. as Sir Robert Cotton imports and others would thence inferr which I shall irrefragably evidence 1. By the beginning close and subscription of this very Letter printed in the Additamenta of Matthew Paris It begins thus Sanctissimo Patri in Christo Alexandro c. COMMUNITAS COMITUM PROCERUM MAGNATUM ALIORUMQUE REGNI ANGLIAE cum subjectione debita pedum oscula beatorum And it is thus joyntly subscribed and sealed by 6. Earls and 5. other Great men Et Nos R. de Clare Gloverniae Herefordiaeâ— S. de Monteforti Legriae R. Bigod Mariscallus Angliae H. de Bohun Herefordiae Essexiae W. Albemarle J. de Placito Warwici Comites H. Bigod Justiciarius Angliae P. de Subaudia J. Filius Galfridi Jacobus de Audel Petrus de Monteforti VIâ—E TOTIUS COMMUNITATIS praesentibus Literis SIGILLA NOSTRA APPOSUIMUS IN TESTIMONIUM PRAEDIâ—TORUM The Whole COMMUNITY therefore in whose behalf or stead they signed and sealed this Letter was only the Communitas Comitum Procerum Magnatum aliorumque Regni Angliae or Whole Baronage of England mentioned in the beginning of it in whole names alone it was written not the meer Commons house or Commonalty of England either in or out of Parliament as contradistinct from the Lords And these 11. Earls Barons and Great men joyntly signed and sealed it Vice totius Communitatis as joynt Proctors to this whole Community of the Baronage of England not ten of them as Proxies to the Earls Nobles and Great men and Peter de Montfort the 11. as Speaker or Proctor to the Commons in or out of Parliament as is erroniously surmised 2ly It is most evident by the words of Mat. Paris who placeth this Letter in Anno 1458. or 41 H. 3. whereas Sir Robert Cotton and Rishanger referr it to Anno 1260. or 44 H. 3 Destinantur Nuncii solennes ad Dominum Papam ex parte Regni ET TOTIUS ANGLIAE UNIVERSITATE c. Causam autem Itineris eorum et SCRIPTUM A BARNAGIO TRANSCRIPTUM audire qui cupit in libro Additamentorum invenire praevalebit Which compared with his Istud detestabile factum Romano erat Pontifici PER BARONES significatum in this very Letter his Magnates Nobiles terrae c. And his Tale iniit Consilium UNIVERSITAS BARNAGII will undeniably manifest That the Barons and Universality of the Baronage only not the meer Commons of England writ and sent this Letter and were the tota Communitas mentioned and intended in it in whose behalf these 11 Earls and Grandees subscribed and sealed it not the UNIVERSITAS REGNI POPULARIS ETSI NON NOBILES whom Mat. Paris distinguisheth from them by this very expression in the same year and upon the same occasion who Pictavienses obsiderent et Castra eorum funditus dissiparent Wherefore neither the signing nor sealing of this Letter by them Vice totius Communitatis nor this Clause in it Etsi Dominus Rex et Magnates hoc vellent COMMUNITAS tamen ipsius ingressum in Angliam nullatenus sustinerent meant only of the Vulgar Rable or Uiversitas Regni popularis as Mat. Paris stiles them who were much inraged against him being the same in substance with that phrase in King Henry the first his Letter unto Pope Paschal not in but out of Parliament Et si ego quod absit in tanta me dejectione ponâ—rem Optimates vero et TOTUS ANGLIAE POPULUS ID NULLO MODO PATERETUR can be any convincing or probable evidence at all that this Bishop elect of Winchester was then judicially banished by the joint consent of the King Nobles and Commons in Parliament as is suggested he being forced to fly thence through fear of their arms alone not banished by their judicial sentence as they thus expresly inform the Pope in another Letter sent to him with the former to inhibit his return Maxime CUM IPSE A REGNO EXPULSUS NON EXTITERIT SED SPONTE CESSERIT non ausus exhibitionem Iustitiae quae singulis secundum Iuramenta Regis Procerum debebatur expectare Much lesse is it any proof that the Commons in that age had a Voice and consent in Parliament Iudgments of all Natures since they never had it in succeeding ages unlesse it were by way of Bill as the whole Commons House acknowledged in the Parliament of 1 H. 4. n. 79. and I have manifested at large in my Plea for the Lords no more than that they had then a Speaker or House of Commons which is clear by subsequent Parliaments in this Abridgement they had not till many years after 44 H. 3. and after the Parl. of 6 E. 3. 3ly This will most evidently appear by the Barons Letter sent to King Henry the third to Lewes Anno Dom. 1264. the 48 year of his reign from their Camp Barones alii fideles sui c. subscribed only by the Earl of Leicester and Gilbert de Clare ad Petitionem aliorum And by the Letter of Richard King of Romans Prince Edward the Kings eldest son caeterique Barones omnes Milites praedicto Regi Angliae constanter adhaerentes fide sincera opibus sent to the Barons in answer thereunto thus subscribed Rex Alemanniae Edwardus filius Regis nomine suo aliorum Regi adhaerentium Omnes nos contenti sumus praedictorum Dominorum sigillis In both which Letters the two Earls and the King of Romans and Prince Edward joyntly signed and sealed in the Name of all the Barons Knights and others of either party and not one of them as a Proctor or Speaker to the Commons and the other as Proxie to the Barons and Lords both Letters being writ from their Camp not Parliament and neither of them relating to the Commons House or Judicature in Parliament just like this Letter concerning Bishop Adomar Therefore no inference can be thence deduced to prove the Commons had either any House Speaker or Judicature in the Parliaments of 42 or 44 of Henry the third The first expresse writ I find of any Knights of Counties by name summoned to our Parliaments as Members is that of Claus. 49 H. 3. dors 10 11. requiring Sheriffs to summon 2. Knights out of every County to the Paâ—liament which was presently after the battel of Evesham the same year the Earl of Leicester was slain the Barons totally routed by Pr. Edward and King Henry rescued out of their hands when Sir Robert Cotton affirms and that most truly as I conjecture THESE VVRITS BEGAN The writs of Rot. Claus. 15. Joh. pars 2. m. 7. dorso Patents 8 H. 3. pars 3. m. 4. Dors Claus. 38 H 3. dors 13. which seem somewhat like a Summons of Knights
taking special bribes to pay some the Kings due debt by way of brokage All which he should do by practising with some of the Council To some part of which Articles the same Richard answereth and to the rest submitteth himself to the King touching body lands and goods Whereupon the same Richard is committed to prison at the Kings will and that all his lands tenements and goods be seised to the Kings use And to the extortions done by him while he was Farmer of the Subsidies and Customs Order was taken that by Commission throughout England it should be enquired of Also the same Richard was disfranchised William Lord Latimer was openly accused by the Commons for divers oppressions by him done as well while he served under the King in Britain as for the time he was Chamberlain to the King and his Councel namely for that he in Brittain and his Officers had taken of the people there in Victual and ransomes against the Kings will to the sum of twenty four thousand pound and at another time one hundred thousand pound estentes of gold whereof was never answered to the King one penny The particulars whereof do appear The same Lord Latimer was also accused for victual sold in Britain to the value of ten thousand Franks The same Lord Latimer was also accused for the losse of the Town and Fort of S. Saviours in Normandie while he was Captain there and of the Town of Brotherel in Brittain and of other Towns and Forts The same Lord was accused as a partaker of all the evils of Richard Lyons aforesaid particularly Whereunto the said Lord Latimer saving the tryall of his Peers offered to answer any particular persons but that would not the Commons do but generally as is aâ—oresaid Whereupon the said Lord answered every Objection and as it should seem very well avoided them in open Parliament notwithstanding there was the judgment of him in form following For that the Lord Latimer is found in full Parliament in default by his singular Councel and government against the profit of the King and Realm and namely for divers Chevisances to the Kings losse for grants procured to the destruction of the Staple and of the Town of Callis and for divers Impositions laid upon Wools he was awarded in full Parliament by the Bishops and Lords to be in prison in the keeping of the Marshall and to make fine and ransom at the Kings pleasure whereupon the Commons required that he might lose all his Offices and no longer be of the Kings Councel which the King granted And the said Lord Latimer in Parliament found certain Lords and others his Mainprisors for the forth coming of his body during the Parliament as by a Schedule doth appear and by this Mainprize the Marshall of England so offered him to be at large In the Schedule are his Mainprisors viz. one Archbishop three Bishops one Prior of S. Iohn three Earls fifteen Barons and thirteen Knights all their degrees of best renown William Ellis of great Yarmouth was accused of sundry extortions by him done while he was Farmer of the Kings petit customes there and Deputie to Richard Lyons for the Subsidie of sixpence in the pound granted to the King as by the Parliament it doth appear To which Accusation is seemeth that the said William Ellis sufficiently answered notwithstanding judgment was that he should be committed to prison and make fine at the Kings pleasure Iohn Peach of London was accused for procuring a license under the Great Seal that he only might sell sweet Wine in London and that by colour thereof he took four shillings four pence of every man for every Tun thereof sold the which he justified as lawfully he might notwithstanding judgment was given that he should be committed to prison at the Kings will besides recompence to all parties grieved The Lord Iohn Nevil was accused that during the time that he was of the Kings Privy Councel he should buy certain debts due by the King namely of the Lady Ravâ—nsham and Simon Love Merchant far under the value and for receiving of the King more wages and for a longer time for a hundred souldiers in Brittain then was due Of the Ladies own good will for the obtaining her debt he confesseth to have received ninety five pound which was not disproved Of Love he denied any such to be Love being thereupon brought into the Parliament wholly excuseth the same Lord. But because Love had the day before confessed the contrary before two Knights of the House he was committed to prison To the receiving of wages the same Lord fully cleereth himself notwithstanding judgement of Imprisonment and losse of lands and goods and offices was given of him as on others before and that he should make restitution of the ninety five pounds to the Executors of the said Ladie The King ordaineth that from thenceforth no woman should for maintenance pursue any matter in the Kings Courts and namely Alice Perrers upon losse of all that they have and banishment for ever out of the Realm An Order that the Prior of Ecclefield an alien should exhibit his Bill of Complaint against the Lord Latimer for the Parsonage of Ecclefield which the said Lord had wrongfully caused to be recovered against the said Prior. For that Adam de Bury was accused of divers deceits and wrongs done by him while he was Major of Callice and Captain of Bellingham as hereafter may appear and was sent for to come unto the Parliament and came not nor yet could be found It was agreed that all his Goods and Chattels should be arrested and so they were The Bishop of Norwich supposeth an erronious Judgment to be given against him in the Common Place for the Archdeaconry of Norwich belonging to his Presentation and prayeth that those Errors might be heard and redress thereof whereunto Answer was made that Errors by Law in the Common place are to be corrected in the Kings Bench and of the Kings Bench in the Parliament and not otherwise As well at the complaint of the men of Leistock as the pursuit of the Commons the grant late made by the King to the Town of great Yarmouth that one place in the Sea called Kirklerode annexed to the Port of Yarmouth should be utterly repealed saving all other their Liberties On Wednesday the day after S. Iohn at the request of the Commons came into the open Parliament before the Lords and Commons Richard Burdeaux the son and heir of Edward late Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the Realm of whom after the Archbishop of Canterbury had spoken words of commendation the Commons with one voice prayed that the Lords would make him Prince of Wales as his Father was who said it laid not in them but in the King only so
about the Kings person for this year The said Sir Richard le Scroop by the Kings commandment answered that albeit there never was account of Subsidies in or out of Parliament yet notwithstanding the King would that the said William and Iohn with others of the Kings Council should shew them the same so as the same should be taken for no example Touching any of the Kings debts the Exchequer used not to forget them Touching the Kings Officers and Councellors the King will chuse them according to his pleasure and thereafter make them prevail He therefore willeth the Lords as knowing the necessity to have due and speedy consideration thereof The Commons require longer day for the exhibiting of theâ—r Petitions which was granted They also require the Enrollment of the Aids and Subsidies granted the last Parliament the which was granted at the Kings pleasure and not at their request The Commons then require that five or six of the Lords might be appointed to come to discourse with them the Lords denyed that saying the same was the guise of two or three Parliaments before but theirs was that the Lords should among themselves chuse a certain number and the Commons the like and that they should confer together which they would do for if the Commons would not dissever themselves neither would they the Lords to which Order the Commons agreed After the Commons had reviewed the Enrollments of the receipts and expences about the Wars they eftsoon returned into the Parliament and commended the same as very honourable only they said that touching the forty six thousand pound defraied about the Marches of Callice Brest and other places of Gascoign and certain ransoms of prisoners should not run in their charge considering those defences were out of the Realm Thereunto was answered that those places were the very Barbicans and Propugnacles of the Realm the which being well defrauded and the Sea kept we should then enjoy peace at home and not otherwise The Commons then thought the goods of King E. 3. able to serve the turn Whereto was answered that the same goods were justly praised and delivered to certain his Creditors except certain implements of houshold wherefore the King stood bound to pay the value to certain of his Credâ—tors The Archbishop of Canterbury came before the King and Lords and required audience giving first most lowly thanks for the confirming of the liberties of the Church He then required that the great villany done in the Abby-Church of Westminster may be revenged viz. for that Robert Hamley Esq. and one other were murthered in the Church of Westminster by the high Altar at high Mass time And so beseecheth that the King may be vertuously brought up in his youth and have good Counsel The Temporal Lords on the contrary wished for the like bringing up of the King in vertue â—nd pray the King that where the Clergy hath incroached against the Laws that the same may be redressed They further say That the Judges and learned of the Law and certain Doctors of the Divine Civil and Common Law being examined and sworne before the King have thereby affirmed that no man ought to enjoy the Sanctuary in cases of Debt Accompt or Trespass but only in cases where the life or member of a man lieth in danger All which those Doctors and Clerks did after in this present Parliament defend and openly prove against the Bishops whereunto the Bishops could not then answer but required longer day which was granted Note in this Record are made certain reasons against Sanctuary for Debts about which priviledge it appeareth this Hurly-burly to have been The Lords and Commons grant to the King the like Subsidy of Wooll and Staple ware as was granted in 50 E. 3. tit 7. but expressed in 43 E. 3. tit 10. for one year over and above Which said subsidies they granted to the King as a new increase of the same subsidies Thirteen shillings four pence of every sack of Wooll Thâ—rteen shillings four pence for every twelve score Wooll-fells Twenty six shillings eight pence of every Last of Skins passing out of the Realm of all manner of persons for one year They also grant to the King six pence of every Twenty shillings merchandise passing or coming into the Realm They require the King to imploy their Grants to the maintenance of Wars and to appoint suffâ—cient and able Treasurers therefore as lately And to take these their Grants in good part for that by Plague War and Murrain they are able to do no more William of Montacute Earl of Salisbury rehearseth the old Petition contained in 1 R. 2. tit 28. 29. and prayeth as there is redress The Writ of Scire facias whereby the Earl of March was willed to appear The Sheriffs return upon the same Scire facias that the same Earl of March was not found within this Bailiwick neither any Lands or Tenements to be warned thereby who was Sheriff of Shropshire Whereupon the said Earl of Salisbury required another Scire fac for to warn Edmund now Earl of March the son and heir of the said Roger to be and answer at the next Parliament which was granted The Lady Nevill of Essex complaineth and sheweth that where Iohn Brewes and others brake her house at London and violently took thereout Margery the daughter of Iohn Nerfourd son to the said Lady and carried her away unto the house of Robert Howard knight All who kept away the said Margery to the end she should not pursue in Court Christian adnullation of contract of matrimony against the said Iohn Brewes For which cause the said Robert was by the Council committed to the Tower and after delivered surety and promised to do his uttermost to bring forth the said Margery by Michaelmas ensuing or else to yield himself prisoner to the Tower again The said Robert at Michaelmas came before certain of the Council and shewed his travel about the expedition asore but that he could not meet with her To whom the said Council gave three moneths of longer respite Notwithstanding upon the said Ladies pursuit for that the said Robert not bringing forth the said Margery did not yield himself prisoner to the Tower the same Robert was therefore committed to the Tower again Sir William of Windsor and Alice his wife late called Dâ—me Alice Perrers pray the revocation of a Judgment made in the last Parliament tit 41 42 43. against the said Alice for Errors therein contained The Record was brought forth and Errors assigned But the Kings learned Council adjudged and the Kings favour they could not sue in such wise but require that by Aâ—torney they might sue therefore Whereupon the said William and Alice his wife late called Dame Alice Perrers by a new Bill required that they by Edmund Clay and Robert Brown their
4. tit 10. They make the like request as in the end of the 12. tit of the last Parliament Certain Bishops Lords and Justices by the assent of the Duke of York and Philip his Wiâ—e and one of the Daughters and Heirs of Iohn Lord of Mohun and Ioan his Wife and Elizabeth Countess of Sarum and Richard le Strange of Knokin other coâ—heirs of the said Lord Iohn of Mohun and Ioan his Wife of the one party are appointed by a certain day to determine the right touching the Castle and Mannor of Dunstar the Mannor of Minehead Culverton and Carampton with the Hundred of Carampton in Somerset the which Arbitrators in open Parliament are sworn to do the same He also requireth the King to consider the Petitions of Sir Bartholmew Verdon and his Companions weighing their service done in Wales and elsewhere the which petition the King granteth He also exhibiteth to the King certain Petitions of which some were read some were not wherefore he requireth that all might be read the which the King granteth and they are as followeth That the three parts of the Subsidy granted to the Merchants for keeping of the Sea be payed their fourth part shall be only imployed for defence of the Realm That all Aliens may avoid the Realm except Denizons men of the Church impotent persons and Dutchmen That all Lands and other profits let out for life or years by the King or his Progenitors may be improved to a more value That all the Revenues and profits of the Realm being granted since the beginning of the Parliament may be resumed into the Kings hands and reserved to the maintenance of his House and that the outragious charges of the Kings House may be speedily qualified For sundry reasonable considerations the King adjourneth the Parliament from the 19. day of Iune unto the Quindena of S. Michael then ensuing On Wednesday the Quindena of St. Michael being the 15. day of October uuto the which day the Parliament was adjourned for that sundry of the Lords and Commons being called made default and for other considerations the said Parliament was continued until the Friday ensuing the which Friday and Saturday followingâ— the Parliament was continued until the Monday ensuing On the 17. day of November the Commons came before the King where Sir Iohn Tibetott their Speaker required the confirmation of his first protestation which was granted Upon the motion of the same Sir Iohn the King charged the Lords and Commons on their allegiances that they should particularly enquire of the evill Governments and provide remedy therefore The same day he required by mouth that the Castle of Manlion which was the key of the three Realms and which was kept by Sir Charles de Navar an Alien might be kept by Englishmen only That all the Fines and ransoms of the Welchmen may be imployed to the Wars of the same That certain Castles might lie for Hostages for the Earl of Douglas and that the other Scottish prisoners should not slightly be delivered considering that they were the flower of Scotland The conveyance touching the Crown of England expressed before under the 38. tit is made void and the same Crown assured to the King and his Sons in general tail according to the Print 7 H. 4. cap. 2. In which limitation of the Crown among other things this clause is contained touching the Dutchy of Lancaster Per hoc tamen Statutum sive ordinationem quoad Ducatum Lancastriae ejusque jura possessiones honores consuetudines cum suis pertinenciis universis ac successionem modum succedendi in Ducatu praedict sive in capite sive in membris nihil mutare innovare intendimus sed in omnibus prâ—aemissis aliis quibuscunque modis formis quib us ante hoc statum Ducatus ipsi regi administrari gubernari solebat antiqua jura statuta consuetudines ejusdem Ducatus teneri exequi illibate observari in posterum volumus statuimus decernimus declaramus hoc nostro statuto quocunquâ— alio in hoc Parliamento non obstante At this time the Clergy suborned Henry Prince for and in the name of the Bishops and Lords and Sir Iohn Tibetott the Speaker for and in the name of the Commons to exhibite a long and bloody Bill against certain men called Lollards namely against them that preached or taught any thing against the temporal Livings of the Clergy Other points touching Lollardy I read none onely this is to be marked for their better expedition in this exploit they joyned prophesies touching the Kings estate and such as whispered and bruited that King Richard should be living the which they inserted to the end that by the same subtilty they might the better atcheive against the poor Lollards aforesaid Wherein note a most unlawful and monstrous Tyranny For the request of the same Bill was That every Officer or other Minister whatsoever might apprehend and enquire of such Lollards without any other Commission and that no Sanctuary should hold them At the Petition of Thomas Lord Furnival and Sir Iohn Telham Knight appointed Treasurers for the Wars in An. 6. H. 4. tit 9. It is assented that certain Auditors in this Parliament assigned to take their Accompts shall make to them due allowance and that upon the same Accompt they their Heirs and Land Tenants shall be clearly discharged At the request of the Commons it was enacted that no person of what estate soever should be impeached for any act done in any of the Voyages of Journeys in any the Commissions since the Kings reign being done in the Kings behalf At the request of the Commons it was enacted that certain of the Commons House should be at the ingrossing of the Roll of this Parliament The Speaker on the behalf of the Commons requireth that the Lords of the Council might be sworn to observe the Articles ensuing The Arch Bishop of Canterbury for himself and others refuseth to swear but offereth to do what they may The King thereupon chargeth the same Arch-Bishop and others of the Council on their Allegiance to take the Oath who took the same accordingly And further at the same request it is assented that all others the Kings Officers of his houshold and of all his Courts should be sworne to accomplish the same oath The first That worthy Councellors and Officers should be appointed and not to be removed without good proof That no due Grants be stayed at the Great or Privy Seal That none about the Kings person do persue any suit or quarrel by any other means then by the order of the Common Law That no Officer be appointed by any mediation contrary to the Laws That order may be taken for the governance of the Kings
the twenty fourth of Ianuary ensuing at Westminster An Act that the Merchants of Ieane shall not pay any Escuage to the City of London for any the Merchandizes brought from Southampton to London by land The grant of half a tenth and half a fifteen excepting 2000 l. to be allowed to certain poor Townes by name The grant of a tenth and of a fifteen except 3000 l. to certain Towns wasted A subsedy of wools of 34 s. 4 d. of Denisons and 53 s. of Aliens for every sack of wool c. is granted to the King for four yeares Tonnage and Poundage of Denisons and double of Aliens The Kings Letters Patents under the great seal of England and under the seal of the Dutchie of Lancaster made to Iohn Cardinall and Archbishop of Canterbury and sundry others of sundry the possessions of the said Dutchie of Lancaster and three other Letters Patents under the only seal of the Dutchy of Lancaster made to the persons aforesaid of sundry possessions to the performance of the last Will and Testament of the said King are confirmed by the whole estate The fourth day of Iune the Speaker on the behalf of the Commons made to the King especiall commendation of the person and manifold services of the Marquesse and Earl of Suffolk and namely of the marriage of the King and abstinence of warr with the French for all which at the request of the Commons and mediation of the Lords it is enacted that the said Marquesse should be holden a most true and faithfull Subject The Declaration of the said Marquesse of his services and request to the effect aforesaid made the second day of Iune in Anno 23. to the King Lords and Commons on the which the Declaration aforesaid was enacted At the petition of the Mr. and Brethren of the house or Hospitall of St. Thomas the Martyr of Acres in the City of London by whole assent they are incorporated by the same name and certain houses in London are to them confirmed The Kings Letters Patents of the Erection and Donation of the College of Eaton founded Anno 20. H. 6. with all the lands and liberties then and now granted and especially declared and confirmed by the whole estates The like Letters Patents of the Kings made for the erection and donation of the Colledge in Cambridge are confirmed The ninth day of April An. 24. the Chancellor of England in the name of all the Lords in the presence of the King protesteth that the peace which the King had taken with the French King was of his own motion and will and not any of the Lords provocations the which is enacted It is enacted that a Statute made in the time of H. 5. that no peace should be taken with the French King that now is that then was called by the name of Dolphin of France without the assent of the three estates of both realms should be utterly revoked and that no person for giving Counsell to the peace with France be at any time to come impeached therefore Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching Purveyors cap. 1. 2. agreeth with the record That all the Statutes touching Welshmen be observed and that none of them be made Denisons or enjoy any office in Wales and that none of them stand to the contrary on pain of 200 marks The Statutes made in the time of H. 4. or H. 5. shall therein be observed The print touching shipping of thrums c. cap. 3. agreeth with the record That no Stapler have any voice at the election of any Mayor or Constable of the Staple unlesse he have goods coquetted in Callice to the number of 10. sacks The King will be advised The print touching the true making of Worsteeds cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the taking of outlawes repairing into Herreford cap. 5. agreeth with the record Robert Sherborn of London Draper sheweth that whereas one Ienicogh a Welshman remained in the Kings Bench in execution for debt due to him and by collusion to defraud him procured himself to be appealed of a felonie whereby he was condemned and had his Clergie and was in the Abbots prison at Westminster for the same That the Justices of the Kings Bench might have power by writ to remove and lay his body untill the debt were satisfied and the Abbot to deliver the body on pain to answer the debt which was granted The print touching the shipping of corn cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the gathering of head-pence by the Sheriff of Northampton cap. 7. agreeth with the record The print touching the exercise of the Sheriffs office cap. 8. agreeth with the record An act for Coyning and making current half pence and farthings to endure for two yeares The print touching the Commissioners of Sewers cap. 9. agreeth with the record That no man be indicted of any indictment or appeal in a forein County except the Plaintiff appeal and exigent be awarded into the County where the party was supposed to dwell The King will be advised The print touching the extortion of Sheriffs cap. 10. agreeth with the record The print touching levying of wages for the Knights of the Parliament cap. 11. agreeth c. That every person being of the Lords or Commons house having any assault or fray made upon him being at the Parliament or coming from thence may have the like remedy therefore as Sr. Thamas Parr Knight had The Statutes therefore made shall be observed A motion that one John Balton who most shamefully murdered Isabell the wife of Roger Bakewell and by becoming an approver was pardoned of felony might notwithstanding be executed No answer was made thereto The print touching the wages of servants of husbandry cap. 13. agreeth with the record The print touching forein pleas pleaded after issue joyned cap. 13. agreeth with the record That all Gascoyne wines may come down to the Ports of Bayon and Burdeaux and that all English merchants may freely buy and sell the same The King will be advised A long advise for the making and full measure of Gascoyne wines The King will be advised The print against Purveyors cap. 14. agreeth with the record The print touching the election of Knights of the Parliament cap. 15. agreeth with the record The print touching Gaging pence to the Gaingeor cap. 16. agreeth with the record The print touching the inquests and fees of the Escheators cap. 17. agreeth with the record The print touching buying of wines of the higher Country cap. 18. agreeth with the record Anno Vicesimo Quinto Henrici
Sâ—rgeants Condition Kings Executors Church-liberties Variance from the Rolls Kings regality saved Great Charter Forrest Petitions answered Statutes made on them before departure from Parliament Answ. Bills answered Parliament Perambulations Forrest Indictment of Vert and Venison Certainty Answ. Loans Privy â—â—al 〈◊〉 Customers Comptrollers â—â—â—ual Answ. Kings pleasure Count Palatine Chester Outlawry Trespâ—â—â— â—â—lony Answ. Rights savâ—d Engâ—ish 〈◊〉 in Scotland Enlargâ—meâ—â— without 〈…〉 Scots Answ. Wardenâ— Sheriffâ— Dâ—bts Accomâ—â— Answ. Kings Council Theeves Deliverance Answ. Goal-delivery Scotland Woolls transported Custom Answ. Kings Council Ships to deâ—end the Sea Pyracies Answ. 〈◊〉 Merchanâ—â— Defence of the North coasts and seas Order consumed by Parliament Subsidyâ— In post and 〈…〉 Aâ—miraâ— Sea coasts guarded Subsidy Receivers Comptrollers Cumberland Carlisle repaired Warden Answ. Kings Prerogative Money transported and clipâ—ed Answ. Minters Merchants Priors Aliensâ— Prior of Halenge Answ. Sureties found Sheriffs not to be Justices Loans repayed Answ. Account Half-pence Farâ—hings Bullion Answ. Sylva Cedua Answ. Riots Statute repealed Variance from the Record Constable Marshal Treason Felony Jurisdiction Kings Justices Great Charter Answ. Lords Office hereditary Wards Parliament Appeal of Treason Kings pleasure Justices elected by the Lords and Commons Lawyers Association Sessions Wages Sheriffs Answ. Kings Prerogative Assâ—ciation Remotion Councel Fees Suit against the King Writs returned Respit to answer Answ. Owners of Ships pressed Losses recompenced Marriners wages Archers Answ. Commons House Collectors Câ—ssors Aids Answ. Pardon Fees of the Great Seal Eyre Forrest Answ. Treasurer for the Wars discharged Treasurer of England Answ. Merchants Bullion Surety Tower Knight Lady Apparrel Furrs Cloth of Gold Silk c. Answ. Goldsmith Maâ—kâ— Forfeitâ—ure Petitions Callis Liberties Chancellor and Schollers of Cambridge University Jurisdiction Victuals Measures Weights Major and Bailiffs of Cambridge Fâ—audulent conveyances A pâ—inted Staâ—ute not in the Roll. Parliament at Gloucester Parliament adjourned for that divers Lords and Knights were not come Kings Uncles Causes of Parliaâ—ment Churches liberties Laws maintenance Peace A Parliament annually Parliaments advice Unity and Concord Wars Aid Scots Truce French and Scots alliance Law of the Land Law of Arms differ Slanderers Sowers of dâ—scord Redress Commons house Receivers of Petitions Triers of Petitions Lord Steward 〈◊〉 the Houshold Enemiesâ— Kings expences in Forreign parts Callis Forreign Garrisons Ireland Wars Aid The Commons present their Speaker Sir Iames Pickering The Speakers Protestation Churches Liberties Laws observed Peace Thanks rendred Aid denied by the Commons Treasurer Kings Coronatiâ—on Army Aid granted upon future promise of discharge of aid Commons chargâ—d with 〈◊〉 surmise of a promâ—se Witnesses Treasurers of Waâ— Citizens of London Commons demand an account of the aids formerly granted Councellors Great Officers An account of Subsidies granted how expended Commons require longâ—r day fâ—r eâ—hibiting 〈…〉 Kings pleasure A Counâ—il of Lords 〈◊〉 to confer with the Câ—mmâ—nâ— Câ—mmâ—ns agreement to the Loâ—ds order Account of the Receits and Disbursements in the Wars Forein garrisons Sâ—a well guarded Deceiâ—ed Kings gâ—ods praised and dâ—livered to 〈◊〉 his Câ—editorâ— Archbishop of Canterbury his speech and request Murder in a Church by the Altar in time of Mass. Temporal Lords Kings education Judges and Common and Câ—non Lawyers opinions delivered upon oath before the King Sanctuary not allowed in case of Debt c. Subsidy of Woolls granted by Lords and Commonâ— Skins Tonnage and Poundage granted Wars Treasurers of Wars Aids Eâ—ror in Parliament Scire facias Sheriffs return Alias scire facias Next Parliament Misdemeanor Imprisonment Duress Breach of priviledge Adnullation of Marriage Council Commitment to the Tower Council Commiâ—ment to the Tower Alice Perrers câ—â—e 〈◊〉 in Paâ—liament Kings Councel at Law Attorney Error in Parliament Attorney Lords Order Kings favour Nâ—rwiâ—h Aliens Forfâ—iturr Monopoly Answ. Norwich Customes there Aliens Ordinances Churches liâ—erâ—es Magna Charta â— Answ. Cornnwal Mariners Ships Spaniards Answ. Councel Aâ—â—ise Dissâ—â—sâ—r Answ. Riots and Râ—uâ—s Exchequâ—eâ—â— Accountâ— Sweet Wines Scottish money Answ. Ordinaries extortions Probate of Wills Summoners Bribes Answ. Tythe-wood Answ. Purlieus Perambulations Forrests Answ. Freehold Council Common-Law Answ. Oppressions Justices of Peace Answ. Justice not to be stayed Great and Privy-seal Corporations Liberties Patents confirmed Answ. Extents Merchandises Callice Justices of Kings Bench Prisoners Nisi prius Writs Answ. Common-Law Escheator Knights wages Contribution Answ. Sheriffâ— Accounts Liberties Fee-farm Answ. Kings minority Sheriffâ— disc 〈◊〉 Fee-farm Answ. Pardon Labourers Marches of Wales Wales Distress Answ. Lords Marchers Justices of Peace â—ees Answ. Sessions Delayes Kent Sea-coasts Nobles Contribution Answ. Kings Counciâ— Severn Nusances Answ. Freehold outed Letters-Patents Iâ—quests Ships taking Navies decay Answ. Sea-guarding Pyrates and Enemies Shipping Answ. Labourers Answ. Aliens Answ. Lords advice Cardinals Pope Vrban Isle of Wight Damages Answ. Statutes to be kept Merchant-strangers Merchant-strangers Mariners Pope Vrban declared lawful Pope by Act of Parliament Cardinals lands and goods seised Provision Praemunire London Exactions Quindesms Clergy Lawyers Justices Sergeants Taxes Residence Yarmouth Liberties Herring Fair Free-trade Herring News Summons of Parliament Parliament adjourned because many Lords not come nor Wâ—its returned Painted chamber All members to atâ—end Painted chamber Knights and Burgâ—ssâ—s called Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Churches libertiesâ— Laws maintenance Peace Râ—gality of the Crown impaired Rome Provisors Consultation how to resist forreign enemies France Spain Scotland Wars raised Rebels in Ireland Gascoin Defence of the Kings dominions Aid Lords of the Great Council Account of publike monies and disbursments Petitions Chancellor Causes of Parliament further declared Toâ—nage and Poundage Subsidy revoked Soldiers Archers Kings Debâ—â— Commons elect their Speaker Speaker Sir Iohn Gildesbrough Speakers Protestation â—â—d Speech Ill Government about the King Commons pâ—verty Lords of the Great Councel discharged Five Câ—uâ—cellors appointed Great Officers to be named Chancellor Treasurer Pâ—ivy Seal Chamberlain Steward of the Houshold Not to be removed but by Parliament Commissioners to inquire Kings expences Redâ—ess Commission granted Commissioners named Aâ—d granted by the Lords and Commons Loan To be imploâ—ed only upon the Warrs Subsidy of Wools Woolleâ—s and â—kiâ—â— granted Imperialsâ—ase â—ase Tâ—eason 25 H. 3. Forreign Ambassador 〈…〉 judged Treasâ—â—â— Earl of Salisbury Montacute Petition Error in Parliament Processe Record Errors assigned Attorney Lieutenant of Ireland Kings Protection Protection allowed Tail Temphurst Ierusalem Scire facias Aid le Roy. A Deed produced in Parliament Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer Proceedings â—tayed Search for the King Pembroke Zoâ—ch Cantlow Triall Jury corrupted Trial by Parliament Reâ—errees Chief Justices Examination and report to the Parliament Feoffment upon condition Church liberties Laws observation Great Charter Forrest Variance from the Roll. Captains to recompence damages done by their Soldiers to the Subjects Answ. Northern Countries Warden Garrisons Castles Forts Sea-coasts Residence Answ. Welsh-men not to purchase lands between Severn and Wales Forfeiture Answ. Sâ—reties Marches of Wales Welsh-men Robberies Rapes Felonies Answ. Lords Marchers Inquest of Office Eâ—cheator Possessions outed Sureties